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Chad Martin Burns
Commuters Versus Residents: A Comparative Historical Analysis of America's Urban Freeways
In the mid-twentieth century, American cities constructed urban freeways in order to bring people from growing suburbs into the center of town. Urban freeways were a harbinger of municipalities giving priority to the needs of commuters versus city center residents. Today, one may ask: were urban freeways essential to the development of cities in a post-industrial era? What was the decision-making process for the location of freeways? Were quality of life implications part of the public dialogue? Chad plans to answer these questions by conducting a comparative historical analysis of American cities before, during, and after the era of urban freeway construction. He will also visit a handful of cities to chronicle first-hand the cultural, social, and economic impacts of urban freeways. Chad's research will shed light on the ways in which urban freeways have changed the cultural landscape of American cities.
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Celia Cheung
Microfluidics and Alzheimer's Disease: A Device to Study the Amyloid Beta Protein
Current Bio: After graduation, Celia spent a year researching abroad at Imperial College London, funded by the Whitaker Fellowship in biomedical engineering. In August 2016, she started medical school at UC Irvine, and is expected to graduate in June 2021. Currently, she is taking a year off to do more bioengineering research, but eventually plans to enter medical residency for pediatrics. Her passion is both for clinical practice as well as finding engineering solutions to unmet clinical needs. Haas Scholars Project: Alzheimers disease is the 6th leading cause of death in the United States, affecting over 5 million people aged 65 and older. The disease is defined pathologically by the aggregation of the amyloid beta (AB) peptide, forming abnormal clumps of protein in the brain. Understanding the environmental conditions that cause or inhibit the aggregation of AB is crucial for developing new methods of treatment and drug candidates for Alzheimers. […]
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Steven Czifra
Emerging Discourses in California's Solitary Confinement Debate
How does California continue to find public support for the practice of permanent solitary confinement, particularly when confronted by sustained hunger strike activity against them? Steven will examine all sides of the relevant discourses in response to the hunger strikes, paying special attention to the written statements of strikers in letters to advocates and the media, as well as the state response. In order to disrupt the dominant hyperbolic claims by the state that support solitary confinement practices, the strikers formed a multi-racial/ethnic group coalition that called out the public, inviting us to reconsider the prisoner held in solitary confinement beyond the normalized worst of the worst narrative. Steven's project analyzes the conditions of thinking that create and support the practice of long-term solitary confinement in our state. The discourses surrounding the California prisoner hunger strike offers a critical, yet missing element of that discussion.
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Anna Darzins
Women with Disabilities: The Intersection of Disability and Domestic Violence Services
Many people assume that women with disabilities experience domestic violence to a lesser extent than women in general, yet research indicates that women with disabilities are up to four times more likely to be victimized than their non-disabled peers. Given that women with disabilities experience disproportionate rates of domestic violence; where do they go to access domestic violence services? How does their disability status influence their decisions seeking help, and are providers meeting their needs? Anna's work will investigate these issues through a disability studies and social work lens. She seeks to uncover whether or not disability-related service providers are asking their clients about domestic violence; if domestic violence service providers are knowingly treating women with disabilities; and finally, where the affected population of women themselves report accessing services, if anywhere at all.
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Emma Deboncoeur
The Gravity of the Situation: Health Access for Transgender Women In Montral and the Epistemology of Transgender Health Care
What began as an investigation into access to health care for transgender women in Montral by way of an institutional ethnography has changed into a larger query of knowledge production, preservation and dissemination. This works seeks to clarify and problematize what is research, who is the researcher, how biomedicine and transgender women are inexorably linked and how macro questions of archiving, and the lack thereof, relate to endemic patterns of burnout and knowledge loss on the micro level.
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Samuel Diener
"The Name of a Commonwealth", Theories of Statehood and 18th-Century Accounts of Piracy
Samuel will investigate ways in which English writers of the 18th century, particularly Daniel Defoe, used accounts of piracy to question standard presuppositions about the emerging nation-state and promote Enlightenment ideas about government. As stateless individuals who lived and worked together, pirates were forced to create their own independent societies aboard ship and on land. Defoe used these pirate communities to experiment with ideas of statehood, freedom, property rights, and criminal acts, and to provide a comparison with the European nation-states which questioned the legitimacy of the colonial enterprise. In the hands of writers like Defoe, fiction provided a valuable forum for these ideas that enabled them to enter the popular consciousness, helping establish the emerging novel as a literary genre that can interrogate political and social concerns.
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Destiny Dixon
Buying Black Back Then: Comparative Analysis of Black Economic Life in Compton and West Oakland.
Destinys research aims to investigate the history of Black owned businesses in Compton, West Oakland, and West Berkeley. She will focus on the ways in which a strong Black economy influenced Black solidarity culturally, socially, and politically. While exploring the different types of businesses African Americans owned, Destiny's research will reveal a new glimpse into what the 1980s drug and gang epidemic destroyed. By examining archival records as well as conducting interviews with current and former business owners and their families, Destiny's work will offer a richer narrative to Black history, and further dismantle negative stereotypes about Black towns.
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Jennifer Fei
Resettlement Refugee Programs and Economic Empowerment: A Case Study of the International Rescue Committee in the United States
Jennifer's research will explore the impact of current International Rescue Committee (IRC) Resettlement Programs on female economic empowerment. Her working hypothesis is that the empowerment effect of the IRC on refugee women will vary depending on cultural norms, resettlement program type, and resulting employment. She will study female refugee populations lived experiences and the development of the IRC Economic Empowerment program development in New York City through regional and headquarters offices. She will focus on how IRC programs later affect refugee women's perception of family life, self-sufficiency, and personal autonomy upon moving to the US. The narratives encountered in this exploratory study may point to the ways in which NGOs such as the IRC can modify existing or new resettlement programs to address the contextual needs of refugee women in the United States.
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Michelle Gallarza
Meet Each Need with Dignity: Community and the Dynamics of Nonprofit Change in the Northeast San Fernando Valley
