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Public and Local Acts of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, Parte 2
Por Michigan
in commercial usages, by rules and regulations; to acquire, preserve and disseminate valuable business information; to adjust differences and settle disputes between members, or between members and others; and for other purposes conducive to the interests of members thereof.
SEC. 2. The incorporators shall sign and acknowledge before Articles of asso some person authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds, wath Secretary duplicate articles of association, of which one copy shall be of state. filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of State, and a record shall also be made of such articles in the office of the clerk of the county in which such exchange is located; and Body politic. upon the filing and recording of such articles, duly executed and acknowledged as aforesaid, the said incorporators and those who may thereafter become associated with them shall become a body politic and corporate for the purposes set forth in said articles.
SEC. 3. The articles of association shall contain:
First, The names of the persons associating in the first Name of persons: instance and their places of residence;
Second, The name of such corporation, and the place where Name of corits office for the transaction of business is located, and the poration, etc. period for which it is incorporated, not exceeding thirty years;
Third, Definitely and distinctly the purposes for which the purposes. corporation is formed;
Fourth, The number of its directors, if any, and regular Directors, oftiofficers and the time and place of holding its annual meeting;
Fifth, The terms and conditions of membership therein. Membership.
SEC. 4. Said corporation by the name adopted by said arti- Succession and cles shall have succession and power to sue and be sued and to power to sue, etc. adopt and use a corporate seal which it may alter and change at pleasure; may receive and hold property and effects, real and personal, by gift, devise or purchase, and may sell, mortgage or otherwise dispose of the same; may make all needful rules, regulations and by-laws for the management of its affairs and prescribing the terms and conditions under and upon which members may be received into or expelled from said corporation, and may revise and alter the same from time to time as therein shall be provided; and may impose fines upon any of its menibers for breach of its rules, regulations or by-laws, but no fine shall exceed twenty-five dollars: Provided, That no Proviso as to reak corporation hereby created shall, at any one time, hold real estate. estate the value of which shall exceed one hundred thousand dollars.
SEC. 5. Said corporation may constitute and appoint c mittees of reference and arbitration and committees of appeals, who shall be governed by such rules and regulations as may be prescribed in the by-laws for the settlement and adjustment of such matters of difference as may be voluntarily submitted for arbitration by members or others.
This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved April 15, 1891.
cers, etc.
2- Arbitration
committees, etc.
[ No. 29. ]
Compensation of certain members of the Legislature.
AN ACT to fix the per diem compensation of members of the
State Legislature from the Upper Peninsula for and during the session of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That in addition to the compensation, mileage, and allowance for stationery, as fixed by law, for members representing the Upper Peninsula, there shall be allowed and paid two dollars per diem extra compensation during the session of the Legislature of the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one.
Ordered to take immediate effect.
County detached.
Sixteenth circuit formed.
Judge to continue courts, etc.
[ No. 30. ] AN ACT to reorganize the sixteenth judicial circuit and to
create the thirty-first judicial circuit. Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the county of St. Clair is hereby detached from the sixteenth judicial circuit.
SEC. 2. The county of Macomb is hereby formed into and constituted a judicial circuit to be known as the sixteenth
judicial circuit. Thirty-first Sec. 3. The county of St. Clair is hereby formed into and
constituted a judicial circuit to be known as the thirty-first judicial circuit.
SEC. 4. The judge of the said sixteenth judicial circuit, as heretofore organized, shall continue to hold his office as circuit judge for said courty hereby detached, and shall continue to hold court therein and perform all the functions of circuit judge thereof until a circuit judge shall be appointed and shall qualify in the said thirty-first judicial circuit.
Sec. 5. Court shall be held in said counties at the time and places heretofore designated by the circuit judge of the said sixteenth judicial circuit, and the said circuit judge shall have power in said county of St. Clair to settle bills of exception, decide and determine cases submitted to him, the same as if this act had not been passed, and may issue the writ of habeas corpus, certiorari and injunction at any time in said county until the appointment and qualification of a circuit judge in
said thirty-first judicial circuit. Power and dnty SEC. 6. The circuit judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit, as of judge of sixteenth circuit. heretofore organized, shall have power, and it is hereby made
his duty in said county of St. Clair to settle bills of exception in all cases tried before him and decide and determine all cases submitted to him before the appointment and qualification of a circuit judge in the thirty-first judicial circuit.
Court to be held, etc,
judge.
conducted, etc.
SEC. 7. The office of circuit judge of the thirty-first judicial Vacancy declarcircuit, hereby created, shall be vacant from the time this act ed, how filled. takes effect, which said vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the Governor. The person so appointed shall hold his office from the fifteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and ninetyone, until his successor is duly elected and qualified.
At the Election of spring election to be held in [the year] eighteen hundred ninetytwo, the qualified voters of the county comprising the thirtyfirst judicial circuit shall elect a circuit judge for said circuit who shall hold his office from the third Monday in May, eighteen hundred ninety-two, until January the first, A. Ď. eighteen hundred ninety-four, and until his successor is elected and qualified.
SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of the county of Duty of sertit, St. Clair, at least thirty days previous to the first Monday in April, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, to notify the township clerk of each township and ward inspectors of election in each ward of any city in said county of St. Clair of said election of circuit judge, and such township clerks and ward inspectors shall post notices in the usual manner for such election in townships and wards at least fifteen days previous to the day of election.
SEC. 9. The said election for circuit judge shall be con- How election ducted and returns made as prescribed by law for the election of circuit judges for the several judicial circuits of this State, and the State board of canvassers shall, without delay, on the receipt of the certified statements of the votes given in said county of St. Clair proceed to canvass the votes and deliver to the person elected a copy of their determination or certificate of election as required by law.
SEC. 10. The person so elected in eighteen hundred ninety- To qualify withtwo, shall within ten days qualify in the manner now provided by law for the qualification of circuit judges in this State, and his successor shall be elected at the time and in the manner now provided by law for the election of circuit judges.
Sec. 11. Within ten days after the circuit judge of the said shall fix terms thirty-first judicial circuit shall have been appointed and has qualified he shall in the manner provided by law fix and determine the times for holding the several terms of court within his circuit, which appointments when so made, shall remain unalterable until the time when by law it is made the duty of circuit judges to fix and appoint the times of holding the several terms of court within their respective circuits in this State. Until the time thus fixed and appointed becomes operative the circuit court of the said thirty-first judical circuit shall be held at the times last fixed by the judge of the sixteenth judicial circuit as heretofore organized.
SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of the circuit judge of the six- Judge of six teenth judicial circuit as hereby reorganized to aid and assist to assist, etc. the judge of the said thirty-first judicial circuit in transacting the business of the last named circuit so far as he can without detriment to the business of his own circuit until January first,
in ten daye,
of court, etc.
