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Book Review Contributing Editor
Book Review: Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS
Lorin Jackson's response to an earlier College & Research Libraries book review.
by Lorin K. Jackson
Chou, Rose L. & Pho, Annie. (Ed.). (2018). Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS. Sacramento, CA: Library Juice Press.
TL/DR Summary
Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) is undeniably sexy right now. In other words, EDI is having a moment. Even though this is true, as a general movement, it may not actually be contributing to lasting change as it purports to do. In many circumstances, EDI may just be providing lip service and unfortunately, empty, short-lived promises that are not changing the library and information science field for the better. In LIS, we still have ongoing problems with the process of opening the field to different perspectives, identities, and lives.
As Fobazi Ettarh offers in the foreword to Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS the same issues (racism, misogyny, heterosexism, etc.) that exist in larger society are hegemonically condensed into the issues we see in the library and information science field. The problems in LIS are not so different from the media representation of women of color or queer people, for example. The same issues are recurring, though they may be reflected in different ways in different circumstances.
One of the strengths of Pushing…is in the volume's ability to portray a wide range of issues facing women of color in LIS, while showing different ways in which these issues may manifest for different women of color. Chou and Pho acknowledge in their introduction their hesitancy with grouping together women of color's experiences as risking the creation of some kind of monolith. Simultaneously, though, they note a desire to acknowledge the power of community, or solidarity. This a central, revisited theme throughout the volume.
An awe-inspiring advantage of this particular volume are the lists of resources contained therein. In addition to thought-provoking and clear writing from its authors, resources by way of bibliographies provide a heavy curriculum of the topics contained within this anthology. As many librarians know and practice, visiting these sections throughout the book are a wonderful resource for completing more research about WOC in LIS.
We have to acknowledge our biases, our perspectives, our viewpoints. This is how we understand and analyze the world. I know that my perspective is formed out of my identity and this is not true for me alone…it's true for everyone.
No one's singular viewpoint can be objective. Many have said that to believe objectivity exists is an ideology formed out of a white supremacist framework. It's like how European history is often taught as standard curriculum (objective) and "ethnic studies" are taught as an elective or not taught at all (subjective). All of our ideas form from our own experiences, and this, in turn, makes every single one of us inevitably susceptible to subjectivity.
Before I read Pushing the Margins: Women of Color and Intersectionality in LIS, I read a review posted to the College and Research Libraries blog that has since been redacted. This review was controversial for many reasons. The perspective and feedback reflected in that review were from someone who does not live on the margins. Positionality is a major theme throughout Pushing… In fact, the anthology opens with explaining the perspective of the editors and many of the contributors, throughout the foreword by Ettarh, as well as the introduction offered by Chou and Pho.
Another theme of this collection of essays is community. One thing about marginalization is that stories that reflect your experience and allow you to feel seen and heard support your growth and ability to stay in the field. LIS favors middle class white women as the majority of the profession. So, often within LIS, women of color (WOC) as well as people of color (POC) struggle with recruitment, as well as retention. Seeing your experience reflected in the stories and shared frustrations in this book is supportive to people who feel marginalized in this profession, and perhaps outside of the profession, and in their lives.
Authenticity and Professionalism
Since this anthology covers material and concepts centered on the experiences of WOC in LIS, we thought it prudent for the purposes of this review to focus on one chapter by librarians Jennifer Brown and Sofia Leung: "Authenticity vs. Professionalism: Being True to Ourselves at Work." I selected this chapter because I think it succinctly covers several of the major themes presented throughout the anthology – authenticity, freedom, emotional labor, performance, Ettarh's notion of vocational awe, April Hathcock's definition of whiteness and invisibility v. hypervisibility, as they explain toward the end of the chapter:
"If you're aware that marginalized librarians already carry the emotional burden of conforming to whiteness and shouldering the brunt of the institution's diversity work, then you should know that dictating when and where they perform their identity (as they're tasked with solving all your institution's problems) actually devalues their work. By doing so, you essentially bind them to identity expression on your terms, positioned right alongside epicenters of power, privilege, and whiteness that your institution operates from. If you're really about encouraging communities of voices, ensure such questions are asked of everyone, right on up to chancellors, provosts, and university presidents"
Chou & Pho, pg. 341-342
Essentially, in this chapter (as in every chapter throughout the book) the authors provide background and context clearly for what they are about to analyze. They bring honesty and gravity to the issues of being a WOC and being yourself in the LIS workplace. The most salient points in the chapter by Brown and Leung may be their discussion of Sara Ahmed's notion of performance with the "acting" involved within diversity work through flowery language, committees or diversity position appointments:
"…'Diversity' can also be a code word for equity, social justice, or antiracism, but is often used instead of those terms to allow for white fragility. The very nature of diversity work also begets the idea of 'performance…' Sara Ahmed weaves a narrative linking institutional documentation and diversity work to 'performance culture,' stating that 'Institutional performance involves an increasing self-consciousness about how to perform well in these systems, by generating the right kinds of procedures, methods, and materials, where rightness is determined as the fulfillment of the requirements of a system'"
The focus in many LIS departments is not on accountability, follow-through, or a department-wide/campus-wide commitment to the same values. What this creates is the context for the same problems of not having a diverse LIS workforce to continue festering, unchecked, spinning out of control, in service of perpetual sameness or the status quo, which maintains a lack of diversity.
Brown and Leung end the chapter with recommendations for making the field more inclusive. I'm glad they ended their chapter this way because often, we explicate the issues without recommendations or adding clear next steps for those who read and engage. I believe this is a missed opportunity to continue to elaborate on problems without offering any solutions. What they suggest is to pay attention to hiring structures (and I would argue that issues regarding cultural "fit" for an institution are another subtle subdivision of hiring that should be paid particularly close attention to), offering support programs, enacting a culture, as well as the establishment of consistent practices in accountability.
What I hope is that this book is not only, of course, for the intentional community that feels a connection with the essays provided therein on the basis of their WOC identity, but that it also serves as a provocative read for those who may not live on the margins. Or those people who do not identify as women of color, do not have to think about intersectionality or how privilege benefits them in their everyday lives, but have powerful positions in their respective libraries. I imagine that the candor, directness, and grace by which this book is written may not be appealing to someone who does not identify with marginalization. I think this book complicates things for someone in that camp. Feelings of uncomfortability, uncertainty, and guilt could surface.
While unfair, I do think it may have served Chou and Pho early on to expand on ways this book could be used to speak about how different audience members who may read this book could use it. There is an excellent outline in the introduction about what this book is, but providing more of a map, or discussion questions or journal reflections throughout may have provided a structure to help a wayward reader not become inundated with lots of important information to risk being simply overwhelmed, uninspired, and confused. To someone who knows the lay of the land already, the text does not impact them in the same way. They can identify with the wise gems that can be found throughout the book.
This is a necessary volume that establishes plainly and clearly that we have a huge problem in LIS. While it may be fun to entertain diversity as a "nice thing to have," the authors here offer substantial evidence that we must make a change to the field of LIS and that it is going to take everyone to make that change happen.
""I feel hesitant that in my own feedback about what could be stronger about this book, that even more labor is placed upon WOC to educate what we should do next. Whose responsibility is it really, to figure all of this out and to explain next steps? Shouldn't the onus be on the people who created this oppressive system in the first place?"
When the opportunity came for someone at LibParlor to comment on the controversial review and talk about this book, I jumped at the chance. I have to say, though, that with time to reflect as an early-career, bisexual, gender non-conforming, disabled WOC in LIS, I am disappointed that the labor had to be shouldered by WOC to educate about our issues to a larger audience. I'm discouraged by the fact that I should be the one to respond professionally to the negative insinuations and mischaracterizations of much of the work by the C&RL author who constructed the other response from the center of LIS, and not from the margins. I feel hesitant that in my own feedback about what could be stronger about this book, that even more labor is placed upon WOC to educate what we should do next. Whose responsibility is it really, to figure all of this out and to explain next steps? Shouldn't the onus be on the people who created this oppressive system in the first place?
