Jack Daniel's World Championship Invitational Barbecue
MARK YOUR CALENDARS
OCTOBER 13TH and 14TH, 2023
It's rare that whiskey-making takes a backseat to much of anything in Lynchburg, Tennessee. THE JACK is one exception. One weekend in October, barbecue competitors from across the country and world converge here to wield their grilling and smoking expertise in the final competition of the year.
Smell the sweet smoke and savor the flavors for yourself and JOIN US THIS OCTOBER as we cook up a spectacular weekend of events.
WHAT IS THE JACK?
Every year, more than 40,000 visitors descend on Lynchburg for one of the most prestigious competitions in all of BBQ.
WINNER HALL OF FAME
Get acquainted with some of our most recent Grand Champions.
Agenda & Parking
For one weekend every year, the smallest town in whiskey becomes the biggest scene in barbecue. 2022 promises to be no different with great music, fun events, 8 individual category competitions and over 80 teams vying for the title of Grand Champion.
Parking is available for $10.00 at Moore County High School on Saturday, October 15th with shuttle buses available from 9:00am to 7:00pm.
2022 COMPETITORS
This year 85 championship teams from across the world convene in Lynchburg to compete for the coveted title of The Jack Grand Champion.
THE ART OF THE JACK
In Lynchburg, folks say barbecue is an art unto itself. After 30 years of competition, we have the posters to prove it. Check out our letterpress poster gallery from previous years of The Jack.
Thank You To Our
A gathering this size couldn't happen alone. Thanks to some of our friends who help us host one of the biggest competitions in international barbecue.
Golden West Food Group
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Old World Spices & Seasoning
Hunsaker Smokers
The Fowl Life
Operation Ride Home
VISIT LYNCHBURG
No visit to Lynchburg is complete without a little sight-seeing. If you're looking to get a taste of more than just BBQ, we have a few suggestions.


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2 edition of Climate clever found in the catalog.
Climate clever
Hugh Compston
how governments can tackle climate change (and still win elections)
by Hugh Compston
Published 2012 by Routledge in New York .
Political ecology,
Political aspects,
Environmental policy,
Climatic changes
Statement Hugh Compston & Ian Bailey
Contributions Bailey, Ian, 1965-
LC Classifications JA75.8 .C57 2012
Pagination p. cm.
ISBN 10 9780415679763, 9780415679770, 9780203128138
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Mr Darcy, by Alex Field and Peter Carnavas
Mr Darcy, as most readers will know, was one of the main characters in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The story has been popular for many, many years appearing on television and in film. It has even been treated to a zombie makeover in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. And here is a picture book version of the story, with Darcy as a duck. He is a pleasant enough character, but distant and a bit proud. He ignores an invitation to tea from Lizzy, because living as she does in a quite small park, she is unlikely to provide much company. Why then does he keep tripping and falling and crashing when she is near? He is polite but quite contained. But something changes his mind. Illustrations are Peter Carnavas' trademark pencil-outlined gentle watercolours set in lots of white space.
Mr Darcy might seem an odd subject for a picture book, but it is really a story about learning not to judge by appearances. Lizzy's manners initially fail to break through Darcy's reserve, but she persists rather than giving up. Darcy's friends Bingley and Caroline step in when Darcy's insistence that he's fine threatens to cause him harm, but only after Lizzy has come up with a plan. Lizzy is resolute but not pushy and Darcy eventually has to overcome his prejudices. This is a sweet picture book, that will also introduce new readers to a classic story. Recommended for pre-school and early school-age children.
Mr Darcy, Alex Field & Peter Carnavas
New Frontier Publishing 2011
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The shocking stories of refugees from Syria should stir a response
By Mark Argent, PPC for North West Leicestershire in Liberal Democrat Voice
David Cameron seems, at last, to be softening his stance, but references to "swarms" of refugees have been shocking. It has felt as if he were a party-politician more in sympathy with the xenophobic strand of his own party than a statesman able to see the plight of people making desperate journeys to escape a situation in Syria that most of people in the UK should be glad not to understand.
The numbers should inject some realism. The total population of Syria is just under 23 Million. The total population of the European Union is 503 Million. Around 7.6 million people have been displaced within Syria, 1.6 million to Turkey, 1.2 million to Lebanon, 600,000 to Jordan, 242,000 to Iraq, 136,000 to Egypt. That puts the 150,000 who have sought asylum in the EU into perspective.
Surely we should be providing asylum for those who need it, and not whipping up fears. The costs need to be taken with caution - support in the short term will cost us, but those refugees who settle in the EU will end up paying taxes and contributing to society. If we get it right, those who eventually return to Syria will help to build bridges between our countries. Both of these are good things.
There have been mutterings about forms of military intervention - Liam Fox on The World at One (4 September 2015) suggested that the Commons got it wrong in voting not to intervene when there was evidence of Assad was using chemical weapons on his own people and arguing for an enforced "safe zone" in Syria. In July Michael Fallon seeming to be seeking support for the bombing of ISIS positions in Syria.
But the West has a dismally-consistent record of military interventions in the Middle East that end up making things worse. Recent interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya have not been notable successes. We could do some real good if we took some of the money we might spend on a military intervention and used it to help refugees, in Europe and in refugee camps nearer to Syria.
Genuine compassion and support at this stage puts us on a very different page from either Assad's regime in Syria or ISIS. This isn't about intervening in a way that actually defeats them. This is about acting in a compassionate, non-violent way that has the potential to make lasting change.
The refugee crisis is challenging the EU. The Schengen agreement that provided for open borders in most of the EU assumed refugees and asylum-seekers arriving in lower numbers than we now have, so it may need to be tweaked. Climate change is likely to lead to more migration of people from parts of the world that become uninhabitable. The EU was created to ensure peace and stability in Europe, and it is only in the time since it was formed that people in Western Europe have not faced the prospect of becoming refugees.
We Europeans are now in a very fortunate position. People seek sanctuary in our part of the world rather than fleeing it. Our long-term stability depends on friendly relations with the rest of the world. Responding in a compassionate way is the humane thing to do, but it also builds the connections with the rest of the world that protect our long-term stability.
* Mark Argent was the Parliamentary candidate for North West Leicestershire
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Corrine Brown seeks to stop redistricting in court, says it dilutes minority voting
By Scott Powers
Implying that a secret, racist agenda may be in play to eliminate Congressional districts drawn to represent black voters, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Jacksonville, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday to stop Florida's redistricting effort.
