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__label__cc	0.729568	0.270432	Nonprofit Radio for September 29, 2017: Giving Tuesday Friday September 27, 2017 Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radio92nd Street Y, 92Y, Amy Sample Ward, fundraising, Giving Tuesday, GivingTuesday, Jessica Schneider, non-profit, nonprofit administration, Nonprofit Radio, nonproift, NTEN, Social Media, Tony Martignetti, Tony Martignetti Nonprofit RadioNonprofit Radio It’s not your 7th grade spelling bee! We Bee Spelling produces charity fundraiser spelling bees with stand-up comedy, live music & dance. It’s all in the video! Listen to the September 29, 2017 archived podcast Jessica Schneider: Giving Tuesday Friday It’s not too late to make a splash for Giving Tuesday, November 28th. But “too late” is fast approaching. Jessica Schneider from the 92nd Street Y has your last minute tips, tricks and strategies. Amy Sample Ward: Giving Tuesday Friday It may not be too late but “too late” is fast approaching. Amy Sample Ward has what you need for Giving Tuesday success in the social networks. She’s our social media contributor and CEO of NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network. Schnoll oppcoll hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. I’m your aptly named host. We have a listener of the week it’s, laura packard she’s been a guest on the show and she got dissed directly personally by donald trump. You may have seen her story. She has stage four cancer, hodgkin’s lymphoma. She was tweeting to the president about health care policy and the collins gray and bill, and he blocked her. He doesn’t know that. He’s messing with a non-profit radio guest now he’s out of bounds. Laura, i’ve got your back. You have a lot of courage. Congratulations on being non-profit radio listener of the week. We love you, laura packard and i so admire what you’re doing. Congratulations. Oh, i’m glad you’re with me. I’d be thrown into ginger vos toma titus if you come to me up with the idea that you missed today’s show e-giving tuesday it’s not too late to make a splash for giving tuesday, november twenty eighth jessica schneider from the ninety second street why has your last minute tips tricks strategies, then it may not be too late, but too late is fast approaching amy sample ward has what you need for giving tuesday success in the social networks she’s, our social media contributor and ceo event in the non-profit technology network it’s giving tuesday for the hour today on tony’s, take two e-giving tuesday, responsive by pursuant full service fund-raising data driven and technology enabled pursuant dot com and by wagner cps guiding you beyond the numbers wagner, cps dot com you’re not a business you’re non-profit apolo see accounting software designed for non-profits non-profit wizard dot com and we’ll be spelling supercool spelling bee fundraisers we b e spelling dot com what a pleasure to welcome jessica snyder to the show. She is the director of strategy and collaboration at the ninety second street wise belfer center for innovation. She spearheads several i love that word spearheads levin. Use that in a long time. That’s good that’s a good buy a word, good resume word, too. I should remember that my never search for jobs, but for friends. She spearheads several initiatives and programs, including e-giving tuesday, the women in power, fellowship and social good summit she’s worked at rent the runway, general assembly and the paley center for media. You’ll find the y at nine to wide dot or ge and she’s at your pal jess. Welcome, pal, your pal. Just i love that. What would you do that twitter ideas? Very clever like that your pal? Just, you know, by the time i got around to joining twitter, which is sad that i didn’t join it right away, kind of every form of jessica or just schneider on been taken on. Yeah, i don’t know where how that came to me, but i i thought about changing to something more professional, but at this point, i think it, you know, stay with it, no latto partnership work, and i feel like i’m you know, people spell well, i love it. Yes, you should stick with it now don’t it’s not unprofessional, it’s, just different messes difference. Clever falik um, okay, so let’s kick off our power on giving tuesday with a little bit of history? Sure, that’s things started it with henry, tim’s and who’s been on the show, henry in twenty fourteen. I’m talking about giving to them, but give us a little background. Sure, i think i’ll start just by explaining a lot of people when they hear i work at the ninety second street y and giving tuesday what the connections there is. So if you don’t live in new york city or you aren’t familiar with ninety second street y, we are one hundred and forty three year old community in cultural organization on new york city’s, upper east side. We are everything you associate with the community center. We have a very renowned pre school programs for the elderly school of the arts dance classes with jim, i work in the belfer center for innovation, and our center is really tasked with taking ninety uae’s mission core concepts that have really been the foundation of the institute for the past hundred forty years of building community, of civic based dialogue of philanthropy and thinking about those in a twenty first century context. Okay, so i give him that background just because of people like why is this community centre the hump of giving jesus thats why don’t your that’s the connection e-giving tuesday, i think is supported by all those exactly fit so well into all those. So back in two thousand twelve, henry tim’s, who is now our executive director at the time he headed up one of the centers at ninety y he just had this this idea there’s black friday and cyber monday, two days that unite the retail community, as we all know, to great advantage for them. Great advantage for us. And what if there was a way to unite the philanthropic community as well? And he often jokes, you know, someone was going to claim that tuesday, why am i not the good guys? So, yeah, from the beginning, it’s been a very simple idea, but we spent very little time planning it. Our first year, we kind of last year was when two thousand twelve we’re going to our six year now you spent a couple months just gathering a coalition of people in the philanthropic world and by that, i don’t just mean non-profits a nutritional sense, there were houses of worship, schools, corporations, small businesses, families, associations, way they’re the first year i was there the first year starting oh, yeah. Okay on. And it was really just kind of put out a call that we want to make this day special. We want to bring everyone together. You want to incentivize giving one? To get people excited about giving and let’s, just as an experiment put it on the calendar all kind of got into the world together and worked very closely at the time with our friends at the united nation and foundation in there brilliant communications team helping kind of home dellaccio nastad watch your show, she also runs gelato get us out of d c, where you went to school, you went to georgetown, runs gelato shop for shops? I don’t know, but she still i don’t think she would, you know, she’s, now that we work heading up come some of their social condition and we were, which is sure fascinating and definitely worth reaching out to her because they’re doing really interesting work there. Yes, so we just kind of launched and he said, we’ll be cool. One hundred people participated, a hundred organizations did something that first year on ultimately we ended up with twenty, five hundred participate organizations that we knew of who could kind of officially registered through our site and then just on social media, that data start hearing about all these cool things happen around the country, so we knew we were we were onto something and i’ll just say the first year and this kind of continues to be our ethos, so talk about it, but more as we go along it’s always been a very open movement. We’ve never said this is the right way to participate in giving tuesday or the wrong way. We’ve never supported one platform over another and one cause over the other. We just want to see people uniting, um around the idea of giving back and not just money, but also time probono work advocacy, it’s all any form of giving is what i have to say. Now, what was the moment of we’ll be able to talk about fertilization? Like what was the very first thing about giving tuesday within an email from henry to some people who said, i’m thinking about this let’s have a meeting or when did you first come up that you can remember? Yeah, i was brought into it about a month into the process. From what i remember, it really started with henry and our other colleagues, asha curren just traveling around and having cheating on the show with us, i think, if not last year, two years. Ago talks e-giving tuesday. Yes, yes. He’s, our chief innovation officer at ninety y but we didn’t want to ever be the owners at this movement. And even though we always say we’re the home where the stewarts but we wanted this to be built by the community to start what do you remember? Is the starting the first time you heard? I think it was even the phrase giving tuesday. But like the first time you had this concept, i think the first time for me personally was henry pulling me into his office at the time. There’s. No, even now, there’s no one who works on giving tuesday full time. And i was doing different work at nine to and he just said there’s, this cool idea immediately clicked with me and intercepts if i would help with some partnership work for it, i think on henry’s and it maybe start with a conversation with kind of u n f and kind of that was the start. I think there was a dinner party where the idea was first tossed around and people reacted very positively to it. But i think henry would remember that better than i do there? Okay. So you were near the near the you were like a month in? Yeah, yes. Labeling the embryonic. We’re still in the embryonic stage. I think ways when there was enough momentum that henry realized he couldn’t do this on his own and manage a massive department at a large non-profit where he needed a someone else on his team e-giving sometime and and brain power to it. So let’s assure people now, september twenty ninth so i got all of october and most of the vast majority of november. It’s not too late right now, it would have been better if you had been planning. Like since the summer. That would have been better. But it’s not too late. No, no, definitely not. And i think there’s again, i will go back to c p times there’s no right or wrong way to bird to spain giving tuesday. So i would say the there’s many non-profits for whom giving tuesday is really the cornerstone of their fund-raising for the year and in january, when they lay out their fund-raising plan for the year more their volunteers and plan or their advocacy plan e-giving tuesdays a cornerstone. Of that, and they kind of plan all year around it. But there’s other organizations who are new to giving tuesday who exactly at this time, two months out or like, yeah, maybe we should try something this year and i think what’s really great about how e-giving tuesday he functions and how it is a great opportunity for non-profits to try something new, to do some experimentation, way about rule without rules. And if there is some idea that’s just been circulating on your team, maybe e-giving tuesday’s the perfect time to give it a chance. So not too late at all earlier, you planning the better, but especially if you’re kind of new to giving tuesday and aren’t sure what you’re going to do just the first year doing something smaller. Small start small, right? Exactly, yeah, don’t be overwhelmed, right? It’s not an overwhelming thing. There’s not rules and reports. And aside from what you want to do internally, there’s no, act like this is this is why so many people thinking has flourished because has not managed centrally there’s there’s a resource there’s, a page of sight of tools will get to the tools and resources. And then from there, it’s, you’re own your own desire. Start small. Do something modest, make it the cornerstone of your your fourth quarter, if you like exactly. Okay. I like tio. What else? You know what? Also we gotta go to break. Where was your two fingers? Two minutes ago? I didn’t see them. I didn’t see them these. And then i didn’t see the one. All right, sam says time for break. I didn’t see any fingers. Okay, let’s, go out for a break and then we come back. Of course, jessica and i just getting into giving tuesday stay with us, you’re tuned to non-profit radio. Tony martignetti also hosts a podcast for the chronicle of philanthropy fund-raising fundamentals is a quick ten minute burst of fund-raising insights published once a month. Tony’s guests are expert in crowdfunding, mobile giving event fund-raising direct mail and donor cultivation really all the fund-raising issues that make you wonder am i doing this right? Is there a better way there is? Find the fund-raising fundamentals archive it. Tony martignetti dot com that’s marketmesuite n e t t i remember there’s a g before the end, thousands of listeners have subscribed on itunes. You can also learn maura the chronicle website philanthropy dot com fund-raising fundamentals the better way schnoll ideas for the other ninety five percent and when i was about to say was that another thing i like about it is there’s so many vastly different calls to action? People think of giving to say nothing of money first, but by no means is it limited to raising money? Give me some other examples that you’ve seen yeah, i think one thing i love about giving tuesday is it really is a way to bring people together, and giving is just such a universal value, it’s something that really unites us. And i think one of the reasons giving tuesday last year really resonated with people. I think we’ll see that again this year is you no matter your politics, no matter you know, the many things that divide us, giving tuesday and the unity that can happen around giving it’s just really amazing to see how that can bring people together is such a common a common thing, so in particular kind of volunteer events on dh in person activations are some of our favorite things to see around giving tuesday. One thing that just popped into my head from last year is there’s, a group called city dads so that’s it it’s in many cities it’s ah meet up group it’s organized around meet ups on and it’s a just dad’s getting together to do volunteer work and kind of create camaraderie and sabat the fact their dads it’s just kind of organizing principle it’s more of a volunteer group, and they partnered with plum organics x, which is a baby food company. And on giving tuesday in cities around the country, they went, teo homeless shelters and other places where people drop off clothing and food kind of assemble little packets that could be given to those in need. And it was just it was giving tuesday, people are looking to do something, and they were able to just organize this event that brought all these dads together, and often i feel like it’s mom to get a lot of the credit or we’re getting out and volunteer work and two year old to shine a light on that kid’s and baby food exactly be moms, but school exactly, and and for plum organics just a great opportunity for them to highlight there social good work and how they give back to the community justice. Such a natural fit so that that pops to my head one of the really most exciting elements of giving tuesday that’s developed over the past few years, and we kind of recognized it was happening and have been trying to support it, but it started very organically are giving tuesday community movements, so these are kind of locally organized coalitions of non-profits businesses, governments, schools in cities, towns, counties and states around the country. Last year, they’re around eighty five of them. Everything from e-giving tuesday, illinois e-giving tuesday, new york e-giving tuesday, charlotte e-giving tuesday, dallas sometimes they re brand more significantly than that to tiny little towns. There’s one in bethel, alaska, which is just a thing just a couple thousand people, they have one one stop sign in town and all the non-profits throughout the day took turns standing at that non-profit and collecting money, but also raising awareness that was then split amongst the non-profits in town and then they had almost like a science fair, but for non-profits, where they call to set up booths and people could come and learn about the different services, either because they want to give back or because maybe that could benefit that from them and really isn’t giving tuesday as a rallying point, but i also want to mention the community campaign so just really what happens if someone steps up and each one of these cities not even necessarily? Non-profit but an individual sometimes soc with non-profits eyes like i see the power of giving tuesday, i see how it can bring people together, and i want to create something grassroots in my hometown and really own it and really personalized giving tuesday not just in my organization, but for the people around me i wanted for the community it’s so lovely, and we as a team, i’m have someone on our staff now, um, who works with us part time, really? To support those community leaders and excellent okay, so let’s get it. I want to get some of the support that’s there, and i’ll just add, though, but what’s really exciting to see in the community aspect is how they support each other and how, when there’s a new community leader that comes on board how people within the already on the giving tuesday team not at ninety weinger out in the world offer advice and say this is what we learned. Oh, you’re a comparable size city here’s how we there’s there’s a ninety white community around community work exactly exactly. You know, i should have asked you just let’s get some basic stats out of the way? How many organizations do we know participated last year? We’ve talked you talked already about some of the things they’ve done, but i want you working how many tens of thousands this’s not me evading the question, but we’ve stopped counting because really, when we reached movement capacity, it’s just impossible to do b of activations and over one hundred countries that we know of it’s so vast we ask people to sign up on our web site, they could be little official partner would or not, but because it’s open source there’s no reason for people tio need to do that, and it’s isn’t a good measure of where we are. So we say hundreds of thousands of organizations on bank lose again, not just non-profits some of the stats we do like to quote is last year online, the twenty five’s e-giving tuesday, one hundred seventy seven million dollars was donated that we know of on lauren homes on, so that does not include offline. It does not include anything that happened outside of those twenty four hours, eight and that’s only dollars and that’s only dollars and just kind of other exact action we talked to talked about and get and and, you know, if a boardmember does one hundred thousand dollar match that day, that’s not in that amount, so it really is just a small fraction of the total giving but it’s nice for us because we can use it to kind of benchmark year over year and see where xero growth is, at least from from that metric i’ve seen petition drives, you know, it’s critical petition for your cause. All right, so let’s get into what people confined if they maybe they’ve done something in the past, they like to do a little more whatever or if there’s the first year, and they’re not that acquainted with it. What are they going to find at e-giving tuesday? Dot org’s? Sure. So i would say the best place to start is the download our complete tool kit, which is a very long document. I would at least art by skimming that which has kind of the basic language e-giving tuesday timeline, timeline, press really sample social media and i think also it’s helpful, because when the best things you khun dio when you’re starting giving tuesday at your organization is to get e-giving tuesday, team going not just one person running giving tuesday, so the toolkit isn’t just for you to read and like, oh, now i can run, giving tuesday starita lead to read and then become a leader of your organization around giving tuesday, but there’s lots of plug and play tools like tweets and press releases if you wanted to work on being a mayor or a proclamation mayoral proclamation tool kit yeah, which i know seems very specific, but it’s something that people love to do and it’s such a great just morale booster when that proclamation comes in a few days before giving tuesday and you’ve been plugging along just to know i remember our first year was mayor bloomberg time gave did one and and we were it was one of those moments that first year where it made us feel really so i just want to share that feeling with people, but i would say one is going to get through the tool kit and just going understanding what it’s all about case studies are a great place to go so that we all have a case study which has for non-profits and kind of the other types of organizations that that could participate local non-profits larger non-profits and with the case studies, if something piques your interest because the others, they’re pretty short, you can just kind of google the organization and giving tuesday and and find out much more see, you know, but the page look like and, you know, really delve more into that, and the other thing you do on the site is signed up for for our newsletter that also get you listed as an official giving tuesday partner in-kind of one and the same and then you’ll get when we add resource is you’ll be aware of those webinars webinars webinars coming? I can’t listen about the top of my head, but bojan e-giving tuesday at orc slash events now you’ll see a list of what’s coming up i know we have one with fire spring next week yeah, there’s always new things being added and leslie, we have a blog’s so as we have examples of what’s coming up for this upcoming year, we update that and we love it when people submit to our blogged what they have in the works less like tio here where this great organization or run e-giving tuesday campaign and more where they were great, we’re a great organization run e-giving to state campaign here’s what our campaign is here’s what we learned last year and how we’re changing because we really want the community to be learning from each other ideas to make the pie bigger, not to get you a bigger slice of it. Excellent and that’s all giving tuesday dot org’s exactly all e-giving tuesday, there was even a year there’s a plan giving toolkit that’s what you do plant giving consulting so everything is close to me close to my heart yeah, you could make plan giving part of your of your giving tuesday plan giving workplace giving if you work with a of for-profit who or even your own non-profit if they do workplace giving, you can think about how to use giving tuesday to incentivize enrollment to poor, bigger gifts on that day. Really limitless. Okay, bonem so i pulled together some some stories from that from this’s from the toolkit, like local non-profits, you know, and again to emphasize your point, this is not only by no means is this only for big organizations. There’s a of the naacp rat free library in baltimore, maryland there, when they’re one of my favorites, somebody from you know, what, two people i got two interviews from people at at ntcdinosaur provoc technology conference, i think we’re talking about energizing volunteers, and they were to ana panel two out of a panel three were from the naacp rat free library, you love them e-giving tuesday wise, yeah, what i personally love around giving tuesdays is when people use it to be collaborative and creative, and i think their campaign is a great intersection of those two. They’ve run a similar campaign the past two years where there’s they find, like the closest football game closest in time football game this year, it was against cleveland, and they challenge a library in that city teo fund-raising contest and then the losing flues and everyone’s a winner except one’s, raising less money but the executive director of the losing library has teo like, if i can remember if they want or not last year, but as much of a football fans, i yeah, but the executive director of that of the other library would like to dress up like edgar allan poe and have to read the ravens and it’s all under the hashtag book bowl e-giving tuesday on they raised i think around forty thousand dollars from that and i mean for a library, when you think about library fund raisers, you know, make sales, i mean it’s it’s online it’s bringing young people in social it’s fun, it’s kind of goofy and just the celebratory nature of it is is so in the spirit of giving tuesday dahna xero i love it’s a small organizations, i mean that’s, what non-profit radio is small and midsize shop from ours from our survey results we which is not so i’m not scientific. About ninety percent of respondents have budgets of less than ten million, so that’s at least we know it’s kind of taking advantage of our website and our resource is but also data we’ve we’ve seen from organizations like blackbaud about who’s participating and mohr and more every year, donations are going to smaller and mid size non-profits okay, people think that, you know, i think it’s one of the misconception people have around giving days or coming tuesday is it’s like the big guys, your elbow, their ways, and but this is really an equalizer, and you know what? Just just to dispel that that myth, i’m going to read some of these organizations that are that are that i got from the e-giving tuesday took it home of the sparrow in extent, pennsylvania, right? That’s not that is not an international organization table in chapel hill, north carolina, in tulsa stem alliance, tulsa, oklahoma, better future facilitators, akron, ohio. Malvin, pennsylvania baker industries so you should not be you should not be put off by your size around giving tuesday. In fact, you should be energized by your size lawyers for children don’t meet me these organizations. You just not heard of operations supply drop in austin, texas okay, so we’re putting that putting that mr bed killing it? Actually, i’d rather not die just sleep because it could wake up let’s, just kill it and it won’t be resurrected because it’s not a holy body. So all right, what else? What else can we say about giving tuesday for a couple minutes? I’m sure i would say another thing we’re just really excited about going into this next year, and i mentioned that we had one hundred global activities and one hundred treyz last year, but specifically there are now thirty five, global movements. So these are countries where an organization like a ninety second street y equivalent has stepped up and said, we want to really own giving tuesday not just at our organization, not just in our town, but for our entire condor country. And these are places have no thanksgiving, no no tradition of black friday or cyber monday. It is so amazing to see we just had in the past couple weeks giving tuesday india e-giving tuesday, panama e-giving tuesday, liberia is new this year and kind of like i mentioned with our community leaders e-giving tuesday here in the u s we kind of bring everyone together, but then just to see how they all learn from each other, it’s been one the most fascinating aspects of the movement as we’ve grown and i think it’s a really powerful on giving tuesday, which has been since the beginning to say to people, no, every act of generosity counts. It means more when we get together something really cool when you give on giving tuesday and you go on your facebook page and you see all your friends are also giving and talking about it. And then to think this is having a global scale. There’s someone in tanzania painting a house, there’s someone in, you know, bangladesh donating blood and to know that’s all happening on this single day. I think that messaging really resonates with people. And again at that time of year, it’s goingto holidays just to be celebratory. And how cool is that? They were all coming together to do something positive. Awesome. You know, you were gonna leave it there because i think you’re not standing that’s outstanding. Get involved with giving tuesday. The place to go is giving tuesday dot or ge? I’m sure jessica at your pal, jess. You having to help you? If you want a tweet, her, your pal jess on. And, of course, the ninety two, ninety secretary. Why, you know, shout them out because that’s! What started? But that’s not where you going to find the resource? Is there at nine to why dot or ge, but really the place you want to start he’s giving tuesday dot or ge? Is that right? Direct and also, of course. Follow us on social media on twitter and facebook. What the organization on twitter on twitter it’s e-giving choose e-giving two’s okay, no day, rios. Guess e-giving twos and at your pal just thank you so much. Of course. Outstanding court also. Know what you can hang around, right? I like that. Okay. Okay. When? When amy sample ward comes on, i will introduce you. All right, so we got a lot more on giving tuesday. Coming up first. Um pursuant the intelligent fund-raising health check. Have you gotten this thing yet? You’ve heard me talk about it for a couple weeks. Download it for nine key performance indicators. Those kp eyes. Hippies. You gotta have your kp eyes. You gotta have, you know, it’s the best practices that’s out now. It’s kip he’s okay. Or alive. That’s what? I call them hippies. That sounds like a breakfast seal. Like i want my i want i want chocolate milk. With mike hippies this morning, but kp eyes there’s ten universal characteristics of organizations that are thriving in fund-raising universal this is this is big the’s. The ten biggest ideas in the universe. This is duitz wait. So which is which is bigger? A solar system. No solar system is inside the universe, right? Isn’t aren’t solar system subsets of universes? Yeah, yeah. So this is not just i mean, if yeah, if these were dying, um, solar system ideas are no ten. If these ten solar system characteristics of thriving org’s, then i would say, you know, it’s really not worth it, but he’s a universal. So you’ve got you’ve got to go get the ten universal characteristics, not merely solar system. Um, get the free paper it’s at its on the non-profit radio listener landing page that pursuing has set up. And, of course, you know where that is. It’s a tony dahna may slash pursuant. Remember the capital p you’ve got to do that well, your cpa’s they do go way beyond the numbers that’s what they say and actually do it weinger cpas. They’re adding value way beyond accounting. They have all these policy statements free. Resource is for you again, just like just like giving tuesday. Dot org’s. They have something on fiscal sponsorship policy. They have a fiscal policy agreement. Now. We just talked about fiscal sponsorships. About a month ago, jean takagi was on with andrew shulman, and the subject was physical sponsorships for the hour. So if you want a lot more detail on that, there was september first september first show. So if you want a lot more detail on that, you can find an agreement. You could find a policy rechner, cps, giving these things away. They have ah, accounting policies and procedures manual ah bank statement review form. You know you’re reviewing bank statements. Hopefully you’re doing it every single month. 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All right, now, that’s. That particular video introduces this. Show so if you’re listening to the show podcast or affiliate or alive, you don’t really need the video because you skipped that you could skip that step, but there are links below. Teo e-giving tuesday roundup that i’ve got, including a video that where there’s possum shooting in the background you gotta you gotta check out this possum shooting video that i did in the in the mountains of tennessee. Um, yeah, just check out the possum shooting. So e-giving tuesday sort of video and round up that is all at aa my site, which is tony martignetti dot com, which i momentarily forgot. Okay. Um, let’s see? Got any sample ward on the phone on? Dh jessica schneider can hang out with us. You know, any sample ward is she’s a social media contributor. She’s, the ceo of antenna non-profits technology network. Her most recent co authored book is social change any time everywhere about online multi-channel engagement she’s at amy, sample ward, dot or ge and at amy rs ward. They are, of course, is for rene. Welcome back, amy rene. Hi. Hi, that’s. Why i give you this if you serve. Yeah, if you serve intro. That so you could get a little high so you can do slow. It felt so appropriate after such a long intro, it was just like the period at the end of the sentence. Okay, meet jessica schneider. Any sample ward? Hi, jessica. Hi, amy, nice to meet you, telefund lugo jessica can hang out with think we’ve even emailed before, but this is our first time getting teo talk on non-profit radio together. That is true for sure that, ok, eso jessica can hang out with us, and i, uh, i took the liberty of ah, hailing us of her of her extra time. So is that okay, right? I would love that. I knew you would. I knew you were giving person. All right, we’re talking about giving tuesday. Let’s see you. You have some, you know, you’re you’re a strategist and also a tactician. We talked a lot about strategy. I think with jessica let’s, get into some tactical ideas you like you like having people set up in advance. To who, you know, we’re going to be your champions. Well, when we talked about this before and other contacts now for that same, like a e-giving day, like giving to this whillans, you know, so it will not be new tto learn that i’m a fan of letting your community lead instead of the organization be the one out in the lead. I really think that a day let giving tuesday where you’re trying to reach as many folks as possible, but we all know and a lot of what’s going to capture their attention is storytelling and people really being able to speak clearly about the value of your mission. And i think it’s much better when other community members are making that appeal versus just the organization, because everyone’s going to respond to that same? Well, of course, the organization thinks it’s important. You worked there. You know where? Hearing that from a community member. Can can actually be really powerful and potentially change people’s mindset click through and learn a little bit more so i always recommend for organizations, especially organizations where this will be their first time participating and giving tuesday to set up. It doesn’t have to be an overwhelming, like fifty person list, you know could be five people, but make sure you have kind of a social media champions list of people who already have social media accounts, they already know how to use them. They’re probably posting frequently so there, you know, the folks that are connected to them on various channels aren’t going to be surprised when all of a sudden they’re posting about this, but they don’t have to be, you know, quote unquote vips, they don’t have to be superstar, don’t teo? Yeah, what matters is that the people that they are connected to like them and respond to them and engage with them, right? That doesn’t matter what their job title is are or where they live, anything like that, they haven’t engaged group of friends and family and an extended network that’s really what’s going to make him a great champion i’m giving to you so recruit them ahead of time, make sure they know that yes, i’m often in to do this for you, but you’re not making them do a bunch of work, so you’re telling them will send you example, facebook posts their example tweets, we’ll send you photos you can use so they know that what they’re being asked for as their voice in their leadership. But you’re not making them to a bunch of work to come up with what to say and some of those example resource is people will find at giving tuesday dot or ge jessica, how about that idea of the community speaking for you? Yes, i hundred percent agree with everything that amy just said, and it reminded me, i think those of us who work in the nonprofit world, everyone listening right now, um, often thinks on giving tuesday, you know, you get a lot of emails it’s giving tuesday donate to our cause and it’s very important to think about how you’re going to stand out in that crowd, but at the same time, there are so many people who aren’t part of the philanthropic community who don’t give online who are. Going, tio not get any of those emails on giving tuesday and that’s, why it’s so important to think about how you’re going to reach them as well and thinking of your community, is your ambassadors, you know, i might get five or six e-giving tuesday emails, someone else might not get a single email, but they’re going to see something in their facebook freed from there. Best friend from high school saying, no, i support cancer research, it’s giving tuesday. It would mean a lot to me. If you gave to this organization, they do amazing work, so just just think about that and ah, and how you confess, utilize those ambassadors on giving tuesday, amy let’s, go back to you. What else? What else do you think? Well, i think beyond just engaging folk, something that we have heard a lot of organizations ask us about or rather kind of complain about is something very, very tactical that i think often organizations don’t think about until they’re in the moment, and that is a number of organizations have discovered that, you know, it’s giving today they’re participating, you know, dollars air coming in there, super excited, you know, they’re trying to keep that momentum going throughout the day, and they want to post on twitter on up state that says, oh, my gosh, you are goal for the day was to raise five thousand, and we just hit seventeen hundred, you know, help us get to the next amount and all of a sudden they’re hearing from their executive director or maybe their development director that that is not an improved post and that, for whatever reason there executive director or whomever else is giving this approval doesn’t want to share that kind of a milestone, and they’re like, well, but i’m in the middle of typing this tweet what else am i supposed to say? What’s going on? And it may sound surprising, but we have i’ve heard this dozens of times now from organization saying what what should i have done in that situation? Well, i guess my advice is to not get yourself in that situation. It is not yet giving. Tuesday is not the middle of you know the morning and you want to post that update so as you’re doing, you’re planning for this year’s giving tuesday think about what milestones you’re going to want to celebrate and get those approved ahead of time. Maybe it isn’t. Every single dollar that comes in your organization feels comfortable reporting that’s fine figure out what kinds of milestones you do have approval to celebrate so that you don’t have to be in the middle of typing that tweet and find out you can’t send it really think about how you khun frame different milestones throughout the day, as asked anybody that’s ever listen to public radio is going to know that they are ex first that that thinking about hey well, you know, our goal for this hour was two thousand and we’re eighteen fifty who, you know, do we have collars in the last ten minutes to get us up to two thousand? Figure out what those milestones are and how you can celebrate them and how you can use them as kind of another motivational asked throughout the day. All right, how come some organizations might not want to share dollar amounts that since you used that as an example, what? Well, the feedback i’ve gotten, i mean, at least in organizations where to come to me for advice about this is that today? Well, there are a number of different situations, but the majority of them is that they were worried that they wouldn’t hit the ultimate goal for the day and that they would be posting these messages about, you know, we’ve made it to this number, can you keep giving? And that people would perceive that as we’ve on lee made it to seventeen hundred, and we thought we’d make it to five thousand. Um so it was it was like they were intimate painting a perception issue, so they didn’t want to say the numbers i said, okay, okay, jessica, anything you want? Not maybe if not that specifically just about getting thinking ahead in your community i had about communications, that is, i think amy brings up a really great point that the milestone issue? Definitely i hadn’t heard that specifically, but it makes a lot of sense to me, but in general, i would just line up tons of potential tweets and facebook post you probably do less frequently on giving tuesday, but a few facebook posts funny gifts, which ifs like to pronounce it some images using that giving tuesday logo just have it all ready to go, because once the day starts, you know who knows what’s going to happen and having those just said you can cut and paste them if you were running around that someone else can cut and paste them in and you know they’re approved, we’ll just you don’t. Toby developing graphics that day more you could get ahead of time. Agree? Just make your life a lot easier if you and i have talked about that again. Other contacts having having images lined up in advance. So you’re not scrambling. I mean, you do that for you do that for ah, for ntcdinosaur non-profit technology conference. Yeah, exactly. And a lot of for a lot of organizations getting images lined up in advance also means making sure you have approval there. Probably, you know photos of people. So making sure that the photos that you want to be able to use on that day, or one where you actually have approval to use those photos, everything is good to go. So that, again, you don’t get stuck in the middle of drafting, opposed, because you don’t have approval. But i also think giving tuesdays a great time to think about images that aren’t just, you know, like a photo that you have taken of a room full of people, but an image that you create with some easy online tools, so that they could be more like graphics. Mostly, i’m making the recommendation because you’re probably going to be posting many times during the day compared to a normal day. And so, using different graphic struck, they can help. Just keep the post feeling fresh and new content out there. A little bit more appealing for folks to share when there’s a graphic sametz chart about all that you did in twenty seventeen that goes along with that tweet that’s asking people to get so it feels like you can get a little bit more information into the post and i’ll just add one more thing to that. Just a best practice we’ve seen is just using the giving tuesday has to hash tag often people. The first tweet of the day, the first facebook post they say it’s giving tuesday and don’t think to continue that throughout the day, and if they’re talking about campaign or doing this great storytelling work-life so i think as much as possible and in terms of approval when it comes to the giving tuesday logo and e-giving tuesday heart, we love to see creativity around that so well in advance. If you want, take the heart and give it to your graphics team or find some twosome probono work for you and change the colors. Whatever you want to do, you don’t have to run it by us and we love it when we see images pop up on giving tuesday that air. Using our logo in a creative way. Cool, cool, me, that’s. What you’ve always loved about giving tuesday is the decentralization. So exactly, and i think for a lot of organizations e-giving tuesday’s the first time, or the only time during the year that they really operate like this, that they would participate in a more global campaign, but also that they are asking for money in a way where they’re actually asking their community member for to make that asked, or that they’re doing it on social media versus, you know, really relying on a direct mail appeal, etcetera. All right, ladies, we’re going to take our take our break. When we come back, we’ll continue the convo. Everybody stay with us. 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What advice do you have around giving tuesday? Let’s? Keep it so simple. Well, some advice that i have e-giving tuesday actually come from other a crowd funding type situations and research from crowd funding black forms who, you know people are using for all different types of campaigns all throughout the year, but their research of what makes a successful campaign one of the indicators of a campaign that will be successful and meet it, um, you know, posted goal are ones that regularly post updates on the page so that the content is different even throughout the day or throughout the campaign. If you know another it is not giving tuesday, i think that’s a really smart because you’re sending people to the same link over and over and when they click through, they’re going to want to see that something different, right? So making sure that you’re sending them to that link over and over, that you’re, you know, just like you would if it was a little like news ticker kind of page, you can edit that paige and make sure that you’re putting an update at the top, not the bottom. Every time folks click through, they see oh, it’s, an updated eleven thirty a m and we’re halfway there, great that’s something really short and exciting that maybe i’m one of your champions. I could just copy and paste that as a tweet myself, right? So it’s just a way to keep it fresh on the page, but also to give other people fun, exciting things to share on and help spread your message. Yeah, cool, you could do that right on your on the e-giving page? Absolutely. Okay, okay, jessica, anything you wanna add with respect to keeping the content fresh all day? Yeah, i would say that you’re giving tuesday doesn’t have to be a single day event again based on our limited survey research, about only about a third of organizations just do something on giving tuesday either it’s the middle of a campaign, the start of an end of the year campaign, sometimes the end of a november long campaign. So just a long line of what amy was saying if you are sending people to a page on giving tuesday and then throughout the course of a month or even if it’s a week long campaign, just think about what you could do on giving tuesday throughout today to make it make it unique and incentivize or different stories you could be telling, especially if the page is going to be up for longer than a day. Yeah, okay, and you you, of course, you always want to know what we’re measuring, what what ar metrics going to be for this campaign that we’re engaged in? Well, in my experience, something like giving tuesday feels like a very fast, action packed type of campaign, even a jessica saying, even if more than one day it’s still a pretty intensive, fast moving thing on dh. In my experience, that means that other folks in the organization, whether that means other staff leadership or boardmember i want to know if it was successful, justus quickly, they don’t want to wait three months for your next, you know, development update to learn about the success of the day and being able to report on that means you’re going to have to know in advance. So start thinking about this now is you’re doing, you’re planning, what are you gonna want to be able to measure and report on to know if it was successful or not? Because it may be that you didn’t set up yourself to be able to report on those things that you hadn’t thought about it. I used to give me an example aa lot of folks like tracking on giving tuesday kind of the reach of their messages because as we know, it isn’t just about the dollars range that day, but new folks who signed onto your newsletter people who maybe saw your messages and shared them so folks who were engaged in other ways and that means that you might want to set up certain tools you might wantto have a customized bentley or or other girl short ner link for your donation page that you’re using in all of your tweet so you can really see within that girl short ner screen how many tweets retweet that’s getting? How many folks are looking at how many people are clicking through you might wantto dive into your google analytics and set up some campaign you girls so that you can separate facebook traffic from email traffic from twitter traffic, for example, on dh you know, maybe you don’t care about those things just using those examples, but if you haven’t set them up ahead of time, it’s going to make it really difficult if you wanted to be able to report against those goals and of course, those air going to flow from what are your goals for the day, which which you’re always a proponent of, and we’ve also again talked about it many times. Why are you? Why are you in giving tuesday? What? What at the threshold what do you want to do for the day? Which jessica and i were talking about earlier? It could be any number of things from ah, community. A community day of service. Teo, i mentioned petitions. Could be dollars? Could be new volunteers, you know. What do you what’s your goal or goals for? The day and then that’ll drive. What you going to measure? What have i learned? Something from you through the years. I like it. At least that if i learned at least that much through the years. Okay? Yes, i like it. Okay, i’m trainable. Just anything you’d like to add, you know, metric wass no, but when one nava metrics, i think amy made a great point. But when, when she brought up reporting to board members and senior leadership, it just reminded me how important it is in advance of eating tuesday to get buy-in from that. Like, i love that you need to report to board members because it means that board members know it’s giving tuesday, and they’re excited and engage with your campaign and whenever there’s a reason i know all boards or different, but to engage your board around fund-raising in a new and different way, as opposed to kind of the traditional ways is great. So, yeah, i just i love that idea of getting the board onboard early and keeping them in the loop throughout the day and seeing how you can leverage their connections. And, of course, if a boardmember is willing to do a match always huge that especially if they’re planning on making an end of your gift anyway, saying to them, why don’t you use your end of your game, teo, as a match to kick off our giving tuesday campaign? Okay, cool, uhm ehm anything you’d like to add about e-giving tuesday way, i guess i’m the last thing i would want to say is that i don’t want to feel intimidated by the idea of participating and e-giving teams we have a small community of supporters are because i’ve never really done online fund-raising before, like you were saying, it doesn’t have to be a big fund-raising goal for you, maybe it’s just a chance for you to go get more people in your community to know about the programs you offer, recruit a new boardmember figure out that you have a handful of champions, right? It might just be kind of an introductory year with a lot of other goals that are still really important. Ilsen jessica, i wantto clothes with you tell tell me what you love about the work that you’re doing. I love that every giving tuesday i hear stories that we didn’t know campaigns, we don’t know we’re going to be happening happening that are just so heartwarming and show that there is such creativity in the nonprofit sector and that people are really thinking outside the box and want to experiment and want to try new things and in a way, that’s just just relate to it the more i just that it’s just so heartwarming that that e-giving tuesday khun really be this opportunity. Teo, bring us together to show, like, with the best in people and in just a fun, celebratory way. And i just love being witness to that. And you know where the home of giving tuesday, but really is a movement that’s built by families, individuals, all the non-profits out there so just yeah, thank you guys. Roll. Participating are considering participating. Absolutely. And you’re little more than a witness. You know, you’re a facilitator. Facilitator? Yes, but it’s it’s what all of you are going to do? That’s going? Teo make e-giving tuesday, two thousand seventeen. Amazing. Awesome. Amy, you wanna leave us with anything inspirational? Last? Well, you did. You know i don’t want to jump spot again. You did? You said you said don’t be put off by the size of your organization. Jessica and i had said that earlier, right? Small lords jumpin goto give it go to giving tuesday dot or go check it out. Okay, so i i don’t mean to put you on the spot again. You’re awesome. No, alright, that’s amy sample ward, our social media contributors ceo of inten you’ll find her at amy rs ward and jessica schneider. She is at your pal jess. Ladies thank you so, so much. Thank you for happiness. Thanks so much, tony. And thanks for paying for the conversation. Just said i was fun. Yes, agreed indeed. Thank you, jessica. Next week, oracle net sweet. They have lots of free offerings for non-profits you don’t know about this from oracle, that sweet you shall next week. 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He’s got lots of lessons to share to help you avoid the same. (Originally aired May 9, 2014) Hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. I’m your aptly named host. Hey, you could catch maria simple on msnbc this weekend. She’s going to be on your business with j j ramberg on sunday at seven thirty a m eastern, so check out our prospect research contributor maria simple on msnbc sunday morning. Oh, i’m glad you’re with me. I’d suffer with care. Arai assis, if you wormed in with the idea that you missed today’s show robertson v princeton doug white is author of the book abusing donor intent, the robertson family’s epic lawsuit against princeton university. He returns to the show to tell us how trust eroded between donor and university and a thirty five million dollars gift from nineteen, sixty one ended in a messy lawsuit. You’ve got lots of lessons to share to help you avoid the same and that originally aired on may ninth twenty fourteen on tony’s take two five minute pg marketing we’re sponsored by pursuant full service fund-raising data driven and technology enabled pursuant dot com and by wagner, cpas guiding you beyond the numbers wagner, cps dot com you’re not. A business you’re non-profit apple owes accounting software designed for non-profits non-profit wizard dot com and we be spelling supercool spelling bee fundraisers. We b e spelling dot com here is doug white with robertson v princeton first piece. I am very glad to welcome back to the show and back to the studio. Doug wait, author, professor, advisor to non-profits and philanthropists he’s on the faculty in the masters in fund-raising program at columbia university. Abusing donorsearch intent is his fourth book. You’ll find him at doug white dot net. Welcome back, doug. Wait. It’s, good to be back and to see you again. I have to ask the question. That’s on everybody’s mind though. Cerebral ischemia. What is that? That’s? A well, that this week that’s that’s. What? I’ll suffer if i find out that someone had not heard this week’s show a cerebral it’s a form of a stroke ice since kenya’s had a sense that’s what? It was what i wanted to ask you, being an attorney and all. You probably come up with all of these terms. Yeah, well, we make the well back. When i was practicing law now we would make these things. Up there the way were we would defend against people who had made them up as if the slip and fall in aisle seven on the relish that’s that caused it, and an approximate cause of the ischemia twelve years later, that that was there was actually a cause and effect relationship and that’s what we were trying to defeat it’s great to see things haven’t changed and that’s actually kind of a segue way to a lawsuit story. I don’t know, i’m sure that’s true and that’s why i don’t practice law any longer because i was not interested in the relish bill in aisle seven, but this lawsuit that we’re going to talk about is a lot more meaningful than then slip and falls and trips and falls. You you spend your a lot of time thinking about ethics and fund-raising last time you were on, we were talking about your book around ethics, and this is, uh, donorsearch trust and loyalty. How were all these? How are all these related in your in your professorial authorship? Mind? Well, someone might accuse me of having a cerebral something else because of all of the mishmash that goes on. In my head on this stuff. But i won’t. But really, i think that there’s a lot to think about in the nonprofit world that we don’t otherwise think about, we think about fund-raising and we think about boards and all of those things are important, but i’m tryingto get a handle on what society does with its non-profit sector and how the non-profit sector responds back, and so it takes me to these corners that are really weird, and in this particular case, it took me to a story that had something to do with trust and a lot of money and a huge university. And the question is, how could someone accuse princeton of doing something so egregious and that’s? Not an easy question? Answer. In fact, when i went into this story, i didn’t think princeton was really all that guilty of anything, uh, ok, because, uh, as i read through the book, i sensed you trying to be objective. But in the end, i was left with the sense that you felt princeton really had wronged this. The robertson family. You want to tell the end right now? I’m trying to get people to buy the book here in the story. There you go there. Is going to see oil or alert? We only have an hour together. There’s lots of information that people going by the book around because you were just going to school is going to touch the were scratching the surface that’s in a mere hour. The book is very well worth buying. Nine just kind of yes, i know, but now that was the that was okay, we’ll get into the details of that, but i think it’s sort of a tease, you know, that is that was kind of what i was left with, and two thousand six i had finished the book called charity on trial and was interviewed on television station in washington, and somebody brought up the princeton case because i had written about it a little bit, it hadn’t gone anywhere. It was still in the lawsuit stage, and the interviewer asked what i thought of the princeton case, and i thought that princeton had a pretty good case to defend themselves on. I said that at the time, and i felt that for a long time because i like i’m sure many, many people feel like a place like princeton really has its act. Together and is a pretty good place, and i say that knowing that it’s, i still feel that way. But there were issues that i discovered along the way that i felt really made them look bad. Okay? Okay, and we’re going toe t c we’re going to follow your evolution, okay, you’ve you’ve you’ve come, you’ve come around. I know you’re thinking has evolved. Let’s, let’s not tease any longer. This this goes back to ah nineteen. Sixty one gift from charles roberts heimans set up a little bit for you. Charles robertson, co founder of the great atlantic and pacific tea company the mp supermarkets nineteen sixty one gift to princeton university. Well, let me just do a little bit of a nuance on that. Exactly. The wife, marie robertson, who is the heiress of the mp fortune. She funded it, right? She actually tent. Technically, did fundez yes way say that there were donors, but technically, there was one donor, and that was marie robertson. Okay, but charles robertson, her husband was such a large player in the gift you’re gonna you’re gonna hold my feet to the fire on the details. Well, you’re an attorney and i can’t. Well, i was i was that’s the second time. Now you’ve accused me. I’m not an attorney, sabelo you’re recovering attorney. Yeah. I mean, i do fund-raising more than i do. Attorney work. It plays a part, but i didn’t say it disparagingly. I say it with no i d s marriage, but but you should hold me to the fire because you wrote a book and oh, and i’m glossy. Andi, i you know, ignoring details. Okay. Yes, go ahead. Marie robertson was actually the donor. Yeah, technology. But we think of them as donors and that’s. Fine. She was the heiress of the mp fortune and her one tenth share of the stock when it became available to be invaded after the trust was dissolved in nineteen. Fifty seven was about ninety million dollars. She got ninety million dollars one day from the trust. And charles, her husband, her second husband. I was an investment adviser and he new two things. One is not only should this stock portfolio within the family be diversified, he also did not have any faith in the management of the mp at that time, after the original people died off. He didn’t think it was going to go anywhere. And he was actually right on dh. You could predict anything, but in this particular case, he was right. The mp actually filed for bankruptcy just a few years ago. I don’t know what status today, but it did have a lot of difficulty. The stock did go down, so they were right to a diversify. And also the other part of that in terms of wealth management planning was to make a charitable gift to save on huge, huge taxes. The marginal tax rate at that time was ninety one percent. So this brought them to the woodrow wilson school at princeton university. It did. Ah, charles was a graduate of princeton, so let’s get that out and they were both very interested. Or he was really the intellectual driver behind the gift and it’s purpose. He was very interested, but they both were. They were both interested in international relations. This was an era of that. Today we find it hard to even think happened. There was an optimism in the united states, and there was a lot of challenge because of the height of the cold war, too. In nineteen sixty one, kennedy had just been elected. And so there was the sense of america. Khun do it. There was this idea that we were going to go to the moon, which we did. There was this idea that we could almost conquer anything which we didn’t. But there was a sense, this vibrancy and the robertsons felt that it would be really great if we could go to a really great school, like princeton, the woodrow wilson school which existed before the gift, by the way, and have people go into the foreign service of the government to go out and spread american values, not in any political sort of away or ideological sort of way other than democracy, but do it through the idea of foreign service through a peaceful way. And so the idea was to get students who were at the woodrow wilson school graduate program to then go into the foreign service oppcoll the negotiations ensued, of course, a lot of talk about what the donor’s objectives were, and how to achieve those objectives of a sze yu put it, you know, the broad goal of strengthening the foreign service in the united states. And using the doing that through the woodrow wilson school, their phrase was strengthening the united states government pretty clear, it’s clear, but it’s also abroad. The specific phrase that i think we are probably gonna have to talk about a little bit is the phrase particular emphasis, the idea that students would go into the foreign service area or some branch of the government that had dealings with the foreign service, and that the school would put particular emphasis that’s in the document on putting those students in those positions. Okay, we’re gonna take our first break. Onda of course, doug white stays with us. We’re going to keep talking about the the evolution of this, the the gift and the lawsuit and the lessons, of course. That’s, you know, that’s important that we want to leave you with takeaways so that you can avoid something like this may not be epic in your in your case, but could still be very seriously want help you avoid problems like princeton had with his donors. So stay with us. You’re tuned to non-profit radio. Tony martignetti also hosts a podcast for the chronicle of philanthropy fund-raising fundamentals is a quick, ten minute burst of fund-raising insights published once a month. Tony’s guests are expert in crowdfunding, mobile giving event fund-raising direct mail and donor cultivation. Really, all the fund-raising issues that make you wonder, am i doing this right? Is there a better way there is? Find the fund-raising fundamentals archive it. Tony martignetti dot com that’s marketmesuite n e t t i remember there’s, a g before the end, thousands of listeners have subscribed on itunes. You can also learn maura, the chronicle website, philanthropy dot com fund-raising fundamentals, the better way. Duitz welcome back to big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. I’m sorry, i can’t send live listener love today. Ah, directly live, because we’re pre recording today, but doesn’t you were listening live. I send you my thanks. Thanks for listening. And, of course, podcast pleasantries to those of you listening everywhere else but live very glad you’re with us. The now we have an hour, but we only have an hour. So we have to fast forward a little bit now, too. How things started. Teo devolve from charles and marie the parents to bill robertson, the son of charles and marie. Things started to break down over time in the in the relationship. One of the interesting aspects of this case is they started to break down a lot sooner than princeton had been saying. Charles robertson himself was very upset. Within a few years of the gift with the lack of results at the school, he had done a lot of research on what the school could do. He had talked to important government officials before setting up the foundation. And by the way, this was a foundation to support the program at the woodrow wilson school. Today, it would be known as, ah supporting organization back in nineteen sixty one, they didn’t have that, but that’s what effectively acted as and so he was on the board as well as two other family members. So there were three family members and for people from princeton on the board of this foundation called the robertson foundation that’s important, i think three family members, four people from princeton, absolutely. That was important for a lot of reasons that turned out to be one of the reasons that there was eventually a lawsuit, but it was also important for the irs to give its blessing to the charitable stature of this organization. So charles robertson knew that princeton would have the four votes they would have control. There was no real question in his mind, but he also wanted to have the families input too over the years over the generations. And so there was this balancing act that they were trying to accomplish, and i think they were all going into this in good faith. There’s no, in my view, any question about that? At the point, the gift was made, but there was always some question as to what the school was going to do. In other words, this was going to be a great program for international relations, and it is today. And i want to be clear about that it’s one of the best in the united states or the best in the world. But the gift was made in order to make room for students to go into the foreign service. That was the whole point of the gift. That was the point of the gift. It wasn’t to make the woodrow wilson school great. It was to put people into the foreign service or in the foreign relations positions in the united states government and that’s what wasn’t happening. And only a few years after that, charles robertson started to look at this and say, what’s our progress, and over the years, i don’t know the exact figure right now, but up until twenty or two, i would say perhaps thirteen to fourteen percent of the students actually went into the government, which was an abysmal failure from charles robertson’s perspective, and so he was upset from pretty pretty much the beginning, and i got my hands on documents that proves this. This was not something that bill robertson is inventing he’s able to show me letters that his father wrote angrily. I mean, there was a lot of emotion in these things to show that he was very upset with the progress of the woodrow wilson school bill robinson comes into the picture because he’s young at this point in nineteen seventy two i think he graduated from princeton himself, so he wasn’t really old. He came out of the board after one of the other family members went off and took basically his father’s place on the board on his family portion of the board in nineteen eighty one after his father died. And so bill took over that mantle of keeping a sharp eye on the progress of the woodrow wilson school graduate program, and continue to be unhappy with it. So it did go from charles to bill, but another dynamic here that we don’t often times take into account. What i tried to describe in the book was bill’s intense loyalty to his parents and in this particular case, his father he felt that his father and mother put this gift the hugest gift basically that had ever been given to a university to that time. And he felt that things weren’t being done correctly. And and his mother, too, was very there’s. Ah, something you say in the book that that bill feels very strong that his mother relied on on princeton and this gift up until her death? Yes, on dh. Trusted them. Yes. Yes, this trust was a big deal, and trust is a big deal in all of our lives, and i don’t know that we really analyze it well or feel it about it their way we might, but i feel strongly that both bill excuse me. Both charles and marie were hoping for more from this gift, and they were trusting princeton probably more than they should have been, but that’s another issue point is that by the time bill took over his seat on the board, things were not improving. And so bill kept up that as i say that that i on on the progress, that isn’t what triggered the lawsuit, but that was always ah, thorn in the side of the of the meetings on dove, the progress of the woodrow wilson school, they were not happy on dh there. I don’t know that there was based on what i’ve seen, i can’t say that i would actually say that there would be a point in that forty year history where they were ever happy. Okay, um, i have my favorite character in in the in this epic lawsuit, but i’m not going i know that i want to. Hold that dahna print co-branded an investment committee plays a big role here, and i think that has a lot and has a lot to do with the donor university relationship. Print go. You’re right, it’s the princeton investment company, i think. Oh, company. Yeah, those committee no. Close, close. Not bad. I’m gonna check you on that. Okay. Okay, go ahead. Check me out. Okay. While you’re doing that, i didn’t bring the book with me that i never bring the book because i don’t want to be, you know, page seventy four. You said all right, i’ll have to check later. This is the problem. Open book tests in high school. That’s why they don’t want to go ahead. All right. So the idea of going into a broader strategy for investing was anathema to bill, as it would have been to charles. In fact, part of the original document talked about how investments had to be put together. The idea was that print cho had been established a few years earlier, and the princeton and dahna, which had gone into several billions of dollars. At that point, i was going to be managed in a more modern way from them or traditional life and bill was way in the early eighties. Now we are in the early eighties. Yeah, we are actually. And charles did not want to get too risky with the investments, and neither did bill and bill, by the way, grew into a financial investment advisory capacity in his own right outside of this. And so he had some chops when it came to investigate. He also didn’t want to go to what became a pretty big norm at university investment houses. And that is to say, by the nineties late nineties, especially the idea of alternative investments was very, very popular, and the thieves were hedge fund these head from investing foreign in foreign companies. Yes. Now every every i have to say that what i was in this business in the investment business for charities, i understood there were lots and lots of asset classes and that’s fine way should always be on the cutting edge of understanding how finances and investments work. But they’re became a time when everything was going up and this happened throughout the two thousands to ana and what became really popular was what we call alternatives. Or the alternative investments like you say hedge funds and other things, and bill was really against that idea and print cho was going forward. He went down to print go because they were in another office and said, show me around and tell me what’s going on. And he was just not impressed with the idea of alternative investments and, quite frankly, again oppressions being what it is in twenty late that’s exactly what brought down these university endowments. In fact, princeton was so reliant upon investments they had about fifty percent or a little bit more in their endowment devoted to alternatives which, when i was in the world of investments back in the early nineties, we would think of two or three percent of a large and and so it got turned upside down, and that the tension was whether print coe should be investing the foundation assets along with the university endowment or and in the eyes of the roberts bill robertson that it should not print go should not have control over the investment exactly and that’s what triggered the lawsuit? It was that issue if you’re looking at one moment where the decision was made to actually file a lawsuit. It was one bill robertson finally got fed up after the after the board for two three voted to go to print cope, put the assets in the print going by the way that thirty five million dollars had grown to about eight hundred million dollars. That thirty five million dollars had grown to about eight hundred billion dollars by two thousand. Wow. Okay, that’s. Excellent perspective. All right, now we’re in the lawsuit. What else did the the lawsuit alleged besides the investment? Misappropriation? Well, not miss probation, but they were a couple of expenses and things like that. That right lawsuit alleged what happens? And you probably know this much better than i. But i learned this a little bit more during the course of writing the book. There was a complaint filed. We feel something is wrong, x and then there’s a response. And then in the process of looking at the issue’s, the plaintiffs have an opportunity to go through what’s called discovery. And in the process of that discovery, they discovered a lot of things that they didn’t know beforehand. So the original complaint had to do a lot. With print go, and it also had a lot to do with why students weren’t going into the foreign service. But during discovery, the plaintiff’s found that a lot of the money wasn’t being spent well, either. For example, people excuse me. Other departments at princeton were getting money from the foundation, and those departments weren’t really helping with the woodrow wilson school. The school princeton defends that and says, i’ll just use the phrase they use academic freedom. They say that academic freedom allowed them to make all of these decisions and bill’s perspective, as well as as well as the attorneys. Of course, for the family was that academic freedom, while it’s a cherished concept and we really want to make sure that we never really violated it still has its limits. You can’t, for example, well, maybe you can we don’t know this never was adjudicated by judge or jury so it’s we’ll never really know. But there was this guy this comment during the depositions, where the attorney for for the robertsons asked one of the president’s what what kind of expenditure would be allowed? And the person said, well, almost anything and the attorney said well, how about the hiring a basketball coach? Would that be allowed? And he said yes, oh, my yes, oh, my that’s a university president. That was the university. Yes saying this i forget whether it was the president or dean, i think it was the president and he said yes, because if we need to hire someone at the woodrow wilson school who likes basketball or whose husband or wife, teacher, our coaches, basketball or some connection and that brings that person to the woodrow wilson school, then we will spend that money on the basketball coach’s salary. Well, you can imagine how the robertsons would react to that. Yeah, and understanding that there is an idea, a fundamental, cherished ideal of academic freedom, we still are violating something very fundamental when that answer comes to the fore. Um, now listeners know that we have jargon jail on twenty martignetti non-profit radio, but i didn’t want to put you over there very simple. You know, the complaint that’s just i’m going to get you out of jargon job because i’m glad that you’re back for a third time on the show, so an attorney is going to get me. Out of the u s attorney’s doing all the time. We’re not all they are not. I’m not practicing law. I am not practicing law. There is that explicit. If i made that clear, those who do practice law often are getting people out of prison. It’s one of the noble or things that we do is restore someone’s freed that they do. They do pronoun trouble eyes restoring freedom to those erroneously held incarcerated. So yeah, the complaint is just that’s the way you you have a complaint. So that’s, how you start a lawsuit and discovery is exchange of all kinds of documents, and in this case it was emails and letters. Metoo certainly notes of notes of conversations you wanted. There was a lot. There was a lot in there that, as you said, the robertsons discovered that they hadn’t known about what was going on with the money in this discovery process of thousands of pages, you know, thousands of pages. Not all of them were stingingly terrible. Now, of course, a lot of it’s very mundane. Very, very monday, and you just have to sift through it because you never know when that nugget is. Going to pop out. But, yes, they found that this money was being spent all over the place at princeton and princeton will say, look, a woodrow wilson school is a great place. Okay, well, there’s, no question about that nobody’s arguing that but what we’re talking about is the intention of the donor and the document that was signed in nineteen sixty one that princeton agreed to, and so that the woodrow wilson school is a great place is true. But your relevant to this this question, the other thing was academic freedom. We can spend money pretty much however we want to. And the robertsons wanted to pull back on that. The another big issue in this was the how the robertsons legal fees are being paid. And that was being paid through the banbury fund. Another robertson family foundation let’s touch on that just lights. Just a little. Okay, princeton didn’t want that to happen, and the robertson said that they could do it. They got opinion letters from their attorneys and also had some precedents from the irs, both in private letter rulings and revenue rulings. So they were, i think, firm ground, but princeton still fights that battle today. They still say that it was improper for the banbury fund, too. Pay the robertson legal expenses. But from what i could say they were they were in a good place to do that. The robertsons work. Okay, um, starting to hint at some of our lessons for later on there was issue in the complaint also or in the subsequent complaint after the discovery around financial transparency. Yes. And disclosures that had not been made to the yeah, the robertsons family. Towboat robertson. So not only do we have these money, these dollars being spent their being spent without the family’s knowledge one was a a building that was being constructed almost entirely from the robertson. That was wallace all while, asshole. Yes. And if you ask bill robertson what the big reasons he went to court work, wallace hall was one of the three and a large part of that was they were not told this was taking place. So in other words, they took the position that not only could they use this money outside of direct connection to the woodrow wilson school, they didn’t have to tell the family about it. Forty three is this warner hall? I’m sorry. While us all was not part of the woodrow wilson school, not at all. It was not so to bill robertson. This is as far afield is hiring the basketball coach and paying for it exactly. He was very upset about that, and i don’t blame him. I mean, there were a lot of places where princeton didn’t have toe go to a lawsuit that could have done so much, and we’ll get to those in lessons later on. But when wallace hall came about, bill was livid. Yeah, well, s o you know, the institution does bad things, and then it covers it up and that’s the that’s, the financial transparency that was that was lacking, and it became part of the complaint. I’ve got more, of course, with doug white and the robertson lawsuit coming up first. Pursuant, their newest resource, the intelligent fund-raising health check downloaded for nine key performance indicators to measures your organization’s health. Ten universal characteristics of orders that are thriving in fund-raising eleven pipers piping, twelve drummers drumming i confess i had looked those up. 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It was very tense. They describe how in the early days when charlie was alive, that the relations were very good. There would be lunch at the president’s house. There would be a lot of camaraderie, even the problems were developing. The relations were pretty good by the time the lawsuit comes around. Nobody’s talking. Anybody aboard? Yeah, board meetings. And it became the antithesis of what? And again, i teach board governance at columbia. And we talk about the need for ah, transparency and fluidity. And, you know, trust and none of that was was was there during this lawsuit so it’s very, very tense there, even they were actually having meals in separate rooms. That’s, right? They family really saying we’re family boardmember zand the princeton university board members would would have lunches in separate rooms. That’s, right? They did need an adult to come in and take things. It was they ended up doing there for the settlement, but at this point, it was just i can’t imagine how tense that had to be. Yeah, and over six, seven years, yes, right, yes. Okay, um, let’s. Bring us to the settlement. Twenty eight a lot of things are going on. First of all, it’s true that the robertsons we’re running out of money, even though the banbury fund was funding the lawsuits, the love fees added up to about forty five million dollars on each side, which is an incredible about the money and even a place like the banbury fund was starting to feel that now, if i’ve been a part of those teams, i’d probably still be practicing law. Yes, i would have been. The buildings are so easy when you’re in a lawsuit, but i just never got that far. I stuck it out for two years, and i never made it to this level. Well, the judge retired the one that everybody bonded. Teo in light and respected. He retired. The judge’s clerk left to go work for the princeton lawyers, which was interesting. The new judge could only give it one day a week. And that was maria psychic. And she i was only going to be able to do it for one day a week, which stretched the lawsuit out even further. Give a dog a car there. And so there was a lot of delay and and i get this even though we kind of make fun of this from time to time, that even though there was a delay and there was a slow down, the work still had to be continued. The law fees were continuing. And so the question of being able to pay for this was a very acute one for the robertson family. On the other side of the coin, the princeton investments were going south because the crisis was taking place. And they were, as i say, and alternatives. And so they were having a liquidity problem. I think they probably only source of liquidity. Most fat during that time was probably tuition paying parents was just a very tight time. They might not acknowledge it that way, but that’s pretty much how i see it. And so they were both ready. I think, to talk settlement. They had tried beforehand they didn’t get anywhere. Bill originally wanted to take the entire endowment away and put it somewhere else. And that would have been a really riel problem for the princeton. Because if for no other reason, it would have been a real blow psychologically to this story. I really university. I get what they wanted to do there, so they were going back and forth. And the question was, should we force the university to repay all these dollars that they had misspent, which could have been an excess of about two hundred billion dollars back into the foundation? Or can we just take the foundation away? Or can we split away from the foundation and they wanted independence? They wanted to say, okay, we want money to go do our own thing, that is, to say what my parents were doing, who his parents were doing, and the and princeton really didn’t want that, so they said, okay, what we’ll do is we’ll consider chopping off some of this money and giving it to you if you let us keep the rest of it, you guys go away and that’s, basically, what happened? They did bring in an adult david gal fan from milbank tweed who came in and his whole approach was saying not to say who had the better argument legally, his approach was, how can we get out of this mess? And i think he was a good voice. He was not part. Of the litigation. And he was a good voice to be brought in at this time, and he actually did the settlement. He was very good. And the settlement wass that princeton would reimburse the banbury fund the forty five million dollars for the legal fees. And in addition to that, over a period of time, the university would pay fifty million dollars to a new foundation. It’s called the robinson foundation for government. And it now exists it’s, a family foundation, and has its own work and does what it’s predecessor was supposed to do that is to put students into the federal government. But it is completely independent. Totally invested in university. Yeah. And then the rest of the money which probably added up to around six hundred fifty or seven hundred million dollars. Because during that period of time, during the crisis, the dahna came dahna shade. But let’s say six hundred million then was left. I don’t know exactly. The robinson foundation, by the way, was dissolved the original one. And so the money that was in it and was left for princeton went into its general endowment specifically for the woodrow wilson school and today the robertson family does not have anything to say about how that money is being used. There is a complete divorce. Okay, i think that can bring us teo somethings that charity’s can can take away. Um, i still haven’t revealed my favorite character, but we haven’t talked about that person. Um, agreements, should we start with a gram? And this was all went back to the to the phrase a particular emphasis. So do we, which was in which was in the original document creating the foundation? Yes, let’s. Talk about what? What level of scrupulous nous we need to have around agreements with donors. Let me preface it by saying the this this conversation, this part of it right now has a lot to do with understanding that this lawsuit was a story and it’s true and it’s big but it’s really? A reason for being important is that almost any charity and almost any donor i can get into this bind. So it’s not just ah, large family or a large university. Any endowed gift or any restricted gift really, really needs to be put together with what i would call the lessons you want. Bring us. We could easily be talking about a ten or fifteen thousand dollars gift easily, easily and that’s really one of the big messages here? This isn’t just about princeton has got a lot of interest, but it’s not just about princeton and so donors and charities both have to be aware of this when we say when we use phrases like in with particular emphasis, it has a meaning, but it doesn’t have an absolute meaning doesn’t mean that one hundred percent of the students are goingto go to the federal government, but it also doesn’t mean zero percent or ten percent. So we have to have an understanding you and i about what particular emphasis means if it were seventy or eighty or ninety percent, i don’t think charles robertson would have had any problem. I think even if he were sixty or sixty five percent, part of the problem was not just the results, and this is another thing they discovered was that princeton never really cared whether the students we’re going to go and the evidence of that was they never asked on the application whether they were interested in going into the federal government, so there. Was that part of the equation? So and i think you can relate to this as an attorney, we sometimes think of the laws being black and white and here’s what’s, right, and here’s what’s wrong. But a lot of phrases we use are are vague on purpose. They they’re meant to be because we can’t assign a value our specific numeric value to the word emphasis we just can’t do that. And yet, it’s an important idea in an agreement. So if a person is making an agreement today, one lesson is too if you’re going to use that kind of a phrase, uh, define it a little bit more than they did. One one word that gets us into trouble, i think, and fund-raising agreements and that is the word in perpetuity of the phrase in perpetuity because in perpetuity has has a meaning if you look it up. It’s very clear what that meaning is it means forever and forever has a meaning. And so, by definition, we cannot put into legitimately into an agreement, in my view, the word perpetuity because we cannot know what’s going to happen forever. So we have to be more careful. And crafting the language that we’re using. I want i made a gift to my own high school. This is a in the nineteen eighties of deferred gift. Where’d you go to high school exeter, phillips, exeter. And it was back in the day when pulled income funds were popular. You probably remember that yourself. None of our listeners will. There were there was a thing it’s, an antique drug in jail. Again. Well its way. But we have to define it’s now an out of date. Really? Life, income gift. A method through which donors got variable income for for their lives. And the variability became a big issue when interest rates were declining and the varying the variations were all down. And these have pretty much falling out of favor among among non-profits so that’s enough for me. So then come front. When i was doing the agreement, they said and i wanted to honor my english teacher and they said, this is back in like, nineteen, eighty four they said, you know, this going to sound weird, but we might not teach english forever, right? I thought, how is that possible? But it may not be possible. But it was also not conceivable that we wouldn’t be riding horses forever. So had an escape plus, saying that if this ever did happen that they be able to use it to a purpose is closest possible. Something, something that deals with ian practicability of yes, continuing the gift. Yes, and i’m tryingto bring this and tryingto respond to your question about how donors can and charities. Khun b take steps to avoid what happened to princeton so that we don’t just use words capriciously. We just have about a minute before a break, and there’s certainly board implications here, too. I mean, the princeton board reviewed the documentation and probably was involved in in a good degree in the negotiations board oversight of gift. Yes, this is a good example of that. Now, i don’t really fault the board at princeton to too much because it was nineteen, sixty one and not twenty fourteen, and so we’ve learned a lot in the last half century about board oversight and so forth, but that said thie gift was basically shoved through. It was a last minute quick kind of a thing had nothing to do with there at the time current capital campaign and the president really did not have the fullest discussion with the board about this gift, and they should have so board oversight of that process is really critical. 