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Available: November 2017
Sleepwalking to Armageddon
The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation
Helen Caldicott
A frightening but necessary assessment of the threat posed by nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century, edited by the world’s leading antinuclear activist
“Dr. Helen Caldicott has the rare ability to combine science with passion, logic with love, and urgency with humor.” —Naomi Klein
With the world’s attention focused on climate change and terrorism, we are in danger of taking our eyes off the nuclear threat. But rising tensions between Russia and NATO, proxy wars erupting in Syria and Ukraine, a nuclear-armed Pakistan, and unsecured stockpiles of aging weapons around the globe make a nuclear attack or a terrorist attack on a nuclear facility arguably the biggest threat facing humanity.
In Sleepwalking to Armageddon, pioneering antinuclear activist Helen Caldicott assembles the world’s leading nuclear scientists and thought leaders to assess the political and scientific dimensions of the threat of nuclear war today. Chapters address the size and distribution of the current global nuclear arsenal, the history and politics of nuclear weapons, the culture of modern-day weapons labs, the militarization of space, and the dangers of combining artificial intelligence with nuclear weaponry, as well as a status report on enriched uranium and a shocking analysis of spending on nuclear weapons over the years.
The book ends with a devastating description of what a nuclear attack on Manhattan would look like, followed by an overview of contemporary antinuclear activism. Both essential and terrifying, this book is sure to become the new bible of the antinuclear movement—to wake us from our complacency and urge us to action.
Books by Helen Caldicott
Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer
The New Nuclear Danger
George W. Bush’s Military-Industrial Complex
Crisis Without End
The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe
The Arms Race in Outer Space
Helen Caldicott, Craig Eisendrath
Civil Wars
From L.A. to Bosnia
Wage Theft in America
Why Millions of Working Americans Are Not Getting Paid—And What We Can Do About It
Kim Bobo
Radicalization
Why Some People Choose the Path of Violence
Farhad Khosrokhavar
Uncommon People
Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz
HelenCaldicott.com
Helen Caldicott on Facebook
@DrHCaldicott
The world’s leading spokesperson for the antinuclear movement, Dr. Helen Caldicott is the co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and the 2003 winner of the Lannan Prize for Cultural...
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Sarbananda’s Cabinet declares Majuli as new district of Assam
TNM NewsDesk Dec 16, 2021 Jun 28, 2016
The cabinet has decided to upgrade Majuli Sub-Division to a full-fledged district and inaugurate it before August 31, 2016
The first cabinet meeting of the BJP-led government in the state held under the chairmanship of chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal in Assam Secretariat on Monday took several key decisions in the interest of all sections of the people of the state.
As per the commitment of the new dispensation, the cabinet has decided to appoint 10 thousand TET qualified teachers in different schools of the state before March 31 next year. Moreover, decks have also been cleared to appoint seven hundred new doctors in government-run hospitals.
The cabinet has decided to upgrade Majuli Sub-Division to a full-fledged district and inaugurate it before August 31, 2016.
Moreover, in line with recommendations of Jahnu Barua Committee, it decided to rationalise entertainment tax and service charge for exhibition of cinema. The cabinet decided to reduce the service charges from Rs 40 per ticket to Rs 8 per ticket for non-AC cinema halls and Rs 12 per ticket for AC cinema halls. This would increase the proportion of proceedings of admission charges due to producers while the owners of cinema halls are duly compensated.
The cabinet decided to constitute “Silpi and Kalakaushali Kalyan Nidhi” for which Rs 1 to be collected from every cine-goer. This has been done to create a welfare fund for the cine-artistes and technicians and increase the share of the producers.
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The cabinet approved constitution of district mineral foundation under the chairmanship of deputy commissioner with representatives from PRIs and other stake holders in each district. This foundation will be funded from fees to be paid by the mining lease holders as per central government norms. This fund will be used to relief and rehabilitation for those affected from mining activities.
In a move to perpetuate the memory and highlight the contributions of late Achyut Lahakar, concerted steps will be taken at his native village in Barpeta district. The cabinet has also decided to preserve the house of Swahid Kushal Konwar at Sarupathar in Golaghat district and convert it to a heritage building. The road leading to Swahid Kushal Konwar’s residence will also be repaired and renovated.
The cabinet has also given its nod to develop the house of Dr Bhupen Hazarika at Kuthari in Nagaon district as a unique and priced memorial to the cultural doyen.
As a mark of respect to the contributions made by journalists, the cabinet has decided to grant one time ex-gratia compensation of Rs 3 lakh to the next-of-kin of 45 journalists who lost their lives in various incidents of violence in the state.
The cabinet also approved Human Development Report 2014. The cabinet observed that as per report 77 per cent of the people of the state are not satisfied with the governance provided to them, the new government in the state will prepare “one hundred day action plan” focusing on good governance and ensuring extensive public participation in governance.
ALSO READ: Get second dose or stay indoors: Assam bans unvaccinated people from public places
The cabinet also gave its nod to convene Budget Session of the Assembly from July 18, 2016 to August 12, 2016.
The cabinet also congratulated Angaraag ‘Papon’ Mahanta on winning the best Playback Singer (Male) Award at IIFA 2016 and conveyed its best wishes for all his future endeavours.
Shaktipeeth Kamakhya reopens after Ambubachi Mela
Mega Miss Northeast Meriya Subba walks red carpet of Miss Sikkim Diva
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WE ARE THE GOON SQUAD AND WE’RE COMING TO TOWN (BEEP-BEEP)
So……what’s it all about, Davie?
mp3: David Bowie – Fashion (7″ edit)
The Guardian, in March 2020, listed Fashion at #21 in its rundown of David Bowie‘s 50 Greatest Songs, with feature writer Alexis Petridis offering this summary
Brilliantly claustrophobic, reggae-influenced post-punk funk that casts a jaundiced eye over the ever-changing trends in the world of the hip. The ironic tone of Fashion seemed to be largely missed, possibly because the idea of David Bowie, of all people, protesting about ever-changing trends was frankly a bit rich.
It’s worth remembering that Fashion was recorded in 1980, and therefore one interpretation, as hinted at above by Petridis, could be that it was his sideways dig at a post-punk/new wave scene that many journalists, certainly in the UK, were predicting would change music forever.
Another line of thought that I’ve seen online is that the ‘turn to the left/turn to the right’ lyric was his commentary on the political landscape just a short time after the Tories, under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, had come to power. Things hadn’t been great in the final couple of years of the previous Labour government, but Bowie was predicting it wouldn’t be any different with the sudden shift to the right. If this was indeed was the meaning of the song, then his warning didn’t go far enough given the social unrest across many parts of the country and the way that many traditional communities were more or less abandoned in the remainder of the decade.
But maybe it’s just best that we don’t read too much into things and just enjoy Fashion for what it is, A fabulously catchy, upbeat and jaunty pop song that sounds just about as good on the radio as it does when played through big speakers above a discotheque floor.
Fashion was the second single lifted from Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), and while it didn’t provide a follow-up #1 to Ashes to Ashes, it’s #5 position was more than respectable.
The b-side was another track lifted from the album, but with no edit or remix.
mp3: David Bowie – Scream Like A Baby
Both tunes are dominated by the guitar-playing of Robert Fripp, best known to the youngsters these days as the strange looking bloke playing the music as his wife, Toyah Wilcox, frolics in their kitchen. If you don’t know what I’m referring to, then check out this You Tube channel/playlist
7 thoughts on “WE ARE THE GOON SQUAD AND WE’RE COMING TO TOWN (BEEP-BEEP)”
A fantastic song – whatever it’s about – from a truly stunning LP. It’s a constant companion.
Echorich says:
Fashion is just a perfect piece of music. Amazing angular guitar from Mr. Fripp, Bowie at a vocal zenith and a lyric you will never forget… Oh, bop, do do do do do do do do
Fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion. Just perfect.
Superb song !
The last great Bowie album?
baggingarea says:
Fripp and Toyah’s lockdown videos a have been a source of much fun
JTFL – if Blackstar hadn’t come out, I might well agree with you. In the 21st Century Bowie worked to reclaim the heights of his work with a certain freedom with which a great artist can tap into in older age. Hour (yes, I know 1999 release), Heathen and The Next Day all pointed to his ability to return to what makes/made David Bowie great, but Blackstar is where he recaptured his essence and didn’t let it get away.
Fantastic song that works on so many levels. And I’m so glad you kept the (Beep-Beep) in the post title, JC!
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Home /Instigator of fatal Kansas swatting receives prison sentence
College TipsSeptember 17, 2019
Instigator of fatal Kansas swatting receives prison sentence
/ A police SWAT Team at work.
The teenager who arranged for someone else to phone in a prank police call that resulted in a man’s death is going to prison.
Casey Viner, now 19, will serve 15 months in prison and pay $2,500 restitution, the US District Attorney for Kansas said. After release, Viner will also be barred from online gaming for a period of two years.
Viner admitted in court that in 2017 he argued with a co-defendant, Shane Gaskill, while playing Call of Duty online. He then contacted a third person, Tyler Barriss, and asked him to swat Gaskill. Viner, however, had an incorrect address for Gaskill, and Barriss instead sent a swat team to the house of 28-year-old Andrew Finch, who was then shot and killed by the police.
Viner also tried to erase records on his phone of his communications with Gaskill following the event. He pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count of obstructing justice. (Gaskill struck a deal with prosecutors for deferred prosecution, and charges against him may ultimately be dropped.)
Barriss in March was sentenced to a 20-year prison term following his guilty plea for 50 felonies relating to his role in dozens of swatting crimes, for which he showed little remorse.
“Swatting, and soliciting others to swat someone, are more than foolish,” said U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister. “Such actions are reckless, dangerous and, as this case proves, potentially tragic. Swatting is not a prank, and it is no way to resolve disputes among gamers. Once again, I call upon gamers to self-police their community to ensure that the practice of swatting is ended once and for all.”
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Sangeet Chowfla, President & CEO, GMAC, US
Posted on Aug 8, 2018 by Kerrie Kennedy
Posted in Pie Chat, under North America.
Tagged with Business schools, GMAC, GMAT, MBA.
Sangeet Chowfla is president and CEO of the Graduate Management Admission Council, a global, non-profit association of leading graduate business schools. He sat down with The PIE to chat about global business school trends and the new education hubs that are commanding the attention of an increasing number of international students looking for top class MBAs.
Photo: GMAC
About Kerrie Kennedy
Kerrie gained international print and online media experience during five years of working in various newsrooms and the music industry across Ireland, Australia and the UK. After completing a Master's in Journalism at the University of Limerick in Ireland, Kerrie kicked off her media career as a reporter for The Irish Examiner before moving to Sydney to take on the role of Content Manager for concert streaming site Moshcam.
"Students are saying 'I can go to Singapore, get a quality degree at a lower cost'"
The PIE: Can you tell me about the history of GMAC and its mission?
Sangeet Chowfla: GMAC is an association of business schools founded 65 years ago. Originally we were nine business schools in the US, and the problem they were trying to solve was that when business education shifted from local to regional, then national to international, it became increasingly more difficult to evaluate talent on a level playing field. As a result, GMAC was created, and the GMAT exam.
We now have more than 2,300 business schools around the world [using the GMAT exam], we deliver the GMAT exam in 114 countries, we have offices around the world and we are a truly global organisation.
We see ourselves as representing the needs of graduate management education and candidates who want to find their way to business schools.
The PIE: What are some of the trends you are seeing in business education?
SC: In the past couple of decades, we have witnessed the globalisation of the supply-side of business education. High-quality schools traditionally tended to be in the US or maybe western Europe – now you see them all around the world. In 2000, 30 of the top 50 business schools listed in the FT Top 50 full-time MBA programs were in the US. Last year, only 23 were in the US and 10 were Asian programs that didn’t even exist 18 years before. We are really beginning to see that the supply of business education is a global phenomenon.
The PIE: Where are you seeing the majority of these new top schools cropping up?
SC: Well there are the usual suspects – Hong Kong and Singapore. Each has three highly rated schools. But the other areas where we are seeing high-quality business schools are in China and India. The quality of business education in both of those countries has dramatically increased. For example, the Indian School of Business is globally recognised and ranked and the China Europe International Business School has tremendous recognition.
“With the anti-immigrant rhetoric going on in the States right now, many students are saying it’s a risk they are not willing to take”
What has changed in China and India is the schools are beginning to move from a domestic, inward focus to a much more global focus not only in recruiting candidates but the type of programs [on offer], faculty and very importantly, job placement.
The PIE: Has there been a significant shift in the number of international students considering these schools in Asia over the traditionally popular US?
SC: Absolutely. If you look at the growth rate of economics in Asia, they are significant, and as a result, there is the creation of significant corporations and job opportunities. Alibaba or Tencent in China, for example, are right out there with Google and Facebook. Corporations such as these attract students, they offer jobs and around that the ecosystem of financial services and consultant services has grown.
Demographic and economic trends have slowly pulled some of the application volumes away from US schools, and recent political developments have accelerated the trends. The presidential election in the US has certainly had an impact on the numbers considering US schools, particularly schools which do not have the benefit of a globally recognised brand. Students are asking themselves, “why would I move halfway across the world, take a loan in my home currency and pay a high tuition fee if I will not have the opportunity to work in that country?”. Higher education isn’t only about earning skills and knowledge, it is also about the type of career you want to build and the immigration status you want to have.
The PIE: How are US business schools reacting to the decline?
SC: With concern. So I think certain institutions have refocused on delivering value to their local communities through a change in format. We’ve seen schools that have shut down their two-year MBA program and are focused on programs like master’s in data analytics, because these are the skills that are required in their state, for instance.
“We now have more than 2,300 business schools around the world”
Short cycle programs are getting more currency too. The common theme is focusing on the value and need of your local industrial or corporate employment base. They are recognising that it’s increasingly harder to compete with the international cohort.
The PIE: There has been a drop in the number of jobs available to international students who have completed an MBA in the US. Where are these students looking to now?
SC: This goes back to the heart of student mobility – the availability of post-study work visas. The actual and rumoured changes to the H1-B visa has had a chilling effect on inbound student mobility to the US because a student needs to apply this year, enrol next year, and graduate in the third year, so they need to think about a three-year horizon, where the visa situation could change. And with all the anti-immigrant rhetoric going on in the states right now, many students are saying it’s a risk they are not willing to take, particularly in light of the high-quality education options in the rest of the world.
Our data shows that slightly less than four in 10 MBA programs in the US had growth last year, but more than seven in 10 in Canada, the UK and continental Europe had growth in application volume and eight out of 10 in Asia.
“Higher education isn’t only about earning skills and knowledge”
The PIE: So is the UK experiencing growth in numbers, regardless of Brexit?
SC: When the Brexit vote was taken, we started surveying candidates who were considering studying in the UK, and about 35-40% said the vote would affect their decision to study at a business school in the country. So that was fairly significant, but that was around their intent to study, not action.
Four months later the US election occurred and we asked the same question of students considering the US – roughly the same amount agreed that it would affect their decision. We have been doing that same study in the US for 18 months and the figure hasn’t changed.
In the UK however, it did come back. We believe it could be due to the decline of the pound, and partially because the UK schools tend to have a one-year format, which again makes it cheaper and students are out of work for one year rather than two – so British education became that much more attractive. Yes, the lack of a post-study work visa is an issue, but UK schools have a very international focus, there is a lot of recruitment out of the country.
The PIE: Have you any predictions about the next hub for business education?
SC: Predicting the future is risky, but what we are very excited about is the future of Africa. In about 15 years’ time, one in four school-age pupils is going to be in Africa.
Africa has this hidden growth story, it is a continent with a billion people, very young and when you put all of Africa together, the long-term development of Africa is something we really need to watch. Some schools are really focusing on developing the Africa market, and doing very well. We would not be surprised if an increase in the number of business schools started having operations in Africa. Also, we are seeing more African students in schools around the world. Africa will be the next India if you will.
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10 Famously Terrible Celebrity Hotel Guests
Jennifer Wood
Whenever you check into a hotel room, you hand over your credit card as a sort of insurance policy against damages — and chances are the most havoc you’ve ever wreaked has been raiding the hotel mini-bar. That’s not how celebrities roll. From legendary Surrealists to ‘70s rock icons to kid actors-turned-troublemakers, the hotel industry is full of cautionary tales of what can happen when a boldface name books a room. Here are just a few of them.
1. Keith Moon
Keith Moon, drummer for The Who, served as a sort of pioneer in the whole “rock star trashes hotel room” cliché, as the people of Flint, Michigan, well remember. The band was in town on August 23, 1967, Moon’s 21st birthday, and the band decided to host a wild party for him at the Holiday Inn, where they were staying. After the group made a mess of the hotel’s interior — furniture was ruined and a girl jumping out of a cake eventually led to a food fight — the police were called. But Moon was not about to call it a night, so he did what any quick-thinking rock star would do: stripped naked, ran through the lobby and drove a Lincoln Continental into the hotel’s pool. The cost of Moon’s antics? A night in jail, a $24,000 hotel damage bill and a ban on ever staying at another Holiday Inn.
Keith Moon, on his best behavior, at a hotel in Germany. Image by K & K Ulf Kruger OHG/Redferns via Getty Images.
2. Keith Richards
Moon wasn’t the only hard-partying “Keith” who was known for behaving badly while on the road. In 1972, Rolling Stones’ guitarist Keith Richards became a model of misbehavior while staying at what was then known as the Hyatt West Hollywood in Los Angeles (today it’s the Andaz West Hollywood). From the hotel’s tenth floor — Room 1015 to be exact — Richards decided to throw the hotel’s television set out the window. Fortunately, no one was hurt, but the hotel did later become a haven for rockers in the 1970s; Led Zeppelin once took over an entire floor, Jim Morrison took up residence there (until he was later thrown out) and it was used as a shooting location for This is Spinal Tap and Almost Famous.
3. Johnny Depp
Since the Pirates of the Caribbean film series first made its debut in 2003, Johnny Depp has never been shy about citing Keith Richards as one inspiration for how he plays his character, Captain Jack Sparrow — in 2007, the film series’ producer even managed to convince Richards to come on board and star in two of the films. So it stands to reason that Depp could have possibly modeled other behaviors after the Stones rocker — like the time in 1994 that he obliterated a $1,200 per night room he was sharing with then-girlfriend Kate Moss at The Mark Hotel in New York.
Eileen Perez, the police officer who responded to a call about the disturbance, explained to The New York Times that when she and her colleagues opened the hotel room door, “There was Depp sitting there, smoking a cigarette, cool and calm.” Moss was with him, Perez said, and “There was glass all over the place and furniture upside down and broken table legs.” Though it’s believed that the damage was the result of a drunken argument between the two, Depp had another explanation: an angry armadillo had been hiding in the closet and he was the real culprit — amazingly, the armadillo was never found. Depp was hauled to jail, where he spent a few hours in custody before being released — then was slapped with nearly $10,000 in damages. For his part, The Who’s Roger Daltrey — who knew a thing or two about ruining a hotel room — wasn’t impressed by Depp’s skills, telling People Magazine, “On a scale of 1 to 10, I give him a 1. It took him so bloody long. The Who could have done the job in one minute flat.”
Johnny Depp once blamed his trashed hotel room on an angry armadillo. Said armadillo was never found. Image courtesy of Lawrence Schwartzwald/Sygma via Getty Images.
4. Lindsay Lohan
Notorious actress-turned-troublemaker Lindsay Lohan is also a serial hotel-wrecker. In 2012, she was banned from LA’s swank Chateau Marmont — where she had been living — after racking up a whopping $46,350.04 in unpaid hotel charges. For her part, Lohan said she thought the producers of Liz and Dick, the movie she was filming at the time, were footing the bill, and as she has been spotted there in the years since, we’re guessing her name has since been erased from their blacklist. Just a few months later, the actress caused a reported $50,000 in damage at the W New York Union Square, with an insider claiming that she wouldn’t be allowed back. And those are just two incidents — she’s allegedly not welcome at Santa Monica’s Shutters on the Beach Hotel either.
Lindsay Lohan leaving Chateau Marmont in 2010. Image courtesy of Gustavo Munoz/BuzzFoto/FilmMagic via Getty Images.
In December of 1993, MTV News anchor Kurt Loder interviewed Nirvana in Saint Paul, Minnesota. With the interview completed, Loder headed upstairs with band members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, “and they just got really, really drunk,” Loder recounted in 2011. “Not that I was trying not to get drunk, but I didn’t get as drunk as they did. And at one point, Krist just took this picture off the wall and just broke it against the wall, and then they started destroying everything in this room. And it’s, like, four in the morning, and we hear that hotel security is coming up, so I said, ‘Well, it’s really time for me to leave.’ So I’m leaving, going to the elevator, they’re behind me, because they want to go down to my room; they don’t want to get in trouble either.” Thinking they would just wait it out, Loder let them into his room — and the destruction continued. Chairs and tables were broken, resulting in a $19,000 damage bill. “They were just out of their minds,” Loder said. “It was fabulous in a way and yet wrong… Don’t do that at home.” For the record, Loder’s not sure who covered the bill.
After an interview with MTV’s Kurt Loder, Nirvana band members trashed their hotel room — then Loder’s. Image by Kevin Mazur Archive/WireImage via Getty Images.
6. Michael Jackson
The King of Pop was the author of many an odd hotel incident — most famously the time he dangled his nine-month-old son, Blanket, from the balcony of Berlin’s Hotel Adlon Kempinski in 2002. Onlookers — and anyone else who saw the pictures — were outraged, and Jackson quickly issued an apology, calling the incident a “terrible mistake” and saying that he had no excuse for behaving in such a way, that he’d just been caught up in the moment and would never purposely try to endanger his kids. A few years later, in 2005, Jackson reportedly frightened a member of the housekeeping staff at London’s Dorchester hotel when he answered the door dressed in a Mickey Mouse costume — he was apparently in the midst of having a food fight with his kids, who were dressed up as Tinkerbell and Peter Pan. Fed up with his antics, the hotel reportedly banned him.
The “baby dangle” seen ’round the world. Image courtesy of Olaf Selchow via Getty Images.
7. Russell Crowe
Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe made his own headlines in 2005 when he got so frustrated by his inability to successfully complete a phone call to Australia to his then-wife that he threw the phone in question at the head of Nestor Estrada, an employee of New York City’s Mercer Hotel. Not long after, Crowe was arrested and charged with two felonies: assault in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree. Crowe blamed the incident on extreme jet lag and the two eventually settled the case for a nice six-figure sum.
A short stay at NYC’s Mercer Hotel ended up costing Russell Crowe six figures in 2005. Image courtesy Munawar Hosain via Getty Images.
8. Florence Welch
In 2012, Florence Welch — of Florence and the Machine — admitted that vodka, Kanye West and hotel rooms do not mix. “I think I must have had about 17 dirty martinis,” she told Q Magazine about an evening she spent partying with Kanye West. “I lost my phone and ripped my dress very badly. I accidentally set fire to The Bowery Hotel because I’d left a cinnamon tea light burning. I came back to the hotel, passed out in my ripped dress — no phone, chipped tooth — came ‘round and there was black stuff all over the wall, my book had melted on the bedside table and there was a bucket of water on the floor. Actually the last scene you want to wake up to with a hangover. Half the room was singed.” Amazingly, she said that the damage bill was only a couple of hundred dollars, but the pre-fire drinks with West and Lykke Li cost more.
Kanye West, dirty martinis and a cinnamon tea light added up to a hotel room fire for Florence Welch. Image courtesy of Trago/WireImage via Getty Images.
9. Marilyn Manson
Shock rocker Marilyn Manson must have been in the mood to cause some mayhem. In 1998, while in Poughkeepsie, New York, he finished off a concert and went on what can only be described as a rampage of ruin. After performing at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center, MTV reported that Manson and his entourage had a food fight, broke a blender, cracked a countertop, tried putting holes in the wall, disassembled the heating system and covered the carpet in bananas and mustard, then burnt it when they set a T-shirt on fire — as you can imagine, the carpet had to be replaced. The destruction continued back at the Poughkeepsie Sheraton, where the group destroyed not one but four hotel rooms, setting fire to the carpets, covering the bathroom fixtures in hair dye and causing an all-around headache for the hotel’s other guests. It added up to one unforgettable hotel thrashing — and more than $25,000 in fees.
Hair dye stains were just one of the issues that led to more than $25,000 in damages at a Sheraton in Poughkeepsie for Marilyn Manson. Image courtesy of Mike Marsland/Mike Marsland/WireImage via Getty Images.
10. Salvador Dalí
Actors and rock stars aren’t the only ones who know how to give a hotel room a good thrashing. In what must have been an appropriately surreal scene, Salvador Dalí would check into the Suite Royal at Paris’ Le Meurice hotel for at least a month every year, with his two favorite companions: Babou and Bouba, his pet ocelots. In the “Pet-Friendly” section of the hotel’s website, it notes that whenever the legendary artist checked out, “the hotel staff had to completely repaint the Suite Royale because his two tame ocelots particularly loved the carpets!” Still, they let him come back every year — and even named their restaurant after him — probably because he was known to be a good tipper and would often gift people with autographed lithographs, which seems like a worthy trade-off.
Salvador Dalí didn’t go anywhere without his ocelots. Image courtesy of Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images.
Featured image of a trashed hotel room courtesy of Donato Sardella via Getty Images.
Jennifer Wood is a contributing writer for The Points Guy
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HomeNEWSSpring Sheep Milk Co, Epic Brewing and Proper Crisps clean up at 2017 New Zealand Food Awards
Spring Sheep Milk Co, Epic Brewing and Proper Crisps clean up at 2017 New Zealand Food Awards
by: Benjamin Mack
The winners of the 2017 New Zealand Food Awards, powered by Massey University, were unveiled on Thursday evening at a gala dinner for 380 guests at Auckland’s Sky City.
This year marked the 30th anniversary of the awards, which celebrate creative innovations from New Zealand’s artisanal and large-scale food and beverage manufacturers. Twenty-two products from 22 different companies took out the top spots.
Spring Sheep Milk Co. took out the highest honour of the Massey University Supreme Award for its vanilla-flavoured sheep milk powder, which also won them the NZTE Export Innovation Award.
Nick Hammond, chief operating officer of Spring Sheep, said the award meant a lot. “Receiving the Supreme Award is massive for us, we’re a really small company trying to do really big things,” he said. “At Spring Sheep Milk Co, we’re trying to break new ground in product innovation and enter new markets, so I feel that this award is a real recognition of our whole team, and their passion for their work.”
Other companies recognised for their outstanding innovation and products included Poppy and Olive in the BITE Gourmet Award category (awarded for their chocolate hazelnut butter), Gathered Game taking out the Artisan Award for its wild venison salami and deer sticks, and Proper Crisps in the Dry Award category with its kumara chipotle and garlic crisps.
The revamped Food Safety Culture and Primary Sector Products Awards, sponsored by the Ministry for Primary Industries, were taken out by The Pure Food Co. and T&G Global Ltd. respectively. The James & Wells Business Innovation Award was presented to Original Foods Baking Co.
Massey University Vice-Chancellor Jan Thomas, said that events like the Food Awards are not just important locally, but also internationally because they can help serve as a stepping stone for companies looking to export their products overseas. “As a small country, the level of innovation that we provide in terms of the food and beverage sector is incredible. We are committed to encouraging local business to continue to grow, experiment and create fantastic products, while recognising them for their efforts.”
For the third year in a row, the judging panel included food writer and cookbook author Nici Wickes, award-winning chef Geoff Scott and chef and food writer Ray McVinnie.
Scott said the diversity in products was proof that Aotearoa was coming into its own on the global stage.
McVinnie agreed. “What I love is we are starting to see some of our uniquely New Zealand ingredients coming through. Kumara being used in innovative ways, horopito, locally grown saffron, that sort of thing which I think is worth celebrating.”
Joining the judging panel this year was the founder of Moa Brewing Company, Josh Scott, who is New Zealand’s first certified Cicerone (beer expert). Scott was brought on board to judge the Countdown Alcoholic Beverage Category.
He said New Zealand’s beer scene was also starting to make a name for itself internationally. “While we’ve had a challenging season in terms of hop production, the craft beer culture is thriving in New Zealand,” he said. “I’d like us to reach a point where our reputation for producing top-notch real beers, is up there with our reputation for world-class wines.”
But there could only be one winner in the Alcoholic Beverage Category. The finalists included 12 entries from six different companies, and it was Epic Brewing Company’s Epic Hop Zombie IPA that won.
Winning products are eligible to use the New Zealand Food Awards Quality Mark on their packaging and advertising. The mark highlights the superiority of the products to both consumers and industry, helping to boost sales and distribution domestically and internationally.
This story originally appeared on Idealog.
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At Twin Peaks, Women are at the top of the summit
It’s no simple feat for women to reach the top of the corporate summit. But the ascent’s smoother when they work in a culture that promotes career advancement, work-life balance and support for other females each step of the way.
In the foodservice industry in America, women are lacking in leadership roles. According to a study by McKinsey & Company, women represented only 24% of vice presidents, 22% of senior vice presidents and 18% of C-Suite executives. Not only do women face the challenge of climbing the ranks in their company, but they often have to determine how to balance responsibilities at home, too.
But at Twin Peaks, many talented females have worked their way up to the executive level and are one of the driving forces moving the brand forward. In addition to its all-female wait staff, women play key parts in roles throughout the brand’s operations, like management, training, marketing and finance.
Here are three female leaders making a difference at Twin Peaks
LEXI BURNS – Vice President of Human Resources and Learning & Development
After joining the Twin Peaks team as director of training, Burns has been a leader of the company for over 10 years. Having been with the brand since its early stages, Burns had the opportunity to develop the systems and tools needed to be successful while starting out. Now, as vice president of human resources and learning & development, she’s responsible for HR-related processes and polices, talent acquisition, operating polices, the development of training curriculum for all roles to include new store openings and spearheading the importance of female leadership within Twin Peaks.
A mother of three children, Burns believes balance is the key to being a full-time working mom. With a leadership team that’s adamant that every employee take care of their families first, Twin Peaks’ company culture promotes work-life balance.
DESTINEE ROLLINS – Vice President of Marketing
One of Twin Peaks’ longest standing employees, Rollins began working for the brand as a Twin Peaks Girl 13 years ago. After three years working in the restaurant, Rollins joined the company’s marketing department as a marketing coordinator and has since worked her way up to vice president of marketing. In this role, she leads an all-female team, some of whom worked as original Twin Peaks Girls from the brand’s first location in Lewisville, Texas. Rollins is responsible for developing and implementing a cohesive marketing plan to increase brand awareness, conducting market analysis, and executing national and local promotions and events. Overall, she’s charged with ensuring every consumer experience with the brand is consistently top notch.
With two children, Rollins is proud to work at a company that encourages its employees to spend time with their families and be present at their kids’ practices, games and competitions. For Rollins, creating structure has resulted in the most impactful time spent with her family and colleagues, from time watching her daughter on the bars in gymnastics and under the Friday night lights supporting her son in the marching band, to one-on-one meetings with her team members. Rollins’ motto: Get it on the calendar!
HOPE BARNES – Vice President of Finance
Barnes joined the Twin Peaks team five years ago as senior director of finance before being promoted to vice president of finance. She’s responsible for overall financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and analysis for the company. Her team provides business reviews and daily and weekly sales and traffic results to franchisees and shares their analytical tools with them so they can keep a close eye on their location’s performance. Barnes and her team set standards for financial operations for each department that guides Twin Peaks’ successes.
Barnes has one child who’s now an adult, but when he was young, she made a point to be at every activity he was participating in. Holidays are also very important to her family, and they travel annually to spend more time together. She’s fortunate that Twin Peaks stresses the importance of work-life balance. With encouragement from her company and the flexibility of technology in the workplace, she’s been able to give her all to both.
Throughout their careers, Burns, Rollins and Barnes have learned that to gain a leadership position, women must believe in themselves, be confident in their opinions and learn from others around them. The strongest teams are diverse ones, and women bring a unique, different perspective to the table. They’ve also learned that support from each of their teams, and Twin Peaks’ company as a whole, has made being a successful working mother possible.
Led by CEO Joe Hummel, Twin Peaks is “One Team.” Hummel has made it his mission to instill energy and compassion to be a team player within all employees, and it continues to show as he leads, shapes and takes charge of the brand with the many women in leadership positions at his side. Women have reached the peak at the ultimate sports lodge, and they’ll continue to be power players behind the brand’s success long into the future!
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Tory Burch and Parsons partner on new scholarship fund
Tory Burch and the School of Fashion at Parsons School of Design announced a new five-year multi-disciplinary partnership to promote and celebrate creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Tory Burch and Parsons partner on new scholarship fund. - Facebook: Tory Burch
As part of the partnership, students in the BFA Fashion Design, MFA Textiles, and AAS Marketing and Communications programs will engage with the Tory Burch brand to explore innovative solutions to design, product development and marketing challenges facing the fashion industry.
Throughout the multi-year partnership, students will have the opportunity to visit the Tory Burch ateliers, receive mentorship from the Tory Burch team, partner on special projects with the brand, and more. Burch and members of her brand, which was founded in 2004, will also share their expertise and advice with students during in-class speaking engagements, public lectures and real-life work experiences.
The American designer and entrepreneur equally announced the creation of the Tory Burch Empowering Future Fashion Leaders Endowed Scholarship Fund at Parsons with a gift that will be matched to establish a $1,000,000 fund to provide financial aid to students.
The scholarship fund is expected to help reduce the financial burden for students attending Parsons, and play a vital role in supporting educational access and fostering a more diverse industry.
“I am thrilled to be partnering with Parsons to help provide the next generation of creative talent with the resources, guidance and opportunities they need to grow and thrive in an industry that I am passionate about. We are honored to work with these students—their energy, determination, and innovative spirit are incredibly inspiring,” said Burch.
“Parsons is very proud to partner with Tory Burch to offer greater access to fashion education and industry-focused curricular experiences,” added Ben Barry, Dean of the School of Fashion at Parsons.
“Tory’s purpose-driven approach to fashion business has created a new model for the industry and her designs, driven by deep research, have become iconic in narratives of American fashion. Tory is an inspiration to our students, and I am so eager for them to learn from her and her team.”
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News, views, and reviews from TV critic Ed Bark
Dallas-Fort Worth TV | May 2017 | Mar 2017
Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Mon.-Tues., April 24-25) -- The Voice still drowning out competition
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NBC still has a powerhouse in The Voice, which hit the highest ratings notes on both Monday and Tuesday.
Tuesday’s 7 p.m. hour topped all TV attractions with 269,031 total viewers and 89,799 in the advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-old age range. And Monday’s two-hour dollop, from 7 to 9 p.m., likewise whipped everything else at any hour of the day or night in total viewers (an identical 269,031) and 18-to-49-year-olds (99,420).
Also of note: On both Monday and Tuesday, Fox4’s 9 p.m. local newscast beat all competing network entertainment programming in the key 18-to-49-year-old demographic.
NBC’s Tuesday premiere of Great News, which had back-to-back episodes from 8 to 9 p.m., respectively drew 123,609 and 116,338 total viewers to run second in its time slot to CBS’ repeat of Bull (174,506). Among 18-to-49-year-olds, the first episode of Great News ran first from 8 to 8:30 p.m. before the second fell behind Fox’s closing half-hour of Prison Break.
Here are the Monday and Tuesday local news derby results.
Monday -- TEGNA8 won at 10 p.m. in total viewers but Fox4 had the edge with 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Fox4 also had twin wins at 6 a.m. NBC5 ran first in total viewers at 6 p.m. while TEGNA8 drew the most 25-to-54-year-olds. The two stations tied for the top spot with 25-to-54-year-olds at 5 p.m., but the Peacock had first place to itself in total viewers. Urp, CBS11 registered “hashmarks” (no measurable audience) at 6 p.m. in the 25-to-54-year-old demographic. This is not good.
Tuesday -- NBC5 took the 10 p.m. top spot in total viewers while Fox4 won among 25-to-54-year-olds.
Fox4 again swept the 6 a.m. competitions. TEGNA8 basked in 5 and 6 p.m. sweeps on the verge of the May “sweeps” ratings period, which begins Thursday.
Local TV news note: NBC5 has won six regional Edward R. Murrow awards, including the top prize for “Overall Excellence.” Reporting nods also went to the station’s Scott Friedman, Pat Doney and their crews. NBC5 also won a group Murrow award for its “Breaking News” of the July 7th police shootings in downtown Dallas.
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Former CBS11 sports anchor Babe Laufenberg feels a draft, joins his former station as "guest contributor" during NFL's annual beef-on-the-hoof extravaganza
Babe Laufenberg (right) with radio teammates Brad Sham, Kristi Scales, plus moderator Mike Doocy (over center) at the September 7th “Cowboys Kickoff” event sponsored by the Press Club of Dallas. Photo: Ed Bark
Former CBS11 sports anchor Babe Laufenberg will return to the station for a four-night stand tied to the annual NFL draft, which begins Thursday night.
Director of communications Lori Conrad confirmed Monday that Laufenberg has agreed to be an in-studio “guest contributor” -- joining regular sports anchors Bill Jones and Keith Russell -- during CBS11’s 4, 5, 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts on both Thursday and Friday. He’ll also drop in on Saturday’s 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts and for a late night wrap-up on Sunday from 10:35 to 11 p.m.
But wait, there’s more. Sister station TXA21 will deploy Laufenberg as part of 9:45 to 10 p.m. and 10:45 to 11 p.m. updates on Thursday and Friday.
Laufenberg, an ex-backup quarterback with the Dallas Cowboys, remains as the team’s radio analyst in tandem with play-by-play voice Brad Sham and on-field reporter Kristi Scales. He also had been CBS11’s principal sports anchor for 17 years before leaving over a contract impasse in mid-January of 2015.
Russell was hired as Laufenberg’s replacement. But in July of last year the station promoted Jones to the featured 6 and 10 p.m. weekday sports anchor slot and sent Russell to weekends and other duties.
This likely won’t be the end of Laufenberg’s reemergence at CBS11, although probably as a continued guest contributor. For now, though, he’s only been drafted for the draft.
Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Thurs.-Sun., April 20-23) -- snore
Sometimes the D-FW Nielsen ratings are just plain -- uneventful. As they were from Thursday through Sunday, when the most-watched prime-time attraction was a rerun of CBS’ Blue Bloods.
Friday’s 9 p.m. reprise drew 218,133 viewers while NBC’s two-hour edition of Dateline, airing on the same night, had Thursday through Sunday’s biggest haul of advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-olds with 96,213.
If your pulse is racing, then you need to cut your fingernails for some real excitement. So let’s not tarry and just go to the local news derby results, with the start of the May “sweeps” ratings period looming on Thursday, April 27th.
Thursday -- TEGNA8 took the 10 p.m. trophy in total viewers while NBC5 ran first with 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Fox4 had twin wins at 6 a.m. and the Peacock did likewise at 5 p.m. The 6 p.m. firsts went to TEGNA8 in total viewers and Fox4 among 25-to-54-year-olds.
Friday -- Fox4 ran the table at 10 p.m. while NBC5 swept the 6 a.m. competitions.
The early evening hours brought two more sweeps, with TEGNA8 taking both 6 p.m. firsts and NBC5 controlling the 5 p.m. races.
Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Wed., April 19) -- Survivor, Fox4 news set pace on night full of reruns
CBS’ two-hour edition of Survivor had prime-time’s biggest haul of D-FW viewers Wednesday while Fox4’s 9 p.m. local newscast ranked No. 1 with advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds.
It otherwise was a night when NBC went with wall-to-wall repeats, Fox aired an Empire rerun and ABC regurgitated four sitcoms before offering a new episode of Designated Survivor.
Survivor had 181,778 total viewers in winning from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Big Four broadcast network universe. But Fox’s competing combo of a new Shots Fired and the Empire reprise took those hours among 18-to-49-year-olds with respective scores of 44,899 and 38,485 viewers.
At 9 p.m., Fox4’s news won in both measurements, with 167,235 total viewers and a commanding 70,556 in the 18-to-49 age range. In comparison, Designated Survivor drew just 16,036 viewers in the 18-to-49 realm, which doesn’t bode at all well for its future.
FX filled its 9 p.m. slot with the Season 3 premiere of Fargo, which made a minimal impression with 36,356 total viewers and a measly 6,414 within the 18-to-49 motherlode. The audience will grow via DVR and On Demand views, but that’s still a very slow start in D-FW at least.
Here are Wednesday’s local news derby results.
TEGNA8 prospered with a pair of 10 p.m. wins in total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Fox4 ran the table at 6 a.m. and did likewise at 5 p.m. NBC5 salvaged its day with a sweep of the 6 p.m. competitions.
Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues., April 18) -- crime and singing pay
CBS’ NCIS again led the way in total D-FW viewers Tuesday night, with the network’s Bull a close second.
The Mark Harmon-led crime buster drew 349,013 viewers before Bull won the 8 p.m. hour with 341,742. CBS’ NCIS: New Orleans then stayed strong with an easy 9 p.m. win in total viewers (305,386).
As usual, the tables were turned with advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-olds. NBC’s 7 to 9 p.m. edition of The Voice dominated those two hours with 102,627 viewers in this key demographic before Fox4’s local newscast prevailed at 9 p.m. (57,728 viewers).
It was another lean night for ABC, particularly at 9 p.m., where Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ran a near-comatose fourth in the Big Four broadcast network universe with 36,356 total viewers and 19,243 in the 18-to-49-year-old realm.
Here are Tuesday’s local news derby results.
CBS11 capitalized on the strong lead in from NCIS: New Orleans to win at 10 p.m. in total viewers. But the station again fell to fourth with 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming). Fox4 took the top spot.
The 6 a.m. golds also went to Fox4 while NBC5 swept the 5 p.m. competitions. The two stations split the spoils at 6 p.m., with NBC5 drawing the most total viewers and Fox4 winning with 25-to-54-year-olds.
Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Mon., April 17) -- big day for NBC5 news
NBC5 came within a sliver Monday of pulling off an exceedingly rare double grand slam with its four principal local newscasts.
The station swept the 5, 6 and 10 p.m. D-FW Nielsens in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming) while adding a 6 a.m. win in that key 25-to-54 demographic.
In total viewers, though, NBC5 and Fox4 tied for first place at 6 a.m. Or if you break it down to another decimal, Fox4 broke what’s generally charted as a rounded-off tie by drawing 69,803 viewers to NBC5’s 69,075.
The prime-time golds again went to the Peacock’s two-hour edition of The Voice, which paced all programming in both total viewers (356,284) and 18-to-49-year-olds (137,905), the preferred advertiser audience for entertainment programming. NBC’s Taken then won the 9 p.m. hour in total viewers (189,049) and 18-to-49-year-olds (70,556).
Longtime TEGNA8 sports photographer Arnold Payne hand-crafts a knockout story
Sports anchor Dale Hansen and sports photographer Arnold Payne go almost hand-in-hand at TEGNA8.
For the most part, neither has known a sports department without the other since Hansen joined the station in spring 1983. Payne preceded him by a couple of years. So it’s both fitting and terrific that during his latest weekly Sunday night Sports Special, Hansen acknowledged Payne’s longstanding contributions to TEGNA8 before showcasing what should end up being an award-winning piece. News director Carolyn Mungo also cited Payne’s work in a Monday memo to the news room.
Payne shot, produced, edited, wrote and narrated this extended look at amateur boxer Roy Martin III, whose adversaries in life have included much more than a ring opponent. Take a look and see some real artistry -- in addition to an inspiring story.
Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Fri.-Sun., April 14-16) -- Bee Gees and The Ten Commandments get Easter eggs
CBS’ two-hour tribute to The Bee Gees and ABC’s annual reprise of The Ten Commandments hopped to it in the weekend D-FW Nielsen ratings.
On Sunday from 7 to 9 p.m., Stayin’ Alive: A Grammy Salute to the Music of the Bee Gees led all TV attractions with 218,133 viewers. And The Ten Commandments ruled Saturday night’s prime-time numbers with an average of 109,067 viewers during the course of more than four-and-a-half-hours. NBC’s Saturday Night Live, which began opposite the big late night finish for Commandments, was the top overall draw, though. It pulled in 174,506 viewers.
Both the Bee Gees and Commandments slumped badly with advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds, some of whom likely have never heard of either.
The Bee Gees drooped to 41,692 viewers in this key demographic, edging NBC’s Little Big Shots for first place in the 7 p.m. hour but losing to the Peacock’s Chicago Justice from 8 to 9 p.m. Sunday’s biggest overall draw among 18-to-49-year-olds, Fox4’s 9 p.m. local newscast, had 51,314 viewers within the Big Four broadcast network universe. In the overall TV realm, cable’s TNT ranked as the 18-to-49 king with its Sunday night matchup between the Houston Rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder.
Commandments fell completely asunder with 18-to-49-year-olds, averaging just 9,621 of ‘em. That’s less than one-tenth of its total viewers audience, making the C.B. DeMille epic one of the older-skewing TV programs of modern times.
Moving on to Friday night, where CBS’ Blue Bloods topped the prime-time parade in total viewers with 225,404 while ABC’s Shark Tank led among 18-to-49-year-olds (48,107).
Here are Friday’s local news derby results.
TEGNA8 had the most total viewers at 10 p.m. and Fox4 ran first with 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Fox4 also was tops at 6 a.m. in total viewers but TEGNA8 enjoyed a rare win with 25-to-54-year-olds.
NBC5 swept the 6 p.m. competitions and Fox4 did likewise at 5 p.m.
Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Tues.-Thurs., April 11-13) -- you'll have the usual
CBS’ The Big Bang Theory, Fox’s Empire and CBS’ NCIS (a rerun no less) were the overall top ratings scorers during the past three weekdays while NBC’s The Voice and ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy also performed solidly. Sound familiar?
On Thursday, Big Bang as usual batted lead-off and pulled in 341,742 D-FW viewers while also ranking as prime-time’s top attraction with advertiser-craved 18-to-49-year-olds (118,663). The venerable Grey’s then held steady, with its 7:30 to 8 p.m. portion winning in both ratings measurements before ABC’s Scandal and The Catch both dropped off considerably.
Fox’s 8 p.m. hour of Empire was Wednesday night’s top draw in both total viewers (261,760) and 18-to-49-year-olds (102,627). Another CBS perennial, Survivor, ranked as the prime-time runner-up in both realms. On TXA21, the Dallas Mavericks closed out their 33-49 season with two more ratings thuds, drawing just 29,084 total viewers and 12,828 in the 18-to-49 age range.
Tuesday’s 7 p.m. repeat of NCIS had the night’s biggest haul of total viewers with 218,133 while NBC’s competing episode of The Voice was prime-time’s top performer among 18-to-49-year-olds (60,935).
The Mavs fared much better with their heavily publicized stunt-casting sendoff for Tony Romo, who suited up and participated in warmups but did not play despite many in-house fans urging otherwise. Also on TXA21, the home loss to Denver averaged 65,440 total viewers and a heady 41,692 in the 18-to-49 demographic.
Here are the Tuesday-Thursday local news derby results, with the four-week May “sweeps” ratings period starting soon on April 27th.
Tuesday -- After another lengthy drought, CBS11 broke through with a 10 p.m. win in total viewers while Fox4 had the most 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Fox4 swept the 6 a.m. races and TEGNA8 did likewise at 6 p.m. The 5 p.m. spoils went to NBC5 in total viewers and Fox4 with 25-to-54-year-olds.
Wednesday -- TEGNA8 won in total viewers at 10 p.m. and Fox4 ran first among 25-to-54-year-olds.
