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Kobe Bryant and the haste for news during a crisis
by Adam Fisher on Monday, February 03, 2020
General media skills
When basketball star Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash along with eight other people, the reporting of the incident was rapid and often inaccurate.
News organisations rushing to break big news is nothing new, but the digital age has increased that speed dramatically and that resulted, in this incident, in plenty of mistakes being made.
ABC reported that all four of Mr Bryant's children 'were believed to have been killed' and had to apologise – and suspend the journalist - when officials later confirmed the death of one of them, Gianna.
UPDATE: ABC News now pulling back on report that Kobe Bryant's daughters were on helicopter.
— Tisha Lewis FOX 5 DC (@TishaLewis) January 26, 2020
ABC is reporting that Kobe's children were in the helicopter while other outlets are reporting with sources that they were not. Someone messed this up big time and it's absolutely not okay.
— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) January 26, 2020
Other reports wrongly suggested on social media that Rick Lake, a former LA Lakers teammate of Mr Bryant had died in the incident and President Donald Trump tweeted that four people were believed to have died in the incident.
The desire to be first with the news had led to a range of conflicting and misleading reports and complete confusion.
But why are we telling you this?
Well, whether it is a tragic incident like this one outside Los Angeles, or something else that triggers a crisis media management incident like a cyber-attack, an environmental spill, a product recall or redundancies, the 24-hour news cycle and social media mean that a story is going to be covered at breakneck speed.
The traditional 'golden hour' that organisations had to start communicating and protecting their reputation is a thing of the past. In fact, waiting an hour now would create a damaging information vacuum.
And this presents brands with an uncomfortable challenge – good crisis media management tells you that responding slowly is a sin and that you need to get ahead of the problem, but how can you do that in the early stages when you are unlikely to have much information?
Let's say, for example, that it wasn't ABC that had wrongly reported about the identity of some of the victims in the helicopter crash and that it had instead come from one of the authorities responding to the incident and quickly wanting to communicate what was happening. The damage to its reputation would have been immeasurable.
Part of the answer to this crisis media management conundrum is holding statements, prepared in advance, which can be easily adapted to cover the incident you are experiencing.
An effective holding statement will buy an organisation some crucial time until it is able to get a better understanding of what has happened and issue something more detailed.
It will also help prevent the spread of rumour, speculation and misinformation and position the organisation as a trusted source of news.
Ideally, a holding statement will show concern and sympathy for those affected by the incident, the steps that are being taken to rectify the situation and reassurance. And because a holding statement will only hold for so long, there should also be some expectation of when journalists and social media followers can expect further information.
To link this back to where we began, there was a good example of a holding statement following the incident on January 26.
As the makers of the helicopter that had crashed, Sikorsky was likely to face interest from both mainstream and social media.
And it issued a tweet which showed both sympathy and action.
It said: "We extend our sincerest condolences to all those affected by today's Sikorsky S-76B accident in Calabasas, California. We have been in contact with the NTSB and stand ready to provide assistance and support to the investigative authorities and our customer."
We extend our sincerest condolences to all those affected by today's Sikorsky S-76B accident in Calabasas, California. We have been in contact with the NTSB and stand ready to provide assistance and support to the investigative authorities and our customer.
— Sikorsky (@Sikorsky) January 26, 2020
A second tweet provided some reassurance. It said: "Safety is a top priority; if there are any actionable findings from the investigations, we will inform our S-76 customers."
Safety is our top priority; if there are any actionable findings from the investigation, we will inform our S-76 customers.
The other key factor in meeting the speed demanded by the digital age is to regularly test your crisis media management plans.
You can't afford to go into a crisis not knowing whether your plans work, whether you can respond quickly (particularly if the incident happens out of hours), or whether everyone in your crisis team fully knows their roles.
Download our FREE eBook to find out more about planning for a crisis. It includes a checklist to helping you identify the right spokesperson, messaging templates and a risk register to help you identify your organisation's vulnerabilities.
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Selling Sunset's Maya Vander Opens Up for First Time Since Stillbirth: 'We Don't Know What Happened'
The reality star, who will appear pregnant in the upcoming season of her show, revealed last Friday that she suffered a stillbirth 38 weeks into her pregnancy.
One week after a tragic stillbirth at 38 weeks pregnant, "Selling Sunset" star Maya Vander and her husband are still awaiting answers. In the meantime, she and David Miller are preparing to say goodbye with a funeral service for their son, Mason, on Friday.
In a new interview with E! News, Vander opened up for the first time about her family's tragic loss, something she says her other two kids don't fully understand yet. She and David are parents to 2-year-old Aiden and 19-month-old Elle.
Selling Sunset's Maya Vander Shares She Had a Stillbirth 38 Weeks Into Pregnancy
Making things even harder, Vander said that she suffered the loss of her child after her whole family, save her, had contracted Covid. And so she was alone. "I never got COVID, but because my husband was still testing positive, he wasn't allowed to be in the delivery room with me so I had to basically be by myself."
As for why she's opening up about this, in a way Vander feels that she doesn't really have a choice. "I share my pregnancy in the show. It was almost a joke that I'm always pregnant in the show," she explained. "Season 5, which will come out in a couple of months, we filmed when I was very much pregnant. So, I knew at some point, I have to obviously share because I can't hide the fact that I didn't have a baby."
The reality star opened up about the experience of discovering that her baby had died, necessitating a delivery at 38 weeks, and the decisions she found herself faced with. In a hope for some answers as to what happened, she said that they did send the body out for an autopsy, but the results can take 30 to 45 days to come back.
Selling Sunset's Christine Quinn Talks Postpartum Depression, Says 'Extremely Hurtful' to Watch on Show
She also struggled in that moment with a decision of whether or not to look upon her child, who'd already passed away. "We didn't know what to do first. I'm like, I don't even want to see the baby and get attached but then I'm like, you know what? It is my baby," she shared. "It is my son."
As such, the couple decided to go ahead with a full funeral service for the baby. With everything prepared for Friday's service, Vander said that she and Miller went on Wednesday to the funeral home to see him one last time and say goodbye.
"I didn't have the chance to connect to him as much but it just kills me that he didn't get the love that I could've possibly given him, because I was ready," Vander said. "I was so ready for a third kid. And it's just not fair to him."
Right now, she's hoping for the start of closure with the funeral service, but she also believes that she won't be able to begin to get where she needs to be emotionally until they get the results of the autopsy back. "As of now everything is a big question mark," she noted.
Chrishell Stause Tells Selling Sunset Blind Date To 'Move On' After He Accuses Her of 'Disrespect'
When asked about what kind of support system she's found, Vander said that she's discovered tremendous support from both fans of the show and her fellow cast-members. Of the latter, she said, "They always check on me. They text me. They do what they can do to support."
"I think they were all shocked and very, very sad for me, and they've been just very supportive," she added. "Very, very sweet. All of them."
As for the fans, Vander said that many have shared their own similar stories, which she finds very helpful. Especially, she said she finds hope in the stories of women who've suffered a stillbirth and then gone on to have a healthy delivery later.
"That's something that I would really like to have: I really would like to have another baby and have a nice sweet experience at the end," she said.
Vander's latest Instagram post remains the one where she first announced the stillbirth, which you can see below:
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Following a five month leave of absence to serve as CEO for Calgary 2026 (developing a bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games), Mary Moran has returned to her role as President and Chief Executive Officer at Calgary Economic Development with an ambitious agenda for 2019.