The Northeast section of the San Fernando Valley is home to one of the largest populations of Latinos in the United States, second only to East Los Angeles.In contrast to the more well-known and affluent suburbs of the west Valley, this region faces issues stemming from poverty, residential segregation, environmental racism, and divestment. Meet Each Need with Dignity (MEND) is a poverty relief organization that has existed for over 40 years in the area's most vulnerable community known as Pacoima. Michelle's research seeks to uncover how this nonprofit organization has been able to renegotiate its role in the community over the past 4 decades, enacting growth initiatives with the goal of offering relevant and continued service to the community. Drawing reference from critical periods of change, this research analyzes the significance of innovation for MEND to adapt to the needs of the community and maintain a model of client empowerment […]
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Ana Cristina Gomez-Vidal
Framing China: Congressional Commissions' Impact on U.S. Foreign Policy
The rise of China is arguably the single most important event to shape international politics in the 21st century. The United States understanding and response to Chinas ascent will shape global political stability. The U.S. Government, through legislative mandate, created two commissions, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCESRC), whose purposes are to ensure that Congress has the information necessary to make effective decisions relating to Sino-US affairs. Cristinas research project seeks to undergo a content analysis of the information generated by the bipartisan commissions to identify how their work impacts Congressional foreign policy decision making towards China. Her analysis will pay special attention to the narratives Congress utilizes to communicate on Sino affairs that have been informed by the commissions work.
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Lauren Grant
Making Synthetic Chemistry Greener: More Sustainable Processes via Catalysis with New Transition Metal Compounds
Catalysis, a critical field in synthetic chemistry, reduces the release of hazardous chemicals into the environment by decreasing the amount of reagents needed for chemical synthesis on industrial scales. Laurens research will investigate more sustainable methods of conducting chemical synthesis via the study of a new class of transition metal complexes based on niobium. In addition to being more sustainable than many alternate catalysts, niobium costs much less than other potential transition metals. With the collaboration of the Arnold Lab, Lauren will develop catalytic reactivity with the aim of synthesizing unique catalysts for important organic reactions while simultaneously reducing the amount of hazardous materials generated in chemical research.
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Leilani Hunter
What's Glass Got to Do With it: Glass Bracelet Fragments from Tall Dhiban
Leilani's interest in glass bracelet fragments was sparked during the summer of 2013, when she participated in the Dhiban Archeological field school overseen by Professor Benjamin Porter. While discussing the potential for different artifacts to tell us about everyday life in the region, Leilani was intrigued by the sets of glass bracelet fragments that comprised a significant percentage of the excavated assemblage. Immediately her first questions began to form: Where were these bracelets made, how did they circulate, and come to be in Dhiban? Who wore them, and were they used by one segment of society? How were these bracelets understood within Islamic society? There is very little information regarding the bracelets of this region. Lelani's preliminary research suggests that glass bracelet manufacturing only occurred elsewhere at this time. Therefore, the bracelets are evidence of trade patterns, and could reveal economic differences. Leilani's study will shed new light on economic […]
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Naphtalie Jeanty
Queering Our Performance: Examining Homosociality Among 19th Century Buffalo Soldiers
The goal of Napthalie's project is to see if male-identified homosociality or male-to-male sexual relations within black communities is something that can be traced among men in their gendered spheres of work during the 19th century through archaeology. She will participate in an excavation in Fort Davis, Texas, where Buffalo Soldiers were stationed from 1867 to 1891. She will be looking at primary documents and artifacts to see if any material evidence of bonds/relationships or sexual relationships among the African American soldiers can be found. Ultimately, evidence of these sorts of relationships would help alleviate some of the effects of oppression in queer African American communities.
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Wayne Jopanda
Away From Home: The Impact of Colonial History on Filipino Labor Trafficking in the US
In Migrants for Export, Dr. Robyn Rodriguez describes the Philippines transformation into a Labor Brokerage State in which Filipinos are actively recruited to become Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs). Wayne's research examines how this system of labor brokerage has impacted the increasing undocumented Filipino population in the U.S. First, he will analyze the history of U.S. labor and immigration policies that allow for the exploitation of OFWs. Second, Wayne will study the advocacy efforts of OFWs and undocumented Filipinos to examine if these cases of labor exploitation lead to workers identifying as undocumented. Lastly, through ethnographic interviews with OFWs, he will investigate the connections between current issues within the U.S. Guest Worker Program and the undocumented Filipino population. Overall, Wayne's research aims to uncover how current labor and immigration policies have shaped the lived experiences of undocumented Filipinos in the U.S.
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Reem Jubran
Acre/Akka/Akko: A Chronicle of Israel's External and Internal Occupation
The establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 enforced dislocation and fragmentation upon the Palestinian people. Nevertheless, while the old may have died, dense history and culture has been passed on to the youth by way of oral history. The Palestinian-Israeli conflict has dramatically transformed in the past 60 years, leaving the physically divided Palestinians today with an indefinable identity: do you consider yourself Arab, Arab-Israeli, Palestinian-Arab, or just Palestinian? Reem will create an artistically compiled short film that will capture a collection of voices and stories unique to the spatially divided city of Akka. She plans to investigate how living in a city shared by Arabs and Israelis influences the open question of identity. Reems primary goal is to experiment with the oral accounts and transform the words into aesthetic narratives that will offer the viewer an intimate and unique insight of the role of identity in Akka.
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Louis Kang
Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: The Next Generation Transistor Materials
Transistors are the most fundamental building blocks of modern electronic devices. They perform various functions that range from logic operations to voltage regulations. Since their creation, researchers in the field have devoted significant effort to shrinking down the size of transistors, as transistor scaling provides many desirable benefits, including cost reduction and higher computational power per chip. However, the minimum feature size of modern transistors is already in the nano-scale range, and we are approaching a scaling limit that cannot be overcome with conventional transistor designs. Exploratory research is needed to develop new materials systems that can replace silicon, the most widely used material in transistors. Theoretical studies have shown that transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) could be promising candidates for next generation electronics, and Louis aims to demonstrate their electronic applications experimentally.
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Matthew Phillip Kirschenbaum
Prurient Pleasures and the Pornographic Effect of H.I.V.
