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'42': Remembering Jackie Robinson
CHADWICK BOSEMAN (far left) as Jackie Robinson in Warner Bros. PicturesâÄô and Legendary PicturesâÄô drama âÄú42,âÄù a Warner Bros. Pictures release.Warner Bros.
By Associated Press and Christy Lemire |
PUBLISHED: April 5, 2013 at 9:58 a.m. | UPDATED: August 12, 2016 at 6:02 p.m.
There's a scene in "42" in which Jackie Robinson, the first black player in modern Major League Baseball, endures intolerably cruel racial slurs from the Philadelphia Phillies' manager.
It's early in the 1947 season. Each time the Brooklyn Dodgers' first baseman comes up to bat, manager Ben Chapman emerges from the dugout, stands on the field and taunts him with increasingly personal and vitriolic attacks. It's a visible struggle, but No. 42 maintains his composure before a crowd of thousands.
As a viewer, it's uncomfortable to watch — although, as writer-director Brian Helgeland points out, "if anything, the language we have in that scene was cleaned up from what it was."
Such hatred may seem archaic, an ugly episode in our nation's history that we'd rather forget. But remembering Robinson's accomplishments is more important than ever, say people involved with "42" and baseball historians alike. And because he was such an inspiring cultural figure, it's more important than ever to get his story right.
Helgeland, an Oscar winner for his "L.A. Confidential" screenplay who previously directed "Payback" and "A Knight's Tale," said he felt "an enormous amount of pressure" to be faithful to Robinson's story, both because of his significance and because his life had been written about so extensively. That included re-creating games right from the box scores. So when Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) homers during a crucial pennant-race game off a pitcher who'd dinged him earlier in the year, it's a dramatic moment, but it also actually happened.
"It's always a tricky thing, because it's a movie, and even in this movie, we're trying to tell two years in two hours," he said. "You're obviously not seeing every moment, but the discipline I applied to the script was trying to make sure every moment was documented."
A worthy project
Helgeland began working on the film two years ago, with the blessing of Robinson's widow, Rachel, because he felt Robinson "deserves a great, big movie." Robinson himself starred in the 1950 biography "The Jackie Robinson Story," which also details how Brooklyn Dodgers president and general manager Branch Rickey (played here by a feisty Harrison Ford) had the courage to sign the fleet-footed Negro League player, despite receiving discouragement from around the league and death threats from fans.
"People would say to me, 'You're making another Jackie Robinson movie?' and I'd say, 'What was the other one you saw?'" Helgeland said. "(Racism is) always going to be a relevant thing. It's not a thing that's ever going to be eradicated. Society has to stay on guard about it and not get complacent about it."
Boseman, who bears a remarkable resemblance to Robinson, grew up playing basketball but said he learned of Robinson's importance around the same time he first learned of Martin Luther King Jr.'s crucial role in fighting for civil rights. Robinson's uniform number has been retired throughout the league — only New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera still wears it, and he's retiring after this season — but every year on April 15 (the day he made his Major League debut), everyone in baseball wears No. 42.
"The story is relevant, because we still stand on his shoulders. He started something — I would even say maybe he didn't even start it, it started before him. But he carried the torch. And he carried it alone for a period of time before other people could help him," Boseman said.
Still, it's a challenge to depict the life of someone so inspirational without deifying him. In "42," which opens Friday, Robinson shows grace in the face of incessant bigotry. That's why Rickey chose him of all the talented black players at the time: He had the skills, but he also had the strength not to fight back.
"He would get his revenge on the base paths a little, but he didn't shy away from contact when he was barreling into the catcher, those kinds of things," Helgeland said.
"You want to humanize him. The romance with the wife (played by Nicole Beharie) does that. The fact that he doesn't quite get along with (journalist and guide) Wendell Smith does that, which I think was the case in real life," he said. "You kind of need to go for this vibe: It's the actor and the director trying to have a feel for what feels real and right in the moment."
No deviations
Baseball historian Howard Bryant, author and senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN the Magazine, said he understands that some changes occur in making a film with historical origins, as was the widely publicized case with several 2012 Oscar contenders, including best picture "Argo." But he said Hollywood can't take liberties with stories like Robinson's.
"It would lose its credibility for me. I would lose respect for it if it were a Hollywood show," said Bryant, whose books include "Shut Out," about the role racism played in the Boston Red Sox' struggles. "We have a special talent in this country for scrubbing history, and I'm hoping that's not what happens to a story like Jackie Robinson's."
Bryant points out that Major League Baseball has been slow to diversify and still has a long way to go. "The four most important teams in baseball history — the Red Sox, Yankees, Cardinals and Dodgers — in terms of history, in terms of success, none of them has ever had a black manager," Bryant said. "We're not just talking about race. We're not just talking about baseball. It's an example of how far we've come and how far we need to go."
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El antiguo Palacio del Marqués de Montana, durante muchos años propiedad del marquesado de Domecq (y por tanto también conocido como palacio Domecq), es un palacio de estilo barroco situado en Jerez de la Frontera, (Andalucía, España). En 2012, fue adquirido por una empresa de cáterin y servicios hosteleros de alto standing.

Fue mandado construir por Antonio Cabezas de Aranda, primer marqués de Montana. El palacio responde a la tipología de las casas burguesas jerezanas del siglo XVIII. Está declarado Bien de Interés Cultural.

Historia
El palacio se levantó a partir de 1774. Las obras debieron de concluirse, a falta de algunos pormenores, en 1782, cuando se sabe que el marqués decide pasar a habitar su palacio. La dirección corrió a cargo del arquitecto jerezano Juan Díaz de la Guerra. Sólo tres años más tarde, en 1785, Antonio Cabezas muere. Tras su fallecimiento, el Cabildo Colegial, a cuyo cargo estaba el patronato creado para gestionar las decisiones testamentarias del marqués, arrendaría el palacio, instalándose en él las oficinas de la administración de Rentas, Real Aduana y Despacho de la Sal.

En 1855 el palacio pasa a manos privadas, siendo adquirido por Juan Pedro Domecq Lembeye. En herencia la propiedad pasó a su hijo Juan Pedro de Aladro Domecq y tras su muerte su viuda lo vende a los hermanos Domecq Núñez de Villavicencio.

En 2012 el palacio es puesto en venta, siendo entonces propiedad de la multinacional americana Beam, y es adquirido por un empresario jerezano. En 2013, tras dos décadas sin pertenecer a la familia Domecq, comienza un profundo proceso de restauración de la mano de la historiadora del arte Marta Rodríguez Vera (Cádiz, 13 de junio de 1973) que le devuelve su esplendor y lo acondiciona para la celebración de eventos sociales y corporativos.

Ubicación
Se construyó en el antiguo llano de San Sebastián, vacío urbano existente hasta el siglo XVIII entre los conventos de San Juan de Dios y Santo Domingo, situados cada uno a un lado del acceso del camino de Sevilla a la ciudad, siendo un elemento conformador de los espacios urbanos que lo rodean y de la trama urbana del casco antiguo.

Descripción

El edificio se sitúa de forma exenta y presenta una planta prácticamente cuadrada, disponiéndose interiormente de forma casi simétrica. Su composición volumétrica es clara, prácticamente paralelepípeda, mostrando al exterior su disposición en dos plantas diferenciadas por sendos tipos de huecos y delimitadas mediante cornisas. A continuación el sobrado, de menor altura y en el que se abren huecos rematados con rejas.
La fachada principal se compone con balcones de plantas muy movidas con tejaroces y guardapolvos de pizarra, destacando la portada principal por su composición y su porte.

La distribución interior se desarrolla en torno a un patio de planta cuadrada al fondo del cual se sitúa una escalera imperial. El resto de las dependencias se ubican en las crujías perimetrales.

La ubicación del edificio se realizó con una clara concepción barroca, de forma que domina un amplio espacio libre, existente en la actualidad, que se distribuye entre las actuales Plaza del Mamelón, Alameda Cristina y Plaza de Aladro. Esta situación de privilegio se enfatiza con la disposición del jardín delantero que contribuye de manera eficaz a resaltar su volumetría.

