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The Willoughby-Eastlake School District was facing an aging infrastructure, high energy costs and outdated, inefficient lighting in twelve buildings constructed from 1921 through 1974. Buildings needing retrofits included a high school, a Tech Center, three middle schools and six elementary schools. Renovations were also needed at the Kennedy building, which had been vacant for twenty-four years. While the Ohio Schools Facilities Commission recommended that every building be torn down and rebuilt, Willoughby sought a more economical solution.
Willoughby-Eastlake leaders undertook a high performance building approach, working with Trane and GE Lighting to accomplish its mission of improving the learning and teaching environment throughout the district. Trane began by conducting an investment-grade audit to identify and prioritize energy conservation measures (ECMs). Based on the results of the audit, district leaders initiated updates across campus, including a complete renovation of the 75,000 sq ft Kennedy building.
The district was able to utilize Ohio State House Bill 264 to secure low-interest funds for the renovations. The house bill enables school districts to fund energy projects to improve the educational environment by using the savings of those funds to drive the project.
Lighting improvements generate significant results
The district replaced old, inefficient lighting fixtures throughout the twelve facilities with state-of-the-art GE 28-watt lamps that provide the right amount of illumination to enable students to read without glare. Classrooms now feature extended-life bulbs, which reduce maintenance costs and eliminate the need to interrupt class or change bulbs after hours, while considerably lowering energy costs.
Comfort improvements and a fresh look
To ensure a consistently comfortable environment throughout district buildings, upgrades included replacing electric boilers and the existing air conditioning units with Trane Voyager™ rooftop units. The new rooftop units deliver high reliability and easy installation, helping to reduce maintenance, operating and upfront expenses. With quiet operation and advanced filtration technology, the Voyager units help to provide a healthier learning environment.
New doors, windows and roofing were installed in the Kennedy building to give the building a fresh look, while retaining the historic architecture of the facility. Improvements to the building envelope are helping to overcome issues with cold winter drafts and summer heat.
Willoughby-Eastlake School District took an integrated "whole building" approach to optimizing key building systems and technologies, improving the learning environment while saving energy, resources and money. Supporting the mission of K-12 education, the district has created an environment to improve student achievement, enhance classroom comfort and increase teacher productivity.
The district was able to repurpose the previously vacant Kennedy building to serve the district's special needs students, which eliminated the need to bus the students to other schools, saving both money and time. The building, now called Kennedy Academy, also houses the district's early childhood program and offers post-secondary nursing education programs. Five full-time employees were hired to operate the new facility.
The project was funded primarily by the energy savings achieved from the lighting retrofits. The renovation saved the district approximately 4,375,535 kWh, providing nearly $663,000 in energy savings. The estimated energy savings, combined with the benefits of bringing the autism and special needs resources to the district, is saving approximately $1.26 million each year.
The renovations significantly improved the morale for students, teachers and staff. "I would say first and foremost that the greatest impact has been in the attitude of students and staff," said Steve Thompson, superintendent for Willoughby-Eastlake district. "I don't think there's any question that the renovations have impacted the way that kids view school and the way that teachers view doing their jobs ... and that leads to higher student achievement."
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🇧🇬 VICTORIA releases charity cover for Christmas
Covering Billie Eilish for animal rescue charities this Christmas
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At this time of the year, there is a strong focus on charitable efforts as we remember that compared to some people, we are all very lucky to celebrate Christmas the way we do. VICTORIA, who will represent Bulgaria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, has given her voice to a cover of Billie Eilish's "Come Out and Play" in aid of local charities close to her heart this Christmas.
Finding homes for stray cats and dogs this Christmas
With her many pets, it's clear that animal-lover VICTORIA has chosen a charity that is kept close to her heart for her cover, especially as her own dogs are adopted:
"I have five dogs, two rabbits and one parrot. All my dogs have been adopted and I love them so much! Animal adoption is a cause really close to my heart and with this project, I want to raise awareness in Bulgaria about the amazing people who give their time to help homeless dogs and cats find their new home."
One of the organizations supported by this project is Animal Rescue Sofia. In fact, one of VICTORIA's own dogs came from this charity. The charity has benefited from thousands of donations to be able to create their own shelter where over 200 animals are treated and given care 365 days a year. They find homes for 70 dogs every month.
"Come Out and Play" was originally performed by Billie Eilish for Apple's festive advert in 2018. Eilish wrote the song with her brother Finneas O'Connell, who also produced the track, specifically for Apple's project.
What do you think of VICTORIA's cover? Are you rooting for her to do well next May in Rotterdam? Is this the kind of song you'd like to see her represent Bulgaria with at Eurovision? Let us know in the comments below and on our social media profiles on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
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E-commerce platforms generated close to $1.5 trillion in 2017, a figure that was 16% higher than the previous year which shows the relentless growth of the e-commerce industry and the digital goods and services economy in general.
The relevance of e-commerce is so strong today that companies are actually shutting down physical locations in favor of online stores, an ironic situation considering the fact that online stores were supposed to be digital extensions of physical stores.
Irony or not, it is undeniable that purchases for goods and services are done more and more online and for good reasons as well; not only are online purchases faster, they're more convenient for consumers and they also save costs for companies making it a win-win situation for all parties involved.
Like all growing industries, there are issues affecting the industry but with the introduction of new technologies such as the blockchain, we are using more and more creative solutions being used to combat these inefficiencies in the industry.
Although the blockchain and cryptocurrencies are starting to take flight in e-commerce, they are still not mature enough to be fully implemented as a payment option.
Firstly, acquiring cryptocurrencies is still a challenge for many people as exchanges impose hefty fees on users which is not ideal as individuals would have to pay extra fees just to convert fiat to crypto. At the same time, the lack of proper regulations in place puts cryptocurrencies in a gray area where individuals may face legal repercussions when buying or selling coins.
Another big issue is the inherent nature of the blockchain to attach a small fee to each piece of code executed on it. As the blockchain becomes filled with transactions, fees become more expensive and transactions take longer to complete—two things that you definitely do not want in an effective payment processing system.
All of these issues call for an elegant solution to help overcome these problems and one company that plans to do so is Sonder, a blockchain startup that aims to help integrate blockchain technologies in e-commerce systems seamlessly.
Sonder is a company designed to allow companies and businesses who plan to use cryptocurrencies in their business processes to do it as easily as possible with Sonder's features and services.
The company plans to simplify the process with a focus on financial transactions so that businesses all over the world can reap the benefits of the blockchain without the usual complexity and hassles of implementing it in their systems.
Another important aspect of Sonder is the high level of security it provides to its users which is relevant in the maturing blockchain industry where companies may face problems if they don't use the blockchain properly in their business processes.
Sonder plans to achieve all of this by developing a specialized SDK and API which can be used by other projects or businesses to easily connect blockchain technologies with their products or applications.
All of these features are topped off by allowing users to send and receive transactions or payments with any cryptocurrency—a groundbreaking feature that will help business owners immensely as they are not limited to the number of cryptocurrencies accepted in their businesses.
