To put it simply, the public's expectations for businesses have changed.
Consistent financial returns and quality products and services were once the building blocks of a successful company. Now the most successful and trusted organizations are those focused on societal factors – not just business competence. Those most successful enterprises are those who listen to customer needs, treat employees well and place customers ahead of profits. And these types of ethical business practices are more important than ever.
The past five years spurred the greatest dissolution of trust in modern history. We experienced the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the 2008 Financial Crisis; government letdowns in Greece and Egypt; and the fall of idolized leaders such as Lance Armstrong and General Patraeus.
Business operates in complex times and must embrace this complexity by not solely acting in self-interest. Instead, they must execute on both operational and societal fundamentals. Enterprise must act ethically while ensuring stakeholders know they are doing it and why they are doing it.
All businesses must acknowledge that the world has changed in three fundamental ways. The first is that authority is now dispersed. Consumers around the world can access endless sources of information, which means that no one – not companies, not the media, not corporate spokespeople – can truly control how information is shared.
Secondly, the traditional pyramid of influence is flipped. Employees, consumers and activists now drive the agenda, rather than the CEOs, government officials and influencers of the past. The C-suite must continue to lead, but the model of successful leadership has and continues to evolve.
And thirdly, reputation is built on quality. Good financials are no longer enough. All stakeholders impact a company's bottom line, not just the loudest shareholders.
In this environment – where complexity is abundant and transparency is a mandate – trust is paramount and ethical business practices are a must. For a company to connect with customers, regulators and employees, its strategic business results must align with its own ethical standards and those of the marketplace.
Ethical business practices are just good business. Companies use them to drive profits and force other companies to follow their lead or fall behind. They boost brand and enhance goodwill. And they are important to a company's audiences. Our 2013 Edelman Trust Barometer proved – again – that global respondents believe that "engagement" and "integrity" were more important than "operations" and "products and services" when evaluating how much one trusts business.
The only way for companies to triumph in this environment is to shift their ways of thinking – to move from earning the license to operate to earning the license to lead.
At its core, earning the license to lead is the implementation and communication of strong ethical business practices. It requires companies focus less on rules and more on principles, and shift their cultures from ones of compliance to those of value-based leadership. For us at Edelman, this means we must be committed to operating through a lens of "doing the right thing". Our values of quality and entrepreneurial spirit challenge us daily to deliver innovative solutions and breakthrough strategies for our clients. Our values of integrity and respect are a foundation for expanding our business responsibly.
Furthermore, that license to lead means companies must acknowledge what their constituents are most passionate about – and then build on those areas of shared interest. For Chipotle, that is ethical farming. "Food With Integrity" is its commitment to finding the very best ingredients raised with respect for the animals, the environment and the farmers. For Unilever, it is sustainable living. The company launched its "Sustainable Living Plan" in November 2012, promising to achieve three significant outcomes by 2020: to help more than one billion people take action to improve their health and well-being; to halve the environmental footprint of the making and use of its products; and to source 100% of its agricultural raw materials sustainably. Each of these companies took fundamental aspects of their strategy, built ethical practices around them and used them to drive business results.
In our increasingly complex world, trust and transparency are critical elements of corporate reputation. In the past, business success was about performance, customer service, price and quality. Now there is a new dimension: social responsibility built on ethical practices. Business success is increasingly based upon shared value and the sort of citizenry a company lives. Successful companies today will implement socially-responsible, transparent, values-led engagement with each of their audiences – employees, regulators, customers, investors and all others. Those that prioritize these ethical practices and true public engagement will not only succeed, but win.


No you don't have to have either Windows or Mac in order to update your Garmin Nuvi GPS (or Magellan, TomTom, and a few others). And no, you don't have to pay for updated maps either, even if your GPS is older or unregistered with the company.
I did it, and I'm still as technophobic as I ever was. So if this li'l technophobic sidekick can manage it, it's likely that any of my readers can. I do the FedEx Ground delivery driver thing, and I have an old hand-me-down Garmin Nuvi that I use on my route. Not for directions, but just as a "rolling map" to tell me where I am and streets are coming up as I travel.
The technique I'll show you here uses OpenStreetMap, a free and open-source collaborative work. Maps are updated much more often than the official Garmin maps. They also show considerably more detail, judging by my Nuvi's performance today. I'm just going to write about the Garmin GPS because that's what I have and all I really know. But according to this wonderful web page, it also works for some other brands.
I navigated to my /home directory and created a new folder named "GarminNuvi." It has a subfolder called Maps.
I connected my Garmin Nuvi to my computer via a USB port and it was automagically mounted, thanks to Thunar's awesomeness (Thunar is the Xfce file manager in Linux). I then copied the map file, named gmapprom.img, to /home/robin/GarminNuvi/Map. You can do this in the terminal or just open your file manager as root ("sudo thunar" in a terminal window) and move the file from your Garmin to the "Map" subfolder. This is a safety thing! ALWAYS BACK UP the old map in case something goes wrong! Now you can DELETE gmapprom.img from the Garmin. I renamed this backup file gmapprom-old.img. If I needed to restore it, I'd give it back it's original name.
Select and download the new maps from http://garmin.openstreetmap.nl/ It's easy, just follow the prompts on the screen to select your map by continent, country, state, province, or customize your own. If you customize yours, you'll need to enter your e-mail address and they'll notify you when it's compiled and ready to download. My old map is North America, nearly 3GB in size! Yikes! So I selected only my own state for the new map, because that's really all I need and it's just a few hundred MB in size. Easy peasy. And fast! The file you want for the Garmin Nuvi is named osm_generic_gmapsupp.zip.
Move that file to /Garmin/New and extract it there. 7-zip works, most default "archivers" work for decompressing zip files. After unzipping it, you'll have a file called gmapsupp.img. For the Garmin, you must rename that file to gmapprom.img. This is your new map! Copy it back to your Garmin, re-start it, and take it for a test drive.
Save a copy of your new gmapprom.img in the /Garmin/New folder as the next backup. When it's time, that can be moved to the Old subfolder. But until you're sure everything works okay, keep that old one around!
Looks complicated but I'll go look for my old patch cable and give it a go .
