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COVID-19: OSIWA Spends N165m to Support Media Advocacy, Intervention Programmes in Nigeria
On the 27th of February 2020, Nigeria announced the index case of covid19 in the country. Government subsequently took measures to close the borders and establish stringent protocol for screening and observing visitors and returning Nigerians. As the covid infections kept going up, on March 23 2020, the Federal Government of Nigeria announced a total lockdown in the FCT, Lagos, and Ogun States as part of measures to contain the spread of the COVID-19.
Thereafter, other states within the country declared similar lockdown measures including the institution of curfews, stringent restriction of movement, interstate travel restrictions, and the closure of state borders. While the lockdown, accompanied by other measures was aimed at containment, the negative impact of these measures will also be immediate and significant.
Through engagement with partners, key government and development agencies, the OSIWA Nigeria office discovered that the adverse effect of the lockdown not only led to extreme hardship for a certain category of vulnerable groups in society; but that the situation was further exacerbated by a deficit of information and inadequacy of platforms for engagement between the government and citizens.
For example, the urban and rural poor, and persons at the grassroots who were suddenly faced with untold economic hardship did not have a complete picture with regards to how COVID-19 affects them and the available palliative measures Government was putting in place. A dearth of information in rural areas meant that citizens were not provided with the needed knowledge to practice safety measures during the pandemic.
With a lot of information and interactions going on online, the majority of Nigerians who do not have internet access were left out in the information exchange around the pandemic.
Furthermore, among the vulnerable and high-risk persons, people living with HIV, for instance, experienced difficulty accessing their antiretrovirals which could have led to a greater public health disaster. Other vulnerable groups also experienced the disproportionate impact of the lockdown, including women and children living with disabilities. Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence and victims of domestic violence were forced to stay in lockdown with their abusers. Service providers and first responders to these categories of persons were not designated as essential service providers which led to the inadvertent denial of their protection and support at such a critical time.
The use of force by security actors to enforce lockdown measures was also an immediate concern. Inversely, the absence of adequate security in certain quarters exposed communities to rising levels of insecurity occasioned by increasing economic fragility.
It was therefore important for the OSIWA office in Nigeria to provide responses to these challenges and support partners to address these gaps. To achieve these goals, the Nigeria office adopted both grant-making and advocacy measures. The total sum of $413,248.33 (Four Hundred and Thirteen Thousand Two Hundred and Forty Eight United States Dollars and Thirty Three Cents) (NGN165,299,332) has been disbursed so far for COVID-19 related support to different organisations as grants. This is excluding other in-kind support and on-going grant conversations.
Some of the interventions are highlighted below:
Strategic Communication to Rural and Fringe areas:
The objectives of these interventions are to create:
General awareness and sensitisation on the COVID-19 pandemic
Interactive audience participation and a platform for reporting human rights violations
Linkages to state entities managing the government's COVID-19 pandemic response – NCDC, Presidential task teams and state task teams; linkages to civic and private actors supporting the COVID-19 responses in the different states.
General feedback from citizens on interactions with and impact of the lockdown measures in their respective states.
Policy advisories to government
Support for media houses for more effective communication with citizens, amplification of fringe voices and ensuring accountablility by government agencies.
The arrival of COVID-19 in Nigeria led to an information explosion in the social media space while there was a dearth of information amongst persons at the grassroots. Social media was awash with varied claims on COVID-19 cures, causes and symptoms. Dispelling misinformation about the pandemic and the provision of public health advisories needed to reach citizens in languages they understood.
It was also necessary to make these platforms interactive because citizens had concerns and their voices also needed to be heard. To create synergy between the authorized information sharing systems at the national level and the sub-national levels a unified public sensitisation programme was the most ideal approach.
So far, OSIWA has provided support to COVID-19 programming on television, print media and radio stations across the country. We were strategic with the radio stations we partnered with because a critical mass of citizens needed to be reached.
The radio stations are RayPower Radio- reaching the Federal Capital Territory, Edo, Gombe, Bauchi, Kano, Oyo, Osun, Lagos, and Rivers States; Freedom Radio- which presents its COVID-19 programmes in the Hausa language is targeted at citizens in North West and North East Nigeria reaching, amongst others, Kano, Jigawa, Katsina and parts of Kaduna States. Using Facebook to air its programmes, Freedom radio is interactive and has become a trusted information source for citizens in those regions; Human Rights Radio- a station widely famous for its dogged pursuit of human rights issues, (with the add-on of Facebook live programming) has given citizens a platform to present complaints and express their concerns on the rights violations they experienced and the challenges that were presented through the lockdown.
It reaches an estimated audience of about 20 million. Nigeria Info also provided public engagement and led conversations on national interest. Premium Times and Media Advocacy West Africa Foundation (MAWA-Foundation) have also received support or in the process of receiving support to report human rights abuses and the economic predicament of citizens as the lockdown continued. So far, we are on track to fulfilling the outcome of noticeable improvements in public understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic, the role of citizens in contributing to their safety during a pandemic, and in giving citizens a platform to engage with the Government on the impact of the lockdown.
Support for human rights monitoring and documentation.
The objectives of this intervention are to:
Strengthen the capacity of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to document, analyse and release reports of the state of human rights during the COVID-19 pandemic
Support the Commission's engagement with key law enforcement agencies in identifying and reporting on abuse of power by state agencies.
Support the interface between the Commission and CSOs working on SGBV.
The National Human Rights Commission issued an advisory calling on Government and all law enforcement agencies to ensure the respect of rights in the enforcement of lockdown measures and the management of the COVID19 pandemic in Nigeria. The Commission released it's contact details for reports and communications while civil society groups provided coordination for information sharing with the Commission. OSIWA's support to the NHRC is to strengthen their already existing structure to aid the monitoring, documenting and reporting of human rights abuses in fulfilment of its statutory mandate. The support is also towards strengthening the strategic communication of the Commission, improving its accessibility, visibility and engagement with citizens. Within the first week of implementation, the NHRC released a report on the rate of violations by law enforcement officers against citizens since the lockdown began. This report became an advocacy tool which prompted the Presidential Task Force to engage the Commission and led to the House of Representatives making a declaration against gross rights violations by public officers and passing a motion for investigation of violations by law enforcement officers. See the report here
In terms of visibility, the presence of the NHRC on social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) has increased rapidly. The NHRC official twitter handle following has increased by almost 150%. The average cumulative impression of the NHRC on social media is 6,900,000 (Six Million Nine Hundred Thousand).
The presence of the Executive Secretary of the NHRC on social media has improved the accessibility of the Commission. The Executive Secretary did not have any social media presence before the intervention. The intervention registered a twitter account for him. He now has a following of over 2,000 persons within the space of just 3 weeks.
The project has also expanded the reach and access of NHRC to traditional media. Project partners organized over 10 TV appearances for the Commission on major Television Stations including Channels TV, AIT, Arise Television and TVC to discuss their Human Rights Report.
Special communication and access support for persons living with disabilities and other vulnerable groups:
Enhance access to information and essential services among persons with disabilities.
Link persons with disabilities to social security interventions of the Government
Increase awareness amongst people living with HIV and TB on basic transmission and preventive measures for the virus.
Ensure continued treatment access and care services for PLHIV while sheltered at home, unable to travel across the state for drug pickup.
Provide support services to victims of domestic violence who have been forced into the same space with their abusers for extended periods due to the lockdown.
The absence of official representation for persons with disabilities in COVID-19 response at the national and subnational levels translated into a lack of consultation in the promotion of inclusive intervention strategies. No group must be left behind in accessing support and social buffers. Women with disabilities could no longer go out or earn livelihoods, they were also exposed to abuse. OSIWA, through support to partners at Project Alert, provided an inclusive intervention that ensured prevention and mitigation of the impact of COVID-19 at all levels. Partners for Justice aka The Mirabel Centre through support from OSIWA has continued to provide remote counselling services to victims/survivors of Gender-Based Violence. The nature of the lockdown meant that survivors could no longer walk into the centre to access services and the Mirabel Centre adopted an innovative approach to ensure the continued protection of survivors. As lockdowns are now relaxed we will continue our support to the centre but now also working towards supporting the centre and other frontline SGBV activists with PPE. We are utilizing our convening influence to bring together groups working on SGBV to promote collaboration, information sharing and joint advocacy.
Following due consultation with HIV clinicians and in collaboration with the Center for Integrated Health Programs (CIHP), the HIV treatment provider in Lagos State, OSIWAs partner, PATA received support to ensure uninterrupted treatment for people living with HIV during and immediately after the movement restrictions in Lagos state. This support means that a greater danger has been averted through the provision of antiretrovirals to persons living with HIV/AIDS.
Engaging Policies and Promoting Collaboration:
As part of our effort to ensure collaboration across diverse range of our partners, we have deliberately engage Civil society groups, funding organiations and media groups.
With CSO, we utilized the platform of CSOs who worked with us on Abuja raid to drive a joint CSO memo on Covid19 response in Nigeria. This memo was endorsed by an unprecedent 407 CSOs in Nigeria and was used to engage the Presidential Task Force and the Nigeria governor's forum. From this engagement we are able to support coordination of CSOs to confront the obnoxious Control of Disease Bill which was introduced by the National Assembly. Our work with CSOs and our support to media partners helped to push the bill to public hearing. This will allow for more critical conversations and needed reforms to this bill. We are also bridging the gap between CSOs and media by ensuring that our partners are able to benefit from each other's expertise and platform in confronting issues around covid.
With the media, we convened a meeting of key media organisations to interrogate the peculiar challenges the media is facing under the covid pandemic and the ways to better highlight the plight of citizens and other fundamental issues arising from the pandemic. Through this engagement, we are able to tailor our support to media organisations to improve reportage on covid from a more substantive human angle. The platform is helping amplify information from our CSOs partners in more structured manner.
Our policy engagement extends to our collaboration with the Africa Independent Television to design and roll out a national virtual townhall on covid allowing for a more diverse and robust discussion on issues affecting the country and in particular citizens. It has allowed for opportunity for confronting and interacting with policy makers.
We are also driving coordination amongst funders by hosting the bi weekly COORDINATED PHILANTHROPIC RESPONSE TO COVID-19 IN NIGERIA. This platform is helping with coordination and joint understanding of covid challenges.
The final intervention will be to support partners in repurposing their existing grants to provide COVID-19 response within their target communities and their beneficiaries taking cognisance of the four intervention areas which the Foundation is focused on.
In conclusion, the evolving nature of the environment requires that OSIWA Nigeria adopts an organic approach to COVID-19 response through continued engagements with partners who are working directly on the field. The next phase of our intervention will be determined by identifying what the immediate needs of partners are and finding ways to support those needs which fall into one of our four target strategic intervention areas. We see a need to also provide direct support to Nigeria government. We are now exploring the option of providing direct support to three States in the country to ease the management and movement of patients.
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Where: The Tokyo premiere of "Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2."
What: A polyester and silk, scuba Damier jumpsuit from Louis Vuitton.
Why: So many charming things in one look: a graphic black and white print; a party-ready jumpsuit, and, oh yeah, Stewart's killer gams.


