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QFI Open Sports Quiz 2011: Rejects
Will be posting a few set of questions , that we rejected from the QFI Open Sports Quiz Prelims/Finals this year. Have a go at these questions.. Answers will be posted in a day.
1.James Braddock , immediately after defeating Max Primavera had to defend his heavy weight boxing title against Max Schmelling under the Contract with Madison Square Garden. However , he chose to fight Joe Louis , reneging on the contract. There were two reasons for choosing to fight against Joe Louis, What were they?
2. While officially recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations as a track event, it is rarely contested apart from occasional world record attempts. First recorded races dating back to the late 17th century, and the first officially recognized
world record was set by Alfred Shrubb in 1904. Currently the WR for men is at 21.285 by Halie Gebras Selasie and at 18.517 for women by Dire Tune. Which event are we talking about?
3. According to the Roman police logs. there was the little matter of the tennis game gone awry. Michelangelo Merisi - street brawler killed an opponent, "a very polite young man" named Ranunccio Tommasini with a sword after an argument over a bet of 10 scudi. Nobody knows why. Maybe a disputed point. Whatever, it was decidedly against the rules, and Michelangelo had to flee Rome as an exile, shortly after the killing in May of 1606, never to return.
Glad he didn't take his paintings with him.
How do we know Michelangelo Merisi better?
4. Before X, every vendor had a different way of encoding. X was developed in 1993 by Steven J. Edwards, was discussed and disseminated via Usenet. It became an immediate success because, as a readable text format, it satisfied the needs of people as well as of computers. What is X?
5.In the 1924 Paris Olympics, there were a total of 23 perfect tens achieved, one of the highest tallies in Omypics history. Albert Seguin achieved a perfect ten in the Sidehorse Vault. The others 22 were from the same sport. Which, now defunct, gymnastic sport are we talking about?
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Sree said...
You should have asked these in QFI first
1. (a) WW II made it impossible to fight against Schmeling ?
2. 1 hour run
3. Caravaggio
5. Rope climbing
QFI Open Sports Quiz Rejects III
K-Circle TriQuizzer Championships 2011
Landmark Quiz Chennai 2011 Prelims
QFI Open Sports Quiz Rejects II
QFI Open Sports Quiz 2011: Finals Anti-Clockwise
QFI Open Sports Quiz 2011: Finals Clockwise
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Truancy: The Extent of the Problem
Chronic absences from school affect more than a student's grades. Absenteeism and truancy are often indications of deeper issues affecting the student, the school and the community as a whole. Some school districts estimate that as many as 75 percent of chronic truants eventually drop out of school. As a result, many states have extensively studied truancy and chronic absenteeism to determine the factors that contribute to them, the risk factors often associated with truancy, and how to prevent students from skipping school.
Factors Contributing to Truancy
There is no single reason for students becoming truants. However, many factors can lead to a student's decision to repeatedly skip school. These factors can come from the school and its facilities, from the student's home life, or from personal issues the student is experiencing.
The state of America's schools can play a role in students' willingness and motivation to attend. When students feel unsafe, unchallenged, or unimportant at school, they may decide not to attend. School-related factors contributing to truancy include:
Poor supervision and maintenance of school facilities
Safety issues, such as teachers and school officials failing to address behavioral problems
Harsh punishments for minor infractions, such as automatic suspensions or an automatic "F" for being late
Lack of notification to parents when a child is not attending or performing as expected
Similarly, many issues at home can make a child less likely to attend school. These factors include:
Abuse or neglect by the child's parents or guardian
Substance abuse by family members
Parents' lack of interest in education
Financial issues, such as single parents working multiple jobs to make ends meet
Finally, a student may be struggling with personal issues that prompt him or her to avoid school, such as:
Low self-esteem, often due to poor grades
Undiagnosed or untreated mental health issues or learning disabilities
Lack of goals
Risks of Truancy
Truancy is seen by most experts as a bellwether indicating that a child is more likely to engage in other risky behavior. Truancy often acts as a "gateway" behavior that can lead to students trying drugs and alcohol, engaging in other criminal acts such as vandalism and theft, and ultimately dropping out of school altogether.
Strategies for Addressing Truancy
To help students avoid heading down the truancy path, many schools, organizations and government agencies have worked to develop strategies for keeping children in school. Rather than imposing ever-harsher penalties on students that usually increase truancy rather than prevent it, most successful truancy prevention programs address the factors contributing to truancy. Most truancy prevention programs include:
Increased parental involvement, usually through notification of a child's truancy, joint counseling with the child and his or her parents, and family mediation
Diversion from the court system through alternative programs, such as counseling and community service
Individual mentorship
Increased training for law enforcement officials on how to better handle truancy cases
Legal Ramifications of Truancy
Despite the shift from punishing truants to diversion and counseling programs to help address the root causes of truancy, some students still end up in juvenile court due to their chronic truancy or poor performance in alternative programs. Although truancy laws vary by state, every state has some way to enforce truancy statutes, often by punishing chronically absent students. Truants could be put on probation or ordered to perform community service. In severe cases, judges may even sentence truants to serve in a juvenile detention facility.
Additionally, many states seek to sanction a truant's parents or guardian. States may allow judges to fine parents, order them to take parenting education classes, or participate in family counseling.

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President Marla Maples Would Give Everyone Subsidized Massages and Yoga
By Gabriella Paiella
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Years before she launched her new lifestyle site — and way before it was cool — Marla Maples wholly embraced wellness and New Age spirituality. It's a wonder that she was ever married to Republican candidate Donald Trump. The divide between their interests looks even more striking in an interview she gave to the now-defunct George magazine back in August 1997.
It was a few months after Maples and Trump separated, and nearly 20 years before he ran for president, when the magazine asked her to imagine what it would be like if she were in the White House. Maples generously says that she would draft Trump as Secretary of the Treasury, but the similarities between her imagined presidency and his current platform end there.
Maples says that the greatest problem facing the nation is "the gap between the haves and the have-nots" and that her first act in office would be "making hate illegal." In an obvious dig at Trump, she says she'd fight hardest to change prenuptial agreements.
The healthy-living enthusiast also said she'd keep a juicer in her office and that she would create a "Department of Peace Promotion" that would offer "federally subsidized massages and yoga for everyone." (The latter two seem especially useful right about now.)
And finally, George wrapped up by asking her how politics is like a beauty pageant and how acting is like politics — two frighteningly prescient questions for this election cycle.
Photo: George Magazine
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Mix Up in the Mediterranean (2021)
A small-town cook impersonates his big city chef twin to compete in a culinary contest and falls for the woman in charge of the event, who thinks he is the brother who is married.
Director: Jonathan Wright
Actors: Callum Blue, Jeremy Jordan, Jessica Lowndes, Michelle Martin
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk…
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
We Bought a Zoo (2011)
Benjamin has lost his wife and, in a bid to start his life over, purchases a large house that has a zoo – welcome news for his daughter, but his…
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Rush Hour 2 (2001)
It's vacation time for Carter as he finds himself alongside Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more excitement. While Carter wants to party and meet the ladies, Lee is out…
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)
Through a series of misunderstandings, Alvin, Simon and Theodore come to believe that Dave is going to propose to his new girlfriend in New York City – and dump them….
Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music
A Christmas Mystery (2022)
When her best friend's father is falsely accused of stealing the town's prized jingle bells, a young amateur sleuth and her friends must find the real thief before Christmas.
Genre: Comedy, Family, Mystery
Positive (2020)
When a young woman's boyfriend dumps her after discovering she's pregnant, her mischievous co-worker comes up with a scheme to get back at him.
Hillside Cannibals (2006)
A group of teenagers in the desert become the prey of cannibalistic inbreds who live in the nearby hillside.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Crazy About Her (2021)
After a magical night together, Adri voluntarily turns himself into the psychiatric institution where Carla lives.
Neighbors (2014)
A couple with a newborn baby face unexpected difficulties after they are forced to live next to a fraternity house.
The Babysitter (2017)
When Cole stays up past his bedtime, he discovers that his hot babysitter is part of a Satanic cult that will stop at nothing to keep him quiet.
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Asphalt Burning (2020)
The third and final instalment in the Burnout trilogy. This time, the road leads trough Norway, to Sweden, Denmark and finally Germany to race on the famous racing track, Nürburgring.
Concessions (2021)
It's the last night at the closing Royal Alamo Cineplex and two slacker employees work the concessions stand, arguing about life and movies while contemplating their futures.
Trailer: Mix Up in the Mediterranean (2021)


