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Gorilla Video Review: Heavenly Hell
TheLadyJack October 17, 2013 February 13, 2017 4 Fun
Bruno Mars' "Gorilla" has a video. This Hooligan had feared its fiery lack of innuendo would consign it to the "LP cut" pile, never to be released for human consumption due to its piquancy. "Gorilla", from Bruno's album "Unorthodox Jukebox" is a bellicose anthem dedicated to raw, unbridled, soul-altering sex. How could it ever go mainstream?
A review posted on this blog about Gorilla some time ago paid tribute to my favorite Bruno Mars tune – without any hope of it becoming as common as bottled water. Like many, I was acquainted with Mars' music without much involvement until October 2012 when he rendered such a poignant delivery of "Young Girls" on Saturday Night Live that his catalog was inhaled by my iTunes player.
A radio veteran, I am not content to listen only to the hits, instead preferring to "put the needle on the record" and walk away. As I was moving between rooms, I heard the second verse of "Gorilla" – 'call the cops, call the sheriff, call the SWAT…' and I nearly dropped what I was holding. I said to myself, "play that again" and I did, from the beginning. This cut became my favorite song by Bruno Mars out of all the songs I'd heard. But I never thought it would see, shall we say, the light of day.
Amateur video of #GorillaLive accompanied Bruno and his band, The Hooligans from stop to stop of the Moonshine Jungle World Tour, whipping up his fan base – but would it play in Peoria? Cut to the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards, where, in a field of some pretty flashy acts, Bruno easily provided one of the night's most riveting performances ("Gorilla" live) with both thrilling voice and raw emotion. The audience was spellbound.
A radio version of "Gorilla" made the rounds, and the buzz over a video was unrelenting. Finally, the day of the big reveal (after a one-day delay)… October 15, 2013. That's enough background; let's get down to the nitty-gritty.
The video opens in the dressing room of a strip club. To the strains of another UJ cut, "Money Make Her Smile", two strippers (in Spanish) are discussing the new girl, who has captivated the venue's band singer, played by Bruno. One apparently had been involved with the singer, and she declares after applying a thick coat of crimson lipstick, that while she may have lost the guy, she would not be losing any work to this intruder – and further, she intends to expose the affair to their mutual employer. At that point, in walks the proprietor, played by none other than character actor Luis Guzmán. He calls out to Isabella, who had been hiding and eavesdropping, to the surprise of her co-workers. As she departs the room, she drops her half-smoked cigarette into the drink of the woman who had been dogging her.
The red in the video's title and the lipstick carry over into the bar and lounge, which is a disjointed 'garden' with crates of fruit, peeling floral wallpaper, and an incongruously elegant green neon sign in a bubbly cursive right behind the band, "La Jungla (The Jungle)". Another interesting sight at this nightclub, is the odd neon crucifix – sin and piety together, as though they are actually joined beyond our collective knowledge. The owner of the club takes to the mic, urging the crowd to welcome this new addition to the lineup and the opening percussion of "Gorilla" begins. Behind him are a nodding woman, pictures of scantily clad ladies, and prayer candles, a surprising set of contradictions. Back in the club, Isabella peels forth the curtain and walks out past the band. The singer eyes her with an unrestrained longing (or is that dread?), and she gets to work. As the singer and band perform, she does also, on a pole. Defying gravity and decency, she slides down with legs flaying sensually, holds her body perpendicular while spinning around, and lowers herself with her legs to the sky. All the while, the singer is fantasizing about her lying back in wait for him, as she rolls about the stage.
As his memories of their last encounter seem to mingle with his visions of their next rendezvous, Isabella bangs her chest ("Bang, bang – Gorilla!") and rips open the short coverup she had been wearing to reveal a body suit that features criss-crossing straps that lead to translucent diamond patterns in strategic areas, and sparks literally fly. Here I must acknowledge a friend's contribution (Twitter user @LotusBee27 whose perspective on the symbolism led to additions to this review) that the effect was that of snakeskin – that this dancer was both Eve and the Serpent in the Garden of Eden. If this is so, the sinuous way she slid down, then around the pole, adds to the illusion. The men seated in the audience erupt in fascinated joy at the sight of her toned and statuesque form, and begin cheering and tossing money her way – much to the consternation of her stripper colleagues, who feel eclipsed by the incendiary performance. One gentleman actually forgets himself completely and shoves a lap dancer off of him!
As the stripper Isabella continues, the singer remembers – or anticipates – a hot sexual encounter with her in the back seat of a car. He is alternately gentle and bestial, his eyes sometimes pleading, sometimes predatory, as their hands and tongues explore each other. At a time in the song that signifies her approaching ecstasy ('give it to me baby, give it to me…!'), she screams the words while kneeling in the midst of the men's money all about the stage. As she bangs his chest during his reverie, in reality she executes a daring split which sends the men in the crowd into a frenzy of whoops… and another hailstorm of money flies her way. As Mars' character crows about his own prowess ('I got your body trembling like it should… you'll never be the same baby once I'm done with you…!'), Isabella maintains control of the situation. She does what few ever do – she touches a musician's instrument (licking his guitar!), then drags it off to be incinerated under a libation of tequila and a well-dropped blazing matchbook. She quite literally "destroys" his "axe", and by extension, him – and he lets her. This Romeo seems too far gone to see that this young, wild girl might very well be the death of him. At his vocal climax (being polite here, if that's possible) water gushes from an overhead sprinkler – his destruction is complete. The water does douse the flames of the guitar, but the burning in our hero is waxed rather than waned.
Scenes of the two in the car, each taking turns being the aggressor, add to the heat factor throughout the band's performance. As steamy as all of this is, the singer and Isabella remain fully clothed – the chemistry between Bruno Mars and the actress, Slumdog Millionaire's Freida Pinto, is remarkably intimate and fine. They actually appear to be in love, but it becomes clear during rapidfire cuts between the stage and the car, that it is money that makes her smile, and if that singer is actually falling for her, he is doomed. Perhaps this is in the mix of his expression as he sees her strut onto the stage, and again as she departs it.
Once she leaves the stage, we see the singer, running down a dark alley, towards her vague outline in the distance. The figurative canal, leading to her fire, is a long way from the 'spiritual waters' in "Locked out of Heaven", yet both songs describe the same experience from a different angle. "LOOH" is the ethereal, "Gorilla" is the earthy. As he gets closer to the woman who is now aflame, we see close-ups of her eyes, then darkness. Cutting back to the alley, we see that the singer has devolved into a rampaging gorilla, heading further, past the point of no return, into the darkness, to meet his sweet fate. Perhaps to be done in by his own sword… As the final orchestra hits resound and the bass hums to the conclusion, we view our diva, lying back, satisfied and smiling – and the singer's hand rests across from her on the top of the back seat.
This music video provides an incredible back story to a more than vivid march through the mind, heart and body of a man on fire searching for Heaven but headed for Hell. With the help of co-director Cameron Duddy, Bruno Mars cut a path through this "jungle", his creation, to expose the full measure of his lyrics. He knows all the corners and every tree, and he'll be the first to let you know, "he gotchu." So fall back into his arms and let this Tarzan show you the mysteries of his house. Ladies and gentlemen: "Gorilla"
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What happens to CAFC PlayerHD?
CAFC PlayerHD will end on June 30th 2017. All refunds have been/will be dealt with centrally by the EFL.
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Parts of Valley Pass will be free for subscribers and you will only need to login to view content. Other parts will be behind a paywall including commentary where minimum prices we can charge are set centrally by the EFL.
