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Victoria Woods Ep. 94 - From her Financial Diva podcast to her book, "It's All About the Money, Honey" to her successful investment business, ChappelWood to her "how to's" on her website, she's a dynamo you won't want to miss! The Financial Diva, Victoria Woods is the founder, CEO, and Chief Investment Advisor to millionaires for ChappelWood Financial Services, based in Edmond, OK. Hear her story from growing up without lunch money to advising millionaires today on investments. Regardless of how much money you have, her advice will help you set a plan in motion to get rich. Successful entrepreneur and investor, she mixes fun, wit and wisdom as she shares practical, easy-to-understand financial advice.
Learning to earn what you're worth by outing the energy in what you do
How to be smart enough to be open to opportunities
How to choose the right partner that is supportive of what you do as you reach your dreams
Mastering the skill of not going in with preconceived negative ideas
How to be smart with your money and save for your retirement
What is the best time to retire?
How to discover and get paid for your passion by always educating yourself
Learn the importance of starting to save and investing for your retirement early in life to live a financially stress-free life after you retire.
"Don't take advice from broke people: physically, financially, or spiritually" and "Those who say it cannot be done should never interrupt those doing it!"
Since 1988, ChappelWood has been helping clients both in Oklahoma and nationwide reach their financial goals. She is the author of "It's All About The $Money, Honey!" book, written after the insistence of clients, financial professionals, and listeners of her radio program. She is also the visionary and founder of the 84-acre Financial District of Oklahoma in Edmond. She has hosted her own radio show "It's All About The $Money, Honey!" on the popular iHeart Radio Show, NewsRadio 1000 KTOK in Oklahoma City for years and has a YouTube channel with 146 videos where she educates people financially for free. Victoria also founded Women for Financial Independence, an organization that helped women learn the strategies of investing and finance.
As Seen On TV! The Financial Diva, Victoria Woods, has appeared in the following media outlets for her advice, as well as many others too lengthy to list: Today Show, Success Today, FoxNews, Fox Business, KCBS 2 Los Angeles, WFOR 4 Miami, KXAS 5 Dallas, NBC Ft. Worth, SMIR Palm Springs, CA.
Woods is widely sought out to serve on various boards, committees and judging events, which includes judging the Mrs. International Pageant in 2008 and lecturing on Royal Caribbean International Cruises. Woods has also been elected as a White House Conference Delegate and a member of the President's Advisory Board. She was named the National Association of Women Business Owners "Best of the Best," and one of Oklahoma City's Journal Record's 50 Most Influential Women. Appointed by the Governor to serve as Commissioner on the Status of Women.
Listen in to learn the importance of being money smart and making the right investment decisions. You will also learn the importance of starting to save and investing for your retirement early in life to live a financially stress-free life after you retire. From her Financial Diva podcast to her book, "It's All About the Money, Honey" to her successful investment business, ChappelWood to her "how to's" on her website, she's a dynamo you won't want to miss!
Listen in to learn the importance of being money smart and making the right investment decisions.
She describes her difficult childhood as the one that led her to lean towards finance as a career [2:59]
Why you only need a strategy to be a good financial advisor and not math [4:43]
She shares how she learned to see opportunities and get passionate with the support of her husband [9:13]
Victoria describes learning to work with men was one of her biggest challenge [12:46]
The importance of having a positive mindset when going in to work on a project [17:43]
Understanding the importance of protecting your assets and having a retirement plan in place [20:39]
How to start saving early at 19 years to secure your future [32:16]
Victoria explains the process of investing that she takes her clients through- the pros and cons [34:31]
The average age of retirement today and the available options for those who don't want to retire [39:41]
The steps you need to take to make the right decisions with investing your money [41:39]
How she learned to work hard towards her goals by being passionate about what she does [44:54]
Why she does YouTube financial education videos [47:54]
Ep. 132 - The Power of Mastering a Pivoting Mindset
How to recreate your business by pivoting your mindset during a crisis
How to make time for business opportunities as a businesswoman without looking for excuses
How to let go of a doubting mentality and adopting a winning mentality when stepping into a goal
How to write your goals down, read them out every day, and completely focus on them without getting distracted
In this episode you'll discover:
Get to know Victoria woods, what she does, and how she pivoted during the pandemic [0:41]
The importance of standing ground on who you're and your target audience [4:12]
Learn how to say yes to business opportunities and figuring it out later [6:15]
Understanding how things can positively change for the better after a crisis [12:57]
The power of saying yes while facing self-doubt or fear head-on [17:14]
Victoria explains the importance of stepping into a goal with a winning mentality [21:14]
Learning how to say no to things without feeling guilty or hurting others [24:49]
How to focus on your goals by doing what is important to reach them [26:52]
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Financial Diva Website
Chappelwood Financial Services Website
Inside the Mind of the Financial Diva
Financial Diva Invites You into Her Home
Financial Diva Live
Financial Diva on the Today Show
The Financial Diva with Robin Marsh
"It's All About The $Money, Honey!" book
Financial District of Oklahoma
"It's All About The $Money, Honey!" Podcast
iHeart Radio Show
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Resources for February 23, 2014
The Host (South Korea: Bong Joon-Ho, 2006) Dialogic Cinephilia (Ongoing Archive)
Merriam-Websters' Word-of-the-Day
teem \TEEM\
verb 1 : to become filled to overflowing; 2 : to be present in large quantity
By mid-morning the theme park will already be teeming with visitors.
"Dispensing with the last installment's cumbersome mythology, this one gets back to basics, dumping the hero on a desert planet teeming with lethal critters and determined bounty hunters." — From a movie review by Tom Russo in The Boston Globe, January 12, 2014
The verb "teem" and the noun "team" are not just homophones, they are also etymological kin. "Teem" is derived from Old English "tīman" or "tæman," which originally meant "to bring forth offspring" or "to become pregnant" and which is related to the ancestor of "team," the Old English noun "tēam," meaning "offspring, lineage, or group of draft animals." "Team" can still be used to refer to a brood of young animals, especially pigs or ducks, but both "teem" and "team" have otherwise largely left their offspring-related senses behind.