Some are daily watchers, some click on a faulty URL, some start browsing during their pre-teens: most adults have seen pornography, and it is here to stay. After Porno Chic during the 1970s-1980s in which pornography was viewed in theaters, VHS pushed porn into the bedroom in the 1990s, provoking gay men to find private sexual outlets. Internet access has exacerbated this tendency, and at present, gay men in the United States encounter discourses of sexuality and H.I.V. through stigmatization and repression. For them, pornography is a social institution through which one discovers sexuality and health. How does the history of pornography present cultural anxieties surrounding H.I.V.? Given that pornography did not employ condoms until the 1980s, how does modern pornography affect viewers by means of a relationship between eroticism and health? By developing a historical eye for gay male pornography and condom usage, Matthew will examine pornographys effects on […]
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Bridget MacDonald
Cathodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of Prefrontal Cortex: Examining Effects on Causal Learning
Children acquire complex knowledge about the world despite severely limited evidence available to them. While both children and adults use learned biases as a useful learning mechanism, children's relatively small amount of prior knowledge results in fewer constraints on their hypothesis space as well as more open-minded approaches when considering possible causal relations. The prefrontal cortex of the brain is home to most executive functions that govern learning, yet the frontal lobes are the last area of the brain to fully develop. The eventual maturation of the prefrontal cortex builds and prunes neuronal synapses based on experience in an individuals life, thus constraining the hypothesis space of adult learners. Bridget's research uses neurostimulation (tDCS) to lower activity in the prefrontal cortex of adults while they participate in a cognitive learning task to investigate whether this will reduce the biases of adults, allowing them to be more open-minded learners.
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Fele Uperesa
An Island in Transition: Examining the Relationship Between Trade Policy and Public Health Outcomes in American Samoa
Samoans have often been associated with the bulk and athleticism of professional football players, but that reputation has undergone a drastic change paralleling the transition in traditional diets. The term nutritional transition denotes a shift in dietary consumption and energy expenditure linked to a growing epidemic of obesity-related non-communicable diseases (NCDs). American Samoa, a trust territory, and Samoa, an independent nation-state, have both experienced significant changes in consumption practices. Emerging research attributes this nutritional transition to economic development and the waning availability of traditional food staples. Trade policy not only impacts food consumption, it has critical implications for public health. While researchers have expounded upon the structural impacts of economic development, the effects of trade policy on everyday consumption practices remain opaque.
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Dennis Velasquez
Strategies of Literary Defiance in Tobias Smollett's "The Expedition of Humphry Clinker", William Apess' "A Son of the Forest and Other Writings, and Jos Antonio Villarreals Pocho
Dennis research seeks to expand the exploration of transculturation through an in-depth analysis of three vastly unrelated literary works that nonetheless contend with English Linguistic Imperialism, and reveal strikingly comparable strategies that defy it. Focusing on canonical texts by eighteenth century Scottish, nineteenth century Pequot Native American, and twentieth century Chicano authors, he will conduct a comparative study of strategies of literary subversion of English Linguistic Imperialism across disparate time periods, ethnicities, and geographic locations. He plans to investigate the distinct internal discourses of The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, A Son of the Forest and Other Writings, and Pocho in relation to each other, with the aim of revealing the surprising convergences that exist despite their divergent cultural contexts.
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Vizient Symposium to Connect Local Diverse Suppliers with Texas Health Systems
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IRVING, Texas–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Vizient, Inc. will host some of the largest hospitals and health systems in Texas at its first ever Texas Supplier Diversity Symposium. The Symposium provides diverse suppliers the opportunity to connect with some of the largest companies in their communities and learn about contracting […]
IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vizient, Inc. will host some of the largest hospitals and health systems in Texas at its first ever Texas Supplier Diversity Symposium. The Symposium provides diverse suppliers the opportunity to connect with some of the largest companies in their communities and learn about contracting opportunities. The virtual event will be held June 9 at no charge and will be attended by large health care organizations from major metropolitan areas, diverse and non-diverse national suppliers, diversity-certification organizations and speakers. Diverse suppliers who wish to attend the event should register here: https://vizientinc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2eKsJiShT8-SFTrMysBg9g
.@VizientInc will host some of the largest hospitals and health systems in Texas at its first ever Texas Supplier Diversity Symposium
"Anchor institutions like hospitals and health systems are often the biggest employers and providers of contract opportunities in their communities," said Shaleta Dunn, senior director, program services for Vizient. "Helping shift supply and service spend to local, diverse suppliers helps promote job growth and economic development, which ultimately improves the health of the patient population."
The symposium will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. CDT and will cover hospital supplier diversity programs, Vizient and the group purchasing industry, contracting opportunities for diverse suppliers and how becoming a certified diverse supplier can help business grow.
8:40 a.m. — Event Opening: Simrit Sandhu, Executive Vice President, Strategic Transformation and Clinical-Supply Solutions, Vizient
9 a.m. — Opening session: Contracting in the Health Care Industry: Focus on diverse supplier opportunities
10 a.m. — COVID & Beyond: Supply chain sustainability, supplier diversity and inclusion
11 a.m. — Healthcare contracting opportunities with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), distributors and Vizient
11:50 a.m. — Advocacy & Certification Panel: Supporting diverse supplier capacity growth
Vizient is a leader in health care supply chain diversity, connecting certified diverse suppliers to its hospital members through its national contract portfolio and Community Contracting Program. Vizient is the largest health care performance improvement company in the nation. For more information, email supplierdiversity@vizientinc.com.
About Vizient, Inc.
Vizient, Inc. provides solutions and services that improve the delivery of high-value care by aligning cost, quality and market performance for more than 50% of the nation's acute care providers, which includes 95% of the nation's academic medical centers, and more than 20% of ambulatory care providers. Vizient provides expertise, analytics and advisory services, as well as a contract portfolio that represents more than $100 billion in annual purchasing volume, to improve patient outcomes and lower costs. In 2021, Vizient acquired Intalere, which expanded its footprint with ambulatory and rural acute care providers. Vizient has earned a World's Most Ethical Company designation from the Ethisphere Institute every year since its inception. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Vizient has offices throughout the United States. Learn more at www.vizientinc.com.

