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Art world rejoices in Biden's win of US presidency
"The frogs have managed to jump out of the boiling pot just in time," the artist Martha Rosler told The Art Newspaper Photo: Martha Rosler From Los Angeles to New York, thousands of Americans took to the streets to celebrate Joseph Biden's victory in the US election on Saturday, as his slowly growing lead in Pennsylvania finally secured him the necessary Electoral College votes to win the presidency, and remove Donald Trump from office after a single term. There was a similar outpouring of positive reactions from the art world for the new President-Elect and his running mate, former California senator Kamala Harris—along with caveats that there are still pressing issues that need to be resolved across the country. "The frogs have managed to jump out of the boiling pot just in time," the artist Martha Rosler told The Art Newspaper, sharing the photo collage she made, above.More than anything else, the 2020 US election had become a referendum on Trump's term and impact on American life, and a decision about what path voters hope the country will take going forward. "We still must come to terms with the extent to which the structures of governance have been damaged and the government itself delegitimated—wantonly and steadily—by Donald Trump and the third-rate bottom feeders whom he empowered as his wrecking crew," Rosler added. "In the midst of an intensifying pandemic, increasingly dire effects of global warming, a many faceted economic collapse affecting ordinary people while corporations and billionaires thrive, and an undeniable threat from the white supremacists, racists, and fascists Trump has encouraged, we are trying to knit together our fractured sense of time and being, to prepare ourselves for the collective tasks ahead." But Rosler ended her comments on a positive note, telling Biden-Harris supporters to "take this moment of self-liberation to discover the sense of joy in ourselves and in the movements of support and solidarity we have built in struggle and opposition, and to appreciate what we have accomplished. We can breathe."Artists celebrateMaking the rounds on social media after Biden's win was Barbara Kruger's scathing 2016 cover for New York magazine, which superimposed the word "LOSER" across Trump's screaming face. According to the art critic Jerry Saltz, her post-election work for the paper features a looming black shoe and the words: "This is the end of something." The Chicago-based artist Nick Cave summed things up with a more resilient view: "You can't win the country by dividing the country when the country is called the United States." "Our long national nightmare is over," says the artist Deborah Kass, quoting the inauguration speech of former US President Gerald Ford, who took office after Richard Nixon resigned in the wake of the Watergate scandal. She added another quote, this time from a speech by the late Senator Ted Kennedy's for the 1980 Democratic National Convention: "The work goes on.""I am beside myself with joy," said the artist Sue Coe, who has taken aim at Donald Trump's policies and divisiveness through her works, "but it's not exactly a revolution, 4 to 5 million more Americans voted for Biden-Harris and rejected fascism. The reality is, capitalist democracy beat fascism by a razor thin margin, but our electoral system still benefits cruel bullying overlords. The struggle continues…" William Powhida, Possibilities for Representation (2020), currently on view at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut The artist William Powhida shared an image of his installation Possibilities for Representation, currently on view at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, saying: "When I began working on this installation in January, I knew I wanted to create a visual representation of how long the primary and election would feel relative to the long history that produced the candidates. In the installation's timeline, centuries occupy the same amount of time as decades, then years, then months, and then election day. I am deeply relieved that my decision to give Joe Biden and Kamala Harris a very subtle edge in the seemingly glacial presidential race was proven correct by some 74 million voters." Powhida adds: "As good as the win feels at the moment, my relief is tempered by the sobering material realities waiting for us on the other side of election certification and inauguration. I'd like to remember how Saturday felt in the coming months and years as we begin to positively address the pandemic, systemic racism, and climate change not only in a deeply divided country, but a divided Democratic party. I don't imagine the collective ebulation I experienced yesterday is going to last very long as the new administration begins to define itself and its agenda."Comparing Biden's win to a "a breeze of fresh air we needed so badly", the Mexican artist Pedro Reyes says that while "working with grassroots gun control organisations, I learned Joe Biden has fought twice—and won—against the NRA, I believe we will see more and better gun sense policy coming the Biden and Harris now from the White House. Still, one of our top priorities as a planet is nuclear disarmament. Trump pledged 1.3 trillion dollars to new nukes on 2021, I hope this new administration can reverse that contract."The artist Pablo Helguera, who regularly contributes Artoons for The Art Newspaper, says the triumph of Biden and Harris is "the result of the incredible collective effort of many that I think we need to recognise", and he gives credit to organisers including: "Stacey Abrams in Georgia, but also the many other women leaders who helped turn the state blue: Helen Butler (Georgia Coalition for the People's Agenda), Nse Ufot (The New Georgia Project), and Deborah Scott (Georgia Stand-Up); the Black Lives Matter movement and the Black community all over the country, and crucially in Philly who put Biden-Harris over the top; the millions of Latino voters in Arizona, Nevada and all over the country (much is said of the right-wing Cuban vote in Florida but more should be said of the Latino vote overall, particularly the Mexican American vote in the Southwest); Steve Schmidt and the gang of wild, fiercely anti-Trump Republican operatives from the Lincoln Project who the media dismissed as ineffectual but who, it might turn out, did manage to successfully take away a small but crucial percentage of Republican support from Trump.""Artists showed up like never before to turn out the vote—coalitions such as Joy to the Polls, Play for the Vote, Lift Every Vote, Wide Awakes, and Sankofa. Artists will continue to show up to bring people together and heal the nation", says Tanya Selvaratnam, an artist, writer and producer, and a member of the Arts for Biden-Harris campaign. "With President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris, artists and the arts community can finally rejoice and cry tears of JOY.""Power to the people!!," tweeted the street artist Shepard Fairey. "The last four years under Trump have been heartbreaking, so I'm extremely happy that we can move forward again with the election of Joe Biden & Kamala Harris. A big step forward symbolically is the election of the first woman and first person of color as Vice President!" In another tweet he added: "We have a lot of work to do to make America more fair and equal, but we now have leaders who will respond to the people and respect democracy. Keep pushing forward and pushing our leaders everyone!"Power to the people!! The last four years under Trump have been heartbreaking, so I'm extremely happy that we can move forward again with the election of @JoeBiden & @KamalaHarris. A big step forward symbolically is the election of the first woman and first person of color as VP! pic.twitter.com/K86a87XhGA— Shepard Fairey (@OBEYGIANT) November 7, 2020 International reactionsThe results of the US election were also closely watched around the world. In France, among the first officials to respond to Biden's win was the former culture minister and now director of the Pinault collection, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, who says he is "happy for America and for the world, which has suffered so much from Donald Trump's violent contempt for them and for the fundamental values of the American democracy. With Joe Biden we can expect the return of loyal international cooperation, which is so important for politics, economy, and sustainability, but also culture and arts. In these difficult times, we hope that the new administration will bear the responsibility of supporting cultural institutions and networks, like Roosevelt did during the New Deal. In any case, arts deserve respect, something Trump was incapable of, so it is a wonderful news for the future of American culture." Emma Lavigne, the head of the national center for the contemporary art at the Palais de