April the 24th – the day has a celebratory significance for cricket lovers in general and millions of Sachin Tendulkar fans. The God of Cricket turns 45 on Tuesday, 24 April 2018. Social Media is pouring with wishes, greetings for one of the greatest cricketers of all times.
There are BOLD headlines in media, celebrating life and journey of the 'living legend'. The man with the century of centuries, numerous achievements, unparalleled records more than a strong subject material for a doctor in philosophy.
The highs and highs, some lows too, in the 23-year-long journey in international cricket may be a daunting task to compile and describe. The first Indian sportsperson to ink a ₹100-crore commercial deal remains a ₹80 crore commercial value celebrity ever after six years of his retirement.
InsideSport.co revisits the peak points of Sachin's life and journey beyond the cricket field.
Entrepreneur: Tendulkar has opened two restaurants in Mumbai: Tendulkar's located in Colaba, and Sachin's in Mulund, Mumbai and Bangalore.
Sachin was a hit not just on the pitch but also in the business world. Tendulkar's popularity, in 1995, has led him to be a pioneer in India on cricket business dealings when he signed a record sports management deal with WorldTel worth ₹30 crore over five years. The deal was renewed in 2001 at ₹80 crore for the next five-year cycle. In 2006, he signed a contract with Saatchi and Saatchi's ICONIX valued at ₹180 crore (US$28 million) over three years.
For someone who has lived through the 90s, reminiscing about Sachin's TVCs like Boost, Pepsi, Action Shoes etc. invokes a deep nostalgia. The Master Blaster became the face of various popular brands, both Indian and foreign.
Sachin's list of brand endorsement deals through his career include, Boost (1990–present), Pepsi (1992–2009), Action Shoes (1995–2000), MRF (1999–2009), Adidas(2000–10), Britannia (2001–07), Fiat Palio (2001–03), TVS (2002–05), ESPN Star Sports (2002–present), Sunfeast (2007–13), Canon (2006–09), Airtel (2004–06), Rorito (2016-), G-Hanz (2005–07), Sanyo BPL (2007–present), Toshiba (2010–present), Colgate-Palmolive, Philips, VISA, Castrol India (2011–12), Ujala Techno Bright, Coca-Cola (2011–13) and Musafir.com (2013–present).
He has also been a spokesperson for National Egg Coordination Committee (2003–05), AIDS Awareness Campaign (2005) and Luminous India (2010–present).
Tendulkar has opened two restaurants in Mumbai: Tendulkar's located in Colaba, and Sachin's in Mulund, Mumbai. 'Sachin's' also has an outlet in Bangalore. Tendulkar owns these restaurants in partnership with Sanjay Narang of Mars Restaurants.
Sachin was honoured with Arjuna Award in 1994 in recognition of his outstanding achievements in sports. He received Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest honour given for achievement in sports in 1997-98. After receiving Padma Shri in 1999, Padma Vibhushan in 2008, Sachin became the first sportsperson in India to receive the Bharat Ratna, India's highest and most coveted civilian award in 2014.
Sachin sponsors 200 underprivileged children every year through Apnalaya, a Mumbai-based NGO associated with his mother-in-law, Annabel Mehta. He had spent nine hours on the 12-hour Coca-Cola-NDTV Support My School telethon on 18 September 2011 that helped raise ₹ 7 crore – ₹ 2 crore more than the target – for the creation of basic facilities, particularly toilets for girl students, in 140 government schools across the country.
Sachin, in his crusade against cancer, has turned down endorsements deals with Alcohol and Tobacco brands worth ₹26 crores. A request by him on Twitter raised ₹1.02 crore for the Crusade against Cancer foundation. He has till date raised over ₹1025 crores for helping cancer patients.
He also regularly organizes eye donation and eye camps across the country.
Being a Rajya Sabha MP, Sachin has strongly backed the idea of pension and coaching jobs for retired sportspersons. Sachin, in 2012, accepted the Rajya Sabha nomination proposed by the President of India and became the first active sportsperson and cricketer to have been nominated the Upper House in the Parliament of India.
Sachin's earning has not faded much since his retirement with a number of expensive brand endorsement deal signed by him. His total earnings in the year 2017 stands at a whopping ₹82.5 crores after deducting government taxes.
In 2013, Tendulkar was listed at 51st position in Forbes' list of world's highest-paid athletes, with his total earnings estimated to be at $22 million. In October 2013, the net worth of Tendulkar was estimated at USD 160 million by Wealth-X, making him India's wealthiest cricket player.
Sachin currently ranks 12th in the Forbes list of hishest-paid retired athletes which is topped by NBA and Basketball legend Michael Jordan. Sachin is behind, but in the league, among the top sports legends the world has ever seen – Arnold Parmer, David Beckham, Jack Nicklaus, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal, Gary Player, Wayne Gretzky, Greg Norman, and Pele.
Sachin has till date earned a whopping ₹900 crores ($135.6 million).
Sachin has played for Mumbai Indians since the inception of the Indian Premier League in 2008 till he retired in 2013. Sachin proved to be the face of not only the Mumbai franchisee, but also the cash-rich annual cricketing extravaganza. According to InsideSport Moneyball, Sachin has earned ₹38.28 crores in his entire IPL career and stands at 27th in Moneyball IPL Salary Rank (Based on total salary earned in IPL), a list which is topped by MS Dhoni (₹107.8 crores) followed by Rohit Sharma (₹101.6 crores).
It is clearly evident from the ranking that if Sachin had not retired, he would have easily been on the stop and attract lucrative IPL contracts than any other Player.


