Prince tried to ignore the snickers of the other kids. His gait was ungainly – toes pointed inwards and knees rubbing against each other. The court was not his domain.
Mom made him come here because Proud, his brother, did. The difference was that Proud was a varsity player, and Prince had no athletic prowess.
Today he couldn't handle it, though. Prince ran towards the stairs. Jeers followed him.
His feet landed clumsily on the top stair, and he fell.
The jeers turned to laughter.
Proud stopped at the top. No movement could be seen.
Then the laughter turned to screams.
"The trolls said they found her in the ice caves," Malek said.
The babe of no more than 5 months still had frost on her fingers and nose. She could have been elf or human for all Nyhae could say. The blue skin could be from the hypothermia or her race.
Nyhae looked down at the babe and back at the trolls. The trolls would have normally cooked any other infant into some kind of broth. Why would they help this one?
"I don't like it," Nyhae said.
It could easily be a troll babe too. Though, the trolls only had a girl once in a generation.
But she'll die," Malek said. His eyes were fixed on the babe's tiny, soulful eyes.
Nyhae felt like she was the only one thinking properly. Malek was as hardened a warrior elf as she had known. Seeing him completely change for one child disturbed her.
She turned and walked away. If they were going to take the risk, she would have nothing to do with it.
Nyhae glared at her companion and bellowed her exasperation. She did an about-face and stormed further into the forest.
Nyhae looked back at Malek trudging through the trees. For a brief minute, she could swear that the legs were longer on the child, and the hands that tugged at his hair were bigger. She shook her hear and tried to convince herself it was nothing more than the baby warming up.
Nyhae turned around and continued toward her destination. She ignored the two for the rest of the trek.
The sounds of the party swelled the closer they came. The windpipes and lutes resonated in the forest. The smells of roasting pheasants and pumpkin wafted in the air, and the smoke of a great fire settled into Nyhae's lungs and eyes. The world was a haze.
She could see the denizens of the party within sight and a tall bonfire centred amongst them. Everyone kept a safe distance from the flames. The day before Winter Solstice Party was in full swing. The nymphs were laughing and twirling around with the humans they had entranced. The gnolls and gnomes swung their beers together and garbled gibberish to each other. Two ogres were surrounded on all sides by forest sprites dancing on their feet and arms and shoulders. They laughed in their guttural tones engaged in some kind of dance contest with them.
Nyhae felt Malek standing beside her. He bent down and seconds later a young girl pranced ahead.
Her head turned towards them both, and she smiled before resuming. Her blue skin changed to purple then pink as she walked closer to the party goers. Her legs and arms grew. By the time she entered the grove, she was the size of a full-bodied adult.
"Lhyana," Malek whispered before he walked closer to the party.
The members of the party stopped what they were doing and gazed upon the beautiful young woman. They all dropped to their knees, but she ignored them all.
Lhyana's gaze was fixed solely on the bonfire. Malek joined beside her, but she ignored him as well.
She entered the bonfire, and the world exploded in colour and sound. Smoke blinded Nyhae for a time. Screams erupted from all sides, but she remained firmly where she was. She knew what Lhyana was now. The sound of her claws and wings were a give away.
When the smoke died, Nyhae looked upon the corpses of the party members.
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The man behind the brand
Since the 1990s Angus beef cattle have been storming their way to the top of the food chain in Australian beef market. Known for its marbling, tenderness, texture and flavour, Angus beef dominates the menus and supermarket shelves across the nation. But what really sets Angus beef apart from the herd is Michael Pointer: the man behind the brand.
Now in his 80th year, the charismatic, fascinating legend of the beef industry lives a somewhat quieter life in Melbourne. Though his days of blue-collar work in agriculture are behind him, Mr Pointer is still the executive director of the Australian Association of Psychologists and an advisor to various agribusiness boards.
His career successes read like an adventure novel, spanning continents, governments and political leaders. Although perhaps best known for his role in the beef industry as founder of Certified Australian Angus Beef, Mr Pointer has been intrinsically involved and influential in many aspects of Australian agriculture's domestic and global trade markets for more than 60 years.
"In the 1950s," Mr Pointer recalls, "the most glamourous industry in the country was the wool trade. It made the paper every day and wool producers around the country were driving Rolls-Royces. And because the wool industry was such a glamourous industry, I decided it was just the industry that needed me!
"I started work in agribusiness on the 16th February 1955, employed by Max Glover, a man introduced to me by family friends. In fact I found myself not in the wool trade, but the sheepskin business, and the best thing that ever happened to me, after being the nearest thing to God that I ever would be as a school boy at a prestigious boarding school, was to find myself out in a green skin shed in Footscray with a broom in my hand sweeping the floor."
Mr Pointer worked his way to general manager of the skin department of T. Dewez & Company wool and sheepskin merchants. In 1959 he was sent to Mazamet, France, the capital of the sheepskin business world, for six months to meet clients and agents and learn about the manufacturing side of business. "I had the great misfortune of travelling back to this beautiful part of France many times," he jests, "where I created many life-long friends."
When the wool trade plummeted in the late 1960s Mr Pointer and Max Glover purchased the Dewez Sheepskin Company. The pair re-structured the business dramatically after bringing in a "wonderful friend and client" from France as a partner. Mr Pointer also started supplying to more than 40 tanneries in the former Yugoslavia manufacturing sheepskin seat covers for Mercedes Benz in Germany. "When we bought that business and I was the managing director we had a $1million a year turn over. And when I sold it in 1988 we had a $50 million a year turn over," Mr Pointer says.
In 1974 Mr Pointer was approached by a trading company he didn't know, asking him to represent them in a commercial arbitration in Shanghai, China, over some United States sourced sheepskins. This serendipitous journey – including armed escort into China via railway and a flight to Shanghai where the first class seats were allocated to boxes of bananas – started a love affair with China for Mr Pointer.
The following year he was asked to return to the Canton Fair (China Import and Export Fair) where he made the first direct sale of Australian hides and skins from an Australian packer to the Chinese.
"The Chinese became very keen to be able to deal directly with Australian suppliers… I was there two or three times a year every year after that for a long time. I developed a substantial amount of business, not only did we sell and supply a lot of sheepskins, hides and wool but I also bought carpets, Angora rabbit hair, and became the largest importer of black tea from China into Australia – and that sounds fantastic except that we didn't buy that much tea in China those days. One of the things I discovered early on is that Chinese people have the most wonderful sense of humour and I think I was able to use that fairly effectively for a long time."
Early trade with China had its difficulties. The Whitlam government had only established diplomatic relations with China in December 1972 and Mr Pointer says there was an obvious need for an industry body to assist with interaction between Australian and Chinese businesses.
Gathering "a few friends" together, Mr Pointer established what was then known as the Australian China Chamber of Commerce Industry, which later merged with the Australian China Business Co-operation Committee to form what is now the Australian China Business Council.
He was consequently appointed chairman of the Victorian Government China Advisory Committee, which he chaired for five consecutive Victorian premiers, and sat in on a number of Federal Government activities including a three year appointment on the Australia China Council, two years of which were chaired by former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.