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Q: Radgrid inside editform settings I have a radgrid inside the edit form.I am binding the radgrid on the itemdatabound.
        int id= Convert.ToInt32(editForm.GetDataKeyValue("ID").ToString());
        RadGrid SummaryGrid = (RadGrid)item.FindControl("SummaryGrid");
        SummaryGrid.DataSource = spObj.Sp_GetProjectDetails(id);
        SummaryGrid.Visible = true;
        SummaryGrid.Enabled = true;
        SummaryGrid.DataBind();

The problem is I am able to edit only the last row in the grid.I m able to see the data binding to the inner grid for the last row.For all other rows I get the below error.
"There was a problem extracting DataKeyValues from the DataSource. Please ensure that DataKeyNames are specified correctly and all fields specified exist in the DataSource."
My grid inside edit:
     <telerik:RadGrid ID="SummaryGrid" runat="server" AllowPaging="True" PageSize="50"      AutoGenerateColumns="true"   Visible="true"
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This issue is blocking the development.can some one suggest any help on this?Any help/ideas highly appreciated.
Thanks

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int id= Convert.ToInt32(editForm.GetDataKeyValue("ID").ToString());

This should be using ProjectID instead of ID. ID is not a data key that you've specified in your MasterTableView.

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Ever dreamt of an embedded platform which is fast, power efficient, reliable and handy? Then Raspberry pi would whet your appetite. Generally pi can be specified as a mini computer which serves you to solve many a problem. You can have a web browser or can perform computing and programming without being the owner of a PC. Of course all the mentioned applications are cost effective in pi compared to the conventional PC.
The heart of the pi is the Broadcom 2835 System On Chip, which has the 32 bit ARM11 RISC CPU, version 6. The default clock speed is 700Mz. The kernel of the pi boots from the SD card. HDMI Out port provides the video output. Audio can be taken from both HDMI and stereo jack. Network speed of 10/100Mbps can be achieved. Raspberry model A has single USB and model B has two USB sockets. USB is expandable via regular or powered hubs. The board is powered using the micro USB plug.
Download the NOOBS and extract the files from the zip folder. The NOOBS is available for download at the raspberry pi website.
Before copying the NOOBS file, format the SD card.
In SD formatter select the drive letter for your SD card and format it.
After formatting, drag all the files in the extracted NOOBS folder and drop them onto the SD card drive.
Plug in the keyboard, mouse, monitor cables and last the USB power cable.
A boot screen will appear and an option to choose the required OS.
Select the OS of your choice(lets choose Raspbian as an example) and click install.
Then the pi will boot the Raspbian OS.
In the configuration menu appearing you can set the time and date, enable camera and even create users.
To login use the default username "pi" with the password "raspberry".


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'Some kind of "happiness index"…'
28 January, 2009 in well-being | Tags: GDP, national accounts of well-being, progress, Stiglitz-Sen commission, well-being | by Juliet Michaelson | Leave a comment
Juliet Michaelson is a researcher at nef's centre for well-being.
Today's Financial Times includes a full page of analysis discussing the growing movement among economists and others towards producing alternative measures of economic performance and social progress. If you've already read our National Accounts of Well-being report , published last weekend, or looked at the accompanying website, much of the content will be familiar: the strong caution issued by Simon Kuznets, the designer of the original GDP measure, that it should not be used to infer the welfare of a nation; the perverse nature of the way GDP is calculated by mechanically counting productivity, so that spending on things like divorce proceedings is counted as a benefit; and the current work of the commission headed by Nobel-laureate economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen to develop new measures to enable us to change "our political priorities and build happier, greener, societies".
The article concludes by highlighting what it describes as "perhaps the most controversial issue" being examined by the commission, namely "whether to create some kind of 'happiness index' based on surveys of people's attitudes". What it doesn't mention is that this is precisely what we have done in our work on National Accounts of Well-being. While we don't claim that our indicators are the final word on how governments should measure people's experiences of their lives, they certainly show how, by using high-quality survey data, robust and detailed measures of well-being are not only possible, but now a reality.
It remains to be seen what the Stiglitz-Sen commission will conclude when it reports in April. But crucially, to enable policy-makers to truly understand the impact of their actions on the reality of people's lives, societies must start paying attention to the ways in which subjective well-being can be carefully and seriously measured. We think that our National Accounts of Well-being represent a substantial step forward along this path and our growing band of expert supporters suggests that many others are beginning to think so too.


