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So it was to be a re-run of 1992, after all. It seems that even elections are subject to retromania, now. Except, this time, it is 1992 without Jungle. It's Ed Sheeran and Rudimental rather than Rufige Kru. Always ignore the polls, wrote Jeremy Gilbert late on election night. "You get a better sense of what's going on in the electorate by sniffing the wind, sensing the affective shifts, the molecular currents, the alterations in the structures of feeling. Listen to the music, watch the TV, go to the the pubs and ride the tube. Cultural Studies trumps psephology every time."
Contemporary English popular culture, with its superannuated PoMo laddishness, its smirking blokishness (anyone fancy a pint with Nigel?), its poverty porn, its craven cult of big business, has become like some gigantic Poundbury Village simulation, in which nothing new happens, forever … while ubiquitous "Keep Calm" messages, ostensibly quirky-ironic, actually function as They Live commands, containing the panic and the desperation …
England is a country in which every last space where conviviality might flourish has been colonised by a commercial imperative …. supermarket check-out operatives replaced by crap robots… unexpected item in bagging area… every surface plastered with corporate graffiti and haranguing hashtags … no trick missed to screw every last penny out of people… exorbitant parking charges in NHS hospitals (exact amount only, no change given), all the profits going to private providers …
Everything seen through a downer haze… "Mostly you self-medicate" … comfort eating and bitter drinking …. What's your poison?
The suburbs are hallucinating, England is hallucinating. Monster Ripper and Smirnoff, Brandy Boost, oversized glasses of chardonnay at Weterspoons monday club, valium scored for a few quid in the pub , the stink of weed drifting from portakabins, red eyes and yellow bibs.. The pharmaceuticals indiustry is one of UK Plc's biggest success stories ( along with arms dealing and loans companies) as prescriptions for anti depressants are kept on repeat. (Laura Oldfield Ford)
Time for one more, Nigel?
Time, gentlemen, please ….
There is no time … Time is on your side (yes it is) …
In any case, Shaun Lawson is to be congratulated – if that is the word – for what turned out to be an astonishingly accurate prediction of how the election would go. My attempts to refute the parallels with 92 in my last post were as much wishful thinking as anything else. I suppose at some level I knew after the BBC Leaders Debate how things would go – which is why I found watching it so dejecting. (Another rhyme with the past: Ed's stumble at the end of his interrogation by the petit-bourgeoisie was a minor echo of Kinnock's tumbling into the sea in 1983.)
Don't fear …
UKIP leaflets in a litter bin at Manningtree station, Essex, on Wednesday
It seems that the very thing which gave us hope – the possibility of vacillating Labour being pulled to the left by an alliance with the SNP – might have been what motivated Tory voters to come out in such numbers in England. (Another echo of 92: fear as a hyperstitional force.) The truth is what many of us have long suspected: Labour lost this election five years ago, by failing to challenge the Tories' narrative. Yet this failure wasn't about the wrong leader, PR strategy or even policies; it is ultimately rooted in Labour's disconnection from any wider movement, and this is in turn rooted in the wider emergence of capitalist realism. Blairism may have won Labour three elections, but the unfolding of its logic could well lead to the destruction, in the not so far distant future, of the party. As Paul Mason acidly summarises, "Labour no longer knows what it is for, nor how to win power." With Blairism, Labour knew how to win power, but in acquiring this knowledge, it forgot what it was for.
That existential quandary is bitterly ironic given that there is a large proportion of the population in England – I still believe it is the majority – which feels it has no party which represents it. I maintain that the shift to UKIP is ultimately much more to do with this sense of disenfranchisement and despair than with any intrinsic tendency towards racism or even nationalism in its supporters. Everyone has chauvinistic potentials of one kind or another which can be activated by particular sets of forces. Ultra-nationalism is a symptom of the failure of class politics; or, class politics emerges through the ultra-nationalist lens in a distorted and displaced way.
Ipswich Waterstones
As Paul Mason also points out, a return to Blairism will certainly not win back those Labour supporters who turned to UKIP. In England, as in Scotland, it was Blairism's taking for granted and abandonment of its working class base that produced the sense of betrayal which led to so many former Labour supporters losing patience with the party on Thursday. In Scotland, the response to betrayal took a progressive form; in England, it assumed a reactionary mode. Partly, this is because there was no progressive outlet available in England. Working class English voters alienated from Labour's Oxbridge elite were left a choice between a UKIP that deliberately talked up its appeal to working families, and an array of small left-wing parties to whose message they were not exposed and which had no chance of being elected. UKIP were also practically forced on them to by a political media so decadent, so boring, that it counts Nigel Farage as a charismatic flash of colour. Hence what Tim Burrows calls "the curiously mediated entity of Farage, a man whose direct manner, coloured tweed and pints of ale seem made for meme-politics. UKIP are more popular on Facebook than Labour and the Liberal Democrats put together."
Don't Despair …
Failed attempt to photograph a defaced Tory poster in Tory heartland, Suffolk, Saturday
It would be easy to fall into despair about England after Thursday; it would be easy to conclude that the country is full of selfish, mean-spirited and stupid individuals. Yet we have to remember that most people's engagement with politics is quite minimal; thinking in political terms, framing everyday life in terms of political categories, is now a minority pursuit. This is not a moral or intellectual failing on the part of the electorate: it is a consequence of a neoliberalism which has largely succeeded in its aim of disabling the mechanisms of mass democracy. Overworked and told they need to work harder, busy, but sill feeling that they can't get everything done, many are too drained to care. (To knackered to think, just give me time to come round … ) How many Tory voters are committed Conservatives, really? Mostly, they are jaded and detached, maybe voting out of fear as much as self-interest (and self-interest is often experienced as fear).
Capitalist realism is not about people positively identifying with neoliberalism; it is about the naturalisation and therefore the depoliticisation of the neoliberal worldview. The Tories' pitch is in tune with this ambient neoliberalisation, with its apparently commonsensical emphasis on choice, opportunity and the dignity of labour, and its emotional appeal to negative solidarity. To break out of this, you need a repoliticisation, and this requires a popular mobilisation, just as we saw with the SNP.
The Tory success depended upon a popular de-activation (the days of Thatcher's rallies are long gone). There was no enthusiasm for either of the two leading parties. The only party that could call on massive popular enthusiasm in the UK was the SNP. That popular enthusiasm – an enthusiasm that capitalist realism is set up to prevent emerging – is the rushing in of something that, for a long time, there hasn't seemed to be any glimmer of in England: the future.
Don't be depressed …
BHS Ipswich
What hope for a country where people will camp out for three days to glimpse the Royal Couple? England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire. (William Burroughs)
So we shouldn't take the Tories' victory as a sign that we are totally out of sync with the majority of the population in England. As Jeremy remarked to me on Thursday, it is not as if the equivalent of Syriza or Podemos had lost. (Although that was part of what was so devastating – our expectations were low, but reality contrived to go even lower.) Given the serious weakness of Labour's offer, given the ferocity of the attack on Labour from the right wing media machine in the UK, given the failure of supposedly neutral popular media such as the BBC to offer the public an adequate account of the banking crisis and its aftermath, it is actually surprising that the Tories' victory was not even more comprehensive. Those who voted Tory aren't necessarily indifferent to the suffering of the poor, or to the plight of the vulnerable – most merely accept (why wouldn't they) the capitalist realist story about there being "no money left" and the need for "difficult choices". No doubt, their acceptance of this is somewhat self-serving; no doubt, it depends on keeping those who suffer out of sight or in their peripheral vision.
But it is also a fundamentally depressing and depressive outlook. There is a connection between capitalist realism and depressive realism. The idea that life is essentially drudgery (and that therefore no-one should get a free ride) is a depressive conception of fairness (if I have to be miserable, so should everyone else), which has a particular traction in a burnt-out post-protestant culture like England's … (England is the oldest capitalist country, don't forget …)
All Cameron offered was more of this depression: a vision of a man chipping ice off his windscreen and going to a job he hates, forever. Yet Labour not only failed to offer a narrative about how the economy had gone wrong, it also failed to offer any positive vision of what society would look like if it had its way. I'm convinced that even the most minimal sense of this might have been enough to have inspired people to reject the Tories. Yet the fact that Labour couldn't offer it was not some mistake (a few more focus groups and meetings with advertising people, and they'd have been there!). It was one more symptom of the way in which the party has been completely colonised by capitalist realism.
