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Nightclubbing: Royal Peacock
By Connor Towne O'Neill
Little Julius - The Bachelor
Atlanta bluesman Julius High never lacked for nicknames. He first recorded for Diamond Records in 1963 under the name "Little" Julius, but the cover of "The Bachelor" gave lie to the moniker, promising 400 pounds of soul. The cover of a later record for Jet Stream – a caterwauling deep soul ballad "I Found Love" – promised an inflated 420 pounds of TNT. (High actually weighed closer to 300, a star football player forced to rely on his considerable vocal talent to make a living after his knee gave out.) The nickname that really stuck, though, was "Lotsa Poppa," bestowed on him by Sam Cooke during a tour stop in Chicago. Lotsa Poppa won and then lost thousands from Cooke during pre-show dice games in the dressing room, studying Cooke as he sang and whispering the response to Cooke's "Bring It On Home to Me" from the theater wings. In return, Cooke gave him the nickname that he sang under for the rest of his career.
Although he found this stage name on the road, Lotsa Poppa's Atlanta bona fides were unimpeachable. Baptized by Martin Luther King Sr., he sang in King's Ebenezer Baptist Choir through his early twenties. Early in his secular career, he ran with Lee Moses in the Showstoppers, the house band at the Royal Peacock club. He left Atlanta as Little Julius, returned to the Royal Peacock as Lotsa Poppa, and continued to warm up the house.
Known as Atlanta's "Club Beautiful," the Royal Peacock was the preeminent black club in the city during the 1950s and '60s.
Known as Atlanta's "Club Beautiful," the Royal Peacock was the preeminent black club in the city during the 1950s and '60s. To chart the constellations of artists who played the Peacock is to chart the firmament of black southern – which is to say, American – music. Miles and Dizzie; Muddy, B.B., and Howlin; Bobby "Blue" Bland, Little Willie John, Nina Simone, Sam Cooke. Nat King Cole played there before he started singing; James Brown before he was the Godfather; Jimi before the shredding, Otis Redding before Stax; Marvin Gaye before Motown, Gladys Knight when she was still a Pip.
And they weren't just passing through – the club played host to career and genre-defining moments. It was in the wings of the Royal Peacock where, in 1951, Little Richard met his idol Billy Wright ("I thought he was the most fantastic entertainer I'd ever seen,") and Wright divulged to Richard the name of his preferred stage makeup: Pancake 31. This exchange, and Wright's continued encouragement and connections, helped propel Little Richard from gender-bending chitlin circuit performer to the greatest entertainer of his generation and the "architect of rock & roll." Little Richard returned the favor to the Royal Peacock by describing the music spilling forth onto Auburn Ave as a sound that "regenerates the heart and makes the liver quiver, the bladder spatter and the knees freeze."
Ray Charles - I've Got a Woman
Three years later, it was on the stage at the Royal Peacock that Ray Charles, tired of playing with pickup bands on the road, convinced Jerry Wexler and the rest of Atlantic Records A&R team that he should tour with his own band. "He took us across the street to a nightclub called the Royal Peacock – this was in the afternoon, and his band was sitting there, all ready to play, just sitting there in their chairs," Wexler told Peter Guralnick. "And he went to the piano and counted off and they hit into 'I've Got a Woman,' and that was it." Playing gigs nightly with his band provided Charles and co. time in the juke joint laboratories of the country to test their alchemical fusion of gospel and blues. The next few years brought not just "I Got Woman," but also "Mess Around," What I'd Say" and the bedrock of American soul as we know it.
Lotsa Poppa, too, had a story of the club's fabled pull. It was February 24th, 1964, and he was back at the Royal Peacock after returning from his tour with Cooke. Lotsa Poppa was first on the bill, standing just in front of the stage as was his custom, unleashing his gale-force singing. A former bandmate Marty Kearns said Lotsa Poppa "had the best scream of anyone I've heard, outside James Brown." Solomon Burke, whose songs were fixtures in his repertoire, took to him: "I found him in Atlanta and I'm crazy about the guy," Burke said. "Every time I'd see him I'd call him up on stage 'cause he was bigger than me and he made me look small."
Sitting at one of the tables that lined the perimeter of the club was Muhammad Ali – then still Cassius Clay, then still the challenger for the heavyweight crown – his bout with Sonny Liston slated for the next night. Quiet as he kept it at the time, "It frightened me, just knowing how hard he hit," Ali later admitted. The fighter, who was being torn to shreds in the white press for his braggadocio, was a jangle of nerves. In New York a few weeks before the fight, he visited the Sports Illustrated offices, looked down at the 6th Avenue traffic, and told writer Mort Sharnik, "I'm Christopher Columbus. I believe I'll win. I've never been in there with him, but I believe the world is round and they all believe the world is flat. Maybe I'll fall off the world at the horizon but I believe the world is round."
Bluesmen are notorious exaggerators, but at least according to Lotsa Poppa, Ali steeled himself in the audience at the Royal Peacock.
Ali's great challenge in the Liston fight was to harness all the anxious nerves – about Liston's punch, about going public with his conversion to Islam, about garden-variety racism (Sonny was "the big Negro we pay to keep sassy Negroes in line" journalist Murray Kempton wrote of the fight). The line against Ali was so overwhelming bookies stopped taking bets on Liston. At the weigh-in, calling Liston "The Big Ugly Bear" and predicting he'd drop him in eight rounds, Ali's blood pressure was so high that the doctor wanted to call off the fight unless he stabilized quickly. He had to channel that voltage, be its conductor, somehow direct it without diminishing it, make it dance, make it float. Bluesmen are notorious exaggerators, but at least according to Lotsa Poppa, Ali steeled himself in the audience at the Royal Peacock.
