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I have a couple sets of Ceriani shock absorbers that are period correct for many Italian motorcycles including my Laverda 750 SF1 and Benelli 650 Tornado to name a few. A couple pairs of these vintage shocks have suffered decades of corrosion to the hard chrome plates shafts. I tried several hard chrome plating shops in town but unfortunately these shops are not set up tp hard chrome the tiny shock absorber shafts, One shop quoted me $200 to set up their tooling and at least $100 to plate each shaft, Yikes!!
A shop foreman suggested I make new stainless steel shafts to match the originals, brilliant!
I was lucky to find 7/16" hard stainless steel rod and cut new sections to length and milled the ends and threaded the tips to match the originals.
It took a couple hours of machining, welding and painting but saved $100's!
Location: South Is. of Oz.
I knew a winter project would come along sooner or later. Nice work!
Very, very cool. Thanks for posting.
Nice work - great ideas there. Thanks!
The new stainless shafts are a tiny bit wider than the original so I had to ream out the centre of the cast slider a few thou, it's the part that moves with the shock action.
Now the Benneli rear end sits like it should and the bike no longer wobbles on the centre stand.
Maybe so, but I'll bet it would be a bear to turn down and thread..
Good tip Huub, I may look for that for a pair of Ikons I have in need of new shafts. Do you know if it is available in metric diameters?
For the Ikon's, maybe try Ikon for new shafts rather than making them.
The only thing I *know* about in the states is Thompson Shafting, used with linear bearings. Good luck turning and threading that..


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Understanding Qualified Distributions
Melissa Phipps
Melissa Phipps is a retirement planning and investing expert who has covered those topics for more than 20 years as a writer, editor, and author. Her writing has appeared in Worth, Financial Planning, Financial Advisor, The American Lawyer, Institutional Investor, and many other publications.
Fact checked by David Rubin
What Are Qualified Distributions?
Early 401(k) Withdrawal Rules
Borrowing From a 401(k)
Early IRA Withdrawal Rules
Roth 401(k) and Roth IRA Withdrawal Rules
Required Minimum Distributions
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The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has rules for when you may take distributions from a 401(k) plan or an individual retirement account (IRA). It also has rules for when you must do so. You can face tax penalties of 10% to 50% if you don't follow these rules. They can depend on the type of account you want to withdraw from.
A qualified distribution is a withdrawal from a qualified retirement plan, such as a 401(k), that is tax- and penalty-free.
For a traditional 401(k) or IRA, you must be 59 1/2 before you take distributions, or you'll face a 10% penalty in addition to income taxes.
For a Roth 401(k) or Roth IRA, you can withdraw your contributions at any time, since they were made with post-tax dollars.
You must begin taking required minimum distributions (RMDs) from your traditional IRA account when you reach age 72 or face a 50% penalty on the amount you should have taken.
Qualified distributions are those that can be taken made tax-free and penalty-free. They're taken after age 59 1/2 or under some other allowed circumstances.
There's no penalty for withdrawing your money after you reach age 59 1/2, but you'll pay income tax on the money you take out if you've invested in a traditional pre-tax 401(k) or a traditional IRA with untaxed dollars. You took a tax deduction at the time you made the contributions.
Roth IRAs and Roth 401(k) contributions are made with after-tax dollars. These distributions aren't taxed when you take withdrawals, but you must have owned the Roth account for five years or longer.
It's best to begin taking money from tax-deferred accounts—those for which you claimed tax deductions—after you retire. You might be in a lower tax bracket at that time, because you'll no longer be earning income from working.
Early withdrawals are those that are taken from a 401(k) before you reach age 59 1/2. They're taxed as ordinary income. They're also subject to an extra 10% penalty, but there are some exemptions to this rule. You can take the money penalty-free if you're totally and permanently disabled, if you lose your job when you're at least age 55, or under the terms of a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO).
You can also use 401(k) money to pay for medical expenses that exceed 7.5% of your modified adjusted gross income (MAGI), as long as your insurer doesn't cover them. In other words, they came out of your own pocket.
Not only will you lose a good chunk of your savings to taxes when you make an early withdrawal, but you'll also miss out on the growth that would have been made on the withdrawn amount.
Some 401(k) plans allow for hardship distributions, but these often must be approved by your employer. They have to be made for purposes of meeting a significant, immediate need. They also can be no more than the amount necessary to meet that need.
A 401(k) loan can be a better option than an early distribution if your employer allows it. There's no credit check with this type of loan. Interest rates tend to be lower than with other types of loans as well, but fees can apply. You must pay yourself back with interest, and you must do so within five years—or almost right away if you leave your job.
You'll lose one of the main benefits of the 401(k) if you take a loan, because you must pay yourself back with after-tax money. You'll also miss out on what could be crucial months or years of earnings on that money.
Another major downside is that you might have to pay the loan back within 90 days if you leave your job for any reason. Your loan balance would be treated as taxable income in that year if you don't. That could push you into a higher tax bracket, and you might be hit with that 10% early withdrawal penalty as well.
Early withdrawals from traditional IRAs are also subject to income taxes and the 10% penalty. They have many of the same exceptions to the penalty as 401(k)s, but there are a few differences.
You can withdraw early if you use the money to pay for certain higher education expenses, health insurance premiums that you have to pay while you're not employed, or a first-time home purchase.
IRAs don't require a QDRO to divide the account after a divorce, but they're subject to certain rules all the same.
Roth accounts are funded with after-tax dollars, so taking money from them isn't treated the same as taking it from regular IRAs and 401(k)s. Distributions are tax-free, provided that you're at least age 59 1/2 and you've held the Roth account for at least five years. The age rule doesn't apply if the account owner is disabled or dies.
There's still a 10% tax penalty for taking money early, but that's only on earnings. You can withdraw the amount of your original contributions tax-free before age 59 1/2, because you've already paid tax on that money.
You must begin taking required minimum distributions (RMDs) from your traditional IRA account when you reach age 72. The IRS will penalize you 50% of the amount you should have taken out if you don't.
The must-start age for RMDs was 70 1/2 prior to the passage of the SECURE Act of 2019. The age is now 72 for everyone born after June 30, 1949.
The IRS uses life expectancy tables to determine how much you must take out each year to avoid this 50% hit. But your 401(k) can remain intact as long as you're still working, and Roth IRA owners don't have to take RMDs at any time.
How do you report a 401(k) withdrawal on a tax return?
Your plan custodian will send you a Form 1099-R, which will include the details you need to report on your tax form. If your withdrawal was an early withdrawal, you might need to complete Form 5329, which helps you calculate the tax on early distributions. If you only owe the additional 10% tax on the full amount of an early withdrawal, you may be able to report it directly on your Form 1040 Schedule 2.
What qualifies for a hardship withdrawal from a 401(k)?
If your 401(k) plan allows hardship distributions, they can only be made if the distribution is due to a heavy and immediate financial need. The distribution is also limited to the amount necessary to meet that need. Immediate financial needs include medical care expenses, costs related to buying a home, tuition and fees for higher education, payments to prevent eviction or foreclosure, funeral expenses, and certain expenses for repairing a home. You may need to document the expense so the plan knows it only distributed the amount necessary to cover the need.
IRS. "Retirement Topics - Exceptions to Tax on Early Distributions."
IRS. "Topic No. 558 Additional Tax on Early Distributions From Retirement Plans Other Than IRAs."
IRS. "Retirement Topics - Hardship Distributions."
IRS. "Retirement Topics - Plan Loans."
IRS. "Considering a Loan From Your 401(k) Plan?"
FINRA. "401(k) Loans, Hardship Withdrawals and Other Important Considerations."
IRS. "Topic No. 557 Additional Tax on Early Distributions From Traditional and Roth IRAs."
IRS. "Retirement Topics — Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs)."
IRS. "Tax Time Guide: IRS Reminds Taxpayers of Recent Changes to Retirement Plans."
IRS. "Retirement Plan and IRA Required Minimum Distributions FAQs."
