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Avulsion Fracture
What is an avulsion fracture?
An avulsion fracture occurs when an injury causes a ligament or tendon to break off (avulse) a small piece of a bone that's attached to it. The ligament or tendon also may be damaged.
This type of injury can happen in the hip, ankle, knee, heel, elbow, or pelvis.
An avulsion fracture may be caused by direct force, such as a hard tackle in football. Indirect force—such as a sudden turn in soccer or basketball—also can cause it. It can be caused by any activity that involves kicking, jumping, or having to speed up or slow down very quickly.
You may feel a pop and sudden pain when the fracture occurs.
X-rays are usually used to diagnose a fracture.
Small fractures are usually treated with ice and rest. You may need a splint or a cast. These fractures rarely cause any problems, such as pain or discomfort, after the injury heals.
You may need surgery if the bone fragment is large and widely separated from the rest of the bone. Surgery may also be done if a tendon or ligament is badly detached.
You can return to sports or other physical activities after about 6 weeks to 6 months. How long it takes to recover depends on where the injury is, how serious it is, and how it is treated. It also depends on how quickly you have full range of motion without pain.
Yen YM, Kocher MS (2015). Pediatric and adolescent hip injuries. In MD Miller et al., eds., DeLee and Drez's Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, 4th ed., pp. 1627–1628. Philadelphia: Saunders.
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Giardia duodenalis is not only the ‘oldest’ known protozoan parasite that Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered in 1681 when investigating his feces in his pioneering use of one of the first microscopes, it also remains one of the most prevalent enteric protozoan parasites worldwide to date. Infection causes diarrhea which in a significant fraction of patients can become chronic, leads to malabsorption and, in young children, can cause of stunted growth. Despite its long history and its prevalence, to date, very little is understood of the pathogenesis underlying the disease manifestations.
This project aims at changing that and focuses on testing the hypothesis that human epithelial cells and tissue, dendritic cells of the immune system and Giardia parasites interact and provide mutual pivotal signals that affect their respective function which eventually leads to symptomatic disease. The investigate this relevant question, candidates will be able to exploit unique resources such as an available bank of recent clinical Giardia isolates and will be immersed in two research teams with expertise on the parasite and immune cells (at the RKI) and with experience on gastrointestinal epithelial barrier function.
Candidates will acquire a unique set of expert skills in 2D and 3D cell and tissue culture, in analysis techniques of epithelial barrier function (impedance spectroscopy, tracer fluxes, macromolecule uptake and pathogen translocation), in molecular approaches (biochemical & molecular biological) to monitor cell and parasite responses, and in advanced confocal microscopy to image infection related changes at tissue level. The project is best suited for candidates that combine a passion for parasitology with a deeper interest in immunology, cell biology and physiology.
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Kabuto Ibuki Helmet Review
Burn August 27, 2015 1.5k Views
A Flip-up Joins the Lineup
The Kabuto Ibuki is a new flip-up helmet recently added to the Japanese company’s expanded lineup.
The styling is “flip-up generic”, designed for owners in this market segment, who tend to be more concerned about function over flash.
The Ibuki’s upper ventilation system is excellent and among the best of the flip-up helmets, which are usually not noted for good ventilation.
Too bad the chin vent isn’t as efficient, however.
The build quality is very good and the interior is thickly padded and very comfortable.
The Ibuki is also relatively quiet, despite the volumes of air flowing through the top with the vents open.
It also comes with a Pinlock insert and a nice chin curtain.
The price does seem a bit stiff though; we originally thought it was in the $250.00 range but it goes for a couple of hundred more than that.
Overall, the Ibuki doesn’t necessarily break any new ground but it does just about everything expected from a solid flip-up helmet.
Without actually planning it, we’ve ended up doing pretty much a review series covering the current Kabuto (formerly OGK) helmet lineup.
So far, we can generally say that Kabuto helmets offer a lot of value for the money; they’re very well built and each has one or more surprise features.
The Kabuto Ibuki (Japanese for “breath”, I’m told) is a new flip-up helmet in the Japanese company’s lineup (although some of the U.S. market Kabuto helmets are now made in China).
It competes in a tough market, with the very popular Nolan N104 (review) and HJC RPHA Max (review) at the same price point and the Nolan N44 (review) and AGV Numo Evo (review) at the lower end.
In fact, the Kabuto Ibuki is very similar in many ways to the HJC RPHA Max and that is very commendable for the company’s first flip-up helmet.
Paint, Graphics and Overall Quality
This Ibuki is the “Pearl White” color and the paint quality is excellent, with no discernable flaws on our example.
It’s finished in a thick-feeling clearcoat, which also covers the “DOT” sticker in the rear and the “Kabuto” decal in the front.
The Ibuki is also available in Matte Black; Metallic Black; Aluminum Silver and Yellow.
The styling isn’t radical by any means; in fact, it’s fairly generic “21st Century flip-up”. But that’s probably a good thing, as flip-up helmet buyers tend to be touring bike riders, favoring perhaps slightly more conservative styling choices.
The helmet shell is “Kabuto’s ACT EVO R composite shell technology” which may be a fancy term for “FRP”, or fiberglass-reinforced plastic, as the label on the inside of the helmet indicates.
The shell feels solid but there’s still some of that flip-up “creaking” sound when you push on the sides.
Overall, the Ibuki is a quality piece, but to be dead honest, without looking at the price, I originally estimated it costing maybe a $250.00. I was surprised to find that the list price is actually $449.95, which does seem a bit stiff to me.
But you’ll also get one of the most comfortable liners going, with thick, comfortable padding that helps deaden the overall noise levels.
You also get a Pinlock insert included in the box — something missing from helmets costing a lot more, like the $550.00 (Ouch!) SCHUBERTH M1 (review).
The moving parts on the Ibuki have a solid feel, but again, there’s nothing exotic or out-of-the-ordinary here.
Score: The Kabuto Ibuki gets an “Excellent” rating for overall finish and quality. See the Summary Table at the bottom of the page for a description of our rating system.
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Fit, Sizing and Internal Shape
I’ve been wearing the Ibuki for a few weeks on various rides and I’d say it has a “Neutral” to “Slight Narrow” internal shape, typical for a flip-up helmet and pretty much in line with the majority of motorcycle helmets we’ve reviewed recently.
That type of internal shape fits the vast majority of North American heads, which is why the manufacturers seem to be featuring it in just about every and any new helmet that’s announced.
Think “HJC” fit and you’ll pretty much know what the Ibuki’s internal shape is like, because they’re similar.
This Ibuki is a size large, listed as fitting a 59-60 cm head and I think that’s right on the money, so let’s assume that all of the other Kabuto Ibuki helmets fit to size.
In fact, based on our experience with the “new” Kabuto, the helmets generally have a very comfortable fit and run true to size.
As always, there are no absolutes with helmet fit and shapes. Visit the webBikeWorld Motorcycle Helmet Shapes page for more information.
The Ibuki is made in two shell sizes, with the small shell covering XS-M and the larger shell for the L-2XL range.
Like some of the other recent Kabuto helmets we’ve reviewed, the Ibuki uses the Coolmax liner fabric, which helps keep my head dry in our current 32+ C weather temperatures (90+ F).
The relatively deep ear pockets are nicely lined and the EPS has a 35 mm wide recess for speakers, should you be so inclined.
Don’t forget, speakers work best when they’re located as close as possible to the ears, so you may want to add some spacers under the speakers and most intercom systems have those as part of the kit.
More information on helmet fit can be found in the webBikeWorld Motorcycle Helmet FAQ page, along with the chart that lists the helmet weights of webBikeWorld reviewed helmets and also by shape on the webBikeWorld Motorcycle Helmet Shapes page.
Score: The Kabuto Ibuki gets an “Outstanding” rating for fit, comfort, liner materials and padding.
The Kabuto Ibuki has an internal sun visor that could drop down lower for better coverage.
Like other Kabuto helmets, the Ibuki is optimized for eyeglass wearers.
Face Shield, Eye Port and Visibility
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Flip-up helmets typically are not trend-setters when it comes to outward visibility. This problem has been exacerbated over the last few years, as we’ve noticed that the chin bar height on flip-up helmets has increased in an attempt at better protection, no doubt.
The taller/higher/wider chin bar doesn’t help visibility, but overall, the view from the Ibuki’s eye port is better than average for a flip-up.
There’s a slight angle at 4 and 8 o’clock that limits visibility slightly, but when the helmet is correctly situated on the head (many riders incorrectly position their helmet tilted slightly rearward), the vertical visibility from the Ibuki, especially when glancing downwards towards the instruments, is good.
The chin bar does seem taller or thicker than the average full-face helmet; again, something found in nearly every recent flip-up helmet.
The quality of the 2.4 mm thick face shield is excellent and it has a friction holding tab at bottom center. The face shield can be opened and then rested on this tab for a bit of city defogging without any noticeable noise increase.
You’ll be using that a lot, because the air flow from the Ibuki’s open chin vent is weak. If you’re riding behind a windscreen, there’s virtually no air flow along the bottom half of the helmet unless you keep the face shield cracked open.
The face shield has a molded outline for the Pinlock insert and the edges of the outline mostly remain out of visual contact.
Also, the thick eye port gasket forms a solid seal, keeping any water from entering the helmet.
The internal sun visor rotates with the slider on the left-hand side. The slider is easy to find and easy to use, but the sun visor could use about another 15 mm of travel to make it more effective.
The Ibuki face shield removal system is easy to use. Pull down on a release and three plastic tabs hold the face shield in place. Carefully pull to remove the face shield and then line up the tabs to replace it, carefully pushing them back in.
Rotating Flip-up Visor
The rotating flip-up visor has a strong detent when it’s raised to the upper position. This holds the rotating flip-up visor in place when you’re refueling or talking.
As always, unless the helmet is dual homologated, don’t ride with it in the raised position…
The Ibuki has a single release for the rotating flip-up visor; it’s a lever on the left-hand side. It can be difficult to find, especially when wearing gloves and I’d rather have a centrally-located release.
The visor clamps or “jaws” that lock the rotating flip-up visor closed are half plastic and half metal. They clamp around a metal post. The system isn’t the most solid-feeling I have tried, with some fore/aft play and lateral flexibility.
Overall the system feels and operates about average for a flip-up helmet, but more like a helmet in the sub-$250.00 class.
Score: The Kabuto Ibuki gets an “Excellent” rating for the overall quality and operation of the face shield.
Kabuto Ibuki upper vent in front.
Chin vent opened to its maximum.
Rear exhaust vent does help pull air through the helmet.
Ventilation in the Ibuki helmet is something of a paradox. The upper half of the helmet has excellent ventilation with air flow that is much better than the average flip-up. But the lower half of the helmet is disappointing.
The upper ventilation system consists of two large horizontal vents, an intake in front and exhaust in the rear. Inside the helmet are large intake ports and channels in the EPS that are open and not blocked by liner material.
As we’ve noted before, those two ingredients are crucial to a successful upper ventilation system. But, they don’t necessarily guarantee performance.
In the Ibuki however, it works. The large vent in front brings in a lot of air, which flows along the channels and out the exhaust, which is placed closer to the top of the helmet than usual.
Open both vents and the air can positively be felt along the top of the head. Close the vents and it stops.
In either case, noise levels are relatively low; surprisingly so when the vents are open, considering the amount of air that comes through.
The chin vent is another story. Style won out over function here, because the chin vent is of the type favored by manufacturers like Schuberth.
The vertical vent cover is a rocker that is pressed on the bottom to open a small slit at the top. This means the air has to travel up and over the open vent rather than a straight shot into a “scoop” type vent opening.
That slot is just 2 millimeters wide on the Ibuki — maybe 3 mm, depending on how you hold the scale.
Compound that with the fact that there are no open vent passages through the chin bar itself. The air can only enter through the narrow slit along the top of the chin bar.
All of this means that the lower half of the Ibuki barely gets any air, although as is almost always the case, some air manages to (thankfully) flow in from underneath the helmet, despite the nice and large chin curtain.
Had Kabuto designed the chin vent cover as a “scoop” or somehow designed it to allow more air into and through the chin bar, we’d probably have one of the best ventilated motorcycle helmets of any type.
The weak air flow through the chin vent is especially noticeable when riding behind a windscreen. I can feel the nice, cool air over the top of my head while the bottom half of my face is hot and sweaty, especially noticeable because of the large and tall chin bar.
At least the ability to rest the face shield on the friction holding tab helps, although there still isn’t much air coming in if you’re riding behind a windscreen.
On an unfaired motorcycle, it’s not as bad. With the face shield in the city defogging resting position, a good amount of air flows into the helmet, although you won’t have the locking or holding ability available once you get up to speed.
Also on the unfaired bike, some air does flow in through the top of the chin vent and thus along the top of the chin bar. If your head is tiltled forward, this improves slightly.
Overall, the Ibuki ventilation system is a paradox, with excellent upper ventilation not matched by the design of the chin vent.