"To have had so much to do with the rise of China as Australia's major trading partner has been very important to me. We achieved an enormous amount," Mr Pointer says. "To work alongside Whitlam post being Prime Minister, being able to participate with him, his intellect and his wit, that was one of the most enjoyable and entertaining things that I've been involved in for a long time."
In 1984 Mr Pointer received the Victorian Governor's Award for significant export achievement in Victoria. Two years later the Dewez Sheepskin Company took out an Australian Export Award for companies achieving sustainable growth in international business.
A happy coincidence
"Like many things in my life, getting into Angus cattle was basically by mistake," Mr Pointer says.
Following the sale of his sheepskin business in 1988, Mr Pointer and his wife Fran purchased what was intended to be a hobby farm on the rich pastoral lands of Alexandra, north-east of Melbourne. A motley herd of cross-bred cows joined with a Murray Grey bull soon became a "complete disaster" and it was quickly determined a fresh start was needed.
"I thought perhaps if I tried breeding just one breed of cattle I might do a little better," Mr Pointer says. "And that thought process just happened to coincide with the sale of a pretty good Angus herd in Victoria. For some extraordinary reason there was a big draft of two-and-a-half-year-old beautifully grown Angus heifers."
He purchased a "fair sized" draft of heifers, a couple of Angus bulls, and two years later had his first Angus calves to sell. When it came time to weigh the calves ahead of the weaner sale, Mr Pointer keenly asked the local Alexandra identity who'd been assisting him how much the calves were likely to fetch at sale.
"He said, 'I don't know.'" Mr Pointer recalls.
"Having been in the skin business I knew all the livestock buyers, so I asked, 'well, who are the buyers that come to the sale?' He said, 'I don't know.'
"I said, 'you mean to tell me we've invested all this money and done all this work for something that not only don't we know what it's worth, we don't even know if any bugger wants to buy it?'
"He said, 'that's the cattle business.'"
"We better change the cattle business," Mr Pointer decided.
Fortuitously, as the search began for a way to market his own calves, Mr Pointer was approached by the local agricultural show society who were keen to host an Angus feature as part of the next annual show. Through his inquiries to help organise the show he then joined the Angus Society of Australia.
In the mid '90s the Angus Society hosted founder and CEO of the American Certified Angus Beef program Louis 'Mick' Colvin. "Like all good Americans Mick could speak under wet cement and was thoroughly entertaining," Mr Pointer recalls. "He absolutely blew me away when I saw what he had done with Certified Angus Beef in the US.
"I then got in the car and the whole way home I was wondering why on earth we're not doing the same thing here. The next problem I had was how do we start, where do we go to get started?"
Branding Angus beef
Soon after, Mr Pointer was on the Victorian committee of the Angus Society when they received a letter from Trevor Bilney, acclaimed executive chef at the Rockman's Regency Hotel, Melbourne, asking to source some Angus beef.
Utilising contacts from his sheepskin days, Mr Pointer contacted the owners of an abattoir at Foster, Victoria, who agreed to process a select number of cattle, and Angus breeder and future present of the Angus Society Dennis Ginn provided 12 steers to be specially processed for the Rockman's Regency Hotel. "From day one I knew that I wanted to call it Certified Australian Angus Beef (CAAB)," Mr Pointer says. "And I still have in my archives a photograph of what I like to call The First Supper: Dennis, Trevor, the processor and myself eating the very first CAAB meal. That was in 1996."
From there other Angus breeders began feeding their cattle into the program. By 1999 it was determined that all beef in the program had to be a grain fed product, CAAB had licensed Cargill Australia's Wagga Wagga abattoir as the brand's only processor, and it was obvious an export component would be vital for the business to continue to expand.
From 1996 to Mr Pointer's retirement from the company in 2011 CAAB had built from processing 12 head of cattle in one year to nearly 100,000 head per year. The product was going to Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, the Maldives, Dubai, the United States, the United Kingdom, and was branded in 32 chains of supermarkets in Japan.
"It was very interesting when we first started exporting to Japan because it was before the BSE [Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow disease] outbreaks in Japan and their supply channels were so tightly controlled by trading companies that you could never meet an end user," Mr Pointer says.
"A number of trading companies basically went bankrupt overnight when the trade stopped over the BSE. That changed the whole relationship with Japan and so we were able to go over there, do cooking demonstrations in supermarkets and actually talk to the consumers, which was fantastic.
"That really was a great success and it was the precursor to everybody in Australia now selling Angus Beef. You can't go anywhere now without seeing Angus Beef."
A second career
Iconic Melbourne butcher Peter Bouchier was the first Australian retail butcher to stock CAAB and Mr Pointer recalls the excitement of first seeing his products displayed at both Peter Bouchier's and Coles, the first Australian supermarket to sell CAAB. After two years of negotiations between CAAB and McDonald's, the restaurant chain launched their Angus line of products in August 2009 – "a coup that was really more than interesting!"
"Providing the meal for Bill Clinton and 100 guests at the Ritz Carlton in Sydney when he came to Australia in 2001 was a highlight and we also fed him in Vietnam on one occasion too," Mr Pointer says. "But the overall highlight really was getting the brand known, having it become a national brand and winning a gold medal in the first branded beef competition that we entered."
Mr Pointer dreamed of CAAB holding the same position in Australia as American Certified Angus Beef does in the United States and admits to a certain extent he's a little disappointed it hasn't reached that mark yet. He also believes there's an enormous amount of work to be done in genetic improvement and smart water use in the Australian cattle industry, although he remains one of the industry's biggest champions.
He retired as CEO of CAAB in 2009 and from the company in 2011. "So that was my second career," he says. "I learnt plenty. I learnt that the meat business is a fascinating business and it was a great joy to be involved in it."
After ten years of drought in Victoria Mr Pointer dispersed his Angus cattle herd in 2007. "What I set out to start in 1988 as a hobby farm became very serious," he says. "I was very pleased that by good luck I became a breeder of Angus cattle and became involved in what was happening in the Angus world."
Mr Pointer has been awarded life membership of the Angus Society of Australia and the Australian China Business Council. In 2008 he was honoured by the President of France with the rank of Chevalier De L'Ordre National Du Mérite for his work in sustaining the sheepskin business in Mazamet and in 2012 he was thrilled to receive the Merial Howard Yelland Beef Industry Award in recognition of his leadership in developing and promoting branded Australian beef to a domestic and global food market.
"I've still got plenty to do," he says. "Living in Melbourne now I'm not physically involved in any agribusiness but I am still actively involved in several organisations that I'm an advisor to. I will continue fighting the good fight for my psychologists and I'll continue fighting the good fight for my colleagues in the livestock businesses, dealing with the concerns of things like Johnes disease control in Australia… it's always rather nice to be asked advice about something.
He continues to buy CAAB porterhouse from Peter Bouchier's Bourke Street David Jones store, which he enjoys cooking for family and friends, and believes the future of Australia's beef industry is as bright as ever.
"We're moving into a situation where for the first time in 50 years the world demand for beef will exceed the world supply of beef," he says. "By the year 2030 there will be 3.2 billion middle class people living in the Asian Pacific area on our doorstep… and they're the people starting to eat beef. They're going to have a major impact on our long-term beef production.
