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2014 Conference
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Conference Agenda
- Dr. Jill Long Thompson, Chair of the Board and CEO of the Farm Credit Administration
- Doug O'Brien, USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development
- Michael R. Taylor, J.D., FDA Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine
- Beyond David and Goliath
- Challenges and Opportunities of Multi-Channel Food Hub Sales
- Reduce Error, Retain People: Five Steps to an Effective Staff Training System
Food Hub Models
- Beyond David and Goliath
- Food Banks as Food Hubs
- Meaty Challenges: Strategies for Food Hubs Interested in Marketing and Distributing Proteins
- Multi-Stakeholder Benefits and Opportunities
- Selling a Lot Without Selling Out
- Schools as a Market
- A Tale of Three Cities: Sustainable Hub Models for Food Access
- The Trap of Trying to be All Things to All People: The Need to Specialize and Do It Well
- Getting the Margin to Meet the Mission
- Building Networks that Work: Cultivating Networks to Support Food Hub Commerce
- Cutting Edge State Level Initiatives for Food Hub Development
- Economic Impacts of Food Hubs
- Finding Common Measures for the Nation's Food Hubs
- Measures that Matter
- Optimizing Your Triple Bottom Line
- Towards More Sustainable Agriculture
- The Journey of Healthy Regional Food Systems: North Carolina
Food Access
- Food Banks as Food Hubs
- Healthy Food, Healthy Economies
- A Tale of Three Cities: Sustainable Hub Models for Food Access
- Food Hub Business Structures: Knowing your Choices, Understanding their Implications
- Challenges and Opportunities of Multi-Channel Food Hub Sales
- STOP! Don't Build That Hub!
Business Planning
- Food Hub Business Structures: Knowing your Choices, Understanding their Implications
- Getting to the Bottom of Triple Bottom Line Businesses: Exploring Food Hub Financial Viability
- Legal Tools for Food Hubs
- Optimizing Your Triple Bottom Line
- Quality Management Systems - A Cooperative Approach to Food Safety for Food Hubs and Farmers
- STOP! Don't Build That Hub!
- The Business Landscape: Defining Your Unique Position in the Market
- Customer Journey Mapping: Building Customer Relationships to Increase Sales, Service, and Impact
- Setting Goals and Tracking Progress: Keys to Improving Food Hub Viability
- Strengthening Small Farms and Food Hub Operations: Bootcamp for Financial Success
Funding and Financing
- Food Hub Financing 101: Introduction to Financing and Business Diligence for Food Hubs
- Food Hub Financing 201: Shark Tank – Financiers Evaluate Real Food Hub Businesses
- Using Integrated Capital to Change Food Systems
- Access to Capital
- Strengthening Small Farms and Food Hub Operations: Bootcamp for Financial Success
- Frozen
- Meaty Challenges: Strategies for Food Hubs Interested in Marketing and Distributing Proteins
- Processing at Food Hubs
- Local Demand Paradox: Why the Largest Customers Do Not Buy, and What You Can Do About It
- Schools as a Market
- What Do Buyers Want?
Food Safety
- Quality Management Systems - A Cooperative Approach to Food Safety for Food Hubs and Farmers
- Food Safety Planning for Food Hub Managers
- Responding to the Market Demand for Safe Food
Dr. Jill Long Thompson, Chair of the Board and CEO of the Farm Credit Administration
(recording unavailable)
Doug O'Brien, USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development
Audio: MP3
Michael R. Taylor, J.D., FDA Deputy Commissioner for Foods and Veterinary Medicine
Audio: MP3
The Journey of Healthy Regional Food Systems: North Carolina
Moderator: Shorlette Ammons, NCSU Center for Environmental Farming Systems
Presenters: Nancy Creamer, NCSU Center for Environmental Farming Systems; Benjamin Filippo, Carolina Farm Stewardship Association; Savi Horne, Land Loss Prevention Project; Scott Marlow, Rural Advancement Foundation International; Jennifer MacDougall, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina
Some question whether the demand for local and regional foods is a fad that will soon fade away. When in fact, the growing desire for locally produced foods that are healthy for us and for the environment are deeply rooted in efforts for a more sustainable agriculture, strong and stable regional economies, and greater social equity. This session will tell the story of healthy regional food systems development in North Carolina, take a look at where it is going, and the role food hubs have played and may play in the future. Through the eyes of the North Carolina experience, this session will highlight three generations of organizations working in food and agriculture to better help us understand where the recent growth in regional food systems has come from, where it is going, and perhaps how to lead it into the next generation.
Audio: MP3
Getting the Margin to Meet the Mission
Moderator: Gary Matteson, Farm Credit Council
Presenters: Sarah Lloyd, Wisconsin Food Hub Cooperative; Sean Buchanan, Black River Produce; Tony Serrano, ALBA Organics; Kathy Nyquist, New Venture Advisors; Jim Matson; Matson Consulting; Jim Slama, FamilyFarmed.org
Financial viability is an important criterion for any business, and food hubs are no different. What IS different is that food hubs feel a responsibility to foster change and create opportunity where it did not exist before, whether it is through increased market share for local businesses, greater social equity in local communities, better environmental stewardship in local producers, or all three. But how can these social enterprises create a virtuous cycle in which greater revenue drives greater impact? What scale do they need to reach? What key lessons have we learned about infrastructure, staffing, finance, and marketing that can help increase revenue, reduce costs, and contribute to the mission? In this session we will take a look at the operating strategies of different food hubs around the country, and explore how increasing financial viability can make their desired community impact become a reality that can be sustained in the coming years.
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Cutting Edge State Level Initiatives for Food Hub Development
Moderator: John Fisk, Wallace Center
Presenters: Nancy Nyquist, Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development; Marty Gerencer, Morse Marketing; Rich Pirog, MSU Center for Regional Food Systems; Franco Naccarato, The Greenbelt Fund; Karl Maiterth, Canadian Ministry of Agriculture and Food; Marty Broccoli, Cornell University; Todd Erling, Hudson Valley Agribusiness Development Corporation
A number of state governments are investing in food hub development, often times in partnership with foundations or other civic organizations. Investment at this level offers expanded possibilities for hubs, farmers, and others intent expanding the economic and social impacts of regional food systems. This panel will focus on what motivated these government offices, what it took to seal the deal, and what roles the states are playing in food hub development. Three examples will be presented with panelists from New York State, Michigan and from Ontario. Two perspectives from each state offer an inside government and outside government view of how these pioneering efforts were initiated, how they were championed within government, implementation and roles of the state and its partners, and what results are we seeing at this point. The goal of this session is to illustrate this innovation and share results so others who consider pursuing this strategy in their home state have some guidance on what is possible and how to achieve it.
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The Business Landscape: Defining Your Unique Position in the Market
Facilitator: Kathy Nyquist, New Venture Advisors
This business training, designed for early-stage companies and those familiar with business planning, will cover key planning concepts and frameworks, including defining your value proposition, analyzing your market and competition, and brand foundations. Participants will learn to better define their offering, their customers and the industry in which they compete, know why they will win and have the tools to convey these understandings clearly to customers and stakeholders.
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Setting Goals and Tracking Progress: Keys to Improving Food Hub Viability
Facilitators: Jesse Singerman, Prairie Ventures; Ela Chapin, Vermont Farm and Forest Viability Program; Robin Morris, Mad River Food Hub; Laura Edwards-Orr and Angel Mendez, Red Tomato; Darrow Vanderburgh-Wertz, Wholesome Wave Investments; Jessica Griffen, Green Mountain Farm-to-School
Learn how to increase your control over the key drivers and success factors you need to achieve business viability and your long-term strategic goals. Join other food hub staff and managers, and future operators, to improve your business management skills and increase your ability to track food hub growth and success. Hear from actual practitioners on how a good business plan comes together and why each part of it is important. In small break-out groups with content experts leading the discussion, explore two of the following topics of your choice in depth: financial management, operational planning and management, marketing and sales, or managing with data and metrics.
