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"The club must be self-sufficient"
Robert Lewis, the newly appointed co-president of Cesena FC, met the press for the first time after the seal of the deal in the early afternoon. These were his first words as a Bianconero: "I am not Italian-American, but I adopted this country 37 years ago when I met my wife: I know the area, where I have been comfortable for a long time, and when John first presented me the opportunity to acquire a team in this area, close to home, it was a dream come true. Here I met terrific people who I immediately felt a connection with: Cesena FC is a high-quality club, with Serie-A-level structures, and above all financially sound, which is rare in football. We are very happy to work with such wonderful people: we will contribute with our ideas, trying to combine the American sport culture with the Italian one, and I believe that together we will be stronger".
Lewis then focused on the reasons that led him and John Aiello to join the football world and, especially, Cesena FC: "We are not here to make profit or take advantage: we want to carry out a project. We are both passionate about football, but it is also very important that there is a financial balance: it is essential for the club to be self-sufficient".
Finally, he spoke about the youth sector and about the aim to broaden the Cavalluccio's horizons: "We have already made contact with fellow Americans interested in helping us achieve our goals in this new adventure. The youth sector? I have first-hand experience with Milan AC, due to my past collaboration in organising camps in New York City, and I am determined to bring this type of experience here too. You will see that we regard the youth academy very highly".
William Viali's press conference (VIDEO)
"Restarting with the mindset we had in the first round"
Just over a week since the championship restarted, coach William Viali met the press this morning. After giving the latest updates on the trainings, still conditioned by Covid-19 protocols and outbreaks, he stated: "These days, I'm missing not being able to hang out in the dressing rooms: the boys leave immediately to go home and take a shower, and this has affected our routine. On the other hand, it is weird to train with the next match scheduled so distant but, having said that, it has been going smoothly and well-paced. In addition, this long stop allowed some of the players with physical problems to fully recover". Mister Viali did not hide the desire to "restart playing as we did in the first round, perhaps adding some strength to our performance now, as the next matches will be more on the defense and more complicated. Would I sign to get to 39 points in the second half of the season too? Our mindset remains to bring home as much as we can but, if a goal is to be set, then it is only fair now it to be practical and reachable: today it is to stay in the third place and it won't be easy because the other teams have good players, set to win. If this drive to defend our spot makes us go strong enough to challenge the teams ahead of us, then we will be able to think of raising the bar."
Three matches await the Bianconeri at the Orogel Stadium
Dopo il ritorno in campo con la Viterbese di sabato 22 gennaio arriveranno la gara con Olbia e il recupero con la Lucchese di mercoledì 2 febbraio


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The Heart of Money: Wealth Drain for Single Women - What to Do?
by Paul Sutherland
A recent report from Asset Funder Network found that single women ages 45 to 65 lost 36 percent of their wealth between 1995 and 2016, with a 28 percent drop for single white women and a 74 percent drop for single black women from 2007 to 2016. Ouch! What's a single woman to do? Paul Sutherland: Many years ago, I was asked to write a book to help women with financial literacy, titled Bag Lady University. This was because I have spoken at many women-only retreats about personal economics and investing—and I have thought a lot about the subject. The book never got off the ground, at least with me at the helm, because I finally said to the woman editor who pitched the idea to me, "I think a man writing this is going to be off-putting." Forgive me in advance. Over my career I have seen issues that create financial hardships for women—issues that seem less acute when they are part of men's lives. I am not going to get into the causes, nor am I going to allow myself to endorse those who wish to blame mothers, fathers, men, women, society, corporations, governments, or old-boy networks for …
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Paul Sutherland resides in Michigan with his four youngest kids, ages 5 to 10. He and his wife, Amy, try to be an example of Parenting for a Peaceful world, in which democracy begins at home.
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Jimmy Carr: Terribly Funny 2.0
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Famed for his award-winning stand-up and TV presenting roles, comedian Jimmy Carr celebrates an illustrious career spanning more than two decades.
Star of the UK's most streamed Netflix comedy special of 2021, Jimmy Carr is back on the road with brand new material for 2022 and 2023.
Jimmy's show contains jokes about all kinds of terrible things.
Terrible things that might have affected you or people you know and love.
But they're just jokes – they are not the terrible things.
Having political correctness at a comedy show is like having health and safety at a rodeo.
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Quick Answer: Who Created The 5 Day Work Week?
Where did the 5 day work week come from?
Why was the 40 hour work week established?
Did Ford invent the weekend?
What country has a 3 day work week?
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Who is the God of Wednesday?
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In 1908, the first five-day workweek in the United States was instituted by a New England cotton mill so that Jewish workers would not have to work on the Sabbath from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday.
In 1926, Henry Ford began shutting down his automotive factories for all of Saturday and Sunday..
The Ford Motor Company advanced the idea in 1914, when it scaled back from a 48-hour to a 40-hour workweek after founder Henry Ford believed that too many hours were bad for workers' productivity.
Henry Ford, the legendary car maker, made Saturday and Sunday days off for his staff as early as 1926 and he was also keen to set down a 40-hour working week.
FinlandFinland has been at the forefront of flexible work schedules for years, starting with a 1996 law that gives most employees the right to adjust their hours up to three hours earlier or later than what their employer typically requires.
Forget the 9 to 5 — research suggests there's a case for the 3-hour workday. The average worker spends most of the eight-hour workday doing many other things beside work, including eating, socializing, or reading the news. Psychologists have found the brain can't focus on tasks for more than a few hours at a time.
MexicoThe hardest working country of all? Contrary to what Jeremy Clarkson would have you believe, it's Mexico. The average citizen of the Central American country works 2,255 hours a year, or a little over 43 hours a week.
god WodenWednesday is named for the god Woden, who is paralleled with the Roman god Mercury, probably because both gods shared attributes of eloquence, the ability to travel, and the guardianship of the dead.
The labour movement in Canada tracked progress in the US and UK. In 1890, the Federation of Labour took up this issue, hoping to organise participation in May Day. In the 1960s, Canada adopted the 40-hour work week.
BabyloniansAnswer: The Babylonians named the days after the five planetary bodies known to them (Tuesday through Saturday) and after the Sun and Moon (Sunday and Monday). This custom was later adopted by the Romans.
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262 working daysThere are a total of 262 working days in the 2020 calendar year.
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Robert OwenThe eight-hour workday started its life as a socialist dream. The Welsh textile mill owner and social reformer Robert Owen is credited as the first person to articulate it, by calling for "eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, and eight hours rest" for workers in the early 19th century.
January 5, 1914On January 5, 1914, Henry Ford and his vice president James Couzens stunned the world when they revealed that Ford Motor Company would double its workers' wages to five dollars a day.
In January 1914, Henry Ford started paying his auto workers a remarkable $5 a day. Doubling the average wage helped ensure a stable workforce and likely boosted sales since the workers could now afford to buy the cars they were making. It laid the foundation for an economy driven by consumer demand.
In 1903, he borrowed $28,000 to establish the Ford Motor Company. The early cars produced by this firm generated enough profit to make Ford wealthy, and to give him time to take on a more long-range project: the Model T.
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Life during World War Two
May 20, 2020 May 20, 2020 Josh PotterRosemary's Corner
What follows is a short story from Rosemary's past. After talking with her, I have taken our discussion and turned it into a series of small stories highlighting the incredible life that she has led. Direct quotes from our discussion are highlighted in quotation marks. All else is a retelling written by yours truly.
When World War Two began, Rosemary was just a child. She had no idea what it meant, nor any scale of its impact. For Rosemary, the war meant suddenly diving under their great big dining room table at seemingly random times during the day. Her family didn't have a bomb shelter to rush off to and they weren't anywhere close to the main targets so a big, heavy dining room table was good enough.