On Wednesday the Florida Senate released a proposed map that would redraw many of Florida's 27 Congressional districts to comply with an order from the Florida Supreme Court. That order came following a lawsuit that charged the state's 2011 redistricting map had been gerrymandered, drawn to assure that certain seats would always be won by one party or another.
Brown's district would be most affected under the proposed map. And her district was specifically cited for change in the Florida Supreme Court order. The new proposal would lop off District 5's snake-like appendage that meanders from Jacksonville south to Orange County, taking in black communities along the way. Instead, the map proposes District 5 stretch due west from Jacksonville to Tallahassee.
She would no longer represent Central Florida, and, specifically, would no longer represent the predominantly black neighborhoods of Central Florida.
At a press conference on the steps of the Federal Court House in Orlando, Brown expressed anger, charging that the whole point of her district was to bring together black communities, and that was being undermined.
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"Florida has 27 seats; why is the attack always on the one district that puts communities together and [gives] the African Americans, who have suffered, an opportunity to have a representative?" she challenged.
"This [redistricting effort] is about me. But this [lawsuit] is not about me. What happens if I die today or tomorrow? I want somebody who looks like me, an African American," to represent the black communities, she said.
Her lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division, seeks to get the federal court to reject the Florida Supreme Court's July ruling, and to stop any state redistricting effort that would change her district. She was joined in the suit by Eatonville Mayor Anthony Grant and nine others.
"I am saying that what the Florida Supreme Court did [was] violate the 1965 Voting Rights Act and that needs to be rectified," Brown said. "I am working to get the federal court to do what they do... I want them to take charge."
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Grant also spoke at Brown's press conference, saying she had delivered for his town, the oldest historically-black, incorporated town in Florida, while previous members of Congress had ignored it.
Brown's district had been drawn in 1992 -- the year she first was elected to Congress -- in order to comply with federal 1965 Voting Rights Act requirements calling for "communities of interest" to be banded together. The idea was to give residents of those communities a shot to elect someone who could represent their common interests.
Yet the 1992 map, and ensuing maps, gave the district the oddest shape in the state. That made it an easy example for critics of gerrymandering, which is illegal under state law.
The new proposed map would put Eatonville, Pine Hills and other predominantly-black communities in Orange County into District 10, which is now represented by U.S. Rep. Dan Webster, R-Winter Garden. Predominantly-black communities in Seminole County, particularly in Sanford, would go into District 7, held by U.S. Rep. John Mica, R-Winter Park.
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The redrawn map might actually increases the chance that there could be more black Congress members from Florida. The new map of District 10 dramatically increases the number of black voters living there. Former Orlando Police Chief Val Demings, who is black, is expected to announce she will again run there as a Democrat, seeking a rematch with Webster, who defeated her in 2012.
Demings called the new look to District 10 "Good News!" in a Facebook post Wednesday.
But Brown insisted that any Demings election prospects were beside her point, which was to keep black communities together.
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Brown also strongly suggested she suspects a racist conspiracy at play in redrawing such districts as her's. She said she would love to see "all the emails" associated with redistricting efforts.
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"It is a movement. And it starts here in Florida, to dismantle the 1965 Voting Rights Act. If they accomplish this here in Florida, it will be on to Mississippi, on to Alabama," she said. "So now you tell me why. ... I mean I'd like to know what's behind it."
She also compared the attacks on her district with those on Florida's first black member of Congress, Josiah Thomas Walls, who was elected in the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era, serving from 1871 to 1876.
"They sued... every time he won, there was another lawsuit, which is exactly what happened to me. And the third time, they burned down the courthouse. Burned down the courthouse! That's what we have here: people seeking to burn down the courthouse, take us out," Brown said. "But we're not going out that way. We're not going out. We're not going back. We've come too far, too long. You talk about black lives matter? What matters is, you have somebody that represents you at the table."
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Trump Says He Has Completed Written Answers For Mueller, But Not Turned Them In
By Philip Ewing
Published November 16, 2018 at 10:32 AM PST
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President Trump answers a reporter's question about special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation during a bill signing ceremony Friday in the Oval Office.
President Trump has completed written answers to questions about the Russia investigation from Justice Department special counsel Robert Mueller.
The president told reporters on Friday that he wrote the answers, not his lawyers, and that he did so "very easily."
Trump said he suspected some of the questions were designed to be pitfalls and catch him in a "perjury trap" — to induce him to lie about things for which prosecutors might already have contradictory evidence.
"I'm sure they're tricked up," Trump said. Witnesses must be careful with questions designed "by people who probably have bad intentions," he also said.
Trump said that he just finished the questions but had not actually submitted them to the special counsel's office. Although its investigation is a "hoax," he said, Trump also said he has heard it will probably wrap up soon and that "I'm sure it would be fine."
The special counsel's office and the Justice Department hadn't made any comment on Friday as Washington waited on tenterhooks for the next milestone in the saga.
Mueller's office is investigating whether anyone in Trump's campaign conspired with the Russians who attacked the 2016 presidential election. To that end, it has been negotiating for months with the White House over how, when and where Trump might address questions about his role in the matter.
Trump's lawyers counseled him strongly not to agree to sit down with Mueller and investigators in person, although the president has never publicly ruled out that he might do so.
It isn't clear now whether, when Trump submits his written answers to the special counsel's office, that will end the discussion or Mueller might still want to hear from the president in person.
The phone call
Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., hosted a meeting with a Russian delegation in 2016 after receiving an offer via intermediaries of damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
Although the Trump family has changed its story about the meeting, the president's position since has been that Trump Jr. did nothing wrong and that it is fair game in politics to meet with people who make these kinds of offers.
At the same time, Trump has said he did not authorize or know about the meeting beforehand. The special counsel's investigators likely want him to address that for the record in their questions.
Congressional investigators asked Trump Jr. about the contacts he was making in the early summer of 2016 as he set up the Trump Tower meeting in New York City. He made two phone calls to a blocked number. Trump Jr. told lawmakers he didn't remember whom he called. Other witnesses said that Trump Sr. used a blocked number.
If investigators were to establish that Trump Jr. had called his father at the time he was scheduling the meeting with the Russians, it might undercut the president's denials. And if the president declined to answer a question about that to Mueller under penalty of perjury, that too could be suggestive.
The world has changed for Trump and Washington since The New York Times first reported an account of the questions that Mueller wanted to ask the president.
For one thing, a number of Trump world insiders have become cooperating witnesses in the ongoing federal investigations into Russia and other subjects.
Trump's onetime campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been meeting with the special counsel's investigators. Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, also is cooperating. Both men have pleaded guilty to federal charges in exchange for leniency if they provide information that prosecutors want.
