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Plan for 'park and ride light' is not expected to lighten city traffic, council says
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THE city council has said that a park and ride proposed for Barton Farm is intended to "relive pressure on town centre car parking".
As previously reported in the Chronicle civic chiefs have mooted that plans to bring a facility to the development, also known as Kings Barton, could be put on hold if progress is taken on a large park and ride to the north of the city.
READ: Major park and ride scheme plan for north of Winchester
However, Winchester City Council has said that small-scale offering on the new housing estate is not expected to have an impact on traffic.
A council spokesperson said: "As part of the Kings Barton planning consent a parking facility will be created which will be served by a local bus service, initially funded from financial contributions made by CALA. We have called this a 'park and ride light' because there will be no separate dedicated bus service and it is intended to provide an additional option to relieve pressure on town centre car parking, rather than make a strategic impact on traffic.
"The Winchester movement strategy identifies the longer term ambition to provide a full service park and ride site to the north of the city to help create a significant reduction in traffic entering the one-way system. This would be much larger than the facility at Kings Barton, but it will also take longer to identify a suitable location and complete all the necessary planning and procurement processes. If we are able to proceed with this larger scheme in due course, we would decide whether to retain or repurpose the Kings Barton's facility, taking account of how well it has worked and the benefits that it provides."
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Why Canadian cities deserve more autonomy and respect
By Shawn MicallefStar Columnist
Fri., Aug. 24, 2018timer4 min. read
updateArticle was updated Aug. 25, 2018
"Secession."
It was a cry of Toronto frustration, but it could also be our Greta Garbo moment: Leave us alone.
On the day Doug Ford announced Bill 5, the Better Local Government Act that would slash the size of Toronto's city council midway through an election, Jennifer Keesmaat tweeted out that word, suggesting Toronto secede from Ontario and become its own province. Later that day she joined the mayoral race.
Perhaps intemperate, it was a word that summed up the feeling of a large part of the city that felt like it was being attacked. This week Doug Ford, speaking to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, assured relieved elected municipal officials across the province he had no similar plans for them, despite many municipalities having even more city councillors per capita than Toronto currently has.
As a Torontonian it's hard not to take this personally, that this might be a vendetta towards a city that didn't elect him mayor. Doug Ford thinks about Toronto a lot and the rest of the province should start wondering if he'd rather be the mayor of Toronto than their premier.
In an Aug. 3 column in the Ottawa Citizen, David Reevely wrote that Ontario was literally on fire, with tens of thousands of hectares of the province burning, but the Ford government had turned all attention to Toronto. It's attention few of us wanted and, like Garbo's oft-quoted declaration, we would rather not receive it.
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While Keesmaat's partisan critics have suggested her tweet was a sign of recklessness, there's long been a slow simmering and sporadic movement to turn Toronto into what would be the fifth most populous province. Even former mayor Mel Lastman publicly considered it. John Tory was a member of Lastman's backroom "kitchen cabinet" advisory group, so the notion of a province of Toronto is hardly radical or new.
It is, however, unlikely. It's most often used as a bargaining position in the perpetual quest to give Toronto more control over its own affairs and a sign of the frustration of having those affairs often meddled with. I have to continually remind myself that halfway through a democratic election the rules and playing field of that election were arbitrarily and dramatically changed. In 2018. In Canada, a "bastion" of democracy. Even if you think cutting the size of council is good, tampering with an ongoing election is a shocking precedent we shouldn't forget.
"Secession" is an old sounding word. That it sounds like something you might hear in a historic political drama is apt because the relationship between cities and provinces was forged at Confederation. In 1867, 80 per cent of Canadians lived in rural settings. With just 3.3 million people in the country at the time, cities were small, few and not terribly important to the new nation as a whole. Putting them under provincial control made sense.
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Today Canadian cities are still relatively few in number but over 80 per cent of us now live in them and they've become important economic drivers of provincial and national economies and have developed distinct social and political cultures of their own. Yet they remain vulnerable to the kind of chaos-making attack Toronto received from the province, all without any consultation with residents.
Ford is a Torontonian himself, so secession won't magically remove him or his existing supporters from Toronto, but if he had been elected mayor, a job he reminds us daily he wishes he had, he couldn't do what he's done as premier. Even the change from 44 to 47 councillors and reshaping ward boundaries, thrown out with the passage of Bill 5, was a years-long process and involved much citizen consultation.
Warren Magnusson, a political theorist at the University of Victoria, has written extensively on the importance of local government and that the notion of cities as "creatures of the province" is a 19th-century concept. As an example, he says with a traditional view of Ontario's provincial powers it could abolish Toronto if it saw fit. While provincial sovereignty was paramount at Confederation, he argues democracy has become the organizing principle of constitutional interpretation and that local democracy and municipalities have evolved to become incredibly important institutions.
This is what makes the court challenge Toronto city council agreed to undertake this week so interesting, as the Constitution is, as Magnussen contends, a living document and interpretation of it evolves.
Regardless of what happens, and whether or not local government needs reform, it's time for Canada to re-evaluate how all its municipalities exist constitutionally. I think many Torontonians share my view that I don't want to secede from Ontario — I like being part of this province, contributing to it and benefiting from it — but I want respect and more autonomy for Toronto and all local municipal governments. A "semi-Garbo" relationship, if I may.
We need a Meech Lake-style constitutional renegotiation, but for cities. It's not 1867 anymore.
Shawn Micallef is a Toronto-based writer and a freelance contributor for the Star. Follow him on Twitter: @shawnmicallef
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General Tommy Franks in Parade Magazine
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This Sunday, Parade featured an interview with General Tommy Franks. For those not aware, Gen Franks led the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He abandoned the "Powell Doctrine" of using overwhelming force to defeat the enemy. His philosophy was based on speed and precision guided munitions. Smaller maneuvering units, special forces troops, air supremacy, etc.
The full interview won't be available until Aug 9th (when Parade updates their archives). Here's a snippet:
NEW YORK In an interview to be published this Sunday in Parade magazine, Gen. Tommy Franks, former commander of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, expresses what the magazine calls a number of "blistering opinions."
Franks, according to Parade, "believes that five years is a realistic timeline for the U.S. to be involved in Iraq." Asked why Osama bin Laden was still at large, Franks replied tens of thousands of Arab families would happily take in Osama as their hero. Frank says the U.S. will eventually nab him "even though was don't have enough sources on the ground."
Indulging in what the magazine calls "a bit of score-settling," Franks says: "I never received a single page of actionable intelligence from Richard Clarke." He also says his biggest surprise of the Iraq war was the failure to find weapons of mass destruction which he flatly adds was "the reason we went to war."
His book, "American Soldier," will be published next week.
Franks defends starting the war with a smaller force which "gave the U.S. an element of surprise." The only people surprised by Baghdad's quick fall, he observes, were the "cable news folks, like al-Jazeera and CNN."
As for the occupation of Iraq, it has gone "as I expected, not as I had hoped." Both Americans and Iraqis were overly optimistic about the postwar phase. Flooding the country with money to employ "angry young Iraqis" might have helped, he says.
While expressing disappointment with the Iraqis for choosing looting and insurgency over "pulling themselves together to reform their country," Franks also faults the international community. He reveals that he expected 150,000 troops would join the U.S. effort, which never happened.