May sit together. A. D. eighteen hundred ninety-four. To that end it shall be
lawful for the judges of the sixteenth and thirty-first judicial
circuits to sit together in the trial of causes or sit separately
and try causes at the same time in the thirty-first judicial
circuit.
Proviso.
May appoint deputies.
AN ACT providing for the employment, defining the duties,
and fixing the compensation of a stenographer for the twenty
eighth judicial circuit, State of Michigan. Appointment of Section 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact,
SECTION istenographer.
That a stenographer for the circuit courts composing the twentyeighth judicial circuit shall be appointed by the Governor, on the nomination of the judge of said circuit. The person so appointed shall take and subscribe the official oath prescribed by the constitution which oath shall be administered by the presiding judge. He shall be an officer of the court and shall hold his office during the pleasure of the Governor: Provided, The court shall have power to suspend him for incompetency or misconduct and in case of such suspension he shall thereafter cease to hold the office of stenographer, unless by order of the court his suspension be rescinded.
SEC. 2. Said stenographer shall have the power to appoint one or more deputies, subject to the approval of the court, whose compensation shall be paid by the stenographer: Provided, The stenographer shall have power to revoke such appointment at any time.
SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the said stenographer to attend upon the circuit court of each of the counties composing said circuit during each term thereof respectively and to take full stenographic notes of all testimony given, and pro
ceedings had upon the trial or hearing of cases therein. The Compensation. stenographer so appointed shall receive as a compensation
for such services the sum of fifteen hundred dollars per annum
which said sum shall be paid in monthly installments out of
the county treasuries of the counties composing said circuit.
The amount to be paid by each of said counties shall be deter-
the basis of the number of suits entered and commenced in the circuit courts for such counties respectively, the Judge to appor preceding year; and on the first of January of each year, or as
soon thereafter as may be, it shall be the duty of the judge of said courts to apportion the amount of such salary to be paid by each county respectively, upon the basis aforesaid, and to notify the treasurer of each county thereof; and when so notified the treasurer of each of said counties shall thereafter, until a new apportionment of salary is made, pay in monthly
Duty of stenographer,
be paid by each county.
installments, the annual salary of said stenographer in accordance with said apportionment and notification of said circuit judge and the receipt of said stenographer shall be a sufficient voucher for each of the county freasurers aforesaid.
SEC. 4. In case counsel for either party to any suit or pro- To furnish ceeding at law or in equity shall desire a transcript of the whole transcripts. or a part of the testimony or proceedings in any case for the purpose of moving for a new trial, or removing it to the Supreme Court, it shall be the duty of the stenographer of the court reporting said testimony or proceedings to furnish the same, and he shall be entitled to receive therefor from the Fee therefor. party so requiring it, on delivery of said copy the sum of six cents per folio for each folio so transcribed and should said party so ordering said transcript and at the time of giving such order signify his wish for two copies or transcripts of said stenographer's notes of said testimony or proceedings, the said stenographer shall furnish the second copy for two cents a folio and the money so paid the stenographer shall be recovered as a part of the taxable costs of the party in such motion or in the Supreme Court: Provided, That in any case the court may Proviso order the stenographer to make a transcript of the testimony and proceedings in said case, such transcript 'shall be deemed the official record of the court: Provided further, That if the Further proviso. presiding judge shall direct a copy of the testimony and other proceedings upon any trial to be made for his own use, the stenographer shall make and file the same, without costs to either party; such copy shall be made within such time as the court shall order.
SEC. 5. Each and every issue of fact at law or in chancery Cases to be tried or heard before the court or jury, and in each chancery case in which the proofs are taken in open court, in which the stenographer shall be employed, shall be taxed the sum of three dollars, to be paid by the plaintiff or complainant, at the commencement of each trial or hearing, into the hands of the clerk, and by him paid into the county treasury of the county in which said case is tried or heard.
SEC. 6. The stenographer or assistant stenographer who Notes, etc., preshall take the notes on the trial or hearing in any case shall prefix to his notes of the testimony of each witness the full name of said witness and the date the testimony was taken, and at the conclusion of the trial of said cause he shall securely attach together all of his notes taken in said cause and properly entitle them upon the outside and safely keep the same in his office. And in the event of the death or resignation, or his removal from office or from this State, said notes shall be transferred to the county clerk of the county where the case was tried, who shall receive and safely keep the same, subject to the direction of the circuit court for that county: Provided, Proviso. That said notes shall be a part of the record in all said cases, and shall be subject to inspection as other records in the case.
SEC. 7. In cases tried in the said courts in which said ste- Charge need not nographer shall be engaged, it shall not be necessary for the be in writing.
taxed.
servation of, etc.


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Coming as a surprise to many education administrators and counselors who are tasked with shaping our children within the school setting and preparing them for adult responsibilities, studies are now out showing that promoting high self esteem as a cure-all has been a lot of baloney. The experiment has failed to elicit the changes promised and instead has created a worse problem: narcissism on grand scale (across an entire generation; maybe even two). Turns out an unrestrained sense of self-worth is pretty dangerous.
One of the psychologist bloggers on the political right that I follow has provided interesting insights on the studies; on narcissism; and on the risks of raising children with superegos (dictator training 101) or, at the other extreme - with such a deep sense of worthlessness paired with idealized view of others that they're willing to sign up for enslavement to the state or jihad crusades.


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Baystate Health Announces Rural Wage Impact & Fiscal Response Plan
I want to provide you with an update on our financial situation as we near the end of our current fiscal year, and as we realize the impact of the so-called "rural wage" decision on Baystate Health.
For the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2016, Baystate Health is facing a budget gap of $75 million. This number is the difference between our FY2017 budgeted operating margin, needed to sustain and re-invest in critical services throughout our health system, and our current anticipated financial performance.
Many factors are causing this projected shortfall, most significantly the continuing shortfalls in the reimbursements we receive for providing Medicaid services. Other factors are also contributing to this challenge; most prominently the recent decision by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services not to accept corrected wage data resulting in $23 million in reduced Medicare reimbursements next year as well as increased spending on wages and benefits, pharmaceutical costs and malpractice insurance.
Our leadership team, working with many colleagues across the organization, has identified almost $40 million in strategies to mitigate these impacts and reduce our budget gap from about $75 million down to $35 million. We must take steps to address this sizable remaining gap if we are to continue to play our critical role in the health and wellbeing of our community.
The most difficult—but necessary—part of our work ahead will be a reduction in our workforce. As of today we expect that in the coming weeks we will eliminate approximately 300 positions from our current workforce of about 12,500 employees. We expect that these reductions will affect management as well as frontline team members, prioritizing non-clinical areas for reductions, and most importantly preserving the quality and safety of the care we provide. We expect the majority of these reductions will take place in Springfield-based operations, but we anticipate some impact throughout many parts of Baystate Health. As we know more specifics about impact on teams and individuals, we will share them. Those affected by this decision will have full access to severance and the Baystate Health Workforce Placement & Transition Policy, and may apply for open positions of critical need within Baystate Health.
