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2017 Retailer of the Year: Dean's Natural Food Market
Establishing a Culture of Good Will and Integrity
Sebastian Krawiec
The Natural Products Industry is anchored by a mission to promote health and wellness. Core to this mission are the independent natural product retailers who not only sell healthful products but also educate their clientele about these products and how to maintain a healthy lifestyle. This relationship with customers is the most important thing for independent natural products retailers, as natural, organic foods and dietary supplements infiltrate the mainstream, and large retail chains/big box stores get in on the action, cutting into independents' business. It's important, because it builds loyalty and respect in customers.
The key to developing this dynamic is having a deep-seated culture. This is what WholeFoods Magazine's 2017 Retailer of the Year, Dean's Natural Food Market accomplishes. "We have a slogan which is 'your customer has to want you to win,'" says Dean Nelson, its founder and owner. "We spend as much time developing our culture and being authentic as we do on the dollars and cents of our business."
It's not easy running a business, especially a principled business that endeavors to build and maintain the trust of its clientele. Starting one is even harder. Dean's opened up its first location in 1996 in Ocean, NJ. The market started, says Dean's wife and co-owner Loretta Nelson, "with that passion for good health." Both herself and Dean were, prior to opening the
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market, living an active, healthy lifestyle, exercising regularly, gradually becoming more aware of what they were eating and eventually becoming vegetarian. Opening the store was an extension of this healthy lifestyle.
"I borrowed money from a family member and opened up my first store," explains Dean. "It was 5,800 sq ft and my break-even was $1,633 a day. I worked every day open to close. It was a fun and exciting time in our industry. Natural and organic foods were just being discovered and introducing people to our world was a lot of fun. We started with four coworkers. I remember after our first $4,000 day, I called my wife and said, 'We made it!'"
It wasn't until nine years later that Dean and Loretta were able to open up a second location. "The industry had matured and with our understanding of running one location, the second, though very challenging was easier," he states. "By the time we opened our third and fourth, both the industry and our ability to manage our business had matured so it became about continuing to build our culture, find our purpose and create the road map for the future."
At Dean's, all produce is 100% organic and their product selection has to meet rigorous standards. "Being here and knowing the competition around us, we have to have the best product selection, the best prices, the best integrity program for items we bring in, so we're becoming known for that," says Tom Amadruto, store manager of the flagship location in Ocean, NJ. "With our non-GMO policy, we don't bring in any items unless they're Non-GMO Project Verified or free of the top ten GMO crops. People know that about us now, they're coming here for that."
While the market had been dedicated to organics since the day they opened, the non-GMO policy is something relatively new to the market, established in 2013, when Dean, at the suggestion of a fellow retailer decided to take the step. "Two days later we had a GMO policy," says Dean. "It was one of the most gratifying things I've ever done in the 21 years we've been in business. I really felt like we were standing for something. It felt great and we used it as a marketing tool to differentiate ourselves because other retailers are not making that commitment."
Of course, this was not an easy task to accomplish, turning over a store's entire inventory so that it meets one's new standards. "The decision was that we were not going to bring any new products in for a specified period of time that had an at-risk ingredient unless it met those two criteria," explains Dean. "Then we said we were going to give it some time and vet products out as we brought comparable products in that would take their place. That process probably took two years."
Although Dean's commitment to organic and eventual commitment to non-GMO was certainly a challenge, the world has caught up. "Over the years, a lot of companies have turned to organic and non-GMO so it makes it a little bit easier to have those kinds of products," says Nahum Guerrero, head grocery buyer for the market. "But because of the size of the stores we have, it was very manageable also, and it's only getting easier."
With Dean's product standards, the market not only practices what it preaches, but earns their customer's trust. "It's great when a customer comes in now and asks if we carry a particular product and we have to tell them we've made a choice not to sell that product because we don't believe in the integrity of the ingredients," says Dean. "And then the customer asks what's wrong with the product and we create a relationship, a value based upon knowledge and information."
The trust that forms is very valuable because then people don't have to think twice about shopping there. "We like to say we read our ingredients so the consumer doesn't have to," says Eric Nelson, Dean's son and director of operations.
The bigger picture of making this change is that it also provokes further change. "It influenced the food industry because now when a broker or a sales rep comes in asking for us to carry a product and Nahum looks on the back and sees eurythrenol or dextrose or canola oil, we say, 'We're afraid we can't carry that because it's not Certified Organic or verified by the Non-GMO Project,'" explains Dean.
Motivating and Rewarding a Workforce
A good deal of Dean's management team, such as Guerrero and Amadruto, began their tenure at the market as clerks or other entry level positions, forging a career. Dean demands a lot from his employees, but he strives to motivate and inspire them to put forth their best, not just for the good of the market, but for themselves and even more importantly, for each other.
"My role is to ensure the success of everyone," says Dean. "Thus behind all of the goodness we strive to achieve, there is a demanding business focus. If I am involved in an interview, I express to the candidate, you will never work harder, be pushed further, but respected and appreciated more."
Dean's "I Matter" program is the manifestation of this approach. Each year, the market has four goals: Inventory, Labor, Contribution and Purchases. With the exception of Dean and Eric, everybody in the company gets 5% of their income every quarter when those four goals are met. "We call it 'I Matter' because we think every single person in here matters and every single person can make a difference and we always want to instill in people that you have an opportunity to impact the person who works next to you," explains Dean. Instead of just bonuses for individual performances, the program encourages each individual to not only perform their best but also aid and coach coworkers who may not be meeting their potential; for the benefit of the collective.
"It's not just a financial incentive, it's really a conscious thing to try to get everyone to chip in and get a teamwork mentality to lend a hand no matter what department, what store," says Eric.
It's also very empowering to be able to contribute significantly as an individual. "The thing that attracted me to Dean's the most was when Dean was telling me how one person, right down to the most inexperienced, newest person, can make a difference," says Owen Iozzio, database manager for the retailer.
It doesn't hurt when your workplace stands for something either. "The industry itself is what drew me here, the people are what kept me here," says Amadruto, who has been vegan for 10 years. "I live the life, I mean, I have kale tattooed on my arm, it's just part of who I am, so I'm glad Dean has given me the opportunity to grow."
Dean certainly doesn't take the responsibility lightly. For example, despite being able to raise his minimum hiring wage to $10 per hour (better than a majority of mainstream, conventional retailers), he laments that his goal of $12 per hour was still out of reach. That's important to him because he understands that it's not easy to make a living on that kind of money and he wants to be able to support people properly.
One way he stays grounded as an employer is that Dean and his family actually pay for the groceries in their own store, opting out of having a house account to instead pay at the register. "People need to see us pay for our groceries," says Dean. "That little thing has really made such a difference. That means more to the staff and more to the consumer and it makes me a better business owner because I understand the cost of goods now."
One of the most important aspects of Dean's Natural Food Market that is central to forging a positive and thriving culture is its charitable works. "We really try to have close community ties, not just around our flagship store, but we work with local nonprofits around each of the stores and try to really focus on smaller nonprofits that we know need the help and know will feel the impact of what we're giving them," says Andrea Tudor, director of marketing.
So, while Dean's supports a variety of local nonprofits in its four locations, two organizations in particular get an exceptional amount of support from the company. One is a cancer respite for women called Mary's Place in Ocean Grove, NJ, which houses 10 women at a time, offering nutritional counseling, meditation and family services, all free of charge. In addition to financial donations, Mary's shops at Dean's for free year round. "These women have cancer, we need to feed them the right food and we're in a position to do that," says Dean.
The other nonprofit that gets a bulk of the retailer's support is KYDS (Konscious Youth Development and Service) which serves the communities of Neptune Township and Asbury Park, NJ, teaching underpriveleged youth mindfulness tools to lead them on a path to a more meaningful life. Dean's Natural Food Market pays for the organization's 501(C)3 status, supplies all their food, supplies their pre-printed shirts, and Dean participates in the mentoring programs to teach youths entrepreneurial skills. "I don't think minorities get a fair shake in this country so I have an affection for that kind of stuff," expresses Dean.