Increased advocacy for access to global markets for Canada's energy sector.
Leveraging the Opportunity Calgary Investment Fund to support catalytic opportunities and growth in key sectors.
Supporting development of The Rivers District cultural and entertainment area.
Moran became the first woman to head an Olympic bid corporation in Canada in August after the Board of Directors at Calgary Economic Development gave her a leave of absence. When the city decided not to pursue a bid, Moran returned to the job she has held since 2015.
Board Chair Steve Allan took on the role of Executive Chair and filled in for Moran in her absence.
"Calgary 2026 was an incredible learning experience and it reinforced just how much I love this city and how committed I am to making Calgary an even better place for people to make a living and make a life," she said.


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Title Roxboro Elementary School (Cleveland Heights, Ohio)
Subject Education
Description Black-and-white photograph of Roxboro Elementary School which was designed by architect Franz C. Warner. The school was the second elementary school school built on this site and was built ca. 1921. A publication in Architectural Forum in August 1922 listed the school as "finished in 1920." The 1926 Sanborn map lists Roxboro Public School as being built in 1921. Prior to construction of this building and on this exact site, a first Roxboro Elementary School existed post 1898 and does appear on the 1912 plat map. This western facade of the building today (shown in this image) is almost totally obscured by a later one-story entrance addition .
Later, Roxboro Junior High was constructed to the west of this school (A 1949 Sanborn states it was built in 1925 and a dedication program for the school is dated 10/15/1926).
Location Depicted Roxboro neighborhood (Cleveland Heights, Ohio)
Cleveland Heights (Ohio)
Date Original ca. 1923
Object Type photographs
Size of Original 8" x 10"
Collection Homepage http://www.clevelandheights.com/index.aspx?page=488
Repository City of Cleveland Heights. Cleveland Heights Historical Center at Superior Schoolhouse
Repository Homepage http://www.clevelandheights.com/index.aspx?page=488
Repository Collection City of Cleveland Heights. Cleveland Heights Historical Center at Superior Schoolhouse
Location Address 2405 Roxboro Road, Cleveland Heights, OH
Location Depicted Latitude 41.494305
Location Depicted Longitude -81.58904
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From the June 1999 Issue Subscribe
Biz High-Tech
In Full Flower
What the founders of Austin's Garden.com are teaching online entrepreneurs about how to grow a business.
By Carol Chapman
For newcomers to Austin, starting a garden can bring on a sort of horticulture shock. From drought and deer to floods and blight, the growing conditions in the state capital would make even the Jolly Green Giant lose his chlorophyll. At bottom, gardening is really about dirt, and the rock-hard caliche of much of Central Texas is better suited for roadbeds than flower beds.
When it comes to virtual gardening, however, Austin appears to be considerably more congenial. Garden.com, an Internet gardening business started in the state capital in 1995 by New Englanders Cliff and Lisa Sharples and Midwesterner Jamie O'Neill, has been growing like kudzu: In its relatively short life it has swallowed up a major competitor, cut deals with venerable older companies, and most recently, branched out into the "real" world with a magazine. But while its young founders have discovered computers and compost to be surprisingly complementary, they've also been learning about the kinds of stress that cause a lot of people to take up gardening in the first place. Indeed, their original name for the company was Garden Escape. But almost immediately they realized that e-commerce—in particular, the online selling of plants—wasn't going to be a walk in the park.
The Sharpleses—he's 35, she's 32—and 35-year-old O'Neill first met in the graduate business program at Northwestern University, in Evanston, Illinois. They moved to Austin in 1995 after being recruited by a software company, Trilogy Development Group, but soon decided to strike out on their own. They wanted to stay in Austin, where they thought they wouldn't be lost in a sea of start-ups, as they might have been in Silicon Valley, and where, as it happened, Cliff's brother Brian was the president of a market-research firm, IntelliQuest. And they liked the idea of a friendly, sandals-and-jeans corporate culture.
The three were casting about for an idea for an Internet business when Lisa suggested gardening. She and Cliff had just bought their first house and wanted to start a garden, but they realized they needed advice on what plants would thrive. Although Lisa's mother is a master gardener and a former president of the prestigious Wellesley Garden Club in Wellesley, Massachusetts, she couldn't really help in her daughter's battle with sun-baked Austin. "Wouldn't it be cool to go on the Internet," Lisa asked, "and be able to find the most appropriate plants for your area—and how to grow them?"
The men were dubious at first—especially Jamie, who had been required as a child to help his parents with their competing vegetable gardens. "I grew up dreading zucchinis," he says. But Lisa persisted, and before long her idea began to take root. It fit the profile of the kind of business they were looking for. "We wanted to find an industry where there weren't huge power brokers," Cliff says, "where no one was going to try to stop us." Although gardening is the country's number three leisure pastime and the gardening industry has annual sales of $40 billion, it isn't dominated by any single company or consortium. "It's an incredibly fragmented business," Cliff explains. Even a well-established company like Smith & Hawken is not a household name. Gardeners tend to buy plants from locally or regionally owned nurseries or order them from an assortment of catalogs, many of which specialize in certain types of plants or supplies. In recent years novice gardeners have also started buying plants from big home-improvement outlets like the Home Depot, even though the plants generally don't come with much advice on how to grow them. "We felt that the retail channels out there weren't serving average consumers that well," Cliff says.
The enterprising trio set up shop in Cliff and Lisa's garage apartment, with seed money provided by Jamie's credit card (which is now hanging, framed, in one of Garden.com's conference rooms). It was a nineties high-tech version of a thirties Busby Berkeley musical: "Hey, kids, let's put on a show." They were able to buy the Garden.com Web address for just $2,500 from an Arizona software company that had owned it—a bargain given the domain-name scalping that goes on these days. But they knew they'd need some serious money to create a state-of-the-art site and develop new services that weren't offered anywhere else.
In late 1995, when they were developing their business plan, the dominant model for making money on the Web was ad sales—the same model that prevails in broadcasting and magazine publishing. Amazon.com, the electronic bookstore, had just gone online, and sales from its site had not yet taken off. But they were convinced that the Web represented a new way of selling products and that there was an audience to sell them to. Gardening is part of the current megatrend known as cocooning, which includes home decorating and cooking. According to the National Gardening Association, today's gardeners tend to be well educated, affluent, and computer savvy. Dubbed "yardeners," they're more interested in having a beautiful back yard than, say, developing a new variety of rose.
The partners planned to make money the old-fashioned way, by taking a percentage of profits from product sales. They wouldn't actually grow or warehouse anything themselves; instead, they would send orders electronically to the suppliers they would sign up for the Garden.com Web site. They believed they could attract customers to the site by using the electronic innovations that Web surfers take for granted, including an enormous database of information, an array of goods for sale (everything from trowels to seedlings), and interaction with experts. Their virtual nursery would be a hybrid of a library, a catalog, a magazine, a talk show, and a superstore. "The idea was to help gardeners succeed," Lisa says. "We learned that new gardeners tend to blame themselves when plants die. That can get discouraging."