IRS. "Instructions for Form 5329 (2022)."
Understanding Your 401(k) Retirement Plan
The Best 401(k) Allocation Approaches for Low-Effort Investing
Roth IRA vs. After-Tax 401(k) Contributions: What's the Difference?
What Is a 401(k) Match?
401(k) Investing: Maximize Your Retirement Plan
Best 401(k) Funds
Can I Take Money From My 401(k) Before I Retire?
What to Know Before Taking a 401(k) Hardship Withdrawal
Understanding the 401(k) Age 55 Rule
What to Know Before Cashing Out Your 401(k)
The Pros and Cons of Borrowing From Your 401(k)
Your Guide To Taking Money Out of a 401(k)
What You Need to Know About 401(k) Loans Before You Take One
Borrowing From Your 401(k) to Buy a House
401(k) Contribution Limits for 2022 and 2023
How To Avoid Paying an Unnecessary 401(k) Penalty
If My Company Closes, What Happens to My 401(k)?
Think Twice Before Deciding What To Do With an Old 401(k)
How Does a Pre-Tax 401(k) Work?
What Happens to a 401(k) When You Die?
Inherited 401(k): Options and Rules You Must Follow
When Can I Withdraw Funds From My 401(k) Without Penalties?
Top 4 Benefits of a Roth IRA
Roth IRA Required Minimum Distributions (RMD)
How Designated Roth or Roth 401(k) Plans Work
What Is an IRA?
Why You Might Want to Fund an HSA vs. an IRA

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On the Harden Trade
January 13, 2021 January 13, 2021 by Speed on the Beat
We've got a lot of shit to deal with in the coming days and weeks. Today, I'd like to take a break and talk sports (as I did with the Lamar Jackson post). I think James Harden is a great ballplayer. That's without question. I think he, like Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, Kawhi Leonard and, yes, LeBron James, changed the game.
I also think James Harden sometimes thinks his farts smell like roses.
That's probably some outside-looking-in sort of shit. I don't know Harden aside from what I see. I don't claim to. However, what Harden's done over the last few months? It stinks of self-importance and a general lack of decorum. Look, I get it. Top-tier ballers are going to be in their own heads. It's why people love them (that and their social justice initiatives–even if we don't agree with them). Between the constant throwing his teammates under the bus and his prima donna attitude, Harden's act has begun to rub me the wrong way.
I couldn't care less if he thought the Blue Lives Matter mask was cool. Though, even without internet, you've got to be at least somewhat aware of the whole Blue Lives Matter counter to Black Lives Matter. We're not here to damn that. We're not even here to talk about what he's done in the community and what he meant to Houston during his tenure there.
We're here to talk sports and sports only (this time).
While Harden is a great singular player, he struggles with sharing the ball at times. We've seen that in Houston, where he damn near tried to always carry the team on his back–even though he had a valuable supporting cast. Though he's always a threat for a triple-double, he's always more comfortable with the ball in his hands (for better or wose). We even saw that at times during his tenure in OKC. That said, Harden, when he doesn't give a damn, he wears it on his face terribly. He lets it be known through lackadaisical play (such as his 2020-2021 so far). He lets it be known through his actions. And he lets it be known like he did with the whole "this team doesn't want to win in the first place. Fuck them kids" mindset he displayed in his last few months in Houston.
Al of that came to a head over the last 24 hours with the Rockets supporting cast saying enough is enough.
So what did the Rockets do? They did what they could. They stockpiled draft picks and eventually picked up Victor Oladipo in a mega-trade involving the Pacers, Nets and Cavs. Ultimately, I think Houston wins the deal because of the draft picks.
Meanwhile, the Nets have a Big Three. But that Big Three could implode at any minute. You put Harden's ego in there with Durant's drive and Kyrie Irving's demeanor? I don't see that being all that good for anyone, long-term. Now, Harden and Durant coexisted years ago in OKC. That was years ago, when Harden was coming off the bench. Now that Harden's tasted being the alpha dog, it seems kind of hard to believe he's going to kowtow to Kevin Durant or Kyrie Irving in any way. That's not to say it won't happen; we all thought that Durant wouldn't handle being the A-1 well in Golden State and they won two championships together. Sometimes, people shift around and fit in where they need to in order to win. LeBron played second banana to AD last season, Bron hyperfans be damned. There were times that Steph Curry was the third option behind KD and Klay. Shaq and Kobe made each other better, even though they weren't as compatible with each other. Hell, Harden isn't as much of a ballhog as his stats suggest. His assists go crazy when they need to.
I just don't know if I see a Big Three of Harden, Durant and Irving making as much noise as NBA Twitter thinks they can. To me, it seems like Steve Nash has a powder keg waiting to explode. Steve Nash has all the makings of a great coach. But he's about to be tested in the worst-possible way in his first year, even though we can't discount Mike D'Antoni as his assistant coach. That said, I'm curious to see how this Big Three turns out for everyone involved.
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Winner Takes All: The Demand of Cryptocurrency in Australia
Cryptocurrency has taken the world by storm. A decade ago, if you were to tell someone that the future offers a treasure trove of digital currency that can be used as assets, people might think that you are lying. Not many understand it in full, to the extent they would invest in it without knowing the risks.
There is even a chance that you, the reader, have experienced the allure of its profits since it is very accessible and requires only a few basic steps to have your own account with a small starter capital. This is one of the main reasons why it trended in the first place; people saw that you could invest in it right away with little limitations. No one is stopping you from gaining huge if luck turns in your favour.
Now, if you think that only the middle-class citizens are investing in it right now, think again! Some of Australia's richest families are getting in on the act as well. It may sound strange since they already have all the fortune that a majority of the population can only dream of acquiring, but the thing is, there is a far deeper story in this than most people realise. The following pieces of information may give you a better idea of this digital finance phenomenon.
1. The Interest of Rich Families Towards Cryptocurrency Did Not Go Unnoticed
Say what you will about businesses and financial trends, but rich families have always been discrete about their investments, regardless of the industry and venture that they wish to indulge in. That streak, however, has been broken with the occurrence of cryptocurrencies. Just because it is digital doesn't mean that no one else may be able to see it. As a matter of fact, the more digital it is, the more prone it is to tracing and detection.
A recent report summarised that there was around 237 per cent increase in digital assets, an almost insurmountable number that can only be attributed to rich families and industries.
2. The Cryptocurrency Trend Gave Rich Families an Alternative Investment
There used to be a time when rich families relied on ventures that mostly circulated and processed cash; however, as more and more people began to do it, the stocks and bonds became too expensive even for them. In such a case, they needed to find alternatives that wouldn't cost them more than what they wished to gain.
Digital currency became that long-awaited alternative that they gladly took part in during its sudden fame.
3. The Cryptocurrency Trend Gave Rich Families More Options to Win
Now, that may sound confusing, but consider this, what would you do if you already had a sizable amount of fortune? After becoming rich, there may come a point when maintaining your ventures is no longer about providing for your family's needs but rather more about winning over your rich competitors. Call it pride, call it business growth, you may call it whatever you want, just don't call any of the wealthy families "second-best" as that will encourage them further to succeed.
When the competition for physical cash had been overdone, the rivalry extended towards digital currency, which put cryptocurrency even more in the spotlight.
The cryptocurrency in Australia has taken off, and it isn't slowing down anytime soon. Due to its huge traction within the country, rich families and industries are now investing in it as well, seeing its huge potential to further raise their profits. Despite the various notions about the nature of the digital currency, it managed to let everyone know about the rich families' intentions to invest.
Not only does it act as an alternative investment for them, but it also enables them to expand their reach and compete against their many competitors and financial rivals. Overall, it is a phenomenon that really took Australia by storm, one that rich families and middle-class citizens are making the most of for now.
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The Race Card Rears Its Head Again
Judges, despite their robes and the trappings of majesty — who else enters their workplace to the sound of a uniformed lawman commanding "All rise"? — are just like the rest of us. They are often motivated by high ideals, but, being spun from the same mortal clay as we lesser mortals, their motives can often be venal, even petty.
