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2012 BORSCHT FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES LINEUP
The eighth annual Borscht Film Festival has announced its lineup for the 2012 event, taking place in Miami from December 12-21, 2012. From the official press release:
The Borscht Film Festival has selected the 16 short films it will commission, produce and screen at their eighth annual event. This year's shorts include works by directors: Amy Seimetz (Tiny Furniture, Sun Don't Shine) Adan Jodorowsky (son of legendary director Alejandro Jodorowsky) and Court 13 / Ray Tintori (producers of the award winning Beasts of the Southern Wild) among others.
Borscht flew in eight guest filmmakers from around the world to create progressive and cutting edge short films. Filmmakers also collaborate with local musicians including Jacuzzi Boys and Blowfly. Through these works, Borscht creates an exchange and dialogue between International film centers that are quickly becoming the birthplace of some of the most interesting independent film projects. Production on the shorts began in August 2012 and continues through November 2012.
Last year Borscht produced over 30 short works including the Sundance Film Festival hit "Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke", "Play Dead", "I Am Your Grandma" and Barry Jenkins "Chlorphyl" that screened at over 50 International film festivals.
According to Borscht's Milton Garcia "Our festival is quickly becoming a forum for filmmakers to share their work and ideas away from commercial pressures. You don't need to be anywhere specific to create world class work, as long as you are surrounded by people who inspire you in a place you love."
Films will screen on Saturday, December 15 at the Ziff Ballet Opera House- Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami. Tickets are available in advance at www.borscht8tickets.com
2012 INTERNATIONAL FILMS:
THE VOICE THIEF (Mexico) directed by Adan Jodorowsky and starring Asia Argento
WAITING FOR BERTA (Cuba) directed by Laimir Fano
UNTITLED ANIMATION (UK) directed by Julia Pott
SOUL O (South Africa) directed by Sean Metelerkamp
2012 DOMESTIC FILMS:
TURD directed by Andrew Zuchero
SI NOS DEJAN directed by Celia Rowlson-Hall
SEA DEVIL directed by Calavera
UNTITLED STUNT SPECTACULAR directed by Ray Tintori
2012 FLORIDA FILMS:
WHEN WE LIVED IN MIAMI directed by Amy Seimetz
#POSTMODEM directed by Jillian Meyer and Lucas Leyva
PINEAL WARRIORS:THE RISE OF SUPERMENG directed by Egon von Schirach and Otto von Shirach and featuring Blowfly
MIAMI 1996 directed by Nick Corirossi
C#CKFIGHT directed by Julian Yuri Rodriguez
ADVENTURES OF CHRISTOPHER BOSH IN THE MULTIVERSE directed by Ronnie Rivera
PLACES WHERE WE LIVED directed by Bernardo Britto
THE CORACLE directed by Coral Morphologic
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For me, curly hair and being Jewish were always conflated. While I know that Judaism is a melting pot of different ethnicities and cultures, the fact is, stereotypes about Jewish appearance exist for a reason. And growing up, my hair and my last name outed me before I had the chance to say, "Actually, I celebrate Hanukkah" every December.
Truthfully, I didn't know anyone with curly hair who wasn't Jewish. Silky straight hair equaled "gentile" in my mind. I already lacked the religious beliefs and holiday traditions to completely fit in with my peers; hair was one more strike against me.
I remember being reprimanded by a ballet teacher for not having a perfectly smooth bun; I remember hating swimming in gym class because I couldn't just duck my head under the hand dryer to dry my hair like the other straight-haired girls could. Instead, I had to endure the frizz for the rest of the school day. I remember being brave enough to wear my hair down in fourth grade, and having a classmate tell me I looked like a witch.
Maybe these all seem like trivial reasons to feel uncomfortable with being Jewish. My obsessive-compulsive disorder, of which I was diagnosed with at a young age, certainly contributed to my hair anxiety. Nonetheless, learning to own my Jewish identity was intrinsically connected to accepting my hair the way that God made it. It was also a deep part of owning my identity as a Caplin, since my hair came from my father.
My life was forever changed at the age of 12, when I was introduced to the flat iron. It was the same year I had my Bat Mitzvah, which gave me all the rights of passage as an official grown-up in the Jewish community. Combined with the start of puberty, that was when my battle – yes, it really felt like a battle – for self-acceptance really began.
I'd sacrifice an additional hour or two of sleep so I could get up early to straighten my wild mane before school. At Christmastime, I'd go caroling around town with friends, and relish, for a moment, that I was part of an "in-group." I wished I didn't have to explain to friends at sleepovers why I didn't need to wash or brush my hair before bed, as they did, because curly hair doesn't need it. I wished I didn't have to explain why my family didn't have a Christmas tree.
I can't really pinpoint exactly when the tide started to change, and I finally began the arduous process of accepting myself as-is rather than fighting it. Maybe it was when I started a job that required getting up at the crack of dawn, forcing me to choose as much sleep as possible instead of sacrificing it to the Almighty Flat Iron. Maybe it was realizing how my Jewish upbringing followed me in and out of church, beckoning me to recognize it even if I didn't return to it completely.
From 1994 to 2018 – the right haircut can make a huge difference!
Through fits and starts – experimenting with haircuts and products, battling loneliness at Christmastime and feeling like my home was empty without a menorah – I began to accept myself. I began to accept my offbeat experiences as unique parts of my story. Even when strangers ask me if Hanukkah is the "Jewish Christmas," or if my hair is a perm, or if they can touch it (please never do this). I believe these are all hallmarks of God's sense of humor, and developing one myself rather than taking everything so personally has helped me out so much.
There are so many moments in my life when insecurity about my hair threatened to ruin moments that should have been fun and exciting (like studying abroad and realizing you don't have the right converter for your straightener). If only I had allowed it to be what it is, instead of trying to force it to be something it's clearly not. If only I can accept my "testimony" for the roller coaster that it is (which has made for an interesting book that many people have enjoyed) rather than trying to smooth out the corners so it looks and sounds like everyone else's.
For every Christian who wishes she had a more "exciting" testimony, or hair that could hold a little bit of volume, there are people like me with an abundance of both, still praying daily for the confidence to own it. On days when the doubts pile up and my hair won't cooperate, to a point that I have no choice but to slap on a hat, and be honest about where I am in my "walk with God" even if it gets me awkward stares in return, I remind myself that every bit of me was made with divine intention. And I have much to accomplish as a result.
My hair type is really similar to yours and I recognize my own bad hair cuts in your childhood photos. Especially what I lovingly refer to as "the bubble cut." I also had the Cube, the Pyramid, and the Cube at various points and once, my mother's stylist convinced us I should really get a perm. Yeah, that was fun. For coping with a volume, even a narrow undercut can make a big difference.
I'm not Jewish but I think our hair is about the same curliness judging from your pictures. My parents had no clue how to take care of curly hair so it was just stuffed into two braids for most of my childhood and I always felt ashamed of it (and a girl in my elementary school told me that I could be a princess if my hair was straight). It's only as an adult that I've learned how to care for my hair and that I need a stylist who specifically knows how to cut curly hair! It's still a struggle some days to accept how voluminous it is because it's so different from so many other people's hair.
I'm torn between "Hair" from "Hair" and "Hair Styles And Attitudes" by Timbuk 3. Mine has been slowly escaping for years.


Personnel Staffing strongly believes in investing time and training into our up-and-coming workforce. PSI Oxford has partnered with Calhoun County and Jacksonville City Schools for the last 3 years to conduct Mock Interviews with their graduating seniors. In doing this, we hope to better prepare these students for life after high school and present them with options and opportunities that do not require a college education. Chelsey Sanders, PSI Recruiter since November 2015, represented our company yesterday and was presented with this Award of Appreciation from Jacksonville High School.