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A common practice among homeowners is to look for an architect, designer, and contractor separately. Homeowners don't look at the three roles as part of a single team, which leads to conflicts and a mismatch of expectations.
Maintaining a strong relationship between the architect, designer, and the contractor is the key to building your dream house seamlessly. Before we take a look at the advantages of forging a strong relationship between the three roles, let's quickly understand the differences between them.
What do architects do?
Architects design not just homes but all types of buildings such as hospitals, schools, and hotels, among others. They design the blueprints by taking into consideration the requirements of the homeowner as well as the local city building codes and the building safety requirements.
After finalizing the blueprints, they also closely supervise as contractors take over to build the designed space and interior designers set out to decorate the interiors of the designed space.
What do designers do?
Designers handle the interior decor of your space, which may include choosing color palettes, furniture, flooring, and lighting -- everything required to bring your home to life based on your preferences and the home structural design.
Like architects, they're also equipped with doing space planning for not just homes but all types of buildings such as hotels, office spaces, hospitals, and more.
What do contractors do?
Contractors transform the blueprints developed by the architect into reality within a specified timeline. They work closely with the architect to use the right materials and layouts as per the blueprint and local city building guidelines. Involving contractors from the onset can help understand what's feasible within the homeowner's budget.
The advantages of strong architect, designer, and contractor relationships
Building projects start with design and then move on to construction. However, involving the key groups of your housing project -- the architect, the designer, the contractor -- right from the beginning helps build your dream house while keeping your budget and aspirations in check.
1. Set realistic goals
Every project has unique needs. Involving all three groups and having them working together from as early on as possible will ensure that every need gets considered. Construction projects require frequent changes and involving everyone will help you understand how each change will impact the big picture. It helps them set realistic goals and not lose focus of the most important factors.
2. Avoid costly redesigns and delays
When all three groups work together, you end up saving money and time. For example, a contractor has to order building materials even before the construction begins. If the architect communicates with the contractor as soon as the blueprint gets finalized, the contractor can mention accurate cost estimates and the materials that will be used.
The architect can verify whether the materials chosen will match the design intent while sticking to the budget. If that doesn't happen, either the architect can make some adjustments to the plan or the contractor can procure materials that serve the purpose while not exceeding the budget. Not having these two parties communicate will lead to costly redesigns, which end up causing several delays and leave the homeowner dissatisfied.
3. Solve problems efficiently
Often, architects and contractors must work together to fix problems that may crop up during construction, which isn't that uncommon. For example, several construction problems aren't visible until the ground is broken.
Successfully resolving these problems requires the architect to work closely with the contractor and tweak the original plans according to the situation while ensuring that they don't steer away from the original design plans. If there isn't a proper relationship between these two roles, then that's a recipe for disaster and the person who ends up suffering is you.
Ultimately, all three groups want the same thing -- a visually appealing project, a satisfied customer, and a profitable job that beefs up the portfolio. Maintaining proper communication between all three groups is the key to avoiding conflicts and establishing a strong working relationship and ensuring that the homeowners get the project of their dreams.
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Q: How to Delay execution until an element has loaded on a modal to then alter the element? I have a form with a modal on it.  In my javascript after the modal is opened I need to look for a particular div and hide it and then show it again if a certain value is changed.
The problem is when the function that loads the modal runs the content hasn't rendered yet.  I was trying to call monitorForVaultCardGroup() to look for the field ever 100ms, then return when it was found.  Then, with the reference valid call hide().
function monitorForVaultCardGroup() {
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Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019)
Erik Olin Wright was radicalized in the 1960s and remained a Marxist because his moral compass simply wouldn't allow him to drift away. With his death, the Left has lost one of its most brilliant intellectuals.
Erik Olin Wright passed away yesterday, just months after being diagnosed with advanced Leukemia. In the early days after his diagnosis, he had put the finishing touches on his book How to be an Anti-Capitalist for the Twenty-First Century, due to be released later this year.
The book would surely not have been his last, had he lived. Though Erik was seventy-one, an age at which most academics' thoughts turn toward retirement, he had no such intentions. "I plan to be 'professing' right till the end," he used to quip. He was still incredibly active, churning out work, supervising PhDs, traveling, and lecturing.
Even though he leaves us an enormous oeuvre spanning more than forty years, it is an agenda abruptly cut short. Those of us who knew and loved him have lost a dear friend. And the Left, showing signs of a revival after years of retreat, has lost one of its most brilliant intellectuals.
The Centrality of Class
Erik will be remembered as the most important theorist of class in the second half of the twentieth century, and the greatest Marxist sociologist of his time.
Ironically, when he launched his PhD at the University of California Berkeley, his intention was to briefly clarify the status of class in Marxian theory, so that he could turn to his real interest, which was the theory of the state. But he quickly found that the matter would not allow cursory treatment. Working out its conceptual status, theoretical claims, and empirical predictions would take a bit longer — perhaps a few years, he thought.
As it happened, it took four books, scores of articles, and a research team spread across several countries, all unfolding over the course of a quarter century. But by the time he moved to the next project, Erik had not only refined the concept of class better than any Marxist before him, he had forced the mainstream establishment to recognize its validity for the first time in the twentieth century.
Even though he was often described as a "neo-Marxist" — an expression suggesting a departure from the classical tradition — Erik's conceptualization of class was thoroughly orthodox. It rested on three central propositions.
First, whereas mainstream theories see class as connected to income, Erik resurrected Marx's view that it was a social relation premised on exploitation. Exploitation occurs when one group derives its livelihood from controlling the labor of another group. So it isn't a person's income that determines their class – it's how they earn their income. Second, because class rests on the forcible extraction of labor, it is necessarily antagonistic. It requires the dominant class to undermine the wellbeing of the subordinate groups, which in turn tends to generate resistance from the latter. Third, this antagonism will, in certain conditions, take the form of organized conflict between the classes, or class struggle.
But this formulation created the central puzzle for all Marxist class theories: how do we account for the middle class? If capitalism is an economic system in which there are exploiters and exploited, then what about the people in the middle, who seem to be neither of the two? A classic example is shopkeepers, or salaried professionals. Are they exploiters or exploited?
Many Marxists responded in one of two ways. First, they suggested that capitalism itself would solve the problem of the middle class by getting rid of it. Some of Marx's own formulations hinted at this: over time, people in this class would either sink down into the working class, or elevate themselves into the ranks of capitalists. The conceptual challenge had a time stamp on it.
The second solution was to suggest that even though many people seemed to be in the "middle," this was an illusion that disappeared upon closer inspection. If we looked more carefully, the argument went, most people in the "middle class" were really just workers — and a very small number were capitalists.
So while the first position said that there would only be two classes at some point in the future, the other one claimed that there were just two classes right now. Either way, we end up with just two classes.
Erik rejected both positions. First, it was clear that the middle class wasn't a residual category, bound to disappear over time. Capitalism actively created the occupations we identify with that stratum — there would always be shopkeepers, middle-level managers, salaried professionals, etc. Second, even though it's true that many "professionals" are just highly skilled workers, many are more than that. They have real authority over other workers, their income is only partly derived from wages, and they have genuine control over their own labor. Their power and choice sets seem qualitatively different from that of a wage laborer. So the middle class is real. The question is, how do we incorporate it into a Marxist framework?
Erik's solution seems simple, but it was profound. He defined the middle class as those groups that had elements of both classes in them — capitalist and worker. Shopkeepers share some qualities with capitalists, in that they own the means of production, but also with workers, in that they have to be active participants in the shop's work. Middle managers have some powers of capitalists, in that they exercise power over workers, but like workers, they have no real control over investment decisions.
Hence, Erik famously concluded that the middle class occupied contradictory positions within the class structure. What it meant politically was that this class was objectively pulled in both directions, toward labor and capital. Which way its members in fact went could not be predicted. It would depend on how politics and circumstances converged at any given time.
Dreaming Realistically
Erik understood that even though Marxists treat class as a scientific concept, it has a normative underpinning. To say that capitalism rests on exploitation is to issue a moral indictment of the system. It enjoins us to work toward a society that doesn't rest on the systematic subordination of one group by another, where the scope for individual development isn't stifled by deprivation and insecurity.
But as the twentieth century came to a close, many progressives had lost confidence in the possibility of such an alternative. There had been two sources of hope in the halcyon years of the Left. For many, it was the existence of the Soviet Union, which seemed concrete evidence that capitalism could be transcended. A second source of optimism came from within Marxism itself, in its theory of history, which seemed to promise that capitalism would sooner or later give way to a new economic system, just as the systems before it had yielded to more advanced forms of social organization.
Both of these beliefs were in tatters by the fin de siècle. The Soviet model had not only collapsed, but its demise seemed to discredit the very idea of a post-capitalist society. And many, perhaps most, Marxists had come to regard orthodox Historical Materialism as a deeply flawed theory.
Erik himself came to this conclusion in a long engagement with the theory, as developed by his close friend Gerald Cohen. There was no historical telos leading to a socialist future. Not only were large sections of the Left unsure of the possibility of socialism, it wasn't even clear what sort of institutional design it would embody.
Recognizing the debilitating effect this would have on political practice, Erik launched the next great project of his career, the Real Utopias series. The basic idea was simple. Marxists had historically followed Marx's own disdain for detailed blueprints of the future society, which so often degenerated into utopian fantasies. But as Erik pointed out, this boilerplate rejection of social models was now a liability. If you ask people to sacrifice and risk for a better future, they need some idea of what they are fighting for, beyond a set of principles. They need to know what that alternative might be.
The Real Utopias project was launched to generate concrete proposals for institutions that embodied socialist principles. It was utopian in the sense that the ideas were intended to be very ambitious, daring to think of social arrangements fundamentally different from capitalism. But they were anchored in reality by being based on actual experience within capitalism.
The basic argument behind the project was laid out in his book, Envisioning Real Utopias. The project, however, much as the project on class structure before it, was collaborative and international. Over more than fifteen years, it generated a half-dozen edited volumes, each organized around a concrete proposal — for legislative reform, gender equality, workplace democracy, etc. — and involving participation by dozens of leading scholars.
Moral Stamina
Erik's immersion in, and development of, Marxist theory endured for a half century. He came to it in the late 1960s, when so many of his peers in universities were becoming radicalized. But even as his generation turned away from socialist politics and Marxist theory, he stayed on.
What makes it all the more remarkable is that he did so with few of the social supports that one usually assumes in such cases. Erik was never in a political organization. He wasn't sustained by a left intellectual milieu like the Socialist Register or the New Left Review. He wasn't particularly active in local politics. Even his social circles were fairly typical of an elite American academic. Nothing in his social and intellectual context directed him to a decades-long commitment to Marxism.
Erik's stamina came from within — from a singular moral and intellectual integrity. He was one of those rare individuals who, once they recognize the truth of a proposition, simply cannot abandon it. He remained a Marxist because his moral compass would not allow him to drift away. It really was as simple as that. And precisely because of its simplicity, so astounding. Erik's endurance drew on the sheer force of his personality, even while the gamut of social and political supports was not enough to sustain the commitment of so many of his generation.
The same integrity shined through in his relation to his students. It's something of a cliché to praise deceased academics for their dedication to teaching. But in Erik's case, the description is not only true, it beggars belief. Over the course of his career, he supervised dozens of dissertations, on a bewildering variety of topics, by students from every continent.
His commentary on any document handed to him was not just prompt, but often longer than the document itself. His ability to get to the core of an argument was astounding. He typically reformulated an argument better than its original form. Indeed, one of the great favors he did to his interlocutors was to lift their arguments to a higher and more exalted level, so that they were worthy of criticism.
Erik lived an incredibly rich life, leaving behind an astonishing legacy. But it was much too soon for it to end. He was not even beginning to slow down, much less wind down. He was one of the happiest people I have ever met. If someone asked him how he was doing, I often heard him respond, "Well, I suppose life could be better, but I can't imagine how." As his cancer overtook him, he struggled to balance a realistic outlook with a sense of optimism — exactly as he had in his moral commitments. He was profoundly sad about his impending demise, but assured his family and loved ones that he wasn't afraid.
In one of his last blog posts, he refused to indulge in romantic fantasies about the afterlife and such. "I am," he wrote, simply "stardust that randomly ended up in this marvelous corner of the milky way." But this doesn't quite get it right. True, most of us are just that. But a few, very few, are a little something more. Rest in peace, Erik.


