Someone wrote "Update Me" in the dust on the printed version of your plan.
You vaguely remember creating your plan about the same time you bought your first fax machine.
When asked if they've ever seen your company's strategic plan, your employees laugh and reply, "Strategic plan? This company has a strategic plan? I don't believe it!"
You ask eight different employees to identify the top three projects the company is working on and you get eight different answers.
Projects and project budgets drift and are regularly "cannibalized" by new projects.
There are regular turf battles across departments on whose project is more important.
Your company no longer does what your mission statement says you do.
Your current company vision is similar to: As a premier company, we will provide exceptional services so that we may exceed our customers' expectations.
The economy has changed. Regulations have changed. There are new competitors and new business models challenging your products and services.
"What do I need this plan to do for my company?"
"Do I need an updated plan to share with my bank or an investor to support my request for credit or capital? Do I need an updated plan to reshape the focus and direction of the company given changes in our industry, the economy, or other factors? Do I need an updated plan for my team to use as our roadmap over the next few years? Or, do I need to update my plan because it's covered in dust!"
Whatever your reason for realizing an update is in order: Great! However, you need to be clear and honest with yourself and your team going into the planning process. Whatever the reason: financing, strategic, or business operations, if you want your plan to actually be of use to you, it needs to become one of your primary management tools that you consider every day - and I do mean every day. It's not doing you or your company any good if it's sitting on the bookshelf. An effective plan takes time, dedicated thought, and coordinated planning to develop. Updating your plan doesn't have to be painful. However, it needs to be purposeful and then it becomes incredibly useful. I'll share why and when to update your company's plans in this article, and in a future blog we'll talk about how to update it and manage it.
So why do you create or update a company plan? As suggested above, first determine what purpose the plan will serve. If it is a financing request, you'll need a business plan and its intended purpose is to clarify financial need and payback terms. You then need to include relevant, clearly outlined financial projections of capital need, revenues, cash flow, expenditures, etc., over the period in play. A good Certified Public Accountant can help identify and prepare the appropriate financial statements, schedules, payback projections, and charts to bolster your case. However, remember, the reviewers are going to need to be "sold" on you and your team's management capabilities, business/market strategies, and overall projected "Business Plan" to ensure the success and payback you're projecting. You're asking a bank or investor to "be sold" on your capabilities to do what you say you can within a specified time period. You need to consider and address all of the possible "But what if," scenarios they may ask. Remember, they're trying to protect their investment. If they believe your plan, you may get the money. If they don't, you won't.
A strategic plan and a business operations plan are more internally targeted as the audience is more often the board, management team, and employees. Stakeholders and others also review the plan, but a strategic or business operations plan outlines organizational direction and major projects to move the organization forward. With these types of plan, you're not focused on "selling" your qualifications to anyone. The purpose of a strategic plan is to clarify where your organization needs to be three or more years into the future to ensure its viability and success - i.e., your company's big goal; its vision, and then broadly, how you will get there. A business operations plan then details the goals that need to be accomplished to move your organization toward its vision.
Given the rapid changes in technology, the economy, regulations, etc., my clients are now limiting their strategic plans to roughly 3-5 years out; business operational plans typically focus on the next 1-2 years so they can adjust to environmental conditions as needed. Business Operations plans serve as a roadmap for management on what needs to happen and when to ensure there is a well-orchestrated coordination among all departments and projects to move the organization forward. When created effectively, strategic and business operations plans become critical management project planning and tracking tools that are referenced regularly.
Now you know when and why you would update your company's plans. In a future blog, we'll talk about how to update and manage your plans.
Copyright MMXVIII, MMX Liz Weber, CMC, CSP - Weber Business Services, LLC.
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How to get all of them in the dist folder. Thank you.
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CURATED BY DR RAMZI DALLOUL
Dr Ramzi Dalloul Portrait
Selections Magazine has asked Lebanese-Palestinian art connoisseur and collector Ramzi Dalloul, founder of the Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation (DAF), to select 35 artworks from over 4000 acquisitions he has ardently accumulated over the last four decades. Alas, a constricting task given the importance of the collections copious nature.
The attempt to accommodate this particular publishing format has led him to choose what he would label as "representative pieces", ones that best exemplify the Arab world's overarching artistic landscape. He does not give this selection priority in terms of his personal liking as he finds each piece in the collection to be relevant to the enterprise's core objective: educating the local masses as to their basic rights.
With the largest collection of Arab art, Basel Dalloul, Ramzi's son, established the foundation circa 2016 and manages it with unparalleled missionary zeal. According to the Dallouls, amassing a regionally cohesive collection is instrumental to elevating the collective consciousness. A purely cultural, civilizational and educational message dictates his elective methodology. For some time now, Arab artists have been living and working in a highly affected socio-economic and political environment. Fortunately, their work reflects this state of perpetual becoming and more often than none, lends itself perfectly to DAF's prevailing cause. People have asked him time and again why he leans towards political subjects when in fact his main interest lies deeper than that. How can we as a nation, as an all-encompassing community, from Morocco to Iraq, from Syria to Yemen, bring about some kind of renaissance when experience has informed us about the inconsistencies of political intervention i.e. coups d'états and revolution? Artists have been the most consistent messengers of truth through time and their work reaches people from all walks of life. It is only befitting to use the cultural and educational instruments he has at his disposal to instigate real change within the society. Deeply concerned with the region's inability to contend with global advancements in science and communication due to a drastic skew in economic distribution, Dalloul felt like his actions should be directed towards aiding local developments. "I would like most of all to see the society fly. It cannot do so unless everybody has been given wings".
The collection contains works dating from the late 19th century up to the present. The chronological evolution in artistic tendencies and influences play a role in placing the Arab world within the universal cultural system. Local artists who have travelled west to learn from European masters have adopted their technical advancements and have progressively applied them with "a local flavor". Certain budgetary constraints have also informed the style of collecting. Since it would be impossible to collect each artist's entire body of work, Dalloul has developed impeccable discernment and adaptive faculties. Only interested in the cream of the crop, each acquisition is measured in relevance to the greater good. As an ongoing endeavor, he is consistently raising the bar by cycling out older works to make room for newer ones he deems worthy of the collection. Keeping up with the art market's tendencies, his work is never done. To him "art is a living organism. We cannot stay indifferent to new schools and forms of expression. We have to change with the changing world".
A dedicated intellectual with a background in economics and finance, Dalloul never aspired to be a wealthy man but rather has always wanted to be a professor, which was very apparent during our highly informative tour through the exhibition space. Applying a methodology proper to a historian, the cumulative bank of information at the tip of his tong is the result of reading endless books, rummaging through uncirculated records and giving equal importance to all sources. The study of history informs all of his actions, from the obvious ones all the way to the deep rooted ones. More importantly, it has always been key for him to meet the artists in person, or the artist's relatives if deceased. Documentation isn't complete without hands on testimonials and nitty gritty details. The entire spectrum of the artist's process would be lost to the public if he didn't aid his personal investigation with the inside scoop. Through the years, this has resulted in close friendships between himself and the artists, such as the one he so fondly mentions with painter Mohammad Rawwas or writer Brahim ElAlawi. Dalloul has also commissioned big artistic projects which he saw as powerful mediums of raising the collective consciousness. The most dramatic example is the 7.5m by 3m tapestry he commissioned as a reproduction of Dia el-Azzawi's "Sabra and Shatila massacre". This was a gargantuan endeavor.
Dalloul says laughingly that he is "jealous" of his own collection until he gets to share it on a more public platform. His plans, to build a museum in Beirut, the center of culture in the Arab world, will project DAF's cultural contribution to an international scale and breed new life into the collection. Culture to Ramzi Dalloul is an amalgamation of all disciplines, "all beautiful creative attempts to turn a subject into a visual or audible form for all the rest of the world to experience". This is the vision for the future. A centre that would include programs for all ages, folkloric concerts and theatrical performances. Even at this stage, the impact of the collection is tremendous on fascinated visitors. These votes of confidence renew the Dalloul family's certitude that they are on the right track.