Tokyo, also asks the new administration to help the arts and artists, stressing that she knows "how privileged we are in France to receive this massive support by the state". She adds that she has been "impressed by the contrast between the crisis striking American museums and institutions, and the strength, the energy and the spontaneity shown by artists like Jenny Holzer, Nan Goldin or Patty Smith" who came out to support election efforts. "If I had a message to send to Joe Biden, it would be: The artists went out in the streets to support democracy, don't let them stay in the streets. You have a great responsibility. Find a way to help them," Lavigne says. The Paris gallerist Kamel Mennour says he is still "shocked by the results" of the tightly fought race, which shows a division that "has also fractured the art world" and society around the globe. "We have to find a way to get some peace," the gallery owner says, adding some concern for artists: "How is it possible to create in such a universe?""Projects are cancelled, museums and galleries are closed, it is a very difficult time for the artists, and it will remain so for a while", suggests the artist Adel Abdessemed, whose staging of Messiaen's Saint Françoise d'Assise, for Geneva's Grand Théâtre, has been reschedule to 2022. "These spaces which allow the creators to breathe are closed but I am confident that we can find a renaissance, out of the institutions, out of the market." Describing Trump as "a scream of hate and vengeance", Abdessemed hopes that "Biden might be able to bring some peace to America and the world. If I had a message for him, I would quote the philosopher Hanna Arendt's words: 'The only ones perhaps to believe in the world are the artists and they express this through their art'.""Health care, education, environment, community care, there are so many battles ahead", warns the artist Camille Henrot, who hopes that the new Biden-Harris administration "will involve the younger and progressive generation that allowed this victory". Henrot adds that "many immigrants with a small business did not have access to the SBA loans because they feared the renewal of their visas would be denied, and this was the case for many artists. After the cancellation of Art Basel, I had to leave my studio in New York and move to Berlin, because I could not support the expenses—60% of the artists I know have lost their studios. And that represents a dynamic economy, with assistants, freelancers, the artisans, making glass, bronze or ceramics… Everyone speaks of the galleries and museums, but nowhere, except in Germany, did countries find a way to help artists. They have not been heard."What comes next"The election was a triumph for our nation and for its progress towards democracy, racial justice, and equity," says Robert Lynch, the president and CEO of the lobbying group Americans for the Arts. "President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris bring a commitment to get creative workers working again. Our nation needs to capitalize on the abundance of under-employed yet talented creative and racially underrepresented workers in America to aid in the recovery, to unify, and to heal our nation's communities and economy."Nina Ozlu Tunceli, the executive director of Americans for the Arts Action Fund, adds that there is "great hope for a pro-arts administration" with Biden and Harris, and as the new government takes shape, she says her organisation will look "to ensure the arts are central to Covid-19 relief, jobs, and infrastructure packages during the administration's critical first 100 days of office"."I have spent the last four years politically agitating against Donald Trump, having known him for 40 years and always having believed that he is unbalanced. He proved it during his presidency," says the collector and financier Asher Edelman. "Biden is a good man and will try to unite the nation. If he avoids the deficient advisors from some of the previous administrations, which many of us who are active and care about the lower 70% of earners will push hard for, he could lead the country and the world back to some form of sanity and decency. It will take a huge effort. Just thinking about documenting Trump's destruction is a mountain to climb. To fix it we have to climb to the sky. Let's hope that Joe can do it." Edelman added in a postscript that "having written some thousands of pages about Donald Trump, I am now cutting him out of any further attention. Waste of time."
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Adam Pierno, a 40-year-old ad exec in Scottsdale, Arizona, was heading to his local CVS not so long ago, intending to refill a prescription. Quick errand, or so he thought. Upon arrival, he heard his insurance was suspended. But wait! When he called his insurer, Blue Cross Blue Shield, they said there wasn't a problem and they'd put the scrip through if he wanted — but first, wouldn't he like to hear how he could save money by switching to a mail-order pharmacy run by Express Scripts? "It was a nasty tactic," Pierno says.
Middlemen like PBMs may be dying off everywhere else, but they're alive and well in the economic hairball of U.S. health care.
PBMs say, with some justice, that they're playing an important role in the health care system by keeping drug costs down. The industry says it cuts prescription costs by 35 percent, a figure in line with older estimates by the federal Medicare program. That's a lot of dough in a U.S. drug market that was worth almost $400 billion in 2014, according to the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics. But critics argue those savings come at a big cost. Companies like Express Scripts, they say, essentially act as enforcers for insurance companies, telling you what prescriptions you can and can't use, deciding how much you'll pay, and even sometimes steering you toward their own mail-order pharmacies.
Middlemen like PBMs may be dying off everywhere else in the modern economy, but they're alive and well in the economic hairball that is U.S. health care, which turns everyone into a middleman. Drug companies, for instance, don't sell their meds to doctors or patients — they just spend enormous sums convincing doctors to prescribe the pills that insurance companies will ultimately pay for. Insurance companies hate that and fight back with coverage restrictions and other bureaucracy. Under such circumstances, the capitalist magic of business competition can't do much to improve service and lower costs. Instead, the warring sides wage costly but inconclusive trench warfare, occasionally creating new weapons like PBMs in hopes of breaking the stalemate.
PBMs first arose in the 1990s as IT-savvy firms that could connect insurers to CVSes and Walgreens across the country, according to Patricia Danzon, a health care management professor at the Wharton School. PBMs were so good at that, insurers eventually handed them the keys to their prescription-drug benefits — thus their name — even letting them make huge decisions over which drugs to cover and how. Suddenly, PBMs had the clout to squeeze Big Pharma but good. "They go to the [drug] manufacturer and say, 'If you give us the lowest price, we will structure our [benefits] to steer patients towards your drug,'" Danzon says.
Once you start squeezing, though, it's hard to stop. PBMs soon hit on the notion of running their own mail-order operations to cut local and chain pharmacies out of the picture. While mail-order medicine sounds like it should be as convenient as Amazon, that's only true when it works — and it sometimes doesn't. Jesse Smith, an HIV-positive physics student at San Francisco State, had his antiviral prescription switched to OptumRx's mail-order pharmacy in 2012. Only twice did his meds arrive on time, he estimates; once, he paid for a two-day supply out-of-pocket at more than $100 a pill. Similar stories from other HIV or AIDS patients led to lawsuits; some are settled, while others are ongoing. Those settlements, however, are strictly limited to HIV and AIDS patients, leaving out cancer patients or others with chronic illnesses.
PBMs, which routinely argue they're playing a vital role in the health care industry, are certainly doing well as a result. Express Scripts, generally considered the largest independent PBM, reported a $2 billion profit last year, up 9 percent from the previous year, even though its overall revenue declined. These companies are also getting bigger. UnitedHealth just paid almost $13 billion for a PBM called Catamaran, which it intends to merge with OptumRx to create the third-largest PBM in the world. According to research from Trefis, UnitedHealth will eventually manage more than 1 billion prescriptions when this deal goes through.


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Full time students and those under the age of 26 pay the equivalent of just over £1 a month for their membership. Read about work with younger people here.