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Hi, i’m bill mcginley, president, ceo of the association for healthcare philanthropy. And you’re listening to tony martignetti non-profit radio. Big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. As we make our agreements more specific and and defined terms as you’re suggesting, we can actually get into trouble because the specificity now binds us two teo, try to predict what’s going to happen and try to predict what issues are goingto a result. So there’s a there’s a balance between specificity and flexibility there is, and when i was saying earlier that we need to be more specific, er not use words capriciously, you’re right, i had that in mind to that there is a balance and it’s there’s always going to be tension. And so the question is, how do we avoid this kind of a thing going into the future? And one of the things that you can avoid has nothing to do with the agreement. It has everything to do with relations. If princeton had done so much differently, this wouldn’t have gone to where it went. But it was the lack of trust, the erosion of trust over the decades that really set the stage for this. Then you can go to the agreement say you’re not doing this well if you have the trust going on at the same time, you don’t need to go to the agreement, say you are or are not doing something but that’s it so so that’s probably the best lesson that anybody can learn from a charitable perspective anyway, to stay in touch with the airs at the donors and the heirs forever. This is an obligation, and if you don’t feel you can do that, you don’t feel you, khun obligate your success is that the organization to do that, then don’t promise to do that that’s part of the deal here in plan giving, when i was in plan giving, doing these kinds of things and talking to you too plant giving directors, i would say you’re you’re actually making an agreement here that will go on for well past the time you’re here, and probably perhaps well past the time you’re even alive. So many generations of successors after you are going to have to do what you’re agreeing to do today, keep that idea in mind when you make these agreements and this particular agreement, nothing was going to erode the idea of a federal government or the need for foreign relations, but still there could have been mohr a trust and more. Specificity, i think, in the agreement, although i don’t think the specificity was the issue here, i think the idea was pretty clear, i mean, with particular emphasis might be a vague term, but it does have enough of a meaning and enough of an understanding by people who consider the table to know that thirteen percent just doesn’t cut it. You know, you know, the good communications and keeping in touch, and in this case, there were there were different presidents who could at any time i thought when, when there was a new president, he or she could have said, you know, we’ve made some mistakes in the past, obviously i was not in charge then, but here’s what here’s, what happened and here’s what we’re gonna do, teo, and make sure that this doesn’t happen again, that humility is so crucial, especially the non-profit i can understand boisterousness from ah for-profit especially if it’s a big one, but at a non-profit there’s this extra special place that non-profits haven’t talked about that in the other book, the non-profit challenge where that humility plays a large large role or should now, just so you’ll know, since this book was published other organizations, air writing reviews and trying to talk with both me and princeton. Princeton refuses to talk about it. They give the same press release that they give that they gave after the settlement they do not want to acknowledge, but something went wrong. How they could possibly agnostic. Now i could understand them having a defense, but to say they were totally in the right, it blows my mind, you know that? Yeah, that sounds like lawyers giving advice and and driving the decisionmaking vs people who are more interested in the long term relationships with donors and alumni. That was paul volcker’s perspective. I interviewed him because he’s, a princeton alum, and he also had a perspective on this situation at the woodrow wilson school. And he was complaining about the woodrow wilson school separately and before the lawsuit ever came, so he was doing it entirely independently. And when the lawsuit came around, he told me, i think the lawyers are driving this. They’re saying, princessa can admit to nothing but i’m thinking, okay, i get that it’s not good, but i get that. But here we are, what, five years? Seven years. Six years after the settlement and they’re still saying we didn’t do anything wrong. Is bill robertson willing to talk now? Yeah, bills bill is going to be speaking with me up in boston next week. Oh, i could’ve had bill roberts instead of you. You could have a visible the name in the lawsuit instead of the guy who just follows it later on, you’re in the gundam, maybe it’s somehow it’s done now. Alright, alright, to settle for this second best. Okay? And so, as we are crafting these agreements again, the board’s role in reviewing agreements whether whether it is appropriate to buying this organization forever in perpetuity, or should we stop short of that and the board is really the last step two that can raise a red flag for the organization it is, unless you can come to some agreement as to what in perpetuity means as they did at the a museum of ma metropolitan museum of art a few years ago. And philippe de montebello said, we think in perpetuity really means seventy five years on the donor agreed to that. Well, that’s ok, that’s coming is a definition. There was a definition, right? So in perfect, what he didn’t really mean what it means in addiction, right? Fright, but yes, you’re right, i think the board has to be very cautious of that. My favorite character, we didn’t talk about her, but you dedicated the book to jessie lee washington. I did, i don’t want to, i’ll let you explain, but we just have it. We just have a couple minutes explain the crucial role just a jesse was an employee at that. The university was asked to look into endowments at the divinity school and found some irregularities and did a report, and it was put away for a while. Then she left on dh. Then the lawsuit became really big, and she said, you know this? What i was working on in the divinity school is very similar to what the lawsuit is alleging. So she came out and went to the lawyers for princeton with seth lap ido and said, i have a story to tell you, and when she got on the phone, seth said, we’ve been waiting for you to come. He didn’t know who it was going to be, but he figured there would be some other person in princeton who would be familiar with this activity that princeton was doing in the endowment accounting and she really represent she she i think, was very courageous. She put her reputation on the line and said, i am willing to go on the record to say what’s wrong here, and he dedicated the book to her, and that was so touching. And i think, well, she’s, my favorite because i believe that most people want to do the right thing and she’s a perfect example of stepping forward being courageous the way you describe most people in non-profits and donors want to do the right thing. I think you’re right. I know you’re right. Doug, wait, author, professor, advisor non-profits and philanthropists. He hangs out at columbia university teaching at the masters and fund-raising program. You will find him at doug white dot net. The book is abusing donorsearch intent. The robertson family’s epic lawsuit against princeton university it’s a very, very good story and very well told doug white. Thanks so much. Thank you, it’s. Good to see you again. Pleasure. Did you think that i was going to wrap up this show without live? Listen, love. Podcast pleasantries an affiliate affections lima, lima, lima podcast pod papa papa an alfa alfa. Certainly not certainly not can’t happen. So the liveliest naralo let’s go abroad. I like the start abroad today in ah poon a india i believe i’m not sure i’m pronouncing it right, but india is definitely with us. Germany. Guten tag. We can’t see your city, russia i’m sorry, we can’t see your city. I don’t know if i should be surprised there, but we cannot, um anybody else abroad? 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We’ll fix that as we cover what it is; who does it; how it can help your work; getting started; and what can go wrong. Gene Takagi is our legal contributor and principal of NEO, Nonprofit & Exempt Organizations Law Group. Andrew Schulman is with Schulman Consulting. Gene Takagi Andrew Schulman Path to JSON: 2017…09…355_tony_martignetti_nonprofit_radio_20170901.mp3.26995318.json Hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. I’m your aptly named host. We got two new sponsors to welcome today. Wittner, cpas and apolo software welcome, wagner. Welcome apple, o’s. Oh, i’m glad you’re with me. I get slapped with a diagnosis of collect a zia if you tried to milk me with the idea that you missed today’s show physical what fiscal sponsorship you’ve probably seen it and don’t know what it’s called will fix that as we cover what it is who does it, how it can help your work getting started and what could go wrong? 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You should be usually following this blood non-profit law block dot com highly recommended by non-profit radio and he’s, the american bar association’s twenty sixteen outstanding non-profit lawyer he’s at g tack on twitter welcome back, jean. Hi, tony it’s. Great to be back. Ah, pleasure and were joined. Bye, andrew showman. He runs the only consulting practice in america focused on fiscal sponsorship, showman consulting, assisting both sponsor organizations and fiscally sponsored projects. He’s, an active member of the national network of fiscal sponsors and a probono consultant for the taproot foundation. His companies that showman consulting, dot com and he’s at am shulman. Welcome, andrew. Thanks for having me, tony. Good to be here. Pleasure. I’m glad you both with me. Thank you for the hour we got we got a big topic this fiscal. What? This fiscal? Sponsorship. Gene let’s, let’s. Start with you. What? What? What are we talking about? Fiscal sponsorship. But it is a little bit of a complicated topic. We have an hour together, which is great. The pickles sponsorship can mean a lot of things. And so when people use the term pickle sponsorship, many of them are thinking of it as a kind of using another organization to raise money so that they could get a charitable project off the ground without forming a new non-profit. But it also refers to other types of relationships as well. But it generally refers to the ability of the charitable project to get the benefit of a five a one c three and raising money through five twenty three through the relationship of the project leaders with the five o one c three o’clock you are approached by a lot of, well, intention, zealous people who want to start non-profits and you just mentioned this can be an alternative to that. Do you have you guided people in this direction? Oh, and it has been successful. Yeah, absolutely. Tony so it works is a great incubator for charitable ideas that organizer’s may not be. Sure of you know, we’ll get off the ground or not, but they’d like to give it a try where might be for a limited scope, it might be for you no one event a year or we’re going to just do it for one year and see what happens. It’s great to have a another charity out stairs and things, you know will sponsor even we’ll, you know, we’ll sort of recognise this is an internal project of ours, and you can work with us to do it. And if it works, maybe spend off later and you form your own non-profit so it works of the great incubator, and i often advise smaller organizations that don’t have a lot of administrative expertise. Teo, think about pickles and jean have you also worked in your practice with the sponsor organizations? Yeah, with several sponsors throughout the country, tony and on their way to do it right into ways to do it wrong. So hopefully we get a chance to look into those things a little bit more. Okay? Sounds good. Andrew let’s bring you in. I know your practices both on the sponsoring side and also the the sponsoring a project side. Anything you want to add at the at the outset, the way tryto break this down for people. I would just just echo what you said about, you know, its sponsors have bean a lot of different things, and you know, it the most interesting thing that i’ve run into is that everyone has a, you know, a little bit of personal experience, i say they were looking at physical processes through a keyhole, and if you sort of pull back there’s actually a whole landscape of different things that it means and different ways that could work. So that’s, what it’s really about? Okay? And i got i got, i guess, validation for the two of you being expert in this area, someone e mailed me someone who works in non buy-in the fiscal sponsorship and said that both jean and andrew are experts on then, of course, now we’re on facebook live live listeners if you want to follow us. Ah, watch the video facebook live! Go to the tourney martignetti non-profit radio page, facebook and document hello, reed reed says gina’s, an awesome expert. Thanks for the topic. Absolutely, reed. You’re in the right place. You should be here every every friday one to two eastern. This should be your your staple friday at one. O’clock! But i’m glad you’re with us today read on also vanessa jones is on facebook live hello? Vanessa. Hello. Um okay, so yes, you both said lots of ways to do this, and in fact, there are models a through f so we’ve got six models, but the two of them are the most popular a and c i don’t know why it’s not a and b maybe we can bring that up with the national, the the national national network. Thank you. Thank you, andrew. National network of fiscal sponsors, but anyway and see the most popular. So we’re going to spend time there, but let’s see andrew let’s stick with you. What? Just let i don’t want to tick off six different models because we’re not going to spend a lot of time on four of them. But just what? What are the distinction? Like what? What characteristics distinguish generally between the six models? What kind of different things that we see in the six different models and then we’ll have time to focus on amc. Okay, okay. Yeah. I will go through all of them individually. But, you know, the key differentiator is elearning and this is something jean will hopefully timing as well. Is the legal relationship between the bumper and the project? Ok? And so do you. Think of it. Spectrum, you know is at one and where the project is essentially the eyes of the law of the ira. Just the program pasta. Looks like they decided to start up a new program. It was much the same way to the regulators, you know, down to, uh, c is one where the project is actually a separate legal entity has its own. We got standing, but just does not have usually does not have a five. One two three on those using the answer for that. So there’s all between there there’s all different relationships on different setups, but basically dependent on what that relationship looks like. Sort of what level the project is at in terms of their i don’t know their situation of you know, either. Incorporated. You have any standing? Okay. Okay. So, it’s a different relationships between the two. Andrew, when we come back to you, i need to speak up a little louder. Okay, try toe latto. Right. A little post it note on your by your phone. And speak a little louder. Okay, so you remember through the hour you’re coming in to buy it for everybody. Okay, now i did find, you know, contrary to popular belief. Actually research these conversations before i have them. And at fiscal sponsorship dot com there’s an article by someone who i think is pretty well known in this area. Greg gregory colvin on my right, gentlemen, he’s he’s written a book. Yeah, i don’t have that right. Yes. Okay on dh he’s got a chart. So if you go to fiscal sponsorship, dot com in this paper by him which is called presentation on fiscal sponsorship also aptly named good for him there’s a chart. And it has the a through f and lays out different basic characteristics. And whether it’s a separate legal entity and we’re the charitable of nations belong and things like that. So if you want to, you want to get more detail on the six. Certainly khun consultant jean takagi or andrew goldman. But if you want to see a simple chart, then you could go to fiscal sponsorship. Dot com. Okay, gene let’s. Um, let’s, let’s. Start toe. Break these down. Model a. Way let’s say we just have, like, a minute or so before break. So why do you just given overviewing of of what? A model, eh? Looks like jean sure. So it’s actually exactly what andrew? It said it. It really is an internal program or unit of the fiscal sponsor. And what happens is the project leaders, the people who come up with the idea that they want this project sponsored, go up to the physical sponsor and say, hey, can you develop a internal program within your entity within your charity, but delegate management of it up on the one thing that separates it from just being a plain vanilla internal program? Is that there’s a fiscal sponsorship agreement that allows the program organizer’s or the project organizer to spin it off at any time? They decide that the fiscal sponsorship relationship isn’t right? Or they decided that there finished with the incubation and they want to set up their own non-profit bible, twenty three entity and then move the programme over into that new energy so that basically modeling in that shop? Okay, cool, well done on. We’re going to dive in further on that and talk. About the pitfalls contracts. Bond, gentlemen, what i do want to do is i want to approach this from the perspective of a potential sponsors, because we’ve got, you know, over twelve thousand people working in and around small midsize non-profit. So they’re all potential sponsors, so that i want to look at it from that perspective more than the perspective of the potential projects. Okay, so everybody stay with us. Fiscal sponsorships continue. You’re tuned to non-profit radio. Tony martignetti also hosts a podcast for the chronicle of philanthropy fund-raising fundamentals is a quick ten minute burst of fund-raising insights, published once a month. 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Okay, gene let’s, let’s. Go a little further with model a. Why? Let’s again? From the sponsoring organizations perspective. Why would non-profit want teo taking an internal project from some bunch of ruffian startups? Start up people with a lot of passion, but not any business sense. What’s the advantage to the that sponsor organization. Well, hopefully they have a little bit of business. Otherwise you wouldn’t take them. Yeah, all right. That’s, the main reasons why a physical sponsor and existing charity would say, hey, i’m willing to sponsor your project and actually make it an internal program of our entity. The main reason they should do that, it’s because it furthers their own charitable mission. So that should be the number one reason what ends happening sometime by maybe less informed leaders of some organizations that might be willing to physically sponsor a project is that they think that it might be a way to make some additional money on. And they might say, hey, we can raise funds for this program. But you know, bring in a little of that for our own general admin purposes, and maybe that that’ll that’ll effectively give us more resource is to do everything else. Okay, well, right, because andrew there’s a fee associated with this, right that the sponsoring organization charges the project. Yes, i think that’s correct, usually it’s space, either on the revenue that’s raised percentage or face on the expenses of that project. Okay, and what, what, what, what? What’s. A typical range what’s fair. Well, it depends on the model depends on a lot of things, but i would say anywhere between five and fifteen percent. Okay. Okay. Uh, in the rain. All right. We’re just right now. We’re just talking about model a sow is that? Does that apply for model a five to fifteen percent? Yeah. Model a. We’re probably looking at four of us st nine. Ten. Fifteen. Okay, a little bit hyre right, because the organization that sponsors is taking on a lot of responsibility, right? Let’s, start flushing that out. Yeah, exactly. There. They’re taking on all of the legal responsibility all of the risk in terms of liability for the project. A cz well, as taking on the financial management of the donations that are coming in and how they’re being piela being spent all that money being spent, the employees rest if there’s paid employees so there’s a lot of a lot of pieces for the for the for the pompel okay. And what what’s the board’s obligation here before we before we take this on it. It sounds like something we shouldn’t do just for the revenue. Wait, let me just let me just start with that question. We should not do it. And i think gene was alluding to this. We shouldn’t do it just for the money. Do i have that right? Yes, i would say nobody should get into any part of non-profits to make a lot of money. Okay? And, of course, you know, even e guess, even if it furthers your mission. But you know, if you’re not really into the whole idea, but you just feel like you could let’s say it does meet the criteria that gene mentioned definitely furthers your charitable mission. Ok, got that. But then wait. We could make some money at it. You know where we’re like, lukewarm on the relationship idea. But, you know, we could make nine or ten percent that’s. This is not the way to go about it, right? Right. Right. Yeah. It really also requires the sponsors have there processes of infrastructure in place to do what? Well, i know there’s. We’ve talked about the book that six ways to do it right, andi, i know jean government have flogged their six ways to do it long from a legal standpoint in my world. From the operation standpoint, there’s, probably about a hundred ways to do it wrong on one of them is trying to take on a project as a sponsor when you don’t have your own infrastructures, set up well, and your financial processes and on all of that work is not sort of ready for prime time than if you take on someone else’s. On top of that, you’re just setting yourself up for bad situation. You alludes in the book? I didn’t. I didn’t make the connection explicitly. The book is by gary coleman. Is that right, greg? Greg coleman, thank you. Six. What is what is the exact title of his book? Jean correct me if i’m wrong, but i think it’s a fiscal sponsorship six ways to do it right? Yeah. That’s absolutely right. And and greg corbin is the guru oh, on this topic, tony he’s he’s really led the whole movement on dh written really? The seminal book and probably only full sized book on the matter. And it’s any non-profit actually wants to start a physical sponsorship program or hasn’t, you know, has started doing it kind of informally, but not really gotten their ducks in order. They should buy this book and read it very carefully. Okay. Greg colvin, fiscal sponsorship. Six ways to do it right. Is that right? That’s? Right. Okay, jean let’s flush out some of these legal responsibilities that ah, sponsoring organization is taking on under model a what does the board need to consider and be aware of? So apart from from the mission of the project, they want to make sure that they got the right sort of project leadership in place. They obviously, as andrew was saying, you’re taking on not only all of the responsibility, the legal responsibility, the project and the financial management responsibilities project, but everything to do with the project is to do with your organization as well. So it’s there any risks involved in that project? The liabilities are going to be the physical sponsors you’re not isolated from that. So you’re taking on all that responsibilities the board has got to think about on dh sometimes he delegates this off to management that the project is well to find enough to be able to do it, but i like it when boards actually approved the projects and take a look at the application, which might include bios of the project leaders, um, and any special rigs that might be involved with their activities. So if there are working with children no, if they’re going on outdoor expeditions or if they got a camping program, is going to be dealing with research for on any see more than just sort of playing administration in an office they’ve gotten think about the risks and whether they have the right insurance in place and all of the infrastructure things that andrew said they’ve got to get in order before the accept the project, those are all the things that the board has to say. Yes, we’re prepared. To take on this particular project because we’ve got all our ducks in order to be able t o i handle the management and oversee all of the management of this particular project, its employees and volunteers and everything else. All right? I’m i’m getting i’m getting tired now of talking in the abstract i want i want toe implore you to tell me a story. So, gene, can you have you have a client story you could tell about a model, eh, fiscal sponsorship that that went well? Sure so ah, a typical model a project make may come in that say says we’ve got this great idea. We’re going teo run an after school program for children’s education in this area of a city that doesn’t get much of those services. We’re not sure you know if it’s gonna work or not, we project that we’re goingto bring in about one hundred thousand dollars a year, and we’re not sure of funding outside of the first year we’ve got some donors and foundations, perhaps that if we have a five a one c three, they will commit. So we’ve got this first year commitment of one hundred thousand dollars we’re not sure after that, if it’s gonna work, so we’re looking for a physical sponsorship relationship to start out with, and that might be kind of the first cases of saying from the physical sponsors point we’ll have you done anything like this before? Have you raised funds before or, you know, how did you get this initial one hundred thousand dollars worth of commitment on dh? What risk is there going to be involved in your after school program? What exactly? When are you going to do who’s going to manage it? Do you need employees? You know, are you going to be all volunteer, right? Those are the types of questions that need to be asked of this particular project that we’re talking about and sometimes stop, you know, in that particular project that i’m thinking of, you know, ended up becoming a great project for that sponsor, the people that brought in the project, we’re really focused on program and fund-raising they didn’t want to worry about all the admits, what filings to make? They didn’t wantto worry about payroll tax withholdings or insurance developed beings called the government’s policies, or even putting together a real board of directors, andi get all of that through the physical sponsors that works really well for the project and the programme leaders. The fiscal sponsor gets this project because they’re also interested in in-kind of children and youth programs in their area, they get this great project that gets a lot of attention, does very well, not only for the first year, but for subsequent years after that, and a great long term relationship arises, and the project actually ends up staying with the physical sponsor, not just through an incubation period that they never want to leave the fiscal sponsors. If you imagine tony one hundred thousand dollars, if we’re talking about even ten percent in administrative fees that’s only ten thousand dollars that’s the project would be paying to the physical sponsor in order to get all of those things. All of the insurance policies of filing no set up that a great relationship that can happen. Okay? And it’s continued, gene has been successful staying with that sponsor organization for many years. All right, andrew, i’ll give you a chance when we get the model. See, i’ll give you a chance to tell a story. Ok, not to worry, okay, um, but still i model a andi want remind listeners i’m talking. Teo jean takagi, principle of neo non-profit exempt organizations, law group and our our legal contributor. And andrew shulman, principal at shulman consulting shuman consulting dot com and we’re talking about fiscal sponsorships right now. Model a. We’ll get to the model, see, and we’ll find out why be got skipped over andrew, what do you what do you like to see you mentioned? There is a lot of things that can go wrong. Tick off some things that you like to see in a written agreement, and i’m presuming that there should be a written agreement. Everything i read said there ought to be a written agreement, but sometimes there isn’t, or a lot of times there isn’t so let’s, just assume that non-profit radio listeners are going to do it right. There is going to be a written agreement between the two entities. What do you like to see in that agreement? Well, i like to see i like to see a lot of things, i mean, okay, i mentioned before, nothing, one of the most important one is how you know a clauses in sections that that will tell how this relationship might end it already if and when it’s ready to be ended by either party. So if the project isn’t doing well and the practically there’s aside, okay, we’re you know, we’re going to close up shop. There should be part of the contract that say, ok, when that happens, here’s, how we’re going to do it wording and andrew, including the possibility of spending off to a different supporting organization, right? Right. So that’s the other side, if it does well and they decide either way, we need to move to a different sponsor that maybe has mohr provoc rise more services or more services. Tailors are specific needs or we want to go out. We’re at the point where we’re big enough people enough, we get our own. Five. One, two, three. You know what? How? What are the rules? And one of the for the processes dictates that so that that should all be in the contract, i’m i also like tio put in again, i’m not a durney venus, but i like to also put in the expectations of both the sponsor that the project should have for the sponsor and that the sponsor has for the project, so that gets into a little bit of process. And, you know, when, how long should we expect as a project that’s gonna take us a sponsor too? Latto check when we need to, you know, make a payment to a vendor or to review a contract before we before we do it, how, you know, if we’re if we’re applying for institutional grants from foundations, what’s the role of the project of the sponsor in that those kinds of things as well so that that’s the kind of stuff that usually gets skipped over in a lot of cases, but i found that to be successful as a sponsor, you really have to set the expectations up front of both how you’re going to operate with the project and what you expect from them. Jean would you want to add on the contract side so just clarity about that, that the project and all of the funds raised for the project are really funds raised for the physical sponsors, the party that signed the contract with the physical sponsors so the project leader they’re not registered to engage in fund-raising themselves and they don’t have five a onesie three status out neither the physical sponsors, so they have to realize that when they’re fund-raising there fund-raising as agents of the five a onesie threespot co sponsor, and they’re raising funds for an internal project of that sponsors so it could be restricted funds that they’re raising but it’s not funds for their separate entity or anything like that. So when they spend off, they might form a separate entity. But ultimately all of the funds belong to the sponsors, so there should be that legal understanding and the contract has got to recognize that. Because if you run into an issue with the irs for an attorney general or other regulators, that documentation has got to be perfect, even though ultimately the sponsor should be willing to transfer out the assets that you’ve got a suitable successor that’s willing to take on the project, including if the project leader’s create their own five a onesie three entities, now they’re going to be little caveat to be careful about. So here we go. One of the reason why the termination is because the project leaders have failed miserably and even embezzled money from the organization. Well, then you don’t wanna transfer assets out to something that they created that you know, would be imprudent for for the physical sponsors board. So little caveats like that you gotta be careful about, and then when they draft an agreement, you want to make sure that the sponsor is protected and doing it in the right way. Okay, we’re going tow. We’re going toe. All right, hold on. 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I can continue to take the show on the road to conferences will get outstanding speakers. They’re the conference speakers. I need you to support our sponsors on their new ones coming october first. So you may hear me mention this again. But for now, pursuant regular sea pia’s appaloosa counting on dweeby spelling. I need you to check out all our sponsors if they if you think they can help you, please let them check them out. Thank you very much. That is tony’s take two and i am with jean takagi and andrew shulman. We’re talking about fiscal sponsorship. Gentlemen, i think we’re ready to move. Teo model. See, unless unless somebody has something burning that the lackluster host did not cover in model a. So anybody, anybody have to say something about model, eh? Okay, going, going, gone. Thank you, thank you. Um, let’s. Move to model c and, uh, give it to andrew. What distinguishes model c from model, eh? Church model c is more of an armed blink relationship. Aunt it’s usually just face around a, uh, candy to space around a specific activity or even a specific grant about me from the project that the project is soliciting through the sponsors tax id number. So basically, in this case, the project, it is not a division or unit sponsor, but they have their own legal status. They usually registered within their state as a charitable organization, but they don’t yet have a five twenty three or don’t have a five, twenty three andi so they remain distinguish where here is that instead of handing off all of that administrative were to the sponsor with model, eh? I don’t see a lot more of that falls on the project, but they’re really just utilizing that. Five, twenty three status of the sponsor two taken tax deductible. So so is this just temporary? Until the the project gets its five. A onesie three designation from the irs, it can be can be temporary. Can be longer term candy. You know, there’s. A lot of uses. I know we haven’t gotten the story time. Yes, but there’s a lot of uses. For model b, the art where if you can imagine, a documentary filmmaker is doing a film that has a terrible purpose heimans telling an important story and they want to raise money via donations. I willbe tax deductible from the donors. And so instead of going through the process of getting their own twenty three, they can actually go through a physical sponsor of the model t and do it that way. Okay, uh, and reminder. I should’ve i should’ve mentioned it earlier. Andrew, remember to speak louder. Okay, write yourself a note and then look at the note to you’ve got to look at the note after you write it. Uh, jeanne model see what you want to add. So i’ll just build on what? But andrew, it just said a lot of times this is a project that thought by arts groups, sometimes by by research group, and they may not actually deformed the non-profit they might just be individual. So proprietors in the case of artist oh, are they might be just a for-profit type of al, l, c or business corporation, but beached in some sort of charitable effort. So the general idea here is they want to raise some money, and they’ve got some willing funders either donate or make grant to this specific project, but the funders and the donors the donors want to get a tax deduction for making the grant, but they can’t make a grant to liken individual artists and just take a deduction for that right on the foundation may not be able to make a grand to an individual artist without jumping through more hoops that they have to do under the regulations when they give to non charities, so both of them would rather give to a charity. But the fund what the artist maybe doing and in that case give it to the physical sponsor and the physical sponsor has the ultimate legal control and discretion over what they’re going to do with the money subject to the restrictions that the donors put. The donors are not going to say you have to give it to this individual artists what the donor’s going to say is we want teo produce oh, are we want to fund the production of a documentary on penguins in argentina and there’s only one, you know, so maker that’s actually doing that and they’ve made that, you know, typical sponsorship contract with the physical sponsor and what the models see. Agreement is a pre approved grant relationship. So basically their physical foncier’s saying, yes, we’ve already vetted this project. The artists on, and we know that they’re doing the research and they’re competent, and we trust them to be able to use our grant money properly. So if we raise the money, teo fund this project, we’re going to re grant it to this person, and this person is going to deliver the project for us, and then we’re going to make sure that it gets published. Distribution is simply because that’s, what a person on league it is, people, that’s, the typical marvel. Okay, so there’s that. There’s. More vetting involved. Do i have that right? Yes, going to be quite a bit of betting in in advance, just to make sure that this person isn’t just pay themselves, you know, for their their own living and, you know, housing expenses, but not do anything charitable with the money or build that they sell to a private collector. So it never gets into the public realm. And it’s just a way for that person to make extra income on their parents, donated the money and took a tax deduction for that that was completely improper and unlawful. So the sponsors got to make sure the vet that, if we’re going to enter into this relationship, are our role is a grantmaker, just like a private foundation might, you know, have a role to vet all of their grantees. But when you’re not going to give a grant to another public charity, you know, the responsibilities and the vending has got to be a little bit stronger, because you have to make sure that your money that you’re giving your charitable monies, that you’re giving us a fiscal sponsor, are only going to be used for charitable purposes. And they’re not going to be a fuse for private benefit. Jean do we know why model b got skipped over? Why did we get screwed? Well, pick first shot at a b b is around and this probably as the third most common of the fiscal sponsorship forms and it’s a little bit of model aimed he combined in that the project is owned by the physical sponsors, but rather than as in model a, where all the employees, volunteers and the contractors all are employed or hired or contracted by the physical sponsor. The entire project is going to be contract id out a single independent contractor in the model b, so you own the project because you want to control the project result, but you hired an independent contractor who would probably be the project leaders that brought the project to you in the first place, and they’re not going to be your employees, but they’re going to be independent contractors to it, and they’re going to supply all the services that our program services the cynical sponsor will still do most of the back office stuff. So is it too late there? Insurance would cover it, but they would hyre out an independent contractor. Can we have movable? Can’t we move? See up to be and be down to see since since sees more popular than be or is it xero late for that? So what? Who created this created this? I don’t know what greg’s mom and creature grantmaking. Dr gramm. We’re popular bin b but b if you look at it in terms of control and responsibility of the fiscal sponsor a is the most responsibility for the physical sponsor is the next most and he’s the least i see. All right, so we were working down a xander was saying earlier. It’s the relation what distinguishes these six is the relationship and we’re working. We’re working toward less less responsibility for the sponsor. Is that a through f? Do i have that right? At least eight, just like different variations. All right, all right. We need to get greg on here. Explain his nomenclature. But thes e the one who created this morass. Okay, we have it. We have a bit of a naming problem. Yeah, if you haven’t noticed. Yeah. Model, eh? My late model. Be okay. Uh, andrew, tell us a model. See story. Sure. So remember to talk loudly. I okay, i’m trying to tell me if i’m not because i’m trying to tell me what i need to talk even more loudly. Ok? Ok. You said okay, go ahead. I worked with. Okay, great. So i worked with an organization that association for non-profit news organizations on dh part of what they do is offer physical sponsorship metoo start up non-profit news entities. So i think, like the local ah, websites that have serve lots and all of the country with all the investigative reporters i’ve gotten laid off from newsrooms they’ve all got out started their own websites to cover local governments and things like that, and they offer a fiscal sponsorship in mile see to those entities to help them get started because and sometimes to stay for a very long time, because the gandhi’s are folks who are starting these entities that aren’t looking to you manage, you know, a non-profits they’re not looking to worry about out getting there there five, one, two, three status and and all of that on this organization that’s those folks, obviously they know who they are. They’re watching them very closely and know they’re acting as the five twenty three for all of those organizations. Okay, and that is that relationship continuing? Yeah, they have a have a great program. They have. Ah, i don’t know, probably upwards of twenty or so. And, you know, like i said, sometimes makes sense for that’s, awful, sponsored project and either model to separate out on their own. And sometimes it makes sense for them to stay, because, you know, if you had a certain level of size and fund-raising staff, bond, all that kind of stuff, uh, it’s, just a really good deal for you to be sponsors. And so, you know, especially in this day and age where a lot of funders are concerned about overhead and have lots of questions about overhead. I always tell people you’ll never have lower overheads in which her under physical sponsorship. We’re going to go out for our last break when we come back. Of course, live listeners love that. We’ve got to do that, and we’ll explore a little more than due diligence. Yes, and, you know potential risks. In our last seven minutes or so, stay with us. 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It’s a family um andrew who’s, that who’s that sick rings that you andrew genes genes used during this so it’s probably it’s probably andrew’s genes used to hearing all this. I was ranting, you see, listen, specially love jean um okay, let’s, talk a little about some due diligence. Jean i gave you a shot earlier. Let’s andrew let’s, talk to you now about let’s. Hear from you sorry up my voice just cracked like i’m a fourteen year old on some or the due diligence that is sponsoring organization needs to do, you know, detail. We like actionable details for our listeners lorts sure, well, i think. You know, especially if you’re either either model, either either model, right, looking, too, to take on a sponsored project. You know it. This is a relationship. This is a marriage, essentially, that you’re getting into. So if you start with that apprentice, you think about, you know, in a business sense, all of the things that you want to make sure you know about the folks that you’re, you know, metaphorically getting into bed with. So you obviously want to know about their experience. You want to know about their support networks, whether two people raise money or, you know, bring on more people to help their project evolved. You want to know, you know, if they’ve had any, obviously, any criminal activity or anything like that, for sure, it also you want to find out about their plan. So, do they have a business plan or aa program plan? Do they have a fund-raising fran? Do they? You know, is there any money committed at this point already, like you guys mentioned before, that’s sort of ready to go if they’re able to get this that status, you know, those are the kinds of things that you really wantto dig into and understand, and that, you know a good official sponsor will have a pretty well defined application process that, you know, may have multiple rounds of interviews with the, you know, the staff of the mon for the board of the sponsor. In some cases, you know, like inside you, you do want ideally the board to make this decision or help you make this decision to take on these projects or even to start a sponsorship program because they are the end of the day, the one who’s, you know, they’re on the line at the end of the day, their fiduciary responsible for for the whole thing. So, you know, it should be you should at least have some input into that. Where do you see the responsibility for this do dilgence residing? Who does it? Treyz who i think who on the organization is doing it. So go ahead, and because usually the staff, you know, whoever it will be involved in working with the project from the path of the sponsor, would take the lead, maybe with some help from from some key boardmember okay, jean, did you have something more about through? Dilgence yeah, i just wanted wanted to add that it really is critical that the physical sponsor understand, particularly in the model see situation that there there one’s fund-raising forth the project, even though the project is housed in a different legal entity and that they’re going to make grants to they’re responsible for all the monies and all the responsibilities associated with the donors or the foundations, including e-giving a grant reports back to the foundations, and if it’s government funded the audit requirements that go along with that and that’s where you get the hefty, like the fifteen percent physical sponsorship administrative fees that andrew was talking about, government audits are incredibly difficult to do and expensive but fickle sponsor has got to be prepared to do all of that. They’ve got to make sure they’ve got adequate strapping to be ableto handle all of these and treat all of these is restricted funds and have all of the infrastructure, all the right policies over the right agreements, all of the right qualifications to do business if they’re in different states and registrations, you know, tony, you’ve got to be prepared to do all of that, and that made depend upon each project that they get, they may be incurring additional responsibilities that they’re going to think about on dh what if they what if they don’t do it right? Jean? What? What are what are some of the potential penalties were the worst thing that that happens is of course, the project gets into huge trouble, and they, you know, they engage in some sort of political activities and all of us and you jeopardize your own five twenty three status or a child has been hurt because of the negligence that they’ve got that have exhibited, and you don’t have enough adequate separation in the model c or it’s, a model a and its internal project of your physical sponsors. So you’re completely responsible for the liability, and you may find that you don’t have enough insurance because he went, anticipating those things and the bad if you weren’t really prepared for it. So those air the two worst case scenario. Ah, andrew. It sounds like you really should have some outside help and expertise. If you’re if you’re going to take this on. Well, i would i would recommend it. I mean, i think you especially if you’re doing it for the first time. So are a lot of people come to me or i’m sure jean when they’ve already got a couple of projects underneath, um, i say a lot of people get into this accidentally or at least unintentionally and, you know, like we said, they’re six weeks to do it right there’s a lot of ways to do it wrong on in the operation side of things and you know it, khun khun very quickly go from a really good thing, tio not so good thing in your whole team is now focusing all their attention on these projects and it sort of eating up all of their bandwidth on dso, you know, having some of those processes procedures in place on getting all those things set up is really important again, going back to the due diligence, the written contracts, i guess both of you have seen cases where it’s just been a handshake mary-jo absolutely, yeah, happened a lot. And then when when there’s a termination that happens, there’s a conflict about what? What should be done into who’s, you know, the funds belong to a lot of complexities when they don’t do it right at the start. Dahna andrew was something wanted ad about the downside of a handshake agreement. It’s well, i would i would just say that whether or not there’s a handshake or even a contract, you know, we’ve talked a lot about model a model see, and they are very specifically laid out, but what do you see out in the wild if there’s really a spectrum of how they operate? And some of them i’m not always done to the letter of the law and monsters don’t realize it, and, you know, some of the very long to get by obviously would recommend doing that if you don’t know what you’re doing, but it was really, you know, there’s a lot of variability out there, so if you are thinking of becoming a sponsor or you are a sponsor and you’re not sure you definitely want to talk to somebody who knows what they’re doing, gene, there is no legal definition to these right? That there’s no one legal, definitely fiscal sponsorship isn’t defined in any code or regulations, so cynical sponsorship. Is just referring to these relationship that are ultimately defined by the contract and that’s why you needed a written contract, because we need to know what relationship you actually have and the biggest, biggest thing, and where everything often goes wrong is misunderstanding that an outside legal entity other than the physical concert could not fund-raising for the project, even those of the individuals associated with it are fund-raising for the project, they are on ly doing so as agents of the physical sponsor. So the physical sponsor ultimately has control over all of the funds it is raising. And if it’s going to re grantham out, it’s going to re grantham out under its own legal discretion and subject to what they call all variant of powers in accounting language, basically saying that ultimately, the physical sponsors board has full control over them of those assets, subject to the purpose restrictions or timing restrictions that might be involved with the donations of the craft. Okay, we’re gonna leave it there because i think it’s ah, i think it’s appropriate to leave it on. Ah, sort of a note of caution. This certainly can do wonders for your charitable. Mission and your work, but i feel like what i’m sensing from from the two of you is you know, you got to do this right? So i’m going to sort of leave it on that cautious still a little bit of a finger wag that admonition tone that you probably need some expertise and you’ve got to make sure you do this correctly. Is that okay, gentlemen, anybody disagree with that? How can you? Okay, not at all. Okay, so i want to thank you very much. Andrew shulman. You’ll find him at shulman consulting dot com and at a m shulman and jean takagi editing the very popular non-profit law block dot com and he’s at g tak gt. Okay, gentlemen, thank you very, very much. Thanks, tony. Thanks, anders. Thank you so much. Have a good one. Pleasure. Thank you. Again. Next week, video storytelling and maria semple returns with deep pockets. If you missed any part of today’s show, i beseech you, find it. I’m tony martignetti dot com. I love our sponsors pursuant online tools for small and midsize non-profits data driven and technology enabled pursuant dot com regular cpas guiding you beyond the numbers. Weinger cps dot com kaplow’s accounting software designed for non-profits non-profit wizard dot com and we be spelling supercool spelling bee fundraisers. We b e spelling dot com creative producer is claire meyerhoff. 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Nonprofit Radio for August 25, 2017: Raising Risk & Avoid Social Weariness (ASW) August 23, 2017 Tony Martignetti Nonprofit RadioAmy Sample Ward, DLBHicks, funders, John Hicks, Maya Winkelstein, non-profit, Nonprofit Radio, Nonprofit Technology Network, nonproift, NTEN, Open Road Alliance, risk, Social Media, Tony Martignetti, Tony Martignetti Nonprofit RadioNonprofit Radio Listen to the August 25, 2017 archived podcast Maya Winkelstein & John Hicks: Raising Risk Risk pervades every grant you get. Lots of things can go wrong. Is it appropriate to discuss potential problems with your funders? Does that advantage your grant competitors? We’ll flesh it all out with Maya Winkelstein of the Open Road Alliance and John Hicks from DLBHicks. Amy Sample Ward: Avoid Social Weariness (ASW) With our own ASW, Amy Sample Ward. The social networks are 24/7 and can overwhelm you. But there are ways to make them work for you. Amy knows how to make your social manageable and strategic. She’s our social media contributor and CEO of Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN). Duitz hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. I’m your aptly named host. Oh, i’m glad you’re with me. I’d suffer with media asta no, pericarditis, if you broke my heart with the idea that you missed today’s show raising risk risk pervades every grant you get, lots of things can go wrong. Is it appropriate to discuss potential problems with your funders? Does that advantage your grant competitors? We’ll flush it all out with maya winkelstein of the open road alliance and john hooke hicks, john hicks from de lb hicks and avoid social weariness et s w with our own s wmd sample ward the social networks twenty four seven and can overwhelm you, but there are ways to make them work for you. Amy knows how to make your social manageable and strategic she’s, our social media contributor and ceo of the non-profit technology network, and ten on tony’s take two show our sponsors love responsive by pursuing full service fund-raising data driven and technology enabled, you’ll raise more money pursuing dot com, and by we’d be spelling super cool spelling bee fundraisers. We be e spelling dot com. We just corrected that problem. Hey, maya winkelstein is on the line. She is executive director of open road alliance, finding new ways to deploy capital to achieve maximum social returns. She had been there consultant. And they loved her so much. They put her in charge. So i guess there must not have been any non solicitation clause in that contract. We’ll flush that out. They’re open road, alliance, dot or ge and at open road tweet. Welcome, maya. Heidtke durney. Thanks for having me. My pleasure. My pleasure. We have john hicks on the line yet. Okay, we don’t have john hicks yet, so sam’s going to give him a call, but that’s. Okay? Because i want to start with you anyway, maya, um, we want to talk about risk to talk about risk and are funding relationships, but, uh, yeah, i know why. Well, uh, you see the opening of the show riskiest everywhere it has stopped anyone on the street and said, hey, the world is unpredictable vehicle, you’re disagree. Everybody agrees. Andi makes sense that in the nonprofit sector, where by definition we’re working with the most vulnerable populations and look vulnerable and challenging. Geography and problems that unpredictability is just a fact of life, but this reality often doesn’t translate into the way that grantmaking works the way that project planning and particularly the going on grantee relationship functions. Andi, we think that change, okay, if i know you have some stats about how ah unlikely it is that a grantee will be asked to assess the challenges that are facing them in the in the program or project that they’re that they’re seeking money for on dh like, okay, you’re welcome, you’re welcome to work those in and but but then, but if if if we’re not being asked to raise this, this issue of risk, don’t we end up disadvantaging ourselves because our competitors in the grantspace may not do the same thing? Absolutely right now we’d like to say that the word risk is a foreign letter word, and you’re on, and i think about the situation as an emperor has no clothes. The truth is, we did do a survey in twenty fifteen, where we interviewed two hundred foundations two hundred non-profits and asked him about it what’s really interesting in that survey is that the foundations acknowledged that risk percent as much hutchisson non-profits it princessa agreed on the number, and the number is one inside the one in five projects or wanted five grand’s legend to encounter some type of roadblock or obstacle that’s going to need additional funding in order to achieve impact on time and in cold. Okay, that zoho both sides acknowledges so to, as you said before, seventy six percent of thunders don’t ask any point in the application what goes wrong and went under so now guarantees don’t tell. So we do have this this dilemma and the question about competitive advantage, i think there’s a really important one because there is a lot of fear among non-profits you know, why would i reveal my weaknesses if you know somebody else competing for the grand isn’t but the truth is, uh, when you don’t talk about brightstep friends, we’re not brave and say, hey, you know, there’s, other things that could go wrong, you really just shooting yourself in the foot because things are so go going to go to go wrong one way or the other, and the difference here is simply for patient setting. Well, we don’t expect a set. Expectations appropriately, they’re thunders then it’s not surprising that they’re blind sided or react negatively when you come up. All right, all right. Um, i saw the so we believe i’m not surprised to hear one in five twenty percent of funded projects will have trouble. I’m in trouble is inherent in anything we do, whether it’s commercial or non-profit i’m just still i’m trying todo playing devil’s advocate i’m trying to think of think like a ceo or a grant writer who is wants to be transparent and set expectations, okay, but my board or my ceo from the grant writer says, look, i mean, the competitors are just not going to do this. We’re making ourselves look like we’re inferior because we’re going to raise challenges that the other people competing for this exact money are not going to raise, and they’re going to look superior and we’re going to look poor, right? And where one where i encourage non-profits to play teo freedom, your donor’s instincts as an investor that’s open lately what all donors are, you know, when we send money out into the world, it’s not baking powder self-funding back and sleep at night, we’re in an era of philanthropy where we want to see change, um, we really do treat our philanthropic dollars as investments for looking for maximum return on investment on if you think about it in the private sector, you know, who am i going to pick the company that tells me that everything’s perfect and they’re never gonna have any problems or the management team that said, hey, look, you know, we’ve looked at all of the issues, these air, some things that could go around, but this is how we’re managing it. Uh, you’ve been really treat with management as a sign of confidence in your management team position it as, uh, a competitive advantage to your advantage that you’re thinking about these things and your competitors are if somebody tries to tell me that something one hundred percent guarantee that for me is a much for red flag and the honesty and transparency of saying, hey, what could go wrong? But i’ve got a plan in place, okay? Okay. That’s ah, that’s. Excellent. That would be persuasive to me. Position as as an advantage. Somebody who tells you that there’s no risk is not doing a complete analysis. You know, they’re they’re superficial and were detailed, etcetera, depending how far you want to go in trash trash in your competition. Okay, that is a great intro, right? We’re goingto going go out early for our first break. When we come back, we’ll bring in john hicks, we got him on the line now, and, uh, we’ll get into where does this start? I mean, is this a chicken and egg thing? I mean, to me, it seems like funders have the greater responsibility. They’re the ones with the applications, but we’ll talk about that on dh, more about, you know this, don’t ask, don’t tell about risk that that were in stay with us. You’re tuned to non-profit radio. Tony martignetti also hosts a podcast for the chronicle of philanthropy fund-raising fundamentals is a quick ten minute burst of fund-raising insights, published once a month. Tony’s guests are expert in crowdfunding, mobile giving event fund-raising direct mail and donor cultivation. Really, all the fund-raising issues that make you wonder, am i doing this right? Is there a better way there is? Find the fund-raising fundamentals archive it. Tony martignetti dot com that’s marketmesuite n e t t i remember there’s, a g before the end, thousands of listeners have subscribed on itunes. You can also learn maura, the chronicle website philanthropy dot com fund-raising fundamentals the better way. Welcome back to big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent they were on facebook live, so i want to give shouts shout outs to carry my croghan good to see you, carrie it’s been awhile, it’s been quite so quite awhile. Thanks for being with me, man and jeff rose and also and there are others there are multiple others, but i can’t quite see them all right now, but we’ll get to them more facebook live shoutouts, let’s bring in john hicks john hicks is principal of de lb hicks consulting deal b is for dylan’s light bulb and if you don’t know that story, it’s at deal be hicks dot com he’s on the faculty of columbia university’s master’s program in non-profit management and a contributing author to the books after the grant and the non-profit handbook fund-raising he’s at de lb hicks john hicks welcome back. Glad to be back. Thank you. You’re you’re on vacation in north carolina, are you? Is that right? Yeah. Absolutely beautiful day down here in the outer banks. Well, thank you for joining us on vacation, john. Thank you so much. Thanks for doing that. Uh, jon, do you heard the intro, i hope. Where yuan for that? I was okay. What do you think of this idea of raising risk? Other people might not be well, i think it’s incredibly important it’s something we talk about a lot in our grants glass at columbia university about mitigating risk for the donor and mitigating risk for the non-profits and i was one of very quickly right off the bat compliment maya and her team on raising this topic for grantmaker but i think it’s also everything that i’ve seen has been developed by by the team. I would love to share my plan to share this with my client because i think non-profits have to be looking at risk management in terms of developing long term, sustaining positive relationships with donors, but also, you know, you have to do a reading, undertake a really solid reality check when you’re starting a new program, you know how how much can you realistically do? How much can you realistically deliver? Um, so it’s an important topic and, you know, it’s, just so great to see this being, you know, brought out in the way that it’s it’s been taken on my uh, where do you feel the responsibility lies for starting what you want to see happen a lot more often than it does in, like thirteen percent of grand applications or something dependents look like depending whether you asked the funders or the or the grantees, you’ll get different numbers as to how often it’s it’s raised, but in both cases it’s in the vast minority of applications, do you feel like it’s the funders? Responsibility? Because they’re the ones asking the questions they’re the ones with the with the applications so open it, lee risk itself is a shared responsibility. I mean, these often heard the conversation, and rightly so that non-profit can’t do their work for that thunders and thunder achieve their objective non-profits so we really are equal partners in in sharing and the successive failures and rick, every project that we partner on, but the reality is that there’s also a power dynamic within that partnership, and that power dynamics is very clear and it’s such a the thunders so as much as i do think there is a place and is a safe for non-profits to stand up to breathe ray’s, tow, have the conversation. To raise the issue uh, really, if we’re going to see widespread change, it’s going to have to come from the underside and it’s gonna have to really be be demanded as thunders. And i like to sort of think about it as risk monitoring an evaluation was pan of fifty years ago, right? It wasn’t until even though non-profits knew that they could do better at measurements were trying to do better measurement to billy and sam impact of their products. You know, it’s not told donors have a really big lever when they asked for it. And when they funded that’s, when things really start to move and change, all right, let’s, let’s drill down into some of the how tio, how to do this my way if i’m of i’m a potential grantee and there’s no mention of challenges, risks, obstacles in an application for for granted i’m applying for how do you like? How do you encourage organizations toe raise the issue? Do they wait till there filling out the application? Do they started in the preliminary phone calls that we hope that they’re having before they submit an application? How do you like to see? This one of the things we found on the underside in particular is not that thunder don’t want to know about bricks or don’t want to ask about it’s just that it’s not part of the grantmaking mainstream grantmaking culture, and so it doesn’t even occur to them, and one of the things that is also absent on the underside is very serious for thinking about their own risk tolerance and being able to define that. So one way to ease into the conversation without going straight to hey, you want to me to give you a risk assessment is to ask the thunder about their risk tolerance. Askin, you know hey, what is your profile? What are the types of risks that you like to see potential grantspace taking? And what are some of the risks that you tend to lead to a void in your grantmaking portfolio? Not only is that dahna night entree to the conversation, but it will also give you as the applicant, some really interesting on dh hopefully helpful information around here. What will be a better fit for that particular thunder? All right, john, how do you feel about when when it’s appropriate? To to start asking these questions may be asking the funders risk tolerance, what’s your ideas on how to raise this. I know what my just said about you is that it’s very early on in the conversation? I mean, this is why, you know, a best practices, particularly taking on a ah large initiative, a new initiative you’re looking at standing something significantly, i i’m a big believer in coveting the client or the organization through having on initial conversation with grantmaker i think that’s where you you asked that question about risk colorants, and then but at the same time, i think the charity has i have a responsibility to have considered that question and be able to speak to handle day are assessing risk and how they have factored of risk-alternatives grain up. So i felt that, you know, a grantmaker handup that obligation to the grantmaker and john, can we quantify these things? I mean, ultimately we’re asking the funder for money. Can we quantify the likelihood of risk percentage of likelihood vs versus potential cost? Can we quantify this? I think it really depends on the program. Tony means sometimes if you’re if you’re looking at replicating something that’s already been found there might be information helps you to do that in a lot of cases that i come across, it may be that thie organization is trying something that’s very new and it’s very i mean, it could be a something new within a community, something new with them, a community of practice, and it may be hard to put numbers around that, and i think this is where, again, engaging the grantmaker and a conversation toe tried to bring out the questions that they’re going to have because, you know, ultimately you’re talking to a grantmaker you’re talking to probably a representative, who is? Mom has a responsibility to a foundation board and, you know, you want to get a sense of where is the board? We’re that foundation board, in terms of, you know, going back to what my dad says, what is their wrist and that mike guy, the metrics and the numbers and that helps you to create and construct a grant proposal that would speak to you know, that you could or you might be able to quantify risk. Let me give you a couple of my hold on. One sec, i just gotta do a lot more facebook live shot out sorry if you want to join us on facebook live, go to the tony martignetti non-profit radio page and joining us most recently craig’s swenson onda cara gammel, cara charles hello hello karen, what a pleasure. Thank you. Sorry, maya. What do you want to get my? What do you want to say about quantifying this for funders? Yeah, i’m really glad you brought that up, it’s something that we’ve actually been looking at open road for the past couple of years and unfortunately compared to certainly the for-profit sector, we just don’t have numbers yet, and this is in part due to some of the other clans patients, particularly when it comes to pricing in cause so that our sector is facing. So we’ve actually been having conversations and working with partners that would stand and non-profit finance son, people who are looking at things like overhead on dh, the survey shin cycle and accurately pricing the true cost of a process. We haven’t even figured that out yet, so this figuring out the next step beyond what is the true cost of a perfect projects. To say ok, and now, based on some sort of actuarial tables or other data that we could drop from here is the risk premium, if you will. I do think our sector is going to get there, but it’s going to be many more years and are you you you’re helping this conversation along the way? This research along, i should say, not just conversation, wei are yeah, we are helping to search along. In fact, one of the things that were excited about is within our portfolio. Now that he’s been around for five years, we’ve got over a hundred krauz funded, which also means we now over have a whole one hundred and miracle data points of what actually does go wrong in our sector. Andi, we’re going to be publishing reports later this year or early next year that begins to offer actually the first data that empirical david, what goes wrong? For what type of project, how often and under what circumstances? But failure has always been and can gentle and related challenge to this question of risk. You know, i say failure is a risk realized so and we all know how difficult it is to talk about failure in our sector so it’s very hard to get some of this data because people don’t want to admit failure. There’s certainly not recording failure. Can you open up an annual report? You see all of the good numbers, right? All of the return numbers, nobody, uh, really truck goes around. Failure is risk allies. Dh jonah, you hear snickering whereas my talks about the annual report, you want to answer them? I mean, no, i’m not laughing at you with everything that, you know, i think that it’s like when i’m sitting here with someone who probably, you know, works with charities on reports, and i’m constantly, you know, playing to my clients, that i think when we come back, we’re behold them to come back to a grantmaker and to honestly say when something doesn’t work, what do we understand about the failure? Why did it fail? How are we going to take that failure and learn something? Promise? I agree. I think that you know that sometimes there’s uh uh, there’s. A lapse in communication where the great you know that grant he feels like, okay, i just have to go back. And talk about all the really good things that happened and you’re right on the point of annual reports, there’s a lot of annual reports that just simply, you know, put a fairly burnished picture out there of the work that seemed done when reality not everything works and the more you can understand from it’s better you’re going to bay so i totally agree with, you know, with the point she’s making yes, producing this show, john, i’ve heard rumors to that effect. Not everything works. You have something you will. And when i said you were snickering, i didn’t mean you were snickering derisively maybe i should said you were chuckling or you were bemused. As as my was talking, i didn’t mean to suggest that you were you were being negative. About what? About what? She was saying that at all? No, not at all. You have a lot of you have a lot of good tools that open road, alliance, dot or ge on dh. One of them is you talk about a risk profile statement. What is that? Yes. Let’s. Go back to the convent and made earlier around. What is your tolerance? Andi? This is a tool that we developed with thunders and nine, but i think it is equally applicable and adaptable for non-profits out as well. One of the things that we found in our work and research is that it’s very hard to take steps to manage risk, to try to minimize it or avoid it. If you haven’t gone through the preliminary step of figuring out what you’re willing to deal with or not right, what is your current service profile statement is basically the idea that you go through a a very deliberate and intentional discussion with your your staff for your board, your trustees, depending on what type of organization you are and you really deliberately come up with what you’re risking, tolerance is and think about it along different not so your risk tolerance when it comes to taking reputational risk might be very low, but you’re colorants for innovation might be very high risk is not a single single variable, either. On the idea of this profile statements and it’s sort of the division would be wow, imagine if every thunder you could go to their website and you could look at their risk profile statement. And you could see in writing where they’re willing to take risks where they’re not willing to take risks, you know that? And it’s non-profit we’re able to look at their programs and strategies in the same light you the matchmaking, if you will, between non-profits grantees, not only is there potential for that becomes easier, but if you don’t know what risks you’re willing thank you, it’s very hard, then to identify and managed. So if you are looking to improve your management in general, you would’ve also have to do that. First step is figuring out what risks you even talking about and which ones are going to be worth it to try and save it for duitz and we need to, i guess, then set aside money teo plan for these could negative contingencies, absolutely, and that gets into the risk management side of it is sort of the objects inside of fifty will he other think cubine mind is that when we’re talking about a profiler with cholera in ultimately that’s a subjective measures, you know, whether or not i prefer to curtis, test with stock or treasury bonds is a very subjective choice on dh. That’s a choice that thunder have every single day do they want to invest in the tried and true after school program? Where do they want to invest in the innovative new inner cities i have model and whether or not which one they pick is as much about the impact that piece of the cross product can provide as much of the currents of the thunder, but that’s ultimately a subjective measure, but once you have that subjective measure now, you can do this management, and you can look at the object in sight of the fact that no matter how little tolerance for averse service you are subjectively it’s filled and exits, and you’re going to need to manage it and you can manage it through budgetary actions. You can manage it with internal policies of procedure e-giving manage it with communications on a whole bunch of other tools have been become much more easy to implement and ready it at your weinger john hicks, anything you want to head there? No, i think an ideal world and if we do live in an ideal world where there’s a lot of grantmaker who are listening to this program. Or are taking the time to go and get their hands on the tool kit, and they’re going, they’re going to use that five again, you know, just applauding the work that maya and her team have done on the topic and i hope, it’s useful to the grantmaking communities well, our our listeners are the non-profits over twelve thousand small mid size non-profit so what? We’re we’re i know meyer’s working on both sides because this is a shared responsibility, but so what we’re doing is encouraging non-profits to raise it with their they’re funders on dh that’s, why i want to drill down earlier and about how do you the asked both of you? How do you raise the question? Because where, you know, we’re hitting the non-profits and now the newly competitive because of maya’s my strategy and thinking on this, the newly competitive non-profits because they’re there now at a competitive advantage that they weren’t roughly twenty eight minutes ago. So i feel bad i feel bad for your competitors, not listening. You should, but you shouldn’t. But i do because i wish they were listening, which we have more but wait, we don’t have an audience to brag about of course we do, but i feel bad for the feel bad for the ones they’re not listening. My, i’m going to give you the last word. We just got about thirty seconds ago. Once you wrap up for us. Sure. Well, i guess that’s the last thing i would say, you know, keeping that non-profit audience and nine is duitz sebi breaks, you know, and stand up. There are a lot of a lot of things that you think you internally and externally with their fenders, put a risk front and center center onda also in terms of your own internal processes, you sustenance on your own. Anyway, even if you don’t know, never hear about it. Yes, what? You’ve just made your program stronger. You’re gonna have more impact and be more successful, which in turn is gonna attract more donors regardless. So i do think there’s a lot that non-profits could bring to the table here on but the end of the day without non-profit hundreds of just sitting on piles of money doing nothing. So i think it really, really is a great role that complaint my is executive director of open road alliance, open road, alliance dot or ge and at open road tweet john is principal of de lb hicks at de lb hicks dot com and also at deal be hicks. Maya. John, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you for your pleasure. Got a void? 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Now, i actually thought maybe this meant there was a lot more pressure now that any topic in the future has to be able to fall into a nasco w acronym. No, i don’t. I don’t feel like that now. Besides, i’m the one who put there. I would be putting the pressure on myself because i there. Yes. You don’t hear me. Hello? Hear me? I cannot hear you. I’m not sure if you can hear me. Okay? Okay. Why don’t you call back and call back so i can hear you now? Okay. Okay. Now i was saying that there is no pressure because first of all, i did not ask you to come up with a title that met your initials. I did that myself, so you can blame me for that. And no, not not a precedent setting measure. No, you don’t have to worry. And we just lose amy. We did just back now. Now you are back. Okay. Did you hear? Everything i just said, i’ve been in the system the whole time listening to the whole show. And then when it’s my turn to talk wait cut you off? Yes. Did you just hear my whole diatribe? No, i didn’t hear you. Well, alright, basically. Well, i thought maybe i sum you buy my comment. Oh, come on. You know better than that eyes no silence on non-profit radio that never that would never happen. Okay, well, you’ll have to go listen back. But the short answer is no it’s, not a precedent. Don’t worry, grayce so what? We are talking about setting boundaries around your social. Is this getting to be now? Is this going to be an issue for you and your community? Definitely been a really kind of top of mind. Intentional topic here at and ten, i think i think last fall leading up to the election, regardless of any candidate that any single person was voting for. It was just such an intense election and the, you know, everyone turning to social media all throughout the campaign turned to social media that i think by the time the election happened, everyone was just really at this kind of emotional breaking point around how much content there wass how often updates were coming through and that’s both content from, you know, out less media outlets, newspapers, etcetera, but also just content from each of us write everybody sharing things and adding commentary and just reflecting on things that i think people have you no for almost a year now felt like i have to find a way to take a break, or i may be going to lose it, you know, i’m just reading too much, and i feel like if i’m not, you know, i’ve left my left my desk, but now i better open up twitter on my phone because i want to make sure i’m staying on top of this, that people are getting to a place that i think is really overwhelming. I understand, yeah, there’s so many more people paying so much more attention to the networks and the news. I mean, this is the social networks on dh exactly on i would never advocate against that way. I mean, i’m excited that we have a country that feels like people are paying attention, i think, for non-profits that this is a huge moment for us because it means that when we send out on a call to action or an appeal, we can make less of a point about what it is that’s going on because people are are now informed and waiting for that action and indifferent way, right? So on one hand, as organizations it’s a really great time because people are informed and are paying attention, but as individuals and individual staff, i think if we don’t set some boundaries around how much content we’re trying to absorb every day, we will just burn out. Look how good she is bringing it right back to the listeners wait brilliant were brilliant contributors on this show, the host is lackluster, but the contributors are outstanding example exemplary, alright, so yes, so as individuals and maybe even as organizations to i mean, if we’re a small organization, we don’t we don’t have a devoted social media director manager, this applies on the organization level to so what ideas you got? Well, i think at the very basic, when we’re talking about just boundaries in general, something that i have been practicing and that a number of other staff here it and ten have also been practicing is to kind of use different devices as a way to create boundaries. So for example, i don’t have facebook as an app on my phone, and that means that i’m only going to go expose myself to the world of facebook if i’m sitting at a computer and i can open up a browser right? That i’m not just like on my phone, letting myself be kind of mindlessly sucked into that news feed, so separating which which channels which applications you’re going to look at on different devices means oh, well, you know, maybe in the evenings you liketo have a tablet because that’s, where you read, you read a magazine or you have a kindle or something, making sure that you minimize how many other apsara on that device will help you create some boundaries so that’s excellent. And then in addition to that, i think it kind of goes hand in hand, but it’s picking times of day where you want to engage, so saying, you know what? During the morning when i’m getting up and i’m having my coffee and i may be with my family, i don’t wanna have to start the day already worried about what’s happening in the news, right? So, like i during these times, even though the temptation is there, i don’t check twitter until i get to work or something. So picking sometimes a day where your mind knows, okay, it’s okay to go down the rabbit hole. This is my life twenty minute twitter break when you get into the office or something, but then the rest of the time, you don’t feel like, oh gosh, i should check i should check i should check you say, no, i have that time when i know i’m going to go check it. That’s a tough one. You know, people have been saying that about email for a year for years as manager. Way of managing your inbox on ly check email, whatever two, three times a day instead of i think the is in the aft national adult average, like a hundred times a day, we look at our phone to check email something instead of doing it a hundred times. Cut it down to three that’s a that’s, a tough one. You know, last time i had beth can’t iran and i know you know, beth very well and she’s very smart. She talked about how difficult it was for her to break the habit of waking up and picking up her phone and looking at email it’s, hard it’s shorts and part of it, if you know you have that habit, let the device help you with that, right, you can set your different channels, whether that’s, social media are email or whatever toe on ly shou notifications at certain times or never shown on vacations. I think it is very healthy to make sure your phone is not constantly showing you the number of unready males, because that is just like a stressful little picker, right? So, you know, howto open email on your phone, you can go look at it, but you don’t need this scream at all times to be shouting at you fifty on read emails, right? So you some of the control that you have just by the settings and was identification setting their display settings to help create some space there? Yeah, that’s a great one. You know, i’m going to do that that’s a great, like that little red badge next to my helmet that red number you need that. I don’t need that in your life, right? I’m going to look at that. I’m going to check email anyway. I don’t need to know that. There’s there’s one i didn’t. I didn’t get to. I just checked back. They just check twelve. I closed the damn thing. And now there’s one how did that guy? How did that bugger sneak in there exactly. Just feel good about closing it. Yeah, you don’t need that picture and you know it’s a great one. It’s not a phone app, necessarily. But if you use gmail, i know a lot of folks do. If you use gmail there’s a free ad on called bloomerang and if you in add that into your gmail in your browser, it can mute that incoming email like you were just talking about for you. So it’s not a matter of temptation of saying, gosh, i can’t even open my email because i’m always forced to look at it two or three times a day. You can have it open. You could be sending emails. You can read emails that air there, but it will not show you the incoming. E mails wow, during these times where you say i want a mute email for the next hour so that you’re not tempted to dive into all those new emails while you’re trying to focus on something else. That’s outstanding what’s that called it’s called bloomerang bloomerang and it only works with what did you say? Gmail workflows gmail? Okay, well, i don’t know if it works on other things, okay? I know that it does work with female. I’ve heard i’ve heard of female, so okay bloomerang cool, you’ve great ideas, it’s amazing. What? Well, i mean, i think it’s what’s important, even if those air to specific things that you already do or you don’t care to try, they’re just example to illustrate that there are some ways that we can use technology to help us stay away from technology. There are some good tools are quick little add ons that can help you create some boundaries and some filters so that you’re not feeling overwhelmed all the time that you don’t have to do all that work, right? You don’t have to say i just need to be a better digital citizen and not care to check. Facebook, facebook wants you to check it it’s going to send you notifications every way it can and it’s trying to get you back in there so you don’t need to feel guilty for checking the notification instead. Think about where where should i go turn off those notifications? Facebook isn’t trying to tempt me back in and the emails the emails of facebook sends did you know that seventy nine people like the recent posting you’re non-profit happy hour? Oh my god! Yeah, i got to turn that off, too. All right, that’s, too? Yeah, i got one the other day that i thought i felt so desperate, it’s said. You have not updated your public, i don’t know if it was my profile or just i hadn’t posted to my own kind of, you know, posted into the news feed in fifteen week don’t you want to see it? And i was like, if i haven’t done it in fifteen, we space book makes me maybe you could just let me go, you neo-sage they’re trying to trying to get you back in. You’re not cooking on enough ads for them to suit them exactly. All right, we gotta go out far for a break. When we come back, we’ll talk about the ultimate low tech non-technical way of turning yourself off. Stay with us. Like what you’re hearing a non-profit radio tony’s got more on youtube, you’ll find clips from a standup comedy, tv spots and exclusive interviews catch guests like seth gordon. Craig newmark, the founder of craigslist marquis of eco enterprises, charles best from donors choose dot org’s aria finger, do something that worked. 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So glad that your station has included non-profit radio in its weekly schedule. Affections to our affiliate listeners and turkey in mexico joined us as well, back to the live love turkey, mexico sorry, we cannot see your cities, but but we know that we know you’re there. We know you’re there. All right, amy sample ward. Thank you for that indulgence, even though you interrupted, but okay, so let’s go to a very i know it is that i love having you on, you know that let’s goto a completely non tech way of setting boundaries, and that is just turn yourself off and take a take time away right from the social net from the networks. Yes, take a little social media vacation. Ah, sabbatical, if you will, you don’t have to close everything permanently. You don’t have to cancel all of your accounts, but, you know, and i think it doesn’t have to be like i’m going to take the month of september off of twitter or something. It doesn’t have to be so rigid and intense, but just saying, you know what? I wantto give a gift to myself of saying that every sunday afternoon is for me and not for the internet, it could be that simple, right doesn’t even have to say, oh, gosh, it’s twelve oh one, i’m already entered into my afternoon of no social media just saying, i i want i know that it will make me feel better. I’m going to give this to myself and then as you start to make that a regular routine, i think it’s easier to say ok like this feels good. I didn’t have to check anything all, you know, all sunday afternoon or whatever today it is, just give yourself that regular vacation very good idea and so simple to do and, you know, be good to yourself, you know? You need you need time away from the i don’t know the pace, the fast pace of the networks and the networks are only expanding and they’re only encouraging you back. Mohr and maura’s, we were just saying before the break, you’ve got to take control, you have to you have to it’s on you. They’re not gonna let you alone. You have to tell them you have to tell them to let you alone. I mean, just in that same way of, like, take control, i think it’s so easy to feel like, especially with channels like twitter where there’s it’s just happening so fast, right is just kind of streaming by that it can feel like you’re kind of this passive participants audience member right there, watching all of this content go by that again, just like you’re saying remember that you can be in control, that i think some of the smartest things to do for using it, not just setting boundaries about when you use it, but when you are using it are to use the list, make sure whatever channel you’re talking about, that you’re kind of filtering that content. It’s okay to follow a million people on twitter but start making a list of specific voices or people or certain hashtags that you you really do care about that you trust that you want to listen to first, and then instead of feeling like, okay, this is my to use that example from before. This is my kind of twenty minutes twitter break when i get to work instead of feeling like great. Now i need to read like all of twitter somehow open first that lift and just listen to those voices that you already know you care more about her that you wanted to listen to first, and then if you have extra time, open up the whole world of twitter, go back to your full kind of followers stream but don’t feel obligated to just always have to consume it all. Use some list on dh kind of filter down what you’re reading. Okay, excellent. Listen hashtags yes, and go there first, cause that’s your most important stuff to you, right? And then, of course, we could weaken turn off certain people if we need to. Yeah. Oh, my god! Unfollowed people just a kn follow-up make that stop if that if that is something that is not productive, you don’t mean maybe they’re your aunt and you feel like you can’t facebook unfriend them just mute them. Tell facebook you never, ever want to hear from that person, but they will still see that your facebook friends you know, maybe you need to maintain that in your family but again let some of those system preference options help you hide content that is on ly goingto make things worse for you. Okay, so and in that similar way i think you know something that’s been really helpful for me and my friends. Outside of work is just being intentional, you know, having conversations with folks and saying, when you realize that every person has started kind of their story or the article that they wanted to talk about by saying, oh, i read this article on facebook or i found this thing on twitter realizing that everyone’s starting place with social media, you know, we kind of had this conversation of i want i want to intentionally go find content that’s interesting to me that i made, you know, maybe i don’t tell anyone about it, i just read it while i was eating lunch. Or maybe i want to talk to my husband about it, but i don’t want to have to start every conversation with i read this article on facebook. I want to feel like i am, you know, i am not beholden to just those social channels i want to go find some other content and knowing that kind of having that realization has helped me and my friends and i have been all have a couple points during the day where we say i want to go like, look at the new york times home page. Oh, how crazy versus waiting for news. Articles to show up in twitter stream so just kind of thinking about how you want to be interacting with with content and media instead of just passively feeling beholden to the channels that you’re already a part of, i think also helps just with that kind of awareness, like we used to pick up the newspaper every day from from from a doorstep. Yeah, yeah, from the news stand okay, okay, which never like two minutes or so left. What else? What else? You have some ideas around filtering fill your other ideas around filtering content. Yeah, something that i found really helpful is that, you know, inside of channels like facebook is having private or semi private group that i engage in a lot more than just that generic kind of big news feed type engagement. So i’m not logging into facebook just to see what happens to be there. I’m logging in to go talk with this community. Andre could be really small or, you know, they could be professional, that i’m not saying there’s only one type, but i think creating some kind of safe private spaces with your friends, with family, with people that you like in any other way is really helpful because even what i have found t use facebook, arlington is two examples of people will still reference content in that group that maybe, you know, is everybody’s sharing that, saying on facebook or there’s a big news item on lincoln that lots of people are interacting with, but it’s a it’s a different way to talk about it in that group than it is often, you know what i’m talking about, where, like lots of different voices jumpin on a thread, and it just turns into a dumpster fire so instead, you know, having a kind of smaller, safer space to talk about things again just makes it feel a little bit more positive to engage their, especially around news items. Then it would be i just feel like you’re commenting on somebody’s post again create small groups that you want teo intentionally interact with versus just waiting to see who’s online and there could even be offline in your really real time real life community. Oh, my god! Okay, we get yes, yes. Oh, yes! Oh, heretical. How heretical is that? All right, we got to leave it there in the sample ward. Thank you so much. Thank you. You’ll find her at amy sample, war dot or ge and at amy r s board next week. I don’t know next week. Oh, no, i do know. Next week i was going to threaten you with fermentation that we actually i thought it might be from fisher, but no, we’re not doing that. It’s going to be with jean takagi. Jean takagi is returning and we’re going to talk about fiscal sponsorship. Big topic. I think we’re going to the whole show. If you missed any part of today’s show, i beseech you, find it on tony martignetti dot com. 