Small business lending has been strong in 2017 and recent figures indicate that the trend will continue in the coming year. A strong economy during President Trump's first year in the Oval Office, combined with less restrictive regulation of the banking industry, and rising interest rates, have created an atmosphere ripe for small business lending.
Higher interest rates are a primary reason. The Federal Reserve has increased rates four times since December 2015 and is expected to do so again at the December policy meeting this week. During the credit crunch spurred by the Great Recession, the central bank lowered interest rates to near zero, and borrowers enjoyed interest rates in the low single digits for almost an entire decade. However, in the past two years, rates have begun to creep up.
Janet Yellen's departure comes next year as the Federal Reserve Chair in February. The man that President Trump has named to be her successor, Jerome H. Powell, is unlikely to reverse this trend of higher interest rates. The economy has performed well, domestic unemployment rates are low, and many economies across the globe have stabilized after the rough times of recession.
Higher interest rates for the banks mean that it becomes more profitable for them to lend to small business borrowers. We have seen this by tracking small business loans each month via the Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index™, which tracks loan approval rates among banks, institutional investors, credit unions and alternative (non-bank) lenders. In November 2017, approval rates for lenders in every category rose – a rare feat. Approval rates for big banks – institutions with more than $10 billion in assets – approved 25.1 percent of applications and institutional lenders granted 64.1 percent of requests. Both figures represent new high marks for the study.
Secondly, regulation of the banking industry is subsiding under President Trump. As a candidate, he promised to lighten financial regulations. Within a year, he signed a Congressional resolution allowing banks to block customers from filing class action lawsuits. Back in June, the Treasury proposed changes of some regulations on the banking industry, including the restrictions on trading operations by big banks, easing of annual "stress tests", and reducing the power of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), a watchdog over the financial industry.
Banks both large and small are more likely to lend under the current atmosphere. Recently, the Small Business Administration (SBA) changed its equity requirements for Commercial Real Estate loans. Borrowers are now required to put less money upfront in the form of equity investment when they apply for commercial real estate funding. This encourages expansion by business owners and lending by banks.
Thirdly, the Trump tax cut plan has sparked optimism among business owners. The pro-business climate in Washington has proven helpful. With the economy performing well on a number of different levels, borrowers are more confident in their abilities to grow their businesses and to be able to pay the money back.
Approval percentages at small banks inched up to 49 percent in November, up from 48.9 mark in October, inching ever closer to the 50 percent mark. Regional and community banks process a large volume of SBA-backed loans, and according to recent figures released by the agency, the current fiscal year has already seen a record amount of SBA lending. This is particularly good news for startups and young companies that may not yet have a strong credit history. It is certainly less challenging now to secure funding than it was just a few years after the post-recession credit crunch.
Loan approval rates among alternative lenders rose after more than a year of consecutive declines in approval percentages. Alternative lenders granted a percent 56.9 percent in November, a slight increase over October's 56.8 percent.
Even companies with bad credit histories are currently feeling confident in borrowing. Alternative lenders are taking on more risk because the higher quality borrowers are approaching traditional banks and institutional lenders. The solid economy makes consumers willing to spend and results in business optimism – especially for companies looking to expand.
Loan approval rates at credit unions also turned around, as they approved 40.3 percent of loan applications in November, up a tenth of a percent from October's record low point for the category. For a long time, there was a lot of pent up demand for small business credit in the marketplace. During the past 12 months, cash has been flowing to business owners, which is good news for both borrowers and for lenders.
With consumer confidence and small business owner optimism high, a pro-business president and a generation of young college graduates who have grown up watching Shark Tank, entrepreneurship is alive and well. I predict that small business lending will continue to thrive in 2018 as young people eschew climbing the company ladder and instead taking risks and going on their own.


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Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts: Transforming Visions of the American West
Jules David Prown, Nancy K. Anderson, William Cronon
A common theme of western American art—from the depictions of Indians by early explorers to the monumental landscapes of Albert Bierstadt to the vibrant images of Georgia O'Keeffe—is the transformation of the land through European-American exploration and resettlement. In this book, leading authorities look at western American art of the past three centuries, reevaluating it from the perspectives of history, art history, and American studies.
Jules David Prown begins the book by discussing the need for interdisciplinary approaches to broaden the study of western American art. Nancy K. Anderson then calls for a reconsideration of western art as art rather than documentation and for the adoption of new methods to probe its aesthetic, historical, political, and cultural complexities. William Cronon explores what an environmental historian might learn from American landscape art, concluding that each image must be read as a multilayered view intertwining past, present, and future within a larger context of progress and expansionism. Examining representations of American Indians, Brian W. Dippie finds that early works pictured them caught in a process of dramatic change while later artists showed them frozen outside of time: when the frontier ended, western art made nostalgia its defining characteristic. Martha A. Sandweiss argues that the ways in which views of the American west and its peoples reached nineteenth-century audiences—through large-edition prints, book illustrations, or theatrical exhibitions—significantly affected both the images and the meanings attached to them. Susan Prendergast Schoelwer challenges popular perceptions of the frontier as a womanless domain, discovering abundant pictures of Native American women in the art of the western fur trade. Howard R. Lamar concludes by discussing the changing perceptions of western artists and inhabitants of their region's landscape in the twentieth century.
Print publication date May 1992 (out of print)
Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth (Editor), Elizabeth M. Rudy (Editor)
This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, on view at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from January 21 through May 7, 2017.
The Drawings of Josef Albers
Nicholas Fox Weber
Shortly after Josef Albers's death in 1976, a scarcely known and surprising segment of his work was discovered: the representational drawings he made before going to the Bauhaus in 1920. These early works—self-portraits, portraits of friends and relatives, views of houses and public buildings in his native Westphalia, sketches of animals, travel scenes, nudes, caricatures of his students—reveal a playful and informal side of Albers's character, as well as the root of his fascination with the interplay of two- and three-dimensional space. Presented in conjunction with some of his later abstract drawings, which are characterized by the familiar geometry of his work from the Bauhaus on, they round out our sense of the complex but consistent themes that shaped his evolution as a pioneer painter, teacher, and color theorist.
Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting: Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution
Wayne Franits
The appealing genre paintings of great seventeenth-century Dutch artists—Vermeer, Steen, de Hooch, Dou, and others—have long enjoyed tremendous popularity. This comprehensive book explores the evolution of genre painting throughout the Dutch Golden Age, beginning in the early 1600s and continuing through the opening years of the next century. Wayne Franits, a well-known scholar of Dutch genre painting, offers a wealth of information about these works as well as about seventeenth-century Dutch culture, its predilections, and its prejudices.
The author approaches genre paintings from a variety of perspectives, examining their reception among contemporary audiences and setting the works in political, cultural, and economic context. The works emerge as distinctly conventional images, Franits shows, as genre artists continually replicated specific styles, motifs, and a surprisingly restricted number of themes over the course of several generations. With a full representation of major artists and cities where genre painting flourished, this book is of great importance to students and scholars, as well as the general museum visitor.
Copyright© 2004 by Wayne Franits
Early Chinese Jades in the Harvard Art Museums
Jenny F. So
From personal ornamentation to funerary practice, from palace decoration to private devotion, jade has played a major role in Chinese social, cultural, and political life for millennia. Exploring the history of this revered stone through the esteemed Grenville L. Winthrop Collection at the Harvard Art Museums—which includes some of the finest examples of ancient and archaizing jades outside China—this volume explains how and why jade developed its special significance. In-depth entries on over one hundred objects present recent archaeological discoveries and new information garnered from conservation analysis, while Jenny So's broad and engaging narrative not only elucidates the layered meanings of the objects and their iconography but also delves into the unique qualities of the material and the craftsmanship involved in quarrying and working jade.
Early Christian and Byzantine Art
John Beckwith
Yale University Press/Pelican History of Art
Written by distinguished art historian John Beckwith, this book presents an appreciation of early Christian and Byzantine Art as a sublime expression of religious thought and feeling. Beckwith argues that Byzantine art is both static and dynamic: static in the sense that once an image was established it was felt that no improvement was necessary; dynamic in the sense that there was never one style and these styles or modes were constantly changing. The story is not only complex in its unravelling, but ranges widely over various media: mosaic, wall painting and painted panels, sculpture in marble and ivory, manuscript illumination, gold, silver, and precious stones, jewelry, silk and rich vestments.