Véase también
 Bienes de interés cultural de la provincia de Cádiz

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Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Web oficial Palacio Domecq
 Mantendremos la esencia de Domecq

Marqués de Montana
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Monumentos de la provincia de Cádiz
Arquitectura de España de 1778

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Vit A as chemo therapy
Leave a Comment / Uncategorized / By Bradford S. Weeks, MD
Dr. Weeks' Comment: The FDA tries to define a "drug" is defined as ANY substance which has a biological effect – so that the FDA can, in turn, regulate it. Vitamin A acetate (termed "RAc" below) is vitamin A, a vitamin you can get over the counter but soon it will only be available by prescription at 400x the cost because, it is being redefined as a drug.
Follow the money trail: "RAc-deficient mice" are a better investment than "vitamin A deficient mice".
Take home message? If you want to lower your cancer risk, take your cheap and powerful (and over-the-counter, while it is still available) vitamin A supplement so you too do not become "RAc" deficient…
Paired Drugs Kill Precancerous Colon Polyps, Spare Normal Tissue
ScienceDaily (Mar. 29, 2010) "" A two-drug combination destroys precancerous colon polyps with no effect on normal tissue, opening a new potential avenue for chemoprevention of colon cancer, a team of scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reports in the advance online edition of the journal Nature.
In mouse models and on human colon cancer tissue in the lab, appears to address a problem with chemopreventive drugs — they must be taken continuously long term to be effective, exposing patients to possible side effects, said senior author Xiangwei Wu, Ph.D., associate professor in M. D. Anderson's Department of Head and Neck Surgery.
"This combination can be given short term and periodically to provide a long-term effect, which would be a new approach to chemoprevention," Wu said.
The team found that a combination of Vitamin A acetate (RAc) and TRAIL, short for tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand, kills precancerous polyps and inhibits tumor growth in mice that have deficiencies in a tumor-suppressor gene. That gene, adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) and its downstream signaling molecules, are mutated or deficient in 80 percent of all human colon cancers, Wu said.
Ineffective separately, powerful together
Early experiments with APC-deficient mice showed that the two drugs combined or separately did not harm normal colon epithelial cells. Separately, they showed no effect on premalignant polyps called adenomas.
RAc and TRAIL together killed adenoma cells, causing programmed cell suicide know as apoptosis. RAc, researchers found, sensitizes polyp cells to TRAIL.
The scientists painstakingly tracked the molecular cascade caused by APC deficiencies, and found that insufficient APC sensitizes cells to TRAIL and RAc by suppressing a protein that blocks TRAIL.
Reductions in polyps, improved survival
APC-deficient mice were treated with 15 cycles of the RAc/TRAIL combination over six weeks. Others received either RAc or TRAIL and a control group received nothing. One month later, control mice and those treated with one of the drugs averaged between 35 and 42 polyps, while those receiving the combination averaged 10.
To test the combination's potential as short-term therapy, APC-deficient mice were treated with two cycles of the combination in one week, causing a 69 percent polyp reduction two weeks later. A 10-fold increase in dose left treated mice with only 10 percent of the polyps found in controls.
A longer term test of relative survival using five treatments over four months improved survival from 186 days for controls to beyond 213 days for treated mice, with five of seven treated mice living more than eight months.
Cell death in human colon polyps
Next, the researchers treated biopsy samples of normal tissue and tumor regions from patients with familial adenomatous polyposis — an inherited condition that inevitably leads to colon cancer if the colon is not removed. Treatment of normal tissue caused little cell death, while 57 percent of polyp cells were killed via apoptosis.
Targeted therapies today aim at blocking some aspect of the tumor that drives its growth, Wu said, whereas RAc and TRAIL together kill precancerous polyps outright. Since APC is deficient or mutated in other types of cancer, the combination therapy could become a more general drug.
Before human clinical trials can be considered, Wu said, the team will conduct additional research to understand potential side effects and also will try to develop an injectable version of the combination, which is administered intravenously now.
One of the genes activated by the APC-deficient pathway, ß-catenin, is involved with stem cell self-renewal and maintenance in adult tissues. The team conducted a series of experiments and determined that RAc/TRAIL does not affect stem cells in mice.
Today, concerns about cardiovascular side effects limit chemopreventive agents for colon cancer mainly to high-risk patients, Wu said. "We hope this combination, if it proves to lack toxicities, might be available as a chemopreventive agent to a broader, general population."
Wu's research was funded by a National Institutes of Health grant, M. D. Anderson institutional funds, and a grant from the Alliance of Cardiovascular Researchers.
Co-authors with Wu are co-first authors Ling Zhang, Ph.D., and Xiaoyang Ren, M.D., Shaoyi Huang, Zhengming Xu, and Xian-Feng Wen, Ph.D., all of M. D. Anderson's Department of Head and Neck Surgery; Eckhard Alt, M.D., and Xiaowen Bai, Ph.D., of the Department of Molecular Pathology; Patrick Lynch, M.D., of the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. Wu also is affiliated with the Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology. Co-author
Adapted from materials provided by University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.
Ling Zhang, Xiaoyang Ren, Eckhard Alt, Xiaowen Bai, Shaoyi Huang, Zhengming Xu, Patrick M. Lynch, Mary P. Moyer, Xian-Feng Wen & Xiangwei Wu. Chemoprevention of colorectal cancer by targeting APC-deficient cells for apoptosis. Nature, 2010; DOI: 10.1038/nature08871

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Much of the western part of DC is a traffic jam this morning thanks to a smoking power line at the Rock Creek Parkway and Pennsylvania Avenue that closed both the Parkway, in both directions, and Pennsylvania Avenue, and impacted the Key Bridge as well.
Police and Fire are waiting for Pepco at this time to shut off the power so they can make the repairs and restore traffic flow.
The Wisconsin Avenue 30 buses were being rerouted from M Street to K Street at 8:25ish and other traffic was being limited down M Street.


Mt. San Jacinto College District Foundation offers scholarships for continuing and transferring students.
The Spring 2019 Scholarship Application will be available December 10, 2018 through March 25, 2019.
Qualifications for scholarships vary in requirements. They can be based on the student's major, GPA, number of units completed, county of residence, transfer goal, etc.
To be considered for a scholarship awarded through the MSJC Foundation, a student must complete the general scholarship application within the application timeline. Once the application period closes, all completed applications will be reviewed for eligibility. Eligible applicants will be forwarded for review and selection by the Foundation board and/or outside donors.
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A $2,000 scholarship opportunity for one woman is being offered by the Professional Women's Roundtable (PWR), a local, not for profit, 501c(3), organization established in 1997.
The successful candidate should have overcome adversity, a strong commitment to success, and community involvement.
The GFWC Menifee/Sun City Woman's Club is a local community service organization. The Club was created and federated in 2010 by uniting Sun City Woman's Club (founded in 1963) and Menifee Valley Woman's Club (founded in 1987). For a number of years, our group has been providing scholarships to Mt. San Jacinto College nursing students. The group is currently offering $500 to $1,000 scholarships. Male or female students may apply.
The CCCSFAAA will sponsor a total of twenty $500 student scholarships; two $500 scholarships for each of the ten California Community College regions across the state.


