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Posted by cityslikr
C Is For 'Conservative Country Mouse'
Hardly equipped to wade into the fallout of last night's Alberta election except to say that both pollsters and more right wing types from the 'Calgary School' and on the interwebs must be feeling a little glum today.
"In Alberta yesterday, voters were given a choice between Principled Conservatism and Unprincipled Conservatism," The Clown At Midnight wrote. "And Unprincipled Conservatism – populism — won the day. Boy, did they ever win the day…We can stop pretending that just because our views are principled, people will share them."
The day before the election, University of Calgary economist Frank Atkins established what exactly was at stake on a segment of the CBC's Sunday Edition. "This is the big question right now. What do Albertans want? Do they want to be true conservatives on the right or are Albertans actually drifting to the left?"
Apparently a majority of Albertans aren't principled or true enough conservatives for some. But I'll leave them to battle that one out.
What did jump out at me, though, from a city perspective was a glaring urban-rural/moderate-right wing divide. Once again, cities proved to be the righter wing's Waterloo. The Wildrose Party won only two ridings in Calgary and none Edmonton. Since more than half the Albertan provincial seats are located in those two places, that's a mountain the party's going to have to scale at least partially if they ever want to form the government.
Which isn't really the strong suit of the more hardcore conservative ideologues. Cities and true, principled conservatives seem to go together like oil and water, birds of different feathers or, in terms that a Wildrose supporter might understand, the Hatfields and McCoys. They don't quite get us. They scare us.
At the federal level, Conservatives were able to pick off enough suburban ridings especially here around Toronto to form their majority government. What did we get in return? A pedestrian tunnel to our second, smaller airport. How about a national transit strategy? Yeah, no. We're not that close.
Conservative city love (CCL) has traditionally never really been a thing. All those great unwashed huddled there, causing trouble back in the olden days. Now, joined by champagne sipping socialists demanding we scale back car use and pay $9 for free trade coffee. What's with these people? Cities are just somewhere you go to work and get the hell out of at 5pm.
While it may be politically advantageous at this point to exploit those antiquated divisions, it's simply becoming bad policy, and not just at the local levels, but provincially and federally as well. Senior levels of government neglect of public transit is threatening the economic well being of the region, the province and country. A 'national tragedy' according to Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi. A little overwrought perhaps but certainly a national crisis.
"Gridlock and congestion impede our mobility and productivity on a daily basis," claims the not unconservative Toronto Board of Trade. Red Tory John Tory and the Greater Toronto CivicAction Alliance are spearheading a regional transportation initiative. "Making it easier to move people, goods and services across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area is critical to our region's economic, social and environmental prosperity." "We have far outgrown our existing transportation infrastructure, which is not meeting the current or future needs of our growing region. This outdated system is hampering our ability to realize the rich potential of our region."
Cities matter. Overwhelmingly, Canadians are living in cities. To ignore that fact and use outmoded electoral distribution to subvert the changing demographics is ultimately undercutting the country's future.
It also may be self-defeating in the long run for politicians who exploit it.
In our review of Tim Falconer's book, Drive, way back when, (an aside here: come out to the launch of his latest book next Monday. There will be drinking involved.) we excitedly noted one of the conclusions he came to after driving his way across the good ol' U.S. of A. "People who live closer together and are less dependent on the automobile develop a different attitude toward citizenship and activism."
We become more liberal, shall we say?
If that's so, politicians continue to ignore us, defy us, demonize us at their peril. As more and more voters get wise to city ways, it will pay fewer political dividends to cast them as the enemy within. Just ask the Wildrose Party today.
— urbanely submitted by Cityslikr
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Going Our Way?
While the cat's away, we will take about something other than municipal politics today.
Gaze averted for the past year or so from the train wreck that has become the Ford administration, I've been keeping myself occupied with the goings-on at other levels of government. Not that there's a whole lot more to commend from that view either. But at least it lends one a different perspective.
Which is (Segue alert! Segue alert!) what this country is slowly, incrementally facing, a changing perspective. The Albertazation of Canada, let's call it where the government is the problem not the solution, taxation is a dirty word and all economic problems can be solved by digging into the ground below your feed and mining the resources.
Or as Erna Paris wrote in a Walrus article from March of 2011, "The New Solitudes": … an outlook more familiar to Americans than to Canadians, at least since the Reagan revolution of the 1980s. Its organizing principles are a powerful commitment to individualism, and to maximum freedom in every sector. Governments should be small, their powers limited, their taxing capacity curtailed. The market must be free and unfettered. Individuals are uniquely responsible for their failures, as well as their successes, and they cannot expect assistance from the 'nanny state.'
A twist on an old theme, the two solitudes revisited. No longer English and French with its healthy dose of disregard for those here before any European set foot on these shores. But a new division, grounded in western alienation that may be less geographic than it is philosophical. It's not that Alberta ever wanted in. They wanted the rest of Canada to be more like them.
Or maybe it's nothing more than sour grapes written from the heart of what was once the economic engine of the nation. The tables have turned. Power has shifted. Money talks, baby, and these days it's the west with the deep pockets, Canada's sugar daddies. The new payer of the piper gets a different tune played. If you want to keep dancing, you better learn the new steps.
Not so fast there, bucko. There's nothing radical going on here. It's simply business as usual. What we're witnessing from this long feared stable Conservative majority government is little more than a slightly bluer tinged Chrétienism.
Take last week's federal budget for example. Nothing out of the ordinary, no draconian hidden agenda. The new normal. Nothing to see here, folks. Everybody back to work.
You see what just happened there?
It is now taken as a simple matter of fact, plain as the nose on your face that government deficits and debt are due to excessive spending. On bailouts and stimulus spending during the global economic crisis. On pensions and other outrageous luxuries afforded to those not willing to do an honest day's work in the private sector. We are all now true believers in the Rob Ford maxim that governments have a spending not a revenue problem despite all evidence to the contrary here in Toronto.
Buying into that mantra, Dalton McGuinty's Liberal government in Ontario instructs Don Drummond not to even consider new taxes as a way of helping to alleviate the provincial deficit. This is a spending problem, remember? Tell us how to spend less not how to generate more revenue.
The flip side of this leap of faith, this embrace of the Alberta way, is that low taxes, cutting taxes creates a robust economy. It's that simple, people. Although the Ontario government in its recent budget put off further corporate tax cuts, it was seen as a concession, a sop to keep the NDP happy rather than an admission that having slashed the rate over the last few years has generated little economic benefits to anyone but those businesses now paying less tax.
Lower personal income tax rates and the reduction of the GST at the federal level have also proven to deliver somewhat illusory economic benefits. Yet there's nary a mention of that in much of the budget coverage. Little analysis to challenge the prevailing orthodoxy blowing in from the prairies. Taxes are bad, evil even to some minds. End stop.