Fox4 and NBC5 tied for the most total viewers at 6 a.m., but the Peacock won outright with 25-to-54-year-olds.
The two stations also were fit to be tied in total viewers at 5 p.m., but this time Fox4 had the 25-to-54 win to itself. At 6 p.m., NBC5 won in total viewers and shared the 25-to-54 spoils with Fox4.
Thursday -- Let’s make it easier on unclebarky.com with sweeps at 5 and 6 p.m. (NBC5) and at 6 a.m. (Fox4). Loyalties were divided at 10 p.m., where TEGNA8 won in total viewers and NBC5 with 25-to-54-year-olds.
Former Dallas TV reporter Steve Stoler has stories (and his own story) to tell in Tonight at Ten
Oh what a relief it is. Former KDFW/WFAA-TV reporter Steve Stoler. Photo: Ed Bark
At age 58, Steve Stoler is happily free and clear -- of cancer for the past 20 years and from a TV news room since December 2013.
In short he’s decompressed. Exhaled. Untied the knots in his stomach.
“My resounding sense of relief seems to hit home the hardest when I watch local news,” says Stoler, a reporter with Dallas-based KDFW-TV (now Fox4) for 17 years before moving down the street to WFAA-TV (TEGNA8) in 2003 for another decade of pavement-pounding. “No more storm chasing, standing on overpasses during ice storms, interviews with people who just lost a loved one or putting myself in harm’s way for a story. And I no longer have to leave my family to cover a news story away from home.”
But it’s not quite out of his system. A 34-year career in local TV news, beginning at Macon, GA’s little WCWB-TV, left him with a wealth of experiences and the itch to share some of them. By Stoler’s count, he did roughly 9,000 stories for six TV stations. His new self-published paperback book, Tonight At Ten, starts from the very beginning. It’s an easily digested, quick 115-page read. And if you’d like a copy, for $14.95, it’s available via stevestoler.com. Stoler also would be happy to speak at your event and then sign and sell copies. Whatever it takes.
We talk about it at the White Rock Lake coffee shop and via a subsequent brief email exchange. Stoler comes off as one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet, and probably is. This is a good trait when you’re the City of Plano’s Director of Media relations, where his principal tasks are to deal with reporters and spread positive stories, whenever possible, about the community he’s called home for 20 years with his wife, Susan, and sons Jordan and Jake. Stoler also covered Plano for most of his tenure at TEGNA8. So he thoroughly knows the ins and outs.
“I feel like I have an instant advantage because I know how the media work and what they need,” he says. “When a reporter calls me for an interview or information, they can’t wait. They need it ‘right now.’ I do everything in my power to accommodate them.”
The book had been on his mind for a while, dating back to his recovery from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, initially diagnosed in March 1997. Fox4’s former medical reporter, John Hammarley, combined with Stoler to do a series of stories on his treatments. He envisioned writing a book about this. But a talk with a successful author dissuaded him after she asked, “Have you been to Barnes & Noble and seen all the cancer books?”
“I became demoralized after talking to her,” Stoler recalls. “I asked myself, ‘Why am I wasting my time?’ “
It also was a time before self-publishing took hold. So Stoler shelved the idea but continued to keep meticulous “calendars” of his various adventures in reporting.
Shortly after leaving TEGNA8, he revisited the idea. Dallas-based Brown Books Publishing Group wanted $25,000 upfront, a deal that included 3,000 books, Stoler says.
“Most new authors sell maybe 10 books to friends and family. And then you’ve got 2,900 that are sitting in storage,” he says.
So that didn’t seem like a wise financial move for a budding author who in large part sees Tonight At Ten as “more of a bucket list thing” and also a validation of his career for both his children and any eventual grandchildren.
Stoler eventually settled on Dog Ear, a self-publishing company that prints books as needed. He estimates his total costs at about $5,000, which include establishing his website and cutting a video trailer in support of the book. About 500 copies have been printed so far, after Stoler followed the advice of a Dog Ear editor who told him, “You write just like a reporter. You’re giving away the whole story in the first paragraph.”
This wasn’t meant as a compliment. “I basically re-wrote everything” in line with the editor’s edict to “create the images for me with your words. Show me, don’t tell me.”
The book includes blurbs from three of Stoler’s former TEGNA8 colleagues -- Dale Hansen, Byron Harris and Janet St. James -- plus a foreword from the station’s retired longtime anchor, Gloria Campos.
“You just might discover and learn to appreciate what makes a great reporter -- a good person and a compassionate human being,” Campos writes in part.
Dog Ear’s back cover promotion says that Stoler also “takes the gloves off” in talking about some of the downsides of his TV news profession. But Tonight At Ten in reality is no slugfest. Stoler takes some issue with the direction of TV news and its increasing reliance on “social media” content and budget-friendly VJs (video journalists) who shoot, write, edit and transmit their stories at the expense of behind-the-scenes news room personnel whose jobs have been downsized out of existence.
He additionally writes bluntly about a pointed and dispiriting encounter with ex-Fox4 news director Maria Barrs, who left the station in August 2011 to become president and general manager of a Sacramento, CA television station and since has retired from the news business. You’ll have to read the book, but things didn’t go well either before or immediately after Stoler heard that he wasn’t considered one of Fox4’s “go-to reporters.” But this particular chapter, “Maria and the Mi-Ti-Fine Massacre,” is atypical.
“My focus was the stories behind the stories,” Stoler says, noting that he and Barrs eventually made peace before he left Fox4 for TEGNA8. “I really didn’t want to get into things that would leave anyone with the perception of me as having sour grapes.”
The shot on the right is just one reason why Stoler left TV news. Photo: Ed Bark
Back during the “deep pockets” days of local TV news, Stoler was sent by Fox4 to cover the 1989 San Francisco earthquake. Rival D-FW stations also dispatched reporters in the interests of establishing a “local presence.” Commonplace then, it’s basically out of the question now.
Stoler also remembers the nickel-and-dime days. In a chapter titled “We Can’t; We’re Broke,” he vividly recounts his first day in TV news at Macon’s WCWB.
An elderly man with no front teeth “walked into the studio and started flicking on the lights,” he writes. “He swept the floor for a few seconds, laid down his broom, then walked up to the camera. ‘You must be the new guy,’ he said. ‘Good morning, I’m Claude. I’m the janitor, and I’ll be your camera guy for the morning news.’ “
WCWB had a six-person news room at the time. All these years later, major market TV stations seem to be inching toward rather than away from such staffing levels while also hiring on the cheap. If Stoler was starting out in 2017 rather than the late 1970s, he might have been able to trampoline directly from WCWB to a Dallas TV news room.
“A lot of people being hired in a major market today are just a couple of years and one job removed from college,” he says. “I never imagined the day would come when we’d see that.
By 2013, Stoler found himself in something of a middle-aged crisis. He assumed that TEGNA8 would re-up him for another two years after his contract expired in December. But at the same time, “all these reporters at Channel 8 started getting these amazing opportunities,” he says. “Channel 8 reporters seemed to be a really valuable commodity,” with Craig Civale, Brad Hawkins, Brad Watson, Chris Hawes and Cynthia Vega among those segueing to public relations jobs with better hours and less built-in stress.
Stoler hired a “career coach” and interviewed for positions at Atmos Energy and with the city of McKinney before learning that Plano was looking for someone who could talk up the city’s attributes while also serving as a media liaison. Hmm.
“It was like it fell into my lap,” Stoler says. “That was the perfect job that I was looking for.”
He remains euphoric. Being an ambassador and occasional crisis manager for his home city is “more than just a job,” Stoler says. “It feels like a higher calling. When we do have a positive impact, we have made our own community a little better. It’s emotionally rewarding.”
The “daily grind” is now more about having that first cup of morning coffee. The gut grind of “coming up with a story idea every day” for a ratings-driven news boss is now more than three years in Stoler’s rear view mirror.
For 34 years, though, he pretty much had a blast. Even those on-air contests during WCWB (Channel 41) newscasts -- Stoler once gave away a pair of dentures as the station’s news anchor -- are now the stuff of misty, water-colored memories suitable for Tonight At Ten.
“Channel 41 may have been a terrible television,” Stoler writes, “but it gave all of us an extremely valuable gift: experience. We desperately needed that experience if we wanted to move on to bigger and better television stations. We were much more than a six-person team struggling to put a watchable product on the air. We were friends, a small, tight-knit family that shared the same aspirations and frustrations, and all of us did eventually leave WCWB to pursue our dream to work at what we considered real television stations.”
Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Mon., April 10) -- another vocal majority
NBC’s The Voice powered itself to another dominating win over ABC’s Dancing with the Stars Monday while also outdrawing all other prime-time attractions.
In its usual 7 to 9 p.m. slot, The Voice drew 305,3865 D-FW viewers to 203,591 for DWTS. Among advertiser-coveted 18-to-49-year-olds, The Voice crushed DWTS by a score of 105,834 viewers to 32,071. DWTS also was beaten in that key demographic by three of CBS’ four competing sitcoms -- Kevin Can Wait, Superior Donuts and 2 Broke Girls. Only Man With A Plan failed in that endeavor.
At 9 p.m., Fox4’s local newscast tied CBS’ Scorpion in total viewers with 174,506 apiece. But the news won outright with 18-to-49-year-olds (60,935).
On AMC, the 9 p.m. Season 3 premiere of Better Call Saul had 65,440 total viewers. Well over half of them -- 48,107 -- were within the 18-to-49 sweet spot. So that’s a considerable plus.
Here are Monday’s local news derby results.
NBC5 ran first in total viewers at 10 p.m. while TEGNA8 won among 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Fox4 swept the 6 a.m. races and NBC5 did likewise at both 5 and 6 p.m.
Local Nielsen ratings snapshot (Mon.-Sun., April 3-9) -- a big post-road trip catchup, topped by The Masters
Didja miss me? Don’t answer that. But a long and winding road trip is now in the rear view mirror. So it’s time for a catchup round.
Sunday’s final round of The Masters on CBS began as another prime opportunity for Dallasite Jordan Spieth to win his second green jacket. But in an echo of last spring’s collapse, he quickly played himself out of contention while Sergio Garcia at last conquered his nerves and won his first Major.
Garcia dropped his winning birdie putt at precisely 6:30 p.m. on the first playoff hole to beat Justin Rose. That made it five-and-a-half hours of continuous drama after CBS began its coverage at 1 p.m. The Masters averaged 210,862 D-FW viewers during that period, with a peak audience of 327,200 for the closing 15 minutes.
That’s dramatically down from 2016, when the final round of The Masters drew 325,790 total viewers with a high point of 460,356. But Spieth remained in contention throughout after blowing a 5-shot lead going into the final nine holes. That obviously made a big difference in terms of local audience interest.
Saturday’s third round of The Masters, which ended with Spieth just two shots behind the leader, averaged 130,880 total viewers. This again was a deep dip from last year’s penultimate round (an average of 240,802 viewers).
Friday’s prime-time programming was paced by CBS’ 8 p.m. episode of Hawaii Five-0 in total viewers (196,320) while NBC’s 8 to 10 p.m. edition of Dateline led among advertiser-prized 18-to-49-year-olds with 70,556.
The Dallas Mavericks and San Antonio Spurs, playing on TXA21 with a parade of reserves, epitomized the Mavs’ pitiful season with an average of 14,542 total viewers, including 9,621 in the 18-to-49 age range.
Thursday’s runaway prime-time leader, CBS’ The Big Bang Theory, drew 349,013 total viewers and 115,456 within the 18-to-49 motherlode.
On Wednesday night, Fox’s Empire cleaned up with 254,489 total viewers 102,627 in the 18-to-49 realm. Both were prime-time’s best showings.
Moving on to Tuesday, where CBS swept prime-time in total viewers with its regular lineup of NCIS (349,013), Bull (276,301) and NCIS: New Orleans (181,778). NBC’s The Voice ranked as the top overall draw with 18-to-49-year-olds (70,556) before Fox’s Prison Break and Fox4’s local newscast took over from 8 to 10 p.m. with respective totals of 51,314 and 44,899 viewers.
CBS reigned on Monday night with North Carolina’s win over Gonzaga in the NCAA basketball tournament championship game. It averaged 385,368 total viewers and 157,148 within the 18-to-49-year-old sweet spot.
Finally, here are the Monday through Friday local news derby results.
Monday -- NBC5 swept a downsized three-way race at 10 p.m. in both total viewers and 25-to-54-year-olds (main advertiser target audience for news programming).
Fox4 had twin wins at 6 a.m. and 5 p.m. while TEGNA8 ran the table at 6 p.m.
Tuesday -- NBC5 won in total viewers at 10 p.m., but Fox4 drew the most 25-to-54-year-olds.
Fox4 again swept the 6 a.m. competitions while the 6 p.m. golds were split between NBC5 in total viewers and TEGNA8 among 25-to-54-year-olds.
Fox4 and TEGNA8 tied for the top spot at 5 p.m. in total viewers; NBC5 had first place to itself with 25-to-54-year-olds.
Wednesday -- The Peacock and TEGNA8 shared first place at 10 p.m. in total viewers while Fox4 won among 25-to-54-year-olds.
Fox4 continued to enjoy itself at 6 a.m. with another sweep. And NBC5 dominated the early evening hours by running the table at both 5 and 6 p.m.
Thursday -- TEGNA8 won at 10 p.m. in total viewers and Fox4 drew the most 25-to-54-year-olds.
Fox4 again swept the 6 a.m. competitions while NBC5 did likewise at 5 p.m. NBC5 also had the most total viewers at 6 p.m. and shared the top spot with Fox4 among 25-to-54-year-olds. Of note: TEGNA8 registered “hashmarks” (no measurable audience) at 5 p.m. in the 25-to-54-year-old demographic. Which perhaps prompted a few spit takes.
Friday -- NBC5 swept the 10 p.m. competitions and also had twin wins at 6 p.m.
Fox4 won in total viewers at 6 a.m. but was beaten by a hair among 25-to-54-year-olds by NBC5. The two stations also battled at 5 p.m., with NBC5 tops in total viewers and Fox4 winning with 25-to-54-year-olds.
All of this left nothing to show for CBS11, which was shut out in 40 competitions for the No. 1 spots at 6 a.m. and at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. With the May “sweeps” ratings period looming, the station has miles to go across the board.
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Home Arts-Entertainment Things to do Book Fair to Feature UVI Published Authors
Book Fair to Feature UVI Published Authors
Dec. 23, 2004 — The public is invited to a book fair featuring some of the University of the Virgin Islands' published authors. Faculty of the university will read from their recently published books at a UVI Authors' Fair and Book Signing on the St. Croix campus.
It will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 12, in the Cafetorium in the Student Center. The books will be autographed by the authors and available for sale, according to a press release.
"The Glory Days of Frederiksted," edited by Marvin Williams, a UVI associate professor of English and editor of "The Caribbean Writer," is a compilation of stories and pictures of people who lived in Frederiksted during their youth. Williams has written several other books and poetry collections that will also be available for sale.
Dr. Arnold Highfield, retired professor of linguistics and social sciences, will read from "Han West's Account of St. Croix in the West Indies," which Nina York translated and Highfield edited.
The book, published by the Virgin Islands Humanities Council, is an account of the experiences of Hans West, a Danish teacher and scholar who lived on St. Croix from 1789 to 1793. His writings informed readers in Denmark about conditions on its largest Caribbean colony, especially in light of the growing debate at the time over the question of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery.
Dr. David Gould, UVI associate professor of English, and James B. Kennedy edited the Civil War memories of John Henry Otto, Captain of Company D, 21st Regiment in the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Captain Otto, a relative of Dr. Gould, was a German immigrant who served in the Union Army. The book is entitled "Memoirs of a Dutch Mudsill."
Dr. S. B. Jones-Hendrickson, UVI professor of economics, has written and edited several books, including the non-fiction "Caribbean Visions: Ten Presidential Addresses of Ten Presidents of the Caribbean Studies Association" and the novels "Death on the Pasture" and "Sonny Jim of Sandy Point."
Other UVI authors have been invited to participate.
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Little progress made to combat anti-Indigenous racism in B.C. health care: report
Vancouver -
A progress report on a plan to address anti-Indigenous racism in British Columbia's health-care system says Aboriginal patients continue to disproportionately die as a result of the impacts of racism and the two ongoing public-health emergencies.
Retired judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond wrote the original report, In Plain Sight, released last year, and on Tuesday she reported that progress has been made in 10 of the 24 recommendations.
Apologies have been issued from governing bodies, Indigenous leaders have been recruited across the health authorities to aid in systemic change and the government introduced Bill 18, an amendment to the B.C. Human Rights Code to include Indigenous identity as a protected ground from discrimination.
Despite these strides, the review says “the fundamental issues remain in plain sight,” with many recommendations seeing “little, if any” movement since the report was released last November.
“There's been some significant planning efforts in the past year, but there are persistent problems,” Turpel-Lafond said. “Efforts have not meaningfully disrupted the status quo.”
She said she continually receives “disturbing complaints about racism occurring at the point of care, and about the ongoing inadequacy of complaints processes.”
Little has been done to realign relationships between provincial and Indigenous governments, Turpel-Lafond said.
“First Nations, Metis, and provincial government leaders have endorsed the report, yet ineffective collaboration has slowed improvement where it is needed the most.”
She said streamlining is needed to add resources for those carrying out the work and to ensure there is accountability with oversight from Indigenous governments.
The B.C. government didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
Earlier this year, the province released a draft of its five-year plan to implement all 24 recommendations under theDeclaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
“We understand it's going to take some time, but there are some things that could have been done in the first year that weren't, and I'm not sure why but I think they're important elements of change,” Turpel-Lafond said in an interview.
She pointed to the lack of whistleblower legislation to the health-care sector to promote a “speak-up culture” for employees to address racism, discrimination or wrongdoing without fear of repercussions.
In the review, Turpel-Lafond calls on the provincial government to release a more comprehensive update on the recommendations by next November.
“I do feel like British Columbia is in a different position than other provinces because at least we're addressing it. We may not be able to say that there is no longer systemic or individual discrimination in health care, but we aren't denying it,” she said.
“I don't tell (the government) how to do their work, but this year they weren't reporting out, so I thought it would be important to do a statement and to push and urge them to continue on this path.”
This story was produced with the financial assistance of the Facebook and Canadian Press News Fellowship.
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Azerbaijan-Ukraine documents signed in presence of President Ilham Aliyev and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (PHOTO/VIDEO) (UPDATE)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, Jan. 14
Following the expanded meeting in Kyiv, a ceremony of signing Azerbaijan-Ukraine documents was held in the presence of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a Joint Declaration of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the President of Ukraine.
The Minister of Energy of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Commission, Parviz Shahbazov, and the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Commission, Iryna Vereshchuk, signed an “Agreement on Cooperation in Food Security” between the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine and the Government of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The Minister of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Mikayil Jabbarov, and the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine and Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Commission, Irina Vereshchuk, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on “Emergency Cooperation in Bilateral Trade” between the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine and the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The Minister of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Mikayil Jabbarov, and the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, Roman Leshchenko, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on “Cooperation in the Agrarian Sector” between the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine and the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The Minister of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Chairman of SOCAR Supervisory Board, Mikayil Jabbarov, and the Chairman of the Board of the National Joint Stock Company “Naftogaz of Ukraine”, Yuriy Vitrenko, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on “Energy Cooperation” between the National Joint Stock Company “Naftogaz of Ukraine” and SOCAR.
The Minister of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Mikayil Jabbarov, and the Acting Chairman of the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre, Serhiy Zavadsky, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on “Cooperation in Land Relations, Management of State Property Land and State Land Cadastre” between the State Service for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre of Ukraine and the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
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Laughing Their Way Across the U.S.
By Heather Herron
They have a knack for embarrassing each other, an “anything goes” attitude, and a penchant for off-the-wall humor.
The four men who started out as friends at an all-boys high school in New York never dreamed they’d make a living making others laugh, but that’s exactly what they’re doing. Today, they’re the stars of the TBS show Impractical Jokers and The Cranjis McBasketball World Comedy Tour.
That tour is making a stop in Fort Wayne on Friday, Nov. 16, at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. The Tenderloins Comedy Troupe — made up of Joe Gatto, Sal Vulcano, James Murray, and Brian Quinn — will hit the stage at 8 p.m.
Gatto spoke with whatzup by phone just before kicking off the tour in Pennsylvania on November 8.
Whatzup: Where did the unusual name for your comedy troupe come from?
Gatto: In high school, Sal had kept a list of words that you may be slightly embarrassed to say in front of a room full of strangers. Nougat. Coulottes. And “tenderloin” was on that list and when he said it, we laughed at the idea of calling ourselves Tenderloins and that’s what stuck.
Whatzup: Did you ever expect to become as popular as you are today?
Gatto: It’s been a crazy ride. You can never imagine something like this — that you’re basically getting paid to make your best friends laugh and America laugh. This journey’s been so special just because we get to share it with each other side by side. Instead of having to go home and tell your friends how great your day was, you look to your left and right and they’re standing right there with you.
Whatzup: Do you write all your own material?
Gatto: Everything funnels through us, but we have a team of comedy producers that helps us with ideas. They’ll pitch us ideas. Some we’ll like, some we won’t. Or they’ll pitch us something and they’ll keep “spitballing” on it until it’s something that we like.
Whatzup: Why do you think your brand of humor strikes a chord with people?
Gatto: Two words — sex appeal. (Laughs.) No, really, I think it’s just a relatability that we have because we’re not playing characters. This is us. This is the way we make each other laugh. This embarrassment comedy just really translates for everyone because they feel like they’re hanging out with their friends.
The number one thing we hear all the time is, “Oh my God, I have a friend just like Sal or just like Joe.” People really relate to this friend group and the dynamic of their friends and just wanting to blow off steam and not have to deal with the problems of the day and just have a good time and I think we bring that to people’s living rooms.
Whatzup: How is your live show — the Cranjis McBasketball Comedy Tour — different from the television show?
Gatto: Our live show is basically an opportunity to hang out with the four of us. It’s the four of us on stage doing our version of stand-up, which is basically making fun of each other, telling stories with the audience there. It’s multi-media, so we show hidden camera challenges we’ve done exclusively for the live tour that you can’t see anywhere else. And the stories are stuff that’s never been told before.
Whatzup: What do you like most about being on the road?
Gatto: The best part is that you get to travel with your friends, so now we get to go to all these new towns and places like Fort Wayne. We’re New York boys, so we get to see all of America together. We’ve been fortunate enough to go to the U.K. We’ve gone to Hawaii and places all across the country, so it’s been really exciting to see the country together. You know, at this point I think there are only four states I haven’t been to, which is pretty nuts.
I’m excited to get to Fort Wayne. The bus tour is always a good time. It’s always good energy. Tickets have sold well there so we know people are excited for us to come out. We can’t wait to be there.
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Leatrice Mikkelsen
Leatrice Mikkelsen was a Diné (Navajo) and Wyandotte painter and mixed media artist and activist. As a young child while her parents worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, her family travelled and lived on many Native reservations. During WWI, they stayed on the Gila River and Colorado River Indian Reservations which were being used as Japanese Internment camps.
Her Native heritage and her early experiences living on the various Native reservations alongside the internment camps deeply influenced her work. She was also influenced by Karuk painter Clara Barney, Pomo basket weaver Mabel McKay, Japanese brushwork artist Kazuaki Tanahashi, and surrealist painters such as Max Ernst and Paul Klee.
Leatrice received her B.A. in Art from Dominican College and her Master of Fine Art from San Francisco State. In the 1960’s, she was the art director at the American Indian Historical Society and art editor of the Native Historian. Locally she made an impact by being instrumental in the creation of the Native American Studies program at College of Marin. She was the first Native person to serve on the board of the Marin Housing Authority. Her larger mission was to reclaim and amplify Native voices, and to dispel the distorted views of colonist and Native histories perpetuated in the education system.
In 1975, she was recognized by the office of the California Governor’s office as “One of California’s well-known native American artists.”
Leatrice exhibited extensively throughout the United States. In October, her work will be part of a large group show at the Crocker Museum in Sacramento, an expansion of the SFSU exhibit When I Remember I See Red.
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Walk Portage Path
Learn As You Walk The Path
North American First People’s Day
In April, 2019, Summit County Council unanimously agreed to extend the celebration of American Indian heritage to the county, mirroring a resolution adopted by Akron City Council in 2018 declaring the first Monday in October as a day to honor Indian history, life and culture. The initiative was prompted by students at The Lippman School of Akron, which has a longstanding exchange relationship with the Northern Cheyenne Nation of Montana.
The entire length of the portage was marked by the Summit County Historical Society in 1999, when for the first time monumental sculptures at each terminus of the Path were connected over the 8-mile trail by fifty markers in the shape of historic Indian broad blades.
Students from Lippman, Portage Path CLC and the Cheyenne Nation joined together in 2016 to create a web-based mobile “app” that provides extensive information about the Indian trail, including its history and the natural world that it traverses. The app can be accessed at www.walkportagepath.org.
The activities are sponsored by The Portage Path Collaborative, an assembly of educators, organizations and individuals committed to preserving and sharing the history of the First People of Akron and Summit County. The group includes: The Summit County Historical Society, The Lippman School, Summit Metro Parks, The University of Akron Institute for Human Science and Culture/ Cummings Center for the History of Psychology, and Stewards of Historic Preservation..
A publication outlining the historic trail and the history of Native peoples who used the Portage Path has been published, and is free and available at the Historical Society and at Metro Parks’ F.A. Seiberling Naturerealm.
The sculpture of a Native American portaging a canoe was designed and sculpted by Peter Jones who resides and works on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation near Versailles, New York. He graduated from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe in 1965. In February, 2018 Jones received the Community Spirit Award, a national recognition of exceptional artists who have shown a lifetime commitment to perpetuating their art and to restore and pass on ancestral knowledge and traditions, connecting Native peoples to their greatest assets.
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Tom Lochtefeld – The Godfather of modern surf parks
Tom Lochtefeld is the OG wave pool geek and a core surfer. For the past 30 plus years, he’s found ways to have fun and surf outside of the ocean. He fixed a cable to the rear-wheel-drive system of a Dodge truck to make a foil wave (a concept that began in 1987!) For this and many other reasons we like Tom. But for a long time, he wouldn’t talk to us. We were shattered. But he later told us via email that he didn’t want to promote “vapor waves” – that is, planned wave pools that are just artists’ renderings. And now that he’s in full deployment of his SurfLoch system in Palm Springs and throughout the world, he agreed to chat.
Beyond the creation of systems like SurfLoch, he co-founded Raging Waters waterpark and invented the FlowRider. Through the early nineties, he built WaveHouse which was the first place surfers could gather in a dedicated space to ride a human-made wave – a ‘sheet’ wave in reality.
As Surf Park Management CEO Skip Taylor says, “Tom really deserves to be recognised for all his work in this field as the Godfather of modern surf parks. Tom’s extensive background in the surf park business and making wave pools of all types shows he’s super passionate about it.“
We interviewed Tom on what he’s doing today, how he got here and in the process got a rare peek into some of the mystery projects that laid the foundation for many of the wave pool designs we see today.
Early Tom Lochtefeld wave pool concept as imagined by artist Phil Roberts
You were dormant for a while and now you’re back big time. Why do these things take so long?
I never went dormant. I never stopped working. But what happens on these projects, because they take years to get ready there are so many things that can happen in that process. Anything can happen. So we’ve developed these smaller venues. We were able to customize and build a back yard wave pool for one of our more affluent clientele. It’s epic. It’s a bit bigger than an Olympic swimming pool. We have our wave dampening so we don’t have to wait for the water to calm down. We can keep running. And then I have another project in Amsterdam and we have several in shopping malls and two in Spain, one in Munich that just got approved.
How long does it take to build a wave pool?
If everything goes without a hitch it takes a year. If you have a really good contractor you can do it in as short as nine months, but then it’s only if you have an epic contractor. Companies don’t have brochures for wave pools with a standard cost. You can’t because there are so many variables outside of your control. Then there are so many site issues too. Are you digging into rock, sand, water? It all depends on what’s there when you dig down to build the pool.
Tom’s first full-scale proof of concept for SurfLoch debuted at the Palm Springs Surf Club earlier this year
In this space there is so much growth, how is it finding someone to build a pool? Are contractors booked out?
There’s been one pool builder who has worked for us in Palm Springs and in the Northeast. They (RDC Design/Build) are out of Florida and they are really up-to-speed on what to do. Normally you want the larger, commercial pool builders. It’s a different animal when you start to get into bigger pools. The concrete pours can be difficult.
Did your work with Flowrider prepare you for this?
Totally. For every 100 people that contact us about a project, 99 never go through. And then the size of the project, as that increases so does the chance of it not going through. We can do our smaller pools under $10million but then according to site issues and soil, etc. the cost goes up.
Share some early experiments
One guy I want to give credit to is Chuck Sauerbier, a very creative guy. We go back 35 years and he was one of the original founders of the moving-plow concept. Chuck and I built the first ones back in 1987 in a lake. We flipped over a car and put a tow rope on the drive chain – basically what Slater is doing now. We did it up at Lake Cunningham in San Jose at Raging Waters. I built it inside the plunge pool back in 2005.
Tom Lochtefeld’s early plow-styled wave pool experiment powered by a Dodge truck rear-wheel drive system
Flowrider is hugely successful. What’s the history to it?
Doing a surfing attraction was always my focus. And what the engineering and resources would allow was what led to the Flowrider. The tech wasn’t there for a wave pool at that time. As I developed waterparks I wondered what would be the most economic and best use of space and operating costs and putting those elements together. I logically deduced the Flowrider because what the surfer needs is just the surface of a wave to ride on. So let’s just skim off the surface and make something. I wanted to make a wave pool at the time and thinking it through and I thought, ‘wow that’s gonna be two megawatts.’ So if I do the surface I can get it down to 100 kilowatts. And that’s why I did the Flowrider first because it was economical and the waterparks wanted it. And then I kept evolving the product and then it became the FlowBarrel. But the FlowBarrel was so big and so it was not as economically viable. So to make it economically work I made WaveHouse in 2000 with the Swatch Tour. I would give people little tokens that said “one free ride at WaveHouse with this token.” Then we did one in Durban, Santiago, Singapore and that’s where it all evolved – lifestyle, retail, concerts. And then I sold all that out. The reason I sold was to get back into surf pools. I felt the market was ready but also because we now had the computer horsepower to make it work. It takes a supercomputer when you’re working with waveforms and I connected with a couple of brainiacs who could figure it out and redo the math to target surfing.
Tom’s circa 2005 moving reef system test model
There’s a lot of interest in wave pools at the moment, but will they succeed in the long term?
Short term, right now, the key thing that has to happen is that wave pools need to make money. Surf pools won’t happen without bankers to invest and figure out how to get their money back and then how can developers leverage this to get investment. And it’s gonna be ten years until we fully come to form. The good news is that entertainment enterprises are still viable and we just have to show that these are economically viable. We have to make money. It sounds antithetical to surfing but for wave pools to move forward they have to start showing a profit. Money is just green energy – it’s an energy field and just like any energy form if it doesn’t get fed it dies.
And now there’s a lot of competition in the wave pool market.
I think it’s really good. The more competition the better. It sparks creativity. Over time you’ll see players drop out because the marketplace will decide what works. But that will take years. You’ll see consolidations, just like in any business trajectory. There’s a whole bunch of reasons why I know why SurfLoch tech’s the best. With that said, I know I’ve got to prove it. So I want to build it and let people try it and make their own decision.
Tom’s FlowBarrel design is now owned and distributed throughout the world by Whitewater
When you sold Flowrider and your share of Raging Waters you could have quit and kicked back and just surfed your life away. Why did you keep going? What drives you?
Yup I know. My wife asks that question. Luckily she’s been so understanding. I didn’t have to work. I could have had the Life of Riley. I think it’s uncompleted work. I know what the potential is and I can’t help myself. I know what’s possible. Everything that the kids can imagine and dream up, we can do now. I know it’s possible. I guarantee you. Part of that is, well, it’s really important to have a physical medium for proper social engagement and health. It’s good for society and a lot of people in the inland world don’t have access to surfing. On the environmental side, there is a significant cost to building surf pools. But in my view, it’s just another problem to solve. The problem is bigger than a small little surf pool. The pool is going to be the vehicle to power us to better energy uses. To me, it’s a vehicle to solve the problem.
Where do you see things in the future? What does the coming wave pool culture look like?
It’ll go through cycles. There will be ups and downs. And what succeeds will be driven by the successful venues being copied. But also by simultaneously looking at what fails. Because failing is just as important as succeeding. Because when you fail, you can analyse what happened and figure out what to learn from that. So we will see a lot of failures and we will see a lot of success in the future with surf pools. As a function of that, we will slowly, iteratively back our way into it. What we can learn from that is how to find a good business model and know what elements and who are the players that make it work. Those players that ultimately succeed will drive the culture. So hopefully we have players that have respect for the history of surfing and continuity. On one hand, it’s been really cool and a positive experience. And hopefully, we can continue that in the future. We’ll see. We’ll find out.
Tom surfing Big Rock in La Jolla in 1971
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An Issue That Involves You
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1. Why have people found it difficult to understand why God has permitted badness among mankind?
DESPITE the common desire for peace and security, man’s history has been marred by bloodshed and hurtfulness. Since the Bible shows that God detests such things, why has he not put a stop to these conditions before now? Surely it cannot be for lack of interest. The Bible, as well as the beauty of God’s earthly handiwork, gives abundant evidence of his love and concern for mankind. (1 John 4:8) More importantly, the honor of God’s own name is involved, since these conditions have caused people to reproach him. What reason could there be, then, for his putting up with thousands of years of unrest and violence?
2. (a) Where in the Bible do we find out why God has permitted bad conditions for so long? (b) What makes it evident that the Bible account about Adam and Eve is historical fact?
2 The answer is found in the Bible’s opening account about Adam and Eve. This is no mere allegory. It is historical fact. The Bible supplies a complete, documented record of genealogy reaching from the first century of the Common Era all the way back to the first humans. (Luke 3:23-38; Genesis 5:1-32; 11:10-32) As our first ancestors, Adam and Eve had a definite influence on us. And what the Bible tells us about them helps us to understand the circumstances that affect our lives today.
3. What kind of provisions did God make for mankind at the start?
3 The Bible reveals that all of God’s provisions for the first human couple were very good. They had everything for a happy life—a parklike home in Eden, abundant varieties of food, satisfying work, the prospect of seeing their family grow and fill the earth, and the blessing of their Creator. (Genesis 1:28, 29; 2:8, 9, 15) Who could reasonably have asked for more?
4. (a) At their creation, in what ways were humans different from other earthly creatures? (b) In what manner was needed guidance provided for them?
4 The inspired record in Genesis reveals that humans occupied a unique position on earth. Unlike the animals, they had a moral sense and were endowed with free will. That is why they were equipped with powers of reason and judgment. To guide them, God implanted in man and woman the faculty of conscience so that, as perfect humans, their normal inclination would be toward good. (Romans 2:15) Besides all of this, God told them why they were alive, what they were to do, and who had provided all the splendid things around them. (Genesis 1:28-30) How, then, do we explain why such bad conditions exist now?
5. (a) What simple requirement did God set for the first human pair, and for what reason? (b) Why were their life prospects for the future rightly involved?
5 The Scriptural record shows that an issue arose—one that involves each of us today. It came about through circumstances that developed not long after the creation of the first human pair. God gave the man and the woman the opportunity to demonstrate loving appreciation to their Creator by obedience to a requirement. The requirement was nothing that would imply that they had depraved tendencies that had to be curbed. Rather, it involved something that in itself was normal and proper—the eating of food. As God told the man: “From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.” (Genesis 2:16, 17) This requirement did not deprive the first pair of anything necessary for life. They could eat from all the other trees in the garden. Yet their life prospects for the future were definitely involved, and rightly so. Why? Because the One who asked obedience was the very Source and Sustainer of human life.
6. (a) Our first parents could have lived forever if they had acted in harmony with what basic truth regarding rulership? (b) Why should they have felt moved to obey God?
6 God’s purpose was not for humans to die. No mention of death was made to Adam and Eve except for disobedience. Our first parents had before them the prospect of living forever in their peaceful, parklike home. To attain to this, what was required of them? They had to recognize that the earth on which they lived belongs to the One who made it, and that, as the Creator, God rightfully has authority over his creation. (Psalm 24:1, 10) Surely this One, who had given man everything he needed, including life itself, deserved obedience to anything that he asked of them. However, he did not wish that obedience to be forced. Rather, it must be from willing hearts, motivated by love. (1 John 5:3) But our first human parents failed to show such love. How did this come about?
7. (a) According to the Bible, where did resistance to God’s rulership begin? (b) Why is it reasonable to believe in the spirit realm?
7 The Bible shows that resistance to God’s rulership first began, not on earth, but in a realm invisible to human eyes. Should we, like many, doubt that such a realm exists simply because we cannot see it? Well, gravity cannot be seen, neither can the wind. Yet their effects are very real. So, too, the effects of the invisible realm can be observed. Though “God is a Spirit,” his works of creation can be seen all around us. If we believe in him, we are obliged to believe in a spirit realm. (John 4:24; Romans 1:20) But does anyone else inhabit that realm?
8. What kind of persons are the angels?
8 According to the Bible, millions of spirit persons, angels, were brought into existence before man. (Job 38:4, 7; Psalm 103:20; Daniel 7:10) All of these were created perfect, without evil tendencies. Yet, like God’s later creation, man, they were granted free will. They could therefore choose a course of faithfulness or of unfaithfulness toward God.
9, 10. (a) How is it possible for a perfect spirit creature to feel inclined to do wrong? (b) So, how did one of the angels come to be Satan?
9 But the question asked by many is: How, as perfect creatures, could any of them even feel inclined to do wrong? Well, how many times in our own lives do circumstances arise that confront us with various possibilities—some good, some bad? Having the intelligence to discern the bad possibilities does not automatically make us bad, does it? The real question is: On which course will we fix our mind and heart? If we focus on harmful thoughts, we could be drawn into cultivating wrong desire in our hearts. Such desire could move us eventually to commit wrong acts. This ruinous cycle was described by the Bible writer James: “Each one is tried by being drawn out and enticed by his own desire. Then the desire, when it has become fertile, gives birth to sin; in turn, sin, when it has been accomplished, brings forth death.”—James 1:14, 15.
10 The Scriptures reveal that this happened to one of God’s spirit sons. He was enticed by his own desires. He saw possibilities in God’s human creation. Could they come into submission to him rather than to God? Evidently he began to crave at least a share in the worship belonging to God. (Luke 4:5-8) Acting on his desire, he became a resister of God. For that reason he is referred to in the Bible as Satan, which means Resister.—Job 1:6.
11. What sound basis is there for believing that Satan really does exist?
11 In this materialistic 20th century, belief in such a spirit person as Satan is not popular. But, then, has popular thinking ever been a sure guide to truth? Among those who study disease, it was once unpopular to believe that unseen germs were a factor. But now their influence is well known. Certainly, then, the unpopularity of something does not mean that it can be ignored. Jesus Christ had himself come from the spirit realm and so could speak with authority on life there. He definitely identified Satan as an evil spirit person. (John 8:23; Luke 13:16; 22:31) Only by taking into account the existence of this spirit adversary is it possible to understand how such bad conditions got started on this earth.
12. How did Satan communicate with the woman Eve, and why in that manner?
12 The inspired record, in Genesis chapter 3, describes how Satan set about satisfying his wrong desire. In the garden of Eden he approached the woman Eve in a manner that concealed his real identity. He employed an animal commonly seen by the human pair—a serpent. Evidently using what we would call ventriloquism, he made it appear that his words proceeded from this creature. Its naturally cautious manner fitted well with the impression that Satan wanted to make.—Genesis 3:1; Revelation 12:9.
13. What did Satan say to Eve, and with what evident intent?
13 Rather than make a direct bid for the woman to look to him as her ruler, Satan first sought to plant doubt in her mind, asking: “Is it really so that God said you must not eat from every tree of the garden?” In effect, he was saying: ‘It is too bad that God has said you may not eat from all the trees in the garden.’ By this he implied that possibly God was holding back something good. Eve answered by quoting God’s prohibition, which involved only one tree, as well as stating that the penalty for disobedience was death. At that, Satan attempted to undermine her respect for God’s law, saying: “You positively will not die. For God knows that in the very day of your eating from it your eyes are bound to be opened and you are bound to be like God, knowing good and bad.” (Genesis 3:1-5) Faced with such a situation, what would you have done?
14. (a) Why did Eve fall victim to Satan? (b) What did Adam do?
14 Eve allowed herself to be drawn along by selfish desire. She ate what God had forbidden. Afterward, under her urging, her husband Adam also ate. He chose to cast his lot in with her rather than with his Creator. (Genesis 3:6; 1 Timothy 2:14) What was the outcome?
15. So, then, what accounts for the crime and violence, as well as the disease and death, that have marked human existence?
15 The entire human family was plunged into sin and imperfection. Now Adam and Eve could not pass on to their offspring the perfection that they once had. Just as copies produced from a defective pattern all have the same defect, so all of their offspring were born in sin, with an inherited tendency toward selfishness. (Genesis 8:21) This inclination, left unchecked, has led to the evils that have taken peace and security from mankind. It is this inheritance of sin that has also resulted in disease and death.—Romans 5:12.
16, 17. (a) To understand why God has put up with this situation for so long, what must we appreciate? (b) What really is the issue that was raised?
16 In the light of these facts, our minds go back to the question of why God has put up with this situation, allowing it to develop to the extent that it has. It is because of a grave issue that was raised and its effect on the entire universe. How is that so?
17 By his argument that God’s law to Adam and Eve was not good for them and by challenging God’s stated outcome for disobedience, Satan was calling into question God’s rulership. No, he did not question the fact that God is ruler. Rather, the issue that Satan raised centered on the rightfulness of Jehovah’s rulership, His sovereignty, and the righteousness of His ways. Deceptively, Satan argued that humans would do better by acting independently, making their own decisions rather than submitting to God’s direction. (Genesis 3:4, 5) In reality, however, by so doing they would be following the leading of God’s adversary.
18. (a) What other issue was involved, and where is this shown in the Bible? (b) How does this issue involve us?
18 Another issue was involved. Since these creatures of God turned against him there in Eden, what would others do? Later, in the days of the man Job, Satan openly charged that those who serve Jehovah do so, not because of any love for God and his rulership, but selfishly, because God provides everything for them. Satan implied that no one who was put under pressure would loyally support Jehovah’s sovereignty. So the loyalty and integrity of every intelligent creature in heaven and on earth were called into question. The issue thus involves you.—Job 1:8-12; 2:4, 5.
19, 20. By not destroying the rebels immediately, what opportunity did Jehovah afford his creatures, both spirit and human?
19 Faced with such a challenge, what would Jehovah do? He could easily have destroyed Satan and Adam and Eve. That would have demonstrated Jehovah’s sovereign power. But would it have answered the questions now raised in the minds of all of God’s creatures who had observed these developments? The eternal peace and security of the universe required that these questions be settled completely, once and for all time. Besides that, the integrity and loyalty of all of God’s intelligent creation had been called into question. If they loved him, they would want to answer that false charge themselves. Jehovah gave them the opportunity to do just that. Also, by allowing Adam and Eve to bring forth offspring (though imperfect), God would prevent the extinction of the human family—a family that has come to include all of us living today. This would give these descendants the opportunity to choose for themselves whether they would obey divine rulership. That choice is what now confronts you!
20 So, instead of executing the death penalty at once, Jehovah allowed those rebelling to remain for a time. Adam and Eve were expelled from Eden, to die before a thousand years passed. (Genesis 5:5; compare Genesis 2:17 and; 2 Peter 3:8.) Satan was also to be destroyed in due time, as if he were a serpent whose head had been crushed.—Genesis 3:15; Romans 16:20.
21, 22. (a) As to rulership, what have Satan and mankind been doing during the time allowed by God? (b) What does human history show as to government that endeavors to ignore God?
21 What has resulted from the challenge to the rightfulness of God’s rule? Has man benefited himself by endeavoring to run his own affairs? Mankind has been permitted to try every conceivable type of government. Jehovah did not put a stop to man’s efforts too early for the full results to be seen. Even a century ago would have been too soon. Man was then just entering the “era of technology” and was only beginning to make great claims about what he would accomplish.
22 But is another century needed to see what the outcome of man’s course of independence from God will be? Even prominent men in government and science acknowledge that the earth faces grave danger of ruination. Certainly God need not permit complete ruin to prove the utter failure of man’s independent rule. With the testimony of six thousand years bearing witness to what happens when government ignores God, never can it be said that there was not enough time to perfect human rule. The facts show that no government independent of God can bring real peace and security for all mankind.
23. What is soon to take place that will clear the way for righteous rule of the earth by God’s Son?
23 As we will later see, long in advance and with perfect timing Jehovah God marked a particular generation that would see him cleanse the universe of all rebellion against his divine rulership. Not only will wicked men be destroyed but Satan and his demons will be restrained as in an abyss, unable to influence the affairs of either men or angels. This is to open the way for the righteous rule of earth by the government of God’s Son. During a period of a thousand years, that government will undo all the harm brought by man’s thousands of years of selfish rule. It will restore this earth to paradisaic loveliness and bring obedient mankind back to the perfection enjoyed in Eden.—Revelation 20:1, 2; 21:1-5; 1 Corinthians 15:25, 26.
24. (a) Why are Satan and his demons to be released at the end of a thousand years? (b) What will the outcome be?
24 The Bible states that at the close of that thousand-year rule Satan and his demons will be released from their restraint for a brief time. Why? In order that all those then living may have an opportunity to show themselves loyal to Jehovah’s sovereign rule. Untold numbers will have come forth in the resurrection. For many of them this will be their first opportunity to demonstrate under test their love for God. The issue will be the same as one of those raised in Eden—whether they will uphold Jehovah’s sovereignty by faithful obedience. Jehovah desires as his subjects only those whose love motivates such loyalty. Those who wish to side with God’s adversary and his demons in whatever attempts these make to disturb anew the peace of God’s universe will be free to make that choice. But by thus spurning government by God, they will merit destruction. And this time it will come promptly, as if by fire from heaven. All rebels, spirit and human, will then have perished for all time.—Revelation 20:7-10.
25, 26. How has Jehovah’s handling of matters really worked out for the benefit of each one of us?
25 True, for thousands of years mankind has suffered much. But this was due to our first parents’ choice, not God’s. God has endured reproach and has put up with things detestable to him for all this time. But God, for whom ‘a thousand years is as one day,’ takes a long-range view of matters, and this works out for the good of his creatures. As the inspired apostle writes: “Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with you because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance.” (2 Peter 3:8, 9) Had it not been for God’s patience and long-suffering, none of us would have any opportunity for salvation.
26 However, we should not conclude that during the past six thousand years God’s role has been merely a passive one. No, he has not simply been tolerating wickedness, biding his time and taking no action himself. As we shall see, the facts show just the opposite.
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Satan argued that under test all humans would break integrity and act independently of God
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When I was invited to contribute a chapter to this book, my wife Shona and I were in the midst of the most challenging chapter of our lives. At five months pregnant, we were given less than a one percent chance our baby would survive. In our traumatic pregnancy, we were given little to hope for and our hearts were sure to be devastatingly broken. We were lost, angry, broken, and scared.
In this pivotal moment of our lives, all we could do is love each other and hope our baby would lead the way for us. We did not have the strength to lead, we needed our baby to help us. We were given the heartbreaking option of terminating the pregnancy and we were advised to do. Babies in these predicaments just do not survive, we were told.