As it so happens, his support of KYDS came from a serendipitous meeting of the minds in his own store. "I met one their guys shopping here," he explains. "Walked up to him, treated him to a juice, one thing led to another and as it turned out his spiritual path is very similar to mine. Soon, we were sitting here on Thursdays meditating and I heard about the organization and I liked where it was coming from."
Dean's personal spiritual path has been a crucial influence on him and his approach to his business. "For many years it was about the profit, it was about me and material possessions and being successful," says Dean, describing his approach before discovering mindfulness and meditation. "I always loved serving people, but I was not nearly as happy as I am now that I am able to make a difference for somebody else."
That too, as it turned out, was a result of him owning the store. Ten years ago, he explains, "I had a customer who was a life coach and we used to have really deep conversations and he would coach me on coaching people because I tended to be a little bit too blunt." This individual one day recommended the book "Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle. Not being a big reader, Dean bought the audio disc and "within 15 minutes my life changed forever," he states.
"It has had a really profound impact on the way we run our company and quite honestly I use the store as a doorway to promote what I consider to be a much, much bigger picture which is having people find awareness in their lives," he elaborates. "I think there is a synergy between selling organic products and the impact it has on our planet, how it affects our health, but then the next step is 'Why?' And the answer is that it's about consciousness and awareness. I think it has contributed significantly to our success."
He also encourages his staff to give back. "I want them to see why we need to be successful and the impact our success can have on our community," says Dean. This involves actually volunteering at places like Mary's as well as in-store programs and other forms of community outreach.
"We try to get involved with family-based organizations so we can get the whole family thinking about their health and wellness," says Tudor. "And education has really been a huge focus on just about all of our marketing efforts, everything from getting into the community, sending healthy recipes out in our weekly emails, bringing in experts to give wellness classes in the store — anything from cooking classes to overall wellness talks — all free to our customers as just an added value. So education has been the cornerstone of our marketing efforts I'd say."
Dean's is also in the process of building a 50 person community room in order to enhance its community work, holding meditation, mindfulness and yoga classes, all at no charge. "I believe these types of classes will move our society forward," says Dean.
Most recently, Dean's held a contest in one of their local school districts as part of their Earth Day Initiative to design a reusable bag. All of the district's students submitted a bag, which the Dean's staff narrowed down to two and then used social media to allow people to vote for their favorite. The winner now hangs at the register and all proceeds from the sales of that bag are going to Clean Ocean Action, a charity chosen by the winner of the contest. For Loretta, this was very important because children are our future and any way we can engage with them and encourage activism has a positive impact on our society.
Giving to the community demonstrates one's devotion to the people you serve. This is something customers will certainly notice and they will understand that by supporting your business they are also supporting their community and ultimately themselves. This relationship with the customer is critical for independent natural products retailers facing growing competition from large companies who answer mostly to shareholders. Dean's understand this intimately, having developed a deep connection with its communities and the people that shop there.
The market even gets its customers in on the action through a program called the "Dean's List," which promotes hundreds of items of which 3% of their sales gets donated to nonprofits in the community. This is important because people want to see where their money is going and when they go to Dean's they can trust that it is going to be used thoughtfully. "The natural food consumer has always been deeply rooted in principles and values and we have to live those values every day," says Dean.
Balancing Culture & Business
What is clear from learning about Dean's Natural Food Market is that having a culture is good for business, but sometimes, the dedication to one's culture and subscribing to the principles you represent, can feel counterintuitive as a business owner. "I want to be able to inspire businesses to change their model," explains Dean. "Take the focus off of the money and put the focus on running a business ethically and honestly and being very supportive and not being selfish with the profits."
"It's all based on passion and lifestyle and living and wanting it not only for ourselves, but for everyone else," adds Loretta.
That is not to say he doesn't recognize the challenge. He embraces it. "Being community and corporate is a real balancing act," he says. "We want to be a community store, we want to know everybody but we also want to have the fit and finish of a big brand, so we're constantly balancing the two. We want our staff to be the same, to balance the cultural aspects of the business which is the most important part but also the structure, operational understanding."
Ultimately, Dean's Natural Food Market wants to lead by example. "There's a famous Buddhist teacher Noah Levine and someone once asked him how he taught his children about Buddhism," recounts Dean. "He said 'I don't teach them about Buddhism, I live as much as I can like the Buddha. So through my actions, they will learn how to do the right thing,' and that's the way we want to run the company." WF
Management team, from left to right: Ricky Russell, perishable coordinator, Owen Iozzio, database manager, Brittany Bernstein, marketing outreach coordinator, Charles Boeddinghaus, CFO, Nahum Guerrero, head grocery buyer, Eric Nelson, director of operations, Loretta Nelson, co-owner, Dean Nelson, founder and owner, Andrea Tudor, director of marketing.
Published in WholeFoods Magazine July 2017
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'Heroic' Laois trio to represent Ireland
Three Laois athletes are among the 26 strong Irish Team who will represent Ireland at the European Transplant & Dialysis Games which will take place in Zagreb, Croatia from August 18-25.
The trio are Alison Honner from Portlaoise, Robbie Lyons from The Swan and Niall McAuliffe from Abbeyleix.
They attended a motivational talk last week given by Transplant surgeon and Dublin football selector, David Hickey, at ALSAA sports complex, Dublin airport.
Dr Hickey, paid tribute to 26 brave athletes who will represent Ireland at Games. His attentive audience included some grateful athletes whose life saving transplant operations were successfully performed by him.
The European Transplant & Dialysis Games will be held in Zagreb will involve more than 300 athletes from 28 countries throughout Europe. Every athlete at the Games will either have already received a kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas or bone marrow transplant or be on dialysis.
The Irish Team which comprises 17 men and 9 women ranging in age from 18 to 74 includes kidney, liver and pancreas transplant recipients as well as people on dialysis.
In his inspirational speech to the team, Dr. Hickey said, "the goal of successful organ transplantation is not only to save lives, but also to enable the complete physical, social, mental and spiritual rehabilitation of people with organ failure. The success of this aspiration is gloriously seen in this group of heroic warriors who will represent themselves, their donors and Ireland at the Transplant Games & Dialysis Games this August. They are true Corinthians and more".
Dr Hickey is Director of Transplantation at Beaumont Hospital and a consultant urologist and has carried out over 1500 kidney transplants to date. He won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Irish Healthcare Awards 2011. He is a passionate sportsman and following his glorious All Ireland football success in the 1970's and securing two All Stars, he continued his involvement and is now a selector on the current all Ireland title holders, the Dublin Senior Football team.
Speaking about the forthcoming European Games, Mr Colin White, Team Manager said, "I am excited about this year's Games in Zagreb. The Irish Team has a great reputation for fair play and strong competitiveness at international events. Our team of 26 competitors, including 6 newcomers, has prepared well and we are looking forward to joining our friends from across Europe in celebrating life through sport. The message from these Games is clear – Organ Donation Works. I encourage the public to Think About It, Talk About It and make a commitment to Organ Donation."
Team Captain Harry Ward from Baldoyle, Dublin has represented Ireland at numerous international Games events both as a dialysis patient and in more recent years as a transplant recipient thanks to his kidney transplant which he received in 2007.
Athletes will compete in badminton, tennis, cycling, darts, golf, petanque, swimming, table tennis, ten pin bowling, tennis, volleyball, mini-marathon and track and field events.
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I figured the best way to answer most peoples questions was to write a blog post, something I haven't done in MONTHS. It's handy, though, for when simple facebook statuses don't cover it.
This past Sunday, along with over 900 people in the OKC Archdiocese, I was confirmed in the Roman Catholic Church.
Well, like so many important things in life, this has many many answers.
1) The easiest to understand: My family. My husband was raised Catholic, we were married in the Catholic Church, my son was Baptized Catholic, and though we had discussed raising him multi-denominational in the past, in practice it just isn't that easy. My son and husband would have a bond and connection spiritually that I would not be a part of. Being part of the Catholic church means more than just which building you enter on Sunday. There's a unity there that only those who have joined the church get to partake in. Going to mass for 6+ years has shown me this, and until Judah I was fine with not being a part of that. But I couldn't stand thinking there was a part of my son I would never understand.
