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Dee Dee transports listeners through stories of ordinary women who came to demonstrate extraordinary achievements to prevail even in the face of gender bias and/or racial discrimination.
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Ep.60-Sherese Brewington Carr, I come from generations of social change agents; I am who I was Intended to be!
Sherese Brewington Carr provides a rapid-fire delivery of her professional insights into the world of migrant farm work, the criminal justice system and what it takes to help both veterans and ex-offenders to successfully transition into the contemporary workplace. She shares her foundational beliefs established as a childhood "farm girl" who benefited from the larger culture of rural community activism and a world class educational opportunities gained at two Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). A lifelong activist she recounts some of the too-many-to-name volunteer and social change agendas she has worked to champion.
Sherese Brewington Carr is a feminist, civil rights activist and long-term advocate for criminal justice reform. With both an undergrad and graduate degree earned at two historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) she is an ardent supporter of the HBCU agenda for the development of the "whole person". Sherese has served in a number of senior executive positions in Delaware state government to include a period of time as Deputy Commissioner, Delaware State Correctional Facilities, and currently rounding out her career as Senior Administrator Delaware Department of Labor where she advances both the rights and opportunities for migrant workers, veterans and ex-offenders seeking reentry into the labor market.
Ep.56-Linda Dupre Hull: Sr. level financial managers are "problem-solvers" and not worker bees.
Linda Dupre Hull, age 67, provides powerful insights into a childhood where at age 12 she became a partner with her father in developing the family budget and managing the family finances out of the necessity of ensuring the family could survive off of his earnings. She shares the backdrop of being a life-long resident of New Orleans; a city defined by its history of segregation and poverty, and coming to understand very early on the absolute necessity for adopting a personal budget, managing your finances and growing your personal wealth by purchasing a home as early as you can in life and vacating the role of a renter. She shares her advice for baby boomers trying to decide whether to take their social security benefits at age 62 or "wait" for full retirement. This is an interview every woman (and person) can learn from!
Linda Dupre Hull, earned her degree in accounting at LSU New Orleans during the earliest years of desegregation, finding she was the only black student in her math and accounting classes. Upon graduation she successfully tested very high with the Lousiana State Civil Service Commission. This earned her a position in the accounting and finance department of the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO), the nation's 5th largest public housing agency serving over 19K families with an annual operating and modernization budget exceeding $100M in the mid to late 1980s. She began her 25+ year public career as an accountant with stellar performances that fueled her advancement over the years to Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and ultimately retiring after serving in other executive roles to include Chief Compliance Officer and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Ep.52-Ellen Walsh: A Global Perspective of Discrimination
Ellen Walsh reflects on a childhood filled with the joy and discoveries of living in Hawaii, Japan and Iran, along with the pain-filled memories of living in Mississippi in the mid-to late-1950s; a state where segregation was the "law of the land" and witnessing her mother's pain as a brown skinned Polynesian married to a white Portuguese engineer. Her mother was directed to the "colored door" while her father was directed to the front door. Her mother chose to stay home rather than bear the repeated humiliation only to encounter another form of humiliation as a "western woman" living in Iran during the 1960s when her husband became a civil engineer with an American firm. Ellen shares the impact from a society where women were marginalized by being denied the benefit of education, the inability to have their own independence through something as seemingly "small" as the right to drive a car, and living by cultural mores that said "a woman's place is in the house". It was another period of time where her mother became a recluse rather than live by the norms. But, it also fueled both her father and mother to ensure all four daughters would return stateside and go to college as a means of validating their value as women and ensuring their economic independence. She now believes that her motivation to earn her B.S., M.S. and complete her doctoral studies was highly influenced by these multi-cultural experiences. She believes that if all Americans traveled outside the U.S. they would find that people are more alike than they are different and that they want the same things for themselves and their children.
Ellen Walsh, a Retired Professor of languages, pursued her undergrad and graduate degrees in the romance languages after her childhood experiences living in Honolulu, Japan, and Iran. She completed her doctoral studies in Spanish at George Washington University and went on to become a professor of the romance languages at GWU. The Influence of a woman mentor worked to redirect her work from academia to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) where she spent 33 years teaching foreign langauges to DoD personnel often as a matter of "life and death" given their work abroad.
Ep. 3 - DeeDee Strum: The Whole World is a Stage and Everyone Plays a Part
DeeDee shares the benefits of life as a military dependent during the times when her counterparts were disadvantaged by segregated housing, segregated schools and denied the opportunity for equal access to public amenities such as libraries and swimming pools....(Click on Read More)
Times when her counterparts were disadvantaged by segregated housing, segregated schools and denied the opportunity for equal access to public amenities such as libraries and swimming pools.
About: Dee Strum Founder of M.D. Strum Associates, Past President of 100 Black Women, head of Indiana State Housing Board
www.mdstrumLLC.com
Ep. 5 - Dr. Iris Ann Cooper: Haters Serve an Important Lesson for Achievers
Being the "first and only" created childhood isolation and periods of self-doubt, but in the end, worked to underscore the old adage: "what don't kill you only makes you strong" Iris went on to achieve multiple successes as a serial entrepreneur and gaining national recognition . .(Click on Read More)
as the founder of Glory Foods with an array of shelf-ready and frozen ethnic food products found on the shelves of Walmart, Kroger, Winn Dixie, and countless other regional grocery chains.
About: Iris logs in some firsts. Her mother was the first African American Avon Lady and they were the first Black family in their neighborhood in the 1950s. She went to integrated schools and was the only African American on the debate team. She was black-balled from the National Honor Society even though she had the grades. She attended Fisk University, a historically all-Black college called the Harvard of the South, which opened up a whole new world for her. She transferred to Indiana University, a huge university which was a huge culture shock including the protests of the 1970s. Dr. Iris Ann Cooper's career includes leadership positions in financial services, economic development, community service, communication, government, entrepreneurship, and education.
www.justaskdr-i.com
Ep. 7 - Singleton B. McAllister: I Found a Way to Make the Law!
As a child of the segregated south and daughter of the first black state's attorney in Maryland, Singleton shares the varied influences of parents, mentors and elected officials on her career trajectory and commitment to domestic and global social change. (Click on Read More)
About: Singleton McAllister, Esq., represents companies and trade associations throughout a wide range of industries in matters related to international trade, transportation, energy, and healthcare. During her time on Capitol Hill, Singleton developed an extensive background in international development. She helped draft legislation that created the African Development Foundation (USADF); a government agency that supports African-led development and community growth through the provision of seed capital and technical support. She went on to serve as an advisory board member of USADF for 10 years. In 1996, then-President, Bill Clinton, appointed Singleton as General Counsel of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). During her five-year tenure, she was the chief legal advisor to 72 U.S. missions around the world. She is on the Board of Directors of many organizations and received the NACD Directorship 100 recognition.
www.huschblackwell.com
Ep. 9 – Faye Williams: My Contributions to 65+ Years of Social Change
We All Stand on the Shoulders of Fay H. Williams (and her "comrades-in-arms"): Family Law Attorney, Civil Rights Activist and Feminist! At age 87 she is still going strong with 65+ years of activism to her credit. Attorney Williams paved the way for women to enter political office as the chair, ...(Click on Read More)
National League of Women Voters Women's Education Fund, traveling the country, starting in the late 1960s, to organize political campaigns, teach women how to friend-raiser, comply with federal campaign finance laws and raise money from people they thought didn't have any!
About: Family Law Attorney, Civil Rights Activist and Feminist! At age 87 she is still going strong with 65+ years of activism to her credit.
Ep. 11-Carolyn Hayden: I Realized My Work Could Have a Social Impact
Carolyn Hayden shares her entrepreneurial history as a a regional contractor for American Express before Visa was VISA; on becoming one of the nation's first black female owned and managed Ford dealerships; and launching an international management consulting firm ...(Click on Read More)
promoting affordable homeownership at home and the development of village water wells as a source of clean water working abroad.
About: Carolyn Hayden is President and Founder of One World Consulting Group, LLC. (OWCG) with over 25 years of executive experience in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, providing strategic consulting services to foundations, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 companies. She is a member of the Annie E. Casey Foundation Children and Family Senior Fellows, expanding effective public-private partnerships designed to improve outcomes for at-risk children and families.
Ep. 13-Carolyn May: "This is the Time the Torch is Passed to a New Generation" – President John F. Kennedy
A young, animated, Carolyn May worked on Capitol Hill during that period of American history subsequently dubbed "the Camelot years": that period etched in America's memory as the magical era of the "Kennedy years", and in the public's memory as an era ....(Click on Read More)
that will never be repeated.
About: Carolyn May has a Master's in Library Science. She worked as a media specialist for all levels of schools, including a private school in Indian Creek. She worked for Senator Thomas Dodd, a Democrat from Connecticut, talked with Bobby Kennedy, and met Hugh O'Brien, a Hollywood movie star. She actually witnessed President John Kennedy's Inaugural Speech on the steps of the Capitol.
Ep. 15-Teresa Harris "What?! Women Can Do That?"
From a childhood of segregation, low-expectations of girls and women and the battle to define her sexuality, Teresa Ann Harris, shares her journey from military service, to homelessness, addiction and recovery with college graduation at age 40 followed by a stellar civil service career with ...(Click on Read More)
responsibility for negotiating multi-million dollar contracts with the nation's largest providers of IT services.
About: Teresa Ann Harris has spent twenty years dealing with government contracting in all roles. She has experience from the initial statement of work through every step including monitoring and evaluation. She has worked for Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Department of Veteran Affairs, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Corporation for National and Community Services.
Ep. 17-Cathy Gibson: I learned the rules to know how best to break the rules ("forgiveness" beats permission!)
Cathy Gibson left east Texas at age 18 to enter a Virginia girls college in the early 1960s as an "outspoken bigot" and graduated a Big 10 University four years later with a degree in Urban Education committed to increasing the literacy rates of inner city youth, and ...(Click on Read More)
subsequently becoming a champion for adult literacy as the Executive Director of the Marion County (Indianapolis) Central Library, credited with launching what would become a statewide literacy program titled, Read Indiana!
Ep. 19-Frances Johnson: Against the Odds: Business, Divorce, and Death
With 30 years of franchise ownership, Frances now looks in her rearview mirror to reflect on how much she didn't know when she took on the purchase of a franchise form of business with it's deep trove of do's & dont's. She credits her father, who owned and operated a half dozen businesses having achieved ...(Click on Read More)
only an 8th-grade education in the Mississippi of the 1930s, but determined to provide his family the best quality of life he could along with access to higher education. Later in life, her dad, and then her four siblings faced life-threatening illnesses and disabilities. Without the flexibility, she was allowed as her "own boss" she shares "we would have all gone down; I included".
About: Frances Johnson, owner of a State Farm franchise for 30 years, is a graduate of Indiana University. She worked as an executive in the public sector for five years prior to business ownership. ". Like so many others now in their 60s and 7Os, Frances is the sole provider and caretaker for her 88-year-old mother.
Ep. 24-Caramella Watkins: Research, Publish & Present! If You Want to Call Yourself a "Scientist".
Carmella Davis Watkins became a research scientist and meteorologist after completing her undergraduate degree in mathematics at the University of Maryland College Park accomplishing advanced studies in meteorology at Penn State. She became a trailblazer dedicating her ...(Click on Read More)
35-year career to researching the science behind climate change and weather.
About: Carmella shares the value she found in both the opportunities and challenges faced when integrating a southern high school and subsequently a southern university during the late 1960s and early 1970s. She found that having navigated these experiences made it possible to overcome the instances of gender and racial bias faced upon becoming one of the first female and Black research scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 1975. "I wouldn't trade any of these experiences", she shares.
Ep. 28- Emily Loya: Lost My Dad to the Bermuda Triangle
Emily shares her early childhood family tragedy of losing her father, a 1934 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, who went on to become a navy flight, and was subsequently "lost", along with his entire flight crew, in the infamous "Bermuda Triangle" towards the close of WWII; her early years of nursing at a time when "doctors were Kings"...(Click on Read More)
