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Building the DigiFarm Innovation Platform – The Journey to One Million Farmers
May 27, 2019 | All, Digital Financial Services, Distribution Channel Logistics, Farmer Capability & Smart Farming, Women & Youth
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How did a pioneering mobile money provider become a change agent for the world's smallholder farmers?
This is the question that Safaricom and the Vodafone Group asked Mercy Corps' AgriFin Accelerate program, funded by the Mastercard Foundation, three years ago in Kenya at the beginning of the DigiFarm journey. Over the past 10 years, M-PESA has achieved astonishing levels of adoption in Kenya. Active (30-day) M-PESA user has reached over 20.5m users. The growth of M-PESA has brought important gains for rural Kenyans as a whole. In an evaluation by Suri and Jack (Science 2016), access to M-PESA services has moved approximately 2% of rural Kenyan households out of absolute poverty. Female-headed households, in particular, benefited from mobile money remittances by using transfers to bolster both savings and investments in productive assets.
But Safaricom and Vodafone have recognized that both the M-PESA platform and communications services could be more transformative in agriculture, particularly for smallholder farmers. Agriculture is the backbone of the Kenyan economy, with the agricultural sector employing over 75% of the workforce and accounting for 30% of GDP. There are over 7 million smallholder farmers in Kenya, who account for over 85% of agricultural output and 70% of marketed produce. Yet the majority of smallholders live in poverty. And while more than 50% of smallholder farmers use M-PESA, usage rates are lower than for the average population, mainly involving savings and bill payments (AFA 2017 Kenya Smallholder Benchmark Study).
Mercy Corps' AgriFin Accelerate program supported the DigiFarm journey, as an innovation partner in farmer-centric product development, business modeling, partnership support, and impact measurement.
As a first step, Safaricom and Mercy Corps wanted to understand the needs of farmers and used the human-centered design (HCD) approach to define the DigiFarm product roadmap, working with Dalberg and its design team. Early assumptions held that farmers needed more access to credit, but HCD revealed a more complex picture around the risks that smallholders face and manage, as well as the very different positions of men and women in smallholder farm households, where women make up more than half of the agricultural workforce.
Gaining Smallholder Insights
Farmer insights showed that low-quality inputs, unstable markets, and lack of information on good farm practices are critical farmer risks. Until these constraints are addressed, farmer growth and demand for financial services, including savings and credit, will be low. DigiFarm was therefore designed to serve as a convenient, one-stop mobile platform offering farmers access to all the services they need to increase their productivity and income. The platform "bundles" services to allow farmers to choose what services are needed and when. Mercy Corps' AFA program has worked over the past three years with Safaricom to continuously innovate to build in new products and services to that bundle as the platform expands.
Building the DigiFarm Platform
Safaricom understood from HCD results that the wide range of services needed by farmers across multiple types of activities, including crops, livestock, and horticulture, required deep agricultural expertise. DigiFarm, therefore, has been built as a collaborative platform with a shared revenue model across core commercial partners. Safaricom serves as the platform, transactional provider, and data hub. Initial platform partners included iProcure for just-in-time agricultural input supply, FarmDrive for credit scoring and farmer profiling, and Arifu for interactive information services and e-learning.
DigiFarm continues to onboard new partners, including iCow, the Kenya Livestock Producers Association (KLPA), AgroCares and Georgetown University gui2de for impact evaluation. Access to quality inputs, up-to-date information and best practices, extension services, or financial services have a direct impact on the productivity and profitability of the farm. Initial e-learning content was developed for dairy farmers with the help of Heifer International and delivered on Arifu's interactive SMS chat solution that connects dairy farmers to best practices and other services to boost their productivity. Content has expanded based on farmer interests to include maize, poultry, and horticulture. Important topics such as pest management for Fall Army Worm was also developed.
The DigiFarm minimum viable product (MVP) pilot, launched in three Kenyan counties from March to September 2017, registered over 200,000 dairy farmers with 60,000 active users, far surpassed the original goal of registering 50,000 farmers on the system. Spurred on by the market response, Safaricom and partners continued to build the "bundle" of services on the DigiFarm platform to include the DigiFarm input loan, which is fully credit scored and available to qualified farmers in minutes. By June 2018, DigiFarm has registered nearly 700,000 farmers in its first year of the full product bundle, with approximately 35% active rates and received over 200,000 loan applications.
The third major phase of development for DigiFarm was initiated in early 2018 to build a digital marketplace for registered farmers, linking them to a wide range of fair-price buyers, along with the training and input credit they need, but also building in new services to reinforce the farmer journey, including access to soil testing and new cash loans to support the harvest. Market access services were piloted in October 2018, as the platform neared 1 million registered farmers.
What is DigiFarm today?
DigiFarm is accessible on any type of phone through its' USSD based platform accessed by dialing *283#. Once a farmer dials the short-code, a menu appears with options and a suite of services. Given the rising number of Kenyan smallholders, particularly youth, using smartphones, DigiFarm will launch its' Android app in 2019. Safaricom plans to reach more than 3 million farmers over the next two years. Safaricom is continuously working on iterating and building the DigiFarm suite of services to including insurance and other key services, such as access to mechanization and transport services.
Leesa Shrader – Program Director, Mercy Corps AgriFin Accelerate
Andrew Karlyn – Director for Strategy and Learning, AgriFin Accelerate
Emmanuel Makau – Technology Product Manager