So the body of evidence available to Mueller's office and other investigators is greater than it was when negotiations began with Trump over responding to questions.
With no additional information about the precise topics that Mueller's office addressed in its questions for Trump, however, there's no way to know how much they might have covered the latest understanding about the Russia case or whether they reflected Mueller's awareness from much earlier this year.
Philip Ewing
Philip Ewing is an election security editor with NPR's Washington Desk. He helps oversee coverage of election security, voting, disinformation, active measures and other issues. Ewing joined the Washington Desk from his previous role as NPR's national security editor, in which he helped direct coverage of the military, intelligence community, counterterrorism, veterans and more. He came to NPR in 2015 from Politico, where he was a Pentagon correspondent and defense editor. Previously, he served as managing editor of Military.com, and before that he covered the U.S. Navy for the Military Times newspapers.
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U.K. House Generates More Energy Than It Uses
By Martin Holladay | January 6, 2009
TWELVE-INCH I-JOISTS used as studs were filled with celluose insulation. The 4.3-kilowatt PV array on the roof of Will Anderson's house in Clapham covers 323 square feet.
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CLAPHAM, UNITED KINGDOM — Owner-builder Will Anderson claims that the house he completed in 2006 produces more energy than it uses. Equipped with a 4.3-kW photovoltaic array, Anderson's all-electric home is heated by a ground-source heat pump. The heat pump also supplies a portion of the home's hot water, with the remainder supplied by a solar thermal system.
The walls of Anderson's house are framed with 12-inch I-joists used as studs. The cavity walls are filled with cellulose insulation. All windows are triple-glazed. The tight house is equipped with a heat-recovery ventilation system.
Last year, Anderson's PV array produced 4,470 kWh, while his "carbon-negative" house used only 4,352 kWh — considerably less than the typical British household, which uses 26,000 kWh per year on average. Anderson told a reporter from The Guardian, "There is a lot of fretting in the building industry about how to achieve a zero spec, but it's all to do with demand. People get obsessed by the supply side. And the supply side, with all the technology is more visual, so fair enough. But the key thing is to get the demand down. Insulation and airtightness are key."
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Getting sponsors
Dan Empfield Mon May 12 2008
Triathlon is a tough sell to a sponsor, on the face of it. The numbers aren't there. I mean, yes, it's nice to sponsor a 700-person triathlon. But if you're heading a company that needs visibility, you could choose to be title sponsor of a 700-person 5k/10k for a lot less money, right?
So how do you convince sponsors to come on board?
There are several things going on right underneath the surface that, if properly explained, will swing things back around in your favor.
First, there is the level of commitment a triathlete has to his sport. A 10k runner is, on average, only loosely glued to his event. His financial investment is light and, so is his equipment investment. He buys a pair running shoes and he's ready to go. Not so a triathlete.
So if you're a manufacturer or retailer of a Bulova watch, or Cadillac's SUV, aren't you more likely to sell a car to one of 700 people who can afford to race yachts, engage in an equestrian competition, or do a triathlon?
Triathletes are a polished demographic. They are not only high achievers in sport, but in life. I'm not sure if this is still the case, but at one time the single most prevalent occupation in triathlon was attorney (hey, lawyer jokes aside, they can afford to spend a lot of money). In America at least, triathlon is the sport of movers and shakers. That's valuable to sponsors. (For more specific information on triathlon's recent demographics—if you need them to prepare a written presentation—contact USA Triathlon. Also look at our somewhat dated State of the Sport feature for 2003.)
But how do you tap into that sponsor money, and how do you deliver value? This latter point is important, because you don't want to have to make this sale over and over again. If it's a good deal for your sponsor, they'll be happy and they'll stick around year after year.
My recommendation is, get creative. Make a company a deal it can't refuse. Let's use a regional bank as an example. Here is what the bank might do for the race:
* Pay $20,000 in consideration for title sponsorship.
* Devote a significant portion of its radio advertising toward a push for race registration starting 12 or 16 weeks out.
* Pay for, and host, point-of-purchase flyers at its teller windows.
* Insert flyers into paycheck envelopes prompting its employees to enter the race, or to volunteer at the race.
Why in the world would a bank want to make an investment like that? Frankly, this is not a difficult sell, if artfully presented, and when I'm done explaining maybe you can see why. Here's what the race will do for the bank:
* The bank gets title (or presenting) sponsor designation.
* It also gets rebate of $30 per entrant from all bank employees and dependants.
* And, a $15 rebate from every non-bank entrant.
* And, a $5 donation from every entry toward the bank's favorite charity.
First, there's an assumption that bank employees and dependants are able to receive some special consideration (like a discount) when entering, and that's easily accomplished through typing in a private code during registration. This allows an online registration engine like Active.com to identify how many bank-related registrations occur.
Now, let's work this out, from the point of view of the bank. Let's say that through your ambitious efforts, with the bank's robust help, you're able to land 1000 entrants: 650 non-bank-related, and 350 bank-related. The bank will make, through the entry-fee rebates, $20,000, that is, it's washed clean, self-liquidated, and it will have gotten it's financial investment back entirely. Heck, if you end up with 1400 entrants, the bank earns $10,000 through its title sponsorship. If you fall short of your goal, the bank still ends up with a lot of its money back, and you have a $20,000 cushion to start with.
The bank also has a very nice "human relations" program to which it can point. Every company likes to do this sort of thing, to show its support and affection for its own employees. You can print out our Beginner Training Program (with our prior permission, of course) and administer it to all bank employees, customers, and dependants who want to take part. Find yourself a willing, attractive, amicable and knowledgeable coach who can host semi-regular get-togethers of bank employees—Team in Training-style—with training clinics, open-water clinics, and so forth.
Almost every large corporation has a charity it embraces. You'll also raise, in our fictional example, $5000 for that charity, plus you'll offer ways to educate all competitors and race spectators as to the benefit of giving to that charity.
In other words, this is an opportunity for the bank to execute a variety of its goals in one fell swoop—engage in a robust human relations campaign; raise money for its chosen charity; increase its visibility in its community; and introduce itself to several hundred (and maybe a few thousand) of its A+ prospective new bank customers—and to do so cheaply.
What does your race get out of this, especially if its ends up being a self-liquidating sponsorship for the bank? How can it be good deal for you if no money is really changing hands, if the title sponsorship nets out zero?
* You got your $20,000 seed money up-front.
* The bank is getting you perhaps several hundred entrants via its own marketing to its own reservoir of tens of thousands of employees and customers.
