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Reali Expands its Tech-Driven, Full-Service Real Estate Model to All California Customers, now including the Los Angeles Market
Reali Team on Oct 23, 2018
Brokerage Achieves 10x Year-over-Year Growth While Earning Exceptional Customer Service Ratings
SAN MATEO, Calif., Oct. 23, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Reali, a full-service real estate technology brokerage transforming home-buying and selling, continues its expansion and is now fully available in all of California, with the addition of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. With concierge-like service from in-house Reali Experts, AI-powered tools and a mobile app, buyers and sellers who work with Reali can make smarter decisions when buying and selling a home and pocket the commission that typically goes to a traditional agent. The company already operates in the Northern California, Sacramento, and San Diego areas and recently raised a large funding round to fuel its regional expansion.
"Two years in, we're seeing rapid growth on all fronts while delivering on our promise to build a tech-driven, full-service team with a smarter real estate experience," said Reali co-founder and CEO Amit Haller. "I'm proud to say we've also maintained the highest levels of customer service. We're excited to bring our customer-centric model and unique approach to Los Angeles real estate market."
Since launching in 2016, Reali has achieved over 10x year-over-year growth while earning a high Net Promoter Score® of +76, a score that is higher than customer-centric brands like Southwest, Amazon, Apple, and Nordstrom.
Reali empowers home buyers and sellers with innovative tech-driven features such as its AI-driven Price Predictor, a flat fee to replace the traditional agent commission, and 2% – 3% cash back for buyers. In the past eight months, Reali has tripled its number of home listings and doubled sales volume and app downloads across all markets.
"Everything about Reali is streamlined and tech-savvy," said Lawrence Kim, a Reali buyer and seller. "They had the buying and selling process down, and I didn't feel like I had to wait for a response. Their on-demand team was always available."
New service areas include all of Los Angeles County with coverage extending to Orange and Santa Barbara Counties. Customers can buy or sell a home in all areas where Reali operates, including major regions and surrounding cities of the San Fernando Valley, Inland Empire, San Diego County, Central Valley, Sacramento County and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Reali is revolutionizing real estate by changing the way people buy and sell homes. As a full-service brokerage, Reali's in-house, data-driven team of licensed real estate experts use technology, data and AI to support home buyers and sellers in every step of the buying or selling process. The Reali app keeps the process efficient and is easy-to-use. Plus, Reali offers cash back to buyers instead of commission, and cash savings to sellers thanks to our flat seller fees. Learn more at reali.com or download the Reali app for iOS and Android.
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The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond
Bashir Bashir
Leila Farsakh
Published: 15-Dec-2020
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Description - The Arab and Jewish Questions: Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond by Bashir Bashir
Nineteenth-century Europe turned the political status of its Jewish communities into the ?Jewish Question,? as both Christianity and rising forms of nationalism viewed Jews as the ultimate other. With the onset of Zionism, this ?question? migrated to Palestine and intensified under British colonial rule and in the aftermath of the Holocaust. Zionism's attempt to solve the ?Jewish Question? created what came to be known as the ?Arab Question,? which concerned the presence and rights of the Arab population in Palestine. For the most part, however, Jewish settlers denied or dismissed the question they created, to the detriment of both Arabs and Jews in Palestine and elsewhere.
This book brings together leading scholars to consider how these two questions are entangled historically and in the present day. It offers critical analyses of Arab engagements with the question of Jewish rights alongside Zionist and non-Zionist Jewish considerations of Palestinian identity and political rights. Together, the essays show that the Arab and Jewish questions, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in which they have become subsumed, belong to the same thorny history. Despite their major differences, the historical Jewish and Arab questions are about the political rights of oppressed groups and their inclusion within exclusionary political communities?a question that continues to foment tensions in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Shedding new light on the intricate relationships among Orientalism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, colonialism, and the impasse in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, this book reveals the inseparability of Arab and Jewish struggles for self-determination and political equality.
Contributors include Gil Anidjar, Brian Klug, Amal Ghazal, Ella Shohat, Hakem Al-Rustom, Hillel Cohen, Yuval Evri, Derek Penslar, Jacqueline Rose, Moshe Behar, Maram Masarwi, and the editors, Bashir Bashir and Leila Farsakh.
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Expert Expects Russia to Get Tough With Azerbaijan
During an October 23 meeting, both Georgian Parliament chairman Zurab Zhvania and his Azerbaijani counterpart, Murtuz Alasgarov, harshly criticized Russian policy in the South Caucasus. Both men said Russia was playing an unconstructive role in attempts to promote regional stability. They complained that Moscow was applying inconsistent standards in the search for political settlements to the Abkhazia and Nagorno-Karabakh conflicts. Georgian-Russian relations have been strained of late, due mainly to the renewed fighting in Abkhazia. EurasiaNet spoke to Vafa Gulazadeh, a long-time advisor to Azerbaijani president Heydar Aliyev, about his expectations for Russian-Azerbaijani relations. The text of his comments follows:
EurasiaNet: Do you think that Russia will become more aggressive in the Caucasus?
Gulazadeh: Yes. The events in Abkhazia increased the basis for aggression. Russia is becoming competitive with Turkey over [influence] in Georgia, and Russian pressure on Georgia is increasingly evident. I [also] expect Azerbaijan to come under Russian pressure in the near future. Russia's Interior Minister, Boris Grizlov, visited Baku [October 23]. It seems he will ask for support from Azerbaijan of Russia's campaign against Chechnya. I think the visit is a mark of Russia's Caucasus policy becoming tougher. At the same time, Russia decided to increase its budget for the Chechnya war.
EurasiaNet: How does the Abkhazia crisis affect prospects for the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline?
Gulazadeh: It is known that Russia is against the realization of Baku-Ceyhan. And I think
Russia will apply pressure in this regard to both Georgia and Azerbaijan. But there wouldn't necessarily be serious results of this pressure, because both states clearly want to pursue independent policies and have succeeded so far.
EurasiaNet: Do current crises make it easier or more difficult to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh issue?
Gulazadeh: The world is preoccupied with anti-terror operations now, so I think the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict will remain unresolved for some period. If Azerbaijan is to be a partner with the United States in the war on terrorism, and the US has a big need for Azerbaijan's help, this will result in our receiving strong support from the US. So America will support the position of Azerbaijan [on the Nagorno-Karabakh question]. At the same time, the reason the conflict will remain unresolved is that Russia provides big support to Armenia. Russia considers Armenia to be her very loyal soldier in the Caucasus


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Texas Candidates for Agriculture Meet With Trump in Florida This Week
This week in Texas politics with the Texas Tribune.
By Laura RiceDecember 30, 2016 1:04 pmGovernment & Politics, Week in Texas Politics
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It's time to talk about the week that was in Texas politics. Texas Tribune reporter Jim Malewitz spoke with the Standard Friday to talk about what's been going on across the state.
It could be a different new year for at least one Texan – candidates for Donald Trump's secretary of agriculture head to Florida this week to meet with his leadership team.
"Sid Miller, the current Texas secretary of agriculture and Susan Combs, formerly served as agriculture secretary and comptroller, are both meeting with Donald Trump's team today," Malewitz says. "We don't know exactly how those interviews will go, but we know that they're in route. It will be interesting to see how that shakes out. If one of them gets the job that will be fun for us reporters to track that down. Combs and Miller are really different personalities."
Elsa Murano, former president of Texas A&M University, also met with Trump's team on Wednesday.
What you'll hear in this segment:
-How one elector in Texas got turned away at the polls in the general election for lack of photo identification
-Gov. Greg Abbott's trip to Australia
Texas Standard for December 30, 2016
Why Are There Gas Shortages in Oil-Rich Mexico?
