This isn't just any ladies luncheon. You're in for a treat with a gourmet lunch, with a menu especially created for Design Cincinnati (and inspired by our guest tastemaker, Susanna Salk).
Wondering about the best design solution for your space? Curious about patterns at play in your decorating? Eager for a sneak peek inside the homes of some of your favorite decorators? Then you won't want to miss this time with Susanna Salk, a design expert, stylist, stager and best selling author. Prepare to be inspired!
Complimentary espresso from Urbana Cafe, with thanks to our sponsor, ESD Interiors.
Be sure to pick up copies of At Home With Dogs And Their Designers: Sharing A Stylish Life, an array of inspirational tips for keeping both your home and dogs attractive and chic and The Power of Pattern: Interiors and Inspiration: A Resource Guide, a beautiful new resource guide, focusing on the versatility and creative possibilities from patterns, including practical tips and inspirational ideas by Susanna Salk.
We have our designs on an amazing day. Come see what we have in store for you. Check in, purchase additional raffle tickets and an entry into our fun Heads or Tails game. Don't forget your swag bag! Champagne and mimosas are available to add to the fun. The vibe is courtesy of DJ Mowgli.
We're thrilled to have our lecture guest, Susanna Salk, join us prior to our program. Come and meet her! She'll be available to sign your purchased books.


It seems that nearly every day, or for sure every week, when you look at the news there's someone protesting something somewhere.
It appears that we are in a constant flow of protests.
Protesting in itself is not wrong – it's a democratic right that should be exercised; but I also think that the method is being overused and in some cases has resorted to bully tactics. That kind of protesting transcends beyond the democratic spirit and can actually turn against it through force. Then, no longer does majority or democracy rule, but rather the desires, or should I say, agendas, of what is usually a loud but forceful minority.
It's not like that hasn't happened in the past. Many positive changes started with individuals protesting, usually against some form of injustice or poverty.
If a society never protested, we'd still likely have child labour (and some countries still do), women and others considered to be 'inferior' would have little to no rights (and in some countries, this still exits), so protesting has its benefits.
But let's also remember from history that not all protests lead to paths of freedom and equality, or even goodness.
The Bolshevik Revolution began with good intentions, but ultimately led to the formation of communist Russia, who then justified the swallowing up of other nations around it to form the Soviet Union.
Certainly in the beginning some in the movement thought it would be wonderful if everyone had equal access to things such as food and shelter, but it quickly became something else. In order to 'share the wealth', those with more had properties and rights taken from them by force. And if they protested, they were jailed, or worse.
Perhaps you have not heard of the Holodomor, especially if you do not have any Ukrainian background, but those who do commemorate its horrors every year. In the 1930s Stalin took literally every scrap of food and seed from what was then Soviet-controlled Ukraine which had previously been known as Europe's breadbasket, as a way of removing their control over food production and to force them to submit to their system. This man-made famine resulted in the deaths of, not thousands, but millions of Ukrainians in a matter of a year.
These may seem like extreme examples, but it's a cautionary note to the negative use of protesting.
A disturbing trend that seems to be happening with protests these days is that, if you don't agree with my side, or cave in to my demands, you are going to be bullied, ostracized (especially on social media) or in some form made to pay for not agreeing. When protesting transcends into violence to fulfill its purpose, the cause is no longer righteous.
Mahatma Gandhi said that non-violence takes more courage than violence. In other words, showing self-restraint in the face of opposition or disagreement demonstrates more self-restraint and therefore strength than pounding out someone's lights or trying to mar their reputation because they disagree with you. And if you think that just talking someone down or defaming them is not violence, take a look at the definition in the dictionary: "An unpleasant or destructive force; wildness; frenziedness; turbulence…" In other words, violence is not always physical.
Living in a democratic society means, or should mean, that everyone shares their viewpoint or opinion without harm, but when we begin to use our democratic right of protest to bully others into our way of thinking or to get what we want, that is no longer democracy, it's just a more passive form of violence.


The view at the top is incredible. Image Copyright CyberCom, Inc.
The Kuliouou Ridge Trail can be long and challenging (at least I thought so.) Some people will say this hike was easy but I'm a pretty experienced hiker and I thought this was a lengthy hike. It was long and most of it was uphill. However, the view at the top was incredible and that's why I recommend this hike. I typically don't recommend hikes that are long and painful that don't provide a pretty view or reward of some kind. Kuliouou Ridge is gorgeous at the top.
Parking is available in the Kuliouou neighborhood. Please be mindful and don't block driveways or leave trash behind, because this is a residential area. Residents already deal with a high amount of traffic because of the hike's location so the least we can do as hikers is be mindful of the area. The hike's trailhead is at the end of Kalaau Road. There are two trails back here so make sure you look for the short brown sign and take a right at that fork. If you follow the paved road, you'll end up on the Kuliouou Valley Trail, so make sure to take the Kuliouou Ridge Trail instead. The trail is a series of zigzags and switchbacks up the mountain but every once in a while you'll reach a clearing that'll give you a sweet view of the coastline and the ocean. Appreciate these breaks and make sure to snap some shots and enjoy the view! The hike is about 5 miles roundtrip and took me a good 4.5 hours to do from start to finish. The day I did it on was also very hot and uncomfortable so that could have unfortunately slowed us down.
My favorite part about this hike is the incredible view at the top. It really is a stunning view of the entire valley and the ocean. On a clear day you get a crystal clear view of the vast Pacific Ocean. I also love how great of a cardio workout this hike is. You're hiking uphill for a pretty long time so if that's not cardio to you, I don't know what is. Also, for those of us that live on the East side like in Hawaii Kai area, this hike is great because of its awesome proximity. I think dogs that are experienced in hiking could do this hike for sure. I would definitely bring water and treats for your furry little friends so that they are well hydrated for the duration of the hike.
This hike is fairly lengthy and difficult because of its consistent incline so I would mentally prepare yourself. I would do it early in the morning (start on the trail at 8) before high noon, so to prevent extreme sun exposure. That's the best way to prevent extreme unpleasantness from the sun because we all know that a lot of sun can really tire you out!
The view is absolutely incredible.


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San Cisco és una banda de pop independent formada a Austràlia l'any 2009, els membres de la qual són, pel que fa a la veu i la guitarra, Jordi Davieson, Scarlett Stevens, veu i bateria, Josh Biondillo a la guitarra i Nick Gardner amb la possessió del baix elèctric.

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Thalestris brunnea är en kräftdjursart som beskrevs av Georg Ossian Sars 1905. Thalestris brunnea ingår i släktet Thalestris och familjen Thalestridae. Arten har ej påträffats i Sverige. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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New Tech Economy
Technology of Business
What does it take to be a billionaire?
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Forbes estimated Kylie Jenner's net worth at nearly $1bn, based largely on its $800m valuation of her cosmetics firm
Forbes caused a stir this week when it reported that social media star Kylie Jenner had a self-made fortune worth nearly $1bn.
It's a distinction very few can claim.
There were only about 5,700 people in the world worth more than $500 million last year, according to Credit Suisse's annual Global Wealth Report.
True billionaires are even rarer.
So what does it take to become a billionaire?
1. Start your own company
Looking at the top tier, big names such as Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Zara's Amancio Ortega and Alibaba's Jack Ma dominate.
And the trend holds: Forbes identifies about two-thirds of the 2,208 people on its 2018 billionaires list as self-made - a share has increased over time.
It's true that self-made can be tricky to define. The magazine's characterisation of Kylie Jenner - born into a rich and famous family - as "self-made" raised some eyebrows this week.
Kylie Jenner: How the reality teen founded a cosmetics empire
Meet the world's youngest self-made billionaire
But no matter how easily you got there, studies confirm that it pays to be the boss.