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Located at South 2nd Street and Court Street. The exterior of the Paramount Theatre was in an Art Deco style, somewhat similar to Rapp & Rapp's Paramount Theatre in Stapleton, Staten Island, NY.
This Paramount Theatre in Hamilton opened on March 6, 1931 with Miriam Hopkins in "Fast and Loose". The theatre was equipped with a Barton 3 Manual, 14 Rank theatre organ. It was operated by Paramount Pictures Inc. through their subsidiary Harry David.
The Paramount Theatre was closed in around 1960, and was demolished in 1961, to become a parking lot for an adjacent bank.
I have to jog my memory but, When we owned the organ I did some research and talked to some people in Hamilton and what I understand is that the building and area were becoming a blight to the city fathers and in the urban renewel policies of the 60's and 70's the plan was always, tear it down for something new and modern. By the time American society got nostalgic to thier childhood treasures many of these places were gone. I worked as a projectionist at the Grand THeater in Woodstown NJ in high School. It was the greatest job in the world. School students ran the place with the operator. THe problem was the bank next door bought the property years before and decided to closed the lease and put up a drive through. The theater was successful and provded a place for kids on the weekend to hang out in a rural community. Once it was gone there was no where for the kids to go. So mischeif increaed. Money before civic responcibility. It's a lesson we need the power brokers of our country to get. Theaters bring communities together.
This theater was a bit strange in the time it was built. The days of Vaudeville were mostly over talkies where the standard and silent movie music was dead. So in the middle of the Depression some very hopefull group of people put up a real 20's style theater. They put in what was a very large and very expensive pipe organ when most of the big builds had already folded. Even Wurlitzer was moving out of the pipe organ business. It is a real shame it didn't last. Tv most likely killed it off in the 50's . I've never been to Hamilton I imagine that the post war move to the suburbs and TV doomed the Paramount as it doomed many intercity houses.
"theatres bring communities together"..A great slogan that we are not to forget even though so many are lost to us now yet the ones that remain need to remain!
Miami University of Ohio is in that town so they should have an historic cinema! Shame shame!
Patsy, I think it would only be fair to tell you that Miami University of Ohio is located exactly where it was originally built way back in the early 1800s in OXFORD, Ohio. Yes, they do have a branch with a few buildings in Hamilton but this city is not it's home.
Growing up in Hamilton, I fondly remember the Paramount. It was the "premier" theater downtown. It was the first theater in Hamilton to install CinemaScope with full 4-track Stereophonic Sound. The screen was very large – covering the entire stage area (apporx. 50-60'). Although "The Robe" was the first film released in CinemaScope, because of Hamilton's close proximity to Cincinnati, the RKO Albee had exclusive rights to "The Robe" for several weeks. Consequently, the first CinemaScope film to play the Paramount was MGM's "Knights of the Round Table". "The Robe" followed. The Paramount needed a good remodel job by the late 50's but was still a grand theater. The Rentschler family owned the Citizens Bank next to the theater and when the lease expired, they purchased the Paramount in 1961 and had it demolished for, what else, a parking lot to serve their bank. Thus began the gradual demise of downtown Hamilton as a thriving commercial center.
erco46 – Do you know when the Grand Theater in Woodstown, NJ was built? Do you know the year it was demolished? Did you graduate from Woodstown High School? Year? I am a 1949 graduate and spent many enjoyable evenings and or Saturday afternoons at this theater.
The Paramount did not close in 1955. If it had, I would not have seen movies there and I did with my older brothers. I believe it was closed either in 1960 or 1961 the year it was torn down. We loved going there and I never saw a film anywhere else until it closed. I remember the balcony and the size of the place. We always went on Saturday afternoons. Even as such a young kid, I was heart sick when I saw them tearing it down.
The Paramount Theater always showed the Walt Disney and the Martin-Lewis films during their first run. You could always tell when one of these films were in town, because the line extended down to the corner of Second St (where the theater was located) and High St. Radcliffe's Drug Store sat on that corner. Admission was about $.50-$.75 but my mother told me about how she had to save up money to see Gone With The Wind when it played there in 1939. Admission was like $l.50 to $2. The theater had little boxes on the side walls which looked like opera boxes. They also had a very fashionable lobby in the basement and a fancy powder room for the ladies (This of course I have no first hand knowledge except what Mom told me.
Paramount Theater — 18 South Second Street, east side of Second between High and Court (now a bank parking lot), opposite historic Courthouse. Paramount, Hamilton's most elegant theater, opened March 6, 1931, with 1,813 seats (1,483 on the main floor and 330 in the balcony). Building extended 90 feet along Second Street with a depth of 175 feet to Journal Square. The Eagle Theater at the northwest corner of Court Street and Journal Square was one of several buildings razed to permit construction of the Paramount. The new theater was designed by George Rapp and C. W. Rapp, theater architects, New York City. The Midland Co. of Cincinnati, headed by Frank Messer, was the general contractor. Its theater-building experience included the Albee, Palace, Keith, Cox, Capitol and Schubert theaters in Cincinnati. A newspaper described the Paramount interior as a "combination of the classic and modern period, with a dominant Italian Renaissance motif. The vaulted dome ceiling, as well as the series of attractive niches, artfully illuminated by concealed lights … Give maximum acoustic qualities." The last show at the Paramount was Sept. 5, 1960. It was demolished in January 1961 to provide a parking lot adjacent to the Citizens Bank. Contrery to previous comments, it wasn't part of an urban renewal project and wasn't in a declining area.