February 1964 represented a major threshold moment in US culture. The Beatles had visited Ali at the 5th Street gym in Miami after going on Ed Sullivan to introduce their white-washed Chuck Berry routine to US audiences. In the same show, Liston jumped rope to James Brown's "Night Train." Motown didn't have a number one hit yet. Writer Steve Daugherty called the Royal Peacock of that era "an incubator for black music, keeping it hot and alive until it was allowed to be born, full-grown and screaming, into the midst of mainstream American pop. It's taken over now. American music is black music." It makes a certain sense then, that the night before Ali took his throne as the king of the world, he had a seat at the Royal Peacock, vibrating to Lotsa Poppa's wail.
"SWEET" AUBURN AVENUE
To understand the Royal Peacock, you need to understand "Sweet" Auburn Ave., the stretch of Auburn northeast of downtown Atlanta featuring businesses, restaurants and nightclubs and known as the spiritual center of black Atlanta. And to understand Sweet Auburn, you have to go back to 1906.
Reconstruction-era Atlanta was seen as a "bastion of new south thinking," as Gary M. Pomerantz wrote of it in Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn, "which admitted blacks into the industrialized economy as brakemen on the trains, packers in warehouses and laborers in the manufacturing plants." By the turn of the century there were 61 black-owned businesses in the city. But even though Atlanta seemed progressive relative to surrounding areas in the Jim Crow south, white supremacy was still the cornerstone of society and the Democratic party was a monolith in politics.
The "Gate City" wanted to think of itself as more progressive than it was, but the gubernatorial race in 1906 lay bare the violence underlying the status quo. White laborers felt threatened by the burgeoning black middle class, now competing with them for jobs in those plants, warehouses and trains and beginning to flex their political muscle. The two Democratic candidates each had control of a major Atlanta paper – Hoke Smith was the former owner of Atlanta Journal, Clark Howell the publisher of the Atlanta Constitution. Their campaign was a race to out-bigot the other. A typical headline supporting Smith read: "Disfranchise the negro is his appeal; vigorous appeal for white supremacy." Howell wrote in the Constitution that "This is a white man's country, and it must be governed by white men!"
Atlanta, the so-called progressive capital of the "New South" was a powder keg of Jim Crow hostilities.
Smith prevailed in August, but the white population's racist sentiment remained. The papers continued to run exaggerated accounts of blacks assaulting white women, a surefire way to incite violence and lynching, and a tactic as old as white supremacy itself. That spring, a stage adaptation of Thomas Dixon's The Klansman ran at the Atlanta Opera house. The novel, its stage adaptation and, most famously, its film adaptation as Birth of a Nation, played off exactly that imagined threat of black sexuality. Atlanta, the so-called progressive capital of the "New South" was a powder keg of Jim Crow hostilities.
A month after the 1906 election, newsboys streamed through Five Points, the major thoroughfare downtown, hawking an extra supplement to the evening paper. The only text above the fold read "THIRD ATTACK," telling of another assault of a white woman by a black man that day. Additional headlines read: "Bold Negro Kisses White Girl's Hand!" "Bright Mulatto Insults White Girls!" Thousands of white Atlantans, leaderless, drunk and eager for an opportunity to act on their hate, stormed into black neighborhoods. Rebel yells and hollers to "Save the women, kill the blacks," went up in neighborhoods across the city. The sheriff vowed such protection, even if it was required to "kill every negro in a thousand miles of this place." Such exercises of white power were as predictable as they were horrific as they were immune from punishment. The riots lasted three days, and though the numbers are disputed, at least 25 black people were killed and hundreds more injured.
It was on Auburn Avenue that they dreamed – and sought to make real – a better life.
The riot and its aftermath formalized segregation in the city. And, as Pomerantz writes, "the unspeakable horror of the 1906 race riot lurked in the recesses of black families in Atlanta for generations" and "prompted many small black-owned businesses to relocate from the central business district to the security of their own race on Auburn Avenue."
And there, black businesses thrived. Located within blocks of each other was what the unofficial mayor of Sweet Auburn, John Wesley Dobbs, called the "Three Legged Stool" of black finance: the Citizens Trust Bank, Mutual Federal Savings and Loan and Atlanta Life Insurance, the last run by Atlanta's first black millionaire, Alonzo Herndon. Fortune magazine called it "the richest Negro street in the world." Across from the neo-classical columns of the Atlanta Life building was the country's longest running black paper, the Atlanta Daily World. Three blocks down was Ebenezer Street Baptist, founded in 1886 and pastored by Martin Luther King Sr., and Jr., the latter born in the parish house nearby.
Pomerantz writes that "Dobbs believed there was magic in Auburn Avenue, especially in that two-block stretch between Piedmont Avenue and Butler Street. When Blacks spoke of Auburn, that's what they meant: the barbershops, shoe shine stands, churches, clubs and small businesses between the Rucker building and the Yates & Milton drugstore... To walk the Avenue on any summer evening was to experience the vitality of black life in the city: the sounds of ragtime from the Top Hat, the smell of fried chicken from Ma Sutton's and the constant hum of animated street chatter. It became the place for black dreamers." It was there that they dreamed – and sought to make real – a better life. Both the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the two major forces in civil rights movement organizing, operated out of offices on Sweet Auburn.