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Forest is healthy and whole, and Shona is an incredibly strong and loving mother to him. Forest beat all the odds, defied the medical training of our physician team, and taught me more about love and hope than I could have every imagined. As you read our story consider your own…
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As the Chairman of the Growing Trees Network Foundation, I know first-hand the vital importance of our work, when planting ‘People Forests’ in Bolivia, Denmark, and Ghana. The outcome means clean drinking water, food, carbon capture, places for animals to inhabit, as well as providing recreational areas for us humans that can support our physical and mental wellbeing.
The catastrophic climate challenge we all face globally calls for big actions right now, and it is commonly agreed among the world’s leading scientists that planting trees is the most effective way to capture and reduce CO2. Furthermore, we see the deserts expanding, forcing local communities to flee from their homes due to drought and lack of food.
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Due to Nottingham Forest’s heartfelt generosity, many young children from the village of Jilo in Ghana will benefit from wearing Forest kits, donated by the twice former European Cup Winners – contributing even further to the uplifting and well-being of the local community.
Paul Lowe offers some insight into the significance of this magnanimous donation from his beloved Nottingham Forest:
“I know first-hand the immense positive knock-on effect this will have to these young people in Ghana, when they wear the famous Garibaldi Red of Forest; it becomes so much more than just a football kit. For the youngsters, it emerges as a symbol of love and hope – knowing that ‘strangers’ from thousands of miles away, have compassionately taken them into their hearts.”
Nottingham Forest Football Club director Jonny Owen (top, left) symbolically hands over a Forest shirt to World Game-Changers director Gary Clarke, before the assortment of Forest kit is shipped to Ghana…
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Colorado escapee accused of shooting officer arrested in Arizona
Elias Buck, 22, was arrested in Arizona a week after he was accused of shooting an officer in Farmington, New Mexico.
Author: Janet Oravetz (9News)
Published: 12:03 PM MST January 14, 2022
Updated: 8:13 PM MST January 14, 2022
LA PLATA COUNTY, Colo. — A man who was accused of shooting a police officer in New Mexico after escaping from the La Plata County jail in southwest Colorado was arrested Friday morning in Maricopa County, Arizona, according to the La Plata County Sheriff's Office(LPCSO).
Just after midnight on Jan. 14, a tip came into the Phoenix Police Department that Elias Buck and Victoria “Rossi” Hernandez were at a Quiktrip Convenience Store located at 8004 N. 27th Avenue in Phoenix, the sheriff's office said.
RELATED: Search underway in southwest Colorado for man accused of shooting New Mexico police officer
Buck was wanted in connection with the shooting of a Farmington Police (FPD) officer during a traffic stop on Jan. 7. On that night, Officer Joseph Barreto contacted Buck because he matched the description of a possible drunk driver, according to FPD.
FPD said during that contact, Buck fired multiple shots at the officer, hitting him, and the officer fired back before calling for help.
The injuries to Barreto, 25, were not life-threatening, police said.
Sgt. Chris Burke with LPCSO said Buck is expected to be extradited back to Farmington.
Body camera footage of the incident is below. The video contains graphic content and strong language that may not be suitable for all viewers.
After receding the tip about Buck Friday morning, police responded to the store and located Buck who attempted to get away but was ultimately detained, according to LPCSO.
Credit: Farmington Police Department
Elias Buck
Buck, who escaped from jail in La Plata County on Dec. 27. Hernandez, who was reported to be with Buck at the time of the shooting, was released pending the ongoing investigation, according to the sheriff's office.
RELATED: Man fatally shot while following his own stolen vehicle
FPD Chief Steve Hebbe released the following statement regarding Buck's arrest.
“This is the culmination of a very emotional week for FPD. We look forward to working closely with the District Attorney as this case moves through the courts, so we can achieve our goal of holding all people involved in this incident accountable and keeping our citizens and officers safe.”
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Do We Really Know What is Your Race?
A race is an organized grouping of human beings classified in terms usually seen as totally different in a particular society. The word race originally only meant common physical characteristics and subsequently to denote nationalities. From the 17th century the word race started to mean physical attributes. It became accepted as a general term for descriptions of peoples and was used to identify various types of races and their respective cultures.
There are three broad components of race that can be recognized today. First is ethnicity. It can be defined as the heritage that informs all members of a race, even though they may come from quite different geographical areas. The second component is physical traits or characteristics that are seen on a person in terms of skin color, hair color, height, weight, and similar physical traits. Finally there is the cultural identity, which is described by the cultural beliefs, practices and norms that guide members of a group. All these three components are often blended together into an ethnic identity that transcends the boundaries of race.
Since the beginning of the twentieth century, there has been much debate over the concepts of race and ethnicity. Some studies of human evolution have shown that genetic differences among human populations have resulted in cultural differences in behavior and attitudes toward people and their place in society. Similarly, some scientists have found strong genetic evidence suggesting that race does indeed play a role in human psychological traits and that human race is a social construct that is rooted in the history of human expansion out of Africa and the spread of independent groups across the globe. Most social constructionists would agree that race is a social construct because it is influenced by historical experiences of human societies. For example, a group of hunter-gatherers might regard all men of their group as members of the same race whereas a different group of agriculturalists might regard all humans of their group as members of different races.
Another issue at hand is the relationship between race and genetics. While most experts do not believe that there is any significant relationship between race and genetics, some geneticists argue that there is a very strong genealogical component to race that has been passed down through generations. These geneticists argue that there are genes that determine both race and ethnicity and that these genes may have originated several hundred thousand years ago through migration and gene mixing between various peoples. Many psychologists think that these genetic components that have been shaped through the history of human expansion are actually responsible for the sense of individualism and collectivism that many people today are willing to embrace as the basis for their sense of nationality or race.
Race and ethnicity may also be used as a way to predict or control the levels of economic inequality. Some researchers have shown that there are genetic differences between people who experience higher levels of economic success and those who have lower status and access to resources. These researchers have suggested that the sense of race or ethnicity may indeed serve as a motivator to do better in school, in work, and to achieve higher social status. This is because there is a genealogical component to these differences in the genetic makeup of people from different ethnic groups. Some research suggests that there is even a genealogical component to heightening educational opportunity. For example, some studies have found differences between children of lower socioeconomic status and those of higher status and this was found to be due to genetics.
As we can see, there is a close relationship between race and human diversity and the idea that race is purely a construct of human history is mistaken. The reality is that race is more complicated than most scientists previously thought and there is a genealogical component to it that determines both race and ethnicity. In fact, race may not even be entirely derived from genetics, but is a combination of genes that determine skin color, eye color, and hair color. If you would like to learn more about your ancestry and explore genetic ancestry testing, please visit the links below.
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News in March 2012
University launches recruitment campaign
Up to one hundred new academic positions are on offer at the University of Aberdeen, as a key investment in its ambition to be ranked among the world's intellectual powerhouses.
Visit by representatives of the British University of Egypt
The University hosted a visit this morning from representatives of the British University of Egypt (BUE) to discuss opportunities for collaboration, starting with Engineering and Geology, but with potential to look at a broader range of disciplines.
New scholarship scheme announced
The University of Aberdeen has announced a new scholarship scheme that will provide opportunities for students from Africa and South Asia.
University unveils statue in honour of the late David Craig
A statue in honour of the late David Craig has been unveiled on the top floor of the University of Aberdeen's state-of-the art library.
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Cyprus to get 32 mln euro from EU in relief aid
EU funds worth 3.1 bln euros will be allocated to member states during the period 2014-2020, aiming for the relief of refugees and asylum seekers, while Cyprus is expected to receive around 32 mln for the same purpose.
According to a public discussion on “Refugee Integration in Cyprus: Managing Diversity”, held at the EU House, in Nicosia, organised by the UNHCR office in Cyprus, the European Parliament Office and the Representation of the European Commission, Cyprus was commended by speakers for efforts to improve conditions at the Reception Centre for Asylum Seekers, in Kofinou.
European officials monitoring Cyprus’ reforms in the area of asylum and immigration noted that the centre’s capacity has been extended from 60-70 people to 400, while significant challenges remain.
Constantinos Nicolaides, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Interior, said that the Republic of Cyprus remains committed towards the EU, concerning its responsibilities towards refugees and people who require protection.
He referred to the Common European Asylum System (CEAS), noting that there should be a better allocation of responsibilities and funds among member states.
The integration of foreigners in society is the cornerstone of a successful Common European Asylum System, said Matthias Oel, Head of the European Commission’s Asylum Unit.
The effort will be only halfway complete, if the CEAS is not implemented by all member states, he added.
Oel said that a series of challenges remain for Cyprus, concerning the reception conditions of individuals requesting international protection, while noting shortcomings with regards to the protection of vulnerable groups and unaccompanied minors.
The Head of the European Commission Representation in Cyprus Giorgos Markopouliotis said that every four seconds, someone in the world is forced to leave his home due to conflicts or natural disasters, with refugees counting worldwide 17 mln.
Acting Head of the European Parliament Office in Cyprus Alexandra Attalides said from her part that member states need to improve measures targeting asylum seekers, while noting that EU funds that have been made available for this purpose exceed 3 bln. She said moreover that Cyprus’ policy-making and policy targeting should be governed by EU principles.
Cyprus, having gone through the horrors of war, is obliged to embrace refugees and help them integrate in the society, the Acting Head of the EP office in Cyprus has said.
Damtew Dessalegne, the UNHCR Representative in Cyprus said in his address that the responsibility for integration in the society falls mainly on refugees themselves, according to the results of best practices elsewhere. He noted however that a society needs to be supportive towards refugees, in order for them to be able to fulfill this responsibility.
Source: Financialmirror
Published on 12 September, 2014
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You are here: Home Latest Education News India’s Low Cost Aakash Tablet Maker In Forbes Education Innovators List
India’s Low Cost Aakash Tablet Maker In Forbes Education Innovators List
Posted by careerholic on November 10, 2012
Datawind CEO, Suneet Singh Tuli, the maker of India’s 35 dollar Aakash tablet, and Anant Agrawal, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have been named by Forbes Magazine among the 15 “classroom revolutionaries” who are using innovative technologies to reinvent education for students and teachers globally.
The publication said Tuli(44)) is the “mastermind” behind the world’s cheapest tablet computer Aakash, which has the potential to revolutionise educational access in the developing world. Datawind has a huge backlog of orders for Aakash tablet. The publication quoted Tuli as saying that “I don’t care about creating the iPad killer. I care about the 3 billion people who can afford this device.”
Agrawal, 53, a professor of computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is also the President of edX, the new combined online offerings of Harvard, MIT, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Texas.
Over 400,000 are currently enrolled in the education program. “We’ve created dramatic access to learning for students worldwide. By reinventing online learning, we can dramatically improve what we do on campus,” Agarwal, who took over as head of edX in May this year, said.
“EdX continues to up the ante by increasing partners, classes (seven to dozens for spring 2013) and innovations, such as virtual laboratories,” Forbes added.
Datawind had won the tender in 2010 to supply one lakh Aakash tablets for a price of around 49 dollars per unit. A new version of the tablet PC, featuring one Ghz processor, four-hour battery time, capacitive screen and Android 4.0 operating system, is expected to be launched in India on November 11.
Among the other education innovators on the list is Salman Khan, the Bangladeshi-American founder of Khan Academy, the revolutionary online education platform. The 36 year old M.I.T. and Harvard alumnus has so far created 3,400 videos, mostly science and math tutorials, that have been watched by more than 200 million people. Khan Academy’s YouTube channel has more than 400,000 subscribers.
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Pochettino on Romaric: ‘When you do not obey the rules there are consequences’
Espanyol boss Mauricio Pochettino has taken a tough stance with Ndri Romaric after the player turned up almost an hour late for training on Wednesday and was subsequently sent home. The Ivory Coast midfielder, on a season-long loan from Sevilla, was forced to train alone on Thursday and Friday and has been further punished by being left out of Pochettino’s squad for this weekend’s game with Valencia at the Mestalla.
It was not the first time the 28-year-old had been late but unlike on previous occasions, when he was either fined or made to pay for a meal for the rest of his teammates, he has paid a higher price and been omitted altogether. Even so, Pochettino tried to downplay the issue at a Press conference on Friday: “The word punishment is quite harsh but there are rules we have to live by,” said the Argentine. “I’m not disappointed as we all make mistakes and I still have the same confidence I had in him at a humane level. But when you don’t obey the rules there are consequences. However, we have to turn the page and hope these things do not happen again.”
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Editor’s note: This interview Nico Prins and the International League of Conservation Photographers originally appeared in A Traveller’s Journey. It’s reprinted here with full permission.
1) Can you tell me a bit about the aims and objectives of the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP)?
The iLCP was established in 2005 with the goal of enlisting the skills and expertise of some of the best photographers in the world to advance conservation efforts around the globe. We are a project-driven organization that partners with leading scientists, policy makers, government leaders and conservation groups to produce the highest-quality documentary images of both the beauty and wonder of the natural world and the challenges facing it.
Our mission is to further environmental and cultural conservation through ethical photography. We believe that awe-inspiring photography is a powerful force for the environment, especially when paired with the collaboration of committed scientists, politicians, religious leaders and policy makers. We aim to replace environmental indifference with a new culture of stewardship and passion for our beautiful planet.
Basically, to put it all in simpler words, our mission is to provide the visual assets necessary to help conservationists worldwide push forward environmental issues. One way we do this is by pairing our Fellow Photographers with conservation groups who have need of impactful imagery to help them communicate the threats and opportunities of the conservation efforts they are working on. We conduct conservation photography expeditions to get these images. These groups become our conservation partners and together, we use the great power of photography to help bring about change that will make this planet a better world for all.
Another key iLCP activity is promoting the individual projects being carried out by all of our individual Fellow Photographers worldwide (now counting 117). The organization serves as a sort of channel for all our Fellows to increase their reach to new audiences with the aim of sensitizing them about a wide variety of conservation causes and inciting them to action. We have Fellows working on every continent, and together we want to show what is happening to the world.
Finally we are also very committed to expanding the reach of conservation photography to new communities. Through our Speaker’s Bureau, our Fellow photographers can be engaged to come speak about many different conservation topics. Our Image Licensing services offer our images to both for profit and non-profit conservation minded organizations that want to make sure they are using only ethically sources photographs of the very highest quality on their websites or publications. These two programs help to bring powerful conservation imagery, and ultimately conservation messaging, to a broader public.
Kokanee salmon spawning. The Clearwater Expedition looked into land and forest use in the Clearwater Basin of Idaho, one of the largest expanses of wild forests in the lower 48 states. Copyright: Krista Schlyer, iLCP
2) Every year the iLCP runs a number field expeditions that focus on a conservation issue to different regions of the world. Can you explain to me how these conservation issues are chosen?
It depends. Since a large part of iLCP’s mission is to partner up with scientists and conservation organizations, the ideas for expeditions mostly come from our partners. It’s important for us to rely on these partners, since we don’t want to get involved in just a field trip, but rather in a whole campaign. As we say very often, iLCP is not about taking pretty pictures, it’s about communicating a strong conservation message.
For example, in 2013, an organization called “Project Seahorse” came to us with an idea for an expedition to raise awareness on coral reef conservation in the Philippines, and from there, we launched the Danajon Bank Expedition. They came to us not just with the idea of a trip to the Philippines, but with a wider strategy on how they can work with iLCP and use our photos to communicate their message, reach new and larger audiences, and achieve concrete goals for the protection of the area. They also brought a number of other partner organizations on board. Their plans included publications, exhibits around the globe, education campaigns, and plans to present the expedition work to national and international bodies to seek protection. The same applies to all of the expeditions we launched in 2013, but on various scales – some have a more local focus, some more international.
In the past, there have also been situations where iLCP is the one that decided on the destination and the campaign. At the root of all of this is funding and the interest of our Fellows. Expeditions, of course, can cost a lot of money. Just think of the cost of transportation, accommodations, food, as well as a small compensation for our photographers. If iLCP holds the discretionary funds to launch our own expeditions and campaigns, then we can get our Fellowship together, decide on a priority destination or issue, and launch an expedition. This has happened several times in the past. But lately, we have found it more effective to partner up with conservation organizations as explained above.
Pearl farm divers retrieving oyster nets in open ocean. This expedition looked into the health of the coral reef around the Gambier Islands in French Polynesia. Copyright: Michele Westmorland, iLCP
3) There were five field expeditions in 2013. Obviously one part of the job of iLCP photographers is to go out into the field and take photos that best highlight a conservation issue. How does iLCP follow up on these expeditions and what kind of approach to advocacy does iLCP take?
There were actually 6 expeditions, one of them is not on our website since the photos resulting from it were only meant to be used internally by our partner organization.
The work we do on expeditions can go on for years after the photos were actually shot, and our advocacy can take many different shapes. Immediately, as the expedition is going on or right after it is over, we use the media to bring attention to the cause. We have partners in many major media outlets, through which we spread the news about our expedition, and also the issues our partners are working on.
Afterwards, a lot depends on what our partner wishes to achieve. Some campaigns are very local in nature, some are global. So this would determine if, let’s say, iLCP works with the photographers and the partners to hold a lecture in a local school, or an exhibit that goes on a global trajectory. Or, if we launch a poster campaign through a small regional NGO, or work to get an article about the expedition in a major international publication. It all depends greatly on the nature of the expedition and the communication strategy and scope devised by iLCP and the partner.
But one way or the other, one thing iLCP helps to do is bring more attention to the conservation campaigns we join, and provide our partner the best possible images to illustrate their work.
An additional factor here is not just iLCP’s advocacy as an organization, but also the involvement of the individual photographers involvement. iLCP’s Fellows are very carefully chosen, and along with having world-class talent, we also want them to show commitment to conservation causes. So while iLCP will do a lot for advocating a cause, the individual photographers will sometimes do even more. It’s all part of the package that partnership with iLCP can offer. Our photographers in the past have embarked on lecture tours, held exhibits, and engineered thousands of articles in the world’s top publications, just to give a few examples, all in support of iLCP expeditions.
4) Are there certain issues that iLCP has worked on that have really resonated with the public?
That is a difficult question. All of our expeditions have resonated with the public, just not always the same people, in the same location and in the same way. As I explained earlier, some of our expeditions are more local in scope, some more international, and the outreach to the public is tailored accordingly.
But, if I had to pick just one, I would say that our Great Bear Rainforest expedition in Canada’s British Columbia has probably resonated the most with the general public. This expedition documented the people and the area which would be affected by the planned construction of an oil pipeline and seaport on Canada’s west coast. It became a cover article in National Geographic magazine, and the film that came out of it, “Spoil,” has been viewed around the globe, winning multiple awards on the way. This global exposure contributed to make this probably our most popular expedition yet.
One thing that really attracted the public’s attention there was our documentation of the “spirit bear,” which is the white variety of the black bear. These are not albino bears, but rather, a genetic mutation turns these bears’ coat white. The Great Bear Rainforest is the only place in the world where these bears are found, and there are only about 400 in existence. Except for locals, almost nobody had ever heard of these bears, and the photos were a surprise to most. Right away, the spirit bear became a icon of the region’s environmental struggle, and garnered attention worldwide.
Our partners in British Columbia have been very adept at using iLCP’s images effectively to attract the public’s attention towards the environmental debate surrounding the pipeline. Our images of the area’s animals, vegetation, and people, helped to clearly illustrate what is at stake, and they continue to do so, since the pipeline construction debate is not over. So while all our expeditions find an audience, our Great Bear Rainforest expedition has probably resonated the most with the public.
Young man dancing at a pow wow, Lewiston, Idaho, U.S.A taken during the Clearwater Basin Expedition. In its expeditions, iLCP has worked repeatedly with indigenous groups from all parts of the globe. Copyright: Amy Gulick, iLCP
5) In your mind, which of the numerous field expeditions that iLCP has run has been the most successful?
That is another difficult question, because success is measured differently in every expedition. Some expeditions might have results that are less flashy and less well-known, but end up just as effective as the larger, more visible ones.
Our success as well is only possible through the tireless work of our partners. We can never take the credit alone for the victories that can derive from our expeditions.
In terms of measurable, concrete successes, we can mention for example, that from our multiple expeditions to Mexico, two new National Parks were created there. Also, in Canada’s British Columbia, our efforts have helped to convince the government to declare two areas off-limits to oil and mineral exploitation.
Some of these successes also only come many years after our expeditions to a certain area. So, as iLCP is still a relatively young organization, there are still many victories to come.
Logging interests and organizations working for the protection of the forest have divided opinions on the future of Southwest Oregon’s forests. Copyright: Paul Colangelo, iLCP
6) What projects/ issues will iLCP be working on in 2014?
2014 will probably be our busiest yet. We have a large number of new and current partners knocking at our door with expedition proposals, and we also have a few expedition ideas we are working on ourselves. At the moment, there are a few expeditions confirmed, and many others in the works. The ones that are confirmed are, a return expedition to the Meso-American reef in Honduras, and an expedition to the Peel River watershed in Canada’s Yukon. We are also finalizing plans on possible expeditions to the Gila Desert of New Mexico, a wide-ranging project on the Keystone Pipeline and a few others. The other possible expeditions are in South America, Asia and North America, but we cannot confirm them just yet.
Pair of Red-Legged Cormorants (Phalacrocorax gaimardi) taken during the Chiloé Island Expedition. It is considered near threatened under the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Copyright: Chris Linder, iLCP
7) Is it possible for amateur/ semi-professional photographers to support the work of iLCP?
The iLCP fellowship is composed of 117 of the world’s top professional wildlife, nature and culture photographers, and we only work with these photographers. This is very important for us, and that is part of the product that iLCP offers. Our Fellows are very carefully selected for their talent, dedication and professionalism. When we partner up with an organization, we promise them the best possible photography, the highest skill level, and a strong international reputation to follow. That is also why these organizations come to us.
That said, in the past, we have had a few “guest photographers” on some expeditions. That is exceedingly rare, and usually in cases where the partner organization was already working with a photographer.
That also said, we are currently looking into a model that would permit amateur and semi-professional photographers to take a more active role in conservation issues. We are not ready yet to announce this initiative, but we are working on it. We are fully aware that there is a ton of talent out there outside of our Fellowship, and that there are millions of conservation issues that need coverage and exposure – more than we could ever realistically work with. So, we are looking into it, and hope to announce a new initiative or partnership soon.
But there are always ways to support us. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and share our stories. If you know of conservation organizations that would benefit from partnering with us, please let them know about iLCP. In fact, one of our 2013 expeditions happened exactly in that way – a photographer who wanted to help a conservation organization recognized that they would benefit from the incredible imagery and international exposure provided by iLCP. He put us in touch, and we are now working together.
Additionally, one very effective way to support us is to donate to our activities. Expeditions can only happen when we can afford them, and without the support of our many donors, none of our efforts would be possible.
Though seahorse fishing is illegal in the Philippines, small-scale fishers here and in other developing countries contribute to the global wild seahorse trade, which exceeds over 15 million animals per year, putting great pressures on the species. The seahorses are dried and used in Chinese traditional medicine. Copyright: Luciano Candisani, iLCP
8) Is there a process for local organizations working on conservation issues to get in touch with iLCP about working together?
The best thing to do is to send us an e-mail at [email protected], explain your cause, your goal, your funding situation, and we will get back to you. Before we decide to undertake an expedition, we discuss many topics with the potential partner, from advocacy goals, to transportation logistics, to weather, to the photographers’ expertise – you name it! Another important issue, of course, is funding. We will need to discuss how this expedition will be funded, and by whom. But the first step is the easiest, just send us an e-mail.
9) Any final remarks you’d like to make about the work of iLCP or issues you’d like to highlight?
What drives all of our iLCP photographers, staff and partners, is a great passion for our planet and all of the beings upon it. We want to find sustainable solutions to the environmental challenges faces us, and we do this by providing you the necessary visual references to influence your choices and decisions. Images have the power to attract attention rapidly and communicate a message much more rapidly than the written word, and we are using this power for positive environmental change.
Please follow iLCP on Facebook and Twitter for the latest news on the conservation work being done by our photographers and the organization. Also, join our mailing list for the latest news: http://www.ilcp.com/about/contact
Our work can only happen through the generosity of our supporters. iLCP is a non-profit, non-governmental organization and gets all of its funding through donations. If you would like to help, click below: https://ilcp.wufoo.com/forms/thank-you-for-your-support/
Marven Jay collects nudibranch eggs for dinner during the low tide. The Danajon Bank Expedition, iLCP’s largest in 2013, looked into the health of the Danajon Bank coral reef and into sustainable solutions to human use of that area of the Philippines. Copyright: Luciano Candisani, iLCP
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Raise disclosure to end 'unfair' capital raising regime
John Maroney
Jul 18, 2020 – 12.00am
Self-managed super trustees who have missed out on the recent spate of attractive capital raisings in the wake of the COVID 19-induced recession have every reason to reflect on that old maxim, “those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it”.
Except it’s not trustees who have failed to heed history’s lessons – it’s the regulators who need to review the lessons of recent history and improve the regulatory framework around capital raisings.
Once again, it seems SMSFs, and retail investors more generally, have got the short end of the stick when it comes to capital raisings at a time of economic upheaval.
Post the global financial crisis, research shows that, of the $100 billion raised by S&P/ASX 200 companies between January 2008 and December 2009, less than 10 per cent went to the retail end of the market. In the COVID-19 world, of 20 capital raisings to April 18, 75 per cent of the $8.5 billion raised went to fund managers and institutions.
This means that when the economic recovery comes and share prices rise, SMSFs in many instances will miss out because the current regulatory approach to capital raisings discriminates against them.
And this time around, there is another reason for retail shareholders to take umbrage with the regulatory regime.
On 31 March, by when the economic carnage inflicted by the pandemic was fully evident, ASIC and the ASX announced temporary emergency capital raising measures to help companies raise urgently needed capital, especially by allowing the 15 per cent placement capacity to be lifted to 25 per cent, a decision that disadvantaged existing retail shareholders.
Such was the public outcry that on April 22, the ASX announced changes to these emergency measures in a bid to address these concerns, with the result that the entire emergency package was due to expire on July 31. However, the ASX has since announced that capital raising relief will extend to the end of November.
Missing out
SMSFs have once again missed out on the opportunity to participate in capital raisings, many of which were at a serious discount to the market price.
Indeed, with the median capital raising during COVID-19 being, on average, at a 15 per cent discount to the last traded price, this is a significant penalty. To rub salt into the wound, it also means their current shareholdings have been diluted.
SMSFs are a significant investor in ASX-listed companies (at 31 December 2019, their collective stake stood at $221 billion), the dividends from which help generate retirement income for SMSF members.
But companies, in their need to raise capital quickly, have opted for share placements via an investment banking industry that puts domestic and international institutions at the head of the queue.
The need for companies to quickly access the capital markets during an economic event of this magnitude cannot be ignored. It can mean the difference between failing or surviving. But surely modern technology can be used to speed up the process so as not to discriminate against SMSF investors.
Ideally, capital raisings should deliver a win for all. Companies increase their capital and shareholders get equal access to more shares at discounted prices. So how can it be done so that retail and SMSF investors aren’t denied those benefits?
Three initial steps should be:
Large ASX-listed companies should structure their offers to maximise access for all investors to a proportionate offer, including setting aside a certain allocation for retail-focused brokers to offer to retail and SMSF clients.
If retail/SMSF shareholders own 30 per cent of company, the raising should come as close as possible to represent 30 per cent of the offering to them.
If a company does not offer SMSF/retail investors the chance to participate then they need to publicly explain why.
Companies should clearly disclose their post-allocation to all investors. Allowing investors to scrutinise these decisions will place more pressure on companies to act in the interests of all shareholders.
The SMSF Association also believes developing a single digital retail platform that builds on advancements in financial technology is the next crucial step.
The purpose of this platform would be to create a more efficient mechanism for fund raising from SMSFs and other retail investors. Participants could register on the platform, helping facilitate an even quicker process for companies and brokers to access all shareholders.
Not only would this be effective for capital raisings but may be useful for larger-scale infrastructure investments that SMSFs are typically excluded.
Numerous inquiries, such as the Financial System Inquiry, failed to address the inequities between institutional and SMSF/retail investors, with the current crisis again highlighting the price the latter pay for this.
The government and regulators should address these concerns by helping to create a more level playing field for all investors.
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Corteva CEO pushing industry to address climate change
09/25/19 4:18 PM By Philip Brasher
KEYWORDS agriculture biotechnology carbon sequestration Climate Change Corteva Agriscience gene editing genetic engineering greenhouse gas emissions seeds
The CEO of seed and chemical giant Corteva Agriscience believes farmers must play a major role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and says he's working with other companies as well as academics and non-governmental organizations to address the climate issue.
Jim Collins, speaking at the National Press Club, disclosed that he would be meeting with other company executives on the sidelines of the World Food Prize events in Des Moines, Iowa, next month.
“An integral part of the mission of Corteva is to use our convening power within our industry and across the entire food value chain to help bring about more sustainable and more collaborative solutions,” Collins said.
“For too long, the conversation around climate change has taken place in echo chambers: Businesses talking to business leaders, regulators talking to regulators, scientists, just talking to scientists and NGOs, with other NGOs. It turns out all of us are part of the solution here.”
A spokesman for Corteva, which was created from the merger of DuPont and Dow agriculture divisions, declined to provide details on the meeting, describing it as a private affair.
Collins said that while “no industry has been impacted more by climate change than the agriculture,” he was optimistic that farmers could reduce greenhouse gas emissions through new crop traits, precision agriculture and improved farming practices. The industry needs to “work smarter, more efficiently, and with a smaller carbon footprint,” he said.
He said the progress that farmers have made in protecting the Chesapeake Bay from runoff demonstrates their capability to reduce their environmental footprint. The use of cover crops and other practices is “having a very positive impact on farmers businesses, but also the very fragile Chesapeake Bay ecosystem,” he said.
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Farmers there are “making more profits off of their farm than from the old way they were farming before they put these new systems in place," and that outcome illustrates the importance of educating growers on new technologies and practices, he said.
While emphasizing the need for agriculture to reduce its carbon footprint, Collins steered clear of endorsing recommendations for consumers to reduce meat consumption as a way to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from livestock and poultry production.
“We can all align with the fact that reducing greenhouse gases is the key to improving any issues associated with climate change. Then let’s have the innovation industry focus on how do we eliminate greenhouse gases rather than tell populations around the world what food they should eat,” he said.
He said that 2019 has demonstrated the resiliency of U.S. farmers in the face of the “absolute worst start” to a plantings season in 150 years of recordkeeping. “It was the latest, wettest, coldest start to a year,” he said.
For more news, go to Agri-Pulse.com.
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Hollister, Lucy Hale Team on Two Collections
Hollister has its first celebrity deal. The new apparel collaboration with “Pretty Little Liars” star Lucy Hale will have two installments.
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Hollister has its first celebrity deal.
The new apparel collaboration with “Pretty Little Liars” star Lucy Hale will have two installments. Each reflects some element of the Southern California lifestyle, the central vibe that the Hollister brand was built upon.
The first is set for Aug. 8, and is inspired by Hale’s lifestyle — easy-to-layer pieces in colors that take the guesswork out of mixing and matching. The second is set for Aug. 29, and focuses on supersoft separates with relaxed silhouettes inspired by Southern California’s laid-back beach days.
The collection, available for a limited time, will include soft dresses, leggings, skirts and tops. The price points for items in the collection range from $19.95 to $44.95.
Hale, who helped with the design of the collection, said, “I definitely lean more towards a laid-back look, which makes my style a great match for Hollister. I wanted to create carefree outfits that effortlessly transition from a coffee run to going out.”
Michael Scheiner, senior director of marketing and public relations for Abercrombie & Fitch, owner of the Hollister brand, said Hale’s “easygoing personality goes hand in hand with our Hollister lifestyle.”
According to Scheiner, the collaboration is part of the brand’s ongoing strategy to connect with its consumers, as well as provide apparel and content they find relevant. To that end, the brand will provide updates on the Lucy Hale collection at Twitter@HollisterCo. Hale will also take over Hollister’s Twitter feed to host a live question-and-answer session, the date of which has yet to be determined. Hale, who is also a musician, will launch the marketing campaign with a performance at the Hollister House on Sunday in Santa Monica, Calif. She’ll also make a live appearance at a Hollister store at the Westfield Century City Mall in Los Angeles on Aug. 9.
Hollister has been working on its merchandising to be more relevant to teens. In March, it offered an exclusive male footwear line from SeaVees featuring signature Hollister colors, available only at hollisterco.com. That was a move that is helping it transition its business model from retail to retail and wholesale.
Abercrombie is still in the middle of its search process for candidates to fill the Hollister brand president role.
At the end of the first quarter, Hollister operated 456 stores in the U.S. and 129 stores across Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia.
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10 Best Museums To Learn About Dublin Art, Culture, History And More
BY Emily Carson
Dublin Local Expert
Museums are usually the first port of call when compiling a sightseeing itinerary and there are more than ever to choose from when you arrive in a new city. Dublin's museum scene contains all the regular museum-goer haunts, a national gallery, museum of natural history and plenty of historial museums as well.
To boot however, we also have plenty of spots that celebrate our rich cultural history from the Dublin Writer's Museum to the Hugh Lane Gallery and the James Joyce Centre. Within you'll find fascinating documents and works from some of Ireland's most famous and talented artists and really immerse yourself in Irish culture.
While it's fantastic to have such emphasis on the arts and those who have shaped the Irish arts scene there is another industry that continues to make us famous the world over. Places like the Jameson Distillery and the Guinness Brewery are a constant source of entertainment and knowledge for tourists and Dublin locals alike and they certainly make for a fun day out. If you want some respite from the information-heavy houses of learning like the National Museum of Ireland then these might be the perfect venue. But if you're all about a crash course in history and architecture never fear, there are plenty of places to get your info quota in the capital.
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While it takes a little bit more of a pilgrimage to get to the Irish Museum of Modern Art it is more than worth the journey. Located in the 17th century Royal Hospital Building both the building and the grounds are styled like that of Les Invalides in Paris and provide a stately backdrop to the contemporary installations within. IMMA boasts over 400,000 visitors a year and a mixture of both permanent exhibitions and temporary collections from many prominent contemporary artists. Admission is free and the public transport links are more than adequate but if it seems like too far to go there is a new wing of IMMA opening in the National Concert Hall on Earlsfort Terrace that looks set to house some of its most exciting work.
Local Expert tip: Don't forget to check out their website to see which exhibitions are running.
Read more about Irish Museum of Modern Art →
Dublin Writers Museum
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It's no secret that Dublin and Ireland in general have a rich literary history and the Dublin Writer's Museum is here to celebrate it. Located nearby to the Hugh Lane Gallery on Parnell Square you'll find artefacts from the writers themselves, portraits and timelines of the great Irish literary movements and a library packed full of rare and precious books including some first editions with writing from the author's themselves inside. The museum features not only Irish writers but international writers who made a contribution to Irish literary history and, in particular, shaped Irish literature through a Dublin perspective. You can feel the history seeping through the walls here, it is a wonderful resource in a beautiful house.
Local Expert tip: There are audio guides available with which to tour this museum in several languages so you need not take a purist 'reading' approach!
Read more about Dublin Writers Museum →
Natural Museum of Ireland - Natural History
Natural History Museums are commonplace in every European capital and there's a good reason why. Both adults and children alike love to marvel at the animals and creatures of yesteryear and Dublin has one of the most impressive zoological exhibits. Located within the same complex as the National Museum of Ireland, the natural history building has been operating since 1856 and was restored in 2010 to allow visitors to get more up close and personal with the collection. Exhibitions include a focus on Irish fauna, a view into the underwater world and an exhibition on the steps of evolution. It's always a wondrous experience and well worth a look.
Local Expert tip: There are resources here geared towards adults, families, students and teachers so whatever your prerogative you can find something geared towards you.
Read more about Natural Museum of Ireland - Natural History →
Guinness Brewery / Guinness Hop Store
The Guinness Storehouse is somewhat of a stalwart of the Dublin tourism scene, and despite it being one of the more expensive options on offer it does really provide a well-rounded tour and experience for your money. Taking you through the brewing process of this world famous emblem of Ireland, you get to experience not only how Guinness is made but also how it's been portrayed in the media over the years. The Storehouse building itself is impressive but it's the Gravity Bar, with its 360 view of the city, that is the real highlight. Enjoy the scenery with the pint of Guinness you've just learnt how to expertly pour, perfect.
Local Expert tip: Spend as much time as possible in the Gravity Bar - it's the best view in Dublin.
Read more about Guinness Brewery / Guinness Hop Store →
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
Photo courtesy of Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
The Hugh Lane Gallery is one of Dublin's other great, free attractions that features the collectors collection which he bequeathed to the State along with over 2000 works of contemporary and modern art. The main attraction is the painter Francis Bacon's studio which was relocated in its entirety from London and gives an incredible insight into the cluttered, haphazard nature of the artist's method. The building itself, located on North Parnell Square is beautiful and airy - the perfect place to peruse slowly. There are plenty of educational talks and drawing classes on offer as well for anyone looking to engage on another level.
Local Expert tip: This is another great spot to take children as there are workshops and there is a dedicated Children's Learning Centre resource included.
Read more about Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane →
The Old Jameson Distillery
The Old Jameson Distillery is located in what used to be the original distilling premises for the world-famous whiskey. Nowadays its main function is as a museum with some of the original distilling equipment intact and a guided tour of how whiskey is distilled. You'll get to know John Jameson and how his vision and temperament came to shape the way the distillery was run. The lack of distilling on the premises means you won't be overheated or feel faint as a result of the whiskey fumes and at the end you'll have to opportunity to drink a free Jameson or, if you volunteer yourself at the beginning of the tour, have a tasting on the house.
Local Expert tip: While you get a free drink at the end of this tour you'll need to be quick to volunteer if you want to take part in a dedicated whiskey tasting. Listen closely at the beginning of the tour for your chance.
Read more about The Old Jameson Distillery →
James Joyce Centre
The Jame Joyce Centre is located on North Great George's Street in the North Georgian Quarter and was built in the late 18th century. While Joyce himself never lived in this establishment he was connected to it through the Dance School that was run by Prof. Dennis Maginni, a character who appeared several times in Joyce's novel Ulysses. Joyce's family lived in a house not dissimilar to this Georgian building and it contains all of Joyce's addresses, an interactive tour of Joyce's Ulysses, Joyce's death mask and a range of documentaries and artefacts from Ulysses that will satisfy any diehard fans needs.
Local Expert tip: The Joyce centre runs a series of special events surrounding many of Joyce's other works so if you're less of a Leopold Bloom fan and want a different slant on his work then perhaps check to see if one of these events might suit you.
Read more about James Joyce Centre →
The Little Museum of Dublin
Grafton Street and environs
Photo courtesy of Andy Sheridan
The Little Museum of Dublin is the newest addition to the museum scene, opening its doors in October 2011. Occupying a Georgian townhouse and dedicating itself to remembering the 20th century, the Little Museum has over 400 artefacts that have been generously donated by many Dubliners to give a well-rounded reflection of Dublin's progress over the last century. The collection contains art, photography, advertising, letters and ephemera that give a fabulous insight into the city and its people. It also plays host to lectures and debates from many interesting speakers and at only €5 entrance fee for adults it hardly breaks the bank either.
Local Expert tip: Be sure to pick up the viewmaster filled with scenes of Dublin of yesteryear.
Read more about The Little Museum of Dublin →
National Gallery of Ireland
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Dating back to the mid-19th Century and packed full of fantastic pieces, the National Gallery of Ireland is one of the best ways to spend an inclement afternoon in Dublin. You can take your time exploring the many wings of art and sculpture that it has on offer for free. Take a free audio guide from the information desk or take a free tour to properly immerse yourself in the European and Irish masterpieces, you'll soon find that many hours have passed along with the bad weather. Be sure to make use of the free family packs that provide your kids with paper, pencils and activity sheets to keep the young ones as enthralled as you are.
Local Expert tip: This is a great family activity if the weather is bad.
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Irish Jewish Museum
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This independently funded museum follows the history and culture of the Jewish community in Ireland through the ages. Located in the trendy suburb of Portobello and a short walk from the Grand Canal this is a great place to stop into while walking around the area. It's walls contain the remnants of an old synagogue and substantial memorabilia and testimonials from Jewish communities around Ireland. The museum is also free but accepts donations with gratitude.
Local Expert tip: The museum itself is set to expand in the coming months so check to make sure of visiting times.
Read more about Irish Jewish Museum →
Meet Emily Carson
Emily grew up in Dublin, and studied French and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. During her university years, she lived in both Scotland and France, but traveled around Europe... More About Emily
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The Good Guy (2009)
Ambitious young Manhattanite and urban conservationist Beth wants it all: a good job, good friends, and a good guy to share the city with. Of course that last one is often the trickiest of all. Beth falls hard for Tommy, a sexy, young Wall Street hot-shot. But just as everything seems to be falling into place, complications arise in the form of Tommy’s sensitive and handsome co-worker Daniel. Beth soon learns that the game of love in the big city is a lot like Wall Street — high risk, high reward and everybody has an angle.
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Epstein - The Man Who Made The Beatles premieres in Liverpool in November 2012
Posted: 6th July 2012
Brian Epstein's short yet incredible life is charted in a brand new show about the man who did as much to launch The Beatles as John, Paul, George or Ringo - tickets on sale now
London, 1962. A young but fiercely ambitious Liverpudlian Jew called Brian Epstein is in a recording studio with four fresh-faced scousers, laying down a demo which he has paid for, such is his belief in these boys. Decca, in whose studios the tracks were being recorded, were about to make the biggest A&R mistake in pop history.
The label may have been unfathomably unimpressed but Epstein believed in The Beatles. His energy, passion and wit soon helped catch the attention of producer George Martin and an offer from Parlophone followed. The Beatles signed, history covers the rest.
At that time, Brian Epstein was just 27 years old. In the five years that followed, he became as big a part of The Beatles' success as anyone not in the band itself. He continued to hide his homosexuality, which was illegal in the UK until 1967 (the year he died), and nurtured a growing drugs dependency. His life ended, like so many, with an accidental overdose at a young age, his life barely begun yet having already achieved so much. It could be argued that the seeds of break-up for The Beatles were sown then.
Epstein remains a giant of popular music history, nowhere more so than in his and the band's hometown of Liverpool where the Epstein Theatre formally opens with its first major production, Epstein The Play. The one-man multimedia show, written by Andrew Sherlock and directed by Jen Heyes, runs from 15th November to 1st December 2012.
We have tickets available now priced from £10 for previews (15th to 17th November) and from £13 thereafter. Tickets to see this rarely told tale are likely to be in high demand, so don't delay!
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Winter Park History & Museums: Moffat Tunnel, Colorado Railroad
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Moffat Tunnel
The Moffat Tunnel, a 6.2 mile underground passage through James Peak and the Continental Divide, was instrumental in opening up the Winter Park area to homesteaders, visitors, and commerce. Read More
The Moffat Tunnel is a railroad passageway that also acts as a water tunnel, carrying precious water from the Pacific watershed to Colorado's Front Range.
Skiers, tourists and thousands of other passengers continue to ride the rails through the Moffat Tunnel, heading to explore the Rocky Mountains.
The Moffat Tunnel is a railroad passageway and water tunnel spanning 6.2 miles at over 9,200 ft. above sea level, buried underneath the peaks of the Rocky Mountains. Its completion in 1928 was a testament to man's ingenuity and is still considered an engineering feat today. Though thousands of passengers have traveled through the tunnel via the California Zephyr and other trains, the Moffat Tunnel's main purpose is to carry water to Denver and the Front Range from the Western Slope Fraser Basin, and to give coal and freight trains a direct route to major industry destinations.
The tunnel was a necessity for progress, given that the original tracks on Rollins Pass were hard to maintain because of the rocky terrain and snow loads, which made travel dangerous and unprofitable. The tunnel was named after its visionary; David Moffat, a wealthy businessman, knew that Denver should be a stop on the transcontinental railroad so it could compete in the future of commerce, and to provide a shorter route to Salt Lake City. Though he died before his brainchild was set into motion, his efforts helped to create the Moffat Tunnel through James Peak and the Continental Divide, laying the tracks through Grand County and continuing west. The subsequent railroad traffic is what drove settlers to the Winter Park area to take advantage of logging, agriculture and livestock opportunities, and its use as a water tunnel is also attributed to Denver and the Front Range's ability to grow and thrive.
The East Portal is located ten miles west of Rollinsville and the West Portal is near the Winter Park Ski area. The portals are protected from foot traffic; the tunnel is very easy to see from the Winter Park Ski Resort Base.
Hours/Seasons
The tunnel is used for railroad traffic year-round.
If you're interested in traveling via rail and through the Moffat Tunnel, check for a schedule and rates with Amtrak. The California Zephyr train can be boarded in Denver and it takes approximately two hours before it arrives at the Fraser depot (just two miles from Winter Park).
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Mattis: Immigrant Service Members Won't Face Deportation
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House, in Washington. Mattis says he confirmed that the nearly 850 immigrants currently serving in the military or waiting to start training won’t face deportation despite the ongoing federal wrangling over the fate of people who came to America illegally as children.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nearly 850 immigrants currently serving in the military or waiting to start basic training won't face deportation despite the ongoing federal wrangling over the fate of people who came to America illegally as children, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said.
Mattis said Thursday he spoke with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen earlier in the day in what he described as a "confirming call" and was told that those military members and all veterans who were honorably discharged will be safe unless they have committed a serious felony or a judge had issued a specific deportation order for them
President Donald Trump said in September that he was terminating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which provided protection from deportation for people brought to America as children who are now living here illegally.
Previously, U.S. officials have said the military members' DACA status wasn't clear. But on Thursday Mattis said flatly it's not a problem. "They will not be subject to any kind of deportation," he told reporters. "In terms of the DACA situation ... it's clarified they are not in any kind of jeopardy."
Mattis added that Homeland Security has been always willing to work with the Pentagon on DACA issues, and he said, "we would always stand by one of our people." All of those DACA service members came in under a small, special recruiting program called Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest, that seeks people with particularly critical skills. Many of them are fluent in key languages, including various Afghan and Iraqi dialects or perhaps Russian or Chinese.
Last September, the administration said people whose DACA status expired before March 5 could apply for renewal, which essentially gave Congress six months to come up with a legislative fix. A federal court ruling, meanwhile, blocked Trump's move, prompting the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to say it was once again accepting and processing DACA renewals.
That case leaves open the question as to whether someone could enlist in the military and then seek protection from any subsequent deportation move. Congress continues to struggle to find a legislative solution. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi staged a record-breaking, eight-hour speech in hopes of pressuring Republicans to allow a vote on protecting the hundreds of thousands of so-called "Dreamer" immigrants.
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Sorry, Bob Stoops, but Nick Saban's contract makes the Sugar Bowl an exhibition game
Updated: Jan. 13, 2019, 10:09 p.m. | Published: Jul. 23, 2014, 10:59 p.m.
By Kevin Scarbinsky | Special to AL.com
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Alabama coach Nick Saban reacts during his team's 45-31 loss to Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 2, 2014, in New Orleans. (Vasha Hunt/vhunt@al.com)
Tell Bob Stoops that Nick Saban may have been mistaken. To the Alabama football program, the Sugar Bowl really wasn't, as Saban said this week, "a consolation game."
In truth, and Stoops isn't going to like this any better, it was more of an exhibition game.
Any bowl game that isn’t a semifinal playoff game or the national championship game is an exhibition game for the Crimson Tide.