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A special matchday pass is available for just £4 which will give you access to the site for 48 hours, giving you time to listen to the commentary and tune in the next day to watch the highlights.
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We will be updating new content to the archive regularly with over 2000 videos already on the site. At present fans can watch short highlights from every competitive match back to the 1988/89 season, as well as season reviews, club-produced videos and highlights from special games dating back to the 1940s.
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Family Guy Sneak Peek: Brian Falls Head Over Paws for Amanda Seyfried
By Andy Swift / January 6 2018, 10:45 AM PST
Brian Griffin's new girlfriend is a total dog — and we couldn't be happier for him.
Following a string of unsuccessful attempts at romancing human women — most recently his co-worker at a suicide hotline, voiced by Kristen Bell — Brian is finding romance with one of his own species on Sunday's Family Guy (Fox, 9/8c).
TVLine's exclusive clip from the episode finds Brian encountering a lovely lady dog named Ellie (voiced by guest star Amanda Seyfried) with whom he immediately forms a connection. Honestly, I haven't seen this much chemistry between Brian and another dog since his tryst with Seabreeze back in Season 3.
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Pope Francis stresses power of prayer ahead of Pentecost
Pope Francis celebrates Easter Sunday Mass behind closed doors due to an outbreak of the new coronavirus at St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, April 12. (Photo by Andreas Solaro/Pool via Reuters)
Pope Francis has once again stressed the power of prayer as he continued his catechesis during his weekly general audience on May 27.
This time, the pope focused on the first chapters of Genesis that tells of the fall of Adam and Eve and on the murder of Abel at the hands of his brother, Cain.
He juxtaposed the evil behind these character's sinful actions with the good behind the sincere prayers of just people like Abel, Seth, and Noah.
The pontiff then invited the faithful to emulate righteous men and women of prayer in asking God for healing, growth, and transformation.
"We too still experience the presence of wickedness in the world," he said. "Yet God's will for his creatures is for the good, not for evil," said Pope Francis.
He said Abel, Seth, Enoch, and Noah in the Bible "acted humbly and prayed to God with sincerity."
"These just men of prayer were peacemakers who show that authentic prayer, freed from the tendency to violence, is a hope-filled gaze directed to God, which can cultivate new life in place of arid hatred," said the pontiff.


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"Members of the new group of world servers and men and women of goodwill must be sought for in every department of life. They will be found among the adherents of all the current ideologies and in political and scientific circles, among the world educators and philanthropists, among the creative workers, the industrialists, in ordinary homes and in the ranks of labour. I (Master D.K.) call on all the men and women of goodwill in the world to study the principles of the new world order. I call upon them, as they fight for justice and the rights of the little nations and the future of the children of all nations, to begin to educate those whom they can reach , in right attitudes and in that foresighted vision which make the mistakes of the past impossible in the future." (Externalisation of the Hierarchy, p. 204-207)
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Why are logic board replacements always a source of grief?
Just what is it, anyway, with the times when you have to get a logic board in a computer replaced? Is it only an Apple Macintosh thing? Every single encounter I've had with the procedure has resulted in some sort of complication.
Never mind the fact that after mine was done recently, I had to re-authenticate iTunes, re-enter registration codes on some applications, and start over on my Time Machine backups, all because everything thought it was a new computer.
No, what I'm talking about are the things that aren't supposed to be part of the replacement. On my MacBook Pro, there's now a faint hum I can hear when I attach external speakers. Volume settings are all still the same, but that hum was not there before my original logic board failed.
Meanwhile, @rickmacmerc has also been experiencing issues after a recent replacement—more serious than just my little audio hum.
Further case in point, a good many years ago, the ethernet failed on a G3 tower at work. Since the ethernet was on the logic board and not a separate card, the whole board had to be replaced. When it came back, it would appear to boot properly, but start suffering random freezes after several minutes.
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September 17, 2019, 10:05 AM ET
Was Felicity Huffman's 14-Day Sentence a "Loss" for the Prosecution?
Felicity Huffman will turn herself in on October 25 to begin her sentence for her role in the college admissions scandal.
By Marianne Garvey
The prosecution originally wanted a minimum of four months' jail time for Felicity Huffman for her role in the college admissions scandal.
However, on September 13, the judge in the case sentenced Huffman to 14 days behind bars, a $30,000 fine, one year of supervised release, and 250 hours of community service, which she reportedly has already begun.
The actress is expected to turn herself in on October 25 to start her prison time.
Huffman was remorseful, and pleaded guilty on May 13 to conspiracy to commit mail and honest service frauds in the scandal, in which she hired a proctor to tweak her daughter's SAT answers.
Now people have opinions, of course. John Legend tweeted, "I get why everyone gets mad when rich person X gets a short sentence and poor person of color Y gets a long one. The answer isn't for X to get more; it's for both of them to get less (or even none!!!). We should level down not up."
According to TMZ, the prosecution "got shut down by both the probation dept. and the judge," and it's a major loss for them.
"The law doesn't consider the possibility some other student was denied admission because Felicity had her daughter's SAT test rigged. You may not like that, but that's what the judge said," TMZ reported, adding that that "undercuts the core of the prosecution's case."
San Diego-based criminal defense attorney David P. Shapiro spoked to Personal Space about Huffman's sentence — and what's likely in store for Lori Loughlin, another celebrity implicated in the scandal. Shapiro says it's not seen as a loss for the prosecution because Huffman is rich and famous and it's a miracle she's doing any time at all.
"While the sentence imposed may seem to be a slap on the wrist and a product of 'white privilege' by many, 14 days of custody is certainly not a loss for the prosecution in this instance," he explains. "The government, in its sentencing paperwork, was only asking for 30 days custody."
So they get half that.
Shapiro adds that the sentence sends a message to the other offenders that yes, you will likely do time — and since Huffman's crime wasn't horrible by comparison, the other parents' sentences are likely to be longer.
"The 14-day sentence can actually be seen as a win for the government now that word is out to the other defendants that this judge will impose actual custody time to those who are convicted, whether by way of a plea agreement or after trial," he says.
Los Angeles-based criminal defense attorney David Welch agrees.
"My opinion is that it was not a loss at all for the prosecution," he says. "They asked for 30 days, while the defense team asked for no custody. Many judges will 'split the baby' and it appears that this sentence is exactly that.
"There are several important positives prosecutors can point to regarding this sentence: Even with the minimal sentence Huffman received, prosecutors are certainly pleased that she will not be able to use her financial means to avoid it and will suffer the indignity of incarceration. I believe the greater message is with regards to the other defendants such as Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Giannulli. If Felicity Huffman paid $15,000 to have someone take her daughter's SAT, prosecutors will argue that the $500,000 paid by Loughlin as well as the staged rowing photos point to a much more sophisticated crime warranting lengthy sentences, assuming they enter pleas or are found guilty."
Huffman's sentence involving even two weeks of custody "sets a minimum threshold certain to send a strong message to the other defendants," Welch adds. "Know that the prosecution can and will argue for significant prison time in the event of any conviction."
Vanity Fair is reporting that Loughlin and husband Giannulli should expect that harsher punishment.
"The pair are alleged to have invested even more money in the college admissions scandal, and their refusal to plead guilty has many — including Loughlin herself, allegedly — worried about a jail stay much longer than 14 days," says the report.
The two are accused of paying $500,000 to a middleman to have their daughters, Olivia Jade and Isabella Rose, presented on their USC applications as crew team members, complete with photoshopped pictures.
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Business Facilities names Alabama 'State of the Year' for 2015
Business Facilities magazine said today it has selected Alabama as its 2015 "State of the Year" after landing a string of coveted economic development projects from Polaris Industries, Google and other companies.