On average, chief executives at the biggest 500 public companies in the US earned more than 361 times the typical pay at the company last year, according to analysis of government filings by the AFL-CIO labour union.
Image source, Getty Images
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, was the number one ranked billionaire on the 2018 Forbes list
2. Inherit money
About one third of the people on the Forbes list inherited their money.
That includes seven members of the Walton family, heirs to the Walmart fortune, and Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers, whose family started L'Oreal.
Inheritance is especially important in Europe, where it factored into the fortunes of about half of billionaires, according to analysis of Forbes' 2014 list by the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
There are plenty of reasons why people with a head start maintain their lead.
For one thing, the value of financial assets like stocks and bonds has risen more rapidly than other kinds of assets in recent years.
Those kinds of assets are also often taxed at a lower rate - if they're taxed at all. An academic study last year estimated that 25%-35% of personal taxes are evaded each year by those in the top 0.01%.
3. Be a hedge funder
There were more than 140 people in the finance sector with fortunes greater than $2.5bn on the 2018 Forbes list - more than in any other industry.
Many of them hail from the US, where 25% of billionaires source their riches from finance.
But don't expect to simply rise through the ranks. JP Morgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon is the rare billionaire banker who took that path.
Most financiers entered the billionaire club like people in other industries - by striking out on their own.
Abigail Johnson, who heads the US money management firm founded by her grandfather, Fidelity Investments, is one of only about 250 women on the Forbes list
And many of the financiers - almost one-fifth of the richest 143 - have ties to a hedge fund.
Of course, if you're set on breaking into the top ranks of billionaires, odds favour those in the tech industry, which claims four of the top 10 spots.
4. Get out of the UK
The number of billionaires in the UK declined last year - one of the only places in the world where that happened, according to Forbes and other surveys.
The fast-growing Asia Pacific region is more fertile territory.
About 29% of the world's new billionaires last year came from the region, according to an annual survey by WealthX, which estimates that there are about 2,750 billionaires globally, a bit more than Forbes.
China alone claimed 29 of the 259 newcomers on Forbes' list - more than any other country.
China's route to riches
Britain's inequality map - stark and growing
Despite gains in other parts of the world, the US remains home to the highest number of billionaires at 585.
Alibaba founder Jack Ma is one of China's richest men
5. Don't worry too much about following the rules
Billionaires are no strangers to legal battles.
Take Bill Gates. He might be known as a philanthropist now, but his reputation wasn't always so squeaky clean.
In the 1990s, the US sued Microsoft for anti-competitive practices.
The US won the initial suit and Microsoft appealed. The fight ultimately ended in a settlement. The European Commission has also fined the firm.
Mr Gates is in good company.
Regulators have fined a slew of billionaire-making companies over matters that range from bribery payments to price fixing and other competitive practices.
Those include Google and Samsung, as well as firms outside of tech, like casino company Las Vegas Sands.
How a reality TV teen became a beauty giant
What the Tyre Nichols arrest videos reveal
'Protesting for 20 years and still no equal rights'
Lured into India's get-rich-quick selling schemes
How onions became a luxury in the Philippines
Video shows police beating and kicking Tyre Nichols
US woman arrested for enrolling as school student
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Broken Knight was founded by four individuals that share one simple passion, the love of games. We plan to produce high quality mobile games that draw inspiration from some of our favorite titles and developers. Our hope is that we can create fresh games that entertain, motivate and challenge our fans. At Broken Knight we believe that the ultimate goal of any game is to bring enjoyment to its audience, anything else is secondary.
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Dog Days – Now On Kongregate.com!
Sep 8 2013 brokenknight Blog
In the spirit of bringing entertainment and enjoyment to the world, Broken Knight Games is proud to announce 'Dog Days' will be available for anyone to play on Kongregate.com. We are excited to release this alongside our Android version.
'Dog Days' is a fast-paced, side-scrolling, arcade game which is continues the age-old saga of dogs versus cats. Play as Agent Apollo as he journeys through over a dozen worlds fighting the evil C.A.T. Corp!
We have optimized the controls so it can be played flawlessly using a keyboard and mouse without compromising any of the game play from the mobile build.
Thank you to all who have supported 'Dog Days' and have spent time enjoying the game. We look forward to getting feedback from players!
Dog Days On Android
Aug 25 2013 brokenknight Blog
I am thrilled to announce Broken Knight Game's debut app, Dog Days, is now available in the Google Play store! It was a long road to get to today's release and we learned many skills and lessons about developing mobile apps along the way. Most importantly, we are extremely excited to share our work with all of our friends, family, and fans (present and future). It is our goal to spread our love of games to everyone, so I hope that Dog Days is warmly received by every smartphone and tablet user that downloads our app.
For all the iOS users, a release for the iphone, ipad, and itouch is expected shortly. Apple has been having issues with approving new developers since they experienced downtime at the beginning of the month. Once they are able to get their services back up and running we will make an announcement. It shouldn't be long!
Dog Days is another chapter in the age old battle of cats vs. dogs. In the near future Agent Apollo's world is plagued by the evil C.A.T Corporation. Everywhere Apollo turns there are C.A.T Corp soldiers armed and ready to neutralize anyone who does not conform to their sinister ways.
Our story begins just as Apollo and the rest of the K9 Force unit are taking shelter in their training facility. Apollo, equipped with the latest suit K9 Force's engineers have created, will go out to confront the evil C.A.T. Corp minions. On this adventure Apollo will journey around the world, to the deep depths of the ocean, and the far reaches of outer space to confront the CEO of C.A.T. Corp. Along the way enemies of every size and magnitude stand in his way, including the dreaded…Catzilla
Thank you to everyone who downloads this app. Broken Knight's primary mission is to make our games enjoyable, so I invite you to leave us feedback (positive or negative) We will take your comments and work to expand on the gameplay and features in order to deliver an app of the highest quality.
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Dog Days – End of Summer
The dog days of summer are almost over, but for Broken Knight Games they are just beginning. BKG's debut title 'Dog Days' will be available on The App Store and Google Play by the end of the month!
Beta testing commenced earlier this month with three brave individuals making the trip to BKG's headquarters. After hours of playing, fixing bugs, playing, pizza, and fixing more bugs, our programmers were bouncing off the walls making every little tweak and change to ensure the game lives up to its anticipation upon its release.
"This is the best game I am currently playing at this moment" said one of the anonymous game testers, jokingly at the beginning of the test. By the end of the test and 3 re-builds of Dog Days later, the testers were anxious to see the final product. One commented, "I just want to see how the story ends, so please publish this app soon!"Check out our Facebook and Twitter for an announcement in the coming weeks!
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It was so nice to meet with many of you last week at your child's parent/teacher conference. If you have any lingering questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me.
I will be out of the classroom, attending workshops, on Tuesday and Friday. If there are any changes to your child's dismissal/lunch routine on those days, you must send a note to school with your child so that the sub is aware.
Last Friday, Mrs. Gant's second grade class came to our room to share their most recently published writing pieces. 1-Bu students were able to gather many tips and pointers from reading and listening to the second graders' work.
Reading : Two important papers went into the reading section of your child's binder last week - a sheet going over the hand signals we do for short vowel sounds and the first edition of 1-Bu Reading News. Please look over these carefully. 1-Bu Reading News summarizes what we've done so far in reading this year.
This week, we'll spend some time talking about fluency. Developing students' fluency is a big key towards better understanding texts.
Phonics/Word Study : We've gone over all of the letters of the alphabet! Now we'll move our focus to studying word families and letter patterns even more.
Writing : If you were at your child's conference, you were able to get a preview of the piece he or she has chosen to publish. The students still need to do a little more work before these pieces are published, however, and that is what we'll be doing this week.