Even if a coin has to be converted to another coin, Sonder plans to provide a free token swap feature in the platform to help facilitate quick and easy swapping of coins. Of course, sellers can specifically choose what cryptocurrencies they want to use for their transactions and Sonder will also explore the possibility of adding fiat transactions in the future.
The experienced Sonder team is led by fellow co-founders, Jokubas Drazdas and Kenjiro Tamaki, the platform's CEO and advisor respectively. Together, they will guide the Sonder team to deliver its roadmap and establish itself as revolutionaries in the industry.
At its core, Sonder plans to provide 3 key features to its users.
First off, as mentioned in the previous section, Sonder plans to provide a dedicated SDK and API which will greatly simplify how companies and businesses connect to cryptocurrency wallets and technologies with only a few clicks.
This will allow users to completely bypass intermediaries (banks, exchanges, etc.) as well as avoiding the technical expertise needed in correctly connecting the blockchain to their systems.
Thanks to this, companies and individuals no longer have to pay expensive fees and wait for ridiculous amounts of time to use cryptocurrencies as a payment method in their businesses.
Sonder will charge a fee for the use of its tools but it's a small price to pay for such a level of convenience especially for users who may not be familiar with cryptocurrencies.
Next, Sonder plans to add a service for cryptocurrency holders to exchange and withdraw fiat currencies through the platform with the team working on building a low-cost peer-to-peer service where users can quickly and efficiently exchange cryptocurrencies to fiat and vice versa all across the globe.
The system will also ensure that security levels and data transfer speeds are improved to give users the benefit of instant transactions with zero fees as well as other features to help them stay private and anonymous.
Transactions in the platform are powered by SNR tokens, the platform's official utility token. SNR tokens will be the main token used for fueling the internal mechanisms and features of the system.
Sonder's advanced technology including the use of masternodes enables transactions to be verified and confirmed extremely quick which is very important for cryptocurrencies to be a viable payment method for users.
As masternodes are used in Sonder, users can earn tokens passively due to how masternodes work; all a user has to do is to leave his or her wallet open (which can be done on devices like laptops and even smartphones) and the system will automatically reward users with tokens based on the percentage of computing power available on the device.
Because of the Sonder network's effective design, transaction fees are kept as low as possible and the team plans to reduce this even by working on introducing zero-fee transactions as the platform grows.
Sonder will provide a cryptocurrency wallet loaded with impressive features for its users. The wallet will maintain the highest levels of security, privacy, and user-friendliness as well as the ability to support any cryptocurrency.
The Sonder team plans to add the ability to easily swap tokens in the wallet in future developments which will add another layer of utility to the Sonder cryptocurrency wallet.
Sonder will be holding a token sale for the SNR token, the platform's official utility token.


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Energy firm gets $3 billion loan
Business // Energy
By Emily Pickrell May 11, 2012
Chesapeake Energy Corp.'s shares fell 14 percent Friday afternoon as the embattled natural gas producer said it might have to delay some asset sales as it fights to raise cash amid weak natural gas prices.
The stock tumbled $2.37 to $14.81, its lowest in more than three years.
Oklahoma City-based Chesapeake had planned to sell between $11.5 billion and $14 billion in oil and gas properties this year to raise the cash it needs to drill new wells.
"They are under pressure," said James Sullivan, an analyst with Alembic Global Advisors, who has a "neutral" rating on the stock. "The reaction of the market was extreme, but what people have to get a handle on it is the company's ability is to generate cash and what the claims on that cash are."
In its filing, Chesapeake blamed the possible delay on unfavorable natural gas prices and the need to maintain a certain amount of collateral for its other debt obligations.
"Liquidity is a concern for this company," said Philip Weiss, an analyst with Argus Research. "The delay looks like a move to keep proved reserves higher so they don't run afoul of their debt covenant."
After the close of regular trading Friday, the company said Goldman Sachs agreed to lend it $3 billion to repay loans it has made through its revolving credit facility.
"The $3 billion cash infusion is a game changer" in terms of investors' concerns about liquidity, Chesapeake spokesman Michael Kehs said. "Our goals have not changed."
The company said it had received strong interest from prospective buyers in two sales, which it hopes to complete in the third quarter.
"The third quarter is the target time frame," Sullivan said. "If they don't show the ability to increase cash flow from selling these assets, that is when this will come to a head."
Plummeting natural gas prices have left Chesapeake scrambling for cash. In the first quarter, it spent an additional $700 million and took on $2.4 billion of long-term debt to plug its immediate capital expenditure needs.
The company has been roiled by news of a private well investment program for chief executive Aubrey McClendon, a hedge fund he ran on the side, his use of corporate jets and other potential long-term liabilities that may not have been fully revealed to investors.
The well program allowed McClendon to invest along side the company, taking a private stake in oil and gas assets Chesapeake operated. McClendon borrowed more than $1 billion to cover his portion of the drilling costs.
In a regulatory filing Friday, Chesapeake said McClendon received $108 million for his share in wells sold between the beginning of 2011 and the end of April 2012. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has begun an informal inquiry into the well program, Chesapeake said.
Meanwhile, analysts raised concerns about financing tools known as "volumetric production payments" that allow the company to repay cash advances from investors with production from its wells. While the tactic is a standard practice among some energy producers, the Wall Street Journal reported last week that Chesapeake's VPPs could produce $1.4 billion in long-term liability that the company hasn't disclosed.
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Classes for the College Contrarian: The Comprehensive Guide to Getting More out of Stanford
Annika Nordquist
The flexible nature of a liberal arts education is both a blessing and a curse; for the most part, Stanford students can pursue their interests in peace, avoiding the politicized classrooms that have become so ubiquitous on college campuses. The downside, however, is that it can be hard to navigate course selection without some guidance.
Although Stanford's dominance in STEM fields is universally acknowledged, it can be harder to find stellar humanities and social sciences classes, which don't have the same structured curriculums and are more likely to suffer from severe grade inflation. This is not even to mention the difficulty of finding classes which represent opposing viewpoints and teach critical thought rather than academic orthodoxy.
In response to these concerns, The Review has consulted a number of upperclassmen for their class recommendations to freshmen. Here you'll find a list of classes that are rigorous and enrichening, politically neutral or politically refreshing.
Humanities Courses:
HISTORY 153: Creation of the Constitution, Michael McConnell, Spring 2020
Though this is technically a law school class, McConell, a former 10th Circuit judge, allows undergraduates to enroll. Ben Esposito ('21) writes that McConnell delivers "insightful, thought-provoking lectures that explore how the Constitution was crafted, from its intellectual origins in William Blackstone and the Mayflower Compact to the debates within the Constitutional Convention." Carolyn Manion ('19), who took the course as a freshman, adds that you must be "up for a challenge."
CLASSICS 181: Classical Seminar: Origins of Political Thought (CLASSICS 381, ETHICSOC 130A, PHIL 176A, PHIL 276A, POLISCI 230A, POLISCI 330A), Josiah Ober, Winter
An absolute must-take, highly recommended by Antigone Xenopoulos ('20), Ben Simon, and myself. Although the class is difficult, it provides an unparalleled grounding in political philosophy.