No, the only way to turn this ship around, to build a sustainable economy, is to dig our way out. Addition by extraction. Ontario? Quebec? Stop expecting handouts from the rest of the country and get mining. There's gold (of something else valuable) in them thar hills. Drill, baby, drill!
You see, according to the Alberta way, green may be good in theory but terrible in practice. Where's the money to be made in wind, solar? Ontario's very tentative baby steps in that direction have proven to be a bust to those inclined to view alternative energy with scepticism. Nothing more than a vain hope in the eyes of the Globe and Mail's John Ibbitson.
Never mind what's been going on over there in Germany, say. That country propping up the European economy at the moment. Its embrace of solar and wind power has helped turn around moribund manufacturing areas in the former east bloc parts of the country. In just 12 years, green energy went from contributing 6.3% of the country's energy output to now over 20%, creating over 300,000 jobs in the process.
Hmmm, revive a flagging manufacturing base. Reduce dependence on unsustainable fossil fuel sources. Seems like a win-win strategy to those not wedded to the Alberta way.
Unfortunately, there's little boldness in leadership in that direction currently. Politicians of all stripes have accepted the handcuffs of fiscal restraint to dampen expectations of new ideas and nip any discussion of charting a new course in the bud. Hewers of wood and drawers of water we once were. Hewers of wood and drawers of water we shall continue to be.
Those of us demanding something different are now another solitude, looking forward rather than backward. With a majority federal government intent on reshaping the country and its institutions bit by bit into a decentralized, corporate-minded, neoconservative plaything, we may have to take the prime minister up on his offer to seize more regional autonomy and assume control of our future. A future divergent with the Alberta way. That, to borrow Erna Paris's title, is our new solitude.
— sneakily submitted by Urban Sophisticat
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Posted by urbansophisticat
Our Election Issue
Mandate.
I have been given a mandate by the people.
Those are the words inevitably spoken by a politician just freshly elected (or re-elected) to office. The battle has been won. The prize awarded. Absolute rule.
That's our first past the post voting system for you. Unless held in check by a minority situation in a parliamentary setup, those winning an election govern relatively unhindered by opposition for their entire term. This, regardless of how many voters actually voted for them. Look at Ottawa currently. The newly installed Conservative majority government has almost 54% of the seats in the House of Commons having only secured 39.6% of the popular vote. Absolute rule with fewer than 4 in 10 voters voting for them.
That's a mandate.
And it's not at all unusual. In fact, it's commonplace. The unexception that proves the rule. The last time more than half of Canadians voted for a federal government was 1984 at exactly 50%. Before that, 1958. In Ontario, 1937! That's right. For all those who remember the vaunted Big Blue Machine that ruled the roost in this province from 1943 until 1985, never once did it secure an absolute majority of voters. Not once.
The lack of true democratic representation is as equally skewed at the municipal level. Last October, Rob Ford was elected mayor of Toronto with just over 47% of the popular vote. Declaring a mandate, he single-handedly scrapped and established transit plan. Just like that. No vote. Just a so-called mandate from less than half the voters who cast ballots.
Even more disturbing, of our 44 councillors nearly half of them, 20 to be exact, were swept into office with less than 50% of the popular vote. Five of those tallied less than 40%. Four less than 30%. One under 20%.
Think about that for a second. A city councillor makes decisions on behalf of his constituents after 4 out of 5 didn't vote for him. Again, think about that. Line up every voter in that ward and start throwing rocks at them. For every 5 rocks you throw, less than one will hit a voter who voted for their current councillor.
And that's not all, folks.
Of those 20 councillors elected with less than 50% of the popular vote, 10 were incumbents. That means that even after having been in office, garnering the kind of publicity that brings –at the municipal level, name recognition counts a lot — they could not convince more than half of voters in their ward to vote for them. They didn't need to. It doesn't work that way.
Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti, Team Ford's self-proclaimed QB, he of the famous thumb, was returned to city hall by 43.8% of Ward 7 voters. He's been a councillor since 1995 and was an MPP for five years before that. Before deciding to seek re-election, Councillor Mammoliti ran a very high profile campaign for mayor of the city. With all this, he still couldn't convince more than half of the voters in his ward to vote for him. But there he now sits beside the mayor, casting votes along with him 100% of the time.
How about John Parker, councillor for Ward 26, in no way a Rob Ford stronghold in last year's election. Another former MPP and one term incumbent failed to muster even 1 out of 3 votes last fall. Yet, now he's deputy speaker at council and bona fide member of Team Ford. How could that be considered fair and equal representation?
Now, this is not a partisan issue. The skewed electoral situation breaks almost evenly on both sides of the electoral spectrum although, I should point out that of the Team Ford members who have voted with the mayor more than 2/3s of the time, eleven of those councillors came to office with less than 50% of the popular vote. It suggests to me that the views, opinions and attitudes of the citizens of Toronto are not truly reflected in the direction of how the city's headed right now.
So it's little wonder so many of us are ultimately disengaged with the political process. Of all the numbers being bandied about here, the one that is truly the most dispiriting is this one: 53.2%. Barely half of eligible voters even bothered to vote last year and that was a significant jump from previous elections that had dipped under 40%.
We have tuned out and this very well may be one of the reasons. Our votes simply don't add up. Too many of us cast ballots that ultimately are meaningless. A majority of voters never end up voting for those who govern us. So, of course there's a disconnect. Why bother voting when chances are very likely that it won't end up mattering because the other candidate will end up winning.
Not only that but our first past the post electoral system (Is that from a horse racing term? Odd because in horseracing, those betting on the second and third place finishers are rewarded too. Win, place and show.) warps campaigns into also suppressing voter turnout. Negative, nasty races are the norm as cutting your opponents down to size works to your benefit. Less votes for them can work out for you. Assholish behaviour prevails but democracy is dirtied and diminished.
There is a better way to do this.
And I have been anointed by the powers that be here at All Fired Up in the Big Smoke to tell you how. Over the next few months, I will be posting pieces on how we can change this. Don't let anyone tell you we've been throw this before and it's all too complicated. It isn't. Do not give in to the ease of our status quo bias. There is a better way.
Lesson # 1: RaBIT, Better Ballots, Fair Vote. Check them out, brush up a little. We'll talk.
Better, fairer, more representative elections are possible. They are coming. Stay tuned.
— goadingly submitted by Urban Sophisticat
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If I were the God fearing type, I just might have to conclude that the Man upstairs is displeased with us progressives. Maybe it's because we've turned our backs on the teachings of His one and only Son who He sacrificed to atone for our sins or whatever that was all about. Or maybe He is actually that Old Testament God, Yahweh let's call him, who makes side bets with Satan to test our faith mettle. "Who are you to question Me?" Yahweh thunders from the whirlwind in response to Job's seemingly fair question of what was up with all the pain and suffering and pestilence brought down upon him. "Have you ever created an earth, Mr. Too Big For Your Britches?"