Happy 2019!! I'm not too late as long as it is still January right? I wish you a wonderful start to the year. May this year be filled with wonderful simple moments with your family and friends, may you all have health, successful projects, fun trips, patience, amazing meals, new lessons, laughs and happy tears, compassion, and perspective. I love the hope and energy that a new year brings.
ONE // Gucci Wallpaper. This wallpaper took my breath away when I spotted this shot on instagram. I knew they had home decor items (which are super chic but totally expensive. This pillow is a favorite and this chair) but didn't realize they had wallpaper designs as well. I love this one in particular as the background color is so bold against the large scaled cranes. Go big or go home right? You can see all their wallpaper designs here.
TWO // Kevin Francis Designs. Since my One Room Challenge last fall I have been totally #obsessed with Kevin Francis Designs' rugs. I used one in the bar area (you can see it here) and just fell in love with it. It is beautifully made and is of the best quality. The colors and maze design options are unique and ideal to ground a room.
THREE // Beaverbrook Hotel. I can't remember where I read about this place but the photos were what grabbed me. What a chic hotel in the London country side with the prettiest interiors designed by Susie Atkinson. Winston Churchill used to stay here many weekends! It has two restaurants (one of them japanese run by an ex Nobu chef!). And you can stay in the Main House or Garden House (with less expensive room pricing) I'm saving this tip for whenever our travels take us to London next (hopefully it's not too far off). Please let me know if you go!
FOUR // Flourless Chocolate Cake. A good flourless chocolate cake is a wonderful thing- it is low in calories and can fulfill your most ardent desire for chocolate, is not filling and it can taste like a real dream. My go to recipe has been this one (which is always a hit among my guests and SO easy to make!) but am always looking for another good one. Maybe the orange zest will be the perfect addition?
FIVE // Branch Earrings. You know me and my love for a good pair of earrings. These have the potential to be a uniform staple. Light for everyday wear but chic and statement-making for cocktails and dinner with friends. And brass is just a classic.
Happy January!! Do you follow me on Instagram? Please do! I have plenty of room inspiration there!


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Gustavus Adolphus(1594–1632). For 12 years in the first half of the 17th century, Germany had been devastated by the Thirty Years' War. Towns had been destroyed, the people massacred, and the country plundered. Everywhere the Roman Catholic and imperialist party was triumphant, and it seemed as though
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The new theatrical trailer for 'Hellboy II: The Golden Army' has finally hit the web. Yahoo! Movies was good enough to post up the cool new trailer. And you can check it out right here.
Where the teaser trailer showed glimpses of just how huge and fantastic the world that Guillermo del Toro has created this time around is, the new trailer reveals even more amazing imagery and incredible monsters.
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Forget Brita: Building A Better Water Filter
The new Soma water filter will clean your water in style, and also remind you to actually change the filter, so that you clean your water at all.
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Soma cofounders Mike Del Ponte and Ido Leffler were sitting around talking about water when the thought came to them: Why do we have to settle for poorly designed water filters? Where is the water filter with that sleek, minimalist Apple feel? Del Ponte, the founder of Sparkseed, and Leffler, the founder of Yes to Carrots, think they've created it with Soma, a Jony Ive-inspired water filter that you can help fund on Kickstarter.
Think of water filtration systems and the Brita brand probably comes to mind. It's popular for a reason, but like all products, Brita systems have their downsides–the lids sometimes fall off while you're pouring water, the individual filters have to be thrown away after every use, black flakes of activated carbon can show in water, and–this isn't really Brita's fault–many people are too lazy to replace their filters in a timely manner, rendering the whole contraption useless.
The new filtration system, which they call Soma, features a glass carafe and compostable water filters made out of vegan silk, Malaysian coconut, and PLA food-based plastic. It's about as minimalist as you can get–there isn't even a handle–and we can safely say that's sleeker than Brita's clunky-looking systems.
Del Ponte and Leffler tapped David Beeman, a so-called "water designer" who has worked with companies like Starbucks, Peet's Coffee, and Keurig on water filtration, to create the filters (for more on Beeman's work, check out this story). We haven't had the chance to taste Soma-filtered water, but we're guessing it's good–Beeman is well-known for his filtration skills.
Other user experience-enhancing features, according to Soma: a carafe with contours that perfectly fit hands, a beveled edge to prevent spilling, and–this is our favorite–a subscription service for the filters. Every two months, a new filter is delivered. There is no longer an excuse for leaving dirty filters in your water.
It's hard for us to evaluate Soma's claims without testing the filter, but plenty of people seem to trust that the company will deliver. At the time of writing, Soma had raised $56,373 on Kickstarter, with 36 days left to reach a $100,000 goal. All the $45 early bird special filters are sold out. Other options (including $50 for the carafe and a six-month filter subscription) are still available.
Ariel Schwartz is a Senior Editor at Co.Exist. She has contributed to SF Weekly, Popular Science, Inhabitat, Greenbiz, NBC Bay Area, GOOD Magazine and more
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To add a valuable lesson from a pragmatic Marwadi Salesman.
A keen immigrant Indian Marwadi lad applied for a salesman's job at London's premier downtown department store - the biggest store in the world - you could get anything there.
The boss asked him: "Have you ever been a salesman before?"
"Yes sir, I was a salesman in India," replied the lad.
The boss liked the cut of him and said: "You can start tomorrow and I'll come and see how you do."
The day was long and arduous for the young man, but he got through it. And finally 6:00 PM came around. The boss duly fronted up and asked: "How many sales did you make today?"
"Sir, Just ONE sale," said the young salesman.
"Only one sale?" blurted the boss. "No! No! You see here, most of my staff make 20 or 30 sales a day. If you want to keep this job, you'd better be doing better than just one sale. By the way, how much was the sale worth?"
"93,30,05,34/- Sterling Pounds," said the young Marwadi.
"What!!! How did you manage that?" asked the flabbergasted boss.
"Well" said the salesman, "This man came in and I sold him a small fish hook, then a medium hook and finally a really large hook. Then I sold him a new fishing rod and some fishing gear. Then I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down the coast. So I told him he'd be needing a boat. I took him down to the boat department and sold him that twenty-foot schooner with the twin engines. Then he said his Volkswagen probably wouldn't be able to pull it, so I took him to our automotive department and sold him that new Deluxe 4 x 4 Blazer.
I then asked him where he'll be staying, and since he had no accommodation, I took him to the camping department and sold him one of those new igloo 6-sleeper camper tents. Then the guy said, while we're at it, I should throw in about 100 Stlg. Pounds worth of groceries and two cases of beer.
The boss took two steps back and asked in astonishment: "You sold all that to a guy who came in for a fish hook????!"
"No" answered the salesman, "he came in to buy a box of Sanitary napkins for his wife and I said to him, "Sir, Your weekend's spoiled anyway, you might as well go fishing."
Boss: "You better sit in my chair....... .!!"


