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If you're in marketing or advertising, you may know David Baldwin as:
- co-founder of Baldwin&, AdAge's Small Agency of the Year,
- a long-time McKinney veteran, or
- producer of the Emmy-winning movie Art & Copy.
Earlier this month, I interviewed David at Baldwin&'s office in Raleigh, NC. As someone who loves studying how marketing agencies work, I especially enjoyed hearing David's perspective on:
- why creative firms need great offices to do great work
- why his approach is "we need it great; we don't need it 'by Tuesday'"
- how it's easy to say "No" to clients that don't fit the agency
- why entrepreneurs should be "walking around as if"
On Twitter, you can find David at @DavidLBaldwin and the agency at @BaldwinAnd.
My questions and David's answers follow, in what also happens to be my 18th interview and 150th blog post at KarlSakas.com.
KARL SAKAS: Every advertising and marketing agency is different in its own way, but to prospective clients, agencies are often indistinguishable. How can agencies distinguish themselves in a meaningful way?
DAVID BALDWIN: You're getting to one of the fundamental points in this industry. Everyone says they're different and no one is. At the end of the day, we all produce ideas that produce some kind of result. Some agencies have a trademarked process and some agencies have their philosophy for what they do. But honestly, I don't think there's a difference between many of them, other than the output of their work. The way we look at it is the output of their work.
Agencies have a set of values, good or not. The worst agency in the world talks about their creativity, and so does the best agency. But the reality is, you either have a creative environment or you don't. That means having an environment that's open to creativity, celebrating creativity in a way that's not fear-based. Many environments are actually based around fear.
Look at an agency's work. That's how you know. We've been moving our goalpost ever since we started, but we've never changed our values.
KS: During the latest AIGA Raleigh studio tour, people kept talking about Baldwin&'s unique office. For creative agencies, what about a great space makes it worth the cost premium over sticking the team in suburban office park cubicles?
DB: [For creative agency offices,] I think everything's about energy. A great space gives energy back. It becomes an echo chamber of energy. (Tweet this!)
I want people to look forward to coming into the office. People work hard. There's a lot of stress. They're told their ideas are shitty by everyone all day. Create a safe haven, where people really enjoy working.
You've been to McKinney's space? I was part of the group that designed that. It was important to create an environment that's exceptional, beyond just doing the job. Create an identity around energy and fun.
KS: You helped produce the Emmy-winning documentary Art & Copy on the history of advertising, from Bill Bernbach to today. What's something most people may not realize about producing a movie?
DB: That was the first movie I ever worked on. I worked on another this year as well. It was way more collaborative than I ever would have thought. It was a group of people coming together.
Documentaries are a labor of love. They just are. You've usually got some lofty goal to change something, to change how people see the world. Because of that, you're trying to make a difference. The group of people involved, it was a group of amazing people. Mary Warlick, Doug Pray, Greg Beauchamp, Jimmy Greenway, Kirk Souder.
Director Doug Pray had unbelievable credentials, yet no ego. He's a Sundance darling, yet he's the most genuine, nice guy. Doug showed how to collaborate without the need to be right. He's astounding at it. We protected him to make the movie he wanted to make. He's so open to feedback, amazingly collaborative feedback, that we trusted him. The film became his vision.
[As executive producers], our job was to let Doug make the film he wanted to make. Kirk and Greg came up with the idea, and brought in Doug. It's really Doug's film.
KS: In the documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi, world-renowned sushi chef Jiro Ono says a true "shokunin" (craftsman or artisan) doesn't worry about how much money he's making; rather, it's about about mastering his craft. In our industry, there's often a tension between an account manager's view of budget and a creative's view of what's "good enough" for client review. As agency head, how do you reconcile that tension between business and creative?
DB: We don't. We don't worry about it. I think fundamentally, our belief is that great work is more efficient and solves problems quicker than bad work.
We don't approach it as "only spend 10 hours on it." We need it great; we don't need it "by Tuesday." (Tweet this!) Our point of view is not to make these decisions based on money. From [Jiro Dreams of Sushi], I love the notion of doing the work for work's sake. Fundamentally, that's what we do.
I had a goal of being at 32 people by next December. We could have already been there. But we've [declined] projects that [weren't going to] get us where we want to be.
Do we want to get paid? Absolutely. We don't like to do things for free. But we don't make decisions [like that] based on money.
KS: For many agencies, their own website is often like the shoemaker's shoeless child, neglected in favor of billable work. How can an agency sustainably tend to its own marketing?
DB: You've hit smack dab on the biggest issue–"physician, heal thyself." Agencies often don't know how to market themselves.
[At Baldwin&], we let our reputation market for us, and be as smart as possible on PR as we can. We have a person who does PR, and we have since almost day one. As much as we can, we try to get the message out. We let the work do that for us.
And [by having] quality people. The talent at this place is pretty much off the charts. And we've done the best we can in merchandising the work. Our first big campaign ["Find Your Burt" for Burt's Bees] won Campaign of the Year. Our first campaign. It was a big deal.