2) The doxology. I think this is where people get hung up who know me. I was raised Southern Baptist, and joined Journey Church (Evangelical Covenant) right out of High School. Since meeting Nathan he has opened my mindset about what being a christian really means. I've believed for a long time that not every denomination has all the answers, and there is NOT one that is more holy or accepted by God. There is so much more to God than the labels and beliefs we assign Him.
3) The history. I don't think anyone will deny the long history of the Catholic Church. I mean, it was the first organization of christian believers. The rich history, understanding of the Bible and how it was put together, how it is meant to go hand in hand with the Church, and how it's words can be implemented in our lives is so wondrous to me.
4) The leaders. Yes, I mean the Pope and all the cardinals and bishops, all the way to the priests and even lay-persons. A big thinking in the Catholic church is the adjusting and flowing with the current society, with the current culture. Just research Vatican Council I & II and you'll see a group of people that got together to change the church for the people. They adapted, while still holding to the truth and traditions of the first christians. A place that understands the value of the changing thinking and needs of the people is where I want to be.
Another tenant is the understanding that the Pope is NOT the highest ranking in the Church. The people are. WE are. The Priest is the servant of the people, the Bishop the servant of the priest, the Pope the servant of us all.That sort of servant thinking, the selflessness of the church officials is a breath of fresh air to me.
When I began to pray about becoming Catholic (Lent 2014), the thing holding me back was the fear that catholisim would put me in a box, would put God in a box, that I would feel held down/held back by their beliefs or practices. I was so surprised and blessed to find the complete opposite true. I have never felt more freedom, more connectedness to God, more truth about my own spirituality than now.
And then, we took first communion and were welcomed into the Church. I'm so happy with my choice and I am SO looking forward to this new path God has led me down.
If you have any specific questions about the Catholic Church, please comment here or message me. I would love to quell any anxieties about this big change in my life.
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With two Denis Compton Awards to his name, young Tim Bresnan was lined as England's eventual replacement for Andrew Flintoff. First-class centuries in pressure-cooker situations coupled with consistent bowling figures, readied the right-handed all-rounder for his first taste of international action.
Bresnan first appeared against the visiting Sri Lankans in a T20I match in 2006. An ODI debut arrived two days later against the same opposition but neither of those defeats recorded a noteworthy performance from the Yorkshire lad.
Later exposure saw better displays. In the seven-match ODI series against Australia in 2009, he remained not out in five innings and reached his maiden half-century in the seventh. As a front line bowler, Bresnan often went for runs. Yet, he eventually became an integral part of England's bowling attack in their World Twenty20 success in 2010, playing in all seven matches. His strength in bowling lies more on hitting the deck hard than swing bowling. By the same year, Bresnan was already an England regular in the shorter versions. In the years 2012 and 2013, Tim Bresnan was continuously pestered by injuries but continues to be an irregular squad member for England in ODIs and T20Is.
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2016 NCAA Division 2 Football Playoff Semifinal Predictions
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The 2016 NCAA Division 2 Football Playoffs are down to the final four teams. Northwest Missouri State, Shepherd, North Alabama, and Ferris State are the four teams standing. Both games will be played on Saturday, December 10 to determine the National Championship participants and can be seen on ESPN3. An updated bracket can be found here.
The NCAA reseeded the teams after the quarterfinals to rank the teams one through four. The two higher-seeded teams will play at home for the semifinal round. The rankings are below.
1. Northwest Missouri State (13-0)
2. Shepherd (13-0)
3. North Alabama (10-1)
4. Ferris State (12-2)
After going 10-2 with our first round predictions, we regressed to 5-3 in the second round, however, we went 4-0 in the quarterfinals to give us a record of 19-5 after the first three rounds. Below are the predictions for the two semifinal games in order of when they start.
#3 North Alabama (10-1) at #2 Shepherd (13-0)
Game Time: 12 PM Eastern
North Alabama has played two games in the Division 2 Playoffs after getting a bye in the first round and they have two big wins. They defeated UNC Pembroke 41-17 in the second round after they pulled away with the final 31 points of the game. Jacob Tucker had 337 total yards and 4 touchdowns in the win. Their quarterfinal game was far easier as they held North Greenville to 181 yards of offense and forced 5 turnovers. Tucker had 296 total yards and 3 touchdowns on offense in the 38-0 win.
Shepherd has played three games and the offense has been strong in each one. In the first round, they defeated Assumption 48-31 at home after 317 yards, 4 touchdowns, and 2 interceptions from Jeff Ziemba. In the second-round game at LIU Post, Shepherd won 40-21 after keeping the Pioneers at bay for most of the game. Ziemba threw for 375 yards with 4 touchdowns (no picks) while Brandon Hlavach had 177 yards and 2 touchdowns rushing.
Shepherd's quarterfinal game was also on the road and they were close to being run out of the building. They trailed 17-0 less than midway through the first quarter but responded with 21 straight points. They fell behind again at 30-21 but scored another 20 straight points to win 41-30. Ziemba threw for 200 yards with 3 touchdowns (1 pick) while Hlavach ran for 159 yards and a touchdown.
There are no surprises here. North Alabama will be led by Tucker on offense and their defense. Shepherd will be led by Ziemba passing and Hlavach running the ball. Ziemba did take a big hit late in the game so keep an eye on him to see how he plays early on. Shepherd averages 40.6 points and 328.3 passing yards per game while North Alabama allows 13.4 points 186.9 yards passing per game. That will be the matchup to watch.
Shepherd's defense allows 18.6 points and 295.1 yards per game, but those numbers have been higher in the playoffs. The Rams have allowed 27.3 points and 340 yards per game in their three playoff contests. North Alabama should have success with Tucker.
This is such an intriguing game. Has North Alabama faced an offense like this since their season opener against FCS Jacksonville State? Can Shepherd get the defensive stops they need to win this game? Remember, Shepherd made the National Championship last year though it did not end very well for them.
We like Shepherd, with that playoff experience, to win a close game over North Alabama. The Rams win 34-31 to play in their second straight national championship.
#4 Ferris State (12-2) at #1 Northwest Missouri State (13-0)
Game Time: 3:30 PM Eastern
Ferris State started the first round at home against Midwestern State. They ran wild with 362 yards and 6 touchdowns on the ground (5 by Trevor Bermingham alone) in their 65-34 win. In the second round, it was Bermingham again leading the way with 392 yards and 2 touchdowns passing along with 3 rushing touchdowns to a 38-17 win. In the quarterfinal, Ferris State defeated rival Grand Valley State on the road 47-32. Once again, Bermingham had a big day with 4 rushing touchdowns.
Northwest Missouri State had a bye in the first round and easily won their second-round game at home against Emporia State. They allowed negative 30 yards rushing that day in their 44-13 win. Their quarterfinal matchup was against run happy Harding and the Bearcats handled that quite well. Harding came into the game averaging 381.5 yards per game, but the Bearcats held them to 119 yards on 43 carries. Harding attempted only 6 passes all game, completed zero of those, and were picked off twice.
Ferris State will easily be the most challenging opponent Northwest Missouri State has faced in the playoffs. The Bulldogs average 493.3 yards per game (263.9 rushing and 229.4 passing) and put up 38.8 points per game. Their lowest output of the season was 410 yards against Findlay (242 yards rushing and 168 yards passing) when they won 20-17. Northwest Missouri State's highest total yards allowed were 360 to Northeastern State. The Bearcats easily won 74-29 when they had 662 yards of offense themselves.
The Bearcats will be led by Kyle Zimmerman, who has 3,582 yards (69%) with 36 touchdowns and only 3 interceptions through the air. Phil Jackson (800 yards and 8 touchdowns) and Cameron Wilcox (583 yards and 11 touchdowns) will lead the rushing attack. Zimmerman also has 263 yards and 7 touchdowns rushing this year.
The Bearcats will focus on stopping the run. They allow 68.2 yards per game on the ground. The Bulldogs average 263.9 yards per game on the ground and have no shortage of options. Quarterback Reggie Bell has 1,156 yards and 16 touchdowns rushing (also 5 fumbles lost), Jahaan Brown has 952 yards and 7 touchdowns, and Bermingham has 405 yards and 18 touchdowns are all a threat.
