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Two Triangle alumni put themselves on the political line
Steve Schewel '73, Ph.D. '82 and Charles Francis J.D. '88 talk about running for mayor in Durham and Raleigh.
by Scott Huler
photos by Chris Hildreth
Steve Schewel '73, PH.D. '82 used to carry in his wallet a picture of Terry Sanford holding a bullhorn, addressing a crowd of students who in 1970 had staged a sit-in on the traffic circle. In the wake of the Kent State shootings two days before, Schewel, then a freshman, had joined the crowd that stopped traffic to protest the war and the shootings.
Sanford, inaugurated as Duke's president only seven months before in the hopes that he could manage just such crises, showed serious leadership cred. "President Sanford came out with a bullhorn and asked us to meet him at the chapel," Schewel recalls. "We all marched down to the chapel." At the chapel—and in other meetings in Page Auditorium during those hectic days— Sanford discussed what the students wanted. Students, upset by the war and stunned by the violence against them by the National Guard at Kent State, could see no point in returning to class, and they raised a proposal that Sanford brought to the faculty. "The faculty voted, and Sanford supported the idea, that students could stop taking classes before the end of school. They would get a pass-fail in class rather than a grade, if you wanted to kind of work your conscience on the war."
With the faculty and the president on board, Schewel says, "for hundreds of us, school ended that day. We cut our hair, and we canvassed in Durham," on behalf of two amendments to congressional spending bills that would have required the United States to withdraw its forces from Cambodia and Vietnam.
The bills never passed, of course, but Steve Schewel had taken his first steps on the five-decade path that, in November, led to his election as mayor of Durham. On that same day, Charles Francis J.D. '88 stood for mayor of Raleigh, Durham's partner and rival in the Triangle.
Schewel won; Francis lost. Francis, a Raleighan by birth and choice, says he's far from done running for office in his home city and has a cheerful, "wait 'til next year" demeanor. Schewel, whose win advances him from a city council seat he won in 2011, bears the weight of power he saw Sanford wield.
"There's a difference between mayor and city council," he says. "Now I do have the bullhorn. And using it wisely is important."
Neither Schewel's nor Francis' runs would surprise those who know them: Both come from political families, both have been deeply involved in their communities throughout their lives, and both look to experiences at Duke as foundational to their lifelong commitments. At the pleasantly disheveled dining room table of his book-lined home in Durham's Watts Hospital-Hillandale neighborhood, Schewel thinks back on that picture. And though he looks back now at Sanford's leadership with that bullhorn, the years he carried that color photograph had more to do with the crowd than the leader. "I think that he made a really good decision under really tough circumstances," Schewel says, but "I carried it because of the kids.
"You know: us."
Us. The world was changing, and Schewel felt that change right on the Duke campus. He remembers his English class reading Yeats when the Kent State shootings happened. "I had a wonderful English professor, Ron Butters, and I remember he read 'Easter 1916' [Yeats' meditation on the execution of the leaders of the Easter Rising in Ireland] right after the kids were killed. And I just remember the tears were streaming down his face. It was just a time when the campuses were really fraught with change. The war was right outside our doors."
About those days Schewel quotes Wordsworth—accurately— from memory: "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,/ but to be young was very heaven!" Schewel identified so strongly as a Duke student in those turbulent times that he served as president of the student government. "It was a time of tremendous ferment in the country," he recalls: The Kent State and Jackson State shootings came after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. "But you felt there was a time for a lot of positive change and a lot of possibilities for that." And something important to remember, he says, is that "a lot of that happened." Earth Day. The environmental movement. The women's movement. The peace movement. Continued progress on civil rights. "So for me rather than a time where I thought things were terrible, it was a time when things were really hard, this war is awful, and we need to make changes."
When he graduated, he went to Columbia and gathered up a master's degree in English, though perhaps the main thing he learned was that "I didn't want to be an English professor." He returned to Durham, working first as a teacher, then for a news service, and then for N.C. Public Interest Research Group, which focuses on the rights of consumers in relation to influences like large banks and corporations, and then returned to graduate school, in 1982 getting a Ph.D. from Duke in education. He spent part of 1975 helping his father run a successful campaign for Virginia state senate (Schewel grew up in Lynchburg; his father, Elliot, served as state senator from 1976 to 1995), and it was his activity in Durham and North Carolina politics that led him to the work for which he has been most known, as the founder and publisher of the North Carolina Independent, (now Indy Week), Durham's longstanding alternative newsweekly. Protesting the Shearon Harris nuclear plant, Schewel engaged in civil disobedience "and went to jail for eight days in Wake County." Throughout the trial, "we kept saying we didn't like the way the newspapers were covering what we were doing," he recalls, "and why didn't we start a newspaper?"
So he did, with David Birkhead '69, once editor of The Chronicle. "I had a baby, got my Ph.D., so it took us a while to do it," he says. "But in April of '83, we published our first issue.
"So I was publisher and majority owner for the next twenty-nine years."
He's proud of the Indy's decades of service to Durham and the state, recalling breaking stories on abuses by the state Department of Transportation, work on the death penalty, stories on workers' rights. The struggle to keep the paper in print was always a challenge, but Schewel thinks of the paper more generally. "There were a couple gifts the Indy gave," he says, "one of which was helping to create an alternative culture in the Triangle, both in terms of politics and art."
"We promoted all these local musicians for thirty years," to say nothing of local artists, playwrights, and artisans, he says. "And we published thousands of freelance writers who made their bones at the Independent. That's something I'm really proud of." By the time he sold his interest in the paper in 2012, he had served on the Durham board of education for a term and run successfully for Durham city council in 2011.
He had also in 2000 begun teaching in the Hart Leadership Program at the Sanford School. There, along with Alma Blount, now director of the program and also the first photography editor of the Independent, he most recently taught "Political Participation and Leadership." And if Schewel has always been unapologetically liberal, as a teacher he plainly reaches even students who identify as "outspoken conservatives." Sophomore Mitchell Siegel, reflecting on Schewel's teaching in a November column for The Chronicle, expressed "the utmost respect" for Schewel and characterized him as "an advocate for learning and listening to diverse perspectives," a teacher who "demonstrates political acumen by facilitating constructive discourse and connecting with people on a true, personal level."
Siegel says Schewel "is not a phony politician who has his own self-interest at the forefront"—high praise, given that Schewel has been in politics since the early 1970s, when he worked on the first political campaign of one Bill Bell, who served as county commissioner for twenty-eight years and then mayor of Durham for sixteen. When Bell decided to retire, Schewel was one of many ready to step forward.
The current political moment reminds him of his college days—there's significant turmoil, but he sees great opportunity. One of the things he appreciates about his run for mayor was that he and his opponents differed mostly in degree. They all seemed to agree on the basic issues Durham faced: "The issues are the issues in most urban areas: affordable housing, gentrification, crime and policing, and what will our quality of life be as we grow. Let's make the city we love a city for all. We are prospering, but 20 percent of our population is not sharing in that new prosperity. How are we going to change that? How are we going to embrace all the different people here in Durham?
"Farad [Ali, Schewel's final opponent] and I had differences in emphasis, but Farad's slogan was 'One Durham.' I think we were very much on the same page in terms of vision, of our city as an inclusive place where everybody needs to share in our newfound prosperity."
Standing up for inclusiveness and doing things that mattered were things Schewel learned growing up in Lynchburg. People ask Schewel whom he models himself after and he answers quickly. "My parents. My father was a Democrat from Lynchburg at the time Jerry Falwell was in his heyday. He and my mom were Lynchburg civil-rights liberals in the '50s and '60s, running against a very difficult segregationist tide." Along with his father's decades in the state senate, his mother was such a passionate volunteer and activist on behalf of women's rights, racial justice, the arts, and education that when she died in September 2017, the Lynchburg News & Advance ran a piece headlined "Lynchburg loses 'a wonderful friend.' " She helped found, among other things, the Lynchburg public library and a local chapter of the League of Women Voters. She died only months before her son was elected mayor of his adopted town.
Strong women played a powerful role in the education of Charles Francis, too. Francis' father died when Francis was nine, but his mother, who has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, was far from his only example. "My aunt, Vivian Irving, who ran the [family] printing business, was one of the founders of Democratic Women of Wake County, and she along with others integrated the League of Women Voters here," he says, in a conference room in the downtown Raleigh historic home he has renovated for his law practice. A registrar for the Wake County Board of Elections for thirty years, Irving would check in during elections. "I remember hanging around polling places when she was looking after me," Francis laughs now.
The printing business, Francis says, was where "we mixed commerce and politics and civic service—printing jobs and talking politics," with a parade of Raleigh political heavyweights, especially from the African-American community. Francis remembers seeing in the shop Clarence Lightner, Raleigh's first publicly elected mayor and the first African-American mayor of a Southern city larger than 50,000 people. He also remembers John Winters, the first black city councilman, and people like now-congressman David Price, who also taught political science at Duke. "That type of political involvement was just something I came up with." ]
His great-grandfather, James Irving, was a freedman, born in Onslow County and a slave until he was twenty-five. Francis' grandfather, Charles Irving Sr., was born in 1896—"the same year as Plessy v. Ferguson, ironically," Francis notes. "The first sixty years of his life he was living under the veil of segregation, but still he rose." From a large family, Charles Sr. went from being farmed out to work in wealthy people's homes throughout the county, to boarding school, to training in Kinston, where he got a community-college certification as a printer, though from college he went to serve in World War I. Returning from the war, he came to Raleigh to set up his printing business—" but they were hiring at the post office," Francis says. Charles Sr. could recognize a good gig when he saw one, so he had stable employment all through the Depression. When he retired from that—and from a side business as an impresario, bringing performers like Cab Calloway and Duke Ellington to Raleigh—he formed the printing business, eventually run by his daughter, Francis' Aunt Vivian. Charles Sr.'s certificate of his training in printing still hangs in Francis' office.
Francis' mother, Florence, graduated from high school at fourteen and college at eighteen, and in those days of Jim Crow had, Francis notes wryly, "all the qualifications to go to business school at Chapel Hill, except for one." She went instead to the University of Chicago, and Francis notes that under arcane laws trying to retain Jim Crow before Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, states refusing to allow African- American students to attend their schools commonly paid the difference between state tuition and the tuition charged elsewhere. So the state of North Carolina helped pay for his mother's University of Chicago M.B.A.: "I know a number of people in their nineties who had their graduate education paid for by various Southern states," he says. As a college administrator and teacher at North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, she met Francis' father, a student there, and they married, moving first to Antigua, where Francis' father was from, and then back to Raleigh just before Francis was born in 1963.
His father died young but that didn't stop Francis. Princeton. Duke Law. A judicial clerkship. A couple of years as a U.S. attorney in the Middle District of North Carolina, where he was happy, "but I proposed marriage to my co-clerk, and she didn't want to stay in Winston-Salem," so they moved to Raleigh. Practicing law at an international firm, he quickly got back into the work of running the city of his birth: Raleigh Planning Commission, then an appointment to a vacant position on Raleigh City Council at age twenty-nine, a seat he ran to retain, though he lost. "So I thought this would be a good time to leave the big firm and start a law firm. So that's what I did."
And with roots running as deep in Raleigh as his did, Francis found that running his own law firm also meant constant community activity: years on the boards of the Democratic Party of Wake County and the Raleigh-Wake Citizens Association; membership on the board of directors of North Carolina Advocates for Justice and the Wake County Bar Association. He has served on the board of the YMCA of the Triangle—the same Y he hung around when he was growing up—and the Centennial Authority, which built the entertainment and sports arena now called the PNC Center. He was a director of Rex Healthcare and Rex Hospital and then, when it was sold to UNC Health Care, he served as a trustee of the John Rex Endowment, which manages the proceeds of that sale: "We have given away $40 million over sixteen years," he says, broadly targeting health care for low-income people, and the principal from the sale still remains.
Francis still serves on the board of the Research Triangle Park Foundation and was a founding director and remains vice chair of North State, a community bank.
With all that involvement, and with his kids growing up and moving out, he felt moved to get back into politics—for almost the exact same reasons that Schewel mentions. "Most of the problems are the challenges of growth," Francis says. "How we're going to keep the public infrastructure up with the sixty or so people moving here every day, and how we can include more people in the blessings of growth.
"It was clear to me that some parts of town and many people in town were not being included in growth. Growth should not just be for buildings and population—it should be for people who live in the city now, and for their quality of life."
Just like Durham, Raleigh is experiencing enormous growth and prosperity, but the growth raises "a larger conversation that progressives need to have on the future of progressive politics."
More starkly, "the lack of diversity on Raleigh City Council, which has existed for over fifty years, has policy implications. I think if we had a more diverse and representative council there would be more equity in city budget decisions." John Winters—one of the people who frequented the family print shop—was Raleigh's first black councilman. "And here we are fifty-five years later, and there's one African-American city councilman. And Raleigh is far more diverse now than when I grew up here."
The matter of the map comes up—a map widely publicized after Francis lost the race for mayor, showing the precincts in Raleigh's prosperous north and west uniformly voting for three-time incumbent Nancy McFarlane. To the less prosperous (and less white) east and south? Uniform support for Francis. Francis doesn't accuse Raleigh—or McFarlane—of racism. But "the community is not reflected in the council," he says, and he believes that affects policy decisions.
Schewel, meanwhile, believes though the Raleigh precinct map got a lot of attention, Durham's map would look similar. In fact, it does show an almost exact copy of Raleigh's distribution. The prosperous and white center and west precincts voted for Schewel; those on the east went for Ali. "Race is still the dominant overlay in American electoral politics," Schewel says.
Looking at his time at Duke, Francis recalls his financial-aid package, arranged in decreasing amounts—a good deal of aid his first term, diminishing to nothing his final semester. "I'm not that good at math," he says, "but I quickly realized I was going to run out of money if I didn't do something." He became an RA, contemplating such questions as "Why the hell would water be coming through the ceiling in the basement?" The answer: After the men's soccer team's national championship, kids in the room above his had a sauna party.
But you don't make a public servant by asking him to clean up after sauna parties. "The two classes that formed the biggest impression on me both pointed me in the direction of public service," he says. One was a third-year practice clinic. He worked with the Orange-Chatham District Attorney's Office, and once a week he handled the office's needs in District Court in Pittsboro. "I saw just the range of people that came through Pittsboro"—a growing Latino community, the people who had been there for decades, the university community. The sense that justice involved serving every segment of a community left a lasting imprint.
His most powerful Duke experience, though, was Walter Dellinger's course in constitutional history. Dellinger, who as solicitor general argued many cases before the Supreme Court, taught the portion of the course on the constitutional convention; John Hope Franklin—"who was a family friend," Francis notes—taught the portion about the constitution's changes after the Civil War and Reconstruction; and William Leuchtenburg, professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an expert on Franklin Roosevelt, taught the portion about the Depression and the New Deal. "A trio of giants," Francis calls the professors, and, he says, "That type of teaching and scholarship whetted my interest in public service. I would stay after class and talk with Dr. Franklin for as long as he would talk."
That's a long time ago; many elections have come and gone since then. And Francis plans to run again for office, though which office he hasn't yet specified. Schewel, meanwhile, holding that metaphorical bullhorn in Durham, sees in the turbulence of today's politics something not dissimilar to what he saw in his days as a student activist. "It was a time of tremendous ferment and opportunity," he recalls. People believed they could make change then, and Schewel believes they can now. "And we can," he says. "That was the thing. We can."
Does he have any advice for Francis, or even for the victorious McFarlane? "The last thing either of them would want," he says, laughing, "is advice from me."
Au contraire. "I would like to speak with Steve Schewel," Francis says. They share a background at Duke, a deep commitment to the good of their communities—and the willingness to put themselves on the line. They both took lessons from their time at Duke. And now that Schewel, at least, has that bullhorn in his hand, he feels the same optimism he felt on the Duke traffic circle: The challenges are great, but he knows the people can make change. In fact, after decades of experience, he thinks he knows something more.
"The difference between now and then is that I still know that we can," Schewel says. "But I hope the difference now is that now I know how."
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Mar 23, 2015 More on Mergers & Acquisitions
Tenet takes majority stake in ambulatory company United Surgical
Deal makes Tenet largest provider of ambulatory services in the United States, company says.
Henry Powderly
Tenet Healthcare's Dallas headquarters. (Google image)
Tenet Healthcare on Monday said it will take a majority stake in United Surgical Partners International from current owner Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, establishing a joint venture that will rank the Dallas for-profit healthcare giant as the top provider of ambulatory surgery operations in the United States, the company said.
According to the deal, Tenet will own a 50.1 percent stake in the new partnership and will consolidate the financial results for both companies. However, Tenet will fully assume ownership within 5 years.
The deal gives Tenet control a total over 244 ambulatory surgery centers, 16 short-stay surgical hospitals and 20 imaging centers in 29 states under the joint venture, though they will still be run under the United Surgical Partners International brand. Many of the ambulatory centers are run in partnership with a host of nonprofit hospitals, a specific strategic benefit to Tenet as it looks to partner more with the nonprofit health sector.
[Also: Tracking 2015 mergers and acquisitions]
Tenet will also link its imaging facilities with the ambulatory centers and said the companies will likely add new centers in the future.
As for financial terms, Tenet said it will will pay a combined $425 million in cash to Welsh, Carson and the other existing shareholders and will raise a total of $2.2 billion in debt for the deal, using $1.5 billion to refinance United Surgical's debt. The company said the joint venture will be worth $2.6 billion.
In a separate deal, Tenet said it will acquire Aspen Healthcare, which runs nine hospitals in the United Kingdom, from Welsh, Carson for $215 million. It will not be part of the joint venture, and instead was meant to give Tenet an entry into the U.K market.
The deals are expected to close in the third quarter pending regulatory approvals.
Tenet's play in the ambulatory space reflects the move in healthcare to cut back on hospital utilization as a way to improve quality of care and rein in costs.
"The partnership accelerates Tenet's and USPI's shared strategy to expand our ambulatory service offerings to meet growing consumer demand for services that are provided in a lower cost, more convenient setting and that are aligned with the long-term transition to value-based care," said Tenet CEO Trevor Fetter in a statement.
Fetter has already said the health system is actively seeking joint venture opportunities, especially within nonprofit healthcare, as a means to grow Tenet's footprint instead of outright purchasing. Tenet already set up a joint venture with Birmingham, Alabama-based Baptist Health System in 2014.
"If you want to end up owning, either a piece or the majority of really high quality assets that are going to be transformative in a market, that's going to increasingly require a JV approach," Fetter said in a February conference call announcing Tenet's year-end financials.
[Also: Tenet makes 2014 turnaround, plans more joint ventures in future]
Tenet earned $12 million in 2014 on $16.6 billion in revenue.
Shares of Tenet jumped as high as 5 percent in early trading on Wall Street.
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Real Life Letters: Thumbing Through Remarkable Human Records
With letter writing a nearly forgotten medium now (where everything gets home-delivered, except handwritten letters!), a good place to rediscover the joy of letters is in a literary genre that has long held a fascination for me: epistolary books – that is, fiction and non-fiction showcasing correspondence between two people.
Dracula is one famous example of the epistolary novel – a story told through letters – while 84 Charing Cross Road is perhaps everyone's favourite book of actual, real life letters. For me, personally, what engages me more is the latter: real letters exchanged between people.
A new book that looks at a wide range of letters exchanged between people is Letters of Note, compiled by Shaun Usher. It has become an instant classic on publication. Its two volumes have garnered much praise not only for the eclectic selection of letters but also for how they are presented in the book: replicating actual facsimiles of the letters. Along with this book, and Maria Popova's widely read blog, 'Brainpickings', which often looks at letter writing, my interest in this genre has once again been rekindled. I've taken to reading one or two letters each night before I turn in for the day. The letters in Letters of Note range from "Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter, to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler; and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter."
Another current favourite of mine in the genre is Highway Dharma Letters, a tale of correspondence between a contemporary Buddhist teacher and his two disciples. Highway Dharma Letters: Two Buddhist Pilgrims Write To Their Teacher is the story of American Buddhist monks Reverend Heng Sure and Reverend Heng Chao, who undertook the ancient ascetic practice of bowing once every three steps on a two-and-a-half year pilgrimage up the coast of California. They took with them only their faith and a wish for world peace as they inched their way along at about a mile and a half a day.
Who gave them food? Where did they sleep? How did they diffuse the anger of drunks along the way, and overcome the hostility of law enforcement? What lessons did they learn in compassion and humility? And most importantly, what can we learn from their journey? Highway Dharma Letters is what the monks wrote every day to their master Hsung Hua. The message in the letters is timeless. I have been fortunate to know Reverend Heng Sure. Not long ago, I took a little trip to meet and talk to him about his book. He expressed surprise that people were still interested in their journey that was undertaken in 1977! And what's more, that they were still buying the book. "I'm still amazed that people care to read these letters. The pilgrimage happened three decades ago and Marty (Reverend Heng Chao) has a white beard!"
On a recent visit to the Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston, I bought Letters to Jackie by Ellen Fitzpatrick. Within seven weeks of president John F Kennedy's death, Jacqueline Kennedy received more than 800,000 condolence letters. Two years later, the volume of correspondence would exceed 1.5 million letters. For the next 46 years, the letters would remain essentially untouched. Until historian Ellen Fitzpatrick selected approximately 250 of these letters for inclusion in Letters to Jackie, a remarkable human record that perfectly preserves the heart-wrenching grief and soul-searching of a nation in a time of crisis. My heart sank and my eyes teared up often as I read through these letters that seemed to contain the extraordinary eloquence of ordinary Americans across generations, regions, race, political leanings and religion, expressing their anguish over losing their favourite president.
Apart from Dracula, there have been other famous novels written as letters; a good contemporary example is Alice Walker's The Colour Purple. Why, even Arvind Adiga's Booker prize-winning book The White Tiger is epistolary! The bestselling thriller by Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian, is made up of letters. And then there's the old favourite, Helene Hanff's 84 Charing Cross Road, about letters between a book lover and a bookseller. The book was adapted into a play, and then a movie, but it is the book that remains a classic.
The charm of this kind of a book made of an exchange of letters is the immediacy and intimacy it creates in the narrative. Each letter in 84brings out the personality of the letter writer and the style of their writing. The contrast between the letters is what makes it so entertaining and engaging, even moving. And perhaps, best of all, the brevity of what is said. A flurry of short exchanges that makes you race through the book, and with each letter you get more involved in the lives of Hanff and the staff at the bookshop. An expectation is now set up: when a letter comes from the book lover, how will the bookshop respond? Because, while the staff write formal, affectionate letters, Helene writes very impishly and brazenly – and the fun is in how each staff member of the bookshop reacts to her wit and teasing. Finally, as the letters come to an end, there is nostalgia and tears, of both sadness and joy.
However, my all-time favourite book of letters, one that been central to nourishing my soul, is The Mahatma And The Poet, which are letters between Gandhi and Tagore. These are private letters written between 1915 and 1941 that are of great historical interest. They are currently preserved in the archives of Visva-Bharati, the university founded by Tagore. The book gives us deep insights into the relationship between these two giants. While both had major differences in opinion on numerous topics, the letters indicate the deep respect, admiration and love for each other.
In 1934, after Gandhi made a public statement calling the Bihar earthquake divine retribution for India's sins, an appalled Tagore wrote respectfully but assertively, "I feel compelled to utter a truism in asserting that physical catastrophes have their inevitable and exclusive origin in certain combination of physical facts. … We, who are immensely grateful to Mahatmaji for inducing, by his wonder working inspiration, freedom from fear and feebleness in the minds of his countrymen, feel profoundly hurt when any words from his mouth may emphasize the elements of unreason in those very minds – unreason, which is a fundamental source of all the blind powers that drive us against freedom and self-respect."
These letters offer a poignant example of what it means to be both friends and intellectual adversaries, to stand by one's convictions with equal parts dignity and respect for the other, to seek above all else the advancement of the public good rather than stroking of the private ego. In the digital world, would we ever have the equivalent of Letters from a Father to His Daughter by Jawaharlal Nehru or The Letters of Ernest Hemingway or Graham Green: A Life in Letters – without letters themselves? Will the answer be books on emails or Twitter exchanges?