The Tories quickly abandoned the "Big Society" after the 2010 campaign, but the concept did actually point to what neoliberal culture has corroded: the space between "individuals and their families" and the state. In addition to its clunky and uncommunicative name – it was a kind of anti-meme – the problem with the "big society" was that, in the Tories' hands, it was a transparent ruse to dismantle the welfare state. To resocialise a culture that has been individualised to the extent that England has demands massive resources – it requires time and energy, the very things that capital (especially the contemporary neoliberal, English version of capital) strips us of most thoroughly.
Real wealth is the collective capacity to produce, care and enjoy. This is Red Plenty. We, and they, have had it wrong for a while: it is not that we are anti-capitalist, is that capitalism, with all its visored cops, its teargas, all the theological niceties of its economics, is set up to block Red Plenty. The attack on capital has to be fundamentally based on the simple insight that, far from being about "wealth creation", capital necessarily and always blocks our access to this common wealth. Everything for everyone. All of us first.
Labour has allowed election after election to be fought not on the Red terrain of resocialisation, but on the Blue territory of identitarian community, with its border guards (we'll have as many as you!) and barbed wire fences (they will be as high as yours!) The genius of the progressive forces which have seized the SNP, meanwhile, was to have moved from the Blue of identitarian community – and the nationalism of colonised peoples is of course very different to the nationalism of the colonisers – to the Red of internationalist cosmopolitan conviviality.
Red belonging offers something different to traditional forms of belonging (faith, flag, family – so many corrupted forms of the commons, as Hardt and Negri have it). Jodi Dean has movingly described how the Communist Party in the US "gave some Americans the feeling that the world was of one piece, their work meaningful as the work of a class, their struggles significant as part of a global struggle to liberate collective work from those claiming it for their own private profit. For desperately poor and barely literate immigrants, communism is a source of knowledge and power – the knowledge of how the world works and the power to change it." The sense of belonging here could not be reduced to the chauvinistic pleasures that come from being an insider in any group whatsoever; it was a special sense of involvement that promised to transfigure all aspects of everyday life in a way that, previously, only religion had promised to, so that even the dreariest task could be imbued with high significance. "Even those engaged in the boring, repetitive work of distributing leaflets or trying to recruit new members as the official line changed, or chafing against the smugness of higher ups, experience their life in the party as intensely meaningful."
As opposed to the essentially spatial imaginary of Blue belonging – which posits a bounded area, with those inside hostile and suspicious towards those who are excluded – Red belonging is temporal and dynamic. It is about belonging to a movement: a movement that abolishes the present state of things, a movement that offers unconditional care without community (it doesn't matter where you come from or who you are, we will care for you any way).
But don't hope either …
Red flag flying in Orford last week
"There's no need to fear or hope, but only to look for new weapons," Deleuze writes in "Postcript on Societies of Control". He was no doubt thinking of Spinoza's account of hope and fear in the Ethics. "There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope," Spinoza claimed. He defines hope and fear as follows:
Hope is a joy not constant, arising from the idea of something future or past about the issue of which we sometimes doubt.
Fear is a sorrow not constant, arising from the idea of something future or past about the issue of which we sometimes doubt.
Hope and fear are essentially interchangeable; they are passive affects, which arise from our incapacity to actually act. Like all superstitions, hope is something we call upon when we have nothing else. This is why Obama's "politics of hope" ended up so deflating – not only because, inevitably, the Obama administration quickly became mired in capitalist realism, but also because the condition of hope is passivity. The Obama administration didn't want to activate the population (except at election time).
We don't need hope; what we need is confidence and the capacity to act. "Confidence," Spinoza argues, "is a joy arising from the idea of a past or future object from which cause for doubting is removed." Yet it is very difficult, even at the best of times, for subordinated groups to have confidence, because for them/ us there are few if any "future objects from which cause for doubting is removed."
"Class disadvantage is a form of injury inflicted on the person at birth," David Smail explains. "The confident slouch of the hands-in-pocket, old Etonian cabinet minister speaks not so much as a current possession of power (on some measures the union boss might possess as much) as of a confidence which was sucked in with his mother's milk." (Even if the milk he fed on was unlikely to have come from his mother). The welfare state was supposed to be a structure which removed some of this doubt, while the imposition of precarity is a political project designed to remove the confidence that the working class had attained after years of struggle. (See Jennifer M Silva's heartbreaking Coming Up Short: Working-Class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty – a book to which I shall certainly return in future posts – for an account of the devastating impact of precarity on the emotional lives of young working class men and women in the US.)
Whereas hope and fear are superstitious (although they may have some hyperstitional effects), confidence is essentially hyperstitional: it immediately increases the capacity to act, the capacity to act increases confidence, and so on – a self-fulfilling prophecy, a virtuous spiral.
So how are we to rebuild our confidence? While the conditions are difficult – and in England, they are about to get much more difficult – we can still act, and act imminently and immanently. How?
Socialisation beyond social media
The answer of course is that many groups are already doing what is necessary. But these processes will become more powerful when they are logistically co-ordinated (which is not to say "unified" – unity is a strategic weakness, not a strength) and bound together by stronger common narratives and fictions. Jason Read's essay "The Order and Connection of Ideology Is the Same as the Order and Connection of Exploitation: Or, Towards a Bestiary of the Capitalist Imagination" explains why narrativisation is so important. In his account of two neo-Spinozist thinkers, Frédéric Lordon and Yves Citton, Read reminds us that "our desire, our loves and hates, are already shaped by narratives, by scripts inherited through television and books. We enter into a world already scripted, and, as Spinoza argues in his definition of the first kind of knowledge, our life is defined as much by signs and images as things experienced." This means
that the scenarios that we imagine, the stories and narratives that we consume, inform our understanding of reality, not in the sense that we confuse fiction with reality, but that the basic relations that underlie our fictions shape our understanding of reality. It is not that we confuse fiction with reality, believing everything that we see, but that the fundamental elements of every narrative, events, actions, and transformations, become the very way that we make sense of reality. Fiction exists in a permanent relation of metalepsis with reality, as figures and relations from one constantly inform the other.
This is why the intensification and proliferation of the capitalist technologies of reality management and libidinal engineering in the 1980s was not merely some happy coincidence for neoliberalism; neoliberalism's success was inconceivable without these technologies. It is also the reason that direct action, while of course crucial, will never be sufficient: we also need to act indirectly, by generating new narratives, figures and conceptual frames.
By first of all imposing a particular set of narratives, figures and frames which it then naturalised, capitalist realism hobbled what Jason Read identifies as the "particular power of humanity (and the linchpin of our emancipation)": "our faculty to reorder differently the images, the thoughts, the affects, the desires and the beliefs that are associated in our mind, the phrases that come out of our mouths, and the movements that emanate from our bodies." Cultural Studies was also based on this account of the capacity for reordering (which it derived partly from Spinoza, via Althusser). The reordering of images thoughts, affects, desires, beliefs and languages plainly cannot be achieved by "politics" alone – it is a matter for culture, in the widest sense.
Seen from this point of view, the locking of popular culture into repetition that I describe in Ghosts Of My Life – and which Simon Reynolds also describes in Retromania – is therefore a very serious problem. Popular culture's incapacity to produce innovation is a persistent ambient signal that nothing can ever change. Sometimes, it can seem fiendishly difficult to account for what has happened to popular culture, but the explanation for its sterility and stasis is ultimately quite simple. Innovation in popular culture has overwhelmingly come from the working class. Neoliberalism has been a systematic and sustained attack on working class life – the results are now all around us.