Did it work?? For me it did not!!
I downloaded and transfered the map OK, but when I search, I cant find a bunch of adresses!! It doesnt even have my street name listed!! (and it's not a new street; its been there for 25 years).
It surely does lose a few features… and I don't think PpenMaps are nearly as accurate. This is the second time I have considered deleting this post, for just what you have described.
I have a old Nuvi 750 that is in my daughter's Nissan Sentra S. It's from 2008. I found new Garmin maps (via torrents) and would try to use the SD card and put in img file gmapsupp on the SD card and the Nuvi wouldn't see it, until I did this.
Install SD or Micro SD card (with adapter, so it will fit) into unit.
And under your unit is a subfolder called Nuvi 750 with a drive letter associated with it. This is your SD card.
Right click your SD card and choose properties and format. Quick Format Fat 32.
Now go download your map files and put them in that drive. Make a Garmin folder and the map name has to be gmapsupp.img for the Garmin unit to recognize it as a map file.
I hope this helped. I was having a hard time getting the Garmin unit to see the files, until I formatted the SD card via the Nuvi itself.
Your information of updating NUVI maps seems very useful. Your blog contains all required content that need to update your device. Keep sharing more information with us.
Or if you want to update your NUVI contact us to our customer support helpline 1800-443-3536 (toll free). We are 24*7 hours available.
Does the Map app work with Voice navigation as well?
I have no idea! I never used voice navigation. But I would guess probably not.
That's a great piece of information about Update Garmin Nuvi Maps-for-free. Please do keep me posted on any further updates on this article. Thanks!
My Garmin Nuvi 255w covers the entire US. The map in the Garmin is only 1.3 gig. I would like to update it but can not figure out how to download the entire US from openstreetmap. I have tried to select individual states in openstreetmap but it only allows one to be downloaded at a time.
I only needed two states to be loaded in my Garmin. I'm not sure how to get a nationwide Open Street map for download. I downloaded only what I needed.
These updates are not the same as the custom Garmin supplied maps. Garmin adds more info to it for auto navigation to work correctly. There may even be a type of database structure to it so it all works correctly with addresses, Point Of Interest, etc, with the map.


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Europe's Mideast Muddle
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BY DANIEL SCHWAMMENTHAL, WALL STREET JOURNAL—
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's effort to seek United Nations recognition for a unilaterally declared state would far more likely end the peace process than the conflict. But don't count out the chance that European nations might support the idea even if it's not in their best interests, nor in the interest of Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation.
Last Wednesday during a visit to Israel, European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek explained that "I never said that I or the European Union opposes a unilateral declaration," only that "it is better to negotiate the solution." Particularly French President Nicolas Sarkozy has expressed similar sentiments, telling French weekly L'Express last month that "if the peace process is still dead in September, France will face up to its responsibilities on the central question of recognition of a Palestinian state."
European leaders might back a unilateral Palestinian move because they are "frustrated" with the stalled Middle East peace process, diplomats explain. But frustration is rarely good counsel. And Europe's particular frustration in this case—directed mainly at Israel—ignores that the Palestinians have refused direct talks for more than two years, after they rejected three Israeli peace offers in the previous decade.
A U.N. General Assembly vote recognizing a Palestinian state, particularly one backed by Western democracies, might give the Palestinians a quick propaganda victory, but not an independent state. Israel isn't going to simply pack up and accept a one-sided imposition of borders or principles that ignore the country's legitimate security concerns. The Palestinians will gain real sovereignty only through peace talks with Israel where both sides will have to make painful compromises.
And that is the fatal flaw inherent in the U.N. vote: Any parameters and borders endorsed in September, however vague, would automatically become non-negotiable positions for the Palestinians. No Palestinian Authority leader could ever afford to be "less Palestinian" than the U.N. So if some EU members insist on backing a U.N. vote, they'll only help make a temporary stalemate permanent.
This is why the insistence on a negotiated settlement and the rejection of unilateral moves were enshrined in the 1993 Oslo Accords and endorsed by the Middle East Quartet—of which the EU is a member—and repeated in numerous EU Council conclusions. Apart from being counterproductive, endorsing the Palestinians' unilateral move means endorsing the violation of past agreements. But isn't the EU still a community of law?
Any such violation of past agreements could easily turn bloody. Palestinians who are led to believe that a U.N. vote will bring about immediate independence will be terribly disappointed in September. Similar instances of disappointment in the past have often reignited violence, and not only in the region itself. Over the past several years, trouble in the Middle East has routinely fueled attacks on Jewish communities in Europe. EU leaders need to be careful not to inadvertently fan the flames of a conflict that might play itself out in their own streets.
The recent Fatah-Hamas deal to form a Palestinian unity government has made such violence more likely and U.N. recognition therefore even more problematic. A Palestinian government comprised of or backed by an unreformed Hamas would allow Gaza's Islamists to expand their control to the West Bank. Hamas, which is on the EU terror list, refuses to accept the principles established by the international community: to recognize Israel, cease all violence and adhere to past agreements. Tactical moves by Hamas, such as hiding behind a temporary government of technocrats or refraining from terror attacks until the September vote, should not fool any European leader.
One of the lessons Western nations supposedly learned from the recent popular uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East is that turning a blind eye to human-rights violations in the interest of "stability" is no longer an option. Hamas's raison d'être is to violate the human rights of Palestinians and Israelis alike by, for instance, attacking Israeli civilians while using its own as human shields. Hamas also terrorizes its own population by persecuting Palestinian Christians, homosexuals and political opponents, and suppresses the rights of Palestinian women in Gaza.
By recognizing a unilateral declaration of statehood, Europeans would divorce the creation of a Palestinian state from the ultimate goal of peace. And by accepting a Hamas-backed government, they would divorce the creation of that state from the humanitarian hopes expressed throughout the Arab Spring.
Europe doesn't have to go down this path. The EU and its member states would only need to join the United States in opposing the planned U.N. vote in September. Mr. Abbas could then convincingly argue that he can't go against the wishes of the Palestinians' largest donors, and thus will be able to drop his plans without losing his people's respect.
Mr. Schwammenthal is the director of the AJC Transatlantic Institute, based in Brussels.
