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To Get Us Out of Poverty, We Need a Massive Infrastructure Plan – Ann Morrison / Wisconsin
ByPaul Jay Posted on June 28, 2021 July 28, 2021 July 28, 2021 10:35 am Economy & Work, U.S. Politics
In a report from rural Wisconsin, Ann Morrison says she and her neighbours are suffering from decades of neglect as the local economy has been wrecked by neoliberal policies from both major parties. She calls for an FDR style New Deal and to stop blaming the poor for poverty.
Hi, I'm Paul Jay. Welcome to theAnalysis.news. Please don't forget the donate button, subscribe and share and so on. And we'll be back in just a few seconds with Ann Morrison and a discussion about life in rural Wisconsin.
A couple of months ago, I invited Ann Morrison, a viewer of theAnalysis.news to make a video comment after she wrote me an intriguing note. She made a video which you can find on our site and talked about why her neighbors in rural Wisconsin voted for Republicans and Trump and against the Democrats. Her comment struck a chord with our viewers, so I've invited her back to discuss the issue further. So first, a little bit about Ann. She's a fifth generation native of Viroqua, Wisconsin. Her great great grandfather, Nathaniel, having been one of the town's founders. At 18 she left, as did many of her peers, and attended the University of Wisconsin, Madison. After college, she spent a year in Southern California, then left the U.S. in 1985 for postgraduate work in the UK where she married and lived in East London. In 2004 she returned to her hometown in Viroqua, after losing her husband to pancreatic cancer, and she raised her daughter there. She's been a contract worker for FEMA, traveling around the entire U.S. since 2010. I should add, as a contract worker, she was not entitled to health or retirement benefits and for many years she had no health insurance at all. She worked for FEMA during Katrina, both in Mississippi and New Orleans. She says she had a front row seat to disaster capitalism. So now joining us from rural Wisconsin is Ann Morrison. Thanks for joining us Ann.
Ann Morrison
So when you were in Katrina, you worked for the Army Corps of Engineers first and then for FEMA, but you were a contract worker. What did that mean?
I was classified as part time and temporary. So therefore, you don't qualify for retirement or health benefits.
So you're working for the federal government, essentially, but you don't have health insurance.
No, we don't. There's the Stafford Act, which started FEMA, and we're Stafford Act employees and for some reason Stafford Act employees also cannot qualify to get into the federal government retirement pension. So no pension, no health benefits.
So you're civil servants without any of the rights and privileges of being a civil servant.
Absolutely, but they remind us. Craig Fugate, his first week in office, said that the disaster assistance employees were nothing more than temporary walk-ons. And a lot of these people had been working since 1979 when Carter set it up.
Who said this?
Craig Fugate, who was a director that Obama put in. He was the director of FEMA.
So you're in the midst of this Katrina crisis. You yourself don't have health benefits or much job security, I would guess, but you're also working among some of the poorest people in the country.
Yes, when I was initially deployed down there it was the beginning of October in 2005 and we were in Mississippi right where the eye came in. So we were evacuated when that hit. And at Katrina, with the Corps of Engineers, I wasn't really working with individuals like I did later with FEMA. We were building temporary public structures, like setting up trailers for schools.
And as you started to get a sense of what the crisis was for people, both during Katrina and your other work for FEMA, you told me you spent a lot of time working in rural America all over the country, what did you observe and how did that affect you?
What I observed is there are a lot of people, large swaths of America, living in poverty, below fifteen thousand dollars a year. And poor people always live in the flood zones and they get flooded out. And when I was working for FEMA, the maximum grant was thirty three thousand and it was do or die or make it or break it if you got that four thousand dollars to replace your furnace so you could go on and live another day.
And at Katrina, it was just unbelievable. It was just post-apocalyptic in Mississippi. It was like somebody dropped a bomb. So I didn't meet a lot of the people there. But one thing that struck me happened while I was rebuilding a school with temporary public structures, trailers. As a landscape architect, I was the quality assistance. I could handle that, but I'm not an engineer. I met one of the principals of the school who came in. We were supposed to wear steel toed boots on the job site, but here was this principal wearing sandals and I said, "I'm sorry, ma'am, you need to put shoes at least with tops on." And I wasn't trying to be like anal. And she goes, "These are the only pair of shoes I have right now." And I was like "wow." I can't imagine. There was just so much death and it was just wild. And later on in early 2006, I was in New Orleans and it was so toxic and everyone was getting sick. The workers and I can't imagine the people living there. It was just such a toxic stew. And what else I observed there was disaster capitalism. They have the prime contractor, which is the big guys on the top, and then they have the general contractor, and then they have sub-contractors. Sub-contractors don't make much money. Generals do ok. Prime contractors make a lot of money.
And your point was they were making money out of this disaster.
Indeed. And I have also worked for the nonprofit world briefly, a couple of years here in Wisconsin. Nobody was making that much money there.
So when did you get back to Wisconsin?
The last time?
You were traveling for FEMA, but you'd keep going back to Wisconsin. Then you'd hit the road and then go home again, is that?
It depended. When I worked individual assistance there's busy disaster years and there's slow disaster years. So it depends. During big disaster years like Hurricane Sandy, I was gone most of that year. And then in 2016 there was a whole bunch. 2016, 2017, I was gone most of those years as well. And then when I switched over to the public assistance side of it, I was gone most of the year.
So when we talked last, we were talking about life in rural Wisconsin and how the area had changed. Why don't we just talk a little bit about that again over the last few decades. How has your town and your county and area changed both in terms of people's lives and politically?
Well, coming up we were an area, Lake Wobegon-ish. There were a lot of Norwegians here and I never really thought it was this ethnic until Garrison Keillor wrote that and I was like, "oh my God, we are distinct" because it was just so spot on. I know he's had scandals since, but it was funny. We all loved it. It was an area of small dairy farms and farmers got milk subsidies. And we were a median household income of the United States and the shopping malls were just starting when I was growing up. But our in town we had like six grocery stores, five shoe stores, a dozen clothing stores, several hardware stores, three lumber yards. And all of it was like in this three block radius downtown. It was like the center of our universe. And all of us kids were just free range. We just ran around and we had no restraints. We just rode our bikes and went to the pool. We didn't realize that everything was going to change. And I'm the youngest, So my parents were older. My father was born in 1911, so he graduated high school in 1929, a great year. A friend of his, James Durden, rode the rails out to California and picked fruit. James became like the mayor of Glendale. Dad came back and then came World War Two. Dad went in '39 and then the National Guard. They were in New Guinea for a long time. And he was the sergeant of all the guys who are from around here. And New Guinea was brutal. He didn't talk about it a lot, but I've heard secondhand from different vets. When he came back he was like a 118 pounds.
What was his role during the war?
Master sergeant. They actually offered him officer, but he turned it down. He also was given a train ticket to go to the White Sox in the 30s and he never went to the farm camp. He was just that guy. But anyway, after that, these men, they just thought he was God's gift. But anyway, the difference that I'm making is he grew up here. His father was a bootlegger, local bootlegger. He was running bootleg during Prohibition as a little kid. And they saw so much of an increase in the standard of living. My mother grew up in the country without running water or indoor plumbing or anything like that. She was a very attractive woman. She ended up going out to California during World War Two as well. And like Rosie the Riveter, she was not real pleased to get shoved back into the house. But their standard of living increased, especially for my mother, because they were hungry-poor. By the time they retired it's like, man. They weren't wealthy, but Dad bought his cars with a check, new cars. And they had pensions and healthcare and all the things, and I'll never see that.
And what were his politics?
He was a Democrat for the most part. But unfortunately, that Cold War mentality came in. During Vietnam, which split the country down the middle, my brother wanted to enlist. He's 11 years older than I am and dad talked him out of it because he says you don't want to do jungle warfare. So he went to college, college deferment. But I do remember my older brothers watching those ping pong balls on a Zenith black and white television in the basement with a popsicle stick stuck in it to turn it on so you didn't give yourself electric shock. But we were watching the numbers with birthdates because it's Viroqua and they knew everybody's birthday. And they're like, "Oh my god, so-and-so just got drafted." And they were just sitting there. And there was just such anxiety. So that's one of my earliest memories, watching that. And then, dad, of course, was into empire because bought the whole domino theory and the Cold War business, which is unfortunate.
But he didn't want his son to go fight for it.
I know, so hypocritical.
What about your mother?
She stayed out of it. She was kind of a feminist before it was a thing, but she just didn't want to argue about it and, God knows, I didn't want to argue about it either because they were old. By the time Reagan came in, I was a freshman in college and my father was sixty nine, which doesn't seem old now, but it seemed old then. It's like, I'm not going to come home and fight with him about it.
Did he switch to Reagan from being a Democrat?
Yes, he did. It was just so sad because his best friend was like Mr. Democrat of Vernon County. And we used to have the county Democratic fish fries at a cottage down on the Mississippi. There were hundreds of people there. But it was unfortunate. I just think all of the hard hats versus the hippies just ripped a hole between the working people in the country and the professional managerial class. But, that was the break right there. And the way my father saw it, it was like these rich college kids were telling him that he was stupid and bad. And I know a lot of Vietnam vets who came back to town had really bad experiences with that.
Well, did he support Nixon or did he switch to the Republicans with Reagan?
He went back and forth. He was just getting older and just went for Reagan. Nixon was elected in 1972 and I was 10, so I don't know. I wasn't paying attention in fifth grade who dad voted for.
But that's more the Vietnam War.
And I know he voted for Carter the first time in '76.
So how typical is your dad of your neighbors?
Well, things have changed so much. My dad, they're all dead. That whole World War generation is gone and I miss them because they were fun. I was gone from Viroqua from 1980 to 2004, for the most part, so everything changed.
This is when you went to England?
Well, I went to college in Madison. I spent one year in Orange County. And I thought "I hate this is." It was like you are what you drive. And everyone was mean to me because I had a 1977 orange Pontiac Ventura, but it had fifty thousand miles on it. There's no way I'm buying a new car, this is paid for. So I didn't fit in. And I'd think back, I could have bought a house then, but I'd spend the rest of my life trapped in this smog, paying for a house. And I hated it there. And I didn't want to keep up with the Joneses on material things because that's just not the way I was brought up. And so I thought to hell with it and the first chance I got I went to London. I went there and everybody had less money. Thatcher was in, but it hadn't completely taken over everybody's brain.
Well, after living in London, why do you go back to rural Wisconsin?
Well, Adrian died and they say don't make big decisions until you wait six months, but I did. And then I just kind of got trapped here because when we got married, you could not have dual citizenship. You had to pick whether you were a US citizen or a UK citizen. So I had permanent residency. So I came back and my daughter was about eight, I suppose, and I just got trapped here. And it was OK for a while. Go along, get along. I kind of slid out of politics because it was the Iraq war and I just didn't want to listen to stupid stuff. I listened to NPR and all that kind of stuff. I mean, I believed in socialized health care. Initially when I went to the U.K., I was doing work and getting paid at Saint Bartholomew's Hospital in London, which is kind of like the Mayo of the U.K. And I was a big believer in the NHS. And everyone I worked with, everyone who was around, nobody could imagine anything different. And coming back here and you're having a fight with somebody about the ACA. I just couldn't listen to the stupidity and I did listen to NPR until it got really terrible and just kind of slid out. And, I knocked a few doors for Obama in 2008. I didn't have high hopes. People would say, "Oh, you're a liberal." Well, I'm several steps to the left of liberal, but you can say that, I guess.
So to what extent do you get involved in these kinds of political, social discussions with your neighbors now?
Well, we all got excited in 2016. I got activated with Bernie in 2015. In Wisconsin politics, I got involved after Scott Walker enacted Act 10. And as I said before, there were a hundred thousand people in the streets of Madison every weekend in the winter of 2011. And these were middle aged teachers and firefighters and cops for labor. It was the Koch brothers. They just spent so much money, they just took over. Labor had already been compromised and they convinced all these people that teachers and state workers, who were still getting a decent living, were the enemy while standards of living dropped precipitously because of the farm crisis and because of deindustrialization. And one thing that's kind of funny was that while I was actually on a deployment I was on Facebook and I saw there was an Occupy Viroqua site.
What is there about 4000 people in Viroqua?
Yeah, when I was growing up, it was three thousand seven hundred and thirty nine, but it's a little over 4000. We've been gentrified. We have a Waldorf school, so we have all sorts of upper class people from the Midwest flocking here for the small town experience. And they all think all the locals are really stupid and redneck because that's what they've been told.
So you got involved in Wisconsin politics when the governor was trying to get civil servants to, more or less, pay for their own healthcare. And there was quite an opposition to it, as you say, tens of thousands of people.
A hundred thousand people several weekends. I mean, it was huge.
So what happened to all that? Where did that momentum go? How does Wisconsin go from 100,000 people protesting to a state of which large portions at the very least vote Republican or vote Trump?
Well, we were always kind of a blue purple state anyhow. I mean, in 2020 we just tipped over back to Biden. In 2016, we were Trump. In 2012, Obama. 2008, Obama. 2004, Kerry.
But a lot of those people who voted for Obama, voted for Trump. Oh, yeah. So how do you explain what they went through to go from Obama to Trump?
Well, Obama campaigned on populist economic rhetoric. So did Trump. Economic populism. Left, economic policy, redistribution policies. And poor people want that. They don't like identity politics. I mean, most poor people don't care about identity politics and that's what the Democratic Party is now. Who understands Wall Street, who understands financial capitalism? But, you know, I've gotten little snippets from Thomas Piketty. I listened to the whole audio book, not that I understood it, but one thing that really struck out was the whole concept of having two ruling class parties, the Democrats are the brahmin elite and the Republicans are the merchant elite. And Michael Moore was the one who predicted in 2016 in Missouri that they're going to just give a big finger to Hillary because she just represents the highest areas of GDP (as she said later) and just say we want something different. We want Trump. I mean, the whole system of global finance capital is pretty obvious to me and to every poor person out there that something is wrong and it's got to change. Because for someone like me who grew up and never had a lot of money, I never even thought I was working class until I went to college and met rich kids. I've talked to different Lutheran ministers "Yeah, I didn't know I was poor until I went to college." It was like, yeah, neither did I. So that's the first introduction to classism I guess I got. Maybe I was here idealizing something that was long gone.
The neighbors of yours, some of whom would have voted for Obama and then became disillusioned. Are they still, in my opinion, illusioned with Trump and the Republicans. And I certainly understand why they got disillusioned from the Democrats, there's every reason to. Why are they still illusioned by Trump and the Republicans?
Because they hate the Democrats. Because the Democrats give off the impression that they look down on them. And they do. But a lot of these people voted for Bernie in the primaries. Every county in Wisconsin, 2016, except for one went for Bernie.
If Bernie had been the Democratic candidate, do you think he could have beaten Trump in Wisconsin?
I do. I know people think I'm delusional, but yes, I do. I believe it. And I know there's plenty of people who are far more politically astute who would say, "No, he wouldn't. We have to rebuild labor, the power of labor. We can't do it through electoral politics." It's just like, OK, let's rebuild the labor movement out of what? I'll be living on a thousand dollars a month with Social Security and that will never happen in my lifetime. So that's nice to say that if you're an academic, but it sucks for us. I'm sorry, I hate to be so cynical, but sometimes I want to take them and shake them.
But they are doing electoral politics and in some cases winning. They've had some breakthroughs.
A lot of good it does us here.
Well, what would it take to get something going there?
I don't know. I mean, honestly I would like to see a real new deal, a real redistribution. I would like to see federal make-work jobs. I mean, this whole infrastructure bill, in 2017 the estimate was like four point six trillion dollars just to update the infrastructure. And I have seen this working for FEMA and the public assistance. The infrastructure is just so shot. I mean, I go to these little tiny towns, hollowed out towns in Nebraska or whatever, and it's like they can hardly claim anything because the only piece of equipment in this one township was a riding lawnmower. Actually, that was in Missouri. But the infrastructure is shot, their septic system is shot, but it's deferred maintenance, so they don't qualify. And so when FEMA comes, we try to get every bridge they have, whether it was damaged in that disaster or not, fixed because this is their chance to get some money because they've been so starved of money to rebuild the infrastructure. So, I mean, what would it take in Wisconsin? I don't know, another WPA, another CCC, something like that.
These are the FDR New Deal work programs.
Well, yes. A commitment to rebuilding our towns and our infrastructure and not telling everyone who stayed here that they've made poor personal choices and deserve to live in poverty for the rest of their lives because they don't have the proper credentials. Well, I've come across it because my bachelor's degree from the United States is in analytical chemistry. So that won't get you a job, especially when you're older and you haven't used it for ages. But my British qualifications were as a landscape architect. We work in all of the EU, anything that was once in the Commonwealth. I could work in Canada, but not in the United States. Doesn't come, can't do it.
Have you ever thought of running for office yourself?
Years ago, people always say "Ann, run for mayor." But I don't know if I have what it takes because at this point I'm tired, I'm old, and I am angry. And the whole Democratic Party is just so brainwashed into this neo-liberalism and identity politics. I just don't think I could stomach it. I'm just too pissed off. I really am. And they wouldn't back me anyway.
Well, you can run like Sanders did, in some ways against the Democratic Party.
Well, I hate committee meetings and such. I am not suited for political office.
Among your friends and neighbors, are there people that buy into the Qanon view of things and this sort of extreme Trumpism? And if there are people, do you talk about any of this kind of stuff?
Well, you don't want to go out and have fights with people about the particulars. But just talking to them, they are like me and they know that the system is broken and they want change. And Qanon is nuts, but how about Russia-gate? Come on, pick your conspiracy. Maddow or Tucker Carlson. Pick your team and root for it. They're both stenographers for the ruling class. And with my Trumpy neighbors, I had the benefit of living my most formative adult years in east London. They don't have really well defined politics, they just know that this isn't working and they want change. That's why they voted for Sanders, that's why they voted for Obama because of his populist rhetoric. That's why they voted for Trump. And we flipped out because Trump was so bad, and they just kind of switched back to the Democrats just to save the post office and stuff.
I have a neighbor across the street. She's a nurse, but her husband is a Vietnam vet and her son is a cop. They stuck the Trump sign out. I'm not going to fight with them about it. But she was talking about the anti-vaxxers. And she kind of looked because I always had all the Bernie signs in my yard which got ripped off actually after he dropped out. And I don't know if it was the Democrat or Republican who did it. Blue MAGA or Red MAGA stole my Bernie sign, but that's an aside. But she said, and she's a nurse, "All of these liberals here won't get vaccines." And because we have this whole Waldorf community and they're very strange and libertarian, there's a bunch of anti-vaxxers. They are the anti-vaxxers in this town. The wealthy white Waldorf people with money who come here and live on trust funds. And I remember when they first started coming in, it was the 90s, I had come home to visit my parents. My mother goes, "They seem nice enough, but none of them seem to work. What do they live on?" And I said, "Mom, it's called a trust fund." And I had to explain to her what it was because she had never met people who didn't have to work for a living.
How badly did covid affect your area?
In what regard?
Well, either in terms of deaths or economically.
Well, I mean, it's still Wisconsin. We're crippled and bleeding, but it's not Texas. I don't want to be mean about any state, but we're not doing terribly. Economically, yeah, we lost several restaurants, one of the last dive bars in town, which was a tragedy. And I've been on unemployment. There wasn't a huge amount of deaths, it's not very densely populated. And like I said, it's Lake Wobegon. Everybody's got their masks on. They were polite.
All right, I'm going to stop it here. And then sometime sooner than later, I'd like to do this again and talk more about what you think a new New Deal would look like.
One of the things I wanted to say is I deactivated my Facebook account. I was sick of it anyway, but after Bernie dropped out all of these vote blue no matter who people were just savagely attacking me. And they were just so mean and dreadful. It's like, do you understand for a person like me, the difference between Biden and the difference between Bernie is the difference between having hope and not having hope. With Bernie, who knows what would have happened, but the idea of having a retirement, the idea of having enough money to live on, the idea of having socialized health care. It would just take this knot out of my stomach that I've had in it since 2006. And it's terrifying to live that way. And I guess that's what I have in common with my Trump neighbors. And everybody views them as these strange rural Americans. It's like some David Attenborough documentary where "let's go look at these weird natives who live in rural areas." And, the Texas grid is destroyed by neo-liberalism and privatization, which was started with Reagan. But Clinton stuck the final nail in the coffin and Obama bailed out Wall Street while everybody else is screwed. I mean, we've seen a real downturn here since 2008, big time. And they're crowing over the fact that people shouldn't have voted for Trump. Their electrical grid, it's taken 45 years to get this terrible. And you're crowing over the fact that people are dying and they deserve it because it's a red state. And that just makes me sick because I've been all over this country in red states and blue states and there are so many poor people. And that's just disgusting. And I'm so sick of coaching and coaching in terms like this when we are in meltdown ecologically and as a society. So I don't know, I feel so much more angry at the vote blue no matter who mean people who crow over people dying in Texas than I do over some Qanon nut. At least the Qanon nut sees that we are in crisis.
All right, thanks for joining, Ann. And thank you for joining us on theAnalysis.news and we're going to invite Ann back again to continue our discussion. Please don't forget the donate button, subscribe, share, and all of that.
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Stevie Duster says:
At Parris Island they taught, when you're down, beat, and feel you can't go on, that's when you've got to be your strongest. Paul's guest this segment appears to have this survival instinct without formally having been weaned on it at a boot camp.
Exposed to the same exasperation with the broken system in Washington, the venerable Ralph Nader just said again — [Paul's guest knows better] — what Ralph Nader often feels the need to say when government should act, "Leaves Must be Canceled. All Hands on the Congressional Deck.".
Paul's articulate — one has to say courageous and patriotic — guest appears to understand better than Nader that the broken system can offer no hope; despite leading a personal life that rejects hopelessness; cleverly finding somehow a way to survive in England and Wisconsin; and then fight another day with or without Bernie Sanders who has only turned out to be disappointing . [Not to forget, in Europe Bernie Sanders would be a right-wing politician.]
Looks like Bernie Sanders is the best money can buy at the moment. And that — as Paul's guest also presumably knows — is simply just not good enough.
Ira Dember says:
Ann's description of rural life a generation ago, brought to mind the village in Shirley Jackson's classic horror tale, "The Lottery." It first appeared in the 26 June 1948 New Yorker magazine. By coincidence, I published a piece yesterday relating "The Lottery" to a modern-day nightmare — deadly results among 30 million people deprived of healthcare coverage in the world's richest nation: https://medium.com/@idember/lethal-lottery-shirley-jacksons-horror-tale-times-ten-thousand-for-real-f4a48e1d593b.
You (Paul) and Ann M. mused, could Sanders have beaten Trump? The answer: absolutely. I have empirical evidence, such as it may be. During the 2016 primary season I tallied EVERY poll published at Real Clear Politics that included both Sanders and Clinton. I archived the results in spreadsheets, altogether 150+ polls. Sanders outperformed Clinton 90 percent of the time and wiped the floor with Trump (and other GOP candidates) — while Clinton showed disturbing signs of electoral weakness. You can still see summary results posted in real time at my site BernieWorks.com. Yet well meaning voters still said, "I like Bernie but I'm voting for Hillary because she's more electable." Tragic does not begin to describe this blunder.
Bruce K. says:
>> The answer: absolutely. I have empirical evidence
1. First, lots of games going on behind the scenes to make polls wrong or misleading.
2. Lots of voter suppression and tricks being used to remove voters off the rolls in key locations.
3. Primary elections have different dynamics than general elections. I know quite a few Democrats that Bernie Sanders repulsed for different reasons.
I personally lost all interest in Bernie Sanders after being a strong, contributing supporter of him in 2016 when in the 2020 election he failed to say anything different acting like a prima donna. He brought up , or failed to distance himself from, issues like prison voting, then doubled-down on the Democratic Socialist brand and refused to join the Democratic Party and rebrand himself as an FDR Democrat. He wanted badly and actively to lose for some reason.
Then the idiot Sanders had a heart attack and tried to shrug it off in front of the whole country rather than pull out and send his supporters towards Elizabeth Warren who was better, smarter and faster than he was and more accomplished as well.
Bet I can figure is Bernie was there as a decoy to make like the Democratic Party was open and interested in Socialism, it's own FDR legacy, when in fact it was not. And the Democrats made that clear with a whole host of alternative pseudo socialists like Warren, Booker, Harris, Yang, etc to split the Progressive vote and allow Biden, doddering mostly at the time, to come up from behind and grab the moderate majority vote.
In the Democratic Party is is becoming both increasingly hard and increasingly easy to tell which candidate are actually Democrats. Harder because they lie and say one thing to get elected when we know if they actually win they must swing towards the right. Easier because the still increasing dominance and money in elections makes the numbers just easy to predict … there are no real Democratic candidates any more. The candidates we get are participants in the national political reality to show to convince us and the world that America is a Democracy when it is apparent it is not, and that never was the case.
The Democratic Party is a group of Republicans who woke up and realized that they were in the Democratic Party and that their skills were needed to convince the public there still was a Democratic party – and the job has become nearly impossible considering their own Republican party hates them, but they are contemptuous of the actual people, i.e. populism.
FDR was committed to capitalism, but it did not stop him from pushing our system towards socialism …
And here is where I keep pushing my main point … capitalism is capitalism … capitalism is not fascist, capitalism is not communist, capitalism is not socialist …. capitalism is a generalize term for a trade and barter economy that brings along with it the question of wealth and power in society.
Capitalism is the substrate of the economy. China is supposed to be communist, but it is also supremely capitalist. The Scandinavian counties are supposed to be socialist … they all – every one of them have capitalist economies that interact with the world through capitalism. The US is the prime example of capitalism in the world … to Americans, capitalism is like the language of money.
The point is, that seems intuitively obvious, but that I keep having to point out, that there are in general two "poles" of capitalism, like two poles of a magnetic … there is the elitist / tyranny / fascist pole and the other is the multicultural / democratic / socialist pole.
The United States has been "we thought all along" in a kind of dynamic tension between the two where eventually the "arc or progress" would move towards socialism/more democracy … but when you look at what actually has happened since FDR, socialism has been vilified on many dimensions, and equated to fascism, tyranny, mob rule … all the negative bad things. That is a fascist pushback in America for over 60 years. Ironic isn't it that what is taking over, more or less a fascist oligarchy is much worse than anything the Right described to vilify the Left.
The point of that model is to point out that is was entirely possible – IF WE HAD A SANE, RATIONAL, GOVERNMENT MADE UP OF COMPETENT, PATRIOTIC STATESMEN for capitalism to co-exist with democracy, but the political Right today is dedicated totally against democracy, i.e. they started against the labor unions, social programs, safety net, education, voting, multiculturalism, etc.
The only possible explanation for the Right today is that they are dedicated towards bringing the US in line with Russia and China as a pseudo slave state with a under-paid slave minority with some facades of democracy, generally seen through by the rest of the Western world. But the same economic forces in the US that are causing the US to devolve into what it is going through will eventually be metastasizing to the rest of the Western World – so this includes everybody!
Why are they doing this? Because the "military junta" that runs the US feels it is losing its grasp on power and will not be able to control everything if it has to pay for the sins of the past, and the hopes for the future. There is some legitimacy there because as the US goes through this turmoil we are vulnerable to attack and chaos, especially now that we are so wedded to the Internet.
The solution would be for everyone to calm down, for the Left to stop its hundreds or whines and complaints and prioritize the basics – leaving the military industrial congressional, corporate, complex alone and unthreatened – at least the time being. Settle on the "must-haves", like health-care, education, voting rights, labor unions, safety-net, and leave things like attacking the military that could be construed as the agenda of our enemies alone.
This is along the lines of what President Biden is attempting to do … support the moderate points
of the Democrats and leave the crazy behind. theAnalysis.News know all about crazy I see … but the problem is Republicans feel everything Democrats want is crazy, including voting, education, infrastructure, safety-net …. the whole ball of wax most of the rest of us call America.
If Ann Morrison wants a democratic socialist American ( not necessary a Bernie Sanders Democratic-Socialist American – but close with different branding ) then we have to get your loonies from the Left to drop your deliberately incendiary crazy and focus on the priorities of a decent civilized society.
The Right has been left alone and hidden for so long they have really rotted out the guts of this country, so it is not trivial job of just showing up to vote for which hired hand of the corporatocracy can fool you better … we have to find a way to create a consensus, that polls tell us already exists, and then focus it in a civilized way towards the institutions that still exist and can be used to bring about democracy change … if there are any left.