Parade writer Lyric Wallwork Winik interviewed Franks earlier this month in Norfolk, Va. Since retiring in July 2003 he has given 100 speeches, with fees topping out at $100,000, the magazine says.
The entire article is worth reading. I saved the paper and will note other points he made (such as America should stop "beating itself up" over Iraq and just get on with helping the Iraqis).
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While expressing disappointment with the Iraqis for choosing looting and insurgency over "pulling themselves together to reform their country,"
I find this strip in the text interesting - Unconfirmed sources have stated that the looting of the gouvernmental buildings in Bagdad was an act of well planed intelligence work. "C.I.A" or French including German intelligences might have been involved to send so called looter teams with embassy members of diplomatic corps in to these buildings to destroy important documents and archives that would have made the world community bolt away.
I wonder if there is anybody else that have stumbled over this information? Well I don´t think Saddam Hussein will face a trial. He will probably die with the secrets of different multinational companies that have broken the different resolutions, treaties and sanctions and they have just washed their hands clean with this "looting" storys and even if Saddam Hussein would survive a trial all evidence would be destroyed and he would probably never get the chance to tell the rest of the world what really happend after 1991 Gulf War.
There are several Iraqis that have told the press and the free press that their behaviour after Bagdad fellt to the US forces was not I repeat not normal for the people in general. And if this is true with the looting of these different intelligence guided looter teams well then I think if not US is involved that other countrys that have strongly and harsh criticized US attack to think again. Well If Saddam Hussein dies the truth about that story will go down with him.


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WVU in the News: 'Dark Waters': Behind-the-Scenes With Attorney Who Took on DuPont
In 2001, Cincinnati attorney Robert Bilott sent a letter to EPA Administrator Christie Whitman, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, and state officials, warning them about a little-known chemical that was turning up in the environment near Parkersburg, West Virginia.
Trying to discover what was causing cows in a town near his grandmother's home to die at an unusually high rate, Bilott had noticed perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, on a list of substances that DuPont, the area's largest employer, had dumped in a landfill.
PFOA was not only in the land, Bilott eventually discovered, but also in the water supply.
The story is the basis of the movie "Dark Waters," in which Bilott is played by Mark Ruffalo. The film dramatizes the 20-year battle Bilott and West Virginia citizens fought against DuPont's environmental contamination. Bilott also published a book about his battle, called Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont, in October.
In the settlement, both sides agreed to develop an independent science panel to assess PFOA risks. DuPont would fund an epidemiology study led by a local primary care doctor, Paul Brooks, MD, to interview and collect blood samples from about 69,000 people in the area.
"At 69,000 people, it probably was an unprecedented size for an environmental study," said Alan Ducatman, MD, MS, professor emeritus at West Virginia University in Morgantown. "What also was unusual was that, if you looked at the total eligible population, the estimated participation rate was around 80%."
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Futureproofing The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs
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Futureproof – a business built on purpose.
Published on Aug 14, 2018 By Entrepreneur
The South African labour market remains vulnerable, particularly in the youth employment sector. While there is a call for more entrepreneurs, further support for SMME's and increased youth employment by government, the youth of today lack the skills, knowledge and opportunities to answer to the call.
Riddled by poverty and unemployment, South Africa remains a country in crisis. With more than 3.3 million* unemployed youths, entrepreneurship has been highlighted to eradicate our unemployment woes; here's the catch though: a recent study on education depicted the effect that poor education has had on entrepreneurs, who are largely ill-equipped to run their own businesses as a result. (Businesslive.co.za (2017)).
Getting youths to grips with entrepreneurship
By combining a background in education and entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial educationalist, speaker, radio presenter, mother of two and all-round go-getter, Lisa Illingworth co-founded Futureproof to educate youths from as young as primary school on real-life entrepreneurship.
As an ex-teacher, Lisa recognised a serious need for educating children on the practical application and art of entrepreneurship to create a generation of informed, thriving youths. "Young adults in the 21st century are entering the working world equipped with knowledge and skills that are irrelevant for the workplace," explains Lisa.
Futureproof is built on an unwavering commitment to entrepreneurship as a mechanism for intervening in the poverty cycle that our youths are caught up in. "I don't want to watch another generation driven by poor education standards, self-entitlement and helplessness".
Lisa believes that entrepreneurs possess qualities that each of us can aspire to in order to take charge of our own futures: they identify a problem or a gap and create a service or a product to solve this problem and generate a flow of money. "Their tenacity is something that few can relate to. Entrepreneurs sacrifice short-term gain to deliver a long-term solution and derive an income from their efforts and passion. Nothing comes easy to an entrepreneur, so persistence is key" she emphasizes.
In a country where many simply admit defeat, Lisa and her team believes that possessing an entrepreneurial mindset can set our youths apart and accelerate them in the working world. "Futureproof exists with a massive transformative purpose to educate the future generation of entrepreneurs," explains Lisa. "We aim to identify and grow the 5% of high impact entrepreneurs that will create the much-needed economic transformation that this country requires but organically, this process allows kids to learn how to create their own income opportunities" Lisa continues.
Futureproof – for purpose, for profit
Today, Futureproof is a "for purpose, for profit" business. We sacrifice neither. "This business is built on a model that was based on authentically practicing what we teach. Many social enterprises default to a charity and this business is unapologetically not a charity. We teach kids to build sustainable enterprises and we mirror this through the way we do business".
Futureproof provides kids the opportunity to craft their own futures by applying the entrepreneurial skills gained in their real-life situations. "By instilling an entrepreneurial mindset, we look to cultivate a generation of hungry entrepreneurs who are able to identify and build-on opportunities. Our courses teach problem solving at the highest level to the youngest kids, and we have seen some amazing success stories come out of this in kids as young as eight years old".
At its helm, Lisa says that Futureproof's Board of Directors is made up of some of the country's top business minds – a team driven by passion and purpose. "We attract incredible people in business and for this reason I am pleased to be surrounded by top women in their respective fields such as S'onqoba Maseko and Chairperson of our Board of Directors (previous head of innovation for FNB and now the COO of Future Nations Schools) and Masenyane Molefe – our Human Resources Specialist and HR Director of Hyundai South Africa.
For more information on Futureproof's programmes and how to get involved, visit: www.futureproofsa.com
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British businesses are the least optimistic about the economy in six months and their overall confidence levels remain slightly below average, a survey showed on Monday, adding to a lackluster outlook for the economy.
Lloyds Bank said its survey pointed to moderate growth although there had been some improvement from a month earlier, just after Prime Minister Theresa May unexpectedly failed to win a parliamentary majority in a national election, Reuters reported.
Official data last week showed the economy made its slowest start to the year since 2012, with growth of just 0.3% in the three months to June compared with the first quarter of 2017, barely half Britain's long-run average growth rate.
With economic growth soft, wages rising only slowly and big uncertainties remaining about how Britain will leave the European Union, the Bank of England is unlikely to raise interest rates from a record low 0.25% on Thursday. Unemployment in Britain is at its lowest since the 1970s but the Brexit vote in June last year led to a sharp drop in the value of sterling, increasing inflation and eroding consumers' disposable income this year.
More firms also said they were raising prices. Consumer price inflation hit its highest in nearly four years in May at 2.9%. Although it has since fallen, many economists expect it to rise again.
Separately on Monday, the Federation of Master Builders said the fall in the exchange rate was causing the prices of materials to soar, squeezing margins for a third of small builders and forcing nearly a quarter to raise prices.
