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Minority of Building Products and Materials Manufacturers Review Marketing Strategies Quarterly
Research Sponsored by Point to Point, Centro, and the American Institute of Architects Showcases B2B Marketing Strategies of BPM Industry
Chicago, July 22, 2021 – A new study examining manufacturers of building products and materials reveal that less than 50% review their B2B marketing strategies quarterly, although budgets have risen from 15% of sales (average) in 2019 to 18% in 2021. The 'Building Materials Manufacturers Marketing Study' provides data on B2B marketing strategies and behaviors of the building products marketers (BPM) segment, showing how they engage customers such as architects, designers, contractors, building owners and facility managers. The information encompasses opinions from 156 BPM executives from brands selling appliances, flooring, doors, HVAC, cabinets and more.
Sponsored by Point to Point (https://www.pointtopoint.com), Centro (https://centro.net), and the American Institute of Architects (https://www.aia.org), the report is available at: https://www.pointtopoint.com/2021-bpm-research-study-white-paper-download-form.
Additional findings from the report show that:
Strategy: All respondents have B2B marketing strategies, and two-thirds developed theirs internally.
Staffing and COVID: Staffing levels on in-house teams have been positively impacted by COVID-19; across all team roles, on average, 17% of BPMs increased staffing vs. 11% that decreased staffing.
Agencies: Roughly three-quarters of BPMs use external marketing agencies. Eighty-four percent of BPMs with the largest marketing budgets in 2021 (18% of sales or more) use external agencies, vs. just 70% of those with smaller budgets.
Digital marketing: BPMs still pursue legacy tactics, but digital is most likely to grow in importance through 2022. In 2020, 11% of B2B marketing budgets went to building information modeling (BIM) / specs / product data, 11% to email/marketing automation, and 10% to digital display.
"The transition to digital-driven, B2B marketing is happening fast, bringing more sophisticated tactics, channels and a wealth of customer data. The effect was magnified in a pandemic year, where marketing plans should be pivoted quickly to keep pace with consumer demand shifts," said Megan Kacvinsky, CEO, Point to Point. "Point to Point, Centro and the American Institute of Architects created a groundbreaking benchmark study that gives BPMs the data that impacts revenue and operational success."
Point to Point is a B2B marketing communications agency focused exclusively on the building materials and industrial manufacturing categories. Its technology partner, Centro, provides the industry's most comprehensive, automated, and intelligent digital media platform — a software solution consolidating digital operations across programmatic, direct, connected TV (CTV), search, and social campaigns.
The data from the report was compiled through a survey of BPM professionals conducted in March 2021. Two-thirds of participating executives were CMOs, directors of business development, or directors of marketing. Most have been in their roles for more than two years, with longer tenures being common. The companies represented in the study comprise a wide range of corporate revenues: 18% with revenues of $100 million to $500 million; 33% with revenues of $500 million to $1 billion; and 49% with revenues of $1 billion or more.
Founded in 1857, AIA consistently works to create more valuable, healthy, secure, and sustainable buildings, neighborhoods, and communities. Through more than 200 international, state and local chapters, AIA advocates for public policies that promote economic vitality and public wellbeing.
AIA provides members with tools and resources to assist them in their careers and business as well as engaging civic and government leaders and the public to find solutions to pressing issues facing our communities, institutions, nation, and world. Members adhere to a code of ethics and conduct to ensure the highest professional standards.
About Point to Point
Point To Point, LLC, is composed of B2B marketing communications experts focused exclusively on the building materials and industrial manufacturing categories. We prefer to specialize so clients get the expertise they need to engage their audience and drive results.
Point To Point partners with clients to create data-driven content strategy and campaign performance through six key capabilities: Scalable Engagement, Product Launches, Database Activation, Account-Based Marketing, Driving Specification and Brand Development. Founded in 1982 in Cleveland, Ohio, the agency now has offices in Columbus, Chicago, Minneapolis and Buffalo. Visit Point To Point at https://www.pointtopoint.com.


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Keeping the Learning Going
Last updated on 9 March 2021 Design, Develop
Recently, I was talking to some friends of mine who work in learning and development and they were telling me that it's coming up to that time of the year when everyone needs to retake their mandatory eLearning courses on privacy and bullying & harassment. They were saying that during the year there's not too much focus on these topics until it comes around to refresher season when things are ramped up and there's some urgency around the subjects.
I was thinking about this afterwards and I know these legislative/compliance type topics are generally quite dry (although it's no excuse to blame your content) but usually these topic areas are only on people's minds when they initially take the course and again when they complete their refreshers. It highlighted to me that we should do more to sustain the learning after an event, no matter what the topic area is.
Often when we complete an eLearning course (or classroom course, for that matter) it's confined to a defined period of time. There may be a build up to the course but then once learners complete it, and are deemed 'competent' or have 'passed' it's back to work. Move on. They've been trained. The box has been ticked. The course is finished.
Keeping the learning going afterwards, be it online or classroom, presents a real opportunity for us in the learning space. All too often, in my experience, when people complete a learning event they go back to work and it's business as usual. Surely we should do more to sustain what has been delivered and bring about some change in the participants? If we just do things once in a course, it will be forgotten if the information is not reinforced.
The idea is to keep the messaging alive and ongoing by using a range of techniques. You can also use social tools and create opportunities for networking and sharing knowledge which are other powerful ways that can reinforce key messages and sustain learning over the longer term.
One of the exciting initiatives that we have introduced this year is the B Online Learning Alumni where our students, clients and partners can keep interacting and sharing after their course or project has finished. We've created a group in LinkedIn as a space to continue the conversations and learning between members. In addition to online discussions and sharing of information, we're going to organise some face-to-face meetups to further strengthen the connections that were formed during an event. If you are a former or current student, a client or partner you're most welcome to join our group.
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Niti Aayog bats for GM seeds
Suggests limiting GM seeds to those varieties discovered by Indian institutions and companies.
GN Bureau | May 8, 2017
#growth #agriculture #seeds #genetically modified #Niti Aayog #action agenda
Niti Aayog is open to the idea of utilizing genetically modified (GM) seeds to help in agricultural growth.
The three year action agenda of Niti Aayog says, "Genetically modified (GM) seeds have emerged as a powerful new technology promising high productivity, improved quality and lower use of fertilizers, weedicides and pesticides in the last one to two decades. They have also gained increasing acceptance among farmers around the world. Indian farmers also enthusiastically embraced these seeds in the only crop in which they have been permitted so far: cotton."
Read: GM Mustard is ready. But are we?
"There is some concern that GM seeds can be monopolized by multinationals, which may then exploit our farmers. But this concern is readily addressed by limiting GM seeds to those varieties discovered by our own institutions and companies," it adds.
The Aayog says that technology in the form of high-yielding seeds and fertilizer were the driver of India's attainment of self- sufficiency through the green revolution, and new technology remains one of the most important determinants of growth in agriculture. We need to work on several fronts.
"India needs a vibrant, responsive, market oriented and globally competitive agricultural research eco system. Instead of creating more institutions, quality must be attained through greater focus on fewer high quality institutions," the Aayog adds.
Read: GM tech is already obsolete: Suman Sahai of Gene Campaign
#seeds
#genetically modified
#Niti Aayog
#action agenda
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Russia working on lightweight successor to MiG-35
VPK-news
The fifth-generation fighter would feature advanced avionics and weaponry.
MiG is waiting for a Russian Defence Ministry contract for the supply of MiG-35s. Source: RIA Novosti
The Russian aircraft-manufacturing corporation MiG is considering the possibility of building a fifth-generation fighter. The new aircraft may be based on the MiG-35, and will be further enhanced by advanced avionics and weapons.
According to MiG managing director Sergei Korotkov, the corporation's experts are already working on a concept for the new fighter. "I know that this is one of the ideas, one of the directions that the design bureau is working on. I very much hope that soon we shall develop this area of work more seriously," he said.
Russian Air Force to induct a hundred MiG-35 fighters after 2016
Korotkov did not specify how much progress the corporation has made in its research and development, but said he considered the creation of a new combat aircraft "very likely," saying that "the most important thing is to have an order for it." Korotkov rejected the suggestion that this project may provoke a conflict between MiG and Sukhoi, which is working on its own version of a fifth-generation plane, the PAK FA (Prospective Airborne Complex of Frontline Aviation).