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What are you doin' hangin' out with me?
Why do you tell me stuff that's so plainly untrue?
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And if you're all done like you said you'd been
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Samsung NX prime lens reviews: five models measured!
Samsung adopted the APS-C format sensor for its range of mirrorless cameras and although the system is still in its infancy the firm has responded to user requests for ultra-compact lenses; of the seven fixed focal lengths in their range, three are so-called 'pancake' prime lenses. In complete contrast, the maker also has some specialist lenses in the range used to showcase Samsung's considerable technical expertise with ultrasonic type AF motors, ED glass types and optical image stabilization.
One unique feature to Samsung and common to each of the lenses in the range is the innovative "I-Function" button. Located on the side of the barrel, the button allows the user to cycle through options such as shutter speed, ISO and aperture values, making selections using the focusing ring (or a separate collar in the case of the larger lenses).
Achieving a high DxOMark Score of 23 points, the best-performing NX mount lens in our database is the high-end, ultrasonic AF motor equipped NX 85mm f/1.4 ED SSA. That model and the NX 30mm f/2 pancake are the sharpest tested (both scoring 14P-Mpix). Note that while the moderate 45mm telephoto is ranked second, the Sharpness score lagged a little behind those models with 12P-Mpix score (please see below).
Against the recently tested Sony NEX mount equivalent (and best performing model in their range) the Samsung NX 45mm f/1.8 compares quite well. While the Sony scores an additional 1P-Mpix in Sharpness, it's not really surprising given the extra pixel count of the Sony NEX-7. Nevertheless, the Sony has more consistent sharpness across the field and less noticeable distortion and lower chromatic aberration. Given the $300 sticker and built-in stabilisation of the Sony, the $350 wanted for the Samsung makes it look a little on the expensive side.
On the whole pancake lenses don't usually stand out for high-image quality though new designs made specifically for digital cameras seem to be bucking that trend. This high-speed lens has the equivalent angle of view to an appealing 45mm (in 35mm format) and performs very well. The additional 4P-Mpix over the conventional design of the Panasonic Leica Summilux DG 25mm f/1.4 is encouraging despite the extra pixel count of the NX20 over the GH2. This strongly suggests superior sharpness but if we look at the field maps we'll see the Samsung's sharpness advantage is in the centre of the field. Elsewhere, the Samsung is well corrected but bear in mind the Panasonic made Leica lens is 2/3 stop faster at full aperture and therefore a good deal more expensive. For all that, the Samsung is appealing for its compact dimensions and, at $279, more accessible sticker price.
At first sight these two appear incongruous but with an angle of view equivalent to a 24mm (on a 35mm full frame model, the Samsung NX 16mm f/2.4 is not dissimilar to the Olympus 12mm, however there the similarities end. The Olympus is ½ stop faster at full aperture or thereabouts and is a high-grade model featuring ED glass elements in a sturdy aluminium shell. Be that as it may, the Samsung nudges ahead in sharpness and even has lower levels of distortion and vignetting (though again the large aperture design of the Olympus plays a part here). Only the high levels of lateral chromatic aberration, and a $300-350 sticker, somewhat dampen what would otherwise be an excellent performance.
Comparing the dedicated 60mm f/2.8 Macro (a image stabilized model, equipped with ED glass and an ultrasonic-type AF motor) with the similarly stabilised Panasonic Leica DG Macro-Elmarit 45mm f/2.8 ASPH OIS on the Lumix GH-2, the Samsung is no slouch. The Samsung pair are capable of higher sharpness (as one would hope) but, equally, the scores for transmission, vignetting and distortion are all excellent. The only pause for thought is the rather high Chromatic Aberration but at $499 compared with nearly $900 for the Panasonic Leica equivalent, the Samsung 60mm appears underappreciated.
Although it might seem like a full-frame lens, on the Samsung NX cameras the $899 NX 85mm f/1.4 ED SSA is the equivalent to a 127mm – a little long for indoor portraits. However, this well specified lens is interesting when compared with the $2,199 Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM, especially when that model is paired with an APS-C camera (albeit with a slightly physically smaller sensor than the Samsung's). Pixel counts between the two cameras aren't identical either so the Samsung has the advantage there but in other respects the image quality is very close with similar characteristics (and scores) for transmission, distortion and CA. Given the price, the Samsung is a steal.
Although Samsung's mirrorless system doesn't quite have the same reputation nor heritage as its more established rivals, the lens range (while admittedly containing some oddities, such as the 85mm f/1.4 and the not tested 45mm f/1.8 2D/3D model) is refreshingly innovative and are, mostly, very strong performers. In fact, as our comparison graph (above) shows the NX mount primes compare very favourably with the equivalent NEX mount lenses from Sony. But it's not only the NEX mount lenses that the Samsung models compete with. They've shown with the 85mm f/1.4 and some excellent sensors what they're capable of, but perhaps what's needed now is a high-end enthusiasts model to contend with the likes of the OMD-EM5, GH-3 and NEX-7.