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Pick of the Week:Wipe the Needle featuring CT Martin "Grateful" (Rhemi Music CD Promo)
There ain't no stoppin' for Rhemi Music as they continue to bless us with nothing but the best in soulful house music. Their latest offering comes courtesy of London's Lee Gomes aka Wipe the Needle who makes his debut on the label with "Grateful", a mind-blowing truly deepalicious slice of soulful heaven featuring the unmistakable emotive vocals of CT Martin alongside enthralling keys and chords over deeply groovin' truly spell binding rhythms. Watch out for remixes to come later in the year from heavyweight in the house music universe.

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4.3 acres of entire city block perfectly aligned with direct Center City skyline views. Nestled in quiet area between Temple Medical Campus and Temple University, just few blocks from Broad Street. Approximately 300,000 square feet of solid former bakery and warehouse space. Former home of famous Freihofer Baking Company.New owner can repurpose existing structures or demolish and build ground-up. Qualified ~opportunity zone~ investment (significantly reduced capital gains taxes or zero gains taxes if you hold for 10 years). Steps from the newly approved North Station District $162M development at Broad and Indiana. Ideal for senior housing, apartments, storage, warehouse, distribution center, etc. Truly a rare opportunity for larger scale development, or owner/operator who needs land and warehouse space.


British model Georgia May Jagger covers the February 2014 issue of British Vogue. She has that gorgeous girl next door look with a fresh face and minimal make up. I think Vogue should do more covers like this as they are a great representation of women at ease! It's very easy to look at and appealing in its own way.
Georgia wore a denim jumpsuit by Balmain for the shoot and I think it suits her! She's usually the face of Hudson Jeans so she is no stranger to the denim world! I wasn't surprised at all to see her in so much of the fabric, especially since jumpsuits are coming back in fashion again! I do love her playful look below too, the skirt and the mac are gorgeous pieces with the frills and lace added in, it's very elegant and feminine. For some reason though it reminds me of Alice in Wonderland! What do you think? You can read more from her interview online at the Vogue website.
yes i like it so – precious – i mean !


Jharkhand is a state in eastern India. It's known for its waterfalls, the elegant Jain temples of Parasnath Hill and the elephants and tigers of Betla National Park. The state capital of Ranchi is a gateway to the park. It features the 17th-century Jagannath Temple, a Hindu shrine and the Jharkhand War Memorial. Tagore Hill is a monument honoring Nobel Prize–winning author Rabindranath Tagore. The state shares its border with the states of Bihar to the north, Uttar Pradesh to the north-west, Chhattisgarh to the west, Odisha to the south, and West Bengal to the east. It has an area of 79,710 km2 (30,778 sq mi). The city of Ranchi is its capital while the industrial city of Jamshedpur is the most populous city of the state. According to writers including Gautam Kumar Bera, there was already a distinct geo-political, cultural entity called Jharkhand even before the Magadha Empire. Bera's book also refers to the Hindu epic Bhavishya Purana. The tribal rulers, some of whom continue to thrive till today were known as the Munda Rajas, who basically had ownership rights to large farmlands. Many scholars now believe that the language used by tribes in the state of Jharkhand is identical to the one used by Harappan people. This has led to interest in deciphering Harappa inscriptions using rock paintings and language used by these tribes. For a greater part of the Vedic period, Jharkhand remained unnoticed. During the age of Mahajanpadas around 500 BC, India saw the emergence of 16 large states that controlled the entire Indian subcontinent. In those days the northern portion of Jharkhand state was a tributary state of Magadha (ancient Bihar) Empire and southern part was a tributary of Kalinga (ancient Odisha) Empire.


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Mike Huckabee was an early signer of the Republicans' no-tax-hikes pledge, and he's campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination by touting the 90 different taxes he cut as the governor of Arkansas.
He doesn't mention how, during his 10-and-a-half years as governor, he presided over $505 million worth of tax increases. Sales taxes were raised. So were gasoline taxes, and the per-capita tax burden on the state's residents grew by about 50 percent.
The article goes on to make one point real clear to the reader: when a politicians says "I cut taxes X amount of times," you can often take it with a grain of salt. A politician could vote to double the sales tax on Mountain Dew and in return exempt Caffeine Free Diet Cherry Coke from the sales tax base and claim he cut taxes, when in reality such a policy is either no tax cut at all or a relatively small tax cut, not to mention downright terrible tax policy.