Whatever the reasons, supernatural or not, it's been a rough ride recently for those of us perched left of centre. The latest blow came with the death of Jack Layton on Monday. Just months after the NDP's historic (if qualified) breakthrough on the national scene, and freshly installed as Leader of the Oppostion, Mr. Layton was gone. A party full of new faces is now leaderless, as is the 3rd place Liberals, leaving the field wide open for the Conservative majority government to conduct its business with even less parliamentary oversight.
It is the latest in a string of blows to the progressive cause, municipally, federally and internationally that leaves one wondering what other misfortunes are lurking. How bad can this get? Radical right wing ideology has seized the agenda, its adherents control city halls, state and provincial houses and national parliaments world wide, their thoughts and words propel shocking outbursts of hatred and division. The narrative has been recalibrated to one of backward rather than forward looking. Reason is suspect. Compromise is derided as little more than a sign of weakness.
And now we have lost someone who had dedicated his life to contesting that pre-Enlightenment push of anti-modernity. The ascendancy of the Old Testament mindset over its more humane companion book, jettisoning forgiveness for retribution, inclusiveness for tribalism, compassion for anger. What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? Well, for starters, it all sounds so 1960s (where everything went so horribly wrong to the conservative mind). Hopelessly naïve. You want to teach the world to sing too while you're at it? In perfect harmony?
It's enough to make you throw up your hands, declare no mas, and walk away to a more quiet life of personal introspection and disregard for the world around you. We failed to beat back the tide. Sorry about that, folks. Having benefitted greatly from post-war advances, we can sit back and tell our kids and grandkids that it's just not in the cards for them. You're on your own now. We got ours… Jack.
My thoughts immediately turn to The Clash, the only band that matters. For many of us fortunate to come of age in the late-70s, we found ourselves surprisingly politicized with our healthy does of The Clash. Somehow it seems fitting that the last time I reacted so viscerally to the death of a public figure as I have with the news of Jack Layton was back in 2002 when I heard Joe Strummer died, similarly gone far too early.
The words that come to mind:
We gonna march, a long way/Fight, a long time/We got to travel, over mountains/Got to travel, over seas/We gonna fight, your brother/We gonna fight, 'til you loose/We gonna raise, trouble/We gonna raise, hell.
My sincerest condolences to the Layton family.
Let's honour them by not retreating on the political fights that Jack Layton dedicated his entire public service in fighting and allow his death to have been in vain. He kept the progressive torch burning even in the darkest of times. It's up to us now to not let it go out.
— submitted by Cityslikr
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Our Profligate Mayor (No, Not That One. The New Guy)
Hey. All you hard-ass, union haters out there. Where's the outrage? Where's the indignation? Yoo-hoo! Why so silent?
The city just rolled over and gave the Toronto Police Services an 11.5% wage increase over the next 4 years. My math is a little fuzzy but that doesn't exactly work out to the 5% cut the mayor has demanded from all city departments, does it? "The police will give us concessions elsewhere," Councillor Doug Ford said. Specifics to come, of course, but the TPS isn't really known for its concessionary tactics.
"Of the thousands and thousands of doors I've knocked on," the brother-councillor went on to tell the Globe, "there was not one complaint of how the police were paid."
So instead of demanding across the board budget cuts we're now selectively determining who deserves increases and who doesn't, based on Councillor Ford's informal door-to-door polling? The mayor and his team have been rigid in their insistence that any budgetary increase must be balanced with a corresponding cut. If the police services don't provide such an offset to compensate for these new wage hikes, it's got to come from somewhere else according to the mayor's math. Does Doug then go out canvassing neighbourhoods asking folks who they think are overpaid by the city?
Ford scoffed at suggestions by Councillor Adam Vaughan (Councillor Ford regularly scoffs at anything Councillor Vaughan says) that the mayor had caved on the deal. "I find it ironic that the only people [on council] complaining about this deal are the ones responsible for a previous police contract that included a far larger increase than this one," Mr. Ford said.
If memory serves, the expiring contract was a 3 year deal with a 10% wage increase. 'A far larger increase', Councillor Ford? That's about a .4% difference. You guys are supposed to be the belt tighteners, aren't you? An increase is an increase.
More to the point, anybody remember the outside workers' strike in the summer of 2009? The one where Mayor Miller handed the keys to the city vault to the greedy unions and greased the rails for his exit? Yeah, I though you might. The wage settlement went like this: 1.75% in 2009, 2% in 2010 and 2.25% in 2011. That would be 6% over 3 years, nearly half of what Mayor Ford just conceded to the TPS.
So I ask again. Where's all the chatter and clucking (aside from Councillor Vaughan) about the mayor caving into greedy union demands and breaking the bank? Where's Budget Chief Mike "There. Is. No. More. Money." Del Grande yelling and harrumphing about a lack of fiscal discipline? It seems in a Mayor Rob Ford's Toronto, widows and orphans can get stuffed but the police? How much would you like, guys?
Do these imposters really deserve the dignified name of 'fiscal conservatives'? Really, it's more like fiscal ideologues. They are perfectly willing to spend money hand over fist with no regard for the bottom line when it suits their fancy. Just like their federal brethren that the mayor worked so hard to get elected to a majority government on Monday. Last year's G20. Prisons. Engineless F-35s. Money is no object if it means conservative values are being upheld. Anything else is deemed special interest gravy.
— curiously submitted by Cityslikr
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Unreason To Believe
We're trying a new approach here in an attempt to fall in line with a wider swath of our fellow electorate. Clearly we are out of step. So very, very out of step.
Our goal is to stop over-analyzing things. Maybe stop analyzing everything altogether. It only leads to despondency and heavy drinking. Let's just start pretending to take what our politicians tell us at face value. We know they're all lying to us, so let's go with the lies we find most agreeable and beneficial to us. That way, when they fail to deliver, it justifies our anger and disillusionment with the entire system. The politicians are the problem not us.
Cut taxes without cutting services? We like it. Stability and non-accountability above compromise and cooperation? Hells yeah! Putting a majority government in place enables us not to have to think about federal politics again for another 4 years or so. That's what politics is all about, isn't it? Divesting ourselves of any and all responsibility.
We'll also try our best to pay attention to what politicians who pander to our worst instincts have to say about their opponents and we'll poo-poo what these duly smeared politicians say about any sort of 'hidden agenda'. That's just conspiracy minded, we'll tell them. Besides, what do you know? You once lived outside of the country, didn't you? Let's set aside policy and platforms for personality. I'm only going to vote for someone I'd like to have a beer with. It's a whole lot easier that way.
So we're going to begin by sharing the joy our mayor and his brother have expressed with the outcome of Monday's federal election. Finally. After nearly 25 years in exile, we have Conservatives MPs in 416 Toronto. The Liberal Fortress GTA has been breached and this can only mean good things for the city and region.