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What is the difference between a coaxial grounding block, an antenna discharge unit, and lightning arrestor
I've been reading about grounding outdoor TV antennas but these terms seem to be used interchangeably by various articles on the internet.
For example, this article seems to make a distinction between (coaxial?) lightning arrestors and coaxial grounding blocks. It says:
"Mount the grounding block as close as possible to where the 75 ohm coaxial cable downlead enters the house"
"The antenna discharge unit (also called a "lightning arrestor") is connected to the transmission line at a point close to where the transmission line enters the house"
So we should install both the grounding block and lightning arrestor near the place where the coax enters the house....
Ok, but what about this article: "To protect yourself from a direct strike, attach a lightening arrester (sic) to the antenna mast" (huh? I thought it goes near where the coax enters the house).
Lastly, this one says: "The coax cable itself can build up a static electric charge and in order to properly dissipate that charge an antenna discharge unit or grounding block can be used" (so now it seems an antenna discharge unit in fact isn't a lightening suppressor...)
This is all somewhat confusing to an antenna newbie like myself. Does anyone have a cogent explanation of these three items (and perhaps some indication of the ideal places they are installed)?
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Antennas can build up a sizeable static charge which needs to be dissipated. Unfortunately the obvious solution of grounding the antenna also removes the signal from the wire. A coaxial grounding block allows static charges to dissipate from the center conductor without interrupting the signal.
More elaborate devices are filled with a gas which is ionized by high voltage spikes to create a very low resistance connection to the ground. This allows lightning traveling through the cable to be arrested. Both grounding blocks and arrestors are discharge units, which dissipate the static charge from the antenna. Only the arrestor provides protection against lightning.
Ideally either would be installed as close to the point of entry as possible. The cable run itself has all the drawbacks of metal suspended in air. It can gather a static charge, and conduct lightning. Also, as the first article points out, you may need a second ground wire if the antenna is atop a metal mast. Though the mast can be connected directly to the ground, since signal loss isn't an issue.
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That's mostly right, but grounding blocks connect the outer shield to ground, not the inner conductor. Grounding the inner conductor would be bad for passing signals, which is why lightning arrestors only ground the inner conductor when there's a high voltage on it. – mrog Nov 16 '18 at 20:57
It seems you're saying if the antenna contains a pre-amplifier (or if we install one additionally), then we should use both a coaxial grounding block and coaxial lightening arrestor? Otherwise, we're probably good to go with just the coaxial grounding block? – orlando21 Nov 17 '18 at 6:36
You need one or the other (both are discharge units). The grounding block is likely cheaper, but you'll probably want a lightning arrestor if your home is at a high risk of lightning strikes. (Which depends on location, surroundings, etc.) There may not be a huge price difference though, arrestors are required on phone lines so it's hardly a new-fangled technology. – Matthew Gauthier Nov 18 '18 at 12:07
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A little girl awoke with nothing but dreams on her mind. While her daddy was away at work she too went to work. She closed herself in her room for the day, practicing her ballet routine that she would perform before the world. The little girl dreamed and danced all day, with nothing but hope in her heart.
Paying close attention to every turn, every plié, the little girl perfected her movement. The audience she was to perform for was of the utmost importance and everything had to be perfect. Impressing this audience was in the forefront of her mind as she went through each step with tears in her eyes, envisioning the audience's applause and the pleasure and enthusiasm in their hearts. Pleasing the audience would mean everything to her.
The little girl hears the front door open and scrambles to climb out of her practicing attire. She picks up her most treasured and beautiful ballet attire, reserved for just this occasion. The time had finally come to perform. Making sure her tutu was properly in place, paying attention to every detail, she readied herself for the performance. As she put on her slippers she crossed each ribbon with care, making perfect for the audience with nothing but their approval on her mind.
The little girl brought in her music player, pressed play and took her place on the living room floor and prepared for the performance. With such elegance and grace the little girl began performing the most beautiful routine for the most important audience in the world, her dad. While she danced and twirled, the little girl looked up to see the look of approval on the face of the audience. When she beheld the face of her dad, she noticed he was trying to look past her. The volume from the TV that sat behind her began to rise as the dad held the remote in his hand.
With tears in her eyes, a cut on her knee and a wound in her heart, the little girl jumped up and ran to her room. Tears streamed from her eyes. The little girl's heart was crushing inside. Her hope and dreams were being drawn out of her, leaving her empty as she fell to her knees in despair releasing all her hopes and dreams with every tear and with every labored breath. She was humiliated, embarrassed, and hurt. All of her dreams of dancing before millions came crashing down at once, afterall, the most important audience had rejected her. It was that day the little girl vowed to never dance again.
A woman passes a dance studio, peering inside as the dancers spun and twirled. It was the most beautiful display of dance she had ever seen. Tears filled her eyes as her memories came flooding in and passion burned in her heart. She was moved by the expression of the movements that were being displayed. Long ago, dance had been the woman's most desirable outlet of expression and emotion. She had put everything in dance. It was the one place she had every really felt free.
Deciding she was being silly the woman stiffened up, wiped the tear from her cheek and walked away bitter. Once the woman got home she sat her brief case to the side and turned on some worship music. As the woman stood in the middle of the living room floor she cried out to the Lord, worshiping him as she often did.
While the woman worshiped she slowly felt herself being moved by the music, swaying back and forth to the beat. The woman's heart was being pricked. With each movement the woman's motion became freer and more fluid. She raised her arms to the sky to praise the Lord as she swayed her body back and forth.
The woman sang to the Lord and began moving her arms in various motions as she worshiped Him with the interpretive movements of her hands. The more the woman sang, the more she moved. The woman felt herself longing to dance as she once had in times past. The pain from a memory long ago tried to keep her from breaking free, from dancing.
While the woman worshiped, the presence of the Lord came in like a flood, wiping out all fear. She stood before the most important audience once again. She stood before her Father, and in His presence, she began to dance. The woman swayed to the music, twirling and spinning with beauty before her Father. She knew all His focus was on her. As she beheld the face of her Father she noticed him looking past her flaws, seeing straight into her heart, seeing her for who he created her to be. She danced with all her might, the most beautiful, prophetic, interpretive dance imaginable.