Meanwhile, UK consumers' mood soured again unexpectedly in July, a survey published Friday showed, with the headline index falling to the level last seen in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote as Britons grew uneasy about the country's economic situation.
The long-running barometer of consumer confidence, conducted by market researcher GfK UK Ltd for the European Union's executive, slipped by two points following a five-point drop the previous month, and stood at minus 12.
The decline in sentiment—driven largely by a sharp drop in confidence in the UK's economy, over the past year as well as the year ahead—surprised analysts polled by The Wall Street Journal, who had expected no change against the June reading.


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Tub wrote: This was a FANTASTIC summarization! It's EXACTLY what I've been looking for. This article is actually what urged me to finally make an account here. I've been checking in to the forum for about 8 years or so, but never 'dove' into another forum. Further, it's nudged me into poking around to get a the proper certification. I avoided HAM because I thought it too expensive to get up and running. I figured the hand helds didn't have enough reach to bother. My ignorance left me in the dark when it came to the power those handy lil devils had. So, opted for CB. But, if I can get properly certified, and snag a hand held that kicks out 50 miles (which I still find hard to believe) for reasonable prices, that's a game changer! Now the daunting task of being 'dumb' to the radio world and digging up dirt on what's good, and what is a waste of money. I started looking around last night...but...in the early stages of this new avenue, I'm way over my head. I'mma keep at it tho. Thanks again for the "HAM for Dummies" article. Super helpful!
Repeaters work wonders. I just got my tech test finished yesterday and got my little handheld Baofeng BF-F8 in the mail today today. Programmed in my local repeater, up on a little mole hill the folks here in west Texas call a mountain, and just listened in(don't have my call sign assigned yet so I can't transmit just yet) and I was hearing a guy in a town 63 miles northwest talking to a guy in a town 35 miles west while sitting in front of my computer in my living room. A lot of people trash talk the Baofengs because they are Chinese made and inexpensive, but IMHO you can't go wrong getting your first ham radio for less than $50 (the UV5r is basically the same one I have but can be had on amazon for like $37) and getting a chance to get some on air experience and learn a thing or two before you start investing $100-$2000 on a radio and antenna setup. But that's my $0.02.
Now on to business. Did the ZS network ever get put together? I see people still posting their info but I haven't seen anything official as far as mapping of an Net Coordinators or official ZS network info.
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Your particular interest: Local and long distance radio.
Your equipment situation: Yaesu VX-7R, FT-857D, TYT-UVF1, BuddiPole and Walkabout antenna.
Been a ham for sometime but never really active till now. The FT-857D is being setup as a backpack radio.
Been a HAM for sometime but recently activated equipment. Looking forward to making contacts.
Interests: Just getting on local repeaters, trying to talk to local hams but no luck yet.
Currently have a tech license.
My name is Mike and I just signed up. I am a Ham radio operator located in SW Michigan.
Your equipment situation= I have a Kenwood TS-520 HF rig (10-15-20-40-80 meters) 100 watts, a RS HTX-10 10 meter 25 watt radio, a Alinco DR-140 VHF 2 meter mobile radio 50 watt, a Yaesu FT-60 Handheld VHF/UHF and a Yaesu FT-250 VHF Handheld both at 3/5 watts. I have a Solarcon-A99 vertical antenna trimmed for 10 meters @ 16' AGL, a home made inverted V dipole 135' long with the feedpoint @ 24' AGL and a Ed Fong 144/440 UHF/VHF @ 16' AGL.
My VHF mobile is used as a base station and can reach repeaters 30/40 miles away. The Kenwood TS-520 is used mainly for long distance DX (overseas) but I have contacted many operators here in several states. My Yaesu FT-250 (2 meter) handheld can reach our local repeater about 13 miles away. I also use EchoLink on my I-pad to communicate with internet connected repeaters.
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Picked up a Baufeng UV-5R for $26 from Amazon, will upgrade equipment as I can.
I plan to move up to either a better handheld or a vehicle mounted mobile (removable for backpack use... some of those things are pretty small themselves). Eventually, a modest stack in my shack (home office, that is) with a decent antenna. Certain other members of my marriage don't want the house to look like a metal porcupine, so I may go with a modest (even camouflaged) tree dipole or a ground plane antenna.
Also, have CB hardware (ol' truck driver) for local comms with either ZS or others as needed.
Those licenses don't have a test, no fee, and can be used by the immediate family of the license holder. I would suggest that we hang on to CB as a valuable line of communication with other folks out and about, but perhaps use something like GMRS for those who don't have ham privs, and for those who'd like somewhat ham-like capabilities for their families and other local comms.
To add to that, "hybrid" radios would have the GMRS as well as FRS frequencies, opening up another bunch of channels with other folks.
...added.... ft7900r in my car now.
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I am a extra class HAM.
55 foot tower, with multiple antennas and rotor.
A note or a reminder, Check with ARRL website, Field day is 27 - 28 June and can be near you. Good time to check it out.
Particular interest: Local and long distance radio.
Equipment situation: Leixen VV-898 Backpack, Baofeng BF-F9 v2+, Baofeng UV-82, ICOM IC-T2h, & CB's in vehicles.
New to ham, but getting set-up.


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A quick Google search will give you a wide-eyed look at the highest-paid CFOs at publicly traded North American companies. CFO salaries have obviously blossomed, along with the responsibilities of this strategic finance role.
Whether you're just starting an entry-level accounting job or you're already working as a financial analyst or controller, you might consider the office of the CFO to be the destination on your career path. If you're looking to hire a CFO, you might be interested in this, too: How much money do Canadian chief financial officers expect to make, what skills and experience do they need, and what do they do in this role?
CFO salaries, like those of other accounting and finance professionals, vary by size of company, province and industry, not to mention the impact of bonuses, stock awards and dividends. The Robert Half Salary Guide for Accounting and Finance can show you pay ranges for more than 175 Canadian finance and accounting positions, including that top job.
At smaller companies, with sales less than $50 million, CFOs can expect to start between $142,750 and $188,000.
At a midsize company with sales between $100 million and $250 million, a CFO can expect a pay range from $160,000 and $218,000.
At the high end, a CFO who joins a company with sales in excess of $250 million can expect to start with a salary range between $202,000 and $312,000 in 2017.
Canadian average year-over-year increase in these salaries went from 3.0 per cent in 2016 to 3.1 per cent in 2017, indicating a strong hiring market.
Visit the Salary Centre, where you'll be able to adjust salaries for CFO jobs in your city with the Salary Calculator, and get your own copy of the Salary Guide.
The CFO is ultimately responsible for the financials of an organization, of course. But that's not all.
CFOs can't just review the numbers; they need to understand all aspects of the business, from sales and marketing goals to the overall strategic plan. From financial results and planning to operations, to risk management and funding, this demanding position encompasses an increasing range of responsibilities, expanding the influence of this role within a company.
CFOs must have a broad range of skills beyond the ABCs of accounting, including analytical, strategic planning, management and communication skills. They also need to be able to work well with the CEO, board of directors and senior managers.
They typically have at least 10 years of experience in accounting or finance, including a minimum of five years in a management job. Larger firms require more experience than smaller ones. Many companies prefer candidates who possess a master's degree in business administration (MBA) and/or a Canadian CPA designation.