Texas Police Deaths by Firearm Increased 56 Percent in 2016
These Robots Want to Help Seniors Live Independently as They Age
Four Texas Cities Have High Rates of "Unfounded" Rape Cases
Texas' Robust Civil Rights Movement Brought Together Activists Across Racial Lines
Christmas Bird Count Reveals Changes in Central Texas Wildlife
Sweet Tea: A History Of The 'Nectar Of The South'
Typewriter Rodeo: So Long, 2016
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Ophuls was less interested in real things than in their reflections; he liked to film life indirectly, by 'ricochet.' For example the first treatment of Madame de…, rejected by the producers, planned that the story, which we all know, be seen entirely in mirrors and on the walls and ceiling.
Madame de… is perhaps the least typical of these final four films, relying less on the overt self-consciousness and playful narrative devices that mark La Ronde (1950), Le Plaisir (1952) and Lola Montes (1955). In many ways it is Ophuls' most subtle tragedy, a rondo of flirtation, coincidence, fate, reflected desire and circumstance that builds to an emotionally devastating climax (a final 'destination' which many may find surprising). It is a film of memory and corporeality, in which a pair of continuously traded and exchanged earrings take on an increasingly complex set of meanings and associations (much like the film itself has done, over the years, for many commentators). Despite some initial criticism – though never as harsh as that meted out on his last film Lola Montes – Madame de… has some claim to being Ophuls' greatest film, and thus one of the great works of world cinema. It is also a film, which like the earrings themselves, requires a degree of self-investment – for both character and audience – in order to gain meaning and true resonance.2 Although it appears self-consciously as a film of (stereo)types – we never find out the married couple's surname, for example – the refined embodiment of the three central characters by Danielle Darrieux (Madame de…), Charles Boyer (General Andre de…) and Vittorio de Sica (Baron Fabrizio Donati) represents amongst the greatest ensemble acting in film history, a play of actors playing characters who see themselves as particular types; and who sometimes rail against the roles that a rigid society, and particular characters, have apportioned them.
Throughout Ophuls' cinema characters sacrifice their lives for the well-being and stability of others, as well as of society. The key to Madame de…, and the heart of its tragedy, lies in characters who brush the possibilities of freedom that society then rules untenable (but, fatally, this society forms on the inside as much as the outside of the characters). These social structures emerge as fundamentally undisturbable: observe Madame de…'s final track into the earrings now placed on 'sacred' display in a church which replicates the movement – and implication? – of the film's opening shot. As in many of Ophuls' films, a somewhat reserved sense of despair grips the film's characters, a despair elevated to state of "enchanted sadness" that is the defining tone of Ophuls' greatest work.3 This sadness has a beautiful, muted melancholy, but it never absolves or obscures the potent social critique that incessantly churns beneath, and even on the surface of Madame de….


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CHARTS: UK Top 40 Singles Chart 28th August 1988
UK Top 40 Singles Chart for Sunday 28th August 1988
So this was the chart that Radio 1 DJ Bruno Brookes broadcast from 5-7pm with data from the GALLUP computer based on record sales from Monday 22nd to Saturday 27th August 1988.
This is how the charts USED to look with new entries, climbers and non-movers, all based solely on record purchases.
This week, thirty years ago, there were nine new entry's, twelve climbers and four non-movers! And it was announced like this…
40. The Commodores – "Easy"
The Commodores make a return to the UK chart with their 1977 top ten hit, that's been reissued as part of a new greatest hits compilation that's coming out soon.
39. The Primitives – "Way Behind Me"
The Primitives are back for a third time this year with the new entry, which follows on from "Out Of Reach" and their top five hit, "Crash".
38. All About Eve – "Martha's Harbour"
We go from one British and to another with a 'crash' as All About Eve plummet twenty four places this week with their biggest hit yet.
37. Funky Worm – "Hustle (To The Music)"
Joining them with a big fall are Funky Work, who also leave the top twenty this week, going down with the music, eighteen places.
36. Natalie Cole – "Jump Start"
Natalie Cole is going the other way with last weeks new entry from her current album, "Everlasting", going up three places.
35. Europe – "Superstitious"
Any hopes of another chart topper from Europe appear to be lost already as their 'comeback' single, which was a new entry last week actually drops back one place!
34. The Proclaimers – "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"
Remember Charlie and Craig? Yes those two who wrote "A Letter From America". Well, they're back with only their second top 40 chart entry, which is also the first from a new album they having coming out soon.
33. Marc Almond – "Tears Run Rings"
Also making a chart comeback is former Soft Cell singer Marc Almond with a brand new song and his first solo chart entry since "Stories Of Johnnie" back in 1985.
32. Bill Medley – "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"
The man who sang half of the Oscar winning song from 'Dirty Dancing' is back, this time on his own and with a cover of a song made famous by British group The Hollies' in 1969, which made the UK/US top ten back then…
31. The Four Tops – "Reach Out, I'll Be There '88"
Talking of classics, The Four Tops' remixed version of their 1966 chart topper has been around for seven weeks now and is down a whopping eighteen places as it leaves the top twenty this week.
30. Mory Kante – "Yeke Yeke"
Slipping back one place this week is Mory Kante with his first UK chart hit, which has so far topped the chart in five countries across the world.
29. Donny Osmond – "Soldier Of Love"
Donny Osmond came back to the UK top 40 for the first time in fourteen years, last week and goes up four places on this weeks chart.
28. The Hollies – "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"
You've heard the cover, now here's the original! The Hollies 1969 UK No.3 hit comes back to the UK chart after nineteen years away, having been used recently in a beer commercial! Who will win the battle and be the heaviest? The Hollies or Bill…?
27. S-Express – "Superfly Guy"
There are big changes in the upper half of the chart this week with many casualties, S-Express are among them, as they fall sixteen places with their second release.
26. UB40 – "Where Did I Go Wrong?"
Going up ten this week are UB40 with the latest single to come from their self-titled eighth studio album.
25. Spagna – "Every Girl And Boy"
Also up this week after a new entry last week is Spagna, and she's taking every girl and boy with her, twelve places higher than before.
24. Guns'N'Roses – "Sweet Child O'Mine"
The former US chart topper from Guns'N'Roses stays very still this week here, as the band's first UK chart hit is a non-mover.
23. Iron Maiden – "The Evil That Men Do"
More rock now from British band Iron Maiden as they join the list of victims suffering a big decline, as they leave the top ten with a drop of fourteen places.
22. Chris Rea – "On The Beach '88"
And after scoring his first top 40 success with this song, Chris Rea is down ten places and out of the top twenty this week.
21. Big Country – "King Of Emotion"
That extends to Big Country and their chart comeback single, a former highest new entry two weeks ago, which slides five places and out.
20. Metallica – "Harvester Of Sorrow"
US rock band Metallica have been together for five years and released three studio albums, but with no singles chart success on either side of the Atlantic. The UK is the first to change that as they break our chart for the very first time with this first taster of their upcoming fourth album.
19. Gloria Estefan and The Miami Sound Machine – "Anything For You"
Something a little quieter from The States next from Gloria Estefan and her band as they move up six places and back into the UK top twenty for the first time in three years.
18. Level 42 – "Heaven In My Hands"
There's another big new entry for Level 42 next with a brand new single that comes from a new album, their eighth overall, that brings them back to the top twenty for the first time in two years.
17. Status Quo – "Running All Over The World"
The Quo's reworking of their 1977 hit, "Rocking", for Sport Aid is a non-mover this week, staying quite still and not moving a muscle(!)
