It's been a full week since returning home from Philly and I finally feel like I'm settling back into a bit of a comfortable routine here at home. I've never been gone for such a stretch, two whole weeks away from Chris and the kids and the flowers.
By the end it was a little tough, but I'll say the journey was certainly worth the uncomfortable spots because what I witnessed was so overwhelmingly wonderful, I'll be inspired for years to come!
If you've been following along here for awhile then you've likely seen links to photo posts and class announcements surrounding a collaborative blog launched this spring with grower/designer Jennie Love titled The Seasonal Bouquet Project.
For the full back story on how it all got rolling, you can read this post.
In a nut shell, Jennie and I dared each other to make a bouquet every week, for the entire season using only locally sourced flowers. Living on opposite coast, in very different climates, with very different taste, we wanted to see what was happening in each others garden and keep creatively connected during the roller coaster that is the flower season.
Some weeks the project felt like pulling teeth and others it was my favorite creative endeavor. Every seven days, the garden had something new to offer and it was our job to showcase that magic in the most beautiful light possible.
All in all, it was one of the most rewarding processes I've invested in so far.
A few months in and dozens and dozens of sweet emails later, it was obvious that our small flame of an idea was catching fire in the lives of others. Growers and designers from all over the world we excited and eager to not only participate in the weekly ritual but to also come together and learn more in person.
I give Jennie full credit for being the brave force behind launching the workshop series. She went to great lengths to bring us all together in one place and put so much of her heart and soul into nurturing the idea all the way into form.
Sixty six sweet souls left their farms, floral businesses and lives to travel from all corners of the globe and be part of this new movement. There was so much excitement and enthusiasm present in the group that it was impossible not to leave completely inspired. Change is underfoot indeed and I cant wait to see what happens from here!!!
In the coming weeks we will be sharing many more details from the classes, beautiful photos of the experience captured by some of Philly's best photographers and our plans for the future on The Seasonal Bouquet Project blog. I will be sure to link to any and all of the new developments here as well.
While knee deep in the workshop series, Jennie and I sat down with author Debra Prinzing for a fun interview about the local flower scene, The Seasonal Bouquet Project and the new and growing movement of farmer/florists coming onto the scene.
Are you a budding flower farmer?
Are you a floral designer wanting to use more seasonal material in your design work?
What resources do you feel are lacking and what do you need in order to soar?
I'd really, really love to know more about your journey and any of the roadblocks you're experiencing in the comment section below.
Congratulations on the success of your Seasonal Bouquet project in PA. Clearly you've captured the hearts and minds of many, yet there are so many more who have not yet been touched by the work you and Jennie are doing.
I hope your effort continues and I hope we can continue to support you in your mission to help people think more creatively, regionally and locally when designing with flowers.
Thanks Kasey! Your support was absolutely fantastic and so well received by all of our lucky students. We were all oohing and ahhhing over the fun CA foliages that none of us ever get to grow. A real treat indeed!
wow! I'm so happy you would consider Salt Spring.I am having trouble emailing you.Maybe it would work if I replied to one of your emails to me? Thanks!
Did you send to [email protected]? Put Salt Spring in the subject line.
The seasonal, local and organic flower arranging philosophy has not really caught on in New Zealand yet and its very reassuring and inspiring to know there are like minded people out there, even if scattered across the globe. This is my first year growing my own flowers in my little garden to supplement what we get at the flower market (I can see how it's very addictive and easy to run out of room) and so much advice and knowledge has come via the internet community. Looking forward to your e-book soon, exciting news!
I forgot to mention that I've found it impossible to find anyone who can sell me ranunculus corms this fall. I'm so sad that I won't be getting a head start with them in my hoop house.How did you begin your first crop?
Also, here's an idea…….come to SaltSpring and speak at my (huge!) Garden Club and help me encourage gardeners to grow for my future flower shop!
I think coming to Salt Spring is a grand idea, I've always wanted to visit!
Not sure if you know Michael Ableman from Foxglove Farm, he's on the island, but it was his book that inspired me to start farming. I've longed to see his operation for many years now.
Thank you so much for your generous sharing of everything that you do. I've been following your blog for about a year now and can't tell you enough how thankful I am for your inspiration and knowledge. I'm working on growing on my 3/4 acres here on Salt Spring Island, B.C. We have the most amazing community of farmers and an incredible farmer's market.My hope is to open a flower shop which is purely locally supplied….and no oasis allowed! I hope that some day I get to meet you at one of your workshops or maybe you will come visit Salt Spring one day! Many, many thanks to you Erin.
Hello from a very cold and frosty Aberdeen in the north east of Scotland. I have been enjoying all your photographs and updates for the first time this year. Your work is beautiful. I have been in the wedding industry for around nine years now, and had my own events business for two. If there is one thing I have noticed, is that florists are not too keen to think outside the box and go local and seasonal. This last year I was asked by three brides to help with some flowers as no one in our area does anything seasonal, or using local flowers. One of my brides, after coming to my house for a consultation asked if they could buy the flowers from my garden for their wedding flowers. We did this, a combination of my own and from my mums garden. It was a riot of colour and looked beautiful. This got my brain whizzing. I have booked myself into the local college for a course starting in the new year, to learn some more technical aspects that I am missing. But my biggest problem lies in sourcing enough of the flowers, and we are so dependant on our weather. We had a stunning summer this year, and the garden was beautiful, but some years we get lot and lots of rain, and not enough sun, like the year before. I have four children , which also limits my time in the garden. I have thought about putting an ad in the local paper asking for local gardeners that would be willing to sell me their Dahlias, sweet peas, delphiniums etc for weddings and events.
I have also discussed with my mum about taking over a part of her garden to grow some specific flowers for cutting. One way or another, I am going to try and make this work. There is a gap in the market here for seasonal, less structured flowers and I think I would like to take that on.
I would also really love to know more abut conditioning flowers after they have been cut.
Wow, what an exciting project you are about to embark on! There does seem to be such a gap in the floral market doesn't there? How very thrilling for all of us.
Do you know who Sarah Raven is? She has written two fantastic flower growing/arranging books and is based in England. Her growing advice is always spot and though your climate is a bit soggier than hers, much of it should be applicable.
Thank you for your reply. I love Sarah Raven. I have ordered seeds from her before, and I watch her youtube tutorials. I will look in to her books though. Thank you!
You are one amazing women! I would have loved to attend the workshop with you and Jennie and see her farm! Visiting your farm was such an inspiration! The seasonal bouquet project and just being able to see what others are doing, creating this community of floral designer/farmers, everything, is headed in an wonderfully exciting direction! You are doing such a wonderful job keeping everyone connected and keeping the conversation going! Thank you!
Congratulations, Erin, on such a tremendously successful project and rousing finale to the season! It was such a pleasure to work on the videos and I can't wait until the book is released. Happy weekend to you all.
Your site is an inspiration! I have had a cutting garden for years and finally have a deer fence so feel enthused to add many more plants. I appreciate your sharing plant varieties,seed sources and growing tips.
As a painter I enjoy your artistry with flowers, keep up the excellent work.
I JUST graduated from Washington State University with a degree in Landscape, Nursery and Greenhouse Management. What I would really love to do is become a florist. WSU cancelled their flower arranging class some years ago, so now I am having trouble with just learning the ways of arranging flowers. I have zero experience, except for the little amount we did in Hort Club there. I absolutely loved it, but now don't know where to go or what to do next. A floral arranging class would be wonderful to attend just to learn the basics. One for beginners. Do you know of any or have any advice on what to do next?
Love this project. I'm a florist in Madison, WI and I ONLY use locally grown material. You heard me right. In Wisconsin of all places. 12 months of the year. My website has a photo slideshow organized by month to give you an idea of how we make it happen. It can be done!
Fantastic! and in WI? that's amazing.
I'm a young organic farmer and I mostly make my living from vegetables. I am aspiring to add cut flowers as a profitable part of our farm (I am currently considering it a personal educational project). My biggest challenge with incorporating it into our farm is learning efficiencies (especially with bouquet making and harvest…like leaf stripping) as well as figuring out pricing. I thank you for the time you spend writing blog posts, articles for Growing for Market, and social media.
I have been watching your gorgeous farm grow and reading your blog for a few years now – it has inspired me to start a farm! I've been a designer for 10ish years, and I work on a flower farm one day a week during the summer (if I have time!). I'm located in Madison, Wisconsin, and the biggest issue is the SHORT growing season here! I'm busy expanding the farms I buy from, even fedexing roses and other flowers from the west coast, but buying locally is also important to me! Our winters don't allow for the abundance available in Washington or California or Oregon. I don't have access locally to huge garden roses, crazy awesome ranunculus, hundreds of dahlias, interesting blooming branches, etc! I want my designs to reflect the seasons and respect our location, but I also want them to be more sophisticated than the local farmers' market! Do I have to move or accept the distance?
I'm a budding flower farmer trying to find mentors in the same climate as mine (southeast) to help me troubleshoot. Would love to know more about how you started and see more pics of your set-up / layout of the farm. You're the best!
I agree on the technical aspects.. I can take a local intensive flower arranging class, but it is of traditional florist style, using more traditional shipped in material. I know what I want to use, and the color combinations I can envision, however the technical side.. like how to hold stems while making the bouquet, how you get your large arrangements to sit in that compote easily etc..
Plus, a general frank discussion on pricing would be awesome.
Lovely photos, I can't wait to see more!
My brain has been abuzz with ideas (some crazy ones!) since I got back from the workshop… Being a designer with no serious intent to grow anything other than what I can fit in my tiny back yard, my biggest obstacle is finding growers willing to sell me their product. Crazy, right? And I just spent 2 days with growers who were wondering where to find clients for their flowers… So I think what we need is some sort of forum where we can all share and exchange ideas and tips, and where designers and growers can connect. Let's get rid of all these middlemen!
I think that's a fantastic idea!!! Let's do it!
We have The British Flower Collective here for exactly that reason. We can help each other, growing tips, outlets for our flowers, packaging and surplus stock you name it we can pull together and work out a solution. I'd highly recommend setting up something similar – we a have a new website if you want to take a peek.
Erin have been following you for a while now and as you know tweeting like mad about a book with a planting diary would be great. It's getting crop rotation right in a small area for us and when you have a cold spring like we did it makes it very tough to get those early annuals!
Oh, I can't wait to check out the new site!
I am so restless to get moving on that book. I have my feelers out now so hopefully it'll happen in the not so distant future.
Thrilled you had such success with dahlias, aren't they the best!? And mums…you're gonna flip!
Another thing I struggle with is know the technical aspects of designing. There are no floral workshops here in the Boulderr/Denver area and I can't afford to travel right now. I just want to get some basics under my belt so that I can experiment more and eventually create professional looking designs.
Lynn B. (author of The Flower Farmer) and I are creating an e-book that also includes 5 how-to arranging videos that should help tremendously. It'll be out by Christmas and will certainly give you a good start!
It's been two years now were I've been planting a cutting garden. Plenty of tulips, peonies, dahlias, muscari, hellebores, clematis, mock orange, ranunculus, forsythia and on the list for next year sweet peas. My biggest hurdle to date is trying to find bulbs, seeds of unusual varieties that I can plant. I cannot seem to find the unusual colors, the fun foliages that I can plant and see grow. All I find is the usual suspects in colors…… Where can I buy the usual varieties. My local nursery will not even order them for me.
Hi Erin, I have followed your blog since the spring of this year, and thanks to you and other inspiring designers/growers out there have fallen in love with flowers. I have a background in organic vegetable farming, having worked on three organic farms in the Boulder area over the last 4 years. I have knowledge and drive to grow, and an obsession with arranging and learning about designing with flowers. I know I have an eye for both growing and designing–My biggest obstacle right now is land. Land comes at a premium here in Boulder County and while I am pretty sure I won't be able to buy land, renting land with water, or a house with land and water is hard to come by too. I have entered a deal with some family members who own a farm here to start growing flowers in some of their landscape beds in exchange for them buying seeds and plants. But I know this little bit of land will not be enough for my ever expanding list of must-haves to grow and design with. For now it is a wonderful opportunity that I will take and run with. Oh how I envy the 2 acres that you have to plant with whatever you desire!! Thank you for being the standard that I strive toward. Thank you for your generosity in sharing with us how we all can add beauty to the world.
You are so sweet! Keep at it, in no time you'll have a little plot of your own.
Erin–I am a newbe/wanna be flower farmer here in the Pacific NW. I have learned so much from you on your blog and FB and Instagram, and I appreciate how you generously share your ideas and pictures. From you I gain inspiration to go on with this dream of mine (I am starting very small on my own acre). I keep crossing my fingers that you will offer classes in our area since I pretty much need to learn everything about floral arranging and flower farming. I love the flower farmer community and how supportive they are with each other!
Been following you for years and devouring every drop of wisdom you share. I have been flower farming since 2005, I have plenty of customers but it's just me and I can't keep up. I need to find someone as passionate about flowers and floral design as I am so I'm hoping that person will manifest soon. That is what I am lacking if you know of anyone send them my way.
Please keep posting flower arrangements/bouquets. You have no idea how happy they make me to see them. I've always made flower arrangements from my own garden and this site inspired me to post pictures of them on my FB page. People love it.
I'd be interested to see what can be done in the winter months. You know, greens, berries, pine cones, etc.
Please continue to do the seasonal bouquet project and workshops. I want so badly to come, and it just wasn't in the cards this year. I have already started saving and planning for next year. Having this weekly indulgence of beauty and inspiration has created a new burning love for my business. Thank you so much, we have all been so blessed by your bravery and commitment with this project.
Great job! I so wish I could have been there!


