"Meeting Supplier Diversity Standards: Programs and Metrics"
Most supplier diversity tasks are handled internally and only training is outsourced by some companies. Although the majority of benchmarked organizations handle supplier selection internally within the group, utility companies do so outside the group. Most utility companies also handle website/database management internally within their group.
Supplier diversity heads at more than 2/3 of utilities and the overall benchmark class tend to report to VPs or higher-level executives. In fact, more than 1/3 of the benchmark class reports to C-level executives.
More than three-quarters of the benchmark class establishes annual Minority-Owned and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (MWBE) goals.
This research originated from a Best Practices, LLC Internet Benchmarking Exchange. It was conducted for a Global Benchmarking Council member and was based on surveys with benchmark partners across various industries, with particular focus on the utility industry.


Pittsburgh International Airport? There's an app for that.
The Allegheny County Airport Authority unveiled its iPhone and iPad app for Pittsburgh International Airport that will include flight status information, how full the airport parking lots are, and the wait at the security checkpoint. There also are links to Airmall shopping, car rental and airline websites.


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Claudia Eckert (* 14. Juli 1959 in Duisburg) ist eine deutsche Informatikerin. Sie ist Leiterin des Lehrstuhls "Sicherheit in der Informatik" an der Fakultät für Informatik der Technischen Universität München sowie Leiterin des Fraunhofer-Instituts für Angewandte und Integrierte Sicherheit (AISEC) in Garching bei München.

Lebenslauf
Ihr Diplom in Informatik erwarb sie an der Universität Bonn, 1993 promovierte und 1999 habilitierte sie an der TU München zur Thematik "Sicherheit in verteilten Systemen". Ihre Forschungs- und Lehrtätigkeiten finden sich in den Arbeitsgebieten Betriebssysteme, Middleware, Kommunikationsnetze sowie Informationssicherheit. Ab 2001 war sie Horst-Görtz-Stiftungsprofessorin für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik am Fachbereich Informatik der Technischen Universität Darmstadt. Im Jahr 2008 gründete sie das Darmstädter Zentrum CASED (Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt), dessen stellvertretende Leiterin sie bis 2010 war. Eckert ist Mitglied in verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Beiräten, u. a. im Verwaltungsrat des Deutschen Forschungsnetzes (DFN), OFFIS, Bitkom sowie der wissenschaftlichen Kommission der Einstein-Stiftung Berlin. Sie ist Mitglied des Aufsichtsrats der Airbus Group. Außerdem berät sie Ministerien und die öffentliche Hand auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene bei der Entwicklung von Forschungsstrategien und der Umsetzung von Sicherheitskonzepten.

Sie ist Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (Acatech) und seit 2013 der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Außerdem ist sie Ehrenmitglied der Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Forschungstransfers (GFFT).

Die Fachzeitschrift Computerwoche zählte Eckert 2011 zu den Top 100 der bedeutendsten Persönlichkeiten der deutschen ITK-Landschaft. Zu den Kriterien für die Aufnahme in die Liste zählten u. a. Gewicht der Stimme in der Branche, Visionärität, besondere Verdienste, individuelle fachliche Leistung und voraussichtliche künftige Rolle.

Auszeichnungen

 Im Rahmen der Initiative Wissenschaftsjahr 2014 Die Digitale Gesellschaft des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung und der Gesellschaft für Informatik wurde sie mit der Auszeichnung Deutschlands Digitale Köpfe geehrt. Die Auszeichnung gilt jenen, die mit ihren Ideen und Projekten die digitale Entwicklung in Deutschland vorantreiben.
 Bayerischen Verdienstorden (2021)
 Hall of Fame der deutschen Forschung (2022)

Veröffentlichungen
 Konzepte und Verfahren zur Konstruktion sicherer, verteilter Systeme. Dissertation, Technische Universität München, 1993.
 IT-Sicherheit. Konzept[e] – Verfahren – Protokolle. Oldenbourg, München 2001; 7. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-70687-1.
 IT-Sicherheit. Konzepte – Verfahren – Protokolle. Studienausgabe. Oldenbourg, München u. a. 2005, ISBN 3-486-57676-3 (kompakte und stark gekürzte Fassung des Lehrbuchs).

Weblinks
 Lebenslauf von Claudia Eckert (PDF; 57 kB), Website der Einstein-Stiftung Berlin
 Claudia Eckert auf der Website der Technischen Universität München
 Website der Fraunhofer AISEC
  in Eins zu Eins. Der Talk, BR2-Radiointerview am 25. Februar 2014

Einzelnachweise

Informatiker
IT-Sicherheit
Mitglied der Deutschen Akademie der Technikwissenschaften (acatech)
Mitglied der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Hochschullehrer (Technische Universität München)
Hochschullehrer (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Institutsleiter der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Träger des Bayerischen Verdienstordens
Geboren 1959
Deutscher
Frau