Who went on to become a navy flight, and was subsequently "lost", along with his entire flight crew, in the infamous "Bermuda Triangle" towards the close of WWII; her early years of nursing at a time when "doctors were Kings" (and nurses their "subjects"); the social challenges of entering into an mixed-race marriage in the early 1970s and raising children in the formally segregated south right at the start of integration.
Ep. 32-Anita Harden: Mentors Made the Difference
Anita talks about her personal battles to overcome recurring attacks of self-doubt fighting back the absence of self confidence born of her introverted personality but all the while recognizing her abilities to achieve each goal she established. Her career was fueled by mentors and personal cheerleaders helping her to elevate from nurse to (Click on Read More)
hospital president to entrepreneur as she entered retirement.
Ep. 36-Mildred Morgan Ball: A TV Commercial Star at Age 80
Mildred Morgan Ball provides her journey on a career peppered with being the "first and only", starting with her high school career in the late 1940s, and continuing through a career of promoting gender and racial equity for young athletes and the performing arts. Her father became a widower with eight children to raise when she was age (Click to Read More)
four and keeping his promise to his wife and their young children to "keep them all together". A steel mill worker, this "Super-man", as she describes him, instilled in them all the value of education, their duty to family and a deep commitment to community, and the legacy of seven of the eight children going on to earn one or more college degrees. Armed with these values, even today at age 84, she is actively engaged with multiple community-based nonprofits while enjoying her time as a grandmother with a public profile for women who" retire in order to re-fire", as demonstrated by her current career as a TV commercial actress and community "grandma".
Ep. 40-Patzetta Trice: Don't allow Anyone to derail your dreams: "Own
Them"
Patzetta Trice recounts a childhood fueled by the leadership and sage advice her father shared with his daughters to include the values of "Faith, Family and Community". Living these values became her personal mission informing the professional and civic outcomes that led to the receipt of local, national and global awards. (Click on Read More)
She shares her personal perspective on "success" as being that of "what she could help facilitate for other"s as she climbed the corporate ladder at GM; often "embraced", but acknowledging those marked instances of gender and racial bias. Never one to quit, she prevailed, and in the end, leveraged her top corporate positions to provide funding to notable local efforts to raise up the youth, in general, and girls and women, in particular. She shares her greatest triumph as being asked by three successive governors, representing both major political parties, to serve as co-chair of the Indiana Commission for Women, where she came in touch with girls and women in both urban and rural communities and was able to help frame and push-out state administrative and legislative initiatives to increase and improve public policies to the benefit of women and girls across 92 counties.
About: Following retirement from corporate America, Patzetta established a consulting practice facilitating the strategic communications, PR and marketing for nonprofit and for-profit businesses to "Make Every Move Matter". Her former careers included executive level positions with the Indianapolis Airport Authority as Chief Communications and Marketing Officer and General Motors as the Director of Communications and Public Affairs. She has contributed to the success of these leading organizations by orchestrating expert positioning of resources.
Ep. 44-Verna Jones-Rodwell: Hope, Health and Healing in Elected Office
Verna Jones-Rodwell shares her early start as a community organizer and advocate for affordable housing and community development where she worked to improve the living conditions of Baltimore's poorest families. At age 34 she launched her first campaign for political office seeking to represent her district in the Maryland House of Delegates.
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She talks about the lessons learned after losing that race, but vowing to herself that she would not be defeated. She subsequently won her next four campaigns for the state legislature serving one term in the House followed by three terms in the powerful state senate. Along the way she married and was confronted with the challenges of her mother's diagnosis of Alzheimer's, which has defined her activism after retiring from political office.
About: State Senator Verna Jones-Rodwell (Retired): A life long Baltimore resident, State Senator Verna Jones-Rodwell launched her first political campaign at age 34. She served in the Maryland legislature for 16 years making her impact through a variety of powerful committees; all of which reflected her personal values including: the MD Senate's Budget and Taxation Committee; Public Safety, Transportation & Environment subcommittee; Joint Committee on Children, Youth, and Families and Special Committee on Substance Abuse. Jones-Rodwell is a former chair of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland and the Baltimore City Senate Delegation.
Season 3 Ep.48-Diane Jackson-Chapman: Standardized Tests Said Below Average to Average - Now Have My PhD
Dr. Jackson-Chapman revisits memories of growing up in the days of a vibrant, thriving Gary, Indiana; a steel-mill city devasted by the decline of manufacturing in the 1980s-90s and the disinvestment that followed.
She reflects on her lessons-learned as a young parent determined to fully achieve her academic and professional dreams. She discusses the many women (and 2nd husband) who became the "wind beneath her wings" propelling her across the finish line with her PhD and all while taking on a 2nd marriage and raising a total of 5 sons. She also talks about becoming a contributor to the 21st C agenda for educational reform and volunteering with multiple nonprofits to fuel the dreams of women and young people.
About: Diane Jackson-Chapman married while in undergrad school, endured a chaotic marriage with 2 sons to raise, divorced, subsequently remarried (still happy 20+ years later) and never abandoned her academic goals of achieving her B.A., M.A. and PhD in education. Both of her sons earned their degrees in Engineering at GA Tech. Diane became an accomplished change agent for educational reform at the local and state levels, all while building an impressive resume of volunteerism to advance youth development, civil rights, women's empowerment and education reform.
Ellen Walsh reflects on a childhood filled with the joy and discoveries of living in Hawaii, Japan and Iran, along with the pain-filled memories of living in Mississippi in the mid-to late-1950s; a state where segregation was the "law of the land" and witnessing her mother's pain as a brown skinned Polynesian married to a white Portuguese engineer. Her mother was directed to the "colored door" while her father was directed to the front door.
Her mother chose to stay home rather than bear the repeated humiliation only to encounter another form of humiliation as a "western woman" living in Iran during the 1960s when her husband became a civil engineer with an American firm. Ellen shares the impact from a society where women were marginalized by being denied the benefit of education, the inability to have their own independence through something as seemingly "small" as the right to drive a car, and living by cultural mores that said "a woman's place is in the house". It was another period of time where her mother became a recluse rather than live by the norms. But, it also fueled both her father and mother to ensure all four daughters would return stateside and go to college as a means of validating their value as women and ensuring their economic independence. She now believes that her motivation to earn her B.S., M.S. and complete her doctoral studies was highly influenced by these multi-cultural experiences. She believes that if all Americans traveled outside the U.S. they would find that people are more alike than they are different and that they want the same things for themselves and their children.
About: Ellen Walsh, a Retired Professor of languages, pursued her undergrad and graduate degrees in the romance languages after her childhood experiences living in Honolulu, Japan, and Iran. She completed her doctoral studies in Spanish at George Washington University and went on to become a professor of the romance languages at GWU. The Influence of a woman mentor worked to redirect her work from academia to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) where she spent 33 years teaching foreign langauges to DoD personnel often as a matter of "life and death" given their work abroad.
Linda Dupre Hull, age 67, provides powerful insights into a childhood where at age 12 she became a partner with her father in developing the family budget and managing the family finances out of the necessity of ensuring the family could survive off of his earnings.
She shares the backdrop of being a life-long resident of New Orleans; a city defined by its history of segregation and poverty, and coming to understand very early on the absolute necessity for adopting a personal budget, managing your finances and growing your personal wealth by purchasing a home as early as you can in life and vacating the role of a renter. She shares her advice for baby boomers trying to decide whether to take their social security benefits at age 62 or "wait" for full retirement. This is an interview every woman (and person) can learn from!
About: Linda Dupre Hull, earned her degree in accounting at LSU New Orleans during the earliest years of desegregation, finding she was the only black student in her math and accounting classes. Upon graduation she successfully tested very high with the Lousiana State Civil Service Commission. This earned her a position in the accounting and finance department of the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO), the nation's 5th largest public housing agency serving over 19K families with an annual operating and modernization budget exceeding $100M in the mid to late 1980s. She began her 25+ year public career as an accountant with stellar performances that fueled her advancement over the years to Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and ultimately retiring after serving in other executive roles to include Chief Compliance Officer and the Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Sherese Brewington Carr provides a rapid-fire delivery of her professional insights into the world of migrant farm work, the criminal justice system and what it takes to help both veterans and ex-offenders to successfully transition into the contemporary workplace.
She shares her foundational beliefs established as a childhood "farm girl" who benefited from the larger culture of rural community activism and a world class educational opportunities gained at two Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). A lifelong activist she recounts some of the too-many-to-name volunteer and social change agendas she has worked to champion.
Ep.65-Linda Vines-Bright: Every child is a magnificent individual
Linda Vines Bright has devoted her career to children. She's passionate about supporting learners with special needs, using her methods to address and support many different learning styles.
As a child she was very active, quickly finishing her work and wanting to help other students — but this behavior at the time was considered disruptive. When building out her career she wanted to support children through holistic education practices and helping children feel loved and listened to, which makes a major difference in their education.
Her work has also gone overseas, helping women in Ghana to build sustainable energy systems and develop better food preservation strategies. It comes back to children — all are magnificent, and deserve an education that works for them.
About: Linda Vines-Bright, Creative Principle at The Virtuoso Group International, is a product of the Oakland Bay area, a "displaced" Minnesotan with midwest values, and a global citizen who feels a deep connection to every place she has lived and visited. In her childhood She recognized that she was The child that marched to the beat of a different drummer; Because she "hears" a different drumbeat. An entrepreneur at age 28, Linda established a school devoted to identifying the learning styles of children that did not fit the traditional classroom model of teaching and defining a range of teaching methods that earned her career-long recognition in meeting the needs of children identified as autistic to those who were labeled "genius". She later took her research and methods to a global agenda targeting the learning needs of children in west Africa nations.
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Chinese Students Move Away From Universities In The USA
Tuesday — August 11, 2020
By:Study Abroad
A Chinese student, Zancy Duan shares her experience that it was a tough decision for her to leave her desirable place at a US Ivy League school. Duan belongs to Zhejiang, an eastern province of China and she got enrolled in Cornell University for master studies and she also accepted for admissions in several other schools in America. But, during April, when the Coronavirus pandemic was on its peak, she decided to apply for European universities.
She said that besides the Covid-19 pandemic, there were some other genuine issues she faced that brought her in a sense of unease. These issues included unfriendly policies for international students imposed by US President Donald Trump, the president's blame that the disease is caused by China, and the current security condition affected by the Black Lives Matter movement, declared by Duan while talking to the South China Morning Post.
She declared that under this situation it was not a good option for her to move to the US for higher education. She also said that many of her friends who were planning to study in the US bent their minds to apply for Singapore, Hong Kong, and some European schools.
USA As A Study Abroad Destination
The USA has been a favorite study destination for Chinese students for decades. The latest statistics by the Ministry of Education from China have shown that the number of overseas Chinese students increased from 285,000 to 662,000 from 2010 to 2018.
It has seen that from 2009, China is considered the biggest source of international students in the USA schools. Every third international student in the USA is a Chinese student. But, now Chinese students are changing their minds for the second option and a huge difference would come to see by this year. Chinese students are thinking about Britain Universities as the second option for them.
Difference Between The US And The UK
A survey of Chinese students has shown that 42% of Chinese students are hoping to study in the UK and 37% of students are still nominating the US for higher education. It is a significant turnaround because a four years ago survey had shown that 30% of Chinese students were in the favour of Britain universities, whereas, 46% of Chinese students planned their higher education from the USA.
It is declared by the Market consulting firm Qianzhan Industry Research Institute that both the US and the UK are the most favorite destinations by the Chinese students but due to China-US tensions and, besides this, UK's shorter schooling period, and friendly immigration process all have made the UK the most favorite destination to choose for Chinese students. However, after taking the reviews of other Chinese students it comes to see that many Chinese students are turning away from US universities and they are looking forward to UK universities.
