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KARACHI: The members of the Senate’s standing committee on production and industries visited the Indus Motor Company (IMC) on Tuesday.
Members were briefed by IMC Chief Executive Ali Asghar Jamali on the company’s contributions to the economy, and how it was developing local vendor-base to generate employment. The delegates participated in the IMC’s million tree initiative by planting a tree.
Ann Benedetto, owner of the women's clothing store, A Uno, in Tribeca, has never thought of herself as a rabble-rouser.
But here she was, holding the stuff of a political organizer, a wad of recently acquired business cards in one hand, a bulging notebook of handouts and notes from meetings in the other.
These days Benedetto is looking like a woman on a mission.
"I'm a merchant," she said. "I have a store, I know how to dress women. This is not my skill set, so I'm learning as I go."
What Benedetto has learned in just the last few weeks is that there are dozens of other store owners like her who worry about the survival of Tribeca's small businesses.
Her job now is to recruit them into her newly minted organization, the Tribeca Alliance.
So far, she is buoyed by the response. Thumbing through print-outs of recent emails she has received, she read some aloud. "I salute you," one of them says. "I will help you in whatever way I can," reads another.
Times were different, said Benedetto, when she moved her store from Soho to the corner of West Broadway and Duane 14 years ago. "I thought it was the best business decision of my life."
But now she sees a different retail landscape, where many of the businesses she knew are gone. "Bouley was across the street," she said, pointing to the Citibank that took its place. "That's the changing of Tribeca. I don't know if you can stop it, but…" she adds, her voice trailing off.
But at the event, she met a representative from from the Manhattan Borough President's office, who had another idea. Why not start an organization?
"That was not on my list of things to do," she recalled, but it got her thinking. A month later, she went to a Small Business Roundtable for Tribeca, organized by Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, where she heard other store owners complaints, many of which sounded unpleasantly familiar: Scaffolding that stayed up for months, even years, high taxes, exorbitant commercial rents, unfair leases, overzealous city inspectors.
"That encouraged me," she said. "I realized that one voice is nothing. But a community voice can put pressure on government. That's when you can have some impact."
In a follow-up meeting with representatives from the Borough President's office and the city's Small Business Services, Benedetto got a quick course in how to build her organization, set up a steering committee, find a monthly meetings space. (Since then, the owners of Antiqueria and Gymboree have offered their spaces for meetings.) She also heard about efforts by the office to help small businesses.
Benedetto has since sent out a questionnaire to more than 70 local businesses, asking for ideas.
Her goal is to see the "essence of Tribeca" preserved so that small owner-run businesses like hers won't be replaced by those that have, she says, "deep pockets and a big corporation behind them" and do not give the area "cache."
Still, as the lone organizer and with a business to run, Benedetto knows the job ahead won't be easy. "It's up to me to keep the ball rolling," she noted.
Last week, Benedetto got an email from the owner of a neighboring store who had heard about the Tribeca Alliance. "She said to me, 'Ann, that's a lofty idea and I don't know if it's going to work.'"
"I'm going to go over right now and yell at her!" she declared. "How can you give up before you even start?"
For more information, contact Ann Benedetto at tribecaalliance@gmail.
What is this thing about “voter rights”? For crying out loud…every US citizen 18 yrs old and above has a right to vote. Spare me the “voter rights” propaganda!
Voters rights? I agree but in todays age we still don’t ask for any sign of identification prior to casting a vote. A right that countless Americans have died to defend. In a large city it is easy to take the identiy of another and cast a vote. So I guess those who have died to protect this right means nothing.
Exactly. The way I see it is it’s just another way for the democrats to get more people to vote for them legally or otherwise. You should have to show an ID when you vote a signature doesn’t just cut it for me.
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The distant sound of drumbeats coming from the musicians outside the Kenyatta Conference Center became more persistent. A flying wedge of military and plainclothes men strong-armed their way through the packed Plenary Hall Monday as they escorted the dignitaries to the dais. Under a blue and white banner proclaiming, "United Nations Decade for Women Conference: Nairobi, Kenya-15-26 July 1985," the nine dignitaries seated themselves. They were seven men and two women.
"The World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace" had begun. The opening session, while smacking of international urgency, did not reveal the behind-the-scenes drama that was unfolding here as the American delegation struggled with the Third World faction over crucial procedural matters. A tenuous compromise was reached, allowing the conference to continue.