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Home Boxing 'Crazy' Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul verdict delivered by Joe Rogan |...
'Crazy' Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul verdict delivered by Joe Rogan | Boxing | Sport
Joe Rogan has admitted he "doesn't know what would happen" if Mike Tyson and Jake Paul squared off in the ring but believes Jake would be the better option over his brother Logan, as rumours circulate about one of the Paul brothers fighting Tyson.
Iron Mike returned to the ring in 2020 after 15 years away from the sport to face former multi-weight world champion Roy Jones Jr in an exhibition bout at the Staple Centre in Los Angeles, California. The contest ended in a draw and post-fight Tyson confirmed that he would fight again in the near future. "I'm just happy I got this under my belt, and I will continue to go further and do more," said Tyson.
Tyson reportedly made around £7.5m for his bout with Jones Jr and when asked previously about how much it would take to get him to fight Jake, the 55-year-old said during an episode of his podcast that he would need a purse of "a billion bucks."
However, the former world heavyweight champion seems to be interested in genuinely talking with Jake's team, revealing during a conversation on Bill Maher's podcast last month that he was planning on getting the ball rolling with negotiations.
Tyson said: "I'm going to call him sometime on Friday and we're going to talk." When asked if he would accept the fight, he replied: "Absolutely."
Jake, who is currently 5-0 as a professional with recent knockout victories over former UFC stars Tyron Woodley and Ben Askren has confirmed he will return to the ring on August 13. Besides Tyson, 'The Problem Child' has made it clear he plans to face either Floyd Mayweather, Oscar De La Hoya, Anderson Silva, or Tommy Fury in his next fight.
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I'm guessing it's about 10:30 am by the time we leave the apt and it already feels like a hot day. We stop for juices next to the bus stop and then take a collective taxi to Av. Getulio Vargas. We still have to walk a way but it brings us closer to our starting point. Just as we approach Av do Contorno, I see a black and white polka dotted dress on a mannequin outside of a used clothing store. Remembering our no stopping into stores before our excursions lesson but very tempted by the dress, I look to Pilar for a sign. She's generally supportive of shopping, and gives me the go-ahead to try it on. Through a narrow corridor and winding steps there's an upstairs loft area filled with clothes. After going back to get Pilar, we end up leaving with a whole bag full of purchases. The women who work in the store are all very sweet, and invite us to come back again.
Back outside, we approach the Contorno right at the point of the large construction project where we left off last time. During my second dance with construction fence there, the gopro stopped filming after only a minute or so. I consider doing it again today but it doesn't seem as appealing now, perhaps approaching the site from a different angle at a different time, somehow the moment has passed. So we continue our counter-clockwise route along Av do Contorno. Maybe we're already tired and things start to feel more familiar and normal the longer we're here, but there isn't much that calls out our attention.
There's a calçada pattern I haven't seen yet with a dot in the middle that gets more damaged as I reach the far corner. The road here, Rua dos Timbiras, is a rather steep hill and the pavement is worn in a number of places revealing the cobblestone pavers underneath. I love seeing these patches of times past, and I feel especially in tune to them after spending the day yesterday walking around Oro Preto.
Across Av do Contorno, on the outer rim, are other houses nestled and stacked into the hills. This avenue feels much smaller here, compared to the sections at the beginning of our journey. There are a number of places where it appears someone painted over the graffiti and then it was tagged again, creating multi-layered pixação. There's another stone wall with densely covered in pixação, which makes me think about the way in which the graffiti responds to the existing surfaces and surroundings.
We pass by Cafe Viena, a large, dark, densely packed and richly decorated restaurant/bar with sidewalk seating. Even though we haven't advanced very far, we decide to stop for a drink. As soon as we sit down I realize my pen exploded in my bag and ink spilled everywhere. They have a very long list of beers, the menu touts "the largest selection in all of Latin America". We order one of the house brews and two glasses, and I begin the process of unloading everything in my bag and wiping everything down. I pack things back up and then head to the bathroom upstairs to wash my hands which gives me a chance to check out the rest of the place. Upstairs there's a large eating space set up with Minero style buffet lunch that looks much fancier than our usual spots. Most people there are dressed nicely, and seem to be breaking from the office for lunch.
When I return to the table, Pilar is brainstorming for a title for another upcoming project. Without my pen I feel lost for a moment, unable to make any notes, etc… but then relax into the moment. The waiter comes by and suggests that when we're done, we should put away "the machines". I look down at the table and see that Pilar has her camera and iPhone out. He further explains that a boy from the street could come by and take them. There have been a number of occasions, that I've been surprised by Pilar's seemingly cavalier approach to leaving her things out, equipment, bags, etc… in public spaces on the street. Perhaps living in nyc it's become second nature, but I don't leave my things laying around like that. I appreciated this moment to try to see things from his perspective. He's a waiter, working hard to make a living, but he also has an inherent sense of the complexity of the place and people's varied situations. Perhaps he felt responsible as an employee of the restaurant to look after the well being of the customers. In any case, I found it interesting that he decided to say something to us about this.
Right next door is another bar with essentially the same thing, a place to sit down and talk and drink beer, but with a completely different feeling to it, much more like the places we usually go to here. The facade of the next building over is covered in black and white stencils with writing that says "Estudio da Carne" that looks like it could be an alternative art space. As I take a photograph, a woman is opening the lock, so it seems like a good opportunity to find out, so I ask her what is it? A studio? A gallery? She laughs and says it's a restaurant! On the corner of the same street there's another place that looks quite delicious, so we sit at the chairs set up on the sidewalk and share a salgado (salty snack) with catupiry (type of soft cheese), which ends up being mostly chicken but still quite good and filling. Needless to say, we spent quite a bit of time on this block, between the beer at one end and the snack at the other.
Stopping at the bank, I notice that a large part of the space in front of the building is cordoned off with stanchions and chains. There's a lone motorbike parked in the center of the larger area to the left. To the right there's a narrow path next to the neighboring building leading to the bike parking rack. It seems Bank of Brasil has very clearly defined ideas about how it would like people to use this space.
On the next corner there's parking garage painted in yellow and black stripes. I notice how the graffiti writers have strategically used these lines as a surface, with some tags spanning several yellow stripes. On the adjoining wall, the black stripes are covered in white spray paint. As I take a picture, a woman comes out and asks what I'm photographing and I explain my observations to her. She is very distraught by the pixaçãdores, and complains that they keep coming back to cover her walls. She invites me in for coffee, so I call Pilar in to the garage. The woman has a little register and kitchen area set up inside the garage, that she's had for going on nine years. She asks where we're from and what brought us to Belo Horizonte. When she hears we're doing an art residency she tells us there's an art space down the street and a dance school and walks us to the other garage exit, calls over a young man washing cars outside, and points out the dance school.
The car wash area is quite a fascinating improvised work area in the street, complete with a television set, seating, and a mobile cart for supplies and tree as improvised rack for hanging things. From there I enter the dance school which is quite a magical atmosphere, I'm greeted by the dance teacher to tells me about the wide variety of classes they offer, introduces me to one of his students, and they even give me a little demonstration! By this time Pilar is outside stretching again, she's tired and starting to fade, so we head towards a plaza she's identifies on the map as a good ending point.
Getting there, we pass a truck with all kinds of religious signs, like Daniella's husband was telling me about, a warehouse full of plants, and one more female torso graffiti that looks like it someone had modified with additional marking covering the breasts and public area. I start to recognize the next block from our visits to Lydia's studio as part of the Maria Elena workshop, and the plaza where we did our synchronizing exercises. From here we take the bus back to the center, by the park we run into Wilsin (the man who makes sculptures from cans) chat for a bit and then head directly to Bem Natural!
With Graça on vacation for the next two weeks, Pilar and I are looking for our yoga fix and set out to check out another class recommended by our new friend, Denise.
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The NCAI Mid Year Conference and 7th Annual Tribal Leader/Scholar Forum will be held in Lincoln, Nebraska. Online registration closes June 1, 2012.
Watch a video about the Mid Year Conference and the events organized by the Local Planning Committee.
The National Congress of American Indians – the nation's oldest, largest and most representative national organization of American Indian and Alaska Native tribes will be hosting its 2012 Mid-Year Conference from June 17-20, 2012 in Lincoln, Nebraska.
More than 800 tribal leaders and representatives are expected to attend general assemblies and break-out sessions during the three day conference , which will provide a forum for tribal, federal & state government and business leaders to keep abreast of issues such as: economic development, criminal jurisdiction, violence against women, tax issues, financial literacy, energy development, and homeland security. We are also excited to be highlighting cutting edge research that informs tribal policymaking at the 7th Annual Tribal Leader Scholar Forum.
The NCAI Policy Research Center's 7th Annual Tribal Leader/Scholar Forum will once again be the focus of the conference's second day, bringing together tribal leaders and citizens with the leading scholars working on tribal issues.
NCAI's 7th Annual Tribal Leaders Scholar Forum - "A Call to Action: Tribes Using Community-Driven Research to Address Local Priorities"
The Host Hotel is fully booked. The following hotels have limited availability remaining. Act quickly to reserve your spot.
The NCAA Division I Baseball Championship on June 15-26, is happening in Omaha, NE. It is a World Series of Baseball Game that draws large crowds.
Please call and book room early, best rates will be available the earlier the room is booked.
The Tuesday morning's general assembly features tribes using research to address community and environmental health. Historically, many researchers came to tribal communities and conducted research that had little benefit to tribal communities and at times, resulted in harm. This session highlights three projects in which tribes actively designed and implemented research to benefit their community within the areas of substance abuse prevention, water quality and rights, and youth suicide prevention. Panelists will provide insights for other tribal communities interested in developing research to address their own needs.
For the first time, a poster session featuring presenters and projects from various universities will be held with refreshments served during the lunch hour.
Several tribes have established policies, practices, and boards to regulate research to protect the interest of their communities. This session will provide examples from tribes who have established Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), Community Advisory Boards (CABs), research agreements, and university partnerships to assist them in pursuing research that has community benefits, protects their tribal sovereignty, and controls their direction of research occurring on their land and with their citizens.
From how to improve the health of their people, to making sure citizens have clean drinking water, to developing energy infrastructure that creates jobs and fuels the community, tribes are seeking information about what will work best in their community. Tribes are using research and establishing partnerships with universities, the federal government, and other tribes to have a better understanding of what their community is facing and how to better serve their citizens. This session provides examples of how tribes and their partners are assessing community needs and developing infrastructure to serve their citizens.
This session will highlight research and programs that are working to better understand the experiences of Native youth and how tribes can work to protect their young people from harm and work together as a community. This session also explores the challenges with providing care to elders and the cultural considerations of care.
Indigenous peoples have always developed knowledge and science to guide community planning. Yet there is a long history of Western research that has explored individual aspects of tribal life without regard to cultural context or local ways of knowing, rendering it basically useless to culturally rich tribal communities. This session will explore the ways that Indigenous knowledge, Native science, and Indigenous languages are essential to understanding tribal issues.
For the past two years, the National Congress of American Indians Policy Research Center has been developing a web-based resource guide about genetics research for American Indian and Alaska Native communities. The goal of this project is to provide Native communities with the tools they need to make their own informed decisions about genetics research. This interactive session will offer an opportunity for tribal leaders and community members to talk with authors of the guide on their contributions as Native scholars in the field of genetics and to have a discussion about genetics in tribal communities. Your feedback is invaluable as NCAI moves forward to release the guide for community use in late 2012.
The Local Planning Committee has organized exciting bus tour options for NCAI Mid Year participants on the Saturday before the start of the conference.
Lunch has been graciously provided by Ho Chunk Inc. Total cost for this tour is $20.00.
There is an added cost of $8.00 for Admission to Archway Show. Total cost, not including food, is $28.00.
For both tours it is recommended that you bring enough money for personal spending at vendors and for food. Each tour will cost $20.00 Admission to help cover the cost of transportation.
Maps will be provided for those that wish to caravan behind the buses by car.
Please RSVP by May 31st by contact Kellcee Baker at kbaker@ncai.org.
Sunday, June 17 | 5:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
A welcome pow-wow and cultural celebration hosted by the local planning committee will be open to the general public and on Sunday night to kick off the event.
Free bus transportation will be available during the even on ta constant loop from the Cornhusker Hotel to the event site for Conference & Marketplace attendees.
Location will be within walking distance from the host hotel.
Contact Person: Jack Hickey, Jr.
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The deadline to submit a policy resolution to be considered at an NCAI Mid-Year conference is two weeks before the conference start, according to the NCAI Standing Rules of Order, Section XII. This year, the deadline was June 1, 2012. If you have any questions about the resolutions process, email aebarb@ncai.org.
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PALMER, Mr. William Robert "Bill" - At Quinte Health Care Prince Edward County Memorial, on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006, WILLIAM ROBERT PALMER, of Fawcettville, at the age of 79. Beloved husband of the late Violet. Loving father of Bill and his wife Kim of Niagara Falls, Sharon and the late Dave Wright of Picton, and step father of Jim Stockdale of Belleville. Loved grandfather of Ben, Kate, Nate, Natalie, Patricia, Shannon and Devon. MR. PALMER IS RESTING AT, THE WHATTAM FUNERAL HOME, 33 MAIN STREET, WEST, PICTON, ONTARIO. The Memorial Service will be held in the Chapel on Saturday, March 25th at 2 P.M. Cremation. Interment at Sophiasburgh Cemetery. If desired, donations to the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation would be appreciated by the family. FRIENDS ARE INVITED TO CALL ON SATURDAY FROM 1 P.M. TIL TIME OF SERVICE AT 2 P.M.