Schemers bother me more than perpetrators of crimes of passion. Likely it's the fact that they spend so much time thinking of ways to deceive and defraud others. A moment of blind fury can and should land a violent criminal in jail for a long time; but the cold calculating scam artists deserve the longest sentences in my view. Where the one loses control, the other is in complete control of their evil thoughts for years and years. The other annoyance is the waste those schemers represent. Their elaborate devices take time, energy and talent to deploy. These folks are sharp enough and skilled enough to get a real job, but instead of building something they choose to be leeches on the backs of those who earn an honest day's pay. What am I railing about? Two different scams. SCAM #1: Affiliate thief The client prohibits affiliates from bidding on their brand name. Oftentimes, we're prompted to look for affiliate theft because sales on our client's trademark drops off the table for some reason. We have tools to help detect this abuse, and normally a quick scan of the destination url reveals that the traffic is really going to www.dirtbag.com or whatever after the Google redirect. But check out this scam: The top is what our analyst spotted; it looks like traffic is being passed from Google to our redirector rkdms.com, but it isn't! Not yet. This thief actually creates a spoofed version of our normal redirector and sends the traffic to her/his domain. Then -- devilishly clever -- after it's gone through the affiliate's site to get their credit tagged, the traffic is sent back through the real rkdms.com redirect (shown below the spoofed version) and on to the client's site. The net effect? RKG doesn't see a drop in brand traffic through paid search -- the user got our tracking tags. But, the affiliate still gets the commission by inserting its tag as well. We don't see a drop so aren't prompted to look for the theft, and a casual look at the destination urls on the trademark ads wouldn't look out of the ordinary because of the spoof. Fortunately, our analyst had the razor sharp eye to spot the scam. SCAM #2: SEO Link spam RKG Blog generates many conversations with our readership, which we deeply appreciate. We also get a lot of comment Spam from both the standard spyware, malware villains and SEO companies looking to build link networks without doing the hard work necessary to do it right. Akismet has caught 190,000 of the first type, but has a bit more trouble spotting the last type. Usually this later class of spam that makes it passed the filter is fairly easy to screen manually: "hi, love your blog, keep up the good work" type of generic message with links embedded. The more advance folks do something like: "Great post on [Title]" with dynamic insertion of either the title of the post, the author or a chunk of text from the post. This morning, the prize winning dirt ball actually got a couple past the gatekeeper because instead of grabbing something easily identifiable, s/he grabbed a complete sentence from one of the other comments on the page so it looked like a well thought-through reaction to the post. His bad luck was that one of the comments he placed stole a snippet from one of my comments which I recognized as sounding a bit too familiar. Clever, very clever, and evil. Pretty clearly, the folks above have serious programming skills. They could undoubtedly get jobs with real companies doing positive work. Instead, they've chosen the Madoff route. I hope it leads them to the cell next to Bernie.


If you've had trouble paying your bills and your financial situation isn't improving, you may need the help of a San Francisco consumer bankruptcy lawyer. There are many decisions to make and rules to follow in bankruptcy, and hiring the right attorney is key to success. This article will help you find and hire the right attorney for you.
If you need help finding an attorney, there are two simple ways to get started.
Did they file a San Francisco Chapter 7 bankruptcy or a San Francisco Chapter 13 bankruptcy?
What is their opinion of the attorney?
Were they happy with the attorney's work?
Would they recommend the attorney to others?
If you don't want to discuss your personal business with friends and family, can't get a good recommendation or simply want to have more options, let us help. From the South Bay to Walnut Creek, Attorneys.com can help you find a San Francisco consumer bankruptcy lawyer. Just complete our online form or call 1-877-913-7222. We'll ask you some simple questions and then put you in touch with at least one lawyer in your area. You can call them yourself, or the attorney will call you within two business days.
When you have the names of an attorney or several who look good to you, the next step is to schedule a meeting. The first meeting with an attorney is called an initial consultation. The consultation is a meeting between you and the attorney before you have hired him.
Although most initial consultations are free, be sure to ask when you set up the appointment.
You'll get the most out of your initial consultation if you are well prepared. Consider what you'd like to learn about the attorney and your case, and prepare questions which will get you that information.
Ask about these important points as well as any others that will help you make a decision. Your meeting will be the most productive if the attorney understands your case.
Bring these documents and any other related paperwork with you, and be ready to take notes during the meeting.
During the consultation, ask your questions and answer the attorney's questions. The meeting is confidential, so you can speak freely about all topics. Your honesty will help the attorney give you a good opinion of your case. Remember that the consultation will help you decide on an attorney, so gather as much information as you can about each San Francisco consumer bankruptcy lawyer.
When you complete your consultations, review your notes and think about how the attorneys matched your requirements. If one attorney is a good professional and personal fit, you'll be ready to proceed. If you're having trouble deciding between attorneys or aren't convinced that a particular attorney is right, ask each attorney for references. Many lawyers will give you the names of past clients, and their opinions can help you make a choice.
When you're confident in your choice, hire the attorney and move forward with your case.
What Happens to Student Loans in Bankruptcy?


