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What is Oligarchy? - Blueboard by Miguel Paolo P. Rivera
The term "oligarchy" again enters our popular imagination. With the celebration of the EDSA People Power Revolution today, there are those who will point out that this revolution succeeded in merely doing what the word "revolution" literally imputes:replacing the singular will of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos with the interests of diversified economic and political elites. It is easy to grasp why this sentiment is turning into a legacy of the revolution. In the thirty-four years since People Power, our country's democratic institutions (especially the bureaucracy) are subject to the whims of political and economic elites that thrive under a culture of corruption, impunity, coercion, and patronage. Our society and economy are subject to recurring crises in resources, energy, the environment, health, peace and order, among others. Social cleavages along class, religion, sexuality, ethnicity impede attempts of cohesion, solidarity and discourse. The Duterte administration pays lip-service to the cause of displacing this web of oligarchic interests. For while the President pronounces his hatred for this or that oligarch, they end up merely replacing an entrenched set of oligarchic interests with a mix of old and new oligarchs of their own. The ongoing attempt of the administration to strong-arm the cancellation of the ABS-CBN broadcasting franchise presents us with a very public glimpse into these nefarious attempts of oligarchic replacement and revolution.
In order to strengthen our views on these issues, perhaps now is a good time to again ask: what really is oligarchy?
Perhaps indicative of the persistence of oligarchies within political civilizations, one of the most dominant definitions of oligarchy comes from the Greek philosopher Aristotle.InThePolitics, Aristotle defines an oligarchy as the rule of the wealthy over the State, where wealthier men have greater privileges than their poorer citizens:"For the real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy"(III viii 1279b 17-20). Aristotle warns us thatan oligarchy arises precisely when a society mistakenly views wealth and its accumulation as the highest good that human beings can attain (regardless of how many are ruling), and as such are keen to affirm the leadership of its wealthiest members over all others. For Aristotle, an oligarchy breeds a self-destructive society as wealth is an end that is incompatible with that of the common good. Ultimately, Aristotlesuggests that a "polity" can only really be effective and just when both oligarchic and democratic forces are balanced (or effaced) in such a way that the political institutions are unable to give too much power to one over the other.
Another widely cited definition comes from the German sociologist Robert Michels. In his work Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy (1911), he defines oligarchy as an "organization which gives birth to the domination of the elected over the electors, of the mandataries over the mandators, of the delegates over the delegators. Who says organization says oligarchy". This is what scholars now call "the iron law of oligarchy". Michels argues that the concentration of power in an organization or society to those at the top is an intrinsic and inescapable effect of scaling up any form of human organization, whether it be political parties, churches, or nation-states. He states that: "It is the inevitable product of the very principle of organization… Every party organization which has attained to a considerable degree of complication demands that there should be a certain number of persons who devote all their activities to the work of the party". What enables these persons to attain oligarchic control are their access to resources that ordinary members of an organization might be incapacitated to have access to, such as: superior knowledge, control over the means of communication with the membership, and skill in the art of politics and organization. For Michels, it does not matter whether the original aims of the organization are collectivist or democratic. Any complex social organization will inevitably create a more privileged few whose interests become inimical to the many for "a universally applicable social law, every organ of the collectivity, brought into existence through the need for the division of labor, creates for itself, as soon as it becomes consolidated, interests peculiar to itself. The existence of these special interests involves a necessary conflict with the interests of collectivity".
From these two definitions stem our popular understanding of oligarchy: the rule of a wealthy few over an organization such as the State, such that their interests gain priority over the needs of the many or the common good. We must emphasize that oligarchic rule is a distinct form of minority rule as we tend to mistake any elite rule as oligarchic rule. Jeffrey A. Winters, a political scientist from Northwestern University, reminds us in his work Oligarchy (2011) that other types of elite rule (defined as extreme concentrations of power to the few) are subject to various modes of power dispersal or democratization that are relatively executable.However, the source of oligarchic power, i.e. wealth and its accumulation, is notoriously difficult to disperse or equalize.In the kind of world we live in today, massive amounts of wealth inevitably leads to the capture of political power in order to maintain and protect that wealth. Key to defining oligarchs today, according to him, is in understanding that "oligarchs alone are able to use wealth for wealth's defense". This "wealth defense" has two components: "property defense (securing claims to wealth and property) and income defense (keeping as much of the flow of income and profits from one's wealth as possible under the conditions of property rights)". Oligarchy, therefore, "refers to the politics of wealth defense by materially endowed actors".
Winters applies this framework in understanding oligarchies to a short section in his book devoted to the Philippines. In it, he describes Filipino oligarchy as "fully matured" even well before Marcos' "sultanistic oligarchy" during Martial Law. He also laments the fact that oligarchs in the Philippines, in contrast to other oligarchs from other countries, have never been fully disarmed. As such, an integral tactic of wealth defense in Philippine society remains in (government-backed) violence and coercion. Filipino oligarchic power is also expansive in the sense that it is not concentrated on a specific ethno-linguistic group (compared to our neighbor Indonesia). Finally, the political shifts in power throughout Philippine history had never really imbued Philippine political institutions with a "high" sense of the rule of law, which Winters argues is necessary to constrain oligarchic behavior.
If it is true that the concentration of power to the few is an inherent feature of any organization, and that the Philippine experience with oligarchy is deeply-rooted in its history, culture, and politics, wherein lies our hope in going beyond oligarchic rule?