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We thank the members of the Cassina Garden Club for the photos of their gardens and favorite plants and flowers for our Home & Garden feature. Their pictures lend touches of color and beauty in the same way the club itself has been beautifying the Golden Isles for nearly a century. You can see their photos and learn more about some of the Club members and their favorites here in our Planter's Pick Gallery.
is still going strong with a current membership of more than 130 women (and those two men!). In 1932 the Glynn County Commissioners granted the club stewardship of the circa 1800s tabby slave Cabins at Gascoigne Bluff that were once a part of Hamilton Plantation. They were later deeded that property in 1950. Through Cassina efforts, the slave cabins, which represent an important part of this island's past and the legacy of its people, were placed on the National Registry of Historic Places in 1988. The club recently concluded a fundraising campaign that allowed them to complete the historically correct restoration of the cabins to their original structures. Over the years, Cassina has sponsored many projects including establishing the St. Simons Island Public Library, leading efforts to designate St. Simons Island as a Bird Sanctuary, creating and assisting with the Fort Frederica Herb Garden, as well as establishing and maintaining the Pink Garden at Hospice of the Golden Isles. Their green thumbprints are all over this island and Glynn County!
On Saturday, April 27, don your garden hat and some walking shoes to join Cassina Garden Club members at their 13th Annual Tabby and Tillandsia Garden Walk. Attendees are invited to explore the flora, fauna, and other distinctive features of seven beautiful private gardens located on St. Simons Island at their own pace. Proceeds from this fundraiser, in addition to cookbook sales and the annual Christmas bake sale, will allow Cassina to continue maintaining and preserving the tabby cabins and grounds.
Start the day by checking in at the cabins on Gascoigne Bluff to make sure you have your map and garden descriptions for the self-guided tour. The gardens on the tour were carefully selected, from beach cottage to bungalow and historic dwelling to dream home, for the way they each distinctively tell the story of the homeowners and their love of nature. Before you embark on your tour, take some time to stroll around the festive Marketplace on the cabin grounds. Cassina Garden Club's Plant Sale and other local vendors and artisans will have offerings for gardeners and nature lovers. There will also be a food truck on site for lunch and snacks. You can also take docent-guided tours of the recently restored cabins and gardens.
The "Cottage on the Green" is tucked among extensive plantings and well-designed gardens with robust native hydrangea, agapanthus, and olive trees complemented by handsome pots overflowing with seasonal color. Expansive views and a pond create the perfect setting for the pool, while the back terrace overlooks a Mediterranean garden with citrus trees and an herb garden. A children's garden and potting bench show off an ageless passion for nature.
"The Family Affair" features a play gym, sandbox, and pool tucked into this beautiful garden with stunning golf course views. A generous terrace provides indoor-outdoor living area for an active young family with the garden maximizing space through the incorporation of both places for play and nooks for reflection and relaxation.
Built in 1925, "The Aiken House" on the St. Simons Sound boasts elegant gardens and breathtaking views. A courtyard of ancient oaks and decades-old camellias offers benches for quiet respite, while paths lead to an expansive veranda by the sprawling lawn and magnificent terra cotta pots of seasonal color that have adorned the patio for nearly a century.
"The Village Bungalow" is a charming spot that beckons guests with a tranquil garden and seating area watched over by an island "tree spirit." Whimsical birdhouses, a delightful potting shed, and an abundant herb garden are additional highlights of this garden and home that provided the backdrop for the film Christmas on the Coast.
If you're looking for a secluded oasis, "Curacao" is it! This gracious and sophisticated resort-style retreat has a garden that encompasses an outdoor kitchen and screened lanai, surrounding a lush and inviting pool. Visible from every room, the walled design provides privacy and a backdrop of seasonal color. Sounds of rustling palms and rippling water lend to the idea of escape.
"The Dream House" is just that — the 2017 HGTV Dream Home. From the lushly landscaped front entrance to the lakefront lanai, this home was designed for outdoor living. A variety of poolside hardscapes provide for generous seating, whether relaxing by the pool, lake, or firepit. Colorful pots of blooms and multiple levels of native plantings create "outdoor rooms" for cooking, dining, or taking in the expansive lakeside views.
Located literally steps away from the beach, "The BeachHouse" showcases an enjoyable and whimsical compact garden that provides the owners with seasonal color and has been planted with the harsh salt-climate in mind. Here, visitors lamenting their lack of a green thumb can find inspiration and hope in seeing a variety of numerous heat/drought tolerant plants that can enhance any garden or landscape.
These seven private gardens will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on tour day. Please make time to visit as many as you can and to enjoy the Marketplace at the tabby cabins. Tickets for the Garden Walk are $30 in advance or $35 the day of the event and are available at cassinagardenclub.org.
In conjunction with this year's Garden Walk, there is also a special VIP experience being offered Friday, April 26, from 4:00-6:00 p.m. Guests are invited to enjoy Wine and Cheese at The Dodge, the former home of New York Times bestselling author Eugenia Price and Joyce Blackburn, if tickets are still available at time of print.
Built in 1967, The Dodge, as it was affectionately named by original owners/builders Eugenia Price and Joyce Blackburn, rests on a 4 1/2-acre secluded property located near historic Christ Church. Its construction was chronicled in Eugenia's "St. Simons Memoirs." The home, where Eugenia found inspiration for her books that sold more than 50 million copies during her career, is nestled among centuries-old oaks on a peninsula of land that offers stunning views of the majestic estuaries and salt marshes of Glynn from every room. Renovated in 2012 by the current owners, the home has been lovingly preserved to maintain the 125 year-old brick floors that were salvaged from the historic Savannah Desoto Hotel, along with beautiful woodwork rarely found in today's homes, extensive outdoor gardens and landscaping, including a 5,000 square foot hobby garden, herb garden, koi pond, infinity-edge pool. Visitors to The Dodge will tour the 6,000+ square foot home, including the study where Eugenia penned books from the St. Simons Trilogy and other series. It's a truly special opportunity if you are a Eugenia Price fan or an island history buff.
Tickets for this exclusive cocktail party are $75 per person and are limited due to space. Visit cassinagardenclub.org to check availability.


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Trump-allied radio host Michael Savage brags that he was invited to state visit with President Emmanuel Macron
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Published 03/28/18 10:09 AM EDT
Radio host and President Donald Trump confidante Michael Savage took to his radio show to brag about being invited to "a huge diplomatic luncheon coming up at the end of April in the White House with the president of France and a huge contingent of diplomats." Savage appears to be referring to the scheduled state visit on April 24 when Trump will host French President Emmanuel Macron. From the March 27 edition of Westwood One's The Savage Nation:
MICHAEL SAVAGE (CO-HOST): I swear to God, I just got an email just now, I may as well share it with you because I'm going. I would be a fool not to go. There is a huge diplomatic luncheon coming up at the end of April in the White House with the president of France and a huge contingent of diplomats, and diplomatic staff, and who else, I don't even know, that the White House invited me to it, and I'm going. I'm going to Washington, D.C. I'm going to go to the aeronautics and space museum, I'm going to go to the great -- the great art gallery -- the Portrait Gallery, visit some relatives, all at the end of April.
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Newly completed, 63 Compton Street by Doone Silver Architects (created for Nord Development), is a striking Modernist development building which accommodates 4 luxury apartments in Clerkenwell. It replaces a 2-storey electrical substation, adjoins a listed former public house, and responds sensitively to the constraints of a conservation area providing light and airy apartments in the heart of the city.
The rear of the building is set back from the site boundary by two metres to create space for a ground floor terrace and large south-facing balconies to the upper floor apartments of which there are one per floor each with its own private lift access. From the street, the building 'reads' as a 3-storey structure; the fourth storey is set back from the street, concealed behind a brick parapet and creating a generous terrace.
Each apartment comprises a dual aspect open plan living/dining/kitchen space, two bedrooms and two bathrooms. The second floor apartment includes a large sliding door panel in the living room to create a flexible third bedroom/study.
The building is constructed of insitu concrete. Internally this is left exposed, its robust character contrasting with the more muted palette of solid oak floors, Calacatta Oro marble and warm grey painted plasterwork and joinery.
The facade of blue/red/silver glazed Janinhoff brick responds to the adjacent red brick Victorian buildings as well as the blue engineering brick and dark blue/grey painted buildings prevalent in Clerkenwell. The sharp edged quality of the selected brick and the use of dark grey recessed mortar joints, creates a rich and varied texture.
Doone Silver Architects is an emerging London-based architectural practice. Established in 2010, the practice is led by Directors Richard Doone (previously Managing Director at Conran & Partners), John Silver (ex Director at Foster and Partners and BFLS) and Ross Kerr, and has extensive experience in commercial and residential sectors worldwide. The practice creates attractive, efficient and modern buildings that 'work' well. The practice's success lies in a collective ability to generate a powerful 'device' which captures the imagination, a strong idea that becomes the 'driver' of each project. There is no overt house style, but a clearly discernible DNA links all projects. The practice designs buildings that 'perform' at the highest level - the three most recent projects have all achieved BREEAM 'Excellent' ratings.


The Tommies made a statement on Sunday: they are here to play.
The St. Thomas men's basketball team started off their season on Saturday against the University of King's College Blue Devils. The Tommies won 85-70.
Will Barber was the high point man for the Tommies, netting 30 points in his first regular season game at St. Thomas. Thomas Watson led the way for the Blue Devils as he scored 27 points.
The next game was the real test. The Tommies took on the Mount Saint Vincent Mystics, a perennial power house in the ACAA.
STU struggled in the first half of the game. Barber was hoping to carry over momentum from his 30 point outing, but he got some early fouls which put him on the bench for the second quarter.
The Tommies were down 40-28 at the half, but coach Dwight Dickinson had faith his team.
The Tommies outscored the Mystics 25-10 in the quarter, which gave them the lead going into the final 10 minutes. The Tommies held on to win 75-70, with Bradley Hovey scoring 19 points, and Will Barber shaking off a scoreless first half to get 18 for the Tommies.
The team will have their work cut out for them in their next game on Nov. 15 against Holland College.
"We need to work on our overall offense, and continue having everyone playing their role in our success," said Cripps.