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New SMI6B Series Features Interchangeable Ac Blades
Cui Inc. Jul 17, 2019
Features an ultra-compact package measuring 1.85 x 1.36 x 1.04 in (47 x 34.5 x 26.5 mm)
Includes standard dc output connector options, including USB type C and micro B
Ideal for consumer, Industrial and mobile electronics applications
Next-Generation 6 W Multi-blade Power Adapter Boasts Ultra-compact Package
Tualatin, Ore. — July 16, 2019 — CUI's Power Group today announced the introduction of a next-generation 6 W wall plug-in ac-dc power supply with interchangeable ac blades designed for global use. The SMI6B series features an ultra-compact package measuring 1.85 x 1.36 x 1.04 in (47 x 34.5 x 26.5 mm), while complying with the US DoE Level VI and EU CoC Tier 2 efficiency regulations as well as the new IEC 62368-1 safety standard for ICT and AV equipment.
With ac blade options for North America, Europe, the United Kingdom, Australia, and China, this multi-blade power adapter offers no-load power consumption less than 0.075 W, a universal input voltage range of 90 to 264 Vac, and single output voltages from 5 to 15 Vdc. The series further carries over current and short circuit protections as well as a wide range of safety approvals that include UL/cUL, GS, RCM, CCC, PSE, and CE.
Complying with FCC Part 15B Class B limits for EMI/EMC, the SMI6B also features a variety of standard dc output connector options, including USB Type C and Micro B. These features and approvals combine to make this high efficiency external power adapter the ideal solution for keeping consumer, industrial, and mobile electronics in compliance around the world.
The SMI6B series is available immediately with prices starting at $5.60 per unit at 100 pieces through distribution. Please contact CUI for OEM pricing.
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Cost: $5.60 per unit at 100 pieces through distribution
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CUI is an electronic components manufacturer specializing in a diverse range of product technologies. As a leader in power electronics, the organization supports customers as they strive to improve the energy efficiency and environmental credentials of their application. The company's interconnect, audio, motion and thermal management groups provide engineers with reliable and proven solutions across a range of market segments as technology allows the world to connect in new ways. An unwavering commitment to the design engineer has been a hallmark of CUI's sustained growth since its founding in 1989 and will continue to be the primary mission as they expand their product technologies, manufacturing capabilities and global reach.
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Among the most frequent offenses is the lack of information and contact details of the service seller, lack of instructions on how to submit a complaint, lack of option to specifically choose additional expenses such as priority boarding, insurance and luggage fee. About 20% of the inspected websites did not give information on the final price of the service.
Eurostat data for 2012 shows that 32% of European internet users booked flights or accommodation online.


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The New York Pops and Music Director Steven Reineke return for their fifth summer season at Forest Hills Stadium—the historic sporting and entertainment venue located in the Queens, New York neighborhood of Forest Hills—for an intimate evening with multi-platinum singer and songwriter Sarah McLachlan, presented by Madison House Presents.
Tickets will go on-sale on Friday, March 8, 2019 at 10:00AM at http://foresthillsstadium.com/.
The New York Pops' appearance is generously supported by the City of New York and New York City Council.
Sarah McLachlan is one of the most celebrated singer songwriters in entertainment with over 40 million albums sold worldwide. She has received three Grammy Awards and twelve Juno Awards over her career and was recently inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. In additional to her personal artisic efforts, McLachlan founded the Lilith Fair tour, which showcased female musicians and raised over $7 million for local and national charities. In 2002 McLachlan founded her non-profit organization, the Sarah McLachlan School of Music, which provides top quality music instruction at no cost, in a safe and nurturing environment, for at-risk and underserved children and youth. From an early age, music provided McLachlan with the tools she needed to navigate the challenges she faced in her life, so she recognizes how important it is for every child to have those same opportunities. In 2014 McLachlan released her seventh studio album, Shine On, for which she received a Juno Award for Adult Contemporary Album of the Year. Shine On explores her personal journey over the previous few years of navigating love, loss and change. McLachlan's latest release is her 2016 Christmas album Wonderland, for which she received a Juno Award for Adult Contemporary Album of the Year as well as a Grammy Nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. Wonderland contains fresh and inspired interpretations of 13 traditional and contemporary holiday classics.


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St. Augustine College has two new Bachelor Degrees
The Institutional Actions Council of the Higher Learning Commission has approved the St. Augustine College request to offer the Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, and the Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems.
These new degrees join the three Bachelor's Degrees that SAC has been offering: Social Work, Psychology, and Hospitality Management. SAC also offers a variety of Associate Degrees. All of our programs are valuable qualifications for employment and can be used to transition to a Bachelor's Degree at St. Augustine or a Bachelor's Degree/Master's Degree at another institution.
St Augustine College is ranked No. 1 in Illinois in raising the socioeconomic status of its graduates and ranked No. 4 in serving students who come from families earning less than $20,000 a year.
33 percent of St. Augustine College (SAC) students climb two or more levels of income after graduation, reveals the study "Highest Upward Mobility Rate Colleges" conducted by The Equality of Opportunity and published by The New York Times
According to this research, in the category called "Social Mobility Index," SAC is No. 1 among 103 Colleges in Illinois and ranks No. 61 among 2,137 Colleges across the United States.
Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration
It is a degree designed to prepare students for a variety of business opportunities in the private, government, and not-for-profit organizations. Based on a liberal arts foundation, the Business Administration Program provides students with a strong business curriculum, academic knowledge, and content business courses covering the major areas of a complex and constantly changing business environment.
Graduates of the program will have a solid academic foundation in accounting principles, economics, management theory and behavior, the legal environment of business, marketing, financial management, international business, human resources, and business problem solving and decision making. The curriculum is intended to give students a well-rounded background in all areas of operating a business. A senior capstone course provides students the opportunity to research specialty areas including strategic management planning, international business, or small business operations.
The degree is designed to provide the technical knowledge and critical thinking skills needed in business. Students will leave the program prepared for a variety of business operation and leadership positions as well as a path for an advanced degree in business.
It is a degree designed to prepare students for employment in an Information Technology department of an organization. Program skills begin with strong computer programming foundations and move students toward the most advanced concentrations.
There are three concentrations from which students can choose: web based applications, database systems management, and network systems administration.
The web based applications concentration and the database systems management concentration, each concentration prepare students to design, implement, and manage systems. The former prepares students for working with web based communications systems and the latter prepares them for working with database management systems.
The network systems administration concentration prepares students to build, install, troubleshoot, and administer local area networks from the foundation up.
The curriculum includes a senior internship project where students will use and apply their learned skills to solve a computer-information-systems problem in a real-world situation.
The degree prepares students with a solid background in mathematics (discrete structures) and communications (technical writing). In addition, graduates leave the program with skills to work independently as well as skills to work collaboratively with diverse populations of staff, supervisors, and customers.
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or for some dishes that you can take with you.
It's always nice to have something more than just vegetarian meat replacements.
but have you tried this healthy potato salad yet? It's made with soy yogurt, so it is completely vegan.
You can make it in advance and take it with you.
You can also make this hash brown side dish, with peas and cheese.
It will be a winner with all your guests.
You can also grill lot's of vegetables such as zucchini, bell pepper or eggplant.
One of my favorite side dishes is sweet potato.
and put it on the bbq until it becomes soft and sweet.
Try making kebabs with only vegetables or with vegetarian meatballs or falafel.
In this picture I used vegetarian meatballs, zucchini and yellow bell pepper.
Of course, making 's mores is always a great idea!
