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From the author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year.
In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and, in front of everybody, shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range.
The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride's funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird. In Deacon King Kong, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood's Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself.
As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters—caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York—overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion.
Bringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us.
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An Amazon Best Book of March 2020: James McBride, author of the National Book Award winning The Good Lord Bird and the beloved memoir The Color of Water, has written a propulsive and comic neighborhood epic set in the 1960s with a cast of characters that are beguiling, boozed-filled, and larger than life. When a young drug lord is shot in broad daylight by a bumbling drunk known to everyone as Sportcoat, the Brooklyn neighborhood they live in is upended. As Sportcoat comically and unknowingly dodges the police, his actions ricochet around him, igniting a web of drug wars, backdoor dealings with mobsters, and church brawls that demonstrate just how vital yet fragile communities can be. Deacon King Kong tells the fictional story of one Brooklyn project, but in so doing tells a broader story of race and religion, getting by and getting out, and how grudges and alliances become embedded in the foundations of our neighborhoods. An incredibly satisfying read. —Al Woodworth, Amazon Book Review
Praise for DEACON KING KONG:
"A mystery story, a crime novel, an urban farce, a sociological portrait of late-1960s Brooklyn: McBride's novel contains multitudes… He conducts his antic symphony with deep feeling, never losing sight of the suffering and inequity within the merriment." —The New York Times, Top 10 Books of 2020
"Shouldn't we just get it over with and declare McBride this decade's Great American Novelist?...McBride has a way of inflating reality to comical sizes, the better for us to see every tiny mechanism that holds unjust systems in place." —Los Angeles Times
"A raucous, poignant, humanity-embracing novel." —O, The Oprah Magazine, Top 20 Books of 2020
"A story of comedy and compassion." —TIME, Top 10 Books of 2020
"A boisterous, imaginative, tender foray into late- 1960's Brooklyn." —Entertainment Weekly, Top 10 Books of 2020
"A boisterous, imaginative, tender foray into late- 1960's Brooklyn." —Entertainment Weekly, Top 10 Books of 2020 --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
Jesus's Cheese
Deacon Cuffy Lambkin of Five Ends Baptist Church became a walking dead man on a cloudy September afternoon in 1969. That's the day the old deacon, known as Sportcoat to his friends, marched out to the plaza of the Causeway Housing Projects in South Brooklyn, stuck an ancient .38 Colt in the face of a nineteen-year-old drug dealer named Deems Clemens, and pulled the trigger.
There were a lot of theories floating around the projects as to why old Sportcoat-a wiry, laughing, brown-skinned man who had coughed, wheezed, hacked, guffawed, and drank his way through the Cause Houses for a good part of his seventy-one years-shot the most ruthless drug dealer the projects had ever seen. He had no enemies. He had coached the projects baseball team for fourteen years. His late wife, Hettie, had been the Christmas Club treasurer of his church. He was a peaceful man beloved by all. So what happened?
The morning after the shooting, the daily gathering of retired city workers, flophouse bums, bored housewives, and ex-convicts who congregated in the middle of the projects at the park bench near the flagpole to sip free coffee and salute Old Glory as it was raised to the sky had all kinds of theories about why old Sportcoat did it.
"Sportcoat had rheumatic fever," declared Sister Clarence Gee, the president of the Cause Houses Tenant Association and wife of the minister at Five Ends Baptist Church, where Sportcoat had served for fifteen years. She told the gathering that Sportcoat was planning to preach his first-ever sermon that upcoming Friends and Family Day at Five Ends Baptist, titled "Don't Eat the Dressing Without Confessing." She also threw in that the church's Christmas Club money was missing, "but if Sportcoat took it, it was on account of that fever," she noted.
Sister T. J. Billings, known affectionately as "Bum-Bum," head usher at Five Ends, whose ex-husband was the only soul in that church's storied history to leave his wife for a man and live to tell about it (he moved to Alaska), had her own theory. She said Sportcoat shot Deems because the mysterious ants had returned to Building 9. "Sportcoat," she said grimly, "is under an evil spell. There's a mojo about."
Miss Izi Cordero, vice president of the Puerto Rican Statehood Society of the Cause Houses, who had actually been standing just thirty feet away when Sportcoat pointed his ancient peashooter at Deems's skull and cut loose, said the whole ruckus started because Sportcoat was blackmailed by a certain "evil Spanish gangster," and she knew exactly who that gangster was and planned to tell the cops all about him. Of course everybody knew she was talking about her Dominican ex-husband, Joaquin, who was the only honest numbers runner in the projects, and that she and her Joaquin hated each other's guts and each had worked to get the other arrested for the last twenty years. So there was that.
Hot Sausage, the Cause Houses janitor and Sportcoat's best friend, who raised the flag each morning and doled out free coffee care of the Cause Houses Senior Center, told the gathering that Sportcoat shot Deems on account of the annual baseball game between the Cause Houses and their rival, the Watch Houses, being canceled two years before. "Sportcoat," he said proudly, "is the only umpire both teams allowed."
But it was Dominic Lefleur, the Haitian Cooking Sensation, who lived in Sportcoat's building, who best summed up everybody's feelings. Dominic had just returned from a nine-day visit to see his mother in Port-au-Prince, where he contracted and then passed around the usual strange Third World virus that floored half his building, sending residents crapping and puking and avoiding him for days-though the virus never seemed to affect him. Dominic saw the whole stupid travesty through his bathroom window as he was shaving. He walked into his kitchen, sat down to eat lunch with his teenage daughter, who was quaking with a temperature of 103, and said, "I always knew old Sportcoat would do one great thing in life."
The fact is, no one in the projects really knew why Sportcoat shot Deems-not even Sportcoat himself. The old deacon could no more explain why he shot Deems than he could explain why the moon looked like it was made of cheese, or why fruit flies come and go, or how the city dyed the waters of the nearby Causeway Harbor green every Saint Paddy's Day. The night before, he'd dreamed of his wife, Hettie, who had vanished during the great snowstorm of 1967. Sportcoat loved to tell that story to his friends.
"It was a beautiful day," he said. "The snow came down like ashes from the sky. It was just a big, white blanket. The projects was so peaceful and clean. Me and Hettie ate some crabs that night, then stood by the window and watched the Statue of Liberty in the harbor. Then we went to sleep.
"In the middle of the night, she shook me woke. I opened my eyes and seen a light floating 'round the room. It was like a little candlelight. 'Round and 'round it went, then out the door. Hettie said, 'That's God's light. I got to fetch some moonflowers out the harbor.' She put on her coat and followed it outside."
When asked why he didn't go to the nearby Causeway Harbor after her, Sportcoat was incredulous. "She was following God's light," he said. "Plus, the Elephant was out there."
He had a point. Tommy Elefante, the Elephant, was a heavyset, brooding Italian who favored ill-fitting suits and ran his construction and trucking businesses out of an old railroad boxcar at the harbor pier two blocks from the Cause Houses and just a block from Sportcoat's church. The Elephant and his silent, grim Italians, who worked in the dead of night hauling God knows what in and out of that boxcar, were a mystery. They scared the shit out of everybody. Not even Deems, evil as he was, fooled with them.
So Sportcoat waited till the next morning to look for Hettie. It was Sunday. He rose early. The project residents were still asleep and the freshly fallen snow was largely untouched. He followed her tracks to the pier, where they ended at the water's edge. Sportcoat stared out over the water and saw a raven flying high overhead. "It was beautiful," he told his friends. "It circled a few times, then flew high up and was gone." He watched the bird till it was out of sight, then trudged back through the snow to the tiny cinder-block structure that was Five Ends Baptist Church, whose small congregation was gathering for its eight a.m. service. He walked in just as Rev. Gee, standing at his pulpit in front of the church's sole source of heat, an old woodstove, was reading off the Sick and Shut-in Prayer List.
Sportcoat took a seat in a pew amid a few sleepy worshippers, picked up a tiny one-sheet church program, and scrawled in a shaky hand, "Hettie," then handed it to the usher, Sister Gee, who was dressed in white. She walked it up to her husband and handed it to him just as Pastor Gee began reading the list out loud. The list was always long, and it usually bore the same names anyway: this one sick in Dallas, that one dying out in Queens someplace, and of course Sister Paul, an original founder of Five Ends. She was 106, and had been living in an old folks' home way out in Bensonhurst so long that only two people in the congregation actually remembered her. In fact there was some question as to whether Sister Paul was still alive, and there was some general noise in the congregation that maybe somebody-like the pastor-ought to ride out there and check. "I would go," Pastor Gee said, "but I like my teeth." Everybody knew the white folks in Bensonhurst weren't fond of the Negro. Besides, the pastor noted cheerfully, Sister Paul's tithes of $4.13 came by mail faithfully every month, and that was a good sign.
Standing at his pulpit mumbling down the Sick and Shut-in Prayer List, Pastor Gee received the paper bearing Hettie's name without a blink. When he read out her name he smiled and quipped, "Git in your soul, brother. A working wife is good for life!" It was a funny dig at Sportcoat, who hadn't held a steady job in years, while Hettie raised their only child and still worked a job. Rev. Gee was a handsome, good-natured man who liked a joke, though at the time he was fresh off scandal himself, having recently been spotted over at Silky's Bar on Marl Street trying to convert a female subway conductor with boobs the size of Milwaukee. He was on thin ice with the congregation because of it, so when no one laughed, his face grew stern and he read Hettie's name aloud, then sang "Somebody's Calling My Name." The congregation joined in and they all sang and prayed and Sportcoat felt better. So did Rev. Gee.
That night Hettie still didn't come home. Two days later, the Elephant's men discovered Hettie floating near the shore at the pier, her face gently draped with a scarf she'd worn around her neck when she left the apartment. They pulled her out of the bay, wrapped her in a wool blanket, laid her gently on a large tuft of clean white snow near the boxcar, then sent for Sportcoat. When he got there, they handed him a fifth of scotch without a word, called the cops, and then vanished. The Elephant wanted no confusion. Hettie was not one of his. Sportcoat understood.
Hettie's funeral was the usual death extravaganza at Five Ends Baptist. Pastor Gee was an hour late to the service because gout had swollen his feet so badly he couldn't get his church shoes on. The funeral director, old white-haired Morris Hurly, whom everybody called Hurly Girly behind his back because, well . . . everybody knew Morris was . . . well, he was cheap and talented and always two hours late with the body, but everybody knew Hettie would look like a million bucks, which she did. The delay gave Pastor Gee a chance to preside over a hank between the ushers about the flower arrangements. No one knew where to put them. Hettie had been the one who always figured out where the flowers went, placing the geraniums in this corner, and the roses near this pew, and the azaleas by the stained glass window to comfort this or that family. But today Hettie was the guest of honor, which meant the flowers were scattered helter-skelter, just where the deliverymen dropped them, so it took Sister Gee, stepping in as usual, to figure that out. Meanwhile Sister Bibb, the voluptuous church organist, who at fifty-five years old was thick bodied, smooth and brown as a chocolate candy bar, arrived in terrible shape. She was coming off her once-a-year sin jamboree, an all-night, two-fisted, booze-guzzling, swig-faced affair of delicious tongue-in-groove-licking and love-smacking with her sometimes boyfriend, Hot Sausage, until Sausage withdrew from the festivities for lack of endurance. "Sister Bibb," he once complained to Sportcoat, "is a grinder, and I don't mean organ." She arrived with a pounding headache and a sore shoulder from some kind of tugging from last night's howling bliss. She sat at her organ in a stupor, her head resting on the keys, as the congregation wandered in. After a few minutes she left the sanctuary and headed for the basement ladies' room, hoping it was empty. But she stumbled down the stairs on the way and twisted her ankle badly. She suffered the injury without blasphemy or complaint, vomited last night's revelry into the toilet of the empty bathroom, refreshed her lipstick and checked her hair, then returned to the sanctuary, where she played the whole service with her ankle swollen to the size of a cantaloupe. She limped back to her apartment afterward, furious and repentant, spitting venom at Hot Sausage, who had gotten his breath back from the previous night's tumble and now wanted more. He followed her home like a puppy, lingering half a block behind her, crouching behind the mulberry bushes that lined the projects' walkways. Every time Sister Bibb looked over her shoulder and saw Hot Sausage's porkpie hat protruding over the bushes, she flew into a rage.
"Git gone, varmint," she snapped. "I'm done merryin' with you!"
