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How DIY Applies To Life Building, Not Just Kitchen Make-Overs
Rodger Dean Duncan
I cover leadership issues that make or break your workplace experience
Dec 2, 2022, 02:00am EST |
As people continue to emerge from months of pandemic hunker down, the do-it-yourself business seems to be picking up: kitchen make-overs, bathroom updates, and endless other projects that keep Harry and Harriet Homeowner busy.
But the DIY approach applies to life building every bit as much as to sprucing up the homestead.
That's certainly the view of Bernie Marcus. The son of a cabinetmaker and a garment worker, Marcus overcame a hardscrabble upbringing that would have demoralized many boys. By the age of 15 he'd already held more than a dozen jobs, joined a gang, and worked as a comedian and hypnotist in the Catskills.
With a formula of pure grit, ingenuity, and hard work—yes, taking a DIY approach to life itself—Marcus became a billionaire whose life work has benefitted millions of others.
As co-founder of the giant Home Depot retail chain, Marcus has not only impacted people's view of their own capacities for home improvement projects, his philanthropic efforts have had a profound impact on hundreds of organizations.
His book is Kick Up Some Dust: Lessons on Thinking Big, Giving Back, and Doing It Yourself.
Rodger Dean Duncan: The very first chapter of your book is titled "Get Some Chutzpah." What role do audacity and boldness play in a person's success?
Bernie Marcus: I grew up the youngest of four to immigrant parents from the Ukraine and Russia in Newark. By the time I was 11, I took any job I could get. My parents were barely surviving, and they had no time to worry about me. I had to figure things out, solve my own problems, and make a way out of no way. I had to do it myself. Those early lessons taught me that you can't wait for others to fix things. That mentality shaped my early retail career, gave me the courage to start Home Depot with Arthur Blank and Kenny Langone, and has helped inform our philanthropy to solve big problems like autism, cancer, and post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.
Duncan: At Home Depot, you worked to create a culture of respect and compassion. What kind of culture seems to be contributing in the "quiet quitting" that is apparently so prevalent in many of today's workplaces?
Marcus: Our success came from believing in our associates and giving them autonomy to do their best. We didn't micromanage; we trusted. That is the heart of Home Depot's culture. We told our managers that it was up to them to find out what their stores, associates, and community needed. That's why people stayed at Home Depot. They didn't have to quit or look for something better—they could grow with the company, and there was a lot of opportunity to reach the American Dream if they wanted it. That was worth something. Today, if you don't have a positive corporate culture, you're going to lose good people. Maybe not right away, but quiet quitting is a real thing. But we never saw that at Home Depot.
Bernie Marcus
Duncan: "Don't ask permission" is a cultural element you recommend. Give us an example of what that looks like in actual practice.
Marcus: On the morning of the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995, we saw the same thing everybody else did—the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in a pile of rubble. I called the manager of one of the stores close by to see if any of our associates were affected and to find out what we could do to help. He wasn't there. So, I called the other store, same problem. Nobody was there. I was furious and told the operator to have them call me as soon as they got in. Not thirty minutes later, the first manager called to explain what was happening. The moment they heard about the blast, they loaded all their trucks with shovels, wheelbarrows, tarps, plywood—anything they thought would be helpful. They didn't call the corporate office. They didn't ask for permission. They just made sure that generators were available and that the first responders had axes and search lights. Nobody asked them to come. They just showed up. That is the kind of company we built.
Duncan: What has your own experience with acquisitions taught you about the challenges that come with trying to blend organizational cultures?
Marcus: Good companies make mistakes. Big companies make mistakes. Young companies make the most mistakes. Home Depot made a whopper in 1984 that nearly destroyed us. We had recently expanded out of the Atlanta market and our profitability was through the roof. Looking for ways to continue to expand, we bought a Texas-based chain, Bowater Home Centers, for $38.4 million. When we visited the stores, we were surprised by how run-down and badly managed they were. But we believed that our management could turn things around. We asked Bowater to become Home Depot. They sold different things, had a different corporate culture, and had employees that were not trained in the ways of things orange. We tried to absorb a company that did not share our values. What looked like a golden opportunity sapped talent out of our stores and burdened the whole company. Instead of having our best managers running great stores, we sent them to bail out these newly acquired ones that did not have the same merchandise or customer service. We asked too much of both companies and nearly went bankrupt in the process.
Duncan: You say that at Home Depot you "did not train the managers or associates to hawk products, but rather to develop customers' confidence in their own skills." How can that self-reliance philosophy be applied in a non-retail environment?
Marcus: Prove to a customer that they can do the job, and they will shop at your store forever. In the late 1970s, people were hesitant to do it themselves, so they hired professionals to do home improvement projects. I remember soon after we founded Home Depot, I was in the mountains having lunch. A dozen people came to my table to tell me about what the kinds of projects they were doing around the house. My wife Billi and I could hardly eat! One guy, who was about sixty-five, was talking about how he was redoing the roof on his mountain cabin. I asked him, "When did you learn to do a roof?" He replied, "When you opened Home Depot!" Self-reliance is a powerful thing, and we see it in our philanthropy, especially in our work with veterans. We like to fund organizations that are serious about fostering independence and self-respect. Veterans are not weak, broken, or in need of rescue. They offer a lot of value, are self-sacrificing, and care about being good citizens. Giving someone confidence in their own abilities is a life-long gift.
Duncan: Burnout seems to be a growing phenomenon in the American workplace. What can leaders do to encourage their people to "get a life" outside of work?
Marcus: Right before we got married, Billi and I were sitting in my car on Mulholland Drive overlooking Los Angeles talking about our future. I wanted her to know what she was getting into. I have never had a 9-to-5nine-to-five job in my life. I was not going to be home for dinner every night, so she had to cultivate her own interests if she was going to be happy. I didn't have a position—I had a passion, and I needed people around me who felt the same way. If you don't love what you do, you will get burned out. I also encouraged friends and associates to get involved with their communities outside of work. We all have a lot of skills, and helping others is the best way to feel fulfilled. We did that at Home Depot, and we do it today in our philanthropy.
Duncan: You quote your late friend Sam Walton, founder of Walmart, as saying, "Bureaucracies are like cockroaches—you can't see them until you turn on the light." How can that perspective help leaders in any kind of business?
Marcus: Sam loved to talk about one of his biggest mistakes. He used to take managers from one store to open the next one. At first, it seemed like a good idea—take someone with experience and have them share it with a new crew. What he learned was that these roving managers were just making the same mistakes over and over again and replicating them at all the new stores. So, he decided to train a small group that had one job—open new stores. After a year, Sam visited the group to see how things were going. But he could not find them. It turns out that the team leader had hired more than 1,000 associates and relocated them to a new building. He wanted a nimble team that knew how to open stores, not a massive group of paper pushers. If you get too far from your core business or put too many layers between leadership and your associates, you will never get anything done.
Duncan: You place a lot of emphasis on storytelling. How can a leader use storytelling to inspire people to "catch the vision" of their own potential?
Marcus: All good companies and nonprofits tell a good story—why their product or work will make your life better. Walmart saves you money. M.D. Anderson is making cancer history. I've seen so many businesses and great causes fail because they can't articulate why their idea or product is worth buying. This is a failure of storytelling. You don't want to be the entrepreneur who can't articulate the value of their start-up up to a room full of venture capitalists. You don't want to be the head of a nonprofit who is unable to explain why their work matters and see a major gift go to a competitor. We are in the selling business, and all businesses and causes need to communicate their vision with a great story.
Duncan: What principles and practices in your philanthropic work can apply to someone running a business?
Marcus: I have worked hard in my life, but I have also been very lucky. I believe that we all have a responsibility to make the world a better place, to help those who are suffering. I have focused my philanthropy on causes that share this vision and commitment. But I also want to use what I learned in business to ensure that my investment creates momentum and is sustainable. At the Marcus Foundation, we have donated more than $2 billion over 30 years to more than 500 organizations. With each one, we try to answer four questions before deciding whether to commit:
What are the deliverables?
How will we measure success?
How capable is leadership?
What is the organization's plan for self-sufficiency and sustainability?
Charity is no different from business: the bottom-line matters. We do not just want to write a check. We want to create, support, and sustain programs and organizations that cure diseases, promote free enterprise, and change people's lives. We want to help redefine the metrics that philanthropists use to distribute their wealth.
Duncan: In your view, what does the future hold?
Marcus: I'm a big believer in free enterprise. I firmly believe that the American Dream is not dead. It may sound a little corny, but I still believe that we live in the land of opportunity. Where else could a poor kid from Newark build the largest home improvement retail company in the world, create an entire industry, and give away $2 billion? I am so fortunate that my parents came to a country that cherishes free enterprise and allows it to flourish. I believe that if you work hard enough you can make a difference.
Success means different things to different people—but for me it boils down to one simple question: Did I make anybody's life better? I'd like to think so.
Follow me on Twitter or LinkedIn. Check out my website or some of my other work here.