Jacques Rancière, a French philosopher, in his work The Hatred of Democracy(2005), reminds us that at the heart of any argument for any hierarchical order based on domination is oligarchic logic. Rancière, echoing Michels, writes that "There is, strictly speaking, no such thing as democratic government. Government is always exercised by the minority over a majority". What can debase this oligarchic logic is what Rancière calls the scandalof democracy. This scandal is the kind of democracy that is not based on any claims of natural rule or hierarchy. He writes: "the scandal lies in the disjoining of entitlements to govern from any analogy to those that order social relations… it is the scandal of a superiority based on no other title than the very absence of superiority".Democracy therefore is the disruption of hierarchical (oligarchic) logic by those who have no right to rule. Democracy, for Rancière, is "not based on any nature of things nor guaranteed by any institutional form. It is not borne along by any historical necessity and does not bear any. It is only entrusted to the constancy of its specific acts. This can provoke fear, and so hatred, among those who are used to exercising the magisterium of thought. But among those who know how to share with anybody and everybody the equal power of intelligence, it can conversely inspire courage, and hence joy".
Perhaps an example will help elucidate these passages. I was recently asked by a student why the EDSA People Power Revolution is categorized as a form of democratic action, given that at its root, it would not have happened if it were not for the coup d'état launched against President Marcos and the subsequent plea of the late Cardinal Sin to protect the coup leaders holed up in Camp Crame. What we must bear in mind against this response is that it was precisely the presence of the people in EDSAwhich exemplifies the undefined logic of democracy that can disrupt oligarchic logic. If it were true that only oligarchs and the elites mattered, we would have in our history either the continuance of the dictatorship or the installation of just another military regime against that dictatorship. But it took the power of that unintelligiblepeople with no titles, capacities, claims to rule, or expertiseand their presence in a space that they had no right to be in, to give us a glimpse of the real meaning of democracy. Regardless of how it began, the outcome of the People Power Revolution relied on a democratic gamble. This rare, brief manifestation of demos (people) and their kratos(power) was enough to force these two warring oligarchic logics toa direction that neither of them had planned nor expected. Whether this direction can be maintained or had already been lost, I can only hope that I will see us manifest this capacity again when we most need it.
Miguel Paolo P. Rivera is an Instructor at the Political Science Department at the School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University – Loyola Schools.


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Pretending that things are unwaveringly rosy gets easier the more often you try it -- and although it's not good to live in denial, it's okay to visit it every once in a while.
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Today is Saturday, October 29, the 302nd day of 2011.
There are 63 days left in the year.
Today's unusual holiday or celebration is:
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President Obama's Weekly Address
Remarks of President Barack Obama
Weekly Address
This week, a new economic report confirmed what most Americans already believe to be true: over the past three decades, the middle class has lost ground while the wealthiest few have become even wealthier. In fact, the average income for the top one percent of Americans has risen almost seven times faster than the income of the average middle class family. And this has happened during a period where the cost of everything from health care to college has skyrocketed.
Now, in this country, we don't begrudge anyone wealth or success – we encourage it. We celebrate it. But America is better off when everyone has had the chance to get ahead – not just those at the top of the income scale. The more Americans who prosper, the more America prospers.
Rebuilding an economy where everyone has the chance to succeed will take time. Our economic problems were decades in the making, and they won't be solved overnight. But there are steps we can take right now to put people back to work and restore some of the security that middle-class Americans have lost over the last few decades.
Right now, Congress can pass a set of common-sense jobs proposals that independent economists tell us will boost the economy right away. Proposals that will put more teachers, veterans, construction workers and first responders back on the job. Proposals that will cut taxes for virtually every middle class family and small business in America. These are the same kinds of proposals that both Democrats and Republicans have supported in the past. And they should stop playing politics and act on them now.
These jobs proposals are also paid for by asking folks who are making more than a million dollars a year to contribute a little more in taxes. These are the same folks who have seen their incomes go up so much, and I believe this is a contribution they're willing to make. One survey found that nearly 7 in 10 millionaires are willing to step up and pay a little more in order to help the economy.
Unfortunately, Republicans in Congress aren't paying attention. They're not getting the message. Over and over, they have refused to even debate the same kind of jobs proposals that Republicans have supported in the past – proposals that today are supported, not just by Democrats, but by Independents and Republicans all across America. And yet, somehow, they found time this week to debate things like whether or not we should mint coins to celebrate the Baseball Hall of Fame. Meanwhile, they're only scheduled to work three more weeks between now and the end of the year.
The truth is, we can no longer wait for Congress to do its job. The middle-class families who've been struggling for years are tired of waiting. They need help now. So where Congress won't act, I will.
This week, we announced a new policy that will help families whose home values have fallen refinance their mortgages and save thousands of dollars. We're making it easier for veterans to get jobs putting their skills to work in hospitals and community health centers. We reformed the student loan process so more young people can get out of debt faster. And we're going to keep announcing more changes like these on a regular basis.
These steps will make a difference. But they won't take the place of the bold action we need from Congress to get this economy moving again. That's why I need all of you to make your voices heard. Tell Congress to stop playing politics and start taking action on jobs. If we want to rebuild an economy where every American has the chance to get ahead, we need every American to get involved. That's how real change has always happened, and that's how it'll happen today.
Don't forget to stop and smell the flowers!
It's time to 'Fall Back'
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Bank of America Corp, after receiving heavy public criticism for a planned $5 per-month debit card fee, is likely to give customers more ways to avoid the fee, a person familiar with the bank's plans said Friday.