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Articles, Reviews February 11, 2016
Review: Deadpool (no spoilers)
Deceived, taken away from his woman and experimented on to the point of physical deformity, Wade Wilson, the mercenary known as Deadpool, now seeks bloody revenge on those that did the experimenting.
Dredd was a comicbook film that had balls enough to aim itself at an older audience than what is generally aimed at with these sorts of films, and despite its quality suffered for it at the box office; so it came as something of a surprise when Fox (known more for messing up superhero franchises than being bold with them) announced that their Deadpool film, featuring a character that, if known by the general public at all, was from the horrendous interpretation in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, was to be a hard R rating (15 or 18 here in the UK).
Facing three major challenges before they even got started, the makers had to a) create awareness of the fan-favourite character, b) do him justice and c) circumnavigate studio interference in doing so.
With Ryan Reynolds as figurehead, the production managed to tackle all these issues with gusto. Doing the character justice meant bringing on a savvy writing team and pushing for a higher rating, both of which could only be achieved through the lack of studio interference, so all this hinged on one decision; write a film that could be made for significantly less than the average superhero movie. So, in a time when most superhero films are budgeted at £150,000,000 minimum, Deadpool was made for an estimated £65,000,000. Many birds killed with one stone.
With just awareness left to be build, the Deadpool team put together a marketing scheme that outdid even Guardians of the Galaxy for creating familiarity and good will, and outstripped just about everything else for sheer exposure. Could the final film ever live up to the marketing?
Damn straight, and in such a carefree manner that in some aspects it'll surpass your expectations.
Its relative lower budget IS evident, mainly in the lack of massively apocalyptic events, but as is so often the case, this has forced the makers to be impressive in more creative ways while delivering a smaller, more personal film.
Narratively and structurally Deadpool is more akin to Zombieland than any superhero movie, even down to the brilliant opening credits (best opening credits on any comic adaptation since Watchmen), which isn't surprising in light of the fact that the writers of Deadpool are in fact one in the same as the writers of Zombieland.
The story itself is very streamlined, but is presented in a way that keeps it interesting and pacey, delivering action and laughs as frequently as possible while not being afraid to throw in something serious/tragic to aid in the development of a character that could so easily have been one-note.
In today's climate of superhero cinema it's actually a breath of fresh air to have a film in which the main character's struggle, and the outcome of which, doesn't have world shaping consequences. It's just a dude taking care of his own business.
Ryan Reynolds is no stranger to characters that are quippy to the point of annoyance, but in this case it's fully intentional and perfectly in keeping with the spirit of the character, and while this is as amusing as you'd hoped it would be, the funnier material comes from a place of more abstract and edgy humour that is a little harder to define and, as far as language and gratuitous blood-letting goes, beyond anything that Marvel Comics would dare publish (barring Deadpool Max).
Combining the character humour and development of Joe Kelly and the absurdist-meta of Daniel Way (two of the best writers of the Deadpool comic, in this reviewers opinion in the very least), and adding an edge that this particular character can manage better than most, this could well be the definitive version of Deadpool.
First time director, Tim Miller, previously a digital FX specialist, has put himself on the map in a big way, and while the smallish budget does show at times, he stretched it impressively (even considering that there's a fully CG character throughout a decent portion of the film) creating well thought out, funny and sometimes epic action-set-pieces. The action isn't trailblazing, but its presentation is absolutely unique.
The action besides, Deadpool is a great looking, wittily constructed film that does its director credit enough to be described as near pitch perfect, at least insofar as a risky character being made by a dubious studio on a medium budget by a first time director can be pitch perfect; but as with Super, The Shawshank Redemption, The Usual Suspects and Warrior, it's hard to imagine Deadpool being any more enjoyable if any of the elements that has gone into it had been different, be it an increased budget or a more experienced director.
Marvel Studios and Warner Bros had better be on top form to be in the running for best superhero film this year.
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I'm often asked "Whoa, that's a cool <thing>, where did you get it?!" -- instead of having to find and send people individual links, I decided to finally put links to my favorite things all in one place - here!
This is simply a rack mount kit to allow mounting a FortiGate 60E in a rack, keeping things a bit tidier. I'd mauch rather that they provided an actual 19" rack device, but this isn't bad.
This small electric screwdriver is great for travel, and also for things like removing PCBs from inside machines, opening cases which have lots of small screws, etc. It is very similar to the Dewalt DCF680N2 Gyroscopic Screwdriver - you press the button and turn it slightly clockwise or conterclockwise. A small accelerometer detects this and turns on the motor in the correct direction, and increases or decreases speed based on how much you turn it. It takes a few minutes to get used to, but makes things like putting Ikea furniture together so so much nicer.
These safety glasses are great - they are ANSI Z87.1-2010 certified, and come with a comfortable gasket which cuts down on the dust and grit which other classes seem to collect. They also work nicely with the 3M corded earplugs - having them connected directly to the ear pieces makes you way more likely to actually use the hearing protection, and so is well worth the money.
They have a nice high wrist protector (I kept ending up with some space between my old gloves and my welding jacket. This would rest on the edge of the workpiece and bite me!) and a padded palm. They do run a bit small, and need some breaking in to become nice and soft.
This is a crazy little widget. You plug basically any component into the ZIF socket, and push the Go button. It almost instantly identifies the component, and graphically displays it and the values. Zeners, MOSFET, resistors, capacitors, transistors, diodes, you name it, it identfies it. It is a hugely impressive little thing - it isn't always perfectly accurate, but for quick "What's this thing / what's the pinout?" type questions it's brilliant!
This is the best travel adaptor I've found anywhere. It rolls up into a nice little package, and has a "universal" travel adaptor tucked inside the hole. The wrap-around cord is a reasonable length, the circular shape allows for multiple wall warts to be bplugged in, and the 2 built in USB charger spots work well.
I make an adapter cable to go from the proprietary Ferrari battery tender to the CTEK charger connector (actually, the Ferrari branded chargers are the cheap CTEK ones with a different sticker). CTEK makes many different chargers - the CTEK MULTI US 7002 12-Volt Battery Charger is my current favorite.
... and I could make an entire section on Ubiquiti Networks, but for now, I'll just mention the "Ubiquiti Networks Unifi 802.11ac Dual-Radio PRO Access Point" -- these work incrediably well, and are really easy to install, manage, etc.
Making Avocent KVM work under OS X.