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Nonprofit Radio for August 18, 2017: 5-Minute Marketing for Planned Giving & What’s Fair Game? August 16, 2017 Tony Martignetti Nonprofit Radioethics, maria semple, non-profit, Nonprofit Radio, nonproift, planned gifts, planned giving, planned giving marketing, prospect, Prospect Research, prospects, Social Media, The Prospect Finder, Tony Martignetti, Tony Martignetti Nonprofit RadioNonprofit Radio Me: 5-Minute Marketing for Planned Giving The best person to reveal my wildly simple Planned Giving promotion tips is me. Maria Semple: What’s Fair Game? Info you find on LinkedIn about a potential donor belongs in your report on the person. What about Facebook and Instagram? What if the tidbit is embarrassing or compromising, but valuable to your org? Should you friend prospects to learn more? Maria Semple walks us through the ethical conundrums. She’s our prospect research contributor and The Prospect Finder. (Sounds much more interesting than the first segment.) Hello and welcome to tony martignetti non-profit radio big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent. I’m your aptly named host. Oh, i’m glad you’re with me. I’d become fei broke calcification if you hardened to me with the idea that you missed today’s show five minute marketing for planned e-giving the best person to reveal my wildly simple plan giving promotion tips is me oh boy, i don’t know what i’ve gotten into, but i’m here and what’s fair game info you find on linked in about a potential donor belongs in your report on the person. What about facebook and instagram? What if the tidbit is embarrassing or compromising but valuable to your organization? Should you friend prospects tto learn more about them? Maria semple walks us through the ethical conundrums she’s, our prospect research contributor and the prospect finder this sounds much more interesting than the first segment and ah, much easier sarrantonio take two planned giving timing we’re sponsored by pursuant full service fund-raising data driven and technology enabled, you’ll raise more money pursuant dot com, and by we be spelling super cool spelling bee fundraisers we b e spelling dot com all right, well there is not a guest to welcome because, uh, i’m it, um, it’s a little awkward, because although i do a ton of speaking training this, you know that i don’t know, i think it’s very different that’s on a stage, people expect to hear me because i’m in the program it’s not like i just walked in, but i have crashed a few conferences, but they never up on stage. It hasn’t been successful yet, but those aside, you know, i’m in the program i mean, i mean, alright, i’m in today’s program it’s been booked, i’m booked for the spot, but the show is never been me sharing, you know, for, like, for a full segment. What? What i purport to know about planned e-giving or charity registration. You know, i filled in from time to time. Ah, guest is lead or a segment ran short maybe a pre recorded thing man short. And so i would fill in for, like, five minutes or seven minutes or so think is probably the most, but this is, uh this is a different one. This is different experience. Andi, i’m ah, i’m a little nervous about it. My voice just cracked like i’m a fourteen year old. Um all right, well, i mean, i certainly capable, but it feels weird that’s what i’m saying, it just feels different. This is not my typical venue for me to be speaking without having somebody to talk to. Let me just do a little technical detail first, sam is the facebook shared on facebook live shared on the non-profit radio page, can we, uh because i don’t want it just on my personal pager doing facebook live today? I don’t know if maria simple is going to do facebook live on her end, but you’ll you’ll certainly be hearing her when when it’s her turn. But look at me. I’m already rushing to the second segment already know this is this is okay. Not yet. Not yet. Maria, hang on. Okay, so you want to share the facebook live to the non-profit radio page so that it’s called tony martignetti non-profit radio. Okay, i have to do it on mine. Okay, so ah, i apologized, teo, podcast listeners for ah, for this. You know, just give me a little technological moment, okay? I’m in my facebook. Ah, i see. Live what? Ah, sam’s. Gonna say, i’m gonna take my phone and take care of that and of course, you know, we’re gonna get to the five minute marketing tips. Just hold your horses. You’ve got a nerve, you know, nervous guest. Okay, sam is going to take care of that. So five minute marketing i haven’t expanded version of this that i have done at conferences runs on for ninety minutes or so you’re not getting that version. Don’t we’re going to keep to the toe? Keep to the hour. Okay, but, you know, i mean, if you want me, tio training your conference. I love teo. I love to speak just this is today’s a little weird. So so here’s what? I ah anticipate we’re going to cover very briefly. What plans giving is we’ll make sure everyone’s on the same page with that. What kinds of non-profits benefit? Like what? What do you need to have in place before you can start your plan giving five minute marketing. Okay, on dh. What? The radical revocable planned gift are that that we’re going to be talking about marketing for and there’s a lot more plan giving beyond revocable but that’s what’s going to talk, you know, which is like scratching the surface, you know? Well, it’s, not bite off too much. I want you to get going with plant. E-giving and it doesn’t have to be in depth. So we’re starting with the revocable, and then we’ll get into the marketing tips, which is the bulk of book of our time. Okay, i’m feeling a lot more comfortable but it’s still also a little weird now, it’s like fifty, fifty instead of like ninety ten on the weighted to the weird side now, it’s like fifty fifty okay. Plan giving this’s a method of giving that is long term, involves the donors consideration of their long term plans. Their state plans a retirement plans very different than asking a donor, too, right? A fifty dollar check or even a half a million dollar check or a five million dollar check. These thes gif ts involved more personal considerations of family on dh. How your charity fits into their much longer term plan. And then, typically, these are cash to your organization when the donor dies. So again, long term, if you get a sixty or sixty five year old to include you in their will, they’ve got a twenty five, thirty, thirty five year longevity. So long term. You need to have this long term view of fund-raising. Your board needs to have that. We’re going to get to that board support. But this is not the type of giving that is going to pay the five year capital plan. Or or, you know, any kind of immediate immediate budget needs that you have. This is long term fund-raising. I want to stress that the outset that this is not on ly for your wealthy donors, i mean, the five minute mark in tips i’m going to be giving you these these quick ideas, these air, we’re going to be doing these for all your donors. We’re not getting into discriminating by age, um, because these are easy tips. So i want you to know that these are ideas that are appropriate for any donor-centric to get to this is not on ly for your wealthy donors and all of plant that applies to all of planned e-giving people are very modest means can be terrific planned give prospects i literally mean, if they have been giving you fifteen dollars, a year and they have been doing it for many years, like twelve of the past fifteen years, or eighteen or nineteen or twenty years of the past twenty, they are great plan giving prospects. This is not playing e-giving is not only for your wealthy donors, please take that away and that does not applied on ly to what we’re talking to about today. All of planned e-giving people have very modest means, very modest can include you. In their state plan, the smallest plan to gift i’ve ever seen was a thousand dollars in someone’s will and that’s very rare that i’ve seen that only a handful of times in twenty years. Thank you seventeen twenty years i’ve been doing plan giving only seen a couple seen that a couple of times the average charitable bequests in which you’re gonna be talking about a lot about will’s requesting a will, the average is around thirty six to thirty seven thousand dollars is the average bequest, so please take away planned giving is not on ly for your wealthy donors. Um, we’re going to ah, i just got, you know, we’re going to take our break now, and when we come back, then we’re going to get into what you need to have in place, what kind of non-profits benefit what these revocable gifts are that we were talking about and the marketing tips stay with me. You’re tuned to non-profit radio tony martignetti also hosts a podcast for the chronicle of philanthropy fund-raising fundamentals is a quick ten minute burst of fund-raising insights published once a month. Tony’s guests are expert in crowdfunding mobile giving event fund-raising direct mail and donor cultivation. Really, all the fund-raising issues that make you wonder, am i doing this right? Is there a better way there is? Find the fund-raising fundamentals archive it. Tony martignetti dot com that’s marketmesuite n e t t i remember there’s, a g before the end, thousands of listeners have subscribed on itunes. You can also learn maura, the chronicle website, philanthropy dot com fund-raising fundamentals, the better way. Welcome back to big non-profit ideas for the other ninety five percent since people joining us because that voice again joining us on facebook live. I gotta gotta shout them out. J frost hello. Thank you. Interesting subject. You’ve had me. Uh, jay, didn’t we set something up there? I speak about this. Or maybe i did charity registration for you, but j, are you running for congress? I heard that. I don’t know if it’s true. Let me know if you are running. I admire that very much. If you are. If you’re not, i, uh i still admire you, but you’re a little more lackluster than if you are running. Jackie likened jackie, laken maria and and that’s it okay, so far so far. Ok, cool. Thanks for being with me on facebook. All right, let’s, get into which organizations benefit right now. By the way, i feel much more comfortable now. Now. It’s like ninety five five in my comfort in this format, speaking alone. All right, so what do you need to have in place? You need to have individual donors? If you are strictly grant funded government funded fee for service funded, then you don’t have any potential for plan giving. You need to have individual people e-giving from their pockets and that’s distinguished from people who get you corporate gifts from their employers. That’s different you need to have people giving from their pockets, maybe it’s just your board. I hope all your board is giving from their individual pockets. They certainly should be. Lots of guests have made that case over the years, but, you know, it’s limited to the extent that you have individual donors, if you have lots of people who give individual gifts and great that that is a prerequisite also some longevity i’d like to see at least five years in an organization, because what are we asking the donors to do put you in their will or their other long term plans? Retirement said retirement or state plans inherent in that is the belief that your organization is going toe outlive them. And even though there’s, great passion and even fury sometimes around, you know, new organizations, they’re going to live forever. Your donors don’t may not have the same confidence probably don’t that you do when you’re a brand new organization, so i’d like to see at least five years that gives some confidence that your organization will survive the people who make these plan gifts for you some depth to i’d like to see more than just ah, founder and one or two people, same reason longevity, you know, you might have small potential again. Maybe just you’re bored if you’re just a founder and one or two people. But ah, outsiders is going to be much harder to persuade outsiders that you will survive them if ifit’s a tiny organization just a few people. The long term view of fund-raising i explained why before this could be thirty years waiting for cash to come to your organization. So you need to have a long term view of fund-raising um, and you’re bored metoo needs to understand that building endowment, i hope every knows what endowment is just in case endowment is that fund that you never spend the principle of you only spend, eh? Well, you may not. You only spend income and you may not even spend all the income you have a very good year in your returns, you know, in eight or ten or twelve percent year because non-profits are typically conservatively invested, you’re probably not spending that eight or ten percent, you’re spending a lot less like half of that because they’re going to be years when we turned your lower but that’s the purpose of an endowment isto live perpetually live forever. Hopefully, you’re never spending more than income and plant giving is perfect for building endowment because so many plan gifts are unrestricted and they could get put into that endowment fund, and even a lot of the restricted ones can go to endowment of creating endowed funds for aa program of yours. Ah, scholarships or popular if it’s ah, you know, if it’s some kind of school college, anything you know, really a donor could endow just about anything programmatically, as long as you are willing your organization’s willing to continue that program. So plan giving very good for building endowment. That board support. I mentioned any new initiative. If you’re gonna start planned giving, you need to have the board on board and aware of the long term nature of these kinds of gifts six months into this, you don’t want to boardmember complaining, we haven’t recognized any cash. You’re spending time, even if you say it’s only five minute marketing and but where’s the cash you don’t want that so set the expectations correctly at the outset, but your board members know again long term could be twenty, thirty years for some donors until the cash is received by your organization and any type of mission. I really don’t care what you do if you’re saving animals the sky, trees, educating, feeding, sheltering what else can we be doing? You know any of the charitable missions, anything religious, anything, social service, cultural museums. I worked in the north buried, um, you name it. Anything charitable, it doesn’t matter. Everything i’m going to sixth explain applies for you fund-raising across all charitable missions guaranteed um snusz cj frost in answer didn’t answer whether is going for congress. All right, maybe he’s not. Oh, not yet. He says. Not yet. Okay, well, getting there? Yeah. It’s easy for me to say. Why did you do it? Tony? Martignetti plant giving. So when we are ah, yes, this is this has come up for me a lot. Sexism. I want you to avoid not giving women the attention that they deserve in planned e-giving this goes back to january two thousand eleven, you can go to tony martignetti dot com could see the block post. Just just search sexism. A tony martignetti dot com. You’ll see the post i did and one of the comments. So what i’m what i’m quoting now from is from a comment not me surprise, not quoting myself. There were women who said that they had dropped hints, left messages, sent emails or boldly said something about a state planning and planned e-giving two non-profits that they had been supporting and this was more than one woman, it was one comment or talking about friends of hers, and they have been ignore it. I don’t know how that could possibly happen that is gross negligence and oversight just don’t don’t ignore women. I mean, they have money and they live longer than men, so a lot of men are giving the money to the women. But even if they didn’t, even if they had a shorter life span, they’re still half the population, women have wealth, and they want to support non-profits, so i don’t know how these hints, messages and bold statements could possibly be ignored. Don’t let that happen in your office, it’s gross. All right, we’re moving now to the what what types of gifts i’m talking about. The revocable plan gifts the three. I want to focus on our charitable bequests, that’s, a gift in your will. I got more detail on that living trusts to type of trust that people set up is not charitable purpose. It’s not set up for charitable purposes, but you could be a part of it and being named a beneficiary. Okay, those are the three revocable gifts that were focusing on today. There’s, a ton more you, khun do cracking again, oppcoll sip. Pardon me. Ton more you can do with planned giving, but oppcoll um, i’m only focusing on three things today that these three revocable gifts cherokee, facebook live says yes, we do. Tony yes, women have money and they want to give it don’t ignore them. All right, so these are the three revocable gifts that i’m focusing on because, you know, it’s only a half an hour now and now i feel like i don’t give myself enough time she’d done the whole show. Maria simple, you’re out, you’re out. I’m going out for sixty, all right? No, no, uh, let’s. See? And i want you to know that you can have a very, very respectable planned e-giving program just by focusing on these three revocable gifts, your organization may not be big enough to go any further, and that is fine. And you can have a really respectable, successful plan giving program if you just focus on these three types of gift. Well, you’re already feeling like i’m going to run out of time. All right, all right. So please take that away along with its not only for your wealthy donors. Please take away that you could be a very successful planned giving shop just focusing on these three revocable gif ts absolutely you’re bigger. You want to go further? Absolutely, andi, i worked a lot of organizations that do but also work with a lot that don’t all right. This charitable bequests again, it’s a gift in somebody’s will it’s the most popular kind of planned gift by far, you can expect like seventy five to eighty percent of the gifts that you get to be gifts by will. Why is that? Lots of reasons people don’t have to tell you that they’ve done it? It’s private, we always asking we always want people to tell you because you want to be able to say thank you, but they don’t have to, they can change their minds. This national statistic is like four percent of people change their minds after they put a charity in a will so it’s highly highly unlikely, but you don’t want to be in that four percent. You’ve got to treat your donor’s well and it’s comforting to donors to know that they can change their minds because that’s why a lot of donors don’t tell you because they feel if they do. Tell you, they then have an obligation not to change their minds. We all know that that’s not true. You can change your will anytime you want. I cut my wife out routinely every couple days. There’s. Nothing left for her, but u s so it’s comforting to your donors to know that they can cut you out, even though it’s highly unlikely. But it’s a reason that’s another reason that gift by will are so popular because it’s comforting to donors to know that no lifetime cost this is money that comes out of your state. Lots of people have charity they’re supporting, they wish they could doom or than they can while they’re living. I’m in that situation, but they can do for you cracker voice again. They can do for you mme, or they could do more for you in their state so that maybe their ultimate gift has to be for a lot of people again, remember modest, modest means donors of modest means. They wish they could do more, but they can’t, but that’s an advantage in that there’s no lifetime cost to these. Okay, that’s really? Pretty much all i want to say about requests. No, except for do they get a charitable deduction. Doesn’t matter because these are people who love your love. Your non-profit they’re already donating to you. These are the kinds of people who’re gonna include you in their will. So the charitable deduction, the estate tax deduction who knows what the state of it is going to be in the future? We have no idea, even within the next couple weeks and months, let alone twenty, thirty years from now. But that’s not the primary motivation for most planned gift it’s not that it’s, not the state tax deduction, so don’t worry about it. Okay? The other one, we won’t talk about his living trusts. As i said, it’s set up um, teo, not for charitable purposes. They set it up. People set it up for expedience to get get things out of their state faster. It works because there’s not a court supervised process like if if like it isn’t with a will called that you might have heard this probate process jargon jail, but the probate processes the court supervising the distribution of your assets after your death and by the way, i was death, you know that some people like to i don’t kind ofyou from eyes passing demise. The fact is, you know, we’re going to die and that’s ah that’s, just a part of planned e-giving and when i’m not saying, when you talk to a donut, you’re saying, when you die, we want you in our will we want to be in your will i’m not saying that, but between professionals, you know we can we can say death so that’s what probate is that court supervised process and the assets will get to ah teo ball beneficiaries quicker through a living trust and that’s typically white set up what’s your part in it. The trust has to say what happens at the donors at the death of the person who creates the trust. That’s, your donor has to say what happens. Ah lot goes to my husband, children, husband, wife, children, grandchildren, your charity khun b also one of those beneficiaries at the person’s death you could be named that’s. What? That’s what the value of the living trust is and the third one recovering is the name the beneficiary that’s? Just i’m gonna stop calling out my voice cracks that’s. The last one. I’m calling out the name beneficiary. Anything that has a death benefit. Think of life insurance, that’s, the most common example. You’ve got to decide where the death benefit is going to go, when, when, when you’re where’s, the money going to go most of it goes to husbands, wives, children, grandchildren. But maybe there’s a percentage for your charity. Five percent. Ten percent somebody can carve out. We always say family comes first. But after that, how about a small percentage for for our charity? But going beyond life insurance, some retirement plans, iras four oh, one case for three. B’s cept the small, small employer pensions. Some commercial annuities have death benefits. Some checking and savings accounts have ah, on brokerage accounts have have death benefit metoo them. So anything that has a death benefit your charity can be named all right now we’re getting into the actual five minute marketing tips that i have let’s start with events, drop a few speaking points into remarks were already hosting the event is not a plan giving event but any kind of gala. Any event where your c always speaking that’s probably everyone get them to say something about planned giving. You just need a couple of sentences. This’s. Not even well, i was gonna say not even a full paragraph, but two sentences. Khun b paragraph this is not even a full minute literally. I’m excited. We’ve kicked off a campaign to encourage you to remember us. You know, the organization in your will, it’s, very simple to do and secures our work long into the future. For instance, you know, then you can name a program or something that could be that could be endowed. I was talking about earlier, perpetually, or you could just, you know, rattle off program that you have. You know, you can support any of our great programs. You want more information? Talk to there’s a director development in the corner, you know, you know her. Talk to me. Talk to whoever it is. That’s it it’s like three, four sentences, quick it’s not the main part of the event by any means. Just we’ve kicked off a campaign. That’s a little news hook. It was something interesting kicked off this campaign. Love for you to be a part of it. It’s so simple you couldn’t tao any of our great programs support any of our great programs in the long term. Please talk. Teo. Whoever it is a t end of the program that’s it. I didn’t even spend a minute. Good thinking. I’m gonna run out of time. I should have we’re simple, you’re out. Um okay, five minute marketing was teo. So moron events pretty a program. You already printing a program for pizza? Put something about plan giving in the program. Put a little mention, you know, i’m the evangelist for plan e-giving without the religious overtones of evangelism, but you know, you’re doing the program. Same thing we’ve kicked off a campaign. I’m like dictating it to just start writing. We kicked off a campaign to encourage you to remember us in your will, it’s, so simple to do, secures our work long into the future. Your attorney is going to need our legal name, address and tax id. Here they are. Boom that’s it. Can you put that in your program? But you can or, you know, if you don’t even wanna go that much, just say we kicked off a program. Talk too. Whoever it is, whatever the contact person is. Please. I would love to talk to you today. Get something in the program again. Not spending any more money. You’re already producing programmes anyway. Kayman sample ward is on social media contributor and the ceo of and ten the non-profit technology network out in the prophet oregon. Yes. Wonderful. Welcome, amy. Well mmm. So many. I can’t name them. Uh, not that many more. A couple more. We gotta live. Listen, love too. That’s coming later with second segment. Okay, um okay. That’s it for events again. You not spending any more money already producing the program? Say something. You put something in your already speaking put in a couple of dropping a couple sentences. Oh, my gosh. Print channels. You doing newsletter? Or whether it’s print or email put in a sidebar with the same thing we’ve kicked off a campaign love to have you participate it’s so easy all you need is our two included to include us in your will. Well, you need your legal name, tax id and address. Here they are. Boom! Drop that into a sidebar on any whether it’s print or digital your annual report. Whether you do a printer digital say something about planned giving, innit? Also now i know some organizations i know are getting away from naming donors. I’ve learned that that’s in their annual report, it was always so cumbersome, you get the misspellings and i got so embarrassing the wrong levels. But if you’re naming them, if you’re naming donors in the annual report include your plan giving donors any direct mail you might be doing joppa buckslip in, you know, that’s, a book of your buckslip two third of a page, you print three and page drop it in the same thing that i’ve been talking about kicked off a campaign love to have you participate all your attorney needs is our legal name, tax id and address here they are boom drop that in it’s a third of a page doesn’t cost any more doesn’t increase your postage um, while you’re doing that while printing on direct mail printing envelopes on the envelope flap the flap that you’ve got a print, the envelopes anyway a checkoff box send me information on including your or the name, of course in my will we’ll check off everybody reads that everybody sees the envelope flap so easy i think i gotta wrap it up down i say, sam nods all right, so, uh well, time flies. Holy cow. It’s amazing. This show is out of control. What a show! Um, okay, that’s, five minute marketing for planned giving and what’s fair game with maria simple is coming up first pursuing acquisition campaigns. You need more donors, new donors, it’s their next free webinar on acquisition campaigns getting your new donors what works to inspire that first gift. They’ll have lots of examples actionable strategies which i love you know, i’m always drooling down with guests. I don’t know if people get annoyed but durney bluhm welcome on facebook. Cool. Thanks for joining me. Um, i know people get annoyed. I know listeners. Don’t have guests do but drilling down to actionable steps? I don’t like vagary, i don’t like ten thousand i mean sometimes ten thousand feet, yes, but then we got to drill down. You got to start it. You start high level but then we drill down to tactics. Who actionable steps that’s what i love and that’s what pursue is going to have in this in this webinar that’s? 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No, we’ll be spelling hosts this for you, for your charity, a night of live dance comedy, um, music, live music and spelling and fund-raising for your organization, this could be cool for any millennial supported organization. If you’re trying to acquire millennials on dh encourage them in get them activated or if they’re already supporting. I don’t know. Uh, i know any sample or do you still on? I don’t know. I don’t want anybody on the spot but intent should consider ah, we’ll be spelling. Um, okay, so check out the video. We b e spelling dot com and then talk to the ceo alex career. You know, he’s a nice guy. He was on the three, fiftieth. Just pick up the phone and talk to him. We be the spelling dot com. Now time for tony’s. Take two and, uh, plan e-giving what do you know? What a coincidence. See how this show is orchestrated? This doesn’t just happen. This is a thought goes into this. Or you could say i have such a limited before that the topics have to coincide because i got so i got so naturally that’s going to come up have to sound the same show. No that’s, not the case planned giving the timing does not matter. I want you to get started with plan giving using those five minute marketing tickets i gave you. And it doesn’t matter when you get started. It’s not, you know. This is informational it’s educational it’s not write us a check. Now you know it’s, our it’s, our annual campaign it’s not like that this’s informational stuff educational donors are going to do it on their timetable, but you’ve got to stop start marketing and promoting the idea. That’s okay, so it doesn’t matter when you start so today’s friday for the live listeners yourselves, the weekend maybe take monday to talk to your ceo tuesday should be starting five minute marketing tips in plan e-giving that’s what i would say so give yourself till tuesday on dh for people listening podcast and of course, our affiliate listeners. So that’s, give yourself three days and then on the fourth day on the fourth day, he said you should begin plan e-giving that’s when the light comes, i don’t think it was the fourth day, but i’m not. I’m not steeped in genesis, okay, the video if you need more promote if you need any more encouragement than that, you could watch my video promote planned giving your timing doesn’t matter. It’s at tony martignetti dot com that is tony’s take two. Maria simple has been patiently waiting. You know her? Aside from a patient waiter, she’s, the prospect finder she’s, a trainer and speaker on prospect research. Her latest book is magnify your business tips, tools and strategies for growing your business or your non-profit she’s. Our doi end of dirt cheap and free ideas. She’s at the prospect finder dot com and at maria simple and she’s on the phone. Hello, maria. Hello, tony. How are you today? I’m doing great. My voice krauz i said i was gonna do that, linda, like kowski joined us. Hello, linda. Jackie liking says hello from noven health. Hello, jackie. I wish you were coming to the beach. She bagged out on me. Um okay. Maria? Yeah. It’s good to talk to you. Last time was very brief on the three, fiftieth that’s, right? That’s, right? And so now we’re plugging ahead to your for four hundred shell, right? That’s? Correct. It’ll be july twenty eighteen. Absolutely. In the meantime, way want to talk about ethics and what’s what’s fair game. What? You deal with this every single time you’re doing an assignment for a client, right? Yeah. Yeah. That’s. Right, tony, i mean, you know, when we’re talking about prospect research and we’re thinking about all the various tools that we have available to us as prospect researchers, you know, we have to think about what’s available in the public domain because that’s, the thing that’s going to be really important, keep in mind that a donor has the right to come in at any time and asked to see what information you may have compiled on them. So you want to make sure that that you’re always using sources that are available in the public domain. So where we kind of get into some gray areas are in the area of social media sites? Yes, okay, and i think that’s a very, very good test never put anything in your c r m database that you wouldn’t want a donor to read, i think that’s a good test. What do you think? Yeah, yeah, and and i think even even in the way that you’re writing up your reports, try and think about it as an investigative reporter trying not to put subjective statements in there, even if they may have been sort of subjective statements that you might have heard, you know, through the grapevine from volunteers or board. Members or whatever about somebody’s lifestyle or their marital status or whatever it may be, you know, try and just put a statement in there, you know, like whatever the couple divorced in x y z, day ten, you know, leave it out that i don’t think anybody would take offense to that very objective. A bunch of people just join us on facebook. So i got to tell you that we’re talking about the ethics of planned, of, of prospect research and what’s appropriate to be documenting and finding about potential donors. And i want to welcome michael zeller, attorney in north carolina. Just charlotte just hosted an outstanding fiftieth birthday party. Oh, my god. Michael, that was outstanding. You know, i know that. You know, i feel that rob maker. Good to see a rab. Welcome. And dahna gillespie dahna collectibe rivera, but i know it. I know. He’s dahna gillespie. Welcome. Um, okay, so but there can be great value in the end. What you find in social media, of course. I mean, people put a lot of stuff on social and their privacy settings are typically, i think, generally not set the way they want them. And but so there can be a lot of prospect research gold in in the networks, right? Yeah, that’s, right? So, you know, what i thought we might do is just sort of talk about sort of the top three networks for a couple of minutes, like the linked in facebook and twitter and may be trying to figure out, well, what types of information can we glean on dh? Should we be cleaning it? Should we be using it? You know, even if we were stumble upon it, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you put it into this. C r m r we’re into a written report. Yeah, okay, it’s, anarchist, but that’s way could do it that way. I’m just you know, i was thinking of some of the things that you could find out. I mean, you can find out about divorce, right? You know, i’ve had friends, i’ve had two friends who were posting about suicidal, suicidal thoughts, you know? I don’t know probably a lot of people see that, but i mean, that’s very disturbing, but does it belong in a prospect research report? Maybe i don’t know, maybe if you’re looking for that plant. Gift let’s not go there. I’m just kidding. Ae okay, i’m gonna let you off the hook. But it’s, good let’s go over that. We’ll skip over that. Okay? You know and and the words very sensitive stuff. Okay, so you want to you want to start with it? Works. All right. Let’s start with now to me, linked in to me, anything on linkedin is fair game in a prospect research report is that is that is that am i overstating and my oversimplifying? Yeah, i think that anything you find on lengthen, especially since lincoln has what they call a public profile that is out there it is searchable on google. It will come up on page one of google’s search results. If you if you google your prospects name, they’re linked in profile is going to be there. So yes, indeed, anything that you find there is going to be a public domain, and this is sometimes very valuable information. You’ll be able to find out, you know, their longevity at various companies. Maybe some of the companies that they’ve been associated with may have been for for a long period of time. Maybe they’ve got some. Stock that they’ve accumulated from within that company so you might want to think about steering the conversation in the direction of appreciated securities. Okay, okay, but we wear what we want to focus to on the ethics. So so basically, linkedin is do you consider linked in to be wide open? Yes. Okay, absolutely. Okay, i don’t see any ethical questions around anything that people might find in linked in. No, not not what they might find, but the ethical question might come in as to how you as the prospect researcher or the executive director of the development staff using length in how you might have your own privacy setting set up in such a way that, um, you know what other people can see once you’ve looked at their profile, right? So you have three choices on lengthen. You either have people know that you’re looking at there, profile your face, your title and where you work, right are going to follow you everywhere on linked in that headline and a picture so that’s full transparency when you have your privacy settings set up that way, that means they get to see you’ve been looking at them. And you get to see who’s been looking at your profile, but lincoln has two other privacy settings. One is sort of a semi private where, you know, you could be a management consultant in x y z industry in new york city area. Or you could be anonymous when you’re in one of those two modes, then people will not know that you’ve been looking at their profile. Okay? And we have covered this before. You know, this is what i consider fully dressed topless and naked. That’s. Right? Okay. All right. Uh, look, i got a chuckle out of maria. Simple she’s. Probably the only one that’s. Okay? I amuse myself. People should know. You know, if you don’t think i’m funny, i’m amusing myself that’s the most important. And i forgot to shut out joan pel xero i’m sorry, joan. I skipped over you. I scrolled up and then i lost you. Joan pills her on facebook. Thanks for so much for being with us. And also ralph asante and, uh, and mary and mary michalowski joined. Hello, mary. Thanks for joining us on facebook. I might do this more often. This is cool. Um all right. So ethically linked in safe now, let’s, go, teo. Ethical conundrum, where you want to go next, all the anarchist, i’ll give it to you where it’s, like, you want to know what network that let’s talk about facebook, okay, so wide open, okay, yeah, i mean, that’s, the network where people are really sharing about their family, their pictures wait, no, this so what? What do we do with what do we do if we find something that we believe is compromising, like let’s, say, a divorce that that maybe they don’t want the organization to know, but maybe that’s? Just what that’s, just one example, but compromising, but valuable to the organization. How do we deal with that? Again, i think go backto original statement if it’s going to if it’s going to jeopardize your relationship with that donor or that donor prospect, i think you leave it out of the conversations, you leave it out of the c r, m u leave it off of written reports, so if you could just sort of have that is your bellweather, i think it will serve you well, okay, okay, and also you’re your organization might have social media guidelines in place, so check that out first as as your you know, you may have certain guidelines that you, as an organization have decided upon. So if that is the case, anybody knew that you’re bringing into the organization should be aware of the social media guidelines both in terms of how they’re going to use social media for are on behalf of the organization, but there may also be, you know, standards of conduct that they’re expecting a view is an employee’s so again, default back to that statement and default back to your own bellwether your instincts if it feels like it’s going to jeopardize that relationship, don’t put the info in there also apra the the professional association for prospect researchers has a statement on ethics, and we’re going to talk about that after the break. So if your organization doesn’t have, you know, you might be a small organization without a social media policy as it relates to prospect research, apra can can help you out. We’ll get to that, okay, i like you’re like you’re like, you’re guideline, all right, we have just a couple minutes before a break, like a minute and a half a minute what’s the next network you want to talk about? Was it twitter waken talk about twitter that one probably won’t take long. You know, twitter is one of those social media platforms that people might be using, especially these days with regard to their politics, so the weather yet, and that might be important for you to know about depending on what type of organization that you are. So, again, if if knowing someone’s politics is important, you know, maybe checking out to see if they’ve got a twitter feed might be something you want to check out. Okay? Seems like you, twitter, you’re less likely to find something compromising it’s possible, but less likely to find. Something compromising on it. Okay, let’s, take a break. When we come back. I got, of course, i got live. Listen. 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Us, i prefer the us, puts us in their schedule, someone our block during the week, and i’m glad that on on your station, it could be saturday morning might be tuesday night, whenever affiliate affections to our am and fm listeners. Thank you for being with us, thanks to your stations for carrying non-profit radio multi-channel amy’s have award will love that were multi-channel we’ve been for years, and now we get into channel, i’ve discovered facebook only took me seven years, cutting edge, cutting edge what we call a pioneer. Yeah, right. Um okay. So, maria simple. Thank you for being patient again. The patient prospect. Researcher. Thank you. A lot of gabbing today. I’m off on tangents. All right? I feel like a facebook pioneer. I know. I know you’re not giving yourself enough credit. You’ve. You’ve been on facebook for a long time, it’s. Just that you’ve not been using this brand spanking new life from large. Yeah, mother it’s quite brand spanking new, but thank you. Thank you for you. That’s the point. Thank you for driving home that point and character chicken master just joined karen. Welcome on facebook. Good to see you. Thanks for being here. Okay, so we’re talking about the ethics of prospect research. Oh, my god. There’s tons more. How come they don’t show up on my phone? Because why? Oh, they’re in a group. That shit. Oh, my god. There’s! Hundreds. Well, dozens more scores, more than dozens scores more. Uh, okay, i don’t think i should do all those. But thank you. If you’re on facebook and i did not shut you out from from beth granger toe. Harriet steinberg to melinda roth. Epstein to eric mendelson. Thank you for being with us. Thank you so much. Thank you. Okay, so i maria i’m all right. So where do we go from here? Let’s talk about the apra s o apra aperribay pr. It started out as the american prospect research association. Then it became the association of professional researchers for advancement. Now, it’s just apra. So they’ve done to me that’s an abandonment of roots. They’re just apurate. Apurate. Apurate doesn’t mean anything to me probono actually ready haserot along they’ve been after all along i know what stood for different things. It’s i don’t know. I object to this rewrite of history like next it’s going to be we’re gonna be taking down statues of george washington and thomas jefferson in-kind i was around, i was around when they made that shift. And this this is the reason for it. They used to be just the american prospect research association. But now the association really envelope people from all parts of the world. So they wanted to be able to, you know, have that reflective of their their membership base. So now it’s, the association of professional researchers it’s like aarp. They don’t want to be the association. Of retired american association of retired persons anymore haven’t been for years. It’s history rewrite. I don’t mind change, but when it benefits me but it never does that’s why the world has to change without my consent i don’t know what this is, what i don’t i don’t grasp all right, let’s talk about their code of ethics anyway, so they have this ethical code and it does relate to social media specifically so right. So one thing i see is a balance for trying to balance the individual’s right to privacy with the needs of the institution that i like doing that. Yes, he did. And really, it is. It is very, very important that that that balance is capped for sure. Okay, yes. So drilling down on that. What about friends? They have they talk about. Should you be a friend to potential donors? People, you’re researching that’s a no, no. Right on. Yes. In terms of the essex statement that apple put forth that that that is correct, they would really recommend that you do not friend were really enter into a personal relationship with prospects or donors. Now lincoln could be, you know, a completely different platform, right? Because now we’re talking about a business social platform. Okay, right? All right, so but no friend. What about what? This seems like middle ground. What about following somebody on twitter? If you’re a prospect researcher, yeah, i mean, i think that that would be okay to be a follower on twitter because, you know, they’re again twitter feeds are very public, and so, you know, i don’t think there’ll be any issue. They’re okay, but you need to disclose who you are, that’s also in the statement in these guidelines, you need to disclose that you’re a prospect researcher for the organization. Do you need to say that? Um, well, you know, sometimes people will individually have ah, personal twitter account so that i feel the only twitter account that you’re following people from them, then you know, that is it, you know? So i think you have to start looking at your staff and determining, you know which staff members are on twitter hour? Is that the organization that it’s going to be a follower of that individual on twitter and again? It’s two very different to two very different things. Okay, okay, what about corroboration if you find something on a social network, is there an obligation as a prospect researcher to corroborate it from us from another source, or, like almost like a journalist or no? Yeah, if you can, absolutely ah again, is it personal versus business information? That’s going to probably make a difference in terms of what you’re going to try and source in terms of corroboration. But if you know you are, i’m thinking about having somebody make a major gift to your organization and you stumble across something on social media that gives you an indication that this might not be the right time to make that because you might have seen something going on on somebody’s personal facebook feed. You might just double check with you, noah boardmember that knows them well or something like that and just ask, you know, if they know anything about the timing is still a good time to talk to that individual. Okay, maria simple. We gotta leave it there. You’ll find the apra social media ethics statement at apra home dot or ge a after home dot org’s maria sample. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. My pleasure. Absolutely. You’ll find her at the prospect finder and she’s at maria simple. You should be following her on twitter. If you’re not latto it’s your life, okay, next week, talking about risk your institutional funders. That’s going to very interesting. 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__label__wiki	0.731916	0.731916	Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Policy Gutting Asylum for People Fleeing Domestic and Gang Violence The Trump administration’s campaign to dismantle our asylum system just suffered another major setback. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., permanently blocked a June 2018 “expedited removal” policy that gutted asylum protections for immigrants fleeing domestic violence and gang brutality. Holding that “there is no legal basis for an effective categorical ban on domestic violence and gang-related claims,” Judge Emmet Sullivan struck down the policy for being contrary to the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Refugee Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act. As part of the injunction, the court ordered the government to bring our plaintiffs who were wrongfully removed under this policy back to the United States so that they can pursue their asylum claims. Under the court's order, each of our plaintiffs will receive a new credible fear interview and their expedited removal orders will be canceled. The ACLU and the University of California’s Hastings Center for Gender and Refugee Studies brought the lawsuit on Aug. 9 on behalf of 12 adults and children who all had their asylum claims wrongfully rejected at the “credible fear” screening stage based on the unlawful policy. Our clients, predominantly women from Central America, endured extensive sexual and physical violence in their countries of origin. Fearing they would be killed, along with their young children, they sought refuge in the U.S. Grace* fled Guatemala after being raped, beaten, and threatened for over 20 years by her abusive partner, who frequently disparaged her indigenous heritage. She sought help from local authorities, only to have them assist her persecutor in forcibly evicting her from her home. Mina* escaped her country after a gang murdered her father-in-law and local police did nothing to help. Gang members broke down her door and beat her so badly that she was unable to walk the next day. They told her that they would rape her and mutilate her body unless she left town. Because our clients were placed in a summary deportation process known as “expedited removal,” they were required to pass a threshold “credible fear” screening with an asylum officer before they could get a full hearing on their asylum claims. But under the Trump administration’s new policy, the asylum officers concluded that our clients did not have a “credible fear of persecution” and ordered them deported without a hearing. That’s not because the asylum officers didn’t find their accounts credible — they did — it’s because the Trump administration had illegally changed the rules. In June, former Attorney General Jeff Sessions chose to intervene in an individual asylum case, Matter of A-B-, where he reversed the grant of asylum to a Salvadoran woman who fled horrific sexual and domestic violence at the hands of her then-husband. Sessions used that ruling to issue a broad, and deeply flawed, legal decision that sought to disqualify whole categories of claims as legitimate grounds for asylum in the United States. “Generally,” Sessions asserted, “claims by aliens pertaining to domestic violence or gang violence perpetrated by non-governmental actors will not qualify for asylum.” He followed this up with a footnote stating, “Accordingly, few such claims would satisfy the legal standard to determine whether an alien has a credible fear of persecution.” In order to support this claim, Sessions argued that the plight of domestic and gang violence survivors is “merely personal” and not indicative of membership in a “particular social group” — one of the five protected grounds for asylum. But his conclusion ignored decades of settled law that individuals fleeing gender-based violence can satisfy the asylum standards. He also said that an asylum seeker fleeing persecution by someone who is not the government — like a gang, an intimate partner, or a powerful political or social group — must show that the government either “condoned” the violence or other harm or was “completely helpless” to stop it. This was a stark departure from the existing standard, which is that asylum seekers must show that the government is “unable or unwilling” to effectively protect them. That’s not how the credible fear process was supposed to work. When Congress established expedited removal in 1996, it deliberately established a low threshold screening standard so that no one with a potentially meritorious asylum claim would be sent back to danger. Credible fear interviews are meant to determine whether there is a “significant possibility” that an immigrant could show they are eligible for asylum in a full deportation hearing with evidence, witnesses, and appeals. If so, they get that chance; if not, they are quickly removed from the United States. By ratcheting up the credible fear standard, the Trump administration put thousands of immigrants at risk of being removed to places where they fear for their lives. The court found key aspects of Sessions’ decision in Matter of A-B-, and related policy guidance with respect to expedited removal proceedings, unlawful. For example, the court invalidated Session’s requirement that people fleeing persecution by nongovernmental actors need to show that their home country government either “condoned” the persecution or is “completely helpless” to prevent it. The court also struck down the government’s new rule that asylum officers can just ignore court of appeals precedents that are inconsistent with Matter of A-B-. As a result, the administration is now permanently blocked from applying these unlawful policies to credible fear proceedings going forward. In the court’s own words: “[B]ecause it is the will of Congress — not the whims of the Executive — that determines the standard for expedited removal, the Court finds that those policies are unlawful.” *To protect the safety of the plaintiffs, names are pseudonyms. Sign up for the ACLU’s Best Reads and get our finest content from the week delivered to your inbox every Saturday.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726937
__label__wiki	0.988955	0.988955	HomeAbout UsBiographiesDisplay MAJOR GENERAL RICHARD S. "BEEF" HADDAD Retired October 01,2016 Maj. Gen. Richard S. "Beef" Haddad is Vice Commander, Air Force Reserve Command, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. He is responsible for the daily operations of the command, consisting of approximately 70,000 Citizen Airmen and more than 300 aircraft among three numbered air forces, 33 flying wings, 10 flying groups and one space wing. General Haddad was commissioned through the U.S. Air Force Academy and entered active duty in 1981. He has served in a variety of flying and command positions during his career in the Air Force and Air Force Reserve. He has hundreds of hours of combat flying time in Operations Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom and Desert Storm. Additionally, General Haddad is the first Air Force general officer to serve as Commander, Special Operations Command Korea, U.S. Forces Korea. After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, General Haddad commanded the 711th Special Operations Squadron through operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, during which the unit compiled more than 5,000 combat hours of accident-free flying and is still recognized as the most decorated Reserve flying unit. Prior to his current assignment, General Haddad was the Deputy to the Chief of Air Force Reserve, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, the Pentagon. In his civilian job, he is an airline pilot with a major U.S. carrier. 1981 Bachelor of Science degree in Management, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colo. 1985 Squadron Officer School, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. 1997 Air Command and Staff College, by correspondence 2003 Air War College, by correspondence 2006 Master of Business Administration degree, Touro University International 2007 Joint Forces Reserve Orientation Course, Norfolk, Va. 2008 Capstone General and Flag Officer Course, National Defense University, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. 2009 U.S.-Russia Security Program, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 2011 Leadership Decision Making Course, Harvard Kennedy School of Executive Education 2015 Middle East and South Asia Political-Economic Conflict Seminar, Capital Hill Club, Washington, D.C. 1. June 1981 - June 1982, Student, undergraduate pilot training, Williams AFB, Ariz. 2. July 1982 - October 1982, Student, C-130 training, Little Rock AFB, Ark. 3. November 1982 - October 1985, C-130E/H pilot and aircraft commander, 345th Tactical Airlift Squadron, Yokota Air Base, Japan. 4. October 1985 - September 1988, AC-130H Instructor and Evaluator Pilot, 16th Special Operations Wing, Hurlburt Field, Fla. 5. September 1988 - June 1995, AC-130A/C-130A Instructor Pilot and Life Support officer, 711th Special Operations Squadron, Eglin AFB, Fla. 6. June 1995 - November 2000, MC-130E Instructor Pilot, Assistant Operations Officer, Chief Pilot and Life Support Officer, 711th Special Operations Squadron, Eglin AFB, Fla. 7. November 2000 - June 2003, Commander, 711th Special Operations Squadron, Eglin AFB, Fla. 8. June 2003 - September 2003, Flight Safety Officer, 919th Special Operations Wing, Eglin AFB, Fla. 9. September 2003 - October 2005, Deputy and Battle Staff Director, Tanker Airlift Control Center, Headquarters Air Mobility Command, Scott AFB, Ill. 10. October 2005 - January 2007, Vice Commander, 403rd Wing, Keesler AFB, Miss. 11. January 2007 - February 2009, Mobilization Assistant to the Commander, 23rd Air Force, and the Director, Air, Space and Information Operations, Air Force Special Operations Command, Hurlburt Field, Fla. 12. February 2009 - April 2009, Commander, 23rd Air Force, and the Director of Operations, Air Force Special Operations Command, Hurlburt Field, Fla. 13. April 2009 - October 2010, Commander, Special Operations Command Korea, U.S. Forces Korea and United Nations Command Special Operations Component; and Deputy Commanding General, Combined Unconventional Warfare Task Force, Yongsan Army Garrison, South Korea. 14. October 2010 - January 2011, Special Assistant to the Commander, Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command, Robins AFB, Ga. 15. January 2011 - August 2012, Director of Plans and Programs, Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command, Robins AFB, Ga. 16. August 2012 - September 2013, Deputy to the Chief of Air Force Reserve, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C. 17. September 2013 - present, Vice Commander, Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command, Robins AFB, Ga. SUMMARY OF JOINT ASSIGNMENTS 1. January 2006 - July 2006, Senior Adviser to Iraqi Air Force, New Al Muthana Air Base, Iraq, as a colonel 2. April 2009 - October 2010, Commander, Special Operations Command Korea, U.S. Forces Korea and United Nations Command Special Operations Component; and Deputy Commanding General, Combined Unconventional Warfare Task Force, Yongsan Army Garrison, South Korea, as a brigadier general Rating: command pilot Flight hours: more than 5,000 military hours Aircraft flown: C-130E/H, AC-130H, C-130A, AC-130A, MC-130E and C-130J MAJOR AWARDS AND DECORATIONS Distinguished Service Medal Defense Superior Service Medal Legion of Merit Distinguished Flying Cross with "V" device and two oak leaf clusters Bronze Star Medal with three oak leaf clusters Meritorious Service Medal with oak leaf cluster Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters Aerial Achievement Medal Air Force Commendation Medal Air Force Combat Action Medal Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with "V" device and silver and three oak leaf clusters Combat Readiness Medal with silver and two oak leaf clusters Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal with two bronze stars Southwest Asia Service Medal with two bronze stars Afghanistan Campaign Medal with bronze star Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal Global War on Terrorism Service Medal Humanitarian Service Medal Kuwait Liberation Medal (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) Kuwait Liberation Medal (government of Kuwait) EFFECTIVE DATES OF PROMOTION Second Lieutenant May 27, 1981 First Lieutenant May 27, 1983 Captain May 27, 1985 Major May 27, 1995 Lieutenant Colonel Sept. 29, 2000 Colonel May 1, 2005 Brigadier General Oct. 13, 2008 Major General Feb. 17, 2012 (Current as of April 2016) Senior Leader Links SecAF Page CSAF Page CMSAF Page	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726940
__label__wiki	0.96331	0.96331	Scotch whisky's pre-eminence takes a shot from Asia International competition with Japan in the lead puts Scotland's storied whisky producers on notice. by Alasdair Soussi Scotch whisky's reputation still lures tourists to distilleries in the country's highlands and lowlands [Michelle Locke/AP] Glasgow, Scotland - During last year's independence referendum debate in Scotland, advocates of Scottish statehood often boasted of an entrepreneurial land that, over the course of its long history, frequently punched above its weight. Everything from the discovery of penicillin to the invention of the television, telephone, and pneumatic tyre can be traced to a hard working Scot who dreamed bigger than his own horizons. In modern Scotland, another famous Scottish export continues to endure - Scotch whisky. This liquid gold, a favourite of both the casual and connoisseur drinker the world over, is today synonymous with Scotland, enticing tourists to visit its many distilleries in the country's highlands and lowlands to taste some of the finest single malts on the planet. Yet, Scotch whisky's pre-eminence is facing a challenge. Scotland the Brave? In Asia, whisky producers have begun to stake a claim as serious rivals to Scotland's national tipple with Japan at the forefront. Reflecting this, the Whisky Bible 2015 compiled by whisky expert Jim Murray gave the title of world's best whisky to a Japanese single malt - the Yamazaki Single Malt Sherry Cask 2013 - with Scotch not even making the final five shortlist. To add insult to Scots' injury, an English offering grabbed "European Whisky of the Year". In 2014 and 2015, the Japanese Nikka Whisky Taketsuru Pure Malt 17 Years Old was also voted "World's Best Blended Malt" by the World Whiskies Awards. "Humiliation" and "a wake-up call" for Scotch whisky were just some of the headlines that followed Jim Murray's 2015 review - the first time in the book's publishing history that a Japanese whisky landed the title. According to Tatsuya Minagawa, however, Japan's achievements have been well earned. "Consumers are always looking for something new and Japanese whisky is one [such product]," said Minagawa, a Japanese-born whisky aficionado who owns the Highlander Inn, a hotel and bar in northern Scotland. "But it's also [thrived] through the quality of the whisky … It's in our national character. We don't do a half-job - we do it correctly," Minagawa explained. RELATED: Whisky purveyors weigh in on Scotland vote Japan is the world's third largest whisky producer behind Scotland and the United States. Its desire to master the art of whisky production began less than 100 years ago when Masataka Taketsuru left Japanese shores in 1918 to study the art of whisky-making in Scotland, where the spirit has been distilled since at least the 15th century. Just several years later, the Glasgow University-educated Taketsuru - today known as "the father of Japanese whisky" - returned to his homeland with the requisite knowledge - and a Scottish wife. There he began working for Kotobukiya - later the Japanese drinks giant Suntory - where he was handed the responsibility for constructing the nation's first commercial whisky plant at Yamazaki. In 1934, he branched out on his own, establishing Nikka Whisky, and building its first distillery in Yoichi, Hokkaido. Today, there are about eight working whisky distilleries in Japan. To put this in context, there are eight whisky distilleries on Islay alone - a 3,000-populated island off Scotland's west coast. That is one reason why the rise of Japan in the global whisky industry has surprised many, said Minagawa, who first fell in love with whisky when he tasted Ballantine's 17 Year Old Scotch as a young man. "Scottish whisky is the biggest whisky industry and, according to the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA), the best whisky industry," the hotel and bar owner told Al Jazeera. "The number of distilleries we have here in Scotland and the number back home in Japan can't be compared - Japan is still a small production." Yet, according to SWA's spokeswoman Rosemary Gallagher, the success of Japan - and indeed Taiwan which won the "World's Best Single Malt Whisky" in the 2015 World Whiskies Awards - hasn't come as a shock. Gallagher told Al Jazeera the popularity of Japanese whisky is a positive outcome for the world whisky trade as a whole, and its success has reflected well on Scotch whisky itself. "The background of Japanese whisky owes quite a lot to Scotland and Scottish distillery techniques," she said, referring to Taketsuru and his Scottish wife, Rita Cowan, who is also credited with pioneering the Japanese whisky industry. "So their success reflects what they learned from us." RELATED: Getting away 'Scot-free' from alcoholism That said, most industry analysts accept that Scotch whisky's dominance - accounting for 25 percent of total UK food and drink exports - should not be taken for granted. They say Scotland's precious commodity should always be prepared for serious competition on the world stage. "There is a challenge [from Asia] and there is an important incentive to keep innovating and keep releasing your best whiskies rather than the ones that will [just] sell," said Sam Simmons, a globally recognised whisky expert who plies his trade under the name Dr Whisky. "As long as Scotland views the opportunity for not just creating whiskies for the [supermarket] shelf, but for inspiring inquisitive drinking, then I think it's a level playing field. Scotland has just as many killer offerings as Japan or Taiwan," Simmons said. Fending off the challenge from bona fide whisky producers in Japan and Taiwan may not give the Scotch whisky industry sleepless nights quite yet. But, the rise of Asia in the world whisky market will, if nothing else, keep the globe's most established and best-known producers of this expensive liquid on their toes. Whatever lies in store for world whisky producers as they fight it out to make a dent on Scotch whisky in the coming years, Simmons said Scotland's great export has a particular type of "tradition, prominence and credibility" that few of its rivals could ever hope to match - let alone surpass. "The perception out there in the world is that Scotland is the first and best because of the reputation that has been established," he said. "It is a hard thing to undo." Follow Alasdair Soussi on Twitter: @AlasdairSoussi Alasdair Soussi Alasdair's latest book is "In The Shadow Of The Cotton Tree: A Diary of Second World War Sierra Leone"	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726944
__label__wiki	0.892074	0.892074	Muhammad Amin Karim: The role of HIG in Afghanistan Following the peace deal with its leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the HIG's chief negotiator speaks to Al Jazeera. by Maija Liuhto 'Our goal was to work for freedom, independence and justice using all means, any means ...' says Mohammad Amin Karim [Omar Sobhani/Reuters] On September 29, the Afghan government signed a peace agreement with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of the Hezb-i-Islami party, also known as HIG. Hekmatyar, in hiding since 1997, has been on the US state department's list of designated terrorists since 2003. The agreement allows for his return, calls for the removal of sanctions against him and pardons him of the crimes he has been accused of committing. The deal has met with a mixed reaction from Afghans, with opponents and human rights activists criticising it for the impunity it grants him, while some see it as a necessary step towards peace. Hekmatyar was one of the most influential leaders in the fight against the Soviet forces in the 1980s. When the Soviet-backed government in Kabul fell in 1992, Hekmatyar locked horns with important leaders of the resistance. After briefly accepting the position of prime minister in the interim government, he resorted to firing countless rockets at civilian neighbourhoods in Kabul, earning him nicknames such as "Rocketyar" and "the Butcher of Kabul". When the Taliban took over in 1996, Hekmatyar was forced to flee the capital, while some of his followers joined the Taliban. After the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, Hekmatyar declared war against coalition forces and allegedly formed alliances with the Taliban and al-Qaeda, although he has denied this. HIG has taken responsibility for a number of attacks in Afghanistan and is suspected to be behind an assassination attempt on former President Hamid Karzai. While a faction broke from Hekmatyar's HIG and joined the government after 2001, questions remain about how the peace deal will affect politics in Afghanistan. As Kabul prepares for the return of Hekmatyar, Al Jazeera spoke to Muhammad Amin Karim, Hekmatyar's representative and chief negotiator of the HIG delegation. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. The views expressed in this interview do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy. Al Jazeera: What motivated HIG to negotiate a peace deal with the Afghan government? Mohammad Amin Karim: The relationship between Afghans and the international community was a lose-lose situation. Thousands of people were killed by the American invasion. The invaders repeated slogans like the "fight against terrorism", build "good governance" and "bring democracy". But if you look at what the US actually did, the result was negative. So at that time we proposed that there should be a win-win situation for the Afghan people and the international community based on the interests of Afghans and the legitimate goals of the US and its allies, which is to fight against terrorism. Only Afghans can do it effectively. If Afghans in the villages decide that there shouldn't be any groups attacking other countries, they are the only ones who can do it. If you want to bring democracy and an elected government, you can't do it with Humvees, tanks and drones. You should work with the people. That was the beginning of these negotiations. First, in 2010, I brought the delegation of HIG to propose this solution to the government. But unfortunately at that time there was no real wish for peace. Then in 2014, Barack Obama announced that by the end of 2016 there would be no more American combatant soldiers in Afghanistan. That was the beginning of the new process of negotiations which I led. And after two years of hard discussions and negotiations, finally, we achieved this goal. Al Jazeera: Where is Hekmatyar now? How closely was he involved in these negotiations? Karim: He is in Afghanistan, like he has always been. He will return to Kabul as soon as possible, once all the sanctions are lifted and all the technical problems are solved. He was involved in the negotiations as closely as it was possible. A screen shows the broadcast of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar during the signing ceremony with the Afghan government at the presidential palace in Kabul late September, 2016 [Omar Sobhani/Reuters] Al Jazeera: In the 1990s, Hekmatyar was offered the position of prime minister, but he ended up leaving the government very quickly. Why has he accepted this peace agreement now without being offered a position in the government? Karim: HIG was founded almost 50 years ago, and it has goals and objectives: the independence of the country, a lawful Islamic government and justice. We never sought political power. For us, the most important question is how to achieve our goals. That's why sometimes we accept to take on this responsibility and sometimes we don't. Now, we are facing three options: first, how to participate actively and not be accused of the problems that this regime has. The second option is to be a symbolic presence - one, two ministers - which is not an option for us; we will not accept this. And the third one, which is very seriously under our study, is to be inside Afghanistan and outside the regime as an independent political party in order to participate in the next elections in the hope that it will be a little bit more transparent. And that's the way we consider the only legitimate means to be in power and to share power. Al Jazeera: What was the main reason the peace agreements in the 1990s did not work out? How can it be ensured that Hekmatyar will not abandon the agreement with the government again? Karim: Sir Hekmatyar will not participate in the government anyway. It's not the purpose. He will definitely not run for president because this is an opportunity to be something higher than a member of this government. One of the key problems in these 30 years was that HIG has always asked that the only way to be in power should be through elections. That's the only legitimate way. Up until very recently, most of the mujahideen parties and others would never accept this principle, including Mr [Burhanuddin] Rabbani, who agreed that after four months of his presidency we should have elections in Afghanistan and he didn't do it. That was the beginning of problems during the civil war. He wanted to have exclusive power without any legitimacy from the people. Now this government accepts this, so why should we refuse it? That's what we asked for. READ MORE: Afghanistan - Hezb-i-Islami armed group signs peace deal Al Jazeera: Many people who were in Kabul during the civil war remember Hekmatyar for the rocket attacks that killed thousands of people. How do you think he will be welcomed back into the city? Karim: Right after the civil war, Mr Hekmatyar came to Kabul. He was the most welcomed man in this country. And now, every day since the signing of this contract, we have had meetings all over the country. More than 15,000 people attended in Herat, and in Jalalabad more than 10,000 people. The people you're talking about are just a circle of microcosm of Kabul. More than 99 percent of Afghan people support this peace deal. The majority of Kabul's people would vote for him. Hezb-i-Islami was already in this parliament and its parliamentary group is the most important one today. Al Jazeera: Regarding the division between Hekmatyar's HIG and Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal's Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan [HIA], which has already been part of the government, was there any contact between these two parties? Will Arghandiwal's party join Hekmatyar when he comes back? Karim: Yesterday, Mr Arghandiwal was here in this room with me. All the leaders of HIG are with me. There's no disconnect, we are working together. Hezb-i-Islami was a party of millions of people. A number of youngsters decided to join the resistance in the mountains. What were we supposed to do with all the hundreds of thousands of people? It was natural that they should work with the government. Our goal was to work for freedom, independence and justice using all means, any means, including working inside the government. Al Jazeera: And was there contact between Hekmatyar and Arghandiwal? Karim: Every time, everywhere. Al Jazeera: Hekmatyar's HIG has claimed responsibility for a number of suicide attacks in Afghanistan. How does it work when you have your people in the government but you are attacking the government at the same time? Mohammad Amin Karim, right, and Afghanistan national security adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar, left, hold a document after signing a peace deal in Kabul September 22, 2016 [Omar Sobhani/Reuters] Karim: There is only one Hezb i Islami, so please don't use [any distinctions] because there is no sense in it. We never attacked the government of Afghanistan, ever. From the beginning we said we are only targeting foreign troops in Afghanistan. Maybe sometimes, there was some fighting between government forces and Hezb i Islami, but we very clearly stated from the beginning that it's not a war against either Afghans or the Afghan army. But yes, we fought against foreign troops. And we claimed this very proudly. Al Jazeera: There was an attack in one of the supermarkets in Kabul which was claimed by Hezb i Islami. You have said that you thought attacks like these were legitimate. Why? Karim: This attack could be an operation claimed by Hezb i Islami, and as far as I know - because I'm a political man - they were targeting foreign troops and soldiers. The political wing was very clearly working on the policy side, and it has no connection with the military wing. That was not their responsibility. They renounced military action. OPINION: Afghans must support peace deal with Hekmatyar Al Jazeera: Is there anything that might make Hezb i Islami want to take up arms again? For example, if the foreign troops do not leave soon. Karim: We are against this presence and we will fight peacefully against it. As long as we are free to do that, there's no reason. All surveys show that the majority of Afghans want foreign troops to withdraw from Afghanistan. As long as we are able to fight peacefully and legally against this presence, there's no reason to go anywhere. This is the best way for us. We did it after very deep reflection, after 10 years of reflection. Al Jazeera: Hezb i Islami has been seen as a very conservative party when it comes to women's rights. Kabul has changed over the years, there are many women working and they might not be dressed in a way that Hekmatyar would consider appropriate. Has his ideology evolved over the years? What does he think about women's rights? When he was prime minister, he immediately enforced a dress code for women and it is said that he used to throw acid on the faces of female students who did not wear the hijab. Karim: Has Hezb i Islami asked you to wear this hijab? This is the faith of Afghan people. When Hezb i Islami comes here, I will assure you, a huge number of Afghan people will ask us to put pressure on TV channels not to show programmes with women in them. This is 99 percent of Afghan people - the microcosm of Kabul is only 1 percent. Hezb i Islami's role is to join tradition with modernity. It is our job to bring them together without causing a social explosion. These people you are talking about are exclusively modernists who have cut all ties to their people in the villages. Could you ask these people to make their claims 30km out of Kabul? Or 5km out of Kabul? Al Jazeera: Will Hekmatyar be demanding a dress code for women in Kabul as well? Karim: For me, in Kabul, I see nothing special [in terms of women's clothing]. But the villagers would think, look at this girl. For them it's unbelievable. Finally, it's your choice. We will not force anything. In Iran they are forcing people to wear something. In France they are forcing people to not wear something. My personal opinion is that the freedom of man and woman to wear - of course within [limits of] respect - it's just common sense, it shouldn't be forced by anybody. Al Jazeera: How close is Hezb i Islami to the Taliban when it comes to its views on Islamic governance? Karim: For me personally, if you ask what the definition of Islamic government is - a Taliban will say Islamic government is implementing the Islamic law - what Islamic law? Just cutting the hand of a thief - this is Islamic government for them. For me, as a member of Hezb i Islami, I would say Islamic government is a government with responsibility and a government based on justice. The way you do it is very different depending on time and situation. But the principle is responsibility and justice. The only thing we shared [with the Taliban] during these 15 years was the [struggle for the] independence of our country. That was our only common point. Maija Liuhto	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726945
__label__wiki	0.793497	0.793497	Weingarten Joins New Jersey Activists for Day of Action AFT president Randi Weingarten was in New Jersey on April 26 to join a galvanized Garden State coalition of labor, religious, human rights and community groups that are standing up to the bullying and the orchestrated attacks unfolding in Trenton and in legislatures across the country. The day of action featured events throughout the state, beginning with a rally in southern New Jersey to save the Vineland Developmental Center, a state hospital for women. Gov. Chris Christie has floated a proposal to close the center, which serves clients as old as 95, some of whom have relied on its services for five decades. Some of New Jersey's most vulnerable residents are cruelly targeted under the Christie proposal, warned Weingarten. "This is about working together for fairness and services for those who need them—and not letting a bully split us apart." She was joined at Vineland by the Rev. Al Sharpton, who said the fight to save Vineland was part of a story that many communities face. "Those who took the economy and let the rich get richer, now they want to balance their books by closing a facility we need." Lee A. Saunders, secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), told the crowd that public workers are determined to stand with a growing coalition of groups that are fighting for services working Americans need and deserve. Echoing a rallying cry heard in Wisconsin's legislative battles, Saunders pledged to continue the fight "one day longer"—making sure that policymakers' calls for shared sacrifice don't become a national "a race to the bottom." Weingarten, Saunders and Sharpton finished the morning at Shiloh Baptist Church, which hosted a roundtable discussion on legislative attacks that ranged from voucher schemes to moves to gut collective bargaining and public employee pensions. Shiloh Baptist was eager to host the event, Pastor Darrell Armstrong told the audience, as a "way to address issues that affect working-class families who need this type of advocacy." Featured speakers stressed the importance of seeing developments not as a series of state-specific attacks but as part of a well-choreographed and carefully synchronized attack from a handful of wealthy private interests. "It's a one-two-three punch," Weingarten told the crowd. The first step is to use fear-based attacks to divide the community. The second step is to leverage that division into anti-labor laws that silence people. And the final step, she warned, will be to destroy public budgets and the vital services they fund. The AFT, she said, is committed to "changing the power dynamic in this country" by building the types of strong community alliances that can counterbalance the powerful elite and stop their agenda of division where it starts. "When we are together, people can't break us apart." "Let the word go out that labor and civil rights are together" in this fight, Sharpton said. "The blood of [labor activist A. Philip] Randolph and Martin Luther King is deeper than any waters that divide us." Following the Trenton roundtable, Sharpton hosted Weingarten and Saunders on his daily syndicated radio show. The three then traveled to Newark for a spirited rally at City Hall. Saunders fired up the group, saying that attacks on the public sector and working Americans in the state legislatures "had awakened a sleeping giant"—the coalition of labor, religious and civic groups that are coming together as never before. Newark Teachers Union president Joseph Del Grosso, who introduced Weingarten at the rally, invoked the words of Robert Kennedy by reminding the crowd, "Where unions are strong, the cause of progress and social justice is advanced, and where unions are weak, the whole society suffers." Weingarten told the Newark audience that what is unfolding "is a human rights cause, a civil rights cause and an education cause—all of us coming together to say, 'United we make a difference.' " [Mike Rose]	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726950
__label__cc	0.579947	0.420053	Welcome to the Smart Cities Council's page, which provides case studies, commentaries and resources to help guide communities to better outcomes for their residents. This section is exclusively sponsored by the Smart Cities Council, which publishes the free Smart Cities Readiness Guide to help local leaders craft a smart cities vision, plan of action and method of tracking progress. FirstNet for first responders New public-safety broadband network will give first responders access to 21st-century technologies Written by TJ Kennedy The “Internet of Things” holds enormous potential for cities and counties across America. Connecting data-rich items – such as computing devices, machines and grids – stands to improve efficiencies and enhance productivity in the sector. Specifically, this concept holds much promise for our nation’s first responders, who often operate in a mobile environment and benefit from having real-time, actionable information at their fingertips when they are responding to an emergency. However, despite advancements in consumer-based technologies, today citizens with smart phones may have more advanced communication capabilities than many police officers or firefighters have on their work-issued devices. That is a key driver behind the creation of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), an independent organization that is working to modernize the country’s communications network and bring new broadband devices to our nation’s police, fire and EMS personnel. Established by Congress, FirstNet’s mission is to ensure the deployment of the first nationwide, interoperable wireless broadband network for public safety users in all states and territories. Once operational, the FirstNet network stands to transform the way first responders communicate, providing them with access to high-speed voice, video and data over a prioritized, reliable and hardened mobile connection. FirstNet’s network will be interoperable across disciplines and state lines, addressing a longtime communications challenge affecting first responders from different jurisdictions and agencies. Further, just as more items are being connected through the Internet of Things, the FirstNet network stands to link more first responder data sources, such as their gear, emergency vehicles, fingerprint scanners and databases. This will enable them to share real-time data and process the information for instantaneous viewing and improved situational awareness in the field. This should be thought of as the “Internet of First Responder Things.” For more practical examples, consider how sensors could be embedded into a firefighter’s protective gear to track his or her location within a burning building and measure vital signs. Imagine how a connected ambulance could provide a paramedic with real-time information on traffic conditions to ensure the fastest route to an emergency scene with wireless location information sent from a dispatcher. Moreover, paramedics could relay life-saving information from the field to the hospital via real-time vital signs and a two-way video interface with the doctor in an emergency room. On the law enforcement side, backup units could automatically be deployed to a scene based on live information coming from officers in the field from body-worn sensors. The possibilities are endless for public safety personnel with access to a reliable and prioritized broadband network. The FirstNet network will be a force multiplier, bringing state-of-the art technology to law enforcement officers, firefighters and paramedics across the country. FirstNet’s primary focus now is to ensure the network meets the needs of its future users: first responders. Since its inception, FirstNet has worked closely with representatives of the public safety community and state officials to understand their communications challenges and needs. Last year, consultations took place in almost every state and territory, and the information gathered has informed FirstNet’s proposed plans for deployment of key pieces of the network. This dialogue will continue as FirstNet moves closer to bringing the network online and beyond. There are a number of opportunities for cities to get involved in the transition to the nationwide public safety broadband network. City officials may contact their state’s Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for FirstNet to learn more about how the network can improve first responder communications in their communities. A list of state contacts can be found at firstnet.gov. In addition, cities are encouraged to participate in upcoming FirstNet discussions held in their states, including consultation activities, key governance body meetings and other discussions about how FirstNet will be deployed. The FirstNet network stands to be a game-changer for public safety, helping increase the efficiency and effectiveness of emergency response by supporting better situational awareness during an incident. In addition, the interoperable nature of the network will improve daily communications for the public safety community – enabling better interagency information-sharing and coordination. As cities and counties throughout the country continue to think about getting “smarter” by utilizing the Internet of Things, FirstNet looks forward to working with them to bring the best solutions to their public safety community. Click here for more information. By TJ Kennedy, president of FirstNet. Tags: Expert Insights In-Depth Public Safety Smart Cities & Technology Smart Cities Solutions Smart Cities Council Article Smaller is smarter By rethinking the types of housing we provide, cities can create more accessible, inclusive communities Connecticut police shooting sparks outrage as officials work towards accountability A police shooting in Connecticut has sparked numerous protests, and local and state officials are working to ensure accountability. On the morning of April 16, a Hamden, Ct., police officer and a Yale University police officer stopped a car about a mile from the university, according to CNN. Police had received a 911 call earlier […] Engage with the people where they are As finding new staff becomes more difficult, local governments are considering creative solutions. The road to tomorrow Local leaders need to consider how autonomous vehicles will impact both the design and funding structures of the future’s roadways The rise of automatic license plate recognition Violence between the extreme right and left prompts local action Crippling ransomware attack puts Baltimore City servers out of commission	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726954
__label__cc	0.566704	0.433296	Government-run citizens’ academies educate people on local public affairs Citizen engagement is an ever-present challenge in local government, but programs across the country are bringing citizens closer to government by educating them on its inner workings. Written by Jason Axelrod Programs such as Valparaiso, Ind.’s City Government Academy are designed to show people how local government works, according to the NWI Times. This includes how certain city policies are enacted, how budgets are decided and how citizens can get involved with the government. “The goal of the City Government Academy is to get more citizens involved as we share the behind-the-scenes details of how decisions are made, how dollars are allocated and how services are delivered each day,” Maggie Clifton, Valparaiso’s director of community engagement and creator of the academy, told the Times. Valparaiso’s City Government Academy is being modeled after its successful Citizens Police Academy, offered through its police department, according to the Times. Depending on interest, the program may be offered more than once per year. Communities like San Mateo, Calif., have already received positive feedback on such programs, according to The San Mateo Daily Journal. Most participants in San Mateo’s Citizens Services Academy are over 30, and the program usually doesn’t accept participants under 18. “Last session was during the afternoon and we had a lot of seniors attending and they loved it,” Carol Jiampetti, coordinator for the San Mateo academy said. San Mateo’s program is free, lasts 12 weeks and limited to 25 participants so as to allow for an interactive format, the Journal reports. It’s open to those possessing an interest in city government and who live or work in San Mateo. Participants also must be able to devote “[The academy] would be very helpful for someone who is interested in the government,” Jiampetti said. “It is a good way to make a lot of contacts with city staff.” Counties have also jumped on board in designing citizens academies. Now in its fifth year, Nevada County, Calif.’s Citizen’s Academy lets participants tour six county facilities and learn about county services through over 20 presentations, according to YubaNet. The goal of the course — in which classes are held for 2.5 hours every Monday evening for 10 consecutive weeks — is to increase civic engagement within the county while getting community leaders familiar with the county government’s functions, YubaNet reports. “I gained a valuable understanding of the scope of county services, as well as insight into the complex budgeting process. I came away with a tremendous respect for the expertise of our county employees and officials,” Nevada County Citizen’s Academy participant Susan Meagher told YubaNet. Tags: Administration News Article Baltimore mayor scandal deepens as feds get involved After federal agents raided Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh’s homes and city hall, several Baltimore city council members are seeking to amend the city charter to curb the mayor’s power and make it easier to remove public officials from office. Pugh is being investigated following the revelation that she sold books in her children’s book series […] Detroit police arrest muralist painting city-commissioned art Detroit police apprehended a city-commissioned artist painting a public mural, believing he was vandalizing property. Artist Sheefy McFly, whose real name is Tashif Turner, is commissioned as part of Detroit’s City Walls program, a multi-year effort to combat vandalism with city-sanctioned public artwork, Detroit ABC affiliate WXYZ reports. The program pays artists a stipend and […] State takeover of Atlantic City to last until 2021 The controversial New Jersey State Government takeover of Atlantic City, N.J., will remain in place for its full five years, despite Gov. Phil Murphy having campaigned against it. The takeover began in November 2016 when former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the state legislature determined that the destitute city government wouldn’t be able to […] California city council member leaves post for Armenian government job A Glendale, Calif., city council member is taking his talents to another government — this time, on another continent. Zareh Sinanyan submitted his resignation to the council on June 7, according to Panorama AM. Moving forward, Sinanyan will work for the Armenian government in the newly-created position of high commissioner of diaspora affairs. In his […] Sheriffs across Washington divided on enforcing new gun law Raleigh gets first-in-the-nation underground trash system Albuquerque teams up with utility to power municipal buildings with solar energy Government shutdown effects extend to local governments	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726955
__label__cc	0.615822	0.384178	How to Choose Between Lump Sum and Financing When selling a business, you might be expecting to get one big payment for your company. But there are actually two main strategies that buy Thursday Bram Writer, Wise Bread, Wise Bread When selling a business, you might be expecting to get one big payment for your company. But there are actually two main strategies that buyers rely on to pay for a company: lump sums and financing. With a lump sum, the seller receives payment in full for the company before handing over control. With financing, however, the buyer makes regular payments for the company after taking control, effectively putting you in the position of a lender. Choosing between these two options can make or break a deal. Choosing Between Lump Sums and Financing The decision between a lump sum and financing the purchase of your business can be a difficult question for many sellers. Kumi Bradshaw provides help with appraising businesses for sale and completing the sale process. Bradshaw describes the situation and potential problem: "Many sellers instinctively want to take a lump sum because if they are going to divest themselves of control of the business, they want to harvest the full economic value in cash. The repayment risk is something many sellers are leery of. There is always the concern that the buyer may not pay the amount owed for any number of reasons: 1) changes in economic conditions; 2) less effective management; 3) unwillingness to stand by the terms of the transaction... The preferred path that I see is for sellers to take the cash — this is a general preference. In today's environment however, where there is reduced bank liquidity for business purchases, I am seeing sellers who are more motivated to consider structured deals, where financing or other options come into play (this may be simply to be able to sell the business or it may be to increase the total economic value harvested in the transaction)." Financing is typically a consideration when a buyer won't be able to actually come up with a lump sum payment, making it a less ideal option in many situations. On the other hand, there can be ways to make financing work, Bradshaw says. "Financing in the form of a seller's note or some other transaction is often used in private business transactions to help 'bridge the gap' between the debt financing that the buyer can get from a bank or other institution and the transaction price that the parties agree on. Sometimes, if a seller owns the building in which the business is housed, they may sell the business contingent on the buyer paying an above-market lease rate to the landlord (the seller). This mechanism can be used to give the seller a continued income stream, give the buyer added security regarding location and a bit more liquidity at the time of purpose." Determining the Needs of a Specific Deal Aetius Romulous sold his business for a lump sum after considering all of his options. He knew from the beginning of negotiations that a lump sum would be his best choice. "This depends on two things: the ability of the purchaser to honor the deal over the long term, and the alternate use of the money in our hands in the near term. In our case, we felt the business climate would be harsh in the coming years and it may cause issues for the purchaser going forward. Most importantly however, we had an immediate use for the cash as an investment in a project whose fortunes we would control. These assumptions made a cash deal the best scenario for us at the time." Romulous isn't against financing the sale of a business: it's a decision that has to be made on a case-by-case basis, because each business sale is different. "Had we been able to calculate that the 'custodian' purchaser was the best investment over the term of the deal, and had we simply been making a sale based on returns without a future project in the can and ready to go, it may have been less a risk to strike the terms that way. In this case, the purchaser would have had to provide safety and return beyond what we could — a straight up investment decision. However, the facts being what they were at the time, we would not have agreed to anything other than cash. In summary, when you accept a structure that has the purchaser retain possession of the purchase price in any form, you go from vendor to investor at the stroke of a pen. The question is always: Would I have invested in this firm under different conditions?" For Romulous, putting together the deal was easier because he was firm on the need for a lump sum payment. He says, "Striking a deal is the easy part — it's just talk. The hard part is the structure where both parties attempt to bend the agreed terms to their favor. In our case, we knew going in that we would want cash and we made that clear from the get go so there would be no misunderstanding. Thus, it became a 'take it or leave it' proposition for the purchasers." If you're running into trouble negotiating a lump sum, Bradshaw suggests seeking out ways to make it easier for the buyer to find his own financing: "When negotiating a lump sum payment, a key consideration is what sources of financing are available to a potential buyer? How can I assist the buyer in obtaining financing — if I have a conversation with my banker, what does he estimate as the amount who would finance for my enterprise?" Negotiating a deal dependent on financing is more of a balancing act. "When negotiating financing, it is key to ensure alignment between the interests and motivations of the buyer and seller," says Bradshaw. "Both at transfer of operating control and during the payback period. Both parties need to of course have appropriate legal and practical protection (an experienced legal adviser is important here). The terms of the agreement should be clear and understood by both parties. I would also recommend some independent, fairly quick means of resolving any disagreements as to the interpretation of the financing agreement (perhaps arbitration)." Wise Bread is a leading personal finance community dedicated to helping people get the most out of their money. Get daily money tips by following Wise Bread on Facebook or Twitter. Kumi Bradshaw	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726956
__label__cc	0.676248	0.323752	Home / Features / The car world’s winners, losers and WTF’s The car world’s winners, losers and WTF’s Mitchell Williams 5:01:00 PM Features Edit The international car market is changing fast in unpredictable ways. Our snapshot of sales trends in 2016 highlights what’s hot, what’s not –and why. The world’s best-selling sports car IT’S not confirmed yet but the Ford Mustang looks on track to take the title of world’s bestselling sports car, as it did in 2015. A big reason is because Americans bought just over 100,000 of them in 2016. That figure is actually 13% down on the year before, but is nonetheless huge. And it’s not just the USA that loves the Mustang, now available in right-hand drive. Last year it was the best-selling sports car in India (152 sold, but a win is still a win), Mexico (3022), China (nearly 5000 shifted) and Korea (811). But sorry Ford, the Europeans’ favorite sports car is still homegrown: the Audi TT. That sold 21,022 across the 29 EU countries last year, including the UK. Brits like the TT so much it outsold all other sports cars: 9336, more than Germany, making us the biggest market for the car. By Nick Gibbs The car world’s winners, losers and WTF’s Reviewed by Mitchell Williams on 5:01:00 PM Rating: 5	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726957
__label__wiki	0.769216	0.769216	Malaysia: Stop execution of prisoner due to be hanged on Friday The Malaysian government must halt the execution of a 34-year-old man due to be hanged this Friday for murder, said Amnesty International. Gunasegar Pitchaymuthu’s mother was today advised by officials at Taiping Prison, northern Malaysia, to visit her son for the “last time” and make arrangements for his funeral. Gunasegar Pitchaymuthu was convicted of murder, an offence which attracts the mandatory death penalty in Malaysia. “Executing Gunasegar Pitchaymuthu would be a regressive step for human rights in Malaysia,” said Josef Benedict, Amnesty International’s Deputy Campaign Director for South-East Asia and the Pacific. “The mandatory death penalty is a clear breach of human rights regardless of the crime committed. The authorities must step in to prevent this brutal act taking place before it is too late, and instead commute Gunasegar’s death sentence.” Amnesty International has consistently criticized Malaysia’s practice of “secretive” executions. Information on scheduled hangings is not made public before, or even after, they are carried out – contrary to international standards on the use of the death penalty. Instead, Gunasegar Pitchaymuthu’s mother Nagarani Sandasamy today received a letter from Taiping Prison officials informing her that he will be executed “soon” and advising her to visit him tomorrow morning. The family was also advised to discuss arrangements to claim the prisoner’s body for his funeral. Nagarani Sandasamy last visited her son a week ago, when neither were aware that the 34-year-old was scheduled to be hanged just a week later. Gunasegar Pitchaymuthu was sentenced to death for the fatal stabbing of a man in Sungai Petani, Kedah state, on 16 April 2005. “As discussions on abolishing the mandatory death penalty in Malaysia continue, the Malaysian government must immediately put in place a moratorium on all executions as a first step towards full abolition of the death penalty,” said Josef Benedict. No information is made publicly available on individual death penalty cases in Malaysia, while families are often informed at the last minute that their loved ones will be executed. Senior government officials recently said Malaysia was considering abolishing the mandatory death penalty, which is currently the punishment for crimes including murder and drug-related offenses. Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases without exception regardless of the nature or circumstances of the crime, the guilt, innocence or other characteristics of the individual, or the method used by the state to carry out the execution. The death penalty violates the right to life and is the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. International law and standards prohibit the mandatory imposition of the death penalty as constituting arbitrary deprivation of life, as it denies judges the possibility of taking into account the defendant’s personal circumstances or the circumstances of the particular offense.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726958
__label__wiki	0.935726	0.935726	Search > Military UK, Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services, 1848-1939 Ancestry.com. UK, Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services, 1848-1939 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014. Original data: Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services. ADM 188, 362 and 363. The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey, England. About UK, Royal Navy Registers of Seamen's Services, 1848-1939 These registers record the service of seamen in the Royal Navy. Records include birthdate, birthplace, vessels served on, and dates of service. The registers include seamen who began their service as early as 1848, with dates of service up through 1928 for most records, though there are a few records with dates post-1939. Make sure to check the image of the original record, where you may also find occupation in service, physical description, reasons for discharge, and other personal details. You can find details on the system used for assigning service numbers at TNA’s website. Choose... ADM 188: Registers of Services 1853-1924ADM 362: Registers of Services 1925-1928ADM 363: Continuous Record Cards 1929-1939 Piece Description UK, Naval Officer and Rating Service Records, 1802-1919 British officers and ratings (noncommissioned seamen) in the Royal Navy were awarded pensions after 20 years’ service. You’ll find records of that service in this collection. UK, Naval Medal and Award Rolls, 1793-1972 This database contains lists of more than 1.5 million officers, enlisted personnel and other individuals entitled to medals and awards commemorating their service with the Royal Navy and Royal Marines between 1793 and 1972. The collection includes WWI and WWII medal and award rolls. UK, Navy Lists, 1888-1970 This database includes multiple volumes of the Navy List, the Royal Navy’s official published list of officers. UK, Military Campaign Medal and Award Rolls, 1793-1949 This database contains lists of more than 2.3 million officers, enlisted personnel and other individuals entitled to medals and awards commemorating their service in campaigns and battles for the British Army between 1793 and 1949, in Europe, Africa, China, the Middle East, and elsewhere during the height of the British Empire. The collection does not include WWI or WWII medal and award rolls. All Military in the Card Catalogue Census Centre Family History Toolbox From the Ancestry Library	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726959
__label__wiki	0.685925	0.685925	Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia Updated 7th Edition by Harold G. Cogger Harold G. Cogger OFF RRP $160.00 $106.35 Spend another {0} to pay with or 4 easy payments of $26.59 with This item qualifies for FREE delivery Prev Showing 1 of 2Next Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia is a complete guide to Australia’s rich and varied herpetofauna, including frogs, crocodiles, turtles, tortoises, lizards and snakes. For each of the 1218 species there is a description of its appearance, distribution and habits. Each species is accompanied by a distribution map and, in many cases, one of the book’s more than 1000 colour photographs of living animals. The book also includes 130 simple-to-use dichotomous keys, accompanied by hundreds of explanatory drawings, that in most cases allow a specimen in hand to be identified. In addition, it has a comprehensive list of scientific references for those wishing to conduct more in-depth research, an extensive glossary, and basic guides to the collection, preservation and captive care of specimens. This classic work was originally published in 1975. The updated seventh edition contains a new Appendix that discusses recent changes and lists over 80 new or resurrected species and genera that have been added to the Australian frog and reptile fauna since the 2014 edition. Wildlife: reptiles & amphibians CSIRO Publishing Be the first to review Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Wildlife: general interest Amphibians Ecological science Social impact of environmental issues Australasian & Pacific history Natural history Conservation of the environment Animal ecology Wildlife: reptiles & amphibians	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726960
__label__wiki	0.778486	0.778486	Nicolas Ghesquière's Obsessions Fashion & BeautyBehind the Pages Louis Vuitton A/W15Photography by Juergen Teller for AnOther Magazine A/W15 Ahead of Louis Vuitton's S/S16 show, the house's esteemed designer divulges his current infatuations for AnOther TextAnOther 16Louis Vuitton A/W15 Nicolas Ghesquière and Juergen Teller have a special creative relationship, an understanding that is perfectly in sync. In the latest edition of AnOther Magazine, the duo spoke to Jefferson Hack – in different places and at different times – about their pioneering work for Louis Vuitton. During his conversation with Hack, the fashion house's creative director spilled the beans on his current obsessions, ranging from quixotic musician Grimes to the pioneering Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto. Here, as the Louis Vuitton S/S16 show unfolds, we share Ghesquière's current obessions, alongside Teller's stunning fashion story for the issue. 1. Grimes The Canadian artist and singer-songwriter Grimes (otherwise known as Claire Elise Boucher) has stolen Ghesquière's heart with her individual sound and style. "She represents this new generation so well, with her eclecticism," he explains. "She’s pop, but beautifully strange. She’s brave and fearless. I really love her." Serpentine Pavilion, 2013Architecture by Sou Fujimoto 2. Sou Fujimoto Known for his unique synthesis of nature and architecture, Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto designs beautiful living spaces comprised of delicate light structures and permeable enclosures (think his temporary Serpentine Gallery pavilion in 2013). But while his designs are visually delighting, Fujimoto places a great emphasis on function and innovation, much like Ghesquière himself. Carte Blanche VIA dressing table, 1990© Andrée Putman 3. Andrée Putman and Philippe Starck French designers Andrée Putman and Philippe Starck are known for pushing the boundaries of modern furniture design with their simple but delightfully inventive structures. Particularly influential during the 1980s, it is their work from a decade later that really captures Ghesquière's imagination: “Anything from the 90s. An American psycho kind of atmosphere, I’m definitely into that mood.” Alex Sharp in The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-timeCourtesy of Curious on Broadway 4. The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-time The theatrical adaptation of Mark Haddon's best-selling novel The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night-time has been just as popular as the book itself. With ongoing runs in both the West End and on Broadway, Simon Stephens' adaptation, masterfully directed by Marianne Elliott, continues to win over audiences with its unique and sensitive portrayal of autism. “I saw it in New York. The staging is amazing," Ghesquière enthuses. "The [lead] actor Alex Sharp was just beyond any performances. The guy is a genius." Fashion & BeautyBehind the PagesParisLouis VuittonS/S16	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726961
__label__wiki	0.945626	0.945626	Solar Fields Facebook · Website · YouTube · SoundCloud · Instagram · Bandcamp · Feel Life Music Facebook · Feel Life Music Website Gothenburg-based Swedish composer, sound designer, and multi-instrumentalist Magnus Birgersson created Solar Fields in the late 1990s. Magnus was raised in a musical family and began playing piano and synthesisers in the 1970s. In the mid-1980s he began combining synthesisers with computers. In addition to his ambient work, he has also been a guitar player in rock bands, pianist in jazz funk bands, and keyboard player in drum and bass bands.” He currently collaborates with Vincent Villuis, a.k.a. AES Dana, on H.U.V.A. Network and T.S.R. in the company of Daniel Segerstad and Johannes Hedberg from Carbon Based Lifeforms. Under the moniker Solar Fields he composed 15 solo albums and appeared on over 60 various compilations. His first solo release was an ambient album named Reflective Frequencies, released on Ultimae in 2001. This was followed two years later by Blue Moon Station, which also included downtempo and trance, and was designed as a single fluid story. In late 2005 Solar Fields composed Leaving Home and Extended, the later being a limited edition. His 5th album Earthshine, launched in 2007, featured more upbeat soundscapes blending morning trance, progressive, psychedelic, tribal and ambient music. This up-tempo album was warmly received by the progressive and psytrance scenes. This led to Electronic Arts (EA) and DICE commissioning Solar Fields for the in-game score for Mirror's Edge, a first-person action adventure video game released worldwide on November 14, 2008. The soundtrack was included in the VGC's "Top 20 Original Soundtracks in Gaming". The following year Solar Fields released Movements. The album was ranked in the top 10 of best albums by Echoes listeners. The album Movements was also used as the soundtrack for the indie game Capsized from the small Canadian studio Alientrap in 2011. In 2010 he used the harmonies and melodies of Movements in a remix album titled Altered - Second Movements and started the Origin series, four albums which aim to present archives and unreleased songs. Until We Meet the Sky and Random Friday were composed in parallel. In 2013 he released the second album in the Origin series, Origin #02. 2014 Solar Fields started the label droneform records, the first release was an triple album called RGB Collection, aka RED, GREEN, BLUE. Solar Fields music can also be heard in the game Little Big Planet 3 that was released in November 2014.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726962
__label__wiki	0.739252	0.739252	One Direction Onesie by Blue Ivory It’s not uncommon, in fact it’s perfectly natural, for a boy band onesie to audition for the X Factor. What is unusual, though, is for 5 separate and otherwise unconnected onesies to audition as individuals for the X Factor only to have the Simon Cowell Onesie assemble them into a group, to mentor them throughout the show, and then to sign them to a contract with his own record label. But this was precisely what happened to this particular boy band onesie. And, since then, this particular boy band onesie has gone on to worldwide fame, selling, along the way, a string of hit singles, being showered with awards and accolades, and achieving the status of the global Number 1 Teen Heartthrob Onesie - even over and above the Justin Beiber Onesie. So much so, indeed, that in the 2014 Brit Awards, this boy band onesie received an astounding 93% of the votes (1.7 million votes in less than 2 hours!), and the hashtag bearing their name was top of Twitter’s worldwide trending list. And that is the reason that your infant is up all night longing to wear the One Direction Baby Onesie! Designed in multiple colors and featuring the band’s name proudly and prominently on its front, the One Direction Onesie is the perfect tribute to the boy band who was the first, and so far only, group to see each of its first 3 albums debut at Number 1 on the Billboard Charts. In addition, changing and fitting the One Direction Onesie is as quick and as easy as getting into an argument about which member of the band is best. Plus, regardless of which individual member of One Direction your infant likes best – whether it’s Harry the heartthrob, Niall the cute one, Liam the shy one, Louis the older brother, or Zayn the bad boy – they’ll ensure that the One Direction Onesie stays snugly and chart toppingly in place. More Musical Onesies Get the latest and coolest onesies like the One Direction one above to your mailbox by joining our mailing list below:	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726969
__label__wiki	0.722431	0.722431	Q&A: Feds tackle opioid epidemic, but is it helping? WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has declared the opioid epidemic a national public health emergency and urged prosecutors to seek the death penalty against drug dealers. Congress has provided targeted grants for treatment, recovery and prevention and made numerous policy changes to help people struggling with addiction get access to services. From the National Institutes of Health to Veterans Affairs and the Agriculture Department, government agencies are deploying their own specialized skills. Still, the addiction crisis will not easily release its grip on the nation, even as progress is made providing resources and improving coordination. Here’s a look at the extent of the epidemic, and what the federal government has been doing. HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE DYING DUE TO OPIOID OVERDOSES? Some 47,600 Americans died of opioid overdoses in 2017, according to federal numbers. That’s more than die as a result of traffic crashes. Opioid deaths were 13 percent higher compared to 2016, up a notch in a 20-year onslaught. The street drug fentanyl — an extremely powerful opioid — is the top killer today, displacing heroin and pain pills. But prescription painkillers are still a problem, contributing to 14,495 deaths in 2017. It’s too early to say for sure, but experts are watching a potential indicator that opioid overdose deaths may be peaking. Month-to-month data reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have shown a leveling off in deaths, said Bob Anderson, a CDC senior statistician. However, those numbers are considered preliminary, because investigations have not been completed in all cases. “We may start to see a decline,” Anderson said. “This reminds me of what we saw with HIV in the ’90s.” Final numbers for 2018 won’t be available until the end of this year, and things could also get worse, not better. Although overdose deaths get the most attention, that’s not the only way for users to die. People who inject drugs can get heart infections, HIV and hepatitis C. The risk of infection is higher than the chance of dying from an overdose. Counting all fatal drug overdoses, not just opioids, the CDC puts the number at 70,237 for 2017. WHERE DO THESE DRUGS COME FROM? Many people got started on the path to addiction with painkillers, prescribed by a doctor for treatment of injuries, post-surgical pain or a chronic condition — or purchased illegally from a dealer. Much of the heroin sold in the U.S. comes from Mexico, and the drug is more potent than in the 1970s, during a previous crisis. China is the major source of fentanyl, which is used as an additive in street drugs. The multitude of opioid drugs, the increasing lethality of some and their varied routes to market make the crisis especially challenging. Some effective responses can be surprisingly simple: In a recently reported experiment, doctors were sent a letter from the medical examiner’s office telling them of a patient’s fatal overdose. They responded by prescribing fewer opioids. WHAT HAS THE U.S. GOVERNMENT DONE TO ADDRESS THE CRISIS? Starting under former President Barack Obama, the government has been providing grants to states — to help treat people addicted to opioids and to prevent others from getting hooked. The expansion of the Medicaid health program under Obama’s health care law has also played a role in financing treatment. With the exception of Medicaid expansion — which Trump and the Republican Congress unsuccessfully tried to repeal — the federal response to the opioid crisis has been bipartisan. Various federal agencies are bringing specialized expertise. CDC is closely tracking the epidemic’s toll. NIH is researching pain management and ways to treat addiction. The Agriculture Department is focusing on opioid misuse in rural areas, where treatment resources are scarce. And Veterans Affairs maintains an opioid safety initiative dating to 2013 to help its doctors reduce unnecessary prescriptions. On the enforcement side, drug, cybercrime and money laundering sleuths are targeting major suppliers. In the 1980s, cocaine from Colombia was smuggled via speedboats, and bales of marijuana were flown in on small planes, but now fentanyl from China can be marketed online and shipped by mail. The Food and Drug Administration is deploying more inspectors at international mail facilities to intercept packages of fentanyl. HOW MUCH MONEY IS THE GOVERNMENT DIRECTING TOWARD THE CRISIS? It’s difficult to get a complete and authoritative accounting, since spending is across many agencies and programs. That includes entitlements like Medicaid, that don’t require annual funding approval from Congress, as well as dozens of other programs that do — in addition to specific grants. Experts say the government is spending billions of dollars, there’s no doubt that’s increasing, and it’s still probably not enough. In its last year in office, the Obama administration secured a commitment to expand treatment, and Congress reserved $1 billion for grants to states . Last year, Congress provided another $1 billion to states under a new grant program. The Trump administration recently awarded those grants. That comes on top of nearly $1.9 billion for the government’s main drug treatment, recovery and prevention program, according to the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors. Additional funding is allocated across other agencies and programs. A study sponsored by the nonpartisan Robert Wood Johnson Foundation highlighted Medicaid’s role. It found that the federal-state health program for low-income people covers more than 1 in 3 of those with opioid addiction. Even before Medicaid was expanded, researchers estimated it spent more than $9 billion in 2013 on care for low-income people addicted to opioids. WHAT IS ALL THIS MONEY SPENT ON? States are spending grant money on treatment, overdose antidote kits, recovery support services, training for doctors and public awareness campaigns. The goal is to get more people treated with medications for opioid addiction such as buprenorphine and methadone. There’s solid evidence backing these medications, when they’re used alongside counseling and ongoing support. States have started reporting back to the federal government that thousands of people have entered treatment as a result of grant money, including hundreds of pregnant women. Pennsylvania, for example, says it treated 11,423 people in FY2017, including 86 pregnant women. Michigan says it treated 2,974, including 30 pregnant women. Tennessee: 3,075, including 55 pregnant women. WHAT IMPACT HAS THE OPIOID ANTIDOTE NALOXONE HAD ON THE CRISIS? With little or no training, bystanders can reverse an opioid overdose with a naloxone nasal spray or by injection of the drug. States have handed out thousands of naloxone kits to first responders, schools, family members and drug users themselves. The Health and Human Services department has several programs to help states and communities pay for the antidote, but with overdose deaths still high, it’s tough to say what the impact of naloxone has been. A 2017 working paper, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, suggests laws encouraging naloxone might be having a small effect on reducing fatalities. People dealing with the epidemic say deaths would be even higher without the antidote. PRESIDENT TRUMP APPOINTED A COMMISSION ON OPIOIDS AND DECLARED A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY. HOW MUCH DIFFERENCE HAVE THOSE ACTIONS MADE? Administration officials say they are making headway daily, deploying more resources and sharpening the coordination of government efforts among agencies. Some experts in the field debate the administration’s role. “When you look at the administration’s actions in the wake of that public health emergency, I was not overwhelmed by any of it,” said Rebecca Farley David of the National Council for Behavioral Health, which advocates for organizations that provide addiction treatment. She singled out Trump’s attempt to repeal the Medicaid expansion: “That would have had a devastating impact on people with addictions.” But Jessica Hulsey Nickel, founder of the advocacy group Addiction Policy Forum, said, “Whether you are an `R’ or a `D,’ this administration has made sure every element of the government that has a role to play has been engaged.” Trump’s opioid commission delivered 56 recommendations, including more drug courts, training for doctors and wider use of treatment medications in the criminal justice system. WHAT DO THE EXPERTS SAY ABOUT BRINGING AN END TO THIS CRISIS? In some ways the opioid epidemic is only the latest manifestation of drug problems deeply rooted in American history. Public health experts say one major difference today is that addiction is increasingly recognized by experts and lay people alike as a disease of the brain, not a moral failing. That could open the way for building an infrastructure for what’s called the “continuum of care” — prevention, treatment and recovery. For many people, the road back from addiction is a yearslong journey, and relapse is common. Dr. Deborah Richter, a Vermont physician who treats addiction, says there’s no fixed timetable for pronouncing a patient “cured.” “They’re not ready unless they can say, `I wouldn’t know where to get heroin unless it bit me,”‘ Richter said. HOW DOES TRUMP’S USE OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM TO ADDRESS THE CRISIS COMPARE WITH OTHERS? Getting tough has traditionally been part of the U.S. “war on drugs.” Only recently has the importance of treatment been widely recognized. Former Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton supported the death penalty for drug kingpins in egregious cases. Reagan said that while he thought drug dealers deserved the death penalty, pursuing it could create counterproductive political divisions. Trump has speculated that countries like Singapore have fewer issues with addiction because they mete out harsh justice and has said he wants the Justice Department to seek the “ultimate penalty” when possible. The U.S. drug kingpin law already allows federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty in cases where someone is intentionally killed during a drug deal or in furtherance of a drug enterprise. Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions had vowed to seek the death penalty “wherever appropriate.” Cautionary note: Many judges, prosecutors, crime experts and lawmakers of both parties now see the get-tough approach of the 1980s and 1990s as an overreach that landed too many people in prison with long sentences, especially African-Americans. “While it’s important to make interdiction a priority, we need to make sure we don’t criminalize the disease of addiction,” said Jessica Hulsey Nickel of the Addiction Policy Forum.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726976
__label__cc	0.540953	0.459047	Why did Hazrat Ahmad claim to be different things at different times? Another objection that is raised is why did Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, may peace be upon him, claim to be a Mujaddid, then the Promised Messiah, then the Mahdi, then a Prophet and then many other Prophets etc. Why didn’t he inform his followers that he was all these titles from the beginning, why wait until they had joined his community and then start revealing these claims one after another? Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, may peace be upon him, can only claim something after he has been informed by Allah. He cannot and must not make false claims, especially when they are concerning Allah. Otherwise he will cause the displeasure of Allah and Allah has made it clear that he will not allow anyone to forge and attribute any saying to Him. The Holy Qur’an states: And if he had forged and attributed any saying to us, We would surely have seized him by the right hand, And then surely we would have severed his life-artery, And not one of you could have held us off from him. Holy Qur’an, chapter 69, verses 45-48 We see the example of the Holy Prophet Muhammad, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, that he only claimed to be a Prophet once informed by Allah. If fact he wouldn’t make any real decision without first being informed by Allah. When he wanted to migrate to Medina, he waited until Allah gave him permission, before he set out. Likewise we see the example of John the Baptist, may peace be upon him, who when confronted by the Jews as to whether he was Elijah, he denied it: And he confessed, and denied not, but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they asked him (John) ‘what then? Art thou Elias (Elijah)?’ And he saith ‘I am not.’ Art thou that prophet? And he answered ‘no’. The Holy Bible, John 1, verses 20-21 But later on, when Jesus was asked ‘why then say the scribes that Elias must first come? Jesus responded ‘Elias is come already’…Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist. (St. Matthew 17:10-13). From this we understand that when John was asked, Allah hadn’t informed him that he was the second coming of Elias, therefore he denied it. But later on, Allah had informed Jesus that John the Baptist, may peace be upon him, was indeed the second coming of Elias. Therefore it is only once Allah has informed you, can you then inform others. In March 1882, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, may peace be upon him, received revelations like: God bless thee, O Ahmad…The Gracious God has taught thee the Qur’an so that you should warn the people whose ancestors have not been warned… Proclaim: I have been commissioned and I am the first of the believers… which made him realise that Allah had appointed him as the Mujaddid of the fourteenth century of Islam. At this stage he did not make any specific public claim; his status as the Promised Messiah was yet to be revealed to him in another eight years. However, he did intensify his prayers and worship and devoted all this time towards his writings and preaching the truth and the excellence of Islam. Six years after being appointed as a Reformer, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, may peace be upon him, was commanded by Allah to start taking the Bai’at, the oath of allegiance. He said: I have been commanded that the seekers after truth should enter into covenant of Bai’at with me for the purpose of learning the way of true faith, true purity and the love of the Lord and of discarding an evil, slothful and disloyal life. Announcement on green paper, 1st December 1888 In early 1890, Allah revealed to Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, may peace be upon him, that Jesus Christ had died a natural death and that the belief that he was still alive in heaven is false. Up to this time, he, himself, held the belief that Jesus was physically alive in Heaven, but after studying the Holy Qur’an and Holy Bible, he discovered 30 proofs from each book to support this claim. Upon the realisation that Jesus was dead and would not return, he then started to understand why Allah was referring to him as Jesus (i.e. “We have made thee the Messiah, son of Mary”) and thus announced that he was the Promised Messiah and Mahdi. Therefore it is only after Allah had revealed to him that he was these personages, that he then made the claim. Now concerning the objection that why did he refer to himself to be a reflection of all the Prophets? Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, may peace be upon him, explained his claim of being the manifestation of the prophets and the champion of Allah in the mantles of the prophets. He said: This revelation means that I have been bestowed some portion of the special circumstances or special qualities of all the prophets, peace be upon them, who have appeared from God beginning with Adam till the end, whether they were Israelis by descent or non-Israelis. There has not been a single prophet of whose qualities or circumstances I have not been bestowed a portion… In this there is an indication that many people of this age resemble the bitter enemies and opponents of the prophets,peace be upon them, who had exceeded the limits in their rancour and who were destroyed by various types of torments… There has also been displayed and will be displayed in the future the various types of aid and support which God Almighty had displayed in the case of the previous prophets. Braheen Ahmadiyya, Part V, pg 89 It is clear from this quotation that Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, may peace be upon him, spoke about spiritual qualities and reflection of previous prophets and facing the same sort of opposition as the previous prophets. Again he explained his spiritual likeness with the Holy Prophet, may peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, and said: They are so honoured as God finds them utterly devoted to the Holy Prophet, so much so that they become like a clear mirror for the reflection of those blessings. The praise bestowed on them by Allah and the signs and blessings and effects that are manifested by them in reality belong to the Holy Prophet himself and issue from him. In truth and in its perfection that praise is appropriate only to the Holy Prophet and he is its perfect example, but as he who completely follows the practice of the Holy Prophet becomes a reflection of that illumined personality on account of his complete obedience and utter devotion, the divine lights that are manifested in that holy personality are also exhibited in his reflection. Braheen Ahmadiyya, Part III, pg 242 Previous Topic Ahmadiyyat – its Purpose, Aim and Name Next Topic Why is there division in Ahmadiyyat?	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726977
__label__wiki	0.660717	0.660717	Antonio Felix da Costa joins Sebastien Buemi in Red Bull reserves By Pablo Elizalde Published on Friday December 6th 2013 Antonio Felix da Costa and Sebastien Buemi will form Red Bull's test and reserve drive line-up during the 2014 Formula 1 season, the team announced on Friday. Buemi has occupied the role since the start of the 2012 season, following two seasons racing at Toro Rosso. The Swiss driver, who raced for Toyota in the World Endurance Championship in 2013, is joined by da Costa, who finished in third place in this year's Formula Renault 3.5 series. The Portuguese, who is yet to be placed in a racing series for 2014, recently tested a BMW DTM car. Da Costa had initially been tipped for a Toro Rosso race seat next season, but lost out to Daniil Kvyat. Red Bull team boss Christian Horner said the lifting of F1 test restrictions next year made Buemi and da Costa's roles much more significant. "It's great to be able to announce the signing of Sebastien and Antonio for 2014," said Horner. "Next year sees the biggest change to the Formula 1 regulations for some time and the return of multiple in-season tests. To therefore be able to call on two such capable drivers is of huge benefit to the team. "In Sebastien we have a great resource, a driver with extensive grand prix experience and that will be invaluable. "Antonio, on the other hand, is an up-and-coming talent with whom we already have a good working relationship. I'm sure that his contribution will be just as important during what is sure to be an intensely busy season."	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726981
__label__cc	0.732297	0.267703	Tour of Alberta: A Rookie’s Guide to Bike Racing The Tour of Alberta is the first international cycling event to come to Canada. Starting in Edmonton and going through rural Alberta, professional athletes from more than 20 countries will finish the Tour here in Calgary. Everyone knows this event a big deal, but a nation of hockey-watchers isn’t entirely… The Tour of Alberta is the first international cycling event to come to Canada. Starting in Edmonton and going through rural Alberta, professional athletes from more than 20 countries will finish the Tour here in Calgary. Everyone knows this event a big deal, but a nation of hockey-watchers isn’t entirely sure why. To help Calgarians make sense of the Sunday finish line, we’ve compiled a rookie’s guide to bike racing. How the Race Works In professional cycling, the whole event is broken up into stages. In the Tour of Alberta, the 900 kilometre race is broken up into six stages. Each stage is more than 150km – the longest stage is 185km when riders race from Devon to Red Deer. Athletes will ride each stage at a pace of 40 kilometres per hour. That’s an impressive pace: keep in mind that most of Calgary’s bike paths cap speed at 15km/h. Understanding the Commentators The key to understanding a bike race is making sense of what the commentators are talking about. Spectators will rely on these commentators. Watching a bike race on the ground isn’t dissimilar from watching F1. You’ll only see the athletes for a few seconds before they’re gone. To make the most of the event, make sure you know what pelotons are (the main pack of cyclists), where the sprint zones lie (specific areas where cyclists sprint against each other for points) and what drafting means (riding closely behind someone else so they break the wind, saving the rider energy). What Those Coloured Jerseys Mean Throughout the Tour of Alberta, different coloured jerseys will be awarded. In this event, like in the Tour de France, the overall leader of the race is awarded the yellow jersey. The green jersey will be awarded to the best sprinter (which is calculated by the number of sprint points accumulated) and the white jersey will be given to the fastest rider who is under 24 years old. The very fashionable pink polka dot jersey is hard to win: this is the King of the Mountain jersey, awarded to the fastest hill climber. Unique to this event is the red jersey, given to the best Canadian athlete. Why the Tour of Alberta is a Big Deal While road racing might not (yet) be as popular as hockey or football, this event is a big deal. Not only is it the first ever international cycling event to come to Canada, but it’s expected to draw more than 350 million viewers from all over the world. From Edmonton to Calgary, 250,000 roadside fans will be cheering the world’s 144 best cyclists. Some of the professional athletes this event has attracted include 2011 Tour de France winner Cadel Evans and Canada’s very own Ryder Hesjedal. It’s different from watching a hockey game or going to McMahon to support the Stampeders, but the Tour of Alberta is about to put road racing on Alberta’s radar. The Tour of Alberta ends in Calgary on September 8. For this stage, racers start in Okotoks at 3 p.m.. They enter Calgary on Highway 8 before going north on Crowchild Trail, along the Bow River and into downtown, ending around Eau Claire. Until then, you can watch the tour on Sportsnet or download the Tour of Alberta app.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726982
__label__wiki	0.925635	0.925635	Belaruskaya Dumka magazine hailed for great contribution to Belarusian statehood MINSK, 24 May (BelTA) – The Belaruskaya Dumka Magazine has been contributing to the Belarusian statehood since its very foundation, First Deputy Head of the Belarus President Administration Maksim Ryzhenkov said at the event to celebrate the 95th anniversary of the socio-political and popular science magazine Belaruskaya Dumka, BelTA has learned. “The Belarusian sovereign state has celebrated 25 years, and Belaruskaya Dumka is turning 95. Throughout its history, this publication has been building the foundation of the Belarusian statehood, promoting cultural and scientific journalism,” Maksim Ryzhenkov said. The editorial office has always had talented journalists and writers who have been working hard to give the magazine a modern feel, Maksim Ryzhenkov said. Despite the abundance of periodicals and media outlets, the magazine firmly holds its position as the most respected publication which gives voice to young budding scientists, he said. Maksim Ryzhenkov read out the greetings from Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to the editorial office of the magazine. The socio-political and popular science magazine Belaruskaya Dumka turned 95 on 6 May. The starting point of its history was 6 May 1922 when the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the BSSR adopted a decree on the theoretical and political journal Vperyod in Minsk. As evidenced by the archival materials, that magazine had just 11 issues which received positive feedback on the pages of the Moscow journal “Krasnaya Pechat”. The magazine boasts a rich history. Its contemporary history started in November 1991 when Belaruskaya Dumka was registered as a magazine of the research institute of the Belarusian Economy Ministry. The magazine received further support. On 9 November 1995 the President Administration became the founder of the magazine. In 1996 the magazine acquired the status of a scientific, theoretic and general interest publication, well-known among scientists and creators. After making part of BelTA news agency in 2007, the magazine has preserved its consistency and traditions and continued to cover the most relevant issues of the country. Today, the magazine is a scientific publication, recommended by the supreme certification commission for publishing the results of research in philosophy, history, politics, philology, economics, and sociology. The magazine discusses the ways of further improvement of the Belarusian development model and also works out recommendations for addressing the country’s most pressing economic and social issues. The magazine is a many-time winner of the national print media competition Zolotaya Litera (Golden Letter).	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726984
__label__wiki	0.746549	0.746549	Chelsea Flower show: Co Down man uses peas process to scoop gold Visitors at the David Austin Roses display during the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. Jonathan Brady/PA Wire The Cherub HIV Garden: A Life Without Walls at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 22, 2018. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire The Silent Pool Gin garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 22, 2018. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire The Urban Flow garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 22, 2018. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire The Pearlfisher garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 22, 2018. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire The Skin Deep garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 22, 2018. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire The Wedgwood garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 22, 2018. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire The Seedlip Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 22, 2018. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire The Lemon Tree Trust garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 22, 2018. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire The M&G garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 22, 2018. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire The Myeloma UK garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 22, 2018. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire The VTB Capital Garden - Spirit of Cornwall at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 22, 2018. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire The New West End garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 22, 2018. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire The LG Eco City Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 22, 2018. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire The Morgan Stanley Garden for the NSPCC at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 22, 2018. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire The Wuhan Water Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 22, 2018. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire The Trailfinders South African Wine Estate garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 22, 2018. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire The David Harber and Savills Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 22, 2018. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire Visitors at the David Austin Roses display during the RHS Chelsea Flower Show at the Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Tuesday May 22, 2018. Photo credit should read: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 21: A large flower shaped floral display outside a shop during the Chelsea in Bloom floral art show on May 21, 2018 in London, England. This year is the 13th Chelsea in Bloom and the theme is 'Summer of Love', inspired by the Royal Wedding and the 1960's/70's cultural revolution. The floral show is also a competition that is entered by various Chelsea retailers, restaurants and hotels with entries being judged by an expert panel. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images) LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 21: A woman takes photos of a floral display outside a clothing shop during the Chelsea in Bloom floral art show on May 21, 2018 in London, England. This year is the 13th Chelsea in Bloom and the theme is 'Summer of Love', inspired by the Royal Wedding and the 1960's/70's cultural revolution. The floral show is also a competition that is entered by various Chelsea retailers, restaurants and hotels with entries being judged by an expert panel. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images) LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 21: A large Volkswagen logo shaped floral display outside a shop during the Chelsea in Bloom floral art show on May 21, 2018 in London, England. This year is the 13th Chelsea in Bloom and the theme is 'Summer of Love', inspired by the Royal Wedding and the 1960's/70's cultural revolution. The floral show is also a competition that is entered by various Chelsea retailers, restaurants and hotels with entries being judged by an expert panel. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images) LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 21: A heart shaped floral display in a shop window during the Chelsea in Bloom floral art show on May 21, 2018 in London, England. This year is the 13th Chelsea in Bloom and the theme is 'Summer of Love', inspired by the Royal Wedding and the 1960's/70's cultural revolution. The floral show is also a competition that is entered by various Chelsea retailers, restaurants and hotels with entries being judged by an expert panel. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images) LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 21: Heart shaped floral display in a jewellery shop window during the Chelsea in Bloom floral art show on May 21, 2018 in London, England. This year is the 13th Chelsea in Bloom and the theme is 'Summer of Love', inspired by the Royal Wedding and the 1960's/70's cultural revolution. The floral show is also a competition that is entered by various Chelsea retailers, restaurants and hotels with entries being judged by an expert panel. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images) LONDON, ENGLAND - MAY 21: Flowers amongst a large floral display outside a shop during the Chelsea in Bloom floral art show on May 21, 2018 in London, England. This year is the 13th Chelsea in Bloom and the theme is 'Summer of Love', inspired by the Royal Wedding and the 1960's/70's cultural revolution. The floral show is also a competition that is entered by various Chelsea retailers, restaurants and hotels with entries being judged by an expert panel. (Photo by Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images) Britain's Queen Elizabeth II looks at a display of roses on the Peter Beale stand as she visits the 2018 Chelsea Flower Show in London on May 21, 2018. The Chelsea flower show, held annually in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, opens to the public on May 22. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / RICHARD POHLERICHARD POHLE/AFP/Getty Images Britain's Queen Elizabeth II (R) is presented with a Chinese silk scarf depicting two whales after she looked at the Chinese show garden at the 2018 Chelsea Flower Show in London on May 21, 2018. The Chelsea flower show, held annually in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, opens to the public on May 22. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / RICHARD POHLERICHARD POHLE/AFP/Getty Images TOPSHOT - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II looks at a display of roses on the Peter Beale stand as she visits the 2018 Chelsea Flower Show in London on May 21, 2018. The Chelsea flower show, held annually in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, opens to the public on May 22. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / RICHARD POHLERICHARD POHLE/AFP/Getty Images TOPSHOT - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II visits the 2018 Chelsea Flower Show in London on May 21, 2018. The Chelsea flower show, held annually in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, opens to the public on May 22. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Chris JacksonCHRIS JACKSON/AFP/Getty Images By Allan Preston Twitter Email A Co Down landscaper who built a gold medal-winning garden at the Chelsea Flower Show says he's thrilled by the success. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/chelsea-flower-show-co-down-man-uses-peas-process-to-scoop-gold-36944112.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/article36944111.ece/5d799/AUTOCROP/h342/2018-05-25_new_41228608_I2.JPG Aaron Jamison from Crossgar started his own business Lawn & Border six years ago. The Seedlip Garden, designed by Catherine MacDonald and celebrating the humble pea, won the 'Space to Grow' category at the show. "I'd previously built a design for Catherine at the Chelsea Flower Show back in 2016 and was asked back again," said the 24-year-old. Starting on May 4, Aaron and his team worked up until last Sunday, doing 15-hour shifts to complete their intricate work. On bringing home the gold, the Greenmount College graduate said: "It's a real privilege because it's the highest accolade you can get in the agricultural world to say you were part of that team. I can't believe it. "It was celebrating the garden pea, so the whole garden featured a lot of green circles with pea plants everywhere, including on the roof of the metal 'peavilion' as well." He added that concentrating on every detail of the design put the team out in front. "I think it just hit every mark the judges were looking for, so you can't go wrong with that," he said. "We did everything to the highest standard. Catherine's design had things like pea plants in the grilles between the path and crushed green granite between paving slabs, which all added to the effect. I started my company when I was 18, so this isn't bad going. "It's a great thing to tell clients, but at the moment I think it still impresses people a bit more in England than Northern Ireland." Dr MacDonald, who has a PhD in genetics, told the Daily Telegraph there was more to peas than meets the eye. She said: "We're championing three pea pioneers from three centuries: geneticist Gregor Mendel, who crossed more than 28,000 pea plants in the 19th century; Dr Calvin Lamborn, who bred the first sugar snap and passed away in August last year, and finally Seedlip's Ben Branson, who's taking the pea forward by distilling it into his non-alcoholic spirits." The 'peavilion' was constructed by welding green aluminium tubing together. "When I first saw the metalwork it made me feel a little bit emotional. It exceeded my expectations," she added. From left: Will Gadd, Aaron Jamison, Dr Catherine MacDonald and Simon Ginger The garden built by Aaron and his team for the Chelsea Flower Show	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726985
__label__wiki	0.744404	0.744404	Photographers explain how they got those stunning royal wedding shots Butterflies and nerves of steel were behind the images shared and seen by millions across the globe. Pictures from the royal wedding were beamed around the world and seen by millions. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/photographers-explain-how-they-got-those-stunning-royal-wedding-shots-36930344.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/article36930335.ece/28274/AUTOCROP/h342/bpanews_27f31766-b82f-4375-a02b-5ca449dcd9e4_1 Some of the day’s best images notched up tens of thousands of shares online, with royal-watchers scouring for the must-see moments that told a story in their own right. Some 22 photographers covered the royal wedding for the Press Association with images from the UK news and picture agency filling newspapers and websites across the globe. Here, the people behind the lenses give an insight into how they captured the shots. – Danny Lawson, 39, whose images were on the front of the Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph and the New York Times, was positioned in an organ loft inside St George’s Chapel for the ceremony and captured Meghan bathed in light walking down the aisle. Meghan walks down the aisle lit by shafts of light (Danny Lawson/PA) He said: “It was one that could have been a ‘nothing picture’ of her just walking down the aisle. But the light was just so fantastic it’s given the picture a much longer life than it would’ve had. “Shafts of light were coming in through the windows and I had to make a decision: do I shoot her through light or shadows? I went for the light to get a more contrasting image and it turned out to be the right decision.” The photographer, from Rochdale, who has worked at the PA for more than a decade, also got “the kiss” from inside the same position inside church. He said: “I was in an organ loft maybe two metres high and I shot the kiss picture from there as well, I didn’t move. I used a massive powerful zoom lens and got it from inside. “It happened so quickly. If they delayed or waited for the crowd I might not have got it, so for me it was perfect. “You’ve got to have a healthy professionalism for how important the job is. I was in position at 7am checking all the equipment, making sure everything would work. Ultimately I gave it the respect it needed.” – Yui Mok snapped one of the most talked-about images of the day from the roof of the George IV Gateway of Windsor Castle, with the couple passing beneath him during their carriage procession. Prince Harry and Meghan ride in an Ascot Landau along the Long Walk (Yui Mok/PA) The 47-year-old PA photographer of almost two decades, said: “I had less than a one-second window to take that particular shot – whilst having to focus through a metal grill I was standing over – so was happy to get anything really! “I actually took way less photos than I do on a major job. I’m glad so many people like it. It was a long day but that’s the nature of our job, waiting around for hours sometimes for mere seconds of shooting.” Yikes, I've never been a 'Twitter Moment' before! ⚡️ “Royal wedding photographer explains the origins of his unique photo”https://t.co/BDYkSXLK1M — Yui Mok (@YuiMok) May 20, 2018 – Steve Parsons, 36, caught the couple in their evening wear as they left Windsor Castle for their reception at Frogmore House – Harry dapper in black tie and Meghan resplendent in a Stella McCartney gown. The newly married Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry leave Windsor Castle to attend an evening reception at Frogmore House (Steve Parsons/PA) He said: “It happened so fast and I was the only photographer so there was no second chance. “It was around 7.30 at night and the end of a long day and the light was changing as well. You’re on a buzz when you’re getting good coverage for your pictures, on the adrenaline of not making a mistake. “When the adrenaline leaves you can feel it, you get tired. It was a pleasure to be part of such a great team of photographers.” – Owen Humphreys, 45, was inside the organ loft with Mr Lawson, but was the only person facing the altar. He captured Meghan glancing over her shoulder in the chapel, her veil slightly across her face. Meghan Markle glances over her shoulder in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle (Owen Humphreys/PA) The PA photographer for 21 years said: “I had to use silent cameras so as not to disturb everyone. “There’s a lot of pictures of Meghan smiling but I thought the way she turned round here she looked so elegant and beautiful and natural. “The veil sort of makes it in a way, she looks very composed. It was just a small part of a great team effort though.” – Andy Matthews, 36, was positioned on the Garter Tower roof outside St George’s Chapel, capturing an image of Meghan’s veil train covering the steps. Meghan's veil train covers the steps (Andy Matthews/PA) He said: “I was on a tight shot for the kiss and when she was walking down the steps I saw the veil train was long behind her so I switched lenses for a wide shot. “There were some chimneys in the way so I had to zoom in, but I like the image. It makes the eye go around the picture as it’s so long.” – Jonathan Brady, 43, had a remote camera inside the chapel which caught an exit shot of the newly married couple. He said: “It was taken remotely from a camera rigged up a few days beforehand. “I only had to press a button from a computer, but it was quite tense and surreal sitting in this little room in your own little world. “You have to be on the ball, it wasn’t nerves exactly but some butterflies in the stomach keeps you on your toes.”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726986
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__label__cc	0.709908	0.290092	Left to their own devices: children’s social media and mental health Using the internet and social media is an important part of life for children and young people It can be a positive opportunity to learn, to connect with friends and family and to have fun. However, internet use can also expose children to dangers, such as cyberbullying, online grooming and sexual abuse. At the same time, mental health conditions are on the rise with recent data showing that 1 in 8 children and young people between ages 5-19 in England have a mental health problem. We support 32,200 children, young people, parents and carers through specialist mental health services. Many of the children in our 1000+ services in the UK have suffered trauma and experience poor mental health. You can get support from groups on Facebook, it can be quite a respectful place. When I did my CBT we had a support group and it’s like completely private and no one can see what anyone posts on it and we can write messages. Young person To find out more about the effects of social media on children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing, we gathered insight from 80 practitioners across more than 30 Barnardo’s services in the UK. Half of these practitioners responding said they had worked with children aged five to 10 who had been exposed to unsuitable or harmful materials online, and more than one third said children in that age group had been victims of cyberbullying. When it comes to 11-15 year olds, 79% of practitioners responding said children they work with have experienced cyberbullying. Some practitioners highlighted that cyberbullying had led to self-harm and suicide. 78% of practitioners responding also said they had worked with children in this age group who had been groomed online and 78% also said they'd worked with children in this age group who had accessed unsuitable/harmful content. I had to delete Snapchat as I was getting bullied on it, people at my school were sending me death threats. Grace's story Grace’s experience of online bullying and poor mental health Shiloh's story Shiloh’s use of social media What needs to happen next? At the moment, not enough is known about the impact of social media on the most vulnerable children in the UK. We’re calling on the Government to commission more research on the impact of social media to help establish a solid evidence base. This research should specifically include the experience of vulnerable children and young people. The Government should ensure that all children and young people are able to access education and guidance on social media use. Advice should also be available for professionals, parents and carers. A proportion of future funding for the NHS (as detailed in the NHS 10 Year Plan) should be used to deliver mental health support in all schools. Regulating the internet The Government should make the internet safe for children, including the most vulnerable - by introducing duties on tech companies and specific guidance on dangers like cyber-bullying. You can read the full report below. Left to their own devices: children's social media and mental health.pdf Left to their own devices - executive summary.pdf	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726988
__label__wiki	0.996531	0.996531	October 3, 1983 (age 35) Tessa Thompson Biography Tessa Thompson is an American film and TV actress who is best known for her roles in 'Veronica Mars,' 'Creed,' 'Thor: Ragnarok' and HBO's 'Westworld.' Who Is Tessa Thompson? Born in 1983, Tessa Thompson is an American film and TV actress who's played characters as diverse as her background. Originating from African, Panamanian, Mexican and European descent, Thompson has been able to avoid being typecast — playing anything from compassionate protagonist to ruthless antagonist to wild, untethered superhero. She became better known to mainstream film audiences in 2015's Rocky spin-off Creed, followed by the superhero flick Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and the sci-fi horror film Annihilation (2018). On the small screen, she made an early splash as Jackie Cook in Veronica Mars in 2005, and made an even bigger impression as the cutthroat Charlotte Hale on HBO's Westworld, which premiered in 2016. Tessa Thompson attends the 2018 MTV Movie And TV Awards at Barker Hangar on June 16, 2018 in Santa Monica, California. (Photo: Axelle_Bauer-Griffin_FilmMagic) 'For Colored Girls,' 'Selma,' 'Creed' Thompson began appearing in films in 2006, but she landed one of her more prominent roles in Tyler Perry's film adaptation For Colored Girls in 2010, playing Nyla Adrose (aka Lady in Purple). From there she would appear in 2014's award-winning dramedy Dear White People (which would later become adapted into a Netflix series) and in Ava Duvernay's historical drama Selma (2014), playing Civil Rights Movement activist Diane Nash. The following year, the actress starred in the Rocky spin-off and sequel Creed (2015), as a chanteuse and love interest of Michael B. Jordan's character. She returned for Creed II in 2018. 'Thor: Ragnarok' Thompson dove into more edgy and otherworldly fare as the beer-guzzling fictional superhero Valkyrie in Thor: Ragnarok (2017). Unlike the original superhero's Norse mythological roots, Thompson was able to reinvent Valkyrie as a woman of color and make the character her own. Discussing the changes to her Marvel character, Thompson had this to say during an interview with CBR.com: "We had lots of conversations about diversity and inclusion. It shouldn’t all be rhetorical. I think it’s important the films that we make reflect the times that we live in, to realize that big movies have the power to also shift culture. I think it’s really great that young comic book readers that look like me can see themselves in a film. I think it’s about time." 'Annihilation,' 'Sorry to Bother You,' 'Men In Black: International' In 2018, Thompson continued delving into the world of fantasy, but this time in the sci-fi horror genre Annihilation, which also starred an all-female led cast including Natalie Portman, Gina Rodriquez and Jennifer Jason Leigh. That same year, she also starred in the sci-fi comedy Sorry to Bother You, opposite Get Out actor Lakeith Stanfield. Thompson then teamed up with Ragnarok co-star Chris Hemsworth for more sci-fi action in Men in Black: International (2019). 'Veronica Mars' From 2005 to 2006, Thompson played a major role in the second season of the CW's Veronica Mars as Jackie Cook, the love interest of Wallace Fennel. Despite the show's fans not receiving her character well, it brought Thompson into the spotlight and helped her become more conscientious of pursuing multi-dimensional roles. "The fan reaction was intense, because Jackie was not very pleasant to Veronica, and of course she’s our hero," Thompson told Vanity Fair in 2017. "I think the writers, in an attempt to redeem Jackie and also make a compelling case for me to stick around, wanted to kind of soften her. As a result, she had a really fascinating character arc." She added: "Veronica Mars definitely primed me to look for surprising, dynamic women. It took me awhile to realize how cool that job was." After Veronica Mars, Thompson continued to appear in other major television shows like Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Heroes and Detroit 1-8-7. From 2012 to 2013, Thompson had a recurring role in ABC's supernatural drama 666 Park Avenue and played the main character Sara Freeman in the BBC's original period drama Copper. 'Westworld' As Thompson's star continued to rise, most notably on the big screen, her television roles also became more impressive: In 2016, she began playing the merciless board director Charlotte Hale in HBO's hit sci-fi drama Westworld. "With Hale, I really relinquish myself of any sort of responsibility to make her likable," Thompson confessed about her character. "I feel like so often with men in a professional space, it’s not about being liked. It’s about being respected." Relationship with Janelle Monáe In June 2018, Thompson publicly announced that she was bisexual. “I can take things for granted because of my family – it’s so free and you can be anything that you want to be," she told PorterEdit. "I’m attracted to men and also to women. If I bring a woman home, [or] a man, we don’t even have to have the discussion.” She has also opened about her relationship with pop singer Janelle Monáe. “We love each other deeply,” she said. “We’re so close, we vibrate on the same frequency. If people want to speculate about what we are, that’s okay. It doesn’t bother me.” Tessa Lynn Thompson was born on October 3, 1983 in Los Angeles. Her African-Panamanian father, Marc, is a singer/songwriter for a musical collective, while her mother comes from Mexican-European descent. Thompson's parents split up when she was a toddler, and she divided her time between Los Angeles and New York, where her father resided. Thompson also has a sister. Thompson graduated from Santa Monica College with a degree in cultural anthropology. https://www.biography.com/actor/tessa-thompson Lindsay Greenbush Along with her identical twin, Lindsay Greenbush alternated in the role of Carrie Ingalls on "Little House on the Prairie" from 1974 to 1982. Constance Wu is an American TV and film actress best known for her role as Jessica Huang on ABC's 'Fresh Off the Boat' and as the female lead in 'Crazy Rich Asians.' Gina Rodriguez is an American actress who is best known for her titular role on The CW's 'Jane the Virgin,' for which she won a Golden Globe in 2015. Jodie Foster is an award-winning American actress best known for her roles in the films Taxi Driver, The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs. American actress Elisabeth Moss is known for her roles on the TV series 'The West Wing,' 'Mad Men' and 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Counterculture icon Hunter S. Thompson was an American journalist best known for writing 1971's 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' and creating 'Gonzo journalism.' Tracee Ellis Ross is an American actress known for roles on such TV shows as 'Girlfriends' and 'Black-ish.' Tiffany Haddish is a comedian, actress and author who received critical acclaim for her role in the ensemble black female comedy film 'Girls Trip' in 2017. Brazilian-American actress Camila Mendes is most famous for her role as Veronica Lodge on The CW's teen drama 'Riverdale.'	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726991
__label__wiki	0.983044	0.983044	Seward Park High School, New School for Social Research The Bronx, New York Anthony Curtis Bernard Schwartz “My longevity is due to my good timing.”“Where there is no art show, I would still be painting.” Tony Curtis Biography From 'Some Like It Hot' to 'The Defiant Ones,' Tony Curtis was the reigning Hollywood heartthrob of the 1950s. He's also known as actress Jamie Lee Curtis's dad. Born in New York on June 3, 1925, Tony Curtis's piercing blue eyes and good looks gained him a great deal of attention at a young age. After enlisting in the U.S. Navy and serving in World War II, the aspiring actor moved to Hollywood, California. His career took off following his high-profile marriage to Janet Leigh in 1951, which produced daughters Kelly Lee and Jamie Lee Curtis. In the late 1950s and '60s, Curtis starred in films like Houdini, Operation Petticoat, Some Like It Hot, The Defiant Ones and Spartacus. He later appeared in a variety of low-profile films and on various television shows. He died of cardiac arrest on September 30, 2010, in Henderson, Nevada. Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz on June 3, 1925, in the Bronx, New York, to Hungarian Jewish immigrants Helen and Emanuel Schwartz. Curtis's father owned a tailor shop, and he and his family lived behind the business in a cramped apartment. His parents slept in one room, and Curtis shared the other with his two brothers, Julius and Robert. Curtis's mother suffered from schizophrenia, and often beat the boys. In 1933, during the economic struggles of the Great Depression, Curtis's parents could no longer care for the boys financially. Tony and Julius were placed in a state institution, where the boys were frequently involved in conflicts with anti-Semitic youngsters who often threw stones and started fistfights with the brothers. In 1938, Julius was hit by a truck and killed. He was 12 years old. Shaken by the loss, Curtis was determined to make a better life for himself and began attending Seward Park High School on Manhattan's Lower East Side. After graduation, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving in World War II aboard the submarine U.S.S. Proteus. Following his honorable discharge from the military, Curtis began acting lessons in New York at the New School for Social Research, where his classmates included fellow Seward Park alumnus Walter Matthau. Tony Curtis's boyish good looks helped him to land a contract with Universal Pictures in 1948. During this time, he settled on the name Anthony Curtis, and began a series of small movie roles, including Criss Cross (1949), Francis (1950) and No Room for the Groom (1952). Thanks in large part to his high-profile marriage to Hollywood beauty Janet Leigh in 1951, Curtis went on to star in a string of successful roles in the late 1950s and '60s, including Houdini (1953), in which Leigh was his co-star. Other films include the military comedy Operation Petticoat (1959); the famed romantic comedy Some Like It Hot, with co-star Marilyn Monroe; and the Stanley Kubrick historical epic Spartacus (1960) which he co-starred along with Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier. The star's career all but collapsed in 1962, however, when he divorced Janet Leigh after having an affair with 17-year-old German actress Christine Kaufmann. By then, he and Leigh had two children: Kelly Lee and Jamie Lee Curtis. Curtis and Kaufmann married in 1963 and divorced in 1967. Shortly thereafter, in 1968, the actor married 23-year-old model Leslie Allen. Following their 1982 divorce, he would have three more marriages—to Andrea Savio (1984-1992), Lisa Deutsch (1993-1994) and Jill Vandenberg (from 1998 until his death in 2010). In addition to six different marriages, Curtis engaged in several high-profile romances with icons such as Marilyn Monroe and Natalie Wood. By the 1970s, Curtis was struggling with an addiction to alcohol and drugs. In his later career, he appeared in a variety of low-profile films and on various TV shows, but eventually headed to rehab in 1982 and reinvented himself as a fine art painter. He also wrote published two autobiographies during this time: Tony Curtis: The Autobiography (1994) and American Prince: A Memoir. In 2002, he toured in a musical adaptation of Some Like It Hot. His final film was David & Fatima (2008). By then he was struggling with frequent health issues, which included heart bypass surgery in 1994 and a recurring battle with obstructive pulmonary disease. Tony Curtis died on September 30, 2010, at the age of 85, in Henderson, Nevada, of cardiac arrest. He was survived by his sixth wife, Jill VandenBerg; his two daughters with Janet Leigh, Kelly Lee and Jamie Lee; two daughters with Christine Kaufmann, Alexandra and Allegra; and a son, Benjamin, with Leslie Allen. https://www.biography.com/actor/tony-curtis Tito Puente was a musical pioneer, mixing musical styles with Latin sounds and experimenting in fusing Latin music with jazz. Tony Spilotro Tony Spilotro is best known as a ruthless Chicago mob representative in Las Vegas from the 1970s to the '80s. He was brutally beaten and murdered by other mobsters in 1986. Toni Morrison is a Nobel Prize- and Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Among her best known novels are 'The Bluest Eye,' 'Song of Solomon,' 'Beloved' and 'A Mercy.' Toni Braxton is an R&B singer-songwriter and actress best known for the hits "Un-Break My Heart," "You Mean the World to Me" and "Breathe Again." Toni Collette is an Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning Australian actress. Bobby Darin was an American singer, songwriter and actor who became a ubiquitous presence in pop entertainment in the late 1950s and 1960s. Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane is best known for his roles such as Hagrid the Giant in the Harry Potter series and Mr. Hyde in Van Helsing. Former congressman Charlie Wilson helped fund Afghanistan's resistance to the Soviet Union. His story was told in the book and film Charlie Wilson's War. Corey Haim Corey Haim was a Canadian actor who was a teen hearthrob in the 1980s (often paired with Corey Feldman). He battled addiction as an adult and died of natural causes in 2010.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726992
__label__wiki	0.952074	0.952074	Meet Storyfort Director and Boise State Graduate Christian Winn Christian Winn, co-founder and director of Treefort’s Storyfort. Christian Winn, a 2003 graduate of Boise State’s MFA program in creative writing, has become both an unofficial and official Idaho ambassador of the literary arts since he left campus nearly two decades ago. Winn was one of the founding members of Storyfort, the literary branch of the Treefort music festival. In the six years it’s been around, Storyfort has grown from a dozen or so events in a downtown Boise storefront to more than 50 events this year, including appearances by national literary luminaries and a full cast of talented local writers. “We bring voices to the festival that might not get celebrated at a music festival,” said Winn. That includes slam poets, civil rights lawyers, refugees and bartenders. Outside of Storyfort, Winn has put in his time as a poet, a journalist and a fiction writer. He is the author of two short story collections, “Naked Me” and “What’s Wrong With You is What’s Wrong With Me.” He has written a new collection of short stories, as well as a novel he’s preparing to send to his agent as soon as Storyfort wraps up. Winn also has a new novel in the works. The Idaho Commission on the Arts (ICA) has recognized Winn’s talents, naming him Idaho Writer in Residence, a three-year appointment whose mission is bringing literature and the arts to underserved communities. Winn, who has deep family roots in Idaho, has traveled the state through the ICA program organizing lit-centric events. He also has taught writing at Boise State and at The Cabin, Boise’s local literary nonprofit. Winn’s community work includes producing the Campfire Stories readings series at The Modern Hotel and Bar and the Couch Surfer Series with Radio Boise. Working to make Boise and Idaho into literary territory, “has snowballed in a way that’s been great,” Winn said. “I’m always working on new stuff. I’m kind of like a shark. I have to keep moving.” Christian Winn: Ambassador of Idaho Literary Arts	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1726998
__label__cc	0.69621	0.30379	Primary School Winner has a ‘splashing’ time at the MAC Holywood pupil, Danny Hanna (age 9) has been announced as the overall winner of the MAC’s 6th annual ‘Masterpiece for the MAC’ primary school art competition. Danny’s artwork, My Cool Pool, was inspired by world-renowned artist David Hockney’s splash pool series, which was featured in MAC exhibition I draw, I do in 2016. The lucky P6 pupil had the chance to see his winning artwork exhibited in the MAC last week. Danny also won an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the MAC and a special creative workshop for his whole class to enjoy. The winning artwork was chosen from over 1200 entries by primary school children across Northern Ireland. The response from primary school children has been overwhelming with 12 winning masterpieces selected in the sixth year of the Northern Ireland-wide competition. Danny, a P6 pupil from Holywood Primary School was inspired to create the winning piece after his class visited the David Hockney exhibition I draw, I do at the MAC in September 2016. When speaking about his work, Danny said “When I grow up, I would like my house to be like this.” All 12 winning masterpieces are currently framed and displayed in the MAC – the Masterpiece for the MAC exhibition is now open to the public. Clare Lawlor, Learning and Participation Officer at the MAC, said: “The MAC is committed to the pursuit of excellence in all forms of art and encouraging young talent is a vital part of our work and we are delighted with the response which saw a great number of entries from all over Northern Ireland.” “The quality of the entries in this year’s competition has hugely impressed us and we would like to congratulate all the winners on their success in a very competitive year. It is inspiring to see so many young children get more involved and more creative with their school art activities.” The Masterpiece for the MAC exhibition will run until 30 April.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727000
__label__wiki	0.623596	0.623596	Investigative Feature Battleground States Workshop: Raising Children Who Love America Commentary: Mass Immigration and Climate Change Doublethink February 11, 2019 February 10, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff by Quentin Borges-Silva Doublethink, as articulated by George Orwell in 1984, “means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” Unfortunately, the modern left takes Orwell’s book not as the warning it was intended to be, but as an instruction manual. Perhaps nowhere else is doublethink more readily apparent than in the absurdly conflicted intersection of leftist environmentalism – think of it as ecological conservation with a pagan streak – and support for mass immigration. Climate change true believers have perfect faith in the notion that the human contribution of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere is the primary driver of global warming, and that only by drastically reducing that contribution can we avoid apocalyptic climate tragedy on a global scale. But when a grand imam of the Climate Change faith, Michael Mann, is called “A Disgrace to the Profession” and many other unflattering things by dozens of his equally credentialed peers, perhaps they are onto something. When recipients of tens of millions of dollars in federal climate research grants ask the Department of Justice to arrest, prosecute, and imprison those who question their data quality, analysis, and conclusions, it’s a fair bet they’re up to something, but whatever it is, it’s not science. The peer review process has been a disaster for a long time. It would not be improved by deep state prosecutors going after scientific peers who are more interested in homing in on the truth than in advancing a political agenda. Climate change skepticism should also be informed by headlines proclaiming that a particular year was the Hottest in Recorded History. That headline piqued my interest, but my willingness to believe was affected when I later learned that the “hottest year ever” part was based on a statistical analysis that was less robust than a coin toss. But setting all that aside, let’s stipulate purely for the sake of discussion that Anthropogenic Climate Change theory is true. Just for the sake of debate, let’s agree (for now) with the warm-mongers that climate change, specifically, global warming, will wreak havoc on agriculture, lead to millions getting sick, have devastating impacts on the economy, cause tens of thousands of people to commit suicide and otherwise die if we don’t act now. That would be awful. Only real monsters would want that! Now, having stipulated the veracity of climate change theory, we can finally begin drilling into its nexus with U.S. population growth, which since the 1970s has been driven primarily by legal and illegal immigration. According to the World Bank, the United States is ranked 15th in annual CO2 emissions, with 16.5 metric tons per capita. Some nerds over at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology broke the data down even further, concluding that “even the people [in America] with the lowest usage of energy are still producing, on average, more than double the global per-capita average” of CO2. If the most progressive, mass transit-riding, fair trade soy latte-sipping person of the left is contributing such an obnoxiously privileged amount of carbon to the atmosphere and turbocharging climate change (murderer!), what might we expect of recent arrivals from Central and South America or African refugees? The same World Bank data tells us that Hondurans in Honduras produce only 1.1 metric tons of CO2. Guatemalans in their home land produce 1.2, and Mexicans come in at 3.9. Germans in Deutschland produce 8.9 metric tons, the Japanese produce 9.5, and even our friends to the north come in lower than the U.S. with 15.1 metric tons of CO2 per Canuck. For true believers in the environmentalist faith, especially the elitists who saw a decrease in U.S. CO2 emissions due to the recession as proof their de-industrializing policy preferences work, Pakistanis in their native land are to be exalted for their paltry climate footprint of only .9 metric tons per capita. But the most noble of all are perhaps Somalis in Somalia, who manage to get by and live presumably fulfilling lives while producing only 0.05 metric tons of carbon dioxide per person per year. Alas, while immigrant and refugee cultural assimilation is a notion championed only by bigots, racists, and other deplorables these days, the fact of the matter is that newcomers to America, Pakistanis and Somalis, for example, quickly adapt to our energy rich ways. The doublethink problem for true believers in climate change and open borders becomes apparent when you consider that letting anybody from those countries into the United States inevitably results in higher carbon releases than if they’d stayed in their homelands. Letting in a Canadian doesn’t add that much since our per capita releases are already similar, but the average German immigrant would double his CO2 output upon reaching these shores. Each Mexican immigrant quadruples what she would have produced if she’d stayed home. The Central Americans produce 16x as much, on average, after coming to the United States, and Somali refugees produce a whopping 366 times as much CO2 after coming to America than they would have done if they’d stayed home and worked things out there. As a [stipulated] believer in Anthropogenic Climate Change who is not under the spell of doublethink, I must conclude that global warming is made worse with each new immigrant to the United States. Immigration must, therefore, be halted immediately. Yet the Left insists it is immoral to build walls that would drastically cut illegal immigration, and for decades they have opposed limiting legal immigration. Through their preference for open borders immigration from countries with low energy consumption to energy rich ones, the Left is driving up carbon contributions to the atmosphere while simultaneously claiming that the world will end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change. If not for this doublethink, the left would see that funding President Trump’s wall and ending open borders immigration is a relatively cheap and easy way to forestall their predicted climate catastrophe that’s accelerated by each new immigrant to this energy-rich country. Quentin Borges-Silva is a native of Portland, Oregon, who works for the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. The views expressed by the author are his own and do not reflect policies or positions of the U.S. EPA. Commentary, News1984, anthropogenic climate change, AWG, CO2, Global Warming, Immigration, Open borders Berkeley University Suspends New Research Projects with Chinese Telecom Giant Huawei Dr. Carol M. 