Most judges crave dispositions. They want the cases on their list of things that need doing, their dockets, to move. Getting between a judge and a closed file can be a risky thing to do. Judicial administrators are closet statisticians, keeping track of who moves cases and who doesn't.
Hence, the importance of finality, of not disturbing a case that has finally ended with a judgment. Courts will go a long way toward keeping the lid down on a closed case. The United States Supreme Court has even gone so far as to permit the execution of prisoners about whom new evidence of innocence has arisen. Finality trumps innocence. Where's the justice in that?
This week, the Supreme Court heard another case that challenges the court's preoccupation with finality. It involves a man named Miguel Angel Pena Rodriguez. He was tried in Colorado on sexual assault charges. During deliberations, one juror apparently said to the others: "I think he did it because he's Mexican, and Mexican men take whatever they want."
Mr. Rodriguez was acquitted of the most serious charge he faced, but convicted of less-serious charges. He was sentenced to a period of probation.
Fellow jurors swore under oath in statements that their fellow juror had commented on Mr. Rodriguez's national origins as the jury decided the case. Was Mr. Rodriguez deprived of a fair trial because of this comment?
As a general rule, the courts will not consider evidence about what goes on in jury deliberations. The federal rules of evidence go so far as to bar any evidence of a jury's deliberative conduct for purposes of "impugning the integrity" of a verdict.
So what to do when a court becomes aware of a rogue jury or a rabid juror?
Should Mr. Rodriguez get a new trial because a juror uttered ethnic nonsense?
It's unclear just how this juror made it onto the panel in the first instance. In every state of the union, jurors are questioned before being permitted to sit on a jury. The purpose of the questioning is to see whether the juror can be fair and impartial about the case set for trial. I'd be stunned if this potential juror was not questioned about his racial and/or ethnic biases.
But jurors, like judges, and like the rest of us, have a casual acquaintance with truth: We tell it, often enough, but all too often we color the truths we speak in shades corresponding to the light in which we want to be seen. It's a rare person who will admit to identity bias, even in an age of identity politics.
So should Mr. Rodriguez be given a new trial because there was an infection in justice's operating room?
Doing so would require the court to abandon the lip service it pays to the secrecy of jury deliberations. Judges guard what they call the "province of the jury," its sole responsibility for deciding the facts of a case. To intrude by permitting a court to consider evidence of secret jury proceedings is a bridge the courts claim not to want to cross.
It's sort of silly, really, to create this bridge in the first place.
Judges police the conduct of jurors all the time. If the juror had made the comment about Mr. Rodriguez's ethnicity during the presentation of evidence, the court would, without hesitation, have hauled the juror into open court, put him on the witness stand, and asked him about it. I've seen judges question not just jurors who have made errant comments, but other jurors too, just to make sure that they could still be fair and impartial.
What magic line distinguishes comments made by jurors in private before deliberations from those made after the jurors are given the case to decide? Shouldn't the courts have the responsibility to strike out at bias whenever it becomes obvious?
It would make sense to abandon the rule in favor of deliberative secrecy altogether once a court is presented with evidence of bias. Sure, that's an awkward rule — if jurors are sworn to secrecy about deliberations, don't jurors who complain about their colleagues break the rule? Truth and justice aren't joined at the hip.
Arguments this week in the Supreme Court suggest the court is unwilling to walk away from this silly rule about secrecy. Instead, some justices seem prepared to make a bad situation worse: Why not permit claims of racial bias to advance? "I always thought the most pernicious and odious discrimination in our law is based on race," Justice Sonia Sotomayor said.
But what of religious bias — isn't that bad, too? Chief Justice John Roberts asked.
Even Supreme Court justices cannot avoid the new national cancer: everyone, everything, is reduced to their identity. God spare us the injection of identity politics into how we evaluate verdicts.
All sorts of biases can infect a jury. I've had jurors removed from a case because they liked cops, disliked gay folk, were hostile to people of color or simply because they did not think they could be fair and impartial to a stranger.
A criminal and civil justice system that truly cared about the right outcome in each and every case would not draw arbitrary racial and ethnic lines on the courtroom floor.
Demographics seem to drive our conceptions of justice, not neutral visions of simple human integrity. As the population browns and Caucasians approach minority status, the high court now openly and without embarrassment discusses rules of law intended to create special rules for when to permit courts to review potentially errant jury verdicts.
The Supreme Court should avoid creating special rules for special classes of people. The more honest course would be to put aside the judicial fetish with finality in favor of rules designed to see that justice is done.
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What does acquiring Aleris Corp Mean for Hindalco's Novelis?
Navanwita Bora Sachdev Posted On August 1, 2018
Aditya Birla Group company Hindalco Industries Ltd's subsidiary, Novelis Inc., has acquired the US aluminium company Aleris Corporation for USD 2.58 billion. The acquisition will see Novelis' entry into the high-tech aerospace sector and access to a higher number of customers in the auto industry.
The deal, which includes USD 775 million of equity and USD 1.8 billion of debt, will be funded through Novelis. With the consideration of customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals, the deal will be complete in the next nine to fifteen months.
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Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of Aditya Birla Group said, "The acquisition of Aleris is the next phase of our growth strategy. This will solidify our position as the world's No.1 aluminium value-added products player. We will have a presence throughout the downstream aluminium value chain in Asia, positioning us for future growth in the region," he added.
The acquisition will give Novelis 13 Aleris manufacturing facilities spread across North America, Asia, and Europe. This will widen Hindalco's reach on a global basis to not just established markets in the US and Europe but also the emerging markets of Asia. According to Business Today, the acquisition is accretive for Hindalco with a USD 150 million potential on a recurring basis.
ET quoted Birla, "Aleris is in the same space as Novelis which is aluminium controlled products. Novelis is the world leader globally, the largest in every market that it is in. Aleris is a very high quality, large player, with revenue of about USD 3 billion. It has 13 very hi-tech manufacturing sites across Europe, the US and China. It gives Novelis a stronger franchise in the auto market and therefore solidifies its position in the auto market."
Since Hindalco's acquisition of Novelis in August 2007, Novelis has become the world numero uno in aluminium value added products in terms of size, especially in the automotive and beverage cans space. The current acquisition opens doors to Novelis to the high-tech aerospace domain.
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The acquisition has happened in the wake of the Trump administration's scrutiny of Chinese companies trying to acquire American ones. Hindalco saw its chance when a potential deal between Chinese company Zhongwang USA LLC and Aleris went south. While that deal was priced at USD 2.33 billion, Birla has paid a premium. Many are questioning the higher price Novelis has paid for the Cleveland-based firm. However, the reason cited for this by experts is that around USD 900 million of Aleris' investments are yet to show yields. When they do so in due course, Hindalco's debt, which this acquisition has taken up to USD 6 billion, will reduce to USD 3 billion, i.e. USD 500 million less than their current debt.
Birla also told ET that for the Hindalco Group as a whole, the proportion of value-added products will grow exponentially after this deal. "It takes the value added part to about 70% plus from practically zero about 10 years ago. It also makes the Hindalco combine the largest aluminium company in the world with the turnover of about $21 billion," he said.
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Art of the Americas to World War I
A beginner's guide
The Mexican-American War: 19th-century American art in context
The Missouri Compromise and the dangerous precedent of appeasement
Nativism and the Know-Nothing Party
The World's Columbian Exposition: Introduction
The World's Columbian Exposition: The White City and fairgrounds
The World's Columbian Exposition: The Midway
Nast and Reconstruction, understanding a political cartoon final
John Brown's "tragic prelude" to the U.S. Civil War
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by Dr. Kimberly Kutz Elliott
Thomas Moran's watercolor of the Administration Building at the Chicago World's Fair shows a radiant sunset illuminating its golden dome and the building façades of the "White City." Viewers of Moran's landscape look west, just as the Fair's organizers promoted the westward march of civilization. Thomas Moran, Chicago World's Fair, 1894, watercolor on paper (Brooklyn Museum).