Furthermore, the incursion of capitalist cyberspace into every area of life and the psyche has intensified the processes of de-socialisation. This is not to say that there are no progressive potentials in the web, but these have almost certainly been overrated, while the impact of cyberspace in de-socialising culture and subjectivity has been massively underestimated. Here I merely rehearse Bifo's account of semiocapitalism and Jodi Dean's critique of communicative capitalism, but it is important to operationalise this critique.
Blogs and social media have allowed us to talk to ourselves (but not to reach out beyond the left bubbles); they have also generated pathological behaviours and forms of subjectivity which not only generate misery and anger – they waste time and energy, our most crucial resources. Email and handhelds, meanwhile, have produced new forms of isolation and loneliness: the fact that we can receive communications from work anywhere and anytime means we are exposed to work's order-words when we are alone, without the possibility of support from fellow workers.
In sum, the obsession with the web, its monopolisation of any idea of the new, has served capitalist realism rather than undermined it. Which does not mean, naturally, that we should abandon the web, only that we should find out how to develop a more instrumental relationship with it. Put simply, we should use it – as a means of dissemination, communication and distribution – but not live inside it. The problem is that this goes against the tendencies of handhelds. We all recognise the by now cliched image of a train carriage full of people pecking at their tiny screens, but have we really registered how miserable this really is, and how much it suits capital for these pockets of socialisation to be closed down?
Knowing someone in this life feels as desperate as me
Some folk in Plan C have been talking about consciousness raising, and for many reasons, I believe that it is a crucially important to revive and proliferate this practice (or range of practices) now. Consciousness raising is partly about the discovery and production of subjugated knowledges, but it is also about the immediate production of socialisation, of forms of subjectivity antithetical to the always/on-always lonely mode of contemporary capitalist individuality.
Consciousness raising opens up the possibility of living, not merely theorising about, a collective perspective. It can give us the resources to behave, think and act differently at work (if it makes any sense to talk about being 'at' work any more), where capitalist realism has become second nature. The roots of any successful struggle will come from people sharing their feelings, especially their feelings of misery and desperation, and together attributing the sources of these feelings to impersonal structures, albeit impersonal structures mediated by particular figures to which we must attach populist loathing.
In the harsh conditions of cyberspatialised capitalism – conditions that, as Jennifer M Silva demonstrates, have produced a "hardening" of the self, especially in the young – consciousness raising can produce a new compassion, for others and for ourselves. Neurotic-Oedipalising capitalism responsibilises, harshly blaming us, while – in its therapeutic mode – telling us that we have the power as individuals to change anything and everything: if we're unhappy, it's up to us to fix it. Consciousness raising, meanwhile, is about positive depersonalisation: it's not your fault, it's capitalism. No individuals can change anything, not even themselves; but collective activation is already, immanently, overcoming individualised immiseration.
So I present below a number of strategies, practices and orientations, starting from the most immediate (something groups can do right now) and moving towards the more remotes. The list is of course not exhaustive; and I can't claim credit for coming up with any of the strategies myself. The point is to share them, add to them, elaborate them.
The chief obstruction to all of these steps is what, in a trenchant and clear-eyed analysis, Ewa Jasiewicz calls "time poverty":
Our time is under attack. Work will be intensified, worse paid, and more casualised – if we don't have it, we'll be working to have it; mandatory and supervised job searches and workfare will see people forced to spend their time locked into coerced, computerised distraction. A real, diverse, working class self-representative movement needs to include people facing and living these experiences, but how will that happen when we're too tied up working?
Access to time and our own labour is key and will determine participation and the ability to organise. If we can't have our own time to organise, we can't organise, we can't meet each other, we cannot find each other. Work and the benefits regime – which is work under different conditions and profit margins – are key sites of struggle. Solidarity will need to step up if we are to win workplace disputes and strikes, refusals of workfare and support for people getting sanctioned, so that people have more control over their time and labour.
All our commons are under attack. The condition of time poverty and its roots – intensification of labour, welfare repression, criminalisation and incarceration – have to be recognised as major obstacles to movement, diversity and power. These obstacles need to be tackled if we want to overcome the ideology of wage labour as a determinant of human value on a popular level.
The problem is that, in order to struggle against time poverty, the main resource we require is time – a nasty vicious circle that capital, with its malevolent genius, now has … This problem is absolutely immanent – writing this and the other posts I have completed this week has meant that I have fallen enormously behind on my work, which is storing up stress for the next week or so.
The first thing we must do in response to all this is to put into practice what I outlined above: try not to blame ourselves. #it'snotyourfault We must try to do everything we can to politicise time poverty rather than accept blame as individuals for failing to complete our work on time. The reason we feel overwhelmed is that we are overwhelmed – it isn't an individual failing of ours; it isn't because we haven't "managed our time" properly. However, we can use the scarce resources we already have more effectively if we work together to codify practices of collective re-habituation (setting new rules for our engagement with social media and capitalist cyberspace in general for example).
Any way, here goes:
1. Talk to fellow workers about how we feel This will re-introduce care and affection into spaces where we are supposed to be competitive and isolated. It will also start to break down the difference between (paid) work and social reproduction on which capitalism depends.
2. Talk to opponents Most people who vote Tory and UKIP are not monsters, much as we might like to think they are. It's important that we understand why they voted as they did. Also, they may not have been exposed to an alternative view. Remember that people are more likely to be persuaded if defensive character armour is not triggered.
3. Create knowledge exchange labs This follows from what I argued a few days ago. Lack of knowledge about economics seems to me an especially pressing problem to address, but we could also do with more of us knowing about law, I suspect.
4. Create social spaces Create times and spaces specifically dedicated to attending to one another: not (yet more) conferences, but sessions where people can share their feelings and ideas. I would suggest restricting use of handhelds in these spaces: not everything has to be live tweeted or archived! Those with access to educational or art spaces could open these up for this purpose.
5. Use social media pro-actively, not reactively Use social media to publicise, to spread memes, and to constitute a counter-media. Social media can provide emotional support during miserable events like Thursday. But we should try to use social media as resource rather than living inside it at all times. Facebook can be useful for discussions and trying out new ideas, but attempting to debate on Twitter is absurd and makes us feel more stressed. (He says, thinking of the time when, sitting on a National Express coach, perched over his handheld, he tried to intervene in an intricate discussion about Spinoza's philosophy – all conducted in 140 characters.)
6. Generate new figures of loathing in our propaganda Again, this follows up from what I argued in the Communist Realism post. Capitalist realism was established by constituting the figure of the lazy, feckless scrounger as a populist scapegoat. We must float a new figure of the parasite: landlords milking the state through housing benefit, "entrepreneurs" exploring cheap labour, etc.
7. Engage in forms of activism aimed at logistical disruption Capital has to be seriously inconvenienced and to fear before it yields any territory or resources. It can just wait out most protests,but it will take notice when its logistical operations are threatened. We must be prepared for them cutting up very rough once we start doing this – using anti-terrorist legislation to justify practically any form of repression. They won't play fair, but it's not a game of cricket – they know it's class war, and we should never forget it either.
8. Develop Hub struggles Some struggles will be more strategically and symbolically significant than others – for instance, the Miners' Strike was a hub struggle for capitalist realism. We might not be able to identify in advance what these struggles are, but we must be ready to swarm in and intensify them when they do occur.
The Lannisters won on Thursday, but their gold has already run out, and summer is coming. What we saw in the debates dominated by Nicola Sturgeon was not a mirage – it is a rising tide, an international movement, a movement of history, which has not yet reached an England sandbagged in misery and mediocrity. Comrades, I hope (ha!) for the sake of your mental health and your blood pressures that you didn't see the right wing tabloids over the weekend (tw for class hatred): middle England crowing over its "humiliation" of "Red" Ed. Well if they think Ed was Red, wait until they see the coming Red Swarm. Outer England has been sedated, but it is waking from its long slumber, carrying new weapons ….
Flatford on Wednesday morning
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Could social distancing create a long-term shift for the grocery industry?