We like Northwest Missouri State to win this game. If they can stop the run, they can feast on the Ferris State passing offense. However, if Ferris State can get the rushing attack going, this game may be close. The Bearcats win this game 31-17 and play for their third national championship in the past four seasons.
Check back next week for a preview of the 2016 Division 2 National Championship.
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4 Famous People Who Get Away With Being Total Hypocrites
Adam Tod Brown ·
Hypocrites and the entertainment industry have always gone hand in hand, but the relationship has become noticeably more intense in recent years. At least it seems like it has, because the Internet exists now, and we don't let people forget about anything. If a celebrity made an off-the-cuff comment in an Entertainment Tonight interview six years ago, it damn well better fall in line with whatever shit they're talking these days, because people will pounce if it doesn't.
People like me, for example! I talk about hypocritical entertainers on this week's Unpopular Opinion podcast.
I'm joined by comic Billy Bonnell and Rotten Tomatoes editor (and my former Cracked co-worker) Sarah Ricard. We kick things off by talking about ...
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Back when all the tensions surrounding Conan O'Brien and his ill-fated stint on The Tonight Show erupted, most of the country split into two separate camps, unofficially identified as "Team Coco" and "Team I Work for Jay Leno So I Can't Really Say Anything but I'd Totally Find Another Job if I Could if That Tells You Anything."
What I'm saying is, Leno didn't have a lot of supporters. He had a ton of critics, though! One of the most outspoken was Jimmy Kimmel, whom you might know as the host of the other late night talk show you don't give a shit about. In the big scheme of things, there was really no cause for Jimmy Kimmel to get involved in that situation at all. He did, though, and since Conan O'Brien was mostly quiet about it at the time, a person with limited knowledge of the situation could be forgiven if they mistakenly believed that Jimmy Kimmel was the one who'd lost his job at The Tonight Show.
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Reminder: It was actually this guy.
Kimmel talked about his hatred for Leno during an interview on Larry King Live. He did a scathing impersonation, complete with prosthetic chin, on his show.
Leno attempted to make peace after that last incident by inviting Kimmel to appear as a guest on The Tonight Show, which he did, but he also used it as an opportunity to shit on Leno a little more.
He saved the worst for a 2013 Playboy interview, where he said this:
"I have a filter mechanism in my head every night when I put together the monologue for our show: If I can imagine Jay Leno telling a joke, then I won't do it, even if it's a good joke."
Harsh! I don't fucking buy it for one second, but harsh nonetheless! Here's the thing: Aside from tracking down funny ads and headlines (something the Internet still loves to do in all sorts of variations), Jay Leno's most "renowned" skit on The Tonight Show was called "Jaywalking." Have a look:
Because it's Jay Leno and your grandparents' Internet abilities haven't expanded to YouTube yet, the video has just over 20,000 views. To give you an idea what kind of company that puts it in, I have a video of a growling dog on my YouTube page that has almost twice as many views (as I'm writing this, anyway). If you've never watched a "Jaywalking" skit and aren't inclined to start today, basically it's a man-on-the-street kind of thing where Leno asks clueless people really simple questions and then basks in the laughs as they fail terribly. It's a really simple premise, and it's been a staple of the Jay Leno comedy show for a long time. Now have a look at this video:
That's a video from a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, and it's beating that Leno video by a margin of more than 1.2 million page views. It's also the exact same thing as the Leno video. In Kimmel's skit, a reporter asks dipshit hipsters at the SXSW music festival if they're excited to see bands that don't actually exist. Said hipsters, not wanting to appear as if they don't know everything about every band in town, just lie and pretend they know exactly who the prankster in front of them is talking about. In both cases, though, it's just a matter of numbers. If you ask 50 people on the street to tell you the name of the current vice president of the United States, participants who give answers as entertaining as those on display in the Leno video are going to be few and far between.
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I don't know his name, but I recognize the character from House of Cards.
That's all you need, though. It's a four-minute video; an all-star batting average isn't required to make it work. The same applies to the Jimmy Kimmel skit. If you were to check the raw footage, you'd probably see way more people who either know they're being fucked with or at the very least don't pretend to be familiar with a band called "Contact Dermatitis."
Whatever the case, Kimmel has a lot of nerve shooting down anything Leno would consider funny as off-limits for a comedy talent of his caliber and then turning a variation of one of Leno's few well-known bits into a staple of his own show. Speaking of borrowing things from other people, let's talk a bit more about Kimmel's famous appearance on The Tonight Show.
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He's referred to this as one of the highlights of his career so far, which makes about as much sense as George Bush saying the lowest point of his presidency was when Kanye West said he didn't care about black people (which he totally did). When I watched the interview again while researching this article, I couldn't help but notice one spot that might not be cause for as much celebration. At one point, Leno asks Kimmel to describe the best prank he's ever pulled. Kimmel thinks for a second and then says something about painting his aunt's house green and orange while she was away on a trip. I'm not saying that didn't happen, but I am saying I'd like to see some sort of time-stamped video or photo evidence that he didn't steal the idea from Tom Green.
Not that I give a shit, of course. Keep that in mind. Not about Jimmy Kimmel, not about Jay Leno, and not about late night television in general. This is an article about hypocrites, and damn if Jimmy Kimmel isn't one. Oh, and one last thing: Celebrating the fact that you fooled the Internet with a fake viral video made using a major television network budget ...
... is like an able-bodied person celebrating after they pump up on steroids and dominate the Special Olympics.
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What did Miley Cyrus do to get on a list of the biggest hypocrites in entertainment? Everything, that's what. She did everything to get on this list. Her crimes are so numerous in that respect that listing all of them here would take an article all unto itself. I can prove that, actually, because when looking for potential entries for this column, a mere search for "hypocritical celebrities" turned up this exhaustive rundown of Miley Cyrus' extensive catalog of flip-flopping and going back on her word. I encourage you to read it all, you know, at some point, and only if you're interested. Until then, here are a few of the most heinous examples from their investigation:
This video of Miley Cyrus declaring that not only will she never do drugs, but that she doesn't live in fear of looking like a hypocritical idiot should her stance on the matter ever change, because, guys, it's just not going to. Miley Cyrus is not that person.
Well, you know, not in real life. This song that's totally about doing all of the drugs begs to differ on the career side of things, probably. Good luck explaining away the next video as the product of a studio session, though.
That's Miley Cyrus smoking "salvia" with a bunch of friends, all while having the good judgment to ask that someone video the proceedings, because, you know, what could possibly go wrong?
Well, we know what went wrong. That video was leaked to the Internet, and Miley Cyrus, at that exact moment, began her transformation from Disney princess to "Blurred Lines" sexual assault victim. I'll let you make the call as to whether breaking with the strict anti-drug policy was a good one, but the fact remains that the policy was broken, and everyone suddenly had solid proof that Miley Cyrus was the worst kind of hypocrite ...
... the kind who gets drunk or high with you and then lectures you about being fucked up until they finally sober up and realize they've been an asshole for the last eight hours. I don't care how rad her songs make them seem, a Miley Cyrus party sounds awful now.
Even worse, one of the most memorable lines from one of Miley Cyrus' most beloved hits is a simple thing right before the chorus that says "And a Jay-Z song was on," which gets repeated a few times.
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"And this party was happening where?"
Really catchy stuff. So much so, in fact, that Miley was asked about that specific line during one famous interview, when she was asked to name her favorite Jay-Z song and gave what has to be the douchiest of all possible responses to such a simple question:
"I've never heard a Jay-Z song," the singer, 16, said in an interview before her Halloween concert -- in which she was dressed as Pocahontas -- in Louisville, Kentucky, this past Saturday. "I don't listen to pop music."
Honestly, I don't even need proof that she's lying about never having heard a Jay-Z song before. This is America, Miley Cyrus. You've heard a goddamn Jay-Z song, nobody is that cool. Also, saying you don't listen to pop music when the only thing you make is pop music ... it does not make you look like a rebel; it makes you look like a soulless corporate robot who just records whatever bullshit your label puts in front of you.
Not that I'm questioning her integrity or anything.
