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Life Experiences
Growing up in Florida, I received an excellent school education in both Public and parochial schools. After High School, I worked my way through the University of South Florida, while supporting a family–college was a lot more affordable back then!
However, my career from 1972 to 1991 was to be in the Sheet Metal trades, becoming a fabricator, welder, fabrication shop owner, and, finally, the Training Director for Local Union 49.
Through self training (while a single father of a toddler) and computerizing my own business in the late '80s, I became proficient as a database developer. In 1992, I changed careers, becoming a database administrator at CNL, Inc. Springs Industries hired me and relocated us here in 2003.
Since moving here, I have held positions on the Boards of the Community Playhouse of Lancaster County, Lindsey Pettus Greenway, NAACP-Lancaster Branch, and the Lancaster Housing Services.
In 2012 I became active in the Lancaster County Democratic Party, serving as a State Convention delegate and representative to the SCDP Labor/Progressive Caucus.
I worked as a volunteer coordinator for Senator Sanders' campaign in 2015-16. At the County Party Convention in 2016, I was elected Chair by the local activists, reelected in 2018 and 2020. I also joined Our Revolution South Carolina and became the CD5 co-chair, working to build a permanent Progressive organization in South Carolina.
(Excerpt from "Modern Progressive Values: Realizing America's Potential")
Now is a time to assess, recalibrate, and reclaim the terms of American political dialogue. Over the past forty years, Americans have watched as a narrow but powerful coalition has taken over our country's government and conducted its business in ways that violate strong, deeply-held values that so many of us share. One of the most insidious aspects of the violence done to our values has been the Orwellian language that enveloped their misguided and malign policies in a deceptive, feel-good haze.
Today, the conservative political machine has run out of gas, and many of its theoretical underpinnings have proved bankrupt. A new coalition of voters is emerging in response. This can be a watershed moment for the progressive movement that has been fighting back for the last eight years. How will this new progressive coalition think and talk about the values that guide our policies, our way of government?
The results of this analysis distill the frameworks into three core pairs of values: Freedom / Security, Community / The Commons, and Truth / Justice. Each value pair speaks to a different realm of political life: Freedom / Security defines the opportunities and protections the government gives individuals; Community / The Commons describes the relationships among groups and shared resources; and Truth / Justice refers to the formal structures of language and law that mediate between individual and communal concerns. Rather than separate values, each pair describes a dynamic relationship that motivates progressive morality and ethics.
Freedom/Security
Freedom. Progressives value Freedom of choice, speech, religion, and self-determination. They believe that all people should be able to speak, travel, worship, and marry without governmental interference. Freedom extends also to the collective self-determination upon which representative democracy is founded.
Security. Progressives value the Freedom to succeed and determine one's own life, but also Freedom from unjust imbalances and the vagaries of chance. Security is another form of liberty, but with an inverted focus: it includes Freedom from illness, hunger, violence, war, chance disasters, poverty, exploitation and ignorance. This is why progressives regularly promote policies that benefit emergency response infrastructure, public public health, access to healthcare, and social security.
Community/The Commons
Community. Progressives value people, human bonds, social structures, and communities characterized by creativity, equality, diversity, and a strong sense of mutual interdependence. It is this "mutuality" more than any other concept that differentiates progressive Community from conservative Community; rather than a strict defense of traditional authority, progressives, motivated by empathy and responsibility, emphasize that "we're all in it together." In contrast to conservatives, progressives value communities in which rules are questioned – in which the practical material demands of the present trump traditional hierarchies.
The Commons. The Commons are what we share, what no one can claim as private property and what all of us need to live healthy, happy lives. They include the environment, transportation and power infrastructure, the healthcare system, communications media and the broadcast spectrum, education, language, cultural heritage, and our representative democracy. Progressives recognize that all humans hold The Commons in common. To the degree that some individuals exploit The Commons more than others, or devote less labor to its preservation for present and future generations, they violate the moral imperative that results from the progressive value of The Commons.
Truth/Justice
Truth. Truth includes not only facts but also more generally a stance of honesty and integrity, transparency in government, and a strong commitment to reason. Rather than interpreting data according to preconceived ideological positions, even if those positions might support other progressive values, this value of Truth dictates a strong progressive desire for objective and rational analysis. Reason and accuracy, far from being only ideological concepts, are vital to progressivism's pragmatic character.
Justice. Justice operates in the realm of the world as it is legislated and lived. Progressives believe that everyone should play fair, and that the terms of fairness derive neither from birthright nor from mere convention or tradition. Progressives gauge the Justice of a law based not merely on its effectiveness at advancing progressive causes or its acceptability within existing legal frameworks, but also and more importantly on the degree to which it makes rational sense.
The three core value pairs give progressives a way of talking about what unites the progressive movement, what progressives most essentially represent. As we move forward into the 2020 presidential election and beyond, progressives can communicate and instill these core values by framing the debate in these terms and telling powerful stories that unite people around a shared progressive identity.
It would be a mistake to reduce the value of values to votes. Each vote, even each election, is merely a means to make a freer, more equitable future. We must not confuse the ends and means. Political power is only worth something if we have a compelling vision to work toward. In this sense, the values listed here are not a tool but a statement of purpose, not a strategic initiative, but an image of the country progressives have said they want. These values, aggregated and distilled from the thoughtful hard work of so many devoted progressives, represent what we stand for, who we are, and what America can become.
By Kyle Gillette, PhD, Fellow
For the full report, see:
http://neighborhoodpartnerships.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Progressive_Values_Report_Homework1.pdf
Modern Progressive Values: Realizing America's Potential
A Commonweal Institute Report
Funding for this report was provided by the A. H. Zeppa Family Foundation
© 2008, Commonweal Institute, Inc.
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VIDEOS: Mondays with Mate - Rimac Talks Rimac C_Two Before Geneva
As Goran Jungvirth/Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 25th of February, 2020, in the latest edition to ''Mondays with Mate'' on YouTube, Rimac Automobili's director has revealed the refinements on the ''Rimac C_Two'' electric hyper car which he will present at the upcoming international fair in Geneva.
''Next week, we'll present the final Rimac C_Two design at the Geneva International Motor Show. It isn't just a new shape, but a new name. In today's episode of Mondays with Mate, our founder and CEO Mate Rimac will give you an exclusive overview and explanation of the changes you can expect. The unveiling will take place on March the 3rd at 12:00 pm CET,'' the company said, announcing an exclusive look at their international attention-grabbing product.
''Today we will talk about what will change from this car to the one we will present in Geneva. It will be very different from the one you see here,'' Mate announced on Mondays with Mate, describing the changes to one of the newer models.
Symbols of Croatia have also been incorporated into the design. The new model will have different aerodynamics, Rimac stated while explaining the creation and design of new lights on the car, also mentioning a great deal of modifications to the interior of the car as well as the camera system and the security system.
Check out how he incorporated Croatian symbols into the car's design in a video that was viewed by 10,000 people from around the world in just 24 hours below:
A few days ago Rimac Automobili also released a short video on testing the Rimac C_Two, in which the test driver and engineer describe the ''benefits of an upgraded system'' and some of its main features.
Make sure to follow Made in Croatia for more information on Mondays with Mate, Rimac Automobili and on Croatian products and innovation.
VIDEO: Fourth Episode of "Mondays with Mate" YouTube Show
The fourth episode of the already popular ''Mondays with Mate'' is now on YouTube.
Rimac Automobili, owned by beloved Croatian entrepreneur Mate Rimac from Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina, is one of the country's most incredible business stories and Rimac himself has had to be the one to school the country's politicians on how to attact investment from the automotive industry.
He's no stranger to YouTube, and even recently hired popular Russian YouTuber and car enthusiast Misha Charoudin, who is sure to be providing the talented Mate with video techniques and ideas.
As Goran Jungvirth/Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 9th of February, 2020, in the latest episode of ''Mondays with Mate'' YouTube show, Rimac Automobili's founder described the issues of making and operating batteries for the electric hyper cars his company produces.
''What makes Rimac's high-performance EV technology so unique that the other car manufacturers reach out to us for collaboration? In today's episode, Mate will elaborate on Rimac battery technology and answer your questions about future battery technologies,'' states the video's description.
"My parents told me that I was crazy about cars when I was a kid," he said of his obsession, which led him to the position of one of the most famous Croatian businessmen in the world, who managed to attract foreign investors to his company without any problems, with some massive names from the world of cars being linked closely with his company, Rimac Automobili.
In the video, he also explained why his company is just interesting to them, that is, their concept of development that is unique in approach.
Rimac also made his predictions about the development of batteries for electric vehicles in the future.
Watch Mondays with Mate below:
Make sure to follow our dedicated Made in Croatia page for more information on Mate Rimac, Rimac Automobili and other Croatian companies and entrepreneurs.
The Rimac Automobili Effect: Porsche Discovers Zagreb
February 6, 2020 - The Croatian car industry may be minuscule, but it is top quality. Rimac Automobili investors Porsche discover the capital city of Zagreb.
Can a few good men and women transform a country?
Possibly not, but imagine if each of Croatia's sectors had a Rimac equivalent.
Croatia didn't have a car industry at all until a young Mate Rimac started playing around with a car in his garage. Ten years later, Rimac Automobili has been hailed as one of the most exciting companies in the global automotive industry, its electric hypercars the fastest in the world.
A rapidly expanding company in an industry which simply did not exist now has 600 permanent employees at the last count, as well as an A-list of corporate investors. Among them, some of the biggest names in the industry, Porsche and Hyundai.
And whatever Porsche is doing with Rimac in the labs and factories, there are plenty of other spin-offs for Croatia with the association of the Porsche brand.
Such as gorgeous videos of Zagreb and Croatia, like this one which was posted on the official Porsche Facebook page yesterday and has already been viewed more than 50,000 times.
The capital of Croatia, Zagreb, represents the ideal bridge between past and future, between tradition and innovation. The Porsche Travel Experience Croatia talked with Mate Rimac, founder of Rimac Automobil about the vibrating town.
To follow the latest in the Rimac story, follow the dedicated TCN section.
VIDEOS: Mondays With Mate: Rimac Automobili Begins New YouTube Show
"We're doing our best to share our journey with you as transparently as possible,'' Mate Rimac states when explaining his new YouTube show - Mondays with Mate, which is sure to quickly gain popularity among car lovers from around the world.
As Goran Jungvirth/Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 29th of January, 2020, beloved Croatian entreprneur Mate Rimac, as well as the social networking administrator of the wildly successful Croatian company Rimac Automobili are active on the internet and often publish news about the development of their electric vehicles, with which the world has fallen in love.
In addition, they've been known to make jokes about trends and challenges that ''haunt'' various social networks from time to time, which speaks of a well oiled (no pun intended) international communication strategy.
Recently, the company headquartered in Sveta Nedelja near Zagreb hired well-known Russian YouTuber and test driver Misha Charoudin, who will surely have some lessons to teach and tricks up his sleeve for Mate when ir comes to communicating with his followers and fans on a modern multimedia basis.
''Welcome to our new show 'Mondays with Mate', where our CEO and Founder Mate Rimac updates you on the latest developments within Rimac Automobili and our industry, but also shares his take on topics chosen by you.'' the video's description states.
"A little bit about 2019, some plans for 2020 and an opportunity to engage with our fans even more - where you can ask us anything, and we will answer the best questions every Monday," Mate wrote about the reasons and topics covered by the first three shows of Mondays with Mate which were posted on YouTube in January.
In addition to the ''challenges of building a hypercar,'' Mate talks about campus building plans, global company expansion, financial plans, and collaboration with big players in today's auto industry.
As an award, those who post some of the best comments on YouTube will also receive a company T-shirt featuring the extremely powerful electric car - the new ''Concept 2'' - with 1,914 horsepower and the most impressive acceleration in the world - up to 100 km/h in 1.97 seconds.
Follow our dedicated Made in Croatia and lifestyle pages for more.
C_Two with a View: Croatian Excellence Reaches New Heights in Singapore
January 26, 2020 - The Rimac Automobili roadshow continues, with a room with a view for the new C_Two in Singapore.
If there is one man who seems to be having a lot of fun these days, it is Mate Rimac, the charismatic man behind the Rimac Automobili phenomenon, which has grown from playing around with a car in a garage to one of the most exciting automotive and technology companies in the world in less than a decade. A company which now has A-lister industry investors such as Porsche and Hyundai and - last time I checked - employed 600 people. Not bad in a country which had no car industry whatsoever when he started.
I have met Rimac a few times, and the overwhelming impression he leaves is one of positivity, as well an almost chilldlike passion for what he does - impatient to get onto the latest innovation to break new barriers.