Published April 5, 2020 Updated April 5, 2020
Masoud Tehrani makes deliveries for Fresh City Farms in Toronto on March 26, 2020.
Christopher Katsarov/The Globe and Mail
Canadians have been urged to stay at home to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus – and for many people that has meant staying away from grocery stores, prompting a surge in e-commerce orders for food and other essential items that may have long-term consequences for shopping habits.
"We don't have a crystal ball, but what we have seen is that online grocery is really a habit to be built – when customers try it, they usually stick to it," said Walmart Canada's executive vice-president of e-commerce, Alexis Lanternier. Amid public-health messages about the need for social distancing, the company has seen record numbers of online orders, for both delivery and pickup.
According to Fresh City Farms, which operates a local delivery service in the Greater Toronto Area, some people are hesitant to adopt such online services because they prefer to pick out their own products. That's especially true for fruits and vegetables and meat and cheese, which many customers like to see and touch to gauge freshness.
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"That's something we hear a lot, as a barrier to consideration for getting your groceries delivered – that they want to pick their own," said Fresh City's chief marketing officer, Jenn Hay. The company tries to overcome that by offering customers a satisfaction guarantee: If anything arrives on their doorstep that does not meet their standards for quality, that item will be refunded.
Ms. Hay predicted that people may become accustomed to the convenience of home delivery, but some will want to return to stores once they have the freedom to shop safely again.
"I suspect there will be more of a blend between e-commerce and in-store [shopping]," she said.
Until now, grocery e-commerce has mostly been a niche offering in Canada, with the vast majority of purchases still made in stores. It has generally been touted as a more convenient option, but COVID-19 has changed people's relationships with grocery stores, and e-commerce now has another marketing angle: safety.
A survey of 1,015 Canadians conducted by Dalhousie University researchers found that, as of March 23, 47 per cent of people were avoiding grocery stores. That means slightly more than half were still going out to shop, even as the dangers of the coronavirus dominated headlines. But the long-term potential for grocery e-commerce is there, said Dalhousie professor Sylvain Charlebois, who researches food distribution, security and safety.
"Based on some of the data we have, people feel more comfortable going to a restaurant than a grocery store, because they're aware more than ever that grocery stores are open systems – everybody has access to everything," Prof. Charlebois said.
The surge in demand for online grocery shopping, however, has exposed the fact that most retailers have not yet built e-commerce operations that can operate on a much larger scale.
Both Metro Inc. and Loblaw Companies Ltd. have appealed to customers who are healthy and able-bodied to continue to shop at their stores – while practising social distancing from other shoppers and staff, of course – so that people who are sick, have mobility issues or are vulnerable to complications from the coronavirus can have access to online ordering. With long wait times for delivery or in some cases a total unavailability of service, many people trying out grocery e-commerce for the first time are finding the experience frustrating.
Grocers have been asking customers to be patient as they ramp up those services.
Instacart, which operates a delivery service in partnership with stores such as Loblaw banners and Walmart in Canada, has seen a huge increase in online orders.
"Our belief has always been that customer adoption will continue to increase and that these brick-and-mortar grocers will continue to serve as the backbone of the grocery industry," Instacart wrote in a statement. "The recent surge in customer demand has accelerated this adoption and made grocery delivery an essential service."
But it is also an expensive service. Brick-and-mortar grocery sales in Canada have been affected in recent years by increasing competition in the discount space. When it comes to online grocery shopping, however, not only are there delivery fees – which differ depending on the service – but grocers do not offer the same number of weekly promotions and sales that customers are accustomed to finding in stores.
"[E-commerce] is going to change the culture of promotions … and that's going to be beneficial for grocers," Prof. Charlebois said. "Instead of being bargain hunters, we're going to be thinking about our own safety, while seeking convenience."
Metro Inc.
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Bryce Dessner: St. Carolyn by the Sea - Making Of
An Interview with Bryce Dessner ? Part 3
Interview with ABC - The Music Show / Andrew Ford
1 St. Carolyn by the Sea
2 Lachrimae
3 Raphael
4 Suite from There Will Be Blood - Open Spaces
5 Future Markets
6 HW/Hope of New Fields
7 Henry Plainview
8 Proven Lands
9 Oil
Never before have classical and rock converged in so organic, compelling and sensual a way as they do in the three short orchestral works by New York composer and guitarist Bryce Dessner on his new release St. Carolyn by the Sea, performed with the Copenhagen Phil and conducted by André de Ridder. The same is true of Jonny Greenwood, the composer of a suite of six miniatures for the soundtrack of There Will Be Blood which rounds out the album. The pairing of Dessner and Greenwood on the disc didn't come about by chance, but because André de Ridder likes programming their music together, for live concerts too. The defining strand of the collaboration is not so much the similar musical backgrounds of Dessner and Greenwood, but more their mutual preoccupation with quintessentially American themes such as the vast expanses of the country's landscape, or a sense of nostalgic longing; themes which, previously, were largely the domain of other musical genres.
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Bryce Dessner and Jonny Greenwood make ULTIMATEGUITAR.COM '20 best indie rock guitarists of all time'
Posted At : June 8, 2019 12:00 AM
This week's traditional Wednesday Question saw the people of UG community discussing the matter of best indie rock guitarists. Based on votes and about 180 comments, we summed this one up into a top 20 rundown. Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood comes in at #5. Aaron Dessner and Bryce Dessner from The National come in at #15. Of course, there's no way not to mention Mr. Jonny Greenwood...
Johnny Greenwood's Junun bring some unique drama to 'Colbert' / noisey
Posted At : July 11, 2018 12:00 AM
Junun-the collaboration between Radiohead guitarist Johnny Greenwood, Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur, and Indian ensemble the Rajasthan Express-were the musical guest's on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night. The eight-piece band (it's been a 21-piece in the past) performed the title track from their self-titled 2015 album. As they were on the album, the Rajasthan Express were the drivi...
Bryce Dessner interviews with LPO before 'double piano concerto' - world premiere
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} London Philharmonic Orchestra guest conductor; John Storgårds teams up with the world-famous Labèque sisters in something wholly new and surprising: a double piano concerto, written specially for the Labèques by composer/guitarist and Golden Globe-nominated - Bryce Dessner. The LPO is giving ...
Stream Jonny Greenwood's soundtrack for 'You Were Never Really Here' / Far Out Magazine
Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood has been keeping himself busy recently with being in one of the world's biggest bands and composing film sound-tracks with today marking the release of another composition written for the silver screen. The Radiohead man has scored Lynne Ramsay's new mystery/thriller, 'You Were Never Really Here'. The soundtrack is now available digitally and you can...
The National writing for new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac / Far Out Magazine
Posted At : February 12, 2018 12:00 AM
The National are writing the music for a new adaptation of Edmond Rostand's 1897 play Cyrano de Bergerac. The play, which will be adapted by Erica Schmidt, will feature music by the National's Aaron and Bryce Dessner along with lyrics by Matt Berninger and his wife, Carin Besser. Cyrano de Bergerac, is a play written entirely in verse, in rhyming couplets of twelve syllables per line. The play is not dir...
Jonny Greenwood's 'Phantom Thread' soundtrack, seamlessly blends with Debussy, Berlioz and Schubert / The New York Times
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} In my effort to catch up on the best picture Oscar nominees, I keep finding myself wanting to buy tickets to see "Phantom Thread" again, if only for another opportunity to hear how its rich soundtrack, by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead, so seamlessly blends with interstitial music by Debussy, Berlioz and Schubert...
'Reflected in Glass' features - Bryce Dessner's 'Reponse Lutosławski' / I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Reflected in Glass is Philip Glass' first concert as Carnegie Hall's Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair, which he holds for the 2017-2018 season. It features Glass' Violin Concerto No. 2, "The American Four Seasons," with Tim Fain as soloist. Glass' work is paired with two composers he has mentored and inspired – Pauchi Sasaki and Bryce Dessner. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0....