Causes and Elevation of the SinoSoviet Schism Essay 2130 Words 9 Pages Causes and Elevation of the SinoSoviet Schism It can be argued that the most significant effect on foreign policy during the Cold War, besides the arms race, was the schism and eventually antagonism between the USSR and China.
A History of the Event in 1054 Which Divided the Christianity and Led the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church in Collision 1, 067 words 2 pages It is often assumed that the anathemas (excommunications) exchanged in Constantinople in 1054 between the patriarch Michael Cerularius and papal legates marked the final schism. The schism, however, actually took the form of a gradual estrangement, beginning well before 1054 and culminating in the sack of Constantinople by Western Summary: This is a discussion of The Great Schism between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church in 1054.
It details the causes, events, and impact of the split between the eastern and western churches, including the Schism Of 1054 Essay The Schism of 1054 marks the official breach that separated Roman Catholic Christianity from Orthodox Christianity. It occurred when delegates of Pope Leo IX ( ) excommunicated Michael Keroularios, patriarch of Constantinople ( ), and his associates. Factors that Cause The Great Schism Part A Introduction The first major division in Christianity took place in 1054 CE between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches.
This event is known as the Great Schism. The Great Schism of 1054 The Great Schism was the division of the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church during the middle ages.
The split occurred in 1054 due to doctrinal, theological, linguistic, political and geographical reasons. Factors that Cause The Great Schism Part A Introduction The first major division in Christianity took place in 1054 CE between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches. This event is known as the Great Schism. The Great Schism The great schism also known as the East West Schism, was the event that divided Christianity into 2 groups, the Western (roman) Catholicism and the Eastern Orthodoxy.
Throughout the year of 1054, the church remained largely unchanged, it grew in power and became more and more insular.