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Customer Journey Mapping: Building Customer Relationships to Increase Sales, Service, and Impact
Facilitators: Noah Fulmer and Erika Block, Local Orbit
As a food hub operator, both farmers and buyers are your customers. Grow your food hub sales by looking at your farmers' and buyers' experiences piece by piece, including processes for sales, customers' first impressions, customer service, product engagement and customer experience. Participants will walk away from this hands-on workshop with an action plan for improving customer engagement with farmers, chefs, institutions and grocery store customers.
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Strengthening Small Farms and Food Hub Operations: Bootcamp for Financial Success
Facilitators: Gary Matteson, Farm Credit Council; Erin Pirro, Farm Credit East; Chad Gerencer, Morse Marketing Connections
Financial stability and risk management comes from understanding your position, and planning from a solid base of clear-eyed self-assessment. Working from the results of the 2013 Food Hub Benchmarking study, we will show how to cut straight to the fundamental financial and business metrics – the "vital signs" of your business – to assist you with management decisions. The presentation will be complemented by an activity to allow you to put knowledge into practice by working with the tools in small group sessions. Food hub success depends on the economic viability of farmer-suppliers. This session will also provide small farm financial literacy resources you or a partner organization can use to support farmer success. There will be an opportunity for one to one technical assistance during the session as well from Farm Credit and other resource providers.
Reduce Error, Retain People: Five Steps to an Effective Staff Training System
Facilitator: Peggy da Silva, Consulting for Community
(offered Wed AM and PM) Competent and engaged staff are key to any successful operation, but too often staff training is unplanned, incomplete, or unclear. This training will build your capacity to develop effective staff training systems by learning five key components and how to apply them to your own situation. At the end of the training each participant will have a framework on which to build "back home".
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Food Safety Planning for Food Hub Managers
Facilitator: Michelle Pfannensteil, Dirigo Quality Meats
This workshop will walk food hub managers through the landscape of food safety planning. Topics covered will include: food safety regulations, how we get to hazards from risks, and how to use written food safety plans to create culture of food safety at your food hub. Participants will work together in exercises on process planning, risk assessment and hazard analysis. Participants will leave knowing the steps of food safety planning and how to implement them at their food hub.
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Facilitators: Carol Peppe Hewett, Slow Money NC; Kate Danaher, RSF Social Finance; Alex Linkow, Fair Food Fund; Courtney Tellefsen, The Produce Box; Steve Peters, Sandhills Farm to Table; Lance Loethen, The Reinvestment Fund
Beginning with an introduction to the large variety of capital options, a panel of investors will share their unique perspectives on how they have assisted development of local / regional food systems. Small group time will allow digging in deeper to the capital strategies most relevant to you. You will also hear how several hubs were able to leverage capital to various ends.
Responding to the Market Demand for Safe Food
Facilitators: Steve Warshawer, NGFN Food Safety Coordinator; Michelle Pfannensteil, Dirigo Quality Meats; Donna Burke-Fonda, USDA AMS; Jim Slama, FamilyFarmed.org; Heidi Weiderquist, Chipotle Mexican Grill
This training opens with a national buyer laying out their expectations about safe food. In response to this market challenge, we will demonstrate how to incorporate food safety into a business plan, including introductions to Group GAP (a novel, collective approach to food safety) and to a national GAP and wholesale readiness program for growers.
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Workshop Descriptions
Multi-Stakeholder Benefits and Opportunities
Moderator: Jim Matson, Matson Consulting
Panelists: Laura Theis, Idaho's Bounty Co-op; Diane Chapeta, Fifth Season Co-op; Sandi Kronick, Eastern Carolina Organics; Steve Peters, Sandhills Farm to Table
A multi-stakeholder food hub balances the needs of three stakeholder classes: the producers, the consumers, and food hub workers. This workshop will focus on the challenges, incentive structures, and the information flow and sharing associated with multi-stakeholder food hubs.
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Panelists: Helen Dombalis, National Farm to School Network; Dave Prather, Western Montana Growers Coop; Linda Mallers, FarmLogiX; Kathy Lawrence, School Food FOCUS
Schools provide a perfect place to increase access to fresh, local foods for children in our communities, however, getting significant quantities of such food into cafeterias often requires a food hub to manage logistics. Hear two very different examples of successful, lucrative farm to school programs, and learn about many different resources available to to support your success in this market.
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Towards More Sustainable Agriculture
Moderator: Devona Bell Sherwood, Wallace Center at Winrock International
Panelists: Nancy Creamer, Center for Environmental Farming Systems; Daniel Doyle, Mississippi Sustainable Agriculture Network; Leila Wolfrum, Company Shops Market; Lesley Sykes, Red Tomato; Jesse Rye, Farm Fresh Rhode Island; Sara Clow, Grow Food Carolina; Chris Hartman, Headwater Food Hub
How can hubs get more sustainable product into the marketplace? A panel, including representatives from some hubs who are finding success moving the needle, will share some successes. Other panelists will share ideas of some concrete ways hubs can work to improve their supply of green food. Bring your challenges – our panel will brainstorm with you about how your hub can increase the volume of healthful and green food you sell.
Getting to the Bottom of Triple Bottom Line Businesses: Exploring Food Hub Financial Viability
Co-Moderators/Presenters: Jim Matson, Matson Consulting; Micaela Fischer, Michigan State University
Lead Discussants: Kathy Nyquist, New Venture Advisors; Erin Pirro, Farm Credit East; Darrow Vanderburgh-Wertz, Wholesome Wave Investments
This session will offer participants a "deep dive" into what it takes to run a financially viable food hub operation. We will start by presenting a model of a financially viable food hub, which will be critiqued by several of the foremost experts on food hubs. With participation for those attending encouraged, the intent of this session is to get the bottom of these triple bottom-line businesses.
Moderator: Ela Chapin, Vermont Farm and Forest Viability Program
Panelists: Ann Karlen, Fair Food; Karen Simons, Local Economies Project; Todd Erling, Hudson Valley AgriBusiness Development Corp.; Lilian Brislen, University of Kentucky
Successful food hubs have so many benefits to farmers, communities, the planet, and the economy that it's no wonder that so many groups are interested in starting one in their area. But consider that an UNsuccessful hub can cause great damage. This session will challenge you to pause before starting a hub, and suggest some answers to questions such as: Why do hubs fail? How can one determine if a hub is truly warranted in an area? If not a hub, then how can a group still make positive, market-based and social changes to the local food system? This session is especially for hubs in the planning stages, and for values-based funders and financers looking to make the most effective investments.
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Using Integrated Capital to Change Food Systems
Moderator: Haile Johnston, Common Market
Participants: Kate Danaher, RSF Social Finance; Linda Jo Doctor, WK Kellog Foundation; Michael Roberts, The 11th Hour Project; Mailee Walker, Claneil Foundation
A layered capital approach is sometimes required to create an appropriate funding strategy while also meeting investors' risk/return needs. In this session, explore how different funders – foundations and intermediaries – came together with different types of capital to support the growth of a food hub. This session will focus on the individual decisions made by each party around capital type, risk, and mission fit, as well as the greater impact made by working together.
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Moderator: Jim Slama, FarmilyFarmed.org
Panelists: Heidi Weiderquist, Chipotle Mexican Grill; Bradley Austin, Whole Foods Market; Jeff Gorelick, Foster-Caviness
A variety of large buyers representing several sectors (restaurant chain, hospital, produce distributors) will give you first hand insight into what it takes to sell to them. What do the various buyers require for food safety? How does invoicing work? What technology is required? What is the minimum volume? Do they require contracts? Can they get a buy local / sustainable product at a premium price point? Answers to these questions and more.
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Selling a Lot Without Selling Out
Moderator: John Fisk, Wallace Center at Winrock International
Panelists: Dennis Derryck, Corbin Hill Food Project; Bu Nygrens, Veritable Vegetable; Sandi Kronick, Eastern Carolina Organics
As thin-margin businesses, food hubs are under tremendous pressure to compromise their values to stay in business. This discussion will dig deeply into how three hubs at different sizes have been able to steadily scale up their operations while maintaining their core values-based mission.
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Panelists: Becca Jablonski, Cornell University; Rich Pirog, Michigan State University
A recently completed USDA-Cornell project developed a method to evaluate the economic and farm-level impacts of food hubs (or proposed food hubs). Using a case study to illustrate the method, we show how to evaluate the potential of a hub to impact farms and communities, as well as how to make the case to economic developers/funders using more traditional 'job creation' or 'economic multiplier' language.
