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Leila Janah: A Legacy of Service Lives On |
"Work is at the core of human dignity." These are the words Leila Janah used to describe her life's work and passion. A pioneering social entrepreneur, Janah set out on a new path to helping the impoverished through her problem solving skills. Her work received recognition and praise from all corners of the planet, and today, her humanitarian efforts continue. Sadly, Janah passed away in 2020, but her legacy and commitment to human rights live on in the companies and philanthropies she founded. Many of today's business leaders can learn from her example and strive to improve the world through their own efforts to help others.
Learn more about her fight to end global poverty through innovation and how she continues to inspire millions of people, including current leaders, throughout the world.
Many great leaders and visionaries have humble beginnings, and Leila Janah is no exception. Born on October 9, 1982, in upstate New York, Janah would move to California early on. Her parents were Indian immigrants who worked hard to support the family. Janah took on many jobs as well to help out. Janah's parents taught her from an early age to believe in herself and the promise of the future. In an interview with Wired, she explained why she's always had an idealistic view of the world: "I grew up believing in meritocracy and the American dream. My parents came here from India. They had no connections. My brother and I went to public schools, and both of us succeeded."
Leila Janah discovered her passion for helping the less fortunate through her education. She first went to the California Academy of Mathematics and Science. Janah received a six-month scholarship in her senior year, which allowed her to go to Ghana and teach English. While working with mostly blind students in Ghana, she experienced what it was like to work closely with people who possessed a great deal of talent and work ethic but couldn't find high-paying jobs. The problem as she saw it? They had no way to reach those jobs due to geographic isolation.
Janah would return to the United States and continue her education at Harvard University, where she created her own African Development Studies degree. She also participated in the Harvard Model UN and World Model UN and even found time to work at the World Bank as part of the Development Research Group. All the while, she continued to think about the problems she witnessed in Africa and how best to address them.
Janah started her career in 2007 as a professional consultant for Katzenbach Partners, where she worked as a manager at a call center located in Mumbai. While working there, she had another experience that reinforced the problems related to geographic isolation. As a call center manager, she discovered that a young man who worked there had to commute to work via rickshaw every day, traveling from the slums into the city. This gave Leila Janah the idea that maybe instead of putting the call center in the city, it would benefit people more if the call center were in the slums. In that way, she could make work more accessible to people who wanted it. This idea stuck with her over the next year before striking out on her own with a new venture.
Leila Janah's Entrepreneurial Efforts
The idea eventually took flight in 2008 as Samasource (now just Sama, which means "equal" in Sanskrit), a new company with the belief that "Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not." In an article for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, she explained that the traditional approaches to helping people in poverty were not effective enough.
Handouts couldn't get people out of the slums, but teaching people the right skills could. Samasource, founded in Nairobi, Kenya, looked to provide impoverished people with digital skills such as impact sources, image annotation, and photo tagging—skills that had actual demand in the world. Employees at Samasource used their skills to generate data for companies involved in software development and the creation of self-driving cars. The company gives employees a living wage and places emphasis on hiring women.
According to the company, the model Leila Janah developed has helped tens of thousands of people overcome the challenges of poverty. Sama also provides programs to help workers develop their skills in their personal and professional lives. Some of the programs include a scholarship program, health and wellness education, and a program giving entrepreneurs microloans and a mentor. Sama has gone on to real success, with some of its clients including Google, Microsoft, and Walmart. It even raised nearly 15 million dollars in Series A funding in 2019.
Samaschool
Leila Janah found success with Samasource, but she knew there were other ways to help people. In 2013, she founded Samaschool, which provided additional digital training and connections to jobs found on the internet. The goal was to move people out of poverty by putting their skills to use. Some of the courses the school provided include freelancing and digital literacy. Samaschool would close in 2020, but the core of the program continues on as the Leila Janah Foundation.
Janah wouldn't let her efforts rest there. She would go on to co-found LXMI in 2015. The luxury skincare company focuses on organic products and ethical, fair trade. Janah got the idea as she looked for ways to provide better economic opportunities for women in Uganda. She saw that a botanical called Nilotica, which grows near the Nile River, held a lot of potential for use in skincare products. With that idea, she created a company that would utilize the skills of local women to develop high-quality products while giving impoverished people a chance to succeed and grow. LXMI initially employed women in the Nile Valley but has since expanded into South Africa, Kenya, and Suriname.
Over the years, Leila Janah received numerous awards for her humanitarian efforts. Her fight to end poverty drew recognition from organizations and charities across the world. Here are just a few of the many awards and accomplishments she achieved in the span of fewer than two decades:
TED Fellow
Club de Madrid Young Leadership Award
Fortune: Most Promising Entrepreneurs
Heinz Award (the youngest person ever to win it)
Director of CARE USA
Visiting Scholar for Stanford Program on Global Justice
Visiting Scholar for Australian National University's Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics
Founding Director of Incentives for Global Health
Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum
2012 TechFellow
Secretary's Innovation Award for the Empowerment of Women and Girls
Leila Janah met Tassilo Festetics through mutual friends back in 2017, and the two would later marry. They traveled the world, going to far-flung locations like Brazil, Indonesia, and Mexico. Tassilo brought a daughter, Mia (from a previous relationship), to the marriage. As a family, they shared adventures and exploration, seeking to experience the world's beauty.
A Lasting Legacy
Leila Janah passed away on January 24, 2020, after suffering from complications from epithelioid sarcoma, a rare form of cancer. She was first diagnosed in the spring of 2019 but continued to bring hope to people worldwide. Janah even worked closely with Research to the People, a biomedical research initiative, which looked at ways to develop new treatments for other rare cancers. She leaves behind not only a loving family but a legacy of outreach, service, and leadership. As she once described, "True leadership isn't about having an idea. It's about having an idea and recruiting other people to execute on this vision." Those closest to her continue to follow through on her vision to provide opportunities to those who need it the most.
Today's leaders can follow that example as well as they lead their organizations into the future. Think about what type of legacy you would like to leave the world. How will it impact those around you? What would you need to change in your life to match your ideals? As you seek out your true purpose and guide others, you too will be following in the footsteps of Leila Janah and helping so many other people along the way.
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Cheryl Bachelder Saved Popeyes with Servant Leadership
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China announces a system for voluntary organ donors
BEIJING — China has inaugurated a voluntary organ donor program, hoping to overhaul a system that now harvests a vast majority of its organs from black-market sellers and executed prisoners and leaves millions of ailing people without hope of getting transplants.
The new program, run by the national Red Cross Society with help from China's Health Ministry, was reported by the state-run English-language newspaper China Daily on Wednesday. The newspaper quoted the vice minister of health, Huang Jiefu, as saying the goal was to create an organ donation system that "will benefit patients regardless of social status and wealth."
At least one million people in China need organ transplants each year, but only about 10,000 receive them, according to government statistics. Dr. Huang said that most of those organs — as high as 65 percent, by some estimates — were taken from death-row inmates after their executions.
China does not publicly report execution figures, but Amnesty International estimates that 1,718 prisoners were put to death in 2008, the highest number of any nation. The government said last month that it planned to cut the number of executions to "an extremely small number" by changing criminal laws and issuing more suspended death sentences.
The practice of harvesting organs from executed Chinese convicts has been widely reported in the past, although it was only confirmed in 2005, by Dr. Huang, at a medical conference in Manila. The government has routinely denied other allegations that prisoners' organs regularly found their way to the black market, often for sale to wealthy foreigners, and that executions were sometimes scheduled to coincide with the need for a specific organ.
At a news conference in Shanghai held Wednesday to unveil the new organ donation system, a transplant surgeon, Qian Jianmin, chief transplant surgeon with the Shanghai Huashan Hospital, was quoted by the newspaper as saying that the removal of organs from convicts was sometimes subject to corruption. Dr. Huang was quoted as saying that prisoners must give written consent for their organs to be used in transplants and that their rights are protected.
Nevertheless, he said, inmates "are definitely not a proper source for organ transplants."
Patients also receive some organs, like livers and kidneys, from living relatives and loved ones. But many other organs are bought on the black market by those rich enough to afford them, despite a law that bans organ trafficking.
A black-market kidney can cost up to 200,000 renminbi, or about $29,300, the newspaper stated, plus transplant costs. Because so many people are desperate to receive transplants, corruption is a serious problem, and citizens can wait years before being matched with donors, if a donor is ever found.
It is almost unheard of for Chinese citizens to volunteer to donate their organs after death. Only about 130 people have pledged to donate their organs since 2003, the newspaper stated, quoting Chen Zhonghua, a professor at Tongji Hospital's Institute of Organ Transplantation in Shanghai.
Dr. Chen recently told the southern China newspaper Nanfang Daily that transplant efforts were hampered not only by a lack of donors but also by the lack of a system to match organs with a person in need. As a result, he said, only a fraction of viable organs are used.
The new system will start as an experimental program in 10 cities, including Shanghai, and later will be rolled out nationwide. The details of the system are still being worked out, officials said.