Sportcoat, however, arrived at the church in great shape, having spent the previous night celebrating Hettie's life with his buddy Rufus Harley, who was from his hometown and was his second-best friend in Brooklyn after Hot Sausage. Rufus was janitor at the nearby Watch Houses just a few blocks off, and while he and Hot Sausage didn't get along-Rufus was from South Carolina, while Sausage hailed from Alabama-Rufus made a special blend of white lightning known as King Kong that everyone, even Hot Sausage, enjoyed.
Sportcoat didn't like the name of Rufus's specialty and over the years had proposed several names for it. "You could sell this stuff like hoecakes if it weren't named after a gorilla," he said once. "Why not call it Nellie's Nightcap, or Gideon's Sauce?" But Rufus always scoffed at the notions. "I used to call it Sonny Liston," he said, referring to the feared Negro heavyweight champ whose hammer-like fists knocked opponents out cold, "till Muhammad Ali come along." Sportcoat had to agree that by whatever name, Rufus's white lightning was the best in Brooklyn.
The night had been long and merry with talk of their hometown of Possum Point, and the next morning Sportcoat was in fine shape, seated in the first pew of Five Ends Baptist, smiling as the ladies in white fussed over him and the two best singers in the choir got into a fight over the church's sole microphone. Church fights are normally hushed, hissy affairs, full of quiet backstabbing, intrigue, and whispered gossip about bad rice and beans. But this spat was public, the best kind. The two choir members involved, Nanette and Sweet Corn, known as the Cousins, were both thirty-three, beautiful, and wonderful singers. They had been raised as sisters, still lived together, and had recently had a terrible spat about a worthless young man from the projects named Pudding. The results were fantastic. The two took their rage at each other out on the music, each trying to outdo the other, hollering with glorious savagery about the coming redemption of our mighty King and Savior, Jesus the Christ of Nazareth.
Reverend Gee, inspired by the sight of the Cousins' lovely breasts swelling beneath their robes as they roared, followed with a thunderous eulogy to make up for his joke about Hettie when she was already dead in the harbor, which made the whole thing the best home-going service Five Ends Baptist had seen in years. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
James McBride --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
James McBride is an accomplished musician and author of the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, the #1 bestselling American classic The Color of Water, and the bestsellers Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna. He is also the author of Kill 'Em and Leave, a James Brown biography. A recipient of the National Humanities Medal in 2016, McBride is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. --This text refers to the paperback edition.
ASIN  :  B07TG6YSNQ
Publisher  :  Riverhead Books (March 3, 2020)
Publication date  :  March 3, 2020
Best Sellers Rank: #6,244 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
#7 in Black & African American Historical Fiction (Kindle Store)
#21 in Black & African American Literary Fiction
#22 in Black & African American Historical Fiction (Books)
James McBride is the author of the award-winning New York Times bestseller, The Color of Water. A former reporter for The Washington Post and People magazine, McBride holds a Masters degree in journalism from Columbia University and a B.A. from Oberlin College.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Made Me Forget the Coronavirus
I read the last 200 pages of this book on the day my state got really serious about the coronavirus. It took me out of my constricted world and deep into the Deacon's incredibly rich world. If I could trust my aging memory better, I would say that this is the best book I have ever read.
5.0 out of 5 stars This book is a tour de force
I will not recount the plot of this book because most reviews have already done so. This book is a bittersweet elegy celebrating a New York and time that no longer exists. It is filled with humor, sadness and social commentary.The story finds its footing early and moves along well, becoming increasingly engrossing as it progressed. This is a rewarding read filled with vivid images and human truths. Daniel S
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Power of Community
It is September of 1969 and the world is changing at a rapid pace. A man has just walked on the moon, Woodstock has rewritten music history, and the New York Mets are about to win the World Series. But for the residents of Cause Houses, a housing project near the abandoned docks of Brooklyn, the changes are of a much more threatening nature. The amount of drugs in their midst, with the attendant participation of organized crime, has recently exploded, replacing the more petty forms of graft and corruption the neighborhood has tolerated for decades. So, when an elderly drunk known to all as Sportcoat shoots a young drug dealer who he used to coach in baseball and teach in Sunday School, it sets in motion a dizzying array of actions and events, the repercussions of which permanently transform the lives of those living around Cause and the Five Ends Baptist church.
In Deacon King Kong, James McBride weaves this amazing story with all the humor, wisdom, and panache that anyone who has read his equally engaging The Good Lord Bird would expect. Taking off from Sportcoat's singular act of defiance—which he was too drunk on King Kong, his homebrewed libation of choice, to even remember—the author expands rapidly to describe the many likely and unlikely ties that bind together the people belonging to this multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-religion, and multi-generational community. And, to be sure, this tale is nothing if not a celebration of community, taking both the blessings and the warts in the balance. The people of Cause Houses cannot survive without each other—although they certainly would like to try from time to time—and McBride brings out the essential humanity of the collective lives they lead and the secrets they keep for one another.
I really liked this book, which was a moving and satisfying reading experience from beginning to end. With Sportcoat (aka Deacon King Kong, for his two most prominent passions), the author has created an unforgettable protagonist for the ages. In fact, McBride does a wonderful job fleshing out all of the many, many characters—Hot Sausage, Sister Gee, The Elephant, Deems, Hettie, and Officer Potts, to name but a very few—that populate this sprawling patchwork of a story. This is a novel that is frequently funny, sometimes grim, occasionally thoughtful and philosophical, but never dull. Above all else, it is a deeply compassionate look at a group of people who never lose faith in themselves or each other, despite facing some very long odds. I can recommend this book without the slightest hesitation.
2.0 out of 5 stars Major let down!
I was excited to read a book by such an accomplished award winning writer. I was disappointed in the disjointed, fragmented and tangential organization of the novel. Each chapter does not feed itself to the next, its as if they stand alone as short stories forced to be in the same book because the characters are related. Very taxing and tedious to read and make some sense of what is happening on the page. There are many moments where the author rambles on and on, with a series of over 15 commas in a single sentence you feel will never end.
He also does a major disservice to minority groups by presenting them with highly stereotypical language and features (for example African American neighborhood gossip girl named "BumBum") and a man nicknamed "Hatian sensation" with his voodoo dolls.
He also creates a world where all women are victims of circumstance and born to experience pain and displeasure with life (just by virtue of their sex). Its difficult to pretend that all women are miserable and men are here to save them.
The patterns of misogyny and inflated racial tension are indebted in the book. We are supposed to forgive the author because he himself is biracial, but appears solely "Black" and grew up in the projects . The racial stereotypes serve to give the audience cheap laughs, yet the question is who is he writing for? Instead these stereotypes produce anger for readers of these races as they are exaggerations and arbitrary at best.
You imagine there will be an enlightening ending worthy of your time and effort navigating through torturous prose, but are left destroyed on your couch reaching for whiskey. It is not a moment of defeat yet of victory for you never have to read from this book again!
4.0 out of 5 stars Glad I came back to it
I actually quit reading this book after about 30% as I was just so bored with it. Even though it had given me a few laughs, it just wasn't going anywhere. I even wrote a review in this space expressing my disappointment.
A couple of readers reacting to my review strongly encouraged me to keep going, as they thought the same thing too early on, but finally found it great after reading the whole thing. So I gave it a few weeks (and read a few more books) and decided to give it another try.
And I am glad I did! Very clever plot lines and interesting characters. Very funny in parts, also quite poignant in parts.
So I recommend you try it, and keep going if you think it's not going anywhere for a while!
Chris Bowers
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful
I loved this book. The settings and characters in the book are people I'll never meet and places I'll never go, but James McBride made them real for me. I learned a lot, and I was entertained. What else can you ask for?
carole b
5.0 out of 5 stars The life and death of Deacon King Kong
I really recommend this book by James Mc Bride,its set in 1969 in an housing project in South Brooklyn,one day very unexpectedly Deacon,also known as old Sportcoat,a seventy one year old local man shoot a nineteen year old drug dealer,Deems Clemens. Every character in the book is kind of related by the fact they all lived locally ,its a rich tapestry of lives,from all ages,its harrowing at times and very moving also.
I really like the fact that Deacon's late wife ,Hettie is present during the all book.
The past like the start of the church and Elefante's dad story are as important as the present story line.
5.0 out of 5 stars A Marvellous Book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 17, 2020
Poignant. Funny. Brilliant. My personal 'Best Read' for 2020. I have no idea of what life in a 1960's housing project in Brooklyn was like but, after reading Deacon King Kong, I am persuaded that it was probably just as James McBride portrays it, so compelling are his characters, tales, events and locations. The book covers some important issues, including class, race, migration and organised crime, but it is never preachy, it always leaves the reader to make up their own mind and brings these topics to life through an amazing cast of utterly believable characters; misfits, salts of the earth, young and old, straight-men and villains, all choosing different paths to make their way through. I loved this book - it made me laugh, it made me cry and it makes me want to time-travel back to Brooklyn in the '60s so I can join in. A marvellous book - thank you Mr McBride.
gerardpeter
5.0 out of 5 stars A Brooklyn Novel
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 6, 2021
This novel was recommended by the New York Times. Once I got to know the characters, I became charmed by their stories. I was sad to reach the end but left with a warm fuzzy feeling.
It is set in Brooklyn in the housing projects where the author was born and brought up. The year is 1969, but Apollo 11 is a very long way off. It is cleverly referenced by the moonflowers growing in the empty lots of Red Hook. And cheese!
The story begins with a shooting, introducing us to the victim, Deems, and the shooter, an eccentric old man, nicknamed Deacon King Kong after his preferred illicit brew. This is only one of several plot lines played out by a wonderful cast of characters, managed beautifully by the author. James MacBride gives the best lines to the old people.
The Cause Houses are grim as heroin moves into an abandoned community. The Italians who came to work the docks are [almost] all gone, and the wharfs are used by smugglers. Heroin is coming in on the tide. Most of the characters bemoan the decline, but the little gospel church, Five Ends Baptist, stands strong and traditional values are held firm by the older female congregants. They have faith and the story offers hope.
There are similarities with Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda, also set in Red Hook, with a diverse cast and a great read.
5.0 out of 5 stars Sensational!
This is Damon Runyon among the black community of Brooklyn in the sixties. The characters are wonderfully drawn, the dialog pithy and perfect, and the mystery gripping. The charming love stories and the happy-ever-after conclusions left a huge smile on my face. A GEM of a book!
5.0 out of 5 stars A real story
I couldn't it this book down. It's so hard to find a true storyteller; one that makes you sit up and pay attention from the first words uttered on that first page. This book is everything I ever crave in a book, characters with heart, wit and humour and a story with twists and turns that you don't want it to end. I loved it and I cannot wait to read more by the fantastic author.
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Canary Wharf | Constance De Jong: Speaking of the River
Constance De Jong: Speaking of the River
Speaking of the River was part of a wider project commissioned by Public Art Development Trust, which linked the River Thames in London with the river Hudson in New York.
De Jong created a gentle, evocative sound-scape using recorded interviews and stories that relate the human experience of both those locations, told by the people for whom the river is a daily presence.
2000 | audio | Canary Riverside (exterior) | Art Map reference: 1
Speaking of the River was sponsored by Canary Wharf Group but was part of a wider project commissioned by Public Art Development Trust, which linked the River Thames in London with the Hudson River in New York.
De Jong created a gentle, evocative sound-scape using recorded interviews and stories that relate the human experience of both these locations, told by people for whom the river is a daily presence. Two audio benches are located 100m apart on the riverside promenade.