Old and new frontiers at the Chicago World's Fair
"Since the days when the fleet of Columbus sailed into the waters of the New World, America has been another name for opportunity, and the people of the United States have taken their tone from the incessant expansion which has not only been open but has even been forced upon them. . . . And now, four centuries from the discovery of America, at the end of a hundred years of life under the Constitution, the frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history."
—Frederick Jackson Turner [1]
For six months, during the summer and fall of 1893, the city of Chicago hosted a
World's Fair
that drew more than 27 million visitors from all over the world. The official reason for the Fair was to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas, but unofficially, it served as an opportunity to reflect on the state of the nation. In the three decades after its deadly civil war, the United States had seen rapid social and economic changes. Workers had moved from farms to factories and from country to city; European immigrants had flocked to American manufacturing centers; telephones had connected distant cities made artificially bright by electric lighting.
Within little more than a generation, the United States had become the world's leading industrial power, while its government systematically dispossessed Indigenous peoples, deployed state power against striking laborers, and abandoned efforts to ensure Black equality in favor of acquiescing to Jim Crow segregation. What had the United States become by the end of the nineteenth century, and where was it heading in the twentieth? Those who planned, built, and visited the Fair used it as an opportunity to assert their vision of the national character and global power of the United States at the height of the
View of the Great Exhibition in London in 1851—the first major world's fair. This view showcases Britain's imperial possessions (note the stalls proclaiming "silks" and "India" at the left foreground). White, classical-style sculptures were displayed on the floor and the barrel-vaulted ceiling soared so high that full-sized trees had ample room. The design of the hall (called the Crystal Palace) suggested that the people and resources of the world were products in a grand department store arranged for the judgement and selection of British citizens. Ackermann & Co, The transept from the Grand Entrance. Souvenir of the Great Exhibition, lithograph, 1851 (Victorian and Albert Museum).
World's fairs and the spectacle of colonialism
In the second half of the nineteenth century, grand exhibitions were all the rage among the imperial nations of the world. A world's fair was a place to exhibit products, inventions, arts, and cultures, and holding one was a way for a country to lay claim to the authority to label, organize, and own the peoples and resources of the world. In 1851, the United Kingdom had hosted the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace near London; in 1889, the Eiffel Tower crowned France's World's Fair commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of the French Revolution. The Parisian fair included an ethnological exhibit displaying people who lived in France's overseas colonies that both touted the reach of the French empire and implied that these "less evolved" peoples were incapable of self-rule.
Although the United States had celebrated its own revolutionary origins with the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, near the end of the century, U.S. civic leaders sought to bring international attention to its growing role as a world power. Why not another exposition, celebrating Columbus's arrival in the Americas? That Columbus was Italian, and had never set foot on soil claimed by the United States, was immaterial. (Perhaps fittingly, delays prevented the Fair from opening in 1892 as originally planned, and so the commemoration of the four hundredth anniversary of Columbus's arrival was on neither the anniversary nor the site of his arrival). It was more to the point that the United States was, in the eyes of the Fair's promoters, the fulfillment of the historic process set in motion by Columbus: the domination of Indigenous and Black peoples by white Euro-Americans, the westward march of "civilization." Like those of the United Kingdom and France before it, the organizers of the 1893 World's Fair intended to showcase the growing power of the United States in the world and assert that the coming century would be the "American century."
Cartoon depicting a "grand finale" song and dance number, with racist caricatures representing various countries and continents of the world. Uncle Sam, at center, is the largest figure, literally "head and shoulders" above the rest. On either side are figures labeled with the names of European nations in descending order of perceived level of "civilization": on the left, from center out: Great Britain, Russia, and Spain, and on the right, from center out: Germany, France, and Italy. On the far left is a racist caricature representing "Asia" rather than a specific country, and on the far right, a racist caricature representing "Africa" rather than a specific country. The cartoon places the United States as the foremost nation in a world defined by racial hierarchy. J. Opper, World's Fair Puck, 1893.
Suffused with the contemporary racist pseudoscience of Social Darwinism—which claimed that white people with northern European ancestry were the most "evolved" race—the World's Fair cast other races and cultures as the living relatives of white people's distant ancestors. In its treatment of Indigenous Americans, the Fair's organizers openly celebrated imperialism and genocide as part of the "civilizing" force at work in this process, with exhibits showing how whites "educated" Indigenous children in boarding schools or conquered them in Wild West battle reenactments.
The defining event of its age
Conveniently for historians, the Fair's organizers were convinced that it would be the defining event of its age, thoroughly documenting their every decision and publishing guide books with explanations of how visitors should understand and experience the Fair. For that reason, the 1893 World's Fair is itself a kind of
primary document
about American society and culture at the end of the nineteenth century. In addition to its physical exhibits—which included buildings dedicated to exhibitions of the arts and sciences, pavilions where the nations of the world as well as U.S. states could entice tourists and trade, and a carnival midway with cheap amusements and exoticized entertainments—the Fair also served as a site for intellectual discussions. The World's Congress Auxiliary was a series of more than 200 international meetings, hosted at the newly-built Art Institute of Chicago, on topics ranging from women's progress to dentistry.
It was at a special meeting of the American Historical Association as part of the World's Congress that U.S. historian Frederick Jackson Turner articulated his famous "Frontier Thesis." The American national character of rugged individualism and democratic virtue, Turner claimed, had been formed from white settlers' ongoing experiences of "taming" a frontier that moved ever westward. But the 1890 census had delivered the startling news that white American settlement now stretched to the Pacific Ocean, and there was no more frontier to be found on the North American continent. What was to become of American culture?
The Chicago World's Fair answered that question through every aspect of its design. Its exhibits (and the exhibits that organizers rejected); the paintings displayed in the Fine Arts Building; the site plan and architectural style of its exhibit halls; the
racial othering
of the Midway Plaisance: all of these contributed to an argument that white Americans, and middle-class white cultural norms, represented the crowning achievement of the progress of the human race. Consequently, it was only right that American culture should expand its influence beyond its borders, finding new frontiers overseas.
This essay will provide a brief history of the planning and construction of the Fair, and the two that follow will focus on the Fair's two main areas: the White City, and the Midway Plaisance.
Origins and construction of the Fair
In the early 1880s, eager to recreate the cultural and commercial success of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, American civic and business leaders seized upon the upcoming anniversary of Columbus's voyage as a reason to hold another world's fair. The U.S. Congress invited bids from cities to host the fair, and New York and Chicago vied until the last moment to win the right to host. Chicago triumphed, thanks to generous boosters who raised an additional $10 million of capital in twenty-four hours. The Fair ultimately cost over $25 million to build, or more than $735 million in 2021 dollars. [2]
The Fair's directors—a who's-who of Chicago's Gilded Age magnates and financiers, including department store owner Marshall Field, mechanical reaper inventor Cyrus McCormick, railroad baron George Pullman, and banker Lyman Gage—were determined to put on an exhibition that reflected the height of American sophistication. To design and supervise the building project, they hired Chicago architect Daniel Burnham, whose Montauk Building had been the first skyscraper built in Chicago.
Despite Chicago's emerging reputation as a mecca of modern architecture, Burnham hired mainly New York architects trained in the French Beaux-Arts style to design the Fair's exhibition halls. The Beaux-Arts style combined ancient Greek and Roman architecture with elements of Gothic and Renaissance styles to create opulent, often symmetrical buildings on a grand scale. Beaux-Arts architects believed these forms would inspire social harmony and moral uplift in communities, a theme taken up by the City Beautiful movement the Chicago World's Fair helped to inspire. With the exception of Adler & Sullivan's Transportation Building, the Fair's buildings were uniformly white and Beaux-Arts in style. Louis Sullivan (of Adler and Sullivan) would later gripe that the Fair directors' rejection of contemporary forms set American architecture back by fifty years. [3]
Frederick Law Olmsted, "Map of Jackson Park, showing location of proposed improvements by the World's Columbian Exposition Co.," 1891. Olmsted Papers (Library of Congress).
