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Travel | July 22, 2020
A Dolphin Has Been Living Solo in This Irish Harbor for Decades
Named Fungie, the cetacean draws thousands of tourists to Dingle—and may teach us how to protect other solitary-sociable animals in the wild
Nobody knows when Fungie, a solitary cetacean, arrived in the waters off Dingle, a town on the southwest coast of Ireland.
Cathleen O'Grady, Hakai Magazine
Back when Ireland still had lighthouse keepers, the town of Dingle had a watchful one. Paddy Ferriter was a man who preferred the company of his dogs to that of most people. Through the autumn and winter of 1983, Ferriter had spotted a fellow loner in the water: a dolphin, following the fishing boats. Swimmers say they began cavorting with the dolphin in 1984.
Today, Fungie the dolphin still favors Dingle Harbor, a nick in Ireland's westernmost peninsula. In a typical summer—one not ravaged by a global pandemic, as the summer of 2020 will be—thousands of tourists take boat trips to see him leap alongside their vessels. When the tourist traffic dwindles in winter, a small group of swimmers regularly heads out into the icy water to play with him. Floating just ahead of me on a gloomy day in October is one of them, Abi Dillon, keeping a sharp eye out for the dolphin.
I roll onto my back and spin around slowly to take in the town, the sea, the green buoy where the dolphin tends to linger. The old lighthouse stands atop the cliffs above. Beyond the harbor, the ocean surges and heaves, turquoise where it crashes on the rocks, gray beyond. Sea foam blows high onto the cliffs, where the prevailing winds have flattened the unearthly green grass. But inside the harbor, the rage dissipates. I rock on the gentle waves while Dillon slaps her bodyboard on the water, trying to attract Fungie's attention.
One of the first people to spot the solitary dolphin near Dingle, Ireland, was the lighthouse keeper.
Fungie is not the only dolphin to break away from his kind and interact frequently with humans. Solitary-sociable cetaceans—including dolphins, belugas, and killer whales—have been reported all over the world. But Fungie is an outlier: after a world record–breaking 36 years in the company of humans, he's still alive. Many solitary sociables meet early, grisly ends at the hands of our species.
Sometimes, people harm these animals on purpose. Sometimes, harm is the unintended consequence of an overwhelming human desire to be close to something mysterious. A wild creature's attention can create a sense of connection that is difficult for some people to resist, even when it endangers the animal. As a veteran of human contact, Fungie may offer lessons about how we can do a better job of protecting the solitary cetaceans we love so fiercely, and so badly.
A bronze statue of Fungie, tail held jauntily in the air and grinning mouth agape, stands prominently on Dingle's harbor front. The wind hums through the rigging of the yachts in the marina, mingling with tinny uillean pipe music blasting from a speaker near a gift shop stocked with dolphin T-shirts, jewelry, and toys. Signs advertising Fungie boat tours offer guaranteed sightings or your money back.
The guarantee is safe because, in some ways, Fungie is predictable. If boats are out in the harbor, he usually joins them. Like many other dolphins, he seems to enjoy riding their bow waves. But despite his routine, he's an enigma even to the people who know him best.
Fungie became such a beloved Dingle resident that an artist was commissioned to create a sculpture of the dolphin.
It's unclear why a highly sociable animal like a dolphin would live alone. While it may be normal for dolphins to do so while shifting from one socially bonded group—called a pod—or partner to the next, an extended period of solitude is unusual. Researchers believe solitaries may be young dolphins whose pod was killed, or that left their birth pod but found no new group to join. Perhaps they are disabled or are dolphin outcasts. Or maybe, like Ferriter, the lighthouse keeper, they are loners that don't care much for the company of their own kind.
Each case has unique factors, says dolphin conservationist Mike Bossley, research fellow emeritus at Whale and Dolphin Conservation. Bossley has worked with solitary dolphins since the mid-1980s. While we speak over a video call, the soft-spoken Australian cracks open his evening beer and apologizes for his dog slurping water in the background. In his experience, he says, solitaries' unusual state is "first and foremost an affiliation with place." Like Fungie, many attach to a small territory. Bossley spent a few years working with a solitary dolphin he named Jock, who didn't leave his home range in a warm, polluted inlet, even though other dolphins seemed to avoid it.
Jock didn't have a problem with other dolphins; he socialized with them when they were around. Fungie, too, has often shown up with tooth-rake marks from other dolphins—a sign of friendly interaction—but when they leave, he stays put. Whether this is a preference for the rich pickings of the harbor, a fear of what lies beyond, or something else is impossible to say. And there are solitary-sociable cetaceans that flout the territorial trend, showing up in different places hundreds of kilometers apart.
There are other loose commonalities between solitaries. After establishing a restricted home range, many begin to regularly follow boats and ride their bow waves. This brings them to the attention of people who know the water well, like Ferriter, or the fisherman whose nickname of Fungus—a teasing reference to his patchy beard—transferred to the dolphin.
Fungie has been a tourist attraction and a source of income for sightseeing boats for decades.
Over time, solitaries may get curious about people in the water—or perhaps it's people who get curious about the solitary and get in the water more often. Initially, the cetacean will observe people from a distance, but if those people repeatedly try to make friends, the wild animal's caution may fall away. The divers who began swimming with Fungie soon after his arrival, for example, may have increased his trust in people. For a while, he allowed certain people to touch him, and one swimmer reports that Fungie took children for rides on his back. This may just be part of Dingle's copious dolphin mythology, but it's not impossible: other solitaries have given "fin tows" and permitted or even sought touch from humans.
But as Fungie stayed, he seemed warier of the newcomers that replaced the original swimmers. Graham Timmins, who swam with Fungie in the early 1990s, says that the dolphin avoided close physical contact with most swimmers by the time he arrived. Even so, Fungie still seemed to enjoy bouts of raucous play with bodyboarders, who would kick tight circles through the water while the dolphin leaped overhead. He toyed with kayakers' paddles or rubbed his flanks against them for a scratch. The small community of regular swimmers tried every kind of toy and noise-making device they could think of to keep the dolphin entertained. They rattled chains, played trumpets, and towed empty barrels behind boats.
Holding Fungie's attention proved more difficult as time wore on, though. By 1994, "the dolphin was ignoring me totally," writes Timmins on his website tracking Irish solitaries. Swimmers fell in and out of favor, and Fungie seemed to prefer the excitement of leaping in bow waves, eschewing humans for the burgeoning fleet of tourist boats. These days, swimmers wait until the tourist season is over, braving the icy harbor in winter. Even then, they may get nothing more than a fleeting dance. But just 30 seconds with him is exhilarating, says Suzanne Massett, who has been swimming with Fungie for more than 20 years. She first swam with him on vacation from Dublin, but the dolphin—and Dingle itself—drew her back permanently.
Dillon has also steered by Fungie's star. She first saw the dolphin in 1998 from a tourist boat, as a teenager on vacation from England with her family. The following year, she joined a group swimming trip operated by a tour company. "The visibility was never great," she says. "And he wasn't really close to us." But as her mother fell in love with the Dingle peninsula and her family began to visit regularly, Dillon fell in love with the dolphin. Her face lights up when she describes her first encounter with Fungie underwater: "The way the light was dappling, and the water was reflecting … it was really magical."
When we meet at a bright, noisy coffee shop on the main street, Dillon brings reams of diary entries, photographs, and notebooks tracking her early encounters with Fungie and other solitaries. They depict a shy teenager finding joy and increasing confidence in the thing that made her special—her relationship with the dolphin—and daydreaming of the day she would be able to move to Dingle permanently.
That sense of being chosen, of holding a wild animal's attention, seems to be what draws people to solitaries, says Bossley. It's a feeling that can lead down a dangerous path: "People love to construe that the dolphin—Jock, or whoever—has special feelings for them. That's pretty dubious, in my opinion." There is no question that dolphins are intelligent, social creatures. But anthropomorphizing them—imagining that they think or feel the same way humans do—can lead people to interpret their needs, behaviors, and social cues incorrectly, often with serious consequences.
In Dingle, though, anthropomorphizing Fungie may have worked in his favor. Once the dolphin appeared to set boundaries, the local swimming subculture fell in line with what he seemed to want. Recent generations of swimmers have never known it any other way. "We always had an unsaid rule that we would never try to touch," says Massett. "We just didn't feel that that was our place." Fungie's boundaries, and swimmers who respect them, may have helped protect the dolphin from the disastrous fates of other solitaries, whose interactions with people often become more extreme over time.
Solitary sociables have elicited awe, affection, and resentment for centuries. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder wrote of a dolphin in present-day Tunisia that played with swimmers, carrying them on his back and enjoying their caresses. In the 1890s, a Risso's dolphin that took up residence in Pelorus Sound in New Zealand and frequently approached boats gained such popularity that people eventually demanded legal protection for him. Tião, a bottlenose dolphin, spent a few months in 1994 interacting with swimmers on a stretch of coast near São Paulo, Brazil. Luna, a young killer whale, lived for years in the early 2000s in Nootka Sound, British Columbia. A small but steady trickle of solitary beluga whales shows up on the east coast of Canada and the northeastern United States, far from their home turf.
Bottlenose dolphins are by far the most common species to become solitary, especially in Britain and Ireland, where some have become established enough to attract crowds. Dave the dolphin, actually a female, took up residence off the southeast coast of England in 2007. Up to 40 people would join her in the water at peak times, while as many as 700 people watched from the shore.
Swimming with dolphins sounds idyllic to people, but it can be hellish for dolphins. Dolphins like Dave find themselves crowded in shallow water with no escape route, while people grab them or touch sensitive blowholes, eyes, or genitals. People might behave badly simply because they don't understand enough about wild dolphins. But sometimes, the reason for mistreatment is more malign. In 2007, two men were arrested and convicted for drunkenly harassing Dave. Some of the people who interacted with Tião grabbed his fins, hit him, and tried to put ice cream sticks in his blowhole. Unsurprisingly, Tião defended himself by ramming them with his "beak," or rostrum. During his five-month residence near São Paulo, he injured 29 swimmers. Other dolphins have also injured humans when they felt threatened or crowded.