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Reward-based crowdfunding is comprised of a collective effort by a group of people (referred to as the crowd, contributors, or backers) and a project creator (referred to as a project owner or campaign manager) with the common goal of funding a specific venture. The creator of the crowdfunding campaign requests the crowd to contribute small amounts of money in order to fund his or her new concept. Most of the time, the crowd consists the project owner's immediate social network, and the project is usually hosted on a public crowdfunding platform. In return for contributions, rewards (also known as perks) are offered to the contributors from the project itself.
While those are the basics, crowdfunding has many more aspects to it than this simplified definition. The following is a guide created with the intentions of helping you better understand the basics of crowdfunding in more detail. While this guide may not be applicable to all crowdfunding campaigns, it will serve as a general overview on how most rewards-based crowdfunding campaigns function.
It is important to note that with reward-based crowdfunding, the project owner keeps 100% ownership of his or her project and incurs no debt from the money raised. There is a platform fee and processing fee from transaction providers, however, this is only deducted if and when the project is successfully funded. With rewards-based crowdfunding, in exchange for contributors support, the project owner will give rewards/perks in return for contributions. These rewards/perks can range in a physical or digital form of your product, such as a download. They may grant early access to a product, service, event, or album. The reward/perk could even consist of an innovative piece of technology.
Many of the perks are simply pre-sales of the end product itself. These are just a few examples, but the possibilities of rewards/perks for creative projects are endless. Rewards/perks are vital because they will also typically reflect the level of contribution that backers will be willing to pledge.
Crowdfunding is often the first step in creating an increasing interest for your idea. It is an extremely effective tool that can be used to build awareness for your concept and share your vision with the world. The crowd can also be an excellent source of collective knowledge and creativity. When you involve the crowd in your project through comments, they have the opportunity to make suggestions, point out oversights, and help you improve your project, ultimately providing valuable feedback that you would otherwise not have encountered.
Crowdfunding can also be a vetting process. If a crowdfunding campaign doesn't reach its funding goal, it could be a sign that there is not enough interest in the idea to be successful short or long term. This process can actually save entrepreneurs years of time, energy, and resources that would otherwise have been wasted. On the other hand, some projects wildly overfund showing that the public was ready and eager for the idea, which enables it to come to commerce almost immediately.
Crowdfunding permits you to raise money while simultaneously introducing your idea to a large market at very little cost. This benefit is not present in any other form of funding. While many people may view crowdfunding as simply taking an idea, loading it on a website, and letting the cash roll in, there is much more involved in the marketing process.
If you fail to plan, plan on failing. The most successful crowdfunding campaigns spend months on preparation alone. One of the first things you will need to do is outline your idea in clear, concise terms. You will need to create a business plan, or a well thought out strategy, in order to penetrate the market you intend to enter effectively.
Having a good idea is one thing, but it's another endeavor entirely to implement your plan and see it through to fruition. In order to succeed, it's vital that you and your team are knowledgeable in your field and passionate about your idea for this exact reason.
The backers for your project will want to know exactly where their money is going and be able to have confidence that their funds will be spent appropriately. Because of this, you will need to create a budget and set a target for the amount of money you intend to raise. This will aid your efforts when it comes to explaining to your contributors how and where the money will be utilized.
Crafting the message is an important step in creating your campaign. It should be noted that some of the most successful crowdfunding campaigns start with a compelling "why". "Why are you creating your idea? What is your motivation?" The 'why' can be even more important than what you are actually creating in some cases. The 'why' is what will give the crowd an emotional connection to your project. Perhaps it is best explained by Simon Sinek when he said: "People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it".
It is also important not to focus on yourself. Instead, focus on what your project can do for others. A credible idea will gain people's interest, but if you can touch the crowd on an emotional level, your campaign is almost guaranteed to be a success. Many crowdfunding campaigns that reach and surpass their goal are not offering a project as much as they are mobilizing a movement. This is one of the main reasons campaigns can overfund by large multiples and go viral.
Often overlooked, and one of the most important steps you will need to put into motion before you start your campaign is to raise awareness and gain support for your idea. This can take anywhere from 2–6 months depending on the size and scope of your project as well as your marketing abilities. If this step is missed, your project will be lost in the noise of the hundreds of other projects, giving it minimal chances of success. Studies have shown that over 90% of successful crowdfunding campaigns were 25–35% funded within the first week due to their pre-campaign support efforts.
You should be envisioning your project off as well as online. Develop your audience and involve the crowd from the beginning if possible. You want to get your network excited about your project and encourage them to spread the word through their own networks. Let them know all the great rewards they will receive in exchange for their contributions. A great way to gain additional support outside of your network is to do some research in groups that may have a common interest in your projects completion, and try to leverage their influence.
Crowdfunding, in its essence, is an exchange of goods and services. However, it's not a charity. Don't be shy, and feel free to be creative when seeking support for your business. This time should also be used to discuss your idea with your friends and family in and out of your social media network. This is where you can potentially receive valuable feedback that will help you refine your concept and address any miscalculations you may have missed before you go live.
Your presentation to the crowd can make a huge difference in your results. Include as much visual imagery and information in order to illustrate what your project is about and how you will achieve your goal. By putting forth the best presentation possible, you will demonstrate your professionalism and seriousness towards your vision. If you have any ability to create your new product, show it. If you have prior projects or experiences, show them as well. People will need to trust and believe that you can do what you say you are capable of. You will also want to get the crowd excited to be a part of your project, and a great way to do that is through a strong presentation.
Rewards/perks are the core component of rewards-based crowdfunding, and you will be required to deliver these items to your contributors at the conclusion of the campaign. The expenses for these items should be accounted for in your initial marketing budget. This is how you will thank your contributors for having faith in you and supporting your project. It's important that you offer creative, exciting rewards in return for contributions. Providing images of the rewards you will be offering, if possible, is an effective method of enticing potential backers. This gives your contributors a visual of what they will be receiving when they support your campaign.
Many people confuse crowdfunding with charity. While this may be true in some instances, it's generally not the sole motivation for people to contribute to creative campaigns. In most cases, the success of your campaign will have a direct correlation with the rewards that are offered in exchange for contributions. Therefore, it is very important to make the rewards desirable and to choose perks with realistic price points.
You will want to make a short video that represents you, your team, and your idea. Projects without videos have a far lower chance of success. The video is a way to personalize your project for the crowd. Your video does not need to be of the highest production value, it just has to effectively convey you and your idea to potential backers. With that in mind, your video is an important representation of your project, so it should reflect that time and consideration was put into creating it. Keep in mind, we live in an age of videos, and this may be the only part of your presentation that many people will ever see. Be creative and have fun when making it. We also recommended that your video length is five minutes or less. Keeping it short and sweet ensures that the video is more likely to holds the audience's attention, and therefore be passed on to others.
After completing the steps laid out above, you're ready to submit your project. However, the work doesn't end there. Managing a crowdfunding campaign requires time and effort. With the proper attitude, it can be a fun and exciting process as well. Before you submit your project, do some research on various crowdfunding platforms to determine which site will best fit your needs. After choosing the platform, you will submit your project for review. Depending on the platforms policies, there may be a waiting period of a few days before your campaign is approved to go live, so be sure to factor this into your marketing time.
Prepare for launch! This is your chance to share your unique vision with the world! Once you launch the campaign, you must dedicate time and energy every day that the project is live. Launching your project is one of the last things to be done after all the pre-campaign preparations. The crowd should be viewed as partners in your new endeavor. Make sure to involve them in every step of the process. Include them in all your updates, read their comments, and interact with them as much as possible during this phase. Ultimately the crowd will decide whether you are trustworthy and if your idea is one they wish to support. So put your best foot forward, and be honest and transparent in order to gain their trust. Do whatever you can to get them excited to be a part of your project and support your vision.
Although crowdfunding in its current form is a new phenomenon, the concept itself is not new at all. Many artists have funded their works through similar methods in the past including Mark Twain, Beethoven, and Mozart just to name a few. Even the Statue of Liberty was crowdfunded into completion over one hundred years ago! Now that we have the power of technology and the ability to reach a global audience through tools such as social media and the internet, we are able to bring crowdfunding to a whole new level.
Crowdfunding is a way to unleash our creativity. It allows anyone to discover new and exciting concepts while empowering the public to fund the most innovative and worthy ideas as they see fit. As we move forward, crowdfunding will give people many more options about what they wish to choose to include in all aspects of our lives. So profound is the idea that there is really no limit to what we could crowdfund into existence. Considering all of the brilliant ideas and creative minds in this world, we are surely in the process of entering an exciting time of limitless innovation.
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I am up, routine? Fallows the daily functions of the human body, then I focus on the mind.
You sit and write and fill every line possible of one full page front and back with everything and anything you are thinking, then after it is done. You throw it away. You don't not keep it or even look back to reread it, at least you are not supposed as I remember it.
To clear your mind of anything that could hinder your capacity to be more creative and or remove any speed bumps created on the creativity super highway.
The attachment you get to the page is strange, it's like now that these thoughts are on paper, you identify the paper with all the text on it as a part of you, but now you must toss it. There is a resistance to throwing it away, much of it is clutter, random worries about work, income, relationship, love, growth, some are just question I ask myself • Sometimes it's emotional and angry or sad, happy or optimistic and then doom and gloom the next week • It is never the less an interstellar inventor of your thoughts maybe right as you wake. Where does your mind go the moment your eyes open?
There is no time limit depends on the day though, sometimes one full page isn't enough, other days im writing one word over and over again, yup for a full page front and back. It's looks a bit crazy when you get one of those days. Something about it makes you feel litghter, a release, a bit more free after it.
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GOHF & JACOB'S RIDE IN 2013
2013 will be a year Jacob Landis will never forget. It is the year he set out on an unprecedented journey to raise awareness and support for cochlear implants. Deaf by age 10, Jacob received a cochlear implant allowing him to be fully functional in the hearing world. So at age 24 he wanted to give back and help others receive the same gift of hearing.
His goal was to ride his bike across the country stopping at all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums, to raise awareness and funds for others who could benefit from a cochlear implant but cannot afford one. A feat requiring 6 months of his life, and close to 11,000 miles on his bike. The GOHF provided ground support by helping to organize events and details both inside and around the stadiums he visited including PR, social media, housing and marketing support. It is a year we will never forget either!
Jacob rode his heart out and made it to 29 stadiums, logging 10,666 miles when he was struck and severely injured by a semi-truck in Frostproof, Florida in September of 2013. He was only 180 miles from the final stadium in Miami. Thankfully, his injuries were not life-threatening, and Jacob vowed to return to finish that last 180 miles when he recovered. And in May of 2014, he did just that! (see article on Jacob's Ride 180). A beautiful relationship has been forged between the GOHF and Jacob's Ride families. The GOHF is thrilled to be one of the beneficiaries of Jacob's Ride, and was happy to support him in his historic journey! We are also very grateful for the awareness he single-handedly created for cochlear implants and for the funds he donated to us to help people get access to the surgery.
Jacob Landis is an amazing young man, and we applaud his dedication to remain committed to continuing his efforts to help others and look forward to a long-term relationship.
Learn more about Jacob's mission at www.jacobsride.com.
©2011 Gift Of Hearing Foundation. All Rights Reserved