* You'll have one big sponsor "in the bank"—so to speak—which will make it easier to recruit sub-title or associate sponsors.
* The bank is giving your race many of its radio (and perhaps newspaper) ad spots, further promoting race entries.
* You can leverage that bank's resources to get your other sponsors; i.e., if each branch of each bank has posters and POPs displayed with sub-title sponsors listed, that's additional exposure for these secondary sponsors.
* The bank's help in increasing the race's visibility will increase the event's media worth; you're more likely to have a bigger newspaper, radio and TV presence at your event.
* As you develop your relationship with the bank's key officers, ask them to throw their weight around. Do they advertise enough with a particular radio station to suggest that the station be at the race personally, increasing visibility for the race? If you can do this, and you know in advance that it is going to happen, this makes your other sponsorships easier to sell.
* You're still doing fine financially. Let's say your entry fee is $75. You're still netting $55 per entry, if you blend non-bank and bank entries in a 2:1 ratio. Charge what you need to in order to cover your rebates to the bank.
This is one of a great many creative ideas for getting a significant sponsor. Maybe your sponsor is a supermarket, and the money comes from sub-sponsors who are product companies granted end-aisle and other display promotions from the supermarket. In this case the supermarket gets off without paying you money, and its vendors are where your money comes from.
My understanding is that this is essentially how the Dannon Duathlon series used to work for many years. As each Dannon race came into town Dannon is able to convince its retailers to stock thousands of extra cases of Dannon Yogurt, and through a variety of cross-promotional avenues guess what? The extra yogurt actually does move off the shelf when a Dannon race comes to town! Dannon is a hero to its customer (the supermarket). The race has enough sponsorship to do well. Everybody wins.
The nice thing about this kind of sponsorship is that you get a lot of useful "in-kind" consideration, that is, your finish line buffet is stocked with, among other things, a lot of Dannon yogurt that you wouldn't otherwise have to buy.
What's my point? Think outside the box. Think in other terms besides money-for-a-finish-line-banner. If you think lazily, you'll never get a sponsor to give you any money in any decent amount. If you're creative and you use the specific value that triathlon delivers—namely, that it's a great sport and a lot of people aspire to do one!—you'll be surprised at how successful your sponsorships can be for you.
My organization was able to raise $700,000 in sponsorships for a national series of triathlons in only the second year of the series (back in the 90s). But it wasn't easy. It involved a lot of cross-promotions and leverages. Three-month free memberships to a national health club chain inserted into tens of thousands of running shoe boxes. Things like that. Sometimes the race isn't really the big enchilada in these deals, it's just the glue that binds all these other cross-promotional efforts between the really big players. This is how the successful deals are done! (They aren't usually straightforward.)
My advice? Don't think in terms of selling a triathlon. Put yourself in the place of a human relations manager of a medium-to-large company. Think in terms of helping a company sell its product. Then slip your race in there somewhere and construct a creative deal that helps everyone involved meet their goals.
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President Barack Obama speaks at Sempra U.S. Gas & Power's Copper Mountain Solar 1 facility, the largest photovoltaic solar plant in the United States on March 21, 2012 in Boulder City, Nevada. Obama is on a four-state tour promoting his energy policies. The Copper Mountain solar facility is the largest operating photovoltaic plant operating in the country.
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BOULDER CITY, Nevada (CNN) - President Barack Obama kicked off a two-day energy tour on Wednesday with a stop here at the largest photovoltaic - producing voltage from energy sources such as light - solar facility in the United States, Copper Mountain Solar 1.
Speaking just 30 miles south of the Las Vegas strip, Obama reaffirmed his administration's commitment to an "all of the above" approach to domestic energy production, and called the solar sector an "industry on the rise."
But the president also derided opponents who have dismissed green energy as a viable job creator and aimed sharp words at those who instead call on his administration to take a more aggressive approach towards domestic oil production.
"One member of Congress who shall remain unnamed called these jobs 'phony,' called them phony jobs," Obama said of positions created at facilities like Copper 1. "I mean, think about that mindset, that attitude that says because something is new, it must not be real. If these guys were around when Columbus set sail, they'd be charter members of the Flat Earth Society." FULL POST
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POTUS's schedule for Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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President Obama heads out for his four state/two day trip to tout his administration's energy plan and talk to the American people about what his administration is doing to combat rising gas prices. He'll be visiting Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Ohio and three out of four states just so happen to be key battleground states. He'll start out his energy trip out Wednesday with a stop in Boulder City, Nevada (battleground state #1) where he'll visit the Cooper Mountain Solar 1 Facility, which is the largest photovoltaic plant in the U.S. In understandable terms, it makes solar panels, and lots of them. According to the Las Vegas Sun, "The panels at Solar 1 produce 58 megawatts of power, enough for more than 17,000 average homes and the recent 48-megawatt expansion of the site, completed in 2010, cost about $141 million and created 350 temporary construction jobs. However, only five people are currently employed there full time." The White House tells us that the facility operates nearly one million solar panels. In his remarks at this stop, he will talk about "his Administration's focus on diversifying our energy portfolio, including expanding renewable energy from sources like wind and solar, which thanks in part to investments made by this Administration is set to double in the President's first term."
He then travels to Carlsbad, New Mexico (battleground state #2) where he will tour federal lands with active drilling rigs. While there, he will give remarks where he will reiterate his message over the last few weeks that domestic oil production is at an eight-year high and his administration has a plan to continue to expand production. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney addressed why this is important in Monday's WH briefing: "Because an all-of-the-above energy approach requires and necessitates that we aggressively expand domestic oil and gas production in a safe and responsible way."
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Buying Personal Protective Equipment and Cleaning Supplies on Ludlow Avenue
Do most people who live in or around the Gaslight District know how much is available in the way of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and cleaning supplies? Probably not. Fortunately three Ludlow Avenue stores stock everything you need to keep your residence and workplace clean and to protect you from the spread of Covid-19 both inside and outside.
The store some people overlook is Ace Hardware. It turns out Ace has gone out of its way to stock the store with everything you need for this period. Among other things, Ace Hardware sells the following products:
Face Masks. Ace Hardware sells both individual masks and ten packs.
These cotton face masks are for sale at the checkout counter at Ace Hardware. The employee told me these were all the way around the best mask out there – and in fact, it was the one she was wearing.
Face Shields.
Rubbing Alcohol.
Hydrogen Peroxide.
Cleaning Supplies, including products like Fantastik All Purpose Cleaner Liquid and disinfectant wipes.
Disposable Gloves.
Shoe Covers. Shoe covers are now considered Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) due to their Covid-resistant qualities.