Brown and Leung acknowledge toward the end of their chapter that WOC continue to fight the fight and do the work, because if they don't, who will? Perhaps we need to take a deeper dive into our assumptions and confront why we feel this way and what may happen if we try a different way with each other into the future of LIS. What if everyone shouldered more of the labor and it was everyone's responsibility to grow to understand each other in making this field stronger? What if we could grow into possibilities of equity and reduce the unequal burdens faced by WOC in LIS? What could happen then? We may not be able to ask these questions if we did not have such a lucid landmark text as Pushing available to us.
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About Lorin K. Jackson
Lorin K. Jackson works as a Research + Instruction Resident Librarian at Swarthmore College.
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Apprentice Fred Kersley back from injury
Apprentice Fred Kersley is back from an injury lay-off and the teenager is hoping to make an immediate impact in his return to city racing at Sandown.
Kersley suffered a fractured thumb and hairline fracture to an elbow in a fall at Sandown on December 20, only a few weeks into his move from Western Australia to Victoria to the powerful Lindsay Park stable.
The 18-year-old returned to track work last Thursday and is booked for three rides at Sandown on Wednesday, a day after his return to race riding at Ballarat.
"It's been hard sitting on the sidelines and watching class horses go past, especially Lindsay Park horses, but it's great to finally be back and it would be good to kick off with a winner at Sandown if possible," Kersley said.
"It definitely was an unfortunate time for me to have the injury but in saying that it was a good time to have a holiday and it's an even better time to be back in the saddle."
Kersley said the injuries to his right thumb and right elbow had healed well and were not troubling him since he returned to track work and jump-outs.
"I'm predominantly right handed but the way it has healed and the way it's come back, there's no issue with it and I don't see it affecting me later on down the track either," he said.
Kersley started his loan period to Lindsay Park after reducing his city claim from 3kg to 2kg with a win aboard Memory Bank for the stable on December 2 at Sandown.
He intends to make the move permanent and transfer his apprenticeship to Lindsay Park should things go to plan.
Kersley is booked to ride The Great Artiste and Kapaulenko for trainer Paul Preusker at Sandown while his first ride on the program is on Twilight Song for Lindsay Park trainers David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig in the Spicer Thoroughbreds Handicap (1200m).
Twilight Song made a winning start to her career on January 17 in an 1100m maiden at Caulfield and is the early favourite for Wednesday's race after the scratching of the Mick Price-trained See Me Exceed.
"It was a very good run by her at Caulfield," Kersley said.
"If she has a nice run in transit I think she'll really be a force to be reckoned with."
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Compressive Sensing Approaches for Autonomous Object Detection in Video Sequences.
Understanding People Flow in Transportation Hubs.
Random Forest Ensemble of Support Vector Regression Models for Solar Power Forecasting.
Deep Multi-view Models for Glitch Classification.
Understanding and Detecting Supporting Arguments of Diverse Types.
Kiwi - A Minimalist CP Solver.
The Pose Knows: Video Forecasting by Generating Pose Futures.
Charting the Complexity Landscape of Waypoint Routing.
Diagonalisation of covariance matrices in quaternion widely linear signal processing.
Enabling Interactive Analytics of Secure Data using Cloud Kotta.
Effective scaling registration approach by imposing the emphasis on the scale factor.
Safe Trajectory Synthesis for Autonomous Driving in Unforeseen Environments.
The Impact of Coevolution and Abstention on the Emergence of Cooperation.
A lambda calculus for density matrices.
Xorshift random number generators from primitive polynomials.
Learning to Ask: Neural Question Generation for Reading Comprehension.
The Social Benefits of Balancing Creativity and Imitation: Evidence from an Agent-based Model.
Semi-supervised sequence tagging with bidirectional language models.
Hardware Accelerated SDR Platform for Adaptive Air Interfaces.
Branch-and-Bound Precoding for Multiuser MIMO Systems with 1-Bit Quantization.
Cnvlutin2: Ineffectual-Activation-and-Weight-Free Deep Neural Network Computing.
Stability and Recovery for Independence Systems.
Evaluating Security and Availability of Multiple Redundancy Designs when Applying Security Patches.
Online Learning with Expert Automata.
Contego: An Adaptive Framework for Integrating Security Tasks in Real-Time Systems.
Efficient Identity Testing and Polynomial Factorization over Non-associative Free Rings.
Weighted finite impulse response filter for chromatic dispersion equalization in coherent optical fiber communication systems.
Replica Placement on Bounded Treewidth Graphs.
Towards a foundation for holistic power system validation and testing.
Classical Planning in Deep Latent Space: Bridging the Subsymbolic-Symbolic Boundary.
Parameter reduction in nonlinear state-space identification of hysteresis.
A Network Perspective on Political Attitudes: Testing the Connectivity Hypothesis.
A Randomized Construction of Polar Subcodes.
Curious Minds Wonder Alike: Studying Multimodal Behavioral Dynamics to Design Social Scaffolding of Curiosity.
A Partitioning Algorithm for Detecting Eventuality Coincidence in Temporal Double recurrence.
Extending and Improving Wordnet via Unsupervised Word Embeddings.
A floating point division unit based on Taylor-Series expansion algorithm and Iterative Logarithmic Multiplier.
A sub-mW IoT-endnode for always-on visual monitoring and smart triggering.
Crime Scene Re-investigation: A Postmortem Analysis of Game Account Stealers' Behaviors.
Sample Complexity of Multi-Item Profit Maximization.
Unimem: Runtime Data Management on Non-Volatile Memory-based Heterogeneous Main Memory.
Lifelong Learning CRF for Supervised Aspect Extraction.
Multi-dueling Bandits with Dependent Arms.
Testing the science/technology relationship by analysis of patent citations of scientific papers after decomposition of both science and technology.
High Performance Data Persistence in Non-Volatile Memory for Resilient High Performance Computing.
Application-Level Resilience Modeling for HPC Fault Tolerance.
Joint Denoising / Compression of Image Contours via Shape Prior and Context Tree.
Topologically Robust 3D Shape Matching via Gradual Deflation and Inflation.
Indoor Frame Recovery from Refined Line Segments.
Denominator Bounds for Systems of Recurrence Equations using $ΠΣ$-Extensions.
(Withdrawn) Modulo quantifiers over functional vocabularies extending addition.
Tales of Emotion and Stock in China: Volatility, Causality and Prediction.
SurfCut: Surfaces of Minimal Paths From Topological Structures.
Defense semantics of argumentation: encoding reasons for accepting arguments.
Scheduling Parallel and Distributed Processing for Automotive Data Stream Management System.
Automated Recurrence Analysis for Almost-Linear Expected-Runtime Bounds.
A Conditional Variational Framework for Dialog Generation.
Non-polynomial Worst-Case Analysis of Recursive Programs.
An Order-based Algorithm for Minimum Dominating Set with Application in Graph Mining.
Discriminative Nonlinear Analysis Operator Learning: When Cosparse Model Meets Image Classification.
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Composition Operators, Matrix Representation, and the Finite Section Method: A Theoretical Framework for Maps between Shapes.
Thorup-Zwick Emulators are Universally Optimal Hopsets.
A Note on Properties of Discrete Composition Operators.
Quantifying Mental Health from Social Media with Neural User Embeddings.
Deriving Quests from Open World Mechanics.
Deep Learning in the Automotive Industry: Applications and Tools.
Scalable Twin Neural Networks for Classification of Unbalanced Data.
