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1Early life
2Academic career
3Political career
4International career
5Private financial career
6Music and arts
7Reflections on growth and positive economics
7.1Commission for the Liberation of French Growth, known as "Attali Commission"
7.2Commission for "Positive Economics"
8Literary work
9Selected bibliography
10See also
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French economist
Attali in Rovereto, 2012
President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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Jacques de Larosière
Jacques José Mardoché Attali
(1943-11-01) 1 November 1943 (age 79)
Algiers, French Algeria
Bernard Attali (twin brother)
École des Mines
École nationale d'administration
Paris Dauphine University
Economist, writer, senior civil servant
Jacques José Mardoché Attali (French pronunciation: [ʒak atali]; born 1 November 1943) is a French economic and social theorist, writer, political adviser and senior civil servant, who served as a counselor to President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1991, and was the first head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 1991 to 1993. In 1997, upon the request of education minister Claude Allègre, he proposed a reform of the higher education degrees system. From 2008 to 2010, he led the government committee on how to ignite the growth of the French economy, under President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Attali co-founded the European program EUREKA, dedicated to the development of new technologies. He also founded the non-profit organization PlaNet Finance, now called Positive Planet, and is the head of Attali & Associates (A&A), an international consultancy firm on strategy, corporate finance and venture capital. Interested in the arts, he has been nominated to serve on the board of the Musée d'Orsay. He has published more than fifty books, including Verbatim (1981), Noise: The Political Economy of Music (1985), Labyrinth in Culture and Society: Pathways to Wisdom (1999), and A Brief History of the Future (2006).
In 2009, Foreign Policy called him as one of the top 100 "global thinkers" in the world.[1]
Jacques Attali was born on 1 November 1943 in Algiers (Algeria), with his twin brother Bernard Attali, in a Jewish family. His father, Simon Attali, is a self-educated person who achieved success in perfumery ("Bib et Bab" shop) in Algiers. He married Fernande Abécassis on 27 January 1943. On 11 February 1954, his mother gave birth to his sister, Fabienne. In 1956, two years after the beginning of the Algerian independence war (1954–1962), his father decided to move to Paris with his family.
Jacques and Bernard studied at the Lycée Janson-de-Sailly, in the 16th arrondissement, where they met Jean-Louis Bianco and Laurent Fabius. In 1966, Jacques graduated from the École polytechnique (first of the class of 1963). He also graduated from the École des mines, Sciences Po and the École nationale d'administration (third of the class of 1970).
In 1968, while doing an internship at the prefecture of a French department (Nièvre), he met for the second time with François Mitterrand, then President of the department, whom he had met for the first time three years before.
in 1972, Attali received a PhD in economics from University Paris Dauphine, for a thesis written under the supervision of Alain Cotta. Michel Serres was among the jury of his PhD.
In 1970, when he was 27, he became a member of the Council of State. In 1972, aged 29, he published his first two books, Analyse économique de la vie politique and Modèles politiques, for which he was awarded with a prize from the Academy of Sciences.
Academic career[edit]
Jacques Attali taught economics from 1968 to 1985 at the Paris Dauphine University, at the École polytechnique and at the École des Ponts et chaussées.
In his laboratory in Dauphine, the IRIS, he gathered several young researchers Yves Stourdzé (who ran the European research program EUREKA co-founded by Jacques Attali), Jean-Hervé Lorenzi, and Érik Orsenna, but also leading figures in various fields (including journalism, mathematics, show business, financial analysis).
Political career[edit]
Attali's close collaboration with François Mitterrand started in December 1973. He directed his political campaign for the presidential elections in 1974. He then became his main chief of staff in the opposition. In 1981, François Mitterrand, after he was elected President, named Attali as his special adviser. From this moment on, Jacques Attali wrote notes every evening for the attention of the French President, which dealt with economics, culture, politics, or the last book he read. He also attended all the Cabinet meetings, the Defense Council, and all bilateral meetings between President François Mitterrand and foreign heads of States and governments. The President also entrusted him with the role of "sherpa" (personal representative of a head of State) for the European and G7 summits.
Attali then enlarged his circle of acquaintances to Raymond Barre, Jacques Delors, Philippe Séguin, Jean-Luc Lagardère, Antoine Riboud, Michel Serres, Coluche. He advised the President to get Jean-Louis Bianco, Alain Boublil and several young, promising graduates from the École nationale d'administration (like François Hollande and Ségolène Royal) to join his team.
In 1982, he pleaded for "economic rigour". As "sherpa" of Mitterrand during 10 years, he organised the Versailles G7 summit in 1982 and the G7 Summit of the Arch in 1989. He took an active part in the organization of the celebrations for the bicentenary of the French Revolution on 14 July 1989.
In 1997, upon the request of Claude Allègre, he proposed a reform of the tertiary education degree system which led to the implementation of the LMD model.
In 2008 and 2010, he was asked by then President Nicolas Sarkozy to chair a bipartisan commission aiming at proposing reforms to foster French economic growth. In 2013, Attali advocated the concept of positive economy in a report delivered to President François Hollande at his request. His ideas inspired some of the provisions of the law proposed by Emmanuel Macron, Minister of Economy.
In April 2011, in Washington, D.C., the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars of the United States' Smithsonian Institution presented the Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service to Attali.
Attali has supported Rattachism.[2][3] He is often credited with having spotted Emmanuel Macron and enabling him to become President of the French Republic. Indeed, he was the one who discovered him while he was an investment banker at Rotschild & Co., and then introduced him to François Hollande, proposing that he become Minister of Economy.[4]
International career[edit]
In 1979, Attali co-founded the international NGO Action Against Hunger (Action Contre La Faim).
In 1984, he helped implement the European program EUREKA, dedicated to the "development of new technologies", the direction of which he entrusted to Yves Stourdzé.
In January 1989, he initiated a vast international plan of action against the disastrous flooding in Bangladesh.
In August 1989, during François Mitterrand's second mandate, Jacques Attali gave up politics and left the Elysée Palace. He founded the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), in London, and became its first president. He had initiated the idea of this institution in June 1989, before the fall of the Berlin Wall, in order to support the reconstruction of Eastern European countries. He chaired the Paris negotiating conference which led to the creation of the EBRD. Under his leadership, the EBRD promoted investments which aimed at protecting nuclear power plants, protecting the environment and, more generally, developing infrastructure, reinforcing private sector competitiveness and support transition to democracy.
In 1991, Attali invited Mikhail Gorbachev to the EBRD headquarters, in London, against the opinion of British Prime Minister John Major. By doing so, he compelled the heads of government of the G7, who were attending a summit in this town, to receive the Soviet head of state. After a stormy phone call between Jacques Attali and John Major, the British press started to criticize Attali and spread suspicions about his management of the institution. Uncontested details of the management of the EBRD – including of inefficiency and profligacy – were shocking.[5] Some of these details were taken up by some French journalists. Attali explains his stance in a chapter of his book C'était François Mitterrand, entitled "Verbatim and the EBRD": "the work in question had been done under the supervision of an international working group to which I did not belong". Indeed, when Attali left the EBRD (voluntarily) the board of governors gave him final discharge for the management of the institution. However, his reputation never recovered.
In 1993, Attali won a libel suit; he had been accused of having reproduced in his book Verbatim, without François Mitterrand's authorization, secret archives and several sentences of the French head of State which were meant for another book. The Herald Tribune even published, on the front page, an article claiming (wrongly) that President Mitterrand had asked for the book to be withdrawn from sale. François Mitterrand confirmed in a long interview that he had asked Attali to write this book, and acknowledged that he had proofread it and had been given the possibility to make corrections.
In 1998, Attali founded Positive Planet, a non-profit organization which is active in more than 80 countries, employing over 500 staff, and provides funding, technical assistance and advisory services to 10,000 microfinance players and stakeholders. Positive Planet is also active in France empoverished suburbs.
In 2001 Attali was subject to investigations on the charges of "concealment of company assets which have been misused and influence peddling". He was discharged on 27 October 2009 by the magistrate's court of Paris, "on the benefit of the doubt".[6]
Attali advocates the establishment of a global rule of law, which will condition the survival of democracy through the creation of a new global order. He thinks the regulation of the economy by a global financial supervisory institution may be a solution to the financial crisis which started 2008. The financial institution is a first step towards the establishment of a democratic world government, of which the European Union can be a laboratory, which was all laid to bare in his 1981 book Verbatim.
Private financial career[edit]
In 1994, he founded Attali & Associates (A&A), an international advisory firm which specializes in strategy consulting, corporate finance and venture capital to help companies' long-term development.
In 2012, Attali became a member of the supervisory board of Kepler Capital Markets, a Swiss broker based in Geneva.[7] The same year, Crédit Agricole sold Cheuvreux, which employs about 700 people worldwide, to Kepler Capital Markets.
He presides over the supervisory board of Slate.fr.[8]
Music and arts[edit]
In September 2010, Attali was appointed as a member of the directorate of the Musée d'Orsay.
Attali has a passion for music: he plays the piano (he once played for the association Les Restos du Cœur), and wrote lyrics for Barbara. He is the author of the book Bruits (1977) (English: Noise: The Political Economy of Music), an essay which deals with the economy of music and the importance of music in the evolution of our societies.
In 1978, he played himself in Pauline et l'ordinateur, directed by Francis Fehr.
Since 2003, he directs the Grenoble University orchestra, open to amateurs, under Patrick Souillot. He performed very different pieces, which ranged from a symphony composed by Benda to Bach's violin concertos, a mass composed by Mozart, Barber's Adagio and Mendelssohn's double concerto for violin, piano and orchestra. In 2012, he conducted the Musiques en scène orchestra, performing the opening of the Barber of Sevilla and co-directed the Lamoureux Orchestra with his friend, the geneticist Daniel Cohen, during the gala of Technion University, in Paris. He also directed the Lausanne Sinfonietta in August and Ravel's Concerto in G with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra in Jerusalem and then in Paris. He also directed orchestra in Shanghai, Bondy, Marseille, London and Astana.
With Patrick Souillot, he created in 2012 a national organization following the model of the Fabrique Opéra Grenoble, which aims at coordinating the production of cooperative operas with the participation of students from vocational highschools.
Reflections on growth and positive economics[edit]
Commission for the Liberation of French Growth, known as "Attali Commission"[edit]
On 24 July 2007, Nicolas Sarkozy appointed Attali to chair a bipartisan commission charged with studying "the bottlenecks that constrain growth". It was composed of 42 members, freely appointed by Attali, mostly liberals and social democrats. Its unanimous report was handed over to the President on 23 January 2008. It contained various recommendations to radically transform the French economy and society in order to unlock economic growth.
Commission for "Positive Economics"[edit]
In 2012, French President François Hollande ordered from Attali a report on the "positive economics" situation. The aim of this report was to put an end to the short-termism, to move from an individualistic economy based on the short-term to an economy based on public interest and the interest of future generations, to organize the transition from an old model based on the wealth economy to a model in which economic agents will have other obligations than profit maximization. This report, written by a wide-ranging commission, proposed 44 reforms.
Literary work[edit]
The literary work of Attali covers a wide range of topics and almost every possible subject in the field of literature: mathematics, economic theory, essays, novels, biographies, memoirs, children's stories, and theater. It is probably difficult to find a common thread in his work.
All of his essays revolve around the daunting task of describing the future from a long-term analysis of the past. In order to accomplish this, he undertook the task of retelling the story of human activity and its various dimensions: music, time, property, France, nomadic life, health, the seas, modernity, global governance, love and death (Bruits, Histoires du temps, La nouvelle économie française, Chemin de sagesse, Au propre et au figuré, l'ordre cannibale, Consolations, l'homme nomade, Amours, Histoire de la modernité, Demain qui gouvernera le monde , Histoires de la mer).
He has also put forward several readers (Lignes d'horizon, Brève histoire de l'avenir, Vivement après demain) and several publications on analytical methods (Analyse économique de la vie politique, Modèles politiques, Les trois mondes, La figure de Fraser, Peut-on prévoir l'avenir ?).
His work reveals a distinct vision of history and its successive stages, which are simultaneously ideological, technological and geopolitical. Furthermore, his work entails depicting the slow transformation of humanity into an artifact in which man becomes an object to escape death, and the geopolitical evolution toward chaos that accompanies such transformation; meanwhile, man is also waiting for an awakening leading to a new global governance, a sanctification of the essential makeup of mankind, taking into account the interest of future generations, and not letting prostheses invade it.
Attali has also, in books written during key events, tried to highlight particular moments of the present and the near future (La crise et après ?, Tous ruinés dans dix ans ?, Économie de l'apocalypse) and he proposed reforms to implement, either in books he authored (Candidats, répondez !, Urgences françaises) or in collective reports (Rapport sur l'évolution de l'enseignement supérieur, sur la libération de la croissance, sur l'économie positive, sur la francophonie).
Attali also reflected on the future of the concepts of socialism and altruism (La voie humaine, Fraternités) and advocated methods of personal growth (Survivre aux crises, Devenir soi).
Since his earliest books, Attali foresaw and announced signals of the future, albeit weak at the time, that later came true: In La parole et l'outil (1976), he announced and described the shift from an energy-based society to an information-based society. In Bruits, in 1977, he announced what would later be the internet, YouTube, and the importance of musical practice; in La nouvelle économie française, in 1978, he discussed the coming emergence of the personal computer, hyper-surveillance and self-surveillance. In Les trois mondes, in 1980, he announced the shift of the centre of power around the Pacific. In L'ordre Cannibale, in 1980, he announced the advent of a prosthetic society, now known as transhumanism. In Histoires du temps, he announced the rapid pace of history and the growing immediacy of relationships. In Amours, he announced the emergence of poly-romantic relationships. In Au propre et au figuré, he announced the break-up of property and its use, and subsequently he invented the concept of the "nomadic object." In Lignes d'horizons, in 1990, he predicted the relative decline of US power. In Brève histoire de l'avenir, he announced a corporate power grab by health data and insurance companies. In L'homme nomade, he described the great movement of populations whose sedentary life was only a temporary stage.
Attali has reflected on the many dimensions, as well as the place, of Jewish thought and the Jewish people in history (1492, Histoire économique du peuple juif, Dictionnaire amoureux du judaïsme); he also took on this subject at the theatre in Du cristal à la fumée.
He also reflected on inter-religious dialogue (La confrérie des Eveillés and Naissance de l'Occident).
The focus of his biographical publishing is on retelling the lives of characters who disrupted world history by the strength of their ideas: Warburg, Pascal, Marx, Gandhi, Diderot, and all those for whom he wrote a short biography in Phares, such as Averroes, Aristotle, Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas, Giordano Bruno, Darwin.
Attali's novels, mostly categorized in fantasy genre, or at least in the slight dystopia subgenre, address the same themes. In particular, his novels revolve around the risks confronted by humanity, with characters anxious to hide, to disappear (Nouvelles, Les portes du ciel, Le premier jour après moi, Il viendra, Notre vie disent- ils).
More recently, he has chosen to combine crime novels with dystopia, imagining a reappearing police chief, whilst the action takes place in a near future period.
Attali has narrated some of the major events in which he was involved in several memoirs: first, in Verbatim 1, 2 and 3, he kept, at the request of François Mitterrand, the daily newspaper in the years during Mitterrand's presidency. He also recounted his memories of the creation of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Europe(s) and drew a portrait of François Mitterrand in C'était François Mitterrand, from the twenty years he spent at his side.
Selected bibliography[edit]
Cannibalism and Civilization: Life and Death in the History of Medicine (1984)
Noise: The Political Economy of Music (1985) Translated by Brian Massumi. Foreword by Fredric Jameson, afterword by Susan McClary. University of Minnesota Press ISBN 0-8166-1287-0.
A man of influence: Le destin d'un homme d'influence S.G. Warburg (1987)
Millennium: Winners and Losers in the Coming Order (1992)
Europe(s) (1994) ISBN 22-135-9172-5
Labyrinth in Culture and Society: Pathways to Wisdom (1999) Translated by Joseph Rowe. North Atlantic Books ISBN 1-55643-265-8
Fraternités (1999) ISBN 84-493-0977-8
Karl Marx or the thought of the world (2005) - original title: Karl Marx ou l'esprit du monde
Les Juifs, le Monde et l'Argent, Histoire économique du peuple juif (2002) Fayard (The Jews, the World and Money, an Economic History of the Jewish People) ISBN 2-253-15580-2
C'était François Mitterrand (2005) Fayard
A Brief History of the Future (2006) Arcade Publishing ISBN 1-55970-879-4 - original title: Une Brève histoire de l'avenir
La crise, et après ? (2008) Fayard ISBN 2-213-64307-5
The economic history of the Jewish people (2010)
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^ Thomson, Richard (26 June 1993). "Attali runs out of credit: The EBRD president was finally forced to yield to calls for his head". The Independent. London. Retrieved 12 May 2017.
^ "Banques: le triomphe des coupables par Jacques Attali" (in French). 3 August 2009.
^ "Memorial C" (in French). Kepler Capital Markets.
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Tucked away in the France Alps, Annecy is a picturesque fairy tale town overlooking snow-capped mountains and a pristine lake. Alpine charm oozes from the old town, with rose and pistachio-colored homes and tumble down churches that date back to the Middle Ages. You'll spend half your time here staring out of your car window, such is the beauty of this remarkable pocket of France.
Lap up the lakeside beauty
The French town is home to Lac d'Annecy, one of Europe's purest lakes, thanks to environmental regulations enforcing its cleanliness. The lake formed millenniums ago when glaciers melted and you can enjoy it at its very best on a boat tour. Cruise across the glittering crystal clear waters and take in a fresh blast of Alpine air.
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If you want to unwind afterwards, make your way to the lush Gardens of Europe which overlook the lake. There are plenty of benches here for you to rest up and enjoy a picnic. Beaches are also dotted around the lake's perimeter if you want to lay back with a good book and soak up the sunshine or even take a dip into the refreshing waters.
Explore the quaint center
Spend an afternoon strolling the medieval old town, known locally as La Vieille Ville, and you'll find a tangle of dreamy canals and cobbled streets. Admire the colorful buildings as you wander, constructed in Piedmontese style. There's no shortage of canal-side cafes where you can enjoy a coffee or pick up a fresh croissant, along with pretty boutiques where you can shop up a storm.
Palais de l'Isle juts out into the waters and is another wonderful stop on your expedition. Built in the 12th century, this triangular islet has served multiple roles over the years. Courthouse, prison, military barracks and now a museum. Wander through the exhibits which depict the history of the local area.
Château d'Annecy looms over the old town, once the residence of the Counts of Geneva. Parts of it date all the way back to the 12th century, although most of it has been restored to capture its former glory. There's a treasure trove of art to see inside, including sculptures and paintings. From the grounds, you can also enjoy brilliant views over the red-roof Alpine town and out towards the brilliant blue lake.
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The David Foster Wallace Movie Gets Our Vision Of Him Right, At Least
Tim Grierson
The End of the Tour, a drama about a five-day interview/road trip that took place between novelist David Foster Wallace and Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky in 1996, has already received significant pushback from those closest to the late author, who committed suicide in 2008. Wallace's estate announced in April it had "no connection with, and neither endorse nor support The End of the Tour," and left open the door for future legal action against the movie, objecting to the fact that the story is "loosely based" on transcripts from Lipsky's interview and that "David would never have agreed that those saved transcripts could later be repurposed as the basis of a movie." Film critic Glenn Kenny, a friend of Wallace's, also spoke out against The End of the Tour, complaining that the movie fails to capture the author's essence and does a disservice to a man it's supposedly trying to honor, Kenny referring to Jason Segel's performance as Wallace as "ghoulish self-aggrandizement."
As with most movies based on real people, I feel grateful not to have any intimate knowledge of the individuals dramatized in The End of the Tour. But while I can understand why those who knew and loved Wallace would be pained by the way he's portrayed in this compassionate, thoughtful, quietly prickly film, I'd also suggest that The End of the Tour's depiction of the Infinite Jest author isn't meant to be entirely accurate. The Wallace we see in this film isn't so much a person as it is a projection from another person. Part of the reason this movie is so heartbreaking is that it's not really about Wallace—it's about Lipsky, and all the rest of us peering through the glass into other people's lives.
The movie opens in 2008 with Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) learning that Wallace has killed himself. Shocked by the news, Lipsky goes back to the interview tapes from the two men's 1996 encounter, which occurred after Lipsky convinced his editors at Rolling Stone that Wallace was that rare rock-star novelist who merited a profile piece. The rest of The End of the Tour plays like an extended flashback, a series of scenes presumably conjured up in Lipsky's mind as he listens to those tapes and reflects on their time together.
When Lipsky and Wallace meet, they are at very different points in their life. Wallace may be only a few years older than Lipsky, but career-wise he's eons ahead: Lipsky has just written a book that's gotten a small amount of attention, while Wallace is being hailed as a brilliant, once-in-a-generation artist because of Infinite Jest, with every one of Wallace's glowing reviews acting as a thorn in Lipsky's side. The younger man wants to hate the book when he reads it, but grudgingly realizes it's a masterpiece, prompting him to profile Wallace for Rolling Stone. Intriguingly, The End of the Tour never makes it entirely clear what the percentages of envy, admiration and curiosity are in Lipsky's decision to interview Wallace: Soon enough, he's left New York to meet Wallace at his modest, messy Bloomington, Illinois home as the author prepares for the final leg of an Infinite Jest promotional tour. Wary of being interviewed but feeling a kinship with a fellow writer, Wallace begins to open up around Lipsky as they share car rides and plane trips.
The End of the Tour is directed by James Ponsoldt, who, as he did with Smashed and The Spectacular Now, displays an impressive ability to conjure up intimacy, to give seemingly simple, naturalistic conversations the zip and tension of real life without calling attention to it. (Playwright Donald Margulies, who won the Pulitzer for Dinner With Friends, based his screenplay on Lipsky's 2010 memoir about his Wallace interview, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself.) There's no Sorkin-like witticisms in The End of the Tour, but there is oodles of good talk, as the two men feel each other out—interviewer and interviewee—while discussing writing, ambition, fame and life.
Lipsky asks most of the questions, which puts him in a position of power, and one of the great elements of Eisenberg's performance is that we're never quite sure how Lipsky will wield that power. Sometimes a buddy, sometimes an inquisitor, sometimes play-acting the role of Wallace's literary peer, Lipsky seems to be trying out personae around Wallace, seeing this decorated novelist as a measuring stick for his own comparably limited success.
A closeness develops between the two men, but Eisenberg always makes us wonder how exactly Lipsky is interpreting their exchanges. We sense that Lipsky is flattered by Wallace's respect and thoughtfulness, but there's always a tinge of something darker going on behind Eisenberg's eyes. This technique isn't new for the actor: From The Squid and the Whale to The Social Network, Eisenberg has excelled at playing brainy characters whose aura of superiority always seems to be in danger of short-circuiting because of outside forces they can't control. Lipsky is a variation on a familiar Eisenberg protagonist, but the actor imbues him with a warmth and disarming vulnerability so that we see why Wallace would lower his guard around him.
Speaking of Wallace, Segel plays him as a focused, recessive figure. It's the kind of performance—and from the type of actor—that often attracts plenty of attention and acclaim, a lot of it misguided in its accolades. Because Segel is known for comedies like How I Met Your Mother and The Muppets, he doesn't have the reputation for being a Serious Actor. That said, because he so adeptly plays an esteemed author like Wallace—imitating the man's speaking style and mannerisms—there's a natural reaction from viewers to over-inflate their praise, to confuse the quality of the acting with their own shock at seeing a funny guy try to do drama.
But what makes Segel's performance so good is that it cuts against that template. Rather than being heavily mannered, Segel is largely withdrawn in the role: Even when Wallace speaks passionately about his own misgivings about his writing, the actor doesn't command the room—he doesn't show his hand by telling us, "See, this is how David Foster Wallace really was." It's more of a guess at a man rather than a definitive take on him, which is entirely keeping with what The End of the Tour wants to say about perception and interpretation.
Throughout the film, Wallace tells Lipsky that he's nervous what kind of profile piece the reporter will write about him, noting that their many conversations could be skewed in all different directions during the retelling. Lipsky tells him not to worry, but that doesn't stop the reporter from clandestinely rifling through Wallace's medicine cabinet or insisting on keeping the tape recorder rolling throughout most of the day. Lipsky admires Wallace, but he also has a job to do, his need to snoop inexorably connected to his personal desire to figure out what makes this genius tick. One suspects that Lipsky isn't sure if he wants to herald the guy or bury him in his profile piece: Would he feel better knowing that a likeminded writer can find success, or would he prefer to uncover a charlatan as a way to boost his own sagging spirits?
Just as profile pieces can't ever hope to be perfectly accurate to their subject—what would that even mean?—so too does every biopic have to twist information in certain ways, either intentionally or because its makers interpret their characters in one particular way. For a movie about conducting an interview, The End of the Tour is all about the impossibility of knowing someone. Over the course of the film, Lipsky and Wallace begin to bond, the inevitable posturing that goes on in a lot of new male friendships eventually giving way to something that could best be described as platonic love. (Eisenberg and Segel have a terrific chemistry, their characters' back-and-forth exchanges flecked with the natural digressions and casual banter we hear in real life.) But then, something almost imperceptible happens that changes their rapport, opening up a slowly growing chasm between them that they can't quite reconcile. The reasons are unspoken, but we can deduce what's going on. In a sense, we (like the movie and like Lipsky in his memoir) are interpreting events, which inevitably changes the meaning of what happened in the exact moment that caused their relationship to shift.
That's why Wallace remains something of a sympathetic enigma in The End of the Tour: Even when Lipsky is looking back on those five days, he still can't quite articulate what they meant or who Wallace was. With touching humility, the movie is a running acknowledgment of the futility of "cracking" anyone, whether in a profile or in a film. Lipsky can't with Wallace because he can't escape his own baggage and skewed perspective. (The End of the Tour can very easily be read as Lipsky's take on his time with Wallace. The movie —an impression of Lipsky's memory of events that happened 12 years earlier—only adds to the layers upon layers of revision and increases the chance of inaccuracy.) It's no coincidence that, by the end of the movie, Lipsky isn't talking about facts but feelings. It sells the idea that it's very hard to say with 100-percent certainty how events in our lives transpired exactly, but we do know how those moments changed us deeply. As The End of the Tour suggests beautifully, that may be all we need.
Grade: A-
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Truly, P. E. The San Angelo Press. (San Angelo, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 7, Ed. 1, Wednesday, February 19, 1902, newspaper, February 19, 1902; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth116007/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2019), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, texashistory.unt.edu; .