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Q: How can I expand variables in a Perl string? I am trying to expand the string $searchCriteria in the if condition. Any clues?
use strict;

my $argNum;
my $searchCriteria = "";
foreach $argNum (0 .. $#ARGV) {
    $searchCriteria = $searchCriteria . "(\$_ =~ \/" . $ARGV[$argNum] . "\/i) && ";
}
$searchCriteria =~ s/&& $//;
#print $searchCriteria;

open IP, "<vm.txt" or die $!;

my @fileContents = <IP>;
foreach (@fileContents) {
    if (${$searchCriteria}) {
        print $_;
    }
}

A: If your search criteria are regular expressions, you should prepare your own compiled regexp. Also note the use of the while loop (when reading the file) to avoid excessive memory use. If you want lines containing any of argument:
use strict;
use warnings;

my $searchRe = do {
  my $searchCriteria = join '|', map "(?:$_)", @ARGV;
  qr/$searchCriteria/i;
};

open my $fh, '<', 'vm.txt' or die $!;

while (<$fh>) {
  print if m/$searchRe/;
}

close $fh;

or if you want lines containing all ones:
use strict;
use warnings;

my $searcher = do {
  my @searchCriteria = map qr/$_/i, @ARGV;
  sub {
    # study; # study can help for long lines or lot of regular expressions
    for my $re (@searchCriteria) {
      return unless m/$re/;
    }
    return 1
  }
};

open my $fh, '<', 'vm.txt' or die $!;

while (<$fh>) {
  print if $searcher->();
}

close $fh;

(Note that you might want a \Q and \E around the $_ if the command-line arguments are strings rather than regular expressions.)
Finally, if you want improve speed for many search criteria use Regexp::Optimizer.
use Regexp::Optimizer;

my $searchRe = do {
  my $searchCriteria = join '|', map "(?:$_)", @ARGV;
  Regexp::Optimizer->new->optimize(qr($searchCriteria)i);
};

A: Uhm... I'm not sure what the question is... but somehow I suspect that you need the qr// expression (quoted regex).

A: It looks like you want to eval whether or not the line contains ALL arguments in @ARGV.
I think this might be more along the lines of what you're looking for, and more palatable to the perl crowd as well.
use FileHandle;
use List::MoreUtil qw<all>;

my @regexes = map { qr/\L$_\E/i } @ARGV;

my $fh = FileHandle->new( '<vm.txt' );
die "Err: $!" unless $fh;

foreach my $line ( <$fh> ) {
    print $line if all { $line =~ m/$_/i } @regexes;
}

Of course if you wanted some compression because you're going to execute the test time and time again in a single execution, you could create a sub for that.
sub create_compound_test {
    my $test_sub_text = "sub (_) {\n    local \$_ = shift;";

    foreach my $arg ( map { lc; } @_ ) {
        $test_sub_text .= "\n    return unless m/$arg/i;";
    }
    $test_sub_text .= "\n    return 1;\n}";

    my $test_sub = eval $test_sub_text;
    Carp::croak "Could not create test:\n $test_sub_text - $@" if $@;
    return $test_sub;
}

It does the same thing as $_ =~ /blah/i && $_ =~ /blah2/ ...
Then it would be:
my $match_all = create_compound_test( @ARGV );
foreach ( <$fh> ) {
    print if $match_all->();
}

But I would probably more likely do this:
my $match_all = create_compound_test( @ARGV );
foreach ( grep { $match_all->(); } <$fh> ) {
    print;
}

...or even...
print foreach grep { $match_all->(); } <$fh>;

A: What's your question? Perhaps you are looking for ack? It seems like you are attempting to eval a string (usually a bad idea).  You should at least use qr//. Maybe something like:
my @regexs = map qr/(?i)$_/, @ARGV;
my $search = sub {
  for my $re (@regexes) {
    return unless /$re/;
  }
  return 1;
}
open IP, "<", "vm.txt" or die "Err: $!";
while (<IP>) {
  print $_ if $search->();
}

This could easily be improved. And it's not tested. YMMV.

A: You could construct a single regex that would work IF the arguments were not regex expressions.
The idea is the following sequence:

*

*an alternation (one|two|...)

*followed by non-greedy anything (.*?)

*followed by a negative lookahead of what matched alternation #1 (?!\1)

*followed by the repeated alternation (one|two|...)

*followed by non-greedy anything (.*?)