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Q: Navigation Bar Spacer Not Correctly Positioned I am having a problem getting spacing correct on a navigation menu. I have created a image seperator for my top and bottom menu. Problem is I cant get the links to center vertically on the page.
Currently under #footer li I have a top-margin:-16px; . That is the only thing that hold the spacer in the place that I want it in. If it is removed the links go to the correct position but the spacer drops way below the footer. Any ideas on what I can do to make the links center vertically on the footer as well as keep the spacer in its current place.
Here is a link the the site: http://www.opelikaschools.org/sandbox/jupgrade/
Thanks in advance.

A: add padding-top property for CSS rule "#footer li"

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Our friends at LØS SUNDAYS put together this short flick called Tastes Like Sunday. There's something about women that love tequila. The sophistication and elegance is something we adore. Add some tequila to your summer excursion and support your friends. See you at the bar.


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#ifndef LOCAL_CONNECTOR_H
#define	LOCAL_CONNECTOR_H

#include <string>
#include <vector>

#include <spawner/channel/spawner-end.h>
#include <spawner/connectors/connector.h>

#include <utilities/daemoniser.h>
#include <utilities/forker.h>
#include <utilities/opaque-values/opaque-value.h>
#include <utilities/opaque-values/string-sequence.h>

namespace sf {
namespace spawner {

  struct SMLocalServiceParams {
    unsigned int args_count;
    uint32_t     flags;
  };

  //! LocalService response parameters.
  struct _LSResponse {
    pid_t process_id;
  };

  class LocalStartResponse :
      public sf::utils::CustomStringSequence<_LSResponse> {
  protected:
    static std::vector<std::string> toSequence(
        std::string service_id, std::string version
    );

  public:
    LocalStartResponse(const sf::utils::OpaqueValue& value);
    LocalStartResponse(
        unsigned int type_id, std::string service_id,
        pid_t process_id, std::string version
    );

    std::string version();
    pid_t process_id();
  };

  //! ???
  enum LocalConnectorOption {
    LCO_STD_ERR  = 1,
    LCO_STD_IN   = 2,
    LCO_STD_OUT  = 4,
    LCO_WORK_DIR = 8
  };

  //! ???
  class LocalConnector :
      virtual public Connector, virtual public sf::utils::Daemoniser {
  protected:
    //! Keeps track of the forking state while starting a process.
    /*!
     * When a process is started it need to become a session leader
     * so that if the Spawner crashes, the process does not terminate.
     *
     * Setting the process as a session leader prevents it from dying
     * when the Spawner terminates but does not set it as the child
     * of init until that point.
     * This is very confusing as you would expect the process to die
     * when the Spawner does instead of suddenly becoming the child of
     * init.
     *
     * To solve the issue the LocalConnector will fork twice.
     * The second fork will become a session leader and then the
     * requested process.
     * The first fork will terminate as soon as it forks again,
     * making the second fork become child of init and fully
     * severing the link with the Spawner.
     *
     * The first fork will set this attribute to true so that the
     * second fork will be able to detect that is should run instead.
     */
    bool refork_state;
    std::shared_ptr<sf::spawner::SpawnerEnd> to_manager;

    std::vector<std::string> arguments;
    std::string binary;
    std::string service_id;
    std::string version;
    std::string working_directory;

    std::string stderr;
    std::string stdin;
    std::string stdout;

    //! Prepares the environment and execves.
    int execve_child();

    //! The intermediate spawning child.
    /*!
     * Sends the confirmation and PID back to the manager
     * and terminates to fully sever the link with the spawner.
     * This may change when monitoring is introduced.
     */
    int intermediate_child();