Palestinian territories - In light of the serious unprecedented deterioration of all aspects of life in Gaza, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor calls on the international community to declare the Gaza Strip a disaster area.
The dire situation that has left its mark on every walk of life in Gaza has been the result of a 12-year Israeli blockade, semi-complete closure of the Rafah crossing and unprecedented wave of economic sanctions by the Palestinian Authority on Gaza.
Israel has been committing a crime of collective punishment against two million people caged in an open-air prison and suffering from a severe shortage of basic services such as water, electricity and medicine, said the Geneva-based human rights group.
As a result of a growing political dissent with Hamas - the party in control of the coastal enclave, the economic sanctions and funding cuts by the Palestinian Authority have already exacerbated the unfolding humanitarian crisis and led to an unprecedented wave of poverty among the Strip's population.
As many estimates indicate, 60% of essential medicines will be exhausted within two weeks, while food security is taking a new turn, with over two-thirds of households in Gaza lacking food security and facing serious challenges to provide food for themselves and their children.
It is incumbent on the United Nations Security Council and on the international community as a whole to declare the Gaza Strip a disaster area and to consider the catastrophic situation a threat to international peace and security, urges Euro-Med Monitor.
The Gaza's population, especially youth, have already reached a credible state of despair and frustration resulting from the successive waves of collapse of the vital sectors of the Strip, including infrastructure, health and education.
Meanwhile, the targeting of peaceful protesters as part of the largely peaceful Great Return March has left over 10,000 civilians wounded, including more than 300 cases of serious injuries, in addition to 115 deaths, adding to the complexity of the already fragile situation.
The Palestinian Authority's punitive measures, including salary cuts of over 65,000 employees, have also impacted life leading to the current deplorable situation that calls for a serious stand from the international community and concerned countries.
It is necessary that immediate and serious action be taken to put an end to the humanitarian suffering in Gaza, especially with regards to providing basic services such as electricity, clean drinking water and infrastructure, stressed the human rights organization, suggesting that economic projects be launched to alleviate the high level of abject poverty and unemployment rates.
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor reiterates its call on the United Nations agencies and other non-UN bodies to shoulder their responsibilities and provide the necessary humanitarian relief to the people of Gaza and to exert all possible effort to pressure Israel to end its blockade.
Euro-Med Monitor also calls on the Palestinian Authority to stop its punitive measures against the population.


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First UK demolition degree to start in 2017
By Steve Ducker03 November 2016
Matt Birch (centre) with Geoff Layer (Wolverhampton University, left) and Duncan Rudall (Institute of Demolition Engineers) when the degree course was formally announced
An agreement has been reached that will see the United Kingdom's first ever degree course for demolition launched next year.
The Institute of Demolition Engineers (IDE) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Wolverhampton that will see bespoke courses developed to give more than 100 people every year the chance to study for a Bachelor of Science or Master of Science Demolition and Restoration Management in the Built Environment degree.
The sector, which works on more than £8 billion (US$10 billion) of projects ever year, will use the qualifications to attract more young people into the industry, as well as ensuring current demolition engineers have access to the best possible professional development opportunities.
The curriculum will be taught on site and at the university's new Springfield Campus and will comprise of up to 15 different modules, ranging from asbestos removal and façade retention to working with explosives and health and safety.
"Demolition has been the poor relation to construction and civil engineering for some time and this has got to change," explained IDE president Duncan Rudall.
"We want to give people working in our sector the same opportunity as other industries to be officially recognised for their skills and expertise and the demolition degree is the first step in this direction.
"It is also an important milestone in trying to get more young people interested in pursuing a career with us. We have no problem attracting labourers and operatives, which is great. However, we want youngsters looking to become chartered demolition engineers, senior managers and the leaders of the future.
"There isn't anything like this currently in the UK and the University of Wolverhampton has shown its passion and understanding of our sector by agreeing to work with us to shape the content and delivery of the courses."
Demolition experts Terry Quarmby (Dorton Group), Mick Ulyatt (Samuelson Consulting), John Woodward (C&D Consultancy), Vernon Watson (QCMS) and Richard Dolman (AR Demolition) have all been involved in the initial planning, with industry trainers set to deliver the demolition specific elements of the degree.
This will be reinforced by experienced lecturers at the University of Wolverhampton, led by Paul Hampton, head of department at the School of Architecture and Built Environment.
So far more than 20 people have signed up for the degree course, which will be officially launched in September 2017.
Wolverhampton-born Matt Birch, a trainee demolition engineer at C&D Consultancy, was one of the first.
He said: "This is such an exciting breakthrough for our sector and gives me the ideal opportunity to develop my skills and knowledge even further, not to mention the chance to secure a national qualification in the process."
Projects Safety & training Demolition Demolition & Recycling