CLASSICS 83: The Greeks (HISTORY 101), Ian Morris, Winter
Whereas the above class is a must-take for serious Classicists or political scientists, this is a fun, frosh-friendly introduction to the Greek foundations of the Western tradition. Ian Morris is one of Stanford's most engagingly hilarious lecturers, and gives a superb introduction to ancient history. Interested students might also check out my personal favourite of his, CLASSICS 81: Ancient Empires: Near East (Fall).
HISTORY 275E: History of Conservatism, Jennifer Burns, Spring
As Yasmin Samrai ('21) observes, "when else would we get the opportunity to learn about the intellectual foundations of the GOP?" Students from both sides of the aisle should take advantage of this rare opportunity to understand a movement which has been a driving force in American politics. Burns is a Hoover fellow, wrote her first book on Ayn Rand and is writing her next on Milton Friedman. It's also worth checking out her other class, AFRICAAM 150C: The United States in the Twentieth Century (Spring), which satisfies the Engaging Diversity requirement.
HISTORY 103F: The Changing Face of War: Introduction to Military History (HISTORY 3F, INTNLREL 103F), Gili Vardi, Fall
Vardi is a Hoover fellow, and an engaging, competent, and caring instructor. The class's only requirement is two papers on topics of your choosing. Thus, you can easily focus on your personal interests within military history. Both myself and recent graduate Kyle Kinnie ('19) had wonderful experiences.
PHIL 171P: 20th Century Political Theory: Liberalism and its Critics (ETHICSOC 130, POLISCI 130), Brian Coyne, Winter
Junior Yasmin Samrai notes that "there is a shortage of political philosophy classes at Stanford, as the Political Science department has shifted its focus to data science. Thankfully, Brian Coyne has stepped to the fore with a great introduction to 20th century debates about justice, democracy, and equality." Coyne has an excellent reputation, both within the Philosophy department and among students.
PHIL 108: Aristotle's Metaphysics Book Alpha, Alan Code, Spring
Sarah Thomas ('19) describes the class as an essential: "Metaphysics is the science of Being and its reasons. All human inquiry begins with the mystery of Being; a university education is therefore incomplete without some study of metaphysics."
Social Sciences Courses:
POLISCI 114S: International Security in a Changing World (INTLPOL 241), Scott Sagan, Winter
Antigone Xenopoulos ('20) and Kyle Kinnie report that the class, which concludes with a two-day simulation of an international negotiation, was not only fascinating but very politically balanced. Kinnie recommends pairing the class with MS&E 193: Technology and National Security: Past, Present, and Future.
ECON 1: Principles of Economics, John Taylor, Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer
Another must-take, taught by the storied John Taylor. Junior Yasmin Samrai observes: "A great class for freshmen, especially for opening their minds to how liberal solutions to social problems might have good intentions but can have disastrous consequences. You learn in the first three weeks, for example, why increasing the minimum wage puts lower-skilled workers out of jobs."
ECON 102A: Introduction to Statistical Methods (Postcalculus) for Social Scientists, Scott McKeon, Fall and Winter
Ben Simon notes that "while most of the Econ core is poorly-taught and poorly-planned, Scott McKeon's classes stand out. [The] class manages to bring out the wonderfully counter-intuitive and beautiful nature of statistics while also providing a clear, very practical introduction to the subject in a way that only a master like Scott can." Sarah Thomas adds, "Econ 102A is far and away considered the best introduction to probability and statistics at Stanford, and Scott is one of the best teachers at Stanford."
LINGUIST 130A: Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics, Chris Potts, Winter
Those interested in linguistics, computer science, philosophy or a legal career will find this class extremely useful. The course seeks to distill the meaning of words and phrases using math logic, along with other fun topics, such as a class dedicated entirely to swearing. However, the class is quite math-heavy, and those interested in linguistics from a less computational perspective might enjoy LINGUIST 110: Introduction to Phonology (Winter), or LINGUIST 167: Languages of the World (Spring).
Lastly, the Review has compiled a comprehensive list of classes taught by Hoover fellows, which are mostly in Political Science, International Relations, and Economics. Stanford is blessed to have access to scholars from this top-tier research institution, and we encourage you to peruse their offerings.
A few fun ones:
ENGLISH 184E: Literary Text Mining, Ryan Heuser, Spring
Stanford's focus on the "digital humanities" is rather unique, and worth checking out. Sarah Thomas describes this class "a solid introduction to text mining in R and to the philosophy underlying computational criticism." However, she notes that the class is easier for those with prior exposure to CS and literary theory.
MUSIC 32N: Sculpting with Sounds, Images, and Words, Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Fall
According to Sarah Thomas: "This class meets in CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics), which is one of the most fascinating places at Stanford."
Chinese Language:
"We're supposedly heading into a great power competition with China. It's important that Stanford trains the next generation of diplomats and foreign policy experts to understand our complex competitor, if we want American values to triumph over authoritarian ones." Some wise advice from Junior Yasmin Samrai.
PWR, THINK, and IntroSems
Here's the deal with PWR: nobody wants to take it. But unfortunately, Stanford's most poorly run program (rather like many of the most poorly-run countries) is almost impossible to escape. The best course of action is to just deal with PWRI and use an IntroSem to get out of PWRII at your soonest convenience. In general, it's preferable to use IntroSems to get out of requirements rather than learn more about something you already know a lot about, since they are aimed at beginners in the field.
THINK, on the other hand, has many good course options, and it is relatively easy to switch quarters. In particular, The Review recommends:
THINK 43: What is Love? (Fall), in which you can satisfy Engaging Diversity by reading Plato and Ovid with the highly-recommended Robert Harrison.
THINK 54: 100,000 Years of War (Winter), taught by Prof. Ian Morris, one of the most hilariously engaging lecturers at Stanford.
THINK 47: Inventing Government (Spring), taught by accomplished political scientist and classicist Josiah Ober, who does an excellent job of introducing the key works of political science.
Thank you to the following students for contributing class recommendations. Although we lacked the space to incorporate all of them, every little bit helped!
Ben Esposito (Political Science, '21), Kyle Kinnie (International Relations, '19), Carolyn Manion (Classics, '19), Yasmin Samrai (History, '21), Katherine Silk (Economics, '21), Ben Simon (Philosophy/Religious Studies and Computer Science, recent transfer), Sarah Thomas (Philosophy / Religious Studies, '19), Sam Wolfe (Comparative Literature and Political Science, '20), Antigone Xenopoulos (Symbolic Systems, '20)
Please feel free to reach out to me (Annika Nordquist, Classics and Linguistics, 2021) at akn2021@stanford.edu for any additional questions or recommendations!