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Behind the Coffee: Starbucks' Howard Behar
(Part 1 of 2) How do you put noble values like "people come first" and "lead from the heart" into daily practice in a business employing 200,000 people? Howard Behar, founding President of Starbucks International, discusses this and key concepts from his leadership book "It's Not About the Coffee."
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Speaker 1: It's a northwest lifestyle weekend on KOMO News. Now, a show for anyone who is or has a boss. This is The Boss Show with Jim Hessler and Steve Motenko.
Steve Motenko: Today on The Boss Show, Howard Behar, founding president of Starbucks International is with us in the studio. Hi. I'm Steve Motenko. I'm the psychology guy.
Jim Hessler: I'm Jim Hessler. I'm the business guy. I'm the founder of Path Forward Leadership Development Services. I'm the author, along with Steve, of the book Land On Your Feet, Not On Your Face. We're just terrific people. For no other reason, you should listen to us.
Steve Motenko: I think so.
Jim Hessler: We're just terrific people.
Steve Motenko: Yeah, some of us. We should take a survey. We're always surveying our leadership development students.
Jim Hessler: Let's post that question, are Jim and Steve terrific? A, agree, strongly agree.
Steve Motenko: Strongly disagree.
Jim Hessler: Disagree somewhat, right?
Steve Motenko: I refuse to take this stupid survey. I want to start, before we get to our interview with Howard Behar which is a 2 part. I'm really excited about. Great to have him in the studio. You're going to learn all sorts of things about Starbucks approach to creating a workplace culture from the horse's mouth, no offense. One of the people who truly was at the ground floor of the Starbucks growth from a small local chain to the, of course, an iconic the single international coffee company of note. Before we get there, Jim, as you know, about a week and a half ago I got a visit from my nephew, my brother's son and my brother's ex-wife, my nephew's mother, my ex-sister-in-law.
They were traveling through Seattle on the way to see a naturopath in Vancouver, BC in order to hopefully get some support around a Stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis that she had gotten some months before. My wife and I had not seen her in quite some time. We have very close relationships with our nephews but since the divorce and … these things happen … we hadn't seen her in quite some time. It was great to spend a little time with her. She was vital despite the fact that she was obviously struggling with discomfort, a lot of discomfort around the chemotherapy and the cancer itself. We had great conversations.
It was tough for her to eat anything.
She was kind of chronically nauseous and struggling with that. It was actually kind of great to witness her struggle, to just be there for her to just be a supportive ear and to connect with her when it had been so long since we had connected with her in the past. It seemed like in a way kind of once family, always family. It's so easy for divorced situations to take that away, to divide a permanent wedge in between the people. That wedge disappeared in that visit. We found out a few days after the visit, which was a week ago, Thursday, she developed an intestinal infection. The course of treatment prescribed for the intestinal infection seemed so horrific to her that she actually decided that it was her time.
This past Saturday night, she, a resident of Ashland, Oregon chose to employ the Oregon's Death with Dignity provision and engage in an assisted suicide. We just found out yesterday. Why do I bring that up on a show about workplace dynamics? What I want to say about it and I struggled with whether to because it's so fresh for me having heard just about 24 hours ago. What I wanted to say and what I said to you by e-mail yesterday, we had a great e-mail exchange, is that the poets and philosophers say that we can't fully live until we embrace death, until we embrace our mortality, oour impermanence, on this planet. In doing so, one thing I noticed is that my wife and I hugged each other a lot more.
The one thing that I would say, I think applies to whatever your situation is, is hug each other a little tighter with certainty that your life on this planet is impermanent. Face into your mortality in order to truly embrace living. You're listening to The Boss Show.
Speaker 1: It's a northwest lifestyle weekend on KOMO News. The Boss Show continues.
Jim Hessler: Hello. I'm Jim Hessler. I'm the founder of Path Forward Leadership Development and this is the show for anyone who is or has a boss.
Steve Motenko: You're the business guy and I'm the psychology guy.
Jim Hessler: I forgot to mention. I am the business guy.
Steve Motenko: After all the years we've been doing this.
Jim Hessler: Isn't it amazing how you can do something the same every day and still screw it up?
Steve Motenko: We're kind of not doing it the same way. We're trying to vary it up and in varying it up sometimes we screw it up.
Jim Hessler: Yes.
Steve Motenko: We hope you will forgive us. I'm Steve Motenko. I'm the psychology guy. We have in studio with us, Howard Behar, who is the founding president of Starbucks International. During his 21 years at Starbucks, the company grew from 28 stores to over 15,000 stores spanning 5 continents. Howard is the author of 2 books on leadership. One of which is called It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks. He's just in the last month or so, I believe, released a new book, non-fiction, a fable, a truly fantastic work in the literal definition of the word — filled with fantasy — called The Magic Cup. Howard, welcome to The Boss Show.
Howard Behar: Thank you. Thanks for having me.
Steve Motenko: My first question is why Howard Behar? In other words, not why were you named that but what is it about you that allowed you to rise to the very top of a company the size and grandeur and reputation of Starbucks.
Howard Behar: Luck plays a role in it, so thus preparation. Opportunity is where luck and preparation meet. I think that's probably what happened. I had a lot of preparation from the time I was a little kid working on my father's grocery store. Entrepreneurial business is all around my family. I saw business from that point of view. Not from size or big businesses but rather touching one customer at a time. From a Starbucks point of view, it fits Starbucks perfectly. When I got to Starbucks I was in my mid 40s and because of my upbringing and because of my parents' coaching, it really helped me in a business like that which is a human touch business.
Steve Motenko: When you talk about preparation one might think that you've got an Ivy League degree and an MBA and maybe a law degree tossed on top of it but you don't even have a college degree, is that right?
Howard Behar: No, I barely got out of high school. I went to a couple of years of community college and I was really good at beer and scotch.
Steve Motenko: Important things to be good at in some sense. How did the luck play in?
Howard Behar: I was the president of a land development company here in Seattle that got in trouble that we had to sell and I came out of that thing, I wanted to buy a business and so I started looking around at business to buy and I finally found one and I didn't have any money so I had to go to my brother-in-law and my brother-in-law said, "Okay, I'm happy to support you but there's a guy I want to talk to," and I said, "Okay," and we went to meet this guy and he happened to be in the Starbucks building, and a guy named Jack Rogers and we sat down. Jack said, "Why do you want to do that for? Why don't come to work for us at Starbucks. We need a guy like you." I turned right instead of turning left.
Steve Motenko: Where was Starbucks at that time? This is what year?
Howard Behar: This was 1988 and Starbucks had about 15 stores and it was a little of those rising plant down on airport way and it was just a tiny little company with a big dream.
Jim Hessler: You're a Seattle guy born and raised.
Howard Behar: I was a Seattle guy born and raised.
Jim Hessler: You say kind of a little company with a big dream, did it really have a big dream at that moment or did you contribute to the development of that dream?
Howard Behar: Howard Schultz is a big dreamer. He always has been a big dreamer. When I would think that we can open a hundred stores, Howard think that we can open 500. Howard always was pushing that envelope and I think even at that time he saw a part that it obtained, he never saw what it has become, none of us did.
Steve Motenko: Even he didn't see that.
Howard Behar: No. He couldn't have seen that from where we were.
Jim Hessler: Once you came on board Starbucks, again what made you the right guy to shepherd the growth of the international Starbucks from Zero stores to 15,000.
Howard Behar: International was an offshore to the existing business. I had been running the operations both wholesale and retail in North America and grown up to 400 stores and by that time we needed a president of the whole company and I wasn't the right guy for that job.
Jim Hessler: You were not the right guy for the job.
Howard Behar: I didn't think I was the right guy for that job because Howard and I would have killed each other and that's to put it mildly. I pitched the opportunity to take Starbucks outside of North America and a guy named Orin Smith took over the president's role of Starbucks and I became the president of Starbucks International and took it offshore.
Jim Hessler: More with Howard Behar, founding president of Starbucks International when we come back. You're listening to The Boss Show. Now back to Jim Hessler and Steve Motenko.
Speaker 1: This is the Boss show on KOMO News.
Steve Motenko: Hi, I'm Steve Motenko. I'm the psychology guy. Welcome back. We have in Studio with us Howard Behar, founding president of Starbucks International and I will be interviewing Howard at the first public event of the Seattle Chapter of Conscious Capitalism. If you want to find out more about that, it's on May 17th, go to consciouscapitalismseattle.org.
Jim Hessler: I'm Jim Hessler, I'm the business guy. Howard, you said before the break that you and Howard Schultz would have killed each other if you hadn't found kind of this other assignment to grow the international business and that struck me because sometimes there's a lot of tension in a high performance business relationship like that. Reflect on that a little bit for us.
Howard Behar: There always plenty of tension and we were growing fast, this was like a freight train running about a thousand miles an hour and many times there was no break. Howard and I had different views on a lot of things and both of us were kind of outspoken. Funny that a Seattle guy, soft and gentle Seattle would be willing to take on this with some Brooklyn guy that a street fighter but I was willing to do it and I didn't want to boss. He wanted to be CEO and I said, "Great. You can be the CEO but you're not my boss."
Jim Hessler: Interesting.
Howard Behar: We're partners.
Steve Motenko: He went with that.
Howard Behar: Yeah. Look, he dealt with it and he dealt with it really well and there was a third leg of the stool, Orin Smith that kind of when Howard and I were really going at each other he'd stepped in the middle but the three of us working together was a unique combination. They called us H2O.
Jim Hessler: Two Howards and a Orin Smith.
Howard Behar: We just had kind of personalities that worked together. Any two of us I think were the wrong combination.
Steve Motenko: Interesting.
Howard Behar: That is an interesting reflection. We do strive for collegiality and collaboration and sometimes we don't realize the value of some tension. When there's tension it usually tells me something important is showing up.
Jim Hessler: Yeah, and it depends on whether you can take that tension and make it creative tension, or allow it to evolved into a destructive tension as we talked about in our leadership workshop.
Steve Motenko: That's correct.
Jim Hessler: That tension will exist anytime you have driven or visionary leaders or both at a head of an organization and whether organizations that are successful don't have vision at the top and you can't find two people who have exactly the same vision. How did you reconcile when you had different visions? Or did you just do it by going off and doing your international bank?
Howard Behar: A part of it was that but we would reconcile. We would argue like cats and dogs and I'd scream with him and he'd scream with me and whatever happen to be and we'd work it out. It didn't mean there was always peace, there wasn't always peace but we learned to live within that structure and we cry together, we laugh together and we argue together so it was all of it. It was a great relationship. When I finally retire from the company I said, "Well, if I could two guys it would be Howard and Orin." One to fight with and one to have peace with. It just it worked out. It was one of those things that worked out that was unique but the people knew it was the right thing and we did too.
Steve Motenko: As I read your book It's Not About the Coffee. It occurs to me that you're an idealist, at least you write like an idealist and I'm curious and we can get this in more detail after the break and in the part two also of our interview but I'm curious about how an idealist survives in a very pragmatic business environment. I'm sorry you got like 15 seconds.
Howard Behar: I'm an idealist but I'm a realist also. I remember I grew up operating businesses. I know what it takes to get a buck to the bottom line and you have to be able to marry those two things. They're not opposites to each other, they go together.
Steve Motenko: Let's talk the break about how to marry them and we'll ask you that question a number of different ways because I think a lot of listeners are going to be interest in how to take these pure values and apply them to the workplace. You're listening to Howard Behar on The Boss Show.
Speaker 1: KOMO News. The Boss Show is back on s a northwest lifestyle weekend. Here's Jim Hessler and Steve Motenko.
Jim Hessler: Hello, I'm Jim Hessler and I'm the business guy.
Steve Motenko: I'm Steve Motenko, I'm the psychology guy and once again we have in studio with us Howard Behar who was instrumental in the development of Starbucks, especially Starbucks International over his 21 year career with that iconic coffee chain. Just before the break, Howard, we were talking about reconciling idealism and pragmatism. You mentioned that it's about alchemy and what intrigued me about that was that your latest book which by the way is available on Amazon.com, just came out a few ago.