Jonny Greenwood makes IndieWire's Top 12 most talented composers in film today
Posted At : August 7, 2017 12:00 AM
In an age where special effects reign supreme, there's one aspect of the filmmaking process that hasn't gone through a radical transformation - music. Some of the best movies in any given year would be sorely lacking without their memorable scores, and this has remained true well into the first two decades of the 21st century. Film composers play an integral part in the filmmaking process, and th...
Bryce Dessner on Q2 - Shared Madness with Jennifer Koh
Bryce Dessner is a composer and guitarist in the rock band The National, and a collaborator on the upcoming album Planetarium with Nico Muhly, Sufjan Stevens and James McAlister. He discusses his Shared Madness piece Gift, how his work as a performer informs his writing, and how he likes letting smaller "cells of behavior" go on a creative walk. The music was recorded last May at National Sawdust as part...
Anna Thorvaldsdottir plays MusicNOW finale / Cincinnati.com
Indeed, it was an evening of three virtuoso concertos on Saturday's MusicNOW Festival program that all drew from the past while reinventing music as something daring and different on Saturday night. A chorale for ocarinas, Renaissance polyphony, edgy modernism, Hungarian folk songs and mistuned instruments. Those were just some of the elements heard in Ligeti's Violin Concerto, a piece from the early 199...
Bryce is back! at MusicNOW / Cincinnati CityBeat
"Bryce is Back!" appears nowhere on any advance publicity for MusicNOW, the annual festival exploring a vast spectrum of new music that is now an annual event presented by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. However, there's obvious pleasure and relief that Bryce Dessner - the now-Paris-based Cincinnati native who has found international success as a member of Rock band The National and as a solo New ...
What is MusicNOW for? / WCPO: Cincinnati
Posted At : January 8, 2017 12:00 AM
Unless you're already a student of contemporary classical music, chances are you haven't loaded your playlist with Los Angeles composer Andrew Norman's 47-minute "Play," winner of the prestigious 2017 Grawemeyer Award. Or worked your way through composer Timo Andres' 23-minute tribute to Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, "The Blind Banister." It's OK. That'...
Bryce Dessner and Richard Reed Parry on EIF / Sinfini
As new Edinburgh International Festival director Fergus Linehan brings pop and rock music into the programme for the first time this year, from Sufjan Stevens to FFS, few musicians seem better placed to reflect on this important sea change than Bryce Dessner and Richard Reed Parry. Close friends best known as members of renowned North American indie-rock bands The National and Arcade Fire respectivel...
Bryce Dessner curates inaugural Sounds from a Safe Harbour festival
Posted At : May 7, 2015 12:00 AM
As guitarist with The National, Bryce Dessner has cut a trail from Ohio, his birthplace, to New York, his home. As a contemporary composer of growing renown, he has collaborated with Kronos Quartet, Sufjan Stevens and Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry (sharing programmes with Steve Reich and Jonny Greenwood), often taking inspiration from American and European folk music. And as a curator of adventurous f...
Bryce Dessner plays 'Classical Edge' series with Alabama Symphony Orchestra / AL.com
For fans of The National, he's a guitarist and songwriter of considerable skill, specializing in a heady mix of indie rock, chamber pop and Americana. But Bryce Dessner also has a classical side, composing contemporary pieces that have captured the attention of major orchestras and string quartets. His collaborators also have included Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Jonny Greenwood and Sufjan Stevens, all...
Bryce Dessner's MusicNOW Festival / Cincinnati CityBeat
When Bryce Dessner, guitarist for international Indie Rock stars The National, founded the MusicNOW Festival in 2006, he didn't necessarily envision the three-day Indie Rock-meets-experimental/Classical music event's growth potential. He simply invited some friends to his hometown with a thought toward entertaining himself and like-minded individuals. Aware that MusicNOW could occur annually,...
Walker Art Center: Composer Conversation with Bryce Dessner
The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is presenting - The Music of Bryce Dessner on April 3 & 4. The composer/guitarist will present new work featuring members of The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Sō Percussion. "Dessner's sensibility as a composer is furtive, urgent, intense-nothing at all, in other words, like his rock band." -Pitchfork Respected equally in the w...
The National to join Cincinnati Symphony for MusicNOW / Cincinnati.com
The MusicNOW Festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a five-day festival, which will include the debut of - The National with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Music Hall. MusicNOW was founded in 2006 by Cincinnati-born Bryce Dessner of The National with the mission to present contemporary music, commission new works and offer artists an opportunity to take risks. In the last decade, Mus...
Bryce Dessner works with Brooklyn Youth Chorus for performance of "Black Mountain Songs" / Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) will present "Black Mountain Songs," an evening-length choral work produced and performed by Brooklyn Youth Chorus (BYC) from Nov. 20nd to 23rd. "Black Mountain Songs" is dedicated to the late Mary Anne Yancey, former board chair of Brooklyn Youth Chorus and longstanding BAM supporter. BAM and BYC commissioned Crossover Media artist Bryce Dessner, along with his c...
Jonny Greenwood plays with Australian Chamber Orchestra / Daily Express
Posted At : October 6, 2014 12:00 AM
Over the weekend, Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood surprised the audience when he joined the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) on stage for the UK premiere of his latest composition, Water. The 20-minute composition is based on Phillip Larkin's poem of the same name. READ THE FULL Daily Express ARTICLE....
Bryce Dessner to perform his compositions at NY's Brookfield Place Winter Garden / Classicalite
The National's Bryce Dessner is back at it again this time with Brooklyn-based orchestra collective, The Knights. They wil perform his own compositons on October 15th as part of New Sounds Live, a free, three-night series at New York's Brookfield Place Winter Garden. The series is curated by WNYC's New Sounds and Soundcheck host, John Schaefer. READ THE FULL Classicalite ARTICLE....
Kronos Quartet premieres Bryce Dessner's '40 Canons' for Kronos@40 celebration@London's Barbican
Posted At : May 15, 2014 12:00 AM
San Francisco's Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet has packed a lot into 40 years. It has redefined what a quartet might look like – and has commissioned two new works for every month of its 40 years. The Quartet continued its tradition of storied Barbican appearances in a one-of-a-kind 40th-anniversary celebration on Tuesday May 13th with an evening featuring commissioned works by f...
Bryce Dessner & Jonny Greenwood - St Carolyn by the Sea | There Will Be Blood / Silver Platters review
In mid 2013, Nonesuch released an album featuring compositions by Bryce Dessner. A little research revealed that Dessner was the guitar player from the rock band The National, but that he had initially been interested in classical and found that more mainstream music paid the bills. The disc featured none other than the Kronos Quartet, an ensemble known for their adventurousness and they gave the yo...
Bryce Dessner - St Carolyn by the Sea / Rhapsody Top 10 Albums for April
Orchestral pieces by Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood (Suite from There Will Be Blood) and The National's Bryce Dessner ("St. Carolyn By the Sea") join Rhapsody's list of Top 10 Albums for April. Dessner presents three pieces of modern classical music here, written from the perspective of a rock musician who is keenly aware of the raw emotional impact music – any music – can have on an...
Rock Guitarists Go Symphonic On New Disc / Texas Public Radio feature
Rock and classical have been mixing together like peanut butter and chocolate since the 1960s. On one side, there were groups like Electric Light Orchestra, ELP, Gryphon, and Yes exploring adding symphonic elements to rock music, and on the other, composers such as Terry Riley, Philip Glass, and Ennio Morricone, and George Crumb borrowed the amplified sounds of rock in works such as "Black Angels" (Crumb...
Bryce Dessner - St Carolyn by the Sea interview with Huffington Post
Posted At : April 7, 2014 12:00 AM
Since Deutsche Grammaphon/Universal Music released conductor André de Ridder and the Copenhagen Phil's St. Carolyn by the Sea -- a collection of orchestral compositions by both The National's Bryce Dessner and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood --on March 4, Dessner's seemingly nonstop schedule has shown no signs of slowing. The composer and guitarist has since contributed to the Kron...