Tião eventually killed one man, who died from internal bleeding. But such cases are rare. Humans, on the other hand, often kill solitaries. Tião disappeared, and researchers speculate that someone killed him in retaliation for the death. Dave also went missing shortly after losing a large chunk of her tail to a boat propeller. In Pliny's account, townspeople killed the Tunisian dolphin out of frustration with the influx of tourists. A tugboat struck and killed Luna.
According to researcher Toni Frohoff, dolphins that are in frequent contact with humans are at higher risk of injury, illness, or death at human hands than dolphins that aren't. Their habitual proximity to us makes them more vulnerable to threats like boat strikes, fishing line entanglements, underwater explosions, and pollution. Even well-behaved human swimmers can harm an animal's well-being. Dave, for example, fed and rested less during periods of intensive human interaction, scientists found. And any habituation leaves the animals more vulnerable to harassment and stress from less responsible people.
It's becoming more urgent to mitigate these risks, as reports of solitary cetaceans have increased in recent years. With growing coastal human populations, more water-based recreation, and access to social media increasing, there may simply be more people around to see and report solitaries. It's also possible that there are more of them to be found. Increasing deaths of cetaceans near coasts could mean more animals—lone survivors from their groups, or young dolphins setting out from their families but failing to find a new pod—turning up alone. And people may create long-term solitaries from temporary loners by habituating them to our company. Swimming with dolphins is such a common bucket list item that the sight of a dolphin fin inspires many people to "rip off their clothes and leap into the water," jokes dolphin researcher Bossley.
As interactions between humans and cetaceans increase, there may be more grisly endings on the horizon—unless people learn to manage the situations better.
The driving rain stings my face as Dillon and I head down to the beach, my jacket soaking through in minutes. I generally enjoy the high of cold-water swimming, but even for me, the frigid gray harbor looks anything but inviting. Dillon points out Fungie arching gracefully out of the water across the harbor. We are far less graceful, penguin-walking in our wetsuits and fins to the water's edge. Icy water trickles down my back as I submerge. To warm up, I halfheartedly swim laps parallel to shore, but the ill-fitting rented wetsuit restricts my movement, so I give up and follow Dillon farther out.
As the water deepens and darkens beneath me, I start to feel guilty about seeking contact with a wild dolphin, given what I know about the harm it can do. Still, the chances of seeing Fungie up close are slim. And Fungie's admirers point out that he initiates all the contact he has with people. Sometimes he's nowhere to be found, which suggests that he's capable of keeping interactions on his terms. The time to avoid him may have been decades ago, when he first arrived in Dingle Harbor. "What would have happened if no one had got in the water with him?" Dillon asks. "Would he have stayed around?"
Tourists and swimmers were more likely to see Fungie earlier in the dolphin's life. As he's aged, Fungie has become more selective about his appearances.
The safest possible approach to a new solitary is to head off habituation before it happens—and perhaps even try to reintegrate the solitary animal with its own species. That's a rare feat, but it's worked before. Bossley and his collaborators used solitary Jock's penchant for leaping in the wake of a boat to slowly lead him farther from his home range. Eventually, he spent more time with other dolphins.
Once an animal is used to humans and starts seeking their company, cutting off interaction may not always be the answer. Luna, the killer whale who lingered in Nootka Sound, relentlessly approached boats for games and attention, even as Fisheries and Oceans Canada tried to keep the whale and people apart. When a solitary cetacean is perhaps gaining needed social fulfillment from human contact, blocking further interaction could be harmful, researchers wrote last year in a veterinary journal.
Instead, they recommend measures like limiting the number of people who can interact with the animal at the same time, as well as education efforts that teach people not to touch blowholes, not to offer food, and how to recognize agitation. Another Irish dolphin, named Dusty, injured a swimmer in 2013 who didn't immediately understand that the dolphin's tail slapping was a signal to back off. More information could have saved the swimmer from a devastating injury and protected Dusty from unnecessary stress.
Ultimately, each solitary cetacean needs a unique approach that takes into account the extent of its habituation, its personality, local legislation, and other factors. But that's tricky, because conservation authorities and scientists tend to focus on populations. Lone animals can fall through the cracks, leaving their protection in the hands of nonprofits and community members.
In some places, official guardians watch over a resident cetacean. The mayor of Collioure in France, for example, appointed a guardian with police backup to stop people from grabbing Dolphy the dolphin's dorsal fin. On Providenciales, an island in the Caribbean, a permanent guardian watched over JoJo the dolphin, entertaining him and protecting him from people. But individual guardians can sometimes cause problems if they become possessive and emotionally dependent on the animal, says Bossley.
At Monkey Mia Reserve in Australia, where a group of dolphins regularly accepts food from people, park rangers supervise huge crowds. Because of their authority and law-enforcement power, rangers are the ideal way to ensure animal and human safety, Bossley argues—but budgets don't necessarily allow for full-time rangers to monitor a single animal.
At Monkey Mia, in Shark Bay, Australia, feeding the dolphins is part of the tourist experience.
Fungie's longevity seems to rise not from an explicit management plan, which Dingle has never had, but from a lucky convergence of factors. The dolphin's own aloofness may have kept him safe from the kind of harassment suffered by Dave and Dusty. The Dingle community, proud of their mascot and enjoying a thriving dolphin tourist industry, protects him. Nigel Collins, the Dingle harbormaster, says that tourist boat operators pulled back over the summer of 2017, when Fungie didn't seem well and wasn't interacting normally. "His welfare is their welfare," he says. "They're quite vocal about people harassing him in recreational boats."
Meanwhile, the community of swimmers has long opted for information sharing over possessiveness, passing on their hands-off swimming culture to successive generations of curious swimmers, like me. Dingle has achieved some of what researchers say a management plan should include: cooperation between boat owners, public education, and community involvement.
As I float in Dingle Harbor, I'm almost relieved that we've seen no more sign of Fungie. Then, suddenly, Dillon squeals and kicks her bodyboard into a spin. A dorsal fin and gleaming back arch out of the water as Fungie circles her neatly once, less than a meter away, and disappears.
We wait a while longer, watching him surface farther away. He doesn't return. Elated with our small glimpse, we head back to shore. As we struggle to pull dry clothes onto our clammy skin in the light drizzle, we see Fungie pop up nearer the beach. It's not uncommon, Dillon says, for him to seem to tease her like this, appearing just as she's left the water. His visit this morning feels like a courtesy—a tip of the hat before vanishing again to finish his breakfast. But despite his carefully maintained distance, even Fungie faces risks as he ages.
Fungie appeared to be young, though sexually mature, when he arrived in Dingle, which would make him at least 45 years old today. Bottlenose dolphins in the wild live 17 years on average, although captive dolphins have lived as long as 50 years. As time passes, his reflexes may slow and his hearing may diminish, says Margaux Dodds, cofounder of Marine Connection, a nonprofit that campaigns to protect cetaceans globally, including solitary ones. Over the years, he's had some close shaves—cuts that have worried his admirers, says Dillon, and on one occasion, a fish hook stuck in his eye.
Given his advanced age, Marine Connection is now working to support locals in ensuring that Fungie gets more breaks from the tourist boats, since he doesn't seem interested in taking them himself. At the height of summer, as many as four or five cluster in the water, and Fungie is in the habit of following all of them, most of the time—meaning he may not be resting or feeding enough. After public complaint, the Irish National Parks and Wildlife Service reminded Dingle boat operators that, in Irish waters, dolphins are legally protected from disturbance, including from tourism. But no one has been issued a fine or formal warning, and prevailing sentiment in Dingle is that Fungie looks out for himself pretty well.
Whatever happens, it's clear that Dingle won't have its dolphin for much longer. Some boat companies have already branched into ecotours. Massett hopes that Fungie just quietly vanishes one day: "I would hate to think that he would wash up somewhere." Vastly preferable, she says, would be if "he just disappeared as he appeared."
As solitaries continue to find their way into the hearts of coastal communities, there is a chance to put our tendency to anthropomorphize them to good use. Human impact on the oceans can be difficult to comprehend in the abstract, but solitary cetaceans can make the stakes sharply visible, and give them a name, a face, and a personality. Solitaries may be more likely to suffer brutal deaths, but all dolphins share their vulnerabilities, Bossley says. If you connect with the story of a solitary dolphin, he suggests, it's easier to care about protecting dolphins: "We're storytelling animals."
Still, interactive dolphins like Fungie could give people unrealistic expectations for wild dolphins, says Simon Berrow, CEO of the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group: "You're going away thinking that's what dolphins do." There are healthier options for conservation mascots, he points out. Researchers often track pods for generations and know individuals well, offering ample opportunities for storytelling if those details are communicated to the public. And it's not clear that people who see a dolphin like Fungie do actually leave the experience with more concern for dolphin conservation, Berrow adds.
On my final morning in Dingle, I set out for one last swim with Dillon and Massett. A freak surge of jellyfish litters the shore and I try not to think about the wetsuit tear over my ankle. The October morning is bright and crisp and the water so icy that when I duck beneath, I come up gasping. I float on my back, spinning again to take in the view, while Massett and Dillon rest on their bodyboards and chat. Every so often, they slap the water to let Fungie know they're around. But he's fishing out toward the open water and shows no interest in saying hello. He's a wild dolphin. He doesn't come when he's called.