As this is taking off, we need a more coherent [website] strategy. On day one, Bob [Ranew] and I were the two full-timers. Erin Bredemann was one of the original three. We had to quickly create the website out of nothing. We really need to change it.
KS: AdAge recently named Baldwin& the country's top small agency. They note your goal to double the agency every year from 2009 to 2014. With such rapid growth, how do you ensure you're hiring people who fit?
DB: That's a very good question. We're trying to make sure the chemistry is right. Make sure people believe the right things. When you're 11-12 people and you hire six people in a six-week period, it's a huge absorption of people. You're in a bit of a careful hurry. (Tweet this!)
We haven't recruited much. There are more people coming to us than we can process. This will be more of an issue next year, I think. If we double, it should be 32 people.
We're trying to hit that goal. The reason is that I want to have the mass to go after bigger pieces of business. Because when this bizarre goal was written down on paper, it seemed naïve, even at the time. It was a case of "Why not; let's try that."
We have a lot of things written down. There's a document I wrote in my attic, of what this company will be. And it is. I knew where I wanted to work; it didn't exist yet. (Tweet this!)
There's this idea I've stolen, the notion of "walking around as if." Since day one, we've said we're a national company. We want to do work that gets seen, that gets seen everywhere. We walked around as if.
Intentionality is a big deal. That's how we've done this so far. Our intention is to be a great creative agency that operates at a national level. [When a prospective client approaches us and they're not a national firm,] it makes the decision easy. Someone could come with $800,000 and if it's wrong, we'd say "No."
It's not like we have this huge conversation where we roll the dice. We just have a conversation and decide "No." No one's ever wondered, "Do we take this bag of money?" Those decisions aren't hard. There's no existential moment. It's the company we want to build.
KS: By now, I'm sure you've done many interviews in your career. What's one question no one's ever asked you that you wish they had? And what's your answer?
DB: I don't know; I've been asked a lot of really good questions. One of my favorite questions was on Dan Balser's "Don't Get Me Started" podcast. It threw me. [Note: You can download DGMS episode #90 via MP3 or from iTunes.]
The question was, "What would David Baldwin today tell David Baldwin on day 1?" I really had to think about that one.
My answer, the advice [to the 22-year old me]? "Shut up and listen." Back then, I was young and full of piss and vinegar. I was an idiot. I needed to shut the hell up. But that's what young people do.
It's a question of priorities. Decide what you want to be, and be the shit out of it. (Tweet this!) That's what I've done, to my detriment many times.
Question: What's your favorite takeaway from my interview with David Baldwin? You can leave a comment by clicking here.
Karl Sakas is a marketing and business operations guy who loves finding ways to grow and optimize marketing agencies. He works at hesketh.com and lives in Raleigh, NC. This is the 18th in Karl's regular series of interviews with marketing and business leaders.
Image credits: Agency images courtesy of BaldwinAnd.com. Movie poster via Wikipedia. DGMS logo via Balserville.com. Office photos by Karl Sakas.


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Switzerland's Federal Council has initiated shortened consultation proceedings on the partial revision of the Tax Administrative Assistance Act.
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The consultation procedure on the revision of the Tax Administrative Assistance Act will run until September 18, 2013. A shortened procedure is necessary as the communiqué of the G20 Finance Ministers, following the meeting of July 19 and 20, urged all jurisdictions to address the Global Forum's recommendations without further delay.
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Klarna is a Swedish e-commerce company that provides payment services for online storefronts. Their core service is to assume stores' claims for payments and handle customer payments, thus eliminating the risk for seller and buyer. Klarna allows users to pay with simply an email address, billing the customer later and paying the retailer in the meantime. Their business model thus differs from that of other online payment companies, which collect payment from the customer immediately and then forward the money to the retailer. About 40% of all e-commerce sales in Sweden goes through Klarna.[2] The company has more than 1400 employees, most of them working at the headquarters in Stockholm. In 2014, the company handled about $10 billion in online sales.[3]
The three founders Sebastian Siemiatkowski, Niklas Adalberth and Victor Jacobsson participated in the Stockholm School of Economics annual entrepreneurship award in 2005 with their idea on how to provide consumers and merchants with safer and simpler online shopping payment methods. However, their idea was not received with enthusiasm and their entry was among the last in the competition. Despite this, they decided to found Klarna in the middle of 2005 and started operations in Sweden.[5]
In the end of 2007, venture capital firm Investment AB Öresund invested in the company. Three years later, Klarna started selling their services in Norway, Finland and Denmark.