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Engineer, Tony Wykes, celebrates working over 25 years for Apex Lifts.
Apex Lifts' engineer, Tony Wykes, celebrates spending over 25 years with the company.
We met with Tony to discuss his time here at Apex over the years...
Tony started at Apex Lifts in 1993, working for the Repairs Department as an assistant on-site. Tony stayed in his first role for two years until moving on to complete lift modules. He continued to work in various departments throughout the business to include repairs, servicing, call outs and elements of construction.
After completing training and being awarded with an EMTA (Engineering and Marine Training Academy) certification for the modules, in addition to a Level 3 City & Guilds certification in requirements for electrical installations, Tony was offered the position to work as a Repair Engineer, which he accepted and continued to work in the position for 18 years!
Following this, an opportunity within the Service Department arose for Tony. The job consisted of undertaking the regular and consistent planned preventative lift maintenance and servicing for several Royal Households. Tony carried out this contract for over 5 years and says that working within the many prestigious and heritage buildings were his favourite to work in throughout the duration of his career to date.
When asked what his favourite part about working for Apex Lifts is, Tony said: "The family atmosphere the company creates. From the start I've always felt part of a family...I even spent a day on holiday with Apex Lifts' Co-Founder Arthur Jenchner once!"
Apex Lifts thank Tony for his continued hard work and dedication to the company across the span of the 26 years he has spent here.
See below, some pictures from the onset of Tony's career at Apex Lifts...
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Wang Ťia-siang (; 15. srpna 1906 — 25. ledna 1974) byl čínský komunistický politik, ve 30. a první polovině 40. let patřil k nejužšímu vedení Komunistické strany Číny, v 50. letech patřil k předním čínským diplomatům.