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Few university provosts, let alone those at places like Stanford, call the work of their institution "second-rate." Yet that is how Provost Persis Drell described
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Sri Lanka assists India to isolate Pakistan by not attending SAARC summit
By Pradeep Ramanayake
After India pulled out of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit due to be held in Islamabad, the Sri Lankan government also decided not to attend. A Sri Lankan foreign ministry statement called for steps "to ensure our region's peace and security" and to create an environment "conducive for the pursuit of regional cooperation."
In fact, the opposite is the case. The Colombo government's support for New Delhi's decision is part of a bellicose campaign to "isolate Pakistan" which India blames for the attack last month by Islamic separatists on the Uri army camp in Indian-held Kashmir. The result is an extremely tense standoff that threatens to slide into open conflict between two nuclear-armed powers. If a war erupts, it has the potential to draw major powers, including the US and China, into the conflict. Beijing has close strategic relations with Pakistan while the US is seeking to harness India as a strategic partner against China.
Afghanistan, Bhutan and Bangladesh also followed India's lead and pulled out of the summit, accusing Islamabad of cross-border terrorism. India was hostile to Pakistan assuming the SAARC chairmanship, which goes to the host country automatically for two years. The Pakistani government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has now postponed the summit which was scheduled for November 8–9.
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was more explicit in his support for the Indian government when he visited in early October to attend the India Economic Forum in New Delhi.
Addressing the media after a meeting with the Indian prime minister, Wickremesinghe declared: "There is no future for SAARC unless cross border terrorism is brought to the table for discussion." He warned that without addressing "cross border terrorism" the regional body would become "irrelevant."
When asked about the tensions between India and Pakistan, the Sri Lankan prime minister said: "[I] don't think war is an option, your PM has taken a lot of steps to defuse the tensions." He added that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had to be complimented for "the restraint he has shown."
Wickremesinghe turns reality on its head. While the Pakistani government and military are using the situation to whip up anti-Indian sentiment and direct domestic social tensions outward, India is exploiting the Uri attack to gain the upper hand diplomatically and strategically over its regional rival even if that risks war.
Far from being restrained, Modi has mounted a diplomatic offensive. Its measures, including pulling out of SAARC, threatening to abrogate the Indus Water Treaty, thus cutting the major water supply to Pakistan, and above all the surgical strike inside Pakistan-held Kashmir on September 28, violating that country's sovereignty, have only heightened tensions.
Answering questions raised by reporters, Wickremesinghe added that the Sri Lanka's relationship with China is "economic not military." He added: "With India, we are doing a lot more ... infrastructure projects, road projects, military co-operation ... China has no military presence in projects such as Hambantota [the Sri Lankan port built by China]. But with India, we have strategic and military ties."
Wickremesinghe also backed another Indian move to promote its Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) with South Asian and South East Asian countries. BIMSTEC is comprised of Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Bhutan and Nepal.
BIMSTEC is part of India's Act East policy to widen its strategic and economic influence in East and South East Asia. This initiative is bound up with the Modi government's economic and strategic drive against China which has been encouraged by the US. The Modi government also sees this grouping as a possible replacement for SAARC and will help further to isolate China. As part of rallying BIMSTEC countries, Modi invited their leaders to participate in the BRICS (Brazil, Russia India, China, South Africa) summit this month. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena participated at the invitation of Modi.
Wickremesinghe expressed his support for India's BIMSTEC project. At the Indian Economic Forum, Wickremesinghe has suggested the creation of a larger special zone of economic cooperation around the Bay of Bengal that would also take Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia on board. "Let's have a whole area around the Bay of Bengal of economic cooperation and a vibrant one. That's what we envisage and should work for."
Colombo's enthusiastic backing for the Indian government is significant. Sri Lankan President Sirisena was installed in power with the backing of the US and India in a regime-change operation to oust President Mahinda Rajapakse in the presidential election of January 2015. Both countries supported Rajapakse's war against the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and his anti-democratic rule. However, Washington and New Delhi sought to undercut his close relations with China. Since coming to power, Sirisena, together with the Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, has shifted Sri Lanka's foreign policy markedly towards India and the US.
SAARC, which was established in 1985, is on the verge of collapse as a result of deepening geo-political tensions. India is seeking to strengthen ties with countries in South Asia to enhance its great power ambitions while undermining traditional rival Pakistan and blocking China. Washington is encouraging India's efforts and aggressively seeking to transform it into a frontline state in the US war drive against China.
The Sri Lankan government's support for New Delhi's actions is deeply reactionary. Behind the backs of the working class and the poor, Colombo is enmeshing the country in the geo-political maelstrom that threatens to plunge the Indian sub-continent and world into a catastrophic conflict.
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"Sentimental Journey" was written by saxophonist and big band leader Les Brown, along with Bud Green and Ben Homer, in 1944. They recorded it in 1945, with Doris Day providing the lead vocals. Its release coincided with the end of World War II, and quickly became the unofficial homecoming theme for soldiers returning from the war. It shot up to #1 on the Billboard charts, and remained in the top 10 for a record 9 months. Today it remains on the Top 100 Songs list by Rolling Stone Magazine. It has become a jazz standard, and been recorded by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald, Glen Miller, Bob Dylan, Ringo Starr, Judy Collins, Willie Nelson, and the Carpenters.
This arrangement has 2-parts – the melody, and a harmony part. The melody part requires the use of the 1+ fret (a temporary 1+ fret can be fashioned from a paper clip and some scotch tape). The CD is divided up into individual tracks covering small sections of each part in detail, looping entire parts, and culminating with a "play-along" track that combines both parts.


Today I finished Hearts of Tabat. Sure, I'll go back and do some smoothing before sending it off to beta readers on Monday, but the book is done, the scenes are there, and (roughly) in the order they should be. The last scene took a lot of circling — I went out and walked five miles, came back, poked at it, went into the other room and made some notes, came back and kept pecking away.
I felt resistant to getting that last scene down on paper — I know that after a year and half with this book I am simultaneously exultant that it is, finally, done and sense has been wrestled from the seething mass of incoherence, and at the same time reluctant to let go of what has occupied a substantial part of my head for quite some time.
It's an odd floaty but incomplete feeling. I feel as though I'm not sure what I should be doing, and a little anxious yet jubilant. There is a certain fear that beta readers will get something and go, "this is not a book". Particularly when I'm trying something a bit adventurous with the structure, which I'll save talk of for another time. I think they'll like it; it's as rich in Tabatian flavor as the first book and considerably more things happen in this one, to address the main criticism of that first.
Since I haven't posted any stories on Patreon this month, I put up the first three chapters, but only for patrons. I figure they make the writing of the novels possible by supporting the stories. If you're a patron, I look forward to hearing what you think.
I know that I need to read through the draft at least once and make sure all the names are correct; they shifted around a lot during the writing and most of the characters have gone through at least two permutations (Ariadne/Adelina, Skilto/Sebastiano, Crocofissia/Serafina) as have some of the surnames. There's also some scraps of notes I've jotted down: loose ends to tuck into the narrative here and there.