This is the first time Alabama has claimed the site-selection publication's highest award. Business Facilities singled out Alabama's successful recruitment of Polaris' $127 million ATV factory, which will create as many as 2,000 jobs at a new production hub in Huntsville, and Google's $600 million data center, to be built in Jackson County.
In its evaluation of the states, Business Facilities looked at the top 5 economic development projects in terms of job creation and capital investment between Oct. 1, 2014 and Nov. 1, 2015, while considering other factors. Alabama's award was announced on the publication's website today and will be featured in a cover story in the magazine's January/February issue.
"The Crimson Tide has brought in a bevy of big-ticket projects that have provided a solid foundation for future growth," Business Facilities Editor in Chief Jack Rogers said in the magazine's announcement.
"With Mercedes-Benz and Airbus anchoring top-tier positions in automotive and aerospace manufacturing, an expanding high-tech hub and forward-thinking leadership in 21st-century workforce training, Alabama has put together a winning combination that's tough to beat," Rogers said.
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Governor Robert Bentley said the Business Facilities honor caps a strong year for Alabama's economic development efforts.
"Our chief focus remains on creating jobs and new opportunities for residents across the state," Governor Bentley said. "I believe we are well-positioned to do that thanks to the state's skilled workforce, great job-training programs, and a business environment that promotes growth."
Business Facilities also pointed to Alabama's strong record of attracting foreign direct investment from companies such as France-based Airbus and growing export activity, which has seen overseas shipments of Alabama-made goods more than double in the past decade.
"Whether it's foreign direct investment or an appetite for U.S.-made goods, a growing number of global players are singing the same tune: Sweet Home Alabama," Rogers said.
In addition to Polaris and Google, other Alabama projects highlighted by Business Facilities included:
Mercedes' plans to invest $1.3 billion to expand its Tuscaloosa County assembly plant and prepare it for the production of next-generation SUVS. The project will add 300 jobs, many of them highly paid engineering positions.
Auto supplier Kamtek's $530 million project to expand its Birmingham facility and add a new aluminum casting line, creating 350 jobs.
Yorozu's plans to open a plant in Jasper to produce auto suspension parts, generating 300 new jobs.
"Alabama's economic team will continue to work tirelessly to bring companies such as Google and Polaris to the state, and our support system will help these firms achieve success," said Greg Canfield, secretary of the Alabama Department of Commerce. "Our ability to attract companies of this caliber makes a strong statement about doing business in Alabama."
Canfield added that the new "Made in Alabama" incentives platform and a streamlined approach to workforce development, now centered in Commerce, will enhance the state's competitiveness in 2016 and beyond.
"It's hard to believe that there remains a shortage of skilled workers in the United States, but Alabama has stepped forward to address this need with bold initiatives that can serve as a model for the rest of the nation," said Rogers, the Business Facilities editor.
Business Facilities is a leading full-service media brand specializing in the site selection marketplace, with a bi-monthly magazine, e-mail newsletters and an online news portal. It is owned by New Jersey-based Group C Media.
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Do you want to train the next generation of social workers and create solutions to pressing social problems? Unlike most other disciplines, the job outlook for social work faculty positions is robust. As the demand for master's-level social workers continues to increase, so does the demand for new educators to train them at a time when nearly 25 percent of U.S. social work faculty members are nearing retirement.
Most of our PhD graduates pursue careers as social work faculty members or researchers in university settings. Approximately 25 percent of our graduates work in other settings, such as nonprofit organizations and policy think tanks where they can put their research training to work.
"I've had colleagues in other PhD programs in social work across the nation who were not as well prepared as I have been in this program. The school really sets you up for a great experience. It's very supportive but also extremely rigorous."
Ann Obermann, PhD '17, Assistant Professor, Metropolitan State University of Denver
PhD Financial Aid
Most students are admitted to our PhD program with a competitive funding package that typically provides three years of financial support.
In the first two years, PhD students receive a graduate assistantship, which includes a living stipend, 100 percent tuition waiver and a health care subsidy.
Most students are eligible for a pre-doctoral fellowship, which continues the living stipend. (A tuition waiver is no longer necessary because all classes are completed during the first two years of the program.)
We support students in seeking adjunct teaching roles, research assistant roles on funded faculty projects and external fellowships.
An Emphasis on Teaching
Offered on our campus in Denver, Colorado, the PhD program is geared toward those who already have an MSW or a master's degree in a related field and who want to work as a faculty member or researcher in an academic setting. From team-based mentorship to an emphasis on training excellent teachers, several features make our program stand apart:
Excellent Mentorship
One of the best predictors of success in doctoral programs is the strength of the relationship between students and their faculty mentors. The GSSW faculty is passionate about doctoral education, works collaboratively with students to help them succeed in their job search, has strong national networks within the discipline, and supports students in becoming excellent social work scholars.
Emphasis on Collaboration
Whether it is partnerships between faculty and doctoral students, among doctoral students, or with community partners, most GSSW research involves collaboration. When students share common research interests, they work with faculty as teams that support incoming students with multiple mentors, provide opportunities for more advanced students to mentor, and enhance the productivity of doctoral students and faculty.
Foundation in Theory
Although most programs provide a solid foundation in research methodology and statistics, the focus on theory and the philosophy of science can vary significantly. Because we are committed to developing scholars who are solidly grounded in theory, students are required to take a philosophy of science course along with courses in social work theory and theory in their substantive area.
Commitment to Social Justice
Across our academic programs, you'll find a deep commitment to scholarship that is centered in issues of social justice. We educate students to understand practice, teaching and research in the context of social justice. For instance, assistant professor Yolanda Anyon and doctoral students are addressing social justice through research on restorative justice and implementation of the evidence-based Youth Engaged in Leadership and Learning (YELL) program.
Most of our faculty members are involved in community-based research, and we have an extensive network of community-based partners — from large health care systems to social service providers to schools and community organizers — that co-create much of our research.
Emphasis on Producing Excellent Teachers
Not all doctoral programs emphasize producing graduates who are excellent teachers, as well as excellent researchers. We require a course on pedagogy and a teaching practicum. GSSW also has a number of faculty members who conduct research on evidence-based teaching and pedagogy.
Training in Varied Research Methodologies
Unlike most doctoral programs, we provide training in a broad array of research methodologies. You will learn and practice quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods research designs as well as analytic techniques. This variety will allow you to select the best research methods for the questions you're pursuing in your independent research.
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Passionate about educating future social work practitioners, Bender mentors all doctoral students. Her student-focused approach places students' individual goals at the center of their learning plans and gradually moves them from learning specific tasks to becoming independent scholars. "GSSW is a place where students can admit what they don't know but are also challenged to push their learning edge," she says.
Advanced Social Welfare Policy Analysis
Applies analytical techniques to development of social welfare policy stressing the ability to formulate a policy hypothesis (i.e., a statement, in testable form, of a basic premise undergirding a policy position) and to reach conclusions based on analysis of empirical evidence related to the policy hypothesis. This course is for SOWK PhD students only.
Seminar in Professional Social Work Issues
Examines the dilemmas and challenges confronting the social work profession and social work education. Examines the nature of professional education, the nature of the profession itself and the forces internal and external to the profession that have an impact upon practice and education. Required.
Living at GSSW
Ours is an environment where every voice matters and a culture that welcomes and embraces the rich diversity of our extended community. We stand in solidarity with immigrants, religious groups, people of color, indigenous communities, people with disabilities, survivors of sexual violence, members of the LGBTQIA community, and all other communities whose civil rights have been threatened and/or violated. As a school dedicated to the development of future social workers who will embody and represent the values and ethics of social justice, we commit ourselves to understanding our place in the larger context of institutional injustice.