Score: The Kabuto Ibuki ventilation system rates a “Very Good” overall.
Kabuto Ibuki Noise Control
Noise is well controlled in the Ibuki, mostly due to the thick and comfortable padding that also forms a snug seal around the bottom of the helmet (dependent upon a correct match between the rider’s head shape and the internal shape of the helmet).
Even with the top vents open, the noise is muted, which is a pleasant surprise.
As always, noise perception can vary quite dramatically and is affected by several factors, including a windscreen that directs air and/or buffeting along the top of the helmet.
The helmet shape isn’t quite like a “hot knife through butter” when riding and there does seem to be some push when my head turns side-to-side or in cross wind situations, but nothing unusual for a touring helmet.
Overall, I’ll rate the Ibuki as better than average for noise control for a flip-up helmet.
Note that our helmet evaluations are a combined effort of several riders over time on different types of motorcycles with and without windscreens.
Evaluators wear correctly fitted, high quality ear plugs (even when evaluating motorcycle intercom systems).
Always protect your hearing when riding a motorcycle. See the wBW Earplug Reviews for more information on choosing and wearing earplugs.
Note also that perceived noise levels will vary, depending on the individual.
Noise can be caused by many factors, including helmet fit, the type of motorcycle and windscreen, wind speed and direction and even the rider’s clothing.
For more information on helmet noise, visit the wBW Motorcycle Helmet Noise page.
Score: The Kabuto Ibuki rates an “Excellent” rating for noise control.
wBW Video: Kabuto Ibuki Helmet
Helmet Weight
This Kabuto Ibuki in size L (59-60 cm) weighs 1771 grams (3 lbs., 14-1/2 oz.). Kabuto touts the light weight of the Ibuki but the helmet doesn’t seem so and in fact the weight is about average for this type of helmet.
As always, the internal sun visor accounts for some of the weight and that’s one of the tradeoffs (along with the space it takes in the forehead of the helmet shell).
Other flip-up helmets in size large that are competitors include the Nolan N104 (review) and theHJC Sy-Max III (review) at 1778 grams.
Also the Nolan N90 (review) a weighs 1784 grams; the Shoei Neotec (review) at 1812 grams and the Caberg Sintesi 2 (review) at 1772 grams.
Note also that all of the helmets reviewed on webBikeWorld have been weighed and the weights are available on the wBW Motorcycle Helmet Weights page, along with a chart that lists the helmets by weight and shape on the wBW Motorcycle Helmet Shapes page.
Score: The Ibuki gets a “Very Good” rating for its weight and balance.
The Ibuki has a rather large quick release chin strap retainer. A lighter, simpler and proven double D-ring type is preferred. The chin strap has a metal D-ring for locking via a cable to the bike. The chin strap padding is generous.
The helmet is labeled as meeting both DOT and ECE safety standards.
wBW Opinionator: Kabuto Ibuki Helmet
Comfortable fit.
Relatively quiet.
Excellent upper ventilation.
Water sealing.
Weak lower ventilation.
Price seems high.
The Kabuto Ibuki is a genuinely nice flip-up helmet with remarkably good design and execution considering it’s the company’s first flip-up helmet.
The upper ventilation is notable by its excellence and the interior is also plush and comfortable and provides a relatively quiet riding environment.
There isn’t an over-abundance of excitement here, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing in this segment.
I can’t help but think that the price seems a bit high though for what you get, when compared to what is probably the class leader in this price range, the Nolan N104.
At $449.95, the Ibuki just doesn’t seem to have the same value as the other Kabuto helmets we’ve reviewed and it’s apparently not currently being discounted.
It’s going to be difficult to beat the current mid-range flip-up helmet champ, the made-in-Italy Nolan N104, which can be found for around $405.00 street price. But we’ll see!
More webBikeWorld:
▪ Motorcycle Helmet Reviews
▪ Motorcycle Helmet Reviews by Brand
▪ Helmet Weights
▪ Helmet Shapes
wBW Review: Kabuto Ibuki Helmet
Manufacturer: OGK Kabuto (USA)
List Price (2015): $449.95
Colors: White, Silver, Black, Yellow.
Sizes: XS-2XL Shell Sizes: 2
Review Date: August 2015
Note: Item provided by a retailer, distributor or manufacturer with these Terms and Conditions.
From “B.G.” (August 2015): “”I wanted very much to like this helmet. It fit me perfectly, and I believe I’m a “difficult” fit, with a long narrow shape head.
I have an Arai Signet-Q, and I loved the fit of the Ibuki.
The deal breaker for me was the chin strap buckle. That comment about “…rather large quick release chin strap retainer” in the Misc section of the review is very accurate.
That stupid thing wanted to choke me when I put my chin to my chest.
Too bad, I would have paid the steep fare for a good helmet that fit me well. I prefer double D rings for this reason. No sale this time.”
Other WebBikeWorld Helmet Posts
wBW Helmet Info
Motorcycle Helmet FAQs
Motorcycle Helmet Noise
Extra Large Motorcycle Helmets
Helmet Size Chart
Motorcycle Helmet Weights
Motorcycle Helmet Shapes
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SilkAir operates scheduled passenger services from Singapore to 44 cities in Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, China and Australia. Its central hub is Singapore Changi Airport, and it offers the frequent flyer programme under the name ‘KrisFlyer.’ According to reports, in March 2013 the airline flew 3.3 million passengers and made a profit of S$96.7 million, as revenue rose 12.7% to $846.0 million.
SilkAir’s current fleet comprises of 25 aircraft which include 5 Airbus A319-100, 13 Airbus A320-200 and 8 Boeing 737-800. On 4 February 2014, the airline received its first Boeing 737-800 aircraft. On 3 August 2012, the company signed a letter of intent with Boeing for a purchase of 68 aircraft.
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Port St Johns along the Wild Coast is untamed territory at its best. Entangled forests and deep gorges meet mangrove swamps and the crashing waves of the Indian Ocean. Sandwiched between the Mount Thesiger and Mount Sullivan, Port St Johns is popular amongst nature lovers and backpackers for its endless hiking trails, Xhosa culture, and dramatic scenery.
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Monsters in the Lagoon: Cruise Ships in Venice
22nd December 2015 22nd March 2016 Rick
Before this summer I never heard about Gianni Berengo Gardin. If you too don’t know who he is don’t worry, I did all the googling for you: Berengo Gardin spent the past 60 years behind a camera and his black and white shots preserve intimate frames of a timeless Italy. His most famous photo is probably Venice Vaporetto (1960) and in the Seventies he documented the pitiful state inside the Italian madhouses, helping the dismissal of such anachronistic institution.
More recently he documented with his typically crude images the horror of cruise ships in Venice and, once more, he stirred up some chaos.
I felt like destroying something beautiful
Walking around in Venice one has the feeling of being surrounded by a piece of art: precious palaces, alleys so narrow that both walls can be touched at the same time, stone bridge crossing canals so narrow that could be easily jumped over. And then you see them, the cruise ships. Enormous steel hulks of opulence – higher than the Doge’s Palace, longer than San Marco Square – sliding through in striding contrast, like the proverbial bull in a china shop. Such ugliness and such beauty, destroying it with the excuse of loving it.
The photos of Berengo Gardin are an exact depiction of cruise ships passing through Venice, and his exhibition has been prohibited by the mayor as “it would damage the image of the city”.
The cost of money
The current mayor of Venice, a practical and greedy entrepreneur, promotes a project that will allegedly improve the safety conditions digging new deeper canals for the ships. This was fed to the public as a sensible plan, even though ignoring the fact that new diggings will seriously compromise the fragile balance of the lagoon’s ecosystem. In this idyllic area, neither sea nor land, where unique species thrive and ancient traditions survive, we allow those ships to go through, deluded that it might be an advantage. Cathedrals of waste and tawdry tourism, disgorging thousands of people everyday for their blitz of selfies and trash.
Cruise ships aren’t surely the only problem of Venice, and neither the only source of the flocks of bored tourists roaming the narrow streets of the city, but they are the most visible symbol of the illness that is chocking Venice. The local population, constantly under siege of hordes wearing silly hats and following red umbrellas, is forced to leave, as bread milk and meat in the shops are being replaced by expensive plastic souvenirs.
A city orphan of its inhabitants is a city without memory and without daily activity, hence it’s as good as dead, sold by the kilo and transformed in an amusement park. Veniceland, as they called it with bitter sarcasm, appearing on thousands of photos all over the world, barely visible behind the faces of those who contributed to its death.
To write this article I did an extensive research, digging deep into the economical, environmental and political reasons and consequences behind the cruise ships debate.
I learned that all numbers can be opinions and all words can be twisted, but one thing that cannot be denied is Beauty. It’s obvious, simple and irrefutable. Yet we’re destroying it, to please the very same people who travel to see it and, in the process, deface it. So let’s build a proper Veniceland, since that is what everybody want, a perfect plaster reproduction somewhere else that in the photos will look exactly as the original one.
Using the words of the photographer Berengo Gardin: “I was disturbed above all by the visual pollution; seeing my Venice having its proportions destroyed and being transformed into a toy, into one of those two-bit clones like you find in Las Vegas, unsettled me very deeply”.
His exhibition is all about that and, if you happen to be in Venice by the 6th January 2016, you can still see it at Negozio Olivetti.
“Mostri a Venezia” (Monsters in Venice) photo by Gianni Berengo Gardin
The first two photos have been posted by the groups Vogliamo Venezia and Comitato No Grandi Navi, which I thank for their commitment.
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Sparkling white sands kissing the turquoise blue waters, bronzed bodies riding giddying waves under the glowing sun and feni flowing through the fun-filled beach joie de vivre, this is India's Pearl of the Orient, Goa at its best. The magical trinity of sun, sea and sand remains the destination's main claim to fame and beach bums may spend some quality time at idyllic beaches such as Arambol, Baga, Calangute, Candolim, Aguada and Anjuna. But those who have grown blase of usual sun, sea and sand may visit Aguada Fort, Se Cathedral, Chapel of St. Francis Xavier, Dudhsagar Waterfall and Bondla wildlife Sanctuary.
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Strategically located in the village of Dabolim, Goa International Airport (IATA: GOI) commonly called Dabolim Airport, is the prominent international airport that greets visitors on flights to Goa. The airport is fairly well connected to the rest of the destination via a slew of local transport means including public buses and pre-paid taxis. The airport features a string of passenger facilities including premium lounges, duty-free shops, elaborate dining and much more. The airport is served by around dozens of popular global carriers that operate scheduled direct/indirect flights to Goa from across the globe.
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India's smallest state of Goa is well connected to the UK and the rest of the world. The international airport in the state is served by a slew of global airlines that operate scheduled full service and cheap flights to the destination from across the globe. From the key airports in the UK, popular carriers such as British Airways, Turkish Airlines, KLM, Emirates, Etihad, Virgin Atlantic and Iberia operate scheduled direct/indirect services to the destination. But India based carriers such as Air India and Jet Airways top the popularity charts when it comes to netting cheap tickets to Goa from the key airports in the UK.
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There is absolutely no dearth of accommodation options in the destination - in fact most visitors to the destination complain about the problem of plenty in terms of accommodations. There are absolutely infinite choices for the sybarites and some of the most popular luxury hotels include Taj Exotica, The Leela Kempinski and The LaLiT Golf and Spa Resort Goa. But those with not so deep pockets need not worry as the destination has plethora of budget accommodations on offer. Some of the popular pocket-freiendly hotels include the likes of Casa De Goa, Coconut Groove, Neelam the Grand and Sonesta Inn.
The best time to visit the destination remain the months between late October and early April. During this time of the year, the weather is near perfect, with daytime temperatures agreeable for outdoor sightseeing and activities. Tourists from all across the globe flock to the destination during this time of the year, hence it makes sense to make bookings well in advance as flight fares and hotel tariffs hit the ceiling due to high demand and huge crowd. For budget vacationers, the monsoon months of June and July remains the best time to visit. Travel and hotel prices are bottomed out during this time of the year.
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The Marlin Hotel Dublin
11 Bow Lane East Dublin D02 YE24 Ireland
This contemporary hotel is next to Stephen’s Green shopping centre
The hotel is a few minutes’ walk from Grafton Street and a 10-minute walk from Trinity College
There’s a 24-hour gym and a restaurant with a terrace
Modern guestrooms come with mood lighting and Bluetooth speakers
Lonely Planet describes Dublin as “a mix of heritage and hedonism” and centrally located Marlin Hotel is in a plum spot for exploring both those options. Set in the upscale Dublin 2 district, the hotel occupies a contemporary building with a partial glass façade, next to the stores and restaurants in Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre. The Gaiety Theatre and Grafton Street, the city’s central thoroughfare, are within a 5-minute walk, whilst Dublin Castle, with its opulent state apartments, the pub-packed banks of the river Liffey and the grandeur of Trinity College are about 10 minutes’ walk from the hotel. Both whiskey tasting at the Dublin Liberties Distillery and the Guinness Storehouse, dedicated to the drink’s history, take around 15 minutes to reach on foot from the hotel.