16. Robbie Robertson – "Somewhere Down That Crazy River"
Slipping back one place is The Band's former frontman Robbie Robertson with his debut solo single, which is currently top ten in Belgium and The Netherlands.
15. Jane Wiedlin – "Rush Hour"
Jane Wiedlin is still caught in the 'rush hour' with her first solo UK chart hit and she's up again this week, six places and into the top twenty.
14. Yello – "The Race"
Boris and Dieter are also newcomers to the UK top 40 and gained their very first new entry last week, which 'races' past Jane and up seventeen places this week to be the highest climber of all!
13. Kim Wilde – "You Came"
Kim Wilde's latest single has become one of her biggest ever, it's also the second track to come from her top ten album, "Close" and it's down five places and out of the top ten this week.
12. a-ha – "Touchy"
a-ha 'touched' down in the chart again last week with the latest single from "Stay On These Roads" and return to the top half of the UK singles chart with a move of fourteen places this week.
11. Tanita Tikaram – "Good Tradition"
Britain's Tanita Tikaram's debut single entered the top ten last week but sadly she drops out seven days on, down just one place.
10. Fairground Attraction – "Find My Love"
After two weeks on hold, Fairground Attraction are down three places with their second single and the follow up to "Perfect".
9. Phil Collins – "Groovy Kind Of Love"
This weeks highest new entry see's the return of Phil Collins, this time with a cover of a Carole Bayer-Sager/Toni Wine song from 1965 that was a big hit for The Mindbenders that year. The song comes from a new film which Phil not only stars in but also provides the music to, both new and old!
8. B.V.S.M.P. – "I Need You"
US band B.V.S.M.P. are down three this week with their debut single, which has still yet to chart Stateside.
7. Womack and Womack – "Teardrops"
Last week's highest climber from Womack and Womack is up eleven more places and into the UK top ten for the very first time for this pair.
6. Bomb The Bass – "Don't Make Me Wait"
While last week's highest new entry from Tim Simenon with the follow up to his January debut, is up fourteen places and back into the top ten for him.
5. Julio Iglesias and Stevie Wonder – "My Love"
Julio and Stevie are up one this week and into the top five with their hugely successful duet, now both their biggest UK hit for some years.
4. Breathe – "Hands To Heaven"
There's no change for Breathe this week as they stay where they ascended to last week with their first top 40 entry after two years of trying.
3. Kylie Minogue – "The Locomotion"
While Kylie has been No.2 for four weeks, that all changes this week as she drops one place with her cover of Little Eva's 1962 original. She stays at the top of the album chart, however.
2. Brother Beyond – "The Harder I Try"
There's a Stock Aitken Waterman swap in the top three as Brother Beyond go above Kylie to take second place with their first top 40 hit.
1. Yazz and The Plastic Population – "The Only Way Is Up"
But nothing can stop Yazz and the Plastic Populus as they take the top spot for a fifth week! Can they maintain this success with a sixth or will Brother Beyond try harder still or even Julio and Stevie take their love to the top? There's only one way to find out…
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40-year-olds in thinking playground: "The Internship" at Google Campus
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Looks like comedy duo and friends Owen and Vince have found a new thinking playground at the Google campus as featured in the upcoming hilarious movie "The Internship."
In an interview with EW on his upcoming true-to-the-times relatable comedy "The Internship," Vince Vaughn admits that there wouldn't be any film had Google said no to the concept in the first place.
Vaughn, who serves as co-writer, producer and star of "The Internship" reunite with Owen Wilson about friends in their 40s who get laid off from their jobs. Convinced they've gone about managing their careers entirely wrong, they resolve to become interns at a tech company and start anew. Hijinks ensue when Vaughn and Wilson compete against wily, fresh-faced 22-year-olds to advance in the company.
"The Internship" sees Nick (Owen Wilson) and Billy (Vince Vaughn), two old-school salesmen who use old fashioned charm and brilliant sales techniques to sell watches. On the night that they try to close a big sale with a client, to their shock, they find out that their company has been shut down because kids don't wear watches anymore. Suddenly, they find themselves unemployed as two dinosaurs in the digital world.
To make the situation worse, Billy goes home to find a foreclosure sign on his front lawn and his girlfriend packing her bags to leave him. In the meantime, Nick's sister offers him a job at a mattress store and he takes it out of despair. After an exhaustive job search online, Billy has Googled everything he can Google. He finally gives up by typing just "Google" into the search box, and finds an opportunity for them to reinvent themselves – with an internship program at Google.
The guys arrive at the Google Campus in Mountain View, California – a world away from anything they have seen before – and are in awe. All the food and drink is free so they load up on coffee and donuts at the "free" coffee cart as if it's their last meal on earth. On the first day of their internship, they find themselves in a sea of tech-savvy 20-year-olds who they need to compete against to win a full-time position at Google. They team up with Neha, a sexually curious nerd, Stuart, who is obsessed with his cell phone and won't get off of it, Yoyo, a genius Asian kid that lacks social and common life skills, and Lyle, who is an underdog who wants to fit in. They also meet their nemesis – Graham – an arrogant and aggressive college student who will stops at nothing to win the competition and get the job at Google.
Vaughn wrote the original draft of the story when the US economy was in shambles and most of the people he knew had lost their jobs. It was that generational sentiment that the skills they have are not significant as it used to be. And when he saw a portion of what goes inside the Google 'campus,' "I thought of taking the characters to this place and give them the chance to work at Google – that felt relatable and rootable," shares Vaughn.
Google cofounder Sergey Bin checked on the film's set every now and then which Vaughn is very grateful for – "Everyone at (Google) was very nice and gracious. But that's what Google does: You search for something and you find it," Vaughn concludes.
"The Internship" opens June 7 in theaters from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.
40-year-olds in thinking playground: "The Internship" at Google Campus Reviewed by Unknown on 9:41 PM Rating: 5


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Category : Uncategorized · by NWerle May 20th, 2014
Originally posted on 3QuarksDaily
Public sector austerity has come back to the West in a big way. Governments throughout the European Union are wrestling against striking civil servants, a stagnant private sector, and an entrenched public welfare system to drastically reduce spending. The budget cuts are broad, and they run deep. Under pressure from global financial markets and the European Central Bank to reduce public deficits, Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Greece have issued "austere" budgets for the coming year that simultaneously raise taxes and slash government spending. David Cameron's new Conservative government has violated its campaign pledge to spare Britain's generous middle class subsidies in an attempt to close a budget gap that is among the world's largest, at 11 percent of GDP. Supposedly confirming the wisdom of austerity, the financial press has trumpeted the re-election of Latvia's center-right government, which passed an IMF-endorsed budget with austerity reductions equal to 6.2 percent of GDP. Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis won his "increased mandate" – "an inspiration for his colleagues in the EU" – against a backdrop of 20 percent unemployment and a cumulative economic contraction of 25 percent in 2008 and 2009, the most severe collapse in the world.
Latvian electoral politics notwithstanding, austerity has been a tough sell worldwide. Both the protests that broke out across Europe at the end of September and the general strikes mounted against Socialist governments in Portugal, Spain, and Greece attest to the resistance all governments face in cutting public spending. And opposition has not been confined to the streets. At a G20 summit in Washington DC on April 23, the finance ministers and central bank governors of the world's 20 largest economies agreed that extraordinary levels of public spending should be maintained until "the recovery is firmly driven by the private sector and becomes more entrenched." Indeed, Larry Summers, the departing Director of the White House National Economic Council, still argues that the United States must continue its policy of economic stimulus in the form of deficit spending on infrastructure rather than pull back public resources, lest it cede the small gains of the nascent recovery.
