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Meet the BIPOC Farmers Cultivating Green Spaces in NYC
Like fashion, farming is political too.
By Sydney Gore
Photography by Mat + Kat
Before COVID-19, most people weren't waking up with a burning desire to become farmers. Many of us that were able to work from home likely began fantasizing about life in the countryside and spending more time in nature. As a collective, we consciously shifted back to the basics, but it was bigger than minimizing our wardrobes — it's been a full-on reconsideration of what is essential for our quality of life. For many BIPOC, the return to nature has served as a spiritual awakening that's less about escapism and more about reconnecting with our deepest roots in order to rebuild a better future.
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When flocks of New York City residents fled to suburbs across the country at the apex of COVID-19, many of those who stayed behind made a deeper commitment to keeping their communities intact. Following the peak of panic shopping at supermarkets, local community fridges started popping up in major cities to counter food scarcity as inventories were replenished. Deemed essential workers, for farmers all over the world, there was never a break from this global health crisis. Few tasks are as important as feeding the nation, especially in marginalized communities that are deprived of the basic necessities due to structural racism in the food system. Based on the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) annual Economic Research Service report, food insecurity affects one in 10 households in New York. The non-profit organization Robin Hood estimates that 40% of the New York population experiences food hardship.
While there's work to be done in every borough, urban farming has paved a new avenue where controlling the means of production through community gardens is feasible when BIPOC youth respond to the call.
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Vianca Lugo, 27, decided to become an urban farmer after dropping out of film school and living on Indigenous land in Northern California for six months. Even though they worked in the fields alongside other people of color, the land was owned by white men. As a queer Puerto Rican, it was important for Lugo to find a way to do land work and grow food for their own community. After returning to New York in 2017, they came across Farm School NYC (FSNYC), one of the few certificate programs that "centers marginalized voices." "It's always been BIPOC at the forefront of food sovereignty work, and it's no coincidence that the network that exists here in NYC today reflects that," they say.
This year marks Lugo's first full season working on a farm and seeing a seed "from start to harvest." (Before the pandemic, they managed an events space full-time.) Right now, Lugo is focused on boosting community engagement while also working with the grassroots organization New York Boricua Resistance, but the long-term goal is to invest in an aquaponics farm in Puerto Rico. "For me, this land work has been so healing and I definitely want other people to have that experience in their own community," Lugo says. "This land belongs to the folks who take care of it."
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The urban agriculture landscape dates back to 3500 BCE, when the ancient Mesopotamian civilizations were said to have integrated gardens and irrigation systems into their structures. Throughout the 1900s, war or victory gardens were commonly used as a tool to combat environmental injustice, economic recession, and urban decline while also sustaining the public food supply during World War I and World War II. According to Farming While Black, community land trusts in the U.S. were established by Black farmers in 1969. Following a nationwide financial crisis, the USDA introduced the Urban Gardening Program in 1977 in an effort to help low-income residents grow their own food. (Even though it was successful, the program was shuttered in 1994. Since then, the USDA has established the Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production Competitive Grants Program.) From there, urban farming initiatives expanded with various non-profit projects like former NBA player Will Allen's Growing Power that eradicated the urban-rural divide.
Bronx native Sunny Vazquez started working with land about three years ago while recovering from an injury that left her unable to walk. All that time she had to sit with herself allowed Vazquez to redirect her energy, which divinely led her upstate to Soul Fire Farm. The visit completely altered her perception of what it means to have a relationship to the land and how farming could be a revolutionary act.
"Food is our birthright and it has become so politicized that the very act of growing food for free for the community is justice in itself, and making people more aware of these systems that are in place in order to keep us away from this knowledge," she tells Teen Vogue. "Being in those spaces and growing food and knowing that the seed I'm planting is going to feed someone later on is so powerful for me."
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After bearing witness to the power of local green spaces, Vazquez applied for the urban agriculture training program at FSNYC. Last year, the 29-year-old completed her certification with an apprenticeship at Kelly Street Garden where she is now a garden assistant. Someday, Vazquez hopes to return to Puerto Rico where her great-great-grandmother was once a slave and work on different farms with the elders. For now, she's tending to the land in a way that feels like a reclamation.
"I'm really grateful to have answered the call to start farming because I feel like growing up in the city, you're so detached from the food system. It's so important, especially right now, to take that power back and really integrate yourself with the land," Vazquez says.
Feeding America reports that food insecurity has affected more than 35 million people. The USDA estimates that 23 million Americans live in food deserts, areas where access to affordable and nutritious food is limited or nonexistent. The ever-present issue of food apartheid in the U.S. disproportionately impacts low-income communities and people of color — parts of New York City, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, New Orleans, Minneapolis, and Memphis are amongst the highest ranking in this category. Based on a survey from 2018, community gardens in New York are now one of the primary sources of produce for the food-insecure.
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Ariella Riapos grew up in a Slovakian and Honduran household in Jersey City with both sides of their family coming from rural backgrounds associated with farming. Some of the 24-year-old's earliest memories come from being outside in the garden with their grandmother, playing with plants in the dirt. They add, "I feel like that's the way that my ancestors speak to me." To them and many other BIPOC, farming is a sacred practice in the process of decolonization.
"[Farming] is reclaiming all of the ancestral traditions that I lost," Riapos explains. "It makes me sad thinking about the way that commercial agriculture is because for me farming is one of the most deeply spiritual things that I've ever done in my life. When I'm out in the garden and I'm with the plants and watching them grow, I can't really even necessarily put into words how incredible it feels. How you can move these seeds in your head, put them in the ground, watch them grow, and then get food."
Since moving to Bushwick about five years ago, Riapos immersed themself in community organizing which led to teaming up with friends to turn an empty parking lot into a garden. They are mostly self-taught with the help of elders, but it's been a very organic transition into what Riapos describes as "guerilla gardening." Given that their full-time job is in work management, being in service to the community doesn't feel like strenuous work because it's a civic duty.
While there is beauty in returning to nature, we can't romanticize labor on the land without addressing the generational trauma that is still present in the soil. Long before America was dispersed with grids of concrete jungles, this country was primarily covered in rural land that belonged to Indigenous people. As the story goes, white people stole this sacred ground from the Native tribes and then exploited enslaved Africans for labor on these newfound plantations for centuries. After the Civil War, freed slaves acquired 19 million acres of land, but it was seized through acts of manipulation like financial debt and domestic terror.
Of course, there's also the history of discrimination against BIPOC farmers through oppressive legislation like the California Alien Land Law of 1913 which have made it more difficult for thos farmers to obtain ownership of agricultural land. Since then, the federal government has perpetuated this prejudice by excluding BIPOC farmers from New Deal policies that would provide relief, blocking their access to critical farm programs, and even ignoring their civil rights claims. Today, BIPOC comprise less than two percent of farm owner-operators in America.
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Farming is no easy task, but working on the land can be fulfilling. Isa Jamira has been humbled every step of the way on this road to her career. "In reality, a farmer is not a 9 to 5 profession, it's very much around the clock all the time," she says. For her, farming isn't a hobby—it's a lifestyle. Jamira adds, "It's health, it's exercise, it's my mood uplifter, it's the way that I can release and gain, it's a way to communicate… It's any and everything under the sun, it's the whole."
For as long as she can remember, Jamira has been challenging the norms of America's destructive capitalistic society straight from its epicenter. The 24-year-old majored in environmental studies at Bates College, but her life path wasn't clear until she learned that "the way I take care of the planet is also the way I take care of myself." Jamira's passion for education around food justice deepened while working on Black-owned farms. Since interning at Oko Farms, she has become a seasonal farmer and educator and currently has a partnership in the works to create Oko Gardens University.