And it is clear that he is not the only one having fun in the company, whose Facebook page yesterday featured a new frontier for the iconic new C_Two from Rimac - a showroom with a view in Singapore.
A room with a view! The C_Two at the top balcony of our South East Asia Partner Wearnes' Singapore showroom.
Mere mortals like most of us will of course never be able to afford a C_Two of our own in ten lifetimes, but for those of you who like to celebrate the success of others, especially Croatian success, I heartily recommend you follow the official Rimac Automobili Facebook page.
I am not sure how you take the C_Two for a test drive from such an elevated showroom, but it would not surprise me if Rimac had a solution.
And for those of you taking part in the current social media fad presenting your profile on Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and Tinder, RImac Automobili is pretty hard to beat.
To follow the latest Rimac news from Croatia and elevated showrooms around the world, follow the dedicated TCN section.
VIDEO: Mate Rimac Employs YouTuber and Car Enthusiast Misha Charoudin
As Poslovni Dnevnik/Goran Jungvirth writes on the 12th of January, 2020, the innovative and talented Croatian entrepreneur Mate Rimac shared a new YouTube video on his Facebook page of a well-known YouTuber and speed expert who he brought to Croatia and provided with a job - Misha Charoudin.
Misha Charoudin, a Russian who adores cars and speaks several languages, is a motoring enthusiast who lived and worked at Germany's famous Nürburgring.
He is a well known Youtuber and has been for years, with several successful channels behind him, focusing on fast cars and everything about speed. While testing some of the fastest cars of today, he also knew how to break down what he recorded in his videos, making them not only entertaining but educational and drawing in subscribers and fans from across the world.
Mate Rimac, who is no stranger to being able to sniff out potential wherever he goes, has provided Misha with a job at Rimac Automobili in Sveta Nedelja, and the YouTuber has as such made the move to Zagreb.
''Hello Carmrades! This is the day I have moved to Zagreb, Croatia to start my new job at Rimac Automobili. I was very positively surprised to have made friends on my first day there. I hope you've enjoyed the new type of content, so I can keep on making more!'' wrote Misha on Saturday, who recorded an intro video of him landing in Zagreb to begin working for Croatia's beloved Mate Rimac.
Almost 13,000 people viewed the video in just one day, and his video of how he started racing at the Nürburgring and how much it cost him in had over 108,000 views in just four days.
Watch the video from Misha on his arrival in Croatia and the beginning of his new life with Mate Rimac at Rimac Automobili below:
Make sure to follow our dedicated lifestyle page for more.
Rimac C_Two Prototypes Initiated: Hello World - Croatian Hypercar Excellence (VIDEO)
December 22, 2019 - Another day, another piece of Rimac magic. Check out the latest from the RImac C_Two prototype in this stunning video.
Last week I wrote an article listing my top 30 discoveries and best experiences of 2019 in Croatia. It was quite a list and it has been quite a year. The article was popular and widely shared, and I have had several requests to make it an annual list, a nice way to finish the year with a wave of positivity. A nice idea, and I will.
But having lived here for 17 years and travelled to almost every corner of this wonderful country, just how many incredible places are there still left to discover?
LOTS! Including this little factory in Sveta Nedelja. With so much happening at Rimac Automobili, a visit is not long overdue, and I look forward to learning much more of the story.
For the story is magnificent. I will leave you with the latest, in the words of the Rimac Automobili YouTube channel:
Following years of development and detailed computer simulations by the engineering team at Rimac, the Rimac C_Two prototypes are now being tested on tracks and in testing facilities around the world. The first batch of prototypes is undergoing vehicle dynamics, powertrain, passive safety and crash tests since spring 2019, pushing components such as tires and suspension to the limit. Following years of development and detailed computer simulations by the engineering team at Rimac, the Rimac C_Two prototypes are now being tested on tracks and in testing facilities around the world. The first batch of prototypes is undergoing vehicle dynamics, powertrain, passive safety and crash tests since spring 2019, pushing components such as tires and suspension to the limit.
The Rimac C_Two is one of the world's most powerful and fastest all-electric hypercars. Designed, developed and manufactured at Rimac's Zagreb HQ in Croatia, the C_Two bends the rules of driving and motion. Performance is on tap from zero, with 2300 Nm of torque instantly available. With its immense power density and lightweight construction, the C_Two is capable of 0-60 in 1.85 seconds and can hit a top speed of 258mph. We are currently finalizing the development of the C_Two ahead of its production start at the end of 2020.
To follow the latest in the Rimac story, check out the dedicated TCN section.
Mate Rimac Opening Centre in Slovenia - 3.4 Million Euros in Support?
Beloved Croatian entrepreneur Mate Rimac is expanding Rimac Automobili's business to neighbouring Slovenia, where he will open a test centre code-named Hyper E-Car Lab in Novo Mesto.
As Bernard Ivezic/Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 11th of December, 2019, Mate Rimac entered into this business in cooperation with the Slovenian company Lastinski Inzenjering from the former Slovenian Minister of Infrastructure, Energy, Transport and Spatial Planning Samo Omerzel.
"Lastinski engineering has offered for us to expand our testing capacities with a facility in Slovenia, which, given the cooperation we have, makes sense not only for us, but also allows many other manufacturers to test their drive systems in the laboratory in Slovenia," says Mate Rimac.
The Hyper E-Car Lab in Slovenia will serve Rimac to test battery and propulsion systems for its own cars, but will also offer such services to other automakers.
"The testing of electric powertrains and battery systems is a relatively new area and all manufacturers are struggling for testing capacities, and although we have certain capacities for that in the company in Croatia, which we're also upgrading, we still need more capacity," Mate Rimac says.
He added that as the industry moves more and more towards electric cars, he believes this is a great opportunity to build such highly sought after competencies and capacities in Slovenia.
The Slovenian media have stated that former Minister Samo Omerzel and Croatian entrepreneur Mate Rimac received 3.4 million euros in support from the Ministry of the Economy for the test centre project in Novo Mesto.
They state that they have explained to them that the project will be "a high-tech laboratory, which will allow for the testing of batteries, propulsion motors and electronics for the batteries of high-capacity electric vehicles."
Make sure to follow our dedicated business page for much more on Mate Rimac and other Croatian entrepreneurs.
Hyundai Reaffirms Support for Rimac Automobili: We Believe in Mate
The past few weeks have showcased just how important Hyundai's investment in Rimac Automobili actually is, and not just in an economic sense. Can the Croatian Government manage to match his advanced level of thinking?
As Poslovni Dnevnik/Vecernji list writes on the 12th of November, 2019, Germany's Angela Merkel has set out to set up a million electric car refuelling stations across Germany by 2030, by 2022 there should be 50,000 of them, which will cost three and a half billion euros in total. This is already a serious increase given that there are now 21,000 such locations across Germany.
In addition, new subsidies from the German Government for electric cars were introduced, all after the German chancellor attended the presentation of Volkswagen's ID.3, a fully electric car with aspirations to replace even the likes of the Golf one day. The idea clearly left an impression on the most powerful woman in Europe, and she made sure the measures to get things moving were in place.
Mate Rimac, known for being far more forward thinking than the Croatian Government, was absolutely right in investing heavily in electric vehicles, and especially on a regular basis, pointing out that his company was primarily concerned with technology, and only then does concern for cars follow.
''The car industry is changing like never before. Now it has much more potential and it's a great opportunity for Croatia. We don't exist today because we know how to make lights or doors well, that's been being done for a hundred years now, but because we started something that was new even to them at the time,'' Rimac told Prime Minister Andrej Plenković during his visit to his company in Sveta Nedelja this summer. The visit was, quite shockingly, the very first Plenković had ever made to the factory.
"I remember very well the enthusiasm in Croatia last year caused by the success at the World Cup. The automotive industry needs to get just that kind of attention. We firmly believe in Mate Rimac, his ideas and his technology. We can provide our knowledge and experience in this regard, but it just isn't going to be enough without the Croatian Government's support. Much more is needed, especially when it comes to education, such as forming projects that will allow the educated to stay here,'' said Lutz Meschke, Porsche's high-ranking manager.
The meeting with Plenković came after big news which regarded the investment of an enormous 80 million euros, or 600 million kuna, from Hyundai into Rimac Automobili.
"Rimac Automobili is an innovative company with outstanding performance in high-performance electric vehicles," said Euisun Chung, executive vice president of the Hyundai Motor Group.
''Their startup roots and extensive experience in working with car makers combined with technological strength make Rimac Automobili an ideal partner for us. We're looking forward to working with Rimac on our path to clean mobility,'' Chung said.
The information provided alongside the investment stated that Hyundai Motors wants to accelerate its transition to clean mobility and position itself as a global leader in driving this change in the industry. One of the key measures to achieve this is electrification, and precisely along those lines - they plan to market 44 electrified car models by 2025.
Having partnered with a number of major global car companies, this was the final confirmation of the good direction Rimac Automobili is heading in. This process involves not only a Croatian company, however, but Croatia as a country, and many steps need to be taken.
''At the June meeting, we presented very specific measures that Croatia needs to take to make it attractive for such investments. The meeting was attended by the leading people of Porsche (a member of the VW Group) and Hyundai. I'm pleased that how much such an investment would mean for Croatia has been recognised, and I hope that the government will use the analyis and suggestions we've made and the contacts we've established to attract such investments. If there is any way we can help in this process, we're of course available. We have attracted more than 150 million euros in foreign investment and we're working with all the major players in this area,'' Rimac told Vecernji list.
Make sure to follow our dedicated Made in Croatia and business pages for much more.
Wall Street Journal Sings Rimac's Praises, Makes Comparison with Musk
As Telegram/Vedran Vrabec writes on the 7th of October, 2019, the highly respected American newspaper The Wall Street Journal published a conversation a few days ago with famed Croatian entrepreneur Mate Rimac, whom they refer to as "the next Elon Musk", claiming that ''Mate Rimac sells lightning in a bottle.''
The wildly popular New York daily begins its story by listing Rimac's numerous business successes.
This Croatian entrepreneur's incredible technology is embedded in the cars of famous manufacturers such as Aston Martin, Renault and Koenigsegg, his company attracted investment from Hyundai and Porsche, and VW acquired a 5.5 percent stake in Rimac's company last month, according to the aforementioned text.
"I think he's a genius," Heiko Mayer, who works on the Porsche electric model project, Taycana, said of Rimac. "I think he's going to become a legend."
Last month, Koenigsegg's Reger, a supercar powered by Mate Rimac's battery system, broke one of its most extreme speed records, when it reached 0 to 400 km/h in just 31.49 seconds, WSJ reports.
"Why do all these big companies come to strange, remote Zagreb, when they themselves have far greater resources? What is it that Rimac is doing differently?'' asked a New York journalist who spoke to the Croatian businessman.
"There's no 'silver bullet' that will solve all your problems," said the entrepreneur from Livno, Bosnia and Herzegovina, who impressed the journalist with his excellent command of English, among other things. "There's a lot of optimisation, trying new things, experimenting; it's important to be quick, to test out ideas, concepts, simulations and detailed prototypes over and over again,'' explained Rimac.
The same is done in Porsche, the journalist notes, to which he explains that big manufacturers must be "technologically conservative." Rimac himself is certainly not conservative, as evidenced by the fact that his company's technology has not been patented. "If someone is so good to be able to copy us, go ahead, copy us, you deserve it. We're so quick that we move forward two generations before that technology can be protected,'' he said.
Mate Rimac built his business entirely from scratch, as the text states. The Republic of Croatia is one of only a handful of EU member states where there is no production of cars or auto parts other than his company, it is noted.
Rimac says his lack of investment from abroad was a big problem in the early stages of starting a business, as was the fact that there was nobody in Croatia to learn from about that type of business. "There was no market, there were no companies from which we could pull workers with some experience. Nobody knew how to make a chassis or a suspension, develop a crash test, develop headlights...'' Rimac tells WSJ of his rough beginnings.
His first product, the Concept One, turned out to be a real electric beast. It gained worldwide fame in 2017, when Richard Hammond, the host of the popular British show Top Gear, crashed it. To date, the company has recruited up to 600 employees, and has outgrown its existing facilities. Last year, Rimac introduced a successor to the Unit, named the C_Two.
In addition to the new car, Rimac Automobili is also planning a new complex, which reminded the respected American publication of something otherworldly, almost as if out of Star Trek. Rimac's new campus is set to be built on land covering 22 acres, near a 15th-century mansion. Among other things, it will have a green roof, and will also be home to animals, and Rimac (who is a vegetarian) hopes that their presence will make people think twice about eating meat.
In addition to all of the above, the complex will also feature a large outdoor meeting space, restaurants, a nursery, a hotel in the woods and more.
In addition to the production of parts for large automotive companies, a smaller number of Rimac supercars will be produced there, no more than three or four per month. "Costing two million dollars per car, this is no small business," said Rimac, whom the Wall Street Journal describes at the end of the text as a man obsessed with cars, speed, technology and, more recently, the launch of the Croatian automotive industry.
"Is all this good for me? Certainly not,'' Mate says with a laugh. "To do something like this means sacrificing everything else. I've accepted that. I have no time for myself or my friends.''
When asked about how he feels about Elon Musk, Rimac replies that he has never spoken to him. "But I'd like to talk about some things," he says.
Make sure to follow our dedicated business and Made in Croatia pages for much more.