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Madeline Margaret Genevieve Miranda Catherine Fitzpatrick, conocida como "Maddie", nació en septiembre de 1990. Es un personaje ficticio en la serie de Disney Channel The Suite Life of Zack and Cody. Es interpretada por Ashley Tisdale.

Información del personaje

Maddie es la bella chica de 15 años que vive en Boston. Ella es muy inteligente y trabaja duro. Vende caramelos en el Hotel Tipton, en Boston, Massachusetts. Moseby, que es el administrador del hotel, siempre le consulta sobre los problemas. Como el sueldo de vendedora no le alcanza para mucho, Maddie tiene otros trabajos, como ser la encargada de la guardería del Tipton y niñera de Zack y Cody, además de hacerle diversos favores a London a cambio de una paga. Allí, ella es amiga de la familia Martin, Carey y sus hijos gemelos, Zack y Cody. También es amiga de la hija del dueño del Tipton, London Tipton, aunque para London, Maddie es más su esclava que su amiga, aunque en la última temporada ya London la toma más como a una amiga que como a un objeto de servidumbre y en un capítulo en el que London se queda a dormir con Maddie por un tiempo. Ella vive cruzando la cancha de béisbol Parque Fenway.

Maddie roba el corazón de Zack, pero ella lo rechaza, por la diferencia de edades entre ellos dos (tres años y medio). Maddie es de origen irlandés y cree en los elfos de su familia. Ella tuvo muchos enamoramientos (aunque ninguna de sus relaciones fue perfecta), pero tal vez el más profundo fue con Trevor (personificado por Zac Efron) el cual iba a una conferencia de estudiantes sobresalientes al Tipton, al ayudar a London a impresionarlo terminan enamorándose mutuamente; generalmente la mayoría de sus novios trabajan o son frecuentes en el Tipton. Algunos de sus anteriores novios son el salvavidas del hotel, Lance (un mozo del mismo hotel).

A pesar de ser pobre, ella viste como si no lo fuera, y su uniforme es una camisa azul, una falda verde a cuadros, unas botas negras y una corbata (que ella ha agregado a su uniforme como toque personal). Maddie asiste a una Escuela Católica en Boston y siempre se preocupa mucho por los problemas ambientales, y no se metió en líos en su escuela hasta que London empieza a asistir a ese colegio.

En la última temporada Maddie ganó un viaje a la Antártida, y cuando regresa su puesto está ocupado por Mia (la sobrina del Sr. Moseby) y por Millicent (vendedora hiper-nerviosa), con las cuales siempre mantuvo una rivalidad.

Aparición en Hannah Montana
Maddie también aparece en un episodio de Hannah Montana. Está haciendo las maletas con Hannah, Maddie le da las gracias por los boletos de un concierto, en este episodio gracias a Maddie, Robby Ray Stewart hace una gira después de tantos años de dejar su carrera como cantante, ya que le dijo a Hannah sin querer que odiaría ser la persona que impida que Robby Ray deje de brillar, pues Robby Ray había dejado de cantar para ser el representante de Hannah. También al final del mismo donde sale con su madre aunque solo se nota la sombra y la guardaespaldas de Hannah Montana la golpea cayéndose al suelo.

Relaciones
Maddie ha tenido relaciones con numerosos chicos en la serie:

Zack Martin (Dylan Sprouse): Como en varios episodios se demuestra, Zack está enamorado de Maddie, pero Maddie de él no y espera hacerla su esposa, aunque para Maddie tal relación no existe. Pero recientemnte esta relación ha sido concretada en la secuela de la serie donde Maddie finalmente logra besar a Zack (episodio "Maddie on deck"). Pero se termina luego, pues no se ve nunca más a Maddie, y Zack empieza a salir formalmente en la 3a temporada con Maya Bennett.
 Chuck: En el episodio "Grounded on the 23rd Floor" Maddie está interesada en Chuck, un mozo del hotel.
 Jason Harrington: En el episodio "Maddie Checks In", ella y London Tipton tienen una doble cita con unos chicos llamados Jason y Kyle.
 Geoffrey : En el episodio "A Prom Story" Maddie intenta impresionar a un chico mayor que ella, pero él solo la ve como a una niña.
 Lance Fishman Salvavidas: En el episodio "Hotel Hangout" Maddie comienza a salir con Lance, el salvavidas del hotel, pero a ella la relación no la convence porque el chico solo habla del agua.
 Gavin: En el episodio "Big Hair & Baseball" ella sale con un muchacho llamado Gavin, el cual tenía un problema de sudoración. La cita sale muy bien, pero no se vuelve a mencionar otra vez.
 Randall: es un niño de la guardería del Tipton y al igual que a Zack, Maddie lo rechaza por la diferencia de edad, como se puede ver en el episodio "Day Care".
 Jack: En el episodio "Rumors" Maddie está saliendo con un mozo del hotel llamado Jack.
 Trevor: Al final del episodio "Odd Couples" Maddie se besa con Trevor (Zac Efron), un chico que primero salía con London, aunque la relación (con Maddie)es más de amor-odio.

También ha habido los casos en los cuales ella y London están enamoradas del mismo muchacho:

 En el episodio "Twins at the Tipton", a ella y a London Tipton les gusta un chico llamado Kirk, pero ella acuerda salir con su hermano gemelo más elegante. Pero Maddie piensa que no es sólo el gemelo más elegante, sino también el más "bobo".
 En el episodio ""Ah! Wilderness!", Maddie empieza a salir con el exnovio de London.
 En el episodio "Rock Star In The House", Maddie y London están obsesionadas con Jesse McCartney. Pero Maddie sólo lo quiere entrevistar para una tarea escolar. London quiere casarse con él.

Curiosidades
 En la serie, Maddie es seis meses menor que London. En la vida real, Ashley Tisdale es mayor que Brenda Song.

 Normalmente en los episodios Maddie tiene el pelo rubio pero en el episodio Castigados en el Piso 23 lo tiene castaño y con extensiones.

 Maddie tiene asma.

 Maddie tiene un Lunar en el brazo derecho.

 Maddie no ha aparecido en todos los capítulos de Zack y Cody, ejemplo: Loosely Ballroom.

 Fue considerada adolescente ideal por su encanto y estilo en una revista.

 Maddie originalmente fue nombrado Lena Margaret Genevieve Miranda Catherine Fitzpatrick.