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Posted in 32 (Six of Wands), 43 (Three of Cups), 59 (Five of Swords), Kirk Cousins on December 16, 2012| Leave a Comment »
Kirk Cousins will make his first NFL start at quarterback in place of fellow rookie Robert Griffin III when the Washington Redskins in Cleveland on Sunday against the Browns, the team confirmed Saturday night.
Redskins spokesman Tony Wyllie said late Saturday that Cousins will start against the Browns. A person familiar with the situation said a few hours earlier that Griffin would not play in the game because of the sprained lateral collateral ligament in his right knee that he suffered during last Sunday's triumph over the Baltimore Ravens at FedEx Field.
If Griffin is on the Redskins' inactive list for the game, veteran Rex Grossman would back up Cousins.
Griffin wrote Saturday night on Twitter: "The decision was not my own. … But I will be there for my team!!! In every way I possibly can."
Cousins's first start comes with the Redskins riding a four-game winning streak that has raised their record to 7-6. They're in the thick of the NFC playoff chase. The Redskins are one game behind the first-place New York Giants in the NFC East and a game in back of the Chicago Bears and Seattle Seahawks in the wild-card race.
Griffin, who's tied with New England's Tom Brady with a league-best passer rating of 104.2, participated in practices during the week on a limited basis. Griffin took part in individual drills and seemed to move well during those portions of the practices that were open to media members.
But the Redskins apparently are wary of risking a more serious injury to Griffin's knee. Medical experts not involved in the case said early in the week that they wouldn't be surprised to see the Redskins take a cautious approach and allow Griffin's knee to heal fully before allowing him to play again.
Redskins Coach Mike Shanahan said Monday that Griffin had suffered a Grade 1 sprain of the LCL in his right knee. A Grade 1 sprain is the least severe sprain, and is defined as an injury in which the ligament is merely stretched and not torn in a significant way.
Griffin suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee while in college at Baylor in 2009.
He suffered this injury when he was hit by Ravens defensive tackle Haloti Ngata at the end of a run late in the fourth quarter. Griffin's right leg bent awkwardly on the play. He left the game for one play, being replaced by Cousins, and then returned for four plays before exiting for good.
Cousins threw a touchdown pass to wide receiver Pierre Garcon and then ran for a tying two-point conversion with 29 seconds to play. The Redskins won, 31-28, on place kicker Kai Forbath's overtime field goal. Now Cousins has had a full week to get ready, having taken the snaps with the starting offense during full team drills in practices.
Shanahan said Friday that Cousins had a "good week" of practices.
"He's been pretty consistent all the way through camp, all the way through all the games we've prepared for this season," Shanahan said Friday.
The Redskins previously had listed Griffin as questionable on their official injury report and had called his availability a game-time decision. Shanahan had said the team's doctors would be consulted before a decision was made about whether Griffin would play.
Of Cousins, Shanahan said Friday: "He's got to be prepared to go either way. Any time you get reps, a quarterback has always got to be ready to go. Especially in a situation like this, you have to be prepared mentally to go."
Cousins also replaced Griffin during an October game against the Atlanta Falcons after Griffin suffered a concussion. Cousins threw a touchdown pass in that game but also threw two interceptions to seal a Redskins loss. Cousins was in line to start a week later against the Minnesota Vikings. But Griffin was cleared to practice and play after undergoing testing, and started the Vikings game.
Now the Redskins must try to win a crucial game with playoff implications minus their candidate for NFL rookie of the year and most valuable player. The Browns are in last place in the AFC North and have a record of 5-8. But they've played better lately, with three straight wins. Cousins is to oppose a fellow rookie quarterback in Browns starter Brandon Weeden.
The Redskins have two regular season games remaining after this one, at Philadelphia on Dec. 23 and home against the Dallas Cowboys on Dec. 30, and it appears possible that Griffin could return to the lineup for those games.
from: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/football-insider/wp/2012/12/15/kirk-cousins-will-start-vs-browns-in-place-of-injured-robert-griffin-iii/
Kirk Cousins was born on August 19th, 1988 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Cousins
8 + 19 +2+0+1+2 = 32 = his personal year (from August 19th, 2012 to August 18th, 2013) = In it to win it.
32 year + 11 (November) = 43 = his personal month (from November 19th, 2012 to December 18th, 2012) = Let's play.
43 year + 16 (16th of the month on Sunday December 16th, 2012) = 59 = his personal day = Save us.
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Kim added, "I can't do that."
Kim's statement puts the World Bank somewhat at odds with itself. The World Bank has been a major proponent of investment in renewable energy. Yet, it says it must choose between a coal-fired plant in Kosovo and people freezing to death.
But based on the solutions available today (some created by the World Bank itself under Dan Kammen), and where the world is heading on CO2 emissions, the choice between development and combating climate change is a false choice.
Here's the false choice argument.
On the one hand, we are already deeply in the red in terms of greenhouse gas emissions, meaning that even if we could go carbon-free tomorrow, we are still going to subject ourselves to human-induced climate change beyond our goal of a maximum of 2° Celsius temperature rise. As a result, we must curtail any future emissions wherever and whenever possible.
On the other hand, what is one more coal-fired power plant in a nation such as Kosovo where energy shortages impact industry and economic development? This is a bright red line for the World Bank President. Are his previous words about the dangers of climate change sincere or hollow?
Development agencies such as the World Bank have generally argued that their poverty mission includes bringing energy access to those without energy. So despite the World Bank's support of renewable energy in most cases, every once in a while, a coal plant needed to save those who are freezing trumps the environment.
But they have to dance around the central question: can Kosovo's energy needs be met without coal?
This is the ultimate question facing not only the World Bank, but also India, China, South Africa, and all others that seek to provide power to the powerless.
It's now 2013, and we are deploying advanced energy technologies at the billion-dollar scale -- $279 billion alone in 2012. Finance and business model innovation have made this choice of coal or freezing to death (in the Kosovo case) obsolete.
From no-money-down solar to the use of "big data" to reduce electricity theft, entrepreneurs have come up with clever ways to solve real-world problems while accommodating the power structures currently in place.
Those of us in the energy industry need to step in to help the World Bank -- not only with words, but also with action. We can make climate-friendly development a top priority, as it goes hand-in-hand with human needs.
In fact, World Bank President Kim commissioned a report last year that found "the Earth system's responses to climate change appear to be non-linear. […] If we venture far beyond the 2° guardrail, toward the 4° line, the risk of crossing tipping points rises sharply. The only way to avoid this is to break the business-as-usual pattern of production and consumption."
What is important -- and deserves repeating to all agencies involved in international development and the financing of health, education, infrastructure and other drivers of economic growth -- appears in the preface of the report written by Kim himself: "Most importantly, a 4°C world is so different from the current one that it comes with high uncertainty and new risks that threaten our ability to anticipate and plan for future adaptation needs."
So this is the World Bank president's moment of truth.
Christiana Figueres, the United Nations' top climate change official, said last week the time has come for the World Bank to get out of coal.
Speaking in Washington, D.C. after attending the World Bank spring meetings, Figueres praised Kim for making global warming a top priority. Figueres said that nations, along with the World Bank, no longer need to invest in coal as an energy source.
However, in defiance of international pressure after the Tata Mundra coal project in India and Eskom's project in South Africa, the World Bank is currently considering an investment in a 600-megawatt coal-fired power plant for Kosovo.
Yet Kosovo does not have a great experience with coal. The country suffers from regular power outages and from the worst coal-driven air pollution in Europe. Investing in coal when European nations are working to clean their energy economies and to set region-wide standards to push out coal would be handing Kosovo a discriminatory, backward-looking investment package.
Instead, this should be an easy decision for investors and the World Bank. The World Bank's own study found that Kosovo has wind, biomass, solar, hydro, and energy efficiency resources available that are more than sufficient to meet the 600-megawatt supply needs. Further, European investors have already proposed over 200 megawatts of privately funded wind energy investments in Kosovo. This shows that industry is ready to move at the scale needed to put clean energy to work in Kosovo today.
Entrepreneurs have stepped up with solutions -- now we must convince the World Bank to believe its own analysis and deliver the best energy solution to the people of Kosovo. It is high time for the World Bank to take a moral stand and prove to the world that we don't have to choose between catastrophic climate change and development goals.
Jigar Shah is the author of the upcoming book, Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy, and the founder of SunEdison, the world's leading solar services company.