Consequently superseding the collections quantitative distinction, Dalloul's dedicated qualitative penchant edifies the utter breadth of knowledge as the most powerful weapon. The hazardous upkeep of the physical premises on the eve of its anticipated desti¬¬nation is a testament to this man's integral patriotism.
"My wish is to leave a legacy which informs future generations about the potential in creative thought and action. Through culture, the collective consciousness can be elevated and all can learn about their democratic and humanitarian rights. There is a need for a peaceful revolution, one in which the weapon of choice is knowledge. Our forefathers have fought through dark times but they never gave up and stood tall till their very last breath. Like a tree, it dies standing straight. So you see, the way has clearly been paved for a brighter future."
Hussein Bicar, (1913-2002), Egypt, Al Ashjar Tamout Wakifa (The TreesDie Standing Up), 1995, Oil on board 62 x 61 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Mahmoud Said, (1897-1964), Egypt, Bain des chevaux à Rosette, 1950, Oil on Board, 66 x 89 cm, Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Mahmoud Mokhtar, (1891-1934), Egypt, Au Bord Du Nil (ON THE BANKS OF THE NILE), Bronze, dark brown patina, 62.5 x 15 x 13 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Farid Belkahia, (1934-2014), Morocco, Patchwork Culturel, 1979, pigments on skin mounted on panel, 99.5 x 130 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation.
Ahmed Cherkaoui, (1934-1967), Morocco, Claire de Lune, 1963, Oil on burlap, 35.2 x 50 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda
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Hatem El Mekki, (1918-2003), Tunisia, Arrestation du Christ, 1952, Oil on Board, 172 x 93.5 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda
Abdallah Benanteur, (1931-2017), Algeria, La Fugue, 1975-1988, Oil on Canvas, Diptych 137 x 162.5 cm each. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Baya, (1931-1998), Algeria, Deux Femmes avec vase fond Jaune, 1997, Watercolor and gouache on paper, 98 x 147.5 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Mohammed Khadda, (1930-1990), Algeria, Les Remparts de Koufa, 1989, Oil on Canvas, 97 x 129.5 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Marwan Kassab – Bachi (1934-2016), Syria, Untitled (Gesichtslandschaft), 1975, Oil on Canvas, 81 x 100 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Fateh Moudarres, (1922-1999), Syria, Al Burak, 1974, Oil on Canvas, 105.5 x 125 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Ziad Dalloul, (1953), Syria, Celebration of the absent, 2013, Oil on Canvas, 194 x 129.5 cm each (Triptych). Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Ayman Baalbaki, (1975), Lebanon, Al Mulatham, 2013, Acrylic on canvas and printed fabric, 250 x 200 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Paul Guiragossian, (1926-1993), Lebanon, Amitié, 1973-74, Oil on Canvas, 94.5 x 73 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Mohammad EL Rawas, (1951),Lebanon, Circe's Assistant, 2014, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 140 x 150 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Taghreed Darghouth, (1979), Lebanon, From "Brighter than a thousand Suns" Series, 2014-2015, Oil on canvas, 200 x 200 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul
Suleiman Anis Mansour, (1947), Palestine, Jamal Al Mahamel III (The Camel/ Carrier of Hardships III), 2005, Acrylic on Canvas, 152 x 98.5 cm, Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Abdulrahman Kata Nani, (1983), Palestine, We will return after six days, 2015, Mixed Media, Triptych: (left to right) 1- 250 x 160x 18.5 cm 2- 250 x 200.5 x 18.5, cm 3- 250 x 160 x 12 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Samia Halaby, (1936), Palestine, Pyramid, 2011, Acrylic on canvas, 216.5 x 432 x 4.5 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Mona Hatoum , (1952), Palestine, Witness, 2009, Edition 2/10 Porcelaine, 49 x 25 x 25 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Mohanna Durra, (1938), Jordan, Untitled Acrylic on Canvas, 100.5 x 120.5 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Wijdan Ali, (1939), Jordan, Colors of Love Series, 2012, Mixed media on various hand-made, papers 80 x 63.5 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Abdulhalim Radwi, (1939-2006), Saudi Arabia, Untitled, 1996, Oil on canvas, 91.5 x 117 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Ahmed Mater (1979), Saudi Arabia Makkah, 2012, Edition 1/5 Fine art Latex printer and matt 200g unbleached printing paper 124 x 177.5 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Dia Al Azzawi, (1939), Iraq, Homage to Al-Shabbi, 1990, Acrylic on canvas 155 x 95 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Saad Shaker, (1935-2005), Iraq, Tree of Life, 1996, Ceramic mural, 195×125.5×2 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Faik Hassan, (1914-1991), Iraq, The Tent, 1956, Oil on Wood, 75 x 92 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Ismael Fattah, (1934-2004), Iraq, Homage to Jewad Selim, 1989, Oil on paper, 147.5 x 115 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Rafa Nasiri, (1940-2013), Iraq, Homage to Ibn Zaydun, 2011, Acrylic, ink and mixed media on, canvas, 200 x 200 x 5.5 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Ismael Fattah, (1934-2004), Iraq, 1976, Untitled, 1976, Edition 1/7, Bronze, 61.5×27.5×42.5 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Kadhim Haydar , (1932-1985), Iraq, An Impenetrable Shield, 1965, Oil on Canvas, 74 x 100 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Ibrahim El Salah, (1930), Sudan, Allah and the Wall of Confrontation, c.1962-67, Oil on enamel on Masonite, 46 x 54 cm. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
Mohammad Omar Khail, (1936), Sudan, Cordoba, 2010, Oil and mixed media on wood, Diptych 180.5x160x4.5 each. Courtesy of Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation
A version of this article appeared in print in Selections, Hijacked by Fereydoun Ave #46, pages 210 – 236 and Limited Edition #50, pages 130 – 154
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The Apollo Theater & WNYC Announce '50 Years After MLK: A Dream Deferred'
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The Apollo Theater & WNYC Announce
"50 Years After MLK: A Dream Deferred"
The Apollo and WNYC are Partnering for the 5th Year to Present WNYC's 12th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration Presented as Part of Apollo's Uptown Hall Series
Co-Hosted by WNYC's BRIAN LEHRER and JAMI FLOYD
With WQXR's TERRANCE McKNIGHT as Master of Ceremonies
Guests Include Television Host TAVIS SMILEY, Women's March Co-Founder LINDA SARSOUR,
Black Lives Matter Co-Founder PATRISSE CULLORS,
and Civil Rights Leader and Former Advisor to Dr. King DR. CLARENCE JONES
Free and Open to the Public
(New York, NY – December 13, 2017) – On Sunday, January 14 at 3pm, the Apollo Theater and WNYC are partnering for the fifth year to present WNYC's 12th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration, "50 Years After MLK: A Dream Deferred," as part of the Apollo's Uptown Hall series.
WNYC's Peabody Award-winning host Brian Lehrer and local All Things Considered host Jami Floyd will moderate meaningful conversations examining Dr. King's legacy and its impact on modern social justice movements.
Through a lively mix of one-on-one interviews and panels featuring notable guests – including author and award-winning television host Tavis Smiley, civil rights leader and former attorney and advisor to Dr. King, Dr. Clarence Jones, and today's prominent female activists such as Women's March Co-Founder Linda Sarsour, Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors, and scholar and 2008 Green Party Vice Presidential candidate Rosa Clemente – "50 Years After MLK: A Dream Deferred" will explore the progress that has been made in the half-century since Dr. King's untimely death. In addition, panelists will discuss the evolution and persistence of issues he fought to eliminate, from racial and wage inequality to housing discrimination to police brutality, and will broach the question of what Dr. King's vision and leadership mean in this time of moral and ethical ambiguity—in effect, what happens to his dream deferred?