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Bilingual Graduate Adriana Flores Helps Serve Chicago's Hispanic Community
Posted on October 28, 2021 October 4, 2022 by CareerWork$
"If I don't make this call now, then when will I?"
That was the question Chicago resident Adriana Flores was asking herself in late 2019 as she considered applying for the BankWork$® program with our training partner Association House of Chicago. A friend who had already completed the eight-week, free comprehensive career development program and been hired immediately by an employer partner, had recommended it to Adriana.
After working in retail early in her career, Adriana had been a stay-at-home mom the previous two years, and she was ready for a change.
"I needed a better future for me and my son," says Adriana.
So Adriana made the call and applied for the BankWork$ program. In January 2020, Adriana started the eight-week career development program.
At first, Adriana says, she was hesitant and out of her "comfort zone" after being out of the workforce for several years. But Adriana settled in; her instructor's talent and the value of hearing from multiple employer partners from across the financial services industry, who spoke to the class about their different roles and approaches, helped her s
In March 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic growing, her BankWork$ program shifted to a virtual model. Instead of the typical in-person graduation celebration and career fair with employer partners, the graduates participated in a virtual format.
After interviewing with several banks, Adriana accepted an offer from Chicago-based Byline Bank.
"BankWork$ helped me get my foot in the door. That was the first step. They gave me the opportunity, and then it was on me," says Adriana. After starting in a part-time Teller role, Adriana then took on a full-time role, and is now a Senior Teller.
And Adriana isn't the only BankWork$ graduate at Byline Bank: two of her fellow graduates from her cohort also joined the Byline Bank team.
As a Senior Teller, Adriana brings another skill to help serve the mostly Hispanic community in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood: a native Spanish speaker, she is fluent in both English and Spanish. That's allowed Adriana to help serve the bank's Spanish-speaking customers, acting as a translator for many of their customers who don't speak English.
"Language accessibility is a challenge for many in this community to financial stability."
More than half of our program graduates are fluent in two or more languages, making banking accessible for communities where English fluency could be a barrier.
As Adriana grows her career, her advice to others considering BankWork$ and a career in financial services it to "go for it. There's a lot you can learn and you can pass a lot of that on to your family to help them be more financially stable. You never know what opportunities can come from it. Joining BankWork$ was the best decision I could have made. I made good friends who I have the pleasure of working with now and met a lot of great people along the way as well. I now have a stable career, and I can't wait for what the future holds."
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Celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month: Bilingual Instructor Luz Hernandez with Partner Association House of Chicago Helps "Improve Lives and Communities"
Born in Michoacan, Mexico on a small farm, Luz Hernandez came to the United States with her family as an immigrant, as her parents worked to "provide us with better opportunities"– support she now provides to community members as a BankWork$® Instructor with our partner Association House of Chicago.
For Luz, her work is rooted in a strong desire to help those around her.
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Over the past 18 months, organizations across the country navigated the rapid changes of the pandemic. CareerWork$ worked closely with partners around the country to adapt, pivot, and pivot again—and as a result, we're still marking milestones like graduations and job placements among our graduates.
Here are three ways we adapted and continued our impact during the pandemic:
A New Program: CareerWork$ Ready: Early in the pandemic, we launched a new job readiness program, CareerWork$® Ready, a condensed, three-week program designed for individuals seeking their first job, as well as those who are looking to re-enter the workforce., in a broad range of industries. We provide community organizations with the curricula they need to offer virtual or in-person training for job seekers in underserved communities. The program leverages the curricula from our proven BankWork$® and CareerWork$® Medical programs and includes one-on-one sessions and group trainings with a job coach, creating a personalized experience in real time, and standing out from many other pre-recorded programs.
Making Classes Digital: As we launched CareerWork$ Ready online, we also digitized our BankWork$ and CareerWork$ Medical® curricula, making it possible for our training partners to offer courses through hybrid models while complying with public health guidelines. Moving the curriculum content online meant students also gained digital skills and practiced holding virtual meetings and online collaboration tools—skills and experience necessary in the "new normal" for many careers.
Making Graduations and Job Fairs Digital: Ask any graduate, or any employer—our graduations and job fairs, where each graduate interviews with each employer partner, is part of what makes CareerWork$ so impactful. We celebrate the hard work and dedication of participants, and they receive far more personal attention than they might during a standard job fair or online application process. During the pandemic, we adapted to ensure we could continue our graduations and jobs fairs by pivoting to a virtual model; immediately following the virtual graduation events, our graduates met 1:1 virtually with employers in their region for job interviews. As we look to the future, we are hopeful and energized for what's next – especially as we recently hit an important milestone: 4,000 graduates placed into jobs with career growth potential.
Thanks to these steps and collaboration with our training partners around the country, CareerWork$ is poised for our next phase of growth— expanding with new partners, new staff, potential for new training programs, and new ideas for the future. Our work has never felt more vital, and as the pandemic has highlighted the long-standing inequities for BIPOC community members, the need for our last-mile training programs has never been so clear.
2020 BankWork$® Graduate Leah Bright Featured Speaker at Pennsylvania Bankers Association Young Professionals Conference
Leah Bright, a 2021 graduate of the BankWork$ program with our training partner Philadelphia OIC, was a featured speaker at the recent Pennsylvania Bankers Association 2021 Young Professionals Conference, where she shared her career journey to a role with our employer partner Citizens Bank.
Earlier this year, Leah was seeking a new career. Her mother first told her about BankWork$; she had seen a flyer advertising the program with Philadelphia OIC at her workplace.
"I knew I had nothing to lose and everything to gain," Leah recalled.
She applied, was accepted, and began the program in a hybrid model that was adopted during the pandemic, with some classes in person and others taught live via Zoom sessions.
For Leah, the free, comprehensive, eight-week program offered the communications and workplace skills she needed to launch a new career, along with the industry-specific skills and knowledge.
"Because of BankWork$, I could really understand and learn the ins and outs of the financial services industry."
In her remarks, Leah also thanked Philadelphia OIC BankWork$ Instructor Shantelle Faison for her support and encouragement before and after the program. Calling Shantelle her mentor, Leah said she "added fuel to the flame, which I needed at the time."
The day of her graduation in Spring 2021, Leah and her fellow graduates participated in a key feature of BankWork$: one-on-one interviews with multiple employer partners in the region.
A week later, Leah received an offer from Citizens Bank.
Today, as Leah grows in her new career, her goal is to "run my own branch and impact the lives of emerging leaders."
The Pennsylvania Bankers Association has been a strong supporter of the BankWork$ program since 2017, a key partner in expanding the program to Pittsburgh and an advocate for our programs with Pennsylvania banks. Their support of BankWork$ graduates like Leah is a testament to our shared commitment to opening more doors to meaningful careers in the financial services industry.
"BankWork$ Gave Me the Blueprint to Launch My Career": 2019 Graduate Tama Robinson Reflects on Her Path to Her New Career in Financial Services
Posted on October 6, 2021 October 4, 2022 by CareerWork$
Tama Robinson's journey to her new career started with her car radio.
The lifelong Milwaukee resident was driving when she heard an advertisement for the inaugural BankWork$ class with our training partner Employ Milwaukee. Tama quickly jotted down the number and made the call. With a new class starting in two weeks, Tama raced to meet the application deadline. After receiving support from Instructor Adrienne Wright, she applied online – and was accepted.
For Tama, it was the right opportunity at the right time. After working in long-term care for a decade, she was eager for a transition into a career in financial services.
"I knew I had a passion to help people – and I knew I wanted a career where feel like I did something to help someone that day. I knew I could transfer those skills into the financial services sector."
With her customer service skills from her career in long-term care, Tama was eager to dive into the BankWork$ program and learn the industry-specific skills she'd need to thrive in a new career.
"As class started, I was able to take those transferable skills and move them into a new industry. BankWork$ put the puzzle together."
As graduation approached near the end of the eight-week program, representatives from several area employers came to class to speak with students about their hiring process and their culture. As part of the program's post-graduation job fair, Tama had the chance to interview with a number of employers in the region immediately after the graduation ceremony.
One of those banks was Prime Financial Credit Union, which offered Tama a position following her graduation.
Since starting with Prime Financial two years ago, Tama has already been promoted – twice. Today, she's an Assistant Branch Manager.
"BankWork$ gave me the blueprint to launch my career," says Tama. "They give you the outline, and then it's up to you to fill it in to succeed."
"We had high hopes for our very first BankWork$ class at Employ Milwaukee, and like many of her peers, Tama thrived. Tama was hardworking, committed, and driven to build a new career," said Adrienne Wright, BankWork$ Instructor with Employ Milwaukee. "We knew she would do a great job and be successful as she demonstrating care and leadership in class. It's an honor and privilege to be part of a program supporting amazing people like Tama as they start lasting, meaningful careers."
For those considering the BankWork$ program, Tama says simply to "go for it. They put you in a position to succeed. You won't regret it."