It goes beyond the fact that Saban has raised the bar in Tuscaloosa to Got 13/14/15/16 or bust. It actually says so right there in section 4.03 (b) of the coach’s contract under the subheading “Incentives.”
There is no financial incentive for Saban to win any postseason games other than the SEC Championship Game, a playoff semifinal and the Student-Athlete Super Bowl.
Check the numbers. Saban gets $65,000 for playing in a garden variety bowl. He gets $90,000 for playing in the Chick-fil-a, Cotton, Capital One, Outback, Gator “or any equal successor bowl game associated with the Southeastern Conference.” He gets $125,000 for playing in a BCS “or its successor entity” bowl that’s not part of the playoff system.
How much of a bonus does he get for winning any of those games? Not a penny more. Simply getting there is its own reward.
There is, however, extra money on the line in the SEC Championship Game. Reach it, and Saban gets $75,000. Win it, and he gets $125,000.
There’s even more money on the line in the playoff. Reach the semifinals, and he gets $200,000. Win a semifinal game, and that bonus is $300,000. Win the semifinal and the final, and he earns $400,000, payable - as all of these bonuses are - within 30 days.
This is in addition, of course, to the $6.9 million a year Alabama now pays Saban for coaching 12 regular-season games because, as the contract says, there is "additional work that is required for postseason games."
So Stoops really shouldn’t take it personally that Saban appeared to minimize Oklahoma’s 45-31 win over Alabama in the Sugar Bowl. Truth is, as much as Saban wants to win every game he coaches, he got paid the same $125k for losing to the Sooners that he would’ve earned had he beaten them.
Do the math and don't forget to add LSU 21, Oklahoma 14 in 2003's national championship extravaganza. When it comes to games between them in the Superdome that really matter, the scoreboard still reads Saban 1, Stoops 0.
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Trump invited to pro-Moore rally Saturday featuring bluegrass music and a bucket of chicken
Updated: Mar. 05, 2019, 9:48 a.m. | Published: Sep. 21, 2017, 6:11 p.m.
Dean Young (left) and Roy Moore (right)
By John Sharp | jsharp@al.com
This much is for certain: President Donald Trump will be in Huntsville Friday to stump for Senator Luther Strange.
But could the president make a detour and head south to rural Washington County on Saturday night and pitch for Strange's opponent, Roy Moore? At least one Moore backer is making an overture to find out.
Dean Young, a former candidate for the U.S. House, is sending a personal invitation to Trump to attend a 5 p.m. "grassroots rally" in rural McIntosh.
The invitation, according to Young, includes a promise to cover the president's hotel fare for the evening, a bucket of "original recipe chicken" waiting upon his arrival and the opportunity to "hear some of the finest bluegrass music in the world."
The invitation was sent out after Trump rescheduled his rally from Saturday to Friday. Young is hosting the rural Washington County rally as a final gathering in support for Moore ahead of Tuesday's runoff election.
Moore and Young are both good friends. Moore campaigned for Young in 2013, when the conservative developer from Orange Beach was campaigning against Bradley Byrne in Alabama's 1st congressional district election. Byrne won that election and a subsequent rematch in 2016.
Young, in his letter, said the McIntosh rally is "as far from the Washington, D.C. establishment as you can get."
"As with the great people of Huntsville, you will be at home in the reddest heart of America with those who have rejected Mitch McConnell's agenda and who have embraced your own agenda," Young wrote in the letter, indicating those who will be in attendance are some of the same people who "stood most faithfully and loyally beside" during Trump's presidential campaign last year.
Trump is scheduled to speak at 7 p.m. Friday at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville on behalf of Strange's campaign. The president originally endorsed Strange in August before the primary, and followed up with a congratulatory Tweet at Moore for the ex-judge's primary win.
Young, earlier this week, said most of the people he knows - and who are supporters of Moore - are surprised over the president's endorsement of Strange, who is receiving financial support from the McConnell-led Senate Leadership Fund.
Moore has garnered the backing of the "Great American Alliance," which is backed by a former White House aide to Stephen Bannon, who resigned as Trump's chief strategist in August. The group is holding a pro-Moore rally in Montgomery tonight with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
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Afghan forces target Haqqani strongholds
Focus of conflict shifts east as ISAF-backed Afghan security forces take fight into troubled Pakistani border region.
By Mujib Mashal
NATO says Afghan forces were leading both operations targeting eastern Haqqani strongholds [GALLO/GETTY]
Afghan and coalition forces have concluded two major operations in eastern Afghanistan against the Taliban and the Haqqani network, signifying the beginning of a shift in military focus towards the troubled border region with Pakistan.
The Afghan-led operations called Knife Edge and Shamshir, which concluded on October 23, lasted 10 days, targeting Haqqani strongholds of Paktya, Paktika and Khost, as well as largely insecure provinces of Ghazni, Wardak and Logar closer to the capital Kabul.
“The operation was aimed at securing key population centers and expanding the Kabul security zone,” Master Sergeant Nicholas Conner, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF), told Al Jazeera. Conner was only speaking about operation Shamshir, which falls under his jurisdiction.
About 200 fighters – 20 of them linked to the Haqqani network- “were killed or captured” in both operations, ISAF said in a statement. At least five ISAF soldiers also died.
A spokesman for the Afghan defence ministry refused to comment on the number of Afghan casualties, saying their reports from the field were incomplete.
Extensive clearence operation
The offensive comes after a series of high-profile attacks on Kabul, most of them blamed on the Haqqani network, a faction of the Taliban that allegedly operates out of Pakistan but also holds significant influence in tribal areas on the Afghan side of the border.
As the US-led NATO forces begin handing over security control to Afghan forces ahead of the 2014 withdrawal date, concerns remain about the spread of Taliban and Haqqani influence in the volatile east.
In recent months, Afghan and coalition officials have hinted at shifting military operations to the east, closer to the Pakistani border, to stem the cross-border flow of fighters. Some see the twin operations as the beginning of the kind of extensive clearence operation carried out in southern Helmand and Kandahar province over the past two years.
Provinces covered in the operation are highlighted
“The sense is that there is definitely going to be a shift in fighting towards the east,” Conner said. “The east is probably going to be one of the last areas to transition control of security to the Afghan forces – just because of the nature of the fight there.”
In addition to thousands of Afghan army and police forces, “three brigade-size” groups of coaltion forces took part in operation Shamshir, totalling about 10,000 troops, Conner said. Each brigade has 3,500 to 3,800 soldiers.
“Because of the terrain and environment, you are not seeing huge scale operations, but a collection of smaller ones. That’s what Shamshir was: a collection of smaller, company-size operations.”
General Hadi Khaled, a security analyst and former deputy minister of interior, said the operation was a good start, but much more was needed.
“I think this is the beginning of the process. These brief targeted operations are important, but we need extensive clearance operations such as the one in the south – in Helmand and Kandahar – to actually bring security to the eastern region.
“The enemy – particularly Haqqani – has spread far in the larger Paktya area and the east in general.”
Border deployments?
Conner brushed aside media reports that in recent weeks NATO forces were “massing” along Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan.
“That is just a misconception,” he said, arguing that the brigades mobilised as part of Shamshir operation were probably perceived as being deployed to the border.
“In the past four months, troops in border regions such as Paktya and Khost have remained the same,” he said. “In fact, one of the task forces left and the new unit had about 800 soldiers less.”
Regional Command East, as ISAF refers to the eastern military zone, includes such strategic border province as Khost, Kunar, Nangarhar, Nuristan, Paktika and Paktya.
“I believe the people are on the side of the government. But the government has been very negligent in providing them security.“
– General Hadi Khaled
In addition to 33,000 coalition forces, 68,000 Afghan national security forces are also deployed in the zone, with a particular focus on population centres.
However, authorities in Nuristan and Kunar have long complained about a lack of assistance from coalition forces and the Afghan army despite repeated requests.
The mountainous province of Nuristan, in particular, has been constantly under attack in the past couple years, with the Barg-e-Matal district repeatedly falling to the Taliban.
“We neither have international forces here, nor the national army,” Shams ul Rahman Nuristani, the provincial police chief, told Al Jazeera.
“The national army finally sent some soldiers, but they are temporary and will be leaving soon.”
‘Rugged and independent’
He said his staff of 2,800 police, forced to fight in the frontlines, was not enough to secure the province. An additional 500 Afghan Local Police – a militia-like new force- was approved for the Barg-e-Matal and Kamdesh, the two districts taking most of the fire, but their weapons and salaries were yet to arrive.
“The enemy has more presence here than any other province: there are Punjabis, Arabs, Chechens … insurgents of every kind here.”
Sergeant Conner said it was unlikely that Nuristan would be part of the “focus to the east” because of the rugged terrain, and the fact that it was not one of the major “population centres”.
“Our focus in the east is to secure key population centres and expand the Kabul security zone,” he said.
“Nuristan is not a key population centre. And also, the people there are rugged and independent who would probably prefer to be left alone.”
He said ISAF was focused on empowering the Afghan forces in the area rather than deploying its own troops in the secluded province.
Acknowledging the difficulty of the terrain and the infancy of the Afghan air force, analyst Khaled, however, said Nuristan and Kunar were important in achieving any lasting security in the east.
“Nuristan and Kunar are very strategic areas, crucial to reaching the northeast of the country.
“Despite the large presence of the enemy there, I believe the people are on the side of the government. But the government has been very negligent in providing them security.”
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History repeats itself as criticism of Cramer, finance journalists quashed
Sarah Gilbert
It's no secret that Wall Street has long been in willful denial George Santayana's aphorism, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Repeat the past they must, forever buying stocks when they're at their peaks and selling when they're crashing. There's another aphorism that, perhaps, might come from the much-ballyhooed criticism face off between John Stewart and Jim Cramer, says Thomas Frank in today's Wall Street Journal: the stock market is not the friend of the small investor.
Cramer and CNBC, the network on which his energetic show appeared, are just a few of the hundreds of "thought leaders" who have gone on depicting the stock market as a place in which anyone, not just the moneyed elite, can make a buck, and have fun doing so; despite every evidence to the contrary. Remember the great crash of 1929? For the most part, the extremely wealthy survived that fine. Not so the small investor, caught up in the fervor. As Frank says, if the "world of financial infotainment can itself be described as a "market," it is a market where accountability does not seem to exist, where the heaviest of incentives seems to carry no weight, and where consumers, to judge by what they get, seem constantly to choose the lousy over the good."
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The Chicago Poetry Center presents BLUE HOUR, a free monthly online reading series and generative writing workshop hosted and facilitated by Marty McConnell.
Each event features two readers from Chicago and beyond, followed by an optional, limited-space workshop focused on a poem by one of the featured readers and including guided generative writing time.
The reading room opens at 6:15 central, reading begins at 6:30, ends at 7:15. The workshop begins at 7:30 central, ends at 8:15.
Registration is free and you can sign up for one or both portions of the event, but each registration must be completed separately.
ABOUT THE READING: The Blue Hour reading features readings by two poets from Chicago and beyond, followed by a brief Q&A.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP: The Blue Hour generative writing workshop is suitable for writers and poetry fans of all levels. We will discuss a poem by one of the night’s featured readers, then Marty will guide the group through individual writing on an exploratory prompt that draws on themes from the poem.
NOVEMBER FEATURES:
VIOLA LEE graduated from NYU with an MFA in Poetry. Her book “Lightening After the Echo” was published by Another New Calligraphy. She has published poems in literary journals throughout the U.S., and recently published in Bellevue Literary Review, Literary Mama, Hong Kong Review, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, After Hours, and Another Chicago Magazine. She has poems forthcoming in Barrow Street, Crazyhorse, BOAAT PRESS, Lotus Magazine, New Plains Review and North Dakota Quarterly. She lives in Chicago with her husband, son and daughter. She teaches 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders at Near North Montessori School.
신 선 영 辛善英 SUN YUNG SHIN is a Korean-born writer based in Minneapolis whose fourth book of poems, The Wet Hex, will be published by Coffee House Press in 2022. She is also the editor/co-editor of three anthologies of essays, most recently What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family (2021), and the author/co-author of two illustrated books for children. ABOUT THE HOST: Marty McConnell is a poet, educator, and healer based in Chicago where she provides vital coaching and consulting services to people and organizations, supporting them in being planful, proactive, and powerful in building the lives and worlds they envision. She is the author of when they say you can’t go home again, what they mean is you were never there, winner of the 2017 Michael Waters Poetry Prize; her first full-length collection, wine for a shotgun, received the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Awards and was a finalist for both the Audre Lorde Award and a Lambda Literary Award. YesYes Books recently released her first nonfiction book, Gathering Voices: Creating a Community-Based Poetry Workshop. She is the co-creator and co-editor of underbelly, a web site focused on the art and magic of poetry revision. An MFA graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Best American Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, Gulf Coast, and Indiana Review. www.martyoutloud.com
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Kundiman is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing generations of writers and readers of Asian American literature.
Kundiman creates a space where Asian Americans can explore, through art, the unique challenges that face the new and ever-changing diaspora. We see the arts as a tool of empowerment, of education and liberation, of addressing proactively the legacy we will leave for our future. To extend Kundiman’s vision of community building for Asian American writers everywhere, Kundiman has developed a national network of regional groups to host their own salons, readings, and workshops. Kundiman Midwest supports the live captioning of the Blue Hour’s readings and workshops, and members of the regional group are featured in the reading series.
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The mission of the Chicago Poetry Center is to connect people with poetry, equitably engage poets with communities, and foster creativity and literacy in schools. We envision a world where poetry catalyzes reflection, connection, and change.
Since the Chicago Poetry Center’s first readings took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art in 1975, the Poetry Center has been a mainstay of Chicago’s cultural scene. Free public readings continue to be offered monthly in virtual and physical formats. Over 325 poets have participated in public readings, and a digital archive of their work is available on the Poetry Center website. The expansive archive also serves as the basis of a digital module for teaching poetry, which was recently developed by the Center’s Executive Director and is available at no cost to teachers.
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244-11. A.S. in a garden near Palmach Memorial in Northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, December 29, 2001
A.S. inside Palmach Memorial in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, December 29, 2001
A garden in northern Beer-Sheva opposite to railway station after a rain, with Hanegev Palmach Brigade Memorial on background. The Middle East, January 26, 2001
View of Ramot neighborhood of Beer-Sheva from a northern hill with Hanegev Palmach Brigade Memorial. The Middle East, January 26, 2001
View of railroad, university swimming pool, and central Beer-Sheva from a northern hill with Hanegev Palmach Brigade Memorial. The Middle East, January 26, 2001
Beer-Sheva at sunset from a northern hill with Palmach Memorial. The Middle East, November 28, 2002
Bedouin sheep in northern Beer-Sheva, view from Palmach Memorial. The Middle East, March 4, 2000
Ben Gurion Boulevard, with Hanegev Palmach Brigade Memorial on background. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, February 8, 2001
Hanegev Palmach Brigade Memorial to Israeli conquerors in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, March 4, 2000
Hanegev Palmach Brigade Memorial to Israeli conquerors of Beer-Sheva. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, May 19, 2000
Beer-Sheva during sunset from Palmach Memorial hill. The Middle East, December 15, 2002.
View of BGU and north-eastern Beer-Sheva from the hill with Palmach Memorial. The Middle East, May 12, 2000
The city south from a hill with Palmach memorial. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, June 1, 2002
Sunset over Ramot from a hill with Palmach memorial. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, June 1, 2002
Decayed Israeli (?) flag over BGU soccer field, Palmach Memorial is seen behind, in Negev Desert. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, May 7, 2000
Bedouin sheep behind Hanegev Palmakh memorial in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
Colchicum flowers in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, December 29, 2001
A colchicum flower in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, December 29, 2001
A.S. in Gan Remez garden in central Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, December 22, 2001
View of Ben Gurion University of the Negev from a northern hill with Hanegev Palmach Brigade Memorial. The Middle East, January 26, 2001
Red anemones in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
Pine forest in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, January 27, 2001
Red anemone (adonis) in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
Wild flowers in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
Avraham Well used as an emblem of Beer-Sheva, now almost neglected. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, January 18, 2001
Caterpillars in Negev Desert in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
Plants in Negev Desert in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
Sunset in northern Beer-Sheva, view from a window of a bus. The Middle East, February 22, 2001
Spring flowers with caterpillars in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
Coral tree in Gan Remez garden. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, March 16, 2001
View of the hill with Palmach Memorial from Hevron Road. Eucalypti are on the foreground. Beer-Sheva, March 4, 2000
Negev Desert after a rain behind Ben Gurion Boulevard, with Palmach Memorial on the horizon. Beer-Sheva. March 23, 2000
Wild flowers in Negev Desert in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, January 26, 2001
Wild pea flowers in Negev Desert in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, January 26, 2001
Red anemones (adonis) in Negev Desert in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
Spring flowers in Negev Desert in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
Red anemones with bugs in Negev Desert in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
A dwarf flower in Negev Desert in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
Wild onions (?) in Negev Desert in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
Garlic-like flowers in Negev Desert in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
Peas-like flowers in Negev Desert in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
Red anemones and asphodel in Negev Desert in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
Wild flowers in Negev Desert. Northern Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, February 24, 2001
A dwarf iris in Negev Desert in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
View of the large mosque from Gan Remez garden. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, March 16, 2001
A concrete dome and a fountain in Hanegev Palmach Brigade Memorial. The Middle East, January 26, 2001
A small yellow anemone in Negev Desert in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
Wild onion flowers in Negev Desert in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, January 26, 2001
Dome of the large mosque, view from Gan Remez garden. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, March 16, 2001
Spring flowers in Negev Desert (with military junk) in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
A fleshy spring flower cropped by Bedouin sheep in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
The most common winter flower in Negev Desert, asphodel, in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, January 27, 2001
Wild flowers (with leaves eaten by Bedouin sheep) in Negev Desert in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, January 26, 2001
A.S. at the corner of Ha-Atzmaut and Bet Eshel Street in Old City of Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, December 22, 2001
A new street in Ramot neighborhood in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, December 16, 2000
Ramot Quarter in northern Beer-Sheva at evening. The Middle East, December 16, 2000
A plant with seeds that had violet flowers in January and yellow onions in Negev Desert in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, February 24, 2001
An abstract sculpture in Gan Remez Garden in downtown Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, December 22, 2000
Abstract sculptures in Gan Remez Garden in downtown Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, December 22, 2000
Desert plants after a rainy season in Negev Desert in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, January 26, 2001
A hill in Negev Desert near Ramot neighborhood in northern Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, December 16, 2000
Abstract sculptures of Bernhardt Jensch (Germany) in Gan Remez Garden in downtown Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, December 22, 2000
A parched garden in Negev Desert opposite to northern railway station (the desert is as arid as ever despite D. Ben Gurion s vision). Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, May 19, 2000
Dates in BGU. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, September 8, 2001
A date palm in BGU. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, September 8, 2001
Bedouin Market. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, September 13, 2001
A dove in a window. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, June 13, 2001
Hebrew class at BGU. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, March 4, 2001
Near the house at Ben Gurion Boulevard. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, May 5, 2001
Near Ben Gurion Boulevard. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, March 16, 2001
A cat near Ben Gurion Boulevard. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, February 8, 2001
View of Nahal Beer Sheva from Hativa Shemone Bridge. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, November 4, 2000
A railroad sign "Beer-Sheva" in Arabic on the Turkish Train Station. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, November 4, 2000
A cat in Shekhuna Gimel neighborhood. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, February 24, 2001
A cat over a dumpster at Nili Street. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, July 19, 2001
A sleeping cat on a wall at Wingate Street. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, May 30, 2001
British World War II cemetery. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, November 18, 2001
A gazing cat at Nili Street. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, July 24, 2001
Souvenirs at Bedouin Market. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, September 13, 2001
Candy at Bedouin Market. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, September 13, 2001
A red cat in Shekhuna Dalet neighborhood. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, October 8, 2001
A stray cat near Ben Gurion Boulevard. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, January 26, 2001
Houses for immigrants at Bialik Street. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, November 18, 2001
A cat on a lawn at Senesh Hanna Street. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, July 18, 2001
A white cat in Shekhuna Gimmel neighborhood. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, September 22, 2001
Abandoned building of the Great Mosque. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, November 18, 2001
Hibiscus flower at Yerushalaym Street. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, September 27, 2001
Eucalyptus (?) in bloom at Bialik Street. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, February 16, 2001
Sheep trade at Bedouin Market. Beer-Sheva, the Middle East, September 13, 2001
Bedouin villages 1 mile north from Beer-Sheva. The Middle East, January 27, 2001
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Experts at Cybersecurity Forum organised by ASTRI urge enterprises to “get stronger cyber-defence not only for survival, but also for growth”
[Hong Kong, 18 April 2019] Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) organised the ‘Cybersecurity Forum: The Next-Gen Defence against Cyber-Threats on the second day of the Internet Economy Summit 2019.
Cybersecurity is a key concern in the digital era – that is the inevitable way of life for individuals and businesses alike. The forum explored tools and strategies for better preparedness in that context – including regulatory and compliance issues, professional approach to cybersecurity, securing cloud and other trusted services, and safeguarding businesses against increasingly sophisticated cyber-crimes.
In his welcome remark, Dr Martin Szeto, Chief Operating Officer of ASTRI, said, “As a major global economic hub, Hong Kong must safeguard its financial activities and assets, to drive future growth and prosperity. We can secure our valuable information, processes and systems by building a strong pipeline of cybersecurity research, applications and talents.”
Dr Lucas Hui, ASTRI’s Senior Director of Security and Data Sciences presented an overview of Cyberscecurity – followed by four eminent experts from Hong Kong, Mainland and overseas – and shared views and insights on the all-encompassing cybersecurity landscape and ecosystem. The other speakers were: Mr Stefan Eigler, Practice Leader Mastering Risk & Compliance of TÜV Rheinland; Ms Samantha Alexander, Principal Accreditor of the global cybersecurity certification body CREST; Dr Qingni Shen, Professor and Vice Director of the Department of Cybersecurity in Peking University, and Dr Frank Law, Senior Superintendent of the Cybersecurity and Technology Crime Bureau of the Hong Kong Police Force.
The speakers later took part in a panel discussion – joined by Mr Teddy Ko, Managing Director of Singapore Telecom Hong Kong; Mr Frankie Li, Security Analyst of Dragon Advance Tech Consulting; and Mr Wilson Wong, Chief Executive Officer of Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation. The panellists had an interactive sharing with the audience, discussing tactics for businesses to embrace modern cybersecurity challenges.
Well over 200 tech experts, public and private sector representatives, aspiring entrepreneurs and investors participated in the forum. Hosted by ASTRI, it was one of the thematic forums during the Internet Economy Summit 2019, which was organised by the Hong Kong SAR Government and Cyberport.
ASTRI was set up by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2000 with the mission of enhancing Hong Kong’s competitiveness in technology-based industries through applied research. ASTRI’s core R&D competence in various areas is organised under seven Technology Divisions, namely Advanced Digital Systems, Communications Technologies, Electronics Components, Mixed Signal Systems IC, Intelligent Sensing Technology System, Intelligent Software and Systems, and Security and Data Sciences. Our R&D strategic focus covers five areas of applications: Smart City, Financial Technologies, Intelligent Manufacturing, Health Technologies, and Application Specific Integrated Circuits through our mandate as the Hong Kong branch of the Chinese National Engineering Research Centre (CNERC).
ASTRI organised the ‘Cybersecurity Forum: The Next-Gen Defence against Cyber-Threats’ on the second day of the Internet Economy Summit 2019
ASTRI’s “2021 Advanced Semiconductor Innovation and Development Conference” brings together industry stakeholders from Mainland and HK for innovation and collaboration
[Hong Kong, 3 January 2022] The Hong Kong Applied Science and Research Technology Institute (ASTRI) successfully held the first “Advanced Semiconductor Innovation and Development Conference” ...
ASTRI and HKT Jointly Granted 2021 CAHK STAR Award “Best 5G Application” Bronze Award For C-V2X Solution
[Hong Kong, 9 December 2021] The Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) and Hong Kong Telecom (HKT) have been jointly awarded the 2021 Communications Association of Hong Kong (CAHK) STAR Award “Best 5G Application” Bronze Award for their jointly developed cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) solution ...
ASTRI wins awards for Energy-Conserving Power Supply System and Intelligent Learning System for SEN Students at Hong Kong ICT Awards 2021
[Hong Kong, 30 November 2021] The Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) has won a Smart Living (Smart Home) Silver Award for its Power Supply System for Carbon Neutral Buildings at the Hong Kong Information and Communications Technology Awards (ICT Awards) 2021 ...
CITIC Telecom CPC and ASTRI Partnership Expands Business Innovation Possibilities With AI-AR Integration
[HONG KONG, 17 November 2021] – CITIC Telecom International CPC Limited (CITIC Telecom CPC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited (SEHK: 1883), is entering a new phase in its partnership with Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) for using AI and augmented reality (AR) innovation to create unprecedented value and enable exceptional experience in different industries and markets ...
ASTRI’s Electronic Packaging Innovation Awarded First-class Prize of the 2020 State Scientific and Technological Progress Award
[Hong Kong, 4 November 2021] A R&D project in which the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) played an important part, titled “Key Technology and Complete Set of Processes for High Density and High Reliability Electronic Packaging”, has won a First-class Prize of the 2020 State Scientific and Technological Progress Award ...
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Punjab Society: Perspectives and Challenges
M.S. Gill (Editor)
Synopsis This reader focuses on the social, economic and cultural changes experienced by the people of Punjab in the wake of agrarian developments. The process of economic development and social change becomes more relevant in the regime of liberalization and globalisation. The readings are organized in a way that emphasize changes across several major areas of study. The key areas are: Contemporary Punjab, Agrarian Development, Social Change and Globalisation, Rural Credit Institutions, Women Empowerment, Development and Environment. All the issues have been discussed with a view to reformulating policies towards social development. The reader examines the role of diverse institutions operating in the rural society with an idea to their adequacy to meet the emerging challenges of development, especially in the field of education, agricultural finance and growing destruction to the eco-system with the hope that these institutions will consequently be strengthened to match the performance to the rising needs of the people and the State. Some of the major issues related to the underprivileged and the vulnerable sections of the society have also been discussed in these sections. Based on the data gathered from field-work and secondary sources, this reader vividly describes the ground realities of an agrarian society like that of Punjab, which is rapidly transforming itself in terms of needs, aspirations and socio-economic perceptions of the people. This publication would be of great help to the students, teachers, rural experts, policy makers, bureaucrats and anyone with an interest in Punjab Society.
M.S. Gill
Manmohan S. Gill is Reader in the Department of Sociology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. He has also served in the capacity of Reader, Academic Staff College and Programme Coordinator, NSS, in the same university. He has worked as Social Scientist with Operation Research Group, a division of Sarabhai Chemicals Ltd., New Delhi in 1982. Dr. Gill has over 18 years of teaching and research experience. His area of specialization is Rural Sociology and Social Ecology. He has completed three research projects in the subject of untouchability and land relations. He has published numerous papers in the research journals, besides making presentations in various academic forums at national and international levels. He has authored a book Spatial Patterns: A Sociological Analysis. Dr. Gill is life member of Indian Sociological Society and North-West Indian Sociological Association. He is also the Associate Editor of Guru Nanak Journal of Sociology.
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Title Punjab Society: Perspectives and Challenges
Author M.S. Gill
Publisher Concept Publishing Company
length xxii+362p., Tables; References; Index; 23cm.
Subjects Social Sciences > Sociology
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Trip of a Lifetime
by Eric K. Reinholt, Pat LLC Carpenter (Editor) Eric K. Reinholt
Eric Karl Reinholt, Sr.
Eric Karl Reinholt Sr. is an author, actor, director and producer and was born as Eric Karl Reinholt.
After 6-years in the Navy, he got his start in radio while working on a BA in Communication at the University of Texas at Arlington. He worked in radio for over a decade before making the transition to TV News, and then theater and film.
Eric is excited about publishing his first book "Trip of a Lifetime", because it combines his past experiences with his love for science and fantasy.
He began his work in radio as a disk jockey at KVTT in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex and as a producer for syndicated radio host Tom Dooley. Later, he moved to Pennsylvania to become the Program and Music Director of radio station WGRC; during his tenure, WGRC rose to #3 in the market.
He transitioned into television by working as an editor for KENS-TV in San Antonio. While he was there, Chief Meteorologist Albert Flores took him under his wing, and, within a year, Eric was working as the weekend weathercaster and weekday reporter for WCJB-TV in Gainesville, Florida.
After receiving his certification in broadcast meteorology, he moved on to become Chief Meteorologist at KRBC-TV in Abilene and later the morning Meteorologist at KTSM-TV in El Paso. He later completed a BS in Geoscience from Mississippi State University and an MS in Environmental Science from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
He caught the acting bug in Community Theater when he was cast as David Benjamin in Neil Simon's God's Favorite. Shortly thereafter, he moved out to Los Angeles and studied acting at the Baron Brown Studio, the Larry Moss Studio, with Brian Reese of the Brian Reese Acting Studios, Will Wallace of the WWAC, and Kevin McCorkle.
As an actor, Eric is best known for his work as Stallman, opposite Jake Busey, in the movie Cross (2011) (V), as Russian mobster Andrei Kirillov in Organizatsiya (2015), as Mr. Lynch, opposite Sal Landi, in Divorce Texas Style (2016), and Doctor Kowolski in The Emeryville Experiments (2016).
His Directorial Debut: Solar Alterations (2016) (TV) won a Bronze REMI Award at the prestigious Houston International Film Festival (a.k.a. WorldFest Houston).
Eric hopes this latest venture, Trip of a Lifetime, will educate you about a possible future scenario of our world and its inhabitants. He hopes to also make you laugh, cry, and draw you into the lives of the various characters.
Dedication 7
Chapter 1 9
Chapter 2 28
Chapter 7 103
Chapter 10 156
Acknowledgements 321
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"The Moon is like a lover: it has a familiar face when the light shines upon it, but there are often shades of gray and, of course, the dark side. I guess my fear of the dark side has kept me single these last several years, but evidently, I am destined to be intimate with this heavenly body."
Was asked if I'd like to be a beta reader for this book, and when I was sent what it was about I knew straight away it would be a book I would enjoy. The writing is amazing the storyline kept you reading. Book is set in the distance future. We follow our main character Stephan von Rice and a few others. They are going into space for a trip to the moon to look at some real estate deals that are being planned for living on the moon soon. The earth's climate has been unpredictable and out of control, since the melting of the polar icecaps. But not everything goes according to plan. Someone is killed and now they need to find the murderer before anyone else is hurt. But meanwhile on Earth disaster is striking. Will they get to the moon or is Earth calling them back. In this story of love, loss, trust and mystery, I couldn't put it down every time I picked it up. Would recommend you pick it up and give it a read. You can now preorder Trip Of A Lifetime.
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Obama Administration Pushes To Ratify UN Gun Treaty
Secretary of State John Kerry signed it, a confederation of Republican and Democratic senators oppose it, and now President Barack Obama has renewed his vow to see the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty ratified.
However, supporters of Second Amendment rights—such as the National Rifle Association—oppose the treaty because of the crippling effect it could have on the right of law-abiding Americans to keep and bear arms.
The treaty took effect in 2014, but 67 senators need to vote for its passage, and the Obama administration has never submitted it to the Senate. After Kerry signed on, 50 senators immediately sent a letter of concern to the president, stating the treaty was “vague and easily politicized” and warning of a nationwide gun registration.
The ‘We Don’t Want To Take Your Guns’ Lie Revealed—Again
While gun-control advocates like to say they don’t want to take away anyone’s guns, they often prove that to be just another lie by … proposing to take away someone’s guns.
Such is the case with the editorial board of The Seattle Times, which over the weekend published a doozy of an op-ed titled “Time To Ban One Of America’s Favorite Weapons.” Yes, you guessed it: The editorial board is calling for a full ban on ownership of AR-15 rifles, which the editors, in their ignorance, called “assault weapons.”
The proclamation came in support of state Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s proposal this week to ban common semi-automatic rifles and magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammo. The editorial board did get one thing right, though: “Such a law clearly would limit a constitutional right and should be carefully crafted,” the editors wrote, seemingly not caring a bit that they are advocating for more freedom lost.
Chicago Man Paying For Armed Neighborhood Security
A Chicago resident, concerned about violence in his neighborhood, is taking NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre’s statement, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” to heart.
According to a report on Breitbart.com, De Mudd has begun paying a security company to provide armed guards—mostly off-duty police officers working for the company—to patrol a portion of the Gold Coast historic district six days a week.
According to Breitbart, Mudd believes the police department is spread too thin to cover much of the city, so has spent $5,000 for security and anticipates spending $50,000. And while the security is working, he says it’s not a final fix to criminal violence. “I have solved the problem for my neighborhood, but what I’ve done is I’ve just pushed the problem to another street corner in Chicago,” Mudd told CBS Chicago. “That’s not the results that we, as citizens, should be looking for.”
Aussie Criminals Arming Up Despite Gun Ban
A new report out of Australia shines more light on the fact that gun bans only affect those willing to obey laws, not violent criminals wanting to prey on the disarmed masses.
A feature story at theage.com titled “Young, Dumb and Armed” states, “Despite Australia’s strict gun-control regime, criminals are now better armed than at any time since then-Prime Minister John Howard introduced a nationwide firearm buyback scheme in response to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.”
“They’re young, dumb and armed,” one former underworld associate, who survived a shooting attempt in the western suburbs several years ago, told the website. “It used to be that if you were involved in something bad, you might have to worry about [being shot]. Now people get shot over nothing—unprovoked.”
Well, at least Aussies can look at the bright side: All those pesky law-abiding citizens worried about self-defense aren’t armed to cause problems for the emboldened criminals.
Armed Men Rescue Woman Under Attack In Parking Lot
A woman in a Shawnee, Kan., Walmart parking lot was attacked on Sunday afternoon by two men as she was putting her baby in a car seat. After being struck in the back of the head, she began screaming, alerting two bystanders who came to her rescue.
When the first good Samaritan approached, he was shot by one of the attackers. However, a second man came to their aid, shooting and killing one of the attackers and causing the other to flee. The second attacker was arrested a short time later.
Police told The Kansas City Star that the injured rescuer was awake, alert and scheduled for surgery. The woman was hospitalized with a critical head injury, but her condition has since been upgraded to “good” and she should be released soon. The baby was unharmed.
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Trade Union Rights February 2021
Posted 1 Mar 2021, 6:32am By
This is a quick survey of some of the major trade union issues in the world today, collated from ITUC and the ILO News.
Stories taken from: https://www.ituc-csi.org/violations-workers-rights-seven-year-high https:// and www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/newsroom/lang--en/index.htm
Vocational training hampered by COVID-19 pandemic
It was noted in an ILO press release on 1st February that according to a global survey of more than 1,350 providers of Technical Vocational Educational Training (TVET), many countries and training providers were insufficiently prepared to respond to the constraints that resulted from the crisis, although some rapidly shifted to distance learning.
It was also noted that a majority of survey respondents had reported disruptions to training, in particular to work-based learning due to enterprise closures, as well as the cancellation of assessment and certification exams.
However, on a more positive note, it was also mentioned that since the start of the crisis, innovations in teaching and learning had begun to emerge, according to the report, Skills development in the time of COVID-19: Taking stock of the initial responses in technical and vocational education and training .
AR Rahman: Let's use the power of music to fight child labour
It was argued in February that music transcends all barriers and it was noted that the Music Against Child Labour Initiative was launching an international song competition this February with AR Rahman as one of the esteemed judges
Music competition launched to raise awareness of child labour
ILO issued a press release on 3rd February noting that the Music Against Child Labour Initiative, which brings together musicians to raise awareness of child labour, was launching a song competition on 3 February 2021 to mark the UN International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour.
It noted that, “musicians of all genres are invited to submit a song to inspire governments and stakeholders to take action to eliminate child labour, which affects nearly 1 in 10 children worldwide. While child labour has decreased by almost 40 per cent over the last two decades, the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to reverse that progress.”
Quality apprenticeships to improve skills of young Burkinabé
It was noted on 4th February that to remedy the skills mismatch and unemployment among young people, the project "Youth Employment in the Sahel Region" was implementing concrete actions linked to the key elements of the ILO approach to quality apprenticeships in order to improve and strengthen the national system.
It was said that, “to improve the creation and access to decent jobs for young people in West Africa, and particularly in Burkina Faso, the ILO is implementing this project through regional cooperation, capacity building, knowledge sharing, innovative and evidence-based labour market policies.
To remedy the skills mismatch and unemployment among young people, the project "Youth Employment in the Sahel Region " is implementing concrete actions linked to the key elements of the ILO approach to quality apprenticeships in order to improve and strengthen the national system. In addition, the programme is currently being piloted with the development of new educational tools, closely linked to the needs of the labour market. 150 young people benefit from training in two trades in the construction sector and they will be supported at the end of the training to increase their chances to integrate the labour market.”
ILO achieves carbon neutrality
It was noted in a press release on 8th February that the ILO had started working on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in 2016, by introducing an Environmental Sustainability Policy and an Environmental Management System. The goal then had been to improve the operations of the Organization, making them more environmental friendly.
It was further noted that, “in the past four years several measures to reduce environmental impact have been implemented at the ILO headquarters in Geneva, where 80 per cent of the waste volume of the building is now recycled or composted. A “Papersmart Policy”, covering the production and distribution of paper documents, has also been introduced.”
EU and ILO reinforce cooperation to shape just recovery from crisis and promote decent work
It was noted on 4th February that the European Commission and the ILO had signed a renewed exchange of letters on Thursday 4 February, updating the framework for their longstanding cooperation that began in 1958. This is the third formal agreement, following previous exchanges of letters in 1989 and 2001
Commissioner Nicolas Schmit was reported as saying: “The world of work is profoundly changing. The pandemic is having an immense impact on employment and social affairs. Digitalisation and climate change transform the what, where and how of our work. We have to act now and seize the momentum to tackle these important challenges, but at the same time we have to ensure that we build in the social dimension in the transition. I look forward to continuing our good cooperation with the ILO to build a better future of work in the EU and across the world.”
ILO Director-General Guy Ryder was noted as saying: “Our partnership with the European Commission is very valuable to us. At a time when the world of work is facing so many challenges, we need to join forces for a human-centred approach to the future of work. I look forward to continuing our strong partnership.”
ILO joins partnership to promote global health
A press release on 9th February noted that the ILO had joined 12 other multilateral organizations in a partnership to promote health at work and elsewhere, and help countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Labour, freedom and happiness: The great driving forces of antiquity
In a discussion, on 11th February about workers’ right in ancient times, it was noted that slavery or forced labour had not been a generalized practice in antiquity. Furthermore, the so-called "strike papyrus" (now in the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Italy), created in 1166 BC, contains evidence that the builders, artisans and scribes who had lived in the ancient Egyptian village of Deir el-Medina and worked on the tombs during the reign of Ramses III (thought to be from 1186 to 1155 BC), were free people. It was argued that, “the scroll shows that these workers, along with their bosses, stopped work in an organized and collective way to demand the payment of wage arrears and to protest at corrupt State administrators.”
Military coup in Myanmar: solidarity action
It was reported on 8th February that the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) was appalled at the seizing of power by the military in Myanmar and would do all within its power to stop the coup succeeding, ensure the release of those detained and bring an end to the violence and harassment of the people of Myanmar.
Sharan Burrow, ITUC General Secretary, was reported as saying: “We are demanding that all governments stand together and not recognise or appease the military takeover.
“Myanmar’s seat at the United Nations must be vacated, the UN Security Council must take action and we need an urgent special session of the UN Human Rights Council.
“The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) must act to fulfil the democracy and human rights commitments in its charter. As a first step, sanctions should be targeted at the military leaders, including immediate financial sanctions that focus on the military’s business interests.
“All governments need to trace supply chains of military-run companies to ensure full and complete application of these sanctions.
“Of course, all military cooperation with Myanmar must cease immediately with a ban on weapons exports to the country. All lobby firms employed by Myanmar’s military should be exposed and held to account by governments.
“We need immediate support and assistance for all refugees fleeing persecution by Myanmar’s military, and diplomatic staff in foreign countries must be protected.
“International companies should provide support to workers where operations are curtailed and give support and protection to workers protesting the coup.
“We stand in solidarity with Myanmar’s workers and with the people of Myanmar and pay tribute to those brave, working people taking action to reject the military takeover.
“After 30 years of military dictatorship, we pledge to stand united with the people of Myanmar to ensure that the people’s vote is respected and that all those who have been democratically elected can form a legitimate government.”
Global unions ramp up pressure on governments and corporations to isolate Myanmar military junta
It was noted on 9th February that ten Global Unions representing more than 200 million workers from across the world had called on unions globally to ramp up pressure on governments and corporations to target the commercial interests of the Myanmar military junta.
The Global Unions signing this joint statement are:
Building and Wood Worker’s International
IndustriALL Global Union
International Transport Workers’ Federation
International Trade Union Confederation
International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations
Public Services International
Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD
UNI Global Union
ILO calls on Myanmar to respect freedom of association and restore democratic order
It was noted on 10th February that in the wake of the military takeover that had sparked widespread demonstrations in Myanmar, the Director-General of the International Labour Organization said workers and employers must be able to exercise their right to protest without violence or threats.
Post-COVID digital economy must include persons with disabilities
A press release on 11th February noted that Changes brought about by the expanding digital economy could help persons with disabilities gain more equal access to the world of work, or they could create greater barriers. It was reported that a new ILO report proposed actions to ensure that the post-COVID world of work is disability-inclusive.
It was further noted that advances in the digital economy, which had been significantly accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, were creating unprecedented opportunities to build a more inclusive world of work for the more than 1 billion people with disabilities globally, a new report from the International Labour Organization (ILO) says.
However, it was also noted that digital barriers also threatened to aggravate existing inequalities and exclusion, unless they were countered with effective and targeted initiatives, as highlighted by the study.
Trade Unions' engagement is key to implement the UN Reform and the Agenda 2030
It was noted on 15th February that on the occasion of the launch of two ACTRAV flagship publications for trade unions, Maria Helena ANDRE, Director of the ILO’s Bureau for Workers’ Activities (ACTRAV) was explaining why the engagement of trade unions is key for the implementation of UN Reforms and achieving progress on the SDGs. It was reported that she also stressed the ILO’s expectations vis-à-vis the important role of workers’ organizations in development processes,
Where next for the automotive industry?
On 15th February 2021 it was reported that the automotive industry was facing disruption from the COVID-19 pandemic, trade disputes and a digital revolution, as well as concerns about the industry’s environmental footprint and working conditions in its complex supply chains. It was further noted that representatives from governments, employers and workers in the automotive industry were meeting virtually that week at the ILO to discuss future challenges and opportunities including skills and training needs.
Myanmar: Junta’s cyber law brings age of darkness
photo: SENTRO
It was noted on 15th February that while Myanmar’s military coup leaders escalated violent suppression of popular dissent and continued to arrest and detain hundreds of people without any due process, their planned cyber law would place the entire population under ongoing surveillance and eliminate freedom of speech.
A circular economy can promote decent work
It was noted on 16th February 2021 that COVID-19 had shown that health, decent work and environmental sustainability were strongly linked. It was argued that the principles of the circular economy – repair, re-use and recycle – were key to achieving sustainable supply chains and could help to promote decent work.
ILO to release report on the impact of digital labour platforms on the world of work
It was reported on 17 February 2021 by ILO News, that the International Labour Organization (ILO) was to launch its flagship report, World Employment and Social Outlook (WESO) 2021: The role of digital labour platforms in transforming the world of work on Tuesday 23 February, 2021.
It was noted that, “the report focuses on two main types of digital labour platform: online web-based platforms, where tasks are performed online and remotely by workers, and location-based platforms, where tasks are performed at a specified physical location by individuals, such as taxi drivers and delivery workers.”
It was also noted that the report, “ examines how digital labour platforms are transforming the world of work and how that affects employers and workers. The report draws on the findings from surveys and interviews conducted by the ILO with some 12,000 workers and representatives of 85 businesses around the world in multiple sectors. It also includes recommendations on how to ensure that digital labour platforms provide decent work opportunities and foster the growth of sustainable businesses.”
ILO Director-General calls for greater equality on World Day of Social Justice
It was reported that ILO Director-General Guy Ryder had called for global solidarity to support vaccine roll-out and economic and social recovery from COVID-19 crisis, in his message for World Day of Social Justice.
Belarus: Further Attacks on Unions and Journalists
On 18th February, it was reported that in a further crackdown on trade unions that week, the authorities in Belarus had ransacked the offices of the REP radio and electronics union and had targeted the BAJ journalists’ union.
Income support to help 17,000 garment workers in Lao PDR hit by COVID-19
It was reported on 23rd February that the Lao Social Security Organization (LSSO) had that day announced that one-time cash transfers totalling US$ 1.8 million would help mitigate workers’ lost income and support business continuity while reducing employers’ staff turnover costs.
Rapid growth of digital economy calls for coherent policy response
It was noted on 23rd February that the growth of digital labour platforms was presenting opportunities and challenges for workers and businesses and a need for international policy dialogue.
It was argued that digital labour platforms had increased five-fold worldwide in the last decade according to the ILO’s latest World Employment and Social Outlook 2021 report and that this growth had underlined the need for international policy dialogue and regulatory cooperation in order to provide decent work opportunities and foster the growth of sustainable businesses more consistently.
Iraq: Jobs, and cultural heritage the focus of new ILO-EU-UNESCO collaboration
It was reported on 24th February, that with support from the European Union, the programme would use employment-intensive approaches to create decent jobs and upgrade skills and employment services for internally displaced persons, Syrian refugees and host community members, while preserving and rehabilitating cultural heritage sites
Q&A with Corinne Vargha on the launch of the 2021 CEACR Report
In a comment on 25th February, it was noted that The Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations (CEACR) was one of the key elements of the ILO’s supervisory system for International Labour Standards. It is an independent body composed of 20 high-level legal experts, charged with examining the application of ILO Conventions and Recommendations by ILO Member States. It was further noted that it had just published its annual report.
It was sated that the key message was that, “ the COVID-19 crisis did not suspend obligations under ratified international labour standards (ILS) and the concrete commitments made by ILO Member States to protect the dignity and freedom of people at work remained during the current pandemic, and will strengthen the resilience of societies in building back better. Any derogations should be exercised within clearly defined limits of legality, necessity, proportionality and non-discrimination.”
Collated by Peter Sagar, A Living Tradition CIC, March 2021
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Policy Buffers and Solid Fundamentals to Anchor Hong Kong’s Economic Resilience
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JULY 27, 2020 | PRESS RELEASES
SINGAPORE, July 27, 2020 – Hong Kong’s[1] economy and financial system have remained resilient despite pressures from the U.S.-China tensions, the social unrest in the second half of 2019, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Following a sharp downturn in H1 2020, the economy is expected to stage a recovery toward the end of 2020 and into 2021 on the back of improvements in the global and domestic pandemic situations and aided by supportive policy measures. This is according to the preliminary assessment by the ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) after its virtual Annual Consultation with the Hong Kong authorities from July 13 to 24, 2020.
The mission was led by AMRO Lead Economist, Dr. Chaipat Poonpatpibul, while Director Mr. Toshinori Doi and Chief Economist Dr. Hoe Ee Khor participated in the policy meetings. The discussions focused on challenges in reviving the economy, maintaining financial stability, and lifting confidence amid the pandemic and heightened U.S.-China tensions.