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Focus: Why social movements matter
2018, DS62, Focus
Laurence Cox
These are terrifying times to live in. Scientists and extreme weather alike underline how little time we have left to avert absolutely devastating climate change, while states put all their power behind fracking, tar sands and coal – and expanding airports. A new far-right authoritarianism has taken power in the US and India, Hungary and Italy, Turkey and soon perhaps Brazil, allied to vicious assaults on women, on migrants and ethnic minorities, on LGBTQ+ people and on political dissent. Social inequalities continue to grow, as new kinds of corporate robber baron stalk the earth and accumulate vast wealth at the expense of the working poor, while the poorest and most vulnerable are targetted for yet more cuts and sanctions. A permanent state of emergency has spread across the planet, justifying innumerable petty wars abroad and a siege mentality "at home". And the list goes on.
All too clearly, the centre cannot hold. Nostalgic accounts of a recent golden age, with rulers who seemed to listen to the voice of reason, fail to see just how much these crises are the direct outcomes of what Nancy Fraser has called progressive neoliberalism: the politics of a Tony Blair or a Hilary Clinton rested squarely on the export of warfare and the nurturing of a new capitalism, the continuation of a fossil fuel economy and a dog-whistle politics of race – despite tokenistic politics of boardroom diversity and policy attempts to do good by stealth for the marginalised. There is no way out to be found by going back to the 1990s, even if it were possible: it is the very states and corporations, "mainstream" cultures and economies based on permanent growth, which are at the roots of these problems.
Effective resistance is not coming from anguished op-eds in "serious" newspapers, experts and policy advisors angry at being cast aside, the worried staff of an old establishment trying to convince themselves that this is all a temporary aberration. It is coming from below: from people like the Lancashire Nanas, Standing Rock Sioux and Hambach Forest occupiers who put their bodies on the line to save the planet against often brutal violence; from women's massive protests against sexual violence; from anti-fascist and anti-racist organising on the streets; from trans and other LGBTQ+ resistance to the new intolerance; from the lonely courage of radical journalists and academics in Turkey or India; from union organising in Amazon, McDonalds or the gig economy and the mobilisation of the inner-city poor against being gentrified out of existence; from those who are challenging the security state and attempting to disrupt the machinery of permanent war.
We know this; and yet we don't seem to know it. Newspapers which until recently refused as a matter of principle to cover protest now have to recognise that protest very often – as in Trump's America – is the news; they lead with dramatic photos, but struggle to write about the politics of protest intelligently. Scholars tack on ritual invocations of social movements or resistance to what remains the "serious business" of analysing the structures and institutions that are being challenged. Party-political activists invoke participation, consultation or communities while still assuming that at the end of the day they themselves are the only real game in town. On social media, anguished voices often remain stuck at the moment of denouncing injustice, unsure how to move to action. After decades involved in activism and studying social movements, I sat down to write Why Social Movements Matter for these wider audiences: not the experienced organisers or expert movement researchers but the general readers, the people who follow "high politics" and the students and experts of the status quo who are wondering how they can make a bridge to this new, strange world that they are starting to become aware of.
Unruly subjects
As the previous paragraph suggests, traditional intellectual forms of writing often struggle to handle the disruptive, challenging nature of movement activism: refusing to remain deferential to academic or journalistic expertise, the voices that refuse to be dismissed or pigeon-holed in practice are also hard to contain with the printed page. But this very liveliness also makes them interesting and attractive, potentially desirable. So political parties, NGOs and even corporations engage in "astroturfing", creating fake grassroots groups for publicity stunts or online purposes. Academic books emphasising structural analysis of political economy, state violence or cultural hegemony use cover shots of protests or anecdotes from social movements as a way of livening up their subject and engaging the reader.
Yet in professional social science research, like mainstream journalism or organised politics, those who take popular agency seriously as other than advertising are a tiny minority. The contested transformation of the British Labour Party is a good analogy for this [1]. Not only did grassroots activists run rings around the supposed professionals of head office and the career politicians of the Blair years despite the latter's control of the party machinery and massive media support, but mainstream journalists still struggle to understand what happened except in terms of a supposedly charismatic and all-powerful leader – or a terrifying mob. This despite the fact that – at average age 51, with 87% ABC1s and six out of ten with degrees – the new party members are far from any credible image either of hero-worshippers or a mob.
For what Gramsci called traditional intellectuals – professional holders of expert knowledge who work for official institutions and private businesses – it is hardly surprising that agency, the capacity to change things, is normally understood as coming from above. The hierarchies within which they work – those which construct British universities' REF or set editorial priorities – are central to their own professional activity. When they seek change, it is hardly surprising that the first port of call is what the eighteenth century called "enlightened despots": the wise managerial ruler who can be advised by policy experts. The bird's-eye view of the world sees corporate and state institutions very clearly, after all: they are what the hawk perches on. Ordinary people, if they are not simply a crazed and evil mob, are best understood as individual consumers, exercising rational choice and moving in patterns that the lofty predator alone can see. This approach is institutionalised in British academics' statutory duty to engage in the "anti-radicalisation" Prevent programme and its stifling effect on student politics.
Intellectual bad faith
And yet there is a practical problem here, at least for those who are serious about their thinking. If – as critical researchers and journalists often conclude – the core problems of the world are those of inequality and exploitation, of concentrated power and violence, of cultural hierarchies and the intolerance of privileged groups, who is to bring about change? It is, after all, unlikely in the extreme that those who benefit from and control these processes and relationships will be the main actors in transforming them in a more democratic, egalitarian and diverse direction. It does not take very much reflection to conclude that it is the exploited, the (formally) powerless and the marginalised who have most to gain from a change of course. Nor does it take very much experience to realise that institutions which are set up against them are not the most propitious ground for them to organise on.
There is a kind of intellectual bad faith, then, in a fundamental critique of the existing order which does not think seriously about who is likely to have an interest in changing it and how. And yet all too many expert critiques boil down to precisely this: a searing challenge to manifest injustice, ecological destruction or human degradation, followed by an in-depth analysis of the structures, institutions, institutions and cultural processes which give rise to them – and a tacked-on, almost embarrassed, mention that perhaps someone, somewhere, should do something about them. Or, in the least reflective cases, an assumption that if only those in power knew just how bad things were they would stir themselves to take action – an assumption that is not fundamentally different from ancien régime peasants who trusted that if only the King knew how bad things were, he would intervene…
When we are shocked out of the sleep of reason to discover these monsters, in other words, there are two kinds of response we can give. One is "Someone (else) should do something about this": the other is "We should do something about this". The "someone (else)" positions the expert as the wise adviser to power, wealth or celebrity; the "we" begs the question "me, and who else? And how?" This, of course, is where social movement organising comes in. If we are not perching at the top of the institutions that are at the root of the problem, what we have is not individual power but the power of numbers. We do not have economic strength, but together our caring labour, our sharing and mutual support in everyday life makes possible what our finances will never permit. We are not culturally privileged, but how we live represents a far richer way of being than the dull and conservative images held up for our worship.
In my own line of work, I want to suggest that sociologists of inequality, power and cultural hierarchy should think like sociologists about the implications of their critique – and ask, sociologically, where the change they implicitly seek is to come from and how. Of course, at an individual level it is often the concern for change and the awareness of what is wrong with the world that has propelled them into serious intellectual work; but somewhere along the way, in the difficult and often dog-eat-dog processes of arriving at a place from which one can survey the landscape in a magisterial way, something has all too often got lost.
What the academy owes to movements
This is not simply an individual journey. The social sciences and humanities in general draw much of their intellectual sustenance from social movements, but in the process the nutrition of collective agency has almost been entirely processed out of them. There are multiple histories to this. Among the sociological classics we find Marx, thinking through the revolutions of his day, engaging with exiled German revolutionaries, Irish Fenians and British Chartists; Durkheim, the socialist sympathiser and life-long friend of Jaurès; and even Weber, hostile to the rise of the Social Democratic Party but recognising its significance.
In a later generation after the uprisings of 1968 across the global North, people who had learnt to think in movements brought their concerns to the academy, fundamentally reshaping it in many ways. Feminism and queer studies, black studies and anti-racist research, disability studies and critical research on health, peace studies and even (in a different key) ecological and environmental studies all helped to set new scholarly agendas. From Frantz Fanon to Michel Foucault, from Angela Davis to Antonio Gramsci, from EP Thompson to Judith Butler, the intellectual challenges of contemporary thought often come from thinkers deeply engaged in social movements.
Yet here too, the crunchy nutrition of popular agency all too frequently gets processed out in order to produce the refined, too-easily swallowed theory of structure. There are reasons for this. Activists, it has sometimes been said, think about three kinds of things. They think about why the world is the way it is. They think about how we can organise to make a difference. And they think about how we can create something new.
The scope for the last of these – research on the creation of alternative institutions – is particularly small within the academy. It has never been hospitable to research on housing cooperatives or community-supported agriculture, radical education projects or alternative lifestyles. The study of popular struggles has survived in a number of pockets, often intellectually isolated from one another, but (as we have seen) largely ignored by self-described critical or radical scholars. By contrast, there is a clear elective affinity between the critical study of structure and the university's routine study of the world as a thing out there, to be analysed, explained and (at best) moralised about. It is, after all, a form of moralising to denounce injustice and call for transformation without thinking seriously about how this transformation can actually be brought about. Structural analysis of this kind is also, and not coincidentally, academically prestigious.
I should be clear that the point here is not special pleading for the academic subdiscipline that is social movement studies, but rather to call for a conscious relationship between the necessary critique and analysis of an exploitative, oppressive and ecologically destructive global society and systematic reflection on popular agency. This means responding, seriously, to the questions raised by the front-line defenders of the planet as they face off against the hired thugs of corporations and the state; to the fears of those struggling to disrupt and challenge the new fascists; to the problems faced by those trying to organise a better way out of the twilight of neoliberalism than the one offered by Trump, Brexit and EU austerity.
The means of intellectual production
It may even mean asking why and how some of the people who have found out most about how to challenge power effectively have not been "leading critical thinkers" but the dispossessed indigenous of south-eastern Mexico and the stateless civil war survivors of northern Syria. The remarkable efforts made by the Zapatistas or the Rojava revolution to learn from the rest of the world have hardly been met by equal respect and attention from scholars and journalists; after all, they do not always get their references right. More generally, official expertise is by definition threatened by the proposition that movements might actually know something. The movement reflection and dialogue processes originating in the World Social Forum and elsewhere do not, it seems, have anything to tell scholars or journalists.
I have found this contempt – sometimes expressed overtly and crudely, sometimes in a quiet and subtle dismissal – remarkably widespread among professional intellectuals, journalists and academics alike. It finds remarkably little justification in the extraordinary efforts that social movements make to educate themselves, to reflect on their own practice, to research past experiences and explore how they might be able to achieve the hitherto-unachieved. It should be a deeply humbling experience to see people make these efforts without the resources that universities and the mainstream media make available to their professionals, in the corners of lives where the daily practicalities of survival dominate and crises often push everything else aside, and where opponents often directly target their fragile institutions. But it seems the reverse is the case.
Behind this contempt, of course, lies the issue of the ownership of the "means of intellectual production". Who – in the reality of our everyday practice – decides what we should study, and who are we writing for? Are our choices of research topic driven by their academic prestige, by where official funding is directed – or by the questions that people struggle with as they try to change the world? Do we see our ideas as proceeding from the Platonic heaven of The Discipline, or, perhaps, as coming from our non-expert peers? Do our journals answer only to commercial pressures and the need to generate "provocative" (read: right-wing) clickbait, as with the recent crisis at Third World Quarterly? Or do we create the space, perhaps, to make journals "from and for" popular struggles, like Interface and others? More concretely: who do we speak to when we speak? Where do we publish our work? Who do we invite to work with us?
William Blake wrote "[W]e have Hirelings in the Camp, the Court, & the University: who would if they could, forever depress Mental & prolong Corporeal War." For our part – as students or academics, as journalists or independent researchers, as political activists or engaged citizens – do we want to understand our work as determined by the local structures of the British or US university system, the logics of commercial publishing and social media celebrity, the attempt to make friends and influence people in high-up places? Or do we see what we do as coming from and speaking to the wider human struggle to avert ecological destruction, transform an unjust society, defeat the far right, end the war on women and even depress Blake's Corporeal War?
[1] To avoid misunderstandings, the LP is not a social movement. However, Momentum activists drew very effectively on a range of activist skills to win institutional battles.
Laurence Cox (@ceesa_ma) is an experienced activist and social movements researcher, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the National University of Ireland Maynooth and associate researcher at the Collège d'Etudes Mondiales, Paris. He has just published Why Social Movements Matter (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018; 30% off with discount code WSMM18).
Image credit: Seattle protest by indigenous and other activists in solidarity with Standing Rock, September 2016. By John Duffy
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Only one "movement" from 1968 has made a significant impact on history. Like Watergate, the "Prague spring" has added to our vocabulary with "spring" indicating hope.
The gilded children of the bourgeoise – or spoiled brats from the Sorbonne – who wanted the Berlin Wall extended to include Paris are long forgotten, except among their coreligionists. But the movement to liberate the denizens of the socialist paradise to the east endured and prevailed, though it took twenty years.
Spring must seem a long way off to the people of Venezuela, Jeremy Corbyn's idyll of "21st century socialism", but blossom it will.
Or, of course, you could look at the actual history:
https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745338088/voices-of-1968/
https://www.plutobooks.com/blog/long-shadow-1968-protests-activism-derry/