Truth be told, Rosemary thought it was quite fun, a change from the normalcy of life. And she much preferred it to the drills done at school. Some of her worst memories of the war had little to do with the fighting or the death. They came from the gas masks she had to practice putting on each day at school.
"I never really enjoyed school but it was ok. And then the war started and I do remember having to try on our gas masks. It was terrible. They are really frightening."
Gas masks look bad at the best of times and when you are a young child the bulging, lifeless eyes and the strange protruding snout of the mask can be a truly terrifying experience. And it only gets amplified when you look around and see all your friends wearing these strange contraptions, marching towards the shelter with the sirens blaring.
Speaking of which, alongside the gas masks that distorted the human face came the screams of the sirens as they erupted from the silence each day, signalling the beginning of the drills. Upon hearing them, each student would don their mask and make their way towards the shelter, not knowing if it was real this time or just a drill. They always had to practice as if the threat was real, and this meant constant fear.
"They were horrible sounds and I'm sure many people had nightmares later on after the war finished hearing these whining noises. It was eery. And of course it meant real fear for some people and dread, not knowing whether they would lose their lives or homes or loved ones."
Then there were the hordes of children who were sent from the cities to the countryside when the war got really bad. At the beginning of the war things were tense in Britain but the country had yet to feel really threatened at home. But as the war escalated and Britain's involvement increased that all changed. Rosemary was too far from London to experience the bombs dropping, but she did see the response from many parents as they sent their children to live with different families in the relative safety of the countryside.
"They were mostly younger children. You can imagine train loads of these [children]. And they'd feel like orphans because they were being sent away from their parents – their homes – to complete strangers. Some of them really had a hard time. Some of them loved it. It depends on which family they had. But it must have been very hard for the parents and the children."
The war was a strange time for Rosemary (we'll continue with the war next week too). It was a time of great intensity, but also a fair bit of naivety too. As a child, Rosemary couldn't fathom what was going on. She didn't lose anybody directly; her family were farmers and so weren't sent to war. Instead they simply continued with life on the farm more or less as normal. Her dad had to occasionally head out to the highest point on the farm so see if he could see any trouble. But that was it as far as Rosemary was concerned.
"As a child you just make life."
It's true. As a child, Rosemary was more concerned with having fun and exploring and learning than she was with war and death and violence. Later in life she learned more about the war and began to reflect more, realising its intensity and understanding what really went on. But as a child it wasn't like that. She just got on with her life, far more interested in life on the farm than what was happening in a place she didn't know and couldn't possibly fathom.
Stay tuned for more stories from the life of Rosemary. Please note: these stories will not necessarily hold any chronological grounding. I chose to begin with the journey to Sicily because travelling played a major part in the life of Rosemary. There are also more stories from Sicily which might crop up. But these stories are designed as snippets of understanding into the life of Rosemary and while some will hold chronology, others may not.
Photo Credits: The image in the logo is provided by Museums Victoria, an Australian organisation dedicated to learning and cultural understanding. The photo features Nell Duncanson and Isabel Plante wearing gas masks during WWII. For more information on the organisation, click here.
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Tanmay Chopra
Tanmay Chopra works in machine learning at AI search startup Neeva, where he wrangles language models large and small. Previously, he oversaw the development of ML systems globally to counter violence and extremism on TikTok.
Last summer could only be described as an "AI summer," especially with large language models making an explosive entrance. We saw huge neural networks trained on a massive corpora of data that can accomplish exceedingly impressive tasks, none more famous than OpenAI's GPT-3 and its newer, hyped offspring, ChatGPT.
Companies of all shapes and sizes across industries are rushing to figure out how to incorporate and extract value from this new technology. But OpenAI's business model has been no less transformative than its contributions to natural language processing. Unlike almost every previous release of a flagship model, this one does not come with open-source pretrained weights — that is, machine learning teams cannot simply download the models and fine-tune them for their own use cases.
Instead, they must either pay to use them as-is, or pay to fine-tune the models and then pay four times the as-is usage rate to employ it. Of course, companies can still choose other peer open-sourced models.
This has given rise to an age-old corporate — but entirely new to ML — question: Would it be better to buy or build this technology?
It's important to note that there is no one-size-fits-all answer to this question; I'm not trying to provide a catch-all answer. I mean to highlight pros and cons of both routes and offer a framework that might help companies evaluate what works for them while also providing some middle paths that attempt to include components of both worlds.
Buying: Fast, but with clear pitfalls
While building looks attractive in the long run, it requires leadership with a strong appetite for risk, as well as deep coffers to back said appetite.
Let's start with buying. There are a whole host of model-as-a-service providers that offer custom models as APIs, charging per request. This approach is fast, reliable and requires little to no upfront capital expenditure. Effectively, this approach de-risks machine learning projects, especially for companies entering the domain, and requires limited in-house expertise beyond software engineers.
Projects can be kicked off without requiring experienced machine learning personnel, and the model outcomes can be reasonably predictable, given that the ML component is being purchased with a set of guarantees around the output.
Unfortunately, this approach comes with very clear pitfalls, primary among which is limited product defensibility. If you're buying a model anyone can purchase and integrate it into your systems, it's not too far-fetched to assume your competitors can achieve product parity just as quickly and reliably. That will be true unless you can create an upstream moat through non-replicable data-gathering techniques or a downstream moat through integrations.
What's more, for high-throughput solutions, this approach can prove exceedingly expensive at scale. For context, OpenAI's DaVinci costs $0.02 per thousand tokens. Conservatively assuming 250 tokens per request and similar-sized responses, you're paying $0.01 per request. For a product with 100,000 requests per day, you'd pay more than $300,000 a year. Obviously, text-heavy applications (attempting to generate an article or engage in chat) would lead to even higher costs.
You must also account for the limited flexibility tied to this approach: You either use models as-is or pay significantly more to fine-tune them. It is worth remembering that the latter approach would involve an unspoken "lock-in" period with the provider, as fine-tuned models will be held in their digital custody, not yours.
Building: Flexible and defensible, but expensive and risky
On the other hand, building your own tech allows you to circumvent some of these challenges.