Copyright©1970, 1979 by John Beckwith
Eccentric Objects: Rethinking Sculpture in 1960s America
Jo Applin
In America during the 1960s, sculpture as an artistic practice underwent a series of radical transformations. Artists including Lee Bontecou, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, H. C. Westermann, and Bruce Nauman offered alternative ways of imagining the three-dimensional object. The objects they created were variously described as erotic, soft, figurative, aggressive, bodily, or, in the words of the critic Lucy Lippard, "eccentric."
Looking beyond the familiar and canonic artworks of the 1960s, the book challenges not only how we think about these artists, but how we learn to look at the more familiar narratives of 1960s sculpture, such as Pop and Minimalism. Ambivalent and disruptive, the work of this decade articulated a radical renegotiation—rejection, even—of contemporary paradigms of sculptural practice. This invigorating study explores that shift and the ways in which the kinds of work made in this period defied established categories and questioned the criteria for thinking about sculpture.
Copyright© 2012 by Jo Applin
Illustrations 40 color + 38 b/w illus.
Elizabeth Catlett: In the Image of the People
Melanie Anne Herzog
Painter, sculptor, and printmaker, Elizabeth Catlett (b. 1915) played an influential role in America's African American and Mexico's revolutionary art communities in the mid-twentieth century. Catlett studied at the University of Iowa (where she briefly worked with Grant Wood), the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Art Students League in New York before moving to Mexico in 1947.
Focusing on Catlett's evocative Negro Woman series from 1946–47, this book reveals Catlett's commitment to social and political issues. All of the fifteen linoleum prints are featured together address the harsh reality of black women's labor; renowned historical heroines such as Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Phillis Wheatley; and the fears, struggles, and achievements of ordinary African American women. Other notable works by Catlett are also included, and an absorbing essay by distinguished scholar Melanie Anne Herzog analyzes the artist's powerful work from a biographical perspective.
Purchase the entire book for $2.49 (9,800 words)
Essays in Context: Unfolding the Netherlandish Diptych
John Oliver Hand (Editor), Ron Spronk (Editor)
With contributions by Marina Belozerskaya, Till-Holger Borchert, Lorne Campbell, Reindert Falkenburg, Ivan Gaskell, Laura D. Gelfand, Peter Klein, Maximiliaan P. J. Martens, Carol J. Purtle, Victor M. Schmidt, Hugo van der Velden, Hélène Verougstraete, and Yvonne Yiu
This book features essays by leading scholars that explore a wide range of topics relating to 15th- and 16th-century Netherlandish diptychs. The text addresses the practical and social uses of the diptych, the history and origins of the format, and the philosophical issues related to the practice of researching these diptychs. It also analyzes the devotional function of these works in the context of contemporary texts and religious practices in northern Europe.
Copyright© 2006 by President and Fellows of Harvard College
Esthetic Recognition of Ancient Amerindian Art
George Kubler
In this book one of the pioneering thinkers in the history of Pre-Columbian art considers the varying esthetic responses of Native Americans, Europeans, and Americanists to indigenous art of the Americas. George Kubler chronicles the lives and writings of seventy historians, explorers, missionaries, archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians who lived between 1492 and 1984 and who devoted sustained attention to Amerindian art. His "biographical surroundings" focus on how these individuals differed in their ways of evaluating Amerindian art forms and what this reveals both about the art and about the development of esthetic thought.
Drawing on such sources as writings about Renaissance travels and military actions, the records of church missionaries in converting and resettling native peoples, statements by native and European historians in the seventeenth century, debates in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries about the worth of America to the world, archaeological and anthropological research since the mid-nineteenth century, and recent esthetic theories about ancient American art, Kubler presents the impressions of individuals form Columbus to Diego de Landa to Charles Darwin to Alfred Kroeber and Alfonso Caso. The book also includes and discusses drawings and photographs by travelers and explorers. Kubler's historiographic approach allows us to view Amerindian art from a fresh and challenging perspective.
Copyright©1991 by Yale University
Expressionism: Art and Idea
Donald E. Gordon
An in-depth survey of the various phases of Expressionism, from its beginnings in 1905 to its most recent formulation in the art of the 1970s, this book examines Expressionist art for the first time in the context of the history of philosophy and social ideas. Author Donald E. Gordon shows how this art embodies the vanguard aesthetic of modern art and demonstrates in detail its relationship to the cultural traditions of its time.
Copyright© 1987 by Estate of Donald E. Gordon
Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism
T. J. Clark
In this intense, far-reaching, and poignant book—a book that sums up the work of a lifetime—the acclaimed art historian T. J. Clark rewrites the history of modern art. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, he explains, the project called socialism may have come to an end at roughly the same moment as modernism. Did modernism and socialism depend on each other for their vitality—for their sense of the future and their wish to live in a fully material world? Have they died? Aware of modernism's foibles and blind spots, but passionately attached to the movement's wildness, Clark poses these fundamental questions in Farewell to an Idea.
Modernism, Clark argues, was an extreme answer to an extreme condition—the one Max Weber summed up as "the disenchantment of the world." Clark focuses on instances of maximum stress, when the movement revealed its true nature. The book begins with Jacques-Louis David, painting at the height of the Terror in 1793, then leaps forward to Pissarro a hundred years later, struggling to picture Two Young Peasant Women in a way that agreed with his anarchist politics. Next the author turns in succession to Cézanne's paintings of the Grandes Baigneuses and their coincidence in time (and maybe intention) with Freud's launching of psychoanalysis; to Picasso's Cubism; and to avant-garde art after the Russian Revolution. Clark concludes with a reading of Jackson Pollock's tragic version of abstraction and suggests a new set of terms to describe avant-garde art—perhaps in its final flowering—in America after 1945. Shifting between broad, speculative history and intense analysis of specific works, Clark not only transfigures our usual understanding of modern art, he also launches a new set of proposals about modernity itself.
Copyright©1999 by T. J. Clark

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Police say a woman and a man were asleep in a bedroom when the woman woke up to her ex-boyfriend punching her. The other man woke up, grabbed a gun, and fired at the ex-boyfriend, striking him 2 to 3 times.
Posted at 4:41 AM, Apr 26, 2017
A roundup of all breaking news around the Las Vegas valley for April 26, 2017.
One security officer was injured in the fire at Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. Clark County fire officials increased the number of toasters found to four -- two in the pool deck area and two on the 17th floor. READ MORE.
One person has been arrested for the fire at Trump International Hotel Wednesday evening. Clark County fire said the fire was set in the bathroom of the pool deck. Officials found two devices -- toasters used to intentionally set fires -- on the pool deck and another on the 17th floor. Fire investigators and Las Vegas police are investigating.
Clark County firefighters extinguished a fire in a women's bathroom at Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas. Firefighters are working to clear smoke after the fire was first reported at 5:03 p.m.
A student is in custody after a gun was found at Findlay Middle School around 10:30 A.M. and caused the school to undergo a soft lockdown. Clark County School District police Captain Ken Young says the eighth-grade student brought a small-caliber handgun on campus. There were no injuries reported.
During a media briefing, police said that this morning's vehicle fire was located to a domestic situation between a husband and wife.
Police and firefighters are on the scene of a vehicle fire near Charleston Boulevard and Hualapai. Motorists should avoid area. Initial reports indicate that homes near the burning vehicle are being evacuated and roads are being closed. The fire may have been set intentionally.
Police say a woman and a man were asleep in a bedroom when the woman woke up to her ex-boyfriend punching her. The other man woke up, grabbed a gun, and fired at the ex-boyfriend, striking him 2 to 3 times. The shooter left before police could arrive.
The victim was transported to a local hospital to be treated.
It happened near Nellis and Las Vegas boulevards shortly before 3:20 a.m.
Neighbors say it's the second shooting at the Estates at Westernaire apartment complex in a matter of weeks.