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Home Sister Speaks Not a child's play: Dear Mawdo revisited
Not a child's play: Dear Mawdo revisited
By Rohey Samba Dear Mawdo, My childhood plays were a chock-a-block of wonderful imaginations; I was a medical doctor one day, a market woman the next day and a teacher the following day. To a child with simple ideas, all these occupations were given equal importance. No one occupation was better than the other one. I would act out the roles with my maternal cousin, Mariama Jamba, or intone the role-plays to myself upon the reflection of any standing mirror I could avail myself with. The plays were unassuming productions of the simplistic views of my sheltered childhood. They became the fodder that fed my notoriety for oversimplification and in my adult years, my awkwardness with people who took themselves too seriously. Like really? Yet part of growing up means knowing when to stop playing pretend. It's unlike the role play of a jerk who unceremoniously 'decides' to terminate my livelihood in hopes that I would automatically resume where I started. Like really? If I had wanted to stay where I was, would I have stuck my neck out of the box to the vultures. How much humiliation would I suffer to return and be cut down by people I left in search for better only to come to worse? My God, the jerk destroyed my sanity. But I have one lesson to offer you Mawdo. Never beg. If a man makes his decision about you or your life, never question, never beg, never stoop low… Let him be. In this cycle of life, you will certainly meet again. Nothing is in vain. Thus, remaining attached to childhood play is like toiling on dead soil without realising your folly. Until the energy of toil sucks up all the energy required to toil the land, the realisation of such folly cannot be appreciated. This was what happened in that dissolving period in my life when I got admission to the Nautical College in Ghana. I was still inscribed in the glitz of Nautical College of legend. Availing myself the notoriety for pretend magnified my anticipation. Like child play did for me when I was young, infusing my mind with wonderful imaginations about Nautical College was oversimplification to say the least. After all is said and done, Nautical College was no child's play. Without antedating the end, let me continue on with my narrative. As we approached the Nautical College gate, the security guard, who was at the guardhouse, involuntarily readjusted his beret. He marched briskly out of his guard post towards the van, which was at that juncture put in the accessory position just before the gate. The guard came forward and exchanged brief pleasantries with Kwesi, our driver, who offered his gate pass to him. On his request, we presented him with our passports, which he formally examined and returned through the half-opened window of the van. He then smiled at the three of us seated in the van before saying in an incredibly soft voice for his large statue 'Akwaaba – Welcome to Ghana'. Precipitously, he stood at attention, in military style salute, and then ordered the gate to be opened by a junior ranked officer. At that very moment, the security guard had given us a prevue of the regimental fixation of Nautical College without us even realising it. Kwesi started the engine and drove through the gate. Finally, we entered the famous Nautical College of repute. Everything looked green and beautiful. Well-mowed Cynodon dactylon also called Bahama grass sprawled across the expansive field from end to end. On the far left, there was the Atlantic Ocean and a number of ships at anchorage. We drove a few hundred metres on tarred road before we reached the campus area, where the classroom, offices, staff quarters and accommodation structures were built in addition to various sporting fields and the sick bay. In the open space around the campus area, the grass was wild and looked like it needed some tending. A big oval-shaped parade ground with slabs at the edges to seat spectators was flanked by the flags of the five member countries that constituted the college. The flags flew above the flagpoles facing the huge accommodation building. At the period of our arrival, it was no longer called Nautical College; it had been renamed The Regional Maritime Academy some years priors, to reflect its regionalisation to serve Anglophone countries. It was so-named for cooperation in training the sub-region's maritime personnel with a sister academy established in Ivory Coast to cater for Francophone countries in the sub-region. It would again be rechristened during our graduation as The Regional Maritime University. For indeed we were to be the first batch to pursue a four year BSc programme catered for both seagoing persons and shore-based personnel. And that was going to be our Catch-22 no doubt. Still, we preferred to call it by its endearing name, Nautical College. We alighted in front of the accommodation block and were assisted by a uniformed private security officer for the accommodation, called Stone, who would become my very close friend and confidante. Stone, along with Kwesi and a boy from Sierra Leone called Darrel Coker helped us carry our luggage to our various dormitories. The female cadets' dormitory was so dismal looking that when I was taken to it, I told Darrel and Stone to please transfer my things to the non-cadet girls' room, which they did but not without fair warning. "As someone doing Nautical Science, Rohay," Stone cautioned, he never could pronounce Rohey, "you will certainly be a cadet, therefore you should try and make yourself comfortable in the cadets' dorm." At that time, I did not know what a cadet was. But the name was not invasive after all. Whatever it was, I thought, I would make it. But my comfort first, I reasoned. The non-cadets' dormitory set apart for female's pursuing degrees in Port and Shipping Management was less stuffy with only two beds each in a dorm, whereas the female cadets' dorms had three bunk beds in one dormitory. All the dormitories were dusty, dirty and a bit dank. I set out immediately to clean the messy room only to realise that the taps in the common toilet were not flowing. As if on cue, I had a knock at the main door, and it was Stone who had brought me some water in two 25l containers. A while later, after I had cleaned the room and taken my bath, one of my Gambian compatriots came over to tell me to meet downstairs for a late lunch. It was downstairs; I met with an older Gambian student, Fatty, who was there before us. The kindly man took us out of the campus to the outskirts of Nungua and my heart sank. Nungua looked like a village. Indeed it was called Nungua Village – one of the original settlements of the Ga tribe in Ghana. The dilemma being that Accra had expanded to become a sprawling metropolitan city incorporating even former villages like Nungua. At that time though, Accra's rapid development had not reached Nungua yet. Everywhere looked grey to my eyes when we left the campus. Nautical Road had a few shops set up in 20ft containers and one or two shops erected in cement blocks. We settled in one of the shops closest to the campus and ordered fried eggs and Adamsa bread, for there was no cooked rice available. After the meal, which Fatty paid for, for we did not have in our possession any Ghanaian Cedis yet, we agreed to meet in one of the empty rooms for jama'at salat, as proposed by one of my colleagues, the very religious Abas. When we parted ways at the basement of the Accommodation to our various dormitories later that night, I never felt lonelier in my life. We had prayed Isha salat together with some other Muslims we met in the course of our interaction during the day, one of whom was Momodou Jalloh, from Sierra Leone, who later became the director general of the Sierra Leone Maritime Administration. As I climbed to the fourth floor of the Accommodation, to the females' dormitories, my heart weighed heavily in my chest. My despondency knew no limits. I had imagined the accommodation at Nautical College to be like a hotel with self-catering suites. Instead, it looked like an outmoded barracks in that forsaken part of Accra. Because I had always carried with me a diary, as soon as I reached my elected dorm, I took out my diary and did what I knew best how to do. I began to write. Like a spoilt child, I began to write, already, about my disappointment with Nautical College, my loneliness and the fact that I was going to stay there for four years. Now this is devastating, because I had been married the year earlier at the age of nineteen to a very caring young man, and while it was my choice to learn and at least appease my father with a degree after marriage, I was beginning to question my temerity. The very thought of being away from The Gambia for the next four years amplified my sorrow. And then it began to rain. All of a sudden, tears began to flow from my eyes as the rain… When shall I see my home? When shall I see my native land, I began to sob. But in the few days that followed, when the cadetship programme began in earnest, loneliness was the last thing on my mind. No hardship would compare to cadetship training coupled with academics. Because up till then cadets from Nautical College graduated with HNDs, ours being the first BSc programme and a higher diploma than our seniors made them drill our batch hardest. The rigorous discipline, overslaughs and mischief by our senior cadets could not be simulated ever again in the history of Nautical College – in short, it was no child's play… (to be continued)]]>
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Q: Why do Ekiga touchtones only work with the RFC2833 setting? I have Ekiga acting as a softphone for my VOIP account.  I made a call to an automated switchboard which required me to "press 2 to continue".  I attempted to press "2" on the keypad pane but the DTMF or "touch tone" sound was not sent and I could not continue with the switchboard.
Interestingly, when I call my own cellphone I can hear DTMF tones being sent.
How can I get DTMF/touch tones to work with all switchboards?

A: DTMF are dual-tone analogic tones, analogic phones can send/transport/receive them easily because the tones are in a frequency range that phone systems are capable to handle.
VoIP systems are different, they use codecs to convert voice to data packages.
Some of the codecs don't compress audio but most of them do.
When you take some audio (usually human voice), compress it to make it pass through an IP network and on the other side decompress it, the result is not exactly the same as the original.
However our hearing organs are very tolerant and are able to identify voices, and human speech although it has been slightly modified.
in the case of DTMF tones, for example: the key 2 is the mix of the frequencies 1336 Hz and 697 Hz. If we pass it through compressing and uncompressing the final result won't be the same two frequencies making it impossible for the receiving side to understand which key was pressed.
There are 3 ways to overcome this problem on VoIP systems:

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*In-Band: Send the tones as-is. Only works with non-compressing codecs.(G.711)

*SIP Info: Send the DTMF tones as events in the SIP path.