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__label__cc	0.61471	0.38529	Home > Watch > Seminary Courses SEMINARY CURRICULUM Your Kingdom Come: The Doctrine Of Eschatology Kingdom, Covenants & Canon Kingdom & Covenant He Gave Us Scripture: Foundations of Interpretation Victorious Conquest (1:1 - 12:24) HiRes \| MidRes \| Audio View individual Q&A from this discussion forum. Instructor: Multiple Instructors Lesson 2 in the series Companion Lesson: Victorious Conquest (1:1 - 12:24) View as individual Q&A. High Resolution Video [666 MB] Medium Resolution Video [320 MB] MP3 (64-bit) MP3 (8-bit) Manuscript (.doc) Manuscript (.pdf) Word Table of Contents WatchDownload (right click) MidRes Video [320 MB] Download (right click) HiRes Video [666 MB] Play MidRes Video Play HiRes Video View as individual Q&A ListenDownload (right click) Full MP3 (64-bit) [32 MB] Play Full MP3 (64-bit) Play Full MP3 (8-bit) ReadWord Manuscript PDF Manuscript Question 1: How could a loving God command Joshua to completely destroy the inhabitants of Canaan? Dr. Craig S. Keener In Joshua, God commands the destruction of the Canaanites, not because it's the ideal. I mean, the ideal is love your enemies and win them to Christ, but obviously that wasn't an option available in the time of Joshua. If they didn't destroy their enemies, they were going to be infiltrated by pagan customs — for example, the killing of babies who were then often sacrificed and buried in urns and so on. We've found the remains of where Canaanites have done that. Also, anything less than total war would not have eliminated them, which is what we see happening. They didn't have total war, they didn't eliminate them, the Canaanites didn't flee, and so those influences did infiltrate Israel… In Genesis 15, God said that this wouldn't happen, the conquest of Canaan wouldn't happen, until the Amorites had become wicked enough for it to happen. At this point it's kind of like a corporate capital punishment that God is executing on this society. Dr. Imad Shehadeh, translation There is a very important question, a very, very important and sensitive question that asks, how should we as believers understand the genocides in the Old Testament… First, for the sake of argument, let's say that the God of the universe has the right to destroy all people. Because all have sinned against God, he has the right, with full justice and without blame, to destroy us. Without exception, there is no one among us who does not deserve condemnation. He has the right to condemn… However, towards evil, he has always been patient. In other words, he waited patiently until the sin of the Amorites was complete. Or to put it another way, if God had punished them before the allotted time, that would have been wrong, or after the time, it would have been wrong. But he is always on time to fulfill his promise to condemn sin and evil… But there is another thing Scripture reveals. The same Holy Scripture that gives us an image in the Old Testament about God's justice and holiness, this same God took on a human nature and hung on the cross, so that he would, in himself, experience the same punishment that he inflicted on the people of Canaan. He took it by himself, on himself. He is the same God, the same, totally the same… There is a former terrorist who told me this phrase — he came to believe in Christ and told me this phrase — he said, "Terrorists claim that we die for the sake of God, while the message of the gospel is the opposite: God died for us. The situation is quite different." So, the genocide in the Old Testament is an image of God's holiness. It only occurred once and allowed us to understand the suffering that he endured, so that this doesn't happen again, so there will be everlasting life. It's an image about love, about how much God loves us. He showed us the suffering he experienced in order that we would be saved forever. The wrath was absorbed. The revealed wrath became absorbed wrath through Jesus Christ. Hallelujah! Dr. Jeffrey J. Niehaus The conquest was a judgment. One can look at those commands, you know, leave no survivors — women and children — show them no mercy. On the human plane that can look like genocide. But the root of that, I think, is to be found in Genesis 15 … when the Lord promises Abram that in the fourth generation his descendants are going to come back and have this land because the sinfulness of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure. The point there is, then, that the Lord is going to allow the Canaanites to continue to have their life, have their culture, have their distorted religion worshiping Baal and the fertility cult and all the rest of it. The time would come when they were so far gone in sin that they would not respond to God no matter how attractive he made himself to appear, or how clearly it was from what he had revealed that he's the God you ought to worship. The proof of this is found in Rahab because she can say to the spies, "We all know what Yahweh your God has done to the Egyptians and to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings." Well, if they all know that, why don't they show up in Hebrews 11 as she does on the honor roll of faith? And so, it makes the point that they're so far gone in sin that their reaction to the Lord will not… I mean, it's a no-brainer that they ought to affiliate with him. Instead, they're afraid and they resist, and that's a sign that their consciences are seared, if I could put it that way. Jesus makes the same point in Luke… He says, "When the Son of Man returns, will he find faith on the earth?" And the answer implicitly is "no." And so, faith is the criterion. When faith is no longer possible, the complete judgment is justified. That was true in the conquest. It will be true at the end of the age. And, as for the women and children and especially, perhaps, you might look at the infants and say, "Well, how can that be right?" We have to agree, I think, with Abraham before Sodom and Gomorrah when he asked the question in Genesis 18:25, "Will not the Judge of all the earth do what is right?" And the answer is "yes." God knew what those children would have grown up to be if they had been allowed to live. And, of course, the fact that the Israelites did let some of them live and they continued to be a thorn in their sides shows that this was true. Dr. Chip McDaniel The question of genocide and the account of Joshua is troubling to many Christians because it appears to be, and it is, in fact, condoning the killing of masses of people, entire wiping away of an entire race within a land. It's probably nowhere better stated or seen in the book of Joshua than in 11:20 where it says, The Lord hardened their hearts, that they would come out against Israel in battle in order that he might utterly destroy them and that they might receive no mercy, but that he might destroy them as the Lord had commanded Moses (Joshua 11:20, NKJV). And so, it sounds like a very brutal annihilation of an entire group. The judgment on Canaan was already anticipated in the book of Genesis. In Genesis 9, we have the curse upon the son of Ham, who is Canaan, and he would become … the father of the Canaanites. We're not sure what that sin was. It appears to be sexual in some way, but there was a curse that was placed upon Canaan. When we fast forward to the time of Abraham we see that God told him that his descendants would own that land, but it wouldn't be given to him or his descendants right away. They would have to go into captivity. They would come out after four generations. Abraham was a hundred years old at the time. Four generations would be four hundred years. Israel was in Egypt, apparently, four hundred years. But the reason that it was going to be delayed is because God said the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full; it's not yet complete. God would allow a time of relative laxness and then at a point in time would judge the Canaanite — another word for that would be Amorite. So, the question isn't, "How can God condone a genocide?" The question is, can the moral governor of the universe — which God is presented as such — does the moral God of the universe have the prerogative to judge sin in a time, and a place, and a manner of his own choosing? We also look to the book of Joshua and we see that there are certain mitigating factors that are a help to us, I think. The first thing to consider about the book of Joshua is that some could have come out and joined the Israelite camp and become true followers of the Lord. They knew what God had done for his people in bringing them out of Egypt. They had the report of the battles on the other side of Jordan. Some of them could have left and joined themselves to Israel, had they wanted to. We also suspect that those who were living in the areas on the outskirts of the cities would have just fled. They would have gone to Assyria; they would have gone to Egypt, some place that would have been regarded as safe. Perhaps Edom might have received them as well. And so, the average, everyday person would be the one who would probably try to flee with his or her family. Those that remained were trusting in their political system. They were trusting in their kings to save them, and these were to be completely destroyed. A further factor, theologically, is that God had determined that the second member of the Trinity would become man, that God would take on flesh, and that has to be through a family. And in order to be the type of family to whom God would display his grace and bring about what we know to be the Messiah, there had to be a separation of these people from all of the other peoples, and so theologically, it makes sense that God would try to eradicate all of the people in the area in order that his people might be a distinct people. Israel sits in a land bridge between Africa, Europe and Asia, and anyone doing business between those entities would have come through or near the Holy Land. They were to be a contrast society. They were to show the glories of their God, and they would serve as the family through whom God would send the Messiah. And so, God does have the prerogative to choose to judge people. He also wanted theologically to have a people through whom the Messiah would be born. How do we know that God's call to destroy the Canaanites was not just a call for ethnic cleansing? Sometimes people today accuse the book of Joshua of supporting genocide, of wiping out a people as if it were an ethnic cleansing, an ethnic war. But that's not the case at all. You have contrasted in the book of Joshua particularly two figures. You have Rahab who betrayed her people, betrayed Jericho, came over to the side of God's people. She hid the spies on her roof. In contrast with that you have Achan who betrayed God's people, taking the loot from Jericho. In contrast to hiding spies on his roof, he hid the loot under his tent. Rahab saved her whole family. Achan destroyed his whole family because, obviously, he couldn't have hid this under the tent without them knowing and participating in the subterfuge. So, the point is that it wasn't just a matter of ethnicity; it was a matter of loyalty to Israel's true God. Now, Achan becomes, in a sense, a model for what brings judgment among God's people. God's people were holy; they were devoted to the Lord, and when Achan took some of this loot that was spiritually polluted, he brought judgment and others died because of his sin. You see something in Acts 5 where Ananias and Sapphira do something similar and God cuts it off right there. God judges them right there for the sake of his people. Rev. Sherif Gendy, translation God doesn't exhibit favoritism to the Israelites over the Canaanites. The evidence for this is Rahab the prostitute. She was one of the people of Canaan, but she received faith and acknowledged the God of Israel. As a result, she and her family were saved from the destruction. At the same time, Achan, the son of Carmi, who broke faith in regard to the devoted things, was a member of the covenant community, a member of the people of Israel, and eventually he received God's just judgment for what he did. Throughout the history of Israel, we see how God punishes Israel many times for rebelling against and disobeying the Lord. So, they received various kinds of God's punishments, either during the Assyrian or the Babylonian exiles. Dr. Seth Tarrer When we look at the Canaanite religion and what was going on, on the ground, so to speak, there are numerous things that we would describe as wicked, things that the Old Testament, things that Israelite ethics and morals would call wrong. Fertility cults were rampant; sexual immorality was common; child sacrifice was common. And underneath all of this, we see there is a resistance to the will of the Lord, a resistance to God as Creator. And so, cherem is tied to this notion of creation. The Lord is the creator of all lands, not just the people of Israel and the land that they inhabit at the time; the Lord is the creator of all lands, and he has designated the ways in which they are to live, the ways in which they can bring peace and justice and righteousness to one another, and the actions of the Canaanites are inhibiting this. There is a resistance to the will of the Lord as Creator. And finally, an interesting point brought up by John Goldingay recently is that the Lord is not so much asking Israel to destroy the Canaanites because the Canaanites have the wrong religion. No, the question is, again, is moral and ethical in nature. What the Canaanites are doing is abhorrent to the Lord. The question of religion has almost always missed the mark because religion, be it Israelite or whomever, has never saved. Religion does not save. It does not now; it hasn't ever. The proper religion was not what caused Rahab to suddenly change her mind. Rahab did not say to the spies, "Oh, your mode of thinking, your theological categories are better than mine. I'm going to convert." It wasn't religion; it was response. The proper response was one of faith. When one looked at what was going on around them, and then one heard the stories that Joshua and the spies told — this is the hand of the Lord, the Lord is the one doing these things — the response of Rahab was one of faith and obedience. This is the response that Israel has always been called to and the response that the world, through Israel, is called to take part in as well. What does Joshua 1:5 mean when God promises, "I will be with you"? Dr. Carol Kaminski You know, right at the beginning of the book of Joshua, as he's now taking over new leadership for Moses, you have this wonderful promise being given that God promises his presence, and it says, "as he had been with Moses." And this picks up a really central theme in the Old Testament, beginning, I guess the background really is the loss of the divine presence in the Garden of Eden and they're banished from Eden. And so, you start to have this promise being given to the patriarchs: "I'm going to" — Abraham, Isaac and Jacob — "I'm going to be with you." And of course, if you look at the background with Moses, the divine presence, tabernacle, absolutely central to the whole book and the whole narrative. And especially you see this in the golden calf story when they build the idol and Moses is interceding and the people have been, you know, worshiping this idol. And God says, "Look, I'm just going to destroy you." Moses intercedes and says, "Please, if you don't go with us it's all over." And he says, "Look, okay, I won't destroy you, but I'm going to send my angel." And then Moses says, "No, no. If you're not with us, we may as well not go out from here." So, and of course, God in his grace and mercy promises to be with them, and this then picks up that underlying theme that God had been with Moses in terms of leading the Israelites, and so you have divine presence with Joshua as a leader. And what immediately follows after that is this emphasis on obeying the commandments of the Lord, which really is, they're kind of working in together, that God promises "I'll be with you" — he's going to give them victory — but they need to be following God's law. That's central to entrance into the land and to conquering the land. Rev. Kevin Labby "I will be with you" is one of the great promises of God to his people, and of course means that close proximity, that he will be their God, and they will be his people, that he'll be with them, never leaving them, never forsaking them, that he'll be working for them. Oftentimes, I think when we hear that, what we're drawn to is the comfort that, even in the face of our sins and our struggles, God will remain steadfast, even when we're not. But in this particular context as God's people were getting ready to take possession of the Promised Land and go up against the Canaanite people — a strong and powerful people characterized by deep generational sin, a group of people that would have been terrifying to many outside that land as they looked in upon it — what God is really promising is that he won't only be with them, be faithful and steadfast for them, but that he'll fight for them, and he'll fight with them. And, of course, we see that in just a couple of chapters as the angel of the Lord appears to Joshua and reminds him that this is not purely an earthly battle between Joshua and the armies of Israel, it's the Lord of Hosts who is fighting with them and for them and is ultimately going to determine their success. So, it's meant to be a wonderful reassurance in many ways, but a chief way in which God is reassuring his people in the book of Joshua is that he will fight for them, and in fact, has been fighting for them. Dr. James M. Hamilton One of the things that we always want to bear in mind as we think about what the Bible means is it's a good thing to read the surrounding context. And in the immediate context, the Lord had said, "As I was with Moses, so I will be with you." And I think what's happening in part here is, back in Deuteronomy 18, the Lord had instructed Israel — he said to them, "When you go into this land…" — essentially what he's saying is, these other peoples, when they look for supernatural guidance, they seek mediums. They seek necromancers. They have all these means of divination, all these ways of getting supernatural guidance. And the Lord says you're not to follow any of those practices, but "I'm going to raise up a prophet like you," the Lord says to Moses, "from among your brothers." And, in one sense, there's not a prophet like Moses, Deuteronomy 34 tells us, until Jesus comes. But in another sense, all of the prophets that follow Moses are prophets like Moses. In some cases, they have experiences very much like Moses' experience when the Lord called him. And that's the case with Joshua. So, I think, in part, what the Lord is saying is, "Joshua, as I was with Moses, and as I led him, and as I gave revelation to him for the people of Israel, so I'm going to be with you. And as I gave him authenticating signs, so I will be with you." And then, Joshua has very similar experiences to the one that Moses had at the burning bush at Mount Sinai when he's told to take off his sandals for the place on which he stands is holy ground. And so, I think the key thing here is that the Lord is continuing the work that he had been doing in Israel through Moses, now through Joshua. Rev. Bin Li, translation In Joshua 1:5, God said to Joshua: "I will be with you." This is a great encouragement… He didn't just face pressure from external circumstances, but from internal conflicts as well. He had doubts; "Can I really lead these people?"… So, when God said to Joshua: "Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you," God had already been showing Joshua how Moses had experienced God's being with him and how to lead the Israelites to run toward their goal. This gave Joshua the confidence to believe that he could continue leading. This message is a great encouragement to me as well. Every time I'm weak, external circumstances are stressful, or when I'm in conflict with those in ministry with me or with the congregation, I think on this Scripture and realize that God's will for his church is to head toward his mission. This is in his will. So, when I obey him, I will be full of strength. When I believe that God is with me, I can remove a lot of fear and discouragement from within me. What was Achan's sin, and why was it so terrible? Rev. Michael J. Glodo We read in Joshua about Achan's sin, holding back some of the spoils of the victory at Ai, and as a result, Israel fails in their next battle because it displeases God so much. So, what was the severe offence that Achan committed that would cause God to be willing to let his people suffer defeat? Well, if we go back to Deuteronomy, and we see in Deuteronomy 13, we see the idolatrous city among Israel in the future, if they follow after other gods, they are to be offered as a burnt offering. And the word for holy war, cherem, is used there. So, what holy war is, or what cherem warfare is, is a war that is not for the enrichment of the victors as is common state war, but holy war is a type of final judgment that prefigures the final judgment of God in the new heavens and earth wherein those who are not holy and right before God are totally consumed as burnt offerings to him. And so, when Achan held back from the spoils of the battle, he was actually holding back something that belonged to God. He was stealing from God to enrich himself, which is the exact opposite of righteousness. The righteous man gives to God and trusts God to provide for, sustain and support him. Now, what is remarkable about the Achan episode is that it's repeated in a manner in the book of Acts with Ananias and Sapphira. Scholars have noticed a number of parallels between Achan's sin and what Ananias and Sapphira did, which tells us this, that a lack of generosity, not being generous to God's purposes in the Christian community, is tantamount to the kind of thing that Achan did back in the book of Joshua. Achan's sin was that he took forbidden things. He took things that were placed under the ban. And this is one of the disturbing things for people as they read the book of Joshua. They ask themselves, how could it be so bad for him to take this 200 shekels of silver and a bar of gold and a beautiful cloak from Shinar? Why is that such a grave sin? And I think in answering that question, what the issue is, is simply, is God who he claims to be? If the God of the Bible is the Lord of the universe, and if he is more valuable than life itself, then to transgress his commandments is a heinous crime whose penalty is infinite in magnitude. And I think that this is what we're seeing both in the punishment of Achan and in the putting of the Canaanites under the ban itself. In this, Achan's calculation is something like, "These things matter more to me than the God who has placed them under this prohibition." And for the Canaanites, the sins in which they indulged, they were making a calculation that said, "Our consciences may be bearing us witness — as the law of God is written on our hearts as these Gentiles — but our enjoyment of these things is more significant to us than any pang of conscience that might woo us away from this or any qualms we might have about any of these perversities." And in that calculation they are choosing God's gifts over the giver himself, and that is a crime that is worthy of God's punishment. Dr. Tom Petter Achan's sin in Joshua 7 is a big question. Why was it so bad? What was it that happened there? And the facts of the case are simple. In chapter 7, Achan got greedy in the fight for Jericho, and then he grabbed a few things for himself, hid it in his tent, and then Yahweh had specifically commanded, don't take any booty for yourself. So, Achan is a tribal leader of the tribe of Judah, which I think bears significance because, of course, Judah is the lineage of David and Jesus. And so, he's a prominent leader in the community. And of course, what happens because of Achan's sin, the whole idea of creating holiness within the Israelite camp — because without holiness there's no victory; It's about holiness, it's about being devoted to Yahweh — and so, when they go onto the next campaign against Ai, they fail. And so, Joshua very quickly realizes, there is what we call "sin in the camp," and that's what prevented them to secure victory like they did with Jericho. And so, they have a system of finding out who it was, and it goes through the tribes, and then the clans, and then the families, and then it comes down to the "bayith ab" in Hebrew, which is "house of the father," and it's Achan's house that's being singled out. And then finally Achan fesses up, and then they take a very drastic measure of committing Achan and his family to destruction, literal destruction — cherem, that word — "committed" devoted to destruction." So, here is the contrasting picture. You have chapter 6 of Joshua where a Canaanite prostitute and her household is saved from cherem, saved from destruction, and then, the prominent leader of the tribe of Judah and his household are committed to destruction. And the lesson is a powerful one. Very early holiness and cherem are two-way streets. It doesn't matter, you could have all the right pedigree being a member of the tribe of Judah. It didn't protect; that didn't protect him. What he needed to be… On whose side are you, holiness or unholiness? So, a person with zero credentials like Rahab, and then a person with full credentials within Israel like Achan, and then who gets saved and who doesn't has everything to do with holiness. What does the book of Joshua teach us about God's character as a warrior for his people? By the time we get to the part of the Old Testament in which we read about Samuel and the crowning of King Saul and King David, a common title for the Lord is "Adonai Sabaoth," or the "Lord of Hosts," or the "Lord of Armies." However, backing up to the book of Joshua, we get to witness narratively in the text how the Lord earns this name. He's brought Israel out of Egypt, and now he engages with Israel as an active combatant on the side of righteousness in the purification of the land of Canaan. In 5:13-15 in the book of Joshua, Joshua meets this mysterious figure, this figure known as "the commander of the Lord," and when Joshua encounters this figure, this figure has a drawn sword. This is an interesting component of the story because, in other ancient Near Eastern accounts of encounters with divine hosts, swords are also raised. There is an account from the Annals of Ashurbanipal in which Ishtar is met with a raised sword, and the raised sword is interpreted as a sign of encouragement, encouragement that, "I am with you, and I will fight on your side." However, the response of the mysterious character, this commander of the armies of the Lord, is puzzling because when Joshua asks on whose side this commander fights, a third option is given: "I don't fight exclusively for you, nor do I fight for your enemies. I fight on the side of the Lord." Now, this is an example in which God, as warrior in the book of Joshua, poses to us — the reader in the modern world — a very pertinent and timely question. And Douglas Earl has helpfully described the ways in which three perspectives are maintained in the book of Joshua. There are the side of the Canaanites, there is the side of the Israelites, and then there is a distinct third perspective — this is the side of the Lord; this is perfect justice and righteousness. However, we're apt to conflate us as being on the side of the Lord, over and against them, that is, the "enemy." And so, Joshua is continually at pains to require us to properly realign ourselves with the right side, the side of the Lord, the side of justice and righteousness. And so, when we talk about God as warrior, God was never straightforwardly for Israel on Israel's terms. God was for Israel on his terms. And God was never unreservedly against the Canaanites — witness the salvation of Rahab and her family. God was against the Canaanites in the degree that they were continuing in willful resistance to his will, oppression and immorality… We push this question even further to the final book of the New Testament. We read in Revelation 19:11: Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war (Revelation 19:11). So, this image of God as warrior fighting on behalf of his people is now brought to its completion in the book of Revelation where Jesus comes, eschatologically, on a white horse, fighting injustice the same way that the Lord refused to fight for Israel on Israel's terms. He always fought on terms of justice and righteousness. And then in chapter 21, we witness the inheritance that we receive as God's people. The inheritance of Israel was the Promised Land. However, in the New Testament this is again taken up in another register. The inheritance is no "thing" to be attained. It is Jesus. The warrior becomes the inheritance. Our warrior king is in fact our inheritance, and in him we enjoy renewed heaven and earth and a heavenly city. Dr. Sherif Gendy, translation Asking about how to learn or what to learn about God's character as a warrior for his people in the book of Joshua is an important question because from the beginning of the book, in chapter 1, we see God giving instructions to Joshua to prepare for the war and prepare the people for the war. Here we see God as the military leader, the commander-in-chief of the army, the marshal who lays out the strategies for his people. Not only this, we also see through the entire book and through the wars in which Joshua led the people, we see God's authority and sovereignty over the events. And we see that every step the people took was by an order and clear instruction from the Lord. So, not only did the Lord call Joshua to prepare the people, but he also was the one who laid out the plan and instructed the people on how to move. Additionally, we see the Lord himself fighting for his people. The Lord is the military leader, the warrior who leads his people in victory, because he has the mighty hand over all the events. Victory was related to the obedience of the people. When the people disobeyed the Lord — like what happened with Achan the son of Carmi — we see that there is punishment and condemnation because of disobedience. It's important to the Lord, as a fighting warrior, that his people be committed and consistent in their obedience, loyalty, and faithfulness to him. So, because God is the leader and Lord over events, victory is guaranteed, even if the people disobey, because the Lord corrects this disobedience. Once more, he comes to assert victory, and victory, as I said, is related to the obedience of the people and their faithfulness and loyalty to the Lord. The image of God's character as a mighty warrior is repeated in various places in the Bible. One of the best and most magnificent texts, or the most comprehensive text that shows the image of God as a warrior, is found in Revelation, the book of Revelation, when it talks about Christ who is sitting on a white horse. In his second coming, he is coming to launch a war against the ungodly, among either angels or human beings, and he will accomplish the victory he inaugurated on the cross, and he will provide this victory to all his faithful followers who faithfully obeyed his commands. As a result, because the Lord is a warrior, he is just, he never oppresses, and victory is always guaranteed through the Lord, because he is the military leader who puts strategies in place and accomplishes them by his mighty hand, which has the absolute authority. In the book of Joshua, God's character is manifested in many ways, and one of the traits of God, as a warrior, is a wonderful lesson for all of us — for the people then and for us — that God is characterized as a divine warrior. And of course, Joshua, you have to read Joshua in light of the exodus, and what happens during the exodus. And what happens during the exodus is that Yahweh manifests himself as the divine warrior. It's in Exodus 15 when he has conquered all the armies of Egypt through their passing through the waters there, it says, "Yahweh is a man of war." So, that's one of his titles as divine warrior. And so, that's picked up in the book of Joshua. But how does he wage warfare? That's the key to not just exodus and the book of Joshua but throughout Israelite history, the high points being David and the Philistine, Goliath. How does Yahweh wage warfare for his people? And it's always through unconventional means. And so, this, of course, prepares us for the way Jesus, the divine warrior — the manifestation of Yahweh on earth as the divine warrior — how does he wage warfare, and how does he conquer the mightiest of his enemies: Satan, sin and death? Right? The three: Satan, sin and death? How does he conquer the mightiest of his enemies? It makes Pharaoh look like a small insignificant opponent compared to Satan, death and sin. And just like Pharaoh was conquered through unconventional warfare means, it's not like the Israelites came up with twelve hundred chariots, so a massive main battle tank of the ancient world — six hundred chariotry of Pharaoh versus twelve hundred of the Israelites. That's not how the victory was secured. It was a mighty act of Yahweh, God's intervention, that a bunch of slaves defeated the most powerful army of the ancient world. David, same thing, he shows up in the field of battle, he's just a shepherd boy with a stick and a couple of stones and a sling, and he defeats the mighty Philistine completely adorned in full battleware, invincible, giant. And Jesus does the same thing. He's going to conquer by being a servant unto death. And boy, is there is a lesson there for us. In the time of Joshua, the conquest was all by God's hand — walking around the city seven times; what is that going to do? This is not warfare; this is worship to Yahweh. And that's how we wage warfare today. So, when Paul says in Ephesians 6, we don't wage warfare through conventional means of flesh and blood but spiritual means. This is not just a New Testament idea. This goes right back to the exodus, Joshua, the rise of David, and then throughout the time of the monarchy. And then, of course, this speaks to us. How do we wage warfare? We don't wage warfare through the sword. We secure God's victory and God's kingdom through spiritual means. How does the book of Joshua emphasize God's supernatural power to defeat his enemies? The book of Joshua emphasizes God's power to defeat his enemies by showing the fulfillment of many of the promises that God made to Abraham. For instance, right at the opening statements of the book, in Joshua 1:3, the Lord says to Joshua: Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given … you (Joshua 1:3). And this is reminiscent of the way that the Lord told Abraham to walk through the length and the breadth of the land. And then there's a statement in Deuteronomy 11 where the Lord basically makes that promise to the people, that "Every place on which the sole of your foot treads, I will give to you." And so, there's this reality in Deuteronomy 7 where the Lord tells Israel that they are going into the land, and there are these seven nations in the land, all greater and stronger than Israel. So, you've got this one little nation, Israel, and they're going to enter this land inhabited by these seven different people groups, all of whom individually outnumber Israel. And Israel is going to conquer them all. So, you have that reality, which comes to pass; this is exactly what happens in the book of Joshua. And then you also have things like what happens at Jericho where, by obeying the Lord's instructions and encircling the city, the walls of the city fall down, and the people are put to rout. And the point being made in the book of Joshua is the same point that was being made at the exodus, and in many ways it's the same point made at the anointing of David as king and in the way that God chooses people even down to this day. And that point is that God chooses the weak things of the world and the things that are not, to bring to nothing the things that are… So, at the exodus, you have this one little nation that's enslaved, and God humbles the superpower of the day, he brings Pharaoh to his knees, and he liberates the people of Israel from Egypt. And then when Samuel goes to anoint one of the sons of Jesse king, Jesse so disregards the possibility that David might be the anointed that he doesn't even bring him in from the pasture. And all the sons of Jesse pass before Samuel, and Samuel is forced to say, "The Lord hasn't chosen any of these. Do you have any more sons?" And of course, David is out in the pasture and they send for him. And in the same way today, the Lord is choosing the weak things of the world. And this is what's happening in the book of Joshua as this one small nation, outnumbered by all her foes, is brought into the land and conquers them all, subdues all the lands. Pastor Ornan Cruz, translation In the book of Joshua, God fights the battles. God is the one who defends his people. God is the one who fights the enemies. Just looking at the battle of Jericho is enough because this was no ordinary battle. It wasn't being fought in the common patterns of war. In fact, lots of people who saw the Israelites walk might have thought that they were ridiculous. We, on the other hand, can talk about faith and obedience, and about Joshua who obeyed God and a people that followed God in obedience. In effect, Joshua had to go to the battlefield, and the people had to go to the battlefield, but it was demonstrated on that day, and for the future, that God is the one who gives victory. God is the one who fights for his people, who made the walls fall down, who handed his enemies into the hands of those who saw them as so great and powerful that they thought they couldn't face them, the ones that, years before, the spies had said, "We are like grasshoppers compared to them." In 5:13, Joshua has the opportunity to see a sensational scene of a man with a drawn sword. He asks him, "Are you for us or for our enemies?" And the answer is magnificent. He said he had come as a prince of Yahweh to fight. Joshua kneeled down and worshiped. He was seeing a revelation of Christ himself in the New Testament. It was being demonstrated that God is the one who fights for his people. In 23:8-11, when Joshua is reminding the people about the things God had done, he's telling them that there will be such a blessing from God that, "One man of you puts to flight a thousand enemies," because God is with you and, just as he said, he will fight for you. The whole book, from beginning to end is talking about a people who obey, a people who need to follow God, but a God who fights, a God who gives victory. Dr. T. J. Betts The book of Joshua has a wonderful way of showing God's power and his giving victory to his people. I think that it's actually seen before any fighting takes place as they, at least, go into the Promised Land. If you remember, when the spies went to Jericho and they met with Rahab, Rahab says that all of the people in Jericho, their hearts had melted. They were afraid because they had already heard of how God had been giving victory to the children of Israel. So, God's reputation, in and of itself, was bringing about victory by his own power apart from anything that Israel had done yet. And this also comes to place when the children of Israel cross the Jordan River. When they cross the Jordan River, once again, they get across and the text says that the Canaanites heard of their crossing the Jordan River on dry ground and again their hearts melted. And this is all God's work before any shot was fired in the Promised Land. And then, of course, I think what's most clear, and we see this elsewhere, but especially in the aspect of Jericho, that they march around the city several times and then blow their horns and the walls come down. Again, this shows a work of God, a miracle of God, that God, the angel of the Lord himself, has gone before them, is fighting for them, and the Lord gives them victory. And this victory, though, is based upon their obedience to him. And so, when they get to Ai, we realize Achan has sinned against God, and God sees this disobedience, and so they lose at Ai, which tells me that it's not really Israel that's winning this victory, but it's the Lord who is doing this, and as long as they're obedient, the Lord is giving them victory. When they're disobedient, he's not. So, it's really God's power that is doing this. How was Jesus victorious over the enemies of God's kingdom in the inauguration of God's kingdom? Dr. D.A. Carson Well, first of all, the most crucial victory is in the cross itself so that he defeats Satan. The accuser of the brethren, as it were, cannot come along and say, "Oh God, you can't possibly put up with that miserable lot. You say you're so holy and yet you're having dealings with creeps like them who are idolaters and inconsistent and self-lovers, and they don't love you with heart and soul and mind and strength, their neighbors as themselves. You really must condemn them all, blot them all out." But, in fact, Satan is silenced because Christ has paid for the sins of his own people. In that sense, the crucial battle has been fought and won. And that's why, for example, in Revelation 12, the saints respond to the accuser of the brethren, they overcome him by the blood of the Lamb. They overcome Satan — described metaphorically in Revelation 12 — they overcome him by the blood of the Lamb. And, so, that battle has already been won. But, like Hitler toward the end of World War II, when he could see that the war was over, he didn't quit. He was filled with fury because he knew his time was short. That's what is said of Satan. So, Satan is more virulent now, and every time the gospel advances, more people are converted, righteousness is established in individual lives, in the local church, in any sort of subculture, that is already an ongoing defeat of Satan and of all those who love darkness. And the ultimate trajectory toward the ultimate victory is when the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our God and of his Christ, and he will reign forever. And that's the way the Bible ends up in Revelation 19–22. Yet, at the same time, this is also a victory over evil people who want to undermine the kingdom of God, or overthrow the moral order, or disdain Christ, and so on. The point is that the trajectory has been set in place so that, as Philippians 2 puts it, every knee will bow, every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord, and the fundamental victory has been won. That's still got to be worked out in some respects. It's being worked out in the lives of many who do, joyfully, by the power of the Spirit, bend the knee. But everyone will bend the knee on the last day. So, the gospel of the kingdom is already demonstrating its transforming power in overcoming the hosts of darkness, the darkness of the human heart … in anticipation of what is yet to come. Dr. Constantine Campbell God is victorious over his enemies through the death, resurrection and ascension of Christ. In the death of Christ, by dealing with human sin and paying the penalty for sin, he has overpowered sin and, therefore, the power that sin might have over us. Once sin is dealt with, then the power of death is conquered because sin and death work together. Sin is kind of like the stinger that death has, and once it stings you with sin, once you sin, then you are subjected to death, and you belong to death. But if you break that stinger, as Jesus did on the cross, then death can no longer hold you. It's like a toothless viper, or a spider whose fangs have been broken off. And so, what follows after the death of Jesus is the resurrection of Jesus, which is the vindication of his right standing with God and that sin has been conquered. And his ascension to God's right hand is described in the New Testament as the final sign that he is victorious over his enemies, not only sin and death, but the authorities, powers and dominions as mentioned, say, in Ephesians 1. They are under his feet now; they're already conquered. Nevertheless, they still exist, and so, at the end of Ephesians in chapter 6, we see that believers do spiritual warfare with them, but we battle with a team that's already lost, and we are just waiting for the final siren to sound, and then the game is over. We already know we're on the winning side. Dr. Glen G. Scorgie The final conquests that are necessary for the perfection of God's kingdom remain ahead, but they have begun, and they were decisively inaugurated in the ministry of Jesus Christ. And we get some clue to what the inaugurating assault on the enemies of the kingdom looks like when we consider the text from Isaiah that he chose to speak from in the synagogue in Nazareth when he launched his earthly ministry. One of the decisive enemies of the kingdom of God is the rulers of darkness and the principalities and powers that do not give up their turf without a fight. Jesus launched a massive assault on them. And the New Testament celebrates, really, the intimidation that the greater strength of Jesus Christ created in the powers of darkness. And what this means to believers is that we are no longer under the dominion of fear, fear of evil spirits, fear of death, fear of the control of the bondage to sin. All of these things were, in the inaugurating ministry of Jesus Christ, assaulted in a decisive way, and began then the dismantling of the structures of injustice and deceit and lies that perpetuate the forces of darkness and their stranglehold on human nature. He spoke truth; he assaulted the gates of hell himself, and then empowers his liberated followers to continue that assault on the road to complete victory. Dr. Stephen J. Wellum In Jesus' coming, it's very clear that the New Testament says that he inaugurates God's kingdom. God's kingdom is rooted and grounded in the Old Testament. Indeed, it goes all the way back to Adam as a vice-regent who is, as representative of the human race, is to rule over God's creation, and indeed all of us as human beings are to do that. But because of sin, he does not do that. Sin enters the world, which then becomes not only that which is transmitted to all of us, but also in Scripture is described as a power, as a domain. Sin leads to death so that in our lives we ultimately die because we are sinners before God. It means that we are now under God's judgment because of our sin before God. And it also means that, as a result of sin, the ruler of this world, tied to Satan and his realm, is that which we are now under his power and rule. We're part of his kingdom, not the kingdom of God. And as you work through the Old Testament, the Old Testament anticipates the saving reign of God breaking into this world, that God himself, in and through his Messiah, will accomplish that saving reign and defeat the kingdom of Satan. He will defeat the powers of death. He will do that through, ultimately, the payment of sin and our restoration and reconciliation with God. Now, when it comes to the New Testament, the Lord Jesus Christ now comes as the second Adam. He comes as the Lord himself, fully God, fully man. He is the one who, in his ministry, brings the kingdom to pass, not only in his teaching, but his miracles, but supremely in his cross, where sin then is dealt with first and foremost. The power of sin, the penalty of sin is removed. It's paid for. Death, then, is defeated, evidenced in his glorious resurrection and ascension and pouring out the Spirit. The realm of Satan now over us is now defeated as we are now transferred from Adam to Christ, from the kingdom of this world and the kingdom of the ruler of this air to that of the kingdom of God. And in all these ways — through the life, death, resurrection, ascension, the pouring out of the Spirit, the inauguration of the kingdom, which is now here, yet we await its consummation in the future — he has defeated the powers. He has defeated sin, death, the Evil One, and we are now victorious in Christ. How should Christians interpret Old Testament commands for Israel to engage in divinely-sanctioned holy war? Rev Sherif Gendy, translation Asking about how we as Christians should interpret Old Testament passages describing God's command for Israel to engage in holy war is a very important question. In general, I can say that there are two types of commands in Scripture. There are general commands, which are for all people living in any time and place, such as "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," "You shall not murder," "You shall not commit adultery," etc. This type of command is repeated several times in the Old Testament and also repeated and mentioned in the New Testament. But the other type of command is specifically designed for certain people in a certain period of time. The passages in the Old Testament that talk about holy war are the other type of command. These commands are specific to a certain people to accomplish a specific goal in the history of redemption. The commands to launch wars against other peoples in the Old Testament were particular to Israel and were related to a certain period when God was leading the people, through Joshua, to conquer and settle in the land. These commands are not for all people whenever and wherever they are, because they aren't mentioned anymore in either the Old or New Testament. There isn't any other place where God commands his followers to launch this type of war against unbelievers. This doesn't happen again in the Bible. Also, it's important to know that Israel in the Old Testament was a kingdom under the direct authority and sovereignty of God. Israel was implementing God's commands as his representative on earth. Through this role, Israel was executing God's direct mission to launch a holy war against the Canaanites. So, such a mission was specific to the kingdom of Israel under God's sovereignty during a specific period in the history of redemption. We have to keep in mind that God alone has the right to give and take life. He also has the right to use secondary causes to accomplish his purposes and execute his justice. Concerning these wars, God used Israel as a tool in his hand to accomplish his will towards these pagan peoples. These wars were condemnation against them and their behavior for worshiping other gods. So, through it, God was revealing his judgment against them… As I said, such commands were not repeated again to Israel. The patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob didn't possess the land by launching wars against its inhabitants. And after returning back from the exile, Israel restored the land without waging a holy war like the one that took place during Joshua's time. Such wars and commands are not to be repeated. They were specific to a certain period in history in the book of Joshua. And it's crucial to interpret the text within the historical context in which these events took place. I think one of the most difficult questions that Christians face when they read the book of Joshua is how they should take the passages commanding Israel to fight holy war. And it's very important to start with a good understanding of what holy war was and wasn't, but also to understand how radically the new covenant, the fullness of time, the coming of Christ has changed our response. So, holy war in the Old Testament represents the prosecution of God against unrighteousness and idolatrousness. It is a prefiguration of the final judgment, and it's not because Israel is intrinsically more holy than the Canaanites, but because the Lord has taken them to himself and redeemed them. Now they are to act according to God's purposes, to suppress and eliminate idolatry against God and great moral wickedness that existed among the Canaanites, such as child sacrifice and other things. But when we come to the new covenant, we realize that in the fullness of time, as all things, as the mystery becomes known in the full light of the revelation of the New Testament, we read that while we were yet enemies, Christ died for us. Apart from any action or provision on God's part, we are the Canaanites. But God has then, in Christ, put us to death so that, in fact, we are called to further die to ourselves to live to Christ. And then, we are called to prosecute God's purposes in the world, but as Paul says in Ephesians 6, in Christ, our war is not against flesh and blood, but against the powers and the principalities and the spiritual forces that are at work against God. And so, the way God's holy army prosecutes holy war today is by self-sacrificing, loving those who persecute us, blessing them, loving our enemies, and it is in that way not only that we fulfill the law of Christ but that we win others to Christ. So, we prosecute holy war today by the tools of the gospel, the proclamation of the good news that Christ has died for sinners and that all who would put their faith and trust in Christ can be reconciled to God and no longer be at enmity with God, no longer to be alienated to God, but be reconciled to God. But it has to be through the ethical witness of God's people, the church, living out God's righteousness, and even more, the self-sacrificing love of God's people for those who do not know the Lord, because we can do more for those who do not know the Lord today than Joshua could. Joshua could only carry out God's final judgment, but we can bring the good news to those who are apart from God so that they can belong to the Lord and be part of his people. Dr. Dan Lacich When Christians look back on the Old Testament, especially looking at things like Joshua and the conquest of the land and God's call to actually go and conquer, we can do one of two things very badly with that passage. One is that we can try to just explain it away and ignore it altogether and say, "Oh, well, that was then and that's really not anything to do with us on any level," or we can become very nationalistic with it and become almost militaristic in our demeanor with people. And I think what we need to really look at with Joshua and the conquest of the land is to understand that was a specific time and place for the nation of Israel to occupy the land at that time. And since the new covenant and the coming of Christ, God's kingdom goes beyond national geographic borders, it goes beyond people groups, and it's a kingdom as Jesus himself said is not "of this world," and we're not wrestling with flesh and blood, but it's a spiritual battle. And so, the weapons of human warfare are just not appropriate for Christians to use on any level when it comes to expanding God's kingdom. And I think we need to expand that, not just to the actual weapons of warfare, but even our demeanor of us against them, and we're going to conquer them in some other way. It's really about the expansion of God's kingdom through the gospel, through the good news of what Christ has done for us, as opposed to us conquering someone else. How will Jesus' victory over his enemies and deliverance of his followers be complete when he returns? When Jesus returns, we see the completion of his victory, and we see the benefits that his followers gain at that time. The New Testament picture is really one that begins even as early as Psalm 2 where the nations conspire against the Lord and his Anointed One, but blessed are those who take refuge in the son, who kiss the son, but over his enemies he will rule with a rod of iron. And so, at the end of the New Testament, particularly in the book of Revelation, we see the risen Christ, the one who was dead but now is alive forevermore. He's the slain and standing Lamb next to the Father in Revelation 5, and his victory means the complete conquest of all the enemies of God's people and his. But that victory will be achieved in two ways: through gospel conquest, meaning gathering all those for whom he died to himself, and also the utter defeat and eternal punishment of those who remain opposed to him at his coming. And as we live as Christians, looking for that victory to be completed, we have to remember we don't always know the difference. In fact, we never know for sure the difference between those whom Christ will conquer through the gospel versus those who he will conquer with the rod of iron, which is why our battle is not against flesh and blood but against dark forces and why we preach the gospel instead of bear the sword for the name of Christ. Dr. Sean McDonough When we think about Jesus coming again and winning his final victory, we don't want to think simply in terms of Jesus overwhelming his enemies by what the French would call force majeure or just raw exercise of power. In Revelation, it talks about the sword coming out of Jesus' mouth, and that is surely the sword of the Word, the sword of justice, that final judgment is as much about exposure as anything else. And likewise for the saints, particularly in the New Testament context, vindication is one of the chief themes. They've gone on believing in Jesus and gone on turning the other cheek and loving your enemies and doing all these other things while the world says this is complete foolishness. So, at the judgment, all things are made clear, all things become transparent, the truth will out, and that will be good news for the saints and bad news for the wicked whose wickedness consists precisely in resisting Jesus and his message. I think we have every right to dream of that day when the kingdom of God is fulfilled in its entirety, and our experience of life, restored and renewed life, will be what God intended for us. In many ways, the journey back to the completion of God's perfected kingdom is a journey back to Eden, to linking back to what we lost in the Fall and perhaps making it, not only equal to that in a restored way, but better than ever. Jesus came to save us from sin, and that full restoration will involve a complete liberation from the guilt of sin, which we experience by justification now, deliverance from the power of sin, which we will continue to struggle with to some degree in this life, and most of all, it will involve a complete deliverance from all the consequences of sin, which is a category that encompasses not just death but all the dysfunction, all the pain, all the woundedness that is our human plight in this life flawed by sin. So, what we look forward to is a comprehensive restoration project, a complete salvation from the guilt, the power, and the comprehensive consequences of sin — back to Eden through Jesus Christ. Dr. T. J. Betts is Associate Professor of Old Testament Interpretation at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Constantine R. Campbell is Associate Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Dr. D.A. Carson is Research Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and Co-founder of The Gospel Coalition. Pastor Ornan Cruz is Pastor of Los Pinos Nuevos in Cuba. Rev. Sherif Gendy is Director of Arabic Production at Third Millennium Ministries. Rev. Michael J. Glodo is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. Dr. James M. Hamilton is Associate Professor of Biblical Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Preaching Pastor of Kenwood Baptist Church. Dr. Carol Kaminski is Professor of Old Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Dr. Craig S. Keener is the F.M. and Ada Thompson Chair of Biblical Studies at Asbury Theological Seminary. Rev. Kevin Labby is Senior Pastor of Willow Creek Church in Winter Springs, FL. Dr. Dan Lacich is a pastor at Northland, A Church Distributed in Orlando, FL. Rev. Bin Li is Pastor of Zhongshan Rock Church in China. Dr. Chip McDaniel is Professor of Old Testament and Hebrew at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Sean McDonough is Professor of New Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Dr. Jeffrey J. Niehaus is Professor of Old Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Dr. Tom Petter is Associate Professor of Old Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. Dr. Glen G. Scorgie is Professor of Theology at Bethel Seminary, San Diego. Dr. Imad Shehadeh is Founder, President and Professor of Theology at Jordan Evangelical Theological Seminary in Amman, Jordan. Dr. Seth Tarrer is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Old Testament and Biblical Languages at Knox Theological Seminary. Dr. Stephen J. Wellum is Professor of Christian Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727012
__label__wiki	0.624202	0.624202	Vintage makes a comeback in Dior’s 70th anniversary at the ROM March 15, 2018 CanCulture Magazine Photo: Nina Jeffrey By Regina Dickson With the steady return of all things vintage to the fashion world, an exhibition showcasing 70 years of Christian Dior’s couture is bringing classic vogue to the Royal Ontario Museum. Thirty-eight thematically-arranged dresses are the main attraction of the exhibition. Most of them were donated to the museum by Toronto and Montreal socialites. Each dress is supplemented with a placard revealing its unique history. “One of the neat things is to read how [each] woman who first owned this dress used it and wore it,” said visitor Lynn Fraser. The designs are from Dior’s first collections, christened as the New Look by Harper’s Bazaar, from the post-war period of 1947 and 1957. The New Look controversy The controversial 1947 New Look collection called Corolle and Huit presented 90 styles, which on average used 20 yards of fabric each, violating France’s post-war fabric restrictions. The dispute stemmed from the violation of the law and the very feminine silhouettes, which were drastically different from the masculine war uniforms that shaped the French tradition of that time. The look consists of a calf-length full skirt, a cinched waistline and a fuller bust than what was common since the early 1900s. It’s a very feminine look, particularly compared to today’s popular fashion, said visitors Gabriella and Cokie Ponikvar. Senior curator Alexandra Palmer said that the popularity of the exhibition is two-fold. “It’s very focused in its time frame, and it looks at those first ten years of Monsieur Dior in the 1950s, which is a time that resonates with people, because of [the] red carpet,” she said. “It’s clothes that we understand and imagine ourselves wearing, but we do not have that lifestyle, we’ve moved on. There’s a certain romance in the style associated with it.” She also explained that the information in the exhibition added to its success, seeing as it wasn’t just about “pretty dresses” and people are interested in learning new things. The accompanying placards for each garment offered attendees information about who designed each dress and how it was designed, “People are taken a bit by surprise when they discover the range of things that the exhibition covers,” said Palmer. The dresses are arranged according to the time of day. Daytime designs include coats, suits, and casual dresses, while late afternoon styles consist of cocktail and dinner dresses, and evening designs are comprised of ball gowns and formal gowns. In addition to the clothing, more than 100 Dior accessories were on display, consisting of earrings, necklaces, purses, shoes and perfumes. The dresses are enhanced by Dior’s original sketches, his notes and fabric samples. Christian Dior’s first fragrance, Miss Dior, gleamed in the spotlights on a miniature podium. The fragrance was named by the designer in honour of his sister Catherine, who was temporarily imprisoned in a concentration camp for joining the French Resistance. There’s a lot to learn about the late 1940s and early 1950s in France from Dior’s New Look collection. It came out during a time of genderless war uniform attire and broke fashion ground with its femininity. Vogue wrote about Dior’s accomplishments in fashion, “The opulence of his designs contrasted with the grim post-war reality of Europe, and helped re-establish Paris as the joyful fashion capital it had once been.” The dresses, being over fifty years old, were received in great condition, said Palmer. Could clothing that’s produced today stand the test of time to the same extent? Many would say no, and that today’s styles lack quality and attention to detail. Visitor Maure Kentner said, “(Dior’s) collars and his shoulders [are] just beautiful. There are no rough edges on the finishing and he’s used wider seams. He’s also used methods to make sure that the seam doesn’t show.” Kentner believes that the quality material we see in fashion today is nowhere near what it used to be. Despite the thematic arrangement of the dresses, even the daytime styles are a lot more ornate than today’s popular fashions. Kentner’s friend Lynn Fraser said, “The fashion for casualness has taken over.” Kentner added Dior’s 1950s style is “one that we need to get back.” This piece was edited by Aya Baradie. In Fashion Tags dior, fashion, rom, dress, dresses, design, designer ← The Ethical Fashion DilemmaTru-Dance the Night Away →	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727021
__label__wiki	0.634417	0.634417	Does Moving Across International Borders Boost Migrants’ Incomes, Happiness and Freedom Satisfaction? Milena Nikolova and Carol Graham Friday, October 17, 2014 The recent economic crisis and subsequent lagging economic recovery have renewed the immigration debate in the United States and beyond. However, while the effect of migration on the well-being of native populations is important, so is the question of how migrants fare once they reach their destination countries. Citizens of destination economies often argue that there are potential costs of migration for them, ranging from increasing strains on welfare systems to threats to the jobs of natives to the difficulties of assimilation. Despite these fears, on balance, migration’s benefits for the these destination economies outweigh the costs: Immigrants are net contributors to public coffers, and complementarities between low-skilled immigrants and natives exist—particularly when new migrants take low-skilled jobs that native workers eschew. But what about the welfare of the migrants themselves once they have reached their new homes? This is an important issue, largely due to the sheer magnitude of migration stocks: About 232 million people lived outside their country of birth in 2013. Most migrants move across international borders to maximize their earnings and to gain opportunities, and most do make significant income gains. Whether these earnings gains are mirrored by improvements in reported well-being and broader quality of life is still largely an open question, however. Higher levels of immigrant well-being can be instrumentally important for social outcomes such as public health and productivity, as happier individuals are typically more productive and healthier. Immigrant dissatisfaction may reflect social exclusion and a lack of assimilation, and even extremist attitudes among natives, all of which can result in social unrest and lower economic output. From the point of view of the home countries, emigrant well-being is important as migrants send remittances and contribute to the well-being of their home countries through investments, the spread of ideas and technology. Understanding the well-being consequences of migrating is challenging, as comparing the well-being of migrants with that of those who stayed behind in the sending countries or with natives in the destination countries is methodologically flawed. Such comparisons may simply reflect the traits of those who choose to migrate, and who may have differences in ability, risk tolerance, aspirations and motivation, among other traits. The direction of causality between well-being and migration is also unclear: While migration may influence well-being, well-being might well influence migration. A recent paper using South American data finds that respondents who intend to migrate in the next year are wealthier and more educated than the average respondent in the region, but are also less happy and more critical of their current and future economic opportunities. Despite the large income gains typically associated with migration, the move can also be accompanied by declining happiness because of adaptation to new income levels at the same time that aspirations are rising. While migrants’ (absolute) incomes increase (see Figure 1), so do their expectations as they compare themselves to the high-earning natives in their host countries. In a recent paper, we use Gallup World Poll data and statistical techniques to understand the consequences of migration for the well-being (income and non-income dimensions) of movers from transition economies to advanced nations. Like other studies, we find unequivocal income increases due to migration. More importantly, we find that there are significant gains in life satisfaction (Figure 2) and in perceptions of freedom (Figure 3). Source: Nikolova and Graham, (2014) based on Gallup World Poll Data. Financial Inclusion, Regulation, Literacy, and Education in Central Asia and South Caucasus Edited by Peter J. Morgan and Yan Zhang Demystifying Rising Inequality in Asia Edited by Bihong Huang, Peter J. Morgan, and Naoyuki Yoshino Ageing and Employment Policies By Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD Milena Nikolova Nonresident Fellow - Global Economy and Development Twitter @milenkanik Carol Graham Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow and Research Director - Global Economy and Development Twitter cgbrookings We studied migrants from transition and post-transition societies as these are the predominant sources of migration for the OECD countries in Europe. For example, in 2012, Poland and Romania were among the top three migrant sources of OECD migrants. It is important to note that the migration experience of those who leave the transition economies and go to Europe, which is culturally very similar, is likely quite different from that of movers Asia, Africa and Latin America, for example. We find that migrants from transition countries achieve a better quality of life after they go abroad. The average household income premium from migration for our sample is about 21,000 international dollars (about 10,500 ID per household member). And even if reference norms and aspirations change, migrants’ life satisfaction improves. The average benefit is substantively and statistically significant: an increase of about 1.0-1.2 (on a life satisfaction scale 0-10). Perhaps most importantly, migration positively affects perceptions of freedom (based on a question which asks whether or not respondents are satisfied with their freedom to choose in life), with migrants from the most recent European Union enlargements being nearly 40 percent more satisfied. Data from around the world show that freedom to make choices in life is a pivotal element of human well-being. At a time when there is ample reason to be concerned about the state of world affairs, our research findings are a “happy story:” By voting with their feet, migrants from transition economies can improve their well-being. Surely migration does not solve the problems in the countries the migrants left, nor can we be confident at this stage that our results apply to migrants from other parts of the world or those going to destinations outside the OECD. Yet it does suggest that win-win outcomes are possible from increasing mobility in global labor markets. That is a story worth learning more about.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727022
__label__wiki	0.508596	0.508596	History Of Yreka California American Civil War Game Free Download Jul 14, 2017 · Ultimate General: Civil War Free Download PC Game Cracked in Direct Link and Torrent. Ultimate General: Civil War is a tactical war-game. Experience the bloodiest period of U.S. history – the American Civil War of 1861-1865. The dystopian series based on the novel of the name by Margaret Atwood imagines a world “With so many gold-seekers already in California due to the '49 gold rush, it wasn' t long before word got out, and within six weeks of Thompson's discovery there. Our History. Daniel H. Girdner Sr. was a true gentleman in every sense of the word. He began the legacy of Girdner Funeral Chapel that is now spanning 4. Yreka History. Yreka was born when gold was discovered on the flats near a ravine called Black Gulch in March of 1851 by Abraham Thompson, a member of a. May 18, 2014. 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__label__cc	0.535024	0.464976	Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II Seminar, in English, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 7 March 2009 to 8 March 2009 Front to Rear: Architecture and Planning during World War II, held at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, brings together research investigating a wide range of architectural activities, taking place in diverse geographical locations, and occurring between the bombings of Guernica in 1937 and Hiroshima in 1945. World War II was a key moment in the process of modernisation, and manifold issues are raised by the preparation of war, the total mobilisation of territories and cities and their eventual occupation, destruction and reconstruction. A group of nineteen scholars presents architects’ contributions in the preparation for the war in terms of new forms of infrastructure and management; engagement in development of offensive and defensive tactics; and their assistance in the armed conflict, be it on the front lines, within occupied territories, or on the home front. A number of papers explore connections between architectural practice and wartime technology and production. Also addressed are wartime preparation for peacetime reconstruction, commemoration and memorial architecture. Front to Rear was held in anticipation of a 2010 exhibition co-organised by the CCA, the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU and Princeton University’s School of Architecture.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727028
__label__cc	0.520266	0.479734	Leading the recycling industry for 100 years and counting Under CEO Tamara Lundgren, a focus on operational excellence has been at the forefront of Schnitzer Steel’s success. When talking about the ups and downs in the steel industry, Tamara Lundgren, CEO of Schnitzer Steel, quotes Alan Greenspan who famously followed the steel scrap business for clues to the health of the economy. Scrap metal typically comes from vehicles, buildings, appliances and manufacturing activity and is the raw material used in the production of two-thirds of the steel produced in the US and almost 50% of the steel produced globally, excluding China. “When he was Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Greenspan used to say that he looked at scrap prices to judge the health of the economy, especially to anticipate a recovery or recession,” Lundgren, who took on her current role as CEO in 2008, right after the Global Financial Crisis struck, told CEO Magazine. “Steel scrap is unique as a direct indicator of industrial production and consumer confidence that is not clouded by large-scale commodity trading. The flow of material reflects actual economic activity and can also be used to interpret consumer confidence around employment—whether that means obtaining, maintaining, or even retaining a job. “When people are holding onto their cars or washing machines longer due to economic uncertainty in their own lives, the impact on the flow of scrap becomes evident. Similarly, when the economy is growing, the flow of scrap increases, reflective of higher manufacturing, construction, and consumer spending activity.” Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. is a steel manufacturing and metal recycling company head-quartered in Portland, Oregon. Founded in 1906 by Russian immigrant Sam Schnitzer as a one-man scrap metal recycler, the company went public in 1993 with a listing on NASDAQ. Today, with $2.5 billion in revenues, Schnitzer is one of the largest publicly-traded manufacturers and exporters of recycled metals in North America. With 100 operating facilities located throughout the region, including seven deep-water ports on both coasts of the US and a retail auto parts business with over five million annual retail visits, Schnitzer’s vertically integrated operating platform also includes its steel manufacturing business, which manufactures finished steel products used in infrastructure and commercial projects. Yet although the company is over 110 years old, things were not always so smooth-sailing. “I took over on Dec. 1, 2008, right after the crisis broke, which if it wasn’t actually the bottom of the cycle, it was millimeters away from the bottom,” Lundgren remembers. “It was a very tough time, but it was also a time in the steel industry in which a few months prior to the crisis, steel prices and demand and scrap prices and demand (CUT) had hit historic highs. Utilization in the US steel industry fell from maximum capacity to 50%.” Rebounding from crisis Lundgren says that when she began her tenure as CEO of Schnitzer, there were a couple of key aspects of the company she wanted to address quickly to speed along the recovery process: its organizational structure, which meant bringing together divisions that she felt operated independently of each other; the company culture, with a focus on spurring operational excellence; and growth, moving from a bottom-line focus in the period immediately following the financial crisis to top-line as the economy and the steel industry itself began to rebound. “When I took over, our company had three divisions: a steel manufacturing division, a metal recycling division, and a recycled auto parts division,” she continued. “While they were theoretically synergistic, they operated very independently of one another, yet they were vertically integrated. There were a lot of internal synergies that were not being captured which required a renewed focus on our company’s culture. My predecessor as CEO, John Carter, had begun that under his tenure, but I wanted to further advance it with a focus on excellence, which I defined as excellence through innovation, through employee engagement, and through productivity. “The third area was growth. Because it was a time of crisis, the focus on growth was really bottom-line productivity, cost reduction, and generating internal synergies. Once we delivered improved profits by becoming more productive and reducing costs, we shifted shortly thereafter to top-line growth.” Lundgren cites her three current priorities at Schnitzer as processes, people, and profits, which she believes have enabled the company to differentiate itself from its competitors, improving quality, timeliness, pricing, and the ability to reinvest in the company’s operations and advance technologically. Furthermore, the new organizational structure implemented at Schnitzer since her arrival has enabled her team to work in what Lundgren describes as a “cross-functional and cross-divisional” way, aided by the recruitment, training, and development of its employees, and the results have thus far been highly impressive. “In 2016, we set forth a multi-year strategy to increase our volumes by 30% by the end of fiscal 2019,” she explained. “We achieved our objective one year early and have now reset and raised the bar to continue that growth—we are targeting another 15% increase by the end of fiscal 2020, and we are on track to do that. Increasing the size of our platform is the second element that’s key to growth, both our recycling platform and our auto parts platform. The third is continuing to grow through innovation, to create those new metal products that our customers are seeking.” Efficient collaboration Lundgren cites a flexible and efficient supply chain as a key operational benefit for Schnitzer. The bulk of their procurement is trade procurement, i.e., acquiring the scrap metal they process to sell to steel mills and smelters. The non-trade procurement is mainly comprised of the heavy industrial equipment the company uses to produce their products. “Having strategic supplier relationships allows us to innovate from a manufacturing perspective,” Lundgren insisted. “One of our long-term operational objectives has been to continue to extract more and more metal and recyclable materials from the stream raw materials that we process. This means that there’s less of it going to landfills”. “When we sell our products to steel mills and smelters, the metal content and its composition is very important,” she added. “Being able to meet the quality benchmarks of our customers while at the same time extracting the optimum amount of metal from the unprocessed scrap that we acquire ensures a very synergistic relationship.” “Our company was founded 110 years ago,” Lundgren highlighted on the fundamental vision of seeing value where others see waste. “Although our processes are different today than they were a century ago and we are a much larger and more diverse organization, our focus remains the same. We are celebrating our 25th year with a listing on NASDAQ and I think understanding the importance of our industry and our company in the economy is becoming more and more central to investors, our suppliers, and our customers.” Anthony Moran2019-07-17T13:57:15+00:00 About the Author: Anthony Moran Creating a leaner energy business to serve the community The woman behind Facebook A guy born to win	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727029
__label__cc	0.565171	0.434829	Our civic centre - the beating heart of our community Blogs : Our civic centre - the beating heart of our community Blogs : Our civic centre - the beating heart of our community Along with iconic buildings like The Shard and the London Aquatics Centre, Brent Civic Centre has won a 2014 RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) National Award. This award means that the Brent Civic Centre is now in the running for The Stirling Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in the Architectural world. Whilst it's a privilege to be recognised for architectural qualities, and this is another milestone in putting Brent on the map, for me our civic centre has already won the greatest award by becoming such a bustling, vibrant community space. Every day I'm delighted to see so many residents of Brent use it at all the important stages of their lives: registering births, revising for GCSEs and A-levels, preparing for job interviews, getting married and for meeting friends and family to socialise. It is a major social hub for Brent. Similarly, Brent's voluntary sector plays a major role in making our community stronger - even more so in the harsh economic times we face. I'd like to commend CVS Brent, the umbrella organisation that helps local charities bid for external funding and build strong and sustainable business models, for the excellent work it is doing to support local charities and community organisations. These charities are, in turn, providing first-rate, much needed, services in our community. We are already an active and supportive community and I would encourage anyone interested in volunteering to get in touch with CVS Brent in order to access the support and resources that they offer. Volunteering benefits both the volunteer and those receiving the support and services on offer, providing an enriching experience on both sides. Similarly, our civic centre offers a place for people to learn, to grow and to get together, but those people are enriching our community at the same time. In tough times, mutual support will make us the strong community that we need to be.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727031
__label__wiki	0.80234	0.80234	High School Dance Teams Illinois I was in the last graduating class of Crescent, 1979. The district decided to make the high schools 4 year, and close a few jr highs starting the following school year. Kaneland District 302 consists of 4 elementary schools, 1 middle, and 1 high school. Kaneland football team win back to back State Championships. Eric Ferguson: Elburn, Illinois, native. The students of Archbishop Hannan High School are no exception. A back-to-school pep rally was held recently in the gym. Stud. Officials at Tuscola high school — who played Smoky Mountain last Friday –said Aaron Tuttle approached them, offering to gi. “You’re a junior in high school. The team’s first announcement had nothing to do with the players coming out. It had to do. Find your high school teams and athletes on MaxPreps.com Read the latest St. Louis high school sports, high school athlete stats, high school schedules, recruiting news, photos and video from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch & STLtoday.com The principal of a Florida high school has issued an apology after a video of the school’s dance team dressed in lacy stockings and garters went viral. The video appears to show the Miami Northwestern. Dwight D. Eisenhower High School (Eisenhower, DDE, EHS or Ike) is a public four-year high school located in Blue Island, Illinois, a southern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.It is part of Community High School District 218 along with sister schools Alan B. Shepard High School and Harold L. Richards High School. Eisenhower is a diverse school. The Flat Rock High School varsity football team will play against Grosse Ile High School at 7 p.m. Friday at Flat Rock, 25600. Storm \| Bureau Valley High School Athletics Website. 9154-2125 North Ave., Manlius IL 61338. Powered by: 8to18 Media, Inc. Ps4 Just Dance 2019 Microphone "The Voice is returning for 2019 and we want you to come along to one of our open mic nights if you want to have alleging it maintains unconstitutional rules that bar boys from joining girls’ competitive high school dance teams. Dmitri Moua and Zachary Greenwald filed a federal lawsuit with help from their paren. Dance Attire For Boys BALLET CLASS Attire • Black Dance Shorts or Boys Tights • White Fitted Short Sleeve T-shirt or tank top. Dance Shoes • Bloch Black Ballet The intrigue of the regional high school scene isn’t specific. cap a 14-0 season for coach Mike Alberghini, the school’s head coach since 1991 who’s been with the district for 50 years. Bubble team. By the night’s end, five area teams reached had reached the five-win mark for playoff. crumbled beneath the Falcons (5-0). Belleville West is a state of the art high school built on 126 acres south of Route 15 on Frank Scott Parkway West. The campus consists of a 360,000 sq. ft. educational facility, a football/soccer stadium with brand new turf encircled by an all-weather 8 lane track, athletic facilities to accommodate tennis, softball, baseball, soccer, cross country and. Hunter College High School is a secondary school for gifted students located in the Carnegie Hill neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.It is administered by Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY). Hunter is publicly funded, and there is no tuition fee. Enrollment is approximately 1200 students. Dance teams from six area schools placed at last weekend’s western regional in New Richmond, one of three qualifying events held around the state. Onalaska High School’s dance team qualified for two e. For the eighth year in a row, the Kenston High School Bomberette Dance team took home two first-place National Championship awards in Pom and Kick routines at the Champion Cheer and Dance Competition. Crescent Junior High School closed down I believe around early 1980’s and the land now is all houses. My brothers went there in the 70’s. Reply Delete Adlai E. Stevenson High School (AESHS), commonly called Stevenson High School (SHS), is a four-year public high school located in Lincolnshire, Illinois, United States. September IHSA Board of Directors Meeting Recap Monday, September 10, 2018. The Illinois High School Association (IHSA) Board of Directors met at its regularly scheduled meeting at the IHSA office in Bloomington on Monday, September 10, Young Magnet High School, Alex West was all-state in track, captain of the soccer team, first-chair saxophone in the band, all while he maintained a 3.94 grade-point average and got a 33 on the ACT. 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Related organizations Nine Ways Title IX Protects High School Students hst Title IX – Public Law 92-318 of the Education Amendments of 1972 No person in the United States shall, on the basis. Read More; Tollefson Won 13 High School Track, Cross Country Titles hst Carrie Tollefson, who will be inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame July 2 in Chicago, Illinois… The Carlsbad Xcalibur High School Dance Team and their families recently packaged 2,500 meals at San Dieguito United Methodis. Thornton Township High School Named Chicago Sky High School Team of the Week. The Chicago Sky has selected Thornton Township High School as the eighth weekly winner of its 2017 “High School Team of the Week” program presented by Robert Morris University Illinois. GRANITE CITY, Ill. – A promotional photoshoot involving the Granite City Police Department and the Granite City High School Dance Team has stirred up controversy on social media. Granite City School S. Glenn Wilson likes to sing and dance, and when the 17-year-old with Down syndrome tried out for the West High School cheerlea. “They are all high energy. your parents and stay in school. “The Awesome Squad is just that, they are awesome,” said Abby. The ADC was selected outstanding dance school of Illinois by the Young Americans National Invitational and the only school chosen to represent the state of Illinois at the International Dance Festival in Los Angeles 1995-2018. The journey to the National Dance Championships continues for the dance team at Cardinal Gibbons High School. The squad recently earned more hardware for its trophy case by capturing honors for its va. Flame Christian Rapper Tour Free Rock Songs For String Orchestra	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727036
__label__cc	0.628386	0.371614	Mormon Hymns Sheet Music Trumpet Sheet Music Hymn Style All Creatures of Our God and King – Trumpet 1 (Brass Quartet): Lasst Uns Erfreuen by Geistliche Kirchengesange and St. Francis of Assisi ISBN 1470639599. In Play Mormon Hymns, Book 3, pianists young and old will find accessible arrangements of beloved LDS hymns, which are a continuous source of inspiration and an important part of worship services. Today, I have one solo and one dual choral piece, both which combine hymns with traditional American folk songs. In my high school days, I loved singing both “Homeward Bound” and “Shenandoah”, and I’m happy nowadays that I still get to sing them with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Find new music for choirs, including hymn arrangements and anthems. Download free sheet music for elementary piano. Chords really are the essence of music. Even a one line melody must be based on an underlying set of chords. 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Acland Music – Free sheet music and downloads of hymns… The renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra. Each individual musician will get their own separate sheet of music with just their part on it.” In arranging and orchestrating the hymn, Rose to. Authoritative information about the hymn text Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty!, with lyrics, PDF files, printable scores, MIDI files, audio recordings, piano resources, and products for worship planners. Justin Bieber Singing Find Yours Toy Story The Musical Sid	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727037
__label__wiki	0.961693	0.961693	© Anne Combaz mustang-nominations-and-awards "MUSTANG" The partnership between Chanel and the team behind the Turkish-French film began on May 20, 2015, in Cannes. The five young actresses and the film's director all wore Chanel to present their work for Directors' Fortnight at the festival. Director Deniz Gamze Ergüven explains, "I really saw Chanel as gilding on the film's journey (…) Every outfit was a complete, revolutionary reinvention of our idea of women's bodies. The most surprising thing is the perfect alliance between the breath of modernity and the Maison Chanel's rich heritage." The team wore Chanel ceremony gowns, from Los Angeles where the film won the American Film Institute's Audience Award, to Paris, where it won several César including Best Debut Feature, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Original Music, and on to the Oscars, where it represented France in competition for Best Foreign-Language Film. Deniz Gamze Ergüven continues, "There's something profoundly rebellious about every Chanel clothing. They create a form of seduction, but without undermining the women who wear them. (…) Every time I slipped one on, I experienced a feeling of power. (…) For me, Chanel embodies a soaring vision of beauty and elegance – Coco Chanel's bountiful heritage reinvented by Karl Lagerfeld's absolute visionary genius.” ANTERIORTHE COCO CASE SHOW 1 SIGUIENTESILHOUETTE FROM THE COLLECTION "mustang" Nominations And Awards	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727038
__label__wiki	0.947906	0.947906	Spirituality pervades new American Indian museum in Washington: Opening celebrated in service at Washington National Cathedral Just as earth tones form an underlying decorative element in the new National Museum of the American Indian, spirituality is an undercurrent within the 254,000-square-foot edifice built on Washington’s National Mall. The top level of the imposing building of light brown limestone features a permanent exhibition that highlights how spiritual beliefs and values merge with the everyday life of native peoples across the Western Hemisphere. Oct 19, 2004 issue “Spirituality is really a rather fundamental tenet of native life,” said Richard West, the director of the newest Smithsonian Institution museum. “It imbues everything, as far as I’m concerned.” The fact that West is also a United Methodist whose Native American heritage is the Southern Cheyenne Tribe also speaks to the efforts of both Christian and native religious leaders to enjoy the museum opening despite wounds from the past. Native Americans within present U.S. borders suffered disease, displacement and death in such numbers that by 1900 their millions dropped to about 250,000. Native Americans now exceed 2 million and are growing. “It’s more than just numbers,” West said, alluding to what he calls “a cultural renaissance” under way. The museum, which opened officially September 21, encompasses native Indian cultures in both Americas. For instance, the fourth-floor exhibition, “Our Universes,” uses the spoken and written words of “community curators” to examine eight native communities, from the Lakota in South Dakota to the Mapuche in Chile. “We are spiritual beings on a human journey,” said Garry Raven, of Manitoba, Canada, who teaches about the Anishinaabe people located in the Great Lakes region and central Canada. “Everything has a spirit and everything is interconnected.” Emil Her Many Horses, curator of the “Our Universes” exhibit, spoke about spending time with spiritual leaders and elders of the Yup’ik community in Alaska. They were the last in their generation to be raised in “the men’s house,” a place “comparable to their university or their church,” he said. “It’s where they learned all the lessons of life.” The curator said museum staffers met several times with elders and spiritual leaders of the featured communities, involving them in a review of the exhibit’s design, scripts and use of media. “Anytime we gathered and came together they wanted to have a blessing that went along with it to bless our work so that things went well,” he said. The sacredness of nature—from mountains to crops—is explained by the different community leaders. In the area devoted to the Q’eq’chi Maya community in Guatemala, a bowl of seeds sits next to two glazed ears of corn. “Seeds are extremely important,” said Don Esteban Pop, a retired school teacher who returned to his Mayan beliefs after many years in the Catholic Church. “The act of seed selection is considered sacred.” The $200 million landmark, which also has centers in New York and Maryland, houses 800,000 artifacts altogether, according to West. He was recognized for his director’s role on September 26 at Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church in Washington where he and his family are longtime members. West, 61, is well regarded “among people of all tribes,” David Wilson, superintendent of the Methodists’ Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference, told the United Methodist News Service. West, raised a Baptist, said, “I have always found the Methodists open to the social issues that confront native peoples.” Some museum exhibits include reminders of the Christian influences that left Indians with a mixed legacy. One display case, for instance, contains Bibles and church literature translated into Indian languages, including a Book of Common Prayer rendered into Mohawk by a native leader who served the Loyalist cause during the American Revolution. Two days before the museum opened, the event was celebrated at the Washington National Cathedral in a service described by Episcopal News Service. The rites recalled Episcopal Church ties going back to 1579 on a northern California beach—the first Anglican services in the future nation. “We are people who have been blessed by the creator,” declared Carol Gallagher, a suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia and a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. “This might seem to most Americans to be an incredible contradiction,” she said, referring to Indian peoples going through hunger and persecution and often called meek, childish and ignorant. “We have been tortured and killed because we cared for our children; we protected our mother earth and we honored and treasured the gifts we had been given—even when we had to whisper and hide, even when our people seemed at their end,” Gallagher said in her sermon. “We have honored and treasured the gifts we have been given—and it is to people just like us that Jesus was speaking.” –Religion News Service and denominational news services	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727041
__label__cc	0.568432	0.431568	The Global Consequences of Russia’s Isolation Published: January 6, 2015 Domenico Lombardi Harold James PRINCETON – Russia’s current crisis, particularly the collapse of the ruble, reveals the fragility not only of the Russian economy, but also of the existing international order and the foundations of contemporary thinking about economic and political sustainability. Indeed, Russia’s crisis was never supposed to happen – and its growing isolation gives it little stake in existing mechanisms of global governance. After the Latin American debt crisis of the 1980s and the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 (which also affected Russia), emerging economies were determined to figure out how to avoid repeating that experience. They identified three keys to managing the perils of modern financial globalization: a large cushion of reserves to stave off speculative attacks; avoidance of large current-account deficits (with surpluses used to accumulate reserves); and low external public and private debt. Moreover, the emerging economies took governance lessons, recognizing the imperative of improving transparency and reducing corruption. And policymakers and financial institutions devoted considerable attention to determining what might constitute warning indicators. Before 2014, Russia was performing well by all of these criteria. There were no warning signs. In 2013, the public sector’s external debt amounted to a mere 3.8% of GDP, and private-sector external debt totaled a reasonable 30.2% of GDP. Last spring, the country’s foreign reserves amounted to a healthy $472 billion, helped by a substantial current-account surplus; and, according to the Central Bank of Russia, the country’s total foreign assets stood at $1.4 trillion, exceeding its liabilities of $1.2 trillion. So what went wrong? One problem may be that assets are not easy to mobilize in a crisis. As economists at the Bank for International Settlements, especially Claudio Borio and Hyun Song Shin, recently highlighted, financial-asset balances often reflect the use of the foreign sector as a means of creating more intermediation – a system that enables large-scale capital flight. That seems especially true of Russia. In other words, Russian companies use capital that they raise abroad to accumulate assets, which they do not necessarily repatriate. Under such circumstances, bad things can happen – even to countries with large reserves and current-account surpluses. After all, companies can quickly drain the reserves, instead of accessing their own overseas assets, if they need to make payments. Economists are familiar with the classic macroeconomic policy “trilemma”: countries cannot have fixed exchange rates, open capital accounts, and an independent monetary policy at the same time. But there is also a financial-sector equivalent, in which capital flows are incompatible with financial-sector stability. And when international security issues become salient, such as during the current Russian crisis, free movement of capital generates even greater volatility. Something similar occurred in the years preceding the outbreak of World War I. The close diplomatic relationship between France and Germany facilitated the movement of substantial amounts of capital; but moments of international tension, such as the 1911 Morocco crisis, brought about speculative attacks that highlighted Germany’s increasing isolation. In the interwar years, and especially in the 1930s, when the global security order was disintegrating, speculative attacks became a tool for political manipulation. In particular, Nazi Germany hoped that, by placing financial pressure on France, it could induce credit and budgetary crises, thereby compelling the country to reduce military spending. One of the hallmarks of the global order implemented after World War II was the interaction between economic and security governance systems, with the same five powers occupying permanent seats on the United Nations Security Council and, for the last generation, on the International Monetary Fund’s executive board. This helped stave off politically motivated speculative attacks and restore global financial and monetary stability. The Soviet Union did not apply for IMF membership. But, in the 1990s, Russia did – and was awarded a seat on the executive board. Russia was subsequently integrated into the G-8 and the newly constituted G-20. But the G-8 has suspended Russia, and the country was effectively downgraded to observer status at the latest G-20 meeting in Brisbane. In short, the world order is being recast – and Russia is losing its place. The Russian political elite had hoped for the emergence of a new or alternative mechanism of global economic governance, underpinned by the major emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The so-called BRICS were expected to challenge Western-dominated international institutions, especially the IMF, and the dollar-centric monetary system. And, to some extent, they have. But, so far, the effort’s impact has been limited. For example, the large gas deal that Russia negotiated with China last May, on terms that favored the Chinese, is reported to include prices denominated in renminbi and rubles, rather than dollars. But, with the ruble’s collapse, these provisions are presumably being renegotiated. Likewise, in July, the BRICS created a “contingent reserve arrangement” that would, it was claimed, “forestall short-term balance of payments pressures, provide mutual support, and further strengthen financial stability.” But Russia is unlikely to be able to draw upon this emergency credit line in the current crisis. More recently, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pledged assistance to Russia. But his vague language reflected a larger hesitation that will probably persist until the crisis is over. In short, both the Western-dominated governance mechanisms and the BRICS’ fledgling institutions have turned against Russia. At this point, Russia’s only hope is that the crisis triggers such serious instability and contagion that it unnerves investors and emerging economies – and ultimately blows up both global governance systems. Harold James is a CIGI Senior Fellow. He is Professor of History and International Affairs and the Claude and Lore Kelly Professor of European Studies at Princeton University.