Významný byl především svou podporou Mao Ce-tunga během Dlouhého pochodu a na konferenci v Cun-i. Roku 1938 předal vedení KS Číny vzkaz Kominterny, že Mao Ce-tung má vést KS Číny, což udělalo z Mao Ce-tunga nezpochybňovaného vůdce strany. Důležitý byl i jeho teoretický a praktický příspěvek k hnutí za nápravu stylu práce začátkem 40. let, včetně jeho podílu na ustavení Mao Ce-tungova myšlení jakožto ideologie KS Číny. Po roce 1945 vypadl z vrcholného vedení strany a jeho význam poklesl, byť se v letech 1949–1962 podílel na realizaci zahraniční politiky čínského státu i komunistické strany.

Život

Mládí, studium v Sovětském svazu
Wang ťia-sing se narodil v rodině bohatého statkáře v okrese Ťing v provincii An-chuej. Navštěvoval misionářskou střední školu ve Wu-chu, v červnu 1925 byl z ní vyloučen za účast na antiimperialistických demonstracích. Od září téhož roku pokračoval ve studiích na střední škole při Šanghajské univerzitě, kde vstoupil do Komunistického svazu mládeže. V říjnu 1925 odjel ze Šanghaje do Moskvy (se stovkou čínských studentů, mezi kterými byli mimo jiné Čang Wen-tchien, Wu Siou-čchüan, Sun Jie-fang, Ulanfu a Šen Ce-min). Do Moskvy přijeli v listopadu. Wang navštěvoval Sunjatsenovu univerzitu, roku 1928 vstoupil do Komunistické strany Číny a byl přijat ke studiu v Institutu rudých profesorů. Poté začal na Sunjatsenově univerzitě vyučovat, překládal marxistickou literaturu do čínštiny. Koncem 20. let patřil mezi takzvaných "osmadvacet a půl bolševiků", studenty podporující v tehdejších diskuzích vedení školy, zejména jejího rektora Pavla Mifa.

Vzápětí po uzavření Sunjatsenovy univerzity se na jaře 1930 vrátil se do Číny.

V Šanghaji a Ťiang-si
Krátce po příjezdu do Šanghaje, v červenci 1930, s dalšími bývalými moskevskými studenty (Wang Mingem, Čchin Pang-sienem a Che C'-šuem) kritizoval rezoluci ústředního výboru KS Číny "O vzestupu revoluční vlny a počátečním úspěchu v jedné nebo více provinciích". Vedení strany Wang Minga a Čchina napomenulo, Chea přeložilo do Tchien-ťinu a Wang Ťia-sianga do Hongkongu. Po změně vedení byla v prosinci 1930 dotyčná kritika uznána za správnou, Wang Ťia-siang se tak v lednu 1931 zúčastnil jako host zasedání ÚV, na kterém byla politika vyjádřená ve výše uvedené rezoluci odmítnuta a její proponenti (v čele s Li Li-sanem) kritizováni.

V březnu 1931 byl s Žen Pi-š'im a Ku Cuo-linem vyslán do sovětské oblasti v Ťiang-si, kam dorazil v dubnu 1931. Trojice informovala místní komunistické vůdce – v čele oblasti stál jako "úřadující tajemník (regionálního) ústředního byra" Siang Jing, který byl přeložen do Ťiang-si ze Šanghaje v prosinci 1930, před tím vedl místní komunisty a jejich armádu Mao Ce-tung – o změnách ve vedení a v politice strany v Šanghaji, a zrevidovala rozhodnutí Siang Jinga o takzvaném "fuťienském incidentu" (povstání jednoho komunistického oddílu proti čistkám organizovaným Mao Ce-tungem). Příchod trojice tak vyústil v oslabení vlivu Siang Jinga, kterého v čele byra v květnu nahradil Mao. Wang Ťia-siang současně zaujal místo ve vedení oblasti, byl jmenován členem ústředního byra, místopředsedou Ústřední vojenské komise (v říjnu 1931) a náčelníkem Hlavní politické správy komunistických vojsk. Na prvním sjezdu sovětů komunistických oblastí byl zvolen členem ústředního výkonného výboru (sovětského parlamentu) a lidovým komisařem (to jest ministrem) zahraničních věcí na sjezdu ustavené vlády; lidovým komisařem zahraničí byl znovuzvolen i na druhém sjezdu sovětů v lednu 1934.

Funkce lidového komisaře zahraničí byla čistě formální, jeho reálný vliv plynul z funkce místopředsedy vojenské komise a z řízení politické práce v armádě, během roku 1932 se tak podílel na plánování a organizaci vojenských operací, společně s Čou En-lajem, který měl celkové velení, Ču Tem a Mao Ce-tungem. V říjnu 1932 na konferenci ústředního byra v Ning-tu členové byra působící v zázemí (hlavním městě sovětské oblasti Žuej-ťinu) požadovali odvolání Mao Ce-tunga, naopak Wang Ťia-siang Maa jako jediný podpořil, když Čou En-laj, předsedající jednání, zaujal vůči požadavkům Maových odpůrců smířlivý postoj. Mao se poté stáhl do ústraní, oficiálně "pro nemoc".

V bojích s kuomintangskými vojsky Wang Ťia-siang koncem dubna 1933 utrpěl vážné zranění břicha, které na dlouhou dobu podlomilo jeho zdraví.

V lednu 1934 byl na pátém zasedání ÚV zvolen jeho členem a kandidátem politbyra.

Na Dlouhém pochodu
Účastnil se Dlouhého pochodu, údajně byl prvním z vedení strany, kdo v listopadu–prosinci 1934 podpořil Maovy názory na další průběh pochodu a měl významný podíl na svolání konference v Cun-i v lednu 1935. Na konferenci pronesl projev jako pátý (po úvodních zprávách Čchin Pang-siena a Čou En-laje a jejich kritice ze strany Čang Wen-tchiena a Mao Ce-tunga), ve své řeči plně podpořil Čanga a Maa proti Čchinovi a Otto Braunovi. Později, začátkem února, byl politbyrem přibrán mezi jeho členy, některými autory je počítán i mezi členy sekretariátu.

V březnu 1935 politbyro zřídilo novou trojku k řízení vojenských operací ve složení Čou En-laj, Mao Ce-tung, Wang Ťia-siang. Do skupiny tří až pěti vrcholných vůdců čínské Rudé armády patřil do konce Dlouhého pochodu.

V Jen-anu, Moskvě a zpět
Kvůli informování Moskvy o situaci a léčení svých zranění v únoru 1937 odjel z Jen-anu do Sovětského svazu. Cestoval přes Šanghaj, v němž se zdržel několik měsíců, do Moskvy dorazil v červenci 1937. Zde se připojil k delegaci KS Číny v Kominterně. S návratem členů delegace – Wang Minga, Čchen Jüna a Kchang Šenga – do Číny v listopadu 1937 se stal představitelem KS Číny v Kominterně. Chtěl se však vrátit do Číny a žádal proto o vyslání náhrady. V březnu 1938 do Moskvy přijel Žen Pi-š', aby převzal úlohu představitele KS Číny v Kominterně, a Wang v červenci 1938 mohl opustit Moskvu, do Jen-anu přijel v srpnu 1938. Zde na nejbližším zasedání politbyra předal kolegům instrukce Kominterny, včetně vzkazu Dimitrova a Stalina, že politická linie KS Číny ohledně protijaponské jednotné fronty je správná, a že co se týče vedení strany, má se sjednotit kolem Mao Ce-tunga. Postoj Kominterny tak pohřbil naděje Wang Minga na vůdčí roli ve straně a vedl k Čang Wen-tchiena k předání řízení politbyra do Maových rukou. Po návratu z Moskvy se Wang vrátil k výkonu svých povinností jako člen politbyra a sekretariátu a stal se místopředsedou Ústřední vojenské komise; protože její předseda (Mao Ce-tung) měl četné jiné povinnosti a další místopředsedové (Ču Te a Čou En-laj) vesměs pobývali mimo Jen-an, Wang fakticky vedl každodenní práci aparátu komise. Stal se také náčelníkem Hlavní politické správy čínské Rudé armády (resp. 8. pochodové armády).