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Carex lepidocarpa, called the long-stalked yellow-sedge, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Carex, native to eastern Canada, Morocco, and most of Europe. It is a member of the Carex flava species complex.

Subtaxa
The following subspecies are currently accepted:
Carex lepidocarpa subsp. ferraria Jim.-Mejías & Martín-Bravo  – Atlas Mountains of Morocco
Carex lepidocarpa subsp. jemtlandica Palmgr. – north and northeast Europe
Carex lepidocarpa subsp. lepidocarpa
Carex lepidocarpa subsp. nevadensis (Boiss. & Reut.) Luceño – southeast Spain
Carex lepidocarpa subsp. scotica E.W.Davies – Scotland

References

lepidocarpa
Plants described in 1834


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Leave a bad review? This IoT garage door opener maker may brick your device
1:11 am, April 6, 2017
The maker of an Internet of Things (IoT) garage door opener bricked a customer's device after they posted a negative review on the product's forum board.
First a little background. In the spotlight is a device known as Garadget.
According to its Indiegogo page, Garadget communicates with its cloud server via a user's Wi-Fi network. It attaches to the bottom of a regular garage door opener. From this position, it can supposedly open and close a garage door when a user issues a command using the corresponding Android or iOS app by beaming a laser off a reflective pad.
Here's a promo for the device:
The developer of Garadget is a man named Denis Grisak. He says he "traded most of [his] spare time and personal budget for the excitement of designing a new product." It's therefore no surprise he's enthusiastic about the device's public release.
Even so, that's no excuse for how Grisak treated one customer.
On 1 April, a user by the name of R Martin left the following review on Garadget's community forum:
"Just installed and attempting to register a door when the app started doing this. Have uninstalled and reinstalled iphone app, powered phone off/on – wondering what kind of piece of shi* I just purchased here… [censorship added]"
That same day, he left a bad review of the device on Amazon. He wasn't the only one. Other Amazon users left equally poor reviews of Garadget weeks and months before he did.
But that apparently didn't stop Grisak from taking Martin's reviews personally.
In response, Grisak left this response on the community board:
"The abusive language here and in your negative Amazon review, submitted minutes after experiencing a technical difficulty, only demonstrates your poor impulse control. I'm happy to provide the technical support to the customers on my Saturday night but I'm not going to tolerate any tantrums.
"At this time your only option is return Garadget to Amazon for refund. Your unit ID 2f0036… will be denied server connection."
The device needs to communicate with the cloud server to work. By denying access to those servers, the Garadget grump "bricked," or rendered as useless as an expensive brick, Martin's unit. That's bad enough. In posting his response, however, Grisak forgot that the rest of the web was watching. Within no time, his post had gone viral on Hacker News and had received thousands of retweets on Twitter.
HOW DARE YOU LEAVE A BAD REVIEW OF OUR GARAGE DOOR OPENER, SEND IT BACK pic.twitter.com/TUmm2EFZ66
— Internet of Shit (@internetofshit) April 4, 2017
It's no surprise we're now seeing product reviews like this one:
"Would normally have recommended this device but unfortunately this device relies on manufacturer's cloud services and if you do something trivial to piss off the manufacturer they will brick your device. Look elsewhere."
Grisak's device isn't unique in being buggy. As we all know, most IoT products act up and/or suffer from vulnerabilities. (Some worse than others.) But customer relations can make or break a company, especially when exchanges are publicly available on the web. It looks like Garadget's developer is learning this the hard way. Let's hope other manufacturers don't make the same mistake.
#bricking
#garage door
David Bisson Follow @DMBisson David Bisson is an infosec news junkie and security journalist. He works as Contributing Editor for Graham Cluley Security News and Associate Editor for Tripwire's "The State of Security" blog.
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3 Replies to "Leave a bad review? This IoT garage door opener maker may brick your device"
Clifford Ross says:
Where's the follow up article about Amazon dropping this guy's products because of what he did in response to a bad review. ? Or any response from Amazon.
Arnold Schmidt says:
One aspect if this bricking hasn't been talked about. If the owner who complained hadn't managed to change or set the password, then I assume Grisak accessed the device just using it's IP and fed it some "hidden" set of instructions to disable it. On the other hand, if the password had been changed then I suspect that he had to access it using a hidden telnet port that uses a fixed, programmed in password in order to brick it. If this is the case, I personally wouldn't buy any device from this company because, like a lot of IoT devices, the telnet port makes it supremely vulnerable to being hacked by just about anybody. Is there any more info on how he got into the device to brick available?
Vasili Arkhipov says:
It sounds like Grisak identified the device being used by the individual who posted the scathing review and blocked incoming connections on the server. Per the article, as the device is dependent on the cloud service, blocking access to the cloud service is the same as bricking the device as it is rendered useless.


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David Mabuza to be sworn in as ANC MP
By Moipone Malefane and Kgothatso Madisa - 28 May 2019 - 06:50
ANC Deputy President David Mabuza.
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ANC deputy president David Mabuza is set to be sworn in as a member of parliament today.
Following his meeting with the ANC's integrity commission on Friday, Mabuza is confident he will be cleared and is ready to take up his seat in parliament, the governing party confirmed on Tuesday.
"Following last weekend's request by the deputy president to postpone his swearing-in so that he could have time to engage with the integrity commission and that has since been concluded," read a statement.
"The ANC commends the deputy president on the exemplary position he has taken and for putting the interests and integrity of the ANC first."
Last week Mabuza took many by surprise when he opted to postpone his swearing in in order "to clear" his name with the integrity commission.
At the weekend, the integrity commission was apparently unable to tell Mabuza why they had flagged his name and failed to provide proof of corruption levelled at him. Mabuza's name was among those of 22 others accused of having prejudiced the integrity of the ANC.
A history of the David Mabuza debacle with the ANC integrity committee
The ANC's integrity commission has come under the spotlight for its decision to red-flag senior African National Congress leaders including deputy ...
According to insiders, instead of the integrity commission telling Mabuza where it derived its finding against him, he was asked to tell the body why he was being accused of corruption.
According to his spokesperson Thami Ngwenya, the deputy president decided to ask to meet the commission as he had not been presented with the report which is said to have flagged him, and was not presented with an opportunity to respond to the allegations.
Following his decision to suspend his swearing in last week, Mabuza was replaced by Judy Hermans on the ANC's MP list - meaning there is no vacant seat. However, Nomvula Mokonyane's decision to resign from parliament has left a seat which Mabuza can now occupy.
Sowetan understands that other leaders including Bathabile Dlamini and David Mahlobo met with the integrity commission over the weekend. Like Mabuza, Mahlobo was asked by the commission why he was being accused of corruption.
Dlamini was accused of funding the Gupta TV, ANN7, which has since closed down.
Mabuza reaping benefits of being seen as ANC victim
The more leaders found themselves in trouble with the party or "the establishment" - the more popular they seemed to be in party ranks.
Dlamini had apparently expected to be questioned about the Constitutional Court ruling that found that she was reckless and grossly negligent in the social grant debacle while she served as minister of social development.
Sources close to the commission's work claimed that the report on the ANC leaders was signed off by the secretary-general's office and was submitted to the commission by deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte.
Sowetan further understands that at the ANC officials' meeting yesterday, the commission's report was discussed and the Top Six is expected to set it aside.
However, the party's spokesperson Pule Mabe said that the ANC would be jumping the gun by setting the report aside as the commission was still busy meeting other leaders mentioned.
"There has been no meeting to reconsider the report of the integrity committee," said Mabe.
It has also emerged that Mabuza has been unhappy with ministers in the outgoing cabinet who showed "disrespect" towards him. "He told him [Cyril Ramaphosa] that he was head of the ANC deployment committee but there were ministers who made appointments without consulting the committee. In particular, he complained about appointments at state-owned enterprises," said a source.
"He said those ministers would tell him that they have spoken to the president."
Ramaphosa is expected to announce his cabinet before the end of the week.
The department of science & technology is likely to be combined with higher education while trade & industry may be joined with economic development. There seems to be an agreement that Ebrahim Patel will be the new head of trade & industry.
Although his name was not on ANC list, he could be brought in by Ramaphosa as one of the two ministers he can appoint to cabinet from outside the National Assembly.
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We went blueberry picking today at Mercer Slough Blueberry Farm today. It was fun, Lucy met some nice kids, I got to see a few familiar moms that have been at some of the other events that we have gone to, and we got just over a pound of blueberries. Yea I was super excited that we were going berry picking again. I think berry picking is awesome. I have never done it before we moved to Washington and I think it is the beezkneez. And I bought some homemade strawberry syrup, but that is besides the point.
The point of this post is that we saw slugs. They were everywhere. I have never seen a slug before. I have seen snails, I have held snails. I have never seen nor held a slug. I didn't hold a slug today either, gross, but I did look at them.
Why all of a sudden the interest in bugs? Maybe because there just aren't enough fun ones in Vegas? I dunno. But what I do know, is that although these guys are horribly disgusting, they were pretty neat to see them everywhere.
Lucy didn't care about them and Dexter was to busy sucking his thumb to really pay attention to me, but wow. SLUGS!