As the woman danced before her Father she felt His tears of joy and the pleasure in his heart. For the first time since she was a child, the woman felt free. Gaining freedom with every movement, every spin, every twirl, every plie, the woman danced before the Lord. With every leap her heart beat stronger. Before the dance was over the woman began to weep as she felt the joy and the tears of the audience. She cried tears of joy and freedom, tears of fulfillment, tears of acceptance.
The dance was coming to a close and it was time for her finishing move. The woman twirled the most elegant twirl, gracefully landing at the feet of her Father, becoming a little girl once again. The little girl stood before her Father. All His attention was on her. The overwhelming presence of the Lord enveloped her and flooded her heart.
The woman's heart was flooded with love in the very place the wound once was. Overcome by the Spirit of the Lord, the woman began to wail and groan from the deepest recess of her soul as the Lord opened her old wound to bleed out the infection from long ago. The woman felt every groan in the pit of her stomach and with every groan, infection was drawn from her wound.
In the same place where the little girl's hopes and dreams were drawn out, the Lord now drew out a life time of pain as she dropped to her knees with fulfillment in the presence of His glory. As the pain was drawn from her, it was displayed in a physical expression of pain, wailing, weeping, shouting and deep groaning. While the pain was being extracted, love and acceptance was being poured in. The woman had so many emotions she could not explain them all, but she knew with everything within her that she had been healed. The woman had been freed, and the little girl danced again.
What is your dance? What is your expression of worship the Lord has given you that life has stifled? Remember back. Whatever your expression of worship may be, decide today that you will once again "dance" and be free. Give the Lord an undignified praise.


To make the participation as pleasant as possible, there will be twelve animation points during the route. The first one will be situated in the start and will be Timbalers Cop de Cap, which will also amuse the runners in the finish line in Passeig Pujades. The group of percussion Batuka will take the relief in the Kilometre 8 (Bruc-Casp) and half kilometer later (Ronda Sant Pere-Mendez Núnez) the group Kabum will continue encouraging to 12.500 runners.
In the following five kilometers there will be an animation point in each of them with the groups New Gospel (Trias Fargas-Circumval•lació), Ku-Kum-Ku (Marina-Pallars), Timbalers de Sant Andreu (av. Diagonal-Rambla del Poblenou), Bloco Alagbé (av. Diagonal-Selva de Mar) and Els Cornuts (Josep Pla-Taulat). In the kilometer 17,5, Sssstrepits, in the point Passeig Garcia Faria-Jonquera, they will continue encouraging all the participants. And in the last kilometers, the groups Tuntumprat (Salvador Espriu-Marina) and AESE Group (Pg. Circuml·lació-Pg.Picasso) will push to all the runners in the final part of the 22nd edition of the Mitja Marató de Barcelona.


Even if the specifications seem similar, no two customers ever receive quite the same solutions. Why? Because there are often existing systems that differ greatly. The challenge is finding the right places to establish interfaces that can make the overall data management process faster, leaner and more efficient. This same principle holds true for small companies looking to link just a few sites, mid-sized firms with 100 employees and even clinics or government agencies with several thousand employees.


Vermont is a northern state but its Civil War history runs deep. Host Bob Kinzel talks with historian Howard Coffin. Coffin has spent years gathering stories and documentation of Civil War events and places in our state – with a lot of help from Vermonters. We'll talk about that research, and learn about how Vermonters will mark Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday this year.


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Q: Finding the area of the part of the plane given by the curves I am supposed to find the area of the part of the plane given by the curves: $$y=x^{2},y=-x^{2}, -4x+4=y$$ I know that I have to divide it into two parts and so on.. but my question is.. how do I know which function to put first and second in the formula:
$$\int _{a}^{b}(f(x)-g(x))dx$$
My idea for the first integral is :
$$\int _{0}^{-2+2\sqrt{2}}(x^{2}+4x-4)dx$$
Is that correct?

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You can split into the area  above the $x$-axis, which involves only the upper parabola and the straight line  and the area below the $x$-axis, which involves the lower  parabola and the line.
For each area, you can determine the intersection $A, B$ of the line with the upper and lower parabola respectively, and its $x$-intercept $C=(x_0,0)$. If $\xi_+$ and $\xi_-$ are the abscissæ of $A$ and $B$, $H,K$ their projections on the $x$-axis,  the upper and lower areas are (see figure below):
$$\mathcal A_+=\int_0^{\xi_+}\!\!x^2\,\mathrm dx+\mathcal A(\text{triangle }AHC),\qquad\mathcal A_-=\int^0_{\xi_-}\!\!x^2\,\mathrm dx-\mathcal A(\text{triangle }BKC). $$

A: Hints. First, find the intersection points of the lines. It's immediate to see that the two parabolas intersect in only one point ($x=0$), so that they bound no area between them. Thus what you want to do is solve each one of the equations $$\pm x^2=-4x+4.$$
Then you find out in which intervals each parabola is above or below the line. That's what will give you an idea which to subtract from which. That is, in each determined interval, find out whether $f-g$ is positive or negative, where $f$ represents one of the parabolas and $g$ represents the straight line.

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SEEING AMERICA | America Martin. Jada + Jon.
SEEING AMERICA | Introducing Jada + Jon
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SEEING AMERICA: America Martin | Introducing Jada + Jon
"SEEING AMERICA." America Martin. Jada + Jon.
Showing: Fall/Winter 2021
Opening: Thursday, September 9th, 2021
Location: 511A West 22nd St., New York, NY 10011
JoAnne Artman Gallery is pleased to present, Seeing America, an exhibition of new portraits that investigate humanity, legacy, and change. Freehandedly and unapologetically capturing her subjects, America Martin's compositions are a personal reflection of the human experience and condition. Through the stories they tell by means of history and Martin's depictions, this assembled group of leaders challenge us to be our very best selves.
With emphasis on narration and the tales that emerge through the framework of gesture and contour, Martin examines the impact of activism and heroism. In a bold statement that champions everyday kindnesses and small, sustained steps toward change, the series includes legends of the past and present, as well as unsung figures. Rendered in streamlined ink drawings, each portrait is emblematic of both passion and action.