While this kind of super-infomercial approach to the Web has since become commonplace, back then it seemed risky to some of the venture capitalists they approached for start-up funds—particularly those with no gardening experience. Lisa recalls that one potential investor's experience with plants was limited to ordering bouquets for his wife, and another's involved paying the bills to the professional landscape architect who accompanied his wife to the local nursery. Still, the partners were able to get backing from two venture-capital firms, Austin Ventures in Austin and Phillips-Smith Specialty Retail Group in Dallas, and later, from Doug Stern of New Yorkbased Scripps Ventures. "I knew how big the gardening market was," says Stern, a past publisher of Horticulture magazine. "I also knew how big the barriers to entry in the market were. It's very hard to build relationships with growers, for example. They're all eccentrics."
At the time, Stern was also considering a business plan for Virtual Garden, a similar company that was being incubated at media conglomerate Time Warner, but he thought that the smaller Austin company had a better chance of making a go of it. "These are smart, nimble people," he says, "and I was convinced they'd outmaneuver Time. They're passionate and focused—and unconstrained by being part of a big corporation." Stern says he was "pleasantly surprised" when Garden.com bought Virtual Garden last year from Time Warner and struck a cross-promotional deal with Horticulture's Web site.
Even before the Garden.com site was established on the Web, the trio was able to persuade a number of suppliers to sign on—most of them, as it happens, located outside Texas. Companies like Burpee, which now has its own Web site, have been selling seeds and other goods through catalogs for more than a century, and many of the suppliers the partners approached were already set up to pack plants and send them through the mail. Milaeger's Gardens, for instance, a Wisconsin company that had been operating a mail-order business for eighteen years, agreed to supply perennials to the Garden.com site. In fact, the company liked the venture so much that it recently announced it was discontinuing its catalog entirely to focus on sales through Garden.com.
Garden.com's technical capabilities were boosted considerably when high-powered software developer Andy Martin, a native of Leeds, England, signed on as the chief technology officer. Martin had helped design an operating system for IBM and had worked at Trilogy, where he met Cliff, Lisa, and Jamie. Although he didn't know much about gardening at the time, he says he liked the idea of designing a system that would get more-immediate feedback from the "real" world than most software designs.
Since e-commerce was still in its infancy—it was now early 1996—the company was basically starting from scratch. Martin had to build not only a state-of-the-art Web site with bells and whistles but also an e-commerce system to deal with orders and an "extranet" system to connect with suppliers; for suppliers with minimal technical capabilities, the company was even prepared to supply computers. He wound up inventing a computer language just for Garden.com, which he dubbed SAGE (Software Architecture for Garden Escape). Martin worked with Barry Landry, the company's landscape architect, to design a feature for the Web site called Garden Planner. Similar to professional landscape-design software, the planner lets visitors to the Web site design their own gardens, using a graphed "plot" or a standard template and a drag-and-drop capability that allows them to move plants around. The program was one of the first such interactive features using JAVA computer language to appear on the Web. Another innovation was the Plant Finder, which allows customers to find their growing zone—and plants appropriate to the area—by typing in their ZIP code.
To produce the creative content on the site, the company hired veteran gardening expert Doug Jimerson, who had worked as an editor at Better Homes and Gardens. Jimerson and his wife were the proprietors of Cat Mountain Farm, a spread outside Des Moines, Iowa, whose beautiful gardens had been used frequently by magazines for photo shoots. With Jimerson firmly rooted there, the partners decided to launch a Midwestern office that he would head. Despite the cold winters, Iowa has better growing conditions than Austin, and most of the site's photos could be taken at Cat Mountain.
Under Jimerson's influence, the Garden.com Web site has come to resemble a gardening magazine not unlike Better Homes and Gardens, with lots of feature stories, profiles, and photo spreads of gardens. On a typical visit a user could select shrubs suitable for a shady garden, learn how to divide daylilies, and order a wreath for his mother-in-law. It's one of the most attractive sites on the Web, and it should make anyone's green thumb start twitching (though Garden.com's motto states that you don't need a green thumb, "just an index finger"). This spring it was logging more than 600,000 visitors a month, and through it, the company had signed up more than 450,000 "members," who can elect to receive regular e-mail reminders with gardening tips or special promotions.
"I think they do a good job of selling the dream of having a garden," says Jeff Govoni, the e-commerce manager for Gardener's Supply Company, a Vermont-based concern that sells "hard" goods—gardening tools and accessories—through a catalog and its own Web site as well as through Garden.com's site. But Govoni thinks that the company's main appeal is limited to beginning or recreational gardeners: "They attract people who think of gardening more as decorating and part of home design than as a serious kind of activity." Although the company doesn't release sales figures, its gross last year, according to one published source, was under $10 million. That's a long way from a big catalog company like Foster & Gallagher, which grosses almost half a billion annually. Meanwhile, competition is increasing as more older gardening-related companies set up shop on the Web with sites that often seem suspiciously similar to Garden.com's.
Amid these pressures, the three founders are finding it difficult to maintain the kind of corporate culture they've tried to promote, with a seasonal bash at a local park and Andy Martin doing magic tricks at the office Christmas party. The company, with its increasingly hectic pace, "is not for everyone," Lisa admits. "It's crazy and entrepreneurial. A lot of us feel that we're inventing as we go along." Says Jimerson: "If you stand still for five minutes, you're already way behind." Right now the founders are less concerned with the bottom line than with building their brand, a buzzword in e-commerce circles. Getting lots of exposure and accumulating loyal customers are seen by the money people as more valuable than turning a profit, Lisa says. As part of their "integrated media" promotion campaign (another e-commerce term), they've started advertising on a couple of cable networks and sponsored some gardening specials on TV. Changing the company's name from Garden Escape to Garden.com in early 1999 was part of that marketing promotion. "Being a '.com' company is no longer a turnoff," Cliff says. "It signals to people that you're going to have a big selection of products."
This spring the company launched a print publication, Garden Escape, which appears to be a stand-alone magazine but features mostly products and suppliers that also appear on the Web site. Almost everything in the magazine is for sale. Although a number of shelter magazines, including Better Homes and Gardens, also sell products through their magazines and Web sites, Garden Escape has gotten some flak from media critics for crossing the sacred boundary between editorial content and sales and advertising. They may get some criticism too from proponents of regional gardening, who find it somewhat ironic that Texans may wind up ordering their heat-hardy plants from Wisconsin or New Mexico.
At least part of the promotion campaign must be working, since the company's sales are growing at a rate of 300 percent annually, right up there with Amazon.com's. And the number of employees has been expanding at about the same pace, with nearly a hundred at last count. Having outgrown its cozy downtown headquarters, the company is in the process of moving into new offices in a large renovated warehouse in Northwest Austin. The old offices had no place for a garden, and the only plants a visitor spotted there recently were some dried-out posies and tired-looking bromeliads on a shelf near a window. But the founders have gotten permission from their landlords to start a big garden in front of the new building. Perhaps it's the down-to-earth nature of their specialty, but lately the folks at Garden.com have started talking about becoming a "real" company. "We don't want to be just the leading Internet gardening company," Lisa says. "We want to be the leading gardening company." Period. Or dot, as the case may be.
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I am co-founder and Learning Director of the Upstander Project, a small Boston-based nonprofit that helps "bystanders" become "upstanders" through social issue documentary films and related learning resources. I spend much of my time curating primary source materials related to our films, creating learning activities with those materials, and working with secondary history and social studies teachers.