Scale(Up)Alps Project was presented on international conference on Start-Ups in Innovation Ecosystem in South-East Europe Workshop in Ljubljana.
What defines Technology Transfer and who can be called a Technology Transfer Officer? Should such offices exist only at Universities, or should Technology/Science parks be involved in the process?
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Technology park Ljubljana, partner in the Things+ project, organized a workshop, on 7th of September, on the topic of servitization, moderated by Borut Potočnik and Jernej Pintar.
Startups you are invited to pitch and connect with potential investors and partners at the EBAN Winter Summit in Luxembourg, 22th -23th October 2018!
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Indeed, a good case can be made that Congress legislated a national labor day to take the steam out of radical, often violent strikes that punctuated the nation in the 1890s.
And because unionized labor was still unaccepted in many areas, the federal and state governments in a war economy had to ensure that cooperation with organized workers was essential.
So Labor Day, Sept. 2, 1918, was a somber milestone. To be sure, by then Americans had grown war-weary, with absolutely no expectation that an armistice would be signed just a couple months later.
With gasoline rationed, the zoo was a popular attraction, as were athletic fields where impromptu activities arose as spectators arrived.
And, of course, there was bathing in the Potomac River, where a new beach had been constructed, attendees of which surprised by a brief visit of President Wilson, who chose not, much to the disappointment of the crowd, to take a dip.
Major League Baseball decided, with a push from the feds, that the season would end on Labor Day, not because interest in fans was weak, but because it simply was the right choice to make, given the dire situation of the world at large and the probability that players needed to be put in military uniforms. Instead of 154 games, 140 games were played. And the World Series, between the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs, began quickly thereafter, on Sept. 5, when for the first time "The Star-Spangled Banner," not the national anthem until 1931, was played at a sports event.
Compounding matters was a terrible villain arising almost synonymously with Labor Day, namely, influenza, which spread throughout the nation like wildfire. In the District of Columbia alone, where large numbers of military personnel were coming and going, a grand total of 33,719 cases of influenza was diagnosed from Oct. 1, 1918, to Feb. 1, 1919. Almost 2,900 deaths were recorded from the disease.