The responsibility for selecting and designing the site of the Fair was assigned to Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect who designed Central Park. Olmsted chose Jackson Park, seven miles south of downtown Chicago, as the site for the Fair, due to its beautiful view of Lake Michigan and easy access to rail. His design for the 690-acre site featured a central "Court of Honor" surrounding a Grand Basin, as well as canals, a lagoon, and a man-made "Wooded Isle." Olmsted believed that beautiful vistas and contact with nature would promote moral and civic virtue among city dwellers.
The steps of progress and civilization
Every decision about who and what to exhibit at the Fair was hard fought. The Smithsonian's assistant secretary, G. Brown Goode, devised the scheme for organizing the Fair's exhibitions. He proposed not only to showcase industrial and scientific achievements, but rather "the steps of the progress of civilization and its arts in successive centuries, and in all lands up to the present time and their present condition; to be, in fact, an illustrated encyclopedia of civilization." [4]
To Goode, and the anthropologists who worked in his department, the process of becoming civilized was the process of attaining the contemporary beliefs and practices of white men. Unsurprisingly, women and people of color did not figure in this scheme, at least, not as representatives of civilization as it was understood. Although Congress created a Board of Lady Managers after prominent white women complained about their exclusion, every effort on the behalf of Black citizens to celebrate their achievements was rebuffed. (Read more about representation at the Fair in the White City article).
Map of the World's Columbian Exposition showing its major zones. Hermann Heinze, Souvenir map of the World's Columbian Exposition at Jackson Park and Midway Plaisance, published by A. Zeese & Co., 1893 (Library of Congress).
As Burnham and Goode designed it, the Fair would have two main zones: the main fairgrounds, with 14 exhibition buildings dedicated to modern achievements in arts and industry, along with pavilions representing the 46 U.S. states and countries of the world that chose to participate; and the Midway Plaisance, a mile-long carnival of amusements and exhibits drawn from the "uncivilized" regions of the world. Burnham explained how visitors should interpret the these zones in the guidebook:
"Those about the Grand Basin [in the Court of Honor]...—the Administration, Manufactures, Agriculture, Machinery, Electricity, Mines, and also the Art Building—are essentially dignified in style; those lying farther to the north—the Horticultural, Transportation, and Fisheries—being less formal, blend readily with the more or less homelike headquarters buildings of the States and foreign governments, which are grouped among the trees of the extreme northern portion of the grounds. Upon the Midway Plaisance no distinct order is followed, it being instead a most unusual collection of almost every type of architecture known to man—oriental villages, Chinese bazaars, and reproductions of ancient cities. All these are combined to form the lighter and more fantastic side of the Fair."
—Daniel Burnham [5]
Although the Fair's organizers had originally balked at including such "low" entertainments in their splendid city of progress, the popularity of the recent Paris Exposition's "ethnological villages," in which representatives from French colonies in Asia and Africa demonstrated their dress, culture, and dwellings, convinced them to include a similar area. Guides to the Fair instructed visitors to see the White City first, and then head to the Midway Plaisance to gawk at the Javanese and Dahomean villages, so they could gain a true understanding of how far humanity had progressed. [6] Indigenous Americans appeared in both zones: as anthropological exhibits in the fairgrounds, and as savage curiosities on the Midway. (Read more about these exhibits in the Midway Plaisance article.)
Construction of the Fair began in 1891. Laborers dug lagoons and canals and filled them with water from Lake Michigan. The exhibition buildings (intended to be temporary, they were essentially were steel-framed warehouses with intricate façades made of staff—a mixture of cement, plaster, and jute that could be poured into molds and quickly dried). Once assembled, the buildings were whitewashed, lending the attraction the nickname "The White City." Covered with electric bulbs, and three gargantuan spotlights, the Fair shone at night. The Fair opened to visitors on May 1, 1893.
Visit the Fair: The White City and fairgrounds
Visit the Fair: The Midway Plaisance
Frederick Jackson Turner, "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," 1893.
Chaim M. Rosenberg, America at the Fair: Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition (Arcadia, 2008), p. 10.
Louis H. Sullivan, The Autobiography of an Idea (Dover, 1956), p. 325.
G. Brown Goode, "First Draft of a System of Classification for the World's Columbian Exposition," 1891.
Daniel Burnham, quoted in Alan Trachtenberg, The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (Hill and Wang, 1982), p. 213.
Robert W. Rydell, All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876–1916 (University of Chicago Press, 1984), pp. 64–66.
Read the Official Guide Book to the World's Columbian Exposition
View the Official Photographs of the Fair
See colorized photos of the Fair
Gail Bederman, Manliness & Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917 (University of Chicago Press, 1995).
Robert Rydell, All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916 (University of Chicago Press, 1984).
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Daniel J. West, Ph.D., FACHE, is the Chairman and Professor in the Department of Health Administration & Human Resources, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA USA. He has specialized in international health care, globalization, multiculturalism, and diversity management. He holds a Professor in Public Health appointment at Trnava University, Slovakia and a Visiting Professor appointment at the University of Matej Bel in Slovakia. He has held a variety of board leadership roles at CAHME, including Board Chair, and is the Chair of the Global Advisory Council. He is President and Chief Executive Officer of HTC Consulting Group, Inc., and has served as a hospital CEO. He is a Certified Healthcare Consultant with the American Association of Healthcare Consultants, and board certified in healthcare management by the American College of Healthcare Executives.


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Pride withdraw from Challenge Cup, a Dwyer and Leroux story, Andres Perea slated for a breakout tournament, and more.
By Sean Rollins Jun 23, 2020, 7:30am EDT
Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for ESPN
Good morning, everyone. It's been rough without the local teams playing and it looks like one is already done for the year. Despite the unfortunate news about the Pride (more on that below), we still have Orlando City and OCB to look forward to…for now. Let's look at some of the news of the day.
Pride Withdraw From Challenge Cup
The most important news for Orlando fans is the Pride withdrawing from the 2020 NWSL Challenge Cup. Six players and four staff members tested positive for COVID-19, reportedly after a visit to a local bar. With so many players having to isolate — likely some roommates in addition to the players who tested positive — the team had to withdraw from the upcoming NWSL Challenge Cup tournament just days before the event.
National writer Caitlin Murray reported that some of the Pride's younger players made the poor decision to go out. A trip to the bar is what triggered additional COVID-19 testing per Meg Linehan of The Athletic.
Speaking to a few sources, it appears #NWSL players were supposed to self-isolate but a group of younger Orlando Pride players went out to nightclubs and bars, which have been open in Florida. Transmission was determined not to be through training, which was the main concern.
— Caitlin Murray (@caitlinmurr) June 22, 2020
Murray said the Pride's veterans weren't happy about the situation. That does seem to be the case.
I'm heartbroken. The majority of our team & staff worked our asses off to put us in the best position to play the game we love again. Not just for ourselves but for our families, friends, fans & our city. Good luck to the teams going to UT. Wish we were there with you. Stay safe.
— Sydney Leroux Dwyer (@sydneyleroux) June 22, 2020
Additionally, a report by Steven Goff of the Washington Post says that there likely won't be a regular season, so the Pride are likely done for the calendar year.
People Magazine Talks to Dom Dwyer and Sydney Leroux
People magazine has done a piece on Orlando's power couple, Dom Dwyer and Sydney Leroux. The article discusses how they've been dealing with playing professional soccer and raising two young children during the pandemic. This was supposed to be the couple's return to competing on a high level for the city's club after Leroux missed most of the 2019 NWSL season due to pregnancy. The Father's Day piece also talks about the couple's children, Cassius Crux and Roux James.
Andres Perea Slated for Breakout Tournament
Mlssoccer.com has revealed its list of players who might have a breakout MLS is Back Tournament next month. Newly acquired Orlando City midfielder Andres Perea was named in the piece that listed 10 candidates.