"It's gotten to a point where I'm scared to leave my home," says one neighbor, Frankie D. "I don't even want to check my mail or do laundry."
BREAKING: A woman wakes up to her ex-bf punching her, a man she's sleeping with then shoots the ex-bf. More details on @KTNV pic.twitter.com/xh7Xa8Jxkn
— Marissa Kynaston (@marissaktnv) April 26, 2017


Ahhh, spring. The sun comes out longer, rains encourage the grass and weeds to explode with growth, and gardeners everywhere jump into action to get the garden going. The pace can be almost a little frantic sometimes. Unless you have a plan for seed starting or a large budget for transplants, it's not hard to blink and find that the optimal time to plant cool weather vegetables has passed already. What if instead of weeds sprouting up all over your garden, beautiful and useful plants started growing on their own? What if your spring weeding chores consisted mostly of transplanting a few plants into better locations, and pruning back the very enthusiastic plants? When you plant perennials the garden starts itself each year!
Jump Start The Garden When You Plant Perennials!
Strawberries stay evergreen in my yard. There are runners that settled in between my fence line and the sidewalk, which saves me tons of time on weeding every year. It's also fun for my kids to take their neighbor friends over to look for berries in the summer. Nature will utilize every nook and cranny if you let her! Strawberries also make a great companion for asparagus as it keeps the weeds at bay. Strawberries are shallow rooting and asparagus have deeper roots, so they don't compete for nutrients.
Asparagus make a great spring perennial. Once you get them established they come back year after year and need only an addition of compost in the fall and a weed free bed to grow you delicious spears every spring.
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Planting perennial flowers helps make your garden beautiful without much work. Bulbs are especially good for this. I know it's time for me to plant peas and carrots when I see the dandelions growing in my yard. The dandelions are some of the first beautiful things to burst into growth. We had bought our house in an October, and spend all winter trudging through the muddy swamp that was the front yard at the time. What a sweet surprise it was that first spring when daffodils start peeking their heads out of the mire!
Irises are another good choice for perennial flowers. (I have irises that came from my grandmother's yard in Utah, to my uncle's home here in Oregon, and then he split some to share with me. My mother lives in California, and the next time she comes up she will be taking some of grandma's irises back with her.) Irises have attractive green leaves most of the year and wonderful flowers in the summer. They also are shallow rooting and can keep weeds at bay.
A few years back I had chucked an old wildflower mix into my garden bed without really expecting anything to grow. Some shasta daisies decided they were quite happy and have lived there happily ever since. I ignore them and they thrive and it's a good relationship all around. More effortless beauty! Plus leaving the old flower stalks on the daisies over winter provides homes for the good spiders.
There are some really lovely perennial herbs to choose from. One of my favorites is lavender, because I'm so proud of it. It was one of the first potted plants I ever grew and the only one that I didn't kill. Even the mint didn't survive my first gardening attempts on an apartment balcony! But mint is another great choice, as is sage, oregano, and thyme. Other herbs are not perennial, but they can self seed themselves such as fennel, feverfew, and cilantro.
Garlic is not technically an herb or a perennial, but it's so easy! It's perfect for the effortless garden. You stick the cloves in the ground in September and it takes care of itself. Just put some mulch over it to keep the weeds out and lift the bulbs out of the ground when the stalks die. If you plant the flowering kind you can even cut the flower buds and cook them like asparagus.
Berries are great choice for perennials! Blueberries, grapes, raspberries, and blackberries will slowly unfurl their leaves as the days grow longer and the nights become warmer. They will fruit with just some help from the bees, and then die back again to repeat the process the next year. The only help from you they need is a little pruning and some direction on which directions to grow.
I just love tenacious plants. This volunteer bamboo came from our neighbor's yard. It's a clumping variety, but every year it just can resist sending out just one little runner to the moist area near my down spout. Our neighbor has a beautiful yard and she gave me some bamboo roots that I'm growing across the back of the chicken yard. Bamboo is as nutritionally beneficial as alfalfa, a perennial, good for the native birds, attractive, and goats, chickens, and rabbits love it. People can even eat the early spring shoots as well, not to mention using the canes for many projects.
Another useful perennial is comfrey. Comfrey also has beautiful flowers, but it's main benefit is that it is an excellent green manure. You can chop the leaves and use them as fertilizer for your garden. It's also very tenacious and will come back year after year!
What are your favorite perennials growing in your garden? Share in the comments!
Your pics are making me garden sick (kinda like home sick)! We're having a couple days of 40 F weather after so many weeks of bone chilling cold…but it will take a while for all this snow to melt.
Sorry! Hopefully spring comes soon for you!


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Considerable chatter regarding physical tells exists and is neatly summarized in the Mike Caro classic.
However, there is a real problem within the lack of reliability in physical tells.
Good players can utilize reverse tells and bad players tend to be inconsistent.
Better players need to look a little deeper into their opponents actions.
It is funny how little play the topic of synchrony gets in the "tells" literature.
Synchrony refers to either occurrence at the same time or movement at the same rate. Synchronous actions are innate and very difficult to fake. Where it equates to bluffing/deception relates to the congruency of a player's actions/words. Bluffing is likely occurring when synchrony does not occur between what is being said and the events at the time.
1) Does my opponents head movement match their answer to a yes-or-no question?
2) Is there a noticeable delay in answering yes-or-no questions?
If the answer to the first question is no or to the second question is yes, then you have likely observed non-synchronous behavior and have more often than not sniffed out a bluff.
This guy thinks he can raise the signature hand and live to tell about it?
From time to time I will post all my glorious victories with presto, which loyal readers should know is my favorite hand.
Reality check: poker is a brutal game.
As players, we face countless donks in the form of suckouts and drawouts. The summation of good play and bad, good cards and bad, and good luck and bad is variance. Given that there is no team behind you in poker, you have to deal with your own variance. Sure you may gripe to friends about this bad beat or that, but at the end of the day the variance of your bankroll is yours and yours alone. Plain and simply, it is every player for himself.
Clearly, winning at poker is good but it isn't everything in the short run. What really matters is making good decisions and, if you can do that, ultimately everything will work out in your favor.
Each and every hand we play has decision points and the player who make the best decisions about folding, calling, raising, and/or checking is the one who will win in the long run.
As I said in my first post, I often believe that I am the unluckiest player alive. I have learned to make good decisions and by in large get my money into pots with the best hand. But given that few hands are really that much far ahead of others, getting donked will forever be part of my poker experience. I have learned to get over it in the short run and I have learned to be largely unemotional about it all.
I think this quote by Thomas Carlyle is fitting in many areas of life, poker included.


According to a study released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, sea grass is once again growing and thriving in Chesapeake Bay.
The bay is seeing its greatest growth of underwater grasses in almost half a century and conservationist are thrilled. The comeback has made the Chesapeake Bay one of the few places on Earth where long-term improvements can be linked to human efforts on a large scale. As well, the report said it is one of the pre-eminent ecological restorations to date.
The decline in grasses started in the 1970s. The biggest cause of loss of the grasses are from pollution, including waste and water pollution from an increasing population living by the bay.
The dramatic loss in the seagrass led to the development of the Chesapeake Bay Program which has promoted the conservation, growth, and protection of the grasses.
Seagrasses are pivotal to a healthy marine ecosystem, they provide protection to the bay from storms, and help in the fight against climate change.
The grasses provide a nursery system to invertebrates and fish that come into the bay where most juvenile species will utilize the grasses at some point.
As well, recent research has identified the important role grasses play in fighting rising carbon emissions. Seagrass is a flowering grass-like plant that grows in shallow waters. The plant gathers carbon dissolved in the sea and buries it under the surface. The amount of carbon stored is very similar to the amounts of carbon stored in tropical forests sediments.
The big difference between the two, forests will store the carbon for roughly 60 years before releasing most of it, while seagrasses will store the carbon for thousands of years if left undisturbed.
As science explores the importance of seagrass, new research has shown that when the top layer of actively growing seagrass is disturbed by impacts such as boat anchors or heatwaves, the carbon that has collected can be quickly released.