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Burlington man charged with having child pornography
Posted 9:16 am, March 22, 2018, by Web Staff
Willard Ty Cobb, 69.
BURLINGTON, N.C. — A Burlington man was arrested Wednesday on multiple charges involving child pornography, according to an Alamance County Sheriff's Office press release.
Willard Ty Cobb, 69, was arrested and charged with one count of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and six counts of sexual exploitation of a minor.
Investigators were first alerted about Cobb as part of an ongoing underground operation. Deputies say the 69-year-old sent a pornographic video involving a child to a detective.
Cobb was charged after investigators obtained a search warrant and seized multiple electronic devices. Additional charges may be forthcoming.
He was taken to jail on a $100,000 secured bond.
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R. Kelly paid thousands of dollars to recover missing sex tapes and paid victims to lie, prosecutors say
49-year-old man charged with child sex crimes, arrested at meet-up spot in Alamance County
Pastor charged after police find edited photos of him in S&M, bondage scenarios with children
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BOYS OF BONNEVILLE
When it comes to "car films" you can count really great ones on one hand. Add Boys of Bonneville to that hand. This wonderfully crafted documentary has absorbing historic footage combined with a fine cross-section of folks who speak with authority (Hugh Coltharp, Gordon E. White) and sometimes only awe (Jay Leno) about David Abbot (Ab) Jenkins (1883-1956) whom many steadfastly believe is the "Father of salt racing and his son, Marv Jenkins.
It was Ab's dogged determination that put the Bonneville Salt Flats on the international racing map, not to mention the hundreds of speed marks he set there proving the salt's worth.
Considering his limited resources, Jenkins racked up remarkable achievements. What distinguished him from his contemporaries was his precise use of local, "tribal" salt knowledge and unlimited guts. He was a deeply religious man who put his faith in God, and by God, he went far.
Jenkins was often oxymoronically called "The World's Safest Speedster" because he set more world records than any other driver, past or present, yet he was prouder of his million-mile "no accident" street driving record than all his speed and endurance records combined. His watchwords were simple: Safety First.
Moreover, the vintage film footage shows first-hand what a relaxed champion he was — exiting his Bonneville Salt Flats racing machines after a grueling 24-hour endurance run as though he were climbing out of a limousine on Broadway.
It took several decades later to topple Jenkins exhausting, 48-hour endurance record. As for the marks that have fallen, it required the efforts of several drivers compared to Jenkins single-man driving shows. However, many still remain intact today.
One-time considered Utah's "one-man public relations machine," Jenkins racing fame got him elected Mayor of Salt Lake in 1940 without ever giving a speech, or spending a nickel on a campaign. He served until 1944.
Ab Jenkins was the certainly the first person catch "salt fever" and luckily he passed it on to succeeding generations with a need for speed. When Jenkins died at age 76, on August 9, 1956, the world was a little slower for him having done so.
If the film has one flaw, it failed to clearly document that it was Jenkins and his son Marv's super human driving efforts on behalf of General Motors Pontiac Motor Division that caused the executives to name the new V8 Fuel Injected 1957 model "Bonneville" when the pair set dozens of speed marks out on the salt. It is the only car in the world that "earned" its name and not simply "given" its name.
If it was a matter of total run time at stake, the comments from Donald Davidson would never be missed giving viewers another sumptuous morsel of achievement from two ordinary men who did extraordinary things.
Land speed racing continues today on the flats, it is an iconic slice of what remains of American frontier life, great daring-do with all the ponies now under the hood.
When writing my book, Bonneville Salt Flats, I was privileged to be given unrestricted access by the Jenkins family to their personal files and photo collection. I spent several days in Noma and Marv's in St. George, Utah home researching the the early days of the sport going through Ab's entire career. It was a phenomenal collection of documentation, photos, letters and personal commentary of the era.
I came away thinking, "there ought to be a film made about these two" and now there is. Although the Jenkins name has faded away in motor sports, Director Curt Wallin has done a masterful job in resetting the consciousness level together with great editing and well-paced, informative writing that even a Hampton Socialite would be happy miss a nail appointment to see the film.
The film will be shown on the big screen in Wendover, Utah during the 2011 Speedweek and Pebble Beach in Carmel, CA, the following week as well as during a variety of film festivals, but will not be put into general distribution for too many reasons I won't bore you with here. For more information about screenings near you, or how to buy the DVD, navigate to: http://www.boysofbonneville.com
In the spirit of transparency, you'll see my mug, or hear my voice in the film a few times. My only regret is not taking time to "powder my nose" before Wallin and crew filmed my interview at the Indianapolis Speedway Museum. Consequently, I look like I have just been dragged through the hedge backwards after spending a day in Gasoline Alley running around with Paula Murphy and Andy Granatelli (the guy makes the Energizer bunny look like slug).


AbercrombieAbercrombie's new store in Columbus.
Abercrombie is shrinking the size of its stores.
On Friday, in a call with investors, the company's management team outlined plans to roll out 70 smaller store locations in 2018.
In 2017, the Abercrombie brand opened seven smaller prototype stores.
CEO Fran Horowitz claims these stores are generating more sales per square foot in a smaller footprint.
Abercrombie is shrinking the size of stores to boost sales.
In a call with investors on Friday, Abercrombie and Fitch's CEO, Fran Horowitz, outlined the retailer's plans to roll out 70 smaller stores in 2018 – 12 of which will be for the Abercrombie brand, 7 Abercrombie Kids, and 50 Hollister.
"We are evolving as the retail pattern is evolving" Joanne Crevoiserat, chief operating officer at Abercrombie & Fitch, said on a call with Business Insider after it reported earnings.
The company has made a significant investment in its stores over the past year. In 2017, it created seven new Abercrombie prototype stores, downsized 16 of its stores, and closed 39. Earlier this year, it said it would close another 60 stores in 2018.
The new, smaller locations, however, are proving to be effective for the brand.
"We don't need that level of space," Horowitz said, referring to the former larger stores. "The new stores are more shoppable – we've turned on lights and made it easier to shop for product and house product," she added.
Abercrombie is wising up to the fact that 'less is more' when it comes to the store experience, following in the footsteps of trendy start-ups such as Everlane, which have innovated the way we shop by offering a minimalist shopping experience. Everlane is certainly more extreme, however.
Abercrombie's teen sister brand Hollister has been leading the way – almost 50% of its stores have been remodeled, helping to drive more sales, Horowitz told Business Insider.
The turnaround effort for the brand seems to be working. On Friday, Abercrombie & Fitch announced its second quarter of consecutive growth – same-store sales at the Abercrombie brand itself were up 3%, and 5% overall, thanks to strong sales at Hollister.


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Q: I got an epic chest before the legendary chest what does that mean for me? Does this mess up my cycle? Or do I still have a chance of getting a legendary chest.