Even after these painful steps we expect to face a remaining budget gap of $15 million. We'll continue our work to address this gap and do all we can to preserve jobs.
Our leadership has worked hard, as our financial challenges have mounted in recent months, to minimize the impact of these challenges. We are doing everything we can to help our elected leaders change some of the long-standing disparities in Medicaid reimbursement between different provider organizations in Massachusetts, which have been a major driver of our current difficulties.
As a not-for-profit charitable organization, we remain committed to our mission to care for all who need us, and committed to our community hospitals and health facilities in western Massachusetts at a time when many such facilities are unable to survive on their own. In making these difficult decisions, we are working to preserve the critical services that our patients and communities need, as close to home as possible, whether it's advanced tertiary care at Baystate Medical Center or community care at our facilities throughout the region.
Thank you for your ongoing support and for helping us sustain our mission for all we serve.
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Baystate Medical Center, in partnership with its Community Benefits Advisory Council, recently announced the recipients of is its newly-established Better Together Grant Program.
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The City of Brandon Community Services Department wishes to advise the public that it will be undertaking a controlled burn of tree debris within Eleanor Kidd Park, located to the immediate east of the David Thompson Bridges on 18th Street North, beginning at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, February 23rd.
The debris includes that from recent flood clean-up efforts, along with a number of Dutch Elm diseased trees. The City of Brandon undertakes the removal of diseased, dead or dying Dutch Elm trees in accordance with guidelines laid out by the Province of Manitoba.
The department has applied for and received the proper permitting from Brandon Fire and Emergency Services, and the fire will be monitored by Parks staff. It is anticipated the burning should be complete by 8 a.m. on Wednesday, February 24th.
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Authors: Alicia Bessette
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Snowshoeing is a trance. I lift one foot, then the other. My legs become heavy. The sun bakes my back. Sweat drips under my boobs, down into my bellybutton and waistband.
Twenty minutes up, Garrett veers off the road. Our legs sink deeper here, just above the knees. When you snowshoe, you're supposed to navigate these off-trail places where the snow seems forbiddingly deep.
To the left the ground pitches sharply, drops away into iced cliffs.
"Don't fall," Garrett calls.
I glance behind me; Ingrid's air drumming.
We enter a clearing. He stoops, unstraps his snowshoes, and scrambles up a six-foot-tall boulder. After kicking all the snow from the top, he turns, crouches, and offers a hand.
Ingrid kicks off her snowshoes. She throws herself at the boulder, and he pulls her up as if she's light as a bedsheet.
"Zell?" Garrett says. He grins down at me.
I shake my head vigorously. "I am not going up there."
"Oh, yes you are," Ingrid belts. "Doo-doo-doo, all you need—IS A PINCH!"
"It's a beautiful view." Garrett offers both hands. "Trust me."
Ingrid tosses her red hat high and catches it. She rummages through Garrett's backpack and pulls out a silver-wrapped cereal bar. She sings between bites: "Doo-doo-doo, all you need—IS A PINCH!"
I unstrap my snowshoes. "I'm heavier than I look," I say.
"I'm stronger than I look," he says. "Get a running start, and jump as high as you can."
I do, and he catches my forearms, leans back on the boulder, and hauls me up. I collapse onto his thighs.
"See? No sweat," he says.
"Yeah," I say, a little out of breath. "Thanks." I sit and help myself to a half-crushed cereal bar, which Garrett holds out to me.
The view is south and west, sunny and clear, deep and wide, a view that would bring Nick to his knees. Foothills and streams roll below us. They make me think of torn bits of tissue paper flattened into a collage. Turkey vultures soar, black
s against the brilliant sky. The breeze blows—slight, then strong, then slight again.
Garrett smirks as Ingrid points out landmarks.
"Long Pond in Rutland," she says. "Wippamunk Reservoir. The city of Worcester. And way out there? Wicked way out? Mount Greylock. See it?"
"Yeah," I say. "I actually do."
In the western distance the ridge of Mount Greylock stretches long, like the back of a sperm whale—the sight that inspired Herman Melville to write
Moby-Dick.
Or so the legend tells us.
Ingrid pokes a straw into a juice box. "Aren't I a little old for juice boxes, Dad?" she asks.
"I don't know. How old is too old for a juice box? You're nine."
"Exactly." Her face glistens with sweat. She sucks down all the juice, until the cardboard becomes indented. "Here." She shows Garrett the empty box.
"Do I look like a trash can?" he says.
He yanks her hat down over her eyes, and she giggles. "Carry in, carry out, remember?" Garrett says.
"I know, I know." She puts the empty box in the backpack, then goes back to singing while tossing and catching her hat.
"Stop singing that, Ingrid," Garrett says. He's on his second cereal bar. "Sing anything but that. Please."
"Dad. Zell and I are going to enter the Warm the Soul baking contest together."
"You are, huh?"
"Uh—," I say. When I pinkie swore that she could help me, I didn't really think about Garrett's reaction, or whether he would even allow it. But he doesn't seem irritated. Actually, he seems amused.
"Yup," says Ingrid.
thinking about entering it," I say. "The other day, with the fire truck? I was . . . baking."
"So I heard," he says. "I'm not much of a cook, either."
"You get twenty thousand dollars if you win," I say. "And an all-expenses-paid—"
"That's a lot of money," Ingrid says. "Right?"
She says it so quickly, I wonder if she doesn't want Garrett to know about getting to meet Polly on the set.
"What would you do with the money if you won?" he asks her.
"I would save it so that when I grow up I could go to France and study at the famous Cordon Blur cooking school."
Garrett leans back, rests his head on his backpack, and throws an arm over his eyes. "What would you do with the money, Zell?"
"I'd start a charity organization or something, for the people in New Orleans who are rebuilding their homes and communities in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and the flood. That was Nick's last wish," I add.
"Dad?" says Ingrid. "I changed my mind. I would give my twenty thousand dollars to the people of New Orleans."
He sits up halfway and strokes her cheek. "You're a good girl," he says softly.
She sings some more: "All you need IS A PINCH. PINCH OF LOVE!"
"If you're going to keep singing, could you please do so quietly?"
"Sorry." She skips to the other end of the boulder and sits cross-legged. She slaps her thighs, humming the theme song.
"So you've got a bit of a Polly Pinch obsession yourself," he says. "No wonder Ingrid likes you so much."