After years of being neglected and taken for granted by successive Liberal governments in Ottawa, left to our own devices to build transit, affordable housing and upgrade infrastructure, we have elected a party that will listen to our needs and set those things right. It's true. Technically speaking, the Conservatives have been in power for 5 years now and haven't really ever talked about any of that except for stimulus spending that the dreaded near-coalition forced them into when the world's economy was heading off the cliff in 2008.
But you see, their hands were tied in a minority situation. Now freed from those merciless bonds, not with a little help from Toronto and the GTA, they can finally be themselves which, I think, if you didn't look too closely at how they've operated as a government, could be seen as magnanimous. Caring, accommodating, law-abiding and magnanimous.
And since our mayor and his brain trust helped push them over the top, we should expect a little payback in return. Only Liberals ignore those who vote for them. While Conservatives focus mostly on their enemies, they do know who their friends are and reward them accordingly.
What from the mayor's wish list should we look to be granted first? And by 'wish list', I mean not an actual list of priorities that Mayor Ford set down early on in the campaign for the federal politicians to agree or disagree with. That would be getting involved, politically speaking. The mayor didn't want to get involved. At least, until he publicly endorsed the Conservatives and started sending out robo-calls to voters in various 416 ridings. But now that he's rolled the dice and come up 7s, what would he wish for if he had any wishes?
There's money for subways through P3s. So the mayor can finally administer the death blow to Transit City. Check that one off the list. Then there's… there's…
For this to work, we're going to have to ignore the fact that all throughout last year's municipal campaign, then candidate Rob Ford told us that the city didn't have a revenue problem. It was all about over-spending and profligate waste. So it makes it a little awkward to go to the federal government now, cap in hand as the mayor referred to it when someone else was doing it, and ask for money that the mayor claims we don't need.
The difference is, we're coming at this from a position of strength now. Not only did we help give the Conservatives a majority government, so they owe us, but we don't really need the money in the first place. If we did, the mayor and his people at City Hall wouldn't have cut and frozen taxes. So let's look at it more as a Demand rather than Wish List. We are in the driver's seat. All it took was electing government MPs. Conservative government MPs. Conservative majority government MPs.
Who knew life could be this simple and easy? Aside from the 40% of voters who cast Conservative ballots on Monday. They're clearly on to something. Set aside reason and logic and things become very clear, very straight-forward. It's what we're all looking for in the long run, isn't it?
— new me-ly submitted by Cityslikr
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Fighting for Equality: a Life of May Wright Sewell
Fighting for Equality: A Life of May Wright Sewall
By Ray E. Boomhower
This young readers biography showcases educator, woman's rights pioneer, and peace activist May Wright Sewall's important contributions to the history of Indianapolis, Indiana, the United States, and the world. Sewall helped to establish such Indianapolis institutions as the Girls' Classical School, the Indianapolis Woman's Club, the Contemporary Club, the Art Association of Indianapolis (today known as the Indianapolis Museum of Art) and the Indianapolis Propylaeum. She served as a valuable ally to such national suffrage leaders as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and gave the woman's movement a worldwide focus through her pioneering involvement with the American National Council of Women and the International Council of Women.
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Ray E. Boomhower is senior editor with the Indiana Historical Society Press. His previous books include biographies on such Hoosier legends as Lew Wallace, Ernie Pyle, and May Wright Sewall. In 1998 Boomhower received the IHS's Hoosier Historian honor.

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The eighth season of the reality television series Black Ink Crew aired on VH1 from August 14, 2019, until April 29, 2020. It chronicles the daily operations and staff drama at an African American-owned and operated tattoo shop in Harlem, New York.

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 Ceaser Emanuel
 Puma Robinson
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 Donna Lombardi
 Ted Ruks
 Walt Miller
 Young Bae
 Miss Kitty

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Quani Robinson
Alex "The Vagina Slayer"
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Predicting a Dec. 4 runoff matchup with Kemp, she told voters to prepare for a "do-over" as her campaign pointed to tens of thousands of absentee ballots still out in metro Atlanta counties.
Kemp's supporters, meanwhile, said there was no way for Abrams to force the race into overtime. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, a former Georgia governor, said it was "mathematically impossible" for Abrams to win. And Kemp said he was "confident" victory was near.
Overnight, the race considerably tightened. By 6 a.m., Kemp's lead was down to 70,000 votes - but nearly all precincts had reported. Abrams' campaign held out hope that absentee ballots in Gwinnett and provisional ballots could narrow his edge.
If neither candidate gets the majority-vote margin they need to win the election outright, that would mean the nation's political spotlight would shift firmly to Georgia over the next month – and the most expensive gubernatorial election in state history gets even pricier.
Other contests tightened overnight. Democrat Lucy McBath took a slim lead over Republican U.S. Rep. Karen Handel in Georgia's 6th District, while U.S. Rep. Rob Woodall carved out a narrow lead over Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux.
Two other statewide races appeared destined for a runoff: The secretary of state matchup between Republican Brad Raffensperger and Democrat John Barrow, and a Public Service Commission contest between incumbent Chuck Eaton and Democrat Lindy Miller.
2:50 a.m. Kemp didn't outright declare victory during a short speech to a crowd of hundreds of supporters Wednesday morning, but he came close.
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Kemp has a lead of about 95,000 votes over Abrams. But her campaign said tens of thousands of absentee ballots from metro Atlanta still need to be counted.
1:55 a.m. Georgia's 7th District congressional race looks like it'll come down to absentee ballots.
About 14,000 of them have yet to be counted, Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux's Campaign Manager Spencer Smith told our colleague Amanda Coyne.
He hoped the margin of error would be narrow enough to trigger a recount, and said the campaign would "fight like hell" and "aggressively" pursue legal options to ensure each vote was counted.
Earlier in the evening, NBC News and the Cook Political Report had declared Bourdeaux victorious against incumbent Republican Rob Woodall, calls they later retracted.
Woodall now narrowly leads Bourdeaux by a few thousand votes.
1:45 a.m. Stacey Abrams told supporters early Wednesday that she won't concede.
"We are going to make sure that every vote is counted," she said.
She also indicated she was preparing for the possibility of a Dec. 4 runoff, despite returns showing Kemp with a narrow lead.
"If I wasn't your choice or if you made no choice at all: You're going to have a chance to do a do over. And I need you to know that it is my mission to serve you, to serve Georgia, to make you proud. And for those who didn't pick me the first time, to change your mind about me and what we can accomplish together," she said.
1:40 a.m. There were roughly 284,000 mail-in ballots cast statewide, including about 110,000 in DeKalb, Cobb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties. It's unclear how many have been counted, but Lauren Groh-Wargo, Abrams campaign manager said tens of thousands were from her supporters.