The event will conclude with a rousing performance by the two-time Emmy Award-winning ensemble Vy Higginsen's Gospel For Teens – a renowned group of teenagers who study and sing the art of gospel music in Harlem.
Featured guests will include:
Tavis Smiley, Author and host of PBS's Tavis Smiley
Linda Sarsour, Co-Founder, Women's March
Patrisse Cullors, Co-Founder, Black Lives Matter
Dr. Clarence Jones, civil rights leader and former attorney and advisor to Dr. King
Rosa Clemente, activist, scholar, and 2008 Vice Presidential candidate (Green Party)
Taylor Branch, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and MLK biographer
Jeanne Theoharis, Scholar and Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, Activist and spiritual leader of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah
Pandit Dasa – Author, Mindful Leadership and Wellbeing expert, and former practicing monk
Imam Khalid Latif – Executive Director and Chaplain at NYU's Islamic Center, Chaplain with the NYPD
Minister Kristen John Foy – Minister, President of the Brooklyn Chapter of the National Action Network
WQXR's Terrance McKnight will serve as Master of Ceremonies.
"We're thrilled to partner once again with the Apollo Theater to celebrate Dr. King's life and relevance in such an important anniversary year and at such a crucial moment for our country," said Brian Lehrer. "It's a great opportunity to bring the important conversations we convene on air into the community in person."
"Fifty years after Dr. King's assassination, I can think of no better place than Harlem and the Apollo to reflect on his work and mission," said Jami Floyd. "Issues of race, justice and the need for unity are front and center again, in our country. My hope is that our conversation will open the door to reconciliation, as we embark on the next 50 years – together."
"Since its inception, the Apollo Theater has served as a 'town hall' for local residents as well as people from all across New York City and as an agent of change for its community," said Jonelle Procope, President & CEO of the Apollo Theater. "The Apollo is also a kind of organic gathering place for people at historic moments in African-American culture, as when thousands of people flocked to the Theater when Michael Jackson and James Brown passed away. Apollo Uptown Hall is a natural extension of that role, and so we are extremely proud to partner with WNYC again this year for their annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration particularly as this will mark 50 years since Dr. King's assassination. It is now more important than ever to address social justice issues that continue to plagued our country. "
"50 Years After MLK: A Dream Deferred" is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are mandatory. Please RSVP here: https://www.apollotheater.org/event/apollo-uptown-hall-50-years-after-mlk/
About Apollo Theater
The legendary Apollo Theater—the soul of American culture—plays a vital role in cultivating emerging artists and launching legends. Since its founding, the Apollo has served as a center of innovation and a creative catalyst for Harlem, the city of New York, and the world.
With music at its core, the Apollo's programming extends to dance, theater, spoken word, and more. This includes 100: The Apollo Celebrates Ella blockbuster concert, the annual Africa Now! Festival, and the recent New York premiere of the opera Charlie Parker's YARDBIRD. The Apollo is also a performing arts presenting organization, producing festivals and large-scale dance and music works organized around a set of core initiatives that celebrate and extend the Apollo's legacy through a contemporary lens, including global festivals such as the Women of the World (WOW) Festival and Breakin' Convention, international and U.S.-based artist presentations focused on a specific theme; and Special Projects, multidisciplinary collaborations with partner organizations.
Since introducing the first Amateur Night contests in 1934, the Apollo Theater has served as a testing ground for new artists working across a variety of art forms, and has ushered in the emergence of many new musical genres—including jazz, swing, bebop, R&B, gospel, blues, soul, and hip-hop. Among the countless legendary performers who launched their careers at the Apollo are D'Angelo, Lauryn Hill, Machine Gun Kelly, Miri Ben-Ari, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Gladys Knight, Luther Vandross, and Stevie Wonder; and the Apollo's forward-looking artistic vision continues to build on this legacy
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CED:
Professional, reliable, open to various ideas, thinks outside the box, willing to give others opportunities. Identifies synergies between his passion/business and the passion/business of others. Works well with others.
Willing to help others, returns calls and messages. A person of integrity.
That's CED…
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What Is Cinema and Why Is It Important?
The world's most collaborative, expensive, and recently created art form is cinema. It originated from the invention of two film cameras, which people used to record everyday activities, such as family gatherings. As cameras became more popular, men began hiring them to record exotic locations. These images helped people understand that cameras could record action and tell scripted stories. Then, filmmaking began with scriptwriting and the addition of set design and editing. Filmmaking is still evolving today, with many important aspects that have been lost to time.
Animation vs cinema
There are advantages and disadvantages of both live action and animation films. While both have their strengths and weaknesses, animation tends to be faster and more effective in explaining complex ideas. While live action films often require expensive layered image sequences, animation is usually a more affordable option. The following are some of the main differences between the two forms of cinema. Read on to learn more. Animation is a more flexible medium. It can be produced in a shorter period of time than live action.
Kinetoscope
The kinetoscope in cinema was a machine used to show early motion pictures. The device used sequential images printed on flexible film that was driven by sprockets. The name kinetoscope comes from the Greek word for "moving picture".
You've probably heard of color in cinema. But how does color affect our emotional responses? Filmmakers purposefully use certain color combinations and design choices to make viewers feel a certain way. We automatically associate the images with specific memories, but we have little awareness of this subconscious process. But if we're paying close attention to the details of how cinema colors are used, we can learn how to interpret these images more effectively and create more impactful films.
Narrative films rely on the power of storytelling to engage the audience. Narrative films tend to be longer than non-narrative films and feature dynamic content that draws in diverse audiences. For example, in World War II, the narrator recounted the actual events that occurred. Narrative films can also predict the future, since they can show how new technology will work before it is actually implemented in everyday life. This type of film is also known as "short fiction," as the story of the story takes place over several days.
Interactive narrative
The first examples of interactive narratives in cinema can be seen in the Disney animated movies Dragon's Lair and Braveheart. These films were animated and made with real actors, but they were rendered using 3D models. These films followed the main plot line and contained alternative scenes to trigger the player's actions. They were also titled interactive movies, but their gameplay differed significantly from traditional films in many ways. For instance, a movie where the player could direct the plot was known as a game.
IMAX cinemas are theaters that use stereoscopic film technology to create a 3D image. They first began screening 3D films in January 1998. With the shift from analogue film to digital, IMAX cinemas have spread throughout the world. IMAX ride films are also very popular, and their seats are mounted on a full-motion platform. In addition to 3D films, IMAX is also known as a 3-D theater.


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A Passion for Haiti
Medical mission turns into lifelong commitment for pharmacy and pre-med students
July 24, 2013 by Erin Garrett
Andrew Smelser poses with 3-year-old Stephanie Pierre.
OXFORD, Miss. – When University of Mississippi students Andrew Smelser and Wesley Youngblood traveled to Haiti for the first time, they encountered what could only be described as an "eye-opening experience."
"I really was able to understand what a third-world hospital was like," said Smelser, a native of Owens Cross Roads, Ala., who is entering his first professional year of pharmacy school. "It was shocking. No air conditioning, very limited care, only one small cabinet of medications – it was unlike anything I'd ever seen."
Smelser and Youngblood, a Columbus native and rising senior pre-med biology major, traveled to Haiti on a medical mission sponsored by the Christian Relief Fund in May. It was Smelser's second trip to the Caribbean country in two years.
"I learned a lot from the medical aspect of the trip," Youngblood said. "We had a physician with us, and we were working in the local schools and small villages. Interacting with the local children left the biggest impact on me."
Most of their time was spent at the hospital in Cap-Haitien, the country's second-largest city. Smelser and Youngblood assisted hospital staff by checking vital signs, looking for symptoms of worms in pediatric patients, assisting with work-related injuries and even handing out food to the hungry.