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A new job market for farmers is taking root
HNIs with huge land parcels wooing 'practising farmers' with attractive pay
'Wanted farmers', says a Facebook advertisement.
"Dear farmer, need your support to produce healthy food for our society. Join hands with us to give healthy and better life," it says.
And the pay package is 'attractive', considering the financial crisis that small and marginal farmers are facing in the country.
The interested farmers are offered an annual package of ₹1.80-2.40 lakh. Besides, they will get free food and accommodation, says the ad released on behalf of the Tamil Nadu-based Keeraikadai.
But this is not an isolated example and the 'offer' varies from one recruiter to another. What explains the spurt in demand for 'practising farmers' is the new-found obsession with farming among some high net-worth individuals (HNIs), including IT professionals and doctors.
"We see consolidation happening in land holdings. HNIs are buying huge chunks of lands. Some of them may be buying it for investment purpose, while others are interested in growing crops," GV Ramanjaneyulu, Chief Executive Officer of Centre for Sustainable Agriculture, told BusinessLine.
"They are buying land because they have money. But they would require people who know farming if they want to grow something. Hence, the demand for the farmers," he said.
Telangana Rythu Sangham Secretary Sagar said he too had received enquiries, asking for 'hands' that can take care of the farming needs of share-croppers.
Demand for organic food
"The concept of Farmers' Producer Organisations (FPO) is gaining currency. These FPOs are primarily targeting the growing demand for organic food in the urban areas. Their focussed farming too would require professional farmers," Sagar said.
Those with experience in growing specialised crops and niche farming methods such as natural farming are in good demand.
Several people holding large chunks of land are scouting for farmers in bulk to take care of their farms. "They approached me a few months ago. As we are working with the kin of the farmers who committed suicides, one entity was wondering whether it could employ the widows on the farms," Kanneganti Ravi, Convener of Rythu Swarjya Vedika, said.
Aparna, who is part of Beyond Organic (which works with millet farmers for market linkages), says she doesn't pay any salary.
With about 35-40 acres of arable land, she ropes in farmers to do organic farming on her plot. "I follow two methods. In the first model, I provide them with inputs and I take 25 per cent of the produce. In the second model, I take ₹1,000 per acre upfront and allow them to grow pulses or millets," she says.
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Thomas Maier Books: 'Ich Bin Ein Obama!' European Trip Expected to Hasten Comparisons to JFK; Barack Welcomes "Compare -Alot"
'Ich Bin Ein Obama!' European Trip Expected to Hasten Comparisons to JFK; Barack Welcomes "Compare -Alot"
As the foreign press reports, the upcoming trip by presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama is likely to increase the number of comparisons of him to the halcyon "Camelot" days of the late President John F. Kennedy -- what this blog refers to as "Compare-Alot."
As we noted before, more than 2,000 published comparisons of Obama to JFK have been made by the press so far this year. Lots of the comparisons are superficial ("They're both skinny!") but there are real substantive similarities that aren't really being discussed. (Like how do you win election to the presidency when you face bigotry because you come from a minority group? JFK's Catholicism was the number issue of the 1960 campaign). The new Obama trip to Germany may throw that number into the stratosphere. Unless the Bushies can prevent it, plans are being discussed about a speech by Obama at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, reminiscient of JFK's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" - I am a Berliner -- speech in 1963. Of course, readers of a certain book will know that JFK insisted on stopping in Ireland right after that Berlin appearance. If the Kennedys really have influence, maybe Obama will stop in Dublin too!