In the way of an update, we have received confirmation that this particular sticking point in the relationship between Miley Cyrus and the most powerful man in America has been resolved. Jay-Z mentioned Miley Cyrus in a song called "Somewhereinamerica" and then tweeted about her shortly thereafter. It wasn't particularly flattering in either case, but who is Miley Cyrus to mind a detail like that? She's such a badass, you guys. She embraced the controversy in the way only a person adept at embracing controversy to further their career truly can.
Is she right, bitches?
I'm assuming, after all of this, that Miley Cyrus has heard at least one Jay-Z song.
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Toby Keith? A hypocrite? Surely I'm mistaken, right? I know, he seemed so genuine up to this point, huh? Well, he's not, and I'll tell you why. For one, he's a lifelong Democrat. Despite his best friend-dom with the Bush administration at the exact moment his real party needed him, the fact remains that Toby Keith has gone on record as a supporter of the blue. That's doesn't make him a hypocrite so much as it calls into question the authenticity of the Republican talking points that littered most of his 9/11 cash-in work.
In keeping with Toby Keith's unlikely status as a registered Democrat, he's come under fire from conservatives and especially gun owners over the past few months, and for damn good reason, if you ask me.
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That stupid goddamn bandanna?
Here's the deal: Toby Keith has always made it a point to speak out in support of gun owner rights. In 2003, he performed at an NRA-sponsored concert to honor Charlton Heston. His 2010 hit "Bullets in the Gun" was all about the romance of carrying firearms. Then there's the crown champion of Toby Keith firearm talking points:
I'm all about good people, licensed and trained, carrying a concealed weapon. The bad guys are always gonna be carrying guns. There are so many guns in the U.S. and so many bad people that do harm with 'em. If 1 percent of non-felons would go get their concealed weapons license and carry a gun where they can, 1 percent puts you in a pretty good position of being somebody that could save a bunch of people's lives.
I added the emphasis there just in case any non-felons reading this didn't realize they'd received marching orders from upon high. Not so fast, though. As it turns out, Toby Keith isn't nearly as pro-gun as his songs and pretend persona may indicate. See, Toby Keith isn't just a country singer, he's a businessman.
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Give the gift of terrible gift card buying decisions.
That fancy pants ad comes from one of his patented Toby Keith's I Love This Bar and Grill franchises. Gift cards are just one of the many things available for you to enjoy at Toby Keith's I Love This Bar and Grill.
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"All my Muslim fans put your hands in the air!"
Another amenity? The chance to get shot in the face by a rampaging madman with no means to protect yourself.
See, as outspoken as Toby Keith has been on the right to carry guns, he absolutely forbids such chicanery inside his precious restaurants. That's right, fans of terrible music and shooting people: Toby Keith does want you to take up arms and fight back against the random and impossible to spot until it's too late lunatics who occasionally stroll into your neighborhood McDonald's and start indiscriminately blowing people away; he just doesn't want you to do it on his lawn, apparently.
With all of that said, I cannot begin to express how very little of a shit I give about this situation. The only thing I like less than Toby Keith is his fans. If he's doing something to make them sad, carry on, I say. And also don't let people bring guns into restaurants. Thanks.
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You know who loves the song "Imagine" by John Lennon? Just about everyone. While I will admit that it sounds pretty and all that, there's something about that song that has always bothered me. Not just sort of bothered me, either. It's nagged at me for a long time, it angers me that more people don't bring it up, and I will be forever indebted to Cracked for giving me such a huge platform to ask this question:
Just where in the hell does John Lennon get off asking if WE can imagine a world with no possessions?
If you're a fan of "Imagine," then surely you know what I'm referring to, which is a line in the song where Lennon says, "Imagine no possessions/I wonder if you can." Why does that bother me? Because he was sitting here when he came up with that line:
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Can I live in that?
It takes a lot of nerve (Jimmy Kimmel nerve, probably) for a singer to ask us if we can imagine giving up our possessions when he's banging the song out on a piano made from decorative cocaine or whatever the hell that might be. I ... imagine it set him back quite a bit of cash. Wouldn't downgrading to playing that song on a normal person's piano (those don't actually exist, by the way) and doing away with the finery have been a nice example to set for the rest of us? Also, the apartment building he was living in at the time was expensive as fuck. Look, I'm a fan of the Beatles and of a lot of Lennon's solo work, so don't come down on me like I'm questioning every single thing the band ever stood for. I'm just saying John Lennon was a hypocrite, is all. Is that really so bad?
Also, I'm not the only who noticed this. Check out Neil Young covering the song during a 9/11 tribute.
If you cut to around the 1:54 mark, you'll hear Neil sing it as "Imagine no possessions/I wonder if I can." It's a minor change, but it makes a huge difference. "I wonder if you can" is a lecture. "I wonder if I can" is someone expressing internal doubt and all that fun stuff that music is supposed to be.
I know we're supposed to treasure this song, but to me, it's just more proof that the longstanding rumor that John Lennon was a massive asshole may actually be true.
Adam hosts a podcast called Unpopular Opinion that you should listen to on Soundcloud and a live stand-up comedy show of the same name that you should come see sometime if you're in the Los Angeles area. You should also be his friend on Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr.
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En djurkyrkogård är en begravningsplats där man begraver djur, oftast husdjur.

Historik
Att rituellt begrava hundar eller katter har förekommit allt sedan människan började ha husdjur, alltså redan runt 10−12 000 före Kristus, som gravfynd från denna tid har visat.

Att begrava djur på särskilda djurkyrkogårdar började man med i mitten på 1800-talet, men oftast fick exempelvis den trogne jakthunden en enkel minnessten av ägaren hemma på tomten. Den äldsta större begravningsplatsen för djur i Sverige är Kaknäs djurkyrkogård på Djurgården i Stockholm, här fick författaren August Blanches (1811−1868) hund Nero sin sista viloplats.

Idag har varje större stad i västvärlden en djurkyrkogård. Den mest kända är kanske Cimetière des Chiens i Paris som öppnades 1899. Där vilar utöver hundar och katter även hästar, apor, lejon och till och med fiskar.

Sverige
I Sverige råder för närvarande brist på djurkyrkogårdar. På begravningsplatsen för smådjur i Lilla Edet, som sköts av en stiftelse, tar man enligt uppgift inte längre emot nya djur för begravning. I Trollhättan har man kunnat begrava smådjur sedan cirka 1995. Där är det en kommunal service för boende i kommunen. Stiftelsen Stockholms Djurkyrkogårdar är en ideell förening som underhåller två begravningsplatser för djur i Stockholmstrakten. En ligger bakom Markuskyrkan i Björkhagen, den andra är Gustavslund i närheten av Västerhaninges centrum. Kaknäs djurkyrkogård administreras sedan 1995 av Stockholms Kennelklubb.

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LOS ANGELES — After a victory on Feb. 25, the Detroit Red Wings had a .500 record. But they have not won since, going 0-6-1 over their past seven games prior to taking on the Kings on Thursday night at Staples Center.
But as anyone following the Kings this season knows, they have been an up-and-down team, even though they are nevertheless contending for a playoff spot.
"I just think every team is dangerous in its own way," Coach John Stevens said of the Red Wings at the morning skate.
Sometimes a team needs some luck. The Kings got some when Anze Kopitar scored what can only be called a fluke goal at 8:22 of the third period, breaking a 1-1 tie and helping the Kings to a 4-1 victory over the Red Wings before a sellout of 18,230 at Staples Center.
The Kings (39-26-6, 84 points) went into Thursday's game tied with the Ducks for third place in the Pacific Division, but moved two points ahead. A third-place divisional finish guarantees a playoff spot. The Kings have 11 games remaining.
Detroit is now 26-33-11 (63 points).
Kopitar and teammate Dustin Brown were battling the Red Wings' Nick Jensen for the puck behind the Detroit net. The puck went off Kopitar's stuck, into the air, hitting goalie Jared Coreau in the back and falling into the net and across the goal line.
When you're on, you're on.
It was No. 29 for Kopitar, with Brown and Drew Doughty getting the assists.
Tyler Toffoli added his 23rd of the season at 18:30 of the third, then Brown scored his 21st into an empty net.