Farming and ranching are professions that makeup 1.3% of the U.S. labor force with more than 2 million farms currently in operation. Despite this, there's still a certain image that comes to mind when most think about the classic farmer identity — we tend to envision a white man dressed in overalls, plaid, and a straw hat, sort of like Grant Wood's 1930 painting American Gothic, which served as a satirical commentary on midwestern culture and celebration of rural American values. In the 2018 book Farming While Black, Leah Penniman writes "I realized that during all those years of seeing images of only white people as the stewards of the land, only white people as organic farmers, only white people in conversations about sustainability, the only consistent story I'd seen or been told about Black people and the land was about slavery and sharecropping, about coercion and brutality and misery and sorrow."
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This is something that Frances Pérez-Rodríguez is hyper aware of now that she's deep in the thick of it. "When you look across the globe, it's Black and brown people who are growing our food," she says. "Black and brown people are harvesting our food, distributing our food, packaging our food, selling our food, cooking our food."
Another FSNYC graduate, Pérez-Rodríguez's interest in farming was initially sparked by a curiosity in herbal medicine while studying journalism at Rutgers University. As a Black Puerto Rican from the South Bronx, she felt compelled to "completely commit to reconnecting with the land." She adds, "I grew up in a family of musicians and artists and teachers so to come from that and to now be able to see a life with farming affirms to me that it's the most important thing that I've encountered."
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Pérez-Rodríguez is currently the farm manager of La Finca Del Sur in the South Bronx and Food & Land Education Coordinator for Woke Foods. Through urban farming, she has come into contact with many community organizers that are doing so much more than growing food. Pérez-Rodríguez is dedicated to the fight for abolition through a framework that combines social and food justice but is moving at her own pace in order to see it through.
"I think America is in crisis," she explains. "Living in capitalism and white supremacy is a crisis, and it really is a marathon. I want to slow down and stay healthy so that I can continue doing the work… I try not to feel like it's the end of the world. I think the world has ended many times for many people. I try to stay grounded so that I can still be there to organize and to do the work that's needed."
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Sustainable agriculture isn't a new concept that is breaking the "grass ceiling" so to speak. Organic farming actually comes from an indigenous African system that was resuscitated by the agricultural scientist and plant doctor George Washington Carver, who pushed southern farming methods toward diversified horticulture operations. BIPOC have been doing this labor without taking proper credit for centuries, but the co-operative farming movement will not carry on in silence. Riapos, Lugo, Pérez-Rodríguez, Jamira, and Vazquez recognize that this is their legacy as ecological citizens because industrialized food systems won't save us or the planet.
The future of urban agriculture is diverse, intersectional, and powered by community. In healing the land, we heal ourselves too. As Pérez-Rodríguez says, "Sometimes people want to save the world and do something huge when really there is stuff to do right on our block."
Here's a list of local farms, non-profits, organizations, and mutual aids to support right now:
Oko Farms
Farm School NYC
Black Feminist Project
New York Boricua Resistance
La Finca Del Sur Community Farm
Comida Pal Pueblo
Bushwick Ayuda Mutua
Food Issues Group
Urbe Apie
The Friendly Fridge
Morning Glory Garden
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Stylist: Michelle Li
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Ebola-like virus killing fish in Great Lakes
Dennis Cauchon
Tue, 01 May 2007 21:30 UTC
A deadly Ebola-like virus is killing fish of all types in the Great Lakes, a development some scientists fear could trigger disaster for the USA's freshwater fish.
Over 160 homes flooded, 750 people evacuated in Urals
Over 160 apartment buildings have been flooded and more than 745 people evacuated in Russia's industrial Urals region of Chelyabinsk, local emergencies officials said Tuesday.
"Torrential rains since late April 29 have raised the water level in the Sim river resulting in floods in the towns of Asha, Minyar and Sim," officials said.
In the three towns of the region - which is located in the watershed of the large rivers of Volga, Ural and Tobol - 166 homes have been flooded and 745 people evacuated. About 30 kilometers of the road linking Sim and Minyar have been flooded too.
Pacific whale decline 'a mystery'
Grey whales in the eastern Pacific appear to be in some trouble, with the cause far from clear, scientists say.
Researchers with the conservation group Earthwatch found that whales are arriving in their breeding grounds off the Mexican coast malnourished.
The same thing happened just after the 1997/8 El Nino event, which warmed the waters and depleted food stocks.
Surprise Surprise! Arctic melt faster than forecast
Arctic ice is melting faster than computer models of climate calculate, according to a group of US researchers.
Since 1979, the Arctic has been losing summer ice at about 9% per decade, but models on average produce a melting rate less than half that figure.
The scientists suggest forecasts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may be too cautious.
The latest observations indicate that Arctic summers could be ice-free by the middle of the century.
Nearly 1 meter of hail in a village near Lyon, France
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Animal Extinction - the greatest threat to mankind
Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:32 UTC
Today we're living through the sixth great extinction, sometimes known as the Holocene extinction event. We carried its seeds with us 50,000 years ago as we migrated beyond Africa with Stone Age blades, darts, and harpoons, entering pristine Ice Age ecosystems and changing them forever by wiping out at least some of the unique megafauna of the times, including, perhaps, the sabre-toothed cats and woolly mammoths. When the ice retreated, we terminated the long and biologically rich epoch sometimes called the Edenic period with assaults from our newest weapons: hoes, scythes, cattle, goats, and pigs.
Hurricane Forecaster: Oceans Cause Global Warming, Not CO2
Denver: The United States' leading hurricane forecaster said Friday that global ocean currents, not human-produced carbon dioxide, are responsible for global warming, and the Earth may begin to cool on its own in five to 10 years.
William Gray, a Colorado State University researcher best known for his annual forecasts of hurricanes along the U.S. Atlantic coast, also said increasing levels of carbon dioxide will not produce more or stronger hurricanes.
He said that over the past 40 years the number of major hurricanes making landfall on the U.S. Atlantic coast has declined compared with the previous 40 years, even though carbon dioxide levels have risen.
Poisonous caterpillars crawl to warmer north
Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:43 UTC
Poisonous caterpillars are spreading across England, prompting warnings from environmental health officers.
A series of mild winters has seen swarms of brown tail moth caterpillars move from their usual habitats along the south-east coast to as far north as Yorkshire.
The brown and red grub is covered in millions of tiny hairs that contain a toxin that can cause painful rashes, eye infections and, if inhaled, serious breathing difficulties.
As the caterpillars have moved inland, environmental health officials have been putting up warning signs in popular beauty spots.
Lightning starts fire at Oklahoma refinery
Flames and smoke poured into the sky Saturday over an oil refinery where lightning set off a fire and an explosion that was felt miles away, authorities said.
No injuries were reported and there were no immediate evacuation orders in the south-central Oklahoma town, said Mike Hancock, a spokesman for Wynnewood Refinery Co.
Flames and smoke boiled hundreds of feet into the air from two 80,000-gallon tanks in the Wynnewood Refinery complex, officials said.
Firefighters doused the area surrounding the tanks Saturday, Hancock said.
"Tank fires are pretty pesky fires. They're easy to keep contained, but they're hard to fight," Hancock said. "It's hard to estimate how long it will be. It can take a day or so to burn the product."
History Of UK Earthquakes
Earthquakes are a relatively rare phenomenon in the UK but the country has suffered a number in recent years.

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Do Muslims eat beef?
Yes, but it has to be slaughtered in an Islamic method called zabiha, which ensures that the animal is respected, raised properly, and Allah's name is said upon it.
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By Mufti Abdullah Nana
Mawlana Abd al-Hayy al-Lakhnawi writes, "The incident of Rasulullah s.a.w sacrificing a cow on behalf of his wives during the Farewell Hajj and distributing its meat to his wives is recorded both inSahih al-Muslim (#294) andSahih al-Bukhari(#1709). I have not come across an explicit narration which mentions that Rasulullah ate the meat of a cow.