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Following on from our previous post on ideas for making the most out of a shell scheme stand, this post looks at what to do with exhibition stands when you've got the whole floor to design with.
If you've rented space and been allocated a part of the exhibition hall's floor, you need something to fill that space and make the most impact.
The days of standing behind a table and handing out flyers to everyone that passes by is long gone and as we said in the last post, you've got seconds to grab a visitor's attention.
Because of this, you need something eye-catching and visual as well as large enough to fill the space you've been given.
Being eye-catching is common sense – bland or unappealing just won't inspire in a crowded hall – but large?
There's a lot of competition in that exhibition hall and you'll be vying for prospective customers' attention the same as everyone else.
If someone is walking two aisles away and catches a glimpse of your display, you need it to pull them in and get them interested.
You also need to remember that your stand, like any of your promotional print such as signage, brochures, or business cards, conveys who and what your company stands for.
I understand everything has a cost and exhibiting needs to be cost effective but looking impressive in an exhibition hall needn't be as expensive as one might think especially if you put some ideas into the design and flow of your space.
Now, roller banners or a Pop Up Tower could be the first option when looking to fill the floor.
In most spaces though, a roller banner is going to look a little lost unless incorporated within more display units, and that means more cost for what may be minimal extra impact.
The first alternative to fill more real estate both in height and area is a Pop Up Stand.
How is it being transported to the venue?
Who is putting it together?
Is it to be reused?
How unique do you want your brand to appear?
Most pop up stands use an aluminium frame and a number of printed panels that are attached to the frame using magnetic strips.
Something like our Express Pop Up stand is ideal for its low cost whilst still offering big impact.
It's 2.2m tall and can be fitted with lights along its straight or curved width options.
The printed panels use a tried and tested polyester film and are finished with a scratch resistant surface.
For transport and storage, these panels are placed inside a wheeled case which doubles up as a podium when exhibiting.
The aluminium frame also folds down and is popped back in its own case.
There is also the popular Expolinc pop up system that offers ease of assembly while offering either a straight or curved display.
It's a simple solution and works well. The only downside is that in an exhibition hall, there will be potentially hundreds of this same type of unit.
Not an issue if you've got the design in place to look unique, but if your stand needs to really stand out, there are other options.
An L Shaped stand will not only fill the space but also transform it with a sense of something much more expansive.
Just by having that different free standing floor layout, it catches the eye and has much more of a visual appeal.
The 'L' can be on either side of the display and with much more wall space, it can incorporate TV screens or leaflet holders.
It'll also give you or your team space to walk around and interact with visitors.
We see them not only used in a corner booth space but they also effectively block out other surrounding spaces and help keep the focus on your brand.
More information on L-Shaped stands is here.
When you've got plenty of floor area to cover and you need to look as impressive as possible, the Serpentine or Wave pop up stand is ideal.
It's flowing design makes for a much more attractive unit than a flat panel exhibition display unit. Being just under 6m wide, it also has plenty of space for your brand to tell it's story.
Plus if you have a number of your people on the stand, you'll need enough room for them to work – the Serpentine has space in spades.
The Serpentine and its specifications are here.
Another impressive looking option is the 'W' shaped Gullwing Pop Up.
Like the Serpentine, its spacious width is guaranteed to fill the space effectively and really get your brand seen.
The two sections can either create a flowing seamless display or could even be used as separate areas promoting different facets of your business. The Gullwing's frame can also be split apart to make up smaller units or even multiple displays for smaller shows and events.
Investing in a stand like the Gullwing will give the opportunity to exhibit effectively for many, many shows.
If your floor space allows people to see you from multiple routes within the hall, the simplest and most effective way to showcase your brand to all these visitors is by using a shaped stand.
There are options for either triple or quad islands that make your brand viewable from pretty much any angle.
They link up regular 3×3 frameworks (making breaking them down as smaller individual stands simple to do) and the panels fit to the frames with the same tried and trusted magnetic bars.
If you have a large floor space to cover and are out to impress, one of the Island stands will certainly stop people in their tracks.
For details on the Triple Island click here, and the Quad Island is here.
Use our exhibition design tips from the post here when thinking about your artwork and be prepared for your next exhibition to be a huge success!
This post covers the options for Pop Up Stands that use separate panels to make up the graphics. All these displays utilise the magnetic bars and anti-scratch panels that have been the go-to products for Printdesigns' Pop Ups for years.
However, with textile printing really making advances (plus our investment in the right kit), the alternative fabric display stand may be the better choice for your business.
In our next post, we'll look at the options for making a real impact with fabrics.
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A dynamic warm-up should be done before workouts and competition.
Whether you swim every day or once per week, experts agree that a dynamic warm-up prepares your body best for peak output!
We've written before how static stretching can actual impair performance and negatively impact shoulder stability if done before a swim workout. Below are some of the benefits of doing a dynamic warm-up.
Start with these four basic goals for every warm-up, as outlined by the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Loosen up: Warm your joints, muscles, and prep your body for exercise with mobility movements.
Get your heart pumping: Increased heart thumping warms up your muscles and switches on your nervous system.
Do dynamic stretches: Stretch your warm muscles, but don't hold it. Remember: Static stretching during a warm-up hinders your performance. Instead, do dynamic stretching, which involves continuously moving through a range of motion.
Practice: Practicing the movement patterns teaches muscle memory (a.k.a. neuromuscular adaptation) and continues to prepare your body for action.
George T. Edelman works with the USA National swimming team and has developed a 15 step on-deck active warm-up plan! A dynamic warm-up should be done before workouts and competition. These movements can even be done between races when there is no warm-up pool available.
Find a warm-up that works for you and remember to listen to your body. Your warm-up should not over fatigue you. There's no limit to the variety of warm-up moves that can get you swim-ready!
What's your favorite warm-up? Share your thoughts, and be sure to checkout our 10 steps to swimming smarter freestyle guide and personal workout app for iPhone and Android.