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E-Commerce / November 19, 2019
How Poshmark uses small local events to drive engagement and retention
By Cale Guthrie Weissman
Earlier this year, Manish Chandra joined around a dozen people at a Starbucks in San Jose, Calif. The attendees' ages ranged from 13 to 68, and they weren't there just to drink to coffee. All were members of Poshmark — the apparel resale website Chandra co-founded in 2011 — and they were there to talk about selling clothes.
One attendee shared her inventory management technique. Another talked about the transition from being a physical boutique owner to a digital one. Someone else provided tips for good photography. Meanwhile, Chandra and his wife sat to the side and watched. "They all looked at me and I said, 'Assume I'm not here,'" he recounted.
These local events — known as Posh 'N Sip — are just one of the ways Poshmark attempts to keep its sellers engaged, and are becoming a bigger chunk of the company's growth strategy. The platform currently has 50 million registered users and 7 million "seller stylists." This past September, the company announced that combined seller revenue hit $2 billion on the platform, up from $1 billion the year prior. Loyalty is one of the big things the company has been focusing on — currently 80% of its daily shoppers are repeat buyers, the company said.
They're facilitated by Poshmark, but most of the work is done by local hosts. They can best be described as one part '70s Tupperware party, three parts business meet-up. Poshmark sellers come together — usually in groups of about a dozen — and discuss the state of their businesses and the platform as a whole. This year alone, there will be 546 such local events thrown in 38 states. That's up from 162 in 2018.
Combined with other live events the company puts on, the Posh 'N Sip are a mix of experiential marketing and influencer meet-up — letting brand ambassadors meet up and evangelize. This local outreach is funded by Poshmark's community development budget, an offshoot of marketing, and have become a way for the platform to both find and cultivate top sellers and differentiate itself from other resale companies that don't facilitate such one-on-one events. As a result, the company plans to invest more in this kind of small-scale programming as it continues to grow.
The Posh 'N Sip vary slightly in format. This past October for example, Poshmark launched the coffee edition. Earlier versions were held later in the day and billed more as happy hours. Sometimes, there's some structure of content via conversation starters offered by Poshmark, other times the events are just a meetup. Often, the company mails out boxes filled with party-throwing surprises.
Live events have been one way Chandra has focused on keeping its sellers happy. In years past, the company shelled out dollars "in the six figures" region on its live programming. This year, it's now "in seven figures." While a bunch of this money goes toward Poshmark's annual conference, which brings together sellers and other resale industry leaders to discuss the state of the industry, the company still spends over $100,000 every year on helping facilitate these smaller community-run events. "Posh 'N Sip has been a big event and is super scalable," he said. "We hope it doubles, if not triples, in the next year," Chandra added that he expects to see them happen in more than a thousand locations very soon.
The results thus far, Chandra said, have been positive. "The ROI — even financially — is very high," he said. He was able to see higher retention and "30-80% growth" directly from sellers who attend these events. There's also a "second-order impact" where these members evangelize Poshmark to others in their communities. Chandra added that while Poshmark does try to quantify the lift of this community outreach, he tries to "balance a numerical analysis with a love-and-heart-based analysis."
Chandra rarely attends these events — he went to the San Jose one to get some direct feedback and meet the seller community. Small local events have been around since the early days of Poshmark. At first, the company facilitated parties where sellers would show off a few of their items to attendees. Then, the company began using more of its marketing muscle to host events to accrue more users.
In the early days, the focus wasn't just on the sellers, but on getting people to understand how the entire Poshmark platform worked. This paved the way for the annual PoshFest conference event. "The focus of these events have continued to evolve," said Chandra. "What started as a way to recruit more eyeballs turned into a way for power users to trade tips. Over the last few years, it became a lot more about education."
And the company has doubled down with this — providing resources for sellers to help each other out. Meanwhile, the company began to see more engagement from those who participated, which has informed its decision to further scale these events.
The real benefit some sellers see with these events is the ability to trade tips and secrets. "It has an element of that social selling party aspect," said Florida-based Poshmark seller stylist Kimberly Ryan, who has been using the platform since 2013, "but I would say it's more of a business workshop."
Ryan has been attending local events since 2015, and most recently hosted the Posh N Sip coffee edition series. The parties give attendees "the ability to go and learn from a power seller," she said. "Online selling is constantly evolving and people what know what are the trends."
The next year is an important one for Poshmark and it's growth. Last April, the Wall Street Journal reported that Poshmark was doing the initial work for an IPO. But this past September, those plans were reportedly delayed. The reason likely had to do with the cooling resale industry; The Real Real, which went public last June, has had a turbulent fall and winter due to reported issues with the platform.
Still, this is an area of growth. "There are more consumers who are entering the resale market — both as sellers and as buyers," Neil Saunders, managing director of GlobalData Retail, told Modern Retail last July. "It is most certainly growing at a very rapid clip."
And what may be hampering resale from scaling is a general understanding of how these programs work. With these kinds of events, said Jessica Ramirez, a research analyst at Jane Hali & Associates, "you're educating people — it's basically a live case study." What's more, meeting other sellers adds an element of trust. "There's a confidence, a sort of bond that can be formulated there," she said.
For Poshmark, it believes growth rests on being able to offer these more personalized events — especially for the sellers who keep the platform running. "This provides a unique value to the community," said Chandra. While the company is investing its own money in devising these events and sending out resources, what keeps them going are the hosts and attendees. Whatever the company invests in helping facilitate these small meet-ups, said the CEO, "the community is probably putting twenty times that in time and resources."