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Panelists: Haile Johnston, Common Market; Jan Tusick, Mission Mountain Food Enterprise Center; John Waite, Western Mass. Food Processing Center
Providing affordable frozen produce to school, hospital, and university kitchens is necessary to increase local produce procurement by institutions. Three hubs will share its stories of struggle and success in developing a product line of local, sustainably-grown frozen produce for institutional sale – an attempt to provide year-round local product while maintaining its inherent value.
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A Tale of Three Cities: Sustainable Hub Models for Food Access
Panelists: Carol Coren, Cornerstone Ventures LLC; Sharon Cech, Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College
How can food hubs address urban community needs such as food access and job creation while maintaining solvency? Food hub business developers with experience developing, building and capitalizing food hubs will share insights into three projects located in different regions of the country, representing different phases of food hub development. This interactive workshop will feature a combination of short presentations, group discussions, and evaluation of best practices.
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Quality Management Systems - A Cooperative Approach to Food Safety for Food Hubs and Farmers
Panelists: Mark Ames, SQF; Donna Burke-Fonda, USDA; Steve Warshawer, NGFN Food Safety Coordinator
All buyers from food hubs, from consumers to institutions, have high standards of safety and quality - indeed that is a primary reason for buying local. Food hubs, as businesses in the middle of the transaction must ensure that their diverse suppliers are able to meet the buyers' standards, and perhaps government standards as the Food Safety Modernization Act goes into effect. Hold on to your hats as we show you how lessons from manufacturing can be effectively applied to food hub operations, including Group GAP - a cooperative approach to food safety.
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Moderator: Ann Karlen, Fair Food Philadelphia
Panelists: John Waite, Western MA Food Processing Center; Robin Morris, Mad River Food Hub; Sarah Waring, Center for an Agricultural Economy
Operators from three New England food hubs will share farmer/producer, foodservice, and hub perspectives on the benefits and pitfalls of processing as part of a food hub's business model. They will also share how a regional processing Community of Practice has benefitted all involved.
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Challenges and Opportunities of Multi-Channel Food Hub Sales
Moderator: Amy McCann, Local Food Marketplace
Panelists: Laura Theis, Local Food Marketplace; Neil Stauffer, Penn's Corner Farm Alliance; Jesse Rye and/or Hannah Mellion, Farm Fresh Rhode Island
Sales channel diversity increases business complexity, but when managed well reduces food hub risk and can increase food hub profits. Learn the pros and cons of each customer segment (including restaurants, grocery stores, institutions, convenience and neighborhood stores, and consumers), how to serve and staff each segment effectively, and manage inventory, sales, and distribution.
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Meaty Challenges: Strategies for Food Hubs Interested in Marketing and Distributing Proteins
Moderator: Casey McKissick
Panelists: Jennifer Curtis, Tina Prevatte, Firsthand Foods; Evan Smith, Cherry Capital Foods; Sean Buchanan, Black River Produce; Lin Peterson, Locals Seafood
Panelists with experience in marketing and distributing red meat, poultry, and seafood will discuss a range of marketing, pricing and efficiency strategies, including selling by the piece, purchasing whole animals, and adding processing capacity to food hub operations. This session will also explore the opportunities and challenges specific to scaling sales of meat and seafood, including supply side scheduling, whole animal utilization, inventory management, and food safety.
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Finding Common Measures for the Nation's Food Hubs
Panelists: Shanna Ratner, Jackie LeBlanc, Yellow Wood Associates
In an effort to develop a common set of metrics for food hubs to track the contributions they are making at the community level, the Wallace Center partnered with Yellow Wood Associates to research four potential common measures: 1) food access; 2) food hub investment by federal and private sources; 3) increased economic activity and market access for small- and mid-sized producers; and 4) increased articulation and understanding health-related outcomes. Yellow Wood Associates will present stories about how food hubs are making impacts in these areas and attendees will have the opportunity to weigh in on whether a common set of metrics is useful and identify other important measures.
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Moderator: Mitch Gruber, Foodlink
Panelists: Leona Davis, Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona; Sharon Thornberry, Oregon Food Bank; Kathryn Strickland, Food Bank of North Alabama
Like food hubs, food banks exist to bridge gaps in the food system. This panel will discuss the unique role that food banks can play in providing food hub infrastructure and supporting community actions to build a resilient food system. It will also examine specific examples of food banks shifting their model from emergency service providers to regional food hubs.
- Food Bank of North Alabama - Video and a description of their food hub project
Healthy Food, Healthy Economies
Panelists: Allison Hagey, PolicyLink; Kate Fitzgerald, Fair Food Network; Eugene Kim, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition; Ellen Vollinger, Food Research and Action Center
Food hubs across the country are looking to increase access to healthy, affordable food for all communities. This session addresses current trends in policy and government spending that supports low-income access to food through hubs. We will also speak about how one can influence policy at local, state and federal levels.
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Panelists: Laura Edwards-Orr, Angel Mendez, and Lesley Sykes, Red Tomato
Many new food hubs are contemplating extremely expensive infrastructure investments – warehouse space, trucks, refrigerators, etc. Is there another way? Red Tomato has no assets, yet is moving millions of dollars of local foods into a variety of markets, and getting a good price for their farmers. They strive to mimic elements of the industrial global food system's high efficiencies without compromising their values and mission so farmers, food hubs, distributors and buyers all win.
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Building Networks that Work: Cultivating Networks to Support Food Hub Commerce
Co-Facilitators: Rich Pirog, MSU Center for Regional Food Systems; Marty Gerencer, Morse Marketing Connections
Panelists: Kathlyn Terry, Appalachian Sustainable Development; Pam Roy, Farm to Table – New Mexico; Ann Karlen, Fair Food Philly
Food hub networks are informing and accelerating the work of regional food systems throughout the country. Learn how the Michigan Food Hub Network is building the capacity for regional food hub commerce in Michigan and their early successes and lessons learned. This session will also share early lessons from three nascent regional networks, painting a fuller picture on commonalities of network building.
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The Trap of Trying to be All Things to All People: The Need to Specialize and Do It Well
Moderator: Steve Saltzman, Self-Help
Panelists: Sandi Kronick, Eastern Carolina Organics; Tony Serrano, ALBA; Kristen Suokko, Local Food Hub; Haile Johnston, Common Market
Many food hubs are trying to be, and do, everything, spreading themselves too thin. Learn from the leaders of four successful food hubs as they describe some of the paths they have chosen NOT to pursue, and why they have chosen to follow others. This panel will dig deep into a few critical choices these hubs have made as a way of exploring the tension between breadth and specialization.
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Presenter: Lauren Handel, Foscolo & Handel, PLLC
In this session food hub managers and staff will learn about legal tools that are key to the success of a food hub business, including choosing a business structure, protecting and leveraging intellectual property, and basic principles of contract law. Participants will also learn ways they can plan ahead to optimize eligibility for small business exemptions from the upcoming Food Safety Modernization Act regulations.
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Panelists: Shanna Ratner, Jackie LeBlanc, Yellow Wood Associates; NGFN Food Hub Collaboration Study Hubs, TBD
Learn how food hubs have used You Get What You Measure®, a systems-based analysis to identify their priority measures that will tell them if they are making progress towards their goals. In the first part of this workshop participants will see examples of useful measures for making progress toward infrastructure, marketing and food hub viability goals. In the second part, participants will draft their own internal and external goals and learn how to frame indicators of progress.
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Food Hub Business Structures: Knowing your Choices, Understanding their Implications
Panelists: Ben Tettlebaum, Rhodes Fellow, Conservation Law Foundation; Joanna Hamilton, CLF Ventures
Understanding the differences between nonprofits, corporations, limited liability companies, and other entities involves more than just filling out the right forms. It determines how food hubs can raise capital, interact with employees and customers, manage risk and liability, and much more. This session will walk participants through how to choose the right business entity for their operation. Using real-world examples, panelists will illustrate how this important choice can lead to terrifying or fantastic results.