1st row (from left to right): Dr. Chaipat Poonpatpibul, AMRO Lead Economist & Mission Chief; Mr Edmond Lau, HKMA Senior Executive Director (Development); Mr. Darryl Chan, HKMA Executive Director (External).
2nd row (from left to right): Mr. Archie Ng, HKMA Division Head (External); Mr. Toshinori Doi, AMRO Director; Dr. Hoe Ee Khor, AMRO Chief Economist.
“The Hong Kong economy is expected to contract by 7 percent in 2020, largely due to the impact of social distancing measures to contain the COVID-19, before growing by 4.5 percent in 2021”, said Dr. Poonpatpibul. “The contraction has been broad-based and pronounced. However, Hong Kong’s strong buffers and macroeconomic fundamentals have allowed policymakers to take large stimulus measures to provide income and liquidity support to the households and businesses, and to support the recovery of the economy going forward.”
Hong Kong’s recession has carried over from 2019 to 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an economic contraction of -8.9 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2020. Since then, economic conditions have remained austere, reflecting a prolonged standstill for businesses, and a pronounced rise in unemployment and underemployment. Most recently, a third wave of the COVID-19 outbreak has led to the re-tightening of social distancing measures. High-frequency indicators point to continued weakness ahead.
The authorities have taken large-scale policy support measures amounting to about 10 percent of GDP. These measures have focused on shoring up confidence, easing liquidity strains, averting mass layoffs, and affirming the government’s strong commitment to backstop economic and financial stability and livelihoods. Leveraging on banks’ ample capital and liquidity buffers, the authorities and the banking sector worked together and introduced a series of measures to support corporates and households, such as deferment of debt repayment, increase lending to SMEs by providing credit guarantees, and allowing for a more flexible treatment of loans.
Risks and vulnerabilities
Looking ahead, prolonged weak global and domestic economic conditions due to the pandemic are Hong Kong’s top risk. The recent third wave of the pandemic demonstrates that this risk is still elevated even in a jurisdiction with sound containment measures. Re-imposing more stringent containment measures for public safety makes it more challenging for the resumption of economic activities and improvement in labor market conditions in the near term.
Uncertainty related to U.S.-China tensions following the enactment of the National Security Law and the U.S.’ decision to remove Hong Kong’s special status is another key risk with a potentially high impact that requires close monitoring.
While universal measures can help provide relief quickly, targeted measures are more cost-effective and can help preserve policy buffers. As the economy moves through the recovery phase, measures should become increasingly targeted, and more fiscal resources could be channeled to support vulnerable groups. The eventual withdrawal of policy support measures should be assessed based on economic recovery progress, and avoid cliff effects.
Efforts to address longer-term challenges should be further strengthened as soon as practicable. These efforts include more support for the less upwardly mobile groups, creating more jobs across different wage brackets, providing more affordable housing, and strengthening social safety nets. Furthermore, Hong Kong should continue to play a key role in connecting China with the rest of the world, including facilitating China’s further reform and opening-up and contributing further to the Greater Bay Area project.
Finally, the mission team would like to express its deep appreciation to the Hong Kong authorities and other counterparts for their thoughtful comments and candid views. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all meetings for this year’s consultation were held in virtual space. AMRO wishes to express our appreciation for the support and coordination for this arrangement.
[1] For brevity, “Hong Kong, China” is referred to as “Hong Kong” in the text.
About AMRO and AMRO’s Annual Consultation Report:
The ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO) is an international organization established to contribute towards securing macroeconomic and financial stability of the ASEAN+3 region, which includes 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China; Hong Kong, China; Japan; and Korea. AMRO’s mandate is to conduct macroeconomic surveillance, support the implementation of the regional financial arrangement, the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralisation (CMIM), and provide technical assistance to the members.
The Annual Consultation Report was prepared in fulfillment of AMRO’s mandate. AMRO is committed to monitoring, analyzing, and reporting to its members on their macroeconomic status and financial soundness. It also helps identify relevant risks and vulnerabilities, and assists members, if requested, in the timely formulation of policy recommendations to mitigate such risks.
Jasmine Chia
Email: jasmine.chia@amro-asia.org
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David Paul Buckingham
June 18, 1944 - November 2, 2021
David Paul Buckingham, 77, went to be with his Lord and Savior on November 2, 2021. He was at home in Roswell, surrounded by his family. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 am, on Tuesday, November 16, 2021, at Grace Community Church, 935 W Mescalero Rd, Roswell, NM 88201. David was born in Monterey, CA, to David Clinton and Vesta Buckingham on June 18, 1944. He grew up in Prairie City, IA, and then Denver, CO. That is where he met and married Dana Kay Richards. September 22, 2021 was their 55th anniversary. Between their meeting and nuptials, David served three years in the Army. After that he managed auto parts counters for a number of years, then prepared semi-truck and trailer repair estimates and then plumbing/HVAC parts management. He was very mechanically inclined and shared that gift with friends and family. When he wasn't working, David was very involved with his church family. He taught and participated in many Bible studies and services, including outreaches in many Colorado correctional facilities. David was also very involved in Christian Motorcyclist Association, often serving as the chaplain for the chapters he and Dana were involved in. David rode his motorcycle in many Veterans Day parades and stood in Patriot Guard flag lines for fallen veterans. David is survived by his wife Dana; daughters: Valerie Buckingham also of Roswell, Wendy Bezotte and husband Lee of Sherrard, IL; brother, Duane and wife Karen of Bonita, CA; grandchildren: Forrest and wife Kayleigh, Cole and Hudson Bezotte and Briana, Rachel and Christopher Bryan. Memorials may be given to Grace Community Church and Roswell VFW post 12184. The family wishes to extend our sincere thanks to Grace Community Church for their love and support throughout his membership with the church and at this time of his homecoming. Please take a moment and share a kind thought or memory with David’s family at www.andersonbethany.com. David’s tribute was written in his honor by his daughter, Valerie.
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Steven Siegelaub
Steven practices as a transactional real estate lawyer, with much of his practice devoted to the purchase, sale, leasing and financing of all types of commercial properties, along with related environmental and land use matters. Steven also assists high net worth clients with residential real estate matters. Steven’s clients include a leading high-end apartment developer, an international retailer and many prominent real estate entrepreneurs and developers in Connecticut.
Steven attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut where he received his B.A. degree, summa cum laude, in 1978, and was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa. Steven received his J.D. degree from Columbia University in 1982, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Following graduation from law school, Steven was admitted to the New York Bar and worked as a real estate associate at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan. Steven was subsequently admitted to the Connecticut Bar and worked as a real estate associate at Day, Berry & Howard. Steven joined Levett Rockwood P.C. in Westport, Connecticut in 1985, where he became a shareholder and continued to work until 2002, when he became a Member of Berkowitz, Trager & Trager, LLC.
Steven has been selected for “The Best Lawyers®” publication in Real Estate Law since 2006, and was selected by Best Lawyers as the “Lawyer of the Year” for 2013, 2017, and 2019 for Real Estate Law – Stamford Area. Steven has also been included in the Connecticut Super Lawyers® publication in Real Estate since 2009, and is Peer Review Rated AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell® for Ethical Standards and Legal Ability™.
Columbia University, J.D., 1982
Wesleyan University, B.A., 1978
State of Connecticut
Seller’s counsel for the $120,000,000 portfolio sale of five shopping centers.
Developer’s counsel for the assemblage and simultaneous purchase of over 20 parcels for a 460-unit apartment project with retail and restaurant facilities
Seller's counsel for the $123,000,000 sale of an eight-office building portfolio and seventy slip marina in Stamford, CT
Purchaser's counsel in the $40,000,000 acquisition and subsequent sale of a 261 unit apartment complex in Stamford, CT
Landlord's counsel in the leasing of over 200,000 square feet of office space in a two-building office complex in White Plains, NY
Tenant's counsel for a leading high-end retailer in the leasing of retail outlet and mall locations throughout the United States and overseas
Developer's counsel for the ground leasing, financing and construction of a new Whole Foods store in Darien, CT
Borrower's counsel for construction, working capital and debt refinance loans for a prominent Fairfield County country club.
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Sheetz Albrightsville PA 18210 Sheetz, Inc. is an American chain of corner store as well as coffee bar owned by the Sheetz family. The stores offer a mix of custom-made food, drinks, and corner store things. Nearly all of them sell fuel. Its head offices remain in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Shops are located in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Virginia, and also North Carolina.
A couple of locations are full-blown vehicle quits, consisting of showers as well as a laundromat.
Sheetz, Inc was founded by G. Robert “Bob” Sheetz in 1952 when he acquired among his daddy’s 5 milk shops located in Altoona. In 1961, Bob employed his sibling Steve to work part-time.
In 1963 the second shop was opened under the name “Sheetz Kwik Shopper.” A 3rd store complied with in 1968. In 1969, Steve came to be general supervisor. The brothers prepared to expand at the price of one shop annually with a target of seven shops by 1972. In 1972, the firm expanded from seven to fourteen shops. One year later, Sheetz started selling fuel, as well as opened up the initial self-serve gas pumps in main Pennsylvania.
By 1983, Bob as well as Steve had opened 100 shops. In 1981 Bob retired as well as Steve became president.
In 1995, Stanton R. “Stan” Sheetz, Bob’s kid, ended up being head of state and Steve assumed the position of Chairman of the Board. To today, Sheetz maintains a family business with 4 family members serving on the Executive Committee.
During the mid-1990s, Sheetz offered It! Soda, the chain’s private-label brand name of sodas offered in containers, bottles, and as fountain beverages. The beverage was discontinued as well as the water fountains were changed with Pepsi products. The chain now has both Pepsi as well as Coca-Cola products in the water fountains.
In December 2004 they began supplying the new Sheetz MasterCard PayPass with RFID innovation, and also was just one of the first stores to approve such innovation, ahead of McDonald’s, Arby’s, CVS, and competing 7-Eleven, all of which introduced it nationally in 2006.
On July 10, 2006 Sheetz came to be Pennsylvania’s 2nd retail chain to use E85 ethanol-based gas choice at select stations.
In 2008, Sheetz opened its first commissary, Sheetz Bros. Kitchen area, to generate fresh sandwiches and also bakery items that are sold at Sheetz places.
All Sheetz shops are company-owned-and-operated. Sheetz is the dominant convenience shop chain in much of Pennsylvania, holding a virtual syndicate in Altoona as well as a commanding share in Pittsburgh (where it competes with 7-Eleven, Speedway, GetGo, and also to a much minimal extent Circle K) and Harrisburg (where it mostly competes with Rutter’s, as well as 7-Eleven and Speedway), yet is significantly lacking from the Delaware Valley ( consisting of Philadelphia) due to the existence of Wawa, leading to a intense ” competition” between the two chains amongst Pennsylvanians, though the two companies themselves have a friendly partnership.
In October 2013, Stan Sheetz ended up being Chairman of the Board of Sheetz, with his relative Joseph S. “Joe” Sheetz becoming president and CEO.
Published in November 2013, Kenneth Womack’s Made to Order: The Sheetz Story traces the firm’s history from its dairy-store origins through today day.
In 2014, Sheetz opened its 2nd warehouse and kitchen facility in Burlington, North Carolina.
Sales for 2018-2019 totaled $7.5 billion.
On November 29, 2019, Sheetz revealed an expansion right into Columbus, Ohio beginning in 2021. Sheetz prepares to open up 60 areas in the Columbus location by 2025 ( even more than doubling its current shop count in Ohio), with Sheetz COO Travis Sheetz informing the Columbus Dispatch that “we’re not coming in gently”. Places currently verified will certainly be found in Obetz (near Rickenbacker International Airport), 4 places in Columbus appropriate (including one just outside of John Glenn Columbus International Airport near Gahanna and an additional near Hollywood Casino Columbus, Mark Wahlberg Chevrolet, & the former Westland Mall), Circleville, South Bloomfield, Polairs, Reynoldsburg, and also 2 each in Delaware, New Albany & Hilliard; places in Grove City & Lancaster (the latter due to its close proximity to an existing Sheetz area in Zanesville) are also expected.
In 2020, Sheetz discontinued selling Faygo soft drinks and also replaced them with their new private-label brand, Sheetz Pop!. This beverage successfully changes It! Soda 25 years after the last item was discontinued.
In 2003, Sheetz opened up a concept shop in the food court of Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. This place used Sheetz’s made-to-order foods and also fountain beverages in a extra conventional fast food format. It did not work as a convenience store. The shop has since closed.
In 2012, Sheetz, once more, began pondering ” brand-new principle”, “fuel-free” areas. In 2014, a strategy was announced to open up such a area on the university of West Virginia University, in Morgantown, WV. The intent was to call it “Sheetz MTO Market”, nevertheless, when opened up, in February 2015, the shop was named “Sheetz Café” (although outdoor signage coincides as all various other stores).
In September 2015, another no-fuel café opened up in State College, , near the university of Penn State University. In Indiana, PA, on the border of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania campus, a Sheetz that previously carried gasoline was taken apart, as well as changed with a no-fuel coffee shop that opened in August 2016. A 4th such area opened up in September 2017, in Charlottesville, VA, directly nearby from the campus of the University of Virginia.
In September 2019, Sheetz introduced they would not renew their lease with WVU for that Morgantown location. The firm used no explanation for the closure.
Sheetz, Inc. is an American chain of convenience stores and also coffee shops had by the Sheetz family. Sheetz plans to open 60 areas in the Columbus area by 2025 ( even more than doubling its present store count in Ohio), with Sheetz COO Travis Sheetz telling the Columbus Dispatch that “we’re not coming in gently”. In 2020, Sheetz ceased marketing Faygo soft beverages as well as changed them with their brand-new private-label brand name, Sheetz Pop!. In 2003, Sheetz opened a concept store in the food court of Hanes Mall in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The intent was to call it “Sheetz MTO Market”, nevertheless, when opened, in February 2015, the shop was named “Sheetz Café” (although exterior signage is the same as all other shops). Sheetz Albrightsville PA 18210
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NHS funding's north-south divide: why the 'sicker' north gets less money
Thursday, 22nd March 2018, 9:34 am
Updated Thursday, 22nd March 2018, 9:34 am
Patrick B.M. Burch, University of Manchester
Primary care is in crisis. Funding of general practice has not risen in line with the ever increasing demands being placed upon it. Patients are less satisfied and recruitment and retention of GPs is a big problem. While I strongly advocate for more primary care funding, this needs to be done in an equitable manner, with resources going to the patients and areas that need them the most.
Since 2004, most funding for general practices in England has been calculated using a method known as the Carr-Hill formula. This method of distributing funds opens up a north-south divide and sees more cash going to areas with the least need. Practices in the north of England are deprived of vital resources while practices in areas such as London are comparatively overfunded.
The formula, although based on common sense principles, is now outdated and not fit for purpose. Successive governments have talked about replacing it but no alternative has been introduced. To ease the stress on the NHS and ensure the right resources get to the right people, the method of funding primary care needs to overhauled.
How the formula works
The Carr-Hill formula uses a number of factors to calculate how much money a practice should receive. These include the ages of patients, the number of newly registered patients, how rural a practice is and whether the practice is located in London. It also includes a measure of how healthy the practice population is.
However, the calculation for measuring the health of the practice population is too simplistic and does not reflect reality. Rural practices, and those located in London, receive a higher proportion of funds because their locations are deemed to be more costly to practice from. This is partially due to perceived higher staffing costs in London and remoteness from hospital services in rural areas. But our research has revealed that these factors combine to skew the formula and divert funds away from areas with sicker patients. Our analysis shows that areas with the highest levels of ill health are not always the best funded. This is because of the simplistic measure of illness in the formula and the weighting given to factors such as being in London.
How it could work
We used publicly available data to evaluate if primary care funding in England matched health needs. The team examined data from 7,779 GP practices in England, covering almost 57m people (99% of the population). Unlike the measure of illness in the Carr-Hill formula, we devised a method of measuring illness based on what chronic conditions patients have recorded with their GPs. This method is much more sophisticated than the basic measure of health needs used by the Carr-Hill formula. By linking funding per person with the overall health needs for recorded chronic conditions, our research shows that current arrangements for GP practices are unreliable.
The work illustrates that practices in London and rural areas tend to receive a disproportionately high level of funding in comparison to the health needs of the populations that they serve.
‘Ghost patients’
In addition to the London bias intrinsically present in the Carr-Hill formula, a second piece of research by our team demonstrated that the presence of “ghost patients” on the books of GP practices may be exacerbating the north-south funding divide. The census – done every ten years – is taken as the definitive measure of the English population. However, there are roughly 2m more patients registered with GPs in England than there are on the English census. By looking at registration with practices in comparison to the census population we were able to ascertain certain areas and demographic factors that were linked to higher levels of over-registration.
Our analysis showed that London has considerably higher levels of patients registered with GPs, in comparison to citizens recorded on the census, compared to the rest of England. On average, London practices have 6% more patients on their lists than local census data suggests would live in the practice area. This compares with an average over-registration level of 3.9% for the entire English population.
Other factors linked to over-registration levels were higher levels of non-white British population, elderly populations and greater proportion of females. The reasons behind over-registration are not fully clear but our analysis indicated one cause could be patients that have been registered with a GP and have then left the country. Moving areas, and registering with a new GP, would trigger removal from an existing practice list. However, there is no commonly followed procedure for removing a patient from a practice list when they leave the country. London has a highly international, transient population and this could partially explain why it has more “ghost” patients.
Numerous calls have been made over the last decade for the allocation of primary care funding to be changed and it is expected to be reviewed by the government this year.
Our work is evidence that the current arrangements are unjust and need changing. The method that sees extra funding allocated to rural or London based practices needs to be reviewed, as does the way in which the health of populations is measured. If these changes aren’t made then the north-south divide will widen and those patients and practices who need the funding most will continue to miss out.
Patrick B.M. Burch, GP and In-Practice Fellow, University of Manchester
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Bulls vs. Pistons final score: Chicago clutch again in 119-107 win
LaVine and Coby White were fantastic
By Paul Steeno Dec 21, 2019, 9:41pm CST
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For the second game in a row, it was the Chicago Bulls taking care of business, rather than folding, down the stretch in a tight game.
After a Luke Kennard triple cut the Bulls deficit to two points with just under six minutes to play, the Bulls outscored the Detroit Pistons 18-8 the rest of the way. Zach LaVine scored 10 of his game-high 33 points in the final five minutes of the game.
Asterisk: The Pistons were without Derrick Rose and Blake Griffin. But wins aren’t weighted for caveats like that, and the Bulls will gladly take their second two-game winning streak of the season.
We also got a good Coby White game. The Bulls rookie scored 19 points on an efficient 6-for-10 from the field. Three other Bulls scored in double figures and Chicago as a team drained 18 of the 35 3-point field goals they attempted (51.4 percent).
This game was competitive throughout. Pistons power forward Markieff Morris hit three 3-pointers between the last couple minutes of the third quarter and the first couple minutes of the fourth quarter, helping the Pistons to tie the game at 96 with 9:06 left to play in the fourth quarter. The Bulls started the fourth quarter 1-for-8 from the field, which helped the Pistons make the game tighter.
In the third quarter, it was a role reversal with the Bulls the ones coming back on the Pistons after Detroit flourished in the first half. After trailing by six at halftime, the Bulls hit 10 of their first 13 shots in the quarter and outscored the Pistons by 10 points in the third quarter to seize a four-point advantage after three. They put up 40 points in the third quarter.
The Pistons built their lead at halftime largely behind the contributions of big man Andre Drummond and a 7-for-16 effort from behind the 3-point line.
Bulls big man Lauri Markkanen sat for about 9-10 straight minutes at the end of the first quarter into the second quarter and ended the half with 13 minutes coming off a 31-point game against the Washington Wizards a couple nights ago. He didn’t really ever get into a rhythm in the first half, scoring two points on 1-for-5 from the field. He was better in the second half, finishing with 15 points and seven rebounds.
Drummond had nine points in his first eight minutes of the game as the Bulls really didn’t have an answer for him. Daniel Gafford did get him pretty bad on this block that led to a runout for the Bulls on the other end, which led to a Coby White 3-point field goal:
The rooks are doing damage in Detroit @nbcschicago | #RunWithUs pic.twitter.com/s0nBE3CXvm
— Chicago Bulls (@chicagobulls) December 22, 2019
The Pistons big man scored 12 points in the first frame, and this was with the Pistons mostly forgetting he was on the floor for the last couple of minutes of the quarter. They forgot about him in the second quarter, too, as he only added one more bucket to his point total by the time halftime rolled around. He finished the game with 19 points and 14 rebounds.
The Bulls are back in action on Monday night against the Orlando Magic, a team that is just one game ahead of them in the standings. While the Bulls are 12-19, they’re just a game out of the 8-seed.
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What is the maximum life of a Trust in Australia?
Trusts in Australia have a maximum life of 80 years (except in South Australia^)
Any trust that purports or attempts to last for a longer period is void.
An exception exists for Charitable Trusts created with charitable objects or purposes which can endure forever.
Notes: ^ s62. of the Law of Property Act 1936 (SA) may be used by prescribed interested parties to apply to the Court for orders forcing the South Australian Trust to vest within 80 years.
Glossary ➲ Law of Trusts
Appointor / Principal
➲ Is the term used in modern Trust Deeds to describe the person who has the power to appoint and remove the trustee.
Accordingly, the Appointor assumes indirect control over the whole operation of the Trust.
We generally recommend joint Appointors or at least a clear succession should the Appointor die.
If there is no nominated successor, the Appointor’s legal personal representative succeeds as the Appointor.
Where an Appointor is deemed to have lost legal capacity (e.g. which might be a possibility if the Appointor suffers from a mental condition such as dementia) and where an Enduring Power of Attorney is in place, the Attorney succeeds as the Appointor.
➲ ‘As trustee for’.
➲ Any ascertainable person or group of people can be the beneficiary of a private express trust.
Person includes a legal person (also called a legal entity) such as a corporation, unincorporated association, etc.
➲ A trust is a charitable trust when it is established for charitable purposes (objects).
“A purpose trust that is directed to exclusively charitable purposes and that exhibits public benefit".
A Charitable Trust may be quite general (for example for the relief of poverty) or highly specific (for example the care of the aged in a specific geographic region).
Charitable Trusts need not have any vesting date, and may exist in perpetuity.
➲ Not really a trust.
It is a remedy decreed by the Court to prevent unjust enrichment.
The trustee will have only 1 duty: to transfer the property to the intended beneficiary as determined by the Court.
It is a means to disgorge a wrongdoer of ill-gotten gains.
Corpus of a Trust
➲ Property of the trust. Any presently existing interest in property that can be transferred can be the corpus of a trust.
Cy Pres
➲ Pronounced Sigh Pray. It is a phrase adopted from the French meaning, “as near as possible” to the original intention.
Family / Discretionary Trust
➲ In Australia, a Discretionary Trust is a common structure to run a business out of because it offers many taxation advantages.
For Example: The flexibility to distribute profit to different beneficiaries (including streaming of dividends to a particular individual/s), the ability to access significant capital gains concessions and stream those capital gains to a particular beneficiary.
Inter Vivos
➲ Between living persons, someone transfers or gives property to another person while both are alive, such as a parent giving money or other property to their children.
Trusts established during a person’s lifetime are often referred to as being an Inter-Vivos Trust.
➲ A legal term used in trusts law.
An object of a trust is a beneficiary of that trust.
In Wills where a gift is made to a particular group or class of people, an object means someone from that group.
For Example: The group might be described in a Will as ‘my children’ or ‘my nieces and nephews’.
Private Express Trust
➲ A fiduciary relationship with respect to property whereby one person, the trustee, holds legal title for the benefit of another, the beneficiary, and which arises out of a manifestation of intent to create it for a legal purpose.
Resulting Trust
➲ A resulting trust is an implied in fact trust and is based upon the presumed intent of the parties.
If a resulting trust is decreed by the court, the resulting trustee will transfer the property to the settlor if the settlor is alive, and if not, to the settlor’s estate, i.e. to the residuary devisees if any, and if none, to the intestate takers (the heirs).
➲ At common law, the modern rule against perpetuities, is that no interest is good unless it must vest, if at all, no later than 21 years after the death of a life in being who is alive at the creation of the interest.
At common law, an interest is void from the outset if it may possibly vest outside the perpetuity period, such question being determined having regard to circumstances existing at the commencement of the period.
It is not possible at common law, to ‘wait and see’ whether the rule is in fact offended by events as they actually turn out.
The common law rule against perpetuities has been modified by legislation in all Australian jurisdictions, except South Australia where the rule has been abolished.
The most significant reforms to the common law in all jurisdictions where legislative intervention has occurred has been the introduction of a ‘wait and see’ provision, and statutory limits preventing any trust from existing for more than 80 years.
Any trust that purports or attempts to last for a longer period of time is void.
The exception to this rule is for Charitable Trusts.
Secret Trust
➲ Generally speaking, a secret trust arises when a testator wishes to keep secret an object within the Will, such as bestowing a benefit to a political cause, or granting a trust to relatives that may be unknown to the wider family.
Secret trusts fall within two general categories: fully-secret and half-secret trusts.
The basic difference between a fully-secret and half-secret trust, is that there is no indication in the terms of the Will that a fully-secret trust exists.
Whereas, a half-secret trust will be mentioned in the Will, but may leave out the identity of the beneficiary, as well as the gift to be bestowed.
Settlor
➲ The person who initiates the formation of the trust by the provision of the Settled Sum (usually a nominal amount). Apart from providing the Settled Sum and executing the Trust Deed, the Settlor takes no further part in the Trust operations.
A Settlor will often be a family friend or a solicitor or an accountant who will not be a beneficiary of the trust.
Note: The settlor of a Discretionary Trust must be an independent person.
Special Disability Trust
➲ A trust which allows parents or other family members to leave assets in trust for an individual which can be used to fund ongoing care, medical expenses, accommodation, and some discretionary expenditure for that person into the future, without affecting their entitlement to a disability support pension.
Spendthrift Trust
➲ A trust where the beneficiary is unable to transfer his/her interest, either voluntarily or involuntarily. He/She cannot sell or give away his/her right to income or corpus, and his/her creditors cannot attached these rights.
Support Trust
➲ A trust where the trustee is required to use only so much of the income or principal as is necessary for the beneficiary's health, support, maintenance and education.
➲ A person (or company) appointed to hold property on trust for others, the beneficiaries subject to the terms set out in a will, as a testamentary trust. Executors are often appointed to act as trustees where a trustee role is required following administration of the estate. However professional advisers or their firms may also be appointed depending on the circumstances.
➲ A trust created by a Will, which only comes into being after the testator passes away.
Testamentary Charitable Trust
➲ A Charitable Trust created by a Will, which only comes into being after the testator passes away.
Testamentary Pet Trust
➲ A trust for the care and support of the testator's pets created by a Will, which only comes into being after the testator passes away.
Totten Trust
➲ Actually a Totten Bank Account [POD]* not common in Australia (used o/seas)
➲ A legal document that sets out the rules for establishing and operating your trust.
➲ The trust deed functions in much the same way as the constitution of a company, and units in the unit trust operate in a similar way to shares in a company.
Vesting Day
➲ The Vesting Day is generally 80 years (except in South Australia) from the date of commencement of the Trust.
That is because, as a matter of law, the Trust must terminate or ‘vest’ at a date not later than 80 years after its commencement.
A provision maybe included in the Trust, which enables the Trustee to nominate an earlier Vesting Day.
Why use a "Special Purpose" Corporate Trustee?
Who can you appoint as a trustee of your Trust?
The trustee of your Family / Discretionary Trust may be:
⚖️ One or more individuals; or
⚖️ A "Special Purpose" Corporate Trustee.
What is a Corporate Trustee?
A Corporate Trustee is normally a private (i.e. proprietary limited) "Special Purpose" company incorporated with ASIC for the sole purpose of acting as the trustee of your trust.
What is meant by "Special Purpose"?
A trustee company, or in other words a Corporate Trustee is:
✅ Normally a private non-trading (that is, it does not deal with the public at large, so it is therefore not exposed to the many possible liabilities which arise when a business trades with the public) company;
✅ Which is specially incorporated for the purpose of being appointed to act as the sole trustee of a trust.
Why use a Corporate Trustee?
The advantages of using a Corporate Trustee include:
✅ Limited Liability:
A Corporate Trustee is a separate legal entity and has the benefit of limited liability.
This means that the individual directors will not be held personally liable (excluding exceptional circumstances such as an instance of fraud).
✅ Separation of Assets:
Using a Corporate Trustee automatically ensures that trust assets are kept separate from personal assets as they are held in the company name.
To further strengthen this advantage, it is generally recommended that being the trustee of the trust is the sole purpose of the Corporate Trustee.
If the company also runs a business, such that it is trading with the public, confusion can be created regarding whether it is holding assets in its own name or on behalf of the trust.
✅ Reduction of Land Tax:
The higher the value of the property or properties held in an individual's name within the same state or territory, the more potential land tax is payable.
If each property is instead held in a separate Family / Discretionary Trust with a different Corporate Trustee, you can obtain the benefit of the land tax-free threshold for each property, and if land tax is payable, the lowest possible land tax rate would be applied.
✅ Simpler Administration:
No additional income tax return will be required for the Corporate Trustee, as it will qualify for non-active status with the ATO.
If there is a need in the future to change the control of the trust, having a Corporate Trustee will save you a lot of time, effort and cost.
In order to change control of the trust, it becomes a simple matter of preparing a share transfer form and/or a resolution to appoint or resign a director with the appropriate form being lodged with ASIC.
For example: Changing control of a trust which owns real estate
When a trust purchases a property, the property is held in the name of each trustee that is listed on the certificate of title "as trustee/trustees" rather than the name of the trust itself.
If individuals are named as trustees, then when a trustee changes, a lawyer is required to be retained to effect the required updates to the certificate/s of title together with any associated mortgage documentation.
When there is a Corporate Trustee all that needs to be done is to prepare a share transfer form and/or a resolution to appoint or resign a director with the appropriate form being lodged with ASIC.
These changes can be made easily and at a nominal cost.
Even though the shareholders and directors of the trustee company may change, the trustee company will still remain as the sole trustee of the trust.
This means that no change is required to the certificate of title/s or to any associated mortgage documentation.
When might the control of the trust need to be changed?
Almost all trusts (which in Australia generally have a maximum term of 80 years: refer to this FAQ for more information) will need to effect a change of control of the trust at some point in time.
Examples of when there is a need to change control of the trust include:
⚖️ Your children take over your trust when you pass away;
⚖️ You change accountants/lawyers who have been acting as a professional trustee as you're not happy with their service;
⚖️ You change accountants/lawyers who have been acting as a professional trustee as you relocate within Australia or they close down or sell their business;
⚖️ You may need to change trustee if you move overseas;
⚖️ The death of any individual trustee (See below discussion: a Corporate Trustee does not die);
⚖️ Your marriage or relationship comes to an end.
✅ Simple succession: A corporate trustee does not cease upon the death of one of its directors.
Whereas if an individual trustee dies (in particular if they are the only remaining trustee) there will be legal costs + complications regarding the continued administration of the trust.
The main disadvantage involved in using a Corporate Trustee is the up-front + ongoing annual costs.
Incorporating a company can be done online, quickly and cost effectively using a service such as eCompanies (circa $550).
All companies have ongoing annual ASIC fees.
If the cost of incorporating and maintaining a "Special Purpose" Corporate Trustee is a prohibitive factor in deciding whether or not to form your family trust then you need to seriously consider whether it is worthwhile to form the trust in the first place.
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Wes Banderson comes to The Old Market on Sat 4 – Mon 6 Dec.
The 'Physics House Band' bassist is bringing his brand new musical project to Hove
“I wanted to do it before anyone else, because I was convinced nobody else could give it the level of detail needed,” Adam Znaidi tells me. It’s a fair assertion, considering what he’s aiming to do, and the profundity of his inspirations. The Physics House Band bassist is close to bringing his new musical project to Hove’s The Old Market, after becoming yet another pandemic postponement in 2019.
With works like The Grand Budapest Hotel, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums and Moonrise Kingdom, iconic director Wes Anderson has helped transform attitudes around music in modern cinema. In turn, Znaidi is now recreating a selection of Anderson’s most celebrated scores for the stage. “It started because I wanted to do Ping Island / Lightning Strike from A Life Aquatic for a live session, as I thought it would be really fun. It made me realise no-one has done a music of ‘Wes Anderson’ show.” Live performances of film and game music are very much in fashion, with shows around Star Wars or Skyrim being staged around the world. Znaidi says he’s been obsessed with Anderson as a director, and in turn the music in his films, for a long time. A simple ambition to play music created for The Life Aquatic while wearing recreations of the film’s Team Zissou outfits has snowballed into an entire show.
A journey through the rich tapestry of compositions from the auteur’s oeuvre, Wes Banderson is a playful multi-instrumental collage. Anderson’s approach to music and scoring has seemed innovative since his feature debut in 1996. Along with an evocative, and occasionally singular, style of direction, he’s fully exploited the overwhelming impact a soundtrack can have on the movie-watching experience. From conjuring a sense of isolation with samba cover versions of David Bowie classics to the majestic Oscar-winning compositions of Alexandre Desplat, he steps outside familiar traditions to create something truly magical.
While careful choices create an air of timelessness across his work, they also offer meta-narrative alongside the onscreen theatrics. Often the music establishes atmosphere and a sense of space while offering rich insights into a character’s internal dialogue. “The music often delivers the emotion of the character in that moment. It’s like a cut out of their personal mixtape for the scene.”
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The period of Anderson’s work which Znaidi most favours is between the love-rival comedy, Rushmore, up to The Darjeeling Limited and its joyously-awkward spiritual journey. This is a period where Anderson felt particularly empowered to allow his music to speak to cinema audiences, laying it over slow-motion cuts and dialogue-free action to enormous effect. “It’s really strong of him to let the music play and allowing these tableaus to reveal themselves in front of you.” The dramatic effect is undeniable, creating a huge emotional hit with the viewer and drawing them further into these imaginary worlds.
The show is a beneficiary of the Old Market’s ‘Gig For A Gig’ project, which has seen local legend Fat Boy Slim staged a show where proceeds would go into funding new work from emerging artists. Znaidi says it’s a huge understatement to say there’s gratitude for all the love and support he’s receiving from the Hove venue. “There’s an awesome team there. They’ve been really supportive.” He thinks the show should attract the superfans, as well as those who know the director only from the award-winning magic of The Grand Budapest Hotel.
“I get an idea and I have to do it. I guess it comes from being into a lot of stuff. I’m into a lot of different film, and I try and take in as much as I can. From the Avant Garde, like Jodorowsky’s Holy Mountain to the latest Fast And The Furious.” It’s the same with music. Whether it’s some strange 1920’s Russian work, which is essentially just noises from sirens, or straight-up pop music, he likes a broader than usual range, and somehow these neatly fit together in his mind.
He’s familiar to many on the Brighton scene as a member of The Physics House Band. This hugely inventive trio perform with over 30 instruments between them, forging beautiful slices of spacious experimental space-rock. There’s also a long-standing association with The Go! Team, standing in as a session player for the local lo-fi heroes. “That’s a lot of fun, really strange and interesting. It’s got to the stage where there’s a real cult movement around them.”
Znaidi grew up in a household where music featured heavily. His father was into all kinds of esoteric stuff – lots of jazz, blues, electronica and Avant Garde orchestral music, while his mother listened to Arabic, North African and trance music. “I just had music thrown at me from a young age. I started playing drums about 12, and just taught myself stuff from there.” His mother would allow his practice in their small house, defending him when the neighbours complained. “The guys would turn up, and I’d take their guitars and amps upstairs. While they were all downstairs watching skate videos, I’d be setting up.” After learning several different instruments and having a top-down view of how things work, he’s found it easy to take an objective view on arrangements. He says there’s been some good fortune in having really talented friends who can take, and sometimes improve on, anything thrown at them.
After forming, planning and finding the players, the project has been relatively straight forward. The biggest obstacle he faced was in finding a belief that he could get Arts Council support. “I know how difficult it is, and how shit it is for people to go for funding. I’m one person out of God knows how many.” It was only when the group produced their first video, and he showed people, that he really allowed himself to think everything was going to work out. “I think it’s taught me if you just do it and stop worrying about it, it’s going to be fine. And that time is important. When you only have a certain amount of time, you use that time so much better.”
The beauty of Wes Banderson is that the concept can crossover to a range of platforms, like music, film or literary festivals. The ambition is to book tours, either in the UK, Europe or America – and maybe become the leading group in the world performing this repertoire. “It’s part of me displaying my obsessions,” Znaidi confides. “I guess creativity is generally showing this thing you’re obsessed with, and just hoping someone else can have that conversation with you.”
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Best Accelerators For Entrepreneurs of Color To Get Funding
by Carolyn M. Brown August 9, 2016 April 11, 2018 8895
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Studies show the survival rate of companies that go through an accelerator are three times than that of companies that don’t. What’s more, research shows companies that completed an accelerator program grew faster than companies that didn’t.
People sometimes use the phrase “business accelerator” as another term for “business incubator.” Incubators fundamentally provide a physical office space and basic business services. However, most accelerators are characterized by an open application process: the selective acceptance of various entrepreneurs for short, fixed-length classes, with graduation and demo “pitch†days, as well as the provision of mentors and seed funding.
Elite tech accelerators–such as Y Combinator, Techstars, and 500 Startups–recently have kicked off diversity initiatives, like “open office hours†for diverse founders, mentorship programs, and investment commitments.
Accelerators Focusing on Minority Entrepreneurs
Dreamit Ventures has been diversity focused for years; it operates four seed accelerators in Philadelphia, New York City, Baltimore, and Austin, and has launched more than 200 companies that have raised $275 million at combined valuations of more than $1 billion. In 2011, Dreamit partnered with Comcast Ventures to launch Dreamit Access, which offers coaching, mentorship, seed funding, and access to opportunities, specifically for minority-led startups.
It was the NewME Accelerator that pioneered diversity in Silicon Valley. The residential technology startup accelerator has helped underrepresented founders collectively raise more than $20 million in venture capital funding. Since 2011, NewME has accelerated more than 300 startups through its 12-week program in San Francisco and its national three-day program in cities nationwide.
PowerMoves, a national initiative to increase the number of venture-backed, high-growth, high-tech companies led by entrepreneurs of color, opened an accelerator in Miami this February. PowerMoves began in 2014 as a program to position New Orleans as a hub for entrepreneurs of color. In just one year, it has nationally sourced 100 companies led by founders of color from 26 major cities across the country, and it has helped secure more than $17 million in capital commitments.
PowerMoves Miami offers year-round programming, including pitch competitions, boot camps, networking events, and fellowships. “With the help of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (a $1.2 million investment), we decided to launch a physical presence, not just a three-day convening in Miami,†says Janelle Alexander, Managing Director of PowerMoves Miami.
Black Enterprise‘s 2016 Techpreneur of the Year nominee, Brian Brackeen, graduated from the NewME Accelerator’s second class in 2012. Brackeen is the Founder and CEO of Kairos, an innovative facial recognition company in Miami.
Brackeen is quick to point out that accelerators have evolved in recent years. “If you are in the fashion business, get into a fashion accelerator, because their network will be more helpful and carry more weight,†he advises other entrepreneurs.
“New York City, for instance, has several fashion and design labs, incubators, and accelerators. Look at how that program can add value. Who are the people in their network? At the end of the day, it’s all about people,” Brackeen says. “Seed money–$25,000 or $100,000–is important, but it’s about the relationships and introductions to people who can help grow your customer base and boost your revenue stream.”
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RENÉE LOTH
Exploited boys remain invisible
By Renée Loth Globe Columnist,March 9, 2013, 12:00 a.m.
Yoyo was 14 when he was thrown out of his house. He knew even then he was gay, but coming out to his family left him homeless and broke. He lost one job after another. He thought about suicide. He traveled around, voguing in ballroom dance events and looking for work. Then one of his women friends suggested they try to make money “escorting,” to use the popular euphemism. Soon enough, Yoyo was in “the life.”
A large, dark man with sensitive eyes and daisy tattoos on his arms, Yoyo, now 27 and a counselor for other young male victims of sexual exploitation, speaks in a reedy voice with a hint of his native Dominican Republic. He tears up when he describes, with disarming frankness, the years he spent being used for sex: the shame and self-loathing; the bouts with sexually transmitted diseases; the ever-present threat of violence from his “clients” or the older men who controlled him. He hit bottom several years ago in Miami’s South Beach. “I was sleeping on the beach, turning tricks for $20 behind the Dumpster,” he said. “I realized then, this life isn’t for me.”
In the past few years, the scourge of human trafficking has started to receive the scrutiny it deserves: States have passed new laws that treat prostitutes as victims instead of criminals; dozens of anti-trafficking organizations have been raising money and recruiting well-known figures like Demi Moore and Salma Hayek; public awareness ads ran during the Super Bowl. Last week the Senate added language to the Violence Against Women Act that allows child victims of sex trafficking to receive help through the law.
But the vast majority of the attention and support programs have been aimed at girls. Few address the sexual exploitation of boys and young men, and yet that business also thrives. Just last week two Connecticut men were arrested in a sex slavery case involving a 12-year-old boy. One of the accused committed suicide on Tuesday. Last fall, a New Jersey man was charged with running a male prostitution ring, including minors, out of his apartment. He allegedly solicited clients by posting nude photos of the boys on the Internet. Websites that advertise “dating” boys are getting plenty of traffic.
Law enforcement officers are not well-trained to recognize the signs of sexual exploitation among boys, according to Steven Procopio, project coordinator for Surviving Our Struggle, a new Boston program dedicated exclusively to boys who have been forced into commercial sex. Police may pick up a runaway kid for shoplifting or drugs, but “they are dealt with as delinquents, and no one ever does an assessment to find out the underlying abuse or prostitution.”
Partly for this reason, it is difficult to say with certainty how widespread sex trafficking is among boys. The Department of Justice estimates that boys are less than 10 percent of the victim population, but that only reflects the cases DOJ investigates. A footnote to an annual DOJ report on sex trafficking crimes forthrightly admits this: “Men and boys can also be victims of sex trafficking. However, cases involving men and boys do not make up a statistically significant portion of the sex trafficking cases we investigate or prosecute.”
Then there are cultural attitudes that refuse to see young men as victims; that somehow they should be able to defend themselves against exploitation. To this, Yoyo says it’s important to look below the surface. “Granted, I’m a man, I look strong, but inside I’m the weakest person ever,” he says. “If someone punches me I just go straight to the ground.”
Today, Yoyo is the first paid case manager for Surviving Our Struggle, with 15 clients. Operated through the long-standing social service agency Justice Resource Institute in Downtown Crossing, the program helps boys who have been driven into prostitution find housing, health care, GED training, and hope.
Procopio says there are many misconceptions about underage male prostitutes: that they don’t have pimps; that they are all gay; that they choose the life. In fact, he says most of the young boys on the streets are running away from domestic violence, drugs, or sexual abuse at home.
They can be helped. But first they have to be seen.
Renée Loth’s column appears regularly in the Globe.
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Boston officials mull what should be done about ATVs and loud parties in and around Franklin Park
By Danny McDonald Globe Staff,Updated May 5, 2021, 8:34 p.m.
People walked through Franklin Park. City residents, lawmakers, and officials batted around ideas of what to do about off-road vehicles and loud parties in and around the city’s largest tract of open space.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
Speed bumps? More speeding enforcement? A dedicated space for motorbikes and ATVs in Boston?
City residents, lawmakers, and officials on Wednesday evening batted around ideas of what to do about off-road vehicles and loud parties in and around Franklin Park, the city’s largest tract of open space.
“If we do nothing, it will only get worse,” City Councilor Matt O’Malley said during a virtual community meeting that drew more than 200 people.
The meeting came three days after police received numerous disturbance calls about a large number of dirt bikes and all-terrain vehicles and double-parked cars in and near Franklin Park, according to police reports.
Residents say it’s a chronic problem in the area. And Wednesday’s discussion followed a similar meeting late Tuesday afternoon that had to be abandoned after it was Zoom-bombed with sexually explicit images and racist language. Following that, organizers took steps to safeguard the discussion.
Residents at Wednesday’s meeting aired their grievances and asked questions in a Facebook chat, which were then conveyed to city officials and lawmakers. While multiple ideas were discussed, no decisions were made about how to protect the park.
Councilor Julia Mejia spoke about having a discussion with people who ride the ATVs and motorbikes.
“We’re having a conversation about people who are not here,” she said.
Some residents broached creating a designated park for the vehicles. Others thought such a space would do nothing to reduce the danger, since that would mean the vehicles would still be on the roads and sidewalks to get to such a park. Some talked about the need to confiscate dirt bikes, while others spoke of the importance of not criminalizing Black and brown youths.
“Why can’t we just enforce existing laws?” asked one person in the meeting’s chat feature.
On Sunday, police reported hundreds dirt bikes and ATV wreaking havoc in the park and nearby area.
Around 6:30 p.m., a hit-and-run involving a dirt bike and bicyclist was reported in the parking lot of the Franklin Park Zoo. The bicyclist was found bleeding on the ground, and an officer reported seeing 75 to 100 off-road vehicles “erratically driving at high rates of speed,” according to a police report.
Less than an hour later, hundreds of the vehicles made it “extremely difficult” for police and paramedics to respond to a shooting at Talbot Avenue and Wales Street that injured a pregnant woman, police said.
The city is contemplating making substantial improvements to the 527-acre park, which connects Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, Dorchester, Mattapan, and Roslindale. The commenting period for an online survey soliciting feedback for a park plan recently ended. There is $28 million set aside for park improvements.
The city’s proposals include eliminating car traffic on Circuit Drive, transforming the thoroughfare into a pedestrian and bicycle-only loop through the park, which includes hiking trails, pathways, playing fields, a golf course, and zoo, among other public amenities.
John Linehan, CEO of Zoo New England, which runs the zoo in the park, called the park a gem and an oasis, but added that he had concerns about loud parties, both during the day and at night, in the park. The loud music, he said, raises the stress levels for the zoo’s animals.
“We have struggled with all the noise,” he said.
Regarding the installation of speed bumps in the park to deter motorbikes, Ryan Woods, the city’s parks commissioner, said there are concerns that such a move could make the park’s roadways more attractive to motorbike riders. He also warned that speed bumps could push more people onto the park’s grass, damaging the turf.
“Open to try things; just don’t want to create more of a course if that’s what these speed bumps would do,” he said.
Last fall, a motorbike rider struck a gate at the park and died from their injuries, Woods said.
State Representative Russell E. Holmes said he recently was leaving the park’s golf course in his car when he was surrounded by off-road vehicles. The riders made it so he couldn’t drive, he said, and were attempting to intimidate him. The riders, he said, clearly have “a strategy to get around police.”
“I think some folks were just saying, ‘Shouldn’t we be dealing with the real question, which is they shouldn’t even be in the park or be in the road?’ ” he said.
Sergeant Detective Daniel Humphreys said that last year police used a city ordinance to target off-road vehicles, which are prohibited on public ways and in city parks, he said. In recent years, the Police Department has seized more than 300 of the machines without any chases and no use-of-force or internal affairs complaints.
He said police have targeted the vehicles while they are stationary. He said it’s not just youths who drive the vehicles and estimated that more than half the people who ride off-road vehicles in Boston are not city residents. Last fall, the authorities were able to dissuade use of the vehicles in the park, he said.
“We’re going to continue to do what we do,” he said.
Danny McDonald can be reached at daniel.mcdonald@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @Danny__McDonald.
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At 161 years old, Beacon Press looks toward its future
By By Amanda Katz Globe Staff,May 4, 2015, 11:13 p.m.