"It's like comparing apples to oranges when you consider the health care that you receive in the U.S. versus Haiti," Smelser said. "There really is no comparison. The treatment is incredibly different."
Youngblood was particularly surprised that Haitian hospitals do not provide food for their patients.
"The family has to bring food to their loved ones in the hospital," Youngblood said. "We brought peanut butter sandwiches, boiled eggs, bananas and juice to pass out. We ran out by the time we got to the emergency room."
In addition to working at the hospital, the mission group volunteered at what locals referred to as the "old folks home." Many elderly residents there were unattended, and the group provided them with a different form of care.
"We provided more of a hand of comfort, which is different from how we think of health care in the U.S.," Smelser said. "Some of the residents had limited mobility, and we massaged their arms and legs. We even sang some songs with them that they recognized."
Pharmacy and pre-med students often work together in interdisciplinary environments during their professional training. Smelser and Youngblood took advantage of a similar opportunity on their trip. While traveling to the village of Benjamin, they came across a girl who had seemingly fainted from dehydration.
"We had to work together to determine how we could help her," Smelser said. "It turned out that she was epileptic. We checked her vital signs, sat her up and gave her water. It was shocking, but we were thankful that we could provide some help."
"It makes you realize how much one branch depends upon the other and how collaboration can be so beneficial in the health care field," Youngblood said.
Chelsea Bennett, the pharmacy school's assistant dean for student services, applauds Smelser's efforts in Haiti.
"Andrew is a wonderful example of the dedication that pharmacy students exhibit when it comes to service," Bennett said. "Our students are continually volunteering their time to give back, not only within the state of Mississippi but also nationally and globally.
"It's also great to see that our students are getting early experience working with other disciplines. Interdisciplinary education is so critical in the field of health care, and UM students are being proactive in working together outside of the classroom."
UM students Wesley Youngblood (left) and Andrew Smelser recently traveled to Haiti on a medical mission trip.
Smelser and Youngblood, who both want to take additional trips to Haiti, decided to take their service a step further. They were introduced to 3-year-old Stephanie Pierre on their trip, and in that moment, they decided to sponsor a child from Cap-Hatien.
"We didn't go down there with the mindset that we were going to sponsor a child," Smelser said. "We realized how incredibly blessed we are to be living in the U.S. with all of the resources we have. After we had witnessed day-to-day life in Haiti, we figured this was the least we could do."
The sponsorship will provide Pierre with necessities such as schooling, food and basic medical care.
"It's a shot at life, the shot that everyone deserves," Youngblood said.
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Best Sports Bars and Pubs showing Live Cricket
What's better than settling down in the pub, getting a pint in your hand and spending the day watching some seriously gripping Test Match cricket? Not a lot! Plenty of the best sports bars have cricket on all day but as far as we're concerned, play is best enjoyed in the pub, especially during The Ashes. That said, cricket's not a massive pub sport these days so save yourself from strolling around searching for pubs showing cricket and take a look at our recommendations below. This summer is huge for the sport so find pubs showing IPL and pubs showing the Ashes nearby righ now!
Slug And Lettuce Leicester Square
Right in the heart of town, Slug and Lettuce in Leicester Square is beginning to get quite a name as a bar showing cricket. Due to the two floor layout, they often put Test Matches and ODIs on the three screens upstairs whilst the bar continues to function normally downstairs. It's a big venue so there's plenty of room, but crucially, the new manager is a big cricket fan so it's a first point of reference if you're after live cricket on TV! As with any Slug and Lettuce, there's a very decent food menu so you don't need to worry that the game might have you there all day!
Hoop & Grapes
What do you you want from a cricket pub in the heart of London? Good food and drink, a guarantee that the cricket will be on and a beer garden if it gets hot right? Even better, a beer garden with a TV so you can enjoy your Pimms in the sun. The Hoop and Grapes does all that for you but still remains an almost village-worthy traditional pub.
"Big on Beer. Big on Sport." So says the Merchant's website. To that you can add "Big on the Ashes" for the summer of 2013 and "Big on Cricket" for the summers beyond... An awesome selection of drinks including various lager and ale offerings from Britain (at least one of which comes from their sister pub - the Florence - in Herne Hill. With 25% off food between 12 and 4 during the week, you'd be a bigger chump than Rodney Marsh if you missed it.
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With all the commotion, we have forgotten about one attractive possibility.
Newt: A GOP Dark Horse?
Michael Reagan
Fred Thompson's gone. Duncan Hunter's gone. All these people are gone. Huckabee could become Huckabeen — gone by next Tuesday. So could Rudy after next's Tuesday's Florida primary.
All of a sudden you've got this Republican primary coming down to McCain, Romney and Ron Paul. With all this uncertainty, just where can a conservative go? All of a sudden radio talk show hosts, who reflect the opinions of grass-roots conservative voters, are all over the lot hammering on Rudy, hammering on Romney, hammering on McCain and hammering on Paul.
Listening to them you get an idea who they want or don't want. They don't like McCain. Most probably they support either Huckabee or Romney. Although they think Rudy is gone, he could come back if he wins in Florida next Tuesday.
If Huckabee is finished, I think they go to Romney, who is somewhat more conservative than the rest. At any rate, conservatives could be faced with backing either McCain, or Romney, or Huckabee or even Rudy.
Or they could end up backing none of them.
Who, then, could conservatives end up backing? Well, who recently has come out with a new book? Who's doing all the shows talking about his new book? Who is advocating common-sense solutions to the most pressing problems America faces?
Newt Gingrich, that's who. He was out of the race for a long time, he toyed with the idea of running until Fred Thompson entered the race, and then he more or less pulled back.
Why Newt? Ask yourself why Ronald Reagan won. He won because he was able to excite a group of people in America that the liberal wing of the Republican party has never excited — the grass roots.
Newt Gingrich is the last Republican to have done that — to reach out to the grass roots, to all those conservative Republicans and Reagan Democrats. Remember, it was Newt who engineered the miraculous Republican take-over of Congress in 1994 — something that was deemed impossible two years after Bill Clinton won the White House.
I wouldn't be surprised if he was out there quietly working the phones and hoping for a wide-open convention where the delegates — not the primaries that selected many of them — decide for themselves who they want to carry the GOP banner in the presidential election in November.
If Newt throws his hat in the ring he knows that in the blink of an eye he will have the grass roots behind him.
Look at what happened Saturday in South Carolina. McCain won with 33 percent of the vote, which means 67 percent of the voters said we don't want McCain; only 30 percent said yes to Huckabee, which means that 70 percent said no to him. About 15 percent went for Thompson, a mere 14 percent went for Romney and 2 percent went for Giuliani.
So basically the voters said a resounding "No" to all of the above.
So who can electrify the base and get them to come out from their bunkers and ignite a groundswell? On the record, the only person capable of doing that is Newt Gingrich.
Covering all the issues that concern the grass roots: Romney represents the Reagan economic approach; McCain, the national security issues; Giuliani represents the hard-line-on-crime position; and Huckabee covers the religious position. Everybody has a piece.
Newt Gingrich covers all of those issues, and in the eyes of the grass roots, he covers them brilliantly. Just as his Contract with America dealt with many of the issues that concerned the grass roots and won Congress for the GOP, his agenda goes right to the heart of our current problems. He's offering concrete solutions to all the concrete problems and that's what the grass roots crave.
As a result, if the nomination gets thrown open in a brokered convention, the person who comes out of the struggle the winner will most likely be Newt Gingrich.
If I'm right I'll back him to the hilt. If I'm wrong I'll follow my dad's lead and support the nominee no matter who he is.