1:25 a.m. It looks like the Karen Handel-Lucy McBath congressional fight will stretch into another day. Both candidates left their respective election watch parties in agreement that the 6th District race was too close to call tonight.
1:15 a.m. No concession yet in the governor's race: Abrams campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo said there's still tens of thousands outstanding absentee ballots around the state, including about 20,000 in Gwinnett and 25,000 in Cobb. Many of them, she said, are believed to be Abrams votes.
"We believe this is headed for a runoff," she said.
Although Abrams is expected to address the crowd soon, Groh-Wargo said there likely won't be any definitive answers on the race until Wednesday.
"We will fight for every vote," she added.
12:40 a.m.: There's a bit of confusion in the 7th District congressional race, where four-term Congressman Rob Woodall, R-Lawrenceville, is hoping to hang on against Democratic challenger Carolyn Bourdeaux.
After the Cook Political Report and NBC called the race in favor of Bourdeaux, the Democrat's campaign refrained from declaring victory. It said it's waiting for early votes to be counted in Forsyth County. Ditto for absentee ballots in Forsyth and Gwinnett.
If Bourdeaux wins, it'll be the first big upset of the night. Stay tuned.
12:25 a.m. Henry County voters opted against taking a piece of Stockbridge to create the new city of Eagle's Landing.
The proposal would have created Henry County's fifth city, de-annexing about half of Stockbridge in the process. Residents voted against both the de-annexation and the creation of the new city.
12:20 a.m. Every metro Atlanta community that held a referendum Tuesday on allowing earlier Sunday alcohol sales appeared to approve the measure.
Senate Bill 17 — the so-called "Brunch Bill" or "Mimosa Mandate" — passed through Georgia's legislature earlier this year, giving local governments the opportunity to call referendums on allowing Sunday drink sales to start at 11 a.m. rather than 12:30 p.m.
Midnight: Kemp's lead over Abrams tightened considerably as a trove of metro Atlanta votes narrowed his margin to roughly 100,000 votes.
With about 89 percent of votes to be counted, Abrams hopes overwhelming margins in the Atlanta suburbs can put her over the top.
The news gave the crowd at Abrams' watch party a jolt of enthusiasm. A staffer announced that early vote results from DeKalb County cut her deficit in half.
The speaker said there are many votes to be counted, and it could push the race into a runoff.
The crowd responded with cheers and chanting Abrams' name. Then the Abrams remix of "Win" by rapper Jay Rock played over the sound system.
11:55 p.m. Republicans appeared poised to take back two Athens-area state House seats that flipped to Democrats during special elections last year.
11:45 p.m. The 7th District congressional race is still too close to call, which isn't what U.S. Rep. Rob Woodall, R-Lawrenceville, wanted to hear going into the evening.
Woodall Campaign Manager Derick Corbett said he was not counting his candidate out, mentioning votes from Gwinnett County that had not been counted.
"It's going to be close," he told people standing around him.
Fox News was playing on a projector in the front of a restaurant and a flatscreen in the back. Few of the 25 left by the end of the night were watching.
11:40 p.m. In down-ballot statewide races, most other Republicans were thriving. Geoff Duncan carved out a nine-point lead over Sarah Riggs Amico in the lieutenant governor's race, and Attorney General Chris Carr and Agriculture Secretary Gary Black appeared poised for victory.
The closest race was the contest between Republican Brad Raffensperger and Democrat John Barrow for secretary of state. The Libertarian, Smythe Duval, netted about 2 percent, which could force the race into a runoff if Barrow's support grows.
11:30 p.m. The governor's race has yet to be called since swaths of the state's most populous counties haven't fully reported their results. But things are still looking very good for Kemp and down-ballot Republicans.
Kemp has a 250,000-vote advantage over Stacey Abrams, even after the Democrat-heavy DeKalb reported many of its results. And outstanding precincts include much of Forsyth, Paulding and Walton - territory where Republicans are dominant.
11:05 p.m. Most of Georgia's House incumbents will be heading back to Washington next January.
The AP has called all but two of the state's congressional races. The exceptions are Republicans Karen Handel and Rob Woodall, whose 6th and 7th District races in the north Atlanta suburbs are still too close to call.
Check out our colleagues' dispatches from the 6th and 7th District watch parties.
10:40 p.m. Brian Kemp passed a rare threshold relatively early in the night that points to the surge in turnout. With one-third of precincts still to be reported, he passed Gov. Nathan Deal's 2014 vote total.
And there's still troves of votes, including deeply-conservative north Georgia counties that haven't come in yet.
Democrats are also counting on the raft of precincts in metro Atlanta where Stacey Abrams won big early-vote margins.
10:30 p.m. The numbers in the gubernatorial race appear to be trending away from Stacey Abrams, with more than 60 percent of precincts reporting.
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms also seemed to be prepping the crowd in case Abrams did not win. Bottoms noted the historic nature of the campaign and said tonight is just the beginning.
9:45 p.m. It's still early, but U.S. Rep. Rob Woodall is trailing his Democratic opponent Carolyn Bourdeaux in initial returns from the Gwinnett and Forsyth-based 7th District.
We've been hearing from Republicans all week who have been privately fretting about the four-term Lawrenceville Republican, who eschewed many of the fixtures of modern congressional campaigns. He rarely used social media, had trouble keeping up with Bourdeaux's fundraising and only began advertising on television less than a week ago.
Bourdeaux appeared cautiously optimistic as she mingled with supporters at her Norcross watch party.
9:35 p.m. One of Georgia's most colorful congressional races has come to a close. The AP called the 14th District race in favor incumbent Republican Tom Graves.
That outcome was never really in doubt, but Graves was challenged by one of the most fascinating candidates in recent memory. Democrat Steve Foster, a onetime physician and owner of a clothing-optional retreat, ran his campaign from jail over the last few months after he was convicted for driving under the influence.
Two of Graves' GOP colleagues, Rick Allen of Evans and Doug Collins of Gainesville, have also secured reelection, according to the AP.
9:15 p.m. The excitement at Abrams' Atlanta watch party is starting to build.
Jason Pettie said he didn't want to miss the chance to see Abrams become the nation's first African-American female governor.
Gov. Nathan Deal won reelection in 2014 with roughly 1.3 million votes.
So far tonight, the gubernatorial candidates have cumulatively garnered about 900,000 votes. And that's with less than one-fifth of precincts reporting.
Put another way, the loser of tonight's race looks sure to garner as many votes as Deal did four years ago.
8:45 p.m. U.S. Rep. Karen Handel made a quick spin through her election night watch party at Le Méridien Atlanta Perimeter shortly after most polls had closed to thank supporters.
She took the microphone for a moment saying it was "early, early, early," as polls had just closed, but she is feeling optimistic.