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Loredana Zugna (born 1 May 1952) is an Italian sports shooter. She competed in the women's 25 metre pistol event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

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Hope you all had a great St. Patrick's Day! I made it outside for a few hours and judging by what I witnessed downtown, most of you were having a good time. While I didn't enjoy any corned beef this year (still meatfree for Lent!), we did enjoy some green food – including a kale dish like this one.
As B has started eating more slow carbs, one of my challenges has been to find new and not boring bean/veggie/meat (or other protein) combos. B would be perfectly happy eating the same meals day in and day out. Me? Maybe for lunch, but half of the fun in eating is the cooking! And half the fun in cooking is trying new recipes. So, last week for dinner, we were debating on the bean/veggie/meat combo when I suggested cooking up some Kale with Peppers and Onions for our veggie. Not a kale fan, B was skeptical. As I was putting it together, B even made the comment that he expected the ratio of peppers and onions to kale to be a little higher than he was expecting (meaning – "You're using too much kale!"). Plus, when I had made the Kale with Lentils and Sweet Potato recipe a few weeks ago, he wasn't sure he liked the texture of the kale, but this was due mostly to the fact that I may have forgotten to remove the stem from many of the kale leaves. Whoops! I was determined to leave a better impression this time, so I included one of B's favorite ingredients – Cholula sauce!
As we sat down to eat our meals, I ate in silence. I didn't want to ask … but I was dying to know what B was thinking. After a few bites it was clear. It was a hit. "We should have this again," B told me. YES!
Heat the oil in a medium sized pot on medium heat.
Dice the onion, yellow pepper and 2 cloves of garlic. Add to pan and let soften.
Add hot sauce and hot pepper flakes. Turn heat to medium-low, put lid on pot, and let simmer for about 10 minutes.
I served mine with baked tofu and some black beans for a complete Four-Hour Body friendly recipe.
Chop/tear up the kale. Don't forget to remove stem!
Add chopped kale to translucent pepper and onion. Add hot sauce, hot pepper flakes, vegetable broth and more garlic if you want.
All done! Check out how much the kale cooks down.
Have you tried any slow carb diets or the Four-Hour Body? What's your favorite meal combo?
Are there certain meals you have over and over again and never get tired of them?
What's your favorite way to cook/eat kale?


Salomon de Caus (1576, Dieppe – 1626, Paris) was a French Huguenot engineer, once (falsely) credited with the development of the steam engine.
Caus was the elder brother of Isaac de Caus. Being a Huguenot, Caus spent his life moving across Europe.
He worked as an hydraulic engineer and architect under Louis XIII. Caus also designed gardens in England, that of Somerset House among them; also, the Hortus Palatinus, or Garden of the Palatinate, in Heidelberg, Germany.
In 1615, he published a book showing a steam-driven pump similar to one developed by Giovanni Battista della Porta fourteen years earlier. Nevertheless, François Arago called him the inventor of the steam engine as a result.
In this same book, Les Raisons des forces mouvantes, Caus presents a well-known just-intonation scale, now known as the Ellis Duodene, after Alexander John Ellis who reinvented it. It is to Caus that the term work is owed in the sense that it is used in the field of mechanics.
^ Dugas, Rene (1988). A History of Mechanics. Dover. p. 128.
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Award Brands will relocate its two existing eastern suburbs facilities to Pound Road West, Dandenong South after committing to a 10,611sqm lease agreement with owner, DEXUS Property Group (DEXUS).
CBRE's David Aiello and Stephen Adgemis negotiated the long term lease for Building B, 47-69 Pound Road West, which was previously occupied by QLS Logistics, on behalf of DEXUS. There is one tenancy remaining at the estate – a highly versatile 10,000sqm warehouse building.
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Q: How to find highest key in JSON? An API I'm working with is returning poorly structured data like this:
{
    "scsi0": "vm-101-disk-1.qcow2,size=32G",
    "scsi1": "vm-101-disk-2.qcow2,size=32G",
    "scsi2": "vm-101-disk-3.qcow2,size=32G"
}

As you can see, instead of having a scsi object with then contains the 0, 1, 2 key/value pairs, I just have the keys named like that.
In JavaScript, how can I search for the highest scsi value which in that case would be 2?