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Food Hub Financing 101: Introduction to Financing and Business Diligence for Food Hubs
Panelists: Darrow Vanderburgh-Wertz, Wholesome Wave Investments; Daniel Wallace, CEI
This session will teach food hub operators the basics of the financing process so that they can be better prepared as they seek debt and equity investments. The workshop is also suited to investors and funders interested in learning a framework for assessing a food hub's investment potential. The panelists will introduce a new Toolkit for assessing the business strength of food hubs, and their readiness for investment.
**The lessons from Financing 101 will be put into practice with a real-time evaluation of two food hubs' financing potential in Financing 201.**
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Food Hub Financing 201: Shark Tank – Financiers Evaluate Real Food Hub Businesses
Moderator: Gary Matteson, Farm Credit Council
Sharks: Gray Harris, CEI Maine; Tom Cosgrove, Farm Credit East; Erin Pirro, Farm Credit East
Bait: Susie Sutphin, Tahoe Food Hub; Tom McDougal, 4P Foods
This session provides a window into the financing process with a real-time evaluation of two food hubs for investment, who will present their businesses and potential financing needs to a panel of seasoned loan officers and underwriters. Participants will come away with deeper understanding of what makes a solid investable business.
**Food Hub Financing 101 provides an introduction to financing and business diligence that will help participants fully engage in Financing 201. **
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Local Demand Paradox: Why the Largest Customers Do Not Buy, and What You Can Do About It
Presenters: Kathy Nyquist, New Venture Advisors; Ron Cropper, Resource Group
This is one of the biggest surprises in the industry: local demand is off the charts, yet the largest customers (Sysco, Sodexo) are not buying. Why? Learn secrets for success for working with the giants.
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Optimizing Your Triple Bottom Line
Presenters: Nicole Mason, Veritable Vegetable; Sean Buchanan, Black River Produce
Two veteran food hubs will share ways to make hub operations more environmentally sustainable, have a positive impact on the community (including the hub employees) and beat the traditional distributors by using a value chain approach to be nimble. The panelists will focus on clear, practical ways they accomplish these goals, which you might adapt to your operation.


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Travelers will find completely redesigned, expanded restrooms at the west end of Atlantic City International Airport. The project was completed December 9th with the opening of the mens room.
It began with gutting the old mens room and redesigning it to become the new womens room, while the existing womens room remained open. In the meantime, men were redirected to the east end of the terminal.
The new complex not only features new tile walls and all new plumbing fixtures, but it also is equipped with baby care facilities. And there is a separate companion bathroom, where caretakers or parents can accompany a person of the other sex in privacy.
This is just one more step in our constant effort to make traveling via ACY more pleasant and more convenient for our patrons, said Airport Director Tom Rafter.
He pointed out that the South Jersey Transportation Authority recently broke ground on an 18-month project that will install improved baggage handling and security equipment. It includes a second escalator conduit creating a better pattern for passenger traffic by allowing the existing escalators near the security screening installation to become one-way up to the loading gates while the new escalators near the baggage claim carousels will be one-way down for arriving passengers.

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New versions of BabelPad and BabelMap that support Unicode 6.0 have been released today, and can be downloaded directly :
- BabelPad.zip (simply unzip the file BabelPad.exe and run it from wherever you like)
- BabelMap.zip (simply unzip the file BabelMap.exe and run it from wherever you like)
This screenshot of BabelMap is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA-3.0) by Andrew West.
Important Technical Note
BabelPad and BabelMap were scheduled for release on 11 October, to coincide with the release of Unicode 6.0 on that day, but their release was delayed due to a Blue Screen of Death crash that occured with the beta versions of both BabelMap and BabelPad when the Windows function ExtTextOutW is called within a path bracket, and the selected font is Symbola font version 6.00, and the ETO_GLYPH_INDEX flag is set, and the glyph index passed to the function corresponds to U+1F5FD STATUE OF LIBERTY (this problem only occurs in BabelPad when in Simple Rendering mode, which bypasses Microsoft's Uniscribe rendering engine). The glyph for U+1F5FD in the Symbola font has a mega-complex glyph outline (which oddly enough is the glyph for an angel, whilst the glyph for the Statue of Liberty is actually at U+FFFED), which probably results in a buffer overrun somewhere within Windows GDI. In order to work around this problem I have had to rewrite, refactor and retest core sections of the source code.
The newly released versions of BabelPad and BabelMap fix the problem described above, and should be safe for use with the Symbola font under normal usage scenarios, but the glyphs for U+1F5FB (MOUNT FUJI) through U+1F5FF (MOYAI) are rendered very slowly because of their extreme complexity (several thousand points for each glyph), resulting in sluggish response in BabelMap when scrolling through the Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs block, and potentially extremely sluggish performance in BabelPad.
Moreover, the Symbola font may still cause a Blue Screen of Death crash (reporting an infinite loop) on some systems when rendering U+1F5FD STATUE OF LIBERTY at high point sizes with standard Windows applications such as Notepad (my test case is to set Notepad to use the Symbola font at 72 points, and then paste in a string comprising twelve instances of U+1F5FD — my XP machine then blue screens, although my Vista machine is OK). This general Windows-level vulnerability to Symbola version 6.00 means that BabelMap may still blue screen if you insert multiple instances of U+1F5FD into the BabelMap edit buffer, and BabelPad may still blue screen if you attempt to display a document with multiple instances of U+1F5FD at a large point size in Complex Rendering mode (i.e. using Uniscribe). For this reason, you are strongly advised not to install Symbola version 6.00, but if you do install this font I cannot be responsible for any loss or damage incurred due to a system crash when running either BabelPad or BabelMap.
BabelPad Enhancements
- BabelPad now emulates the Alt-X functionality found in Microsoft Word and WordPad (position the caret after a hexadecimal code pont value and hit Alt-X to convert it to the corresponding Unicode character; and position the caret after a Unicode character and hit Alt-X to convert it to its corresponding hexadecimal code point value)
- Convert Unicode character names to their corresponding Unicode character (due to the difficulty of disambiguating strings such as "bell symbol for bell with cancellation stroke" where "bell", "bell symbol", "symbol for bell" and "bell with cancellation stroke" are all Unicode character names, the selected text must be an exact Unicode name or formal alias, and not a partial name or a longer text string containing a Unicode name; although you can use the contextual convert utility to convert structured data such as <UnicodeName>Vulgar Fraction Three Quarters</UnicodeName> to <UnicodeName>¾</UnicodeName>) ["Convert : Unicode Name to Character" from the main menu or the right-click menu]
- Import Shift-JIS encoded documents with emoji extensions defined by DoCoMo, KDDI or SoftBank [select "Shift-JIS plus DoCoMo/KDDI/SoftBank emoji" from the "Encoding" dropdown list of the "Open File" dialog]
- Convert Han ideographs to their pinyin or jyutping readings (not perfect as characters with multiple readings are converted to a slash-separated list of readings, even when one reading is considerably more common than another, but this feature may be useful for some users in some situations)
- Title casing options for either Script Neutral title casing (e.g. The Owl And The Pussy-Cat Went To Sea) or English title casing (e.g. The Owl and the Pussy-Cat Went to Sea) ["Options : Title Casing" from the menu]
- The default script colours when colour coding by script is selected ["Options : Display Colours : Colour Code by Script" from the menu] have been harmonized with the default script colours used for BabelMap, and an option to reset all script colours to their default values has been added to the "Configure Script Colours" dialog (this needs to be selected for the new default colours to be used).
BabelMap Enhancements
- Script colours when colour coding by script has been selected are now user configurable ["Options : Customize Colours..." from the menu]
- When colour coding of characters has been selected, the character with focus is no longer highlighted in red
- The character with focus in the character grid is now indicated by its cell having an inset appearance
- Option to rotate of not rotate the glyphs for vertical scripts (Mongolian and Phags-pa) where the selected font has rotated glyphs for vertical layout (in previous versions of BabelMap the glyphs are always rotated) ["Options : Other Options : Rotate Vertical Scripts" from the menu]
- The Export Font Glyphs utility has been improved to ensure glyphs are not accidentally clipped in some cases
- The Han Radical Lookup utility has been updated to cover CJK-D (now covers all all 74,616 CJK unified ideographs)
- The Advanced Character Search utility now has an option to only give the total number of characters matching the selected criteria, and not list them all (this makes searches which return a large number of results, for example when querying how many characters were introduced in a particular version of Unicode, very fast)


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Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly usually delivers the headlines, but on Tuesday, July 23, she delivered something else — a baby boy! Kelly and husband Doug Brunt welcomed their third child together, fellow Fox News anchor Shannon Bream announced during the Friday, July 26, broadcast of America Live.