In the opening session, Javier Perez de Cuellar, secretary-general of the United Nations, delivered a barely audible statement alternating between English, French and Spanish. He introduced and was followed by Daniel Arap Moi, president of the Republic of Kenya, who declared the conference officially open.
The words of both men were strong as they declared the decade that was concluding an important one and the task of the conference crucial. The close of the decade was really only a beginning, Perez de Cuellar told them.
Speaking of the formidable task that lay before them, and acknowledging the differences and conflicts they would face, Perez de Cuellar urged the delegates to proceed in a spirit of compromise, telling them, "You owe it to all women in the world and to yourself, to approach the work of this conference in a manner that will lead to positive and enduring results."
Moi used almost the same language to tell the delegates they owed it to the women of the world "to come up with a document" so that the work of obtaining for women equality, development and peace became a reality ensuring that "1985 was not in vain."
The pleas of both men were not just standard rhetoric for a public gathering. The conflicts were palpable among the 1,400 delegates from 159 nations seated before them. Delegates were seated two per country, at tables of eight, with the same setup of eight seated in a row of chairs behind them. Thanks to the ironies of alphabetical order, at one such table were seated Iran, Iraq, Ireland and Israel, the Iranian delegation consisting of three chador-clad women and one man in a business suit.
Among the early no-shows were the Bahamas, Burma, Lebanon, Qatar, Peru, Singapore and South Africa. Peru is on its way. Only Burma and Qatar have said they will definitely not be sending a delegation.
Earlier, during the two hours that it took for the hall to fill, the three delegates of the African National Congress, an outlawed political party in South Africa that has official observer status with the United Nations but cannot vote, seated themselves in the seats reserved for South Africa.
"We feel it is our right," ANC member Frene Ginwala, who said she lives outside South Africa, told listeners. With her at the conference were ANC members Gertrude Shope and Ruth Monpati, she said, while more than 30 members were simultaneously participating in Forum '85, the unofficial conference for non-governmental organizations that is being held at the University of Nairobi. If the official South African delegation showed up, Ginwala said, they would put it to the test and see what the conference officials would do.
In another section sat the four American delegates: at the table, chairwoman Maureen Reagan, daughter of President Reagan, and deputy chairwoman Nancy Clark Reynolds; behind them, Paula Kuzmich, secretary of the U.S. secretariat for the conference, and Alan Lee Keyes, U.S. ambassador to the economic and social council.
The Americans had been up all night, Keyes said later at a press briefing. They had not been partying.
The conference was preceded this weekend by two days of pre-conference meetings for the delegates. Essentially, they were negotiating sessions for matters left unresolved at preparatory meetings held earlier and elsewhere.
One such unresolved matter, regarding paragraph 34 of the rules of procedures (scheduled to be adopted in Monday's afternoon session), left the Americans and "the group of 77" (a collection of countries, most of them Third World, at odds with the United States on certain issues) at an impasse. They were serious enough for a time that the conference was in danger of not getting past the morning inaugural ceremonies that ended with Margaret Kenyatta of Kenya being elected president of the conference.
The confusion centered around American objections to a majority approach procedure that was used in Mexico City and Copenhagen conferences held in 1975 and 1980 to mark the Decade on Women. Because of the now-famous and so-called "politicization" of those conferences, especially on issues involving Palestinians and Israelis, and language equating Zionism with racism, the American delegations, voting in concert with official governmental policies, had voted against documents they in large part endorsed.
At Nairobi, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the subject of apartheid in South Africa, and positions taken on the world economic order, disarmament, the arms race and definitions of imperialism are certain to rise and likely to put the Americans at odds with the majority.
The major document to be considered at Nairobi is called "Forward Looking Strategies," which is a plan of action for the years 1986-2000. It consists of 300 paragraphs, 213 of which have already been agreed to at preparatory meetings. The remaining 87 paragraphs are "bracketed," indicating not all nations agree to them yet.
To avoid what happened in 1975 and 1980 and to steer the discussion toward women's issues rather than radical politics, the United States has been lobbying for its adoption by consensus rather than majority vote. Consensus, in diplomatic parlance, means unanimous agreement. Differences still could be debated, and resolutions or separate documents adopted, by majority vote.
With the "Group of 77" having reportedly swelled its ranks to 125, the United States delegation did not arrive in Nairobi with the world at its command.
They did arrive, Reagan said at a press briefing held between morning and afternoon sessions, ready to compromise, having accepted a Canadian proposal. This would have entailed adopting the current rules of procedure, with the understanding, to be agreed to in advance, that the Forward Looking Strategies would be adopted by consensus.