Math : This week we'll be wrapping up unit 3 and starting unit 4. The focus of unit 4 is measurement. As you'll see in the Family Letter that goes home this week, the students will be investigating many kinds of measurement, from temperature and time, to standard and non-standard units of measure.
Science : Science fell by the wayside during the shortened days last week, so we're going to launch our space unit this week instead. We'll start off by discussing night and day, and then move on to talking about the planets in our solar system.
Odds and Ends : Please, please, please make sure that your child is dressed appropriately for outdoor recess. Children without proper outdoor gear will not be permitted to go outside for outdoor recess.


The Rustic Ridge Rustic Square Lamp Table with Hand Distressed Finish by Progressive Furniture at Simply Home by Lindy's in the Hickory, Morganton, Lenoir area. Product availability may vary. Contact us for the most current availability on this product.
The Rustic Ridge collection is a great option if you are looking for Rustic furniture in the Hickory, Morganton, Lenoir area.
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The ASMS Clinical Observational Preceptorship program was established to supplement the physician training provided in our Fundamentals of Mohs Surgery course. This progam affords dermatologists with limited Mohs experience the opportunity to observe a number of Mohs cases performed in several different preceptors' offices. ASMS preceptors have been selected on the basis of their Mohs experience and dedication to teaching the Mohs procedure to other physicians.
Participants will observe the entire Mohs process from surgical removal of the lesion through histopathologic interpretation of the corresponding slides and closure of the surgical defect. Time permitting, additional review and discussion of the preceptor's prior cases will be incorporated into this learning experience.
The Preceptorship program consists of three separate weeks of observation, to be completed over a two-year period. The Preceptorship program is available to current members who have previously attended the Fundamentals of Mohs Surgery course. Upon submission of the application form and fee, participants will contact individual preceptors to coordinate office visitation schedules.


It's called "Reveal Your Voice" and it's the new capsule collection that Kylie Jenner and adidas have created in collaboration.
Little Jenner, joins her older sister Kendall, becoming a new partner of the sporstwear brand.
Particularly in this capsule, the millionaire of Instagram, wanted to create clothes that took inspiration from her make-up products from the Kylie Cosmetics line.
You can discover and buy the capsules by clicking HERE.


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Panasonic DMC-FZ200
By PCMag UK
10 Oct 2012, 8:07 p.m.
Panasonic DMC-FZ200 Panasonic DMC-FZ200 : Front Panasonic DMC-FZ200 : Screen Panasonic DMC-FZ200 : Back Panasonic DMC-FZ200 : Left Panasonic DMC-FZ200 : Right Panasonic DMC-FZ200 : Top Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 : Test Scene Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 : 100 Percent Crop Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 : Sample Image Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 : Bokeh Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 : Maximum Zoom Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 : Maximum Zoom (100 Percent Crop)
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The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 is the first superzoom camera to feature a fixed-aperture f/2.8 lens—which means that the same amount of light is captured, regardless of whether you are zoomed out at 25mm or all the way in at 600mm.
Panasonic DMC-FZ200 : Screen
The rear LCD is hinged so you can adjust its position. It's 3 inches in size and packs a 460k-dot resolution. It's not as sharp as the 921k-dot LCD found in the Nikon P510, but is sharp and bright enough for use on a sunny day.
Panasonic DMC-FZ200 : Back
You're in for a pleasant surprise when you use the 1,312k-dot EVF—it's stunning. It's nearly as sharp as the eye-level display housed in the Fuji X-S1, and using the camera at your eye makes it easier to get a steady shot when the lens is zoomed in to any degree.
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The camera doesn't have all of the bells and whistles that the competition boasts. The Coolpix P510 has a GPS module, which adds location data to your photos, a feature that nature photographers and vacationers who reach for a superzoom may miss.
Panasonic DMC-FZ200 : Right
The FZ200 is a speedy camera. It starts and shoots in 1.3 seconds, records a short 0.1-second shutter lag, and is able to grab a burst of 12 shots in just over a second.
Panasonic DMC-FZ200 : Top
The FMZ200 offers a hot shoe, so you can use an external flash or mic, a feature that is often omitted from cameras in this class.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 : Test Scene
Our standard test scene, shot at the widest angle and aperture of which the camera is capable.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 : 100 Percent Crop
This 100 percent crop of the previous shot shows the level of detail that you can expect at 25mm f/2.8.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 : Sample Image
We used Imatest to check the sharpness of the FZ200's lens. A result of 1,800 lines per picture height translates into a sharp image, which is right about where the FZ200 lands with its 1,811-line score.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 : Bokeh
You can actually get a smooth, blurred background when working at the minimum focus distance and longest zoom setting. This shot of our test scene was taken all the way zoomed in at f/2.8.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 : Maximum Zoom
This shot of statues on a roof near Madison Square Park was shot at the 600mm-equivalent focal length setting.
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200 : Maximum Zoom (100 Percent Crop)
This crop of the previous shot gives you an idea about what to expect from the camera when zoomed in. It was shot at f/2.8 with a 1/160 shutter speed at ISO 100, converted from Raw in Lightroom. Sharpness doesn't suffer at the relatively long shutter speed, speaking to the effectiveness of the camera's stabilization system.
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INTERVIEW: BLACK STONE CHERRY's John-Fred Young: "We're Finally Getting Artistic Control To Write Music"
Metal Wani's Adam Hayward had a chat with NOTHING MORE's Daniel Oliver at Download Festival, UK.
At the beginning of the promotional tour of their new album "The Stories We Tell Ourselves", Dan is very excited to tell Metal Wani how the band are feeling right now.
"I think that this is the fourth show with Rock Am Ring, Rock Am Park, our first club tour with Stone Sour which is awesome and been looking forward to that, like, forever and now we're here at Download, one of the biggest festivals in the world".
On touring further afield "nothing yet but we maybe going to Australia and Japan in 2019" " It's funny because we're from Texas, right on the border of Mexico but, you know we can never go there for some reason and South America is one of those ones that takes a bit longer one of those tough nuts to crack".


Auto-detailing has become a leading hobby and passion. No one wants to see a dusty car. Is that the reason why you visit a car washer? So, what happens then? Do you get rid of each and every stain? Practically, you cannot! The usual car wash has nothing much to offer, other than the clean tires and fanciful feeling.
If you truly want to experience the lust of driving a stainless car (stains that even your naked eye cannot see), you are cornered to use a clay bar – typically designed for automobile restoration.
You must have used a similar clay (doughy stuff) in your childhood and probably that is the reason why some of the people seem to be going against it – which is worth wondering about!
In the simplest language, if you glide the clay over your car's surface, it would pluck out all the obtrusive elements. However, you should use a clay lubricant to ensure that the surface is not dry. If you rub it on a dry surface, any lose abrasion might cause some scratches. That is not the fault of the clay – all the instructions are mentioned and if you follow them properly, it would never harm your car.
Most of the people make a silly mistake when they drop an expensive branded clay bar and pick it up to surf the car body. It causes scratches on the surface as the clay bar attracts dust on its surface. In order to avoid that from happening, you should keep a clay bar in chunks to always have a spare.
If you use a medium grade clay bar, chances are there might be some leftovers on the car body which subsequently requires polishing. Therefore, it is always recommended to use a high-grade clay bar to avoid any compromise.
You should not be using a clay bar in explicit sunlight as the bar will dry up very quickly and you might end up with a rough car, yet again! It does not end here, and after each glide, you should reshape your bar to ensure that the same dry clay does not scroll down the surface to ruin the body.
Once you are done with all these careful procedures and still want more out of it, you should re-wash your car to get rid of any residue in order to give it a brilliant look.