"These are two completely different aircraft, which will be performing different tasks," he said. The maximum take-off weight of the MiG-35 is 5 tons less than that of the PAK FA, so, Korotkov believes, it will be more effective in performing most of the proposed tasks. "We believe that the MiG-35 is a platform that may in future become the basis for a fifth-generation fighter," he said.
The MiG corporation is now waiting for a Russian Defense Ministry contract for the supply of MiG-35s. All the relevant documents have been submitted to the ministry, Korotkov said, adding that he hoped the contract – he did not specify for how many aircraft - will be signed "before the end of this year."
The MiG-35 may also be sold abroad: There have been media reports suggesting that Egypt is thinking of buying 24 MiG-35s fitted with Klimov RD-33MK engines. However, Korotkov refused to comment on these rumors. In April, the MiG corporation won a contract from the Russian Defense Ministry for the supply of 16 additional MiG-29SMT fighters for the needs of the Russian Air Force.
First published in Russian in VPK-news.
Read more: Russian air force views unmanned fighters as the future>>>
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PETUNIAS by Diane Unterweger
A LESS PAINFUL END by Vivek Nath Mishra
Home Fiction BRAND NEW DANCE – A short story by Kathryn M. Barber
BRAND NEW DANCE – A short story by Kathryn M. Barber
BRAND NEW DANCE
By Kathryn M. Barber
In high school, Miller lived right across the street from the Carter Fold. Next to the barn that belonged to Miller's daddy sat an even bigger barn, one that housed benches instead of hay, instruments in place of working tools. You could hardly pass by without noticing the barn for the record that displayed the words The Carter Family Fold: Honoring AP, Sara, and Maybelle stood large and tall over the highway. Adjacent to the barn music house was the old AP Carter Grocery House, now converted into a museum that marked musical legends passed through right here, Hiltons, Virginia. Her birthplace was the birthplace of country music. The mountains rolled like the notes that came from that barn on Saturday nights, and the grasses swayed with the banjos as they lingered in night time air.
This is what Hiltons, Virginia is like: you don't have sex before you're married, and if you do, you lie about it. Everybody goes to church somewhere, whether or not you believe in God. You pray every morning in the gym before classes start, and you skip over the chapter about evolution in the science books. If your car's broke, you drive your daddy's tractor to school, and if you wear a dress to a Friday night football game, you look like an idiot. Plus, you'll freeze to death. Lots of folks drink, but you don't talk about it much, and if you see someone who goes to the same church as you at the liquor store over by the high school, you don't make eye contact.
Miller and Maggie had been best friends since a youth group trip to North Carolina back in the seventh grade, and sometimes on Saturday nights, they would sit on the porch swing of Miller's house, Mountain Dew in wine glasses held between the correct fingers, and they would sip them and pretend they knew the ladies dragging their dresses and boots across the gravel roads, scurrying to arrive before the first note was played:
"Her husband is cheating on her, but she just can't see it, because she's having so much fun," Maggie said, her voice laced with a false New England accent.
"And her," Miller joined, mimicking the accent, "she over there, she's got her cowfee and she left her dowgh at home, and she's just here to have fun, just a fun weekend away with the girls. She don't care what her husband's doing back in New Jwsey, because she's having too much fun."
"That's fine, baby, you do whatever you want, just as long as you have fun," Maggie replied.
Miller swirled her pretend wine around in her glass, made it tunnel like the tornado that picked Dorothy Gale up out of a sepia-colored existence, dropped her on a yellow brick road in red shoes.
She wondered sometimes if Hiltons, Virginia would be so easy to escape—if one day, some storm might just swoop her up, carry her off out of these dark mountains, out of the maze of gravel roads that wove and clung to the river snaking through the trees and dirt.
"Where do you want to go? After college, I mean? Miller asked. They'd been trying not to talk about it, but now, Miller couldn't help it anymore.
Maggie shrugged. "That's a long way off, Miller." She traced the outline of her wine glass with her fingertips, swished a gnat onto the inside rim, then flicked it out.
"You leave for college in a month."
"Carson-Newman is less than an hour from here," Maggie reminded her. "I'll be home on weekends. And before you know it, I'll be home in a year for your graduation."
Something crashed from inside the house, and Miller shut her eyes. Her father was screaming at her mother again, this time about the Supreme Court and whom which candidate would appoint, how we had to keep John F. Kerry out of the White House next year, or he would ruin everything America was built on:
American needs George W, we're all going to hell if he doesn't win. We need a godly man, someone who's going to show our children what Jesus means.
Why does every President have to believe exactly the same things about God as you?
You're a godless woman, Lydia.
Godless? You think I'm godless? Why, because I don't believe the Bible is infallible? Because I don't believe Jesus hovered down from heaven and breathed every verse of scripture into the heart of whatever scribe was holding a writing instrument? Because I haul your children to church four times a week while you sit here at home with your television and your case of beer?
Every word in that Bible was written by the Lord God himself, and if you don't believe that, I think you ought to reconsider your salvation. You are godless.
Maggie stopped moving the porch swing, laid her hand on Miller's. Both were quiet, wanting neither to break the silence with their own words, nor to continue to be privy to Miller's parents' argument. They'd listened to the same arguments over and over. Church. Politics. Her dad's drinking. Her mother's temper. For five years, they'd listened to their arguments travel through walls and around corners. Miller'd learned about her mother's miscarriage this way, her dad's whores, and that her uncle had raped her mother twenty years ago. This is why Miller loved Maggie most: because Maggie didn't comment, ask how she was, or how she felt. She was just there.
"It's just an hour away," Miller repeated in a whisper.
"New York," Maggie said. She turned to face Miller in the swing, touched her hands to Miller's cheeks. Miller's stick-straight dirty blonde hair fell into her face, and Maggie tucked it behind thrice pierced ears. "That's where we'll go after college. Both of us. We'll live in a crappy apartment in the middle of Manhattan that we can't afford, one with rats, and beds that fold out of the walls, and it'll be so loud, we'll have to yell across the living room at each other."
"But we'll be together," Miller said.
Maggie nodded, black curls bouncing across a tanned face. "We'll be together. And we won't be here."
The tractor driving between the Carter Fold and the porch created a medley with the singing and banjos across the street, drowning out the argument, even if just for a moment. Miller inhaled, breathed in the hay, the mud, the scent of the river mingled with horse manure, breathed in all that was Hiltons, Virginia.
After every home football game, the Christian high schoolers attended Fifth Quarter, a worship service beginning at 10pm and lasting until midnight. The sinners went to the sock hop, danced on each other like they were in a Footloose remake. Miller and Maggie's parents didn't allow them to go to sock hops, and anyway, Fifth Quarter had more food. Plus, they were dating boys from over in Twin Springs, almost half an hour away, and they only saw them at church events and once a weekend. Steven and John Thomas skipped their own high school's football games to watch Gate City's, and while dancing in the school gym wasn't a proper excuse in any of their parents' eyes to stay out until midnight with the opposite sex, worshipping Jesus was.
It would have been a perfect foursome, seeing as Miller and Maggie were best friends and their boyfriends were best friends, except for one thing: Miller didn't like Maggie's boyfriend, Steven. But Steven was her best friend's boyfriend, and, he was her boyfriend's best friend, so she had to. Or, she had to pretend like she did, anyway. If you asked Miller, and no one had, Maggie was far out of his league. Steven was hard, serious, and sometimes controlling. Maggie was silly, passionate, and easy-going. When Maggie wanted to get a tattoo on her eighteenth birthday, Steven told her no girlfriend of his was going to have a tramp stamp or some skanky tattoo on her wrist or arm. Nice girls didn't do that. His girl, definitely didn't do that.
Miller watched Steven shovel Pizza Hut pizza in his mouth, inhale the chess bars made by Porter Hammond's mother. As Maggie raised a third slice to her lips, Steven put his hand on her, leaned over, whispered: "Don't you think you've had enough, Maggie?"
Porter Hammond's bass playing was the worst thing in the world, second only to Steven. Miller tried to sing along with their youth leader, tried to dance and do the motions to "Every Move I Make." All she could hear though, was Porter's bass making her ears cringe, their friend Addy Jill's perfect voice exactly on key anyway, and Steven telling Maggie she was too fat, even though Maggie weighed in around 125.