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Zandari Festa is an annual music festival in Hongdae, the stomping grounds of indie music in Seoul and the neighborhood surrounding RYSE. As a sponsor of the festival, RYSE, Zandari and MixMix TV came up with a way to take music out of the concert venues and into the intimate environment of a hotel suite. The first video is of Wanthanee and her heartfelt songs in an acoustic solo performance.
The global festival lineup is clearly seen in the Holy Two duo who came from France to play the festival. Their bouncy tunes were the perfect match for the multicolored Artist Suite by Yeojoo Park.


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Sara J. Bloomfield jest dyrektorką Muzeum Holokaustu w Stanach Zjednoczonych.

Pochodzi z Cleveland w Ohio Bloomfield ukończyła Northwestern University uzyskując tytuł Bachelor of Arts w dziedzinie literatury angielskiej oraz John Carroll University, na którym uzyskała tytuł magistra w dziedzinie edukacji.

W 1986 roku dołączyła do zespołu planowania Muzeum Holokaustu w Stanach Zjednoczonych (USHMM). W 1999 roku została wybrana na stanowisko dyrektorskie.

Sara Bloomfield jest międzynarodowo uznaną specjalistką w temacie upamiętniania Zagłady oraz muzealnictwa. Zasiada w zarządzie Fundacji Auschwitz-Birkenau oraz w Międzynarodowej Radzie Oświęcimskiej. Była także członkinią zarządu Międzynarodowej Rady Muzeów (ICOM).

Publikowała także - m.in. w formie bloga - na łamach The Times of Israel, HuffPost i The Independent.

W roku 2010, podczas obchodów 65. rocznicy wyzwolenia Auschwitz, została odznaczona krzyżem oficerskim Orderu Zasługi RP. Laureatka nagrody "Światło Pamięci" przyznawanej przez muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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As defined by the United Nation's Brundtland Commission in 1987, sustainability means "meet[ing] the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." It requires protecting and enhancing the Earth's natural resources in balance with social equity and economic development concerns.
The Ecological Footprint Challenge will help you better relate your everyday behaviors to the sustainability of their environmental impacts, which is often difficult to do. For example, when you hear that driving a car using one gallon of gasoline generates 19.6 pounds of CO2, it is hard to visualize those pounds and their short- or long-term impacts. However, everyone understands what land is, and how much land makes up an acre (approximately the area of the Spartan Stadium football field).
When I first took the quiz, I was dismayed to find out that if everyone lived like me, we would need over five Earths. Since then, I have taken steps to reduce my family's meat consumption, reduced the number of miles I travel by car by 10%, and began to prioritize local and organic options in my weekly shopping. Just as importantly, I began having conversations with my husband and children about making lifestyle changes for our family's and the planet's health. It hasn't been that difficult—in fact, we have found it to be empowering.
Globally, there are only 39 acres of productive land available per person to support the planet on a renewable basis. The ecological footprint of the average American is over six times this amount. This means we are using the natural resources of less developed countries and the natural resources of future generations to support our current consumption levels.
One of the key barriers to getting people to take action on complex and far reaching issues--such as climate change or ecosystem restoration--is that individuals feel their actions don't make a difference. By participating in the SJSU Footprint Challenge, you are helping us better understand our collective impact and the summary benefits of working together to address the most pressing issues of our time.
I look forward to working with all of you this year on reducing our footprints and creating a strong culture of sustainability at SJSU.