After taking a week off from the main show to drop the first episode of the new Game of Thrones season 2 ToB Rewatch, the guys are back to discuss more than just the goings-on in Westeros. The largest story of which is the announcement of the nominees for the 2019 Oscars. The dead of winter might be cold and unforgiving, but it also means that we're in the swing of awards season, one of the most exciting times of the year for cinephiles. The ToB Crew unpacks the picks as they look forward to the ceremony in February. Julian, Dan, and Jeremy also examine the Ghostbusters 3 surprise, The Lego Movie 2 trailer, the shakeup with the Uncharted film, and much more on this week's Tower of Babble Podcast!
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Sony's Uncharted movie gets a new director in Dan Trachtenberg. Replacing Shawn Levy, who left the project due to "scheduling conflicts".
The 2019 Oscars nominations are out!
Netflix is reportedly developing a live-action Resident Evil series, according to Deadline.
Michael Gandolfini, son of the late James Gandolfini, will play a young Tony Soprano in "The Many Saints of Newark," the prequel movie to the television series "The Sopranos".
Warner Bros. has announced that Christopher Nolan's next film will be released by 2020.
In a surprise move, Jason Reitman annouced that he is writing and directing Ghostbusters 3.
EA cancels another Star Wars game, drawing the ire of Star Wars fans across the net for their apparent ineptitude in handling the license.