Moreover, you should not even pressurize the clay on a surface with your hand(s). Exerting extra pressure takes away the lubricant and dries it up very quickly. Not only this, but it does not even let the debris stick to its surface. You should use a clean cloth (usually comes with the clay bar) to scrub it all over.
By now, it must have been evident that the clay bar, itself cannot halt your car care. In fact, it is designed to make your car look robust. But if there is any mishandling or quirkiness on your part, then you might not be happy with its overall performance.


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Best Diploma in Malaysia
Malaysia's Best Diploma in Mechanical Engineering at Affordable MAHSA University
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Cheaper Diploma in Mechanical Engineering Course in Malaysia at Top MAHSA University New Campus
Students after SPM or O-Levels who want to enter the 2.5-year low cost Diploma in Mechanical Engineering at MAHSA University, will need at least 3 credits in the relevant subjects. The cheaply available Diploma in Mechanical Engineering at MAHSA University is a 2 ½ year programme, in line with the requirements of the Engineering Accreditation Council Malaysia (EAC) and Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA). Therefore students may apply for the PTPN Loan.
Students after SPM or O-Levels who desire a first rate Diploma in Mechanical Engineering course in Malaysia with affordable tuition fees can choose to study at MAHSA University at its new campus. In addition, the cost of on-campus hostel accommodation at MAHSA University is very affordable compared to other top private universities in Malaysia. Students will learn in an ultra modern, new purpose-built campus at Bandar Saujana Putra.
Founded in 2005, MAHSA University offers top programmes in various levels, from foundation and diploma to degree and postgraduate programmes in fields such as Business & Accounting, Engineering, as well as Healthcare programmes such as Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Physiotherapy, Nursing, Biomedical Sciences, Radiography as well as Environmental Health.
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Engineering lab at MAHSA University
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Dynamics DME 2033
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Final Project DME 3043
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VIP Dance (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
ViP Dance NL (ViP) started in 2006 after Vanessa Mambi and her dance partner won the 2nd place at the Dutch Salsa Open Championships.
"Classic Mambo" (2007) was the first ViP student show put together by Patrick Mussendijk and Vanessa Mambi. As of March 2008 Patrick left the group and Vanessa started directing the ViP team by herself.
"Hard Drive" (2008) became Vanessa´s first show piece which is to this day remembered as "the funky show with bright colored clothes and bling-bling shoes". Her next choreography for ViP (2009) was "Turning Point" which carried the theme: Sun and Earth. Her following choreo "SI o NO" (2010) was all about a playfull song, sexy ladies and funny geeks.
ON1 Project
In October 2010 ViP held auditions and Vanessa started in addition to the original Pro group an ON1 student show project. The concept of "Lunatic" (2011) has been derived from an idea of Giuseppe Kasimbeg. Vanessa got inspired by his idea and put her twist on it. The result was a fast and energetic theatrical show performed by 8 dancers!
VIP ON2
The pro group, ViP on2, performed the choreography "Caps" during 2011. This choreography was made by Vanessa in remembrance of someone very close to her heart. Her signature remained: lots of crazy footwork and funky bodymovement that coordinates perfectly with this beautiful Latin Jazz track.
This year Vanessa choreographed the On1 Project 2012 "Sweet Memories" and the On2 "In 5th Gear" with assistance of Ryan Lourensz. She chose this particular song because she liked the challenge of combining a soft romantic song with fine story telling while still delivering a choreography full of action. To once again make an entirely different statement Vanessa chose no theme for this years' On2 choreography, but decided to emphasize on the high tempo and energy level of the show.


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Banks Face Limits in Boosting Capital
EghtesadOnline: Banks and credit institutions in Iran are facing a myriad of challenges including cumbersome regulations and technical issues to boost capital through revaluation of their assets, a senior banking official said.
Farhad Hanifi, the Central Bank of Iran's deputy for supervisory affairs, said the regulator has "some considerations" when it comes to boosting the capital of banks through asset revaluation, IBENA reported.
Elaborating the point, Hanifi said assets to be sold cannot be categorized as long-term assets of banks, and as such, cannot be used by lenders to boost capital, Financial Tribune reported.
"In addition, funds for purchasing the assets have been sourced mainly by buying and selling stocks and the deposits with banks. Thus, revaluating assets and showing capital boost in this manner doesn't appear to be rational."
Asset revaluation is an adjustment made in the carrying value of fixed assets by adjusting it upward or downward depending on the fair market value of the assets.
In other words, revaluation can reflect both appreciation and depreciation in the value of a fixed asset, and the reason why assets are revalued includes sale of the asset to another business unit, mergers or buying companies.
Struggling banks have been told to cut their non-banking activities and get rid of excess property to be able to raise capital and expand lending to manufactures and busineses.
Excess property of banks have piled up largely due to impaired loans, bad debts, settlement of huge government debts to banks and bad investments by lenders for several years.
Banks cannot raise capital by revaluation of assets that have come into their ownership due to debtors' defaults on loans.
According to the CBI official, there may be some changes in the ownership status of this class of assets after debtors reimburse the banks and repay the loans.
Regarding assets that can be used to help boost capital, he pointed the large number of (unneeded) bank branches and costly buildings that have sprung up in many big cities in the past three decades.
Observers say the number of bank offices in Iran is way beyond global standards and selling the extra branches is a feasible way to boost the assets of banks.
According to Abbas Memarnejad, a deputy minister of economy, approximately 10,000 bank branches in Iran are not needed and getting rid of these offices could enable banks to generate 800 trillion rials ($6.9 billion).
CBI data indicates that the there are 21,000 bank branches in the country.
Saleable Assets
Elaborating on assets that can and cannot be sold, Hanifi said banks are not allowed to raise capital by selling assets in which they have invested.
He went on to say that lenders can boost capital through other legal venues, namely collecting overdue debts, accumulated profits and changes in forex rates.
He reiterated the ultimatum to lenders to get rid of their assets by the time the current fiscal year is out (March 2020), saying those who fail to do so will be prosecuted.
Economy Minister Farhad Dejpasand has given an ultimatum to the struggling banks to divest their excess properties by the yearend.
According to media reports, banks have surplus assets worth an estimated 700-1,000 trillion rials. They are obliged to divest 400 trillion rials ($3.5 billion) of the surplus property by next March.
Banks divested 120 trillion rials ($1 billion) in surplus holdings in the last fiscal year (March 2018-19).
The divested companies belonged mainly to three big lenders, namely Bank Saderat, Tejarat Bank, and Bank Mellat.
Assets Iran capital Credit Institutions Challenges Banks Regulations Limits Revaluation Boosting Boosting Capital technical issues
Banks Lend $34 Billion in 6 Months
Central Bank of Iran Further Tightens Anti-Money Laundering Rules
Bank Deposits in Iran Grow 26% YOY
Central Bank of Iran Ties Lending to Rating Report
Industries Financed Mainly by Lenders


The responsibility of building our marketing analytics and customer acquisition programs fell to me. I'm not a marketing person, but being the company's chief evangelist, I was in the best position to get the job done.
We needed quite a bit of tracking on our pages to make our business work smoothly. Understanding which functionalities our customers actually use is key to optimizing onboarding and product development. Tuning ad campaigns based on user behavior helps to market to the right people and ensures we don't waste money on a misconfigured ad campaign.
Behavior tracking for aggregated user behavior, like Google Analytics.
Tooling for tracking individual user behavior, like Woopra or KissMetrics.
Tracking pixels for your ad providers.
If you now consider that it's common for a site to use more than one ad provider — like Facebook, Twitter, and Google, plus a number of remarketing providers, too — you start to see that 10 third-party additions on a page are nothing.