When officials started studying the bay grasses, they quickly realized a main culprit of their demise: nutrient pollution.
Runoff from agriculture is a big factor. And as more people keep moving to the area, turning the land into flat surfaces like concrete that don't absorb storm water exacerbate the problem.
Since the 1980s, grasses recovered by threefold to cover about 60,000 acres by 2015, according to the study. Orth said the trend's continued since then.
Scientists monitor the plants' presence annually, taking aerial pictures to see where the grass is and determine its density. The researchers also encountered an unexpected find, the more species are present, the better the grasses fare.
The news is extremely encouraging as seagrasses around the world have seen a sharp decline and methods used in the Chesapeake Bay can be applied to help promote the growth and protection the aquatic plant.


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Most Dangerous Roadways in New York
True New Yorkers navigate the city on foot, call a cab or ride the train. There are people who've lived in NYC their entire lives without getting a driver's license. With the decline of violent crime, pedestrians are now more likely to be killed by a stranger behind the wheel of a car than a stranger with a gun. In fact, more than 1,200 pedestrians died in car wrecks in a recent three-year span. Most of these accidents occur in multilane thoroughfares, so as a rule of thumb you are safer sticking to side streets. To help you roam The Capital of the World in safety, FindLaw has created this guide to the most dangerous roads for pedestrians in New York City.
Hempstead Turnpike
The 16-mile stretch of the Hempstead Turnpike on Long Island may be the single most dangerous road in New York City. Between speeding drivers, lack of crosswalks and the appalling condition of the asphalt, SR-24 claims the death of pedestrians and motorists alike making it the most dangerous road in New York five years running. Protect yourself by avoiding this road altogether. If you must use it, make sure you don't jaywalk and interpret crosswalk signals literally.
Sunrise Highway
Another east-west State Road in Long Island besides Hempstead Turnpike turns out to be deadly for pedestrians. SR-27 also suffers from the lack of sidewalk and atrocious road conditions, including long stretches of darkness where streetlights have burned out without being replaced. Try to avoid this road near Green Acres Mall in particular.
Jericho Turnpike / Middle County Road
To no one's surprise yet another Long Island state road appears on the list of deadliest roads for pedestrians.
Upper Broadway
Thirteen people died on Broadway between 2008 and 2010, and almost all have occurred above 96th St. In particular avoid Washington Heights, where motorists accessing the George Washington Bridge are especially dangerous.
Henry Hudson Parkway
It may be scenic but a number of pedestrians have been struck and killed on Henry Hudson over the past few years.
Broadway continues its nasty reputation further north, taking a toll of numerous pedestrians in a recent three-year span. Avoid walking along Broadway, period.
Grand Concourse
The biggest risk on Grand Concourse is crossing the street without the benefit of a crosswalk. This road is extremely wide, which encourages people to drive at high speeds and makes it difficult to cross safely.
As one of the shortest roads on this list, Neptune Ave. has an alarming fatality per mile ratio. You'd be smart to avoid biking along Neptune too.
Woodhaven Boulevard
Oddly enough, the "Boulevard of Death", Queens Blvd., has not lived up to its unfortunate reputation in recent years. Instead, Woodhaven Blvd. has claimed the lives of the most pedestrians. The major issue is the lighting conditions, or lack thereof. In particular, avoid the intersection at Jamaica Ave. if at all possible.
Hylan Boulevard
Compared to other boroughs, Staten Island is fairly safe for pedestrians with one exception. Don't cross Hylan Blvd. without a crosswalk and a walking signal if you value your safety. In particular, take care at the New Dorp Lane intersection.


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by Nina Tickaradze July 25, 2021
As a part of our series about "Why We Need More Women Founders", I had the pleasure of interviewing Nina Tickaradze.
Nina Tickaradze is the Founder & CEO of NADI, LLC, a woman-owned business that makes all-natural rosehip juice drinks and Happy Hearts dried apple chips that were inspired by old family recipes of her Georgian mother and grandmother. NADI is also a social venture with a mission to create jobs and economic opportunities for displaced refugees who had to flee their homes and leave everything behind because of war and regional conflicts. Nina has more than 20 years of professional marketing experience. Her day job is Marketing Director at Hall Booth Smith, one of the fastest-growing defense law firms in the Southeast.
Thank you so much for doing this with us! Before we dig in, our readers would like to get to know you a bit more. Can you tell us a bit about your "backstory"? What led you to this particular career path?
I was raised in Tbilisi, Georgia, and moved to the United States when I was a teenager. I've been in marketing and public relations for more than 20 years, and my day job is Marketing Director at Hall Booth Smith, one of the fastest-growing defense law firms in the Southeast. I have always had an entrepreneurial bug. I ran a wine importing business for many years, and I had been thinking about starting something new.
One day I was talking with my friend Gaga Abashidze about all the things we missed from our childhoods. Our mothers and grandmothers used to forage for wild rosehip berries and make this delicious rosehip drink for us, and it was such a nostalgic taste of tradition. It's the Georgian version of orange juice, but it has so much more Vitamin C, B Complex vitamins, antioxidants, polyphenols and other healthy nutrients.
We also wanted to do something to help all the displaced refugees who have lost everything because of regional wars. They had to leave everything behind when they fled their homes, and they were living in makeshift camps. They had no jobs or money buy food and clothing for their families. There was this moment of inspiration — what if we could start a company that made healthy drinks and snacks, and create jobs for the refugees so they can get back on their feet? We called it NADI, which means "collective work effort" in the Georgian language, to honor the workers, family and friends who make it possible.
Can you share the most interesting story that happened to you since you began your career?
The day that John Hall, a founding partner of Hall Booth Smith, asked me to work at the firm was one of the most impactful moments of my entire career. At the time, I wasn't looking for a job. I was focused on trying to grow a nonprofit called Hands in Hand that I started to help children in the country of Georgia, and I had just found out that I was pregnant with my third baby and I had a 6-year-old and a 5-year-old at home.
But I was so inspired by his vision of how he wanted to grow and diversify the firm that I said yes. I am so glad I took that leap! It has opened so many doors, and I've learned a lot about marketing, social media and public relations as we have grown the firm, opened new offices all over the Southeast and in New York and New Jersey, added new practice groups, hired so many new lawyers and won business from new clients.
I've also had the opportunity to start the Georgia to Georgia Foundation, which strengthen business and civic relations between the two countries. We plan and host delegation visits, and we have helped so many companies grow. Everyone at the firm has been very supportive of NADI, and they love our rosehip juices and Happy Hearts apple chips. Some of our attorneys who have expertise in a certain area like intellectual property have been gracious in giving me advice about trademarking and protecting our brand.
None of that would have been possible if John Hall hadn't offered me that job. After 13 years, I still enjoy going to work each day and we are still growing just as he promised — 20 offices right now, with more to come.
Can you share a story about the funniest mistake you made when you were first starting? Can you tell us what lesson you learned from that?
In our early days, there was such a steep learning curve about the details and nuance of packaging and logistics. We sell a lot of product through Amazon, and use their Fulfillment by Amazon service to store and ship it. The fees were really high — about half the sale price of each case of NADI rosehip juice was going to these fees — and it was killing our profit margin. I couldn't figure out why it was so high. One year on Christmas Eve, I was sick and struggling to stay awake until bedtime, and I started looking into the details of their requirements and costs to investigate why those fees were so high.
I discovered that we were using an incorrect box size that was a half-inch too big! Which meant that every single package was being charged at "oversize" rates instead of "standard" rates for both warehousing and shipping. We quickly made the change to smaller boxes, the fees dropped by 66%, and all of a sudden we were making a nice profit on every single sale.
That was a painful lesson, and it taught me that you have to pay attention to every single small detail. Read the fine print, understand the requirements, question whether you are doing it correctly.
None of us are able to achieve success without some help along the way. Is there a particular person who you are grateful towards who helped get you to where you are? Can you share a story about that?