But it feels as though there are a lot fewer redundant passages in Hearts than in Beasts, mainly because this manuscript hasn't, like its poor counterpart, had multiple editors and agents leave their mark on it.
I'm also reassured that being SFWA President will not destroy my career; I wasn't sure I would be able to finish a book while in office, but here you go. I promised Wayne if I didn't get two done this year I wouldn't run again; now I'm halfway.
At seven, I've got a Mandarin lesson via Skype, but I'd rather play Fallout. However, I will be good, and make poor Grace listen to my vowels and exhort me to "practiss, more practiss" before I will go indulge. Tomorrow I will plunge in the other big project due at the end of the month and frantically plow through that, but for the rest of the night, I get to play video games and not feel a gram of guilt for doing so.
May is for getting the YA novel finished; it's currently about half written. I finally figured out the title, which is Conflagration.
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I am so happy for you! You finished the hardest of a series #2! I get to celebrate too, I finished and submitted my 2nd Starfaring Japanese short story….Winners all around!


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A mum's story of her natural birth in a hospital.
Why is an assisted birth necessary?
Why is water so great?
Midwives are doing a fabulous job providing loving, nurturing clinical care to those mums who choose to birth with them, and I am grateful for them. So I continue to focus on creating gentler births for those who choose the hospital, as every mum, partner, and baby need to feel like someone is aware of and willing to meet their emotional needs. Because I spend so much time prenatally building rapport with my clients. I understand what they want, what they're afraid of, what traumas they have, how they perceive stress and pain. I can make them feel secure in knowing their needs for comfort will be met. So in this way, they truly feel they have the best of both worlds: good clinical care, and constant familiar, nurturing, with hands-on support.
When I have been at a difficult birth, the gynaecologist and the midwife are free to attend to the medical needs. I can in turn look after her fears and keep her steady and concentrating on her new baby. She turns to me with bright shining eyes and says "Oh how I love my baby... I love her!" she whispers in my ear. And then it hits me with absolute clarity that THIS is the role I wanted to play in birth. Had I not been able to hear those mothers' words and seen her glistening eyes because I had to help with the emergency, the utterance of those words would have gone unheard and unseen. That would be very sad as I could understand the depth of those feelings and all she had gone through to get there as I had provided her with healing when she had lost her previous baby. There is a special place for a doula in the birthing room leaving the professionals to do their clinical work.
Every birth brings out the love in me.


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You never know how an opening will go but as the musicians set up, electronic bird sounds started to fill the post office and the Mellotones began to play on the street the full range of creative expression took over the corner. The sweet and sincere power of art should be no mystery. Friends and strangers came to listen and participate in the community ribbon cutting. Mayor Ed Lee arrived, Raj Sanghera, the Acting Post Master, and the sponsors and friends of the mural. A good time was had by all. Mabuhay!
On August 3 we had a fun and very busy day painting little hummingbirds with participants who signed up through Dina at North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit District. She has been great to work with on this project and got a sign up sheet going. Every 20 minutes or so a new painter showed up. Our Post Office friends did the first ones on the inside of the building. Both Gwendolyn and Mercedes were all smiles as they created their little birds. John, an older painter stood by his little bird to protect it as it dried. Kids from the Boys and Girls Club came and did their birds around the corner. Some gals from TNDC dropped by and a woman that worked in the Methadone program. I got to ask her some questions about the drug problem in the neighborhood. She was very informative. I also invited the Honduran gal who greets me every time she comes to work the corner. Her face lit up and she did her bird with great finesse. Now I understand why she was so interested in the project…she is a potential painter herself. Doug, our Post Office photographer painted the last bird by the front counter, in between serving customers. He wants to be able to see it as he works. It's really done now and the celebration is set for Friday,Aug 26 at 5pm.


Ford believes in mobility in its broadest sense, because mobility is about much more than just providing cars. It's about being able to navigate through every aspect of life, without any restrictions. But how open are we to idea of equal mobility for everyone?! We put it to the test by simply doing what Ford does best, opening the roads to all mankind.


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Sight Unseen exhibit showcases work of blind photographers
Sight Unseen exhibit showcases work…
New technology that creates 3-D, tactile versions of photos is a unique aspect of Sight Unseen at the CMHR. The first museum exhibit in the world to use 3DPhotoWorks imagery, Sight Unseen enables people with vision loss to "see" these powerful images through their fingertips.
Winnipeg's Sight Unseen exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) offers the public a hands-on approach to 3D photography by artists with vision loss.
"I would recommend this exhibit because it immediately shakes you out of your pre-conceptions about blindness and perceptions," says Maureen Fitzhenry, CMHR's Media Relations Manager.
"It's also fascinating to contemplate the talent and skill of these artists – and the photographs are beautiful works of art in their own merit. The 3D tactile art pieces are also unique in the world and help spark thought and conversation about inclusiveness."
California's Pete Eckert visited Winnipeg at the CMHR, as a photographer who lost his sight and even so, continues to take photos at night, armed with his martial arts black belt, experience, and lessons learned from his Master's Degree.
Having vision loss gives him new ground in his works, which reveal the rewards of the risks he takes in creating photos in many areas of interest.
Pete Eckert, Blind Photographer
He explains the most challenging part of his work is the assumptions of the sighted.
"I get to see a mind's eye image of my photos," says Eckert explaining the best part of his work.
"I let the work stand for itself," says Eckert, "Why I do photography [is that] it is an investigating tool – a method of learning what is around me. I get a mind's eye image of the world around me, or an image in my mind's eye of something I built using light."
The process of creating the images is much more powerful for Eckert than the finished product.
His photography career stemmed from his enjoyment of wood carving – the artist he is, and when he found his mother's camera in a drawer, he immediately asked his wife Amy about the features of the camera.
'My black belt gave me courage to go out and investigate the world without fear. I had a tiny bit of vision when I was going through all the ranks," said Eckert.
Sight Unseen is on main floor of the CMHR.
Eckert gets a concept of how much light he is adding, and gets the sound and touch when composing the image. Rather than seeking out images, he creates them in his mind.
His inspiration is slow motion imagery, 29 Amazing Slow Motion Photography which he says allows the eye, mind, and camera to work together to create a between-the-scenes image.
Other slow motion photography examples are of Steve Heiner's Moving Pictures column in the fall issue of Nikon World and the subject of the accompanying video that offers excerpts from several slo-mo clips shot by Heiner with COOLPIX and Nikon 1 cameras.
Inspiration also comes from Films Noir, 'black' film or cinema – a notion from French film critic, Nino Frank in 1946 – the genre of 'dark', downbeat and black, evident in many American crime and detective films following World War II. Examples are The Maltese Falcon (1941), Murder, My Sweet (1944), Double Indemnity (1944), The Woman in the Window (1944), Laura, and Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958)).
"We are in a marvelous time for blind people; technology is advancing so quickly," says Eckert.
"We have more opportunities than we ever had. Question everything and don't accept limits."
Photographer Bruce Hall.