CFOs should possess knowledge of all aspects of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and/or Accounting Standards for Private Enterprises (ASPE). Public companies also need CFOs who have experience with securities reporting. Many employers also value public accounting experience for CFO roles.
Candidates should have held positions of increasing responsibility within an accounting department, such as director of finance, director of accounting or controller.
Finally, it's critical for CFOs to keep up with their professional development so they can manage fast-coming changes in the industry. Whether it's regulations, analytics, business strategy, risk management, talent acquisition and retention, consensus-building, leadership, value creation or technology (and that's just a partial list), CFOs need to have the vision to position themselves at the top, where they're ready for anything.
Considering all the elements of the CFO job, from pay to skills to responsibilities, are you ready to take the next step?


Writing a fundraising appeal letter can be tricky. It's not easy to translate the passion you have for your cause into words that produce results.
I created my A.P.P.E.A.L.S. Fundraising Writing Framework with you, the busy nonprofit professional, in mind. I wish I had something like this when I set out to write my first few appeals. I could have saved time and generated more donations. But you get to skip to the head of the class!With my framework, you can write an effective appeal and save years of frustration.
At the end of this blog post, I'll give you the link to the workbook for my step-by-step writing system, template, and a sample letter. Starting today, you can write heart-tugging, donor-centric, money-raising appeals.
So, roll up your sleeves – and get ready to write perfectly appealing appeal letters that will bring you more donations, more supporters… more often.
Decide who will be your audience for your appeal. Write an authentic lead that grabs their ATTENTION and connects them to the cause.
message to each audience, your letters will be authentic because your messaging will ring true.
THE LEAD: The lead is the first part of the body of your letter. The purpose of the lead is to grab your readers' attention, guiding them to commit to reading more. Consider using a story teaser, a reminder of your readers' association to your organization, or a statement that elicits curiosity.
THE JOHNSON BOX: A Johnson Box is a brief piece of text – sometimes boxed – featured at the top of direct mail letters. Like the lead, its purpose is to entice readers to continue reading. Because of its placement, the Johnson Box is one of the first things people look at in a letter. It's prime real estate!
State a solvable PROBLEM and explain why it's urgent. Ask for the gift (1st time).
The problem you put in front of your readers must be a winnable battle… otherwise they will feel defeated even before you make your case for support. Reassure your readers that this problem can be solved with their help.
Ask for a gift. Consider framing your first "ask" by offering an opportunity to invest in saving, changing, or enriching lives. Use language that is inviting and friendly. Then, your readers need to know why they should make a gift now. Other charities are asking for money, too, so why should your request rise to the top of their giving list? What's the urgency?
Describe what the gift makes POSSIBLE.
What are the things a donation today makes possible for those whom your organization serves? The only way your readers will know if your cause aligns with their values is if you tell them exactly what their gifts will accomplish. This is not the time for a laundry list. Pick 1, 2, or 3 things their gifts will pay for.
This is your opportunity to let your readers know how their hard-earned money will solve the problem at hand.
Emphasize the benefits of the work, not just the work itself. For example, at an animal shelter, veterinary care for dogs is the work. Dogs living happy and healthy lives is the benefit. The distinction is key!
ELEVATE the consequence of ignoring the problem. Then ELEVATE the status of your readers for understanding the truth. Ask for the gift (2nd time).
Merely explaining what donors' gifts make possible is not enough. You also need to elevate the consequence of not solving the problem. Although this step is often neglected, it is critically important. You must raise awareness of the real cost of doing nothing.
Ask for the gift and be grateful. Finally, hint that a story is coming.
Share an ANECDOTE detailing the transformation of someone helped thanks to donors' gifts. Ask for the gift (3rd time).
The way to create the change you want to see is by bringing others with you on your journey. Stories are "sticky" and help us make sense of the world. Tell an anecdote to convey the transformation – detailing both the before and after states – of one person (or animal) you helped because of donors' gifts.
Telling the story of one (as opposed to many) will help readers envision making a difference, one person at a time. This provides a compelling path to donation.
LEVEL UP your offer to include a unique way to make donors feel extra special. Link your cause to your readers' values and express gratitude. Ask for the gift (4th time).
Give those who might be on the fence of indecision a friendly nudge to help them level up!
By sweetening the deal – by appealing to your readers' extrinsic motivation – by providing your version of "but wait, there's more!" For example, offer a bonus for donating: a membership card, an invitation to a private social media group, a discount on an upcoming event, or a piece of exclusive content. The bonus need not cost you a dime, but it must have value for your readers.
You have already helped your readers to become emotionally and morally ready to donate. Your level-up should help them to become intellectually prepared as well. It should make a strong closing argument to their rational side — the final piece of the psychological puzzle. They have been flirting with YES. Give them one more reason to embrace her.
Think about it: Are donors better off after they donate to your organization?
As you strive to make your donors truly satisfied with their decision to give, think about how each donation will contribute to the donor's well-being.
The goal is to offer donors ways to connect more deeply with you and the people their gifts help. Leveling up will help facilitate strong, lasting connections.
In the P.S., summarize the giving opportunity. Ask for the gift (5th time), provide the steps for making an immediate donation, and emphasize what their money will accomplish.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Professor Siegfried Vögele studied how people interact with letters they receive in the mail.Prof. Vögele found that the P.S. is one of the first parts readers glance at before deciding whether to spend any more time looking at an appeal message. So, don't let this space go to waste.
Tell the readers how to make a gift.
Highlight an intriguing benefit of what their donation will do.
Use this resource as a fill-in-the-blanks template or a guide to inspire you to craft any appeal letter your organization needs. Each step of the framework has an example that reinforces my teaching. In the end, I put all the pieces together for a complete sample appeal letter.
May all your future appeal letters bring you more donations, more supporters, more often.


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Gold Price Trades to Fresh Record High Amid Extreme RSI Reading
2020-07-27 05:00:00 David Song, Strategist
Gold Price Talking Points
Gold trades to a fresh record high ($1945) ahead of the Federal Reserve interest rate decision on July 29, and the price for bullion may continue to carve a series of higher highs and lows as the Relative Strength Index (RSI) pushes deeper into overbought territory.
The price of goldhas traded to fresh yearly highs during every single month so far in 2020, and the extreme reading in the RSI is likely to be accompanied by higher gold prices amid the behavior seen in February.
In turn, the bullish price action may carry into August as long as the RSI holds above 70, and current market conditions may keep gold prices afloat as the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)vows to "increase its holdings of Treasury securities and agency MBS (Mortgage-Backed Security) and agency CMBS (Commercial Mortgage-Backed Security) at least at the current pace."
Source: FOMC
Looking ahead, the Fed's balance sheet looks poised to cross back above $7 trillion as it expands for the second consecutive week, and more of the same from Chairman Jerome Powell and Co. may heighten the appeal of gold as the committee remains "committed to using our full range of tools to support the economy in this challenging time."
With that said, it seems as though the FOMC will rely on its lending facilities as well as its asset purchases to support the US economy, and the threat of a double-dip recession may push the central bank to expand the size and scope of its quantitative easing (QE) programs as Fed officials show little interest adopting a yield caps or targets (YCT) policy.