Shaykh Abd al-Haqq Dehlawi writes in Madārij An-Nubuwwat,
"It is established that Rasulullah s.a.w ate the meat of sheep, but we do not know for certain if he ate the meat of a cow. It is mentioned in hadith narrations that Rasulullah s.a.w did sacrifice a cow on behalf of his wives, and apparently he ate from that meat as well."
It is narrated from Ā'ishah inSahih al-Muslim that she said,
"The meat of a cow was brought to Rasulullah s.a.w and it was said to him that this food was given in charity to Bareerah. He said, 'It is [in the ruling of] charity for Bareerah, and it is [in the ruling of] a gift for us.'" (Sahih al-Muslim, #2486)
It is apparent from this narration that Rasulullah s.a.w himself ate the meat of the cow, and it is possible that he himself did not eat it but he gave it to his wives to eat. Allah knows best. (Majmū'a Fatāwā Mawlana Abd al-Hayy, p. 407)
There are authentic hadiths which mention that beef was served in the house of Rasulullah s.a.w, and in all likelihood, he himself did eat from the beef, despite the fact that this is not explicitly mentioned in these narrations. The fact that he himself slaughtered a cow and brought its meat home shows that it is completely lawful to eat beef in itself.
Some narrations do seem to indicate that it is disliked to eat beef and there are medical harms in doing so. There is a hadith attributed to Rasulullah s.a.w. regarding the consumption of beef. He is reported to have said, "You should hold fast to the milk of cows and clarified butter of cows, and you should avoid the meat of cows. The milk and clarified butter of cows is a source of medical treatment and a cure, while its meat is a source of sickness." (Mustadrak al-Hākim)
Most scholars of hadith have declared this narration to be weak including Hāfidh al-Sakhāwi, Hāfidh Ibn Hajar, Hāfidh Zarkashi, Imām Dhahabi, and others. Hāfidh al-Sakhāwi has mentioned all the different chain of narrators for this statement and has described in detail the weakness of each chain. Imām Hākim had authenticated this narration, but the majority of the scholars of hadith differed with him in this regard and declared this narration to be weak.
Moreover, the narration of beef being a source of sickness goes against other authentic narrations, thus bringing its own authenticity into question. Hāfidh Zarkashi writes that there are authentic narrations which establish that Rasulullah sacrificed a cow for his family, and he would not make a sacrifice of such an animal whose meat is known to cause sickness to others. (Faydh al-Qadīr, vol.4, p.444)
Some scholars of hadith have also provided an alternative interpretation to the narrations which state that beef is a source of sickness. The specialists in Unani (Greek) medicine andTibb analyze the effects that climate, season, and type of food have on the health of an individual. Many scholars of hadith quote Imām Halimi's interpretation of this narration and agree with his medical analysis from UnaniTibb. Imam Halimi mentions that this narration regarding medical harms of beef cows are particularly serious for the region of the Arabian Peninsula as compared to other regions, and it is as if he has restricted the scope of this hadith to beef in the Arabian Peninsula. The reason is that beef is both dry and cold in terms of UnaniTibb. When this dryness is combined with the arid and dry climate of the Arabian Peninsula, then it will potentially have a severe adverse affect on the person who eats beef. (Faidh al-Qadīr, vol.4, p.444).
In light of this explanation, the negative health effects of eating beef mentioned in this narration will be restricted to the Arabian Peninsula.
The great Indian scholar of hadith, Allāmah Anwar Shah Kashmīrī , has said with certainty that Rasulullah s.a.w did eat beef on numerous occasions. He writes, "The first was the story of Bareerah when charity was given to her. The second was when he sacrificed a cow on behalf of his wives during Hajj. The third is the hadith under discussion [in which Rasulullah s.a.w purchased a cow, commanded for it to be slaughtered, and ate from the meat of the cow] (Sahih al-Bukhari, #3126) Whoever thinks that it is not established that Rasulullah s.a.w ate the meat of a cow is indeed unaware of these narrations." (Faydh al-Bāri, vol.3, p.459)
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Concrescence occurs when a tooth's cementum, the material covering the root of the tooth, is joined with another tooth's cementum. The teeth are connected at the roots. It isn't something that dental professionals see often, and it can go undetected if the teeth appear normal. It is only possible for your dental professional to make a proper diagnosis with an examination that includes X-rays.
Just like many other dental anomalies, concrescence occurs in the embryonic stage of fetal development. It is a rare condition, and a review in Oral Health and Dental Management reports that 0.8 percent of extracted adult teeth and up to 3.7 percent of extracted baby teeth exhibit the anomaly. If you are diagnosed with this condition, it's important to know you haven't done anything wrong and couldn't have avoided it.
X-rays are an important part of your dental appointments and oral health routine. Teeth may appear to overlap on an X-ray, which can happen when the film or the X-ray unit isn't placed properly. If your dental professional sees that teeth are superimposed on each other, they should retake the X-ray to determine whether or not a dental anomaly is present. If the X-rays continue to look the same from different angles, the professional should explore what the condition might be.
Concrescence is a dental anomaly that can be difficult to diagnose, as the teeth may appear normal. It is most commonly found in the back teeth. In the Oral Health and Dental Management case study, the dentist didn't identify a case of concrescence until they extracted a patient's molar and the neighboring tooth came out with it, since the two were joined. 3D images or a cone beam X-ray can help the dentist determine if the tooth's cementum is the only section joined to another tooth or if other areas are also fused, which would lead to a different diagnosis.
The condition may cause complications with a tooth extraction or root canal, as both procedures involve a dental professional accessing the root of the tooth. For example, should a patient with this anomaly need to have a tooth extracted, they would need to discuss the possibility of two teeth being removed and make arrangements to replace both teeth with their dentist. If the tooth with the fused cementum needs a root canal, the patient may need to see a specialist for treatment.
It's also important for dental hygienists to know if concrescence is present because the condition could make it difficult to clean around the teeth and result in the loss of gum tissue, according to the Journal of Indian Society of Periodontology.
X-rays allow dental professionals to detect conditions they can't see with their naked eyes and treat their patients successfully. If you want to check for any dental anomalies in your mouth, consult your dentist.


It's election season once again, and along with mud-slinging commercials, public speaking mishaps and the impassioned speeches of aging veterans, we can expect one other telltale sign to make a comeback: YouTube political parodies.
Political parodies are as old as politics and they made the transition to the internet almost as soon as the first online bulletin board was established. But in the 2008 election cycle the world saw a new wave of user-generated political parodies – many of surprisingly high quality – make their way onto the "stage" at Youtube. The video sharing site became a veritable clearinghouse of electoral jokes ranging from tasteful and witty to sophomoric. Perhaps the most well-remembered is the infamous Obama Girl video, but that was just one among thousands.
2012 is ramping up to an even higher level of production of Youtube political parodies, and not just because they're fun: it's also big business. YouTube offers a program known as Youtube Partners, in which users can earn money by agreeing to have commercials appended to the videos in their channels. The more people who view the video, the more money the user is paid by the advertisers, so there's a strong incentive to create content that goes viral.
And in the math of 2-minute videos, funny + politically charged often equals viral.
These videos aren't always fair to the candidates, but they're crowd pleasers nonetheless. And as long as there's advertising gold to be struck by making them, we'll see more and more as we head toward November and in every election cycle to come.


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For Amazon, the Next Trillion Won't Be As Easy As the First
Published September 14, 2018 MarketsMotley Fool
Last spring, when Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) shares topped $1,000 for the first time, I suggested that the stock could hit $2,000 in the not-too-distant future.
Indeed, Amazon doubled from $1,000 a share to $2,000 in just 15 months, a phenomenal growth rate for a company of its size. With the stock topping $1 trillion in market cap shortly after it reached $2,000 a share, it begs the question of how long it will take the company to get to $2 trillion -- if it can at all.
Before exploring that, let's take step back and chart Amazon's blistering path from $1,000 to $2,000 a share.