 En el primer episodio, Maddie usa un uniforme muy similar a los de la mayoría de los empleados del Tipton, con un cuello de "tortuga" amarillo y un chaleco verde con la T del Tipton grabada, pero en los demás episodios Maddie se muestra con un uniforme diferente. Maddie usa una blusa azul con una falda a cuadros y una corbata.

 En el episodio "The Suite Smell of Excess", los personajes de Ashley y Brenda cambian de personalidad pero no de nombres.

 Maddie revela su nombre completo en el episodio "Pilot Your Own Life" & "Maddie on deck"

 Maddie es zurda según lo revela en "Forever Plaid"

 Maddie debe tener algún "efecto especial" en los niños pues en la historia varios han quedado prendados de ella; ejemplo: Zack, Randall, El príncipe Jeffrey, Warren.

 Maddie es una fan de Hannah Montana y como su madre es una fan de Robby Ray según lo revela en un episodio de Hannah Montana en el que aparece Maddie (Ashley Tisdale) como estrella especial invitada. Fue en el episodio That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana

 Maddie es una perfecta estudiante pero recibe un 9 en el episodio "Books & Birdhouses" y paralela y casualmente, en el mismo episodio, con Cody ocurre lo mismo, el saca un 7.

En el episodio "A Prom Story" , Maddie promete a Zack que bailará con él en su baile, si él baila con ella en el de él. Pero Maddie no aparece en el episodio "Prom Night" , donde es el baile de graduación de Zack.

 El pelo de Maddie se esponja en el episodio "Big Hair & Baseball"

 En la segunda temporada Maddie usa maquillaje más profesional, tiene distintos peinados en cada episodio y usa el pelo rizado más a menudo.

 En el capítulo "Lip Synchin' in the Rain" audiciona para el papel de Sharpay Evans, personaje de High School Musical interpretado también por Ashley Tisdale.

 Sus padres todo el tiempo se andan peleando y no quieren un divorcio, opuesto a London, Zack y Cody sus padres tienen un divorcio.

Personajes de Zack y Cody
Estadounidenses ficticios
Modelos ficticios
Ashley Tisdale

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Former Top Minnesota Republican Officials Join Calls for Carnahan's Removal
Associated Press Published: August 18, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Four former top staffers from the Republican Party of Minnesota on Wednesday accused embattled Chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan of running a "morally bankrupt" operation that's rife with verbal abuse, intimidation and sexual harassment.
All four formerly served as executive director of the state party organization under Carnahan. They issued an open letter calling on Carnahan to resign or be removed when the state party's Executive Committee meets Thursday night.
"Carnahan ruled by grudges, retaliation, and intimidation," Kevin Poindexter, Becky Alery, Christine Snell and Andy Aplikowski wrote. "We cannot continue to allow Carnahan to denigrate this organization and tarnish the Republican brand – it is not the Carnahan brand – while continuing to drive well-intentioned, talented, and active Republicans to the curb."
Carnahan has been under fire over the indictment of a major donor and a college GOP chapter leader on sex-trafficking charges, which reopened old disputes and spawned new ones over her leadership of the state party. Several ex-staffers and College Republicans have stepped forward to accuse her of creating a toxic work environment, KMSP-TV reported.
The chairwoman said in radio interviews Tuesday that she won't resign. She called donor Anton Lazarro a "political friend" but insisted she knew nothing about the sex trafficking allegations. She has asked the Executive Committee to take a vote of confidence. But she said wants the party's larger Central Committee to decide her fate.
GALLERY: Remember Donald Trump's Visit to Rochester, MN on October 4, 2018?
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Quicker than you can say, Ho Ho Ho!" here's a special Christmas edition of the Friday Faves. Bite-size and tasty like a holiday sugar cookie, hot and fresh for you this week. ENJOY!
Band of the Week: Not a band this week, but rather a epic Christian holiday musical work from two hundred and fifty years ago, Handel's Messiah. Good background music for work this time of year.
Enjoy the weekend, and Merry Christmas!
When my daughters were born I realized my mission as a dad was suddenly a lot more dynamic than I'd imagined it would be. While I've always respected and gotten along with women, and felt that I understand them pretty well (as best I can, being a man) raising girls was a reality I hadn't considered.
I want to teach my girls to be thoughtful, grounded, strong, resilient, loving, and fearless. When they set their mind to something, I don't want anything but their level of desire, ability, and commitment to be a barrier to realizing their goals and being true to what they believe.
I want their true selves to shine through, to be just what they discover themselves to be, where their dreams are their only limitation. As they grow into women, I want them to feel they are always supported to be who they truly are, the best they can be.
It starts with me to help them shine.
We've been at it for a while. The oldest is nearly five years old, the middle one is three, the youngest will be two in a couple months.
With all the holiday (and usual weekend) prep activities today, coupled with a particularly needy son today, this mantra came to mind. I'm going to use liberally.
Seems to me this could be useful with a every age person really, not just little people. I sure could have used this notice when I was a kid. Then again, maybe I got it, in so many words.
One thing's for certain. I want my kids to be resilient, and still loving, as soon as possible. Not sure the measure, but the objective is clear.
Be ready to love, to give, to rally, and get up when you fall. You have a support group that's with you, but you have to do the work on your own.
It's the only way live.
Another edition of Friday Faves, served up to share the muse, and motivate YOU to have a super weekend. ENJOY!
Destination of the Week: Zaria is a city in northern Nigeria. Why should you care? Because there's more in the north of that country than Muslim extremists. Check it out.
Quote of the Week: "Never Give Up!" is the simple, profound message of encouragement written in three-foot letters on the side of a church I pass by periodically. It motivated this piece on overcoming difficulty and finding the spark to move forward.
Band of the Week: Matchbox 20 was only the beginning. Rob Thomas has a lot more to offer. He's worth listening to. And pay attention to the lyrics. QUALITY.
Meal of the Week: The latest craze in the coffee world. Not a meal, but more fundamentally, fuel to get after it. Cold Brew.
Website of the Week: One of the many resources out there for dads, motivation to set up and be GREAT. After all, encouragement is something we all need.
There's a sign in three foot letters on the side of a church I pass by frequently. It says "NEVER GIVE UP." I couldn't agree more.
I've written elsewhere about the value of accepting and thus transcending the fact that life is difficult. The idea is, once we accept this statement to be true, it's no longer an obstacle to overcoming the challenges that inevitably come our way every day.
Last week when I was out on my morning circuit, three other words came to mind: "Pain. Purpose. Progress." Individually, we understand these three words as they are presented. However, within these "three P's" together lie additional insight to the idea of accepting difficulty, transcending it, and moving forward.
Pain: I've had chronic knee pain for some time. Lately it's been in more in my right knee. The light running I'd been doing in the morning with the dogs is now reduced to a brisk walking pace. But there's still pain. My left knee gives me periodic trouble too, the result of repeated injury and ACL reconstruction many years ago. All that aside, I force myself to get out and go every morning (workdays, at least). Why?
Purpose: As I've gotten older, the aches and pains I've heard about associated with middle age and made fun of by many a comic have definitely come true. While I'm not a great athlete, I've nearly always been active. I know that if I don't move it, I'm going to lose it. I have a purpose in staying active, and that's to stay healthy. I know I'm better off when I'm active. It helps my body, and my mind.
Progress: At the core, it's about making some sort of incremental improvement, that's feeds the twin, underlying goals I have: To make some progress, feeling better physically, and mentally, even if only a little. That progress is at the root of my effort.
I've been here before. Chronic pain is an old friend. If you think about it, it's an old friend to ALL of us. We all have suffered some discomfort, many of us for prolonged periods of time.
Whether through illness, or injury (if we're talking about physical pain), or emotional struggle and even depression due to difficulty in our life and relationships, we all have to deal with difficult times, with "pain" of some sort, during our lives.
At some point, rather than focus on the suffering, we have to focus on doing what's within our power to mediate the cause(s) of that discomfort. We have to take control of our own circumstance as best we can, and work to make it better. Even if only in a minor way, by taking ownership of our situation, we take responsibility, and thus create a bit of dignity for our selves.
If we put these "Three P's" together, they can become a motivator to keep moving forward. Through the Pain, with Purpose, to make some Progress toward whatever goal we have in mind. Through that very series of actions we're sure to be better off. It might not happen quickly, but it WILL happen. NEVER GIVE UP.