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September 2018 – upcoming London experimental gigs – eight for WITCiH's 'The State of Gender?' festival (26th to 28th September) – Bishi, Chagall, Miri Kat, Di Mainstone, Lia Mice, Vicky O'Neon, Rebekah Ubuntu and Gazelle Twin
Music tech initiative WITCiH (positive, feminist, genderfluid, multicultural) returns to its regular canalside home at the end of the month, for its first work as a full commissioning platform. 'The State of Gender?' is a full festival following several standalone WITCiH concerts over the past few years. While open to all genders, skin tones and persuasions, the three nights of the festival present, foreground and celebrate WITCiH's central preoccupations – women, technology and creativity. In additional, they continue to promote WITCiH's extended interest in teasing out and broadening (and, where necessary, seizing) opportunities generally only offered to the male, the straight and the white, and sharing them out across a wider community.
If this sounds like a revolution, it's a charming and positive one. The people in and around WITCiH are unafraid to critique and push against orthodoxy, and are equally unafraid of their own strength and potential; but this is primarily a celebration rather than a catharsis. Enthusiastic about its geekery, revelling in dressing up and performance, it seems to call into being a place and time in which the worst of patriarchal glowering and rigidity has been dispelled or dissolved; where the culture wars have been won from dance and crafting studios, and from workshops and sheds where electronic components are used to reel in the future. A place and time in which people are just free to get on with open-ended, humanitarian tech-play.
As regards how to get there, there's a good interview here, at 'Wyldemag', in which WITCiH co-founder (and living, walking, proactive "giant culture clash") Bishi points out her cultural-creative ethos, and that of WITCiH. "People are deciding – especially women and people of colour – that the simple answer is that you have to invest. I mean, it's great that there's more awareness and blah blah blah, but it's really simple, with the minority groups in society, it's not just about building awareness; it's the sustained investment that comes with that. And, of course, all the social media and stuff is helpful, but living in a city is so expensive, and politically, everything is so rough and uneven and uncertain, and there's something powerful about a collective of people coming together physically."
On this occasion, it's eight women (or, to be more precise, seven women plus a non-binary person with a female name) coming together. In amongst the music, three of them are going to be providing lectures – physical-pop explorer Chagall, "movician" Di Mainstone and conceptual wildcard Gazelle Twin.
Amsterdam-born but London-based, Chagall is an electronic music singer-songwriter, producer, and performer inspired by a wide-ranging collective-culture range of influences including "nature, Greek poetry, Bjork, James Blake, Beethoven, Nina Simone, Erykah Badu, Joni Mitchell & Miriam Makeba.". Her particular musical approach embraces gestural and reactive technology: she was an early adopter of a key gestural synth controller, the Mi.Mu Gloves, and her performances involve choreography and triggered interactive visuals.
Chagall's interest in body-gestural sound sourcing is shared – and then some – by "movician" Di Mainstone: artist-in-residence for Queen Mary College at the University of London, and one of the "new generation visionaries" of the international digital arts scene (according to the 'New York Times'). Working with researchers from QMC's Centre for Digital Music and Media Arts & Technology, Di creates musical instruments as wearable technology for dancers: electronic extensions of the human body, triggered by movement. These include the Human Harp (which she uses to play suspension bridges), the spring-based Whimsichord, the squeeze'n'jig Hydrochordion, the limb-like "choreophonic prosthetic" Serendipitichord and – outside of music – the Scorpions (a set of kinetic garments with a life of their own). Di also coined the "movician" term – a name for a player of her devices, "a hybrid artist who explores and composes sound through movement."
Earlier on, I suggested that WITCiH was predominantly utopian. The work of Gazelle Twin provides a hellish counterpoint indicating that there's still plenty of struggles to go through, whether it's from sinister social forces or our own unacknowledged darknesses.
Beneath her alarming/exciting dual skins of latex costumery and processed sound, Gazelle Twin is Elizabeth Bernholz – composer, producer, incantationeer, framework-overturner and time-traveller. Via loops, sampling and processing, her work jams and transforms acoustic and Early Music sources (recorder, harpsichord, female chorus) against found sounds and electronic "shades of '90s house and the once-thriving rural rave scene, albeit recalled as a watery, second-hand memory." The results buck and bray, ripple and snarl; delivering disturbing, liberating dreamscapes and warning fables with a violently physical component. In her videos, we see hissing ferocious folk devils battling it out; or blank-masked hooded figures capering and proliferating, barking and twitching like dysfunctional maenads. Much of it comes across as mingled summoning, exorcism and terrible warning. There's rather a lot of teeth, and an underlying exploration of specific modern sicknesses via primeval mythology (redressed in manmade synthetics).
Elizabeth's lecture promises to unpack and reveal the complex vision of one of Britain's most unsettling and unexpectedly timely artists: it will cover the creation of the latest Gazelle Twin audio-visual project 'Pastoral', including the influences and ideas behind this year's Hobby Horse single and video (the aforementioned devilfest). En route, it will branch out into related fields exploring "fascism and horror in the English landscape past and present, (Elizabeth's) own creative process from writing to recording/production, and her identity as a working artist and mother."
Other musicians will be performing newly commissioned audio-visual music pieces. Bishi herself is performing in the middle of the bill on all three nights. There's no specific clues as to what she's doing, but on past form expect a melange of some or all of the following:
interlocking pop forms (from classic English to Eurosynth to Hindi filmi songs).
a headlong, full-on involvement with the intersection of grand costume and high fashion.
sitars, ukeleles, extended voice and Ableton synth controllers.
traditional folk material from the Balkans to Bengal; classical ideas from Hindustani tradition to contemporary opera.
vocal inspirations from Meredith Monk and Yoko Ono.
fervent and earnest positive politics (including song cycles about immigration, and a long-standing loyalty to queer club culture).
and finally, Bishi's own strong and self-willed musical identity, which never rules out a willingness to interact or integrate with anyone from Sean Lennon to the London Symphony Orchestra (and with anything from interactive wind-harps to Christina Rosetti poems and giant floating holograms of Tony Benn).
By day, Miri Kat works as a Novation Music engineer, designing and finessing electronic musical instruments. She's also a combined audio-visual artist and music producer, interested in algorithmic music, webtech and generative visuals, with further interests in hacking, live coding and immersive multimedia in general. Mainly composed with Max/MSP Supercollider (and with found sounds live-coded from open ecosystems with open-source tools), her productions provide "hyperactive textures (and) ephemeral collages, in turns frenetic and and lyrical, in a unique brand of glitchy grindcore for a post-Internet age."
Lia Mice's work covers multiple bases: live electronic artist, producer, DJ and instrument designer. Sometimes she's to be found applying her live analog sampling skills across "high energy vinyl-hybrid" DJ sets of electro, Italo, tech noir, acid and "weird-pop". At other times she applies them to live sets of original music alongside "self-hacked" instruments and Max/MSP, while her recordings can stir in eight-track tape mangling alongside influences from Laurie Anderson, BBC Radiophonics and electronica across forty years from German pioneers to American outliers. Live sets also feature both live voice sampling and Lia's own custom-designed tactile-interface instruments – such as the Delia Derbyshire-inspired Reeltime sound manipulator (based on a broken reel-to-reel tape recorder) and the suspended tap'n'tilt/swing/spin ChandeLIA (designed to blend the organic bell-like sound of tapping on a metal chandelier with the sound of the electricity powering its lights).
A major WITCiH supporter, Lia also designs sonic sculptures, is a contributor to the Augmented Instruments Lab in the Centre for Digital Music and is "forever taking refuge in the mysteries of the sonic universe." Her third solo album, 'The Sampler As A Time Machine', is a selection of "experimental dance x wave-y industrial x parallel-dimension pop tracks". For the festival, she'll be presenting a lecture based on the album and its studio experiments (themselves inspired by time travel writings by philosophers, physicists, neurologists and psychologists from Mark Fisher to Oliver Sacks to Stephen Hawking).