The Kings took a 1-0 lead when defesnseman Paul LaDue scored his third of the season at 8:55 of the first period. Anze Kopitar won a faceoff, with the puck going to Alex Iafallo, who whipped a pass to LaDue standing inside the blue line.
LaDue let go a rocket of a shot that got past Red Wings goaltender Jared Coreau into the lower left corner of the net. Kopitar and Iafallo had the assists.
LaDue did not play in the previous 14 games – he sat out 13 as a healthy scratch and missed one while down on the farm at Ontario. LaDue had not been in a game since Feb. 13 at Carolina.
Detroit out-shot the Kings 7-6 in the first 20 minutes, during which the Kings had to kill one penalty because of a slashing call on Kyle Clifford.
The Kings entered with the second-best penalty kill in the league at 84.1 percent.
There was no scoring in the second period, and not many shots. The Red Wings had six shots for a two-period total of 13, the Kings had five for a total of 11.
The Kings had two power-play opportunities, but neither bore fruit.
There was a brief skirmish between Kings defenseman Dion Phaneuf and Detroit forward Tyler Bertuzzi at the 8:21 mark. After the whistle blew in front of the Kings' net to stop play, Bertuzzi slashed Phaneuf in the leg. Phaneuf responded with a punch to the face that landed.
They did not drop the gloves, however, as order was quickly restored. Bertuzzi was penalized for slashing Phaneuf, and Phaneuf took a roughing penalty.
Unfortunately for the Kings, LaDue took a high-sticking penalty at the end of the period, and Detroit took advantage when Gustav Nyquist scored his 18th of the season, tying the score just 45 seconds into the third period on the power play.
Niklas Kronwall and Frans Nielsen assisted.
Next up, the Kings host the New Jersey Devils on Saturday at 1 p.m. The Devils are struggling to stay in the Eastern Conference playoff race.
After Saturday, the Kings take off for a four-game trip that includes three teams in Western Conference playoff contention.
LOS ANGELES — Fighting for a playoff spot with several other teams, the Kings made two trades over an eight-day span ahead of taking on the Dallas Stars on Thursday at Staples Center.
The trade deadline is Monday, so there might be more moves. But with 22 games left in the regular season and a stretch of 10 of 12 at home, the Kings need to be focused on one thing – making the postseason after not doing so last season.
Things did not go well for the Kings in their first game back after a seven-game trip as Tyler Seguin scored his 30th goal of the season at 11:33 of the third period and Alexander Radulov scored an empty-net goal with time winding down to lift the Stars to a 2-0 victory over the Kings before a sellout crowd of 18,230 at Staples Center.
The Kings (33-23-5, 71 points) had their three-game winning streak snapped and remained two points behind third-place Anaheim in the Pacific Division. Dallas (35-22-4, 74 points) came in having lost two in a row and three of four. The Stars, also battling to make the postseason, moved into third place in the Central Division.
Afterward, Kings forward Anze Kopitar wore the look of defeat on his face. His team had just returned from a long trip that culminated with a big victory Tuesday at Winnipeg. He didn't buy the notion his team had no legs, even though it was out-shot 13-5 in both the second and third periods after it out-shot the Stars 8-2 in the first.
"No, I don't think so," Kopitar said. "I think our legs were there. We just didn't manage the puck, for whatever reason that was. Obviously, the second period, we spent a lot of time in our zone and it's tough to defend all the time.
Kings goalie Jonathan Quick stopped 26 shots, making several fine saves to keep his team in the game. But like Kopitar said, the Kings did not have good puck management. That's why it might have looked like the team was fatigued, defenseman Jake Muzzin said.
"I thought we did a lot of good things," he said. "Our start was good. Coming off the road is always tough after a long road trip like that. One day off and we're right back into it. … We played a lot of the (second) period in our own zone, so it's tiring.
Kings coach John Stevens gave Dallas the credit.
"There wasn't a lot of room out there," he said. "I thought every puck was contested. Second period they made a big push, probably cost us a little bit, spent a little too much time in our end because we didn't manage the puck well enough against their checking.
At the morning skate, Stevens was asked his thoughts about the front office trying to do all it can to help the team reach the playoffs with the aforementioned trades.
The top three teams in each of the four divisions are guaranteed a playoff spot. There will also be four wild-card spots available, two each in the Western and Eastern conferences. The Kings and Stars are in that mix, too.
The Kings next host the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday night at 7. Then it will be the first game of a back-to-back against the Pacific Division-leading Vegas Golden Knights on Monday at Staples Center and Tuesday in Las Vegas.
LOS ANGELES — Another late game, another late score, another team wondering how it got outworked by these NHL refugees who encamped this fall in Las Vegas.
But the Kings said they weren't surprised and they shouldn't have been. They were buzzed, 3-2 in overtime, by the busiest swarm in the league.
David Perron's bullet into the low corner beat Jonathan Quick in overtime and gave the Vegas Golden Knights a three-point lead over Los Angeles in the Pacific Division.
It also made the Knights the first expansion team in league history to win six games in succession.
Even at that, Vegas must have felt it should have won in regulation. The Knights gave the Kings only three shots on goal in the second period and kept them bottled up and frustrated until the shank of the third period, when the home team seemed to remember it hadn't played since Saturday, and that the visitors had won a game in Anaheim Wednesday night.
Drew Doughty skated through the high slot and took a pass from Jeff Muzzin, then zipped it past Marc-Andre Fleury to tie it 2-2 with 4:33 left. The Kings kept peppering Fleury through the third period and the overtime, with Tanner Pearson and Adrian Kempe getting the best looks, but all trends are short-lived in 3-on-3 play, and Perron took advantage of traffic to push Vegas' record to 25-9-2.
"The third period is the only period we should like tonight," Anze Kopitar said. "But you can't expect to win games with the plays were making before that. It was borderline embarrassing.
Coach John Stevens pointed the finger at suspect puck management and a lot of "east-west plays," and didn't think the Kings particularly deserved the point they got, even though it made their record 22-11-5.
The Knights can make you question your execution and effort, basically because their effort stops your execution.
With four roughly equal lines, they simply move their feet into any puck-carrier's space, and all five of them play the game on a string, never leaving big gaps between forwards and defensemen. Once you get past one guy, there's a companion who's trying to poke away the puck, concentrating on finesse and speed rather than big, showy hits. As they say in Vegas, there's always another Knight.
Vegas has not lost a game in regulation since Dec. 1. It is 5-0 against the Kings and Ducks. In this particular spree, the Knights have beaten Nashville, Dallas, the Kings and the Ducks on the road and Tampa Bay, Washington and Pittsburgh in T-Mobile Arena. In the six-game winning streak they have surrendered only nine goals.
Martin Gaborik put the Kings up 1-0 with a deflection, after Derek Forbort's point shot. "We did come out strong in that period," Stevens said.
But as the Knights have already shown in their two wins in Anaheim, they have no trouble ignoring the scoreboard. They fervently chopped wood in the second period until Jonathan Marchessault, who scored 30 goals for Florida last year, camped out to Quick's right and banged away three times until the puck got through.
"I think that was our best period of the year," said Vegas coach Gerard Gallant.
The go-ahead goal came in the third period when Alex Tuch's pass through the crease seemed to ricochet off the skates of Kevin Gravel, Kurtis MacDermid and then Quick before it got to Brandon Leipsic, who scored his first goal of the season.
By then the Kings had displayed their league-leading penalty-kill, They snuffed five power plays by Vegas, but it also meant the Kings were shorthanded for 7:20. They even started the third period shorthanded, with Quick drawing an unsportsmanlike penalty that the Kings didn't even discover until they came back to the rink.
"The PK was probably the only reason we got the point, along with Quickie," Kopitar said.
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Hack4Good: TSG Dynamics 365/Power Platform team supports Loft25/GLMCC NHS PPE campaign
In response to the huge PPE shortages experienced in the current Covid-19 crisis, Birmingham based textile manufacturer, Loft25, and registered charity Green Lane Mosque & Community Centre, started a volunteer project to provide free protective overalls and scrubs for the NHS, front-line workers and heroic medical staff. During the lockdown period, the organisations have been overseeing volunteer machinists and drivers, specialising in material supply, cutting, sewing, QA, sanitisation, and delivery. Over 1000 volunteers were active on the project at its peak, with Loft 25 overseeing the operations and providing a physical location, whilst GLMCC sourced volunteers and provided marketing and PR.