The focal point of Marlin Hotel is its ground floor area, which offers self-check in kiosks, co-working stations and a library space, as well as a bar, a coffee stand housed in a vintage horsebox, and a restaurant which opens to a terrace. There’s also an indoor garden and a 24-hour gym.
Sleek, modern guestrooms feature mood lighting and light wood furnishings. All have free Wi-Fi, Smart TVs, and Bluetooth speakers, plus air-conditioning and complimentary water. Higher tariff rooms include sitting space and local artworks, whilst suites have coffee machines, an extra TV and separate living areas with sofabeds.
11 Bow Lane East
Dublin D02 YE24
Children and additional guests: Children 2 or under stay free of charge when using existing bedding.
Extra bed not available for older children and adults.
Fees: Valet service fee: 30€ per stay.
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Las Vegas Executive Suites at TI
Approx. 830 sq. ft. (77 m²) studio style suite
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Two bathrooms feature marble floor and counter tops, ample storage and hotel spa shampoo, conditioner and other amenities
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The $37 + tax daily resort fee at TI Las Vegas provides hotel guests with several of the most commonly requested additional services at a package price.
Resort fees are required, and in addition to the room rates displayed online with the exception that resort fees are optional only for MyTI Guestbook members that book our exclusive TV Ad Special, our Groupon | LivingSocial packages or Airbnb room, qualified TI Players Club casino members, and meeting groups that book directly with the hotel for select dates. For those who confirm one of the aforementioned qualified bookings and decline the optional resort fee, the resort fee amenities would then need to be purchased separately.
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MSNBC ‘Morning Joe’ hosts fire back at Trump Twitter blasts
“Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski said Friday that President Donald Trump lied about their December encounter in a tweet and that his “unhealthy obsession” with their program doesn’t serve
MSNBC ‘Morning Joe’ hosts fire back at Trump Twitter blasts “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski said Friday that President Donald Trump lied about their December encounter in a tweet and that his “unhealthy obsession” with their program doesn’t serve Check out this story on yorkdispatch.com: https://www.yorkdispatch.com/story/news/2017/06/30/msnbc-morning-joe-hosts-fire-back-trump-twitter-blasts/103310396/
DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer Published 8:03 a.m. ET June 30, 2017
In this Nov. 29, 2016 file photo Mika Brzezinski waits for an elevator in the lobby at Trump Tower, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, in New York. President Donald Trump has used a series of tweets to go after Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, who've criticized Trump on their MSNBC show "Morning Joe." (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)(Photo: Evan Vucci / AP)
NEW YORK — “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski said Friday that President Donald Trump lied about their December encounter in a tweet and that his “unhealthy obsession” with their program doesn’t serve his mental health or the country well.
The two MSNBC personalities postponed a vacation in order to respond to Trump’s tweet, which drew wide condemnation a day earlier because he called Brzezinski “crazy” and said she was “bleeding badly from a face-lift” when he saw them at his Florida estate.
“We were heartened to hear a number of Republican lawmakers call out Mr. Trump for his offensive words and can only hope that the women who are closest to him will follow their examples,” the hosts said in a co-bylined column posted Friday on The Washington Post’s website.
They planned to appear on their show an hour after its 6 a.m. start to discuss the issue, colleague Willie Geist said.
His colleagues warmed up for him, with panelist Donnie Deutsch calling the president “a vulgar human being.”
For their part, the hosts said they had known Trump for more than a decade and have “fond memories” of their relationship. They were at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida shortly before the New Year in December to encourage Trump to give them an interview.
They said Trump was lying about Brzezinski having a face-lift, although “she did have a little skin under her chin tweaked.”
Their program and Trump have had a tortured relationship. They were criticized by some for being too close to Trump during the campaign and giving his candidacy an early boost, but have turned sharply against him. Brzezinski in recent weeks has wondered whether Trump was mentally ill and said the country under his presidency “does feel like a developing dictatorship.”
The hosts said in the Post column that they’ve noticed a change in Trump’s behavior over the past few years that left them neither shocked nor insulted by the Thursday tweet.
“The Donald Trump we knew before the campaign was a flawed character but one who still seemed capable of keeping his worst instincts in check,” they wrote.
Trump on Thursday had launched a crude Twitter attack on the brains, looks and temperament of Brzezinski, drawing bipartisan howls of outrage and leaving fellow Republicans beseeching him: Stop, please just stop.
Trump’s tweets revived concerns about his views of women in a city where civility already is in short supply and he is struggling for any support he can get for his proposals on health care, immigration and other controversial issues.
“I heard poorly rated @Morning—Joe speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore),” Trump tweeted to his nearly 33 million followers Thursday morning. “Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year’s Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!”
The tweets served to unite Democrats and Republicans for once in a chorus of protest that amounted to perhaps the loudest outcry since Trump took office.
“Obviously I don’t see that as an appropriate comment,” said Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi called Trump’s tweets, “blatantly sexist.” The president, she added, “happens to disrespect women … it’s sad.”
Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma even linked the president’s harsh words to the June 14 shootings of House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and three others.
“The president’s tweets today don’t help our political or national discourse and do not provide a positive role model for our national dialogue,” Lankford said, noting that he had just chaired a hearing on the shootings.
On Trump’s level of insult-trading, Brzezinski responded on Twitter by posting a photograph of a Cheerios box that included the phrase “made for little hands.” People looking to get under the president’s skin have long suggested that his hands appear small for his frame.
Trump’s allies cast his outburst as positive, an example of his refusal to be bullied.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the president was “pushing back against people who have attacked him day after day after day. Where is the outrage on that?”
“The American people elected a fighter; they didn’t elect somebody to sit back and do nothing,” she added.
First lady Melania Trump, who has vowed to fight cyberbullying while her husband is president, gave his tweets a pass.
“As the first lady has stated publicly in the past, when her husband gets attacked, he will punch back 10 times harder,” her communications director, Stephanie Grisham, said in a statement.
The White House has shown increasing irritation over harsh coverage of the president on Brzezinski and Scarborough’s “Morning Joe,” including commentary questioning Trump’s mental state.
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PREVIEW: HARTLEPOOL UNITED V YEOVIL TOWN
Ben Barrett
Yeovil Town are back in Sky Bet League Two action this coming Saturday afternoon when they travel to Hartlepool United.
It would be very easy to mention the distance that will be covered by Glovers fans for this journey, so we won’t mention the 332 miles each way in a car, the 13 hour option on the trains, or even the possible flight from Bristol to Newcastle that still involves significant journey time on the roads at each side and the actual 1 hour flight itself. Ok, so we might mention it.
Both sides are currently far too close to the relegation zone for their own comfort at this stage in the season with Yeovil in 21st just one place above their opponents this Saturday.
It’s probably not quite a so called six pointer, but a win for one side or the other could put up to a seven point gap between themselves and the relegation zone.
That’s some motivation and as such, Hartlepool have acted this week to sack Manager Ronnie Moore following their slump in form.
Just hours after announcing the departure of Moore, Hartlepool appointed former Middlesbrough midfielder Craig Hignett as their new gaffer.
Yeovil’s new Manager is starting to feel the warmth of his feet firmly under the table now and with the form table firmly on his side, his Manager of the Month nomination was fully deserved.
Hartlepool played this past Tuesday night, one of their three games in hand on sides around them.
However, it proved to be the final act of Moore’s tenure with a 2—1 defeat to Stevenage.
Both sides didn’t play last weekend with both Huish Park and Notts County’s ground proving unplayable so both teams got an unexpected – and probably unwanted Saturday off.
So, the Glovers have been out of action since a 1-1 draw with Luton Town 10 days ago.
In one way, the extra time off has allowed a couple of extra days for two key players to recover from injury.
Arturt Krysiak has been undergoing treatment following his exit from the Luton game through injury and the extra time may work in his favour.
Darren Ward, the captain was due to return to the match day squad against Plymouth hopefully an extra few days of training will do the skipper good.
The other positive news comes in the form of Liam Walsh extending his stay at Huish Park.
The Everton loanee has impressed since arriving a month ago and his extension is welcome news to everyone.
Despite the lack of form from this Saturday’s opponents, the threat offered from the front line duo Billy Paynter and Luke James should still be taken seriously.
One name that Glovers fans will recognise is that of Michael Woods, the former Leeds and Chelsea midfielder is now a linchpin of the Pools side having played 24 times this season. He played five times for Yeovil in 2012, scoring one and being sent off in his final appearance.
In the other direction, Ryan Bird and Jack Compton – two of the Glovers stars this season – will face their former club, the latter having scored more goals in his 13 Yeovil games as he did in his entire Hartlepool spell.
Darren Way’s team go marching on this Saturday and a win could put his side firmly on the path to safety.
Last time we met
Earlier this season, the two sides met at Huish Park and Hartlepool came out on top in a 2-1 win.
Ryan Bird had levelled the scores in the first half, but in the second half, Brad Walker netted a winner much to the travelling fans delight.
The sides last met during the Glovers’ 2012/13 promotion season in League One.
Most recently, in early March of 2013, the two sides played out a battling 0-0 draw, a Paddy Madden shot hitting the crossbar might well have been the only real talking point of a fairly bland game.
Earlier in the same campaign, a second scrappy game saw Yeovil come out on top thanks to a single Joe Edwards goal.
Edwards playing in a much more advanced midfield role was on target in the 7th minute.
In fact, three out of the last four meetings have all been settled by a single goal, only one of those has gone the way of Saturday’s visitors.
In 2011, Bondz N’Gala scored a winning goal to send 55 travelling fans into raptures.
Hartlepool have reduced ticket prices for the Glovers trip north adult admission is now just £12 and concessions are now just £6.
If anyone had already purchased tickets at the old, increased prices contact the Huish Park ticket office for the appropriate refund.
Tickets are available from the away end ticket office on the day.
Commentary and Social Media
Commentary for all of Yeovil Town’s matches can be heard through the online club service Glovers Player, you can sign up for this by clicking HERE!
BBC Radio will also have full match commentary of the Green and White’s matches, stay tuned to your local station for all the details.
Stay tuned to all things Yeovil Town through the club’s social media outlets.
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Wanna see the interiors I did for Sivion's album "Group Therapy"?
So when I did the artwork for Sivion's album Group Therapy, I agreed not to share the interior art on the internet for a while so that people who bought the record would get something exclusive. After almost a year on the open market, I think it's okay to show this to you, since we're cool and all...
Above we have the front cover, which you may have already seen. Each character is one of the musicians who features on the album (and Sivion in the front, of course). The album has a TON of features. This isn't even half of the characters, but I'm not George Perez or anything, so we had to put a cap on it, son!
This is the interior spread. I knew it would be mostly obscured by song credits and stuff, but I still wanted to do something interesting.
My favorite piece on this project was the back cover, which shows the superheroes in a support group inspired by the album's title.
This is the image that's printed on the disc. Sivion toting the Battle Axe, his saxophone.
This one was not part of the album artwork, but after I finished, I got so excited waiting on the album to come out that I drew this in my spare time. We eventually used it for the album release party fliers.
Group Therapy came out in October, and I honestly anticipated getting a lot more album cover work this year, but seven months in, that has not happened. What I get is lots of people who ask me what I charge, and then don't reply when I give them my rates.
Oh well... This Promethian fire nah come cheap, seen?
All in all, I enjoyed doing the artwork for Group Therapy. Like all the other records I have done art for, Group Therapy is a fabulous piece of work, and I am proud to be involved with it.
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Al Williams said...
I noticed Playdoughs hotdog suit. But cant place the rest featured on the album? Is there going to be like a character list of whos who?
samax amen said...
The characters on the front cover, top to bottom, and left to right:
1) Sintax the Terrific
2) Propaganda
3) Freddie Bruno
4) Wushu (Sivion's twin brother, and partner in Phat Kats)
5) Eimi Hall
6) Heather James
7) Manchild (from Mars ILL)
8) Sareem Poems
9) Zane One
10) Playdough
11) Sivion
But like I said, there's a ton of features. I would still be designing costumes if I'd tried to draw 'em all!
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New art- "Love's Gonna Getcha" by @SamaxAmen (cuz ...
old fan art- "Lara and Jor El" by @SamaxAmen
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A Quick Guide to Lanzarote
Where to eat, sleep and and explore on this unique volcanic island
WHERE — Lanzarote
PHOTOGRAPHY — Jessie Bush & Sam Flaherty on 35mm
The Lanzarote travel guide—an island where you can dine inside a vast cave system, enjoy your coffee espresso with panoramic volcanic views and visit an artist’s residence built into lava bubbles.