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So if you are suffering from drug addiction or alcohol addiction, then you should avail the services of the numerous addiction treatment centers.


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Vern Blosum, 'Fifteen Minutes', oil on canvas, 36 x 28in (1962), courtesy of Assembly and Tomwork, Los Angeles.
Vern Blosum, 'Out of Order', oil on canvas, 36.25 x 28.60in (1962), courtesy of Assembly and Tomwork, Los Angeles.
Vern Blosum, 'Zero Minutes', oil on canvas, 36.5 x 28.25in (1962), courtesy of Assembly and Tomwork, Los Angeles.
Vern Blosum, 'Abgelaufen', oil on canvas, 38 x 33.39in (1963), courtesy of Assembly and Tomwork, Los Angeles.
Vern Blosum, 'Giant Expiration', oil on canvas, 95.25 x 65.2in (1963), courtesy of Assembly and Tomwork, Los Angeles.
Vern Blosum, 'Stop (Dept of Traffic)', oil on canvas, 69 x 48in (1964), courtesy of Assembly and Tomwork, Los Angeles.
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Chatsworth, established in 1888 in the northwest corner of the San Fernando Valley, took its name from the family seat of the Duke of Devonshire. The developers who subdivided this part of Ex-Mission San Fernando, formerly called Rancho El Escorpión, preferred to associate themselves with England's landed gentry rather than with the poisonous arachnids native to the place. As in Hollywood, another formerly rural tract absorbed into the city of Los Angeles, efforts to elevate the tone of the area were never entirely successful.
Companies producing mainstream entertainment, including the one responsible for the television programme 24, have maintained offices in Chatsworth, but they have generally been overshadowed by the more enduring presence of the sex industry; besides many porn studios, the trade publication Adult Video News has its headquarters in the neighbourhood, and sex toys are manufactured there. Most recently, Chatsworth distinguished itself as the place where the figure of Vern Blosum, a painter whose work achieved notoriety in the early 1960s, started to emerge from obscurity.
In February 2006, Jon and Tina Cassar bought a painting that looked like Pop Art, as anyone would say: a realistic depiction of a parking meter captioned with the text 'Twenty Five Minutes' (the amount of time left on the meter) in the kind of plain block letters used by professional sign painters. Jon Cassar, a producer of 24, which consists of hour-long episodes unfolding in an hour of real time, must have felt almost as though the painting, with its image of a finite period time about to expire, had been made expressly for him. The Cassars' notes describe the circumstances: 'Purchased, Twenty Five Minutes, Vern Blosum 1962, at a price of $10.00. In Chatsworth, CA. At a corner storage lot. Due to storage container being vacated. Unknown reasons why. Unknown owner. Maybe due to no longer paying rental storage fees or could be it was left unclaimed.' After taking the painting home, the new owners found on the back of it a label reading, 'L. A. Co. Museum of Art, LOAN CAT 88, MR. & MRS. L. ASHER.' In the course of their first internet search, they found another parking meter painting, 'Time Expired' (1962), which had been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Thus began their research into 'Twenty Five Minutes' and the artist who painted it.
Further inquiries yielded references to three exhibitions in which Vern Blosum had participated. The Popular Image, organised by Alice Denney, at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 18 April—2 June, 1963, included a series of paintings of parking meters at fifty, forty, thirty, twenty, and ten minutes before expiration, with a final painting entitled 'Violation'. Pop Art USA, organised by John Coplans, at the Oakland Art Museum, 7—29 September, 1963, included 'Twenty Five Minutes', 'lent by the L. M. Asher family, Los Angeles'. Mixed Media and Pop Art at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 19 November — 15 December, 1963, included a parking meter painting called 'Mass Violation', lent by the Sonja Henie-Niels Onstad Collection. After these three shows in one year, there are no further references in Vern Blosum's exhibition record, with a single prominent exception.
is an artist and filmmaker who in recent years has turned to writing. His books include Tearoom (2008), "Killed": Rejected Images of the Farm Security Administration (2010), Halstead Plays Himself (2011), Imitation of Christ (2013), and Flesh and the Cosmos (2014). He lives in Los Angeles.
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AWS SDK for PHP 2
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.. toctree::
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    awssignup
    requirements
    installation
    quick-start
    configuration
    performance
    faq

    migration-guide
    side-by-side

    service-autoscaling
    service-cloudformation
    service-cloudfront
    service-cloudsearch
    service-cloudwatch
    service-datapipeline
    service-directconnect
    service-dynamodb
    service-dynamodb-20111205
    service-ec2
    service-elasticache
    service-elasticbeanstalk
    service-elasticloadbalancing
    service-elastictranscoder
    service-emr
    service-glacier
    service-iam
    service-importexport
    service-opsworks
    service-rds
    service-redshift
    service-route53
    service-s3
    service-ses
    service-simpledb
    service-sns
    service-sqs
    service-storagegateway
    service-sts
    service-support
    service-swf

    feature-dynamodb-session-handler
    feature-waiters
    feature-models
    feature-facades

The **AWS SDK for PHP** enables PHP developers to easily interface with AWS services and build solutions with Amazon
Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Glacier, and more. With the AWS SDK for PHP, developers can
get started in minutes by using Composer — by requiring the ``aws/aws-sdk-php`` package — or by downloading a single
`zip <http://pear.amazonwebservices.com/get/aws.zip>`_ or `phar <http://pear.amazonwebservices.com/get/aws.phar>`_ file.

Getting started
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* :doc:`awssignup`
* :doc:`requirements`
* :doc:`installation`
* :doc:`quick-start`
* :doc:`configuration`
* :doc:`performance`
* :doc:`faq`
* `Contributing to the SDK <https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-php/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md>`_

Migrating from SDK 1 to SDK 2
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* :doc:`migration-guide`
* :doc:`side-by-side`

.. _supported-services:

Supported services
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* :doc:`service-autoscaling`
* :doc:`service-cloudformation`
* :doc:`service-cloudfront`
* :doc:`service-cloudsearch`
* :doc:`service-cloudwatch`
* :doc:`service-datapipeline`
* :doc:`service-directconnect`
* :doc:`service-dynamodb`
* :doc:`service-dynamodb-20111205`
* :doc:`service-ec2`
* :doc:`service-elasticache`
* :doc:`service-elasticbeanstalk`
* :doc:`service-elasticloadbalancing`
* :doc:`service-elastictranscoder`
* :doc:`service-emr`
* :doc:`service-glacier`
* :doc:`service-iam`
* :doc:`service-importexport`
* :doc:`service-opsworks`
* :doc:`service-rds`
* :doc:`service-redshift`
* :doc:`service-route53`
* :doc:`service-s3`
* :doc:`service-ses`
* :doc:`service-simpledb`
* :doc:`service-sns`
* :doc:`service-sqs`
* :doc:`service-storagegateway`
* :doc:`service-sts`
* :doc:`service-support`
* :doc:`service-swf`