"I am now in my 80th year; if I was in my 18th year I would be very confident in establishing a beef cattle operation because I think the long term outlook is very, very sound indeed."
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This story was first published in Leading Agriculture magazine.
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Education finance is a complex issue for districts statewide, but Eckstein is hopeful Travis County will benefit from its solution. Specifically, he's anticipating restraints on recapture, a system added to the Texas Education Code in 1993 that redistributes tax revenue from property-wealthy districts to make up for a lack of education funds in others. As in the cases of Austin, Eanes, Lago Vista and Lake Travis, when a district's local revenue generated from property taxes exceeds the state's per student guaranteed funding level, it must make recapture payments.
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Employees of the King of Airbnb in Montreal fired in English as soon as the collective agreement is signed
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Half of the employees laid off in Montreal by the American company Sonder, which received a $30 million loan from Quebec City, had just signed a first collective agreement and trained colleagues in the Philippines before their departure.
"This is the first time that I have had a closure when we have just had a collective agreement. […] We are appalled by this decision," denounced Roxane Larouche, spokesperson for the TUAC union in Quebec.
Employees were concerned about the decrease in the number of workers in the Montreal office for the benefit of the Philippines, but they would never have imagined that the company would shut down the call center.
Sonder announced last week that it is laying off 250 of its employees, including 40 in Montreal. Of this group, there are about twenty who are unionized.
Sonder had however promised in 2020 the creation of 700 jobs in Montreal, a "growth center" and investments of $182 million, in exchange for a $30 million loan from Quebec.
A first tranche of 6 million $ of the loan has already been assigned to Sonder, but has not yet been drawn down. The rest will follow over the next four years.
Prime Minister François Legault congratulated himself in December 2020 at a press conference, saying he was "heartbroken" when he saw that Sonder, founded by Montrealers, moved its headquarters to San Francisco in 2017. "When I am went to San Francisco in 2019, […] I asked them: 'what can I do to bring some of this business back to Montreal at least?'" he explained.
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Roxane Larouche claims that Montreal employees trained employees of a new call center in the Philippines before the company announced the closure of the Montreal one.
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Sources also told us that the layoffs were announced in English only.
Our Bureau of Investigation obtained a written message that was sent by management to employees to inform them of the layoffs. In this message, the decision to layoff is explained in English by the change in mood of the market since the beginning of the year.
"Creeping inflation, rising interest rates 'interest and a rapid decline of around 65% in the valuations of unprofitable companies froze the capital markets,' he explained. Management says it is "deeply sorry" especially for the impact on the laid off employees and their families.
Sonder spokeswoman Fiona Story defends herself by saying that the "official documentation" provided to employees is available in English and French. She says there is no connection between the signing of the collective agreement and the layoffs.
"The decision to abolish the positions in question is not attributable to [the] agreement [with the union], but rather to respond to the current situation on the stock markets," she continued. the company maintained "its intention to invest in Quebec and to prioritize job creation there as part of the recovery that will result from this restructuring, in particular for specialized and high value-added positions".
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It's the most wonderful time of the year.. in Columbia! We have so much going on during the holiday season; read on for information on holiday events, upcoming festivals, and on-stage performances.
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Holiday Home Tour | December 5-7 in the Old Hawthorne area
Contact the Missouri Symphony Society for tickets and more information.
Shelter Insurance Tree Lighting | December 5 at 6 PM, Shelter Insurance Company
Enjoy seasonal music by West Middle School and gifts from Santa for the kiddos.
Santa Hotline | December 6 from 9 AM – 3 PM
Children can place a collect call to the North Pole this holiday season to be sure they get a word with the big jolly man, Mrs. Claus, or one of Santa's many bustling elves. Call 874-7473 or 874-6335 on the day of event.
Winter Craft Bazaar | December 6 from 10 AM – 3 PM at Knights of Columbus
Don't go far to find the area's best baked goods, resale items, and handmade crafts. From cranberry candles to pine birdhouses, this bazaar showcases home-based vendors.
City Kwanzaa Celebration | December 6 from 2 PM – 5 PM at Douglass High School
Come celebrate this African-American holiday which is based around developing positive families and communities. There will be community awards given, entertainment and a holiday feast.
A Dickens Victorian Christmas | Stephens College, December 7-9 at Historic Senior Hall Parlors
You won't want to miss this authentic recreation of a 19th Century English Christmas celebration. Join Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dickens, along with the Stephens Concert Choir, for a spirited evening of holiday music, period dance, refreshments, games and frivolity.
Nebraska Theatre Caravan's "A Christmas Carol" | December 10, 7 PM at Missouri Theatre
A Christmas Carol delights families with the story of miserly Ebeneezer Scrooge and the three ghosts of Christmas who try to teach him the true meaning of the holiday before it's too late.
Magic Tree Lighting | December 11, 6 PM at The Village of Cherry Hill
Come see the Magic Tree lighting in The Village of Cherry Hill. There will be family friendly activities like Santa, crafts, carriage rides and a holiday bazaar.
Jingle Bell Run/Walk | December 13, 8 AM at the Roger B. Wilson Government Center
Come wearing bells and ready to spread holiday cheer for the nationwide 5K race for arthritis.
Handbell Ensemble | December 13, 7 – 8:30 PM at First Baptist Church
Join us for a mix of traditional holiday classics, carols, and classical arrangements. Enjoy A Charlie Brown Christmas and a wild version of The 12 Days of Christmas!
Lights and Sights Tour | December 19, tours at 6:15 PM and 7:45 PM
Enjoy some of Columbia's beautiful holiday lights from the comfort of Parks and Recreation mini-buses! Tours depart from the ARC. Pre-register with Parks and Recreation, 573-874-7460.
Symphony of Toys | December 21, 3 PM at Missouri Theatre
A holiday concert featuring a variety of festive music for the season with the Missouri Symphony Orchestra, the Missouri Symphony Children's Chorus, the Columbia Chorale and special guest, renowned soprano Teresa Gomez. A special guest from the North Pole will also make an appearance!
(Columbia Eve Fest, courtesy of Notley Hawkins)
Living Windows Festival | December 5, 6-8 PM in The District
Shopkeepers move all the merchandise out of their front windows and stage live holiday performances for onlookers. The night itself is a celebration of the holidays. The District features open houses, strolling carolers, holiday treats,and visits with Santa.
First Fridays | December 5, January 2, February 6, 6-9 PM in the North Village Arts District
Galleries, shops, and businesses will be open on the first Friday of every month and will offer music, art, demonstrations, kids' activities, refreshments, and much more. Each First Friday will be unique depending on the season and other downtown activities taking place throughout the year. First Fridays are free and all ages are welcome to join in the evenings offerings from parades to after parties.
Columbia Eve Fest | December 31, 7 PM in The District
Join us for a New Year's Eve Block Party on 9th street between Elm and Locust in The District. Eve Fest is an alcohol-free, celebration of the New Year with music, art, ritual, and festivity.
True/False Film Fest | March 5-8 in The District
T/F is a magical Columbia experience, offering 4 days of the newest and most compelling documentary films, each accompanied by the director, plus dozens of bands playing before screenings and at concerts all weekend. There are also art installations throughout downtown, a legendary live gameshow, and the March March parade to kick it all off.