In the mornings I'm lucky if I wake up to a quiet house. Usually it's the galloping of the dogs' paws on the floors as the canines leap up at the slightest sound of movement from my husband. They follow him into the kitchen, eagerly waiting their breakfast.
Other mornings I may wake up hearing one of my boys calling me from their bed or the seven-year-old's footsteps as he runs down the hall and jumps into bed with me. Sometimes I hear a bird singing outside my window. Every once in a while, I wake up and hear nothing, and I savor the quiet.
"Actually," my son said in his four-year-old and still sometimes hard to understand speech, "the Argentinosaurus wasn't very fast." I smiled at his good attempt at trying to pronounce Argentinosaurus, and I told the other boy's mother how the word "actually" has become very popular in our house lately. She said it was gaining momentum in her house too.
It's fun to hear how children will learn a new word and then play with it often as if they are trying to get to know it better.
While we were at the park we walked down to the shoals, and the kids played near the water. Running water in a creek or river is my favorite sound in the world. I could sit beside a river all day and just listen, but kids don't let me sit for long. We were walking down the trail, and I was too busy keeping an eye on the boys who were running far ahead of us to listen to the wildlife.
I was happy to hear them talking, chattering and laughing as they asserted their independence and tried to get away from their mamas. I did catch the loud sound of a frog croaking from somewhere in the marsh.
On the way home from the park, I wanted to listen to the news on the radio, but my boys kept interrupting the broadcast. Some days I make a point of turning off the radio and just listening to my son chatter about his observations or ask his complicated and often-times unanswerable questions.
"If we walked just one atom at a time, would it take a year for us to walk a foot?" He laughs at himself and I shake my head. I hope he'll grow up and learn the answer for himself and then tell it to me.
Sometimes in the evenings while my boys are watching T.V. my husband will call me to his office to watch his latest find on YouTube. He listens to music to relax, and he'll listen to anything from classical to folk to pop music. One of his favorite things to do is watch YouTube videos of auditions from the British X Factor talent show.
It's not something you would ever find me doing on my own, but I'll sit with him and soon be sucked into the inspiring stories of these talented young people who are finally being discovered. We'll listen to their best songs and then watch whatever other talented musicians he may have found.
If it weren't for my husband, I would be completely cut off from pop culture and sometimes even the latest news. That's what happens when you keep turning off the radio to hear your kids chatter. But their young voices are only here for a brief period of time, and as much as I would like to listen to the news or even my own thoughts, I know I won't regret spending a little time listening to them.
Shelli Bond Pabis is a Winder resident and contributing columnist for the Barrow Journal. You can reach her at writetospabis@gmail.com or visit her blog at www.mamaofletters.com.


May 20, 2012 offered a special opportunity for some folks to view an annular eclipse of the Sun. It was the first to occur in the 21st Century the last annular eclipse was in 1994 and the next one won't happen until 2030. NASA produced an animated projection of the eclipse path as it moved across the earth while a video produced from photos taken by a science teacher in California using a telescope to make a stunning video.
Photographers along the entire route captured a myriad of artistic views of the rare phenomenon including these two from Japan and New Mexico.


There is a catering company that's based at Lourensford wine estate called Stir Food.
Unfortunately because they choose not to have a permanent address, they can't collect accolades created for restaurants, and instead have to settle for "catering/caterers", which is one of the driest, and saddest ways to ever describe Stir. In fact, if you can come up with a better term, you could get well rewarded for your creative efforts.
So when you receive an invitation, you ditch the plans you had with your aunty, and go.
Have a look at this video about them.
The theme for the evening was foraging from the sea with local wines, and more than half the ingredients where hand picked by chef Gustaaf Boshoff, and definitely more than half the wines were drunk by the guests.
Arriving at our destination, down a little road in Bakoven, there's Beta Beach- a beautiful little alcove, partially protected from the wind. As we walk in we were greeted with oysters, urchin, and pickled sea lettuce, paired with a gin and tonic. The sun was out, and there was hardly a breath of wind, so this was a perfect "hello".
Bubbling salty dry ice percolating through the sea weed. It really brought out the child in me (or hippy with a lava-lamp, you decide).
It was a normal Wednesday. For everyone else in the world.
There were three specially selected wineries present: Beaumont Family Wines, Miles Mossop, and Kleinood. Each deserve a good amount of time to look into. The Beaumont Pinotage especially made me happy, especially when Pinotage has become sort of a Kardashian for being famous for being famous – in my mind at least. As you can imagine, there are very few Pinotages that I enjoy. This is definitely one of them.
The Alikreukel arencini were delicious. I would have been happy with a bowlful, until I tasted the octopus, which was incredibly tender and succulent. A favourite of the evening.
A crayfish taco? Why yes please. Oh, and it goes with a tequila and tomato cocktail? Yeah sure, I'll give that a go. Ok, keep them coming Mr. Bar-keep.
Aleit is the man behind the Aleit Group, of which Stir Food belongs, and you can tell he is incredibly proud and passionate about what they've achieved.
Thank you Stir Food for creating a fantastic evening.


The 2015 Kia Forte is offered in two different body styles, either as a 4-door sedan or as a 2-door "Koup." The 4-door sedan comes in LX and EX grades, while the Koup is available in either EX or SX trims. LX models are powered by a 148-horsepower 4-cylinder engine, while EX models gets a 2.0L direct-injected 4-cylinder that makes 173 hp and 154 pound-feet of torque. The Kia Forte SX Koup comes with a turbocharged 1.6L 4-cylinder making 201 hp. Both of the non-turbo engines include continuously variable valve timing, which helps provide responsiveness over a wide range while enhancing fuel economy. LX models offer a choice between a 6-speed manual gearbox and a 6-speed automatic transmission, while EX 4-doors only come with the automatic. Both versions of the Koup come standard with a 6-speed manual, while an automatic is optional on either trim.
The Kia Forte sedan features an available Eco Package that adds Idle Stop & Go, a system that will automatically shut off the engine at stoplights and restart it when you lift back off the brake pedal; it also adds dual-zone climate control, rear-seat ventilation and special badging.
The Forte has a MacPherson strut-type front suspension and coupled torsion-beam rear setup. Across the model line, electric power steering is included. An available Flex Steer system lets driver's choose between Comfort, Normal and Sport modes, changing the steering feel with a button on the steering wheel. Base LX 4-door models have 15-inch steel wheels while 16-inch alloys are available. EX model includes 16-inch alloys with lower-profile tires while, 17-inch alloys are an option. The Forte Koup SX includes 18-inch wheels as standard.
Inside, the instrument panel is canted 10 degrees toward the driver, for a cockpit feel and there are large, easy-to-read gauges. There's a multi-information display with 4.2-inch screen on EX models and trims and materials are in line with more expensive makes.
The Forte Koup SX includes projector beam foglamps, gloss black painted, dual heated power mirrors, chrome exhaust tips, steering wheel mounted paddle shifters (automatic only,) bigger front brakes and of course a more powerful engine than is available on any other Forte.