Diversity and Inclusion at GSSW
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The Denver Difference
The University of Denver campus is just a short train or bus ride from downtown Denver (all University of Denver students get a free pass!), a city that U.S. News & World Report has named one of the nation's best places to live. Craft beer, food trucks and art crawls are plentiful, as are urban and mountain parks and recreation opportunities. Denver also is home to a thriving, engaged community of social justice activists. And as one of the nation's fastest-growing cities with several major universities nearby, Denver has no shortage of job opportunities.


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US Gun-Control Groups Outspending Pro-Gun Forces on Election
U.S. gun-control advocates have outspent gun-rights groups by more than 40 percent on next month's congressional elections, reversing the National Rifle Association's long-standing dominance in spending on gun politics.
Boosted largely by the personal fortune of billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who is considering a 2020 presidential run, the gun-control spending almost entirely benefits Democrats, who are seeking to wrest majorities from the Republicans in the House of Representatives and Senate in the Nov. 6 elections.
Gun-control groups, including Giffords and Everytown for Gun Safety, have spent $20.2 million on the elections, well over the $14.1 million spent by pro-gun groups led by the NRA, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Federal Election Commission.
Federal, state activity
So far, it marks the first time in at least two decades that gun-control groups have outspent gun-rights groups on federal races, though gun-control groups have outspent gun-rights advocates in state elections in recent years, according to data compiled by the National Institute on Money in Politics.
"There is definitely a shift," said Peter Ambler, the executive director of Giffords, formed by gunshot survivor and former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords after the mass shooting in December 2012 that killed 20 schoolchildren in Connecticut. "It was just a few years ago when people considered gun safety to be one of politics' third rails. Now the opposite is true."
The FEC report covers federal campaign spending through Oct. 17 and will be the last public report before the Nov. 6 vote.
FILE – Attendees walk by a display of AR-15s and AR-10s at the National Rifle Association convention in Dallas, May 4, 2018.
The NRA accounts for about 85 percent of the gun-rights spending and overwhelmingly supports Republicans. It could still close the gap; its Political Victory Fund had $8.9 million on hand as of Oct. 17, the FEC data showed, compared with $2.1 million for Giffords and Everytown combined.
An NRA spokeswoman said Bloomberg's money would not overturn public support for the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which protects the right to keep and bear arms.
"While the gun-control lobby is funded by a blank check from a New York City anti-gun billionaire, the NRA relies on millions of small donations from working men and women," NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said in an email. "His money is no match for our grass-roots organization."
The NRA is concentrating on unseating Senate Democrats and recently said it would spend more than $1 million aimed at defeating Sen. Joe Donnelly of Indiana.
Bloomberg efforts
Bloomberg, founder of the financial information and media company Bloomberg LP, formed Everytown in 2014 when he pledged $50 million to the cause and combined forces with Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. Bloomberg has pledged another $100 million for House and Senate Democrats this year.
Everytown has spent $3.6 million, according to the FEC data. Most of its $20 million budget this year has been devoted to state races.
Giffords has spent $16.3 million this election cycle, the FEC data show, and has set aside at least $1 million for each of four competitive House races to defeat incumbent Republicans in Virginia, Minnesota, Texas and Colorado.
Everytown has pledged to spend $10 million in state races in Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and New Mexico, plus another $3.5 million in Nevada and $2 million in Florida.
Gun-control groups have outspent the pro-Second Amendment forces in states before, notably in 2016, by a margin of $26 million to $11 million, according to National Institute on Money in Politics. The NRA and its allies more than made up for that with $70 million in spending on the federal level.
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Women don't always have the same typical heart attack symptoms as those of a male, such as an excruciating chest pain that travels down one arm.
Those symptoms can happen to women, but in many cases do not. The symptoms can be almost "silent" and quite minor, so women often brush it off as the flu, stress or simply "feeling under the weather".
The circulation study showed the younger the woman, the less likely they are to experience chest pain.
Just because the symptoms of a heart attack in women are less severe than those in a man, it doesn't make the heart attack itself less severe. A heart attack is life threatening. If you think you, or anyone else is having a heart attack, phone 999 for an ambulance immediately. Do not attempt to drive yourself or another person to the hospital.


I just released Ward Pro for WordPress. It's a pretty awesome looking premium theme built using Twitter Boostrap 3. The demo is up so you can check out how it looks. I've even released a free version that should go live on WordPress.org shortly.
View Ward Pro on Themes by bavotasan.com.
I bought the pro version of Ward a few days ago and have liked working with it. I have one issue that I was hoping you can assist with. I have set up four custom "image/icon text widgets" in the Home Page Top Area. I would like to have each image be a link to another page, but I don't see a way to configure that. Any pointers?
If it's not a readily available option, can you point out where in the php I could hack it?
Just got this, working good so far!
Hi, I just wanted to know how I could get the widget icons on the home page to line up horizontally, because as of right now it is only displaying it vertically! Please help! Thank you!
Ward Pro looks pretty sweet!!!
This is possibly a noob question but do you have any plans to release Ward Pro in a version that I can host on wordpress?
Or is it only going to be available when self hosting?
Such a great theme for official website. i will buy asap for own official website. thanks of refer.
Yup. Using a plugin such as Yoast's WordPress SEO works great with Ward Pro.
Got Ward Pro a week ago and it's working fabulously!
Is there any way to change the jumbotron or the top navigation bar to insert a logo image?
No. The design of the top navigation bar doesn't really work with a logo.
Please instruct on how to add logo to home page….perhaps by replacing the start button with a custom logo. Thanks!
There isn't an option to add a logo to the home page.
Also, is there any way to input columns in full width view (to mimic non-full width) but allow for responsive design on mobile view?
Sophie, the only way I could think to resolve this was to create a logo in the jumbotron background by changing the functions.php and adding a background image and leaving a single space in the headline for spacing.
Hi Q, I am a beginner with ph. Which part of the functions page should I change ?
Make sure in your jumbotron text area you don't have anything except some spaces.
Make sure you have downloaded the latest version. There may have been a bit of a hiccup with the one you have so download it again from my site and reinstall.
Theme is fantastic. But I have 1 question. I would like to see the Home page widget area to appear on all pages and posts. Can you tell me how can I do that. Thanks in advance.
HI, I bought Ward Pro and I see that you are working on the ability to link the images in the jumbo header and I wonder if the same is true for images that I add to the extended footer as well? I put in images for facebook, google+, etc. and want to be able to link to my actual facebook, google+, etc. pages. Thanks.
The fix I am putting in place will add a URL field to the Image Text Widget. If that is what you are using in the footer then you will be able to add links there as well.
Bought the theme but then was redirected to sign in page. How can I download it?
Hey Anton. I just sent you the information you need to log in and download the theme.
Thank you, theme is great. Is there a way to add custom fonts? The ones you can chose from are nice but not all of them are cyrillic friendly.
The only way to add any custom Google Fonts is to create a child theme and then include the @import code that Google provides. This code needs to go first thing in the style.css file before the @import call to the parent theme stylesheet.
Hi,thank you for this nice theme!
I do have a question though. I want to find the code for the home-page-widgets and then add link to each text-image-widget. Would you tell me which file(php) are they in please? Thank you!
And the jumbo headline, how can I make it only appear on the front page?
That feature will be out in the next release.
Thx for help :), I tried that already, but it doesn't make the pic a great circle. But, finally, figure out that just makes the pic has the same length and height, like 500*500. And problem solved.