There were other clubs on Sweet Auburn, but they called the Royal Peacock "Club Beautiful" for a reason.
It was onto this scene that Carrie Cunningham rode on a white horse. Her parents were freed slaves who had raised her outside Fitzgerald, Georgia, and as a young woman, Cunningham left home to join the Silas Green Show as a circus rider. The Silas Green Show was a major circus, travelling across the country with a 16-piece band and a main tent that could hold 1,400 spectators. Muddy Waters briefly joined the Show, as did Bessie Smith. The group was so popular that Jet Magazine once called it "almost as much a part of southern culture as collard greens and barbecue ribs." Cunningham eventually left the show, still on horseback, and headed for the city. Her next venture would prove even more pivotal.
She made money for a spell renting rooms on Decatur, and in 1937 she put it toward the purchase of the hotel on the upper floors of the Citizens Trust Bank on Auburn. Renamed the Hotel Royal, it flourished in the center of black life in Atlanta and was a refuge for those African-Americans travelling in the Jim Crow south. Of the seven listings for Atlanta in the 1950 Negro Motorist Green Book, an essential guide for black travellers seeking friendly lodging and restaurants, five were on Auburn Ave., including Cunningham's Royal Hotel.
Cunningham's son, Red McAllister, was a saxophone player and bandleader, time and again running into trouble on the backroads of the chitlin circuit. Her solution to the worry, stress and the frequently posted bail for her son was to buy the Top Hat Club at 186 Auburn Ave. She paid $31,000 for it in the spring of 1949 and closed the club briefly for renovations. It reopened in October of that year as the Royal Peacock, its entire facade draped with peacock feathers.
The club's swank decor reflected the owner's personal style – flashy jewelry, bespoke dresses. Little Richard remembered her wearing diamonds in her teeth: "I'd never seen that before and it was really amazing to me," he wrote in his autobiography. She was more than flash, though. An Atlanta Daily World society column wrote that Cunningham "is always on the go and she fits right into Auburn Avenue's program." That was true in every sense – Cunningham was active in the civil rights movement, joining the NAACP in 1942 and consistently hosting meetings at her properties. She was close friends with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; meetings of the SCLC and SNCC would often adjourn to the Royal Peacock.
The flag-draped casket of ex-soldier George Dorsey and the casket of his sister Dorothy Dorsey Malcolm Bettmann / Getty Images
During the 1946 National Baptist convention, held in Atlanta that September, Cunningham took several visiting ministers from Pennsylvania to the site of the murder of two black couples, George W. and Mae Murray Dorsey, and Roger and Dorothy Malcom, who were pulled out of their car on a back country road and gunned down by a mob of white men, known as the "Georgia Lynching of 1946." One of the visiting ministers is quoted as saying "We are here for we believe that these four victims did not die in vain, for their death has set in motion a movement that will bring greater justice to all humanity." It is in the shadow of these murders that Cunningham bought the club in order to keep her son closer to home.
Red managed the club and, through his day job running a talent agency, booked the acts. Cunningham ran the hotel and brought her clout to bear on the club. Between her entrée into entertainment circles from her days with the Silas Green Show, her ability to provide comfortable and safe accommodations and her son's own connections, they were able to book the acts that kept the house packed.
A packed house at the Royal Peacock meant a line stretching back up Piedmont, under the neon of the club's marquee, up the 32 steps above Auburn, and through the door for a $3.50 cover. It meant packed four-top tables around the one long room's perimeter, folks climbing onto them to catch a glimpse of the bandstand at the back to put a face to the soon-to-be-famous voice, or eye the between-sets boa dancing on the dancefloor at center. There were other clubs on Sweet Auburn, but they called the Royal Peacock "Club Beautiful" for a reason. Ms. Cunningham set the precedent with her peacock jewelry, lavish dresses and cool demeanor. Plus, Sam Cooke was liable to stop by your table before his set, and you wanted to look the part.
The Royal Peacock closed its doors in 1973, the same year Carrie Cunningham died (although she no longer owned the club by then). But even without Cunningham at the helm, the Peacock had kept Sweet Auburn at a boil through the 1960s. Sam Cooke played one of his last shows at the Royal Peacock at the end of 1964, before being gunned down in a California motel. It became a destination for fame, not just a developer of it. Aretha Franklin, a star by the time she steady-rocked the Royal Peacock, said the club was "as hot as it could get." The Peacock was so prominent, it drew comparisons to the Apollo in Harlem. But as Delois Scott, Cunningham's granddaughter who grew up in the club, told Georgia Music's Candice Dyer, "The Peacock was the Peacock and the Apollo was the Apollo." It was too deeply rooted in southern sounds and experiences to settle for a reputation secondary to what was happening in New York
Like too many other American neighborhoods, Sweet Auburn succumbed to the urban decay of the 1970s. The "Downtown Connector," which merged the I-75 and I-85 freeways and gave easy access to neighborhoods further west, cut Sweet Auburn in half. But the Royal Peacock hung on. It's housed everything from a theater company to a hip-hop club, and most recently re-opened as a reggae club in 2010 – still bearing the name Cunningham gave it (as well as a peacock feather mural on the stairway walls). And though you are more likely to hear Barrington Levy leaking out onto Sweet Auburn than James Brown, the club offers occasional reminders of its outsized influence.