Compliance can be one of the most difficult and complex obstacles financial advisors face. Advisors can run a great first half of the race, developing a impressive advisory firm and providing real value to their clients. In the second half of the run, many advisors experience a need to grow in marketing their business, and many advisors can often get slowed down and tripped up on the hurdle of dealing with compliance.
RIAs are now demanding the ability to market their own services and it has dramatically changed the financial planning landscape. Advisors are able to build their businesses and grow them with the help of various tech tools, further extending their marketing efforts and the reach advisors have to prospective clients. It has provided endless opportunities, but has also come with compliance risks for both advisors and broker dealers alike.
Often, compliance issues can lead advisors to play defense, simply resolving problems as they arise. This roundup covers the most critical compliance features to include in your website design and online content so that you can start to play offense in your digital marketing efforts.
As a financial advisor, security on any online platform you use is essential for the safe transfer of confidential information. You are most likely handling client information, financial documentation, and business details everyday and are most likely storing or sending this information online. There may be no bigger liability than the wealth of your information being stolen. Unfortunately, it can happen at any moment when you are using online platforms that aren't secure.
HTTP websites' data is not encrypted and when it passes from a server to a browser for online visitors to view, it can more easily be collected by third parties. If you have a client portal or even have a contact form, your clients' and prospective client's valuable information is at risk. You may even link out to a third party website for the client portal you use, but the path for clients to get there can be disrupted and they may be brought to a threatening website that looks similar only to steal their information. This is why it is crucial for you to use HTTPS websites, meaning it has an SSL certification. SSL or a Secure Sockets Layer encrypts data when communicating between the server and browser. Here at Twenty Over Ten, we integrate SSL in every website we design to keep you and your clients secure.
Additionally, an SSL certificate can give your clients a boost of confidence in your business knowing your firm is authenticated and real. It can also bring new clients to your website due to its SEO benefits. Having a secure website is necessary but also rewarding for the growth of your advisory firm.
Using an an online platform to connect with clients and prospects is imperative to succeed in today's tech-focused world. Marketing has become very much digital, loaded with opportunity. Think about how you communicate with clients and prospective clients every day. Do you have a website with information about your business? Do you have a LinkedIn profile for yourself as an advisor or a LinkedIn business page for your firm? Do you have a Facebook or Twitter page allowing you to connect and advertise to your target market? These platforms are becoming more and more necessary to have a presence on. However, this heavily used form of marketing can bring additional risks to your firm without the proper documentation and approval.
Archiving has become a staple for advisors due to the rise in regulations and the risk associated with online communication. The SEC regulates how registered investment firms market and advertise their business on different mediums to protect advisors. One example is advisors can not provide false or misleading claims, as this increases the risk of liability.
Archiving your entire online presence can save you the headache and any legal issues associated with online marketing. Luckily, Twenty Over Ten's platform has both an FINRA and SEC-approved archiving process for users. Not only are all changes to your websites and blog posts archived, but our system also allows broker dealers and compliance officers full access to an approval process for any future changes. Any edit throughout the build and life of the website is accessible at any time.
And speaking of approval, Twenty Over Ten makes this part of compliance easy with an automatic approval process. If our team makes an edit to the website at your request or if you would like to make a change to your website yourself, your team will receive a notification that the website has been submitted for approval. Broker dealers and compliance officers can be and are encouraged to be involved in each step of the process as your website evolves. All website content and any additional edits can be reviewed easily and in various formats. After review, your team can quickly recommend changes using the live chat tool, send attachments, and communicate directly with advisors.
This automated process streamlines compliance activities to make your business run more efficiently. It also opens the door for internal communication and allows team members to effectively execute appropriate action. Automation unifies individuals to work as a team and gives you the ability to better adhere to regulations and distance risk of legalities.
Lastly, at the root of any compliance issue is more often than not communication. Your team members each play a specific and significant role in the way your firm is run under regulation; giving them the tools to provide input regarding their expertise can solve many of the compliance problems you face.
The Twenty Over Ten platform allows advisors, broker dealers and compliance officers to talk directly with live chat. To make communication simple and easy, you can send attachments, view all archive history in both a list and calendar view, and get notified of new changes to the website and messages. With so many communication channels, our live chat tool within the platform makes transactions faster and easier to navigate when receiving information.
With clear communication and utilization of features similar to our live chat, teams can mitigate and relieve issues quickly. Allowing team members to see all of the content and changes being made to the website creates a cohesive team working against any compliance issue. Advisors and broker dealers have the ability to select one person or team member, such as the compliance officer, to analyze specific changes that need their immediate review. As changes and edits are being constantly made, advisors can gain insight to compliance regulations as the website evolves. Most importantly, clear communication within your team prevents problems before they arise.


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Virat Kohli Shares Adorable Picture Of "Moments" With Anushka Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan Meets Daughter After Napier ODI Win
Updated: 24 January 2019 17:10 IST
Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan took to Instagram to share the pictures.
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Virat Kohli shared an adorable picture with Anushka Sharma after Napier ODI. © Instagram
Virat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan played important roles to help India clinch an emphatic victory over New Zealand in the first One-day International (ODI) on Wednesday in Napier. Virat Kohli narrowly missed out on another half-century, scoring 45 runs while Shikhar Dhawan notched up an unbeaten 75 to help India chase down the target in the 35th over. After the win, Virat Kohli shared a picture with his wife and Bollywood actress Anushka Sharma on his Instagram story, saying "moments with her."
While Shikhar Dhawan took to Instagram to share a picture with his daughter and captioned it, "Happiness is father and daughter time...#Daughters #lifelines."
Happiness is father and daughter time...#Daughters #NationalGirlChildDay pic.twitter.com/eo2LByBpfZ
- Shikhar Dhawan (@SDhawan25) January 24, 2019
Photo Credit: Instagram
After the Test series triumph in Australia, Kohli was accompanied by Anushka for the ongoing tour in New Zealand.
Anushka was also seen arriving at the Auckland airport with team India earlier as fans greeted them with a loud cheer.
Kohli has however been rested from the last two ODIs and Twenty20 International (T20I) series against New Zealand considering his workload in the last few months.
New Zealand will host India for the second ODI at the Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui on Saturday.
After the ODI series, New Zealand will host India for a three-match Twenty20 International (T20I) series starting on February 6 in Wellington.
Topics mentioned in this article India Cricket Team New Zealand Cricket Team Shikhar Dhawan Virat Kohli New Zealand vs India Cricket
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Nick Kyrgios and Stefanos Tsitsipas join Federer and Nadal at Laver Cup
Created to honor one of the greatest names in the world of tennis, the Laver Cup kicked off in 2017 in Prague on the unique black hard court.
Both Team Europe and Team World will be gathering the best possible field of players for the event.
For the first time, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer shared the same side of the court and the crowd had the opportunity to see some fantastic clashes that went down to the wire.
Roger Federer defeating Nick Kyrgios in the deciding encounter after saving a match point to secure the title for the European squad.
Last year, the action moved to Chicago and this time Team Europe had Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Alexander Zverev as the leading figures who once again toppled Team World to lift the beautiful trophy for the second consecutive year.
It was an exciting three-day competition that kept players and spectators entertained both on and off the court.
After two very successful editions, the Laver Cup will find it's new home in Geneva between September 20-22, providing a chance for Federer to compete in front of the home crowd.
Together with other prominent tennis names, including Rafael Nadal, Dominic Thiem, Alexander Zverev and Fabio Fognini, the event should be well received.
They will have to work hard to claim a third consecutive title.
They will be up against a formidable Team World in Kevin Anderson, John Isner, Milos Raonic and Denis Shapovalov.
The organizers have announced two thrilling names that will join the Laver Cup parade in Geneva, with Stefanos Tsitsipas setting a debut for Team Europe and Nick Kyrgios defending the red colors of Team World once again.
Two exciting players have competed together in doubles this summer and it would be interesting to see them in singles in Geneva if their captains pick them to face each other.
"The Laver Cup is a unique and memorable event in tennis, I can't wait to join Team Europe in Geneva," Tsitsipas said.
"For me personally it's like a dream come true to be part of this incredible team, with Roger and Rafa, who I've looked up to since I was a little kid, along with Dom, Sascha and Fabio. In tennis we are always out on the court alone, it's such an individual sport.
It's going to be a new experience for me to play on a team, especially with this team of unbelievable champions, it will be an honor to join all these legends at the Laver Cup."
"I've always said that the Laver Cup is my favorite week of the year, and how much it means to me to get around the team and play for something bigger than just myself," Kyrgios said.
"At the Laver Cup it's not just about me, it's about doing everything I can to help the other guys feel comfortable, prepare for their matches and even give them some energy from the side of the court, if that's what needs to be done.
We've had some heartbreaking losses over the past couple of years and it means the world to me to have the chance to get out there again with the team and try to get the win for Team World."