Safety Glasses.
CVS also sells many of these above-mentioned items, including masks, rubbing alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, hand sanitizer, cleaning products, and cleaning wipes. Much to their credit, they go out of their to keep everything stocked. This was the image that greeted me when I walked into the store on Monday morning:
And there's also Clifton Market. An employee told me today that the store stocks as many items as it can for cleaning, including Lysol, hand sanitizers, and cleaning wipes, but they sell out very quickly.
Overall, it sounds like Ace Hardware is the closest thing we have to untapped resource for handling this situation.
The pandemic has been a challenge, but our businesses have done an excellent job of facing that challenge. Their commitment to community is why we're happy to support these businesses.
Keeping the Gaslight District Safe During the Pandemic
Keeping the Gaslight District Safe During the Pandemic – Part 1: Food
Clifton has been challenged due to the pandemic that threw a curve ball into the year 2020.
The businesses in the heart of the Gaslight District are facing a particularly bumpy road. Our shops and restaurants need to keep employees and customers safe while still earning enough money to keep their doors open, and this is no easy task.
Fortunately small businesses in the neighborhood have done a great job of responding to this challenge. That includes the restaurants and other food-based businesses that have worked hard to ensure safety for their customers as well as their employees.
Clifton Market. Since the lockdown began, Clifton Market has been such a safe place for people to buy groceries that it has pulled in plenty of new shoppers who have witnessed the lack of safety measures in other grocery stores. The employees all wear masks, store social-distancing measure are in place (including Plexiglas windows and clear-cut signs). The Market also provides disposable gloves for those patrons who wish to use them.
The Market has set aside Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8am to 10am as shopping times for customers more vulnerable to the virus. During these periods only seniors or people with underlying health conditions can shop in the Market. On top of that, Clifton Market offers delivery service to at-risk customers.
The majority of the people who shop at Clifton Market wear masks, but yesterday an employee of the Market told me that the store has masks they will offer to customers who walk in without one. The masks won't be there for you to grab when you walk in, but you will be asked to wear one if you start walking around without one.
Say hi to Hillary Williams the next time you are eating at Clifton Plaza. During lunch and dinner hours she cleans everything off between visitors and helps ensure that proper social distancing measures are taken. And she with her warm smile she helps set a positive vibe for the plaza.
Outdoor Seating. The Clifton Community, LLC (a joint venture between Clifton Town Meeting and the Clifton Business & Professional Association) has gone out of its way to provide outdoor seating so people can order carryout on and near Ludlow Avenue and have a nearby place to eat. At Clifton Plaza, seating has been added that allows for social distancing, and CBPA hired Hillary to help keep things clean and cheerful for guests. The benches at Telford Avenue serve a similar purpose, allowing people to eat outdoors (plus you can dine next to William Shakespeare). Another outdoor choice would be the benches surrounding Diggs Fountain at the corner of Clifton and Ludlow.
The Rooftop. When it opened, Clifton Bar and Grill's rooftop offered a picturesque scenario for drinking and dining, but the fact that it's outdoors provides an added safety element, as is also the case with the Plexiglas dividers they installed between tables, their mask policy, and their readily available hand sanitizer. We should also mention here that at Ludlow Garage the doors are often open, which is closer to eating outdoors, and a similar scenario exists when the huge windows are opened at Clifton Bar and Grill. Outdoor ventilation means the virus is less likely to spread.
Walk-up Windows. Ludlow Avenue has a couple businesses with walk-up windows, which, along with being convenient, add an extra layer of safety to food service. The Whole Bowl at 364 Ludlow Avenue serves tasty vegetarian food. You can call the new bakery, Ardor Bakeshop, at 272 Ludlow Avenue.
Did you know about Ambar India? Ambar India has seating behind the restaurant.
Don't Forget About Arlin's. Arlin's has always had outdoor seating, and they serve food.
Finally, I should mention that I've ordered carryout at pretty much every restaurant on Ludlow Avenue, and the proper protocol has consistently been followed in regard to the virus.
Iggy and the Stooges on Ludlow Avenue
Iggy and the Stooges have come to Clifton—or their mural, that is. The artist who created the mural is C.F. Payne, and the work hangs beside the James Gang mural outside of Habanero's and across the street from Captain Beefheart.
Talk about keeping good company.
It makes perfect sense that some sort of tribute would appear for Iggy in the Queen City, as one of the defining moments in his career occurred here. In June 23, 1970, at the Cincinnati Pop Festival, Iggy spread peanut butter over his body and then jumped into the crowd, who kept him afloat in an early example of crowd-surfing.
During that same year Iggy and the Stooges played two concerts at the Ludlow Garage, which has reopened, and the mural is two doors away from the historic venue. Like MC5, who also rocked the historic venue, the Stooges were a Michigan-based group who played a lot around the region during that period.
A seminal proto-punk band, Iggy & the Stooges reunited between 2003 and 2009, and Iggy Pop has also had a successful solo career and appeared in a number of movies.
Iggy has been to Cincinnati many other times, by the way. My first Iggy show was at Bogart's around 1980 or 1981—something like that. The concert was sold out, but an admission specialist offered to let us in if we paid full ticket price in cash, to him.
I doubt we were the only people that evening who were extended that offer, and the room was beyond packed. Concerts used to start really late during that period, and Iggy was still going strong at two o'clock in the morning, and so was the crowd.
Then off went the lights and the sound, at exactly two o'clock in the morning. "The power blew" was the official report, but there were skeptics in the overstuffed crowd that took its sweet time filing out of the club, grouching the entire time.
They wanted more, and Iggy wanted more. No one believed that bit about the power.
But if anyone was going to make the power blow, it was Iggy.


Found: A Lost Play by Edith Wharton
In which woman's past as a nurse comes back to haunt her.
by Sarah Laskow May 30, 2017
Edith Wharton around 1890. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library/Public domain
Before she became a novelist, Edith Wharton tried her hand at writing plays, and recently two scholars discovered one of her dramatic works, forgotten until now, hiding in an archive in Austin, Texas, Rebecca Mead reports in The New Yorker.
Wharton's literary fame came later in life, and she wrote a number of unproduced plays in her 30s. She seemed, at one point, to be on the cusp of success. In 1901, her play The Shadow of a Doubt was slated to be produced, and a famous actress was cast in the lead role. The producer pulled out before the premier, though, and the play faded into obscurity.