When their youth leader, Al, was done preaching about how holding hands leads to sex in the backseat of the church van; and when the two girls both named Sara(h) had finished another skit about witnessing; and when Billy had stopped pacing the isles shouting about Jesus, forgiveness, redemption, and grace, Maggie walked with Steven to her car. Miller walked John Thomas to his.
Some of the other kids from school were already lined up outside the Sno Shack sitting adjacent to the church, an establishment that had learned to stay open after every church event, no matter the time or day. Maggie's sister, who was in Miller's year, stood by Addy Jill's car, comparing notes on the calculus exam they had the following Monday. As Miller leaned against John Thomas's car, surveying her peers across the parking lot radius, John Thomas leaned into her, kissed her cheek. He backed up, looked at her in her freckled complexion, curled her fingers into his.
"I love you," he said.
Miller held her breath, begged the constellations above of her Orion and the seven sisters to whisper words to her, to breathe an echo into a silence she felt bound to. "Thank you," she said.
"You're welcome," John Thomas stumbled. "So, I'll uh, I'll see you at youth next week if your parents don't let you go to the Passion play this weekend."
"Yeah, definitely," Miller said, twisting his varsity jacket around her.
"Well, and we're on still on to go see Johnny Cash next Saturday night, right?"
"Of course,. Definitely. Jimmy Cash."
"Johnny."
Miller slid into Maggie's passenger seat as John Thomas and Steven drove away, their tail lights blending in with the hill traffic sign and Pal's blinking special sign, Big Chicken, Frenchie Fry, Peachie Tea, $6.27. "What was that?" Maggie asked.
"He said he loved me."
"What did you say?" Maggie shifted the car into gear, her brakes squealing, rolled down the hill toward the Pizza Plus, signaled left toward the high school.
Maggie's laugh sounded like the background noises from all the nineties sitcoms blended together and amplified over Porter's bad bass amplifier. "You thanked him?"
"Yes," Miller said, laughing. "What was I supposed to say?"
"I don't know, how about, I love you back?"
When Miller was silent and Patsy Cline's voice filled the old Buick, Maggie bit her lip, finally understood. "You don't love him back, do you?"
The floor was just dirt. The benches looked like church pews. They raised up and up, like a theatre seat, but the back of the room was open, letting the star light shine through where the drapes and windows could have been.
"We met her once, you know," Maggie was saying as the foursome joined the line, John Thomas fingering the stack of four tickets nervously. "A few Halloweens ago," Maggie continued. "I mean, we didn't know it was her at the time, but when we got back in the car, Mama said, 'Y'all know who just answered the door and gave you that candy?' and we said, 'No ma'am,' and she said, 'That there was June Carter Cash. That woman's a living legend. Y'all best save them pieces of candy.'"
"I wish we could've seen them together," Steven sighed dramatically, fingers running through his hair as he resituated his ball cap. "Johnny and June? How could we have lived here our whole lives, and never seen them perform together?"
Miller, unphased, unevaded, and uncaring, asked: "You do realize there's a new Marvel movie that came out tonight, right? And instead, we're in the armpit of Virginia, listening to some hillbilly play a banjo? Seriously?"
John Thomas, Steven, and Maggie all stared at her.
"This is Johnny Cash," Steven said.
"Well, then, I'm so sorry," Miller said, rolling her eyes once Steven had slid his arm around Maggie and turned to face the box office. John Thomas's eyes begged her to be nice, and she became embarrassed he could tell how much she disliked his friend.
"You literally live across the street, and you've seriously never been to the Carter Fold?" Steven asked her.
"You literally live next to the J&P Market, and you seriously haven't invested in deodorant?" Miller returned. Maggie's elbow shoved into her side as Miller shrugged and allowed Maggie to pull her across the line of the stage.
The dirt clung to Miller's sandaled feet, and she surveyed the sea of boots in the pews around her. Instruments were strewn across the stage on stands: banjos, guitars, fiddles. She sat down between John Thomas and Maggie, Steven on the far end. While the locals and the tourists filed into the barn doors, the players took their places on the stage. Musicians trickled onto the raised platform as the audience continued to flood in from the Virginia mountains, the Scott County blanket of stars. The summer air smelled like flowers and fresh-cut grass, a stench of Miller's daddy's farm blending in, all floating through to their noses through the windows with the raised garage doors. As an old man tottered onto the stage with a cane and some assistance, John Thomas straightened in his pew seat, stiffened like the bulletins in the racks last Sunday. His brown curly hair, normally a mess and all over, looked like it'd been combed, and maybe even—was he wearing gel in his hair?
He looked nicer than he did most Sunday mornings at church.
"It's him," he whispered to Miller. He took her hand in his, squeezed it tight, bounced it on his leg as though the band could not keep time without his own rhythm.
The crowd rose to its feet across the old barn, thundered in applause like the winds had thundered through the Appalachian Mountains the night before, soaked Miller's daddy's cattle field.
"Hello," the old man said into the microphone. "I'm Johnny Cash."
"It's Johnny Cash," Maggie whispered in a squeal.
Everyone in Hiltons, Virginia clapped, stomped, whistled, hollered, as Johnny Cash began strumming, singing: I heard that train a-coming, it's coming 'round the bend. I ain't seen the sunshine since I don't know when.
Maggie drank in his voice, the familiar sound her parents had raised her to, sung the words to herself between Steven and Miller. Miller was silent but hypnotized by the wrinkled and frail voice that came from the man dressed in black. She watched his gold wedding ring catch the light as he strummed it over his guitar strings, inhaled his words as they changed from waiting for a train to walking around sidewalks high on a Sunday morning. Beside her, John Thomas wasn't staring at Johnny Cash; he was staring at Miller, watching her fall in love with Johnny Cash, and the idea of a movie theatre or spending the night doing anything besides listening to his old man and his guitar evaporated like the steam from her mama's cornbread.
When he stopped playing, strung the last chord of "Sunday Morning Coming Down," Maggie looked at her best friend to see Miller's hand on her chest, grief in her eyes. Johnny paused a moment, as though he was unsure how to proceed.
"Well, I don't really know what to say about how I feel tonight, about being up here without her," he said, his voice shaking along with his hands. "June and I were together forty years. And the thing that's so severe, there's no describing it, no way to tell exactly what the pain is. It's… it's the big one, the biggest. You lose your mate, the one you've been with all those years. It's the big one. It hurts so bad. It really hurts. It seemed to be getting a little better, knowing I was coming to celebrate her birthday, coming to her old home place."
Miller's hand rested on her chest, and she could feel herself rising and falling like the notes that tumbled out of his guitar. What this love was supposed to feel like? This old man, who could barely walk across the stage he'd spent his life on, pining for, missing this woman? Missing a woman who'd not only been his partner, his mate, on the stage, but in life? Was love supposed to feel this heavy? Was love supposed to feel like Miller felt now, like she couldn't breathe anymore, like the world should stop and fall into step with her, with Johnny, with June? Is this how John Thomas felt about her?
"We spent so much time here and had so much love for each other," Johnny continued. "I wish I could tell you, wish I could share it with you more—how we felt about each other. I'd like to do a song that's a tribute to June."
He fumbled with the song sheets, shuffled to find the correct one, a man leaning over to help him. "She loved it here, she loved all you people. This is for June. I know you're here tonight, baby."
Miller's breath got stuck in her throat, like the time she found her daddy's whiskey under the kitchen sink, sipped it, choked it back up. The audience around her disappeared, and though she'd never listened to Johnny Cash, or to June Carter, she knew what June looked like. And she pictured her, standing in front of the stage, tapping her hand in time with the notes. She imagined the ghost of June Carter, watching her husband mourn her, echoes of his grief reverberated through the old barn, slipping out through the open windows like fog.
Carry me away on your snow-white wings to my immortal home. Oh, come, angel band, come and around me stand.
Maggie was in tears, holding Steven's hand. A wave swept over the Carter Fold, handkerchiefs and face tissues creeping out of pocket books, and by the time Johnny finished the hymn, sniffles and light weeping had become the harmony.