*RFC2833: Send the tones as data in the voice path.

RFC2833 is the recommended way in most cases.
To make it work, your softphone, the PBX and the client receiving the tones must be set to RFC2833. Mixing won't work and most systems are unable to auto-detect the method you're using.

A: I changed the "Edit -> Preferences -> Protocols -> SIP Settings -> DTMF mode" to "RFC2833" and then it worked on a subsequent call.

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U.S. Ambassador condemns human trafficking
Posted by Intern | Jan 11, 2021 | Extra
By Clifton Movirongo.
The U.S. Ambassador to Namibia Lisa Johnson on Monday highlighted the work that Namibia and the United States in unison have undertaken in fighting the terrible cruelty of human trafficking as the globe commemorated Human Trafficking Awareness Day.
Addressing the issue, Johnson, said human trafficking is an international crime of the absolute worst kind, as it is a violation of a person's most basic human rights.
She elaborated that human trafficking affects every country in the world, including both Namibia and the United States.
"When governments work together to fight human trafficking, we can stop it. The Namibian government has put in place and is implementing the Combatting of Trafficking in Persons Law," said the U.S. Ambassador, adding that the government also has established procedures for identifying and caring for human trafficking victims and has launched a nationwide public awareness campaign that empowers every person to help end the very real threat of human trafficking.
"Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, Namibia rightly continues to prioritize the fight against trafficking in persons so that the most vulnerable among us are not forgotten," she added
Virtually every country in the world is affected by the trafficking in persons, and the United States Senate designated 11 January as National Human Trafficking Awareness Day which is recognized and observed each year to raise awareness on the issues of human trafficking.
The observance gathers massive public support every year as human trafficking is the second fastest-growing criminal industries in the world, despite being illegal in every country and January is observed as National Human Trafficking Awareness month.
According to media reports in South Africa, the hashtag #EndHumanTraffickingInSA, dedicated to spreading awareness about human trafficking and their hotspots in various cities in that country, trended for over a month since December 2020.
"When democracies such as Namibia and the United States work together to protect people's rights and to hold criminals accountable, we can help end the horrible crime of human trafficking," Johnson concluded.
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Unlike Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the father of the modern Turkish Republic, Erdogan wants to boost nationalism and the role of Islam in the Turkish state-structure after decades of secularism.
For this purpose, he has focused on the importance of Ottoman history in his speeches and increased religious education in state schools, that have turned into "Imam Hatip" schools. These schools are religious secondary education institutions that do not only produce preachers (religious clerics) but also cultivate religious sentiment in their students.
Other critics argued that what is going on in Turkey is not unique and that most people around the world long for the past. They call this movement a policy of nostalgia that ties itself to "memory, not history."
However, the Western-backed Arab Spring, led by the United States, provided a valuable opportunity for Erdogan, who tried not to waste it and, of course, he didn't hesitate to risk everything to follow his dream to become the Sultan of the new Islamic world he wants to create.
The turmoil of 2011 that engulfed the Arab countries was good chance to reconstruct the Ottoman Empire. As a result, he rushed to provide support to terrorist organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS, which embraced the nostalgic ideology. He has also worked so hard to install them in the countries that Ottomans once occupied such as Syria, Libya, Egypt, Bosnia and Chechnya under the pretext of supporting freedom.
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In June 2019, Erdogan held a funeral prayer in Istanbul's ancient Fatih mosque in honour of Morsi, who died during his trial and, of course, he made an impassioned speech glorifying his onetime ally.
Many videos that made a fuss on social media showed how Turkey sent al-Nusra Front fighters (al-Qaeda linked jihadist group in Syria) to fight as mercenaries in Libya. They are the same fighters who fought the Syrian Arab Army in Idlib and were praised by the Western mainstream media as "moderate rebels" during the Syrian crisis.
Erdogan's controversially ostentatious character also appeared during the visit of German chancellor Angela Merkel to Istanbul, as photos showed opulent and gilded chairs surrounded by gold. At the time, Social media comments came fast: The Sultan of Turkey on his throne.
Erdogan has staked his reputation, his relationship with his allies and the lives of Turkey's soldiers, and he is still willing to take the risk for the sake of his illusory sense of Power.
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Anthony Foley's wife says she is 'handing him over to God now' as he is laid to rest in Killaloe, Co Clare
The 42-year-old was laid to rest this morning in Killaloe, Co Clare
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Mourners look on as the coffin leaves St Flannan's Church, Killaloe, Co. Clare. (Image: Brian Lawless/PA Wire)
Irish rugby star Anthony Foley has been remembered at his funeral for the warm, indelible marks he left on life.
The widow of Anthony Foley fought back years as she paid tribute to a "wonderful" and "warm" husband and father at his funeral Mass today.
She said: "I'm handing you over to God now."
The Munster head coach died, aged 42, in a hotel in Paris, just hours before the team were due to play Racing 92 in the European Champions Cup last Sunday.
His coffin was carried into St Flannan's Church in his home town of Killaloe in Co Clare to the Toreador Song from Bizet's opera Carmen, adopted by Munster Rugby for the club's anthem Stand Up And Fight.
Mourners look on as the coffin leaves St Flannan's Church, Killaloe, Co. Clare. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. (Image: Brian Lawless/PA Wire)
Players from the province, past and present, formed a guard of honour inside the church grounds.
Among them were former Irish and Munster stars Paul O'Connell, Ronan O'Gara and Peter Stringer, along with ex-Ireland team-mate Brian O'Driscoll.
Hundreds of other mourners packed into the church and surrounding streets.
Foley is survived by widow Olive and sons Tony and Dan.
In a moving homily, Father Pat Malone, a family friend, spoke about Foley with glowing sentiment.
"It is fitting that we celebrate with dignity the life and achievements of a man who lived life with great dignity and personal and professional integrity," he said.
The priest said his personal, lasting memory of the rugby great was as a family man.
Former Ireland and Munster player Marcus Horan (left) and his wife Catriona (third left) at St Flannan's Church, Killaloe, Co. Clare.
"His family meant all to him," he said.
"Olive, you were his true love, and how good you were together.
"One could sense the strength of your relationship, the warmth of your love for each other, and the ways you supported each other through the easy as well as the difficult moments of life.
"You complimented each other so well, yin and yang in perfect valve with each other.
Fr Malone said the couple were second to none as parents and spoke about Foley's love for his children.
"He was silently assessing their temperament for future sporting engagement."
In some of the most moving tributes, the priest praised Foley's open-hearted nature.
Funeral of Munster Head Coach Anthony Foley, St. Flannan's Church, Killaloe, Co Clare 21/10/2016 The coffin of Munster Rugby head coach Anthony Foley arrives at St. Flannan's Church (Image: ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne)
"What touched me most in all the statements I heard or read about Anthony in the past week is the amount of care he offered to so, so many different people," he said.
"He had that great human capacity to sense or notice those who were struggling in one way or another and the ability to reach out to them and include them in a sensitive and caring way.
"That outreach made all the difference to these people.
"He offered people hope when they felt hopeless, confidence when they were deflated and simply wished them on when they were unable to do it themselves."
Fr Malone added: "His presence was reassuring, his ability to care, his sheer support, his sense of camaraderie, made all the difference and - to borrow from from another famous football anthem - knowing Anthony's presence, you knew 'You'll never walk alone'.
Former Ireland and Munster player Brian O'Driscoll (front right) awaits the arrival of the hearse at St Flannan's Church, Killaloe, Co. Clare. (Image: Brian Lawless/PA Wire)
"Anthony 'Axel' Foley made many a mark in his 42 short years of life.
"Just look around and see; the indelible, warm, affirming marks he left in family, friends, colleagues, sports fans, this local community, rugby wherever it is spoken."
Fr Malone referenced the "incomprehensible darkness" Foley's widow had spoken of since his death.
He said Foley's love should shine a light on the family's grief.
Former Ireland and Munster player Paul O'Connell at St Flannan's Church, Killaloe, Co. Clare. (Image: Brian Lawless/PA Wire)
In a brief moment of levity, he added: "I am fairly certain God could do with a top-class Number 8."
Foley died from a build-up of fluid on his lungs as a result of heart disease.
On the rugby field he was a record-breaker with Munster and an integral part of their two Heineken Cup wins in the last decade.
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On Saturday September 10, longtime Perris resident and beloved matriarch Alberta Mable Kearney transitioned from this life.
"She died a happy woman," daughter Lovella Singer said when she shared news of her mother's passing at the Perris City Council meeting on Tuesday.
Kearney will be more than missed by her family—she was the mother of eleven children, as well as her friends, neighbors, area artists and politicians. She will also be respectfully remembered for the passion and commitment with which she infused the Dora Nelson African American Art & History Museum (DNAAAHM) of Perris—a legacy certain to be cherished for generations.
During an interview last year, Kearney told a Press Enterprise reporter how she had loved antiques from the time she was a child and for years dreamed of starting a museum in honor of Dora Nelson. Kearney achieved that dream and through it, helped preserve the history of a people—a contribution more than worthy of high honor.
The DNAAAHM of Perris, founded by Kearney in 1997, was not only a gift to the city, but to the greater Inland Empire Region and African Americans everywhere. Nearly forty years ago, when Kearney initially conceived the idea of a museum, it was the first and only exhibition in the entire inland area dedicated to the history of African Americans in the region.
From the museum's very beginning it was nurtured and sustained through the efforts and uncompromising dedication of Kearney and her husband Charles, who preceded her in death. The fact that the museum not only survived — but ultimately gained national recognition — is a true testament to the unselfish devotion of their efforts.
The story of the museum's genesis has been well documented. In 1970 a house that sat on the corner of Seventh and F streets in Perris was condemned by the city. The Kearney's purchased the property and her love of antiques focused her on the property's Victorian doors. Coveting those doors, she kept a close eye on the demolition project.
It was not until weeks later, Kearney learned from an acquaintance, of the demolished property's historic value—it had housed the city's first African American church. Needless to say, Kearney was devastated. The First Baptist Church of Perris was started at that location in 1924 by an African American resident, Dora Nelson. In later years, the church had relocated to its current address on East Fifth Street in Perris.
Kearney salvaged the building's coveted doors and made a personal vow to somehow re-establish the history devastated by the demolition. Her dream came to fruition in 1997 with the establishment of the Dora Nelson African American Art & History Museum. She decided to name the museum after the First Baptist Church of Perris organizer, Dora Nelson who, born a slave, was a member of the first Black family in Perris.
Over the years the museum has collected, documented, preserved and made available the fading history of the Perris Valley's first African American family as well as others and their contributions to the area.
The museum is housed in a modest space and lacks the docents, curators, restorers and other professional staff normally found in museums; it boasts no endowment or consistent and reliable source of funding to depend on; and it has survived without regular public visiting hours. Yet DNAAAHM plays a vital role in promoting and preserving the culture and values of several ethnic groups in the Perris Valley.
Over the years, in addition to sustaining the museum, Kearney partnered with Perris educator Nan Sanders and mentored hundreds of students and young adults.
In August, Kearney's efforts received national recognition when DNAAAHM was selected and served as the host museum for the 38th Association of African American Museums (AAAM) Annual Conference. Held in Riverside, this was the first time the AAAM had held its annual national conference on the West coast in the long history of the organization.
Kearney was notified of the conference three years in advance, but lacked the resources necessary to prepare the museum for such a prestigious event. That is when citizens of the city of Perris, called the "small community with the big heart," rallied in support of Kearney and the museum. It held fundraisers, both county and city officials donated resources; local churches, other museums, even boy scouts joined in the effort to refurbish the modest museum for the big event.
On August 3, Association of African- American Museums dignitaries from around the nation paid the much anticipated visit to the renovated Dora Nelson African American Art & History Museum and 95-year-old Kearney, who had suffered a stroke in May, proudly welcomed them with a smile.
On Tuesday, when Singer, who is continuing her mother's legacy as the museum's Executive Director and liaison to the community-at-large, announced her mother's transition she also told those in attendance that DNAAAHM will host a breakfast on Saturday, September 24th and livestream the opening ceremony of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History from Washington, D. C.
Yarbrough went on to commend Kearney for her life-long effort to make amends for the demolition of the original First Baptist Church and shared a story of his personal involvement with the Kearney family as it related to preparing DNAAAHM for the AAAM Conference. Yarbrough has a long history with the family, having attended high school with Kearney's daughter, Lovella.
In 2014, during a casual discussion at a community event where they all happened to be in attendance, Kearney mentioned the museum had been selected to host the AAAM Conference in 2016. As he congratulated her, Kearney shared she might have to decline the offer because she did not have the means to refurbish the museum in advance of the event.
Yarbrough, then a City Councilmember, offered to assist in any way that he could. However, he was up for re-election that year and unfortunately, after having served eighteen years on the council, he lost his seat.
Nearly a year and a half later, a sitting councilmember encountered legal difficulties and left the council. A special election followed and as fate would have it, Yarbrough was re-elected. It was subsequent to his re-election that Yarbrough learned the museum still needed support with its rehabilitation effort. He went into action, pulled people together and helped gather needed resources to help refurbish the museum. "It meant a lot to her that I kept my word," he confided.