In 2013, we were given permission to document the work of the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which focused on the forced removal and coerced assimilation of Native children by the state's child welfare system. In honor of the TRC, we released a short film, First Light, on Indigenous Peoples' Day in 2015, followed by a feature film, Dawnland, in 2018. That year we also released the twelve-lesson Dawnland Teacher's Guide. In 2019, Dawnland won an Emmy for Outstanding Research, the same year when we released another short film, Dear Georgina, about a Passamaquoddy grandmother who was taken by the state from her parents and community when she was two years old, and her journey to better understand herself and her culture.
To deepen our work with teachers and museum educators, and in response to their requests for more time for professional learning and reflection, we created the Upstander Academy in 2016 as a pilot program in collaboration with the Dodd Research Center at UConn and the Mashantucket Pequot Museum. In 2019, we moved the academy to Boston where I am its co-director, in partnership with Boston Public Schools, Akomawt Educational Initiative, Leventhal Map Center at Boston Public Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Old State House/Bostonian Society, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, and Massachusetts Historical Society. The Boston Upstander Academy is recruiting its fifth cohort for a week of learning from August 2-7, 2020. [12-19]
Mishy's earlier work:
I've been the Learning Director for an award-winning 40-minute documentary film called Coexist on post-genocide Rwanda since 2009. I wrote the film's four-lesson Teacher's Guide, which serves as a tool for middle and high school and post-secondary educators who teach about genocide and colonial legacy. The film is used widely for social emotional learning, to cultivate beliefs and behaviors that undermine "other"ing and scapegoating, and to encourage upstanding and reconciliation.
Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, informed its vast network of teachers about our film, and it's now in the hands of more than 3,000 teachers all over the U.S. I do classroom teaching as well as faculty development, and work with counselors and school administrators who address bullying in their schools. On a trip to San Diego in late 2012, I was struck by how relevant the themes of genocide and colonialism are to teachers and students who live and work in this borderland, where a high percentage of students are "other"ed because of their legal status and where their parents were born.
I'm also developing a new project to create an online interactive new media curriculum to teach U.S. high school students about the intersection between U.S. foreign policy and human rights in Latin American during the Cold War. A group of interns from the Harvard Graduate School of Education helped me kick off the project this past fall. I'm currently applying for grants and beginning to develop a video archive of witnesses and survivors and commentators of major foreign policy/human rights events. The first module will focus on Chile and the second on Central America. [1-13]
Email: mishylesser@gmail.com; mishy@upstanderproject.org
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MERS spreading in Middle East, Europe: Should Americans worry?
· June 24, 2013 ·
The latest toll includes two more laboratory-confirmed cases in Saudi Arabia -- the country hit hardest by the outbreak so far -- and a death of a previously reported case from the Eastern Region of the country who had been hospitalized since the end of April, according to the World Health Organization. The means 39 people have died of MERS since Sept. 2012. … [Read more...] about MERS spreading in Middle East, Europe: Should Americans worry?
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New coronavirus from Middle East infects French citizen
· May 8, 2013 ·
More deaths reported in Saudi Arabia from new coronavirusSeven new unknown coronavirus infections reported in Saudi Arabia, five deadCDC wants U.S. docs to look out for mysterious coronavirus from Middle EastFrance's health minister, Marisol Touraine, said "this is an isolated case" in France but said authorities are "fully mobilized" to prevent the virus from spreading. Authorities are trying to reach anyone who was in contact with the patient before he was hospitalized, and a national hotline was established Wednesday for the public to call about the virus. … [Read more...] about New coronavirus from Middle East infects French citizen
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Middle East SARS-like mystery virus may come from animals
"It's a logical possibility to consider any animals present in the region in large numbers," said coronavirus expert Dr. Ralph Baric, an associate research professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Biologists now need to go into the area and take samples from any animals they can get their hands on, including camels and goats," he said. Baric said it was crucial to find out how widespread the virus is in animals and what kind of contact might be risky for people. … [Read more...] about Middle East SARS-like mystery virus may come from animals
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Third person sickened by SARS-like mystery virus in Middle East
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The Ministry in a statement Monday said the unidentified third patient was hospitalized with "pneumonia caused by the new virus known as novel Coronavirus." It said the patient has since recovered from his pneumonia, adding that he had not traveled outside Riyadh. It did not say when, where, or how the person contracted the virus. … [Read more...] about Third person sickened by SARS-like mystery virus in Middle East
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Divine Mercy Q & A
Discovering the Diary
Mercy Meditations
The Marian Fathers
Mary Immaculate
Holy Souls in Purgatory
From the National Shrine
The Spiritual Works of Mercy
Part 18: Women at Work and the Feminine Genius
The following is part 18 of a 20-part series. Follow the series at thedivinemercy.org/feminism.
Nothing that I wrote in the previous article in this series, "Women and the Family," should be construed as implying that for Catholicism, a married woman's place is solely in the home. As we have already seen, the Book of Proverbs in the Old Testament describes the ideal wife as one who works both inside and outside the home (38:16-20). Moreover, in our survey of Catholic history, I offered numerous examples of women whose achievements were crucial to the progress and humanization of civilization.
In apostolic times, there were prominent Christian businesswomen such as Lydia, a seller of fine garments, who were known to St. Paul personally, and there is certainly no record that he called upon them to abandon their work in the world and go back home (Acts 16:14). As Pope St. John Paul II wrote in his apostolic exhortation Familiaris Consortio (1981): "There is no doubt that the equal dignity and responsibility of men and women fully justifies women's access to public functions" (section 23).
Even in the most puritanical age in the history of Christianity - the era of the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Reformation - the Church still left the door open, just a crack, to other options for women than childcare and homemaking. For example, the Roman Catechism of 1566 had this to say on the subject:
To train their children in the practice of virtue and to pay particular attention to their domestic concerns should ... be the especial objects of [a wife's] attention. The wife should love to remain at home, unless compelled by necessity to go out; she should never presume to leave home without her husband's consent. (from Part Two, the Sacraments, Matrimony, the Duties of Married People)
Let's look at this statement more closely. A wife and mother's "special concern" should be the care and nurture of her children at home, and yet she may "go out"- in other words, she may take up duties outside the home - if compelled by "necessity" to do so. The nuance that the New Catholic Feminism would add to this teaching is that all this is primarily true of mothers who have very young children at home (say, 5 and under): Only a compulsion of "necessity" would normally justify such a mother in seeking full-time employment outside the home, because the pre-school years above all are those in which children seem to need the close and intimate care of their mothers for their proper nurture.
A mother's capacity for a unique bond with her young children because she gave life to them in her own womb, gave birth to them, and nourished them at her own breast, usually makes her well suited for this vocation, caring for her children primarily at home. Except when exceptional circumstances arise, that is usually the best arrangement for the family to make. The Second Vatican Council briefly referred to this in the council document Gaudium et Spes (section 52): "[C]hildren, especially the younger among them, need the care of their mother at home. This domestic role of hers must be safely preserved."
One of the pioneers of the New Catholic Feminism, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, spelled this out at greater length in her online essay, "Catholic and Feminist: Can One Be Both?":
Each day, our media offer new examples of the desperate condition of children who lack the love and security that a strong, two-parent family provides. And we all know that such families still depend heavily upon women, even if many fathers are doing more than in the past. Women do have a unique relation to the children they bear, and that relation should be understood as both a vocation and a sacred trust for which women should be honored, in the exercise of which they should be supported, and in which they themselves should take pride.