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In 1998, when Outkast needed to visually fuse that "space-futuristic shit" with the "Broughams, 30s, and Impalas pimp shit" into a video for "Rosa Parks," Andre 3000 led a marching band down Sweet Auburn and did his verse in front of the Royal Peacock while wearing a catcher's chest protector. Yung Joc, whose snap anthem "It's Goin' Down" spent eight weeks at the top of the R&B/hip-hop chart in 2006, was signed to Bad Boy South after a performance at the Royal Peacock. As Joc told Prefix that year: "So one night I'm doing the Royal Peacock and he called me and said "I'm gonna be there tonight." He said, "If you come out with you're 'A' game, it shouldn't be nothing to worry about." And that's what happened. Two days after that I was signed."
Determination – Too Much Oppression
110 summers after the Atlanta race riot left more than 20 black Americans killed in cold blood, 70 summers after the Georgia lynchings and during the week that a Baton Rouge police officer killed Alton Sterling and a Falcon Heights police officer killed Philando Castile, Black Lives Matter protesters gathered in downtown Atlanta to march to Piedmont Park.
The route crossed Auburn Ave. a few blocks west of the Royal Peacock. One protester, in the group of hundreds that marched down four lanes of traffic, held a sign with an amended quote from poet Claudia Rankine: "Because white men can't / police their imagination / black men and women are dying."
Later that night at the Royal Peacock, after an all-female neo-soul group finished and before the late night crowd arrived for the reggae night, as the band broke down their gear and the DJ started to spin, the trumpet player hopped off the stage and wandered out onto the red and black squares of the empty dance floor. Playing only for himself – there was hardly anyone there for whom to play – playing for the sake of playing, the trumpeter started soloing over Determination's "Too Much Oppression." They were short, lyrical, breathy runs, a moment – across genres and generations – of loneliness and beauty, lasting just a few bars. It was about the bluest thing you could imagine.
The Royal Peacock did much more than simply helping to encourage the transition from blues to R&B and blues to rock and soul. The Royal Peacock cultivated black spirituality, justice, wealth, love and imagination. And it did so in a city and country that consistently struggles to value black humanity, much less the multifaceted genius the Royal Peacock housed and sent forth.
In its own way, it still does the same today.
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Dr. Borgia is interested in sexual selection and mate choice and uses bowerbirds as a model system for his studies. Mate choice is a fundamental, but still poorly understood, evolutionary process which is the focus of much debate in evolutionary and behavioral biology. Naturalists, including Darwin, have long been captivated by the unique courtship behaviors of bowerbirds that include construction of a bower, colorful bower decorations, and highly integrated and complex vocal and dancing displays. Developments in Dr. Borgia's lab have allowed the unique aspects of the bowerbird mating system to be used to address many important issues in the study of sexual selection. Using an automated camera system to monitor courtship and mating behavior at 30+ of bowers, members of our lab are able to study in great detail male traits that are important in mate choice, and follow individually marked females as they visit different males for courtship across their lifetimes. This work is combined with genetic studies to address a variety of important issues associated with the mate choice process. Recent and ongoing studies have focused on how males alter courtship displays in reaction to female signals during courtship, age-related differences in how females choose mates, how male intelligence affects his attraction to females, the role of genetic relatedness to neighbors in affecting male choice of display sites, the role of parasites in affecting male display and mate choice, factors influencing decoration stealing and bower destruction, differences between juvenile and adult males in their use of forced copulations, studies of the importance of UV and the visual system in the choice of bower decorations, the significance of mate choice in reproductive isolation, the importance of co-option in display trait evolution, vocal mimicry, and determining the role of MHC allele frequency in mate choice by females. Longer term work is focused on understanding lifetime patterns of female visitation and mate choice at male bowers and factors affecting lifetime male success. The larger goal of this work is to develop more realistic models of the mate choice process.
While Dr. Borgia and his students have done field studies of 13 species of bowerbirds in Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia, prospective students are encouraged to work on satin bowerbirds because of the high proportion of females marked in the Wallaby Creek study population and because of the already rich set of information that can be drawn on in designing research projects. Currently, Dr. Borgia and his students are working with computer scientists to develop programs that will automatically score and process data from video recordings of behavior. This is an exciting new development that will enable us to fully utilize data from these videos to perform the most detailed study of male display and female choice of any species. Extending the use of microsatellite markers will allow quantitative genetic studies of male display.
Savard, JF, Keagy, J, Borgia, G. 2011. Blue, not UV, plumage color is important in satin bowerbird Ptilonorhynchus violaceus display. Journal of Avian Biology 42: 80-84.
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1978. Evolution of mate choice; social structure and patterns of aid-giving behavior; sociobiology.


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The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced $70 million in grants to help communities and health care professionals combat the ongoing opioid crisis that is ravaging communities across the U.S. The majority of the money will be used to help prevent opioid-induced deaths and to provide treatment for people with opioid use disorders, including $28 million allotted for medication-based treatment. More than 33,000 lives were claimed in 2015 due to opioid overdoses.
$41.7 million of the funding is set to expand resources and training for first responders on how to use emergency treatments, such as Narcan, to help reverse and treat overdoses. In many cases, first responders are often the difference between life and death for opioid users who experience an overdose, so it is imperative health care professionals have access to the needed resources and training to help save lives. The additional funding aims to help paramedics, EMTs and other emergency service personnel gain access to much-needed resources.