Pedagogy and Passages: The Performativity of Margaret Cavendish's Utopian Fiction.Zelia Gregoriou - 2013 - Journal of Philosophy of Education 47 (3):457-474.
The Utopianism of John Locke's Natural Learning.Zelia Gregoriou & Marianna Papastephanou - 2013 - Ethics and Education 8 (1):18 - 30.
Changing the Educational Landscape: Philosophy, Women, and Curriculum.Jane Roland Martin - 1994 - Routledge.
La Théorie Qui N'en Est Pas Une, or, Why Clio Doesn't Care.Carolyn Steedman - 1992 - History and Theory 31 (4):33-50.
A Woman From a Different Place.Frank Trocco & Judith Beth Cohen - 2000 - Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 19 (3):51-59.
Deconstructing and Transgressing the Theory—Practice Dichotomy in Early Childhood Education.Hillevi Lenz Taguchi - 2007 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 39 (3):275–290.
Informal Home Education: Philosophical Aspirations Put Into Practice.Alan Thomas & Harriet Pattison - 2013 - Studies in Philosophy and Education 32 (2):141-154.
Historical Optimism: The Use of Utopia in the Enlightenment Era.Amy Crawford - 2009 - Colloquy 17:83-92.
Women in Retreat: The Politics of Separatism in Women's Literary Utopias.Jan Relf - 1991 - Utopian Studies 2 (1/2):131 - 146.
A Pragmatic Utopia? Utopianisms And Anti-Utopianisms In The Critique Of Educational Discourse.Christopher Martin - 2006 - Paideusis: Journal of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society 15:37-50.
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Hesiod the Cosmopolitan: Utopian and Dystopian Discourse and Ethico-Political Education.Marianna Papastephanou - 2008 - Ethics and Education 3 (2):89-105.
The Meta-Utopian Metatext: The Deconstructive Dreams of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.Alec Charles - 2012 - Utopian Studies 23 (2):472-503.