An explosively enthusiastic character (and WITCHiH regular), Vicky O'Neon performs in a dazzle of beats plus shocking day-glo costumery and makeup. Born Vicky Österberg in Finland, she was originally a class-topping, award-winning drummer and percussionist at the British Institute of Modern Music. She went on to work around the world as sessioneer and tour-band member for the likes of Pharell Williams, Johnny Marr, Hans Zimmer and assorted live-set DJs. Since summer 2017, she's gone solo, buoyed up by the success and positivity of her parallel work in tech/instrumental teaching and in co-founding girl-promoting music initiatives Girls Rock London, Rock Donna and Racuma.
Vicky characterises herself as a "relentlessly optimistic Riot Grrrl multi-instrumentalist, with fluoro-glowing intentions to inspire the masses with harmony, laughter and love … on a mission from a higher plane of consciousness, devoted to the elevation of human vibration." Her one-woman show involves her making a delightful proactive racket via drum pads, loopstations, acoustic percussion, body-worn percussion triggers and MicroKorg synth, plus her own "tongue-in-cheek lyrics and visuals". As the founder of the Electric Vegetable Orchestra she also mixes tech with vegetable husbandry, carving new instruments from fruit, tubers and other root vegetables, then playing them through loops and effects to create "catchy tunes and singalongs with the audience." However she chooses to entertain you at WITCiH, she's certainly got plenty of options to choose from.
Vicky's fellow BIMM graduate Rebekah Ubuntu is a multimedia performance artist, musician and culture scholar experimenting with "ideas of futurism, rebellion, and paradoxes" filtered through queer, non-binary, black and feminist perspectives. Their work spans synthwave, glitch music, techno and various forms of Afro-futurism (including reference to black poets and writers such as Audre Lorde and Octavia Butler, black rock and punk statement, and Afro-orientated pop/house/trap/beat forms) as well as electronic soundscapes and vocal manipulations.
As with most of the other participants, Rebecca's got a strong allegiance to (and grounding in) club culture, and they've recently played sets at black pride, queer and general futurist events from Berlin to Norwich and Birmingham's FLUID festival. Outside of clubwork, previous work has included last year's 'trans.mission.Q' sonic installation project for Tate Britain (in which Rebecca posed as an extra-terrestrial DJ encouraging gallery visitors to "add your voice(s) to the live soundscape as we broadcast our earthly messages to the remotest regions of outer space". They also recently guest-edited new music webzine 'The Sampler', interviewing five queer, trans & non-binary sound-and-music artists about the intersection of their identities with their music.
Full dates:
WITCiH presents 'The State of Gender?', evening 1: Chagall (lecture) + Bishi + Miri Kat – Wednesday 26th September 2018
WITCiH presents 'The State of Gender?', evening 2: Di Mainstone (lecture) + Bishi + Lia Mice + Vicky O'Neon – Thursday 27th September 2018
WITCiH presents 'The State of Gender?', evening 3: Gazelle Twin (lecture) + Bishi + Rebekah Ubuntu – Friday 28th September 2018
All events are at The Barge House, 46a De Beauvoir Crescent, De Beauvoir Town, London, N1 5RY, England at 7.00pm. Further information is here, here and here.
Note that on the evening of the 27th – the day before her appearance at the festival – Gazelle Twin will also be making a live in-store appearance at Rough Trade East off Brick Lane, performing tracks from 'Pastoral'.
Tags: Audre Lorde, Bishi, Di Mainstone, Gazelle Twin, Lia Mice, listening to women, London (England), Miri Kat, Octavia Butler, Rebekah Ubuntu, Vicky O'Neon, WITCiH (event/promoter), women of heart and mind
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Happened on 5th of May 2013 at around noon time. Apprehensive, excited and worried, for us and Yining.
While she looks excited to be boarding the plane soon, she was also apprehensive at the same time. She told us she was a bit scared of boarding the plane.
So on the plane, we made her comfortable, as comfortable as she could get. I got some maze games for her on the iPad Mini to keep her occupied and distracted for the journey. Kids as usual has short attention span, so I practically had to line up enough things to keep her occupied for the 5-hour journey. Fortunately, the iPad Mini and SQ's in-flight entertainment were enough to keep her busy.
Some pictures taken with Mummy, enjoying it so far.
And she had her first meal. For some reason SQ said they did not receive my request for Kids Meals. Not attentive enough I must say. On the flight back the stewardess confirmed Yining's meal the moment we boarded and got her the SQ kid's drawing books and stuff even before we took off.
After her meal, back to her maze. And shortly after she fell asleep.
The trip was generally ok except for a little episode when she woke up before landing. She refused to stay in her seat and wanted Mummy to carry her. On the other side, the SQ crew was urging us to secure her on the seat. I thought they could just exercise some flexibility for a 3 year old instead of telling us only children below 2 can be carried and secured with the auxiliary safety belt.
All in all, it was a new experience for Yining. We are looking forward to our next trip.
And this is Yining, lugging her own luggage proudly at the airport!


Antonio is seventeen years old and has a dream: to be a footballer in a great team. He lives in a small village in the province of Campania, a place where getting away is not always that easy. What makes the situation even more complex is the wonderful Miriam, a kind and gentle, but highly problematical mother, who Antonio loves more than any other person in the world. On top of this there is Carlo, Antonio's father who abandoned them when he was very young, and Miriam is obsessed with the idea of rebuilding her family.


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Addressing Racial Bias is a Form of Jewish Engagement
March 7, 2016 By eJP
General engagement efforts do nothing to address the explicit and implicit racial bias in our institutions.
[As part of an ongoing series, eJewish Philanthropy will be sharing thought-provoking articles written by Schusterman Fellows in an effort to offer a glimpse of leaders in our midst who are approaching work in the Jewish sector with inspiring levels of care, strategy and heart. You can read the framing piece here.]
By Suzanne Feinspan
The American Jewish community invests millions of dollars annually in Jewish engagement activities. From networking events to trips to Israel, these efforts are specifically designed to ensure Jewish continuity by engaging the unaffiliated and sustaining the engagement of those seen to be at risk of disconnecting from Jewish life.
Yet, one of the groups most in need of engagement is not being reached. Research shows that approximately 20% of American Jews are people of color. Jews of color identify in many ways: as African-American, Asian-American, Latino/a, Indian-American, Ethiopian, Sephardi, Mizrachi and more. And yet, looking at the demographics of mainstream Jewish institutions, you would hardly guess that over a million Jews of color are part of our community.
As Ilana Kaufman asks in her ELI Talk, "How is it that we have come to accept as standard the absence of 20% of our community?"
What's worse is that the lack of outreach only confounds the problem. The less time, attention and money we spend on engaging Jews of color, the farther away they slip and the more convinced they become that there is no spot for them among the global Jewish people. Indeed, the longer we ignore this problem, the more entrenched it becomes.
The question remains, don't our general engagement efforts also serve Jews of color? Unfortunately, the answer is no.
In order to draw in a group that has historically been excluded from Jewish life – be it women, LGBTQ individuals or Jews of color – we must design outreach that speaks to their particular needs and experiences. For example, consider our work to engage interfaith families. After investing in dedicated programs and events over the last decade, we have seen significantly more interfaith families become active members in the Jewish community.
Moreover, general engagement efforts do nothing to address the explicit and implicit racial bias in our institutions. For Jews of color this bias is obvious, ever-present and a hindrance to their involvement. For instance, it is all too common for them to be asked, "how are you Jewish?" or to be singled out and followed by security as they enter a synagogue for services, even when wearing a kippah. White Jews will often mistake Jews of color for "the help" or assume that they're lost when looking for their seat in shul. From what I've seen, Hebrew school curricula often make no mention of the existence of the diversity of Jews in the United States or Jews who have lived for generations in countries like India, Uganda or China. And, frequently, I hear Jewish leaders speaking about issues related to race with an implicit assumption that these are important issues but not ones that directly affect "us."