Made from 100% Chardonnay, this style of wine tends to be more steely and austere than most other Chards, and that's fine with me, because I think that many winemakers manipulate that grape way too much.
There are four classified Chablis wines that come from this small area in Northern Burgundy – Grand Cru, Premier Cru, Chablis AOC, and Petit Chablis, going from most to least prestigious. Petit Chablis often gets a bad name as being watery and uninspired, but I've found some very good "ordinary" Chablis AOC wines.
Now, Chablis is pretty far north for grapegrowing, and the grapes never fully ripen on many vineyards, including Grand Crus vineyards, before they're picked. As a result, the quality is spotty and you've got to do some research. Talk to your retailer, too.
Chablis gives you more green ("grassy") aromas and flavors than White Burgundies, and are much less oaky than almost all American or Australian Chardonnays. Great with fresh seafood in my view, especially raw oysters, clams and mussels. Some say that Chablis ages quite nicely, and others, pointing out that they rarely see oak, call for quaffing within two years of the vintage. I say try them both ways and see what you think.
Don't confuse real Chablis with inexpensive California jug and carafe wines sometimes labeled "Chablis," because they're a fraud – a mix of several white bulk wines that weren't good enough to go into their producers' first labels. Or who knows what else!
You don't find this often in American wine stores but do yourself a favor and try it as a break from Chardonnay or the white you drink most often. In France, the grape is sometimes called Pineau de la Loire, and in South Africa the grape is called Steen.
Many French Chenin Blancs are labeled "Vouvray," the region from where they come, and can range from "sec" (dry) to "demi-sec", (semi-sweet), "moelleux" (sweet) and finally "liquoreux" (very sweet). Coteaux de Layon and Coteaux du Layon-Villages in the Loire produce sweet Chenin wines only.
I served a bottle of the off-dry Vouvray with Turkey at Thanksgiving and it was a hit, and I recommend the dry variety for shellfish.
Fun fact: Most wine enthusiasts believe that no other grape imitates the flavors of a Chenin Blanc.
Italian stallion, the Cortese grape is grown in the Piedmont in northwest Italy and produces two whites – Gavi de Gavi and Cortese de Gavi.
Fun fact: Piedmont ("foothill") is the region of Italy closest to France, so the food there is much more French – butter and cream sauces, and even white truffles. This wine really works well with that style of food.
"Gavis" are pale straw in color, offer up very faint – sometimes almost imperceptible – aromas of pear, citrus, and some say almond, and are steely and dry on the palate with a lip-smacking acidity. They keep well and age with a nice richness, several years after the vintage, and go great with white fishes and roasted chicken.
I'm including Muscadet, made from Melon-de-Bourgogne grapes, because it's almost unknown and that's a shame.
Muscadet delivers up scented green apples, lime, and pear with wonderful acidity. It's typically fermented to be a little fizzy ("Petillant" in French) which just adds to its charm. Not easy to find, perhaps, but worth the effort. This is the wine to have with oysters by all accounts, and I like it with sardines in mustard sauce. Serve well chilled.
Fun facts: "Muscadet" is the name of a wine, not the place name where the grapes are grown, as in the case with most French wines. "Muscadet Sevre et Maine" gets its name from the two rivers that cross the vineyards in Nantes. And the grape itself, sometimes referred to as "Melon de Bourgogne" is the only grape that can go into a Muscadet.
I doubt you'll find this in many wine shops outside New York, Chicago and San Francisco, but if you do, try a bottle. I'm including it here because, well, it's so rare you won't hear much about it anywhere else, and how fun would that be?
This grape is also known as a wine, Picpoul de Pinet, from, naturally, the Pinet Region in the Coteaux de Languedoc. It delivers a lot of grapefruit, pear and spice flavors, and is one of the most crisp and fresh wines I've ever tasted. But most of the time, this grape is just one in a blend, such as the wonderful white Chateauneuf-du-Pape from France's Rhone region. If I'm not mistaken, in Italy it's used to make Vermouth.
Fun fact: The original name, Piquepoul de Pinet, means "lip stinger" and refers to the biting acidity of this wine.
This stuff seems to have taken the place of Chardonnay on American palates and in wine stores – it's everywhere, easy to order, and I've never seen a restaurant with a liquor license that doesn't have at least one on the list. But a lot of it isn't very good — Santa Margherita, for example, has almost become synonymous with Pinot Grigio but in my view it's thin, watery and far too tart without any balancing qualities.
Anyway, Pinto Grigio is really just the Italian name for the more prosaic French name of Pinot Gris. Pinot Grigio tends to deliver a zesty, lemony taste, although the French version usually is more full-bodied and luscious, with much more aroma.
Dry, fruity Alsatian Pinot Gris in particular is really coming into its own, but to make sure you're not getting a sweet version, avoid "Vendange Tardive" (late harvest) on the label.
Fun fact: Although it's typically a white wine, the grapes at maturity have dark pink skins (see at left), and the Italians make a wonderful rose wine, Pinot Grigio Ramato, from them.
The best of this varietal come from the Alsace region of France, and are lively, smoky, full-bodied with very little nose. Often described as "Chardonnay-like", these grapes grew on the North Fork of Long Island and were thought to be Chard until someone did a genetic test.
Blancs from Oregon, too; from Italy where they're known as Pino Bianco.
What a great grape! You can get Sauvignon Blanc in a wide variety of styles, ranging from sharp, intense grapefruit-y New Zealand, to middle-of-the road Napa, to soft, round and elegant Sancerre.
No matter which, this is always a distinctive, refreshing wine that often evokes freshly-cut green peppers, and while it quenches your thirst, can actually leave your mouth watering. In France this wine is labeled Sancerre, Pouilly Fume, or Bordeaux Blanc (often mixed with a bit of Semillon). It has become a huge industry by itself in New Zealand starting in the mid 1980s, and in many wine stores, NZ Sauvignon Blancs often dominate the shelves.
Fun fact: SB was found only in 1997 to be a mutation of Cab Franc and Cabernet Sauvignon.
Lots of producers are listed below, covering the wide range of styles I talked about. Try one from each region!
This isn't the noblest of grapes, mind you, and you've probably never heard of this wine – Lugana – or the grape. It comes from an amazingly beautiful place in Italy (which is saying something, indeed), Lugana, between Lombardy and the Veneto on the southern side of Lake Garda.
Yet in France, where the grape is called Ugni Blanc, it's used primarily to make Cognac and is otherwise undistinguished as a table wine grape. In Italy, though, they turn Trebbiano into a wonderful still white wine – full bodied, rich and complex. It's great with poultry, pasta with white and cream-based sauces, and seafood. This really is an elegant, refined wine that delivers soft peach flavors and a crisp finish. Seek it out from your retailer as it's pretty hard to find.
Italy: Zenato Lugana, Lugana Tenuta Roveglia, Lugana Doc Superiore.
From the land of dark, intense Port comes this cheap, unassuming white, a product of the Alvarinho grape, the Trajadura or a mixture of both.
Produces an incredibly light, delicate wine with slight fizziness and low alcohol. I use Vinho Verde (literally, "green wine") as the base for my White Sangria. You can get it for as little as $4 for a 750ml bottle, and on a hot summer day, it's worth its weight in, well, Chardonnay.
The 500-pound gorilla of white grapes, Chardonnay is the world's most versatile grape and produces an almost infinite range of styles. From the steely and fresh Chablis, to the soft, elegant and perfectly balanced Puligny-Montrachet, and finally to oaky and smoky California and Australian styles that ooze with butter and lemon, almost everyone finds something they like.
Chardonnay's versatility shows, too, as the base wine for some of the world's greatest Champagnes and sparkling wines. It's perfect for them because of its neutrality and freshness, and it can take on a toasty flavor from long periods of secondary fermation on the lees.
Even beyond that, many of these wines don't undergo any malolactic fermentation (MLF), the process that turns crisp, apple-y malic acid into softer, milky lactic acid. For example, I list here ZD Chardonnay, from Napa's Silverado Trail, because while it's aged and fermented in "neutral" American oak (older barrels that don't impart much oak flavor) it's not MLF'd, so it's quite bright and fresh.
I don't know if the Pope drinks Chateauneuf du Pape, but I sure do. Usually it's built on a base of White Grenache, also known as Garnacha, and typically includes several other white grapes, among them Muscat, Clairette, Bourboulenc, and Roussane. Taking no back seat in my view to its better-known red brother, White Chateauneuf delivers aromas of grass, flavors of honey and pear, and the perception of minerals. The White Grenache often adds nutty flavors.
This is a round and slightly "fleshy" wine, with relatively low acid, lots of body and a long finish; drink young.
A few years ago, Muscat de Beaumes-de Venise was the "it" dessert wine, but no longer. Still, it's a nice change from Port and you can often find it even at mediocre restaurants that haven't put a lot of thought in their wine lists. And while most Americans can't distinguish a Muscat from a musket, it's a popular table grape.
Fun fact: "Musca" is Latin for the word "flies" and it might be that this grape was known for attracting insects and other varmints from its perfumed sweetness. Muscat also makes some lesser-known dry wines, and their claim to fame is (I am told), they're the only wine that goes with asparagus! You decide.
This delicious, highly aromatic wine is really under-appreciated in my view, probably because the German wine labeling is confusing and makes no sense, even to Germans.
Even more, perhaps, most people think it comes only in sweet, sweeter and cotton-candy styles. Yet the Alsace region of France produces bone-dry Rieslings as do Napa, Australia and several other wine regions. And even some of the sweeter German versions may not taste as sweet as you'd expect because the sugar is matched by a high level of acid.
Happily, Riesling has made a comeback in America: my favorite dry Riesling is from Trefethen in Napa's Oak Knoll district, while Chateau St. Michelle in Washington State makes dry as well as off-dry (semi-sweet) versions.
Fun facts: Riesling is known for delivering an initial aroma of "petrol," and that can help you begin to recognize the varietal with one or two sniffs. Don't dwell on that, though, and don't let it put you off this fabulous wine. Also – German Rieslings made from grapes that are picked at the highest levels of sugar ("beerenauslese" and "trockenbeerenauslese") are difficult to ferment, and as a result they often have remarkably low levels of alcohol, especially compared to most American wines.
This "oily" grape mixes with Sauvignon Blanc, four parts to one, to create what is perhaps the world's most prized dessert wine, Sauternes (Chateau D'Yquem) and almost as famous and prized in Barzac.
Both villages are in the Aquitaine region of France, just below the large area of Bordeaux that's home to the world's most famous reds. The Semillon grape's thin skins make it susceptible to Botrytis Cinerea or "noble rot", reducing the water content of the berry and marvelously concentrating its sugars and flavors before harvest.
You'll also find Semillon in Australia, South Africa and even in Washington State in the US. I've never seen it as a varietal but I'm sure somebody produces it. Aside from dessert wine, Semillon does yeoman's duty as a blending grape for the dry versions of Sauvigon Blanc, too.
After White Burgundy, this is my all-time favorite dry white wine. It is among the world's most aromatic whites, with a rich, viscous fullness and often, high alcohol content. As such, it's an acquired taste and often overpowering to those who'd more readily drink, say, a Pinot Grigio.
I find the California versions enjoyable and fresh but many are a bit too "enthusiastic" and overpowering for my taste, while the best Viogniers from France's Condrieu region (above) can be rather expensive, $100/bottle or more in a retail shop.
This wine is so rich, you may perceive some residual sugar even when there isn't much, or when there's not enough acid for balance. Like overoaked Chardonnays. I'd say drink within 3-4 years of the vintage.
France (Condrieu): Domaine Georges Vernay Condrieu, Chateau Grillet, Saint Cosme, E. Guigal. These range from about $45 to $90 the bottle.
France (Viognier as a Varietal): Les Canteruls Viognier Vin de Pays d'Oc (inexpensive).