Of course, as we all know: An ideal to shoot for is one thing, but life circumstances (such as medical, psychological or economic problems) sometimes do not make it possible for those ideals to be fulfilled. In whatever difficult circumstances mothers with young children may find themselves, the virtue of charity, "caritas," always takes precedence, and anyone who follows that path faithfully will be blessed by the God of love, and her children will be blessed as well.
We also need to remember that God's plan of humanizing the world through sanctified femininity is not confined to those with a vocation to marriage. "The single woman, the barren wife, the widow and the consecrated bride of Christ will all be given opportunities to exercise motherly hospitality: to shelter others, to harbor the lost, and to love the unmothered" (Kinecke, The Authentic Catholic Woman, p. 60).
The Church does not forget the long line of female saints whose feminine gifts, and especially their compassion, expressed in their religious or celibate vocation, blessed the lives of the sick and the suffering in every generation, for example, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, St. Angela Merici, and St. Theresa of Calcutta, just to name a few. Summing up the teachings of Pope St. John Paul II on this point, Genevieve Kinecke writes:
Some women are called to an intimacy with God that precludes other relationships in order that they may manifest a strictly spiritual motherhood .... [The Consecrated Virgin] is an "image of the Heavenly Bride of the life to come, when the Church will at last fully live her love for Christ the Bridegroom."... "The consecrated life lies at the very heart of the Church as a decisive element of her mission, since it 'manifests the inner nature of the Christian calling' and the striving of the whole Church as Bride towards union with her one Spouse." (Kinecke p. 51-52, quoting Pope John Paul II's apostolic exhortation Vita Consecrata, 1996)
Saint John Paul II was emphatic that whenever women do step out of the home to participate in public functions, they must bring their femininity with them. This is a fundamental principle of the "New Catholic Feminism" that he launched. The world desperately needs the "Feminine Genius," as he called it, the life-affirming gifts that women can bring to the spheres of business and government, academia and medicine.
In government, it is women who must lead the way for the protection of innocent human life from conception to its natural end. Moreover, because of their special aptitude for compassion, it is women who will be more likely to resist the tendency in the business world to seek for profit at the cost of the health and well-being of workers, and in society as a whole, they are the ones will be most likely to witness to the Catholic social principle of the preferential concern for the plight of the poor.
Indeed, women are liable to accomplish these things, the Pope insisted, not because they are "the same" as men, but precisely because they are not, by God's creative design. The natural feminine gifts of responsiveness, openness to others, nurturing and compassion, along with a special appreciation for the value of human life - these gifts are desperately needed to fully "humanize" the contemporary world, the Holy Father claimed: that is, to treat all human beings as persons of value, rather than as mere objects to be used and then thrown away. In a world that has become increasingly "inhuman" through the prevalence of exploitation and violence, it is the Feminine Genius, above all, that can come to the rescue.
This is not just some "starry-eyed" Catholic ideal. In fact, there is an increasing body of research that tends to point in the same direction. For example, in 2001 a World Bank Policy Research Report on the impact of gender on public functions and decision making found that greater women's equality in these areas generally promoted social and economic well-being. For example, the empirical studies on which the Report was based found that higher representation of women in legislatures generally went together with lower levels of corruption.
The research suggested that women "rarely succumb to authoritarian styles of behavior," and that "the presence of women in higher echelons of the hierarchical structures [e.g. of business and government, academia and medicine] exercises an extremely positive influence on the behavior of their male colleagues by restraining, disciplining, and elevating the latter's behavior" (Mary Rice Hasson, editor, The Promise and the Challenge, p. 78). An article in the journal Fiscal Times on May 25, 2012, pointed to the positive impact on business when both men and women bring their characteristic strengths to the workplace:
Men and women can be just as different in the professional world as they are in their personal lives. What executives are just beginning to understand is that these differences can be great for business. Typically, "men are linear in thought process and more narrow in their focus, so they are able to break down problems into their component parts and solve it," says Keith Marron, a senior associate at Barbara Annis & Associates, a consulting firm specializing in gender diversity. "Women more often see a problem holistically and are able to come up with an understanding of that situation without needing to know what all the parts are. When it comes to problem solving - particularly in business - you need a balance of both perspectives." (As quoted in McGuire, Sex Scandal: The Drive to Abolish Male and Female, p. 186-187)
All of this tends to confirm what Pope St. John Paul II taught in his "Letter to Women" of 1995, and that we quoted in the very first article in this web series: "[A] greater presence of women in society will prove most valuable, for it will help to manifest the contradictions present when society is organized solely according to the criteria of efficiency and productivity, and it will force systems to be redesigned in a way that favors the process of humanization which marks the civilization of love."
It should be noted that the Pope was not opposed to efficiency and productivity! Men tend to be very good at creating social systems that excel in these areas (e.g. the military, or the traditional corporation). But when society is fashioned "solely" on that basis, the Pope said, it tends to become inhuman, to treat persons as mere cogs in a well-oiled economic or military machine: hence the need for the corrective of the Feminine Genius.
Next Time: The Feminine Genius and a Civilization in Crisis
Robert Stackpole, STD, is director of the John Paul II Institute of Divine Mercy, an apostolate of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception.
The New Catholic Feminism
Mary: Who She Is and Why She Matters
Who is Mary and why does she matter? Theologian and author Dr. Robert Stackpole's excellent book interests Catholics and non-Catholics alike ...Read more
Part 20: The Triumph of the Feminine Genius Through Mary
Freedom must always be bounded by charity, and it is simply not charitable to men to have to have their chastity assaulted whenever they walk down the street in the summertime.
Part 19: The Feminine Genius and a Civilization in Crisis
Women are called today to turn the world upside down. What does that mean?
Part 17: Women and the Family
Clearly, just giving birth does not insure the sanctification of the soul.


Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott, KA, GCM (17 January 1926 - 26 August 2006) was a West Indian cricketer. Walcott was a member of the "three W's", the other two being Everton Weekes and Frank Worrell: all were very successful batsmen from Barbados, born within a short distance of each other in Bridgetown, Barbados in a period of 18 months from August 1924 to January 1926; all made their Test cricket debut against England in 1948. In the mid-1950s, Walcott was arguably the best batsman in the world.Obituary in The Daily Telegraph. In later life, he had an active career as a cricket administrator, and was the first non-English and non-white chairman of the International Cricket Council.
Walcott first played first-class cricket for Barbados in 1942, as a 16-year-old schoolboy. He made his first impression in February 1946, when, on a matting wicket, he scored 314 not out for Barbados against Trinidad as part of an unbroken stand of 574 for the fourth wicket with schoolfriend Frank Worrell (255 not out), setting a world record for any partnership in first-class cricket that remains a record in the West Indies.
He played his first Test in January 1948, the drawn against England at Bridgetown. Powerfully built, weighing 15 stone and 6"2' tall, he was an accomplished strokeplayer. From a crouched stance, he was particularly strong off the back foot, and quick to cut, drive or pull. Despite his height, Walcott also kept wicket for his country in his first 15 Tests, his versatility enabling to retain his position in the side despite some poor batting performances in his first few matches. By the time a back injury forced him to relinquish the gloves, his batting had improved sufficiently to enable him to keep his place. He became a good slip fielder, and was an occasional fast-medium bowler.