*followed by a negative lookahead of an alternation of what matched either of the last alternations (?!\1|\2)
Repeat 4-6, until we have a match for all terms.
So the code that constructs this is:
sub create_compound_match {

    my @args          = @_;
    my $arg_limit     = $#args;
    my $expr          = join( '|', map { lc; } @args );
    my $neg_lookahead = join( '|', map { "\\$_" } 1..$arg_limit );

    my $test = join( '.*?'
                   , "($expr)"
                   , ( map { '(?!'
                           . substr( $neg_lookahead, 0, 3 * $_ - 1 )
                           . ")($expr)"
                           } 1..$arg_limit
                      )
                   );

    return qr/$test/i;
}

Which would be tested in this fashion:
my $test = create_compound_match( @ARGV );
print foreach grep { /$test/i } <$fh>;

However, this lacks the ability of to pass in regexes on the command line @ARGV could equal qw, and the generated regex would happily match 'a aa aaa aaaa' without requiring the match of b*, because "aa" != "a", so the negative lookahead is satisfied.

A: After looking at Taking from Hynek -Pichi- Vychodil's answer I realized you could greatly simplify this entire task with List::MoreUtil's all subroutine.  I highly recommend this package.
use strict;
use warinings;
use List::MoreUtil qw/all/; # if installed (not a bad idea to get it if not)

my @regexen = map { qr/$_/i } @ARGV;

open my $fh, '<', 'vm.txt' or die $!;

foreach my $line (<$fh>) {
    print $line if all { $line =~ $_ } @regexen;
};

close $fh;

Subsitute all with any for an "or" based match.
Edit: Damn, looks like Axeman posted something very similar to this.  Great minds think alike, eh? :)

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Jenks Speaking + Consulting
High School Film Fesitval
The series launch of World of Jenks garnered over 5 million viewers, marking MTV's highest rated series launch ever. Season 2 of World of Jenks expanded to hour long episodes, as Jenks followed three subjects over the course of a year.
"Andrew Jenks is a maverick filmmaker with a great vision and dynamic on-screen presence. He has a rare ability to deeply connect with his subjects, making this series an intensely authentic and engaging viewing experience. "
- Tony DiSanta (President, DiGa)
"Season 2 was, 'a raw, intimate look at daily struggles and victories, and what it means to be a young person today.'"
— US World News and Report
"MTV's World of Jenks is one of the few unscripted shows that's actually snark-free and helpful to people. While I'm not a fan of all MTV fare, I do like how this series gives a voice to all kinds of teens, not just the pretty ones in fashionable clothes."
— USA Today
Power of 12 Election Coverage
"...Jenks has been a voice for his generation for some time...and is carrying the weight of a potential 45-‐million younger voters on his shoulders."
— The Daily News
Watch a clip by Clicking Here
Films/Documentaries
It's Not Over tells the inspiring story of three courageous millennials from around the world who are living with or affected by HIV/AIDS. Award winning filmmaker Andrew Jenks takes viewers on a journey across India, South Africa and the United States to experience the epidemic first hand. The result is a deeply personal and uplifting story that is rarely represented in popular culture.
Jenks takes viewers on a journey to South Africa, where together with Lucky, explores an area with more people living with HIV than anywhere else in the world; to India, where Sarang, an openly gay HIV+ theater director fights to preserve his way of life; and to Middle America where Paige highlights how she has turned her bad experiences of being bullied and teased into something good as a youth advocate for HIV.
It's Not Over was made possible by the M·A·C AIDS Fund and is currently available to view via Netflix, Hulu, Pivot, and SnagFilms worldwide.
VIEW PHOTOS FROM THE FILM
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Part of the Emmy-nominated ESPN 30 for 30 series
Former NBA center Shawn Bradley is mostly remembered for two things -- being one of the tallest players to ever play in the NBA and for being on the wrong end of a lot of great dunks. Watch here
THE ZEN OF BOBBY V
"Jenks and his crew keep the tradition of verite cinema going by simply capturing what happens in front of the camera." - Variety
The Zen of Bobby V focuses on former MLB manager Bobby Valentine and his current job managing the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan. The doc gives viewers unprecedented access to Valentine and his team, visiting a world where cheerleaders chant between innings and rock bands perform before each game, while exploring the impact globalization has on the game's present and future. It is the best look inside the culture of Japanese baseball through the eyes of one of American baseball's greatest current ambassadors.
"It's almost impossible to believe that a kid could produce a documentary like this. It's a gorgeous, hilarious, sad, wonderful, unblinking look at the joy of life - even at the end of it...Bravo." - The Daily News
Just like the other residents at the assisted living facility Harbor Place, I played bingo, hung out in the courtyards contemplating "the golden years", and even helped fellow neighbors change their oxygen tanks. However, unlike Tammy (age 95) or even Bill (age 80), I am only nineteen years old.
My name is Andrew Jenks and this past summer I moved into a senior residence in Florida. I moved into room 335. For one summer I did all of the things that old people do. I wanted to find the answer to the question: how do they feel now that they face the end of their lives?
I laughed at their jokes about sex, played baseball with canes instead of bats, and raced through the hallways in my friend's wheelchair. By the fourth week, three of my closest friends were hospitalized and my best chum, Bill, stopped talking to me. I coaxed my neighbor through a heart attack, saw the heartbreak of dementia, and witnessed the death of a friend.
By the end of the summer, I had formed unimaginable bonds with some of the greatest, and oldest, people that life has to offer. I came to realize that it is in such friendships and the spirit in which you live that meaning is to be found. My two good college buddies followed this journey and recorded over 200 hours of footage, creating "Andrew Jenks, Room 335".
Now available on Netflix.
It's About A Girl: 8 Episode Web Series for GANT Clothing
Trailer: The ultimate love story. "It's About A Girl" starring Andrew Jenks and Taryn Southern.
Watch the entire series here
10 Years Later: A short film by Andrew Jenks
It's been ten years since the attacks of September 11th, 2001. In memory, filmmaker, Andrew Jenks (World of Jenks, The Zen of Bobby V) has produced a short film in which a cross-section of the country's millennial generation give their personal accounts of that historic day: where they were, who they were with, and how 9/11 has impacted their lives.
Meet the filmmaker who is the voice of his generation!
Behind the camera, Andrew Jenks has captured the attention of young adults everywhere with his innovative MTV documentary series, World of Jenks. When asked about his inspiration for the show, Jenks said, "I want to tell the stories of my generation. I want to be a filmmaker that is able to capture what my generation thinks, how they act, and what they ultimately stand for."
Now fans of all ages will be able to discover everything they've ever wanted to know about Jenks, from growing up to becoming a renowned documentary filmmaker in this comprehensive photo-biography. How did he do it? By following his own rules for success-always be flexible, fake it till you make it, and never accept no.
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If Siam Royal View has a rival for the accolade of being the best villa development in East Pattaya, then it would be The Vineyard. Siam Royal View may have beaten The Vineyard to the award for Best Villa Development (Eastern Seaboard) 2012, but The Vineyard's developments have now been Highly Commended for two years in a row.
The Vineyard is now on its third phase, called The Vineyard – Le Residence, with all three phases of the project occupying separate sites.
If being close to Pattaya City is very important to you, then The Vineyard projects are perhaps not for you as they are a fair bit further out from the city centre than Siam Royal View – around 10km – but still reachable inside 20 minutes if the roads are clear, however. For anyone more interested in spending their days on the golf course rather than in the city centre or on the beach, however, the location is an excellent one as it is less than five minutes away from the Siam Country Club golf courses. Families will also appreciate the fact that the excellent Regent's International School is also only five minutes away.
There are just a handful of plots remaining now at The Vineyard – Le Residence. Instead, for 2013, the developers are now concentrating on the first phase of their new project, which is called Amaya Hill. Launched in November 2012, Amaya Hill is located a little closer to Pattaya than The Vineyard developments, less than 7km from the city, but just as close to the golf courses and international school.
What really attracted me to Amaya Hill, apart from the excellent track record of the developer for delivering a top-quality product is the design of the villas. Instead of the typical Thai-style villas with their steep, gabled roofs, the architecture at Amaya Hill is of a modernist European style featuring stark right angles and squares. The designs reminded me very much of Mies van der Rohe's iconic German Pavilion for the 1929 Barcelona Exposition.
In terms of prices, the most affordable villa at Amaya Hill is around THB 7 million for a 128m2 two-bedroom Type-B villa without the pool, increasing to just under THB 15 million for a 240m2 five-bedroom Type-D on an over-sized plot. Compare the prices here with those at Siam Royal View and you can see that you get a lot more for your money here. As a result, if the longer journey to the city centre is not a major problem for you, Amaya Hill is well worth considering if you are looking for a stylish and luxurious villa on a highly exclusive development.