Until those of us who identify as white Jews proactively and explicitly work to address our community's racial bias, any other efforts to engage Jews of color, however well-designed and well-intentioned, will not be able to fully succeed.
So, what would it take to fully engage Jews of color?
First, we need to do the hard work of addressing racial bias in our institutions. This starts with education. We need to provide clergy, Jewish professionals and all members of our communities with opportunities to learn about implicit and explicit bias and the concrete steps we can take to change the status quo on this issue.
Once we have a higher level of awareness, we can then take stock of the ways in which our institutions welcome Jews of color (or don't): Do our curricula represent their existence, history and experience? Do our recruitment and outreach efforts explicitly seek out Jews of color? If we find ourselves lacking – which many of our institutions likely will – then we must map out steps towards change.
Third, we must invest in explicit outreach to Jews of color. One institution that is leading the way is the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ). In 2014, the URJ announced a new "Audacious Hospitality" initiative that aims to not just extend a "temporary act of kindness so people don't feel excluded" but "an ongoing invitation to be part of community" in a way that "spiritually transforms" that community.
Finally, we must invest in individual Jews of color. Within the American Jewish community, we have many opportunities for individuals to take on leadership roles or participate in leadership development programs. Yet when you look at who is invited to step into these roles and which Jews are cultivated as leaders, very few Jews of color are among them. We should take note of the example set by Bend the Arc, an organization going out of its way to seek out high-potential leaders. Bend the Arc recently devoted all of the spots in its fourteenth Selah Leadership cohort to Jews of color as a step in addressing this challenge.
Each member of the Jewish community has the potential to contribute so much to the richness and vitality of our community. Why wouldn't we invest in making sure that all Jews, not regardless of but because of their racial identity, feel like they are truly valued and welcomed? We have to ask ourselves, who are we missing out on today? Imagine what our community would be without the amazing women and LGBTQ individuals (both groups we must continue to engage) who have led, inspired and challenged our community to grow and transform.
Building authentic relationships with Jews of color, learning about their history and experiences, and receiving the benefits of the wisdom and skills they have to contribute would strengthen our community immensely. It is time to match our resources to our values. This work must be done on a scale that will actually change our communal culture. We need funders, community leaders, volunteers and clergy to take concrete steps to support that change.
Based on the current estimated number of Jews of color, the high rates of intermarriage among non-Orthodox Jews and the reality that the United States will in the next few decades become majority people of color, the future of the American Jewish community is a multiracial one. Let's embrace this future, let's reach out to 100% of our community.
Suzanne Feinspan is a Schusterman Fellow and an independent consultant specializing in facilitation, organizational development, program design and trainings on race, gender and sexual identity, especially within the Jewish community.
Filed Under: The American Jewish Scene
Erika Davis says
Thanks for this important piece! As a Board Member of the Jewish Multiracial Network and Jewish woman of Color, I want to invite all Jews of Color from around the world to a Convening for Jews of Color being hosted by the Jewish Multiracial Network, along with Jews for Racial and Economic Justice in NYC May 1-3rd.
We are bringing together Jews of Color from around the United States to strategize real change in our communities.
Claudia Sanchez says
I decided not to attend when I was constantly ignored or mistaken for the housekeeper
Laurelle says
Great piece — as a member (the only Black member) of our Federation's Board, I have been waiting for just such an item as I have raised this issue with respect to engagement in our community. I have forwarded the link to our Federation's president and our CEO.
Fred Scherlinder Dobb says
Kol hakavod, Suzanne! As a rabbi and a member of a multi-racial family (active both in JMN and in Bend the Arc's Selah program), I'm grateful that you put this piece out there, hitting all the high points usefully and succinctly. All of us, and our sacred communities, have a lot of work to do; this helps offer a road map. You cited Bechol Lashon's thoughtful but debatable estimate that some 20% of American Jews are Jews of Color; whether the actual number is closer to 12-15%, or perhaps up to 25% or so, your conclusions are 100% applicable…
Miriam Messinger says
Thanks for this article. The invitation to actually focus on Jews of color is an important one– to reach people
In our community who have been marginalized strengthens the whole; just as a tent is stronger because we anchor at the edges. Many good points and I am wondering who is doing good work in their Hebrew schools or synagogues. We are doing work at Temple Hillel Bnai Torah in Boston where about 20% of families are multiracial, about half of those including adults of color (both Jews and non Jews).


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Obama's sickening Saudi homage is an object lesson in US hypocrisy
President Barack Obama meets Saudi King Abdullah on July 6, 2014. (Photo: U.S. Embassy Riyadh/Wikimedia Commons)
Date: January 27, 2015Author: Brett Wilkins 0 Comments
By paying effusive homage to the late Saudi King Abdullah and by honoring the kingdom's new fundamentalist dictator with his presence, President Barack Obama has given the world an object lesson in American hypocrisy.
To be fair, it's not just the United States that heaped praise upon the dead despot, as world leaders, diplomats and dignitaries lamented the passing of a man who ruled over one of the most repressed societies on earth.
One of the most delusional tributes came from Christine Lagarde, the French managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Lagarde — a woman — had the couilles to actually praise Abdullah as something of a feminist.
"In a very discreet way, he was a strong advocate of women," asserted Lagarde. "It was very gradual, appropriately so, probably, for the country."
A country, it must be said, in which women cannot vote or even drive cars. A country where women who speak to men who aren't related to them face harsh punishment, including public whipping. Even rape victims are severely punished because, as the perverse thinking goes, they must have done something to deserve it. 'Allah' forbid a woman has sex before marriage or cheats on her husband — both are punishable by public beheading. Women cannot travel abroad or even seek hospital treatment without first getting the permission of male relatives.
Saudi women and girls have died due to these ridiculous rules — back in 2002, 15 Mecca schoolgirls needlessly burned to death after the mutaween, the dreaded religious police, blocked rescue workers from saving them because the girls were not covered from head to toe in robes as required under the kingdom's medieval brand of fundamentalist Islam, known as Wahhabism.
It's not just females who suffer tremendously under the iron rule of the House of Saud. Arbitrary arrest and torture of reform advocates, religious minorities and innocent people is commonplace. The legal system is a farce, with innocent defendants tortured into false confessions, resulting in many people being wrongfully executed, often by public beheading.
When it comes to beheadings, ISIS can't compete with Saudi Arabia, which although ranking 40th in the world in population is the world's fourth-most prolific practitioner of capital punishment. The US, with 10 times the population of Saudi Arabia, ranks fifth.
Among the "crimes" for which you can be put to death in "reforming" Saudi Arabia are apostasy (renouncing Islam), blasphemy, prostitution, witchcraft, homosexuality and adultery. Those who are executed are sometimes crucified as well. Lesser criminals often have their hands chopped off without anesthesia.
Jew-hate runs deep in Saudi Arabia, as it does in much of the Middle East. Children's schoolbooks teach impressionable youngsters to hate not only Jews, but also other religious minorities, gays and others deemed unworthy of humanity. "The hour of God's judgment will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them," reads one textbook.
In recent weeks, Saudi brutality was once again making international headlines when a jailed blogger, Raif Badawi, was publicly flogged 50 times — he will eventually receive 950 more lashes — for advocating free speech, and when video of a woman's beheading was leaked for the world to see.
President Obama knew all, or at least enough, of this when he issued a statement eulogizing King Abdullah, who ruled from 1996 until his death last week at age 90.
"As a leader, he was always candid and had the courage of his convictions," said Obama. "One of those convictions was his steadfast and passionate belief in the importance of the US-Saudi relationship as a force for stability and security in the Middle East and beyond."
Obama cut short his trip to India to rush to Riyadh, the Saudi capital, to meet with the new king, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. The president enjoyed an opulent meal with his host, who he praised for supporting his war against Islamic State jihadists in neighboring Iraq and nearby Syria.