However, the project had a couple of key challenges; outdated systems proved tricky when trying to recruit volunteers and managing both production and delivery batches going to and from volunteer machinists, the base warehouse and end users via spreadsheets was creating inefficiencies.
Through the support of volunteering days, TSG was able to offer a helping hand. At TSG we actively encourage our staff to take 2 days (fully paid) to undertake voluntary work for charity. TSG's Dynamics 365/Power Platform team recognised the effort of the partnered organisations and decided to use their volunteering days to help by developing a solution to these key challenges.
The D365/Power Platform team created the 'Hack4Good' day, led by Senior Consultant, Matt Collins-Jones and Solution Delivery Manager, Ilyas Khan, supported by David Wood and Justin Wilkinson, to build an all-encompassing Microsoft Dynamics 365/Power Platform based solution for the project, to enable the teams to better manage the high demand it was facing. Alongside this, Forms Pro was utilised to allow the onboarding of new volunteers, in a new, clean and efficient process.
The solution TSG created has continued to support the delivery of this campaign, with Zhagum Arshad of Loft25 saying, "We can't thank team TSG enough! This solution will save lives on the frontline. We have an influx of volunteers on the PPE for the NHS project and needed to scale the operation on a timescale of hours not days and the TSG team responded in spectacular fashion".
Following on from the help of TSG, the campaign has been a huge success and Loft25 and GLMCC has supplied the NHS with over 25,000 units of PPE worth over £400,000 to organisations such as:
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Zhagum continued, "from the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone involved and for all your hard work and sacrifice. The NHS is taking the brunt of the epidemic and we must play out part to help in any way we can. This solution puts us in a position to ramp up sewing volunteers and production and be counted in this fight! A special thank you to Ilyas Khan who is our volunteer project lead on this and has exemplified the amazing skills Birmingham has to offer when led by the kindness of our hearts. On behalf of everyone at Loft25 we salute you all!".
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A: Type is a reserved keyword, so I think it's barfing on TYPE VARCHAR. Change to EMPLOYEE_TYPE and see if that works

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Does HSBC Know Something Other Banks Don't?
by Don Quijones • Jun 28, 2015 • 1 Comment
Or Is It Just In Dire Financial Straits?
By Don Quijones, Spain & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET.
Global banking behemoth HSBC is not having a good 2015, despite celebrating its 150th anniversary. It has been implicated in even more scandals than usual, faces a 5% increase in dividend costs in its adopted home country, the UK, and has decided to lay off another 25,000 workers worldwide. It's also selling off its Brazil and Turkey units and is even threatening to up sticks from the City of London and move its headquarters back to Hong Kong.
Which begs the question: why such drastic restructuring? More to the point, why now?
According to HSBC, the move is aimed primarily at restoring investor confidence. Its decision to sell its operations in Turkey and Brazil forms part of a strategic reorientation toward East Asian markets, where HSBC originally cut its teeth 150 years ago (laundering the proceeds from the British East Indian company's opium trade, as I documented here), and where margins are currently much higher than in Brazil and Turkey.
HSBC's loss of interest in the Brazilian and Turkish markets is down to two main factors, according to Foreign Policy magazine: first, both markets are slowing down at an alarming rate; and second, they don't offer the same get-richer-quicker opportunities available in the more unequal markets of the East:
In Brazil, assiduous redistribution by the governments of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff has, for all their faults, evened out the income distribution to a historic degree. In Turkey, income inequality is also lower than it was when HSBC made its big acquisitions.
In both of these countries, there are more potential customers for HSBC than ever before. The problem is that they're not the most lucrative customers. People just starting to climb the economic ladder don't need a lot of special services, and their savings are so small that their accounts are relatively expensive for a bank to maintain; most banks would rather manage one account worth $100,000 than 100 accounts worth $1,000.
HSBC is no exception. In the Far East, even as China braces for a potentially bumpy landing, the opportunities are far greater. In Hong Kong, China, Singapore, and Malaysia, growth is steady, interest rates are low and inequality is high – and still rising. Big companies are getting bigger, as are the services they need and the fees they pay. In other words, it's a banker's paradise.
Chinese Pivot
The nexus of HSBC's Chinese operations is the Pearl River Delta, an area just north of Hong Kong whose blistering growth over the last 15 years has helped it leapfrog Tokyo to become the world's most populous urban area, with an estimated 42 million inhabitants in 2010. According to the IMF, the region has an annual gross domestic product of $857bn, which would rank it 17th in the world if it were a country, just below Indonesia.
The Pearl River Delta already accounts for half of HSBC's total China revenue. As Reuters reports, despite the potential risks posed by a dramatic slowdown in China, the bank plans to quadruple its headcount in the Pearl River Delta and step up its lending to mid-sized companies in the infrastructure and real estate sectors.
In other words, HSBC is banking on the mother of all Chinese pivots, as was all but confirmed by news out Friday that the UK-based bank (for now!) had decided to end its sponsorship of Markit's EM PMIs. According to some insiders, the bank's decision to disassociate itself from the least government-controlled and hence most accurate market index in China was almost certainly a political one.
As one unnamed source told The Australian Financial Review, "If you are a sizeable bank that wants to do more business in China, you don't want to make parts of the Chinese government angry. Sponsoring the survey is likely to affect your future business expansion in China."
Signs of Desperation?
As HSBC pins its future on a slowing China and does all it can to keep the country's neo-communist government happy, one can't help but ponder its motives. Is it acting out of pure desperation? Are financial pressures building below the surface? Has the world's local bank exceeded the limits of geographic expansion, not to mention the boundaries of acceptable financial criminality?
According to a 2014 report by Hong Kong-based research group Forensic Asia, HSBC could indeed be suffering from serious balance sheet woes. Titled "HSBC Holdings: End of the Charade," the report alleges that the bank larded its balance sheet with "questionable assets" in the range of $63.6 billion to $92.3 billion; meaning, it would have to raise between $58 billion and $111 billion by 2019 to meet the new capital requirements.
That's a hell of a lot of money, especially given that in the coming years HSBC faces billions of dollars in additional fines for a whole litany of crimes. They include helping tens of thousands of global businesses and individuals avoid/evade taxes, for which the bank faces criminal investigations in a number of countries including France, Belgium, Switzerland and Argentina.
So, could the once-almighty HSBC be teetering on the edge? Is it dumping its assets en masse in a frantic attempt to stave off collapse, or more likely the mother of all bail-in/bail-out combos? It's not out of the question. Let's face it, the world's biggest, "most systemic" banks are too-big-to-fail for a reason.
However, while things may not look good on the surface and probably look a whole lot worse below it, the balance sheet reality of TBTF banks like HSBC has mattered little during this post-crisis period. Thanks to the unfathomable complexity of modern finance and the wonders of mark-to-model accounting, the so-called "reality" of a bank's financial health is a purely subjective phenomenon.
As such, perhaps something else altogether lies behind the bank's recent actions.
A Tactical Withdrawal
Retreat is often the trickiest of military maneuvers. This is particularly true of banks that have poured billions of dollars into fast growing markets only to see the dream turn sour – as appears to be happening right now with Brazil [Brazil Just Getting Worse and Worse] and Turkey. Both countries are slowing down economically and heating up politically, just as the world's hot money begins to get seriously cold feet.
If the Federal Reserve does the unthinkable and raises interest rates this autumn, what began as a steady outpour of investors from emerging markets could quickly become a tsunami, just as happened in Mexico's Tequila Crisis. The dollar's surge, like rising interest rates, makes it more difficult for emerging nations and businesses to pay down their dollar-denominated debts. In the meantime emerging economies' main engine of growth – commodities like oil, copper and soy – has fallen off a cliff. It's a triple whammy.
As such, perhaps HSBC is acting less out of fear than out of a mixture of heightened caution and opportunism, banking on the continued long-term rise of the Chinese economy as well as increasingly turbulent conditions in other emerging markets. If so, the bank's recent actions merit much greater scrutiny. After all, the bank did not get to where it is today – i.e. at the top of its game 150 years after its founding – merely by bending the laws of just about every jurisdiction on the planet. Institutionally speaking, it remains both flexible and astute and can read the ebb and flow of international markets better than just about any other player.