Yet the pressure to embrace austerity continues to mount on governments on both sides of the Atlantic, crowding out calls for further stimulus spending; the stimulus vs. austerity debate has heated up in both policy circles and academia. On one side are the Ricardians, who argue that austerity budgets will boost confidence, by signaling that the recovery has taken hold, and spur private investment, because capital will no longer fear future tax hikes to pay for today's deficit spending. We hear this story coming from three major institutions: the European Central Bank, which regulates the 16 Eurozone countries; the International Monetary Fund, which provided lender of last resort bailouts for countries struggling to meet their international obligations; and the global financial markets, which penalize debtor countries by demanding ever higher interest rates to refinance sovereign debt.
The Keynesians are on the other side, arguing that governments must maintain their economic stimulus programs to help make up the difference between the internationally depressed levels of aggregate private demand and the level of economic activity necessary to support full employment. Their argument against austerity-induced gutting of social welfare programs goes beyond moral claims about equity. Government spending, especially in programs that target the bottom end of the income distribution, circulates through the economy, multiplying the job-creating effects of the initial public expenditure. Of course, the root of the current economic problems is an overabundance of debt – both public and private. But as international political economist Mark Blyth explains, it is dangerous for governments to try to clean up their balance sheets with austerity at the same that the private sector is paying down its own debts from the housing boom instead of investing and hiring. Indeed, the US shed 95,000 jobs in September, after layoffs by local governments and the release of temporary Census workers cost 159,000 jobs. Until recently, the Obama Administration was the main proponent of the stimulus view, which is also supported by organized labor and hordes of protesting Europeans.
Strangely, when the G20 finance ministers reconvened on June 5 in South Korea, their message had changed. Instead of encouraging countries to continue supporting the recovery, they announced that "countries with serious fiscal challenges need to accelerate the pace of consolidation," and identified monetary policy as the best tool going forward. This, despite the fact that monetary policy levers are at the "zero bound" worldwide, allowing no room for further expansionary movement. So, why the sudden shift? How might we characterize the compulsion governments have to engage in painful belt tightening when their belts are circled around their necks?
The austerity vs. stimulus debate is not just a policy disagreement between social classes with opposing interests; it is a confrontation between two entirely distinct modes of governing, two different ways of conceiving of the state and the economy. Austerity is a quintessentially Classical prescription for economic imbalances, a direct descendent of the vertiginous deflationary adjustments countries were forced to stomach under the gold standard. Now, as then, financial power compels states to sacrifice the health of their domestic markets in order to preserve international credibility. Politicians would not make this trade without compulsion; anyone concerned with reelection will rightly worry about the havoc this fiscal discipline wreaks on his constituents. This should not suggest, however, that the only benefit of a policy to stimulate the economy with government spending is its ability to create short-term construction jobs. Properly administered, a Keynesian stimulus will keep unemployment rates manageable by propping up aggregate demand, but the real goal of government spending is to make the short-term economic picture look rosy enough to improve private expectations of the future. As government money filters through the economy, businesses can count on boosted demand for their products and will hire more workers, so private demand can gradually recover.
Michel Foucault, who is known for his studies of "governmentality," developed a philosophical framework that helps distinguish these approaches to dealing with recession. In his 1978 lectures at the College de France, Security, Territory, Population, Foucault argues that there are three forms of power: juridical law, discipline, and security. Juridical law maintains order by establishing prohibitions and doling out punishment. Its model is a hanging, commanded by the sovereign to punish a subject who violated the law. Foucault is most famous for his theory of discipline, wrought from his meticulous studies of the techniques of power used in prisons, schools, barracks, asylums, and hospitals. A disciplinary institution aims for efficiency; it structures power relations so that the surveillance, and transformation of individuals can proceed with the least possible expenditure of resources. Its ultimate goal is, in a sense, utopian: to forge subjects who have internalized the law and follow it by themselves. The model disciplinary institution is the panopticon, in which the prisoner must always behave as if someone is watching. Finally, a security apparatus handles problems with measurement. Recognizing that it is impossible to completely engineer away social ills, a security apparatus sees a problem as the result of a series of probable events and enters it into a calculation of cost. Rather than focusing its attention on the legal boundary between the permitted and the prohibited, a regime of security "establishes an average considered as optimal on the one hand, and, on the other, a bandwidth of the acceptable that must not be exceeded." And benefits of any policy are weighed against the costs of implementing it. Instead of deploying mechanisms to transform deviant individuals into ideal subjects, the techniques of security act on a new object: the population. Its tools are statistics, which uniquely make meaning from uncertainty and direct power to most effectively manage a large ensemble. Its model is the modern management of epidemics. While the differences between these three categories do rely on innovation, Foucault stresses that they do not represent distinct eras but rather alternative, and coexistent, ways that power organizes the social world.
Foucault deploys this framework on economic problems to show different ways of allocating resources to deal with the problem of scarcity. He begins with a juridical mode of resource allocation: price controls. For a long time, authorities attempted to control the food supply by instituting rigid price ceilings, intended to keep food affordable; regulations on food storage, intended to prevent hording from precipitating an artificial shortage; and export restrictions, meant to protect domestic supplies. Of course, in practice these price controls actually functioned to exacerbate food shortages, as the law prevented peasant farmers from charging enough to recoup their investments and plant enough grain the following year.
Foucault then studies the prescriptions of the Physiocrats, who advocated that governments reduce these restrictions and allow supply and demand to set prices according to the dynamics of the market. By allowing individuals to decide when and for how much to sell their grain, guided only by competition and informed by market prices, laissez faire policies leave the problem of managing scarcity to the decentralized decisions of many market actors, who sold their grain where high prices indicated it was most needed. Foucault shows how, historically, this shift to a new mode of governance alleviated the food shortages that had plagued Europe. But here, Foucault gets it wrong. He incorrectly classifies the Physiocrats' free markets as a technique of security. Instead, laissez faire ought to be considered a disciplinary mechanism, since it aims to solve the problem of scarcity by conditioning individuals to make the "right choices" on their own about how much grain to grow and where to sell it.
Political economy first entered the realm of security when Keynes invented macroeconomics as a way of managing unemployment and taming the business cycle. For the first time, economists could attend to a population and direct their policies at the economy as a whole. Indeed, the concept of unemployment only makes sense for a whole economy; it has no microeconomic analogue. In his General Theory, Keynes shows how governments can use fiscal policy to keep their unemployment rates within reasonable bounds, consistent with long-term economic growth and social stability. Government's deficit spending is the distinctive technique of this regime of Foucauldian security. An economic stimulus is not intended to help any particular individuals – though some sectors certainly benefit more than others – but rather boost aggregate demand. Its target is the whole economy, the population. Indeed, classical economics did not admit the economy per se as an organic object, since it was seen as merely a large collection of individual, rational actors. Insofar as macroeconomic policy has this population as the target of its interventions, Keynes can be said to have invented the economy as an object.
It is easy to see where austerity fits in Foucault's taxonomy: It is a disciplinary force exerted against free-spending governments. Just as the structures of school buildings make rambunctious children into docile bodies, pressure to embrace public austerity is an effort on behalf of international capital to restrain the free-spending tendencies of welfare states. This fiscal discipline, sold as a virtuous and commonsensical "pain after the party," is intended to produce chastened governments, which maintain capital-friendly tax policies at the expense of social services and in the name of stability, predictability, and job creation. Even though newly streamlined corporations are again flush with cash but have not rehired the workers laid off during the worst of the financial crisis, business leaders continue to argue for an emergency loosening of labor laws that would allow them to fire employees more cheaply.