text:
The Hamilton Project Policy Response to the 2014 State of the Union Address
The Hamilton Project Wednesday, January 29, 2014
"…the best measure of opportunity is access to a good job."
In his 2014 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama spoke of a "breakthrough year for America" and foreshadowed a "year of action." He focused on ways to expand opportunities for Americans by enhancing employment and education options for low- and middle-income citizens, developing more robust worker training programs, investing in America through infrastructure investments and energy innovation, making progress on immigration reform, and more.
Since its launch in 2006, The Hamilton Project has released a range of targeted policy proposals that provide innovative, evidence-based approaches that address many of the policy priorities set forth in last night's address.
Strengthening K-12 Education for All Americans
"Of course, it's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce, by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education."
Early education has long been central to America's vision of opportunity for all, and remains key to both individual achievement and to national economic strength. The Hamilton Project explores innovative proposals to increase the effectiveness of the K-12 educational system and boost the skills of all Americans.
Harnessing Technology to Improve K-12 Education by Aaron Chatterji and Benjamin F. Jones
This proposal considers a signature American strength—innovation—and how to apply it to K–12 education. Specifically, the proposal provides solutions to overcome a fundamental obstacle to innovation in the early classroom: that the effectiveness of learning technologies is rarely known.
Organizing Schools to Improve Student Achievement: Start Times, Grade Configurations, and Teacher Assignments by Brian A. Jacob and Jonah E. Rockoff
In this paper, the authors describe three organizational reforms that recent evidence suggests have the potential to increase K–12 student performance at modest cost. These include: starting school later in the day for some students, integrating elementary and middle schools, and managing teacher assignments with an eye toward maximizing student achievement.
The Power and Pitfalls of Education Incentives by Bradley M. Allan and Roland Fryer, Jr.
The authors draw on school-based field experiments with student and teacher incentives to offer a series of guidelines for designing successful educational incentive programs. Incentives for inputs, such as doing homework or reading books, produced modest gains and might have positive returns on investment, and thus provide the best direction for future programs.
Learning from the Successes and Failures of Charter Schools by Ronald Fryer, Jr.
The author examines charter schools of varying to quality to discern what differentiates high-performing and low-performing charter schools. An expansive data collection and analysis yielded an index of five educational practices that explains much of the gap between high- and low-performing charter schools in a number of cities.
Identifying Effective Teachers Using Performance on the Job by Robert Gordon, Thomas J. Kane, and Douglas O. Staiger
The authors propose federal support to help states measure the effectiveness of individual teachers, based on their impact on student achievement, subjective evaluations by principals and peers, and parental evaluations. States would be given considerable discretion to develop their own measures as long as student achievement impacts (using so-called "value-added" measures) are a key component, and the federal government would create incentives for teachers to receive high ratings.
Summer Opportunity Scholarships (SOS): A Proposal to Narrow the Skills Gap by Alan B. Krueger
In this paper, the author proposes and designs a policy of Summer Opportunity Scholarships (SOS) to provide scholarships for economically disadvantaged children in kindergarten through fifth grade to participate in a six-week summer school or summer enrichment program of their parents' choosing. SOS summer program providers will be required to use small-group, scientifically based instruction with a strong emphasis on improving basic reading and math skills.
A Dozen Economic Facts About K-12 Education
In this set of economic facts, The Hamilton Project illustrates the state of educational attainment in the United States and the growing importance of education in determining people's well-being. On many dimensions—lifetime earnings, incarceration rates, and life expectancy, to name a few—Americans who do not graduate from high school or college are increasingly falling behind those with a college degree.
Promoting Access and Affordability in Higher Education
The Hamilton Project
"We're shaking up our system of higher education to give parents more information, and colleges more incentives to offer better value, so that no middle-class kid is priced out of a college education."
The Hamilton Project has released a series of papers focusing on how changes in student lending and financial-aid policies can help improve college outcomes, the importance of improving college access, and the pivotal role that education can play in increasing the ability of low-income Americans to move up the income ladder.
Informing Students about Their College Options: A Proposal for Broadening the Expanding College Opportunities Project by Caroline M. Hoxby and Sarah Turner
The authors present a strategy for improving college outcomes for high-achieving, low-income students. Building on previous research showing that most high-achieving, low-income students do not
even apply to selective colleges, Hoxby and Turner propose expanding a recently piloted informational intervention called the Expanding College Opportunities (ECO) Project.
Loans for Educational Opportunity: Making Borrowing Work for Today's Students by Susan M. Dynarski and Daniel Kreisman
The current federal student lending system requires students to repay loans during the first decade after college, when their incomes are relatively low and variable. In this paper, the authors propose a strategy to improve student lending through the adoption of an income-contingent repayment plan.
Redesigning the Pell Grant Program for the Twenty-First Century by Sandy Baum and Judith Scott-Clayton
The structure of the Pell Grant program has remained fundamentally unchanged since its inception in 1972. This proposal calls for three major structural reforms to fit the needs of a twenty-first-century economy and student population.
Simplifying Estimates of College Costs by Philip Levine
The lack of clear information about the widening gap in perceived and actual costs of college can act as an impediment in students' decision-making process. The author proposes a way to simplify and improve the transparency of college cost estimates based on a pilot program currently underway at Wellesley College.
Grading Higher Education: Giving Consumers the Information They Need by Bridget Terry Long
Potential students and their families must navigate a labyrinth of incomplete and uncertain information when deciding where to go to college, what to study, or what career to pursue, resulting in an array of poor choices being made every day. This proposal calls for the federal government to expand the types of information that are available and allow users to compare indicators like cost, financial aid, student debt, employment outcomes, and average salaries following graduation, across peer institutions.
Thirteen Economic Facts About Social Mobility and the Role of Education
This Hamilton Project policy memo examines the relationship between growing income inequality and social mobility in America. The memo explores the growing gap in educational opportunities and outcomes for students based on family income and the great potential of education to increase upward mobility for all Americans.
Reforming America's Worker Training Programs
"So tonight, I've asked Vice President Biden to lead an across-the-board reform of America's training programs to make sure they have one mission: train Americans with the skills employers need, and match them to good jobs that need to be filled right now. That means more on-the-job training, and more apprenticeships that set a young worker on an upward trajectory for life. It means connecting companies to community colleges that can help design training to fill their specific needs. And if Congress wants to help, you can concentrate funding on proven programs that connect more ready-to-work Americans with ready-to-be-filled jobs."
America's greatest economic resource lies in the skill and energy of its workforce. The Hamilton Project has produced several proposals for improving programs to help ensure that workers receive high-quality, effective training.
Using Data to Improve the Performance of Workforce Training by Louis Jacobson and Robert J. LaLonde
The authors propose a state-by-state solution to improving worker training, by relying on a competitive framework to encourage states to help prospective trainees make better-informed choices.
Raising Job Quality and Skills for American Workers: Creating More-Effective Education and Workforce Development Systems in the States by Harry J. Holzer
Less educated workers often experience prolonged periods of unemployment and stagnating wages because they lack the skills necessary to compete in a global economy. This paper proposes a set of competitive grants to fund education, training, and career counseling initiatives that feature private sector connections based on the experience of existing successful workforce development programs.
Policies to Reduce High-Tenured Displaced Workers' Earnings Losses Through Training by Louis S. Jacobson, Daniel G. Sullivan, and Robert J. LaLonde
After being displaced from long-tenured jobs, workers often experience persistent, significant earnings losses. In this paper, the authors propose the establishment of a Displaced Worker Training Program to distribute grants to displaced workers so they can obtain longer-term training to substantially increase their earnings.
Strengthening One-Stop Career Centers: Helping More Unemployed Workers Find Jobs and Build Skills by Louis S. Jacobson
This paper explores the role that One-Stop Career Centers play in helping the unemployed build new skills and find new jobs. It proposes introducing new performance measures that would make better use of existing resources and thereby expand One-Stop capacity to help more workers.
Supporting American Workers
The Hamilton Project explores innovative proposals that help create jobs, provide a strong social safety net for American families during times of distress, and secure the promise of the American Dream that each generation can achieve more than the last.
"Today, the federal minimum wage is worth about twenty percent less than it was when Ronald Reagan first stood here. Tom Harkin and George Miller have a bill to fix that by lifting the minimum wage to $10.10. This will help families. It will give businesses customers with more money to spend. It doesn't involve any new bureaucratic program. So join the rest of the country. Say yes. Give America a raise."
The "Ripple Effect" of a Minimum Wage Increase on American Workers
The Hamilton Project considers the likely magnitude of the effects of a minimum wage increase on the number and share of workers affected. Considering that near-minimum wage workers would also be affected, this analysis finds that an increase in the minimum wage could raise the wages of up to 35 million workers.
"I'm also convinced we can help Americans return to the workforce faster by reforming unemployment insurance so that it's more effective in today's economy."
The Importance of Unemployment Insurance for American Families & the Economy: Take 2
The Hamilton Project reexamines unemployment insurance. The analysis highlights evidence suggesting that extended benefits provide a sizable boost for workers and the economy, but have little negative effect on unemployment duration.
"…give these hardworking, responsible Americans that chance…they need our help, but more importantly, this country needs them in the game."
Strengthening SNAP for a More Food-Secure, Healthy America by Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—formerly known as the Food Stamp Program—is an essential part of America's social safety net. The author proposes five reforms that could strengthen SNAP, including incentives for participants to purchase healthier foods and improvements to the benefit formula.
Bringing Jobs to People: How Federal Policy Can Target Job Creation for Economically Distressed Areas by Timothy Bartik
The author proposes three solutions to bring jobs to distressed areas: customized job training programs for businesses and employees, advice and consulting services through the Manufacturing Extension Partnership program, and a package of grants for local services and tax breaks through a reformed and revitalized Empowerment Zone program.
A Dozen Facts about America's Struggling Lower-Middle Class
This Hamilton Project policy paper provides a dozen facts on struggling lower-middle-class families focusing on two key challenges: food insecurity, and the low return to work for struggling lower-middle-class families who lose tax and transfer benefits as their earnings increase. These facts highlight the critical role of federal tax and transfer programs in providing income support to families struggling to remain out of poverty.
Tax Reform to Support Struggling Families
"There are other steps we can take to help families make ends meet, and few are more effective at reducing inequality and helping families pull themselves up through hard work than the Earned Income Tax Credit. Right now, it helps about half of all parents at some point. But I agree with Republicans like Senator Rubio that it doesn't do enough for single workers who don't have kids. So let's work together to strengthen the credit, reward work, and help more Americans get ahead."
The tax code can be one vehicle for alleviating poverty and rewarding Americans for work. The Hamilton Project has put forward several proposals that make work pay and improve the livelihood of low-wage workers.
Employment-Based Tax Credits for Low-Skilled Workers by John Karl Scholz
For families in low-income communities, unemployment rates are high, incarceration rates of low-skilled men are high and a large fraction of children are being raised in single-parent households. To address these interrelated problems, this paper proposes a policy designed to increase the return to work through an expanded earned income tax credit that would apply to low-income, childless taxpayers; and through a targeted wage subsidy for low-wage workers who live in certain economically depressed areas.
Giving Secondary Earners a Tax Break: A Proposal to Help Low-and Middle-Income Families by Melissa Kearney and Leslie Turner
The current tax system hampers low- and middle-income families who add secondary earners to the workforce to augment their primary breadwinner's income. The authors propose a secondary earner tax deduction that would help make work pay for dual-earner families.
A Dozen Economic Facts About Tax Reform
The Hamilton Project compiled a series of facts aimed at informing today's tax reform debates, which are often based on misconceptions or lack good evidence. They are presented in the spirit of the late U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's famous saying, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not to his own facts."
A Modern Approach to Corporate Tax Reform
"Both Democrats and Republicans have argued that our tax code is riddled with wasteful, complicated loopholes that punish businesses investing here, and reward companies that keep profits abroad. Let's flip that equation. Let's work together to close those loopholes, end those incentives to ship jobs overseas, and lower tax rates for businesses that create jobs here at home."
The U.S. corporate tax system introduced more than 100 years ago has not kept pace with changes to the economy. The growing role of financial innovation and the increasingly global nature of U.S. corporate operations are chief among these changes, necessitating reform. The Hamilton Project has released several proposals to improve our nation's system of corporate and business taxation.
A Modern Corporate Tax by Alan J. Auerbach
The author proposes two reforms to the U.S. corporate tax system: first, an immediate deduction for all investments that would replace the current system of depreciation allowances, and second, replacing the current approach to taxing foreign-source income with a system that ignores all transactions except those occurring exclusively in the United States.
Reforming Corporate Taxation in a Global Economy: A Proposal to Adopt Formulary Apportionment by Kimberly A. Clausing and Reuven S. Avi-Yonah
In this paper, the authors argues that the current system of taxing multinational firms generates tax distortions. It proposes a new system that would protect the U.S. tax base while alleviating problems created by the current system.
Rehabilitating the Business Income Tax by Edward D. Kleinbard
The author introduces the Business Enterprise Income Tax (BEIT), a proposal for reforming business income taxation. It is argued that the BEIT would achieve comprehensive and consistent taxation of capital income.
Promoting Retirement Savings For All Americans
"Today, most workers don't have a pension. A Social Security check often isn't enough on its own. And while the stock market has doubled over the last five years, that doesn't help folks who don't have 401ks. That's why, tomorrow, I will direct the Treasury to create a new way for working Americans to start their own retirement savings: MyRA."
"And if this Congress wants to help, work with me to fix an upside-down tax code that gives big tax breaks to help the wealthy save, but does little to nothing for middle-class Americans. Offer every American access to an automatic IRA on the job, so they can save at work just like everyone in this chamber can."
Reforming retirement savings is imperative to the wellbeing of older workers and retirees. The Hamilton Project has focused on strategies to incentivize retirement savings, and on ways to improve lifetime income planning.
Better Ways to Promote Saving through the Tax System by Karen Dynan
In this proposal, the author proposes improving incentives for saving among low-income households by expanding the use of behavioral approaches and other incentives. Additionally, she proposes reducing inefficient tax expenditures for higher-income households.
Increasing Annuitization of 401(k) Plans with Automatic Trial Income by J. Mark Iwry, William G. Gale, David C. John, and Lina Walker
The authors offer a policy that would increase the role of lifetime income products in future retirees' overall retirement planning. This strategy addresses market function by making it easier for a substantial number of retirees to purchase lifetime income plans; the increased volume of sales would reduce prices and make them a better value for the average consumer.
Investing in America's Infrastructure
"Moreover, we can take the money we save with this transition to tax reform to create jobs rebuilding our roads, upgrading our ports, unclogging our commutes – because in today's global economy, first-class jobs gravitate to first-class infrastructure."
A broad range of infrastructure projects are crucial for our nation's economic growth, from the schools that educate our children, to the airports, highways, waterways, bridges, and public transit that facilitate travel and commerce, to broadband investments that speed information technology. The Hamilton Project explores innovative proposals to ensure that existing resources are used more efficiently, and prioritize new investment in projects that will have the greatest economic impact.
Funding Transportation Infrastructure with User Fees by Jack Basso and Tyler Duvall
In this policy proposal, the authors recommend expanding the use of user fees and tolls to fund ground transportation. This would benefit the broader U.S. economy by increasing revenues, reducing congestion on major roadways and reducing pollution.
Public-Private Partnerships to Revamp U.S. Infrastructure by Eduardo Engel, Ronald Fischer, and Alexander Galetovic
The authors propose a series of best practices for state and local governments to follow when using public–private partnerships to provide infrastructure. These include choosing partnerships for the right reasons, relying on flexible-term Present-Value-of-Revenue contracts, including partnerships on government balance sheets, and implementing good governance practices.
Fix It First, Expand It Second, Reward It Third: A New Strategy for America's Highways by David M. Levinson and Matthew E. Kahn
These authors propose a reorganization of our national highway infrastructure priorities to preserve, maintain, and enhance existing infrastructure and the creation of the Federal Highway Bank to meet these goals.
Bringing Broadband to America's Underserved Communities by Jon M. Peha
This proposal outlines policies through which government could facilitate the expansion of broadband infrastructure into unserved communities. The author argues that these policy reforms would move America closer to the goal of universal access to broadband Internet.
The Importance of Immigration Reform for the Economy
"Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next two decades. And for good reason: when people come here to fulfill their dreams – to study, invent, and contribute to our culture – they make our country a more attractive place for businesses to locate and create jobs for everyone."
Most Americans agree that the current U.S. immigration system is flawed. Less clear, however, are the economic facts about immigration—the real effects that new immigrants have on wages, jobs, budgets, and the U.S. economy—that are essential to a constructive national debate. The Hamilton Project has produced economic facts around immigration in addition to proposals for market-based reforms to the immigration system.
Overhauling the Temporary Work Visa System by Pia Orrenius, Giovanni Peri, and Madeline Zavodny
In this paper the authors present a strategy to change the U.S. employment-based immigration system to make the system more efficient, increase the economic benefits of immigration and raise revenues by using market-based auctions to allocate visas.
Rationalizing U.S. Immigration Policy: Reforms for Simplicity, Fairness, and Economic Growth by Giovanni Peri
This proposal calls for a practical set of immigration reforms, starting with market-based changes to employment-based visas to better link visas with the labor market and ending with broad simplification in many areas of policy.
Ten Economic Facts about Immigration
This Hamilton Project policy memo explores some of the questions frequently raised around immigration in the United States. The memo paints a more nuanced portrait of American immigration than is portrayed in today's debate. In particular, the facts indicate that the U.S. immigrant population is far from a monolith; on the contrary, it includes several groups, each of which affects the U.S. economy in a different way.
What New Immigrants Could Mean for American Wages
The Hamilton Project examines how future immigration trends could impact American wages, using targets set in the recently-passed Senate bill as a signpost. Understanding that S.744 is just the first piece of legislation out of the gate, the new analysis suggests that the average impact of new immigrants on the wages of U.S.-born workers would be positive.
Promoting Cleaner Energy Production and Use
The Hamilton Project has produced a range of policy proposals for spurring clean energy innovation, reducing fossil fuel subsidies, promoting the responsible production of natural gas, and exploring new opportunities for natural gas use in vehicles and as part of our export economy.
"The shift to a clean energy economy won't happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way."
Eliminating Fossil Fuel Subsidies by Joseph E. Aldy
The author proposes twelve tax provisions to subsidize the production of fossil fuels in the United States. Implementing this proposal will contribute to a leveling of the playing field among oil and gas companies, since independent producers enjoy greater tax benefits than the oil majors, and will promote the efficiency in allocating capital across the U.S. economy.
An Energy Technology Corporation Will Improve the Federal Government's Efforts to Accelerate Energy Innovation by John M. Deutch
The author proposes a series of best practices for government support of technology demonstration. A new institution, the Energy Technology Corporation, would be responsible for managing and selecting technology demonstration projects.
Promoting Clean Energy in the American Power Sector by Joseph E. Aldy
This proposal would establish a technology-neutral national clean energy standard for the U.S. power sector, lowering carbon dioxide emissions by as much as 60 percent relative to 2005 levels over twenty years.
"…natural gas – if extracted safely, it's the bridge fuel that can power our economy with less of the carbon pollution that causes climate change…Congress can help by putting people to work building fueling stations that shift more cars and trucks from foreign oil to American natural gas."
Modernizing Bonding Requirements for Natural Gas Producers by Lucas Davis
The author proposes stronger bonding requirements to help ensure that funds would be available to clean up sites when natural-gas-drilling accidents occur, but more importantly, to incentivize producers to work hard to avoid environmental damages in the first place.
Leveling the Playing Field for Natural Gas in Transportation by Christopher Knittel
The author presents a pair of policy proposals to improve the natural gas fueling infrastructure in homes, at local distribution companies, and along long-haul trucking routes; and to promote the use of natural gas vehicles and fuels.
A Strategy for U.S. Natural Gas Exports by Michael Levi
The author poses a framework for assessing liquefied natural gas exports along six dimensions: macroeconomics (including output, jobs, and balance of trade), distributional, oil security, climate change, foreign and trade policy, and local environment.
Promoting American Innovation
"We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender."
"…let's pass a patent reform bill that allows our businesses to stay focused on innovation, not costly, needless litigation."
Innovation and new ideas drive our economy forward, generating economic growth, creating jobs, and expanding economic opportunity. The Hamilton Project explores innovative proposals to promote and support the next generation of breakthrough technologies, offering opportunities to advance our future competitiveness and benefit American workers.
Aligning Patent Presumptions with the Reality of Patent Review: A Proposal for Patent Reform by Douglas Lichtman
In this paper, the author discusses the limitations of the current patent review system and proposes policy reforms that would correct for these issues.
Prizes for Technological Innovation by Thomas Kalil
The author proposes increasing the use of Advanced Market Commitments and prizes to stimulate innovation. The proposal focuses on innovation in five different areas: space exploration, African agriculture, vaccines for diseases of the poor, energy and climate change, and learning technologies.
Investing in the Best and Brightest: Increased Fellowship Support for American Scientists and Engineers by Richard B. Freeman
The author discusses the National Science Foundation (NSF) policy and argues that the current policy gives less of an incentive for students to enter science and engineering courses than in earlier periods.
A Dozen Economic Facts About Innovation
During the last century, innovation has driven economic growth, increased wages, and improved living standards in the United States—even if it has stagnated in recent years. The Hamilton Project examines the role of innovation in driving the US economy, including its historical importance, the current pace of growth, and opportunities for investments to benefit America's future.
For more information on The Hamilton Project, visit our website at www.hamiltonproject.org. You can also follow us on Twitter (@hamiltonproj) and on Facebook.
Income Inequality & Social Mobility
The Federal Budget