When it comes to large language models, should you build or buy? by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch
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Generation of basalt and the effect of carbon-bearing fluids on partial melting of peridotite and eclogite: from trace elements in olivine to petrological experiments
posted on 2022-03-28, 02:40 authored by Zairong Liu
Primitive basalts are the main rock samples to probe mantle heterogeneity and understand the process of partial melting of the mantle. In comparison to the well-known Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts and Ocean Island Basalts, the generation of Intra-plate continent basalts is still controversial. In this study, I followed two approaches to understand the genesis of these basalts: (i) a study of intra-plate basalts from southeastern Australia, through trace element analyses of olivine in combination with whole-rock compositions, (ii) an experimental study focused on the effect of fluid compositions under different oxygen fugacity conditions on the partial melting of Iherzolite and eclogite. For the study of natural samples, I collected Cenozoic primitive basalts from various locations in New South Wales, Australia. Two locations (Dubbo and Bingara/Inverell (Central) are close to a major step in thickness of the lithosphere, while two other localities lie close to small areas of anomalously thicker lithosphere (Ebor and Barrington). In addition, I used samples from Buckland in Queensland as a complement which lies in another province but also close to this lithosphere edge. Based on a correlation between Mn/Fe and Ni/Mg ratios and concentrations of Ni, Ca, TI, Zn and Li in olivine, and whole rock compositions, tholelite from Dubbo was found to originate from a plume-type pyroxenite source which had experienced a low degree of carbonatitic metasomatism. Similarly, the alkali basalt from Dubbo and Ebor also comes from a pyroxenite-associated source. Basanite from Bingara/Inverell (Central) has experienced the highest degree of carbonatitic metasomatism in the source and the basanite from Barrington comes from a source formed by metasomatism of peridotite reacted with carbonate melt. Alkali basalt and basanite from Buckland have a similar source to Barrington, Partial melting experiments were conducted on eclogite and herzolite at conditions of 2 GPa and 6 GPa, 900-1500 °C. Starting compositions contained 5 wt.% H2O for oxidizing conditions and 5wt.% H2O and CH4 for reducing conditions. Based on the mineral and melt phases and solidus temperature obtained from the experiments, it turns out that under reducing conditions, both the solidi of eclogite and herzolite with C-O-H fluids are subparallel to the anhydrous solidi and higher than those under oxidizing conditions. The mineralogy of eclogite and lherzolite residues depends on fog. At 2 GPa partial melting of therzolite with 5% HO forms a basaltic melt while partial melting of therzolite with 5% CO-H fluids forms a basaltic andesite melt. In contrast, the melt from partial melting of eclogite with 5% H20 varies from basalt, through basaltic andesite to andesite with increasing temperature. The generation depth of Cenozoic basalts from southeastern Australia is close to the conditions of my experiments. The experiments showed that at this pressure and temperature range, hydrous metasomatism of eclogite does not lead to the formation of intra-plate basalts, whereas it is possible to form intra-plate basalts by partial melting of hydrated (> 1,000 ppm H,0) peridotite. The Cenozoic basalts from Southeastern Australia were not formed through this latter mechanism, but were generated by partial melting of a pyroxenitic or plume-associated pyroxenitic source metasomatized by carbonatitic melts.
Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Identification of the source assemblages of basaltic rocks in southeastern Australia using trace elements in olivine -- Chapter 3 The effect of C-O-H fluids on partial melting of eclogite and lherzolite under moderately oxidizing and reducing conditions -- Chapter 4 Summary and Conclusions -- Chapter 5 References
Includes bibliographic references Theoretical thesis.
PhD, Macquarie University, Faculty of Science and Engineering , Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
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Stephen Foley
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What I find fascinating here is that Augustine is describing the pursuit of happiness as the pursuit of a memory. It's a state of being we are trying to get back to. A state we are rarely at but always long for. A place we remember.
Can we say that all of life's pursuits are in search of a memory? Since how could we pursue something we have no knowledge or experience (memory) of? Are we always trying to regain the bit of paradise, joy, happiness we once experienced? And once we attain it, seek it again and again?


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Thornbury Choral Society hold an annual workshop, practising and performing a major choral work in a day, usually in February. This workshop gives local singers an opportunity to get practice with a large choir under conductor Steven Kings' expert guidance and to introduce potential new members to the workings of the choir. It also raises funds to pay for the performance of works requiring larger forces. In addition, there is usually a retiring collection for a charity.
For further information, please contact Tessa Sullivan, our workshop organiser, by email at workshop@thornburychoralsociety.org.uk.
This was Dvorak's Stabat Mater on 23 February.
This was Mendelssohn's St Paul oratorio on 24 February. At the end of the performance a collection was taken for Avon and Somerset Search and Rescue.
This was Puccini's Messa Di Gloria on 25 February. At the end of the performance a collection was taken for the Thornbury Stroke Support Group.
This was Haydn's Creation on 20 February. At the end of the performance a collection was taken for the Bristol Pulmonary Fibrosis Support Group.
The 2015 Workshop took place on Saturday 21 February 2015 at Thornbury Baptist Church. The Workshop studied the colourful and exciting Requiem by Giuseppi Verdi and was led by Steven Kings, Thornbury Choral Society's regular conductor, and accompanied by Robin Baggs, their regular accompanist. Thornbury based charity Hammer Out (for those suffering from brain tumours) was the Workshop Charity beneficiary.
The 2014 workshop was on Saturday 22 February 2014 at Thornbury Baptist Church where the assembled singers studied Felix Mendelssohn's exciting oratorio Elijah under the tuition of the Society's regular conductor Steven Kings. Accompaniment was by our regular accompanist Robin Baggs, recently returning safely from Kiev!
Elijah was rehearsed in the morning and afternoon from 10.30am with lunch and tea breaks and an open informal performance by the workshop choir was given at 4.00pm to which the public were invited. A retiring collection for the Meningitis Research Foundation raised £456.90.
We were joined by soloists Angharad Watkeys (soprano), Anna Feather (soprano) and Dan Robson (bass).


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Costamare's Bond Issue Shows That Financing Can Be Found, but Scale is Ever More Important Today.
With financing being harder to raise, ship owners are actively looking at alternative sources of capital raising. Costamare did so by raising 100 million euros in unsecured bonds through the Athens Stock Exchange. But this isn't a "one size fits all" solution. Quite the opposite.
In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Intermodal said that "just a few days ago we witnessed the listing of the first corporate bond in the Athens Stock Exchange by a non-coastal shipping company, namely Costamare Participations Plc. This was good news for both the NYSE listed shipping company and the Greek stock exchange. The former successfully rose €100m in unsecured bonds at a significantly competitive pricing, whilst the latter has proven that it has the depth and volume required for shipping companies, which are now offered a new alternative of fund raising; in other words, a new door has opened for other shipping players to follow suit".
"However, this is not a fit for all finance tools. This is a very complex procedure that can take many months, if not years, to complete. It took Costamare years to complete regardless of already being a NYSE listed company, partly because market conditions were not favorable when a smaller bond was sought after 4 years ago. Regardless of the complexity and the tremendous effort, the point that we need to keep is that a large, well-established, and structured company not only can find new ways of financing itself, but also create them. Scale has always been important; however, it now seems to be more important than ever. With banks and financial institutions now focusing on corporate structured, sizeable, ''ESG compliant'' clients and full recourse deals, scale seems to be the only way out. But how can this be achieved?", wondered Intermodal's Deputy CEO, Mr. George Laios.
According to Mr. Laios, "consolidation, M&As, joint ventures, strategic alliances and pool arrangements are the most obvious methods that an owner could consider in order to attract capital and ''grow''. The consolidation trend will come at the forefront in the next years, considering that 45% of the Greek owned fleet in number of vessels is controlled by 50 companies, while approx. 15.0% of the fleet is fragmented under more than 450 companies that own up to 4 vessels each. M&As are considered the most direct and quick way to scale up. In addition, compared to plain vessels' purchases they also offer a brand value, not just some additional tonnage. The current market fundamentals (e.g. increased valuations) also favour M&A transactions. However, again, this is not a walk in the park process. Thorough Due Diligence, terms negotiation and documentation preparation are just a few of the challenges that the relevant parties have to go through".
He added that "joint Ventures are a milder way for two parties to join forces. Most often, they are set up for a specific purpose while there are also pre agreed exit procedures. JVs are becoming more and more popular and are in effect a real life test for two parties to examine if they get along and maybe join forces/merge in the future. If, however, neither M&As nor JVs are preferable for a ship-owner, then maybe a strategic alliance or a pool participation may do part of the scale-up work. There are already alliances formed to serve numerous needs such as consumables' supply and insurance coverage, whilst there is a significant number of vessels' chartering pools".