Bloom.fm was a London-based music service for mobile users launched in January 2013. It had more than 1.1 million registered users just within one year of its launch, but because of the investors' pulling out their hands, the service got down in May 2014. Bloom.fm's main investor was Russian broadcaster TNT, which had pulled out of the firm because of change in organization.
The app enables users to stream personalized radio channels – streams of music based on their favorite genres and previous listening habits – for free. They could then choose to pay £1, £5, or £10 a month to cache varying numbers of songs on their phone for on-demand, offline listening.
It is a music streaming app that has a catalog of 22 million tracks to offer. The app might be used for free in internet radio mode and have over 150 curated stations and many more based on artist. However, while playing in radio mode, one is not able to cherish offline playback.
The app can be used either for free streaming services or purchasing subscriptions which provides the facility to borrow songs and play them offline. It has easy to use interface and includes features such as player for listening the tracks, sharing feature so you could share the track with your friends, search feature for easy exploration of tracks and artists, and also you could maintain a playlist.
The opening screen of the app offers four genres based on your recent listening, but you could access other genres and sub-genres by tapping on 'Genres' option. The genres menu represents the options as small circles around larger circle, like petals of a flower.
The player screen of Bloom.fm contains most of the functionality that the app boasts. The droplet shaped icon at the bottom right corner lets you borrow the current track while playlist icon at top right corner reveals upcoming songs.
Exploring the tracks and artists is quite easy with such neatly built user interface. Tapping the bottom left corner of the screen will get you flower-and-petals design with current artist at the center and related artists around the center circle. Tapping on any of the related artists brings it to the center while artists related to it around it.
Despite some minor glitches, the app is a good pick for music lovers. They could always enjoy listening to some of their best tracks and artists. Although the service allow to borrow songs which would cost 20 songs for £1, 200 songs for £5, and for £10 you get "Full Bloom"- or unlimited borrowing. If you are using "Full Bloom", then you need not worry returning the songs but if you used cheaper subscriptions, you needed to return the previously borrowed songs in order to get another one.


My local writer's association holds a flash fiction contest – short stories of 500 words or less. The Play Date was my entry this year, and won the grand prize!
"But you always have work." She pouts and squeezes herself under my arm to make better use of her lost puppy eyes. I swear, this child can make her eyes three times bigger when she wants something. "Please? Just for a little bit?" Her breath smells of cheese curls, and neon orange dust coats her smile.
"Yay!" She dance-skips out the door and I follow her to the living room.
The tea party with her stuffed animals turns into an epic battle between super hero plushies trying to keep the evil villain DaddyMan from stealing the world's supply of cookies. This, in turn, morphs into a safari through the jungles of the dining room as we search for Scallywag Joe's buried treasure.
I glance back towards my office. I really should get back to work, but even if I could figure out how to extricate myself, I don't want to lose this moment.
"Was it because of me?" She tilts her head to look up at me, and her eyes cut to my soul. She's afraid of what I'll say, but trusts I'll tell her the truth.
"She's sad because of me." Maggie was always sharp. I knew she'd figure it out at some point.
"But I can still come back and play with you?" She trembles, worried I'll tell her no.
The plushies and tea cups disappear, and my toynado-struck living room is once again neat and tidy. I stroke Maggie's hair until she, too, fades away.
Pulling myself from the couch, I return to my waiting spreadsheet.


Take Over Gang that's what their group is known as in Toronto. These young designer wearing prodigies dropped a banger of a track. Can't lie every time I hear this song I'm caught tossing chairs and turning over tables while downing half a bottle of Hennessy while lining up 'tings' for the night. Song is promising like these young artists careers.


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Herbert Adams (1874–1958) was an English writer of fifty 'cosy' mystery novels, 28 featuring the detective Roger Bennion, a golfer and amateur sleuth whose cases are often set in or around golfing competitions; and 9 feature Jimmie Haswell, a London lawyer. He also wrote short stories, humorous verse and two other mystery novels under the pseudonym Jonathan Gray.

As 'Jonathan Gray'
'Safety Last' (1934)
'The Owl' (1937)

As Herbert Adams

Jimmie Haswell Novels
'The Secret of Bogey House' (1924)
'The Crooked Lip' (1926)
'The Queen's Gate Mystery' (1927)
'The Empty Bed'(1928)
'Rogues Fall Out'(1928)
'The Golden Ape' (1930)
'The Crime in the Dutch Garden' (1931)
'The Paulton Plot' (1932)
'The Woman in Black' (1933)

Roger Bennion Novels
'Death Off the Fairway' (1936)
'The Old Jew Mystery' (1936)
'A Single Hair' (1937)
'The Bluff' (1938)
'The Damned Spot' (1938)
'Black Death' (1939)
'The Nineteenth Hole Mystery' (1939)
'The Case of the Stolen Bridegroom' (1940)
'The Chief Witness' (1940)
'Stab in the Back' (1941)
'Roger Bennion's Double' (1941)
'The Araway Oath' (1942)
'Signal for Invasion' (1942)
'Victory Song' (1943)
'Four Winds' (1944)
'The Writing on the Wall' (1945)
'Diamonds Are Trumps' (1947)
'Crime Wave at Little Cornford' (1948)
'One to Play' (1949)
'The Dean's Daughters' (1950)
'The Sleeping Draught' (1951)
'Exit the Skeleton' (1952)
'The Spectre in Brown' (1953)
'Slippery Dick' (1954)
'The Judas Kiss' (1955)
'Welcome Home!' (1956)
'Death on the First Tee' (1957)
'Death of a Viewer' (1958)

Non-Series Novels
'A Virtue of Necessity' (1900)
'By Order of the Five' (1925)
'The Sloane Square Mystery' (1925)
'Comrade Jill' (1926)
'The Perfect Round' (1927). Short stories
'Caroline Ormesby's Crime' (1930). Serialised: Birmingham Daily Gazette, 'Caroline Hits Back' (1930)
'Oddways' (1930)
'A Lady So Innocent' (1932)
'John Brand's Will' (1933). US Title: The Golf House Murder
'The Knife' (1934). US Title: The Strange Murder of Hatton, K.C.
'Mystery and Minette' (1934)
'The Body in the Bunker' (1935)
'Fate Laughs' (1935)
'A Word of Six Letters' (1936). US Title: Murder Without Risk
'The Lovely Lucinda'. Serialised: Weekly Telegraph (1937)
'The Scarlet Feather' (1943)
'Murder Most Just' (1956)

Short stories
'A Lady-Killer'. Young Man, 21 July 1900
'A Child of Cheshire'. Young Woman, 5 October 1900
'A Consignment from Yarmouth'. Beverley & East Riding Recorder, 3 August 1907
'TITLE UNKNOWN'. Weekly Telegraph Christmas Annual (1931)

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Some of Adams's novels can be found at Project Gutenberg Australia.
More about Adam's novels at Fantastic Fiction
Another Bibliography Class Crime Fiction