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Scott Credit Union > Blog > Scott Credit Union News > SCU Family Mourns the Loss of Betty Renth
SCU Family Mourns the Loss of Betty Renth
The Scott Credit Union family is mourning the loss of former long-term Board Chair Betty Renth, who passed away on August 31, 2020. A resident of New Baden, Betty retired from the SCU Board of Directors in 2016 after serving as a Director and Chairman of the Board for over 60 years. She began her volunteer service in 1955, assuming the role of Board Chair in 1971. Betty was a driving force in the credit union's growth and development over that time.
Scott Credit Union President & CEO Frank Padak had the following comments to say about Betty's profound impact on the credit union:
"It is with great sadness that we are mourning the loss of someone who played an iconic role in our success for six decades. It's hard to put into words the impact that Betty had on Scott Credit Union over her years of volunteer service. Betty was a tough but fair leader who never flinched when confronted with an issue and never backed down. If there was a point to be made, she made it. If there was an argument to be had, she jumped in headfirst. As tough as she was, she was also very fair and reasonable. All too often people make decisions based upon their own experiences, needs, or expectations. Betty always knew that it wasn't about her and what she needed or expected, but that it was about our members.
As times changed- and during her 60 plus years they changed a lot- so did Betty. Just the change in technology and how we deliver our services could have easily been overwhelming. But Betty always accepted that technology and how we do business was evolving and she embraced and supported those changes. Although it might have been almost foreign and certainly uncomfortable, she knew our members would benefit from these strategic decisions.
Betty was an inspiration, a mentor and friend to many people over the years here at Scott Credit Union. She truly defined the excellence we want Scott Credit Union to achieve each and every day."
Betty received national and state recognition for her dedication and service to SCU and the credit union industry. Starting in 1988, she served two three-year terms on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Credit Union Chairmen. In 1997, Betty was awarded the Spirit of Service Award and named Volunteer of the Year by the Illinois Credit Union System. She was inducted into the Illinois Credit Union Hall of Fame in 2002.
In 2005, Betty was honored during the national annual convention of the National Center for Credit Unions as a second runner up for the Director of the Year Award. The award was a national contest to acknowledge the work of the top three credit union directors in the nation. In 2006, Betty was inducted into the Defense Credit Union Council Hall of Honor. The Hall of Honor was established to acknowledging individuals whose exceptional contributions over the years have made a significant difference in the defense credit union community.
In 2008, Renth was inducted into Who's Who in America's Credit Unions. She was honored among the top leaders for her accomplishments and service in the credit union industry. Who's Who in America's Credit Unions annually recognizes those who have contributed most to the nation's credit union movement.
In 2012, Scott Credit Union's state-of-the-art Home Office building was named the Betty Renth Building. Upon her retirement in 2016, Betty was presented with a lifetime achievement award to mark her years of service as a leader, in addition to being elected as an Emeritus Director of Scott Credit Union's Board.
Betty's service to Scott Credit Union set a standard of excellence and dedication that will likely be unmatched. We were extremely fortunate to have Betty as a leader in our organization.
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Q: Is there a reason why CSS pseudo-element[non-standard] cannot be combined with Chrome, while Firefox accepts them without a problem? case example