A: Object.keys() is a good place to start for jobs like this. How about something like this?

var data = {
  "scsi0": "vm-101-disk-1.qcow2,size=32G",
  "scsi1": "vm-101-disk-2.qcow2,size=32G",
  "scsi2": "vm-101-disk-3.qcow2,size=32G"
};

// get keys of data
var keys = Object.keys(data);

// get array of number values
var numbers = keys.map(function(key) {
  // strip text out of keys, parse as integers
  return parseInt(key.replace(/\D/g, '') || 0);
})

// get the largest number in the array
var highest = Math.max.apply(null, numbers);

// build the data key with this number
var key = "scsi" + highest;

// get the data pertaining to the key
var final = data[key];

// log the result
console.log(final);

A: You could use a collator to get a compare function that takes such embedded numbers into account:

const data = {
    "scsi0": "vm-101-disk-1.qcow2,size=32G",
    "scsi11": "vm-101-disk-2.qcow2,size=32G",
    "scsi2": "vm-101-disk-3.qcow2,size=32G"
};

const cmp = (new Intl.Collator(undefined, {numeric: true})).compare;
const max = Object.keys(data).reduce((a, b) => cmp(a, b) > 0 ? a : b);

console.log(max)

A: Use reduce on keys of your object:

var  o = {
    "scsi0": "vm-101-disk-1.qcow2,size=32G",
    "scsi11": "vm-101-disk-2.qcow2,size=32G",
    "scsi2": "vm-101-disk-3.qcow2,size=32G"
};

var max = Object.keys(o).reduce((m, k) => +m.replace(/\D/g, '') > +k.replace(/\D/g, '') ? m : m = k);

console.log(max, +max.replace(/\D/g, ''))

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Characters: 4 I thought that LaCour did a beautiful job shaping the characters and giving them the strong feeling of reality. Each one seems like a person who could really exist; they are whole. Marin faces the ultimate highs as well as the ultimate lows leading up to the start of the novel. She handles this by shoving it away and shutting out some of the hobbies that used to define her. She's morphing and changing what she thought she knew about herself to cope.
As for the other characters, we see them through Marin's lens, which is how it should be in first person. But Marin knows these people. She doesn't really delve into them or discover them in a way that would give the readers a deep connection with them. And that is okay. They exist in Marin's life honestly and in this way. And we get to know them through actions and flashbacks. The tight, exclusive cast is well done and well balanced. I also have to note that exploring Marin Mabel's relationship was amazing. Like everything else, the flow and movement and the discovery is simple which invites an entirely new layer of complexity.The only reason they don't get a full five stars is because of the short, three day time span there's not quite the intimacy through time and surmountable growth in them that is purely breathtaking. But Marin is anything but a static character, and LaCour has simply chosen to only show the peak of her discovery which has its own merits.
Plot: 4.5 This story is simply the three days of Mabel's first time seeing or speaking to Marin since she fled San Fransisco. We see the tension and the uneasiness, and we see them have to work through it and face it. The story is simple, the plot points and the motions they go through. They have dinner, they wash dishes, they see shops, and they sit together. They do real things that real people do every day, and it grounds the story. It never feels like its filler or things you want to skip through. On the contrary, it makes the reader feel immersed in Marin's life.
Writing: 5 This is where We Are Okay both shines the brightest and steps back, and the first really allows the second. Reading it is effortless. I know what Marin feels and I feel it. I know what she sees and I see it. I know what she hears and I hear it. Simple as that. Frilly writing never gets in the way. But if you look at it to really see the writing and the tactics she's used to enhance the story, it is breathtaking, beautiful, and sweet. Really, it is open to the reader to just fall into the story or to marvel at LaCour's stunning technique. I did both, and her writing is now what sticks in my mind and fascinates me. And there are two main things she's done in the book that completely blew me away.
First, she has an amazing capability to make deeply complex things seem simple in the best way possible. It is sweet and effortless. She weaves quiet devices behind easy words to make the reader feel things and think things without ever directly mentioning things. The reader learns so much without ever feeling like they're been told a things. And her handling of growth and loss and change becomes a breathtaking piece one drop of water from shower or faucet at a time. She uses the simple and the ordinary things to create big, sturdy pictures in the readers mind. And that has left me in awe.
Random Final Notes: First, the cover art is just beautiful. I thought it was impressive when I first saw it, but having read the book you can see the elements and the nuances brought in which make it even better. Even the first two pages on the inside of the hardcover have beautiful art. So happy I will have it forever. Second, the title is amazing. It caught my eye and convinced me I had to read it before I even saw the summary. Third, I had the pleasure of briefly meeting Nina LaCour at Teen Book Con last Saturday, and she is so nice, helpful, and wonderful. Having heard her speak made reflecting on the story and my signed copy even more special.
Characters: 4 I thought that Cagan did a great job creating the cast of characters. Piper had an authentic voice and was a believable character. I guess I'm not gushing with things to say about her because, even though there were some aspects of her I identified with, I never said "Wow that's me." And that isn't anything against Piper, the book, or Cagan, and I know that she is a quality character that people will identify with because I know people like her. Also, I did enjoy reading Piper's journal very much and hearing her take on the world.
As for the other characters, they all suited their purposes very well. But as with any journal form (or even first person story really) where the focus is so heavily on the protagonist, we don't see much of the other characters. We only see where they effect the protagonist's life. So I cannot comment much on the other characters beyond saying that they were a well developed group that served their purposes wonderfully.
Plot: 4.5 The second I read the summary, I was sold. A girl trying to escape Houston, where she feels trapped, to follow her dreams? I felt like it was echoing my life. That was my "I completely identify and get this" moment with the book. And as I read it, already eager to see that plot unfold, I was taken by Cagan's various subplot that interwove with the main plot beautifully. The complicated and broken sibling relationship between Piper and Marli. The strain it puts on her relationship with her parents. The upheaval of her once solid friendships. A financial strain that turns into so much more. And that's not even all of it. After the first twenty pages or so, I got sucked into the story.
Writing: 4.5 Writing a story in journal form is hard. While it gives so much freedom for introspection, moving a story using true journal form is hard. And that is where most authors lose me with, if it's done well, my favorite form of fiction writing. But not Cagan. I give her all the praise in the world for executing such a true and loyal to this format book. While there was a few times where it strayed into a bit too much detail for an real journal, I cannot bring fault. Real scenes with quotations are just plain necessary in books, but she balanced them and grounded them with true journal accounts. Also, the attention to detail with the journal form was great. When I first started, I wondered why the emphasis words were underlined instead of italicized before I realized that italics are impossible with handwritten texts. Cagan did a beautiful job managing plenty of tricky technicalities.
Random Notes: First, reading a book that takes place in the city where you live is the coolest. The two other books that I read this week took place in the San Fransisco area, so I enjoyed recognizing the name and really understanding it. (I had to text my friend when it mentioned going to Texas Art Supply. "Like the good one in Montrose.") If you don't live here, none of that really matters, but it was the first book I've ever read that's been set here which made it extra special for me. And by the same token, there is a little section that kind of deals with the cowboy stereotype that I had to send to my friends because I tell her nearly the same thing all the time. Second, I also met Kayla Cagan at Teen Book Con, and she is so nice as well. And if she reads this, I appreciate her reInstagraming my post about Teen Book Con more than anyone can fathom. Hearing and getting to interact with amazing authors is one of the coolest things ever, in my opinion. Third, the hardcover copy is impressive. Not only do I love the cover, but it also has the nicest, thickest, smoothest pages I have ever encountered. It made reading it even more of a pleasure.
Characters: 4 I really liked Julia a lot. She wants to be an original. She uses the entire dictionary of words and often has witty comments to make. She is intelligent but also free spirited and adventurous. Julia also follows an interesting character arch through the book that draws a nice contrast to the one that her friend Dave experiences, and in a way, it highlights the glaring difference between the two. Julia is entirely against the grain and set in doing whatever she pleases. Dave comes off as a follower.
Dave wasn't a bad character. He was actually an interesting one when you looked below the surface a bit. While he comes off to everyone as one of the unique people, an intentional outcast, per say, in reality, he has just clung on to Julia, who has a strong conviction to be an original. When they start to live out the cliches, the more he interacts with them, the more he becomes them. And there are plenty of people in the world like that, so I give Alsaid props for crafting near polar opposites Dave and Julia so convincingly.
As for the other characters, the only two that are heavily involved in the story line is Gretchen and Brett. Gretchen is the popular girl soccer player who is smart, nice to everyone, and has a whole legion of friends. Of course, Julia immediately dismisses her as a cardboard cut out, token high school popular girl. Then Dave meets her, and the trouble begins. Depending on how you want the storyline to go in your head, she waffles between protagonist and antagonist and seeming like a fine character and a flimsy one. Unlike Dave, I air more on the side of Julia, more skeptical of these so called layers and deeper facets that Dave claims she possesses, but that is up for personal interpretation. I liked Brett a lot more. He might actually be my second favorite character. As ex high school royalty and Dave's brother, Brett has fallen into being a cliche of his own, living at home and looking at high school as the "glory days." His relationship with Julia and his humor make him a fun character to read about even if he just shows up here and there.
Plot: 4 I thought that the concept for this book was fascinating. I've never seen such a direct approach to taking on the cliches in the world. Going through the Never List is the main point at the beginning before the list creates its own problems that take the lead. There's a love triangle, the oblivious boy, and the uncertain best friend. But I thought that the execution, which had plenty of room to turn cheesy, was actually quite good.
Writing: 4 This book is written in three parts. Part 1 is from Dave's point of view in third person limited. The second is Julia's point of view in third person limited, and the last is labeled Julia and Dave and uses semi alternating chapters from the two to finish narrating the story. Just from personal preference, I would have liked it better had it been in first person. The world through Dave's lens was a bit bland for my taste, but I think that it was effective because Dave is so go with the flow and doesn't invite much emotion into things. I enjoyed Julia's section much more, and Alsaid did a great job of bringing her unique voice into his third person prose, which is not an easy thing to do.
The strong point of this book from a writing standpoint is the dialogue. I loved reading the back and forth banter and the comments, and it felt very authentic for each character and realistic. I found the descriptions and narration a touch overwritten and over explaining, though. But overall, the book and the communications of the characters were well done. This was a fun and thought provoking read that I enjoyed very much.
Favorite Line: "When the sun started to bruise the sky..." Is that not the coolest, most unique way to describe a sunset?