Karen Robinson of Johns Creek made the trek to Handel's Perimeter area event and was thrilled at what she saw: lots of young people. She's also been cheered by reports of robust turnout. "I'm thrilled to see the enthusiasm, whatever way it goes," she said. Economy, security and limited government are her key topics.
8:40 p.m. More than 80 people crammed into a small ballroom at the Westin hotel in the Perimeter area for Lucy McBath's 6th Congressional District watch party. Shortly after 8 p.m. the crowd let out its first cheer of the night when the CNN screen at the front of the room showed an early lead in the Texas Senate race for Beto O'Rourke over Ted Cruz.
8:30 p.m. One reason Kemp's campaign has an early bounce in its step: He is outdoing President Donald Trump in the handful of conservative rural counties that have already come in.
Let's start with Rabun County, which Trump carried with 79 percent. Kemp took it with 81 percent. Pierce County went 86 percent for Trump - and 90 percent for Kemp.
A caveat: The vote total in these counties and others are smaller than the 2016 share. And metro Atlanta and it's troves of Abrams votes are only starting to trickle in. And she may significantly outdo Hillary Clinton in those vote-rich areas.
8 p.m. Early results are trickling in from mostly conservative-leaning counties, but one early trend seems to bode well for voters who don't want a monthlong runoff.
Libertarian Ted Metz is significantly underperforming other third-party candidates down the ticket. That fits with analysts who predicted that his numbers would be squeezed in such a polarizing race.
So far, that seems to be happening. Metz had less than half the vote total as other Libertarian candidates in lower-profile races.
One other interesting trend to watch: John Barrow is faring slightly better than Abrams and other Democrats in his race for secretary of state - possibly an indication that his centrist appeal is winning over some GOP votes.
7:45 p.m. At least two sitting Georgia congressmen have their tickets punched for another two years in Washington. Democrat John Lewis of Atlanta and Republican Austin Scott of Tifton are all set: neither faced competitors this year.
Ten others, including Atlanta-area lawmakers Barry Loudermilk, Hank Johnson and David Scott, are expected to be easily reelected.
We have colleagues camped out tonight at the watch parties for Georgia's two highest-profile House races involving U.S. Reps. Rob Woodall, Karen Handel and their Democratic opponents.
7:25 p.m. Doors have opened at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta, where Stacey Abrams will hold her Election Night watch party. Hundreds of people, many of them with Abrams signs, are waiting in line.
Meanwhile, at Spelman College, where Abrams earned her undergraduate degree, many students had one eye on giant television screens to watch election results and one eye on their laptops doing schoolwork.
Sophomore Taryn Gill had a book in her lap, cheering on classmates and faculty leaders as they spoke at a campus watch party.
Spelman President Mary Schmidt Campbell asked students to pray for Abrams and commended the candidate and those who volunteered on her campaign.
7:10 p.m. We're starting to see some early exits polls. One from CNN could mean good news for Georgia Democrats.
It found that nearly 80 percent of the country's voters said it is very or somewhat important that more women are elected to public office. About half said it is very important.
7 p.m. Most polls are now closed in Georgia, and we won't see many results for at least an hour.
Republicans are cautiously optimistic of an outright Kemp win, and skeptical of any chance of an Abrams victory. They're buoyant at reports of presidential-level turnout in some deep-red bastions in north Georgia.
Democrats are also cautiously optimistic but nervous about voting problems in densely-populated suburban areas. Abrams' supporters, too, believe she has a path to an outright win – but a more likely avenue to a runoff.
And everyone gives the same caveat: The huge turnout complicates any effort to give an informed prediction.
Earlier today, we posted a story about three broad possible scenarios. Our gut leans toward the middle one: A blue wave in the suburbs and a red wall in rural Georgia.
Voting hours have been extended in three Gwinnett precincts that experienced technical issues throughout the day.
6:40 p.m. Hillary Clinton urged Georgia voters facing long waits at the polls to stay in line so they can cast their ballots.
"Please stay in line, encourage those around you to do the same, and help bring this home for @StaceyAbrams," the former secretary of state and 2016 presidential candidate tweeted.
Her comments were soon echoed by Abrams. "All voters are entitled to make their voices heard at the ballot box," her campaign said in a press release.
Our colleagues have reported hours-long lines in some precincts.
Channel 2 Action News' Dave Huddleston was with Kemp when he cast his ballot in an Athens-Clarke County precinct when something strange happened.
When he tried to vote, his voter card said "invalid." He had to go back and get another card.
Despite all the calls of voter irregularities and problems, Huddleston asked Kemp if he thinks he should have resigned as secretary of state to run for governor.
"No not at all. We've been fighting the whole time, we've stayed on the offense, we've been moving ahead and you can't dwell on things in politics, we just grind it out every day whether it was a good day or a bad day," Kemp said.
6:30 p.m. A last-minute federal lawsuit is trying to disqualify Secretary of State Brian Kemp from overseeing his own race for governor.
The lawsuit, filed by a nonprofit group called Protect Democracy, seeks a temporary restraining order barring the Republican from being involved in vote counting, election certification or runoffs.
As secretary of state, Kemp is Georgia's chief election official, and he's also running for governor against Democrat Stacey Abrams.
"That no person should be a judge in their own case is about as basic a rule of fairness as you can get," said Larry Schwartztol, an attorney for Protect Democracy. "Kemp ... has misused his official position to try to tilt the playing field of the election in his favor."
As evidence, the lawsuit cites Kemp's decision Sunday to open an investigation of the Democratic Party of Georgia after an alleged hacking attempt of voter registration data. There's no public evidence suggesting the Democratic Party tried to hack the elections system.
5:30 p.m. A few bold-faced names are already in Athens at Kemp's campaign watching party in a large ballroom in the Classic Center.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue is here with a few of his former top lieutenants – GOP chair John Watson and strategist Dan McLagan – and sounded optimistic about Kemp's chances.
So did U.S. Sen. Johnny Isakson, who predicted Republicans hold the U.S. Senate and win Georgia's top offices.
5:10 p.m. Statehouse candidate Matthew Wilson raised eyebrows on Tuesday for a now-deleted Facebook post that included pictures of him delivering pizza to voters in line at a Brookhaven precinct.
Several people commented that Wilson's action was illegal. Georgia's anti-electioneering law bars people from soliciting votes within 150 feet of a polling place.
Former Mayor Kasim Reed landed in hot water earlier this year for an Election Day video that might have violated the same law.
Wilson, a Democrat, is challenging state Rep. Meagan Hanson for her Brookhaven swing district.
4:40 p.m. Much has been written about Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams' strategy of driving up turnout among minority voters, but Andra Gillespie is keeping an eye on the other side of the coin. The Emory University professor, who focuses on African-American politics, says how Abrams performs among white voters will inform future Democratic nominating contests.
The latest AJC poll had Abrams with a little more than 27 percent support among likely white voters.