doesn't work on Chrome, Fine for Firefox

#my-slider {
  width              : 400px;
  margin             : 1em;
  -webkit-appearance : none;
  height             : 8px;
  border-radius      : 4px;
  background-color   : teal;
  }
#my-slider::-webkit-slider-thumb,
#my-slider::-moz-range-thumb {
  -webkit-appearance : none;
  -moz-appearance    : none;
  width              : 30px;
  height             : 30px;
  border-radius      : 15px;
  border             : none;
  background-color   : orange;
  overflow           : visible;
  cursor             : pointer;
  }
<input type="range" min="0" max="100" value="50" id="my-slider">

fine for both

#my-slider {
  width              : 400px;
  margin             : 1em;
  -webkit-appearance : none;
  height             : 8px;
  border-radius      : 4px;
  background-color   : teal;
  }
#my-slider::-webkit-slider-thumb {
  -webkit-appearance : none;
  width              : 30px;
  height             : 30px;
  border-radius      : 15px;
  border             : none;
  background-color   : orange;
  overflow           : visible;
  cursor             : pointer;
  }
#my-slider::-moz-range-thumb {
  -moz-appearance    : none;
  width              : 30px;
  height             : 30px;
  border-radius      : 15px;
  border             : none;
  background-color   : orange;
  overflow           : visible;
  cursor             : pointer;
  }
<input type="range" min="0" max="100" value="50" id="my-slider">

Or is it "just a Bugg" ?

A: It's a CSS edge case (maybe not present in all browsers), when Chrome browser can't decode/recognize the first selector (therefore consider it as invalid), it response is to ignore the whole rule including the other selectors (even if they are valid), more specifically it stops parsing and doesn't even look if they are valid or not.
The same behaviour is present on IE, so technically it's not truly a bug.
So your second snippet is the way to go when you want to deal with non-standard pseudo-element(s).