Intermodal's Deputy CEO added that "all of the above-mentioned tools have a common denominator: Let's join forces and grow up together. There are hundreds of small shipping companies that could team-up with a peer and get the benefits of collaboration and larger scale. Financing terms and pricing is one of the most obvious benefits. Raising funds for small owners becomes harder and harder nowadays and whilst alternative lenders have the capacity and the appetite to lend (together with the required flexibility), their internal return hurdles/targets make them significantly more expensive than traditional lenders. In other words, they cannot be a long-term solution, especially when their (larger) peers borrow at significantly lower pricings. However, financing is not the only front that scale is required. There are several other equal important challenges that a modern shipping company faces, such as vessels' technology, ESG and hefty regulations. Shipping companies, let alone small ones, do not have the luxury of being left behind. Scale, team-up and knowledge sharing seems to be the only and most efficient way forward", Laios concluded.
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President Obama said "true economic recovery" will only come from the private sector.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President Obama called on business leaders Thursday to help the administration kickstart hiring as policymakers contend with rising unemployment that's weighing down the economy.
Some 130 executives, economists, small business owners and nonprofit officials gathered for the afternoon jobs summit at the White House on the eve of the government's November unemployment report. The nation is expected to have lost another 114,000 jobs, with unemployment remaining at 10.2%, the highest in 26 years, according to an economists' survey.
"While I believe that government has a critical role in creating the conditions for economic growth, ultimately true economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector," Obama said. "We don't have enough public dollars to fill the hole of private dollars that was created as a consequence of the crisis."
The employment picture is certainly grim. Nearly 16 million Americans are out of work, one-third of whom have been unemployed for more than six months. There are now six workers competing for every job vacancy.
Obama and lawmakers are searching for a way to stem this unrelenting job loss, which is casting doubt on the effectiveness of many of his economic programs, from his $787 billion stimulus plan to his $75 billion foreclosure prevention initiative.
Ideas for spurring job creation abound. They range from giving businesses tax credits for hiring workers to pumping millions into state and local economies. One of the top priorities is extending unemployment benefits.
The president said he would speak next week about several ideas that have already surfaced.
"I'm not interested in taking a wait and see approach when it comes to creating jobs," Obama said. "I want to take any reasonable step to accelerate job creation."
What was discussed
The guest list on Thursday included CEOs from top companies in a variety of sectors, including American Airlines' Gerard Arpey, Google's Eric Schmidt, Xerox's Ursula Burns and AT&T's Randall Stephenson. Also invited were Teamsters leader James Hoffa, Allentown, Pa., Mayor Ed Pawlowski, former Fed vice chairman Alan Blinder and Harvard economist Lawrence Katz.
The guests also include small business owners, academics and non-profit leaders.
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After the president's speech, participants broke into roundtable discussions on green jobs, small business employment, infrastructure and exports. Also, breakout groups looked at ways to encourage business competitiveness and to better prepare workers for the economy of the future.
The sessions were led by top administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Council of Economic Advisers Chairwoman Christina Romer, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
Among the issues that emerged were the lack of credit available to small businesses. Banks are hesitant to extend credit because these loans often look risky to regulators, Google's Schmidt told CNNMoney after the forum. The government can reinvigorate lending with a few small changes to the regulations, he said.
"The number 1 priority is to get banks lending to small businesses because small businesses create the majority of jobs in the United States," Schmidt said.
Also discussed was the uncertainty plaguing businesses because of legislative and regulatory changes being discussed in Washington, D.C.
"One of the overriding thoughts in our forum was that there's uncertainty that there's such an aggressive legislative agenda that businesspeople don't really know what they ought to do," Fred Lampropoulos, chief executive of Merit Medical, said during the closing session.
"In fact, one CEO said that he thought he has to kind of wait and may have to restructure his business - this is a large multinational pharma company - and that uncertainty is really what's holding back the jobs," Lampropoulos said.
Though many issues were discussed Thursday, just how much Washington can do to boost hiring remains to be seen. The administration and Congress are tied up with health care reform and foreign policy issues. And their ability to institute new programs will be hampered by the nation's record budget deficit.
Also, the president faces stiff opposition from Congressional Republicans. They continuously point to the rising unemployment rate as a sign that Obama's economic policies have failed.
At an alternate jobs forum held Thursday, Republican leaders and right-wing economists decried the administration's stimulus package, health reform efforts and other measures as "job killers."
"The single best jobs action that President Obama could take would be to reverse course on a dangerous agenda of debt-financed spending, crippling regulation, expensive mandates, and intrusive government expansion," said Doug Holtz-Eakin, who advised Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on economic issues during his presidential run last year.
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(26 June 203) Today, the United States Supreme Court issued two important rulings related to same-sex marriage: Windsor v. United States and Hollingsworth v. Perry. OutRight Action International celebrates these rulings for affirming the equality of same-sex marriages and more broadly the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people to full equality before the law.
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Jessica Stern, Executive Director, OutRight Action International comments:
All couples that so desire, LGBT or straight, should be entitled equally to the concrete benefits and the cultural validation of marriage. Those couples that want to marry, whose lives have been held in limbo while awaiting these decisions, have suffered enough. Quite simply, on this historic day, we rejoice.
When we talk about liberation of LGBT people and our allies, in the U.S. or anywhere else in the world, we must think in terms that are both basic and ambitious. No one should be arbitrarily arrested, subjected to violence, fired from a job, expelled from school, refused housing or be exiled for who they are or who they love. Everyone should enjoy the right to speak publicly and assemble with others, be it at a Pride celebration, queering a space, or simply having a conversation with friends about their vision of equality for themselves and their community.
Yesterday,OutRight Action International mourned two other U.S. Supreme Court decisions that treated discrimination itself unequally. The court struck down a key part of the law designed to prevent racist bias in the voting system. Likewise, OutRight Action International mourned the court's decision to undermine a U.S. federal law devised to keep Native American families together.
OutRight Action International embraces the universality and indivisibility of human rights. We therefore call upon the U.S. government to guarantee full and equal treatment for LGBT and straight relationships under the law, but we also call for the full and equal access of all people to enfranchisement, to family life and to self-determination.
Around the world, the response to Windsor and Hollingsworth is likely to be varied, and the decisions are bound to be perceived in broad terms.
In countries where discrimination against LGBT people is high, the decisions are likely to be used dangerously against LGBT individuals, organizations and human rights defenders. The notion of "gay marriage" has been used to discredit local LGBT rights movements by accusing them of being Westernized and alleging that LGBT rights, tradition and culture are contradictory. Over the last decade, allegations of "gay marriage agendas" and/or "gay weddings" have been used to crack down on social gatherings attended by LGBT people and to crack down on free speech, assembly, and access to life-saving information on HIV/AIDS.
Conversely, in countries and regions where LGBT partnerships are recognized, the U.S. Supreme Court decisions may be seen as part of a growing momentum.
Damian Ugwu, Coordinator for OutRight Action International's Regional Program in Africa, comments:
Today's Supreme Court ruling in the U.S. may not have direct impact on the lives of LGBTI people within Africa, but it will no doubt further ignite debates on same-sex marriage within the continent. I am concerned that religious fundamentalists and their political allies will move quickly to enact laws that will make it nearly impossible for such court rulings to happen within their countries.
Grace Poore, Coordinator for OutRight Action International's Regional Program in Asia, comments:
Advances in marriage equality in the U.S. may have little relevance for LGBT people in Asia. In countries where homosexuality is criminalized; where laws related to public order, public morality, public decency are used to target LGBT people; and where anti-trafficking and anti-kidnapping laws are misused against lesbians and transmen who elope with their girlfriends, recognizing the rights of LGBT people to marry does not prevent such violations. Marriage "equality" is not a common goal in a region where LGBT people routinely face layers of discrimination.