Earlier this month, 37 chefs from around the world swapped restaurants--no, lives--in the crazy fun Gelinaz! Chef Shuffle. The most exciting twist? Diners had no idea what to expect (all of the chefs' whereabouts and menus were kept secret).
Now Four Seasons is getting in on the fun across their North American portfolio of luxury properties, with a new series of experimental mystery dinners throughout the summer that kicked off earlier this month. Unlike Gelinaz, guests will know one thing for sure: the property chef will be masterminding each event and leading his or her own kitchen crew. The only other details announced ahead of time will be the evening's theme and a meeting point—the setting and the food are all revealed as the night unfolds.
Among the upcoming (and somewhat cryptic) themes: "Undercover Red, White, and Blue" in St. Louis, "Glamping" in Baltimore, and "A Street-Art Named Four Season" in Miami. And if it's all a bit vague-sounding, here's an example of how a recent dinner played out. For the water-themed pop-up in Denver, guests were taken up to the hotel's rooftop pool terrace, where a raw bar, tequila tasting, and performances by synchronized swimmers set the stage for a multi-course seafood dinner at another undisclosed location.
Want to get in on the fun? The dinners are open to all hotel guests and should be booked in advance—a full schedule and booking instructions can be found here. The series incudes events in cities from Whistler to Orlando and lasts through September.