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727042
__label__cc	0.72896	0.27104	Home » Marijuana Legalization: The International Edition Marijuana Legalization: The International Edition By Canna Law Blog on May 24, 2015 Most countries, including the United States, are parties to a collection of international drug control treaties—the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, and the 1988 Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances—which require signatories to outlaw the manufacture, distribution, and possession of certain controlled substances (like heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and cannabis). These treaties are enforced on an international level through the United Nation’s International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), which, as you can imagine, isn’t too thrilled with countries legalizing cannabis. Despite the INCB’s misplaced objections, many countries have begun liberalizing their cannabis laws. The result is a patchwork of laws, much like you see on a state-by-state basis here in the United States. For example, in North Korea—one of the most oppressive countries on earth—cannabis is 100% legal. In Indonesia, on the other hand, cannabis possession is punishable by death. Most countries, including the United States, fall somewhere in between these two extremes. Despite the United States’ legalization movement generating the most media attention , many other countries are far ahead of the United States in terms of cannabis laws and policy. Israel has been at the forefront of cannabinoid research and has operated a medical program since 2007. Uruguay is experimenting with a combination of home grow and a government monopoly model of taxing and regulating sales; it plans to issue commercial growing licenses within the year. Chile is taking a more measured approach, recently harvesting first crop of cannabis under a pilot program serving approximately 200 patients. By contrast, Canada’s medical cannabis program serves approximately 40,000 patients, who can purchase their medicine through Amazon.com-style online marketplaces. The Netherlands has had legal cannabis for quite some time. Other countries are one-by-one loosening up on cannabis prohibition. Australia will likely be planting its first medical marijuana crop soon (which it could export internationally), and a legalization bill is currently pending and gaining momentum in its Parliament. Jamaica has made big moves this year by decriminalizing cannabis and moving forward with government-sanctioned research programs, in an attempt to set the stage for full-scale commercialization. Many other countries have opted out of commercialized cannabis, but nonetheless have decriminalized possession in small amounts. State-by-state and country-by-country, the cannabis legalization movement is truly an international movement and shows no signs of slowing down. That’s why we will in the future be writing more often on developments in cannabis law outside of the United States, mostly by taking in-depth looks at countries that have, are, or will be changing their cannabis laws. Please stay tuned. U.S. Indicts Cannabis Manufacturer for Illegal Hazardous Waste Dumping, But Not For Cannabis Activity The Top 5 Most Dangerous Cannabis Contracts in California California Cannabis Beverages Have Even More Labeling Requirements	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727045
__label__cc	0.525253	0.474747	Home > Columns & Papers > Macroeconomics > A First Step Toward Reform of Japan's Agricultural Cooperative System A First Step Toward Reform of Japan's Agricultural Cooperative System nippon.com on April 20, 2015 The government has embarked on the first overhaul of Japan's agricultural cooperative system in around 60 years. Yamashita Kazuhito takes a look at the history of this powerful institution--whose influence stretches beyond farming to the worlds of politics and finance--and ponders its future role. In 2014, reform of the Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA) group, the most influential body in postwar Japanese politics, finally made it onto the government's agenda. This is presumably related to the efforts by the administration of Prime Minister Abe Shinzō to push through the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The political clout of the JA group currently presents the single biggest obstacle to reaching an agreement on the TPP free trade pact, and the government has decided it needs to clip the wings of this powerful farm lobby. I will touch on the particulars of these reforms in the latter part of this article, but first I would like to explain the background to Japan's distinctive system of agricultural cooperatives. ■Roots of the Cooperatives In order to allow the government to procure rice from farmers during the food shortages in the immediate aftermath of World War II, agricultural cooperatives were formed as successors to the regulatory organs that had been in charge of all aspects of farming and other activities in villages during the war years, including the collection of produce. To help them fulfill their role, they were granted the exceptional right to do banking business, taking deposits and making loans. Also, these associations of farmers were allowed to offer membership to nonfarmers as well: Any resident of the community could become an associate member of the local agricultural cooperative and make use of its services. Subsequently the JA group added life insurance and property insurance to its roster. Japan's agricultural cooperatives emerged as the nation's most multifaceted incorporated entities. Ordinarily a cooperative is an independent body set up and run by its members. But the JA, with roots in the organs of the wartime command economy, emerged as an institution with a top-down power structure geared to transmitting instructions and orders from the central headquarters to the local organizations. The local agricultural cooperatives are under the control not of their members, as one would expect in principle, but of the Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives (JA-Zenchū) in Tokyo and the 47 prefectural unions affiliated with it. Another normal function of agricultural cooperatives is to enable farmers to purchase agricultural supplies cheaply. But in practice JA cooperatives use their exemption from antitrust laws to push fertilizers, pesticides, machinery, and animal fodder onto members at twice the price they are sold for in America. The need to use these expensive supplies pushes up farmers' costs and the prices of their produce. And the inflated prices of both agricultural supplies and agricultural produce enable the JA to earn large amounts in sales commissions. The JA has created the high-cost structure of Japanese farming, and high tariffs on imported produce are necessary to maintain this structure in the face of lower prices on international markets. ■JA to Blame for Agricultural Decline Farmers' incomes consist of sales (production volumes times prices) minus costs. Boosting sales and reducing costs are, therefore, two clear ways to increase income. Increasing the size of farms would allow farmers to reduce costs through economies of scale. But with the available farmland limited by Japan's mountainous topography, increasing the size of farms means reducing the number of them. This is a politically unpopular policy option. The JA instead sought to maintain the existing number of rice-farming households and resisted structural reforms. From the 1960s onward, it conducted a large-scale political campaign to hike rice prices repeatedly as a means of boosting farmers' incomes rather than making structural reforms. From the war years until 1995, under a government policy of purchasing rice produced by domestic farmers, increases in the officially set prices enabled smallholder farmers who would ordinarily have been forced out of agriculture by high costs to continue their activities. As a result, these smallholder farmers held on to their enclosures, preventing full-time farmers who depend on agriculture for their livelihood from increasing the scale of their own operations by acquiring further land. The percentage of domestic rice sales accounted for by such full-time operations is correspondingly low--only 38%, in contrast to other agricultural sectors like dairy (95%) and vegetables and other arable produce (82%). Japan's rice production went into a decline, with inflated prices, the accumulation of part-time farmers, decreasing demand, and production surpluses eventually leading to the introduction of a policy aimed at reducing rice acreage nationwide. The inefficiency of rice production in Japan is illustrated by the fact that although 70% of the nation's farmers grow rice, the crop accounts for only 20% of the country's total agricultural production. The chart below illustrates just how low a share of rice farmers' income comes from farming and how much they rely on income from other sources, such as additional employment or pensions. In fact the vast majority of rice farmers are actually engaged full-time in other professions or are pensioners. Of all the farms producing rice, the share operated by full-time farmers amounts to a mere 10%. In fact, the increasing share of part-time or aged rice producers has also strongly affected the development of the JA. Many of these farmers are actually eager to get out of farming and will gladly sell their farm plots for the right price to developers wishing to build houses, factories, or shopping centers on them. This is highly convenient for the business of the JA group agricultural cooperatives, which are also engaged in banking. Not only do members deposit their income from other occupations and pensions with the cooperatives' banking system, JA Bank, but they also entrust it with the sums they receive from selling their land, which run into hundreds of millions of yen in additional deposits per year. As a result, the combined total of savings deposited with JA Bank as of the end of January 2015 had swollen to a staggering ¥94 trillion, leaving JA Bank vying with domestic banks Mizuho and Sumitomo Mitsui (with total deposits of ¥102 trillion and ¥85 trillion, respectively, both as of September 2014) for the title of Japan's second-largest financial institution. Agriculture in Japan is in decline, so only 1%-2% of JA Bank's total deposits are used to finance farming. But, as noted above, nonfarmers are allowed to become associate members of the JA group's cooperatives, and some 30% of the bank's deposits go to supply housing loans and other types of loans to members. (As of the end of fiscal 2012, associate members outnumbered regular members by around 750,000.) The remaining funds are managed by Nōrinchūkin Bank, the central financial institution overseeing the JA Bank system; this is a colossal operation with investments the world over, including on Wall Street. The JA system has driven farming into decline, and now the JA itself is moving away from the sector. It has ceased to be an organization dedicated to agricultural finance farming. If tariffs were eliminated and it became impossible to maintain high rice prices, the very foundations of JA's existence would be jeopardized. This is why the organization has actively promoted demonstrations against the TPP multilateral free trade pact currently under negotiation. To the JA, high rice prices are an interest that it wants to protect at all costs, even to the overall detriment of Japanese agriculture. Every country has groups that lobby the government on behalf of the farming sector, but Japan is the only country in which such a body is also involved in business and finance. And the institution's political platform and financial interests are both tied to the maintenance of high rice prices. What the JA is concerned about protecting is not the financial welfare of the farmers who comprise its regular membership nor the health of Japanese agriculture as a whole, but rather its own interests. ■Reforms under Abe Against this backdrop, one product of Abenomics, the economic policies of the Abe administration that is so eager to push through Japan's participation in TPP, is that the first overhaul of the agricultural cooperative system in around 60 years is finally underway. In May 2014, the government's Regulatory Reform Council issued a report on agricultural reform that included the recommendations outlined below. The first recommendation was to strike the provisions relating to both JA-Zenchū and the prefectural unions from the Agricultural Cooperatives Act. Compulsory membership fees collected by these unions from local JA farming cooperatives come to some ¥8 billion annually in the case of JA-Zenchū and over ¥30 billion for the prefectural unions. Without legally enshrined backing, the unions would be unable to collect such fees, operate as a political lobby, or exercise control over the cooperatives under their jurisdiction through compulsory auditing. Secondly, the council called for National Federation of Agricultural Cooperative Associations (Zen-Noh), the Hokkaidō Federation of Agricultural Cooperatives (Hokuren), and other bodies responsible for the sale of agricultural produce and provision of agricultural materials to be stripped of their status as cooperatives and turned into ordinary corporations (stock companies). Although the JA group's economic activities represent a colossal enterprise, with an 80% share of the fertilizer market and 60% of the markets for both pesticides and agricultural machinery, they are exempted from antitrust legislation because of the JA organizations' cooperative status. Moreover, although ordinary corporations are required to pay corporation tax at a rate of 25.5%, the cooperatives pay only 19%. This, along with their exemption from real estate tax, is one of a number of tax breaks to which the farming cooperatives have long been entitled. The third recommendation was to limit the utilization of cooperative services by associate JA members to less than half that by regular members--that is, farmers. But subsequent talks between the administration and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party led to the announcement of an agreement the following month (June 2014) that effectively gutted the council's recommendations. In a bow to the wishes of JA-supported LDP legislators, the agreement provided that the JA would have the final say regarding implementation of the proposed reforms. Subsequently, in a set of self-reform proposals issued by JA-Zenchū the following November, the body sought to maintain its exclusive right to audit local JA cooperatives, and it argued for continued inclusion of provisions relating to itself and the prefectural unions in the Agricultural Cooperatives Act. But Prime Minister Abe was determined to push through a more substantive overhaul of the cooperatives, and so the LDP's senior members concerned with agricultural affairs undertook consultations with JA-Zenchū President Banzai Akira, reaching the following compromise in February 2015: (1) The provisions relating to JA-Zenchū are to be struck from the Agricultural Cooperatives Act, and the organization will become a general incorporated association like Keidanren (Japan Business Federation). (2) Local JA cooperatives will be able to choose to be audited either by an auditing firm split off from JA-Zenchū or by other auditing firms. (3) The provisions relating to the cooperative status of the prefectural unions will remain on the statute books. (4) The decision on whether or not to turn Zen-Noh into a regular corporation will be left up to Zen-Noh itself. (5) The idea of limiting the services provided for associate members is to be deferred. The government will prepare a revision of the Agricultural Cooperatives Act in line with this agreement and submit it to the National Diet in March or later this year. Making submission to JA-Zenchū auditing voluntary will reduce the level of control the body is able to exercise over local JA cooperatives, which will enjoy a greater degree of autonomy as a result. But the JA's political influence looks set to remain undiminished. Even if JA-Zenchū becomes a general incorporated association at the national level, the prefectural unions will retain their current status, and so they will be able to continue to collect compulsory membership fees from local JA cooperatives. All of the prefectural unions are also members of JA-Zenchū, so income from the fees they collect will continue to flow to that body. And since the benefits of retaining cooperative status are substantial, so it is highly unlikely that organizations like Zen-Nōh will opt to become ordinary corporations. The Regulation Reform Council's proposal to limit the JA's associate membership rolls was likely a feint or other strategic move on the part of the government. Fewer associate members would mean a shortage of prospective borrowers for the JA's banking arm. Faced with this prospect, the local cooperatives and the prefectural unions probably judged that they could much more readily accept the loss of JA-Zenchū's exclusive right to audit local cooperatives than lose associate members, and so it decided to yield on the auditing issue and other points on the condition that it be allowed to keep these members. Yet there is something rather abnormal about an "agricultural" cooperative with such a large portion of its membership comprised of nonfarmers. The current local JA cooperatives should close down their agricultural departments and turn themselves into local cooperative associations focusing on banking and insurance services and the provision of everyday goods. If there is a need for agricultural cooperatives, full-time farmers can set them up on their own initiative. These would be true cooperatives. Additionally, under the present system, in which votes from both full-time and part-time farmers carry equal weight, JA decision making is predominantly driven not by the opinions of those who rely on agriculture for their livelihood but by those whose actual engagement in farming is minimal. As yet, no suggestions have been made regarding fundamental moves like reform of this voting system or a switch from the current JA group cooperatives to local cooperatives. The overhaul of the current JA setup cannot be allowed to end here. Even so, the recently agreed reforms are far from meaningless. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries, the JA, and legislators of the agricultural "tribe" in the Diet have decided all agricultural policies by themselves. Take the TPP, for example. They made the Diet agricultural committees adopt resolutions urging the government to have Japan's rice, wheat, beef and pork, dairy products, and sugar exempted from tariff elimination under the TPP agreement and to leave the negotiating table if unable to do so. These resolutions constrain and restrict the government's TPP negotiations. Previously, the tussles among them, if any, took place behind closed doors. But the JA now seems to be pitted in an all-out confrontation with MAFF, which it has sharply criticized for "betraying" it on the reform issue. Cracks have appeared in the strong and solid ties binding MAFF, the JA, and the legislators. The reform package may not have quite lived up to expectations, but it is highly significant that it has caused these cracks to emerge. This may affect any agricultural policy reforms in the future to a great extent.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727046
__label__wiki	0.900532	0.900532	Delahunt votes no; will support improved solution MATTHEW M. BURKE Sep 30, 2008 at 2:00 AM Sep 30, 2008 at 5:53 AM U.S. Rep. William Delahunt said the $700 billion financial bailout package he voted against yesterday simply didn't do enough to help struggling homeowners. Delahunt, D-Mass., who represents the Cape and Islands, said he opposed the bill because it aided the financial institutions that caused the crisis and held little relief for his constituents who were at risk of losing their homes. He said the majority of Democrats in the House voted for the bill's passage out of "grave concern" for their constituents and the economy as a whole, but politics aside, he felt his vote was the right one. "It didn't address the victims of the greed," he said when reached by telephone last night in Quincy. "It was more focused on aiding the financial institutions and those who profited and benefited from them." Delahunt said that more time must be taken to craft a bill that includes assistance for homeowners, perhaps extending terms so people at risk of foreclosure can stay in their homes, or charging transaction fees to the financial institutions that participate in the plan, in order to take the burden off taxpayers who are being asked to foot the $700 billion bill. "The financial institutions should pay, and they don't want to do it," he said. "We should take it out of their profits, not the income of ordinary Americans. Let's hold them accountable." Delahunt said he did not know when the bill would be taken up again, but that discussions between Republican and Democratic leaders was continuing. He said he hopes the bill's defeat will give congressional leaders more leverage. He also said it is important to fully diagnose what caused the crisis. "I'm confident we'll come out with a better final solution than the one I felt compelled to vote against," he said. "We're going to get it done."	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727051
__label__wiki	0.973989	0.973989	Taylor Swift Home Taylor Swift Shows Her Love For The UK At The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2013 The '22' singer stole the show as she headed down the catwalk with the supermodels to perform at the annual event. Taylor Swift stunned in a Union Jack inspired dress as she performed at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in New York last night (13th November). The 'We Are Never Ever Getting back Together' singer hit the catwalk in a paint-splattered outfit with matching boots as she joined the supermodels for the annual event. The US star was seen with models such as Lily Aldridge, Doutzen Kroes, and Barbara Fialho and changed into a white sequined second disco-ball like outfit for another song during the night. Fall Out Boy were also performing on the night as well as A Great Big World, and UK girl-group Neon Jungle. The Lexington Avenue Armory was decorated with British banners and there were also themes of Snow Angels, Shipwrecked, Parisian Nights, Pink Network, and Birds of Paradise during the night. Meanwhile, Taylor has been speaking to Capital about her next studio album and her plans to change things up for the record. She has also been praising pop pal Ed Sheeran as well as British female star Ellie Goulding. Taylor Swift News See more Taylor Swift News What Is Scooter Braun's Net Worth, Who Does He Represent And What's His Beef With Taylor Swift?	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727053
__label__cc	0.604477	0.395523	Home Financial News Are Mobile Games One-Hit Wonders? Are Mobile Games One-Hit Wonders? Yesterday Finnish mobile game maker Rovio, known for its immense popular Angry Birds-game, announced it would send home one-third of its staff. The company commented that it has to focus more on generating profit instead of pursuing many activities. Mobile gamers who are familiar with Rovio may agree that the company indeed launched a large number of similar games in the recent years. However, according to WSJ company profit is steadily declining since 2012. Competition is also getting stronger, especially from makers like Supercell. In addition, according to figures of Flurry Analytics, time spent on mobile gaming decreased 35% in Q2-2015 compared to the same period last year. How solid is the future for mobile games? Hunting for whales A large chunk of revenues for the mobile game makers comes from users who are reserving an amount of monthly expenses to be able to play without restraints. A lot of games are free to play, but ask a small payment to advance in the game, for instance to buy coins etc. Some players can resist the urge and want to ‘build’, but others are more impatient. For example in Supercell’s Hayday, a farming simulator, it takes significant time to move up in levels. Spending money for diamonds or coins may reduce time required to build. As a result of this business model, Supercell reported revenues of USD 1.7 billion in 2014. For the whole gaming sector, in-game purchases are expected to increase to USD 23.4bn, according to SuperData Research Inc. in the WSJ. Entertainment Software Association (ESA) estimates that 960 million gamers worldwide are playing on a mobile device. This paints a very bright picture for the mobile gaming industry. It seems that Rovio is simply disconnected with the trend. The Creative will be rewarded As with most products, producers who are able to present fresh products and / or continue to improve their games which please customers, will be ahead of competitors. Furthermore, companies who stick to their core business and are relentless in focusing on successful products may continue to show strong results. For example Supercell pulls the plug for products which are less popular with gamers in an early stage, and instead continues to improve its hits “Clash of the Clans” and Hayday. This might be the problem for Rovio, it lacks a focus and pursues to many side activities, such as movies. Are Angry Bird gamers really eager for a movie of the feathered heroes? In 2016, this movie will premiere, but one could doubt its success. Well, time will tell… Rovio and Supercell are certainly interesting companies within a noteworthy sector, but are not listed on a stock exchange. However, there are a number listed on NASDAQ: pure mobile players Gluu mobile (GLUU) and Zynga (ZNGA) and the general computer gaming companies Electronic Arts (EA), Take Two Entertainment (TTWO) and Activision Blizzard (ATVI). The latter 3 companies have a broad portfolio of games which are also available offline, so are less impacted by declining interest for one of its products. Also GLUU and ZNGA have a broad portfolio, but are heavily depended on the success of one or a few games. Investors should be careful with shares of these companies and should follow the ‘buzz’ around their games closely to see whether the games are still popular. In addition, the quality of the products and new inventions should also be monitored. The best way is to do ‘mystery gaming’: are the games fun to play? Are there smart ways to earn money from you, the player, or is it just a payment to prevent annoying advertisements? When the games are no fun, neither will be the investment. Previous articleRelief Yes, But the Bears May Not Be Done Yet Next articleWill Jackson Hole Guide Us To A Rate Hike?	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727056
__label__wiki	0.548696	0.548696	Healers of the World: CRS honors International Women’s Day by sharing these powerful stories of inspiring women. Recognized every year on March 8, International Women’s Day honors the contributions and achievements of women in our world. It also promotes women’s equality and solutions for more gender balance in all aspects of society. In some of the world’s most violent- and poverty-stricken places, Catholic Relief Services upholds human dignity by empowering women to improve their lives, improve their families’ lives, and to heal their communities. CRS programs promote social equity and inclusion for women in West Africa and Latin America by helping them transform their roles in society—from second-class citizens to peacemakers, business owners and opportunity creators. Even in the poorest and most violent places in the world, CRS believes that women have the power to change their lives and their communities for the better. We witness it every day in the faith and resilience of the women we work with. Paramount to transforming their hope into reality is their empowerment as nurturers, earners and builders. Elevating Women’s Status Through Entrepreneurship Transcending gender stereotypes is tough for women in some cultures. In Liberia, women’s status has traditionally been second to men’s. It is a fragile country, one of the world’s poorest, still recovering from a 14-year civil war that ended in 2003. Despite being the first country in Africa to elect a woman as president in 2011, women in Liberia have been afforded few rights and little economic autonomy. However, efforts like the CRS ASPYRE program, or Activating a Supportive Platform for Young Rural Entrepreneurs, are helping young women in rural communities achieve economic independence through entrepreneurship. The year-long program provides business training and micro-loans to kickstart small enterprises, from selling food to farming. Participants in the program learn basic bookkeeping, and how to create a business plans and establish savings accounts—and even how to pitch to local experts in a Shark Tank-style competition for a micro-loan investment in their start-up. “This project can build up people's lives and give them opportunity,” says Eunice Bellewah, 23, who came to ASPYRE hoping to expand her snack-selling business. “I learned how to be creative and innovative during the CRS trainings—bring new ideas,” says Eunice. “With the micro-loan, I'll hire someone to help increase my production, then my business will grow to a new level.” Another participant, Mary Gbono, 26, was able to successfully pitch her plan for expanding her business selling traditional doughnuts. She says the micro-loan she received “will help my business grow. It will help my family. We'll have a better life.” YouthBuild: Helping Young Women Thrive In El Salvador and Nicaragua, the CRS YouthBuild program provides teens and young adults with business and life skills training so they can better support themselves and their families, and make a positive impact in their communities where violence, fractured families and poverty are a way of life. After suffering civil wars in the 1980s, these countries are ravaged by drug trafficking and gang warfare, some of the push factors driving thousands of young people, many of them unaccompanied minors, to make the dangerous trip to Mexico and the U.S. border in search of asylum. By providing opportunity for youth to build productive lives—whether it’s finishing school, starting a business or learning a vocation—YouthBuild aims to furnish opportunities for young people to thrive in the places they live. Since CRS launched its YouthBuild program, more than 10,000 young people have participated. About 70% of graduates have either found work, gone back to school or both. A large portion of YouthBuild graduates are young women. “What you realize through this program is there are so many problems, but there are so many young people who want to improve their lives and help their communities,” says Crisia Chavez, an outreach coordinator for YouthBuild El Salvador, and herself a graduate of the program. Crisia lives in a rural town in the northwest part of the country surrounded by volcanic hills and coffee farms overlooking Coatepeque Lake, considered one of the most beautiful lakes in the world. To an outsider, it might seem idyllic. But when Crisia attended school, violent gangs controlled her community and her school. When members of a rival gang began to menace her, she feared for her life and dropped out. Then, she heard about the YouthBuild program and enrolled. It changed her life forever. “When I started the project, I was extremely shy and reserved,” she recalls. Her parents didn’t have the money to send her to another school. So she pursued an idea she had for a business—selling natural medicines that she and her mother, who had a nursing background, would make themselves. YouthBuild trainers helped her create a business plan and provided her with $200 in seed money to get her enterprise off the ground. Crisia’s business soon flourished and she earned enough income to go back to school and graduate. It wasn’t an easy road for Crisia and her family. Her mother had a stroke and was in a coma for a year, forcing her family to sell everything, even their modest home, to pay for her mother’s medications and recovery. But after earning her high school diploma, Crisia was hired by YouthBuild as a community service coordinator. Now gainfully employed, Crisia was able to contribute toward the family’s financial stability, even paying for her sister to complete high school and helping her family purchase a small parcel of land for a new home. They are now putting the finishing touches on cinder block walls, a stronger aluminum roof and electricity—something that seemed impossible before Crisia joined the YouthBuild program. Today, Crisia, now 24, is leading 18 community projects with young people in her town. Children can play in a football field again after a Crisia brought together a group of students to rehab the old field, overgrown from years of neglect. Crisia directed another group to renovate a school building with a crumbling facade covered with gang graffiti. Crisia proudly notes that even some gang members joined their efforts in repairing and painting the walls. “I never thought I’d become a leader,” says Crisia, who recently won a full government scholarship to the university in Santa Ana, where she is studying psychology. “But now, I’ve finished high school, I have a business, I’m at the university, and I have this family I love—the young people I work with to make the future better.” Changing Perceptions About Women’s Work “I have learned to love things, and to find value in my work,” says Cesia Hernandez, who lives in neighboring Nicaragua and is graduate of the local YouthBuild program there. Cesia, who runs her own livestock feed business, is helping change perceptions about the roles of women in her community. She started her business two years ago after finishing YouthBuild’s entrepreneurship training. In her small agrarian hometown near the Honduran border, there are few jobs available outside of farming and raising cattle. “Most women stay inside the home, they don’t go to school or work,” Cesia notes. Nor do many young people finish high school. “They’re either in the field or just at home with nothing to do.” Cesia, now 22, was once in the same position. “I used to say, I am going to stay here, I’m going to die here. I never dreamed about one day having children, a home or my own business.” Her thinking changed when she entered the YouthBuild program. In rural communities, the program encourages participants to start a businesses like raising livestock, beekeeping or local tourism. Cesia learned how to tend livestock and make feed, which she began selling to local farmers. YouthBuild also taught Cesia valuable life skills. “I learned to let go of fear because sometimes I was too scared.” Today, neighbors often see her pedaling her bicycle through town delivering heavy loads of feed to her customers. “It’s not common for women to do this kind of work,” she says. “But now they are seeing that women can do other things, and that we can do what men do. And other women, when they see my progress, they start to believe they can do it too.” Recently, Cesia mentored another young woman in town who wanted to open a small convenience store. Cesia instructed her on business basics and helped her get a loan to rent a space and purchase inventory. The store is now doing brisk business with the local townspeople, who before had to travel to the city to purchase their essentials. Cesia understands how small business ownership can transform not only one person, but an entire community. She says she now thinks a lot about the future. “I want my business to grow,” she says. “To sell in bulk, by the truckload, and hire more youth. First, I am going to teach them, and then, with their help, meet the demand in this area. And if it’s possible, supply the whole municipality. And if God allows it, the whole country.” Support women on International Women’s Day. Catholic Relief Services supports savings-based microfinance groups that provide extremely poor people—mostly women—with a way to save their own money and provide opportunities to invest, borrow and help their neighbors meet emergency needs. Help an Entrepreneur Start Her Business Jeanie Barnett Tags: International Women's Day Hay una luz in este mundo Una oración de Adviento sobre cómo la venida de Cristo trae luz al mundomore Dignidad del trabajo y los derechos de los trabajadores: Guía de discusión Prayer of the Global Family A prayer asking God to help us recognize family in each of His children, to know them as brothers...more	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727060
__label__cc	0.7232	0.2768	Home\|News\|CSB Updates Public on Ongoing Activities During Business Meeting in Washington, DC CSB Updates Public on Ongoing Activities During Business Meeting in Washington, DC Animation from "Anatomy of a Disaster" Washington, DC, November 24, 2015 – Yesterday at a business meeting in Washington, DC, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board updated the public on the agency’s ongoing investigations and organizational activities, and voted to change the status of a recommendation made to the BP Global Executive Board of Directors to “Closed – Acceptable Action.” The recommendation was issued as part of the investigation into the March 23, 2005, accident at the BP America Refinery in Texas City, Texas, where a series of explosions killed fifteen workers injured 180 others. The CSB recommended in its final report that BP should implement an incident reporting program throughout the company’s refining organization. The CSB stipulated that the program encourage the reporting of incidents without fear of retaliation, require prompt corrective actions of findings from incident reports, and call for communication of key lessons learned to management, hourly employees, and the oil and gas industry. To fulfill the recommendation, BP revised its internal policies and procedures including the establishment of an independent, confidential 24/7 hotline for reporting incidents without fear of retaliation. They now track all action items from near misses, incidents, and investigations in a database to ensure that corrective actions are assigned and completed promptly. After analysis by the CSB’s recommendations staff, as well as comments from the public, the Board decided in a unanimous vote that BP’s actions fulfill the intent of the recommendation, and changed its status to “Closed – Acceptable Action.” In addition to the vote, the Board discussed an overview of CSB activities including completion of open investigations. Chairperson Vanessa Allen Sutherland said, “Over the past 90 days, the CSB has been working to finalize four of the agency’s seven open investigation reports, which we anticipate will be presented for board consideration during the first quarter of calendar year 2016.” Those include investigations into the 2013 explosion at the West Fertilizer Company in West, Texas, the 2010 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon Oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, the 2014 sulfuric acid release at the Tesoro Refinery in Martinez, California, and the 2013 fire and explosion at the Williams Olefins plant in Geismar, Louisiana. Chairperson Sutherland also gave updates on financial and governance issues, including: -The CSB submitted the annual Performance and Accountability Report – or PAR – to the Office of Management and Budget, which describes the agency’s performance measures, results and accountabilities processes for fiscal year 2015 -An independent accounting firm audited the CSB’s consolidated financial statements from fiscal year 2015 and has issued an Unmodified Opinion - the highest level of assurance – that the statements are fair and conform accepted accounting principles -CSB staff continue to review and edit outdated board orders to accurately reflect agency current and best practices in a variety of critical areas -And the CSB will be engaging a consultant to provide an organizational assessment to include a review of the CSB’s current organizational structure and employee position descriptions to determine how the agency can improve its effectiveness. Finally, the Board discussed the possibility of future public meetings on worker fatigue and process safety management reform. The CSB’s next public business meeting will be held in Washington, DC, in January 2016. Details about the location and agenda for the business meeting will be available on the agency’s website, www.csb.gov, at a later date. The Board does not issue citations or fines but does make safety recommendations to plants, industry organizations, labor groups, and regulatory agencies such as OSHA and EPA. For more information, contact public@csb.gov.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727061
__label__cc	0.553339	0.446661	This story first appeared in Comboni Missions Magazine Spring 2019 An Extraordinary Story of Mission By: Kathleen M. Carroll June 3 is always remembered in central Africa as the Feast of the Ugandan Martyrs, when 22 young converts were executed by order of a particularly cruel king. The stories of the faith of these young men (and boys—St. Kizito was just 14) are retold in every village in Uganda; their gruesome martyrdom is memorialized in sculpture and painting at the shrine at Namugongo. In 1972, the date marked another stunning story of faith and sacrifice. The mission of Kigumba, about 200 kilometers north of Kampala, was home to two young missionaries. Mario Pozza (37) and Paolo Ponzi (42). In establishing the mission, they dug a well. When it became clear that no amount of digging would produce water at the site, the project was halted and the remaining hole was used as a landfill. That summer day, the parish cook tossed some kitchen waste into the hole; her knife slipped into the hole along with the refuse. She called to a nearby boy, just seven years old, to retrieve it. From above the landfill, there was no way to know that the pit was filled with methane, a byproduct of decomposition. The boy was soon overcome by the fumes and began to cough and struggle. The cook ran to Father Mario for help. He ran to the site, scrambled down into the hole and, with a mighty effort, flung the boy up out of the pit. He himself was then overcome with the fumes, just as Father Paolo arrived at the scene. He leapt into the hole to save his friend. Trapped in the pit, miles away from the nearest help, both men suffocated to death. It was late in the evening when the fire brigade arrived from Kampala to retrieve their bodies. Today, they are interred in the church at Kigumba. They are memorialized in a mural in the church and in a plaque on their graves inscribed, “Greater love has no man than this; that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). The boy survived and lives in the area to this day, as does the story of these heroic men. Fr. Mario Pozza Fr. Paolo Ponzi Comboni2019-04-17T13:05:41-05:00	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727067
__label__cc	0.53697	0.46303	Fay Ray ← Augusta Dayton L.A. Talent Portfolio → Portrait With Vessels, 2015 Archival inkjet prints and polyvinyl acetate Stimulated House Plant, 2015 It Goes On: A Conversation with Fay Ray By Ella Viscardi Portrait by Victoria Martinez “I'm eight months pregnant and have two scary studio deadlines that will take me right to my due date. Let's make this happen!” While scheduling an interview with Los Angeles-based artist Fay Ray, this candid email foreshadowed the sincere, outspoken woman whom I would soon encounter face to face. Ray creates artwork in a variety of media, including sculpture and painting, but the heart of her practice lies in collage. She photographs objects encountered in her day-to-day life and combines them into visually rich, black-and-white collages. By fragmenting and reorienting elements of her everyday life, Ray's collages spark reflection on how specific objects can be described in terms of both their arbitrary and uncanny qualities. When I spoke with Ray in September, she opened up about the multiple layers of her collage practice, artistic evolution, and life in the studio. Ella Viscardi: Have you always liked making things? Fay Ray: I always loved taking photos. I remember getting a roll of film developed at a very early age and taking pictures of things around my house. It took until I was probably 17 or 18 to really start thinking about being an artist—with my very limited knowledge at that point of what an artist was. I think organically I was always going to be one. My conception of myself as an artist is something that keeps getting stronger and keeps changing and keeps getting added to as the years go by. I have so much respect for the pursuit and especially [for] people who stay with it their whole lives. I always feel like I have to earn the ability to call myself an artist. EV: Did you study art in school? FR: I went to Otis College, an art and design school in California. I went in thinking I was going to do landscape design, and then I got pulled into fine art through New Genres, a conceptually-based art curriculum. I didn’t really see myself as a photographer or [a] strict painter or sculptor, and Otis had this program, so I started taking classes in it and switched my discipline. I majored in New Genres in graduate school at Columbia University as well. I went to Columbia expecting to make a lot of sculpture and performance, and I left Columbia making a lot of two-dimensional work. I’m so glad that I have the context of that grad school experience; the collage work in my practice is something that is so essential, and I can’t imagine being without it now. EV: Did it feel like becoming an artist was your inevitable career path? FR: I wish there was an easier answer for you on that one. There were moments when I was like, “Columbia's over, so I'm an artist.” I was working with other artists in their studios, piecing rent together, doing group shows, blah blah. Then there was the market crash of 2009. I remember thinking at that time, “What did I do? Why did I choose this? Is it too late to become a psychologist?” Then I kind of lost my grip. That had to happen to me a couple times out of school—time to accept that there was no alternate reality. For richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, 'til death do we part: I'm an artist. I felt more settled in that about seven years ago, right when I made the decision to leave New York and move back to L.A. EV: What drew you back to Los Angeles? FR: So many things. It was drawing on that commitment to never stop making work. Like I said, for richer or for poorer, I'm an artist and I can't shrug it. I'd indebted myself so deeply in money and time; there wasn't any going back. Knowing that, I took a hard look at my live/work ratio. I wanted more space, I wanted more money, and I wanted more comfort, so I moved back to L.A. It was a time in the market where I wasn't really making any money off my work. I felt like nobody was looking and would give a shit if I stayed or left, so I wanted to make it easier on myself. And that's what I did. I'm really glad I made that choice, because so much for me artistically bloomed in LA. EV: Did returning to L.A. have an influence on your practice? FR: Content-wise, absolutely. In just speaking about the collages, I used to appropriate images directly from magazines and create these really dense compositions that were a little claustrophobic and anxious. In the last five years, I've moved almost entirely away from appropriating imagery and shoot everything myself. I don't know if I would've gotten there in my practice in New York at the same time. When I moved to L.A., I was able to look inward just a little bit more than I did when I was in New York, but that was also me maturing and getting deeper into my 30s. With this new maturity and being back in a familiar space, I started to feel so much more comfortable with my own things and the objects and spaces around me. I started to think a lot more about John Miller's books and approach to art making, and elements of the uncanny in everyday things—stuff that I was thinking about at Columbia but kind of picked back up. The essences of simpler objects seemed to be louder and stronger, and I started to become more fascinated with that. EV: Where does your creative process start? FR: I just start shooting things that are around me—it's definitely visual and textural and what's accessible. For instance, I started to really want to shoot pinecones. The texture of pinecones just looked different to me than it had in the past, and I started to want to collect and shoot them. I also shoot my own jewelry; sometimes that'll float in there. I have been eating a shitload of almonds in this pregnancy, and so sometimes, there will be almonds. I want to use stuff that I'm eating, looking at every day, stacking up by my bills. I'm trying to make it as easy as possible on myself. I don't think you have to look too far out of your own surroundings to make a piece that talks about something universal and personal. EV: A lot of your work features objects that are conventionally gendered as “feminine.” How does femininity play a role in your content and process? FR: There was a point where I wanted to chase it out of the work. It keeps showing up—it is the thing that I am fascinated by. Finally I came to a point where I accepted it. I needed to run right into the eye of this female-stuff storm and find my artistic marrow or some juice in it. I do try and incorporate ideas I have of masculinity into the work; it's more of a pace or an attitude with which the work is made. It's not necessarily reflected in the imagery you see. I have very strong male artist mentors in my mind; they help me move quickly through ideas. I love that collage is a part of my practice because the only way to do it is to make a shitload. I get to choose if they get made and finished—that's it. This aspect of my practice allows me to work through imagery and ideas fast and loose, in a nonjudgmental way. I think it's important to not be consumed with what's not in your power… I don't think you get a choice to make [your work] good or bad, I really don't. I'm open to having a conversation with anybody who thinks they can actually make good artwork. Production for me is the bottom line. I'm not an artist if I'm not making anything. EV: As a soon-to-be mother, what advice about creativity and creation would you like to pass down? FR: That's a really big question. Not every artist has this hang-up, but take that good and bad off of your mind. If you're making something, you're doing all that is expected of you. If you're making art and you're showing it to people, that is enough. I don't think being an artist is something that anybody really chooses to do. It's not easy. There's so much time where you get so little back—all you get is what satisfaction you can muster in your own studio. If that's good enough for you, then you're an artist. But that's not fun and inspiring. I don't know, I don't have a good... EV: That's okay! We don't need a grand finale quote. FR: Maybe that's the theme of this whole conversation: It goes on. You get on, you stay on, and you try to stay on as long as you can. ★ This interview has been condensed and edited. Take me back to the L.A. portfolio!	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727071
__label__wiki	0.838373	0.838373	Pinwheel Galaxy Facts If you know how to find the Big Dipper in the night sky, you can find where the Pinwheel Galaxy is located. It is in the constellation of Ursa Major, also known as the Great Bear or the Big Dipper. We estimate that the Pinwheel Galaxy is around 21 million light-years from Earth and that’s considered to be one of the closest galaxies to us. The Milky Way Galaxy is half of the size of the Pinwheel Galaxy. It is thought to contain over a trillion stars. Pinwheel Galaxy Profile Constellation: Ursa Major Also known as: Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457 Type: Spiral Galaxy Diameter: 170,000 light years Distance: 21 Million light years Mass: 1,000 billion M☉ Number of Stars: 1 trillion Who discovered the Pinwheel Galaxy Named after its shape, it is one of the spiral galaxies just like the Milky Way Galaxy. The Pinwheel Galaxy was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. Although Pierre was an astronomer, he was also interested in hunting comets and was given credit for discovering a lot of other celestial bodies including eight comets and many globular bodies. The scientific name for the Pinwheel Galaxy is M101, Messier 101, or NGC 5457. Spiral galaxies are known to produce a lot of stars and the Pinwheel Galaxy has over 3,000 locations in its “arms” where there are star nurseries. These areas are called Hll regions and are named because they have a lot of hydrogen content. Stars are made up of mostly helium and hydrogen. The middle section of the Pinwheel Galaxy is called the “central bulge,” and it has a mass that is equal to almost 3 billion suns. The central bulge doesn’t produce very many stars. When a star dies, it does so with a huge, bright explosion called a supernova. Supernovas They can be so bright that they block out the ability to see other galaxies. Most of the heavy metal elements in the universe are due to supernovas. The scientific community has recorded at least four of these supernovas in the Pinwheel Galaxy. In 2015, a Romanian astronomer reported a red nova in the Pinwheel Galaxy. These happen when two stars collide and then create a new star. Center of the Galaxy One of the unique features of the Pinwheel Galaxy is that no one has been able to detect a black hole at the center of the galaxy. Instead of a black hole, the Pinwheel Galaxy seems to have x-ray sources that are called stellar-mass black holes. When stars die, all of their material and elements fall into the stellar-mass black holes and heats up, throwing off x-rays. The unusual shape of the Pinwheel Galaxy was created by light and gas clouds that are between two big orbiting stars that are close together. The ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA released a photo in 2006 of the Pinwheel Galaxy that was the largest to date, and had the most details ever seen. The Hubble Space Telescope took the image and NASA indicated that the photo included several layers. They said it was like looking at the galaxy when you were wearing night-vision goggles, x-ray vision, an ultra-violet camera, and a regular camera at the same time. Facts about the Pinwheel Galaxy The Pinwheel Galaxy is also called the Face-On Spiral Galaxy. With a diameter of nearing 170,000 light-years across, the Pinwheel Galaxy is considered to be massive. The mass of the Pinwheel Galaxy is equal to 100 billion solar masses or 100 billion suns. When you look at the Pinwheel Galaxy through your telescope, you are seeing light that traveled to the Earth 21 million years ago. Because the Pinwheel Galaxy does have a kind of bar at the center, scientists call it a weekly-barred spiral galaxy. The central bulge of the Pinwheel Galaxy is small when compared to the rest of its size. It’s thought that the Pinwheel Galaxy may have had some kind of interaction with another galaxy in the past due to one side being asymmetrical. Instructions on how to see the Pinwheel Galaxy: First – find the Big Dipper in the night sky. Locate the tail or handle and find the last two stars. Draw an imaginary point at the center of those two stars. Using that point, draw another imaginary line straight up until the point where the top point of the line creates an equilateral triangle with the two stars. You have now found where the Pinwheel Galaxy sits. What kind of galaxy have scientists designated the Pinwheel Galaxy? weekly-barred spiral galaxy Where are the stars born in the Pinwheel Galaxy? in its arms How many supernovas have been discovered (so far) to have occurred in the Pinwheel Galaxy? How far away is the Pinwheel Galaxy from Earth? 21 million light-years Where would you start to look in the night sky to find the Pinwheel Galaxy? the Big Dipper, also known as the Great Bear The Milky Way Galaxy is how big compared to the Pinwheel Galaxy? half its size	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727075
__label__cc	0.519822	0.480178	Creative Portraits Storme DeLarverie Why We Celebrate Pride—A History Lesson If you’re new here my name is Cory Guinn. I’m a professional photographer, artist, and extremely gay. After reflecting on Pride 2019 and thinking about our community, I wanted to shed some light on why we celebrate each year and why we continue to fight for LGBTQIA+ rights. Since this year is the 50th Anniversary of The Stonewall Riots, it feels appropriate to talk about this now. Isabelle & Isha—Photographed in downtown Nashville, TN. BONNIE’S STONEWALL INN This is, according to most, where Pride truly began. The history behind The Stonewall Inn is actually quite lengthy and dates back to the 1930s. To make it easy to understand I’m going to simplify the timeline for you a little… 1930—Bonnie’s Stonewall Inn opens as a “tearoom” on 7th Avenue South, but is actually operating as a speakeasy. Later, in December, Stonewall was raided by the police. 1934—Stonewall moves to Christopher Street in Greenwich Village and operates as a bar and restaurant primarily for heterosexual couples. 1964—The interior of Bonnie’s Stonewall Inn catches fire and is completely destroyed. 1966—A few members of the mafia decide to invest in the building turning it into a gay bar. This bar becomes wildly popular within the local queer community because it is one of the only gay bars that allows you to dance intimately. The police would collect cash from Stonewall in exchange for turning a blind eye to drug deals, prostitution, and other illegal activities happening there. This bar is often portrayed as one of the only safe-havens for LGBTQIA+ people, but it is definitely glorified by recent social media outlets. The bar was rundown—the toilets were overflowing, the mob was in and out of the place, and they had to wash dishes in a tub. Because they were operating without a liquor license they also became the subject of frequent police raids. Once a month the police would confiscate all of their liquor. Most of the time the bar owners were aware of the raids before they happened and were able to resupply the bar pretty quickly to resume business. This happened for years until… June 28, 1969—The police attempt an ill-prepared raid on Stonewall, inciting riots. 1:20AM—Seymour Pine of the NYC Vice Squad Public Morals Division and four other officers joined forces with undercover police inside of the bar. This was different from their usual raids. They broke down the door and started lining people up and detaining them. Poor planning on their part meant that the patrol wagons, which were to escort arrested patrons and illegal substances, did not arrive in time. While attempting to control the patrons and waiting on the patrol wagons, the situation became more complicated. As the night went on more people began to arrive. The large crowd had collected outside of the bar, effectively trapping the undercover officers inside. When the patrol wagons showed up, there were several small scuffles as police attempted to control the crowd. One woman, believed to be Stormé DeLarverie (although many accounts recall differently), continued to fight against and escape from the police officers who were detaining her. After complaining that the handcuffs they had her in were too tight, one of the officers beat her down with a baton. DeLarverie, who was broken and bleeding, looked up to her community from the pavement of the street and shouted, “Why don’t you guys do something?” When she was hauled into the back of a patrol wagon the crowd began fighting back. There were things being thrown—stones, shot glasses, kicks and punches—but ultimately the police were able to end the riot. POST-STONEWALL REBELLION There had been several organizations attempting to push forward gay rights at the time, but they were honestly not very successful. After The Stonewall Riots, the Gay Liberation Front was formed. This is truly where the movement took off. Within a year, the Gay Liberation Front organized three simultaneous gay pride marches in three major cities. These are considered to be the first gay pride parades. In addition to this they also opened the first LGBTQ+ community center and organization for gay youth. Throughout the years we would continue to fight for our rights. Same-sex couples are allowed to adopt, bans on gay/trans people in the military were lifted, gay marriage was legalized, and this year we celebrated the largest international Pride Parade ever. But the fight for equality is not over for us. There are more problems in our community than ever before. This includes internalized homophobia, transphobia, misogyny, racism, etc. With social media at its highest, there are many people willing to go online and be nasty to everyone and anyone. In these times, no matter where you are in the LGBTQIA+ community, we need to continue to fight for equality. We can overcome hatred and fear if we carry the vigilance of those who came before us. Love trumps hate. Tags: gay pride, LGBTQIA, gay rights, stonewall, the stonewall riots, LGBTQ, the stonewall inn, Storme DeLarverie, Marsha P Brown, lovetrumpshate, lovewins, stonewall 50th anniversary The Little Mermaid—A Story About a Magical Fish Woman	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727077
__label__wiki	0.919308	0.919308	37 Uncensored Celebrity Nip Slips Some perhaps more intentional than others. Bella causes a slight nip slip after lifting her arms in one of the final numbers at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which was filmed in Shanghai in November 2017. The moment did not make the final cut when the show aired on CBS one week later. X17online.com Britney’s left nipple comes out for a quick hello during her Nov. 1, 2017 show at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas. Brit Brit suffered a similar fate in February when one of her dancers disassembled her leotard by mistake. Screenshot \| Snapchat Chrissy accidentally flashes her nipple during a very important Snapchat a video about her spray tan on Oct. 25, 2017. After fans alerted her of the nip slip, Chrissy’s assistant took down the video while Chrissy herself issued an “immediate release” of an apology. I’ve let my friends down, I’ve let my family down, I have nipples. It’s not something I’m proud of." Selena Gomez heads to an event in Hollywood, California, on June 8, 2017. SplashNews Black Chyna leaving a restaurant in West Hollywood, California, on June 6, 2017. Zendaya attends the Marc Jacobs afterparty of the Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between Costume Institute Gala at the Boom Boom Room in New York City on May 1, 2017. Christina Milian at the world premiere of Power Rangers on March 22, 2017, in Los Angeles, California. Mariah Carey attends the 2017 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on Feb. 26, 2017, in Beverly Hills, California. Keke Palmer Keke Palmer suffers a nip slip while out posing with fans at a meet and greet in New York city on Dec. 16, 2016. Sofia Richie shopping in West Hollywood on Sept. 20, 2016. FameFlynet Bella Hadid leaves the Givenchy menswear fashion show's after party at the Le Pompon club in Paris on Jan. 20, 2016. Stella Maxwell leaving a London Fashion Week party on Sept. 20, 2016. Kim Kardashian in New York City on Sept. 7, 2016. Gigi Hadid walks the runway at the Versace show during Milan Fashion Week on Feb. 26, 2016. Kendall Jenner in Los Angeles on July 14, 2015. Lady Gaga leaves Amadeus Pizza on June 24, 2015, in New York City. Naomi Campbell leaving a party in London on Dec. 3, 2015. Rihanna leaves her Met Gala party in New York City on May 5, 2015. PacificCoastNews Nicki Minaj suffers a wardrobe malfunction as her nipple slips out from her top while performing at the Wireless festival in London on July 5, 2015. Khloé Kardashian in Beverly Hills, California, on Oct. 22, 2014. AKM-GSI Mariah Carey was spotted getting her fun in the sun on while vacationing with her kids and new boyfriend James Packer in Sardinia, Italy, on June 22, 2015. Miley Cyrus out with friends in New York City on May 13, 2015. Mischa Barton attends a special screening of Bhoptal: A Prayer for Rain. Leaving the Shepherd's Bush Empire in London on March 25, 2015. At the Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty Fashion Gala at the V&A in London on March 12, 2015. Leaving Le Royal Monceau Hotel in Paris with Kanye West and Kris Jenner on March 5, 2015. At the Focus premiere at the the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California, on Feb. 24, 2015. At the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, California, on Feb. 22, 2015. At the 2015 Femmy Gala in New York City on Feb. 3, 2015. Walking the runway during the Versace show as part of Paris Fashion Week haute couture spring/summer 2015 in Paris on Jan. 25, 2015. 40 Photos of Prince Harry's Transformation More From Celebs Wow, Mady and Cara Gosselin Are Off to College Iggy Azalea Is Legitimately Feuding With Peppa Pig The 'Queer Eye' Salary Is a Damn Roller Coaster We Have Thoughts on This 'Gossip Girl' Promo Photo Lori Loughlin and Olivia Jade Aren't Very Close RN Katy and Orlando Are Working on Their Relationship Wait, Why Was A$AP Rocky Detained in Sweden? Er, Bella Thorne and Her Ex Are Feuding on Twitter Red Carpet Nip Slip Alert! Chrissy Teigen Has Accidental Snapchat Nip Slip Emily Ratajkowski Posted Her Nip Slip to Instagram Why Blake Lively Is Worried About Nip Slips Kim Kardashian Had a Christmas Eve Nip Slip Magic Tape and 6 Other Insider Tricks for Avoiding Nipple Slips	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727078
__label__cc	0.553995	0.446005	REVIEW: Rain- Beatles Tribute I had the opportunity to see the show RAIN, which is at the Oriental Theatre in downtown Chicago through April 2. Billed as “the next best thing to seeing The Beatles!” (Associated Press), the cast of RAIN performs a chronology of The Beatles' discography live onstage, including some very complex songs that the Beatles performed in studio, but never before a live audience. The show was great fun and a stroll down memory lane. It was also a great reminder of how prolific the Beatles were, and how amazing they were. Wikipedia tells me that the Beatles recorded 407 songs, and wrote 237. The cast performed just a small fraction, and they were wonderful note-for-note renditions. The actors also looked somewhat like their doppelgangers-- the guy playing McCartney looked a lot like him, as did George. Ringo and John were a little less similar but still successful. The show starts as a chronology piece-- through the use of video, they bring us to the Ed Sullivan show, where the moptopped Beatles made their American debut. Later in the show, the video brings us to Shea Stadium. In the second act, the cast performs the entirety of the album Sergeant Pepper (which the Beatles never performed in concert) in the trademarked band uniforms and mustaches and later brings us to Abbey Road where the band records their final album. The night I saw it there were two encore sets, and the second one was an extended version of "Hey Jude". Disappointingly, they did not play "Let It Be." But, hey, they couldn't play EVERY song. The cast of RAIN has been together longer than The Beatles, and their teamwork and professionalism shows. The music is great, although it took me a while to get past the verisimilitude thing. Although this wasn't a play, the performers are clearly acting like the Beatles, but not as the Beatles. That is to say, we saw John, Paul, George, and Ringo, but they weren't playing as those names, and there was no idea that I should expect them to actually be them or pretend to be them. They were themselves, but themselves acting as the Beatles. Let's face it, I overthought it. Once I got beyond that, I didn't have a problem. Buy Beatles albums on Amazon.com The only thing I wasn't 100% on was the video screens. They were used very effectively to place us in time (Ed Sullivan show, Abbey Road, Shea Stadium etc) and there were some concert videos of both audience and performers that would be displayed up there, which were engaging and also kept the people upstairs and farther away engaged. But some of the songs had cutesy video scenarios as their backdrop, and many of those looked like they were just bad Powerpoint presentations. I am guessing that they are remnants of previous shows from years ago. They need to be tossed and re-done. The rendition of Sergeant Pepper's entire album was pretty amazing, especially that last chord from "A Day In The Life" They must be using subwoofers, because I felt a barrage of sound in my body from that one chord. Within the first encore they played some political songs, including "Revolution" "Get Back" and strangely "Give Peace A Chance." I say strangely because that is not strictly a Beatles song. Lennon wrote it with Yoko during his infamous "Bed In"and released it with her. He was technically still a Beatle then, but it was without any of the other guys. Still it was quite moving, and very a propo considering our current political situation here in the US. It was a reminder of how ensconced in social change and justice The Beatles were, while at the same time making popular music gold. No matter what your current relationship to the Beatles is, you will find something to love about this show. There was quite a lot of singing along (both encouraged and spontaneous) At one point the singers ask everyone under 18 to sing, and the crowd gets notably quieter. PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE IN CHICAGO 3/28 Tuesday at 7:30 PM 3/29 Wednesday at 7:30 PM 3/30 Thursday at 7:30 PM 3/31 Friday at 7:30 PM 4/1 Saturday at 2 PM and 8 PM 4/2 Sunday at 2 PM and 7:30 PM You can also see where they will be upcoming on their website. Here's a video of the guys from 2011 when they appeared on Good Morning America. This was 6 years ago, and they've only gotten better since. Individual tickets for RAIN: A Tribute to the Beatles at the Oriental Theatre range from $35-$75. Tickets are available at all Broadway In Chicago Box Offices (24 W. Randolph St., 151 W. Randolph St., 18 W. Monroe St. and 175 E. Chestnut), the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Line at (800) 775-2000, all Ticketmaster retail locations and online at www.BroadwayInChicago.com. For more information, visit www.BroadwayInChicago.com. Labels: Beatles, Broadway In Chicago, Chicago, EVENTS, local, MUSIC, review, reviews, theatre Location: 24 W Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60601, USA Bioprinting is One Step Closer to Making a Human Kidney - The future is now. The post Bioprinting is One Step Closer to Making a Human Kidney appeared first on The Good Men Project.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727083
__label__cc	0.53005	0.46995	Posted on March 19, 2019 by MELODY VALLIEU Police Memorial Day set for May 8 TROY — In the United States there are more than 900,000 law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line every day for the protection and safety of others. To date, there have been 23 line of duty deaths compared to 32 at this time in 2018. Twelve of these line of duty deaths have been as a result of gunfire, eight traffic related and three a result of other causes. When a law enforcement officer is killed in the line of duty, this is not only a loss for the family, the agency and the local community but the entire nation. The Miami County Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 58 is inviting the community to attend the annual Police Memorial Day service at noon May 8 on the plaza at the Miami County Courthouse as the lodge’s Honor Guard opens the ceremony with the Presentation of the Flags. The Miami County Police Memorial was dedicated in 1999 to Miami County law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. The Fraternal Order of Police is the voice of those who dedicate their lives to protecting and serving local communities. The FOP is committed to improving the working conditions of law enforcement officers and the safety of those we serve through education, legislation, information, and community involvement. Those Miami County officers who gave their lives to protect and serve the communities in which we live, and are memorialzed include: • Marshall Harvey Hake — Covington Police Department — Jan. 12, 1917 • Patrolman George Eickmeyer — Tipp City Police Department — Sept. 17, 1945 • Lt. Noah Studebaker — Piqua Police Department — Oct. 17, 1957 • Patrolman Jan Mulder II — Piqua Police Department — Aug. 11, 1970 • Sergeant William R. Morris — Miami County Sheriff’s Office — Nov. 22, 1972 • Detective Robert Taylor — Piqua Police Department — Nov. 3, 1982 • Sergeant Robert L. Elliott — Miami County Sheriff’s Office — Feb. 25, 1987 Hi! A visitor to our site felt the following article might be of interest to you: Police Memorial Day set for May 8. Here is a link to that story: https://www.dailycall.com/news/55628/police-memorial-day-set-for-may-8	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727084
__label__wiki	0.685382	0.685382	Athletics: The race is run for doubting Thomas by NEIL WILSON, Daily Mail Iwan Thomas has given up the defence of his 400 metres title at the Commonwealth Games, saying: 'I am too proud to be an also-ran.' The Welshman who won European and Commonwealth gold four years ago made his decision to withdraw from the individual 400m in Manchester after failing to win the right to defend his European title in Munich next month. He said: 'I just don't feel that the high expectations I place on myself and those held by the public will be fulfilled. It is the hardest time of my life. 'I don't get the chance to run for Wales very often and my family have bought tickets for the 400m at the Commonwealths. But I set myself too high a standard this year. 'At the end of this season I am going to start from basics again. I am going to reassess my whole approach to the sport, talk to my coach and my parents and look at what I need to bring myself back to running the times I used to.' Thomas will offer his services to the Welsh team for the 4x400m relay. He said: 'Knowing my luck I will do a 44-second lap and be furious with myself for opting out of the individual event. But I have chosen to miss out on the defence of the title because I don't want to be an also-ran. 'I have achieved too much to want just to be able to scrape into the final and, with respect to my opponents, then be beaten by people from countries in front of whom I should be finishing. I am too proud a person to do that. I am still going to run events this season and then I will look at what I should do next.' Thomas's time at the AAA Championships, which doubled as the Games trials, was 47.07sec, more than 2.5sec outside the British record of 44.36 that he set when winning the event on the same Birmingham track in 1997. He said: 'It was the lowest point of my athletics career but perhaps you need a turning point to set you going again. 'When I was driving home from the AAAs I had some tears because I was thinking back to previous times when I had driven back from Birmingham after the same event, when I made the Olympic team, when I broke the British record in 1997 and made teams for the European Championships and Commonwealth Games. 'I know I can get back but I am not enjoying running at the moment because I am not running well. To enjoy the sport I must run quicker.' Thomas's troubles began when he suffered a stress fracture in an ankle early in 1999. That eventually needed an operation and he has failed to rediscover his form of 1998. Get the Sport RSS feed	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727086
__label__cc	0.722488	0.277512	2 Semiconductor Stocks on Track to Double Dividend Payouts in 5 Years Published Mon, 14 May 2012 09:00 CET by DividendYields.org Many analysts and fund managers have been bullish about the semiconductor industry for a long time. While this industry has been viewed primarily as a growth sector, in recent years several industry players have emerged as appealing income plays for yield-seeking dividend investors. Two dividend-paying companies in the sector currently stand out, namely Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC), a renowned chip maker, and Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT), the global maker of semiconductor equipment. In cumulative terms, these two semiconductor companies have boosted their dividends by 260% and 600%, respectively, and have seen the dividend yields on their stocks surge since 2005 (see the charts below). What's more, at the pace of dividend increases over the past three years, the companies are expected to double their dividend payouts in 5 years, likely faster than some traditional income plays such as Wall-Mart (NYSE: WMT) and McDonald's (NYSE: MCD). This year, improvement in capital and consumer spending, albeit slow, has propped up stocks of some chipmakers, including Intel. From the beginning of the year, Intel's stock has jumped 13.4%. As much as this jump is based on improvement in the macroeconomic environment, it is also specifically based on the expected rebound in chip demand of some 3% in 2012 and another 5% in 2013, according to Standard and Poor's. Notwithstanding some recent reports from the company's rivals about a slowdown in sales in Europe, Intel sticks to its sanguine forecasts. In line with those forecasts, analysts expect Intel to boost its earnings per share (EPS) in the coming years. According to Finviz.com, Wall Street analysts' consensus estimates call for a 10.6% growth per year in Intel's EPS over the next five years, which is higher than EPS growth realized over the past five years. An expected improvement in financial performance is likely to support continued increases in dividends in the coming years. Currently, Intel is paying $0.84 a share in dividend annually, which equals to a dividend yield of 3.10%. This yield is 60 basis points above the industry's average yield and a full percentage point above the yield on the S&P 500. It is also well above the paltry 1.85% yield on the 10-Year Treasury bond. Intel has a low dividend payout ratio of 33%, which means it only pays a third of its earnings in dividends. The company has been growing dividends at an average rate of about 31% per annum since 2002, and about 14.7% annually, on average, over the past three years. At the rate of dividend growth over the past three years, Intel will double its dividend in five years. In addition to this attractive aspect, it should be noted that despite the rally from the beginning of the year, Intel's stock remains undervalued by some metrics, including the price-earnings ratio (P/E). Trading at $27.85 a share, Intel has a P/E of 11.8 and a forward P/E of 10.4. These are well below the industry's averages of 17.9 and 15.7. On the other hand, Applied Materials' stock has been out of favor among some investors because of a projected weakness in semiconductor equipment sales in 2012, following a nearly 14% increase in total global revenues in 2011, according to Gartner. The semiconductor equipment market is expected to rebound in 2013 with a 19.2% increase, which should improve Applied Materials' top and bottom lines. According to consensus estimates published by Finviz.com, the company is forecast to grow its EPS annually by 9.25%, on average, over the next five years. This rate of growth is higher than the average annual rate reported by the company for the past five years. The company's dividend yield and valuation look attractive. Applied Materials pays $0.36 in dividends annually, which translates into a current dividend yield of 3.20%. This yield is 120 basis points above the yield on the industry as a whole and the S&P 500, and 135 basis points above the current yield on the 10-Year Treasury bond. At present, Applied Materials pays only 21% of its earnings in dividends. The company has been growing its dividends at an average annual rate of nearly 37% since 2005, or a bit slower by 14.6% per year over the past three years. Assuming that it will continue to hike its dividend at the 3-year average annual growth rate, Applied Materials, like Intel, will double its dividend in five years. As regards valuation, the company is currently undervalued and is flirting with oversold levels as measured by the Relative Strength Index (RSI), a technical indicator of momentum. The stock is trading at $11 a share, with a current P/E of 9.6 and a forward P/E of 9.9. These price-earnings ratios are well below the industry's average ratios of 17.9 and 15.7. Based on information available on Gurufocus.com, even popular fund managers are bullish about these dividend growth plays. The famous financier Warren Buffet purchased Intel's stock in the fourth quarter of 2011. Fund managers John Hussman of Hussman Econometrics Advisors and Tom Gayner of Markel Gayner Asset Management followed his suit. As regards Applied Materials, John Hussman added the stock to his portfolio in the first quarter of 2012, while Joel Greenblatt of Gotham Capital purchased it in the fourth quarter of last year. While most income investors will continue to look for dividends in the traditional sectors such as utilities and tobacco, they should be aware that opportunities to earn a meaningful yield exist even in non-traditional industries. Robust dividend growth of some technology firms, such as semiconductor companies, points to a new sector that promises to create above-market returns. Intel US4581401001 49.94 11.3 4.4 1.26 5/6/2019 29 2.56 Mcdonalds US5801351017 215.91 28.6 7.5 4.64 5/31/2019 62 2.17 Wal-mart Stores US9311421039 114.72 39.7 2.9 2.12 8/8/2019 73 1.85 Applied Materials US0382221051 48.17 13.5 3.6 0.84 8/21/2019 24 1.83 Articles featuring Intel (INTC): McDonald�s Corp: 1 Top Dividend Stock for Buy-and-Hold�Investors Buy-and-Hold�Investors Should Consider These Top Dividend Stocks If you’re looking for top dividend stocks to possibly buy and hold, then you need to pay attention to two of the most important numbers in business: 80 and 20.� The 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto principle, says 80% of the results come from 20% of the causes. In the world of business, smart companies exploit this effect by zeroing in on the smallest, most lucrative parts of their sector. Then they make... Read more Lanny's June Dividend Income Summary Another month towards financial freedom. Can you taste it? I know I am starting to. However, though sweet the taste this is, it'll be very "sweet" once the dividend income trumps all expenses in a given month. We are not quite there yet, but in time, this will happen. Proof has been in the pudding, as you've seen throughout the years of writing articles, and May is no different. Dividend Income I received a total of $2,040.17 of dividend income in June. A record June, baby, and glad that I... Read more The Retiree's Dividend Portfolio - John's May Update:�When It Becomes Hard To Find A Good Deal In last month's article regarding John's retirement accounts, The Retiree's Dividend Portfolio - John's April Update: Focus On The Blended Yield, I mentioned that I was extremely interested in Valero Energy (VLO) and Parker Hannifin (PH) as two potential candidates worth increasing John's exposure to. The VLO position was increased to a total of 150 shares but we ultimately chose to not add any shares of PH. With a new month upon us and a stock market that has rallied (at least in some... Read more Micron: It's Time To Pay A Dividend Micron (MU) is a fascinating stock. It is a purely cyclical and momentum-driven stock and as such experiences huge swings in both directions. Euphoria and fear, as distinct as they are, are as omnipresent as ever in the daily, weekly and monthly price movements in Micron's stock. Source: thestreet.com The stock is trading at a mid single-digit P/E ratio despite the company still posting profits and owning a cash-rich balance sheet. Micron has been pouring a lot of money into stock... Read more The Retiree's Dividend Portfolio - John's April Update: Focus On The Blended Yield We are doing our best to patiently retain cash as the stock market has reached a point where it is a coin-flip as to whether prices will go up or down. As we watch this process take place I have begun compiling a list of my favorite stocks that have fallen to the point where they offer a tremendous amount of value. Currently, there are two stocks that I find very attractive as they recently dropped close to their 52-week low. Parker-Hannifin (PH) - Currently held in the Taxable account (but... Read more	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727090
__label__cc	0.702595	0.297405	Trout streams East Metro Area Fisheries Lake & stream info / Where to fish Fishing Education Fishing in the Neighborhood (FiN) Turn in poachers (TIP) Accessible outdoors Public water access Vermillion River The Vermillion River is the largest stream in Dakota County. It starts near Elko, travels eastward across much of the central portion of the county until it discharges into the Mississippi River downstream of Hastings. The trout stream portion of the river starts just above Cedar Ave. and ends just downstream of Highway 52 bridge. Species Present: Brown Trout: average abundance, a variety of sized fish present, including some real whoppers. Rainbow Trout: lower than average abundance, average size. There is public access to the river within Rambling River Park operated by the City of Farmington. Additional access is available at (1) Miles parcel of the Vermillion River A.M.A. located on the north side of 200th Street (Cty Rd 66) midway between Biscayne Ave. and Blaine Ave. (2)At the Kamen unit of Vermillion Highlands W.M.A. located west of Blaine Ave. just north of 200th street (Co. Rd. 66). (3) At the Otting parcel of Vermillion River A.M.A. There is a parking lot on the north side of 200th Street (Co. Rd. 66) about one half mile west of U.S. 52. (4)At the Kummer unit of the Vermillion River A.M.A. There is a parking lot on the north side of 200th Street (Co. Rd. 66)about one half mile east of U.S. 52. There is access to the South Fork of the Vermillion River at the Kasel Unit of the Vermillion River A.M.A. This parcel is located just west of U.S. 52 on the south side of 200th St. (Co. Rd. 66) where the stream crosses under 200th Street. Be aware the property adjacent the So. Fork of the Vermillion north of 200th Street is private property. You must obtain permission of the property owner to fish this area. Special Regulations Within a 19.5 mile reach from the Highview Avenue bridge in Eureka Township in Farmington to the posted boundary 1.1 miles downstream from the U.S. Highway 52 Bridge, including all tributaries to their source (Dakota County). Brown Trout: Catch-and-release only. Rainbow Trout: Regular statewide regulations apply. From September 15 to October 15, angling for Brown Trout and Rainbow Trout is allowed but catch-and-release only (all trout must be immediately released). Dakota County streams including the Vermillion River are not part of the January 1 - April 15 Catch and release season. Management Plans: Stock 3,000 Rainbow Trout yearlings annually. Re-survey/population assessments in 2017, 2020 and 2023. Coordinate with the regional fisheries stream habitat specialist to develop and complete stream improvement projects that will increase or improve the quality or quantity of trout fishing provided. This stream has a good population of Brown Trout. Individual trout exceeding 5 pounds have been reported from this stream. Rainbow Trout are stocked annually to provide additional angling opportunities.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727091
__label__wiki	0.767177	0.767177	Green Party’s Larrick to enter Senate race OMAHA, Neb.—Steve Larrick will bicycle across the state in the spring to tell Nebraskans why they should elect him to the U.S. Senate. Larrick, co-chairman of the Nebraska Green Party, said he’ll enter the race Sunday to replace Republican Chuck Hagel, who isn’t seeking re-election. And this time Larrick, who has run for office as a Green Party candidate before, won’t have to spend time gathering signatures to get on the ballot. The Green Party is recognized as an official party for the 2008 election because, for the first time, last year its candidate for statewide office got more than 5 percent of the vote when Doug Paterson ran for secretary of state. The party has to garner at least 5 percent of the vote in a statewide election next year to maintain that distinction. Larrick said the party has candidates ready to run for other offices but wouldn’t give details. Larrick, 55, is an elected member of the Lower Platte South Natural Resource District board. He was a Green Party candidate for the 1st District House seat in 2004, and ran for state auditor last year, losing to Republican Mike Foley. The situation in Iraq is a big reason Larrick decided to run for the Senate. “As long as the United States is there as an occupier, there will be violence and death continuing to fester,” said Larrick, adding that he would vote to bring troops home. Larrick said he also would vote for legislation to give illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship through education or other routes, as was suggested in a measure that failed in the Senate earlier this year. Larrick is married to Janine Copple and has an 18-year-old son. Also running for the Senate seat are three Republicans: Schuyler businessman Pat Flynn, state Attorney General Jon Bruning and Mike Johanns, former U.S. agriculture secretary and Nebraska governor. No Democrat has entered the race yet. Nebraska Green Party: http://www.nebraska.greens.org A Utah boy has earned widespread social media attention for his neighborhood soda stand thanks to a sign he holds that reads, "Ice Cold Beer" with "root" above the word beer in tiny print.