Who is here has a D3 or D3s?
Why did Nikon revert to antiquated flash sync technology??
Anyone know where I can find Dummy Battery Pack for Nikon D3s.
D3s side port cover door question..
Nikon D1... serving a good use.


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Stahl finishes school renovation work in Minnesota
Stahl completed the addition and renovation of Prairie View Elementary and Middle School for the Elk River Area School District in Elk River, Minnesota. Prairie View serves children ranging from early childhood through eighth grade, and it is the first Independent School District 728 facility designed to instruct such a diverse age range of…
Hospitality W Minnesota
Stahl named construction manager for dual-branded hotel in Minneapolis
Lake City Hospitality LLC, comprised of Eagan-based JR Hospitality and Iowa-based Hawkeye Hotels, is partnering with Stahl to convert the vacant office tower and the surrounding site at 317 Second Ave. South in downtown Minneapolis into a dual-branded Hilton hotel.
CRE L Iowa
Stahl building 101,000-square-foot elementary school in Iowa
Stahl will break ground this month on the 101,403-square-foot Ankeny Elementary School in the Prairie Trail development in Ankeny, Iowa. The $18 million construction project will provide the Ankeny Community School District with its 11th elementary school.
Minnesota's Welsh Construction adds industry veteran
Minnetonka, Minnesota-based Welsh Construction has added Jason McMillen as director of project management. He will head up major projects for Welsh Construction and brings more than 26 years of experience to his new position.
Stahl to serve as construction manager for Iowa elementary school project
Stahl was awarded the construction management contract for the new Ankeny Elementary School located in the Prairie Trail development in Ankeny, Iowa. Construction of the $20 million, single-story, 101,403-square-foot elementary school will begin March 2019.
Stahl takes on another construction project with Iowa school district
Stahl began construction earlier this year on the baseball and softball field addition for Johnston Community School District in Johnston, Iowa. The new fields, located next to Johnston Middle School and Wallace Elementary School, will feature fully accessible bleachers, digital scoreboards and press boxes.
Stahl to build 135,000-square-foot Military readiness center in Minnesota
The State Of Minnesota Department Of Military Affairs recently awarded Stahl the construction contract for a new 135,000-square-foot Readiness Center in Arden Hills, Minnesota.
Stahl breaks ground on 55,000-square-foot library in Iowa suburb
Stahl recently broke ground on the two-story, 55,000-square-foot Kirkendall Public Library in Ankeny, Iowa. The new library will be located at 1250 SW District Drive in the Prairie Trail development and will provide new space for the rapidly growing northern suburb.
Stahl makes history with first all-LED performance theater in Minnesota
Stahl recently completed construction of the Performing Arts Center at Providence Academy in Plymouth, Minnesota. The center is the first all-LED performance theater in Minnesota.
Stahl completes four construction projects for Minnesota school district
Stahl recently completed four construction projects for the Elk River Area School District in Elk River, Minnesota.
Office Midwest
Stahl Construction moving headquarters to the Miller Textile Building in Minneapolis
Renovation began in December 2015 and the property is being transformed from the historic Miller Bag Building into creative, dynamic office and retail space.
Industrial Midwest
LM Commercial Real Estate adds two industrial brokers to its team
August 6, 2015 | Staff Writer
LM Commercial Real Estate announced the expansion of the Brokerage team with the addition of Mike Merry and Brian Wabick to the Industrial Group.
CRE Midwest
Millenium properties sells 5.7-acre residential site in Brighton Park
March 26, 2015 | Staff Writer
Millennium Properties R/E, a premier boutique real estate brokerage and property management company in Chicago, recently sold a 5.7 acre residential development parcel in Brighton Park which was listed on behalf of the federal court.
Stahl Construction finishes work on 107,000-square-foot national guard fieldhouse near Minneapolis
November 17, 2013 | Staff Writer
Stahl Construction recently finished work on the 107,500-square-foot Minnesota Army National Guard Field Maintenance shop in the Minneapolis suburb of Arden Hills.
Minnesota's Stahl Construction opens Iowa location
September 15, 2011 | Staff Writer
St. Louis Park, Minn.-based Stahl Construction Co. recently opened a new office in metropolitan Des Moines. The company also hired four new employees at the firm's Minneapolis-area headquarters. The moves allow the general contracting and construction management firm to better serve $150 million in new projects now under way in Iowa, Nebras…


If you've never been to Lake Tahoe, do make a plan to get there. To see this beautiful lake in person is a memory you'll treasure forever. Her exquisite beauty and breathtaking vistas are staggering. Once home to the Washoe, this land and lake has been transformed to suit our modern day needs. Says photographer Thomas Bachand, "Urban sprawl, regional air pollution, a growing appetite for recreational opportunities, the specter of global warming — in many respects, Tahoe is a case study in America's challenge to manage consumption pressures while sustaining the environment." The clarity of the water in Lake Tahoe is legendary, but even this is diminishing because of many factors. I loved reading Mark Twain's Tahoe experiences. The many photographs display the seasons and the incredible beauty of this area. Even though the water is losing clarity and the algal growth continues and pollution continues to increase and endanger the surrounds, the lake and forests can still be enjoyed and revered, for now. Mark Twain says the lake is 1,525 feet deep at its center. I was surprised that statistics were not given — for interest sake, I looked these stats up: Length is 22 miles; Width is 12 miles; Shore Length is 71 miles, and Elevation is 6,225 feet.
Conclusion - A beautiful tribute to a beautiful place.