"As June said about me, you don't sing too good, but he is a good old boy." Johnny smiled, shifted his sheet music again. It occurred to Miller that though he had the music stand in front of him, he wasn't actually looking at the notes directing his fingers. He was looking at the rafters, as though June might be caught up in them, as though Heaven might have allowed her a temporary exit, if only to tell him she was still with him. What kind of man loved a woman this way? What kind of woman was capable of inheriting a man this level of pain in her absence?
I find it very easy to be true. I find myself alone when each day's through—because you're mine, I walk the line.
When the boys were gone and only Miller and Maggie remained, hunkered down in Miller's bed with glow-in-the-dark stars shining above the laced canopy bed, Maggie whispered: "Are you awake?"
"No," Miller said.
"Did you say it back to him? John Thomas?"
Miller was quiet. She didn't have to strain her ears to listen to the argument coming from the back-living room. Maggie leaned over to Miller's dresser, switched on the radio, turned it up so that Miller's parents' voices were lost in LeeAnn Rimes's. "What do you think love's supposed to be anyway?"
Maggie whispered, her face turned toward Miller's, both heads on silk pillowcases. Maggie was wearing their State Championship tennis team t-shirts from last spring. Miller wondered if when Maggie left for Carson-Newman, if she would still wear those shirts, or if they'd remain at the bottom of her dresser, the blue and white replaced by navy and orange, exchanged Blue Devils for Eagles.
"I don't know. Isn't it supposed to be like a can't eat, can't sleep, reach for the stars, over the fence, World Series kind of thing?"
"Wow. You're so philosophical tonight," Maggie said.
"That's from a Mary-Kate and Ashley movie."
"Is that how you feel about Steven?" Miller asked.
Maggie hesitated, and silence hung between them in the dark like the net that hung between them through three years of tennis practices behind the elementary school. "I don't know. Maybe. Maybe one day I will."
"I think maybe it's supposed to look like Johnny and June," Miller whispered.
"Johnny cheated on his wife and left her for June," Maggie said.
"I don't care. I didn't know it was possible to love someone that much."
Four weeks later, Miller helped Maggie pack her life into a couple dozen boxes, pulled packing tape across all the tops and bottoms. The next morning, Maggie was leaving for Carson-Newman, a full hour away down Interstate 81. As the girls surveyed the stack of boxes, Maggie's mother entered her bedroom.
"Magnolia," her mother said. She never called her Maggie, only Magnolia. "It's after midnight, honey. We have an early start tomorrow."
Miller nodded, said goodnight to Maggie's mama, and the two girls walked outside to the driveway, lingered above the view of where the river met the mountain. The moon was reflecting off the river water, full and round like it was the night they walked home from the Carter Fold with Johnny's voice still in their ears.
"I wish I could go with you tomorrow, help you move in," Miller said. She couldn't look Maggie in the eyes, determined to say goodbye without all the tears.
"I wish you could too," Maggie said, "but you have your last first day of high school tomorrow. Brand new year, brand new dance, right?"
"I have my first day without my best friend."
"You have Addy Jill and the others. You'll be fine. Senior year is the best one." But she didn't sound convincing; her words were shaking like Johnny's fingers had shook running across the guitar that night back in July. "You sure you don't want me to drive you home?" Maggie asked.
Miller shook her head. "No, it's okay. I can walk. I need the air."
They stood there, silent, unsure, and afraid. "I'll miss you, Magnolia."
"I'm going to miss you too, Amelia."
Maggie took Miller in her arms, and they wept together. They wept like the time Miller's uncle died while they were on a youth retreat and no one could make Miller stop yelling and heaving. They wept like they did the day Maggie graduated from Gate City High and it first occurred to them they would have to face the next year without each other. They wept like the time Maggie's old boyfriend wouldn't stop touching her, told her she was gay if she didn't like it. They wept like they did the first time they heard Miller's daddy hit her mama. They wept like the time Maggie's mom had a miscarriage and didn't come out of her room for weeks. They wept because tomorrow was the beginning of forever.
Kathryn M. Barber comes from the mountains that follow the Tennessee/Virginia state line. After finishing her MA at Mississippi State University, she moved to Nashville, where she taught at Belmont University. Currently, she is in the second year of UNCW's MFA program, where she writes fiction and teaches Intro to Creative Writing. Although she grew up just down the road from the Carter Fold, she didn't discover her love for Johnny Cash until living in Nashville—now, he shows up in her stories quite often.
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How to Watch the Disney Holiday Singalong Tonight on Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV & More
Christmastime is here and Disney will help you get into the holiday spirit with the Disney Holiday Singalong. Grab a seat and your favorite holiday treats for this fun and festive event tonight.
When and Where to Watch
The fun starts Monday night, November 30, at 8:00 pm ET, on ABC.
The holiday event will be hosted by Ryan Seacrest and the one hour special will include these performances:
BTS – "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town"
Andrea Bocelli – "Silent Night"
Michael Bublé – "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas"
Ciara – "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"
Chloe x Halle – "Do You Want to Build a Snowman?"
Derek Hough and Hayley Erbert – "Hey Santa" and "Jingle Bells"
Julianne Hough – "Whistle While You Work" and "Let It Snow"
Adam Lambert – "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
Leslie Odom Jr. – "What's This?"
Katy Perry – "I'll Be Home for Christmas" and "Cozy Little Christmas"
P!NK – "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)"
Kerry Washington – "Joy to the World"
You'll also see a special performance of Frozen's "Let it Go" by the Broadway casts of "Frozen," "The Lion King," and "Aladdin" from The New Amsterdam Theatre.
How to Watch the Disney Holiday Singalong
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fuboTV – Watch ABC on plans starting at $54.99/month after a free 3-day trial.
Hulu – You can stream the Holiday Singalong live on ABC with Hulu + Live TV for $54.99/mo, or watch it the next day on a basic Hulu plan that starts at $5.99/month and comes with a free 30-day trial.
YouTube TV – Stream tonight's event on YouTube TV for free with the service's 7-day trial. After that, a monthly subscription costs $64.99.
Vidgo You can stream the Holiday Singalong on ABC with its standard plan, Vidgo TV Core, which costs $45/month, and its premium plan, Vidgo TV Plus, is available for $55.
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Some 35,000 families in the Cuban province of Granma have homes with dirt floors
The province of Granma, the one with the most dirt floors on the island, has not been able to escape the problem, one of those that the Cuban government proposed to eradicate two years ago and in which it has hardly made any progress. According to the official press, at the beginning of this year there were still 35,834 homes of this type and it was planned to eliminate 4,439, but as of December only 1,462 had been recovered, the majority (1,110) by their own efforts and only 352 through the State.
"We are facing a very tense year in flooring production," he told the newspaper. Granma Yesser Izaguirre Ojeda, provincial director of Housing. The shortage of cement, a material for which only 20% of what was forecast was obtained, and financing, which did not exceed 50% of what was projected, are the main causes. The municipalities in which the plan is progressing best are Bayamo, Guisa and Niquero, which fixed more than a hundred floors each, while in Media Luna and Manzanillo they did not exceed 40.
The official explains that fixing a dirt floor reaches an unaffordable amount today for Cuban families, with prices around 25,000 pesos for homes of just 50 square meters. The situation would be alleviated if the banks made the loans more flexible, extending the term, so they are trying to negotiate that possibility.
"It is not the same that you have to pay 15,000 or 20,000 pesos immediately after the constructive action related to the eradication of a dirt floor is carried out, than that you can do it, according to your income, in a certain amount of quotas", explained Izaguirre.
Fixing a dirt floor reaches an unaffordable amount today for Cuban families, with prices around 25,000 pesos for homes of just 50 square meters
The problems to produce the materials –always attributed to the blocking from the US – are also among the reasons why it is impossible to have positive data on the eradication of these homes, which, moreover, the authorities consider a personal matter. This is reflected in the declarations of the official, who affirms as a "humanist principle of the Revolution (…) the purpose of eradicating all dirt floors", including those of those who have illegal housing – the majority of cases – and that it is not recognized in the housing fund, which suggests a large hidden pocket of this type of residences.
The prices of construction materials, with cement at the forefront, they became almost 50% more expensive in Cuba in the last year. "Of an initial plan of 5,880 tons of P350 resistance cement, we have only received, to date, some 2,849 tons, which represents 48%," says Sulaida Ferrales Cover, director of the producing company in the province.