There was plenty of excitement along the path from $1,000 to $2,000 for Amazon. The company's acquisition of Whole Foods last June sent shockwaves through the grocery industry, and it signaled Amazon's intent to make a play for a giant retail segment that and eluded it.
Revenue growth accelerated thanks in part to the Whole Foods deal, though it will now slow as it laps the acquisition. Earnings have also surged during that period as its Amazon Web Service cloud-computing division ramps up and its North American retail division has begun delivering meaningful profits, thanks largely to the growth of its marketplace, or its third-party-seller business.
Advertising also presents an evolving opportunity for the company, and it's been an active buyer outside of traditional retail, snatching up Ring, the smart doorbell company, and Pillpack, an online drug seller, each for $1 billion.
Time for an encore?
Amazon's valuation has always been divorced from traditional fundamentals. The e-commerce giant has barely been profitable for most of its history, and even today, it trades at a triple-digit P/E ratio.
But with its market cap in the stratosphere, its fundamentals will become more important to investors as the risk of a crash increases without underlying profits and blockbuster sales growth.
During the last 15 months, when the stock doubled, Amazon's price-to-sales ratio expanded from 3.4 to about 4.8. However, the acceleration in its profit growth may have made up for it as its P/E ratio has fallen modestly to 154 during that time.
Therefore, it seems like profits rather than sales will be the key determinant in the company's ability to reach $2 trillion, and Amazon has been answering the call. Through the first half of the year, North American operating profits have tripled to nearly $3 billion, while AWS has grown about two thirds, also to $3 billion. Meanwhile, its international e-commerce division continues to operate at a loss.
With powerful positions in growth industries like e-commerce, cloud computing, voice-activated technology, video streaming, and advertising, and the powerful competitive advantages its Prime loyalty program generates, Amazon's profits will almost certainly continue to grow at a robust space, especially as the company appears to be reaching scale across many of its business segments. However, profit growth alone may not be enough to drive the stock to $2 trillion.
Rare air
Amazon is just the second company to reach the trillion-dollar mark, passing the milestone just a month after Apple did. The so-called FAANG group of tech giants has been surging over recent years, but $2 trillion is a long way from $1 trillion, and with Amazon now testing Apple for the title of world's most valuable company, there's a big difference between now and when Amazon was worth just half a trillion.
When Amazon was worth around $500 billion a year ago, the e-commerce giant had plenty of company. In fact, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Alphabet were all worth more than Amazon was. In other words, $500 billion seemed like a reasonable valuation at the time, based on its peers.
Today, with the company now worth $1 trillion, in league with only Apple, that valuation seems harder to justify, especially considering Amazon's triple-digit P/E ratio. If Amazon surpasses Apple in value, the market is likely to become more skeptical of its continued growth.
Given that, the next double for Amazon stock will be more difficult than the last. The company still has plenty of growth opportunities, and it may not even be an exaggeration to say that its total addressable market is the world. However, it will be harder for the company to make it to the next milestone without some of its peers getting there with it -- or some serious Apple-sized profits, which is going to take time.
For now, Amazon investors may have to do something they haven't done in a long time: just be patient.
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$15 including transportation! All tickets will be sold on a first come first serve basis. So get yours early to get the best seats!
Show your school spirit at the Ravens' Pep Rally in Alumni Hall before heading to the Canadian Tire Centre!
Sign Making – Get spotted on the big screen at the Canadian Tire Centre. Witty signs win the day.
Face Painting – Be a #1 fan. Sport some red and black to rep the Ravens.
Ravens Merchandise available – Hoodies, hats, tanks and more!
Before the pep rally starts, we'll have face painting going on at Ollie's in the Unicentre!
This year we have booked OC Transpo Buses!
Pick-up will occur at 5:00pm sharp in P5 outside of Alumni Hall. Buses will not circle back this year. When they are full, they are gone. Be sure to arrive early to get a spot. The LAST BUS to the Canadian Tire Centre leaves at 5:30PM.
To ensure all Carleton Students have a safe ride home, we will check Carleton I.D.'s for entry back on the bus home.
Canadian Tire Centre will not allow any type of bag into the facility. This will be under strict enforcement, so leave the bag behind. There will be a strict NO RE-ENTRY policy in place at the Canadian Tire Centre. As well, there will be no entry into the event for visibly intoxicated students.
Please be advised that the CTC now has an upgraded security technology that makes use of magnetometers (walk-through metal detectors) to screen all fans as they enter the venue at all points of entry. Patrons will use these walk-through magnetometers (much like those used at airports) at all points of entry, allowing for guests to enter the venue as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Only in unique circumstances will patting down or hand-held wands be used with guests. Fans will not be asked to remove shoes or belts, but will be asked to remove any metallic items from their pockets. The magnetometers are designed to allow all patrons to walk through safely, including those with specific medical conditions like pacemakers, defibrillators and bone/joint replacements.
Additionally, there is no in and out ability at the Canadian Tire Centre. Once a ticket and patron has been scanned into Canadian Tire Centre, patrons can no longer exit the building and return during the event.


In a paper published on 19 December 2016, in the journal Nature, the ALPHA collaboration reported the first ever measurement on the optical spectrum of an antimatter atom. This incredible achievement features technological developments that open up a completely new era in high-precision antimatter research. It is the result of over 20 years of work by the CERN antimatter community. Read more about the amazing discovery here.


Based near Bishopston and within easy reach of Clifton and the city centre, I am a fully accredited psychotherapist with the UKCP and work one-to-one with adults.
Psychotherapy/Counselling is usually a mid- to long-term process on an open-ended basis. However, it is also possible to work for an agreed time period. In this case the work is more focussed on specific issues.
I offer a free first meeting, lasting up to 45 minutes, which gives you the chance to ask any questions and perhaps more importantly to get a sense of who I am and how I work as a psychotherapist. If we decide to work together, we will usually contract to do six sessions. In the 6th session we will review the work and see whether it feels right to continue. These reviews take place from time to time and offer a chance for us both to reflect on the sessions.
I offer a safe, confidential and non-judgemental space for what can be a challenging and also a very joyous experience of learning to live more fully and with more freedom.
Core Process work has at its heart the idea that we are all inherently healthy and that however much it may have been obscured by painful or difficult life experiences, our health is always available to us (in Tibetan Buddhism this inherent health is called 'Brilliant Sanity'). By looking deeply at suffering we can change our relationship to it and acknowledge that as well as pain it can also bring strength.
My practice is located in Ashley Down, close to bus routes to the city centre and within easy reach of Bishopston, Clifton, Montpelier, St Werburgh's and North Bristol.
I work to the Karuna Institute code of ethics, and my work is fully supervised and insured.
To read more about the terms 'psychotherapy' and 'counselling' see FAQ.


The value of financial and insurance fraud more than doubled to £567m in 2015, according to a study by accounting firm BDO.
The new figure compares with £238m in 2014.
The study also found that the finance and insurance industry was the most susceptible to fraud, ahead of public administration, mining and the retail trade.
BDO said that there was a small number of high value financial frauds in 2015, which boosted the figure. The overall number of financial frauds fell to 70 in 2015 from 119 in 2014.
Third-party fraud within financial services showed the largest increase in value year-on-year, BDO said, with a £197m increase in reported fraud in 2015.
In 2015, the £210m of third-party fraud within the sector included a fake invoices case, an investor con and a £142m case where six businessmen were charged with conspiracy to commit fraud on broadband installation contracts against financial institutions.
On a more positive note, BDO said the financial services sector saw a decline in employee fraud cases compared with 2014. The number of cases fell from 31 to 15 with the value also falling from £9m to £4.5m.
BDO head of fraud and study author Kaley Crossthwaite said: "While the value of financial services fraud would appear to have jumped sharply, the numbers have been skewed slightly because of a small number of very large cases.