Jim Hessler: Called the Magic Cup.
Steve Motenko: Called the Magic Cup and it's a leadership fable. It's just quite an intriguing book and alchemy plays a big role. Say first about, talk more about this alchemy between idealism and pragmatism, how do you make it happen?
Howard Behar: We're complex individuals, right? There's a lot of moving parts to us. I like to call I have a board of directors that sits on my shoulders, they're yapping at me all the time and I even have named them.
Jim Hessler: Have you seen a therapist about this?
Howard Behar: Yeah, I have seen a therapist about it many times. The key to life is how you put all of that together and realizing that they're really aren't any conflicts between being an idealist, being pragmatist or we call it realist. I learned how to make retail work. I understand how to get a dollar to the bottom line but I never felt there was a conflict between getting a dollar to the bottom line and serving people, both the people inside the organization as well as the people that we're serving, those human beings we call customers.
Steve Motenko: I'm curious if you have coached or counselled leaders who have said, who have taken the stance that that's not possible?
Howard Behar: I hear that all the time.
Jim Hessler: So do I.
Howard Behar: I hear it all the time. It's just doesn't happened to be true. It holds no water. When you really look how things work, if you take it as a family, right? We struggle in families, we have monetary issues we have to deal with. If you have kids you got to deal with all sorts of stuff there. We have spouse issues we deal with, each of us, and it's how you make those things work together. I'm an idealist, I'm a lover. I love being married, right? But I also have conflicts with my wife, so how do we put that together but you don't think that you can. I think that you think that you can and that's how I try to operate.
Jim Hessler: Howard, my wife and I will celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary this year and we call it doing the work.
Howard Behar: That's right, doing the work.
Jim Hessler: We call it doing the work. It's not avoiding conflict. It's entering into it with compassion and curiosity and even love and just saying this is how we form the substance of our relationship is doing this work together. It's a powerful concept. I wish more leaders would follow your advice on that. It's really powerful.
Steve Motenko: I was listening to an interview just last night actually with David Whyte, the poet philosopher and he wrote a book called The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America. This notion of soul in corporate America I would bet is something that you would agree with based on what I've read of your work. David Whyte said that what got him into doing work with American corporate leadership what an incident early in his poetry career when an audience member, a businessman came up to him and said, "We need you to work in corporate America because the language we have in the corporate world isn't large enough for the territory we've entered." It occurred to me in reading actually both of your books but specifically It's Not About the Coffee which set out leadership lessons, is that you're in some ways creating a language large enough to hold corporate humanistic values, I want to say.
Howard Behar: That's absolutely true. We never hardly use the word love in business but love belongs in business, caring belongs in business, all those things belong in business that are humanistic because human beings are what make business up. Without human beings, there's nothing. There are no businesses so why we think we can avoid human emotion in the business world that I never understand.
Steve Motenko: Yeah, even if we want to.
Jim Hessler: Why would we want to?
Howard Behar: What's amazing is there are people that do. They say, leave your problems at home. Baloney. Nobody leaves their problems at home.
Jim Hessler: Right. It's denial.
Howard Behar: As an executive I could get out my office when I was really having a tough day, somebody as a barista working on a story, they never could escape.
Steve Motenko: Let's talk more about this as it's applied to the ten leadership principles that you talk about in the book, It's Not About the Coffee, when we come back. You're listening to Howard Behar, our guest on The Boss Show. Stay with us.
Jim Hessler: I am Jim Hessler I'm the business guy.
Steve Motenko: I'm Steve Motenko I'm the psychology guy and we're talking with Howard Behar, the founding father of the international arm of Starbucks that now spans five continent. Howard, you talk about Starbucks being a people-centered organization and you say that Starbucks is in the people business serving coffee not in a coffee business serving people. It's a wonderfully catchy phrase but can you give some examples of what decision look like holding that context?
Howard Behar: When you hold that context that you're in people business then you start to evaluate all your decisions based on how they affect people. It doesn't make any difference what the decision is, how does the decision you're making affect your organization or affect the people you're serving or the communities that you're in. Those are the filters that you begin to use. You don't use the filter of the bottom line even though you're paying attention to those things, those things are going on but that's not the filters that you use. You try to look at your business and you look at it in a context of human beings not in terms of product even though you're selling a product.
It seems like it's conflictual but it's not. You might make a decision on benefits. We gave everybody healthcare benefits so everybody thought we were crazy. It cost a lot of money to do that.
Steve Motenko: Everybody, all employees.
Howard Behar: Everybody that work 20 hours a week or more got it. The same healthcare benefits that the CEO got.
Howard Behar: Right down, they do. Everybody got equity and we had a way of dividing out that equity that we thought was fair. Everybody got a pound of coffee a week free whether you're the CEO or whether you're a barista working in a store. We want to be able to walk down the hallway, look everybody in the face and say we were in it together. They were no corporate country club membership. They were no accounting fees for executives and for the longest while we don't even have an airplane. I would still never have one but that's all right.
Steve Motenko: I'm sure you and Howard argued about that.
Howard Behar: We really argued about that one. It's the stuff that matters to the people that are working in the organization. Did you you always get it right? No, impossible. You couldn't always get it right but we did our best to get it right and to do the right thing all the time.
Steve Motenko: The first leadership principle that you outline in the book It's Not About the Coffee, and by the way if you have not heard the earlier sections of the show. Howard wrote a leadership fable that he released, that was published just a few weeks ago called The Magic Cup but we're talking today mostly about It's Not About the Coffee and the first leadership principle you mention in there is, you say, know who you are, and the subtle is wear one hat. What do you mean by wear one hat?
Howard Behar: We always talk about people, particularly my wife, she says, "Howard, you can wear one hat. I got to wear thirty."
Steve Motenko: It's not gender related.
Howard Behar: I'm not talking about that kind of hat, I'm talking about the hat that you wear that defines who you are as a human being, what your values are, how those values inform the decisions you make in your life, what's your mission in life is. In other words, who are you as a person. I have a sheet of paper that I usually carry with me, I don't have it with me today but, that it has in fifty words or less, Howard, and those are my 8 core values my mission statement and then my six Ps, how I live my life and that guides my life.
Steve Motenko: It's a matter of integrity really. It's a matter of showing up the same way in all different context of your life, would agree with that?
Howard Behar: Absolutely. You are who you are no matter where you are. If you wake up in the morning and you look across the bed from you and if you're it, if you have to put on your spouse hat hat, something is wrong in that marriage. If you got to go to work and you have put on your Starbucks hat, you're probably in the wrong place. You got to be able to put your hat on and wear wear it in the context of your marriage, of your work, of your spiritual, any part of your life.
Steve Motenko: Or a multi billion dollar business, leading a multi billion dollar business.
Howard Behar: Yeah.
Steve Motenko: We're talking with Howard Behar of Starbucks International, founding president of Starbucks International. More with Howard when we come back. You're listening to The Boss Show.
Speaker 1: Now back to Jim Hessler and Steve Motenko. This is The Boss Show on KOMO News.
Jim Hessler: I'm Jim Hessler, I'm the business guy.
Steve Motenko: I'm Steve Motenko, I'm the psychology guy and we're talking with Howard Behar of Starbucks. Howard, you're saying right before the break you write in your book It's Not About the Coffee. You're not trying to balance your life, you're trying to live it.
Howard Behar: Right.
Steve Motenko: What do you mean?
Howard Behar: We use this word balance. It's the buzzword of the day, how do I live a balanced life but you don't really trying to live a life you're trying to integrate your life and integration is a much better word in my mind.
Jim Hessler: I completely agree.
Howard Behar: There are times when you're going to spend a lot time with your kids and you're not going to focus on your work or you're going to focus on your work and not spend so much time with your kids but how do you integrate those things and I think that what makes a fulfilling life.
Steve Motenko: Howard will come back next week for part two of our interview. Also if you're here in the Seattle area you might want to check out consciouscapitalismseattle.org where you can pick up tickets for an interview that I'll be doing, a more in-depth interview that I'll be doing with Howard on May 17th.
Jim Hessler: The Boss Show is produced by Boss Media Production and our sound engineer is Kevin Doddrell.
Steve Motenko: If you missed any of the show today you can get it in its entirety online at our website, thebossshow.com. It's also where you can go to connect with us or to subscribe to the podcast.
Jim Hessler: More next week with Howard Behar. Thanks for listening.
Steve Motenko: Don't forget rule number six.
Jim Hessler: Rule number six.
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Sergeant Major Morris told Mr. Students should pull out their copies of W. One of them was to make a wish or not. The sergeant-major shows the monkey's paw's curse is the antagonist when he says ''fate ruled people's lives, and that those who interfered with it did so to their sorrow'' Jacobs 3. The events must be significant rather than a simple series of things that happen. She ran and tried to open the door but there was the bolt that she couldn't reach. White was just too fascinated about it that he wanted to give it a try and that is how he became the new owner of the Monkey's Paw.
White to wish to bring Herbert back to life, a wish far more serious than their first. Jacobs entitled the Monkey's Paw which is similar in theme but varies in content. Over whisky, he tells stories of his exploits abroad. White will take may be bad. However, the wishes are twisted with horrible consequences.
The sergeant-major warns him three times to leave the paw alone, but he eventually explains how to make a wish on the paw. I belive that the climax of the Monkey's Paw is the moment when the father quickly wishes for his son to return to the grave or to be dead again. White argued whether or not to wish Herbert back. His death comes after the family's first wish for money and upon his death, the family receives a grievance pay from the son's employer in the exact amount wished for. If you keep it, don't blame me for what happens. Before the woman had a chance to open it, the father quickly wished for his son to be sent back to the grave.
If she'd let im in, I don't think that he would of exactly hugged her. It took place in the small parlor of the Lakesnam Villa far out from any other houses. White turned into a person that he was afraid of. He was probably somet … hing like a zombie. As she struggles to reach the bolt, the knocking becomes more insistent. Herbert had gotten into an accident where he got hurt badly to death. Now the Whites will never be sure whether what happens in the climax is a result of the wish or not.
Which detail from "The Monkey's Paw" is an example of conflict?
They wait for a long time then they hear a knocking. He knew it was his son. One of the faces looked so monkey-like, it was almost amusing. White to wish Herbert back. The stranger hesitantly approaches their gate three times before opening it and coming up to the door. White does make a wish, for two hundred pounds, the amount of money needed to pay off the family home.
Jacobs, a family uses a charmed monkey's paw to gain three wishes. White was very anxious to open to the door but she really wanted to see Herbert. That means he may take some careless risks later on in the story. A day later, the man's son is killed by some machinery at his work, and he receives 200 pounds compensation. The sergeant-major himself has already had his three wishes, as has another man, who used his third wish to ask for death. White jumps to the conclusion that the paw has unlimited power. White says that Herbert was the only child they had left.
She wished to unlock the bolt. The next day, Herbert went of for work at Maw and Meggins. Remember, the Whites live in an isolated area and only have one neighbor. By the time it gets to the man, only one person can wish on the paw. He also wonders if he should make a third wish. White keeps the paw, and at Herbert's suggestion, wishes for £200 to pay off the mortgage.
The gentleman: Had the uncomfortable job of giving Mrs. Ultimately his fear of undead Herbert wins over his fear of his wife. The old man was searching wildly on the floor for the talisman and exactly when he heard the cracking of the bolt he breathed his third and last wish. At the beginning, The White family receives a visit from an old friend Sergeant-Major Morris. It was for them a tale which can never happen in real life. There is also a short story by W.