1874 births
1958 deaths
English crime fiction writers
English mystery writers

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It's 2017. The Mad Men era has long since passed. So I'm here to tell you: get over yourself.
Gone are the days when leaders are expected to never, ever show weakness or vulnerability for fear of causing their employees to doubt or question them. This kind of mentality isn't just archaic — it's absolute nonsense.
Don't get me wrong. As a leader, you must be strong and resilient, especially during challenging times. But that doesn't mean at the right time, in the right forum, in the right way, you can't admit your vulnerabilities — even, dare I say it — your weaknesses and blind spots.
Do you honestly think for even a second that your employees believe you never feel weak, down or uncertain? Of course not. They know you're a human being, and that means you are, by definition, not perfect.
So if you pretend to have all the answers and absolute strength 100 percent of the time, your peers probably discount that by at least 45 percent to be on the safe side. However, if you're actually honest about the 10 percent of the time you screw things up, then you'll be much more likely to get buy-in that you know what you're doing the other 90 percent of the time.
Why does leadership require vulnerability? Because fundamentally, a team can't function without trust, and vulnerability is required to foster trust in others.
A good friend of mine, Alan Katz, helped coach me on this concept over the past few years. His teaching was based on The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni — a book I highly recommend if you haven't read it already.
The dysfunctions that Lencioni outlines are visualized as a pyramid with a foundation of mistrust. It all boils down to this: If there's an absence of trust, you end up with fear of conflict within your organization. If you don't have conflict, there's no commitment. If there's no commitment, then there's no accountability—and that leads to no one caring about the results. Conversely, if you foster trust from the top of your organization, it will massively amplify the trust among your team and your peers.
All healthy, successful, high performance teams are built on trust. Vulnerability creates trust. Therefore, you must be vulnerable to create a culture of trust in your organization.
As with most things, what you do as the CEO trickles down to the rest of your team. So if you want your executives and managers to be vulnerable with you, you have to start by opening up about your own weaknesses and fears.
For example, I distinctly remember a situation in which I shared with one of my executives, in a moment of weakness, some fairly meaningful self-doubt. And if that wasn't bad enough, over one too many beers. I shared what I had done with one of my investors, caveating that I knew I shouldn't have.
His reply blew me away.
Instead of chastising me for a lapse in judgment, he admitted that he, too, doubts himself regularly. This moment of bonding over shared weakness served to strengthen our relationship in a powerful way. He's gone on to be, hands down, my strongest advocate and supporter through good times and bad. This is the power of vulnerability at work.
As an added bonus, if you're building a business around a greater why or purpose, convincing your employees to buy into your higher purpose is a lot easier when you prove that you're a human who doubts and makes mistakes and doesn't know everything all the time.
Do the right thing. Start today by admitting your weaknesses — to yourself and to your trusted peers. If you can't do it, get help. It's one of the most important things you'll ever do as a leader.
Simon Berg leads Ceros, the interactive content marketing platform, with an innate curiosity about the world and how everything works. Connect with @simonberg on Twitter.


The deed itself is in the usual form: a fee simple transfer of 40 acres of land from Jonas and Sarah Haney of what was then Mercer County, Ohio, and later became Auglaize County, to Elizabeth McCoy of the same county.
The 1840 document contains the usual land description, recital of the payment, and warranties of title.
None of which gave reader Pam Vestal any pause at all.
What bothered Pam was the fact that, by this deed — and another one executed around the same time — Jonas and Sarah were transferring land to two daughters.
But daughters. Married daughters, like Elizabeth (Haney) McCoy. At a time when married women had very few rights over their own property.
Why, she wondered, would the parents do this? Didn't the land automatically get placed under the control of their husbands? What advantage could there be to giving it only to the daughters?
So why in the world were the Haneys selling land to their married daughters?
It may have been because the Ohio Supreme Court had spoken on the issue — and had done something no other court until then had done. The Ohio Supreme Court had recognized the right of a married woman to dispose of her property — even her real property — by writing a will.
Land for Ohio's daughters. And a first step towards women's rights.
Wow, wow, wow! This information couldn't have come at a better time! I was literally just questioning this exact same thing last week about an Ohio will! Thanks Judy!
You can thank Pam for asking the question at the right time!
This caught my eye because I have deep roots in Auglaize County Ohio!
I have to wonder WHEN the deed was recorded though – if it was in Auglaize County, it couldn't have been recorded until AFTER 1848, since the county didn't exist before that.
Which brings up wondering why people delayed recording deeds – I have some deeds that were originally signed in the early 1870s, but not recorded until after 1880. Wouldn't you think people would want others to know who owned the property?
Two points: (1) when Auglaize was formed, deeds from its parent county were re-recorded in the new county (a common occurrence to ensure that title to land in the new county was clear in the new county), but the original deed was at least acknowledged in what was then Mercer County in March 1840; and (2) the main purpose of recording a deed is to prove title, and if you had the deed, you could prove it any time. So recordation wasn't all that important until we started to regard it as a way of giving people notice.
Very interesting and I followed you until the next to the last sentence, to wit, "Their husbands would have had the right to control the property during the marriages, yes, but they didn't own the land, couldn't sell the land without their wives' consent — and couldn't control where the land would go after their wives' deaths." The law clearly granted all women, aged 18 and up, the right to dispose of their property via a will. But it is not clear at all to me how the husband could legally control the land during the marriage but be precluded from selling it during his wife's lifetime without her permission. It seems to me, either it's hers and she alone controls it or it's theirs and he alone controls it by the coverture part of common law. The law doesn't seem to address any aspect other than the right to devise property by a will. What did I miss? Was the husband's degree of control DURING her lifetime restricted depending on whether the wife had written a will?
What's missing is clarity on my part that control isn't necessarily the same thing as ownership. His right to control the land generally didn't extend to a right to sell it unless she also signed off. As early as 1771, for example, New York law required a married man to have his wife sign any deed for her land and required that she meet privately with a judge to confirm the sale. She could own the land, but couldn't sell it or enter into any kind of contract about the land without his joining in. Her husband had the right to the rents, the profits, to say if it was planted or left fallow. The land could often be taken to satisfy his debts.
Thanks for the nudge to explain better!
My ancestor relocated from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1820. At that time, he recorded the deed to his Pennsylvania farm by which he had purchased it in 1805, as well as the deed by which he sold it. One of the items in both deeds is the mention that Catherine, wife of the 1805 seller, and Judith, wife of Peter, were taken and examined separately at the courthouse and gave their consent to the sales.
When the land being sold belonged to the husband, then what the wife was consenting to was the disposition of her dower rights in the land. In some cases, the land itself was hers — and only some states required that she be separately examined in either case.
I seem to recall hearing that VA land records usually had the wife sign but in NC that was not the custom. Finding the seller's wife signing a NC deed is considered an indicator that the buyers were from VA. Buyers from VA thought the NC sellers were up to something and insisted the seller's wife sign. Am I remembering that correctly?
J. Mark Lowe so instructs, and in my experience it's often been the case. On the other hand, I've also seen people born and bred in NC do the same.
I believe the Sayres mentioned it in the Advanced Land class at GRIP.
It wouldn't surprise me to have heard it there too! It's one of those things you hear repeatedly — but again I caution that I have seen people born and bred in NC on both sides of a land deal and having dower rights expressly waived anyway. Sometimes the issue was what the clerk wanted before recording the deed rather than what the grantor or grantee might have thought was needed.
THANKS! This topic is my "obsession du jour." I'm trying to trace 200 acres in central Kentucky that appear to have been passed down from a Rev. War patriot to his wife, then circa 1824 to their daughter. DAR is questioning that daughter's right to own land, yet I have a court record dated 1851 in which one of her adult sons returns home to sell his share of land "inherited from his mother." (The mother died in 1833. His father has been paying taxes on this land since the mother's death. This son is selling his one-third share to his brother and brother-in-law, but those relationships are not defined in the document.) One professional researcher says maybe this ownership was a "family understanding" never committed to writing. I'm finding no deeds, land transfers, wills, or settlements that will nail this down. A DAR supplemental is riding (in part) on proving this chain of ownership! Any ideas?
DAR is questioning the right of the daughter to OWN land??? Are they kidding? If they will look at the Kentucky Digest of 1822, they will see that where there wasn't a will (and you're saying there isn't one), the law of descent at that time was to the children — male and female — in equal shares. Daughters would inherit, as well as sons. Period. The husband of any married daughter might control her land, but she would own it.
BEAUTIFUL! This information is a huge help. Thank you, Judy G. Russell. With your info plus other findings, I'm now ready to begin writing my analysis.
My great great grandfather, Samuel Atherton, came to Ohio round about 1836. His wife followed two years later. Sarah was his third wife and all the land purchased after her arrival was in her name. The story came down that the land was in her name so that their son, George, who was about 16 years younger than the youngest son from the second wife, would be the only inheritor. No will was ever found for either Samuel or Sarah. That strategy seems to have worked. The parcels purchased in her name are still in the family.
Thanks Judy, love your blog.
Make sure you look for a possible prenuptial agreement — not unusual in a second or later marriage!