The total value of fraud doubled to £1.5bn from £720m, the study found, but the number of frauds fell by 5.2% to 519 from 546.


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7 SYKOS Review & Signing! #Zombies #Horror
Jonathan Maberry didn't invent zombie horror, but between his Joe Ledger series, his Rot & Ruin series, and his terrific Deadlands: Ghostwalkers (a book I had a little hand in bringing into the world), he sure reinvigorated it after it was in danger of becoming pretty stale.
So when Marsheila (Marcy) Rockwell and I wrote 7 SYKOS--in which the Infecteds aren't undead, or even dead dead, but just brain-eatingly sick--what Jonathan would think of it was never far from our minds. We'd hoped to ask him for a cover blurb, but the publisher's production schedule was such that we didn't have time. Today, though, we found out what he thought, because he posted a fantastic, 5-star review:
"7 SYKOS is a wild and crazy ride that smashes through barriers and roadblocks and drives way the hell out into new territory for the zombie genre. Inventive, fun (in a dark, weird, twisted way), filled with twists and turns, and packed with characters you'll love --even if you also hate some of them. I loved it!"
To say that we couldn't be happier would be an understatement. Okay, maybe a little happier if some variation on that had appeared on the book cover, but still--we both have tremendous respect for Jonathan as a writer, a human being, and a friend, and it's a thrill to have him be so enthusiastic about our book.
On the off chance that you haven't read it yet, it's still available as a paperback and an e-book (in every e-format known to humanity). If you can't find the paperback in your nearest bookstore, ask them to order it, because it's easily obtained through the major book distributors.
And if you're anywhere near southeastern Arizona on Saturday, April 2, be sure to come and see us at Bisbee Books & Music! It's a wonderful shop that sells new and used books, along with musical instruments, records, and more fun stuff. And it's close to some of Bisbee's best coffee and yummiest ice cream. Marcy and I are signing from 1:30-3:30, and we'd sure love to see you there.
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Neuroscience and Crime
A new article in The Atlantic discusses the growing trend of using neuroscience in court--primarily as a defense in criminal cases. The piece starts off by recounting a crime in Tucson, AZ:
The crime was brutal. On November 4, 1989, after a night of heavy drinking, David Scott Detrich and a male coworker picked up a woman walking along the side of the road in Tucson, Arizona. After scoring some cocaine, the trio went back to her place, where, according to court documents, Detrich slit the woman's throat and stabbed her 40 times. Later, the two men dumped her body in the desert.
A jury convicted Detrich of kidnapping and first-degree murder in 1995, and a judge sentenced him to death.
Detrich is still on death row today as the appeals process drags on, but in 2010, his lawyers achieved a victory of sorts. They claimed that Detrich had received "ineffective assistance of counsel" at his trial, because his original legal team had failed to present evidence of neuropsychological abnormalities and brain damage that might have swayed the court to give him a lesser sentence. A federal appeals court agreed. The ruling said, in effect, that Detrich had been denied his Constitutional right to a fair trial because his lawyers hadn't called an expert witness to talk about his brain.
For our book 7 SYKOS (set in Phoenix, AZ, not Tucson--but not that far away), Marsheila Rockwell and I did a deep dive into contemporary neuroscience research, with a special focus on the unique brain structure common to many psychopaths. What's undeniably true is that there are areas where the psychopathic brain is less developed than the "normal" brain, and these areas are commonly those controlling things like empathy and impulsivity. Since psychopaths, pretty much by definition, lack empathy and have poor impulse control, that appears to be a pretty direct correlation. (For more specific details on brain structure, read the book--it's all summarized in there, along with descriptions of how that brain structure is observed and studied.)
That said, there are real problems with using brain scans as defense in a criminal case.
For one thing, as the article points out, a single brain scan by itself is largely meaningless. It's only by comparing it against large sample sizes that you get a statistically significant correlation. If a lawyer (or more likely, an expert witness) shows a jury one brain scan, then the jury has to trust that the expert has compared it to enough other scans to know what it represents (or has a deep enough background in this particular area of neuroscience to know how what he or she is looking at should be interpreted).
But the larger issue is that even a classically psychopathic brain structure is not a useful predictor of criminal behavior. Plenty of people with that brain structure might exhibit what some would call psychopathic behavior, but in far less extreme, more socially acceptable ways. It can be argued, for example, that decreased empathy and a predilection for risk can be useful traits in business. To turn someone with that brain structure into a violent criminal requires the presence of other factors--most commonly, early exposure to violence. A child born with that brain structure (or whose brain is reshaped by some traumatic physical injury) who is brought up in an abusive household, or in an environment where violence is commonplace and seen to provide satisfactory results, has a much greater chance of becoming a violent criminal than someone with the exact same brain structure raised in a supportive, safe, and loving family.
Brain structure is only one part--and not necessarily the most critical part--of what turns someone violent. Introducing brain structure as part of a criminal defense, therefore, mainly serves the purpose of confusing an untrained jury. Brain structure does not negate free will or eliminate fault--people are still responsible for their own behavior. When a defense attorney uses brain structure as a defense, it's largely intended to help create that proverbial "shadow of a doubt" that requires a jury to find the defendant not guilty. But it's misleading, because if the defendant committed the crime, it's not because his brain structure made him do it.
For more--and to see how brain structure comes into play against zombie-like Infecteds--you'll have to read 7 SYKOS!


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Murphy Mulhall in Estates Gazette's Ireland Focus
. Date: 20th March 2015 Back to all articles
Our very own James Mulhall has been quoted in Estates Gazette's latest focus on occupier demand in the Dublin Office Market.
A wave of multinationals and small start-ups want to sail into Dublin. But office supply is low. Will prelets and refurbs deal with the influx? Alex Horne of Estates Gazette reports.
Ireland is facing an office supply problem. Office vacancy in Dublin is at its lowest recorded level. At the same time, take-up was 20% up last year compared with 2013. However, development is not keeping pace with demand, which poses the question – how will the country maintain growth at this crucial point in its recovery?
James Mulhall from niche agency Murphy Mulhall says: "All space is built to order now and most serious developers aren't going to come over from the UK to build in a market as small as Dublin."
The fastest-growing companies in Dublin are found in the tech sector, a huge driver of Ireland's recovery. A massive 39% of demand comes from the sector, but the Irish market is failing to meet its needs. Tech companies tend to enter the market with a small space and then expand. But this doesn't suit developers, which are looking for large prelets to anchor developments. To compound the problem, most of the serviced offices in Dublin are now full. Similarly, flexible leases are attractive to the TMT sector, but landlords are increasingly unwilling to provide them. Mulhall says: "After things went bad, everyone thought flexible leases would be standard, but longer and more landlord-friendly leases are the norm. It's the exact opposite of what occupiers need in a recovering economy."
Click the link below to read the full article.
2015.03.20 Estates Gazette – Ireland Focus – A Wave of Demand


My baby needs special urinary health cat food that only comes in Chicken flavor. *But he gets deli turkey because he loves it so much.
meow mix. it taste the best with some water. (dry) fancy fest is ver good and moist. (wet) just depends on what kind i am in the mood for. . the cat likes 9 lives though.
Meow Mix Indoor is all they get.
Meow mix Seafood Flavor. They like it better than another other flavor or type I've purchased.
Ocean perch or salmon,they love tuna also but I think it smells really bad.
INOVA is the one my cat bailey eats and has for a while! I used to buy Science diet until there was some type of recall problem. He likes this one very much!
What flavor of preserves do you favor most?
What is the most crazy thing your cat has done?


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Prince François, Count of Clermont
Prince François of Orléans
(1961-02-07)7 February 1961
Henri, Count of Paris
Duchess Marie Therese of Württemberg
Prince François
His Royal Highness
Spoken style
Your Royal Highness
Prince François of Orléans, Count of Clermont (François Henri Louis Marie; 7 February 1961 – 30 December 2017) was the eldest son of Orleanist pretender to the French throne, Prince Henri, Count of Paris, Duke of France and his former wife Duchess Marie Therese of Württemberg.