In addition to the most recent grants, $485 million in grants were awarded in April to treat and prevent opioid abuse.
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DEATH PENALTY TO BE DISCUSSED AT LPAC
LIBERTARIAN CONCERNS GROW
September 11, 2013 – Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty, a national network of conservatives and libertarians questioning the alignment of capital punishment with their principles, will be exhibiting at the 3RD Annual Liberty Political Action Conference (LPAC) September 19-22 in Chantilly, VA.
Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty heads into the conference on the heels of the recent endorsement by Dr. Ron Paul, Chairman of LPAC's host organization the Campaign for Liberty. "I believe that support for the death penalty is inconsistent with libertarianism and traditional conservatism. So I am pleased with Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty's efforts to form a coalition of libertarians and conservatives to work to end capital punishment."
LPAC will bring together leaders of the liberty movement – conservative, libertarian, constitutional and free market organizations, elected officials and grassroots activists, as well as businesses – to discuss the issues facing America.
"Members of the liberty movement want to reel in the power of government, including the death penalty, which is a failed government program that risks killing innocent Americans," said Marc Hyden, a national advocacy coordinator for Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty who will be at LPAC.
To date, more than 140 individuals have been released from death rows across America after evidence of their innocence was discovered.
The booth for Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty will be located in the LPAC exhibit area.
Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty is a network of political and social conservatives who question the alignment of capital punishment with conservative principles and values. Specifically, we are questioning a system marked by inefficiency, inequity, and inaccuracy. Conservatives concerned about the death penalty is a project of Equal Justice USA. EJUSA is a national, grassroots organization working to build a criminal justice system that works. For everyone.


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What Is A Serial Entrepreneur? Common Traits of Serial Entrepreneur
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A serial entrepreneur is a person who has the potential to convert a business idea into a colossal business. Everyone has a collection of ideas but very few endeavors to make it a reality. To make it a reality, one needs diligence, innovation, patience, creativity, and steadfastness. Therefore, merely having ideas cannot make you a serial entrepreneur. A serial entrepreneur possesses the passion to burn candles at both ends to achieve intended goals.
Serial entrepreneurs do not stagnate at a single venture like typical entrepreneurs. They keep on starting new businesses and exploring new areas of interest. They can also sell a business after attaining a specific level. In case a business is not performing well, a serial entrepreneur can shut it down and start a new venture.
Common Traits of Serial Entrepreneurs-
Investors find the new startup of a serial entrepreneur as an exciting opportunity to invest and earn profit. Serial entrepreneurs are deemed as a special slot due to their consecutive successful business initiatives at a single time. However, there is no specific number of businesses one has to start to be called a serial Entrepreneur. Today, we can find some business tycoons as serial entrepreneurs. Here are some of the common traits of serial entrepreneurs.
First and foremost, a serial entrepreneur possesses leadership qualities. The leadership quality enables a person to stand out from an entrepreneur and be a serial entrepreneur. Leadership is a God-gifted trait that can be learned to a degree. To run a business, a serial entrepreneur needs to be on the front foot all the time.
All business needs leadership strategies to thrive more in the market. It may be possible that leadership that worked for one business might not work for another business. Leadership strategies are based on the situation. Therefore, leadership is the most common and require trait of serial entrepreneurs.
Unwavering Self-Confidence:
Strong self-confidence requires to become a serial entrepreneur. When you start some new tasks in life, there can be hundreds of self-doubts. Self-confidence eradicates those self-doubts in a serial entrepreneur. For instance, if you will not believe yourself then how can others believe you. Furthermore, self-confidence enables one to ignore the criticism for sake of criticism. It lets a serial entrepreneur focused on the goal of the business.
Invincible Courage to Get Success:
Invincible courage is the backbone of a serial entrepreneur. There is no concept of overnight success in the life of the serial entrepreneur. You have to stick to a plan to get success. Everything takes a time to become something so your business also needs time to become a successful business. Courage sprouts motivation and patience in a serial entrepreneur. There can be unsolicited and unnecessary opinions of the people who cannot see what you can see. Hence, courage does not let die the thirst for the success of a serial entrepreneur.
No Fear of Failure:
Told by a dissertation help firm, it is the core philosophy of a serial entrepreneur to start a new business. It is the junction where a serial entrepreneur takes the lead. There are a lot of people who do not start a business merely due to the fear of failure. Fear of failure erodes the ideas of a person. To become a serial entrepreneur, it is important to take the risks while shutting the door of failure. It indicates the mental strength of any person. You must take failure as food for thought but nothing more than it.
Creative Mind:
You can never be a serial entrepreneur if you have no creative mind. A creative mind enables you to think differently to have a unique and creative business idea. You have to look at the world with a different lens to chalk out a business plan. Though creativity is also a natural trait one can easily polish and spark one's creativity by learning from creative people.
Far-sighted Approach:
A serial entrepreneur prefers growth over the profit of the business. Profit can be for a short period of time but the growth can be long-lasting and sustainable. A serial entrepreneur has the ability to see far-reaching and far-sighted implications of one's business. Intended goals are important to achieve rather than stagnating on some profit. Therefore, you need to have a far-sighted approach to become a serial entrepreneur.