The second largest U.S. bank is likely to allow many customers to avoid the fee by taking measures such as maintaining minimum balances, having paychecks direct deposited, or using Bank of America credit cards, the person said.
Under earlier plans, customers might have needed balances totaling $20,000 across all their Bank of America accounts to avoid the fee.
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The fight on Wall Street turns personal as sisters find themselves on opposite sides.
'Inexcusable and immature'
Wounded vet wakes up
NYC pulls plug on park
Battle over London protest
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Prior to Occupy Wall Street, the dominant narrative in US politics was about debt and deficit reduction, and the attendant austerity measures that entailed. A study of keywords from network newscasts shows that the national policy discussion has shifted in the wake of the Occupy demonstrations, with an increased emphasis on unemployment and fairness (this shift is also visible in print media).
The debt/deficit discussion was fueled by organizations like Peterson's Fiscal Times, funded by hyper-rich individuals to promote an economic ideology grounded in cuts to social programs.
This sea-change can't be attributed only to the Occupy movement – it also correlates with the White House's "pivot" toward jobs and the economy – but there is no doubt that Occupy Wall Street has played a major role in bringing attention to the plight of working America. Even House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, r-Va., acknowledged the occupiers' grievances when his office announced that he would be giving an address "about income disparity and how repugicans believe the government could help fix it." One would be naïve to believe Cantor would ever support such measures, but it nonetheless marked a dramatic departure from the repugican's usual class-war stance. (Cantor later canceled the speech when he learned he would be greeted by protesters.)
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Cloud Shadow of Mt. Rainier
Photo: Nick Lippert
Take a look at this: a phenomenal sunrise of Mt. Rainier in Washington state, where the volcano actually casts a sky shadow on the clouds!
From Seattle's Komo News:
Mt. Rainier has quite a few tricks up its sleeve for adding additional beauty to the Pacific Northwest, from the majestic snow-capped peaks, to the mysterious lenticular cloud displays.
But another trick it pulls off during the fall and winter is to cast a big shadow on a brilliant sunrise.
It only happens when the sun rises farther to the south as we head toward the winter solstice and has to be in the exact position to where Rainier blocks the first rays of morning light.
Ironic isn't it?!
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High School girl starts on football team
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Monique Howard went from being a troubled teen to starting on a playoff team in two years.
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Army targets manicures
Army takes aim at manicures, pony tails
A push to revamp U.S. soldiers' image could spell doom for some grooming trends.
'No time for 'pretty' here'
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You won't believe the terrifying number of pieces this mind-bender contains.
Good luck putting it together
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Gecko to the rescue
Native bees are better pollinators, more plentiful than honeybees
The honeybee has hogged the pollination spotlight for centuries, but native bees are now getting their fair share of buzz: They are two to three times better pollinators than honeybees ...
And to think - you thought they weren't real - aren't they?!
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Whale photographer gets shot of a lifetime
This glimpse of two whales rising to lunge feed leaves out a kayaker in an amazing position.
See entire photo
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Humpbacks Bounce Back from Whaling
Humpback whale numbers in the North Pacific are increasing by 8 percent a year.
Pigs, Poop and Power
A million-dollar project to turn smelly and polluting hog waste into electric power is being unveiled in North Carolina.
NC farm hosts test of power plant from pig poop
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It's a challenging time for movie studios. Movie attendance in theaters continues to decline as consumers are faced with more content options across more consumption platforms. With so much content fighting for consumers' attention, marketers want to know they're getting the biggest bank for their buck when promoting new movie releases. Particularly after a disappointing year at the box office, an efficient approach to consumer engagement is more important than ever.
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1. Audience data and personalized messaging. An efficient approach starts with reaching the right individuals. TV is a great channel for reaching the masses, but it can also be a potential waste of marketing dollars that would be better spent on engaging actual moviegoers online. To cut down on waste, marketers will increasingly use digital to focus on consumers who have the highest likelihood of going to the movies and deliver tailored messages to drive ticket sales. This entails having access to data on past ticket purchases at the title level and at specific exhibitors, as well as TV consumption at the show level, to understand a consumer's unique movie and content preferences, and tailoring messaging accordingly.
2. Extending campaigns beyond opening weekend. For decades movie studios have focused primarily on generating ticket sales during the opening weekend of a movie release and have put the majority of their advertising budget toward that time frame. But because there are so many options demanding a consumer's time, it's no longer just about opening weekend. Although tickets sales are down 5% year-over-year, one trend we see is that audiences are seeing movies later, in the weeks following the premiere. According to Box Office Mojo, 67% of total box office sales for the top 100 movies in 2017 occurred after opening weekend. Data from over 10 different Conversant Box Office campaigns validates this as well. Studios should consider re-negotiating their exhibitor contracts to ensure they're getting a bigger piece of the box office well past opening weekend and through weeks two and three. This will allow movie marketers to extend their promotions beyond opening weekend and drive even more revenue from would-be moviegoers.
3. Connecting online marketing and offline activities. One of the biggest challenges for movie marketers has been understanding the influence of their online advertising on ticket sales occurring in theaters, but Conversant Box Office is changing that. We can measure the online and offline impact of digital marketing investment on driving people to the theater on opening weekend and beyond. Marketers can now connect the influence of digital advertising with sales occurring in theaters across multiple exhibitors all on one report. Armed with this meaningful purchase-level investment, movie studios can continuously learn and optimize, and ultimately be more efficient by controlling messaging at the unique user level across all their digital media investments.