This is the photo of Jodi's "perfectly fine broken Dyson vacuum".
Do you think Marty can fix this by electric tapes?
Posted on July 28, 2010 at 8:44 am by Yaz_Muraki in News and Events.
Of COURSE Marty can fix that with electric tape! Hmm…what other things would someone like my dad say (because he too would un-wisely think he could fix it with electric tape): "Walk it off", "Rub some dirt on it", "Why don't I have grandchildren yet?"…umm…perhaps this isn't the point you were trying to get at.
I say go for it Marty. What's the worst that could happen? Your wife and children finally get to live the life they deserves with your life insurance payout?
But, Marty is an EE, right? He should be able to cut and splice that baby in no time! Good as new!
Doesn't Marty have an EE degree? I don't think that qualifies him to do the actual repair but he's certainly qualified to enter the Action Plan, contract out the engineering portion, schedule all the work and then reap the benefits of "meeting his objectives!" when it comes time for performance evaluations.
I hate to say it but you're SOL unless you do it yourself…wrap that puppy in electricians tape until it looks like a snake that ate a goat and call it good.
For what you paid for a Dyson, it should fix itself.
Was this a product of a horrible accident with a weedwhacker?
Fix what? Half the appliance cords in my house look like that. Just don't grab it and keep away from the bathtub.


US congressional candidates hammered into the homestretch of a bruising campaign season on Saturday, with Democrats focused on protecting a 2010 healthcare law while President Donald Trump touted economic growth and sounded dire warnings on immigration.
Control of both houses of the US Congress, currently dominated by Republicans, and 36 governors' offices will be at stake when Americans vote in Tuesday's elections. Interest has been unusually high for a non-presidential election year, with early voting running well ahead of past cycles.
"Heading to Montana and Florida today! Everyone is excited about the Jobs Numbers - 250,000 new jobs in October. Also, wages rising. Wow!" Trump said on Twitter early Saturday.
The Labor Department on Friday reported sharply better-than-expected job creation in October, with the unemployment rate steady at a 49-year low of 3.7 per cent and wages notching their best annual gain in almost a decade.
As of Friday night, almost 32.4 million people had cast ballots early, according to The Election Project at the University of Florida, which tracks turnout. That is up more than 50 per cent from the 20.5 million early votes cast in all of 2014, the last federal election when the White House was not at stake.
His Saturday visit to Belgrade, Montana, to pump up the campaign of Matt Rosendale, the Republican state auditor challenging Democratic US Senator Jon Tester, will be his fourth to Montana.
Some analysts said the president's repeated visits to states that he won in 2016 were a signal Republicans were worried about keeping control of Congress.
"It's not a good sign for Republicans if they have to spend all these resources for a seat they shouldn't have to be fighting for," said Simon Haeder, a professor of political science at West Virginia University, in a phone interview. "That should be a solid Republican seat."
In Florida, Trump is due to campaign for Governor Rick Scott, who is trying to unseat Democratic US Senator Bill Nelson, and US Representative Ron DeSantis, who is running for governor against Democratic Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum.
Trump's Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, on Friday campaigned with the Florida Democrats, telling voters that only his party would defend the 2010 healthcare law that was his signature domestic achievement.
The still-energetic but visibly graying 57-year-old former president also warned against the politics of fear and criticized dishonesty in campaigning - comments directed at Trump, though Obama did not name him.
"We all - we all try to put a positive spin on things. But what we have not seen, the way we're seeing right now, is politicians just blatantly, repeatedly, baldly ... shamelessly lie," Obama said. "Just making stuff up. That's what they're doing right now, all the time."


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Antônio Gonçalves Pereira de Sá Peixoto (Rio de Janeiro no dia 27 de fevereiro de 1869 - 17 de abril de 1948) foi advogado,  senador do Brasil durante a República Velha também designada como Primeira República), representando também o estado do Amazonas com deputado federal.

Biografia
Foi filho do abastado negociante Antonio Pereira de Sá Peixoto e de sua mulher Maria Gonçalves Peixoto de nacionalidade portuguesa.
Radicou-se em Manaus ainda no fim do século XIX, aí contraindo núpcias com Eudóxia Moreira, filha de ilustre família local. Gerou numerosa prole de filhos legítimos e outros tantos ilegítimos segundo os ditames da época. Brilhante advogado, fez carreira vertiginosa, tendo sido delegado de polícia, deputado e senador membro da comissão dos 21, famoso grupo criado para elaborar o primeiro esboço do Código Civil de 1916 que vigeu por todo o restante do século XX. Ingressou na magistratura, tendo alcançado por dois períodos a presidência do Tribunal de Justiça do Estado do Amazonas e vindo a aposentar-se como desembargador. Foi alto membro da maçonaria e fundador de várias lojas maçónicas na capital e no interior do Amazonas.