This situation has meant the use of extender (additive to increase the performance of a cement grout), with which 268 dirt floors were eradicated, as well as the manufacture of floors with brick, wood and clipping of marble (of the 20,931 m2 of mosaics and tiles planned, only 8,235 were manufactured, or 39%), but even with that, the figures have not been improved.
In this context, the authorities urge more and more alternatives to be produced locally, such as blocks or Roman cement, made with lime. "These variants are still not sufficiently exploited, neither by state entities, which can produce them, nor by the clients themselves, who often show reluctance to opt for them," adds the manager.
In 2020, the Cuban Minister of Construction, René Mesa Villafaña, placed homes with dirt floors on the island at 122,072 and described solving this problem as a "high priority." For that year, he warned, 59,931 cement floors had to be laid, but the arrival of the pandemic and the worsening of the eternal Cuban crisis ruined all the plans.
In the last housing commission of the National Assembly, on December 11, the authorities recognized that the construction plan was once again breached, with only 76% completed. Throughout the year, 21,229 homes have been completed, only 2,000 more than last year, and around 7,000 dirt floors have been repaired throughout the island.
The housing deficit in Cuba exceeded 800,000 the last time official figures were released, but the state of most of them is also very precarious. This situation coexists with the increase in premises or residences for sale and rent, caused by the massive departure of hundreds of thousands of Cubans in the last year.
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If you love trashy, tragic and fabulously campy movies, then Connie and Carla is one for you. So why am I writing about a movie on a broadway site? Connie and Carla is a movie about two women who want to star on broadway. They want to have roles that are amazing, sing and perform as best as they can. Unfortunately they witness a murder and have to go on the run and abandon their dreams of becoming amazing Actresses. So they think about the only place that is large enough to not be found and where there is absolutely no talent or class or culture and they realize, it's LA.
During the movie Connie and Carla never give up on their dreams of becoming broadway stars. Unfortunately LA doesn't really offer any form of cultural performing arts like Broadway, so they end up in a Victor Victoria styled situation at a local gay bar.
Connie and Carla end up posing as men dressing like women and performing showtunes in full drag as drag queens in a drag bar. Not the classiest of places or things to do, but you'll love watching as they perform "Maybe This Time" from Cabaret and then they go into Evita for a full standing ovation with the audience singing along to "Don't Cry for Me Argentina".
Connie and Carla is an absolutely fabulous and funny film to watch. They stuff more musical numbers into a show than I think almost any show that isn't a musical could ever try and do. Starring Nia Vardalos from both Muriel's Wedding and My Big Fat Greek Wedding and numerous broadway shows as well as Toni Collete who we all loved in The Sixth Sense, Little Miss Sunshine and many more films, you'll fall in love with this trashy and fun film that is all about your favorite broadway showtunes being sung by women dressed as med dressed as women. The movie is a favorite cult classic in the gay and theatre community and you won't be able to help falling in love with them and you may even start to sing a long to some of your favorite showtunes from a ton of classic broadway shows including "Don't Rain on My Parade" from Funny Girl, "Let Me Entertain You" from Gypsy, "There are Worse Things I Could Do" from Grease and event "Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair" from South Pacific. Connie and Carla is the perfect movie for movie night and your friends will all love laughing and singing a long to it.


Forget about VDI vs. DaaS. With Citrix Workspace Services, desktops can live in the data center, a colocation facility or in the cloud. You can mix and match where they reside and manage them through one console.
Citrix CEO Mark Templeton is known for making a Steve Jobs-style "one more thing" announcement at his annual Synergy keynote. This year's conference, which took place in Los Angeles in May, was no different -- Templeton announced and demoed Citrix Workspace Services (or CWS) at the end of his keynote.
Unfortunately, the CWS announcement came after the audience members had been in their seats for well over two hours. At the moment of the reveal, most people were more preoccupied with whether it would be rude to get up and go to the bathroom than with the actual announcement. So I want to address it head-on: Workspace Services is a big, big deal. It is the single biggest change to Citrix's desktop products since the WinFrame days of the 1990s, and it absolutely represents the future of XenApp and XenDesktop.
Put simply, Workspace Services is about taking all of the management consoles for Citrix's various products and moving them up to the cloud -- Azure, in this case. Then you can log in to that cloud-based management console and plug in all of your resources, which could be things like XenDesktop and XenApp servers, file systems, ShareFile servers, XenMobile applications and policies, NetScaler devices, and more. These resources can come from anywhere -- your own on-premises servers, colocation facilities or cloud infrastructure providers like Azure or Amazon Web Services.
To be clear, CWS is not about moving your servers to the cloud. Rather, it's about moving the management of your servers to the cloud. It doesn't matter whether your actual servers are on-premises or in the cloud (or both).
To understand how cool this is, let's look at an example. In today's world, one option for Windows desktop delivery is virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Some people build their own on-premises VDI environments themselves; some build their own VDI environments which they host at colocation facilities; some outsource the management of their VDI to service providers; some people just pay for Desktops as a Service (DaaS). There are a lot of arguments about which approach is better, and various reasons given why each choice is ideal.
The same will apply to Windows applications, mobile apps, file services, authentication, profile management, security, desktops, databases and all other aspects of IT.
Citrix is not the first to announce a strategy like this. The aforementioned approach is very similar to what Microsoft is doing with Azure and future versions of Windows Server, and close to what VMware announced with its vCloud Hybrid Service. So while the Citrix plan isn't necessarily unique, that last-minute announcement gave us a glimpse of what desktop virtualization will look like in 2020.
Comparing VDI and cloud-hosted virtual desktops.


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Ford working on new compact pickup to slot below Ranger?
Jul 27, 2018, 9:49am ET
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The truck is expected to replace the Fiesta-based Courier that was made in Brazil until 2013.
Ford is reportedly working on a new compact pickup that will slot below the revived Ranger in the US market.
Some Ranger fans may be surprised to see the nameplate return to the US as a midsize pickup, smaller than the F-150 yet much larger than the Ranger that was discontinued from the US market for the 2011 model year.
Ford has decided to fill the vacant role by developing a new small pickup that will be sold in the US, unnamed sources have told .
The new model is expected to serve as a replacement for the Fiesta-based Courier, produced in Brazil and sold in global markets through 2013. Ford is said to be eyeing a slightly larger footprint, however, switching from the Fiesta to the Focus platform.
If the latest report is accurate, US showrooms could be stocked with the new compact pickup as early as 2022.
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The Mercure Rimini Artis is a modern, stylish 4-star hotel in a privileged location in the heart of the Adriatic Riviera, directly on Rimini's seafront promenade, one of Europe's most famous beaches, surrounded by fantastic opportunities for shopping, fine dining and fun. It boasts 57 rooms with terrace with sea view, American Bar open 24 hours a day, outdoor heated pool with hot tub corner available all year round, fitness center, meeting room and large underground parking garage with controlled access.
Sun, sea, big events and much more. In Rimini, there's something for everyone: big theme parks, a rich historical hinterland, food and wine routes, the new Palacongressi conference center and the trade and exhibition district.
Bright, spacious rooms, each with a balcony with direct or indirect sea views. Comfortably equipped, soundproofed, air-conditioned, electronic card access. Twin, double, triple and quadruple rooms available.
Welcome to the elegant and exclusive lobby bar, boasting simple, minimalist furnishings and huge windows overlooking the stunning outdoor pool. Why not relax and sample one of our barman's impressive creations?
Had a one night stay recently and was impressed with the quality of hotel and the staff. Very welcoming and friendly on arrival. Really pleased with room that had a partial sea view on side of hotel. Breakfast was reasonable. Nice touch with free pizza pieces and snacks on the bar in the evening. Great location. Would definitely stay again.
We had a really lovely time. The gentleman at the reception who's name I think is Nikola, was very welcoming and checked us in. He gave us a lovely room when my husband told him we were celebrating my birthday. He was very helpful and recommended a nice restaurant for our dinner. The room we stayed in was nice and clean with a lovely sea view.