Maria Gomez, Coordinator for OutRight Action International's Regional Program in Latin America and the Caribbean, comments:
In the context of advancing same-sex marriage in Latin America and the Caribbean the U.S. Supreme Court decision may impact legal strategies both for and against same-sex marriages in the region. At a minimum it will be a source of legal debate for the meaning and notion of equality in those countries that have gained rights through the courts. Importantly, LGBT rights are also progressing at a political level in countries like Argentina and Uruguay, offering models of good practices for other countries in the Americas including the United States.
Hossein Alizadeh, Coordinator for OutRight Action International's Regional Program in the Middle East and North Africa, comments:
The LGBT community and allies, as well as homophobic forces, to their advantage, will likely use the complex U.S. Supreme Court's decision on marriage equality. While the LGBT community will claim this as a victory in the global fight for LGBT rights, opponents will argue that gay rights are being pushed on them, and that there are many 'God fearing and family-oriented' individuals in the West who are dead set against these "aberrations."
Hollingsworth et al v. Perry et al
In 2008, California passed the "California Marriage Protection Act," commonly known as "Prop 8," which declared, "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." When lower federal courts held that Prop 8 violated the U.S. Constitution, proponents of Prop 8, a group of private citizens trying to define marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman, brought the case to the Supreme Court to appeal the lower court decision. Today, the Supreme Court held that those Prop 8 proponents did not have the right to appeal the lower court decision stating, "We have never before upheld the standing of a private party to defend the constitutionality of a state statute when state officials have chosen not to. We decline to do so for the first time here."
In practical terms: same-sex couples will have the legal right to marry in the state of California as they had prior to Prop 8.
United States v. Windsor, Executor of the Estate of Spyer, et al.
In 2009, Edith Windsor was denied access to the spousal exemption of the federal estate tax because her spouse was a woman, resulting in her having to pay $363,053. Windsor challenged Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines "marriage" and "spouse" as being between members of "opposite sex." Today, the Supreme Court held that limiting the definition to between a man and woman, "interfere[s] with the equal dignity of same sex marriages."
In practical terms: couples legally married in states that recognize same-sex marriages can no longer be denied the 1100-plus marital benefits and obligations afforded by the federal government.
Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, Attorney General, et al
According to The Atlantic, this law was invoked more than 700 times from 1982-2006 to block racist discrimination. The right to vote — for people of color, transgender, homeless, immigrants, and all of us — is fundamental to good governance, democracy, the rule of law, and human rights.
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, No. 12-399
According to Colorlines, commenting on the Voting Rights Act, "The act was created because of incredibly high rates of white parents adopting Native children…those adoptions sever ties to Native tribes and communities, endangering the very existence of these tribes and nations."
Where Same-Sex Marriage is Legal
From http://wockner.blogspot.com/2013_06_01_archive.html
Same-sex marriage is legal in the Netherlands (2001), Belgium (2003), Canada (2005), Spain (2005), South Africa (2006), Norway (2009), Sweden (2009), Argentina (2010), Iceland (2010), Portugal (2010), Denmark (2012), France (2013), Brazil (2013), Uruguay (starting Aug. 3) and New Zealand (starting in August). It also is legal on the Caribbean island of Saba, a municipality of the Netherlands (2012).
In Mexico, same-sex marriage is available in the Federal District (Mexico City) and in the states of Oaxaca and Quintana Roo. The marriages are recognized nationwide by Supreme Court order. Mexico has 31 states.
In the United States, same-sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts (2004), Connecticut (2008), Vermont (2009), Iowa (2009), New Hampshire (2010), Washington, D.C. (2010), New York (2011), Maine (2012), Maryland (2012), Washington (2012), Rhode Island (starting Aug. 1), Delaware (starting July 1) Minnesota (starting Aug. 1) and California (2008, for four months only, then again in 2013, for good this time, likely starting in July or August). The U.S. has 50 states.
It also is legal within the Coquille Indian tribe in Oregon (2009), within the Suquamish Indian tribe in Washington state (2011), and within the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in Michigan (2013).
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Chicken satay are one of my favourite appertizers in Asian cuisine. Chicken satay originates from Indonesia and it's not even a Chinese food. However it's very popular in Chinese takeaways and you can see chicken satay on almost every Chinese takeaway menu in the UK.
I use Chinese white sesame paste as one of the main ingredients to marinade chicken satay but you can also replace it with tahini sauce or even smooth peanut butter (please note, use smooth peanut butter and not the type that contains chunks of peanuts).
I also use Chinese barbeque sauce (Shacha BBQ sauce 沙茶醬) for marinade. This Chinese barbeque sauce is a famous condiment or paste in South East China and also Taiwan. It is made from soybean oil, garlic, shallots, chilis, brill fish and dried shrimp. It taste savory, spicy and pungent.
Chinese and Taiwanese people usually use this sauce as a dipping sauce for hot pots as well as a rub for barbequed meats, seasoning for soups with and without noodles and also stir-fry dishes. You should be able to purchase Shacha bbq sauce in almost every Chinese supermarket on the condiment or sauce shelf. After you have opened this sauce make sure you keep it in your refrigerator.
You can use chicken breast or chicken thigh fillet for this recipe, it's up to you. If you use chicken thigh fillet cut them into dice. This will make it easier for you to bbq or char grill them.
I usually marinade the chicken satay overnight for a better taste. You can prepare this chicken satay ahead and in large quantities for your bbq party. Make sure use soak the bamboo skewers or wood skewers before you bbq the satay. This will prevent the skewers from burning during cooking.
I also make some pickled vegetables to go with this chicken satay as the sweet and sour flavour of pickled vegetables will really fulfil your appetite during the summer time. You can serve the pickled vegetables on the side of your chicken satay or even mix the pickled vegetables with some salad leave to become a summer pickled vegetable salad.
Marinade chicken breast with all of the seasonings and store in a fridge for at least 1 hour.
Soak bamboo skewers in water for at least 30 minutes.
Skewer the chicken breast and char grill or barbeque the satay until it's cooked. Ready to serve.
Slice the shallots and radish in thin slices. Shred the carrots.
Boil all the seasonings from Sichuan pepper to the sugar in a saucepan.
The dish is now ready to serve. You can mix this pickled vegetable with some salad leaves or just serve on top of the salad leaves.


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Spain's Gavira and Herrera first to lose medal chance at FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Finals in Hamburg
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Sixth seeds Adrian Gavira and Pablo Herrera were the first to be ousted from podium placement contention in the opening men's pool round at the Beach Volleyball World Tour Finals in Hamburg.
The Spaniards, with 103 appearances together on the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) World Tour, suffered a third Pool B defeat as they went down 13-21, 21-12, 15-12 in 41 minutes to ninth-seeded Michal Bryl and Grzegorz Fijalek of Poland.
Bryl and Fijalek, who are appearing in their 18th FIVB event together, have now won two of their three pool play matches to tie with seventh-seeded Martins Plavins and Edgars Tocs of Latvia for the second spot in the group behind second-seeded Anders Mol and Christian Sorum of Norway.
The Norwegians, whose winning run now extends well beyond 20, will seek to improve their 3-0 record with a final qualifying match against third-seeded Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen of The Netherlands.
Barbora Hermannova and Market Slukova of the Czech Republic are heading their group at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Finals in Hamburg ©FIVB
Teams from Canada, Brazil and the Czech Republic are the only ones unbeaten in the women's event at Rothenbaum Stadium, where $150,000 (£118,000/€132,000) is on offer for the winning duos.