In 1950, his unbeaten 168 in the second innings of the 2nd Test at Lord's helped the team to its first Test victory, and ultimately first series win in England, assisted by the spin bowling of Sonny Ramadhin and Alf Valentine. He scored a century in both innings of two Tests in the series against Australia in 1955, when he became the first batsman to score five centuries in a single Test series, totalling 827 runs from 10 innings. He was dismissed for a duck only once in Tests, lbw to Ray Lindwall in the 1st Test against Australia at Brisbane in 1951.
He played for Enfield in the Lancashire Leagues in 1951 to 1954, and moved to Georgetown in Guyana (then British Guiana) in 1954, to be the cricket coach for the British Guiana Sugar Producers' Association. He also played first-class cricket for British Guiana, and by 1956 he was captaining the side. In retirement, he returned to Barbados in 1970.
He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1958.
Walcott retired from playing Test cricket in 1960. His early retirement from international cricket was attributed by many to his dissatisfaction with West Indian cricket politics relating to the captaincy, but he himself attributed it to disputes over pay. He retired from first-class cricket in 1964. He was awarded the OBE in 1966 for services to cricket in Barbados, Guyana and the West Indies.
He ended his career at the ICC. He was an International Cricket Council match referee in three matches in 1992, and became chairman of the International Cricket Council from 1993, the first non-English person and the first black man to hold the position. He was knighted for services to cricket in 1994. Both of the other two "Ws" were also knighted, Weekes in 1995 and Worrell in 1964, only three years before his early death. He became the ICC Cricket Chairman in 1997, in charge of the ICC Code of Conduct, and oversaw investigations into allegations of match fixing. He retired in 2000.
When Arsenal footballer Theo Walcott was first selected for the England football team in 2006, there were rumors that Sir Clyde was his great uncle. In an article in The Sunday Telegraph, Sir Clyde said "he's definitely not a relative"., Sunday Telegraph, 14 May 2006.
He published two autobiographies, Island Cricketers in 1958 and Sixty Years on the Backfoot in 1999. After Walcott's death Michael Holding, the former West Indian fast bowler who made his debut when Walcott was manager, said: "Another good man gone - he is not only a West Indies legend but a legend of the world."
Clyde Walcott's career performance graph.
Walcott was born in New Orleans (Bridgetown), St. Michael, Barbados. His father was a printing engineer with the Barbados Advocate newspaper. He was educated at Combermere School and, from the age of 14, at Harrison College in Barbados. He took up wicket-keeping at Harrison College and also learned to bowl inswingers.
He married Muriel Ashby in 1951. They had two sons together. His brother, Keith Walcott, and a son, Michael Walcott, both played first-class cricket for Barbados.


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While sanctions will prohibit Rosneft from gaining access from certain technologies needed for deep sea drilling from the E.U. and U.S., a Norwegian company may be able to help.
Rosneft and ExxonMobil have a way to work around recently implemented United States and European Union sanctions in order to continue their Arctic drilling project. Earlier this week, sanctions were targeted at Russia's financing, as well as their exporting, specifically in regards to certain technologies. Some of these technologies would impact the oil sector, even though the oil sector was not directly sanctioned.
The two oil giants will be working with a Norwegian drill rig owner in order to gain access to the technologies that will be affected by sanctions. Specifically, the E.U. sanctions target certain technologies needed for deep-sea drilling. However, Rosneft signed a deal to lease six deep-sea drilling rigs on July 29 — before the sanctions were finalized, so the leases are still valid. These six rigs are owned by the North Atlantic Drilling unit of Seadrill Ltd.
Seadrill works in a large variety of countries. It is owned by Norwegian billionaire John Fredriksen. While the company is headquartered in London, it is incorporated in Bermuda. The North Atlantic Drilling unit is managed in Norway. Norway is not a member of the E.U.
Rune Magnus Lundetrae, Seadrill's chief financial officer, told Bloomberg, "We understand that the sanctions will be possibly valid from Friday, August 1, and apply to future contracts. And these contracts were signed July 29."
Igor Sechin, Rosneft's CEO, also noted the importance of this deal with Seadrill, "Entering into long-term offshore drilling agreements will allow Rosneft to ensure implementation of exploration and development of its harsh environment offshore license areas."
While this deal may seem perfectly timed, literally hours before the E.U. sanctions take effect, Alf Ragnar Lovdal, Chief Executive Officer of North Atlantic, has said the contract for these six rigs is "is in line with the timetable agreed earlier this year." The deal with Seadrill allows Rosneft to use the six rigs until 2022.
When reached for a comment, a spokesperson for Exxon Mobil told The Wire "We don't have any comment on media reports."


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Two juniors sporting neon for Color Wars!
The Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores went head to head today in a battle of the colors. Seniors wore black clothes, and many added black tutus, beads and more. Juniors were covered in neon tops, pants and even suspenders. Sophomores showed their spirit in white, and some added bandanas and eye black!


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Damurdash al-Muhammadi, també Timurtash al-Muhammadi, fou governador d'Alep des de 1390 fins vers 1421. El Sultà va decretar el 1390 que Qarā Damurdāsh al-ʾAḥmadī (després Damurdash al-Muhammadi), governador de Trípoli del Líban, esdevenia governador d'Alep succeint a Kumushbughā al-Hamawī; aquest era cessat i havia de tornar al Caire; l'amir Tanbak, conegut com a Tanam al-Ḥasanī al-Ẓāhirī, fou enviat a portar a Qarā Damurdāsh el diploma (taqlīd) i la roba del càrrec (tashrīf).

Se l'esmenta el 1399 quan el sultà Ahmad ibn Uways va abandonar Bagdad que va deixar en mans del seu amir Fàraj, i es va dirigir a Síria; va passar per Alep, on era governador Damurdash o Timurtash, per arribar a Anatòlia, al territori de l'otomà Bayazid I.