Ligações externas

Senadores do Brasil pelo Amazonas
Deputados federais do Brasil pelo Amazonas
Maçons do Brasil

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Bachelor of Art(Education) or MOE teaching scholarship?


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Laurie Hitzig
The Vault at 1930 > Artists > Laurie Hitzig
ABOUT LAURIE HITZIG
Jacksonville based artist Laurie Hitzig, a graduate of the University of Florida, also studied at, the Kansas City Art Institute, the Florida State University Overseas Study Program in Florence, Italy and the University of Missouri.
Hitzig, a native New Yorker, has been exhibiting her powerful and mystical paintings since 1985. Laurie's work has been shown nationally and regionally and has won top awards in Juried and Group exhibitions. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout the Southeast including The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville (MOCA), the University of North Florida, the south gallery at the Nathan H. Wilson Center for the Arts at FSCJ, Jacksonville, The Alexander Brest Museum at Jacksonville University, The Boca Art Museum, The Norton Art Museum in Palm Beach, The All Florida Juried Exhibitions in Boca, The Suwannee Valley Regional Exhibitions, The University of Mobile, Florida A&M University and The Fine Arts Council of Montgomery, Alabama. Laurie was invited to participate in The Florida-Wyoming Tarot Project Artists' Collaboration with the Wyoming Arts Council in Cheyenne which was exhibited in galleries throughout the country.
Creating is a process of constant discovery.
Sometimes the image is right there, other times it is a struggle.
When the images begin to reveal themselves, it becomes a collaboration between me and the work.
It is always different from my initial intent.
The most successful and exciting pieces are the ones that just happen on their own. All I must do is brush away the dirt and uncover what is hidden.


This analysis shows that multivariate generalizations to the classical Heckman (1976 and 1979) two-step estimator that account for cross-equation correlation and use the inverse Mills ratio as a correction-term are consistent only if certain restrictions apply to the true error-covariance structure.We derive an alternative class of generalizations to the classical Heckman two-step approach that conditions on the entire selection pattern rather than the selection of particular equations and, therefore, uses modified correction-terms. This class of estimators is shown to be consistent. In addition, Monte-Carlo results illustrate that these estimators display a smaller mean square prediction error.


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            org.encog.mathutil.matrices.hessian

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                    Uses of BasicNetwork in org.encog.mathutil.matrices.hessian

            Fields in org.encog.mathutil.matrices.hessian declared as BasicNetwork

                    protected  BasicNetwork
            BasicHessian.network

                          The neural network that we would like to train.

            Methods in org.encog.mathutil.matrices.hessian with parameters of type BasicNetwork

                     void
            HessianFD.init(BasicNetwork theNetwork,
                    MLDataSet theTraining)

                          Init the class.

                     void
            HessianCR.init(BasicNetwork theNetwork,
                    MLDataSet theTraining)

                          Init the class.

                     void
            ComputeHessian.init(BasicNetwork theNetwork,
                    MLDataSet theTraining)

                          Init the class.

                     void
            BasicHessian.init(BasicNetwork theNetwork,
                    MLDataSet theTraining)

                          Init the class.

                    Uses of BasicNetwork in org.encog.mathutil.randomize

            Methods in org.encog.mathutil.randomize with parameters of type BasicNetwork

                     void
            ConsistentRandomizer.randomize(BasicNetwork network)

                          Randomize the network.

                     void
            BasicRandomizer.randomize(BasicNetwork network,
                    int fromLayer)

                          Randomize one level of a neural network.

                     void
            FanInRandomizer.randomize(BasicNetwork network,
                    int fromLayer)

                          Randomize one level of a neural network.

                    Uses of BasicNetwork in org.encog.neural.freeform

            Constructors in org.encog.neural.freeform with parameters of type BasicNetwork

            FreeformNetwork(BasicNetwork network)

                          Craete a freeform network from a basic network.

                    Uses of BasicNetwork in org.encog.neural.networks

            Methods in org.encog.neural.networks with parameters of type BasicNetwork

                     boolean
            BasicNetwork.equals(BasicNetwork other,
                    int precision)

                          Determine if this neural network is equal to another.

                    Uses of BasicNetwork in org.encog.neural.networks.layers

            Methods in org.encog.neural.networks.layers that return BasicNetwork

                     BasicNetwork
            Layer.getNetwork()

                     BasicNetwork
            BasicLayer.getNetwork()

            Methods in org.encog.neural.networks.layers with parameters of type BasicNetwork

                     void
            Layer.setNetwork(BasicNetwork network)

                          Set the network that this layer belongs to.

                     void
            BasicLayer.setNetwork(BasicNetwork network)

                          Set the network for this layer.

                    Uses of BasicNetwork in org.encog.neural.networks.structure

            Methods in org.encog.neural.networks.structure that return BasicNetwork

                     BasicNetwork
            NeuralStructure.getNetwork()

            Methods in org.encog.neural.networks.structure with parameters of type BasicNetwork

                    static boolean
            NetworkCODEC.equals(BasicNetwork network1,
                    BasicNetwork network2)

                          Determine if the two neural networks are equal.

                    static boolean
            NetworkCODEC.equals(BasicNetwork network1,
                    BasicNetwork network2,
                    int precision)

                          Determine if the two neural networks are equal.

            Constructors in org.encog.neural.networks.structure with parameters of type BasicNetwork

            AnalyzeNetwork(BasicNetwork network)

                          Construct a network analyze class.

            NeuralStructure(BasicNetwork network)

                          Construct a structure object for the specified network.

                    Uses of BasicNetwork in org.encog.neural.networks.training.concurrent.jobs

            Methods in org.encog.neural.networks.training.concurrent.jobs that return BasicNetwork

                     BasicNetwork
            TrainingJob.getNetwork()

            Methods in org.encog.neural.networks.training.concurrent.jobs with parameters of type BasicNetwork

                     void
            TrainingJob.setNetwork(BasicNetwork network)

            Constructors in org.encog.neural.networks.training.concurrent.jobs with parameters of type BasicNetwork

            BPROPJob(BasicNetwork network,
                    MLDataSet training,
                    boolean loadToMemory,
                    double learningRate,
                    double momentum)

                          Construct a job definition for RPROP.

            RPROPJob(BasicNetwork network,
                    MLDataSet training,
                    boolean loadToMemory)

                          Construct an RPROP job.

            TrainingJob(BasicNetwork network,
                    MLDataSet training,
                    boolean loadToMemory)

                          Construct a training job.

                    Uses of BasicNetwork in org.encog.neural.networks.training.lma

            Constructors in org.encog.neural.networks.training.lma with parameters of type BasicNetwork

            LevenbergMarquardtTraining(BasicNetwork network,
                    MLDataSet training)

                          Construct the LMA object.

            LevenbergMarquardtTraining(BasicNetwork network,
                    MLDataSet training,
                    ComputeHessian h)

                          Construct the LMA object.

                    Uses of BasicNetwork in org.encog.neural.networks.training.nm

            Constructors in org.encog.neural.networks.training.nm with parameters of type BasicNetwork

            NelderMeadTraining(BasicNetwork network,
                    MLDataSet training)

                          Construct a Nelder Mead trainer with a step size of 100.

            NelderMeadTraining(BasicNetwork network,
                    MLDataSet training,
                    double stepValue)

                          Construct a Nelder Mead trainer with a definable step.

                    Uses of BasicNetwork in org.encog.neural.networks.training.pso

            Fields in org.encog.neural.networks.training.pso declared as BasicNetwork

                    protected  BasicNetwork[]
            NeuralPSO.m_networks

            Methods in org.encog.neural.networks.training.pso with parameters of type BasicNetwork

                     void
            NeuralPSO.setInitialPopulation(BasicNetwork[] initialPopulation)

                          Keep a reference to the passed population of networks.

            Constructors in org.encog.neural.networks.training.pso with parameters of type BasicNetwork

            NeuralPSO(BasicNetwork network,
                    MLDataSet trainingSet)

                          Construct a PSO using a training set score function, 20 particles and the
                NguyenWidrowRandomizer randomizer.

            NeuralPSO(BasicNetwork network,
                    Randomizer randomizer,
                    CalculateScore calculateScore,
                    int populationSize)

                          Constructor.

                    Uses of BasicNetwork in org.encog.neural.networks.training.simple

            Constructors in org.encog.neural.networks.training.simple with parameters of type BasicNetwork

            TrainAdaline(BasicNetwork network,
                    MLDataSet training,
                    double learningRate)

                          Construct an ADALINE trainer.

                    Uses of BasicNetwork in org.encog.neural.prune

            Methods in org.encog.neural.prune that return BasicNetwork

                     BasicNetwork
            PruneIncremental.getBestNetwork()

                     BasicNetwork
            PruneSelective.getNetwork()

                     BasicNetwork[]
            PruneIncremental.getTopNetworks()

            Methods in org.encog.neural.prune with parameters of type BasicNetwork

                    static String
            PruneIncremental.networkToString(BasicNetwork network)

                          Format the network as a human readable string that lists the hidden
                layers.