"We just got details about Megyn Kelly's big baby news…Here is the picture," Bream said, as a photo of the adorable newborn flashed across the screen. "Say hello to Thatcher Bray Brunt."
"Megyn and Doug's third child was born at 8 pounds, 2 ounces. He has brown hair, blue eyes; he is gorgeous," Bream continued. "Mom says the best description of him — and this is a quote — 'Totally awesome.' Mom and dad are thrilled, and so is Thatcher's big brother Yates and his big sister Yardley." (Yates and Yardley are 3 and 2 years old, respectively.)
"Congratulations to Megyn, Yates, Yardley, and Thatcher from myself, the America Live team, and everyone here at Fox," Bream added. "Many more pictures when Megyn returns, so you'll have to stay tuned for those."
Kelly, 42, announced the news of her third pregnancy on air in February. "Every Valentine's Day we always struggle to find just the right gift, and yet this year I believe that we found the perfect solution," she said on Feb. 14. "Happily, Doug and I are expecting another baby."
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Area items of interest
Benefit to support 7-year-old
A barbecue benefit sponsored by Southwood Memorial Christian Church is planned for Friday for Emily Dunham, 7-year-old daughter of Sam and Kim Dunham. Emily was diagnosed with Type I Juvenile Diabetes when she was 4 years old. She has an insulin pump but still has to check her sugar levels several times a day and at night.
The benefit is raising money to help the family buy a Diabetic Alert Dog for Emily, which will be able to determine a sugar level change 20 to 30 minutes before it happens. The cost of the dog is $25,000.
The committee will be peeling potatoes in the Southwood Church Family Life Center Wednesday. To help, show up at 3 p.m. with your own peeler.
Barbecue chicken or pork plates are $7 each, available Friday at these pick-up stations: Woodman Community Center, Southwood Memorial Christian Church, Wheat Swamp Christian Church, Pink Hill Volunteer Fire Department, Deep Run VFD, Jackson Heights Piggly Wiggly, Piggly Wiggly at the Plaza, old Piggly Wiggly parking lot in La Grange, the Kinston-Lenoir County Visitors Center, Fuel Warehouse at Skinner�s Bypass and Fairfield Recreation Department.
An order of 10 or more plates at one location can be delivered by faxing the order to 252-522-2230 or emailing to email@example.com by Wednesday.
As an individual, business or organization, donate by making checks payable to Southwood Memorial Christian Church, 1027 N.C. Hwy 58 S., Kinston, NC 28504. Designate that the check is for the Emily Dunham benefit. For more information, call Wendy Robinson at 252-559-0852.
Hospital�s plans workshop
The Pastoral Care Department of Lenoir Memorial Hospital is offering a free, full day workshop Feb. 4 to help families and friends deal with life events that are so hard to understand.
�Where Is God When Bad Things Happen?� will be presented by Terry Wilson, chaplain and manager of Pastoral Care at the Medical University of South Carolina. Wilson has done extensive work in this area and has distinguished himself in how to help people in a cross cultural setting.
While everyone is welcomed, the target audience is pastors, health care professionals, community leaders and caregivers.
The workshop will be in the hospital auditorium on the lower level. Seating is limited so reserve a seat by calling 252-522-7131.


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QuarkEd caters for users of all ability levels. Each module contains a PDF guide as well as all of the supporting sample files that you will require to complete the module.
This module introduces you to some of the basic functionality of QuarkXPress. You will learn how to view and navigate through layouts, add and format text, import pictures, print a layout, and create tables. Once you master the material in this module, you'll be ready to move on to more advanced QuarkXPress features such as master pages, style sheets, Web layouts, image editing, PDF output, synchronization, Composition Zones®, and Job Jackets®.
The "QuarkXPress basics" module provides the information you need to do just about anything you want with QuarkXPress®. This module focuses on how to do things more quickly and efficiently. The lessons in this section show how to create automatic page elements (such as headers, footers, and page numbers) with master pages, how to store often-used page elements in libraries, how to create templates that streamline the process of creating new documents, how to use palette groups and palette sets to optimize the QuarkXPress user interface, and how to use XTensions® software to expand the capabilities of QuarkXPress.
Prerequisites: QuarkXPress Basics
The text on today's printed page looks much the same as it has since the first printing presses came into existence. However, the process of getting that text to the page has become easier and more versatile over time — and QuarkXPress® is one of the reasons why. QuarkXPress offers a wide variety of features for streamlining the production both of text-based documents and of design-centered pieces, with solid text-handling features that have stood the test of time, plus new features that allow you to take advantage of powerful new fonts.
QuarkXPress® simplifies the construction of page layouts by breaking them down into page elements such as text boxes, picture boxes, and lines. You can combine page elements in a layout, stack them in front of and behind one another, group them, and change their shapes. You can even put page elements onto invisible layers, so that those page elements can be hidden, shown, printed, or suppressed at the click of a button.
This module explains everything you need to know about working with page elements and making them interact with one another using stacking and layers.
Long documents present unique challenges — and QuarkXPress® includes features to meet those challenges. In this module, you'll learn how to combine several QuarkXPress projects into a book, and how to control page numbering and styles within that book. You'll learn how to create an automatic table of contents. And finally, you'll learn how to set up an automatically generated index.
With QuarkXPress®, you can apply transparency and automatic feathered drop shadows to pictures and text, and all items and text remain fully editable. In this module, you'll learn how to use these graphically dynamic features.
Anyone who works with printed color pieces is aware of the difficulty of creating a printed piece that matches the way the piece looks on a monitor. In this module, you'll learn about how QuarkXPress® handles color management.
QuarkXPress® lets you import picture files in a wide variety of formats, including popular formats such as TIFF, JPEG, and PNG — but that's only the beginning. You can use a clipping path built into an image to make the image interact with the text and layout, or create your own clipping path in QuarkXPress. You can use an image's alpha channel to fade the image seamlessly into the background. You can apply your own visual effects to imported pictures and see the results immediately, right there in the layout. You can even import a multilayer Adobe® Photoshop® file, and show and hide its layers without launching Photoshop.
Among the most popular formats for distributing information is PDF (Portable Document Format). A PDF file can contain searchable content and hyperlinks, and can be opened and printed on almost any platform, making PDF ideal for distributing information on the Web and a variety of other media.
To create a PDF file from most applications, a third-party tool such as Acrobat® Distiller® is required. However, with QuarkXPress, you can create PDF files directly from QuarkXPress®, with no third-party tools required
Many people are familiar with QuarkXPress® as the premier tool for producing print publications. However, you can also use QuarkXPress to create beautifully designed Web pages, complete with hyperlinks, rollovers, cascading menus, embedded Flash® graphics, and submittable forms — and you don't have to know a word of HTML to do it.
This module introduces you to Web layouts, which are a special kind of layout that you can export in HTML format. You will learn how to create hyperlinks, image maps, menus, forms, and rollovers; you'll learn how to configure text and pictures for use on the Web; you'll learn how to include interactive Flash content in your pages; and you'll learn how to intelligently convert a page that was created for print into a page that looks great on the Web.
Version 6 of QuarkXPress® introduced the concept of layouts and projects. Prior to version 6, a QuarkXPress file was a QuarkXPress "document," and it could contain only one series of same-sized pages. With version 6, "documents" became "projects," and projects were allowed to contain multiple layouts of different sizes, and even different types (Print or Web). Version 6 also introduced the concept of synchronized text, which helps you to maintain consistency among layouts, pages, or even different parts of the same page. Beginning with version 7, you can also synchronize text formatting, boxes, pictures, and more.
The concepts of multiple layouts and synchronization are not dependent on one another; you can use one without the other. However, they are grouped in this module because they work well together. The first lesson in this module provides an in-depth look at the concept of projects and layouts, and the second lesson shows you how to work with synchronization.