A friend once described Lanzarote as a little like visiting the moon. And she was right; if the dark rocky surface of the moon was also lined with palm trees and cacti and surrounded by an impossibly blue ocean. Sam and I visited at the very beginning of the year—a little vitamin D to soften the blow of post-New Years blues if you will.
Some people complain that it’s super touristic and full of Brit’s Abroad. But while that may be true, particularly in the height of summer, the most overwhelming element of Lanzarote is it’s gritty, out-of-this-world beauty. Volcanic landscapes stretch as far as the eye can see. Impressive cacti seemingly grow everywhere, like amazing weeds. And rugged rocky beaches hug translucent waters begging for a swim. It’s a pretty surreal island – one you really need to visit yourself to get a sense of just how different it is from almost any other place on earth.
^ The surreal Jameos del Agua
Lanzarote has a pretty bad rap when it comes to tourism, and the massive resorts that line Puerto del Carmen definitely suggest it’s a popular spot. We went in January for a mid-winter dose of vitamin D—which meant that when the sun was out it was a balmy 22 degrees, but the second the sun dipped or the wind picked up it became jacket weather.
To avoid the crowds but still get the kind of amazing weather you want from an island holiday, I would go either March-May or Sept-Oct (and if you go early autumn the ocean will be nice and warm after a long, steamy summer).
Hire a car as soon as you arrive. The island itself is pretty small – you could drive the length of it in a hour. But there are lots of spots – especially the more unknown beaches – which you’ll need a car for. Plus it’s pretty amazing driving around with dark volcanic rock lining the roads.
^ Mirador del Río, where the views are otherwordly
COFFEE WITH A VIEW
Drive up to Mirador del Río in the north of the island—a truly unique building built into a clifftop, with a chic cafe and viewpoints for impressive (volcanic) panoramic views.
Mirador del Río, Carretera de Yé S/N HARÍA, 35541
^ The sunset from Charco Verde
VISIT AN EXTINCT VOLCANIC CRATER
Head out to Charco Verde—a large crater open to the sea— just by El Golfo, ideally just before sunset for some pretty mind blowing views. The green crater backs onto black sand, red rocks and the blue ocean which makes for a pretty unlikely surreal landscape.
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DINE INSIDE A VOLCANIC CAVE
Eat at Jameos del Agua—a pretty incredible natural cave system that also features a restaurant, and an art and cultural center by local artist and architect César Manrique (if you haven’t heard of Manrique before you come to Lanzarote, you’ll hear his name several times a day while you’re here—he’s firmly part of the cultural fabric of the island). It all really has to be seen to be believed. You can visit Jameos del Agua without eating at the restaurant, but if you do want to have lunch or dinner there, it pays to book.
Jameos del Agua, Carretera Arrieta-Órzola, S/N, 35542
^ The pool at César Manrique’s residence
SLEEP IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
At Buenavista Lanzarote Country, a chic minimalist country house with expansive views across a semi-barren volcanic landscape and rocky craters. This spot feels totally removed from anything, yet it’s only a quick 15 minute drive from the airport and beach (the perks of being on a small island).
Buenavista Lanzarote Country, Camino Mentidero, 3, 35572 Tías
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SWIM IN TURQUOISE WATERS
At the unspoiled Playa Papagayo, a turquoise cove found at the end of a long dirt track. Golden sands back onto rugged cliffs which make for a pretty unique landscape. However—like all dreamy beaches—apparently it can get pretty overrun with people in summer, so this spot is best enjoyed in spring or autumn.
Playa Papagayo, 35580 Yaiza, Las Palmas
VISIT A LOCAL ARTIST’S RESIDENCE (AKA INTERIOR HEAVEN)
The César Manrique Foundation is the former residence of local artist César Manrique—as mentioned above—and has been lovingly maintained so that visitors can stroll through his incredible house which was actually built into old lava bubbles. This one is a must-do while on Lanzarote.
César Manrique Foundation, Calle Jorge Luis Borges, 16, 35507 Tahiche
^ Charco Verde’s volcanic landscape
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On Charter: The Best of Turkey's Bay of Fethiye
You don’t need much to feel perfection in this part of the world, where our civilization is merely the latest to enjoy the spoils.
Frances and Michael Howorth
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We have cruised the Caribbean and loved the Virgin Islands. The beauty of the Maldives, the Florida Keys and the Bahamas has swept us away. Yet time and time again, we return to the Gulf of Fethiye in Turkey. It’s safe, picturesque and, when it comes to yachting, paradise personified.
The Gulf of Fethiye is bounded by the communities of Marmaris to the north and Kas to the south. It is a roughly T-shaped gulf with the ports of Göcek and Fethiye at each head of the crosspiece. Göcek is a fishing village that has grown to embrace fleets of bareboats and crewed gulets. A couple of the town’s four marinas host Sunsail and local fleets.
We cruised aboard a Numarine 78 Hardtop. She is a Turkish-built motoryacht whose aggressive styling makes her a standout in most harbors, and whose design makes her surprisingly spacious for a whole family during a week aboard.
Crystal-clear water and the chance of an anchorage all to yourself are some of the many charms that chartering here has to offer.
The islands here rise steeply from the seabed, with pine and oleander trees covering the cliffs. High winds and heavy seas are rarely a problem, and the choices of anchorages and moorings include more than 30 creeks and bays, many with restaurants that serve local fare.
Some bays are close to sites of antiquity, letting boaters clamber over ruins from the Roman occupation and earlier. At Ruin Bay, we dropped anchor off the ruins of a partially submerged structure believed to be a Turkish hammam that Cleopatra visited. We explored with snorkels and masks, and then cruised to the ruins of wharves from the Ottoman Empire in Sasala. Tomb Bay has crypts carved into the rocks high up on the cliff face, each with an imposing façade.
Carian and Lycian rock tombs tower above the scenic and aptly named Tomb Bay. The ancient city of Crya can still be picked out amid the olive and oleander trees.
Throughout the day, small boats approach, offering wares and edibles. Fresh rounds of oven-hot loaves arrive at breakfast time. Ice cream is offered just before lunch, along with pancakes filled with cheese and herbs. Each is made to order. Later in the day, fishermen display their catch for you to buy and cook yourself.
If time in the galley isn’t your fancy, motor over to Fethiye, the largest port in the area, where the waterfront bustles. Craft of every shape and dimension are there, including fishing boats bringing the day’s catch to the waterfront market. It’s great fun to mingle with locals as they crowd around the stalls. Every so often, one of the waiflike cats gets rewarded with a small fish tossed onto the floor. Cameras click, and children squeal with delight.
Fresh fish is among Turkey’s indigenous culinary delights.
When it comes to eating in Turkey, tradition and flavor are essential ingredients.
We bought octopus, sea bream and snapper and brought it to a man named Mustapha, whose market stall has tables and chairs under umbrellas. While we sipped Efes, the local beer, Mustapha prepared our dinner. He served it deliciously unadorned, save for huge wedges of local lemons and baskets of fresh bread.
Gallery: See a larger selection of Turkey charter photos in the gallery below:
Göcek in Myth
Legend has it that Göcek was the home of Daedalus and his son Icarus. According to myth, Daedalus was the architect and sculptor who built the labyrinth on Crete. He carved the figure of a cow-headed man, and he created wings for his son using bird feathers held together with wax or tar. Daedalus and Icarus were then banished from Göcek, and Icarus flew away, carrying his father with him—too close to the sun, which melted the wings. The pair dropped into the sea and drowned.
About the Numarine 78 Hardtop
On board, this yacht feels much larger than she appears at the dock. Inside, charter guests and owners find a contemporary interior. The master stateroom is amidships with diamond-shaped windows. Forward of the master are two twin-bed staterooms, and then the far-forward VIP, which rivals the master in terms of sleeping accommodations. The main deck had plenty of space for our family of six, and sometimes so much room that we felt like we were aboard a bigger yacht, including at the indoor dining table that seats nine.
Gallery: Numarine 78 Hardtop
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First Choice Bank Annual Charity Golf Tournament Makes Record High Donation
Nov 29, 2018 by John Heerdink in First Choice Bancorp View Disclaimer
First Choice Bancorp is the registered bank holding company for First Choice Bank. First Choice Bank, headquartered in Cerritos, California is a community-focused financial institution, serving diverse consumers and commercial clients and specializing in loans to small businesses, private banking clients, commercial and industrial (C&I) loans, and commercial real estate loans with a niche in providing finance for the hospitality industry. First Choice Bank is a Preferred Small Business Administration (SBA) Lender. Founded in 2005, First Choice Bank has quickly become a leading provider of financial services that enable their customers to grow, maintain strength, and achieve their business objectives. First Choice Bancorp stock is traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker symbol “FCBP”. First Choice Bank’s website is www.FirstChoiceBankCA.com.
FCBP announced recently that a record high donation amount was raised from its 8th Annual Charity Golf Tournament. The tournament was held at the Industry Hills Golf Club in The City of Industry on October 25, 2018. The Bank’s total donation amount of $55,800 will be matched by the Much is Given Foundation. Thanks to the Foundation’s generosity, this year’s contribution to the 18-selected organizations will total $111,600. The 18 non-profit organizations this year were: ABC Unified School District Education Foundation, ACCION, Blind Children’s Learning Center of Orange County, Chinese Christian Herald Crusades- Rowland Heights, Fresh Start Surgical Gifts, Giving Children Hope, Instituto de Avance Latino (IDEAL), Journey House, Junior Achievement Southern California, Kidsingers, Little Tokyo Service Center, National MS Society- Pacific Chapter, Orangewood Children’s Home Auxiliary La Casa, SIMNSA , Solidarity , St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital- Southern California, Teen Challenge LA County, Union Station Homeless Services.
“Each year, FCB’s Annual Charity Golf Tournament has continued to grow in the number of players and donations. It is exciting to see the impact this event has on our community, and we are already looking forward to coming together again next year to support local non-profits through a great game of golf,” said FCB President and Chief Executive Officer, Robert Franko.
Platinum Sponsors included American First National Bank, Big Saver Foods, CIM Group Inc., Hospitality Unlimited Investment, Interstate Hotels & Resorts, LIFERAY, NKSFB LLC, Paradigm, PINN Investments, Tarsadia Foundation and Tri-Lin Holdings. Gold Sponsors included Abacus Payroll Services, CoreCapital, DC Construction, Hawaiian Garden Casino-The Garden Casino, KingFisher Trading, Loren P. Hansen, APC, and Vavrinek, Trine, Day & Co LLP. The Longest Drive Sponsor were Chicago Title, Amit Sharma and Kamla for Hope. Closest to the Pin Sponsor included Financial Guaranty Insurance Brokers Inc. and Insignia Mortgage Inc. Hole in One Sponsors were Hospitality One Construction, J&E Private Security Corporation, Thong, Yu, Wong & Lee, LLP and UMS. The Dinner Sponsor was Mega Bank and a Special Thanks to S3 Hotel for a generous dona
The Bank presented this year’s Citizen of the Year award to Mickey Segal, Managing Partner of Nigro Karlin Segal & Feldstein LLP. Mr. Segal’s philanthropic activities are numerous and include serving as Chairman for both the Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation and Arcadia Methodist Hospital, as well as chairing several worthy events and campaigns such as the Arcadia Unified School District’s Technology Plan, the American Cancer Society’s 100th Birthday Celebration, and St. Jude Research Hospital’s Southern California Gala. His devotion to these organizations, along with so many other charitable groups and events, has helped to raise tens of millions of dollars for countless individuals in need. The spirit of giving he displays in selflessly donating his time, energy and money to those less fortunate and in need of help are the reasons why First Choice chose Mickey Segal as its 2018 Citizen of the Year.
“It is an honor to be recognized,” said Mr. Segal. “I share this with the many other people in our community who support those in need.”
The Bank also honored the late Uka Solanki, First Choice Director, who passed away unexpectedly in September. The FCB Inspiration Award, which was accepted by Mr. Solanki’s wife Nalini and son Harish at the event, recognized the great humanitarian efforts Mr. Solanki made during his lifetime. “He made a tremendous difference in the lives of so many,” stated FCB Chairman Peter Hui. “He will be sorely missed by the First Choice Bank family.”
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First Choice Bank Makes Record High Donation for its Annual Charity Golf Tournament
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NCLR exploits tragedy with guilt by association tactic
Tragedy affects us all. Whether it was the nearly 3,000 Americans who perished on 9/11 or a child whose sexual innocence is damaged by an abuser, ultimately as a human family, tragedy affects us all.
Unfortunately, almost every time there is a tragedy there are those who take advantage of it to manipulate public opinion or to capitalize on it for political and personal reasons. That’s why it was deeply troubling to read of the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) using the sexual abuse of a confused young man as a jump off attempt to discredit sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE).
According to an August 27th press release, the NCLR announced that it was “filing a complaint with the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Department on behalf of a former student of Bethel Baptist School in Walls, Mississippi who says he was sexually abused for three years by a teacher attempting to “cure” his sexual orientation.”