“In spite of everything, we have found a way to do really well,” said Beacon’s director, Helene Atwan.BARRY CHIN/GLOBE STAFF/Globe Staff
For many of the startups among Beacon Press’s neighbors in Fort Point Channel’s Innovation District, the hire of a couple additional telecommuters would be a development hardly worth noting.
But for a 161-year-old, mission-driven, nonprofit book publisher to add two remote acquisitions editors — that, in light of an anxious decade in publishing that has included both a recession and massive technological disruption, is striking news. Beacon Press, founded in 1854 as the publishing arm of the American Unitarian Association, moved with the Unitarian Universalist Association last year from historic offices on Beacon Hill to gleaming, high-tech new quarters in a former factory at 24 Farnsworth St. This month, it announced that it had hired two new senior editors, based in New York and Chicago, who will help expand the annual list of titles by almost a third. With its traditional Brahmin liberal values boosted by 21st-century technology, Beacon is emerging as an unusual confluence of old and new Boston.
“In spite of everything, we have found a way to do really well,” said Beacon’s director, Helene Atwan, in the company’s sunny offices on a recent afternoon. Atwan, a former vice president and associate publisher at Farrar, Straus and Giroux, has headed the company since 1995. Though Beacon is affiliated with the UUA, it is generally financially independent (aside from a UUA commitment to provide limited support in case of a shortfall) and makes its own editorial decisions. In each of the last 13 years, Atwan has led Beacon to a surplus, which has gone into a reserve that the press can tap for ambitious projects — such as a 2009 partnership with the Martin Luther King Jr. estate to publish his work, and, now, Beacon’s own expansion.
Unitarian Universalism, born when two American denominations merged in 1961, is based in liberal Christianity, but its core principles focus on human worth and dignity, social justice, and a “free and responsible search for truth and meaning.” At Beacon, those values are reflected in such recent strong sellers as “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States,” by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz; “Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health,” by a team of doctors including H. Gilbert Welch; and “Black Prophetic Fire,” by Cornel West. “We’re looking at human rights in every aspect,” Atwan said.
That mission long precedes the new Fort Point Channel offices. Among the glass-walled conference rooms and sleek furniture are posters of titles by Marian Wright Edelman, Anita Hill, Thich Nhat Hanh, and psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, whose 1946 book, “Man’s Search for Meaning,” sells tens of thousands of copies a year. A shelf displays books by Provincetown poet Mary Oliver. Older publications fill a sprawling archive — classic texts by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Herbert Marcuse, and James Baldwin, as well as the volumes of the Pentagon Papers. (“Beacon Press Is Visited,” said the ominous headline of a 1971 AP brief, describing an appearance by Pentagon officials seeking cooperation. Beacon executives refused.)
The publishing company’s new offices in the Innovation District. Barry Chin/Globe Staff
For some authors, including ones who otherwise might be published by commercial or academic presses, Beacon’s values are part of its appeal. Harvard Law School professor Lani Guinier’s most recent book, “The Tyranny of the Meritocracy,” was published by Beacon in January. “The commitment is to social justice and to sharing information that helps people rather than harms them,” Guinier said. She believes the publisher promotes “a reading conversation — meaning not just people in a bully pulpit.”
Beacon’s mission also stood out to Rakia Clark, one of the two new nonfiction editors joining the company. “They’re really interested in publishing things that are going to be for the greater good,” she said during a recent interview in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she lives. “So much of the publishing that I’ve seen over my career doesn’t strive to do that at all.” Clark, a former editor at Kensington and Viking, remembered treasuring an anthology by young African-American writers that she only later recognized as a Beacon book: “I feel like I’ve been in this Beacon world and didn’t even realize it.”
Both Clark and Jill Petty, a former editor-publisher at South End Press who is Beacon’s other new hire and will be working from Chicago, are African-American, making them part of an underrepresented demographic in the industry. In a Publishers Weekly survey last year, 1 percent of publishing employees who gave their race identified as black; 89 percent said they were white. For Atwan, who had originally sought to add just one editor but decided, as she wrote in a statement announcing the hires, “that we couldn’t live without both,” adding greater diversity to the senior editorial team was intentional. “I really felt it was important to get a different perspective. We publish so many books about race,” she said.
What made any editor in the United States a potential candidate, however, was the wired new offices. “Technology enables me to have someone working in Chicago in a way that I would not have felt comfortable with even five years ago,” Atwan said. On a tour of the building, whose redesign received the top environmental stamp of LEED Platinum certification, she pointed out a multi-person videoconference unfolding in a UUA meeting room. It is the kind of modern connectivity that could convince even the most diehard nostalgic to leave Beacon Hill.
Initially, Atwan herself had been somewhat reluctant about the move. It was the UUA, spread among four old-fashioned and increasingly valuable buildings in Beacon Hill, that wanted to find a modern, unified space; Beacon, which pays the UUA a rent allocation, went along. In August, the building that had housed the press, at 41 Mount Vernon St., became the last of the four to sell, for $11.5 million. It is reportedly being converted into luxury condominiums.
But for Atwan, the Farnsworth office’s capabilities — its conveniences, its greenness, its ample space to host parties — have been convincing. “Like Beacon, Unitarianism and Universalism both have long histories, and you would never want to abandon that history,” she said. “But you also don’t want to be seen as living in the past. You really do need to shake it up. I have to say, I’m impressed by how well that has worked.”
Beacon Press.Barry Chin/Globe Staff
Amanda Katz can be reached at amkatz@globe.com. Follow her on Twitter @katzish.
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Proustian Uncertainties: On Reading and Rereading In Search of Lost Time (Hardcover)
By Saul Friedländer
Named a Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year
A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian revisits Marcel Proust’s masterpiece in this essay on literature and memory, exploring the question of identity—that of the novel’s narrator and Proust’s own.
This engaging reexamination of In Search of Lost Time considers how the narrator defines himself, how this compares to what we know of Proust himself, and what the significance is of these various points of commonality and divergence. We know, for example, that the author did not hide his homosexuality, but the narrator did. Why the difference? We know that the narrator tried to marginalize his part-Jewish background. Does this reflect the author’s position, and how does the narrator handle what he tries, but does not manage, to dismiss? These are major questions raised by the text and reflected in the text, to which the author’s life doesn’t give obvious answers. The narrator’s reflections on time, on death, on memory, and on love are as many paths leading to the image of self that he projects.
In Proustian Uncertainties, Saul Friedländer draws on his personal experience from a life spent investigating the ties between history and memory to offer a fresh perspective on the seminal work.
Saul Friedländer is an award-winning Israeli-American historian and currently a professor of history (emeritus) at UCLA. He was born in Prague to a family of German-speaking Jews, grew up in France, and lived in hiding during the German occupation of 1940–1944. His historical works have received great praise and recognition, including the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939–1945.
“[A] haunting work…Friedländer has always imbued his scholarship with an acute literary sensibility…incisive and quizzical…[an] intimate and subtle book.” —Wall Street Journal
“[A] superb new book…Friedländer, the great historian of Nazi Germany and the Jews and also the author of his own Proustian memoir, When Memory Comes, argues that Proust’s narrator is a ‘disembodied presence unlike that in any novel before,’ and that it’s the relation of that presence to Proust himself that makes the Recherche, with its biting social satire, so unique.” —Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year
“The pleasure of [Proustian Uncertainties] comes from…the author unspooling thoughts and venturing theories collected over many years about a book he clearly loves…By taking a bird’s-eye view of the novel, Friedländer notices continuities and contradictions that are hard to see from within the teeming thickets of Proust’s prose.” —Harper’s
“[An] excellent volume about In Search of Lost Time and Proust himself.” —Literary Hub
“[A] thought-provoking examination…[Friedländer] is a wise, enthusiastic guide to Proust.” —Kirkus Reviews
“[Friedländer] meditates on the ‘extraordinary pull’ and hidden depths of Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu in this intriguing extended essay…Proust fans will enjoy these appreciative, personal peregrinations through ‘one of the most important novels ever written.’” —Publishers Weekly
“[A] personal and idiosyncratic reading of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time…impressive and will certainly draw in a curious literary readership.” —Library Journal
“Saul Friedländer, whose work on memory has played a critical role in filling in the lacunae of recorded history, has turned his lens on the uses of memory in Proust’s extraordinary record of time in books that remain timeless.” —Maryanne Wolf, author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain and Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World
Praise for Saul Friedländer:
“Friedländer describes his experiences in lean, graceful sentences; his language seems armored against the dissolution it describes.” —New York Review of Books
“[Friedländer’s] judgments are scrupulous and levelheaded. And he treats the historical controversies that have raged around so many of the topics he covers with untiring fair-mindedness…Friedländer succeeds in binding together the many different strands of his story with a sure touch. He has written a masterpiece that will endure.” —New York Times Book Review
“[Friedländer’s] intellectual discipline may be that of the historian but his writing is animated by the passion of memory that only his generation can fully express.” —The Guardian
Publisher: Other Press
Literary Criticism / European / French
Literary Criticism / Jewish
Literary Criticism / Modern / 20th Century
Kobo eBook (November 30th, 2020): $14.99
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A Representation of Capt. Cheap, 1745
A Representation of Capt Cheap, Commander of the ship Wager, Shooting Mr. Cozens his Midshipman; with the Crew building their Huts after the Ship was Cast away on a desolate island on the coast of Patagonia, artist unknown, published 1745 in A voyage to the South-seas, and to many other parts of the world, from 1740 to 1744, by an officer of the fleet.
This particular print was exceptionally difficult to find. I saw reproductions of the original in Leo Heaps' Log of the Centurion (without attribution) and Rear Adm. C.H. Layman's The Wager Disaster: Mayhem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas. Having searched through all of the usual sources, I turned to digital collections with the help of Adam Hodges-LeClaire, who found scans of widely varying quality across the internet.
The Wager was a 6th Rate 24 gun frigate with a company of 243 officers and men. She was assigned to the 1740-1744 Anson expedition to raid Spanish holdings and shipping in the Pacific, but like nearly every vessel in the fleet was doomed. Her fate was to be wrecked on the Patagonian shore. From there, the officers and men splintered under the ineffectual command and short temper of David Cheap.
The harrowing experience of the men, and the eventual death of most of them, was the subject of Patrick O'Brian's early maritime novel The Unknown Shore, a predecessor to his famous Aubrey-Maturin novels.
Midshipman Henry Cozens quarreled with Cheap, the purser, the surgeon, and other officers on occasion, but things came to a head on June 10, 1741. While at the mess tent, Cozens learned that rations had been stopped for one of the men. Confronting the purser, he demanded to know the reason. The purser's reply was to accuse Cozens of mutiny and attempt to shoot him. At the sound of the shot, Captain Cheap dispatched a lieutenant to find the reason, and was informed (incorrectly) that Cozens was a mutineer. In a rage, Cheap unceremoniously shot the midshipman in the head without a word.
The event was a major factor in the eventual collapse of discipline and dissolution of the stranded crew.
In the background, numerous sailors work at setting up camp on the Patagonian shore. They are mosty dressed in round hats with low crowns and floppy brims, plain trousers that end at about the bottom of the calf, single breasted jackets cut to about the top of the thigh, and plain, short neckcloths. Though difficult to tell from the piece, it appears that they wear no waistcoats. A couple of sailors wear caps, and at least one wears a cocked hat reversed.
In the detail depicting Captain Cheap shooting Midshipman Cozens, there is one fellow in the immediate background wearing a bob wig. I am inclined to think he is a warrant officer or commissioned officer, given how the cuffs on his coat contrast with the cuffs on the sailors jackets throughout the image.
Even when stranded thousands of miles from home, sailors still carry their trusty sticks! It is worth noting the open slit cuffs of the sailor in the foreground here.
Labels: 1740s, bob wig, cap, cocked hat, round hat, stick, trousers
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Buckingham on the stocks at Deptford, 1752
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Dickinson,
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Dickinson is a city in Stark County, North Dakota, United States. It is the county seat of Stark County. The population was 25,679 at the 2020 census. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated that the 2020 population is 25,679.Since the North Dakota oil boom the city has become one of the fastest growing cities in the United States. According to 2015 census estimates, the city is estimated to have a population of 23,765, however, other sources have estimates of the population at 30,372 or possibly exceeding 35,000. The rapid growth of the city led to an increase in crime and homelessness within the city limits. Also, the city has seen an increase in diversity, with increases in the Latino, Asian and African American populations. Dickinson is the principal city of the Dickinson Micropolitan Statistical Area, a micropolitan area that covers Billings and Stark counties and had a combined population of 24,982 at the 2010 census.
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Hazen is a city in Mercer County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 2,411 at the 2010 census. Hazen was founded in 1913. Hazen has a K-12 school system. It is located about fifteen minutes south of Lake Sakakawea, the largest lake in North Dakota and the third largest man-made lake in the United States.
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Watford City (Hidatsa: abaʔaruʔush), founded in 1914, is a city in and the county seat of McKenzie County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 1,744 at the 2010 census. and the Census Bureau gave the 2020 estimated population as 7,944, making Watford City the tenth largest city in North Dakota. Because Watford City is part of the Bakken field, the North Dakota oil boom has significantly increased population and construction since the 2010 census.The main offices of Frontier Energy Group, First International Bank, and the headquarters of McKenzie Electric Cooperative are in Watford City. The local newspaper is the McKenzie County Farmer.
Bismarck () is the capital of the U.S. state of North Dakota and the county seat of Burleigh County. It is the second-most populous city in North Dakota after Fargo. The city's population was estimated in 2020 at 74,018, while its metropolitan population was 129,641. In 2019, Forbes magazine ranked Bismarck as the seventh fastest-growing small city in the United States.Bismarck was founded by European-Americans in 1872 on the east bank of the Missouri River. It has been North Dakota's capital city since 1889, when the state was created from the Dakota Territory and admitted to the Union. Bismarck is across the river from Mandan, named after a historic Native American tribe of the area. The two cities make up the core of the Bismarck–Mandan Metropolitan Statistical Area. The North Dakota State Capitol, the tallest building in the state, is in central Bismarck. The state government employs more than 4,600 in the city. As a hub of retail and health care, Bismarck is the economic center of south-central North Dakota and north-central South Dakota.
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Could dormitories answer seasonal employee housing needs in Orleans?
Denise Coffey
ORLEANS — Town officials are hoping that businesses respond to a seasonal housing needs survey. The 16-question survey is an attempt to gauge what area businesses want in order to find year-round and seasonal employees.
The importance of employee housing figures prominently.
The Zoning Bylaw Task Force has discussed the possibility of amending town bylaws to allow for dormitories in town as a way to house a workforce.
At a Nov. 9 Planning Board meeting, Director of Planning and Community Development George Meservey relayed some of the task force's recommendations.
One is that dormitories should be allowed in the business district where there are public sewer hookups. That area would essentially be the downtown business district.
The task force did not recommend using the industrial district for dormitory construction. But several planning board members indicated the industrial zone could be an ideal location for a dormitory. The town owns 95 acres in the industrial zone, located east of State Highway in the Giddiah Hill Road area.
Meservey said the density of a dormitory would have to be significant to be economically viable. He cited Edgartown, which allows up to 100 beds in a project.
Locating a dormitory in the industrial zone would likely mean less pushback from neighbors who don’t want high density housing nearby, he said.
Another possibility is amending the congregate dwelling sections of the town’s bylaws to allow for dormitories. Meservey said there would likely be pushback on this because of concerns about noise, density and changes to the composition of neighborhoods.
“Businesses struggle with seasonal help and it’s all connected to housing,” said Hadley Luddy, executive director of the Homeless Prevention Council. “We need layers of different types of housing. It’s not just ADUs (accessory dwelling units), affordable housing developments or dormitories. It’s a combination of things."
She cited the Barracks in Provincetown, a proposed development that would create housing for seasonal and year-round employees with a combination of dormitory rooms, studios and one-bedroom apartments. The dormitory rooms would provide space for up to 112 employees.
Luddy calls the Barracks a bright light on the housing horizon. The project’s design and its combination of seasonal and year-round employee housing sets it apart, she said.
The Barracks also drawn the ire of neighbors who claim the project is too big. Some residents have challenged the development in court, claiming that town zoning bylaws weren't followed. They want the special permit approved by the Planning Board on June 10 annulled.
“You have to look at dormitory housing for what it means to the business community as well as the community character,” said Scott Kerry, owner of Kerry Insurance, in Orleans.
“As business owners we have a number of problems” Kerry said. “We need to address foreign workers. We need to address the cost of housing as a percent of income.”
He said there were a number of organizations and towns addressing it, including Eastham and Orleans.
Eastham is considering housing options on three parcels of land including the T-Time, Town Center Plaza and Council on Aging properties. Orleans is developing plans for the Governor Prence Inn property on Route 6A, at 107 Main St. and for a 62-unit affordable housing project on West Road.
Meservey admitted that putting dormitories in the downtown business district might not work because it is a prime location for condominiums and apartments.
Any proposed changes to the zoning bylaws would require a public hearing and town meeting approval.
“We have a positive attitude but we have a long way to go to change the laws,” said Planning Board Chairman Chet Crabtree.
Crabtree said he doesn't think the issue will make it to town meeting in May because of the work that needs to be done first.
"Location is an issue," he said. "People don't want it in their back yards."
If a location is available in the industrial zone, Crabtree thinks the town should consider it.
"There's nothing precious about those 95 acres that we can't borrow one," he said.
Contact Denise Coffey at dcoffey@capecodonline.com. Follow her on Twitter: @DeniseCoffeyCCT.
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The Xbox Series X is scheduled to arrive this holiday season — here’s everything we know so far about Microsoft’s next game console
Ben Gilbert Jun. 11, 2019, 8:46 AM
The Xbox Series X console — Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox system. Microsoft
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It may not feel like it just yet, but soon enough we’ll be looking back on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 as “last-gen” consoles.
Both Sony and Microsoft are on the verge of launching their respective next-gen consoles: The Xbox Series X is scheduled to launch this November, while Sony’s PlayStation 5 is on track for a “holiday 2020” launch.
So, what makes Microsoft’s new console different from Sony’s new console? Let’s dig in.
1. The Philosophy: “For us, the console is vital, and central to our experience. We heard you — a console should be designed and built and optimised for one thing, and one thing only: gaming.”
With the Xbox One, Microsoft notoriously fumbled the announcement. While introducing the Xbox One in 2013, the company spent a lot of time talking about “entertainment” rather than gaming – the core of all video game consoles.
This time, Microsoft isn’t making the same mistake.
When the console was first detailed in June at E3 2019, the annual video game trade show, the very first thing that Xbox head Phil Spencer said about the new console was the quote above – “we heard you” being core to that message.
Spencer, on behalf of Microsoft, is making a direct effort to earn back the so-called “core gamer” audience that was so critical to the success of the Xbox 360.
To that end, the first details on the Xbox Series X, which was then code-named Project Scarlett, were focused on the kind of under-the-hood specs that appeal most to that core audience.
2. The specs: A big step up over even the most powerful Xbox One console — “four times more powerful than the Xbox One X.”
“Xbox Series X will be our fastest, most powerful console ever and set a new bar for performance, speed and compatibility,” Spencer said last December when the console’s design and name were revealed at the 2019 Game Awards.
The Xbox Series X, he said, is four times faster than the current Xbox One X – an already powerful game console.
But let’s not beat around the bush. Here are the approximate specs of Microsoft’s next Xbox:
Processor: AMD “Navi” processor (“SoC”): “At the heart of our next-generation console is our custom-designed processor, leveraging the latest Zen 2 and and Navi technology from our partners at AMD.”
Memory: GDDR6 RAM
Optical Media Drive: Blu-ray disc drive
Storage: Solid-state drive
Microsoft says all that hardware can produce 8K visuals, and up to 120 frames-per-second. The company also says that the SSD will load games faster than ever before, and multiple games can be left suspended with a “quick resume” feature. Simply put, the feature lets players, “continue multiple games from a suspended state almost instantly, returning you to where you were and what you were doing, without waiting through long loading screens.”
All these specs are relatively meaningless, of course. What matters is how they’re used.
3. The broad goal for Xbox Series X: Make it easier to play games on whatever device you want, with whoever you want to play with. (But also, yes, it will still play discs).
An earlier demo of Project xCloud. Microsoft
Microsoft’s been talking about a new Netflix-like video game streaming solution for a while now, called Project xCloud. You can even use it yourself for free – it’s currently in beta, and is set to go live soon.
The idea is you can play whatever games you want on whatever device you want (as long as you have a strong, stable internet connection). That plan is still in the works, and is a part of the vision for the next generation of Xbox – but so is a physical disc drive and a digital storage system as well.
But this isn’t a video game streaming box. Xbox Series X is very much a video game console in the traditional sense.
In the long run, Microsoft wants Xbox Series X to be the centrepiece of a broader strategy to get people playing games on whatever they want, wherever they want, whenever they want, even without owning a physical video game console.
4. The games: Microsoft is touting “thousands of games spanning four generations,” but the big exclusive just got delayed.
In the console’e June 2019 announcement video, a Microsoft employee says “hundreds” of people inside and outside of Microsoft are already working on games for Xbox Series X.
The video also revealed “Halo Infinite” as a launch title for the next-gen Xbox console – the next major entry in the decades-old “Halo” first-person shooter series.
The game has since been delayed to some time in 2021, and Microsoft has shifted focus to the console’s ability to play “thousands of games spanning four generations.”
The company has also announced a slew of upcoming post-launch games, including new “Forza” and “Fable” games, and “Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2.”
It’s safe to assume that major first-party game franchises, like “Gears of War,” are in production. Microsoft has said that “15 Xbox Game Studios are developing the largest and most creatively diverse lineup of Xbox exclusive games in our history” for the Xbox Series X.
Outside of Microsoft, at least two major next-gen games are in the works that we already know of: “The Elder Scrolls VI” and “Starfield,” both from Bethesda Softworks.
And beyond that, all the major multiplatform games are headed to the next-gen Xbox: “Call of Duty,” “Assassin’s Creed,” and all the major annual sports games (“Madden,” “FIFA,” “NBA 2K”) are locks.
5. The look: “We wanted to design a console where the form was driven by the function. And the function, as I said, was to really play the highest power, most immersive games possible.”
The design of the Xbox Series X, first revealed on December 12 at the 2019 Game Awards, is a major departure from traditional game console design.
Rather than looking like futuristic DVD player, like so many game consoles before it, the Xbox Series X resembles an austere PC tower. It has a disc slot for Blu-ray discs, a glowing Xbox button for turning the console on, and there’s at least one USB plug hiding out on the lower right corner. We’ve yet to see what it looks like around back, but the top is just a massive air duct for cooling.
In an exclusive hands-on with Xbox Series X, GameSpot’s Peter Brown described the console’s size as such: “Series X’s square footprint is roughly as wide as an Xbox One controller and (again, roughly) three times as tall.”
Moreover, it can be oriented horizontally or vertically, which should allow it to be easily fit into home entertainment centres.
6. The Details: All your Xbox One stuff is coming forward to the next-gen Xbox, including the backwards compatible stuff that worked there.
The Xbox Series X console will play all your Xbox One games. It will also play all the original Xbox and Xbox 360 games that your Xbox One would play, and it will work with all your Xbox One accessories.
Indeed, Microsoft confirmed that the Xbox Elite Controller Series 2 – a $US180 premium controller for the most discerning gamer – will be compatible with both the Xbox One and Xbox Series X.
“Your games, your achievements, your progression, your accessories – your console gaming experience with Xbox? It all comes forward,” a Microsoft staffer said in the June 2019 intro video.
Given that, and given how popular some games are with current-gen console owners – think “Fortnite” and “Minecraft” – a big question was whether those games will work across game console generations.
It sounds like the answer is yes.
“At the highest level, if you talk about these games that have such massive communities today, a lot of those developers and studios are going to want to think about how they grow their community – not take it to zero and rebuild it,” Xbox head Phil Spencer told Business Insider in an interview in June 2019.
Spencer said he didn’t want to speak on behalf of any developers, but that the concept philosophically “fit right in” to the company’s vision for the future of Xbox.
7. One hugely important detail: “Smart delivery” is a new feature that enables game makers to sell one version of a game that works across both the current- and next-generation Xbox consoles.
When “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla” launches this holiday, anyone who buys it will automatically own it on Xbox One as well.
That goes for all of Microsoft’s first-party games and a variety of third-party games.
“We’re making the commitment to use Smart Delivery on all our exclusive Xbox Game Studios titles, including ‘Halo Infinite,'”Xbox leader Phil Spencer wrote in a letter this past February, “Ensuring you only have to purchase a title once in order to play the best available version for whichever Xbox console [you] choose to play on.”
Furthermore, Microsoft is extending this functionality to any game makers publishing on the Xbox Series X. One such third-party studio to embrace the functionality is CD Projekt Red, the team behind one of 2020’s most anticipated new games: “Cyberpunk 2077.”
“Gamers should never be forced to purchase the same game twice or pay for upgrades,” the company announced in early 2020. “Owners of #Cyberpunk2077 for Xbox One will receive the Xbox Series X upgrade for free when available.”
The move breaks with the unfortunate tradition of game makers selling multiple versions of the same game while console generations transition, but it makes more sense than ever given how consumer expectations have evolved with the rise of smartphones and persistent software libraries.
8. The services: Xbox Game Pass is coming to the next-gen, and it’s a critical component of Microsoft’s strategy.
A selection of Xbox Game Pass games from early 2020. Microsoft
In the summer of 2017, Microsoft made an ambitious bet on a new Xbox service: Game Pass.
The service would offer a curated library of over 100 games, and it cost just $US10 per month. Moreover, every major Xbox game published by Microsoft, from “Halo” to “Gears of War” to “Forza Motorsport,” would be published to the service’s library at launch.
In the years since, Xbox Game Pass has become one of the best deals in gaming – a coup from Microsoft’s Xbox division in a console cycle dominated by Sony’s PlayStation 4. Game Pass now boasts over 10 million users, as of late April.
Since Game Pass launched, titles needed to be downloaded to be played, but this September, Microsoft plans to shake up the video game business. Every Game Pass game will instantly become streamable to play, making it the world’s first game streaming service with a built-in library, Netflix-style.
For $US15 a month, you’ll be able to stream over 100 games to smartphones and tablets. Moreover, you can pick up those games on your new Xbox Series X (or gaming PC) and play right where you left off.
Game Pass was already a successful part of Microsoft’s Xbox strategy with the current generation, and it’s poised to be an even bigger part of the next generation.
Check out the full reveal of the next-generation Xbox Series X game console right here:
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Man jailed after breaking into Chester house twice in two years
A man from Chester who broke into the same house twice in two years has been jailed.
John Armitage pleaded guilty to burglary and theft and was sentenced at Chester Crown Court on Wednesday 10 February.
The 52-year-old, of Canberra Way, Chester, was jailed for two years.
The court heard that Armitage broke into the address in Gladstone Avenue, Chester, on the night of New Year’s Eve.
He gained entry by smashing a window in the rear patio doors at the rear of the house.
Once inside he stole a number of items, including a bike worth more than £850 and a £250 Garmin watch.
Armitage’s downfall came after officers found traces of his blood on walls inside the property.
He was subsequently arrested and questioned in custody, where he claimed to have a loss of memory.
However, he admitted being responsible for the burglary when the case progressed to the courts.
It was the second time that Armitage had broken into the address, having previously burgled the house on 24 October 2019.
On that occasion he was caught red-handed by officers as he rummaged through the house and was sentenced to 2 years.
Detective Constable Andrea Ellis, who led the investigation into the most recent break-in, said: “Burglary is a serious offence as victims are targeted in their own home, which is the place they should be able to feel most safe.
“In this case, the man responsible is a repeat offender who clearly has no regard for the impact that his crimes have on the victims. The fact that he broke into the same address twice is simply despicable.
“As a result of the evidence we were able to gather against him, Armitage had no other sensible option but to plead guilty to the burglary on New Year’s Eve.
“Thankfully, he is now behind bars facing the consequences of his actions.
“I hope that the conclusion of this case will provide closure for the victim, who had only recently moved into the address, as well as reassurance to the local community.”
Cheshire Police and Crime Commissioner David Keane added: “Everyone has the right to feel safe in their own home, and to be a victim of burglary is a deeply upsetting experience.
“I would like to praise the work of all the officers who were involved in the investigation for helping to secure this conviction and deliver justice for the victim.
“I hope that the outcome of the investigation provides reassurance to residents in Chester and elsewhere in Cheshire.”
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Indiana's Pence changes running mate before election
By Tribune wire reports
Eric Holcomb, left, nominated for Lt. Governor, speaks as Gov. Mike Pence, and Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann listen during a press conference at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis on Feb. 9, 2016. (Robert Scheer / The Indianapolis Star via AP)
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann said Tuesday she is stepping aside as Gov. Mike Pence's running mate in an unusual move that allows a former state Republican Party chairman to join the ticket with the governor for a tough re-election campaign.
The result is that for the first time in more than a decade a woman will not be part of the GOP ticket for governor, going against a practice of both parties.
Taking her spot will be Eric Holcomb, a longtime aide and political operative, who was a candidate for the U.S. Senate until he withdrew Monday. He has previously run for elected public office but never won. The last time a new lieutenant governor was selected in the middle of a term was 2003 after Gov. Frank O'Bannon died in office.
"Eric is perceived as solid, honest, dependable good guy," said former Fort Wayne Republican Mayor Paul Helmke, who is now a professor of public affairs at Indiana University.
But he cautioned that Ellspermann's departure could play badly because "the woman is leaving" and "a white guy from central Indiana doesn't seem like the thing that would normally pick you up votes."
While both Pence and Ellspermann deny a rift, differences between the two were highlighted in September when Ellspermann said she supported LGBT civil rights protections.
"Did we ever have policy disagreements? Sure." Pence said while flanked by Ellspermann and Holcomb at a news conference Tuesday, chalking it up to his "executive style" encouraging robust debate.
Indiana gay rights bill is dead: 'We took a beating from all sides'
Indiana Republican lawmakers abandoned efforts on Tuesday to strengthen protections for lesbian, gay and bi-sexual people.
The issue of LGBT rights has divided the Indiana Republican Party following uproar over the state's religious objections law and Pence has said he favors religious freedoms over protections for anyone who has been declined service, fired from a job or denied housing over sexual orientation or gender identity.
Holcomb says Pence has "struck the right tone" on LGBT rights and added that issues like infrastructure improvements, education and job creation are what the focus should be.
When asked if differences over civil rights protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people played a role in her departure, Ellspermann said she supports the governor but avoided the question, saying: "there's very little additional to add there. So, thank you."
Viewed as an ambitious rising star in the Republican Party, Ellspermann holds a doctorate in industrial engineering and ran her own consulting firm before she was first elected to the Indiana House in 2010. She was tapped in 2012 to join Pence's gubernatorial ticket.
She leaves office with no guarantee of a job, though Pence has suggested that she would be an "ideal" candidate for president of the state's embattled Ivy Tech Community Colleges system, which faces declining enrolment and flagging graduation rates.
Ellspermann's spokesman said in December that college officials approached her about the position, which could solidify her credentials if she were to turn the school around. Pence appoints the school's 14 trustees, who are currently conducting a nationwide $120,000 presidential search.
Holcomb is well regarded by many Republican Party officials and toured all 92 counties during his 11-month campaign for Senate. That could help Pence drive turnout in the November rematch with Democratic former House Speaker John Gregg, who supports LGBT rights.
Holcomb and Pence both attended Hanover College and were members of the same fraternity, though at different times.
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An aide and campaign manager to former Gov. Mitch Daniels, Holcomb could help unite the social conservative and Chamber of Commerce wings of the party, which are at odds over LGBT rights. And he was tapped to lead the state GOP in 2011 and held the position until 2013, after which he became U.S. Sen. Dan Coats' state chief of staff.
But Democrats point to his 2000 campaign for state representative, which drew widespread attention when he ran a newspaper ad accusing his Democratic opponent of voting to fund Indiana University, which houses the human sexuality research group Kinsey Institute.
The ad accused the Democrat of forcing "taxpayers" to fund the school's "sexual related art, studies on bestiality, obscene photographs of children and its apparent support of homosexuality."
When asked about the ad Tuesday, Holcomb said he would "let the body of my work and experience speak for itself."
"I don't spend very much time looking in the rearview mirror. I tend to focus out front," Holcomb said.
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Putting Medicare Solvency Projections into Perspective
Gretchen Jacobson
Vice President, Medicare, The Commonwealth Fund
Lovisa Gustafsson
Vice President, Controlling Health Care Costs, The Commonwealth Fund
COVID-19 appears to have had a negligible effect on Medicare’s finances. Still, the program’s dwindling trust fund needs to be addressed
Current projections put the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund only five years away from insolvency — the same estimated time frame that was projected before the pandemic
According to recent projections, the Medicare Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund, absent congressional action, will become insolvent in 2026 and no longer be able to fully cover the cost of beneficiaries’ hospital bills. This was affirmed by the recently published report from the Medicare Board of Trustees, and by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). These projections have not changed from estimates made prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, which leads to the question: Did the pandemic have any effect on Medicare’s finances?
The solvency of the Medicare HI Trust Fund is affected by both revenue into the trust fund and federal spending for Medicare Part A, which covers inpatient hospital care, skilled nursing facility care, hospice care, and home health care. The primary source (88% in 2019) of revenue to the trust fund is payroll taxes, meaning that any increase or decrease in total payroll taxes will affect its financial health. The economic recession and unemployment related to the pandemic raise questions about the volume of payroll taxes flowing into the trust fund. Surprisingly, the pandemic seems to have had relatively little impact on payroll taxes, with actual payroll taxes collected in fiscal year 2020 ($1.31 trillion) higher than projected ($1.281 trillion) before the pandemic. The Trustees project that payroll taxes will be slightly lower in 2021 than 2020, and these amounts also will be adjusted for any overpayments or underpayments in taxes made in 2020. By boosting the economy and lowering unemployment, the American Rescue Plan and other economic or job stimuli could help to further increase payroll taxes, thereby improving the solvency of the trust fund.
The net impact of the pandemic on health care spending has been a matter of significant debate. While the system has incurred new costs associated with testing and treatment, including costly hospitalizations for COVID-related care, there also has been care forgone or delayed. Greater spending than projected prior to the pandemic would shorten the life of the trust fund, while lower-than-projected spending would prolong it.
Based on available data, it appears that traditional Medicare spending declined sharply between March and May 2020, but returned to prepandemic levels by June and remained there for the rest of the year. Traditional Medicare spending, which accounts for 54 percent of total Medicare outlays, declined by about 7 percent between January and October 2020, compared with the same months in 2019. Federal spending for Medicare Advantage plans, which accounts for 35 percent of total Medicare spending, did not change during 2020 because the plans receive predetermined capitated payments that are not tied to actual use of services. Medicare Part D spending, which accounts for the remaining 11 percent of spending, also did not materially change during the pandemic. It is not yet clear whether spending will somewhat increase in 2021 or future years because of receipt of postponed care, or poor outcomes because of forgone care. The costs of COVID-related care and vaccinations in future years also could affect projections.
Funds from the HI Trust Fund were used to make advance payments to hospitals and other providers to help provide financial relief from lost revenues resulting from a drop in hospital admissions and other procedures. The advance payments to providers were substantial enough to have a meaningful effect on the HI Trust Fund, particularly if they are not repaid, as some provider groups have advocated. Providers were required to begin repaying the loans one year from the date of issuance, and the administration recently hired contractors to help recoup the payments.
While many feared the pandemic would have a catastrophic impact on Medicare’s solvency, the net effect seems to be small relative to the amount needed to change the life of the trust fund. Nevertheless, about $240 billion in reduced spending for Medicare Part A benefits or additional tax revenue would be needed to extend the solvency of the trust fund through 2029. The pandemic has not accelerated the program’s financial problems, but the trust fund’s insolvency still looms, just five years away. This is the shortest timeline to insolvency in more than two decades. Congress and the administration are considering several options for extending the life of the trust fund and the potential implications for beneficiaries, spending, and the health care system. Medicare solvency presents an important opportunity to implement reforms that make the program more efficient, effective, and equitable, while meeting the needs of beneficiaries.
Gretchen Jacobson and Lovisa Gustafsson, “Putting Medicare Solvency Projections into Perspective,” To the Point (blog), Commonwealth Fund, Sept. 1, 2021. https://doi.org/10.26099/bexm-9c54
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The Connell Short Guide to Britain After World War II
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In 1945 Britain emerged from the most devastating war the world has ever seen. Though victorious, the country was severely in debt, had suffered major structural damage and was overshadowed, in terms of world status, by the rise of the superpowers. Yet the 20 years that followed were astonishingly successful. Eric Hobsbawn has called the 1950s and 1960s a “golden age” of prosperity and affluence. In this short, incisive guide, the historian Simon Abernethy tells the story of Britain after World War Two and asks: was Harold Macmillan right when he remarked in a famous speech that Britain “had never had it so good”?
ISBN- paperback: 978-1-911187-34-9
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Jon Stewart announces retirement from "The Daily Show"
By: Tiffany Shepherd
Posted: Feb 10, 2015 11:16 PM CST | Updated: Feb 10, 2015 11:22 PM CST
(CBS NEWS) In a surprise move, Jon Stewart has announced that he's retiring as anchor of \"The Daily Show.\"
Stewart broke the news to his audience while taping Comedy Central's satirical news program Tuesday. Shortly after, as the announcement started making waves on social media, the network sent a tweet confirming it.
Stewart has anchored \"The Daily Show\" since 1999. Since taking control of the anchor desk, the show has won 19 Emmy awards and averages about a million viewers each night.
Stewart has hosted the Academy Awards twice, in 2006 and 2008. He published a book of essays, \"Naked Pictures of Famous People,\" in 1999 and collaborated with the \"Daily Show staff on two bestsellers, 2004's \"America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction\" and \"Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race\" in 2010.
Stewart took a hiatus from \"The Daily Show\" in 2013 while directing his first feature film, \"Rosewater.\"
His retirement follows that of Stephen Colbert, who ended his run on \"The Colbert Report\" in December to take over CBS's \"Late Show\" after David Letterman retires later this year.
No replacement has been announced for Stewart.
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Morgan Wallen's record sales skyrocket after racial slur controversy
Posted: Feb 8, 2021 4:28 PM CST
(CNN) -- Radio and others may have dropped him, but Morgan Wallen's music is still selling.
The country singer apologized last week after he was captured on video using a racial slur. Media companies like iHeart Radio and CMT dropped his music from their playlists.
Still, Wallen's "Dangerous: The Double Album" topped the Billboard 200 chart for a fourth consecutive week, according to Billboard.
His sales rose 1,220% last Wednesday as compared to the day before, Rolling Stone reported.
Many in the country music industry reacted swiftly to condemn Wallen's words.
Big Loud suspended Wallen's recording contract indefinitely "in the wake of recent events," according to a statement on its verified social media accounts.
The label said its distributing partner, Republic Records, fully supports the decision and "such behavior will not be tolerated."
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The Fires of Pompeii: "Oh, you're Celtic. That's lovely."
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For me, this story is basically an excuse to see Peter Capaldi in Doctor Who. Mr. Capaldi is one of those actors I'll watch in anything; he's just brilliant. Whether he's tearing a swath through the political world as the vicious Malcom Tucker from In The Thick Of It or trying to cop a kisu off Marina as Danny Oldsen in Local Hero, he nails it. He's a bit alien, and yet passionate in a way that makes him perfectly identifiable.
"The what-ano?"
Not for nothing, if it were up to me to cast the next Doctor, Mr. Capaldi would be at the top of my wishlist.
Catherine Tate, on the other hand, is not a favorite of mine, at least she wasn't until she played Donna Noble. She's wonderful with David Tennant, in this -- and everything else I've seen them do together. Their chemistry works in a way -- and I still blame the writers not this, not the actress -- 10 and Martha's never really did. Donna's "Oi, Space Man ..." is a breath of fresh air after too much, well, romantic longing. OK, so she does say, "I bloody love you!" But we know she's just impressed he held off a stony alien-possessed monstrosity with a water pistol. Her delivery of "Never mind us" when it looks like Donna will need to sacrifice herself along with the Doctor is absolutely winning. And the way she's gutted when she realizes she can't save them all. She's really very good.
"Oh no! We're not ..."
Re-watching this leading up to 50th Anniversary, which we learned this week will be called "The Name of The Doctor," added some timeliness. This is one of the episodes where we get an intimation that the Doctor's true name is deeply significant. "Even the word, 'Doctor,' is false. Your real name is hidden. It burns in the stars -- in the Cascade of Medusa herself."
After the last two weeks, it's fun to revisit the explanation of the TARDIS translation matrix. It's a well-written episode with snappy dialogue and genuine wit built around that bit of explanation. A bit of a contrast actually, from how it's been handled in season 7.
The key to this episode though is the conflict between the Doctor and Donna about the fate of Pompeii. Donna's desire to save as many as possible is in conflict with the Doctor's understanding -- the burden of the Time Lord, he calls it -- of Pompeii as a fixed point. ("Someone must make a choice. A terrible choice.") That conflict adds depth to the story of the vapor huffing oracles and their puppet master, which was interesting enough on its own in the context of the historical events. This weaving of humanist themes and sci-fi adventure, with snappy dialogue and strong supporting cast around the dynamic charm of Ten, this when the series fires on all cylinders. Again, we see how how superstition makes people dupes, more of one of my favorite themes of the series. We also see the Doctor and Donna revered as household gods, but knowing how they came to be so, and seeing the smile on young Quintus's face as he pays his respects, on his way out the door to study to be a doctor himself, it doesn't offend the sensibilities.
Look, I'm not saying it's perfect. The water pistol isn't really very convincing. The Doctor and Donna should have been roasted to ash. They weren't. Sorry if that's a spoiler. And the bright light from within the TARDIS when the Doctor decides he can save someone and goes back for Caecilius's family, it's all a bit much. Minor quibbles though.
It all comes together at the end. If overwrought in the rescue, it's note-perfect in the aftermath.
And I'd completely forgotten this episode contained a sneak peek of an almost-unrecognizable-beneath-all-that-makeup-and-robery future companion:
Karen Gillan, pre-Amy Pond.
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Salli Richardson Net Worth
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Salli Richardson-Whitfield Net Worth: Salli Richardson-Whitfield is an American actress who has a net worth of $2 million. Salli Richardson-Whitfield was born in Chicago, Illinois in November 1967. She is best known for her role as Dr. Allison Blake on the TV series Eureka. She started her acting career at the Kuumba Workshop theater and graduated from the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.
Her film debut came in the 1991 movie Up Against the Wall. From 1994 to 1996 she provided voice work for the TV series Gargoyles. She did the same for the 1996 TV series Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles. From 1998 to 1999 she starred in the TV series Mercy Point. Richardson starred as Nancy Adams in the series Rude Awakening from 2000 to 2001. From 1999 to 2002 she starred as Viveca Foster in the series Family Law. In 2003 she had a recurring role as Laura in the television series CSI: Miami. Her best known role came as Allison Blake from 2006 to 2012 in the series A Town Called Eureka. Richardson also starred in the movies Prelude to a Kiss, Mo' Money, A Low Down Dirty Shame, The Great White Hype, Antwone Fisher, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, I Am Legend, Black Dynamite, Pastor Brown, and We the Party. She was nominated for an Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series and a Black Reel Awards for Outstanding Actress, TV Movie or Mini-Series.
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The Biblical Significance of Jerusalem to Jews and Christians
Engaging views and analysis from outside contributors on the issues affecting society and faith today.
CP VOICES do not necessarily reflect the views of The Christian Post. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author(s).
CP Voices | Friday, December 08, 2017
Jewish tradition teaches that Creation began in Jerusalem and that Adam was created from the dust of the earth in Jerusalem.
By Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein, CP Guest Contributor | Friday, December 08, 2017
With Vice Pence Mike Pence looking on, U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order after he announced the U.S. would Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., December 6, 2017. | (Photo: Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
As all eyes are focused on Jerusalem once again because of President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. But to understand what is going on, you must start with why Jerusalem is so important, why this ancient city is so woven into the heart of the Jewish people.
Since the beginning of time, Jerusalem has been the meeting place of heaven and earth. Jewish tradition teaches that Creation began in Jerusalem and that Adam was created from the dust of the earth in Jerusalem. It was the place where Abraham took his son Isaac to be sacrificed. David later purchased that same site to build an altar to God. Eventually David's land would later become the Temple Mount, and the Temple would officially serve as the connection between God and man fornearly 1,000 years.
The special status of Jerusalem was derived from the Holy Temple. There are many commandments that could only be fulfilled within the walls of God's city. And yet, the holiness of Jerusalem existed before the construction of the Temple and remains after its destruction. This is why thousands of years after the destruction of the Temple, all Jews face Jerusalem when theypray.
The Patriarch Jacob expressed it best after he awoke from his famous dream of a ladder that spanned heaven and earth. Upon awakening, Jacob exclaimed: "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven" (Genesis 28:17).
Some sages explain that Jacob had fallen asleep in the place where Jerusalem one day would be built, specifically, at the very location where the world began, and the Temple would stand, a permanent structure in a place that God would choose. The chosen place was revealed to King David as Mount Moriah in Jerusalem and the Temple was built by his son King Solomon.
Solomon prayed these words at the Temple dedication ceremony: "May your eyes be open toward this temple night and day, this place of which you said, 'My Name shall be there,' so that you will hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place" (2 Chronicles 6:20). To this very day, Judaism maintains that all prayers ascend to heaven through Jerusalem. Similarly, all blessings pass through Jerusalem to the rest of the world.
In the messianic era, the third and final Temple is prophesied to be built in Jerusalem. In the extensive vision of the new Temple given to Ezekiel (Ezekiel 40–48), which includes detailed descriptions of the restoration of the Temple, the altar, the priesthood, and the land of Israel, he is told that the name of the new city from then on will be "the Lord is there."
Isaiah 56:7 tells us it will be "a house of prayer for all nations" and the direct connection between heaven and earth will be established once again. Jewish people long for this day. In the Amidah prayer, which observant Jews pray three times daily, they ask God to rebuild Jerusalem and to restore the Temple worship.
Many Christians also believe the Third Temple will either precede or coincide with the arrival of the Messiah. The Christian Scriptures, specifically the book of Revelation, contain a description of the end times, including more than one mention of "the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God" (Revelation 3:12).
Based on the prophecies in Ezekiel 44, many also believe the Messiah will enter through the Eastern Gate, also known as the "Golden Gate." It is believed to be the one Jesus entered during his triumphal entry into Jerusalem.
As Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once said, "Jerusalem is the heart of the nation. We'll never divide our heart." The depth of this statement goes far beyond any political implications. Past and present, Jerusalem has always been the heart of the nation of Israel, inspiring love and drawing the faithful from the ends of the earth. This is our strength, and Jerusalem, our eternal capital, is its source.
Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein is the founder and president of The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (The Fellowship), which was founded in 1983 to promote better understanding and cooperation between Christians and Jews and build broad support for Israel. Today it is one of the leading forces helping Israel and Jews in need worldwide — and is the largest channel of Christian support for Israel. The Fellowship now raises more than $140 million per year, mostly from Christians, to assist Israel and the Jewish people. Since its founding, The Fellowship has raised more than $1.4 billion for this work. The organization has offices in Jerusalem, Chicago, Toronto and Seoul.