Realistic Optimism:
A serial entrepreneur does not enter in the blind alley. It is important to readjust your strategies according to the situation. For instance, if a business is not working due to any reason, you must start a new business while shutting the old one. You need to keep your eyes and ear open to better understand the situation and take a time manner action.
Time Management:
Time management is the cornerstone of a serial entrepreneur's life. The business has the central role of time management in its success or failure. A serial entrepreneur can manage all the things related to businesses in a timely and organized manner. Therefore, it is imperative to have the trait of time management to become a serial entrepreneur.
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Friday Write-Day: Revisions Abound
On September 9, 2016 October 31, 2016 By Steven D'AdamoIn The Warden of Everfeld, Thoughts
Revising 12 pages minimum per day has been… more work than I had imagined. So far, I've done all right in revising The Warden of Everfeld: Memento — 98 pages in and about a day behind my pace to finish September 23, as planned. I hope to catch up and build a nice cushion for myself this weekend.
I suppose it should not be too surprising that revising a novel actually takes longer than just reading it. But the number of notes, marks, and line edits I've been making on each page is. Six weeks away from my story has given me some great perspective. I obviously still know the main beats of the story, but I do not necessarily know what to expect on each page, in each line of dialogue.
That makes the revision process exciting. I find myself wanting to sit down and revise my story all day. And I'm enjoying reading it.
Allow me to repeat that point. I am fully enjoying reading The Warden of Everfeld: Memento, even with a more critical eye. When I finished the first draft back in July, I was happy just to have completed my novel. I knew that the quality was less than my best, but it was an achievement all the same. While my alpha readers have been reading and revising my story, one thought has stuck out to me. I was not concerned with how many plotholes they found — or how large — or which scenes felt inconsistent with the characters' arcs. I was prepared mentally for all of that.
But I wanted my readers to enjoy the story, to believe that with some more work, that I was capable of writing a good novel with a compelling plot and characters that they could love. I feel like I'm on my way there, because I find the plot compelling and I love the characters. And in talking with some of them about their preliminary impressions, I think at least one or two of them think the same. Maybe I'm biased (definitely), but that's an encouraging feeling.
And it has propelled my desire to make WoEM the best it can possibly be. For me, that's an achievement all its own.
What I'm reading: Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin
I first read through the A Song of Ice and Fire series six years ago when the HBO show premiered. I decided to start re-reading the novels in the desperate hope that Martin will release book six, The Winds of Winter, sometime next spring and I'll be caught up enough to read it. Either way, I'm enjoying GoT, even though I know the story all too well.
What's next on my shelf: Lord of Chaos, by Robert Jordan
As easy as it would be for me to read the entire Wheel of Time series straight through, I try to vary my reading selection between books. But this is obviously my first choice.
What I'm listening to: Earthside, "Mob Mentality"
Progressive metal has invaded my headphones at work this week with ambient, heart-pounding arrangements. Take a trip with Earthside's overture featuring Lajon Witherspoon of Sevendust notoriety and the Moscow Studio symphony Orchestra. The video is great too!
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What Are the Causes of a Lack of Flow in Manufacturing?
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What Are the Causes of Production Losses in Manufacturing?
Advantages & Disadvantages of Mass Batch and Job Order Manufacturing Systems
Typical Lean Manufacturing Measurements
What Is Inbound Logistics & Manufacturing?
Flow manufacturing is a production method used by makers of assembly-line products, such as auto manufacturers. It dates from the 1980s and is based on the principles of the Toyota production system, which emphasized fast, simple, waste-free production in response to demand, rather than in anticipation of demand. This concept is also known as "one-piece flow," "pull" or "demand-based" production, in contrast to "push" production, which is completed ahead of demand and often requires warehousing of inventory. There are many issues that can cause a lack of flow in manufacturing, especially if the principle of one piece flow is not followed.
Design Changes
Design changes can make unfinished mass-produced products instantly obsolete, resulting in wasted money, time and flow, since they are already in the production pipeline and must be discarded to make way for the new products. One-piece flow manufacturing, by contrast, is a flexible system that can quickly change as design changes.
Overproduction
Overproduction hinders manufacturing flow because of the potential for assembly line backups and bottlenecks, which result in slower cycle times. An overabundance of product also results in unnecessary warehousing and labor costs and increased potential for breakage or loss as products lie half-finished on the assembly line. One-piece flow ensures that products are produced only when called for, eliminating overproduction and its attendant costs.
Product Defects
Product defects can be devastating to manufacturing flow. Hundreds or even thousands of products may have to be pulled offline for inspection after a flaw is detected upstream. Flow manufacturing, or single-piece flow, which requires that only one product is finished at a time, reduces the probability that a large batch of products will be assembled in the wrong way.
Delay -- whether from a missed supply shipment, a broken machine on the assembly line, or a labor strike -- can delay manufacturing flow by hours or even days. The principles of flow manufacturing -- by seeking to eliminate unnecessary steps, inaccurate scheduling, defects and overproduction -- help prevent delays that can hinder manufacturing flow.
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Minds Matter Continues its Unprecedented Success with a New Mission Statement
Core of 100% successful program stays the same with new clarity and refinement of purpose
Since its inception in 1991, Minds Matter has been dedicated to transforming the lives of accomplished high school students from low-income families by broadening their dreams and preparing them for college success.
The results of that work are clear: in 29 years of existence, 100% of Minds Matter graduates nationwide have been accepted to four-year colleges and universities.