The hotel looks and feels quite new even though we were told it is about 10 years old. The room we were given was bright and spacious with two balconies, one looking to the street and the other with a partial sea view. The staff at reception, bar and breakfast restaurant were very friendly and helpful. The happy hour was a nice surprise with wine and snacks. The breakfast was sumptuous with made-to-order eggs and other nice touches. The only complain we had was that the balcony double glass doors in the room could not close 100% resulting in street noise creeping in. But that was a minor problem as we slept quite well in the large, firm double bed. The hotel was so good we decided to stay there for another night. All in all a very good experience.
I didn't stay there and you charged my credit card. I've tried to reach your hotel on many occasions along with emails. I selected your hotel based on FALSE ADVERTISING that the hotel was near Rome. I've complained about this to my card. You should refund my payment.
Good water pressure, very nice people. Free bike rental. Less than one minutes to beach.
The hotel is clean and cozy, and the staffs are very friendly. Location is also good.
Nice hotel in a great location, Great people.
We enjoyed our 1 week stay at Mercure Rimini Artis. All the staff at this hotel (from Reception (Nicole and other gentleman with beard), bar& Breakfast (Mia and Christina) and cleaning) were very friendly and nice. We had a warm welcome and good treatment during our whole stay. rooms were very clean & tidy and very well maintained. The swimming pool was great with warm water 24/7. Few things to be improved are 1. sewage smell from shower drain, 2. fresh fruits in the breakfast area to be covered to avoid flies. Apart from these issues it was brilliant. We definitely would recommend to our friends and we will stay if travel to Rimini again.
We had a wonderful stay. The room was fantastic, the staff amazing and the free breakfast comprehensive and delicious. We would highly recommend this hotel.
Great service from friendlyb and helpful staff, excellent breakfast.
We stayed for the second time at Artis. Everything was outstanding as we expected it based on our first stay. Personnel is friendly and helpful. Rooms are very good. Parking in the private garage. Absolutely recommend this hotel to everybody.
Extremely pleasant and courteous Staff, with a can Do attitude. The room was clean and efficient Bed was very comfortable and relaxing.
Lovely hotel .Room very nice and clean housekeeping was excellent.Bar Staff was also excellent as well. Reception could not of been more helpful from the moment we walk in until the moment we booked out. Would not hesitate to stay again.
The true hearted friendliness of the staff, at reception, at the bar, at the breakfast service and the house keeping is really amazing and makes one feel very well taken care of.


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Photo By Chris McCrory/Cronkite News: Martha McSally, left, and Kyrsten Sinema attacked each other's voting records during a live debate Monday night. They're vying to replace Republican Jeff Flake in the Senate.
PHOENIX – In a debate peppered with accusations of lying and treason, U.S. Senate candidates Martha McSally and Kyrsten Sinema took shots at each other Monday in their only public debate of the 2018 election, each calling out the other's voting record as proof that the other candidate is not a true representative of Arizona.
Sinema used the debate, which was broadcast live on Arizona PBS, to portray herself as an independent, echoing the campaign ads supporting her candidacy. She painted herself as someone willing to step over party lines, embracing the fact that she had voted largely with President Donald Trump's agenda since 2017.
She attempted to dodge questions about how she would have voted during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing, calling the event a "circus." She expressed disappointment with the way the Senate handled the confirmation but ultimately said she would have voted no because it appeared to her that Kavanaugh lied under oath.
On other issues, she attempted to downplay that some of her positions are Democratic, pointing them out as good for Arizona. She referenced the price of beer cans when saying she opposed the Trump administration's tariffs on aluminum imports because they hurt the state's people.
"That's something I think we should all agree on, that beer shouldn't cost more," she said.
Sinema attacked McSally for being unscrupulous during her campaign, saying the two-term Republican congresswoman was willing to do anything to be elected. Asked whether she believed McSally was serious about not wanting to change Medicare to a voucher program, Sinema said it was hard to believe anything McSally said.
"I think this is just a pattern that we've seen through this campaign, unfortunately, that Martha has changed her opinions very rapidly when she decided to run for United States Senate and has shown that she is willing to say and do anything to get elected," Sinema said.
Photo By Chris McCrory/Cronkite News: Rep. Martha McSally, R-Tucson, has served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. She spent much of the debate on the attack, fighting against both her opponent and the moderators.
McSally spent much of the debate on the attack, fighting against both her opponent and the moderators – "Arizona Horizon" host Ted Simons and Arizona Republic/azcentral.com reporter Maria Polletta. Answering the first question about her relationship with Trump, McSally said she took offense to the idea that she had been a critic during the 2016 campaign.
She defended White House policy, including the separation of undocumented children from their parents at the southern border, saying the administration's hands were tied by the law.
"The law in the books is to enforce the law," McSally said.
As the debate weaved through topics ranging from health care to immigration, McSally fought back against questions about her voting record and stances on those issues.
When asked about her motivation for voting to allow internet service providers to sell private information online, McSally denied acting on behest of corporate political action committees and said such accusations had been debunked. She had received more than $40,000 in campaign contributions from the telecom industry when the vote was held.
McSally, who is anti-abortion, refused to give an answer when pressed about whether she would support the repeal of Roe v. Wade.
By the end of the hourlong debate, McSally was visibly frustrated, not answering a question about climate change and instead turning to her opponent and asking whether she would apologize for 2003 comments about the Taliban that McSally described as treasonous.
"Martha has chosen to run a campaign like the one you're seeing right now where she's engaging in ridiculous attacks and smearing my campaign," Sinema said.
Photo By Chris McCrory/Cronkite News: Rep. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Phoenix, has served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. She used the debate to portray herself as an independent, echoing the campaign ads supporting her candidacy.
After the debate, both candidates fielded questions from reporters, but both pointed to their voting records as an indicator of how they would represent the state.
McSally had similar comments for reporters.
The debate attracted national attention, with ABC, the Associated Press, BBC, HBO's "Vice News Tonight" and Showtime's "The Circus" reporting.
Democrats have cited the race as an opportunity to shift the power balance in Congress.
The candidates have poured millions of dollars into advertising attacking one another, and this was their only debate.
The race is historic for Arizona, which has never sent a woman to the U.S. Senate. Arizona is one of six states that have female Republican and Democratic candidates seeking Senate seats in the 2018 midterms, according to CNN. Additionally, the state has not elected a Democrat as senator since Dennis Deconcini's re-election in 1988.
Republican McSally, a two-term congresswoman representing Tucson, and Democrat Sinema, a three-term congresswoman representing central Phoenix, are competing to fill the Sen. Jeff Flake's open seat after the senator declined to seek re-election.
Arizona's Senate race could be gaining national attention because Democrats have "very few options to play offense" in this year's election, said Kyle Kondik, who analyzes elections with the University of Virginia Center for Politics. Of the 35 available Senate seats, the Democrats now hold 26.


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Bringing the outdoors in at Ed Robson Arena
By Zach Spedden on October 12, 2021 in College, Hockey
The opening of Ed Robson Arena this month marked a significant milestone for Colorado College. Not only will the arena be the hockey program's first on-campus home, but it will serve as a new venue that was designed with its Colorado Springs surroundings in mind. (more…)
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Photo courtesy of FringePVD/by James Lastowski
By Annie Furuyama
The Providence Fringe Festival is back for its fifth year in Olneyville this July 30-August 4. The weekend will showcase over 300 experimental artists from the Providence and New England area, including dancing, plays, improv comedy, and other acts.
Josh Short is the artistic director of The Wilbury Theatre Group, which created FringePVD in 2014. "We felt like there were a lot of independent performing artists in the area that weren't getting the recognition or opportunities that more established companies were getting," explains Short. The organizers met with artists over coffee to convince them to perform in venues across downtown. "It was a great success," says Short, "and the next year, we didn't have to hustle so hard to convince people to do it."
Last year, Short describes, FringePVD received more applications than ever before, including from Europe and Canada. "It just goes to reaffirm our belief that there is a need for opportunities like this," he says.
The New York International Fringe Festival, the largest multi-arts festival in the world, charges participants over a thousand dollars in fees, with a little less than half of ticket sales returning to the performers. By contrast, FringePVD uses a non-juried lottery process to pick 30 companies every year, who then receive "100% of the door [ticket sales]. It's about making it as easy and accessible for the artist as possible," says Short. "Whether it's a one-man show or a big magic act, it's their work and they take it seriously. So that makes it valid as far as we're concerned."