First, any feeling American can agree with the NCLR in that no child, no person should ever be put through the horror of sexual abuse, molestation or violence of any kind. Likewise, no person, whether gay or nongay should ever be the perpetrator of such vile injustice. If the facts of this case bear out against the defendant, the penalty of the law should be applied justly.
Its also important to remember that at this point, this case has not been adjudicated in a court of law, thus the claims are simply that: claims.
God only knows how many men and women who have been scarred by childhood sexual violence –including Ellen Degeneres, Corey Feldman and Cindy Lauper— understand and believe that its a tragedy no one should exploit for personal gain.
But that’s exactly what the NCLR is doing when it claims, without evidence, that there is a connection between the heinous crime committed by the defendant and voluntary sexual orientation change efforts shepherded by trained and caring professionals.
“The former student, Jeff White, now 32, alleges that, shortly after coming out in 1996, his parents turned to the local church, which ran a school it promised could “cure” their son and stop him from being gay. Beginning his freshman year, according to White, teacher Steven Barnes began subjecting White to weekly “counseling” sessions in which he regularly raped and sexually assaulted the teenager to convince him that being gay was more painful than suppressing his sexual orientation.”
If this is indeed what happened to Mr. White, it has no relationship to the scenario of what happens between an adult therapist and his or her adult client. With no evidence to support its theory, NCLR simply made an incredulous assumption of guilt by association. Guilt by association is the attempt to discredit an idea based upon disfavored people or groups associated with it. Because NCLR dislikes the work of credible SOCE practicioners, it seeks to dishonestly make the case that any instance of sexual orientation change gone awry is the fault of credible SOCE representatives. Such accusations have little value except for self-serving rhetorical effect.
Here are the facts:
There has been no concerted effort or practice among SOCE practitioners to use sexual abuse or rape as a means of facilitating the process of change. I challenge the NCLR to put up or shut up.
There is no documented evidence conclusively proving that voluntarily changing how one chooses to sexually express themselves is dangerous to the individual’s mental health or spiritual well being. Thousands of people who have done so are perfectly normal, mentally healthy and stable members of society. That’s not to say that no one has been dissatisfied with either the results of their attempts or the process itself. Perspective remains the key arbitrator of success.
White’s alleged abuser Steven Barnes never made any claim to be a representative of any SOCE organization. The comparison is about as ludicrous as saying Jeffrey Dahmer was a representative of the Human Rights Campaign. Steven Barnes was the employee of the church who took advantage of a broken and sexually confused young man. Those are the actions of a sexual predator. The church believed (like millions of other orthodox Christians) that homosexuality (like many other spiritual maladies) could be changed by faith and prayer to God and Steven Barnes betrayed that belief by his alleged actions.
Americans are still largely divided as to whether homosexuality is not some fixed, hard wired genetic condition. Rather it is fluid, changeable and subject to the individual’s level of determination to do so.
A 13 page statement entitled Legal and Ethical Concerns About Change in Sexual Orientations authors Tia Powell and Edward Stein, representing the American Association of Law Schools, said in part:
“[…] we question what seem to be presumptions undergirding laws banning sexual orientation change efforts,namely that sexual orientations are always innate and immutable and do not reflect choices. We suggest that such presumptions about sexual orientations are not only weak starting points for laws like California’s and New Jersey’s, but, more generally, that immutability, innateness, and lack of choice are poor arguments for the rights of LGB people. In sum, such claims about the nature and origins of sexual orientations are neither good science nor good politics and are not an appropriate foundation for prohibiting sexual orientation change efforts or for LGB rights generally. Instead , support for LGB rights should be grounded in an intellectually rigorous and appropriately humble approach to science and the limits of scientific knowledge .”
Its sad that homosexual activist organizations want to take away the power of choice given to every man by God. What if Mr. White were told he had no choice but to continue submitting to his alleged abuser? What if he were told there was no way he could ever be anything other than a victim? If the choice to change undesirable factors of one’s life isn’t valid for all, its not valid for any. Such a universal truth made rich with diversity cannot be refashioned into some monolithic edict because of the biased perspectives of groups like the NCLR.
The NCLR is right to stand up and fight against sexual abuse of any kind. But we have to call this what it is. Its a shallow, attention-getting stunt which exploits Mr. White’s horrific past and cheapens the suffering of many Americans who have been similarly damaged.
Pastor Darryl L. (DL) Foster is the Co-Founder of Voice of the Voiceless and an ordained minister, husband, father, and self-described abolitionist pastor. In 1990, he left homosexuality to follow Christ and subsequently founded Witness Ministries, Inc. a prominent Christian outreach focused on helping people of color gain their freedom in Christ. In 2010, he also founded and organized the Overcomers Network, an Atlanta based EXGLBT empowerment organization with chapters in 18 US cities.
This entry was posted in +VoV Articles, Christian and tagged American Association of Law Schools, Bethel Baptist School, Edward Stein, guilt by association, Jeff White, law, legal, logical fallacy, Mississippi, National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), Pastor Darryl L. Foster, rape, SOCE, Steven Barnes, Tia Powell on 2014-09-16 by VoV Contributor.
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Bodycam video shows chaos on court during Shaker Heights-Brush high school basketball game
A 21-year-old fan was arrested after taunting some of the Shaker players
Published: 11:03 PM EST February 8, 2019
Updated: 11:31 PM EST February 8, 2019
SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio — We are getting our first look at the video of the chaos inside the Shaker Heights vs. Brush high school basketball game earlier this week.
Body camera video from the Shaker Heights Police Department shows the arrest made on the court.
A 21-year-old fan from Euclid was taunting Shaker players and was asked to stop by security guards. The man's father apparently participated in the confrontation, prompting matters to escalate.
The crowd became unruly as some fans entered the court, some taunting the security guard, which caused the game's cancellation.
One student was injured trying to exit the building and required medical treatment. No other injuries were reported.
The 21-year-old, identified by police as Steven D. Gamble, was arrested and escorted from the scene in handcuffs.
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Friendly cricket match between Pakistan High Commission London and the Pakistan Journalists Association (PJA), UK at the Osterley Cricket Club on 8 October 2016; Pakistan High Commission London won the match by four wickets after an interesting contest between the two teams. The match provided a good day out for the families, youth and general public.
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This Is The Most Popular Sex Position Among Both Men AND Women
Maria Teijeiro
While we're all unique sexual beings, there's one thing most of us apparently just can't get enough of.
And that would be doggy style.
According to a survey of 2,000 people from the U.S. and the U.K., published by the U.K.'s online doctor database Dr.Ed.com, more than 35 percent of people said that doggy was their preferred go-to position followed by missionary and cowgirl. Talk about a real crowd pleaser.
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Check out these 14 fascinating facts about your orgasm.
Though both men and women agreed that doggy style is the bomb, women's second favorite sex move was missionary. (Shout out to all the lazy girls! Represent!) For dudes, the number-two slot was taken by girl on top, or cowgirl—if that's what you like to call it. (Get more out of doing it doggy with this JimmyJane form 6 vibrator.)
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Men were also more likely to say they wanted to try anal. They ranked it as the second position guys wanted to try, right behind 69 standing up (no word on how that works). However, backdoor action didn't even make the list of top 10 positions women wanted to try.
But it's not like the women surveyed weren't into adventurous sex experiences. At the top of ladies to-do list: tabletop (also known as sex on a table), kneeling wheelbarrow, and 69 standing up (how?!).
If you're still doubtful about doggy, check out these six ways to make doggy style more romantic or these 11 tips for turning up the sex appeal.
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‘Memo’ shocker: FBI presented Clinton’s opposition research as a counterintelligence document
By World Tribune on February 5, 2018
by WorldTribune Staff, February 4, 2018
The storm over the Feb. 2 release of the FISA memo by the White House has led both political parties to proclaim a “constitutional crisis.”
Here is the main takeaway from document: The FBI relied heavily on the discredited Trump “dossier” by ex-British spy Christopher Steele to obtain FISA warrants to spy on Trump campaign associates.
The dossier has been revealed to be a political opposition research report by the Clinton campaign and the DNC that was presented in the FISA applications by the FBI as a counterintelligence document.
When these machinations came to light, FBI officials urged President Donald Trump not to release the memo.
Related: Read it: Trump releases memo, charges FBI elite ‘politicized sacred investigative process’, Feb. 2, 3018
Other noteworthy findings:
Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times
“In one FISA application to judges, the FBI cited two sources, the dossier and a story by Yahoo News. But the Yahoo story was based on the dossier. Not really two sources.”
Steele lied to the FBI “when he said he did not speak with the media. He has said in a libel case that he spoke to reporters repeatedly.”
Though the FBI fired Steele, he continued to funnel information to the agency through former associate deputy attorney general Bruce Ohr. Bruce Ohr’s wife worked for Fusion GPS, the opposition research that paid Steele. “She passed Fusion research to the FBI, which never disclosed the source to the FISA court.”
Former FBI director James Comey signed three surveillance warrants on Trump campaign aide Carter Page “at the same time he told President-elect Trump that the dossier was ‘salacious and unverified.’ ”
“The Steele dossier was made to look like a standard intelligence document that was produced by counterintelligence American patriots. …
“We now know that the memo asserts that this dossier formed an essential part of the first and subsequently all three renewal FISA applications against Carter Page. Now, this we’ve known and talked about. Carter Page was a temporary Trump campaign official who had made some trips to Russia. And it was those trips in Russia that formed the basis of manufacturing out of whole cloth, creating a series of lies that the guy was being used as an agent by the Trump administration. …
“They didn’t have enough of anything to get a FISA warrant to surveil and spy on the Trump campaign, the Trump transition, Carter Page, Trump Tower, you name it. Without the Steele dossier, which has never been corroborated, none of it has been confirmed, none of it is true, all of it written and created by the Hillary Clinton campaign using Fusion GPS.
“DOJ and FBI officials … knew everything I have just told you. They knew everything but excluded that [background] when they sought the FISA warrant.
“They did not include in their application that it was a political document. They withheld the political news related to the very creation of this document in their FISA application. In the real world, it verifies that the judge was not told that the Trump dossier, the Steele dossier was a political document. It means that it was presented as counterintelligence. It was presented as an intelligence product created by patriotic American spies and intelligence agents trying to save America. …
Angelo M. Codevilla, The American Spectator
“The FBI’s top leadership – whose careers, business dealings, politics, marriages and extramarital affairs intertwine – invested itself incompetently and illegally into the 2016 election campaign against Donald Trump. In part to cover itself, it launched the so-called ‘Russia probe.’ Its members are personally, deeply interested in keeping the public from seeing the documents concerning these activities. They raised the familiar shield: release would compromise the sources and methods of national security.
“The House of Representatives’ Republican majority wanted the documents made public, issued a subpoena for them, and was prepared to jail senior FBI for contempt had they not complied with it. The House compromised, being satisfied by viewing them and making a summary, which it has voted to make public. The FBI and the Justice Department’s bureaucracy, being out of options for saving their reputations, their pensions, and perhaps for keeping themselves out of jail, urge President Trump to advise the House to guard the secrecy of the summary, of the activities that it describes, and hence to save their bacon.
“The Democratic Party pretends to care so much about national security, to have such faith in the FBI’s stewardship of it, and such diffidence of the American people’s capacity to judge such matters, that its leading spokesmen have joined the agencies’ demand on Trump.
“This is as rich constitutionally as it is politically. The Agencies, having told the country and President Trump for a year that they are the arbiters of secrecy, scurry to get back under the presidency’s protective power by asserting that this power extends over Congress as well.
“Sorry, fellas, it does not. No president can tell Congress what to tell or not to tell the American people, or not to subpoena your documents, or not to put you in jail if you don’t comply. Maybe if you had not slapped your lawful boss around with your pretense of “independence,” if you had come to him confessing your sins and humbly asking his indulgence, you might not be in this fix. Now you are asking for a “get out of jail” card, which he probably can’t give you even if he wanted to.
“The reason is political. Despite your, the Democratic Party’s, and the media’s dogged efforts to deep-six the facts concerning your misdeeds, nothing is going to put these black cats back into the proverbial bag. They are coming to light through the whistle-blowers among you, working with journalists on the media’s periphery, and with substantial Republican elements. At this point, the more you protest ‘National Security,’ the fewer people believe you and the more you anger.
“Your best hope is to retire and resign, hoping that your soft-hearted opponents might be satisfied with non-punitive housecleaning. The chief of the FBI’s national security division did that as soon as NSA sounded the alarm over the not-so-incidental interception of Trump campaign officials’ communications. Bruce Ohr was demoted, ‘Andy’ McCabe functionally retired. What will the people involved in asking for certain FISA warrants do? When will they do it?”