"It's my new thing." The stupid truth is, I absolutely cannot wait to get home, watch
Pinch of Love,
and experiment with another batch of cookies. "Polly Pinch is pretty addicting," I say, "once you give her a chance."
"I don't encourage the Polly Pinch stuff. Believe me."
"About that contest. Ingrid offered to help me, so I said she could. I hope that's okay."
"Of course," he says. "I mean, as long as you realize that all she's going to want to do when you're around is bake, and bake, and bake some more."
I try to smile, and I think I succeed this time, because Garrett smiles back. I want to mention that Ingrid told me Polly Pinch is her mother but decide against it.
He hums a bar of the Polly Pinch song, then catches himself and clears his throat. "I remember reading about your husband in
The Wippamunker
last year. That was a nice article."
"Yeah. Dennis and my husband worked together at
for about ten years, so they knew each other pretty well."
"I'm sorry about your husband."
"Thanks." I scrape at some dead lichen on the boulder with my fingernail. "You married?"
"Nope. Never." He wipes his sweaty face on his sleeve. He takes my water bottle out of his backpack and offers it to me.
"Oh no, you first," I say. "You carried it."
He unscrews the lid, gulps almost half the water, and hands me the bottle.
Suddenly Ingrid runs up to us; tears dampen her cheeks. "Dad?"
"What is it, boo-boo? What's wrong?"
Ingrid points beyond the cliffs toward the sky. Her red hat is caught on the branch of an oak tree twenty feet out. Maybe thirty. A deep gulch and icy cliffs separate us from the oak, centuries old, a hundred feet tall, with peeling elephant-skin bark.
Garrett shades his eyes and studies Ingrid. "How did you manage that one?"
"I was trying to see how high I could throw it," she says. "And the wind came and took it."
"Looks like it's gone now."
"But it's not gone. It's right there."
High in the tree the red hat seems to shiver. Twigs poke it. It looks like some lanky-limbed creature is trying to rend the yarns and be born.
"Time to let it go, boo-boo." Garrett stands and shoulders into his backpack. "Maybe the wind will blow it down, and the next time we come here it will be on the ground, and we can get it then."
"But I want it now," she says. "I
"Let me try something," he says. He claps a snowball together. He cocks his arm back and hurls it forward, and the snowball shoots up—white dot against blue sky. It loses momentum six feet from the hat and plummets to the ground. He tries again, packing a smaller snowball. He flings his arm even harder this time but misses.
"I can't reach it, Ing." He sighs. "I tried. I'm sorry." He drops from the boulder and toes into his snowshoes. "Let's get moving. Time to head back to the truck. We'll get you another hat, okay?"
"Will you get it for me?" asks Ingrid, tugging my arm. A tearful hiccup escapes her mouth. "You have to get it for me. It belonged to my—"
"Time to head back," says Garrett, but not impatiently.
"Get it for me, Zell?"
The hat is impossible to reach, of course. She and I watch it for a moment. I will the wind to release it, but the hat stays fixed.
The cool breeze whips my hair across my mouth. I glance down at Garrett; I can't tell if he's looking at Ingrid or at me.
"I think it's gone for now," I tell Ingrid. I swig from my water bottle and offer some to her, but she shakes her head. "But like your dad said, maybe when you come back in the spring, it'll be on the ground."
"In the spring?"
"Yeah. In the spring."
I guide her toward the edge of the boulder. "And until then," I say, "you'll know exactly where it is."
NEXT TUESDAY AFTERNOON, Garrett stands on my porch again. The knot of his tie is loose, and a small oil stain—from salad dressing, maybe—dots his white shirt. The skin under his eyes looks droopy and pinched.
"I can't believe I'm asking you to do this again," he says.
Ingrid pushes past me and drops her backpack just inside the door. "Ahab!" she calls.
"I interviewed someone last night for a nanny position," Garrett says. "But she was . . . I mean, she was a nice girl and all, but she seemed . . ." He trails off. He glances at his watch.
I hand him Nick's keys. "Keep them this time."
He pockets the keys, looking overwhelmed. "I'll make it up to you. I swear." He hands me a big wad of bills.
"You don't need to pay me," I say. "Really."
He pauses for a second, like he's considering just stuffing the bills into my apron pocket and taking off. But instead, he nods. "Thanks, Zell."
IN MY KITCHEN Ingrid flips through
Meals in a Cinch with Polly Pinch.
"Finished my homework," she says before I even ask.
We brainstorm. Ingrid wants to make upside-down cake. I want to make oatmeal brownies. We draft a recipe for Oatmeal Brownie Upside-Down Cake, and I quickly realize that Ingrid is not the baking prodigy she hinted that she was. She suggests one cup of baking soda, but I convince her that's way too much. She suggests three cans of condensed evaporated milk and a dozen eggs, and I explain—gently—that we're not trying to feed an entire army. Finally, we negotiate a general plan of attack—adding oatmeal to the brownie batter, then creating alternating layers of brownie mix and cake mix.
"How do you know all this stuff about baking?" she asks. "What's too much, what's not enough? How do you know all that?"
How, indeed. From Ye Olde Home Ec Witch? Perhaps. Perhaps I am the fallen soufflé in Room 8 of the basement of Wippamunk High School—Ye Olde Home Ec Witch's classroom. Or the soggy omelet in the beat-up frying pan with rusted handle in Room 8 of the basement of the high school. Perhaps I am shavings of carrot stuck in the sudsy sink drain, to which glaring Ye Olde Home Ec Witch points with a warty finger. (Did she really have warts, or was that detail simply part of the legend?)
It's inconceivable that Polly Pinch has warts. She is the san-toku knife with forged-steel blade and slip-resistant polypropylene handle advertised on page eleven of
Meals in a Cinch.
She is the long-stemmed strawberry dipped in white chocolate fondue on page fifty-six. She is the porcelain cup of French-pressed Fair Trade organic shade-grown coffee on page ninety-nine.
And I am neither a kitchen Nazi nor a television chef with tight skin and perfect tanned boobs. I am Rose-Ellen Roy, née Carmichael, the soggy omelet trying to win a twenty-thousand-dollar baking contest. If not with Flourless Peanut Butter Treats, if not with Oatmeal Brownie Upside-Down Cake, then with Something Else Outstanding.
"You want to know how I know all this stuff?" I say. I hold the bowl. Ingrid stands on a chair and dumps the brownie mix. It mushroom clouds in our faces, and we both cough.
"Years and years of practice." I crack an egg with one hand.
She takes the eggshells and tosses them into the sink. "Practice?" she says. "But you said you don't cook. Like, not at all."
I grasp the wooden spoon and stir. "Let's not split hairs, hm'kay?"
FLOURY HANDPRINTS SMUDGE THE CABINETS. Sugar dots the counter. Brownish oatmeal sticks to the wall.