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


This spelling website is the best we have found: systematic, graded lists, quick online quizzes with no distractions. Look at the word, listen to it and spell it. In one hour a kid can quickly review an entire grade level of spelling words if they are a fast typist. Or spend 5 minutes a day to stay a super speller.
Note this is the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt publisher's site, but is one of the better/most complete free resources I've found yet for grammar. The other resources on the site are so-so, so far as I've seen.


Titanium Duck Band Ring with 3 rows that you custom make with your information. 10mm Wide Polish or Satin Finish of your choice also. Made with Aerospace Grade Ti6AI-4V Titanium which is twice as strong and twice as hard as typical Titanium rings. The perfect choice for light weight and heavy strength. Featuring the ability for you to customize it to your date and text. A favorite of duck hunters.


"Using the blog to talk about the research we do in the department is not only a great way for me to improve my science communication skills, but is also a great excuse for me talk to people whose work I like and admire."
Luisa is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Microbiology and Immunology. See her latest blog contribution on Tricking Typhoid. Way to go Luisa!
Several other BESTies are also contributors to the blog. Read more via the links below.
Erin Nicklow, PhD student in Molecular Medicine, describes a win-win solution for conservationists and cattle ranchers in Africa in her blog post here, and highlights the new diagnostic test for food-borne bacteria in mollusks in this post.
Divya Shiroor, PhD student in Comparative Biomedical Sciences, writes on Animal allergies and immune responses shed light on human medicine and Science, not Silence. No stranger to the blogging world, Divya was previously selected by the NIH BEST Consortium as a first round choice and wrote: Waiting for Perfect, Crossing the Finish Line, The Career Conundrum, Fraternizing with Failure, Be Your Own Cartographer, and Is Academia My Forbidden Love?
One of the attractive aspects of a hosted blog is that many contributors make light work, thus allowing many individuals to try their hand at blogging without having to take time to figure out the logistics and feel the pressure to consistently write material. This approach meshes well with the busy schedules of DVMs and PhDs who are immersed in their studies, research and clinical work. In addition, the many perspectives, story topics and writing styles appeal to readers who like the variety.
One result of this pilot in the Veterinary College is that it can serve as a model for the BEST Program to consider hosting a similar type of blog, extended over the 5 colleges and 65 departments and programs from which BEST trainees emanate. Stay tuned, and contact Susi Varvayanis if you are interested!
See https://blogs.cornell.edu/vetblog/ for more information.


text:
Carrie Lam is said to be uninterested in a think-tank report that discusses the possibility of reviving a special branch in the police to keep tabs on opposition groups. Photo: Facebook
Yu Kam-yin - Jul 13, 2017 12:52pm
Lam unlikely to act on 'explosive' CPU recommendation
The Central Policy Unit (CPU), the government's official think tank, is said to have compiled an 110,000-word internal report known as "Scenario Building for Hong Kong" back in May this year. Some of the report's contents and the recommendations it makes have only come to light recently.
According to reports, the document contains three chapters, namely "factors affecting the future development of Hong Kong", "future situation and trends" and 'four future scenarios". In particular, the report is said to put forward a highly provocative suggestion: the SAR government should re-establish a Special Branch (SB) in the police force to keep close tabs on opposition groups.
The SB was the intelligence and counter-subversion division of the former Royal Hong Kong Police Force, which was set up by the British colonial administration. The unit's role was to monitor the activities of secret agents from the Communist Party of China and the Kuomintang lurking in the city and also to spy on local social activists who might potentially threaten internal security or stability of Hong Kong.
However, the SB was disbanded before the handover in 1997 and all of its files and records were moved back to London.
According to government sources, re-establishing the SB was actually the idea of some in the pro-establishment camp, and was accommodated in the report by the CPU.
Yet, sources said that even though the CPU didn't come up with the idea in the first place, the pro-Beijing Shiu Sin-por, the agency's former chief advisor who was appointed by CY Leung, once complained in private that the SAR government was hamstrung by Legco, because it didn't have a single vote in the legislature, and had to count on the pro-establishment camp, which had proven not always reliable, to secure the passage of bills.
As such, he said, it is necessary for the administration to establish an intelligence agency to spy on and gather secret information about the politicians so that government officials could have more bargaining chips when twisting their arm for passage of bills.
Sources said the CPU had spent two years and a lot of resources to write the report, and it was highly regarded by the former Leung administration.
However, it seems the report is very likely to end up being a vain effort because, as it turns out, the new chief executive, Carrie Lam, said she didn't pay much attention to the document and she has no plan to carry out its recommendations.
This article appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on July 12
Translation by Alan Lee with additional reporting
[Chinese version 中文版]
Yu Kam-yin
Columnist of Hong Kong Economic Journal.


text:
Governor declares state of emergency on schools
In anticipation of the partial and gradual opening of face-to-face classes in some public schools, Gov. Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia on Wednesday declared in Executive Order 2021-015 a state of emergency to attend to the immediate conditioning and preparation of the schools of the island public system.
"Since I took office as governor, just a month and a half ago, I have indicated the need for our public schools to gradually and safely reopen to welcome students and offer face-to-face classes," the governor said. "Under the circumstances, we have to return to the highest degree of normality possible. This is a well-thought-out and informed decision, taking into consideration the reopening recommendations of the President of the United States, Joe Biden, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Pediatric Association. To guarantee that safe opening, I have signed this executive order with the aim that the public schools are able to prepare themselves with the greatest possible agility, complying with all the legal requirements of healthy public administration."
The executive order, under the protection of Law 20 of 2017, clearly empowers the governor to declare a state of emergency, under which the use of an expeditious process is ordered to make the necessary purchases, contract and administer the work that is necessary to prepare the schools that will be opening. Likewise, it is provided that the director of the Office of Management and Budget will ensure the responsible exercise of the aforementioned acquisitions by the executive branch agencies and may require reports and establish those budgetary controls that he deems necessary to discharge this responsibility.
The order urges the relevant agencies to use the existing agreements and contracts of the General Services Administration, and any other agency that has a hand in the work of conditioning the schools to use their power to acquire emergency services.
Pierluisi said all contracts awarded will be valid until June 30 and will be forwarded to the federal Financial Oversight and Management Board on the date they are awarded. The contracting of services and acquisition of goods that are necessary to condition the schools will be done through a process of publication of the required works on the web pages of the contracting agencies and the Department of Education with a minimum of three days from the publication so that all applicants can present their proposal and/or quote.
The governor reiterated that only those schools that comply with the health and safety protocols established by the CDC and the Department of Health will open.
"I want to make it crystal clear that the agencies are not exempted from complying with the processes to make exceptional purchases as provided in the General Services Administration Act of 2019, nor with the laws preferential to Puerto Rican industry, as well as with related federal regulations regarding hiring requirements to ensure eligibility within the corresponding reimbursement programs," Pierluisi said. "This is a government of law and order."
The executive order entered into force immediately.