Take cookies, chocolate and marshmallows.
Put the marshallows on a stick and put them above the bbq until they start to melt.
Then put the marshallow between the cookies.
I end my list with a healthier dessert.
Take an apple and slice it in half. Take out the core of the apple.
Now place a piece of chocolate in both halves and wrap it in tin foil.
Put the apple on the barbecue until it is soft and the chocolate has melted.
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Ed Adlard
Ed Adlard is Healthy Visions Board President and has been involved with Healthy Visions as a board member since its inception as Adoption Option, which became Healthy Visions. Ed is an engineering graduate of Purdue University and holds an MBA from Xavier University. He has worked in engineering and consulting companies for 40+ years and retired this past year. Ed has been involved with Healthy Visions fundraising activities for a number of years and now is taking a more active role on the board. Ed lives in Cincinnati with his wife Carole. Carole and he have four adult children and 2 grandchildren.
Rob Purdy
Rob Purdy is serving as Healthy Visions' Vice President of the Board. Rob has served at Montgomery Community Church in mentoring both teenagers and men in his community. He first partnered with Healthy Visions while mentoring with their program at Reading Community School District before later serving on the board.
In the corporate world, Rob leads a global technology team of 40 people in supporting Fortune 500 companies but his greatest enjoyment is not the technologies. It is in talking and encouraging each teammate on finding their purpose & fulfilling their dreams and goals. Rob Purdy loves to help each one on his team find their gifts & how to best utilize them. Rob is most passionate about serving others as he finds each person is incredibly valuable and gifted.
Rob shares these same passions in addition to six children, two dogs and a cat with his wife Beani who is entering her sixth year on staff at Healthy Visions.
Lauren N. Laskowski
Lauren N. Laskowski is a former health teacher and strength and conditioning coach. Her connection to our organization dates all the way back to 2004 when she was student teaching at Lakota West High School, and she has been an avid supporter ever since. Lauren is a graduate of Kings High School and graduate of University of Cincinnati, Miami University, and Walden University. She is currently the Facility Services Manager at City Wide Maintenance of Cincinnati. She currently lives in Mason and enjoys competing in the sport of CrossFit, traveling to warm and sunny places, and her photography business.
Jim Strotman
Jim Strotman is retired and is the treasurer of the board. After going to school at LaSalle High School and the University of Cincinnati, Jim enjoyed a long career in accounting and ran his own CPA company called CFO Perspectives. Jim's commitment to helping young people was demonstrated when he began a Fathers Group to help young men become more effective fathers. The Fathers Group attracts 70 men weekly and continues to encourage and support men. Jim has also helped Healthy Visions as a member of the mentoring program, meaning he both supports and lives the ideologies of the organization. Jim lives on the west side of Cincinnati with his beautiful wife Carol and has three grown children and 6 grandchildren.
Sue Bruns
Sue Bruns has been on the board for four years and was born in Piqua, Ohio. She graduated from Our Lady of Cincinnati College in 1962 with a degree in biological sciences and chemistry. She became a registered medical technologist after a year of internship at Good Samaritan Hospital. She then worked at Holmes and University Hospitals. Ned and Sue were married in 1964 and have five children and fifteen grandchildren. Sue Bruns' husband, Ned Bruns passed away recently and would like to mention him here. Carole and Sue have known each other for almost forty years. Sue was part of the mentoring program last year and is looking forward to participating again this coming school year.
Andrea Yang
Andrea Yang serves as Chief Counsel to the City of Cincinnati's Greater Cincinnati Water Works, which provides treated drinking water to over 1.2 million people in Southwest Ohio and parts of Northern Kentucky. Andrea has also served as legal counsel to the City of Cincinnati on economic development transactions, community development matters, and on the purchase, lease, and sale of City real property. Her other experience includes community and regional development work for the US Agency for International Development, Cornell University Cooperative Extension, and the Peace Corps, and environmental policy development for USEPA. She graduated from the University of Cincinnati Law School and holds both a Masters of Regional Planning and a Bachelor of Arts (Biology and Society) from Cornell University.
Andrea has long been interested in children and youth and their care and development. During and after college she worked with the New York State Citizens' Coalition for Children and CASA-NYC to advocate for children in foster care and for changes to improve the system for their care. Andrea and her partner Rainer have two children, 17 and 21, and a dog Bowdie and live in the Clifton neighborhood of Cincinnati.
John works for Rudler, CPAs, located in Fort Wright, Kentucky. John originally started at Rudler as an intern in 2013. John is a graduate of Covington Latin School and Thomas More College (now University). He joined Rudler's full time staff in 2014 after graduating Summa Cum Laude from Thomas More University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business
Administration and Accountancy.
At Rudler, John works with a variety of small businesses and nonprofits in the Greater Cincinnati area. John specializes in business and individual income taxes, tax planning, consulting, and valuation. John is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA). John leads Rudler's business valuation niche and is now a manager within the firm. In addition to technical work, John enjoys networking and building stronger relationships with clients and referral sources.
John has been on the board of Healthy Visions since late 2019. He originally becomes connected with Healthy Visions from a Cincinnati CARES Board Match event. He also participates in the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program (VITA), working in conjunction with Thomas More College accounting students, to provide tax preparation assistance to low income and elderly individuals.
John resides in Alexandria, Kentucky, and has been a lifelong resident of Northern Kentucky. He enjoys traveling, going to sporting events, and visiting new places in town during his free time.
Vicki Beare-Gardner
Vicki Beare-Gardner joined the board in October 2017. She was born and raised in Cincinnati, graduating from North College Hill High School. She attended and graduated with a bachelor's in Social Work from Eastern Kentucky University. While in Kentucky, she volunteered at and then became employed by, Mountain Maternal Health League in Berea. There, she served as Teen Outreach Coordinator and was one of fourteen sex education specialists serving on panels statewide. She also helped plan two statewide family planning conferences. Vicki worked as a Licensed Social Worker for 33 years (21 years as a manager) at Hamilton County Job and Family Services leading job seeking skills classes. She also was a Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor II. She retired in 2010.
Vicki likes to travel, with her husband of 40 years, and wants to spend time in all 50 states. She has 23 so far and in Canada. She loves to play games, especially cards. She and her cousins play cut throat euchre regularly. She reads all kinds of books and the daily newspaper. She keeps life-long friends.
Vicki is committed to Healthy Visions because of the staff and the dedication they have for the kids they work with. They are the most enthusiastic, caring, happy crew she has ever seen. And their support of each other is heartwarming.
Sean Brislin is a Coordinator of Promotional Planning Management for Meat and Seafood Merchandising at Kroger.
Sean began his Kroger career in 2009 at the Cincinnati Headquarters in the Corporate Brands department as a Category Strategy and Innovation Manager for various departments including Produce, Natural Foods, and Frozen Foods. In 2012 he became Senior Category Manager of Seafood Merchandising. Then in 2013 he moved to Nashville and served as Meat Merchandiser for the Division. Sean returned to Cincinnati in 2017 where he moved into his current role. Prior to working for Kroger, Sean worked for Daymon Worldwide as a Senior Account Manager, developing corporate brands for Price Chopper, Carrefour-Brazil, Fresh Brands, Schnucks, and Giant Eagle.