Laura Rattray, of the University of Glasgow, and Mary Chinery, of Georgian Court University, had discovered an article referencing The Shadow of a Doubt. While attending a conference in Austin they searched the Harry Ransom Center's holdings for the manuscript. They came up with two copies and have published the text in the Edith Wharton Review. It's the first previously undiscovered work by the author found in 25 years.
The play, they write, features a former nurse whose husband discovers that she had helped in the assisted suicide of his first wife. As Mead writes, the play presages the themes of Wharton's later novel, The House of Mirth.
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Her Majesty the Queen has been pleased to appoint Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge a Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) for services to the Sovereign. Awards in the GRVO are made personally by The Queen.
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Book: The Wedding Gift: An Explosive Story of Two Women Under Slavery
From Marlen Suyapa Bodden comes The Wedding Gift, a big novel of passion and self-destruction during the time of slavery.
A lawyer at The Legal Aid Society in New York City, the nation's oldest and largest law firm for the poor, Bodden brings her knowledge of human trafficking and human rights abuses to play in this amazing novel.
Author Tom Wolfe says when you open it up, you'd better not have plans for the rest of your day.
When Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa's hand in marriage, he presents her with a wedding gift: the young slave she grew up with, Sarah. Sarah is also Allen's daughter and Clarissa's sister, a product of his longtime relationship with his house slave, Emmeline. When Clarissa's husband suspects that their newborn son is illegitimate, Clarissa and Sarah are sent back to her parents, Cornelius and Theodora, in shame, setting in motion a series of events that will destroy this once powerful family.
Told through alternating viewpoints of Sarah and Theodora Allen, Cornelius' wife, The Wedding Gift is a stunning novel that shows where the complicated and compelling bonds and relationships between women explored in novels like The Help and The Secret Life of Bees began. It is an intimate portrait that shows where this particular American story and dynamic all started and will leave readers breathless.
Here's what Ebony magazine says about The Wedding Gift:
"Once you read The Wedding Gift, you'll learn why the based-on-true-events story of biracial slave Sarah Campbell, her White sister Clarissa Allen and her slavemaster daddy Cornelius Allen is sure to become 2013's sleeper hit...the beauty of this novel is the way it expands the typical slave narrative by adding gripping innuendo, mystery, surprise, shrewd insight and murder centered on people - White, Black, male and female - who will fight to the death to escape their circumstances."
St. Martin's Press Hardcover ISBN: 9781250026385 $25.99
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A big thank you to Arjun Murali from the Coimbatore Quiz Circle for this super-fun A to Z quiz. Take a crack at it and send your answers to yalibooks@gmail.com. We will declare the winner on Thursday, April 11.
A is an Indian International Cricketer who won his first test cap in the recent Delhi Test against Australia.
A plays for the franchise B in the Indian Premier League. B is partly owned by C, a famous bollywood actress.
C's debut movie was the 1993 Bollywood thriller Baazigar, which also starred D and E, pairing for the first time.
D and E starred in F, a 1995 Romantic Comedy musical film. F is the longest running film in the history of Indian Cinema.
D acted in a 2000 bilingual Tamil and Hindi film G, directed by H.
G was India's official entry to the Oscars to be considered for nomination in the Best Foreign Film category for the year 2000.
I portrays J in G.
I had originally auditioned to play J in K's 1982 biopic of J.
The role was played by L, who won the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in the film.
M won the National award for Best Supporting Actor for his role of Shriram Abhyankar in G.
N is an upcoming film about a man's journey from Mumbai to Rameshwaram and what happens along the way.
N stars D and O in the lead roles.
P is a 2007 Tamil biographical film based on the life of social-reformer P, funded by the Tamil Nadu Government, starring Q.
Q plays O's father in the movie N.
O's real-life father R, is a former badminton player.
R was the first Indian to win the prestigious All England Championship.
R along with S, a professional player of English billiards, have co-founded T, which is a Foundation to identify and support Indian athletes with a proven track record and who have the potential to win Olympic gold medals.
A plays his domestic cricket for the team U, currently captained by V.
V is the third highest wicket-taker for India in ODIs, after W and X.
W is the leading wicket taker from India in Cricket World Cups, with 44 wickets in the 1992, 1996, 1999 and 2003 World cups. X, with 619 wickets in Test cricket, remains the third-highest wicket taker of all time.
X also captained the Indian Test side from 2007 till his retirement, after which the role was handed over to Y.
Y also captains the franchise Z, owned by India Cements Ltd, of which Y is the Vice-President.
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1708: Indian Sam and his female accomplice
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On this date in 1708, the slave "Indian Sam" and an unnamed black woman were put to death for the murder of a prominent Queens landowner named William Hallet. The woman was burned; the apparent principal of the plot was hung in gibbets with a blade or spike positioned to torment him as he twisted … a terrible landmark for what Graham Russell Hodges calls the "closing vise of slavery."
(Two additional accomplices were also hanged later, and several other slaves questioned whose ultimate fate was unknown.)
New York had greatly curtailed Africans' liberties with its 1706 "Code Noir", and the growing conflict would soon give birth to a bloody slave revolt.
But grievances were settled, too, at the rough and ready level of private violence. One witness recounted (pdf) the scene.
William Hallet junior who labored at a place called Hellgate his wife and five children in a quarter of an hour were all murdered by one Indian slave whom he had up for 4 years. There was a negro woman Slave in the house who was to him in counseling him in this bloody matter. Both he and his wife have gone at Justice Hattely house with some others … about seven at night [Hallet and his wife] returned home and went to bed … The slaves were watching their opportunity for they had to do it that night, and the house being something dark, [Indian Sam] came into the house and had a[n] axe laid behind the door and seeing his Master asleep took the axe and struck him first with the edge and then with the back of it. The first shook awakened his wife who was abed in the same room and she called murder, thereupon he struck her with the back of an axe on the head. There was one child lying in a box about 7 or 8 years of age. Those he murdered with the back of an axe and then drags the Young Child out from its murdered mother and Struck it on the head. The mother of the murdered child was also big with child.
From Lord Cornbury,* Governor of New York, later recounted what followed to the Board of Trade (Feb. 10, 1708):
My Lords.
… I have nothing new to acquaint you with, only that a most barbarous murder has been committed upon the Family of one Hallet by an Indian Man Slave, and a Negro Woman, who have murder'd their Master, Mistress and five Children; The Slaves were taken, and I immediately issued a special commission for the Tryal of them, which was done, and the man sentenced to be hanged, and the Woman burnt, and they have been executed; They Discovered two other Negros their accomplices who have been tryed, condemned & Executed.
Later that year, New York passed another law imposing potentially torturous executions ("pains of Death in such manner and with such Circumstances as the aggravation and Enormity of their Crime in the Judgement of the Justices … shall merit and require") for slave conspiracies.