He was the Dauphin of France in Orleanist reckoning.[1] However, his mother had been infected with toxoplasmosis during her second and third pregnancies, and the pre-natal exposure left both Prince François and his younger sister, Princess Blanche, developmentally disabled.[1]
His godparents were Henri, Count of Paris (paternal grandfather) and Duchess Rosa of Württemberg (maternal grandmother).
François was about two or three months old, according to his father (then styled Count of Clermont as Orleanist heir-apparent), before the family realized that he had a disability.[1] During his early childhood the family dwelt in Haute-Savoie, although his father was often away on military assignment or business.[1] When he was 13, his parents separated and François spent weekdays in a facility at Beaumont-sur-Oise and, from the early 1980s, in a L'Arche community, rejoining his mother and siblings at the Orléans estate in Dreux on weekends, while sometimes vacationing with his paternal grandmother at the Chateau d'Eu where she taught him to walk when he was four or five.[1]
In 1981 his grandfather, the Count of Paris, having declared Clermont deprived of his dynastic rights for an unauthorized civil remarriage after divorce, publicly announced that he would be succeeded as claimant to the French throne by Prince Jean, younger brother of François, in light of the latter's incapacity.[1] Although the Count subsequently relented and declared Clermont restored in his rights as first-born son, when Clermont succeeded as Count of Paris in 1999, he reinstated François as the next heir on the grounds that his father's act had been ultra vires.[1] He established a council of regency to exercise the dynastic prerogative on François's behalf, to become effective upon the succession of François as claimant.[1] In 2016 Jean declared that his father's appointment of a regency council was invalid and, having become his elder brother's legal guardian, promised to continue to care for him while also called for François "to be left in peace and not used."[1]
On 31 December 2017 Prince Jean reported that after suffering a bad fall on 30 December, François had died.[1] Henri subsequently recognized Jean as "the Dauphin", father and son publicly embracing at the interment of François at the Chapelle royale de Dreux on 6 January 2018 following a funeral service attended by his parents, siblings and other family, as well as members of reigning and deposed dynasties.[1]
Ancestry[edit]
Ancestors of Prince François, Count of Clermont
8. Prince Jean, Duke of Guise
4. Prince Henri, Count of Paris
9. Princess Isabelle of Orléans
10. Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará
5. Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza
11. Countess Elisabeth Dobrzensky of Dobrzenicz
1. Prince François, Count of Clermont
12. Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg
6. Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg
13. Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria
3. Duchess Marie Therese of Württemberg
14. Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria
7. Archduchess Rosa of Austria
15. Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
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Could The 2011 Super Bowl Cement Hines Ward's Legacy As The NFL's Greatest Georgia Bulldog?
A pair of ex-Dawgs will be taking the field today in Super Bowl XLV. It's time to start asking whether one of them has had the greatest NFL career of any Georgia player in history.
By Doug Gillett Feb 6, 2011, 8:02am EST
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Wide receiver Hines Ward of the Georgia Bulldogs celebrates during the Outback Bowl against the Wisconsin Badgers at Houlihan''s Stadium in Tampa, Florida. Georgia won the game, 33-6. By Scott Halleran, Getty Images Sport.
Since the NFL Draft was instituted in 1936, 277 Georgia football players have been drafted into the pros, including such luminaries as Charley Trippi, Fran Tarkenton, Terrell Davis and Champ Bailey. But as one of those stars prepares to take the field for his third Super Bowl -- and, perhaps, to make a big decision about the future of his career -- it may be time to start asking whether wide receiver Hines Ward has had the most successful NFL career of any former Bulldog ever.
Let's run down Ward's list of accomplishments. In 13 seasons since being taken by the Pittsburgh Steelers with the 92nd pick of the 1998 draft, Ward has gone to four Pro Bowls; has been named team MVP three times; has earned the mantle of all-time team leader in receptions, receiving yards, and TD catches; has become only the 12th player in NFL history to catch more than 900 passes, and one of only 32 to tally more than 10,000 receiving yards in a career; and was named to the Steelers' All-Time Team in 2007, joining, among others, Terry Bradshaw, Jack Lambert, Franco Harris and Mean Joe Greene.
And, of course, Ward has distinguished himself on the stage most NFL fans place front and center in any discussion of the game's greatest players -- the Super Bowl. He already has two rings from Super Bowls XL and XLIII, and in the former game he earned the title of Super Bowl MVP after catching five passes for 123 yards, including a 43-yard touchdown strike from Antwaan Randle El that effectively iced the 21-10 victory over the Seahawks. If the Steelers win today, Ward would join Guy McIntyre, Patrick Pass, and Richard Seymour as the only Dawgs with three Super Bowl victories.
Granted, Ward doesn't have any single-season stats quite as gaudy as Terrell Davis' 2,008 rushing yards in 1998; he doesn't have an NFL MVP award like Davis, or an NFL Player of the Year like Fran Tarkenton. And as far as Pro Bowls go, it's possible that no Bulldog will ever go to as many of them as Champ Bailey, who's been to eight and probably has a couple more left in him before he retires. But one can still make the case that Ward has had a more consistently prolific body of work, on a more consistently successful team, than any Dawg before him.
The other factor that might mitigate against Ward, of course, is the little matter of him being named the "NFL's dirtiest player" twice in SI.com's annual poll of pro footballers. It's true, you can't laud Ward for his willingness to block without also mentioning his predilection for nailing defenders on their blind side. It's worth mentioning, though, that even in today's fine-happy NFL, Ward has only been hit twice with monetary penalties for overly aggressive hits -- and neither hit actually drew flags in the games in which they occurred. And even Joe Greene weathered accusations of dirty hits in his career. If Steve Wisniewski's lengthy resume of chop blocks didn't prevent him from being named to an All-Decade Team, Hines Ward has reason to feel fairly safe about his long-term reputation.
Ward first started talking about possible retirement way back in April of last year, when he told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review he'd probably wrap up his career if he won one more Super Bowl. The question has come up again since then, and there's no denying that age 35 -- which Ward will hit one month from now -- is downright wizened by today's NFL standards, particularly for wideouts. Either way, the clock is probably ticking on how much more time he has to build up his legacy as a future Hall-of-Famer. But even if Ward's prolific career is indeed winding down, he's got a solid case to make as the ex-Dawg who's had the greatest success at the pro level. The fact that that case would hold even if the Steelers were to lose today is an indication of just how big an impact he's had in the NFL.


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John Fitzgerald Kennedy and his fiancée, Jacqueline Lee Bouvier, playing tennis in 1953. They were history's power couple, a dashing Democrat and an elegant wife. They were both from influential families and became superstars before he entered the White House. Take a look back at the couple that embodied the image of a perfect family.
John Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier met in 1951 and after a brief engagement, they married in Rhode Island in the century-old church of St. Mary's on September 12, 1953.
John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy at the U.S. Capitol on May 6, 1954.
The couple strolling in the Georgetown area of Washington on May 8, 1954.
Jackie looking over John's shoulder as he reads the May 7 issue of the Christian Science Monitor on May 9, 1954, Mother's Day.
The Kennedy's cuddle daughter Caroline while relaxing on a bed at home on March 25, 1958.
John and Jackie at Eleanor Roosevelt's 75th birthday celebration in 1959.
The then-senator engages in his favorite pastime of sailing at Hyannisport, Massachusetts, with Jackie in July 1960.
Shortly after his acceptance of the Democratic Party nomination for president, Kennedy and his wife smile and wave from the back of an open-top car in Massachusetts in July 1960.
Jacqueline greets her husband in 1960.
Jackie watches her husband during a presidential debate in September 1960.