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* :doc:`feature-dynamodb-session-handler`
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Kevin Pietersen Proposes IPL 2020 Behind Closed Doors, Urges July-August Start
Kevin Pietersen, The Former England Captain And Batsman, Has Urged For The Indian Premier League 2020 To Be Played Behind Closed Doors And Has Suggested A Start Potentially By July Or August.
News Nation Bureau | Edited By : Siddharth Vishwanathan | Updated on: 05 Apr 2020, 08:32:46 AM
Kevin Pietersen has said the fans need not be risked and that the Indian Premier League can be played behind closed doors. (Photo Credit: Getty Images)
The 2020 Indian Premier League, which was supposed to begin on March 29 was postponed to April 15 due to the coronavirus pandemic that has decimated sporting calendars all over the globe. However, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement of a 21-day nationwide lockdown that will end on April 14, the chances of IPL 2020 taking place on April 15 also looks slim. With international travel suspended, the chances of a resumption even by May look bleak. Kevin Pietersen, the former England captain and skipper, however has stated that IPL 2020 should be played behind closed doors and should begin potentially by July or August should the clearances be given for international travel. The main reason for proposing a 'condensed' league was that safety of the fans was paramount.
"Let's say July/August is the earliest, I do truly believe the IPL should happen. I do believe it is the kick-start to the cricket season. I think every single player around the world is desperate to play the IPL. There could be a way in which to get some money into the franchises, into the economy by having a situation where you use maybe three venues which are completely closed to fans and the players can still go out and play the tournament in three weeks or in four weeks. So, it's a more condensed tournament in three venues which we know are safe, which we know are secure," Pietersen said in the Star Sports' show Cricket Connected.
With the coronavirus cases the world over rising exponentially, any chances of a sporting resumption in the near future looks doubtful. The Tennis season will not begin before July while the Tokyo Olympics has been postponed to next year along with Euro 2020 Football. However, Pietersen remained optimistic that sports will make a comeback. "I don't think the fans need to be risked in this situation. I think the fans need to understand they can't watch a live game at the moment and they might not be able to watch a live game for the foreseeable future. (But) what would you guys give right now, to watch Mumbai Indian's versus Chennai Super Kings right now?," Pietersen said.
Michael Vaughan has proposed that the 2020 Indian Premier League be used as a warm-up for the ICC World T20. (Image credit: Getty Images)
This point was echoed by former India batsman Sanjay Manjrekar who said, "The moment we get clearances from all the authorities that matter, the IPL should happen, only because it will kick start the economy because when you talk about the IPL it's not just about the Mumbai Indians, or a Dhoni or a Virat Kohli, there are a lot of people who are making their livelihood through the IPL."
IPL As Warm-up For World T20?
While the future dates of the IPL still uncertain, there have been a couple of suggestions that the IPL could be potentially used as a warm-up for the World T20 that is expected to be played in October-November in Australia. One Australian journalist Peter Lalor, recently took to Twitter to say, "T20 World Cup in Oz abandoned because of obvious difficulties with players flying in. Quarantines etc. BCCI swoops and plays IPL in that Oct-Nov window. CA will let players compete knowing it needs India to tour in summer. What do you think?"
To this, former England skipper Michael Vaughan remarked, "Here's a thought .. The IPL is played for the 5 weeks leading up to the T20 World Cup in Oz .. all players use it as the great warm up for the WC .. then the WC happens .. So important for the game that the IPL takes place but also the WC." The coronavirus in Australia has seen over 5500 cases with 30 deaths and they have imposed a travel ban indefinitely. They have reportedly also closed their borders for six months. There are talks that if the situation does not improve, the World T20 could be postponed to 2021.
Also Read | Sourav Ganguly Says Only Truncated Indian Premier League Possible In Wake Of Coronavirus
According to a report in the New Indian Express, the BCCI are ready to host the IPL in October-November in case the World T20 is postponed and the situation improves by then. "If one takes into account practice fixtures and everything else, there's a 34-day window. A decision on the World Cup is expected around August. If that doesn't go ahead, then the BCCI has an opportunity to slot the IPL into the same period, provided things improve," an official told the New Indian Express.
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Q: Heterogenous List Slicing Suppose I want to do a basic plot of price vs. amount of different products. My input data would that look like this:
P = np.array((1.75, 250), (1.59, 355), (1.25, 330))

Now i can get the prices with P[:, 0]. But now I want to add the brand name too, like this:
P = ((1.75, 250, "Store 1"), (1.59, 355, "Store 2"), (1.25, 330, "Store 3"))

Because I mix strings and numbers here, I can no longer use a np.array as I don't want numbers as strings. But now I can no longer do P[:, 0] to get the prices (it gives me a TypeError: tuple indices must be integers, not tuple).
So is there an easy way to still access the prices in a heterogeneous list like this? I know I could put them in different lists, but I though this way I might learn something new about Python.

A: You can use list comprehension:
>>> P = ((1.75, 250, "Store 1"), (1.59, 355, "Store 2"), (1.25, 330, "Store 3"))
>>> [product[0] for product in P]
[1.75, 1.59, 1.25]

A: Use a struct array; start here

A: What about using map and a lambda expression?
>>> P = ((1.75, 250, "Store 1"), (1.59, 355, "Store 2"), (1.25, 330, "Store 3"))
>>> price = map(lambda x: x[0], P)
>>> price
[1.75, 1.59, 1.25]