Until then, it remains to be seen if the crowding behavior in the US Dollar will also carry into August as the IG Client Sentiment reportcontinues to show retail traders net-long USD/CHF, USD/CAD and USDJPY, while the crowd remains net-short NZD/USD, AUD/USD, GBP/USD and EUR/USD.
The net-long US Dollar exposure persists even though theDXY index continues to track the downward trend from the March high (102.99), and the low interest rate environment along with the ballooning central bank balance sheets may continue to act as a backstop for the price of gold as market participants look for an alternative to fiat-currencies.
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The technical outlook for the price of gold remains constructive as it trades to fresh yearly highs during every single month so far in 2020, with the bullish behavior also taking shape in July as precious metal tags a new 2020 high ($1898).
The price of gold cleared the 2012 high ($1796) as the Relative Strength Index (RSI) established an upward trend in June, with the recent strength in the price of gold pushing the indicator into overbought territory for the third time this year even though it snapped the upward trend carried over from the previous month.
The extreme reading in the RSI is likely to be accompanied by higher gold prices amid the price action seen in February, and the bullish behavior may persist as long as the indicator holds above 70.
As a result, topside targets remain on the radar as the price of gold clears the previous record high price recorded in September 2011 ($1921), but need a close above the Fibonacci overlap around $1907 (78.6% expansion) to $1920 (161.8% expansion) to bring the $1971 (100% expansion) to $1985 (261.8% expansion) region on the radar.
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Methow Headwaters protection from mining included in federal legislation
July 11, 2017 by Methow Valley News
Photo by Benjamin Drummond
The Methow Headwaters Campaign hosted a music festival on Sunday at the John Doran ranch near Twisp.
By Ann McCreary
Federal legislation aimed at protecting more than 340,000 acres in the upper Methow Valley has been included as part of a larger bill called the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Act of 2017.
The Energy and Natural Resources Act, introduced last week by Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, includes a proposal to withdraw the U.S. Forest Service land at the headwaters of the Methow River from future mining exploration or mineral extraction.
Cantwell and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Washington, introduced a bill in Congress called the Methow Headwaters Protection Act in 2016 and again this year. The measure passed out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in March. The language calling for the mineral withdrawal is now included in the larger Energy and Natural Resources Act.
If approved by Congress and not vetoed by the president, the mineral withdrawal legislation would make 340,047 acres of land in the upper Methow Valley permanently off-limits to future mining activities.
"It's another step along the way and we're pleased. It's good to have it in play," said Maggie Coon, a leader of the Methow Headwaters Campaign, a local organization formed last year to protect the land from mining.
The campaign to protect the land was launched in response to plans by a Canadian company to conduct exploratory drilling to assess copper deposits on Flagg Mountain near Mazama. The proposed drilling raised concerns about the possibility of future industrial scale mining in the scenic upper valley, and the campaign has drawn support from local residents, business owners, elected officials and tribal members.
In addition to seeking protection through legislation, the campaign has also lobbied for an alternative approach, which would withdraw the land from mining activities through federal agency action.
The federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has initiated the first step in that process, called "segregation," which is a two-year period during which the Forest Service and Department of Interior evaluate whether to extend the withdrawal period for up to 20 years.
A 90-day comment period on the proposed withdrawal began at the end of December 2016 and ended on March 30. However, a required public meeting during the comment period was never held, so a new public comment period and public meeting is expected to be scheduled, according to the BLM.
A spokesman for the BLM said in late April that the federal agencies were working to set a date for the new comment period and for a public meeting, which would be held in the Methow Valley. No date had been announced as of this week.
"We're in conversation with the agencies about the public meeting," Coon said. "We're hoping that will occur in the near future."
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The conference began with introductions by Ministers of Culture from Iceland and other countries.
Svein Spjelkavik from Norway received an award from the Icelandic government for his work on the 10 year Creative Communities collaboration between Iceland and the EU. Signý Ormarsdóttir, the Cultural Manager of East Iceland received a similar award from the Norwegian government.
The conference was unusual, and fantastic as a model, because it didn't follow typical conference models. There were talks and powerpoint presentations, but there were many locations and many opportunities to visit, to discuss, and to be inspired.
What I learned: Quality over quantity. Always consider the triple bottom line: Planet, People, Profit. Is what I am doing okay for all three pillars? Is it worth it on all three levels? (based on UN model of sustainability) Susan-Design is a good model of problem solving with design.
What I learned: Develop strategies for development projects, consider these pillars: Work across sector boundries, cooperate with the non-profit sector, disseminate regional cultural history, prioritize creative activities for children, cooperate internationally, use metaphors in developing strategies. Tilbakestrøm (Youth Reflux) is a good example of a project to keep connected with youth that leave the area. Develop database, keep in touch with phone calls from officials, provide travel grants for youth to return and perform or exhibit.
What I should try: Company concerts – at business locations for employees during the work day. Consider large manufacturing facilities, concerts by music students. Nice connection with community.
What I learned: The Arts & Crafts Association of Bornholm is a good example of a well orchestrated artists cooperative where the creative process is in focus.
Lunch was locally produced. The ginger & carrot soup was delicious. It did seem a bit strange to eat reindeer, but Rudolph was yummy.
The afternoon had a session about how Make by Þorpið came about, then a hands on presentation of projects Make has completed.
A bus took us to the magical village of Seyðisfjörður for an afternoon visiting studios, galleries, education facilities and a brand new experimental sound studio.
Three artists run the co-op RoShamBo.
On Wednesday, designer Max Lamb gave an inspiring keynote: Learning by Doing. It was a fantastic reminder to just make something. Stop thinking and do it.
What I learned: Make It Happen!
There is tremendous energy in the creative communities here. We visited a former fish factory in Stöðvarfjörður that artists have turned into a home, community center and massive studio spaces: HERE Creative Center. They make work with materials left in the building.
Rósa Valtingojer and Zdenek Patak showed us the massive transformation they have done to the former fish factory. Their dedication is inspiring.
What I learned: Anything is possible. Dream Big.
Lighting created with used plastic bottles.
My colleague Megan Urban (right) with Rósa of HERE Creative Center.
What I learned: William Morris (1834-1896) used haymaking as a metaphor for community collaboration.
Merilyn Keskula (EE), Experience Curator and Founder of ÖÖ: Was it a Dream?
This place has quaintness out the wazoo.
What feelings do visitors feel?
What memories do we want to give them?
On the final day of the conference, Daniel Byström led us through a workshop titled: Make It Happen: How can we together develop our region.
Daniel's presentation the day before gave me the inspiration for a community driven piece that I look forward to facilitating soon. It is based on a process of using metaphor to develop a platform for disucssion.
I loved my cozy stay at Gistihúsið Egilsstöðum.


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Trump's Round Table Meeting About Vaping Regulations
During a heated vaping debate which took place last week at the White House, President Donald Trump confirmed that his administration will be raising the legal age to purchase e-cigarettes to 21, instead of pursuing a flavour ban.
Last week, public-health experts, vaping executives and lawmakers were convened by Trump, in order to discuss the issue of teen vaping and the right approach in terms of regulations, in order to prevent it.
"If you don't give it to 'em, it's going to come here illegally. Instead of Reynolds or Juul or legitimate companies…they're going to be selling stuff on the street corner that could be horrible."President Donald Trump
Back in September, the Trump administration had announced that plans to ban flavoured vaping products were underway. Subsequently, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, confirmed the plans last month, when in response to an announcement by Juul that it would stop selling the flavoured products, he said that this move would not affect the administration's plans in anyway. "We want anything that's attractive to kids to not be available for kids," he said, "It doesn't stop what the president and I are working on."