That work has struck a chord and fulfilled a need across the country, and in doing so Minds Matter has organically spread from a few students in New York City to hundreds of students across 14 major cities nationwide. With thousands of volunteers supporting these students, Minds Matter's impact is dramatic and marked. Its core programming is the key: college access has repeatedly been shown as one of the most powerful levers to break free of the intergenerational cycle of poverty.
Along with the nationwide expansion came a desire in Minds Matter leadership to reference and honor the fundamental motivation of its students, the level of investment that tens of thousands of dedicated volunteers and supporters have made in those students, and the life-long benefits that accrue for the students in whom we invest.
Which is why, after 29 successful years, all 14 Minds Matter chapters and the national office unanimously decided to update the mission statement to reflect these and other important elements as the program embarks on its fourth decade of success. The organization is excited to announce that it has refined its mission statement to reflect the benefits of the research-based, deeply-impactful Minds Matter program nationwide.
The revised mission statement reads:
Minds Matter connects driven and determined students from low-income families with the people, preparation, and possibilities to succeed in college, create their future, and change the world.
Sara Elaqad, Chair of the Minds Matter Chapter Leadership Council, reflects that "This updated mission maintains the important and persistent focus of our work, while also bringing to the forefront the innate skills and impact multiple stakeholders bring together to promote equitable access to higher education and a lifetime of opportunity for our students nationwide."
Ashish Shah, Co-Chair of the Minds Matter National Board of Directors, shares that "this new mission showcases the energy and research-based best practices that our 14 chapters share as well as highlighting the dedication of our students. This new mission statement describes our work—and all that Minds Matter has to offer—in a more meaningful way."
"The focus on people, preparation, and possibilities showcases the resources we bring to bear to provide unprecedented successes for our students. In light of the global Covid-19 pandemic and nationwide conversation around systemic inequity, it's clear that our mission is critical," says Shah. "At the end of the day, this new mission statement unifies the work across our 14 chapters. Our community is strong, and our work continues."
About Minds Matter
Through a highly selective and rigorous 3-year academic mentoring program, Minds Matter students accomplish the extraordinary: 100% of Minds Matter program graduates are accepted into a four-year college and more than 70% of them attend the nation's selective colleges. Powered by over 2,000 volunteers nationwide, Minds Matter chapters are located in 14 cities across the country. The national office of Minds Matter is located in New York City.
For more information about Minds Matter, please contact Minds Matter's Chapter Leadership Council Chair, Sara Elaqad, at sara@mindsmattercleveland.org.
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Грузино-литовские отношения — двусторонние дипломатические отношения между Грузией и Литвой. Государства являются членами Всемирной торговой организации, Организации по безопасности и сотрудничеству в Европе и Организации Объединённых Наций.

История

Дипломатические отношения между государствами были установлены 16 сентября 1994 года.

9 августа 2018 года Литва ввела миграционные ограничения для лиц, включенных в список Отхозории-Татунашвили, которые, по мнению парламента Грузии, «нарушили права граждан Грузии в оккупированных регионах Абхазии и Цхинвали».

В декабре 2020 года министр иностранных дел Литвы Линас Линкявичюс призвал НАТО к более тесному сотрудничеству с Грузией и Украиной и сохранению политики «открытых дверей».

25 февраля 2021 года в ответ на задержание депутата парламента Грузии Ники Мелия министры иностранных дел Эстонии, Латвии и Литвы выступили с совместным заявлением, в котором выразили «серьёзную озабоченность политической ситуацией, складывающейся в Грузии» и призвали «все политические силы действовать сдержанно» и «разрядить обстановку и искать конструктивное решение». Президент Литвы Гитанас Науседа предложил себя в качестве посредника для урегулирования ситуации.

Дипломатические представительства
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 У Литвы есть посольство в Тбилиси.

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TEHRAN – Behrooz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), on Saturday called on European countries to take appropriate measures to counter U.S. sanctions, saying time is needed to determine if they are determined to save the Iran nuclear agreement.
Pointing to a trip to Tehran by the European Commissioner for Energy and Climate, Miguel Arias Canete, Kamalvandi told reporters that the visit conveyed a "positive message" to the international community and that the deal will survive despite U.S. pressure.
According to ISNA, he further said European countries' measures to counter U.S. sanctions must be put into work until August 8, the day U.S. sanctions will go into force.
"Such mechanisms support European firms against America's anti-Iran sanctions and obligates European firms to ignore extra-territorial sanctions," he stated.
The official said the European signatories of the nuclear pact, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), are trying to provide a banking channel for financial transactions between Iran and Europe.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced his country's withdrawal from the JCPOA on May 8 and vowed "the highest level" of economic bans on the Islamic Republic.
Tehran has threatened that if it cannot reap the benefits of the multilateral nuclear agreement if will not hesitate to remove cap on its nuclear activities.
Ali Akbar Salehi, the AEOI chief, said on Saturday that the European commissioner for energy and climate has promised that euro would be used in bilateral trade between Iran and the European Union (EU).


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Jordan Kooy leaning on experience to rise above crowded London Knights crease
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"They said, 'have a good summer, work hard and come back ready,'" the 19-year-old goaltender said this week at London's training camp.
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Published on: August 29, 2019 | Last Updated: August 29, 2019 4:37 PM EDT
London Knights goalie Jordan Kooy stops the puck during practice at Budweiser Gardens in London, Ont. on Monday April 15, 2019. (Derek Ruttan/The London Free Press)
On the heels of a historic and heartbreaking Game 7 loss to Guelph, the Knights brass gave Jordan Kooy some simple instructions to carry into this season.