This was not acceptable to the "Group of 77" either, and the Sunday night meeting held to slug it out, ended at 1 a.m. Monday with nothing resolved.
Thus began the world conference. Monday was taken up with behind-the-scenes meetings and constant press briefings sandwiched in between the official proceedings. Perez de Cuellar was asked to come up with an alternative plan that both sides might accept and he did, meeting with all factions separately.
By the time the afternoon session resumed, the problem had been resolved. For the moment. All sides agreed to adopt the rules of procedure, after which it would be announced that the Forward Looking Strategies " should be adopted by consensus."
A U.N. official, Francois Gioliani, announced this at the press briefing where the consensus seemed to be that the solution was as clear as mud. When the fine points of difference between the words should and will could not be distinguished further, with Gioliani laughingly protesting English was not his first language, the discussion of the two English words continued in French.
Finally, he agreed, the delegates were consenting to a non-binding expression of intent.
And that is how the afternoon proceeded.
At yet another press briefing, Keyes said, "We feel like we have achieved a basis on which we can proceed effectively."
Maureen Reagan said, "We consider it to be a moral victory."
Not every band of young musicians tries to wallop its listeners with monster solos and bravura technique.
Though the players in the Ben Paterson Organ Quartet possess all the instrumental firepower they need, they chose to make music – rather than a big impression – Friday night at the Green Mill Jazz Club. The result was a richly satisfying show, with three rising young artists and one veteran traveling freely among jazz, blues, funk and other sounds.
An easygoing joyousness defined all this music-making, and though the audience roared its approval, no one seemed to be having more fun than the players themselves. You could tell from the up-tempo pace of the performances, the warmth of the ensemble sound and the expressions on each musician's face when a colleague completed a particularly well-crafted solo.
Chicago listeners who follow the scene closely probably are more familiar with Paterson as pianist, most notably for his past work with saxophone titan Von Freeman. But Paterson also holds a real affinity for the Hammond B-3 organ. Uninterested in creating extended solo flights or bedazzling listeners with keyboard pyrotechnics, Paterson instead focused on making the organ an integral part of the ensemble sound.
He took great care to thicken textures as pieces built to a climax, to provide soft chordal fills when others played solo. Paterson's organ never stopped producing sound, in other words, the bandleader riding the ebb and flow of his partners' work.
The band's opening number said it all, Paterson and friends offering a robust, bluesy take on the Duke Pearson standard "Jeannine." Paterson's fat, two-fisted chords set the tone, while trumpeter Victor Garcia sleekly delivered the main theme and guitarist Kyle Asche expanded on Paterson's harmonic palette. Drummer George Fludas, the most seasoned musician in the band, gave the piece his signature rhythmic snap, the four players cohering as a single musical organism. You had to smile at this "Jeannine," its forward motion unmistakable but unhurried, its colors bright but not garish.
There was a great deal of Horace Silver to be heard in "John George," a funk-tinged Paterson original that at least borrowed from an unimpeachable source. Here Paterson had ample opportunity to show off a keyboard technique that emerged only in flashes elsewhere in the set, but he declined. Instead, Paterson leaned on complex chords, fluid phrases and buoyant rhythms. Trumpeter Garcia's plunger-muted solo stood out, and guitarist Asche dramatically contrasted single-note lines with lushly rolled chords.
Only in Ray Bryant's "Cubano Chant" did the band approach virtuoso territory, Paterson occasionally throwing off whirring runs and trumpeter Garcia blasting clarion notes into the stratosphere.
Otherwise, though, these players simply let the music speak for itself.
The Ben Paterson Organ Quartet plays at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Green Mill Jazz Club, 4802 N. Broadway; $12; 773-878-5552 or greenmilljazz.com.
SUNBURY, Pa. (AP) — A judge has granted a newlywed husband”s request to drop his bid to have his guilty plea withdrawn after admitting he helped kill a Pennsylvania man who was lured through a Craigslist ad.
A judge approved 24-year-old Elytte Barbour”s request on Monday after talking with him.
Barbour and his 20-year-old wife, Miranda, are serving life sentences without the possibility of parole.
His attorney had argued his client should have pleaded guilty but mentally ill in the November 2013 stabbing death of 42-year-old Troy LaFerrara.
Miranda Barbour admitted she arranged a meeting with LaFerrara in a parking lot. She drove him into Sunbury and repeatedly stabbed him as her husband restrained him with a piece of cable around his neck.