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727093
__label__cc	0.736976	0.263024	A Glutton for Pynchon Perhaps it was due to mental and physical exhaustion after a two-hour gym session this afternoon that I finally caved and bought Thomas Pynchon's latest novel, Against the Day, which finally came out in paperback last month. I have somewhat of a love-hate relationship with Thomas Pynchon after the trials and tribulations of Gravity's Rainbow but I guess you can never have too much magical realism! I waited a year for the 1,200 page tome that is Against the Day to come out in a form that was light enough for me to drag home and then put off buying it for a whole month. I have read GR twice now - both times while on holiday in America and both times ended up causing me more stress than enjoyment. I do like Pynchon's writing but I'm also the kind of person who is always rushing to get on to the next book and 800 pages is an awful lot of pressure - it feels as though you will never finish it, which means you put off reading altogether. Halfway through, the second time, I got to the point of wanting to have read it rather than to read it. Hopefully, AtD will be better. Another book I wanted to have read was The Selfish Gene, which I have now finished. Actually, I ended up enjoying it an awful lot, probably because it is so well written and because of the abundance of analogies. I do like analogies, especially incredibly subtle, clever ones, although funny, entertaining ones can be just as good. My favourite chapter was the one on game-theory, which I've only really approached from a neuro-economic perspective before, thanks, in part, to Steven Levitt. Writing about marriage and divorce, A good marriage is obviously a nonzero sum game, brimming with mutual cooperation. But even when it breaks down there are all sorts of reasons why a couple could benefit by continuing to cooperate, and treating their divorce, too, as a nonzero sum. As if child welfare were not a sufficient reason, the fees will make a nasty dent in the family finances. So obviously a sensible and civilized couple begin by going together to see one lawyer, don't they? Or not. The nasty old legal system forces them to go to separate lawyers and thus enter a zero sum game. Oh, bugger. Dawkins then follows on with a football-based analogy involving the last match of the season in 1977: three teams stood to become the third team relegated from the first division, two of whom were playing each other. Had these two not known the result of the match of the third team, it would have made most sense for each team to (as per usual) try their hardest to win to avoid relegation. As it happened, five minutes before the end of their match, they heard the result of the other match, where the team that could also have been relegated had lost. Now, the score being two-all with five minutes to go, it was in the interests of the two teams to "cooperate" and go on the defensive; as it stood, a draw between them would save them both from relegation and given that "defecting" in an attempt to obtain two extra points was far too risky a gamble to make. The two teams did cooperate. To reward myself for buying Pynchon, I also bought a new Moleskine. It seems they have revamped their plain notebook (my favourite style), so that it has a) "a new soft yet sturdy cover that adapts to the movements of the body and fits comfortably in any pocket" (they clearly haven't seen the size of the pockets on my J. Crew matchstick jeans) and b) only 192 pages instead of 244 (presumably so that it fits in a wider variety (all, in fact!) of pockets). It seems that I can't even rely on Moleskine to stay the same. Some people do never change, however; Doktor Landlord will continue to make me feel as crappy as ever with his own unique brand of sanctimonious hypocrisy. I dislike sanctimonious hypocrites more than anyone else and Doktor Landlord sure knows how to infuriate me with his skewed moral diktats, even when it is clear that to everyone else, he is far from perfect. At least he's buggered off for the night. I can sleep easy, for once, and pump up my music (embarrassingly, another Gossip Girl acquisition, Apologize by Timbaland featuring (at least) OneRepublic (I'm so out of touch with the young folks that I thought Timbaland was Justin Timberlake, rebanded - I think this is the first song in years I have liked from the Top 40)). Woot. Labels: book reviews, books, music, writing	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727100
__label__wiki	0.954707	0.954707	\| News May 1, 2018 \| Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Peter W. Baldwin Joins Drinker Biddle Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP has expanded its White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations team with the addition of Peter W. Baldwin, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney with both the Eastern District of New York and the Central District of California. He will reside in the firm’s New York office. In his almost nine years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Mr. Baldwin directed federal criminal investigations involving terrorism, cybercrimes, export controls, securities fraud, wire fraud, tax fraud, health care fraud, BSA/AML violations, counterespionage, trade secrets, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, money laundering, and child exploitation. “Pete brings significant internal investigations, securities enforcement and front-line trial experience to our team and furthers the firm’s strategic plan to expand our overall capabilities in New York,” said Andrew C. Kassner, Chairman and CEO of Drinker Biddle. “He is a talented lawyer who adds momentum to our growth efforts.” Most recently, Mr. Baldwin served in the National Security and Cybercrime Section in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, where he was the Counterespionage and Export Controls Coordinator. Prior to that, he was a member of the Major Frauds Section in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. Earlier in his career, Mr. Baldwin was in private practice with Latham & Watkins LLP and was an investment banking analyst for Barrington Associates Investment Bankers in Los Angeles. “Pete’s trial experience as an Assistant U.S. Attorney complements our national white collar team,” said Michael W. McTigue Jr., Chair of Drinker Biddle’s Litigation Group. “We are delighted to have him join our deep roster of former federal prosecutors.” Mr. Baldwin earned his juris doctor from the Northwestern University School of Law and his bachelor’s degree from Yale College. Download the full release Peter W. Baldwin White Collar Defense and Corporate Investigations	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727101
__label__cc	0.666716	0.333284	India Map : June (IV) 2019 1. Identify this place, which has opened the first specialized hydrotherapy treatment for elephants. Mathura, UP. India has opened its first specialized hydrotherapy treatment for elephants suffering from arthritis, joint pain and foot ailments at a wildlife SOS Elephant Hospital, Mathura, UP. It is a collaboration between Uttar Pradesh Forest Department and the NGO Wildlife SOS. 2. Identify this place where Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project is being executed to make the region drought proof. Telangana. The Kaleshwaram lift irrigation project is aimed to make Telangana drought proof by harnessing the flood waters of the Godavari. The project is an under-construction multi-purpose irrigation project on the Godavari River in Kaleshwaram, Bhoopalpally, Telangana. The project starts at the confluence point of Pranahita River and Godavari River. The Godavari is India's second longest riveThe Kaleshwaram project will support Mission Kakatiya and Mission Bhagiratha schemes designed to provide drinking water to many villages and improve the capacities of tanks. 3. Identify this State to which the theatre form Kuttiyatam belongs. Kerala. Kutiyattam is one of the oldest traditional theatre forms of Kerala and is based on Sanskrit theatre traditions. The word “kuti” in Malayalam language primarily means “combined” or “together”, and “attam” means “acting”: therefore, the word “kutiyattam” means “combined acting". Kutiyattam is performed by a community of male actors called Chakyars and female performers called Nangiars, assisted by drummers called Nambiars. 4. Identify this place where Godavari mangroves (Mada forest) is situated. Andhra Pradesh. The Andhra Pradesh Government has constituted a seven-member committee for fulfilment of norms required for proposing the Godavari Mangroves (Mada forests), at Coringa, as a World Heritage Site. Godavari Mangroves at the Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary (CWLS) are touted to be the second largest mangroves in India. The largest mangrove forest in the world is Sundarbans, West Bengal. The mangrove forests in Andhra Pradesh are located in the estuaries of the Godavari and the Krishna rivers. The Godavari mangroves are located in Godavari estuary of East Godavari district. 5. Identify this State where temples are being roped in for the conservation of Turtles. Assam. Conservation program for turtles is being implemented in Assam by involving the network of temples across the State. Species that have disappeared in the wild are bred in Assam’s shrines before being released into the wild. However, the temple ponds have more turtles than they can sustain and lack egg laying space because of so-called beautification of these ponds with concrete boundary. Special 301 Report prelims-facts-27-june-2019 YOGNA QUIZ Panchayati	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727102
__label__cc	0.57396	0.42604	Watch our UK Video Serviced Offices Leeds City Fringe Whitehall Road Office Space For Rent In Leeds City Fringe Office space available with free meeting room usage We are part of a network of Leeds Beckett University Business Centres which have been operating for more than 15 years. Over 200 businesses across the region are currently located in the University’s private, shared and co-working spaces, which to date have supported over 800 businesses to accelerate their growth. Offices are fully furnished and serviced, and are well-equipped with high speed internet access and dedicated phone lines. The building also provides a prestigious business address, together with additional spaces for client meetings, conferences and events. Businesses based within the centre can access: Office access 24 hours a day, 7 days per week. Manned Reception Hot Desks Rolling Monthly Contracts High Speed Broadband A central Leeds location provides occupiers with easy access to an excellent selection of restaurants, bars and cafes. There are a number of major road routes close by, offering links through the city and out to surrounding areas, whilst public transport services are within walking distance. Leeds Bradford International Airport 6.7 Miles (10.7 km) Leeds 0.5 Miles (0.9 km) M621 2.3 Miles (3.7 km) Whitehall Road, Leeds, LS12 1BE Whitehall Road, Beeston, West YorkshireFrom £189 per person per month This Leeds serviced office centre totals 122,003 sq ft, with each of the seven floors offering up to 15,587 sq ft of Grade A office space, just nine minutes walk from Leeds train station, in one of ... Wellington Place, Leeds City Centre, West YorkshireFrom £169 per person per month We can offer clients fully serviced offices in Leeds on flexible terms, with air conditioning, reception staff and support teams, kitchen areas, state-of-the-art technology and 16 meeting rooms that ... Wellington Street, Leeds City Centre, West YorkshireFrom £249 per person per month Spanning both 100 and 114 Wellington Street, our office space forms a thriving business community at the heart of Leeds’ booming West End district. As one of the largest multi-let office buildings ... See all other Serviced Offices in Leeds City Fringe https://www.easyoffices.com/serviced-office-space/uk/west-yorkshire/leeds-city-fringe/whitehall-road/28340	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727106
__label__wiki	0.688843	0.688843	Car hire Morocco Save time and money. We compare the offers of car rental companies in Morocco on your behalf. EasyTerra Car Hire Morocco is an independent car hire comparison site. Our system compares prices from well-known car hire companies so as a customer you can always book your hire car through us at a competitive rate. Hassane Azzazi Hertz Marrakech Airport “Extremely satisfied with EasyTerra.” Johan Ploeg Europcar Marrakech Airport “I don't have anything to say really. Everything went as you would hope for when renting a car.” Elizabeth Noorman Europcar Marrakech Airport “Excellent service, quick and very affordable” “"I have already rented a car through EasyTerra several times, sometimes just a day in advance, and from abroad. The site is well organized, prices are fine, they can be easily reached for questions via e-mail and they are very responsive! Highly recommended!"” Popular cities in Morocco Location information for Morocco Morocco lies on the northern coast of Africa. The amount of inhabitants is approximately 34 million. Morocco is an Arabic kingdom with strong Mediterranean influences. The capital of the country is Rabat. In this city, with over 1.7 million inhabitants, the government resides. Moroccans are nearly all Muslim. The Islam is also the state religion. An important part of the Moroccan population is from Berber descent. Long before the arrival of the Arabs, this people lived in present-day Morocco. Apart from the sea, Morocco also has mountains and even a bit of desert. The landscapes are often marvelous. Most cities are located near the coast. Casablanca, Agadir and Tétouan are all coastal towns with their separate attractions. Many of the sites in Moroccan cities are on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Meknes, Marrakech, Rabat and Fez for example, are known as the four Royal Cities. A visit to their medinas (the old city centers) and souqs (bazars) will stimulate your senses because of the bustling people and the scent of spices. The first signs of habitation in present-day Morocco go back to the Neolithic period. Around eight thousand BC the Capians inhabited the area of the Maghreb. These people lived primarily from hunting. The landscape looked differently then. It was less arid and in higher areas there were forests like the ones we now find in Mediterranean regions like Italy and Greece. Around 2400 BC the Berbers came to Morocco. Their civilization stretched from the Atlantic Ocean in North Africa to the Siwa oases in northwest Egypt. To the south they inhabited the land down to the river Niger. At the time of their arrival agriculture came to Morocco. From that moment on crops were cultivated in Morocco, which was then called Mauretania. Centuries later, in the classical period, Morocco became a trading colony of the Phoenicians. This people came from the area that is now known as Lebanon. The height of Phoenician maritime power lay between 1200 and 800 BC. Around 1200 the Phoenicians founded a trading post here. After the collapse of Carthage in 146 BC Morocco became part of the Roman Empire. When this empire also declined in the fifth century AD and eventually collapsed, Vandals, Visigoths and Byzantine Greek conquered the area. However, the Berber people in the mountains held out to the intruders. The higher regions of Morocco stayed in the hands of the original inhabitants. During the seventh century the Islam quickly made its way to North Africa. In 683 the Umayyads conquered Morocco. General Uqba ibn Nafi gave the region the name Maghreb al Aqsa: the Far West. It took only one century to Islamize the region. Until today Morocco remains an Islamic country. The Berber people were influenced by Arabic culture. They adopted the religion and many customs. During the eleventh century the Berber tribes dethroned the Arabs and founded their own dynasties. The Almoravids, Almohads and Marinids successively ruled over Morocco. Eventually the Sa'adi dynasty had power over Morocco, the northwest of Africa and large parts of the Iberian Peninsula. In the seventh century the Arab Alawites replaced the Sa'adi dynasty. During that period the empire had weakened due to troubles between Spain and the Ottoman Empire. The empire persisted under Alawite rule. It lost some land, but remained prosperous. The Ottomans were chased away from Algeria by the French in 1830. The Algerian leader Abd El Kader was backed by the Moroccans in his revolt against the French. At the beginning of the twentieth century, this led to an agreement of France, Great Britain and Spain to divide Morocco in three parts. The area around Tangier became an international zone. Other areas became French or Spanish. During the twenties of the last century a revolt arose among the inhabitants of the Rif against their oppressors as well as against the Moroccan commanders who submitted to the colonists. The revolt was crushed. In 1934 Morocco eventually came under French jurisdiction. Moroccan soldiers fought under the French general De Gaulle during World War II. In addition to this, in 1943 the United Independence Party (Istiqlal) was established by nationalists. The party fought for an independent Morocco led by King Mohammed V. But France exiled Mohammed V and made Mohammed ibn Arafa the new king of Morocco. The Moroccan people opposed these new measures heavily. Eventually, the new king had to flee to Tangier and Mohammed V returned. In 1955 he became king of Morocco and the year after Morocco declared its independence from France. Treaties were signed with Spain that assured the recognition of Morocco's independence by this country. The Spaniards however, kept their rule over the northern enclaves Ceuta and Melilla, the southern enclave Ifni and the Western Sahara. When Morocco entered the United Nations in 1956, Spain was forced to hand over the Western Sahara and Ifni. But Spain decided differently. It decolonized Ifni, but held on to the Western Sahara. In 1961 King Mohammed V passed away. His son Hassan II succeeded him. His period of office started turbulent and would largely remain that way. In 1963 conflicts arose between Morocco and Algeria. The war was called 'War of Sands'. The War of Sands ended in 1964. The years '71 and '72 were marked by coups. They failed however and King Hassan II could keep his position. In 1976 Morocco regained control over the Western Sahara. Spain decolonized this region. In 1999 the king died. Power went on to his son Mohammed VI. He tries to modernize the country. Attention is paid to an improvement in the position of women. Additionally, the position of the Berber population, who have been discriminated against ever since the Arabization of Morocco, is improved. The main part of the Moroccan people lives east of the Atlas mountain range. Approximately three quarters of the Moroccans are of Berber descent. Half of them are arabized. The Berber were the first inhabitants of North Africa. Their culture dates from before 2400 BC. Besides Morocco, they also live in Algeria and Libya. Many Berber people emigrated to European countries such as The Netherlands, France and Belgium. Of old, a small group of Jews lives in Morocco. Their number is decreasing, principally because many Jews emigrate to Israel. More than half of the Moroccans live in the cities. A steady migration takes place from the country and the mountains to the urban parts of Morocco. The official language taught in Moroccan schools is Standard Arabic. This language was introduced in Morocco by the Arabs during the seventh century. Moroccans speak a dialect of this language. There are several variants, depending on the region. In cities the language became influenced by Andalusian. In the northwest a dialect is spoken that is related to the mountain regions. The Bedouin dialect is spoken on the plains at the Atlantic Ocean. Hassani is heard in some parts of the Sahara. Berber languages like the Rif language are also part of the range of languages spoken in Morocco. French is the second important language in public life. Nearly all Moroccans are Sunnite Muslims. One percent of the population is Christian and a small group of Jews lives in Morocco. They comprise 0.2 percent of the population. Morocco has been an independent state since 1956. The country is a monarchy. The present head of state is King Mohammed VI. He has the power to dissolve the government. Apart from being the head of state, kings of Morocco are also Amir al-muminin: Commander of the faithful. As such he has a moral and spiritual role with regard to the Muslims. The Moroccan parliament has had a two chamber system since 1963. It consists of the House of Deputies and a house of Councilors. Abbas El Fassi has been prime minister of the country since 2007. The primary political and royalist' parties of Morocco are the centre right Union Constitutionelle, the RNI, the PND and the Mouvement Populaire. Prominent opposition parties are the Istiqlal, de USFP and the UNFP. The Islamic party Adl wa Lihsane is banned. Morocco is divided into 39 provinces. The country has the status of an associated member of the European Union. Morocco is still characterized as a development country. Nevertheless, Morocco has a fairly stable economy. The main trading partner of Morocco is France. One of the two main sources of income is the extraction of phosphate. Phosphate is mainly found in the Western Sahara. Beside this, the agricultural sector is very important. Morocco is one of the leading producers of cannabis in the world. Especially the north profits from the cultivation and trade of this product. Morocco is also the world's largest exporter of almonds. Fishery is important as well. Morocco has the largest fish market in Africa. In exchange for economic aid European ships can sail the Moroccan waters to fish. Casablanca is the economic heart of the country. Tangier, in the north of Morocco, is an emergent industrial centre. The tourist sector has been a main employer for years. This source of income grows substantially. Many Moroccans left the country during the fifties and sixties of the last century, to become immigrant workers in countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium and France. Many of them never returned to Morocco. Presently the second generation of the original guest workers lives in these countries. The currency of Morocco is the Dirham. Morocco occupies 446.550 square kilometers. This North African country is bordered by Algeria to the east and Mauritania to the south. The border with Algeria has been closed since 1994. In the north Morocco borders on the Strait of Gibraltar. The Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean border the country as well. In the north of Morocco, bordering on the Mediterranean Sea lies the 350 kilometers long Rif mountain range. These mountains stretch from west to east. The Rif mountain range is a low mountain range. The highest peak is the Jabal Tidiquin with 2448 meters. In the Atlas Mountains one can find rugged cliffs, lakes, rivers and forests. The rough parts are located in the High Atlas with peaks reaching four thousand meters. In the Middle Atlas one can find less extreme landscapes adorned with cedars and waterfalls. The southeast of Morocco is primarily occupied by the Sahara. This desert is the world's largest hot desert and stretches over nine million square kilometers. At the Mediterranean Sea one finds a fertile area that is extensively cultivated. Approximately twelve percent of Morocco is forested. In general the Moroccan climate is Mediterranean with dry summers and mild winters. The Atlas Mountain range stretches over Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia and makes the weather side fertile because of the clouds that stay there. The lee lies in the so called rain shadow with considerably less rainfall. The lee of Morocco lies in the east and southeast. In Morocco toll is levied on highways. The maximum speed is 120 km/h. All big cities such as Rabat, Marrakech, Tangier, Fez and Casablanca, are connected to each other by highways. The condition of the Moroccan roads is reasonable. Nearly all roads are asphalted, with a hole here and there. There are fourteen commercial airports in Morocco. International airports like Casablanca Anfa Airport and Casablanca Mohammed V Airport connect Morocco to Europe, Asia and the Middle East. From the airport of Tangier and from Agadir Al Massira Airport, Fez Saiss Airport and Marrakech Airport, one can fly to various destinations in- and outside Morocco. ONCF links most cities by means of its efficient train and bus network. The trains are fast and comfortable. Travelling by bus is also pleasant, not only between cities, but in the city as well. The Moroccan cuisine is extensively varied. Arabic, Berber, Spanish, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean influences are some of the many cultures that added their ingredients to the Moroccan dishes. Cinnamon, cumin, pepper, ginger, saffron and turmeric are much used spices. These are used to season the meat and vegetables to taste. Moroccans eat mostly chicken and lamb. A number of famous Moroccan dishes for example are couscous, harira, and tajine. Couscous is very popular, not only in Morocco any more but also in Western countries. It consists mainly of semolina. Harira is a soup traditionally eaten during Ramadan. Important ingredients to make harira are lentils, chickpeas and tomatoes. It's a spicy soup with parsley, paprika and coriander. The tajine is not so much a dish as the pot in which dishes are prepared. The tajine has a characteristic appearance. The dish is closed with a cone-shaped top. Fish, lamb or chicken can be stewed inside the tajine with spices like cinnamon, ginger and cumin. Moroccans drink a lot of tea with fresh mint. The time zone in Morocco is GMT/UTC +0. Hotels in Morocco are classified by a star system. Especially in tourist places like Casablanca, Marrakech, Agadir and Fez hotels can be found in all categories of comfort and luxury. In bigger cities one can find some hostels and Bed & Breakfasts as well. Both kinds of accommodation are not available in abundance. Most cities have one or maybe a few hostels. There are a lot of apartments for rent. Houses and villa's can be rented for the duration of a vacation, but also for a longer period. Campers can find sites to put up their tent in Morocco. Not only along the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, but also in the Atlas Mountains and even the Sahara there are places to camp. The camp sites are open the entire year. Those who love luxurious accommodation while camping did not come to the right place. Especially the sanitary facilities leave much to be desired. For more information about Morocco we recommend Google and the following sources: Wikipedia, Morocco Official portal Morocco All cities in Morocco EasyTerra Car Hire Morocco compares prices of car hire companies in the following cities:	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727107
__label__cc	0.661094	0.338906	Towards a wireless world 1 October 2000, source Water & Wastewater Treatment Michael Scott on a new control gear and kit to record and transmit data Held in New Orleans, the ISA (instrumentation, systems and automation) Show proved a rich source of ideas and trends. There was much talk about integrating information across enterprises and through supply chains and systems, while the advent of dependable, low-cost wireless will enable previously unfeasible data collection - without replacing existing cabling. Several wireless systems suppliers also offered the facility to collect, store and make data available on the web. The other notable feature of the show was the way in which measurement and control suppliers courted manufacturing industry, blurring of the interface with the previously dominant process control industry. The key-note speech was given by H Britton Sanderford Jr, chairman and chief technology officer of Axonn LLC. The company developed relatively inexpensive spread spectrum chip sets with integral batteries. An aerial can be incorporated into the printed circuit board and several manufacturers have already integrated the chip sets into on-line monitors, with no external ariel. Sanderford provided analysis of the security and reliability of this approach to spread spectrum technology and the autonomous nature of its communication - the receiver automatically finds any nearby transmitters. Although the data exchange is fairly limited by some serial communication standards this seems an important piece of enabling technology. Axonn claim more than 5M endpoints in use. Crossbow Technologies launched a Bluetooth-enabled wireless sensor architecture for real-time remote sensing and data acquisition through 2.4gHz links. Bluetooth is a licence free, low-power wireless personal connectivity standard developed by Ericsson, Nokia, Lucent Technologies, IBM and Toshiba. Already in use in personal digital assistants (PDAs), expect the costs for chip sets to drop to a few $. Licence free, ultra-reliable wireless ethernet data communications for high interference environments, were being priced at $2,000 (£1,426). One supplier claimed water and waste treatment industry uptake was already significant. Wireless communications to sensors and on-line measurements is not new, but high costs have meant it has only seen limited use. Despite the lack of agreed standards, wireless has been used for several years for hand-held data capture in manufacturing. The market is still growing for hand-held devices providing two-way monitor and control on the factory floor. Iconics, a developer of web-enabled industrial automation software for Windows, unveiled a small, energy efficient and powerful PDA with radio communications. The product provides extensive facilities aimed at quality managers, production personnel, and maintenance supervisors. Several manufacturers of on-line process and environmental monitors and miniature dataloggers were showing very low-cost radio systems. One gas detector manufacturer had an embedded radio transmitter, with no price penalty over its competitors non radio alternative. One radio link, to transmit a 4-20mA over one mile, was offered for less than $1,000 (£713), another intended for close quarters data capture from miniature dataloggers was offered at $250 (£178). Xsilogy was offering a battery powered radio system with which 4-20 mA, pulse counter or digital inputs could be transmitted, received over distance of up to half-a-mile, then stored and forwarded to the Xsilogy SkyCentre for internet access. Transmitters cost around $500 (£356) each, plus $10 (£7) per sensor and $200 (£142) per month for data handling. Most other radio offerings were in the $500 (£356) plus region, with prices likely to fall quickly as volume builds up. The US allocation of radio bands is different to those in Europe but some suppliers are already selling in Europe and the rest all spoke of their plans to follow suit. The debate surrounding the allocation and use of radio wave bands and which radio technologies will dominate continues, but the commercial pressure is so great it seems certain de-facto solutions and standards will quickly develop. Phoenix DatasComm demonstrated a flexible, easy-to-use remote monitor and control system. The company claimed to be able to integrate data using any or all of the communication techniques available and turn them into web pages. with security, message management and archiving features. Sophisticated data retrieval was vaunted as a strong point. The development of PDA and radio technology able to read and download instructions to sensors and drives is opening up a significant new market. The PDAs use spread spectrum radio technology and thus make autonomous communications with nearby sensors or other devices. This enables secure audit trails and reduces the need for training. The use of PDAs to calibrate sensors was pioneered by Transmation. It takes only a small leap of imagination to see how wireless PDAs might transform the security and cost of data collection from remote on-line process monitors. Not only can data capture be time and date-stamped but global positioning system (GPS) can be used to position the point of capture. Could this be the end for 'rainy day samples'? In the UK Survey Supplies has already launched a PDA aimed at mapping assets in the water industry. Cost Cutting The water industry faces considerable challenges in obtaining, collecting and collating information from a small number of widely dispersed sites, often with limited resources. Very low-power, spread spectrum radio communication providing web-based data collection and storage appears to offer exciting low cost solution. Tools and services for collecting, collating and archiving data are also promising to reduce the costs of generating useable information. Utilities have a unique need to monitor and control widely dispersed assets with considerable diurnal variations. The blurring of the manufacturing and process control markets should provide interesting solutions for the complex mixture of single bit and message-rich data flows. The high volumes of PDAs used in manufacturing will provide a blueprint for their use in water treatment and supply. Low cost, long life, miniature dataloggers, smart instruments, and smart drives plus the use of PDAs in 'drive by' mode makes unattended sites even more viable \| Communications \| gas \| manufacturing \| training	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727111
__label__cc	0.560291	0.439709	Man arrested after armed police are called to Norwich explosion Dominic Gilbert dominic.gilbert@archant.co.uk @DominicGilbert Pettus Road, near Eaton Park, in Norwich. Photo: Google Streetview A man has been arrested on suspicion of causing an explosion in a public place following an incident in Norwich involving a paintball grenade. Police were called to Pettus Road shortly after 4pm on Wednesday following reports a device had been thrown from a property. The device, which exploded, is thought to be a paintball grenade. Armed officers attended and a man in his 40s was arrested on suspicion of causing an explosion in a public place – likely to cause injury or damage. He has been taken to Wymondham Police Investigation Centre where he will be questioned. Local commander, Inspector Graham Dalton, said: “This incident and our subsequent response did attract public attention and cause concern among the local community. I would like to reassure the public we take offences of this nature very seriously. No one was injured and we believe this to be an isolated incident.” • Police have confirmed the man has been released under investigation pending further enquiries.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727112
__label__cc	0.537572	0.462428	• (n.) A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the province of Champagne, in France. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/champagne/ [beverage] This category contains flora that are native to, or naturalised on, the Chatham Islands. Taxa that are introduced but not naturalised are excluded. Taxa of the lowest rank are always included. Higher taxa are included only if endemic. The categorisation scheme follows the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distribution... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne_(beverage) [coiffeur] Monsieur Champagne was the first celebrity coiffeur for whom the term was first coined in France in 1663, shortly after his death. His aristocratic clients included Princess Marie de Gonzague. He was the title character in the comedy Champagne le coiffeur which was staged at the Théâtre du Marais. ... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne_(coiffeur) [color] The color champagne is a name given for various very pale tints of yellowish-orange that are close to beige. The color`s name is derived from the typical color of the beverage Champagne. ==Champagne== The color champagne is displayed at right. The first recorded use of champagne as a color name in English was in 1915. ==Variations o... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne_(color) [historical province] Champagne (ʃɑ̃paɲ) is a historic province in the northeast of France, now best known as the Champagne wine region for the sparkling white wine that bears its name. Formerly ruled by the counts of Champagne, its western edge is about 100 miles (160 km) east of Paris. The cities of Troyes, Reims, and Épernay are the... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne_(historical_province) [wine region] The Champagne wine region (archaic Champany) is a historic province within the administrative province of Champagne in the northeast of France. The area is best known for the production of the sparkling white wine that bears the region`s name. EU law and the laws of most countries reserve the term `Champagne` exclusively for w... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagne_(wine_region) Cham·pagne' noun [ French See Champaign .] A light wine, of several kinds, originally made in the province of Champagne, in France. » Champagne properly includes several kinds not only of sparkling but of still wines; but in America the term is usually restricted to wines which effer... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/52 A common descriptive term for light brown or pinkish brown coloured diamonds Found on http://www.saffronart.com/sitepages/jewelry/glossary.aspx A denominated region northeast of Paris in which Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier grapes are made into sparkling wine. Found on http://www.wineonline.ie/library/glossary.htm A popular bubbling wine from the Champagne region of France. Bubbling wine is called "spumante" in Italy, "Seki" in Germany, and "vin mousseux" in other regions of France. Americans unashamedly call their bubbling wines "champagne." Found on http://www.nutribase.com/beverage.shtml A sparkling white wine named after a region just east of Pans, France where it was first produced. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/22384 An attack of three distinct groups with two in front and one behind. The leading two groups are attempting to bracket with the trailing third group flying up the middle. Found on http://www.f-16.net/glossary-C.html champagne (shămpān') , sparkling white wine made from grapes grown in the old French province of Champagne. The best champagne is from that part of the Marne valley whose apex is Reims, the center of the industry. Champagne was reputedly developed by a monk, Dom Pérignon, in t... Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0811291.html Champagne (shäNpä'nyu) , historic region and former province, NE France, consisting mainly of Aube, Marne, Haute-Marne, and Ardennes depts., which form that modern region of Champagne-Ardenne. The Champagne region is almost, but not fully, coextensive with the former provinces of Champ... Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A0811290.html Champagne is a French wine, white or red, which is made chiefly in the department of Marne, in the former province Champagne, and is generally characterized by the property of creaming, frothing, or effervescing when poured from the bottle, though there are also still Champagne wines. The creaming or slightly sparkling Champagne wines are more high... Found on http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/browse/QC.HTM classic sparkling wine named for the site of its origin and exclusive production, the traditional region of Champagne in northeastern France. The ... [1 related articles] Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/52 historical and cultural region encompassing the present-day northeastern French département of Marne and parts of Ardennes, Meuse, Haute-Marne, Aube, ... [6 related articles] Only the Chardonnais, le Pinot meunier and the Pinot noir are authorized to produce this wine. Found on http://www.hintsandthings.co.uk/livingroom/glossaryC.htm Probably the most famous alcoholic drink and the epitome of joie de vivre and luxury. Already in 1531 was in Southwest France sparkling wine documented, namely the Blanquette de Limoux from the town of Limoux. But in the Champagne In the first half of the 17th century, champagne was by no means synonymous with foaming wine. A common phenomenon in t... Found on https://glossary.wein-plus.eu/champagne Rich soft beige color found in the Burmese breed. Found on http://www.pandecats.com/x/glossary.shtml Sparkling white wine invented by Dom Pérignon, a Benedictine monk, in 1668. It is made from a blend of grapes (pinot noir and chardonnay) grown in the Marne River region around Reims and Epernay, in Champagne, northeastern France. After a first fermentation, sugar and yeast are added to the still wine, whi... Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0020784.html meaning of emo meaning of research meaning of sociology meaning of entrepreneurship meaning of Toe meaning of Champagne meaning of Thunder meaning of Lha meaning of Forewish meaning of Manstealer meaning of propione meaning of Stromboli meaning of Adeline meaning of marfanoid meaning of hyperanarchy meaning of hat meaning of deoxyuridine meaning of Molluscan meaning of Mechanics meaning of ultraligation meaning of Bladder meaning of Sandiver meaning of unasinous meaning of extortioner	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727115
__label__cc	0.581098	0.418902	News Center > Entergy Powers Louisiana Communities with $9.7 Million in Grants Entergy Powers Louisiana Communities with $9.7 Million in Grants Lee Sabatini or Charlotte J. Cavell\|504-576-4132\|lsabati@entergy.com or ccavell@entergy.com NEW ORLEANS – Entergy shareholders provided $9.7 million in grants in 2018 to support more than 700 nonprofit organizations that provide essential services and help build healthy, vibrant communities across Louisiana. Approximately 50 percent of the contributions went to support education and workforce development. The Louisiana Resource Center for Educators and Start the Adventure in Reading, Inc., for example, were among the organizations with programs that benefited from Entergy grant contributions. The LRCE is dedicated to supporting innovation in education statewide, while STAIR helps struggling students improve reading and literacy skills through tutoring programs. Both organizations work to support teachers and better the educational experiences of Louisiana students. “These grants demonstrate the many ways Entergy powers life by supporting vital programs and services that address critical needs in our communities,” said Patty Riddlebarger, Entergy’s vice president of corporate social responsibility. “Thanks to our outstanding network of partner organizations, Entergy’s grants continue making a positive impact on our customers and communities.” Among the Louisiana organizations receiving grants in 2018 were: American Cancer Society Inc. Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith Capital Area United Way’s Dolly Parton Imagination Library City Year, Inc.’s Whole School, Whole Child program Coastal Conservation Association Louisiana Educare New Orleans’ programs to empower families through early education and advocacy First Grace Community Alliance’s Hagar’s House for Women and Children Golden Change, Inc.’s Too Good for Drugs school prevention program New Schools for Baton Rouge’s expansion of quality school choice Radio for the Blind and Print Handicapped, Inc.’s “Going Green” environmental awareness radio program on WRBH Roots of Renewal Nola’s financial education program for formerly incarcerated neighbors Southern University’s classroom upgrades for the College of Sciences and Engineering YMCA of Greater New Orleans’ adult literacy and workforce development programs Including the money donated in Louisiana, Entergy awarded grants in 2018 totaling more than $18.4 million to more than 2,000 nonprofits in the states where Entergy operates, and employees logged more than 111,000 volunteer hours. Learn more about our community investments here. Entergy Louisiana provides electric service to more than 1 million customers and natural gas service to nearly 93,000 customers in the greater Baton Rouge area. The company has operations in north, central and south Louisiana. Entergy New Orleans, Inc. is an electric and gas utility that serves Orleans Parish. The company provides electricity to more than 200,000 customers and natural gas to more than 106,000 customers. Both companies are subsidiaries of Entergy Corporation. Entergy Corporation is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, including nearly 9,000 megawatts of nuclear power. Entergy delivers electricity to 2.9 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy has annual revenues of approximately $11 billion and more than 13,000 employees. Louisiana New Orleans LA Community NOLA Community LA Advocate Power NOLA Advocate Power	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727116
__label__cc	0.53998	0.46002	2011-12Top 16Round 5 Local time: 20:45 PAB. DEP. COMUNIDAD DE MADRID Real Madrid blasted Unicaja 86-65 Real Madrid managed to stay alive in the Top 16 thanks to a 86-65 home win over Unicaja on Thursday night. Unicaja started like a hurricane with a 3-14 burst, but little by little, the hosts managed to climb back from the well and prevail at the end. With the win, Real Madrid improves to 3-2 and ties for second place with Gescrap BB. The two Playoff berths from this group will be decided in the final week as the three teams still have options to advance. Unicaja, winless with a 0-5, is out of the race. Nikola Mirotic led the winners with his 18 points including 4 of 9 threes, Sergio llull added 15 and Jaycee Carroll posted 13. For Unicaja, Gerald Fitch nailed 15 points, Augusto Lima posted 12 and Hrvoje Peric contributed 11. The game started with Sergio Llull blasting a clean three for a 3-0 Real Madrid edge. However, out of the blue, Augusto Lima sparked waht would become a 0-14 run. With threes by Gerald Fitch and EJ Rowland, and contribution from Tremmell Darden, Unicaja managed to run and climb to a 3-14 forcing the timeout of the hosts. Unicaja insisted on the zone defense but Real Madrid started scoring again with Felipe Reyes' jumper and then Llull added a three-point play for a quick 10-16. The guests managed to pick up a little more steam by the end as Rowland and Hrvoje Peric scored to put an end to the first period with a 14-22 Unicaja lead. In the second quarter Jaycee Carroll took the game by storm as he scored the first six points of the hosts in the quarter to make it 20-26. Hrvoje Peric was also on fire for Unicaja and he kept the guests at a safe distance. Trying the zone that had been so useful up to that point, Unicaja managed to go back into double digits with a Berni Rodriguez layup, However, Real Madrid reacted fast from 27-37 with a 7-0 capped by Nikola Mirotic's three for 34-37 forcing a new Unicaja timeout. Mirotic was now launching Madrid and made the scoring run escalate to 14-4 with his third straight three to put an end to the fist half with the first tie of the game, 31-31, at the break. Fitch opened the second half with a three in transition to keep Unicaja ahead a little longer, but the hosts appeared again with a new 7-0 run sparked by Carlos Suarez's three. Novica Velickovic tipped in for the first Real Madrid lead since the first basket, 46-44, and then Ante Tomic sealed the burst. Fitch ran to score again, and Lima appeared with four straight points including a scoop shot to make it 52-50, but Llull put the guests back to the ground with a new three. The pace was fast on both ends, but Madrid was finding better options in offense and drew fouls to convert from the line and make it 59-53. Unicaja was having a hard time from the charity stripe making it the score difference at this point. Despite a few more plays, the ball didn't go in anymore and after 30 minutes the score was 59-53. In the first two plays of the last quarter, Real Madrid made it a double-digit lead, 63-53, after Marty Pocius' free throws. Carroll and Peric traded dunks but the hosts were controlling the tempo at ease now. Time was running and thanks to offensive rebounds, Real Madrid was getting second options in offense. On the other end, Unicaja had a problem with turnovers, as they prevented the guests from completing the plays that would allow them to climb back. On the other side, Carroll hit a new bomb form the arc to start sealing the deal and Llull soon joined in with his three-point play to make it 74-59 with 3:45 to go. The 13 offensive rebounds of Real Madrid combined with the 17 turnovers of Unicaja at this point, were a clear mark of what had happened in the last three quarters. When Mirotic hit a new three for 81-65 entering the last minute, Real Madrid escaped with the win and set a thrilling stage for the Top 16 Week 6. Referees: BELOSEVIC, ILIJA; RADOVIC, SRETEN; ANASTOPOULOS, PANAGIOTIS Real Madrid 14 27 18 27 Unicaja Malaga 22 19 12 12 4 TOMIC, ANTE 12:44 2 1/6 2 2 4 1 1 2 3 2 6 SANZ, JORGE 1:57 3 1/1 3 7 POCIUS, MARTYNAS 14:03 6 2/4 0/2 2/2 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 8 SUAREZ, CARLOS 25:47 6 0/2 2/3 1 1 2 4 1 1 9 9 REYES, FELIPE 10:56 7 2/2 3/4 4 3 7 2 2 13 12 MIROTIC, NIKOLA 22:22 18 1/4 4/9 4/4 2 8 10 1 1 3 1 2 20 13 RODRIGUEZ, SERGIO 17:50 6 3/5 0/1 1 1 5 2 2 3 1 7 14 VELICKOVIC, NOVICA 15:53 4 2/4 0/1 2 1 3 2 2 1 1 1 1 6 16 BEGIC, MIRZA 18:05 2 1/5 1 6 7 1 3 1 1 1 6 20 CARROLL, JAYCEE 19:27 13 4/4 1/2 2/2 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 10 22 SINGLER, KYLE 15:08 4 1/5 0/1 2/2 1 1 1 1 2 23 LLULL, SERGIO 25:48 15 2/5 2/4 5/6 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 4 11 Totals 200:00 86 19/46 10/24 18/20 13 29 42 17 6 13 3 8 15 19 94 Head coach: LASO, PABLO 4 FITCH, GERALD 25:04 15 3/5 3/8 0/2 3 3 2 4 1 2 2 8 5 RODRIGUEZ, BERNI 13:25 7 1/1 1/5 2/2 2 1 1 2 7 6 ROWLAND, EARL 25:46 5 1/5 1/1 3 3 3 1 2 1 1 6 7 LIMA, AUGUSTO 25:30 12 5/6 2/3 2 5 7 1 1 3 2 4 2 16 9 VALTERS, KRISTAPS 9:46 3 1/3 0/1 1/2 1 1 1 1 3 2 10 PERIC, HRVOJE 28:36 11 5/9 0/2 1/2 2 2 4 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 11 12 DARDEN, TREMMELL 27:47 4 2/5 0/1 1 4 5 1 2 1 1 1 5 15 GARBAJOSA, JORGE DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 16 ABRINES, ALEX 18:12 1 0/3 1/2 1 2 3 1 2 3 1 2 1 21 ZORIC, LUKA 10:28 2 1/3 2 2 1 1 4 -2 22 SINANOVIC, NEDZAD 15:26 5 1/4 3/4 2 4 6 1 1 3 2 4 Head coach: MATEO, CHUS LASO, PABLO "It is a win to stay alive. At the start of thegame we were not physically in the arena. Fortunately, we recovered and managed to play more comfortable in the second half. We have to go to Siena like this was a final, but they are favorite in this game." MATEO, CHUS "The game was too long for us. We were in the game for a long time, we were even ahead. But we gave too many chances to a team with resources to use them. They had a lot of rebounds. I think we are not the judges of this group. We will play against Gescrapp BB next week with total respect for our jobs and trying to get a win." LLULL, SERGIO "The team was tired and a little bit unfocused because of external factors: winning the Spanish King's Cup and yesterday's win of Bilbao over Siena. That shocked us. We started badly but we recovered with intensity. First we have to think about a win in Siena next week and, if we can, go for thepoint differential. It won't be easy." CARROLL, JAYCEE "After the weekend we had we started too soft. But we managed to find our pace and do things as we like. Winning big in Siena is a difficult feat, but I have seen many things in basketball. First, we will have to focus on the win. Then, we have to hope for a little luck and Unicaja maybe beats Gescrap BB. They are a good team with pride." RODRIGUEZ, BERNI "We did fine for about 35 minutes. We knew we were out but we came out focused. We played with intensity. The team is getting better and that is the most important thing now. Next week we will do everything in our hands to finish with at least one win." ROWLAND, EARL "We lost to a great team. I think they were a bit out of it at the beginning because they come from a busy weekend, but they hang in there and then Mirotic killed us with the open threes. For the next game we want to finish the Top 16 with at least a win." REGULAR SEASON TOP 16 PLAYOFFS FINAL FOUR Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Galatasaray Medical Park 64 Anadolu Efes Istanbul 56 Gescrap Bilbao Basket 60 Montepaschi Siena 59 Fenerbahce Ulker 94 Panathinaikos Athens 58 EA7 Emporio Armani 67 Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv 70 Bennet Cantu 62 FC Barcelona Regal 63	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727117
__label__wiki	0.635725	0.635725	Event Staff Login Media Center WVU Home University Arts Series 2018-2019 UpAllNight 2018-2019 Mountain Stage with Larry Groce Sunday, January 20 • 7:00 p.m. WVU Creative Arts Center Mountain Stage with Larry Groce has been the home of live music on public radio for more than 30 years. Each two-hour episode is produced weekly by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and distributed by NPR Music on more than 240 stations across America. While most of the shows are recorded in Charleston, WVU is proud to have served as the show’s second home for the last decade. The show features performances from seasoned legends and emerging stars in genres ranging from folk, blues, and country to indie rock, synth pop, world, alternative and beyond. Each event showcases five artists as well as songs from the Mountain Stage band and soloist Julie Adams. The show culminates in the finale number where all five acts come together to perform a special song chosen by the show’s producers. If you love live music, you won’t want to miss Mountain Stage! Scheduled to Appear: The Brother Brothers Hush Kids Energetic and loud. Tickets start at $27 WVU Student tickets start at $10 The University Arts Series is presented by Buy tickets online at Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo West Virginia Symphony Orchestra with Lee Greenwood © 2019 West Virginia University. WVU is an EEO/Affirmative Action employer — Minority/Female/Disability/Veteran. Last updated on January 23, 2019.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727118
__label__cc	0.667292	0.332708	Special Seminar - Jordan Romeyer Dherbey: Evolutionary history of M. tuberculosis Speaker: Jordan Romeyer Dherbey, France Host: Frederic Bertels Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the causative agent of human tuberculosis, is one of the most widely spread human pathogens. It typically affects the lungs and creates lesions in patients in order to be efficiently spread to new individuals through a cough (droplets and aerosols). Over the past twenty years, tuberculosis has undergone an important resurgence and now is a worldwide issue for human health. Tuberculosis affects approximately 10 million people each year and is one of the top ten causes of death worldwide (the first linked to infections by a unique pathogenic agent). Despite a decrease of mortality around 3% each year, the spread of M. tuberculosis drug-resistant strains is a serious threat. To stop the spread of such bacteria, it is important to understand its success and the evolutionary mechanisms that let it progressively adapt to new hosts. Recent genome-based studies have found evidence that the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex (MTBC) likely emerged from a pool of recombinogenic mycobacterial strains with smooth colony morphology (Smooth Tubercle Bacilli - STB). The STB, named Mycobacterium canettii was first isolated in 1969 at Djibouti by Dr. Georges Canetti, from patients who developed tuberculosis-like infections. Analyses of genome sequences of multiple M. canettii strains have allowed an estimation of the ancestral gene pool of tubercle bacilli. Notably, M. canettii strains show highly recombinogenic genomes, which is not the case for M. tuberculosis genomes, suggesting that horizontal gene transfer has played an important role in the evolution of tuberculosis-causing mycobacteria.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727119
__label__wiki	0.812455	0.812455	Pharma Company Effort to Shield Weak Patents Draws Congressional Attention Posted on 07/03/2019 Share this post on Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Pharmaceutical company abuse of an overtaxed U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been credited for the meteoric rise in U.S. drug prices. Seeking to “evergreen” blockbuster products with additional patent protection, manufacturers push hard for patents that may be unmerited, or may be based on outright fraud. It is then up to potential generic manufacturers to challenge these patents through risky and expensive litigation, a process that itself is sometimes hijacked by manufacturers that pay off potential competitors. Meanwhile, these manufacturers continue to reap monopoly profits under cover of these patents. However, a novel and outlandish tactic has recently thrust drug company shenanigans into the spotlight, and attracted Congressional attention. The story starts familiarly: Allergan’s eye medication, Restasis, was reaching the end of its patent protection. To stave off competition, Allergan obtained five follow-on patents, based upon evidence a court would later deem “misleading”. But to protect these patents from challenge before the USPTO, Allergan innovated: it transferred ownership of the patents to the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, while paying the Tribe millions. Allergan then claimed that its patents could not be challenged because the Tribe was immune from suit as a foreign sovereign. This argument was ultimately rejected by the courts. But alarmed legislators have taken up the cause. Shortly after the transfer, then-Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Mo) sent a letter to the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America calling the deal "one of the most brazen and absurd loopholes I've ever seen." This year, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark) introduced the Preserving Access to Cost Effective Drugs Act, to ban the assertion of tribal sovereign immunity in certain patent proceedings. Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance the PACED Act to the Senate floor, moving the bill one step closer to law. However, what began as a bipartisan effort has now broken along party lines. While Republicans continue to support the bill, Democrats have voiced concerns that the Act is too vague, and could reach beyond the pharmaceutical sphere. Calling the Act “unnecessary” in light of the courts’ rejection of Allergan’s tactic, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) voiced concerns that the new law “would . . . weaken sovereign immunity of every Native American tribe.” In a divided Congress, the fate of the Act is now unclear, perhaps inviting further variations on Allergan’s theme. About Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP focuses on complex civil litigation, including securities, antitrust, wage and hour, personal injury and consumer class actions as well as shareholder derivative and merger and transactional litigation. The firm is headquartered in New York, and maintains offices in California, Delaware, Georgia and Pennsylvania. Since its founding in 1995, Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP has served as lead or co-lead counsel in numerous high-profile cases which ultimately provided significant recoveries to investors, direct purchasers, consumers and employees. To schedule a free consultation with our attorneys and to learn more about your legal rights, call our offices today at (877) 247-4292 or (212) 983-9330. About Adam Steinfeld Adam Steinfeld is a Partner in Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP's New York office. He practices in the area of antitrust litigation with a focus on competition in the pharmaceutical industry. Mr. Steinfeld has litigated successfully with significant contributions in In re Buspirone Patent & Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 1410 (S.D.N.Y.) ($220M settlement); In re Cardizem CD Antitrust Litigation, No. 99-MD-1278 (E.D. Mich.) ($110M settlement); In re Relafen Antitrust Litigation, No. 01-12239 (D. Mass.) ($175M settlement); In re Remeron Direct Purchaser Antitrust Litigation, No. 03-cv-0085 (D.N.J.) ($75M settlement); In re Terazosin Hydrochloride Antitrust Litigation, No. 99-MDL-1317 (S.D. Fla.) ($72.5M settlement); In re Tricor Direct Purchaser Antitrust Litig., No. 05-340 (D. Del.) ($250M settlement); and Mylan Pharms., Inc. v. Warner Chilcott, No. 12-cv-3824 (E.D. Pa.) ($12 million settlement). Tags: faruqi & faruqi, faruqilaw, patents, trademarks, unfair competition, USPTO, PACED Act Adam Steinfeld Partner at Faruqi & Faruqi, LLP E-mail: asteinfeld@faruqilaw.com	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727123
__label__cc	0.715299	0.284701	General Discussion & News Anandamide: the molecule of pleasure, Apr 3rd 2019 3 - Friend of Epicurus Anandamide is the molecule of pleasure, which the brain naturally produces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anandamide I find a lot of the information on this article fascinating for several reasons: It's in high concentration in cacao (chocolate, in its raw form) and, of course, cannabis The study that involved piglets and obesity reminded me of Horace the poet. This portion basically says that fats are necessary to form this chemical, which makes sense, since Omega 3 and Omega 6 fats are known to keep the brain healthy, the neurons well-connected, and therefore contributes to a healthy and happy brain. Epicurus said that pleasure starts in the belly and, lo and behold, the article says that "bile acids – which are mainly involved in the adsorption of lipids in the small intestine – modulate its biogenesis" ... in other words, the pleasure molecule is born in the small intestine. "Please always remember my doctrines!" - Epicurus' last words 4 - Guide / Moderator Good to hear that, but I do not accept that. Since that is one of the main causes that turned upside down the whole of our philosophy. As they connected the epicureans with good food and fine wine. To drink and eat and be merry. Moreover, we can do a hypothesis: If the molecules of the pleasure could be found in the stomach or in the small intestine then all the people that have tables with dishes full of food with cacao and omega 3, like the famous Trymalchion dinners, by Petronius would be very pleased and happy. However, Εpicurus in the last paragraph of his letter to Pythocles in which he describes the methodology of the Canon, he speaks for senses and the "heart" -"love" i.e. feelings, and not for the stomach and the small intestine. If the heart that is a part of a whole body, which through the brain enriches with hormones the whole body can't feel the passion (eros) for the true philosophy, there will be agitation and to the stomach and to the small intestine that would be full, but in the same time will be empty of feelings i.e. depression, since the stomach is just a sack and the small intestine is just a tube of a stupid bad-ass... and sorry for such a language. There are many molecules in the body and not just those of the small intestine. There is also the environment, there is a whole philosophy that units with consistency the Physics, the Canon and Ethics. And of course, there is the friendship that is developed in an environment. Based on friendship we feel those feelings of security for the food that fills the stomach and the existence of a shelter in any condition. Friendship with its security leads the persons to the bravery, to the liberty, to the autonomy, and to the self-sufficiency for making such contracts with such laws to not hurt each other ... Eating chocolate and smoking cannabis is not the solution. The solution comes from our philosophy that is a whole and leads to the goal of pleasure. Beauty and virtue and such are worthy of honor, if they bring pleasure; but if not then bid them farewell! 1- Guest - New Participant Thanks for both of these posts! I'm a big fan of dark chocolate and seafood (although not together). Yet as a newcomer to EP I find that it's sometimes a struggle to reconcile the pursuit of pleasure with the big picture of life. That is both the beauty and the challenge of EP, and it makes for a truly rewarding philosophy. The body has natural endocannabinoids which are part of the end pathway of pleasure, from any source. Anandamide binds to those receptors, but the endocannabinoid receptors are possibly the most numerous in the body of any neurotransmitter receptor. The issue with plant molecules mimicking our own neurotransmitters is complicated-- in some cases, it may be to the evolutionary advantage of the plant to get us hooked on it and spread the plant's seeds. There can be recreational uses but also significant medical uses. For instance, CBD oil has been used successfully to treat seizures that didn't respond to any other treatment (Cannabidiol, a cannabinoid). We have opiate-like molecules in other foods-- like casomorphine in milk and opiate like effects of wheat-- but in such small amounts that one would not feel high. Possibly enough to contribute to wanting to eat those foods again. The most reliable path to activating our natural endocannabinoids is through pleasure, not through becoming dependent on a particular substance-- for most of us. For some people who are deficient in natural endocannabinoids, cannabis may turn out to be important, similar to using antidepressants-- but that is medical. One problem with all external sources of these pleasure neurotransmitters is that if one habitually uses them, the body starts to down-regulate its own production and also sometimes its receptors. Then when you stop-- misery! On the gut-- the gut has an extensive neural network and communicates with the brain closely. The brain is strongly affected by the microbiome. I tend to think of the entire nervous system as being basically part of the brain. https://askthescientists.com/gut-brain/ Yes the gut has its own "brain". I read that the neurons in the gut are numerous enough to form a brain the size of a cat's. Quote from Hiram Don't forget it's all interconnected Joy to the World! Condensed Pleasure Happy Twentieth of May: Don't Surrender - Instead Retreat, Regroup, Advance! anandamide Hiram (2) Elayne (1)	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727127
__label__wiki	0.973231	0.973231	Fifty years after Apollo 11, NASA is working to land astronauts on the Moon again in the next decade. "Our goal 50 years ago was to prove we could land humans on the Moon and return them safely to Earth," NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Communications and Navigation, Badri Younes, said during a recent visit to Australia. "Our goal now is to return to the Moon to stay, in a sustainable way." "This time we won't go alone, but in a way that reflects the world today - with government, industry and international partners, in a global effort." CSIRO oversees the treaty relationship between Australia and the USA for spacecraft communications and tracking and has worked directly with NASA for almost 60 years. "We are going to rely to a large extent on our partnerships here in Australia as well as with other space agencies to get [to the Moon]," Mr Younes said. The new mission is called Artemis, the goddess of wilderness, and Apollo's twin sister in Greek mythology. It will employ reusable spacecraft and process the Moon's own material for fuel and building materials. The project's first step will be to ferry supplies from Earth to build a space station orbiting the Moon. This will provide living quarters for astronauts and relay communications between the lunar surface and Earth. NASA will build new antennas at its Deep Space Network stations, including the CSIRO-managed Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex. These will use light as well as radio waves to boost the bandwidth for transmitting voice, video and data. When they land on the Moon the Artemis astronauts will be the first to explore its south pole, where there are signs of water ice. But the Moon is only a stopping place on the way to NASA's ultimate goal, Mars. Voyaging to the Moon takes four days; to Mars it will take eight to 10 months. There will be huge challenges, but "fifty years ago, we demonstrated to the world that ... human beings are capable of making the impossible, very possible," Mr Younes said. "And we also demonstrated that you should dream big." Australia may receive the signals from the first humans on Mars. "We're often in the best position to talk to NASA's spacecraft," Dr Sarah Pearce, the deputy director for astronomy and space science at CSIRO said. "And so when people walk on Mars, it's quite feasible those images could come down to Australia, as they did when people first walked on the Moon." https://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/32UQzXcwHuv6EtT6StXJwQK/4eecc068-f349-44b5-ba09-e63580cab846.jpg/r9_0_3830_2159_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg Moon landing 50th anniversary with CSIRO: Moon a stepping stone to the universe By Helen Sim NEW FRONTIERS: An artist’s impression of the Orion spacecraft (left) approaching a space station orbiting the Moon during the Artemis program. Picture: NASA TRAILBLAZERS: The first three commercial lunar landers selected for the Artemis mission, displayed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center on May 31, 2019. Each commercial lander will carry NASA payloads that will conduct scientific investigations and demonstrate advanced technologies on the lunar surface, paving the way for NASA astronauts to land on the lunar surface by 2024. Picture: NASA/Goddard/Rebecca Roth IMAGE OF THE FUTURE: An artist’s impression of a crewed lunar lander for NASA’s Artemis mission. Picture: NASA FUEL TO BURN: A hydrogen tank for NASA’s new deep space rocket, the Space Launch System, being loaded into a test stand at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on January 14, 2019. Picture: NASA Fifty years after Apollo 11, NASA is working to land astronauts on the Moon again in the next decade. "Our goal 50 years ago was to prove we could land humans on the Moon and return them safely to Earth," NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Space Communications and Navigation, Badri Younes, said during a recent visit to Australia. "Our goal now is to return to the Moon to stay, in a sustainable way." "This time we won't go alone, but in a way that reflects the world today - with government, industry and international partners, in a global effort." CSIRO oversees the treaty relationship between Australia and the USA for spacecraft communications and tracking and has worked directly with NASA for almost 60 years. "We are going to rely to a large extent on our partnerships here in Australia as well as with other space agencies to get [to the Moon]," Mr Younes said. The new mission is called Artemis, the goddess of wilderness, and Apollo's twin sister in Greek mythology. It will employ reusable spacecraft and process the Moon's own material for fuel and building materials. The project's first step will be to ferry supplies from Earth to build a space station orbiting the Moon. This will provide living quarters for astronauts and relay communications between the lunar surface and Earth. NASA will build new antennas at its Deep Space Network stations, including the CSIRO-managed Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex. These will use light as well as radio waves to boost the bandwidth for transmitting voice, video and data. When they land on the Moon the Artemis astronauts will be the first to explore its south pole, where there are signs of water ice. To the Moon and beyond But the Moon is only a stopping place on the way to NASA's ultimate goal, Mars. Voyaging to the Moon takes four days; to Mars it will take eight to 10 months. There will be huge challenges, but "fifty years ago, we demonstrated to the world that ... human beings are capable of making the impossible, very possible," Mr Younes said. "And we also demonstrated that you should dream big." Australia may receive the signals from the first humans on Mars. "We're often in the best position to talk to NASA's spacecraft," Dr Sarah Pearce, the deputy director for astronomy and space science at CSIRO said. "And so when people walk on Mars, it's quite feasible those images could come down to Australia, as they did when people first walked on the Moon." One Giant Leap is a joint initiative with CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727129
__label__wiki	0.931426	0.931426	Tre Amici are set to arrive in Esperance next week, preparing to play over two massive nights at the Pier Hotel, Friday, July 19, and Saturday, July 20. Though the Albany-based cover band formed in early 2016, experienced drummer Dave Morrison, bassist Naathan Clark and lead singer Wade Morrison share a life-long history, according to Wade. "Our story is a reasonably unique story in that that we all have a life-long relationship," Wade said. "Dave and I are a father and son combination and Naathan and I have been life-long friends and our families have been very close for over 45 years. "Naathan and I were seeing our Dads in bands and, naturally, we were always going to pick up an instrument. "It's really contributed to our musical direction." Tre Amici, meaning 'Three Friends' in Italian, have been developing their music for several years, performing at locations across the state's south coast for audiences young and old. Wade said Esperance had become one of the band's favourite places to perform, having formed great relationships with those in the local music scene. "Esperance has become our favourite place to perform," Wade said. "The Pier Hotel have some amazing staff there and it is a fantastic venue to perform. "The people there have really embraced what we bring and they treat us like locals. "We're really looking forward to reconnecting with the people we've met in Esperance, as well as seeing some new faces as well. "We have built a strong camaraderie with legendary local Esperance band Grand Casual. "Whenever we see they are coming to Albany we always make an effort to get down to their shows." As a cover band, Wade said their aim was simple - to keep the dance floor full by playing songs that are big hits. Attendees at this weekend's shows are promised a dance and sing along, with songs that not many other bands attempt to cover vocally. The event will begin from 8:45pm on Friday and Saturday evening, July 19 and 20, at the Pier Hotel. https://nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net/transform/v1/crop/frm/Jesinta.Burton/a4d033b5-a60c-484c-abfb-f1a4c378d3d4.jpg/r0_35_1139_679_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg July 11 2019 - 11:30AM Tre Amici prepares to take the stage Jesinta Burton Cover to cover: Albany band Tre Amici is preparing to perform at the Pier Hotel on Friday, July 19, and Saturday, July 20. Photo: Paige Page Photography. Tre Amici are set to arrive in Esperance next week, preparing to play over two massive nights at the Pier Hotel, Friday, July 19, and Saturday, July 20. Though the Albany-based cover band formed in early 2016, experienced drummer Dave Morrison, bassist Naathan Clark and lead singer Wade Morrison share a life-long history, according to Wade. "Our story is a reasonably unique story in that that we all have a life-long relationship," Wade said. "Dave and I are a father and son combination and Naathan and I have been life-long friends and our families have been very close for over 45 years. "Naathan and I were seeing our Dads in bands and, naturally, we were always going to pick up an instrument. "It's really contributed to our musical direction." Tre Amici, meaning 'Three Friends' in Italian, have been developing their music for several years, performing at locations across the state's south coast for audiences young and old. Wade said Esperance had become one of the band's favourite places to perform, having formed great relationships with those in the local music scene. "Esperance has become our favourite place to perform," Wade said. "The Pier Hotel have some amazing staff there and it is a fantastic venue to perform. "The people there have really embraced what we bring and they treat us like locals. "We're really looking forward to reconnecting with the people we've met in Esperance, as well as seeing some new faces as well. "We have built a strong camaraderie with legendary local Esperance band Grand Casual. "Whenever we see they are coming to Albany we always make an effort to get down to their shows." As a cover band, Wade said their aim was simple - to keep the dance floor full by playing songs that are big hits. Attendees at this weekend's shows are promised a dance and sing along, with songs that not many other bands attempt to cover vocally. The event will begin from 8:45pm on Friday and Saturday evening, July 19 and 20, at the Pier Hotel.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727130
__label__wiki	0.822275	0.822275	Ben Stiller as... Walter Mitty? Why?! The upcoming movie looks like the second time the source material will be failed By Dustin Krcatovich Ben Stiller?! I won't even have time to raise my hand thoughtfully to my chin before I can come up with ten actors who would be more suited to the role of Walter Mitty than Ben Stiller. Nothing against the guy: While he's not a personal favorite, I'll readily give the man his due. Besides, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, being primed for a major Christmas release, is clearly Stiller's baby, given that he almost single-handedly managed not just to get this long-floundering Hollywood longshot out of development hell, but also to make a big-budget holiday film out of it. It's the first time Hollywood has ever trusted Stiller in the director's chair for such a high-profile project. Still: Ben Stiller as Walter Mitty? It goes almost without saying that any modern film adaptation of "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," a 1939 New Yorker story by James Thurber, is destined to run roughshod over its source material. The content of the original story would take about 15 minutes to deliver onscreen; modernizing it, while staying true to the mundanity that is integral to the original, would likely result in Mitty wandering aimlessly around a Walmart looking for dog biscuits. Nobody wants that (actually, it could be great in the right hands, such as perhaps Richard Linklater in one of his more "high-minded" moods, but it would probably make about 1/80 the revenue). But the conceit of bringing Mitty's secret life into the information age (the character has been recast as a grunt worker at Life magazine who must find a specific rare photo for its final issue) is a device that could potentially be used to extend the original's gentle critique of modern ennui and disillusionment into a comment on how the Internet crushes and swallows human history, spitting out dubious Wiki-synopses and ephemeral memes in its place. While a far cry from the original in content, it needn't stray that far in spirit. Still, if history is any indication, James Thurber is getting prepped to roll over in his grave. "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" was a succinct short story about the daydreams of a suburban petit bourgeois nobody on an otherwise forgettable weekend trip to town with Mrs. Mitty. After running in the New Yorker (a magazine Thurber's writing did much to define in its early days), it proceeded to grow legs and take on a life of its own."Walter Mitty" was easily the most famous short story of the mid-twentieth century; its distinctively playful language ("ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa") was even used as military code during World War II. After "Mitty," Thurber spent the rest of his life as both a popular and critical darling, a humorist so often compared to Mark Twain that he took to claiming that he'd never read Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn just to discredit the comparison. Those sorts of playful distortions were a Thurber hallmark, his cavalier mangling ("embroidering," as he preferred it) of the truth serving the dual purposes of a) Confounding the public for his own amusement, and b) Creating a legend around his persona. Thurber loved legend-building. He had an enormous ego and an inflated sense of self-importance, surely bolstered by the fact that, in the eyes of his public, he could do precious little wrong. This grandiosity may also have been overcompensation: Thurber spent most of his life with a glass eye, having lost his left eye at age six playing "William Tell" with his brothers (much later in life, Thurber went blind in the other eye, due in part to complications stemming from the initial loss). The concurrent skewing of perspective made him clumsy and inept at sports and physical activity, but it also gave him a unique view of the human condition. As an adult, Thurber was a drunk, given to wild mood swings (an effect of Graves' disease, which went undiagnosed in Thurber for most of his life) and bouts of depression. This instability informed his work a great deal: He viewed his emotional fragility as a natural way of being, going so far as to say, in his introduction to My Life and Hard Times, "the little wheels of […] invention are set in motion by the damp hand of melancholy." It is this undercurrent of world-weariness that has made "Walter Mitty," on the surface a light entertainment, a subject of cultish admiration decades after its sell-by date. Its implicit observation that man, having designed his own obsolescence, is in a disorienting world with nothing left to do but dream and consume, was both poignant and prescient. This message, though easily ignored by inattentive readers, shines through its dated references and hoary battle-of-the-sexes routine for anyone who's willing to look. Thurber imbued even his lightest, most hopeful work with a lightly jaundiced eye (no pun intended). His satire is rarely cruel, but always looks at the world with a bemused half-grin, one eyebrow raised, and one shoulder detained forever not by the vice grip of rage, but by the "damp hand of melancholy." It is in this same gently skeptical spirit, then, that I reiterate: Ben Stiller?! If my skepticism is founded, it wouldn't be the first time that Hollywood botched Thurber's signature creation. Metro Goldwyn-Mayer made "Mitty" into a film in 1947, as a star vehicle for Danny Kaye. Thurber completely disavowed the film, and spent the rest of his life on guard against Hollywood, a city that he despised (he had a softer spot for Broadway, where he later won a Tony Award for his script A Thurber Carnival). While I acknowledge that Ben Stiller is a decent enough actor, and inoffensive as a director, there's still reason to believe that he won't fare much better than Danny Kaye. Stiller is a hard sell as a daydreaming nobody: He's too fit, too together, too steely-eyed. His easy agitation, used to great effect in his best roles, doesn't suit the character at all. He looks, and carries himself, like what he is: a high-strung showbiz kid grown up. That's not inherently bad. In fact, it's probably why Stiller was so pitch-perfect as Chas Tenenbaum in The Royal Tenenbaums: He's playing an exaggerated version of himself, a petulant child of privilege who has spent his adulthood not seeing the forest for the trees (not to say, in the case of that character, that having a sociopathic, unapologetic conman for a father isn't a big tree). His persistent anger is founded not in any current outrages, but in the residual hurt of being raised in a climate of frustratingly high expectations. It's the role Stiller was born to play, and the performance is timeless. I still cry every time Chas lets down his guard to Royal ("I've had a rough year, dad"). It's perfect. ...But Walter Mitty? Don't get me wrong: It could be worse. Stiller could've seen that he wasn't the right guy, but then cast Vince Vaughn, or Owen Wilson, or any of the goofballs associated with the Judd Apatow Mafia as Mitty. That would've been a real disaster. Still, it could be better. I have no problem seeing Bill Murray as Mitty (there's nothing in the source material to imply that Murray's too old for the role). His performance in Lost in Translation, or even the disappointing (only in that it should've been amazing, given its pedigree) Broken Flowers, was pure Walter Mitty; Murray as Mitty could've been to the evening of his career as Being There was to Peter Sellers's, or Atlantic City to Burt Lancaster's. How about Paul Giamatti? He might be a little too high-strung, I guess, but when's the last time you've seen him in a juicy role? His portrayal of Harvey Pekar in American Splendor reads like Walter Mitty with a nasty hangover. Steve Buscemi? Michael Showalter? David Cross? Hell, Will Ferrell (I know, I know, but he was pretty good in Stranger Than Fiction, and that's not such a far cry...)? Skepticism notwithstanding: Barring a Christmas miracle, I'll be spending the holidays across the country from my family and significant other this year, meaning that my chances of going to see The Secret Life of Walter Mitty on opening day are exponentially increased by loneliness, compounded by profound respect for the source material. Given this resignation, I really want Ben Stiller to be good. I really want it to work. I'm ready to call your bluff, Stiller. Don't let me down. Follow The Culture Blog on RSS and on Twitter at @ESQCulture. J Lo is a Stripping, Stealing Badass in 'Hustlers' Should Fans Worry About Star Wars Reshoots? 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__label__wiki	0.64202	0.64202	Private schools might just save SA Johan Fourie Johan Fourie is associate professor in economics at Stellenbosch University. Curro expects profits to skyrocket by 67% School principal joins private school fees debate Why I pay a fortune for private school education When I was an Economics student 12 years ago, the academic literature we read, by South Africa’s leading economic thinkers and social scientists, was lamenting the poor performance of the then South African school system. There was little doubt that the quality of the schools had to improve for the 80% South Africans who were still stuck, despite massive transfers of resources to these schools, in a system crippled by apartheid-era policies. Fast forward to 2017. A generation has now passed through the system, and there has been almost no improvement. Of 100 grade 1 students that go to school, only 37 can hope to pass matric. With teacher trade unions opposing policies that might improve teacher quality, our minister of basic education seems paralysed. Corruption often means that budgets are either unspent or spent inefficiently. There is an alternative. Over the past few years, private schools have become an alternative for middle-income families wanting a better future for their children. Take Northern Academy in Polokwane, run by the JSE-listed Curro Group. Despite school fees that are around R21 000 a year, with a similar amount for boarding, the school has over 5 000 students, 111 classrooms and 66 hostels. In the 2016 matric exams it was the top-performing independent school in the province. Curro now has schools across all provinces. In the past four years, its share price has tripled. Its profit motive means it must satisfy its clients: if it performs poorly by employing underqualified teachers, clients will go elsewhere. That is the miracle of the market system that Adam Smith identified: profits signal that a firm is doing something right. If profits fall, the firm better improve or it will go out of business. If profits rise, like Curro’s, other firms will notice and enter the market. One fear is that Curro will monopolise the market, charging fees that allow them to earn monopoly profits. This is unlikely in the education sector, though, as there are few barriers to entry. Consider the SPARK schools, with tuition also around R21 000 per year, that have opened since 2013 in Gauteng and the Western Cape. A second fear is that a well-run private school system will create further divisions in a country characterised by high levels of inequality; those that are able to afford the high school fees of good education vis-à-vis kids from poor households forced to attend poor-quality public schools. This is likely to happen if private schools are limited to those that can afford them. But they need not be. In Sweden, where equality of opportunity is almost a religion, more than 10% of kids are enrolled in private schools. A major education reform in 1992 allowed schools to receive public funding based on the number of students enrolled. Schools are not allowed to discriminate or require admissions exams, or to charge parents additional school fees. (They may accept donations, often used to expand school facilities or offer financial support for poor students.) Anyone can start a for-profit school in Sweden. Many offer an alternative curriculum, or provide a service to international, religious or language groups. Others are designated sports or artistic schools. It is simple: If a public school is not providing the services its community wants, an entrepreneur will identify the gap and step in. We need this in SA too. The 2017 Budget allocated R243bn (16% of our total consolidated spending) to the department of basic education. With 11.2m school-going kids, that is slightly more than R21 000 a child. What if every parent received a government voucher of R21 000 per student to use at any school they want, public or private? A larger amount could be given to those living in rural areas or previously disadvantaged areas. This empowers parents to choose the schools which they believe will serve the interests of their kids best. There are concerns with private education too, of course. One wants to ensure facilities are of good quality, and teachers and curricula meet certain standards. But the concerns pale in comparison to the atrocious outcomes of the current school system, where facilities are often non-existent and teachers unqualified. Imagine the opportunities this will create for entrepreneurs. A community leader in an area with poor public schools can take the initiative, appoint educators from within the community and use the vouchers to pay their salaries. Imagine Cricket South Africa (CSA) partnering with an entrepreneur to build a chain of elite cricket schools, with CSA providing the facilities and coaches and the vouchers paying for high-quality education. Important research literature suggests that mother-tongue education is critical for student success: with a voucher system, if there is a demand for secondary education in Sesotho in a specific community, expect an entrepreneur to spot the gap. Private school chains will have an incentive to train their own teachers, either on the job or by investing in teacher training colleges. We need a new plan for education. I’d hate to see my colleagues 12 years from now write papers still lamenting the poor state of our education system. We keep throwing money at a problem that cannot be fixed by money alone. The Basic Education budget grew 7.3% in 2017. If we continue doing this, we are likely to fail a second post-apartheid generation. 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__label__cc	0.551885	0.448115	Paramedics and firefighters share pole position as the most trusted profession in 2013 After more than ten years in pole position, NSW paramedics are pleased to share the podium with NSW firefighters. According to Reader's Digest, Australians tend to place their faith in the people who save our lives, care for us, protect us, and give back to us. Paramedics and firefighters work side by side each day saving lives, often in the face of extreme danger. They’re there at car crashes, fires and other emergencies helping people when they’re at their most vulnerable. "Paramedics have been voted the most trusted profession by the Australian community for ten years now. We'd like to send back a big thank you to the Australian community and assure them the respect is equal – the first priority for our paramedics is to provide the highest level of patient care to the community," NSW Ambulance Commissioner Ray Creen said. "This year we are pleased that our colleagues, the fire fighting profession have also been acknowledged by the Australian community. In New South Wales, these two professions have formed a very productive and efficient working relationship." Fire & Rescue NSW Commissioner Greg Mullins said he was proud to see firefighters in the top spot with paramedics. "Being a firefighter is one of the most important and rewarding careers you could have," he said. "Firefighters are respected and trusted community members; and being a firefighter provides you with the opportunity to make a real and ongoing difference to the lives of people in the community." The Commissioner of the NSW Rural Fire Service, Shane Fitzsimmons, said all 70,000 members of the RFS proudly served the community and were grateful for the recognition. "Our firefighters don’t do their job for the accolades or praise, but it is great to see how much people appreciate what they do each and every day. "I note that also featuring in the top ten most trusted positions are rescue volunteers (#3) and farmers (#10), among other roles, meaning many of our volunteers would fall into more than one 'most trusted' category. This reflects the kind of people we are lucky enough to have volunteering with the NSW RFS," Commissioner Fitzsimmons said. NSW Ambulance along with Fire & Rescue NSW and the NSW Rural Fire Service thank the community for acknowledging the dedication firefighters and paramedics put into their jobs every day. NSW Ambulance is one of the largest Ambulance services in the world and employs more than four thousand paramedics across the state. Ambulance paramedics can specialise in areas such as intensive care paramedics, extended care paramedics, special casualty access team, aeromedical services, snow operations, rapid response, rescue, counter disaster to name just a few. For more information on the profession, visit www.ambulance.nsw.gov.au The NSW Rural Fire Service is the largest volunteer firefighting force in the world. The Service comprises more than 2,000 volunteer rural fire brigades with a total membership of just over 70,000. It is made up of volunteers from all walks of life - men and women from different cultural backgrounds, age groups and professions. For more information on the NSW RFS or how to volunteer, visit www.rfs.nsw.gov.au. Fire & Rescue NSW is responsible for the provision of fire, rescue and hazmat services in cities and towns across New South Wales. With 7,000 staff, it is one of the largest urban fire and rescue services and is one of the busiest in Australia. Our highly-skilled fire officers and support staff provide rapid, reliable help in emergencies, 24 hours a day, seven days a week saving lives and property during emergencies and disasters. For more information visit www.fire.nsw.gov.au.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727134
__label__wiki	0.994184	0.994184	Zimbabwe's Moyo says on Twitter he is out of the country \| Reuters World Reuters Nov 20, 2017 22:02:52 IST HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe’s Higher Education Minister Jonathan Moyo, one of a number of officials purged from the ruling ZANU-PF party along with President Robert Mugabe, said on Monday he and at least 50 other senior party officials were “outside of the country.” Former Zimbabwe Minister of Information Jonathan Moyo speaking to journalists outside his home in Tsholotsho town, 150 km west of [Bulawayo] in Zimbabwe March 29, 2005. Moyo made the comments on his Twitter handle, but the tweet was subsequently deleted. Moyo is one of many ZANU-PF members targeted by the ruling party in the wake of a military coup. Updated Date: Nov 20, 2017 22:02:52 IST 1Zimbabwe's Moyo says on Twitter he is out of the country \| Reuters	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727135
__label__wiki	0.724524	0.724524	For Torah and Culture From the May 2005 Print Edition Aharon Lichtenstein is a leading figure in modern Orthodox circles. Indeed, his standing in the modern Orthodox camp goes beyond mere respect. For some, in both the United States and Israel, he has become a full-fledged cultural hero. Born in 1933, Lichtenstein first attained star status as a young . . . . Continue Reading » The Rebbe, the Messiah, and the Heresy Hunter David Berger would seem an unlikely candidate for the role of heresy hunter. A mild-mannered professor of Jewish history at Brooklyn College and Yeshiva University, he has been a liberal advocate of tolerant pluralism within the ranks of Orthodox Judaism and a willing participant in theological . . . . Continue Reading » Rabbi Weinberg’s Agony From the June/July 2001 Print Edition Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy: The Life and Works of Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, 1884–1966 By Marc B. Shapiro Littman Library of Jewish Civilization. 