Kennedy lends an ear to his wife as they sit together at a table during cocktail hour before dining at a society gala at the Walford Astoria Hotel in 1960.
Kennedy, campaigning for president, listens to the whispers of his wife in 1960.
Jackie shares a moment with her husband before he became president, in January 20, 1961, in the rotunda of the Capitol. She became the youngest first lady in nearly 80 years.
President Kennedy and Jackie greet guests at a party for Nobel Prize winners at the White House on April 29, 1961.
The Kennedys stand at attention during the playing of the national anthem at the start of a reception during their state visit to Mexico City on June 30, 1962.
John and Jackie at Union Station after the departure of King Hassan of Morocco on March 27, 1963.
President Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Jr., Jackie and Caroline with puppies Blackie and White Tips, and family dogs Shannon, Clipper, Wolfie and Charlie on August 14, 1963.
Jackie stands with her two children and her brothers-in law Ted Kennedy and Robert Kennedy at the funeral of her husband on November 26, 1963.
Editor's note: Thomas Maier is the author of "When Lions Roar: The Churchills and The Kennedys," published October 28 by Crown, as well as 2003's "The Kennedys: America's Emerald Kings" and the opening essay in 2013's "The Kennedy Years: From The Pages of The New York Times," edited by Richard Reeves.
(CNN) -- In April 1964, only a few months after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, his widow Jacqueline Kennedy wrote to Kay Halle -- an old family friend of both the Kennedys and the Churchills -- and gave a glimpse of the dark melancholy that shrouded her.
Jackie mentioned an Easter trip with her children, Caroline and John Jr., and expressed hope the holiday might renew her spirits. "I hope it will give me via fresh air some new energy -- as I just have had none lately & cannot even touch the ever growing piles on my desk," she wrote to Halle. "But this spring maybe everything will be better -- Love Jackie."
Jackie Kennedy's letters underline the behind-the-scenes role of Halle, who urged President Kennedy to bestow honorary U.S. citizenship upon Winston Churchill at special 1963 Rose Garden ceremony. But more importantly, the Halle correspondence provides further insight into the first lady's relationship with JFK during their White House years and the painful aftermath of her husband's November 1963 killing.
During the past decade, the private letters of Jacqueline Kennedy have slowly come to light. Most were kept private for many years in archives, away from public scrutiny. As a result, history has been deprived of important, albeit disturbing, facts surrounding the assassination and its effect on those closest to JFK -- especially his widow, whose grief included suicidal thoughts expressed to a priest.
To be sure, a generation of Americans admired Jacqueline Kennedy's extraordinary grace and courage during her husband's funeral and were naturally protective of her privacy when she was alive. But a wealth of letters and other documents -- including an extensive oral history by Mrs. Kennedy kept under wraps at the JFK Library until 2011 -- remained out of sight, well past her death in 1994, leaving the historical record incomplete.
Now a half century later, it is time for all the Jacqueline Kennedy letters to be available for historians, allowing for a more full and accurate understanding about one of the most dramatic moments in 20th century U.S. history. Efforts by the Kennedy family to keep these letters at bay only mute our comprehension of what truly happened on that tragic day in Dallas and the kind of psychological damage that gun violence can wreak on the lives of innocent survivors.
The existence of Jackie's letters was unknown to me until I stumbled upon some in preparing a 2003 book about how the Kennedys' Irish Catholic immigrant background influenced their personal and public lives. During my research, three people suggested speaking with the Rev. Richard McSorley, a Jesuit friend of Robert F. Kennedy's family, though none apparently knew of McSorley's involvement with Jackie.
McSorley surprisingly told me how he counseled a grief-stricken Jackie for several months beginning in April 1964. He provided "tennis lessons" to Jackie at RFK's Virginia home while helping the widowed first lady through her agony and depression.
McSorley later allowed me to review his personal files at Georgetown University's library. There I found several remarkable letters and documents about Jackie Kennedy's emotional struggles. She shared her doubts about God, fate, a heavenly afterlife with her slain husband, and her children's immediate future.
"Do you think God would separate me from my husband if I killed myself?" Jackie asked the priest. "It is so hard to bear. I feel as though I am going out of my mind at times. Wouldn't God understand that I just want to be with him?"
Georgetown later held a press conference about the "unique historical window" McSorley's papers provided. But soon after a complaint from the Kennedy family, Georgetown access was closed to Jackie's letters in McSorley's files. Similar letters, though, would turn up elsewhere.
In May 2014, a batch of 33 Jackie letters to an Irish priest, the Rev. Joseph Leonard, whom she first met in the early 1950s, were headed for auction until the Kennedys objected to their disclosure. These letters, containing sentiments similar to those Jackie confided to McSorley, were published by various publications but were eventually returned to the Kennedy family, reportedly at the direction of Caroline Kennedy, her daughter. They are no longer public.
More letters from Jackie Kennedy turned up in the files of Halle, made available in June 2011 at the JFK Library. I describe them in my new book about the Churchills and the Kennedys.
After Halle offered successful suggestions for JFK's 1961 inaugural celebration, Jackie Kennedy sought advice about Washington's social scene. Her letter reflects the anxiety of a woman in her early 30s wanting to please her husband in her new role as first lady.
"One thing I wish you could help me with," Jackie wrote in her fragmented longhand sentences to Halle. "Is it enough to just keep doing things in a private way -- as one would do if not President -- Go to the theatres, symphonies, etc. and try to have the entertainment at the (White House) be substantial -- ... But that is so little -- Do you think we should have an enormous reception at the W. House for artists -- that seems rather treating them like freaks -- I try to work some into every State dinner -- but that's a tiny drop in the bucket -- If you have a brainstorm do tell me."
Jackie let Kay Halle know how to send notes to her social secretary's attention so that she'd read them personally. "Put your name on the letter and SPECIAL -- (my code for getting my own mail!)" she instructed.
After JFK's assassination and the 1965 death of Winston Churchill, Halle remained in touch with both families. She later asked Jackie and her second husband Aristotle Onassis to contribute to a book of remembrances about Winston Churchill's son, Randolph, who died in 1968.
"You know how Jack and Bobby loved him -- but did you know how my son John loved him?" Jackie asked Halle about Randolph. Around her children, Jackie wrote, Randolph "was completely himself -- and never changed gears for them."
In her essay for Halle's book, Jackie recalled how Randolph gave her son, John Jr., a complete set of Winston Churchill's books -- including his masterful biography about John Marlborough, a fabled Churchill ancestor -- which she kept in the Kennedys' Fifth Avenue apartment in Manhattan.
"They are in the bookshelves in the dining room, beside Jack's Marlborough, which he read when he had scarlet fever as a boy, and the Churchill books he had at Harvard," Jackie recalled.
Uncertain of what her son's future might bring, Jackie told Halle that she hoped President Kennedy's heir might discover lessons about greatness from these bound volumes, just as other men had. "If, when he is older, he finds in them what his father found in them -- that would be this strange, touching legacy of Randolph's," Jackie concluded. "Winston Churchill and Randolph outlived Jack -- but maybe Randolph will be the one to draw John to the books that shaped John's father."
Documents like these are essential tools to gaining a clear and complete understanding our past. Surely, both JFK and Jackie Kennedy, with their keen sense of history, would have understood.


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Black Friday Shoppers Embrace Mobile, Set New Online Records
By David Jones November 27, 2017 12:48 PM PT Email Article
U.S. retailers crossed a historic new threshold over Thanksgiving weekend as consumers set new records for e-commerce activity and embraced mobile shopping like never before.
The record-breaking US$5.03 billion spent online on Black Friday — a 17 percent increase from a year ago — was in line with expectations, according to Adobe Analytics. Consumers spent about $43.42 billion on e-commerce holiday shopping from Nov. 1 to Nov. 26, about 18 percent above a year ago.