A cent seixanta milles al sud-oest de Malatya es trobava la ciutat d'Alep, un pròsper centre polític, comercial i cultural. Les forces de Timur van recórrer aquesta distància en nomes tres setmanes, parant tan sols per saquejar i matar, i tot i que els soldats estaven cansats. Les peticions urgents d'ajut de Damurdash al sultà Fàraj no van tenir resposta. Damurdash sabia que ja no hi havia temps de que arribàs un exèrcit des del Caire i va reunir les tropes que va poder per a la defensa de la ciutat. Venien d'Antioquia i Acre, de Hama i Homs, de Ramal·lah, de Canaan, Nablus, Samària, Gaza, Ramlah, Trípoli, Baalbek, Jerusalem i de Kerak i Kalat Errum. L'opinió dins de la ciutat es va dividir entre aquells que volien demanar la pau, inclòs Damurdash (Timurtash), i aquells que preferien una resposta més combativa. Els arguments de Damurdash eren sòlids i basats en el que havia fet Timur i en el poc que significava llegir el seu nom a la khutba o encunyar moneda amb un nom, i alguns regals que els notables li haurien d'oferir. Per contra els partidaris de resistir no se sentien impressionats, pensaven que les seves ciutats eren sòlides i les guarnicions valentes i ben equipades i mentre l'enemic dormia en tendes ells dormien en pedra tallada. Els sirians haurien d'enfrontar-se a l'exèrcit de Timur sols. El 6 de novembre de 1400, els tàtars eren acampats davant Alep. Timur va enviar durant diversos dies partides que van sostenir escaramusses, les quals van fer reconeixement de la ciutat i els seus voltants. Aquestes eren les mateixes tàctiques que havia utilitzat per temptar els indis de darrere dels murs de la ciutat de Delhi i evitar un setge prolongat i també a Síria van tenir èxit. Les portes es van obrir i l'exèrcit sirià es va reunir en formació de batalla. Sudun, el virrei de Damasc, va dirigir l'ala dreta, amb tropes de Damasc reforçades amb mamelucs. Damurdash va prendre el comandament de l'esquerra, al capdavant de les forces d'Alep complementades també amb més mamelucs. En el que va suposar un greu error tàctic, els soldats no muntats d'Alep van ser col·locats a les primeres línies. Al costat tàtar, Miran Shah i Shah Rukh van dirigir l'ala dreta. Sultan Mahmud Khan, el kan nominal txagatai, va dirigir l'esquerra. Dos dels nets de l'emperador, el fill de Miran Shah, Abu Bakr Mirza i Sultan Husayn Mirza, es van fer càrrec de l'avantguarda de la dreta i l'esquerra respectivament. Els elefants de guerra, capturats a Delhi i ara la novetat militar preferida de Timur, van ser ubicats al front de l'exèrcit, amb la seva armadura. Els dos exèrcits musulmans es van precipitar els uns contra els altres. Els combats van ser furibunds quan els sirians es van llançar contra aquests invasors bàrbars per defensar la seva ciutat. Els elefants foren llençats contra l'ala esquerra siriana, que es va dispersar; Temur va agafar la iniciativa. Sota una forta pressió dels tàtars, finalment els sirians es van girar i van fugir cap a les portes de la ciutat en vista de la resta de l'exèrcit. L'exemple de Damurdash, que es va retirar a la ciutadella, va ser el detonant per a desorganització completa. En un instant la plana es va omplir de sirians buscant la seguretat de les muralles de la ciutat, perseguides de prop pels tàtars. En la fugida molts soldats van ser trepitjats per cavalls, ofegats a la fossa que aviat va quedar amuntegada amb cadàvers. Dones i nois valents que s'havien unit a la defensa de la seva ciutat van ser morts allà on es trobaven.

Damurdash no tenia altre opció que lliurar Alep a Temur amb l'esperança d'impedir més vessament de sang (8 de novembre de 1400, però en moltes fonts apareix aquesta data -i altres- segons el calendari julià, que era el 30 d'octubre de 1400). Va ser presoner però ben tractat, però el virrei Sudun, que havia assassinat l'ambaixador de Temur, va ser pres i encadenat; Timur va enviar un emissari local al Caire, Essen Duvai Davatdar, amb la notícia de que tenia aquests dos governadors i altres notables presos i que no els alliberaria fins que un parent de Tamerla (estava casat amb una neboda de Timur, filla d'una germana) que estava presoner, Atilmish, fos enviat a Alep. Els tresors d'aquesta famosa ciutat pertanyien ara al conqueridor. Però les esperances del virrei d'una conclusió pacífica per a la batalla es van veure frustrades, ja que l'historiador Ibn Taghri Birdi, el pare del qual era comandant en cap dels exèrcits del sultà Fàraj, relata que la gent de la ciutat es va refugiar a les mesquites però que els atacants van anar allí i van agafar a les dones i les van lligar i violar i van matar als nens; moltes dones verges o gentils van ser violades i una fins i tot fou violada a la Gran Mesquita a la vista de molta gent i d'altres tàtars així com dels seu pare, germà i marit que no podia fer res perquè al seu torn estaven sent torturats; al final del dia els carrers estaven coberts de cadàvers. Durant quatre dies van continuar les massacres i els saquejos. Els arbres van ser tallats, les cases van ser enderrocades i les mesquites cremades. Es va produir una matança massiva de jueus de la ciutat, que s'havien refugiat a la sinagoga. Al final es van fer els clàssics munts de caps tallats. Timur va designar a vuit dels seus amirs com a governadors d'Alep. Quinze dies va romandre a la ciutat, seguint després cap a Damasc.

El 1401 Damurdash va acollir a Alep a Taghrī Birdī, que temia ser arrestat.

Damurdas va retornar al govern d'Alep. Exercia el càrrec el 1410, quan va acabar la mesquita d'Utrush.

Durant la revolta de Nawruz fou comandant en cap de les forces de Fàraj, fins que finalment el va abandonar. Va reunir els seus oficials i va dubtar entre passar a Nawruz (que li va donar 1000 diners i li va demanar de fer-ho) o anar amb el califa sultà; la majoria dels seus companys van suggerir escollir el bàndol de Nawruz però ell no hi va estar d'acord i va marxar per mar fins a Damietta i va demanar fer la khidma al sultà, obtenint permís d'aquest.

Els amirs van enlairar al califa abbàssida proclamat sultà, Abbas al-Musta'in (al-Mu'taṣim billāh al-'Abbāsī ibn al-Mutawakkil 'alā 'l-lāh Muḥammad maig del 1412). Animats pel carisma del califa abbàssida els amirs es van dirigir a Damasc en persecució de Fàraj i van allotjar a al-Musta'in just als afores; després d'un breu setge, Fàraj va demanar la pau (22 May 1412). Fàraj va haver de concedir una amnistia i reconèixer a al-Musta'in com a sultà. Al-Musta'in residiria temporalment a Damasc al Qaṣr al-Nā'ib (Palau del lloctinent). Sobre la sort de Fàraj es va discutir i finalment es va imposar la pena de mort que fou complida el 28 de maig de 1412.

El 1413, després de la sortida de Nawruz de Damasc, Damurdash va tornar a Alep i a petició dels notables locals, va prendre possessió de la ciutat i del govern.

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Urban Meyer: 'Your heart breaks' for the players as Ohio State's season hangs in the balance
Paul Harvey | 2 months ago
Ohio State's hopes for a B1G Championship are hanging on by a thread following the cancellation of Saturday's game.
The team is currently dealing with multiple tests for COVID-19, including a positive for head coach Ryan Day. Not only is Saturday's game canceled but the status for next Saturday against Michigan State is in serious jeopardy.
Should that game against the Spartans be canceled, it would be a serious longshot for a 5-0 Ohio State team to qualify for the B1G Championship, provided the Buckeyes were cleared in time to face – and beat – Michigan.
Not only is the B1G Championship in doubt, but Urban Meyer says he is heartbroken for the players and the coaches that have made a three-month sacrifice just to potentially see championship aspirations end this way:
"Your mind and hearts go to the players. Coaches got a longer shelf life, players got that two-three year window and that's it. And the sacrifices, think about this…those players sat in dorm rooms and apartments during Thanksgiving," said Meyer on FOX's Big Noon Kickoff. "Coaches, some are moved away from their families, so it's a three-month sacrifice… your heart breaks in half when you think of the discipline, all the sacrifices these players have made, and to get those positives, you're thinking people knocked off their chair that they worked so hard, and it's gone. When you start talking about 21 days…it might be over."
For the players that tested positive, a 21-day window would mean the earliest they can be cleared is Dec. 17 or 18, provided those players tested positive on Thursday or Friday. That would be just days before a potential B1G Championship Game, so it is unclear whether those who tested positive would even be able to participate in a Dec. 19 game.