In addition to being a Board Member of Healthy Visions, Sean is a Board Member of the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky World Affairs Council and is a Board Member of the Loveland Youth Basketball Association. He also coaches several youth sports teams, including soccer, basketball, baseball, and softball.
Sean attended Miami University in Ohio and graduated with a B.BA., Majoring in Marketing and Management.
Sean and his wife Erica have three children, Conor (8), Ilsa (6), and Lukas (4).
Sean Brislin
Nancy Rogers
Nancy Rogers joined the board in December of 2018. She is very impressed with the energy, dedication, and professionalism of the Healthy Visions presenters and staff and is delighted to be part of the board.
Nancy was born in the eastern Ohio hills of Noble County and graduated from Kent State University with a degree in secondary education: English and Psychology. She and her husband, Bruce moved to Cincinnati, Ohio in 1972 where she began a career in social work with what was then known as the Hamilton County Welfare Department, now Hamilton County Job and Family Services, working as a Licensed Social Worker primarily in employment services and management (26 yrs) during her 32-year career tenure.
Upon retirement in 2004, she became a volunteer counselor with the Eve Center, a Christian Peer Counseling Center for women. She is currently the Coordinator as well as a facilitator thereof a Recovery Group for women who were victims of childhood sexual abuse.
Throughout her career, Nancy has voluntarily served on numerous advisory boards for Cincinnati schools or programs including Fairview German Bilingual, Schroder, and Aiken as well as Job Corps.
Nancy and her husband, Bruce, are celebrating 50 years of marriage in September of 2020. She enjoys traveling with her husband and friends, working out, and spending time with her two adult children and their families. She loves attending her five grandchildren's' school and athletic activities and is an enthusiastic fan of all they do. She also enjoys making a "joyful noise" on Sundays as a member of her church's band.
Lisa is excited to be a part of the dynamic board at Healthy Visions. She grew up in Sylvania, Ohio and attended Rutgers University where she earned degrees in both Psychology and History. After several years in the workforce, Lisa returned to school to earn a Masters in Education and a Middle School Science and Social Studies teaching license.
Her love of travel first led her to South America where she met her husband and then to London where they lived for 7 years before returning to the USA. They have two young sons who keep them very busy and full of life.
Having moved back to Ohio in 2018 from London where she spent five years as principal of an Ursuline primary school, she's excited to put these mentoring, administration, planning and management skills to use in helping Healthy Visions deliver services and advice to the young people they serve.
In her free time Lisa enjoys reading, singing, dance and exploring the outdoors.
Lisa McCoy


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Richard Nguyen Sloniker Channels His Angelic Side in 'The Bishop's Wife'
Rosemary Jones
Taproot Theatre CompanyGreater Seattle Area
Cast of 'The Bishop's Wife' at Taproot. Photo by Erik Stuhaug
Richard Nguyen Sloniker is a charming comedic actor. So appealing that he's doing his second Cary Grant role at Taproot Theatre Company this year. After successfully portraying the hapless Mortimer, nephew of the murderous aunties in Arsenic and Old Lace, he's back as the much more urbane and, yes, charming angel Dudley in The Bishop's Wife this month.
For those who caught this black-and-white 1947 classic on late night television, the harried Bishop (originally played by David Niven) is so busy raising money for a new cathedral that he's neglecting his family at Christmas. When praying for a miracle, he gets Dudley (Cary Grant), a far too handsome angel who seems more concerned in making sure that the Bishop's wife has a pleasant holiday break than helping the Bishop. A variety of comedic confusions ensue although all is well by the Christmas Eve service.
This Taproot production directed by Karen Lund uses the radio play version of the popular Christmas movie, adapted by Karen and Mark Lund, and sets the staging at a fictional "KTTC" complete with commercial jingles and sound effects. So Sloniker essentially plays an actor playing an angel. We talked to him about the challenges and joys of this Christmas play as well as switching his career from science to theatre in college.
Richard Nguyen Sloniker as Dudley in Taproot's 'The Bishop's Wife.' Photo by Erik Stuhaug
Rosemary Jones: Every actor has to decide whether or not to watch previous performances of a role. Did you want to watch Cary Grant's performance as Dudley or did you want to stay away from the movie?
Richard Nguyen Sloniker: I did watch the movie after the first rehearsal when Director Karen Lund suggested we watch it for the style of the time period. By then I had already made some personal choices for Dudley. The movie was a useful resource, but ultimately the character I created was out of my typical work and not Cary Grant's performance.
The format of The Bishop's Wife is essentially a play within a play, as you're performing the radio version onstage. What are some of the fun aspects of this?
The best, by far, is working with the cast. It's such a treat to not only act with Chelsea LeValley (Julia, the Bishop's wife), Calder Jameson Shilling (Henry, the Bishop) and everyone, but to watch everyone's performances outside of my scenes. I'm blown away at the talent Karen brought together. If you include Music Director Michael Nutting, who composed the score and attended many rehearsals, there are four talented pianists within this company! Amazing.
What are some of the challenges of doing this as a "radio" performance?
This is my first radio play! I quickly realized there are different techniques involved. I'm used to being off-book and looking into the eyes of my scene partner. But with scripts in-hand, you have to balance reading the text, engaging with your scene partner, making sure the audience can see you…all while speaking into a microphone. Talk about walking and chewing gum!
You've performed in many of our regional theatres, Village Theatre, Seattle Children's Theatre, ACT Theatre, Seattle Rep—what distinguishes a Taproot show for you?
Karen Lund (associate artistic director), Mark Lund (design director) and Scott Nolte (producing artistic director/CEO). They are always welcoming to actors. Even when visiting, I've always been offered good conversation and kind words. Both Arsenic and Old Lace and The Bishop's Wife felt like a homecoming.
Cast of 'The Bishop's Wife' at Taproot. Photo by Erik Stuhaug
How did you go from earning a B.S. in Cellular, Molecular and Developmental Biology to a M.F.A. from University of Washington's Professional Actor Training Program?
When I was younger I always loved science. I thought I'd grow up to be a doctor. But I have also always performed in theatre. Even while I was working toward my undergraduate degree I was still performing in Seattle fringe theatre. When it came time to decide on graduate schools, I thought that if I became a doctor I wouldn't be able to perform again. I couldn't live a life without performance. So I auditioned for one grad school: the University of Washington School of Drama. And luckily, I was accepted! I still love science, and regularly read scientific articles. I don't think that will leave me anytime soon.
How does having studied both science and the arts make you a better artist?
I approach my characters very rationally. I am a Stanislavski, action-based performer. I need to know physiologically what my character wants, and what tactics they will attempt in order to get it. My science background keeps me asking why characters do what they do; what textually-based clues can we derive from a script? I've never been one to base a performance on "feeling." I have also never played the color orange.
The Bishop's Wife is playing now through December 28 at Taproot Theatre Company. Tickets are available online or at 206.781.9707.
Rosemary Jones has written about arts and culture in the Pacific Northwest for the Cornish Magazine, Capitol Hill Times, Encore, Examiner.com and others. Additional work can be seen at rosemaryjones.com.


On the Road to Abigail's: Four days and counting!