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What was going through the Mind of the First Person ever to Pull on aCow's Udder?
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Police seeking suspects in Mason City home invasion robbery
10 things you won't want to miss at Clear Lake's Christmas by the Lake
Mrs. Claus greets guests at the door for visits to Santa Saturday during Christmas by the Lake in Clear Lake in 2017.
CHRIS ZOELLER, The Globe Gazette
A North Iowa holiday tradition filled with food, fun and festivities is celebrating a milestone this year.
Christmas by the Lake — in its 25th year — will take place Saturday and Sunday in downtown Clear Lake.
"It means a lot this year," said Gene Madson, Christmas by the Lake Committee chairman. "Twenty-five years is a long time and it's probably one of the highlights of the holiday season."
The event is the culmination of weeks — if not months — of work on behalf of the all-volunteer organizing committee, and this year, it hopes to bring more people to Clear Lake to celebrate the holidays, the community and the event's anniversary.
Christmas by the Lake offers something for everyone, Madson said, which makes it a great tradition for families.
"The more the merrier as far as I'm concerned," he said.
Christmas by the Lake
The event, which has won several tourism awards for best holiday festival, generally goes on as planned unless bitterly cold temperatures or blizzard-like conditions occur.
The festival has been postponed twice since it began, once in 1995 and the other in 2018.
For those looking to attend Christmas by the Lake, here are 10 things you won't want to miss:
1. Lighted Christmas by the Lake Parade
Twinkling lights and holiday music will abound when this year's Lighted Christmas by the Lake Parade makes its way through Clear Lake. The parade begins at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7.
The parade route will come down Main Avenue to the lake, turn west on North Lakeview Drive and continue on North Lakeview Drive to Fourth Avenue North and turn east on North Shore Drive.
2. Spectacular fireworks finale
A full slate of festive Saturday activities will conclude with a colorful fireworks display over the frozen lake off the Seawall after the lighted parade.
3. Polar Bear Dip
Take a dip in the frozen lake for two great local causes. Proceeds from the 22nd annual Polar Bear Club will go toward Make-A-Wish of North Iowa and Toys for Tots.
The Polar Bear Dip will take place at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday at City Beach.
4. Matinee at Lake Theatre
The Lake Theatre will be showing "Abominable," or another kid-friendly film, at 11 a.m. both Saturday and Sunday in Clear Lake. Admission is free with a donation to the local food bank.
The Holy Rocka Rollaz will perform from 7-10 p.m. Friday in downtown Mason City as part of the Friday Night Live summer series.
Photo courtesy The Holy Rocka Rollaz
5. Christmas with the Holy Rocka Rollaz
Kick off the holidays rockin' with The Holy Rocka Rollaz on Saturday.
The Minnesota-based group, known for its classic early rock 'n' roll and rockabilly sound, will perform at 7 p.m. at the Surf Ballroom & Museum, 460 N. Shore Drive, in Clear Lake.
Tickets are $17 in advance or $22 at the door. For more information, visit www.surfballroom.com.
6. European-style outdoor market
Enjoy an open-air Christmas market during the festivities. The market, hosted by Simply Nourished, will feature local artisans, entertainment, traditional food and drink on North Third Street along the east side of City Park. The market will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday.
7. Santa
Santa Claus will be making his rounds during this year's Christmas by the Lake, but be sure to catch him from 1 to 4 p.m. and from 6 to 7 p.m. Saturday, and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at City Park in Clear Lake. He may also make a special appearance in the lighted parade, so keep your eyes out.
Ron Miles Jr
8. Honoring and remembering World War II veterans
This year's Christmas by the Lake Parade theme is patriotic in honor of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, a day where people come together to honor and remember the service members and civilians who were killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941
The parade will start by honoring and remembering World War II veterans from North Iowa and beyond with the help of local law enforcement.
9. Santa's Workshop Festival
Santa's Workshop Festival, the indoor portion of Christmas by the Lake, has been moved to the Blackbox Theater at The Hub, the Zion Lutheran Church annex building on North Fifth Street in downtown Clear Lake.
The festival will take place from 1:30 to 4 p.m. on Saturday and feature performances by "Punch & Judy" puppet show, the Victorian magician, comedy skits, short music performances and more.
In an adjacent space, children will have the opportunity to experience tea with Queen Victoria, get a souvenir from the Jolly Elf balloon twister or help decorate cookies.
10. And so much more.
Trolley, horse-drawn sleigh and carriage rides; strolling Dickens' characters; s'mores; Christmas karaoke, wood-carving demonstration; indoor nativity scene displays and plenty more for the entire family to enjoy.
Don't forget to peruse the local businesses for holiday specials and treats.
For a complete schedule of Christmas by the Lake festivities, visit the Clear Lake Area Chamber of Commerce Facebook page or its website at www.clearlakeiowa.com.
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Three people are dead after a man drove the wrong way on a major interstate on Florida's west coast.
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Nashville Galleries Examiner ...No terrible twos about it!
No terrible twos about it!
Chuck Beard
Nashville Galleries Examiner
There won't be any clowns in outrageous get-ups or fake candles that never seem to go out no matter what technique you try to make your dreams a reality, but during this week's First Saturday Gallery Crawl, August 1st, from 6-9pm, Twist Art Gallery will informally be celebrating its 3rd birthday with art and entertainment galore! You don't have to bring a gift, just yourself and possibly all of your friends, but there is a good chance that you won't leave empty-handed.
It has already been three years since Twist began on August 6th, 2006. To celebrate the huge event, Twist is not opening one BUT two new shows: a Mail Art show in Twist #58 and paintings by Angela Burks! It certainly has been a rollercoaster ride to get where Twist is today from humble beginnings, but Twist doesn't seem to see any end in sight just yet. In fact, Joe Nolan recently reported for Nashville Public Radio on the diverse ways of how Twist Art Gallery is proving particularly innovative in ways it is branching out through technology and attracting potential fans and buyers during a time where art business sales are down.
Alongside Angela's show opening, Twist is also opening their Love Letters to the Post Office; a Mail Art show. Lately, the Arcade Post Office has had close-calls with possibly having to close from orders by the U.S. Postal Service. Heartfelt for the art of handwritten letters and postcards, Twist is trying to help the cause against a possible lost art form by having loving postcards that were sent in and postmarked before July 24th to be displayed and sold at the Gallery Crawl for $5 a piece to support future Twist exhibitions in the Arcade.