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'Operation Mincemeat': Matthew Macfadyen, Penelope Wilton, Johnny Flynn & Tom Wilkinson Join WWII Drama
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Matthew Macfadyen (Succession), Penelope Wilton (Downton Abbey), Johnny Flynn (Beast) and Tom Wilkinson (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) are joining Colin Firth and Kelly Macdonald in John Madden's WWII drama Operation Mincemeat, which reunites Firth with The King's Speech producer See-Saw Films.
Also joining the cast are Hattie Morahan (Official Secrets), Simon Russell Beale (Mary Queen Of Scots), Paul Ritter (Chernobyl) and Mark Gatiss (Sherlock). Filming is set to start later this month in London and Spain.
Michelle Ashford (Masters of Sex) has adapted the screenplay based on the best-selling Ben McIntyre book of the same name.
Set in 1943, the film follows two brilliant intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Macfadyen) who conceived a plan that was dubbed Operation Mincemeat. They would trick the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece rather than Sicily. Their plan was to get a corpse, equip it with misleading papers, then drop it off the coast of Spain where Nazi spies would take the bait.
'Riviera' Producer Archery Pictures Hires Working Title's Georgina Gordon-Smith As Development Chief
A See-Saw Films and Cohen Media Group production, in association with Archery Pictures, the feature is being produced by Charles S. Cohen, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman and Kris Thykier. Simon Gillis, See-Saw's COO of Film, will serve as executive producer. Jina Jay led casting.
FilmNation Entertainment alongside See-Saw's in-house sales arm, Cross City Films, sold out international territories at this year's Cannes Film Festival, with Warner Bros acquiring several key markets, including the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Benelux. Cross City Films and CAA Media Finance are co-repping U.S. rights.
Director Madden said, "Ben Macintyre's book presents an irresistible range of characters navigating a world suspended between unreliable fact and enticing fiction, and demands a cast to match. I'm very excited about the ensemble that we've been able to bring together – a credit to Michelle's Ashford's rich and surprising script, which tells an extraordinary and thrilling story in unexpectedly human terms."
Macfadyen is represented by UTA in the US and Hamilton Hodell in the UK Penelope Wilton is represented by Independent Talent Group Johnny Flynn is represented by CAA in the US and United Agents in the UK Tom Wilkinson is represented by Lou Coulson Associates. The Daily Mail was first out with the additional casting.
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African American and Latino borrowers in Philadelphia are more likely to get turned down for a conventional home purchase loan by TD Bank than any other major mortgage lender.
The Massachusetts Democrat, who helped create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has railed against modern-day redlining since a February expose by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting. Reveal found 61 cities where people of color were more likely to be denied a home mortgage than their white counterparts, even when they had the same income, sought the same size loan or wanted to buy in the same neighborhood.
Anti-redlining provisions are part of a much larger bill Warren called the American Housing and Economic Mobility Act. It aims to ease access to owning or renting a home through a combination of government regulation, zoning reform and billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies for poor and working-class families.
The bill is likely to receive a hostile reaction from the banking industry. In a statement, a spokesperson from the American Bankers Association said the trade group is still reviewing the 67-page bill but is "keenly interested in the nation's housing policy." Another trade group, the Mortgage Bankers Association, did not respond to a request for comment.
The reforms in the proposed legislation would be funded by dramatically increasing the estate tax on families with inheritances of more than $3.5 million. Because of this, Warren's bill is essentially dead on arrival in the Republican-controlled Senate. Even if Democrats retake control of Congress in November, it's unlikely the bill would be signed into law by President Donald Trump.
But the effort is being taken seriously by political observers, in part because Warren is a potential presidential candidate, and it also provides a populist vision for an economic future that may be embraced by Democrat voters.
Warren commissioned an independent analysis of the legislation, which found the bill would lead to the construction or rehabilitation of 3 million housing units over the next decade, close the gap between housing demand and supply, create 1.5 million new jobs, and lower rents for lower- and middle-class families by an average of $100 a month. The analysis was performed by Mark Zandi, chief economist of the nonpartisan Moody's Analytics.
The bill "would go a long way toward addressing this mounting housing crisis," Zandi said.
Earlier this year, Warren took to the floor of the Senate, calling the findings of Reveal's investigation "disgraceful" and saying they "should make us all sick to our stomachs." She sent letters to federal banking regulators and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson asking what they were doing to solve the problem. She also grilled Carson in a Senate Banking Committee hearing on Capitol Hill.
Warren spent months crafting the legislation, consulting with civil rights groups, academics and industry groups. Her goal was to deliver more affordable housing to lower-income residents while providing a path to homeownership for people of color living in communities where banks and other mortgage lenders have long failed to lend.
At the center of the bill are massive new government investments in housing targeted at groups left behind by the economic recovery.
Among the proposed new federal programs is down payment assistance on home loans for long-time residents of neighborhoods that were "redlined" from the 1930s to the 1960s, when the federal government discouraged banks from lending in communities with large numbers of immigrants and African Americans. As a result of those policies, people of color were largely cut out of the New Deal programs like the GI Bill which propelled millions of lower and working-class whites into the middle class.
"Housing wealth has a huge generational component to it," Warren told Reveal. "Grandma and Grandpa buy a house. …. House values go up over time. They take money out of the house to start a small business or if they want to send a kid to school. If they're wealthy enough to be able to live in the house until they die, they pass that wealth onto the next generation, and the next generation does better, buying a nicer house.
The proposed legislation also restructures the Community Reinvestment Act to include credit unions and independent mortgage companies. The 1977 federal law was designed to fight redlining by requiring banks to lend to all communities, particularly poor and working-class ones. Currently the law only applies to banks and only in areas where they have a branch that takes deposits.
"If passed, this would be the first act of legislation since the 1968 Fair Housing Act to redress a century of housing discrimination," Mehrsa Baradaran, a professor at the University of Georgia and author of the book "The Color of Money," wrote in a letter to Warren.
"By focusing on down payment assistance, CRA reform, and non-discriminatory housing vouchers, this legislation will not only help families buy affordable homes, but it will also build community wealth," she wrote.
Consumer groups say extending the Community Reinvestment Act to non-bank lenders is particularly important because these institutions make up an increasing share of the mortgage market.
Earlier this year, Reveal exposed that a group of mortgage companies controlled by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway made the overwhelming majority of their loans to white borrowers in white neighborhoods in ethnically diverse metro areas including Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Washington, DC. The companies helped nearly 6,000 families buy homes in those cities in 2015 and 2016, but escaped regulation under the Community Reinvestment Act because they are not banks.
Reveal reported that America's largest bank, JPMorgan Chase, in Washington, D.C., was not regulated under the Community Reinvestment Act because its only lending office in the city was a "private bank" office that serves wealthy clients rather than a deposit-taking branch for the public. The bank turned away 26 percent of African Americans and 18 percent of Latinos who sought conventional home purchase loans in the DC area in 2015 and 2016. It denied 7 percent of applications from white homebuyers. Chase has since announced a major expansion of branches in the nation's capital.
Reveal reported on loopholes in the Community Reinvestment Act in February. Among them, the law is race-neutral. That means banks can claim credit for lending to poor and working-class neighborhoods of color by focusing their lending on wealthy white newcomers who drive gentrification and displace long-time residents who the law was designed to help.
The bill does not add race as a factor under the Community Reinvestment Act. But the down-payment subsidies would only be available to residents who had lived in a formerly redlined neighborhood for at least five years.
Credit unions, which also would be forced to lend to the poor, oppose the bill.
Ryan Donovan, the association's chief advocacy officer, said credit unions are already meeting the needs of their communities so any added regulation would make it more expensive for them and their customers.
The Trump administration is moving in the opposite direction, seeking to weaken provisions of the Community Reinvestment Act. Last month, the nation's top bank cop, the Comptroller of the Currency, proposed new rules that would give banks flexibility in how they meet their obligations under the 40-year-old law. Housing advocates have said these changes to the Community Reinvestment Act would come at the expense of poor and working-class neighborhoods because they would allow banks to choose which communities to serve. A spokesman for the federal banking regulator declined to comment on the bill.
The American Bankers Association has supported the Trump administration's plan. In its statement to Reveal, the group said it remained interested in "modernizing" the Community Reinvestment Act.
In addition, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, under the leadership of Carson, has been trying to jettison a tool called "disparate impact," which the government has used to file fair lending cases.
The standard, used during the Obama administration and upheld in a 2015 Supreme Court decision, allows prosecutors and civil rights groups to use statistical analysis to prove patterns of discrimination. Reveal used these techniques, which have also been deployed by the Justice Department, in its February investigation.
Aaron Glantz can be reached at aglantz@revealnews.org, and Emmanuel Martinez can be reached at emartinez@revealnews.org. Follow them on Twitter: @Aaron_Glantz and @eman_thedataman.
This story originally inaccurately described the financial impact of Warren's bill on estate taxes. The story has been corrected.


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Tesla will now charge to use its Supercharger network to expand it (and because people are irrational)
Charging for minimum wage
By Michael J. Coren
Climate and emerging industries editor
Published November 7, 2016 This article is more than 2 years old.
Tesla will no longer offer free lifetime electricity from its charging stations to new Tesla owners. The company announced on Nov. 7 that it plans to charge a small fee for new Tesla owners to recharge at Superchargers so the company can reinvest in its network, improve the Supercharging experience, and accelerate growth.
Until now, Tesla's Supercharger policy has been "free for the life of your Tesla vehicle" for owners of premium models of the Model S and Model X (Tesla said earlier this year the Model 3, which is still on preorder, will not include this perk). After Jan. 1, 2017, new owners get an annual allotment of 400 kWh of free Supercharging credits (roughly 1,000 miles) before being charged. Tesla has not yet said what it will cost.
Telsa designed its Superchargers to enable long-distance travel. Its network of 4,600 Superchargers allows drivers to quickly recharge their batteries across the continental US, Europe, and parts of China and Japan. Superchargers add about 170 miles of range in roughly 30 minutes.
Tesla's Supercharger network in the US and Europe
By removing the "free" electricity option, Tesla is also hoping to stop some of its customers' economically irrational behavior. "If [people] do math on the value of their time," said Tesla CTO JB Straubel at the company's annual shareholder meeting this March, using a a Supercharger station "makes no sense."
"Time and time again, we see people drive to a Supercharger station, sit in their car, wait there for 20 to 30 minutes and then drive off to a different destination," he said. "It pains us to see people mis-valuing their time at Supercharger stations so often."
CEO Elon Musk agreed. At the shareholder meeting, he said people were acting out of habit because they had filled up their previous cars at gas stations. "The best thing to do with an electric vehicle is charge your car where you charge your phone," he said. "Would you really take your phone to a gas station?" Given that the electricity cost of recharging a Tesla is about $5, waiting for half an hour is "barely minimum wage," said Musk. "It's just not the best thing for people to do."