I have to admit I did not pull out all of our Christmas decor this year; our first Christmas in Ashland. We set up and decorated the Christmas tree a few weeks ago only to be reminded that we were scheduled to have floor work done at some point in December. For one full week the dining room tables and chairs were stacked on top of each other, in front of the Christmas tree in the parlor, while the hardwood floor repair work was completed. I didn't focus on the fact that an electric saw would be used "in" the house and as soon as I heard the whine and whir of the saw I came running from the back of the house in a full panic grabbing old sheets as I ran. I quickly and somewhat haphazardly threw the sheets over the furniture but how could I throw a sheet over a Christmas tree that I couldn't reach because of the stacked furniture?!
I have an extensive collection of nutcrackers, each of which would normally be assigned to gallantly preside over a stair, but the state of our stairs is not conducive to fragile nutcrackers, not this year!
So in the end, and after all of the sawdust was wiped away and even though we didn't deck the halls with boughs of holly, the parlor is warm, lovely and inviting, and there is always next year, right? Until then we wish everyone the very best the holiday season can offer.


They have been trying out sugar for the first time in their life!
It was very dull Saturday morning but the boys brightened it up for me, and their mum and dad! Precious little munchkins.. They were singing, drunk with the sugar rush!


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221 F. 2d 815 - Seagram-Distillers Corporation v. New Cut Rate Liquors
221 F2d 815 Seagram-Distillers Corporation v. New Cut Rate Liquors
SEAGRAM-DISTILLERS CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellee,
NEW CUT RATE LIQUORS, Inc., et al., Defendants-Appellants.
No. 11275.
United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
April 4, 1955.
Rehearing Denied April 25, 1955.
Allen H. Schultz, Chicago, Ill., Louis L. Biro, Chicago, Ill., for appellants.
Frank D. Mayer, Leo F. Tierney, Louis A. Kohn, Chicago, Ill., Patrick W. O'Brien, Chicago, Ill., Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt, Chicago, Ill., of counsel, for Seagram-Distillers Corp.
Before MAJOR, FINNEGAN and SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judges.
SCHNACKENBERG, Circuit Judge.
From an order for a preliminary injunction, granted by the district court, on plaintiff's motion, defendants have appealed.
The verified complaint, as amended, alleges that plaintiff, a Delaware corporation, is engaged throughout the United States in the business of dealing in, selling and distributing alcoholic beverages of standard quality. These beverages, described generally as "Seagram products" and including Seagram's "VO" and "7 Crown," are sold in bottles bearing the trade-marks, brands or names of the producers. Plaintiff is the sole person authorized to sell and distribute Seagram products in Illinois.
It is alleged that during the past several years plaintiff has expended over $500,000 in Illinois alone in advertising Seagram products and, as a consequence, the trade-marks, brands or names under which Seagram products are sold have become widely and favorably known to the trade and public in Illinois. Plaintiff also alleges that the matter in controversy exceeds $3,000.
Plaintiff's complaint further alleges that the sales of Seagram products in Illinois are subject to the provisions of fair trade contracts executed in accordance with the Illinois Fair Trade Act.1 Furthermore, it is alleged that, prior to the acts complained of, the defendants had received copies of the plaintiff's schedule of fair trade prices stipulated in accordance with the executed fair trade contracts, and also that defendants have refused to discontinue offering for sale or selling Seagram products at less than the aforesaid stipulated prices, and have continued said wrongful conduct by wilfully and knowingly offering for sale and selling said products at prices below those stipulated, and particularly that they advertised in a newspaper on June 15, 1954, that they would sell Seagram products at less than the fair trade prices therefor. Plaintiff further alleges that defendants intend to continue said conduct to the irreparable damage of the good will and business of the plaintiff, thereby impairing the value of the trade-marks, brands and names under which Seagram products are sold, and unless defendants are immediately enjoined and restrained from continuing such conduct, plaintiff will suffer further irreparable damage.
There was a prayer for a preliminary injunction restraining defendants from advertising, offering for sale or selling Seagram products at less than the stipulated prices, and for a final decree to the same effect.
Defendants' verified answer denied all of the material allegations of the plaintiff, including the allegations that the matter in controversy, exclusive of interest and costs, exceeded the sum or value of $3,000, that plaintiff had no adequate remedy at law, that fair trade contracts had been executed in accordance with the Illinois Fair Trade Act, and that defendants had violated the provisions of said alleged contracts. The answer also stated (1) that plaintiff had abandoned and waived any and all rights it may have had as a result of the execution of alleged price-fixing contracts; (2) that the alleged price-fixing contracts do not comply with the provisions of the Illinois Fair Trade Act in that they lack the immediate vendor-vendee relationship required to bring a price-fixing contract within the exceptions provided under the provisions of said act; and (3) that the Illinois Fair Trade Act is unconstitutional and consequently plaintiff's alleged price-fixing contracts executed thereunder are illegal and void.
The court held a hearing on plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction, at which time evidence was taken.
At this hearing vice president Teece of plaintiff, and vice president Lind of plaintiff and Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., of which plaintiff is a wholly owned subsidiary, testified that plaintiff has adopted a fair trade policy in every state having a fair trade act, and that over five thousand fair trade contracts identical to that introduced into evidence as plaintiff's exhibit 2 had been executed in Illinois. It was stated that the purpose of these contracts was to protect the trade-marks and good will built up over a period of years by the plaintiff for Seagram products. During the last two or three years plaintiff has in fact spent over $3,000,000 in advertising and promoting their sale in Illinois. In addition, plaintiff has 32 "missionary men," who continuously contact retailers with reference to the plaintiff's products. They operate primarily in the city of Chicago, and are charged with the duty of determining whether the retailers they call on are maintaining plaintiff's fair trade prices. Plaintiff also employs, from time to time, various shopping services to ascertain whether fair trade prices are being maintained.
Both Lind and Teece testified that unless the price cutting of plaintiff's products by the defendants was restrained, plaintiff's business would suffer grave and irreparable harm; that the good will built up over a period of years would be almost lost, the volume of plaintiff's business would be cut by "at least 50 per cent in three months' time;" that when a brand becomes involved in price-cutting "it loses its standing, and when it has lost its standing, it is through."
On June 15, 1954, an advertisement appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times in which all fifty-two defendant liquor stores offered for sale and advertised fifths of Seagram's "VO" and "7 Crown" at $4.89 and $3.49, although the fair trade prices are $5.98 and $4.30 respectively. This advertisement was published by these defendants individually and collectively as the "Foremost Liquor Stores." The defendant liquor stores are entitled to use the name "Foremost Store" as subscribers to the merchandising and promotional services rendered by the defendant "Foremost Promotions, Inc."
Teece testified that over fifty liquor retailers in Chicago called on him the day the advertisement was published. One of the callers was the president of the "Illinois Package Association," a group of Chicago liquor retailers. He wanted to know "immediately" what the plaintiff was going to do with reference to the price cutting and added:
"I have your merchandise on the shelf. If you don't do something about it, I will take it off the shelf."
Teece was also told that other members of this association were of the same opinion. Another complaint registered with Teece was by one of the managers of a chain of Chicago stores. He warned the plaintiff that if something was not done about the advertisement, they proposed to take action.