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2.9 percent of visits to this site come from a search engine, while 12.2% come directly and 84.8% via a hyperlink somewhere on the internet.


The greatest thing about having a blog is the interaction that comes with it, and the greatest joy one can hear in life in general is to know that you've made a difference in someone's life.
When I was in the FA office everyday, I saw that first hand. I would meet students who had been on their own since they were sixteen, who had several children, who made a life for themselves without any help from mom and dad, other family members, or anyone else. I'd met some remarkable people that made me take a look at myself and think "You know, life's not that bad." There were some amazing people that I had the great fortune of helping navigate through the murky waters of FA, and in return they helped me to appreciate everything that I'd taken for granted.
Unfortunately, I don't get to see these students on a regular basis anymore, nor do I have the fortune of being able to directly help these remarkable people as I once did. They were stressful days, I won't lie. I remember being at graduations watching these same students (who I ended up looking up to as inspirations) completely ignore me and instead talk to their teachers and their admissions reps. And I was fine with it. After all, I was the FA person; I was the person who always needed something signed; I was the person who needed to send something in and had to inconvenience them to get the paperwork done; I was the one who more often than not had bad news. Well, at least that's the reputation that FA people have. But I was fine with it, like I said, because I knew that I was helping these students in ways they wouldn't realize yet, if they ever did.
And as I'd stand off to the side at graduations and reminisce on the students that I'd never see again, I may only have one of them talk to me and thank me for helping them. It may have been the student that I'd stayed late for on a night that I didn't have to, putting aside my own personal life for the student who'd no-showed me a couple times before, or it may have been the student that always had their paperwork completed on-time and flawlessly. Either way, that one student would always make up for everything else. People would often ask why someone stays in the FA business since there always seems to be bad news, changing rules, and stress without end. My response is always "for that one student who realizes".
No one seems to go into the FA industry on purpose: it always seems like an accident. After all, who ever hears of a child who says "I want to grow up to work in Financial Aid!" Everyone has their reason for getting into the industry, but I will say this: everyone that seems to get into it seems to last a long time in it. And that one student who says "thank you" is all it takes to continue for another year.