With 10 of the 20 group matches completed, the pairs of second-seeded Barbora Hermannova and Market Slukova of the Czech Republic, third-seeded Agatha Bednarczuk and Eduarda "Duda" Lisboa of Brazil and fifth-seeded Heather Bansley and Brandie Wilkerson of Canada are the pool leaders after winning matches today.
While the Brazilians and Canadians only played one match, Hermannova and Slukova won twice in Pool B, recording a 21-18, 19-21, 16-14 triumph in 50 minutes over seventh-seeded Mariafe Artacho and Taliqua Clancy of Australia, the Commonwealth Games silver medallists, and a 20-22, 21-13, 15-12 win over ninth-seeded Victoria Bieneck and Isabel Schneider of Germany.
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The Chordelias - New Music "Introducing"
You should probably know by now that I'm an absolute sucker for delightful retro-pop so it took approximately two seconds for this track "Oh Clara" to make me feel about twelve years old again. Very much a pastiche of 60's girl groups, Spector sound arrangements underpinned by pretty as a flower vocals make hearts go a-flutter - it's pretty fabulous alright.
It's by a band called The Chordelias and I don't really have anything to go on apart from that and a compilation album the track is part of released by Double Phelix (downloadable via bandcamp), so yeah, enjoy.


Is Programming Similar to Composing Music?
Some note worthy parallels for these professions. I am sure it will strike a chord with you.
Over the last couple of decades, computer scientists with an interest in both musical composition and programming have managed to marry the two together. Artificial Intelligence can now compose music that is practically indistinguishable from that which is created by professional musicians.
It's no secret that many professional developers have a real passion for music, and many musicians dabble in computer programming too. For example, Elvis Costello, the prolific British musician who's been described as 'the finest songwriter of his generation' operated an IBM 360 in the 1970s before his musical career took off.
You can see why people might be drawn in by both concepts; There's a lot that composing melodies and writing algorithms have in common. On the surface the two may seem quite disparate, but there is a creative side to developing, and a mechanical side to composing. So, just how similar is programming to composing music?
Let's first take a look at the similarities between composition and programming.
Logic: you need to be able to create 'logical arguments'. When writing music or code you need to follow logical rules to get the 'moving parts' to work together correctly.
Rhetoric: as well as following grammar and logic, you need to be able to persuade listeners and users of new approaches to standard practice.
Without following the fundamentals of composition or development, things just don't work. A haphazardly written program will be full of bugs, in the same sense an ill-formed chord structure will create dissonance.
Just as a composer must consider all the different sections of the orchestra and how they will gel together, a developer needs to hold an abstract 'bigger picture' in their head as they start building their program's architecture. Both disciplines are about building up towards something bigger and better.
Music and software development both require creativity and self-expression; both are about cultivating your own style and creating something new and inspiring.
Musicians and developers need to spend a long time thinking about how their creations will interact with other outputs, and in the hands of 'end users'. A composer may add accent marks to instruct members of the orchestra the style in which to play. A guitarist may want to think about using external hardware (amps, effect pedals etc.) or how they want their song to be produced in the studio. Developers similarly need to bear in mind how others will use their end-products, on which kind of device and in what context.
Mozart might have spent a lot of time alone working out how his next composition would sound, yet his skillset also required working with others – namely the musicians he was conducting. Similarly, the most successful developers can't be pure introverts; they need to collaborate with end users, managers, UX designers and so on.
While there are a lot of things these disciplines hold in common, it's worth hearing out the arguments against. Not every developer is set out to be the next Beethoven!
1. Is This Kind of Comparison Just a Way That We As Developers Puff up Our Egos?
As the author of the Coding Horror blog argues, comparisons that developers draw between their craft and painting, music or other art forms could be seen more as self-aggrandizement than a real comparison. Of course, we'd all like to think that the app we're building is just as wonderful as the best of Gershwin, or that the website we just designed has the same lasting impact as Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. But let's be honest, it's not quite the same thing, is it?
When you're asked to design an app, for example, it's usually in order to solve a specific business or consumer problem. Developers excel at solving this kind of issue, yet can this really be compared to music? At its purest, composition should be about representing and inspiring pure feelings and emotion.
When you develop any kind of tool, the final goal is for an end user to be able to do something specific with it. Say you're building a business app – your creation should mean that the end user's day to day tasks are facilitated. Music, by contrast, doesn't really serve a specific 'purpose', beyond pure enjoyment.
The jury is still out on this one; while it's clear that composition and development definitely hold certain factors in common, there are also a lot of areas where they diverge. What we do know is that both developers and musicians can enrich our lives and give us things we never knew we needed and which we now can't live without.


There are many lawyers out there, but the critical thing to do is to find the one that suits your needs. When you are doing this, it is best to start by utilizing the one who works in the right authority. You should note that the lawyers are trained to be able to practice in the right state. This is the reason you should take some time to figure out if the lawyer you have in mind is ideal for your state.
The other important point you should look into is that you should get an attorney that can be able to bets to handle your case. You should note that most of the lawyers specialize in one type of law or another. This is the reason you should find the ideal expert who can be able to handle your situation. Some of the things you should note is you have to inquire what they have been taught to do.
You have to ensure that you have put budget in mind when you are choosing an attorney. Some of the things you should note is that in case you see an attorney advertising low fees, it might not be inclusive of all that you are going to get. If this is the case, you ought to find out more on pricing. Some of the things you need to discuss about is what you will be paying for and any hidden charges that you might end up incurring.
When you are making the selection, some of the things you should note is that you ought to get more than one lawyer. It is best to do this, so that you can compare them and choose one. You should get someone with the skills you need and will be honest. When you are doing this, some of the things you should note is that you ought to look at the training and the type of experience that they have. You should also check the attorneys legal match rating and find out the experience that the other clients had.
Some of the things you should note is that you should take the time to interview the attorney and find out more about them. Some of the things you should note is that you need to warrant that you have some questions ready for the interview. It is important to note that when you are meeting with them you should take the time to find out if they are ideal for you or not. From the way they answer you will be able to tell if they are right for you.


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WhatsApp co-founder departs Facebook amid reports of clashes over personal data and attempts to weaken its encryption
WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum is to leave Facebook after reportedly clashing with Facebook's attempts to use its personal data and weaken its encryption.
After the Washington Post broke the news, citing people familiar with internal discussions, Koum confirmed the news with his own Facebook post.
Koum said he would take some time off to do things he enjoys outside of technology, such as collecting rare air-cooled Porsches.
Koum departure
Koum's departure comes after the other WhatsApp co-founder, Brian Acton, left Facebook in November last year.
Acton then joined a number of former executives critical of Facebook and he recently endorsed the #DeleteFacebook campaign that has gained force in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data sharing scandal.
The departure of Koum draws into question WhatsApp's chances of retaining its strong privacy hertitage.
Indeed, governments around the world are unhappy with WhatsApp because of its use of end-to-end encryption, which they feel threatens security if the service is used by terrorists.
Facebook of course acquired WhatsApp in early 2014 in a deal worth $19 billion (£11.4bn).
At the time the acquisition raised some eyebrows due to the major cultural differences between how Facebook and WhatsApp regard customer privacy.
Indeed, things got so bad at one stage that Koum was forced to deny claims that the app would soon be hit by new privacy policies following its acquisition by Facebook
But then in 2016 the rug was effectively pulled out from under Koum when Facebook controversially decided to update WhatsApp's terms of service and privacy policy in August 2016, to include sharing data with the social network.
Indeed, such was the controversy that Facebook had to suspend in November 2016 data sharing between its social network and WhatsApp across the European Union.
That same month WhatsApp also suspended such data sharing activity in the UK.