Also on tap for the festive event will be the availability of the pictured, limited-edition Twist commemorative posters created by local artist Laura Braisden in both full-color or black and white options. You'll need to arrive early because there are only 100 of those posters made specifically for this birthday party. There will be other fun surprises and souvenirs in store and more!
Again, I was told there would be no clowns in outrageous get-ups. On the bright side, there will be stellar music by Nashville's own sensation, Eastern Block, to accompany all of the visual art inside the Arcade starting at 7pm. Trust me; this will be one birthday party you won't want to miss! Did I mention no clowns?!
Twist turns 3 years old...Nashville Scene
You're Not Helping and Twist's Birthday Bash
It's Your Birthday
Joe Nolan
Time flies when you are having fun, and Twist Gallery founders Caroline Carlisle and Beth Gilmore have been having a blast growing their presence in the Downtown Arcade and becoming one of the must-see spaces on the First Saturday Gallery Crawl. To celebrate their third birthday, Twist will feature two new shows in each of its Arcade spaces. 73 Arcade will feature paintings by Angela Burks whose latest paintings have introduced graphic elements into her realistic portraits. Twist's space at 58 Arcade will feature a mail art show called Love Letters to the Post Office that is dedicated to the Arcade's 106 year old post office which has recently been threatened with closing. Try to snag a copy of Laura Baisden's great birthday poster and get there early for cake!
Reception, also celebrating Twist's anniversary, 6-9 p.m., Aug. 1.
IN THE tennessean...Twist, it's three years and counting
For Twist, it's three years and counting
Twist Art Gallery is opening shows in both its Arcade spaces during next Saturday's Art Crawl: paintings by Angela Burks in 73 and Love Letters to the Post Office, a collection of postcards created and sent to the gallery in an effort to save the Arcade post office, in 58. Twist is also celebrating its third anniversary from 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday.
"There will definitely be cake," says Twist co-owner Beth Gilmore, along with Eastern Block performing downstairs and a limited edition third anniversary poster.
Designed by Laura Baisden, the poster features the familiar pink and green color scheme and "elephant" from Twist's logo. Embracing the elephant is just one example of how Gilmore and partner in art Caroline Carlisle have gone with the flow when it comes to their gallery.
After being introduced by mutual friend Lain York from Zeitgeist Gallery, Gilmore and Carlisle decided on their Arcade space a week or so later, becoming the second of two galleries there. Their name came from lists each compiled.
"I was just thinking it needs to be an action word and it needs to be short," Gilmore says. She also liked the symmetry of "twist." Andee Rudloff and Stacey Irwin designed the logo. "It's twist ties," Gilmore explains. "It does look like an elephant and we have come to love that."
They also love shows that completely transform their spaces. Lauren Kussro's 2007 installation of paper flowers suspended from the ceiling remains one of Carlisle's favorites. Gilmore remembers the Whole Milk show, also from 2007, featuring four Minneapolis-based artists who also created a 30-foot-by-80-foot mural on a wall between the Viridian condo high-rise and Downtown Presbyterian Church.
"This has really been a nice creative break," Carlisle says. She says low rent in the Arcade allows them to focus on more than being a commercial venture. "It's nice when we sell things and we hope to sell things, but it's not the whole reason we exist."
Love Letters to the Post Office in Twist 58 and Angela Burks' paintings at Twist 73 remain on view through Aug. 29 in the Arcade. Gallery hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Thursdays-Fridays and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday. There is no admission fee. For information, call 888-535-5286 or go to http://www.twistartgallery.com">www.twistartgallery.com
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The Arts Economy – A Tale of Two Galleries (transcript)
As the economic recession continues, the always-risky art business has proved particularly vulnerable. In January, art sales were down by half at the Christies and Sotheby's auction houses in New York. Here in Nashville, WPLN's Joe Nolan reports on the fortunes of two local galleries trying to attract the difficult art dollar.
Audio for this feature is available here.
(SOUND: Twist Gallery)
In downtown Nashville, the 106 year old Arcade building has become the epicenter of the city's latest art scene. The first Saturday of every month, art fans head downtown for a Gallery Crawl, visiting the fourteen art spaces that call the Arcade and Nashville's 5th Avenue of the Arts home.
Twist Gallery was one of the first venues to help transform the mostly-vacant Arcade, and was one of a handful of galleries that participated in the inaugural Art Crawl.
CARLISLE: "I'm Caroline Carlisle with Twist Art Gallery and we're standing in the front room of Twist…"
The storefront gallery at Twist is displaying a show of drawings by two artists from Atlanta's Beep Beep Gallery. Jason R. Butcher's odd-ball narratives feature characters like a man whose his inner-child's arms and legs are growing out of his chest. The exhibit spills into the gallery's back room where an inventory of small retail items helps to pay the rent for Twist's more challenging shows.
CARLISLE: "….handmade items, artist created things, t-shirts, vinyl record bowls, note cards, handmade bags and whatnot, all priced below $250. It could go from $3 on up, but we try to keep things affordable for people."
By executing this one-two punch of challenging programming and savvy retail, Carlisle says Twist is effectively weathering a current dip in sales.
CARLISLE: "I would say we've seen a little bit of a slow down this year. The funny thing is we've seen more people in the gallery – less sales."
Despite lean times, Twist has added an additional gallery on the Arcade's upper level, adding to its space in the real world while it simultaneously increase their reach online.
CARLISLE: "We just recently added several features that we're excited about. One is our shop button that takes you to our Etsy shop. I'll click on that now."
Etsy.com is an Internet bazaar where the gallery can sell their artist's work online. Twist also employs a blog, social networking profiles and Twitter to carry their exhibits beyond the gallery's walls extending the Twist brand well beyond the Arcade.
CARLISLE: "That's just how you do it now. You can't just have a website or just have a blog or you can't just have a physical bricks and mortar space. We haven't quite figured out what it is, but I think we're trying to and I think that's the next step."