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We are determined, focused, and ready to conquer the world–for the first seventeen days.
After the first seventeen days out of the year, we resign to our old self, unsatisfied with the status quo, but we are too tired to do anything about it.
For some of us, sprinting seem to be the way to get things done. Too exhausted to run the course, we have lost tract of time–with every hour looking like more of the same.
We don't see the value of taking one step at a time and doing a little bit every day. It takes too long, so we quit.
In order to conquer this type of misguided of motivation. We must create a growth plan and quit-proof it.
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Surround yourself with growth-minded people.
From day one we must be ready to follow the plan. It is crucial to put it in momentum. It is important to have people and resources standing by to take you from discouragement to bravery, for example. It is important to know day in and day out, what you intend to accomplish and stick to it.
The time will come when we will feel defeated and unable to move on. But that feeling should last for just a moment. We must be ready for it by being prepared. When we anticipate such obstacles, we're better prepared to handle them when they do come.
We have to prepare for a marathon, not for a sprint because we know that what we need to accomplish can only be done one day at a time.
Undoubtedly, my number one bad habit is that of consistency.
Couple that with the myriad of distractions such as television, electronic devices, the internet, and the many demands of work and family activities and I find myself in a whirlwind.
I am sometime overcome by paralysis just thinking about it. The result is a plethora of negative consequences that I do not care for, but that are undeniable nevertheless.
One of the ways I plan to change the consistency problem this new year is to develop a morning and evening routine that will help me stay on track of what really matters.
I will make sure that what really matters–the things that I must consistently do–on a daily basis remain literally in my face.
I intend to review them morning and night. Most importantly, I will take action and not become complacent. I will take small steps every day until my mind gets it.
One of the things I will do this year is write a blog post every day -so you, the reader will keep me accountable. Don't hesitate to drop me a line if you see any slacking on my part.
I believe that will be a game changer for my business and personal life.
What is the one bad habit if you were to make it a successful one would be the game changer in your business or personal life?
Learning to master the skill of FOCUS is as essential as reading and writing. It took me a long time to learn that.
Every single year I would create a long list of goals and resolutions that I felt compelled to accomplish. The list would usually be staggering with items that could literally take years to achieve.
I would give it my best effort for a good week or two before I was too exhausted to continue. It is clear that I was major in the minors.
I have learned to break this bad habit.
I have learned to distinguish between the majors and minors.
Now, my list contains no more than three items.
In this way, I am more focused and prepared to give everything on my list my very best.
The likelihood of me accomplish three goals with consistent daily action is astronomically high as compared to spreading my time to work on thirty different goals.
So, check out your list and see whether it is set up to accelerate or impede your success?


The name of Sterling Models of Philladelphia has not been with us for some time now. I had understood that Estes models out of Colorado had bought them up, however it seems they did not buy the entire line.
Anyone know who bought up the remainder or who bought up what portion?
Estes bought everything except the Chris Craft boat line. That was only marketed by Sterling, and the owner wanted more than Estes would pay.
Unfortunately, Estes bought the name, and promptly discontinued all of the models, except a very few. It is possible that remanufacturing the steel rule dies to stamp the parts would have been cost prohibitive.
I spoke with a Sterling employee (I forget who, though) sometime before the transfer to Estes. It seems that a majority of the product line was destroyed in a suspicous fire in the warehouse that Sterling shared with another concern. There ain't much left except what shows up on eBay.
I had heard that rumour too. But, someone else said what Estes got was "worthless", late model slow selling items. The more earlier, and obsolete stuff was either missing, or incomplete enough not to warrant duplication. However, there hasn't been an assessment as to what is within either grouping.
Odd about the boating items. They made a big splash at the Pasadena AMA show back in the 1980's indicating they were going to reactivate the old line. They brought out a couple models and then no more stock was available. If you didn't get on some list, your didn't get one.
The flying models were "for show" and they instead were pushing the rubber models. No committment as to re-introducing any old ones.
Then they were gone. Out of business.
All the more reason to protect what's left out there among us collectively.
This is great! There was a Google club a few years ago that had a good bit of information. I hope it was saved so it can be included in the new site.
I checked my list for the missing FS-24 kit. It is the Messerschmitt ARF R/C. This is a profile model that complemented the ARF Mustang. 55" span multi for .45 to .65 engines.
That's excellent Mike! I was scouring the earth for that one. It must have been produced for a very short period of time. Sterling's ARF line was just too far ahead of its time... when the cost seemed unreasonable compared to what is so common today for ARFs. No one really considered overseas labor back then.
I've got another missing piece. It's from the "S" control line series. The elusive Kit# S-16?
Hmmm, can't help on that one; my list dosen't show it. However I can go down into my secret vault tonight and check my Sterling kit stash. If I find it I'll post it here. While I think of it, who's got what?
All the above models are eligible for VR/CS events with the exception of the Spitfire, S-19 which is ok for OTS.
Yup I built (and burned) my share of Comet, Guillow and Sterling kits. Boy was it fun!
some did not like the way they built but all the sterling kits i built always flew great.i thought that flying charchteristics outweighed the parts fit issue.my list of sterling built and flown kits.
rimfire,olympic challanger,king cobra,mustang,se-5,fokker d-7,pt-19 probaly a bunch of rubber powered and 1/2a controline.it was all i could afford back then vk kits and others were out of my price range.
I had a blast building and flying many of the old Sterling kits. Most of them as control line jobs because I couldn't afford RC gear.
Must be like most of you , cut my teeth on the Sterling U/C kits but the ones that I have fondest memories of are the Ringmaster with a Fox 29 & the Flying Fool with a Fox 35 . Still one of my all time favorite R/C planes is a Lancer with a K&B 40. Still have a Ringmaster hanging on my wall & a Lancer wing around here someplace . Good memories! MAX H.
I finished a Tri-Pacer kit last winter that I picked up on E-Bay.I have a OS .26 4-banger installed and also added some homemade ailerons & steerable nose gear..I had one of these as a kid and never did fly it.She`s a beauty just have`nt got around to adding radio gear yet.
AHHHH the good old days!!!!!!
That Tri-Pacer looks impressive. I have the Berlekey version which is a bit smaller and set up for a .19 glow engine.
I always thought the Sterling version took a .35 glow. Your choice of a .26 would work nicely, considering that we now use light weight radio equipment. Just don't make a rocket out of it.
Mine is the 58" span one and yes the plans call for an engine of .19 to .35 in size The OS .26 pulls good ,should do the job without a problem.
Love em but, don`t leave em hanging.
The box is no longer available.
Sterling masters abound. I have a Waco SRE that I was restoring and was wondering where the CG is supposed to be.
exactly 4 3/16" back from the top wing leading edge.
thanks for that info. I am also curious what engine they had in mind for the SRE.
whatever additional specs you have would be of interest.