Rothrock, Kevin. "Pro-Maidan Video Goes Viral Thanks to Pavel Durov, Russia's Zuckerberg." Global Voices (February 22, 2014)
Bohdanova, Tetyana. "#EuroMaidan Medic Shot in Neck Lives to Tweet: 'I Am Alive!'" Global Voices (February 22, 2014)
In The Nation an audio commentary by Charles Grodin: "How to Offend Corporations by Just Doing Your Job" ["What happens when the media is either owned by big corporations or reliant on those corporations for advertising dollars? Unobstructed, honest commentary tends to be the first casualty."]
Chutkan, Robynne. "The Future of Probiotics." The Atlantic (December 12, 2013) ["Hippocrates said that all disease begins in the gut. A gastroenterologist's predictions on how new treatments will begin there, too."]
Ford, Matt. "A Dictator's Guide to Urban Design." The Atlantic (February 21, 2014)
Walker, Shaun. "Ukraine's former PM rallies protesters after Yanukovych flees Kiev: Yulia Tymoshenko addresses crowd in Kiev after release from prison, as MPs vote to impeach Viktor Yanukovych." The Guardian (February 22, 2014)
Proyect, Louis. "The gangster billionaire behind Ukraine's president." The Unrepentent Marxist (February 19, 2014)
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I looked at the image of Perry from Webcam C a while ago, and was moved by it more than I would have expected – the light from one side and sea of darkness on the other were a bit much. It's sad to see the collapse of the magnificent inflorescence that produced fascination and joy for so many people. On the other hand, the progressive collapse is the natural course – soon our Titan Arum will produce a beautiful new leaf, light will again be absorbed, and Perry will flower again.
Thanks, Cindy. The megaphyll is incipient!


Toss this mix with two pounds of potatoes before grilling. Once they have finished cooking, sprinkle the potatoes with fresh lime juice, if desired.
1. Stir together spices in a small bowl.
Boiling potatoes: Cover potatoes with cold, salted water in a pan. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer until just tender; drain. Halve (or cut into wedges), and drizzle with olive oil. Sprinkle with spice mix, or season with salt and pepper. Toss well. Thread onto skewers. Grill potatoes, cut sides down, over medium-high heat, turning once, until marked and tender, about 10 minutes total.


Mark your calendar and save the date because the hotel blocks for AWA will be opening up starting February 1, 2016! We have a variety of hotels at different price points and distances that will offer you a special Anime Weekend Atlanta rate, so don't miss out! The Renaissance, Embassy Suites, and Sheraton hotels all sell out very quickly, so if you want to be close to the action, have your browser ready.
The first round of pre-registration for AWA will be drawing to a close at 11:59 on 1/31/16. Prices will change to second round pre-registration on 12:00am 2/1/16.
What does it mean to preregister for AWA?
You can purchase AWA memberships in advance of the show, starting now, through August 31st online. These memberships are good for all four of the convention days, and membership badges can be picked up at any time during the weekend. Your membership badge will allow you access to guest panels, autographs, video gaming, table top gaming, the manga library, anime screenings and premiers, the Video Art Track and so much more! Additional tickets for very special events like the formal ball can be purchased when you register online as well.
Being able to pick up your membership badges earliest on Thursday before the show.
A separate line is available for picking up membership badges.
You'll have the option of skipping lines entirely and having your membership badges mailed to you.
You can add on con shirts, or formal ball tickets when you register.
If you are attending AWA as a group of 10 or more people, you can register online and get a special group discount.
Group membership badges can only be picked up by the Primary Attendee- the person who paid for the passes online. From there, it is their responsibility to distribute the membership badges to their group.
It is best to plan to arrive either together, or after the Primary Attendee, as they are the only ones who will be able to pick up the membership badges. If you arrive before the Primary Attendee, you must wait for them to pick up the membership badges.
Early Start is an add-on to your membership that allows us to send you your membership badge certified mail for a small fee. You will be required to sign for the package when it arrives, so if you choose this option, have a plan for receiving your package.
You can add this feature when registering. Once you have your membership badge, you are good to go for AWA – just show up and start having fun – no registration line required!
You do not need a government issued ID, but it is generally the easiest form of identification. Other forms of ID will be allowed at the registration director's discretion.
AWA memberships are non-refundable. If you have pre-registered for the event, and can no longer attend, you can transfer your AWA 2015 membership to another person, or to the following year. Unused memberships from AWA 2014 and earlier can no longer be transferred.
If you need to transfer your membership, you may do so up to 30 days after the end of the convention. If you do not contact us within this time frame, we will be unable to transfer your membership.
Group memberships cannot be transferred to the following year, unless the entire group transfers. If you register with a group and cannot attend, you must transfer your membership to another person, or forfeit your membership.
Early Start (mailed) membership badges cannot be transferred after they have been mailed. You will receive a confirmation once your membership badge is in the mail.
If you have any questions, please contact us at registration@awa-con.com.


Jeffrey Perlman, CEO, president, and founder of Bright Power, was recently named to Crain's New York Business 40 Under 40 Class of 2018. This year's class represents the best and brightest of rising New York business stars. Perlman's company, Bright Power, is one of Urjanet's leading customers and provides energy and water efficiency solutions, on-site renewable energy, and ongoing energy management to properties in 49 states.
Perlman first started the company in 2004 to encourage the real estate community to deploy cost-effective energy efficiency and solar energy solutions that would reduce carbon emissions, which make up 75 percent of New York City's greenhouse gas emissions. However, he quickly discovered a disconnect between what landlords expressed that they were willing to do and their actual execution — it was just too hard to get projects done.