Ideogrammic compound (會意) – two men back to back. Originally meaning "back"; the character 背 (OC *pɯːɡs, *bɯːɡs) refers to the original word.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ba ("to carry (on back), shoulder").
The sense of "north" is derived from "back (of body)": "back" → "to turn the back to; to retreat" → "north".
The ancient Chinese value the southern direction and houses are traditionally oriented along a north-south axis, as evident in the fengshui theory and orientation of buildings in Chinese Neolithic sites. North is the direction the back is oriented to when the person is facing south.
Compare the graphical origin of 南 (OC *nuːm, "south") (Sagart, 1988).
(Min Nan pronunciation audio) "Entry #1395", in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [ Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan ] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
Cognate with mainland Japanese 西 (nishi, "west").


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Police: St. Louis mom turns in 13-year-old son for carjacking pastor at gunpoint
Boone County resident is first person in Missouri to die from coronavirus
As of Wednesday afternoon, Missouri reported 16 cases of coronavirus, including two in St. Louis and four in St. Louis County
Author: Sam Clancy
Published: 3:49 PM CDT March 18, 2020
Updated: 3:49 PM CDT March 18, 2020
BOONE COUNTY, Mo. — A person in Boone County is the first person in the state to die from coronavirus, Missouri Governor Mike Parson said Wednesday afternoon.
That individual was reported positive in Boone County yesterday. It was a travel-related case, a Boone County health official said.
He said the person died in their home, and they found out when family members called 911 to get help. The first responders who went to the home were wearing personal protective equipment and are now quarantined.
As of Wednesday afternoon, the state of Missouri reported 16 cases of coronavirus, including two in St. Louis and four in St. Louis County.
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The announcement comes one day after the first reported death in Illinois, a Chicago-area resident in her 60s who tested positive for the virus earlier this month and had contact with a known COVID-19 case.
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State and local leaders in the Bi-State have made decisions to stop dine-in options at restaurants and to limit crowd sizes in an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19.
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La garde nationale est le corps de gendarmerie nationale (c'est-à-dire une force de police à statut militaire) de la Tunisie. Elle est distincte des forces armées en raison de son appartenance au ministère de l'Intérieur.

Elle sert à la fois de force de défense contre les menaces extérieures et de force de sécurité contre les menaces internes.

Histoire

La garde nationale est créée en 1956 par Taïeb Mehiri, le ministre de l'Intérieur nommé par Habib Bourguiba, et remplace la gendarmerie nationale française qui rentre en France après l'indépendance de la Tunisie. Elle est alors dirigée par Tijani Ktari. Le , la garde devient une force pleinement indépendante chargée de la protection du territoire et des frontières.

La devise du corps est : « La garde nationale pour la patrie ».

Organisation
 Centrale
 Direction général de la garde nationale à El Aouina
 Territoriale
 5 districts
 34 secteurs dont cinq maritimes
 950 postes

Missions
Elle sert à la fois de force de défense contre les menaces extérieures et de force de sécurité contre les menaces internes.