This year, all the venues are in Olneyville and the West Side, connected by the winding Woonasquatucket River bike path. The organizers wanted "that festival feeling of running into people and seeing the artists out and about," Short says, "that exchange of ideas and sense of community."
The Wilbury Theatre Group was not the only organization involved in planning this year's festivities; the festival is supported by the WaterFire Arts Center, the Steel Yard, AS220, Yellow Peril Gallery, and the bookstore RiffRaff, as well as sponsorships from High Output, a production services company, and the Providence Tourism Council. The group also received a grant from the RI Council of the Humanities to make a newsletter by local artists that will be sent out every day of the festival. "There's been a lot of community support and we're very appreciative," says Short.
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Uphill climb for Native Hawaiian recognition bill, Honolulu train stalled by human remains, coqui frogs heard on Oahu, BYOB survives on Maui, Habitat for Humanity building Big Island homes, yacht racing may come to Lanai, more news from all the Hawaiian Islands
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A Senate committee advanced the newest version of a Native Hawaiian federal recognition bill Thursday, signaling the start of a last-ditch campaign to gain a full Senate vote on the bill before its chief sponsor retires. Star-Advertiser.
U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka's office says the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs has amended and passed a bill granting federal recognition to Native Hawaiians. KITV4.
Thursday was a good day for Sen. Daniel Akaka and the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act that he hopes will be his legacy. Civil Beat.
The Public File: Hirono, Lingle Each Spend $1 Million On TV Ad Time. Civil Beat.
Next year, the Chinese space mission Chang'e 3 is embarking on the first soft moon landing in 40 years — and Hawaii scientists will have a pair of eyes on the trip. Civil Beat.
The State Senate's investigation into UH's Stevie Wonder concert fiasco and its aftermath is expanding in scope to include numerous financial and management issues at the university, and could continue for several weeks. Hawaii News Now.
Hawaii has paid more than $80,000 in worker's compensation benefits to another dead man. Associated Press.
Eleven years of war have taken their toll on U-S Servicemembers and their families. Hawaii Public Radio.
The first human remains to be discovered in the path of the Honolulu rail project have been unearthed in Kakaako by a crew conducting an archaeological survey for the project. Star-Advertiser.
The first human remains have been found along the proposed Honolulu rail route, ratcheting up the tension that has gripped the city's transit project when it comes to the sensitive issue of Native Hawaiian burials. Civil Beat.
Human remains have been found along the route of Honolulu's rail transit project in the city's Kakaako area, the first burials discovered during archaeological surveys of the 20-mile route. Pacific Business News.
Archeologists surveying the planned route of Honolulu's rapid transit line discovered a single human bone fragment yesterday afternoon near Cooke Street in Kakaako.Hawaii Reporter.
Excavation continues tomorrow at the site of the first bone fragment discovered along Honolulu's proposed rail route. KHON2.
The Hawaii Supreme Court ruling that stopped construction on the Honolulu rail line is expected to delay work for the next nine months while the city completes an archaeological survey along the route and obtains new permits to resume building, transit officials were told Thursday. Star-Advertiser.
The city of Honolulu is rehashing old arguments in its request for the Hawaii Supreme Court to reevaluate its recent decision stopping the $5.26 billion Honolulu rail project, according to court documents filed Thursday by the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation. Civil Beat.
With Ben Cayetano opposing the Honolulu Rail on environmental grounds, and Kirk Caldwell supporting the Rail as green, it's time to take a look at which one is the more credible advocate for the environment. Honolulu Weekly.
Invasive-species investigators will be looking into at least 12 reports of coqui frogs across Oahu as a result of the "Go Out and Listen Night!" surveillance event Wednesday. Star-Advertiser.
Thursday morning a meeting was held at HTA headquarters at the Hawaii Convention Center to discuss how large tour buses could continue to bring visitors to the popular beach parks without disturbing Kailua residents. KITV4.
Kamehameha Schools is expanding food production on land it owns in Punaluu as part of an effort to improve management and use of its vast agricultural property holdings. Star-Advertiser.
Hotel employees at the Turtle Bay Resort voted overwhelmingly Thursday to authorize a strike. Hawaii News Now.
A Maui pilot must make amends for illegally flying axis deer to the Big Island by providing a group trying to eradicate the invasive species there with 500 hours of helicopter flight time — an act of restitution expected to cost him more than $300,000. Associated Press.
Veteran helicopter pilot Thomas Leroy Hauptman will provide the Big Island Invasive Species Committee 500 hours of flight time as restitution for illegally transporting Maui axis deer to Hawaii island. Star-Advertiser.
Hawaii County Councilwoman Brenda Ford will introduce at the Sept. 18 Planning Committee meeting a resolution to urge the state Legislature to abolish the Public Land Development Corporation. Tribune-Herald.
Habitat for Humanity West Hawaii's 2012 Blitz Build in Kona got under way as the sun rose over Hualalai with hundreds of volunteers eager to construct five affordable family homes within 10 days. West Hawaii Today.
Work may begin next week on replacing a sewer underneath Kalanianaole Avenue in Hilo. Tribune-Herald.
A weekly farmers market may be returning to Captain Cook, two years after it was moved because of complaints about traffic. West Hawaii Today.
The Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources could revoke a permit for the kayak tour company that led a group of teens when one from New York was swept out to sea. Hawaii News Now.
Kona-based microalgae producer Cyanotech Corp. said Thursday it has secured a $5.5 million long-term loan agreement to make a major investment in its production facility. Star-Advertiser.
The Maui County Liquor Control Commission on Wednesday voted down a proposal to exclude hotel and condominium hotel liquor licensees from a law allowing customers to bring their own bottle of wine to restaurants to consume with meals. Maui News.
With reports showing a decrease in complaints and noise levels from bars at Kihei Kalama Village, the Maui County Liquor Control Commission voted Wednesday to take no action on a proposal to ban late-night music, dancing and entertainment at the Kihei complex. Maui News.
Maui motorists are advised that the transport of wind turbine components for the Auwahi Wind Farm project in Ulupalakua will begin next week. Maui Now.
After nearly six hours of discussion and public testimony, the Kaua'i Planning Commission's three-member Subdivision Committee on Tuesday deferred a decision on whether to recommend an 8-year extension on subdivision permits for a proposed development of more than 2,000 acres of prime agricultural land across Kealia Beach, at the north end of Kapa'a Town. Garden Island.
"Start Something!" is the call to action to the community by the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kaua'i as school children begin to settle in to the new school year. Garden Island.
Instruction in how to shaka, led by Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr., is an aspect of the three-week intensive English and Experiential Learning program being undertaken by six students of the Oshima National College of Maritime Technology, more commonly known as Oshima Shosen, or Merchant Marines. Garden Island.
Billionaire Larry Ellison is considering plans to bring his America's Cup-winning racing team to Lanai for training in a move that would bring a huge lift to the island's economy. Hawaii News Now.
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2018 Films of Remembrance Filmmaker Biographies
Abby Ginzberg | Co-Producer, Co-Director of "And Then They Came For Us"
Abby Ginzberg is a Peabody-award winning producer who has been producing award-winning documentaries about race and social justice for the past 30 years. Her film "And Then They Came for Us" has been screening at theaters and film festivals around the country after premiering at DocLands Film Festival in May, 2017. She is the co-producer and co-director of "Agents of Change," which premiered at the Pan African Film Festival in Los Angeles and won the Jury and the Audience Award for Best Feature Documentary.
Her feature award-winning documentary, "Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa" (2014) won a Peabody award. Her work as a documentary filmmaker took her to the Academy Awards in 2012 with a short documentary film, "The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement," for which she was the Consulting Producer.
Abby's documentaries, "Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson's American Journey and Cruz Reynoso: Sowing the Seeds of Justice" (about an African American and Latino judge) have won numerous awards, including a Silver Gavel and CINE Golden Eagle for "Soul of Justice" and have been broadcast on public television.
She is the President of the Berkeley Film Foundation, which has granted more than $1 million to East Bay filmmakers, and is on the Boards of the Thelton Henderson Center for Social Justice at UC Berkeley Law School, The Impact Fund and the Yale Law School Visual Advocacy Project.