Richard Reinbold, a Richton Park resident since 1952, has served as village president since 2001. Previously, he served as a village trustee from 1993-2001. He is the owner of Reinbold Properties, general manager of Englund Properties, and president of the Chicago Cart Company.
President Reinbold serves on many boards, commissions and committees, including the Metropolitan Mayor's Caucus Terrorism Task Force (chairman), I-57 Corridor Council (chairman), South Suburban Airport Coalition Commission, Matteson Area Chamber of Commerce Advisory Board, South Suburban Mayors & Managers Association (past-president, legislative committee chairman, executive committee, transportation committee), as well as others.
Reinbold is a founding member of the Richton Park Merchant's Chamber, a Key Communicator in Rich Township High School and a member of the Family and Youth Initiative Task Force. In 2004, he received the Chicago Southland Chamber of Commerce Outstanding Achievement Award. A veteran of the Vietnam War, Reinbold is a proud member of the American Legion and the VFW.
Representings South Cook County on the CMAP Board, Reinbold is also a member of the Local Coordinating Committee.
He is a graduate of Rich East High School and attended Southern Illinois University. He is also a graduate of the Academy for Municipal Excellence at the University of Illinois.
If you want to know what the “top people on FriendFeed” are saying, you can now see their feeds on a new Alltop page called Frienderati. It is just a list of the top 100 or so names on FriendFeed (actually, only 94, for some reason), listed in alphabetical order by first name along with their five latest Twitters, blog posts, and other FriendFeed items. Or you could just subscribe to those same people on FriendFeed.
All the usual suspects are included on Frienderati. Mostly bloggers and other Web celebrities like Dave Winer, Loic Le Meur, Kevin Rose, and Guy Kawasaki (who is also one of the founders of Alltop and last week sold his other project, Truemors, to NowPublic). The site does not explain how someone gets on the list, but it appears to be the most followed individuals on FriendFeed. (Compare to this list on User21). There is a lot of overlap here with another Alltop site, Twitterati, which (you guessed it) shows the latest Tweets of the “top” people on Twitter (Kawasaki, Winer, Robert Scoble, etc.). Since most of the content on FriendFeed comes from Twitter anyway, Frienderati is really is pretty much the same thing, with a few different names.
Like other Alltop sites (which aggregate top feeds in other categories), this one is kind of a head-scratcher. There is no way to sort, so I guess you are expected to scroll through all 94 names to get what you are looking for. It would be helpful if the names at least appeared in order of their most recent entries, like on FriendFeed itself. Or you could just browse Friendarati to see which, if any, of the top names you might want to follow on your own. (Even though the point of FriendFeed is to follow what your real friends are saying—oh, never mind).
I like the name, though. It sounds like a cabal, and maybe it is. But I guess Top Friends was already taken.
Update: In an email, Kawasaki says the list is “based on all the other articles about the top people to follow plus our gut. Did we say it’s 100? We just tried to find about 100.” And he notes in a comment below that it is just meant to be a starting point for FriendFeed.
Thomas Hawk – CEO Zooomr Inc.
When the United Nations Committee Against Torture ask if the United States initiated any investigations to torture allegations and prosecuted anyone committed such crimes, the U.S. in its Periodic Report to the UN - filed this month - cites the existing U.S. laws while side tracking the main question.
WHO cautions: "Do not let fox guard chickens"
Rear Admiral J.V. Bainimarama, the newly elected Prime Minister of Fiji has acknowledged the immense debt Fiji owes to Sri Lanka, in his inaugural speech on 13th October 2014 at the Parliament House in Suva, following the convincing victory of his Fiji First Party at the general elections held last month, in which it secured 59.2% of the popular vote.
The Sri Lanka Pakistan Friendship Association organized a special ceremony at the High Commission of Pakistan in Sri Lanka to present state of the art Computer Tablets to several bright Sri Lankan University Students. The selected students hailed from Medical, Law, Business and Finance faculties of different universities of Sri Lanka.
Of late, there have been criticisms against the remarks made by Nagaland Chief Minister TR Zeliang with regard to the chronic Assam-Nagaland border issues. The Chief Minister seemingly stated that Nagaland lacked documents to settle its protracted border row with neighboring Assam. His remarks soon drew flaks from various quarters.
Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Michael Delaney speaks with Neela Marikkar, Chairperson from The Grant Group, to discuss the launch of the “War Widows Project” in partnership with the Ministry for Industry & Commerce.
It's The Monday After Brexit: What Should You Be Doing?
It's the Monday after Brexit happened -- what should you be doing?