So, Bright Power began expanding from energy management consulting to actually doing the dirty work, too: directly installing energy upgrades in buildings. The majority of the company's revenue now comes from the turnkey implementation of energy-saving upgrades like solar panels, HVAC retrofits, and LED lighting.
Harnessing the power of its impressive database, paired with Bright Power's EnergyScoreCards energy analysis and benchmarking service, customers are able to not only identify opportunities for savings, but also track energy usage and ongoing progress toward efficiency targets. Together, the company's customers have saved the equivalent of a 16.3-megawatt coal-fired power plant's emissions from entering the atmosphere.


Thursday, April 18 is Special Friends Day at Edgerton, from 2:15-3:30 P.M. An adult relative, neighbor or parent can join the fun at school. Students and their special friend will tour the building, visit the Edgerton Expo and Book Fair, and have refreshments.
The Edgerton Expo - S.T.E.A.M. Explosion! is coming up on Thursday, April 18 from 4:30 - 7:00 P.M. This is a non-competitive event that encourages students to develop a project based on a subject they are curious or passionate about. Students can choose a project from one of 6 categories. To participate, download a Project Entry Form, fill it out and return it to school.
Hello Edgerton families. We are reminding you that every year we spend some time in March and April giving our students a standardized test, the Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment. We give the test primarily because it helps us to see trends and patterns across all our students and helps us to see strengths and weaknesses in our instructional program. Here is a little information regarding testing at Edgerton.
Our Parent/Teacher conferences are scheduled for Monday, February 11 from 4:30-8:10 pm and Wednesday, February 13 from 4:30-8:10 pm. Learn more about your conference time and schedule.
Edgerton is joining in on the largest learning event in history: The Hour of Code, during Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 3-7). Last year, 15 million students tried computer science in one week. This year, we're joining students worldwide to reach 100 million students!
Main Edgerton Entrance to close December 3 for construction. All staff, students, and families will be asked to use the north entrance of the school for entry.
Information on the exciting construction that will be starting at Edgerton soon!
Show your Edgerton school spirit by dressing up for Spirit Week -- November 12 - 16!


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These ads are priced at $75 per month with a minimum 6 month initial commitment ($450).
Run of website left-column banners. These ads are click-through square button (125 x 125 pixels) banners that are displayed in the left-hand column below the menu on most second level and lower pages. This plan includes placement of your ad on a minimum of ten pages in rotation with a maximum of five ads per location.
These ads are priced at $50 per month with a minimum 6 month initial commitment ($300).
Sponsors page banners. These ads are click-through half-size rectangular (234 x 60 pixels) banners which appear on the Sponsors page together with your firm listing. This plan includes a single banner ad and listing. Banners will be linked to the destination URL of your choice.
These ads are priced at $15 per month with a minimum 6 month initial commitment ($90).
Home page page-top banner. These ads are click-through leaderboard (728 x 90 pixels) banners placed near the top of the Expropriation Law Centre home page below the page header. This plan provides placement of a single ad in rotation with a maximum of five ads.
Home page left-column banner. These ads are click-through square button (125 x 125 pixels) banners that appear in the left-column of the ExLaw home page below the menu. This plan provides placement of a single ad in rotation with a maximum of five ads.
These ads are priced at $35 per month with a minimum 6 month initial commitment ($210).
Banner ad set-up charges apply if you require assistance to create your banner ad image file.
Set-up charges are $50.00 per banner. Use the Purchase button to make your payment.
The Job postings page provides an oportunity for employers to provide notice of employment opportunities.
Job postings are priced at $25.00 per posting. Employers should forward job posting information by email to advertising@expropriation.ca for publication. Use the Purchase button to make your payment.
The Professional Directory provides another opportunity for expropriation professionals to promote their services. More information is available on the Directory listing application form.


The law of health information is neither more "open" nor more "closed" than information law generally. Free access should be dictated in areas of extreme personal or societal need; in other cases, it may be right to force high payments, either ex ante via taxes, or ex post via high prices, from those with the ability to pay. Privacy should play a far more important role here than it does in the usual Wild West of internet data collection and processing. But once data is truly anonymized, the research imperative for access is perhaps more pressing than in any other area of law (except, perhaps, national security.).


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Stacking name rings for Mom make a great Mother's Day Gift! These personalized stacking name rings can be customized with any name or word. This set of 5 includes two personalized rings and three beaded bands. Stack them high or wear just one, this set gives you lots of choices!
We do not use prefabricated manufactured rings. Instead, we hand forge the metal ourselves from a flat piece of metal and weld/solder the seam in our studio. TMB rings are made by hand from start to finish. Due to the handmade nature, the seam might be somewhat visible. Although we aim for perfection, we rather not polish away the gold and instead opt to embrace the handmade character of our rings- we hope you do, too!


Thanks to you and the interest in this very worthy cause, our group is at 60 + Quilters!
What better way to honor our Veterans than with the start of our own "Woodside Quilting - Quilts of Valor Group".
We are proud to be the first Certified QOV Quilt shop group in the nation!
Interested in Joining a QOV Group?
If you are in the Des Moines and surrounding areas and are interested in joining a QOV Group, our QOV Group at Woodside Quilting in Des Moines Iowa welcomes you. We have programs like Monthly Sew In's, Guest Speakers, Trunk Shows, QOV Retreats, a QOV quilt block program, National teachers and other opportunities in the shop with lots of fun creating Quilts of Valor for many deserving individuals. You don't need to be a quilter to join our QOV group. There is always a need for people at our Sew days to help iron, bind, help with presentations, fundraising and we also need people to help with quilting the QOV finished tops. If you are interested in the QOV group, stop in, email or call the store to register your name and get on our email list.