Hallet was the descendant of one of New York's prominent early grandees whose name long remained prominent, which would lead us to suppose that the restaurant called William Hallet in nearby present-day Astoria is not altogether coincidental.
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More than 10,000 Verizon employees take buyout as company reorganizes ahead of 5G deployment
by Joseph LaFave Dec 12, 2018
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US-based telecommunications firm Verizon announced on Monday that more than 10,000 employees would be accepting a buyout offer and leave the company over the next six months. The planned buyouts are part of the company's reorganization plan to streamline its workforce and capitalize on the new 5G network once it goes live. The affected employees are all choosing to exit voluntarily, according to a report from Reuters.
"This program coincides with Verizon's recently announced realigned organization structure designed to optimize growth opportunities in the 5G era," the company said in a press release.
Those taking the buyout are eligible for up to 60 weeks of their current salary, as well as additional benefits, according to the press release. The individual packages will depend on the how long the employee has been with the company. As of this writing, the firm employs more than 150,000 people, and the number of employees leaving makes up about seven percent of the current workforce. Some of the affected employees will depart as early as December of 2018, with the rest leaving no later than June of 2019, reports United Press International.
"These changes are well-planned and anticipated, and they will be seamless to our customers," wrote Hans Vestberg, Verizon's CEO. "This is a moment in time, given our financial and operational strength, to begin to better serve customers with more agility, speed and flexibility."
Despite the news, Verizon's stock stayed relatively stable and posted about a one percent gain on Monday. Other similar firms like AT&T and Sprint, however, closed in the red. At Monday's close, Verizon was trading at $58.27 per share.
With the impending deployment of 5G, the job cuts may be a way for the company to make room for new employees who will focus on supporting the new network. Other companies have made similar moves in the past — for example, when NASA ended the Space Shuttle program, Lockheed Martin laid off several workers from the Michoud Assembly Facility who worked on the external tank, but the company also simultaneously hired employees to work on the company's satellite manufacturing programs. Although Verizon is just the latest corporation to announce workforce reductions, others like GM have made similar moves as the result of shifting market trends.
While shifting market trends may account for part of the voluntary separations, cost savings is indeed another. Verizon is in the middle of a cost reduction plan that is expected to save the company about $10 billion over four years, reports CBS.
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HomeLatest NewsYemen Latest NewsHouthis rockets kill seven children in Yemen
Houthis rockets kill seven children in Yemen
July 6, 2016 Ahmed Rashed Yemen Latest News
Archive photo - Children are victims for the ongoing crisis in Yemen, as all warring parts are killing them
A rocket fired by Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen on Tuesday killed seven children in a residential neighborhood of Marib city, east of the capital, officials said.
The rocket hit a courtyard where the children were playing, said Abdel Ghani Shaalan, Marib's deputy regional director of security.
Two other rockets hit a house and a shop front, wounding 25 civilians including women and children, he told AFP.
The toll was confirmed by Saleh al-Shaddadi, the director of Marib's main hospital, where casualties were admitted.
The Houthis launched the Katyusha rockets from Mount Haylan, 15 kilometers (10 miles) west of Marib, Shaalan said.
Marib city and the majority of the surrounding province are held by government forces who are fighting the Shiite militias who control areas to the north and west of the oil-rich region.
The attack in Marib came as Saudi-backed government and Houthi negotiators take a break from peace talks after two months of UN-backed negotiations that have made little progress.
The talks are due to resume on July 15 in Kuwait.
The conflict in Yemen has killed more than 6,400 people dead and wounded 30,000 since the Saudi-led coalition intervened in March 2015.
The coalition began a military campaign against Houthi militias in March 2015. It sides with the President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, while the Houthis are aligned with ousted President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who was ousted after Yemen revolution in 2012.
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Both ISIS and al-Qaeda have expanded operations during Yemen's civil war, and have claimed responsibility for several bombings and suicide attacks in Mukalla and the southern port city of Aden.
However, in April, Yemeni army forces, backed by Saudi-led coalition warplanes, recaptured al-Mukalla, the provincial capital of Hadhramaut province, from al-Qaeda group.
There has been mounting international pressure to end the war on Yemen, which the UN estimates has killed more than 6,400 people and displaced more than 2.8 million.
Yemen has suffered violence and chaos since September 2014, when the Iran-backed Houthis and allied forces loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh overran capital Sanaa and several other provinces, forcing President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi and his government to temporarily flee to Riyadh.
In March of last year, Saudi Arabia and its Arab allies launched a massive air campaign in Yemen aimed at reversing Houthi gains and restoring Hadi's embattled government.
In recent months, al-Qaeda has exploited the ongoing conflict between the central government and the Shia Houthi group to bolster its influence in the country's south.
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Midwest J Schools don't see Trump bump
Journalism schools in the Midwest are not necessarily seeing the same bump in enrollment from President Trump's war on the media as their counterparts closer to the nation's capital.
The Washington Post reported in September that Trump appeared to be "giving a jolt to journalism schools that in recent years struggled to cope with industry contractions." The Post highlighted the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, where the number of freshmen enrolling in journalism increased 50 percent compared with the previous year.
But the story from Trump Country, like much of the news in the middle part of the country, is not the screaming headline it often is on the coasts. The economic forces that pushed college enrollment down for the sixth year in a row in 2018 are still causing declines at traditional journalism schools in the Midwest. At a few schools where journalism enrollment is up, administrators aren't automatically crediting Trump.
GJR contacted eight schools in the Midwest with undergraduate journalism programs to understand if what was happening at the University of Maryland was part of a national trend. Three were private schools: Northwestern University, Notre Dame University and DePaul University. Five were public schools: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, University of Kansas, University of Missouri and Eastern Kentucky University.
Kali Robinson, a senior studying journalism at Northwestern University, reports from an informal refugee camp near the Stalingrad metro station in Paris, France, in June 2016 after the government had cleared it out. Robinson was on a trip organized by the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. (Photo by Craig Duff)
Acacia Hernandez, 19, a journalism student at the University of Illinois, where enrollment is down, said journalism can still be a hard choice for students. "People just want to go into something more secure," she said. "I think journalism is a career that only people who feel strongly about it should go into. People who enroll in journalism should have a strong reason on why they want to do it."
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign was one of her top choices because she liked how the school offered a "small program within a big school."