A: It means  you got lucky. Apparently our of cycle chests don't mess up the cycle, so you're fine.

A: It's pretty well known that for the first cycle, you get legendary and epic chests together. You'll still get 10 epics and a legendary.

A: I really think that the Legendary and Epic Chests coming toghether was just a one-time thing. So, I don't really think you would earn another Chest group.

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Central African Airways Flight 890, a Vickers Viscount 745D, crashed during a scheduled passenger flight from Wadi Halfa, Sudan, to Benghazi, Libya, about nine kilometers southeast of Benina International Airport in Libya. A total of forty-seven passengers and seven crew members were on board of whom only eighteen survived, making it the deadliest ever plane crash in Libya at the time of the accident. It still remains the deadliest accident for Central African Airways.

Cause of the crash

According to an International Civil Aviation Organization accident digest, the plane crashed while making a nighttime approach to runway 33R, and while flying in clouds the pilot descended below a safe altitude, causing the aircraft to crash into high ground. While the reason for the quick descent remains unknown, it is believed the pilot may have misinterpreted the reading of his altimeter as a result of fatigue and possible indisposition.

See also
 Aviation safety
 List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft

References

External links
Accident description Aviation Safety Network

Aviation accidents and incidents in 1958
Accidents and incidents involving the Vickers Viscount
Aviation accidents and incidents in Libya
Airliner accidents and incidents involving controlled flight into terrain
Central African Airways accidents and incidents
1958 in Libya
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Mateys
Reno Pyrate Punx
By Luka Starmer
Adam Young of Reno Pyrate Punx Chapter 21 next to their decal on the club doors of Jub Jub's Thirst Parlor.
Photo/Luka Starmer
The Benefit for the Homies will take place at Jub Jub's Thirst Parlor, 71 S. Wells Ave., on Dec. 29 at 8:30 p.m. Items for the raffle may be donated at the door. $5 cover.
In the punk music scene, a friend of a friend is still a friend.
Adam Young looks down at his phone, reading off details in text messages about a terrible car accident that happened last August. Six people were heading back down Interstate 5 from a camping gathering in Oregon when they were cut off, swerved and flipped four times.
"I've never actually met any of the people injured, but we're all involved with Pyrate Punx together," said Young.
Most of the people involved in that wreck aren't from Reno, but the hardcore and punk community here is planning a fundraiser for their medical bills, organized by the Pyrate Punx organization.
Pyrate Punx are loosely organized groups of D.I.Y. punk and hardcore promoters. The organization has been around since 1997. There are chapters all over the U.S., England, Canada, The Netherlands, Germany and Indonesia. Reno is home to the 21st chapter, and Young is one of the members. This local group fluctuates between 10 and 15 people—friends who are tied in with the metal, hardcore and punk music scene.
Each Pyrate Punk member pays $10 in dues that go towards helping touring bands with food, gas and places to stay.
"We don't make money or have a bank account or anything like that," said Young.
Nor do they have hierarchy of administration. The members come from all walks of life in Reno. Anyone is welcome to join on one condition: no racism, no sexism and no homophobia, explained Young.
Fil Corbitt, a podcast producer from Reno, gave a definition of the D.I.Y. punk scene in his Van Sounds episode "Snake In The Grass" from November 2017:
"The D.I.Y. Is short for 'do it yourself.' It's a tradition, or a sort of ethical code, in a large subset of punk and independent music. Championing anti-consumerism and self-sufficiency, D.I.Y. scenes typically operate underground, sometimes literally, throwing shows in basements, and figuratively, by establishing networks of bands and artists who operate without record deals or corporate support or traditional venues.
This definition works for Reno's Pyrate Punx, given that they book shows from local bands and the extended network of friends who know bands who are touring. They set up gigs at Shea's, the Potentialist Workshop, peoples' houses or anywhere who will have them.
But another hallmark of Pyrate Punx is their propensity to help people who need it. In November, the Reno Pyrate Punx chapter did another benefit show for a new non-profit called Walk About Youth Expeditions whose goal is to get hiking and camping gear for children to get them to be active outside.
Vyvian Becher was one of the people involved in the accident last August. She suffered major neck and back injuries, was life-flighted twice and spent months in a full-body cast. Last year, she helped with Pyrate Punx benefits to raise money for domestic animals who were victims of the Chico-Redding wildfire.
At the Benefit For the Homies, she will be one of the guests of honor, helping to re-coup medical bills for the others in the truck when it flipped.
"There should be five of the six people who were in the crash at this benefit," said Becher. "I've been out of commission for four months, so there are a lot of people I haven't seen."
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Despite Cowboy Indian's rockabilly and Western influences, they don't consider themselves to be a country band.
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Moskovitz ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Dustin Moskovitz (* 1984), Mitbegründer des sozialen Netzwerkes Facebook
 Reuven Moskovitz (1928–2017), israelischer Friedensaktivist

Siehe auch:

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Home >News >India >China's weapon supply to terrorists in Myanmar re-ignites India's fear of another insurgency in North-East: report
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China's weapon supply to terrorists in Myanmar re-ignites India's fear of another insurgency in North-East: report
3 min read . Updated: 25 Jul 2020, 08:25 AM IST ANI
EFSAS says while preliminary investigations have suggested that Chinese weapons—seized in Mae Tao region--may have been destined for insurgents in Myanmar, the development has nonetheless raised antennae within security circles in New Delhi
AMSTERDAM : The recent seizure of a large quantity of illegal Chinese weapons in Mae Tao region, which is on the Thai side of the Myanmar-Thailand border, has given rise to India's fear of another attempt to reignite insurgency in its North-East region, a European-based think tank said.
Citing a June 23 report published in The Irrawaddy, the European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS) said, "While preliminary investigations have suggested that the weapons may have been destined for insurgent groups in Myanmar, the development has nonetheless raised antennae within security circles in New Delhi. It has also reignited the serious questions that had existed for long about the scope and depth of China's support to terrorist groups in the region in pursuit of its policy of what a Thailand-based organisation termed -- diplo-terrorism."
While confirming the report that the weapons seized from the Myanmar-Thailand border belonged to China, The Irrawaddy quoted a source from an ethnic armed organisation based on the border, as saying, "They are not the weapons currently used by the AA (Arakan Army). The weapons manufactured by the Wa (United Wa State Army) and the KIA (Kachin Independence Army) are not up to much. They cannot fire on automatic. The seized weapons are original and Chinese-made."
"Indian insurgents from the country's North-Eastern states who have been sheltering for years in Myanmar, as well as the AA that has its roots in the Rakhine state of Myanmar, both present security challenges for India. In addition to being threats to national security, they are also irritants that impact India's Act East Policy. The Indian suspicion, not without basis, is that impeding the progress of India's Act East projects has assumed weight in China's strategic thinking. The influx of Chinese weapons is, accordingly, in tune with such thinking," the EFSAS said.
With regard to this matter, on July 20, India's Ambassador to Thailand, Suchitra Durai, held a meeting with Unsit Sampuntharat, Governor of Tak province of Thailand in which Mae Sot is located. Meanwhile, the Indian security agencies have also been in touch with their counterparts in Myanmar and Thailand to get further details about the seized consignment.
Citing a study titled 'China's diplo-terrorism in Myanmar' by Anders Corr, a former civilian worker for the United States' military intelligence, that appeared in the Bangkok-based LiCAS.news, EFSAS said, "China was supplying funds and sophisticated weaponry to the AA, a terrorist organisation, in a bid to expand its diplomatic influence in Myanmar."
"An object lesson in diplo-terrorism is the leverage over Myanmar and India that China gained by arming the Arakan Army, operating in the corridor from North-East India over Myanmar's Chin and Rakhine states to the Indian Ocean. The evidence of China using violence by ethnic militias in Myanmar against its competitors demonstrates the violent side of its Belt and Road development project, which not only ensnares recipients in debt traps, but seeks to bar competitors through violent means deployed by criminal sub-state actors..., Corr was quoted as saying.
"Sadly, China's conception of its role in the world seems to be guided by exactly the zero-sum conflict over territory and influence that it accuses others of fomenting. It does not limit itself to soft power. Rather, Beijing associates with the lowest-level forms of terrorist and gangland violence in order to attain its diplomatic objectives," Corr said.
The Amsterdam-based think tank recalled US Senator Larry Pressler as saying, during his visit to Kolkata in 2002, that China was the world's major source of small arms proliferation that was "fuelling conflicts from Morocco to Malaysia".
Similarly in 2015, strategic analyst Wasbir Hussain said, "China, in fact, holds the key to the availability of weapons and ammunition among the terror groups in North-East India that is actually keeping insurgency alive in this far-eastern frontier."
The EFSAS opined that while China's acts of violation of the international order are increasing since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, "it is high time that state sponsorship of terrorism by China is acknowledged, exposed and accorded the serious corrective attention that it eminently deserves."