Mia Scharphie is a creative agent of change, a do-er and big-picture thinker. She founded Build Yourself to help women in creative fields move past the obstacles that hold them back in in their careers, and to make those workplaces better places for women's talent. She has unleashed the potential of hundreds of creative women through her coaching, trainings and talks.
Mia is a trained facilitator and has worked on women's advocacy for over fifteen years. She's run a research effort on women in social impact design for the Harvard Business School, is a founding member of the Equity Roundtable at the Boston of Architects, and was named as one of Impact Design Hub's Social Impact Design 40 under 40. Mia received degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Brown University. Her writings on issues of equity in design have been published in the Christian Science Monitor and GOOD.


Madera, California is located in Madera County and is home to 50,380 people. This year 15 people will die from alcohol and 5 will loose their lives from drug use.
There are 2,650 marijuana users, 1,160 people who abuse prescription medications, 435 cocaine addicts and 30 heroin users in Madera, California.
There will be 340 arrests this year for drug charges and 255 people for DUIs.


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MAR 2013 Issue
Film In Conversation
IT'S ALRIGHT, WILLIAMSBURG
(I'M ONLY BLEEDING)
SU FRIEDRICH with Cynthia Lugo
At Film Forum
GUT RENOVATION OPENS
The filmmaker Su Friedrich used to live in a loft on 118 North 11th Street. It's one of the more trafficked sidewalks in Williamsburg. Brooklyn Brewery is across the street, and the clothes reseller Beacon's Closet is half a block away. Just around the corner is the newly opened Wythe Hotel, where one can rent a loft-style room for $495 dollars per night.
Gut Renovation. Courtesy of Su Friedrich/Outcast Films.
Walking around the neighborhood with Friedrich as we discuss her film Gut Renovation, she points out the many new luxury condos with the alacrity of a real-estate agent. She has been inside several of them, posing as a prospective homeowner to see exactly what is being sold, a lifestyle altogether different from her modest life as an artist. Needless to say, she isn't buying.
Gut Renovation chronicles the rapid transformation of Williamsburg as well as Friedrich's memories of a place she can no longer call home. It is a diary as well as an indictment of the collusion of corporate greed and government that has destroyed the character of the neighborhood. Though grim, the film is punctuated by moments of gallows humor. At one point, Friedrich spray paints the wall of a construction site with the slogan, "Artists Used to Live Here." It's both a jab at new residents and a gravestone for the community that has moved on.
Cynthia Lugo (Rail): Your film is very successful at charting the destruction and redevelopment of Williamsburg, as well as your personal struggle to stay in your own house. How did you balance these two angles throughout the film?
Su Friedrich: I have been known to make very personal work. But I've also been known to deal a lot with form, and I've always felt like I owe it to my audience to speak honestly about my emotional situation. Also, I love film, and I love what film can do when it's being unconventional. In the case of this film, I recognized that I was going to be telling something personal, but I also was going to be talking about a very large political and economic story. I was trying to keep the two things in view, and one was trying to balance this personal or more general story, and telling it clearly the way a documentary might, but allowing it to be more playful, or unpredictable in structure than a regular documentary. But I'm also very out there with my emotions, and in this film I got to indulge or take advantage of both sides of myself. On the emotional side I was very angry about what was happening. I was also really sad, and those are two different emotions. When my partner, Cathy Quinlan, started looking at the film she brought a lot of humor into it, which was crucial.
Rail: Your outrage is palpable throughout the film. You share that your "crazy anger" started when one of your favorite buildings was demolished. Do you think the film harnessed your anger in a productive way?
Friedrich: Anger was a large motivating factor in making this film, as well as my memory of what happened in the East Village back in the '80s. I lived there and then it started changing; I thought I would remember what had been there, and then I forgot. And I was really shocked that within a year or two I didn't remember whether that place was the old butcher shop or the old bakery. When this started happening, I thought, "My god, it is so easy for us to forget."
Anger can be a great motivator, but you can't continue feeding off of anger—more things have to enter into it. In trying to construct the film there were other emotions in play. It was really amazing to me that three years later, when I was looking at the footage of the building across the street being torn down, I started crying again. That sense of loss takes a long time to go away, if it ever goes away. And so I would say that in the course of editing I recognized my sadness more and more. But I had to keep making this film; I couldn't just dissolve into grief.
Rail: This film is the culmination of many years of footage—at what point in the process did you know you were making a film?
Friedrich: I started documenting in late 2005, early 2006. The rezoning took place May 2005. Towards the end of 2006 I knew it was a story I wanted to tell.
Rail: In 2005, when industrial Williamsburg was rezoned for residential use, you started recording every demolition and development west of the B.Q.E. I'm curious about what this ritual was like for you on a day-to-day basis.
Friedrich: I had lived in the neighborhood for 15 years and I knew every street like the back of my hand. I felt a little bit like a journalist doing research, and it was daunting—I had to tell myself that I had to be thorough. As the scale of it increased I realized I was up against a mammoth project.
Rail: For me, your film is very effective at debunking two myths, the first one being that gentrification is a slow, gradual, and inevitable process of change; and the second, that artists catalyze the gentrification process.
Friedrich: I think gentrification is a very complex and very thorny issue. And depending on what neighborhood you're talking about there are differences. People compare Williamsburg to SoHo because SoHo was the classic example, and SoHo didn't get transformed by an edict from the city; it was more organic and more gradual in some ways, but of course it has become what Williamsburg has become: a place for the very rich with very expensive stores and very few art galleries. But what took 25 years in Soho took Williamsburg 5 years.
But I really question this idea that artists ruin a neighborhood. What it implies is that the artists want that transformation to happen. It suggests that artists are "willing" to move into a less desirable neighborhood, but then they want it to be really comfortable and full of amenities, and I don't think that's the case. What I see happen in Williamsburg (and also in Chinatown and Lower East Side) is this:
You have a city like New York, that's filled with artists. They need a place to work as well as to live. Usually artists need bigger places—they can't work in a tiny apartment. I've lived in a tiny storefront on North 9th street when I started making films, but I was able to go to the Millennium Film Workshop to edit. We find places to work, often in industrial spaces. In the case of Williamsburg, a lot of those industrial spaces were not being used. The reason for that is because the city was already making it unaffordable for industries to be in those properties. You have an ignorant population—the artists—seeing those empty spaces available, and also knowing that they're not supposed to legally live there, but having all these landlords let them live there. They are, for the most part, living around the existing industries. That was certainly the case for us. We lived near a woodshop that ran industrial table saws all day long, and we put up with it, because we needed a place to live and work.
But then marketing people and developers and people like Bloomberg who are only out to make money turn it into something to sell to other people. And that is not the fault of the artists, or the other families who have been living in the neighborhoods and maintaining the basic amenities. All these people with money and political power turn it into something to sell. It's really weird to me that the artists get blamed.
But there's a way in which marketing people can use artists as a groovy selling point. So artists are being totally used by the people with money, and then they're being thrown out. The thinking is that it's inevitable. And it's not.
And that's why I included all those comments at the end of the film of people saying "Fuck Artists." I can't help thinking that every artist I know moved to New York because this city was the art capital of the world. If you do not have a city that supports artists living here, artists will not live here anymore. Young people are moving to Philly, to Portland, to Chicago, to Atlanta, to Berlin—they are not moving to New York.
To anyone who says gentrification is the fault of artists, I say, "Fuck you." Artists have been living and struggling in this city as long as I've been here, which is 36 years.
Rail: Throughout the film you seem resigned towards the process of citizen action; there's a "we're screwed" mentality that pervades the film. On the one hand, I thought it was honest, because it's an accurate reflection of how few rights tenants actually have. On the other, the film offers almost no alternatives on how to challenge the system.
Friedrich: For starters, I would say that I am not a social activist as a filmmaker. I very much admire films that try to mobilize people about an issue. Take something like Kelly Anderson's My Brooklyn, that really tries to educate people about what happened in Downtown Brooklyn, and how one might think about it in the future. And then you have a film like Battle for Brooklyn, which is astonishing in its portrayal of the efforts made by all of these tenants to combat Atlantic Yards. They're both really fantastic films, but that's not the kind of film I was making. I think I recognize my limitations; my concerns as a filmmaker are different than my concerns as a citizen. Though I have been involved in a lot of different activist groups, I never feel like my films are part of that process. They are of course informed by the part of me that's a political being, but I don't think of them as tools. In this case, I wanted to paint a portrait of a time and an experience, and let people make of it what they will.
I think you're right in saying that there's a general sentiment of "we're screwed" because by the time I started making it, I knew we were screwed. I didn't think there was a damn thing that anybody could do. There could be individual efforts on behalf of one building, but to fight the entire rezoning just wasn't going to happen.
I don't want to depress you, but I feel like the forces of money and power are so profound in this city, that the battle is elsewhere. I don't even know what the battle is. Certainly in the case of Williamsburg, the battle is over.
Rail: You never mention the word "hipster" throughout the film—was that a deliberate omission? At one point you joke that an alternate title for the film could have been "I Hate Rich People."
Friedrich: You know, that's an interesting question. I never made a conscious decision to exclude the word "hipster." Now that you ask it, I think, there were ways that I found to point to the new demographic. So in one case, I refer to the fancy dogs. And so when I show the fancy dogs, you do see some people that would probably be called hipsters, like the guy with all the tattoos. But I guess to me the term became so contested, and so tiresome, that even to throw it out as a term of derision would have been passé. And I think it's more to the point to talk about money. Money is not confusing to me, especially when someone has $800,000 to spend on a studio apartment.
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CYNTHIA LUGO is a Brooklyn-based writer. Her writing has appeared in Cahiers du Cinema, City Arts, ArtAsiaPacific, and others. She blogs about the intersection between film and visual art at cynephile.com