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Bangalore star hoping to shine in Mauritius
Publication : 29 novembre 2019
A familiar face stopped Indian jockey Yenangur Surender (YS) Srinath in his tracks as he caught a glimpse of a photo hung on the wall of the Mauritius Turf Club jockeys' room on Thursday.
It was a yellowed photo of the international jockey line-up at the Mauritius jockeys' challenge circa 1999.
Prakash Bhosle then represented India at the annual contest, claimed that year by Mauritius stalwart Glen Hatt. Bhosle might not have been the brightest spark to have carried the Indian flag at the series (he did not score a single point in seven rides), but Srinath still felt a strong connection.
The dual Bangalore and Mysore champion jockey (both three times) was proud to be the 15th Indian jockey to test his mettle at a contest which, whilst not an overseas meeting Indians can wager on, has increasingly received exposure in its riding ranks through past participants like Chandrakant Rajendra (only overall winner from India in 1996), Suraj Narredu (2009), or more recently Pradeep Chouhan (2017), Trevor Patel (2015) and Akshay Kumar (2018).
It is actually Patel who helped Srinath, 43, gain the coveted ticket.
Digging into his scrambled egg over breakfast with his young family at The Ravenala Attitude Hotel on Thursday morning, the 1000-odd-race winner in a 25-year-long career was thankful for the opportunity, but mostly privileged to be the one whose number has come up.
"It's a great honour and privilege to be here in Mauritius. I didn't watch the series keenly, but when the boys came back, we would ask them if they won a race," said Srinath, a regular Top 10 finisher on the national log in the last 15 years.
"I saw P Bhosle as one of the international jockeys in a photo at the Champ de Mars this morning. I rode with Prakash in Bangalore in my younger days, and I remember he said he didn't finish in the placings in Mauritius.
"Prakash, who unfortunately passed on last year, was a good jockey and that goes to show how a lot depends on your luck in such series.
"Trevor Patel was the one who asked me if I'd be keen to come over. He was approached, but he broke his collarbone and couldn't make it.
"I had five rides lined up in Bangalore today (Friday), but I got off those rides and I was then able to accept the invitation."
Srinath, whose late father was a former amateur jockey and former Bangalore Turf Club chairman, landed in Mauritius on Wednesday along with his Dutch wife Janneka and two young daughters Faye, 7, and Suri, 4. While they look like any family on a summer holiday, the consummate professional in Srinath had no switched off from working mode.
On Thursday, the rather lanky rider but who still walks around at only 55kgs was the only of the six invited jockeys (other six are already riding in Mauritius) to get out of bed at his idyllic resort to ride trackwork at the Champ de Mars.
"It's a tight turning track, and it's common knowledge that the best way to ride such a track is to go straight to the rails," said Srinath who rode three horses, including Saturday ride Red Mars.
"The Champ de Mars reminds me of a track in India called Ooty, about 400km from Bangalore. It also has a very short straight, even shorter.
"The one here is 275m long and goes uphill, so you need to be in a good position. By the road at the 600m, you need to know where you have to be, or it's hard to win a race.
"I'm grateful to Jameer Allyhosain who walked one lap of the track with me, and it was very kind of him to give me a few pointers. I also have to commend the grounds staff for having kept the inside portion of the track in good condition.
"As for the horses I rode, Red Mars felt fresh and quite fit. I think he'll go well, while I didn't ride Power Tower, but I was told he is one of my better chances."
If the Champ de Mars reconnaissance was a very educational guide for the multiple Group 1 winner (2014 Indian Derby with Alaindair and three Invitation Cups, including Adjudicate this year as his most career highlights), the one Mauritius racing idiosyncrasy that blew him away was the little crowd of racing fans at trackwork – a foretaste of the electric atmosphere awaiting him over the weekend.
"Mauritians are very enthusiastic and passionate about racing here. They shout your name from over the fence, even at trackwork, and it's quite interesting to see that!" said Srinath.
"I've heard there are lots more spectators on raceday and I'm really looking forward to that as well.
"I don't really ride overseas a lot these days, but I did ride in Macau (28 winners in 2000 for an Indian record of the first rider to have ridden over 25 winners overseas), Philippines and Dubai.
"In Dubai, my best race was with top sprinting mare Oasis Star (trained by CD Katrak) in a Class 1 race at Meydan. She had a rating of 125 in India and was given a rating of 112 in Dubai, and she finished second.
"Mauritius is the fifth country I am riding in, and I can only hope I can get lucky over the weekend."