The IDB Holding goals to determine and create synergies by way of measurement and strategy with the intention to successfully and efficiently compete at the worldwide stage. Other than the theoretical approach of the Bauhaus college in Germany or the advertising- and profit-oriented design notice of the Americans, Italian design used to live especially of its experimenting-propensity, the improvisation acquirement of small craft producers and the previous cultural custom, which didn't want to separate magnificence from operate.
Work from big feminine names in design – such as the lately handed Zaha Hadid , Gae Aulenti, Gabriella Crespi, Patricia Urquiola and Elsa Peretti – are all represented and mix simply with now anonymous talents. Very typically, engineers' expertise influences trendy design, as within the case of Pininfarina, Michelotti, Zagato and Frua, who're immediately concerned within the vehicle design.
The Wallpaper US Bespoke Newsletter delivers all of the best in international design and extra to your inbox. We interviewed Gianni Gozzi about this Italian on-line store and the fascinating world of design furniture. True in keeping up with the traits, Prada still stays top-of-the-line Italian designer purses that any modern woman would clamor for.
They current a sense of holiness, which will get reflected on the face of the lady carrying it. The Italian Designers are additionally skilled in creating designs on brooches. The new phenomenon emerged thanks to vanguard designers (Branzi, Deganello, De Lucchi, Sottsass) and above all due to Alchimia group (based in 1976 by Alessandro Guerriero) and Memphis group producing unusual objects which did not belong to any tendency. The Italian watch business has been identified for its designer brands, and luxurious timepieces by out historical past.
This beatiful example of design are the hi-tech bike used by Francesco Moser with disc-wheels and a bullhorn-bar. Italian manufacturers are popular all over the world for his or her style, and class, and are a primary selection for many people. Most of us do not put as a lot consideration into every a part of our bathroom, however that is not the same for Italian designers. The Italian look is fabulous and creates a sublime and lavish look and doesn't must break the bank to do it!