I doubt if I ever will!
We've been successfully touring the country for quite some time now with our Customer Service Boot Camp. It didn't take long to recognize a very evident common thread among those organizations that experienced this intensive training event: Few of them actually needed it!
Everyone learned a great deal.
They gained new tips, tools, and strategies.
They'll be much better off for the experience.
They grew as individuals and as organizations.
However, the majority of those who chose to invest their time, energy, and money in this experience were already doing a good job when it comes to serving their customers and clients! That's so often the case.
Those who attended our Customer Service Boot Camp did so because they were focused on attaining that elusive level of GREATNESS! They thirst for knowledge. They strive for C.A.N.I. (Continuous And Never-ending Improvement). There was no cost involved in this program as they viewed it as an investment, which it surely is!
Sadly, those who most need this customer service training are those who did not attend! … as is almost always the case! Their reasons are many but always extremely weak … no money, no time, other projects, etc. None, by the way, is as important as preparing their employees to better serve those who keep them in business.
Think of those many companies, in every industry, that boast that "the customer is our reason for existing," "the customer is the boss," or "the customer is always right"! In most cases, it's nothing more than lip service! Their true challenge lies first in translating these slogans into actions which can convince customers that they are indeed sincere.
Their second challenge lies in getting their customer contact people trained to convey that sincerity to those they serve! These employees are usually the lowest paid people in the organization and almost always the least trained — and yet they are those chosen to face the customer day in and day out! That simply doesn't make sense!
Consider the fact that a multibillion-dollar fast food operation places its success squarely in the hands of minimum-wage teenagers taking orders, handling money, and delivering the food!
In addition, the image of a multibillion-dollar bank relies on entry-level tellers to handle day-to-day transactions which determine the image of the organization.
Most criticism of multibillion-dollar government agencies are judged largely by the receptionist who answers the phone, greets the customers, answers questions, or transfers the calls … thus setting the tone for any transaction which may follow.
Regardless of job title, education, experience, or position in the organization, the number one task of everyone in the company should always be to attract, satisfy, and preserve customers — this is NOT rocket science. And yet, in today's very competitive, highly chaotic, environment, very few excel in this critical mission which leads to success for anyone truly focused on the attainment of GREATNESS.
When are those slackers going to wake up, provide the EXPECTATIONS, TRAINING, ACCOUNTABILITY, and CONSEQUENCES that will certainly lead to greater customer service and desired success?
I just don't get it! I never have! I doubt if I ever will!
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Brotherton wins second bronze medal
British sailor Paul Brotherton has won a bronze medal at the ISAF World Sailing Games in Marseille
After success at the 49er world championship, Hawaii, sailing with Mark Asquith to take the bronze medal, Paul Brotherton jumped into a four-person keelboat and took to the Mediterranean to partake in the ISAF World Sailing Games, Marseille, to win a second bronze world championship medal.
Sailing with Magnus Leask, Simon Russel and Simon Nearn this experienced keelboat crew racked up a varied score line, and although they didn't win a race throughout the eleven race series, they were always in among it and their consistency paid off, winning the bronze medal in the J/80 class at the World Sailing Games.
It was unlucky for team GBR that there was not more success in the keelboat fleet, going into the penultimate day both Ian Williams and his crew, and Cordelia Ellis and her team were looking in strong positions, but failed to stay out of trouble, and both got disqualified for infringements to other sailor, and if counting maximum points was not bad enough, all hopes of world championships medals went out the window.
However, Ellis sailing with Sarah Webb, Cailah Leask and Sarah Allan went out of the championship on a high note, winning the last race of the day, to put her in fifth place overall.
Ian Williams sailing with his brother Mark, Joe Llewellyn and Mark Nicholls also finished in fifth place, with only a one discard series they had to count one of their poorer results, knocking them off a podium finish.
It was a good finish for team GBR sailor Christine Johnston in the women's sailboard discipline, finishing with a third place in the last race of the championship, to move her up into fourth position overall, behind Eugenie Raffin of France. Teammate Helen Cartwright finished within the top ten in ninth place overall.
There were also two top ten finishes for team GBR in the men's sailboard discipline, Alan Jackson finished in eighth place with Guy Solven in tenth.
Medals were just missed in the women's Hobie 16 class, Team GBR sailors Ellen Forshaw sailing with Jenny Deyes, put in strong performances all week and for the majority of the regatta were lying in a podium position. The competition was strong in this class with the French sailors dominating; Forshaw/Deyes sailed well but could only manage a sixth place finish. Fellow RYA team GBR sailors Kami Marshall/Helen Scott finished in eighth place.
Out on the Laser course, five-times world champion and Olympic medallist, Robert Scheidt of Brazil, added another title to his already impressive cv. Winning the Laser class to take the gold medal at the World Games, three points in front of Andreas Geritzer of Austria. Team GBR sailor Ed Wright, scored a number of good results, including a race win, and at one point on the final day was looking set to move up in fifth place overall, but a 16th place finish in the tricky conditions, dropped him down to seventh place overall. Team mate Jim Taylor finished 30th.
In the Laser Radial class, the gold medal was decided the day before, going to Sophie de Turckheim of France, meaning that she could sit the last day of the championship out. Team GBR sailor Nicky Muller, scored a good set of results, and went out of the regatta on a high, scoring her first race win of the championship to put her in eighth place overall, two places in front of team mate Katie Archer.
It was a slightly disappointing result in the 470 classes, with none of the British pairings really making a mark at this championship. In the women's fleet, team GBR sailor Helena Lucas sailing with Jenny Heeley showed potential throughout, scoring a number of top ten places, but finished 14th overall with Josie Gibson/Saskia Clark in 17th position.
In the men's fleet, points were close with the gold medal awarded on count-back as first and second place were tied on points. Team GBR sailors Nick Rogers/Joe Glanfield finished in 12th place and Graham Vials/Dan Newman in 19th position overall.
Great Britain finished fourth overall in the nations rankings with the top nation being awarded to host nation France who won nine of the 30 trophies awarded and were presented with the King's Trophy.
Team Manager Barrie Edgington commented, "There is no doubt that this World Sailing Games was one of the most difficult due to conditions. The Sailing Games is a very long regatta and competitors have enjoyed a couple of days of good racing mixed in with the majority of tricky days. Paul Brotherton did well to finish with the bronze medal; he took the regatta in his stride and had a relaxed attitude to the whole week, which seems to have paid off. It is unfortunate not to have won more medals in the keelboat fleet, there was loads of opportunity to have bad fortune, and unfortunately they were on the wrong side of this fortune."
Results (provisional)
Bic women)
1, ALESSANDRA SENSINI, ITA (1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1) 8 pts
2, LISE VIDAL, FRA (2,6,2,6,3,4,DNC,2,2) 27 pts
3, EUGENIE RAFFIN (7,2,8,3,2,3,2,3,5) 27 pts
team GBR)
4, CHRISTINE JOHNSTON (6,5,7,2,5,5,DNC,5,3) 38 pts
7, HELEN CARTWRIGHT (4,7,6,5,8,6,DNC,9,7) 52 pts
Bic men)
1, ANDREA CUCCHI, ITA (1,1,1,1,1,1,5,4,1) 11 pts
2, WILHELM SCHURMANN, BRA (OCS,2,2,3,2,3,1,1,4) 18 pts
3, ALBERTO MENEGATTI, ITA (6,4,3,2,4,2,7,5,2) 28 pts
8, ALAN JACKSON (8,10,5,6,11,10,6,8,6) 59 pts
10, GUY SOLVEN (OCS,8,10,8,10,9,DNC,10,12) 90 pts
Hobie male/mixed)
1, DARRON BUNDOCK/MARK PADGETT, AUS (7,8,1,1,8,1,13,3,3,1,2,20) 35 pts
2, GAVIN COLBY/SIMONE MATFIELD, AUS (2,9,5,3,3,17,12,6,1,2,9,8) 48 pts
3, ENRIQUE FIGUEROA/MALATRASI, PUR (6,1,2,OCS,16,4,1,5,14,16,1,1) 51 pts
10, STEVE WARD/MARK FARROW (18,5,11,4,1,22,10,9,21,7,6,16) 88 pts
21, NATACHA CUENOUD/STODDARD LANCE (24,20,29,OCS,18,10,DNF,17,16,8,17,14) 174 pts
Hobie 16 women)
1, MARIE DUVIGNAC/CLAIRE JAPHET, FRA (4,1,1,2,4,1,7,6,2,3,2,9,1) 27 pts
2, FLORENCE DELORY/ LAURIAN LE GAC, FRA (3,3,7,4,1,6,1,1,4,4,DSQ,DSQ ,2) 36 pts
3, SUSAN KORZENIEWSKI/S O'CONNOR, USA (9,4,4,1,8,4,6,3,6,1,3,4) 39 pts
6, ELLEN FORSHAW/JENNY DEYES (2,DNF,5,3,5,8,2,5,7,7,5,12,9) 58 pts
8, KAMI MARSHALL/HELEN SCOTT (5,2,8,12,2,7,3,11,8,13,7,8,10) 71 pts
470 women)
1, JENNY ARMSTRONG/BELINDA STOWELL, AUS (1,1,4,1,11,18,1,3,6,8) 36 pts
2, INGRID PETITJEAN/NADEGE DOUROUX, FRA (11,3,9,13,2,2,4,2,4,10) 47 pts
3, NATALIA VIA DUFRESNE/AZON SANDRA, ESP (2,5,11,6,7,16,5,1,13,1) 51 pts
14, HELENA LUCAS/JENNY HEELEY (24,27,26,9,8,3,7,8,12,15) 112 pts
17, JOSIE GIBSON/SASKIA CLARK (9,17,24,12,22,26,6,12,18,25) 145 pts
470 men)
1, YOGEV YOSEF/SHAHAF AMIR, ISR (8,7,2,10,22,7,2,2,9,21,26) 90 pts
2, BENJAMIN BONNAUD/ROMAI BONNAUD, FRA (3,4,BDF,11,11,2,4,10,4,18,22) 90 pts
3, GUSTAVO MARTINEZ/TUNTE CANTERO, ESP (6,5,12,31,2,18,12,7,29,1,1) 93 pts
12, NICK ROGERS/ JOE GLANFIELD (11,OCS,1,3,14,10,11,36,18,12,30) 147 pts
19, GRAHAM VIALS/ DAN NEWMAN (16,17,23,19,28,28,17,16,25,10,31) 200 pts
Laser men)
1, ROBERT SCHEIDT, BRA (6,4,3,3,1,3,3,10,5,16,10) 48 pts
2, ANDREAS GERITZER, AUT (19,2,13,4,8,1,1,8,10,3,1) 51 pts
3, EVAGELOS CHIMONAS, GRE (1,6,4,4,8,9,7,3,1,11,31) 54 pts
team GBR
7, EDWARD WRIGHT (22,6,10,11,1,4,4,14,11,2,16) 79 pts
30, JIM TAYLOR (14,1,9,OCS,15,28,26,17,29,BFD,13) 190 pts
Laser Radial women)
1, SOPHIE DE TURCKHEIM, FRA (1,1,1,3,2,1,1,1,3,1,11,1,2,8,2,1,DNC,DNC) 40 pts
3, KATARZYNA SZOTYNSKA, POL (2,2,2,2,5,2,5,4,2,6,25,9,8,1,1,4,1,6) 53 pts
3, GEA BARBIC, CRO (3,3,3,9,14,4,2,3,9,16,6,2,1,17,4,8,5,3) 79 pts
8, NICKY MULLER (11,9,14,14,13,8,9,12,12,5,13,4,9,16,24,7,4,1) 145 pts
10, KATIE ARCHER (12,10,23,12,26,17,4,2,17,19,14,6,5,5,13,9,2,10) 157 pts
J/80 men)
1, BRENAC/FERRAN/ROHART/ FOUCHIE, FRA (1,1,3,2,1,6,1,18,6,4,13) 38 pts
2, SOMMARIVA/BROCCANELLO/MUNGO/, ITA (4,4,10,1,4,1,7,10,8,2,20) 51 pts
3, BROTHERTON/ LEASK/RUSSEL/ NEARN (3,8,2,6,10,10,18,4,3,8,10) 64 pts
5, WILLIAMS/ LLEWELLYN/NICHOLLS/WILLIAMS , GBR (1,1,15,3,1,2,2,16,BFD,DSQ,7) 69 pts
J/22 women)
1, BRIAND/ BOUR/DENTRAYGUES/ PROU, FRA (2,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,4,4,RDG,4,3) 20.5 pts
2, DIXON/ ROBERTS/EGNOT/ LIND MIT, NZL (1,2,1,1,2,3,RDG,6,9,2,2,2,6) 26 pts
3, WALTERS/GOJNICH/BRISBOIS/KARY, AUS (2,3,7,5,1,1,RDG,5,2,5,4,1,5) 31 pts
5, ELLIS/ ALLAN/LEASK/ WEBB, (1,1,OCS,2,3,1,5,7,8,8,DSQ,5,1) 42 pts
Overall Nations
1. France – 40 pts
2. Australia – 36 pts
3. Italy – 36 pts
4. Great Britain – 28 pts