According to sources familiar with the plan, an announcement was expected at the beginning of this month, and the ban was meant to apply to all flavours with the exception of tobacco and menthol flavours. However, a tweet by Trump had instead announced this meeting.
"Will be meeting with representatives of the Vaping industry, together with medical professionals and individual state representatives, to come up with an acceptable solution to the Vaping and E-cigarette dilemma. Children's health & safety, together with jobs, will be a focus!" said Trump a couple of weeks ago.
The attendees of the meeting included; Utah Senator Mitt Romney, Juul CEO K.C. Crosthwaite, Altria CEO Howard Willard, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids President Matt Myers, American Academy of Pediatrics President-Elect Sally Goza and Tony Abboud, executive director of the trade group Vapor Technology Association (VTA).
The flavour ban that never was
"Twenty-one we're going to be doing,"President Donald Trump
Among the vaping regulations discussed, the most argued for and against was certainly the much disputed flavour ban. A number of medical entities at the meeting would be in favour of such a ban. "All of the public-health and medical organizations were united on this request," American Lung Association CEO Harold Wimmer. "We are certainly hoping that [Trump] will listen to the public-health and medical organizations."
However, in line with previous arguments with numerous public health experts, Trump pointed out that a flavour ban could push teens to purchase products from the black market. "If you don't give it to 'em, it's going to come here illegally," he said. "Instead of Reynolds or Juul or legitimate companies…they're going to be selling stuff on the street corner that could be horrible." Trump did not give a definitive answer as to whether the idea of such a ban has been dismissed. "We're going to be announcing [the administration's decision] very soon."
When the Vapor Technology Association (VTA) raised the topic of increasing the legal age to purchase the products, Trump said that his administration had already decided to do so. "Twenty-one we're going to be doing," he said.
VTANZ: Kiwi Government should take note
Across the ocean in New Zealand, spokesperson for the Vaping Trade Association of New Zealand (VTANZ), Ben Pryor, spoke about the debate, pointing out that the Kiwi government should take note of what was said. "Our Government needs to take note of an hour-long exchange inside the White House yesterday where concerns were raised about banning vape flavours leading to more dodgy counterfeit products," he said.
"Banning vape flavours would deliver some horrible outcomes in New Zealand as well, namely a black market. So we're encouraging our MPs to just stop and think when they come to decide our vaping rules and regulations," added Pryor.
New Zealand's Associate Health Minister Jenny Salesa is set to introduce the Smoke-free Environments (Vaping) Amendment Bill into Parliament soon, and has already indicated that most flavours will be banned.
Fellow VTANZ spokesperson, Jonathan Devery, pointed out that vaping has played a pivotal role in the 2018 Census data and recent A C Neilsen retail statistics, indicating that local smoking rates and cigarette sales are at record low levels. "We are all for high safety standards, R18 sales being strictly enforced, and totally against youth marketing. However, if the Government wants to keep driving down smoking rates, making vaping less attractive to adult smokers will simply have the reverse effect," said Devery.
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"The Syrian Christ" by Abraham Mertie Rihbany (Book Review)
Posted by: adonis49 on: March 13, 2009
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The Syrian Christ (Book Review, March 12, 2009)
In 1916, Abraham Mertie Rihbany published "The Syrian Christ"; eleven editions have so far been printed. This manuscript was a compendium of articles submitted to the Atlantic Monthly from 1914 to 1916. Rihbany wrote: "When I read the Bible, I have the distinct impression that I am reading a fresh letter arriving from my parents and relatives in Lebanon".
Abraham Rihbany undertook to explain to the western Christians the customs and traditions of the civilization in the Levant (Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria) that are almost unchanged since Christ and an exhaustive explanation of the written and verbal style of the Bible.
The target audience is the American Christian (mostly among the Protestant sects) who tends to accept every word in the Bible integrally without much openness, analysis, or comprehension of the customs and traditions of the Levant that are described in the Bible. The purpose is to describe the environment and daily life in which Jesus lived, grew up, roamed, was nurtured, and the language (Aramaic), the maxims, the aphorisms of "The Sacred Land" that Jesus spoke.
It was the author's premise that assimilating the Syrian customs and traditions allows the western Christians to comprehend the verbal imageries of the Bible and appreciate their real values and how the multitudes of stories start to make sense.
The verbal and written style in the Levant is characterized by direct pronouncements expressing feeling and describing what is seen and heard. The sentences are not encumbered by prefixes such as "I think", "I believe", "I am not sure", "It is possible", "There might be other versions", "I might be wrong", "It is my opinion", or what the western writers have adopted from the Greek rational style.
The written style in the Levant sounds of utter confidence, categorical, and conveying the total truth, though it does not mean that the people cannot discriminate or feel the variations and uncertainties. The writers in the Levant simply feel that all these attachments are redundant since it is a fact of life that nothing is categorical or certain. Thus, superfluous additions disturb the flow of thoughts and the ideas that need to be conveyed. Rihbany feels that the western readers of the Bible should tone down their uneasiness with "outrageous" direct pronouncements and sentences in the Bible.
The manuscript is of six chapters in 187 pages. The first chapter is about Jesus the Syrian man, his birth, the star, obedience to parents, holyday and Eucharist. The second chapter is on the Levant verbal style, the daily parlance, the curses, love of the enemy, "the untruthful eastern person", impression when challenged by professionalism, speaking in maxim and aphorism, and swearing. Chapter three is on bread and salt, the sacred food, "our daily bread", "forcing invitation to eat", "retarding a leaving guest", and family reunions. Chapter four is on boarding and sleeping overnight, the "souk", the rooftop of the house, the grapevine and garden, and the shepherd. Chapter five is on the sisters of Marie and Martha, women in the Levant, Saint Paul and women, Jesus and his mother, and "a gentle woman". Chapter six is called "here and there" in the Bible.
You will realize that the custom was, especially for widows, to be persistent in their demands, sit by the judge feet and keep urging him until the judge relents and gives in. The custom was for a traveler to stop at the main Carrefour of a town and wait for the first passerby to invite him to stay the night and be fed; if the wait was prolonged then the town would be blemished of infamy for centuries. The custom was to refrain from sharing "bread and salt" until the conversation settle all the differences and the parties are satisfied that they are friends and loyal.
You will learn that visiting a shrine of a Saint was targeting a specific demand; the mother or the family would sleep overnight and sometimes for many days until the Saint or his "ghost" shows up to deliver the good message. The author explains the external form of patriarchal attitude and the internal customs within a family; the custom of keeping doors open until the time to go to bed.
People in the Levant know the cause and effects of phenomenon but they also believe that if God wishes then the effects will not take place no matter what. This is a far cry of the western mind that insists that God has nothing to do with errors or failures and some other supplementary causes have to be investigated when the appropriate effects do not materialize.