Super professional design and easy to launch to a live site. I wanted to endorse the Ward -Pro theme for its professional appearance and one which can be rolled out and customized beautifully very quickly with very little intervention. It made re-working my web site a breeze. All my questions about Ward-Pro and beyond were quickly answered and resolved. I would recommend this theme in a heartbeat! Thank you!
Hi! Thanks for the update – widget images got links!
Can I ask for google fonts cyrillic support in next update? Most of google fonts you use support it by default, you just need to do some adjustments to the code.
I am using you Ward theme from the wordpress.org but the responsive menu is not working.
it appears there but is not clickable.
I disabled some plugins but still having the issue.
There's a strange left padding on your site that is making things uneven. Make sure you are using the latest release and that you haven't customized anything that might be causing the issue.
I fixed the responsive menu – it was a caching issue.
The issue I'm having now is the menu.
The main menu doesn't work properly. Sometimes it clicks then sometimes it doesn't.
i have disabled all plugins and the caching one but it still happens.
Do you have any ideas about this issues?
Great theme by the way!!
sorry me again – when I add the sub menus – the main menu doesn't work. When I remove the sub menus the main menu then works. Very strange – do you have any advice.
i have removed the customised css i added but this does nothing.
The theme is only built for one level of drop down menus. So that might be what you are having an issue with.
Hello. How remove link from article title?
That's a built in feature. Without the link there would be no way to go to the single post page.
Hi–Since the last update, my blog page (not set to home page) is aligning centered like the home page, and ignoring the right side bar so everything overlaps. It is the only page that does this, as the individual posts are fine. I think I found the code that is setting this incorrectly, but don't know how to fix it. You can see the issue at functionalback.com/tips Thanks!
Bleh! Got an update coming soon that will hopefully fix the issue for you.
Love this theme, by the way, and really like the clickable front page images now.
There are no sidebars on the home page. That is by design.
Like I said, my blog ISN'T on my home page. I have a static home page, and the blog is on an internal page. Before the updates, the blog page (www.functionalback.com/tips) had the layout of any other internal page, with a right sidebar. Since the updates, the blog first overran the right sidebar and now the sidebar has disappeared completely.
As the blog page is where people typically opt-in to the newsletter, not having the sidebar for the opt-in form is a big omission.
This is exactly what happened to me. I would also love to have the sidebar back on my blog page. If it's possible to add this to a future update that would be really helpful.
When the theme was originally released, there were no sidebars on any archive page, including the home page. I updated the theme to fix some issues with the way the Bootstrap grid was being created and that caused a bug where sidebars appeared where they weren't suppose to and some text overlapped things. Now everything is working the way it is suppose to. Single posts and pages are the only place where sidebars appear.
So the sudden appearance of the right side bar on the home page (www.functionalback.com), underneath the top area with all the widgets, is deliberate? It was reported to me as a bug by a visitor to my website!
If you don't want a sidebar on your static home page, set the page to full width. The option is in the right panels when you are editing the page, in the Layout panel.
Is it possible to change the front widget icon (power button) to a custom image I have made?
Ward Pro allows you to choose any Font Awesome icon. In order to add your own custom image, you would have to manually change the HTML.
I've just bought the pro version and love it! thank you.
I'm sure I'm missing something really obvious, but can you tell me how I do this please?
Ward is designed to only have sidebars on single post pages. The home page is designed to be full width. Check out the demo to see what I mean.
2) Is there a way to *darken* the text color that is shown in posts, in sidebar links etc? Its' grayish and I wish it would "pop" as black on white background would.
Just me or is the Light Menu theme not working properly? When it goes "responsive" on a smaller screen, the Hamburger Button isn't showing up. Just get a white bar.
Also, It's transparent rather than a white bar, so when you scroll the other text and site content appears behind the links and makes it difficult to read properly.
And in Dark Mode, the Hamburger Button is on the left on my iPhone, but Right on my iPad. Gets a bit confusing?
You mentioned previously back in October I think about having the option built in to make it so the Jumbo Headline was only on the front page. Is that still happening or do we just keep using the snippet?
Loving the theme, can't wait to publish my new site.
A fix will be in the next release.
Can I see a live example of this?
No replies yet but might as well try again.
Is there anyway to change just the color of H1 on "other" pages / posts. IE – not the Jumbo version? Been trying all morning to edit just H1 color both in Custom CSS and my Child Theme, but none of the obvious edits make a difference. In the Customiser I can only do all H1, H2 etc.
Also – did the pricing change? Looks like it's now Free / $69. I only paid $40 a week or so ago instead of the other Premium option you had I think for multiple sites. Now I am not sure if I am on the Free version or now paying $69 a year instead?
I'm guessing this is why WordPress is telling me there is a 1.0.6 upgrade for my current 1.0.6 version?
It's better to use the support forum for questions like this. I spend more time on there then checking through these comments.
I just changed my pricing yesterday. You have a premium license which entitles you to 1 year of support. The alert that tells you to update is just a bug.


There is a giant "C" sprawled across Zack Wiley's chest, just as there is a giant "C" sprawled across the chest of the other 22 Crespi of Encino baseball players.
But Wiley's "C" means a little something more.
As the Celts head to Angel Stadium for the Southern Section Division-II championship game today at 4:30 p.m., Wiley will be the one doling out advice, giving his teammates a few words of encouragement, tossing out pick-me-ups like a cheerleader in cleats.
"He is not particularly vocal, but he's very encouraging to everybody out there, especially when guys are making mistakes," Crespi coach Scott Muckey said. "You have a coach yelling, he's the guy who says, 'Hey, come on, pick it up. It's no problem.' He's a calming presence, very positive on the field.
During the middle of the season, he needed a bit of support himself.
Mired in a slump that coincided with his team's – after a 7-0 start, the Celts finished the regular season dropping 11 of their final 20 games – Wiley found himself hurting, mentally and emotionally. The slump was difficult to break out of, particularly because it was not even that bad. There were plenty of 1 for 3 days, and Wiley either registered a hit or a run in all but five of the team's 31 games. But Wiley is not used to 1 for 3.
It took some time for Wiley to rebound, but he did, with multi-hit games in four of Crespi's last nine games.
His teammates stood by him, his coach stood by him.
There was a method to Muckey's madness.
He views Wiley as an ideal No. 3 hitter, able to make contact even when a hit is not necessary, capable of laying down a bunt or sacrificing to right field.
"Even when he's not doing well, he's still good in that three-hole," Muckey said. "He doesn't strike out much. The three-hole is a good spot; if a guy starts going down a little bit, you can hit-and-run with him. He can bunt. He can do all those things that hurt another team. It's not like he's an out, let's go to the next guy.
Healy saw his teammate struggling in the middle of the season and he felt for him.
Wiley is not one for bravado, but Healy could see that his teammate was down. Every out seemed like an eternity.
And Healy would know: The teammates hit together every Monday night, getting in their extra hacks while offering each other advice.
But even when the bat wasn't there, the glove was.
Wiley has been a pillar of consistency at shortstop, after splitting time between third base and the outfield last season. He makes the routine look effortless and the spectacular look routine.
Late in Crespi's 7-5 win over Redlands East Valley in the Div. II semifinals, a Wildcat smoked a line drive off pitcher John Kearns' mitt, and the ball went sailing to the left side of the infield, near the third-base line. Wiley sprinted in, bare-handed the ball and threw a dart to Healy at first base, beating the runner by an eyelash.
Muckey admires simple things though, the routine ground ball, the perfect rake-and-throw.
Next year, he'll make plays 3,000 miles away.