Network Monitoring under Strategic Disruptions.
Real-Time Salient Closed Boundary Tracking via Line Segments Perceptual Grouping.
Revisiting Recurrent Networks for Paraphrastic Sentence Embeddings.
Predicting Foreground Object Ambiguity and Efficiently Crowdsourcing the Segmentation(s).
How to Read Many-Objective Solution Sets in Parallel Coordinates.
Common greedy wiring and rewiring heuristics do not guarantee maximum assortative graphs of given degree.
Middleware Technologies for Cloud of Things - a survey.
Adversarial PoseNet: A Structure-aware Convolutional Network for Human Pose Estimation.
Duluth at SemEval-2016 Task 14 : Extending Gloss Overlaps to Enrich Semantic Taxonomies.
Level Playing Field for Million Scale Face Recognition.
Computing the projected reachable set of switched affine systems: an application to systems biology.
Dependency Parsing with Dilated Iterated Graph CNNs.
On the Sub-optimality of Single-Letter Coding over Networks.
Capacity Region of the Symmetric Injective K-User Deterministic Interference Channel.
Parallel Construction of Compact Planar Embeddings.
Model Transfer for Tagging Low-resource Languages using a Bilingual Dictionary.
(Withdrawn) Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Sliding Tokens on Cactus Graphs and Block Graphs.
Sub-Pixel Registration of Wavelet-Encoded Images.
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Detecting Drivable Area for Self-driving Cars: An Unsupervised Approach.
Autocorrelation Function for Dispersion-Free Fiber Channels with Distributed Amplification.
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Spectrum Monitoring for Radar Bands using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks.
A Riemannian gossip approach to decentralized subspace learning on Grassmann manifold.
Fronthaul Quantization as Artificial Noise for Enhanced Secret Communication in C-RAN.
Generalized orderless pooling performs implicit salient matching.
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Orthogonal Code-based Block Transmission for Burst Transmission.
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Regularized Residual Quantization: a multi-layer sparse dictionary learning approach.
Single image depth estimation by dilated deep residual convolutional neural network and soft-weight-sum inference.
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Nancy Hodes
Nancy Hodes, PhD
Faculty - Emeriti
Professor Emerita of Chinese Language & Culture
nhodes@soka.edu
Nancy J. Hodes joined the Soka faculty as Professor of Chinese in September 2000. She came to SUA from Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, where she was Associate Editor of a multi-volume translation series of Mao Zedong's pre-1949 writings. She was concurrently Adjunct Assistant Professor of Chinese at Boston College. For the first two years of its existence, she was Associate Director of the Boston Research Center for the 21st Century, a think tank on peace-related issues.
Hodes spent her formative years in Beijing, China, where she attended Chinese schools and later received her BA, MA, and PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. She was Assistant Editor of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, helped compile the Chinese-English Dictionary put out by the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute (#1) in 1978, and has published numerous translations of Chinese poetry, short stories, and essays. She taught English for two years at the Beijing Foreign Languages Institute, and for two years at the Central University in Caracas, Venezuela. Throughout her adult life, she has also been active in various international movements for peace and justice and has worked as an interpreter in Chinese, English, and Spanish in various international settings.
Hodes and her husband, Dr. Zhenxi Wang, reside in Lake Forest.
PhD, Harvard University
MA, Harvard University
BA, Harvard University
Courses Taught at SUA
Introduction to Peace Studies
Modes of Inquiry
Core: Enduring Questions
First-year Chinese I
First-year Chinese II
Second-year Chinese I
Second-year Chinese II
Intermediate Review
Third-year Chinese I
Learning Cluster: The Chinese Immigrant Community in Southern California
Late Imperial and modern Chinese literature and intellectual history
Literary translation--theory and practice
The Chinese community in the United States
Publications and Scholarly Works
Mao's Road to Power. Revolutionary Writings 1912-1949, ed. Stuart R. Schram, vols I-VII (Associate Ed except vol I) M.E. Sharpe, 1992-2005
Translation of four poems in World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time, ed. Katharine Washburn, John Major, Clifton Fadiman, W.W. Norton, 1998
"The Joys of Collaboration in Translating Chinese Poetry," China Exchange News 21, 3 & 4, 1993
Translation of "Grass Rings," in Festival of Flowers: Essays by Contemporary Chinese Women, ed. Zhu Hong, Yilin Publishing House 1995
Translation of 29 poems in Women Writers of Traditional China: an Anthology of Poetry and Criticism, ed. Kang-i Sun Chang and Haun Saussy, Stanford University Press, 1999
Translation of "Gone Astray" a poem by Bei Dao, Christian Science Monitor, May 18, 1983
Translation of chapters 5, 6, 7 of Critical Reflections on my Pursuit of Learning, by Hsiao Kung-ch'uan, Chinese Studies in History XII, 2, 3, and 4, 1978-79
Translation of "Leading the Way," by Chu Min-shen, in Yenan Seeds and Other Stories, Beijing Foreign Languages Press 1976
A Chinese-English Dictionary, comp. Chinese-English Dictionary Editorial Committee, Beijing Foreign Languages Inst. (#1) Ed. Comm. member) Beijing Shangwu yinshu guan, 1978
2000-present, Professor, SUA
1991-2000, Associate Editor, Mao Project Harvard University Fairbank Center for East Asian Research
1993-1995, Associate Director, Boston Research Center for the 21st Century
1991-1994, Adj. Assistant Professor, Boston College
1987-1989, Assistant Editor, Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies


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The Nasdaq, in high coloring technology, has advanced 4.26% to 6.738,86 points.
The expanded index S & P 500 has gained 3,43 % to 2.531,94 points.
The boss of the Fed has restored the smile to investors disoriented these past few weeks, with the policy rate increases of the institution.
At a conference in Atlanta, Georgia, bringing together the current chairman of the Fed and its two predecessors, Mr. Powell has said that " monetary policy is not on a trajectory pre-determined ".
"We are always prepared to change the course of our monetary policy significantly, if necessary," continued the president of the central Bank, in reference to the policy rate hikes and the concerns that it raises from investors.
"Mr. Powell has greatly reassured about his flexibility," said Gregori Volokhine of Meeschaert Financial Services.
"These are subtle details but the central bankers are very constrained in their ability to change their communication between official meetings ", said Chris Low of FTN Financial. He added that " these are the items that the markets needed to hear ".
Vilified in recent days by Donald Trump because of its choice monetary, Mr. Powell has also stated that he would not resign if the president asked him.
Before speaking of Mr. Powell, Wall Street had already started the session off to a good start thanks to the traditional monthly report to us on job creation, which was deemed "spectacular" by the analysts of Pantheon Marco.
In December, 312 000 jobs have been created, the average hourly wage has increased strongly, and the increase in the rate of unemployment rate of 3.9 % has been linked to an increase in the rate of participation in employment, an item that is also perceived positively.
Wall Street, as the financial markets across the world, had also benefited from the announcement of the chinese central Bank (PBOC) measures to support the economy of the country in a context of trade war between Beijing and Washington.
The appetite returned to investors for riskier assets, was significantly set back the u.s. bond market, the reverse of Thursday's session : the interest rate on the debt to ten years rose to 2,659 % to 16 h 20, against 2,554 % Thursday, to close and one to 30 years 2,972 %, compared to 2,903 %.


The Broward Gospel Announcers Guild (BGAG), Florida chapter of the National Gospel Announcers Guild, an auxiliary of the Gospel Music Workshop of America, Inc., will present their First Annual Open House Fundraiser on Friday, September 30, 2011, at the Mansion West, located at 3850 SW 128TH Ave., Miramar, FL., 33027. This luxurious mansion will be on display to corporations, individuals, and the community-at-large as a premier venue for events in South Florida. Experience all The Mansion West has to offer. Live entertainment, food, and drinks will be available. Doors open at 6:30pm.