(True/False Film Fest's March March parade, courtesy of Missouri Division of Tourism)
Snow Queen | TRYPS, December 6-7, 13-14 at Stephens College Warehouse Theatre
Long before Disney created its smash hit Frozen, a more traditional tale was told of a mystical Snow Queen. Chill out with this classic story.
Anne of Green Gables | Stephens College, December 5-7, 10-11 at Macklanburg Playhouse
Known for its bright, charming, resourceful and highly imaginative heroine, as well as the beauty of its setting on Prince Edward Island, Anne of Green Gables has captivated audiences for generations. Experience this timeless tale for the first time, or share it with someone you find charming/and irrepressible, too.
Over the River and Through the Woods | Talking Horse Productions, December 5-7, 12-14 at Talking Horse Theatre
Nick is a single, Italian-American guy from New Jersey. His parents retired and moved to Florida. That doesn't mean his family isn't still in Jersey. In fact, Nick sees both sets of grandparents every Sunday for dinner. This is routine until he has to tell them that he's been offered a dream job, which would take him away from his beloved, but annoying grandparents. The news doesn't sit so well. Thus begins a series of schemes to keep Nick around.
Dial 'S' for Santa | Sherlock's Mystery Dinner Theatre, December 5-6, 12-13, 19-20 at The Broadway
Performing at The Broadway Hotel in downtown Columbia, Missouri, Sherlock's presents shows full of hilarious comedy and fascinating intrigue combined with high-end food prepared by an award winning chef.
Our Town | Greenhouse Theatre Project, December 10-14 at Orr Street Studios
GreenHouse collaborates with Orr St. Studios on a new, experimental adaptation of the Thornton Wilder classic by co-artistic director Elizabeth Braaten Palmieri.
Cinderella | Columbia Entertainment Company, January 22-25, 29-31, February 1, 5-8 at Columbia Entertainment Company
The timeless enchantment of a magical fairy tale is reborn with the Rodgers & Hammerstein hallmarks of originality, charm and elegance. As adapted for the stage, with great warmth and more than a touch of hilarity, the hearts of children and adults alike still soar when the slipper fits.
End Game | University of Missouri Dept. of Theatre, February 4-8 at Corner Playhouse
Samuel Beckett's Endgame pares down human existence to what is left after every other option is taken away. Yet this stark absurdist tragicomedy challenges us to find comic moments in the despair of four people facing the end of the world. Don't miss this meditation on death, dependency and wit.
Antigone | Stephens College, February 6-8 at Macklanburg Playhouse
In a world fraught with moral compromise, how does one maintain personal integrity—and at what cost? That's the dilemma faced by faithful sister Antigone as she mourns her two dead brothers in this thoughtful adaption of Sophocles' classic Greek tragedy.
The Whipping Man | University of Missouri Dept. of Theatre, February 19-21 at Rhynsburger Theater
As the Civil War ends, a wounded Confederate soldier returns to find his plantation home in ruins, occupied by two of his family's former slaves. Bound by history and the Jewish faith they share, the three men are forced to confront the changing social order as deeply buried secrets are revealed that could cost each of them their freedom. Strong language and explicit physical trauma.
What Every Girl Should Know | Stephens College, February 19-22 at Warehouse Theatre
Four young Catholic suffragettes in early 20th century New York City adopt birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger as their patron saint.
Love, Loss, and What I Wore | Columbia Entertainment Company, February 26 – March 1, March 5-8 at CEC
A play of monologues and ensemble pieces about women, clothes and memory covering all the important subjects—mothers, prom dresses, mothers, buying bras, mothers, hating purses and why we only wear black.
Hope this gives you an idea of what we have coming up in Columbia! Keep an eye on our calendar of events and blog for more information.


Our own region faces the same challenge. We need to significantly reduce spending, but how do we do it without abandoning core responsibilities? Consider this: A big reason taxes aren't lower in Northeast Ohio is that we have an oversupply of housing and commercial development. This depresses the value of all properties, and means we need higher tax rates to fund services.
Why the oversupply? Because our region has the same population as in 1950, but since then we've built out over twice as much land area. Increased costs divided by the same number of taxpayers equals higher taxes.
Many problems trace back to this.
Crumbling infrastructure? We spend foolish amounts on new roads and utilities that are desired, but not needed.
Urban school struggles? When a new school is built on the outskirts and draws families outward, urban districts are saddled with the cost of redundant buildings and tougher-to-educate students. Plus, the regional oversupply of housing and retail disproportionately depresses the value of urban properties, undercutting the funding base of those school systemss.
Sluggish growth? We move people and goods over needlessly long distances and spend too much on the enabling infrastructure.
Much of the outward spread has been subsidized one way or another in the name of growth. But growth that gives a great bargain of low taxes/high service to some people at the ongoing expense of everyone else is not progress; it's slow regional suicide. We can't blame people for taking the discount, but we also can't afford to keep giving away the store.
Where to start? First, Northeast Ohio has amazing assets: great location for intracontinental transportation; bounteous agriculture; world-class cultural, educational, and medical institutions and the commensurate brain trust; manufacturing expertise; natural beauty and recreation amenities; abundant fresh water; affordable cost of living; and a wealth of livable neighborhoods.
Our public policy should leverage those assets.
Second, assume that every dollar we don't spend subsidizing outer suburbia is like putting two to four dollars in the regional bank. Think about all the ways that savings could be used to put Northeast Ohio in a stronger competetive position.
Make it illegal for utilities to fold the cost of new infrastructure for outer-ring development into all their customers' bills.
End public funding for new highway interchanges designed to spur development. Developers should pay for that speculative asphalt.
Home mortgage interest deductions? Not if you're moving into a new outer-ring development.
State funds to build new schools? Take care of existing schools first.
Want more highways? Make them toll roads and charge enough to pay for maintenance and policing, too.
Smart design makes a difference. Wise spending aims for the highest output for a given input. That means investing primarily in compact, efficient systems. The minimum "efficient" population density (just dense enough that people don't have to drive everywhere, allowing infrastructure to be reduced to more human scale) is exemplified by the 1920s streetcar suburb–that's Cleveland Heights or Lakewood. These places are our best model for a prosperous future.
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Access to Abortion in Turkey: No Laughing Matter
Shena Cavallo
Abortion has been legal in Turkey since 1983, but many women wouldn't know it was. Access these days is very limited; a local women's group reports that only three out of the 37 public hospitals in the country are providing non-emergency terminations.
Turkey had been a beacon in a region where clandestine, and often unsafe, abortions are the norm. In 1983,Turkey joined Tunisia in permitting abortion under all circumstances in the first trimester. They are the only countries in the Middle East/North Africa with this policy; in the rest of the region, abortion is only legal to save a woman's life or protect her health. While Turkey's law is far from perfect—married women require the permission of their spouses—it was an important progressive development.
Before abortion was legalized in Turkey, unsafe abortion was one of the leading causes of maternal mortality. And maternal mortality was significantly higher than it is now; in 1974, there were 208 maternal deaths for every 100,000 births, and in 2013, this was reduced to 20 maternal deaths for every 100,000 births.