Ahab licks something next to the leg of a chair. He sniffs his way to the oven door, lapping flecks of batter here and there.
The Oatmeal Brownie Upside-Down Cake cools on the stovetop. It looks like black-brown volcanic mush.
"Last year?" Ingrid says. "I went to a Halloween party at my dad's work? And they had fake throw-up on the floor."
"Yeah?" I say.
She points to the Oatmeal Brownie Upside-Down Cake. "That looks like the fake throw-up."
"Mmm. How appetizing."
"So much for years and years of practice." Ingrid drums her fingers on the table. "Hey. I know someone who can help you."
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Barisan Alternative leaders will have to find a formula to convince Malaysians that a vote for the BA is not a vote for an Islamic State if the Barisan Alternative is to survive in its present format into the next general election
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(Kulai, Friday): Barisan Alternative leaders will have to find a formula to convince Malaysians that a vote for the BA is not a vote for an Islamic State if the Barisan Alternative is to survive in its present format into the next general election.
When the Barisan Alternative common manifesto "Towards a Just Malaysia" was launched on 24th October 1999, not a single Barisan Alternative made a mention of the Islamic State issue because the coming-together of the four opposition parties had nothing to do with an Islamic state but represented an unprecedented opposition effort to break the Barisan Nasional political hegemony to restore justice, freedom, democracy and good governance in Malaysia.
As I said in my speech at the launching of the BA Common Manifesto, the Barisan Alternative Parties had come together "not to share the spoils of power but to break the Barisan Nasional political hegemony to restore justice, freedom, democracy and good governance to build a new Malaysia in the new millennium … as never before in the history of the nation had public confidence in the system of justice and governance fallen so low as at present, with every other day, new examples of gross injustices and abuses of power adding to the long catalogue of national shames and wrongs".
The Barisan Alternative parties pledged to rid Malaysia of its many ills - whether corruption, cronyism, nepotism; subversion of the doctrine fo the separation of powers; undermining of the independence, integrity and professionalism of the key institutions of state, whether the Judiciary, Parliament, the Attorney-General, the Auditor-General, the Police, the Election Commission, Bank Negara Governor, a free and independent mass media, a vibrant civil society; or
undemocratic and repressive laws which violate the human rights of Malaysians and placed the country in the half-light of democracy.
When DAP leaders signed and endorsed the BA Common Manifesto, it was a manifesto which we could present to the electorate and declare that a vote for the BA was a vote for democracy and justice and not a vote for an Islamic State.
If the DAP could not present such a common manifesto to the electorate, then neither the BA Common Manifesto nor the Barisan Alternative would have come into existence before the 1999 general election.
The BA Common Manifesto "Towards A Just Malaysia" was concluded with BA leaders fully aware of the deep ideological differences among the component parties especially on the issue of Islamic State.
DAP knew of PAS' ideological stand for an Islamic State and PAS knew of DAP's ideological opposition to any theocratic state, but we decided to put aside our differences for the sake of the immediate task of saving Malaysian democracy and justice from savage and fatal attacks by the Barisan Nasional government.
This was why there was the important agreement in the BA Common Manifesto committing all the component parties to uphold the fundamental principles of the Malaysian Constitution - which would exclude any pursuit of an Islamic state.
The situation has been changed considerably in the past 20 months with PAS leaders publicly reiterating their pursuit of an Islamic State, where the principle of the sovereignty of the people in a democracy will be replaced by the principle of the sovereignty of God based on the Quran.
This is a major departure from the BA Common Manifesto committing the component parties to the fundamental principles of the Constitution and the present system of democratic governance, rendering the position that a vote for the Barisan Alternative is a vote for democracy and justice and not a vote for an Islamic State completely unsustainable.
The Barisan Alternative must find an answer, and quickly, to the dilemma of how to find a formula that a vote for BA is not a vote for an Islamic State if the present format of BA is to survive, as time is not on the side of BA.
The Barisan Alternative Leaders' Council meeting next week will have the onerous task of deciding whether the BA can continue to be tenable.


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8 Startups Selling Edible Insects and Bugs
There is a Western aversion to insects in general. They are thought of as pests who transmit diseases, and we look at them with same kind of disgust we would reserve for public relations people who want us to do free work for their paid clients. Meanwhile, the rest of the world is happily munching away on the appetizing critters, with more than 1,000 species known to be eaten in 80% of the world's nations. Entomophagy is the scientific term for eating insects, and it's a practice that is nutritious, sustainable, and tasty. Humans have been doing it for thousands of years, especially in tropical climates where insects grow bigger, there are more of them, and "harvests" are predictable, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Here's an excellent visual comparison from a comprehensive book on the topic titled "Insects as Sustainable Food Ingredients: Production, Processing and Food Applications":
Source – Insects as Sustainable Food Ingredients: Production, Processing and Food Applications
The FAO has been promoting the rearing of insects for food and livestock feed for some time now to cover the needs of increasing global population, and Westerners are starting to get the message. IKEA, everyone's favorite meatball provider, is developing meatless balls made of mealworms. These will not end world hunger, but this clearly shows mainstream adoption of insect ingredients into our meals. Looking at Crunchbase, the insect startups receiving the most funding are the ones farming insects for animal feed – like Ynsect ($24.5 million), InnovaFeed ($15 million), and Enterra Feed ($10 million). In this article, we're going to look at 8 startups producing edible insects and insect products for human consumption. These have received much less funding than animal feed providers, which means that investors are still hesitant to believe that human consumption of insects is an economically viable business model. Here are 8 startups that believe there's money to be made from edible insects and bugs.
All Things Bugs
Founded in 2011, Oklahoma startup All Things Bugs has raised $3.5 million in funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the US Department of Agriculture, and the mysterious US defense research institute DARPA to research insect protein and insect farming. The company's founder and sole employee is Aaron T. Dossey, Ph.D. holder in biochemistry and research entomologist (insect scientist in plain talk) who developed a finely milled cricket powder called Griopro that can be used as a base ingredient in foods.
Source: Griopro
Griopro is the finest, lightest colored cricket powder on the market with a mild aroma that "works for sensitive applications such as protein shakes, pastas and baked goods where smooth texture, light color, and mild flavor and aroma are critical attributes", he claims. Cricket farming is outsourced to farms in the US, and farmers are required to provide a wheat-free diet to the crickets so the end product is gluten free. Processing of the insects is done with patented proprietary technology, and the resulting powder is a high protein ingredient that can be used in all kinds of recipes. All Things Bugs has become the largest supplier of cricket powder in the U.S. and is delivering to other food providers like Exo and Chapul mentioned below.