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Distribution Greenland to North Carolina
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Diet Feeds on planktonic organisms especially copepods [details]
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Mikhaïl Valerievitch Kouzovlev (en ) est un banquier et financier russe, président et président du conseil d'administration de la Banque de Moscou .

Biographie

Formation
Il est né le 8 août 1966 à Krasnogorsk, dans la région de Moscou. En 1988, il est diplômé de l'Institut d'État des relations internationales de Moscou, (rattaché au Ministère des affaires étrangères de l'URSS) d'un diplôme en relations économiques internationales. Il parle couramment l'anglais et le persan.

Carrière
De 1990 à 1996, il est directeur adjoint principal puis vice-président du .

En 1997, il est chef de la division Opérations financières puis vice-président du directoire de la .

En 2000, il accède au poste de vice-président senior de l'AKB .

En 2002, il est vice-président de la JSC  (Vnechtorgbank).

En 2004, il est président du directoire de ZAO KB GUTA-BANK (renommé plus tard VTB-24).Il est également directeur général délégué de la  (Chypre).

En 2005, il est nommé président et président du conseil d'administration de VTB-24.

De 2008 à avril 2014, il est président du conseil d'administration de la .

De 2008 à avril 2011, il est vice-président senior et président du directoire d'OAO Bank VTB.

De 2010 à juin 2012, il est membre du conseil d'administration de JSC RZD.

Depuis avril 2011, il est président et président du directoire de la Banque de Moscou.

De juin 2012 à juin 2013, il est membre du conseil d'administration de la plus grande compagnie pétrolière russe, JSC NK Rosneft.

Banque de Moscou
Peu de temps après que Iouri Loujkov a pris sa retraite du poste de maire de Moscou et que la Banque de Moscou a été incluse dans le plan de privatisation, Mikhaïl Kouzovlev, en tant que vice-président directeur et président du conseil d'administration de la banque VTB, participe aux négociations concernant l'acquisition par le groupe VTB du contrôle majoritaire de la Banque de Moscou.

En janvier 2011, le conseil d'administration de la Banque de Moscou approuve Mikhaïl Kouzovlev et Andreï Kostine comme candidats du nouveau conseil d'administration de la Banque de Moscou et recommande Mikhaïl Kouzovlev à l'approbation des actionnaires pour le poste de président de la Banque de Moscou.

Le 22 février 2011, le groupe VTB conclut la transaction pour acquérir 46,48 % des actions de la Banque de Moscou auprès du gouvernement de Moscou. Mikhaïl Kouzovlev dirige les travaux de vérification de la situation financière de la Banque de Moscou.

Le 24 février 2011, Mikhaïl Kouzovlev est nommé vice-président senior de la Banque de Moscou.

Le 12 avril 2011, le président de la Banque de Moscou Andreï Borodine et son vice-président principal Dmitri Akoulinine sont limogés de leurs fonctions par un tribunal pour la durée de l'enquête dans l'affaire CJSC Premier Estate. Le conseil d'administration de la Banque de Moscou nomme Mikhaïl Kouzovlev président par intérim de la Banque de Moscou.

Le 21 avril 2011, une assemblée extraordinaire des actionnaires élit Mikhaïl Kouzovlev président de la Banque de Moscou à la majorité.

Autres engagements

Conseil des affaires pour la coopération avec Chypre
Depuis mars 2011, Mikhaïl Kouzovlev est président du . En septembre 2011, il signe des mémorandums sur l'attraction d'investissements étrangers directs à Chypre et en Russie ainsi que sur la simplification des échanges d'investissements et de nouvelles technologies entre les pays avec l'Agence chypriote pour la promotion des investissements et la .