Could you please describe yourself in a few words and maybe tell us a bit more about your roots of coaching? To be more specific, how do you organize, plan, and prioritize your work?
My coaching career started over 22 years ago when, as a favor, I helped a friend prepare for an upcoming interview. Prior to our session together, my friend had gone on over ten interviews that all resulted in no job offers. I coached him not only to go through the interview process successfully but also how to be confident and trust himself and his ability to be successful during his next interview. Two days after our session, he went on an interview that ended with a job offer right there on the spot. That was the beginning of my coaching career. I fell in love with helping people win and get what they want out of life. While working full time and raising small kids, I carved out time to take coaching classes and became a certified life coach, trainer, and speaker: And ultimately, A Life Ignited was born!
I am very active and present in the lives of both my children and my husband. So, scheduling, planning, and prioritizing is definitely an art that I have become very skilled at. I build my calendar around the needs of my family first. Once all our family obligations, date nights, and family movie nights are on the calendar, I began to plan for, schedule, and block out time for business activities, community service, and self-care activities such as going to the gym. From a day-to-day perspective, I tackle tasks that I can complete in 10 minutes or less first and then I chop up bigger projects into bite-size pieces that I can complete throughout the day or week. All those pieces come together to shape the project or goal that I've set for myself for that particular month.
I think the key to loving what you do and not feeling burnt out from the work it takes to be successful, in all areas of your life, is to make sure your schedule includes time for you to recharge and recalibrate. And always make self-care and down-time nonnegotiable priorities.
Could you give us an example of a situation where you had to think outside of the box? Maybe you could share a past experience where you had to deal with a difficult person and how you handled the situation.
I was elected to the Executive Committee of the Temple University Women's Network as the Director of Social Media and Communications. One of my tasks was to form a committee of active and committed alumna. I knew it was going to be a challenge trying to find alumna who would be able to serve on my committee, so I had to think out the box and create a recruiting process that would attract talented volunteers to my committee. I decided to approach my task differently; in a way that had never been done before by any of the alumni groups. I created a unique recruitment process that included a bubbly and energetic recruitment video, a Google sign up form, and a meet-and-greet via video-conference. The process was hugely successful and resulted in a fully staffed, full-time committee that is praised by the university, the board, and our social media followers for their engagement, consistency, and commitment.
What makes me most happy about this successful recruitment process is that out of it, friendships, mentor relationships, and even business relationships have been molded. We are a tight group of women who empower, celebrate, support, and encourage one another. I personally have new friends and colleagues, and I'm grateful for each one of them.
Working in corporate America for over 21 years, being a leader, collaborating on boards, supervising people, being an investor and landlord, and even being a mom has led me down many different paths where I was met along the way by a difficult person, who I define as someone unwilling to be reasonable or collaborative. What I've learned throughout the years is that the best way to handle a difficult person is to focus on the common goal and not the individual. Difficult people are generally coming to the table with past hurt, fears, and frustrations, also known as baggage. As an empowered woman, it is important not to lose yourself in their baggage but to move beyond their emotions and push forward to achieve success and accomplish the task at hand. Remind the difficult person that you honor their opinions and that you are looking forward to working together in a fulfilling and mutually respectful manner. From CEO's, to co-workers, to other moms and parents, I find that when you acknowledge your good intentions with difficult people and you rise above their challenges, you can diffuse and de-escalate these situations. I also believe that we teach people how to treat others based on how we treat them. When dealing with a difficult person, I am my most patient and empathetic self in hopes that the person will model similar behavior in the future. It's not always an easy thing to do, to be patient and kind when some in being difficult and problematic, but as a woman of purpose who is called to be more and vibrate higher, it's an obligation.
What motivates you to do what you do and be the person you are today? Where would you say your passion comes from?
My passion for helping people, wanting to speak, and spread a positive message are innate to who I am. For as long as I can remember I was helpful at home, at church, and in my community. At the age of 10 years old I attended discipleship and leadership classes. At the time I was 12, my best friend and I signed ourselves up to be volunteers at a local nursing home, and we would go on the weekends and spend time with the residents. By the time I was a teenager I was an orator, competing in citywide speakers' contest. And just before my 21st birthday, I placed seventh overall in a scholarship pageant. Little did I know this was all a divine work in progress.
Today, that passion still lives and thrives within me.
Even when I was working a full-time job in corporate America I used my influence and leadership at work to empower others, to speak life and inspiration to them and to make their workday as enjoyable as possible.
I stay motivated to be one of the best coaches and speakers in the world, live my best life and lead by example, be the best parent and wife possible, and pursue my passions by staying focused on my divine assignment. I know that I was born to do this work, to impact lives, and to help others overcome obstacles and achieve greatness. Whenever I hit a challenge, I think about all the people that are waiting on me to show up for them and deliver a powerful message or service, and then I realize I can't quit: I have to keep going because I was called to do this work. When I get frustrated and want to give up, I remind myself that failure is not an option and that giving up is not in my vocabulary. I have children and a husband that need me to persevere and push through my fears and frustrations. When I feel weak and negative self-talk starts rumbling around in my head, I remind myself that I am fearfully and wonderfully made and that there is an extraordinary strength that lives inside of me that won't let me fail, fall, or be defeated.
Every morning I wake up, I softly speak out loud a quote, a scripture, or one of my own personal mantras that remind me of who I am and what I'm capable of. Then I get up and get busy with the work I've been called to do.
And I must say that my husband, my children, and my mom have been extremely supportive from the very beginning of my journey. With love and support like this, I'm able to confidently go in the direction of my dreams. No matter what, I know their unconditional love and unwavering support covers and sustains me.
What is your image of an ideal world? What would the world look like if you realized your vision in life? In your opinion, who would benefit from it and who would suffer?
My vision in life is to positively impact the lives of others, to be a catalyst for positive change and to inspire people to get up, get unstuck, and believe in the brilliance they possess to go after all they want in life.
In an ideal world, we would all respect each other's differences, love one another more, and celebrate our diversity and individuality. We would listen to each other try to understand other people's perspectives.
In my ideal world, mankind would love all mankind, and there would be no room for hate.
Until then, I can continue to promote love, peace, and faith. And spread a message that empowers people to see the world differently, look within themselves for the change they wish to see, and to love themselves and others unconditionally.
Being a Mayshad Woman is a choice that women make to live stimulated lives with a positive philosophy based on gratitude, acceptance, accomplishment and human empowerment in order to be who they want to be. Mayshad Women handle different aspects of their lives with confidence and make sure to always stick to their values, in other words, to stay themselves. Mayshad Women are free spirits that design and drive their own lives while inspiring others to do the same.
Based on this description, how would you say that you relate to the Mayshad Woman Philosophy?
The Mayshad Woman Philosophy runs through my veins starting with gratefulness. I tell my children often, at least several times a week, that we are not to focus on the problems we think we have, but to be thankful and grateful for the problems we don't have. Gratefulness is how I can keep persevering in business and in life when I am met with an unexpected obstacle or challenge. Gratefulness is what I held onto when I could barely pay my bills or didn't know where my next meal was coming from. And gratefulness, every day, reminds me how blessed I am to be able to raise beautiful children, share a life with my husband, have a business that I love, and create a life that feels so amazing that helps, encourages, and inspires so many.
personality. For many years I tried to be what I thought others wanted me to be so that I would be liked and accepted. Some of my lowest moments in life were the result of me trying to fit in where I was meant to stand out. It was out of these experiences that I learned to love me, trust myself, and stay true to my beliefs – even when it meant standing alone, being misunderstood, and unexcepted. The beauty of those experiences is that once I started owning my power and celebrating all the things that made me unique and interesting, life began to reward me.
Embracing who you are is the first step in unlocking the door to your personal power.
And I love that The Mayshad Woman is a symbol of strength in this way.
Last but not least, tell us about your own personal path of empowerment. How do you stay empowered on a day to day basis? How do you empower others around you? In few words, what is the most empowering thing you could share with our audience about how to initiate their lives and stay motivated in their projects?
When I think of being "empowered", I visualize a light switch, and I remind myself that I am in control of the power, my personal power, being on or off at any given moment. So, for most of my day, every day, I am in a constant state of making sure my power is on; that my light is shining, that I vibrate at a high frequency sending good vibes to everyone that encounters me whether in person or online, and that my actions reflect the goals and vision I have for who I want to be, how I want to feel, and who I want to serve. I stay motivated, and in motion, by reminding myself of my goals and desires, who I serve, and who's counting on me, and what I deserve. I am intentional about who I spend my time with, who I talk to on the phone in leisure, what I listen to, and the places I go. Self-care, health, and fitness are all parts of my daily routine: Before I can serve anyone, I must ensure that I am happy, healthy and well. Pouring into my mind, body, and spirit gives me the energy, stamina, and motivation I need to be able to pour into others and help others achieve their dreams and desires in life.
If you are ready to ignite that fiery fierce woman that lives within you, you must first be willing to acknowledge her fully and authentically. Don't be afraid to stand in the truth of who you want to be and what you desire to have. And once you a knowledge her, pursue her. Breathe life into her by taking unapologetic and nonnegotiable actions every day to become her. And every day, look in the mirror and say I am her. And don't let anyone dim your light or convince you that you're anything other than extraordinary.