Six Foods
Founded in 2013, Cambridge, Massachusetts startup Six Foods has raised $75,000 to develop snacks based on cricket flour. Their first product, Chirps Chips, is a line of tortilla chips produced in three flavors that has three times the protein and half the fat of potato chips and is also gluten free. The idea came to Rose Wang, CEO of the company, after eating her first insect, a scorpion, on a trip back to the motherland. She and her roommate (currently COO) started experimenting with cooking crickets bought at the local pet shop. (Asians have been keeping crickets as pets for years, and even gamble on cricket fights).
Source: Chirps Chips
Fast forward a few years, and Chirps Chips are available in hundreds of U.S. stores, and of course, Amazon where you can get three packs for $20. (Kinda spendy for bugs, innit?) Besides the nutritional and sustainability arguments, they claim using crickets reduces the 60 million tons of food waste produced in the US each year as food waste becomes feed for the crickets. The team is planning to expand its portfolio to other types of foods in the near future. This is one of the rare cases where handing out C-suite positions to your friends turned out to be a good idea. The same holds true for our next startup – which also used the same logo designer as Chirps did.
Bitty Foods
Founded in 2013, San Francisco startup Bitty Foods has raised $1.2 million to develop their own version of cricket chips inspired by the Mexican delicacy chapulines. Co-founder Megan Miller read the FAO reports on insect protein which inspired her to give crickets a try. She joined forces with friend Leslie Ziegler, who had startup accelerator experience and Bitty Foods was born.
Source: Bitty Foods
Today, all of Bitty's crickets are sourced from U.S. farms specializing in crickets for human consumption. They are then washed, roasted, and ground to a fine powder, then mixed with cassava and coconut to create their baking flour blend. The flour is used to bake healthy air-puffed chips for $30 per three packs, and is also sold separately. (Again, there's no way that we're paying $10 for a bag of crisps no matter how much it helps the planet.)
Crik Nutrition
Founded in 2014, Canadian startup Crik Nutrition has raised $66,000 to develop a powdered protein shake from crickets. Founder and longtime athlete Alex Drysdale was looking for a business idea to strike out as an entrepreneur when he read an article on crickets as a food source. He was convinced by the high protein content and sustainability, but didn't find a protein shake made of crickets, so he decided to make one.
Source: Paleo Epic
Crik Nutrition now sources its crickets from Entomo Farms (covered below) where the entire operation is built to exceed FDA quality requirements. The company is so confident in the quality of their product that it comes with a 90-days money back guarantee, no questions asked. Protein powders are available in vanilla and chocolate flavors through the Crik website and Amazon for around $40 per pound. Again, this is way too expensive when compared to Amazon's best selling whey protein which comes in at $10 a pound. How much can this stuff really cost to make? It's made from fcuking bugs.
Entomo Farm
Founded in 2014, Canadian startup Entomo Farms has raised undisclosed funding to establish an insect farm growing crickets and mealworms. The company has become North America's largest edible insect producer and has received its latest (undisclosed) round of funding on 11 April this year from Maple Leaf Foods, a major Canadian packaged meats company.
Source: Entomo Farms
Entomo produces cricket and mealworm powders as well as roasted insect snacks, supplied to over 50 food companies in eight countries. The team is experimenting with enhancing the flavor of crickets by feeding them different types of food like basil and cinnamon, so they end up having undertones of these flavors. Their whole product portfolio is available through their website along with a handful of recipes for all kinds of food with bugs in them. The new funding will be used to expand farm production and increase the number of species being farmed.
Chapul
Founded in 2012, Utah startup Chapul has raised $50,000 in seed funding to develop a line of cricket protein bars and powders. Founder Pat Crowley started the business with help from friends and family to reduce freshwater waste by making insect consumption more mainstream.
Source: Chapul
With revenues close to $1.5 million, the company closed its biggest retail deal last year with organic grocery chain Sprouts Farmers Market, and is now available in hundreds of stores across the US and Canada. Chapul protein bars are also available on Amazon for about $3.10 a bar, with diverse flavors like matcha tea, dark chocolate/coffee/cayenne, and coconut/ginger/lime.
Aspire Food Group
Founded in 2013, Texas startup Aspire Food Group has raised undisclosed funding to develop precision farming techniques to raise insects. The team started out with a $1 million Hult Prize and developed a semi-automated approach to raise crickets and other insects in mass, using Internet of Things, deep data analytics and robots. Their products include fertilizer additives, premium pet food and human food marketed under the Aketta brand.
Source: Aspire Food Group
Aspire is raising and promoting crickets in the US and farms palm weevil larvae in Ghana with a staff of 30 people. Just this past March they acquired Exo, another insect food startup making cricket protein bars. While details of the deal remain undisclosed, Exo had raised $5.2 million up to the acquisition which makes it the most funded startup on our list by far. Exo bars are available in Whole Foods locations and natural food markets across the United States. With Aspire's economies of scale and Exo's strong sales channels, the combined entity should be in a good position to continue promoting insect consumption.
EntoAfrica
The value proposition of eating insects is strong, but we need to overcome the "yuck" factor. More importantly, we need to start selling edible insects and bugs at price points that allow us to have some money leftover for beard wax and skinny jeans. Can't some aspiring MBA figure out how to exploit third-world labor bring much-needed jobs to poor people in order to bring costs down? That's what a company called EntoAfrica is trying to do with their operation in Uganda that plans to produce 17 tons of crickets this year. We're not sure what price points they're able to hit, but scaling these farming operations will be key before insects can become comparable to livestock. Lower labor costs combined with technology from companies like Aspire should eventually help to bring down costs.
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Oltco Franchise To Offer World's First Recycled Driveway Solution To Help Combat The Global Issue Of Plastic Waste
As the impact of waste plastic across the globe becomes an increasing concern, two entrepreneurs from Cornwall have launched a new driveway solution, designed to play an important role in utilising plastic which is already in circulation.
Oltco's unique Recycle Bound driveway solution is now available from existing franchises nationally and new franchisees coming on board will also offer the product moving forward.
Oltco is the UK's leading independent resin floor specialist and is the world's first company to offer this environmentally sustainable solution for homeowners and businesses. Headed up by Directors Tom Stringer and Johnny Pearce and based in the Cornish seaside town of Newquay, Oltco's in-house experts have developed Recycle Bound using over 15 years' of technical expertise and specialist skills.
In the UK we throw away 8.5 billion straws every year*. Many of these straws end up polluting our oceans, causing devastating consequences for wildlife across the globe. Oltco is taking steps to help alleviate this through its Recycle Bound solution. Made from waste plastic (straws, plastic drink bottles and plastic food packaging) from a plastic recycling point, each square metre of Recycle Bound consists of the equivalent of 3,000 plastic straws. Therefore if Recycle Bound was laid on a standard 50 square metre drive, the equivalent of 150,000 plastic straws would be recycled in the process.