We will have lots of exciting fun ahead of us!
Our Group meets the 3rd Thursday and 3rd Saturday of the month (full weeks). Please see our calendar of events for the dates.
We work on our own QOV quilts and we plan group QOV quilts and other events for those days.
These special fun group projects are announced in our Member Group QOV emails.
We also have a QOV quilt block program. These block kits come with a free pattern and are $3.00 per kit. You don't have to be a QOV group member to purchase and make a block. They are for anyone who wants to contribute to this worthy cause. You may return the finished block to the store to use for one of our "Sew Days" and contribute to a QOV quilt. We change the design and fabrics of the Quilt blocks every so often so stay tuned for new ones to come.
A little bit about Quilts of Valor for those of you that are new to the foundation. The mission of the Quilts of Valor Foundation is "To cover service members and veterans touched by war with comforting and healing Quilts of Valor."
If you were not able to attend the kick off you can still join us.
Throughout the year we will have lots of events making QOV quilts for many deserving individuals.
Stop in the shop to sign up.
There is a nominal individual $5 member fee collected annually by us on behalf of the QOVF.
A membership card for each member.
A commemorative lapel pin for each member (new design annually).
Authorization to raise money, accept donations, and accept non-monetary gifts to meet local needs using the QOVF name.
Use of 100% of funds raised through an expense reimbursement process.
Advance notice of upcoming QOVF special events, monthly specials from QOVF supporting companies, and discounted opportunities to participate in other quilt related events.
Here are QOV Quilt Awards our group have done.
This is a very rewarding experience!
Dave Grant was born in Des Moines and is a graduate of East High school.
Dave is a combat disabled Vietnam Veteran where he served in the US Army completing basic training at Fort Bliss Texas and Armor School at Fort Knox Kentucky. Dave served in Vietnam from October 1968 in the 9th Infantry Division and 3/5 Cavalry returning home in October 1969. Upon returning home Dave served at Fort Hood Texas in the 2nd Armor Dave is very active in community outreach activities with the Des Moines, Iowa DAV Chapter 20.
We were very excited to honor many Veterans at the Quilts Of Valor Expo. in downtown Des Moines at Hyvee Hall last week. Here are 10 of them that were WWII or Korean Veterans we honored from the IllaHee Hills Retirement Center in Urbandale. They are an absolute fun group and we were very humbled to honor them for their service to our country with a QOV. Here are just some of the pictures. We will be doing more awards for them at their retirement center on Saturday June 11th.
In December some of the members of our QOV group had the honor of attending the Urbandale American Legion Post to recognize and award Quilts of Valor to many of it's members. It was an honor for us to award these quilts and they accepted their quilts with pride and thankfulness. One member could not be there, so there was a special thank you note sent on his behalf below.
These photos and note were moving to us all.


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As the biggest city in South America, Sao Paulo has a diverse population of 10 million. It is a vibrant city with multinational cuisine and art. The restaurants in Jardins district will satisfy the worldwide needs of diners; but they should not be your only stop. The shopping frenzy, world-class museums and dynamic neighbourhood tours are some of the top activities in Sao Paulo to keep you engaged with the city pulse.
Big cities have a quality or series of qualities that just attract people. Some love the parties that never end, while others like just being around a lot of people and soaking in the atmosphere. It's these qualities that attracts visitors every year to the busiest cities in the world. This brings to mind cities like New York or London, but there are some different cities that don't get recognized as often, though they should be. Cities like Sao Paulo are culturally colorful, very diverse in population and tradition, and super trendy. Sao Paulo is the largest city in the Southern Hemisphere, and it provides an incredible city experience. Before you go on your trip, you will have to fill out a passport application first.
If you need to get a passport or renew or anything else, consider capitalizing on online passport services. Online passport services make the passport acquisition process so much easier. These sites specialize in something called expedited passport delivery, which means that you get to pick when your passport gets delivered, and you can be sure it reaches you by that date. There are also many other services available, like how to replace a damaged passport.
There is no shortage of things to do and see while in Sao Paulo. Picking what to do can be tough, but rely on your personal taste. One thing that is highly recommended in Sao Paulo is the nightlife, so be sure to spend a night out on the town. One of the reasons it's so highly recommended is that there is something for everyone: dance clubs of all types, jazz clubs, comedy clubs, and a whole lot more.
One of the places the locals absolutely love is Ibirapuera Park. While this park is definitely a beautiful spot to just stop and relax, it offers a lot more than your standard park does. There are tons of bike paths, paths for running and walking, a beautiful glittering lake, a forested area, all sorts of sports sections, as well as a couple art galleries. Definitely try some of what the vendors sell, and explore the area surrounding the park as well.
If you want to experience a little bit of the surrounding natural environment around Sao Paulo, head to Serra da Cantareira. This local mountain range is home to a very important State Park and historic center. Here, in the genuine tropical rainforest, you will find the largest howler monkey colony in all of Brazil. One of the main reasons this spot is so valued in Brazil is the natural geological formations: springs, streams, and reservoirs all provide water which is stored in stunning natural rock caverns called cantaros.
Definitely try to do as much as you can during your stay in Sao Paulo simply because there is so much to do. Just don't forget to fill out a passport application to get started. Remember that you can download an application online and sign up for expedited shipping service, and you can browse through other services like too, like ones that can help you figure out how to solve a damaged passport issue.


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Ilford Recorder > Lifestyle >
Flashback: A retiring detective, a nasty car crash and a diamond anniversary
Matthew Clemenson
Chadwell Heath police station 1968 - Credit: Archant
A look back at the biggest stories from this week 20, 40 and 60 years ago.
1957: A detective just four years' away from being able to retire forfeited his pension to take up a new career in Canada, saying he was sick of lazy locals.