Navigating epic themes of courage, sacrifice, and the ways that changing political and philosophical systems affected the choices and enduring legacies of her subjects, Martin's experimentation with line weight takes on a new balance between solidity and weight. Breathing life into each portrait by alternating smooth, bold curves with hard, geometric strokes, Martin adheres to the most fundamental aspect of drawing - the line - to tell the stories of these heroes.
Pairing a quote with each likeness, Martin implores visitors to consider the core values of leadership embodied in the series—justice, integrity, empathy, and a call to action. According to Martin,
"Heroes and villains have many of the same qualities. They have flaws and weaknesses, but the one difference, that is literally magic, is that the hero is capable of change. The hero is capable of having a perspective shift and then doing something about it."
Also introducing Jada and Jon, vintage chain stitchers and treasure hunters. Exploring American heritage and identity, Jada and Jon's process of reworking and recycling old vintage pieces combines American craft with art history. Delving into concepts of utility, community, individuality, and symbolism—their unique aesthetic invites a deeper understanding of folk art and its role in people's lives. Embellishing, painting, and embroidering their discoveries, Jada and Jon's decorations reflect cultural ideas, prevailing trends, and the elevation of mundane objects into works of art. No rain, no flowers.
These artists' works will inspire, provoke, engage and mesmerize. With visual perceptions always changing, peek behind the stories told and you're sure to find the right artistic expression.


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Uzbekistan's Ilkhom Theater: 10 years without Mark Weil, a lesson in survival
A cheeky theater is not what many expect to find in Uzbekistan. But Ilkhom Theater has long pushed boundaries.
A poetry slam on May 3 (all photos Ilkhom Theater via Facebook)
One recent evening, visitors to Tashkent's Ikhom Theater were met at the entrance by a pair of police officers. After a cursory bag check, the policemen allowed the spectators through.
Art can be a dangerous business in Uzbekistan. Mark Weil, the founder of Ilkhom, which has served as an oasis of avant-garde and independent theater in the region since the mid-1970s, was murdered in September 2007.
The killing stunned Weil's colleagues.
"After Mark Weil died, few believed, to be honest, that Ikhom would survive. I myself was doubtful," Boris Gafurov, the theater's current artistic director, told Eurasianet. "I was picked by the troupe to act as artistic director. I was caught unawares because it all happened so fast. None of us was ready for this."
Eleven years later, Ilkhom continues to draw full houses and gently tweak the authorities.
Going to Ikhom is a no-frills experience. The venue is a musty basement in the center of town that can seat a maximum of 150 people. A bad ticket requires the spectator to lean forward on a rickety chair and crane their neck sideways for a clear view.
An April performance based on Gogol's "Diary of a Madman"
The repertoire currently comprises around 15 different plays on daily rotation. One of the stagings attended in March by a Eurasianet correspondent, a loose adaption of 18th century Venetian commedia dell'arte playwright Carlo Gozzi's The Fortunate Beggars, was a boisterous illustration of what Ilkhom can get away with.
The play was first staged by Weil in the early 1990s, but the content has evolved with the times. Gags about the lack of a fair justice system and the proliferation of corruption feel risqué for Uzbekistan, but they are evergreen.
There are also some fresher references, like the throwaway line about how no more than 150 people should be allowed to attend a wedding — a reference to an exhortation to modest nuptial festivities made last year by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. In perhaps the most acid satirical jab in the play, a humbled Mudzafer, the cruel governor of Samarkand, a character whose current incarnation is clearly modeled on the reviled and recently fired head of the security services, Rustam Inoyatov, is shown as a sobbing wreck who threatens pathetically to hang himself.
The intensity of this cheekiness may in part be down to the slight breeze of liberality felt since the death of President Islam Karimov in September 2016, but the theater insists it has long operated with relative impunity.
"We don't get any direct pressure from the authorities as such," said Gafurov. "They come and they watch us, we know about that. But we have nothing to be afraid of, we have nothing to hide."
If anything, it is the audience that takes most umbrage. Some smutty one-liners during The Fortunate Beggars elicited visible discomfiture from a few spectators and even prompted a handful of walkouts. As the people left, the actors broke off their performance to call "goodbye, and thank you for coming." At that, the rest of the audience, which was already hooting with amusement, laughed even harder.
It was public offense that ended Weil's life. Imitations of the Koran – a meld of musical performance, dance and video art based on an eponymous epic poem by 19th century Russian writer Alexander Pushkin – was an intentionally provocative commentary on ultra-orthodox Islamic beliefs. In conservative quarters, the work was read as unvarnished blasphemy. The three men convicted in 2010 of murdering Weil outside his apartment told the court they had acted in response to what they said was the disrespectful depiction of the Prophet Muhammed.
As Weil lay dying in the hospital in the early hours of September 7, 2007, after sustaining multiple stab wounds, he is reported to have said: "The new season opens tomorrow, come what may." He was 55.
Ilkhom marked the fifth anniversary of the death with a re-staging of Imitations of the Koran, but the show was dropped from the roster the following year.
"Many of the plays first staged by Mark Weil are no longer [in the repertoire]. Unfortunately, we were also unable to hold onto Mark Weil's last staging, Orestes by Aeschylus. It was a technically complicated show," Gafurov said.
A performance of "Our Mahallah" on April 27
As his admirers point out, Weil was never one to do things the easy way. It was this that kept Ilkhom a step ahead.
"Mark Weil was ahead of his time," said Ravshan Nazarov, historian and longtime fan of the theater. "The 1980s and 1990s saw a theatrical boom in Tashkent. Several theaters emulating the Ilkhom style were set up. But not one of them survived."
One of the secrets to Ikhom's endurance is that it manages to generate its own talent.
Bernar Nazarmuhamedov, who joined the team in 1995, was one such graduate of the Ilkhom school. In 2006, one year before Weil's death, he left Uzbekistan for Moscow and worked on a few film projects. He made short movies and toured them at festivals. In September 2016, after a decade away, he returned to Ilkhom.