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New MSU ag economist wants to help producers
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MISSISSIPPI STATE -- Quitman native John Michael Riley became an agricultural economist because he wanted to help solve problems producers face.
Through his involvement as a youth with 4-H, the National FFA Organization and the Mississippi Junior Cattlemen's Association, Riley interacted with individuals dependent upon agriculture, and that interaction led to his desire to pursue his current profession.
After earning a doctorate from Kansas State University in 2008, Riley accepted a job with the Mississippi State University Department of Agricultural Economics as an assistant Extension professor with responsibilities in risk management, commodity marketing and agribusiness. He assumed his duties Sept. 2.
"I feel fortunate to have the opportunity to return to Mississippi," Riley said. "I have always enjoyed talking and working with producers, and this position gives me the chance to continue this interaction."
A professor at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College in Miami, Okla., first sparked Riley's interest in agricultural economics. After earning an associate's degree from the college in 2000, Riley earned a bachelor of science degree in agricultural economics and a minor in animal science from MSU in 2002.
At MSU, Riley was a member of the livestock judging team and the Collegiate Cattlemen's group. He also earned a master of science degree in agricultural economics from MSU in 2004.
"Dr. Riley is an excellent addition to our Extension faculty," said agricultural economics department head Steve Turner. "He knows the people and situations of Mississippi, which will enable him to get a quick start."
Riley said he wants to contribute to the agricultural economics Extension program that reaches commodity producers throughout Mississippi.
"My background is in livestock production, but this in no way means I have turned a deaf ear to other agricultural operations," he said. "The tools I learned from studying marketing and risk management will allow me to tackle problems facing all producers."
Riley said he also wants to enhance his research skills to solve relevant production issues. He cited the department's support of applied research opportunities for faculty as good motivation for this goal.
"With this position, I can engage with producers and hone my research skills," Riley said. "When issues come up, I hope people will have me in mind as a contact for worthwhile information."
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MSU economist named a top woman in business
New license agreement helps expand MarketMaker
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Poultry remains No. 1 for 19th straight year
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The enigma of the 'lost coast of Queens'
In a 2017 piece titled, "Discovering the Lost Coast of Queens," the New York Times profiled several of the developing residential building projects along the Astoria-area East River waterfront. The southern-most of those projects, Alma Realty's 34-46 Vernon Boulevard, was just getting the "finishing touches," the Times reported then. The double-headed, 17-story, 404-unit development squeezed between a Ravenswood power plant sub-generator and the film and TV warehouse by Rainy Park, was expected to be leasing, the Times had reported, by the fall of 2017. More than two years and a pandemic since that projected date, the yet-to-open set of towers sits behind a wall of deteriorated construction signs and has become a neighborhood enigma.
"It is going to open," an unidentified voice told me, this last July 6, when I called Alma. The building is "still in the process of construction," the voice said. I asked if there was a delay. "No delay," the voice said. I was transferred, as usual – I've called several times before the Covid-19 pandemic – to a line that went to voicemail.
One might use the pandemic as an explanation, but the state didn't include non-essential construction in its stop-work order until April, and then didn't, in actuality, fully include non-essential construction until late May. Besides, a document displayed at the site shows Alma was granted an essential business permit to proceed in April. In any case, these last few months don't count for the five-plus years since construction began.
Five-plus years is almost the same amount of time I've lived here, within a few blocks of the site. I've watched the building unfold slowly, sometimes having conversations with neighbors or roommates who were confused about the endless construction site/empty building by Rainy Park. One local business owner who'd set up shop after Alma's construction began, was waiting for the building to open, counting on those hundreds of new potential customers. After the pandemic set in, that person has sold her business, a new cashier told me. Another neighbor is more weary, not looking forward to the influx of high-income tenants. And some people just ask me, because I'm a journalist, if I've figured out yet what the deal is with that huge empty building that's been sitting there more than five years.
To put five-plus years in perspective, 432 Park Avenue, the stick-like super-tower known as the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere, just across the East River, took about three years to build. Skyline Tower, the Long Island City residential scraper known as the tallest building in New York outside Manhattan, is expected (New York YIMBY reported on March 30) to be finished by the end of this year, after construction began in late 2017, making work possibly only three years. Vernon Tower, one of the buildings profiled in the Times piece, seems to have been built in about three years. A two-decade analysis in 2018 by real estate site, The Real Deal, found, with the exception of hotels, the median duration of building construction in New York City to be about three years.
The Real Deal also reported, in 2016, that Alma bought the land at 34-46 Vernon Boulevard in 2001. Records show the company filed for excavation and foundation work in 2008. TRD reported in 2010 that the project, then called Alma Towers, had been "beset by construction snags and recession-related issues." An architect told the outlet that during the economic crisis, rising steel prices necessitated a redesign, pushing the work back to 2012. Work kicked off in the fall of 2014, YIMBY had reported, bringing the site up to 13 or 14 stories by June 2015. The signage at that time projected a completion date of spring 2016.
From what I can tell, the usual real estate outlets stopped reporting on the project except for the Times' real estate section with its "Lost Coast" piece, which also used the phrase "gold coast." One of the developments mentioned, Alma's other, more high-profile project – a five-building, 1,700 unit megaproject – Astoria Cove, was slated for a site by the Astoria Houses on the northern edge of the Halletts Point peninsula, next to the Hallets Point megaproject. After facing pressure from affordable housing advocates, organized labor and then-Borough President Melinda Katz, the Astoria Cove zoning proposal passed the City Council in late 2014, becoming the first development to fall under Mayor de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning program, with 27 percent of the units below market rate. Alma never broke ground on the project, which was, in 2016, attributed to the expiration of state tax abatement program 421-a. The company put the site on the market, temporarily. In a 2019 post-mortem of sorts, Politico New York later said the project "didn't actually have the correct breakdown of low-income units to qualify for the new version of [the 421-a] abatement." The Politico piece ultimately portrays Alma as possibly an inept, minor developer in over its head.
The print version of the Times' piece was titled, "The Lost Coast of Queens," which suggests the Astoria-area waterfront had been known in the past. Maybe the point was developers had forgotten about it since the Shore Towers were built in 1990 or since East River Tower was built in 2007. The online article included the word, "Discovering," suggesting, perhaps, developers had been unaware that desirable, as in convenient or scenic, waterfront existed north the Gantry Plaza State Park. The piece, apparently contradicting those notions, describes Alma as "a family-run firm that has invested in the area for decades." That's because Alma is part of the area. The company, which has properties all around the Tri-state area and more than a dozen branch offices, has its headquarters about 15 blocks away, or a 20 minute walk, from 34-46 Vernon Boulevard, at 31-10 37th Avenue in the Dutch Kills section of Long Island City. Alma's founder, Efstathios Valiotis, came to the U.S. from Greece, a TRD profile says, in 1972. LIC-based Greek-American newspaper the National Herald toured Alma's headquarters in 2017, describing Alma as "one, if not the only one, of the few expatriate companies from the concierge up to the supervisors in complex construction who speak Greek."
The National Herald, which appears to have mixed up the Citigroup Building with Citicorp Center, misdating the arrival of the former by at least 10 years, and may have exaggerated Alma's stock in the emerging waterfront (Astoria Cove and 34-46 Vernon Boulevard together would have surpassed Halletts Point by only about 100 units), was given a tour of 34-46 Vernon Boulevard. The Herald reported, back then in 2017, that the "apartments are functional," set with washer-dryers and balconies, though I'm not sure the balconies were finished. The piece, which doesn't get into delays or politics, is a warm portrait of Valiotis and his daughter, the company CEO Sophia Valiotis, involving a photo of them in an office, behind them a stack of cases of Crystal Geyser sparkling water. The short TRD profile of Efstathios (or Steve) Valiotis includes an alleged 1990s European bank-corruption scheme. In 2015, Politico New York reported, tenants rights group Stabilizing NYC included Alma on its offender list. The group found seven Alma buildings in Brooklyn and Manhattan with reports of tenant harassment, disrepair and vermin. Con Edison was suing Alma for stolen gas. In 2016, then-Public Advocate Leticia James listed Valiotis as the number three worst landlord in New York City for racking up 1,141 total violations. Valiotis is not on Public Advocate Jumaane Williams' current list. As of this post, Department of Buildings records show the project at 34-46 Vernon Boulevard has racked up 97 violations.
Author cornerofastoriaPosted on July 12, 2020 July 12, 2020 Categories Crazy, Local Businesses, Real EstateTags 34-46 Vernon Boulevard, Alma, Alma towers, Astoria, Developers, Development, Efstathios Valiotis, Hallets Point, Halletts Peninsula, landlords, Long Island City, Mayor Bill de Blasio, MIH, New York Times, Ravenswood, Vernon Boulevard, WaterfrontLeave a comment on The enigma of the 'lost coast of Queens'
Big gray box underway for Vernon Blvd
At the large empty lot across from Halletts Cove, one block north of the landmarked Piano Factory building, will be a large, gray and white box complex of three apartment buildings. Cape Advisors says construction is planned to start this year.
An aerial rendering shows grass roofs and a swimming pool. A rending as shown from the middle of the East River shows a long, gray wall along a Vernon Boulevard that looks like a park promenade. The development at 30-77 Vernon Boulevard is set to have more than 500 apartments and, apparently, zero ground level commercial space.
Current site.
H/T NY YIMBY
Author cornerofastoriaPosted on August 21, 2019 August 21, 2019 Categories Real EstateTags Cape Advisors, Halletts Cove, Piano FactoryLeave a comment on Big gray box underway for Vernon Blvd
To connect Astoria to UES
Partial NYC Ferry route map: pink dots added.
An alliance involving the Durst Organization, the Waterfront Alliance and pols are calling for an NYC Ferry connection between the Astoria and East 90th Street stops. "We have the Hallets Point dock and we have the dock at 90th Street. We just need the city to provide us with the service," Congress Member Carolyn Maloney said at an event on Saturday.
The event was held by the Halletts Point Alliance, which seems to be some sort of non-profit extension of the Durst Organization's emerging Halletts Point development. Waterfront Alliance director Karen Imas said the connection would also benefit the Astoria Houses residents. She noted the hour-long trek it could take to get from the Hallett peninsula to the Upper East Side for "academic institutions, health care institutions, recreational centers."
HT: QNS, Astoria Post
Author cornerofastoriaPosted on August 13, 2019 Categories Local Pols, Real Estate, TransportationTags Astoria Landing, Carolyn Maloney, Durst Organization, Hallets Point, Halletts Peninsula, NYC Ferry, Waterfront, Waterfront AllianceLeave a comment on To connect Astoria to UES
So we're finally discussing this. On July 8, LIC Talk posted, "Where is the Northern Border of Long Island City?" The blog is right that there is no easy answer. The situation of the ambiguous border has complicated my life since I've moved here.
When I moved here, my apartment on 36th Avenue near 10th Street was listed online as "LIC-Astoria border." I soon came to find "LIC" signage along the street and as north as Broadway, which LIC Talks insists is the border. My address came up alternately as Long Island City or Astoria in Google Maps. Certain websites listed my neighborhood as Astoria based on my zip code (11106.) My roommates used either name for their mailing address. At that time DNAinfo ran a crowdsourcing piece finding there was little consensus on the south Astoria border. I read a 2008 NYTimes piece placing the Ravenswood Houses in LIC. And I overheard someone by 36th Ave and 21st Street say she was going to Astoria. I read a Gothamist piece referring to the area I lived in as "South Astoria." At an Astoria writers group at Panera Bread on 35th Avenue, someone said that actually, we were in an area traditionally known as Long Island City, when Broadway was the border. A book in the back of the Noguchi museum referred to the area as LIC. A famous 1980 NYMag piece declared the Queensborough Bridge as the upper Long Island City border. A 2011 NY Daily News piece said Little Brazil, centered on 36th Avenue, is in Astoria, while a 2017 NYTimes piece placed it in "a pocket of Queens."
By the time I started this blog, I had already concluded that I lived in Long Island City, or a place traditionally known as Long Island City. But I knew that we had moved into an age where much of the area south of Broadway is thought of as Astoria. Also, when I told people I lived in LIC, they would say something about the area being up and coming. I would have to explain I lived in a corner heavy with South Asian and Mexican or Central American immigrants, who by the way, seemed to run the local businesses and have the largest presence in Rainey Park, which I think is different demographically than Queensbridge or Socrates. (We've also got Greek and Brazilian immigrants, which sounds like Astoria). I would say I lived within a field of warehouses and small factories. I'd say I lived by three public housing complexes. I explained there were few restaurants or bars here. In any case, it wasn't the "LIC" people tend to think of. And it wasn't the "Astoria" they think of either.
The problem, it seemed, was rooted in the fact that what traditionally separated LIC from Astoria was not a street, but the clustering of residential pockets with much industrial area in between. That industrial area was long sprinkled with homes and some fully residential strips such as Crescent Avenue as it runs through Dutch Kills. And I lived in a residential pocket within a greater industrial area. Adding to that, is how the upper rim of the Queensbridge Houses on 40th Ave feels like a solid border because it's followed abruptly by an industrial zone. And as Queensbridge is known to be solidly in LIC, it's easy for any residential areas north of it to seem like – well, now we're in Astoria, or something.
I named this blog Corner of Astoria because it rolled off the tongue well. But I never felt satisfied with that designation. And I possibly never will.
Author cornerofastoriaPosted on July 31, 2019 July 31, 2019 Categories Corner, Crazy, Local Businesses, Notes, Parks, Real EstateTags border, geography, lic talkLeave a comment on Where is the Long Island City-Astoria border? (response to LIC talk)
Ravenswood-Dutch Kills top Queens in falling real estate prices
A RealtyHop analysis found that the Ravenswood-Dutch Kills area led Queens in falling median percentage real estate prices in June.
The area, identified as "Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Long Island City," – the map shows Ravenswood, QB and Dutch Kills below 36th Ave over to Northern Boulevard – saw a median percentage price drop of 10.6% (-$133,475). What, no one wants to live here anymore?
Just behind us is East Elmhurst, followed by the Hammels-Arverne-Edgemere part of the Rockaways, followed by Jamaica, according to a closer read by Queens Courier.
We came in four citywide for top five highest median percentage price drops, sharing a category with four Bronx neighborhoods, and made the top five list for neighborhoods with highest median dollar price drops, at number two just behind SoHo-Tribeca-Civic Center-Little Italy. Yea, check us out.
H/T Queens Courier
Author cornerofastoriaPosted on July 4, 2019 July 8, 2019 Categories Real EstateTags Dutch Kills, Queensbridge, RavenswoodLeave a comment on Ravenswood-Dutch Kills top Queens in falling real estate prices
Amazon to come to Anable Basin
The Anable Basin was controversial even before Amazon said it would show up. Less than a year ago, City Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, other local pols and various LIC activists were there to protest a plan to turn the strip at 44th Drive at the waterfront into a development that would somehow involve residential and industrial uses altogether. Well — no one cares about that anymore, because Amazon is coming, which is apparently the biggest business story in a while and it's down the street from my apartment. A memorandum of understanding shows where Amazon plans to set up shop for part of it's HQ2, and it's the same area, just south of Con Edison. JVB and Senator Michael Gianaris were initially down with Amazon coming to LIC, but held a protest at the site today saying this was a huge $3 billion giveaway that won't involve any public review. The mayor says the 25,000 jobs or more promised over a decade is unprecedented and the governor says the return on investment would be nine to one. Continue reading "Amazon to come to Anable Basin"
Author cornerofastoriaPosted on November 14, 2018 December 3, 2018 Categories Crazy, Local Businesses, Local Pols, Political Drama, Public Outcry, Real Estate, schools, Transportation, UncategorizedTags 44th Drive, Amazon, helicopters, JVB, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Michael Gianaris, Vernon BoulevardLeave a comment on Amazon to come to Anable Basin
Seven story mixed-use building slated for deep Dutch Kills
A two story, two family home built in 1915 is slated to be demolished in way of a seven story mixed-use building at 33-10 38th Avenue, down near Astoria Seafood and the Paper Factory Hotel. The building will have 20, most likely rental apartments, and some sort of community facility, New York YIMBY reported recently. Continue reading "Seven story mixed-use building slated for deep Dutch Kills"
Author cornerofastoriaPosted on August 2, 2018 August 2, 2018 Categories Real EstateTags ARC, Astoria Seafood, DMN, Dutch Kills, Long Island City, Melrose Ballroom, Paper Factory Hotel, ShootingLeave a comment on Seven story mixed-use building slated for deep Dutch Kills