The hard truth is, they make your pages slow, but you need them to run your business. At this point the discussion becomes very heated and intense. And developers lecturing everyone on Web performance 101 isn't a great place to start, either. I imagine the same situation happening in a lot of companies. The marketing team being pretty clear that the developers don't get business requirements and the tech team responding in kind that their counterparts have no idea about solid engineering.
At ruxit we've developed a model called performance hacking. In short, performance hacking is about having all teams, product, operations, and business, get on the same page and follow the same principles or rhythm. We see this as an extension to our DevOps approach by integrating stakeholders like marketing into the process. For us, it provides a more holistic approach by looking beyond technology.
Our way of solving problems is using a simple SCRUM story-based approach; the customer — in this case, marketing — can decide what is important. However, they have no say over how it is actually done. In many organizations, I know marketing has control over what a tag manager loads. One of the big successes of these tools, surprisingly, is that the tech marketing people do not need to talk to their engineering counterparts.
Following our approach, we defined a story without the discussion of whether this "marketing crap" had to be on the page or not. We did, however, get very precise about what we needed. This led to a technical implementation where we used quite a bit of custom coding to control when things load, rather than just putting every third party on every page using default tag manager behavior. In some cases, we even built whole tracking functionalities ourselves rather than relying on tools.
This obviously had an impact on product delivery, as we spent cycles on these non-feature tasks. At the same time, people started to understand that features won't make a better product if you don't have the means to properly drive interest and track behavior to improve the product.
Third-party additions on Ruxit website and application.
Obviously, not everything goes according to plan. Our marketing team constantly tries out new platforms and therefore needs to continuously add new tracking to our pages. In the past, sometimes they would just "forget" they put it on the page. We've stopped this experimentation anarchy, too. By defining that everything must be part of a story and a sprint, including "just" trying out new platforms, we've made it part of the company culture. Coincidentally, we've helped make our site and application more secure by using cross-domain policies, as no third-party additions not agreed on in advance get loaded.
This post is part of a collaboration between O'Reilly and ruxit. See our statement of editorial independence.
Article image: carlo scarpa, architect: brion tomb, san vito d'altivole cemetery, 1969-1978 (source: SEIER+SEIER).


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Le bon Jack
In this poignant appreciation of Jack Layton, his friend Robin Sears considers the impact of the NDP leader's death on Canadians, who mourned not the politician so much as the man.
Robin V. Sears
Strong leaders deny or disguise their disease and disability. Roman emperors and English kings did it.
Roosevelt and Churchill did it. So did John Kennedy and even Tommy Douglas. As recently as the 1980s, David Lewis insisted for years that his spreading cancer not be revealed beyond a tight family circle.
Whether it is the disfigurement of polio in Roosevelt's and Douglas' cases, or the depression and despair that led Churchill to drink prodigiously, or the agony of deep back pain that led Kennedy to consume daily a powerful cocktail of painkillers and barbiturates, the reason for leaders' public deceit is always the same: illness is weakness, weakness invites attack.
At least in Canada, that will never happen again.
Jack Layton's celebration of life in the face of death bequeathed us this transformation in our politics as his final legacy. It will be among the most important of his achievements to those who struggle to survive cancer or other medical curses and to live lives of meaning and fulfillment at the same time.
The instant cliché of his cane brandished in defiance, not disability, and the cartoons and photos of that bravado now flooding the Internet will live as proof of the triumph of, as he said, "hope over fear." One can almost hear, years from now, a partner or a physiotherapist imploring a deflated stroke victim to "Think of Jack" as an appeal against surrender.
Andrew Coyne was the first to frame this power behind Canada's almost universal emotional eruption, in an elegant elegy in Maclean's. The explosion of grief and then the sometimes mawkish displays of love and admiration, he pointed out, were a testament not to Jack as a politician, or even to Jack as a compelling leader in the fight for social justice, though those were important parts of the outpouring.
They were a tribute to a man who publicly flaunted his final battle with several cancers, who painfully limped, then hobbled, then hopped, and finally ran across the finish line in the triumphant electoral victory of his life, cane brandished on election night as he saluted his supporters, only to have that victory snatched from him weeks later. The best story and the best storyteller always win in politics. Jack's was epic by any standard.
It was a moment that stunned the nation. Despite the dreadful gaunt visage Canadians had witnessed only weeks before, no one was prepared for the shocking news early on a normally sleepy summer Monday morning. Skeptics, ignorant of the necessary armour of a battle against a powerful disease, muttered that he must have known, that he should have told Canadians that he was dying. One hopes, when faced with the same existential nightmare, they come to understand that however long the odds, no one who cheats cancer by living a meaningful life ever admits defeat, or even its prospect.
Despite insistent pressure from the media, he refused to discuss the new cancer that had hit him. Olivia Chow was equally determined after his death, saying that Jack did not want every prostate survivor to think that his would be their fate as well.
Two decades earlier, as a busy Toronto politician, Jack had accompanied his father to his Toronto prostate surgeon on many visits over several years. As the now internationally famous surgeon, ironically counsellor to both father and son in their cancer battles, said, "In all my years of family visits I have rarely seen a man play the role of care guardian. It is always women who accompany my patients. It made an early impression on me about Jack." Layton's early exposure to the painful nightmare of a long battle with cancer — his father's lasted a decade — made him keenly aware of the debilitating myths and stereotyping surrounding cancer care.
Talking to other cancer survivors in private, Jack would say, "You can't just tell people 'not to worry,' or 'prepare to die in six months.' You can't expect everyone to be able to carry on or tell others they should just quit. You just have to give everyone support for the way they choose to fight this battle. For me, I am a fighter…to the end."
It had never happened before — not in Canada, nor in any modern democracy. A leader at the height of his career, struck down within weeks of his greatest political triumph, but not before he could carefully lay out his political will to his family and political allies. His political legacy, therefore, will last longer and be an invisible hand guiding his party, its caucus and its supporters more directly than we have ever seen in Canadian politics.
The interplay of triumph and loss, hope and grief that marked Jack Layton's final weeks was almost Shakespearean. His sudden death dominated the national news agenda for days, with spontaneous displays of mourning in cities across the country, culminating in a controversial state funeral watched by millions of Canadians. Those powerful images and memories will be slow to fade.
Reporters covering the 1980 Carter-Reagan campaign travelling through small towns in West Virginia were astonished to find on kitchen walls faded pictures of Jack Kennedy. Nearly two decades after his sudden death, Kennedy remained an icon for many Americans, a sad memory of what might have been. Pierre Trudeau remains a political lodestone for many Canadian Liberals a decade after his death and a generation after he left office.
Jack Layton will not have that same gravitational pull 20 years from now, but like John Diefenbaker and Tommy Douglas, he has already been admitted to the very small club of politicians that most Canadians of every political conviction remember with affection and respect. Reporters in small towns in Quebec will, I suspect, find faded copies of Pat Corrigan's powerful image of Jack on a bike, flag flying behind while riding into the sunset, several elections from now.
The transformation from politician reasonably well liked to political sainthood was, in Layton's case, sudden, stunning and unheard of in Canadian politics. Tommy Douglas moved into the small pantheon of the permanently blessed slowly, over several decades.
Within minutes of Layton's passing on a summer Monday morning, Stephen Harper recognized that it would become a unifying moment for Canadians. He called Olivia Chow with his idea and then ordered the machinery of government to prepare a state funeral. It was a gracious and bold decision. Despite some muttering among his own colleagues and some astonishingly graceless commentary among a few predictable pundits, it showed both statesmanship and adroit political skill.
Imagine the reaction if, on seeing the outpouring of grief that swept many Canadians, the Prime Minister had done what anal bureaucrats in the protocol section of Heritage Canada and tradition would have prescribed, and simply said no to the public call for a grand celebration. It would have become another example of the harsh partisan edge with which he is usually lashed. Curiously, Harper has shown a similar compassion and sensitive antennae in a number of other cases, but has usually chosen to keep his role a secret. He has intervened behind the scenes to overturn bureaucrats' and even security officials' recommendations where a more sensitive approach to Canadian families in distress was called for.