Bryce Dessner - St Carolyn by the Sea interview with ABC-Australia / The Music Show
Bryce Dessner is a composer and guitarist based in New York City. He's best known as a member of the rock band The National. But his work in classical circles is rapidly taking centre stage with new CD recordings featuring The Kronos Quartet and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood. St Carolyn by the Sea is the title of his latest piece recorded with The Copenhagen Philharmonic and released on 28th Februa...
Jonny Greenwood's 'Oil' from 'There Will Be Blood' Suite - is KDFC's Download Of the Week'
Each week, KDFC: San Francisco members can receive a free download from some of the biggest releases in the world of Classical music. This week, members can download the free mp3 of 'Oil' from Greenwood's Suite from There Will Be Blood. Popular musicians who have crossed over to classical composition have been, if not exactly commonplace, at least regular in their appearance o...
Rock meets classical@Bryce Dessner MusicNOW Festival / Cincinnati.com review
Something unusual is happening at Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra concerts this weekend. For the first time, the storied orchestra – the nation's fifth oldest – will present a subscription concert with indie rock musicians. In a bold move, Louis Langrée and the orchestra are collaborating with the MusicNOW Festival.
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The influence of ball milling and subsequent calcination on the formation of LiFeO2
H. M. Widatallah, C. Johnson, F. J. Berry*
The influence of ball milling and subsequent calcination of a 1:1 molar mixture of α-Fe2O3 and Li2CO3 on the formation of LiFeO2 has been investigated. Pre-milling was found to lower the temperature of ferrite formation by ca. 200°C and a thermally stable γ-LiFeO2 phase was found to form in the temperature range 500-600°C. Slow cooling of the pre-milled mixture calcined at higher temperatures resulted in the formation of some LiFe5O8.
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Widatallah, H. M., Johnson, C., & Berry, F. J. (2002). The influence of ball milling and subsequent calcination on the formation of LiFeO2. Journal of Materials Science, 37(21), 4621-4625. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020656618137
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Widatallah, HM, Johnson, C & Berry, FJ 2002, 'The influence of ball milling and subsequent calcination on the formation of LiFeO2', Journal of Materials Science, vol. 37, no. 21, pp. 4621-4625. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020656618137
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You've all seen the photos of the beautiful out of focus highlights behind some object of interest. Now you too can participate in this irresistable photographic cliché! It's all just a simple matter of position and focus.
To achieve the effect in this video, the only thing I changed was to move the model away from the background (closer to the camera) and refocus.


It's fair to say that most folk would probably think of Unchained Melody when they think of Ghost, but Maurice Jarre's full orchestral score is one of the greatest of his career.
The Film: Shortly after moving into a new Manhattan apartment, a pair of lovers are separated by a street thug's bullet. Communicating through a frazzled false medium, the man's ghost tries to avenge his death and protect his girlfriend.
The Composer: Maurice Jarre is the now retired French composer and triple Academy Award winner for his scores for Passage To India, Dr Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia. As you may have guessed, he's also Jean Michel Jarre's dad.


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Markov, Krassimir, Koen Vanhoof, Iliya Mitov, Benoit Depaire, Krassimira Ivanova, Vitalii Velychko and Victor Gladun. "Intelligent Data Processing Based on Multi-Dimensional Numbered Memory Structures." Data Mining: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. IGI Global, 2013. 445-473. Web. 20 Jan. 2020. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-2455-9.ch022
Markov, K., Vanhoof, K., Mitov, I., Depaire, B., Ivanova, K., Velychko, V., & Gladun, V. (2013). Intelligent Data Processing Based on Multi-Dimensional Numbered Memory Structures. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Data Mining: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 445-473). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-2455-9.ch022
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Intelligent Data Processing Based on Multi-Dimensional Numbered Memory Structures
Krassimir Markov (Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at BAS, Bulgaria), Koen Vanhoof (Hasselt University, Belgium), Iliya Mitov (Institute of Information Theories and Applications, Bulgaria), Benoit Depaire (Hasselt University, Belgium), Krassimira Ivanova (University for National and World Economy, Bulgaria), Vitalii Velychko (V.M.Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine) and Victor Gladun (V.M.Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine)
Source Title: Data Mining: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
The Multi-layer Pyramidal Growing Networks (MPGN) are memory structures based on multidimensional numbered information spaces (Markov, 2004), which permit us to create association links (bonds), hierarchically systematizing, and classification the information simultaneously with the input of it into memory. This approach is a successor of the main ideas of Growing Pyramidal Networks (Gladun, 2003), such as hierarchical structuring of memory that allows reflecting the structure of composing instances and gender-species bonds naturally, convenient for performing different operations of associative search. The recognition is based on reduced search in the multi-dimensional information space hierarchies. In this chapter, the authors show the advantages of using the growing numbered memory structuring via MPGN in the field of class association rule mining. The proposed approach was implemented in realization of association rules classifiers and has shown reliable results.
Formation of the intelligent system memory structure needs to be done simultaneously with perception of information and under the impact of the information perceived and already stored. The memory structure reflects the information perceived. Information structuring is an indispensable function of the memory. (Gladun, 2003)
The main processes of structuring include formation of associative links by means of identifying the intersections of attributive representations of objects, hierarchic regulation, classification, forming up generalized logical attributive models of classes, i.e. concepts.
Under real conditions of information perception, there is often no possibility to get at once the whole information about an object (for example, because of faulty foreshortening or lighting during the reception of visual information). That is why the processes of memory formation should allow the possibility of "portioned" construction of objects models and class models by parts.
In different processes of information processing, objects are represented by one of the two means: by a name (convergent representation) or by a set of meanings of attributes (displayed representation). The structure of memory should provide convenient transition from one representation to another.
Systems, in which the perception of new information is accompanied by simultaneous structuring of the information stored in memory, are called self-structured (Gladun et al, 2008). Self-structuring provides a possibility of changing the structure of stored in memory data during the process of the functioning because of interaction between the received and already stored information.
The building of self-structured artificial systems had been proposed to be realized on the basis of networks with hierarchical structures, named as "growing pyramidal networks" (GPN) (Gladun et al, 2008). The theory as well as practical application of GPN was expounded in a number of publications (Gladun, 1987, 1994, 2000; Gladun and Vashchenko, 2000).
Pyramidal network is a network memory, automatically tuned into the structure of incoming information. Unlike the neuron networks, the adaptation effect is attained without introduction of a priori network excess. Pyramidal networks are convenient for performing different operations of associative search. Hierarchical structure of the networks, which allows them to reflect the structure of composing objects and gender-species' bonds naturally, is an important property of pyramidal networks. The concept of GPN is a generalized logical attributive model of objects' class, and represents the belonging of objects to the target class in accordance with some specific combinations of attributes (check vertexes). By classification manner, GPN is closest to the known methods of data mining as decision trees and propositional rule learning.
GPN realization has following stages:
Building the structure of a network for some initial set of objects, assigned by attributive descriptions;
Training the structure, with a purpose to allocate its elements, allowing classifying all objects of the initial set;
Recognizing the belonging to some class of objects of certain object, which not belongs to initial set of objects.
Figure 2 demonstrates the appropriate pyramidal network with the formed concepts based on training set presented in Figure 1. Check vertices PP_SYN, Por_3, 239, 163 characterize class 1, check vertexes 158, 308 and $7 characterize class 2 (Gladun et al, 2008).
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Angelina Jolie & Bill Gates Are World's Most Admired People
Bill Gates and Angelina Jolie have been named the most admired man and woman in the world. The tech mogul and the actress-turned-humanitarian have topped the list, compiled by YouGov - a market research company based in London - since separate male and female categories were introduced in 2015. Both beat out several influential leaders and personalities including both Barack and Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey and even the Dalai Llama.