Yet, this progress is in jeopardy. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stated several times that abortion "is murder." This is the same man who has made other extreme and ridiculous statements, including that caesarean sections are part of a secret plot to stifle the country's growth and that all women should have at least three children. Such questionable remarks are not restricted to Erdoğan. Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc has said that women should not laugh in public.
Sentiments like these are impinging on women's reproductive rights. In 2012, a law was proposed that would permit doctors to refuse to perform an abortion on the grounds of conscientious objection and would impose mandatory waiting periods for women requesting terminations. Although this law did not pass, President Erdoğan's recent rhetoric, and the comments and actions of other government officials, seem to have had almost as dangerous an impact on women's health.
Health professionals in the public system are taking cues from their leaders, defying the law, and making it very hard for women to obtain these services. Some hospitals have introduced a policy of sending messages to fathers informing them of their daughters' pregnancies. Some refuse to provide abortion services if the woman is not married or more than 6 weeks pregnant; even though the law actually permits abortion until the 10th week of pregnancy.
Such backward steps are disconcerting, to say the least. With more and more barriers to access, women will be forced to resort to unsafe methods to terminate pregnancies, undoing the country's progress in reducing maternal deaths. If President Erdoğan really wants to do right by his country and put it on the path to progress, he should be protecting and promoting women's sexual and reproductive rights.
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Henriette Willebeek LeMair (April 23, 1889 in Rotterdam – March 15, 1966) was a Dutch illustrator of children's books.

Career
The French illustrator Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel was an important influence on Le Mair's artistic development. When she was 15, her parents took her to visit him in Paris for advice, and she returned annually for further mentoring. As a result of his advice, she studied at the Rotterdam Academy of Art from 1909 to 1911 as well as taking private drawing lessons.

She first published illustrations in 1904, and a year later collaborated with her mother on a series of three books. As an illustrator, her most productive years were between 1911 and 1917. Her images appeared on postcards and children's china as well as in books.

Le Mair worked in watercolor, a medium that showcased her delicate, detailed drawings with their muted flat color washes. She often used decorative cartouches shaped as ovals or rounded rectangles to set off her illustrations. Although she illustrated relatively few books, her work has always been highly regarded. One contemporary critic  wrote, "Since the days of Kate Greenaway I know of no one who has caught so well the spirit of childhood as Miss Willebeek Le Mair."

In her early twenties, she ran a nursery school, and she sometimes used her students as models.

In 1920 Le Mair married H.P. Baron van Tuyll van Serooskerken and adopted the name "Saida". They both converted to the beliefs of Sufism, a religion of universal brotherhood and love, as taught by Murshid Inayat Khan, and spent their lives helping the poor and other charitable causes. They eventually settled in The Hague, Netherlands.

Personal life
In 1920 she married Hubertus Paulus Baron van Tuyll van Serooskerken (1883–1958), the leader of the Dutch Sufis inspired by Inayat Khan, and adopted the name 'Saida'. They settled in The Hague, Netherlands.

Books

 Premières Rondes Enfantines (1904)
 Our Old Nursery Rhymes (1911)
 Little Songs of Long Ago (1912)
 Schumann's Piano Album of Children's Pieces (1913)
 Grannie's Little Rhyme Book (1913)
 Mother's Little Rhyme Book (1913)
 Auntie's Little Rhyme Book (1913)
 Nursie's Little Rhyme Book (1913)
 Daddy's Little Rhyme Book (1913)
 Baby's Little Rhyme Book (1913)
 Elkin, R. H., The Children's Corner (1914)
 What the Children Sing (1915)
 Little People (1915)
 Elkin, R. H., Old Dutch Nursery Rhymes (1917)
 Baby's Diary (ca. 1925)
 Milne, A. A., A Gallery of Children (1925)
 Stevenson, Robert Louis, A Child's Garden of Verses (1926)
 Khan, Noor Inayat, Twenty Jakarta Tales (1939)
 Christmas Carols for Young Children (1946)
 Four & Twenty Tailors (1975)
 Lemair Diary'' (1991)
 Little Green Rhyme Book (1995)
 Golden Days: A Book for Addresses and Days to Remember,  by Henriette Willebeek Le Mair and Mair H. Le Willebeek (1997)
 A Children's Bedtime Book (2003)
 The Mother Goose Treasury (2003)
 Flower Garden of Inayat Khan by Inayat Khan  by Inayat Khan (text) and H. Willebeek le Mair (illustrations) (2010)
 What the Children Sing: A Book of the Most Popular Rhymes & Games'' – Scholar's Choice Edition  by Henriette Willebeek le Mair, Alfred Edward Moffat (2015) — 2 editions

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Friday the 13th will have a whole new meaning for "Jersey Shore" star, The Situation, because that's when he will be sprung from the big house!
The Bureau of Federal Prisons just revealed the prison release date for Michael Sorrentino as September 13, 2019.
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Abraham Lincoln (1930)
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"Do you suppose there's a human being who wants peace more than I do?"
After mourning the loss of his first love, Ann Rutledge (Una Merkel), Abraham Lincoln (Walter Huston) marries Mary Todd (Kay Hammond), becomes president of the United States, oversees the bloodiest war in American history, and eventually dies at the hands of assassin John Wilkes Boothe (Ian Keith).
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Famed silent director D.W. Griffith's foray into sound films was less than successful, resulting in just two unexceptional "talkies": 1931's The Struggle (about a marriage threatened by alcoholism), and this episodic biopic about one of America's most legendary presidents.
Abraham Lincoln has been somewhat unfairly maligned over the years — most notoriously by Harry Medved and Randy Dreyfuss in their book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (1978), where the authors call out (among other things) the melodramatic acting style of Merkel (who they refer to as "very simply beneath contempt"):
… the occasionally clunky dialogue ("Oh, Ann! I love you so!"), and the screenplay's revisionist tendencies (i.e., Lincoln spouting part of his inaugural address before settling down to watch his final play at Ford's Theater).
However, Medved and Dreyfuss's attack simply comes across as mean-spirited — as is their entire book, come to think of it. While Abraham Lincoln hasn't dated all that well, and is far from accurate as a nuanced history lesson, it's not nearly the clunker these authors claim it to be. Abraham Lincoln is primarily a victim of its own era — the transition between silent films and talkies, a time when few directors were getting things completely "right". In addition, the episodic nature of the screenplay doesn't do the subject any favors, with far too much material covered in too short a time. Huston does a fine job as Lincoln:
… though I ultimately prefer Henry Fonda's more introspective interpretation in John Ford's superior Young Mr. Lincoln (1939).
Some evidence of fine composition (by Griffith) and cinematography (by Karl Struss)
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First viewing. Not a must.
While I won't go so far as to put this among the worst films ever made…it's still not very good at all and kind of a snail-paced snooze.
The main problem is the script, especially for the film's first half – which appears responsible for making the overall production look and feel like an uninspired high school play. Much of the dialogue until midway is banal at best.
The latter half (though still with its hefty share of tedium) brings a bit more visual sweep due to war events.
Basically there wasn't a whole lot that could have been done to pull this off well, considering what was there on the pages all involved were working with.
Agreed: Ford's 'Young Mr. Lincoln' is the one to go with, without much need of comparing the two films.