Wiley is headed to Le Moyne University in Syracuse, N.Y. in the fall, choosing to return to the childhood home of his father.
"My dad grew up in Syracuse, so it's cool to go back where he lived," Wiley said.
He's not ready yet, though.
There's one high school game left to play. One more time to lift a fallen teammate, to drop a perfect single over the third baseman's head, to make a diving catch look like a walk in the park.


There are over 5,000 pages on this website and at times I find it difficult to find the stuff that I really love and is important to me and so I have tagged a number of pages as being in my 'top ten' - resources that have influenced me the most and continue to do so.
There are several 'top ten' categories and I am sure I will add more over time and the lists will not remain unchanged for long.
I have yet to tag all the pages that I feel should be included. So see this as a continuing 'work in progress'. But then that is the nature of this whole site.
I am also starting to realise that maybe I should have made this my 'top 20' - there is just so much good stuff.
And a final note - the lists within the categories are in alphabetical order.
Annual conference held by actKM in Australia in late October.


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For those who grew up watching the cheerfully moralistic stop-motion animation of Gumby, Davey and Goliath, and those Rankin/Bass Christmas specials, seeing the Quay Brothers' Street of Crocodiles in the late 1980s was nothing less than culture shock. Inspired by Polish writer Bruno Schulz's fantastical recollections of boyhood, the film follows a gaunt, hollow-eyed puppet (suggestive of Schulz himself) into a decrepit urban netherworld, where, in a tailor's shop, creepy half-skulled dolls perform a ritualistic operation on his body and head. The 21-minute short, all without dialogue and accompanied by haunting music, firmly established twins Timothy and Stephen as masters of a distinct and dark expressionism—a style fully explored in this captivating MOMA retrospective of a remarkably enduring partnership.
Arranged more or less chronologically, the exhibit reveals an early fascination with the macabre in a number of pencil sketches, some of them reminiscent of Edward Gorey's work. In Fantasy—Penalty for a Missed Goal (1968), a soccer player scurries away from a field, having escaped a hanging but not the amputation of his foot. The stark and gloomy A Fratricide by Franz Kafka (1970) features a knife-wielding murderer looming above his victim—a precursor to Ein Brudermord (1981), one of the Quays' first puppet films, which turns the stabbing into an act of shocking brutality. Later graphic design for book covers of edgy titles like Céline's Castle to Castle demonstrates a visual anxiety that would manifest itself in projects for the screen.
The pair became full-time filmmakers in 1980, when a producer arranged commissions (some funded by the BBC) to create five animated documentaries (all screening here) on subjects that include Punch and Judy, Igor Stravinsky, and the surrealist Jan Svankmajer. The formats are marvelously unconventional. Puppets of various types—paper assemblages, dolls, and cobbled-together figures—cavort across shadowy, angular backgrounds, mixing the aesthetics of Weimar cinema with constructivism's boldness; biographical information, minimally narrated, is secondary to the Quay trademark of spooky fantasy.
That vision is evident in everything theatrical the brothers have done, all of it on view: dance dramas, stage design, music videos, and even television commercials. A public service spot on AIDS and a 30-second ad for Rice Krispies Treats create similarly unnerving dream states. But the films are the duo's most intensely imagined efforts; they're immersive journeys into nightmare, assembled with meticulously designed sequences and scenery. (The original miniature sets on display demonstrate an extraordinary level of detail.) The agitated composition of Maska—quick cuts between demon-like puppets, shot in flickering light—turns one of Stanislaw Lem's sci-fi fables into a tale of horror, ramping up the fright by synchronizing action with a searing orchestral piece by the great Krzysztof Penderecki. Likewise, in the heartbreaking Absentia, a freaky electronic score from iconoclast Karlheinz Stockhausen plays over scenes of a terrifying asylum where, surrounded by animated objects, a woman writes letter after letter containing the endlessly repeated plea "sweetheart, come." Based on the real story of Emma Hauck, the portrait of madness might be the most visceral you'll ever see.
Mixing conceptualism and process art, Matthew Brandt's work brings ironic humor to nature. In one series, silk-screened versions of a picture taken in Yosemite National Park use everyday household goods as ink; the layered CMYK colors of Froot Loops, mouthwash, and toothpaste depict an iconic location with the detritus of consumerism. On the opposite wall, parts of bees (collected during the widespread "colony collapse") were used as an actual emulsion in an old-fashioned and complicated printing process, resurrecting the insects into images of lively swarms.
There's similar wit in an adjacent group show, which plays with notions of appropriation and reproduction. Jon Rafman has cleverly projected modernist paintings onto ordinary spaces; in Franz Kline Starbucks, heavy black strokes cover the coffee shop's walls and floor, a compelling improvement on the chain's bland decor. Elsewhere, reflecting those sudden eruptions of gun-nut violence, two lushly rendered forest scenes, which bring to mind work by Thomas Cole, turn out to be images extracted from a kill-'em-all video game.


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Volume 2018, Article ID 2383715, 11 pages
Clinicopathological and Survival Outcomes of Well-Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma Undergoing Dedifferentiation: A Retrospective Study from FUSCC
Ben Ma,1,2 Weibo Xu,1,2 Wenjun Wei,1,2 Duo Wen,1,2 Zhongwu Lu,1,2 Shuwen Yang,1,2 Tongzhen Chen,1,3 Yulong Wang,1,2 Yu Wang,1,2 and Qinghai Ji1,2
1Department of Oncology, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
2Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China
3Department of Pathology, Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center, Shanghai, China
Correspondence should be addressed to Yulong Wang; moc.621@kcendaeh, Yu Wang; moc.anis@031kcen, and Qinghai Ji; nc.gro.achs@iahgniqij
Received 18 December 2017; Revised 26 February 2018; Accepted 1 March 2018; Published 21 May 2018
Academic Editor: Diego Russo
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A City Rising: How Phoenix Is Harnessing the Power of SDG 17
Blog American Leadership on the SDGs A City Rising: How Phoenix Is Harnessing the Power of SDG 17
By MJ Altman on November 22, 2022
American Leadership on the SDGs
A view of Phoenix, Arizona, a city taking on the challenges of climate change, rapid population growth, and water scarcity. Photo: Andrew Zarivny/Shutterstock
Once dubbed "America's least sustainable city" for its record-breaking temperatures and water scarcity, Phoenix is taking on the challenges of climate change, rapid population growth, and water scarcity. How? By rallying local officials and its most global management school around the Sustainable Development Goals to take action.
What happens when a politician and a professor join forces? Just ask Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego and Dr. Sanjeev Khagram, the Director General and Dean of Thunderbird School of Global Management (Thunderbird) at Arizona State University (ASU).
Both are well aware of the stereotypes about their city: that it's a retirement community where few creatures thrive besides scorpions, rattlesnakes, and cacti. And both are excited to change your mind.
Indeed, Arizona's capital is not without its challenges. It's the hottest city in the United States, with average high temperatures soaring to nearly 90 degrees. At the same time, a 22-year drought has caused a historic drop in water levels for the Colorado River basin and Lake Mead, which millions of people across the Southwest — including residents of Phoenix — rely on for drinking water, irrigation, and hydroelectricity. And when it comes to ozone pollution, Phoenix is ranked as one of the worst places in the country to live, according to the American Lung Association.
But in recent years, Phoenix has also become one of the fastest-growing cities in the country and one of the nation's leading manufacturers of electric vehicles and semiconductors. It also has launched the country's first permanent and publicly funded Office of Response and Heat Mitigation. The city has already electrified its police department's motorcycle fleet as well as ground equipment at its airport — the 11th busiest in the world last year — and will be replacing its aging buses with battery-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell versions, thanks to a grant from the bipartisan infrastructure law.