(All these customs and traditions of the Land in the Levant were practiced thousands of years before Judaism came to be. The Jewish religion adopted the customs of the land and wrote in the same style of imagery, maxims, and aphorism. The original manuscripts describe accurately the culture of the land and in the same style even though a few wrote4 in Greek, the language of the highly literate of the period. The writers of the Bible and the New Testaments were people of the land and spoke in the language of the land. Thus, it would be beneficial to be cognizant of the culture and civilization of the land in order to fully appreciate Christianism and the teaching of Jesus. The Bible is a wonderful source for learning the customs of the Land if read to that purpose)
Note 1: I read the Arabic translation by Ussama Ajaj Al Mohtar ISBN: 9953-417-05-9. When I get hold of the original English version then I might have another go for a thorough detailed review.
Note 2: The author Abraham Metrie Rihbany was born in 1869 in the village of Chouwir in Lebanon, one of 11 kids. He integrated a Protestant school in Souk al Gharb in 1886 and was appointed to teach the elementary classes for 3 years in order to cover the expenses. He immigrated to the USA in 1891 and contributed in editing the first Arab daily in the USA "Kawkab al Shark" (The Eastern Planet). Rihbany ventured into a new job of talking in churches in the evening about the "Sacred Land" for contributions. He was selected to represent the Syrian associations in the USA to the Peace Conference held in Paris in 1919. Abraham Rihbany met with the delegates and King Fayssal for 4 months and published a book on that event "Wise Men from the East and from the West" in 1922.
In 1918, Rihbany published "America Save the Near East" urging the USA to deny France and Britain any mandate status over the States in the Levant and warned on the organized Zionist movement to settling in Palestine. Rihbany published eight books in total among them "Militant America and Jesus Christ" in 1917 and an autobiography "A Far Journey" in 1913 after he visited Lebanon with his wife in 1898. Rihbany died in 1944; he was 75 of age.
Note 3: Tourists to the Levant, visiting the urban centers, might not recognize the basic characteristics shared by the population. Whatever differences seen by tourists are at best skin deep. The behaviors of the urban citizens are basically the same as in the villages regardless of the verbal proclamations and intentions expressed to the contrary. , March 12, 2009)
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Late Maitre Phares Zogby and I: From Nada Corban Akl "Biographical Breezes"
A few of Spinoza teaching on how to view your God and to behave in life and to stop blaming a God on your unhappiness
An example of how unrest among religious sects are generated to occupy lands for Real Estates promoters: Beirut 1905
Extolling the killers (Israeli soldiers) of Palestinian children? More than 2,000 Palestinian children in 20 years were executed. And all of them, down to the last, were found guilty of their own death.
Facts are Not the Reality? These two notions/concepts are highly correlated, but to discriminate among Facts, pseudo-facts, Faked facts… require high general knowledge.
No other possibility to instituting a State: Unless the tough thread of the meddling and sharing of religious sects in State affairs are cut off.
Myths always overrun basic common sense intelligence. What Is this "Abraham myth story"? And this USA/Saudi Wahhabi Kingdom of a "United Abraham alliance?
Isn't too early to look in the future before clearing our mind from the successive varieties of Covid pandemics?
They tell us "You cannot add/mix apples and oranges". Then why scientists use equations that mix apples and oranges, and we fail to question these manipulations?
Did you ask for Covid Cribsheet? 30 facts you NEED to know from a collection of all the arguments you'll ever need.
I have a patent for creating HIV/AIDS Virus: Dr. Robert Gallo
Simon Bolivar (1783-1830): "Slavery is the worst human indignity". Biography
Policemen, Tunisia, rape, girl on trial for indecent exposure...
"Gocho"? ¿Qué es un "Gocho"? Pair of Balls? Any relation to Venezuela's Maduro?
How many have I seen so far? Top attractions in Lebanon
Adolph Hitler didn't commit suicide? Lived in Argentine till the age of 73?
In Picture, Syria in Ruin? Who is pleased by a country in ruin?
Not lost anymore: Vanessa Redgrave film of 1977 "The Palestinian"
To Save a Child: An impure child, a mingi, in pictures? The Omo Valley in Ethiopia
The father was a ruthless terrorist: Should the son Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel bear this heavy weight?
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Nonbinary linguistic practices in Russian and Czech
The project investigates how non-binary individuals construct their identities by linguistic means and which resources are employed to represent these people in the gendered languages of Russian and Czech. In some regard, this study pursues a novel approach by combining modern socio-scientific and poststructuralist perspectives on non-binary identities with the well-established tools of classical structurally oriented linguistic research.
Gender, among other socio-demographic categories such as ethnicity, social class and age, has often been linked to speakers' (un)awareness towards linguistic variation. However, regarding gender as a fixed identity of people has attracted criticism (see Romaine 2003; Ehrlich 2004; Cameron 2007). In addition, several studies have shown that several factors mediate the relation between gender and language use (Nichols 1986; Cheshire 1987, 1999; Eckert 1989, 2000). Therefore, not only can social categories affect language, but language can also influence cognitive processes, an assumption based on Whorf's principle of linguistic relativity (Whorf 1956). Since social categories are by their very nature socially constructed, this means that language also has at least an indirect influence on the construal of gender as a social dimension.
If language is not understood as a way of representation but as a means of construction (Hornscheidt 2006: 3), it can be assumed that linguistic variation does not only arise through the independent variable of gender, but that conversely a purposeful linguistic output helps to shape the social demographic category of gender in a certain way. Gender is typically understood as a dichotomous variable, but people who identify as non-binary demonstrate that gender represents more than two disjoint options. "[G]enderqueer or non-binary people are simply people who are not male or female [...]. In general, non-binary or genderqueer refers to people's identity, rather than physicality at birth" (Richards et al. 2017: 5).
Against the background of the relationship between language and gender on the one hand, and the view of the social category of gender as a continuous variable on the other, the question arises which kind of linguistic variation can be found in the language use of people who identify as non-binary. Drawing on the classical sociolinguistic tradition, it is important to explore which variation occurs due to gender. Meanwhile, taking on a sociopragmatic stance, it is necessary to explore how variation is used to construct one's own non-binary gender identity. Gender identity is one of a person's multiple identities, with identity being "a state or process of relationship between self and other; identity is how individuals define, create, or think of themselves in terms of their relationships with other individuals and groups, [emphasis in original] whether these others are real or imagined" (Kiesling 2013: 448).
In the Slavic languages, grammatical gender as well as social gender are intertwined, for instance as gender assignment is driven semantically when it comes to persons. This is also reflected in the languages' rich morphology, where the social category of gender is encoded in linguistic information in many ways. Conversely, morphology may equally point to social gender, a phenomenon Silverstein (2003) has dubbed referential indexicality or indexical order. Because of the indexicality of linguistic elements, referring obligatorily to either 'femininity' or 'masculinity' when used for humans, a simple question can be raised: How do non-binary people speak about themselves, how can they be addressed, and how can one talk about them, without misgendering, that is without aligning themselves or them, respectively, to the incorrect group or gender index?
The following sentences exemplify, (a) where gendering occurs and (b) how linguistic alternatives can be used to construct a non-binary identity:
Example (1) demonstrates that an impersonal construction is used to replace the gendered l-participle (although this slightly alters the original meaning), while in (2) a new gender-neutral pronoun and an innovative l-participle is used, and the adjective is replaced by a synonym that does not indicate social gender. Hence, sentence (b), respectively, illustrates where gender-related variation may occur.