Also on the day of publication of defendants' advertisement, plaintiff's Chicago manager responsible for "policing the market" in Cook County reported to Teece that there had been a tremendous number of telephone complaints from retail liquor dealers in Chicago. He said that two supervisors had been called in to help handle these calls, and orders had been cancelled because of the defendants' advertisement.
Six weeks before the publication of defendants' advertisement, plaintiff and the attorneys for defendants had entered into an arrangement in connection with the continuance of a fair trade suit involving two "Foremost Stores." A letter reflecting this arrangement was sent by one of the attorneys for defendants to all of them; it was signed by Irving Robins, their "agent and attorney in fact." This letter, dated April 30, 1954, began as follows:
"As you know, Seagram Distillers Corporation has consistently endeavored to enforce its Fair Trade prices in this area."
The letter then set out the terms of the agreement between the plaintiff and defendants, the substance of which was:
"(1) All Foremost Stores will strictly adhere to the Fair Trade Prices on Seagram products.
"(2) Seagram will make every diligent effort to enforce its Fair Trade prices in the Chicago area."
It was also stated that the Foremost Stores would:
"* * * endeavor to keep Seagram informed of all violations (price cutting by competitors of Foremost Stores) so that they (Seagram) may have an opportunity to carry out their Fair Trade policy."
In closing, the letter said:
"We believe that in view of Seagram's consistent record in this matter, it should first be given a reasonable chance to correct any price cutting situation."
Finally, the letter said that if, after notice of a price cutting situation, Seagram should fail to take "proper action we will notify you (defendant stores) and advise you whether you may legally sell Seagram products below the applicable Fair Trade prices."
On May 24, 1954, one of the attorneys for the defendants sent a letter to one of the attorneys for plaintiff which stated that shopping by defendants' agents of what was later shown to be approximately 94 liquor retailers had revealed 76 violations of plaintiff's fair trade prices. A similar letter was sent to plaintiff on June 17, 1954. This letter was based upon shopping by the same agents of approximately 62 stores and listed 43 violations. At the hearing it was stipulated that the defendants' shoppers would testify that they bought products of the plaintiff as indicated in the letters on May 24 and June 17, 1954, they would have the merchandise with them to prove they made the "buys," and that in most of the stores where they said they made purchases, the prices of the products on the stores' shelves coincided with plaintiff's fair trade prices.
After receipt of these letters, the plaintiff "shopped" each of the stores listed. Whenever such subsequent shopping revealed a second violation, an action was begun. It was plaintiff's practice to require two violations before suit was brought. Where there are two violations, action is begun forthwith. In some actions begun by plaintiff the affidavits supplied by defendant were utilized.
The only witness for the defendants was Irving Robins, president of defendant Foremost Promotions, Inc., and "agent and attorney in fact" for the rest of the defendants. Robins was the person responsible for the advertisement of June 15, 1954. He said it was his "prerogative" and "responsibility" to determine the prices at which the defendant liquor stores would advertise plaintiff's products. Robins also said that the prices at which the plaintiff's products were advertised were based upon the price levels reported by defendants' shoppers.
Upon consideration of the pleadings and the evidence the court below made extensive findings of fact, among which were the following:
"7. Unless enjoined, defendants intend to continue said conduct complained of, to the irreparable damage of the good will and business of the plaintiff herein and of the producers of said Seagram products, thereby impairing the value of the trademarks, brands and names under which Seagram products are sold.
"8. Such wrongful conduct of defendants if not enjoined will cause others dealing in Seagram products to fail to comply with the aforesaid Fair Trade contracts, will substantially decrease the volume of sales of Seagram products in Illinois, and will substantially impair the good will of the plaintiff and the good will of the trade-marks, brands and names of the producers of Seagram products, all to the great damage and financial loss of the plaintiff.
"10. Plaintiff is and has been vigorous, fair and diligent in the enforcement and maintenance of its Fair Trade prices in Illinois by all appropriate methods, including many legal proceedings.
"11. The evidence does not support defendants' asserted claim of abandonment by plaintiff of its Fair Trade program in Illinois or defendants' claim that plaintiff has unreasonably failed and refused to take appropriate action against retail dealers alleged to have been selling Seagram products at prices below those stipulated by plaintiff in accordance with its Fair Trade contracts.
"12. The irreparable injury to the good will and business of plaintiff which would be suffered by it if defendants are not enjoined from advertising, offering for sale and selling Seagram products at less than the Fair Trade prices stipulated therefor, during the period prior to final adjudication herein, would be substantially greater than any loss or damage which could then be suffered by defendants as the result of the issuance of an injunction.
"13. A preliminary injunction is necessary to preserve the status quo now existing until the final determination of the controversy herein."
Among the conclusions of law were the following:
"6. Plaintiff has no adequate remedy at law.
"7. The action and threatened action of the defendants in advertising, offering for sale and selling Seagram products at less than the prices stipulated therefor pursuant to said Fair Trade contracts will result in direct, immediate and irreparable injury to plaintiff, and it is therefore entitled to equitable relief.
"8. There is a reasonable probability that plaintiff will prevail upon the final determination of the controversy herein.
"9. The balance of convenience or injury is resolved in favor of plaintiff and a preliminary injunction is necessary to prevent irreparable injury to it."
It was also ordered that the bond in the amount of $5,000 previously filed by plaintiff pursuant to an earlier temporary restraining order would stand as a penal bond for the payment of damages to any party found to have been wrongfully restrained or enjoined.
1. The findings of fact by the district court are sufficient to embrace all of the material allegations of the amended complaint. Supported by the evidence, they include findings of federal jurisdiction, probability of irreparable damage to plaintiff, and nonabandonment by plaintiff of its price-fixing contracts.
2. While considerable evidence was received by the district court, a final hearing upon the issues did not take place. The evidence was received so that the court might have an opportunity to exercise its discretion upon the motion for temporary injunction. Its granting of such relief must be affirmed unless there has been an abuse of discretion. Doeskin Products v. United Paper Co., 7 Cir., 195 F.2d 356, 360. We are not permitted to substitute our opinion for the finding of the district court, where, as here, the record furnishes a reasonable basis for its findings and action. The purpose of a preliminary injunction is to preserve the subject matter of the controversy in its then existing condition — to preserve the status quo. Doeskin Products v. United Paper Co., supra, 195 F.2d at page 358.
3. The district court should not, on a motion for preliminary injunction, decide as to the constitutionality of a statute. That must be reserved until the final hearing on the merits of the case. The injection of a question as to the alleged unconstitutionality of the Illinois Fair Trade Act by the defendants did not require the district court to pass upon that question in connection with the granting of the preliminary injunction. Neither did the inclusion of that point in the briefs of both parties in this court, give us any right in this appeal from an interlocutory order, to decide that question. As was said in Mayo v. Lakeland Highlands Canning Co., 309 U.S. 310, 316, 60 S.Ct. 517, 520, 84 L.Ed. 774:
"We think the court committed serious error in thus dealing with the case upon motion for temporary injunction. The question before it was not whether the act was constitutional or unconstitutional; was not whether the Commission had complied with the requirements of the act, if valid, but was whether the showing made raised serious questions, under the federal Constitution and the state law, and disclosed that enforcement of the act, pending final hearing, would inflict irreparable damages upon the complainants."