directed to my Original site, but if he is browsing from a phone he will be directed to the responsive site?
Obviously the database would be the same database as would be the admin.
You could probably rip the mobile recognition out of the osc mobile build that has been around for a while now, and use that to redirect to your other folder, or just find another mobile detection script that is available, Ive seen lots of them in the past before responsive frameworks became popular.
But you already know you'll need to make any contribution changes to the bootstrap version as you did your main site, especially if its a mod that involves certain keys being present in the database.
Why not use a compare program and merge your current work into the bootstrap version? Theres nothing changed in the admin, so you'll be in good shape with your old one.
Addendum to post of @ - there are a couple of very tiny changes in the admin area, specifically to do with name/address/phone of the store.
@@Mort-lemur - you've put a lot of work into your shop, and as much again would need to go into ensuring the mobile users have the same experience, so the advice would be; why bother doing that just for mobile users - do it once, do it for all. Go bootstrap.
If you think that is a bug - fix it, commit it.
I don't think that is a bug...the correct options are only picked up from the URL string if (and only if) that product is already in the shopping_cart.
Did you maybe (in FF) have the product in the cart ?
When I open the links (in FF, IE, Chrome) with nothing in the cart in any of them, I get no selected options.
I found these free BS themes and would like to know if they can be used without causing any problems to the osC function.
I t hink its similar to the ThemeRoller where you could change only the "basic" color layout.
Should be fine and is the exact reason why the main bootstrap css files were left untouched during the whole of the 2334BS build. Be aware that custom.css and user.css (if you have anything in that one) will over-ride bootstrap css files. You may need to amend custom and user therefore to allow a bootswatch theme to work properly.
No questions about bootswatch themes and how to do this and that and the other in this thread please.
@@mattjt83 - thanks for the code, testing now.
roger that. thanks for the heads up.
both of these are useable, but not quite right - they need recoding. General idea is to pass individual arguments into the params (parameters) argument of these two functions. This allows the developer to do exactly as you want.
Where is the download link to @@wHiTeHaT s better menu?
I'm not sure what are Henry's plans for it. Please note that I am also updating 1 file later on today to solve an insignificant issue of display of buttons.
The last bugfix to remove extra button class has changed the 'Add to Cart' buttons from Green to White in Product Info.
Users now have to explicitly pass the css to the button, if nothing is passed it "defaults" to btn-default (which is white with a grey hover effect).
This happens then I display a category that does *not* have any sub-categories, but does not happen when I display a category that *does* have a sub-category.
It's best for variables to be set with a default setting. I found this very helpful also in understanding comparisons.
And, as I mentioned, if there is a sub-category, there is no error.
Thanks for spotting this and providing the fix. Master updated.
Again: for debate about this and that, that have nothing to do with 2334BS, start a new thread.