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  std::string roaming_;
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  bool cellular_out_of_credits_;

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As March Madness quickly approaches, Elite Daily has your official get-rich-quick plan, and it's totally legit.
Now I know this sounds too good to be true, so allow me to explain.
This morning, the Berkshire Hathaway CEO, Warren Buffett, went on CNBC and announced a unique incentive for all of his employees this month.
In layman's terms: Berkshire, which operates many organizations under its management, is having a company wide NCAA Tournament Bracket Challenge.
That will require filling out one of these bad boys, of course.
If they go through two bracket tests... and they get to the Sweet 16 only, they get $1 million a year for the rest of their life.
This begs the obvious question: How do you quickly get a job under Buffett?
Fill out that application for Dairy Queen (like, today). Fill out your bracket right after orientation, and then hope your predictions are perfect through only two rounds of the tournament.


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Home Corporate SEC
SEC Awards $5 Million to Whistleblower Who Disclosed Misuse of Offering Proceeds
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On December 7, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a whistleblower award of over $4.9 million. The awarded whistleblower disclosed information relating to the misuse of proceeds from a security offering. The SEC claims the whistleblower's information and assistance helped it return millions of dollars to harmed investors.
"Today's award underscores the vital role that whistleblowers play in the SEC's enforcement program and the protection of investors," said Creola Kelly, Chief of the SEC's Office of the Whistleblower. "Because of the information and assistance provided by the whistleblower, a significant amount of money was returned to victims of the securities laws violations."
Through the SEC Whistleblower Program, qualified whistleblowers are entitled to a monetary award of 10-30% of funds recovered by the government when the sanctions that the government recovers exceed $1 million. The SEC weighs a number of factors when determining the exact percentage for a whistleblower award.
In this case, the SEC's award order notes four factors that were considered. First, "Claimant quickly reported to the Commission that the defendants may have been misusing proceeds from a securities offering upon learning of the suspected misconduct."
Second, "Claimant's information enabled Commission staff to more quickly and efficiently develop a case theory, subpoena important documents, investigate and establish the defendants' misuse of offering proceeds, which ultimately became an important part of the Commission's case against the defendants."
Third, "Claimant provided additional assistance to Commission staff by participating in two interviews and providing financial documents relating to the misuse of offering proceeds."
Fourth, "Claimant's information and assistance helped the Commission bring the Covered Action and return millions of dollars to harmed investors."
The SEC Whistleblower Program also offers anti-retaliation protections to whistleblowers. One such protection is confidentiality; thus, the SEC does not disclose any identifying information about award recipients. This award order also redacts information on the total amount of money recovered from the SEC's enforcement action.
In the 2021 fiscal year, the SEC Whistleblower Program set several records. During the fiscal year, the SEC awarded approximately $564 million to 108 individuals. Overall, the SEC has awarded approximately $1.2 billion to 236 individuals.
SEC Issues Whistleblower Nearly $5 Million Award
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LaGrange és una població dels Estats Units a l'estat d'Indiana. Segons el cens del 2000 tenia una població de 2.919 habitants.