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Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) is a Buy Before Earnings
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 | Nick Vasco
Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) is slated to report earnings today after the bell, and if history is any guide, you want to get in ahead of the release.
The last time Salesforce reported earnings was August 25 after the bell. Investors cheered the results and shares quickly went up 13% after hours, before closing up more than 26% the next day.
And last quarter was no anomaly in terms of beating expectations; Salesforce had previously done so over at least the last 10 consecutive quarters. Now, I'm not saying that a beat always leads to a rally. It doesn't because of something called the whisper numbers.
But it's a good starting point for a potential investment.
Expectations Seem Way Too Low
So, the question with Salesforce becomes: By how much should we expect them to beat?
Revenue that beats by $10 million won't be enough to move the needle. Heck, it might even result in a small sell-off.
Salesforce, however, appears well-positioned for a big beat. Consensus estimates call for $5.25 billion in revenue, up 16.3% yoy. That would equate to a substantial deceleration from last quarter when revenue grew 29% yoy.
Earnings are expected to be 74 cents per share, up just 1.3% yoy. I wouldn't be too concerned about earnings though, as investors shrugged off subpar earnings guidance last quarter. For Salesforce, revenue is currently much more important than earnings – and that should remain the case for at least a couple of years.
Salesforce Won Before the Pandemic, It's Winning During the Pandemic, and It Will Win Post-Pandemic
With Salesforce, you don't have to watch the news every day and adjust your opinion on its viability based on the case numbers or status of the vaccine. Of course, there's nothing inherently wrong with investments that require that, and fortunes have been made by considering the impact of the pandemic on companies. But it's nice for part of your portfolio to be more immune – pun intended – to the daily news cycle.
Salesforce's reaction to the vaccine news on November 9 was telling; shares closed down around one-third of one percent.
The fact of the matter is that Salesforce's tools will continue to be adopted whether people work-at-home or return to the office en masse.
The pandemic did, however, give us some valuable information about Salesforce: The company continued to show that it can adapt on the fly. Salesforce helped customers address new needs such as curbside pickup and contact tracing.
I'm confident that whatever 2021 throws our way, Salesforce will be able to help businesses deal with it. If companies struggle to handle pent-up demand, for example, you can bet that Salesforce will leverage its existing capabilities and build new ones to help them handle it.
What About a Potential Slack Deal?
Investors received quite a surprise the day before Thanksgiving, as reports revealed that Salesforce is in talks to buy Slack (NYSE: WORK).
Slack shares surged more than 37%, but Salesforce shares dropped 5.4%.
I can see why the market is apprehensive about this deal from Salesforce's standpoint. Slack doesn't fit neatly into Salesforce's core competencies. This isn't a Schwab (NYSE: SCHW) and TD Ameritrade situation, where the potential for synergies is clear.
But Slack is an excellent platform with a lot of growth in its future. And it's not that far outside of Salesforce's core competencies.
Bottom line: I think this acquisition has a good chance of panning out if it comes to fruition. The latest is that the deal will be announced after the bell today. It will be interesting to see how Salesforce addresses the deal on its earnings call.
Salesforce is positioned very well in both the short and long-terms, and based on its history, now is as good a time as any to get in.
Yes, shares aren't cheap – 65.3x forward earnings and 10.7x forward sales – but Salesforce can more than grow into its valuation.
Change is the only certainty in our world, and Salesforce has a great chance at capitalizing on whatever comes our way.
salesforce.com (CRM) 1.9 $213.14 -1.1% N/A 55.65 Buy $260.57
If American's liked outdoor activities before, they love them even more now. The COVID-19 pandemic has done many things, and one of them is reinvigorating American's love of the outdoors. Data from across the industry shows a sustained uptick in revenue that has the entire complex moving higher.
The RV Industry Association, for example, reports shipments of RVs are up greater than 30% in 2020 and are expected to grow another 20% or more in 2021. If data from the two of the industry's largest manufacturers are any indication, that forecast is very conservative.
And the gains aren't limited to RVs. Everything that has anything to do with outdoor recreation is booming. Sales at Dicks Sporting Goods, an iconic brand for retail and the outdoors, has seen a sustained 20% increase in revenue since the 2nd quarter shutdowns. If anything, revenue in this sector is being held back by rapidly declining inventory and tight shipping conditions.
The stocks we are about to show all have something in common; the outdoors. Within the group, you will find everything from RVs to Radios and everything in between an outdoor enthusiast could need or want. Some pay dividends and some don't, but all will deliver solid returns to investors in 2021.
View the "7 Outdoor Recreation Stocks For Growth And Dividends".