With its HQ based on the North Cornish coast, the Directors of Oltco, Tom Stringer and Johnny Pearce, were all too aware of the detrimental impact that waste plastic was having on the environment around them, in particular the beaches around Newquay. With vast technical experience in developing, testing and installing innovative resin solutions, Tom and Johnny decided they wanted to help combat this worldwide problem through their services. The team set about creating a unique resin bound blend, made using waste plastic. As part of the development of Recycle Bound, Oltco has been liaising with local community groups to get them on board with supporting the product.
Oltco is confident that as the number of franchises increase across the country, as will interest in Recycle Bound. Directors Tom and Johnny are confident that Recycle Bound will make a difference to waste plastic use on a national scale whilst offering unique selling point for franchises.
Johnny, Co-Director of Oltco, comments: "As a native of Newquay, I became increasingly concerned about the huge amount of waste plastic which was polluting the coastline of Cornwall and beyond. With Newquay being a plastic free zone, the team and I are passionate about making a difference to the community and the world around us, including the natural environment, so it was important to us to try and help."
Tom, Co-Director of Oltco, said: "We're proud to be an innovator, not an imitator and as a business we've spent the past five years developing unique resin bound solutions. Through our new product design process we decided to explore waste plastic forming part of our blends. After 24 months of intensive development and testing, we've launched Recycle Bound as a new, environmentally sustainable option. With franchise opportunities available on a national scale, we believe that Recycle Bound will play an integral role for individual franchisees running and growing successful businesses."
Oltco's Recycle Bound solution has the same 20 year guarantee that the company's other resin bound solutions have and has been thoroughly tried and tested by the expert team. If the driveway needs to be replaced in the future, the Recycle Bound solution can be taken up, then crushed and graded so that it can be re-laid as a base layer for a new driveway. Alternatively a new driveway can be laid directly on top of it.
Recycle Bound has been developed to be even stronger than other resin solutions meaning that the tensile strength is higher, and it can hold more weight. Recycle Bound offers all of the same benefits as Oltco's other solutions including permeable properties which therefore makes it SUDS (Sustainable Urban Drainage System) compliant. In addition to this, the melting point of the solution is 250°C meaning that even if the UK has another heatwave, the plastic will not melt in the way that some alternatives would.
*https://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/correspondence/statistics-on-single-use-plastic-straws/


A decline in enrollments in accounting programs in the United States of America has been well documented over the last decade. Some researchers have suggested that this decline is in part due to the misinformation or lack of information about the nature of accounting and the duties performed by accountants. Other studies have found that a significant number of students make their career choice decisions while at high school and that teachers are influential in this decision making process. Hardin, O'Bryan and Quirin (2000) carried out a study to identify the perceptions of US high school teachers of the accounting profession compared to engineering, law and medicine based on 24 attributes of a profession. We have replicated this study in both Australia and New Zealand to ascertain whether the US results could be generalised. Our findings indicate that the results from the NZ and Australian studies are similar to the results from the US study. This is of particular concern given the efforts of the professional accounting bodies in Australia and NZ to improve the image of accountants since the original US study was undertaken. This implies there are significant issues for educators and the profession. These include, repositioning the image of the profession, and a possible mismatch between the requisite skills perceived by the teachers and those sought by the profession.


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Public Advocate Bill de Blasio backs lawsuit against state's new taxi plan for the city
By Pete Donohue
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio supports a lawsuit against new taxi plan for the city. (Jeanne Noonan for New York Daily News)
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has backed a lawsuit against the state's new taxi plan for the city — and blasted it as a mayoral scheme to bypass the City Council.
The mayoral candidate filed a legal brief Friday in support of a lawsuit against the plan that was launched earlier this month by the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade — a trade group that represents owners of large taxi fleets.
The plan was passed by the Legislature in January following talks between Gov. Cuomo, legislative leaders, members of the Bloomberg administration and industry types. It will expand the yellow cab fleet by 2,000 taxis and permit up to 18,000 newly metered livery cars to pick up street hails in northern Manhattan and the other boroughs.
"The core point here is the mayor did an end-run around the City Council on this taxi legislation," de Blasio said.
The fleet owners say the value of a medallion will now fall.
Taxi and Limousine Commission Chairman David Yassky said the city would prevail.
"I am confident the suit will be dismissed, and I cannot understand why Mr. De Blasio would side with a handful of taxi fleet owners against the interests of 7 million New Yorkers in the boroughs and northern Manhattan."
Both moves were approved by a law approved by the the state Legislator and Gov. Cuomo.
But de Blasio said Mayor Bloomberg's administration was required to first obtain City Council support by way of a home-rule message requiring a majority vote.
The public advocate announced his office filed on Friday an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit filed earlier in the month by the Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade.
The trade group represents the larger fleets which say medallion owners were previously granted the exclusive right to pick up passengers on the street without prior arrangement. The value of their investments in medallions will fall, it says.
"I am confident the suit will be dismissed, and I cannot understand why Mr. DeBlasio would side with a handful of taxi fleet owners against the interests of 7 million New Yorkers in the boroughs and northern Manhattan."
Livery drivers have only been allowed to pick up passengers who have called a base to request a trip. Supporters of the city's plans say they would improve service outside Manhattan which is overwhelmingly ignored by yellow cab drivers who focus on part of Manhattan.


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Toranomon Hills opens in Tokyo
Opened on June 11, 2014, Toranomon Hills is Tokyo's newest landmark. It is named after the Toranomon district which lies between Tokyo Station and Tokyo Tower. Toranomon Hills is the latest creation by the Mori Building Company that undertakes urban redevelopment projects and owns several tall buildings in Tokyo, including Roppongi Hills. At 255.5 meters, Toranomon Hills is now the tallest building in Tokyo.
Toranomon Hills in the middle, seen from Tokyo Tower with Tokyo Skytree in the far back on the right
The majority of Toranomon Hills is occupied by office and conference space and a few floors of residences, but the lower four floors and the hotel on the top floors are open to the public. The first to fourth floors are occupied by restaurants and a small numbers of shops. Visitors to Toranomon Hills will be spoilt for dining choices at around twenty trendy restaurants and cafes spread over the four dining floors. My favorite part of the visit was having lunch at one of the restaurants at Toranomon Hills to "try things out".
Artwork surrounding the entrance to the office elevators
Looking down from the third floor
Artwork at the first floor hotel entrance
A delectable burger from one of the restaurants
The hotel at Toranomon Hills is the Hyatt corporation's first Andaz branded hotel in Japan, the second in Asia. The Andaz Tokyo is a luxury boutique hotel occupying the top six floors of the skyscraper. The hotel reception, lounge and restaurant are on the 51st floor while the guest rooms are spread over the 47th to 50th floors, all with great views over Tokyo. On the top floor (52nd) is a rooftop bar and a wedding chapel, the highest chapel in Tokyo. The hotel also has a casual restaurant and pastry shop on the first floor of Toranomon Hills.