The grace was widely recognized and praised, except in a few cases of deliberate insult, a sad product of the cynical armour that some journalists and politicians grow to shield themselves from life's disappointments; theirs is a bitterness that generates sarcastic sneers about death. Layton, who often delighted in biting public and private self-deprecation, would merely have chuckled at their vulgarity.
The Prime Minister endured, with the occasional wry grimace, the hortatory rhetoric of Stephen Lewis at the funeral. He stood and clapped — requiring some of his even more reluctant cabinet colleagues to follow suit — at the frequent calls for a more just and equal Canada. He even danced hesitantly, prodded by Laureen, as the audience rocked to a cathartic version of "Rise Up," Lorraine Segato's anthem of liberation. Michael Ignatieff, meanwhile, tried hard to appear comfortable clapping to the rocker's call to action, aware of colleagues watching him, everyone contrasting the joy in the room with his cringe-inducing effort to use a similar appeal so awkwardly only months before.
Standing in a darkened hall with thousands of Canadians of a wider spectrum of age and persuasion, ethnicity and political values than have probably ever been seen together, chanting, stomping, many openly in tears as Segato took them higher and higher, was a little head-snapping.
Canadians of a certain generation boast quietly about our softer, more elegant form of national celebration, in contrast to our more coarse neighbours. We cheer but we don't bellow or bawl in public, is the mantra of a more Presbyterian Canada. If one reads the accounts of riots and celebration in the revolts of 1837, or the burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal in 1849, or the national grief as the surviving sons returned from the carnage of 1918, it is doubtful that it was ever true.
But for a younger generation and for Canadians whose backgrounds are rooted in cultures of public celebration and sorrow, that is not their Canada. They wanted to share the joy and pain together, to be part of a huge social occasion, online and in public squares. Stephen Harper understood that instantly, even if it took most of us longer.
Within minutes of Layton's passing on a summer Monday morning, Stephen Harper recognized that it would become a unifying moment for Canadians. He called Olivia Chow with his idea and then ordered the machinery of government to prepare a state funeral. It was a gracious and bold decision.
Like the Arab Spring and the Vancouver, Greek, Chilean and London riots this summer, the Layton outpouring demonstrates how quick to enrage and easy to mobilize are citizens born in a digital age. These eruptions may turn ugly or catalyze dramatic social change, but they cannot be dismissed. Those who were in Tahrir Square have been transformed by their experience. Many of the young Canadians who left chalked messages for "their Jack," and then returned several times to rewrite them as the rain came several times in that astonishing week, will describe the powerful emotions that swept those crowds to their children years from now.
There is a message in these sudden outpourings of joy, anger or grief. It is usually a raised middle finger to established authority. Canadians honouring Jack Layton were also expressing their anger and frustration with the political elites. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford respected this as he paid tribute to what he had learned from Layton as a young councillor and stood, clearly moved, with his hand on the coffin. Bob Rae understood this message from Canadians, better than some of his more jejune interviewers, in his calm but determined rejection of their several efforts to tempt him into conventional partisan rhetoric.
We now live in a world where these instant reactions of millions of citizens to unpredictable signals and events are the norm. The task of leadership today is to encourage and channel the transcendent opportunities, and to anticipate and diminish the more destructive. Sneering dismissal is not a wise option.
Beatification, political or spiritual, removes texture, context, colour and contrast. The new saint is always stripped of complexity and presented to the world in raiments of improbable perfection. Tommy Douglas had an acid tongue in private, and Pierre Trudeau could be staggeringly cruel to those close to him. Those aspects of character have been removed from the official hagiographies. Saint Jack is already a victim of this process.
Far more interesting and uplifting as a life story is the reality that the Jack Layton who electrified Canadians with his courage in fighting for life was a far more complex husband, father and leader than the two-dimensional poster hero that sainthood demands. He started out as a somewhat ungracious child of privilege and grew almost inevitably into teenage rebellion, an often angry university student and then a polemicist and compelling teacher.
As a young politician in his 30s he was often impatient, insensitive to hierarchy, nuance and ritual, a self-appointed crusader who could be blind to the offence he gave. His most bitter enemies of those days were often on the left as well as among Liberals and Conservatives.
His childhood was one of Canadian gentility, with a Father of Confederation, a provincial cabinet minister and a piano manufacturer among his direct ancestors. His affluent father, an engineer who led Sunday school classes, instilled a boisterous confidence in his son and went on to become first an activist for Jean Lesage's Liberals and later a Mulroney cabinet minister and caucus chair. His mother instilled deep social values, including a high Protestant respect for the poor, the powerless and those relegated to life on the margins by disability, language or luck.
As David Brooks reports in his review of new research into politics, social policy and our changing understanding of the real drivers of human motivation, The Social Animal, these roots are powerful advantages. This inherited and then nurtured confidence, courage, sense of self and possibility that can come from an educated upper-middle-class childhood, guided by parents determined to balance privilege with responsibility, confers enormous advantage.
Layton was an icon of this powerful combination: handsome, smart and a natural persuader to boot. He could have become the driving CEO of a Canadian technology company, pushing innovation and wooing customers with smiling determination. He might have been an enormously successful litigator, capable of holding a client and a courtroom in his hand. His genes and connections would have granted access to large success in any Montreal or Toronto business or professional setting.
That he chose a life of social activism was no doubt in part a result of the times: Quebec's Quiet Revolution, followed by Toronto's explosion of civic and international activism, and the international zeitgeist of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He gave his mother credit as the mentor who pounded into him the sense of social obligation that his privilege demanded.
From his early days in Hudson, Quebec, Layton demonstrated the confidence and determination about right and wrong that remained his style 50 years later. In those days, this moral certitude could be binary and unforgiving. He was boisterous and athletic even in childhood, and classmates from elementary school recall his precocious defence of the underdog. "Little Jackie Layton," as one friend's older sibling insisted on calling him, could be seen racing down Birch Hill on his bike, decked out in geeky glasses, baggy trunks and "whatever bizarre one of his many weird T-shirts he had grabbed that morning." He was a competitive swimmer from a young age, and as another childhood and lifelong friend separated by only a week in age said, "And I mean competitive!" They sailed and swam at the Hudson Yacht Club, a small-town institution that Layton believed was insufficiently welcoming to children from local francophone families. His criticism that francophones were not welcomed as members was dismissed by adults as unfair. "They simply don't apply" was the claim.
As one club member from then and now put it, "Jack probably knew even at that age that the francophone Hudson families had neither the money for a boat nor a yacht club membership, and that they would be shunned if they tried to join in any event." Jack used various ruses to introduce young francophone friends to the club. The stunts did not amuse the adults, and friends chuckle at the memory of his parents juggling social convention on one hand and support for their rambunctious son on the other.
He was regularly promoting causes to his high school mates, demanding that the school should contribute money to conservation or international development. As head of the 1967 student council he hounded the school and the town to improve recreational facilities for Hudson's youth in Canada's centennial year, publishing the first of a lifetime's op-ed appeals in the Hudson Gazette. Tired of the haranguing, when Layton one day made a "final demand," the school principal outfoxed the young activist. Layton, infused with the spirit of the times, had announced that he and his colleagues were going to take over the school gym, staging a sit-in until their demands were met. The principal merely closed the gym for the day and left Layton and his team to "sit in" all day without comment. In increasing hunger and frustration, the band began to head home at the end of a deflating day.