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We Can Learn From Loss, Says Poet Jennifer Clark
WMUK | By Sehvilla Mann
Kalamazoo poet Jennifer Clark's work has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and a Rhysling Award. Now she's released her first book of poetry, Necessary Clearings, published by Shabda Press of California. Clark will read from the collection at the Michigan News Agency, Wednesday August 13 at 6 p.m.
Many of the book's poems explore grief or a loss of some kind. Clark explains to WMUK why she chose to get close to those experiences.
She acknowledges that sadness often comes with contemplating a loss. But she says those feelings don't always have to be "scary," and she finds value in reflecting on them.
"I think we put a negative spin on them when – they're not necessarily that way. I think they can teach us things, we can get something out of it," she says.
The poems in Necessary Clearings cover losses "big and small." Sometimes a relationship is at stake, sometimes an entire species. Clark says she thought about grouping the poems by topic, but ultimately decided against it.
"I thought, you know, life is messy. Things creep up on you, like you were saying, so why not kind of make it a little messy and a natural kind of flow to it that doesn't seem too contrived or anything," she says.
Clark says for her, poetry is about capturing a moment. Some are weighty. Others are lighter, or even funny.
In "Signs of a Weakening Economy," a grade schooler contemplates just how much money he can make turning teeth over to the tooth fairy. Elsewhere, a seventeenth century archaeologist discovers a giant dinosaur bone and classifies it as a giant…something else.
And in "What I Wanted to Say," a daughter struggles with a sense of "out-of-control-ness" when her mother's health is in crisis. Clark reads an excerpt:
"When you asked of other symptoms and I told you she was dizzy, I should have told you that our world is spinning, that my sister has driven across town and dragged into my parents' perfectly clean home a vacuum cleaner, mop and host of cleaning supplies because she wants to do something. It is the only way she knows to be of some assistance, as she is the comet burning, streaking across the living room with her Swiffer, saying, I just love this Swiffer, especially with the long handle attachment, do you have one?"
In "Spring Thaw" the topic is romantic relationships, and the one in question has already been lost. A woman salvaging food from a failed freezer uncovers a piece of long-preserved wedding cake. She searches her memory for her ex-husband's middle name.
"What had his been, Anthony? No it was Marshall. Maybe. If he'd wrapped their marriage in this much care it might not have grown stale in a matter of months. Hugging the softened cake to her belly she slides her back down the freezer, thinks it might be Jerold, Jim, or Justin? A "J" sound rings a bell."
Clark says one of her personal favorites is "Interim Problem Report 119V-0080." NASA filed such a report about a bat that roosted on the Discovery shuttle and died during a launch. Clark imagines a youth determined to get a message through to humans: bats are in bad shape.
"Because it was your father who failed back in '96/with the Endeavor and again in '98/with the Challenger, you volunteer,/ despite your mother's pleas.
Your friends break your arm lest you /be tempted, as your father had been, /moments before launch, to fly away.
You take some comfort recalling the discussion that/ protests have been lodged this way, that the two-legged,/ hard-of-hearing creatures – the Hard Ones – /have used this plan themselves to bring attention
to wars, repressive regimes, atrocities unimagined."
A companion poem tells how this was received.
Clark says it's exciting and a little scary to send a book into the world. And she's well along on the manuscript for her next collection. She plans to include poems that draw on more than a decade of work with the group Communities in Schools, where she's the director of communications. That means writing about the present, she says, a shift for her.
"I've worked in the past with folks who've been homeless, who have mental health issues, I've worked with sex offenders, that stuff is in here right, but I never wrote that stuff when I was in the midst of doing it," she says.
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Jennifer Clark reads her poem, "What We Don't Tell Our School Volunteers."
One of the poems for that collection is called "What We Don't Tell Our School Volunteers." She recorded a preview for WMUK.
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Sehvilla Mann joined WMUK's news team in January 2014 as a reporter on the local government and education beats. Before that she covered a variety of topics, including environmental issues, for Bloomington, Indiana NPR and PBS affiliates WFIU and WTIU. She's also written and produced stories for the Pacifica Network and WYSO Public Radio in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Sehvilla holds a B.A. in French from Earlham College and an M.A. in journalism from Indiana University.
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There's a group of students in California that Smokey the Bear is none to pleased with. According to Los Angeles police, ten 18 to 22-year-olds are responsible for the wildfire that torched the tony town of Montecito, destroying 210 homes and threatening scores more. Among the affected were Oprah Winfrey and Rob Lowe, whose homes escaped damage, and Christopher Lloyd, who wasn't as lucky. The students, who face charges of negligence and recklessness with fire, said they thought they'd put out the bonfire that started it all. Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said, "It appears this was the result of carelessness."


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Health authorities in several Arab countries confirmed new cases and deaths from the novel coronavirus on Friday.
The Moroccan Health Ministry said 27 new coronavirus infections were confirmed, bringing the country's total number of cases to 735, with 47 deaths.
In Oman, health authorities said 21 new cases were reported in the country, raising the total to 252. The country's first fatality from the coronavirus was reported on Wednesday.
In Lebanon, total infections jumped to 508, with 17 fatalities, country's Health Ministry said.
The Palestinian government confirmed 10 more coronavirus cases, bringing the total cases to 171.
Meanwhile, Kuwait's Health Ministry confirmed 75 new cases, taking the total number of infections to 417.
Since appearing in Wuhan, China, last December, the novel coronavirus has spread to at least 181 countries and regions, according to data compiled by the U.S.-based Johns Hopkins University.