    //! ???
    bool handleStart(ConnectorContext* context, SpawnerMessage message_id);

    //! ???
    void resetArgs();

    virtual int child();
    virtual int parent();

  public:
    LocalConnector();
    bool handleMessage(ConnectorContext* context, SpawnerMessage message_id);
  };

} }

#endif	/* LOCAL_CONNECTOR_H */

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Sheila Mitham, CEO of Inbound FinTech, is a guest author on the Walpole Partnership blog this month and considers the impact that sales automation can have on a business or organisation. As the founder of one of the UK's leading digital growth agencies, Sheila knows all about the importance of an efficient sales cycle and the key role that automation plays in turning leads into opportunities and customers.
Having great products and services will only get you so far. This is especially true for B2B companies operating in industries where the sales cycle is long. There are so many factors involved and lots of barriers to purchase, meaning risk is high for communications to break down and sales opportunities to be lost. Automation helps remove these barriers by minimising delays, aiding customer decision-making and building trust.
Sales automation software removes time-consuming tasks, which hinder sales reps, managers and key stakeholders, and reduces the risk of human errors.
Gathering as much information as possible about your leads puts your sales team in a powerful position. Build a comprehensive picture of your prospects with the help of lead enrichment tools, which enable you to have better communications and further qualifying them.
These handy tools gather information from countless data sources to help sales teams to improve data quality and gain a deeper knowledge of their leads. Beyond company size and job title, you can learn about their social media presence, which vendors they use, and their responsibilities at the company.
Ensuring that your sales and marketing teams are aligned is key for operating a successful lead nurture funnel. Using automation to align processes within your CRM is the best way to make sure that teams communicate with each other effectively. Prospect journeys are fully tracked and visible for all team members.
As the CEO of a digital growth agency, steeped in inbound marketing, I know the importance of "Smarketing" – a term coined by lead gen experts HubSpot. It increases efficiency, improves communication and provides better lead visibility and attribution.
One of our clients achieved a 40% increase in sales-qualified leads (SQLs) by implementing sales and marketing alignment within their business, after just 3-months.
You can set up workflows in your CRM to automatically create and edit records in your database, for leads that meet pre-determined rules. The rules can be anything from website visits, engagement with ads and emails, or webinar attendees. CRMs like HubSpot enable you to integrate with a wide range of third-party tools and platforms.
Automation also provides time-saving solutions for deal management. The HubSpot Sales tool allows you to record calls and meetings, and track when prospects open and click on emails. This reveals the interest level shown by leads and the urgency required by your sales team.
Want to remove all that tiresome copy and pasting when creating proposals? You can automatically populate proposal templates with details from your CRM, including pricing, product/service details and contact information, and set up triggers to prompt stakeholders to review and sign off documentation.
Automated sales workflows help to convert leads and get deals over the line. If you create a slick process for prospecting, arranging calls and meetings, and following-up on leads, automation does the rest.
Within your workflows, you can set up sequences to automatically follow-up with leads who don't respond to earlier emails, or tasks to intervene with ad-hoc communications. Most automation tools enable you to add personalisation tokens, to pull in lead profile information automatically. Just don't forget to create rules to stop certain automated messages, depending on actions taken and lifecycle stage.
Using automation to assign tasks to your sales team increases proactivity and holds people accountable for their responsibilities and service-level agreements (SLAs).
Make the right team accountable and encourage team members to own their tasks. Set up tasks, triggers and reminders for all manner of actions, such as calling prospects, arranging meetings and signing things off.
SalesPro in HubSpot and standalone meeting booking tools, like Calendly, can be used to schedule meetings, including CTAs related to the meeting type, such as a conference call, consultation or demo.
You can also record meetings, which is beneficial for evaluating sales calls and ensuring all key points are captured or transcribed. Tools like Chorus even have AI capabilities, which can identify keywords, phrases and competitors from the language on the calls.
Lead scoring can be a complicated process and assessing the quality of leads is hugely time-consuming. However, if you get all the key people together from within your business and establish what constitutes a good lead, you can create a profile to map out in your CRM. Then automation can do the ongoing heavy-lifting with lead scoring and qualification.
Automated lead scoring uses a range of profile, demographic and behavioural data to determine the quality of leads, automatically qualifying them and triggering certain workflows or tasks for sales reps. This increases productivity and moves leads down the funnel.
Automation tools can offer your sales team the visibility required to see what's working and where the weak points are, so you can make improvements and shorten the sales cycle.
Use your CRM to create custom dashboards and automated reports, for daily, weekly or monthly emails. This saves the laborious task of digging into your systems to locate the data you need.
It's time to embrace sales automation. There are so many ways automate tasks to save your sales team time, remove bottlenecks and drive more revenue for your business.
We've worked with Walpole Partnership on a range of campaigns, related to their CPQ software, where the quality of leads is paramount. Well-structured lead nurture strategies, plus automated and aligned processes, are vital for ensuring the highest ROI from campaigns. An effective sales cycle depends on a combination of the right technology, the right processes and everyone pulling in the right direction.
Sheila Mitham is the Founder and CEO of Inbound FinTech, a UK-based digital growth agency specialising in inbound marketing, PPC and account-based marketing for Financial Services companies. Based in the heart of the Financial District in London, Inbound FinTech has helped countless SaaS and FinTech companies to drive quality leads and grow their businesses online. IFT is an award-winning Google Partner, a Gold-Tiered HubSpot Partner, and was a finalist in the 2018 LinkedIn Marketing Awards for its lead generation strategies.