The list features 20 men and 20 women whom were selected after 37,000 people were polled in 35 countries. Falling closely behind Gates for 'most admired man' are former US President Barack Obama, actor and martial artist Jackie Chan, President of China Xi Jingping and Chinese business magnate Jack Ma. Rounding out the top five for the women's category are former US first lady Michelle Obama, TV host Oprah Winfrey, Queen Elizabeth II and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
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America's Premier Craft Beer & Food Pairing Event Returns to the District
For its 10th year, SAVOR℠: An American Craft Beer & Food Experience, presented by the Brewers Association (BA), will take place in Washington, D.C. Hailed as the nation's premier craft beer and food pairing event, SAVOR brings thousands of craft beer lovers and foodies from around the country together for an exceptional culinary experience.
Featuring a diverse lineup of 86 small and independent craft breweries—10 more breweries than in 2016—this year SAVOR will debut a new Grand Marketplace setting, allowing for greater mobility and discovery throughout the Great Hall of the National Building Museum. For the first time, select breweries will occupy the spectacular second-floor balcony and be paired with artisanal charcuterie, chocolate, cheese and oyster producers.
As guests explore the Grand Marketplace and delight in the flavorful craft beer and culinary pairings, they will be able to meet and mingle with the talented luminaries behind their favorite craft beer selections.
Friday, June 2 and Saturday, June 3, 2017
7:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. ET
National Building Museum
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86 small and independent craft brewers from around the country
31 states and Washington, D.C. are represented
40 percent of breweries are first-time SAVOR participants
64 percent of the participating breweries were not at SAVOR last year
Chef Adam Dulye, Brewers Association executive chef and co-author of CraftBeer.com's Beer & Food Course, fashioned the food pairing menu with collaboration from several world class chefs, purveyors, Cicerones and Brewers Association staff.
Beer lovers continue to support independent producers around the country, contributing to the popularity of craft beer. The surge in interest has brought considerable attention from the culinary sphere, creating a harmonization between craft beer and cuisine. SAVOR celebrates this collaboration by bringing together and showcasing some of America's finest craft beer and culinary combinations, all curated by Chef Dulye.
Member Pre-Sale: Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Public Ticket Sale: Wednesday, March 22, 2017
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Collaboration Beer: Hardywood Park Craft Brewery in Virginia and New Belgium Brewing Company in Colorado will join forces to create a beer exclusively for SAVOR attendees. Each attendee will receive a bottle of this special beer as an exit gift.
Purveyors and Producers: This year's specialty stations feature outstanding new vendors that will be paired with breweries on the second-floor balcony of the National Building Museum. This year's producers include:
Nathan Miller Chocolate, which will make and procure all chocolate selections;
Nathan Anda and Red Apron Butcher, which will provide a charcuterie station;
American Cheese Society, which will coordinate an artisan cheese station;
Chop Tank, which will host the ever-popular oyster bar;
Monterey Fish Market, which will supply a sustainable raw bar.
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SAVOR is made possible by a group of generous hosts, partners, breweries and supporters.
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About the Brewers Association
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4. Add the tomatoes, fry until soft.
5. Add the coriander, mix and break two eggs on top of the mixture.
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MUST FLEE TV: Olympics Ratings Continue to Tank; Advertisers Getting Nervous
Wed, Jul 28, 2021
Nobody is watching the Olympics.
According to a Fox News report, NBC's Olympic viewership continues to plummet to new lows. Less than 15 million people checked in on Monday night – nearly half the audience of the Rio de Janeiro Games when compared to a similar night.
Now, advertisers are wondering if their money wouldn't have been better spent elsewhere.
"Variety senior TV editor Brian Steinberg wrote that the drop has spurred 'advertiser anxiety' which hasn't been eased by the news that legendary American gymnast Simone Biles withdrew from team competition and fan favorite Naomi Osaka was eliminated from tennis medal competition," reports Fox News.
"The size of the declines from the previous Rio Olympics have unnerved advertisers, who are believed to have invested more than $1.2 billion in the sports extravaganza," Steinberg wrote. "Little surprise, then, that NBCU and several media agencies have entered into discussions for 'make goods,' or ad inventory that is given to sponsors when a program fails to meet its original viewership guarantees."
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LOESCH ON OLYMPICS BOYCOTT: 'Meaningless Unless Businesses and Athletes Pull Out'
Mon, Dec 6, 2021
The Biden administration has officially announced a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing due to China's human rights abuses in Xinjiang. "The Biden administration will not send any diplomatic or official representation to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics games given the PRC's ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang," …
THAT WAS FAST: US Olympian 'Turns Away from Flag', Hides Behind T-Shirt During National Anthem
A US Olympian competing in the 'Hammer Throw' competition turned-away from the American flag during the performance of the 'National Anthem' during track and field trials over the weekend; opting to cover her head with a t-shirt instead. Read the full report at the Daily Caller.
TRANSGENDER OLYMPIAN: Goal is to 'Burn the American Flag' at the Podium
It's good to have goals, but this? According to Fox News, transgender Olympian and BMX Freestyle competitor Chelsea Wolfe has plans if she ever grabs the gold: "My goal is to win the Olympics so I can burn a US flag on the podium. This is what they focus on during a pandemic. Hurting trans …


Barbados is a deservedly world-famous tourist destination. Home to the popular cruise port of Bridgetown, the island has a breath-taking coastline and some of the world's finest diving, surfing and snorkelling conditions.
Often referred to as the Platinum Coast, the pear-shaped island's western half is dominated by deluxe beach resorts. The central highlands have some interesting cultural sights (including distilleries and plantations), picturesque villages and some amazing walking and hiking trails. The east gives way to the Atlantic Ocean and is commonly referred to as the 'Soup Bowl' because of its big waves. Surfers and backpackers tend to relish the region's assortment of lively beach-side bars and low-cost accommodation.
Barbados's strong ties with English culture have bequeathed it a genial atmosphere and good infrastructure. The sun shines year-round, and the famously friendly locals only enhance the island's glorious ambience. Barbados is rightly one of the most popular winter-sun vacation stops in the world.
Barbados is sunny and fair, and can be visited at any time of year. The best time to visit is during the dry season, which runs from January to June - making it the perfect winter-sun vacation destination for travellers from the northern hemisphere. The hurricane season in Barbados runs from June to October, but the island is not generally prone to these natural disasters: visitors will far more likely experience short and spectacular tropical rainstorms during this time. Read more on Barbados' Climate and Weather.
- Head to the Platinum Coast, and drink in the sight of the azure water gently lapping at the golden sands.
- The scent of tropical flowers hangs heavy in the air in Andromeda Botanical Gardens.
- Capture some memories by taking photos of the spectacular coastline of Bathsheba.
- Take a tour of the Foursquare Rum Distillery and Heritage Park, located on the site of an old sugar plantation. Read more about Barbados Attractions.
- Try your hand at surfing in the Soup Bowl, located on the island's eastern coast.
- Get your snorkel gear out and explore sunken ships in the clear depths of the Caribbean Sea.
- Socialise with travellers from all over the globe in the backpacker bars that line Barbados's east coast.
- Indulge in some authentic island food, such as breaded flying fish and the Barbadian speciality known as 'pepperpot'. Read more about Barbados Activities.
Travellers can find direct cheap flights to Barbados from the US and the UK. Get more information on Barbados Airports.
Breaded flying fish, served with spicy yellow sauce made from Scotch Bonnet peppers; and be sure to try a 'pepperpot' (spicy pork stew served in a dark brown sauce), the island's national dish.
Drink rum cocktails, and sample the local Banks beer.
Haggle with beach vendors for handmade jewellery, colourful fabrics and folk art; and be sure to pick up a bottle or two of the excellent Mount Gay Rum.
Pack plenty of sunscreen for a holiday in Barbados, as well as some effective insect repellent. A lightweight rain slicker is a good idea, in the event of a storm.
Surfing competitions are held throughout the year in Barbados's Soup Bowl area, on the island's east coast. Witness an island-style cultural celebration at the Holetown Festival, held just north of Bridgetown. The Barbados Food & Wine and Rum Festival is a delight, featuring top cuisine from world-renowned chefs and the best produce from the island's many rum distilleries.