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Wannabe WAG's, duplicitous new signings, back-stabbing in the boardroom – it's not the Premiership, it's Shakespeare's classic tragedy Othello which gets a modern makeover from the award-winning Lass Productions this September.
Staying true to the original text, Othello is transported from the backstreets of Venice to the back-stabbing boardrooms of Venezia FC in a stage first. Instead of being a General, Othello (George Oluyinka) is the first black manager of the club whilst new foreign signing Cassio (Ryan Russell) enrages centre back Iago (Liam Grunshaw). Emila (Morag Peacock) becomes the club's physio, and Bianca (Roisin McClusker) a wannabe WAG in a truly innovative move.
Taran Knight, Francene Turner, Eryl Lloyd Parry, Dru Jones and Vicky Burrows complete this award-winning team's line up with all the actors playing under the watchful eye of coach (Director) Michael Whittaker.
Marking the first performance from Lass Productions since the closure of the Lass O'Gowrie's studio theatre in 2014, you can also take a piece of the performance home with you. Merchandise will be on sale at the performances including some retro style football stickers featuring the cast to collect!
Commenting on Lass Productions return to the Manchester stage, Producer Gareth Kavanagh comments: "We've took some time out to plan our next projects. Earlier this year we performed to massive crowds at the Sci-fi Weekender in North Wales. Back in our homeland though combining the worlds of tragedy and football was a no brainer for us. The two made a perfect match and with Othello's themes still resonating today, we can bring this timeless story to a new audience."
"We've never been a company to shy away from a challenge, and our adaptation of Othello has certainly been a rewarding journey to bring to the stage. Early bird interest has shown that the Bard can still put bums on seats!"
Director Michael Whittaker (Ian Curtis in New Dawn Fades) added: "I've been relishing the challenge of bringing Shakespeare to the Fringe, and we're respecting not only the original text, but also Manchester as a footballing superpower with many nods our audiences are bound to recognise."
Friday 26 September sees a special schools and students' performance with an after-show Q&A and ticket discounts for students. Additionally, with many of the cast and crew having been inspired by their English teachers, some have even invited their old English teachers along to the show!
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Home » Lifestyle » After HBO Max deal, theaters consider slashing Warner Bros. ticket prices: Report
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Movie theaters reeling due to coronavirus restrictions
FOX Business' Kristina Partsinevelos on how movie theaters are struggling amid the pandemic.
Movie exhibitors are reportedly considering hitting back after Warner Bros. announced that their 2021 slate would debut on HBO Max and in theaters on the same day.
The announcement was a blow to theaters, which have taken a major hit over the course of the year due to closures and limited capacities amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The list of 17 films that will immediately go to streaming includes some massive properties, including "The Matrix 4," "Dune," "In the Heights," and "The Suicide Squad," which theaters were counting on to help them recuperate after a tough year.
Now, some theater chains are considering slashing the prices of tickets to see those movies, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
WARNER BROS. WILL RELEASE ALL 2021 FILMS ON STREAMING SERVICE HBO MAX AND IN THEATERS
The tickets could cost as little as $3 to $5, the report states, citing insiders.
Movie exhibitors are reportedly considering significantly slashing ticket prices to see Warner Bros. films in 2021 due to the studio also sending films to HBO Max on the same day as their theatrical release. (Photo by LUIS ROBAYO/AFP via Getty Images
Additionally, theaters would want to keep between 75-80% of the revenue from the tickets, leaving mere cents for the studio per ticket.
AMC and Cinemark have issued statements explaining they will be forced to consider carrying the movies on a title-by-title basis, while the former's recent SEC filing says Warner Bros.' decision is partially to blame for the possibility of the chain running out of money by the end of Jan. 2021.
DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA SAYS WARNER BROS. STREAMING PLAN WITH HBO MAX IS 'UNACCEPTABLE'
AMC and Cinemark did not immediately respond to Fox Business' request for comment. Warner Bros. declined to comment.
Warner Bros. stands to lose an estimated $1.2 billion in box office revenue for 2021 thanks to the deal,report, according to the Reporter citing a MoffettNathanson report.
'Wonder Woman 1984′ will be released on Christmas Day in theaters and on HBO Max, and will be followed by Warner Bros.' entire 2021 slate in the coming months. (Clay Enos/Warner Bros Pictures via AP, File)
In addition to the studio's 2021 slate, "Wonder Woman 1984" is set to debut on HBO Max on Christmas Day, when it also opens in theaters.
The spread of coronavirus and its subsequent shutdowns have had a heavy impact on the film industry, as many productions have shutdown or even been scrapped due to the outbreak.
Theaters also face an uncertain future, as Regal has shuttered many locations around the world.
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A Texas City councilman was arrested earlier this month on charges that he smuggled illegal aliens into the country.
Marco Rodriguez, City councilman for Crystal City, was arrested on January 2, 2016 for smuggling at least three illegal aliens into the united States.
The arrest happened Saturday at a post office in Big Wells. The feds say that Rodriguez was pulled over by a Border Patrol agent. They chatted briefly before Rodriguez allegedly tried to run away. Eventually, Border Patrol caught up to him and the three undocumented immigrants he was with.
Rodriguez says he was paid $500 and $1400 on those trips. KENS 5 went to Rodriguez's parents' home, but no one answered the door. The city manager and mayor also declined to talk.
Rodriguez is not the only public servant in the city to get into trouble. Just two weeks prior to his arrest, City manager James Jonas was arrested and accused of assaulting a female who was attempting to enter a city council meeting.
The public service positions in the city are unpaid, according to KENS5, and residents say that if any city official is arrested, they should lose their job.
While I agree with the sentiment, under the law, one is not guilty simply because one is arrested. However, in Rodriguez's case, he has confessed to what he did and, therefore, should be removed from office.
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The Ghost Inside: Get What You Give
Get What You Give's unrelenting generic songwriting makes it yet another addition to the growing body of work that suggests metalcore is on its last legs.
Get What You Give
Label: Epitaph
Why is metalcore so terrible, exactly?
I've isolated a great deal of metal fans with that opening sentence, but the current state of affairs in the genre is such that a pause for evaluation is necessary. Paradigm shifts within certain sub-genres of metal--black metal being the most obvious example--have brought about so many frenzied discussions that in our highfalutin theorizing (see: Liturgy) fans of popular subgenres like metalcore have begun to feel oddly threatened by the melding and molding that, to many, has made metal better. A microcosm of this conflict can be seen in a humorous way via the MSN Metal website, where PopMatters contributing editor Adrien Begrand writes. On the comment section for his best-of-the-year roundup, one particularly irate voice chimed:
WOW this is a terrible list. Not just a Complete lack of power metal but metalcore and deathcore. death to hipster metal! Luckily the whole world knows this isn't what represents metal outside the blogosphere. There's a reason this crap doesn't sell. Well mr blogger what represents the best metal is WHAT SELLS.