As a note taking structure with students doing research to find information to summarise onto the handout.
Images are included if these are relevant to the activity being carried out, but most cards have blank space for students to carry out the activities.
The blank space encourages students to fill them with sketches and notes. There's no right or wrong approach and students can write and sketch alongside each logo, or they can use the logos as a guide to what they might include on the card with the content being more randomly presented.
Where can I find TechDoodles?
At the moment there are only a limited number of TechDoodle�resources as they are�currently being developed.�Free TechDoodle resources are shared each Sunday on�our blog. There's�reminder when they are released each week posted on our�Facebook page�along with a link to the page to�help you make sure you don't miss them. TechDoodles�are also available as part of many of�the courses we run.


This is a duplicate of #29573 (comment) and #29574 (comment), but split out so that it doesn't get lost in the other discussions.
When initializing static data in a function (non-global) context, we generate code to construct the desired object. In some (most?) cases, it'd be preferable to have a static data symbol containing the desired object and then copy it into place using memmove/typedmemmove.
See those issues/comments for more details.


Mostly in the news because of its problems, the city of Malmö stole headlines in the news this week by becoming Sweden's best environmental municipality. The magazine Miljöaktuellt picked Sweden's third city after having compared all of the country's municipalities.
"We in the municipalities operate much of our environmental work, but we need a national policy that places greater demands. We'd proceed even faster then," says Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, chairwoman on the Malmö municipality board in a written statement. The magazine Miljöaktuellt examines, for instance, how the municipalities require demands on an increase of greenhouse gas emissions equivalent of the national climate goal, and how they have also cut back on meat in their canteens. Facts coming from Sweden's municipalities and county authorities, Vattenmyndigheterna (the Water Authorities) and Håll Sverige Rent (Keep Sweden Tidy) are also examined. Eskilstuna came in on a second place and Örebro on third in the survey. Last year, Malmö shared the first spot with Upplands-Väsby.
Malmö has been deemed the best environmental municipality by the magazine Miljöaktuellt. Above, the beautiful Turning Torso, the tallest skyscraper in Sweden and the Nordic countries, in Malmö.
The bridge over Öresund connecting Sweden and Denmark, Malmö with Copenhagen. ..is a subway link next?


text:
Joe L. Evins papers
Identifier: RG-0000-0001
Tennessee Tech University Special Collections
The Evins papers included 100,000 pieces of correspondence, 2000 photographs, 1000 documents, 100 scrapbooks, speeches, and personal records, 300 artifacts, 400 volumes, and 150 maps and facsimiles.
The core of the collection is the Congressional Papers. These papers span the years from l946 when Evins entered the U.S. House of Representatives as its youngest member to l976 when he retired as one of the most powerful men in Congress.
The Congressional Papers, Series I, include legislation, drafts of legislation, committee hearings, minutes, reports and working papers, government agencies, correspondence, reports, budget appropriations, public works, projects, military academy appointments and local job requests. An enormous quantity of correspondence was sent and received in the 30 years Evins represented Tennessee's 4th District. Constituent correspondence, issue correspondence, out of district, out of state and international correspondence, political correspondence, requests, thank yous, compliments, personal greetings and invitations are included and reflect the Congressman's close ties with his constituents as well as some of the concerns of Upper Cumberland Tennesseans of the time. Also of interest is the correspondence between Evins and his Congressional colleagues, community leaders and presidents such as Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald T. Ford and Jimmy Carter, as well as Tennessee Governors from Gordon Browning to Lamar Alexander.
Political files include national, state, district and local political information. Materials include speeches, campaign memorabilia, election returns, reports on opponents, campaign schedules and anecdotes. Of special interest is the l964 presidential campaign in which Evins served as Tennessee Campaign Manager for President Lyndon B. Johnson. Supporting materials include maps, blueprints, memorabilia, furniture, photographs, tapes, slides, videotapes, scrapbooks, records, books, government documents, congressional records, and awards and plaques.
The congressional papers provide only a one dimensional portrait of a complex and multifaceted man. The Joe L. Evins collection also includes family papers, business papers, and personal papers documenting Evins time as soldier, lawyer, family man, community leader, banker, and business man. Items included are family papers, correspondence, business papers, wills, deeds, military memorabilia, World War II newspapers, legal briefs, contracts and photographs. Of interest is the correspondence between Joe L. Evins and his father, State Senator J. Edgar Evins, and between Evins and his children during his long absences in Washington.
Majority of material found within 1946 - 1976
Joe L. Evins served 30 years as a Member of Congress, representing the 4th District of Tennessee from 1946 to 1976. Serving under six different presidents, he chaired and served on the House Select Committee on Small Business, House Appropriations Committee, and the Subcommittee on Public Works and Atomic Energy Appropriations and he served on the House Committee on Small Business. These committees included working on programs such as the Veterans Affairs, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TEVA). Evins' contributions in Congress helped rural middle Tennessee through the creation post offices and other federal buildings, and construction of both Interstate 40 and Highway 111. He brought Lyndon B. Johnson's Model Cities Program to Smithville, TN, the smallest city to receive funding in the program. Evins was also responsible for acquiring funding for the Appalachian Center for Craft. Tennessee Tech named November 20, 1976 as Joe L. Evins Day in honor of his service and dedication to the University and region. Evins supported NASA and had a great interest in space, finding ways to incorporate Tennessee into the program by using resources such as Douglas Aircraft, Tennessee Technological University, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Evins believed that "local leadership and local initiative…can and should provide the keys to progress for our people." He wanted a Congress that was more beneficial to the people than the officials. He answered his constituents' mail and listened to their problems, trying to resolve issues raised. Evins was born in Blend, DeKalb County, Tennessee on October 24, 1910. He graduated from Vanderbilt University and Cumberland University School of Law and too his Post Graduate of Law at George Washington University. He served in the United States Army during World War II. He practiced law in Smithville before working as an attorney for the Federal Trade Commission and later the assistant secretary. Joe L. Evin's wife was Ann Smart, daughter of a McMinnville judge, and they had three daughters, Mary Evins Overton, Joanna Evins Carnahan, and Jane Evins Leonard. His father J. Edgar Evins was state senator. Joe L. Evins passed away in 1984.
Timeline: 1910 October 24: Joseph Landon Evins was born in Dekalb County, Tennessee. He was the second son of James Edgar and Myrtie Goodson Evins. 1933: Graduates from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. 1934: Graduates from Cumberland University Law School, Lebanon, TN. Admitted to Tennessee Bar. Opens law practice in Smithville, TN. 1934-1941: Attorney for the Federal Trade Commission in Chicago and Washington. Rises to the position of Assistant Secretary. 1935 June 7: Marries Ann Smartt, daughter of Judge and Mrs. R.W. Smartt. 1942-1946: Active duty in the United States Army. Serves two years in Europe. 1945: Nominated as Democratic Candidate to State Senate. Declined to serve during the war and his father was elected in his stead. 1946 November 5: Discharged from the United States Army with the rank of Major. Nominated for the United States House of Representatives. Defeats Harold "Doc" Earthman in the Democratic primary. 1947 January 8: Sworn in as the youngest member of the House of Representatives. 1948: Became a member of the House Small Business Committee. 1952: Became a member of the House Appropriations Committee. Districts were reapportioned and his 5th Congressional District merged with eth 4th District of Albert Gore Sr. Evins succeeded Gore as Representative of the 4th District. 1963: Published Understanding Congress. 1964-1971: Became Chairman of the House Small Business Committee. 1976: Retires. 1976-1978: Advisor to Governor Ray Blanton. 1984 March 31: Joe L. Evins passes.
This collection is arranged into four series and subseries thereunder: Series I: Congressional Papers; Series II: Personal Papers; Series III: Supporting Material; and Series IV: Addendum.
Under Revision
Mancil Johnson
2ed
Part of the Tennessee Tech University Special Collections Repository
https://www.tntech.edu/library/research/archives
1100 North Peachtree Avenue
Cookeville Tennessee 38505 United States
matkinson@tntech.edu
Related Unprocessed Material
Accession Records
Gift: Joe L. Evins papers
Gift: Ann Evins papers
Joe L. Evins papers, RG-0000-0001. Tennessee Tech University Special Collections.
Joe L. Evins papers, RG-0000-0001. Tennessee Tech University Special Collections. https://archives.tntech.edu/repositories/3/resources/7 Accessed January 21, 2021.