Brandon Miyasaki | Videographer & Editor, "Florin JACL / CAIR Manzanar Pilgrimage"
Brandon Miyasaki is the VP of marketing for the Florin Japanese American Citizens League Sacramento Valley (Florin JACL-SV) and co-president for their Next Generation youth group. His grandmother Marion Kanemoto was incarcerated in Minidoka, Idaho, before her family was shipped to Japan as part of the U.S. Government's prisoner of war exchange. Brandon grew up inspired by his grandmother's dedication to archiving the oral histories of more than 80 incarcerees and hopes to inspire youth involvement in social justice and civil rights for all.
He received his bachelor's degree in Business Economics from UC Irvine and has since relocated back to Sacramento where he manages his family's dental practice and is the owner of Shot Archives, a marketing and media creation business.
Sharon Yamato | Writer, Producer, Director of "Moving Walls"
Sharon Yamato is a writer/filmmaker who wrote, produced and directed "Out of Infamy: Michi Nishiura Weglyn" and "A Flicker in Eternity," based on the diary and letters of WWII veteran Stanley Hayami. She is the author of the book, "Moving Walls: Preserving the Barracks of America's Concentration Camps," and co-author of "Jive Bomber: A Sentimental Journey," a memoir of Bruce T. Kaji, the founding president of the Japanese American National Museum. As a consultant to the Japanese American National Museum, she has served as editor of the Museum Magazine and project director of "The Encyclopedia of Japanese American History from A to Z (revised edition)," "An American Son: The Story of George Aratani," and "More than a Game: Sport in the Japanese American Community." She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times and is currently a columnist for the Rafu Shimpo. She graduated from UCLA with a bachelor's degree and master's degree in English.
Bryan Yokomi | Director and Editor, "The Colorado Experience: Freedom & Poverty"
Bryan Yokomi is an Emmy-winning filmmaker who was born and raised in Orlando, Fla. He studied at Florida State University where he received a MFA in Film Production and BS in Communication with a Film Study minor. He now lives and works in Los Angeles.
Bryan was the lead editor of the Emmy-winning show "Cars.TV." The show won the Outstanding Lifestyle Program Emmy.
Bryan is currently an editor at Fox Sports doing sports highlights. He is also an editor on Uproxx Reports documentaries.
Bryan is a highly skilled director and editor. He loves the art of storytelling and collaborating.
Lucy Ostrander | Producer, Director of "Proof of Loyalty: Kazuo Yamane and the Nisei Soldiers of Hawaii"
Lucy Ostrander, an award–winning documentary filmmaker began to receive accolades for her work with her Masters' thesis from Stanford University, "Witness to Revolution: The Story of Anna Louise Strong." The film received a national PBS broadcast, and won a Student Academy Award, the Nissan Focus Award and a CINE Golden Eagle. In 2005 she was a recipient of an Artist Trust Fellowship. Over the course of 30 years, her documentaries have focused primarily on Northwest and Asian American history and include "East of Occidental," "Home from The Eastern Sea," "Finding Thea," "The Red Pines," "Island Roots," "Fumiko Hayashida: The Woman Behind the Symbol," "The Revolutionary," "Honor & Sacrifice: The Roy Matsumoto Story" (2014 Films of Remembrance selection) and "Proof of Loyalty."
Don Sellers | Producer, Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Editor of "Proof of Loyalty: Kazuo Yamane and the Nisei Soldiers of Hawaii"
Don Sellers has worked as a documentary film producer, director, director of photography, editor and writer. Documentaries range from nationally broadcast major PBS series, to feature length, to local broadcast. Producer credits range from historical documentaries to docudrama. He has shot in Africa, Europe, Asia and North America covering topics as diverse as meetings between Afrikaners and the ANC in West Africa, horse racing in upstate New York, papal masses at the Vatican, and murder investigations in Miami. He has edited many hour-long Frontlines for PBS, and many documentaries on Pacific Northwest history. He has taught film writing and production as a guest lecturer at Stanford University.
Ryan Kawamoto | Writer and Director of "Voices Behind Barbed Wire: Stories of Hawai'i Island"
Ryan Kawamoto is a television and film director based out of Honolulu, Hawai'i. He previously directed two feature films including the documentary film, "The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawai'i." The film was commissioned and presented by the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i and ran theatrically and was broadcast on PBS Hawai'i.
His other feature film is, "Hang Loose," an Asian American comedy starring Kevin Wu aka YouTube Celebrity KevJumba, Dante Basco ("Hook," "The Debut"), and Justin Chon "(Twilight," "Gook"). The film was nominated for Best Feature at the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
Ryan Kawamoto is a Yonsei (fourth generation) Japanese American and was born, raised, and continues to reside in Hawai'i.
Marlene Shigekawa | Executive Director, Producer and Writer of "For the Sake of the Children"
Marlene Shigekawa has a broad base of experience as a producer, director, screenwriter, and diversity consultant. She has just completed her narrative script, "Hawk Dreamer, "inspired by her family's experiences in the Poston concentration camp located on the Colorado River Tribes Reservation.
She is a published author of several books including children's books on the Japanese American incarceration and has won awards for her feature screenplays, which cross a number of topics and genres. She is a board member and project director for the Poston Community Alliance.
As a diversity consultant, she has worked throughout the U.S. with corporate executives and school administrators and has made presentations at universities and colleges. She has a B.A. in English from the University of California and a M.S. in Counseling from California State University, East Bay.
Hayley Foster | Director, "Yamashita"
Hayley Foster is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University with a major in Animation and a minor in Asian and Pacific Studies. Growing up in San Jose, Calif., she filled her time with watching Disney movies on repeat with her sister, nurturing her love of animation and her family at a young age. From the time she could hold a pencil, Hayley was drawing and used those images to tell stories. During her time at LMU, she honed her craft in animation while supplementing art with studying abroad in Japan and taking on various minor classes in order to further research the topic of her senior thesis project.
Her thesis, a dedication to her supportive grandfather who passed away in 2008 and to a collective culture's history that captured her fascination and sympathy, was an idea that brewed for years before coming to fruition in the form of "Yamashita." She is currently working as a storyboard artist at Warner Brothers Animation.
Steve Nagano | Director and Editor, "Speak Out For Justice"
Steve Nagano, a former teacher, has been a longtime activist in the Southern California Japanese American community. As a member of Nikkei for Civil Rights & Redress (formerly the National Coalition for Redress & Reparations), he served as one of the project directors of the film "Stand Up for Justice, the Ralph Lazo Story" and was the graphics designer for its teacher's guide.
NCRR, along with Visual Communications, oversaw the filming and preservation of the testimonies of the 1981 Los Angeles hearings of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Recently he served as the project director of the "Courage of Japanese Americans who Spoke Out" (NPS-JACS grant) project that produced the 13-DVD set of the CWRIC hearings. As a filmmaker, Nagano has shown his films at various Asian American film festivals and community events.
Holly Yasui | Producer, Writer and Co-Director of "Never Give Up!: Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice"
Holly Yasui, is producer, writer and co-director with Will Doolittle of "Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice," narrated by actor and activist George Takei and featuring Min Yasui's lead attorney in the reopening of his case in 1983, Peggy Nagae. Will Doolittle is a professional filmmaker who has produced numerous documentaries on a variety of issues including environmental issues, farm workers and indigenous rights.
Holly is the youngest daughter of Min and True Yasui. She studied film at the University of Southern California in the 1970s, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work has focused on writing and graphic design, which she practiced and taught in Seattle, Wash. before moving to Mexico where she now lives.
Since retiring from a grassroots community development center in 2014, Holly has devoted full-time to the Minoru Yasui Tribute Project (MYTP), co-founded with Peggy Nagae. The MYTP has included the successful nomination of Minoru Yasui for a 2015 Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the nation; the designation in 2016 of Minoru Yasui Day in perpetuity by the Oregon state legislature; and the filing of amicus briefs in the federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, opposing the 2017 Muslim Ban in the name of her father and all persons of Japanese ancestry who were banned from the West Coast and imprisoned inland during World War II.
"Never Give Up!" won the 2017 Multicultural Film Award of the National Association for Multicultural Education and is featured in the 2018 Smithsonian National Museum of American History "Day of Remembrance" celebration.
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