Although these revisions to the modern welfare state's social contract may seem draconian, they are hardly unprecedented. The IMF has been pushing public austerity and business-friendly labor reforms on financial crisis-plagued developing countries for decades under the banner of the "Washington Consensus." Yet these stringent retrenchments, required as conditions on IMF rescue packages for countries from East Asia to Latin America to Latvia, have almost always exacerbated recessions. Indeed, the country that avoided the most damage in the 1997 East Asian financial crisis was Malaysia, which was condemned at the time for eschewing these familiar neoliberal fixes and setting up strict currency controls. Today's massive foreign currency reserves in East Asian treasuries exist precisely so that these countries will never again have to turn to the IMF for another many-strings-attached bailout. The citizens of the global West are finally experiencing an economic pain all-too familiar to previous recipients of IMF bailouts. In all spheres of economic life, laissez faire prescriptions discipline states with the same old, capital-friendly mantra: "That government is best which governs least."
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THE PROFUMO SCANDAL AND THE STORY BEHIND IT – Original Sleaze, Corruption and Smears
September 19, 2017 March 26, 2018 Peg
THE PROFUMO SCANDAL AND THE STORY BEHIND IT
ORIGINAL SLEAZE, CORRUPTION AND SMEARS
Sleaze and corruption – it's as old as the day is long. Throughout history it has been used as leverage time and again. It takes up column inches. Sleaze sells, and the newspapers love it… unless, of course, it involves them.
Rebecca Brooks & Rupert Murdoch
You've heard of the Daniel Morgan murder – the most investigated crime in British legal history and how the News of the World and police conspired. We all know about the scum at NewsCorp who hacked peoples phones and gave false hope to Milly Dowler's parents.
We've all recently seen first hand how some members of the political scene close ranks and try to discredit survivors of abuse and the way the press collude alongside them to apply pressure to complainants and witnesses.
Excerpt from Harvey Proctor's book: Credible & True – where he admits journalists applied pressure to the complainants in his case (Op Midland)
We also know the story of Jeremy Thorpe being arrested for allegedly paying a hitman to murder his lover, Jeffrey Archer and the prostitutes, Edwina and her eggs, David Mellor and his Chelsea kit-wearing sexual shenanigans, Vaz and…. oh far too many to mention… and of course, the cash for questions involving Neil Hamilton, but probably the most famous of all sleaze stories was that of John Profumo and his dalliance with Christine Keeler.
But did you know about the story behind the Profumo story? The more sinister claims of corruption and political interference? The allegations of an establishment smear attempt against a man who fought his corner in a court of law and won?
Make yourself a cuppa, pull up a chair and read a fascinating story of allegations of smear, vice, spies, collusion and power…. A real tale of David and Goliath.
It's June 1963, and a journalist named Laurence Terence Bell, aged 26 and from Wanstead, appears at the Central Criminal Court facing charges of indecency with guardsmen. Being heard at such a late sitting in the session, it may have been assumed it was a simple cut and dried case, but then Bell's counsel, Mr Raphael Tuck, stands up and asks for the case to be moved over to the July sessions.
"It was", he said, "one of the biggest pieces of political chicanery and frame-ups that had been experienced for some time", much to the chagrin of the judge. That said, Tuck was successful and the trial was transferred over to the new session.
Dr Stephen Ward
In February 1963, Bell had given information to the press and members of parliament about Dr Stephen Ward, alleging he was a "communist" and was after "nuclear information". He also gave them information about the affair between John Profumo and Christine Keeler, exposed a number of scandals involving guardsmen and had been directly responsible for the resignation of a junior minister, Sir Charles Fletcher-Cooke.
Tuck explained how Bell was perceived as an embarrassment to the government and had received threatening letters as a result. He had also been arrested and held for 16 days incommunicado after police discovered he knew about the Profumo/Keeler affair. He was released just before Profumo resigned but then quickly rearrested and charged with offences involving guardsmen.
CHARLES FLETCHER-COOKE – The story gets murkier…
Sir Charles Fletcher-Cooke
Fletcher-Cooke was originally a Labour party candidate but eventually became a Conservative MP when he successfully won the seat of Darwen in 1951 (which he held until 1983.) Interestingly he was responsible for the Suicide Act, 1961.
In 1963 he was forced to stand down as a junior minister after an 'absconder' from an approved school was found driving Fletcher-Cooke's Austin Princess car with his permission but without the necessary licence or insurance.
Anthony George Richard Turner, 18, the son of a policeman from Lincoln, had been caught speeding in Commercial Road, Stepney and was also charged with trespassing on the railway at Piccadilly Circus underground station. He told police that he had been given permission to use the car by Fletcher-Cooke, with whom he had been staying at his home in North Court, Great Peter Street, Westminster. He had been introduced to Fletcher-Cooke by Viscount Robert Maugham following a stint at an approved school. He was eventually sentenced to borstal, five years disqualification from driving and fined a total of £3
In his letter of resignation he justified his friendship with Turner, stating that he had been:
…particularly concerned with the after-care of delinquents.
Having been introduced to Turner, he had
…duly befriended the young man and tried to help him. On reflection, he believed that this course of action had been 'well-intentioned but misguided'.
DISAPPEARING WITNESSES
In September 1963 Tuck once again requested that the trial be delayed because two political witnesses for the defence would not be available until October. There were also 20 other witnesses on whom subpoenas had been or were being served, but three of them had mysteriously disappeared after they had given statements. He then gave the judge a piece of paper on which he had written the names of the two political witnesses.
Despite the prosecution's attempts to play down the bigger picture and them insisting it was a simple case of Bell and the guardsmen, the judge agreed to Tuck's request to delay until the end of September.
SUICIDE ATTEMPT
Bell failed to appear at the scheduled date for his trial. Tuck explained that he had taken an overdose of drugs the night before. A hospital doctor appeared in court and corroborated what had happened and explained that Bell would be hospitalised for another five days. The case was once again adjourned.
THE ESTABLISHMENT PLOT…
Finally, four months after his trial was originally due to begin, Laurence Terence Bell appeared at the Central Criminal Court and pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
The prosecution explained how Bell was in the habit of frequenting the Welsh Harp pub in Chandos Street in Marylebone where guardsmen from nearby Chelsea Barracks would regularly drink. It is alleged by a guardsman named Hall that he had gone with Bell to a London hotel where they had a meal in a private room. Hall then alleged that Bell made indecent advances towards him and he left after Bell had given him 30s for a taxi back to his barracks.
Despite this claim, Hall then stated he had visited Bell at his home in Wanstead, where Bell made the same advances.
Bell was alleged to have taken another guardsman named Leonard – who was absent from court – to a hotel after booking a room in a false name and 'twice committed a grave offence with Leonard'.
Upon his arrest, Bell was said to have shouted to his friends: "Ring up the news editor of The People that I am detained at West Central Police Station!"
In interview, Bell stated:
I suppose this has to do with the Guards. Every newspaper in London is waiting for this. It is definitely a plot by the War Office. I have had 27 stories printed about the Guards in the last few weeks and that is why they are trying to get me.
In any case it is only a guardsman's word against mine. There are many people more famous than I who go in for this sort of thing. It is the Vassall thing all over again.
You (police) are only minions of the Establishment. You are just told what to do. You do not know the background like I do.
In 1960 The People printed a series of Bell's memoirs. From that moment onwards he had become unsurprisingly unpopular in Guards circles and in 1961 he received a visit from Chief Inspector Smith from Special Branch and claimed:
He told me I ought to think before my name appeared on such articles and if I did not I might find myself in a lot of trouble.