Carli Lloyd to Miss Challenge Cup
Multiple U.S. Women's National Team stars have decided not to take part in the NWSL Challenge Cup and Carli Lloyd is one more. However, rather than simply not wanting to play, Lloyd cites a minor knee injury for her exclusion. Lloyd joins a growing list that includes Megan Rapinoe, Christen Press, and — now — all of the Pride's USWNT players who won't be appearing in the one-time tournament. It will be a big loss for Sky Blue FC.
Borussia Mönchengladbach Make Record Offer for Canadian International
North American players have been quite successful in Germany the past few years and another appears to be on his way in. Following in the footsteps of Bayern Munich's Alfonso Davies, 20-year-old Canadian international forward Jonathan David might be headed for Gladbach. Currently playing for Gent in Belgium, Gladbach are reportedly ready to offer €25 million for the young attacker. That's not far off of the league record of €30 to €35 million that Gent were asking.
Orlando City and the Orlando Pride have teamed up with Rasmussen College to provide up to $6,000 for students through the Start Strong Tuition Savings program.
The Pride are no longer competing in the NWSL Challenge Cup but the rules and regulations have been released for those that will still be following along.
It's been revealed that Serbian giants Red Star Belgrade have had five players test positive for the coronavirus following their final league game this weekend.
That's all I've got for this Tuesday. Hope you all have a good and safe rest of your week as we wait for local soccer to return.


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15.03.2017 - Decisions are an everyday aspect of project management and project managers are often expected to make them both quickly and professionally. That's not an easy ask because to make informed decisions you need enough time to consider all the facts. In a project environment, however, this time isn't always available, so the project manager will resort to using one of several possible decision support tools. He may opt for the cost-benefit analysis, a tool that helps project managers to make fast and informed decisions.
Over the course of a project decisions will have to be taken to keep the project on track. In many cases there won't be time to consider all the alternatives at length, and the project manager won't always have all the information he really needs to make the decision. Despite this, he has to make the best possible decision as quickly as possible. One approach is to make a list of the pros and cons for each of the proposed alternatives. Although this is helpful in simple decisions, it can be misleading in complex ones. At some time or another in his career, every project manager will find himself holding a list of pros and cons clearly pointing in one direction and a gut feeling clearly pointing in the other. This is an intrinsic aspect of decision making because one single argument can sometimes be so crucial that it overrides five other arguments. So a list of pros and cons alone isn't enough. But it is a good starting point that provides a structured overview of all the decision criteria in advance of a cost-benefit analysis.
The cost-benefit analysis is a decision support tool that can be used in various areas of business, though it is mainly used in project management. It's the ideal tool when there are several possible alternatives to choose from. First of all, the options and alternatives have to be listed. It's always a good idea to select between two and four possible alternatives and to group similar solutions together, otherwise the analysis will be too complex and fragmented. In the second step the decision criteria have to be defined on the basis of the project's objectives and context, on the one hand, and the customer's requirements and specifications, on the other. It makes sense to define between eight and twelve criteria, depending on the project's type and scope, in this phase. The next step is to weight the criteria. If quality is more important to the customer than meeting deadlines, the quality criteria must have a stronger weighting than the schedule criteria and vice-versa. One way of expressing the weightings is in percentage terms. Then the project manager rates each criterion according to a defined scale. For example, the scale could be one to five points, with one point denoting "irrelevant" and five points denoting "very relevant" and everything in between.
The last step in the cost-benefit analysis is to assign points to each of the criteria in combination with each of the alternatives. The points awarded indicate which alternatives offer more advantages over the other alternatives. The most important thing isn't the number of arguments in favour of a specific alternative, but the weighting of the alternatives according to the specific criteria that the project manager has defined for his project. The cost-benefit analysis and its result, expressed in points, helps the project manager to make the right decision, whereby the most important part of the analysis process is the weighting. In the weighting process, the project manager has to take customer requirements into account, and it can be helpful to request a meeting with the customer to specifically discuss the defined project objectives again. Some customers will have a stronger focus on quality, while others will attach more importance to schedule or budget compliance (the project management constraints in the iron triangle model). However, in the cost-benefit analysis the project management team has to look beyond the three criteria of costs, time and quality, because some customers put factors such as creativity, innovation or design first.
One definite advantage of the cost-benefit analysis is transparency. The project manager and everyone else involved in the analysis can follow the entire process and they are aware of the analysis and decision making criteria. Even several months further down the line the entire project team can look at the analysis and see the reasoning behind the decision. Also, the decision doesn't have to be taken by the project manager alone, and a cost-benefit analysis is a great opportunity to encourage teamwork and include all project stakeholders. One slight disadvantage is that the weighting of the criteria is always subjective, so the decision is also subjective. This is because any cost-benefit analysis is always based on a definition of how important the individual criteria are. Also, cost-benefit analyses are not ideal if there are too many alternatives because the analysis process then becomes too complex. If there are many different alternatives, it could well be more practical to use a different analysis tool.


The Days of Johann, an agility dog!: Oh...oh! New Nina Ottosson toys now available in the US!
Oh...oh! New Nina Ottosson toys now available in the US!
Oh...oh! Check this out. Three new Nina Ottosson Intelligent and Interactive Dog Toys/Puzzles have arrived in the US!
Dog Finder - With the Dog Finder, the dog learns to look for treats by sliding blocks (in the shape of bones) in four different directions, using paw or nose. A block can only be lifted by sliding it to the end of its track. Under the blocks there are compartments where treats can be hidden. You can place one or two blocks in each track. Using one block is a great way to introduce your dog to the Dog Finder. As skill improves, put two blocks in each track. This game is tough and hard wearing. It has anti-slip feet on the bottom and can be cleaned with soap and water or put in the dishwasher. Skill level = intermediate.
Dog Twister - With the Dog Twister, the dog looks for treats by moving one block after another in a clockwise or counterclockwise circle. To increase the difficulty of the game, you can lock the blocks in position by inserting the bone-shaped pegs in place. There are compartments under the blocks where treats can be hidden. Also dishwasher safe. Skill level = intermediate/advanced.
And the new Plastic Dog Casino - With the new Plastic Dog Casino your dog or cat looks for treats by pulling out the flaps in different directions. In each flap there is a compartment where the treat can be hidden. Increase the degree of difficulty by locking the flaps using the bone-shaped pegs on top.
You can find all the Nina Ottosson toys through JohannTheDog.com!
We haven't had the chance to play with a Nina Ottosson toy yet, but we are tempted to go out and buy one after seeing some of the reviews on your blog.
I can picture Stetson tearing right into the toys while Linus would be very gentle and slowly remove each little piece to get to the treats.
If they were just a teeny bit cheaper, I would have caved in and bought one. I know I'll break down and get one soon, though.
This is both good news and bad news LOL!
The Dog Finder looks like a good one. We have the wood Twister and I really want to get the Dog Dominoe, among many others!
And finally, finally, they are available in Australia!
They sure are fun!!! Found out the other day they are sending us the Twister and Finder to test out, can't wait to try them and blog about them!
And yeah! Finally available in Australia!!! Woo Hooo!


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The other week I lucked out and was able to head north to Philadelphia to catch the Pavement show and eat some rockin' food. All my other trips to Philly have been bike-food oriented, and I've always just crashed on random folks' couches, so this time–a trip with a hotel booked downtown, an amazing reunion show to catch, and cocktails and something other than Gianna's vegan cheesesteak–was a nice switch-up.
When we got to Philly, we first met up with G's friends from back in the day at the Mutter Museum. Don't worry, I didn't take any photos. The Mutter is…well…it's interesting? As a working museum (i.e. a real research institution for the College of Physicians of Philadelphia) it's different and more palatable than something like the Bodies exhibit is (I would imagine, at least). But it's still pretty hard to just walk around and look at fetuses in jars or tumors sliced up and on display. Interesting but, for someone who has a high regard for life in its living form, hard.