Last year, the European Commission, the European Union's regulatory authority, fined Facebook $122 million for making "misleading" statements when the EU approved the WhatsApp takeover.
Koum statement
Koum in his Facebook post admitted to feeling emotional at his decision to leave the firm he co-founded.
"It's been almost a decade since Brian and I started WhatsApp, and it's been an amazing journey with some of the best people," he wrote.
"But it is time for me to move on. I've been blessed to work with such an incredibly small team and see how a crazy amount of focus can produce an app used by so many people all over the world," he wrote.
"I'm leaving at a time when people are using WhatsApp in more ways than I could have imagined. The team is stronger than ever and it'll continue to do amazing things," he added. "I'm taking some time off to do things I enjoy outside of technology, such as collecting rare air-cooled Porsches, working on my cars and playing ultimate frisbee. And I'll still be cheering WhatsApp on – just from the outside. Thanks to everyone who has made this journey possible."
Cultural clash
But despite the fine words, it seems that his departurewas down to the cultural clash between WhatsApp and Facebook.
Koum and Acton when they created WhatsApp were openly critical of the targeted advertising model, which Facebook utilises.
Indeed, WhatsApp was famous for its no ads approach, and in the early days preferred to implement a $0.99 annual charge for use of the messaging service.
Both men in a WhatsApp blog post in 2012 reportedly wrote that "no one wakes up excited to see more advertising; no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they'll see tomorrow." They described online advertising as "a disruption to aesthetics, an insult to your intelligence, and the interruption of your train of thought."
The WhatsApp co-founders were also big believers in privacy and went to great lengths to collect as little data as possible from their users, requiring only phone numbers. This stance put them at odds with data-hungry Facebook.
According to the Washington Post, Koum was eventually worn down by the differences in approach between Facebook and WhatsApp.
The exact date of his departure isn't known, but Koum had reportedly in recent months been showing up less frequently to WhatsApp's offices on Facebook's campus in Silicon Valley,
The newspaper also reported that other WhatsApp employees are demoralized and plan to leave in November, when they are allowed to exercise all their stock options under the terms of the Facebook deal.
Facebook reportedly declined to comment for the Washington Post on the reasons for Koum's departure but didn't dispute the accounts.
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Bio- Madame CJ Walker
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Born Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867 on a Delta, Louisiana plantation, this daughter of former slaves transformed herself from an uneducated farm laborer and laundress into one of the twentieth century's most successful, self-made women entrepreneurs.
Orphaned at age seven, she often said, "I got my start by giving myself a start." She and her older sister, Louvenia, survived by working in the cotton fields of Delta and nearby Vicksburg, Mississippi. At 14, she married Moses McWilliams to escape abuse from her cruel brother-in-law, Jesse Powell.
Her only daughter, Lelia (later known as A'Lelia Walker) was born on June 6, 1885. When her husband died two years later, she moved to St. Louis to join her four brothers who had established themselves as barbers. Working for as little as $1.50 a day, she managed to save enough money to educate her daughter in the city's public schools. Friendships with other black women who were members of St. Paul A.M.E. Church and the National Association of Colored Women exposed her to a new way of viewing the world.
Madam Walker before and after using her shampoo and "Wonderful Hair Grower"
During the 1890s, Sarah began to suffer from a scalp ailment that caused her to lose most of her hair. She experimented with many homemade remedies and store-bought products, including those made by Annie Malone, another black woman entrepreneur. In 1905 Sarah moved to Denver as a sales agent for Malone, then married her third husband, Charles Joseph Walker, a St. Louis newspaperman. After changing her name to "Madam" C. J. Walker, she founded her own business and began selling Madam Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower, a scalp conditioning and healing formula, which she claimed had been revealed to her in a dream. Madam Walker, by the way, did NOT invent the straightening comb or chemical perms, though many people incorrectly believe that to be true.
To promote her products, the new "Madam C.J. Walker" traveled for a year and a half on a dizzying crusade throughout the heavily black South and Southeast, selling her products door to door, demonstrating her scalp treatments in churches and lodges, and devising sales and marketing strategies. In 1908, she temporarily moved her base to Pittsburgh where she opened Lelia College to train Walker "hair culturists."
Madam Walker and her daughter, A'Lelia Walker, in Indianapolis (aleliabundles.com)
By early 1910, she had settled in Indianapolis, then the nation's largest inland manufacturing center, where she built a factory, hair and manicure salon and another training school. Less than a year after her arrival, Walker grabbed national headlines in the black press when she contributed $1,000 to the building fund of the "colored" YMCA in Indianapolis.
In 1913, while Walker traveled to Central America and the Caribbean to expand her business, her daughter A'Lelia, moved into a fabulous new Harlem townhouse and Walker Salon, designed by black architect, Vertner Tandy. "There is nothing to equal it," she wrote to her attorney, F.B. Ransom. "Not even on Fifth Avenue."
Walker herself moved to New York in 1916, leaving the day-to-day operations of the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company in Indianapolis to Ransom and Alice Kelly, her factory forelady and a former school teacher. She continued to oversee the business and to work in the New York office. Once in Harlem, she quickly became involved in Harlem's social and political life, taking special interest in the NAACP's anti-lynching movement to which she contributed $5,000.
Madam Walker was a member of the 1917 Negro Silent Protest Parade committee.
In July 1917, when a white mob murdered more than three dozen blacks in East St. Louis, Illinois, Walker joined a group of Harlem leaders who visited the White House to present a petition advocating federal anti-lynching legislation.
As her business continued to grow, Walker organized her agents into local and state clubs. Her Madam C. J. Walker Hair Culturists Union of America convention in Philadelphia in 1917 must have been one of the first national meetings of businesswomen in the country. Walker used the gathering not only to reward her agents for their business success, but to encourage their political activism as well. "This is the greatest country under the sun," she told them. "But we must not let our love of country, our patriotic loyalty cause us to abate one whit in our protest against wrong and injustice. We should protest until the American sense of justice is so aroused that such affairs as the East St. Louis riot be forever impossible."
By the time she died at her estate, Villa Lewaro, in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, she had helped create the role of the 20th Century, self-made American businesswoman; established herself as a pioneer of the modern black hair-care and cosmetics industry; and set standards in the African-American community for corporate and community giving.
Tenacity and perseverance, faith in herself and in God, quality products and "honest business dealings" were the elements and strategies she prescribed for aspiring entrepreneurs who requested the secret to her rags-to-riches ascent. "There is no royal flower-strewn path to success," she once commented. "And if there is, I have not found it for if I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard."
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Angela Randolph says:
I just wanted to inform your readers of this very important fact – Madame C.J. Walker's historic company still exists today and has never stopped manufacturing all of the original hair oils! Anyone who visits our website at http://www.madamewalker.net can view and purchase the full product line.
The website also contains valuable information about the stock / asset sale (including the ability to view the stock certificates) and Raymond Randolph's purchase of the original Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company in 1985 from the Walker Trustees in Indianapolis, Indiana and how the Randolph Family continues to keep Madame Walker's "true" legacy alive.
To promote the entrepreneurial spirit that Madame Walker exemplified, the website provides individuals the opportunity to become a "Walker Agent" and sell Madame C.J. Walker products. By clicking on the "Find A Distributor" tab, you will see agents located in the United Kingdom, France, Bahamas, and the United States.
September 2011 marked the Centennial Anniversary of the incorporation of Madame C.J. Walker's historic company – doing business today as Madame C.J. Walker Enterprises. On September 24th, 2011 we commemorated this event with the "Tracing the Footsteps of a Legacy" 100th Year Celebratory Walk. You can visit our website to view the Souvenir Program.