Doesn't that sound remarkably similar to what Kevin Allen was told by David Veness after stating that he felt the establishment was behind his brother's disappearance?
Bell also admitted that he had taken up the case of Anthony Turner, the youth who had been convicted after driving Fletcher-Cooke's car without appropriate documentation, which thus caused Fletcher-Cooke to resign. Tuck stated to the court that it was perceived that the charges against Bell had been trumped up by the police and Guards because of this. Bell claimed in court that Fletcher-Cooke was homosexual and he had been in attendance at a flat with guardsmen 'when certain things were going on', and because the flat belonged to a well-known communist, Fletcher-Cooke had become worried. He stated:
Lord Denning asked me about this matter also. This minister has a position of special importance with regard to our nuclear weapons.
Bell also confirmed he had received information about the Profumo/Keeler/Ward affair in February, which he had passed on to newspapers and two Labour MPs. The Profumo story didn't break until June.
Under subpoena, the two Labour MPs – Colonel George Edward Cecil Wigg MP and former War and Defence Minister, Emanuel Shinwell MP – appeared to give evidence. Shinwell confirmed he had received a letter from a man purporting to be called Barrett (but was actually Bell) and had written to Colonel Wigg. Wigg explained how Bell had spoken about the Profumo affair as well as an incident of indicipline involving the Welsh Guards in Dusseldorf.
It was following this meeting that Wigg raised the issue of Profumo in the House of Commons, forcing Profumo to make a statement the following day denying allegations against him. When asked by Tuck if Profumo had ever mentioned Bell, the judge interjected.
LAURENCE TERENCE BELL
Bell alleged that when he was a child, he was 'corrupted' by a lodger named Joseph Wright which had affected him.
By the time he was 20 he was chairman of the East Ham Young Conservatives but left following a disagreement and joined the People's League. He began moving in West End social circles as well as attending debutante dances. He said he also had dinner at St James' Palace and the Bank of England and that he was also entertained at Windsor Castle Barracks by Guards officers. At one point he was engaged to the daughter of a member of parliament, who was a former Guards officer.
A chance remark led him to becoming known as 'Captain Bell' because he was always in and out of Guard's messes, alleging that it must have caused the War Office a great deal of worry, also claiming: "The Guardsmen often used to think I was an officer and would salute even though I was in mufti." I have checked this and he is indeed noted on documentation as having the title of 'Captain'.
In 1962 he was convicted of importuning at Bow Street Magistrates' Court, which he denied, and he was also mentioned at the Vassall tribunal (who had spied for the Soviet government) as well as asked by Lord Denning to go and see him.
OUTCOME AND THE JUDGE'S COMMENTS
After a trial lasting 11 days, Bell was found 'Not Guilty' of the nine charges against him involving the Guardsmen after the judge, Mr Justice MacKenna, said it would be unsafe for the jury to convict Bell on any charges as there was no corroboration of the evidence of the guardsmen involved.
The judge also referred to the allegations of there being a plot against Bell, stating:
I should not be surprised if the Brigade of Guards and the War Office did resent – and hotly resent – the activities of the journalists who were responsible for getting these stories from guardsmen and that the defendant's activities were particularly resented by those who had the interests of the Brigade of Guards at heart.
He was, after all, getting stories from these guardsmen which they had a duty under military discipline not to give. It was tempting them to commit breaches of that duty. The results were most unhappy for those who had the good repute of the Guards at heart. If the Special Investigations Branch looking into these matters knew the defendant had homosexual tendencies and knew he was meeting guardsmen at the Welsh Harp public house they might well suspect immorality.
They might, for all I know, be pleased to find there was a case to be made against the troublemaker, but to infer from that that there is a great conspiracy against the defendant to fabricate false charges is another and very different matter. I shall say no more about that.
Upon his release, Bell confirmed that he would be taking legal advice regarding certain things that happened during the trial, such as witnesses disappearing. He also stated he would approach Colonel Lipton with a view to him taking up the matter in the House.
Fletcher-Cooke: The day following Bell's acquittal, Fletcher-Cooke released a personal statement which said: "..inferences against my personal honour… are quite unwarranted." Both Gerard McEvoy, Darwen Conservative agent, and Lieutenant-Colonel J G Barber-Lomax, constituency chariman, both declined to comment.
Brigade of Guards: The Brigade of Guards obtained it's own public relations office a year after the trial in order to deal with matters relating to the press and public relations and to avoid any repeat of the embarrassment it had suffered.
Clifford Luton: One of the witnesses called to give a character reference for Bell during the trial was Clifford Luton, who was a BBC reporter and alleged prolific paedophile.
Bell: Bell subsequently married Sally Gardner in 1964, and both used the surname Gardner-Bell. However, in 1967, his wife filed for a divorce and obtained a high court order against him removing any furniture from the matrimonial home, as well as a restraining order preventing him from molesting her. It was alleged he was now calling himself Count de Lavaggio. He appears in The Gazette on 22 July 1969:
A MYSTERIOUS END
In April 1973, Bell was found vomiting in his flat in Balfour Road, Highbury, but died on arrival at hospital. He was aged just 36. During the inquest, the St Pancras coroner was told that Bell was a registered drug addict. The verdict was registered as 'misadventure'.
Laurence Bell had known about the Profumo affair before it hit the newspapers. He had said that Stephen Ward was trying to obtain nuclear information.
Stephen Ward
Stephen Ward was an osteopath and also an artist. According to newspaper reports, he was in contact with three members of the royal family, and had drawn portraits of some, including:
Lord Snowdon
Duke & Duchess of Kent
Princess Marina
Princess Alexandra
Duke & Duchess of Gloucester
He seemed very well connected. He was convicted of supplying 'call girls' to high society clientele. One girl was Christine Keeler…
Christine Keeler
…who was famously in a relationship with John Profumo…
John Profumo
After meeting him at Cliveden, the home of Lord Astor – the grounds of which Ward lived in a grace and favour cottage.
Lord Astor
But did you know Keeler also had an affair with Charlie Kray (left, alongside his brothers Ronnie and Reg)?
Charlie, Ronnie & Reggie Kray
Charlie Kray was alleged to have raped the wife of an associate and Ronnie Kray regularly abused young boys, as well as allegedly raped two brothers who were meant to be his friends. Whilst they were awaiting trial, Christine Keeler would visit an associate in Maidstone Prison in order to pass messages on from the Krays.
ca. 1964, London, England, UK — Ronnie Kray the East end criminal, sits to the left of Christine Keeler, the model and showgirl in a London nightclub, ca. 1964. — Image by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
The Krays also had connections to another infamous Conservative politician, supplying him with the 'rent boys' he found so exciting.
Lord Boothby, Ronnie Kray & Leslie Holt ('rent boy' boyfriend of Boothby and cat burglar)
I've said it many times before, but in my opinion the tentacles of the Profumo affair reached far further than was claimed. There were allegations that Ward's suicide wasn't all it seemed. I obviously have no proof of that, but I urge you to watch the making of Scandal – the Eighties movie about the Profumo affair – and listen to the stories recounted by the team that made it and the problems they had trying to make it. Nobody wanted to touch it. Why?
Try and find a copy of this edition of the Daily Mirror and you will fail. It has been consigned to history.
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https://wimpolemuse.blogspot.co.uk is an interesting read on this subject.
Tony Bennett says:
The deeper I get researching the Profumo /Keeler /Ward affair ,the deeper it sends me . Curiouser and curiouser ,said Alice . Anyone with further indepth knowledge of the entire matter ,including roles played by the Krays ,Rice Davies ,etc ,please let me know .