As a WBENC certified woman-owned business, I am lucky to be part of a few mentoring and peer-to-peer groups with other women founders, and we share a ton of wisdom and advice with each other. We talk about everything like tips for working with retailers and distributors, marketing, raising capital, tax issues, you name it. I'm especially close to Sophia Marron of Dress It Up Dressing, Claudia McMullin of Hugo Coffee, Maria Palacio of Progeny Coffee and Junita Flowers of Junita's Jar.
Is there a particular book that made a significant impact on you? Can you share a story or explain why it resonated with you so much?
I read physics books for fun. Books like "Biocentrism" by Bob Berman and Robert Lanza, "Reality is Not What it Seems" by Carlo Rovelli, and "The Feynman Lectures on Physics" by the Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, and "A Brief History of Time" by the late Stephen Hawking are some of my favorites.
What I love about physics books is that they are challenging and complex, intriguing, and thought-provoking. That helps pull my mind away from the day-to-day worries and stresses of work, running NADI and raising my kids. It reminds me that life is much larger than us, so the worries that seemed important during the day become absolutely insignificant in the broader scheme of history. It gives me a sense of peace.
Do you have a favorite "Life Lesson Quote"? Do you have a story about how that was relevant in your life or your work?
Never give up. You have to be so persistent when you start a new company, and there are so many obstacles and challenges that you can't even begin to anticipate. Sometimes you have to take outside capital, or personally bootstrap to cover expenses. It takes so long to grow and achieve scale. Costs will be higher than you guessed. So have you be relentless and stay focused on your original vision. Don't take no for an answer, and use all the charm and persistence that you have.
How have you used your success to make the world a better place?
NADI is a social venture, and our mission is to create jobs and economic opportunities for refugees who have been displaced by war and regional fighting. They had to flee their homes and leave everything behind, and they had no clothes, food, or sources of income. We collaborated with refugee leaders to create a cooperative called TKIS NOBATI that hires workers to handpick our rosehip berries, prepare the fruit and make our drinks. We also work with local small family-run farms that grow the apples for our Happy Hearts dried apple chips, and we teach the farmers about sustainable and regenerative methods. During the pandemic, we also started offering English language and computer classes to help our refugees become more employable in the global economy.
Ok, thank you for that. Let's now jump to the primary focus of our interview. According to this EY report, only about 20 percent of funded companies have women founders. This reflects great historical progress, but it also shows that more work still has to be done to empower women to create companies. In your opinion and experience what is currently holding back women from founding companies?
Women tend to have a lot of other demands on their time and energy, like raising children, cooking meals, running carpool, cleaning and keeping family life running smoothly. Some of them are intimidated by the idea of leaving their day job and take on the risk of starting a new business. Some women don't understand finance or capital structures very well and that scares them. I think we would have a lot more women founders if they demanded more support and help from their spouses or partners at home, and if they sought more financial education earlier in their lives so they would be confident about becoming an entrepreneur and running a business.
Can you share with our readers what you are doing to help empower women to become founders?
We purposefully look for other women- and minority-owned startups to do business with, like when we need a new logo, website support, media relations, etc. We also encourage the women refugees we hire to think about opportunities for starting their own businesses if they have the entrepreneurial bug. I also make time to share the knowledge and insights I've gained along the way with other women founders so they can save time and energy by not reinventing the wheel.
This might be intuitive to you but I think it will be helpful to spell this out. Can you share a few reasons why more women should become founders?
Starting your own company, being your own boss, having complete autonomy over your professional career, and taking an idea and turning it into a viable business is incredibly rewarding and fulfilling. It's one of the hardest things you will ever do, but also one of the things that will make you ridiculously proud of yourself and your workers.
Becoming a founder is a big decision, and you need a ton of support from your family, friends, colleagues and other people in your network. Be shameless about asking for help and advice. Ask friends to make introductions to connect you with other people who run similar businesses and probably have wisdom to share. Cold call people and ask if they will give you a half an hour of their time to share their thoughts. You'd be surprised how most people are willing to help if you just ask.
Ok super. Here is the main question of our interview. Can you please share 5 things that can be done or should be done to help empower more women to become founders? If you can, please share an example or story for each.
Empowerment should start at a young age.Most women don't discover their power until they are in their 40s, and a huge part of their lives and careers has already passed. Let's help our daughters be independent thinkers, encourage them, let them lead, give them the freedom to make choices that truly affect their day-to-day goals. I appreciated this with my parents very much. They always asked for my opinions on large decisions and truly listened to what I had to say. That's why we moved to the U.S. when I was a teenager. It was my dream and they 100% supported it, even though it meant leaving everything and everyone they loved behind.
Encourage and help each other. As women founders, we need to lift each other up and truly go out of our way to do extra work for others. My promise is to help a woman founder each week by doing things like including them in our media relations and marketing, sending them ideas for awards they should apply for, inviting them to a networking session. Be truly selfless and just give.
Government should do more. Chambers of commerce and local government-supported organizations should offer more financial education and entrepreneurship classes for free to teach women about finances, how to raise funding, how to find a mentor, how to navigate regulatory matters, etc.
Banks need to step up. Lack of capital is one of the biggest things that holds women founders back. There should be special groups of loan officers at every bank that specializes in reviewing and approving loans for women-owned enterprises.
Hire more women-owned businesses. I always make an extra effort to hire women-owned businesses, like our SEO company Hughes Media, our social media company, our package designers — Smith Designs, Evens company and so on.
You are a person of great influence. If you could inspire a movement that would bring the most amount of good for the greatest number of people, what would that be? You never know what your idea can trigger.
We hope to inspire more companies to embrace a social mission, and find a cause that they are passionate about so they can make a real impact in their local communities. It shouldn't be just a feel-good, one-time thing. Companies can have enormous influence through financial donations, allowing their employees to take paid time off for volunteer work, serve on boards of charities, use company resources and equipment to support nonprofits, etc. Think of the impact that could have on our society — it could be transformational.
The companies would also benefit from gaining a stronger reputation, becoming an employer of choice, keeping employees more engaged, lower turnover and a competitive edge in recruiting new talent.
We are very blessed that some very prominent names in Business, VC funding, Sports, and Entertainment read this column. Is there a person in the world, or in the US with whom you would love to have a private breakfast or lunch with, and why? He or she might just see this if we tag them.
I would love to have lunch with Hamdi Ulukaya, the Kurdish immigrant from Turkey who came to the United States with just $3,000 in his pocket and he didn't speak English. He started a small business doing what he loved (making feta cheese) and then grew it and bought an abandoned yogurt-making factory where he expanded to make Chobani yogurt — which of course became wildly successful and got Americans hooked on authentic thick yogurt made with natural ingredients.
Hamdi's native country of Turkey shares a border with my native country of Georgia, so we're neighbors and we both understand how horribly the wars and geopolitical fighting have impacted people in that region. Thousands of people have to flee their homes and leave everything behind as they run for their lives, and they have no jobs, no money and no way to feed their families. I admire how Hamdi specifically hired refugees and used Chobani to create more jobs just like NADI does. He is such an important and vocal activist and philanthropist, and he has given back to much to the community that helped him be successful. I would love to meet him someday and share our stories with each other.
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Last Saturday, November 23rd, we had a get-together for girls in Rome. The girls began to arrive at about 10 a.m., and we had a short time of games and songs with hand motions while we waited for the rest of the girls to arrive.
Once everyone arrived, we went to the chapel, where the girls were able to enjoy the presence of Jesus, to adore Him and express their love to Him.
Sister Teresa spoke to them about the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist and gave some short points of meditation to reflect about advent and above all how to prepare our hearts for the coming of the Lord. We had a moment of silence before the Blessed Sacrament exposed in the tabernacle.
When we finished adoration, we went to make a dessert... we rolled up our sleeves.. and the result was a bunch of delicious chocolate cookies that we made into different animal shapes usind molds. When we finished there was chocolate everywhere!
Then we played some fun games and watched a video about the Annunciation of the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary, to help us to reflect on Advent. The time flew by and we were feeling hungry. So we sat down to eat our sandwiches and, of course, our delicious chocolate cookies. They turned out great! We left some for snack time later.