Todd Rehm, a GOP operative who is working on a few Legislative races and one of the Public Service Commission contests, is keeping a close eye on two Gwinnett County precincts that he sees as bellwethers for the state.
The first is the Duluth-based state Senate district being vacated by Republican David Shafer, who lost his bid for lieutenant governor this summer. If Rehm's client, Republican candidate Matt Reeves, is coasting tonight it could mean GOP candidates will have an easy election night statewide and in metro Atlanta's two most competitive U.S. House Districts, he said.
Rehm is also keeping an eye on state Sen. Renee Unterman's Buford district.
We've reached out to a few well-connected political operatives and independent observers for what they're looking for tonight and will fold in their thoughts over the course of the afternoon.
2:45 p.m. You don't underwrite a political ad unless you've got something pressing to say, which is what makes Delta Air Lines' rare Election Day spot so intriguing.
The minute-long national ad, which airs today, features serene, birds-eye views of America paired with a message of unity and reconciliation.
Delta is of course a very politically connected company, particularly here in its home state. And the timing of the ad is notable, coming a week before the Georgia Legislature is slated to reconvene for a special session in which a jet fuel tax break is on the table. The potential annual savings for the airline: some $40 million a year.
2 p.m. Analysts suggest there's only a slim possibility that Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams land in a Dec. 4 runoff, predicting that Libertarian Ted Metz's margin will get squeezed in a polarizing contest that's getting heaps of national attentions.
But if neither candidate gets a majority-vote – and both campaigns are quietly preparing for that outcome, never mind their public statements – state history tends to favor the GOP.
The GOP also thrived in the last general election runoff took place in 2008, when U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss trounced Democrat Jim Martin in a runoff after the Republican narrowly missed an outright win.
Moving ahead as scheduled would mean that Kemp, who has dismissed demands to resign as secretary of state, wouldn't be able to raise cash for at least a week during a crucial time for his campaign. State law restricts him from doing so when the General Assembly is in session.
12:30 p.m. A Republican state senator is raising eyebrows with comments he made about leveraging next week's expected special legislative session to clip Stacey Abrams' wings if she's elected governor.
Predicting "chaos" if the Democrat wins, state Sen. Bruce Thompson said at a Monday meeting that he believes Gov. Nathan Deal and other Republicans could restrict Abrams' executive powers in the session - much like North Carolina Republicans did after Democrat Roy Cooper's victory.
"Could it be to strip away some of the power of the governorship in the event that happens?" he said. "So it might be that you restrict some of those powers and balance a little more and leave it at the foot of the governor that if it goes to a runoff and the result isn't what you want, you institute it. It goes the way you want it to, you veto it."
The governor has firmly rejected that notion.
In an interview last week, Deal said such a move is not on the agenda "as far as I'm concerned." Which means it won't happen: State law lets governors strictly control the agenda that lawmakers consider.
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We hope you have your vat of coffee ready, because it's Election Day in Georgia!
All eyes are on the state as voters cast ballots in the race for governor between Stacey Abrams and Brian Kemp. A bevy of down-ballot races that serve as microcosms of many national political fights will also (hopefully) be settled.
The marquee race is of course the one at the top of the ticket.
The neck-and-neck gubernatorial contest between Republican Brian Kemp and Democrat Stacey Abrams has attracted an unprecedented amount of cash, as well as a stream of high-profile surrogates, including two presidents, a talk show icon and countless 2020 hopefuls.
Both candidates have been playing toward their bases as they seek to drive up turnout in a race that's been rocked by allegations of voter suppression and an eleventh-hour election security probe involving Kemp and the Democratic Party of Georgia.
Democrats are also hoping to flip many down-ticket seats, including a pair of U.S. House districts in Atlanta's fast-changing northern suburbs and a host of state legislative races in competitive territory. Many of those challengers have put health care at the centerpiece of their campaigns. GOP incumbents, meanwhile, have been playing up the booming economy, their support for law enforcement and their relationship with popular outgoing Gov. Nathan Deal.
Voter enthusiasm is sky-high – and not only on the left. Roughly 68 percent of Georgia Republicans and three-quarters of Democrats have labeled the midterm election as "much more important" or "more important" than past votes. A record 2.1 million people have cast early ballots, shattering previous records and approaching the overall turnout from the midterm elections four years ago.
Check back here throughout the day for the latest updates on Georgia's top races.
And as we wait for the polls to close at 7 p.m., check out our overview of the governor's race, our last-minute voting guide and preview of what we're watching for this rainy Tuesday. For full coverage, check out Politically Georgia.


Time for the Timed Sessions!
Our GCSE and A-level art students are embarking on the timed part of their exam project tomorrow. GCSE have 10 hours. Year 13 have 15! Should all be completed by the end of the week. Best wishes to all the candidates.


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Build-your-own Baby Yoda? Sign me up.
By Steven Petite on January 16, 2020 at 7:40AM PST
Build-A-Bear is entering the Baby Yoda plush wars. As reported by Business Insider, Build-A-Bear will release a build-your-own Baby Yoda within the next few months. Baby Yoda's arrival at Build-A-Bear isn't exactly surprising given the character's immense popularity, but it is quite exciting.
Build-A-Bear CEO Sharon Price John announced the news at the ICR Conference, a large conference for investors in Orlando, Florida. According to Business Insider, John claimed that Build-A-Bear began working on the design alongside Disney and Lucasfilm after the first episode of The Mandalorian aired last November.
Build-A-Bear is no longer just a place where parents drop a ton of cash on accessories for stuffed animals. In recent years, Build-A-Bear has released products based on Pokemon, Star Wars, Deadpool, DC Comics, and even officially licensed NFL and NBA bears. The range of notable entertainment properties has bolstered Build-A-Bear's popularity amongst adults, and Baby Yoda will probably contribute to this trend.
I would hope that anyone who goes to Build-A-Bear to make a Baby Yoda will give him his default outfit and name him Baby Yoda on his birth certificate. But hey, it's your Baby Yoda. Build-A-Bear hasn't revealed a price for Baby Yoda, but if you've shopped there before, you know it probably won't be cheap.
Baby Yoda's many admirers will have plenty of plush options to choose from in the coming months. Hasbro is releasing a talking Baby Yoda plush to combat Mattel's Baby Yoda plush, which is currently sold out. Disney also has an adorable plush of its own that's available for pre-order. It's possible that all of these Baby Yoda plushies could sell out before they release this spring.
Maybe 2020 will be the year people camp outside of Build-A-Bear for the chance to build their own Baby Yoda.
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Ветере́вичский сельсовет () — упразднённая административная единица на территории Пуховичского района Минской области Белоруссии. Согласно решению Минского областного Совета народных депутатов от 28 мая 2013 года упразднён. Населённые пункты включены в состав Шацкого сельсовета.