text:
Russia Slams US Policy of One-Way Syrian Sanctions
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
Vladivostok/Beirut - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday criticized unilateral sanctions by the United States on Syria, as well as the opposition's proposed transitional government.
While Russia and the US had similar objectives on Syria and Iran, Moscow did not support the US policy of threats and new sanctions, he said after a meeting with US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Vladivostok.
The Syrian opposition's "confrontational step" on the establishment of a transitional government would not contribute to a solution, Lavrov said.
Russia, a key ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has with China vetoed three United Nations Security Council resolutions condemning the crackdown on protesters.
Lavrov said Russia supported the idea of a conference of opposition groups in the Syrian capital Damascus to start a dialogue with the government.
"It is necessary to stop instigating the opposition to refusal from dialogue and to armed fighting," Lavrov said. "This is exactly what our Western counterparts are doing."
Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday acknowledged that changes are necessary in Syria, but called for ensuring the security of the current leadership in any power transition process.
New international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is expected in Egypt on Sunday for talks with Arab League officials and Syrian opposition politicians on how to end the 18-month conflict, which the opposition says has claimed more than 26,000 lives.
In Syria, rebels said Saturday they had captured a key area in the northern city of Aleppo where fighting has dragged on for more than two months.
They said they had overrun the district of Hananou in the north of Aleppo and were advancing on a major military checkpoint, a move that would secure a passageway for food and medical supplies.
Al-Assad's soldiers shelled the pro-rebel districts of al-Tadamun and al-Hajar al-Aswad, south of Damascus, opposition activists said.
At least 170 people were killed Friday across Syria, mainly in suburban Damascus and Aleppo, according to the opposition.
In Cyprus, European Union foreign ministers were resuming talks a day after chastising the UN Security Council for failing to present a united front on Syria.
Russia Syria
© Copyright 2019 Deutsche Presse-Agentur. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
The Critical Role of the Arctic Convoys in WWII
The Arctic convoys would play an important role, especially in the critical months between July and December 1941.
Esper Pledges 'Tough Decisions' on China, Russia if Confirmed as Defense Secretary
If confirmed, he said one of his "personal priorities" would be improving the living standards of military families.
Workers Recover Hundreds of Bodies from Syrian Mass Grave
The mass grave discovered in mid-June is the latest grave located in and around Raqqa to date.
Russian Planes Continue to Deliver S-400 Parts to Turkey
Washington says the Russian S-400s are incompatible with NATO equipment and may lead to Russia acquiring sensitive data.


text:
image/svg+xml Ello Ello
Philosophy Comics
Calls for Papers / Grants / Etc.
Non-Academic Hires
Heap of Links
Daily Nous Features
Mini-Heap
Justin Weinberg
.	 July 31, 2019 at 2:24 pm 0
New philosophy-related links…
"Conscience is not an isolated space, cut off from the rest of the world. It is what reminds us of our own fallibility, and what makes us accountable to others." — author Eula Biss and philosopher Mavis Biss (Loyola Maryland) on conscientious objection, particularly in the context of vaccination
Aphorisms: the way thinkers have "encrypted their philosophies in brief bursts of memorable obscurity" — Adam Gopnik looks at the literary form and some new writing about it (The New Yorker)
"I came at this expecting to find evidence of discrimination, but the data didn't support it." — a new study on whether college professors discriminate against conservative students
"Medical Ethics in Sickbay" and "Time Travel, Transporters and the Terran Universe" — two panels philosophy professor Beth Seacord (Southern Nevada) is putting on at the Star Trek Convention this week in Las Vegas
"If the artworld appears to cater increasingly to the desires of the global rich elite, we have to ask how this impacts the assessment of the value of an artwork" — Sarah Hegenbart (TU Munich) on art, financial value, aesthetic value, and the responsibility of curators
The APDA blog compares details on philosophy PhD programs, two at a time — this week it's Penn State and the University of Pennsylvania
"Know Thyself" is an interactive theater experience which "transforms abstract philosophy into a series of delightful and challenging analog games" — it will run as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival in September
Mini-Heap posts appear when 7 or so new items accumulate in the Heap of Links, the ever-growing collection of items from around the web that may be of interest to philosophers.
The Heap of Links consists partly of suggestions from readers; if you find something online that you think would be of interest to the philosophical community, please send it in for consideration for the Heap. Thanks!
Categories Daily Nous Features
Tags linksphilosophy
Participate in this conversation via email
Please enter an e-mail address
Mark Alfano on Scholars Object to Publication of Paper Defending Race Science
Arthur Greeves on Scholars Object to Publication of Paper Defending Race Science
Oliver D. Smith on Scholars Object to Publication of Paper Defending Race Science
Igweolisa Sunday Nebeolisa-Igwe on Scholars Object to Publication of Paper Defending Race Science
Thrasymachus on Scholars Object to Publication of Paper Defending Race Science
Lexington on Scholars Object to Publication of Paper Defending Race Science
David Wallace on Academic Freedom and Expertise at Federal Institutions of Higher Education (and Elsewhere)
Jon Light on Academic Freedom and Expertise at Federal Institutions of Higher Education (and Elsewhere)
David Wallace on Scholars Object to Publication of Paper Defending Race Science
Lives of Philosophers
Derek Parfit (1942-2017) (updated)
Philosopher's Article On Transracialism Sparks Controversy (Updated with response from author)
Are History's "Greatest Philosophers" All That Great? (guest post by Gregory Lewis)
Philosophers On the 2016 U.S. Presidential Race
Philosophy Grad Student Target of Political Smear Campaign (several updates)
Philosophers on Rachel Dolezal (updated)
Philosophers on the Supreme Court's Gay Marriage Ruling
Philosophers On Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Spoilers)
"Heroism is aspirational, and worthy of admiration, but it is a pedagogical, moral and historical error to spend our moral capital insisting on it" — It is enough to refrain from welcoming and helping with the oppression and murder, argues Rivka Weinberg (NYT)
An intellectual history of culinary philosophies and a sketch of a food ethos for today — "there was never a golden age", says Rachel Laudan
A woman pretending to be Alan Turing daughter's stole his doctoral degree, his knighthood medal, and other pieces of memorabilia from an archive in England in 1984 — Federal officials just announced that she was caught (2 years ago), and the materials recovered, in Boulder, Colorado
A former philosophy professor keeps a journal during the zombie apocalypse — that's the central element in the new "ethical guidebook" from Bryan Hall (Regis), subtitled, "how to keep your brain without losing your heart"
The "Twitter presidency" versus democracy — Boris Litvin (Stetson) on Rousseau on Trump on Twitter
Bond evolution, breaking and formation — recorded on film, at the atomic scale, for the first time
Love and lust in Lolita — Jennifer Frey (South Carolina) & Becca Rothfeld (Harvard) on "the tensions we readers are forced to navigate between the awesome beauty of Nabokov's prose and the ugly perversion that is the central focus of our attention in the novel"
"Who, on Earth or on distant planets, would aim to engineer consciousness into AI systems themselves?" — Susan Schneider (Connecticut) on why there may be nothing that it's like to be a superintelligent alien
A summer institute to help philosophy instructors design courses that convey the value of philosophy — put on by the Council of Independent Colleges, it is directed by Ned Hall (Harvard)
New research on the logical operations that the brain's individual dendritic compartments can perform — one possible upshot: "Brains may be far more complicated than we think"
The impeachment of Donald Trump is a teaching moment — especially if you're teaching Rousseau, says David Williams (DePaul)
"What It Is Like To Be" is an anamorphic sculpture by Thomas Medicus made of 144 hand-painted glass strips — it was inspired by Thomas Nagel's "What Is It Like To Be A Bat?". Watch the video. (via Colossal)
The meaning of nihilism — Nolen Gertz (Twente) distinguishes nihilism from other concepts in its vicinity, such as pessimism, cynicism, and apathy
"What else from philosophy influenced the construction and design of LinkedIn?" — Tyler Cowen (GMU) interviews Reid Hoffman, who has an MA in philosophy and who helped develop PayPal, LinkedIn, & other ventures (via Robert Long)
"At 97, he wondered whether he'd been deceiving himself about the meaning of life and death" — a documentary about philosopher Herbert Fingarette made during the last few months of his life
"If our actions are harming other animals, then we have a responsibility to try to reduce or repair these harms" — Jeff Sebo (NYU) on what humans owe to animals
"Philosophy has a profound impact on me" — an interview with Cixin Liu, author of the tremendous Three-Body Problem science fiction trilogy
"The protests have been extraordinarily popular and remarkably effective—not in spite of but because of… tactics of uncivil disobedience" — Candice Delmas (Northeastern) on the uncivil disobedience of the Hong Kong protestors
Scientists use frog cells to build the first "living robots" — this "new form of life" has "enormous potential" but it also "raises a bevy of ethical questions"
The ethics of migration — Adam Hosein (Northeastern) talks with Jack Weinstein (North Dakota) on the public radio show, "Why?"
Anti-plagiarism norms tend to over-run their justifications — (via Agnes Callard)
"The Repugnant Conclusion has become one of the most popular and famous results of modern moral philosophy. What seems to be much less well known is the story of how it came to be" — Simon Beard (Cambridge) on Derek Parfit
Human and animal minds — Peter Carruthers (Maryland) is guest-blogging at Brains this week
Equality of what? — Joshua Rothman surveys some varieties of egalitarianism in The New Yorker
The editors of the revamped Philosophy describe "changes to the editorial process" at the journal — they're "intended to bring it more in line with current peer-review practices"
What to think of "near death experiences"? — John Martin Fischer (UCR) in a lively video interview
What does "Western" mean in "Western philosophy"? — Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam) on Russell's history
"The popular perception that strong AI will eventually grow out of our control risks becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy, despite the present reality that weak AI is very much the product of human deliberation and decision making" — Annette Zimmerman, Elena Di Rosa, and Hochan Kim (Princeton) on the important choices we face *now* regarding this technology
The "Ask a Philosopher" booth comes to Philly — The Philadelphia Inquirer has the story
Contemporary moral philosophy "is riddled with metaphysically unexplained claims about reasons and our responsiveness to them—about, in other words, reasons as exercising a power to move" — an interview with Thomas Pink (KCL)
2020 ©Daily Nous