En plus de leur mission de protection de l'intégrité territoriale aux côtés de l'armée nationale, les gardes nationaux sont chargés de la sécurité dans les zones rurales et périurbaines, alors que la police est chargée des zones urbaines, même si elle peut en cas de besoin intervenir avec les forces de police.

Elle dispose en son sein d'une unité d'élite, l'unité spéciale de la garde nationale, d'une unité aérienne, d'une unité maritime et de plusieurs unités spécialisées.

Organismes de formation
 École de la garde nationale de Bir Bouregba ;
 École navale de la garde nationale de Monastir ;
 École de spécialisation de Chebika ;
 École des commandos de Béja ;
 École cynophile de Mornaguia.

Coopération
Membre de l'Association internationale de gendarmeries et forces de police à statut militaire, les gardes nationaux participent aux missions internationales sous mandat de l'Organisation des Nations unies.

Commandants

 2013-2015 : Mounir Ksiksi
 2015-2017 : Lotfi Brahem
 2017-2019 : Chokri Rahali
 2019-2021 : Mohamed Ali Ben Khaled
 2021-2022 : Chokri Riahi
 depuis 2022 : Fadhel Guezguez

Conseil d'honneur
Le conseil d'honneur de la garde nationale émet un avis sur toutes les questions que lui soumet le ministre de l'Intérieur, notamment celles relatives à la réputation et l'honneur du corps et son moral. Il est en outre compétent en matière de recrutement, de titularisation, d'avancement et de discipline pour tous les agents.

Présidé par le commandant de la garde nationale ou par son représentant qu'il désigne à cet effet, soit l'inspecteur général soit l'un des directeurs généraux des structures de la direction générale, le conseil se compose de l'inspecteur général, des directeurs généraux, du directeur des études et de la planification stratégique et de la coopération internationale, du directeur de renseignements et de l'enquête et du directeur des ressources humaines ou de leurs représentants en qualité de membres. Les représentants de l'inspecteur général et des directeurs généraux doivent remplir la fonction de directeur d'administration centrale et les représentants des directeurs celle de sous-directeur d'administration centrale ; ces représentants sont désignés par le ministre de l'Intérieur sur proposition du commandant de la garde nationale.

Se joignent au conseil d'honneur, lorsqu'il siège en tant que conseil d'avancement ou de discipline, deux agents appartenant au même cadre que l'agent concerné, qui sont ainsi que leurs deux suppléants choisis par tirage au sort parmi les agents titulaires inscrits sur des listes annuelles établies par le directeur général des services communs. L'administration générale des services communs est chargée des fonctions du secrétariat du conseil.

Le conseil d'honneur se réunit valablement avec la présence de la moitié de ses membres au moins et celle des deux représentants des agents lorsqu'il siège en tant que conseil d'avancement ou de discipline, sur convocation de son président, à charge de siéger en tant que conseil d'avancement au moins une fois par an. Il émet son avis à la majorité des voix, et en cas de parité, celle du président est prépondérante.

Grades

Références

Tunisie
Défense et sécurité en Tunisie
Gardes-frontières
Tunisie

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LIU has, in the undergraduate studies, a large range of degree programs to choose from. The admission process is rather easy. All you need are the below documents.
Any applicant will be exempted from the English placement exam if a score of 76 or above on the Internet Based TOFEL-International (IBT) was achieved or if the applicant scores 85 in the University English Placement Test. Transfer students may be exempted from an exam according to the students' transcript in the previous university.
LIU has a large range of degrees to choose from in the undergraduate studies.


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Q: How to remove the spaces besides hiphen in mysql? I am getting the image names from mysql database. I have my images containing two to three words with png extension. Also the names contains hiphen symbol. First I want to remove the
space to the left and right of the hiphen symbol. Secondly, I want to replace the space between two words with underscore symbol. How can I write the query for this?
For second one:
UPDATE table_name set colname=replace(colname, ' ', '')
Please help me with the query for first task...
Thanks in advance

A: Sounds like you could use a few REPLACE
SELECT
  REPLACE(
    REPLACE(
      REPLACE(
        name,
        ' -',
        '-'
      ),
      '- ',
      '-'
    ),
    ' ',
    '_'
  ) as new_name

A: It sounds like you'e using strings to hold structured data, which is not an efficient use of a relational database management system like MySQL: you would be better to alter your schema so that each discrete data unit is in its own column (and you can then rebuild your desired strings on retrieving the data from the database).
However, in answer to your specific questions, it isn't clear exactly what you want:

*

*If you want to remove at most one space on either side of multiple hyphens, then Puggan Se's answer is the one for you.

*If you want to remove exactly one space on either side of multiple hyphens, then the same answer can be simplified a tad:
REPLACE(REPLACE(colname, ' - ', '-'), ' ', '_')

*If you want to remove multiple spaces on either side of a single hyphen, you would be better to split the string using MySQL's SUBSTRING_INDEX() function and then trim the results:
REPLACE(CONCAT(
  RTRIM(SUBSTRING_INDEX(colname, '-',  1)),
  '-',
  LTRIM(SUBSTRING_INDEX(colname, '-', -1))
), ' ', '_')

*If you want to remove multiple spaces on either side of multiple hyphens, you will need to create a function that loops over your string:
DELIMITER ;;

CREATE FUNCTION trim_delim (
    IN input TEXT
  , IN delim CHAR(1)
)
RETURNS TEXT
DETERMINISTIC
BEGIN
  DECLARE i      INT DEFAULT 1 ;
  DECLARE result TEXT;

  WHILE CHAR_LENGTH(input) > 0 AND cur_position > 0 DO
    SET i      := INSTR(input, delim);

    SET result := CONCAT(
      IF(CHAR_LENGTH(result) > 0, CONCAT(result, delim), ''),
      IF(i, RTRIM(LEFT(input, i - 1)), input)
    );

    SET input  := LTRIM(SUBSTRING(input, i + 1));
  END WHILE;

  RETURN result;
END;;

DELIMITER ;

You could then use this function thus:
REPLACE(trim_delim(colname, '-'), ' ', '_')

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Find your way to fun with this creative sign made using Mod Podge and a cheerful Plaid Wood Surface.
Cut out words from scrapbook paper, or if you can't find any papers with words, print summer words onto a beachy print and then have it photocopied.
Find summer icons and mod podge them onto signs.
Add a topcoat once dried.