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Explore Lesotho
Lesotho is a small open economy and is classified as a lower-middle-income economy by the World Bank. The economy is vulnerable to global economic volatility. However, the economic resilience of its main trading partner, South Africa, has to some extent shielded it from external volatility. Lesotho's economy is largely based on subsistence agriculture and livestock farming. About 82% of the population live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for their livelihood. However, half of the rural income is derived from migrants working in South Africa, particularly in the mining sector.
The primary sector, largely crops and livestock, comprises about 17% of GDP. The country's main natural resource is water, much of which is exported to South Africa. Completion of a major hydropower facility in January 1998 permitted the sale of water to South Africa and generated royalties for Lesotho. Lesotho produces about 90% of its own electrical power needs.
The relatively new diamond sector is becoming a more important contributor to economic activity. In its 2006 Annual Report the Central Bank of Lesotho (CBL) shows that mining and quarrying output rose steadily from M4.9 million in 2003 to M100.7 million in 2004 (1 955% y/y increase). Although the sector is relatively small with its 7% contribution to GDP, in Q2 2007 it was the second biggest foreign exchange earner, according to the CBL. Diamonds are largely sold to Belgium. Within the secondary sector, which contributes about 42% to GDP, manufacturing and handicraft, and the construction are the two largest sub sectors.
Fitch Ratings published Lesotho's sovereign credit ratings on 29 August 2007. The Long Term Foreign Currency rating of BB-with stable outlook was affirmed. The Short Term Foreign Currency rating of B was affirmed. The Long Term Local Currency rating of BB was affirmed with a stable outlook. These ratings fall within the speculative or non-investment grade categories.
Lesotho has also taken steps to reduce its export concentration by diversifying its manufacturing export base. The textile sector, underpinned by AGOA, expanded significantly and Lesotho became the largest textile and clothing exporter to the US in sub-Saharan Africa. The tertiary sector contributed 41% to GDP. Wholesale and retail trade, education and public administration are largest sub-sectors. The tourism sector has grown in recent years. And has contributed 6.6% to GDP in 2007. Moreover, the tourism economy's contribution to employment is estimated at about 20 000 jobs in 2007, or 5.5% of total employment according to the World Travel and Tourism Council.
The extreme inequality in the distribution of income remains a major drawback. Lesotho has signed an Interim Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility with the IMF. In July 2007, Lesotho signed a Millennium Challenge Account Compact with the US worth $362.5 million.
Prudent macroeconomic management has helped Lesotho to ensure economic stability, boosting economic growth, according to the IMF's statement after their visit in February 2008. In his budget speech, than the Minister of Finance and Development Planning, the Hon Timothy Thahane, said that processes to improve the ease of doing business and the investment climate, to attract the private sector's interest, must be streamlined. Several such improvements have been made, according to the minister.
To address the drought problem, funds were set aside for the construction of the Metolong Dam, with the aid of foreign funders. Lesotho has received support for China in the form of the construction of a National Parliament, for example. Other countries and various organisations, such as the US Government Millennium Challenge Foundation, also provided aid packages to the country. The support will be applied to raise economic growth, reduce poverty, create jobs, improve education and tackle the AIDS pandemic.
Lesotho Government online
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Ma Sichun and her baby ducklings (cc: her otp Zhou Dongyu aka little yellow duckling) .
Aunt-niece pair Jiang Wenli and Ma Sichun reps theirs home of Anhui province with model-actress Chen Ran. Jiang Wenli and Ma Sichun return to their hometown of Bengbu, a city known for its freshwater products, while Chen Ran goes home to Xiaoxian, known for its traditional Chinese paintings.
Both shows are promoted as warm 'healing romance' dramas that feature two people falling in love after going through various trials and tribulations together.
New stills and teasers have been released for Healing Love, the upcoming drama that revolves around Wallace Chung's (General and I) genius violinist and conductor who later becomes hearing-impaired, and his journey to find true love.
Chen Qiao'en looking adorable as a queen or a princess.
Spring is coming, it's the perfect time to fall in love with this new set of much chirpier photoshoot from Stay With Me. This set of posters actually has nothing to do with Easter other than the pastels, but happy Easter to those of you who celebrate it!
Btw, the script is confirmed to be by Xu Ziyuan (WuXin: Monster Killer, yay!) and Qian Jingjing (Destined to Love You and Cage of Love, urgh) .
Also, the cast will be filming in Paris next week.They're looking for a male to read Oscar Wilde, some extras of Chinese origin, and Caucasian male thugs if you're interested.
I can't decide if this is super adorable, if he's trying to strangle her, or if she's using his arm as a pull-up bar.


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