Klarna also started providing services in Germany and the Netherlands in 2010, and in May the same year, San Francisco-based Sequoia Capital entered as investors. During 2010, Klarna increased their revenues by over 80% to $54M (~400M SEK).[6] In the early 2011, The United Kingdom magazine The Telegraph listed Klarna as one of Europe's 100 most promising young tech companies.[7]
In 2011, growth equity firm General Atlantic led a $155M investment round joined by DST Global, and General Atlantic's managing director Anton Levy joined the board of directors.[8][9] In May 2011, Klarna acquired Israeli company Analyzd, with business activity on markets in Europe, Israel and the United States. Analyzd specialise in risk management and online payments, and its founders previously worked for PayPal.[6]
Klarna began offering services in Austria and Sweden in 2012, and in 2013, Klarna and German SOFORT AG merged after Klarna acquired SOFORT Banking from the majority shareholder Reimann Investors. Both companies would continue to offer their products side by side and operate on a stand-alone basis.
In 2015, Klarna had more than 45M users and some 65,000 online merchants have so far hired it to run their checkouts. Klarna launched in the United States in September 2015, and the US has become its principal focus for future growth.[3][10] That year, Minister of Enterprise and Innovation Mikael Damberg dubbed Klarna one of Sweden's "five unicorns," by which he meant startup companies that had succeeded in growing and attract international investments. The other four companies were Spotify, Mojang, Skype and King.[11]
As of 2016, Klarna is valued at over €2 billion.[2] At Money20/20 Europe held in Copenhagen in April 2016, co-founder and CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski told Sequoia Capital partner Mike Moritz that he had no plans to take the company public.[2]
Klarna's code base is written in Erlang, a programming language designed by Ericsson designed for highly parallel, scalable applications.[2]
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I am pleased to announce with my coauthors Justin Pugh and Andrea Soltoggio our new ALIFE conference paper, "Real-time Hebbian Learning from Autoencoder Features for Control Tasks."
While the first thing you'll probably notice about this paper is that there is no evolution, the idea was still conceived very much with evolution in mind. It's based on the insight that one of the things holding back neuroevolution research that involves plasticity is that local plasticity rules, while they can be helpful for learning correlations, do not tend to build up new representations (i.e. features) of the world over the agent's lifetime. We (myself and coauthors) think that's a big roadblock for evolving much more interesting kinds of plastic brains. Basically, we'd like to see ANNs that build up new representations of the world at the same time as they learn to control themselves based on those new representations.
That's why we introduce the RAAHN in this paper, which stands for a Real-time Autoencoder-Augmented Hebbian Network. It's a pretty straightforward idea: an autoencoder running in real-time picks up features while neuromodulated Hebbian connections projecting from the autoencoder learn control policies from those developing features based on rewards and penalties (i.e. neuromodulation). The paper shows a proof of concept where RAAHN works even without evolution, but I believe a big part of the future for RAAHN is to embed it within evolved networks (even to evolve its embedding), and there are numerous exciting possibilities for that.
It's also interesting for its potential to unify ideas from deep learning (where autoencoders made their splash) with neuroevolution. After all, the latest unsupervised feature learning technology from deep learning (like present autoencoders) can easily be swapped into RAAHN in the future and then evolved into ANNs through neuroevolution. I think it also suggests that deep learning has missed some of the more interesting implications of its own work by focusing so much on classification tasks, which tend to obfuscate how cool it is to be able to sit there and generate unsupervised reinterpretations of the world on the fly as you go about your business, which if you think about, is a big part of life.
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Mexican Hot Chocolate Cupcakes
Rich, moist and spicy chocolate cupcakes topped with a cloud of whipped cream frosting. Have your cake and cocoa, too!
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 25 minutes
Total Time: 90 minutes (includes cooling time)
Yields: 12 cupcakes
Calories: 270 per frosted cupcake
Happy Eve-of-Christmas Eve! What're your plans for the holiday? We're doing a laid-back all-day PJ, bottomless hot cocoa sort of affair this year, and I could not be more excited. We are getting fancy with dinner—Cornish hens and all the usual comfort food fixings, finished off with baked pears. How about you? Let me know what cooking or baking hijinks you're getting up to this holiday season!
These cupcakes are a long time coming. My first brush with Mexican hot chocolate was Nestle's Abuelita (who could resist that charming granny on the label? She manages to be warm, sarcastic and mischievous all at the same time). I don't remember if it was any good, but I do remember being tickled by the combination of cinnamon and chocolate—I had never had the two together, and thought it was a fine match.
Then, this summer my friend invited me to her cat's quinceañera* and I pondered what food offering I should bring to the event. I remembered Mexican hot chocolate (it's on my short list of recipes to master), but discarded it, since hot chocolate and hot weather don't exactly mix.
*Yep. A Latin American debutante party for a cat. I would've been totally opposed to the idea (imagining how my own derpy, spastic cat would react to a house full of people, with her the theoretical center of attention…it would not be pretty) but the feline in question was a perfectly gracious hostess—she even wore a dress for the entire event (!) and was as chill as if she did this all the time. Except when someone gifted her with a kitty kibble rosary, which she immediately tried to eat.