During arts and crafts, we made an advent calender with Sr. Paulette and Sr. Sara Maria, who prepared a resolution for each day of advent. In this way, every day there is something different to offer to Jesus and prepare our heart for His coming. Everyone enjoyed making the calender, and was happy to know what it was for.
When we finished our craft, we went to play a game with Sr. Morgan. The name of the game was: "How to be a true Christian." It consisted in rolling two dice, one with numbers and one with letters, to advance by winning different trials, games and catechism questions. We all had a lot of fun, and at the same time, it was a good opportunity to remember things from the catechism and to learn some new things.
Later on we had a meeting. Sr. Maria Luisa gave three key words to prepare our hearts for the birth of Jesus: pray, give, and renounce. We talked about them and she gave us three examples of children who have lived them heroically. Nenolinna was the example of prayer, Carlo Acutis of generosity with God and with others and Francisco Marto of sacrifice.
Lastly, we snacked on our favorite chocolate cookies and played for a bit while we waited for the parents to come.
-Servant Sisters of Rome, Italy.


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National Federation of the Blind Response to COVID-19
The National Federation of the Blind is closely monitoring the COVID-19 situation. Guidance to state affiliates, local chapters, and affiliated training programs regarding this situation has been provided and we will continue to coordinate resources across the country. As a nationwide organization, we recognize that consistency and clear communication are critical to managing our operations during this critical time. The health and safety of all of our members, staff, and friends is always our top priority.
Attending a Federation event is a personal decision to be made based on individual health status and, when appropriate, in consultation with medical professionals.* For the latest facts about the virus, access reliable information from sources such as the World Health Organization or the Centers for Disease Control. Users of NFB-NEWSLINE® can also access the latest information in the breaking news section.
The 2020 NFB National Convention is taking place July 14-19 in Houston, Texas, as planned. At this time we do not believe there is a need to alter plans for our annual meeting. We will continue to evaluate the situation and the needs of attendees. We will update the national convention webpage (nfb.org/convention) regarding the status of the event and any related precautions to be taken.
"We will continue to monitor all aspects of this situation as they develop, focusing first and foremost on the health and safety of everyone in our Federation family," said Mark Riccobono, President of the National Federation of the Blind. "I wish you, your families, and your colleagues the best as we address these challenges."
*Important Update: Please read the policy relating to public events, released March 13, 2020.
Blind Americans Encountering Discrimination by Restaurants and Other Services During COVID-19 Crisis, April 3, 2020
National Federation of the Blind Urges Governors to Issue Accessible Executive Orders Regarding COVID-19, March 23, 2020
COVID-19 Information Available in Braille and Audio, March 20, 2020
National Federation of the Blind Demands that Policymakers Protect and Assist Blind Students During COVID-19 Emergency, March 20, 2020
National Federation of the Blind COVID-19 Policy Relating to Public Events, March 13, 2020
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"Don't Be a Barrier: Be Accessible NOW" Blog Post, March 16, 2020
"Coming Together During COVID-19: Concerns and Connections" Blog Post, March 23, 2020
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About the National Federation of the Blind
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), headquartered in Baltimore, is the oldest and largest nationwide organization of blind Americans. Founded in 1940, the NFB consists of affiliates, chapters, and divisions in the fifty states, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico. The NFB defends the rights of blind people of all ages, and provides information and support to families with blind children, older Americans who are losing vision, and more. We believe in the hopes and dreams of blind people and work together to transform them into reality. Learn more about our many programs and initiatives at nfb.org.
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Триандафилос Дукас е роден около 1762 година в западномакедонския град Костур, Османската империя, в заможно търговско семейство. Начално образование получава в родния си град. В 1774 г. година напуска Костур и се установява в Земун, където довършва образованието си и става учител. Инициатор е за създаването на гръцко училище в Земун, където преподава. Важен негов труд е "История на славяно-сърбите" (Ιστορία Σλαβενο-Σέρβων) от 1807 година – първи разказ на сръбското въстание в началото на XIX век.

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Leonard Fournette Says NFL Is 'Slower' Than He Thought
Andrew McCarty
A former college star made a bold statement Thursday night.
Leonard Fournette made his NFL debut on Thursday night as the Jacksonville Jaguars took on the New England Patriots.
Fournette, a former LSU star, rushed nine times for 31 yards an a touchdown.
After the game, he made a series of bold statements about the speed of the NFL. He spoke to James Palmer of NFL Network.
"It's a lot slower than I really thought. That's how I've been since I first got into the NFL. A lot of people were like, 'It's going to be fast.' But by me playing in the SEC that kind of helped me a lot. I think to me it was really easy."
He's not the first former SEC player to say the transition from college to the NFL was easier than he thought. Earlier this week, two former Alabama players said the same thing.
Of course, Fournette's comments must be taken in stride. He's yet to play against an opposing team's first-team defense, so it might behoove the rookie to table these kinds of comments until he plays against the best.
[NFL Network]


reaches #1 on the R&B chart. It's a big year for the entire Jackson Family as they debut a Las Vegas show at the MGM Grand Hotel with siblings Randy, La Toya and Janet.
The brother's tour continues through Senegal, and eventually leads back to Texas.
Between shows, the brothers somehow find the time to pay Merv Griffin a visit.
Las Vegas show opens, with La Toya, Randy, and Janet, joining the group.
Making one more TV appearance before getting back on the road, the brothers perform 'I Want You Back' and 'ABC' on the Sandy in Disney Land TV Special.
The Jackson 5 are "The Life Of the Party" on The Sonny Comedy Review.
The Jackson 5 perform at the Grammy awards.
The Jackson 5 do a comedy routine and musical number alongside Carol Burnett on CBS's The Carol Burnett Show.
'Dancing Machine' enters the pop singles chart peaking at #2 and remains on the charts for 22 weeks. The single sells over 1 million copies in less than a month.
The brothers spend an evening with Johnny Carson.
The Jackson 5 perform their second set on Soul Train this year.
The Jackson 5 host their final run of shows, with their cabaret set, in Las Vegas at the Nevada MGM Grand Hotel.
The Jackson 5 raise money for Muscular Dystrophy on the annual MDA telethon, hosted by Jerry Lewis.


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Reaching Gen Z
By Captain Pamela Maynor | Connecting with digital natives
"This is why we stan."
As I read that sentence, my fingers itched to add the letter "d." But knowing the young and brilliant author who submitted the article, I decided to reach out to him with my proposed edit. His response was informative: "Stan" is a made-up word that means "love and support no matter what."
I never would have known that, had I not asked. I'm not a member of the Gen Z community, so when I use words like "goat," "salty," "wig" or "woke," they're spoken in the literal sense. Not so with Gen Z!
Reaching a generation other than our own may feel like learning a new language.
Reaching a generation other than our own may feel like learning a new language. It doesn't always come naturally or easily—but if we're serious about reaching that generation, we must become serious about embracing conversation, taking time to learn and being willing to change.
For four years, I held the title of "Editor of Young Salvationist"—a national Salvation Army- produced youth publication. I assimilated to the fast-paced, deadline-driven department and after 40 issues under my belt, I felt as secure as a hamster running around and around in its predictable wheel. However, I quickly realized that busyness does not always equate effectiveness. When I looked at the final product each month, I couldn't help but question our magazine's effectiveness in reaching young people today. Were we speaking the same language as our audience? Something had to change and it had to start with me hopping off the hamster wheel.
While attending a conference, my path crossed with MetaLeap Creative, consultants who specialize in redesign and creation. Hearing their experience and passion for effective publications, I knew we needed their direction. The partnership began in June 2018 as they led our team in fundamental processes to recreate our magazine—a journey that began by better understanding our audience. Who is Generation Z? What language do they speak and what type of magazine would appeal to them?
Understanding our audience was foundational to understanding how our publication needed to evolve.
This digitally-native generation grew up swiping on an iPad before speaking their first word. Barna Group describes Generation Z as the "first truly 'post-Christian generation.'" More than any generation before them, Gen Z (born between 1999 and 2015) do not assert a religious identity—and this generation is the largest among the U.S. population today. Understanding our audience was foundational to understanding how our publication needed to evolve.