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Our Israelitish Origin: Lectures on Ancient Israel, and the Israelitish ...
Por John Wilson
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INTRODUCTION OF ISRAELITISH INSTITUTIONS
more minutely, in the case of the English nation.
We have seen that Israel were not allowed to rest in the patriarchal form of government. As soon as their circumstances allowed, they were accustomed, first, to aristocratic rule, or government by a few,—these being the natural leaders of the people. They had thereafter introduced among them the democratic principle,—the people delegating their power to men who acted in their name, either for counsel or judgment. Now one of the grand changes which took place upon the dissolution of the Roman Empire, was the universal establishment of this same mixed form of government. " Wherever they seated themselves," observes Sir Wm. Temple, "they left a constitution, which has since been called, in most European languages, the States; consisting of three orders —noble, ecclesiastic, and popular, under the limited principality of one person, with the style of King, Prince, Duke, or Count. The remainder at least, or traces hereof, appear still in all the principalities founded by these people in Italy, France, and Spain; and were of a piece with the present constitutions in most of the great dominions on the other side the Rhine."
It may be remarked, that the Northerns claim, for their Civil Institutions, an origin in the most remote antiquity; and that some of them have claimed for them, as well as for the names of some of their cities, an Israelitish origin. Their Governments, like that of Israel, were almost all representative or constitutional, a form peculiar to Israel and the nations of Europe. Their laws were strict; and administered, in each nation, generally by twelve judges, having appointed circuits, as we find recorded in the book of Samuel. Their kings, like those of Israel, were generally hereditary in particular families; but the individual was often determined upon by popular election: and the kings were more the principal agents in getting the law carried into effect, and in conducting the defence of the commonwealth,
than arbitrary monarchs, making every thing minister to their private gratification. The people themselves, by their minute subdivision into hundreds, and tens; and by their mutual subordination and oversight, exactly analogous to what was the case with regard to ancient Israel, greatly assisted in the preservation of social order : so that the civil condition, at home, of these people, was often strongly in contrast to the buccaneering or privateering excursions of the more restless portions of them abroad; of those who went forth to be avenged on their great adversary, Rome, and to take possession of the colonies of that empire, which had so continually been spoiling them of their own country, and driving them in upon the inhospitable north. Whether migrating, or abiding at home, their form of society seems to have had a most germinating power. Every little band of them formed a community, with rules, and partition of duty, such as might enable them either to maintain their present position, or expand into a powerful state, as occasion might require, or circumstances allow. This subdivision of the people, and the association of these little communities, for more general purposes, into tribes or kingdoms, prepared the way for that association of comparatively independent states, as in the German empire; or still more largely, in the great European family of nations, with regard to which so much has been spoken about the balance of
power. Thus far with regard to Government;—and as to Property, the change was equally characteristic of Israel: among whom, although land was heritable, still individuals had not absolute possession thereof. It seems to have been reckoned a kind of public property; those who held it owed certain duties to the state; they were liable to be called out in its defence. They thus were supported, in order that they might support the commonwealth. Civil offices might be paid for in the same way as military services. Thus were the people less liable to
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taxation. Thus might all, from the lowest to the highest, feel that they were members of one whole; and that, for the good of the whole, they had each duties to perform. Not only does this seem to have been the case when they were formerly in the land; but such is again to be the case, as we find it plainly written, even with regard to the prince himself :—Ezek. xlv. 8; " In the land shall be his possession, and my princes shall no more oppress my people." It need not be remarked how naturally this accounts for the feudal system, over the origin of which, among these nations, so much mystery has hung. Feudalism universally prevailed among the nations who, after the tempest had subsided, were found settled in Western Europe. The feudal system also prevailed equally among those that were farther removed from the Romans, as among those that were
The principle among all was this, that land was public property, for which services were due to the state: to the king, as the representative of the state, by the great holders of land, in the first instance; and then, through them, by the subordinate holders; every one rendering his service to him that was immediately above him, until it reached the throne, which itself was supposed to be held by the grace of God, as expressed in the voice of the people. There was wisdom in the contrivance, beyond what could be expected to originate in barbarism, or mere chance. The system, however, was doubtless abused; and the great holders now retain the property, without the trouble of rendering the state any considerable recompence for that with which they were originally intrusted for the public good. Among some of these people, as, for example, in Norway, the right of redemption, as in Israel, also remained.
A like provision was made in Israel, for the Ministers of Religion: The Levites had their own possessions in land throughout the tribes, beside the freewill offerings that might be presented them by the people. They had also
much to do, as to the teaching and administration of the law. Correspondent to this, is the change noticed by Sir William Temple, to have taken place in the state and provision of the Clergy in Europe, after the embrace of Christianity by the northern nations.
When these nations were only, in a manner, holding military possession of Europe, and had not fully established their civil institutions, they had, (like Israel in a similar situation, as in the days of the Judges,) an order of men assisting in the administration of justice, who could only be looked for among a people, whose moral feelings had been cultivated to a remarkable degree. I advert to the order of Chivalry; to an order of men, who, sacrificing personal ease, and all expectation of private gain, went forth in search of opportunities of avenging wrong, and relieving the oppressed ;an order of men, combining in their character, besides this remarkable display of conscientiousness and benevolence, the most courteous and chaste regard for woman, and reverence for religion. With them, the sword was consecrated by religion, to be wielded by the most punctilious honour, in the support of morality. Chivalry, doubtless, degenerated much into empty parade and other abuses; but withal, it was of immense use, in improving the civil condition and social intercourse of these nations, after the confusion that accompanied their first settlement in Western Europe.
The Teutonic order of Knighthood was not more remarkable than the Teutonic League for the furtherance and protection of commerce. The vast extension of the Hanseatic League, spreading its ramifications throughout Europe, and bringing together the productions of India, the manufactures of Italy, and the bulky, but no less useful, commodities of the North; and the wisdom with which the measures of the league were planned in their general assemblies; and the vigour and regard to principle with which they were conducted
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towards a successful termination, until they cleared the rivers, and all other great thoroughfares, of the predatory hands that had infested them; and made their alliance be courted, and their power be dreaded by the greatest of monarchs:all this argues an intellectual and moral capacity, such as we could scarcely expect to spring up among, or originate from, a barbarous people. And it was among the new inhabitants, and not among the remains of the Roman race in Europe, that all this took place.
The same thing, in its degree, took place in the several towns and cities of this people, where those following the same craft or occupation, generally associated together for their mutual assistance and protection,—as in guilds; and the several guilds were again combined in burgh-corporations: in which again the representatative principle was at work, and men were in training for more extensive public employment.
Of all associations among this people, that of Freemasonry is, perhaps, the most remarkable, as well as longest preserved; whereby the ancient architecture of the days of Solomon, and the mystic meaning of the ancient symbols which were used by this art in the more important buildings, such as cathedrals, were so wonderfully preserved. theory be correct, as doubtless it is, there will not be so much of vain pretension in the craft, as many have rashly supposed. Their origin may then most truly be referred to the days of Solomon, King of Israel, and Hiram, King of Tyre: and a better account may be given of our peculiar style of architecture, and its narrow - lights, than has hitherto been proposed. The rites of freemasonry also indicate such a connection with Egypt as the children of Israel anciently had.