After discarding a few other ideas, it occurred to me: why not give Mexican hot chocolate a cupcake spin? With a light, airy whipped cream frosting to balance out the richness of the cake? Seemed like a fine idea, and after some substantial tinkering, this recipe was the result.
The cupcakes themselves are nuggets of intense flavor—sweetened with a dark and mysterious combo of brown sugar and molasses and infused with the warming power of cinnamon, chili powder and a hint of sriracha—these things pack a delicious punch. One thing that I discovered to be critical—melting the brown sugar into the molasses and butter. My usual standby for a tender cake is melted butter, but I found that the cupcakes were dense and dry without also melting the brown sugar. It may take longer, but this step is worth it!
Whipped cream frosting serves the double purpose of nicely falling in with our hot chocolate theme and complementing the sinful intensity of the cupcakes. It comes together very easily; just make sure that your cream is chilled to start. If your home is also very warm, you can chill your beater(s) and mixing bowl, but I generally don't bother doing that and my whipped creations don't seem to have suffered for it!
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The Cupcakes
Set oven to 325 F | 165 C | Gas Mark 3 to preheat. Line or grease a 12-cup muffin tin and set aside.
Place a small saucepan on medium-low heat. Add 150 g (3/4 cup, packed) brown sugar, 120 g (1/2 cup) molasses, 60 g (4 tablespoons) unsalted butter, 1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon, ½ teaspoon chili powder and 1/8 teaspoon sriracha.
Heat until the brown sugar has dissolved, stirring often, about 10 minutes. Pour mixture into a large mixing bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and allow to cool to warm room temperature
While the molasses mixture is cooling, in a medium mixing bowl, thoroughly whisk together 120 g (1 cup) all-purpose flour, 40 g (1/2 cup) unsweetened cocoa powder, ¾ teaspoon baking soda and 1 teaspoon kosher salt. Set aside.
With your mixer running at medium speed (4 on stand mixer), add 1 teaspoon vanilla extract to the cooled molasses mixture.
Add 1 egg and beat for 1 minute. Add a second egg and beat for another minute, scraping the sides and bottom of the bowl as needed.
With the mixer running at its lowest speed, alternate adding the flour mixture and 60 ml (1/4 cup) milk, beginning and ending with the flour. Mix until flour is fully incorporated, but not beyond that.
Divide the batter evenly among the prepared muffin cups. A large piping bag (or gallon zip-top bag with a corner cup off) can make this task easier.
Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out cleanly.
Allow to cool in muffin pan on a wire cooling rack for 5 minutes before popping the cupcakes out. Allow to cool completely before icing them.
The Frosting
While the cupcakes are cooling, make the frosting.
In a large mixing bowl, or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a whisk attachment, beat 240 ml (1 cup) heavy whipping cream on medium-high speed until frothy, about 30 seconds.
With the mixer off, add 80 g (2/3 cup) confectioners' sugar, ½ teaspoon vanilla extract and ¼ teaspoon kosher salt. Beat on low at first until the confectioners' sugar is mostly combined, then turn up to medium-high, beating until stiff peaks form, about 1 to 2 minutes more
Frost the cooled cupcakes. Optionally dust with cinnamon
Adapted from Martha Stewart's Chocolate-Ginger Bundt Cake with Bourbon Sauce
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|French Presidential
|Socialist François Hollande elected;
|Election - 2nd Round
|reiterates vow to renegotiate EU fiscal pact
|Greek Parliamentary
|Fails to yield workable coalition;
|anti-bailout parties stronger
|El Mundo newspaper reports
|Reports Spain planning 30 billion Euro issue in June
|Spain to issue hispanobonos
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|Bonds backed by Spain, proceeds flow to regional gov'ts
|Gov't neither confirms nor denies report
|Spain nationalizes Bankia
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|Papoulias: depositors withdrew 700 million Euros on May 14
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|Spanish Economy Ministry denies report
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|Greece cut from B- to CCC
|Cites inconclusive election, "material" risk of Euro exit
|Fitch imposes country ceiling (effective rating cap) of B-
|Moody's downgrades
|Banks downgraded include Santander, BBVA
|16 Spanish banks
|Moody's cites weak Spanish economy, non-perf assets
|Spanish regional gov'ts commit
|Spanish gov't approves fiscal adjustments of regional gov'ts
|to budget cuts
|totalling 18.3 billion Euros
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Question about Jenn-Air JGD8345 Gas Cooktop
Are the downdraft cover and grill grates supposed to have rubber bushings on the bottom corners, as do the regular burner grates? Without thes rubber "feet", they slide all over the cooktop surface and the downdraft grate has actually fallen into the filter area several times.
Thanks in advance for your knowledge! Tim
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I bought mine new from HD. Neither the dd cover nor grill grates have bushings on them. however thats a good idea.
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Under 30 Minutes4
Royal Icing for Lamb Cookies
Use this recipe to decorate our Little Lamb Cookies.