Another gallery contemplating its next step is only 6 blocks from the Arcade. Although the two galleries are within walking distance from one another, Ruby Green has a different, longer story to tell, one that can sometimes feel a world away from the Avenue of the Arts that Ruby Green also calls home.
CAMPBELL: "I am Chris Campbell and I'm the founding director of Ruby Green, and this is what we call the main gallery. We have divided our entire gallery space into 5 working artist studios. We're just trying to survive and pay our bills right now."
The studios recall the venue's roots as a collection of ramshackle artist spaces that Campbell transformed into a non-profit art gallery in 1998. Ruby Green quickly became known as one of the largest, most engaging art gallery spaces in Nashville. The gallery's art-for-art's-sake programming offered challenging installations, video art and experimental live music.
(SOUND OF EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC)
The interest generated by bands like German Castro as well as the gallery's well-attended exhibits paid off in 2005 when the Andy Warhol Foundation recognized the gallery's achievements.
CAMPBELL: "It was one of the best things that's ever happened to I think Nashville's contemporary art scene personally, because we're in the books. We're in the history."
The Foundation provided Ruby Green with $135,000 dollars, allowing the gallery to hire some of its loyal volunteers.
CAMPBELL: "So for a few years we had paid employees and we were able to reach out and do a lot more and serve a lot more artists. But like all non-profits you still always have to cover all of your operating costs. It's very rare to get money that's going to go just for rent and electricity."
Today at Ruby Green, the main gallery has come full circle. The newly-erected walls fill the formerly spacious room, and the artist studios are linked by a common hallway. Although this latest effort is creating income for the space, the gallery is facing greater challenges.
Campbell worries that possible downtown development plans for green spaces and new Convention Center parking may mean the end of the building that is the gallery's ten-year old home, forcing Ruby Green to find a new venue even further removed from 5th Avenue and a Gallery Crawl that they already feel a world away from.
CAMPBELL: "I was told that 5th Avenue of the arts is a big elephant and that they can only eat a bite at a time and they're starting up at TPAC so, you know, we're at the end of the elephant. The other end (laughs)."
As of the airing of this report, the doors were locked at Ruby Green. The gallery has put in a 30 days notice with their landlord and will be leaving their space to search for a new home in the coming weeks.
For Nashville public radio, I'm Joe Nolan.
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Laura Baisden's Twist 3rd Birthday Poster
Author Geoff Little's Book signing at Twist Gallery
Eli Keszler and Ashley Paul at Twist
Experimental Music Jam at Twist
Twist and Jam
Forrest Bride veteran Ben Marcantel is playing the role of impresario this week, booking a pair of experimental composer/musicians at the Twist Gallery space at 73 Arcade. Eli Keszler's percussive compositions pepper vast, ringing, gamelan-like soundscapes with atonal punctuations, creating a sound like a haunted music box. Ashley Paul's muse is also drawn toward shadowy spaces, but it is the eloquent vocalizations Paul pulls from her keening woodwind phrases that make songs like "Dumpster of Love" uniquely her own. Expect both solo sets and some Wonder Twins-style collaborations from these two. Here's to hoping for more of the same from Marcantel and Twist
Angela Burks show "You're Not Helping" at Twist in August
Five+5 art at Twist opening tonight
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My, oh my, it's already that time again for another downtown Nashville First Saturday Art Crawl. This Saturday, June 11th, the sun will set and the lights will turn on to shine on some of the finest artwork around. It's by no means 'two for Tuesday' being that it is already Thursday and all, but I would like to take a moment to let you in on two locations-aside from your regular art spots all over town-that are sure to inspire you.
For sheer numbers and timing, you certainly don't want to miss out on seeing two simultaneous exhibitions at the same place, both at the Twist Art Gallery. First on the list at Twist, Five + 5, is a group exhibition that is making a special stop in Nashville from July 11th – 25th having already spent a month in Tampa, Florida and Atlanta Georgia and heading towards Fresno, California after departing Music City. Including work from artists such as Cameron Brian, Robbie Land, Diran Lyons, Jasmine Schurrer, and Atsushi Tameda among five others is an effort featuring unframed works on paper from (5) art-affiliated artists and five additional guest artists.
Second on the list at Twist might be a favorite pastime of many people but with a change of the name. I'm not sure what you used to call it, I know my names were changed some what, but also starting this Saturday and running through the 25th of July is WE ARE GOING TO SPEND THE NIGHT AT MEEMAW AND POP-POP'S. This exhibition will focus on the work by artist Nick Stolle. A recent Watkins grad, Nick's current show will center on themes of shame, longing, and hope.
Speaking of hope and major themes, my advice is to go out and see hope firsthand in person as seen in the picture above. All you have to do is make the quick hop on over to Tinney Contemporary any time between 6-9 pm to witness Donny Smutz's Out of My Mind. An up and coming, self-taught, and often controversial, artist, one of Donny's paintings in an exhibition last year was actually slashed with a box-cutter by a visitor who thought his depiction of Catholic nuns in random positions were irreverent. This time around, Donny's latest controversial piece as seen above is a large acrylic representation of President Barack Obama hanging on a cross as a perceived savior beside Oprah Winfrey interviewing him in front of her flock all the while Ronald McDonald offering him a quick fix cheeseburger. There is a point that you'll see in these surreal visions and you may even possibly find that point by attending the show that closes this Saturday and asking the artist himself.
My point is that you won't see anything special unless you get out there and crawl … or walk … or just get up, get out and do something.
SUMMERS Short Stories Collection @Twist Art Gallery
Geoff Little Booksigning
73 Arcade (between 4th & 5th Avenue, dowtown Nashville
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The pleasure of your company is requested at Geoff's booksigning.
Friday, July 17th at 7.30 p.m. Location is TWIST Art Gallery, nestled in the historic ARCADE in downtown Nashville. Best entrance is off of 5th Avenue. Actual address: 73 Arcade (near intersection of 5th & Church). Park free on the street (if you can). Gallery is upstairs.
Following the booksigning event - guests are invited to a private summertime celebration at The Fiction Faction Hangar & Dancery, located just down the block in a lost corner of an 1851 revivalist Egyptian temple.
For those of you who are unable to attend, you may like to know the amazon.com link - http://www.amazon.com/Summers-Geoffrey-Little/dp/1442146680/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246962383&sr=8-1