The data shows more than one million cases have been reported worldwide so far, with the global death toll around 54,000, and recoveries nearing 217,500.
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Over the years, Emily's story has been featured in many news clips, documentaries, and at major medical conferences. Some of the most powerful videos from those instances are featured on this page.
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Important Note: This interactive map, was conceived, created and is maintained by EJF, with the guidance, ongoing support, and partnership with the American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP), which is solely responsible for ALL of the objective scoring methodology currently used to quantify each state's score fairly and impartially. Special thanks to ASHP for their incredible work and partnership in this endeavor!
As with the heartbreaking story of my beautiful little girl Emily in 2006 (see Emily's Story for details) the general public is not made aware of the fact that they are routinely put at risk within our nation's medical facilities until it is too late. Similarly, a majority of the public is not aware of the fact that in all of our nation's medical facilities, pharmacy technicians not trained pharmacists are being used to compound virtually all of their intravenous medications (IV medications) while they receive treatment. To make matters even worse, there are still many states that have absolutely no requirements, or proof of competency, whatsoever, for the pharmacy technicians who routinely compound patient's IV medications on a day-to-day basis. The Emily Jerry Foundation's National Pharmacy Technician Initiative and Scorecard aims to change that. With the interactive map above, we have attempted to increase the flow of information to the general public and to our lawmakers about these reversible conditions and to become a catalyst for change. We hope to highlight the states that are doing a great job of protecting their patients through strict controls and educational requirements for pharmacy techs, as well as encourage those that are lagging behind to make improvements in their own standards in order to improve care and potentially save lives. That is the goal of the Emily Jerry Foundation, and myself as a patient safety advocate, to help save lives through reducing and eliminating the human error component of medicine. We hope this initiative will continue the momentum of our progress in that area.


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Well-Being// July 13, 2019
Don't Call It a Vacation
Thrive Time is the key to sustainable success.
Have you taken a vacation yet this summer? Way too many Americans haven't — and won't for rest of the year, either. But even if you're a dedicated vacationer, as Sarah Todd writes in Quartz, if your working life is based on burnout, your vacation won't make up for it. Todd cites astudy from Tel Aviv University that found that three weeks after a vacation, self-reported levels of burnout returned to what they were before the vacation.
While vacations are essential — and we encourage everybody to take them — much better than trying unsuccessfully to make up for burnout is to be proactive about preventing it in the first place. At Thrive we do this through what we call "Thrive Time." It's based on the recognition that, of course, getting results and meeting deadlines often requires putting in extra time and going the extra mile. And that's certainly true at Thrive. Thrive Time is what allows us to sustain that. It means taking time off to recover and recharge after you've met the deadline, shipped the product or worked over the weekend. It could be a few hours, a morning, a whole day or even more.
Nor does Thrive Time count as vacation, or sick time, or other paid time off. And that's an important point — it helps make very clear to employees that recovery isn't separate from work. It's an essential part of work. Taking Thrive Time isn't a reward, it's a responsibility. That's why it also often comes at the suggestion of a manager, part of whose job is maintaining team performance and being vigilant to guard against burnout.
Thrive Time, or intentional recovery, is about looking both backward and forward — renewing what was depleted by what had to be done to meet a deadline and giving yourself the resources to meet upcoming deadlines. It's the last stage of one project and the first stage of the next. That's why we don't think of it as a break, but as an essential thread of the day-to-day fabric of the work week.
The recognition that regularrecovery is necessarily connected to doing quality work has been around since ancient times. But it's at odds with our always-on world of performative hustle culture that equates any time spent not working to time wasted. In Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang shows how the secret behind the breakthroughs by many of history's most creative authors, scientists, thinkers and politicians was that they were very serious and disciplined about working rest into their work. "Recovery is active, not passive, and we can design it to get greater benefit," Pang writes.
In a recent piece in The New York Times, Bonnie Tsui called it fallow time. "I'm not talking about vacation or weekends," she wrote. "I'm talking about a more regular practice, built into our understanding of what work is. Fallow time is part of the work cycle, not outside of it."
When we don't make recovery part of that work cycle, even if we don't completely crash, we're perpetually on the verge. Extreme burnout is often measured in terms of absenteeism, but presenteeism — showing up for work physically, but not recharged enough to truly take it on — is not only more common but more costly. A study by Global Corporate Challenge found that employees missed an average of four days annually, but they were unproductive — though present on the job — nearly 58 days a year. And the cost difference is even more dramatic, with GCC estimating the annual cost of absenteeism to be $150 billion, while presenteeism costs up to 10 times that.
It's costly in even more significant ways. In a Johns Hopkins study, researchers estimated that medical errors cost 250,000 lives each year in the U.S. And burnout is a big reason why. A study last yearfrom The Institute of Medicine found that when a doctor is showing signs of burnout, medical errors aremore than twice as likely to occur.
While the stakes might not be as high for most of us, the same principles apply. Operating in an up-and-down cycle of overwork-till-we-crash is not a recipe for long-term success, no matter how we rationalize why we constantly have to do it in the short-term. Better is to smooth out that cycle by incorporating intentional recovery.
The field in which this principle has been most widely adopted is also one that's among the most metric-driven: elite sports. Here recovery has become an essential part of peak performance. Ask an NBA player about their training and you're likely to get an answer that's about sleep, rest and napping. Here's how Andre Iguodala, player for the Golden State Warriors (and investor in Thrive Global), put it recently: "For people who say sleep is a luxury they can't afford, I'm pretty harsh about my response. I'd say that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. People don't realize how important recovery is to the mind, to the body. It affects you physically, it affects you mentally."