- Prep:
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- Yield: Makes about 2 cups (enough for 1 batch lamb cookies or 1 batch poppy-shaped lemon cookies)
Photography: Tara Donne
Source: Martha Stewart Living, May 2011
- 1/2 cup water, plus more if needed
- 1/4 cup meringue powder
- 1 pound confectioners' sugar, sifted
- Gel-paste food coloring in Soft Pink for lambs (optional) or desired colors for poppies
Beat water and meringue powder with a mixer on medium speed until soft peaks form, about 3 minutes. Add sugar, and beat until icing holds a ribbonlike trail on the surface for 5 seconds when beater is raised.
Tint icing with food coloring just before using. (If making poppy-shaped lemon cookies, divide icing before tinting.)
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Regional Navigation
California 19
California 19 is located entirely within the Los Angeles basin, originating at a traffic circle with California 1 in Long Beach and extending north via Lakewood Boulevard and Rosemead Boulevard through Lakewood, Bellflower, Paramount, Downey, Pico Rivera, Rosemead, Temple City, and East Pasadena. Portions of the route have been decommissioned to local control, including the southernmost segment at California 1/Pacific Coast Highway. However, signage generally remains in place.
The section of California 19 north of Pico Rivera is technically California 164, but it is signed as California 19 to allow for route continuity. California 164 is planned to someday connect the northern section of California 19 directly with Interstate 605, thus offering a freeway that travels due north to Interstate 210 (rather than turn northeast as Interstate 605 currently does). However, it is unlikely that this freeway connection would ever be constructed.
Highway Guide
|Leaving the Interstate 405 interchange, northbound California 19/Lakewood Boulevard stays below grade so it can pass under the main runway for Long Beach Airport. Photos taken 02/26/11.
|Three lanes of California 19 proceed through this cut and cover tunnel, which was built in 1958 and expanded in 1982 to its current width. The airport runway passes overhead. At the end of the tunnel is the first California 19 north reassurance shield (not shown here). Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Leaving the airport tunnel behind, California 19 ascends back to surface grade and approaches Spring Street. The state highway was realigned in the late 1950s to accommodate the expansion of Long Beach Airport. Old alignments of California 19 are still in use on airport property as service roads; look at the aerial view of the airport to see where those north-south fragments can be found. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Northbound California 19 meets Spring Street. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Stay left for the connection to the Long Beach Airport. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Turn left from California 19 north onto Donald Douglas Drive into Long Beach Airport. Turn right at the intersection ahead for Wardlow Road. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|A "Fly DC Jets" sign is visible on the east side of California 19 as we proceed north away from the vicinity of the airport. This sign stands proudly over a now-defunct Douglas DC-10 factory. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Northbound California 19/Lakewood Boulevard meets Conant Street. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Northbound California 19 meets Douglas Center Drive. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|A California 19 north reassurance shield is posted prior to Carson Street on northbound Lakewood Boulevard. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Northbound California 19 next meets Carson Street at this traffic signal. Here, Former U.S. 91 and California 18 turn east onto Carson Street, which changes names into Lincoln Avenue once in Orange County. After this intersection, California 19 will serve as the border between Long Beach on the west and the city of Lakewood on the east. At Del Amo Street, California 19 fully enters Lakewood. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|California 19/Lakewood Boulevard north
|California 19 north meets Del Amo Boulevard at this intersection. The state highway now fully enters Lakewood. The city had a population of 79,345 as of the 2000 Census. Lakewood incorporated as a city on April 16, 1954. This city is notable for being the hometown of the first Denny's ("America's Diner") in 1953. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Northbound California 19/Lakewood Boulevard meets Hardwick Street. Turn right here for the Lakewood Center, a shopping mall. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|An older sign is posted in the median of California 19/Lakewood Boulevard north for Candlewood Street. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|A similar sign is posted for the upcoming intersection with Michelson Street. California 19/Lakewood Boulevard continues almost due north within the street grid of Lakewood. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|The next major intersection along California 19/Lakewood Boulevard north is with South Street. Turn left (west) for Lakewood Regional Medical Center. To the east, South Street eventually interchanges with Interstate 605/San Gabriel River Freeway at Exit 5B. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Northbound California 19/Lakewood Boulevard approaches Hedda Street. This part of Lakewood is known as Mayfair. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Three lanes carry California 19/Lakewood Boulevard north through Lakewood (Mayfair). Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Northbound California 19/Lakewood Boulevard approaches Ashworth Street, which is the last intersection on California 19 in Lakewood. After this intersection, California 19 will enter the city of Bellflower. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Shortly thereafter, California 19/Lakewood Boulevard meets Ashworth Street. A set of Southern California Edison power lines cross over the state highway along the city limits boundary between Lakewood and Bellflower. These lines will turn north to parallel California 19 on the west side until just after the California 91 interchange, where they will turn west again. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|California 19/Lakewood Boulevard leaves Lakewood and enters the city of Bellflower. The city was incorporated on September 3, 1957. As of the 2000 Census, the city had a population of 72,878 people and consisted of 6.2 square miles of area. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Soon after entering Bellflower, northbound California 19/Lakewood Boulevard meets Former California 14/Artesia Boulevard at this traffic signal. A small green guide sign posts the mileage to Downey five miles north of here, downtown Bellflower one mile east of here, and the northern reaches of Long Beach one mile west of here. Prior to 1964, Artesia Boulevard was designated as a state highway (California 14) that was renumbered in favor of California 91, and the freeway ultimately replaced Artesia Boulevard as the principal east-west route through this part of the Los Angeles Basin. Of course, California 14 is now the designation for the Antelope Valley Freeway from Interstate 5 north through Santa Clarita toward Palmdale and Lancaster. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Immediately thereafter, northbound California 19/Lakewood Boulevard approaches California 91/Artesia Freeway. The first right turn connects to California 91 east to Anaheim, Fullerton, Corona, and Riverside. The second right links to California 91 west to Long Beach, Carson, Gardena, Hermosa Beach, and Manhattan Beach. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|The guide sign for California 91 advises of California 91 east to Riverside and California 91 ... west. No control city is provided. The westbound control city for California 91 tends to be "Beach Cities," but some signs only show the cardinal direction. This most likely because California 91 serves several cities at its west end, with no particular city larger than the others. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|The right lane of California 19 north connects directly to California 91 west to Long Beach and the Beach Cities (Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach). Photo taken 02/26/11.