Somehow we managed to eat afterward–Korean, yay! (no pictures–and then, after settling in at the hotel, we piled in someone's minivan and headed over to the Mann Center for the show. Holy awesome show. I'd never seen Pavement live before, and the chance to see them during their reunion tour was great–the energy was intense, everyone was so into it, so happy to be back together seeing their favorite band. I personally like going to shows where I don't know the bands well because then I can experience it through everyone else. I definitely wish I'd been able to see them when they were originally together, I'm definitely jealous of G & his friends in that regard.
After the show we got a few beers and nibbles at Monk's (mmm Belgian beer!), then hit the hay. In the morning we walked towards Northern Liberties (my favorite neighborhood area in the city) and got an **amazing** brunch at Cafe Lift. First of all, the space is beautiful in a light-filled, industrial way: a lot of metal, huge windows, concrete. It's a good way to wake up in the morning, actually. And their coffee–good heavens it was good stuff.
G & I split two dishes. First off was the Fritatta special with spicy italian sausage & gorgonzola cheese. Super super good. The spicy sausage contrasted nicely with the punch of the gorgonzola, and the side of potatoes was phenomenal. I was fighting G for those–I could have eaten 100 of them.
The other dish was the french toast special of the day with mango, bananas, and pecans. Nom. I would have never thought to put mango on french toast, but I'm glad they did because it was excellent. The custard on the toast was perfectly seared and not too eggy, not too sweet; the in-house whipped cream was a nice sweet touch. Cafe Lift, I'm digging you.
After brunch and after G's friends headed back to their "real lives," we headed back out to explore Philadelphia. My friend's dad had a photography exhibit up at the Constitution Center, so we decided to check that out, and while the exhibit was nifty–a shared project between a school in Philadelphia and a school in Afghanistan–the rest of the Constitution Center made me itchy with freedom. Nothing against the US of A and it's freedom-tastic heritage…but, really, I can only take so much American history.
So, naturally, we refreshed ourselves with a few dirty martinis. Mmm gin. Thank god for gin. It makes me like America again for sure.
After that we put on some dressier shirts and headed over to the highlight of the trip–Village Whiskey. If you don't know this already about me, I love cocktails–good cocktails–with a passion. I love cocktails with whiskey even more. And I dearly miss my spots in Atlanta–Holeman & Finch, Abbatoir, etc. So when researching where I wanted to go in Philly–somewhere with cocktails & sustainably sourced fancy meats–Village Whiskey was the clear winner. There's just something about a cockatil menu based solely on whiskey–sazeracs, jack roses, de rigueurs–as well as in-house pickles, burgers featuring foie gras, and duck fat fries, that makes me want to weep for joy.
First off, the place is beautiful–dark wood, leather, bottles and bottles of whiskey behind the bar–but the drinks, oh the drinks. I feel like swooning now, thinking about them. We started with two Jack Roses–bottle in bond apple brandy, house grenadine, lime–, moved onto some mojito thing the bartender made with cardamom (mmm), and then, as pictured above, had two sazeracs. For those who don't know, the sazerac is considered to be America's first cocktail, conceived in New Orleans in the 1830s, and features rye whiskey, bitters, and absinthe. This one was delicious.
Before we dove into our burger and duck fat fries, we split an order of the "truffle lemon artichokes"–artichokes pickled in a lemon vinegar base with black truffles shaved in. Holy delicious artichoke. It was hard to pick one pickle over any other, but these were definitely a good choice–not too soft, not too vinegary, with an earthy bitterness from the truffles. The photo is blurry because…well, I was into my 3rd drink of the evening at the restaurant and the lighting was super low. So bear with me. The artichoke was amazing, it just doesn't look amazing.
For the burger, we went as far as we could go: the Whiskey King & duck fat fries. Now the Whiskey King is so not vegan, so I understand if you give me hate, but, sorry, it was delicious. 8 oz of crazy fatty beef, maple bourbon glazed cipollini onions, rogue bleu cheese, thick cut applewood bacon, and foie gras. Yes: burger + foie gras. Holy, rich, meaty goodness. It is so worth the $26. Just split it with someone if you get it because, really, that much delicious animal is far far too much for one person. And the duck fat fries? They're just as good as Anthony Bourdain promised.
It was a good trip, a hella good trip, and, to be honest, I don't miss the vegan Philly I knew before. Not that I don't love the food I've had there before, but this trip tops them all–good food, a good show, good people, and some weird, preserved medical anomalies to boot. I could go back again soon, I think.
that french toast looks incredible!


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Saud Anwar, Connecticut's First Muslim Mayor
South Windsor physician Saud Anwar is the state's first Muslim mayor. He sat down with Where We Live to talk about his faith, his vision for the town, and how he plans to juggle his busy schedule. Anwar is a native of Pakistan, who came to Connecticut via Illinois to study medicine at Yale.
On being the first Muslim mayor in the state:
Anwar says that although his faith is important because it shapes his values, he is focused on his new responsibilities. "The fact that I am a mayor who is of Muslim faith helps the children who are in our communities in Connecticut or beyond who at times feel they are bullied or disenfranchised…when they are hearing on radio or television about their faith," he said. "This would hopefully allow them to recognize that the people who are trying to paint them with a broad brush do not necessarily represent true America."
On what he'll tackle first as mayor of South Windsor:
Saud Anwar said his first step will be to unify the town. The town is divided, he said, not only across political boundaries, but across ethnic and demographic boundaries as well. "One of the main issues that we need to recognize [is] that we are all in it together," he said. "This is our home. This is our community. We are going to do whatever it takes to stay together, and only together we'll be able to address all the issues that we have to." Anwar said that his job as a physician has taught him to be organized and to work with a team, all of which he plans to use in his new position.
Cair.com: http://cair.com/press-center/american-muslim-news/12268-saud-anwar-connecticut-first-muslim-mayor.html
Author researcherPosted on 27th November 2013 Categories Immigration and Integration, Interfaith and Multicultural Engagement, Issues in Politics, United StatesTags children, Connecticut, faith, First Muslim, mayor, Muslim Mayor, study, values, Windsor
New Report – Understanding Trends in North American Muslim Divorce and Marriage
This report by Julie Macfarlane (University of Windsor) for the Institute of Social Policy and Understanding addresses the shortcomings of Muslim communities when dealing with divorce, and what support and services counselors and community leaders can provide in times of marital crisis. The report has important conclusions and recommendations that can be a resource and discussion guide for couples, community leaders, and the public. The goal of the four year empirical study was to explore what North American Muslims understand as their Islamic obligations in marriage, the challenges they face in their married lives, and under what circumstances they might consider divorce – including their decision-making process, where they turn for help, and what rituals of closure and divorce outcomes are important to them.
Author Euro-IslamPosted on 10th April 2012 Categories Gender Issues and the Hijab/Burqa, General News, Interfaith and Multicultural Engagement, Islamic Practice and Jurisprudence, Polling, Publications, ReportsTags American Muslim, community, discussion, divorce, guide, Institute, New Report, North American, Report, Windsor
Family fulfills dream of Pakistani victim of 9/11 revenge killing by becoming US citizens
WEST WINDSOR, N.J. — Anum Hasan has seen many conflicting visions of America: the hope of a better life that brought her family from Pakistan, the hate-filled act that ended her father's life in the name of American vengeance; and an outpouring of compassion that her family has come to feel is the true face of the country they now call home.
Hasan's father, Waqar Hasan, was shot to death four days after Sept. 11, 2001, in Texas, targeted by a white supremacist looking for revenge against Middle Eastern men for the terror attack. The family had every reason to want to leave, but on Friday, Hasan's widow and three of her four daughters were sworn in as U.S. citizens.
It was what happened in the aftermath of Hasan's killing that reinforced the family's decision to remain in the U.S.