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Traditional cake making contest commemorates Hung Kings
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(Tinmoitruong.vn) - A traditional Chung cake and Day cake contest was held in the northern province of Phu Tho on April 6 to celebrate the annual Hung Kings' Temple Festival.
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A traditional Chung cake and Day cake contest (Source: VNA)
A traditional Chung cake and Day cake contest was held in the northern province of Phu Tho on April 6 to celebrate the annual Hung Kings' Temple Festival.
Taking part were teams from Hanoi city, Phu Tho, the northern province of Hoa Binh and the southern province of Binh Duong.
The capital won the first prize in the Day cake category, while Phu Tho 2 topped the Chung cake competition.
Vu Ba Chung, a member from the Hanoi team, expressed his honour at winning the opportunity to offer traditional cakes to the Hung Kings at a similar festival in 2015.
The contest is held annually with the aim of paying tributes to the kings - the founders of the nation - and fueling national pride.
Legend has it that the two kinds of cake were first made by Prince Lang Lieu, a son of Hung King VI. Thanks to this invention, he was given the crown from his father.
The Prince made Chung cakes (glutinous rice cakes) in a square shape and Day cakes (glutinous rice dumplings) in a round shape to symbolise the earth and the sky respectively, and offered them to the king to express his respect and gratitude for his parents and to thank the gods for the year's good harvest.
The tradition has been well preserved by the Vietnamese people nationwide, especially during the lunar New Year festival.
Northern Vietnamese make the Chung cake in square shape, while the southerners or ethnic people in mountainous areas wrap the cakes in a cylindrical shape.
Making Chung cake requires simple materials and ingredients which can be found in every market in Vietnam : glutinous rice, green bean, fatty pork spiced with salt, onion and pepper. All are wrapped in phrynium leaves before being boiled for at least 10 hours.
Day cake requires a more complicated process. First of all, sticky rice is dipped in water and then steamed. Steamed sticky rice will be pounded in a mortar until it turns into a soft paste, which is then shaped into round.
The worshipping ritual of the Hung Kings was honoured by UNESCO as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December 2012. Meanwhile the Hung Kings' Temple Festival was recognised as a national event in 2007.
Source: VNA
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