Fitzhenry explains the Sight Unseen exhibit is,"…a travelling exhibition curated by a sighted photographer named Douglas McCulloh, who lives in California. He chose all of the artists. The CMHR added the unique 3D elements and the interactive stations," she adds.
Fitzhenry recommends upcoming guest lectures of photographers at this exhibit, which the next will take place on May 18, when the CMHR welcomes Bruce Hall – one of the featured photographers – who will be travelling here to give talks at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Douglas McCulloh will join him. Bruce Hall is from California as well.
CMHR hosts this tremendously unique exhibit.
Categories: Arts & Entertainment, Downtown, Environment, Reviews, Science & TechnologyBy Deanna Ng May 9, 2016
Author: Deanna Ng
Living with a vision impairment, I use services from CNIB as well as other organizations that have provided resources, services and technology for my education and career.
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Historic musical moment released on new CD – The Free Weekly
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Hillsong Church Music Festival: The Double Standard.
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Valparaiso Music Benefits Northwest Florida Heritage Museum
VALPARAISO — Valparaiso, Valparaiso; they love their Valparaiso. These are a variation of the lyrics that four actors will sing in the mini-musical "Valparaiso", a fundraiser for the Heritage Museum of Northwest Florida in the spotlight Valparaiso100th anniversary. Barbara Palmgren, chair of the Heritage Museum's board of trustees, said itRead More →
Broadway musical Pretty Woman dances in Boston for opera
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Must-see Spring Awakening musical opens at Renaissance Theater
Through Crawford County now personal January 12, 2022 6:03 PM MANSFIELD — The Renaissance presents the hit Broadway musical "Spring Awakening". Winner of 8 Tony Awards, the musical is based on an 1891 play by Frank Wedekind with a rock score by Duncan Sheik and Book & Lyrics by StevenRead More →
Maennerchor Plaza, formerly Maennerchor Club, to host musical dinner show – WJET / WFXP / YourErie.com
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Expo 2020 Dubai: China celebrates National Day with musical performances, Peking Opera – News
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A melodrama musical with a message in 'The Streets of New York' at Off-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theater
First performed at Off-Broadway's Irish Repertory Theater in 2002, the day after 9/11, The streets of New York is back on stage until the end of January in the company's current pandemic-era revival. Based on the 1857 melodrama New York's Poor by Irish playwright and actor Dion Boucicault, the adaptation,Read More →
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Watch Now: Eric Church Celebrates Musical Reunion at Rock Arena Concert | Local
In most shows, that would have been recall time. But Church got back on stage, worked with the band for a few minutes, then ended the 2.5-hour show with the anthem "The Outsiders" and a pair of songs from "Mr. Misunderstood," the album. 2015 where Church truly found her place,Read More →


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Drooping plants and dry brown grass are an inevitable sight once the heat arrives.
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Dear Evan Hansen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, Ben Platt, Kaitlyn Dever
MUSICALS · 2021
Waving Through A Window (From the "Dear Evan Hansen" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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September 24, 2021 16 Songs, 1 hour, 10 minutes ℗ 2021 Universal Studios, under exclusive license to Interscope Records.
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Our Yachtmaster student experiences the perils of mixing partying with sailing during her first offshore passage.
I quickly learnt a fundamental lesson of long offshore passages – get an early night the night before. Hence the party I went to the night before our six-day offshore passage was probably not the most sensible idea and, as I was about to find out later in the day, the combination of alcohol and a lack of sleep made for a truly uncomfortable journey.
We were due to leave Cowes promptly at 0900 on our Beneteau 47.7 Oceanis but due to a damaged batten, broken radar and the need to fill the 600litre water tanks we were delayed until midday.
All of us had previously been assigned roles so were well aware of our responsibilities for the first passage from Cowes to Alderney. Steve, the skipper, had split us into two watches. Sam and I as navigators spent some time the previous day doing pilotage plans and the channel passage plan. The route from Cowes to the Needles was pretty straightforward, basically a dot-to-dot course between the buoys. After, as we left the land behind, it became more tricky as we headed south to the Channel Islands.
Having not been the only one to indulge in a spot of Saturday night partying, we all felt pretty tired so, at the end of every three-hour watch, most of us headed below deck for a quick nap. Fortunately, the yacht was huge in size compared to the X332s that we've been used to sailing in previous weeks. The fore cabin Sam and shared even had en suite!
The passage became particularly interesting when we crossed the shipping lanes and had to keep a close lookout for tankers passing in front of us. It was really difficult to judge the distance and speed and whether or not we were on a collision course.
Although the weather was great with a Force 4-5 with clear skies, it turned pretty cold by the evening. Sam was the only one of the crew who suffered with seasickness, although there were times when we all felt a little green. In fact dinner, chilli con carne, was eaten quite hesitantly by most of us and took me over half an hour to eat without feeling queasy.
Great to watch the stars at night but not so enjoyable being woken up in the middle of the night to do a three-hour watch in the cold. I was so tired at the end of my watch at 0100 that I managed to miss all the steps heading down into the cabin below and landed in a heap on the floor next to Andy at the nav table. Thankfully no broken bones, probably due to the fact that I had five layers of clothes on!
Arrived in Alderney at 3am and unfortunately all the mooring buoys were taken so we had to drop anchor. This would have been perfect as we were all looking forward to sleeping, but it meant that we had to do hourly anchor watches. I was totally disorientated being woken at 0400 again and having to get back into my damp foulies to sit in the cold cockpit in almost pitch black. Tim was on watch with me and we amused ourselves by flashing torch messages to our sister boat, and talking rubbish just to keep awake.
Had only been back in bed for two hours when I was awoken by the guys lifting anchor and moving the boat to a freed buoy. No peace for the wicked! Needless to say we were all pretty exhausted in the morning.
We headed into Braye for a cooked breakfast and to stock up on more provisions; It's amazing how much food seven crew can get through in a day. We then cleaned the boat and handed over the navigator roles to Rob and Howard.
Before leaving Andy gave us feedback on the cross channel passage and on our individual roles. Unfortunately due to the fact that Sam and I were tired and sea sick, Andy said the navigation suffered and we needed to work on gaining our sea legs and applying more attention to our chartwork. We also received a bit of a telling off for partying the night before. I think this first passage was a wake up call for all of us, we all know that we've got a lot to do this week and a tired crew undoubtedly leads to frayed tempers.
As soon as we left harbour we were attacked by a tides for a few hours and our relatively short 25mile trip to Guernsey seemed to magically lengthen in time. En-route, Andy ran through the drill for an emergency evacuation and tested us on the procedure when we least expected it. Each of us were responsible for gathering a different piece of lifesaving equipment, my job was filling the grab bag – got top marks for bringing the chocolate biscuits!
Morale had been quite low during the past two days as everyone was tired and a bit fed up with sitting for hours in damp foulies on a cold deck. To keep us all busy we took it in turns to helm and attempted to sail as close to the wind as we could to avoid being swept away by the tide.