Here's the segment of Meyer's comments:
"Your mind and heart goes out to the players… we're talking 21 days, it might be over." @CoachUrbanMeyer and @Brady_Quinn react to the Big Ten's current championship game dilemma on #BigNoonKickoff pic.twitter.com/eA3WavHD2L
Paul grew up in the heart of SEC country, but he is a lifelong fan and student of all things college football. He has been covering college football since 2017 and the B1G since 2018. You can follow him on Twitter: @HammerHarvey
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Here's How Much Investing $1,000 In Best Buy Stock Back In 2010 Would Be Worth Today
Wayne Duggan , Benzinga Staff Writer
Investors who owned stocks in the 2010s generally experienced some big gains. In fact, the SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: SPY) total return for the decade was 250.5%. But there's no question some big-name stocks did much better than others along the way.
Best Buy's Big Decade: One of the market leaders of the past decade was consumer electronics retailer Best Buy Co Inc (NYSE: BBY).
The 2010s were a transformative decade for the retail sector and the electronics business in general. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) applied major pressure to a large portion of the retail sector, and Best Buy was no exception. In fact, Best Buy's largest competitor Circuit City didn't even survive the financial crisis, declaring bankruptcy in late 2008.
Fortunately for Best Buy investors, the company was a lot more aggressive in shifting its sales model online and adapting to the rapidly evolving landscape.
In 2012, Best Buy launched a "transformation strategy" that focused more on services, such as its Geek Squad desk. In the second quarter of 2014, Best Buy reported its 10th consecutive quarter of declining revenue and announced it would be focusing more on digital media advertising and online sales. The company has also increased its dividend each year since 2014 as well.
Starting with the second quarter of 2016, Best Buy reported positive revenue growth in nine out of the next 10 quarters, suggesting its transformation efforts were paying off.
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Best Buy shares started the 2010s trading at around $40. The stock made it as high as $48.83 in mid-2010 before starting a multi-year downturn. That sell-off took Best Buy shares all the way down to $11.20 in late 2012, a price which would mark its low point of the decade. The following year was a big year for Best Buy on turnaround optimism, but the stock wouldn't break out to new decade highs until 2017.
Best Buy climbed as high as $84.37 in late 2018 but the company ended the year on a low note on concerns it wouldn't be able to repeat its sales growth performance in 2019. Fortunately for investors, Best Buy proved its doubters wrong in 2019, and the stock made it as high as $91.99 in early 2020 prior to the market's pandemic sell-off.
2020 And Beyond: Like the rest of the market, Best Buy took a hit in March 2020. However, its 2020 low point of $49.01 was roughly in-line with its low point during the 2018 sell-off.
Best Buy has since rebounded as high as $124.89, making the stock one of the best performers in the retail sector this year and among the top performers of the past decade as well. In fact, $1,000 worth of Best Buy stock in 2010 would be worth about $3,636 today, assuming reinvested dividends.
Looking ahead, analysts expect Best Buy to continue to drift higher in the next 12 months. The average price Best Buy among the 24 analysts covering the stock is $124.50, suggesting 2.6% upside from current levels.
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Some diamond wholesalers seem to have a language all of their own. But you can still live in their world. After all, if you're buying a loose diamond it's important to make a good investment. So here'sa hit list of dealer lingo you might find yourself speaking in the wholesale diamond showroom.
Blemish: is a flaw on the outside of the diamond. It might be a scratch, nick or chip.
Blue Flash: also called Blue White, this means the stone glows blue under ultraviolet light.
Brilliance: how much white light an individual diamond reflects.
Brilliant: different to brilliance, this term means a round stone cut with 58 facets.
Carat: in simple terms, a unit of weight. One carat is equal to 200 milligrams.
Carbon: is the base element from which diamonds are formed. Tiny carbon spots exist within most stones.
Cloud: when a group of small internal flaws is clustered together within a gem.
Crown: basically the top section of the diamond, or all of the stone above the girdle.
Cutlet: usually cut very small, this is the bottom-most facet of a fine cut stone.
Eye clean: when no internal or external flaws can be seen with the naked eye.
Facet: a flat, polished area ground into the surface of a stone during cutting.
Fire: also called dispersion, how much coloured light an individual diamond reflects.
Florescence: how a diamond behaves and if it glows when exposed to ultraviolet light.
Full cut: any stone cut with a minimum of 58 facets.
Gemmologist: someone qualified and accredited to assess precious and semi-precious stones.
GIA: Gemological Institute of America. A global organisation upholding diamond grading standards.
Girdle: separating the crown and pavilion is this narrow unpolished band encircling the stone.
Head: another name for the claws or prongs that hold a diamond in its setting.
Inclusion: is a flaw on the inside of the diamond. It might be a carbon spot or fracture.
Laser drilled: a treatment used to remove carbon spots from diamonds.
Loupe: a small magnifying glass used to view stones.
Off make: a diamond that has been cut to inferior proportions.
Pavillion: basically the bottom section of the diamond, or all of the stone above the girdle.
Point: a measurement of one-hundredth of a carat. Therefore one carat = 100 points.
Single cut: any diamond cut with 16 or 17 facets.
A little bit of diamond education goes a long way when it comes to understanding gemstone terminology.
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Home News ZB embarks on $20 Million I.T boost programme
ZB embarks on $20 Million I.T boost programme
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ZB Financial Holdings is planning to use 20 million dollars in a move to modernize its operational technological services in the face of a hot battle for supremacy.
The programme is said to be already at an advanced stage and has seen the Bank procuring 1500 Point of Sale Machines (POS) to be distributed to branches across the country, with an estimated 5 million dollars having been spent on the I.T systems.
The Chief Executive Officer of the financial institution, Ronald Mutandagayi confirmed that the bank has recently spent 5.4 Million dollars in upgrading their systems to offer excellent service provision through enhancing overall system performance and has succeeded in purchasing 1500 mobile Point of Sale Machines that are currently being distributed nationwide and the bank is looking forward to having reached a total of 12 000 by the end of the 2019 financial year.
"The Group is further looking to generate 20Million dollars in its I.T infrastructure in a bid to boost non-interest income", said Mutandagayi adding that the move is in line with the market trend and the financial services sector, with several companies investing in I.T, notably FBC, NMB and Old Mutual.
In a separate interview, Ronald stressed that in this current technological environment, I.T expenditure is very critical to the Group has adopted a digitalization strategy which means the bank needs to modernize networks, equipment, and servers.
Mutangagayi said the 5 Million that was recently spent was principally directed to Routers and Servers as well as surround systems and the Bank needed to spend at least 10 to 20 Million dollars on the digitalization exercise.
He said the Group was aware it would obviously face challenges in raising that kind of money in this current market environment, so it would be done on a pismal basis as the bank was the first to go paper-less as far as the front office is concerned a few years ago and was now headed to the middle office to ensure that systems are optimized investment in document floor waiting for management to allow staff members to be more efficient.
Mutandagayi further stated that the Group has had some difficulties raising the funding that is required, saying currently there was a 1 million dollar budget to allow working capital and the assets that are required for beginning of operations and was in the process of raising that kind of money and charging to interested international organizations who have expressed willingness to support the I.T programme.
The financial institution, which was incorporated in Zimbabwe in 1989 as a holding company for a group of companies which have been providing commercial and merchant banking as well as other financial services since 1951, has over the years witnessed an impressive growth and is looking up to further strengthen its professionalism through upgrading its Information technologies to conform to modern standards.
Ronald Mutandagayi
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