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Tanked up on rage, the mob is on the move. It wears a tame face here in my town: lawn signs, righteous statements in store windows, and silent vigils for BLM. But under the mask—both the disposable kind and the indelible one stamped on polite conformist psyches—lies the same disdain for our country. And the same assent to blood libel against white Americans. It is not necessary to replay here all that you have already read on the maelstrom of anti-Americanism whirling across the nation. Better to revisit, and hold close, passages from Frank Sheed's comments on political order in Society and Sanity. Written in 1953, they bear on our own day:
It is a delusion to think that men will love mankind more if they love their countrymen less. Indeed, the internationalists one meets, who have risen beyond love of country, seem to have shed a good deal of love in the process; they do not strike me as especially loving. . . . The man who lacks love for his country is a diminished man: not so diminished as if he lacked love for his family, but there is less to him all the same. A man need not be born there to feel it; he may have come from another country . . . [and] he can genuinely love his chosen country—but not if his own children do not.
Anonymous. Citizens' army of the Garde Nationale, Paris Commune, 1871.
Not if his own children do not. There's the rub. Beginning in the 1960s and '70s the schools gradually inoculated the next generation against the virtue of patriotism. We are left now with the ominous spectacle of growing portions of the electorate ignorant of the beauty, however imperfect, of its own inheritance. Writing in the post-war calm, Sheed could not imagine how prophetic these words would prove to be:
The country, if one there be, which does not inspire love is a diminished country, and, however well-organized the state, it is not stable. As in marriage, stability does not rest upon concrete foundations but on a thing so intangible as love, the one thing stronger than death.
Careful to distinguish between patriotism and crude nationalism, he wrote:
Patriotism, like family affection, is an expression of love. Nationalism, like snobbery, is an extension of egoism. . . . The mark of the Nationalist is hatred: he almost invariably hates some other country more than he loves his own; he takes the intensity of his hatred as a measure of his love, and another's lack of that hatred as as a lack of love, so that he will rend one of his own countrymen for not having enough.
Talk of hatred brings Seattle's insurrection straight to mind. Impetus for the squalid CHAZ/CHOP shanty town posing as an autonomous nation has been festering for decades. Since 1967, certainly. That was the year that Stokely Carmichael and political scientist Charles V. Hamilton changed the character of the civil rights movement with publication of Black Power. The racism of today's anti-racists is built on the fictions of this founding text: "No matter how 'liberal' a white person might be, he cannot ultimately escape the overpowering influence—on himself and on black people—of his whiteness in a racist society." Feeding the perverted history of The 1619 Project is Carmichael's dictum that "we must fill ourselves with hate for all white things."
Carmichael and Hamilton provided a blueprint for legitimizing hatred of whites in terms of rational social science. [Alexander Riley, writing in Chronicles, follows the pedigree.]
It could be argued that institutional racism does, indeed, exist. It is called affirmative action. Initially intended by the Johnson administration (1963-96) as a limited, fluid, and temporary counter measure to ease the effects of discrimination in a particular time, it has petrified into a doctrinaire social engineering project. Its purpose is the systematizing of diversity, an ideology that seeks "fewer whites, fewer men, and fewer heterosexuals." And as Harvard admission policies testify, fewer Asians, too. [Read David Azerrad's "The Social Justice Endgame" in Claremont Review of Books.]
Tuition paying parents of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison can thank dogmatic diversity for what is easily the low-water mark of inter-sectional affirmative ignorance. The College Fix has it covered:
As rioters in Madison, Wisc., pulled down a statue of a noted abolitionist and a monument to women's suffrage on Tuesday night, they had a supporter in a University of Wisconsin-Madison Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies. . . . Professor Sami Schalk, who describes herself on Twitter as a "Sarcastic fat Black disabled queer femme," tweeted in support of the rioters throughout the night, even as a gay Democratic state senator was attacked for filming the unrest.
Sarcastic fat Black disabled queer femme. This is the kind of self-description an obnoxious, attention-seeking class clown submits to the high school year book. But Dr. Schalk is a tenured embodiment of higher learning.
The abolitionist whose statue came down was Col. Hans Christian Heg, a Norwegian immigrant passionately committed to eradicating slavery in his adopted country. A member of the Free Soil Party, which opposed expansion of slavery into Western states, he also led a militia against slave-catchers in Wisconsin. Mortally wounded fighting against the Confederacy, this Scandinavian-born white male died so that this woman could trumpet her raw resentments. And could one day be free to panhandle on Twitter for funds to keep the mayhem going:
Roger Kimball's tenured radicals have had thirty years to produce tenured louts. If your daughter wants to take gender and/or women's studies, you might want to put away your checkbook. Let her pay her own way to the sandbox.
This is the manner in which Dr. Schalk celebrated tenure. Orwell was right: "There's always room for one more custard pie."
Celebrated #tenure by #twerking to @Beyonce in a pool of giant plastic sprinkles at @MUSOFICECREAM.
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— Sami Schalk (@DrSamiSchalk) November 16, 2019
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This week, Cory Levy speaks to three guests from different backgrounds in life who have each experienced depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts and behaviors. They are also willing to talk about it and to share how they've overcome their lowest points through entrepreneurship and technology.
We hope this episode will help anyone listening who is going through a similar experience. If you are, you're not alone. There is hope and people here to help. If you would like to speak with someone, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255, and our friends at Crisis Text Line are available 24/7 through an anonymous text service. Text 741741 to speak with a trained Crisis Counselor. Today we speak with Zach Latta, Amanda Southworth, and Ben Yu.
"MY PLATFORM IS DEVELOPMENT. WHENEVER I HAVE AN ISSUE WITH SOMETHING THAT I SEE, I MAKE AN APP ABOUT IT." — AMANDA SOUTHWORTH
None of us are beyond mental health issues. In this unique episode of OFF RCRD, host Cory Levy speaks with three young entrepreneurs who have all had to face mental health issues, depression, and more head-on, and overcome additional obstacles to get to where they are now. We combined three interviews into this one powerful episode, intersecting the stories of entrepreneurs Amanda Southworth, Zach Latta, and Ben Yu.
Amanda Southworth
Amanda Southworth (@amndasuthwrth) is the homeschooled 16-year-old iOS developer behind apps AnxietyHelper, Verena, and Whizard App. After struggling with depression and attempting suicide between 5-20 times, Amanda found her platform–something she could turn to as a powerful and creative outlet. "My platform is development. Whenever I have an issue with something that I see, I make an app about it."
Asked for her advice for others who are struggling and contemplating suicide, Amanda's advice is to slow down, think, and wait. "I really felt suicide was the only option….the future and opportunities that are coming up are so vast and expansive that you have no way of guessing what they're going to be based on this little sliver of your life."
Zach Latta
Zach Latta (@zachlatta) is the founder of the Hack Club, is a Theil Fellow, and was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30. Through Hack Club, Zach helps students lead "coding clubs where beginners learn to code through building things."
Before getting to a point where he could create opportunities for others through Hack Club, Zach had to find a way out of what he described as a "horrible pit" of depression. "One thing that really helped to get me out of that horrible pit I was in was finding an outlet that let me connect with other people. For me, that was coding."
Ben Yu
Thiel Fellow and entrepreneur Ben Yu (@Intenex) left Harvard after a semester to save his life. "I knew for a fact that if I'd stayed there any longer, I definitely would've killed myself. I wanted to figure out something else to do."
Before getting into entrepreneurship and tech, Ben decided to see the world. Around the time he conquered Kilimanjaro, Ben learned about the Thiel Fellowship and was accepted into the program. Ben later went on to co-found Sprayable and The Stream Token, and he credits his success to being able to overcome his struggles. "I think the worse thing that happens to a lot of people is that they get in a place where they're unhappy with their lives, but not so unhappy that it really propels them to change. Whereas, for me, I was so unhappy that it was very clear if I didn't actually do something about it, then, I would not be willing to go on living. "
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Tweet Suggests The Foos Are Ready For The 4th
We recently reported on the unfortunate accident suffered by the Foo Fighters' iconic frontman, Dave Grohl. You can read that story here. (If you remember, during a performance of Monkey Wrench in Sweden, Grohl fell 12 feet dislocating his ankle "and snapping my fibula like an old pair of take out chopsticks," Grohl would later write). So, with much anticipation of the Foos' July 4 concert in our Nation's capital, there were serious questions about whether or not the show would go on. However, a Tweet appearing on the band's account suggests that indeed the show will go on. The band Tweeted:
Can't f***ing wait for the 4th!!! See you at home, DC.
This is great news for Foo fans because the RFK Stadium show will be a big one. Not only does the show have significance because of the national holiday but it also will mark the band's 20th anniversary. With plenty of special guests in tow this should be a blowout bonanza. Way to go Dave. You again deliver for your fans like nobody else. Fooey on the naysayers!
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