A deaf and speech-impaired student at Hudson High was the frequent butt of cruel taunts — unless Jack was around to defend her and to denounce the bullies, which he did vigorously for four years, her still admiring sister reports. He later recruited his protégé to be his typist on the high school yearbook, in those days produced in secret so that students' smart-aleck jabs at their mates would remain a surprise until year end. He wrote her conspiratorially, "I know you can keep a secret!"
One scribble in a friend's yearbook says: "Off to become Prime Minister!" a role to which he was elected in the McGill model parliament two years later. He clearly wasn't kidding when he first publicly asserted the same ambition in the 2006 campaign, and despite the resounding sneers, by 2011 it was no longer improbable.
Canadians honouring Jack Layton were also expressing their anger and frustration with the political elites. Toronto Mayor Rob Ford respected this as he paid tribute to what he had learned from Layton as a young councillor and stood, clearly moved, with his hand on the coffin.
His family left for Toronto in 1970 and he continued his activism on the campus of the newly created York University. He worked his way through the academic ranks, completing his doctorate more than 10 years later, while teaching at Ryerson Polytechnic. Focusing on Canadian postwar experience, his doctorate was on the recondite issue of national governments' efforts to control multinational capital flows. His case was the Foreign Investment Review Agency, the failed effort by Trudeau to control the flow of American capital into Canadian business.
In the ironies of political life, FIRA was abolished by his father's government less than three years after Layton completed his thesis. His conclusion, not surprisingly for a social democrat, was that governments must manage the sometimes disruptive impact of flows of global capital. Stephen Harper, finalizing his master's in international economics a decade later, would no doubt have disagreed.
As in many other policy arenas, Layton was early to reach a controversial conclusion later seen as common sense. Several Asian governments clamped on tight capital controls in the wake of their fiscal crisis in the 1990s and fared much better than those that allowed capital to undermine their currencies and markets. Limits on shorting currencies and bank stocks, taxes on derivatives trading and forced disclosure of multinational currency transfers are all today conventional tools. The Harper government is now redoing foreign investment rules.
Those who remember it say that the rhetoric of the thesis is dated, and the economics somewhat shallow. For many liberals and social democrats of his generation, the nuances of how to manage a mixed market economy, especially one locked into the largest capitalist engine in the world, held little interest. Unlike European social democrats of the 1970s and 1980s, few Canadian progressives grappled sincerely, let alone successfully, with the challenge of nurturing a progressive society in an open trading economy. Until the sudden end of the golden era of 1945 to 1973 and the first oil shock, progressives were comfortable to keep building out the welfare state, secure in the knowledge that the economic pie would keep expanding. It remains a gap in progressive program and policy in many places to this day.
One of the steepest growth paths Layton trod was his move from this simplistic economic-left nationalism to a deeper understanding of the challenges of building high-value employment in a open market economy. One of the several tragedies that Layton's premature death inflicts is the loss of a leader able to move many progressive voters to a more sophisticated and pragmatic economic policy agenda.
Layton recognized that the issues of governance were more complex and the solutions more frustratingly difficult during his years on Toronto city council. As leader, he turned increasingly to the tough fiscal discipline of Manitoba and Saskatchewan New Democratic governments, engaging in searching dialogue with their leaders, especially Roy Romanow and Allan Blakeney. He was training to govern.
As a teacher at Ryerson in the 1970s, Layton avoided economics, focusing on the emerging urban activism then sweeping North American cities. It was a thrilling time in Toronto civic politics, with "tiny perfect mayor" David Crombie leading the charge against the hollowing out of the downtown core, and a generation of activists laying the foundation of later victories on homelessness, social housing and transit.
Layton taught trainee journalists how to cover the new municipal activists, and young urban planners how to fight development excess, and offered courses on new trends in transit, social housing and municipal finance. A charismatic, long-haired, young prof, he was stereotypical of the progressive activist young "professoriat" then sprouting at many Canadian universities. He and colleague Myer Siemiatycki created 48 hours (!) of radio programming as a full-year course for Ryerson's pioneering Open University.
One of his male students at the time recalls a light-hearted, breezy, story-filled teaching style that captivated most students, but a professor whose overwhelming appeal to female students did not make him as popular with some male student competitors. The highlight of one year was Layton's announcement of the birth of his daughter, Sarah, and his glowing affection and then proud circulation of baby photos.
Layton always acknowledged the debt he owed to an extraordinary staffer, friend and ally, Dan Leckie. Leckie gets credit from most observers of that era for pushing Jack toward the relationship-focused, deal-making, net-working political leader he became. It was Dan's soft, subtle political skill, first devoted to cleaning up Jack's messes and later helping frame his successful decade as a consummate deal maker, that turned Layton from the dead end of activist blowhard to becoming one of the most successful opposition politicians of his generation.
His embrace of issues that include AIDS, First Nations economic development, same sex marriage, climate change, social housing and homelessness, cities as a central national issue, and renewable energy — among a much longer list — surely qualifies as visionary.
It was Dan who managed Layton's courageous efforts in the mid-1980s to focus Toronto and the province on the rapidly rising AIDS death toll. A brave young community doctor, Phil Berger, a pioneer in AIDS treatment in North America, plotted for months with Leckie and Layton on how to push the city and Queen's Park to respond more generously to the most serious public health crisis to hit the city since the plagues of polio and cholera generations before.
They had to fight lingering antigay attitudes in high places, anxiety from closeted gay men — some in high places — about the risk of backlash against the ferocity of their demands and a squeamishness among politicians and their staffs about a disease that was, after all, about sex.
In greasy Chinatown restaurants, in committee rooms and private homes, they hounded the city's establishment into greater assistance for the victims of the plague and their friends, families and lovers. Not only were there no brownie points or political benefits to be had in this pioneering campaign, but Layton risked many friendships and the support of some older progressive allies who wished the subject would simply go away.
Some national media pundits liked to hammer Layton for his self-promotional style and his frequent and sometimes irritating rush to the nearest microphone. The knock on him at the point of his arrival in Ottawa was also that he was merely an urban activist with no credentials on national or international issues, especially economic.
Following Layton's death, some sneered at the "visionary" title bestowed in so many eulogies. But, decades before today's conventional wisdom developed, his embrace of issues that include AIDS, First Nations economic development, same sex-marriage, climate change, social housing and homelessness, cities as a central national issue and renewable energy — among a much longer list — surely qualifies as visionary. It may not be a conventional Canadian political vision, but it moved a generation to his banner.
Some leaders are born, some blossom later. Churchill was famously out to pasture permanently before hitting the peak of his career. Pierre Trudeau had scant real achievement before his 40th birthday and didn't even enter politics until he was 46. David Lewis was a driver of Canadian social democracy before his 25th birthday. Layton falls somewhere in between.
Those who remember him from his teaching days are still stunned at the statesman who slowly emerged two decades later. His early colleagues on city council smile nostalgically at "Opposition Jack," happier too often to be right rather than victorious, keen for righteous defeat.
In addition to Leckie, most point to Olivia Chow as the second powerful influence in his transformation from the champion of moral victories to the architect of real social change. Chow is a consummate networker and relationship builder, slowly building a path from school trustee to councillor to MP often against long odds. She was often more respected than loved, however, as a tough political operative who delivered to colleagues the hard political messages that Jack didn't want to be associated with. She took down Tony Ianno, one of the toughest Italian Liberal machine politicians of his generation, several times, and then defeated his wife, not the achievement of someone without steely determination and a tough hide.
Some say she served as the yin to Jack's pushy, unyielding yang. By the time of Leckie's tragically young death in 1998, Olivia had replaced him as the strategic counsellor and political barometer for Layton. It was a powerful political partnership that some close to Layton struggled with.