The Broward Gospel Announcers Guild prides itself on providing great events and having great entertainment and food.
The Guild itself is over 40 years old and founded by the Late Great Rev. James Cleveland where he stated that ?Everybody is Somebody.? The Gospel Announcers Guild is a voluntary association of Religious Announcers who have come together to address their common needs as professional broadcasters. This organization was born out of the lack of emphasis and concern placed on religious broadcasting, as well as religious broadcasters, by the nation's major broadcast and record industry conventions and associations.


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By WENN in Movies / TV / Theatre on 15 July 2015
Veteran Actor Ed Asner Powered Through The Pain Of An Injured Leg On Saturday Night (11jul15) To Hit The Stage For Fans In Malibu, California.
Picture: Ed Asner - 'Cool Comedy - Hot Cuisine' benefit at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel - Arrivals - Los Angeles, California, United States -...
The 85-year-old Up star badly scratched his leg upon arrival at the Malibu Playhouse, where he was billed to perform his one-man show, and the gash was so deep he needed stitches.
Asner was taken to a local hospital but informed theatre bosses he would still appear, as scheduled - albeit a little late.
One audience member tells WENN, "Comedian Michael Schirtzer stepped in to warm up the audience and we got periodic reports on Ed Asner's progress until he finally arrived back at the theatre.
"Ed kept telling the people who took him to urgent care to reassure all at the theatre that he was still doing the show. He performed the show brilliantly even with a bandage on his leg."
Asner's spokesman Charles Sherman says, "Ed scratched his leg getting out of the car on Saturday and needed a few stitches. He is doing great and performed the show."


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Envelope of Correspondence Addressed to T. J. Pendergast
Empty, stamped envelope of correspondence addressed to Thomas J. Pendergast at 525 Deleware [Delaware], Kansas City, Missouri. The envelope does not include a return to sender name or address.
Police Searching for Edward L. Schneider
Photograph of Edward L. Schneider attached to a photograph of police searching for Schneider's body at the bottom of the Missouri River with nets. Schnider went missing after testifying against Thomas J. Pendergast. The caption reads, "Chi 27 - Kansas City, Mo. - E. L. Schneider and police dragging river."
Mary McElroy
Photograph of Mary McElroy who was kidnapped in 1933 at 25 years old and held for ransom. The caption on the back of the image reads, "KC 211904... CHICAGO BUREAU, KIDNAP VICTIM IS STAR WITNESS AT TRIAL.
R. E. O'Malley and Tom Pendergast
Photograph of Robert E. O'Malley (left) and Thomas J. Pendergast (right). The caption on the back of the image reads, "KC 235368... (Chicago Bureau) PENDERGAST GETS TWO YEAR SENTENCE, KANSAS CITY, MO. T. J. Pendergast (right), former czar of Kansas City, and R. E.
Henry McElroy, Mary McElroy, and H. F. McElroy
Photograph of Henry F. McElroy, Jr. and Mary McElroy with their father Henry F. McElroy, Sr. (left to right). The photograph was taken at the home H. F. McElroy, Sr., immediately following Mary's release from abduction at the Milburn Golf Club. This vantage point faces north towards the south entrance to St.
George McGee
Photograph of convicted kidnapper George McGee. The caption on the back of the image reads, "KC 212964... CHICAGO BUREAU, LIFE SENTENCE GIVEN GEORGE McGEE FOR McELROY KIDNAPING. George McGee, shown above on witness stand, was sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the kidnaping of Miss Mary McElroy, daughter of the Kansas City, Mo.
Ralph T. Harding, Lillie Knight, and Clarence Click
Photograph of Ralph T. Harding, Lillie Knight, and Clarence Click (left to right) in the court room.
Trial of Walter H. McGee
Photograph of Ralph T. Harding, Walter McGee, John V. Hill, and Joseph B. Keenan (left to right) at the trial of Walter McGee. The caption on the back of the image reads, "STATE ASKS DEATH PENALTY FOR KIDNAPER, Photo shows the courtroom of Judge Allen C. Southern at Kansas City, Mo.
George McGee, Lillie Knight, and Ralph T. Harding
Photograph of George McGee, Lillie Knight, and Ralph T. Harding (left to right) with R. H. Moore removed from the picture to the right.
Photograph of Mary McElroy who was kidnapped in 1933 at 25 years old and held for ransom. The caption on the back of the image reads, "IC217320... CHICAGO BUREAU, FORMER KIDNAP VICTIM RETURNS HOME, Mary McElroy, 26 year old daughter of Henry McElroy, City Manager of Kansas City, Mo. is shown above at the home of Mayor G.M.
H. F. McElroy and Mary McElroy Exiting Plane
Photograph of Henry F. McElroy and Mary McElroy alighting from a TWA airplane. The caption on the back of the image reads, "KC 217231... (Chicago Bureau), MARY McELROY RETURNS HOME. City Manager H. F.
Photograph of Mary McElroy who was kidnapped in 1933 at 25 years old and held for ransom. The caption on the back of the image reads, "KC 539217, A SUICIDE, KANSAS CITY, MO:- A recent picture of Miss Mary McElroy, daughter of recently deceased City Manager H. F. McElroy, who ended her own life recently with a bullet from a.25 caliber gun.


A powerful story of love, friendship, and sacrifice, for fans of"Code Name Verity."
Stacey Lee(www.staceyhlee.com) is a fourth generation Chinese-American. A southern California native, she graduated from UCLA and got her law degree at UC Davis King Hall. Now, she plays classical piano, raises children, and writes YA fiction. Stacey lives outside San Francisco, California. Follow her on Twitter: @staceyleeauthor"


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It is said that a good bed comes, and then the nice sleep come. However, this saying is on the contrary, if you have a bad quality mattress, doesn't it affect the sleep for yourself?
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It is a trend that many girls like to wear boots, which is not only showing the fashion for this season, but also the beauty for themselves. The variety of Yiwu boots should invite your eyes.
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Mannequins are a kind of artworks that make creative images for models; mannequins are necessary means for those art works to improve modeling ability. Yiwu mannequins also full of advanced art works that have a good fame among the world for its customers.
The types of Yiwu mannequins are usually of tall height, the mannequins have many different postures. Some cool small mannequins are for boys and girls, many cloth designers put them on different fashion clothes which are very symmetrical between the clothes and mannequins to foster their cloth image among their customers.
There are many other single mannequins like the heads. They use the head to put on many special hairstyles which attract many customers. The material of Yiwu mannequins usually made of resin and glass, fiber reinforced plastic and others.
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Yiwu nightstands are located in Yiwu furniture market, and there have many types of nightstands, such as the traditional style, new style designs.
The traditional style for Yiwu nightstands is usually made of wood such as oak, cherry. And the color gives us a warm feeling; the design for it also keeps a kind of traditional atmosphere. The drawers at most have 3 steps, and the keys are also different.
Some modern designs for Yiwu nightstands are made of wood, marble and other types. The styles for it are more modernized. Their designs are also follow the trend of the house design. Most people use the nightstands to put up some beautiful photos or flowers to show another scenery in the room.
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When you tidy your room, you may find that you have so many clothes that you have no place to put them. The variety types of Yiwu wardrobes can help you at this situation. The variety designs and sizes like the one-door wardrobes, double-doors wardrobes, which can hold may clothes. Some high quality clothes can hang-up inside the wardrobe; some other clothes can be folded up and put directly inside the wardrobes.
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Almost everyone are very familiar with TV, it seems that whenever we are, the televisions are always there. Yes, it is. But nowadays, the televisions have changed a lot. In Yiwu Bingwang Market, we could found that many new fashion televisions styles are on sales.