At Thrive Global, Thrive Time is one of the practices allowed us to expand so rapidly since our launch and model the idea of a sustainable startup. The startup tech world is where the myth of burnout as a necessity for growth was created. But as the science shows, it's just not true. We can perform better and for longer when we make taking time to recover and recharge an essential part of the work process.
Thrive Time is proof that well-being doesn't mean not getting things done, or accepting a lesser career track. On the contrary, it means getting things done in a better way that allows you to continue to get things done. It's what allows you to stay on your career track and meet your goals. It's not about accepting less success, it's about sustaining success. So, yes, I hope you'll be taking an extended break from work this summer. And then I hope you'll make Thrive Time a part of your work when you get back!
— Published on July 13, 2019
Beating Burnout,
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Arianna Huffington is the founder of The Huffington Post, the founder and CEO of Thrive Global, and the author of 15 books, including, most recently, Thrive and The Sleep Revolution. In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that quickly became one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet. In August 2016, she launched Thrive Global, a corporate and consumer well-being and productivity platform with the mission of changing the way we work and live by ending the collective delusion that burnout is the price we must pay for success. She has been named to Time Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people and the Forbes Most Powerful Women list. Originally from Greece, she moved to England when she was 16 and graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in economics. At 21, she became president of the famed debating society, the Cambridge Union. She serves on numerous boards, including Uber and The Center for Public Integrity. Her last two books, Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder and The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night At A Time, both became instant international bestsellers. She is a mother, sister, flat shoe advocate, and sleep evangelist.
Well-Being// July 9, 2018
This Is How NOT to Need a Vacation from Your Vacation
by The Conversation
Well-Being// June 11, 2019
Yes, Burnout Is Real—And We Can Address It Much Better When We Call It What It Is
by Arianna Huffington
Well-Being// June 3, 2019
Burnout is Now Officially a Workplace Crisis


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Lehigh Valley High School Wrestling
Lehigh Valley wrestlers willing to do whatever it takes to have a season amid COVID-19 pandemic
By Tom Housenick
Jon Trenge's college wrestling career nearly ended because of a detached retina.
Wearing goggles while he competed allowed him to finish as Lehigh's career wins leader with 133.
The goggles also created apprehension and concern for his safety.
"The goggles were like a windshield with Vaseline rubbed all over them because of all the sweat," said Trenge, who is in his second season as head coach at Parkland, his alma mater.
"You could see up close, but when you got your head tilted down and you tried to look up toward the legs, it was hard to see."
[More High School Sports] District 11 wrestling's postseason plan maximizes participation »
Trenge's goggles were part of a five-point harness associated with his headgear, which often got pulled on by opponents.
The three-time All-American at Lehigh said masks serve as a similar distraction for wrestlers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Masks are required in all social settings, though the state's mandate does allow for athletes to remove them to avoid creating a medical problem or further damaging an existing one.
Parkland wrestlers are wearing masks at all times during practices, which began Nov. 20, the first allowable winter sports practice date according to the PIAA — the state's governing body for high school athletics.
[More High School Sports] Lehigh Valley high school wrestling rankings, like the COVID-crippled season, are unpredictable »
Several area teams, including Nazareth and Northampton, delayed the start of workouts because of the recent increase in COVID-19 cases until early December.
Others, including Bethlehem Area School District and East Stroudsburg Area School District, put sports on hold until January.
Palmerton earlier this month announced it was not starting winter sports until it returned from an all-hybrid learning format, but reversed course after a recent protest by parents and students.
[More High School Sports] Lehigh Valley-area wrestling scoreboard, schedule »
Wrestling coaches at Bethlehem Catholic and Notre Dame-Green Pond are among those allowing competitors to take off their masks while engaging in a "live go," which is when they simulate an actual match. Otherwise, however, wrestlers must wear the masks during all other drills, weight lifting and conditioning.
It is not easy, but wrestlers say it is better than the alternative.
"It's kind of crazy," Bethlehem Catholic senior Anthony DeRosa said, "but you've got to do what you've got to do if you want to keep wrestling.
[More High School Sports] Ashton Campbell shines in Bethlehem Catholic wrestling debut »
"As long as everyone complies," fellow senior Evan Gleason added, "we'll be able to continue this. I don't know about the competition, but we'll see."
Notre Dame-Green Pond's top returning wrestlers, from left, Holden Garcia, Jason Sine, Josh Bauman, Evan Maag, Brandan Chletsos, Bryson Vaughn, Brett Ungar and Ryan Crookham. (JANE THERESE / Special to The Morning Call)
Wrestling was the last PIAA sport to complete a full regular season and postseason, concluding with the state championships March 8 at Hershey's Giant Center. Days later, the pandemic set in and sports stopped at the high school, college and professional levels.
There were no high school spring sports in the state. Minor League Baseball was scrapped last summer. Most college fall sports were not held. The PIAA fall sports seasons were condensed, but with state championships.
[More High School Sports] Saucon Valley wrestler Liam Scrivanich taking advantage of his opportunity »
The winter sports season is on path to be reduced at best, particularly in wrestling with most of the top tournaments in the state and nationally being canceled due to the pandemic.
For those practicing now, there is an understanding of how they must be and the uncertainty of what lies ahead the next day.
"It's just something different as a team that we have to adapt to," Notre Dame-Green Pond junior Brandan Chletsos said. "I don't think it will affect us. This is what we work for, push ourselves for.