Od roku 1938 sestavil řadu usnesení a prohlášení śtředního výboru, politbyra, sekretariátu a ústřední vojenské komise, publikoval v komunistickém tisku. Od prosince 1939 vedl Institut pro vojenské a politické záležitosti a podílel se na řízení Protijaponské vojensko-politické akademie.

Ve 40. letech
Významně se podílel na přípravě a organizaci hnutí za nápravu stylu práce, byl autorem první verze Rezoluce k některým otázkám historie naší strany. V září 1941 byl politbyrem jmenován místopředsedou Ústřední studijní skupiny (předsedou se stal Mao Ce-tung), v jejímž rámci 300 funkcionářů komunistické strany studovalo stranické dokumenty a usnesení od roku 1928. Wang řídil editaci a vydání těchto dokumentů. V říjnu 1941 byl sekretariátem jmenován členem tehdy zřízené pětičlenné skupiny pro výzkum historie strany (členy byli Mao Ce-tung, Wang Ťia-siang, Žen Pi-š', Kchang Šeng a Pcheng Čen).

Při reorganizaci vedení v březnu 1943 byl jmenován místopředsedou výboru politbyra pro propagandu (v jehož čele stál Mao Ce-tung). Byl první, kdo použil termín "Mao Ce-tungovo myšlení", bylo to v článku Komunistická strana Číny a cesta Číny k národnímu osvobození z července 1943. "Mao Ce-tungovo myšlení" ztotožnil s "čínským marxismem-leninismem, čínským bolševismem a čínským komunismem".

Roku 1943 se mu zhoršilo zdraví, a nadále mohl pracovat jen omezeně. Pokus o jeho transport na léčení do Sovětského svazu na podzim 1943 neuspěl. Zdravotní stav mu nedovolil účastnit se sedmého zasedání ÚV probíhajícího od května 1944. Žen Pi-š' převzal jeho práci nad Rezolucí o historii strany, která byla s korekcemi Mao Ce-tunga schválena ústředním výborem v dubnu 1945.

Neúčastnil se ani VII. sjezdu KS Číny v dubnu–červnu 1945. Zde ho dostihly následky kampaně za nápravu stylu práce – jeho příslušnost mezi osmadvacet bolševiků byla dobře známa, proto byl stranickými aktivisty spojován s Wang Mingem, Čchin Pang-sienem a dalšími terči kampaně a také kritizován. Naproti tomu jeho podíl na řízení kampaně a jeho autorství základních dokumentů, rezolucí a tezí kampaně, publikovaných jménem stranického vedení, obecně známy nebyly. Kvůli špatnému zdraví se i před jeho zhoršením roku 1943 jen málo účastnil veřejných akcí a shromáždění a pracoval z kanceláře, nebyl proto osobně znám širšímu okruhu stranických aktivistů-delegátů sjezdu. Výsledkem bylo, že při volbách nového ÚV na sjezdu dostal méně než polovinu hlasů a nebyl zvolen, což nepříjemně překvapilo zejména Mao Ce-tunga. Mao proto následující den vystoupil na sjezdu s projevem na podporu Wang Ťia-sianga, vypočetl jeho zásluhy, vysoce ocenil Wangovu podporu, které se těšil od začátku třicátých let a požádal delegáty aby ho podpořili ve volbách kandidátů ÚV. S otevřenou Maovou podporou Wang Ťia-siang jako kandidát ÚV prošel.

V květnu 1946 konečně mohl odletět do Moskvy a ihned se podrobil operaci. Po návratu působil v Mandžusku, v severovýchodním byru ÚV. Vedl jeho organizační a dočasně i propagandistické, oddělení. Při první příležitosti – na zasedání ÚV v březnu roku 1949 (kdy se z řad kandidátů doplňovali členové ÚV náhradou za zemřelé od VII. sjezdu) byl zvolen členem ÚV.

Velvyslanec v Sovětském svazu, vedoucí oddělení ÚV KS Číny
Po vzniku Čínské lidové republiky (ČLR) ho její vláda jmenovala v říjnu 1949 prvním velvyslancem ČLR v Sovětském svazu a současně náměstkem ministra zahraničí. Sehrál významnou roli v při ustanovování oficiálních diplomatických styků mezi Sovětským svazem a Čínskou lidovou republikou, jako náměstek ministra zahraničí dával pokyny a rady čínským diplomatům projíždějícím přes Moskvu do východoevropských prosovětských zemí.

Na přelomu let 1950/1951 ho čínská vláda povolala zpět a od ledna 1951 přešel do stranického aparátu, na místo vedoucího oddělení mezinárodních vztahů ÚV. Oddělení zodpovídalo za styky Komunistické strany Číny se zahraničními komunistickými stranami. Na VIII. sjezdu KS Číny roku 1956 byl Wang ťia-siang znovuzvolen do ústředního výboru a stal se i členem sekretariátu ÚV.

V únoru 1962 Wang Ťia-siang a jeho zástupci v oddělení mezinárodních vztahů Liou Ning-i a Wu Siou-čchüan poslali Čou En-lajovi (premiér), Teng Siao-pchingovi (generální tajemník sekretariátu ÚV) a Čchen Imu (ministr zahraničí) dopis, v němž kritizovali tendence přehánět nebezpečí světové války a podceňování možností mírového soužití s imperialistickými státy a navrhovali umírněnější zahraniční politiku: omezení pomoci národně-osvobozeneckým hnutím a soustředění se na vnitropolitické problémy (zotavení se z následků Velkého skoku). Ohledně Vietnamu navrhoval opatrnost a snahu o nezabřednutí do otevřené války v korejském stylu. Obecně navrhovali zasadit se o zlepšení vztahů se Sovětským svazem, Indií a USA. Návrhy Wanga a jeho zástupců byly v protikladu k Maově aktuální politice která směřovala právě opačným směrem a na konferenci v Pej-taj-che v srpnu 1962 je Mao ostře kritizoval jako revizionistickou linii "tří usmiřovaní a jednoho omezení: politiku usmiřování se s (americkým) imperialismem, (sovětským) revizionismem a (indickou) reakcí, omezení pomocí národně-osvobozeneckým hnutím". Zahraniční politika Číny se tudíž, proti Wangovu mínění, posunula k větší rozhodnosti – aktivní podpoře Vietnamu, přestože čínská armáda stála v té době před hrozbou invaze Kuomintangu na pevninu, rostoucími pohraničními srážkami na čínsko-indické hranici a zhoršováním vztahů se Sovětským svazem. Třebaže Wang Ťia-siang nebyl odvolán ze svých funkcí, a za své minulé zásluhy si zachoval jistou blahovůli ze strany Mao Ce-tunga, po roce 1962 ztratil politický vliv a vedení oddělení mezinárodních vztahů převzali jeho zástupci, kterým se (s jeho pomocí) podařilo od společných návrhů distancovat.

Se zahájením kulturní revoluce byl roku 1966 odvolán z mezinárodního oddělení, a stal se obětí perzekuce ze strany Rudých gard. Byl poslán do provincie Che-nan, ale už po roce mu byl dovolen návrat do Pekingu. Roku 1973 byl rehabilitován a na X. sjezdu KS Číny dokonce opět zvolen členem ústředního výboru.