We do not believe that the record before us shows that any serious question under the federal constitution exists and that therefore enforcement of the act, pending final hearing would inflict irreparable damages upon the defendants. General Electric Co. v. Masters, Inc., 307 N.Y. 229, 120 N.E.2d 802, appeal dismissed, 1954, 348 U.S. 892, 75 S.Ct. 215.
4. The preliminary injunction order entered by the district court reads, in part, as follows:
"It Is Further Ordered, Adjudged and Decreed that * * * defendants herein, their agents, servants, employees, attorneys, successors and assigns, and each and every one of them be, and they are hereby jointly and severally enjoined and restrained from wilfully and knowingly advertising, offering for sale or selling Seagram products, including but not limited to Seagram's V.O., Seagram's Seven Crown Blended Whiskey and Seagram's Ancient Bottle Gin, in Illinois, at less than the prices stipulated by Seagram-Distillers Corporation from time to time under the Illinois Fair Trade Act and in accordance with contracts made pursuant to said Act, which contracts at the time of the filing of the complaint herein were, now are or may hereafter be in force in Illinois relating to the sale or resale of any of said Seagram products in that state."
Defendants contend that the "acts sought to be restrained" are set forth in the order by reference to an "other document," and therefore the order violates rule 65 (d) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure2, which reads, in part, as follows:
"(d) Form and Scope of Injunction or Restraining Order. Every order granting an injunction and every restraining order shall set forth the reasons for its issuance; shall be specific in terms; shall describe in reasonable detail, and not by reference to the complaint or other document, the act or acts sought to be restrained; * * *."
The obvious purpose of this rule was to enable one reading the order for a temporary injunction, or the temporary injunction itself, to know what act or acts were to be restrained, without being thereby referred to a complaint or other document for that information. This order accomplishes that purpose. Its language is flexible enough to accommodate it to the fact that the prices referred to would in all likelihood vary from time to time in an active market. Hence, we hold that the form of the order3 does not violate rule 65(d).
For the reasons above stated, the order from which defendants appeal is
1. Ill.Rev.Stat.1953, c. 121½, §§ 188-191.
2. 28 U.S.C.A. Rule 65(d).
3. (which was not objected to in the district court by defendants)


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Focus on Funds: Fund Industry Is Swiftly Changing
Fund Industry Is Swiftly Changing
The American fund industry is undergoing transformation, as Shundrawn Thomas, executive vice president and head of funds and managed accounts for Northern Trust, explains in the June 16, 2017, edition of Focus on Funds.
Stephanie Ortbals-Tibbs, ICI director, media relations: Fund distribution is a critical issue within the asset management industry. It's also an aspect of the business that's facing significant change, as I recently learned from a conversation at ICI's General Membership Meeting.
Shundrawn Thomas, Northern Trust executive vice president and head of funds and managed accounts: So, one of the things that's interesting—if you think about distribution in simple terms and getting your product or solution ultimately to that end investor—one of the things that is not talked about a lot is, much of our distribution [is] disintermediated, i.e., there's someone between us and that end investor.
We talk about what that means in terms of the economics and what that costs, but I think that increasingly—and more importantly—what does that mean in terms of the brand, value, that we have to those end investors, our capacity and our ability to build relationships, and most importantly, in investments, to build trust? And so I believe what the marketplace, in some respects, is telling us is that we need to really rethink that. We need to think about how can we more directly engage with those ultimate end investors? How we can work collaboratively with those who are in the distribution channel, to make sure that we are not only aligned but we're bringing forth the true value of our overall value proposition?
Ortbals-Tibbs: So for all of us in the asset management industry, how does this affect how we do our jobs?
Thomas: I like to say it's really focusing on that strategic thinking or being more expansive in our thinking, as opposed to thinking about that which is most proximate to us. So, let's start with the example of distribution that we were just talking about. If I have an adviser that we're working with in our firm and they have clients, we're thinking of them as our primary client—how do we work with them, how do we partner with them? That's appropriate and that's very reasonable. But going beyond that, to think through who is the actual end investor on the end of that chain? What are their investment preferences? How are they working with their adviser, and how do we make our value proposition compelling all the way throughout that value chain? How do we make our brand resonate throughout the value chain?
Think about on the regulatory side. A lot of times we're sitting in more of a responsive position, where we're waiting for regulation to happen to us. But being proactive, in terms of anticipating what regulation is coming down the line and shifting our business models in advance of that, and/or actually affecting regulation and policy as it's developed—those are the kinds of things that I think we need to do from an expansive standpoint, to not only impart really deep value into our own businesses, but to better serve all of the stakeholders that we serve.
Ortbals-Tibbs: So really in two words it's: game on.
Thomas: It really is game on.
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"Blood Brothers" reveals its ending in the opening scene, but it keeps you wondering how it will get there. This British musical, which opened on Broadway in 1993 after a successful run on London's West End, has a story almost like a fairy tale. It is not a children's story, however, and it is not for anyone under age 12.
It is one of the best productions ever done at Bethlehem's Pennsylvania Playhouse, with universally superb singing and acting.
The background of Willy Russell's play is the class system in England. Impoverished Mrs. Johnstone (Heather Reese) has been abandoned by her husband, but not before she became pregnant with twins to add to her already large brood. Her employer, wealthy Mrs. Lyons (Elizabeth Marsh-Gilkeson), discovers her plight and convinces Mrs. Johnstone to give one of the twins to her.
Both women try to keep the boys apart, but they seem fated to come together. The play's sinister Narrator (Rody Gilkeson) keeps intimating that their fate will be a dark one.
The two-and-three-quarter-hour production centers on two periods in the twins' lives: when they are 7 years old and when they are teenagers after both families have moved to the country. Mickey (Ian Gilkeson) is outgoing and streetwise, while Edward (Thomas Kennebeck), the twin who was given away, is shy and reserved. After reuniting in the country, they team up with Mickey's nominal girlfriend Linda (Taylor Van Kooten) for a succession of idyllic adventures until their different lifestyles drive the twins apart.
Every member of the cast of 16 makes the strange plot believable, and all do justice to the darkly beautiful songs, which are good enough to have helped the play have a 24-year run in London.
Reese's singing rivals the many performances of "Blood Brothers" songs on YouTube, as is her realistic portrayal of Mrs. Johnstone. Both Ian Gilkeson and Kennebeck are instantly credible, both as 7-year-olds and as teens. Rody and Elizabeth Marsh-Gilkeson are sufficiently ominous and deliver the emotional songs excellently.
The monochrome set is sparser than the usual detailed playhouse sets, but is still quite functional for scene changes. Nearly invisible microphones and a live orchestra of eight greatly enhance the sound.
"Blood Brothers" combines the noirish outlook of contemporary drama with some Broadway-style show-stopping music. This outstanding presentation, directed by Bill Mutimer, should not be missed.
•"Blood Brothers," 7:30 p.m. June 9-10, 15-17, and 6 p.m. June 11 and 18, Pennsylvania Playhouse, 390 Illick's Mill Road, Bethlehem. Tickets: $25; $22, students and seniors except Saturdays. 610-865-6665, www.paplayhouse.org.