Though change seemed inevitable, our youth publication held great history. In fact, reaching young people through print has been a priority for The Salvation Army since 1881.
It all started in 1880 when a Salvation Army meeting filled a large Wesleyan Chapel in Blythe, England. A child stood outside the door—there was no room for her. Captain John Roberts' (a Salvation Army officer/pastor) heart was moved. "Tell your friends," he said, "that there will be a special meeting next Friday at six o'clock." That meeting (held on July 30, 1880) was the beginning of The Salvation Army's work with children, and the work spread rapidly—so rapidly that the editor of "War Cry" (the adult publication) received enough news about children to fill all of his pages. The Salvation Army's founder, General William Booth, then decided that young people should have their own paper: "The Little Soldier." And the man who started the children's meetings, Captain John Roberts, would be the editor.
As I read that story, my heart was moved too. Young people are standing outside the doors of the church today. How are we reaching them? Are we willing to meet them outside and engage in conversation, in a language they understand?
The General of The Salvation Army, General Brian Peddle, expressed unwavering support for our request to redesign. Our rationale was in line with our mission as The Salvation Army—to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in his name without discrimination.
Our publication name was one of the first aspects that needed to change. We needed a name that would be understood by our audience—both those standing inside and outside the church. Then came design. Details from the size of the publication, paper type, topics covered, imagery used all became crucial to our discussion—aimed directly to reaching Gen Z through topics of faith, community and culture (our tagline).
Months followed and by January 2019 Peer magazine was created, along with peermag.org and social media platforms with intentional strategy to reach our audience through their language—videos! Our mission statement became: to ignite a faith conversation that deepens biblical perspective, faith and holy living.
Suggesting the redesign of a youth magazine that has been in existence for 138 years may seem courageous, but when change is led by the Spirit of God who moves our hearts to enhance his kingdom, then change isn't embraced with fear, but rather with humility.
We cannot profess to know everything there is to know about reaching Gen Z, but we're humbled to continue learning and striving to reach this generation with the timelessly relevant message of Jesus Christ.
Born and raised in South Africa, Captain Pamela Maynor studied elementary education at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. After graduation, she became a missionary to the U.S. Her desire was to introduce inner-city children to a saving relationship with Jesus Christ. She met her husband, Keith, soon after and together they entered The Salvation Army's College for Officer Training in New York in 2005. Commissioned two years later as ordained officers (pastors in The Salvation Army), they have served together in New York, New Jersey and now Virginia where Pamela is the Editor of Peer magazine at National Headquarters.
Captain Pamela Maynor will co-lead a workshop entitled "Using Publications and Social Media to Reach Gen Z" at The Outcomes Conference 2020, April 7-9 in Dallas. Register Today!
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This month LACR alumna Dr Claire Hawes delivered a pair of joint lectures for the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and the Scottish History Society.
The subject was 'The Common Books of Aberdeen' and the presentation gave a fascinating overview of the historical richness of the council register volumes which have been at the core of the LACR project. Claire delivered her talk to substantial audiences in Edinburgh on 14 January at the National Museum Scotland, and on 15 January in Aberdeen for the Aberdeen & North East Section of the Antiquaries. The lecture illuminated some of the aspects of medieval life that are apparent in the volumes: the role of crafts, the presence of animals, the regulation of behaviour, and the place of the burgh in the political affairs of the Scottish kingdom, to name just a few. The Scots language was also prominent in the colourful examples explored by Claire as she set out some of the ways in which the registers will serve as a bountiful resource for future research. Well done, Claire!


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Des was born in Kandy, Sri Lanka, and has lived in London for most of his life. He went to school in Wimbledon and studied economics at Bristol University before qualifying as a chartered accountant at Ernst & Young in 1981. In the mid 1980's he was responsible for financial planning at property conglomerate Heron International before joining design entrepreneur Sir Terence Conran in 1991 as his business partner and CEO. During their 15 year period together Terence and Des built Conran from a small design company into a global restaurant, retail, hotel and design company employing 2000 staff in the major cities of the world.
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Des lives in Wimbledon with his wife Liz, and have a son and a daughter.


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Double Honour at the Family Business Review Awards
Two studies by WHU professors were praised in the category "Best Family Business Review Article Honorable Mention".
Every year, the Family Firm Institute (FFI) honors excellent research in the field of family businesses. This year, two professors of WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management earned honorary mention for their articles: Professor Christina Günther, Chair of Small and Medium-sized Businesses, and Professor Nadine Kammerlander, Chair of Family Businesses.
Professor Günther's study "Family Firm Values Explaining Family Firm Heterogeneity", which was developed in collaboration with former WHU doctoral student Viktoria Schneider-Siebke and Sabine Rau from the University of Ottawa, examines the extent to which family businesses have heterogeneous value profiles, which differentiate them from each other and from non-family businesses. "Family businesses are often said to be conservative and above all interested in the long-term continuation of family tradition and the wealth they have acquired over several generations," explains Günther. "We have found that, in addition to these stereotypical traditional family businesses, there are also innovation-driven, highly professionalized family businesses that categorically keep family concerns out of everyday business life". According to the study, five different types of family firms can be classified. At the same time, the study shows that non-family-managed companies have much more homogeneous value profiles than family businesses, and consequently develop less "character".
Together with Melanie Richards from the University of Bath and Thomas Zellweger from the University of St. Gallen, Professor Kammerlander deals with the choice of a successor in family businesses in her paper "Listening to the Heart or the Head? Exploring the 'Willingness Versus Ability' Succession Dilemma". Based on more than 2000 responses from interviewed entrepreneurs, the authors find that education, experience and other family members in management influence the preference for either very committed or very competent takeovers. The culture of the country and the financial situation of the company also play a role in the question of who is the preferred successor.
As the world's leading association of professionals for family-run organizations, the Family Firm Institute considers family businesses as a fundamental driver of global economic growth, prosperity and stability. It relies on a global network of professionals, educators, researchers, and members of family businesses and provides a platform for the exchange of ideas, expertise, and perspectives. For 30 years, FFI has presented the Family Business Review Awards to advance research in the field of family businesses.


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Thomas Muccioli, 31, carries a sign with the likeness of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) at La Boom night club in Queens on November 6, 2018 in New York City. Rick Loomis/Getty Images
Group That Sponsored Anti-Ocasio-Cortez Billboard Tied to Koch and Other Billionaires
The Job Creators Network claims it's "the voice of Main Street," but a review of its donors and partners says it's anything but.
Published on Feb 22, 2019 4:55PM EDT Dark Money Primary category in which blog post is published
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A billboard appeared in New York City's Times Square on Wednesday attacking New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for opposing the now-scuttled deal between Amazon and state officials. The sponsor: a corporate-backed and billionaire-founded nonprofit called Job Creators Network (JCN).
"25,000 Lost NYC Jobs," laments the electronic billboard, which allegedly cost $4,000. After criticism from Ocasio-Cortez, JCN put up two more billboards attacking her.
Check out the sign in Times Sq.! Thanks to @JobCreatorsUSA! pic.twitter.com/iIN0DTo8r2
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) February 20, 2019
Although JCN, a nonprofit that seeks to "educate Americans on the vital role of free enterprise and entrepreneurship," claims on its website to be on the side of Main Street, it's in fact a front group for the interests of wealthy business executives. The nonprofit is linked to and funded by several wealthy corporate leaders who are also Republican political megadonors and oppose workers' rights, including collective bargaining. A deleted page on the group's website showed dozens of CEOs who partnered with JCN.
Ocasio-Cortez was right when she tweeted on Thursday that two of the biggest funders of JCN are Home Depot co-founder and billionaire Bernie Marcus and Donald Trump megadonor and billionaire Robert Mercer.
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— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 21, 2019
The most prominent conservative donors in the U.S., the Koch brothers, are also tied to JCN through their political nonprofits, and their North Carolina ally, Art Pope, is a major donor.
Charles and David Koch are lifelong libertarians, each worth $52 billion, who created a massive right-wing political network over the last few decades. They and their allies fiercely oppose government spending and regulation, and have been key funders of climate disinformation and anti-clean energy campaigns as well as political campaigns, ad campaigns on corporate tax cuts, and ideological free-market higher education programs.