Copies will be for sale at the booksigning. Hope you can come.
Experimental Music Jam
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Adore snail mail? Arcade art gallery wants your love letters
Will Ayers • July 8, 2009 The Tennessean
While downtown dwellers and workers are crossing their fingers, hoping the 106-year-old Arcade Post Office won't be closed in a controversial cost-cutting measure, an art gallery just upstairs in the Arcade is adding its own voice to the fray.
Twist Art Gallery is asking fans of the Arcade Post Office, as well as devotees of the dying medium of old-fashioned mail itself, to create love notes to its beleaguered neighbor on postcards no larger than 5" by 7".
You need not be a professional artist to participate; the gallery owners just ask that you be creative. Postcards will be hung at the downtown gallery crawl on Aug. 1 and will be sold for $5 each to support future Twist art shows.
Twist Art Gallery in the Nashville Scene
We Are Going to Spend the Night at Meemaw and Pop-Pop's at Twist
Sleepover With Stolle
Inspired by a friend's online post, local artist Nick Stolle decided that We Are Going to Spend the Night at Meemaw and Pop-Pop's was a fine name for his new show of work at Twist Gallery's space at Arcade 58. The idea of Stolle spending the night anywhere that may afford him a sound night's sleep is probably a good idea for a young artist who has spent the last several months throwing his hat into the ring for the Nashville's Hardest Working Artist Award. Hot on the heels of a Watkins senior show that featured an exclamation point of a short play that he wrote, directed and acted in, Stolle has regularly cranked out new work that is sarcastic enough to sucker the hipsters, but sincere enough to move those with eyes to see.
Call for your Mail Art: Love Letter to the Post Office
Recently, our dear Arcade Post Office has been threatened with closing
by the U.S. Postal Service. While we all assume the end of paper mail
is at some point inevitable, we certainly have a nostalgia for actual
handwritten letters and postcards. The Arcade Post Office has been in
the Arcade since the very beginning, opening in 1903. 106 years later
- is it the end of an era? We hope not, but in the meantime, send your
heartfelt Love Letter to the Post Office via Twist Art Gallery, 73 Arcade,
Nashville, TN 37219. Please make it a postcard no larger than 5" x 7"
and postmark by July 24th.
We will hang your postcards in Twist 58 for the August Gallery Crawl.
Postcards will not be returned, but will be sold at the Gallery Crawl for
$5 a piece to support future Twist exhibitions in the Arcade. (It is our
third birthday after all!! And we hope to have many more.) You need
not be an artist to send us a postcard, but we hope it will get your
creative juices flowing.
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China reported to decline financing for final stage of Kenya's modern railway
The government of Kenya has again failed to secure $3.6bn in financing that had been expected from China to finish a cross-country standard gauge railway extending from the busy port of Mombasa inland to landlocked Uganda, say reports.
President Uhuru Kenyatta had gone to Beijing asking for half of the money to be given as a grant, with the rest being a loan with soft conditions, but China declined and repeated a request for "sufficient proof of viability" for the scheme, sources told newspaper The Daily Nation.Â
State-owned giant China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) finished the line from Mombasa to the capital Nairobi in May 2017, and is scheduled to finish a second leg from Nairobi north to Navaisha this summer, but the planned third leg from Navaisha to the Victoria Lake port of Kisumu, and onward to Uganda, now looks in doubt.
It was "a slap in the face for Nairobi", commented the Nation, which separately cited "infrastructure economic experts" terming the now-truncated line as "a railway to nowhere", for which Kenyan taxpayers are due to start paying "0.7 per cent of the economy" to repay Chinese loans for the first legs starting in June 2019.
The Kenyan government responded to the reports published 26 April with a statement denying that the issue of funding the extension to Kisumu had ever been on the agenda of the meeting between Kenyatta and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
At the same time, Kenya's transport cabinet secretary James Macharia said the new, standard gauge railway to Naivasha would now be linked to the old metre-gauge line to Kisumu.
In 2016, CCCC was awarded contracts to build all three phases, plus a new port at Kisumu, but China's reluctance to fund the long-planned third leg emerged in the media in September last year. Â
China has come under critical international scrutiny for its policy of infrastructure lending, which has increased indebtedness in some developing countries.
Media report that while the Mombasa-Nairobi link carried 2.6 million passengers since its opening, it made a loss of some $98m in its first year.
President Kenyatta did return from Beijing with other infrastructure deals, however.
Described as public-private-partnerships, they include Chinese financing for the construction of the Waiyaki Way-Jomo Kenyatta International Airport expressway, the expansion of the Northern bypass, and the construction and maintenance of the Konza data centre and smart cities project.
Image: Standard gauge tracking laying in Kenya (CCCC via Facebook)
Alarm in Kenya over risk of Chinese "takeover" of Mombasa port
China holds back funding for latest Kenya railway phase
Is it a take over game
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Sichuan CCO produces PMOLED displays and has an annual capacity of 12 million 1-inch displays. The company's PMOLED displays range from 0.7" monochrome to 2.5" full color.
WiseChip Semiconductor Inc (WSI) was established in 2005 in Taiwan. The company develops and produces PMOLED displays. In 2009 WiseChip acquired fellow PMOLED maker Univision.
Nippon Seiki was established in 1946 in Japan and is making and selling instruments for automobiles and office automation appliances.
Nippon Seiki produces PMOLED displays, focused on displays for automobile dashboards and electrical equipment.
Winstar, established in 1998 in Taiwan, is a display producer, that makes LCDs and PMOLED displays. Winstar has two 2.5-Gen PMOLED production lines.
Pioneer, based in Japan, was founded in 1938, and is producing home and car electronics systems. Pioneer was the first company to actually make OLED displays - back in 1998. Pioneer still makes PMOLED panels, but they have exited from the AMOLED display market in 2005.
In February 2010, Pioneer announced it has entered the OLED Lighting market, together with Mitsubishi Chemicals. Pioneer is producing the panels using Mitsubishi's technology. They are sold under the Verbatim brand.
Truly Semiconductors is a display maker based in Hong Kong. Truly produces PMOLED displays made in Shanwei, Guangdong province, China.
RiTDisplay is a Taiwanese company, manufacturing PMOLED panels. RiT has been spun-off from Ritek, that still holds a majority stake. RiTDisplay is one of the world's largest PMOLED makers.