rosie wilby news: Nineties Woman comes to Edinburgh Fringe - and its FREE!
Nineties Woman comes to Edinburgh Fringe - and its FREE!
Award-winning comedian, broadcaster and author. She has appeared on Radio 4 programmes including Woman's Hour and Four Thought, TV programmes including Good Morning Britain and at festivals including Latitude, Secret Garden Party, Green Man, Port Eliot, Wilderness, Larmer Tree, End of the Road and How The Light Gets In. Rosie's book Is Monogamy Dead? was longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2018 and followed her TEDx talk of the same name and a trilogy of solo shows investigating love and relationships. She is the creator and host of The Breakup Monologues podcast.


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Музей предпринимателей, меценатов и благотворителей — негосударственный музей и исследовательский, учебный и просветительский центр по истории российского предпринимательства, меценатства и благотворительности. Основан в 1991 году в Москве при активном участии потомков предпринимателей дореволюционной России: Морозовых, Рябушинских, Прохоровых и других.

История музея
Музей расположен по адресу Донская улица, 9 в здании конца XIX века, в котором до революции размещалось Якиманское 6-е начальное училище для девочек, построенное известным московским предпринимателем и благотворителем, купцом первой гильдии Иваном Григорьевичем Простяковым (1843—1915). После 1917 года в доме находились коммунальные квартиры, в которых жили в том числе и потомки Простякова. Затем в здании размещались столовая Международной организации помощи голодающим, народная библиотека, музей Октябрьского района Москвы, а в 1991 году за счёт частной инициативы и добровольных пожертвований был создан музей предпринимателей, меценатов и благотворителей.

Музей создавался историками-энтузиастами под руководством москвоведа Льва Николаевича Краснопевцева, ставшего впоследствии главным хранителем музея. Широкую поддержку музею оказали потомки многих известных московских предпринимателей — Алексеевых-Станиславских, Армандов, Бахрушиных, Гучковых, Зиминых, Каверина, Мамонтовых, Сафонова, Сытиных, Третьяковых, Шелапутиных, Шехтеля и многих других.

Открытие музея состоялось 20 мая 1992 года. 10 июня 1992 года музей был зарегистрирован Управлением юстиции города Москвы как общественное объединение. Первым директором музея стала Елена Владиславовна Веткова.

До середины 2010-х годов вход в музей был бесплатным, однако по причине отсутствия средств на содержание музея, было принято решение брать с посетителей входную плату.

В 2015 году долг по арендной плате перед Москомимуществом и коммунальным платежам поставил музей на грань закрытия. Тогда директор музея Елена Калмыкова обратилась к общественности с просьбой о помощи и музей удалось спасти. Большую часть долга погасил фонд Дмитрия Зимина «Московское время».

С 2018 года музей осуществляет свою деятельность при поддержке Фонда развития созидательного предпринимательства «Дело во имя веры».

Музей сегодня

Миссия Музея — сохранять традиции дореволюционных российских предпринимателей, меценатов и благотворителей и вдохновлять на развитие культуры созидательного предпринимательства. Музей рассказывает о мировоззрении, образе жизни, качествах, стратегиях дореволюционных предпринимателей, их огромном вкладе в развитие России.

В фондах музея хранится более 2500 подлинных предметов: фотографий, портретов, документов, личных вещей, наград, являющихся памятниками деятельности создателей российской промышленности, торговли, финансовой системы. Музей располагает значительным объёмом (около 2500 единиц) копийных материалов, подлинники которых хранятся в семьях потомков купеческих семей и в частных коллекциях. Помимо музейного собрания формируется научная библиотека профильной литературы. В настоящее время её фонд насчитывает более 3000 единиц и является доступным для посетителей музея.

Основная экспозиция музея включает четыре зала: Зал быта; Зал воспитания и образования детей в XIX — начале ХХ века; Зал предпринимателей, меценатов и благотворителей конца XIX — начала ХХ века; Зал акционерного дела, финансового и фондового рынков России XIX — начале ХХ века. Посетить музей можно в составе организованной экскурсионной группы.

Музей участвует в акциях «Ночь музеев» и «Ночь искусств», проводит тематические экскурсии, лекции и встречи с участием потомков российских педпринимателей.