Heraldry, or the science of ensigns —of symbols, as connected with the history of nations or lesser societies, or of distinguished families or indivi
duals, or as designating office,—and the origin and use of which have been so lost in obscurity—seems to have had the same source as the institutions already referred to. Some faint emanations of it may, perhaps, he found previously in Europe; but the great blaze of its glory is only to be seen after the settlement here of the nations we have supposed to come of Jacob. The first grand display of it was among these nations, and during the crusades. This use of such variety of ensigns, and of the language of colours, and precious stones, and metals, may best be accounted for, by the variety of standards existing among the tribes of Israel; and by the symbolical use which was made, amongst them, of these very matters, even in things the most sacred; and to which we should be glad more particularly to direct our attention, than we have now an opportunity.
The Crusades themselves are highly consistent with the truth of our view. It has been observed, that this was the only enterprise in which the European nations ever engaged; and this they all undertook with equal ardour. This, to say the least of it, is somewhat singular. And we may help to account for the frenzy, which then so generally seized the minds of men in this matter, if we suppose that still there were
some lingering recollections existing among them, of the value of the land of their fathers, some remaining hope of a happy return to the scenes of their early, and also their prophesied glory; which, mingling with the views and prospects of Christianity, as they had received it, became so blended therewith, as that the former was lost in the latter: and the yearning they had for their " dear mother Jerusalem," and the place of their fathers' sepulchres, took the form of a zeal for the defence of the holy city, and the place of the holy sepulchre, from infidel cruelty, rapacity, and pollution. Thus the whirlwind went round; and the west was precipitated back upon the east. Like Israel, as coming up from the
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wilderness, they made a wilful attempt to take possession of the land; in which they were put to shame, and made to turn back from before their enemies, into the wilderness, until they had been so trained, as that the land could, consistently with their true good, be given them in permanent possession. From that time to the present, the course of this people has been ever progressive. Their God has been ever, more and more, enriching them by his providence, and unfolding to them, still more clearly and largely, the treasures of His grace. They have been ever in a course of improvement. Discovery and invention have gone hand in hand; and opportunities of consecrating these to the good of man,
and the glory of God, have correspondently abounded. The providence of God, equally with the plain declarations of His word, testifies, most distinctly, to the truth of our Israelitish origin.
As to Language, it is granted that this could not of itself identify a people; or distinguish Israel, for example, from the Canaanites, who seem to have spoken the same language with that of Israel; nor does that of Babylon appear to have been greatly different: and we know that the very people referred to, have, in many cases, changed their language; so that the words used by a nation, in one age, can scarcely be understood by their descendants in another. Stiil it may be expected that a sufficiency would remain of the Hebrew, to tell of this people's former acquaintance therewith,—and such is the case. It has been observed by linguists, that a very great deal of the ancient language of Israel exists in the modern languages of Europe; and that it is through a Gothic medium that this plentiful supply of Hebrew has come. So much have these languages been thrown into a Hebrew mould, that a French Abbe has lately proposed to make use of the Hebrew, as the grand key to these languages, -as that whereby they may most easily be ac
quired; and, it is said, he has been remarkably successful.
The time of the Introduction of Christianity among this people is rather remarkable: it was just when it was fading away into mere formalism or superstition, in all other parts of the world; and when, throughout the east, it was being engulphed by Mohammedanism, so as to be threatened with entire extinction in all its original seats. Then did it reach these nations—then did it take root among them, and thence did they become, emphatically, Christendom.
And, contrary to all other people, their course has been progressive with regard to religion, as it has been with regard to every thing else.
It need scarcely be remarked, that both Poetry and Music were greatly cultivated in Israel. These were accomplishments which, it might be expected, would be eminently possessed by a people who were to be peculiarly devoted to the worship of God—the Most High over all the earth: and accordingly, they, especially the Germans, have been remarkable for musical talent, and particularly as to instrumental music; and the genius of their music appears to be very much like that of the Jews. With regard to poetry, in all its varieties, these nations have been remarkable. Poetry was greatly cultivated, even among the operatives, in the cities of Germany. And in Italy, after the genius of the Gothic race began to develop itself in verse, one of the most important changes that we observe, is the production of the Sonnet, or song of fourteen lines, in which so much was written by Petrarch. In the same age, Antonio a Tempo, a civilian at Padua, who wrote on poetry, distinguishes sixteen different kinds of Sonnet. Now, the like variety of this kind of composition prevails to an immense extent in the Scriptures, as has abundantly been exemplified in the course of these lectures. This might still more largely be exemplified in the songs of degrees in the Book of Psalms. It will scarcely be said that
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these people learned to write sonnets from their perusal of the Scriptures, as conveyed to them through a Christian medium: for, as far as I know, these sonnets have lain unobserved in the Scriptures from the time the Bible was first circulated in Europe. That kind of composition, along with many others, amounting to above an hundred, seems to have been preserved among the people of Israel, during all their wanderings; although they do not appear to have recognized it in their own Sacred Writings, when these were restored to them through the medium of Christianity.
These are the people who have already been blessed with the choicest blessings both temporal and spiritual. When darkness overspread the earth, and gross darkness the people, it was upon them that the light dawned, at the time of the Reformation; just as it was towards their part of the world, as we have already seen, that the preaching and the Epistles of the Apostles, all went forth at the beginning of the Christian dispensation. And among them, or the people sprung from them, did not only that important change take place,—but also, every revival in more modern times. These are the people who have shown the greatest adaptation of mind for the study of the Scriptures. They have not merely studied them most for themselves,—they have translated them into almost every tongue, and distributed them all over the globe.
They are, besides, most in the position of waiting for the coming of their Lord, and the promised outpouring of the Spirit. These are, certainly, much less than they ought-still they are most in the position commanded and promised to Israel.
Many, also, are the temporal blessings which have been conferred upon this race;—the numberless discoveries and improvements which have sprung up among them, and by them been distributed over the globe. Among the first of these was paper, the very fine substance of
which books are now made; allowing what would formerly have been a rather extensive library, to be condensed into a volume, that may, without inconvenience, be carried in the pocket; and that this may more effectually be accomplished, and copies multiplied at (comparatively) no labour and expense, they have been given Printing. By steam power, the process of printing has been still farther facilitated, to an immense extent, and the books rapidly spread over the land, and sent even afar over the sea,—with almost the certainty of their reaching their destination at the appointed time. By the discovery of steam power has the city been spread all over the country, and the country brought, as it were, into the city; and remote corners of the earth brought into conjunction: whilst human labour is lightened, and the conveniences of life are multiplied, to an amazing extent. Nor could these advantages have been enjoyed, but for the previous discovery of the compass, by which the great waste of waters can so easily be traversed ;—and gunpowder, by which all obstructions can be so rapidly removed, in " exalting the valleys, and making low every mountain," —so that highways may be cast up for the rapid conveyance of men, and the means of blessing them. How rapidly has education of late proceeded! How has all science been searched out, and all arts improved, —and antiquities ransacked, and inventions multiplied. The Lord hath indeed been hastening his work in these our times. He hath been putting most liberally into our hands. He hath also been opening the eyes of many here and there, to see wondrous things out of his law. May the beauty of his word be indeed made to appear,—and may its power be felt; and may, for this, the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and may his people indeed see their position-and their privilege,--and be thoroughly persuaded to live not unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them, and rose again; reckoning