View of Tokyo Tower from one of the higher floors
A pleasant garden with a lawn, a small river, a kids playground and an oval plaza is found along the side and in the back of the building. We saw lots of people relaxing on the chairs provided in the garden.
Garden along the side
The oval plaza
Looking out to the oval plaza from the inside
Toranomon Hills was opened in combination with the extension of Tokyo's Loop Road No. 2 that runs below the building. The road will eventually be extended into the Tokyo Bay area where many facilities for the 2020 Olympics will be located. Above ground, a new broad road was carved into the cityscape that connects the Shimbashi Station area with Toranomon Hills. Ambitious plans see this road to be gradually transformed into Tokyo's version of the Avenue des Champs-Elysees over the coming years.
Tokyo's future Avenue des Champs-Elsysees in the making
Looking towards the new road in direction of Shimbashi from Toranomon Hills
Note that there are currently no train stations conveniently located in the close proximity of Toranomon Hills, although a new station below the building is being considered along the Hibiya Subway Line. Despite its name, Toranomon Station on the Ginza subway is a 5-10 minute walk away, while the walk from JR Shimbashi Station takes about 15 minutes. Alternatively, Toranomon Hills is a 20 minute walk north from Tokyo Tower.
The aptly named mascot, Toranomon


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Al Gore to offer Atlanta training for climate activists
January 16, 2019 by Ernie Suggs Original source The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
If you just met Al Gore, you might be hard-pressed to know that the environmentalist ever did anything else.
With a 2006 Academy Award for his film "An Inconvenient Truth" and a 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for his environmental advocacy, Gore has seamlessly shifted from high-level politician to one of the world's leading voices on the threat of climate change.
"I enjoyed the years I spent in elected office and I enjoyed politics," Gore told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "But I feel privileged to be able to serve in other ways, and it feels like the right thing to do. I have worked on this issue for more than 40 years and more people are seeing the impact."
In March, the former U.S. senator, vice president and Democratic presidential nominee will bring his Climate Reality Leadership Corps to Atlanta for a three-day meeting to train activists on environmental justice and climate change.
Gore said the training will focus on several key themes, as well as the challenges that the climate crisis poses to vulnerable communities, including how it is changing the Southeast, how fossil fuels threaten the health of low-income families and communities of color, and how clean energy can help to right historical injustices and create opportunities.
"We are changing the conditions that have given rise to the flourishing of humanity," Gore said. "How can we tell our grandkids that we are in the process of destroying the environment? This is a crisis like we have never experienced before. That is why I spend so much of my time training grassroots activists all over the world."
The event — the 40th time that Gore has hosted this kind of training — will also for the first time include "A Moral Call to Action on the Climate Crisis," an interfaith mass meeting at Ebenezer Baptist Church, featuring the historic church's pastor, the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock, and the Rev. William J. Barber II, a 2018 MacArthur fellow.
"The climate crisis, as many of us have said for a long time, is not a political issue," Gore said. "It is a moral and spiritual issue for the survival of humanity."
Gore said there would be a particular focus on environmental justice. And he argues that for everything we see — rising temperatures, flooding, powerful storms and wildfires — it is often less-visible problems, such as fossil fuel emissions and pollution, that directly impact black, brown and poor communities, which he wants faith leaders to address.
"Too often, the climate crisis inflicts deep and disproportionate burdens on those least responsible for causing it," Gore said. "We will succeed in climate action when we prioritize inclusivity. Climate solutions must be fair and equitable for all people."
Warnock, whose church was once co-pastored by 1964 Nobel Peace Prize winner Martin Luther King Jr., said the environment is a moral and justice issue that civil rights leaders and climate change activists have just recently begun to find common ground on.
"Traditionally, the civil rights activists and climate change activists have not sufficiently engaged one another," Warnock said. "That is unfortunate because climate change is a civil and human rights issue. And issues, traditionally raised by the civil rights community, that leave certain communities more vulnerable."
But there is also a religious battle simmering among evangelical Christians over whether climate change is a liberal hoax, flawed science, or an affront to the concept of human existence.
They are being encouraged by President Donald Trump, who has rolled back many of President Barack Obama's environmental policies that aimed to curb climate change and limit environmental pollution.
And on Wednesday, Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist Trump nominated to run the Environmental Protection Agency, declined to identify climate change as a crisis requiring unprecedented action from the United States.
"How can you not believe in climate change?" Warnock asked. "We are way past a period when we could be concerned about the politics. Climate change is not something that is coming, it is here. It is way past time for all of us to get serious."
The event will be held March 14-16, 2019. The mass meeting will take place on March 14 at 7 p.m. at Ebenezer Baptist Church. To learn more about the Climate Reality Leadership Corps training in Atlanta and to apply before the Jan. 28 deadline, visit https://www.climaterealityproject.org/training
Original source The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Tagged under Climate Reality Project, Climate Action
Al Gore Is Still Optimistic
September 20, 2018 From Bloomberg Businessweek:
At the Global Action Climate Summit, the former U.S. vice president talks to Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber about the sustainability revolution.
10 Years After An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore May Actually Be Winning
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Outcast Mesut Ozil has no regrets about joining Arsenal
Having seen little action in 2020, the midfielder is nevertheless keen to play in the US or Turkey
12 January 2021 - 14:53 Shrivathsa Sridhar
Mesut Ozil. Picture: REUTERS
Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil has been frozen out of the team since March 2020 but the German playmaker said he has no regrets about joining the Premier League side.
The 32-year-old, who is under contract until June and earns a reported £350,000 a week, was not included in the club's Premier and Europa League squads for the 2020/2021 season.
Reports in British media say Ozil could move from the London club in January and manager Mikel Arteta has said he would be allowed to leave if they received a good offer.
"There have been many ups and downs so far, but all in all I've never regretted my decision to join Arsenal," Ozil said during a question-and-answer session with fans on Twitter. "And, to be honest, the last couple of games before the coronavirus break in February and March 2020 made really a lot [of] fun. But after the break things unfortunately changed."
Since joining from Real Madrid in 2013, Ozil has scored 44 goals in 254 matches in all competitions. Ozil is free to negotiate with other clubs in January and local media reported he held talks with Turkish club Fenerbahce and US side DC United.
"Fenerbahce is like Real Madrid in Spain. The biggest club in the country," Ozil added. "Every German-Turkish person supports a Turkish team when they grow up in Germany. And mine was Fenerbahce.
"There are two countries I want to play football in before I retire: Turkey and US. If I went to Turkey, I could only go to Fenerbahce."
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