"At the moment, I feel that there are a few people who are perpetuating [Weil's] work and continuing to develop on a creative and spiritual level," Nazarmuhamedov said. "We have managed to preserve his creative style and stage unusual pieces that stand out. We have managed to continue standing apart."
Nazarmuhamedov performs four roles in the theater's repertory, including one that used to be played by Weil himself.
There are 37 theaters in all in Uzbekistan. Even after all these years of independence, Ilkhom is still the country's only non-state theater. That ensures a dose freedom, but also creates difficulties.
Staff at state-funded theaters dependably receive salaries and funds for decorating and touring. Ilkhom struggles to afford such liberties and pays its actors a largely symbolic salary of around 350,000 sum ($42) a month. Tickets cost up to around $7, which is quite pricey by Uzbek standards, but still not enough to extricate the theater fully from its money problems.
The professional actors in the troupe mainly make their living working in the cinema and radio, teaching public speaking or coaching children, but it is their urge to maintain an outlet for their creative spirit that keeps them loyal to Ilkhom, said Gafurov.
"The East likes to smooth corners, but that's not for us," he said, referring to a culture of deference in Uzbekistan's neighborhood. "We are not afraid and we are ready for experiments."
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Should Colour be Registrable as a Trademark in Kenya?
Posted by Victor Nzomo in CIPIT Insights, Fashion, Trademark
It is said that if you see a woman wearing the shoes pictured above, three things can be deduced. One, she spent an arm and a leg (and a foot?) on them. Two, those shoes are pronounced Christian Louboutin. Three, the surrounding women are a tad jealous.
CIPIT has been following the spirited campaign by Christian Louboutin to assert and protect its trademark red sole, culminating in the highly anticipated outcome of its on-going court battle with fashion house Yves Saint Laurent (YSL).
The story goes something like this: in 1992, Christian Louboutin decided to give his shoes a distinctive feature by painting their soles with red nail polish. Over time, this red colour has become the signature look of his shoe collections. In 2008, the USPTO granted Christian Louboutin a trademark registration for the red-coloured sole in the following terms:
Trademark Reg. No:
Goods:
Women's high fashion designer footwear
The color red is claimed as a feature of the mark. The mark consists of a lacquered red sole on footwear. The dotted lines are not part of the mark but are intended to only show placement of the mark.
In 2011, YSL came out with a collection of shoes that had varying colored shoes: purple shoes with purple soles, green shoes with green soles, navy shoes with navy soles and red shoes with red soles. Louboutin immediately moved to court to seek an injunction to prevent YSL from using the red sole, which the former alleged was trademark infringement in addition to a claim of $1 Million in damages.
The presiding District Court Judge Victor Marrero rejected Louboutin's claims. His reasoning can be found at pages 21-22 and 29 of the judgment:
"Louboutin's claim to "the color red" is, without some limitation, overly broad and inconsistent with the scheme of trademark registration established by the Lanham Act. Awarding one participant in the designer shoe market a monopoly on the color red would impermissibly hinder competition among other participants…"
"the Court cannot conceive that the Lanham Act could serve as the source of the broad spectrum of absurdities that would follow recognition of a trademark for the use of a single color for fashion items. Because the Court has serious doubts that Louboutin possesses a protectable mark, the Court finds that Louboutin cannot establish a likelihood that it will succeed on its claims for trademark infringement and unfair competition under the Lanham Act. Thus there is no warrant to grant injunctive relief on those claims."
This decision was not received well by many who argued that the iconic red soles were not merely decorative but in fact fulfill a very important trade mark function insofar as they indicated the origin of Louboutin's shoes and distinguished them from other women's shoes.
The matter went on appeal and was decided by appellate court justices José Cabranes, Chester Straub, and Debra Livingston. This court has reversed the earlier decision and stated the following in its recent judgment:
"We hold that the District Court's conclusion that a single color can never serve as a trademark in the fashion industry was based on an incorrect understanding of the doctrine of aesthetic functionality and was therefore error […]We hold that the lacquered red outsole, as applied to a shoe with an 'upper' of a different color, has 'come to identify and distinguish' the Louboutin brand […] and is therefore a distinctive symbol that qualifies for trademark protection."
Although the Appeals Court ruled that Louboutin's trade mark had acquired a 'secondary meaning in the public eye', it instructed the USPTO to limit Louboutin's red sole trade mark to uses which the red sole contrasted with the remainder of the shoe:
"We conclude, based upon the record before us, that Louboutin has not established secondary meaning in an application of a red sole to a red shoe, but only where the red sole contrasts with the "upper" of the shoe. The use of a red lacquer on the outsole of a red shoe of the same color is not a use of the Red Sole Mark."
Given the territoriality of IP, the question remains: would a colour trademark be registrable under Kenyan law?
It is arguable whether the Registrar of Trademarks at Kenya's Industrial Property Institute (KIPI) as well as the courts would allow attempts to "monopolise colour". The question of colour trademarks arose partially in the Court of Appeal case of British American Tobacco v Cut Tobacco Kenya Ltd (2002) where it was said:
"[I]t has to be observed that the use of the colour red as the predominant colour on a packet of cigarettes is not the exclusive preserve of anybody, including the plaintiff, the colour being a conventional indicator in the tobacco industry of a strong brand of cigarettes."
However it is clear that in the above case, the colour red had not acquired a secondary meaning in the context of cigarettes. In fact, the court of appeal was guided by evidence that in tobacco industry both in Kenya and internationally various colours are used to denote different brands, for instance variations of colour red denotes strong cigarettes, variations of colour blue denotes mild/light cigarettes; and variations of colour green denotes menthol cigarettes.
Nevertheless, it remains debatable whether Kenyan law allows for trademark registration of colour per se or colour that has acquired a secondary meaning associated with goods or services.
It is clear from the Trademarks Act no 4 of 2002 is that colour may be a factor when considering the distinctive character of a mark. section 19(1) of the Trademarks Act no 4 of 2002 makes the following provision:
"A trade mark may be limited in whole or in part to one or more specified colours, and in any such case the fact that it is so limited shall be taken into consideration by the court or the Registrar having to decide on the distinctive character of the trade mark."