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Work until August to pay the bills
Updated: 06:39 EST, 5 December 2005
THE average family has to work until August 18 just to pay the bills. It is not until this date that the mountain of bills from mortgages and car insurance to mobile phone bills and gym subscriptions are finally paid off for the year.
This means that families work for nearly three-quarters of the year just to keep the bailiffs from the door, according to research from the Internet bank Egg.
The research, which involved dissecting more than 1,000 people's annual expenditure, looked at exactly what they spent and what they earned.
It found that the average household in Britain has an annual income of £23,436 after tax - but £14,868 goes on paying the bills. The report's conclusion is that, if you add up all household expenses, it swallows up about 33 weeks' take-home pay.
Each year, the biggest hit to a family's purse strings comes from the 'boring' bills such as mortgages, council tax, home insurance and electricity bills. Just to pay what Egg calls these 'regular household costs' takes until 17 June each year.
It then takes a further two months to pay for financial commitments such as loan repayments, pension and other savings and investments and 'lifestyle' expenses such as mobile phone bills and gym membership. This means that there are only 19 weeks from 18 August until New Year's Eve when take-home pay can be spent on something more exciting than renewing the car insurance.
To make matters worse, the researchers did not include food, alcohol or clothes bills into their calculations. If they had, this would mean that there would be only a few weeks at the end of the year when money could be spent on holidays and other luxuries.
Egg's chief financial officer Mark Nancarrow said: 'The fact that we have to work until mid-June just to keep the roof over our heads and don't start earning our spending money until August will shock many people.'
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In the November 2009 issue of American Artist, we featured artist John Evans, whose evocative and compelling oil paintings emerge from a long process of struggle, overpainting, layering, sanding, and soul-searching. Here, we feature additional images from the artist we were unable to fit in the print magazine.
2008, oil, 13 x 22.
2008, oil, 72 x 60.
2008, oil, 60 x 48.
2008, oil, 48 x 60.
2008, oil, 20 x 24.
I love the peaceful quality you achieve with your paintings. Looking at them brings me a feeling of deep serenity. I especially like "Beach with Moon and Heavens" which has an alomost spiritual quality. Beautiful work!
I think the careful design, pre-planning and hours or improvised exicution of these paintings results in such a calming and planned for effect. Regrets I do not have the energy for pre-planning and need to get right to work – but how I admire and am in awe of those who can. Beautiful.
what impresses me most is the loose quality, almost like watercolor, and the ability to utilize space. these are spectacular.
Stunningly designed. I am in awe of both your use of color and your compositions.
I hop products my Wall sculpture art (or sell it).


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Happy National Sons Day (USA): Top Wishes, Status & Greetings – Every year on 28 September Happy National Sons Day and National Son Day are celebrated. The Best Inspirational National Sons Day Quotes 2023! This Year the Peoples celebrate this Day 28 September 2023. It is the most popular Festival in the United States and all over the world. Here talk about the all necessary information Happy When is National Sons Day 2023? Happy Sons Day 2022 Wishes, Status & Messages, Sons Day Wishes 2023, Sons Day Wishes Messages, Quotes, Text, and more. This day is Festival Celebrate day in the United States.
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One of the most viral videos of 2016! At 95 million views, this zany song and video was hailed as the "Gangnam Style" of the year. Singer-songwriter "pico Taro" from Chiba of the Furusaka University demon king one push.
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Q: Guard does not exit function This might be a very stupid question but bear with me:
To my understanding and after reading the documentation and various examples on other websites, a guard statement checks a bool. If it's true, the current scope continued in execution. If not, it's else clause is executed. Here one should use a return statement to exit the current scope. However this does not work for me.
Basically: Why does return not exit out of this function?
class Person {

    var name: String

    init (name: String) {
        self.name = name
    }

    func reverseNameUnlessItsHans() {
        guard name == "Hans" else { //should exit the scope...
            print("It's Hans")
            return
        }
        self.name = String(name.characters.reversed()) //...yet this is executed
    }
}

var myPerson = Person(name: "Hans")
myPerson.reverseNameUnlessItsHans()
print(myPerson.name) //prints "snaH"

A: You are guarding AGAINST the case where name == "Hans"
Change your reverse to be inside the guard, and the print should replace the reverse


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We are facing a global food crisis: the percentage of people with malnutrition are increasing, along with devastating results for the social-ecological environments, showing the unsustainability of the currently dominant food systems. The complex set of food-related problems requires multidimensional perspectives, using inter- and transdisciplinary methodologies, to address social-ecological aspects over a mere focus on productivity. This article introduces a hands-on Food Sustainability Assessment Framework (FoodSAF) that allows non-academic actors to identify pathways for making food systems more sustainable through collective transformations in a "spiral of change". The emphasis is on making the concept of "food sustainability" operational and applicable, by exploring transdisciplinary methodologies, encourage genuine participation of actors at the local level, and elevate their solutions in the direction of decision-making spaces, where policy makers have a key role in supporting change. The results provide evidence-based scientific knowledge for the promotion of innovation strategies and policy options that improve the sustainability of food systems with the specific aim of strengthening local food systems in a long-term process to co-create transformations.
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The Hoofers Club Englewood is a chair aerobic tap dance program created by Chicago Southsider, Brenda Woods. Woods parents were both professional tap dancers and Woods, who has more than 40 years of tap dancing experience, says, "I was born tapping."
The Hoofers Club meets at Hamilton Park every Thursday at 10:00am.
The name, The Hoofers Club Englewood Program, came from the famous Hoofer Club in Harlem from the 1930's, and the inspiration came from seeing famous tap dance performer Ernest Brownie Brown in action. The seniors receive training from Woods, who has created a positive aging program for seniors between the ages of 55-85.
The program is free! The classes are Thursday mornings from 10:00 am -11:00 am at Hamilton Park. Beginners, intermediates and the advanced are welcome to join the club. Members are also treated to a music component where they learn about different genres such as jazz, gospel, r&b, reggae and hip hop. These members are not just limited to chair tap dance; they also do sing along, karaoke and "name that tune."
Hoofers South, the first club tap club in the area, and Hoofers Club Englewood pair together for a grand performance every November. These dancing seniors also get to showcase their talent to the public by performing throughout the city. They have performed for organizations such as the Najwa Student Council, Relay for Life, an event hosted by The American Cancer Society and the Senior Holistic Day Care.
Interested in joining? Contact Brenda Woods at 773-902-7391 or Sandra Thomas Park Supervisor 312-747-6174 or 312-747-6174.
The Hoofers Club Englewood Program is supported by the Chicago Park District, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Englewood Community Cultural Planning Council.