Based at Chadwell Heath Police Station, Det Con Norman Ward would have served in the police for 25 years if he had made it to January, but could take no more.
So instead, he decided he would resign in June and, with his wife and 14-year-old son, start a new life in Canada.
"I can't save enough money in this country in the particular job," he told the Recorder.
"It was my intention to retire after 25 years but on the pension I would have I would need to take another job."
Mr Ward had already applied to work at a number of security firms in Canada, but also expressed an interest in farming.
9 Senior councillor: Boost high streets by scrapping business rates
1977: Two young sisters had a miracle escape from death when the car in which they were travelling to school was wrecked in a collision with a coach.
The crash happened at the junction of Wards Road East and Ladysmith Avenue in Seven Kings.
Sisters Kathryn Bergl, 9, and Anne Bergl, 7, of Eastwood Road, Goodmayes, were being driven to the Ursuline Convent School in Ilford, in their father's saloon car by one of his employees – John Flitcroft – when the crash occurred.
The impact shattered the windscreen and conertinaed the car, with the two girls thrown against the driver.
"It is a miracle that anyone could have lived in what remained of the car," an eyewitness told the Recorder.
1997: A Seven Kings couple shared the secrets to a long and happy marriage on their 75th wedding anniversary.
George Dwyer and his wife Julia, of South Park Drive, told the Recorder the secret was to always be honest with one another, and to not get worked up over the little things.
George said: "Sometimes I'll burn dinner or fall asleep, she never makes a fuss.
"The important thing is that she knows I've always loved her."


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"Pandemic as a portal": a reflection on COVID-19 and the food-delivery industry
foodanthro November 28, 2020 November 28, 2020 anthropology, applied anthropology, COVID-19, food justice, labor
Ana Carolina Nunes
I live on the second floor of an apartment complex. The two big windows in my living room and kitchen give me a privileged view of the life that happens outside. Through my windows, I observe many workers delivering food to other people living in the apartments right in front of mine. Just yesterday, I noticed a lady with white hair leaving her car, an old Corolla, with a DoorDash catering bag. I observed as she went upstairs to deliver food to a neighbor and then returned to her car with a seemingly lighter bag, probably getting ready for her next job. That image followed me till the end of the day, as I was curious to know what had led that lady—part of a demographic considered vulnerable to COVID-19 due to her age—to become a delivery driver during a global pandemic. When my partner got home from work, I told him about the scene I had seen earlier. My partner is also a food industry worker, one of the lucky ones who hasn't lost his job due to the pandemic.
DoorDash Catering Bag
I'm a Ph.D. student in Applied Anthropology. I research digital technologies, but because of my partner's job, I've become closer to the topic of food chain workers in a time when digital technologies occupy every minute of people's lives. The food delivery industry isn't a given or stable object, and I've chosen to look at it through the lenses of hope, hope that the pandemic can work as a portal to transform it.
I first heard about this metaphor from Ruha Benjamin when she cited Arundhati Roy's The pandemic is a portal essay, in which she writes:
Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.
Following Arundhati Roy and Benjamin's steps, I also want to see the pandemic as a portal. This portal can lead to changes in the structure of a capitalistic system that exploits essential but devalued food workers.
The tech companies and the food delivery industry
At the beginning of the pandemic, many people became enthusiastic about cooking at home, even baking loaves of bread that looked beautiful on Instagram pictures that I vividly remember seeing during several hours of doom scrolling. But as there is no end in sight, and the situation has been going on for a while, some people are getting tired of cooking, and that's when the food delivery system becomes an option.
Many tech companies portray the uberization of the food industry as a desirable future. You can look at your phone with any culinary craving in the world, and a few minutes later, the food conveniently arrives at your door, even during a global pandemic. For those who own the technology, CEOs and tech venture firms, and for those who occupy the top positions in such companies, the service-oriented platforms are the best thing that happened to food. Yet behind the apps is a world of unsustainable exploitation in desperate need of governmental regulation.
Gig work is not a new invention from Silicon Valley, but a practice that has kept temporary workers doing a significant amount of the American industry jobs for a long time. This working system took off in the period following World War II. It was developed to help companies when their permanent employees could not work for short periods; it has also altered America's corporate culture throughout time. Uberization is, however, a recent invention, and its story traces back to the beginning of the transportation service company, Uber.
Uber started as UberCab, offering a luxury transportation service in 2009. The innovative factor behind Uber was the idea of paying individual contractors through an app. Companies win because they don't have full-time employees, only independent contractors. Uber moved into the food industry in 2014, when it launched its UberEats. Amazon has also gotten into the food system, and it now owns Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh, a 2-hour delivery service for Prime members in selected cities. At the same time, Walmart has partnered with Instacart to compete with Amazon's Whole Foods. Even before the pandemic, some restaurants were making more money from food eaten outside the restaurants than inside it. Take Grub Hub, now a giant in this market, as an example. The company started its operation on a local scale in Chicago in 2004 and was already processing more than 500,000 transactions per day in February before COVID 19's social isolation measures were implemented. Since then, the market for food delivery through apps has become a billion-dollar industry in the US.
The money tech companies now make through their platforms for food delivery doesn't translate into better pay for the people actually delivering the food. Nor, does it bring much benefit to small restaurants that make the food since they have to pay as much as 25% of every order they receive to such platforms; restaurants also lose important consumer data, and have to pay extra toa search optimization engine,which means that if you want your restaurant to have higher visibility on a website, you need to pay more for it. Otherwise, your restaurant will appear at the end of the list, invisible to clients.
As for the deliverers, they need to use their own vehicles for deliveries and sometimes buy their own equipment, such as thermal bags, with the delivery service logo. Since they're individual contractors and not employees, they don't have social security, health insurance, insurance of any kind, no sick pay, no holiday pay, and no vacations. In offering the platform/technology that connects seller, buyer, and delivery, tech companies present their products as an opportunity for the driver to be their own boss, deciding their working hours and living a good life afterwards. But in the end, gig-workers aren't making $400 a day. Instead, most people get into these precarious jobs because they don't have another option.