Demografia
Segons el cens del 2000, LaGrange tenia 2.919 habitants, 1.149 habitatges, i 716 famílies. La densitat de població era de 663 habitants/km².

Dels 1.149 habitatges en un 32,6% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 46% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 12,6% dones solteres, i en un 37,6% no eren unitats familiars. En el 32,6% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 15,2% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 2,42 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 3,08.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 26,6% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 10% entre 18 i 24, un 27,2% entre 25 i 44, un 19,6% de 45 a 60 i un 16,6% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 35 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 82,6 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 32.054$ i la renda mediana per família de 39.038$. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 29.545$ mentre que les dones 21.946$. La renda per capita de la població era de 17.865$. Entorn del 4,7% de les famílies i el 7,1% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

Entitats de població d'Indiana

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The Via Domitia was the first Roman road built in Gaul, to link Italy and Hispania through Gallia Narbonensis, across what is now Southern France. The route that the Romans regularised and paved was ancient when they set out to survey it, and traces the mythic route travelled by Heracles.

The construction of the road was commissioned by Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, whose name it bore, following the defeat of the Allobroges and Averni by himself and Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus in 122 BCE. Domitius also established a fortified garrison at Narbo (modern Narbonne) on the coast, near Hispania, to guard construction of the road. It soon developed into a full Roman colony Colonia Narbo Martius. The lands on the western part of the route, beyond the River Rhône had been under the control of the Averni who, according to Strabo, had stretched their control to Narbo and the Pyrenees.

Crossing the Alps by the easiest passage, the Col de Montgenèvre (1850 m), the Via Domitia followed the valley of the Durance, crossed the Rhône at Beaucaire passed through Nîmes (Nemausus) then followed the coastal plain along the Gulf of Lion. At Narbonne, it met the Via Aquitania (which led toward the Atlantic Ocean through Toulouse and Bordeaux). Thus Narbonne was a crucial strategic crossroads of the Via Domitia and the Via Aquitania, and it was an accessible, but easily defensible port at that time. This "cusp point" in the Roman westwards expansion and ensuing supply, communication and fortification was a very important asset, and was treated as such (see Narbonne). In between the cities that it linked, the Via Domitia was provided with a series of mansiones at distances of a day's journey for a loaded cart, at which shelter, provender and fresh horses could be obtained for travellers on official business.

The route as it was in Late Antiquity is represented in schematic fashion on the Tabula Peutingeriana.

Route
This route can be traced on topographical maps overprinted with the ancient route, in G. Castellve, J.-B. Compsa, J. Kotarba and A. Pezin, eds. Voies romaines du Rhône à l'Èbre: Via Domitia et Via Augusta (DAF 61) Paris 1997.
 Briançon (Brigantio)
 Chorges (Caturigomagus)
 Gap (Vapincum)
 Le Monetier Allemont (Alabons)
 Embrun (Eburodunum)
 Sisteron (Segustero)
 Lurs (Alaunium)
 Céreste (Catuiacia)
 Apt (Apta Julia)
 Notre Dame des Lumières (Ad Fines)
 Cavaillon (Cabellio)
 Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (Glanum)
 Saint-Gabriel (Ernaginum)
 Beaucaire (Ugernum)
 Nîmes (Nemausus)
 Ambrussum
 Lunel-Vieil
 Castelnau-le-Lez (Sextantio)
 Montpellier route remains unknown
 Montbazin (Forum Domitii)
 Mèze
 Pinet
 Saint-Thibéry (Cessero) and its Roman bridge
 Béziers (Baeterris)
 Narbonne (Narbo Martius) At Narbonne, a section of the Via Domitia is exposed in the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville. The Via Domitia crossed the Atax (the Aude) by a seven-arched bridge at the site of the Pont des Marchands.
 Fitou (Ad Viscensimum)
 Salses (Ad Salsulae)
 Perpignan
 Ruscino
At Ruscino, the road separates in two: the Inland Route and the Coastal Route, which rejoin at La Junquera.

Coastal Route
 Elne (Illiberis)
 Saint-Cyprien
 Argelès
 Collioure
 Port-Vendres (Portus Veneris)
 Banyuls

Inland Route
 Montescot
 Le Boulou
 Les Cluses (Clausurae)
 Le Perthus (Col de Panissars), at the Trophy of Pompey

Rejoins at:
 La Junquera (Deciana)

Here the Via Augusta begins.

Roman bridges

There are the remains of several Roman bridges along the road, including the Roman Bridge of Saint-Thibéry, the Pont Ambroix at Ambrussum, the Pont Julien and the Pont Serme.

See also
 Roman roads
 Roman bridge
 Roman engineering
 Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus
 Quintus Fabius Maximus Allobrogicus

Notes

Bibliography
 Raymond Chevalier, Les Voies Romaines, Picard, Paris, 1997.
 Pierre A. Clement and Alain Peyre, La Voie Domitienne: De la Via Domitia aux routes de l'an 2000, Presses du Languedoc/Max Chaleil Editeur, 1992.
 Pierre A. Clement, La Via Domitia: Des Pyrénées aux Alpes, Editions Ouest-France, Rennes, 2005.