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GOD AND HURRICANES
Delivered 9/19/99 Text: Matthew 5:43-45
A scary few days, eh? Just a week ago we were hearing about this incredibly powerful Hurricane Floyd in the Atlantic that might be heading in our direction - almost a Category 5 with sustained winds near the eye of 155 miles per hour. And it cut a wide swath too, hundreds of miles in diameter.
Fool that I am, I normally do not worry much about hurricanes. I have come through a few. During my years of living on the coast, I evacuated in the face of oncoming storms along with everyone else. I still have a home on Hilton Head Island to which I hope to retire one day, so I hope it does not get wiped out by wind or water. But Hilton Head has not been hit by a hurricane in over 100 years, so I have become blasé. But this one worried me. This one was powerful enough and wide enough to do major damage without ever reaching land. It could just skirt the coastline on its northward journey and act like a giant weed-eater swirling away huge chunks of coastal Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas...including my little house. Not a happy prospect.
As the storm drew nearer, a Sheila Watson of Charleston, SC wrote to friends on the internet with a prayer request:
I would ask for prayers from each of you, not that we are spared (that's as silly and fruitless as asking to be spared from hurts in life) but that we find courage and strength to make it through. Specifically, please pray:
that people get out of town and don't try to be stoics through 155+mph winds;
that we remember God is not in the wind, fire, or earthquake but with us always;
that people will love the creator more than the creation so much that losing everything will be nothing compared with what could be lost;
that we keep a sense of humor;
that help arrives quickly and that the [church disaster response] teams...are able to reach those in need;
that we remember God is still in charge;
that in the midst of rebuilding our material world, we nourish our souls (true story: a few days after Hugo, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra held a free outdoor concert downtown to celebrate the beauty that remained - isn't that perfect?)
Other than those specifics, pray as the Spirit moves you. If Floyd takes a different turn (you can't trust these storms), apply the prayers above to the people wherever it does hit.(1)
In the face of Hurricane Floyd's threat, Sheila, her family, and two to three million people (depending upon whose estimates you hear) headed inland - the largest peacetime evacuation in American history - clogging highways with more traffic than they were ever designed to handle and creating gigantic ribbon-shaped parking lots. The next evening (Wednesday), Sheila would write again:
Yesterday we headed inland to Rock Hill, SC (near Charlotte). It took 10 hours to go what should have taken 3 hours. It took 2 hours just to get off the island where I live. The traffic jam on the interstate is horrendous. The bad thing is that in the next hurricane, people will remember spending hours (some the entire night) on I-26 and will not evacuate...In addition to the specific prayers I asked for yesterday, I ask also that you pray for people to survive the evacuation. This is nuts. It wasn't until after dark that the governor allowed the east-bound lanes of the interstate to be reversed so people could get out more easily. Who designed this infrastructure anyway? You might need to pray harder for our sense of humor to stay intact.(2)
Probably so. Fortunately, the catastrophe that could easily have occurred did not. Floyd weakened as it moved north, so by the time it made landfall at Cape Fear, it was only a strong category 2 storm, and much less dangerous than it had been earlier.
Of course, as we in North Carolina know, a good deal of damage WAS done, most of it from flooding. According to news reports, the storm left at least 20 people dead, a number which everyone expects to rise. Hundreds of homes along the coast and inland have been destroyed - property and crop damage is in the billions. More than 200,000 folks are still without power this morning. Whole cities have turned into brown lakes. And the water could cover much of eastern North Carolina for a while to come - some rivers are not projected to crest for several days. President Clinton is scheduled to tour the devastated areas tomorrow. Governor Hunt has declared this weekend a time of prayer statewide for hurricane victims.
And pray we have, and pray we will. Meanwhile, here we sit. Relatively unscathed. In the safety and peace of a church sanctuary on a beautiful late summer day. And we reflect. Where is God in all this? People have long called hurricanes and other like events an "act of God." The Bible suggests so. The prophet Ezekiel believed that God used tremendous storms as a weapon to punish the unrighteous: "Thus says the Lord GOD: In my wrath I will make a stormy wind break out, and in my anger there shall be a deluge of rain, and hailstones in wrath..."(3) Likewise the Psalmist catalogues those elements of the natural world that follow God's commands: "fire and hail, snow and frost, stormy wind..."(4) The most famous of all the stories is Noah and the flood.(5) The biblical view is simply this: God controls this world...and that means nature too.
The story of Noah leads some folks to believe that God uses nature as a weapon. Ten years ago, that eminent theologian, Tammy Faye Bakker declared that Hurricane Hugo's destructive visit to Charlotte was God's vengeance on the city for the mean treatment Jim Bakker got in the pages of the Charlotte Observer (although she never explained why the steeple of First Presbyterian Church was damaged but nothing happened to the newspaper building). Last year televangelist Pat Robertson warned that the city of Orlando might well get a direct hit by a hurricane because it permitted the display of rainbow flags out of respect for gay people. Said Robertson, "I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you."(6) Robertson does have some experience with hurricanes - in the days leading up to his presidential candidacy in the late '80's, a hurricane headed toward his headquarters on Virginia Beach. Pat said he prayed that the storm would be diverted, and it was (it made landfall at some neighboring city). He never did explain though, why, if his prayer was so powerful, he did not just pray that the storm head harmlessly out to sea. If you see Pat, ask him.
Why do we have hurricanes? Hurricanes arrive, not because God is out to get some sinful city, but because the prevailing winds, ocean currents and frontal zones combine in ways that create them. This is so in good times and bad and without respect to the moral climate or condition of the people who happen to be living in a storm's path. Jesus made it plain. We remember it in the venerable phrasing of the King James Version: "[God] maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."
It is interesting that that statement occurs in the context of Jesus' teaching on love: "You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous." The point, of course, is that God cares about ALL of us, even those we might not be getting along with at the moment.
We can add to that those we do not even know, and that is one of those wonderful side effects of disasters like Hurricane Floyd. The Governor called for prayers for the victims of the storm. We will do even more. In addition to our prayers, Presbyterian Disaster Assistance is rushing $50,000 from the One Great Hour of Sharing offering to both New Hope and Coastal Carolina presbyteries and stands ready to provide additional financial assistance as damage assessments become available. As soon as the flood waters recede, volunteer work teams will be dispatched for clean-up, repair, and rebuilding. People WILL reach out to other people. Good.
I remain convinced that God's hand IS in the midst of events like Hurricane Floyd - not managing the weather but managing human response. There are stories of true heroism - the U.S. Navy crews who rescued eight men Wednesday who had abandoned their sinking tugboat and were being hurled about by monster waves 300 miles east of Daytona Beach. Three survivors who became separated from the life raft launched shortly before the tug sank were picked up first by helicopters from the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy. The helicopters then refueled and returned to the scene to pick up the other five men, who were in the raft riding out huge waves.(7) The only word to describe it is heroic. Those men were doomed. No doubt we will hear more heroic stories in the days ahead.
There are other stories as well, not so dramatic, but just plain wonderful. Roger Kiser of Brunswick, Georgia, who writes occasionally for an inspirational web site called Heartwarmers4u.com recounted the experience he and his family had in his evacuation from the coast. He writes:
Traffic was so backed up that we never traveled more than six miles per hour nor did we ever move forward more than 500 feet without having to stop. I reached over and turned on the CB radio to see if there was an accident ahead.
Suddenly I noticed a woman and her friend stranded along the road with their hood raised. Their car had overheated. People were jumping from their cars and dropping off gallons of their own drinking water to the woman. As we passed, giving her another gallon of water, the woman was pouring water into her radiator when it spewed back into her face scalding her on the side of the head. Immediately three or four strangers jumped from their slow moving cars to rush to her assistance, offering her towels, and several men came over to cool her radiator for her.
Another mile or so down the road a trucker came on the radio and asked if there was anyone who could tell him where he could stop and get a soft drink -- he had nothing to drink as all the stores were sold out of beverages or closed. A voice responded and asked him his location. He replied that he was passing road marker 19. The voice came in response and told him to look on sign post 21 when he drove by it. Suddenly horns started blowing which could be heard for miles. As we passed marker 21 there sat a cold refreshing Mountain Dew on top the marker.
People who would ordinarily be pushed to their limits were jumping from their vehicles trying to help anyone and everyone they could. When we finally arrived in Waycross nine hours later (a drive that would normally take about 35 minutes) we had nowhere to go as all the motels for three states were full. We slept in the automobiles with all the animals. It was also one of the most restless nights I have ever encountered but we made the best of it.
The next morning we arose at about six o'clock and just stood around with thousands of other stranded people. It was cold, cloudy and the wind was blowing at about 45 miles per hour. Along comes the local electric company, asking us if we need any help finding a local shelter. We could not go to a shelter because we had animals and we were not about to leave our pets, even if it meant warmth and hot food. There were no restaurants open for fifty miles so there was no hot food and we could not find any bread as all the stores were sold out. So we just ate what we could and made the best of it.
Several hours later an African American woman drove up and stopped where we were huddled and said, "I know you do not know me from Adam but I would like to invite you to my home to take a hot shower and clean up if you wish." [We WISHED!]...
When the authorities gave the all clear, we headed back to our warm sweet home. Yes, it was a bad and dangerous experience and one that I never wish to repeat. But the strong winds that were ahead of us yesterday were the winds of kindness, friendship, courtesy and love. Not even the dangerous winds of this deadly hurricane could ever change the determination, the fortitude or the compassion of the wonderful people who make this country as great as it is. AMERICA, I am so proud of you!"(8)
Amen? Amen. Mark Twain once said, "The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him."(9) I would say Amen to that too!
Yes, we have had a scary few days, but Floyd is gone now. Thank God. But another will come...and another and another. Such is the cycle of nature. Where will God be? Right where God always is. In the words of Isaiah, "When you pass through the waters, I WILL BE WITH YOU."(10) Hallelujah!
1. Posted by Bass Mitchell, via Ecunet, "Sermonshop 1999 09 21," #17, 9/14/99
2. Sheila Watson, via Ecunet, "Sermonshop 1999 09 21," #42, 9/15/99
3. Ezekiel 13:13
4. Psalm 148:8
5. Genesis 6-9
6. Quoted by Charles Henderson, http://christianity.about.com/library/weekly/mcurrent.htm
7. NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, 9/16/99
8. http://dispatch.mail-list.com/archives/heartwarmers/msg00421.html
9. Quoted in The Joyful Noiseletter, April, 1991, p. 5
10. Isaiah 43:2