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import (
	"context"
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"

	corev1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/runtime/schema"
	"knative.dev/eventing/pkg/logging"
	"knative.dev/pkg/apis"
	"knative.dev/pkg/apis/duck"
	duckv1 "knative.dev/pkg/apis/duck/v1"
	"knative.dev/pkg/tracker"
)

var sbCondSet = apis.NewLivingConditionSet()

// GetConditionSet retrieves the condition set for this resource. Implements the KRShaped interface.
func (*SinkBinding) GetConditionSet() apis.ConditionSet {
	return sbCondSet
}

// GetGroupVersionKind returns the GroupVersionKind.
func (*SinkBinding) GetGroupVersionKind() schema.GroupVersionKind {
	return SchemeGroupVersion.WithKind("SinkBinding")
}

// GetUntypedSpec implements apis.HasSpec
func (s *SinkBinding) GetUntypedSpec() interface{} {
	return s.Spec
}

// GetSubject implements psbinding.Bindable
func (sb *SinkBinding) GetSubject() tracker.Reference {
	return sb.Spec.Subject
}

// GetBindingStatus implements psbinding.Bindable
func (sb *SinkBinding) GetBindingStatus() duck.BindableStatus {
	return &sb.Status
}

// SetObservedGeneration implements psbinding.BindableStatus
func (sbs *SinkBindingStatus) SetObservedGeneration(gen int64) {
	sbs.ObservedGeneration = gen
}

// InitializeConditions populates the SinkBindingStatus's conditions field
// with all of its conditions configured to Unknown.
func (sbs *SinkBindingStatus) InitializeConditions() {
	sbCondSet.Manage(sbs).InitializeConditions()
}

// MarkBindingUnavailable marks the SinkBinding's Ready condition to False with
// the provided reason and message.
func (sbs *SinkBindingStatus) MarkBindingUnavailable(reason, message string) {
	sbCondSet.Manage(sbs).MarkFalse(SinkBindingConditionReady, reason, message)
}

// MarkBindingAvailable marks the SinkBinding's Ready condition to True.
func (sbs *SinkBindingStatus) MarkBindingAvailable() {
	sbCondSet.Manage(sbs).MarkTrue(SinkBindingConditionReady)
}

// Do implements psbinding.Bindable
func (sb *SinkBinding) Do(ctx context.Context, ps *duckv1.WithPod) {
	// First undo so that we can just unconditionally append below.
	sb.Undo(ctx, ps)

	uri := GetSinkURI(ctx)
	if uri == nil {
		logging.FromContext(ctx).Error(fmt.Sprintf("No sink URI associated with context for %+v", sb))
		return
	}

	var ceOverrides string
	if sb.Spec.CloudEventOverrides != nil {
		if co, err := json.Marshal(sb.Spec.SourceSpec.CloudEventOverrides); err != nil {
			logging.FromContext(ctx).Error(fmt.Sprintf("Failed to marshal CloudEventOverrides into JSON for %+v, %v", sb, err))
		} else if len(co) > 0 {
			ceOverrides = string(co)
		}
	}

	spec := ps.Spec.Template.Spec
	for i := range spec.InitContainers {
		spec.InitContainers[i].Env = append(spec.InitContainers[i].Env, corev1.EnvVar{
			Name:  "K_SINK",
			Value: uri.String(),
		})
		spec.InitContainers[i].Env = append(spec.InitContainers[i].Env, corev1.EnvVar{
			Name:  "K_CE_OVERRIDES",
			Value: ceOverrides,
		})
	}
	for i := range spec.Containers {
		spec.Containers[i].Env = append(spec.Containers[i].Env, corev1.EnvVar{
			Name:  "K_SINK",
			Value: uri.String(),
		})
		spec.Containers[i].Env = append(spec.Containers[i].Env, corev1.EnvVar{
			Name:  "K_CE_OVERRIDES",
			Value: ceOverrides,
		})
	}
}

func (sb *SinkBinding) Undo(ctx context.Context, ps *duckv1.WithPod) {
	spec := ps.Spec.Template.Spec
	for i, c := range spec.InitContainers {
		if len(c.Env) == 0 {
			continue
		}
		env := make([]corev1.EnvVar, 0, len(spec.InitContainers[i].Env))
		for j, ev := range c.Env {
			switch ev.Name {
			case "K_SINK", "K_CE_OVERRIDES":
				continue
			default:
				env = append(env, spec.InitContainers[i].Env[j])
			}
		}
		spec.InitContainers[i].Env = env
	}
	for i, c := range spec.Containers {
		if len(c.Env) == 0 {
			continue
		}
		env := make([]corev1.EnvVar, 0, len(spec.Containers[i].Env))
		for j, ev := range c.Env {
			switch ev.Name {
			case "K_SINK", "K_CE_OVERRIDES":
				continue
			default:
				env = append(env, spec.Containers[i].Env[j])
			}
		}
		spec.Containers[i].Env = env
	}
}