In most publishing environments, projects are created as a collaborative effort. Different people are responsible for different aspects of a layout: a writer writes the text, whereas a layout artist formats that text and controls its flow. Sometimes more than one person might need to work on a project at the same time; for example, a writer might need to work on the text of the story on the top of page four while a layout artist formats the story on the bottom half of the same page.
The Composition Zones® feature is designed to solve problems like this by allowing you to export a portion of a project as a separate file so someone else can work on it. With the Composition Zones feature, the writers of the stories on the top and bottom halves of page four can work on their stories simultaneously — and the copy editor can proof the story on page two while the layout artist formats the story on page six. If the writer of the story on the top half of page four is in a different country, the main layout artist can simply e-mail the project containing that writer's story to the writer, and continue working with the rest of the project while the writer works on the story.
This module consists of one lesson, which introduces the key aspects of the Composition Zones feature.
The term "job jacket" originally referred to the manila folder that would accompany a print job from the point when the specifications were laid out to the point when the finished job rolled off the press. Within one of these folders, each piece in the print job would have a job ticket containing such information as the job number and instructions, the page size and count, the colors to be used, the number of copies to be printed, and the cutting and binding instructions. For example, if a print job included a brochure and a direct mail piece, the job jacket for that job would have two job tickets.
The QuarkXPress® Job Jackets® feature serves many of the same purposes as these old-style job jacket folders. However, the capabilities of the Job Jackets feature go far beyond anything that could be accomplished on paper.
In this module, you will first see how to use a Job Jackets file to create a project. Next, you will apply the specifications in a Job Jackets file to an existing project, and you will use the evaluation rules built into the Job Jackets file to find and fix a problem in that project. Then you'll see how you can use Job Jackets to keep style sheets and other resources synchronized between different projects. Lastly, you'll see how to create and manage Job Jackets.
This set of exercises provides only a brief introduction to the Job Jackets feature. For more
in-depth information about this feature, see A Guide to QuarkXPress.
With Quark Interactive Designer, you can add background sound, interactive buttons, video, and animations to your multimedia projects.
In this module, you will see how easy it is to perform the following tasks with Interactive layouts:
Prerequisites: QuarkXPress Basics, Text and Typography
The digital publishing features in QuarkXPress let you create e-books in two formats:
The process of creating Blio eBooks and ePub e-books is very similar. The main difference is that there are some features available in the Blio eBook format that are not available in the ePub feature. For example, you can add various types of interactivity — including sound, video, and slideshows — to a layout that will exported as a Blio eBook. Both formats, however, support a viewing mode called reflow view, which makes it easy to read text.
If you export a layout as a Blio eBook, you can then sell that eBook through the Blio bookstore, assuming you meet their publishing requirements.
If you export a layout as an ePub e-book, you can make it available on e-readers such as the iPad®, Sony® Reader, and NOOK®. You can also submit ePub e-books to Amazon® for conversion to a format that can be delivered on the Kindle®.
In addition to providing you with the tools you need to create gorgeous, professional-quality layouts, QuarkXPress includes automation features that help you to craft your creations as quickly and easily as possible. The features described in this module are all designed to help you streamline your layout tasks, so that you can spend more time being creative and less time applying the same group of settings over and over.
AVE Publishing includes several components:
This module requires QuarkXPress 9.1 or later.
AVE Publishing Factory runs only on Mac OS.
You can do everything described in this module without having to purchase anything
other than QuarkXPress. However, to test an AVE Publishing app on an iPad and deploy an
AVE Publishing app to the Apple App Store, you must have an Apple iOS Developer account.
To publish an AVE Publishing app, you must purchase a template license. To release an AVE Publishing issue, you must purchase an issue license.
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There are so many acronyms for telephone services and links between data communications and telecommunications that it's hard to keep track of what's being offered. And with the many services available, it's that much harder to make knowledgeable and sensible recommendations to your customers. Let's take a look at some of the most popular links and services, with emphasis on the acronym and its definition.
ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line): A method of carrying high-speed traffic over existing copper twisted-pair wires. ADSL offers three channels: a high-speed (between 1.5 Mbps and 6.1 Mbps) down link from the carrier to the customer; a full-duplex data channel at 576Kbps; and a plain old telephone service (POTS) channel. A key feature of ADSL is that POTS is available even if the extra ADSL services fail.
ANI (Automatic Number Identification): A system that identifies the telephone number of the calling party for the call recipient. Most consumers know it as "Caller ID." When using a T-1 line, the ANI information also includes the geographic coordinates of the originating call's central office.
ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode). Using the same 53-kB packets as SMDS, ATM uses virtual circuits to transfer data at speeds of 34 Mbps to multiple gigabits per second.
DS-0 (A Digital Signal Level Zero): One of the 64,000-bps circuits in a T-1 or E-1 line. It consists of 8-bit frames transmitted at 8000 frames per second. The usable bit rate is often only 56,000 bps. DS-1, or Digital Signal Level One, is often used as a synonym for T-1, but it more precisely refers to the signaling and framing specifications of a T-1 line. See T-1.
DTMF (Dual-Tone Multi-Frequency): A description of the audio bleeps you hear when you dial a touch-tone telephone. Each row and each column of keys is assigned a separate frequency. A combination of row and column frequencies produces each key's frequency. For example, the second column's assigned fre quency is 1336 Hz, and the third row is 852 Hz. Pressing the number "8" generates both those tones. By decoding the two frequencies, the telephone company's central office, your PBX, or an interactive voice response system can detect which button was pressed. ("Touch-Tone" is AT&T's trademark for DTMF.)
Frame relay: This refers to a shared-bandwidth wide area network (WAN) based on a subset of High-level Data-link Control (HDLC) called LAP-D (link access procedure-D channel). It's designed to be carried over high-speed, high-accuracy links such as T-1 or the still emerging T-3. A 56-kbps line is the most common implementation. Individual frames can vary in size, but they're usually 4096 bytes. Users reserve a specific data rate called the CIR (committed information rate), but they can attempt to burst data at higher rates. Extra frames are discarded if the carrier's network doesn't have sufficient capacity. HDSL (High Bit-Rate Digital Subscriber Line): This circuit offers a full-duplex 784-kbps connection over two twisted pairs. HDSL can carry either a full T-1 connection (over the two twisted pairs) or a fractional T-1 connection over a single twisted pair of wires.
ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network): A telephone system service that provides access to both the public-switched telephone network and packet-switched services (such as X.25 and frame relay). ISDN offers two types of channels: B (bearer), which are 64-kbps voice channels, and D (delta), which are channels for setup, coordination, and control. Telephone companies offer ISDN in two main varieties: basic rate interface (BRI), which contains two B channels and an 8-kbps D channel, and primary rate interface (PRI), which has 23 B channels and a 64-kbps D channel.
IVR (Interactive Voice Response): The basic voice-mail system that can decode DTMF signals, which is how your call can be routed without the aid of a real human being.
PBX (Private Branch Exchange): A telephone switch used within a business or other enterprise, as opposed to the switches used at a public telecommunication service provider's central office (CO). PBXs might offer basic telephone service, some level of computer-telephony integration (CTI), voice mail, or other features. When you dial within your company, the PBX provides the dial tone; when you dial 8 or 9 for an outside line, the CO provides the dial tone.
SMDS (Switched Multi-megabit Data Services): Using a connectionless networking plan, each SMDS packet has its own address and does not require a virtual circuit. Proposed speeds are from 1.5 Mbps to 45 Mbps using a fixed-length packet of 53 KB. Many regional carriers are beginning to offer this service for local traffic.
Switched 56: A service that creates a virtual network over existing public phone lines with a 56-kbps data rate. It is slow but cheap, and it is ideal for intermittent data swapping between wide area networks (WANs). Unlike ISDN, most carriers already offer this service.
T-1: A North American standard for point-to-point digital circuits over two twisted pairs. A T-1 line carries twenty-four 64,000-bps channels (also known as DS-0) for a total usable bit rate of 1,536,000 bps. (If you include extra bits used to synchronize the frames, the actual bandwidth is 1,544,000 bps.) Customers may lease a fractional T-1, using only some of the 24 T-1 slots. A T-1C contains two T-1 lines; T-2 supports four T-1 circuits. A T-3 communications circuit supports 28 T-1 circuits, and a T-4 consists of 168 T-1 circuits. E-1 through E-5 are similar standards used in Europe and Japan, but offer different numbers of channels. See DS-0.