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I got the dress during my trip to the U.S. I can't remember where exactly. Ooops. And it was on sale, so if I find the store online, I'm sure it won't the there. But you can shop alternative white dresses HERE. I got the shoes from Angelo.
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After knowing your eligibility, the next thing you should consider is the rate of interest. There are numerous banks that offer car loan services, so it is absolutely important for you to compare the interest rates first. Different banks offer different ROI, so start comparing the APR, i.e. Annual Percentage Rate that you are going to pay on the money you borrow. However, many times getting a car loan at zero- interest is not the best deal to get. So, instead of getting attracted towards the offer, use your mind and be attentive while comparing the rate of interest.
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The term or tenure of paying your car loan can last up to 72 to 84 months. But, be careful because extended loan tenure with less monthly EMI may cause you to pay for such a car that you actually can't afford. The interest rates will be higher, and this thing can actually disturb your monthly budget and finances. So, it's always be wise to go for a tenure of approx 36-60 months, so that your monthly EMI will not affect your monthly home budget.
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Known for his close-up street magic and elaborate, often dangerous stunts, David Blaine is one of the most recognisable and pioneering magicians currently performing.
A regular on television screens, David burst onto the scene with his self-directed and produced TV special Street Magic when he was just 23. Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller described the show as "the best TV magic special ever done".
Blaine is known for his self-described "endurance art", pushing his body to the limits in often death-defying situations.
In 1999, Blaine spent one week buried alive inside a clear coffin in New York City and the following year stood inside a six-tonne block of ice for 63 hours with no food or sleep. In 2002, again in New York City, the magician spent 36 hours standing on top of a 30-metre tall pillar with no safety net.
The magician received huge attention from the UK press the following year with his Above the Below stunt, which saw the performer sealed inside a plexiglass box above London's River Thames for 44 days.
Blaine's special Real or Magic aired on TV in 2013 and featured the magician performing tricks on celebrities such as Bryan Cranston, Robert De Niro, Harrison Ford, Katy Perry, Olivia Munn, Kanye West, Jamie Foxx and more.
Similar to Real or Magic, his latest special Beyond Magic which aired in 2017 also featured David performing tricks on celebrities. Plus, on the show David was featured in a stunt in which he catches a bullet using his teeth, from a gun that he fired himself. The stunt was performed in front of a live audience at New York City's Madison Square Garden.
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As one of the greatest achievements of the union movement, all union representatives and active union members should be well-versed on the elements of just causes. Forcing employers to agree to contract clauses guaranteeing just-cause protections differentiates union-represented workers from the wider workforce, which is chained to the employee-at-will rule.
Whether you are a union member, officer, organizer, or anyone who deals with employee discipline and discharge, this helpful workshop can empower you to be a more informed worker.
This Labor Guild workshop will feature a presentation on the "Seven Basic Principles of Just Cause" by Robert Schwartz, and will be followed by a discussion entitled "Building a Campaign for Just Cause for All," led by Rand Wilson. Among the important concepts that will be discussed are: lax enforcement, disparate treatment, mitigating circumstances, extenuating circumstances, progressive discipline, double jeopardy, and due process.
Robert Schwartz is a labor lawyer and Labor Guild instructor. He is the author of numerous popular handbooks including Just Cause: A Union Guide to Winning Discipline Cases (available at the workshop at the special price of $10.00). Rand Wilson is the Communications Director at SEIU 888 and a Labor Guild instructor. He is a longtime labor organizer and is currently involved with Our Revolution– working to fix our rigged economy and broken political system.
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COVID-19: UNICEF decries unending school closures
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By Harrison Arubu
United Nations, Jan. 12, 2021
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has decried the continued closure of schools in "too many countries" on account of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a statement on Tuesday, the agency said this was in spite of increasing evidence that schools were not drivers of the pandemic.
UNICEF also pointed out "overwhelming evidence" of the adverse impact of school closures on children.
It warned that the number of out-of-school children was set to rise by 24 million "to a level we have not yet seen in years and have fought so hard to overcome".
It noted the "devastating cost of school closures, which it said affected 90 per cent of students worldwide and denied a third of school children access to remote education.
"Children's ability to read, write and do basic mathematics has suffered, and the skills they need to thrive in the 21st century economy have diminished.
"Their health, development, safety and well-being are at risk. The most vulnerable among them will bear the heaviest brunt.
"Without school meals, children are left hungry and their nutrition is worsening.
"Without daily interactions with their peers and a reduction in mobility, they are losing physical fitness and showing signs of mental distress," the agency noted.
The agency added that school children were more vulnerable to abuse, child marriage and child labour in the absence of the safety that schools often provided.
This, UNICEF emphasised, is why shuttering schools must be a last resort after all other options have been exhausted.
"Assessing the risk of transmission at the local level should be a key determinant in decisions on school operations.
"Nationwide school closures must be avoided whenever possible.
"Where there are high levels of community transmission, where health systems are under extreme pressure and where closing schools is deemed inevitable, safeguarding measures must be put in place.
"This includes ensuring that children who are at risk of violence in their homes, who are reliant upon school meals and whose parents are essential workers are able to continue their education in their classrooms.
"In case of lockdowns, schools must be among the first to reopen once authorities start lifting restrictions.
"Catch-up classes should be prioritised to ensure that children who have been unable to learn remotely are not left behind.
"If children are faced with another year of school closures, the effects will be felt for generations to come," UNICEF said.
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One of the most recognisable burger restaurant chains in Poland will be a tenant of the complex being built next to the Młociny underground station. The restaurant run under the name of Pasibus will occupy over 70 sqm in Galeria Młociny. The debut of this over 90 percent-leased project developed by Echo Investment is planned for the spring.
"Pasibus is a perfect combination of the highest quality street food and an unpretentious atmosphere for which people love streetfood so much. The owners have their heads open to inspirations, looking for new flavours, which guarantee that plates will not be boring. The concept fits perfectly with assumptions on which we based our Meet and Eats zone including Hala Hutnik at its head" says Marcin Szlufik, Senior Leasing Manager at Echo Investment's Shopping Centres Department.
The background of Pasibus is streetfood. All restaurants of the chain besides tasty and original food prepared from ingredients gained from local suppliers also serve a relaxed and casual atmosphere. Pasibus in Galeria Młociny will be the next location that the brand has decided to open in a modern, multifunctional complex.
The popular burger house will be part of Hala Hutnik, one of the five zones – next to the Bielany boards, the Carousel, Entertainment and the Garden – that will create together a unique restaurant and entertainment space, which is named Meet and Eats by the investor and developer. The architecture of Hala Hutnik including structures assembled from containers, trusses, technical lighting, massive tables and benches, will refer to the near steel mill. In addition to Pasibus, in the zone there will be room for 6 other premises, and guests will have an opportunity to dine at 12 wooden common tables with more than 300 seats. An interesting addition to the latest Warsaw food corner will be 5 coworking zones where you will be able to work. The whole project was designed by a renowned BroadwayMalyan studio, and the project itself was based on JLL research.
Behind the streetfood brand that successfully managed to transfer and develop the street foodtruck concept for brick and mortar restaurants are: Piotr Staszczyński, Jan Kulisiewicz and Dawid Bojarojć.
"From the very beginning, we cook without behaving like a diva and without excessive high prices, but tasty, nutritively, creatively and using the best ingredients from local suppliers. In case of our food getting your hands dirty and licking your fingers should be standard" says Jakub Aleksandrowicz – Marketing Director, Pasibus. The representative of the chain adds that our presence in this type of facility is part of a wider strategy of Pasibus assuming locations in the best, modern retail and entertainment complexes.
In the first place, Pasibus began to cook for residents of Wrocław. In 2013, the first foodtruck featured by the characteristic logo of a combination of a van and a hamburger appeared on the streets of the capital of Lower Silesia. The debut of its stationary restaurant took place in 2015. Today, outside of Warsaw, the chain is strongly present mainly in Lower Silesia and Silesia, where tasty burgers can be eaten in as many as 17 places. Food lovers can also have something to eat in restaurants in Poznań, Łódź, Lubin and two locations in Gdańsk.
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