The undergraduate enrollment at UIUC's journalism program in the College of Media fell from 2013 to 2018. It had been increasing in previous years with the highest number of enrolled students at 369 for fall 2009, according to UIUC's Division of Management Information student enrollment report. The journalism program was under the College of Communications until 2008 when the College of Media was created.
Hernandez said Trump's election did not impact her decision to enter the field of journalism. "I had already decided on journalism before he came into office," she said.
Journalism enrollment is also down at SIUC, Mizzou and Eastern Kentucky.
At SIUC, where GJR is based, there was a single first year journalism student enrolled this fall. Journalism enrollment had a slight rebound in 2014 with 213 students, according to the school. But it has been falling ever since. In 2017, the school had 109 undergraduate students enrolled.
"I don't think undergrad enrollment is impacted by President Trump's remarks over the press," said Kavita Karan, a former interim director and professor at the School of Journalism at SIUC. "Journalism as a profession is an interest, a passion that will always stand the test of time. Life cannot go on without the media today, and there will always be a demand for journalists."
She called the decline in journalism enrollment at SIUC a "temporary phase" and attributed it to budgetary constraints and challenges with enrollment more generally at the institution.
Undergraduate journalism enrollment at the University of Missouri has been falling since 2015, the year the school had 1,861 journalism students at its peak, according to the school's enrollment report. Journalism consistently has been one of the top degrees at Mizzou, ranking No. 5 out of the top 15 most popular undergraduate degree programs at MU, according to the enrollment reports for fall 2013 to fall 2017. Its undergraduate and graduate journalism programs are considered among the best in the country.
Liz McCune, associate director of the MU News Bureau, said Mizzou has "not seen a spike in enrollment because of current political events."
"University of Missouri as a whole has faced unique enrollment challenges over the past several years, which makes it unlikely that what's happening at the Missouri School of Journalism is predictive of what's happening across the country," she said.
She said journalism students do seem more engaged now than in past years. "I think our students who are starting out in journalism are passionate about being able to tell important stories about what is happening in our country right now."
Across the Mississippi River, enrollment has remained steady at The University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, with more than 800 students studying journalism each year for the past five years.
Scott Reinardy, undergraduate associate dean and Malcolm Applegate professor in News Management and Editing, said preliminary numbers for 2018 that show the school on track with the last two or three years. "Our enrollment has been steady over that time," he said. "We continue to diligently recruit top students and top students continue to enroll in our school, and we've seen very consistent numbers over the last few years. Particularly with in state and out of state students equally divided, and those who are interested in different fields of journalism and media."
Reinardy said there has been an increase in undergraduate applications from 238 in 2016 to 345 in 2018.
He said the political climate does not appear to be a factor. "It hasn't seemed to affect our enrollment, or we certainly don't ask students is there a particular reason or political reason why you come to journalism school," he said.
At Eastern Kentucky University, where enrollment in the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences has been falling since 2013, Jennifer Kaylyn Perkins, 20, is studying journalism and history. She chose her career path before Trump was elected, she said.
"Trump has sparked debate among youth, but so have many other individuals and groups," she said. "As a generation, we have been empowered by our advisers and leaders to advocate for those who are being treated unjustly. Journalism as a field has changed dramatically in recent years. This field now encompasses both print and digital outlets. The expansion of the career into new territories is attractive to those individuals who wish to express themselves on a large scale."
Journalism enrollment is up at some private schools, although administrators aren't sure exactly why.
Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications declined to release enrollment data. But The Daily Northwestern student newspaper reported in March that there was a 24 percent enrollment increase from last year. Charles F. Whitaker, interim dean and professor at Medill, told The Washington Post that the increase was a "momentary blip."
GJR asked Whitaker in an interview what he meant by this. "This information that suggests that our enrollment is up," he said. "That is generally correct, but we don't know at the moment what to attribute that to. We've been actually going out and talking about journalism. Talking to journalism students about the importance to journalism, and I think that message is resonating. Now it could be that the message is resonating because of the way the President speaks about the press…Our students are feeling very much excited about being in journalism at this time."
But he cautioned against drawing big conclusions from one year of data. "Everything I say would be totally anecdotal, not empirical or inclusive," he said.
Enrollment is also up for journalism minors at Notre Dame University, which does not have an undergraduate major but offers a minor through the Gallivan Journalism Program in Journalism, Ethics and Democracy, JED.
Richard Jones, program director of Notre Dame's JED for two years and a former New York Times journalist, said enrollment is up from fall 2013 to fall 2018 with a 125 percent increase in JED minors. Each year, enrollment in an introductory journalism course also has increased.
"It has been encouraging to see the amount of interest in journalism," Jones said.
He said students have cited "recent political developments" as an impetus to get the journalism minor.
"The election of 2016, no matter which side of the political spectrum you're on, was certainly a pivotal moment in our nation's history," he said. "One of those before and after moments. I think that students of all political backgrounds really saw something in that moment that made them want to contribute as journalists or study journalism."
Several of Notre Dame's students have indicated that they are not sure if they want to pursue a career in journalism, he added. "But they are curious about how the process of producing and distributing news works."
Jones said it's too soon to tell whether any enrollment increases in journalism programs will continue. "I think it certainly is an opportunity for us as educators to engage in students in some new and important way," Jones said. "I think one of the takeaways for us all is that journalism is alive and well."
It has not translated into an increase in enrollment at all private schools, however. Columbia College Chicago has seen a dip in its journalism enrolment in the past several years, although the number of students studying social media and photojournalism is up.
For Whitaker, the Trump Era remains an important time, for educators, for journalism and for journalists. "It is important for our media to be watchdogs of public officials. To tell important stories of underrepresented communities," he said. Whitaker said journalism is "stressed" not only by attacks from politicians, but also by a general distrust in media and by a business model that is broken at the moment. "There are a lot of stresses on journalism that threaten the institution, but I have every confidence that journalism will survive this period," he said. "And that we will better served and the public will be better served as the result of it."
Journalism enrollment at DePaul University is also up. The number of freshman applications to the journalism program increased 17 percent. In fall 2014, there were 347 applications and this fall 2018 it went up to 406. The number of freshman enrollments who have declared a journalism major increased 33 percent, 57 this fall compared to 43 in fall 2014 said Carol Hughes, executive director of News and Integrated Content of DePaul University's Office of Public Relations and Communications.
Meanwhile, Hernandez hopes to work for a production news network once she graduates from the University of Illinois.
Trump's verbal attacks on journalists affect people's viewpoints on journalism and on news itself. That is why "so many people in society think journalism is dying," she said, when just the opposite is happening. "It is just evolving and changing," she said. "I think that is what is bringing those numbers down, people believing those lies."