Union russe des industriels et des entrepreneurs
Le 8 février 2012, dans le cadre d'une réunion du CC du RUIE pour la zone fédérale centrale, Mikhaïl Kouzovlev est élu président du comité de coordination de l'Union russe des industriels et entrepreneurs pour la zone concernée. Le 9 février, lors du XIX (V) Congrès du RUIE, Mikhaïl Kouzovlev est élu membre du conseil d'administration de l'association panrusse des employeurs du RUIE et vice-président du RUIE.

Hôpital pour enfants de la ville de Touchino
En juillet 2012, Mikhaïl Kouzovlev est élu président du Conseil de tutelle de l'hôpital pour enfants de la ville de Touchino.

Chambre civique de la région de Moscou
Depuis juillet 2012, Mikhaïl Kouzovlev est membre de la Chambre civique de la région de Moscou.

Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Moscou
En octobre 2012, Mikhaïl Kouzovlev est élu président de la Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Moscou.

Chambre civique de Moscou
Depuis avril 2013, Mikhaïl Kouzovlev est président de la Chambre civique de Moscou.

Liens externes

 Conseil d'administration de la Banque de Moscou // bm.ru
 Mikhaïl Kouzovlev: Profil exécutif et biographie // businessweek.com. - 2012

 VTB met son protégé à la tête de la Banque de Moscou // reuters.com. - avril 2011
 Состоялось первое Собрание Общественной палаты города Москвы //opmoscow.ru - avril 2013

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Naissance en août 1966

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Joan Myers has long been fascinated with landscapes crafted from fire and ice. Gathered here are her photographs of iconic sites from all over the world, including Volcano National Park on the island of Hawai'i, Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands, Cotopaxi and Picincha in Ecuador, Laki in Iceland, Mt. Erebus in Antarctica, Krakatoa in Indonesia, and of course, Mt. Etna and Pompeii, among others. The work is breathtakingly beautiful, compelling, and provocative by turns. Her essay reads like an adventure story, exploring the connection between fire and ice while describing her thrilling treks to the ends of the Earth.


In keeping with the going trend…I will post another time about books and birds. This week's bird of the week is a female Pine Siskin and Anna's Hummingbird.
I really enjoy these little birdies. =) They are fun to watch, relaxing even. I would be hardpressed to think of a better day than a breezy Spring day relaxing with a good book and an unobstructed view of the birdies. These are the books I am currently reading—I know I haven't given a thorough review of my last ones yet but I will get to it eventually.
I felt like I should share the books I have been enjoying. And so, I will. I just finished reading Company of Liars by Karen Maitland. This is a historically relevant fiction spin-off of the Canterbury Tales. It is creative and engaging. The characters have believable strengths and flaws, both endearing and annoying.
Set in England, circa the 1400's, a story of nine wayward misfits who come together by chance attempting to escape their pasts, as well as the Black plague. There is Camelot, the one-eyed elderly man selling hope in relics; Rodrigo, the passionate musical performer, and his promising, yet, troubled student, Jofre; Zophiel, the narcissistic magician; naive Adela, who is pregnant and should not be on the open road, and Osmond, her serious but devoted husband; Cygnus, the one-winged man accused of a heinous murder; Pleasance, the healer; and the eerily strange, devious albino child she has unofficially adopted, Narigorm.
Their journey is arduous and wet. It hasn't stopped raining for months. Imagine traveling by foot or by wagon and horse on dirt roads, through forests and swamps, with constant rain! EGADS! That would be horrible.
The author does justice to the time period, researching interesting facts to make the story more believable. In a dark time this lost and confused, wayward band find protection, comfort and often suspicion in one another and in their beliefs in the supernatural, spells, relics, charms and folklore of the time.
But it isn't just the Black Plague these nine must avoid along their way to an unspecified destination. They have to avoid supernatural predators, everyday hassles, angry mobs, and other dangers presented in the medieval times. They have nothing but one another and their limited shared resources. But can they really trust each other? They do not actually know each other and most of them know the others have lied about something or are running from something in their pasts, but what? And how will this affect them?
An interesting side-theme in this book is the way the story demonstrates the religious journey for the side-characters, the villagers these nine pass in traveling. The plague and death must have taken its toll on the religious beliefs of people during this time. Was this the catalyst for the Enlightenment? The book tells how the people turned to God and the Church, which they were taught to do since birth. Then as death smothers all around them, they first try to cling to their religion and their priests, who often take advantage of them. Soon, the Church and the priests abandon them altogether to perish. Alone, they begin to question their beliefs. This is interesting to me, historically speaking. Don't worry, this book is not religious. This was just a back burner theme I picked up on and found intriguing.
This book provided a engaging tale and motivated me to research more about that time period. Overall, I am extremely pleased with the read. This is the first book I have read by this author, I will be looking for more.
I definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes a good story, strong characters or anyone who has an interest in history (or historical fiction), particularly the medieval times.
Sometimes, I am shocked to see the prices of book. Some are way too expensive, hardly worth the almost $30 they charge for them. Some, though, are so inexpensive it is a shame. This is the case for this book, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell. I went to BN.com today on the prowl for a new book to consume and saw this on the front page under specials or discounts or something. I clicked on it and it is on sale for $1.99!!!! OMG! That is insane! This is such an amazing book.
This book is wonderful! The characters are realistic, likeable and easy to relate and empathise with. The story is interesting and complex, touching upon societal ills while telling the story about one woman and her familial history. Iris, the opening character, is called to help a great aunt she didn't know she had who was soon to be released from a mental institution. You are taken on a journey of exploration into the history of this family, how Esme (Euphemia) lived outside societal expectations and how society dealt with her in response. She dared to do as she pleased but at what cost? This is a timeless message, isn't it? We all must choose what is important to us and there is always a price to pay. Together, Iris and Esme, learn how to be exactly who they want to be while getting to know one another. It is a story of the trials, errors and triumph of spirited women.


Woke up in Seattle this morning because tonight is the première of Running Theme, a new string orchestra piece for Town Music. Josh Roman (the famous cellist & newly-minted conductor) leads a mixed consort of seasoned pros and talented high-schoolers. I think it'll be good; the piece is a fun compound-meter romp with lots of squeaky harmonics. You can listen to the live broadcast here, at 7:30 PST.
I'm a bit gutted to be missing another première that's happening tonight in Detroit. It's been four years since Sleeping Giant first asked eighth blackbird out for coffee, and now we're having a baby! I mean, we wrote them a big piece. It's called Hand Eye and we couldn't be more proud of the little terror. There will be plenty of chances to hear it subsequently over the coming season, including a semi-staged production by the amazing Candystations.