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IQ-EQ talks impact investing with LeapFrog's Clare Murray
Impact investing is a hot topic across the investment industry at present, and will only become more prominent as the next generation rises through the ranks and ever-greater focus is placed on the social and environmental impact of business activities.
One expert in the impact investing space is Clare Murray, associate director at LeapFrog Investments. Having started out her career at Goldman Sachs in New York, Clare was first introduced to the concept of responsible investing after moving to BlackRock in 2012, where she worked closely with family offices, family foundations and endowments. As more and more clients expressed interest in aligning their investment activity with a purpose mission, Clare was among the team who worked to bring BlackRock's various related functions together in order to establish the BlackRock Sustainable Investment Platform. With her impact investing interest peaked, Clare went on to join LeapFrog, a leading impact investment firm, in 2017.
Having been introduced to Clare through IQ-EQ's Women in Private Equity event earlier this year, directors Tom Miller and Emmanuelle Dotezac recently sat down with Clare in London to talk all things impact investing. Here's what she had to say.
Please could you start by telling us a little bit about LeapFrog?
LeapFrog Investments is a private equity firm that has been in the impact investment space for the past 10 years. We use the phrase "profit with purpose", but as the term "impact investing" has entered the mainstream, we have started using that terminology as well. At LeapFrog we invest in companies that provide essential services and products to emerging consumers; in other words, people living on $2-10 a day. We are very focused on that consumer segment. In terms of sectors, we invest in healthcare and financial services across emerging markets in Asia and Africa.
In your view, how important is impact investing in today's society and what are the key benefits for investors?
It is really exciting to watch how much this space has grown in the past decade – or even in the past couple of years. There has been a significant demand for investments that generate positive social good alongside meaningful financial returns and this has led to an explosion in impact investing. There are a number of drivers contributing to this trend including an increase in female asset owners and by Millennials taking over assets. At the top as well you have the United Nations calling for a significantly more private sector involvement to help reach their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. There's a real public and private push towards a more defined and measureable approach to impact investing, which will only intensify.
The global pools of capital dedicated to impact investments continue to grow as well. The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) recently estimated the current value of global impact investments as $502 billion, up from $114 billion in 2016. That's almost five-times growth in just three years.
In terms of the key benefits for the investors, I think there are a number. There's an alpha opportunity there; an ability to generate strong performance returns. There is also the feeling of doing more with your money, which is proving a crucial factor in achieving engagement from the millennial generation and therefore retaining relationships with family offices as Millennials take over family assets and generate their own wealth too.
Sometimes in our conversations with industry peers and clients we find that the terms 'impact investing' and 'ESG' are used almost interchangeably. Could you help shed some light on the key differences between the two concepts?
Yes, with the way this sphere has evolved there's a lot of confusion around the terminology being used, but ESG and impact investing – while in the same universe – are very different. In my mind, ESG-focused investments are when environmental, social and governance factors are considered and integrated across the investment process to drive better outcomes – both in terms of earnings and limitation of risk. Whereas impact investing focuses on the outcome; the explicit goal of making a positive social or environmental impact as well as a financial return. In short, ESG is more about integration and best practice while impact is about targets and outcomes.
So one is the system and one is the end goal; how you invest versus what you invest in.
That's right. You would imagine that impact funds or companies that consider themselves focused on impact would have high-quality E, S and G factors within their organisation too.
Are you finding that the rising emphasis on ESG factors in investment activity is driving a greater interest in impact investing?
Yes. It's the same wave bringing impact investing and ESG integration to the fore and into the mainstream. We've seen a number of firms set up impact funds after starting off by focusing on ESG factors within their portfolio companies. A good example is KKR; they've had a great ESG team for a number of years and then decided to move into the impact space. Of course, there are also many private equity firms with ESG teams that have chosen (at least for now) not to launch impact funds. It's not always the next step.
I think a trend that has yet to play out is whether ESG and impact are handled by the same team or two separate teams. Carlyle has two different teams, as does Bain Capital, but some firms are grouping the two together. My impression is that they require different skillsets, so there will more commonly be two teams, but these teams will hopefully work closely together and share knowledge.
We know that the current lack of standardised ESG measurement and reporting is a challenge in that space. Given how recently and quickly impact investing has blossomed, paired with the broad scope of 'impact' as a concept, impact investing must face similar measurement hurdles. How best can we measure impact?
Absolutely, it is a challenge. As you say, there are a lot of firms that have just moved into impact investing, so measurement of impact is still developing. I think a key factor is GPs and LPs becoming more educated in this space to determine exactly what they want measured on the impact side and, most importantly, why.
I think the priority in measurement has to be consistency. LeapFrog, for instance, has a target number of emerging consumers that we want to reach with each new fund. Over time, we quantify the people reached by the companies we invest in and think about it at a fund level. This is done consistently across all funds. It provides a great way for LPs to understand how LeapFrog thinks about our funds' impact.
Below that we also have a number of measures that are specific to the particular sector, such as healthcare. Take a health insurance policy for example, we look at renewal rates – both in terms of profitability (since it's much easier to continue servicing an existing customer than go and get a new one) and also because renewal means customers are understanding and finding benefit from the policies. We also track claims ratios because we want to ensure there is sufficient and timely payout. If a customer dies, for example, we want to know that their family receives the money they're due to, let's say, cover funeral costs or pay for a child's education. How they spend the payout is of course out of our control, but we want to know that they have it for when they need it.
You mentioned the importance of consistent measures to enable comparison of different impact funds. What about comparisons between different impact fund managers?
There's definitely a challenge there, given the lack of industry-standardised measurement criteria. I think the SDGs really help with this. By the nature of the work we do at LeapFrog, we focus on a select few of the SDGs. Thinking about how managers are categorised within the SDG framework is helpful because if an investor is really interested in climate change, for example, then LeapFrog isn't the best choice for them because that isn't our main impact focus.
There is a general perception regarding a trade-off between impact and profit. Thinking seems to be shifting on this, but does it remain an issue? Will it change over time?
The trade-off question is one we get a lot. What I'm excited about is the fact that more and more traditional investment managers have moved into this space. This offers reassurance to the mainstream that there doesn't need to be a trade-off. We certainly don't see one; in fact, we see a synergy.
I can't speak to all sectors, but within financial services and healthcare, the more people you reach, the more high quality, affordable services and products you provide them with. That is clear profit as well as being positive for society. As I mentioned earlier, we've always used the term "profit with purpose", so our focus has always been on delivering both on the financial side and the impact side.
Given this is such a new area, there aren't that many data points out there in terms of exits or even investments into companies in this space. Over time, as more data becomes available, we'll have more evidence to reassure investors that positive impact and positive financial returns are possible to achieve simultaneously.
Where do you believe are the major growth areas for impact investing, both in terms of geographical hotspots and specific sectors?
I think impact investing is really a global trend but emerging markets are a major focus, especially given the sheer number of people in these markets. Younger people still in the workforce are particularly significant as they try to work their way out of poverty and into the middle class. The growing ability to reach these groups of people through access to technology is a really exciting trend. Taking financial services as an example, in the past if someone in one of these emerging markets wanted to transfer money to a family member elsewhere, they would have to go into a bank building some distance away, taking time away from work to get there. There would also be higher costs associated with the bank branch set-up, paying employees and so on. Whereas now you have online money transfer services such as WordRemit, which is a portfolio company of LeapFrog.
We're also seeing growth in products and services specifically targeted at women, and there are a lot of development funds out there that support female entrepreneurs and female venture capitalists.
Food is another big theme. In Europe, in Scandinavia in particular, there's a lot of interesting work going on around food at the moment – the shift from meat to more plant-based foods. Healthy eating and nutrition represent a $702 billion market opportunity, while the global sustainable seafood market was valued at $13 billion in 2017 and has been projected to experience a compound annual growth rate of 5% from 2018 to 2025.
How do you see impact investing changing in the next 10 years?
I think the impact investment world will continue to expand in terms of what could be considered within this category. For example, the move towards eating less meat: people might not have thought about this as an impact investing opportunity previously. Impact investing is set to keep growing in terms of the sectors and geographies that it touches.
What else? As we've already discussed, more impact investment data will become available over time and there is sure to be greater consensus around measurement. I also expect there to be an industry body that regulates impact investing/measurement and requires third party auditors. Indeed, we're already starting to see impact-focused auditors entering the space. As per the wider industry, I think regulation will get more rigorous over time.
You touched upon impact funds focused on women. We're also aware that female players have been a real driving force in the impact investing market as a whole. In your view, is the growth of impact investing helping advance women to leadership positions in an industry where they have been traditionally under-represented?
Yes, there is a lot of research on this actually. For example, Russell Reynolds just published a report on the topic and they found that impact investors are significantly more gender diverse than their counterparts in the broader asset management industry. 39% of senior impact investing decision-makers are female versus only 4% in wider industry. If you look at Blackstone and Carlyle, those heads of impacts are females. This is a space where women seem to be speaking and, yes, taking more of a leadership role.
I would be interested to know whether there is a pay gap issue in terms of impact investment leaders being paid less than their traditional counterparts. I am not sure on that but would like to learn more. In any case, I do think it's continuing to evolve. EMPEA recently launched a working group aimed at addressing the gender gap in emerging market private equity: the EMPEA Gender Parity Acceleration Working Group. The Head of Communications at LeapFrog is one of the co-heads of that working group, and there a number of leading institutions involved too.
Could you finish by telling us a little more about LeapFrog and its future plans?
Looking to the longer term, our goal at LeapFrog is to reach one billion emerging consumers with essential services by 2030. In terms of our more immediate priorities, earlier this year we closed a $740 million fund – the largest fund raised by a dedicated impact manager. With that we're targeting robust returns and a reach of 70 million emerging consumers. Our current focus is on swiftly deploying that and ensuring we deliver on what we've promised to our investors.
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Les championnats de Slovaquie de cyclo-cross sont des compétitions annuelles de cyclo-cross auxquelles participent les coureurs de cyclo-cross slovaques. La première édition s'est tenue en 1995. Au total, quatre championnats sont organisés : juniors (17-18 ans), espoirs (moins de 23 ans) et élites pour les hommes et un championnat féminin. Jusqu'en 1992, c'était le championnat de Tchécoslovaquie qui était organisé.

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Élites

Espoirs
 2000 Branislav Stejskal
 2001 Peter Košút
 2002 Marian Zovcak
 2003 Stefan Gajdosik
 2004 Marien Hecl

 2006 Robert Bachraty
 2007 Róbert Gavenda
 2008 Róbert Gavenda

Juniors
 2003 Michal Prachar

 2005 Róbert Gavenda
 2006 Róbert Gavenda
 2007 Peter Sagan
 2008 Matej Medved
 2009 Jaroslav Chalas
 2010 Ondřej Glajza
 2011 Ondřej Glajza
 2012 Šimon Vozár
 2013 Juraj Bellan
 2014 Jakub Kurty
 2015 Ian Gajdosik
 2016 Jakub Varhaňovský
 2017 Lukáš Kubiš
 2018 Jakub Jencus
 2019 Matej Piga
 2020 Lukáš Sokolík
 2021 Matthias Schwarzbacher
 2022 Matthias Schwarzbacher

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Voir aussi
Championnats de République tchèque de cyclo-cross
Championnats de Tchécoslovaquie de cyclo-cross