            Constructors in org.encog.neural.prune with parameters of type BasicNetwork

            PruneSelective(BasicNetwork network)

                          Construct an object prune the neural network.

                    Uses of BasicNetwork in org.encog.platformspecific.j2se

            Methods in org.encog.platformspecific.j2se with parameters of type BasicNetwork

                    static void
            TrainingDialog.trainDialog(BasicNetwork network,
                    MLDataSet trainingSet)

                          Train using SCG and display progress to a dialog box.

                    static void
            TrainingDialog.trainDialog(MLTrain train,
                    BasicNetwork network,
                    MLDataSet trainingSet)

                          Train, using the specified training method, display progress to a dialog
                box.

                    Uses of BasicNetwork in org.encog.util.benchmark

            Methods in org.encog.util.benchmark with parameters of type BasicNetwork

                    static int
            Evaluate.evaluateTrain(BasicNetwork network,
                    MLDataSet training)

                          Evaluate how long it takes to calculate the error for the network.

                    Uses of BasicNetwork in org.encog.util.simple

            Methods in org.encog.util.simple that return BasicNetwork

                    static BasicNetwork
            EncogUtility.simpleFeedForward(int input,
                    int hidden1,
                    int hidden2,
                    int output,
                    boolean tanh)

                          Create a simple feedforward neural network.

            Methods in org.encog.util.simple with parameters of type BasicNetwork

                    static void
            EncogUtility.trainConsole(BasicNetwork network,
                    MLDataSet trainingSet,
                    int minutes)

                          Train the neural network, using SCG training, and output status to the
                console.

                    static void
            EncogUtility.trainConsole(MLTrain train,
                    BasicNetwork network,
                    MLDataSet trainingSet,
                    int minutes)

                          Train the network, using the specified training algorithm, and send the
                output to the console.

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So we made it to Oregon!!! We are at Raymond's grandparents right now relaxing and having fun being lazy. But we are headed out in the morning to continue on. Not much longer now and we will be in Canada! Crazy to think about. Less than a thousand miles to go.....crazy! We are uploading the rest of the photos we have taken since the last upload right now, and we were going to try and get some audio up but the computer is really slow and apparently the uploading is not working right so.....we shall see if we can get any of that before we leave. I was going to make a picture post, but it will take a while to upload so we shall see. Hope everyone is doing well!


Sydney-siders are spoilt for great choice when it comes to the best bars and pubs. The top locations allow you to bask at the bar in the sunlight with a cocktail or enjoy the Happy Hour Specials over the top of the city while overlooking the Opera House or the Sydney Harbour Bridge, or wander downstairs to a secret hidden alternative underground venue that takes pride in offering the best local and international musical talent.
Established in the popular The Rocks precinct, a great area for pubs and bars for tourists, locals and corporate folk, the Australian Heritage Hotel provides a bar with a heritage charm and a truly authentic Australian pub experience. Try one of the bar's 100 Australian beers available or the Australian only extensive wine list. The Aussie pub has four unique function spaces to hold all of your Australian or non-Australian friends for a great event at one of the best bars of the city.
Situated on the King Street Wharf waterfront, Beer Deluxe is a great bar and pub to sink back a beer with exceptional views over the city. The bar has over 150 international craft beers on tap so take your pick at finding the best beer available while enjoying one of the best views of the city.
Sydney-siders are constantly spoilt for locations at bars, pubs and function venues. Buckley's bar rests by the Opera House and is a great place to bring family, friends and overseas visitors to relax amongst the best views of the whole city.
Enjoy a $10 bargain steak at the bar as you check out Sydney Harbour. Cargo Bar is a favourite hidden city secret amongst locals to Sydney as the booth-seating and alfresco tables become filled very quickly. After your steak enjoy a boogie on the dance floor by soaking up the party atmosphere of one of the top locations in Sydney.
Cargo Lounge is a bar renowned as a great party venue in Sydney- the dance floor has even had to be replaced 14 times! There are six private spaces available for hire at the great location including The Disco Booth for big events or for a more intimate experience you can hire something much smaller for your best bar experience.
Another great party venue near Sydney's waterfront, Casablanca bar prides itself on ensuring that all party-goers are guaranteed a good night to remember (providing you've got the memory after the party). With the hottest DJ's, private banquets and an extensive wine list, Casablanca bar offers something for everyone.
Clubhouse is a great relaxing, modern venue situated in the 'up-and-coming food Mecca of Rosebery'. The top venue has a friendly culture where chefs are encouraged to chat with guests and ensure everyone feels relaxed and welcome for a great experience.
With a classy Cuban cocktail bar interior and undercover rooftop terrace with Sydney skyscrapers as a picturesque backdrop, Cohibar offers an enjoyable top bar experience for every visitor.
Foundry616 is a popular live music venue offering mainly contemporary jazz and jazz-orientated music. The hidden-away venue ensures that they offer patrons with the best local and international jazz artists so if jazz if your vibe then look no further than Foundry616.
Harold Park Hotel has an extensive history as being a very special bar and pub. The hotel was known in the 60s and 70s as a place for Politics in the Pub, Poets in the Pub and more events bringing locals together. These days you can see live comedy on Tuesdays, free trivia on Wednesdays and Politics back in the Pub on Thursdays. There's even free venue hire of the Deck and Dash bars on Fridays.
Feel like a deliciously cheap and famous cheeseburger at a top bar or pub in Sydney? Hive Bar is famous amongst locals for their $5 cheeseburger and house made pickle chips. Produce in the kitchen of the bar is fresh and local and all meat is free range. Local DJs spin their favourite vinyls on Wednesday through to Sunday.
With evening specials, great cocktails and Happy Hour deals from Monday-Friday, the King Street Brewhouse is a popular venue for Sydney-siders. The microbrewery is the perfect place for drinking, dining, hanging out and catching up and overlooks Darling Harbour.
Established in the pumping Kings Cross area, Kit and Kaboodle bar hosts some of Sydney's best house DJ's. The venue is famous for the parties it puts on, with its themed nights and fancy décor. You can hire out the entire venue or go for a night out in your dancing shoes.
Lord Gladstone is a creative bar and pub for local artists, musicians and enthusiasts. While the place appears run-down, it has endless character and is a constant place of activity including the best gigs, events and weekly art exhibitions.
Love, Tilly Devine is a beautiful little laneway bar where you would take your first date or the one you love in an intimate setting. The extensive wine list has over 300 of the best wines on offer from many of the world's greatest regions.
Mr Falcon's is a small intimate bar in Glebe that is popular amongst locals in Sydney. Relax in the comfy couches with friends or hire the entire venue out so that you and your friends can enjoy the eclectic furniture all to yourself.
Situated in a basement away from Kings Cross, Old Growler provides punters with the best venue to catch up with old friends in the cosy booths or bop along to DJs. The bar is available for hire and the Old Growler team can design a menu specifically for your own event.
Play Bar was established at the brink of cultural decay and prides itself on creating an environment of musical appreciation. Play Bar collaborates with unique curators investing in quality music, with a strong focus on rare funk, broken-beat, hippity hop, soul, reggae, drum 'n' bass and early 90s house music.
Established in the 1800s, 'The Riv' is a classic pub that's been popular for a very long time. The staff focus on ensuring that all patrons at pub are comfortable and relaxed in the venue, which is why they won the award for Best Casual Dining Venue in 2015.
Described at one of the top 10 locals pubs in Australia by FHM Magazine, The 'Rose' has become a popular location for celebrities, journalists and politicians and a mix of Erskineville locals. The pub was also the winner of the Australian Hotel's Association top award for 'Hotel of the Year'.
With a 1920s speakyeasy feel and accompanied with upbeat service and a funk/soul soundtrack, Since I Left You is a Sydney bar that always provides patrons with a quality night to meet up with friends. The bar offers a wide range of Australian and international wines, and local and international produce to suit all palates.
Situated in the heart of the CBD, Steel Bar and Grill is a favourite for those looking for a great happy hour to drink wine, vodka, beer, scotch, gin and tequila with specials as low as $5. The food quality is as great as the drink deals, with specials including Sydney Rock Oysters and Peking Duck Spring Rolls.
Relax with a drink in hand with some of the highest and best views of the city at Sweethearts. It's a great place to have pre-drinks before going down the stairs to join the other party-goers of Kings Cross enjoying Sydney's nightlife.
Tatler Sydney bar provides a venue that can become your own private nightclub, a bar to romance in or a music venue to dance in. Situated in Darlinghurst, Tatler is a great small bar to wind down after a day at work.
With comfortable couches to soak up the sun and long leather banquettes in an outdoor setting and fireplaces on the inside, Tilbury Hotel in Woolloomooloo boasts comfort and warmth. The Tilbury pub has a new contemporary menu focusing on fresh produce available seasonally.
Known for its boutique beers, international wines and good times, The Caption's Balcony bar features a venue that offers different spaces for different types of groups looking for large end of week Friday drinks, office functions or intimate meals with loved ones.
Nestled in the heart of Sydney's CBD, The Cidery Bar & Kitchen provides a bar perfect for midweek drinks or to dance to the great DJs on Fridays and Saturdays! Try the bar's favourites small bites on the menu, including garlic prawns, salt and pepper squid or the pulled pork.
Designed by award-winning architects, The Crossing bar aims to provide comfort and ambience, with an eclectic selection of wines, cocktails and food. During the winter, The Crossing has got you covered with mulled wine available and jazz tunes for the background. In the summer, smell the sea-salted air as you enjoy the company of the beautiful weather amongst friends.
With the best views towards the Opera House and a sundrenched rooftop bar with a retractable cover, The Glenmore offers a bar experience that can be enjoyed in rail, hail or shine. The bar is available for hire for work meetings, entertainment or functions.
With waterfront views from comfortable couches, The Loft is a stunning bar to enjoy a cocktail or more. Enjoy top live music and Sydney's best DJs, or participate in a High Tea event on the weekend.
Enjoy great pub food and live music in a relaxing setting at The Merton Hotel in Rozelle. Bookings in the beer garden are a great way to bring a few friends or 60 together to play a game of ball and soak up the sun.
Relax in the comfortable atmosphere of The Royal Leichhardt bar as you surround yourself with over 100 different plants, consume botanical themed cocktails and botanical themed interiors. Enjoy trivia, poker, live entertainment and meat tray raffles throughout the week. You also have the opportunity of enjoying Ladies' night, High Tea and martini & manicure sessions by appointment.
The Vanguard bar offers an intimate 1920s interior setting, with an ambience like no other. The bar provides elegant and stylish dining and with live entertainment including jazz, blues, rock, folk, cabaret, burlesque, cinema, comedy, spoken word and even theatre.
The Wild Rover bar describes itself as 'an Irish folk barn crossed with New York chic set in an unassuming clothing house'. Check the bar out yourself to try one of the 200+ best whiskies from around the world.
With an all-day open kitchen, the Tudor Hotel ensures that you spoil yourself to a great feed of hearty pub classics, parmis, nachos or steak. The Tudor pub celebrates Aussie beverages and the bottle shop joined offers a great selection of Australian and international boutique wine, beer, cider and spirit varieties.
The Roundhouse is a great venue that can hold 2200 party-goers and is most popular for its large-scale university events. You don't have to be a university student though; if you love bingo or great music, The Roundhouse is a giant bar that offers a great time for you.
Winning awards for being the 'Best Restaurant in a Pub' by the NSW Australian Hotel Association for 2013 and 2012 makes 3 Weeds Rozelle a place that you cannot miss! The Hotel has a restaurant, busy back-bar bistro, wine bar and other spaces at the venue so there is always a spot you can hang out that is perfectly suited for you!
456 The Avenue is a hidden gem found in Chatswood that has plenty of places to relax amongst friends. Sit outside in the courtyard or chill out in one of the booths inside. The kitchen is open from 7am Monday-Friday and from 4pm on Saturday so try out the great breakfasts at the hidden gem.