[More High School Sports] Emmaus wrestling duo fueled by painful memories, challenged by all that COVID-19 brings »
"We are just excited to get back on the mat and compete, take the opportunity to push ourselves no matter what is in our way because we don't know what's going to come the next day."
The EPC, Colonial League and Schuylkill League have tentative league schedules starting Dec. 15 or 16, with many teams not having any nonleague matches or tournaments on their slates.
Notre Dame-GP, meanwhile, is hosting Bethlehem Catholic as well as national prep powers Wyoming Seminary and Malvern Prep on the first three Saturdays in January. The Crusaders and Golden Hawks also are slated to compete at the Powerade tournament in western Pennsylvania after Christmas.
[More High School Sports] Two-time PIAA wrestling champion Ryan Crookham transfers from Notre Dame-GP »
But uncertainty remains the only certainty in the days and weeks ahead.
"As seniors it's a little scary," Gleason said. "We really want a season, especially a postseason.
"But Easton just went virtual and didn't start practice yet. They are our first match. Are they going to be able to wrestle us?"
[More High School Sports] High school wrestling notes: Two upcoming tournaments, a notable first win and the passing of an official »
Coaches, meanwhile, must balance between wrestling life with masks and preparing them as if the season will go off without a hitch.
Trenge said that a few wrestlers took him up on the option to not attend practice until after the Thanksgiving holiday. A few others are not wrestling at all because their parents did not allow them to for COVID-19 reasons.
He also learned the first day of workouts that there must be mask breaks.
[More High School Sports] Stroudsburg's returning state wrestling champion Lenny Pinto out indefinitely »
"I realized how much they were suffering," Trenge said, "so we started them the second day. We also went with shorter live goes with no stops so no one would get hurt because they stopped to fix their mask.
"For me, the main focus this year is building up the team, having fun at practice, really bonding with the kids and them bonding with each other. I'm working with the younger kids, investing in their future. But it's tricky because you want to make it worthwhile for the seniors."
With the Bethlehem and Monroe County schools not starting practice until January and others not beginning until early December and the PIAA mandate requiring 15 days of workouts before the first competition, it is difficult to see the the December portion of the EPC schedule being held.
[More High School Sports] EPC wrestling preview: Some of the state's best, but returning PIAA champ out indefinitely »
"It makes sense to me," Trenge said, "to wait until after all the holidays are over. But as long as I'm in a wrestling room, I'm OK."
So, too, it seems are the wrestlers.
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Rough and Ready: John the Conqueror to Release Second Album
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by Adam McGrath
"I'm a blues man; all I got are stories." ~ Pierre Moore
For Pierre Moore, songwriter and vocalist of Philly-based band John the Conqueror, making music is about telling his own story. Pulling from his experiences growing up in Jackson, Mississippi, Moore tells it like it is, avoiding metaphor in favor of personal truth. Considering the band's name is borrowed from an African-American folk hero, it's interesting that he seeks out a person instead of a legend. As John the Conqueror gets ready to release their second album (The Good Life, Alive Naturalsound Records) Moore speaks to That Mag about his approach to songwriting, learning to play guitar on the fly, and how he has evolved since the first self-titled album.
John the Conqueror came into being when Moore and fellow Ole Miss dropout Michael Gardner moved to Philadelphia following a stint playing music in Atlanta. They met and became fast friends with Ryan Lynn, and were rehearsing together within weeks. All were fans of classic southern rock and blues, but were still learning their instruments.
Moore explains, "The first album, we were all very new with our instruments. When we made that album, I had been in front of the microphone singing for less than a year and a half, Mike had been playing drums and Ryan had been playing bass for about the same amount of time, so we weren't as adept at our instruments as we are now. For this new album we tried to step it up and craft better songs."
Regardless of experience, the songs on John the Conqueror's debut album have an immediacy and passion that pulls the listeners into Moore's fast, loud, and sometimes troubled world. Songs like "Southern Boy" and "Say What You Want" combine guitar rock with blues inflections, and paint a picture of a man barreling his way through life towards we know not what.
Speaking of his songwriting process, Moore says, "It all starts with a drumbeat from Mike. That's how every song starts. As for lyrics, though, I kind of have this ethos where every song we write has to be a personal story of ours. A lot of the verses are straightforward storytelling, like country music of the '40s, so I'm just trying to tell a linear, succinct story.
"This album has pretty much the same instrumentation, though Ryan's cousin Steve, who introduced us in the first place, plays keys on a couple of songs. There are a few more counter melodies with the guitar lines, but really it's just better songs."
Fans of the band will be able to hear some of the new songs live for the first time on Friday, December 20, at Boot and Saddle on South Broad Street. John the Conqueror headlines with support from Thee, Idea Men and La Capitana.
Getting back to the idea of storytelling, myth, and truth, Moore says that his philosophy on writing crystallized when reviews of the first album came in. "We were reading a review of the first album," he explains, "and the author seemed to think we were making up a bunch of stuff, and that made us think more about the myth of John the Conqueror, like maybe it was based on a real person, and some of the things that happened just seemed larger than life.
"A song on this album, 'She Said,' is me talking about [getting high] with a 19-year-old girl that I just met that night. It's something that happened, and people take it as I'm trying to sound badass, but I'm just writing shit that I know. I'm a blues man; all I got are stories."
The songs on The Good Life include reflections on Moore's life in Philly, a city he has come to consider his home. "We love Philly," he says. "Me and Mike always wanted to leave the south and see a different part of the country. We've been in Philly close to five years, and don't have any plans to leave."