Pushing aside the egregious fallacy driving his anger ("What sells = What's good"), his words highlight something important. On paper, the union of metal and hardcore doesn't necessarily lend itself to generic, over-producedness; it just seems to happen that way. Metalcore bands around the world (and by world I mean mostly the United States) continue to give their fans the things they like the most: contrasted clean and growled vocals, imposing band names (see: Killswitch Engage), and, of course, a breakdown in (most) every song. Everyone has their own taste, and it's of course not wrong to like metalcore. But amongst the major metal critics, the genre is seen as lacking innovation, or if you're lazy about it, "too mainstream".
In some ways they're right; if any variant of metal has been "Christianised", metalcore would be it; big names like Demon Hunter, The Devil Wears Prada, and Underoath all openly affiliate with that religious label. Much like metalcore, Christian music doesn't have to be bad; it just kind of happens that it is. (Demon Hunter, for instance, began promisingly, but ever since 2005's The Triptych their sonic has become increasingly monochromatic.) Christian music's tendency to not push too many dangerous buttons has now bled into metalcore, resulting in albums that satisfy for a minute but not much longer. Conversely, fans of metalcore, such as the commenter quoted above, see the critics who back the most obscure or genre-melding metal bands as near betrayers of the craft, capitulating to the weirdest possible excesses. One of the critical darlings of 2012 is Panopticon's Kentucky, a daring merger of black metal and Americana. An album like that doesn't comfortably fit on the shelf between As Daylight Dies and They're Only Chasing Safety.
Which now brings us to Get What You Give, the third outing by The Ghost Inside, their first for Epitaph label. If you judge an album based solely on how well executed the various elements are, then this is pretty good. Some of the riffs are pretty punchy, there's a good amount of breakdowns, and Jonathan Vigil's vocals do exactly what they're supposed to do. But by the conclusion of "Engine 45", the third track, you can't help but feel like there's something missing in all this. When Vigil screams, "All my life I've been waiting for something / That never came", it's pretty easy to relate to him, although not for the reason he wants. You may not have waited all your life for metalcore to be something greater than it is, but like many who wish the genre didn't have to fall prey to commercial trappings, you've likely been hoping for awhile. The Ghost Inside do little to variate on the established metalcore sonic, even though they play that sonic well.
There are some things that differentiate The Ghost Inside from other groups of their ilk. Lyrically, they're very positive and optimistic, an odd trait for a band aiming for hardcore as much as they are. This isn't to say metal can't be life-affirming or hopeful; even Liturgy's rootings in black metal didn't hold back Hunter Hunt-Hendrix from thinking he could rise above banal nihilism. From that line of thought arose the "negation of a negation" trope, the key force behind his Transcendental Black Metal treatise. That sort of hope, however, has a sophistication and nuance to it that isn't like, say, Devin Townsend's entertainingly blunt take on happy metal. When The Ghost Inside try to be optimistic, it comes off more like metal vis a vis cheesy inspirational music, i.e. the song you're likely to hear backing a military recruitment video. The most obvious pieces of evidence are the frequent reliance on cliché ("It's so hard for me to see so light up the end of that tunnel"), clunky wording ("My youth is getting older"), or stuff straight-ripped from a "Actualize Your Internal Self" seminar ('I'm alive!' Just make that choice and draw that line tonight / Tonight you got to test the limits and tell yourself / 'I'm alive, and I'm not going anywhere!'"). On one hand it's nice to see a metal band aim for positivity instead of wallowing in the darkness you'd expect; it's just a shame they devolve so quickly into the superficial.
This now brings us back to the initial question I posed. All of the historical analysis in this review is but to suggest that The Ghost Inside are on the wrong side of history as far as metalcore is concerned. Had this not been released after years of uninspired, flat records in the genre, Get What You Give could have benefited from a friendlier context. As it stands, it fits all too neatly into the "popular metalcore/unpopular 'hipster' metal" bifurcation. The forces that have made metalcore what is now are many, too many to document in a single review. In a way it's a marvel; with metal branching off into so many different musical scenes, how is it that the most popular genre has managed to remain utterly stagnant? A cynic might say that's the nature of mainstream music, and that it'll be awhile before the likes of The Ghost Inside rise above their style's pratfalls. I'd like to hope for the better, but all I'm left with is what I have now, and not even Vigil's impassioned attempts to inspire give me a lot to work with.
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John Hersey covered Hiroshima and America's race riots with empathy, courage and profound humility. Jeremy Treglown's biography, Mr. Straight Arrow, should bring a new generation of readers to Hersey's work.
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Sewerage is water-borne human, domestic and industrial waste, which cannot be prevented from arising in some form. It is always objectionable. Sewerage works have to be financed by a politically unpopular tax, rate or levy. The acceptance of this necessity was probably the most difficult step in the establishment of sewerage in the cities of Australia. Inquiries into the sanitary conditions of Sydney and Melbourne may be seen -in relation to those two cities -as defining the initial introduction of technology to the process of sewerage disposal.
Australian sewerage authorities, coming late in the field, had the advantage of being able to select the most appropriate technology from those available overseas. A regular feature of the years of development of the sewerage systems was the visits of leading Australian engineers to Europe and North America. The availability of imported technology has, however, not prevented Australian engineers from adapting and improving it.
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Chicago's Fortune 500 headquarters are shrinking
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by Dylan Sharkey
Chicago has lost three Fortune 500 headquarters in 2022. McDonald's could be the next to leave. Amendment 1 could make it more likely.
Chicago's updated tally of Fortune 500 companies is shrinking thanks to departures from Citadel, Boeing and Caterpillar to other states.
Chicago has 35 Fortune 500 Headquarters after losing three in 2022, still the second most in the nation to New York.
Dallas will gain Caterpillar. A lower cost of living helps attract new talent, making the city third in the nation. Texas has no income tax and lower property taxes than Illinois.
The list could grow if McDonald's Corp. decides to find a new home for their corporate headquarters. CEO Chris Kempczinski in a recent speech said staying in Chicago is far from a sure thing.
"It has become increasingly difficult to operate a global business out of the city of Chicago," Kempczinski said. "Make no mistake… McDonald's commitment to Chicago is not corporate altruism. It's not open-ended. It's not unconditional. As a publicly traded company, our shareholders wouldn't tolerate that."
McDonald's headquarters has been in Chicago since the 1950s, but Illinois' business climate has taken a recent tumble. From 2017 to 2022, Illinois' ranking in the Tax Foundation's State Business Tax Climate Index dropped 13 spots, the second-biggest decline in the nation.
Just like customers leaving a restaurant because of bad service, companies will go where their needs are met.
Amendment 1, a property tax hike disguised as a "workers' rights amendment," would worsen both Chicago and Illinois' business climate by keeping commercial property taxes on the rise. The proposal at the top of the Nov. 8 ballot would empower government unions to make significantly greater demands, which taxpayers would be forced to fund just as they've been saddled with those government unions' $313 billion pension debt.
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Indian surgeon completes world's first remote robotic human heart surgery
By Matthew Griffin Robo Revolution 15th November 2019
There are many areas in the world that have a shortage of skilled surgeons, but tele-robotic operations like this one could solve that.
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A little while ago I reported several developments in the robotic surgery field, from the development of a neurosurgical robot that's fifty times faster than human neurosurgeons in trials, and an autonomous robot that travels within the human body fixing hearts, through to a dentist robot that implanted two teeth into a patient, and the development of Elon Musk's Neuralink robot that will soon be autonomously implanting devices into people's brains to help them connect them to Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the cloud. Oh, and swarms of surgical nanobots.