In building "the world's most sustainable desert city," both Gallego and Khagram have embraced a universal road map that has united countries and communities across the globe in protecting the planet and its people: the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Together, last year they launched Phoenix Global Rising, an initiative to foster international trade and investment, promote the full inclusion of immigrants and refugees, create a smart community with sister cities worldwide, and, of course, to achieve the Global Goals.
Director General and Dean Sanjeev Khagram presenting in the Haas Digital Global Forum, the social and technological center of Thunderbird's Global Headquarters in downtown Phoenix. Over 20 million pixels of direct-view LED screens wrap around the forum's ring and northern wall, while a hands-free interactive screen on the adjacent wall allows visitors to control and interact with a digital globe, that spans nearly three meters in diameter. Photo: ASU
This partnership between Phoenix City Hall and Thunderbird School of Global Management — which sit just half a mile from each other in downtown Phoenix — has become a driving force behind a sustainability strategy that is reshaping civic action, corporate investment, and a local-to-global vision for the future.
"I am very lucky to have the Thunderbird School of Global Management and ASU in my backyard," Gallego says. "Thunderbird is walking distance from Phoenix City Hall. They have been a key partner in so many areas. … They brought to the table members of the team that had been very involved with the Sustainable Development Goals and could help us make sure we were able to use them effectively."
With what Khagram calls "arguably the largest collection of faculty, experts, academics, and scholars working on sustainability issues," Thunderbird not only serves as a common ground for people from different sectors and areas of expertise to come together, it also serves as a test laboratory of sorts. "Potential innovations are tested on our campuses and then, if they work, they are scaled out to the community," Khagram says. "So that's a really powerful engine of transformation because it connects citizens and all of these various stakeholders to the unique capacities of the university in terms of convening, thought leadership, and research and development."
One concrete example of this collaboration is the city's Cool Pavement program, which involves coating streets with a lighter, reflective paint. This seemingly straightforward solution addresses what is known as the "urban heat island effect," in which pavements and other impermeable surfaces absorb solar radiation and warm up their surroundings by re-emitting that radiation as heat. Researchers at ASU have found that this reflective paint can reduce surface temperatures by as much as 10 degrees, in addition to reducing the number of potholes. Gallego says she's already fielded inquiries from mayors in South America and Europe who are interested in adopting this approach in their own cities.
Another example of the Gallego-Khagram collaboration brought female entrepreneurs with Mexican heritage, who often lack access to capital, markets, and support, to the local Mexican Consulate for technical training, consulting, and networking opportunities. Gallego says most of the women who participated were able to grow their businesses and feel more connected to the city of Phoenix and to other businesses in Mexico. Since then, the Mexican government has spread the program to consulate offices all over the world.
Both Gallego and Khagram point to the SDGs as a way to not only work together, but also with other governments, companies, and organizations worldwide that are grappling with many of the same challenges. Last year, Khagram helped release a first-of-its-kind publication, the Global SDG Accountability Report, to showcase how diverse stakeholders across the planet are tackling the 2030 Agenda at subnational, national, and international levels.
Thunderbird's "sandbox classroom" features state-of-the-art technology in a highly collaborative environment used to explore new technology and teaching methods. This space is dedicated to exploring, learning and understanding the tools that will work for students and faculty, such as the six touch tables that allow learners to collaborate in an interactive setting. Photo: Inessa Binenbaum
During her most recent visit to Thunderbird, Gallego met with entrepreneurs from Israel who are using advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to better manage water resources, including creating state-of-the-art sensors for detecting leaks. It's an approach that illustrates SDG 17 (Partnerships for the Goals).
"We want to learn as much as we can from the global conversation," Gallego says. "By committing to be part of the process, it helped us be part of a larger collaboration."
When cities across Europe experienced historic heat waves this summer, Gallego stepped up to offer technical support and advice. "We've learned lessons like how to support firefighters who are working in intense heat environments, and how to make sure we create cooling centers," she says.
And this exchange of knowledge works both ways. Thanks in part to insights gleaned from city officials in Freetown, Sierra Leone, for example, Phoenix launched a tree planting program to expand tree cover in underserved parts of the city that both informs and includes neighborhood residents. Like Gallego, leaders in Freetown have turned to the SDGs as a blueprint for a better way to govern.
"Like most other cities, you tend to see more lush tree cover in wealthier areas," Gallego says. "We learned from Freetown that having a local workforce from the communities in which we're planting the trees helps get additional buy-in and broadens the stakeholders who benefit."
As a result, Phoenix's "Tree Equity Accelerator" involves training city residents in urban forestry to foster new jobs skills, entrepreneurship, and local ownership of the initiative.
Harnessing the SDGs to Drive Climate Action
Unlike many big-city mayors in America, Gallego didn't practice law before running for political office; she studied environmental science and worked at one of Arizona's largest utility companies. She credits this academic pedigree and work experience for giving her an uncommon yet increasingly important perspective as a politician, especially in a city that is already feeling the effects of extreme and unpredictable weather. During Gallego's first year in office, in 2019, Phoenix experienced a widespread drought followed by catastrophic flooding, prompting a presidential disaster declaration.
"Climate change is not a hypothetical future problem for us," she says. "It is the most pressing issue right now."
"Climate change is not a hypothetical future problem for us. It is the most pressing issue right now."
Kate Gallego
Mayor of Phoenix
Gallego also attributes the public's increasing awareness of climate change — and the resulting sense of urgency to take climate action — to a growing momentum in the U.S. and abroad for achieving the SDGs, particularly at a local level. "As municipal governments, we are close to the people. We can get things done and we have the motivation to do so," she says. "Mayors see the impact of climate change on a daily basis. … We also see that our residents benefit in a very direct way from being part of global conversations and being connected to the resources that come with it."
The Francis and Dionne Najafi 100 Million Learners Global Initiative has been made possible through a generous initial gift of $25 million from prominent Phoenix businessman and Thunderbird alumni F. Francis Najafi '77 and his wife Dionne Najafi '06. The Global Initiative is an ambitious project to engage 100 million of tomorrow's global learners on a pathway towards a higher education degree and building entrepreneurial skills at no cost to the learner. Photo: ASU
Like Gallego, Khagram brings exceptionally relevant work experience to his position as Director General and Dean of Thunderbird at ASU. In 2015, the same year that UN Member States unanimously ratified the Sustainable Development Goals, he helped to establish the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, which is now hosted at the UN Foundation, to mobilize dynamic data-driven decision-making in support of the Global Goals. He later helped the city of Los Angeles create its own sustainability road map as Mayor Eric Garcetti's Senior Advisor on the SDGs, which included a project in which local college students mapped how LA's plans, policies, and budgets aligned with the 2030 Agenda. When Khagram moved to Phoenix, he brought the lessons he learned from both roles with him — especially about the importance of SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals.
"What both experiences reinforced is that when we bring stakeholders together with incredible leadership and catalytic resources, the potential for impact is tremendous," he says. "That's really the secret sauce."
At the heart of this collaboration are students who bring youthful energy, fresh perspectives, and a personal understanding of what's at stake. "It's really about their generation and their future," Khagram says of today's young people. "They're bringing in lived experiences of the way the world is changing around them, and they want to shape the planet they want to live in."
"When we bring stakeholders together with incredible leadership and catalytic resources, the potential for impact is tremendous."