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In 1965, the first ever Peanuts animated special took place. It was a landmark event and it was the start of a tradition that would continue for years to come. Now, almost 50 years later, contemporary jazz piano legend, David Benoit, is paying tribute to this incredible piece of entertainment history with his Christmas show, featuring music from the Charlie Brown special.
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Microsoft expects Windows Mobile sales to grow by 50 percent
Microsoft expects 20 million mobile units to sell in the fiscal year ending in …
Emil Protalinski - May 28, 2008 7:36 pm UTC
Eddie Wu, Microsoft's managing director of OEM embedded devices Asia, told Reuters that "50 percent growth is the minimum" Microsoft expects for unit sales of Windows Mobile software in fiscal years 2008 and 2009. Worldwide, the software giant sold over 11 million units of its Windows Mobile software in the fiscal year ending in June 2007, and Wu said the company expects 20 million units to sell in the fiscal year ending in June 2008. Wu went on to say that Europe and the US are still seeing strong growth, but markets like Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Brazil, Russia, and India are topping the charts.
With the February 2008 announcement of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1, Microsoft can say it licenses Windows Mobile to four of the five largest mobile phone manufacturers. Nokia is the only one that doesn't have a Windows Mobile device, but then again, the company dominates 40 percent of the mobile market. This collaboration with Sony is unlikely to be limited to one device, but this is just one of the factors that Microsoft must be considering in its extrapolation. It needs to be said that the upcoming release of Windows Mobile 7.0, which is expected to hit sometime in the second half of 2009, will not be playing a part in Microsoft's predicted sales.
Microsoft has been working on version 7 long before news trickled out that the iPhone was mopping the floor with Windows Mobile in smartphone sales. Last month's release of version 6.1 was meant to keep users satisfied with minor improvements as they wait for the next major overhaul. Speculation around the upcoming version includes a revamped UI, as well as multi-touch and motion-related features, but nothing revealing (screenshots or videos) has yet hit the presses.
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La chiesa di Santa Lucia è la parrocchiale a Ballino, frazione di Fiavé, in Trentino. Fa parte della zona pastorale delle Giudicarie e risale al XIV secolo.