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There is no doubt that Yiwu television has made a big step in the eye world of televisions. Many more high-tech televisions are made out by them. Nowadays, it is more popular that many TV sets are directly installed on the walls of the house, which is easier and more comfortable for them to watch TV any time.
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Yiwu balloons are very nice and they are a kind of celebration that we could see especially in some holidays. Almost every street would put on some balloons and colored ribbon which show the happiness of the special days.
I could not deny that the Yiwu balloons are very colorful and useful; there are all kinds of colors like red, yellow, blue, pink and etc. It is not only used for decoration, but also a kind of transportation. Some big balloons can take something and fly up very high.
The types of Yiwu balloons have many different sizes and many different pictures could print on the surface. During those years, balloons in Yiwu market are very popular and many places could we see the beautiful balloons decorations.
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Wallets are very popular at this time, almost everyone has a wallet whether children or old man. Having a wallet is very convenient to keep the money and it is easy to take it everywhere. Yiwu wallets are very excellent in design and reasonable for its price.
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Many painters need palettes when they draw. Palette is a kind of tool that is used for reconciling the pigment when drawing pictures. It is a useful tool for painting. Yiwu palette also do it, and it is located in International Trade City District 2, the fourth floor.
There are many kinds of Yiwu palette, the common seen usually have rectangle palette and oval palette, two types. It is amazing that rectangle palettes are selling better, because it is easy to put into the oil painting. There are also have some other circle palettes.
The material of Yiwu palette mainly produce with wood, when adjust to pigment, it is easy to clean, and it is smooth on the surface. The glass palettes could not only save the material, but also show the clearance of the picture. The plastic palettes and ceramics palettes are also the kind for Yiwu palette.
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Hammocks are very good partners for those who like outdoor activities, but if you own a nice and good quality hammock, isn't a beautiful thing?
Yiwu hammocks are those which may meet your needs. Many types of hammocks are novel in design. They have the types for seaside hammocks, forest hammocks, and baby hammocks and inside hammocks and so on. But mostly, outside hammocks are common.
Cotton rope hammocks and nylon rope hammocks belong to rope hammocks. They use the rope to weave one by one. There are also other Yiwu hammocks which are made of cloths, such as thin canvas and nylon cloths.
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Yiwu guitar is mainly centered in international trade city district 2. Guitar is usually widely used in music world. The world musicians are mostly like guitar. The back and slide of Yiwu guitar is flat, the neck of it is very long. Guitar is used in many music styles; it is play an important role in pop music, rock music, and folk song sand so on.
Guitar is used through stir on the top of the string to alter the voice. Yiwu guitar has a long development history. The full steps of playing Yiwu guitar are concluded slide, hammer-On, Pull-off, tapping, bending, sweep picking and etc.
There are also the six linear spectrums for Yiwu guitar. The music sounds nice and the artwork is very good. It has three levels, like low-level, middle level and high level. If you could like to choose a high level guitar in Yiwu market, a harp box is necessary for you to keep it. It is good for the guitar.
The material of guitar is solid maple, rose wood, spruce and many other kinds of wood. If you would like to know more information, please feel free to contact us.
Calculators usually refer to electronic calculators. It is something that can count the math very quickly and exactly. It is used in every area. Yiwu calculators are all the same. They are counting the date not only very fast, but also very precise. They are one of the most useful necessaries for the office tools.
Yiwu calculators usually made of arithmetic unit, controller, storage, keyboard, displayer, powder source and other electronic components. The sizes and the colors of Yiwu calculators are variety. They are located in International Trade City District 2.
Some Yiwu calculators like flip calculators is the kind to protect the screen and the keyboard. Usually, that kind could show the date and time. The others calculators could also alarm on the appointed time. So there is no doubt that Yiwu calculators are widely used and have many types to choose.
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Yiwu amplifier is seated in International Trade City District 2, and the second floor. It is very common seen that everyone could see amplifier many times through TV. It is belongs to the broadcast ranges, and it is widely used, like in airport, TV shows, bus stops and so on.
Yiwu amplifiers can classify into two different types, like outer amplifiers and insider amplifiers.Yiwu Mp3 or Mp4 are belonging to inside amplifiers. But mostly, we would see outer amplifiers.
Yiwu amplifiers'main performance indexes are sensitivity, frequency, the powder rating, rated impedance, directionality and others degree parameters. When we use amplifiers, we should take the different situations into consideration, for this, Yiwu amplifiers can do better. They could combine with different places to modulate the size of the voice.
Yiwu amplifier is easy to make, and itself do not need much space. So it is widely used. There is a wide range of wholesale amplifiers for you to choose.
Yiwu slippers are very easy and convenient for everyone. They are comfortable when we wear them. But mostly, when people wear slippers are just inside. Very few people dare to wear slippers outside.
However, Yiwu slippers can help you solve the trouble. For the elegant, loose slippers, new designs are also one by one. Many people could wear the slippers to walk outside. Like high-heel slippers, splint slippers are very common. Especially in summer, many people like to wear slippers outside. We are familiar with those slippers.
The materials of Yiwu slippers are variable,such as leather, plastics, cloth and many others. It is nice that the designs prefer to the young. So many young people could find the one which suitable for themselves. The sizes for children and the old people are more in stock.
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Yiwu puppets are mainly centered in international trade city district 1. It has a long history; it is usually used in playing programs. Puppet represents a kind of Chinese traditional opera. It is also the show us Chinese traditional culture and customs. Yiwu puppets experienced many different stages when comes to its development.
Mostly, Yiwu puppets are made of wood. It is used the wood to carve something like human beings or other living creatures. It is usually used to describe some dull-witted expressions. So we would always hear some voice like: he is really like a puppet.
The structure of Yiwu puppets seems very easy. But it is on the contrary, all the puppets are man-made. They need very careful work. If one step is wrong, everything of it turns to in vain. Yiwu puppets include shadow puppet, mention line, sack and staff head. The four parts are closely linked.
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Nowadays, Yiwu doorbells seem to be very common, almost every citizen have doorbells for their doors. As time goes by, some countryside also has doorbells. It is very convenient if every door has a doorbell, the comers do not need to wait there and knock their doors once and once again. They just need to press a small button, and then the house owner would open the door in the first time.
Maybe you are considering about buying some doorbells for yourselves or sell to others. So Yiwu doorbells must put the first. In Yiwu market, doorbells are good-selling. Many purchasers come to Yiwu doorbells, and they buy them very soon.
Yiwu doorbells have many designs; such as voice doorbells, video doorbells. The wholesale doorbells are also very hot at present. If you keep a doorbell for your own doors, you would feel that it is more than convenient and safer.
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Chain is made of steel parts system, and it is widely used in basic machine area. Yiwu chains are usually comprised three driving chain, conveying chain, chain pulley and special professional chain.
The chains usually deeply linked with machines. Many machines need to start, but without chains, everything maybe harder. Yiwu chains have many types, but the main structures consist of scraping belt, link pin, shaft sleeve and other parts. For other types, they just change a little for different needs.
The same range of Yiwu chains can classify on the material, the types of chain accessories and hinges. The same range of Yiwu chains can also divide by the pitch by step, bay number, the width of the chains and the ultimate tensile load.
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Do you like painting? Yes!Here you could find a good partner as you draw. Yiwu easels can meet your needs in very way. The big size, small size both has different styles.
Yiwu easels are located in International Trade City District 2, at the first floor. Easels consist of few branches jut and a big square board. When it comes to types, we could say tripod、four-foot frame. The material of Yiwu easels can classify into three main parts: wooden easels、metal easels、plastic easels. When comes to its function, it is widely used for oil painting.