Uberization of work is a form of capitalism that fragilizes labor laws as it favors company shareholders and leads to increasing precariousness of work. From an economic and social perspective, it's a massive movement backward in time to what researcher Adam Arvidsson calls a feudalization of digital capitalism. That can be illustrated with the case of prop 22, a ballot measure passed in California at the beginning of November, allowing tech platform companies to hire drivers as independent contractors. Scholars and activists have raised concerns over this measure, highlighting that gig companies invested over $205 million into propaganda that misled voters. The fragility and vulnerability of workers in the gig industry is a worldwide phenomenon. However, the good news is that there are examples of workers developing their own workers-owned technology, also called platform cooperativism, and organizing to subvert the order imposed by the gig-economy.
Entregadores no Brasil
Antifascists Couriers: I don't want cattle (mindless workers). I want to train thinking deliverers." Screenshot from an interview from A Publica with Paulo Lima
In Brazil, a movement formed by delivery workers has received national attention as the cases of COVID-19 soared worldwide. They claim living wages, better working conditions, and demand to be seen as workers. The crucial moment was June of 2020, when a delivery worker's moving and emotional video gave rise to this movement. In the video, Paulo Lima, who became a leading voice of Entregadores Antifascistas, denounced mistreatment and precarious working conditions. On July 1st, delivery workers went on strike. Another strike on July 25th (Breque dos Apps) brought attention to inequality and exploitation. As a consequence, there are now several bills in the Brazilian Congress that, if approved, will improve the lives of delivery workers. There are other local bills throughout Brazil trying to address this matter, as there are also discussions about platform cooperativism in the country.
Conclusion—Pandemic as a portal
I started reading about how some companies use lay-offs due to COVID as a pretext for age discrimination. It made me think about the case of the white-haired woman that opened this text. In fact, a relative of mine who had worked for years in a company was fired without notice just a few months ago. That person is seriously considering joining the food-delivery industry, as they don't see any other option in sight. I also talked to an older lady in the dog park last Sunday and she was telling me that she lost her job due to the pandemic, and that as she was looking for new job options on Craigslist. She only found jobs with Grub Hub, and Munchies, a local delivery service operating in Oregon and Florida.
If app-based food delivery is the future, we need to make sure it benefits all people involved in it. The delivery of food, sometimes taken for granted, is a complex process, resulting in food produced in a restaurant kitchen appearing almost "magically" at your door. As said by Benjamin, a portal can lead us to good or bad, and I wish the pandemic could function as a portal to transform working conditions and bring equality and fair salaries to essential, but devalued, food workers. That would involve, of course, listening to delivery workers' demands and a collective effort to dismantle systems of oppression currently in place. Platform cooperativism and spontaneous movements organized and led by delivery workers worldwide also point in that direction.
Ana Carolina Nunes is a PhD student in Applied Anthropology at Oregon State University.
Anthropology of Food, applied anthropology, food delivery, food justice, food studies, labor
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It's difficult to speak with mayoral candidate Brian Bigger without talking about value for money, whether in his job as city auditor general, from which he is on leave, or in his personal life.
Take the car Bigger drives. It's a Honda Civic Touring model he purchased last September. It has the exact same options as the Honda Accord, he says, but cost $10,000 less and gets better gas mileage.
He could have bought any model car, says Bigger during an interview at Tim Hortons on Lorne Street, near the Greater Sudbury Transit garage of which he has been so critical during this campaign.
When he moved back to Sudbury in 2009, his in-laws were living at the end of Long Lake, and he and his wife, Lori, needed a four-wheel drive vehicle to get to them in winter during emergencies and to travel back and forth to visit his parents in Oakville. But it cost $160 to fill the tank with gas.
Not good value for the money, so when he could, he traded it in for a smaller, more economical car.
Bigger talks like an accountant, and he is a certified general accountant, but growing up in Sudbury as a boy he was actually better in English than he was in mathematics in school, he says.
The eldest of three boys, Bigger lived with parents Inge and Leo, a long-time city employee, in Hanmer from birth until starting kindergarten when the family moved to New Sudbury.
Leo had lost his job with a mining company due to a layoff or strike, and it was too expensive to drive the family Volkswagen from Hanmer into the city for business, says his son.
Leo would go on to work for the City of Sudbury, managing the first arena built after the Sudbury Community Arena. It was Barrydowne Arena, but first was called Maxie Stadium, named after Sudbury businessman and one-time mayor Max Silverman.
The Biggers lived on Martin Street, where Brian attended Sacred Heart School, then St. Jerome, before transferring to Charles McCrea Public School in Grade 4 to be with his friends.
Bigger, 56, says to this day he pretty much knows everyone who grew up in New Sudbury when he did because he attended so many schools and was friends with children at others.
Bigger's money-for-value philosophy was evident in 1974 when he was becoming a competitive cyclist. He purchased a bicycle for $350, half the price of bikes other riders were buying when the seller put it together with some spare parts.
That year, he saw an ad in a newspaper for tryouts with the Sudbury Cycling Club for the Ontario Summer Games. He placed fourth and was signed for the games three months later.
Bigger won a gold in the individual time trial, he says. "You're not racing against anyone. You're on your own and you just race as hard as you can until you get to the end."
His love of cycling had developed when he was a boy. At age 10, he rode his bike from New Sudbury to Lake Wahnapitae to a friend's camp for a swim. His friend's mother was horrified the youngster had ridden all the way by himself and wanted him to stay there until her husband returned and could give him a ride back into the city. But Bigger wanted to get home before his parents found out what he had done.