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Coffee with a Cop is a national initiative supported by The United States Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. The program aims to advance the practice of community policing through improving relationships between police officers and the community one cup of coffee at a time.


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OnePlus has started rolling out a software update that temporarily disables the 8 Pro's controversial Color Filter camera function. In an announcement posted on Chinese social media platform Weibo, the manufacturer said it noticed that the camera may "cause a subtle see-through effect" when it's in very close proximity to specific materials.
The phone's Color Filter camera has a filter called Photochrom that uses the phone's infrared sensors to give a specific effect. Users found that the feature could see through thin or tinted plastic, such as electronic cases — and some claimed that it could even see through clothes.
Gizmodo UK tested the feature and found that it could only see electronic components inside devices in specific cases. It worked pretty well in showing what's inside an Apple TV, but it couldn't show what's inside most phones, laptops and mice. And, yes, it didn't make clothes see-through. Ben Geskin, who reported about the software update, also said that it didn't see through any of the clothes they tested.
I'm sad that they decided to do this… I think it gives a unique feature to OnePlus 8 Pro, and it didn't see through any of clothes I tested..
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OnePlus' statement continued that it has "always placed user privacy at the highest level." That's why, "in order to eliminate all possible inconveniences caused to user privacy under extreme conditions," it has "decided to temporarily disable this filter camera function through a software update." It will be done pushing the update to its users within a week.
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Anyone keen on a little Swift Campout? Maybe something super simple like Westerfolds S24O, or Kurth Kiln or something?
Yeah, it'll be the middle of winter, but it might be fun.
Go for it Pete, sign up the FOA contingent.
Probably my last weekend in Melb too.
Woddayareggon of Westerfolds? Kurth Kiln? Somewhere else close?
Talk to lil' Mik Efford.
his mate has a shack out near warrandyte that has been used on previous S24Os with the WNR crew. has campfire as well i believe.
Actually. Somewhere with a fire us important.
sleeping bag liner meeting. has someone told sime?
haha dayne so good. I wish, but Pete and Lauren love him too much!
If you're doing it on the actual weekend I'm out.
My Fiancée says we're going to a wedding that day - ours.
I'd be up for this for sure.
Yup. Just gotta pick a spot. That Warrandyte shack sounds good. Will knows the dude whose place it is.
i would like to come, dependent on fitness, subscribed.
NCXS Vic weekend… if it matters to anyone.
I'm going to try to get along to Abbotsford/Commuter this weekend and have a chat about racks/panniers/bags. Hoping to get some gear sorted for my gf's birthday on June 4, so I/we might be able to come along to this.
Was talking to a few about this during the week, and reckon we'll go to the Brisbane Ranges. Can ride from Werribee or wherever. Let's plan a ride here, but if you want to come and can't get on whatever we organise, come later/earlier. Just make sure you ride there, with your camping gear.
Sweet. Haven't ridden down that way. Count me in.


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Chobani's founder is launching a business mentorship program for LGBTQ refugees
Hilton, IBM, Under Armour, and Warby Parker are just a handful of the companies that have signed on to Tent's and the Human Rights Campaign's new initiative to help new arrivals integrate into the job market.
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Same-sex relationships are still criminalized in 69 countries—and punishable by death in nine. Faced with this persecution, many LGBTQ people have to leave their home nations without their families, and seek asylum elsewhere. Because they often arrive alone, uprooted, and sometimes suffering trauma, they can encounter unique barriers and discrimination as they try to build a new life far from home.
A nonprofit organization, Tent Partnership for Refugees, is launching a new program to help those refugees better integrate, using professional mentorships. Approximately 1,250 LGBTQ refugees will be matched with mentors from some of the world's biggest companies in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, to help them boost their professional profiles, find quality jobs, and flourish in their new home. Gaining employment, says Hamdi Ulukaya, Tent's founder, and also the founder and CEO of yogurt company, Chobani, is such a vital part of settling into a new country. "The minute a refugee has a job, that's the minute they stop being refugee," says Hamdi.
Tent, which announced the program in partnership with the Human Rights Campaign today at a virtual event, works with the business community to improve the lives of refugees forcibly removed from their homes. In 2016, as Trump ramped up his anti-immigrant rhetoric on the way toward winning the presidency, it became clear to many that the private sector had a growing role to play in alleviating the expanding refugee crisis. In June of that year, President Obama made an explicit call to action for the private sector to develop new tangible commitments to refugees—and Ulukaya responded to that call. Now, Tent works with 130 well-known companies in countries around the world to encourage them to hire refugee employees, support refugee entrepreneurs, and integrate refugee businesses into their supply chains.
But this is the first time Tent is implementing a mentorship program, and the LGBTQ community seemed to be an ideal fit for the style of project. Ulukaya, who immigrated to the U.S. from Turkey, says the immigrant journey is "unknown" and "frightening," and he wishes he'd had a mentor figure. "Having that access to someone just for sharing the experience, sharing the knowledge, showing the way, and being a buddy," he says, "is extremely, extremely meaningful." That's even truer, he says, for the most vulnerable communities, such as LGBTQ refugees.
To build the program, a network of local organizations in about 10 to 20 large cities across North America will match the refugees they work with to mentors within the registered companies that have signed up to volunteer. Mentors will not necessarily have to be LGBTQ, says Alphonso David, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ advocacy group in the U.S., which will be providing Tent with guidance and support for the new project. David himself was a refugee from Liberia, who later came out as gay once he arrived in the U.S.. "We're looking for people who are astute, who appreciate the value of diversity, and have the technical soft skills and the professional networks to help LGBTQ refugees succeed," he says.
Mentors will be asked to commit to meeting their mentees at least four times over the course of a year, for separate sessions in career planning, writing resumes and cover letters, interview skills, and networking. Mentors will be using a specially created guidebook, commissioned by the Organization for Refuge, Asylum, and Migration, on how best to advise mentees, but the sessions will still be tailored to the specific experiences of the refugee. The experience will also serve as a chance for mentors to learn about the stories of refugees and the de facto discrimination they face even in the countries they've arrived in. Ulukaya hopes it'll be a step toward society understanding that, despite the political rhetoric, refugees are entirely enriching to the community.
Tent wants companies to commit to help at least 50 LGBTQ mentees over the course of three years. So far, 23 companies from various sectors have signed up, including Chobani, Accenture, Hilton, Scotiabank, IBM, GlaxoSmithKline, Under Armour, and Warby Parker—and Ulukaya is confident that more signups are on the way. While the businesses won't be making hiring commitments at this point, Ulukaya hopes it will happen organically once the mentorships are in full swing. He adds that he thinks it'll be good for business, in that their volunteer work will attract consumers and jobseekers who are impressed with the progressive steps the companies are taking.
One of the companies, Canadian bank CIBC, internally spread the word of the upcoming launch, and has since had more than the required 50 potential mentors expressing interest. "As a gay South Asian immigrant to Canada," says Sam Kochhar, an associate for CIBC's Technology Leadership Advancement Program, "I have lived firsthand through the experience of starting from scratch and building my professional network, and understand the important role mentorship plays in career success."
Even as Tent is encouraged by the Biden administration's intention to significantly raise the refugee cap and restore a sense of compassion to plights of asylum-seekers, the private sector still needs to play a huge part, says Samantha Power, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. during Obama's first term, and who's also on Tent's advisory board. She emphasizes the importance of conducting the mentorships within the business realm, so that refugees can start to work and finally regain control over their lives. "What they want is what they had," she says. "They want to be able to fend for themselves and their families. The essence of retrieving your dignity is being able to work."