Koch Industries, which Charles Koch leads, is a large, private conglomerate that owns an oil extraction and refining subsidiary as well as a chemical manufacturer. The company is one of the nation's biggest air and water polluters. Koch businesses have paid close to $750,000 in fines, most of it due to environmental violations, but also for workplace safety, employment discrimination, and labor violations.
The billboard attacks Ocasio-Cortez for her alleged role in the Amazon deal collapsing, but JCN supporters, such as Charles Koch, are also strong opponents of her Green New Deal plan, despite it promising to create millions of new jobs.
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Marcus recently went on Fox to rail against socialism and another of Ocasio-Cortez's policy proposals, a 70 percent income tax on the richest Americans.
'The Voice of Main Street?'
JCN claims in bold on its website, "We are the voice of Main Street." But a modicum of research shows that's not the case.
Chris Kromm, executive director of the Institute for Southern Studies in Durham, North Carolina, and an expert on Pope's political influence, explained to Sludge that JCN emerged around the time that the anti-corporate movement Occupy Wall Street was taking place.
"Corporate America was watching with fear as protestors and the media talked about stagnating wages, persistent poverty and the growing chasm between the one percent and the 99 percent," said Kromm. "In this climate, the Job Creators Network was part of an ideological counter-offensive aiming to extol the virtues of 'free enterprise and entrepreneurship,' which in practice meant pushing propaganda in favor of cutting business taxes, and bashing regulations and unions.
Now, with left-wing populism having entered the Democratic Party mainstream and policies such as a wealth tax or Medicare for All exciting voters, including many Republicans, JCN is back to fight the forces seeking to reduce economic inequality.
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JCN has two nonprofits: a 501(c)(4) entity called Job Creators Network, Inc. (sometimes referred to in tax filings as Job Creators Action Fund), and a 501(c)(3) charity, Job Creators Network Foundation. In its first iteration, JCN was called Job Creators Alliance.
The Kochs' premier political nonprofit, Americans for Prosperity, is a partner of JCN, along with the Libre Initiative, another Koch-backed political entity. Americans for Prosperity and Libre are also listed as partners of the linked JCN Foundation, as is the Koch-backed Generation Opportunity, which is now part of Americans for Prosperity. While the Charles Koch Foundation does not appear to have donated to the JCN groups, an Americans for Prosperity founding board member and close Koch ally, Art Pope of North Carolina, has.
Another conservative JCN donor from North Carolina is businessman Robert Luddy, whose donations to state politicians and outside political spending groups often mirror those of Pope.
Between 2016 and 2017, JCN's revenue exploded from $2.7 million to $11.1 million. It's unclear where much of the 2017 revenue came from, as some foundations and trade associations have not yet made their 2017 tax forms available to the public, and any donations to JCN that came directly from individuals or for-profit businesses don't need to be made public.
But we do know the sources of some $8.3 million given to JCN groups since 2011, when Marcus and pizza magnate Herman Cain founded the organization:
Bernie Marcus (currently worth $5.4 billion): $2.9 million through his Marcus Foundation (2011-15). Marcus has donated millions to help Trump.
Retail Industry Leaders Association: $3.4 million (2011-13, 2015-16). This trade association represents a variety of retail businesses, and executives from Home Depot, Target, Dollar General, and other big businesses are on its board.
Robert Mercer (worth over $1 billion) and Rebekah Mercer: $300,000 through the Mercer Family Foundation (2013-14, 2016), which is directed by Rebekah Mercer, Robert Mercer's daughter, who is less media-averse than her father. A former hedge fund CEO and GOP megadonor, the senior Mercer invested millions in the right-wing website Breitbart News, which has promoted JCN in the past.
Philip Anschutz (currently worth $10.9 billion): $300,000 through The Anschutz Foundation (2014-16). Anschutz has had business ventures in several areas, including entertainment and the oil and gas industry.
Donors Trust: $125,000 (2012). This donor-advised fund, which the Kochs use heavily, acts as a middleman between donor and grantee and offers its clients the option of donating anonymously to the charities of their choice.
Art Pope: $108,000 through the John William Pope Foundation (2011, 2013). In addition to helping found Americans for Prosperity, Pope is a powerful and prolific GOP donor in North Carolina, where he helped elect Republican majorities in the state legislature and helped racially gerrymander state legislative and congressional districts.
Robert Luddy: $33,000 (2012-13) through the Luddy Charitable Foundation. Pope ally Luddy is a manufacturing CEO and private school network owner.
Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation: $25,000 (2011). The Bradley family is major donor to conservative think tanks and political networks. The foundation also funded political front groups of JCN contractor Rick Berman, according to the Center for Media and Democracy.
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund: $20,000 (2015 fiscal year). Fidelity is another donor-advised fund that masks the identities of its clients.
Other donors include the John Dawson Foundation ($50,000 in 2011), the Lazof Family Foundation ($10,000 from 2012-13), the Devine Family Foundation ($5,000 in 2015), the Dea Family Foundation ($2,500 in 2013), and the William E. Simon Foundation ($1,000 in 2012).
Derek Seidman of LittleSis mapped the connections between JCN donors and Trump on Thursday.
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The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) has also donated tens of thousands of dollars to the 60 Plus Association, a Koch-backed political group, as well as to other Koch-linked political groups, including Americans for Job Security.
No Amazon executives appear on the list of RILA board members, and the company is not among RILA's premier members. RILA opposed Amazon on tax issues a few years ago. Now, it seems, the trade group has changed its tune.
Amazon joined Home Depot and Target in an effort to get approval to reject certain rewards credit cards. Last year, Amazon's general counsel spoke on a panel at a RILA-sponsored conference.
Standing out among JCN's partner organizations, most of which are chambers of commerce and industry lobbying groups, is the conservative student group Turning Point USA, which received funding from some of the same foundations that finance JCN. Both Marcus and Luddy have donated to TPUSA.
Recent Contractors
In 2017, JCN paid the firm of conservative political consultant Rick Berman, whom Mother Jones referred to as an "astroturf pioneer" regarding his use of front groups for corporate interests, over $2.5 million, nearly the group's entire revenue for the previous year, for TK.
JCN also paid Berman's firm $8,000 for newspaper ads supporting four Republican House candidates in November 2018.
Also contracting with JCN in 2017 was Rigel Strategies, a TK that a Mercer- and Marcus-funded pro-Ted Cruz super PAC paid close to $7.5 million in the 2016 election. JCN paid Rigel Strategies nearly $2 million for advertising that year. Rigel states on its website that it worked on JCN's pro-corporate tax cuts campaign.
As MapLight's Andrew Perez pointed out on Twitter, Cavalry LLC, an "issue management firm" founded in 2015 by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) former chief of staff, earned $420,000 from JCN for consulting.
A screenshot from JCN's 2017 990 tax form showing its five highest-paid contractors.
On the JCN board sits former Carl's Jr. and Hardee's CEO Andy Puzder, who abandoned his nomination to be Trump's labor secretary after allegations of domestic abuse surfaced. At the time, Puzder, who was worth $45 million in mid-2017, according to Forbes, supports states lowering their minimum wage amounts.
Stephen Moore, a fellow at the heavily Koch-funded Heritage Foundation, is also a board member.
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Democratic Leaders Rake in Corporate Cash as 'the Squad' Sticks With Small Donors
Alex Kotch
A Sludge analysis of new second-quarter campaign finance reports has found that the Democratic leaders in the House combined to take in nearly $1.2 million in contributions from corporate and trade association PACs.
Published on Jul 16, 2019 6:41PM EDT
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Days After Taking Money from Big Pharma, Bucshon Criticized Trump's Drug Price Disclosure Rule
Donald Shaw
Bucshon's recent donors include the PACs of drug companies that sued the government to block the disclosure rule.
Donna Shalala Opposes Florida Drug Import Bill, and So Do Her Pharma Lobbyist Donors
The Democratic congresswoman and former HHS secretary called a bill to allow her state to import cheaper drugs from Canada "the silliest thing I've ever heard of."
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