Dr. Sanjeev Khagram
Director General and Dean of Thunderbird School of Global Management, ASU
Thunderbird is harnessing this potential by equipping students with resources that can turn their big ideas into actual outcomes. This means providing access to 3D printers, augmented, extended, and virtual reality (AR, XR, and VR) labs, and other cutting-edge technology, as well as "global challenge projects" that address real-life problems facing companies and local governments worldwide, not just Phoenix.
Thanks to its size and capacity, Thunderbird at ASU specifically, which today boasts 50,000 alumni in 140 countries and 20 regional Centers of Excellence across the globe, means Khagram can broaden this partnership beyond city limits. Take Thunderbird's Young SDG Innovators program, a partnership with the UN Global Compact to foster social entrepreneurship in Brazil, China, Kenya, Mexico, South Africa, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the U.S., by providing online and in-person workshops, case studies, company visits, and forum discussions for people under 35. Earlier this year, Thunderbird launched the 100 Million Learners Global Initiative, which aims to provide free, online education in 40 languages to 100 million students by 2030. The initiative is especially close to Khagram's heart. As the son of refugees from Uganda, he grew up understanding more than most the importance of education and opportunity.
Another example is Thunderbird's Global Carbon Removal Partnership, an ambitious effort to prevent the worst consequences of climate change by removing and sequestering carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This means bringing together a broad array of governments, corporations, organizations, and enterprises to create tangible — and timely — results. It's a bold effort that could have massive implications across the Global Goals, and one that embodies the power of SDG 17.
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego (second from right) and partners plant trees as part of an effort to expand tree cover in underserved parts of the city. Photo: City of Phoenix
Global Climate Ambition Starts at Home
Last year's UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow proved to be a turning point for local leaders like Gallego, as more than 1,000 global cities, including Phoenix, committed to halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
"For mayors, COP 26 was a pivotal moment," she says. "Many national governments are really struggling to meet their commitments. Meanwhile, there are cities that are delivering ahead of schedule in some cases. That's a real point of pride for us."
As a member of the C40 Cities, a global network of mayors dedicated to climate action, Gallego is joined by other impressive female leaders from Bogota, Montreal, Paris, and elsewhere. "The Mayor of Mexico City has won a Nobel for her work around climate change, so we were in good company. I can't compete with that level of a prize," she says with a laugh. "But as someone with an environmental degree by background, I do feel like I'm really able to use that in a way that makes life better for my residents and includes a healthier future for my city."
At this year's COP 27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Khagram worked to further these commitments and cooperation by tapping Thunderbird's deep connections to international institutions. This included co-hosting a roundtable with the Presidency of Kenya and Foreign Policy on global carbon removal. The inclusive discussion reflected the spirit of SDG 17 by highlighting a wide range of perspectives across sectors as well as geographies, including the United States, Colombia, Malaysia, and small island developing states.
For Khagram, the key to tackling major challenges — from climate change to systemic inequality — is collaboration, plain and simple: "Get people together, have a common set of values, commitments, and vision, put some resources behind it, get to work, solve problems, create opportunities and it's amazing," he says. "Don't try to over-engineer it."
Gallego agrees, particularly when it comes to Phoenix Global Rising and leveraging SDG 17 to unlock progress across the 2030 Agenda. "Moving towards big-picture goals is helpful for us to stay focused as we commit to being a more sustainable community," she says. "This initiative has brought a lot of people together and generated a lot of enthusiasm."
For a place that was dubbed "America's least sustainable city" in a 2011 book, Phoenix and its leaders are working to change both the perception and the reality of life for local residents.
"Phoenix got its name because of the mythical bird that rose from the ashes," Gallego said during an interview earlier this year. "It's a story of creating beauty out of not a lot at the beginning. And we hope that's the environment we have here in Phoenix — where we take what we have to work with and create something really impressive."
This story is part of a larger project launched by the UN Foundation and the Brookings Institution to build and support American Leadership on the SDGs.
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The final auction of May is here and what a way to end the month! Nearly 10,000 bottles await you in this collection of mythic cuvées, mature wines and rare pearls.
With every catalogue comes plenty of new surprises at iDealwine. From Bordeaux you'll find all the finest signatures, available in one single lot if you wish! There are several assortments of Bordeaux grands crus (Petrus, Château Haut-Brion, Château La Mission Haut-Brion, Château Cheval Blanc, Château Margaux, Château Lafite Rothschild, Château d'Yquem et Château Latour) united in one 'Collection Case' in the 2007, 2008 and 2009 vintages. Lovers of Château Margaux will be interested in the two magnificent cases available from this prestigious domain in the 1988 vintage, (ideal for anyone wishing to celebrate an important milestone in 2018) and the 1989 vintage. With nearly 200 lots of Sauternes awaiting you, those with a sweet tooth won't be disappointed. Château Coutet, Climens and Rayne-Vigneau are all here in ready to drink vintages, as well as a stunning magnum of Château d'Yquem (2001). Other mature Bordeaux include a Lynch-Bages 2002, Montrose 2003 and an impressive selection from the landmark 2005 vintage (Château Haut-Bailly, Château Léoville Poyferré, Château Smith Haut Lafitte, Domaine de Chevalier, Château Lascombes). Those of you looking for older vintages will enjoy the Phelan-Segur 1982, the Haut-Marbuzet 1982 and the Sociando-Mallet 1996.
The finest Burgundy appellations are well accounted for too. The Musigny 2008 from Jacques Prieur is a highlight, as is the impressive run of Chambertin from top producers (Domaine Rousseau in the beautiful 2015 vintage, Domaine Jacques Prieur, Domaine Trapet, Domaine Faiveley) and the many Gevrey-Chambertin available too (Armand Rousseau, Claude Dugat, Joseph Drouhin). There are also many large format bottles going under the hammer (a rarity from this region), including a double magnum of Echézeaux from Jacques Prieur and a magnum of Clos-de-la-Roche from Domaine Ponsot. In terms of white, there is a stunning selection of Chablis from the most sought-after climats. You'll find offerings from reputable domains such as Fèvre, Dauvissat and Raveneau. Make the most of this auction and get your hands on a Corton-Charlemagne from Domaine Bonneau du Martray. Soon the mythic Domaine de la Romanée-Conti will be producing wine from a few rows of this great parcel thanks to a deal struck last week.
The Rhône offers up some rare bottles: the celebrated single vineyard cuvées from Guigal in the 2007, 2008 and 2009 vintage are here, as well as some illustrious Châteauneuf-du-Pape from Rayas and Bonneau.
The Loire whites are worthy of your attention, particularly the rare Vouvray 2015 Cuvée Goutte d'Or from Philippe Foreau, the collection of Saumur-Champigny from Clos Rougeard and the Pouilly-Fumé Cuvée Silex from Dagueneau, ranging from the 2008 to the 2013 vintage. We highly recommend the Cuvée Pur-Sang 2015 from Dagueneau also.
Don't miss the delights hailing from Champagne. With over 200 bottles from the finest Champagne houses you are spoiled for choice (Dom Pérignon, Cristal Roederer, Krug, Ruinart, Veuve Clicquot, Bollinger). This catalogue also boasts a fairly complete range from Maison Selosse, including a rare Extra Brut Grand Cru Avize Les Chantereines 1996, a Brut Initial 2005 and a Côte Faron Grand Cru Blanc de Noirs. Don' miss the offerings from Egly-Ouriet either.
Cross the border and peruse the marvels from the Ribera del Duero (Pingus 2008) and Tuscany (Sassicaia 2010 in magnum, Gaja, Voerzio and Sandrone). Don't forget to eplore the selection of Armagnac, Cognac, Rum and Whisky too, not to mention the Rivesaltes and Banyuls.
You have until 30th and 31st May, happy bidding!