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Taking Risks to Lead Change: One Georgia Tech Student's Experience
Atlanta, GA | Posted: April 24, 2017
Stacey Doremus
leadership.gatech.eduhttp://leadership.gatech.edu
McDonald Conference for Leaders of Character (MCLC)
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Contributing writer: Megan Preston
The Georgia Tech Leadership Education and Development Office was recently able to send one promising Georgia Tech student, Mahdi Al Husseini, to the fifth annual McDonald Conference for Leaders of Character (MCLC). The conference took place March 30th – April 2nd and is hosted yearly by the United States Military Academy, known colloquially as West Point. Al Husseini is an undergraduate student preparing for his last year at Georgia Tech. He is double majoring in Biomedical Engineering and Public Policy, with a Minor in Leadership Studies. As a student of three different Tech colleges– the College of Engineering, the College of Liberal Arts, and the College of Business – he is "always flying from place to place" across campus but loves the different perspectives offered by his distinct courses, he says.
Al Husseini hopes to be flying in more ways than one. He is actively involved in Army ROTC; after graduation Al Husseini will be commissioned to the U.S. Army in an officer position as a second lieutenant. He hopes to be placed on active duty as a Blackhawk pilot, "which specifically means that I will be focusing on aeromedical evacuations, meaning that if someone is injured on the battlefield, it's my job to go out there with a helicopter and man a crew which will essentially take care of that person and pull them to a nearby hospital for further treatment," he explains.
This year's conference theme was "Opposition and Innovation: Taking Risks to Lead Change". The MCLC bills itself as "the premier transformative, short duration leadership experience for young, emerging global leaders who unite with world leaders in an enduring partnership." It featured participants from 21 universities and 16 countries. The participants will stay in touch as they work together to write online editorial pieces for the New York Times exploring this year's MCLC topics in more depth.
Al Husseini had two reasons behind his application to attend. "I wanted to see West Point," he jokingly admits, but his more pressing motivation was the opportunity to delve into the conference's main subject of prudent risk. "The idea of prudent risk is the concept that we all have to gamble with uncertainty and we have to make informed decisions at the same time, and being able to do that in an environment that is contested or polarized, being able to navigate those waters and have those conversations, is incredibly important."
The conference tackled risk from three different angles – ethics, expression, and structure – with breakout groups and interactive discussions following each panel talk. A variety of distinguished senior fellows and guest speakers were present at the conference, with diverse backgrounds ranging from CEOs to university presidents to military and political leaders. Al Husseini's favorite speaker was Sir John Hood – "literally the guy's a knight, how crazy is that" – who previously served as the Vice Chancellor of Oxford University.
Sir Hood spoke about risk as it relates to structure, and the unique challenges he faced when trying to implement organizational change in such a long-standing institution. Al Husseini found the navigation of those risks and difficulties particularly compelling. "It's an interesting idea, tradition versus progress, and of course they should be working together but in a sense it can seem like a zero-sum game" where one is constantly at odds with the other, says Al Husseini. "There's a lot of value to tradition, but at the same time we have to be able to adapt to the world around us."
One of Al Husseini's biggest takeaways from the conference is the importance of having respectful conversations about tough topics to enact change. "How can we encourage conversation and understand and respect the minority in terms of a decision that can oftentimes be polarizing, and how can you continue to progress and innovate when there are so many obstacles in terms of the atmosphere?" He asks. "All those small pieces and smaller ideas, some regarding risk, some regarding innovation, some regarding ethics, some regarding intention - they come together and start popping up in what we do every day."
We all deal with risk in our day-to-day lives. "Risk could be anything from is this an individual I want to have a conversation with, is this something that could have an impact on my future career," Al Husseini describes. For him personally, prudent risk will be especially relevant after graduation, when he'll take part in leading people into battle to accomplish high-stakes missions. "There are lives on the line," he puts it bluntly. "For me, to be better able to understand those risks and how to take those risks and the mentality that one should have regardless of the type of risk, I think it will have a very direct impact on my time on active duty."
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Created On: Apr 24, 2017 - 4:15pm
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Cathy Immordino is a photographic artist, former actress and a mother of two.
Los Angeles, California / United States
Cathy Immordino is a Los Angeles-based photographic artist, whose layered images form composites of personal experience and public spaces. Drawing on techniques and methods from fine art and photojournalism, Immordino's optical layering serves as an evocative visual allegory for the complex narratives of life and memory.
Immordino began her photography career after years of being a film actress, a set of experiences whose highs and lows she documented, along with architectural and urban landscape photographs of Hollywood at night.
In subsequent projects and series, including a major endeavor based on her own ancestry and the history of immigration in her immediate family, she has continued to refine and evolve this fundamental structure. Layering her own stories and observations against backdrops of iconic architecture, landscapes, and public spaces where they unfolded. In this way, she collapses both time and space in a surreal but familiar language composed of art history, biographical reportage, and photographic technology.
Immordino has exhibited her work in galleries and institutions across the United States and co-founded the Shed Collective. She is associated with MOPLA, the LA Center for Photography, the Los Angeles Art Association, Center Santa Fe, and the Society of Photographic Educators.
Cathy is a prolific photographic artist and single mom to two children on the Spectrum. In her spare time, she raises awareness for toxemia, a pregnancy complication that nearly took her life, and the life of her unborn son in 2014.
"The task of raising children is not for the faint of heart. It takes guts, will power, and the ability to look failure in the face and still get up the next morning. Children consume your time, your energy, your money, your love. Hours of frustration are stitched alongside moments of joy. However, if you have a child diagnosed on the Spectrum, child-rearing is a bit more complicated.
Relationships once held dear give way to constant therapy appointments, learning routines, and coping mechanisms. Educating the world on how to treat your child can be draining, stressful, and feel like a vicious cycle and never-ending process. Life isn't always predictable, but it can still be rewarding. In the field of medicine, a residency is a time of growth in knowledge and professional development - quite similar to the lifelong task of motherhood.
Residency in Motherhood Series (2019) was inspired by the work of Grete Stern, Imogen Cunningham, and Hannah Hoch. It is a limited edition series featuring images of my children layered with the range of emotions I feel as a mother. My emotions are made visible by the deep Prussian blues of the cyanotype process. Brushing emulsion onto the paper, I exposed it with a CO2 laser as the light source. The ending result is a new image that is half cyanotype and half-burnt paper. The act of burning the paper equates to the brevity of childhood; a reminder to cherish all moments, even the difficult ones. Post rinsing and drying, colored pencil and gold watercolor paint were added to symbolize strength and endurance, playing off the tones of blue.
As with most things in life, there is a fine line to walk and a delicate balance to maintain in order to succeed. Creating these images was both cathartic and rewarding. And, it is my hope that over time, my Residency in Motherhood will be deemed triumphant in the end."
www.cathyimmordino.com
IG: @cathyimmordino


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Normally, after three strikes you are out! But PM May seems determined to ram through a deal so the UK can avoid taking part in EU parliamentary elections in May. May suffered a third defeat on her stripped-down withdrawal agreement. The margin of defeat has steadily improved from a historic 230 votes, to 149, and on Friday she lost by 58 votes. The third defeat raises bets that we will see a general election, complicating the UK's attempts to finalising a divorce agreement with the EU. Monday's indicative votes may see a customs union be agreed upon in Parliament.
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Stocks managed to still crush it this quarter, despite a yield inversion with the Fed's favourite spread and heightened economic growth concerns. The rally is mainly attributed to accommodative monetary policy stances globally, expectations for growth concerns to stabilise and optimism China and the US will make a trade deal.


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