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The Enchanted Rose
I first gave this talk on May 4, 2019 as the lunch keynote at the SCBWI Marvelous Midwest Conference in Naperville, IL. This is the full text, slightly edited for reading clarity, along with additional annotations and references. This page was last updated May 15, 2019.
I originally proposed this talk as a panel. I thought it would be interesting as a conversation, a dialogue with other writers, colleagues, about an important and timely subject, a subject for which I had no answers, only questions, and often only the beginnings of questions. I knew why it was important to learn from #MeToo: Because we want a more fair and just and equitable society. I thought that, perhaps out of a panel discussion, some sense of how to go about writing for kids in light of #MeToo would emerge.
So when I was asked to make this proposed panel a keynote speech, my first instinct was to crawl into a hole. My whole body tensed thinking about giving a 45-minute talk on this subject. After all, I am a man -- someone who identifies as male -- and because I am a man I have been afforded privileges by our society often invisible to me. I thought: Who am I to come up here and give a talk about a matter that has been led and championed by women, courageous enough to speak out? Who am I to give a talk about a matter that, as I said earlier, I had no answers for, only the beginnings of questions?
Doing the Work
I ran an intensive this morning about writing outside your own experiences of race, gender, orientation, religion, ability, and so on, and one of the main points was the importance of doing the work. Of leaning into those uncomfortable feelings, carrying those fears of getting it wrong and seeing them as signals for the kind of learning and conversation that is important and necessary. And I do feel that more men need to speak out #MeToo, as allies, advocates, in support of the work that so many women have done and are doing.
So I am here in support. I'll be coming at this topic from the perspective of masculinity and how it relates to feminism and femininity, as this is the part of the larger conversation that I feel I can speak to. I'm up here talking for now, but I will be listening, learning. I hope we can discuss these topics throughout the weekend. I hope you'll call me out on anything I got wrong.
I want to start with a question. It's a question I've come across as I've been learning, and that question is:
How can we, as a society, put a complete stop to violence against women and girls?
If we were to think about that question for a moment, we as storytellers, creating story worlds -- if we were to try to imagine that world … what would it look like?
There is, of course, a group implied, implicated, in this question: #MeToo is not just about women and girls; it's about the ways in which men have abused their power and privilege. It's about gender relationships. It's about the systems and norms in our society that enable this abuse to happen.
Laurie Halse Anderson wrote recently in Time Magazine about her experience visiting schools to talk to students about sexual assault and her novel Speak. She says:
"Supporting [survivors of sexual violence] is necessary and compassionate. But support on its own does little to reduce the number of people who are attacked every year. Every 98 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted. According to a 2000 report from the Department of Justice, 96% of sexual assault offenders reported to law enforcement were male."
In the same article, she also shares (and this is what I think is the real horrifying thing):
"In schools all over the country, in every demographic group imaginable, for 20 years, teenage boys have told me the same thing about the rape victim in Speak: They don't believe that she was actually raped. They argue that she drank beer, she danced with her attacker and, therefore, she wanted sex. They see his violence as a reasonable outcome. Many of them have clearly been in the same situation."
I have to take a deep breath every time I read that. If these are beliefs that are so deeply ingrained in our culture, and so early on, how do we as writers and illustrators begin to undo this toxicity, within our realms of influence?
Teaching Consent
One thing we are doing more of, thanks to #MeToo and to the feminist movement, is teaching consent, in our culture and in our community, in the work that we do for kids, starting at a young age.
I Said No by Zack and Kimberly King, Illustrated by Sue Ramā; Will Ladybug Hug? by Hilary Leung; My Body Belongs to Me by Jill Starishevsky, Illustrated by Angela Padrón
There are more and more books being written that teach kids about consent, about appropriate touch. Even in stories not directly about consent, we are starting to embed consent. An example is the popular show Riverdale. It's normal in the world of Riverdale for characters to obtain consent before being intimate with each other. And it's through that normalization in our stories that it starts also to become more normal in our society.
But Laurie's article makes it clear that we have a lot of work to do. And teaching consent is just one aspect of shifting the culture that creates the conditions for that violence -- sexual or otherwise -- against women and girls. We also have to examine the ideas we have around masculinity that contribute to that violence.
Which brings me to Beauty and the Beast.
As a kid, this was my favorite Disney movie. Beauty and the Beast, of course, is that classic fairy tale about a prince who gets turned into a vicious animal and then holds a girl prisoner long enough for her to fall in love with him and break the spell. Classic tale about Stockholm syndrome.
The reason it was my favorite Disney movie, I chalk up, in part, to timing. It came out when I was eight or nine, and I think I first saw it on VHS a couple years later. Another part was that, as an adolescent who felt at times like an outcast, who was interested in girls but didn't know how to express his interest, I connected with Beast. I also saw a face that, while not East Asian, was not white. A face that ten-year-old Jack could project himself onto, the same way I could project myself onto Spider-Man. Had I been born a couple decades later, I might've had more options, but at the time, this was what I had to work with.
Even though this movie came out in 1991, there was a recent live-action remake with most of the story elements intact. I'd also argue that Beauty and the Beast is the Disney animated feature that is most directly about masculinity and femininity. So I think it's interesting to look at the original with a critical lens, to see both how far we've come, and how far we still have to go.
We start off with Belle in her little provincial French town. She loves books. This is symbolic of her intelligence, and also her independence. We're told, by the townspeople in song, that she's so physically beautiful, she doesn't need to read. Yet she does. From Belle, we gather that it's good to be smart and independent in a world that doesn't see a point in that. We're off to a good start!
A recent poll conducted by Plan International surveyed a thousand children and adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 about gender attitudes. An article in The New York Times summing up the findings said:
"Girls were as likely as boys to say math or science was their favorite subject, and to have considered running for office. They said they were mostly treated fairly compared with boys."
But it goes on (emphasis mine):
"Yet when it came to their bodies, girls said they did not feel equal. About three-quarters of girls 14 to 19 in the survey said they felt judged as a sexual object or unsafe as a girl. By far, they said society considered physical attractiveness to be the most important female trait."
The Times also interviewed a group of adolescents for the piece, and a young woman, Hiree Felema, sums up those attitudes succinctly when she says:
"For me, it's important to be intelligent and confident. For women in society, I think people just want you to be attractive." Hiree Felema, Age 13
"Many Ways to Be a Girl, but One Way to Be a Boy: The New Gender Rules"
Belle's song and sequence at the beginning of the film mirrors this belief. The townspeople sing:
Now it's no wonder that her name means "Beauty"
Her looks have got no parallel
The film sets up that she's smart and independent, but at the same time, we are reminded over and over again of her physical beauty. What's disappointing, to me, about this, is that there is the potential for a really radical story here, but that potential isn't fully realized. It's not enough for Belle to be intelligent and independent; she also has to be physically attractive. The story hinges on her physical beauty. If she weren't beautiful, the story tells us, there would be no pursuit by Gaston.
Gaston. He's thick-necked, big muscled, cleft chinned. He hunts. Before we even see his face, before he even says a word, he shoots a duck out of the sky. He tromps around in boots, uses antlers in all his decorating. His namesake song features a barfight. And he feels entitled to Belle. "She's the most beautiful girl in town," he says. "That makes her the best. And don't I deserve the best?"
That's some Disney villainy right there. And it's clearly a caricature of traditional masculinity! We know from the get-go that Gaston is the villain, and his villainy is tied to his expression of masculinity. His whole song is Gaston literally performing his masculinity after Belle rejects him, in order to shore up his confidence.
Again, there is a lot of potential here. Whereas Belle is shown as beautiful on the inside and beautiful on the outside (at least by traditional standards), Gaston is presented as beautiful on the outside but monstrous on the inside. This seems to set us up for a contrast with Beast, who is monstrous at first on both the inside and outside (or at least monstrous in that furry, cuddly, Disney kind of way) and who we are rooting for to become beautiful on the inside.
Beast or Gaston?
I want to play a game here called Beast or Gaston. I'll give you a characterization and you tell me if it's Beast or Gaston. Ready?
Can't control his anger.
Physically dominates his opponents.
Employs threats, coercion, to get what he wants.
Surrounded by advisors who plot to get Belle to fall in love with him.
Won't take 'no' for an answer.
It's, of course, both Beast and Gaston! Even though Beast doesn't have the performative markers of Gaston, they both exhibit these same toxic qualities of traditional masculinity.
Actually, the last one is also Lumiere, who in addition to acting this way toward the featherduster, also hits on Belle the moment he meets her and, in an extended version of the film, hits on Ms. Potts.
My point is that Beast and Gaston's toxic expressions of their masculinity are very similar. They are both monstrous in the same ways. In our story: Belle locks herself in her room her first night in the castle, and Beast, egged on by his helpers, tries to get her to come out and eat dinner with him. When she refuses, he screams at her through the door, stomps into his room, smashes things, and creeps on her using his magic hand mirror. This, of course, is already after he's already locked up her father and threatened to imprison him for life.
But the helpers throw Belle a feast anyway, and at the end of it, Belle, independent and curious as she is, sneaks away into the forbidden West Wing, which is dark and spooky and filled with gargoyles (as we know West Wings can tend to be).
Beast catches her looking at the Enchanted Rose and screams at her again, this time scaring her sufficiently that she finally runs away. But then she gets attacked by wolves and he saves her, sacrificing himself in the process. Here we see the first point of real moral difference between Beast and Gaston: Beast is willing to risk himself to save Belle.
Yet just as we keep getting reminded of Belle's physical beauty, we keep getting reminded that Beast's aggression and dominance have a part to play in his winning her over. You still gotta be physically strong to be a man, to win the girl.
The Boy Code
Many of us are familiar with the Boy Code, that set of rules every boy internalizes, that says that being a man means being athletic, powerful, dominant, stoic. That the only viable expression of emotion is anger. In the same Times article I mentioned before, in which the girls interviewed talked about society valuing their physical attractiveness most, the boys talked about the limited ways to be a boy. Twelve-year-old Muyang Yan says:
"Nowadays, if you're a girl and you act like a boy, it's considered cool, it's normal. But if you're a guy and you act like a girl, it's different, it's not as tolerated." Muyang Yan, Age 12
That reminds me of something that happened to me earlier this year. I was visiting a school talking about my middle grade novel, See You in the Cosmos. One boy who had read the book raised his hand and asked, about the main character Alex:
"Why does he cry so much?"
Here was this sixth grader, who had already begun to internalize the Boy Code, the code that says that boys are not supposed to cry. Boys are supposed to suck it up. To "man up."
When Boys Become Boys
One psychologist, Judy Y. Chu, spent two years immersed with a group of 4-to-6 year olds moving from preschool to kindergarten, detailed in her book, When Boys Become Boys. Chu found that at the beginning, boys were as emotionally perceptive, articulate, and responsive in their relationships as the girls. But by the time they were six, they were already starting to lose that perceptiveness and responsiveness. In other words, a lot of what we normally consider "boy" behavior -- the Boy Code -- isn't innate to boys. It's learned at a very young age. And as children's writers and illustrators, many of us also parents, educators, librarians as well, we play a role in that learning.
To that boy who asked the question about why my main character cried so much, I responded: Because I cried a lot as a kid. Because sometimes crying is better than holding it in and bottling it up, and having it come out later as anger, or violence.
But you know, I still could have done better. I could have said that I cry a lot even now, as an adult, which I do. Instead of framing it as some passing thing that I outgrew, I could have expressed to this boy that crying is a natural expression of masculine emotion. I could have done better.
Back to the film. As Belle and Beast start falling for each other, we see Beast engaging in new activities. Reading, being gentle with animals. Again, this is encouraging. He's breaking from traditional norms.
They have their big ballroom dance. It's a dreamlike sequence, but we snap out of the dream when we realize that Belle is still his prisoner. Beast shows her the magic hand mirror, and with it, Belle sees that her father is in trouble. She's distraught. And Beast frees her. He lets her go. He sacrifices himself a second time, this one not physical, but emotional. He's finally learned to love.
And yet, here is another disappointment, maybe the biggest disappointment of all. We're told that him learning to love is not enough. It should be enough! But we're told that she must love him back. He must, in the end get the girl, or it's all for naught.
The Man Box
One more study, this one conducted in 2017 by Promundo and Axe. It's called, The Man Box, and it surveyed a random sample of young men aged 18 to 30 in the US, UK, and Mexico. The researchers defined seven pillars of traditional masculinity, similar to the Boy Code:
Acting Tough
Physical Attractiveness
Rigid Masculine Gender Roles
Heterosexuality & Homophobia
Hypersexuality
Aggression & Control
They found that a majority of men who adhered to these seven pillars of "The Man Box" were more likely to:
Put own health and well-being at risk
Cut selves off from intimate friendships
Resist seeking help
Experience depression
Think frequently about suicide
As well as:
Sexually harass women
Use violence against other young men
Experience violence themselves
Binge drink
Get in traffic accidents (at 2–3 times the normal rate!)
In the study summary, the researchers write:
"Young men reap certain benefits from staying inside the Man Box: it provides them with a sense of belonging, of living up to what is expected of them. Friends and parents may praise them. However, when those same norms [demand] that they pretend to be someone they are not, the resulting life can be violent and lonely."
We can't answer this question:
Without answering this one:
How can we redefine masculinity so that men and boys don't commit violence against women and girls?
And this one, too:
How can we redefine masculinity so that men and boys don't commit violence against themselves?
Learning from Feminism
The conclusion that a number of these researchers have come to is that we need to learn from the feminist movement, and expand the definition of what it means to be a boy, a man. The keyword here is expand. The goal is not to take away barbecue grills and power tools; it's to normalize the idea, as we have done and are doing with our girls, that there are totally different ways of being a boy, all of them equally valid. The same way that we are starting to normalize consent, have conversations about consent, embed consent more into our stories, we can normalize a healthier definition of masculinity. A definition that acknowledges the inner emotional lives of boys.
I'd like to highlight, now, a couple examples. Most of these are middle grade, as that's what I write and tend to read more of, but I welcome your recommendations in picture books and YA.
One that comes to mind is Michelle Knudsen and Scott Magoon's Big Mean Mike, about, a big mean dog who realizes that he doesn't have to pretend he doesn't love cute fluffy bunnies. And more recently published, Pablo Cartaya's Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish, which features a towering, hulking, eighth-grade boy who is … not a bully. I repeat: not a bully. That's something I haven't seen before.
I think about Jen Wang's The Prince and the Dressmaker, featuring a genderqueer prince. This whole time I've been talking about boys and girls; I don't want to leave out the queer, trans, and non-binary kids who are very much a part of this conversation about rigid gender norms, and who are also the ones most likely to be marginalized because of those same norms.
I think about great boy-girl friendships we're seeing in middle grade: Charlotte and Ben in Erin Entrada Kelly's You Go First, or Lev and Mikayla -- both wrestlers -- in Laura Shovan's Takedown. Or Candice and Brandon in Varian Johnson's The Parker Inheritance.
I also think about the emotional boy-boy relationships, like Josh and Jordan's in Kwame Alexander's The Crossover. Or Jerome and Carlos in Jewell Parker Rhodes' Ghost Boys.
In fact, I think that this is something that I don't see enough: two boy characters being emotionally vulnerable with each other. Maybe I'm ignorant here, but I had a harder time coming up with examples of boy-boy relationships like this than I did with the boy-girl ones.
The Superbad Test
I'd like to float an idea here, inspired by the Bechdel test (to gauge fictional representation of women). I'll call it the Superbad Test, after the scene in the movie Superbad in which the two heterosexual teenage male best friends are only able to admit their love and appreciation for each other after a night of drunken debauchery.1
To pass the Superbad Test you need a story that has:
At least one scene with two boy/adolescent male characters
Neither of them under the influence of drugs or alcohol2
Being emotionally vulnerable with each other.
One more thing I have to mention, that goes beyond writing and creating stories, is about the ways in which we give kids these stories. How many times have you heard this said?
"Girls will read anything; boys will only read about boys."
I've heard it a bunch in just my short time as a children's author. It's often presented as a fact of life, the way things are. Author Shannon Hale wrote a post about this on her blog a few years ago. At one school she went to while on tour for one of her Princess Academy books, the principal only gave permission for female students to leave class to attend her presentation. No boys were allowed. She writes:
"The belief that boys won't like books with female protagonists, that they will refuse to read them, the shaming that happens (from peers, parents, teachers, often right in front of me) when they do, the idea that girls should read about and understand boys but that boys don't have to read about girls, that boys aren't expected to understand and empathize with the female population of the world….this belief directly leads to rape culture."
I have to take another deep breath.
When we say that boys only want to read about boys, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. We're saying, essentially, that "boys will be boys." But, as we know, boys will not be boys forever. Boy will become men. And we must do the work to make sure that they do not become the men who commit violence against women and girls, the men who commit violence against themselves.
There's a moment in the climactic fight scene at the end of Beauty and the Beast when, after Beast has physically dominated Gaston, he is holding Gaston over the ledge. And for the very first time in the film, we see that Gaston is afraid.
And Beast, recognizing that Gaston is afraid, stops. The expression on his face changes. His anger vanishes. He shows mercy. I'd like to think that the reason Beast shows mercy is because he realizes that here is another scared little boy, unable to express how scared he is. Same as him.
There is so much potential in Beauty and the Beast. And so much disappointment in how it falls short of that potential. But that it at least had this potential, in 1991, gives me hope.
Maybe it would also be better to look at the story on the level of symbols, of allegory. Maybe the Enchanted Rose, under the glass dome, represents the way we as a society harm girls by giving utmost importance to physical beauty. Maybe the rose also, simultaneously, represents the way we harm boys by sealing off their emotional lives, leaving these emotional lives to wither in isolation. And maybe the union of Beauty and Beast is the union of feminine and masculine, of women and girls expanding into traditionally masculine domains, and men and boys expanding into traditionally feminine ones, so that each, both, is its own whole.
But allegory, in this case, is also too-convenient an interpretation.3 I don't think the ten-year-old watching this sees allegory. I think what they absorb is more that for all of Belle's independence, society still cares about her looks. And for all of Beast's growth and vulnerability, it's still all to get the girl.
And I'd like you also to imagine, now, the ten-year-old Chinese boy watching this movie. The ten-year-old Chinese boy, seeing, at the end, this character he so identifies with finally love and be loved, only to have that love transform him …
… into a white prince.
And I hope you'll recognize that we're not just talking about white boys and girls. We're talking about Brown and Black boys and girls, Asian and Native boys and girls. And not merely boys and girls but non-binary, genderfluid -- all children. Each with their own experiences, each with their own interior lives, each as deserving as any other child, to not have to seal away parts of themselves because of they do not fit into society's rigid definitions. Each deserving to be accepted, and to belong.
Additional Notes and Resources
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I was first introduced to a number of the studies mentioned here through the following sources:
The Mask You Live In (2015), a documentary following a diverse range of boys and young men as they wrestle with America's narrow definition of masculinity.
How to Raise a Boy (2019) by Michael C. Reichert, PhD. A recently published book that details the latest thinking and science around boys and masculinity.
Raising Cain (2000) by Dan Kindlon, PhD, and Michael Thompson, PhD. I wasn't able to fit this into the talk, but Kindlon and Thompson have a very relevant bit in the book about wild animals and entitled princes: "Two of the most common [destructive archetypes] we see are those that cast a boy as a wild animal -- out of control and incapable of responsible behavior or intelligent thought -- or as an entitled prince who isn't held accountable to the same moral standards as the rest of us." Interesting to compare with How to Raise a Boy, as Raising Cain is more reflective of 1990s trends in child psychology.
Deep Secrets (2013) by Dr. Niobe Way, who is interviewed as part of the Hidden Brain podcast episode (below).
Breaking the Boy Code. A new-ish podcast centered around moving interviews with adolescents. They repost a lot of great links and articles to @boypodcast on Twitter too.
I first came across this description of Superbad in the episode, "Guys, We Have A Problem: How American Masculinity Creates Lonely Men", of NPR's Hidden Brain podcast. And whereas the Bechdel test gauges gender representation across all works, this one is more specific to representation of healthy masculinity in stories that have more than one young male character. ↩
Probably more applicable to YA here. ↩
And perhaps in many cases: N.K. Jemisin writes, in this Twitter thread: "Allegory does not reinforce reality. It obscures it." ↩
The Limits of Empathy
Antonioni, China, and Reflective Seeing