Christopher Steele, dossier, FISA, Fusion GPS, memo, The ‘memo’: FBI presented Clinton’s opposition research as a counterintelligence document, Trump campaign, WorldTribune.com
‘Memo’ shocker: FBI presented Clinton’s opposition research as a counterintelligence document added by World Tribune on February 5, 2018
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The purpose-driven professional
By William D. Eggers, Nate Wong, Kate Cooney
Article September 08, 2015
The purpose-driven professional Harnessing the power of corporate social impact for talent development
William D. Eggers
Nate Wong
Kate Cooney
As employees increasingly look for meaning and social impact in their corporate jobs, companies are seeking—and finding—ways to link talent development and rewarding, purpose-driven work, for both employee engagement and competitive advantage.
Social impact in business: No longer an anomaly
Graham Simpson spent six months with a non-governmental organization (NGO) helping Kenyan community health workers develop a marketing strategy for a new revenue-generating business. He did this while fully employed at pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) as part of the firm’s PULSE program, a three-year-old initiative that places staff in voluntary projects around the world for up to six months full-time as a way to develop future leaders and retain talent.
While working in Kenya, Simpson started thinking about how GSK could help the world’s very poor overcome hurdles related to health access. He knew that every minute, at least one woman somewhere dies from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth, often preventable with early detection and diagnosis.1 Partly due to a lack of electricity and clean water, diagnosing diseases reliably in remote, rural areas can be challenging.
Millennials, Baby Boomers, retirees, and Gen Xers are increasingly seeking opportunities to pursue social impact work in the corporate sector.
Simpson wondered whether researchers could fashion a cheap yet reliable diagnostic product and, if so, how to market and distribute it. Thus, the kernel of an idea was planted: Could health workers create a viable business around diagnostic tests? After he returned to GSK, Simpson spoke with the head of R&D about testing, and the conversation spurred a project to assess the feasibility of a health diagnostic product, developed with Johns Hopkins University, that could work in even the most challenging environments while being manufactured at a very low cost—about 2 cents each. Though this project has concluded, the workstream it generated stimulated a number of successful innovation projects at GSK.
As technology and globalization bring the world’s social and economic inequities into full view, employees from all generations in the workforce—Millennials, Baby Boomers, retirees, and Gen Xers—are increasingly seeking opportunities to pursue social impact work in the corporate sector.
A new generation of Millennials—people between the ages of 21 and 32—seek to change the world using the tools of business, technology, entrepreneurship, engineering, and design. Leading universities have responded to this demand with courses in social entrepreneurship, impact investing, social enterprise management, and social innovation. The result is a new pool of professionals who can operate in both the business and social-sector realms. The call and promise: “You can change the world and have a business career.”
Socially minded Millennials aren’t the only workforce cohort positioned to make social contributions. We’re finally seeing the first wave of Baby Boomer retirements, and surveys show that a large share of these Boomers, still engaged and physically active, want to give back to society, spending their “semi-retirement” years at nonprofits and other organizations contributing to social good.2
“For the longest time, we’ve assumed that social entrepreneurship was the exclusive provenance of young people,” says Marc Freedman, founder and CEO of Encore.org, a nonprofit research center dedicated to “second acts” in workers’ lives. “Now we’re realizing an undiscovered continent of innovation in the growing population over 50.”3
Similar to Millennials and retirees, an increasing number of Gen Xers—now with 20 years or more of job experience—are also looking for more meaning from their jobs.4 Today, only 55 percent of Gen Xers give their current jobs a high rating for meaning, about 10 percentage points lower than boomers.5 Having achieved some degree of financial security, many Gen Xers are open to sacrificing money for purpose. Liz Maw, CEO of the nonprofit Net Impact, says that “making a positive social and environmental impact through business has gone from a ‘nice to have’ to a ‘must have.’”6
The corporate response
Companies have responded to this demand in a host of ways, offering sabbaticals and leaves of absence that allow employees to help at nonprofits and social enterprises and dramatically increasing pro bono and skill-based volunteering opportunities like what Graham Simpson experienced at GSK. Multinational firms such as SC Johnson, Groupe Danone, GE, and Unilever have launched social innovation business units, charged with developing products and services for hard-to-reach, disadvantaged groups and base-of-the-pyramid customers.
The concept of pursuing a double or triple bottom line—seeking to maximize financial, social, and environmental impacts—has gained traction among large, established firms and emerging enterprises alike. This has also provided more opportunities for purpose-driven professionals to pursue personal passions while working within the corporate world.
The problem is that, even as companies increasingly invest in social impact initiatives, these activities often remain disconnected from a part of the business where they should be intimately connected: talent and leadership development programs. Having grown up in different parts of the company, social impact and talent development tend to remain isolated from each other.
Management scholars such as C. K. Prahalad, Michael Porter, and Mark Kramer have shown the missed strategic opportunities that result from a failure to develop synergies between social initiatives and core business units through shared value initiatives. This has spawned a growing movement to more closely tie together social impact and business opportunities. In this study, we argue that firms also face missed value and distinct competitive threats in failing to connect social initiatives and double/triple-bottom-line endeavors to their human capital programs.
The case for connecting social initiatives with talent development
The benefits of connecting social impact activities to talent development fall across four dimensions:
These initiatives push innovation by putting employees in a fresh context, allowing them to learn new skills while serving a greater good.
Millennials, especially, are looking for work that elicits passion and helps them pursue professional, personal, and social goals simultaneously.7 Seventy percent of Millennials say a company’s commitment to its local community would influence their decision to work there.8 “If your company offers something that’s more purposeful than just a job, younger generations are going to choose that every time,” says Blake Jones, president and CEO of Namasté Solar, a Colorado solar technology installer and certified Benefit Corporation (B Corp).9
The rise of talent agencies dedicated to connecting candidates to impactful jobs—such as ReWork, which looks to help talented people find purposeful full-time work—demonstrates this trend. The growing market demand for ReWork’s services reflects the shift in the talent pool’s priorities. “Top talent across the world sees fundamental problems undermining our society and are demanding to be an active part of the solution,” say ReWork founders Nathaniel Koloc and Evan Walden. “This generation of leaders and innovators will not settle to work for companies that can’t see beyond business as usual, or that refuse to do their part.”10
Engagement and retention
Social impact programs and shared-value activities create a more engaged workforce. Consciously or not, employees make decisions about their personal motivation and productivity every day.
One of us (Nate) spent two weeks in Brazil working with a nonprofit that serves disadvantaged youth in poverty-stricken favelas. The experience sparked an interest in international development that made him question his career path. Instead of quitting his consulting job, however, Nate found that he could further his passions within the company. He took a four-month sabbatical to work as a volunteer consultant in several countries in Southern Africa on a Gates Foundation-funded project with TechnoServe. Upon returning to his job, he moved into emerging markets work, leveraging his experience in Africa. Now he is embedded in his consultancy’s newly launched Social Impact practice, helping public-, private-, and social-sector clients maximize their social impact. His experience showcases both changing employee goals and the new approaches that firms are employing to create social impact and grow business in new directions while meeting employee needs.
IBM also recognizes the synergies between employee engagement and social impact work: Since the 2008 launch of IBM’s Corporate Service Corps, more than 2,800 employees, originating from over 60 countries, have taken four-week pro bono assignments in one of 38 emerging nations to date. Fully 76 percent of the participants—many of whom are mid-career professionals—said that the program boosted their desire to complete their careers at IBM. One of them, Priscila Chaves Martínez, felt a void. She had worked for IBM for six years in her native Costa Rica and enjoyed the job, but increasingly she yearned to improve the social conditions in her country. She was about to leave IBM to work for an NGO when the company offered her the opportunity to participate in the Service Corps.
“I went to Egypt on a Service Corps trip, and it changed my life,” says Martínez. “It opened up a whole new world and range of opportunities for me.” She stayed at IBM, helped to start its corporate social responsibility (CSR) program in Costa Rica, and then would regularly engage with NGOs under IBM’s auspices.
Skills and leadership development
Beyond loyalty and engagement, companies are recognizing the skill-building and leadership development opportunities these social initiatives provide. “Time and again, when we evaluate these programs with participants, they say they are the most successful educational or leadership programs that they’ve experienced,” says Stanley Litow, IBM’s vice president of corporate citizenship and corporate affairs and president of the IBM International Foundation.11
In addition to the ability to realign her work with her passion without leaving IBM, Priscila Chaves Martínez acknowledges that she gained a host of leadership skills that helped her to excel at the company.
“It helped me to see the bigger picture better and improved my outside-the-box thinking skills,” says Martínez. “When you spend a lot of time working on solving complex societal problems, it makes solving business issues easier.”
As Martínez demonstrates, skills-based volunteering can provide valuable developmental opportunities for employees.12 “They’re learning key leadership skills like listening in a very immersive and real way,” explains Gina Tesla, who runs IBM’s Corporate Service Corps programs. “They quickly learn that if they go to a country like Brazil and say, ‘I have all the answers,’ they’ll flop.”
These initiatives push innovation by putting employees in a fresh context, allowing them to learn new skills while serving a greater good. Additionally, structured volunteering offers the ideal environment in which to “learn by doing”—a far more effective way to develop leadership skills than just studying. It’s hardly surprising, then, that 90 percent of companies surveyed by Deloitte reported a significant and positive increase in overall leadership skills as a result of pro bono and skills-based volunteering programs.13
Some companies actively utilize skills-based volunteering experiences for explicit employee development goals. Dow Sustainability Corps and other company fellowship programs select high-performing employees for sustained, skills-based volunteerism. Dow’s program also supplies its participants with mentors and resources to encourage the development of leadership skills such as cross-collaboration, end-to-end strategy implementation, and team building. “Our intent is to enable leaders to be curious and learn to adapt to the change and ambiguity that is a given in this business,” says Johanna Söderström, corporate vice president of Human Resources and Aviation at Dow. “We want to make sure that leaders can lead in these circumstances and develop an instinct to connect invisible dots within and outside of the organization.” Ross McLean, president of Dow Sub-Saharan Africa, also comments, from the business-unit perspective, that “this two-way approach to talent management—combining leadership and sustainability—is a great opportunity for Dow’s employees to demonstrate their ability to adapt to a variety of situations and develop their leadership skills in a unique way, while enabling us to showcase Dow’s capability and commitment to the region.”
Some Fidelity Investments business units incorporate skills-based volunteer initiatives into talent and leadership development programs offered to associates. Managers are able to nominate employees with leadership potential for such programs as a component of their professional development plan. Dave Conley, director of risk management at Fidelity, recalls, “One day, my boss came up to me and said, ‘We have this new initiative with Common Impact. They set up projects with local nonprofits and you are doing this project.’ It was not an ‘ask;’ they knew I would say yes. They said, ‘It will be great for your personal development, great for the firm,’ and they were right.”
Conley worked on a project with the New Hampshire Symphony to help them develop a business plan to grow resources, expand geographically, and think strategically. On top of enjoying the experience of utilizing business skills in a different context, Conley recognizes how much he took away from the project in terms of his own professional development. “A real key piece from the professional development side of the project has been growing my internal network at the firm—this gave me the opportunity to work with a broad set of very talented folks whom I wouldn’t ordinarily work with, and it translated into a real advantage in my daily work now that the project is over,” says Conley. “We gained such a level of comfort and trust working together on the project that it’s easy for me to pick up the phone or stop by their desk—it can really speed things up.”
Most of these programs make use of volunteering exchanges that create longer-term, business skill-intensive partnerships between firms and social sector organizations. A number of organizations have emerged to do the work of linking corporate employees to social sector opportunities. Some firms, such as Common Impact or TechnoServe, were founded expressly to do this or have large components that perform this intermediary role. Others, like Acumen, have grown into it. Acumen is a nonprofit that solicits charitable donations to invest in entrepreneurs with “the capability to bring sustainable solutions to big problems of poverty.”14 Over time, Acumen has played an increasingly critical role in brokering relationships for the social enterprises in its portfolio, such as a technical assistance project for Dow Sustainability Corps involving d.light design. “As we scale to 45 countries, we require expert analysis for the supply chain and its complexities,” says d.light CEO and founder Ned Tozun, whose company manufactures low-cost solar lamps and home systems in energy-poor regions of the developing world. “Partnering with Dow and other companies allows us to leverage their domain expertise and further our mission faster.”
Given the clear advantages that flow from better coordinating social impact and talent initiatives, why have firms been so slow to better join these two activities?
One problem lies in companies’ organizational structure. Historically, CSR and corporate citizenship functions formed outside the auspices of the HR department. In most firms, social impact activities tend to sit inside the brand, marketing, CSR, or public affairs functions—or a combination of these—with little formal connection to talent development.
Social initiatives can improve talent development and thereby increase employees’ bottomline impact.
Another obstacle is simply that connecting social impact with talent is hard to do well. Social impact work is easier if you don’t have to think about also providing value to talent development. Talent development is less complicated when learning can be done in more controlled environments with no expectations for bettering the world.