TAPI (Telephony Application Programming Interface): A method promoted by Microsoft and Intel for letting PCs control telephones. TAPI applications can dial a telephone from within software and check caller ID, as well as perform other functions. TAPI links PC workstations and individual telephones, as opposed to TSAPI (see below), which links the PC server to a PBX (Private Branch Exchange).
TSAPI (Telephony Services Application Programming Interface): A system promoted by Novell and AT&T to integrate PCs and PBX servers. TSAPI allows computer control of most aspects of the local telephone system. Contrast this to TAPI, which links the PC and the local telephone sitting on the user's desk. X.25 A standard for packet-based wide area networks (WANs). For both leased lines (such as T-1s) and public-switched connections (like ISDN), you pay by the minute or month. However, an X.25 connection has the advantage of being measured and billed by the number of packets or bytes actually sent or received.


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För att kunna använda alla funktioner på KLM.com på ett säkert sätt, rekommenderar vi att du uppdaterar din webbläsare, eller att du väljer en annan. Fortsätter du med den här versionen kan det resultera i att delar av webbplatsen inte visas korrekt, om alls. Dessutom är säkerheten för din personliga information bättre skyddad med en uppdaterad webbläsare.
Most tourist sites are within the city centre, which is easy to get around on foot; however, there is an extensive public transport network consisting of buses, trolley buses, trams and a fast three-line underground metro service. The metro and the tram network are especially useful for tourists. Transport is cheap, but often overcrowded, especially during the siesta rush hour (1-3pm). Most public transport operates until midnight, with a limited night bus and tram service operating along major routes. Although taxis are plentiful it may be difficult to get one during the siesta rush hour, and it is not unusual to share the ride with other passengers. It is often easier to phone ahead for a cab. Taxis are inexpensive, but always check that the meter is on and set to the minimum fare as drivers often attempt to overcharge tourists. Legitimate surcharges can increase the final bill, but these should be displayed on the dashboard. Driving in Athens is not recommended; cars are banned from the commercial centre, and parking anywhere is near impossible.
GMT +2 (GMT +3 between last Sunday in March and last Sunday in October).
Electrical current is 220 volts and 50Hz. A variety of plugs are in use, including the European-style two-pin and the round three-pin.
The official currency is the Euro (EUR), which is divided into 100 cents. Banks and bureaux de change are widely available and major credit cards are accepted. ATMs are widespread and are generally the cheapest and most convenient method of obtaining euros.
The international access code for Greece is +30. The outgoing code is 00 followed by the relevant country code (e.g. 0044 for the United Kingdom). The city code for Athens is 210. There are often surcharges on calls made from hotels and it is generally cheaper to use OTE (Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation) offices for local and international calls. Calls can also be made from public card phone booths and cards can be bought from kiosks or OTE offices. The local mobile phone operators use GSM networks and have roaming agreements with most international operators. Coverage is exceptional. Internet cafes are available in the main towns and resorts and are cheaper than accessing the internet from hotels.
112 (General European emergency number). Other emergency numbers in Greece: 100 (Police), 166 (Ambulance), 199 (Fire)
Metro Line 3 connects the airport with central Athens. The airport is also served by four public bus routes, which connect to destinations in the greater area of Athens and Piraeus, with buses running frequently day and night. Athens International is also connected to Athens Central Railway Station (Larissis Station) by the Suburban Rail line.
Avis, Hertz, Budget, Enterprise and Sixt are all represented at the airport.
A taxi to the centre of the Athens costs about €38 during the day, but substantially more at night. The journey takes roughly half an hour to an hour depending on the traffic. Taxis can be found at the designated taxi waiting area located at Exit 3 of the main Arrivals level.
The two terminals are connected by a walkway.
The airport features banks and ATMs, currency exchange services, a tax refund desk, travel agencies, conference facilities, a business centre, a tourist information desk, numerous shops and restaurants, and a food court.
There is short and long-term parking available in the airport; short-term parking is on the arrivals level and costs €3.80 for the first hour (up to 20 minutes are free), while long-term parking is found across the access road in P3 and costs €13 for the first day and €50 for a week. Long-term parking is connected to the terminal by a free shuttle.
The airport offers free wifi and free internet access points.


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A New Southern Woman: The Correspondence of Eliza Lucy Irion Neilson, 1871-1883
Eliza Neilson was a resident of Columbus, Mississippi, and my book features the letters she wrote to her sisters and her niece between 1871-1883. The book will be of interest to genealogists – Eliza wrote extensively about Columbus and its residents, Lowndes County and surrounds, and about several towns throughout Mississippi. Her letters are a history of the region as much as they are a story about one family in the post war South.
Amazon.com Genealogy Bookstore - Biography
The following are individual book titles of interest for this topic. The book links below point to the Amazon.com bookstore online where you may purchase the book if you wish. These links are provided to bring these published resources to your attention as an aid to your research. Follow the links to books of interest to make note of their title, author, publisher, and ISBN. You might then use this information to obtain the book from your local library or your favorite corner book shop.
Biography & Genealogy Master Index
A CD-ROM by Ancestry.
Create Your Own Life's Story : The Simple Way to Record Your Personal History
A book by Glen Walker.
Family Focused: A Step-By-Step Guide to Writing Your Autobiography and Family History
A book by Janice T. Dixon.
How to Write the Story of Your Life
A book by Frank P. Thomas.
How to Write Your Own Life Story : The Classic Guide for the Nonprofessional Writer
A book by Lois Daniel.
Software by Life.com.
Turning Memories into Memoirs : A Handbook for Writing Lifestories
A book by Denis Ledoux.
Writing Your Life : Putting Your Past on Paper
A book by Lou Willett Stanek.
Biography writing service.
Here You Were is a place to remember. A place to smile, and a place to share memories. It is a place to tell your own life story, or perhaps a memorial of a loved one who has passed away.
Life Memo–Write Your Life Story-Free Online Memoirs
A website which you can use for free to submit your life story.
Taping service, family history on audio tapes, memories kits & oral history.
Service providing life story books.
Homestyle kits that consist of a jar with at least 52 slips of paper that asks you questions about your life, also included is a book that you tape the slips into.
Once Upon a Lifetime... Take the Time to Record the Stories of Your Life
A book for sale that includes 10,000 + questions that help guide a discovery of the stories of our lives, as told by the people that are part of our history.
One-of-a-kind, custom coffee table books that capture your family stories and photographs.
Biographies » Publications, Software & Supplies
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See also: Cyndi's List Genealogy Bookstore
A categorized list of genealogy research books that looks a lot like my bookshelf at home.
A categorized list of genealogy research books that looks a lot like my bookshelf at home.


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Hello to all from Iraq! (Christina)
Where do I begin, by far this has been the best experience of my life and the most memorable! Coming here has been a blessing and so life changing! We have been to so many bases meeting all the troops and learning about their everyday routine. So far I have been the cluts of this trip! Getting to the hotel I blew up the lights of my room, my camera got stepped on and completely broke. Also at one of the bases I was stuck inside a bathroom the handles on both sides broke but I've had a lot fun!
I've done so many adventurous things here that I will never forget, like riding in a helicopter and on a convoy! Overall I love it here and can not wait to get home and show everyone all the photos and videos.
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hey i really enjoyed your guys stay at camp bucca and i was lucky enough to take you guys to eat and to drive you to get on the blackhawk..im a huge fan i just didnt get no autographa which im pretty upset about is there anyway you cheerleaders can sign one and send it out to me id love that..i had to leave the chow hall early so i can stage up the viecles to drive you guys away..again i had a great time


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ST. LOUIS, MO--(Marketwire - Jan 7, 2013) - Brokerage Benjamin F. Edwards & Co. opened an office in Woodstock, Ill., with six local financial professionals, company officials announced today. The new location joins Wheaton as the firm's second office in the greater Chicagoland region, and is the company's eighth office in Illinois.