|After passing under California 91, the Southern California Edison power lines turn west again, leaving California 19 behind. These lines will parallel California 91 for some distance to the west of here. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Continuing north, California 19 meets Flower Street at this intersection in Bellflower. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Northbound California 19 meets Alondra Boulevard at this traffic signal. This major east-west corridor travels east into Norwalk and La Mirada and west to the cities of Paramount and Compton. Between Alondra Boulevard and near Rosecrans Avenue, California 19 serves as the boundary between Bellflower on the east and Paramount on the west. The city of Paramount had a population 55,266 as of the 2000 Census and was incorporated on January 30, 1957. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|From time to time, older highway standards such as divoted curbing make an appearance. This example of divoted curbing is found on Lakewood Boulevard after the Alondra Boulevard intersection. The median was nicely planted with turf and trees. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|A very old, faded California 19 reassurance shield is posted on the mast arm for the traffic signal along northbound California 19 at Somerset Boulevard. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Leaving Paramount, California 19 now straddles the boundary between Bellflower on the east and Downey on the west. The city of Downey, which is listed as the northbound control city for Lakewood Boulevard leaving Los Alamitos Traffic Circle in Long Beach, is one of the more populous cities of the Los Angeles Basin. It had a population 107,323 as of 2000 Census and was incorporated on December 17, 1956. The "Rosecrans Avenue" street monument sign in the median is a city of Downey standard. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Northbound California 19 intersects Rosecrans Boulevard at this traffic signal. Another major arterial, Rosecrans Avenue travels east to Norwalk, Santa Fe Springs, La Mirada, and Fullerton. To the west, Rosecrans Avneue connects Downey with Paramount, East Rancho Dominguez, Compton, Rosewood, Gardena, Hawthorne, and Manhattan Beach. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|A city of Downey monument sign is posted in the median after Rosecrans Avenue. California 19 will fully enter Downey at the intersection with Gardendale Street. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Northbound California 19 approaches and meets Gardendale Street at this traffic signal. Around this point, California 19 stops traveling due north and curves toward the northeast. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|California 19 next approaches Interstate 105/Glenn Anderson (Century) Freeway. An onramp connects California 19 north with Interstate 105 east. Note the graffiti on this relatively new sign. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Northbound California 19/Lakewood Boulevard meets the onramp to Interstate 105/Glenn Anderson Freeway east to Norwalk. The next left connects California 19 to Interstate 105 east. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|At this traffic signal, turn left to connect to Interstate 105 west to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and El Segundo. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Leaving the Interstate 105 interchange, the next major intersection along California 19 north is with Imperial Highway, a major east-west arterial that extends from El Segundo to Yorba Linda (the easternmost portion of which is designated as part of California 90). Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Near Downey Studios, California 19 meets Alameda Street; this is not the same as the Alameda Street that carries part of California 47 and parallels the Alameda Corridor railroad. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Still in Downey, California 19/Lakewood Boulevard meets Firestone Boulevard (Former California 42) at this signalized intersection. The northeast corner of this intersection houses the Stonewood Center. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|At Florence Avenue at 10207 Lakewood Boulevard is the oldest surviving McDonald's. Opened in 1953, it features the original "Golden Arches." Although it closed for business briefly in the mid-1990s, it is open for business currently. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Northbound California 19/Lakewood Boulevard meets Florence Avenue in Downey. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|California 19 approaches Gallatin Road. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|The next major interchange after Gallatin Road is with Interstate 5/Santa Ana Freeway (former U.S. 101). This busy freeway travels northwest to downtown Los Angeles and southeast to Santa Ana and San Diego. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|The first ramp in the Interstate 5 interchange links California 19 north with Interstate 5 south. The second right connects to Interstate 5 north. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|After the Interstate 5 overpass, California 19 will connect with the onramp to Interstate 5 north to downtown Los Angeles. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|Northbound California 19/Lakewood Boulevard meets the onramp to Interstate 5/Santa Ana Freeway north to Los Angeles. Ahead, California 19 changes names from Lakewood Boulevard to Rosemead Boulevard. This shift happens at Telegraph Road (second traffic signal visible ahead). Telegraph Road, which is old California 26, is the boundary between the city of Downey and city of Pico Rivera. Photo taken 02/26/11.