Bigger attended St. Charles College and met high school sweetheart Lori O'Grady, a Marymount student. The couple has been together since, raising a son and daughter. They had two infant grandchildren.
After high school, Bigger studied marketing at Cambrian College, graduating with a diploma in 1980. That piece of paper earned him a job as a parts counterman as Maslack Supply Ltd.
A year later, he applied for a job in the mill laboratory at Falconbridge, later working as a computer program for the nickel company.
One of hundreds of Falconbridge workers laid off in the early 1980s, Bigger took his severance cheque and spent it at Laurentian University where he earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree. He took night school courses when he moved to southern Ontario to get his CGA designation.
Before he left Sudbury, Bigger worked for Sears in retail in virtually every department. Bigger speaks fondly of his many years he worked for Sears, which he said was then one of the most trusted companies in Canada. He rose to become field audit manager for western Canada, responsible for retail stores and catalogue agents in the district.
That private sector experience got "inbred" to the way he thinks, says Bigger, pointing out he worked for an organization whose motto was "Satisfaction guaranteed or your money refunded."
He doesn't believe Sudbury can afford to give money-back guarantees to taxpayers, but thinking that way does demand a focus on customer service.
After living in St. Albert, Alta., the family moved back to Ontario where he worked as controller for Sears parts and service, where the philosophy was "We service what we sell."
It was the essence of customer satisfaction, and Bigger sees a municipality as a service organization that should be run with the same philosophy.
After working at Sears, Bigger later would be employed as asset management advisor with the Regional Municipality of Halton in Oakville before being hired in 2009 as Greater Sudbury's city's first auditor general.
It was a happy homecoming for Bigger, who likes the friendliness of Sudbury and the "stronger and longer relationships" with people.
"Most people who leave Sudbury understand it's a better quality of life (here). If they could do it, they would love to return. What's missing is a decent-paying job," he says.
Bigger insists he never thought about entering politics during the half decade he served as auditor general because he felt it was an honour to be appointed to the position.
But by June of this year, tired of the "amount of obstruction" he was experiencing and the direction the city was going, he began seriously considering running for mayor.
Bigger is a big believer in controlling your own destiny. He began thinking, "If I threw my hat in the ring, I could at least control the direction" of issues about which he felt strongly.
It's difficult not to talk politics with Bigger, even though the conversation is intended to focus on the personal.
It's also difficult to tell where the line ends between his duties as auditor general and mayoral candidate.
The conversation keeps coming back to the issues he identified as needing to be addressed when he was employed by and reported to city council.
Despite an apparently fractured relationship with the body he is now looking to lead, Bigger says his sole purpose was to "assist council in holding themselves and administrators accountable."
As well, though, an auditor general holds "an essential element of the public trust in that role."
It wasn't personal when he criticized council and it wasn't supposed to be adversarial. Somehow, it ended up that way.
When asked who his heroes are, political or otherwise, Bigger says he never really had any.
"I'm inspired by people who want to build things. I'm inspired by how I've tried to act, by trying to uphold my duty as the auditor general," he says.
When asked if he's a vengeful person, seeking to get back at council for tying his hands on some issues, Bigger says no.
"My wife always says: 'Brian, you have a hard time saying something bad about somebody.' I'm very focused on what's past is past. Let's move forward and make something happen here. It's how I've always been."
Bigger summarizes his life's experience and how it qualifies him for city council's top job.
"How often does the public get to vote for a mayor who was actually selected through a national recruitment process by the current council as the top candidate in the country, to assist the council in holding themselves accountable and the administrators accountable for achieving value for money through operations or safeguarding the public assets?
"Hey, this is not a bad thing. And a person who grew up in Sudbury and knows and loves the city and has family here? I'm a real person and most people can't believe it. They can't believe it. This never happens, right?"
When asked if he is saying essentially that he is too good to be true, he laughs.
"I don't think it's too good to be true … it's so interesting how it's all come together, everything I've done through my work career, I believe, has prepared me for this."
When asked about his hobbies, Bigger says he doesn't read many books but "plunges in online" to read about topics in which he's interested. Subjects such as asphalt when he was conducting an asphalt audit for the city.
He called in general managers from construction companies for a two-hour meeting, after which one of them said: "You did well, but you're still an accountant."
The man had been in construction for 35 years and Bigger found information to prove the auditor general was right about a point in dispute.
"I generally ask questions when I know the answer," says Bigger. "I like to know the answer before I ask the question. That's why the research."
When he does relax, Bigger enjoys fishing for pickerel on the French River with his wife. He has great memories of fishing at this time of year or later, when the river's surface is calm as glass, big snowflakes are falling, "and it's dead quiet, and so peaceful and beautiful." He's having to pass on that this year because of the campaign.
When asked what kind of Sudbury he wants to live in, Bigger refers to the idea of a livable community like the one in Switzerland where his father grew up, where people are walking and cycling, and leading active lives.
"Sudbury could be like that."
Both the arts and arenas are important to Bigger for a good quality of life. He learned to love the arts from his mother, Inge, an accomplished potter and teacher and former member of the Sudbury Basin Potters, who took him to plays and other cultural events. His love of sports came from his father, who managed arenas and was in charge of facilities in the city.
Voters are talking about roads and pot holes this election and Bigger is talking about them, too. But it takes more than that to contribute to a good quality of life, he says.
"It's not only about the hard infrastructure. In the meantime, we have to live here. And we can't forget that. So, we have to figure out the best balance of how we will spend our money."


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Interview with Ava and Mat Loz about Swim Out
In Android, iOS, Mac, Windows January 20, 2018
Who is behind this idea and how you got into game development?
We are Ava and Mat Loz, a husband and wife team from France. We met at University where we both graduated in Computer Science. When we realized that our respective other skills – graphical design and music – would make it possible to realize the many games idea we were often dreaming about, we worked to gather enough money and then created our own game studio, Lozange Lab in 2013. since then, we delicately craft indie games and interactive installations with love and passion.