We arrived in Guernsey at 2100, spent ages on deck peeling potatoes(see photo above)in anticipation of bangers and mash for dinner and then we found out to our horror that the oven had broken. So, it was a quick trip ashore for takeaway pizzas and then early to bed.


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August Links Roundup: Ship It
Better get this post up before the month is over! Here's an eclectic list of good reads around the web.
At the Iowa Review, Amanda Peery-Wolf's "What Can I Ship" is a witty found-poem based on the Union Pacific Online Customer Handbook from 2007. The reader may be alternately numbed and delighted by the sheer volume and random diversity of items that human beings have invented and sold. Strategically placed linebreaks lead one to imagine additional strange mash-ups of existing products:
toasters walking sticks with rubber tips video games mattresses hd
screens jeans green bicycles for boys rubber hands for halloween minidresses
for when she's starting to come into her own pocket pill containers
horse blankets rabbit biscuits jingly balls for cats eyebrow brushes
keyboard covers car accessories menorahs plastic bags pen caps worry
dolls folding fans molding clay ac units fuel charges apply to all shipments
balled-up tissues tootsie rolls rolling papers live rabbits beach umbrellas…
At the Ploughshares blog, Pepper Stetler's essay "The World Will Be Tlön" compares the DSM-5 to the aliens' rewriting of human history in Jorge Luis Borges' surreal fable "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius". The human psyche craves order and categorization to such an extent that we confer authority on "expert" psychological diagnoses and overlook their contested political history. As the mother of a daughter with Down syndrome, Stetler can't ignore the labels that will help her family navigate the medical and educational systems to get the resources they need. However, she remains skeptical enough to value aspects of her daughter's mental life that the DSM would pathologize. "Intellectual disability is still described in terms of deficits and a failure to meet certain standards, rather than language that might suggest that the environment, the conditions of our modern world, might be what is deficient, which would open up the possibility for social change."
At MEL, a men's magazine, Chingy Nea opines that "'The Sopranos' Belongs to the Gays Now". Gay popular culture loves references and memes from the Mafia drama because it's a show about masculinity as high camp. "Even if they don't realize it themselves, every man and woman on The Sopranos is performing gender at such a high level that the show smacks of the stuff. And because many queer people live outside the confines of traditional gender roles, we're more used to recognizing that all of us are performing gender, whether we know it or not."
I got halfway through Season 4 when "The Sopranos" originally aired, quitting because I didn't want to see Adriana get whacked. If we go on lockdown from COVID again this winter, or even if we don't, I suspect I'll be bingeing the show from the beginning. I have HBO Max now–I am fancy. No more bootleg videotapes from my parents' friend who had premium cable.
My new passion as of last year is making collage art. My handmade greeting cards are everything that my writing isn't–upbeat, popular, and easy to understand! Via Poetry Daily, I discovered the online journal Ctrl+V, which is dedicated to creative writing that incorporates visual collage elements. I particularly liked this flower clock poem from Nora Claire Miller, "To Understand a Tendency Consider Its Conditions".
This cheerful non-manifesto by poet Maggie Smith, part of an interview in the "Stopping By With…" series from the Poetry Society of America, lightened my anxiety:
What do you see as the role of art in public life at this moment in time?
A question I've heard asked a lot over the past year (but also in most hard years—which is most years, period) is "What is the role of the poet in these times?" I suspect the expected answer is something about expressing collective grief or outrage, or speaking truth to power, or providing comfort. But my answer is usually, "To do your work." Any world worth living in and fighting for is a world full of art.
So we do our work, whatever it looks or sounds like, without expecting it to fix or solve anything, without expecting it to heal someone. We just do our work, and perhaps it will mean something to someone else, the way we find art that means something to us.
LitHub published the winners of this year's Insider Prize, a writing contest sponsored by the journal American Short Fiction for incarcerated writers in Texas. Eva Shelton's story "Bottles of Grief", about solidarity and loneliness in a bereavement support group, and Keith Sanders' essay "The Myth of Me", about being a rebellious teenage atheist, are both worth a read.
Classicist and poet A.E. Stallings shares a bit of forgotten queer history in "Warrior Eros" at The American Scholar. Reviewing James Romm's The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom, she describes the real-life inspiration for the thought experiment in Plato's Symposium about "an army of lovers and their loves" who would be bonded by affection to fight to the death.
In Athens and Sparta, romantic, erotic, and sexual relationships between men were largely countenanced and conventional: a couple was composed of an erastes (the lover), the older partner, and the eromenos (the beloved), a youth on the cusp of manhood; "lovers and their loves." The pro-Spartan Athenian historian Xenophon seems to have been atypical in his disapproval of male-male sexual relationships; in ancient Greece it was arguably unwavering heterosexuality that was "queer."
But if, as Romm points out, in Athens and Sparta "male erôs was 'complicated,'" in Thebes and Boeotia it was sanctioned by the state. Male couples could take an oath at the grave of Iolaus, Hercules's own beloved, to live together as syzygentes—yoke mates—a term that elsewhere indicates a lifelong marital bond. It is etymologically related to "conjugal." (The modern Greek word for "spouse" is still syzygos.) After running a junta of Spartans out of Thebes in 379 BCE, the Thebans turned their attention to defense. What Thebes needed to keep Sparta's hoplites (heavily armed infantry) at bay was an elite squad of its own; thus was born the Sacred Band of 300, its couples having sworn the "sacred" oath at Iolaus's tomb.
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Poetry by Victoria Leigh Bennett: "The Nature of the Offense"
Winning Writers subscriber Victoria Leigh Bennett recently made my acquaintance online to announce her forthcoming collection, Poems from the Northeast (Olympia Publishing). She is a fellow Massachusetts poet, though born in West Virginia. Victoria says, "A poet's spiritual homeland is oftentimes not exactly the same as his or her homeland by birth. This book is a book of poems composed over a lifetime lived entirely in the northeastern United States and Toronto, Canada."
Victoria has kindly allowed me to share this new poem of hers, which appealed to me because of its wordplay and gentle but pointed repartee.
The Nature of the Offense
Well, the most you can say for him is that he's inoffensive,
Fairly inoffensive,
Pretty much noncommittal, and
Well, just inoffensive,
That's a hell of a lot to say,
Say I,
Think of how everyone in our world
Who's parleyed and had to negotiate
For a cessation of the offenses
Committed against them
In perpetuity from the past, at least,
It seems,
Would like him,
Find him a valuable asset
As a companion.
Oh, yeah, you say,
He's pretty wishy-washy,
And everyone complaining these days
About everything ever done to them
Whether on purpose or not,
Maybe just in a moment of inattention
Or thoughtlessness,
Yeah, I can see how they might value him.
Well, say I,
As to the "wishy" part,
I think he wishes a lot for others
To be comfortable and happy
In his presence,
And for the "washy" part,
He's continually washing
His own soul hands
Against the washing away
Of others' vital differences,
Which are important to them.
He wouldn't give offense,
Is the issue.
Maybe not, you say,
Though some would prefer
An outright enemy
To a halfway committer.