"We are pleased to be adding these talented professionals to our team in Illinois," said Benjamin F. (Tad) Edwards IV, founder, chairman, and CEO of the St. Louis-based brokerage firm. "Our commitment to empowering our advisors to serve their clients as they see fit, along with our broad array of products and services, is an appealing combination in the current competitive environment."
Collectively, the new advisor additions represent more than 110 years of industry experience. Joining the firm at the Woodstock location are the following:
The Wormley Team: Comprised of James T. Wormley, CFP®, his son Ryan Wormley, AAMS®, and Sandy Shay, the team brings more than 65 years of combined industry experience gained at A.G. Edwards and their successor firms. At Benjamin F. Edwards & Co., both Wormleys will hold the title of senior vice president - investments, while Sandy Shay will serve as a senior registered financial associate. In addition, James Wormley maintains his CPA certification and earned his CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certification in 1988, while Ryan Wormley earned his ACCREDITED ASSET MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST™ certification in 2004. Shay started her financial services career in 1987 and has been part of the Wormley Team since 2004.
With its move to Benjamin F. Edwards & Co., Matt Wormley, James Wormley's youngest son, is also joining the Wormley Team and comes aboard as a financial associate. Previously, Matt enjoyed a successful 10-year career working for Accenture as an alliance sales director, where he was responsible for coordinating efforts between the firm's vendor partners and its financial services industry clients.
Dennis Anderson, CFP®, Branch Manager, Senior Vice President - Investments: A 20-year veteran in the securities industry, Anderson spent most of his career at A.G. Edwards and their successor firms where in addition to working with clients, he served as a branch manager for eight years before stepping down in 2010. A native of northern Illinois, he worked as the city manager for the City of Woodstock before starting his financial services career in 1992. Assisting him with his managerial and client service responsibilities is Jenny Murray, AAMS®, a 25-year industry veteran, who comes aboard as the assistant branch manager and a senior registered financial associate. She joined A.G. Edwards in 1987, worked with Anderson since 1997, and was assistant branch manager for five years.
Previously, all of the personnel, with the exception of Matt Wormley, worked for Wells Fargo Advisors.
"Together with the Wormleys, we evaluated the capabilities and services of several firms and determined that Benjamin F. Edwards & Co. and its culture of client-first service offered us the best products and the support we need to serve our clients and grow our respective practices," said Anderson. "In addition, the firm's progressive technology platform gives us the ability to use our smartphones and tablets to access our financial planning tools and client information at the office or in our clients' home or business. This flexibility will be incredibly helpful as we work to provide personalized financial advice to our clients, which include individuals, families, foundations, and endowments."
In Woodstock, the new branch is located at 11621 Catalpa Lane. The office phone number is 815-337-4485. In addition to Woodstock, the firm has branches in the Illinois communities of Wheaton, Galesburg, LaSalle-Peru, Peoria, Springfield, Decatur, and O'Fallon.
About Benjamin F. Edwards & Co.
With a tagline of "Investments for Generations" and a company logo anchored by the Edwards crest, Benjamin F. Edwards & Co. is headquartered in St. Louis, Mo. The firm was founded in 2008 by Benjamin F. (Tad) Edwards IV, the great-great-grandson of Albert Gallatin Edwards, the founder of brokerage firm A.G. Edwards. Currently, the firm has 27 branches in 15 states and more than 200 employees.
A subsidiary of Benjamin Edwards, Inc., Benjamin F. Edwards & Co. is a full-service brokerage and a Registered Investment Adviser, which offers a wide array of financial products and advisory services to its clients and financial consultants. For more information about Benjamin F. Edwards & Co., please visit benjaminfedwards.com and follow the company on Twitter (@GrowWithBFEC).
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Speech at Democratic convention by former U.S. Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa
As a Republican, I stand before you with deep respect for the history and traditions of my political party. But it is clear to all Americans that something is out of kilter in our great republic. In less than a decade America's political and economic standing in the world has been diminished. Our nation's extraordinary leadership in so many areas is simply not reflected in the partisan bickering and ideological politics of Washington. Seldom has the case for an inspiring new political ethic been more compelling. And seldom has an emerging leader so matched the needs of the moment.
The platform of this transformative figure is a call for change. The change Barack Obama is advocating is far more than a break with today's politics. It is a clarion call for renewal rooted in time-tested American values that tap Republican, as well as Democratic traditions.
Perspective is difficult to bring to events of the day, but in sweeping terms, there have been four great debates in our history to which both parties have contributed. The first debate, led by Thomas Jefferson, the first Democrat to be elected president, centered on the question of whether a country could be established, based on The Rights of Man.
The second debate, led by Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican to be elected president, was about definitions—whether The Rights of Man applied to individuals who were neither pale nor male. It took almost two centuries of struggle, hallmarked by a civil war, the suffrage and abolitionist movements, the Harlem renaissance and a courageous civil rights leadership to bring meaning to the values embedded in the Declaration of Independence.
Below are the remarks of Hillary Clinton as prepared for delivery at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, August 26, 2008:
I am honored to be here tonight. A proud mother. A proud Democrat. A proud American. And a proud supporter of Barack Obama.
My friends, it is time to take back the country we love.
Whether you voted for me, or voted for Barack, the time is now to unite as a single party with a single purpose. We are on the same team, and none of us can sit on the sidelines.
This is a fight for the future. And it's a fight we must win.
I haven't spent the past 35 years in the trenches advocating for children, campaigning for universal health care, helping parents balance work and family, and fighting for women's rights at home and around the world . . . to see another Republican in the White House squander the promise of our country and the hopes of our people.
And you haven't worked so hard over the last 18 months, or endured the last eight years, to suffer through more failed leadership.
No way. No how. No McCain.
Barack Obama is my candidate. And he must be our President.
Tonight we need to remember what a Presidential election is really about. When the polls have closed, and the ads are finally off the air, it comes down to you -- the American people, your lives, and your children's futures.
For me, it's been a privilege to meet you in your homes, your workplaces, and your communities. Your stories reminded me everyday that America's greatness is bound up in the lives of the American people -- your hard work, your devotion to duty, your love for your children, and your determination to keep going, often in the face of enormous obstacles.
You taught me so much, you made me laugh, and . . . you even made me cry. You allowed me to become part of your lives. And you became part of mine.
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Ron Burgundy may be the most famous anchorman who never was, but that's not stopping the Newseum in Washington, D.C., from showcasing the fictional '70s character in "Anchorman: The Exhibit," which opens Thursday.
Burgundy's burgundy suit? Check. His flaming jazz flute? Check. His Sex Panther Cologne, yes -- along with a re-creation of the KVWN-TV anchor desk made famous in the 2004 "Anchorman" film and playing a return visit in "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues." The sequel, starring Will Ferrell as Burgundy, is to open Dec. 20.
What's with such a lighthearted vibe at the Newseum amid exhibits such as the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination and civil rights milestones? Cathy Trost, vice president of exhibits and programs, says the pop culture show conveys certain truths behind the politically incorrect local newsman.
"There really was a time in news history when men owned the anchor chair," she said Wednesday. "We tell stories about challenges women faced to be taken seriously in the news business."
Burgundy isn't the only pop culture anchorman in the building. Ted Baxter (a.k.a. Ted Knight) from the "Mary Tyler Moore" show and Candice Bergen's Murphy Brown also are highlighted along with real news anchors such as "NewsHour's" Judy Woodruff.
So what does all of this add up to? "It tells the story of dramatic change in the news business in the 1970s as news teams, and women and minorities, became more of the face of news and reflected the communities they covered," Trost said.
Ferrell will appear at the museum Dec. 3 for a private reception and party to open a section of the exhibit based on "Anchorman 2." And there will be a screening of "Anchorman 2" (it's already sold out) with actor David Koechner, who plays sports reporter Champ Kind.
The exhibit, co-created with Paramount Pictures, runs until Aug. 31.
Info: Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, D.C.; (888) 639-7386
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A Woman cries at Jindo port in Jindo-gun, South Korea, April 16, 2014.
A ferry carrying 459 people, mostly high school students on an overnight trip to a tourist island, sank off South Korea's southern coast Wednesday, leaving nearly 300 people missing despite a frantic, hours-long rescue by dozens of ships and helicopters. At least four people were confirmed dead and 55 injured.
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