Due to our ownership of Madame's historic company and the historical documents and memorabilia of the company, the Randolph Family can provide the most detailed and historically accurate information about Madame C.J. Walker and her company by calling toll free, 866-552-2838, by clicking on the "Frequently Asked Questions" FAQS tab of our website, or by going to the contact us page of our website.
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WoW that's pretty informative.
Who was Raymond Randolph?
When you visit our website at http://www.madamewalker.net click on the History Tab then near the bottom of the page click on Why Enterprise? and you will see information on Raymond Randolph.
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The new regulations introduced last month to bring mandatory licensing to all Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) was designed to better protect tenants from poor living conditions but new research suggests that many councils are struggling to enforce the government's HMO legislation.
Under the new rules, mandatory HMO licensing has been extended to almost all HMOs that are occupied by five or more people and where there is some sharing of facilities, and that is expected to affect more than 160,000 properties.
The licensing scheme was previously restricted to properties that were three or more storeys in height.
The move means councils can now take further action to crack down on the small minority of landlords renting out substandard and overcrowded homes.
New rules also came into force setting minimum size requirements for bedrooms in HMOs to prevent overcrowding, while landlords are also now required to adhere to council refuse schemes to reduce problems with rubbish.
But data obtained by Simple Landlords Insurance shows that the majority of local authorities do not know how many unlicensed HMOs are in their area - let alone where they are - leaving them unable to target those who break the rules or take advantage of new enforcement powers.
The findings suggest that the rules are "practically unenforceable", according to one HMO licensing expert, with the government's recent commitment of £2m of additional funding to help implement the scheme unlikely to have any real impact.
+ There were only 103 HMO licences rejected at application over the last 12 months, versus a total of 18,881 licenses granted.
Carl Agar, founder of The Home Safe Scheme and managing director of property management company Big Red House, said: "It's a big worry that local authorities don't seem to have the resources available to manage this new workload. And the new rules are going to be practically impossible to enforce.
The HMO regulations changes may be well-meaning, but a failure to support local authorities to communicate about them and enforce them is "bad news for good landlords and for tenants, according to Richard Truman, head of operations at Simple Landlords Insurance.
Proves my point in an earlier post. The rogue landlords are obvious. Leave the decent ones alone, cut bureaucracy and screw the rogues with the resources diverted from bureaucracy.


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DON'T FEED YOUR DOG GRAPES, SULTANAS OR RAISINS
Veterinarians have reacted with alarm to a new book called "Wine Dogs Australia", featuring photographs of dogs carrying bunches of potentially deadly grapes in their mouths.
The Australian Veterinary Association (AVA) advises that a dog eating significant amounts of grapes, sultanas or raisins may die of kidney failure.
"We are hearing of a number of cases of dogs presenting with poisoning by grapes," Dr Retchford said. "The precise nature of the toxicity is still poorly understood, but we do know that dogs eating a certain amount of grapes or raisins in relation to their body weight will show clinical signs such as vomiting and dehydration, and may have a poor chance of survival. Small dogs, in particular, are vulnerable to relatively small doses."
Dr Retchford said that dogs will not die from eating one or two grapes or raisins, but that this practice should be discouraged.
"By allowing dogs to eat one or two grapes, it may lead to problems if a dog later helps themselves to a box of raisins or a bunch of grapes."
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There's nothing I love more than a brand new cookbook so when I saw that Ciara from My Fussy Eater had published her debut recipe book I couldn't wait to get my hands on a copy. Ciara has kindly given me an extra copy to give away to Sneaky Veg readers so read on to find out what I thought and how to enter the competition.
The My Fussy Eater cookbook* has 100 recipes in it, designed for families with a fussy eater. The food isn't specifically for the picky eater – rather the recipes are delicious and intended to feed the whole family.
If you're the parent of a picky eater you'll understand that there's no one size fits all when it comes to feeding a fussy kid. Ciara understands that as well and she acknowledges that there's bound to be recipes in the book that your kids won't love. Sharing new foods together, have fun and make small changes – that's what she recommends and this message is clear throughout the book.
As well as the standard breakfast, lunch and dinner sections the My Fussy Eater cookbook also contains ideas for dishes you can make ahead, lunchbox ideas, freezer friendly meals, batch made snacks, savoury treats, drinks, dips and sauces.
The book also contains a large section containing tips to help you to help your fussy eater, meal planning, essential items for the kitchen and how to stock a store cupboard. As well as plenty of beautiful photos of the food the book contains lots of photos of Ciara and her two children enjoying cooking and eating together.
It's not a veggie book but there are quite a few veggie options in the breakfast and lunch section and also some great veggie mains such as fruity curry and veggie burgers.
I have tried out three recipes from the book so far, and bookmarked a lot more to try soon.
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The kids loved the flapjacks. I made them vegan by using dairy free spread instead of butter and they turned out perfectly. The batch lasted about five minutes!
The older two kids refused to try the breakfast cookies for some reason – possibly because I grated the orange zest too big. Little S and us two adults loved ours and what a treat to have cookies for breakfast!
The soup went down well too. My kids like tomato soup and because this was blended up they didn't realise that it contains lentils, peppers, carrots and celery as well. Result!
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Chili con carne for me!
Meat, vegetable & lentil stew.
Most hot meals I cook are refused – I would love them to eat a variety of foods and more fruit and vegetables!
My life would be much easier if my kids are pasta!!
Salad! They are pretty good with everything else though. Great review, book looks brilliant and might have to purchase if I don't win.
I wish my daughter would eat pasta because if she did there are so many recipes I could make for the whole family.
Any veg right now. We have a toddler who won't eat any of it.
More veg! He will only eat peas and sweet corn!
I wish I could get my grandson to eat salad.
Mushrooms and aubergines otherwise she's pretty good whereas my nephew on the other hand is such a fussy eater!
A salad of any sort.
Roast dinner my eldest won't touch it.
I wish my son would eat sandwiches! Be good for a quick lunch!
Pasta, as it's so versatile.
My daughter is fussy with eggs, which is frustrating as they are so quick and easy.
Spaghetti! Tried it cut small, medium or left as is and no result!
I would love for them to eat a little bit more fruit.
I love Ciara's recipes! I wish my two would try new things and eat more veg!
A Sunday roast together – and appreciate all the hard work put in!
Fish! My children will not touch it and I wish they would enjoy it as much as I do.
Fish, my son won't touch it.
Onions! Onions are in most amazing food (caramelised onion tart, anyone?) .
The one meal I wish my kids would eat is vegetable rice.
Stir fry! Because I love it!
More vegetables such as vegetable lasagne ?
I wish the kids I look after would try chilli – I think they'd love it!
A roast! You'd think I was trying to poison them.
Any meat other than chicken!
Roast dinner, neither of my 2 kids will eat a roast!
Lasagna or anything with sauce or cheese, or veg, would be good.
Salad – my kids will barely try it!!
Salad, curry or stir fry as not even an attempt to properly try!
I would be so happy if I could get my kids to eat more fruit and veggies mainly.My eldest has had lots of issues with food in the past and won't even try new things whereas my youngest used to eat nearly everything and has slowly gone off things she used to love.Its very frustrating.I would even be happy if they would at least just try the food before they turn their noses up at it!
I wish my son would eat more vegetables because at the moment all he eats are carrots and peas.
Stew or casserole in any shape or form would make winter catering much easier.
Pasta as its so simple and quick.
I love curry, but family not so much!
A Sunday roast with gravy!
Curry. Its too spicy she says!
I wish my daughter souks eat a Sunday roast dinner.