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Музеи Москвы
Исторические музеи России
Появились в 1992 году в России
Благотворительность в Российской империи
Купечество Российской империи
Здания и сооружения Донской улицы
Здания и сооружения района Якиманка

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Top 10 Black Greek Success News Stories of 2017
I love a good Black Greek Success news story. It is important to me that my fellow Divine Nine members see where our brothers and sisters are making an impact. For your consideration, here are the top 10 news stories about Divine Nine chapters and members from 2017.
1. Philanthropy over Football
While many protested the NFL for blackballing Colin Kaepernick, others praised him for his philanthropy. The Kappa Alpha Psi member represented a cherished Divine Nine value, service, by pledging $1 million to organizations that support social change. He followed through on that pledge and was honored by Sports Illustrated and the NFL Players Association for his commitment. In the process, his Know Your Rights Camp picked up lots of steam.
2. Myth of the "Angry Black Woman"
Zeta Phi Beta decided to address one of African Americans' biggest complaints about media representation. The Zetas teamed up with the American Advertising Federation's Mosaic Center for Multiculturalism to produce a study about media images of African American women. According to the survey, common adjectives used to portray black women in the media are "argumentative," "lazy," and "corrupt." Even worse, only 12 percent of African American and Caucasian women believe there are positive images of African American women in media. The study was released during the 47th annual Legislative Conference of the Congressional Black Caucus and at Advertising Week.
3. Sisters in Law
Three Divine Nine women made history in law enforcement. Two Delta Sigma Theta members, U. Renee Hall and Andrea Boone, became Dallas's first female chief of police and the Delaware State Police's first African American female lieutenant, respectively. In Oregon, Alpha Kappa Alpha member Danielle Outlaw became Portland's first African American police chief.
4. The Burning Debate About "Burning Sands"
Omega Psi Phi member Gerard McMurray drew the ire of the National Pan-Hellenic Council and others when Netflix released his film "Burning Sands". On the other hand, other Black Greeks, including yours truly, argue that the film's honesty about hazing is needed.
5. Divine College Presidency
Black Greeks maintain their traditional presidential presence at HBCUs but Gregory Vincent did something different. The Alpha Phi Alpha member became the first African American president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges, one of U.S. News and World Report's top liberal arts colleges.
6. Black Women's Mental Health in NYC
Chirlane McCray created ThriveNYC to increase mental health services in New York City. The wife of Mayor Bill DeBlasio also added a component called Sisters Thrive to engage black women. To pull it off, she reached out to chapters of all four Divine Nine sororities—Alpha Kappa Alpha, Delta Sigma Theta, Zeta Phi Beta, and Sigma Gamma Rho. She also recruited Jack and Jill of America and The Links' Eastern Area which both see significant involvement from Divine Nine women.
7. Friends, Sorors, Rhodes Scholars
Camille Borders and Jasmine Brown have been friends since they were freshmen at Washington University in St. Louis. Later, they became sorors when they joined Alpha Kappa Alpha. The two are now both Rhodes Scholars in the elite company of only 30 other students in America.
8. Divine Nine Complete at Austin Peay
To have all Divine Nine organizations represented at a predominantly white college or university means that more representation of diverse black voices on campus. Iota Phi Theta made nine when they initiated their newest members at Austin Peay State University.
9. From TMCF to SHRM
Johnny C. Taylor Jr. is credited with raising the profile of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund by increasing its fundraising, forming corporate partnerships, and creative programming. As result, the Kappa Alpha Psi member was tapped to lead the Society for Human Resource Management, the world's largest human resources professional society.
10. Took a Bullet
Alpha Phi Alpha member David Bailey became a hero when he jumped into action against a shooter who opened fire on a group of legislators practicing for a baseball game. A member of the United States Capitol Police, Bailey returned fire but also took a bullet, earning praise from his fellow Americans.
Of course, there are more newsworthy moments for Black Greeks and Divine Nine chapters. Do you know of a Black Greek Success story from 2017 that should be shared? Please, share it in the comments below!