Author researcherPosted on 20th March 2012 Categories News by Country, News by Issue, Discrimination and Xenophobia, Elections and Political Discourse, Immigration and Integration, Muslim Advocacy and Organizations, Public Opinion and Islam in the MediaTags 9/11, Anum Hasan, family, Hasan, Middle Eastern, US, Waqar Hasan, West, Windsor
Huron University College Appoints Chair in Islamic Studies
Huron University College in London, Ontario has appointed Dr. Ingrid Mattson as the inaugural London and Windsor Community Chair in Islamic Studies at its Faculty of Theology. Dr. Mattson will begin her appointment on July 1, 2012.
Dr. Mattson was born and raised in Kitchener-Waterloo and earned her PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Chicago. She is the first convert to Islam and the first woman to lead the Islamic Society of North America. Before accepting the Chair in Islamic Studies at Huron University College, Dr. Mattson was Director of the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford Connecticut. She has also been an Advisor to both the Bush and Obama Administrations.
Author Euro-IslamPosted on 24th October 2011 Categories Education and SchoolingTags Chicago, Hartford, Huron University College, Islamic Society, Islamic Studies, London, PhD, University College, Windsor
Muslim woman: Roller rink didn't allow head scarf
VERNON, Conn. — A Muslim woman in Connecticut says a roller rink's request that she either remove or cover her head scarf was discriminatory.
Marisol Rodriguez-Colon of Windsor tells WTIC-TV that she and her sister-in-law went to the Ron-A-Roll indoor rink in Vernon on Sunday for her niece's birthday party. She says inside, a woman who identified herself as a manager told them they would have to either remove their hijabs or wear helmets. She was told the rink has a policy prohibiting headwear.
Rink management issued a statement reiterating the no headwear policy and saying helmets are offered for safety purposes.
Author researcherPosted on 30th November 2010 Categories News by Country, News by Issue, Discrimination and Xenophobia, Gender Issues and the Hijab/Burqa, Islamic Practice and Jurisprudence, Issues in Politics, UncategorizedTags Connecticut, head scarf, helmets, law, Muslim woman, policy, VERNON, Windsor, WTIC
Son of suspected extremist expelled from Canada
Police in Windsor, Ontario have apprehended the son of a suspected Muslim extremist killed this week in Detroit by U.S. agents, and within hours Canadian border agents expelled him from the country.
"We have him now," FBI Special Agent Sandra Berchtold said. Mujahid Carswell, also known as Mujahid Abdullah, 30, had been living openly in Windsor for months and moving routinely back and forth between Windsor and Detroit.
Canadian border agents declined to say why Carswell had been expelled or whether he was entitled to any hearing. The section of the FBI complaint involving Carswell says he was involved in teaching martial arts to young children in mosques on both sides of the river separating Detroit and Windsor and that he sometimes beat them. Windsor police spokesperson Sergeant Brett Corey said there were no charges outstanding against Carswell and he was turned over to Canadian border agents.
Author researcherPosted on 8th January 2010 Categories Security and CounterterrorismTags Canada, children, deportation, Detroit, extremist, FBI, Mujahid Abdullah, Mujahid Carswell, Sergeant Brett Corey, Windsor
Union dissatisfied with police apology to Canadian Muslim community
The chief of police in Windsor, Ontario issued an apology to his city's Muslim community, saying his officers may have offended the religious customs of the families of two men arrested on FBI warrants two weeks ago.
Chief Gary Smith told a news conference that the force will review its policies, including the use of more female officers, after the arrest of Mohammad Al-Sahli, 33, and Yassir Ali Khan, 30, on Halloween.
During the arrest, it was alleged that a male officer inappropriately patted down a female relative of the men. Lhe lawyer for the two men later alleged that the police acted excessively in drawing weapons and frightening women and children at the home. Chief Smith said the Windsor Islamic Association will offer new training to officers.
Author researcherPosted on 13th November 2009 Categories UncategorisedTags apology, arrest, Canadian Muslim, children, community, conference, female, Muslim community, Ontario, police, Windsor
Windsor police chief apologizes to Muslim woman
Windsor's police chief has made a public apology to the local Muslim community for the "embarrassment" caused by his tactical officers when they conducted an arrest operation. The head of the city's police union is unrepentant.
"In my belief, this isn't a cultural issue," said Constable Ed Parent, president of the Windsor Police Association. "These officers had a warrant to arrest someone. They went in, and they arrested this person."
The controversy stems from arrests made by the Windsor police tactical team last month. On Oct. 31, the team acted on a request by the RCMP and FBI to arrest Windsor residents Mohammad Al-Sahli, 33, and Yassir Ali Khan, 30, in connection with a radical Islamic group based in Detroit.
According to Patrick Ducharme, the lawyer for the two accused, the officers "patted down" a Muslim woman –Mr. Khan's wife — who was not a part of the arrest warrant. "It was never the intention for Windsor police officers to offend or embarrass the families of our Islamic community," wrote Police Chief Gary Smith yesterday. "The actions taken did cause embarrassment and did offend their religious beliefs. I sincerely apologize to the families and the Islamic community."
A review of the incident highlighted the need for additional "cultural sensitivity training," a news release said.
Author researcherPosted on 13th November 2009 Categories Security and CounterterrorismTags arrest, community, Gary Smith, lawyer, Muslim woman, police, RCMP, training, Windsor, Windsor Police Association
Two Canadians arrested tied to controversial U.S. mosque
Two Canadian men wanted by the FBI in connection to a radical mosque in Detroit were arrested by authorities. Yassir Ali Khan, 30, and Mohammad Philistine, 33 – also known as Mohammad Al-Sahli and Mohammad Palestine were wanted following the death of the leader of a fundamentalist Islamic group, who was killed in a shootout with FBI agents after a raid on a warehouse in Dearborn, Mich. The pair were picked up without incident by Windsor police and RCMP's Immigration Task Force. The Windsor police tactical squad surrounded a house in the southern Ontario city earlier this week to arrest 30-year-old Mujahid Carswell, also known as Mujahid Abdullah, a third man wanted in connection to Detroit mosque. It was Carswell's father, Luqman Ameen Abdullah, who was killed in the shootout with FBI agents.
U.S. authorities allege Abdullah and his followers were part of a Sunni Muslim group with the mission of establishing a separate Islamic nation within the United States.
Author researcherPosted on 31st October 2009 Categories Security and CounterterrorismTags Canadians, controversial, Dearborn, Detroit, FBI, Mohammad, Mohammad Philistine, Mujahid Carswell, police, Two Canadians, Windsor, Yassir Ali Khan
Mosque to be Built on Dairy Site
Plans to build a mosque on the site of a Windsor dairy will go forward after the Borough of Windsor decided not to appeal the ruling of the government planning inspector in favor of the Islamic center. Local councillors were disappointed at the advice to not challenge the appeal, but they are now working with planning officers to regulate usage of the building, including a ban on weddings, celebrations, and extended hours of operation. Despite the racially motivated violence that took place at the site in October, councillors said that good community relations could be maintained if Medina Dairy respected that the property was in a long-standing residential area.
Author Euro-IslamPosted on 20th December 2006 Categories UncategorisedTags building, challenge, community, Islamic center, Medina, Medina Dairy, relations, violence, Windsor


Discussion in 'Journalism Jobs' started by Noel Nash, Jun 7, 2011.
Send me a PM and I'll answer anything I can.
Hasn't this job been posted a few times on this board before? Maybe someone who has worked there can provide some insights about the work environment, rug races and Chris Berman's crankiness.
This would be a terrific position for anyone looking never to be exposed to sunlight again. I imagine the demands are more than extreme.
I worked as a temp in this department directly under Nash who posted the job. You will work nights and weekends in a useless department at the worldwide leader. You will be in charge of the real-time ticking clocks on the bottom line that provide so much to the viewers. You will monitor stats feed from colleges that work 95% of the time so there is no need for most of the people in the department. There are some research projects, but only the ones that are declined by the actual espn research department. Maybe I'm just jaded by the awfulness of being a temp in the department, but from what I saw it was not a great place to work and you will hate your life if you take the job.
But those guys have all the fun.