The stable of Yiwu easels are strong enough and the module for each easel is also having some difference. As long as you like, you would always find the one which suitable for you. For more information, please contact us, we would tell you in the first time.
Yiwu Stapler is very common in Yiwu market. Everyday, they use staplers to staple their name cards on the customers' notebooks. So we can see the advantages of staplers. What's more, the teacher in the school have many students' tests, a stapler can help them stick all the tests together so that they could not mix them. In a word, staplers are necessary in every office.
Yiwu stapler is located in international trade city district 2, and the second floor. The wholesale manufacturers provide large quantity of staplers for the customers. The size of the staplers are 26/6、24/6、10# and so on. Yiwu stapler has many types, for small one、bigger ones. The appearances of Yiwu stapler include many colors and different designs.
Stapler gun is very different from others. The size of it is bigger and heavier. Yiwu staplers material are made of plastic、some others are made of iron. Red、 blue color are common seen for Yiwu staplers.
If you want to know more information about Yiwu stapler, come to Yiwu. We are No 1 Yiwu agent will give you're the best service.
Ruler is used to draw a line、measure the length of something. The material of Yiwu rulers, which seated in International Trade City District 2, are made of paper、wood、bamboo、leather and so on.
The types of Yiwu rulers usually include angle square rule、right triangle rule、isosceles triangle rule. When we need to count the data, we should say slide rule. There is also a kind of rule that is very popular among the constriction which called measuring tape. Every engineer has one on their hands, since it is very convenient to measure the information they want.
Every Yiwu rulers has the exactly CM and MM, it is easy for students to learn, and it is important for the manufacturers to develop new machine. Yiwu rule has plastics rules、wooden rules、 golden rules. Plastics rules most used by students. The golden rules are preferred to use industrial area.
If you would like to know more information about Yiwu rulers, please feel free to contact us.
Yiwu motorcycles are driven through gasoline engine,it need hands to operate the two wheels or three wheels. They are very easy and flexible, and they are very fast to drive. They are widely used to patrol or take some small quantity goods.
Motorcycle has a long history and they it is used everywhere. The model of Yiwu motorcycles have many types, like small ordinary automatic two round ,ordinary automatic two round. Others are also very popular among many young adults.
When you drive a motorcycle, you would feel it is very fast and it is an enjoyable time to watch the beautiful scenery. Motorcycles in Yiwu are of good quality and the prices are reasonable. If you have a motorcycle, you do not need to worry about the bad traffics, limited time for your work, or something in urgent that is waiting for you. The helmet put on your head and a pair of gloves on your hands; it seems more cool and wonderful.
So come to Yiwu city, and take the motorcycles you like.
Eraser is small, but it is very useful for many students. Yiwu erasers are seated in International Trade City District 2. There are many manufacturers to make all kinds of erasers.
Nowadays, Yiwu erasers are rather different compared with before, nowadays, Yiwu erasers are very colorful and cute. All kinds of type's erasers would attract many customers. Different erasers have many different designs, the attractive cartoon pictures also printed on the face of erasers, which attract many students.
The beautiful and special designs of Yiwu erasers are rather popular among the pupils. Some flower type erasers with perfume smell looks just like a fresh flower. The cartoon animal pictures printed on the erasers seems like it is real. Some pure white erasers just like an ice cake. Some others also made like a real smile.
If you are an eraser wholesaler, there is no doubt that Yiwu erasers are your best choice, come to Yiwu city and find us, we will show you the eraser market and you would like the place very much. If you take some erasers back to your country, you would know that you get more than a little.
Yiwu eyewear is located in international trade city district 2, and the first floor. Eyewear consist of lens、eye frame. When we come to eyesight, it has glasses for the myopia、and spectacles for long sight. If you want to protect your eyes, you should take the effective measures.
Yiwu eyewear has many types, sunglass、eyesight glass、presbyopic glasses、kids eyewear intangible glass and so on. The modules of Yiwu eyewear are variety. The frame of eyewear can directly influence the use of the eyewear.
Eyewear is very wide at present. Many people choose different eyeglass for their preference. Sometimes, eyeglass is not only a tool to protect our eyes; it is also a kind of decoration.
If you want to know more information about Yiwu eyewear, come to yiwu city, and we will take you there to choose any eyewear you like.
Yiwu ladders is located in Yiwu China international Trade City District 2, and the second floor.
With the development of the society, ladders are widely used in our daily life. When people want to decorate their rooms, a ladder is very necessary for them to get higher. When someone wants to hold a big party, a ladder could be always making the place feel better.
The material of Yiwu ladders are made of aluminum、steel and so on. Yiwu ladders are of high quality and stamina. They are widely used in our daily life, especially in some construction.
All in all, the advantages of ladders more than a word. As long as you use it, you could know what it is. Yiwu ladder have many designs. Rail pedal lift、steel tube pedal lift、folded steel pedal ladder、aluminum ladder and aluminum pedal safety ladder are the signal ladders of Yiwu ladders. They are very convenient for you to climb higher and get the higher things.
The step of the ladder can also add higher as you wish. If you would like to know more information about Yiwu ladders, please feel free to contact us, we would greatly welcome your inquiry!
I bet everyone has to write, and with a nice pencil in hand is always a beautiful enjoyment. So Yiwu pencils are always on your right hand. Yiwu pencils are located in International Trade City District 2, and the first floor.
Yiwu pencils include a simple pencil,some colorful pencils and so on. Some pencils on the top of the pencil together with a small eraser are suitable for students. Some other colorful pencils have no eraser are very popular among those who like to draw pictures.
Various types of pencils can meet all the needs. However, you can also make the one you like. If you want to know more about Yiwu pencils, please feel free to contact us, we would greatly appreciate your inquiry.
There is no doubt that Yiwu film is very well-known and famous. Especially Hengdian City, where is very near Yiwu city, is very famous for its film place. Every year, many directors come there and play many films. So there is no reason that you should miss Yiwu film.
Yiwu films have different series, like drama films、comedy films. Take an example of Yiwu ancient films. It is very famous, there are many ancient sites are still keep there. Ming Place and Qing Dynasty are very big, and it is still have the ancient atmosphere. Many directors would come there and play old times film. Since many films are played on every year, the famous actors or actress is also the beautiful scenery for you to enjoy.
However, as the films are very famous, and the same with its cinema. Yiwu cinema is very wonderful and amazing, if you come inside, the film play on, you would feel like you are just the one who is in the film. The environment of Yiwu cinema can give you the best and unforgettable experience.
Yiwu films also could be carved into CD format, which is very clear when you put on TV. If you watch Yiwu film, you could feel special moments in life.
If you want to know more information about Yiwu films, our NO.1 Yiwu agent would be your best choice.
Yiwu furniture is very super and magnificent as there are many towns near Yiwu city which they plant large quantity of trees. The towns' trees are very good, and most of them are used to make furniture to meet customers'needs. Yiwu furniture market is located in Xicheng Road, which is very big. Everyday, the furniture market would attract many people together from all over the world. There are many furniture over there and all the furniture can supply all the customers, there are office furniture、hotel furniture、coffee shops furniture and so on. The material of the furniture are also very widely, such as rubber wood、oak、marble. Different material of the furniture has different fished products. The beds、sofa、armoire、chair、tea table、executive desk and others are on show and wait for you.. Whether you are a wholesaler who wholesale furniture in your country or an independent businessman, the different style of Yiwu furniture would always be your best choice. If you want to know more information about Yiwu furniture products, please do not hesitate to contact us, we are NO 1 Yiwu agent, and we would always give you our best service.
Yiwu mobile is very popular at present; many people come there and choose any mobile they like. The types of Yiwu mobile are very various and the function of them is very variety.
Yiwu mobile can classify into several types, such as bar phones、flip phone、touch screen phone. As to its function, most mobiles include send and receive messages、pick up phone calls、listen to music、take pictures、watch TV、listen to radio.