|California 19/Rosemead Boulevard north
|California 19/Rosemead Boulevard south
|California 19/Lakewood Boulevard south
|California 19/Lakewood Boulevard south (former U.S. 91 south and California 18 west)
|California 19 Scenes
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Do you suffer from aches and pains when you needlepoint? Here are some tips and strategies to alleviate needlepoint pain.
Needlepoint Becoming A Pain in the Neck
Our bodies may not be adapted to sit still for long periods of time crafting or at the computer. The most commonly affected areas for aches and pains are the back, neck, shoulder, wrists and hands.
Early symptoms include niggling, dull aches or discomfort that initially can be relieved by short breaks.
If ignored, these aches and pains can become more persistent and can change into:
* tenderness or burning sensations
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* pins and needles
* painful or reduced grip
* swelling
* muscle spasms
(If you are experiencing these symptoms persistently and they are not relieved with rest, simple stretching, massage, heat packs or over the counter pain relievers; contact your local Health Care Professional).
Tips to Prevent Aches and Pains:
1. Sit up straight with your head up, shoulders back and a small curve in your lumbar (lower) back.
2. Take 3 large deep breaths.
3. Slowly turn your neck left and right, looking over your shoulder. Repeat 3 times each side
4. Roll your shoulders forwards and backwards 5 times.
5. Interlock your fingers in front of you, raise your arms to shoulder height and push your hands away from you. Hold for 3 seconds. Repeat 3 times.
6. With your hands on your knees, slide your hands down your legs as far as you can go. Hold for 3 seconds. Repeat 3 times.
7. Arrange your hands into the prayer position; push hands together and repeat in reverse prayer position. Repeat 3 times.
8. Clench and open hands quickly 5 times.
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Il resto lo fa gusto e la semplicità delle linee tipica dei designers scandinavi.
Ninna Skarra's collections are made of elegance and sustainability. She uses materials like silk, wool, bamboo, soya and organic cotton sewn and tailored by traditional sartorial craftsmanship while the production chain is short, transparent and careful to the whole footprint of the product, from raw material to disposal..
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Understanding the impact of direct and indirect drivers of change on diverse marine ecosystems such as coral reefs implies that users as well as stakeholders and decision makers need to reconsider their strategies, roles and perceptions in meeting the challenges confronted by these ecosystems. The findings in this article, derived from distinct studies, imply that societies that are more exposed to threats like climate change are more likely to be vulnerable, particularly those that have low social adaptive capacity. Moreover, other results from primary valuation studies highlight that users such as recreational divers are supportive of paying towards the protection and/or restoration of coral reef ecosystems. However, what is urgently needed in benefit estimation of coral reef services is the interconnectedness of this ecosystem state to human welfare.
Key words: coral reef, restoration, marine protected area, vulnerability, climate change
JEL classification: Q51, Q54
Suggested citation: Abdullah, Sabah, Benefits and Related Threats of Coral Reef Ecosystem Services (January 23, 2014). Review of Environment, Energy and Economics (Re3), http://dx.doi.org/10.7711/feemre3.2014.01.003
Our marine ecosystems comprise two thirds of the Earth's surface and about 31% of the human coastal population live within 50 km of them (UNEP, 2006). There are several benefits derived from these ecosystems namely fisheries, shore line protection and recreational use. One fragile marine ecosystem is the coral reef, an essential ecosystem for both human well-being and other marine life. However, the coral reefs' economic contributions and understanding of their benefit to economic development, especially the effect of these benefits under natural and anthropogenic threats, are under-discussed. Some key threats that affect their productivity and related services include over-fishing, improper fishing methods, coral mining, pollution and uncontrolled tourism as well as climate change effects such as coral bleaching incidents. It is vital that we account for both the benefit and cost of these threats for ecosystem services, as human society is affected by the supply of these services. Recognition of the economic value of the coral reef ecosystem and the related threats is essential information for decision makers or planners who need to protect, manage and restore the reef ecosystem.
In this regard, we offer complementary approaches to evaluate the reefs' values at national and global levels by identifying key concerns found in coral reef research. These considerations include the methodological biases found in coral reef primary studies; the vulnerability of coral reef society; the recreational benefits obtained from diving in marine protected areas, as well as the economic value for coral reef restoration activities after a coral bleaching event.