"They said, 'have a good summer, work hard and come back ready,'" the 19-year-old goaltender said this week at London's training camp.
He worked out with Gary Roberts and trimmed down. He was on the ice nearly daily – with the pros and also with the kids back home alongside his Barrie-based personal goalie coach David Belitski.
No one is putting a target number of games Kooy needs to start for the Knights to have a successful season. But they're finally counting on him to carry the load in his fourth year and serve as the role model for Matt Onuska and Brett Brochu, as Joseph Raaymakers was for him.
"You always have to prove yourself to the coaching staff, that you're a guy they can trust," the Vegas Golden Knights prospect said. "I just want to play as many as I can and roll with it. I'm still going to do my thing and hopefully, the young guys catch on to the hard work stuff and don't get down when they're not playing.
"You have to work hard here to get starts."
The Knights are high on carrying three stoppers into the season and let them dictate their crease time. Onuska and Brochu have zero OHL experience but were standouts at the Junior B and C levels respectively.
"Dale (head coach Dale Hunter) doesn't care if anyone is 19 or 17 years old," Knights goaltending coach Daren Machesney said. "We'll give you the opportunity and see what you do. If they play well, they play. If they don't, then somebody else plays. Your job is to be in shape to play well when called upon and if it's something like three games in a row, whenever it is, that's the role."
Kooy wasn't expected to be London's No. 1 in the playoffs last spring, but he secured it with his big victory to clinch first place in Saginaw. He never gave the Knights a reason to go back to Raaymakers in the team's 11 post-season games – a personal run that should give him the edge over most opposing OHL netminders this year.
"I think Jordan would've liked to be a little better in Game 7 (against the Storm), but it's a learning experience," Machesney said. "We expect he can be a top guy in the league. He put a little more into conditioning and that's one step. Now, it's the brain and mentality because that's something that can get tired, too.
"At this position, character drives everything and it's the response to criticism and coaching that is most important. We have three guys here coming off solid seasons and they are all willing to learn."
KNOW THAT NAME:Onuska, acquired from Kingston last week, is already familiar to London junior hockey fans.
The 17-year-old from Waterloo backstopped his hometown Siskins as a rookie to the Sutherland Cup title over the Nationals in a classic Junior B final series last spring. That caught the Knights' attention in a major way.
"You don't get a lot of those championship opportunities," the 6-foot-3, 176-pounder said, "so I just thought I'd make the most of it and I'm glad we came out on top. Going into Game 7 overtime (at Western Fair), it showed how close the teams were."
Onuska called it a little "weird" to be traded before playing his first OHL game, but he was pleased to land in London. He trained back home with pros Logan Stanley and Boris Katchouk and took shots from the likes of Jets centre Mark Scheifele.
He definitely didn't grow up a Knights fan as a Kitchener Rangers follower.
"When I was younger, you only didn't like London because they did a lot of winning," he said. "They were able to beat the Rangers lots. I'm excited to try to help them now. It's a wonderful organization with such a history of success."
BROCHU BONUS: Brochu, who turns 17 next month, knows Onuska well. They played against each other growing up in the Chatham-Waterloo Alliance tilts and were also roommates at age 12 on a summer hockey tournament trip to Sweden.
"It's fun going against guys you know and get along with," the Tilbury native said. "My goal is to make the team, obviously, and it's going to be competitive. All you can do is play your game and you can't control what everybody else does."
This is Brochu's second Knights camp. He was a familiar face at London practices down the stretch after his season with Dresden ended.
"You get to learn off guys like Joe and Kooy, who are both great," he said. "Goalies need to stick together. Taking those shots (from players like Evan Bouchard) improves your game. Being a young guy, you just want to develop and last year was a good experience. I played a lot and got that practice time."
He is hardly the biggest specimen at 5-foot-11 and 165 pounds, but he moves well and has tremendous instincts. He also comes from a training background since his family owns Beachwalk Family Fitness facilities in the Windsor area.
"(Blues assistant coach and ex-NHLer) Steve Ott used to work out there," Brochu said. "I was in the gym five days a week and was on the ice at the WFCU Centre for a couple of skates organized by (Oiler) Zack Kassian."
His personal goalie coach, Perry Wilson of the Spitfires, held 7 a.m. sessions every Tuesday and Thursday.
"I got up for those, too," he said with a grin.
AROUND THE RINK: The Knights' Green/Gold game Wednesday raised more than $3,000 for victims of the Old East Village home explosion. Veterans Paul Cotter and Josh Nelson each scored a pair in Green's 6-3 win . . . On Thursday, the team signed 16-year-old third-rounders Ty Anselmini (a forward from Guelph) and St. Catharines d-man Connor Federkow . . . London opens the preseason against the Sting Friday, 7:30 p.m. at Budweiser Gardens. They are in Sarnia Saturday at 7 p.m. . . . The Sting dealt d-man Alexandre Hogue to Guelph Wednesday for a conditional 15th round draft pick. He had 5 goals and 11 points in 55 games last year . . . Sarnia leading scorer Hugo Leufvenius signed with Swedish pro team Karlskrona rather than entertain an overage campaign with the Sting . . . The Knights start the exhibition season with 15 forwards, 11 defencemen and three goaltenders on the roster.
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