It was Zappos who became the shining example of the impact that excellent customer service culture can have on a company's bottom line. Zappos made it their mission to provide the best service possible, crowning "Deliver WOW through service" as their main slogan. Thereafter, management books were written outlining this integral value, with many companies inevitably trying to mold their business accordingly. Most who tried to replicate the Zappos approach were unsuccessful however, having already invested copious amounts of capital toward achieving this model. Most companies claimed that unless they were established as Zappos from the very beginning - with service being the focal point of their initial company DNA - it would be impossible to make the cultural shift and adopt this new way of doing business. Due to these short fallings, CEOs and Customer Experience leaders eventually rejected this model and retreated to their archaic and substandard customer service habits.
However today's customer expects more, and although companies invested 1.3 trillion dollars on customer service overall and 18 billion solely on contact center software, a recent study showed that 66% of consumers who switch brands do so because of poor customer service that they received. It is clear then that the solution to keeping businesses and consumers happy is not going to come from investing more money into traditional - albeit less effective - customer service channels, but rather approaching the situation from an entirely different perspective through Social Messaging Customer Care.
Today's engagement technologies are enabling us to connect more easily and seamlessly than ever before. The rise of the 'always connected' mobile apps and Social Messaging applications enable us to effortlessly communicate with our friends and family - send messages, organize get-togethers, order food, set up meeting points, order an Uber, etc. - without ever picking up the phone and making a call. This is heavily impacting the way companies are providing customer service.
So, how are Social Messaging apps different than conventional customer service software? For one they are persistent, enabling customers to see the full conversation every time they open the app. Two, they are device agnostic, allowing consumers to switch from one device to the other without "disconnecting" the conversation. They are asynchronous, allowing for the switch between real and non real-time to occur seamlessly. For businesses, when combined with management platforms like Conversocial, these apps provide a more cost effective customer management solution. Agents can now focus on the conversations that require concrete actions on their end, avoiding the idle times that are inherent to traditional channels such as voice and LiveChat. What's more, these Social Messaging channels were built with automation in mind, making the implementation of front end and back end automation that much easier.
With the right blend of automation, routing, prioritization, and reporting to measure a company's success, customer service can become a more cost effective channel without compromising the customer experience. By using the right software platforms, companies can use the same Social Messaging apps like Facebook Messenger, Apple Business Chat, Twitter DM, Wechat etc., to provide customer service at a fraction of the traditional cost: breaking the CX to cost equation. Companies can provide outstanding customer service at overall lower costs, which will be more effective than traditional channels and will have a positive, lasting impression among their customers at the same time.


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Home » What does a Victorian MBS do? » Building & occupancy permits
The Building Act 1993 allows that applications for building and occupancy permits may be made to the Municipal Building Surveyor or a private building surveyor (PBS) who has been appointed for that purpose by or on behalf of the owner of the respective land. Council is not responsible for functions being undertaken by a PBS.
Occupancy Permit
A building permit may contain a condition that an occupancy permit must be obtained prior to occupation of that building. It is an offence to occupy a building in contravention of such a requirement unless an approval to temporarily occupy is obtained. Certificates of Occupancy issued under previous legislation are deemed to be Occupancy Permits.
In addition to a building permit requiring that an OP be obtained, all places of public entertainment require an occupancy permit regardless.
For further information regarding making an application for a building permit or occupancy permit to the Municipal Building Surveyor – or booking a building work inspection contact your local council MAV website URL council listings


Quote Reply Topic: Vacation - Yea!
I am heading for a cabin on a lake tomorrow for some R&R, and when I return I'm hoping to update the "pontoon fishing at it's finest" thread with some pics. I had the pontoon out a couple of times this season, but haven't did any fishing to speak of, so I'm ich'n for some fish'n! We have always caught enough fish for a fish fry while on vacation, so I am looking forward to that also! Catch ya all when we return!


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using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore;
using Wilson.Accounting.Core.Entities;
using Wilson.Accounting.Data.Configurations;

namespace Wilson.Accounting.Data
{
    public class AccountingDbContext : DbContext
    {
        public AccountingDbContext(DbContextOptions<AccountingDbContext> options)
            : base(options)
        {
        }

        public virtual DbSet<Company> Companies { get; set; }
        public virtual DbSet<Invoice> Invoices { get; set; }
        public virtual DbSet<Storehouse> Storehouses { get; set; }
        public virtual DbSet<Bill> Bills { get; set; }

        protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder builder)
        {
            builder.HasDefaultSchema("Accounting");
            this.RegesterEntityTypeConfigurations(builder);

            base.OnModelCreating(builder);
        }

        private void RegesterEntityTypeConfigurations(ModelBuilder builder)
        {
            var typesToRegister = Assembly.Load(new AssemblyName("Wilson.Accounting.Data")).GetTypes().Where(
                type => type.GetTypeInfo().BaseType != null &&
                !type.GetTypeInfo().IsAbstract &&
                typeof(IEntityTypeConfiguration).IsAssignableFrom(type));

            foreach (var type in typesToRegister)
            {
                Activator.CreateInstance(type, builder);
            }
        }
    }
}