External links

 "Suivez la Via Domitia" DVD 60 mins. English - French - German
 Luberon News - Via Domitia
 Traces of the Via Domitia
 St Thibery - Via Domitia

Transport infrastructure completed in the 2nd century BC
Domitia, Via
History of Narbonne
110s BC establishments
2nd-century BC establishments in the Roman Republic
Gallia Narbonensis


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Sara Paxton is an actress and singer from Los Angeles. This young actress got her start on the big screen in a small role in Liar, Liar. Paxton has since had a big role in the 2004 Sleepover and most recently, in Superhero Movie.
As a singer, Paxton's album The Ups and Downs is still due for release.
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The Innkeepers Exclusive: Sara Paxton and Ti West's Haunted House Horror
The Innkeepers writer-director Ti West and his star, Sara Paxton, talk about their new haunted house horror film. The duo sit for an exclusive chat talking about how the shoot was spooky in its own right.
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Home Editors' Picks Cat-calling bill up for House plenary approval
Cat-calling bill up for House plenary approval
October 9, 2018 | 8:28 pm
THE SENATE on Monday approved on third and final reading the bill penalizing cat-calling and other forms of street-based sexual harassment.
Senate Bill No. 1558, the Safe Streets, Workplaces, and Public Spaces Act, was approved with 21 affirmative votes, no negative vote, and no abstention.
It was authored and sponsored by Senator Risa N. Hontiveros-Baraquel, the chairman of the Senate committee on women, children, family relations and gender equality.
The bill imposes penalties against unwanted comments, gestures, and actions forced on a person due to his or her gender in a public space, without their consent. Violators may face a fine ranging from P1,000 to P10,000, imprisonment from 30 days to six months, and community service, depending on the gravity of the offense.
Specific acts include, but are not limited to, unwanted cursing, wolf-whistling, cat-calling, leering, sexist, persistent requests for someone's name, number or destination after clear refusal, persistent telling of sexual jokes, use of sexual names, comments and demands, following, flashing, public masturbation, groping, and stalking. — Camille A. Aguinaldo
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« When The Funk Came Home
Festival 8 Announced In Indio! »
Iron Mike Gordon
6.7.09 Camden (D.Vann)
Nobody can ever claim that Mike doesn't have a passion for the game; he lives and loves to play music. The man who never wanted Phish to break up in the first place will be buying time between tours on the road with his own band for a 21-date fall tour. Winding up in early October, Mike will have enough time to flip his laundry and head out west with Phish. Totaling over sixty shows between the summer and the fall, Mike will have plenty of musical space to express his thoughts within the context of two separate bands.
Before Phish reunited, Mike said he wanted to make it a point to carve out time for The Mike Gordon Band, but who knew this is what he meant! Playing clubs and theatres over the month long "Get Bassed" tour, Gordon's band will move all around the east and the Midwest, but making it no further west than Chicago.
6.6.09 Great Woods (D.Vann)
Consistently overshadowed by Trey's solo projects, Mike has quietly carved out a fine solo career of his own. After various small side projects, in 2002 Mike collaborated with finger-picking folk-guitar legend, Leo Kottke, in a virtuoso experiment called Clone. The two eclectic musicians meshed quite well, both personally and instrumentally, and the the duo followed up with a second album, Sixty Six Steps, that gained critical acclaim. With a laid back, yet sophisticated vibe, this the 2005 release also included a percussionist, lending a calypso sound, and solidified Gordon and Kottke as a legitimate musical team.
After performing stints with the Benevento-Russo Duo, Serial Pod (Trey and Billy Kreutzmann), the Burlington-based honky-tonk group, Ramble Dove, and some shows with the Rhythm Devils (Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, and Steve Kimock) between 2004 and 2007, Mike decided to step out on his own. Taking over a year to write and record The Green Sparrow, his second solo album*, he took the next logical step and formed The Mike Gordon Band. With longtime friend and guitarist Scott Murawski (formerly of Max Creek), Brooklyn drummer Todd Isler, keyboardist Tom Cleary, and percussionist Craig Myers, Gordon was now a band leader after spending his Phish life in Trey's shadow. And he loved it. *(Mike's first solo album was the soundtrack to his 2003 movie, Inside In.)
In all of the interviews, Mike spoke of how proud he was of his new album and how much he enjoyed playing with his own band. And when they hit the road for a 25 date tour last fall, fans across the nation raved about the shows. Playing an array of covers interspersed with Mike's quirky, yet catchy, new songs, he had himself his own rock and roll band. And they liked it so much they are doing it again in September. Here are the dates:
09/08 – Music Hall of Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY
09/09 – Somerville Theatre, Somerville, MA
09/10 – Port City Music Hall , Portland, ME
09/11 – Bearsville Theatre, Woodstock, NY
09/12 – State Theatre, Falls Church, VA
09/14 – Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh, NC
09/15 – Orange Peel, Asheville, NC
09/17 – Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA
09/18 – Freebird Live, Jacksonville, FL
09/19 – WorkPlay Soundstage Theatre, Birmingham, AL
09/21 – Minglewood Hall, Memphis, TN
09/22 – Mercy Lounge, Nashville, TN
09/24 – The Vogue, Indianapolis, IN
09/25 – Park West, Chicago, IL
09/26 – Barrymore Theatre, Madison, WI
09/28 – 20th Century Theatre, Cincinnati, OH
09/29 – The Blind Pig, Ann Arbor, MI
09/30 – Mr. Smalls Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA
10/02 – Mod Club, Toronto, ON
10/03 – Town Ballroom, Buffalo, NY
10/04 – Higher Ground, Burlington, VT
Check out Mike's site for complete tour and ticket info!
"SAVE THE DATE" MAP CONCLUSION:
The Final Map
In Phish.com's mystery turned mockery, last night the organization finally gave up the information we all knew from the start, the Halloween festival will be in California. With one last flash animation, the absurdity ended as we watched Washington drilled, and drain into California. But we still got no information about the actual festival! So Indio, here we come- but how 'bout some details? Get it together guys!
"Antelope" 11.13.94 Erie, PA I
[audio:http://phishthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Track-09.mp3]
They just don't make 'em like this any more! This first-set closer reaches the very essence of "Antelope" with a ferocious jam that few others can match. Sitting on the precipice of huge success, and fully immersed in psychedelic improv, the band played like their life depended on it each and every night- a sense that clearly translates in this jam. This one is a monster that provides a vibrant portrait of a time gone by. Warning: This may not be appropriate for office listening without headphones!
8.24.93 Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC SBD < TORRENT
8.24.93 Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver, BC SBD < MEGAUP.
Summer '93 Pollock T-Shirt
Phish's fourth-to-last show on an extensive and smoking summer tour began to wrap things up for the epic month of August '93. The band had been touring almost constantly since Februrary, and they were playing better than ever. Phish reached another peak during August, a month that is considered one of the best of their career. Luckily there are many soundboards out there to remind us!
I: Chalk Dust Torture, All Things Reconsidered, Bouncing Around the Room, It's Ice*, Nellie Cane, Split Open and Melt, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, Uncle Pen, Maze, Golgi Apparatus
II: Llama, Horn, Ya Mar, Mike's Song > Ginseng Sullivan > Weekapaug Groove, Wilson > Rift, Suzy Greenberg, HYHU > Cracklin' Rosie > HYHU, Run Like an Antelope
E: Halley's Comet, Poor Heart, Sweet Adeline
*With an "I Feel the Earth Move" jam
Tags: 2009, Mike, Side Projects
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Mdawg Says:
July 23rd, 2009 at 10:15 pm
8 Sets!!!
Indio or bust!!
So it's called Festival 8 and so far here's what I noticed:
1) fucking hilarious FAQ, really fantastic, one blast of snark after another (Visorganizers allowed!)
2) the various travel packages and shuttle deals are really well thought out and I think it looks like they've done a hell of a job on that (as long as it really works)
3) no mention of a family camping area. hrm
snigglebeach Says:
any doubts that Gordon wrote those FAQ follow the Domino link. He is nuts
I was just going to write that the FAQs are hilarious as well… snarky is an excellent word to describe them, Mr. C. It really is their 8th festival, huh? I had to think about that for a minute.
There might not be a mention of a family camping area, but one of the first things they say is kids 5 and under are free. Seems like they are encouraging bringing the kiddos! (not that I have any just yet)
BrandonKayda Says:
Awesome, now the festival is on!
I'm not going, but I hope you guys have a good time.
The FAQ was HILARIOUS! You really think Mike wrote that?
And yeah, I need to get some 03′ shows for sure. Any good ones that aren't completely obvious (2-28-03)?
sumodie Says:
Festival 8 -duh! The name seems so obvious now 🙂
Snarky indeed -the website makes for some fun reading, e.g:
"Could you maybe just turn off the sun so that water and sunscreen won't be an issue? We could, but that would result in the extinction of all life on earth. Is that what you want? "
Whoah -there's too many hilariously weird comments to quote from F8 faq.
Is There Any Day Passes?
Hmm, Let me check. No. It's still no.
Miner must be cranking hard on tomorrow's posting 🙂
[thanks in advance]
DaNcInG fOoL Says:
Can I bring Chapstick? Yes, but what do you have against other brands of lip balm? Wait a second, are you one of those people who are paid to go into FAQs and chat up certain products?
Regine Albergotti Says:
October 19th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Hey this is a great web logs, would you consider being a guest writer on my web logs?