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Adelaide, Dec 2: England snared the prized wicket of their nemesis Steve Smith as Australia toiled under the lights in a feisty opening day of the first-ever day-night Ashes Test here today.
"It was a pretty nice one, obviously," Overton said of his dismissal of Smith.
"He's one of the best players in the world to get that one to start with and hopefully I can carry on with that tomorrow."
"We're pretty happy. We felt like we bowled pretty well all day," Overton said.
"We'll come back tomorrow with the new ball and hopefully get a couple of early ones and be quite on top."
At one stage James Anderson stood just off the pitch and close to Smith at the non-striker's end as the pair exchanged barbs and needed umpire Aleem Dar to step between the two to calm tensions.
"I'm not sure what was said, I was on the boundary, but obviously they said a few things and it looked like he got under his skin," Overton said of the exchanges with Smith.
"But he still got 40, so he played pretty well. It's nice to get him in the end."
"I wouldn't say we're streets ahead but I'd say we're pretty happy with four for 200 at the end of the day," Khawaja said.
"It's going to be important how we bat tomorrow.
Tomorrow's going to be an important day for us."
Ashes holders England cannot afford another defeat after their first Test mauling at the Gabba.


A few months ago, I went to an anti-testing demonstration at Comsewogue High School. One of the speakers was gubernatorial hopeful Rob Astorino. Astorino spoke forcefully against Common Core, to the overwhelming approval of the crowd. Cuomo was awful. He was dancing around the truth. He supported this awful testing program. Who needs someone like Andrew Cuomo?
And no one really disagreed. Only while Astorino was ridiculing Cuomo for dancing around the issues, he somehow forgot that he himself opposed a woman's right to choose. His enthusiastic support for charter schools somehow never made its way into his speech that day.
It also slipped his mind that he opposed gay marriage. That was fortunate, because many in the crowd could have suffered a distinct slip in enthusiasm had they known that. In fact, it's pretty well-known that the Tea Party shares pretty much the same sentiments, and they wouldn't be likely to make much headway in NY without wearing a fairly convincing mask.
But there's even more reason to be wary of the slippery GOP candidate. Astorino opposes the Triborough Amendment, and wrote an op-ed in the NY Post explaining why. Astorino, like many tabloid writers, maintains that collectively bargained step increases are in fact raises, and wants an end to them while contracts are being negotiated. He claims working people have zero incentive to come to the bargaining table. Ask UFT teachers who waited over five years for a raise and then voted for delays and givebacks whether or not that's so.
He further claims having municipalities hold up the terms they've negotiated is a drag on the economy. Astorino also rails against retroactive increases. If working people have to wait years to get a contract, too bad for them. Astorino is worried about increasing health care costs. Why should cities have to absorb them simply because they can't be bothered negotiating with unions?
If you read the whole piece, despite Astorino's absurd claims he isn't anti-union (no doubt the zillionaires who financed Vergara weren't either), he wants government to hold all the cards in negotiations. In fact, he wants government to have zero incentive to negotiate with public sector unions. Why should they, really, when they could simply freeze wages forever and continue to expand deductions for health care costs? Eventually unions would owe municipalities for the privilege of coming to work, and we could revive that whole, "owe my soul to the company store" thing.
So be careful what you wish for when saying, "anybody but Cuomo." Would Cuomo dump the Triborough Amendment if he could? Absolutely. The only thing I can say in Cuomo's favor is that he's at least obliged to pretend to be a Democrat now and then.


Anna is a skilled and dedicated advocate for individuals and groups of people who have been injured, deprived of earned wages or otherwise mistreated by employers who place profits over compliance with the law.
Anna joined Stephan Zouras, LLP as an Associate Attorney in 2018. As a member of the Stephan Zouras legal team, Anna has worked tirelessly on an array of individual and class action lawsuits involving federal, state and local employment and consumer laws. She has experience working on cases involving unpaid wages, employee misclassification, unlawful credit checks, consumer fraud, retaliatory discharge, defamation, personal injury, and wrongful death. Anna makes it a priority to understand the goals and the personal experiences of her clients and stays abreast of the everchanging statutory developments, court opinions, and industry trends to better serve her clients' needs.
Anna earned her Juris Doctor from Chicago-Kent College of Law. While in law school, Anna was named to the Dean's List, was elected President of the Moot Court Honor Society, and served as a Teaching Assistant for Legal Writing I & II classes. She represented the school in the National Cultural Heritage Law and the National Health Care Law moot court competitions, earning team recognition as a semi-finalist and individual recognition as the 5th best oral advocate out of a field of more than 70 speakers. In recognition for her outstanding service to her law school and the Chicago legal community, Anna was one of only twelve graduating students inducted into the Chicago-Kent Bar & Gavel Society.
Anna earned her undergraduate degree from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she double-majored in Writing Intensive English and Politics in Law. She was raised in the south suburbs of Chicago.
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In this article, Philip Authier from the Montreal Gazette brushes a portrait of the situation leading up to formal complaints received by the Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages questioning the possible violation of the Official Languages Act by prime minister Justin Trudeau. During a town hall meeting in Sherbrooke, Trudeau answered English questions asked by Eastern Townships citizens in French only, a behaviour he defended the following day during a press conference at Bishop's University.
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