However the current Act fails to expressly cite 'colour' in the list of signs that are considered to be "marks". The Act defines "marks" as follows:
"mark" includes a distinguishing guise, slogan, device, brand, heading, label, ticket, name, signature, word, letter or numeral or any combination thereof whether rendered in two-dimensional or three-dimensional form
However it is argued that a purposive and contextual interpretation of the word "includes" in this section of the Act would indicate that the list above is not exhaustive. Thus, there is no reason why distinctive colours should not be registered as trade marks. In future, a great test case might arise if a new Telcom company decided to enter the market using the Green colour associated with Safaricom in their branding. Assuming Safaricom hasn't already trademarked their color in the area of telecommunications services, perhaps Safaricom has acquired a common law trademark in their colour?


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Terri Moore, left, and her sister Lisa Dernoncourt found this American flag in a pile of discarded items at a mobile home that was being cleaned out by a new owner recently in Largo. Wrapped inside was the information for the deceased soldier who died in the 1970s.
Photos by DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD/Tampa Bay Times
Terri Moore and her sister Lisa Dernoncourt found this military funeral flag and its contents in a trash can. Dernoncourt now displays the flag in her home until it can be returned to the soldier's family.
Largo sisters found military funeral flag in trash, honor soldier in home
By PAUL GUZZO, Tampa Bay Times
LARGO ― In August, two sisters stopped by lot 669 of Largo's Ranchero Village mobile home park hoping to find a toaster oven or maybe a lamp among the items stacked curbside to be taken for free.
They went home with bed linens and a U.S. flag from a 1974 military funeral in Michigan.
They kept the linens but hope to return the flag to the soldier's family.
"It doesn't belong to us," said Lisa Dernoncourt, one of the Largo sisters. "It belongs to the family."
But, so far, they've been unsuccessful in returning it and wonder if they will.
So, out of respect, Dernoncourt's husband Steve Dernoncourt will build a shadow box that will display the flag in their home.
"He served our country," she said. "We don't know him. But that doesn't matter. He was someone's son and brother, and he loved our country. That's enough for me."
Inside the flag's fold was the laminated obituary for the deceased, Richard T. Morse, who died in a car accident in Virginia at the age of 18. There was also driver's license information and condolence letters from the United States Navy to the family.
In September, Dernoncourt reached out to the Tampa Bay Times for help locating the family.
The Times learned that Richard Morse's brother, Robert Morse, lived at lot 669.
A Ranchero Village front office employee who only identified herself as Sherry said Robert Morse had died and the family placed some of his belongings outside the mobile home to be taken by the community.
She called the Morse family and said they told her that the flag must have been hidden inside a box and they did not see it.
The front office then put Dernoncourt in touch with the Morse family in Michigan. Fearing it could be lost in the mail, she will only directly turn it over to the family. But, four months later, they have yet to connect in person.
"The brother held on to the flag for a long time for a reason," Dernoncourt said. "It obviously was important to him. He was still missed."
According to Richard Morse's obituary, he was born on Dec. 28, 1955, "and had been a resident of Flint (Michigan) most of his life." He attended Markham Lutheran School in Markham, Illinois, and Northwestern High School in Flint and played little league baseball. He was survived by parents Richard and Dolores Morse, brothers Robert, Ronald and Randall Morse, and grandparents Laura B. Morse and Sarah Stewart, all of Flint at that time.
Military correspondence with the mother identified him as an equipment manager third class with the rank of seaman.
"I deeply regret to confirm on behalf of the United States Navy that your son Seaman Richard Thomas Morse ... died on August 9, 1974, in Norfolk, Virginia as result of a single car accident," a Western Union telegram to his mother from the Navy reads. "Your son died while serving his country."
He was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Grand Blanc, Michigan.
A photo on the Find a Grave website shows Richard Morse's plot next to his father's. Both their headstones read, "Buddies all the way." His father, also known as "Pop," according to the photo, died in 1996.
Dernoncourt and her sister Terri Moore went to lot 669 in response to a post on the Buy Nothing Project app that lists items being given away.
"There was all sorts of good stuff there," Moore said. "People were taking chairs and stuff like that."
Dernoncourt grabbed bed linens. Her sister then spotted the flag sitting on top of a pile of trash crammed inside a can.
"We had to grab it," Moore said. "It didn't belong there. It's an American flag. It needs to be respected."
Once home, they realized it was from a military funeral. They then began seeking out the family.
For Dernoncourt, the flag has a personal connection, she said, because her daughter, Jennifer Nicole Hyde, is currently in Afghanistan as part of The Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, otherwise known as JAG.
She still hopes to return the flag to the Morse family. But in the meantime, worrying it might be a while and out of honor for Richard Morse's service to the country, the flag will be displayed in her home.
"Richard Morse was a patriot," she said. "He deserves to be honored, either in my home or his family's. I'll continue to honor him until we can get him home."
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New York, March 11, 2015 - Clarion Capital Partners, LLC ("Clarion"), a New York-based middle market private equity firm, has completed a growth equity investment in HR Outsourcing Holdings, Inc. ("HROi"). The investment in HROi reunites Clarion with Anthony Danon who served as the COO of Clarion's successful investment in a human resources outsourcing company in Fund I.
"We're very excited to be partnering again with Anthony Danon to build a new national platform in the human resources outsourcing industry," said Jon Haas, Managing Director at Clarion. "HROI is a flexible and scalable platform poised for growth."
Clarion worked closely with the HROI team to create a strategic plan for the Company to achieve growth across several key geographies throughout the United States. Clarion's initial growth capital investment will accelerate organic growth. HROI's strategy also includes pursuing add on acquisitions.
"Clarion's deep industry expertise creates an opportunity to build an industry leading company in the growing and fragmented human resources outsourcing industry," added Anthony Danon, HROI's COO.
Founded in 2001, HROI is a Georgia based Professional Employer Organization (PEO) and Administrative Services Organization (ASO), providing a bundled solution for payroll administration, health insurance, workers' compensation, human resource administration and compliance. With its group buying power, HROI provides small and medium sized businesses with Fortune 500 style employee benefits and workers' compensation insurance.
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Author: "Member of the Aristocracy" True author is still unknown.