Results and Discussion
With regard to methodology biases found in the primary valuation study, we gathered and analyzed economic values found in over fifty coral reef studies. Furthermore, the variations in transferring these values, including the effect of some of the methodology biases on welfare values in both developing and developed countries were estimated. Recognising biases as pointed out in the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) guidelines (see Arrow et al., 1993) is pertinent, thus suggesting that contingent valuation methods practitioners and/or researchers need to provide detailed information in their primary studies. The key findings showed that for low income economies they have the potential to manage biases better when selecting an elicitation mode and format that are favourable to their surroundings (i.e. personal elicitation). However, limited funds in such nations may restrict the collection of larger sample sizes that could help lower biases and/or errors. Indeed, if such constraints are not accounted for when transferring values from study to policy sites, then values can be over- or under-estimated depending on the type of biases.
Concerning the vulnerability of communities living in coral-reef-endowed nations, the constructed vulnerability indices were derived from merged datasets ranging from social and economic to ecological sources. The methodology of construction was based on the multiplicative, additive and mixed approach of three components namely exposure, sensitivity and adaptation capacity. The main findings were that vulnerability indices vary across countries and the ranking results confirm previous studies that at regional/national-scale, the most vulnerable nations are those located in developing and/or emerging countries. Irrespective of the vulnerability methodology method, there are no uniform approaches in adaptation and mitigation efforts for the various countries. Therefore, for policy relevance, stakeholders need to plan, manage and allocate resources effectively and efficiently in distinct regions to accommodate the variation in human well-being and the ecosystem state.
In analysing the benefit and cost related to recreational diving in marine protected areas (MPAs), the methodology used was a contingent valuation approach, where the improvement of the reef ecosystem was undertaken after a climate change in the form of coral bleaching in MPA. The main findings revealed that an additional amount of around US$13 per dive is needed to be paid above the current entrance fee of US$10. Moreover, a case study of other MPA costs found in coral reef literature revealed that nearly all the revenues derived from entrance fees in most MPAs are insufficient to meet the operational costs of these sites. Hence, the implication of these results to policy implies that the MPA can charge or increase the entrance fees at this time particularly when threats like coral bleaching events are predicted to increase (Hoegh-Guldberg, 1999). Obviously, policy decisions will need to consider the most effective means of enforcement, pricing strategies and other governance issues of relevance to ensure administration costs are minimized in protected areas.
Similarly, another contingent valuation study was used in assessing the impact of adaptation efforts in the form of the coral restoration programme initiated after coral bleaching (as a part of climate change impact). The main findings revealed that the benefit of such programmes were US$40/ha at the global level for a healthy coral reef state, whereas for a less healthy one this figure stands at US$95/ha. The result suggests that it is plausible to charge and implement funds towards coral restoration given the current support by users is favourable. Subsequently, managers as well as planners should take this opportunity to establish supporting actions towards coral reef restoration on sites.
To sum up, managers, decision makers and other stakeholders need to know the implication of some inconsistencies that exist in coral reef valuation studies. Above all, what is imperative is a uniform reporting way of key methodological biases and their implication to the benefit transfer specifically capitalizing spatial mapping tools.
Regarding the vulnerability index, it is vital for nations dependent on coral reef ecosystems to be wary of level of threats that are likely to influence exposure for communities living nearby and/or far away. Moreover, the estimation of the values associated with coral reef restoration as well as MPAs provides planners with reference values to improve the ecological functions of coral reef ecosystems. In other words, such values can help decision makers as well as researchers in ecological and recreational modelling in estimating the benefit of coral reef programmes under threats such as climate change.
The above mentioned results were obtained from a recent EU Commission-Funded Seventh Framework (FP7) Project, entitled "Risks of global warming for the case of coral reef ecosystems in developing countries (BIOCORE)", a Marie Curie fellowship, coordinated by FEEM.
Arrow, K., Solow, R., Portney, P.R., Leamer, E.E., Radner, R. and Schuman,H. (1993), Report of the NOAA panel on contingent valuation. NOAA. (Accessed on 2 May 2013).
EU Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) project. Risks of global warming: the case of coral reef ecosystems in developing countries (BIOCORE), contract no. PIEF-GA-2009-253724. (Accessed on 28 September 2013)
Hoegh-Guldberg O. 1999. Coral bleaching, climate change and the future of the world's coral reefs. Review, Marine and Freshwater Research, 50, 839-866.
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). 2006. Marine and coastal ecosystems and human well-being: a synthesis report based on the findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya, 76 pp.


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Top 10 Richest Rappers In The Entire World
9. Lil Wayne
Lil Wayne has the same net worth as Snoop Dogg, which is kind of scary since he doesn't have nearly the same amount of talent. He did a stint in Riker's and has had numerous hoax reports about his death. He is a well known lover of the Sizzurp and has a ton of grills for any occasion.


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