288 pp. $49.50 By the standards of academia, it was an extraordinary, even impossible, gesture. The editor of a scholarly . . . . Continue Reading » The Unmodern Jew Iwould like to have an answer. . . . If someone will be good enough to provide the answer I will gladly take his change of garments to the bathhouse for him.” The bit about the change of garments and the bathhouse is talmudic phraseology from tractate Eruvin (27b), indicating a matter . . . . Continue Reading » The Orthodox Jew as Intellectual Crank From the August/September 1990 Print Edition My subject is “The Orthodox Jew as Intellectual Crank,” and it would be best if I began with some definitions. My dictionary defines a crank as an “ill-tempered, grouchy person,” as an “eccentric person who is overzealous in his advocacy of a private cause.” By these standards, Baruch . . . . Continue Reading »	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727136
__label__wiki	0.735638	0.735638	What the teams said - Race day in Singapore The drivers and teams report back on an eventful race at the Formula 1 2018 Singapore Airlines Singapore Grand Prix... Hamilton set up victory with his stunning lap in qualifying yesterday. In truth, after he got away cleanly, the race was always his - and he duly delivered his seventh victory of the season to extend his lead in the Drivers' Championship. Bottas had a tougher task to keep Raikkonen at bay with the Ferrari man behind on fresher tyres, but despite some frustration at blue flags, the Finn drove a mistake-free race to come home fourth. Lewis Hamilton, 1st "I'm so excited. I came here knowing that Singapore is a hard one for us. But I'm always optimistic, thinking that if we're really diligent and do our work, we can create some chances. Then Friday was already a good day for us. Saturday didn't start off well, but then all of the sudden that special lap came in. Knowing that we would start on pole, I knew that it was a great opportunity for us to capitalise on. I had a great start and from then I was able to manage it. When I hit the traffic, I was just mindful not to take any risks. When you start to get closer to another car, you start losing grip and start sliding around more, so there's a higher chance of mistakes. If you're lucky you catch the cars at the right point and they let you by so you don't lose any time, but today I always caught them at an unfortunate point. So when Max was right behind, I had to go on the defensive, and I thought to myself "Bro, you're not getting by - not today!" It was physically such a demanding race, so I'm relieved that it's over now - it felt like such a long night, but I'm super grateful for the result." Valtteri Bottas, 4th "There was not a whole lot happening in the race, I was hoping for more variables to come into play and shake the race up a little. There was only one Safety Car in the very beginning, but it came out too early to trigger any pit stops. It's very difficult to follow and overtake on this track, so once the Safety Car was back in, it was a fairly uneventful race. The first stint on the HyperSoft tyres was very straightforward. We knew that the second stint on the Soft tyres would be more difficult because it was so long and towards the end the tyres were pretty much gone. I can't be happy with P4, but a better result today was made very difficult by the qualifying result yesterday. However, we still got a good result for the team, which is great because everyone has been working so hard to improve the car and the set-up for Singapore." James Allison, Technical Director "Yesterday felt great, exhilarating and breathless, but about five minutes afterwards, those feelings disappear and our thoughts turn to the race; making good on pole position takes over our world. Now, just 24 hours later, a wonderful feeling of contentment washes through the whole team from the knowledge that we've done a good job here and increased our lead in both championships. More importantly, we have put right the weaknesses that have plagued us at this circuit for a number of seasons and validated a lot of the theories and analysis of why we have suffered previously. This sport can beat you up, like happened recently to us in Spa, but it is days like today that remind us why we are so very fortunate to work in Formula One. But this feeling, too, will last for about 10 more minutes before we begin fretting about Sochi, because our competition is desperately strong and the remaining races cover a very wide range of challenges. We are all aware that we need to keep having weekends like this one if we are to finally achieve the results that we so crave." Toto Wolff, Head of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport "Singapore has been our bogey track for several years, so it is a special feeling to come here and win this race on pace. The entire team has worked so hard to understand the car and take steps forward, especially since our defeat in Spa, and this result is an indication that our work is paying off. We prepared well for this weekend, came here determined to make a step and we delivered. It was a weekend of many parts: a stardust lap from Lewis in qualifying, a chess game of tyre management this evening, and some nervous moments with traffic and backmarkers during the race - but in the end, we outscored our rivals for both championships and delivered a really satisfying result. There will be many discussions about backmarkers, who had a big influence on both drivers' races; I think this is a topic for the drivers to discuss among themselves, but perhaps there is a way to optimise those blue flag rules on street circuits like this. From our side, we can be pleased with a very solid weekend. We have leads in both championships but they change nothing in the mind-set of this team. We have six weekends to go and we know how quickly the situation can swing back against us. We will take it weekend by weekend, feet on the ground and determined to maximise our potential every time." Next Previous Enlarge Race winner Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes-AMG F1 W09 EQ Power+ celebrates in parc ferme at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore, Sunday 16 September 2018. Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes AMG F1 at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore, Sunday 16 September 2018. Vettel pounced at the start and passed Verstappen cleanly. But opting to pit early, he lost time behind an obdurate Perez - and lost the place back to Verstappen when the Dutchman pitted. From there, on ultrasoft rubber in contrast to his rivals, he was forced to manage his tyres and came home a distant third. Raikkonen likewise couldn't make much headway and never got close enough to make a move on Bottas in the battle for fourth. Sebastian Vettel, 3rd "It’s never easy to come and win even if, obviously, that was our target. Yesterday the qualifying didn’t go the way we wanted and we couldn’t extract the best out of ourselves. Today, starting from third position, we had to try something different, but it didn’t work out and we finished where we started. We were running second after a good start which allowed me to get past Max, I was happy and confident when I got the call to box, I knew I needed a mega out lap to try and challenge for the lead but it didn’t work. I lost time behind another car and the brakes got a little too hot, it was close but we got the worse of it. I fully support the team’s decision because, as I am sitting in the car, I can’t be aware of everything that goes on, so I rely on them. Our target was not to finish third, but today we just did not have enough speed." Kimi Raikkonen, 5th "Not much happened today in the race; the car was behaving well and we had a fair speed, but most of the time we were stuck behind somebody and taking care of the tyres. On this track it’s impossible to overtake, unless the guy in front makes a massive mistake. I could see Bottas struggling with his front right tyre and locking it sometimes, I could get closer to him but not enough to pass. Through the middle part of the track it was even difficult to follow him because we were losing downforce. In the first stint we stayed out longer hoping for a Safety Car, but it did not happen. The qualifying here is the key and obviously, when you start behind, your race ends up being a bit boring, getting stuck behind other cars. There was no way we could use our speed. Obviously we wanted more, we did what we could, but this is what we have got today." Maurizio Arrivabene, Team Principal "Today’s winner deserved the victory. After Sebastian overtook Verstappen, we went for an aggressive strategy, trying for the undercut on the ultrasoft tyres. Unfortunately, during the one lap that would prove to be crucial, we found ourselves behind another car and so we were unable to run at a fast enough pace. Despite today’s result, not all is lost. Now, calmly and with determination, we will tackle the remaining six races, fighting all the way to the end." Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari SF71H and Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing RB14 battle at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore, Sunday 16 September 2018. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari SF71H at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore, Sunday 16 September 2018. Ricciardo had a relatively quiet race - he held station from the start, and closed in on Raikkonen and Bottas ahead without being able to mount a true challenge. Verstappen was much more in the thick of it - fighting hard with Vettel at the start, he lost second place before effectively regaining it by putting in some quick laps when it mattered to overcut the German in the pit stops. Daniel Ricciardo, 6th “In the end, the race was a bit as we expected but we hoped for some sort of ultimate strategy. We tried something different by going long on the Hypersoft and we had good pace but a street circuit is only really great if you are on pole, otherwise it’s not only hard to overtake but even to follow. Qualifying is so important here and the race was really lost yesterday. I could catch Kimi, I would stay close to him for a couple of laps and then I would have to back-off. I had the pace to get back on his gearbox but I was never quite close enough to make a move. I really had to hope for a mistake or that Kimi and Valtteri would start tangling and I could capitalise. I got close at Turn 13 on the last lap, but it wasn’t close enough. Street circuits are my favourite tracks to drive but they can also be frustrating. In Monaco I listened to Lewis in seventh place complaining about following closely and now I understand what he was complaining about. I think everyone was in the same boat. I would have loved to fight for something more today but I couldn’t. Last night we spent quite a few hours here trying to figure it all out and I hope in Russia everything will fall into place. We’ll keep fighting, try to get better and maybe we can get a win at a circuit where we don’t expect it. Now I’ll jump into the ice bath and cool down.” Max Verstappen, 2nd “It was a shame to lose a position to Sebastian so early on but there was not a lot I could do as we were both flat out. I should have been able to hold the line but I just couldn’t match his speed. My only real chance to win was at the start, unfortunately it was a bit all over the place and I knew my chance had gone. Luckily the team had me on a great strategy and therefore managed to get me back into second place with a brilliant pit stop. When I got close to Lewis due to back markers I never really thought the pass would be possible. It’s hard to overtake here so I didn’t want to take the risk. It was also slightly unfair how he had been held up by drivers not getting out of the way. I had a few driveability issues again behind the Safety Car and pulling away from the pit stop was dreadful, but in the end we managed it well and got the result we wanted. After the way the car has felt at certain points this weekend, qualifying on the front row and taking second place today is an amazing result.” Christian Horner, Team Principal “It was a very strong drive from Max today to finish second behind Lewis, achieving our ninth consecutive podium in Singapore. On the first lap he dropped a place to Seb in the drag down to Turn 5, but thereafter we managed to make the strategy work in order to jump Ferrari at the pit stop and get Max alongside Seb as he exited the pits. From then on, Max tried to put pressure on Lewis but Lewis always had a tenth or two in hand. Daniel held his position at the start but his race then became about tyre management and trying to go as long as possible in the first stint in order to give him the better Ultrasoft tyre for the second half of the race. Despite setting fastest laps as he caught Bottas and Raikkonen it was impossible to get close enough to overtake and it’s frustrating that sixth was all that was on the table for him today. It’s encouraging to get both cars to the finish for the first time since the French Grand Prix and it’s been a very strong weekend in the garage from all the guys and the Renault technicians to try and solve the driveability issues.” Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing RB14 and Sebastian Vettel, Ferrari SF71H battle on lap one at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore, Sunday 16 September 2018. Daniel Ricciardo, Red Bull Racing RB14 at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore, Sunday 16 September 2018. Alonso started well, ran long and jumped his midfield rivals, helped by starting on the ultrasoft rubber. A 'best of the rest' seventh was McLaren's best result since Baku and much needed for the team who are under pressure from Force India in the Constructors' stakes. Vandoorne kept his race clean, but couldn't make inroads starting from so far back and finished outside the points. Fernando Alonso, 7th “I’m really happy with seventh position. Normally something happens in front of us, but today all six cars ahead finished the race, so P7, behind the top six cars, is a small win for us. “We executed the race to perfection with a good strategy, we maximised the tyre advantage starting on the purple ultrasoft tyre and then switching to the yellows softs and scored good points for the team, in the end. “At some point in the race we were also the fastest car on track, and on such a demanding circuit this makes me even happier. “It was no boring race for me, as we still needed to open some gaps in case of a Safety Car, and we didn’t know when people behind us would stop. So, even though we were alone, it was about controlling the gaps. “We knew coming here that the characteristics of this track would suit our package. I think it’s going to be up and down for the remainder of the season, as at some races we’re expecting to be competitive and at some others not so much. “The target will be scoring points on Sundays and helping the team in the Constructors’ Championship.” Stoffel Vandoorne, 12th “I think it was a decent race today considering not a lot of action happened during the race and there were no Safety Cars after the start. There was just that one incident on the first lap, but we couldn’t really benefit from that. “We were quick and actually had good pace when it mattered in that first stint, especially when the pit window opened. We decided to go long on the first stint, and that’s how we recovered a few places. “The tyres didn’t feel so great by the time we pitted, but we more or less had the pace to maintain that same rhythm. The others were getting blue flags so they were losing a lot of time, and that’s what mattered. “It’s always been known that we’re better on a Sunday than a Saturday, but on street circuits like Singapore it’s all about qualifying. It’s a shame not to score any points.” Gil de Ferran, Sporting Director “I think we can be very happy about the result today. Overall it has been a very positive weekend. “The car showed great pace in the race and our strategy team executed the job perfectly for both Fernando and Stoffel. “Stoffel also drove a good, clean race, and showed strong pace when he had some free air ahead, which was crucial to gaining six positions in a race without many incidents to take advantage of. “Quite honestly, Fernando’s pace was quite incredible during the race to bring the car home in P7. At one point, we had the fastest lap of the race, which is a great reward for all the hard work that has been going on behind the scenes not only by everybody here trackside, but also back at the factory.” Fernando Alonso, McLaren MCL33 on the grid at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore, Sunday 16 September 2018. Stoffel Vandoorne, McLaren MCL33 at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore, Sunday 16 September 2018. A race to forget. Perez and Ocon were side by side at the start, which ended with the two colliding and Ocon being dumped into the wall. The Mexican then set about rebuilding his race, but bottled up behind a slow Williams, he lost his cool and collided with Sirotkin when passing the Russian. A drive-through penalty and a lowly finish were the results of a frustrating evening. Sergio Perez, 16th “I feel very sad about the lost opportunity today. On lap one I was coming out of turn three, picking up the power and all of a sudden I felt a hit. I didn’t know who it was and then the team told me it was Esteban. I feel so bad for the team because we really need to be scoring points at every race and it should have been a great day for us. After that the race became quite tricky and I soon realised it was going to be difficult to score points. I think we underestimated how difficult it would be to overtake the Williams and Sirotkin was defending very hard and moving around under braking. When I finally got alongside him, I tried to close the door a bit too early and we made contact. It’s a weekend to forget and I am really sorry for what happened and the points we have lost today.” Esteban Ocon, DNF “It's a huge disappointment to be out of the race early when we had such strong pace. The car felt great this weekend and we knew a strong result was possible, but instead we're leaving Singapore with zero points. I am not going to analyse what happened at the start. All I will say is that I got off the line well and I saw an opportunity to go past Sergio. I had good grip on the outside, but then I felt a hit and I was in the wall. The only positive from tonight is that we have a strong car and we can be back scoring well in Russia. There are still six races remaining to score as many points as we can, so we will turn the page and keep working hard for the next race.” Otmar Szafnauer, Chief Operating Officer “An extremely disappointing race. It’s unacceptable for teammates to hit each other and it has cost us dearly. They didn’t leave each other enough room and the contact put Esteban into the wall. We will therefore reinstate the rules of engagement we operated last year after similar incidents, which means they cannot race each other. This disastrous race is all the more frustrating when you consider the speed we showed in qualifying and the opportunity that has passed us by. These painful lows are part of racing and it’s fair to say that there are very few positives to take from tonight apart from the car pace. We will have some discussions behind closed doors and will learn from what happened so that we can become stronger as a team.” RACE: Ocon crashes out as Force Indias clash on Lap 1 RACE: Frustrated Perez collides with Sirotkin Hulkenberg had a poor getaway, losing out to his team mate at the start. He pitted earlier than Sainz and spent much of the afternoon in traffic, but stuck to the task at hand to work his way back into the points. Sainz by contrast ran a long opening stint, built enough a lead to pit and reemerge in the points to avoid all the squabbling back markers. Nico Hulkenberg, 10th “I’m not quite happy with the result, as I know it could have been better. I lost two positions at the start and from there we were on the back foot, which was costly. We pitted early, going for an aggressive undercut and that initially played out well, but we were caught up in traffic after that. I benefitted from the collision in front of me to get into the points, but it could have been more today, so it’s mixed feelings for me in the end.” Carlos Sainz, 8th “I’m very satisfied with the result today. I wasn’t happy yesterday, but I woke up knowing we had a really good chance in the race. We had an advantage with tyre strategy starting in twelfth and we made a good start to boost our possibility of getting into the top ten. Eighth isn’t bad for today, but I would have preferred to finish higher up the order. Five points for the team are important for the championship and we keep distance to our rivals. In general, I’m happy with today as we executed a good race.” Cyril Abiteboul, Team Principal “Overall, we’re satisfied with this evening’s race as both cars finished in the points. We didn’t qualify as well as we could have yesterday so we needed a strong performance today and both drivers and the engineers on the pit wall delivered what was required. After a poor start, Nico drove sensibly with his head to return to the points, making the most of an undercut on Grosjean followed by a very long stint on the Ultrasofts. On his side, after a good start, Carlos drove smartly, attacking when it mattered and controlling when necessary for his eighth place. Five points is a useful benefit to our battle in the Constructors’ Championship, as we know it will be very tight in the next six rounds. On a broader note, we saw Red Bull and Max Verstappen on the front row and finishing second for the second time this season, which is a good reward for the C-spec engine, demonstrating our progress on that front. But, on the power unit, like on every other area of the car, we can measure this weekend once again the work we have ahead of us.” Carlos Sainz, Renault Sport F1 Team R.S. 18 at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore, Sunday 16 September 2018. Nico Hulkenberg, Renault Sport F1 Team on the drivers parade at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore, Sunday 16 September 2018. Stroll tried a differing strategy to the rest of the field, starting on the softs and running a long opening stint but to no avail. Sirotkin, meanwhile, was creating more than his fair share of headlines. Firstly, he had to pit early due to having a portion of Ocon's wheel rim lodged in his front wing. Then his defending from Perez was questioned, before the Mexican collided with the side of his FW41. Finally, he was given a five-second time penalty for almost driving Hartley into the barriers. A different approach might be the order of the day next time out at his home race. Sergey Sirotkin, 19th "It was a fight. I fought all my way through, I was fighting and squeezing every single moment. We were in a good position at the beginning of the race, and up to the point of contact with the Force India car. This caused a lot of damage to my car and after that it was more about survival. It’s a difficult track to overtake, so I still fought as hard as I could to protect the car and keep my position, but lap after lap, it was becoming more difficult and the car was falling apart. I gave everything in terms of myself and with the car to bring the best performance home." Lance Stroll, 14th "I will have to watch the race, as I don't really know what happened around me, but I think there was quite a bit of chaos, so probably I benefited from that. I am really happy with the end result as 14th was a great result for the pace we had yesterday, and throughout the weekend. It wasn't easy - I would say more mentally than physically. I felt pretty good in the car as physically I had prepared. Mentally I am on the edge with no room for error. It wasn't easy as every millimetre counts round here and one millimetre too much is contact with the wall. I was trying to get everything out of the car on every lap, as for sure 61 laps round a track like this are very challenging. I pulled it off, so I am happy." Paddy Lowe, Chief Technical Officer "It was a normal long race in Singapore and full of events. Sergey picked up a bit of wheel rim from Ocon’s accident which meant we had to take an early stop. We put the soft tyre on, planning to go to the end. Sergey did a fantastic job, managing the tyre and his pace, keeping traffic behind him under a lot of pressure. He ultimately got caught up in an impact with Perez, and that ruined his race otherwise he could have been looking at quite a good finishing position. On Lance’s side, we took advantage of the traffic and the different queues on the circuit to optimise his pitstop which gave him a better track position than we could have hoped for at the start. He was able to come in 15th on the road and inherited 14th due to a time penalty for Grosjean, which we were chasing until the end. So real congratulations to the team, another two cars home in a very tough race, and especially to the drivers; they were driving at the maximum for nearly two hours and got the best they could from the car." Lance Stroll, Williams FW41 at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore, Sunday 16 September 2018. RACE: Hartley forced off track by Sirotkin RACE: Sirotkin pits after debris trapped in front wing Magnussen admitted he wasn't on the pace of his team mate all weekend and once again he struggled, ultimately pitting three times and finishing towards the back of the field - though he did set the fastest lap of the race late on. Grosjean looked to be in the battle for points but he got held up by Sirotkin, and eventually passed the Russian whilst having to let the leaders through. A messy blue flag period ensued, with the Frenchman penalised for not moving aside quickly enough. Romain Grosjean, 15th “I think it was a frustrating race for everyone who qualified between seventh and 10th on the hypersofts. It was such a poor tyre in the race. We did 10 laps and they completely went, while the ultrasofts did, I don’t know how many laps, 40? So, it’s almost better not to qualify in the top-10. Maybe we need to think about that a little bit because I felt like I pushed really hard in qualifying and in the race every single lap. I did the best I could but, in the end, I had no chance of being in the top 10. I’m sorry if I blocked anyone, it was not my intention. I believe I did my best. I was fighting with Sergey (Sirotkin), who was doing a little bit of go-kart racing out there. I couldn’t really slow down. Pierre (Gasly) was on my gearbox and Sergey was on my front wing. I passed him, then as soon as I passed him, I let Lewis (Hamilton) by.” Kevin Magnussen, 18th “It was a long day at the office. Obviously, it was a tough day for the team. I guess a slight highlight was getting the track record. It’s not really worth anything but perhaps a smile. Let’s move on, reset, and get ready to attack again in Russia.” Guenther Steiner, Team Principal “Not the weekend we wanted. We fought hard. If you have to start on these tyes, and the other ones are so much superior, if you qualify outside of the top 0, you have such an advantage, which you cannot make up in the race. Then we got stuck behind the Williams, which didn’t move out of the way, one thing went to another, and that’s where we ended up. Nevertheless, I think we tried to do our best. We are not as bad as it looks like.” Kevin Magnussen, Haas F1 Team VF-18 at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore, Sunday 16 September 2018. Romain Grosjean, Haas F1 Team VF-18 at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore, Sunday 16 September 2018. Leclerc kept his head down, his nose clean and made it back into the points for the first time since Austria. Ericsson likewise had a strong race, pitting late, but finished in the unlucky P11 slot for the third time this season. Marcus Ericsson, 11th “It was a pretty good race today. The pace was good and there were no mistakes made. Despite that, it is a bit frustrating to have finished in P11, so close to the points. We gave a strong performance, but could not fight for P10 anymore after coming back out onto the track behind the leading cars following our pitstop. Nevertheless, we did a good job as a team and will fight back in Sochi.” Charles Leclerc, 9th “What a race – it was quite close to being perfect. We had strong lap times, and the balance of the car felt good from the beginning to the end. We made a great recovery this weekend, after having a weaker race pace on Friday. With our strategy, we were able to fight our way to the front of the midfield and finish in the points again. Achieving this after the past few weekends feels good and shows our potential. I look forward to the next one.” Frédéric Vasseur, Team Principal “We are satisfied with our result today. After a tricky start to the weekend, we recovered well and qualified in decent positions. Our strategy was good and both drivers gave a strong and consistent performance in a very demanding race. Charles finished in P9 adding two more points to our tally, and Marcus was also close to finishing in the top ten. We have to stay focussed and continue improving this way, and I look forward to the next Grand Prix in Russia.” Charles Leclerc, Alfa Romeo Sauber C37 at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore, Sunday 16 September 2018. Marcus Ericsson, Alfa Romeo Sauber C37 at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore, Sunday 16 September 2018. Toro Rosso went aggressive - starting both drivers on the hypersoft rubber. Gasly used his tyres to good advantage, making up places at the start but got caught in traffic after stopping early. Hartley was in racy mood, fighting hard with Magnussen before being almost pushed into the barriers by Sirotkin. Pierre Gasly, 13th “It was a bit of a strange race today. I had a good start, recovered three positions and was P12 after the first lap. We gambled with the tyres and started with the Hypersoft, but in the end it was much more difficult than we thought and I really struggled to make them last at the end of the stint. After the first pit stop, I was in the mess with Sirotkin and Grosjean, and with all of the blue flags I lost quite a bit of time. I tried to do the maximum inside of the car, but I didn’t have the pace to fight for points all weekend.” Brendon Hartley, 17th “We rolled the dice today and decided to pit early, I was quicker than the guys in front being on the Hypersoft. We changed to the Ultrasoft and a lot of people covered us which put us back in traffic, so it didn’t really work out. We decided to do another pit stop and I got stuck behind the Williams and lost a place to Magnussen, there was a couple of good scraps out there but we didn’t have the pace for points today. It’s disappointing as we had high hopes for Singapore. It was a tough race, we got to the end but there’s no celebrations today. We chose to start on the Hypersoft because we knew we potentially had better tyre life than others around us, and we hoped we could make ground on the first lap. It was a bit tricky because Ocon went into the wall, but we were very competitive in the first stint on the Hypersoft. We tried to do something different to move up the field, but it didn’t work out.” Franz Tost, Team Principal “We were quite optimistic arriving in Singapore that we could score some points because we have been quite competitive here in previous years. However, we didn’t show the pace required to finish inside the top 10, so we need to analyse why we didn’t perform as expected, and what we have to change to increase our performance for the next races. Pierre made a very good start, he was able to gain a couple of positions and he defended well until his pit stop, while Brendon gained a position and avoided the incident at Turn 3. At the beginning we thought we could bring Pierre close to the top 10, but as the race went on the pace was not there which meant we were unable to achieve a points position.” Toyoharu Tanabe, Honda F1 Technical Director “We struggled at the start of the weekend, with a lack of pace from FP1 onwards and although we made a small improvement in time for qualifying, it wasn’t really enough to be competitive in the mid-field. Again, we saw that improvement in our race pace tonight, but starting so far back it was always going to be very difficult to get into the points on a street circuit where overtaking is very difficult. So, overall a tough and disappointing weekend. Now our attention turns immediately to the next round in Russia.” Brendon Hartley, Scuderia Toro Rosso STR13 at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore, Sunday 16 September 2018. Pierre Gasly, Scuderia Toro Rosso STR13 at Formula One World Championship, Rd15, Singapore Grand Prix, Race, Marina Bay Circuit, Singapore, Sunday 16 September 2018. Mario Isola, Head of Car Racing “As expected, Singapore was a very long, complex, and demanding race, while the 100% safety car record was maintained. This added another strategic element to what was already a tactically complex race. We saw a number of different strategies at work and a varying number of stops, with the top 10 on the grid all starting on the hypersoft that gave them extra speed at the very beginning of the race but left them open to the possibility of losing track position to those who completed a longer opening stint on a harder tyre or operated an alternative strategy.” ICYMI: Behind the scenes in Great Britain Renault have to be pleased after ‘awesome recovery’ says Ricciardo	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727141
__label__wiki	0.966535	0.966535	Trevor Clarke Sep 2015 Present Shamrock Rovers Feb 2019 Present Republic of Ireland U21 Oct 2015 Republic of Ireland U19 Trevor played underage football for Crumlin United and St Kevin's Boys before going to England where he was a part of Middlesborough's youth academy. He left 'Boro in July 2015 and signed for Shamrock Rovers U19 side in September 2015. He made his debut for the Hoops as a last minute substitute against Wexford Youths at Tallaght Stadium on 11 March 2016 and scored his first league goal against Galway United three weeks later. Trevor finished his debut season with one goal from 26 league appearances. In December 2016 Trevor signed a new contract with Shamrock Rovers for the 2017 season.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727143
__label__wiki	0.87064	0.87064	CAB continues to fight for the rights of society’s most vulnerable people Grangemouth and Bo'ness Citizens Advice Bureau manager Bill Palombo The introduction of Universal Credit has certainly had an effect on low income households throughout the country. And it has definitely had an impact on the organisation which seeks to ensure these families and individuals get a fair deal, with Grangemouth and Bo’ness Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) reporting the full rollout of this new form of benefit in February next year as being perhaps its biggest single challenge to date. In another “challenging” year that has seen it help a total of 4335 clients with 11,700 enquiries, leading to almost £1.9 million of financial gains for people who need it most, the CAB has continued its commitment to assist the most vulnerable members of society. In its annual report for 2016/2017 the CAB revealed it has helped clients to obtain new, or increase existing, welfare benefit awards, consumer refunds, unpaid wages, refunded bank charges and represented them at tribunals to have wrongly refused benefit decisions reversed. Grangemouth and Bo’ness CAB manager Bill Palombo said: “Statistics showed that almost 70 per cent of CAB enquiries were either welfare benefit or debt related, and that 69 per cent of clients who visited the CAB were in one or more of the groups used as indicators of poverty – lone parents, household affected by disability, single pensioners, households affected by homelessness and single working age people in receipt of benefit or in low paid work. “It’s clear the statistics reflect the impact of Welfare Reform and how it has had a disproportionate effect on vulnerable groups such as those with physical and mental health issues. “Universal Credit in particular, due to be rolled out in full in this area from February 2018, is the CAB’s next big challenge, given the existing evidence that it has already increased household poverty, increased evictions and referrals to food banks.” Derek Mitchell, CEO of Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) shared Mr Palombo’s view on the introduction of Welfare Reform and Universal Credit. He said: “Universal Credit, in its current form, will cause severe hardship to many individuals and families. “Waiting at least six weeks before receiving any money is simply not feasible for low income households with no savings and receiving an advance that has to be repaid simply means future benefit awards would be reduced even further – extending the period of severe hardship over a longer period.” The Scottish Government provides additional funding to CAB offices, via Citizens Advice Scotland, to help them cope with the additional work caused by Welfare Reform and the onset of Universal Credit and in 2016/2017 that funding resulted in 502 clients being helped with 1434 enquiries. The funding has also allowed CAB offices to increase their capacity to provide welfare benefits and debt advice, mostly via appointments outwith the office’s drop-in hours, giving the CAB time to deal fully with the clients’ enquiries. In the last year the majority of clients, around 55 per cent, wanted advice on welfare benefits, while 11 per cent were looking for advice on debt and seven per cent needed assistance with employment issues. Top takeaways in Falkirk district up for awards The CAB negotiated £1.2 million of debt on behalf of clients and for every £1 of grant funding received, the CAB managed to generate £8.02 of financial gains for its clients. Grangemouth and Bo’ness CAB chairman Tom Lambie said: “The targeting of vulnerable groups and making services more accessible in areas of deprivation are key aims in helping to reduce poverty and inequality. “There is clear evidence the CAB service is well placed to contribute significantly to these aims. “Falkirk Council has identified geographic communities within the area which exhibit substantially higher concentration of poverty than other areas. “It also has identified areas which are ‘at risk’ of multiple deprivation. “These areas account for nine per cent of the Falkirk Council area’s population, but 16 per cent of CAB clients. “Effective governance of the CAB is crucial to ensure it adheres to its legal duties and can achieve its aims effectively. “Grangemouth and Bo’ness CAB has experienced a reduction in funding from Falkirk Council in recent years. “This has been managed by a subsequent reduction in volunteers and staffing, which has been mitigated to some degree by an increase in project funding and use of reserves. “Although the number of new enquiries has inevitably decreased, much of the work undertaken with these clients has significantly increased. “It is testament to the skills and efforts of the staff and volunteers we have produced these results and continue to provide the quality service required. “We are grateful to them for this, and also to our funders for their support, the continuation of which will ensure this work continues.” Copies of the annual report are available by e-mail, bureau@grangemouthcab.casonline.org.uk. Any enquiries about volunteering as an adviser are also welcome.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727147
__label__cc	0.664721	0.335279	Scottish accountants planning 40% increase in staff numbers over next five years Leading accountants and business advisors French Duncan LLP are forecasting a 40% increase in staffing levels as the firm plans to grow its business substantially in the next five years. The firm has just expanded its Finnieston offices in Glasgow to 20,000sq ft, taking on a third floor to house the projected increase in staff numbers. The 117-year-old French Duncan is a long established, award winning, top ten Scottish independent firm of chartered accountants and business advisors headquartered in Scotland and working with clients throughout the UK and internationally. The firm have five offices across Scotland with 15 partners and almost 200 staff. Over the last few years the firm has grown strongly and will achieve a turnover of over £12m in the current year. However, the commitment to new office space reflects not only a growth in the core accountancy market but also a diversification of the business’s activities. Graeme Finnie, managing partner of French Duncan, explained: “There can be little doubt that accountancy, like all businesses, is currently facing a transformation due to technological innovation. Traditional working practices are changing, and the needs of our clients are changing. For example, ‘Making tax digital’ is simply one, high profile, change in the way in which technology is transforming our sector. Data, and the insights that it can unlock, means that no business, no profession is immune from the changes which have occurred, and which will occur over the next five years.” “There are substantial growth opportunities in the accountancy sector, but we believe that the future lies in offering wider business services to our clients. We now offer HR and IT services to clients building on the model, and we have developed a technology-driven finance function over the last few years in our hotel outsourcing company. This subsidiary of French Duncan LLP provides a completely paperless accounting function utilising cutting- edge technology to produce real time financial information to clients on any mobile device anywhere at any time.” Graeme continued: “As accountants, we believe that if we aren’t pushing boundaries using technology, then we won’t survive this revolution in the way business operates. These technological innovations will undoubtedly produce casualties within the accountancy community but those firms which invest now for the future will benefit from satisfied clients and improved balance sheets.” “Over the last six months we have been recruiting heavily and have employed 24 new people (with a significant number of these in new service lines), made three senior appointments, and recently appointed a new audit partner, Nicola MacLennan, in January. The firm is hiring more people to cope with growing demand from our clients and the expansion of our services.” Graeme concludes: “Our current investment in people, in technology and in space highlights our ambition to lead the accountancy sector by expanding our services and capabilities to encompass and deliver on the growing demands from clients and from the business community. You can never stand still in any business and we are investing, recruiting, and growing to meet the needs of business which is more open and willing to outsource more of their activity to the best business service providers. Combining the expertise of a traditional accountancy firm with cutting edge technology designed to produce more efficient, up to the minute financials means that we are tackling head-on the key issues and challenges facing Scottish businesses to emerge a stronger, larger firm capable of competing at all levels.” Click here to see Graeme's profile and contact details.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727148
__label__cc	0.71205	0.28795	Communities in rural, regional and remote locations are disadvantaged when it comes to accessing funding and having equitable access to quality services and opportunities, such as health, education and transport. Our grants seek to help local community groups bridge the gaps or enhance what already exists. Marine science program goes inland The Woodbridge School and Marine Discovery Centre (MDC) expanded their outreach program to give 580 students across rural and regional Tasmania the opportunity of a hands-on marine science experience – an experience they would have otherwise missed. More than 580 students in rural and regional Tasmania benefitted from a $5,000 REAPing Rewards grant to the Woodbridge School and Marine Discovery Centre (MDC). The MDC wanted to upgrade and expand their outreach program to give inland schools the opportunity of a hands-on marine science experience. This grant, funded by the Ian Potter Foundation, covered travel expenses, resources to safely transport live animals, and a flat screen display to support the classroom presentation. The funds were also used to maintain the purpose-built touch tank constructed by MDC for travelling. MDC’s teacher, Andrew Walsh, travelled more than 2,100 km visiting six schools and allowing students who live a long way from the ocean to enjoy hands-on marine activities linked to the Australian Science Curriculum. Without access to this program, students would have missed out on the opportunity to explore and learn more about the marine environment of their state, explains Mr Walsh. “Many of the schools I visited had children who had never been to the ocean, let alone come across any live marine animals. It was so rewarding to see them gain in confidence – for one autistic child, it was the first time he’d opened-up and engaged in class. The joy in the teacher’s eyes was priceless,” said Mr Walsh. Christine Farnell, Principal of South Arm Primary School said it was a fantastic experience for their students. “Due to our distance from Woodbridge, we are unable to make use of the Marine Discovery Centre, as the cost of buses and time for travelling impact us enormously, so without the FRRR grant this is an experience that our students would have missed.” Mr Walsh plans to run the MDC outreach program next year, benefitting more schools and children across Tasmania. Palatable furniture builds youth skills How to make and market furniture from recyclable wooden pallets was a novel idea aimed to provide students who are at-risk of disengaging and leaving school with practical skills and a recognised qualification. This project aimed to address school engagement, participation and completion for at-risk students. It provided students who are at-risk of disengaging and leaving school with practical skills and a recognised qualification, by running ‘Palatable Furniture’. This hands-on course taught students from the Wyong Shire region in NSW how to make and market furniture from recyclable wooden pallets. Uniting Care Burnside Branch channelled $20,000 received from FRRR’s Innovation for Community Impact (I4CI) program. This program is a collaboration between FRRR, NSW Department of Family and Community Services, Philanthropy Australia and eight philanthropic donor partners, to Wyong Outreach TAFE. They provided teachers and mentors for 16 students to gain a Certificate 1 - Access to Work and Training. The project had great support from the staff at the school and a local business, Wave Zone, donated the pallets. One of the significant outcomes was that participants re-engaged with their school and local community as a result of marketing the furniture they had made. Feedback from the students themselves highlighted the success of the program. As one student said, “I thought I was just doing something to get out of school… but what I did was learn things… this was real education.” Another commented, “I want more of this… I want to learn more.” Life Saving Skills for everyone A $9,000 grant enabled 885 children from 13 schools in Echuca, Shepparton and Yarrawonga to participate in Life Saving Victoria’s Open Water Learning Experience free of charge. They would otherwise have been excluded due to financial limitations. An FRRR grant enabled children who would otherwise have been excluded due to financial limitations to participate in a program that literally saves lives. With $9,000 received from the McEwen Foundation Grants for the Goulburn Valley program, 885 students from 13 schools in Echuca, Shepparton and Yarrawonga were able to participate in Life Saving Victoria’s Open Water Learning Experience (OWLE) free of charge. OWLE is a targeted aquatic education and safety program for youth from culturally and linguistically diverse networks, who are at high risk of drowning. As one teacher said, “Without this generous donation, we probably wouldn’t have been able to attend.” Connecting Women in Gippsland Conference 2016 This program of socially inclusive events was designed to reduce barriers and support women from rural townships who have a disability or are experiencing disadvantage. By providing free transport and ticketing, it made it possible for everyone to attend. Connecting Women in Gippsland Conference 2016 was a program of socially inclusive events designed to reduce barriers and support women from rural townships who have a disability or are experiencing disadvantage. A Grants for Resilience & Wellness grant of $37,000, funded by the Victorian Bushfire Appeal Fund, provided free transport for 24 women in fire affected areas to attend the event. A single mum with no child support said that the free ticketing and transport allowed her to attend the event.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727149
__label__wiki	0.576545	0.576545	Building and sustaining thriving small communities is a constant challenge, but investing in the things that support a community and giving them a sense of belonging and pride builds a strong foundation. Supporting projects that bring people together and give them the opportunity to share knowledge and experiences creates social capital for stronger communities. Musical playground brings a community together Music crosses all genders, disabilities and cultures, helping people to express themselves and encouraging social interaction. The people of Yarram in Gippsland, Victoria, created an outdoor musical playground. Music crosses all genders, ages, disabilities and cultures, helping people to express themselves, improve cognitive skills and encourage social interaction. With this knowledge, the people of Yarram in Gippsland, Victoria, decided to make the most of the space they had to create an outdoor musical playground. The Yarram Recreation Reserve Committee of Management was constructing a new multi-purpose community facility using money raised through local fundraising, a Victorian government grant and many volunteer hours. However, they didn’t have money to complete the external areas. They wanted to create an outdoor learning space to cater to the diversity of users and encourage visitors to the area. With a $60,000 grant received from a very generous private donor, they were able to create an outdoor musical playground to provide a stimulating learning space for children, older people, people with a disability, and families with children using the new community facility. Even before the final landscaping was completed, children were taking the musical equipment for a test run, creating and hitting high notes, with music ringing out from the playground, according to Jack Millier, President of Yarram Recreation Reserve Inc. “The kids play on it all day from early morning to late at night. Once a week we have an elderly group drive into town to have a play, as well as a school who support children with disabilities. “The two local state schools even hold music classes using the instruments. The instruments are highly tuned and so make an amazing sound. You really need to come and visit to hear how good it is,” said Mr Millier. The playground has also attracted some media attention, drawing visitors from interstate, giving a boost to the area. Panels secure cinema's future The Narooma School of Arts & Soldiers War Memorial is used as a cinema and theatre. Despite its popularity, its viability was under threat due to high-power costs, so they installed 40 solar panels. Narooma, on NSW’s far south coast, relies heavily on tourism, with a population of around 7,500 that trebles over the summer months. The community-owned Narooma School of Arts & Soldiers War Memorial is used as a cinema and theatre, and attracts both locals and visitors. Despite its popularity – it hosts around 40,000 visitors a year - its viability was under threat due to high power costs, mainly attributed to the energy demands of the cinema projector. A $10,000 grant funded by the Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation through FRRR’s Culture, Arts, Tourism & Community Heritage (CATCH) program went toward the purchase and installation of 40 solar panels (10kw). Laurelle Pacey, a committee member, said the system should generate about 25% of the hall’s power consumption. “This will improve the commercial viability of the hall’s operations, and therefore ensure that this much-loved and hugely important tourist attraction continues to operate, as it has done since it was built in 1926.” My Place, Our Place – Goomalling Yarns Country Arts Network WA partnered with the Shire of Goomalling and the local Noongar Aboriginal community on an intergenerational community history project, combining hip-hop, oral histories and print making to tell stories. Listen to their stories In the 1960’s Goomalling, in WA’s wheat-belt, hosted an Aboriginal reserve housing 10 indigenous families, some of whom still reside in the area. To build stronger relationships and educate locals and visitors about the cultural significance of Goomalling, the Country Arts Network (CAN) WA partnered with the Shire of Goomalling and the local Noongar Aboriginal community on an intergenerational community history project. It combined hip-hop, oral histories, photography and printmaking to tell the stories of those who lived on the reserve. With a $17,600 grant through the Culture, Arts, Tourism & Community Heritage (CATCH) program, funded by the McCusker Charitable Foundation, more than 350 photos were identified. You can see some of the photos online, as well as listen to some of the fascinating stories: canwa.com.au/project/bush-babies.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727150
__label__cc	0.575952	0.424048	HomeLenovoLenovo A706 and A390 launched in India for Rs 15,949 & Rs 8,689 respectively Jun. 06, 2013 at 1:17 pm LenovoMobile PhonesNews Lenovo A706 and A390 launched in India for Rs 15,949 & Rs 8,689 respectively Akshay Aggarwal June 6, 2013 no commentandroidlenovoNews Lenovo has launched six new smartphones in India. Two of them are A706 and A390 which are the affordable smartphones from Lenovo. A390 is an entry level Android smartphone whereas A706 is a mid range smartphone. Both the devices are Dual SIM Android smartphones. Talking first about the A390, it features a 4 inch WVGA display and it is powered 1 GHz dual core processor along with 512MB of RAM. The phone comes with 4GB internal storage which can be expanded by using a microSD card. It has a 5 megapixel back camera and runs on Android ICS. The device is powered by a 1500mAh battery. A390 is priced at Rs 8,689. Lenovo A706 is a mid range Android smartphone and features a 4.5 inch IPS TFT display. The phone runs on Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS and it is powered by a 1.2 GHz quad core processor along with 1GB RAM and 4GB internal storage. It comes with a 5 megapixel back camera and VGA front facing camera for video calling. It is powered by a 2000mAh battery. The device would be available in India for Rs 15,949. These devices would be available across various retailers by the end of this month. Tags :androidlenovoNews Akshay Aggarwal Akshay is a Tech Enthusiast who loves to write about Technology and Gadgets. He is very passionate about blogging and has been blogging since 2009. Lenovo P780 launched in India for Rs. 22529 [5 inch HD display, 4000mAh Battery] Lenovo S920 and S820 launched in India	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727152
__label__wiki	0.705011	0.705011	Baseball America: Gators No. 1 Special to The Sun Another preseason college baseball poll, another No. 1 ranking for Florida. Florida was picked No. 1 in Baseball America's preseason Top 25 rankings released on Tuesday for the second year in a row and the second time in school history. UF was ranked first in Collegiate Baseball's Fabulous 40 NCAA Division I Preseason Poll released last month. Fifth-year head coach Kevin O'Sullivan's team, which finished as the national runner-up a year ago, returns the bulk of its everyday lineup, its entire weekend rotation and a number of key arms in the bullpen. The Gators, 53-19 last year, will certainly be tested, as 28 of their 56 games during the regular season will be against squads listed in the Baseball America poll. Florida opens its season Feb. 17 against No. 25 Cal State Fullerton at McKethan Stadium. SOFTBALL: Florida (56-13 last year), the national runner-up a year ago, was picked No. 2 in the USA Today/NFCA poll and No. 4 in the ESPN.com/USA poll.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727153
__label__wiki	0.90613	0.90613	Cardinals can thank Lions for standout RB David Johnson AP Sep 7, 2017 at 10:42p ET TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) If not for the Detroit Lions, David Johnson would not be the dynamic, game-changing running back he is for the Arizona Cardinals. He’d be plying his considerable skills elsewhere. Now Johnson, entering just his third NFL season, will be facing the Lions when Arizona opens its season in Detroit on Sunday. On the cover of the Sports Illustrated NFL preview edition, Johnson is no longer an under-the-radar rising star. ”I think he’s the best player in the National Football League,” teammate Larry Fitzgerald said. ”I think for the next 17 weeks, and hopefully moving forward, everybody that we play will have to feel his wrath.” Johnson, who led the NFL in yards from scrimmage and touchdowns last season, considers himself the best running back in the game. ”I feel like you wouldn’t be able to compete at a high level if you didn’t think you were the best,” he said. And only a decision by the Lions in the 2015 draft cleared the way for Johnson to come to the Cardinals. In the second round, Arizona had the 55th pick overall and was preparing to select running back Ameer Abdullah. As chronicled in last year’s ”All or Nothing” documentary on Arizona’s 2015 season, the Cardinals even were on the phone with Abdullah. But, just ahead of them at pick No. 54, the Lions grabbed Abdullah. ”You’re kidding me. You’ve got to be kidding me,” a distraught general manager Steve Keim is shown saying. The Cardinals had no idea how fortunate they were. They made a trade down with their second-round pick and grabbed outside linebacker Markus Golden at pick No. 58. Golden led the Cardinals in sacks with 12 + last season. Then in the third round, still needing a running back, they chose Johnson out of FCS school Northern Iowa with the 86th selection overall. Johnson said he didn’t know anything about how all that transpired until he watched ”All or Nothing.” ”It’s definitely crazy how things work out,” he said. ”Me and Markus talk about that all the time, how different our lives would have been if Ameer had come here.” In the 2015 season-opener against New Orleans, the first time he touched the ball, he caught a pass from Carson Palmer and went 55 yards for a touchdown. The next week at Chicago, he returned a kickoff 108 yards for a touchdown, the longest play in franchise history and tied for second-longest ever in the NFL. He added a 13-yard TD catch against the Bears. ”Throughout camp that year, before I got injured (a hamstring), I felt like I was able to put my talents out there and felt like I was able to play and be a good player in the league,” he said. ”But once I did have that kick return and also the Saints game a few plays I did get in, I felt like I definitely was in the right spot.” Coach Bruce Arians says repeatedly that Johnson reminds him of Marshall Faulk. And why not. Last season, Johnson became the first player in NFL history to top 100 yards from scrimmage in each of the first 15 games of the season. He probably would have made it 16 had he not injured his knee in the season finale in Los Angeles. His 15 games of 100 yards from scrimmage in a season tied the NFL record held by Barry Sanders. Johnson’s goal this season is 1,000 yards rushing and 1,000 yards receiving, something accomplished only by Faulk and Roger Craig. He came close last season with 1,239 yards rushing and 879 yards receiving and believes he would have done it if not for that last-game injury or some messed up route running during the year. Johnson has scored 33 touchdowns in 32 games played. No wonder he is just about everybody’s No. 1 fantasy pick. The Cardinals virtually kept Johnson in bubble wrap this preseason. He played only 11 snaps, carrying the ball six times for 19 yards and catching one pass for nine yards. He is raring to go. ”I don’t think I have any rust,” Johnson said. ”I’m very anxious, man. I’ve been scratching my nails. I’m so excited to come out and play and I’ve been very antsy, counting the days on the calendar, counting the minutes when we finally get to actually play in a game that was very important.” And, by the way, Abdullah will be carrying the ball for the Lions. For more NFL coverage: http://www.pro32.ap.org and http://www.twitter.com/AP-NFL	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727155
__label__cc	0.579599	0.420401	France in the Americas The Permanent Mission Home > Archives > CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - 2016 HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE OF THE FRENCH (...) Bigger font CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - 2016 HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC This Prize, which was set up in 1988, is awarded in recognition and support for the completion of individual or collective projects carried out in the field, in France or abroad, regardless of nationality or borders, and linked to one of two possible themes. 1 - Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and individual candidates, regardless of nationality and borders, should present a field initiative or project to be implemented in France or abroad, on one of the two themes for 2016: • Theme 1: defending and protecting migrants. Migrants account for 3.2% of the world population; this figure includes refugees fleeing persecution or the threat of persecution, environmentally displaced persons and those who leave their country seeking work. This percentage has remained fairly stable for years, but these movements, whether voluntary or imposed, are now driven by more complex factors and affect a wider range of destinations. All regions of the world and all population groups are now concerned. Despite this diversification of migratory movements and the fact that human mobility is inevitable in our globalized world, the countries of the North remain obsessed by the fear of an “invasion” of poor migrants from the South. As a result, the intrinsic vulnerability of migrants is growing, as increasingly strict security policies are implemented to control migration. Europe is introducing ever tighter controls at its external borders, forcing refugees to take increasingly dangerous routes that are all too often fatal or lead to camps where they face abject living conditions. And yet the volume of migration between countries of the South now equals, or even exceeds that of migration from the South to the North. Many countries in the South, especially emerging economies, are no longer only countries of origin, but are also countries of transit and destination. This new intraregional migration pattern is a source of problems. The countries of transit and destination are often unable to provide appropriate services, for example in the fields of health and education, and thus cannot protect migrants’ rights. Applications can be submitted for projects that aim to help and support migrants by defending and protecting their rights. The prize may be awarded to projects demonstrating innovative, concrete action that seeks to offer practical solutions to the problems facing migrants. Projects can also focus on better documenting violations of migrants’ rights throughout their journey and encouraging national authorities to reform their legislation and policies through advocacy work. • Theme 2: representing and defending the rights of disabled people under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. People with disabilities are often among the most marginalized and encounter unique and specific difficulties when it comes to exercising their fundamental rights. For a long time, it was assumed that these difficulties were a natural, inevitable consequence of their physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairment. In 2006, the entry into force of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities marked a radical change in the existing approaches to disabilities and encouraged a shift from a medical approach to a societal one. In the Convention, the emphasis is no longer on a condition that is perceived as a personal defect and considered a weakness or a disease. On the contrary, the Convention views disability as a “pathology of society”, in other words, the result of society’s inability to accept the person’s differences and be fully inclusive. It is society that must change, not the individual, and the Convention actually sets out a roadmap for this change. Applications can be submitted for projects that support or promote the effectiveness of the rights of disabled persons, projects that seek to defend or protect those rights, and projects that seek to enable disabled persons to participate fully in public life. The prize may be awarded to projects demonstrating innovative, concrete action that seeks to offer practical solutions to the problems facing disabled persons. Projects can also involve training activities on the Convention that aim to encourage national authorities to reform their legislation and policies by implementing the provisions of the Convention. 2 - Five prize winners will be invited to Paris for the official ceremony. They will receive a medal and share a total sum of €70,000, awarded by the Prime Minister. Five runners-up will be awarded a special medal by the French ambassador in their country of origin. 3 - Applications must comply with the prize regulations. The prize regulations are available upon request. They can also be found on the CNCDH website: http://www.cncdh.fr/fr/prix/prix-des-droits-de-lhomme . 4 - The application, which must be written in French, must include: a) A letter of application presented and signed by the president or legal representative of the NGO concerned, or by the individual candidate. b) The application form, which is attached to this call for applications and can be downloaded from the CNCDH website: http://www.cncdh.fr/fr/prix/prix-des-droits-de-lhomme . This form presents the project objective and means of operation in detail. A precise budget must be given (preferably with equivalent values given in euros). c) A presentation of the NGO concerned (statutes, operations, etc.). d) The postal address and bank details of the NGO or the individual candidate. Candidates must submit their complete application, before the deadline of 30 September 2016, to the Secretariat-General of the CNCDH: or by email to: cncdh@cncdh.pm.gouv.fr Once the panel has announced the results, the 2016 Prize will be awarded in Paris by the Prime Minister, around 10 December 2016. Last modified on 30/09/2016 International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances (30 August 2017) Brazil – Meeting between Jean-Yves Le Drian and his counterpart, Aloysio Nunes (28 August 2017) Applications - Human Rights Prize of the French Republic President Macron and President Trump hold a joint press conference Celebration of French National Day at the OAS Entire section Organization of American States (OAS) Embassies of France in the Americas	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727156
__label__wiki	0.566449	0.566449	'Castles in the Sky' - Movie Review Not to be confused with "Castle in the Sky," a Hayao Miyazaki movie that I also have an interest in. This is a BBC TV movie, the story of the invention of radar by Sir Robert Watson-Watt prior to and during the Second World War. Watson-Watt was a meteorologist, but in the mid-1930s he came up with the idea that you could detect incoming aircraft by bouncing radio waves off of them. With the rise of Hitler and his massive production of military planes, the British War Ministry decided (reluctantly, according to the film) to get Watson-Watt to develop this idea. The movie follows his efforts with a team of other "weather men" and "outsiders" to make their product work as envisioned. Drama is developed (after a fashion) by putting them in conflict with their superiors at the war office who want "real scientists" working on the project, or want the money for more offensive war machinery. And also by having Watson-Watt's marriage fall apart. They play up that he's a "weatherman" and entirely ignore his background to make him seem the opposite of the Oxford scientists that the war ministry threatens to replace him with - but Watson-Watt did in fact have a very strong engineering background. His marriage did fall apart, although I don't know if it was during the period he was working on this, or because of it. As other critics have pointed out, just because an event is historically significant doesn't make it dramatically significant: Robert Watson-Watt seems to have been a charming, very intelligent, and decent guy, but perhaps not dramatically rewarding. And I have no doubt that the development of radar was a huge struggle full of set-backs, but most of the struggles presented to us were manufactured and not terribly interesting. Eddie Izzard does a great job in the lead (in what may be his first entirely straight role ever?) with good support from a number of the other actors, with one notable exception. I quite like Tim McInnerny, but he seemed like a particularly poor choice as Winston Churchill: he's too tall (18 cm taller than Churchill), not fat enough, and mostly sounded like a frat boy trying to imitate Churchill's speech patterns. Happily, he's not on screen much. In the end a poor story only barely worked for me because I was fascinated by the (limited) technical details of the history. Prev: 'Spectre' - Movie Review Next: "Four Roads Cross" - Book Review http://www.gilesorr.com/blog/castles-in-the-sky.html	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727158
__label__cc	0.657677	0.342323	Buddhadharma: The Six Realms (Part 2), via Frank Berliner Frank Berliner 0 Followers 4 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Link: Last issue, we began to examine the Buddha’s teaching on the six realms of existence as a useful metaphor for our various states of mind, and how to relate with them so we may truly wake up and be free of all the unending tortures and attachments to pleasure associated with these “realms.” For a summation of the three lower realms of hell beings, hungry ghosts and animals-each trapped in their gross fixation on aggression, desire and bewilderment, respectively. We continue our study now with the three higher realms-gods, jealous gods and human beings. Though these realms are also fueled by kleshas (clay-shas: neuroses; or torturous emotions), we are operating at a higher level, relatively speaking-that is, a more intelligent and pleasurable existence than in the three lower realms. From the point of view of the Buddha’s unconditional freedom, all three are still quite deluded; but from the perspective of the three lower realms, there’s much to be said for them! The highest of the higher realms is the god realm. The gods live in a realm saturated in pleasure. This pleasure can be material or spiritual. It can be a Beverly Hills, yuppie lifestyle of wealth and luxury, or it can be a spiritual practice or cult that promises endless love n’light without any sacrifice or discomfort. The god realm is based upon pride in the attainment of this pleasurable life. This pride, interestingly, is identified by the Buddha as a subtle kind of ignorance. Our self-satisfaction in being members of such an exclusive club causes us to ignore all the subtle messages that this world of pleasure we are dwelling on is not genuine-that it is not going to last forever. You may recall the life of the Buddha himself. Siddhartha was born into an environment that was as close to the god realm as any human being of his era could have attained. He experienced great luxury throughout his youth inside the walls of his father’s palace. He had, as they say, all the advantages: wealth, youth, companionship. Kept inside the palace grounds at all times, he was insulated and protected from the truth of suffering-that all beings are born, grow old, get sick and eventually die. Of course Siddhartha’s family was hardly immune to such experiences-but these harder aspects of life were deliberately hidden from the pampered young prince. His awakening began when he ventured out and saw for the first time how the other 99.9 percent lived. He was utterly shocked. And because of his own immense potential for compassion and intelligence, he recognized that he actually needed to find out more about these discoveries, rather than ignore them. When he asked his father, the king, “Can you protect me from these things?” and received his reluctant but honest answer, the future Buddha soon left the palace for good, in order to find his own answers. It is also said in the tradition that there are god realms attained by people who have subtle and profound meditation experiences. You can perfect your fixation upon the meditation experiences of bliss, clarity or non-thought so flawlessly that you are reborn as a god in realms of desire, form or formlessness. You mistake these powerful but nevertheless conditioned experiences for the awakened state of the Buddha. It’s a very high-level dead-end. In his own path, the Buddha encountered many such meditation “trips” and mastered them, but kept searching because he was convinced they were not his ultimate destination. From our more mundane point of view, it’s the dream of ease and luxury, the determination to maintain it and the good fortune to be able to pull it off that characterizes the god realm. Clearly, it’s a compelling dream. The whole world wants to live it! The lifestyles of the rich and famous are alluring because they sit with seeming invulnerable satisfaction atop the food chain of consumption. The tabloids will always be in business, because they prey upon our envy of these gods-and our delight at news of any fall from grace. Next there is the jealous god realm-those who want to be gods but can’t quite get there. They become so engrossed by the competition they have with each other over getting to the god realm that the striving itself becomes their realm. The energizing qualities here are ambition, paranoia, competitiveness, jealousy and envy. It’s a constant game of one-upmanship. It’s the game of Washington, D.C. (instead of Beverly Hills). It’s the game of skillful, scheming Machiavellian intrigues. It’s a game where everyone else is regarded as a potential threat, a competitor to be bested or an obstacle you must outmaneuver. As for those who are not playing your game, you regard them with disinterest or contempt. It is much more sophisticated than the hell realm. Though based on the same underlying quality of aggression, it is far subtler, more politically correct. Whereas the hell realm is just bluntly out there with its hatred or violence in a way that is completely tortured, stupid and gross, the jealous gods mask and rationalize their fundamental arrogance and unfriendliness (until the right time to strike the enemy presents itself). In the jealous god realm the hatred has been transformed into diplomacy. It’s an endless, fickle game of who’s in and who’s out. The jealous gods prize privileged information and access to power, whether social, financial or political. In the jealous god realm, compassion is regarded merely as another strategy. In The Prince, Machiavelli writes that the great ruler should not really possess the qualities of wisdom and compassion, but he should seem to, particularly if and when it will further his own ends. If it will not, he should simply abandon such qualities right on the spot. Want to delve deeper into the art of jealous god thinking? Read Machiavelli. The Italian city-states of the 15th century played jealous god games with ruthless enthusiasm. Machiavelli wrote the classic “How to Succeed” manual for all these cunning, heartless beings-and none more so than the Popes, who hid the iron fist of worldly power inside the velvet glove of ceremonial piety. Finally, there is the human realm. The main characteristics of the human realm are said to be desire, disappointment and the resourceful ability to create a world that is reasonably comfortable. The human realm has relentless inquisitiveness about how things are, and how things work. Human beings are driven by an intelligent passion. We want to make the world better. We want to understand how it works. We want to go beyond our isolation and connect with others. We want to create a good world. We want to be happy. We want, we want, we want…and to a greater or lesser degree, we are able to get what we want for a while-until we lose it or don’t want it anymore. It is not the hungry ghost level of blind, insatiable wanting. And…we know we are mortal, which haunts all our longing and grins ironically behind the seriousness and seeming importance of all our projects and desires-like the skull beneath the skin. It is this seemingly irresolvable tension between desire and limitation in human life that prompted Sartre to write bitterly: “Man is a useless passion.” Perhaps the most eloquent description of this poignant, creative existential tension that fuels the human realm is to be found in a speech by Hamlet. The Prince of Denmark is the quintessential Renaissance man and Western tragic hero, who confronts his father’s murder, his mother’s faithlessness, and his uncle’s treachery in a brutal, deceptive world he never asked to be born into: What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel! In apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me…. Piece of work, indeed. As for the immutable fact of mortality, Hamlet contemplates the skull of the courtier Yorick, upon whose knee he played as a child, and muses to his friend Horatio about the Great Leveler, Death: To what base uses we may return, Horatio. Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, ‘til he find it stopping a bung-hole?…Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away. But the Buddha-more cheerful than Sartre and more profound even than Shakespeare-taught that it is the human realm alone where the possibility of a break in the fixation of the tumultuous kleshas is such that we could actually free ourselves from confusion. The longing, disappointment and intelligence of the human realm have enough self-reflection in them to begin to see through the ways we imprison ourselves. The human realm has the ideal balance of pain and pleasure. If there is too much of either, we cannot connect with the Dharma. The gods, for example, are having much too good a time to hear the truth, while hungry ghosts are too tormented by their endless addiction to fulfillment to hear it. It’s only in the human realm that the relentlessly repetitive five skandhas-the process by which we mistakenly solidify our everchanging reality-can be exposed. And in deconstructing this process, we can experience an alternative to the claustrophobia of all the realms. Finally, we can glimpse the fundamental openness that we lost with the first skandha. We can begin to relate to our projections with more skepticism and less gullibility. It takes time to dismantle our “virtual reality,” but it is possible to do this in the human realm precisely because the quality of emotional fixation is not overwhelming. Our curiosity, our sense of humor and irony are our saving grace. It is humbling to consider that, according to the Buddha, if we are not working to free ourselves of the prison of the kleshas, and if we are not exerting ourselves in the cultivation of awareness and compassion as the aim of our everyday lives-then we are not fully human! We are wasting our lives in trivial pursuits. We are walking around in a human form, but our consciousness is held hostage by another realm. It’s the Dharmic version of The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But how, then, do we wake up from the virtual reality of the realms? It is through the practice of meditative awareness that we begin to break their spell, and move toward the inner freedom of the Buddha for ourselves. In the next article, we will look more closely at how this happens. A student of meditation master Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Frank Berliner teaches Buddhist psychology and meditation at Naropa University. Read All Comments and Replies Frank Berliner follow 0 Followers Frank W. Berliner grew up in New York and was educated at Yale, where he received his BA, and Naropa University, where he earned an MA in Transpersonal Counseling. He has studied, practiced and taught meditation for 40 years as a close student of the founder of Naropa, the Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Chogyam Trungpa. Over a 12 year period from 1980-1992, Mr. Berliner served as National Administrative Director of Shambhala Training, and the Executive Director and Resident Teacher of the Berkeley Shambhala Center. He is now an Associate Professor of Contemplative Psychology at Naropa University, where he has taught Buddhist and Western Existential Psychology, and the practice of meditation, to BA and MA students since 1995. Mr. Berliner pioneered the teaching of meditation online at Naropa, beginning in 1999. Between 2001 and 2007 he was the buddhadharma columnist for elephant journal. In 2012 he published “Falling in Love with a Buddha”, a memoir of his experiences as a ‘warrior apprentice’ to Chogyam Trungpa. He is currently finishing “The Living Buddha Within You”, based on his integration of the Buddhist and Shambhala teachings of Chogyam Trungpa, which will be published in September of 2014. Frank is also a psychotherapist and life coach in private practice in Boulder, Colorado. Blog Frank Berliner	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727161
__label__wiki	0.919837	0.919837	National survey results fuel plans to help one of Scotland’s most iconic birds The latest national survey of Scotland's population of capercaillie, the world's largest grouse, estimates there to be only 1114 individuals - making it one of the country's most endangered birds. Pic credit: Dave Braddock (rspb-images.com). The latest national survey of Scotland’s population of capercaillie, the world’s largest grouse, estimates there to be only 1114 individuals – making it one of the country’s most endangered birds. Scotland’s capercaillie population is assessed every six years by RSPB Scotland and Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) with the most recent survey conducted during winter 2015/16. Between November and March, RSPB surveyors walked nearly one thousand miles of transects looking for and recording the birds. The previous survey was carried out in winter 2009/10 and put capercaillie numbers at around 1285 individuals. Capercaillie are found in mature pine woodlands in parts of the Highlands, Moray, Aberdeenshire and Perthshire, but Strathspey holds around 83 per cent of the remaining population. An innovative five year initiative, the Cairngorms Capercaillie Project, is being developed to help the bird. Spearheaded by the Cairngorms Nature Partnership, the scheme will work closely with communities to build support for the conservation of capercaillie, as well as aiming to create bigger, better managed and better connected forests to support long-term survival of capercaillie and other species in pine woods. Key to its success will be partnerships with National Park communities; local residents will help the project team design sensible approaches to improve recreational opportunities for locals and visitors while reducing disturbance of capercaillie. Andy Ford, Cairngorms Nature manager said: “People are key to securing the future of capercaillie in the National Park. We want to empower people to be inspired to get involved. The project implements the Cairngorms Capercaillie Framework, a blueprint for a strategic approach to saving the capercaillie from going extinct in the UK through targeting future management at a landscape scale. We hope to develop a programme of conservation action to support the long-term survival of the species and provide a model to save ‘at risk’ species in National Parks around the world.” Conservation scientists have identified the main reasons for the current status of capercaillie as relatively low levels of breeding success and an increase in deaths from collisions with deer fences. The latter can be reduced by marking fences, decreasing their height or removing them, however resolving the former is more complex. Breeding success is adversely affected by high rainfall in June, when the chicks hatch, and predation. The number of chicks capercaillie raise is only relatively high when both of these factors are low but, unfortunately, wetter summers have become more frequent and the small size and fragmented nature of the forests these birds inhabit allow easier access to predators. There is also growing evidence that human disturbance can be an issue as it causes capercaillie to avoid using large areas of otherwise suitable woodland – limiting the potential for population recovery. Nick Wilkinson, conservation scientist for RSPB Scotland, said: “The considerable conservation effort that has been directed at capercaillie for over two decades now has helped to prevent further population decline, and indeed has made a second extinction of this species from Scotland less likely. “The country’s capercaillie population has fluctuated between 1000 and 2000 birds since the first national survey in the 1990s, but it’s now very much at the low end of this scale. Amazing book of finds on the site of the AWPR “Capercaillie are restricted to only a few areas of the country and most are found in Strathspey, which highlights the importance of innovative conservation work in this area, in partnership with others, for their population to recover.” Sue Haysom, policy and advice officer with Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), said: “Vital conservation work such as establishing rich feeding areas for adults and chicks, promoting woodland creation in the right locations to increase habitat, and carrying out targeted predator control around breeding sites has already brought benefits.” She added: “Now we need to build on this with energy and innovative approaches developed by experts and local communities to ensure that future generations can experience this magnificent bird.”	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727162
__label__wiki	0.84305	0.84305	Clinical Solutions - Press Info - Press Releases Elsevier Names Dr. Jim Nolin Editor-in-Chief of Order Set Solution Nolin brings 24 years of experience in academic and community hospitals as an emergency medicine physician Philadelphia, PA, February 27, 2013 – Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, has appointed Dr. James Nolin as Editor-in-Chief of InOrder™, Elsevier’s new order set solution. Nolin is responsible for leading content production and medical content strategy. Prior to joining Elsevier, Nolin served as a Director of Clinical Excellence Informatics for Ascension Health, the country's largest Catholic, non-profit health system, based in St. Louis, MO. While there, Nolin led the development of national order sets for the 80-hospital system. Nolin is board certified in emergency medicine and has practiced 24 years in academic and community hospitals as an emergency medicine physician, including as co-founder of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Cook County Hospital in Illinois. “At Ascension Health, Jim guided the hospitals’ staff through the process of implementing and adopting order sets while developing system and local clinical informatics governance,” said Jay Katzen, President of Elsevier’s clinical solutions business. “We’re looking forward to how his unique experience and expertise will help us continue to grow and advance Elsevier’s clinical decision support offerings.” InOrder by Elsevieris an intuitive, cloud-based order set solution that enables physicians, clinicians and informaticists to author, review and manage order sets in a collaborative environment. “Elsevier is a leader in clinical decision support, and I look forward to being a part of the team that will bring innovative clinical solutions to the marketplace in 2013,” Nolin said. Nolin, based in southwest Michigan, holds a B.A. in physics from Baylor University, an M.D. from Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit and completed his emergency medicine residency at the University of Chicago. To meet Jim Nolin and learn more about InOrder and Elsevier, visit Elsevier’s booth #6129 at HIMSS13 (March 3-7) in New Orleans. A complete list of Elsevier demonstrations and presentations at HIMSS13 is at www.clinicaldecisionsupport.com/. Elsevier is a global information analytics business that helps scientists and clinicians to find new answers, reshape human knowledge, and tackle the most urgent human crises. For 140 years, we have partnered with the research world to curate and verify scientific knowledge. Today, we’re committed to bringing that rigor to a new generation of platforms. Elsevier provides digital solutions and tools in the areas of strategic research management, R&D performance, clinical decision support, and professional education; including ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal, ClinicalKey and Sherpath. Elsevier publishes over 2,500 digitized journals, including The Lancet and Cell, 39,000 e-book titles and many iconic reference works, including Gray's Anatomy. Elsevier is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. www.elsevier.com Christopher Capot Director, Corporate Relations c.capot@elsevier.com	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727163
__label__wiki	0.752511	0.752511	Home \| Fine Art Prints & Limited Editions \| Collectors Editions \| Avtandil Makharoblidze \| Avantdil Handsigned and Numbered Limited Edition Embellished Giclee on Canvas:"Melancholy" Prints and Canvases View All Avtandil Makharoblidze Avantdil Handsigned and Numbered Limited Edition Embellished Giclee on Canvas:"Melancholy" Item# COL-503 Artist: Avantdil Title: Melancholy Edition: Artist Hand Signed and Numbered Limited Edition to 95 Medium: Fine Art Embellished Giclee on Canvas About the Artist: Born in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, in 1952, Avtandil Makharoblidze graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Art in 1975. His emotional and evocative oil and mixed media paintings have received wide exposure at numerous regional and national exhibitions in the United States, the former Soviet Union and across Europe. While studying under world famous artist Guram Kutateladze, he was the master's favorite student for having acquired from his teacher a feeling for the inner mood and emotion of the subject. Deeply involved in teaching, Avtandil has taught painting to many now famous artists in his homeland. Avtandil is equally accomplished as a painter (religious art, sculpture, monumental representation, and much more) and a graphic artist (working both in theater and motion pictures). He worked as a theater set designer for the State Marionette Theatre of Georgia and, in 1989, received with his wife Ketevan first prize for stage design at the International Theater Festival in Hungary. He is an accomplished master of motion picture animation working as head designer for such films as "Family" and "Waiting," produced in Georgia; he also served as a poster designer for a film distribution company. The artistic style of Avtandil's paintings is Impressionist, but he leans toward the cubist and abstract, creating a specific synthesis of approach. He is therefore able to bring about a feeling of light and harmony that is both poetic and aesthetic. Avtadil shows the human being as always beautiful, a harmonious entity that realizes the truth of its inner reality. Some notable collectors of Avtandil's original paintings are the United States Ambassador to Georgia, the Governor of the Republic of Adjaria, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Russian Federation, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, and the President of International Lyons Club. At present, Avtadil continues his work as an artist and teacher at this studio in Tbilisi.	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727164
__label__cc	0.705541	0.294459	Grateful Dead Archive Online dead news Greene, Herb, 1942- Hart, Mickey Greene, Herb, 1942-, “Mickey Hart,” Grateful Dead Archive Online, accessed July 18, 2019, https://www.gdao.org/items/show/514689. MS 334. Herb Greene Photographs Black-and-white print Book of the Dead : celebrating 25 years with the Grateful Dead / photographs by Herb Greene ; foreword by Robert Hunter. [New York, N.Y.] : Delacorte Press : Delta, c1990, p. 137. Owning Institution and Contact Info: University of California, Santa Cruz. McHenry Library, Special Collections. 1156 High Street. Santa Cruz, CA, 95064. (831) 459-2547. speccoll@library.ucsc.edu Owning Institution Homepage: http://library.ucsc.edu/speccoll/ Donor and Provenance: Greene, Herb ms0334_pho_0111 Archival Resource Key: ark:/38305/g45m67vf This work is available from the UC Santa Cruz Libraries. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study. This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires written permission of the copyright holder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions, and for any use and distribution of this work, rests exclusively with the user and not the UC Santa Cruz Libraries. If the work itself or our research has indicated a current copyright holder, that information is included in the Copyright Holder field. When available, contact information for requesting permission can be found on the UCSC Library Digital Collections Copyright Permissions Page. If you have additional or conflicting information about ownership of rights in this work, please contact us at grateful@ucsc.edu. Add a new tag: GDAO UCSC Library Visit the Archive in the Library Support the Grateful Dead Archive grateful@ucsc.edu	cc/2019-30/en_head_0021.json.gz/line1727165

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