She grew along with Layton, personally and politically. The transformation from the scrappy school trustee of the 1980s to the regal figure of silent but eloquent grief marching alone at the head of the funeral cortege was staggering. Her interview with Peter Mansbridge was a masterpiece for both: sage reflection on humanity, on sharing life and on exiting it with grace and courage. It felt like eavesdropping on a sombre conversation between friends sheltering from a quiet summer rain.
Jack Layton always had a certain charisma, along with the confidence of birth and upbringing. So it was not easy for Liberal and New Democrat competitors to see him dominate a room upon entry. His confidence could be seen as swagger, his eloquence as vain rhetoric. As a "Layton," Jack had an ease with power and powerful leaders not common among many on the left. Some resented his skill at using his access to power and his comfort in any social setting. He moved easily from the stiff decorum of meetings with ministers to the wilder challenge of soothing an angry, disoriented homeless man.
Leadership is a curious quality. As with beauty, most people agree what it looks like when they see it. An essential ingredient of political life, it's also frustratingly rare. It is easier to nurture a beautiful orchid than it is to train a successful political leader, unless the basic ingredients are already there. Jack Layton had those genes, but it was his intelligence, his deep listening ability and his choice of advisers that allowed those skills to soar.
Building a political party reduced to a shadow of its former glory is one of the toughest, most demanding jobs in public life. Morale and money are low, media lack of interest universal, and the survivors of defeat who remain are rarely the timber from which you can successfully rebuild. Stephen Harper's predecessors had each failed, as had Jack Layton's.
It is hard to remember that less than a decade ago the NDP was in single digits nationally, its premature eulogies being cheerfully circulated by its traditional enemies. The rump of the party was dominated, as rumps inevitably are, by a hard core of mainly aging white guys and a scattering of aging local riding queen bees, pining for the good old days. It was this very cracked chalice that Jack Layton inherited only eight years before vaulting the party into official opposition. Assembling one of the smartest teams of political staffers, recruiting some of the best young opposition MPs and focusing them on a constantly disciplined message, he rebuilt the NDP.
His achievement was crowned by the astonishing rout of the Bloc Québécois, which in one blow broke the NDP's Quebec curse, brought a vast majority of Quebec voters back into federal politics and reshaped the Canadian political landscape. It is hard to overstate the magnitude of this upheaval. It has unhinged the souverainistes movement in Quebec, now cracking provincially. It has sent an enormous number of bright young Quebec MPs to Ottawa, with several stars already obvious among them.
And for Canada, most importantly, it has probably permanently crushed the cruel lie that centre-left Quebec voters must choose sovereignty over federalism, absent a progressive alternative, in federal politics. Federalism and social democracy had been star-crossed political partners in Quebec since the days of J.S. Woodsworth. Many of the pieces of Layton's legacy, without Quebec, would be a significant life's achievement.
But it is his success, as a native son, in giving Quebec voters a powerful new federalist choice and Quebec an important place in federal politics for the first time in a generation that is the mark of his statesmanship. He made the commitment to build a real party in Quebec from the day of his entry into federal politics, to the chagrin of some of his supporters, many with personal memories of political heartbreak in Quebec going back a generation. He delivered it in the conventional way: clear strategy and slow, patient hard work, combined with endless networking.
Many politicians — Brian Mulroney famously — have similar skill sets and worn-out Rolodexes, and the discipline to remember birthdays, weddings and retirements by the hundreds. Like Mulroney, a friend in later years, Layton was on the phone, often preceded by a BlackBerry note, with literally hundreds of Canadians, almost nonstop. Friends, journalists, political competitors, academics and business leaders were often stunned to pick up the phone and hear, "Hi, it's Jack Layton here. Have you got a minute?"
A former speechwriter who hadn't seen Jack in years got a call one night with the request, "Someone showed me this great piece you did a few years ago. You mind if I steal a few of your best lines?" Like writers everywhere used to having their material poached without notice or thanks, he was flattered at the request and left to reflect on what the call said about the man.
Jack listened carefully in these late-night sessions, and in chance encounters on his bike, and at social and political events. His positions on people and policy never moved far from an early conviction on right and wrong, but the path to get to victory sometimes took wide curves. For some on the left those curves were too wide — his recognition that working-class voters wanted governments to be tough on crime in their neighbourhoods caused some to quit the NDP. For those who watched with greater care his polestar never moved, simply his recognition that successful political journeys rarely follow a straight path.
The high point in his political growth before the 2011 campaign was his near victory after a very wide swerve in his political journey — the coalition battle of 2008. Brian Topp has written a compelling tick-tock account of those fascinating weeks in November, cheekily titled How We Almost Gave the Tories the Boot. But for strategic reasons it is hardly a "tell-all"; key manœuvres and the role of discreet players weren't revealed, left for a later memoir.
Those with a glimpse through the window during the first attempt at a parliamentary coup in Canada since King-Byng were collectively stunned at the carefully scripted game plan Layton followed, the ears that had been whispered in months in advance, the blocking manœuvres that had been anticipated and worked around, and the cool Machiavellian analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the various players to be revealed when the curtain was raised.
It is his success, as a native son, in giving Quebec voters a powerful new federalist choice and Quebec an important place in federal politics for the first time in a generation that is the mark of his statesmanship.
Had he had a political partner with a less enfeebled political infrastructure — the national Liberal Party at the time was a ghost ship manned by a delirious captain surrounded by a troop of loyalists so incompetent they could not operate a video camera — Canada would probably still be governed by its first peacetime coalition, about to seek reelection. The compelling math suggesting a merger on the centre left today collides with New Democrats' still fresh memories of the stunning incompetence of one Liberal leader, followed by the naked treachery of his successor.
Jack in his role as the grand conciliator was far less harsh about the Liberals' bungling than many around him. He was careful in the run-up to the 2011 campaign to keep his guns focused on the Conservatives and his offer to Canadians of New Democrats as a better alternative. He ignored the hapless Ignatieff campaign to the extent the media permitted. He knew the missteps of 2008 should not be used as an excuse to slam doors on future cross-party cooperation. He mostly ignored the amateur Liberal leader's humiliating efforts to dodge the coalition bullet at the campaign's launch. Some New Democrats wanted a guarantee that Ignatieff's betrayal of the previous efforts could not be repeated. In the quiet cross-party planning for a new coalition that preceded the campaign, Liberals quietly dismissed the concern, acknowledging that Ignatieff's view was not relevant; he would not be a decision maker following election night.
When history takes a sharp and unexpected turn it is impossible to resist the temptation to indulge in what-ifs. It is especially tempting in this case, as Layton and his party were weeks away from a dramatic new chapter. At least two developments that seemed secure only months ago are now questions. Layton would have confounded the skeptics about his ability to mould his young Quebec caucus into an impressive political machine. He'd done it before and he saw building a federal social democratic base in Quebec as his most important legacy.
He would also have pursued the path of cooperation with the Liberal Party. It would probably have been an exploration of cooperation rather than merger, at least at first. But he was an inveterate alliance builder as a politician. He knew the implacable arithmetic of three non-Conservative parties fighting over half the electoral pie. Now both the NDP and the Liberals are about to be thrust into the uncertainty of leadership battles. Until those races are decided — not for another 18 months in the case of the Liberals — it will be impossible to know. Each party under new leaders could take another sharp turn away from Quebec and each other.
As "le bon Jack," Layton brought new grace and pride to the rough trade of politics, at a time when some were pushing it to new lows. As a cancer survivor he gave courage and comfort to millions of Canadian families waging the same struggle. As a Quebecer he opened new doors for an entire generation of voters in his native province, and across Canada. As a party leader he rebuilt social democracy as a political voice in Canada when many had pronounced it dead. It is a considerable legacy.
Photo: meunierd / Shutterstock
Robin V. Sears is a principal at Earnscliffe Strategy Group and was an NDP strategist for 20 years.


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