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South Carolina Public Safety Leader Scuttles Helicopter Idea
Agency decides to "focus on projects that have an immediate impact" instead …
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Two weeks after announcing the launch of a new aviation unit at his depleted agency, scandal-ravaged South Carolina Department of Public Safety (SCDPS) director Leroy Smith has apparently thought better of the idea.
Earlier this month, Smith announced that SCDPS would be taking possession of two Bell helicopters obtained from a military surplus program – using the aircraft to meet "certain challenges that are nearly impossible to meet on the ground."
The stated goal of this new unit was to create a "more expedient response time during critical situations, such as pursuits, hurricane evacuations, (S.C. State House) demonstrations, and traffic monitoring."
This week, Smith has decided that such a program probably isn't the best idea given the troubling shortages in the number of South Carolina Highway Patrol (SCHP) troopers on Palmetto State roadways – and the fact troopers are often shortchanged in terms of the equipment and vehicles they are provided.
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"We must constantly weigh all of the priorities of this multi-faceted agency," Smith (above) wrote in an email sent late Thursday to his agency. "It is a true balancing act between current needs and advancement and progress. In that vein, I want to share with you that we will not pursue the helicopters at this time."
According to the email, the aviation program "represents a long-term undertaking," and Smith has decided instead to "focus on projects that have an immediate impact."
Smith apologized to SCDPS personnel who had expressed an interest in participating in the new aviation program – saying he knew they would be "disappointed by this news."
Here is a look at the email …
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Who will not be disappointed by this news?
Taxpayers …
This news outlet opposed Smith's helicopter fantasy in no uncertain terms, referring to it as "madness."
"South Carolina already has multiple law enforcement helicopters at the state and local level capable of coordinating aerial emergency response efforts," we wrote, referring to the addition of two helicopters at SCDPS as "totally superfluous."
"We would encourage Smith to think long and hard before taking possession of these helicopters," we added. "Specifically, we would encourage him to think about the pressing need for additional troopers on our roadways and better equipment for the troopers who are currently serving."
It appears Smith has done just that …
We are reluctant to give anyone too much credit for belatedly acknowledging the foolhardiness of ill-conceived endeavors (it would have been better had they never initiated such endeavors in the first place), but we are hopeful this determination by Smith represents the beginning of a long-overdue recalibration of his colossally poor judgment in office.
As for credit, we extend that to groups like Troopers FED UP, who have been relentless in their efforts to hold SCDPS and its leadership accountable to the men and women who are putting their lives on the line each day to keep South Carolina's roadways safe.
This group stood tall against this boondoggle, and its efforts paid off …
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Adidas will open a new, state of the art footwear production site in Atlanta next year that will create around 160 new jobs.
The 74,000-square-facility, called SPEEDFACTORY, will complement Adidas' first SPEEDFACTORY in Germany and will allow the company to manufacture products in increasingly high volumes with advanced complexity in colour, materials and sizes.
Adidas Group Executive Board Member Eric Liedtke, responsible for Global Brands, said the new factory will greatly accelerate the manufacturing process and bring products closer to US consumers.
"For years our industry has been playing by the same rules manufacturing product remotely in Asia. As the creator brand that challenges convention and looks to co-create the future with our consumers, we are obsessed with bringing all steps of the creation process home to America," Mr Liedtke said.
"We're fuelling design at the ground level of creativity in Brooklyn and reinventing manufacturing with the first Adidas SPEEDFACTORY in Atlanta. This allows us to make product for the consumer, with the consumer, where the consumer lives in real time, unleashing unparalleled creativity and endless opportunities for customisation in America."
Adidas Group Executive Board Member Glenn Bennett, responsible for Global Operations, said the new facility will also allow the brand to source and produce locally, limiting long shipping distances and driving the brand's commitment to sustainability.
"Speed is far more than a business strategy for us. Speed is all around us. It's what athletes train for, and it's essential to our consumers who live in a world of immediacy," Mr Bennett added.
"With the first US-based SPEEDFACTORY, we're combining some of the world's best technology and manufacturing processes to give our consumers access to constant newness. This is another big step in our ambition to become the world's first true fast sports brand."
With the added manufacturing capacity, Adidas will be aiming to produce half a million pairs of shoes for running and other categories in the mid-term.
Both the US and Germany facilities are operated by Adidas' strategic partner Oechsler.
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Middleage släppte sitt debutalbum Different View 2007 med bland annat låtarna "Someone To Reach For", "Different View" och "Open Me" som spelades på svensk radio. Bandet spelade in en promotionmusikvideo till låten "Proof of Honesty" 2006.

Två av medlemmarna startade bandet Sherlock Brothers och lämnade Middleage.

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American Idol Alum Scott MacIntyre Undergoes Second Successful Kidney Transplant from Anonymous Living Donor
Posted on June 17, 2015 by Kris Patrick
Scott MacIntyre and his wife Christina announced today that the talented pianist and singer has undergone his second successful kidney transplant.
The surgery took place on June 4th at Vanderbilt hospital in Nashville, Tenn. The kidney was given by an anonymous living donor, one of several individuals who underwent compatibility testing. This particular person heard about MacIntyre's kidney failure on the radio and turned out to be a great match. Upon being released from the hospital, MacIntyre will require a six-week recovery period before returning to his music career.
Scott's surgeon comments, "We are delighted that Scott is doing so well with his new kidney and can get back to what he loves doing, singing. I know that Scott, his wife, family, fans, and the entire Vanderbilt transplant team are grateful to his wonderful donor who gave him the gift of life."
In September 2014, just three days before his latest album Lighthouse was released, MacIntyre was put back on the waiting list for a deceased donor kidney. The wait-time for a deceased donor kidney is typically three to five years, a wait that would have severely hindered his music career, but because a compatible living donor was found, MacIntyre's surgery was able to take place much sooner.
"I'm so grateful to have received the gift of life through organ donation for the second time," MacIntyre says. "I am truly humbled that a stranger would give of themselves to me in this way, and I want to thank every person who offered to be tested as a potential donor for me. My wife and I have truly been blessed beyond measure by all the loving kindness shown by fans, friends, family, and the incredible team at Vanderbilt, and we are excited to begin a new chapter of life. This experience has deepened my faith and I'm so grateful that God has answered yes to so many of my prayers concerning this transplant."
MacIntyre's first kidney transplant was in 2007 at the age of 22, one year before he auditioned for American Idol, an experience he writes about in his autobiographical book By Faith, Not By Sight.
The dedicated recording artist and songwriter has remained active promoting the awareness of organ donation through concerts and speeches for many organizations, including Donate Life America and the National Kidney Foundation. MacIntyre's song, "I Am Hope," has become a well-known anthem for the organ donation community and is included on his Lighthouse album.
MacIntyre launched a witty and thought-provoking iTunes podcast June 1st, with music producer Mark Dowdy. The show, 2 Blind Men, features the duo interviewing inspirational guests from all walks of life who are making a positive difference in the world. The podcast aired 3 episodes this month and will release a new episode the first Monday of each successive month, beginning July 6th.
MacIntyre will resume his tour schedule later this summer. For continued career and health updates please visit online at www.scottmacintyre.com, www.facebook.com/ScottMacOfficial, and www.twitter.com/ScottDMacIntyre.
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Bless me internets for I have sinned. It's been almost six months since my last post. I had a baby. But I'm back now.
"I-I'm a huntin, looking for a tumor, I am f*cking awesome." Ha! Love it.
The university, however, doesn't love it, and it's being called a potential "public relations disaster" by the Gainesville Sun.
It also might be taken down.
What a shame. These people clearly like their jobs and have maintained their senses of humour despite spending their days hunting for diseases. The university should be proud.