Some skeptics also argue that there is no business case for connecting social impact with talent development. Operationally, we’ve heard many managers state that social impact work takes employees away from their “real jobs” and that companies shouldn’t do anything to exacerbate this “problem.”
How can companies overcome these barriers, obstacles, and critiques? And what are the key strategies for connecting talent development and social impact? The early experiences of this field’s pioneers suggest a handful of potentially effective strategies.
1. Reconfigure connections among internal stakeholders
While employees may see the social impact initiatives available to them as inherently connected to talent development, in many firms, these initiatives remain singular and freestanding. Linking social initiatives with talent development programs requires tighter connections among internal stakeholders unaccustomed to working together—as well as, more often than not, formal organizational redesign. Several organizational design models are worth exploring.
Embedded management at the unit level. Medtronic, the world’s largest medical technology company, underwent a recent shift: It began integrating its social efforts—which had long resided solely in its foundation arm, Medtronic Philanthropy—into its talent management and business-unit goals. Medtronic recently launched the Global Health Initiative (GHI) to drive social initiatives through its business units across the organization, an effort requiring considerable coordination and collaboration: GHI staff work with specific business-unit staff to build social initiatives. At the business-unit level, this structure can create challenges in balancing quarterly expectations with longer-term initiatives that may not produce immediate returns. Adjusting expectations and allowing units to dictate their own goals, sometimes sacrificing short-term returns for longer-term plays, allows for a healthy level of autonomy.
Flexible partnerships with a central coordinator. Fidelity Investments moved to integrate skills-based volunteering into its talent and leadership development programming by deepening a more than 10-year-long strategic relationship with a nonprofit consulting intermediary, Common Impact, and by centralizing its efforts. Fidelity’s community relations team, in partnership with Common Impact, offers business-unit leaders a customizable package of skills-based volunteer opportunities that also serve as talent and leadership development activities.
A flexible partnership structure allows Fidelity Investments managers to work with the firm’s community relations team to create programs aligned with their units’ leadership and talent development needs. “We all work from a common playbook,” says Tom Blessing, CIO of the Fidelity Investments Corporate Technology Group, “but each unit tailors elements of the program for their own purposes.”
Typically, managers nominate a set of high-potential employees to participate in four-month volunteer projects at nonprofit organizations that Common Impact has vetted and identified as ready organizations. Employees are expected to maintain current workloads, and they typically contribute an average of 10 hours per week toward the project. Senior mentors from Fidelity Investments support the teams, bolster the learning experience, and provide some oversight to ensure a quality end product for the nonprofit. As of July 2015, 524 associates had moved through the program since the partnership’s inception, and 97 percent of them considered it a useful professional development opportunity.
Fidelity Investments leaders emphasize the growth opportunities for participants. “We hear . . . that they did not expect there to be so much development in terms of leadership skill, leading a team, meeting a business partner’s needs, negotiating scope, and resolving issues,” says Blessing about an IT-focused program he developed in partnership with Fidelity Investments Community Relations.
2. Develop the business case
Obtaining buy-in requires a carefully developed business case and the support of both top leadership and middle managers. Most commonly, this business case is made by attempting to link the social impact work to the potential for growing the core business. We argue that, while there are times when this can happen, there is a stronger case to be made that social initiatives can improve talent development and thereby increase employees’ bottom-line impact.
Firms pushing out such initiatives often face challenges in garnering stakeholder buy-in. Medtronic had to make a case when it launched its Global Health Initiative. “There’s a clear business proposition to develop new technology and help build infrastructure within emerging markets as developed markets’ growth slows,” says senior GHI director Daniel Grossman. “To get full buy-in, we also have to find champions—business leaders who understand the market—as well as people who are passionate, people who inherently want to build something new and are excited about the impact that they can make.”
Even with support from the C-suite, program developers must carefully frame the business case and target incentives to obtain managing-director and middle-manager support. Their pain points can be empty desks: Managers are often concerned that nonprofit pro bono work siphons off valuable employee work time. During the creation of GSK PULSE’s skills-based volunteerism program, placing staff on social impact projects around the world, “Line-manager buy-in was key to convincing them to let go of employees to do these volunteer projects,” says PULSE director Ahsiya Posner Mencin. “What is the return on investment? How would it be beneficial to them? These were all questions we had to answer.”
To garner line managers’ support, Mencin had to prove that volunteerism supports long-term employee development and ultimately benefits managers and the organization as a whole (e.g., through increased leadership skills, creativity, and resourcefulness). GSK PULSE achieved this, in part, by incorporating line managers into the employee application, orientation, and reentry processes. With this involvement, and an ongoing commitment to tracking the impact of PULSE participation with metrics (such as a 21 percent faster promotion trajectory), line managers recognized the program’s value. Ultimately, GSK PULSE found a home within the company’s talent development function, proving the program’s value to employee engagement and development.
3. Use partnerships to build out the programs
Another reason many companies struggle to connect their social impact work with talent is simply a lack of in-house expertise in developing firm/social-sector partnerships that underlie the social impact work. Developing partnership capabilities and institutionalizing them at the firm level is a key part of the organizational design element. In both skill-based volunteering and shared-value initiatives, building relationships between private and social sectors is the foundation upon which this work is built.
These can be daunting capabilities to develop, and a strong core of intermediaries has emerged to assist firms in developing the structure to integrate talent development with social impact work (figure 1). Nonprofit intermediaries such as Common Impact link firms to social sector nonprofits in need of skilled pro bono volunteers to work on core business challenges. Common Impact assists both the company and the nonprofit partner in designing the program, developing the scope of the projects, maintaining communication between the firm and social sector partner over the arc of the engagement, and facilitating candid feedback on both sides. This might involve “ensuring that nonprofits feel empowered to treat their skilled-volunteer teams as they would paid consultants,” says Common Impact CEO Danielle Holly. “Just because the services are pro bono doesn’t mean [the nonprofit] can’t demand the best possible outcome.”
Figure 1. Intermediaries: Connecting corporate talent with social impact
Acumen Solicits investments in fresh approaches to the problem of poverty. Acumen has a Global Fellows program, a 12-month fellowship for individuals dedicated to serving the poor and driving social change.15
Catchafire Matches business professionals with nonprofits based on their skills, causes, interests, and availability. Catchafire aims to benefit its nonprofit partners by saving them the time and resources required to find talented and socially driven individuals.16
Common Impact Specializes in designing, launching and managing corporate skills-based volunteer programs. Nonprofits obtain access to talented professionals while companies develop employee capabilities, thus realizing a positive return on their social investment.17
Taproot A major player in the pro bono movement, connects millions of business professionals with social causes through its own programs as well as partnerships with companies.18
TechnoServe Connects consultants with volunteer opportunities in emerging markets. Since 2001, TechnoServe has placed more than 800 volunteer consultants in 3- to 12-month projects throughout Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, and India.19
TechnoServe, a facilitator linking corporate talent with economic and social-development initiatives in emerging markets, focuses on aligning partners to create the potential for profound scale, such as integrating small farmers into the supply chains of large multinationals. “The ideal partner is serious and has committed resources, CEO buy-in, and the organizational structure and processes to enable these changes to happen,” says David Browning, TechnoServe’s vice president of strategic partnerships.
Because TechnoServe is deeply embedded in emerging markets, it offers a deep knowledge of local economies, market actors, and NGO relationships that would be difficult and costly for firms to develop on their own. Developing business opportunities with social development goals through multisector partnerships “requires both nonprofit and for-profit to learn a new culture,” says Browning. “Because of the DNA of the institutions, there can be a lot of mistrust, resentment, and miscommunication.” He notes that partnerships sometimes involve a long period of trust-building, as long as 8 to 10 years, as partners prove themselves to one another.
Through its annual Collaboration Summit, launched in 2013, Acumen has established a forum to link the social enterprises it funds in East and West Africa with large multinationals. As the intermediary, Acumen facilitates early explorations of possible partnerships with mutual value in mind. “The Collaboration Summit [allows] corporations and social enterprises to discuss challenges and explore partnerships in a very tactical setting,” says Yasmina Zaidman, director of strategic partnerships. Management at d.light, for instance, needed expert analysis for the supply chain and logistical complexities accompanying its rapid growth. In linking partners, Zaidman says, “The right company is important; having a certain level of intrapreneurship [entrepreneurship within a company] is important; having a defined structure has been a necessity, especially . . . measureable results and goals.” Dow fit the bill, having a language and structure to accommodate such projects. Dow employees also had supply chain management expertise and strategic business interests in d.light’s markets, and an understanding of the environment and its challenges.
For firms looking to develop more sophisticated social impact initiatives aligned more closely with core business goals, structuring and maintaining the requisite partnership with social sector actors can be costly. Intermediaries can facilitate engagement between companies and social actors by scoping and maintaining communication between partners over the life of the engagement, and by assisting firms in structuring the talent development components underlying the social impact activities.
4. Align incentives
For initiatives intended to both achieve social impact and drive employees’ skill development, aligning incentives and measurement systems to capture performance across these two dimensions can be challenging. In traditional volunteer opportunities such as an annual day of service, employee engagement is one-off: Employees typically participate in a single initiative and then return to their normal jobs. This structure for social engagement relieves management of needing to track talent development at the skill level, and social impact is easily measured in terms of outputs—e.g., number of children tutored or number of schoolyards cleaned up. However, without the right investment in design and management, one-off volunteer days can result in low satisfaction for the employee and minimal impact for both the nonprofit partner and the employee seeking to connect business skills with social initiatives.
Social impact efforts that become part of the core workload—and therefore part of promotion review—can be problematic as well, especially if the work is pioneering and involves high risk and long timetables.
Groupe Danone, the Spanish-French food products corporation, is trying to overcome these obstacles by aggressively mainstreaming its social activities—rather than siloing them—through a series of initiatives that combine grant-based funding at the ecosystem level with integrated projects such as inclusive business development along the supply chain. Danone’s approach is to provide the organizational structure and incentives needed to harness its talent pool but leave room for localized intrapreneurship and ownership over the development of pro-social activities.
Danone’s incentive structure links each business unit’s bonus scheme to social performance, but with considerable leeway to innovate. This contrasts with Fidelity’s approach, where the projects are highly structured and designed to meet very specific talent development and community engagement goals before employees begin the program.
In another approach, at Deloitte, the performance measurement system is agnostic as to whether the work was paid or pro bono in terms of how employees are evaluated. This provides a strong incentive for volunteers to devote the same effort to their social impact work as to their paid client work.
5. Measure the benefits
Measuring social and talent impacts is critical to sustaining these initiatives. Again, this isn’t easy to do. The first step is to define what actually constitutes success for participants, beneficiaries, and stakeholders.
In the case of GSK PULSE, because it is a formally coordinated firm-level initiative, Mencin needed metrics to prove that volunteerism supports longer-term employee development. Thus, she collected data on employee performance, including promotion trajectory, perceptions, and retention rates, as well as on the overall impact on recipient organizations. Mencin also quantified success through metrics gleaned from three surveys—of participating employees and their line managers—conducted before assignment, immediately after assignment, and six months after assignment. PULSE participants, she discovered, had a 21 percent faster promotion rate and a 41 percent higher retention rate than other employees.
A detailed discussion of metrics is beyond the scope of this article, but these five principles can help in designing an effective talent and social impact measurement system:
Begin with the end in mind. Build measurement into any new service initiative before you ask for company support.
Make the measurement useful but not overly burdensome. “It has to be easy or it will fail,” advises measurement guru Farron Levy, president and founder of True Impact. “Make it as light as possible.”
Ensure the metrics can be tied back directly to the promised outcomes. Try to avoid using outputs as a proxy for outcomes. Retention and promotion rates are commonly used indicators for skill-building goals.
Take a long view—benefits can require time to accrue.
Report metrics regularly—preferably quarterly.
6. Connect social impact work to actual work
Another impediment to connecting talent and social impact is that business and human resources units often have a hard time seeing a clear connection between employees’ social impact work and their “real” work. Combating this perception is critical to getting broader acceptance. Tom Blessing at Fidelity Investments notes that the big obstacle to growing the company’s program of skills-based volunteering for talent and leadership development “is to make sure the urgent doesn’t crowd out the important.”
Build on- and off-ramps. This enables the talent function to establish effective onboarding and re-entry processes before embarking on skill-based volunteerism or externships. Priming an employee prior to his or her work with a nonprofit or social enterprise sets the tone for the assignment and ensures that workers truly serve their recipients, not only by imparting learning but by being active learners in the process, as well as by picking up lean methodologies and other skills they can take back to their firms. By the same token, the re-entry process should allow participants to digest the experience and transfer key lessons and innovations that could be relevant to the firm.
At GSK, Mencin notes, the re-entry and integration process for PULSE volunteers has been a “sweet challenge from its inception” in 2009, generating several support strategies. Before taking on an assignment, each volunteer receives a Job+ Coach and a senior VP champion who guide and motivate the volunteer throughout and, more importantly, after the assignment. These champions provide the broader view needed to see how ideas stemming from volunteer assignments could be applied strategically. After the volunteering stint, each participant writes a case study. “It’s a helpful exercise for employees to eloquently communicate what they did, their impact, and their learning. It also provides them with a platform for public talks at the team and company level,” Mencin says.