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Now though hot on the heels of a surgeon in China who used a robot surgical system and a 5G connection to operate on an animal 30 miles away, a surgeon in India has successfully performed the first remote heart surgery on a human patient who was lying on an operating table 20 miles away. Both of these trials, coupled with other developments in AI, machine vision, robotics and connectivity, mean that one day surgeons will inevitably break free of today's hospital model, where they, patients and theaters are all centralised in one place, and be able to operate from anywhere in the world on patients anywhere in the world – whether it's disaster zones or on patients in countries where there are shortages of qualified surgeons.
During the procedure, the CorPath GRX robot, developed by a company called Corindus, a Siemens company, inserted a small instrument called a stent in order to open blood vessels in the heart, according to a paper published in EClinicalMedicine. The operation, called percutaneous coronary intervention, is often performed in patients who have a condition called atherosclerosis, where plaque builds up in the blood vessels, restricting blood flow.
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The long-distance procedure was performed by Dr. Tejas Patel of the Apex Heart Institute in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.
"I am honored to have been a part of this medical milestone," said Patel. "The application of tele-robotics for remote treatment has the potential to impact a significant number of lives by providing access to specialized care that may not otherwise be possible."
Previous procedures using the CorPath GRX robot have included a Robotic Control Workstation, which is typically situated a few feet from the operating table. The workstation includes multiple joysticks that the operating surgeon uses to control the robot, and it has screens that show what different components of the robot are doing and seeing.
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For this procedure, the team set up an identical remote workstation that was connected to the robot through a high-speed internet connection. The researchers also set up cameras in the operating room that fed additional footage of the procedure to Dr. Patel, and a pair of surgeons stationed inside the operating room supervised the procedure.
NASA's Ames Research Center was an early investor in telemedicine technology and developed one of the first virtual clinics in 1999 to assist the medical needs of astronauts based on the International Space Station, and the US military are also championing long-distance, robot-assisted surgeries with their own trials in an effort to provide better care to soldiers wounded on distant battlefields.
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So called telemedicine has long been heralded as an inexpensive alternative to traditional forms of medicine, and has gained popularity in recent decades with advances like the above only helping to add fuel to the proverbial fire. For example, in 2017 76 percent of US hospitals had implemented some form of remote medicine, according to the American Hospital Association.
Over the past decade doctors have become more accustomed to using robots in surgeries. The first robot-assisted surgery was performed in 1985, when neurosurgeons used robotic technology to provide more precise brain biopsies. The da Vinci robotic surgical system performed 570,000 medical procedures in 2014, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Source: ZDNet
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Founding member of ex-Msia PM Mahathir's new party resigns
KUALA LUMPUR: A founding member of the opposition Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (PPBM) has announced that he is leaving the party.
Mr Kamarulzaman Habibur Rahman said he had lost confidence in the party's leadership, whom he accused of jostling for power and position.
He said he has also rejected PPBM's offer to be Teluk Kemang division chief and party secretary.
PPBM was registered as a political party in December. Former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad is chairman while his son Mukhriz is the vice-president and former deputy prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin serves as president. - THE STAR
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Al Doseri is Country Manager
Gulf Air, the national carrier of Bahrain, has appointed Shams Al Doseri as the Country Manager for its Muscat station. Al Doseri is the first Bahraini female to run a Gulf Air outstation. She has spent nearly 10 years with Gulf Air, gaining a wide experience in sales and outstation roles.
Tyler moves to Bangkok
Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group has appointed Anthony Tyler as General Manager of Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok. Prior to this, he was General Manager of the award-winning Mandarin Oriental, Guangzhou. He has held senior positions at leading properties across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, North and Central America.
Abdallah promoted to F&B director
Mohamed Abdallah has joined Fairmont Bab Al Bahr as F&B Director. In 2011, he joined Fairmont Bab Al Bahr as Banquet Operation Director and was then promoted as Conference Services & Catering Director. He has received 'The Fairmont Masters for best wedding and Conference Venue by Haute Grandeur' twice.
Four Seasons promotes Sayess and appoints Ojeil
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts has appointed Rami Z. Sayess as Regional Vice President & General Manager at Four Seasons Hotel Bahrain Bay. He has been with Four Seasons over the past 15 years, and will be overseeing several Four Seasons hotels and resorts in Europe, Middle East & Africa region (EMEA). Taking over the reins from Sayess will be Georges Ojeil, a 20-year hospitality veteran, who most recently was the Area General Manager for Campbell Gray Amman and Le Gray Hotel Beirut. Ojeil will take on the leadership role as General Manager for Four Seasons Hotel Beirut starting January 2021 and will report to Sayess in his capacity a Regional Vice President.
Thompson appointed to ACI Board
Abu Dhabi Airports Company's CEO Bryan Thompson has joined the board of Airports Council International. He has more than 25 years' experience in airport management and operations. Prior to working in the Gulf, he held key roles at the Australia Pacific Airports Corporation and Mumbai International Airport.
Magnus is GM in Engelberg
Kempinski Hotels has appointed Andreas Magnus as General Manager at Kempinski Palace Engelberg, set to open in spring 2021. He had spent the last three years as Hotel Manager at Siam Kempinski Hotel Bangkok. Andreas started as a trainee at the Lausanne Palace and the Hotel Castello del Sole Ascona in Switzerland.
GHM appoints key personnel
GHM has made some important appointments: Ilkin Ilyaszade is Vice President of Operations and Pre-Opening Services, overseeing the development of such up and coming properties as The Chedi Khorfakkan, UAE. Pissawan Srisakul (Jin) has joined the group's roster as Director of Technical Services in charge of design. From her base in Bangkok, Jin aims to build on GHM's established reputation as one of the industry's most sophisticated visual experiences. Jackson Sim is the group's Director of Marketing with oversight on digital and branding initiatives. Sim worked in a similar capacity for Marriott International and for Singapore's Next Story Group.


Mvine cited in report from independent research firm on digital experience portals in today's evolving vendor landscape.
In a January 2016 report, Vendor Landscape: Digital Experience Portals, leading independent research firm Forrester considers the Digital Experience (DX) portal market in light of enterprises' evolving technology needs. The report notes that, while portal technologies may seem passe, they are in fact critical to delivering secure mobile and web customer experiences on top of back-end and transaction systems of record.
With nearly two-thirds of surveyed DX leaders naming inadequate integration with back-end systems as the number one technology challenge they face in digital customer experience initiatives, Forrester assesses the wider challenge for enterprises in the report and summarises the current vendor landscape, which is roughly divided into traditional, heavyweight solution providers and pure play, lightweight solutions.
Mvine, a leading provider of next generation enterprise portals, is recognised in the report as one of the lighter weight independent digital experience portal solutions vendors. The report notes Mvine's modern technology stack focussed on SAML (security assertion mark-up language) authentication and real-time back-end integration.
Forrester's report concludes with a recommendation that enterprises map their digital experience portfolio as a first step, and then complement it with the appropriate portal capabilities—ideally in an Agile process.


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