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Pittsburgh Hospital Sued for Allegedly Ignoring Warning Signs of Impending Hepatitis C Outbreak
A Pittsburgh hospital where David Kwiatkowski, the now-convicted radiology technician who started a hepatitis C virus (HCV) outbreak in 2011, now must face lawsuits from four patients he went on to infect with the liver virus in Kansas. According to court records, UPMC Presbyterian allegedly failed to report Kwiatkowski's drug use to the proper authorities after firing him in 2008, which plaintiffs argue perpetuated the risk of him exposing others to the illness, Court House News reports.
In a 2-1 decision, the Pennsylvania Superior Court reinstated four lawsuits filed by six former patients of Hays Medical Center in Hays, Kansas. The ruling reversed an earlier decision by a county courthouse that tossed the cases after determining that UPMC owed a duty of care only to its own patients, not those affected by Kwiatkowski's misconduct down the line.
However, the plaintiffs argue that UPMC "knew or should have known that medical staff such as Kwiatkowski, without intervention, would continue to engage in conduct, including theft of controlled substances in order to satisfy" his addiction to hospital-grade painkillers. It was this failure, they allege, that allowed Kwiatkowski to move on and work at eight other hospitals, ultimately infecting 46 patients with the same strain of HCV he was carrying before his arrest in New Hampshire in 2012.
In 2013, Kwiatkowski was sentenced to 39 years in prison for charges of tampering with a consumer product and obtaining controlled substances by fraud. However, many hospital cases around the massive hepatitis C outbreak he started are still ongoing.
#hospital
#lawsuit
#Pennsylvania
Should Medical Staff Still Be Tracked to Protect Patients Against Hepatitis C?
ER Visits, Hospital Stays Drop for People Successfully Treated for Hepatitis C
Screening Rates for Hepatitis C Doubled When Doctors Didn't Do This
3 Dead, 7 Hospitalized in Pennsylvania Hepatitis A Outbreak


The author at left and a bookstore shelf at right. Photo at left courtesy of Seamus Kirst, photo at right courtesy of Pixnio.
When I decided to write my first book, Shitfaced—a memoir about mental illness and addiction—a few years ago, I had to decide if I was going to try to pursue traditional publishing or self-publish. At the time, I hesitated to self-publish because traditional publishing is widely considered more prestigious. I also thought that the barriers to entry for traditional publishing—first getting an agent, and then having your agent succeed in selling your book to a publisher—would somehow verify that my book was actually well written and worth selling.
But now that I have self published, I am able to see how it can be a respectable, and financially worthwhile, means of publishing, if a writer treats their project seriously. I have made thousands of dollars from Shitfaced book sales, and even more off speaking about the book. Almost two years after self-publishing my book, it still continues to sell, especially when I actively put effort into promoting it. It's not a living in itself, but it supplements my freelance writing.
As I began to do my research years ago, I realized there were a lot of aspects of traditional publishing that could make the publishing process drawn out, if not impossible.
In addition, the promotion process can wind up looking very similar, whether you self-publish or go through a traditional publishing house. "I've had clients with five or six figure book deals, and if their book doesn't immediately sell really well, then after a few weeks the PR teams at publishers tend to need to move their focus and energy to the next author and book on their docket because they're just so busy," book writing coach Lisa Tener told me.
What's more, if you go the traditional route, publishers take huge cuts of book sales, and agents take their percentage, often leaving authors with a small percentage of sales, regardless of how much promotional work they are doing on their own.
When I was working on Shitfaced, I spent about four months submitting to, and being rejected by, agents. Though some gave me thoughtful feedback and reminded me about the arbitrary nature of the industry, I felt discouraged.
When I assessed my situation, I realized that through blogging, freelance journalism, and my overall presence on social media, I'd built up a small but supportive following. I knew many of these readers would buy my book, regardless of whether I self-published it or it was bought by Simon & Schuster.
So, I decided that I would try self-publishing. I am far from being alone in making the decision to self-publish, with the number of self-published titles growing 28 percent to just over a million titles in 2017, according to Publisher's Weekly.
With platforms including Amazon's Kindle Direct, Book Baby, IngramSpark and Lulu so readily available and accessible, self-publishing a book—whether print or an e-book—has never been easier. These platforms explain the process, and offer services and support, oftentimes for a fee. Online fundraising tools, from Kickstarter to Patreon, have made it easier than ever for entrepreneurial authors to raise money for their books too.
After writing the book, I launched a Kickstarter campaign for it and raised a little over $6,000. I used that money to hire a book designer (to whom I paid a couple of hundred dollars, which was totally worth it) and an editor (to whom I paid a couple of thousand dollars, which wasn't worth it, as I could have had other writers and editors I know do it for much less). I found the editor on Google, and the designer through making a status on Facebook.
If people contributed to the campaign, I sent them copies of my book once it came out. During the campaign, I promised a physical book for contributions of $35 or more, and an electronic copy for contributions of $25. I wound up giving all 125 people who contributed at least one physical copy.
Under that structure, I was making around $6 for every copy sold. I also pledged to give 10 percent of all profits to nonprofits that do work around mental health and/or LGBTQ issues. So far, I have given $500 to ACR Health in Syracuse, which is raising money to build an emergency LGBTQ youth shelter. When I reach $10,000 in profit, I will give them another $500.
One of the main differences between self publishing and traditional publishing is the amount of work the author needs to do—in addition to writing —for the book to succeed. Writers who publish with a publishing house have access to their designers, and PR people, and editors, and marketing specialists who have figured out strategies and approaches that help books sell. "When you self-publish, you either have to hire people with your own money to do those things or fill those roles yourself," Tener said.
I had to do figure out how to do everything on my own. To raise awareness of my book, I actively sought out speaking opportunities—including speaking to college classes and podcast appearance. Those experiences helped other people hear about my project, which led to me being offered paid speaking gigs. Every time I have spoken, I have made at least a couple of hundred dollars, and up to $1,000.
I have also gotten my book into several Barnes & Noble stores, independent booksellers, and university bookstores by reaching out directly to store managers and explaining my book. I have also found that they respond to demand; if multiple people go into a bookstore looking for your book, they are much more likely to want to display it, or keep multiple copies in stock.
Rick Paulas, a fellow FREE contributor who self-published Eastern Span, a "neo-noir" novel set in Oakland, California, used Patreon to raise funds as he released the book chapter by chapter. He then donated that money to homeless services in the Bay Area. He told me he sees his endeavor as philanthropic and hopes to expand his writing platform through the book "I care more about it being out there, than making money off it," he said. "It's sort of like music, where you put your songs out there and hope it gets people interested in your other work."
So how do you decide which route to take? For some people, selling a couple of hundred copies of your book is satisfying. If so, self-publish. For others, that might feel like a failure. In the end, it all depends on your version of success.
Follow Seamus Kirst on Twitter.


Halloween Safety Tips | Tenleytown, D.C.
Children should cross the street at the corner, using crosswalks, and not between parked cars. Stay on sidewalks, and don't walk in the street.
Put electronic devices down and keep heads up. Walk, don't run, across the street.
Keep an eye out for cars that are turning or backing up.
Motorists should drive slowly and watch carefully for children. Popular trick-or-treating hours are 5:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. so be especially alert for kids during those hours.
Children are excited on Halloween and may move in unpredictable ways. Take extra time to look for kids at intersections, on medians, and on curbs. Enter and exit driveways and alleys slowly and carefully.
Drive slowly, anticipate heavy pedestrian traffic, and turn your headlights on earlier in the day to spot children from greater distance.
Many police districts, community groups, business associations, and others host Halloween parties. Parents should consider these as a safe alternative to door-to-door trick-or-treating for their children.
Children should never go into homes – stay on the porch or stoop when asking for treats.
Children should know their home phone number and their parents' cell phone numbers, when applicable.
image "Trick-or-Treaters" by rudeturtle is used under a Creative Commons license.