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Chelsea Nesbeth is a freshmen admissions officer within the Communications & School Relations team. She has spent the past six years with the University of Florida, as an undergraduate student, a full-time employee, and a graduate student. She bleeds orange and blue.
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Tag: George Bernard Shaw
Bernard Shaw on Cinema
Source: Letter from George Bernard Shaw to Mrs Patrick Campbell, 19 August 1912, reproduced in Bernard F. Dukore, Bernard Shaw on Cinema (Carbondale/Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997), pp. 5-6
Text: Do you ever study the cinema? I, who go to an ordinary theatre with effort and reluctance, cannot keep away from the cinema. The actor I know best is Max Linder, though I never heard his voice nor saw his actual body in my life. But the difficulty is that though good looks and grace are supremely important in the cinema, most of the films are still made from pictures of second, third and fourth rate actresses, whose delighted willingness and energy, far from making up for their commonness, make it harder to bear. There is one woman whom I should shoot if her photograph were vulnerable. At Strassburg, however, I saw a drama which had evidently been played by a first rate Danish (or otherwise Scandanavian) company, with a really attractive leading lady, very sympathetic and expressive, without classical features but with sympathetic good looks, like Kate Rorke in the best days of her youth. Here I saw a femme fatale who was a fine figure of a woman, but so hard that she wouldnt [sic] have been fatal to anything in my house except a black beetle if her foot happened upon it. Also a belle mère who was a little more fascinating – so much so, indeed, that the audience applauded loudly when her husband, on looking out of the window and seeing her squeezing lemon juice into the medicine of her stepdaughter (to whom acid was fatal) seized a gun and shot her sans phrase. It is something to have people care whether you are shot or not. But she was only £15 a week at the very outside. Now all these Dramas are dramas of Bella Donna in one version or another. Twice I have seen a version called The Judgment of Solomon, which would have pleased me better if the had mother hadnt [sic] been absurdly like Florence in her most maddeningly goodnatured aspect. Besides, the baby, in spite of all the efforts of the performers to stifle it half the time and hide its cavernous mouth the other half, was evidently howling all through; so that Solomon would have been jusitified in having it cut in two merely to stop the noise.
Now I ask myself why should those mediocre ladies be preserved to all posterity whilst nothing of you but a few portraits which cannot produce your living charm. Nobody who has not seen you move – seen you 'live and move and have your being' – has the faintest idea of your fascination. I could make prettier photographs of women who, in action, are grimacing kangaroos. It would well be worth Pathé's while to pay you £5000 for a film, even if you do make it a condition (which I should by no means advise you to do) that it was not to be exhibited in London. Think of that immortality – of beauty imperishable! Suppose you learnt that Mrs Siddons had had the opportunity of doing this, and hadnt [sic] done it through some snobbish scruple or other, wouldnt [sic] you swear at such little-minded folly? Think of being a beautiful old lady with white hair, able at last to enter a room full of men without seeing them all coming on guard at once with the Almroth Wright terror of sex slavery in their souls, and yet able to see yourself at the height of your vigor and militant beauty! You say you want a job; why not this job, since Lubin is away and THE job must wait for him or some other Adonis capable of standing beside you without being ridiculous.
Your G.B.S.
Comment: The Irish playright Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) corresponded regularly with the London stage actress Mrs Patrick Campbell (1865-1940), who was the first Eliza Doolittle in Shaw's Pygmalion. Despite his pleas, she never appeared before motion picture cameras. The Scandanavian film actress to whom Shaw refers could be Asta Nielsen, though such was her fame that one would expect Shaw to have known her name, and she bears little resemblance to the young Kate Rorke, another London stage actress. Florence is Florence Farr, another stage actress. Sarah Siddons was a celebrated eighteenth century actress.
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Using the Zoo's natural setting, Nature Explorers Preschool focuses on developing the "whole child" -- i.e., cognitive, physical, social, emotional, and creative development. Curriculum increases direct contact time with the outdoors through discoveries about the Zoo plants and animals. Children ages 3, 4 and 5 will have daily zoo explorations, interactions with "animal ambassadors" in the classroom, and participate in special events.
2019-2020 open enrollment begins April 19, 2019 at 8 a.m. To enroll, call (405) 425-0218 or come by the Education offices that day.
A $50 non-refundable enrollment fee is required to reserve your child's spot.
Take a peek at what Nature Explorers students did last year!


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Appreciating Villupuram government school teacher Sabarimala for resigning her job in protest of imposition of NEET, Leader of Opposition M K Stalin, on Thursday, said the rulers of the state even lack the self-respect the teacher possesses.
Earlier, talking to media persons here, Stalin reiterated that the ruling AIADMK was resorting to unscrupulous tactics to stay in power and the privilege notice sent to them was one such. Asserting that the ruling AIAMDK has majority neither to run the government nor in the privilege committee, the DMK working president justified that they have moved the High Court because the very act of sending notices to them was wrong.
Welcoming the order of the HC on their case, which, he said, has "protected democracy", Stalin said the ruling dispensation should volunteer and tender its resignation at least henceforth. The LoP also asked the Governor Vidyasagar Rao to order the convention of the Assembly for the government to prove its majority on the floor of the House. When reporters drew his attention to three more MLAs reportedly withdrawing their support to the government, Stalin said, "I understood from media reports that 22 MLAs have now withdrawn their support (to EPS). I don't know who they were and how much they were given." Earlier, Stalin, in another statement, urged the state government to immediately rollback the reported reduction in fee concessions given to SC/ST students in medicine and engineering. He cautioned that the EPS regime would soon face drastic consequences if it does not roll back the reduction in fee concessions being given to Dalit students.
DMK leaders are likely to meet Governor Vidyasagar Rao on September 10. Senior DMK sources confirmed to DT Next that they have sought appointment either on Sunday or Monday.
"We will most likely meet on September 10. How would he deny appointment to the Leader of Opposition? If he can meet TTV Dinakaran, why not us?" said a senior DMK leader, adding that they would again ask the Governor to call for a floor test. "It is simple logic. The governor had invited Edappadi K Palaniswami to form government only based on the letter of support given by 117+ AIADMK MLAS. Now 22 of those MLAs have withdrawn support to him, it is logical for the Governor to ask the CM to prove his majority," the DMK leader reasoned.