Notes et références

Sources
 Siteducyclisme.net
 Palmarès masculin
 Palmarès féminin

Cyclo-cross
Slovaquie


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Enrique "La Pájara" Gonzalez Talks Patience, Nicknames, and the Future of Show Jumping
Gonzalez with Chacna. Photo courtesy of Enrique Gonzalez.
Some know him as Enrique, others just call him "La Pajara," but whatever the title, Enrique Gonzalez is having a stellar year with his once-in-a-lifetime mare, Chacna.
A native of Mexico, Gonzalez's passion for horses was passed down from his father, an owner of Mexican quarter horses. It wasn't until the age of 16 that Gonzalez began attending a riding school. There, Gonzalez worked and taught youngsters – anything that was necessary in order to throw his leg over one of the stable's jumpers.
By 1982 Gonzalez was Mexican champion at 1.10 meters and went to Guadalajara where he became part owner of his first stable. It was around this time that the nickname "La Pajara" took hold. La Pajara Peggy was a Big Bird-esque character on Mexican TV. Students and colleagues joked that Gonzalez emulated the character with his big gestures and passionate enthusiasm toward whatever he was doing in a given moment. "One friend of mine started saying I looked like Pajara Peggy, jumping around and screaming. To this day there are people that don't know my name, they only know me as Pajara. My older friends still call me Peggy," says Gonzalez of the moniker.
Gonzalez with Quilebo Du Tillard. Photo courtesy of Enrique Gonzalez.
In 1987, while still in Guadalajara, Gonzalez co-founded the region's first major riding club, Club Hípico La Puerta, with Mexican riders Carlos Alvarez del Castillo and Carlos Valdez Lacarra.
Gonzalez regularly represented his country on the Mexican National Team. It was during those years that he benefitted from the guidance of chef d'equipe Nelson Pessoa, who became both a mentor and friend to Gonzalez. Gonzalez also spent time in California as a working student for Hap Hansen and eventually benefitted from the tutelage of Lt Col Gerry Mullins, an Irish trainer from the army who Gonzalez calls "one of the best in the world." It was Mullins who educated Gonzalez on how to develop horses from novice levels to Grand Prix jumpers. Gonzalez has turned those skills into a business, developing top horses including Meredith Michaels Beerbaum's Comanche.
The guidance of greats like Pessoa, Hansen, and Mullins, combined with Gonzalez's own experience in the saddle, has resulted in a few keys philosophies that Gonzalez brings to both riding and training: patience and discipline. "I tell all my students the horse is alive, it's not like a tennis racket that you just put in the closet and take it out when you want to play," says Gonzalez, "If you want horses to perform and become athletes you need to work them everyday to be properly conditioned and, as a rider, you need to have the discipline to come every day to ride your horse."
No horse has tested, and then proven, Gonzalez's theory of patience and discipline quite like Chacna. Gonzalez obtained the now 9-year-old Hanoverian mare as a 6-year-old from the Schockemöhle stables in Germany. "Chacna is a mare that was quite hard to bring along as a 6 and 7-year-old," says Gonzalez of the head-strong Chacna, "she had a very strong character and, like every beautiful woman, you need to treat her right and let her think at least that everything is going her way. If you make a fight with her she'll win, there's no discussion."
Gonzalez admits to nearly giving up on the mare at the end of her 7-year-old year but then, as an 8-year-old a change occurred and she started to focus, turning into the superstar she is now. "She's so special – clever and smart and has all the qualities I would look for in a sport horse. She's athletic, elastic in her body, and has a super mind. She's spicy and spooky but always positive. I haven't had a horse with her ability in my whole career."
Gonzalez and Chacna have had some top finishes this season, picking up a win at the Longines FEI World Cup™ qualifier in Del Mar and 2nd place in the Las Vegas qualifier. While big wins, for Gonzalez, nothing compares to winning a bronze medal at the 2011 Pan American Games on home turf. "I was the first Mexican to go into the ring in the Pan American Games. When I walked in probably three thousand flags raised from the seats and it was just unbelievable. Going to the Olympic games and world championships was fantastic but nothing compares to medaling in your home country," says Gonzalez of the experience.
As a trainer, his top success was taking his own son, Cristobal, to the North American Junior & Young Rider Championships last summer. "The team won gold and Carlos Hank, who trains with us, was silver individually. As a trainer you see all the work they put in to prepare the horses for that specific championship and to win medals is an unbelievable feeling."
In 2014, Gonzalez launched the San Diego-based E2 Stables in collaboration with Brazilian show jumper Eduardo Menezes. E2 focuses on the development of young horses into top-flight athletes, as well as campaigning their superstars Chacna and Menezes' Quintol, the horse with which the Brazilian competed in Rio last summer.
Having watched the sport develop in America, South America, and Europe, Gonzalez has seen many changes over the years, particularly the last decade. He notes a major increase in prize money and a rise in the number of international competitions as being the biggest changes, though that doesn't mean the sport's development isn't without flaws. "The top 30 riders have access to go to any shows they want, but the gap between other shows is growing more and more. You have the top athletes and also people that are able to show because they buy their way into the competition," says Gonzalez. "Our sport needs to grow into more sponsorships and TV coverage so the organizing committee doesn't have to charge the riders. I use the example that we're the clowns of the circus and we're paying for the show. I think it's going in that direction."
Gonzalez notes that places like Wellington and Spruce Meadows provide more opportunities for up-and-coming riders to have a place at the top, but Europe still faces a major challenge. "If you go to Europe there are many talented riders that never have a chance to make enough points to compete in bigger shows because they're so limited. How can you make enough points to compete when you're not allowed to go to the shows?"
Gonzalez believes sponsorship will be a major key to the future and has hope for formats like the Global Champions Tour and the recently introduced JumpingClash Challenge. "I believe the future is heading more toward private or sponsored jumping teams rather than Nations Cup teams. The Nations Cup teams are going to be at big 5 star CSIOS but there are going to be a lot of shows with sponsored teams and that's going to be a way of bringing big names of companies to the sport."
Gonzalez is also quick to caution that the sport is in peril of facing a public perception problem thanks to ill-worded guidelines such as the Blood Rule. "The language they [the FEI] use makes us look like we are abusers. Many of these times, especially with spurs, these are accidents that happen in the ring. It's okay that they stop the horse from showing but when it's accidental and not abuse they have to be careful," says Gonzalez, adding: "Everybody who owns a horse and goes to a horse show has to consider that we are on the eye of everybody. Riders need to treat their horses in the best way possible both for the welfare of the horse and the effect the sport."
Gonzalez currently leads the Longines FEI World Cup™ standings in the North American Western sub league and hopes to maintain his place at the top. He'll compete Chacna at the qualifier in Wellington, where he's based for the season, and then on to Omaha where he'll compete for the title of World Cup Champion.
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The Dallas startup was launched by Harvard law school graduates Mandy Price and Star Carter.
Star Carter (left) and Mandy Price abandoned legal careers to launch Kanarys, a Dallas-based diversity and inclusion technology startup.(Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer)
By Paul O'Donnell
2:28 PM on Jan 6, 2021 CST
Kanarys, a Dallas diversity and inclusion business founded by two Black women, is getting a $3 million boost to ramp up its technology, hiring and sales and marketing efforts.
Cofounders Mandy Price and Star Carter announced the seed funding Wednesday, describing it as a "historic" shift toward more equitable backing of Black-owned startups. The new capital raises Kanarys' funding to date to $4.6 million.
Price and Carter are among just 25 Black women founders to raise as much as $4.6 million in venture capital and two of only 93 Black women to attract over $1 million in funding, according to the company, citing data obtained from startup investment tracking website Crunchbase.