At Fidelity Investments, the off-ramp reinforces the message that employees first hear in orientation: that the experience offers important learning opportunities. Two months after a project ends, its team develops a formal presentation to senior management of key knowledge gained and how it will contribute to their ongoing work with clients.
Leverage experience. Companies also need to think critically about how to encourage employees to bring what they’ve learned back to the firm. Danone and other organizations consider how to showcase and share employee experiences with social enterprises and NGOs to reap lasting benefits, both for the employees and the organizations involved.
“At the end of the day, the global value is not just business—it’s also our global stakeholders and our internal stakeholders,” says Danone social innovation and ecosystem director Jean-Christophe Laugée. “Our people have more meaningful jobs in a company that is trying to change business practices and thinks boldly about effecting social change through our work.”
Danone’s Social Innovation Lab demonstrates this commitment. The company regularly convenes stakeholders from across industries to share best practices. These forums allow for cross-pollination of ideas, showcasing of experiences, and strategic reflections in front of a firm-wide forum, yielding both effective information sharing and talent exposure to senior leadership.
According to Vijay Sharma, director of GSK’s Rural India unit, which focuses specifically on base-of-the-pyramid consumers in India, the company rotates many employees through his unit on two- to three-year stints. This makes sense for their personal career trajectories and often propels them to more entrepreneurial pursuits within the company. This timeline allows employees to avoid career marginalization that can potentially result from working too long on nonstandard business activities in the shared-value space. These socially driven business units encourage a novel, more creative way of working that differs from “mainstream” work projects, which largely value efficiency, to a now-expanded consideration set of options and opportunities. Because the unit requires a mix of entrepreneurialism and comfort with risk, employees emerge from their work in the Rural India unit with a unique set of experiences that can serve them well as they climb the corporate ladder. As Sharma says, “It’s a rather special quality—of innovativeness and creativity—that allows one to find solutions and answers even in difficult situations.”
Talent and the social ecosystem
Since the 2008 financial crisis, we’ve seen intense debate about the corporation’s role in global society, with large companies under fire to justify their social license to operate. Renowned business strategy theorists such as Michael Porter have urged the world’s largest multinationals to harness opportunities for shared value that further both profits and social impact.
Ensuring that companies support shared-value initiatives through streamlined talent development processes that recognize, support, and reward these efforts is the next obvious step in this effort, yet one that remains remarkably underdeveloped. An engaged workforce across all ages and generations is emerging with strong social and environmental commitments and, increasingly, previous exposure to social sector work. Companies that align their pro bono, volunteering, and shared-value initiatives may develop real advantages in attracting and retaining the droves of workers no longer content to leave their values at the door when entering the corporate sector.
To maximize their opportunity to recruit, engage, and retain Millennial talent, companies must ensure that their social initiatives coalesce into a comprehensive ecosystem of social and shared-value activities. This will require companies to build their social initiatives around an understanding of their role in the development of human capital. It is as critical for companies to reward involvement in these activities as it is to harness their investments in social impact for internal innovation.
Given the unique opportunities and constraints facing 21st-century corporations, attracting and cultivating a talent pool with keen business acumen and passion for social impact may provide a crucial competitive advantage in the decades to come. Moreover, if enough companies nurture generations of leadership more attuned to and adept at making positive social impact, perhaps the next generation of corporate capitalism can remake itself into the force for good that it has the potential to become.
Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Social Impact practice helps clients in the public, private, and social sectors develop and scale solutions to address societal challenges. We focus on strengthening linkages between sectors, quantifying and communicating impact, and mobilizing the fast-evolving ecosystem of players. Our areas of focus include economic development, inclusive growth, and job creation; education; emerging market entry strategy; food security and agriculture; global health; philanthropy and social investing; social entrepreneurship and scaling; sustainable supply chain; and water, energy, and environment. Read more about our Social Impact practice or reach out to Nate Wong or Bill Eggers for more information.
Written by: William D. Eggers, Nate Wong, Kate Cooney
The authors would like to thank Omar Njie and others of Deloitte Consulting LLP for their contributions to this study. Thanks are also due to our colleagues Jonathan Copulsky and Nate Wong from Deloitte Consulting LLP and Katie Beacham, Meredith Fontecchio, Sarah Gretczko, Frances Kennedy, Kelly Nelson, and Alexa Steinberg from Deloitte Services LP for their thoughtful comments on the draft paper. Lastly, a special thanks to the many interview participants and experts who were extremely generous with their time and expertise in the development of this study.
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Pro Bono Club Ukraine creates meaningful partnerships for social change. This platform connects corporate sector expertise with NGOs through consultancies, joint projects and pro bono services from companies. Deloitte experts presented a #GivingTuesday lecture for 30 NGO employees. Members of Deloitte Ukraine’s Talent team taught participants how to build effective communication in teams using Business Chemistry tools.
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Deloitte Ukraine supports YEP, a non-government network of business incubators. Its mission is to develop an entrepreneurial culture among young people from different country areas by organizing business training programs. Deloitte Ukraine supports YEP by giving lectures about Business Chemistry to help students understand how to use their skills to build the most effective teams. Deloitte also takes part in mentoring sessions for YEP members to help them open up their potential. Deloitte volunteers organized two lectures and a meet-up for more than 40 students last year.
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First Clinical Trial Done, Elysium Lands $20M for Health Supplements
Dems and GOP Senators Unite Versus Big Tech on Data Privacy Bills
Ex-AstraZeneca Exec Hoefer Joins Arcus as Chief Commercial Officer
Perceptive Automata Uses Neuroscience to Help AVs Predict Intent
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Abigail Barrow
Founding Director, Massachusetts Technology Transfer Center
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CEO and Fund Manager, Renaissance Venture Capital Fund
Nest Founder Envisions Bigger Tech Community in Downtown San Diego
First came the Cyberhive, a tech incubator in San Diego’s Bankers Hill neighborhood that opened three years ago to help local cybersecurity startups refine their business plans, identify investors, and advance their technologies.
In 2014, Cyberhive founder Darin Andersen added iHive, making space in the same building for startups that are focused on the Internet of Things (IoT), technologies that combine inexpensive sensing devices with wireless networks, cloud computing, data, analytics, and cybersecurity. About four months ago, he unveiled plans to add xHive, an incubator designated for hardware-oriented startups focused on drones, robots, and emerging technologies like 3D printing.
And now, Andersen has added Nest, an umbrella organization for managing Cyberhive, iHive, and xHive that also has opened a co-working space for marketing firms, individuals, and anyone else who wants to be part of the expanding tech community he is building. In a ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday, San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer and other civic and business officials opened Nest, sharing Andersen’s vision of the uptown San Diego neighborhood as a blossoming hub for tech innovation.
San Diego Mayor Kevin Falconer
“What we’re trying to do here is far-reaching, to make a difference in San Diego, and to make an effort in new areas of collaboration that haven’t been done before,” Andersen told me. “We’re not only supporting startups, but creating a community around them.”
It has taken Andersen years to build out his vision for a colony of specialized incubators in the office building at 1855 First Avenue, just north of San Diego’s trendy Little Italy neighborhood, a design and restaurant district that includes DeskHub, another co-working space. Andersen has gradually expanded his master lease to encompass 16,000 square feet of what’s known as the Manpower building, and he says Nest is now the biggest co-working space in downtown San Diego.
While individual entrepreneurs can work at Nest for free, Andersen said they are eventually encouraged to participate as “non-resident” members, who pay $140 a month to get access to online resources and services. The rate for regular resident members ranges from $300 a month for a desk to $3,000 or more for startup offices.
Andersen said many of the most-promising startups to pass through the incubator have been focused on cybersecurity technologies, including Cyberflow Analytics, AttackIQ, ThreatStop, and Crypteron.
From the beginning, Andersen also has been organizing CyberTech, a networking community that he said now numbers in the thousands. CyberTech hosts Meetup groups focused on cybersecurity, IoT, and other topics. More recently, the network has joined a statewide initiative to advance the goals of the California Cybersecurity Task Force and the City of San Diego’s initiative to organize a Smart City Hackathon to accomplish its climate action plan.
While Andersen describes Nest as an incubator, he said he’s creating a hybrid model that wraps networking meetups and events around specialized incubators for tech-focused startups, shared workspaces, temporary workspaces, and co-working spaces for service providers and others.
In addition to the leased space in the Manpower building, Andersen said he’s in the process of buying a church at 590 Fir Street. In a recent walk-through tour, he described his plan to convert the main church and its commercial kitchen into an event and entertainment space that includes a music recording and digital editing studio.
He plans to add a music incubator, an incubator for nonprofit organizations, and a mix of co-work offices throughout the building, which is being rechristened Park6. Andersen said he expects to have most of the needed improvements done by this summer, and he’s already planning a CyberTech “Taste of San Diego” event in November that features speakers, recipes from over 20 local restaurants, and musical entertainment.
Darin Andersen
CyberTech Opens New “Entrepreneur in Residence” Program to 8 Teams
Smart Cities Initiative Spurs “Gigabit Apps” for Next-Gen Internet
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Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale Brings Black Sabbath, Joan Jett + More to WWE Evolution Playlist
WWE / Spotify
Thanks to Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale, you can prime your excitement for WWE’s Evolution pay-per-view with classic songs from Black Sabbath, Joan Jett, Lita Ford and many more.
Evolution will take place on Oct. 28, marking the first time WWE has aired an all-women’s PPV event. To celebrate WWE’s prominent women’s revolution, Lzzy Hale curated a Spotify playlist filled with female pioneers, cuts celebrating women’s empowerment, and entrance music from WWE’s top superstars.
"Freaks!! We're back at it with WWE Music again! I’m honored to curate the 'WWE Evolution' Spotify playlist in support of the company’s first ever all-female pay-per-view,” Hale tweeted.
Earlier this year, Lzzy Hale performed at WWE’s NXT Takeover: New Orleans, playing women’s champion Ember Moon to the ring. The song Hale rocked that night, “Feed the Flame,” can be heard on the Spotify playlist, as can entrance music from Becky Lynch, Ronda Rousey, Trish Stratus and more.
Tickets for WWE Evolution are available here and fans can watch the historic event live on the WWE Network. Also, be sure to grab Halestorm’s newest album, Vicious, right here.
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Pussy Riot Member Arrested for Damaging Government Property
Pussy Riot dispute the arrest's nature.
Pussy Riot Member in Critical Condition After Suspected Poisoning
He was one of the members of Pussy Riot jailed for invading the World Cup pitch, back in July.
Michael Christopher
Russian Government Ordered to Pay Pussy Riot $58,000
The compensation is for the conditions surrounding their arrest and jailing over the 2012 'punk prayer' controversy.
Pussy Riot World Cup Protest Nets 15 Days in Jail + New Song
Four members of the protest outfit invaded the pitch during the World Cup final over the weekend, and will spend 15 days in 'administrative detention.'
Pussy Riot Invade the Field at France vs. Croatia World Cup Final
This is the latest of Pussy Riot’s fiercely anti-Kremlin and anti-Putin stunts.
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Pussy Riot Attacked by Russian Security at the Winter Olympics
Pussy Riot was attacked at the Olympics by members of the Russian security, Cossack militia. The band was attempting to perform a protest song or performance in front of a Sochi Winter games sign and that's when they were brutally attacked by security forces using whips and batons.
Pussy Riot Members Turn Focus to 'Zone of Law' Human Rights Organization
The members of Pussy Riot are free and the group is experiencing more recognition than they had before they were jailed, so what will they do with that platform? According to Rolling Stone, members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina stated in a Friday press conference that they're plann…
Pussy Riot Members Freed From Prison
The members of the Russian band Pussy Riot are now free ahead of schedule. Nadya Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina have been released from jail three months before their sentence was initially set to end.
Pussy Riot Documentary Coming to HBO
'Pussy Riot - A Punk Prayer,' a documentary about the imprisoned Russian punk band, has been picked up by HBO. The cable-TV network will most likely air the movie sometime this year.
Michael Gallucci
Pussy Riot Member Denied Appeal
The plight of Pussy Riot rages on, and the ripple effect is now being felt, as Maria Alekhina, one of the imprisoned members of the Russian punk collective, saw her recent appeal denied by a Russian court. Alekhina, 24, had asked for a deferral of her two-year prison sentence due to the fact that sh…
Amy Sciarretto
Freed Pussy Riot Member Vows to Continue Fighting for Jailed Friends
Yekaterina Samutsevich is the only member of Pussy Riot to have been released from prison after being charged with "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred" for performing an anti-Vladimir Putin song in a Moscow cathedral this summer. Despite having gained her freedom, she is not backing…
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