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Nugget set to host Hot August Nights events
August 4, 2015 By Sparks Tribune
The Nugget Casino Resort has announced the line-up of events offered at the hotel for this year's Hot August Nights celebration.
Official Hot August Nights Classic Car Drag Races & Burnouts:
The Official Hot August Nights Classic Car Drag Races & Burnouts return. The event combines the smell of burning rubber and gasoline, paired with classic eye candy and high-adrenaline levels caused by risky racing, to draw competitors from across the country.
The event will take place at "Nugget Speedway," a special drag racing track that is about one-sixteenth of a mile long in the hotel's west parking lot. Drag races and burnouts will be held Wednesday, Aug. 5, through Saturday, Aug 8, from 6 p.m. until midnight.
The cost to attend is $10 for general admission and free for children 6 and under and Hot August Nights registrants.
To enter your car in a race, vehicles must be 1976 and older cars, pickup size trucks, and emergency vehicles. The cost to race is free for Hot August Nights participants and $75 for non-registrants, per day. Tires must be D.O.T. approved (no slicks), no nitrous oxide or racing fuels allowed.
Nightly prizes will be awarded with grand prizes awarded on Saturday night.
Ultimate Car Competition and Cruise Down Victorian Avenue:
A line-up of classic cars will make their way down Victorian Avenue during the event. The Nugget holds the Ultimate Classic Car Competition on Wednesday through Saturday.
Free Concerts:
Free nightly concerts will be held during the event at 8:15 p.m. Performers include Ronny & the Classics, Paperback Writer the Beatles Experience, Lil' Elmo and the Cosmos, Hotel California, Sonny Turner's Platters and more.
'50s Costume Contest:
All dressed up and no place to go when the classic car cruise ends? Each night during Hot August Nights, Gilley's Saloon, Dance Hall & Bar-b-que at the Nugget will host a '50s Costume Contest after the cruise.
For more information, please visit NuggetCasinoResort.com and HotAugustNights.net.