The new investment comes from Zeal Capital Partners, Revolution's Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Morgan Stanley, 100 Black Angels Fund, Segal Ventures and Jigsaw Ventures.
Kanarys' technology uses data gathered from anonymous employee reviews, company policies and organizational data to help companies improve diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace. It's now working with about 1,000 companies, including Fortune 500 brands.
"We know that a focus on DEI in business is not just the right thing to do for employees, it also makes good business sense," Price said in a statement.
Since launching the platform in 2019, the company said, it has grown its user base by 2,000%. It has not disclosed revenue figures.
Nasir Qadree, founder and managing partner of Zeal Capital Partners, said Kanarys is tapping into a "sense of urgency among corporations and organizations to do better by their employees." Corporate diversity, equity and inclusion programs moved to the forefront last summer after a series of racial and social justice protests swept across the country.
"We are proud to back Kanarys because the founders are enacting real change, and their use of advanced technology and data is redefining how corporations measure and analyze the impact of DEI initiatives," Qadree said.
Women and Black founders have historically had more difficulty attracting venture capital investment, even though Black women are the fastest-growing group of female entrepreneurs in the U.S., according to a report by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
In 2017, PitchBook found that 98% of U.S. venture capital went to men. Two years later, Crunchbase reported that female founders received only 4% of funding in 2019.
Kanarys and another Black-founded North Texas business, ShearShare, were selected by tech giant Google last year for its inaugural black founders startup class.
Black-founded Kanarys, ShearShare break out of the pack during pandemic with boost from Google
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ANDREW SCHARFF: With Pope John Paul II
My friend Andrew Scharff, during his tenure with Circo Americano, entertaining Pope John Paul II.
Andrew and I will be appearing at the Downtown Theater in State College, PA today at 3:00 and 8:00 PM as part of First Night State College.
CHARLIE CHEER: March 27, 1954
The story that accompanied this AP photo...
Victim of one of his own tricks, circus clown Charlie Cheer has a built-in expression of woe to go with the hand injury he suffered at the Shrine Circus in Indianapolis last night. He suffered a broken finger and burns when a blank cartridge in a trick mechanism on his accordion exploded accidentally. Nurse Judy Vandeiver gives first aid.
TOM DOUGHERTY: "Baby, It's You"
We close out 2007 with the winner of the Otto Griebling Award for Solo Clowning at this year's Felixes, Tom Dougherty.
Thank you all so very much for a truly wonderful 2007.
Let's make 2008 even better.
SUNDAY MORNING ART GALLERY: Lou Jacobs by Cowboy Mike Keever
Photos and comments courtesy of Cowboy Mike Keever
Jean & Dolly Jacobs with Cowboy Mike Keever, Oct 2007 Sarasota Florida
I just thought I would finally get around to sending you this photo...it is my wedding gift to Dolly and Pedro....I made it down to Sarasota, thanks to Chuck Sidlow for the Circus Wedding of the Century...that of Dolly Jacobs....to deliver it myself.
It is a figure of Dolly's Papa, Lou Jacobs, about 3 months of carving a block of basswood then hand-painted and to capture that special sparkle always in Lou's eye(s) I placed a diamond in one eye.
The piece is on a base with a plaque showing the title......."Lou Jacobs....my Hero...my Friend" 2007 by Cowboy Mike Keever.
(No it's not a lamp ...the light is just above it in this photo)
I hope this finds you well,my friend. Happy New Year!!!
Cowboy Mike Keever
For more information on Mike's artwork, please click the title of this post.
CHARLIE RIVEL
BOZO AUDITIONS: Los Angeles, January 13, 1993
Larry Harmon conducting Bozo auditions at the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles, CA January 13, 1993.
Top photo: Bozo with Heidi Karp-Briggs
Middle photo: Larry Harmon with Tuba Heatherton in the background
Bottom photo: Harmon and Bozo (most likely portrayed here by Kevin "Roofus T. Goofus" Bickford) surrounded by Bozo hopefuls including Tuba, Heidi and Jimmy Graham (checkered nose).
CIRCUS CIRCUS: Huel Speight and Benny Schultz
It looks like this video starts off with Huel Speight and Benny Schultz performing their comedy juggling as a "come-in" at the Adventuredome at Circus Circus in Las Vegas to "Hot, Hot, Hot" by Buster Poindexter.
It then switches to Huel's solo skill act, accompanied by the Charlie Brown music of the Vince Guaraldi Trio.
FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU CIRQUE DE MONTE-CARLO: Larible, Popov, Princess Stephanie and Fumagalli
David Larible, Oleg Popov, Princess Stephanie of Monoco and Fumagalli at the 30th Festival International du Cirque de Monte-Carlo.
The 32nd annual festival runs January 17th - 27th, 2008 and will feature recent Lou Jacobs Lifetime Achievment Award Winner, Barry "Grandma" Lubin.
WASHER WOMEN: Jay Stewart and Mike Smith
Video courtesy of Captain Mike Heidtman (actually it comes to us courtesy of Lara Heidtman-Smith, but we'll just say it was Captain Mike so that he can feel like he's a part of things)
My favorite contemporary version of the classic Washer Women Gag, as performed by Jay Stewart and Mike Smith at the recent Happy Tiandu AEMI World Clown Festival.
The background music is Jackie Wilson's "Baby Workout" and "Am I the Man".
HAPPY 14th BIRTHDAY, AMELIA!
Baby photo and Christmas card courtesy of Larry Clark. Tiandu photos courtesy of Ray Grins, Erin Schmalls, The Mondays and Kevin Kraft.
From newborn baby to working alongside Mom in Tiandu, Ladies and Gentlemen let's all wish a very Happy Birthday to Ms. Amelia Jo Parish!
ARSENE DUPIN
One of the best things about 2007 (a year in which a lot of "best things" happened) was attending Minifest and meeting Arsene Dupin.
He a wonderful guy, a funny clown and a very inspiring instructor.
Learn more about him by clicking on the title of this post.
POST-CHRISTMAS ART GALLERY: Annie Fratellini
TOM DOUGHERTY: Musical Gag
Featured clown of the new edition of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Blue Unit and 2007 Felix Award winner, Mr. Tom Dougherty.
POST-CHRISTMAS ART GALLERY: Paul Jerome
HAPPY HOLIDAYS from THE ALLEY: 2007
Last year's holiday video showcased the Ringling Alleys of the 40s and 50s so this year we feature members of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Clown Alleys of the 1960s.
With Peace on Earth,
Goodwill to All Men, Women and Children Everywhere
Seasons Greetings and Joyous Wishes for a very happy and safe holiday and a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year to you and yours from "The Alley" and the Cashin Family.
FROSTY THE BOSS CLOWN
Christmastime just isn't complete without listening to the kids singing about Frosty...
was a jolly, happy soul
with a neat whiteface and some stripey shoes
and a tooth made out of gold.
There must have been some magic
in that small red hat he found
for when he placed it on his head
he bossed everyone around!
had to hurry to the train
but he waved goodbye,
saying "Don't you cry!" and
"May All Your Days Be Circus Days!"
Frosty and Pat, have a Hotarini Christmas!
CIRCUS CIRCUS: Sophia Heidtman
Photos courtesy of Joel Heidtman
In the interest of full disclosure let me just say that I now have met, and am friends with, ALL of the performing Heidtman Family siblings (there is one non-performing brother, Zeppo Heidtman, that I have never met) and was very happy to receive these pictures and find that the proud Heidtman Family performing legacy looks to continue...
From Joel...
Sofia and I went to visit our friends at Circus Circus today, and she was invited up on the main stage with Huel Speight!
For those of you that haven't seen her recently, Sofia is the smallest of the three kids up there, wearing a red sweatshirt. (Sofia will be 5 next month).
Huel spun a ball on the first two kids fingers, starting with the biggest kid and then the middle one. Both kids kept the ball there for a few moments, then the ball fell to the ground and rolled away.
The crowd was really rooting for Sofia when it was her turn since she was the smallest, and not only did she manage to keep her hand steady enough for the ball to spin there for quite some time - she actually sensed when it was going to fall... AND SHE CAUGHT IT!!!
The crowd went NUTS!
So did I!
Unfortunately, my camera could not keep up with all the pictures I was trying to take, so I did not actually get a picture of her with the ball on her finger - but you can get the idea. In the last picture the crowd was cheering for her... and she loved it!
Thanks for letting me share.
Joel Heidtman
A very Merry Christmas to all the Heidtmans, the Smiths and the Heidtman-Smiths!
For those out there who still have a problem telling them apart.