Explain the game in one sentence.
Swim Out is a turn-by-turn puzzle game where you control a swimmer trying to reach for the ladder, every move is possible at one condition … never cross the path of another swimmer! pretty challenging but bathed in a sunny and relaxing atmosphere.
What made you excited about this idea?
We found the idea very refreshing and fun, and liked the fact that there won't be any sort of fighting, just timorous people in the pool being shocked that you might touch then! so we immediately had in mind the "retro" art style, and tons of ideas of different types of annoying or disturbing swimmers and their use in level design.
How has this game changed from the original plan/vision/design?
At first player could only move and throw beach ball, concept was already working very well, but we couldn't help adding a lot of items to interact with (fins, noodles, buoys, …) or moving objects, like waves or draught that would stun player. Plus 2 environments in addition to the original swimming pool : the river and the sea which adds a lot of variety to the 100 levels : kayak, fishermen, crabs, boomerangs, jellyfishes, … and many hours of mind-blowing development !
What was your biggest struggle while making this game?
The hardest part was to choose which idea to keep and which one to throw away! We had many more thoughts than what is in the game now, and we had to limit ourselves. Swim Out has already 100 levels, some of which are divided into multiple pools, and it already takes a dozen of hours to finish the game, which is already a lot considering the price of the game, but sometimes after many months of development you enter an infinite loop when you feel that it will never ever be enough!
How long it took you to build it?
It took 6-7 months fulltime. We don't externalize anything at the moment, only the two of us working to build and promote the launch of the Swim Out, while working alongside on client projects to put food on the table, plus a few more weeks to port it to different platforms.
What did you hope for after you've released the game and what actually happened?
Oddly enough, after many weeks of coding and creation, that last weeks were focused on promoting the game and so, our highest hope was to get featured, and we were! on release day, by both Apple and Google! But I think our main concern is to receive great feedback from many players. Worked fine on mobile, but not so well on Steam where we went a lil bit unnoticed until now.
What lessons you've learned for future projects from this game?
You mean? … apart from the fact that we should definitely dedicate some time to lesson-learned meetings? hum… Indie game development is just a bet, we got an idea and suddenly feel the urge to make it comes true… and then comes the next one! We believe that knowledge will come from experience.
What's the biggest advice you have for people who want to work in game development?
Start simple, build a prototype, play it. If the core game isn't fun in itself, don't try to add many thing to make it work but reconsider the base until you love it. Once it work, iterate again and again, but don't overdo it either with too many things, keep some stuff for version 2 😉 !
Lastly, how video games influenced your life? How your life has changed with them?
How's that ? is there anything else apart from video games ??
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Comparing 'Before Sunrise' and 'Call Me By Your Name'
How do these "dreamlike romances" use escapism to heighten our emotional investment?
By Aline Dolinh · Published on April 24th, 2018
When Luca Guadagnino revealed his plans to release a sequel to Call Me By Your Name that would become part of a possibly decades-spanning series, the comparisons to Richard Linklater's Before trilogy (of which Before Sunrise is the first chapter) were inevitable. Yet that sense of scope isn't the only element that unites the two acclaimed dramas.
A recent video by Tom van der Linden of Like Stories of Old explains that both films can be characterized as "dreamlike romances." Indeed, the Vienna of Before Sunrise and the countryside only vaguely described as "somewhere in northern Italy" circa 1983 of Call Me By Your Name are both idyllic, almost liminal spaces that seem to exist outside the boundaries of regular life. Like Cinderella's ball, the near-magical quality of these settings also makes it seemingly impossible for them to last — Before Sunrise takes place over the course of a single spontaneous night, while Call Me By Your Name is confined to one sensuous and all-too-brief summer. Yet for the lovers that enter these "dream-worlds," this heightened sense of urgency is what activates their connection.
Furthermore, every aspect of the dream-world seems specifically constructed to draw its inhabitants closer together. Encounters like Celine (Julie Delpy) and Jesse's (Ethan Hawke's) visit to the graveyard and Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and Oliver's discovery of a drowned antique statue all seem charged with a deeper sense of ritual. Even smaller instances of fortune and/or kindness are no less serendipitous — such as when a bartender gives a bottle of wine to the broke Celine and Jesse, or when an woman hands drinks of water to the thirsty Elio and Oliver. "Moments like these may seem inconsequential," van der Linden observes, "but again, they all contribute to a world that is uncynical and uncorrupted — one that wants the characters to be together."
These "dreamlike romances" are also clearly dramatic and yet never limited by definite external antagonists (e.g. disapproving parents or a society that frowns upon their relationship). This is perhaps most significant in the case of Call Me By Your Name, which chronicles a same-sex relationship in the 1980s without even mentioning the AIDS crisis and even features a heart-wrenching speech from Elio's supportive father (Michael Stuhlbarg). Both Before Sunrise and Call Me By Your Name are propelled by the power of sheer interior feeling, informed by both couples' bittersweet awareness of their own circumstances — Celine has her university life in Paris to get back to, and likewise Oliver's return to graduate school in America is a foregone conclusion.
Neither film has an uncomplicated, crowd-pleasing happy ending in which love magically triumphs over time and space to bring two people together, and yet they feel all the more affecting for it. They promise that "real love can exist in real life," and that impermanence can never dull that kind of wonder — rather, we ought to celebrate the fleeting, brilliant luminosity of first love for what it is.
Watch the video below for a point-by-point analysis of how both films create beautifully ethereal universes.
Related Topics: Before Sunrise, Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino, Richard Linklater, Romance, Video
Aline is a writer and student. She is very passionate about campy period dramas, female-driven horror films, and obscure Star Wars lore.
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