Storia

Certamente nella zona del passo del Ballino doveva esistere sin da epoca altomedievale un ospizio per viaggiatori di passaggio con una costruzione dedicata al culto ma la prima citazione ufficiale di una chiesa legata al luogo, e intitolata a santa Lucia, è solo del 1350.

Nella prima metà del XVI secolo la chiesa venne ampliata e una visita pastorale di pochi decenni dopo richiese ulteriori lavori sulle finestre. Nel 1616 l'interno venne reimbiancato, poi fu ampliata la sacrestia, fu sistemata la copertura e venne rialzata la torre campanaria.

A partire dal 1727 la chiesa fu oggetto di interventi per combattere il ristagno di acqua e risolvere i problemi legati all'umidità che danneggiava la struttura.
Nel 1770 divenne curazia poi le fu concesso il fonte battesimale e, nel 1779, vi fu la consacrazione.

Nel XIX secolo venne nuovamente tinteggiata ma altri progetti di miglioramento vennero disattesi.

Col primo dopoguerra del XX secolo venne ristrutturato il campanile e, nel 1962, la chiesa venne elevata a dignità di parrocchia.

Tra 1964 e 1965 fu nuovamente ristrutturato il campanile e si pose mano anche alla copertura del tetto, inoltre fu costruita una balaustra nel portico e posizionato un impianto di riscaldamento. Durante i lavori si trovarono resti di affreschi nelle zone del presbiterio.

A partire dal 1974 e sino al 2010 si succedettero vari interventi sul campanile e sul castello campanario.
La pavimentazione della sala venne rifatta con due tipi di marmo, rosso di Verona e bianco delle Alpi.

Descrizione
Sulla facciata è presente un portico con accesso frontale e sul lato ad ovest. Le navate all'interno sono due, con volta a crociera. La zona presbiteriale è leggermente rialzata.

Nella navata a destra dipinto su tavola raffigurante Madonna con Bambino e santi. Nel presbiterio, dietro l'altare di sinistra, lacerti di affreschi del XVI secolo. La pala dell'altar maggiore ritrae Santa Lucia e Sant'Antonio abate.

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Bibliografia

Voci correlate
 Fiavé
 Ballino
 Passo del Ballino
 Giudicarie
 Regione ecclesiastica Triveneto

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Lucia
Chiese dedicate a santa Lucia
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The Squid and the Whale (2005)
Owen Kline as Frank Berkman
Jesse Eisenberg as Walt Berkman
William Baldwin as Ivan
Jeff Daniels as Bernard Berkman
Anna Paquin as Lili
Halley Feiffer as Sophie
Laura Linney as Joan Berkman
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Comedy, Drama, Indie
Rated R for strong sexual content, graphic dialogue and language
I don't know what I'm supposed to feel during "The Squid and the Whale." Sympathy, I suppose, for two bright boys whose parents are getting a messy divorce. Both parents are writers and use words as weapons; the boys choose sides and join the war. In theory I observe their errors and sadness and think, there but for the grace of God go I. In practice, I feel envy.
I would have loved to have two writers as parents, and grow up in a bohemian family in Brooklyn, and hear dinner-table conversation about Dickens. These kids have it great. Their traumas will inspire them someday. Hell, the movie was written and directed by Noah Baumbach, whose parents were writers (the novelist Jonathan Baumbach, the film critic Georgia Brown), and look how he turned out. By the time he was 26 he had already directed "Kicking and Screaming" (1995), about sardonic and literate college graduates whose only ambition was to remain on campus. I felt the same way. Left to my own devices, I would still be a student of English literature, entering my 44th year as an undergraduate.
In the movie the parents, Bernard and Joan Berkman, are played by Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney, and if that's who it takes to play your parents, what are you complaining about? The movie centers on their troubled sons. Joan has been having an affair for four years, their father is moving out, and in theory their divorcing parents will share custody (there is even a plan for time shares of the cat). In practice, Walt (Jesse Eisenberg), who is 16, moves in with his father, and Frank (Owen Kline), who is about 10, stays in the family home with his mother.
Both kids have issues with their parents' sexuality. Walt thinks his mother is a "whore" for bringing one of her lovers into their home, but then his father begins an affair with one of his students, and what does that make him? Walt falls into true adolescent love, but is compelled to deny it to himself, because his father urges him to play the field, and he values his father's opinions more than is wise. "You have too many freckles," he tells Sophie (Halley Feiffer), the girl he likes. I guess he thinks that shows he has high standards. He's so dumb he doesn't know how wonderful too many freckles are.
Frank, his younger brother, has meanwhile discovered masturbation, and taken to distributing his semen here and there around his school -- on library books, for example. This is an alarming breach of school decorum, and leads to a parent-teacher-student conference, during which I kept hoping someone would quote Rodney Dangerfield: "When I was a kid we were so poor, if I hadn't been a boy I wouldn't have had anything to play with."
Bernard, the father, published a good novel some years earlier and is now in a protracted drought season. It doesn't help when his wife sells a story to The New Yorker. He is played by Daniels as a man with wise-guy literary opinions, which his son remembers and repeats; Bernard says A Tale of Two Cities is "minor Dickens," which is correct, and arms Walt with useful terms such as "Kafkaesque." Walt informs Sophie a book is Kafkaesque and Sophie says, "It's written by Franz Kafka. It has to be." Point, match and game. Walt's performance in the school talent show is a great success. Everyone is impressed by his songwriting ability except for a fellow student familiar with the lyrics of Pink Floyd. Life lesson: Okay to steal from your father to impress people, not okay to steal from Pink Floyd.
"The Squid and the Whale" is essentially about how we grow up by absorbing what is useful in our parents and forgiving what is not. Joan may cheat on her husband, but he deserves to be cheated on, and she demonstrates a faith in romance that is, after all, a lesson in optimism. Bernard may be a gold mine of shorthand literary opinions, but in his case he has actually read the books, and sooner or later his son Walt will probably feel compelled to read minor Dickens for himself -- and major Dickens, which is so good all you can do is just helplessly stare at the book and turn the pages.
These kids will be okay. Someday Bernard and Joan will be old and will delight in their grandchildren, who will no doubt be miserable about the flaws and transgressions of Walt and Frank, and then create great achievements and angry children of their own. All I know is, it is better to be the whale than the squid. Whales inspire major novels.
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Personal Services Companies – PSC – BBC Presenters Facing Tax Probe
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Is No One Safe From HMRC's Prying? BBC Presenters Face Tax Probe
The National Audit Office (NAO), without being specific have warned about personal service companies employment contracts issued by the BBC. This puts every employee of the state-owned network under suspicion. It also creates unnecessary stress and possible humiliation.
There are close to 100 current ongoing investigations at the TV network which relate to personal services companies. These companies or PSCs are set up by individuals to be paid from The BBC. It is their status which is being questioned by HMRC relating to tax years prior to April 2017.
It is understood that the Revenue believes that workers at the network are underpaying tax by using PSCs.
The responsibility for determining the employment status of a worker was transferred to The BBC last year. Staff were forced to be paid as private contractors even though they were effectively employed them.
Mel Stride of The Treasury said that by 2023 the Revenue could miss out to the tune of £1.2 by people claiming they were self-employed when in fact they were employed.
Using HMRC's employment assessment tool between April and September 2017, the NAO found that 92% of freelancers on air were employed rather than self-employed. This amounted to 663 workers!
Personal Services Companies
Chair of the Public Accounts Committee Meg Hillier responded to the report saying:
"It is worrying that six years on, the mess of clarifying the employment status for tax purposes of people the BBC hires through PSCs has not been fully untangled".
A BBC spokesman said:
"As the NAO recognises, personal service companies are a legitimate way of contracting for services used by many across the media industry. However, determining whether an individual is employed for tax purposes is complex and in managing this we have always sought to balance the interests of our workforce and the licence fee payer.
The investigation calls in to question any freelance worker who may be employed but is forced to bill their employer through a PSC.
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A professional roofing inspection is required to assess the underlying condition of a roof. It also helps detect the roof leaks, mold growth, and other devastating roofing issues. So, whenever you decide to get your roof inspected by a professional, you must be clear in your head about your expectations and beneficial outcomes.
Here are some of the things mentioned which you should expect from a professional roofing inspection.
The inspection team you choose for the evaluation of your roof must provide you with multiple options before it proceeds further with the inspection process. Such options might include the preventive maintenance requirements of your roof, the breakdown of the cost for the roof repair project, replacement options for specific damaged parts, and filing an insurance claim.
However, the final decision must be based on your analysis that whether you want the repair, replacement, or some other temporary solution for your roofing system. The professional roofing inspector must talk to you in detail and in a polite manner by giving you proper room and time to decide. If you feel any kind of pressure and sense of urgency, you must know that it is clear negative sign.
Your roofing system consists of a lot of critical parts like flashing, chimney, ventilation, and roof deck. When you hire a professional inspector for the evaluation of your roofing, you must expect from him to get each and every part evaluated. The evaluation must involve a detailed examination to help detect the hidden issues and problems.
Since the inspection involves climbing on the ladder and roof, a professional inspector must possess the safety equipment. It is important for him to take the necessary safety precautions beforehand to avoid any property or human loss.
The professional roofing inspection also includes the examination of the interior of your home like the attic, ceiling, floor, and walls. The inspector is expected to detect the holes to avoid any air or energy loss.
Also, the presence of mold and mildew on the insulation layer must also be detected. In short, your interior property must look cleaner and better after the professional inspection.
If you are the one who hires the services, you must get the complete inspection report from the roofer. The report must include everything from the weak spots, repair estimates to the life expectancy and structural integrity of your roof.
If the inspector suggests you make necessary roof repairs on time, the report must also include the plan of action with the proper cost estimation and payment deadline. It would help eliminate the chances of any hassle or dispute at the end of the day.
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Right here at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Dr. Fabbri is making tremendous inroads in developing a less toxic but highly effective treatment for neuroblastoma using the body's own immune system. He is world renowned for his research work and has twice been a recipient of Powered by Pablove seed grants. And now, he is now the recipient of our first ever Pablove Accelerator Award. Dr. Fabbri applied for a large, multi-year grant from the NIH to further his groundbreaking research.