Contrast that with the financial institutions that are doubling down on their bets in high-risk emerging markets, many of whom are relative upstarts on the global scene. They include Spain's BBVA and Santander (here and here, in Spanish), which are intent on expanding their already massive exposure to Turkey and Brazil, perhaps even by acquiring HSBC's operations there. It seems HSBC is worrying about something that these banks don't. By Don Quijones, Raging Bull-Shit.
Even now, the collective madness grows. Read… The Five Horsemen (and One Horsewoman) of Europe's Monetary Apocalypse
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Many years ago I worked in a NY bank that was taken over by HSBC. The bank had a terrible loan portfolio but a good funds transfer business and that is what they were really buying. They bought a portal into SWIFT and CHIPS on the software level.
In the very short time I worked for them this is what I learned. HSBC was totally controlled out of Hong Kong. The managers didn't have to be good just Chinese and obedient . Given that they are China-centric and have purchased all the banking technology they need over the years. It doesn't seem odd to me that now they are refocusing their efforts on being the biggest bank in Asia. The new clearing system being created by Russia would be a natural client for HSBC in China.


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It's their first week on campus—and for many, their first time in the United States—but that isn't slowing down about 450 graduate students from the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. Tuesday marked the kick-off of the Impact Challenge, an annual immersive leadership development program that this year focuses on getting Detroit kids interested in entrepreneurship.
Impact Challenge participants are charged with creating a sustainable, for-profit enterprise over the course of a week that will be dedicated to increasing the odds of Detroit students growing up to be successful entrepreneurs.
The overarching idea behind the Impact Challenge is using the power of business to make a difference in the world, says Scott DeRue, associate dean and faculty director of the Ross Leadership Initiative.
"The Ross School has a long history of working in Detroit as part of the onboarding of new students," DeRue says. "For years, students did service projects, and then four years ago, we identified the idea of the Impact Challenge to create something of consequence."
This year, Impact Challenge students spent Tuesday in Detroit immersed with partner organizations like TechTown and the Detroit Parent Network. The group split into six teams of approximately 75 U-M students each and spent the day meeting with community leaders, parents, and kids in five SWOT City neighborhoods. One of the teams served as data integrators and stayed behind at U-M to track the Ross students' observations and insights on social media in real time. (Search #RossImpact on Twitter and Instagram to listen in on the conversation.)
Today, the Ross students will reconvene in Ann Arbor to hash out their venture concepts, business plans, and pitches. On Thursday, each team will pitch its concept to a panel of judges, and the judges will choose one idea to launch after evaluating all of them for scalability, financial feasibility, and sustainability. On Friday, the students will develop a Kickstarter campaign to raise money toward getting the winning venture off the ground, and they'll spend September through May 2015 taking the venture from concept to creation. The Kickstarter capital will be added to corporate funding Impact Challenge has received, including $50,000 from GM.
"The Ross School stresses positive business, meaning we want to use commerce to transform communities," DeRue says. "The venture students create has to be a for-profit company, and I'm hoping that will help students develop the skills and mindset to use business as a positive force for change."
DeRue points to research that shows 70 to 80 percent of kids would like to be an entrepreneur, but those in urban areas like Detroit don't have access to the kinds of resources that would encourage them in that direction.
"These kids often don't have entrepreneurial role models that look like them, or the path to success is not clear," DeRue says. "I'd like people to understand the power of youth entrepreneurship to create opportunities they wouldn't otherwise have. If we can create platforms for youth entrepreneurship, we can create platforms for revitalization. I hope to create the seed of an idea that could be replicated."
Leslie Smith, TechTown's CEO, appreciates the Ross School's efforts to advance entrepreneurship for Detroit kids. She says her organization has struggled at times to expand its own entrepreneurial training efforts.
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With John Brown now in Kansas, we should take a look quick look at the wider picture. Brown discovered his family's miserable state on October 7, 1855. By then the free state movement had already gotten going in earnest, following the dismissal of Andrew Reeder and his replacement by the more reliably proslavery Wilson Shannon. That and the bogus legislature's draconian slave code about did it for most Kansans, even many who otherwise cared little about slavery either way. They came together at Lawrence and Big Springs to reject their illegitimate government and form a new one.
The Lawrence conventions, two which happened simultaneously, gathered in mid-August. John Junior turned up for the more radical one, news which his father must have both expected and taken some satisfaction in. He had enough pull to score a post on the business committee that recommended the call for a constitutional convention at Topeka. Big Springs made him a member of the territorial executive committee that oversaw free state elections.
If any free person, by speaking or writing, assert or maintain that persons have not the right to hold slaves in this territory, or shall introduce into this Territory print, publish, write, circulate, or cause to be introduced into this Territory, written, printed, published, or circulated in this Territory, any book, paper, magazine, pamphlet, or circular, obtaining any denial of the right of persons to hold slaves in this Territory, such person shall be deemed guilty of felony, and punished by imprisonment at hard labor for a term of not less than two years.
If any officer should attempt to arrest me for a violation of the law, and should put his villainous hands on me, I would surely kill him, so help me god.
He wrote this to his stepmother. His wife added to it her expectation that they would all get shot for breaking the laws but given the choice between freezing to death and a quick bullet for a good cause, she preferred the latter. All that happened in mid-September, before the storms and sickness that must have considerably dampened the Browns' political enthusiasm. On his arrival and learning all this, John Brown the elder resolved that none of his sons would catch a bullet for breaking those laws. Nor would any proslavery man meddle in the free state elections.
The Browns did not have the best of neighbors down by Osawatomie. They annoyed posterity by settling near that town, then performing their most conspicuous historical act before 1859 on the near by Pottawatomie, but they could keep it straight. They objected in the main to belligerent proslavery men living nearby. Rude at best and likely drunkards or worse, at least in antislavery rumor, people like the Sherman brothers and Allen Wilkinson made the area decidedly unwelcoming. Of course, their neighbors had gripes of their own.
The Browns spent too much time sick and shivering to become nuisances even if inclined, but at least one local antislavery man had a vicious reputation as an eager brawler. Decades later, Salmon Brown told Oswald Garrison Villard (PDF) -a founding member of the NAACP and William Lloyd Garrison's grandson as well as a John Brown biographer- that Theodore Weiner was a "big, savage, bloodthirsty Austrian" and "could not be kept out of any accessible fight." Wiener would go with Brown to visit some of those proslavery neighbors in 1856.
The community here are very nearly united on the free-state question. But the majority would dislike and resent being called abolitionists. . . . Our community here are mostly Western people, some from Slave States. There is a prevailing sentiment against admitting negroes into the territory at all, slave or free.
The Western people find much such a country as they left behind them, and settle right down, build their cabins, fence and break up their fields and drop their corn, before you hardly know they are here. They have a strong instinct against slavery, do not want it about them, but lack the strong moral sense of its injustice which we feel.
That made them typical westerners and western men predominated in Kansas; the territorial census of 1855 found fully 83% of white Kansans hailed from points rather nearer the territory than Massachusetts or New York. That our informants tend to hail from the Northeast and had a more moral condemnation of slavery makes it easy to forget that. Many who did come from the Northeast found that the Emigrant Aid Company badly oversold the territory's amenities and soon went home. Even beside that, people from the Northeast often didn't know to expect quarrels over land claims and the generally rough situation on the white frontier.
If you have more than one key to Uncle Tom, we would be very glad if you could send us one. We could do good with it by lending it. They need light here on that subject.
After writing Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe faced charges that she made up all the information in it about slavery. Thus she hit the books and produced a second volume arguing for the accuracy of her book. Stowe's critics had a point; she did the research after the fact. However, she could get it as right as she did partly from being an informed antislavery American before writing the book and possibly with the help of enslaved informants she met while helping them escape Kentucky through her Cincinnati home. The facts might not move Missourians, for whom they couldn't be news, but maybe they would shake loose a few from the Old Northwest for whom slavery remained something more theoretical.
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