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Race to vaccinate creates urgency amid crisis
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Allie Tribe, Staff Writer
Talk of vaccines took over the news as soon as the pandemic hit, but people watched warily as companies fast-tracked vaccines. A standard vaccine takes years to go from development to distribution, with rounds of testing and studies required before being FDA approved. While this process is tried and true, COVID is anything but standard. It took the world by storm, forcing countries and millions of people into a complete lockdown. Even when full lockdowns were lifted, restrictions left in place seemed suffocating. It quickly became clear that a vaccine was necessary to return to a normal life, and then, the race to finish vaccines began and the world watched to see who developed the vaccine faster than their competitors.
After months of quarantine, mask wearing and COVID contamination, a savior finally arrived. Or, at the very least, the beginning of one. Dec. 15 marked the first shot of the Pfizer vaccine given to combat COVID in the United States, while the first shipments of the shots arrived in Texas on Dec. 14. In phase A, health care workers were among the first to receive the vaccine, followed by residents at long term care facilities (nursing homes), then other emergency responders or public health officials. For phase B, vaccinations opened to teachers, seniors 65 and over or anyone with a health condition that makes them more susceptible to COVID and its symptoms. Vaccination hubs in Texas include CVS pharmacies, various hospitals as well as other local pharmacies or health care providers.
The initial vaccine provided was Pfizer, but as time has gone on two others were approved. The FDA approved both Moderna and Johnson & Johnson since the initial Pfizer shipments in December. All 3 vaccines are being spread state-wide, but the shipment process proves difficult as Moderna and Pfizer must be kept at temperatures below freezing. Moderna can be kept in a freezer at -4°F, then a standard refrigerator for up to 30 days but can only sit at room temperature for 12 hours. Similarly, Pfizer needs to keep an ultralow temperature (-112ºF to -76ºF) and can only be at room temperature for six hours. The latest vaccine to ship out, Johnson & Johnson, stays at a much more manageable temperature of a standard refrigerator. Although, authorities recently placed the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on hold due to the risk of blood clots in patients. Due to the unusual storage requirements, any extra vaccines often go bad if not used during the allotted time window. Since every wasted vaccine puts the state behind, vaccine hubs scramble to use the vaccines before they go bad, which allows some lucky people to get vaccinated long before their expected time frame.
Thanks to the tireless efforts of health care officials and vaccine distributors, over 7.56 million doses of the COVID vaccine have been administered in Texas, with 2.54 million people being fully vaccinated with both doses. Percentage-wise, 8.76% of Texas' population is fully vaccinated. Out of the total population, the given vaccines don't seem like a lot, or even a dent in the problem, but every step counts. Once enough of the population receives vaccines, herd immunity comes into question as well as the return of life before the pandemic. After a year of being locked in rooms, escaping infection and only seeing loved ones on facetime calls, the vaccinated future allows everyone to breathe more easily.
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What a fun week in the Watch What Happens Live Clubhouse! There was RHOA's Phaedra Parks and Thicker Than Water's Ben and Jewel on Sunday, former Vanderpump Rules lovers Jax Taylor and Stassi Schroeder on Monday, Meredith Vieira and Jesse Tyler Ferguson on Tuesday, Frozen star Josh Gad and Gina Gershon on Wednesday and Black Nativity stars Jennifer Hudson and Angela Basset on Thursday.
A banner week, but like always, we're highlighting the best and worst moments of the week. Come along!
Sunday Best: It takes a certain kind of woman to pull off a full-body, skin-tight, purple velour jumpsuit – Bravo to YOU, Jewel Tankard!
Monday Best: Gotta give props to Jax for going all out during the night's silly game—even if his fellow guest was less than thrilled to participate.
Monday Worst: Alllllll I'm saying is that if you are lucky enough to be asked to be a guest on WWHL, you might as well make the best of it. At least for the sake of the viewers!
Tuesday Best: Meredith Vieira is 100% that girl from your high school that everyone loved and you secretly hated but even more secretly, you adored her and wanted her to be your best friend so you could hang out everyday after school and watch TRL together and eat Easy-Mac.
Wednesday Best: Love it when games go according to plan! Gina was a great giver (hehe), Josh was a great receiver (hehe) and voila! A successful WWHL gamelet is achieved.
Thursday Worst: Hope you got your fill of WWHL this week, 'cause it's hiatus time! Wishing everyone a happy, healthy Thanksgiving and we'll see you in December!
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"Action Planning really took on board what we were looking for in our communications strategy and carried out an in-depth study of the charity in a short space of time. They really 'got' us and that then formed the basis for making sensible recommendations that would work for us and our small team. Fiona delivered an excellent interactive workshop for our trustees, which got them thinking and enabled them to contribute. We were impressed with her wide-ranging expertise and experience and she was very easy to work with, providing us with a clear proposal at the start of the process and sticking to the timetable throughout."
The Richmond Charities is an almshouse charity, which provides housing to local elderly residents who need an improvement in their living conditions. Despite having been around for 400 years, the charity's public profile was so low key that even other local charities were not aware of its existence. Having helped the charity with the establishment of strategic objectives, we were asked to work with them to improve their communications strategy.
We were asked to provide expert guidance on how best to use communications to support the new strategic objectives, defining messages, audiences and channels, and identifying tactics for raising the charity's profile.
We assigned the brief to communications specialist Fiona Lewis, who ran a workshop for Director Juliet Ames-Lewis and three of the trustees, exploring all the aspects included in the brief and defining what they meant by "wanting to raise our profile"? Fiona also provided insight on the use of social media, which the trustees had not considered suitable before, and submitted the conclusions and suggestions arising from the workshop in a very detailed report.
The workshop identified a pressing need to revamp the charity's website and written materials, along with other ideas. The implementation of the comms proposals will take time but Fiona's report has already proven valuable in encouraging the trustees to focus on comms and why they're important for what the charity wants to achieve.
Every organisation we ever speak to wants to 'raise awareness'. A crucial underpinning of every communications strategy is to understand why. What exactly do we want to happen, or be different, as a result of this 'raised awareness'? That enables the marketing strategy – and the marketing spend – to be much more focused on tangible outcomes.