Modern architectures and design patterns challenge developers, security, and operations in a whole new way. Instead of developers building and handing to security for testing, today's developers are a key part of the security team - and vice versa.
Serving as a DevOps Champion and advisor to VictorOps, Jason Hand writes, presents, and coaches on the principles and nuance of DevOps and modern incident management practices. Named "DevOps Evangelist of the Year" by DevOps.com in 2016, Jason recently authored a new book on Site Reliability Engineering.
In addition to SRE, Jason has authored books with O'Reilly Media on the subject of post-incident reviews and Chatops.
DevOpsDays Rockies organizer and host of the Front-range Site Reliability Meetup, Jason is dedicated to the latest trends in technology, sharing the lessons learned, and helping people continuously improve their IT and software development practices.
Jason is also a co-host on the popular podcast on building communities in Tech called "Community Pulse".
Join the world's leading organizations who trust us to secure their platform.


Ann is chef and matriarchal leader at Tao Philippines' Tao Kantina. Watch and learn below as she takes us through some classic Filipino dishes. A true chef and master, Auntie Ann doesn't do much measuring or timing or following recipes. All she really needs is a wok, a strong fire (there they burn coconut husks), and lots of fresh ingredients. That said, these dishes are relatively straightforward. The key is getting fresh turmeric root for the flavor.
The Filipino diet is based on seafood, rice, and plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. This classic Filipino seafood dish takes, as Ann puts it, "crazy garlic!" Notice how simple the ingredients are — you could easily pick up a seafood pack from Trader Joe's and try this one at home! The whole thing is done in 10 minutes.
Here, Ann makes Banana Curry, a classic Filipino sauce that's, as she notes, "good for everything." As with all curries, the base is coconut milk, and for this dish she uses Saba bananas, a cooking banana native to the Philippines. You could replace with very ripe plantains. Notice how Ann never measures when she cooks. She goes by feel. Try to follow along with proportions accordingly.
Ready for the next level of Filipino cooking? Let Ann guide you though this amazing recipe: stuffed squid. The secret for this one is preparing the oil first by gently boiling your preferred cooking oil for 30 minutes with fresh ground turmeric. Stuff the squid with chopped onion, spinach, tomato, basil, roasted coconut, and salt and pepper. Then glaze with the turmeric oil and grill for 20 minutes.
In the final episode of our series, Ann prepares the classic Filipino vegetable stir fry. If you can't find this exact variety of squash, don't worry, the key is the cooking method — a very hot fire and wok — and getting the flavor right with fresh turmeric root, onion, garlic, ginger, and fish sauce. Notice how Ann adds splashes of water to make sure the veggies are cooked all the way.


1x Orange Foldable Bed Stretcher Ambulance Emergency Portable Rescue Patient PGS. Size: 20854.513cm/81.8921.465.12inches(LengthWidthHeight). Folding size: 104179cm/40.946.693.54inches.
Load bearing: Less than 159kg/350.53lb. Applicable scene: Hospital; Clinic; Home; Sports venues; Ambulance. 1pcs X Foldable Medical Bed Stretcher.
Portable lightweight durable to use and carry. Bed stretcher with safe belt. Please allow 0.5-1 inch difference due to manual measurement. The color of the actual items may slightly different from the listing images due to different computer screen, thanks for your understanding. The images are for reference only.
Please take the item you get as the standard. Please repack the item carefully. If you we are not satisfied with the product or service , please contact me and don't give us negative or natural feedback, We must give you a satisfactory solution. Your action will help us offer our milk and bread. The item "1x Orange Foldable Bed Stretcher Ambulance Emergency Portable Rescue Patient PGS" is in sale since Sunday, August 19, 2018. This item is in the category "Business & Industrial\Healthcare, Lab & Dental\Medical, Lab & Caregiving Furniture\Other Medical, Lab & Caregiving Furniture". The seller is "professional_gold_supplier" and is located in Shanghai. This item can be shipped worldwide.


Why I Love Using Dead Sea Salt Scrubs!
The amazing benefits of scrubbing with Dead Sea salt.
Some of the best beauty treatments have only been discovered in the last few years, but some have been around for ages. And by ages I mean thousands of years. One of my absolute favorite "old school" beauty staples is Dead Sea salt. The name is a bit disconcerting because "dead" and "salt" are typically no the words that come to mind when you think of indulging in some serious self-care. But don't be alarmed. This natural wonder has multiple benefits that make it worth adding to your pampering arsenal.
A true marvel of nature, the Dead Sea is found in the Middle East between Jordan and Israel. While it's been called the Dead Sea because no life can exist there, it's actually a salt-water lake.
Since ancient times, Dead Sea salt has been a unique source of minerals which are created naturally under extraordinary climatic condition. The Dead Sea's abundance of therapeutic properties have led many to visit its shores and soak in the healing waters.
What makes the Dead Sea so special is its saline content is much greater than any other natural body of water. According to scientists, the water is nearly 10 times saltier than that found in the oceans. The water is also rich in a number of minerals that are beneficial to overall health. These minerals are known for their therapeutic properties.
The Dead Sea contains many minerals which have been proven to nourish and delight skin in a variety of ways which lead to improved hydration and rejuvenation, allowing you to feel and look healthier.
Here is a short list of some of the marvelous minerals found in Dead Sea salt and what they can do for your skin. Note these minerals are naturally produced in our bodies but must be replenished as they erode throughout the day.
Magnesium –Promotes cell metabolism, speeds up healing of skin tissue, soothes damaged skin, and protects skin from microbes that cause allergies. Magnesium boosts the hydration process by strengthening the lipid barrier of the skin.
Calcium – Enhances skin hydration, promotes cell renewal, prevents wrinkles & fine lines, and offers skin cancer protection.
Bromide – Soothes skin, relieves muscle cramps, calms nerves, repairs skin cells and revitalizes dull complexion.
Potassium – Replenishes much-needed moisture, reduces puffy skin and reduces water retention.
Sodium – Cleanses skin, relieves stiff & tender muscles, combats skin cell degenerating free radicals, exfoliates dead cells, and detoxifies skin.
Zinc – Fights acne and protects skin from sunburns.
Scrub your way to enhanced hydration.
Salt is probably the last thing that come to mind when you think of hydration. Isn't salt used to dry things out? But this is not ordinary salt!
Did you know that the unique mineral composition of Dead Sea salt can actually help moisturize and replenish your skin? If you suffer from dry skin, the nourishing effects of a Dead Sea salt bath can help restore your body's natural moisture content. The Magnesium, Potassium and Calcium found in Dead Sea salt all work to replenish the much needed moisture your skin needs. As an added bonus, when your skin is better able to maintain its moisture barrier, fine lines are harder to see and the appearance of cellulite is diminished.
Dead Sea salt can help soothe and alleviate the symptoms of acne. Acne is a bane of life that plagues many people – particularly in their teenage years and into their early 20's. Some suffer with acne their entire lives. Dead Sea salt can help lessen the suffering that acne brings. Pure Dead Sea salt has a high sulfur content. Sulfur has been proven to work as a powerful cleanser used to treat and prevent blemishes and reduce and soothe skin inflammation. It is also helpful for those who suffer from the occasional breakout as well.
Dead Sea Salt may help alleviate the effects of psoriasis. Studies have also shown that Dead Sea salt has tremendous healing effects on psoriasis. Working in a variety of ways to alleviate discomfort, Dead Sea salt helps to strengthens skin tissue, improve blood circulation, eliminate toxins and balance the skin's natural pH levels.
Dead Sea salt can help ease the symptoms of eczema. It can also help to treat eczema by exfoliating dead skin cells, rehydrating the skin and restoring depleted minerals. This aids in calming any itch, pain or other side effects, as well as disinfecting the treated area. The antiseptic properties of the Dead Sea salt removes irritants and impurities, which may greatly reduce the number of skin irritations.
Hopefully by now I have you convinced about the benefits of Dead Sea salt. Luckily for you there is no reason to grab your passport and hop on the next plane to the Middle East. You can enjoy all the healing benefits of the Dead Sea from the convenience of your home. The easiest way to add this powerhouse compound to your beauty arsenal is to find a Dead Sea salt scrub that you love and use it regularly. At pureSCRUBS we make some amazing, all natural Dead Sea salt scrubs filled with skin loving oils and nutrients. Not only that, we have over a dozen aromatic scents to choose from. Try one of our Dead Sea salt scrubs. I assure you that you will be glad you did.
Making luxurious all natural and organic body scrubs is my mission. Together with my team of passionate moms, we now handcraft hundreds of jars of body scrubs every week for women across the USA - spreading the benefits of soft, healthy and radiant skin one jar at a time.
These little round exfoliating loofah pads work great, but make sure you clean them well after each use. We include one for free with every body scrub order!