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1. Sugar and spice and everything ice! No, that's not a typo. Everything IS ice at the Hôtel de Glace, known to all non-francophones as the Ice Hotel. If springing (or is it wintering?) for a room is out of your budget, you can still take a tour of the premises. See if you can get a drink at the ice bar after the tour because it sounds fun to get a beverage on the rocks in the rocks.
2. Smack in the middle of the picturesque Old City, you'll find a stellar toboggan ride located at Dufferin Terrace. For a whopping – wait for it – $2, you can buy yourself a few seconds of fun. This is no normal sledding experience though. Prepare to whiz away at up to 44 miles per hour as you slide into the wild ride from the 820 foot incline. Now that's what we call tobogganing.
3. Since Quebec has that whole French thing going on (remember?), it can't be a bad idea to treat yourself a traditional meal at a place like Le Lapin Sauté. This eatery seems to have bottled up all the charm of the Old Quarter within its walls, and the food is on par with the excellent ambiance – snails in filo with sun-dried tomatoes, rich potato gratin, luscious salads, and many dishes celebrating the restaurant's namesake animal, including rabbit lasagna with Camembert sauce and delectable rabbit pie.
4. No matter what you're in the mood for, be it watching a drag show, dancing at a discotheque, or singing an occasional outburst of karaoke, Cabaret Club Le Drague, a lively gay bar, has it all (and more)! Friendly to folks of all ages, genders, and sexual orientations, 'Le Drague' is anything but a drag.
5. Sure, Quebec City's Winter Carnival is still a month away, but you gotta start planning now, right? Events as wonderful as this fill up fast! "But what makes the carnival such a carnival of delights?" you wonder. Well, plenty! We're talking snow sculpture contests, crazy winter canoe races (brr!), rowdy parades, and more! Proudly claiming the title of "Largest Winter Carnival in the World," this "incroyable" event is the coolest thing to do in the cold.
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I live en Québec city, so I can confirm that it is an amazing city. There are plenty of activities. You got to go in a Cabane à sucre.
I agree with Maddi about the pants.. I'm supposed to go to Montreal in the early spring. I would love to take that whole outfit with me! Maybe I'll substitute the pants for the Back in Black skirt I love so much..
I live in Toronto, but it's SOOOO nice to see anything Canadian in print (especially on an American web site!) I find that Canadians are too-often overlooked. Quebec is a beautiful city, but cold in the winter! You'd be better off in Sorrels and goose-down than that outfit!
Quebec City has always been my favourite North American destination. It is elegant, fashionable and it feels like a bit of Europe in Canada. I'm from Toronto, and I try to get to Quebec City once a year. That said, that outfit would be excellent… indoors. Or in October. I'd bring your long johns and heavy knits for February.
I agree, Quebec is beautiful, with much to offer, both in the winter and in the summer. There are many amazing museums, the beautiful Plains of Abraham, delicious restaurants, and amazing bars. However, I agree with the other commenters. Don't wear that outfit in Quebec in the winter. It gets COLD, such as being -40 C with wind chill for two weeks. Go for the down coat, the warm boots, and long underware!