But he's not falsely committed
To anything,
And anyway, people
Really don't want enemies.
Some people just like to quarrel,
You say,
I'll just bet you're tired of him
In a year, or a month,
Or a fortnight.
I can still call it a fortnight,
Can't I,
Without giving offense
To your peace-loving friends?
I have no idea, I say,
No one's ever told me anything
Different from that yet.
Yeah, I'll bet you're tired of him
Before long.
Where's the passion,
Where's the thrust of sexual contention?
Where's the love,
Where's the melting-togetherness
Of passionate agreement? Say I.
You'll get tired of him, I'll just bet.
I'll take that bet, I say,
All in one breath,
See you and raise you,
As maybe your parents
Should've seen you
And raised you better,
To be more inoffensive.
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Witch Kitsch
We went to Salem.
This Massachusetts coastal town has made a peculiar tourist industry out of the fact that it executed 19 people (and two dogs) on charges of witchcraft in 1692. Four others died in prison or under interrogation.
All respect to Giles Corey, the crotchety octogenarian who let himself be pressed to death rather than admit the court's authority to try him.
In one of history's ironic twists, Salem is now an epicenter of modern witchcraft culture and fashion. You can hardly walk a block downtown without coming across a shop selling pentacle jewelry, mini cauldrons, psychic readings, crystals, candles, and dolls in pointy hats. Not to mention, this tribute to Elizabeth Montgomery as Samantha in "Bewitched".
Visiting Salem as an actual, serious, practicing witch was an adventure in cognitive dissonance and complex emotions–not to mention a temptation to spend way too much money on Goth swag, like this Baphomet pillow I bought to make myself feel better about not getting top surgery.
Aiming for equal parts entertainment and scares, Salem's witch-tourist museums go in for waxwork tableaux and sensationalist re-enactments of what they call the "witchcraft hysteria". The presentations include some helpful historical context about the plagues and warfare that stressed the Puritan settlement to the point of irrational scapegoating. Then as now, people were desperate to blame someone for the disconnect between their suffering and the divine blessings they were promised. But of course it would be too controversial to draw those connections for the paying customers, so the popular image of the Puritans remains exotic and remote from the world of their descendants. The official story on the placards is that "of course" witchcraft isn't real–even as the alternative spirituality business is booming, right outside the door.
Should I, then, mourn Salem's executed witches as my spiritual ancestors? It's hard to say, because there's no good evidence that they considered themselves witches (tortured confessions don't count). Even if some of them did practice folk magic in secret–practices like hexing or fertility charms having always coexisted alongside official Christianity–the 17th-century witches' values and cosmology were likely more similar to the Puritans' than to my Temple of Witchcraft class's Buddhist-inflected, queer-friendly worldview. Magic is a technology that doesn't necessarily create common ground among its practitioners. The concentrated collective prayers of right-wing Christians could be seen as a hex designed to wipe out queer people. I began practicing magic in earnest during the Trump years because I perceived a spiritual warfare component to the GOP's attacks on human rights and Mother Nature. (In my opinion, it's not really Jesus they are worshiping, but I digress.)
The gender politics of the "hysteria" also left me with unanswered questions. It's actually remarkable that pre-teen girls' accusations against prominent men, such as minister George Burroughs, were taken seriously by the church and court system. A number of witches were convicted on the "spectral evidence" of girls' nightmares and sensations of being pinched by invisible hands. To me this sounded like abuse flashbacks, which can take the form of body memories. (This doesn't mean, of course, that Burroughs was the real perpetrator; don't haunt me, George.) In dismissing the entire trials as delusional, we may play into the patriarchal script that anything that can't be confirmed by outside observers is not credible.
The irreverence of the waxwork history tours troubled me at first, but then I recognized it as a form of "whistling past the graveyard". At Halloween, we dress up as what we fear, to make our mortal vulnerability manageable through play. We put our heads in the stocks as a joke, to dispel the unease of imagining our own neighbors turning on us.
Salem was also the birthplace of the great fiction writer Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64), whose work you can read for free at AmericanLiterature.com. I wrote my college thesis on original sin in his stories "Rappaccini's Daughter" and "The Birthmark", two Gothic fantasies about prideful scientists whose drive for "perfection" destroys the women they love most (to the extent that a narcissist can love!). A descendant of witch-trials judge John Hathorne, Nathaniel changed the spelling of his name to distance himself from that history. I understand him better after visiting the Witch City. Throughout his work, he struggles with inherited sin. On the one hand, he wants to hope that descendants can break a cursed pattern, even if the cost to themselves is high. On the other hand, he's enough of a Puritan to remind progress-intoxicated Americans that human nature is permanently flawed. We trade religion for science, we scoff at the past, but the same impulses that drove the witch trials remain in our hearts.
I don't think Hawthorne would be a fan of the "Scarlet Letter" coffee mugs in the House of Seven Gables Gift Shop, but this fan art by Wendy Snow-Lang shows why Melville thought Nat was such a snack:
Transition goals, am I right?
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As president of Asempleo, the association of private employment agencies in Spain, Andreu Cruañas represents Spain in the World Employment Confederation. He is a board member of the Confederation of Employers and Industries of Spain as well as the Spanish Confederation of Small and Medium Enterprises. He is also a general council member of the Spanish National Employment System and the Central Executive Committee of the Public Employment Service of Spain. Cruañas was also the Secretary of Labour and Employment and Director General of Employment of the Catalan Government. In 2017, Cruañas teamed up with Eurosocial, a collaboration between the EU and Latin America that focuses on good practices in employment, to improve the quality of employment, especially among youth.
Thierry Geffroy
Samsic RH
Thierry Geffroy is the CEO of Samsic RH, the staffing business owned by the French facility management group Samsic. Samsic RH ranks among the 10 largest staffing firms in France, and as one of the largest privately owned firms in the market. Thierry joined Samsic in 1992 and in 1998 moved into a leadership role where he was responsible for driving growth. As of 2018, Samsic RH has expanded throughout Europe with more than 300 branches in nearly 10 countries. Samsic RH had turnover of €2 billion in 2017 and has 80,000 employees.
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Lumesse
Didier Bench, executive chairman of Lumesse, has more than 25 years' experience in the leadership and development of international technology firms, digital companies and investment funds. He has held senior management positions with a series of software companies, successfully turning them into profitable and major players. Bench has also supported investment decisions for a number of major private equity and investment funds. In addition to HgCapital, he has been a senior advisor for SilverLake Sumeru and a senior partner for CDP Technology Ventures, a Canadian private equity fund that is part of Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec operating in the North American and European markets. He is also nonexecutive chairman of EidosMedia.
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Currently managing director of Manpower France, Jean-François Denoy has held various positions with ManpowerGroup, including roles with operational management responsibilities and in HR. As HR director, he led training, career management and HR development from 2006 to 2010. Denoy was appointed HR and services managing director of Manpower France in 2010 and managing director in 2012. He holds master's degrees in administrative and strategic management and human resources.
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Recruit Holdings Co. Ltd
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