Население
 1999 год — 846 человек
 2010 год — 954 человека

История
Сельский совет организован в Пуховичском районе Минского округа в июле 1924 как Слободский сельский Совет рабочих, крестьянских и красноармейских депутатов. Центром сельского совета стала деревня Слобода. В июле 1930 года Минский округ был упразднён и Пуховичский район перешёл в прямое подчинение Белорусской ССР. С 5 декабря 1936 года реорганизован в Слободский сельский Совет депутатов трудящихся и его исполнительный комитет. 15 января 1938 года Слободский сельсовет вошёл в состав новообразованной Минской области. В годы Великой Отечественной войны подвергся немецкой оккупации. По данным на 1947 год, в состав Слободского сельсовета входило 7 населённых пунктов. В январе 1964 года Слободской сельсовет был реорганизован в Ветеревичский сельский Совет депутатов трудящихся и его исполнительный комитет, а его центр перенесён в деревню Ветеревичи.

Сельсовет был упразднён 28 мая 2013 года.

Состав
Ветеревичский сельсовет включал 31 населённый пункт, которые после упразднения сельсовета были переданы в состав Шацкого сельсовета:

 Антоново — деревня.
 Березники — деревня.
 Борцы — деревня.
 Веркалы — деревня.
 Ветеревичи — деревня.
 Ветеревичи 2 — деревня.
 Выемка — деревня.
 Грибное — деревня.
 Дубовое — деревня.
 Ельники — деревня.
 Лучки — деревня.
 Завод — деревня.
 Ильинка — деревня.
 Корничее — деревня.
 Кошели — деревня.
 Михалово — деревня.
 Ладымер — деревня.
 Меденое — деревня.
 Мижилище — деревня.
 Мирная — деревня.
 Протасовщина — деревня.
 Пахарь — деревня.
 Погорелец — деревня.
 Поднемонец — деревня.
 Поречье — деревня.
 Пруцк — деревня.
 Рудица — деревня.
 Селецк — деревня.
 Селище — деревня.
 Слобода — деревня.
 Ямное — деревня.

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But I don't understand what that unit of information means.
Is bit the smallest capacity of information?
Please help me. Thank you.

A: The "unit of information" is the way we can present data, in this case it's in a digital form.
For example, base 10 (1, 2, 3 ... 9) is a unit of information. It's the way that we can present data with loads of different states. We can present the number 100 using base 10, the number 0xFF using base 16, we can even represent data using physical measurements like kilograms or grams, or megabytes and gigabytes.
These are just examples, but the main point is that a unit of information is just the way we can represent data.
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Is Panera's Buyer Building a Starbucks Challenger?
JAB Holdings owns a lot of coffee companies, but has so far done little to integrate them.
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Panera Bread (NASDAQ:PNRA.DL) has become the latest brand to be purchased by JAB Holdings, a privately held company that has quietly bought up an impressive line of businesses in or adjacent to the coffee space.
In addition to agreeing to pay $7 billion for Panera, which has over 2,000 locations and about $5 billion in annual sales, JAB also owns such iconic names as Krispy Kreme and Keurig. In addition, the company has a controlling stake in Peet's Coffee & Tea, Caribou Coffee Company, Einstein Bros. Bagels, and Jacobs Douwe Egberts, a major global player that itself has cafes. JAB also owns Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Senseo, Tassimo, Gevalia, and a number of other global coffee brands.
It's an impressive lineup that gives the company a piece of the coffeehouse/cafe market in the United States, along with a large chunk of the in-home coffee market, mostly due to Keurig. The moves certainly all seem related, making it appear as though JAB plans to leverage all the assets it has acquired into building a rival to Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX), both domestically and internationally.
JAB, however, has kept each company's management in place and has done little, if anything, to push its brands to work together. The parent company has the pieces to be a formidable Starbucks rival, but it has chosen not to do that.
JAB owns Krispy Kreme along with a slew of other coffee brands. Image source: Krispy Kreme.
What is JAB doing?
Thus far, JAB has allowed each of its acquired coffee brands to operate independently. In fact, with each major purchase, the parent company has not only kept existing management on board but has allowed the brand to keep its headquarters wherever it has been. And while a number of JAB's brands already had partnership deals with Keurig, the company has not made a significant effort to integrate its holdings.
"JAB's investment philosophy with companies it acquires is they operate independently and continue to be managed by their management," JAB spokesman Tom Johnson told USA Today. "There's no plan to integrate with other assets in the portfolio."
JAB has launched a concept called "Coffee & Bagels," which essentially co-locates a Caribou Coffee and an Einstein Bros. under the same roof. It's a smart idea, but the 13-store chain is more of a joint venture between the two brands than an attempt to integrate JAB's holdings.
Starbucks is a global behemoth with a net revenue of $21.3 billion in 2016. The chain added over 2,000 stores in 2016, slightly more than Panera has in total, bringing its count around the globe to over 25,000 locations. The company added another 649 net new stores in Q1, raising its total to 25,734 in 75 countries. That's only a start as the chain has committed to opening 12,000 new stores globally and 3,400 new stores in the U.S. by 2021, including four new Roastery locations as well as around 1,000 premium Reserve stores.
When going up against a rival with that much market share, JAB would be smart to keep its plans close to the vest. It has quite a few pieces in the coffee space, but all are relatively small compared to Starbucks. Keurig, for example, had sales of $4.5 billion in 2015, the last full year in which it reported before being bought. That's fairly similar to Panera's annual sales and the $5 billion Jacobs Douwe Egberts claimed when JAB took control of its brands.
As a whole, JAB approaches or perhaps even surpasses Starbucks' annual sales (as a private company, it does not have to report numbers). Those sales, however, come from an array of assets that give the holding entity a beachhead in a lot of markets but near dominance only in the U.S. single-serve space.
What might be next for JAB?
Panera, which will keep its current management in place after the deal closes, has a stronger lunch business than Starbucks, but its coffee offering is surprisingly weak. The company does sell some espresso-based drinks and a selection of frozen coffee-based beverages, but its coffee doesn't seem to be a major focus. The JAB purchase could change that by the simple addition of a Peet's, Caribou, or even Krispy Kreme-branded coffee counter to its stores.
That's exactly what Jeffrey Young, managing director of coffee consulting firm Allegra Strategies, told Bloomberg he expects to happen. He called Panera a "huge account to sell to internally." That's not how JAB has operated to date, but it's possible that Panera CEO Ron Shaich would see the value of doing just that. Shaich might also consider making deals with some of Panera's new sister companies to carry a selection of the items it makes in their bakery/cafes.
JAB has been in acquisition mode, and once the Panera deal closes, it may move to leverage its holdings a little more. That does not have to mean forcing its companies to work together or do things they otherwise would not. Instead, the company could challenge Starbucks by creating avenues for brands like Panera to hook up with others within the family.
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