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Home Asian News Opposition to hit the streets over MPs' suspension
Opposition to hit the streets over MPs' suspension
More than 18 Opposition parties have planned a march from Parliament to Vijay Chowk to protest against the suspension of 12 lawmakers from the Rajya Sabha — an issue that has already triggered daily protests inside and outside the Upper House since past two weeks.
The march, to be joined by Opposition leaders of both the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, will be held on Tuesday noon. Leader of the Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge told HT that protests will continue through different forms of Satyagraha. "We have to fight it. We have to tell the people why our people were suspended and how wrongly they have been kept out of the House. Our fight will continue and find other methods like a march or asking all political parties addressing to the press. We will continue our protests through different forms of Satyagraha," he said.
Trinamool leader Dola Sen, one of the 12 suspended MPs protesting daily in front of the Gandhi statue, said, "We have been suspended as we wanted to raise people's issues. In the last session, Opposition MPs were suspended three times. Yet, the government dragged the last session's incidents to this session to stop us again from speaking in the House."
While the Lok Sabha worked smoothly on Monday, Congress MPs walked out of the Rajya Sabha protesting against the continued standoff over the suspensions. Kharge said the government has not conceded to their demand to revisit the suspension.
Speaking in the House, Kharge said the Opposition has repeatedly requested the chair to reconsider the suspension of MPs accused of disrupting the proceedings on the last day of the monsoon session.
"You are the custodian of this house, the government cannot dictate what we should do or not do. Our deputy leader has already spoken to you and also to the leader of the house but they are repeatedly refusing to concede our request. They are putting blame on us…it is not good therefore," he said.
Later in the day, he wrote to the Chairman of the House, requesting him to withdraw external security forces that are posted in the lobbies, referring to the alleged harassment of opposition lawmakers during the monsoon session.
In his letter, reviewed by HT, Kharge cited the August 11 incident wherein Opposition MPs were allegedly attacked and harassed by Delhi Police personnel. "These people were unknown to the members and that became the primary cause of suspicion, which led to unruly scenes..," he said.
Earlier, Anand Sharma of the Congress and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam's (DMK) Tiruchi Siva urged the chair to revisit the action taken against the suspended MPs. CPI MP Binoy Viswam later told HT, "We are contemplating various ways of protests. We have also sought permission for a demonstration at Jantar Mantar."
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Home › Comics › Creating Comics › Artist Spotlight: ILN Cutaway Artist G H Davis
Artist Spotlight: ILN Cutaway Artist G H Davis
By Jeremy on February 20, 2016
Daring Class Destroyer Gun Turret – Illustrated London News, 27 Sep 1952
One of the most challenging subjects for any artist must be the cutaway. Combining artistry with technical accuracy is a challenge that few take up and yet, when they do, the results can be remarkable.
There are two main types of cutaways, the highly technical and normally black and white cutaways of the automotive and aviation industries that are summed up in the Flight magazine style of image showing an aircraft with an entirely transparent fuselage and the partial cutaways which are less technical but more understandable and therefore more populist. This populist style of cutaway has a long history in publishing with its modern proponents, such as Stephen Biesty and Graham Bleathman, owning much to the master of the genre L Ashwell Wood who, while best known for his work in Eagle comic in the 1950s and 1960s, had cutaways published in Modern Boy story paper and Modern Wonder magazine in the 1930s as well as The Sphere news magazine and a selection of Odhams books in the 1940s.
Yet there is another cutaway artist of L Ashwell Wood's era who was even more prolific and more widely seen than Wood due to being a regular artist for the weekly Illustrated London News (ILN) magazine for forty years, an artist who is all but forgotten today – G H Davis.
George Horace Davis was born in Kensington on 8 May 1881 and was educated at Kensington Park College and the Ealing School of Art. A freelance artist before the First World War, during the conflict he served in the Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force which put his artistic and diagrammatic skills to use for the war effort with the instigation of aerial manoeuvre diagrams for pilot training. He became Officer-in-Charge, Aerial Diagrams and worked in the RFC's T5 Section in South Kensington. This work was considered to be important enough for Davis to be featured in the 19 May 1919 issue of Flight magazine (now known as Flight International) under the title 'Flying Lessons In Pictures'.
Photo of GH Davis by Marcus Adams, FRPS – Flight, 19 May 1919
Royal Naval Air Service bombing practice – The Sphere, 24 November 1917
Immediately after the war, as well as continuing to paint subjects for The Sphere weekly news magazine, he was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum (IWM) to paint two scenes of aerial combat. The IWM website describes his work on these oil paintings thus, "The difficulty inherent in painting an eye-witness account of an aerial battle, and the emphasis placed on technical details and accuracy by the Air Service sub-sections, (a common feature of IWM commissions), makes Davis' work more literal and illustrative than that of painters such as Sydney Carline or CRW Nevinson. It is not the thrill of flying or the view of the landscape from the air that interests Davis, but the heroics of the toy-like planes as they chase each other through the skies."
Closing Up: A Bombing Formation of British DH9a Biplanes Closing Up to Beat Off an Enemy Formation of Fokker Triplanes, 1919 oil on canvas © IWM (Art.IWM ART 3071) and used under IWM Non Commercial Licence
His long association with the Illustrated London News began with an illustration about radios in small boats in the issue dated 21 July 1923 and the title would become home for his artwork for the next forty years although, as with many other commercial artists of the day including L Ashwell Wood, during the Second World War he worked on illustrations for Edwin J. Embleton's Ministry of Information publications. This is indicated by the National Archives listing of two pieces of artwork signed by Davis: INF 3/1226 War In Pictures: Infantry following flail tanks and INF 3/1227 War In Pictures: Human torpedoes – the get-away (two-man submarine escaping from harbour).
Defence Against The Bomber: Searchlights – ILN, 16 July 1938
Davis' usually black and white painted subjects for the ILN normally covered one or two pages of the news magazine and presented a wide range of subjects both military and civilian, from aircraft to rockets, cars to ocean liners. The ILN referred to him as a diagrammatic artist as his work covered a wide range of explanatory artwork and not just cutaway images. He would often use multiple images, some cutaway, some close-ups, to explain his subjects to the magazine's readership while at other times, when the work required it, he would use sequential images to show a technical sequence or to tell a story such as the Chinese attacks on the Royal Navy sloop HMS Amethyst on the Yangtse River.
Original artwork for HMS Amethyst Under Attack On The Yangtse River – ILN, 13 Aug 1949
Monochrome gouache panel detail of HMS Amethyst – ILN, 13 August 1949
While his Great War service was to do with flying, the sea does seem to be a recurring theme of Davis' work. In 1917 he wrote and illustrated the short book Ships Of All Sorts published by Geographica, 'Salving Millions From Ocean's Bed and 'The Latest In Lifeboats' appeared in the 1925 and 1926 editions of DC Thomson's Adventure Land, the annual of their weekly Adventure boy's story paper, while books published by Ward Lock in the 1930s such as The Brave Deeds Picture Book and titles in The Wonder Book Of… series included his maritime work. Also in the 1930s Davis illustrated at least one advertising poster for the Holland America Line showing their then latest SS Statendam ocean liner, while 'The Latest In Lightships' appeared in DC Thomson's 1937 Skipper Book For Boys. By 1955 the ILN was crediting him as "our Special Artist G H Davis SMA" indicating that he was by then a member of the Society of Marine Artists (now the Royal Society of Marine Artists).
The Latest In Lifeboats – Adventure Land, 1926
1930s Holland America Line Advertising Poster featuring SS Statendam
Magazines other than the Illustrated London News also ran his work including Flight, Modern Wonder, and Chums in the United Kingdom while in the USA his work appeared regularly in Popular Mechanics Magazine. It has to be said that some of these images could have been licensed reprints from the ILN rather than newly commissioned work, but even if they were reprints they served to spread his art, and his distinctive signature, much further than the single title that was his main source of work. He worked consistently for the ILN until his death at the age of 82 on the night of 30 November/1 December 1963 with his obituary in the ILN dated 7 December 1963 stating that "he himself calculated that he had in his first 40 years occupied over 2500 pages" of the magazine.
Popular Mechanics Magazine (USA), V87 N2, February 1947, with a feature on and cutaway of an industrial whaling ship.
That ILN obituary concluded with "Everyone who knew him personally deeply liked him." This single sentence highlights a weakness in the type of article about long dead commercial magazine and comic artists that you are reading now. It is possible to document the facts about these artists, and sometimes speculate to help fill in gaps in the factual knowledge, but without personal knowledge of the subject, or access to the memories of relatives or friends, it is all but impossible to give a flavour of the person. Yet for GH Davis we can with the help of a perhaps surprising source, British author and playwright Michael Fryan.
Keeping Track Of Nazi Raiders panel detail – ILN, 2 Nov 1940
Fryan's biographical book My Father's Fortune, which was shortlisted in the biography section of the Costa Book Awards in 2010, relates Fryan's childhood in East Ewell, Epsom. In the book he tells readers that living at 17 Hillside Road (coincidentally about two miles walk away from Dan Dare creator Frank Hampson's Bayford Lodge) was his father's friend and neighbour George Davis. Davis obviously held a fascination for the young Michael who describes him in the book as "a tall, benevolent, excitable man with a tiny, benevolent, placid wife". Perhaps part of the reason for that fascination was that Davis would invite the young Michael into his studio at the back of the house, a studio which he describes as "artistic chaos" amongst which Davis used "technical plans" and "three-dimensional models" to help him create his artwork. Some of the military aircraft models were then given to Michael and were "by far the grandest toys that I will ever own" although "their record of survival in my muddling childish hands is considerably worse than that of their life-size counterparts in battle."
GH Davis in his studio – Image sourced from AllPosters.com
4 page ILN pull-out of RMS Queen Mary liner as seen on GH Davis' studio wall above
Fryan's final comment about Davis is about his garden, "I don't think that I'm doing George Davis an injustice when I recall that from the windows of his studio you look out through a tangle of rambler rose over a small but (to me) entrancing landscape of primeval forest and unmown savannah." He sums up the state of Davis' garden with the succinct comment, "Of course – he's an artist."
There are more details of GH Davis on the Illustrated London News' Illustrated First World War website and a selection of his ILN artwork on the Art Contrarian blog.
There is a large selection of GH Davis' work on the Look and Learn website.
GH Davis' work for the Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force during the First World War is described in the issue of Flight magazine dated 19 May 1919.
GH Davis' paintings for the Imperial War Museum are detailed on the IWM website and the BBC Your Paintings website.
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Michael Barone asks whether the United States will become more or less like continental Europe. Considering how poorly Europe is faring economically (10 percent unemployment; minimal job creation in the past 25 years) and socially (e.g., low reproduction rates; rioting in France) it is hard to imagine how we could elect to move in the European direction. However, as Barone points out, that's where one of our two political parties wants to take us. Leading Democratic politicians like John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, whose politican consciousness was formed around the idea that, compared to Europe, the U.S. is an unjust society are part of the problem. Another factor is the party's more pragmatic (but not unrelated) interest in having the federal government absorb high percentages of gross domestic product, retrict labor markets, and control key sectors of the economy such as health care. In short, aging politicians and special interest groups cause Democrats to pursue an agenda that history tells us is most unlikely to work.
The party's best hope, and probably a realistic one, is that the next generation of leaders (those who know not the "60s") will be less enamored with Europe, and more inclined to chase voters whose interests are not tied to government expansion.


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Clevedon Juniors reach the league cup final
Clevedon Juniors Under-13s defeated Priory Rangers 3-0 to reach the league cup final.
Clevedon Juniors Under-13s booked their place in the league cup final after beating a feisty Priory Rangers team 3-0.
Clevedon started well, creating several good chances before Ethan Crossley played Jack Burge in and he produced a fine finish into the corner of the net.
The score remained 1-0 into the second half and Priory slowly came back into the game, but Brad Probert and Theo Gaskin regained control of the midfield.
Clevedon pushed on and doubled their lead when Harvey Conroy unleashed a shot into the top corner. Clevedon were now dominating and made it 3-0 when Crossley's shot rebounded off the post and fell to Burge who made no mistake.
A mention should go to Josh Pike and Danny Pass, who produced strong performances in defence. Man of the match was Jack Burge.
Portishead Juniors travelled to face Bristol Spartak for what they knew would be a tough and physical encounter against a strong team.
The first-half was tight with few clear cut chances either way, but the game played at a high pace and with high intensity.
The second half saw more opportunities to score at both ends. Portishead had a great opportunity to go 1-0 up but failed to take it and shortly afterwards failed to clear the ball from a scrap in their area and Spartak scored.
Bristol Spartak sealed the win a few minutes later with a quickly-taken corner which caught the Portishead defence napping and a header from an unmarked player.
Portishead battled on and did create more chances but were unable to score and the game finished 2-0 to Spartak.
The two teams will meet for the third time this season – now with one win each – in the cup final on May 10.


They'd just lost their dearest friend.
All that He said, no He was dead, so this was the way it would end.
The dreams they had dreamed, were not what they'd seemed, now that He was dead and gone.
The garden, the jail, the hammer , the nail.
The angel, the star, the kings from afar.
The wedding, the water , the wine. Noe it was done, they'd taken her son. Wasted before his time. She knew it was true, she'd watched him die too, she'd heard then call Him just a man. But deep in her heart, She knew from the start.


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In enzymology, a malate dehydrogenase (quinone) (), formerly malate dehydrogenase (acceptor) (EC 1.1.99.16), is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction

(S)-malate + a quinone  oxaloacetate + reduced quinone

Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are (S)-malate and a quinone, whereas its two products are oxaloacetate and reduced quinone.

This enzyme belongs to the family of oxidoreductases, specifically those acting on the CH-OH group of donor with a quinone as acceptor. The systematic name of this enzyme class is (S)-malate:quinone oxidoreductase. Other names in common use include FAD-dependent malate-vitamin K reductase, malate-vitamin K reductase, and (S)-malate:(quinone) oxidoreductase. This enzyme participates in pyruvate metabolism. It employs one cofactor, FAD.

References

EC 1.1.5
Flavoproteins
Enzymes of unknown structure


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