If you've ever struggled to switch off on the first night in an unfamiliar place, there might be more at work than jetlag or cheap sheets.
A study by Brown University have found that a network in the left hemisphere of the brain "remained more active" than the other during deep sleep.
The "first night effect," as they termed it, means that half of us stays alert in case of danger when we sleep in a new place.
When the experiment was repeated on the following nights, they found the left side of the brain didn't respond and couldn't be stimulated in the same way during deep sleep.
So "sleeping with one eye open" isn't such a silly idea after all, unless you're attacked on night two. Then you're screwed.


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Prenatal diagnosis of illness is no excuse for abortion, pope says
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Pope Francis talks with young people during an audience with a delegation from the Institute of the Innocents, a Florence-based organization dedicated to caring for children. The pope met the delegation at the Vatican May 24, 2019, during an audience marking the 600th anniversary of the Italian institute. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) See POPE-CHILDREN-
VATICAN CITY — "Abortion is never the answer" to couples seeking a way to deal with a prenatal diagnosis of serious illness or disability, Pope Francis said.
"Human life is sacred and inviolable and the use of prenatal diagnosis for selective purposes must be strongly discouraged because it is the expression of an inhuman eugenic mentality, which deprives families of the possibility of welcoming, embracing and loving their weakest children," the pope said May 25.
Addressing participants at a Vatican meeting on medical care for "extremely fragile" babies and on the pastoral care of their parents, Pope Francis said the Catholic Church's total opposition to abortion is not primarily a religious position, but a human one.
"Just two phrases, two questions, can help us understand this," the pope said. "First question: Is it licit to eliminate a human life to solve a problem? Second question: Is it licit to hire a hitman to resolve a problem?"
"No," he said, "it is not licit. Never ever eliminate a human life nor hire a hitman to resolve a problem."
When there is a prenatal diagnosis of serious illness or disability, the parents need medical staff and pastoral workers to be close to them and support them, the pope told participants at the conference sponsored by the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life.
While some may define the baby's condition as "incompatible with life," he said, the fact that there is movement and that the mother knows she is pregnant means there is life and the mother's experience of that must be honored.
Every child conceived in a mother's womb "is a gift that will change the story of a family, a mother and father, grandparents and siblings," he said. "And this baby needs to be welcomed, loved and cared for."
"When a woman discovers she is expecting a baby, she immediately experiences a profound sense of mystery. Women who are mothers know this," he said. "The awareness of a presence that grows inside her pervades her being, making her not only a woman, but a mother."
The baby insider her, he said, immediately becomes a son or daughter.
When a prenatal diagnosis reveals that the child has a malformation or illness the serenity of the parents is disturbed and the experience of pregnancy changes, the pope said. "The sense of solitude and impotence and the fear that the baby and the whole family will suffer emerge as a silent cry, a plea for help."
Fortunately, he said, advances in prenatal medical treatment are starting to catch up with the ability to make prenatal diagnoses. And even in cases where there is nothing doctors can do to heal the child, more services exist to assist parents of children with disabilities or to provide hospice care to newborns who are not expected to live. Those services, the pope said, must be made more widely available.
When it is likely the baby will die, Pope Francis said, many people assume that the parents' suffering will be lessened if the baby is aborted. But welcoming the child, holding him or her and giving comfort and love helps bring "completion to a family's love."
"In fact," he said, "taking care of these babies helps the parents work through their mourning and understand what happened not only as a loss, but as a stage of a journey taken together. That baby will remain in their lives forever, and they were able to love him or her.
"Many times those few hours that a mother was able to cradle that baby leaves a trace in her heart that she will never forget," the pope said. "She feels like a mother."
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Marc Crousillat (né le  à Marseille et mort le  dans la même ville) est un joueur français de water-polo en activité dans les années 1980.

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Joueur du Cercle des nageurs de Marseille, il fait partie de l'équipe de France terminant dixième des Jeux olympiques d'été de 1988 à Séoul, comme son frère Michel Crousillat.

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Il est le père du joueur de water-polo Ugo Crousillat et le frère du joueur de water-polo Michel Crousillat.

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Joueur français de water-polo
Joueur de water-polo aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1988
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Naissance en janvier 1960
Naissance à Marseille
Décès en janvier 2022
Décès dans le 6e arrondissement de Marseille
Décès à 62 ans


Zone 8 regulates hunting opportunities for turkey in Arkansas and covers 1,534 square miles. Public lands comprise 52 square miles (4%) of the total land covered by this hunt zone. The greater region is best serviced by Arkadelphia, De Queen, and Murfreesboro. The elevation of the region ranges from a low of 200 feet to a high of 2,300 feet above sea level. This area contains 9 campgrounds, and 8 public fishing access sites. This zone is a gateway to these forested areas: Ouachita National Forest.