On his first steps into the city's music scene, Moore reminisces, "We loved playing Dobbs. We didn't have very much experience, so we were kind of making up for lost time. It really helped us. At first, I didn't want to be the singer of this band. I used to have severe stage fright. In our band back in college, I had to get so drunk to get on stage that I would fall off it. Now, though, it's fun. I actually like it."
As for fellow musicians in the city, Moore proclaims, "I can pretty much speak for the whole band when I say our favorite Philly band is Levee Drivers. They were the first band we saw live when we moved here. August [John Lutz II] has that real deep, masculine voice that I love."
The U.S. release date for John the Conqueror's new album The Good Life is in March, but it will be released in Europe in January as the band embarks on a month-long continental tour. As to why the differing release dates, Moore says, "Honestly, it's a function of me being slow as hell. I missed pretty much every deadline that possibly could have existed. Patrick [Boiselle] at Alive Records has been really, really nice and understanding working with me time-wise."
John the Conqueror is bringing a much-needed dose of southern blues-rock to the Philadelphia music scene, and fans of bands like The Black Keys and The White Stripes should make it a point to come out to Boot and Saddle Friday night for a taste of what's to come from this fiery trio.


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Honolulu Magazine
How Do Honolulu Rent Prices Compare to Other Major Cities?
Here's how Honolulu rents stack up on a national scale.
By Rachel Ross Bradley
Published: 2018.08.02 02:26
A recent study of rents across the country ranked Honolulu the 11th most expensive city to rent in. It doesn't take an economist to see that demand for housing here greatly outpaces supply. Ask anyone who has searched for a rental lately and they'll tell you the market is two things: expensive and competitive. And it has long been so. Our year-round sunny weather and active, healthy lifestyles convince many of our visitors to pack it all up back in Minnesota and take a chance on living in Hawai'i.
Nationally, rents are the highest they've been all year, with the median price for a one-bedroom rental at $1,018. Here, that would be a steal.
"When compared to the most expensive markets in the country, Honolulu ranks No. 11," says Sam Radbil, senior communications director at Abodo. "With a one-bedroom priced at $1,817, the city trails only major cities like San Francisco, New York, Washington, D.C. and a handful of other major metro areas."
And $1,817 for a one-bedroom puts us just behind Chicago, which came in at $1,827, and just a bit more expensive than Seattle at $1,765. However, it might not be all doom and gloom for renters. While rents are still currently rising, the experts at Abodo feel we might see a shift in upcoming years.
"We anticipate that the rent growth might begin to slow in very large cities like Honolulu, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco and New York because of the huge boom in multifamily construction and luxury developments coming to market," says Radbil. "The development and construction of new rentals will ultimately bring more units to market for local renters, limit the demand and minimize leverage that landlords currently hold."
We certainly hope so.
Click here to view the full report.
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I am so sorry for not being regular with my blog posts of late. That's because I'd been writing my debut novel. So here it is for all of you to see, read and leave a review for.
A gripping tale of love, lust, obsession and murder. It's a kick in the guts. Love that's raw, lust that's insane and obsession that's frantically irresistible. Twists will keep you on the edge while the truth will stab at your subconscious.
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James J. Riveley, age 85, of Jamestown passed away Wednesday afternoon, October 24, 2018 in St. Vincent Hospital.
He was born in Newark, NJ on January 17, 1933 a son of Lawrence and Eleanor Riveley. He was a 1951 graduate of Newark High School. On June 6, 1987 Jim married the former Dorothea Callaghan, she survives.
He was employed for over 27 years at Fairmont Chemical, Newark, NJ. Jim was a good hearted man and a handyman.
Jim is survived by his wife Dorothea of Jamestown, three sons; John Riveley and his wife Joann of Kentucky, Ronald Zinno and his wife Lisa of Cambridge Springs, PA, and Michael Zinno and his wife Carolyn of Arizona, six grandchildren, Corey Zinno, Amber Zinno, Susan Zinno, Katie Zinno, Penny Riveley, and Monica Riveley.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a son, James Riveley.
A committal service will be held at 11:30am on Monday, October 29, 2018 in the chapel at Park Lawn Cemetery with Rev. John Hodge, Pastor of Jamestown United Methodist Church, officiating. Arrangements entrusted to Loutzenhiser-Randall Funeral Home and Cremation Services, 416 Liberty St., Jamestown.


Are you up for the challenge? On March 16th the All Terrain Survival Challenge will take place. During this challenging run you'll have to overcome around 30 obstacles on a course of 5 or 7 km. Join now, individually or in a team of 2 to 5 people. Under 'information' you can find more information, it also is possible to subscribe directly.
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After a number of years art directing Greenpeace's magazine and their annual edition Planet Greenpeace, typotherapy was commissioned to create a new journal that amalgamates both publications, entitled Planeté (recognized in English and French). The redesign revolved around the formation of its unique, modern yet friendly identity and led to the development of two custom typefaces used for the magazine, Society Semi Bold Rounded and Solution Light.
The note book size magazine places its focus on Greenpeace's primary campaigns and gives in-depth profiles of their front line campaigners. The user-friendly spreads feature dynamic images, inviting, easy-to-read typography, overlapping graphic elements to help you navigate, and alternate originations that allude to future online digital versions, soon to come. Furthermore, each magazine cover features a wrap around image and is designed to reveal a promotional poster when unfolded—a conscious gesture, to avoid any excess waste from the printing process. Each issue is featured in English and French and corresponds with online components and social media.