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February 01, 2021 HV Towns » Poughkeepsie
Poughkeepsie: Strong at Heart
The Queen City's Economic Resurgence Forges Ahead Despite Pandemic Setbacks
By Jamie Larson
Last Updated: 03/11/2021 12:05 pm
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Ira Lee, owner of Twisted Soul, a fusion restaurant located near Vassar College on Raymond Avenue. Twisted Soul is only offering pick-up service during the pandemic.
This time last year, Poughkeepsie was at an inflection point. Just before the COVID-19 pandemic descended, the city was buzzing with development, new businesses, and growth. The community was also bolstered by the civic and social support of a cadre of dynamic nonprofits, and it seemed that a long period of economic struggle was at last subsiding. Then, you know, COVID. Progress in Poughkeepsie, however, has not been derailed, thanks to the people who have pushed too long and hard to let the city backslide. The past year has been emotional and exhausting, but Poughkeepsie's stakeholders have found a way to fight through. They just work harder.
City of Healers
Poughkeepsie is a hospital town, with Vassar Brothers Medical Center (VBMC) in its center and Mid-Hudson Hospital just outside the city limits. The city is slung with banners honoring healthcare workers and a popular statue of a masked nurse standing resolute, sculpted by artist Nestor Madalengoitia, guarded the entrance of VBMC, before relocating to the Dutchess County Office Building. "I think, as a community, we feel comforted by the fact we have two amazing hospitals centered in our community," says Poughkeepsie Mayor Rob Rolison. "On a personal level, I'm concerned for healthcare workers and the stress they're under. I came down with COVID-19 the Monday before Thanksgiving. My experience was certainly not as bad as others. I was very lucky. It showed me the fragility of life. We need to take the time to thank one another."
In the midst of the pandemic, and after years of construction, on January 9, VBMC opened their massive new Patient Pavilion building complex. The $500-million project brings new space and resources to the hospital at a vital time as COVID case numbers continue to rise. "It's an amazing facility with all private rooms, so that immediately addresses needs for isolation and capacity," said Dr. William Begg, vice president of medical affairs at VBMC. "The new patient pavilion just adds an advanced location that will help us provide the level of healthcare our community deserves."
A view of the Mount Carmel neighborhood and the Mid-Hudson Bridge in the distance from the eastern end of the Walkway Over the Hudson.
Begg says the staff at VBMC have faced many challenges over the past year with consummate professionalism and the community of the greater Poughkeepsie area has been continually supportive. "When the pandemic began, they came out in droves, donating food, masks—even coming by the medical center in impromptu drive-by salutes to our healthcare workers. It's an incredible feeling to get that kind of support, and it really energized all of us," Begg said. "I feel like we're closer in many ways. Despite many challenges, we've developed relationships with local public officials and we've ventured out into the community with educational seminars. We've done two virtual town halls about COVID-19 featuring members of our medical staff as panelists, and we plan to do more this year, beginning with some education about vaccines."
COVID Curbs a Comeback
Major economic development projects like the hospital expansion, the creation of a hotel and conference center on the Vassar College campus, Queen City Lofts, One Dutchess, Poughkeepsie Landing, and others saw their build-outs slowed but not stopped by COVID restrictions. In January, the Academy mixed-use development got underway in earnest. That project will establish a coworking space, coffee shop, food hall, brewery, fresh foods market, teaching kitchen, and event space, with apartments on the upper floors on Academy Street. The continuation of these projects signals investor confidence in Poughkeepsie, in spite of current circumstances.
The Vassar College campus in Poughkeepsie. For the spring semester, Vassar will pursue its “island” model for students once they begin returning this month. Once on campus, students are expected to remain on campus for the duration of the semester.
Other hospitality-based projects that opened in the beginning of last year have struggled, however. In early 2020, a new go-kart and arcade facility, RPM, opened at the Galleria Mall. Jim and Gina Sullivan, developers of the 40 Cannon complex, opened the Revel 32 nightclub and events space. Legendary sandwich shop Rossi's Deli opened a second location in the Eastdale Village development. The brewing industry was also roaring with the success Mill House Brewing Company, Blue Collar Brewery, and Plan Bee Farm Brewery, and the recently opened Zeus Brewing Company.
God’s Grace Too!! is located on a stretch of Main Street with many Mexican, Caribbean, and soul food restaurants.
Most businesses in the city continue to limp along, waiting for more Payroll Protection Plan stimulus from the government, but some, like the Bowtie Cinema project, are on hold, as the state of the movie theater industry is dire. Restaurants are in a particularly mercurial quagmire, with those who have robust takeout options doing okay while fine dining establishments that are more experiential, like Brasserie 292, are losing more and more footing by the day. Brasserie owner and chef Charles Fells is frustrated by the way the narrative around COVID's spread has focused so much on restaurants.
"It seems like we've pigeonholed restaurants as the source of COVID, and that's really sad," says Fells. "No one in our business wants to get people sick. I don't know how people think it's so much worse than the grocery store. Ninety percent of our menu doesn't travel well. We are still doing limited-capacity seating with spacing. We put up Plexiglas around the booths and got a whole new HVAC system. We've followed every guideline. It's nuts."
The Elting Building, on Main Street, houses Brasserie 292, owned by Charles Fells, who’s frustrated by the way the narrative around COVID’s spread has focused so much on restaurants. “It seems like we’ve pigeonholed restaurants as the source of COVID, and that’s really sad,” says Fells.
Fells says if there is another total shutdown, without Payroll Protection or substantial government stimulus, he won't be able to keep the restaurant open. He added that he's already done everything possible to stay open and keep his employees paid, including remortgaging his house. "Aid gets tied up in Washington because it's too political. It's not about what's best for the country, it's about what's best for political careers," Fells says. "If the shutdown and regulations were handled federally from the beginning I wouldn't be in this position."
A Housing Boom with Pros and Cons
While existing Poughkeepsie businesses are struggling, it is proving to be a good time to start a new venture in the city, as entrepreneurs see a post-pandemic clientele eager to get back out and socialize.
Industrial and commercial real estate agent Don Minichino of Houlihan Lawrence has years of professional experience in economic development and says he still approaches his work from that perspective. Minichino says that the hot residential real estate—fueled by New York City exiles—is the basis for future opportunities on the commercial front.
"I live in downtown Poughkeepsie and it's where my heart is," he says. "There are two sides to the story right now. I'm seeing food businesses sell to recoup some value back from all their hard work. On the other side of the coin, I have restaurant spaces I have been able to lease to people who want to rehab them now, for new eateries when this is over. There are a lot of people sitting at home looking to turn their dreams into reality."
Cottage Street in Poughkeepsie is home to a number of manufacturing businesses, like 4th State Metals, a fabrication facility that works with architects and artists. Left to right: Ben Kane, Isaac Zal, Blake Burba, Dave Markusen Weiss, and Lauren Fix.
The robust real estate market, however, means higher rents and fewer options for the housing insecure. Lack of work and opportunities has only seen that community's numbers grow. Along with managing scores of low-income housing units and a portfolio of community aid programs, Hudson River Housing runs the only homeless shelter in Dutchess County. Unsurprisingly, the pandemic has made that difficult endeavor even more challenging.
"We didn't want to be in a position to have to turn anyone away, and we realized our existing facility was not the best site," says Hudson River Housing Executive Director Crista Hines, of the early days of COVID-19. The county made a vacant facility on the grounds of the Dutchess County Jail available, and while the organization was initially concerned about the connotations and image the location would send to their clientele, Hines says it has been a major upgrade for the folks they serve. Hygiene and food service accommodations are greatly improved and capacity increased so the organization could safely shelter 150 people. Sadly, the larger capacity has been needed as they are regularly housing 110 individuals a night, up from 60 this time last year.
Carmen is a self-described “panhandler” who is so well known for sitting at the corner of Main and Catherine Streets that the mayor had a sign put up declaring the spot to be “Carmen’s Corner.”
"The challenges our clients are facing have been exacerbated by the pandemic," Hines says. "Those with serious drug issues have had a more difficult time accessing counseling. There have been more overdoses than we have seen in forever. Services are available, but they are harder to access remotely."
Hudson River Housing also does a lot for those struggling to keep up with the cost of their apartments and homes. In April, the organization opened 78 new low-income housing units in Poughkeepsie and are working every day to develop more in a city currently with a one-percent vacancy rate. While the work they've accomplished has been a great value for the community they serve, looming is the ever-present, growing need. Hines says they receive over 100 applications for housing a month. "We were in a housing crisis before the pandemic and this has pushed it over the edge. Any available housing is getting gobbled up," Hines says. "I think things are going okay, but we are kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop with the economic impact of COVID."
The situation has driven the fair market value of a one-bedroom apartment in Poughkeepsie to an untenable $1,200 a month, she adds. To combat this, Hudson River Housing is working on increasing their rent relief programs and those in need are encouraged to visit the organization's website to learn more about that and many other programs servicing vulnerable citizens.
A Republican's Pride for a Protest and the Shame of a Coup
Through the summer, Poughkeepsie also became a regional epicenter for protests demanding remedy for racial inequality. Thousands marched peacefully through the city in June, lending their voices to the national outrage over the shooting of George Floyd and all people of color unfairly and unequally targeted, harassed, and killed by police.
Black Lives Matter rallies focused the public lens on the city's own police reform efforts. Mayor Rolison says the Poughkeepsie Police Department has embraced procedural justice reform and implicit bias training for their officers. "We understand how important this is and we know we have more to do," says Rolison.
In contrast to the positive power of the BLM protests, I happened to speak with the mayor less than 48 hours after Trump extremists stormed the Capitol building in Washington on January 6. The deadly, shambolic coup attempt was still very much front of mind and had Rolison thinking about the local impact of inflammatory partisanship. "This event at the Capitol was four years in the making and shame on [President Trump] for keeping it going and having this ill-advised rally. When you belittle people and call them names, it accomplishes nothing. We've been way beyond the breaking point for a while," Rolison says, emotion rising in his usually even-toned voice. "Unfortunately, with the dysfunction in Washington, it trickles down to the local level and the partisanship becomes normalized. I'm a Republican, elected mayor twice in a Democratic city. I don't care about political party anymore. As mayor, it does not matter. It only matters what you do. We need to find a way to disagree without being angry. Personally, I'm recommitting myself to doing a better job."
Saving the Culture
Poughkeepsie's civic identity and cultural vibrancy is bolstered by art venues and organizations that have been hit hard. The Art Effect is an organization that works with young people to express themselves, impact their community, and find tangible pathways to careers, through art. At the beginning of lockdown in March, that mission was initially hampered by not being able to meet in person, but they have persisted and found new pathways to success.
"We were, like so many, hit pretty hard because our programing primarily reaches youth through the schools," says Art Effect Executive Director Nicole Fenichel-Hewitt. "I felt right away the lack of engagement opportunities for youth. We did a lot we haven't done before. Every [art-based] business and agency has a different story. It's heartbreaking to see institutions, like the Bardavon, shuttered for so long. There are fewer and much different opportunities for art right now, but the community in general has been so supportive." Fenichel-Hewitt says public art like Madalengoitia's nurse sculpture and street art created during the BLM demonstrations helped bring people together.
The Dove, a mural by Nestor Madalengoitia on Main Street.
Art Effect emphasizes creating pathways to employment in the arts, and while the pandemic stifled many opportunities for program participants, the organization's paid apprenticeship program with local video production house Forge Media presented an avenue for youth to work on media content for local businesses and organizations who needed content and virtual events as they themselves shifted online.
Before the pandemic, Art Effect had just opened their new Trolley Barn Gallery in the restored historic city building on Main Street. While COVID threw a spanner in the works, the Trolley Barn has proven an asset for instruction, as it was large enough for youth to spread out and have 12 young people working in their own art in socially distanced studio areas.
Youth have also been working with Mary-Kay Lombino, deputy director and curator at Vassar's Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, to curate and run the Art Effect's first international juried art show, which will include art from around the world selected by the kids, as well as some of their own powerful pieces. The show is titled "Homesick" and addresses the raw experience of the pandemic. Fenichel-Hewitt says the artists have created powerful works inspired by these unprecedented times. The exhibition will be on display from February 25 through April 1.
Queen City 15 is a member-run art gallery on Main Street. The sculpture in the window is Gnome Lisa by Lisa Winika.
Perhaps the only thing that hasn't changed during the pandemic is the natural beauty that surrounds the city. Scenic Hudson's projects to protect, rehabilitate, and restore natural resources throughout the city, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods, continued through 2020 and provided outdoor spaces for residents to safely escape lockdown.
"Scenic Hudson is committed to helping create healthy, livable, and sustainable communities that reflect the visions of people living in them," says Zoraida Lopez-Diago, the director of Scenic Hudson's River Cities Program. "This is so incredibly important on Poughkeepsie's Northside, long plagued by racial, economic, and environmental inequality. Many Northside residents expressed the need to restore local Pershing Avenue and Malcolm X parks, making them safer and more inviting. At Pershing Avenue, construction is underway on a neighborhood farm that will increase access to fresh food—by providing plots for residents to grow produce and through an educational farm whose output will be shared with thousands of families via Dutchess Outreach."
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With so many people, businesses, and organizations working so hard to adapt to a COVID world, Poughkeepsie appears to be winning its war with the pandemic. It hasn't been easy. There have been many losses—and there will still be more—but this is a city that's use to fighting and accustomed to setbacks. While some of Poughkeepsie's plans for the future have been delayed, it's clear the community will not be denied.
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Friday Roundup: Media Moves at Fortune, Inc. & Axios, Teen Vogue Names Editor in Chief
March 12, 2021 / in Media Moves US , Media Blog , US Blog / by Anna Marevska
Teen VOGUE has named Alexi McCammond its new editor in chief; she starts March 24. McCammond comes from political reporting and most recently served as a political reporter at Axios and a contributor to NBC and MSNBC. In 2019 she was named "Emerging Journalist of the Year" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Juliana Feliciano Reyes is now a reporter on the Investigations Team at the Philadelphia Inquirer. She was most recently a labor reporter at the paper and has been on staff since 2017. As a freelancer, Feliciano Reyes has contributed to WIRED's Backchannel and The Washington Post's The Lily.
The Associated Press has promoted Justin Myers to data editor. He will manage the data analysts on the data team and oversee the team’s data-driven collaborations with reporters and editors across AP and its partner news organizations. Myers joined the data team five years ago as AP’s first automation editor.
Cayla Bamberger is the new education reporter for the Connecticut Post, covering education and schools across the state. Most recently, she was an education intern at The Hechinger Report and before that has held editorial internships at The Press Newspaper Group and Paste Magazine.
Lisa Chow has been named editor of "The Daily," the highly successful podcast produced by The New York Times. She has been at the paper since 2019 and has since been a supervising editor. Prior to that, she was a host of the "StartUp" podcast for five years and before that worked at FiveThirtyEight as senior editor, and NPR as a correspondent.
Axios has welcomed Sarah Mucha as political reporter covering the Biden administration and Congress. She comes from CNN where she spent three years in the Washington, D.C. bureau in various positions including associate assignment editor and news associate. Mucha has also contributed to Teen VOGUE and wrote national political issues stories.
Ben Pauker has joined Politico as national security and world editor. He was most recently the managing editor, news at Vox.com and oversaw a team of 70 reporters that covered politics and policy, Washington, culture, tech, science, commerce, philanthropy, and more. Prior to that, Pauker spent eight years at Foreign Policy magazine in various editorial positions.
The Points Guy has three new hires:
Juan G. Ruiz has joined as credit card editor. He is also a freelance writer and has contributed credit card and travel stories at Forbes and Business Insider. Ruiz is also the blogger behind the successful family travel blog Double Duty Daddy.
David Slotnick has joined the staff as senior airline reporter. He spent the past five years covering the airline industry, personal finance and travel for Business Insider.
Stella J. Shon has joined as a reporter covering credit cards. She was previously a travel credit card writer at LendingTree and before that interbed at The Points Guy.
Ian Zelaya has joined Digiday as a senior editor of custom. He was previously a consumer engagement reporter at Adweek for a year-and-a-half, and before that served as news editor at BizBash for almost five years. Zelaya has also worked at Baltimore Style Magazine as a staff writer and contributed to GALO Magazine.
Fortune magazine has promoted three:
Emma Hinchliffe has been promoted to editor on Fortune's Most Powerful Women team. She joined the magazines in 2018 as associate editor and previously worked at Inman Group and Mashable.
Lance Lambert has become the analytics editor, upped from associate data editor. Since joining the staff in 2019 he has founded Fortune Analytics, the premium data newsletter and also oversaw Fortune's polling.
Katherine Dunn is now an editor in the London bureau and mainly covers the intersection of climate change and business, energy, and U.K. news. Since joining Fortune in 2019, she has spent much of her time on the edit desk. Prior to that, Dunn wrote a daily business newsletter for the Canadian newsmagazine Maclean’s.
Iliana Limón Romero has joined the Los Angeles Times as deputy Sports editor. She has been Sports editor at the Orlando Sentinel since 2018, and her team has won more than a dozen Associated Press Sports Editors awards for its website, special sections, features and project reporting since she joined the Sentinel’s editing staff in 2012. Romero began her career on the metro desk at the Albuquerque Tribune.
Inc. magazine has tapped Ty Wenger as deputy editor. He comes from ESPN The Magazine where he served as a senior editor and later as deputy editor. Prior to that, he was the deputy managing editor of TheStreet.com, where he was also the founding editor of the breaking news desk.
Bloomberg News has promoted two:
Michelle Fay Cortez has moved to Hong Kong to be an editor on the health and consumer team. She was previously a senior reporter on the health team at Bloomberg News in Minneapolis and has been at the outlet since 1992.
Anna Edney is now a a national healthcare reporter based in Washington, D.C. She most recently covered healthcare policy and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and joined Bloomberg in 2010.
Houston Chronicle reporter Marcy De Luna now covers energy on the Business Desk. She was most recently on the digital news team and has been at the paper since 2018. Before that, De Luna spent a decade working in branded content and feature writing for national media. She also served as associate editor of CultureMap.com.
Shafaq Patel is the new minority business reporter at the Houston Business Journal covering black and brown businesses. She was most recently a business reporter, Dow Jones News Fund at the Boston Business Journal, and before that reported on the metro desk at Boston Globe Media.
Molly Stier has joined MSNBC as digital platforms editor. She was previously at Quartz, where she oversaw audience growth and engagement for Quartz's executive membership program. Stier has also previously served as social media editor at The Daily Dot.
John Brown has been named a morning anchor at Fox's KTVI-TV in St. Louis, Missouri. He will co-anchor the early morning weekday news alongside anchor Margie Ellisor from 5 to 7 a.m. Brown was most recently the station's political reporter and public affairs correspondent and has been at the station since 2016.
Telemundo's WSNS-TV in Chicago has welcomed Héctor Lozano as a sports reporter and anchor. He will co-anchor Noticiero Telemundo Chicago at 5:00 and 10:00 p.m. Lozano has worked as a sports anchor and reporter for Spanish-language sports media in Chicago for more than 25 years
Bernie Rodgers is the new managing editor at Philadelphia Style magazine. Rodgers was previously the editorial assistant at the magazine and has been on staff since August 2020. Rodgers has also previously interned at Beasley Media Group and Philadelphia Magazine.
The Ringer has hired Aric Jenkins as articles editor and will cover pop culture, sports, and technology. He comes from Fortune, where he served as a staff writer and has also edited the magazine's Race Ahead newsletter. Jenkins has also written for Timed magazine, Mic, and The International Business Times.
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Zuma to blame for recession, says the ANC
The ruling party is becoming increasingly comfortable doing something they were reluctant to during JZ's presidency - using him as a scapegoat.
Former South African President Jacob Zuma speaks to his supporters after his court appearance in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, July 27, 2018. REUTERS/Rogan Ward
The ANC’s head of economic transformation Enoch Godongwana admitted to Business Day that mismanagement under former president Jacob Zuma’s watch has led to the economic situation South Africa is currently experiencing.
Godongwana apparently said that political mismanagement over the past five years has led to the country’s first recession since 2009.
This is not the first time those within the ANC have spoken out against what they see as Zuma’s role in our economic struggles. In May 2017, TimesLive reported that the then deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa had alluded to Zuma’s complicity in the first ratings downgrades the country experienced in April of that year, when first S&P and then Fitch both lowered our credit rating to what is often termed “junk status”.
“Our efforts to grow the economy have been dealt a big blow by the recent decision by the ratings agencies to downgrade us and we know what sparked that off,” Ramaphosa said at the time.
This was a departure from previous ANC policy, which saw the party stand behind Zuma several times during his presidency.
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In the 2016 municipal elections, the ruling party’s portion of the vote fell to its lowest point yet, at 53.9% compared to 62.15% in 2014, and saw key metros such as Tshwane, Johannesburg and Nelson Mandela Bay fall to the DA, assisted by the EFF as well as other opposition parties, who decided to vote with the official opposition. The latter metro has since fallen to a UDM mayor and ANC speaker.
At the time, the ANC held a four-day national executive committee meeting in Tshwane, where they resolved the party must take “collective” responsibility for their waning electoral success.
The party’s secretary general at the time, Gwede Mantashe, said that blaming Zuma was the “wrong narrative“, one that he called alien to ANC culture.
It seems the ANC’s policy at the time of collective responsibility is backed by DA leader Mmusi Maimane.
RNews reported that at a briefing on Wednesday in which he announced the party’s candidate for premier of the Eastern Cape Nqaba Bhanga, Maimane said the ANC rather than Zuma alone should shield the blame for SA’s economic woes.
“I read this morning, a newspaper headline saying ‘Blame Jacob Zuma for recession’. Even myself, I don’t like Jacob Zuma, but he cannot take the blame for the recession,” he told those at the briefing.
“The only party to blame for the recession is entire ANC because they protected him, they looted together – so if someone ought to be blamed for recession, it’s got to be the ANC.”
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Hannibal Buress Discusses the Drive-In Tour That Brings Him to the Aut-O-Rama Tomorrow
Posted By Jeff Niesel on Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 4:05 PM
Specifically created for drive-in theaters, Hannibal Buress's Let's See How This Goes tour kicks off tomorrow at the Aut-O-rama Twin Drive-In in North Ridgeville.
The five-date run supports Buress’ new comedy special, Miami Nights. Buress has also released the first episode of Splitting 10s, his new podcast series that finds him talking about sports gambling, blackjack, and gambling psychology and techniques, and he's also recently launched News Overload, a funny YouTube show about current events.
The September drive-in tour is produced by Hotbox & Outback Presents, the same team behind recent Marc Rebillet and Bert Kreischer's drive-in tours.
In a recent 10-minute phone interview, Buress spoke about the tour.
Talk about your Miami Nights special. How difficult or easy was it to turn that into a comedy special?
It wasn’t difficult per se. The main difficulty was just with my standards and what I wanted. We originally filmed it in February, and it was called something else. I think it was called Miracle Miracle Spiritual. I’m glad we didn’t go with that. In that cut, the energy in that room was off, especially for a comedy special. It truly didn’t feel how the other tour dates did. Lots of the tour dates were really exciting and had a crazy energy to them. I made the tough decision to scrap it and then film it again six months later. That was the tough part. I had to do another small tour and work on the show to make it fresh. That was the toughest part of it, but I’m glad I made that decision to do it in Miami and do it again because it made it better. The first one ended up being an expensive dress rehearsal that enabled us to do what we wanted to do the next time.
You’ve said you wanted to release it on YouTube, so you could make last-minute changes. How much time did you spend working on post-production and what was that like?
I think you misunderstand that. I was simply able to add in some stuff in for the YouTube special, but the post-production was all done already. The stuff in the credits were things we were able to do because we didn’t have to deliver it right away.
I like the flames you added as a background during certain moments.
That was fun. That’s just from having been at it for a while. After watching stand-up for a while, it’s just a way to make it more exciting for yourself. It’s like, “We’ve seen this so many times, how can we elevate it?” It’s like, “Let’s put some fire in there and add this or that.” I’m just tired of watching myself. The editor wanted to do something just to entertain ourselves.
What was it like to make your YouTube show about current events, News Overload?
Actually, it started as Group Text at first. I saw another podcast had that name already, so we switched out of that and called it News Overload. It was like, “How can we produce something fun while everyone is in their own place.” We wanted to have a little bit of structure and flow instead of being a loose convo. We had everyone bring their own topics. It’s been fun. We shoot for a couple of hours and cut it down from that. I want to keep up the rhythm with those. I’m a bit erratic as a performer and producer. Sometimes, I’ll do something and then not do it again for another month or so. I need to start doing News Overload once a week if I can.
Those friends of yours are all really funny, and you have a great rapport.
Those are friends I’ve known for any years. We’ve been on the road together and done film stuff, so it’s a good relationship with everybody.
For Splitting 10s, your podcast about gambling, you’re animated. How did that alter your approach to doing the podcast?
I didn’t do it knowing I would be animated, but the first one we recorded remotely using only audio. My designer put some animation on it. The follow-up episodes will be live action. We might incorporate animation for small bits.
Kelven Stovall, your first guest, has some great stories from his days as a dealer.
Yeah, man, he’s a great storyteller. I don’t think that’s been explored a lot — just that job of being a dealer. It’s always gambling stories, which can be fascinating, obviously. But they’re usually from the side of the gambler or somebody watching the gambler but not someone facilitating the gambling. That was the tip of the iceberg. We were talking yesterday and got into some stories about particular a NBA player.
You’re really good at interviewing people and keeping conversations going. Has that always been the case?
It’s absolutely developed. With someone like Kelven, it’s knowing that that’s how to get the stories. He has specific stories, but with certain folks, you have to ask persistent questions, especially with family. My grandmother is like that too. When people get to a certain age, they got a lot of stuff that's happened ot them, but it’s not going to just fall out of them. You gotta ask them specific times. It’s like, “Tell me, grandma, what it was like when Kennedy got elected.” The thing with Kelven too is that I genuinely want to know his stories because that’s what inspired the podcast. It’s about knowing his experience. I’m going to have my stories and things to say, but it’s not a showcase piece for me. It’s not there for me to grandstand. I have my moments, and I’ll be funny, but it’s really about me wanting to hear from him.
Talk about what the drive-in tour will be like.
I think it’s going to be exciting. Hot Box has done a good job on their other tours with Bert [Kreischer] and Mark Rebillet. I think it’s going to be a great time. People haven’t seen me in a while do a show, and I ain’t seen folks in a while. It’s going to be a great time. I’m excited and planning these different bits for it.
I like the tour’s title, Let’s See How This Goes. That seems to sum up just about everything these days.
Yeah, man. It’s just me being honest. Let’s see how this goes.
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Our Lady Of The Holy Apostles, Church Hill, Eythorne, Dover, Kent, CT15 4NA
Sold £120,000
On instructions from The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark
Located in the centre of the charming village of Eythorne, approximately seven miles from Dover and some 13 miles from Canterbury.
Believed to have originally been built as a stable block, the detached building has more recently been used as a church. It is considered that the building maybe suitable for conversion to residential use, subject to all necessary consents being obtainable.
Porch extending to 3.09 sq.m. (33 sq.ft.), main chapel extending to 53.47 sq.m. (575 sq.ft.), confession room extending to 4.43 sq.m. (48 sq.ft.), kitchen extending to 8.24 sq.m. (89 sq.ft.), store extending to 9.59 sq.m. (103 sq.ft.) and W.C. Total ground floor area 78.82 sq.m. (848 sq.ft.). All measurements are approximate.
Land to the rear which may be suitable for extension and/or parking, subject to all necessary consents being obtainable.
Dover District Council. Tel: 01304 872486. Website: dover.gov.uk.
Auctioneer's Note
The sale is on behalf of The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Southwark, not Trustees as previously stated.
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11-year-old girl in India raped by 17 men since January, police say
By Swati Gupta and Joshua Berlinger, CNN
Updated 5:25 AM EDT, Wed July 18, 2018
11-year-old girl raped by 17 men this year, police say
New Delhi CNN —
An 11-year-old girl from the Indian city of Chennai was raped by 17 men who worked in the building she lived in, local authorities said on Tuesday.
The incidents have taken place since mid-January, according to S. Rajendran, the deputy commissioner of police for Chennai’s Kilpauk district. They were reported to police Sunday after the girl told her family.
The 17 men – who worked in the building as security and facilities personnel – are under arrest, according to Rajendran.
The girl, who has a hearing disability, was given a sedative by injection before she was assaulted in the generator room in her building’s basement, Rajendran said.
The accused, who range in age from their early 20s to late 60s, are also alleged to have threatened the victim should she reveal any details about the case, said A.K. Viswanathan, the local police commissioner.
Viswanathan said the first person to sexually assault the girl was a 66-year-old lift operator.
Emotions spilled over in the courtroom Tuesday, with a scuffle breaking out after the lawyers representing the girl and a separate group of attorneys with no connection to the case attacked the defendants as they were leaving, Rajendran told CNN.
This latest case follows a string of others that have rattled India in recent months.
In a separate case in May, a 16-year-old girl was gang-raped and burned to death in the northeastern state of Jharkhand, authorities said.
Six men were accused of raping five anti-trafficking workers last month. In another case in July, three adults, including a school principal and two teachers, and 16 minors were arrested on allegations that they repeatedly raped a 15-year-old.
And last week, a lawmaker from India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party was charged with raping a teenager. Her father was allegedly beaten to death for complaining about it.
CNN’s Manveena Suri contributed to this report
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Cooper Hewitt Announces
2021 National Design Award Winners
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum today announced the winners of the 2021 National Design Awards. The 22nd class of winners were honored for design innovation and impact in nine categories. In October, National Design Month programming will highlight the work of the winners and celebrate the power of design in the everyday world.
This year’s recipients are:
Cheryl D. Miller, Design Visionary
InVert Self-Shading Window by Doris Sung, Climate Action
Colloqate Design, Emerging Designer
Ross Barney Architects, Architecture and Interior Design
Imaginary Forces, Communication Design
Behnaz Farahi, Digital Design
Becca McCharen-Tran, Fashion Design
Studio-MLA, Mia Lehrer, Landscape Architecture
BioLite, Product Design
First Lady Jill Biden serves as the Honorary Patron for this year’s National Design Awards. Established in 2000 as a project of the White House Millennium Council, the National Design Awards bring national recognition to the ways in which design enriches everyday life.
“The 2021 National Design Award winners challenge the boundaries of their fields—from community and future-focused to socially responsible design, these designers fill us with an optimism for the future by demonstrating the transformative capacity of design,” said Ruki Neuhold-Ravikumar, interim director of the museum. “We invite all to join us during Cooper Hewitt’s National Design Month programming to make the most of the rich opportunities to celebrate this amazing cohort of award winners and learn about their paths, passions, processes and bodies of work.”
Held in conjunction with the National Design Awards, National Design Month in October broadens access nationwide to the vision and work of the country’s design leaders through free, virtual programming for design enthusiasts of all ages and skill levels. The programming includes talks, tours, workshops and the premiere of short films on the work and impact of this year’s winners. This year, Cooper Hewitt will also highlight the work of select organizations around the country that share in the museum’s commitment to advancing access to design and the importance of design in our everyday world. In addition to public offerings, Cooper Hewitt will share online resources for educators and those interested in career and education opportunities in design and produce a physical and digital activity book. To register for programs and learn more, visit www.cooperhewitt.org/Awards.
THE 2021 NATIONAL DESIGN AWARD RECIPIENTS
Design Visionary: Cheryl D. Miller
The Design Visionary award, recognizing an individual, company or organization who has made a profound contribution to advancing the field, is given to Cheryl D. Miller. A graphic designer, author and theologian, Miller is best known for her advocacy on racial, cultural and gender equity, diversity and inclusion. An accomplished, award-winning designer and businesswoman, Miller established one of the first Black women-owned design firms in New York City in 1984. Cheryl D. Miller Design, Inc. serviced corporate communications to a Fortune 500 clientele, including BET, Chase, Philip Morris USA, Time Inc. and Sports Illustrated, as well as nonprofit African American organizations that grew out of the civil rights movement. Miller’s seminal 1987 article for PRINT magazine, “Black Designers Missing in Action,” laid the groundwork for her advocacy, followed by “Embracing Cultural Diversity in Design” in 1990, “Black Designers: Still Missing In Action?” in 2016, and “Black Designers Forward in Action” in 2020. Miller lectures widely. Her work and archives were acquired by Stanford University Libraries in 2018. Miller is the AIGA Medalist 2021, “Expanding Access.”
Climate Action: InVert Self-Shading Window by Doris Sung
The Climate Action award recognizes a design project for its significant contributions to addressing the global climate crisis. The winner of the award is the InVert Self-Shading Window. Designed by Doris Sung, the InVert Self-Shading Window uses smart thermobimetal pieces inside the cavity of a standard double-glazed window to shade a building in a magical way—with a kaleidoscope of fluttering butterfly-like pieces. By responding to the sun, it dynamically blocks solar radiation from heating the building and thereby reduces air-conditioning usage by 25%, using zero energy and no controls. Given that 40% of all energy used is in buildings, far more than transportation or other industries, and 12% of that energy is spent on cooling interiors, any amount of reduction has a tremendous impact on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. Through her work, Sung seeks ways to make building skins sensitive and responsive to the changing environments. She is the founder of Los Angeles-based DOSU Studio Architecture, the director of undergraduate programs at University of Southern California, and the recipient of fellowships from Google’s R+D for the Built Environment, United States Artists and the Rockefeller Foundation at Bellagio, among others.
Emerging Designer: Colloqate Design
The Emerging Designer award is given in recognition of a designer, firm or organization who has demonstrated profound talent in the early stages of their career. The 2021 Emerging Designer award is presented to Colloqate Design. Founded in 2017, Colloqate Design is a multidisciplinary nonprofit design justice practice based in New Orleans with a focus on expanding community access to, and building power through, the design of social, civic and cultural spaces. Its mission is to intentionally organize, advocate and design spaces of racial, social and cultural justice throughout the built environment. Through programming, planning and design projects, Colloqate seeks to dismantle the privilege and power structures that use the design professions to maintain systems of injustice. Colloqate organizes to build knowledge, power and access in the communities it serves through ongoing community gatherings and workshops to share and build collective knowledge around the process of city-building. Its work speaks to the potential for equitable spaces and attempts to visually and physically represent its collective aspirations for the future.
Architecture and Interior Design: Ross Barney Architects
Given to an individual or firm for the design of public, commercial and residential interior and exterior spaces, this year’s National Design Award for Architecture and Interior Design goes to Ross Barney Architects. Founded in Chicago in 1981, Ross Barney Architects’ mission is to create well-designed spaces for everyone. The studio is dedicated to the design of “noble” projects, without the most generous budgets or the most sought-after commissions, but those that are important to daily life and require innovative interventions. Ross Barney Architects’ best work is often for unexpected, compelling projects that go beyond architecture and exist on the edges or in the margins where design thought and consideration might not conventionally come into play. Notable projects include the Chicago Riverwalk, McDonalds’ Flagship Restaurants, CTA Cermak-McCormick Place and Morgan Street Stations, and the Oklahoma City Federal Building. The studio has adopted a holistic approach, engaging the client, user and community to allow a project to grow from its place, history and function.
Communication Design: Imaginary Forces
The Communication Design award recognizes an individual or firm for the design of information and messages. The 2021 recipient is Imaginary Forces. Founded in Los Angeles in 1996, Imaginary Forces is an award-winning studio specializing in design-based visual storytelling. Led by Peter Frankfurt, Chip Houghton, Karin Fong, Tosh Kodama, Alan Williams, Ronnie Koff, Anthony Gibbs and Grant Lau, Imaginary Forces takes its name from the prologue of Shakespeare’s Henry V, where the narrator summons us to imagine the humble stage as a grand battlefield. For 25 years, the studio has created work that dares audiences to conjure up entirely new worlds. Known for designing iconic title sequences including those for Marvel, Mad Men, Boardwalk Empire and Stranger Things, Imaginary Forces has brought motion design into the worlds of advertising, architecture, gaming and documentary film production. The studio has launched the careers of countless colleagues in the motion design industry. Imaginary Forces’ work has won numerous Emmys and appeared in MoMA, Walker Center, Wexner, SXSW and the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Digital Design: Behnaz Farahi
The Digital Design award, given to an individual or firm for the design of interactive digital products, environments, systems, experiences and services, honors Behnaz Farahi. Based in Los Angeles, Farahi is an award-winning designer whose work is situated at the intersection of digital design, architecture, fashion and interactive design, ranging from the scale of wearables to architectural installations. Farahi explores how materials in the environment can be imbued with artificial intelligence and life-like behaviors, incorporating techniques such as EEG brain imaging, facial and gaze tracking, 3D printing, as well as novel actuator systems, such as smart materials and pneumatics systems. She engages with the latest developments in neuroscience, cognitive philosophy, computational design, artificial intelligence and feminism, in order to spark imagination and foster conversations about the future of design. She is an assistant professor of design at California State University, Long Beach and co-editor of 3D-Printed Body Architecture (2017) and Interactive Futures (forthcoming). Her work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, and her clients include Adidas, Autodesk, Fuksas Studio and 3DSystems / will-i-am.
Fashion Design: Becca McCharen-Tran
The Fashion Design award is given to an individual or firm for the design of apparel, accessory, jewelry, footwear and textiles. The recipient of the 2021 National Design Award for Fashion Design is Becca McCharen-Tran, a fashion designer, cultural worker and the founder of future-forward bodywear line Chromat. In her design practice, McCharen-Tran interrogates the cultural hegemony around representation and inclusion. A Forbes 30 Under 30 pick for “People Who Are Reinventing the World,” McCharen-Tran is creating a world that empowers women, femmes and nonbinary people in fashion and beyond. McCharen-Tran delivered a TED Talk on the urgency of racial, gender and disability justice in fashion and has lectured at SXSW, Parsons, MIT, CFDA, Pratt, FIT and MICA. She also staged the “Queer Joy” exhibition at MoMA PS1, a series of performances and installations celebrating the LGBTQ community. Chromat has been profiled in major publications such as Vogue, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and has collaborated with Intel, Disney, Reebok, MAC Cosmetics, MIT Design Lab and Equinox.
Landscape Architecture: Studio-MLA, Mia Lehrer
The Landscape Architecture award recognizes an individual or firm for the design of outdoor environments and urban planning. This year’s award is presented to Studio-MLA, Mia Lehrer. Studio-MLA integrates landscape architecture, urban design and planning to create places that inspire human connection, unite communities and restore environmental balance. “Advocacy by design” is a foundation of the practice. For more than 25 years, founder and president Mia Lehrer, FASLA, has sparked the team’s inventive thinking to address complex relationships within urban and natural environments. From the master planning of rivers to the design of intimate plazas and gardens, the studio is recognized for creativity, pragmatism and responsibility across a range of scales and geographies. With offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, its 45-person team includes landscape architects, planners, botanists and ecologists from around the world. Diversity and multiple perspectives add meaning to collaborations and value to outcomes. Together, the firm believes in the transformative power of design to recalibrate its shared surroundings for a resilient future.
Product Design: BioLite
The National Design Award for Product Design, given to an individual or firm for the design of goods, furniture, lighting and materials, is awarded to BioLite. BioLite is on a mission to empower people and protect the planet through access to renewable energy. A social enterprise that develops, manufactures and markets advanced energy products for off-grid communities around the world, the company creates novel cooking, charging and lighting solutions that serve both outdoor enthusiasts and rural communities without access to the grid. Headquartered in Brooklyn, New York and Nairobi, Kenya, the company was founded in 2009 by Jonathan Cedar and Alec Drummond. BioLite is a carbon-neutral company and a founding member of Climate Neutral, an independent nonprofit dedicated to helping companies measure, reduce and offset their carbon footprint. To date, BioLite has impacted over 1.7 million people across Africa and Asia and avoided over 400,000 tons of CO2e emissions through its clean energy solutions—equivalent to taking 100,000 cars off the road for a year. The company is the recipient of numerous recognitions, including the Red Dot Design Award, Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Award, Core77 Design Award and BusinessWeek’s Most Promising Social Enterprise.
NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS JURY
An interdisciplinary jury of design leaders and educators from across the country selected the winners after reviewing award submissions resulting from nominations solicited from design experts and enthusiasts.
The 2021 National Design Awards jury included Kofi Boone, professor, North Carolina State University; Billy Fleming, Wilks Family Director, McHarg Center, University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design; Joe Gebbia, co-founder, Airbnb; Kristine Johnson, co-founder and chief design strategist, Cognition Studio, Inc.; Grace Jun, assistant professor of graphic design, University of Georgia, and CEO, Open Style Lab; and Patricia Saldaña Natke, principal, Urban Works Ltd.
National Design Awards Cities PROGRAMMING
As part of the museum’s National Design Awards programming, Cooper Hewitt brings design literacy to communities around the country with professional development opportunities, dynamic panel discussions and activities for the K–12 community.
In September, Cooper Hewitt will present the National Design Awards in Detroit, offering virtual programming and interactive experiences focused on contemporary challenges and opportunities in design, including equity and climate change, as well as the role of collaboration as part of the design process, particularly with local communities. Programs are held as an official part of the Detroit Month of Design, organized by Design Core. To find out about education programs in Detroit and to register, visit www.cooperhewitt.org/detroit.
National Design Awards programming is made possible with major support from Facebook, Inc., Shelby and Frederick Gans, Helen and Edward Hintz, the Hirsch Family Foundation, IBM Corporation, and Crystal and Chris Sacca.
Generous support is also provided by Kim and Mac Schuessler and Lisa Roberts and David Seltzer.
National Design Award trophies are created by The Corning Museum of Glass.
Design Career Fair is made possible with generous support from Adobe.
ABOUT COOPER HEWITT, SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM
Cooper Hewitt is America’s design museum. Inclusive, innovative and experimental, the museum’s dynamic exhibitions, education programs, master’s program, publications and online resources inspire, educate and empower people through design. An integral part of the Smithsonian Institution—the world’s largest museum, education and research complex—Cooper Hewitt is located on New York City’s Museum Mile in the historic, landmark Carnegie Mansion. Steward of one of the world’s most diverse and comprehensive design collections—over 215,000 objects that range from an ancient Egyptian faience cup dating to about 1100 BC to contemporary 3D-printed objects and digital code—Cooper Hewitt welcomes everyone to discover the importance of design and its power to change the world.
For more information, visit www.cooperhewitt.org or follow @cooperhewitt on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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The written word has the opportunity to touch your soul. So often we hear something amazing and it’s gone. Reading a book gives you the opportunity to pore over it. Meditate on it. Make it part of your heart and soul.
During our years of helping people grow we have been touched by so many great books. Here is a partial list of what has impacted us. Certainly this is not an exhaustive list. We welcome your recommendations.
The Little Red Sales Book
Jeffrey Gitomer, the sales guru and author of the bestselling The Sales Bible, has produced another gem of a book that addresses sales with a lively combination of humor and professionalism to help salespeople get their feet in many more doors. For those who are running into dead ends, stale leads, price objections, and unreturned phone calls, Gitomer has created The Little Red Book of Selling to show them how to get past the usual obstacles and sell their products and services with new zest and vigor.
Filled with more than a dozen principles of sales greatness, as well as numerous lists and attack plans for dealing with difficult customers, The Little Red Book of Selling offers the answers to just about every sales question a salesperson could ask, and provides the firsthand experiences and positive enthusiasm to drive them home with vitality and optimism.
Why Red?
Gitomer explains that The Little Red Book of Selling has so much red ink in it and on it for a number of reasons. These include:
Red is the color of passion. Passion is the fulcrum point of selling. No passion, no sales.
Red is the color of love. If you don't love what you sell, go sell something else.
Red is the brightest color. You must be bright in order to convert selling to buying.
Red is the most visible color. You must be visible to your customers with a value message, not just a sales pitch.
Red is fire. If you're not on fire, you'll lose to someone who is.
Bold Directives
Overflowing with Gitomer's rapid pace and quick wit, The Little Red Book of Selling contains more than 18 ways to become a sales success, 20 ways to beat a sales slump, 8.5 resources to tap in a pinch, 14 ways to create a personal brand, and a plethora of other handy tabulations that can help any salesperson quickly get to the root of his or her problems. Thumb tabs on the sides of the book's pages and a ribbon page marker make the book a convenient reference guide to handling sales dilemmas, giving value, using creativity and humor, and reducing a customer's risk. Clever cartoons and page design make The Little Red Book of Selling's contents come alive with bold directives and professional advice.
The emotional edge to Gitomer's work is appropriate for his subject matter due to the important role emotion plays in the sales process. According to Gitomer, "The sale is emotionally driven and emotionally decided. Then it is justified logically." Using colorful language to go along with his punchy lessons, Gitomer minces no words when telling salespeople what they should do to improve their sales numbers.
http://www.amazon.com/Little-Red-Book-Selling-Principles/dp/1885167601
The Leader Who Had No Title
For more than fifteen years, Robin Sharma has been quietly sharing with Fortune 500 companies and many of the super-rich a success formula that has made him one of the most sought-after leadership advisers in the world. Now, for the first time, Sharma makes his proprietary process available to you, so that you can get to your absolute best while helping your organization break through to a dramatically new level of winning in these wildly uncertain times.
In The Leader Who Had No Title, you will learn:
• How to work with and influence people like a superstar, regardless of your position
• A method to recognize and then seize opportunities in times of deep change
• The real secrets of intense innovation
• An instant strategy to build a great team and become a "merchant of wow" with your customers
• Hard-hitting tactics to become mentally strong and physically tough enough to lead your field
• Real-world ways to defeat stress, build an unbeatable mind-set, unleash energy, and balance your personal life
Regardless of what you do within your organization and the current circumstances of your life, the single most important fact is that you have the power to show leadership. Wherever you are in your career or life, you should always play to your peak abilities. This book shows you how to claim that staggering power, as well as transform your life—and the world around you—in the process.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Leader-Who-Had-Title/dp/1439109133/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386256019&sr=8-1&keywords=leader+who+had+no+title
Leadership and Self-Deception
Arbinger Institute
Since its original publication in 2000, Leadership and Self-Deception has become a word-of-mouth phenomenon. Its sales continue to increase year after year, and the book’s popularity has gone global, with editions now available in over twenty languages.
Through a story everyone can relate to about a man facing challenges on the job and in his family, the authors expose the fascinating ways that we can blind ourselves to our true motivations and unwittingly sabotage the effectiveness of our own efforts to achieve success and increase happiness.
This new edition has been revised throughout to make the story even more compelling. And drawing on the extensive correspondence the authors have received over the years, they have added a section that outlines the many ways that readers have been using Leadership and Self-Deception to improve their lives and workplaces—areas such as team building, conflict resolution, and personal growth and development, to name a few.