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Using Support ticketing system
End users and organizations
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Zendesk Support defines a number of user roles that are key to managing the people who generate support requests, those who resolve them, and the tickets themselves.
Users and people are essentially equivalent terms; it's the broadest definition for all people who use your Zendesk. There are six primary components to managing your users: customers, team members, roles, organizations, groups, and tags. Each of these components are managed from dedicated pages. In documentation that refers generally to all users, you'll usually only see the word users rather than all of the different user roles.
Each user's role is defined when they are added, although you may change a user's role as needed. When users sign in, they are only shown the parts of Zendesk Support that they are allowed to see and use.
End users, or customers
Agents, administrators, account owner (team members)
Account owner
User references in business rules
End users are also sometimes referred to as customers. These are the people who generate support requests from any of the available support channels. End users don't have access to any of the administrator and agent features of Zendesk Support. They can only submit and track tickets and communicate with agents publicly, which means that their ticket comments can never be private.
How end users interact with your Zendesk Support depends first on the support channels you've made available to them and then by how you've defined public access. You can provide either open or closed support. Open support in Zendesk means that anyone can submit tickets. Closed support in Zendesk means the opposite. For example, you might use closed support for an internal support operation within a corporation.
In a closed Zendesk, you add the end users. In an open Zendesk, you can either add users yourself or end users can add themselves by submitting tickets. If end users can add themselves, you can either require them to register or not. In a closed Zendesk, all end users must be registered.
You can also control if and how your end users access your Help Center. This is the end user's view and includes the Submit Request page, the Knowledge Base, the Community (if available), and a view of their tickets. For more information on how end users can access Zendesk Support, see Configuring end-user access and sign-in.
However, if your end users aren't registered, they don't have access to that view of tickets (they must be signed in). For these end users, all communication with the support team is via email. For more information, see Setting up to provide email-only support .
You also have the option of adding your end users to an organization, which is a collection of users (both end users and team members) that can be used in many ways throughout your ticket workflow. For more information, see About organizations and groups.
The people who resolve support requests, you, play different roles in setting up and managing your ticket workflow. Agents, admins, and the account owner are all team members.
Note: Other Zendesk products might have a dependency on Support user roles. For information about user roles in Chat, see Understanding default roles in Zendesk Chat and for Guide, see Understanding Guide user roles and privileges.
Agents are the bulk of the support staff. They are assigned tickets and interact with customers as needed to resolve support issues. The agent's role and privileges are defined by admins and may include the following:
May be added to more than one group (must be added to at least one)
Add and edit end user profiles. Agents cannot create or edit other agent or administrator profiles, and may not have permission to edit all properties in an end user's profile.
Add public or private comments or both to tickets
Create and edit their own macros
Create and edit their own views
Can view reports. Only agents with access to all tickets in your Zendesk account will be able to view reports.
Moderate and manage articles in the Help Center
Access tickets in one of the following ways:
All tickets in your Zendesk account
Only tickets assigned to the group or groups to which they belong. Restricting an agent's permissions prevents them from making certain edits to users, including adding notes to user profiles.
Only tickets received from the organization to which they belong
Only tickets that they are assigned to
Note: Support Enterprise includes additional default roles. Also, you can define your own agent roles and choose what each role is allowed to see and do. For more information, see Creating custom roles and assigning agents.
Admins can add new agents either manually one at a time or as a bulk import operation (you can set the user role in the CSV data file used in a bulk import). Agents can be promoted to the administrator role by an administrator.
Agents can be restricted to tickets within their organizations and groups. All agents must belong to at least one group. Agents and end users can both belong to organizations.
Note: Only admins and agents with permissions can create and edit groups and organizations.
Notwithstanding ticket access restrictions, CC'ing an agent on any ticket lets the agent receive email notifications of all public and private updates to the ticket. For example, suppose an agent is only allowed to see tickets in the L2 group. After the agent is CC'ed on a ticket in the L3 group, the agent gets email notifications of all public or private updates to the ticket even though she's not authorized to see L3 tickets.
Admins are agents with additional privileges to manage and customize your Zendesk. Admins can be assigned tickets like agents but they may also do the following:
Access all tickets (not just the tickets they are assigned to)
Access, create, and edit business rules (automations, macros, SLA service targets, triggers, views)
Access and edit targets
Install and configure apps
Edit all reports
Access and manage settings (account, security, channels, ticket fields, and so on)
Add and manage end users, agents, and admins
Promote agents to the admin role
Create groups and organizations
Assume an end user's identity
Create custom agent roles (Enterprise plan only)
Access and manage Talk settings
Administrators are responsible for designing and implementing the ticket workflow. They add customers, agents, and other administrators; define the business rules (automations, triggers, views, etc.); and customize and extend Zendesk Support. Where an agent's primary function is to interact with customers and resolve support requests, administrators may do that as well as set up and manage the workflow.
Administrators can do all of the actions that agents can do.
The account owner is a type of administrator. The account name is associated with this person's name, usually the person who created the account. There can only be one account owner; however, account ownership can be reassigned by the account owner to another administrator if needed. The account owner has access to areas of Zendesk Support that other administrators do not, for example:
Subscription changes
Billing and payment management
Account changes
For a full list of unique permissions associated with the account owner, see Understanding account owner permissions.
Business rules need to refer to some types of users in more abstract ways to define conditions and actions; therefore, you'll see references to requester, submitter, assignee, current user, and non-restricted agent.
Requester
Requester refers to the person who made the support request. Requester is used in macros, views, automations, triggers, and reports to refer to the person who generated the support request.
The ticket submitter is either the user who submitted the request or the agent that opened the ticket on behalf of the requester.
Assignee is the agent assigned to a ticket. Assignee is used in macros, views, automations, triggers, and reports to refer to or set the assigned agent.
In triggers, (current user) is the last person who updated the ticket. The (current user) changes each time someone different updates the ticket. The update can be made by any agent or end user with access to the ticket.
In views, (current user) is the agent who is currently viewing that view. This enables one view to show relevant tickets to each agent, without having to create a specific view for each individual agent (see Creating views to manage ticket workflow).
Non-restricted agent
A non-restricted agent is an agent who has access to all tickets. In other words, they have not been restricted to only the group or groups to which they belong, the organization they belong to, or to the tickets they have been assigned to. The ability to refer to these agents may be useful when creating triggers.
Megan Lalock
I wanted to bring up the discussion on the amount of time this takes to update in your instance. What is the average timeframe this update takes on an account that didn't have this enabled? I started my update on 3/21 and even now on 3/24 it still hasn't finished. It would be nice to know the window we would be looking at for update time in rolling this out.
Susana B.
Zendesk Services Team
Hi Megan! I can see that you reached out via a ticket for this issue and the problem appears to be resolved.
Customer Advocate/ San Francisco
In explore what is difference between assignee role "agent" and requester role "agent" ? Which would be the accurate count to track licenses?
Why would there be inconsistencies between the agents in both?
Assignee is the agent or end-user currently assigned to a ticket. Assignee is used in macros, views, automation, triggers, and reports to refer to or set the assigned agent.
A requester is the person who made the support request. The term is used in macros, views, automation, triggers, and reports to refer to the person who generated the support request.
In Explore, when you say Assignee role is Agent - the ticket is assigned to an agent, while Requester role is Agent - the ticket is created by an agent but it may or may not be assigned to an agent, it could be assigned to a group or unassigned.
When you say you are tracking licenses, are you pertaining to your agent seats? if yes, I suggest that you use assignee role agent.
Ravindra Singh
What is the difference between end-user role and Contributor?
Hello Ravindra,
Contributors are Chat agents who have limited privileges in integrated Chat-Support accounts; for instance, Contributors can view some tickets, but cannot respond or otherwise interact with them. Contributors do not occupy an agent seat in Support unless they are manually upgraded to an agent role.
End users (often referred to as customers) are people who generate support requests from any of the available support channels (help center, email, voice, messaging, and so on.). End users do not have access to any of the admin and agent features of Zendesk. They can only submit and track tickets and communicate with agents publicly (meaning their comments can never be private).
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Having taken an afternoon to tweak/calibrate my Z1 with 1:1 mapping to give the best HCPC picture I could achieve I now have a problem.
The settings were stored in 'mode 1' but the pj keeps defaulting to 'wide thru'. This is regardless of using powerstrip or just my inherent Geforce4 ti4200 nvidia settings. The pj comes on line in 960*540 and interestingly the PC changes it's settings from 1024 to 960 without me having to do anything.
Could anyone help with this? Also, each time the picture goes from desktop background (which fills the screen correctly) to actually playing a dvd I have to shift the image and increase the no. of dots to refill the screen? The picture is good but it negates the 'mode1' which I took ages to set-up and calibrate to get rid of 'noise' etc.
Sound strange to me. I managede to set things up right in powerstrip and on the Z1 and store it, so I can recall the 1:1 pixelmapping when I want to. I am not sure I understand your problem.
I have the same problem ! It won't even let me select the mode as it always reverts back to Widethrough, I have to set it up each time.
What have you set up your PC Resolution as and what about the display settings on the Z1. ? I think I've got mine and 960x544 on the PC and 960 x540 on the Z1. Wondering if they need to match. Will try tonight !!