When asked about the kingdom's appalling human rights record, Obama sheepishly told CNN that "sometimes we have to balance our need to speak to them about human rights issues with immediate concerns that we have in terms of countering terrorism or dealing with regional stability."
Speaking of terrorism, surely Obama is aware that 15 of the 19 hijackers who killed nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001 were Saudi nationals. Or that the very royal family he was sitting down to feast with is a well-known and generous financier for Islamist terrorism.
Of course, being the world's biggest oil exporter, and America's number two source of imported oil, gets big love from Washington and Wall Street, which have, after all, supported genocide for much lesser gain. But America's hypocrisy is all the more galling when you consider that nations which pose little (Russia, Iran) or no (Venezuela, Cuba) threat to US interests are demonized and even punished, sometimes severely, for far lesser transgressions.
Perhaps King Salman will open the door to meaningful reforms in the kingdom he inherits. But the signs are not good. Salman has occupied the Saudi throne for four days now, and already four people have been beheaded under his reign. And while women are expected to gain the right to vote — and run— in local elections starting later this year, the kingdom remains ruled by one of the world's most repressive regimes, with precious few personal freedoms for any of its subjects, male or female.
It's been that way through successive US administrations dating back to the discovery of oil there, and it will probably be the same way until the last drop of Saudi crude is squeezed from the earth.
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First time at Grace?
Our Church:
Grace Assembly now meets at 2394 Dwyer Hill Road. Our family church seats 75, taking over space that once belonged to a restaurant. It's not the kind of place where you can sneak in unnoticed, but if you join us on a Sunday, you'll receive a warm welcome and find seating in an intimate environment that will remind you of when the early church in the Book of Acts would meet in each others homes.
Our church's Mission...Vision...Process is Hope...Belong...Share. As a community of Christians who meet together regularly, we are committed to growing in our relationship with Jesus and helping to meet the spiritual and social needs of our community and world.
Grace Assembly Pentecostal Church is affiliated with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada
Please read the Statement of Fundamental and Essential Truths from the website of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada for a list of biblical doctrines that our church affirms.
Our History:
In the late 90's a home Bible study group began to meet in the basement of the McCooeye home in North Gower. During the same period, a bereavement group was meeting at the Richmond Library. Both of these groups were under the guidance of Rev. Barb Richardson. During a time of prayer, Pastor Barb felt that they should plant a church in Richmond by joining together the two groups.
Grace Assembly had its first service in April of 2000 with Pastor Barb as their founding pastor. In the fall of 2001, Pastor Jim MacInnes came on board as an Associate pastor, and in 2002 he became the lead pastor of the church. Also in 2002, Grace Assembly became affiliated with the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (PAOC) as a Developing Assembly. Under Pastor Jim's direction the church moved from the library to Unit 33 of the Richmond Plaza. Some of the important ministries of the church during that time included running the Alpha course and social outreach.
In 2006, Pastor John Spurrell became the Lead Pastor, and a year later he started a youth drop-in centre as one of the ministries of the church. In 2007, the church was considered a Sovereign Assembly by the PAOC. In 2008, under the direction of Pastor John, the church expanded into a new section of the Richmond plaza, with unit 36.
In December 2017, Grace Assembly relocated to 2394 Dwyer Hill Road. In 2019, after 13 years of faithful service, Pastor John and Vicki were called by God to a new challenge.
On March 17 2019, Pastor Dan Guther became the Lead Pastor.


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Team GB Olympics hockey hero Maddie Hinch to open new £650,000 pitch in Eversley
Yateley Hockey Club's new ground, at Eversley Sports Association will be officially opened by the goalkeeper
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Women's hockey player Maddie Hinch takes a group selfie during the Olympics & Paralympics Team GB - Rio 2016 Victory Parade at Trafalgar Square on October 18, 2016 (Photo by Dan Istitene/Getty Images)
Team GB women's hockey Olympics hero Maddie Hinch will open a new £650,000 pitch in Eversley on Saturday (September 2).
Hinch saved all four penalties in the 2016 Olympic Games final against Netherlands as Team GB took the gold medal.
The "biggest day in Yateley Hockey Club's history" will see Hinch open the club's new ground, at Eversley Sports Association, in Reading Road, Eversley, along with Team GB men's defender Dan Fox.
The hockey club raised around £160,000 over a four-year period for the new AstroTurf and training pitch.
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The club relocated to Eversley Sports Association, in Reading Road, Eversley in 2015 after permission was granted by Hart District Council to build the new pitch.
Contractors S & C Slatters began work on the site on February 9.
The site was previously a Cemex gravel quarry which has been infilled over the last year and the site has now been handed over from Cemex to Eversley Sports Association, of which Yateley Hockey Club is a member.
Starting at 1pm, the opening event will include an official ribbon-cutting, hockey skills sessions match, activities, barbecue and bar.
Sarah Foley, Yateley Hockey Club chairman, said: "Yateley Hockey Club and Eversley Sports Association are delighted to have this £650K asset that YHC have only ever dreamed of, but now that dream has come true.
Yateley Hockey Club's new ground, at Eversley Sports Association, in Reading Road, Eversley (Image: Craig Boorman)
"We have had to wait many, many years and with a lot of hard work, sweat and tears, we have done it.
"With the help of England Hockey, Sport England, National Hockey Foundation, Hart District Council, Yateley Town Council, Finchampstead Town Council, all the sponsors of the charity balls, CEMEX, Inert, Slatters, all of Yateley Hockey Club, ESA and all anonymous donors, we have a state of the art Astroturf facility.
"This facility is a huge asset to the local community, not just to the hockey club and ESA. Derek Craston from Yateley Hockey Club has been the lead on this project and has been instrumental in getting this project complete no matter what obstacles were thrown in the way. We are all very grateful to Derek and the ESA who welcomed us (YHC) into their Association with open arms."
Craig Boorman, men's club captain, said: "This will be the biggest event in YHC's long history, and marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter of growth for the club.
"To celebrate, YHC is also offering half price membership to all new senior members this season. For more details and to get in touch, visit our website ."
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Wishing to create a genuine villa-style home on a new rural site; our clients decided to take their home with them. All the arrangements for the relocation and re-siting were made as a total cost package.The renovation required the need to restore the character of the home while making extensions to increase the size and space. New rooms were added, along with new decks & verandah roofing for charm and practicality. Special features were retained and reused like the circular window and timber mouldings. The bathroom and laundry were remodelled and the kitchen replaced with great attention to retaining the authenticity of the villa style.Site problems were overcome during the relocation resulting in a home set in a fabulous location with a charm all its own.


With version 4.0 the new and, according to the creator, final version of the autumn texture patch has become available.
In comparison with its predecessor, numerous improvements have been made. But the main goal of Knighter's was, to allow autumn to enter into the new world part of the add-on 'Night of the Raven' and in the valley of mines.
The video on the front page gives an idea of what to expect in the game once the patch is installed.
Everything is relative... until it bites.
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Is there an add-on called 'Knight of the Raven'?
Cool, I loved the autumn textures for Risen!
Just a question: is it only me, or did the author forget to change the ground texture? It's still green, shouldn't it be more brownish, like grass in the autumn?
Wow. The textures are really beautiful.
Next time I play NotR it will be with this patch (unless there's a winter tex ptch; winter is my favourite time of the year ).
Realy nice addon, i`m going to try it out soon.
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"Knight of the Raven".... i lol`d.
i´m the creator of this texturepatch. I hope you enjoy it.
Thx. Are their something textures I should implement or change in the last update? Its the last chance to change something in the texturepatch.
Maybe you can just change the color to make them look like like this.
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What does it mean VoM? Sry that I ask, but I´m a german.
No problem. This is a standard reduction of "Valley of the Mines" ("Minental" in German).
Thx. Valley of Mines, okay. Next time I will be able to know it by myself.
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