Since this is information times, the techniques are improved very fast. Search on internet through mobile is nothing unusual. QQ、MSN、E-mail、dictionary are common seen almost in every mobile. So there is no doubt that Yiwu mobile could meet your needs.
Some simple mobile are very suitable for old people. They use them and they can call their children or friends anything in urgent. Some other smaller and cute mobile are your best present for students. The bigger ones and have more function could give to businessman. When they have a mobile phone which has internet e-mail and other functions, it is a big advantage for their business.
In one word, Yiwu mobile is easy to take and has many functions for you to choose. If you want to know more information, just feel free to contact us. We are NO.1 Yiwu agent is always for your service. We could take you to visit Yiwu telecommunication appliance market.
The weather become hoter and hoter after the International Labor Day. Are you ready for coming grinding weather? Yiwu sandals in Yiwu shoes market will accompany with you through the whole summer.
Yiwu sandals market can provide you with the women sandals, men sandals, children' sandals with different size. It's amazing that woman' sandals have more styles and colors than men. For example, cake shoes, slipsole sandals, fish mouth shape sandal, clip toe sandals and so forth.
However the International Trade City is also the paradise for men's shoes. Classic color and various styles will bring you with more comfort and handsome.
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Vatican unveils Pope's Twitter account @pontifexThe Pope is to begin sending Twitter messages using the handle @pontifex as his personal account, the Vatican said.
A spokesman said Pope Benedict XVI wanted to "reach out to everyone" with tweets translated into eight languages.
The first tweet from his account, whose name means both pontiff and builder of bridges, is expected on 12 December.
"We are going to get a spiritual message. The Pope is not going to be walking around with a Blackberry or an iPad and no-one is going to be putting words into the Pope's mouth," Greg Burke, senior media advisor to the Vatican said.
All I can say to the Pope is: Happy tweeting!


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Applications for FEI Calendar changes due to Coronavirus
Following the FEI Update sent out to you all on Friday 20 March, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that, as indicated in the Coronavirus (Covid-19) FAQ which can be accessed here, NFs whose Events have been impacted by Covid-19 and who wish to move to a different date should contact Calendar@fei.org by 31 March.
As the situation is evolving so rapidly, for Events that need to be cancelled after the 31 March deadline, National Federations are also asked to confirm whether they wish to propose a new date.
This will allow the FEI, in consultation with the International Equestrian Organisers Alliance and the relevant National Federations, to evaluate the impact of the new dates on the Calendar and propose a policy to the FEI Board for date changes.


It seems to me there is another fundamental aspect of lean manufacturing that needs to have the harsh light of reality shone upon it: this business of people empowerment – you know – respect for people, letting them control their work lives, etc, etc, etc.. – all that blather about people being such a valuable asset we splatter all over our web sites and annual reports. Most companies that believe they are doing well in this regard should have to explain why, if their production folks are so empowered, do they still have supervisors or foremen, quality inspectors and auditors, and material handlers?
If we really have respect for the folks in the factory, and we have empowered them to do their jobs, we should not have to pay people to look over their shoulders, check up on their work, or get their parts for them. They oughta be able to do all of that for themselves. Empowered people don't need babysitters.
Like everything else about lean, empowering people is a cost reduction issue. If you are going to pay a guy fifteen bucks an hour, he had better be able to get his job done without someone dogging him all day, and someone else double checking everything he does, or someone making sure he has the right parts and has done the proper paperwork. If our people are not capable of working independently and getting the job done right, we need to get new people. More likely they are, and we are just not trusting them to do it, in which case, we need new management.
In any event, you cannot succeed by compounding high labor rates with a 3:1 direct to indirect ratio. In fact, you cannot win by hanging onto the archaic management belief that there is any significance to the distinction between direct and indirect labor at all.
Our Asian and Mexican competitors employ work checkers, babysitters and straw bosses out of necessity. We employ them out of ignorance. And so long as we continue to employ them, we have empowered no one to the point that they are really helping the bottom line.
It has nothing to do with the native intelligence of the people, but is purely a function of education. The typical Mexican worker comes to work with his or her compulsory 6th grade education (which often falls far short of what an American would learn by the sixth grade). In Asia, the typical worker imported from some remote village has even less. With so little knowledge of even the basics of math, science and communications (reading, writing,learning) the jobs have to be 'dumbed down' considerably. The productivity levels of Mexican and Asian workers is a fraction of that of an American or European worker partly due to technology, but mostly due to the woeful ignorance of the workforce.
We should remember that something as powerful and difficult as empowerment is often evolving. Empowerment does not happen all at once. Employees do not go from unempowered to empowered in one easy step. Different managers and supervisors find empowering employees to be easy or difficult and different employees respond to empowerment differently–some positively and some not. An excellent how-to book for managers is Diane Tracy's 10 Steps to Empowerment. Easy to digest, full of sound advice, good examples, and practical ideas.
I have always thought that the best form of empowerment ultimately shows up in what the Employee can take home to his or her family.
What would happen if Management's goal was to care for its employees like family and help them to take as much home to their family as possible. The method is of course to use everyone's talents to improve the company and its products or services continuously. The profits from these improvements need to be shared in a ongoing and tangible way with employees. Just like the shareholders.
Societies need progress. Progress comes in small pieces and sometimes great big jumps. But it doesn't come easily. A company has to work for progress.
Isn't it strange how a company can place so much value in a bunch of landscaping, sheet metal, steel beams, machinery, fancy sales publications, company perks, etc., and many times just let their people die on the vine.


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Managing Risk in Turbulent Times
Mix equal measures of optimism and resolve and bake until golden
I've been told that I am an incurable optimist. No matter where I stand or sit, I can't help thinking that tomorrow is a fount of wonderful possibilities. I'll admit that there have been a few moments in the last decade when my resolve to think positively was sorely tested. But these moments are quickly subdued by what seems to be an innate belief that every year ahead will be more bountiful than the last. Perhaps it is this view of the world that leads me to believe that the same principles apply in the future of our organizations, irrespective of their circumstances. I try to inspire the same optimistic view in the nonprofit leaders whose organizations I counsel through the Nonprofit Risk Management Center's consulting practice.
For the past two years I've offered readers of Risk Management Essentials risk management resolutions in the January issue of our publication. But circumstances this year might seem to warrant a totally different kind of January message. No doubt that we are facing difficulties unprecedented in the modern era of nonprofit organizations. As I reviewed the wit and wisdom in prior issues, however, I was pleased that the advice has stood the test of time. There were no recommendations that I would delete from another New Year's list. For example, viewing your insurance professional as a key partner in mission fulfillment is the first step to making certain your nonprofit has appropriate insurance coverage for its insurable risks. And getting the board "on board" with risk management is key to ensuring the effective governance of your nonprofit and protection of its valuable tangible and intangible assets. Therefore, many of the core strategies nonprofit leaders will employ to understand and manage risk will remain unchanged in 2009. But the landscape—the environment in which your organization survives and even thrives—has changed dramatically. This change warrants a fresh look. Not an updated list of resolutions, but a new way of looking at risk and risk management in our organizations.
Each day my email box contains at least one newsletter describing how nonprofit leaders are making tough decisions necessitated by funders' retrenchment, investment losses, government deficits, and the inability of individual donors to give at last year's level. These stories are a potent reminder that a charitable mission and dedicated leaders are not enough to insulate an organization from the risks that exist in the world around us. So, even as it is necessary that we "play the hand we are dealt" in these difficult times, we do not need simply to focus on our woes. While each organization must focus on the specific conditions it is experiencing, it should not lose sight of the core strategies for success, including managing risk. We must maintain a degree of optimism and continue to keep our eyes open to the entire context.