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Houston mayor's expansive plans give way to financial focus in first year
Politics // Houston Politics
Sylvester Turner names reform package as priority in second year
Rebecca Elliott
Dec. 25, 2016 Updated: Dec. 25, 2016 9:02 p.m.
Mayor Turner and other city officials unveil preliminary points of understanding with the Houston Firefighters' Relief and Retirement Fund, the Houston Police Officers' Pension System and the Houston Employees Pension System Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016, in Houston. The proposed plan will form the basis for a package of pension reforms that will be submitted for approval to the governing boards of the pension systems, City Council and the state legislature. ( Steve Gonzales / Houston Chronicle )
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2of2Mayor Sylvester Turner is interviewed after announcing plans for a benefit concert to raise funds and awareness for the Greater Houston Storm Relief Fund featuring Clay Walker at Lakewood Church Monday, May 9, 2016, in Houston. ( Elizabeth Conley / Houston Chronicle )Elizabeth Conley, Staff / Houston ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
Tasked last year with distinguishing himself from a crowded field of mayoral candidates, Sylvester Turner styled himself as a progressive with expansive policy goals.
He pledged to boost wages, improve educational opportunities and implement a new road repair job training program, stressing that Houston's future depends on pairing such initiatives with core services improvements.
"I am bullish on Houston," Turner would repeat, radiating optimism in the face of a tight budget and looming pension crisis.
A year into office, however, the mayor has set aside much of that to-do list in favor of an ambitious but moderate "back to basics" approach.
Pension reform - a topic he shied away from on the campaign circuit - now is the linchpin in Turner's two-year plan, and he is loath to discuss much else.
That focus has paid off in the form of a reform package that he says will eliminate the underfunding of Houston's three retirement systems in 30 years and limit the city's exposure to market downturns.
Crucially, the plan has received buy-in from the fire, police and municipal pension boards, as well as praise from experts.
Mayor Sylvester Turner's first-year accomplishments:
Launched 24-hour pothole repair program
Struck curbside recycling deal that eliminated glass
Managed flood recovery
Passed budget that closed $160 million budget gap
Changed campaign finance rules to effectively double contribution limits per cycle
Shifted 175 police officers into patrol jobs
Negotiated agreement to keep Uber in Houston through the Super Bowl
Hired new fire and police chiefs
Unveiled a pension reform deal with buy-in from city's three pension boards
Shepherd pension plan through the state Legislature
Campaign to lift cap on property tax collections
"When you look at where we were on Jan. 1, 2016, on pensions and look at where we are today," Turner said recently, "there is no question that we have come a long, long way from where we started."
The deal now must earn approval from the Texas Legislature, which controls Houston's pension systems.
"It's a politically courageous thing he's trying," said Jay Aiyer, a Texas Southern University political scientist who previously served as chief of staff for former Mayor Lee Brown. "What he is attempting to do simply hasn't been done by any previous mayor - sort of a longitudinal, structural change in the way we fund pensions."
Projects and goals
Shepherding the city's pension plan through Austin remains a high hurdle, particularly given firefighters' sway with lawmakers and indicators their pension board may be wary of the agreement. Most notably, the board hired crusading conservative lawyer Andy Taylor, who questions the plan's constitutionality, to join its lobbying team.
If Turner is successful, however, he intends to spend his political capital - earned, principally, from pension reform and closing this year's $160 million budget gap - on campaigning to lift Houston's limit on property tax collections.
The voter-approved revenue cap was instituted in 2004 and limits the increase in the city's annual property tax collections to the combined rates of inflation and population growth, or 4.5 percent, whichever is lower.
Turner is not shy about pitching projects he would take on, absent the revenue cap, such as expanding the Houston Police Department by 540 officers by 2020. This plan may take on even more urgency, as HPD has seen a sharp spike in the number of officers filing papers indicating they plan to retire in the first half of 2017.
"We need more police officers. We need more equipment. We need more EMS units. We need more training," Turner said in September, after a southwest Houston shooting wounded nine. "You can't keep lowering the property tax rate because of this revenue cap and expect the city to be fully equipped with all of the assets that are needed."
If Turner fails, however, it could come at a hefty political cost. That is, in part, because the mayor, by his own admission, has concentrated on pension reform to the exclusion of other issues.
For example, asked this summer to discuss the Houston Fire Department's lack of preparation to deal with hazardous materials facilities, Turner declined, and his spokeswoman said the issue was not a priority compared to flooding or pension reform.
Rather than rolling out a series of sweeping policy initiatives - as is typical in a mayor's first year - Turner, careful not to distract from his messaging on pensions, tackled a series of one-off concerns.
After announcing a 24-hour pothole repair initiative on inauguration day, he opted to re-bid airport expansion contracts amid concerns that the initial process violated city procurement rules; avoided a lapse in Houston's curbside recycling by eliminating glass from the program; helped the city navigate deadly flooding, increased police overtime by $2 million to address a spike in homicides; shifted 175 officers from desk jobs to the streets; halted the development of a subsidized apartment complex near the Galleria; and hired Houston's first Latino police chief and second Latino fire chief.
Turner, a seemingly tireless participant in community events, also brought on so-called education and flooding czars; launched a series of employment resource fairs; encouraged private employers to hire young adults for summer jobs; and endorsed a plan to slow the spread of AIDS in greater Houston, among other moves - but put few resources behind them.
Taken together with fiscal reform, these efforts have earned overwhelmingly high marks from City Hall observers and council members.
"He is very much laser-focused on singular issues, and he does a great job of starting those tasks and not moving off of them until they're completed," said conservative Councilman Dave Martin, pointing to the mayor's work on the budget and pensions. "Some people think he needs to multi-task better. I don't. I like his style."
Former mayoral candidate Chris Bell - who endorsed Turner's runoff opponent, Bill King - also lauded the mayor on his first year.
"Regardless of where any of us started out in the 2015 campaign, everyone by the end recognized that the pension issue was very big and very serious and was going to have to be addressed sooner, not later," Bell said. "Whether they've come up with a perfect solution, that remains open for debate going forward. But it obviously took up an enormous amount of bandwidth and didn't allow for a whole lot else."
Bell said he was disappointed, however, with the mayor's opposition to the Houston Housing Authority's proposed mixed-income development known as Fountain View, in the affluent Galleria area.
"Based on the fact that there was a great deal of talk during the campaign about income disparity and the challenges that we face in Houston, I think that project was a good way to signal that we're going to be serious about it," Bell said. "I felt like (blocking) it was sort of a roll-over for folks who had not helped him get in the mayor's office."
The mayor halted Fountain View citing "costs and other concerns," prompting a federal investigation into whether Houston's placement of affordable housing violates the Civil Rights Act.
Turner, who has been critical of the Chronicle's coverage of his pension reform plan, did not meet with the Chronicle for an extended interview on his first year. He canceled a scheduled sit-down after a story ran on the front page explaining that the proposal remains expensive.
"I have a very busy schedule," he said. "It's all about priorities, and that covers the press."
Looking ahead, Turner's focus on pensions comes with tremendous political upside.
"He's been in reactive mode in order to spend most of his time and his capital on getting the city's financial house in order," Houston lobbyist Jim Grace said. "If he demonstrates that he's gotten that done, it's a windfall for his political future."
That approach could leave him highly leveraged should reform efforts fail, however.
"It cracks it open. It's naive to think that it doesn't provide someone more of an opportunity than there is right now," Grace said.
A lawsuit over the ballot language used last year to extend terms to a maximum of two four-year terms, from three two-year terms, hovers in the background.
A state district judge ruled in March that the language was "inartful" but legal, and the case now is under appeal.
At stake in the near term is whether Turner and members of City Council must run for re-election in 2017 or wait until 2019.
A contender
King, last year's mayoral runner-up, said he is considering challenging Turner, depending on his health and how pension reform plays out.
"If he ends up not solving the pension problem - which he promised he would do - then I think somebody needs to step in and save the city from going bankrupt," King said.
King, who would like to see Houston switch from defined benefit to defined contribution plans similar to 401(k)s, has gotten under the skin of Turner and his staff by sending regular email blasts criticizing the city, including on inauguration day, and holding occasional press conferences.
"The campaign is over, and the total focus should be on meeting the needs of all Houstonians in their moment of crisis," the mayor tweeted in April, after King criticized the city's flood response.
Even if Turner is unsuccessful in Austin, though, Grace said he expects voters would give Turner another crack at pension reform.
"It's going to be really hard to beat him, even if this doesn't happen," Grace said. "Sylvester has built up such a reservoir of good will that he would be able to have another swing at it. It wouldn't be catastrophic."
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Rebecca Elliott covers City Hall for the Houston Chronicle, having previously written about local politics, namely the 2015 Houston mayor's race. She joined the Chronicle in 2014 as a crime and general assignment reporter in Fort Bend County. A New York City native, she also has reported on politics for Reuters, POLITICO and BuzzFeed.


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Home » News » NYHS Remembers Donalda Ewart Badone (Née Hastie), 1927-2016
Long time NYHS member and Gibson House Volunteer. She and her husband, Louis (1924-2012), lived in Willowdale for over 50 years. She worked for many years as a school librarian at Drewry Avenue Public School, helped organize Scholastic Book Fairs, and wrote numerous reviews of children's books for library journals. In the 1970s, she started a second career as a freelance journalist. Later, she published The Complete House Detective chronicling the history of their Willowdale home, built in 1834 by pioneer Elihu Pease; Dundurn Castle, a National Historic Site, Hamilton, Ontario, and The Time Detectives, an introduction to Canadian archaeology for young people.
In 1972, they purchased and restored a log house near Lakefield, Ontario and started another career as part-time farmers, raising Highland Cattle for over a decade. They also travelled extensively in Peru, Senegal and China, where Louis volunteered for Canadian Executive Services Overseas. Donnie continued her writing career, contributing letters to CBC radio's Morningside. She was an active volunteer in many organizations: The North York Historical Society, the Ontario Heritage Trust, the Ontario Archaeology Society, the William Morris Society of Canada and the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society.
Originally published in the July-September 2016 North York Historical Society Newsletter