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Lauren leads Mavenlink's global business operations function and is responsible for overseeing Mavenlink's strategy, analytics, and go-to-market operations. In addition to her current role, Lauren has the led the fundraising of nearly $100M in equity and debt capital for Mavenlink.
Prior to Mavenlink, Lauren was a venture and growth equity investor at Goldman Sachs, where she was responsible for sourcing, diligencing, and executing technology investments. She drove the diligence that led to Goldman Sachs' early investment in Mavenlink and ultimately served as an advisor to Mavenlink's CEO in her role as Board Observer. During her tenure as an investor, Lauren evaluated several hundred technology companies for growth investments and developed a passion for working with founders to help them build and scale their companies. Lauren also previously served as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, where she advised technology companies on IPOs, private placements, and strategic M&A transactions.
Lauren holds a degree from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.
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George Henry Thomas
George Henry Thomas (July 31, 1816 - March 28, 1870)
Major General George Henry Thomas was a prominent Union general who served primarily in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
George Henry Thomas was born on January 31, 1816, at Newsom's Depot, Virginia. His parents, John Thomas and Elizabeth Rochelle Thomas, were upper-class Southern planters who owned twenty-four slaves. Thomas's father died in a farm accident in 1829, leaving Thomas's maternal uncle, James Rochelle, to oversee Thomas's education. In 1831, Thomas's family was forced to flee their farm during Nat Turner's revolt. By 1835, Thomas was preparing for a career in law, when Congressman John Y. Mason, friend of James Rochelle, offered Thomas an appointment to the United States Military Academy. Thomas accepted and enrolled at the academy in 1836. During his first year at West Point, Thomas was a roommate of Ohioan William T. Sherman, who would be his commanding officer during the latter part of the American Civil War. Thomas graduated from the academy, twelfth in his class, in 1840. He entered the United States Army as a second lieutenant on July 1, 1840.
After graduating from West Point, Thomas served in the Second Seminole War (1835 to 1842) in Florida. In 1844, he was promoted to first lieutenant. He then served with distinction in the Mexican-American War (1846 to 1848), where he was brevetted to captain and then to major for his valor. In 1851, Thomas became an instructor at the United States Military Academy, where he developed a friendship with the academy's superintendent, Robert E. Lee. During his tenure at West Point, Thomas taught cavalry tactics to future famous cavalry commanders Philip Sheridan and J.E.B. Stuart. He also taught artillery tactics to his future Confederate adversary John Bell Hood.
On November 17, 1852, Thomas married Frances Lucretia Kellogg, the daughter of a merchant from Troy, New York. The couple had no children and remained married for the remainder of Thomas's life. One year after the marriage, Thomas was promoted to captain on December 24, 1853. The couple remained at West Point until the spring of 1854 when Thomas was transferred to Fort Yuma, California. On May 12, 1855, Thomas was promoted to major and reassigned to the 2nd U.S. Cavalry where he served for five years under future Confederate Generals Albert Sidney Johnston and Robert E. Lee. On August 26, 1860, Thomas was wounded by a Comanche arrow that passed through the flesh on his chin before penetrating his chest during a skirmish near the Brazos River in Texas. In November, Thomas was granted a one-year leave from the military. On his way home, he fell from a train platform in Lynchburg, Virginia, severely injuring his back and leading him to contemplate leaving the military. Although he decided to remain in the service, Thomas suffered from back pain for the rest of his life.
When the American Civil War erupted in 1861, Thomas decided to remain in the United States Army rather than casting his lot with his home state when Virginia seceded (April 17, 1861). The decision was difficult, particularly because it caused him to become estranged from his family and friends in Virginia. Additionally, he must have anticipated that his status as a Southerner in the Union Army might fuel suspicions about his loyalty or at least about his earnestness for waging war against the Confederacy. Despite any misgivings Thomas may have had about his final decision or any discrimination that may have affected his army career, Thomas served gallantly throughout the war.
Only a week after Virginia seceded, Thomas was promoted to lieutenant colonel in the regular army on April 25, 1861, replacing Robert E. Lee, who left the army to fight for the South. Little more than one week later, he was promoted to colonel and placed in command of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry on May 3, when Albert Sidney Johnston also resigned his commission and joined the Confederate Army. Initially, Thomas served in the Shenandoah Valley during the Manassas Campaign. On August 17, 1861, he was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers and sent to Kentucky to train recruits at Camp Dick Robinson. Thomas received a combat position on December 2, 1861, commanding the 1st Division of the Army of the Ohio, under Major General Don Carlos Buell. On January 18, 1862, Thomas directed the first significant Union victory of the war at the Battle of Mills Springs, near Nancy, Kentucky.
Thomas was present at the Battle of Shiloh when Buell's army moved to reinforce Grant, but his division did not arrive until after the fighting ceased. When Major General Henry Halleck relieved Major General Ulysses Grant of his command of the Army of the Tennessee during the aftermath of the Battle of Shiloh, he placed Thomas in charge of four divisions from Grant's army and one division from the Army of the Ohio. Thomas successfully led this temporary force at the Union victory at Corinth, Mississippi (April 29 to May 30, 1862). When Grant was restored to his command on June 10, Thomas resumed service under Buell. During the fall of 1862, Thomas was presented with an opportunity to replace Buell, with whom Union leaders in Washington had become dissatisfied. Thomas declined, choosing not to undermine a superior officer. After the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky (October 8, 1862), Major General William Rosecrans replaced Buell, and officials reorganized the department.
Rosecrans placed Thomas in command of the center wing of the Army of the Cumberland. In that position, he performed well during the Union victory at the Battle of Stones River (December 31, 1862 to January 2, 1863) in Tennessee. Commanding the XIV Corps of the Army of the Cumberland at the Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia (September 19 and 20, 1863), Thomas earned the nickname "Rock of Chickamauga" for leading a defensive stand that enabled Rosecrans' army to retreat and prevent the Union defeat from becoming a Confederate rout.
Following the Rebel victory at Chickamauga, Confederate General Braxton Bragg laid siege to Rosecrans's army, which had retreated to Chattanooga, Tennessee. On September 29, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton ordered Major General Ulysses S. Grant and 20,000 soldiers to leave Vicksburg, Mississippi to help lift the siege in Chattanooga. Grant immediately relieved Rosecrans of his command. On October 27, 1863, Thomas was promoted to brigadier general of the regular army. The next day, he was placed in command of the Department of the Cumberland. When Grant executed his breakout from Chattanooga, Thomas's forces led an assault on Missionary Ridge on November 25, 1863 that drove Bragg's army out of Tennessee and into northern Georgia.
Following the breakout from Chattanooga, Grant was promoted to General-in-Chief of the Armies. He departed for the Eastern Theater, leaving his trusted subordinate, Major General William T. Sherman, in charge of the Western Theater. Thomas continued to serve as commander of the Army of the Cumberland throughout Sherman's Atlanta Campaign (May 7 to September 2, 1864). When Confederate General John Bell Hood's Army of Tennessee evacuated Atlanta on September 1, 1864, Sherman's soldiers took possession of the city on the next day. Sherman pursued Hood for about a month as Hood raided Sherman's supply lines back to Chattanooga. By November, Sherman convinced Grant to allow him to embark on his March to the Sea. Hood had also changed objectives, launching an offensive back into Tennessee, hoping to draw Sherman out of the Deep South. Sherman did not take the bait. Instead, he ordered Thomas to Nashville, Tennessee to defend against Hood, while Sherman set out to "make Georgia howl."
Thomas sent about half of his troops directly to Nashville to prepare for Hood's invasion. The other half, commanded by Major General John M. Schofield, engaged Hood's army throughout November at the Battles of Columbia, Spring Hill, and Franklin. Schofield inflicted a major defeat upon the Rebels at Franklin (November 30, 1864) before slipping off to join Thomas at Nashville. Despite being outnumbered nearly two to one after Schofield's and Thomas's forces were united, Hood decided to continue his offensive. He believed that he could best the combined Union armies if he could get Thomas to leave his formidable defenses in Nashville and attack the Confederate army. Hood's army advanced to the outskirts of Nashville on December 2, and it began building defensive fortifications. Thomas had little alternative than to oblige Hood. Thomas's superiors in Washington feared that Hood might choose to bypass Nashville and launch an invasion of the North if Thomas did not act quickly. Grant was particularly assertive about imploring Thomas to confront Hood. Thomas, however, seemed to be in no rush to press the issue. Instead, he spent two weeks preparing his troops for battle and waiting for opportune weather conditions. Exasperated, Grant ordered Major General John A. Logan to Nashville on December 13, directing him to assume command of Thomas's army if Thomas had not attacked Hood by the time of his arrival. Logan arrived in Louisville, Kentucky on December 15, the day Thomas finally acted. When Thomas advanced against Hood's defenses, he crushed the Rebels during the Battle of Nashville (December 15 to 16, 1864), sending the Army of Tennessee reeling back toward Alabama and effectively ending the last major campaign west of the Appalachian Mountains. Thomas was rewarded for the victory at Nashville by being promoted to major general, effective December 15, 1864. He also received the "Thanks of Congress" in March 1865.
During the Battle of Nashville, Thomas used two brigades of United States Colored Troops, to assault Hood's right flank. The bravery that those troops demonstrated during battle permanently altered Thomas's racial views. After the war, Thomas commanded the Military Division of the Tennessee, which included Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida (Mississippi was added later added). During Reconstruction, he used his position to protect freedmen, to promote racial tolerance, and to combat the Ku Klux Klan.
In 1867, Thomas declined President Andrew Johnson's offer to promote him to the rank of lieutenant general because he refused to get involved in Johnson's politically motivated scheme to thwart Ulysses S. Grant's presidential aspirations. A year later, the Tennessee State Convention nominated Thomas for President of the United States, but Thomas declined the nomination, still eschewing the political arena. On June 15, 1869, Thomas was reassigned to command the Department of the Pacific and moved to San Francisco, California. Less than a year later, he died of a stroke on May 28, 1870, making him the first prominent Union general to die after the Civil War. Some of Thomas' Virginia family members (including his sisters) refused to attend his funeral in Troy, New York, still harboring resentment over his choice to fight for the Union. George H. Thomas was buried at the Kellogg Family Burial Ground, which is located in Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, New York.
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George Henry Thomas was a prominent Union general who served primarily in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and a career army officer, Thomas chose to remain in the service of his country rather than side with his home state of Virginia when the war began. Thomas commanded the first noteworthy Federal victory of the war at the Battle of Mills Springs in Kentucky. Thomas was also present at the Battles of Shiloh, Corinth, Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, and most of the engagements of William T. Sherman's Atlanta Campaign. At Chickamauga, Thomas earned the nickname "Rock of Chickamauga." During John Bell Hood's Franklin-Nashville Campaign, Thomas directed the Federal forces that crushed the Army of Tennessee, culminating with the Union victory at the Battle of Nashville, which effectively ended the last major campaign in the Western Theater.
Albert Sidney Johnston
Army of the Cumberland
Army of the Ohio 1861 - 1862
Army of the Tennessee
Battle of Corinth II
Battle of Crow Valley
Battle of Dalton I
Battle of Perryville
Battle of Shiloh
Battle of Stones River
Don Carlos Buell
General Orders, No. 256 (U.S. War Department)
General Orders, No. 9 (U.S. War Department)
General Orders, No. 97 (U.S. War Department) (1865)
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J.E.B. Stuart
John Bell Hood
John M. Schofield
Philip H. Sheridan
William S. Rosecrans
William T. Sherman
William W. Loring
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