Publisher: Frederick Warne and Co, Ninth edition. Exact date unknown, probably around 1895.
Condition: Hardcover, decorative cloth, well-bound, with some annotations inside. External is bright with mild soiling.
A curious book written by an unknown hand – someone clearly cultured and wealthy, who has written other works such as "Manners and Rules of Good Society" and "Society Small Talk". Clearly steeped in stuffy Victorianism, this book is a guide to writing a formal letter to almost any conceivable contact in every conceivable circumstance.
Unfavourable answer from a Lady respecting a Proposal of Marriage.
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John Coltrane performed constantly during most of his career, up until perhaps the last few months of his life (late 1966). Yet for a number of reasons, eyewitness reports on those performances (reviews or other written comments) are relatively uncommon.
Why? For one thing, editors understandably favor the new and different, and are apt to be more interested in a review of someone who performs infrequently, or who is rarely reviewed, than in a review of someone like Coltrane, who was so visible. That bias extends to the jazz journalist himself, who would be more likely to write about a relatively unknown or under-reported artist than to submit yet another review of a performance by someone as popular as Coltrane.
Many contemporary reviews of Coltrane performances also suffer from what could be called the Hostile Critic Syndrome. Coltrane's music moved through many styles and approaches during the last twelve years of his life, and some jazz journalists had trouble keeping up. Some of them responded to what they heard in terms that were considerably less than objective (let alone favorable). These reviews (some of them discussed in Carl Woideck's The John Coltrane Companion) tell us more about the critic than they do about the performance, other than basic details of personnel and tune titles.
Yet Coltrane had a considerable audience during his lifetime. Many of those who were in the audiences back then are still alive, and retain vivid memories of the performance. In a recent thread on the John Coltrane list, several correspondents shared their recollections of specific Coltrane performances from the mid sixties, to the obvious appreciation of others on the list. It occurred to me that the WEB, as a sort of universal publishing tool, provides a way to organize, preserve and share these reports which otherwise will be lost to the inevitable passage of time. This section is the result.
Initially two contributors, Jack Lefton and Ed Rhodes, gave me permission to use their emails as a basis for FirstHand reports. I've since added a report by David Gitin, as well as Sam Linde's brief recollections of a number of performances he attended. I've also added (with the magazine's permission) a translation by Miles discographer Jan Lohmann of Claes Dahlgren's Village Vanguard review, which is (so far, at least) the only firsthand report we have of the classic Vanguard sessions. (It doesn't exactly fit in here, but I suspect visitors to this section will find it fascinating). In the wings are more reports by Ed Rhodes and perhaps some other recollections.
The authors are responsible for the content of their reports (including opinions, descriptions and the report's factual basis), and retain all rights to the report. Please note that this is an ongoing and still quite preliminary project, and there will undoubtedly be changes and revisions in the future. (Sadly, I have none of my own reports to share; by the time I was old enough to attend a Coltrane performance I was living in Hawaii, far from any of his appearances).
Thanks to the various members of the Coltrane list for their assistance, particularly to Michael Fitzgerald for comments and suggestions and to Ken Hale for the non-jaggie graphic.
[NOTE: this section and its contents have not been substantially updated in about a decade, with the exception of the 1966 Temple University concert report listed below and several "short reports." Information in the end-notes has frequently been superseded by the 2007 publication of The John Coltrane Reference. However, the firsthand reports remain timeless.]
Index to reports.
John Coltrane Group. 'Village Vanguard' New York City NY November 2, 1961
--review by Claes Dahlgren
">John Coltrane Quintet, 'Granada Theatre', Walthamstow, London,U.K., November 17, 1961
--short report by Michael Clarke
John Coltrane Quartet, 'Newport Jazz Festival', Newport RI, July 7, 1963
--report by David Gitin
John Coltrane Quartet. 'Jazz Temple' Cleveland OH September 1963
-- report by Jack Lefton
John Coltrane Quartet, 'Leo's Casino', Cleveland OH August 1965
--report by Jack Lefton
John Coltrane Sextet, 'Jazz Workshop', Boston, MA, November 1965.
--short report by Gerard Wiggins
John Coltrane Group, 'Newport Jazz Festival', Newport RI July 2, 1966
John Coltrane Group, 'Mitten Hall Memorial Auditorium', Temple University, Philadelphia PA, November 11, 1966
-- post-concert commentary by WRTI-FM announcers Dave McLaughlin and Bob Rothstein
John Coltrane Group, MIT, Cambridge MA Spring 1967
-- report by Ed Rhodes
John Coltrane Groups, Various Locations, 1962 - 1966
-- report by Sam Linde
A number of people have published items on the web about hearing Coltrane live. Here are three of interest:
Coltrane Sounds Like Nobody Else In World of Jazz
The Seattle Times review of the Live in Seattle performance at The Penthouse.
Out of This World: John Coltrane in Seattle
Engineer Jan Kurtis's recollections of the Live in Seattle and Om dates.
AAJ Interview: David Liebman: Learning From The Master
The saxophonist recalls hearing Coltrane live in the mid-sixties.
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This inspection took place on 19 and 20 December 2018 and was announced. We gave the service 48 hours' notice of the inspection, so that the registered manager could contact people being supported and their relatives, to ask if they would be willing to provide us with feedback about the service. The inspection was carried out by one adult social care inspector. An inspector on induction was also involved in the second day of the inspection.
Before the inspection we reviewed information we held about the service, including previous inspection reports and notifications we had received from the service. A notification is information about important events which the service is required to send us by law. As part of the inspection we contacted one community professional who was involved with the service for their comments. We also contacted Lancashire County Council contracts team and Healthwatch Lancashire for feedback about the service. Healthwatch Lancashire is an independent organisation which ensures that people's views and experiences are heard by those who run, plan and regulate health and social care services in Lancashire.
During the inspection we spoke on the telephone with 10 people who received support from the service and six relatives. We spoke with three support workers, the registered manager, who was also a company director and the service's other company director. We looked in detail at the care records of two people who received support from the service. In addition, we looked at service records including staff recruitment, supervision and training records, policies and procedures, complaints and compliments records and audits of quality and safety.