This program page may be the last time Otto's name was spelled correctly but Emmett's wasn't.
Thanks go out, as always, to Bill Strong. Please click the title of this post to be taken to Bill's circus history blog YESTERDAY'S TOWNS.
CLOWN ALLEY: Circus Vargas; LEAVE 'EM LAUGHING, 1981
Video courtesy of Larry Clark
The circus scene from the made-for-TV movie LEAVE 'EM LAUGHING, directed by Jackie Cooper, which premiered on CBS April 29, 1981.
The film stars Mickey Rooney as Jack Thum, an actual Chicago area clown who, with his devoted wife Shirlee, cared for dozens of homeless children --37 of them over the years--in the Chicago area, all of whom come back to visit when they discover he's terminally ill.
This footage was shot at Circus Vargas, back during that show's heyday.
Featured in the scene is the Vargas Alley performing the traditional Funnel Gag with Billy McCabe, looking like a million bucks, as the straight man and Mr. Dale Longmire, currently recuperating from recent surgery at his home in Sarasota, FL, as the stooge.
We're all hoping that you're feeling better Dale! Happy Holidays!
FELIX ADLER AWARDS: The Lou Jacobs Lifetime Achievement Award 2007
Video courtesy of Andrew Scharff
Last night I had the great honor of presenting Barry "Grandma" Lubin with the first ever Lou Jacobs Lifetime Achievement Award, in the ring, at the Big Apple Circus in Lincoln Center.
I can think of no contemporary American circus clown more deserving.
The award was announced by the beautiful and extremely talented Ms. Carrie Harvey and we were joined in the ring by Big Apple Circus co-founder, Mr. Paul Binder.
Most of the folks on show were aware that the award was to be given, but the presentation came as a complete surprise to Mr. Lubin.
I'd like to thank Paul and Diane Guthiel for their offer to photograph the presentation, Mike Naughton for supplying the photo used on the award, Jeff Darnell for cleaning up that photo (and Kevin Brown for his offer of assistance), Rik Gern for creating the alternate photo (seen below), Andrew Scharff for assistance with the award speech, Greg DeSanto, Jay Stewart and Bill Ballantine for their assistance with the wording of the award plaque, Don Covington Of the Big Apple Circus for arranging all of the many details on the Big Apple Circus' side, Pedro Reiss for assistance in gaining the Jacobs family's permission to give the award in Lou's name and Lou Jacobs' wife, Jean and daughters, Lou Ann and Dolly for very graciously granting that permission.
And especially to everyone here at clownalley.net that voted and for their support for the 2007 awards.
Mr. Dougherty... we are coming for you next.
News concerning the 2008 Felix Adler Awards will be announced shortly.
Photoshopped photo courtesy of Rik Gern
Forwarded by Don Covington this morning...
Brian Liddicoat is a former General Manager of Big Apple Circus. He now works for MSG Entertainment and is in charge of the touring editions of the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Show.
Dear Barry and Friends,
Charmaine and I were teary-eyed this morning when we received the email and blog of your splendid and well-deserved award. Your persistence and longevity in the character of Grandma is beloved by so many of us close to your career, and to thousands you have entertained these so many years. Your place in circus history is preserved for the ages, and we salute you.
To those who chose you and made this possible, thank you for the well-placed efforts.
Charmaine & Brian
SLIVERS OAKLEY: Barnum & Bailey 1904
Frank "Slivers" Oakley, Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth program, 1904.
CIRCUS HAWAII: 1978
Video recommended by Larry Clark, posted by "RedRedFlea"
Information from YouTube posting...
Circus Hawaii was filmed in 1978 & 1979 and finalized in 1981, featuring the Hawaii prop crew and the International 3-Ring Circus. Originally shot in 16mm, this version is a digital reproduction of a video made from the film.
Directors are Makoto Ishikawa and Richard Hamasaki; camera assistants include Shinichi Takahashi and H. Doug and Kiyo Matsuoka. "Circus" title art by Wayne Kaumualii Westlake; additional titles photographed by Mark Hamasaki.
This upload is dedicated to [circus] Promoter Ralph Yempuku of Papaikou, Hawaii, who passed away at the age of 88 in 2002; and to retired Kamehameha Schools teacher Jimmy Kalani Keanini of Papakolea, Oahu, Hawaii who passed away at the age of 55 in 2007; Jimmy's brother Barney Keanini was a member of the International 3-Ring Circus Prop Crew, 1978.
Mahalo to all involved in this collaborative effort.
ALDO VILLAGRA
Aldo Villagra carrying on the breakaway bicycle act.
LITTLE WALTER/GROCK
Grock was apparently rather, shall we say..."absorbent" in the formative years of his career.
SLIVERS OAKLEY: New York Public Library Collection Photo
Photo courtesy of Marcos Jiménez Wander
JAY STEWART AND MIKE SMITH
Photo courtesy of Larry Clark
More character than you can shake a rubber chicken at, one of the best clown comedy duos in American today, Jay Stewart and Mike Smith.
For more of Larry's photos, please click the title of this post.
LOU JACOBS: With Chris Shelton
Photo courtesy of Chris Shelton...
From former Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Red Unit Boss Clown, Chris Shelton...
Hey Pat,
Steve Copeland stayed at my house during a tour in this area. When I was showing him old circus photos, I came across this picture with Lou. This was taken during Lou's, Pee Wee's, and my last year on the road. When I became Boss, I was told I had to find someone to walk Lou from his dressing room to the back door for each of his routines. I instantly assigned myself to that honor! This shot was taken en route. I watched and enjoyed every time Lou worked. Take care!
Thank you for sharing Chris!
MIKE "COCO" POLAKOVS: Ronald McDonald
Photos courtesy of Tom Piccard
Michael "Coco" Polakovs was hired in the mid-1960s by McDonalds to revamp their Ronald McDonald character, originally developed and portrayed by Willard Scott. It has long been rumored that Mike also played Ronald in the first few national commercials featuring the new-look Ronald.
Here, from January 1967, is the proof...
I have also heard that the "Mr. Muscle" character pictured here was played a Ringling clown. Other early characters were played in the commercials by veteran clowns Bobby Kay and Albert White.
These photos were sent to me by Mr. Piccard from the personal collection of Mike Coco's son, Graham.
For more info on Mike Coco's life and career, please click the title of this post.
THE CASHIN FAMILY CIRCUS NATIVITY 2007
For many years now Terry and I have owned the Playmobil Nativity set and putting it up each year has become a longstanding family tradition.
Since Shane has been old enough to walk he has always seemed to take great delight in adding historically inappropriate characters from some of his other Playmobil sets to the traditional Nativity scene. Last year the manger featured visits from Shepperds, Wise Men, Santa, Vikings, Pirates, Paparazzi, Police and a Mariachi Band.
This year he wanted to do away with the manger all together and thus we have what might best be politely described as "rather biblically inaccurate"... thus Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you The Cashin Family Circus Nativity 2007!
I must admit, the angel hanging from the trapeze was my idea.
TINA LENERT
There are several people doing similar bits, rarely with such clear character, motivation and charm.
DALE LONGMIRE: Get Well Soon!
Our thoughts and prayers today are with Dale Longmire (Ringling/Vargas/Walker Bros.) who is recovering from open heart surgery and valve replacement at Sarasota Memorial Hospital.
Lee Stevens spoke with Dale's sister and heard that all was going well. He should be out of intensive care by this morning.
Dale, get well soon!!!
"You've heard the expression, "ONE IN A MILLION", he's two of them!!!!"
~Bill Strong on Dale Longmire
MILO & ROGER
Posted to YouTube by "patrickske"
After finding this the other night I was going to keep this to myself and use it as "inspiration" for the next series of shows in China, but it was just too good not to share.
For more on Milo (According to Mr. DeSanto it's pronounced "MEE-low") and Roger, please click the title of this post.
LES FRATELLINIS: The What Now?!?
According to the back of this photo, the Fratellinis came to the United States in the mid 1920s?!?
CLOWN ALLEY: Ringling-Barnum, 1943
Taken from the 1943 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus Program. OK, that's Lou Jacobs and Chesty Mortimer up top, Felix Adler in the center and Paul Jerome in his tramp makeup in the lower left hand corner.
Who is the guy in the lower right? Paul Jung? In 1943?!?
How OLD was this? If it is Jung, was this even taken while Jung was on Ringling? It looks like an early 30s photo from Hagenbeck-Wallace!
GEORGE L. FOX: Comedy/Tragedy
For more ruminations on Mr. Fox, please click the title of this post.
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