Read this extraordinary book and discover what millions already have learned—how to consistently tap into an innate ability that dramatically improves both your results and your relationships.
http://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Self-Deception-Getting-out-Box/dp/1576759776/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386255954&sr=8-1&keywords=leadership+and+self+deception
The Art of War
Conflict is an inevitable part of life, according to this ancient Chinese classic of strategy, but everything necessary to deal with conflict wisely, honorably, victoriously, is already present within us. Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher Sun Tzu, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world, as eagerly studied in Asia by modern politicians and executives as it has been by military leaders since ancient times. As a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict, The Art of War applies to competition and conflict in general, on every level from the interpersonal to the international. Its aim is invincibility, victory without battle, and unassailable strength through understanding the physics, politics, and psychology of conflict.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-War-Sun-Tzu/dp/1590302257/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1381850772&sr=1-1&keywords=art+of+war+tzu+cleary
Sun Tzu and the Art of Business: Six Strategic Principles for Managers
Mark R. McNeilly
More than two millennia ago, the famous Chinese general Sun Tzu wrote the classic work on military strategy, The Art of War. Now, in a new edition of Sun Tzu and the Art of Business, Mark McNeilly shows how Sun Tzu's strategic principles can be applied to twenty-first century business. Here are two books in one: McNeilly's synthesis of Sun Tzu's ideas into six strategic principles for the business executive, plus the text of Samuel B. Griffith's popular translation of The Art of War. McNeilly explains how to gain market share without inciting competitive retaliation, how to attack competitors' weak points, and how to maximize market information for competitive advantage. He demonstrates the value of speed and preparation in throwing the competition off-balance, employing strategy to beat the competition, and the need for character in leaders. Lastly, McNeilly presents a practical method to put Sun Tzu's principles into practice. By using modern examples throughout the book from Google, Zappos, Amazon, Dyson, Aflac, Singapore Airlines, Best Buy, the NFL, Tata Motors, Starbucks, and many others, he illustrates how, by following the wisdom of history's most respected strategist, executives can avoid the pitfalls of management fads and achieve lasting competitive advantage.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0199782911/ref=rdr_ext_tmb
Fish!
Stephen C. Lundin
Here's another management parable that draws its lesson from an unlikely source--this time it's the fun-loving fishmongers at Seattle's Pike Place Market. In Fish! the heroine, Mary Jane Ramirez, recently widowed and mother of two, is asked to engineer a turnaround of her company's troubled operations department, a group that authors Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen describe as a "toxic energy dump." Most reasonable heads would cut their losses and move on. Why bother with this bunch of losers? But the authors don't make it so easy for Mary Jane. Instead, she's left to sort out this mess with the help of head fishmonger Lonnie.
http://www.amazon.com/Fish-Tales-Real-Life-Transform-Workplace/dp/0786868686
God Is My CEO: Following God's Principles in a Bottom-Line World
Larry S. Julian
Will money or morality emerge victorious in the war zone of work skirmishes? Julian, with seasoned experience as a leadership management consultant for companies such as 3M, Honeywell, AT&T and General Mills, provides solid answers for this troubling dilemma. He discusses 10 key principles that he deems essential for transforming workplace problems into both spiritual and bottom-line success stories. Each chapter poses an issue (such as developing patience, cultivating leadership by example, yielding control, making tough decisions and maintaining right priorities) followed by a solution.
http://www.amazon.com/God-Ceo-Following-Principles-Bottom-Line/dp/1580627641
Bob Buford
According to Bob Burford, broaching midlife doesn't have to be a crisis. In fact, in Halftime, Burford insists that it is actually an opportunity to begin the better half of life. The first half is busy with "getting and gaining, earning and learning," doing what you can to survive, while clawing your way up the ladder of success. The second half of life should be about regaining control, calling your own shots, and enjoying "God's desire ... for you to serve him just by being who you are, by using what he gave you to work with." What lies between the two is "halftime." Buford argues that whether you are a millionaire, a manager, or a teacher, you will one day have to transition from the struggle for success to the quest for significance. Halftime, then, is a quiet time of deliberate decision-making, restructuring and passionate contemplation of your heart's deepest desires.
http://www.amazon.com/Halftime-Bob-Buford/dp/0310215323
How to Become CEO: The Rules for Rising to the Top of Any Organization
Fox heads his own marketing consulting company, and he demonstrates here that he knows how to package an idea. While there is nothing especially original about a list of rules for getting ahead, Fox's guide is filled with 75 tips that are short, sweet, and to the point. Moreover, the ideas themselves are fresh. You have to admire the pluck of someone who suggests spending one day a month in the library and recommends sending handwritten notes. For each suggestion, Fox includes one or two pages of elaboration.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Become-CEO-Rising-Organization/dp/0786864370
Inside the Magic Kingdom
Tom Connellan
Customer loyalty is one of the hallmarks of a successful enterprise, and no one engenders it better than Disney. Inside the Magic Kingdom examines how this global powerhouse is able to satisfy its frequent repeat customers and keep them coming back for more. Connellan, a management consultant, walks readers through some of the strategies and tactics Disney employs that other businesses can adopt to boost sales and customer retention.
http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Magic-Kingdom-Disneys-Success/dp/1885167237
Rudolph W. Giuliani
This highly anticipated book from New York's once controversial, former mayor opens with a gripping account of Giuliani's immediate reaction to the September 11 attacks, including a narrow escape from the original crisis command headquarters, and closes with the efforts to address the aftermath during his remaining four months in office. But, he argues, he did not suddenly become a great leader on September 11, and "had been doing [my] best to take on challenges my whole career." The bulk of the book draws on his experiences as a corporate lawyer and U.S. attorney and then as mayor.
http://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Rudolph-W-Giuliani/dp/B000ESSSLG
Prayer of Jabez
Even well-versed Biblical scholars might be perplexed if asked about Jabez, a little-known man listed in 1 Chronicles, chapter 4. Yet his simple petition is the cornerstone of The Prayer of Jabez and has become a call to live a more "blessed life" for countless readers. The prayer is a simple one: "And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, 'Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain.' So God granted him what he requested."
http://www.amazon.com/Prayer-Jabez-5th-Anniversary-Breakthrough/dp/1590524756
Teach Your Team to Fish: Using Ancient Wisdom for Inspired Teamwork
Laurie Beth Jones
Jones has established something of a cottage industry by using Jesus and his teachings as models for creating successful ways of doing business in contemporary society. In this latest effort, she draws once again from Jesus' teachings to his disciples, asserting that he successfully taught people how to work in teams to accomplish their goals. Jesus, she writes, did not simply gather a group of rag-tag followers; he "excited them," "grounded them," "transformed them" and "released them." For example, Jones contends that Jesus taught his team the SQM method: simplify, quantify, multiply. This method allowed the disciples to get to the core of what they were called to do, to determine ways to measure the progress they made toward these goals and to ensure that each one had the ability to multiply the good of the team in every contact they made.
http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Team-Fish-Inspired/dp/1400053110
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen Covey, an internationally respected leadership authority, realizes that true success encompasses a balance of personal and professional effectiveness, so this book is a manual for performing better in both arenas. His anecdotes are as frequently from family situations as from business challenges. Before you can adopt the seven habits, you'll need to accomplish what Covey calls a "paradigm shift"--a change in perception and interpretation of how the world works. Covey takes you through this change, which affects how you perceive and act regarding productivity, time management, positive thinking, developing your "proactive muscles" (acting with initiative rather than reacting), and much more.
http://www.amazon.com/Habits-Highly-Effective-People/dp/0743269519
The Dream Manager
Matthew Kelly
The business statistics are astounding: high percentages of detached, ready-to-exit employees; soon-to-occur vacancies among top executive and middle-manager ranks; and a growing chasm between employees and the organizations they work for. From Gallup to corporate human resources gurus, myriad solutions have been proposed. Yet Kelly, consultant and author (The Rhythm of Life, 1999; The Seven Levels of Intimacy, 2005, among others), proffers an idea that seems simple to implement. His philosophy is that organizations can only become best versions of themselves if their employees can realize that same opportunity. Center stage is the Dream Manager, an individual (or group) devoted to helping workers achieve personal life goals. His fictional parable plays out the story of Admiral Janitorial Services, a cleaning company plagued with extraordinarily high turnover. Presto digito! Within months of hiring a Dream Manager, employees stayed. Profits increased—and customers clamored for information. It is true that the pursuit of dreams "creates passion, energy, enthusiasm, and vitality." It is also true that, without solid proof, few businesses will explore this avenue.
http://www.amazon.com/Dream-Manager-Matthew-Kelly/dp/B003XU7VZQ/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1293040195&sr=1-1
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited should be required reading for anyone thinking about starting a business or for those who have already taken that fateful step. The title refers to the author's belief that entrepreneurs--typically brimming with good but distracting ideas--make poor businesspeople. He establishes an incredibly organized and regimented plan, so that daily details are scripted, freeing the entrepreneur's mind to build the long-term success or failure of the business.
http://www.amazon.com/E-Myth-Revisited-Small-Businesses-About/dp/0887307280
The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy
Jon Gordon
The Energy Bus, an international best seller by Jon Gordon, takes readers on an enlightening and inspiring ride that reveals 10 secrets for approaching life and work with the kind of positive, forward thinking that leads to true accomplishment - at work and at home. Jon infuses this engaging story with keen insights as he provides a powerful roadmap to overcome adversity and bring out the best in yourself and your team. When you get on The Energy Bus you’ll enjoy the ride of your life!
http://www.amazon.com/Energy-Bus-Rules-Fuel-Positive/dp/0470100281/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1293040088&sr=1-1
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
Patrick M. Lencioni
Once again, using an astutely written fictional tale to unambiguously but painlessly deliver some hard truths about critical business procedures, Patrick Lencioni targets group behavior in the final entry of his trilogy of corporate fables.
And like those preceding it, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is an entertaining, quick read filled with useful information that will prove easy to digest and implement. This time, Lencioni weaves his lessons around the story of a troubled Silicon Valley firm and its unexpected choice for a new CEO: an old-school manager who had retired from a traditional manufacturing company two years earlier at age 55. Showing exactly how existing personnel failed to function as a unit, and precisely how the new boss worked to reestablish that essential conduct.
http://www.amazon.com/Five-Dysfunctions-Team-Leadership-Fable/dp/0787960756
The Fred Factor
In his powerful book The Fred Factor, motivational speaker Mark Sanborn recounts the true story of Fred, the mail carrier who passionately loves his job and who genuinely cares about the people he serves. Because of that, he is constantly going the extra mile handling the mail - and sometimes watching over the houses - of the people on his route, treating everyone he meets as a friend. Where others might see delivering mail as monotonous drudgery, Fred sees an opportunity to make a difference in the lives of those he serves.
http://www.amazon.com/Fred-Factor-passion-ordinary-extraordinary/dp/0385513518
The Lost Choice
Andy Andrews
When Mark and Dorry Chandler find an odd bronze object in a ditch in their Denver backyard, they begin to investigate its origin. Andrews develops the theme of the importance of making good choices, using the motif of four inscribed ancient bronze objects that together form a cup. Each fragment symbolizes choices that its historic owner made, influenced by the object. Using flashbacks, Andrews offers numerous short vignettes of the different historical figures who possessed each of the fragments, including Oskar Schindler, Alfred Vanderbilt, John Adams and George Washington Carver among others.
http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Choice-Andy-Andrews/dp/0785261397
The Millionaire Next Door
Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko
In The Millionaire Next Door, read by Cotter Smith, Stanley (Marketing to the Affluent) and Danko (marketing, SUNY at Albany) summarize findings from their research into the key characteristics that explain how the elite club of millionaires have become "wealthy." Focusing on those with a net worth of at least $1 million, their surprising results reveal fundamental qualities of this group that are diametrically opposed to today's earn-and-consume culture, including living below their means, allocating funds efficiently in ways that build wealth, ignoring conspicuous consumption, being proficient in targeting marketing opportunities, and choosing the "right" occupation. It's evident that anyone can accumulate wealth, if they are disciplined enough, determined to persevere, and have the merest of luck.
http://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Next-Door-Thomas-Stanley/dp/0671015206
The Millionaire Real Estate Agent
Gary Keller, et al
Think Big. Aim High. Act Bold.
The Millionaire Real Estate Agent shows you how to do all three so you can Live Large - professionally and personally. In this book, co-authors Gary Keller, Dave Jenks and Jay Papasan show you the secrets of achieving extraordinary success by using Big Models to realize your Big Dreams. The Millionaire Real Estate Agent provides you with a plan to transform your real estate sales job into a million-dollar business. The book explores the models you need to put in place and then shows you step by step how to implement them.
http://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Real-Estate-Agent-Money-Its/dp/0071444041
The Nordstrom Way: The Inside Story of America's #1 Customer Service Company
Robert Spector, Patrick D. McCarthy
Nordstrom's has long had the reputation for outstanding customer service. This book, coauthored by one of Nordstrom's top sales associates, McCarthy, tells how Nordstrom's earned that reputation. The work combines case studies and personal narrative with some history of the store. Each chapter helps the reader see one or more aspects of what has made Nordstrom's so successful, for example, "The Nordstrom Culture: Setting Employees Free," "The Art of Selling: Retailing Is a Contact Sport," and "What's Inside: Creating an Inviting Place." Each chapter is followed by a one- to two-page summary of the important points.
http://www.amazon.com/Nordstrom-Way-Americas-Customer-Service/dp/0471161608
The Purpose Driven Life
The spiritual premise in The Purpose-Driven Life is that there are no accidents---God planned everything and everyone. Therefore, every human has a divine purpose, according to God's master plan. Like a twist on John F. Kennedy's famous inaugural address, this book could be summed up like this: "So my fellow Christians, ask not what God can do for your life plan, ask what your life can do for God's plan." Those who are looking for advice on finding one's calling through career choice, creative expression, or any form of self-discovery should go elsewhere. This is not about self-exploration; it is about purposeful devotion to a Christian God. The book is set up to be a 40-day immersion plan, recognizing that the Bible favors the number 40 as a "spiritually significant time," according to author Rick Warren.
http://www.amazon.com/Purpose-Driven-Inspirio-Zondervan-Miniature-Editions/dp/0310806356
The Traveler's Gift
Andy Andrews Christian author and motivational speaker Andrews effectively combines self-help with fiction to catch readers' interest, sustaining momentum while simultaneously passing on instructions for positive thinking. With his can-do style, Andrews (Storms of Perfection; Tales from Sawyerton Springs) tells the allegorical tragedy of one David Ponder, whose woes begin when he loses his job, his confidence and essentially his drive for living. After a succession of losses, Ponder is rendered unconscious after a car accident, and is magically transported into seven key points in history. At each stopping point, he is met by historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Anne Frank, King Solomon, Harry Truman and Christopher Columbus, each of whom imparts one of the seven key decisions that Andrews asserts are essential for personal success.
http://www.amazon.com/Travelers-Gift-Decisions-Determine-Personal/dp/0785273220
Napoleon Hill ...During our ten-year association, I learned the missing number to my combination for worldwide successful achievement. The Master Mind Principle: two or more persons working together in complete harmony toward a mutual goal or goals...Napoleon Hill's philosophy teaches you what you were never taught. Specifically: How to Recognize, Relate, Assimilate and Apply principles whereby you can achieve any goal whatsoever that doesn't violate Universal Law - the Law of God and the rights of your fellowman...
http://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Napoleon-Hill/dp/1585424331
Spencer Johnson & Kenneth H. Blanchard Change can be a blessing or a curse, depending on your perspective. The message of Who Moved My Cheese? is that all can come to see it as a blessing, if they understand the nature of cheese and the role it plays in their lives. Who Moved My Cheese? is a parable that takes place in a maze. Four beings live in that maze: Sniff and Scurry are mice--nonanalytical and nonjudgmental, they just want cheese and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. Hem and Haw are "littlepeople," mouse-size humans who have an entirely different relationship with cheese. It's not just sustenance to them; it's their self-image. Their lives and belief systems are built around the cheese they've found.
http://www.amazon.com/Moved-Cheese-Amazing-Deal-Change/dp/0399144463
The Positive Principle Today,Enthusiasm makes the Difference, and The Power of Thinking
Author of the greatest inspirational bestseller of our time offers positive strategies for success in business and personal life. The remarkable self-help phenomenon, The Power of Positive Thinking, plus the successful The Positive Principle Today and Enthusiasm Makes the Difference show why Norman Vincent Peale has helped millions of readers transform their lives and find joy and fulfillment.
Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action
Why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty? In studying the leaders who’ve had the greatest influence in the world, Simon Sinek discovered
The Power of Broke
Daymond John
When your back is up against the wall, your bank account is empty, and creativity and passion are the only resources you can afford, success is your only option. Here you’ll learn how to tap into that Power of Broke to scrape, hustle, and dream your way to the top.
Black Box Thinking
Failure is a key component of any successful system, but only if the people at the controls understand what went wrong. In "Black Box Thinking," journalist Matthew Syed explores why some people try to ignore their mistakes and others confront them deliberately. Syed pushes people to adopt a growth mindset, as the psychologist Carol Dweck calls it, rather than a fixed mindset. "It advocates for changing attitudes towards failure, and understanding that the only way we learn is by trying things and altering our behavior based on the results," Branson writes on his blog.
Journalist and political aide Alastair Campbell takes an exhaustive look at the ingredients that make up a success story in "Winners: And How They Succeed."
Some of the wealthiest and high-achieving people all rely on similar patterns of behavior to get the most out of their days, whether it's waking up and exercising at certain times of the day or finding time to check email.
Like Reed's book, Branson says he reads a few chapters at a time to remind himself how far he's come and where he still has room to grow.
The Ultimate Sales Machine
Chet Holmes
Tiny quick read with a punchy point: Anything worth doing has a painfully-hard middle period, which is where most people quit. But knowing this in advance, ask yourself seriously if you really have the dedication to stick it through that hard time. If not, then don’t begin! Quit in advance! But if so, then expect that dark dip, and don’t quit when you’re in it. Read the whole book if this applies to you. There’s not a wasted page.
The Obstacle Is the Way
A succinct adrenaline-generating call to clear thinking and rational action. Many historical examples. Incredibly inspiring.
Mindset: The New Psychology
Carol Dweck
Dweck explains why it’s not just our abilities and talent that bring us success—but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset. She makes clear why praising intelligence and ability doesn’t foster self-esteem and lead to accomplishment but may actually jeopardize success.
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win
Jocko Willink Author and Leif Babin
Sent to the most violent battlefield in Iraq, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin’s SEAL task unit faced a seemingly impossible mission: help U.S. forces secure Ramadi, a city deemed “all but lost.”
Man's Search For Meaning
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl’s memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering, but we can choose how to cope with it.
Relentless:From Good to Great To Unstoppable
Tim Grover
For more than two decades, legendary trainer Tim Grover has taken the greats—Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, and dozens more—and made them greater. Now, for the first time ever, he reveals what it takes to get those results, showing you how to be relentless and achieve whatever you desire.
The Seventh Sense
Joshua Cooper Ramo
When everything is connected, from digital and social relationships to financial and political ones, Joshua Cooper Ramo argues the only people who can be successful are those who master these complex networks. In "The Seventh Sense," Ramo looks at the ways billionaire moguls, tech influencers, political leaders, and military generals gain a keen sense of where to focus their attention. He figures out what they see that others don't.
In past decades, when industries were siloed off from one another, success could mean mastering one field. But in a world built on systems, success has far different, and far more mysterious, requirements.
work by Cal Newport
Notifications ding, beep, and buzz for our attention every minute. Author and professor Cal Newport knows this. He just doesn't think our work has to suffer as a result. In "Deep Work," Newport uses a collection of stories and research data to show that what will matter most in the coming decades — at least in terms of people's productivity — is the ability to focus.
Newport calls this ability "deep work." The reader learns various strategies to avoid checking their phone every 30 seconds and instead cultivate a distraction-proof bubble in which they can work.
So Good They Can't Ignore You
Cal Newport
Shockingly smart thoughts about your career. A MUST-READ for anyone who is not loving their work, wanting to quit their job, and follow their passion, or not sure what to do next. I'm recommending this many times a week to people who email me with these kinds of questions. Best book I've ever read on the subject.
The War of Art
Have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? Are you a writer who doesn’t write, a painter who doesn’t paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what “Resistance” is. This book is about that. Read it
A Guide To The Good Life: The Ancient Art Of Stoic Joy
William Irvine
Almost too personal for me to give an objective review, because I found when reading it that the quirky philosophy I've been living my life by since 17 matches up exactly with a 2000-year-old philosophy called Stoicism. Mine was self-developed haphazardly, so it was fascinating to read the refined developed original. Really resonated.
The Time Paradox
Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd
Profound idea that everyone has a primary time focus: either Future-focused, Present-focused, or Past-focused. Fascinating implications of each. Because I'm so future-focused, reading this book helped me understand people who are very present-focused. Also, great advice on shifting your focus when needed. I read it 7 years ago, but still think about it almost every day.
Ego Is The Enemy
Forget yourself and focus on the work. Be humble and persistent. Value discipline and results, not passion and confidence. Be lesser, do more. This message is crucial, but the opposite of almost every other book. I wish everyone would read this. I need to re-read it each year. It's that important. It's easy to read this and say, “oh yeah I've got my ego under control”, but the problem is deeper than that.
The Wisdom Of No Escape
Powerful thoughts on not running, distracting, or escaping, but sticking with something all the way through.
Wow. A masterpiece. This is now the one “START HERE” book I'll be recommending to everybody interested in business. An amazing overview of everything you need to know. Covers all the basics, minus buzz-words and fluff. Look at my notes for an example, but read the whole book. One of the most inspiring things I've read in years.
Personal Development For Smart People
A surprisingly great broad and unflourished look at all different aspects of self-improvement. Really great insights from someone who's read them all.
The Dip
Your Marketing Sucks
Stevens, a marketing consultant, promotes his theories by teaching readers how to get a positive return on their marketing investment. He offers strategies that include aligning marketing with a company's objectives, developing a clear statement of purpose, determining how to reach the broadest audience, and qualifying prospects. The author's tactics help readers describe their offerings, differentiate themselves from competitors, determine the best products to sell efficiently, capture leads and follow up on them, and structure steady growth plans. The author concludes with a step-by-step approach to analyzing a company's marketing efforts and then designing an action plan to make necessary improvements for reaching stated objectives. Branding.
All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten
Here Fulghum engages us with musings on life, death, love, pain, joy, sorrow, and the best chicken-fried steak in the continental U.S.A. The little seed in the Styrofoam cup offers a reminder about our own mortality and the delicate nature of life . . . a spider who catches (and loses) a full-grown woman in its web one fine morning teaches us about surviving catastrophe . . . the love story of Jean-Francois Pilatre and his hot air balloon reminds us to be brave and unafraid to “fly” . . . life lessons hidden in the laundry pile . . . magical qualities found in a box of crayons . . . hide-and-seek vs. sardines—and how these games relate to the nature of God. All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten is brimming with the very stuff of life and the significance found in the smallest details.
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Part melodrama and part parable, Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven weaves together three stories, all told about the same man: 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement Park. As the novel opens, readers are told that Eddie, unsuspecting, is only minutes away from death as he goes about his typical business at the park. Albom then traces Eddie's world through his tragic final moments, his funeral, and the ensuing days as friends clean out his apartment and adjust to life without him.
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UPDATE: Suspect in police chase booked in Vanderburgh County Jail
Tori Fater
tori.fater@courierpress.com
An Evansville man allegedly involved in a police chase that spanned two counties and at times exceeded 100 mph Tuesday afternoon has been arrested and is being held in the Vanderburgh County Jail.
Brandyn Alan Cox, 24, was arrested on preliminary charges that include resisting law enforcement with a vehicle, hit and run, criminal recklessness and speeding, according to a police report.
The report states an Evansville police officer saw a passenger car rear-end a van on the westbound Lloyd Expressway about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. The passenger car allegedly went around the van on the right, causing three more vehicles to swerve and almost crash, then swerved across three lanes of traffic to merge onto the northbound U.S. 41 ramp.
The officer tried to pull the car over at U.S. 41 and Virginia Street, according to the report, but Cox allegedly drove away while the officer was getting out of his squad car. Cox then allegedly followed Diamond Avenue to its intersection with Kentucky Avenue, where traffic was stopped in all lanes, and sideswiped two vehicles while driving between them. Officers deployed stop sticks and the car continued west on Diamond Avenue despite two flat tires on the passenger side of the vehicle.
Police say Cox almost hit a truck that was turning left at Diamond Avenue and Kratzville Road, then exceeded 100 mph at the intersection of Diamond and University Parkway. He allegedly swerved left of center and then lost control of the vehicle while turning south on Indiana 69, but regained control.
Cox was apprehended at about 2:50 p.m., according to scanner traffic, on Indiana 69 near Shephard Lane in Posey County. The car, which was experiencing mechanical failure, was towed to Mt. Vernon.
Cox was involved in a court case earlier this year after he was charged with several felonies in the death of a dog dragged behind a truck. In July, he was acquitted of charges of animal cruelty in connection with the case. He was found guilty at trial of attempting to interfere with reporting a crime after threatening another driver who tried to stop him from leaving the area before police arrived.
'Time served' sentence in case related to dog-dragging investigation
He was booked into Vanderburgh County Jail at 5:32 p.m. Tuesday in connection with the police chase. No bond had been set as of 8:45 p.m. Tuesday.
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Sensitive and Semi-Sensitive Countries
Sensitive countries are countries where the Church does not report an official presence but has members and congregations functioning. Oftentimes the Church does not have all of the needed legal recognitions and registrations to officially publish a presence. Reasons for the Church not reporting a presence in a country may also be due to safety and security concerns for members, low levels of religious freedom, and concern that publishing this information may damage relations between the Church and government officials. The Church reports no membership or unit statistics for sensitive countries but reports unit statistics for semi-sensitive countries. At year-end 2011, total church membership within sensitive and semi-sensitive countries was approximately 18,500, or about one-tenth of one percent of worldwide church membership.
In mid-2013, sensitive countries where the Church had at least one ordinary, independent branch but reported neither the number of congregations nor annual church membership totals included Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), mainland China (for non-foreigners), Egypt, Laos, Macedonia, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, Tunisia, and Vietnam. Semi-sensitive countries where congregational totals and names are publicized but church membership totals are not include Afghanistan, Belarus, mainland China (for foreigners), Cuba, Djibouti, Gabon, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Lebanon, Montenegro, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. Due to changing political conditions, the Church once reported membership data in some countries such as Belarus and Lebanon but at present reports only unit totals.
Foreigners constitute the majority of church membership in most sensitive and semi-sensitive countries due to religious freedom restrictions, low receptivity stemming from cultural attitudes towards nontraditional Christian groups, and few missionaries assigned if missionaries are permitted to serve at all. Foreign-membership majority countries include Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Brunei, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Macedonia, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates. Foreign members often play an important role in establishing the Church among the indigenous population when government and society permit Christian missionary activity. However, due to the transient and temporary nature of many foreign members residing in sensitive countries for employment and military purposes the Church can fail to establish itself among the native population before foreign members relocate elsewhere. For example, the Church once operated a tiny branch in Damascus, Syria that consisted almost entirely of foreign members. By mid-2013, there did not appear to be any LDS presence in Syria following the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War as all foreign members likely fled the country.
Natives constitute the majority of church membership in Burma, mainland China, Laos, Nepal, Pakistan, and Vietnam. These six countries offer unique and interesting insights into LDS growth as government and societal restrictions on religious freedom limit interaction with international LDS membership and leadership. These conditions generally spur self-sufficiency in leadership and church growth, with the greatest growth occurring in mainland China and Pakistan notwithstanding restrictions on religious freedom and moderate to low levels of receptivity to Christianity. The Church only assign local members to serve as full-time missionaries in two of these nations (Pakistan and Vietnam) whereas no proselytizing missionaries serve Burma, mainland China, Laos, and Nepal. Permitting only local members to serve missions in these countries results in healthy and commensurate growth in these nations as there is little if any dependence on full-time missionaries for administrative tasks. These conditions also tend to foster more accountability for preparing investigators for baptism and retaining new converts. Social and governmental restrictions on religious freedom also require higher levels of commitment from converts to join the Church compared to converts in countries where no such restrictions exists.
The presence of the Church in sensitive countries begs the question as to why there is no LDS presence in other nations that experience fewer restrictions on religious freedom and similar socioeconomic and political conditions. For example, there is no reported LDS presence in Burkina Faso, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, or Timor-Leste notwithstanding other proselytizing Christian faiths maintaining an active presence that has been sustained for several decades. No LDS presence in many unreached countries around the world has occurred primarily due to the Church's reliance on fortuitous church planting to expand outreach worldwide. As a result, the Church has a presence in several sensitive and semi-sensitive countries that experience low levels of religious freedom but lacks a presence in other countries where there are few or no restrictions on religious freedom.
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Jakob-Creutzfeldt Disease
September 29, 2015dakminnbloodbank_6fhl3cHealth Library
Influenza, commonly known as “the flu”, is an infectious disease caused by the influenza virus. Symptoms can be mild to severe. The most common symptoms include: a high fever, runny nose, sore throat, muscle pains, headache, coughing, and feeling tired. These symptoms typically begin two days after exposure to the virus and most last less than a week. The cough, however, may last for more than two weeks. In children there may be nausea and vomiting but these are not common in adults. Nausea and vomiting occur more commonly in the unrelated infection gastroenteritis, which is sometimes inaccurately referred to as “stomach flu” or “24-hour flu”. Complications of influenza may include viral pneumonia, secondary bacterial pneumonia, sinus infections, and worsening of previous health problems such as asthma or heart failure.
Usually, the virus is spread through the air from coughs or sneezes.This is believed to occur mostly over relatively short distances. It can also be spread by touching surfaces contaminated by the virus and then touching the mouth or eyes. A person may be infectious to others both before and during the time they are sick. The infection may be confirmed by testing the throat, sputum, or nose for the virus.
Influenza spreads around the world in a yearly outbreak, resulting in about three to five million cases of severe illness and about 250,000 to 500,000 deaths. In the Northern and Southern parts of the world outbreaks occur mainly in winter while in areas around the equator outbreaks may occur at any time of the year. Death occurs mostly in the young, the old and those with other health problems. Larger outbreaks known as pandemics are less frequent. In the 20th century three influenza pandemics occurred: Spanish influenza in 1918, Asian influenza in 1958, and Hong Kong influenza in 1968, each resulting in more than a million deaths. The World Health Organization declared an outbreak of a new type of influenza A/H1N1 to be a pandemic in June of 2009. Influenza may also affect other animals, including pigs, horses and birds.
Frequent hand washing reduces the risk of infection because the virus is inactivated by soap. Wearing a surgical mask is also useful. Yearly vaccinations against influenza is recommended by the World Health Organization in those at high risk. The vaccine is usually effective against three or four types of influenza. It is usually well tolerated. A vaccine made for one year may be not be useful in the following year, since the virus evolves rapidly. Antiviral drugs such as the neuraminidase inhibitors oseltamivir among others have been used to treat influenza. Their benefits in those who are otherwise healthy do not appear to be greater than their risks. No benefit has been found in those with other health problems.
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Spencer Still Confident He'll Be Available For Season Opener
David Helman
DallasCowboys.com Staff Writer
©James D. Smith/Dallas Cowboys
IRVING, Texas – Anthony Spencer isn't ready to practice, but he's still confident in his availability for the season opener.
It's been roughly three weeks since Spencer underwent surgery on his left knee, and he said he's feeling better about the progress he's making toward a return. Spencer said earlier in the preseason he planned to be available for the first regular season game, and he hasn't changed that mindset to this point.
"I mean, I want it to go faster, but I'm dealing with it. It's going, it's healing – as long as it feels better each day I can't complain," said. "We've still got two, three weeks left, so yeah."
Spencer has been a regular at team practices during training camp, although he obviously hasn't been a participant. The 2012 Pro Bowler said his most important work is in the weight room right now, where he is steadily regaining strength in the knee.
"The more strength I build up, the more stuff I'm able to do in the weight room -- it's making me be able to walk a little strong and feel less pain each day. So it's getting better," he said.
That's coming slowly but surely to this point. Spencer said he isn't yet able to run, but he is able to work in various ways in the Cowboys' weight room – including weight lifting.
"I lift -- I'm able to lift on it a little bit, get on the bike and then I do the elliptical or whatnot for a little while. I'm trying to stay a little bit conditioned," he said.
Of course, the difference between weight work and actual football is a vast one. Spencer said he will still need time to translate his progress to the field. Though he doesn't yet have a timetable for a return, he does know what will be required before he can put pads back on.
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"Just being able to push up against another person, being able to move laterally and just be able to play football, basically," he said. "But I'm going to have to be good on the field – the weight room is just building up the strength so I'm able to do stuff on the field. On the field is where it's going to be seen or not."
When that will happen remains to be seen, but Spencer remained optimistic it would be in time to play against New York. Asked if his timetable had changed regarding the season opener, Spencer replied, "No, not in my mind."
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Peabody's Restaurant in Birmingham demolished for planned $30 million development
Annalise Frank
Demolition of the former Peabody's Restaurant in Birmingham began Tuesday, with plans for a five-story mixed-use development in the works from Southfield-based Alden Development Group.
The city of Birmingham announced the demolition last week. It should finish in the next week and a half to two weeks, said Bruce Johnson, Birmingham's building official.
A first floor of at least "quasi-retail" will join two floors of underground parking with about 90 spaces at the 34965 Woodward Ave. site, said the architect on the project, Christopher Longe of Birmingham-based AIA Architecture & Interiors. Alden Development has also planned to build apartment units, as well as two or three floors of office space, in the about 100,000-square-foot building, he said.
Longe deferred comment on the build-out and timeline to Matthew Shiffman of Alden Development. The company did not immediately return a request for comment.
Beth Reeber Valone/Crain's Detroit Business
Jim Peabody opened Peabody's in 1975 and his daughters continued to run it until it closed in July 2016.
Even before Peabody's — owned by sisters Nancy Peabody, Susan Peabody and Barbara Peabody Jerome — closed in July 2016, Crain's reported that the site may have been sold to Alden Development. Jim Peabody opened the restaurant in 1975.
"We would expect to be in front of the planning board in the next 90 days," Longe said. "It is in design right now."
The design will allow people to walk through the building from Peabody Street to Woodward Avenue, Longe said. The development's stone and glass exterior design will fit in with with the two relatively new neighboring buildings on Woodward — the Greenleaf Trust Building to the north and the Balmoral Building to the south.
Johnson said he hadn't seen any preliminary designs or "anything concrete suggested to the city" for the site yet.
The Birmingham City Commission approved a hearing on a brownfield site cleanup plan of $1.33 million for the property, Crain's reported last year. The plan said the development's taxable value is estimated at $7.5 million, or 25 percent of the proposed development cost, which would make it $30 million.
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Lean on Pete: A Boy and a Horse
Charley (Charlie Plummer) with his titular companion in Lean on Pete. (Photo: Scott Patrick Green)
Note: This review contains spoilers.
Lean on Pete belongs to a genre you wouldn’t expect Andrew Haigh, the gifted English writer-director of 45 Years and Looking, to be drawn to: that subcategory of coming-of-age movies in which the protagonist forms a strong emotional relationship with a special animal. Clarence Brown made the two classic Hollywood exemplars in the mid-forties, National Velvet and The Yearling, and Carroll Ballard directed the greatest of all of them, The Black Stallion, in 1979 (all three were adapted from beloved children’s volumes), using both National Velvet and the French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse’s incandescent short film White Mane (1953) for inspiration. Ballard made other splendid movies of this type – Fly Away Home in 1996 and Duma in 2005 – but The Black Stallion, with its dialogue-free desert-island second act and its horse-racing third act, its vibrant, painterly use of color (the film critic Pauline Kael wisely evoked the work of the American abstract expressionist Morris Louis by way of comparison), its juxtaposition of the archetypal and the elemental to explore the experience of an eight-year-old boy far beyond his ability to find verbal expression for, is indisputably the masterpiece of the genre. (Melissa Mathison, who wrote the script, also collaborated with Steven Spielberg on E.T., which substitutes a creature from another planet for the magical animal.)
Working from a novel by Willy Vlautin, Haigh in Lean on Pete makes the boy and his horse story his own, which means stripping it of the mystical element and rendering it completely realist. The premise is recognizable, but the narrative is stark. Charley (Charlie Plummer) is a sixteen-year-old motherless kid who follows his itinerant, hard-drinking father, Ray (the Australian actor Travis Fimmel), across the Pacific Northwest looking for work. After they land in Portland, Oregon during the summer, Charley stumbles upon a job with Del (Steve Buscemi), an ornery horse trainer at the bottom end of the racing circuit. Charley works hard and without complaint, earning Del’s respect and the affection of his favorite jockey, Bonnie (Chloë Sevigny), and he’s happy to bring money home to help out his dad, to whom he’s devoted. But when Ray starts sleeping with a married woman, her husband comes after him with a knife. Ray dies in the hospital and Charley’s attachment to one of Del’s horses, Lean on Pete, acquires a desperate quality. The boy romanticizes the animal’s prospects; in fact, Lean on Pete is failing (thanks to a bad leg). When he learns from Bonnie that Del plans to get rid of him, Charley makes off in the middle of the night with the horse and its trailer, with the vague intention of finding his aunt in Wyoming. The sparse money he has from his salary doesn’t take him far, and though he encounters a few kindhearted folks along the way, things go from bad to worse.
In The Black Stallion, the magical horse, The Black, rescues the boy, Alec, from the shipwreck off the Arabian Coast that claims his father and, in emotional terms, substitutes for the missing father until Alec can return to the civilized world. (At that point it’s Alec’s turn to find some way to create a link between the horse, an emblem of pre-civilized freedom, and the world the boy needs to rejoin.) It’s a fairy tale in which the child’s loss and grief are represented metaphorically and his wonderful, improbable friendship with the horse has healing powers that are simultaneously metaphorical and real. A realist version of this sort of coming-of-age story can’t work on the metaphorical level; it has to answer for the howling grief a sixteen-year-old boy would feel after losing the father he adores, and for the way that grief would naturally unmoor him. The blows that Charley takes – the death of Lean on Pete in an awful, grotesque car accident; homelessness; being robbed by a man named Silver (Steve Zahn) who befriends him at a shelter – exacerbate what is clearly post-traumatic stress from Ray’s death. I think Lean on Pete is a fine movie, but it’s brutal, because Haigh knows he can’t mediate the grimness of the story without compromising it, and you can see from his previous work (including Weekend, which preceded both 45 Years and the TV series and TV movie Looking) that he seems to be incapable of compromise. The scene where the horse is hit by the car isn’t gratuitous, and I’d even say that there’s a poetic quality to the way Haigh and his cinematographer Magnus Nordenhof Jonck shoot it, but it made me cry out involuntarily in the theatre. Haigh makes a point of filming the violence that erupts after Charley comes back to Silver’s trailer for the money less graphically than he might have, emphasizing the chaotic nature of the encounter rather than the details; it’s one scene that doesn’t work (it’s mostly confusing), though I was grateful for Haigh’s impulse not to give us more than we can handle. At the end of the movie Charley does, against all odds, track down his Aunt Margy (Alison Elliott), and the fact that, after all he’s been through, he gets to stop running and settle down someplace is affecting in a way that’s difficult to describe. I couldn’t stop weeping – in relief, yes, but not because I had the feeling that everything was suddenly going to be OK for this kid who was still staggering from all he’d been through.
The presence of actors like Buscemi and Sevigny and Zahn – and Alison Elliott, whom I loved so much in The Wings of the Dove but have seldom seen since – is a boon to the film, but Charlie Plummer has to carry it. He’s in every scene, and the movie is tuned to his sensory equipment. I thought he was very good as the kidnapped John Paul Getty III in All the Money in the World, but here he pulls off something truly amazing: a two-hour performance of almost uninterrupted heightened emotion without a moment of ego or self-indulgence. This isn’t a word I often feel drawn to use to describe an actor, but there’s a purity to Plummer’s performance. It helps, of course, that he’s working with a director who instinctively rejects dishonesty of any kind. Lean on Pete couldn’t work at all, it seems to me, if actor and director weren’t on the same wavelength.
– Steve Vineberg is Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Humanities at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, where he teaches theatre and film. He also writes for The Threepenny Review and is the author of three books: Method Actors: Three Generations of an American Acting Style; No Surprises, Please: Movies in the Reagan Decade; and High Comedy in American Movies.
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MySeasons' Campaigns Put Database in Full Bloom
MySeasons.com recently netted the equivalent of a week's worth of sales in one day simply by sending out a special offer to its database of registered members.
While this may sound less than amazing considering these consumers already were interested in receiving offers from this gardening e-commerce site, it is somewhat of a feat since the company had zero names in its database only nine months ago.
MySeasons decided to take a database marketing approach when it went live in January, unveiling a series of promotions. The goal was to harvest as many consumer names as possible for the company database. The result was a database that reached 250,000 names in nine months.
The database began with MySeasons' first effort — the Free Seeds campaign. The site ran 20 million-plus impressions across 20 sites and newsletters from March 17-30. The offer was for a free pack of seeds for users who registered at the site.
Of those who clicked on the banners and were taken to a registration microsite, 17.5 percent filled out the form. More than 25 percent of recipients of various e-mail messages went on to register at the site.
“That happened because it was a compelling and targeted offer directed at a passionate gardening audience,” said Laura Berland, co-founder of ORB Communications & Marketing Inc., an Internet marketing and technology services company in New York that ran the campaigns for the site.
“It wasn't the dollar value of the free gift, because it had marginal street value, but it had great emotional appeal: 'I'm a gardener. I love gardening. Wow, this site is giving me free seeds. It feeds directly into my passion.' “
A follow-up e-mail campaign that offered 20 percent to 50 percent off items at the site yielded a 9.55 percent click-through rate.
From July 7 to Sept. 15, the company's Trip to Holland campaign took its data collection efforts to a new level. It ran more than 50 million impressions on 17 sites and newsletters, increasing its database by 200,000 names — a 395 percent increase.
The ads offered consumers who registered at the site a chance to win a trip for two to the Keukenhof Garden, the Bulb Growing District and Breck's Test Gardens in Holland. They could refer friends to increase their chances of winning.
Optimization played a big part in stocking the database.
“We can view transaction results in real time and make adjustments. I'm not just looking at where the clicks are coming from, I'm also looking where the transaction response is coming from,” Berland said. “If you optimize just on click through, you often miss your great opportunities.”
Once the site's database was brimming with interested consumers, MySeasons.com unleashed two one-day sales called Plant Now and the Greenhouse Sale. The latter campaign netted one week's worth of sales in one business day, said John Roman, vice president of marketing at MySeasons, New York.
“We obviously recognize the value of the database,” he said. “This company is made up of people experienced in direct and catalog marketing. We're interested in our target audience, conversion and reality. We're not interested in broad marketing messages.”
The ads for the campaigns ran on sites that appeal to MySeasons.com's target audience of women age 35 to 64, including Women.com, Coolsavings.com and Betterhomesandgardens.com.
MySeasons.com also tested lists from Yesmail, PostMasterDirect, MyPoints.com and Publishers Clearing House.
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Your Support Allowed us to Save Another Family
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The second largest country of Africa, full of paradoxes. On one hand, it is rich in natural resources (including cobalt, copper, coltan, crude oil, diamonds, gold); on the other hand, its inhabitants are among the poorest in the world. For decades, the DRC has been suffering from prolonged conflicts that have led to one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the world.
77% of the population live in extreme poverty for less than $1.90 a day
16% of the country’s population, i.e. over 13 million people, require immediate humanitarian assistance
13,6 million people are deprived of access to safe water sources and proper sanitary and hygienic facilities
numerous outbreaks of deadly diseases, including measles, malaria, cholera and Ebola
about 10% of all malaria deaths in sub-Saharan Africa occurred here
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babies in 2021
Tatiana is a happy mother of three children: 12-year-old Alina, 10-year-old Christina and little Amos. She lives with her husband in Bugina, about a two-hour walk from Ntamugenga. Like most residents of the surrounding villages, the family lives off a small field, located far away. Every day is the same: a two hour walk to the field, six hours of work, two hours back. A not so modest yield satisfies the family’s needs.
A few days ago, after returning from work, Tatiana dug up a few manioc perennials from the backyard garden. She wanted to quickly prepare a meal but she did not realize that raw cassava can be harmful or even poisonous. Shortly after the family ate the meal, her first symptoms started: abdominal pain, high fever, symptoms of acute poisoning. The terrified father took his family to a nearby health center but doctors there weren’t able to diagnose them. The family’s condition was deteriorating so they were sent sent to our hospital in Ntamugenga. We provided the right medication and drip. Today, around noon, we completed a round of oxygen therapy for the youngest child, little Amos. The family are healthy and will return home soon.
Unfortunately, there are still many tragic incidents of manioc poisoning in the surrounding villages. Residents often don’t know how to handle food and how to prepare not just a well-balanced meal, but also one that won’t hurt them. This is why we have our staff undergo field cultivation and cooking training. We do everything we can to educate as many people as possible. And although Tatiana’s story had a happy ending, many similar events end tragically.
Tatiana and her children recovered mainly because of the hospital’s reliable and well-trained staff. But you also played a role! Our specialists have the necessary knowledge and are able to offer help, provide medicines, make diagnoses using the right equipment and prescribe oxygen therapy because of your invaluable support.
Amos was so weak that oxygen therapy was inevitable in his treatment. It costs 10 PLN – the price of gas – to operate the machine for an hour and produce oxygen for this type of treatment. In recent weeks, the generator has been running around the clock.
Tatiana says hello and sends her thanks to you for saving her family. We’d like to encourage you today to make a donation and cover the costs of an hour supplemental oxygen for our most vulnerable patients.
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Contacts with young minds
Schoolchildren in Uttar Pradesh delighted themselves collecting leaves and plants for a unique biodiversity competition
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By Sudeep Mukhia
DAY after day last February, scores of students in an Uttar Pradesh village spent hours outside their classrooms. They were not playing truant -- they were in the fields collecting leaves and plants for a biodiversity competition.
The contest at the secondary school in Gangagarh village in Bulandshahr district was the third in a series begun last year. The previous competitions were held in Gangagarh and Vastrapur village in Gujarat.
The students were asked to gather as many species as they could and there was a special emphasis on medicinal plants. The collected specimens were evaluated on four counts: classification, appearance, habitat and use.
"The basis of sustainable development is a strong foundation of the knowledge of biodiversity. It is best to encourage its spread," says Pramod Jain, an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) in Ahmedabad, who, along with the Alok Charitable Trust (ACT) which runs the school, was instrumental in organising the contest.
"There was a lot of excitement among the students," says G P Gupta, ACT chairperson. They started collecting leaves days in advance of the February 25 contest. Says Manoj Kumar, 14, who came first in both competitions, "I collected 215 specimens, going right upto Rasoolgarh village, about three km away."
Says Rahul Gangal, a class 8 student, "I wanted to come first this time, so I started collecting my samples many days ago."
Learning from father
"I had gone to neighbouring villages and fields with my friends to pick specimens," says 12-year-old Sheelendra, son of the village headman. Adds Satyabir, who came second, "I asked my father to tell me about many of these plants."
Most of the students are aware of the uses of many plants. "This is not too surprising, as they are in constant contact with these plants," says Gupta. However, there were also those who learnt of new plants. "I didn't know there was a plant named Laila Majnu or that Mayurpankhi is used to cure cavities in cattle," said 14-year-old Savitri.
The specimens collected by the children "will be taken to IIM Ahmedabad or Delhi University to be analysed and classified according to their Latin names," explained Jain. With the information gathered, ACT plans to build a database.
However, Jain pointed out, "The real banks of knowledge are the children who don't go to school and who spend all their time in the fields." Jain and ACT plan to hold a competition for these children as well as a district-level contest for farmers. "Competitions like these will help spread knowledge," says Gupta.
Gupta is optimistic about the programmes: "The villagers know what is good for them. We let them decide what they want. This formula is bound to succeed."
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> How the West Was Won
The story began with the mini-series "The Macahans" in 1977. The TV series was titled "How the West Was Won" and ran for 20 episodes beginning in 1979.
The story is about a family from Virginia who travels across the country to a new life in Oregon. Rugged mountain man Zeb Macahan has to take care of his orphaned Nieces and nephews with a little help from their aunt Molly after their parents were killed in an accident. Starred James Arness, Fionnula Flanagan, Eva Marie Saint and Bruce Boxleitner and it was a top-rated miniseries in 1977.
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