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The court of Charles IV.
by Benito PГ©rez GaldГіs
Published 1888 by W. S. Gottsberger in New York .
Spain -- History -- Charles IV, 1788-1808 -- Fiction.
Genre Fiction.
Contributions Bell, Clara, 1834-1927, tr.
LC Classifications PZ3.P416 C
Pagination 1 p. l., 295 p.
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Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and Pages: Charles IV (Czech: Karel IV., German: Karl IV., Latin: Carolus IV; 14 May – 29 November ), born Wenceslaus, was the first King of Bohemia to become Holy Roman was a member of the House of Luxembourg from his father's side and the Czech House of Přemyslid from his mother's side; he emphasized the latter due to his lifelong affinity for the Czech side Father: John of Bohemia.
The Spanish Royal Court was famed for its court dwarfs, and employed many during the 16th- and 17th-centuries. Of European court dwarfs, the most famous were those of Philip IV of Spain, the hunchbacks whose features have been painted by Diego Velazquez. One of them was Maria Bárbola, who was employed as Enana de la Reina, the official dwarf of the queen, between.
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His father was Navy Captain Charles. Period under Charles IV. The death of Charles III ina few months before the outbreak of the French Revolution, brought to an end the period of comparative prosperity and enlightenment in which Goya reached rule of reaction and political and social corruption that followed—under the weak and stupid Charles IV and his clever, unscrupulous queen, Maria.
Charles IV, King of Spain, second son of Charles III and his wife Maria Amelia of Saxony, was born at Portici on the 11th of Novemberwhile his father was king of the Two Sicilies. The elder brother was set aside as imbecile and epileptic.
Charles had inherited a great frame and immense physical strength from the Saxon line of his : The Czech king and Roman Emperor Charles IV met with the French king Charles V in Paris in Reconstructing the journey to this meeting with deft narrative talent, František Šmahel traces the king's progress from Prague to Paris, piecing together a modern chronicle from contemporary French scholarship and medieval literature.
The result is an appealing account. Loyal in Love is the story of Henrietta Maria, daughter of King Henri IV and wife of King Charles I. Sent to England at a young age to be married, she misses her friends and family, the comforts of her Catholic country, and is confused by the English people and their different ways/5(31).
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This portrait of the family of King Carlos IV () was painted in Aranjuez and Madrid in the spring and summer ofshortly after Goya was named First Chamber Painter. It clearly show´s the artist´s mastery at individualizing characters. The forerunners to this complex composition are Louis-Michel van Loo´s Portrait of Felipe V and his Family and Velázquez´s.
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Sumptuously illustrated, Charles II: Art & Power looks at the art and culture of the court of Charles II, as well as James II, who followed his brother as a liberal patron.
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Reviews for And There Was Light
by Jon Meacham
A deeply researched look at Lincolns moral evolution on the issue of slavery.Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Meacham follows Lincoln from his rural Kentucky roots to his assassination in 1865, paying close attention to the many influences on his ideas and values. As a young boy, the future president would memorize and repeat the sermons of local pastors, and he read voraciously even though, other than the Bible, not many books were readily available on the frontier. At the time, writes the author, Lincoln was far more attracted to reading, thinking, and talking than he was to farming, rail-splitting, and hunting. Meacham astutely examines the contents of some of those books we know he read, showing their influence on his thinking. Allusions to some of them cropped up in famous speeches later in his career. The author also traces Lincolns evolution from bookish farm boy to trial lawyer to politician, a progression aided by the rise of the new Republican Party, whose views largely matched his own. Meacham sets Lincolns development against the growing crisis of the slave states determination to maintain and expand the scope of slavery, a fight culminating in Lincolns election and the Civil War. The author provides in-depth analysis of Lincolns career as president and on how his thoughts on the issues of slavery and the status of African Americans changed during the course of the war, right up to the Union victory. Where those thoughts might have led himand the nationbecame immaterial in the wake of his assassination and the subsequent accession to power of those who did not share his experiences or visionmost notably, Andrew Johnson. While there are countless books on Lincoln, one of the most studied and written-about figures in history, Meachams latest will undoubtedly become one of the most widely read and consulted.An essential, eminently readable volume for anyone interested in Lincoln and his era. Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Pulitzer winner Meacham (His Truth Is Marching On) more than justifies yet another Lincoln biography in this nuanced and captivating look at the president's "struggle to do right as he defined it within the political universe he and his country inhabited." Drawing sharp parallels to Lincoln's battles against "an implacable minority gave no quarter in a clash over power, race, identity, money, and faith" and today's "moment of polarization, passionate disagreement, and differing understandings of reality," Meacham highlights Lincoln's struggles to live up to a "transcendental moral order" that called on humans "to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with their God." For Meacham, Lincoln is above all "an example of how even the most imperfect of people, leading the most imperfect of peoples," can bend the arc of the universe toward justice. Light is shed on Lincoln's failures, including his 1849 effort to abolish slavery in Washington, D.C., which would have required municipal officers to arrest and return to their owners any enslaved people who escaped into the district, as well as his "theological quest" to understand the "concepts of God and Providence" as he grappled with the issue of slavery and the tragic death of his son, Willie, in the White House. Richly detailed and gracefully written, this is an essential reminder that "progress can be made by fallible and fallen presidents and peoples." Illus. (Oct.)
A deeply researched look at Lincoln's moral evolution on the issue of slavery. Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Meacham follows Lincoln from his rural Kentucky roots to his assassination in 1865, paying close attention to the many influences on his ideas and values. As a young boy, the future president would memorize and repeat the sermons of local pastors, and he read voraciously even though, other than the Bible, not many books were readily available on the frontier. At the time, writes the author, Lincoln was "far more attracted to reading, think-ing, and talking than he was to farming, rail-splitting, and hunt-ing." Meacham astutely examines the contents of some of those books we know he read, showing their influence on his thinking. Allusions to some of them cropped up in famous speeches later in his career. The author also traces Lincoln's evolution from bookish farm boy to trial lawyer to politician, a progression aided by the rise of the new Republican Party, whose views largely matched his own. Meacham sets Lincoln's development against the growing crisis of the slave states' determination to maintain and expand the scope of slavery, a fight culminating in Lincoln's election and the Civil War. The author provides in-depth analysis of Lincoln's career as president and on how his thoughts on the issues of slavery and the status of African Americans changed during the course of the war, right up to the Union victory. Where those thoughts might have led him—and the nation—became immaterial in the wake of his assassination and the subsequent accession to power of those who did not share his experiences or vision—most notably, Andrew Johnson. While there are countless books on Lincoln, one of the most studied and written-about figures in history, Meacham's latest will undoubtedly become one of the most widely read and consulted. An essential, eminently readable volume for anyone interested in Lincoln and his era. Copyright © Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning, No. 1 New York Times best-selling biographer (American Lion), Meacham retells the life of Abraham Lincoln to show what his confrontation with enslavement and secession can teach an embattled and polarized country today.
Pulitzer Prize–winning and best-selling Meacham's expert biography enlarges the view of Lincoln's life by vividly rendering mood and setting. Readers will feel menace hovering over Lincoln as he travels to Washington, D.C., for his first inauguration and imagine that they are in the crowd, mud, and sudden burst of sunlight at his second. Meacham's portraits of Lincoln's family and contemporaries include a more balanced view of Mary Lincoln than is usually offered and startling and unsettling examples of Andrew Johnson's racism and drunkenness. Meacham's clear, compelling, and detailed accounts of Lincoln's childhood and the campaign for the 1864 election illuminate key aspects of his life that are not always covered. Meacham also greatly emphasizes Lincoln's religious beliefs at every stage and shares some Lincoln witticisms not found elsewhere. The book is well-researched and up-to-date, and its informatively captioned maps, paintings, and photographs enhance the narrative. In the epilogue, Meacham traces Lincoln's legacy to the present and concludes this fresh and revealing addition to the vast Lincoln canon with some of the best last words in any book.