- Barbados's Mount Gay rum is the oldest still-functioning rum distillery in the world.
- The island's literacy rate is 98 percent.
A quintessential Caribbean paradise, travellers to Barbados can anticipate a relaxing, sun-soaked holiday, full of idle hours spent in perfect tranquillity.


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SC/ST Confederation condemns Bishop Thomas
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The All India Confederation of SC/ST today condemned the arrest of Bishop Samuel Thomas by the Rajasthan police and alleged that it was done at the behest of the Sangh in collusion with the state government.Reacting to the arrest of Bishop Samuel Thomas on Thursday from Noida for allegedly distributing the book 'Hakikat' containing derogatory remarks about Hindu gods, confederation president, Mr Udit Raj said the RSS and the VHP was terrorising and intimidating Christians with 'impunity.'
He alleged that RSS activists led by Minister, Mr Madan Bilawar has been vandalising orphanage, schools and hospitals run by the Emmanuel Mission over the last month. "The BJP-led Rajasthan government has arrested Bishop Thomas like a common criminal instead of putting behind bars the goons who attacked the institutions for orphans and weaker sections," he alleged.
Describing the arrest as an attempt to humiliate the bishop and his organisation, he said, "the book, which is accused of insulting Hindu deities and gods, has been written by Mr M G Mathews for Truth and Life Publications and has nothing to do with Bishop Thomas and his father."
"The bishop and his father Archbishop M A Thomas are at the receiving end of the Sangh Parivar's ire for no fault of theirs… The book is neither authored or published by them. It was just one of the titles available the Emmanuel Mission bookshop in Kota," he said.
"The book is one more excuse to target these wonderful people who spent all their life in the service of orphans and lepers of the country," he added. He alleged that the police while arresting the bishop had pointed a revolver at his head to "humiliate the religious leader of such stature and caliber."
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The Mrs. Lydia Johnson House is a historic residence located in Maquoketa, Iowa, United States.  This house is a fine example of Queen Anne style architecture in the United States. It was built during the economic boom years in the city's development.  Built in 1895, the two and one half storey house features a complex irregular composition, a corner tower, wrap-around porch, a small porch on the second floor above the main porch, various window shapes and sizes, and textured wall surfaces on the exterior.  Little is known about the Johnson family who built it, but its notability is derived from the architecture.  The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

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'It's a constant thing for us': Why the Hurricanes aren't worried about a little bit of niggle
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Western Force second-rower Jeremy Thrush laid down the gauntlet last week when he revealed he was going to try "piss a few people off" throughout this year's Super Rugby Trans-Tasman competition.
Thrush will come up against his former side this evening when the Force travel to Napier to take on the Hurricanes and the 11-test All Black was adamant ahead of playing the Highlanders last weekend that he's looking forward to causing some angst and frustration amongst his fellow countrymen.
"Last week [in the opening round of the competition against the Chiefs] I did find it pretty fun to try to ruffle a few feathers of Kiwi boys back home," Thrush said.
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"All I've got left in me really now is to be a bit niggly and piss a few people off. I'm going to try to do a bit more of that on the weekend."
While getting under the opposition's skin is hardly a new tactic in the game of rugby, Hurricanes coach Jason Holland may have paid close attention to Thrush's comments, given that his side were dished out the most sin-binnings in this year's Super Rugby Aotearoa competition.
The Hurricanes had eight players yellow-carded throughout the tournament – twice as many as the next worst team – and Thrush will undoubtedly be trying to earn his team a one-man advantage with a little bit of niggle throughout this evening's match.
Holland, however, has said that the Hurricanes haven't paid too much notice of their former player's comments.
"We're always working on our cog [cognitive] stuff, around how we make sure we're engaged in the moment," he said following the naming of the Hurricanes squad to take on the force.
"Nothing specific to this week or nothing specific to any individual but it's a constant thing for us around the last month or six weeks, around making sure that we understand what's important and we don't get caught up in any rubbish."
While the multiple cardings don't make for good reading, the Hurricanes have managed to keep their penalty count down low this year, tying with the Highlanders for fewest penalties conceded during Super Rugby Aotearoa of the five Kiwi teams.
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That's a major contrast to 2020, Holland's first year in charge, when the Hurricanes were the worst offenders.
While the Hurricanes won't necessarily be particularly wary of being wound up by Thrush, that doesn't mean they're not conscious of how much of a presence he can be on the park.
"There's nothing flashy around what [the Western Force] do but they're really really good at the little things," Holland acknowledged.
"They've got awesome lineout D, Thrushy's going pretty well there. And they've got some experienced old heads there that will make sure they understand what big moments are like.
"They bring a hell of a lot of physicality and intent with what they do so I think that's what's made them really competitive over the least few weeks. They were pretty unlucky to not beat the Chiefs and then to stop the Landers getting a bonus point was pretty good.
"We're under no illusions around what we've got this week; they're coming over here and there's a couple of boys, obviously Thrushy's an ex-Hurricanes, and boys will be well motivated to have a good crack at us."
Coincidentally, All Blacks hooker Dane Coles – who was last year rated as the 'biggest grub' in NZ Rugby by some of his peers – is being rested for this weekend after shouldering a heavy workload in recent times.
Instead, human wrecking ball Asafo Aumua will run out wearing the No 2 jersey.
Tonight's match kicks off at 7:05pm NZT from McLean Park in Napier.
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An annual survey that tracks teenage drug abuse continues to show a decline in the misuse of prescription opioid pain relievers, as well as heroin, alcohol, cigarettes, amphetamines and other substances.
The University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future Study (MTF) has tracked drug abuse among 8th, 10th, and 12th graders since 1975. This year's survey included nearly 45,000 students at 382 public and private schools in the United States.
The MTF survey tracked the steady rise in teenage abuse of prescription opioids in the 1990's, before the trend reversed itself in the last decade. For the fifth year in a row, the survey found there was a significant decline in the misuse of opioids by teens (reported in the survey as "Narcotics Other Than Heroin").
About 5% of 12th graders reported using an opioid pain medication in the last year, including 4.4% who used Vicodin and 3.7% who used OxyContin.
The number of teens reporting that prescription opioids were "fairly easy" or "very easy" to get also continues to drop.
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"The recent declines in the abuse of prescription pain medicines among teens are encouraging. The Partnership has been working for quite some time through both our Above the Influence program and the Medicine Abuse Project to help educate teens, parents and communities about the risks of medicine abuse and we are glad to see continued progress," said Marcia Lee Taylor, President and CEO of the Partnership for Drug-Free Kids.
Despite widespread media reports about the so-called heroin "epidemic" in adults – heroin use among teens is at its lowest level since the MTF survey began. Past year use of heroin fell to 0.5% of 12th graders, an all-time low.
Use of several other illicit drugs – including MDMA (known as Ecstasy or Molly), amphetamines and synthetic marijuana – also showed a noted decline in this year's data. Use of alcohol and cigarettes reached their lowest points since the study began.
Marijuana, the most widely used illicit drug, did not show any significant change. After rising for several years, teenage marijuana use has leveled out since 2010, but still remains stubbornly high. In 2015, 12% of 8th graders, 25% of 10th graders and 35% of 12th graders reported using marijuana at least once in the past year. For the first time ever, daily marijuana use exceeds daily tobacco use among 12th graders.
"We are heartened to see that most illicit drug use is not increasing, non-medical use of prescription opioids is decreasing, and there is improvement in alcohol and cigarette use rates," said Nora D. Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse, which funded the MTF survey.
"However, continued areas of concern are the high rate of daily marijuana smoking seen among high school students, because of marijuana's potential deleterious effects on the developing brains of teenagers, and the high rates of overall tobacco products and nicotine containing e-cigarettes usage."
One growing area of concern is the abuse of Adderall and other prescription amphetamines, which are typically used to treat Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD) but are widely perceived as a study aid. About 7.5% of 12th graders used those drugs in the past year.