As a working hypothesis I posit that whenever linguistic features index the speaker's social gender in a given language's standard variety, variation occurs in the speech of a non-binary individual. However, this assumption is subject to the person's desire to express their non-binary gender identity. I expect to find gender-related variation on the structural as well as on the interactional level, with both layers being used to make social meaning. Hence, to document, describe and explain non-binary individuals' language use and the variants of their gender realization, both in interactional stances (micro) as well as in relation to the socioeconomic hierarchy including a fixed language system (macro), I adopt a sociopragmatic variational approach. A methodological asset of this study is the interdisciplinary combination of different qualitative and quantitative methods of the language and the social sciences, such as virtual ethnography, corpora, in-depth interviews, and surveys.
Cameron, Deborah. 2007. The Myth of Mars and Venus. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cheshire, Jenny. 1987. "Syntactic variation, the linguistic variable, and sociolinguistic theory". Linguistics 25: 257–282.
Cheshire, Jenny. 1999. "Taming the vernacular: some repercussions for the study of syntactic variation and spoken grammar". Cuadernos de Filología Inglesa 8: 59–80.
Eckert, Penelope. 1989. Jocks and Burnouts. Social Categories and Identity in the High School. New York: Teachers College Press.
Eckert, Penelope. 2000. Linguistic Variation as Social Practice. Oxford: Blackwell.
Ehrlich, Susan. 2001. Representing Rape: Language and Sexual Consent. New York: Psychology Press.
Hornscheidt, Antje. 2006. Die sprachliche Benennung von Personen aus konstruktivistischer Sicht. Genderspezifizierung und ihre diskursive Verhandlung im heutigen Schwedisch. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter.
Kiesling, Scott F. 2013. "Constructing Identity". In The Handbook of Language Variation and Change, edited by J.K. Chambers and Natalie Schilling-Estes, 448-468. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell.
Matuštík*ová, Katka. 2020. "Jak psát česky o nebinárních lidech?" [How to write about non-binary people in Czech?] <www.h7o.cz/jak-psat-cesky-o-nebinarnich-lidech/>. Accessed November 15, 2020.
Morosova, Ksenija. 2019. "Ne «М» и ne «Ž»: kak živёt čelovek s nebinarnoj gendernoj identičnost'ju." [Neither "M" nor "F": How a person lives with a non-binary identity] <http://www.sobaka.ru/city/society/84200>. Accessed October 17, 2019.
Nichols, Patricia C. 1986. "Women in their speech communities". In Women and Language in Literature and Society, edited by Sally McConnell-Ginet, Ruth Borker, and Nelly Forman, 140–149. New York: Praeger.
Richards, Christina, Walter Pierre Bouman and Meg-John Barker, eds. 2017. Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders. London.
Romaine, Suzanne. 2003. "Variation in language and gender". In The Handbook of Language and Gender, edited by Janet Holmes and Miriam Meyerhoff, 98–118. Oxford: Blackwell.
Silverstein, Michael. 2003. "Indexical order and the dialectics of sociolinguistic life". Language and Communication 23 (3): 193-229.
Whorf, Benjamin Lee. 1956. Language, Thought, and Reality. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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In this episode we discuss not only the rise of the occult in society in general but also the outward manifestation of the infestation of occult persons and accoutrements by official actors at the top of the Roman Hierarchy's power structure. No longer is the occult a hidden secret in the Vatican: for those with eyes to see it's coming out of the closet and is on full display.
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John Hildebidle, a dear friend from my poetry life, wrote to ask, "What about the butterfly?"
Sheryl Erickson and Martin Fuchs gave me the butterfly, which is a kite, at the beginning of their daughter Sophie's time with me.
It felt like an apt emblem for everything parents gave, year after year, to the life of the class:
the gossamer but tough, often hard-won strength of parents' faith in our mission and methods;
the powerful, buoyant, transforming lift given by parents' contributions of time, patience, shared skills and new ideas;
the brightness of parents' joy whenever students shared their learning– enthusiasm not just for their own child's efforts but for every child's.
That last one seemed especially apt. In classes before mine, Sheryl had put lots of volunteer energy into exactly that, to strengthen parents' care for each others' children.
I hung the butterfly high on the classroom wall, and waited to see what else it would mean for us.
For some students, the butterfly was above all a rich collection of colors. During morning sketching, over the years, many students chose to draw the butterfly, reproducing all its shades and shadings with our markers or colored pencils, as faithfully as they could. In this way the butterfly multiplied and flew away, onto shelves and into closets, but also into hearts–the way things can, even when they seem to disappear.
Meanwhile, gradually, privately, the butterfly became a reminder for me, to try to be fierce in moderation, as wacky as that may sound. I had had teachers myself who cared enormously about their subjects or their students or all of it, as I did. I knew that to venture into a classroom with the passion I brought inevitably carried some risks. Day after day, I looked at the butterfly and told myself to breathe, to ask questions and listen, to have faith in the fullness of time. To try, as much as I could and when I could, for a light touch. Of course, I often had to forgive myself and start over, every day, as all of us must.
None of that was what I wrote back to John, because ultimately all of that combined with something more, and the butterfly became, in the words of my email to him, "a sort of guiding spirit for the classroom, encouragement to use whatever freedom we had, to be vivid and colorful."
The life of a progressive school is full of determination to do the right thing, to "make meaningful things happen," as one past head of Touchstone School, Steve Dannenberg, used to say. Teachers and staff, parents and grandparents, all carry a profound sense of responsibility: to students, to the spirit of learning, to the truth of the world. None of that intends to be grim–or fierce–but it can become so, as the things most important to us can.
Early in my teaching career, I explained to a friend that I felt weighed down by the incredible opportunity, the freedom, to teach exactly the way I believed. If I could do that, I had to do that, and I was getting very little sleep in the effort, straining too hard.
I can't say that ever completely changed. Still, here's what I've learned about freedom: We never have as much freedom as we want, for pursuing what matters to us–and yet we never actually use all the freedom we have. But there's also this: the more earnestly we try to inhabit our freedom, the more we become like butterflies whose wings have grown too heavy.
So the butterfly kite is flying high on the virtual wall of my blog, to remind me that yes, I want to be true to many important things; yes, I want to make meaningful things happen, in what I explore and write about in this "year to think it over." But I want to do that with the wind in my sails, with the wonderful colors of classroom life in my heart, with a grin and a whistle when that's called for. With joy.
As for the artist's model with her arms spread wide, gesturing: it's possible that you just had to be there.
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2 thoughts on "The butterfly"
Sara Sawyer Smith on September 11, 2013 at 9:58 am said:
Exceptional wisdom there for a lot more than teaching, and I love the words you use to describe that truth. For me, the struggle is at the other end of the age spectrum, working with dying people. It can be so tempting in that work to expect to dwell always in the depths, helping people face death, uncovering deep meaning and healing in transformative moments. But often the work of the day lies in that light touch you describe: in my case, simple time spent, and small kindnesses, and creating — not filling — space. It's important for me to be open to what the time can hold, to be willing to go where each moment leads, without weighing it down with too much earnest expectation of Significance. I guess a teacher given the opportunity to focus on deeper learning has exactly the same temptation: to embrace the liberating permisssion to go deep so earnestly that the beauty and grace of the simple everyday is missed.
Linda on September 20, 2013 at 4:54 pm said:
Like you I often have to forgive myself for not using a light touch. It is a responsibility, to teach our young people to find their way in the world , yet be true to your own passions and truths. I agree it can be grim, but what we all hope for is to give our students gossamer wings


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