Mobile devices were used for 54.3 percent of visits and 36.9 percent of online revenue on Black Friday, with smartphones accounting for 44.6 percent of visits and 26 percent of revenue. Average order volume was up 0.9 percent at $135.
Adobe has predicted a record Cyber Monday, with $6.6 billion in online sales expected, representing 16.5 percent growth from a year ago. Sales for the day appeared to be on track with that forecast — $840 million was spent online as of 10 a.m. ET, according to Adobe.
Thanksgiving Day Shopping Now a Thing
"Shoppers capitalized on deep discounts on Black Friday, resulting in the largest Black Friday online ever, with online spend totaling $5.03 billion," said Taylor Schreiner, director, Adobe Digital Insights. "Conversion rates across all devices saw double digit growth throughout Black Friday."
With smartphone transactions approaching $1 billion, it's evident that the resistance to shopping on small screens is beginning to dissipate, Schreiner said.
Data from Adobe also shows that average order value [AOV] was higher on iOS smartphones at $127, an increase of 5.5 percent from a year ago, compared with $112 on Android, up 1.2 percent from year-ago figures.
Top-selling products for the weekend included Google Chromecast, Apple AirPods, Sony Playstation VR, PJ Masks, Hatchimals and Colleggtibles, according to Adobe Analytics. Super Mario Odyssey led game sales and Nintendo Switch and Xbox One X were the best-selling consoles.
For the second consecutive year, e-commerce activity on Thanksgiving Day surpassed Black Friday activity, with average order values of $154.15 on Thursday versus $142.86 on Friday, based on data from Monetate, which analyzed more than 200 million U.S. consumer touchpoints over the weekend.
Conversion rates were slightly up on Thanksgiving versus Black Friday, with a 3.2 conversion rate on Thursday versus a 3.1 percent conversion rate on Friday, Monetate data also showed. AOVs were the highest of any channel on desktops, at $173.92, an increase of 5 percent from a year ago.
There was a 30 percent increase in mobile page views on Thanksgiving Day, according to Monetate.
That is an indication that retailers have succeeded in making the browsing experience on mobile devices a more enjoyable experience, said Maribeth Ross, senior vice president at the firm.
Still, shows consumers were more inclined to make their final purchase decisions on a desktop, Monetate found.
"As more and more consumers shop online, especially on Thanksgiving Day, it's imperative that traditional retailers focus on delivering a strong, optimized e-commerce presence across all channels," Ross told the E-Commerce Times.
"Traffic seemed pretty steady, with TVs once again the driver, as always," said Charles O'Shea, lead retail analyst at Moody's.
"It is clear that consumers like going to the stores during the weekend, with Thanksgiving openings resonating and now embedded in the shopping psyche," he told the E-Commerce Times.
Prime Objective
Amazon mobile app orders were up more than 50 percent on Thanksgiving Day, compared with year-ago figures, making it one of the busiest mobile shopping days of the year, according to spokesperson Kate Scarpa.
In the first five hours of Black Friday, Amazon customers ordered more than 200,000 toys. They also bought millions of items from small businesses and entrepreneurs that sell through the site, she told the E-Commerce Times.
Alexa voice-controlled devices were among the top sellers on the Amazon website: the Echo Dot, the Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote, and the All-New Echo. Other top-selling items included the TP-Link Smart Plug, the SanDisk Ultra 64GB Micro SD Card, and the Keurig K55 Single Serve Programmable K-Cup Pod Coffee Maker.
Amazon, which has expanded its holiday sales push into a global event, confirmed that workers in Italy went on strike.
"The vast majority of our workers in Italy came to work and remained focused on delivering the best customer experience. We are proud of our record of job creation in Italy and are confident we will deliver for our customers across the globe this holiday season," the company said in a statement provided by Scarpa.
"Once again, we've given our customers an amazing assortment of deals at the best prices of the night, and with more availability than any other retailer," said Steve Bratspies, chief merchandising officer at Walmart. "We delivered on that promise to the millions of customers who shopped our stores and online by selling tens of millions of televisions, video game consoles, movies and toys, and turkeys."
"More than 70 percent of Walmart.com traffic was driven by mobile," Walmart spokesperson Danit Marquardt told the E-Commerce Times, reinforcing multiple reports about the increased use of mobile devices over the weekend.
Equal Playing Field
Shopify, a multi-channel e-commerce platform for 500,000 small and medium sized businesses in 175 countries, reported it biggest-ever Black Friday, with more than $1 million in sales per minute on the platform during peak shopping activity, which nearly doubled last year's activity of $555,716 per minute during the shopping peak.
There was a similar increase in mobile transactions, either using smartphones or tablets, rising to 66 percent of transactions, compared with 58 percent a year ago, Shopify reported.
"It's exciting to see the growth in our mobile orders from 2016, because it demonstrates that our merchants' stores are optimized to handle the needs of mobile shoppers," said Satish Kanwar, vice president of product at Shopify.
Several improvements made to the mobile checkout process helped drive the increase, he told the E-Commerce Times.
Shopify Pay, launched this spring, sends a six-digit verification code directly to mobile phones instead of requiring shoppers to fill out payment and shipping details, speeding checkout by 40 percent.
Google Autocomplete, introduced this fall, helps customers complete their addresses after they type in a few characters, speeding checkout by 20 percent.
Mobile is performing better this year because retailers have learned not to overload their sites with third-party elements such as tracking and advertising applications, said Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint.
"The mobile sites tend to be a little bit better because they tend to be optimized," he told the E-Commerce Times.
The three fastest websites were Cars at 0.88 seconds, Walgreens at 0.99 seconds and Sears at 1.3 seconds, Catchpoint reported. The three fastest mobile sites were Cars at 0.84 seconds, Walgreens at 0.9 seconds and Amazon at 1.32 seconds.
There were brief outages at H&M on Thanksgiving Day and early on Black Friday, Catchpoint reported, as well as partial outages at Lowe's and a slowdown at the Gap.
David Jones is a freelance writer based in Essex County, New Jersey. He has written for Reuters, Bloomberg, Crain's New York Business and The New York Times.
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• the implementation of existing validated and/or official methods for the analysis of these residues.
The main expertise of EC-JRC-IRMM is the d evelopment and validation of methods for the determination of residues and contaminants in food and feed matrices. IRMM is also Community Reference Laboratory for Feed Additives, Mycotoxins, PAHs and Heavy metals.
WP2a: Work package leader of WP2a – Coccidiostats. Support the comparison of performance characteristics with existing methods in WP2a. Organise the final validation of the multiplex flow cytometric immunoassay for coccidiostats.
Ph.D. in analytical chemistry. Senior scientist, more than 10 years experience in development and validation of analytical methods. Supervising and coordinating projects related to contaminants and residues analysis in food and feed matrices. Project leader of the Community Reference Laboratory for Feed Additives (Control).
Senior scientist analytical chemistry, over 10 years experience in development and validation of methods in the field of food and feed analysis. Operating manager of the Community Reference Laboratory for Feed Additives.
Analytical technician experienced in the development and validation of analytical methods for antibiotics residue measurement in animal tissues and coccidiostats in feed matrices.
CONffIDENCE: He will perform laboratory experiments in LC-MS/MS to compare the performance characteristics of the multiplex flow cytometric immunoassay for coccidiostats with existing methods.
CONffIDENCE: she will perform laboratory experiments in LC-MS/MS to compare the performance characteristics of the multiplex flow cytometric immunoassay for coccidiostats with existing methods.
Science Coordinator of the Food Safety and Quality Unit at JRC-IRMM.
CONffIDENCE: Expert advisor for validation and test material preparation.
Senior scientist analytical chemistry, over 10 years experience in development and validation of analytical methods for heavy metals and other contaminants in food and environmental matrices. Manager of the International Measurement Evaluation. Programme and responsible for the organization of interlab comparisons for the Community Reference Laboratory for Heavy Metals in Feed and Food.


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