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Q: What is the definition of Convenience Method in regards to Objective C? In most languages I have dealt with, one something is called a convenience method, it means that the method does some small task that gets done very frequently, and therefore it is more convenient to use said method.
In Objective-C does this definition hold true?  Or is it generally only used to describe class methods that return a prebuilt object? ex. [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:...]
Is this just a preference thing, or are there some hard and fast definition for these terms?
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A: So far as I know, "convenience method" means basically what you defined it to mean here: a single method or function which replaces a more complicated series of invocations because of its frequency of use.
In Objective-C, the "ordinary" way to create a new instance is something along the lines of NSSomething * mySomething = [[[NSSomething alloc] initWithParam:... andParam:...] autorelease]. Many classes provide convenience constructors which simplify these three steps (in fact, in most cases, they probably literally do exactly the same thing, but wrapped behind a class method call).

A: What you are talking about is actually more specifically a "convenience constructor" in Objective C.  (Note that it's not really a constructor in the C++/Java/C# sense, it's actually an object initializer/factory method, but it seems to be the convention to call the "convenience constructors").  "Convenience constructors" in Obj C are a convention or pattern for creating a constructor/initializer/factory method for a class which takes specific parameters.  This pattern also has some special conventions that you should follow (such as autoreleasing the new object within the constructor), so that your custom classes fit in well with the built-in types.
See this page (a little way down) for more info:  http://macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2001/07/27/cocoa.html?page=3
As for "convenience method," this specific term doesn't have any special meaning in Objective C.  You can create any type of convenience method in Obj C, and there is no expectation about what it should or should not do.  It's only "convenience constructor" that has a special meaning.


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