A strategic approach to risk management requires thinking about a wide range of future possibilities. I was reminded of this fact during a recent evening walk. Each evening I venture outside my home to take my dog for a short stroll. Since I live in a rural area blessed with a very dark night sky, I often take a flashlight. Using a flashlight is helpful to avoid stumbling over a branch that has fallen or a clump of grass displaced by a determined mole. But as I've discovered on several evenings, the flashlight is ineffective in spotting a deer grazing several yards to the left or right of the beam. On several occasions I've been startled when a large animal saw me before I saw it. The sound of an animal rushing past in the darkness is enough to set even an experienced risk manager's nerves on edge! My most recent wildlife encounter led me to reflect on the way that many nonprofit leaders approach risk in their organizations. There is a tendency to use a narrow band of consideration when thinking about risk—much like using a flashlight to illuminate the ground ahead on an evening walk.
While a beam of light—or a beam of thought or focus—may be helpful in identifying the risks that lay directly ahead, it is probably less effective in spotting events, circumstances and conditions in the environment that may have the potential to dramatically to affect the organization's ability to deliver services, meet clients needs and pursue its mission. As leaders of organizations with vital missions, we must train ourselves to look beyond the beam of light. We must learn how to examine, with appropriate care, all of the elements of the environment in which we operate—from funding opportunities, to the work of competitors and collaborators, to Mother Nature. The management team at your nonprofit should consider how the current environment—and changes in the environment—could disrupt or derail your mission. What could go wrong? What will you do now, knowing that an event or condition in your "environment" could spell disruption or disaster for your mission? What will you do if that event—from loss of funding to the extraordinary success of a competitor—materializes?
When we teach the Risk Management Process, we encourage leaders to begin with "appreciating the context." Our instructions for doing so include examining the nonprofit's history, circumstances, opportunities, cultural issues and organizational structure in relation to the risks the nonprofit faces. How do these key environmental issues affect risk-taking and risk management in the nonprofit? A nonprofit that has faced a slew of employment-related claims is likely to be tuned into the risks of employment litigation, but may be inattentive to risks associated with the loss of a major funding source. A nonprofit whose leaders are decidedly risk-averse may forego the opportunity to expand the reach and success of the organization by serving clients in neighboring jurisdictions or seeking other means of diversifying the ways in which the organization delivers its mission.
Examining the context—the environment in which the organization exists—is a key first step to integrating sound risk management thinking and strategies into the life of your nonprofit. Doing so effectively requires that you employ 360 degree, radar-like thinking as you examine the history, mission, culture and opportunities facing your organization. Instead of focusing your risk management beam only on the obvious dangers that lie in the path ahead, remember to look behind you, to the far left and right, and even up above, for changes, circumstances and information that will guide your risk-taking and risk management practices in the year ahead. We need to transport our passion for mission into the commitment to look broadly at the risks that stand in the way of mission fulfillment. And remember that an optimistic outlook and the resolve to make your nonprofit better each and every day will fortify your goal of spotting and addressing the risks that stand in the way of realizing the mission that means everything to those who serve, and receive services from, your organization.
Melanie Lockwood Herman is Executive Director of the Nonprofit Risk Management Center. She welcomes your questions, comments and feedback on this article. Melanie can be reached via email or at (202) 785-3891.
Melanie, of all our trainers, you were a standout. I never expected risk management or HR classes to be engaging and fun. You put it all together, from the common sense fundamentals to the evidence-based best practices, so that it made perfect sense. I think that's why I've retained it all so well.
— Matt Smith, Out Youth


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In the centre of this Smoky Quartz necklaces sits a chunky faceted nugget of semi-precious Smoky Quartz this measures approximately 15mmx10mm and I have framed this Smoky Quartz nugget with Sterling Silver beads and this sits in the centre of a bracelet handmade from 6mm round faceted chocolate coloured semi-precious Jade beads.
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Accenture Services Pvt Ltd will be conducting a recruitment drive on 26th March 2011 for hiring of fresh BE/Btech (any branch) & MCA passouts for the Software Development work in the company.
Candidates who have participated in Accenture drive in last 6 months will not be eligible.
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Album Review of Hope on the Rocks by Toby Keith.
Maybe it's just the times but Toby Keith has had drinking on his mind, calling his 2011 album Clancy's Tavern, which rode up the charts on the back of the boozy hit "Red Solo Cup" and now, for its sequel, Keith serves up Hope on the Rocks, an album where he finds his way to "Cold Beer Country" and complains that he hasn't had a drink all day. He also admits that "I Like Girls Who Drink Beer," the confession coming as no great surprise and, truth be told, there are no great surprises throughout Hope on the Rocks. Keith has whittled the album down to his basics, finding space for only three love songs -- the heartbroken "Haven't Seen the Last of You," "Missed You Just Right," which has airs of an arena-country crossover, and the bittersweet "You Ain't Alone," all arriving in the back half of the album, helping to accentuate the album's party-ready atmosphere.
It's a fairly well-kept secret that Toby Keith's singing and songwriting abilities rival those of just about any act in contemporary country music. The perplexing thing is that Keith himself is the one most responsible for keeping the secret. For at least the past decade, he's led with singles that present a wisecracking, fight-picking persona to the world, a few of them championing his version of patriotism and many others championing his formula for having a good ol' boy good time, copious amounts of beer being the most important ingredient.
NEIL YOUNG AND CRAZY HORSE "Psychedelic Pill" (Reprise) In Neil Young's new memoir, "Waging Heavy Peace" (Blue Rider Press), he describes his band Crazy Horse as a "window to the cosmic world" where "songs graze like buffalo. The herd is still there, and the plains are endless." In another chapter he adds, "Any ride on the Horse must not have a destination." And it's clear from the get-go — a nearly 28-minute song called "Driftin' Back" — that Mr. Young and Crazy Horse will take all the time they want on their new album, "Psychedelic Pill." Crazy Horse — Ralph Molina on drums, Billy Talbot on bass and, since 1975, Frank (Poncho) Sampedro on rhythm guitar — is Mr.


Pfizer has gained FDA approval for Eucrisa, a new eczema treatment which could achieve peak annual sales of $2 billion a year.
The drug is significant because it is the first non-steroidal therapy for the skin condition in more than 15 years.
Pfizer acquired the Eucrisa (crisaborole) when it bought its developer, Anacor in May this year for $5.2 billion.
Eucrisa gained approval based on two trials involving over 1,500 patients with mild-to-moderate eczema, showing the ointment was more effective than placebo in achieving clear or almost clear skin after 28 days' treatment.
The drug comes with a hefty price of $580 for a 60g tube before any discounts or rebates, and is expected to hit the market early next year.
An estimated 18 – 25 million people suffer from eczema in the US, with more cases being diagnosed in children than ever before.
The drug is a phosphodiesterase-4 (PDE4) inhibitor targeting an anti-inflammatory mechanism already exploited by treatments for asthma, COPD and psoriasis.
These include Celgene's Otezla, which is already approved for psoriasis, but is now also in development for eczema.
Sanofi and Regeneron have an injectable drug Dupixent (dupilumab), but this is more acute forms atopic dermatitis. Roche and AstraZeneca also have antibody-based eczema treatments in phase 2 trials.
While existing topical steroid treatments are low cost, they can have serious side-effects, most notably a thinning of the skin.
Analysts believe the Eucrisa's advantages will help it be taken up quickly in the US, though Pfizer may well face some concerted opposition from payers on its price.


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A variety of wildlife sightings are possible any time of year, while some occur with the changing seasons. From humpback whales and iguanas to ruby throated hummingbirds and butterflies, this region is known as a migration crossroads. You never know what Mother Nature might have in store for you.
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