Baylor and Ohio State moved into the top-5 this week as both were helped by Buffalo's 30-3 win over now No. 60 Ohio (6-3). Florida State and Alabama have been the top two teams in the #KPI dating back to September 22. Stanford maintains its spot at No. 3 after a 26-20 win vs. Oregon.
There are now six undefeated teams: #1 Florida State, #2 Alabama, #4 Baylor, #5 Ohio State, #23 Fresno State and #37 Northern Illinois. Only 16 teams remain with one or fewer losses (6 of those 16 teams are outside the #KPI top-20).
Florida State and Alabama continue to control their own destiny for the championship game. There remains significant separation between Stanford and Baylor/Ohio State. Baylor has the toughest remaining schedule of the three (No. 37), followed by Stanford (No. 50) and Ohio State (No. 55). This doesn't include championship games – remember the Big 12 doesn't have a championship game.
Ohio State's biggest issue is not as much the Big Ten but who they miss playing in the Big Ten. They have the easiest conference schedule nationally based on opponents missed (they miss Michigan State, Minnesota and Nebraska, a combined 23-5 overall and 13-3 in the Big Ten). South Carolina, Wisconsin, Arizona and USC round out the top-5.
Wisconsin at Minnesota on November 23 will be the only Big Ten game where Ohio State or Wisconsin will face one of the top three teams in the Legends Division.
Central Florida continues to climb and controls their own destiny in the American Athletic Conference. They have beaten two of the three teams with one loss (Houston, Louisville), but will not play Cincinnati.
Florida State has clinched the ACC Atlantic Division. The Coastal Division is a mess.
There are five teams ranked in the AP poll and six teams in the USA Today/Coaches Poll who are not ranked in the #KPI top 25: #27 LSU, #28 Texas, #31 Miami-FL, #33 Minnesota (coaches poll only), #36 Louisville and #7 Northern Illinois. #8 Virginia Tech, #14 BYU, #15 Georgia Tech, #17 Georgia (not in coaches poll), #18 Mississippi and #24 Notre Dame are top-25 #KPI teams not ranked.
The average margin in games this year has been 20.6 points per game. (Week 1: 22.9 PPG; Week 2: 24.8 PPG; Week 3: 20.1 PPG; Week 4: 25.4 PPG; Week 5: 19.4 PPG; Week 6: 18.0 PPG, Week 7: 14.9 PPG, Week 8: 19.1 PPG, Week 9: 20.0 PPG, Week 10: 18.6 PPG, Week 11: 19.9 PPG).
The average margin of victory in non-conference games is +24.1 PPG. The margin in conference games is +17.5 PPG.
The current adjustments are +0.10 for road teams, -0.11 for home teams and -0.05 for neutral site teams. Remember, these adjustments are all based on current data to date.
The Pac-12 is the highest scoring conference (34.0 PPG). The SEC is second (32.9 PPG) and the Big 12 is third (31.9 PPG).
The ACC is allowing the fewest points (23.3 PPG). The Big Ten is second (24.7 PPG) and the SEC is third (25.1 PPG).
Kansas State (+27), Wisconsin (+14), Buffalo (+14), Arkansas State (+14) and Virginia Tech (+13) made the largest jumps in the #KPI this week. Florida (-16), Maryland (-16), Miami-FL (-12), Texas Tech (-12), Michigan (-11) and Mississippi State (-11) fell the furthest in this week's #KPI.
The top outlier games of the year (based on expected results) are (1) Eastern Illinois 40, San Diego State 19, (2) North Dakota State 24, Kansas State 21, (3) Eastern Washington 49, Oregon State 46, (4) Iowa 23, Minnesota 7 and (5) Virginia 19, BYU 16.
The top outlier games for FBS vs. FBS games only are (1) Iowa 23, Minnesota 7, (2) Virginia 19, BYU 16, (3) Utah 27, Stanford 21, (4) West Virginia 30, Oklahoma State 21 and (5) Utah 20, BYU 13.


Did the smartphones make me dumb?. At least my communication with other's became dumber ever since I started using smart phones. Instead of giving complete attention to what the other person is trying to communicate, by looking into the eyes of the other person, the smartphones always distracted me, amidst great opportunities to have very warm and spontaneous communication across the table, deeply engrossing in what the other person is trying to communicate.
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I think my droid-smart phone has brought more communication to me as it travels with me and I do nto have to wait til I get home to call. Great shot of this older telephone.
In my case, I got addicted to checking messages always using my Samsung note, thus improving efficiency but reducing effectiveness of my communications.


Changchengopterus pani was a wukongipterid described in 2009 on the basis of fossils from the Middle Jurassic Tiaojishan Formation, Hebei Province, China. Only one specimen is currently known, consisting of a partially articulated skeleton missing the skull. The holotype is that of a juvenile with a wingspan just 47 centimeters across. It is currently unknown how large the adults grew, although wukongopterids rarely exceeded one meter wingspans. Although there is no skull preserved with the specimen, its appearance can be inferred for Changchengopterus by comparison to other wukongopterids. All known wukongopterids had long, narrow skulls, and many had quite large semicircular cranial crests. It may have fed on insects or small vertebrates in the cool ginkgo and conifer forests of Tiaojishan.


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Franciszek Ślusarczyk (* 26. Juli 1958 in Dobczyce) ist ein polnischer römisch-katholischer Geistlicher. Im Dezember 2018 wurde er zum Weihbischof in Krakau ernannt, trat aber wenig später von diesem Amt zurück.

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Franciszek Ślusarczyk empfing am 20. Mai 1984 das Sakrament der Priesterweihe für das Erzbistum Krakau.

Nach Kaplansjahren in Żywiec-Zabłocie und Wieliczka war er von 1990 bis 1997 Präfekt und anschließend bis 2002 Subregens am Priesterseminar in Krakau. 1997 wurde er zum Dr. theol. promoviert; seither lehrte er als Gastprofessor Homiletik an der Päpstlichen Akademie für Theologie Krakau. Von 2002 bis 2014 war er Vizerektor für seelsorgliche Angelegenheiten am Sanktuarium der Barmherzigkeit Gottes in Krakau-Łagiewniki und anschließend Rector ecclesiae und Kustos dieses Heiligtums. Außerdem war er Mitglied und Sekretär des Priesterrates des Erzbistums.

Papst Franziskus ernannte ihn am 3. Dezember 2018 zum Titularbischof von Cillium und zum Weihbischof in Krakau. Am 12. Dezember 2018 nahm der Papst seinen Verzicht auf das Amt an. Gründe für den Rücktritt vor der Bischofsweihe wurden nicht genannt. Das Erzbistum betonte lediglich die Wertschätzung für Ślusarczyk, es gebe aber schwerwiegende Gründe für dessen Entscheidung, das Amt nicht anzutreten.

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Today I had my first life changing bite of cherry pistachio ice cream and my world is better because of it. This ice cream is just too pretty and tasty not to share a picture of.
We also continued with our pre service training and got to meet our first host families in the early evening. I'm looking forward to getting to know my host mom and family better over the next few weeks and to learn more about Jamaican culture from them!


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Finding a CPA in Miami
A new Web site called Teaspiller launched in February with the aim of helping taxpayers find a Miami Accountant or Miami CPA especially during tax season. (Also works in other US cities)
Taking a page from the burgeoning Tea Party movement, Teaspiller also found inspiration from the Boston Tea Party. According to the company's Web site, CEO Amit Vemuri, an Internet entrepreneur and former vice president at travel site Travelocity, was in a library reading up on tax and accounting history and came across an editorial reference to the Boston Tea Party protestors as "teaspillers." He decided to use the name for the Web site he wanted to launch.
The company, which was founded in 2009, claims to already have a network of 20,000+ accountants across the country in place for the site launch. However, it's going to be challenging some established sites like AccountantsWorld.com and CPAFinder.com, as well as services run by accounting organizations like the AICPA.
The New York-based startup claims to have several technology advantages, including complex algorithms to match various kinds of accounting and tax preparation needs with accountants who possess the appropriate skill sets and industry expertise.
Along with the search and matching technology, Teaspiller offers an individualized accountant reviews system. Maintained by the community, the reviews system aims to match accountants and customers based on factors such as tax preparation needs, specific industry characteristics and their associated tax issues, location, size, and more.
According to the announcement of the site's launch, Vemuri wants to make his accountant-matching service into what Travelocity is for travel and Netflix is for movie rentals. Of course, if he follows in Netflix's footsteps, he'll have to figure out how to ship accountants in little postage-paid red envelopes or stream them over the Internet.


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Alibaba's Singles Day shatters records
BY	Deena M. Amato-McCoy November 13, 2017
Not only did Alibaba Group's Singles Day smash its own record, its volume exceeded the combined U.S. sales of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
The 24-hour shopping extravaganza, held on Nov. 11, brought in $25.3 billion in sales (or gross merchandise value) to Alibaba's platforms, up 39% compared to 2016. Sales settled through Alibaba's Alipay accounted for 90% of total GMV. A total of 1.48 billion transactions were processed by Alipay in the entire 24 hours.
More than 140,000 Chinese brands and 60,000 international brands participated in this year's Singles Day event, a move that encouraged 225 countries and regions to complete transactions throughout the day. The top countries selling to China included Japan, United States, Australia, Germany, South Korea.
Overall, 167 merchants each generated more than $15.1 million in sales. Meanwhile, 17 merchants surpassed $75.4 million in sales, and six merchants surpassed $150.9 million in sales.
Alipay processed 1.48 billion total payment transactions, up 41% from 2016. The network processed 256,000 transactions per second at peak. Meanwhile, Alibaba Cloud processed 325,000 orders per second at peak, and Cainiao Network processed 812 million total delivery orders.
The first delivery arrived 12 minutes and 18 seconds after midnight, according to Alibaba.
To boost excitement — further blend the online and offline experiences — Alibaba created "smart stores" that featured virtual browsing, shopping tours, virtual fitting rooms, payments and deliveries. Specifically, the Chinese online giant turned 100,000 physical shops around China into "smart stores." Goods perused by people at the stores, but then bought and paid for on Alibaba's platforms, were added towards the sales total, according to CNBC.
"More than $25 billion of GMV in one day is not just a sales figure," said Daniel Zhang, CEO of Alibaba Group. "It represents the aspiration for quality consumption of the Chinese consumer, and it reflects how merchants and consumers alike have now fully embraced the integration of online and offline retail."
Merchants involved in the event expected to distribute an estimated 1.5 billion parcels over the next six days.
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