MASTERS FINALISTS: Tom Solimine Jr., center, placed first in the 25th NYS Masters Championship on Saturday night at Spare Time Latham, winning $2,000 and a paid entry to the 2016 USBC Masters. At left is runner-up John Bickel of Slingerlands and at right is tourney sponsor Ron Gardner of Gardner Excavating in Troy. Photo by Mike Pettinella, NYS USBC Association Manager and tournament director.
LATHAM – Tom Solimine Jr. captured the 25th NYS Masters title on Saturday night at Spare Time Latham by defeating local favorite John Bickel, 387-341, in the two-game championship match to claim the $2,000 first prize plus a paid entry and $200 expense money to the 2016 USBC Masters.
Solimine, a NYS USBC league bowler out of Westchester County, rolled 187 and 200 in the finals, after knocking off defending champion Alex Cavagnaro of Long Island, 476-418, in the semifinals.
In 2014, the 44-year-old right-hander from Danbury, Ct., lost to Cavagnaro in the final match at the Masters in Newburgh.
Solimine said he wasn't concerned about avenging last year's defeat, but only about surviving through match play.
After that, Solimine defeated Jeff Young of Glenmont, 422-326, and Joe Scianna of Ronkonkoma, 434-345, to set up the rematch with Cavagnaro. Down by five pins after game one, Solimine – using a Roto-Grip Hypercell Skid -- put together a string of strikes for a 277 to pull away.
"He's (Cavagnaro) great. I knew that he was going to be the toughest match of my draw," Solimine said.
Against Bickel, Solimine rolled 187 in the first game before starting with four strikes in game two to build a comfortable lead against Bickel, who was unable to find the 1-3 pocket.
Still, Bickel was pleased with his performance in his first NYS Masters.
Bickel forged a 62-pin lead against Shannon Sellens of Copiague, in the semifinals before hanging on for a 441-426 victory. Before that he defeated Connor Le Clair of West Coxsackie, Damion Ferraro of Saugerties and high qualifier Brian Le Clair of Delmar.
Bickel, a 55-year-old righty, earned $1,000 for placing second.
This year's event drew 153 entries to the Albany area – the most ever in its history – and paid out more than $10,000 to the 32 bowlers who made it to the match play rounds.
The tournament was contested on the challenging WTBA Seoul oil pattern, which yielded five-game squad cuts of plus-6 on the 9:30 squad (12 of 57 bowlers advanced) and minus-14 on the 1:30 squad (20 of 96 bowlers advanced).
Cavagnaro and Shannon Sellens each won $600 for making it to the semis. Sellens' 3rd-4th place finish is believed to be the best for a woman in NYS Masters history. She will be defending her NYS Queens Open Division title next month in Syracuse.
Brian Le Clair was the high qualifier with 1,179, which included a 299 game. A PBA Regional standout, Le Clair defeated Anthony Pepe of East Elmhurst, 454-448, in an exciting second-round match. Pepe won the PBA Cheetah Championship as part of last year's World Series of Bowling.


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Defense contractors who openly discussed a suspected pay-to-play scheme in e-mails released by congressional ethics investigators had ties to a powerful lobbying firm and won millions of dollars in federal earmarks after contributing to the campaign of Indiana Democratic congressman Peter J. Visclosky.
By Chuck Neubauer at Washington Times
Democratic Rep. Peter J. Visclosky requested a $2.5 million federal earmark for Nevada-based defense contractor Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) five days after a March 2007 fundraiser for which the company's owners and its political action committee contributed $18,800 to the congressman's campaign.
Similarly, Mr. Visclosky requested $2.5 million for defense firm 21st Century Systems — five days after its employees ponied up $17,050 for the same fundraiser. The firm's chief executive was awarded an "honorary seat" next to Mr. Visclosky at that fundraiser.
In both cases, company executives wrote e-mails linking campaign donations to earmarks Mr. Visclosky secured or special access to the congressman, a congressional ethics board concluded.
At the time, SNC and 21st Century, along with other defense contractors, had secured the services of the then-high-flying Washington area lobbying firm, the PMA Group — now the target of a federal grand jury investigation.
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Both my wife and I are small business owner so I know first hand how hard it is to keep on top of all the latest social media news and run a business at the same time.
You are pulled in a hundred different directions each day and trying to keep tabs on what is happening in the world of social media that may impact or help your own business can get pushed aside for another time.
My idea with these list posts is to filter the social media news that I see each day and present to you great social media articles from the past week that will help you in your own online business to see better results.
I will mostly focus on Facebook as that is my area of focus now, but will be include news from other area of social media as well if I think they will help.
SiteSell show you 3 different ways to share your links on Facebook. They cover the pros and cons of each linking type. A quick, useful read.
I really like Jon Loomers posts. They are always insightful and written by somebody who is in the trenches everyday doing their own Facebook marketing.
Jon doesn't write speculative articles, he writes about the things he had tried and tested himself. In this post, Jon covers an offer he ran on Facebook during Cyber Monday that resulted in a nice return on investment for him.
This is a great infographic by the folks at Socially Stacked. Some of these ideas are guaranteed to boost engagement on your page and get more eyes on your brand during the holiday season.
I really liked the holiday themed fill in the blank status update ideas and ugly sweater photo competition idea.
Jeff Bullas always features some good information about Facebook marketing on his blog and this post is no exception.
It a detailed guide showing you how to turn Facebook fans into actual revenue producing customers for your business.
This is something I love talking about and Jeff explains the concept easily.
Agora Pulse do a good job in this article of explaining some of the concepts of the Facebook page insights in an easy to understand way.
I know a lot of clients I deal with feel intimidated by the insights area of their Facebook page, it all looks a bit too statistical and complicated for them to get a handle on.
Insights are important though to learn what is working on your page and understanding what posts your fans are engaging with and what they are ignoring.
Social Bakers come up with ten simple concepts to keep in mind this holiday season when it comes to marketing on Facebook.
Using seasonal imagery is one idea I think a lot of Facebook pages overlook so it is nice to see it on this list.
Social Media Today have put together a very nice Infographic showing you the different ad sizes that Facebook now use.
Even though Facebook have simplified their ad platform recently it can still be a confusing, especially if you are new to Facebook ads.
In my opinion, Pinterest is a great platform to focus more on right now if you want to expand the social media presence of your business and drive more traffic to your website.
You may think Pinterest is still just for people to share their latest crafty creations, but it is turning into a serious traffic source and it actually now drives more traffic to publishers than Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit and Google+ combined.
This Super Duper Pinterest marketing guide gives a nice overview of how to set up a Pinterest account and use the power of Pinterest to market your business.
There are probably another dozen story links I could have added here that I think you would have found useful but these 8 articles are all informative and useful. I hope you enjoy them.


One of Twin Sister's stellar tracks off their recent release Color Your Life from Brooklyn got remixed and re-vamped up by Arcade Sound labelee Teen Daze. Enough Said. Yet another fine showcase of the awesome musicians that are coming out of Canada these days (Gobble Gobble, Kumon Plaza, etc). This remix throws Twin Sister's track immersed in sweet synth and drum machines with a heavy dose of nostalgia -- to the max.
I'll be honest when I say that at first Color Your Life didn't really live up to my expectations, but good thing I kept it in rotation...this album is for sure a grower. The first track is certainly a standout for me, with gorgeous synths and driving drums overlayed by beautiful and almost eerie ooh's and ah's to lull you into a warm bliss....tracking in at a full 7:07, The Other Side of Your Face is a slow builder, worth every second. Head over to their site and grab it for free while you can, and let it be a testiment to why you should pre order it vinyl or CD from infinite best all the same.


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This is Paul Shechter, CEng F.I Mech E. Paul is the Principal Consultant Engineer and Managing Director of PJS Fluid Technologies Ltd.
This is Caryl Shechter, a retired primary school teacher. Caryl helps to support Paul on a day-to-day basis within the business.
Away from work Paul and Caryl enjoy many varied interests including walking, folk music, DIY, and gardening. Paul has climbed for more years than he cares to remember and has recently started skiing but wishes he had started this when he was a little younger!
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More About Paul And The Business...
Paul was educated at Bolton Technical College and Bolton Institute of Technology he began his working life in 1968 at Hick Hargreaves & Co Ltd.
The Following 32 Years...
His 32 years with Hick Hargreaves began with a conventional Technical Apprenticeship then continued with time served as Draughtsman, Designer, Senior Designer, Research Engineer, Engineering Services Manager and finally Engineering Manager (10 years in this post).
In 1995 Paul was elected as Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
In 2001 Hick Hargreaves & Co Ltd (then part of the TI group) was sold to BOC Edwards. Paul became the Technical Manager for the Bolton site and was responsible for embodying the Edwards High Vacuum technology into the Bolton operation. His last three years with Edwards were spent transferring technology into the Shanghai and Czech Republic facilities. He is still retained by Edwards as an independent consultant.
Paul was elected as Member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and became a Fellow in 2007. He is a Liaison Officer for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and sits on the Professional Interviews Panel. Paul also recently joined the Lancashire Area Committee and is a serving Ambassador for this Institution.
Paul formed the company in December 2010 after spending 42 years in the process and vacuum industries. Paul's expertise in Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics is recognised by the Nuclear and other industries where he is often employed as a consultant engineer to solve difficult fluid transport issues.
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We are pleased to present the new Tenuta di Aljano website.
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