Impact investing has solidified itself into a global industry of exponential growth since the concept emerged in 2007. According to GIIN's recent "Sizing the Impact Investment Market" report, which collected data from over 1,340 impact investors, the market is now just over half a trillion dollars US worldwide.
Impact continues to build an identity for itself as industry players collaborate in creating a simple, common convention of principles and procedures through the five dimensions of the Impact Management Project, the GIIN's recent development of Core Characteristics of Impact Investing and the IFC's Operating Principles of Impact Management for impact investors to adopt.
According to a recent Impact Investing Benchmark report, impact funds that raised under $100 million have delivered almost 2x the returns of comparative general funds of similar size. Capria is an impact investor targeting commercial returns and scaled impact by advancing the next generation of local fund managers that invest in hundreds of small and growing businesses in emerging and frontier markets in Africa, Latin America, and South and Southeast Asia. Capria Network median fund size is USD $50M; we look to deliver market rate returns, or better, along with impact in every fund we select.
Capria defines impact across three dimensions – first we are creating an ecosystem and market for entrepreneurs to start and grow their businesses by advancing early stage fund managers. We provide these capable, highly-vetted, local fund managers with a unique platform for success, including senior-level partnering and capacity building, a global peer network, and tailored, patient capital. Second, for these businesses to scale and succeed, we invest in fund managers deploying market-aligned investment structures. This includes venture equity, private equity, quasi-equity, and innovative debt structures that fit the needs of local small and growing businesses. Third, we support fund managers in the development and implementation of an impact strategy that will help them focus their investments on impact businesses meeting the needs of local communities. They invest in underserved sectors of local economies including education, healthcare, housing, energy, financial services, logistics, food and agriculture.
How to gain a competitive edge by investing with impact?
Key components of Capria's impact management roadmap for investors include defining the impact thesis, integrating impact with the investment strategy, reporting and applying results to manage and enhance impact and financial returns over time.
Impact Thesis – theory of impact that clearly articulates the differentiated investment strategy to both investors and entrepreneurs.
Environmental and Social Management System – environmental and Social (E&S) Governance policy and Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS) that comprises E&S objectives and risks, Exclusion list (defined per institutional investor, if applicable), due diligence processes and procedures to manage risks, anti-corruption and anti-money laundering policies and procedures to ensure compliance.
Impact & ESG in Formal Documents – impact commitments and expectations are clearly integrated in all formal fund and investment documents to establish accountability and commitment towards impact, along with reasonable flexibility to shift impact strategies.
Impact & ESG in Screening Process – robust, quantitative, well-understood system evaluating founder's commitment to impact, scale potential, short and long term depth of impact, sector specific considerations, etc.
Impact & ESG in Portfolio – Impact data is tracked, measured and managed to create more resilient companies that will do better in the long run due to their explicit alignment with stakeholder care and/or environmental principles.
Impact Reporting – Annual/semi-annual report is published including impact data aligned with UN SDGs and IRIS, and qualitative portfolio and customer stories to drive accountability to increase overall impact and financial returns, support the collective learning of the financial industry and establish positive credibility in the ecosystem.
Impactful Exits – Robust, quantitative, well-understood system to rank impact and financial returns per portfolio company to avoid, reduce and manage mission drift.
Capria's impact and ESG roadmap has been integrated into Capria Quantum, our proprietary, comprehensive and holistic fund manager capabilities evaluation tool, where each of 90 elements are rated on a predefined scale 1 (getting started) to 5 (world-class leader).
The Capria Quantum definition of "Fund Impact Thesis" is consistent with IFC's Operating Principle #1 "Define strategic impact objective(s), consistent with the investment strategy". In our process of evaluating funds to consider for the Capria Network, we have collected data from 119 fund managers across the globe, of which about half of them are first time managers, and the balance are 2nd through 4th-time managers.
Our initial analysis (Chart 1) shows on average, globally, fund managers are proficient — they have defined their impact thesis addressing five dimensions of the Impact Management Project and aligned the Fund level impact goals conceptually to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. This clearly differentiates the Fund to investors. Interestingly, fund managers from Sub-Saharan Africa slightly surpass the global average by also predicting impact returns for the fund that takes into account both social/environmental and financial factors. They are followed by managers from Latin America and South/Southeast Asia respectively. The need to further develop this capability, the extent of which varies by region, of defining an impact thesis is apparent among fund managers. This is the very first step to develop an impact management system.
(1) Social Impact: the fund will invest in companies providing healthcare, education and financial services to underserved mid and low-income populations in Brazil, leading to new jobs in the marketplace.
(2) Financial Impact: the fund will support accelerated growth and financial sustainability of early-stage companies.
(3) Environmental Impact: the fund will also generate positive environmental impact through investments in energy efficient, environmentally sustainable and clean technology companies.
(1) Social impact – Each investee has the potential to impact at least 100,000 BoP (base of the economic pyramid) families, and/or directly employ up to 1,000 BoP individuals across India in 5 years, resulting in improved livelihoods (new and better jobs) through the formal economy.
(2) Financial impact on the companies we invest in – Investees are on a path to financial sustainability and rapid growth through increased revenues and additional capital, enabling them to continue attracting capital to support scaling.
(3) Catalytic impact on the entrepreneurial ecosystem – Engagement with the local and global network of advisors, skilled service providers and strategic partnerships such that every investee benefits from, influences, and accelerates the functioning of the overall entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Unitus Ventures took it a step further, in a first-of-its-kind move within the Indian investment ecosystem and has been reporting impact for the last 2 years mapped at a company-by-company and fund basis to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, showing in just 5 years that they have impacted over 4.7 million lives, created 12,797 jobs, and raised follow-on capital of 3.9 times Unitus' initial investment. As part of Unitus' impact management, they look at strengthening impact among underserved populations, which most times happen to be women. An initial analysis applying the 2X challenge criteria shows both Funds are indeed organically gender smart, going to show gender smart businesses are able to scale their impact and grow their revenues in a very short span of time.
This is the first article of the blog series highlighting Capria's impact management practice and how to implement principle #1 of the IFC Operating Principles of Impact Management. In the upcoming articles on Enhancing Impact and Financial Returns through Impact Management, we will share how funds in the Capria Network implement the other principles using real-world data and illustrative examples.


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Chronogaster is a genus of nematodes.

The Encyclopedia of Life (eol) places the genus in the order Araeolaimida and the family Leptolaimidae whereas Wikispecies and the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) place the genus in the order Plectida, superfamily Plectoidea and family Chronogastridae, where it is the type genus of the family.

References

External links

 Chronogaster at the World Register of Marine Spacies (WoRMS)

Chromadorea genera
Araeolaimida

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Earlier this year I earned a bunch of professional development units (PDUs) from Stanford University. Becoming a Stanford Certified Project Manager (SCPM) was fun and I truly enjoyed absorbing the subject matter. I've had a chance to use the strategic execution framework (SEF) at work. Starting this weekend I'm ramping up into full blown test taking mode. During late September I'm going to venture out to a computer lab in Colorado Springs to take the Project Management Institute's (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) exam.