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Martin R. Delany
Blake; or the Huts of America (1859–1861)
Blake; or the Huts of America is a novel by Martin R. Delany that was serially published in the Anglo-African Magazine in 1859 and the Weekly Anglo-African in 1861 and 1862 (it was not published in complete book form until 1970). Delany was born free in 1812 in Charles Town, Virginia (later West Virginia). Giving a panoramic view of slave life in the nineteenth century, Delany's novel tells the story of Henry Blake, an escaped slave who travels throughout the southern United States and to Cuba in an effort to plan a large-scale slave insurrection. Written in part as a response to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), Blake's strong, militant, and revolutionary protagonist offers a counterexample to the seemingly docile Uncle Tom character popularized by Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Because the final installments of the novel have been lost, twenty-first-century readers may never know if Blake's planned revolution is successful; still, the novel offers an important nineteenth-century depiction of slavery and a potential way to end it.
Contributor: Katy L. Chiles
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Like Uncle Tom's Cabin and many other nineteenth-century antislavery texts, Blake opens with the forcible separation of the slave family. Henry's wife, Maggie, discovers that her owner and biological father, Colonel Stephen Franks, has arranged to sell her, partly because his wife has become too close to Maggie and partly because Maggie has refused his sexual advances. Returning from an errand for the Franks family, Henry learns that his wife has been sold away from the Franks plantation. Maggie's parents, Daddy Joe and Mammy Judy, weep, pray for better times, and implore Henry to "stan' still an see de salbation." Henry, however, chooses instead to leave the Franks plantation and travel through each state of the antebellum South in order to "sow the seeds" of rebellion.
Readers soon learn that Blake is not all that he appears. Born free to wealthy West Indian tobacco planters, Blake as a youth goes on what he mistakenly believes to be a Spanish man-of-war but what turns out to be a slave ship. When Blake protests at the auctioning of the slaves in the United States, the ship's commander sells him to Franks. Once on the Franks plantation, Henry marries Maggie, and they have a son. Henry's decision to respond to Maggie's sale with a revolutionary plot contrasts strikingly with the religiosity advocated by his in-laws and by Stowe's Uncle Tom. While most of the slaves Henry meets on his travels talk in a stereotypical, black southern slave dialect, Henry speaks in standard English. He is characterized as a well-educated, strong, Moses-like figure who will be the deliverer of his race.
Slave Hunt
Henry's travels throughout the southern states give his readers a detailed and diverse view of slavery. As he makes his way from plantation to plantation, Henry interviews the slaves about their conditions. While visiting the Dismal Swamp located between North Carolina and Virginia, he encounters slaves who claim to have fought in the American Revolution (1775–1783) and alongside African American rebels such as Nat Turner and Gabriel, from Virginia, and Denmark Vesey, of South Carolina. While traveling, Blake imparts his plan for widespread revolution to trusted slaves in each state. Many of the slaves receiving his message have also contemplated a similar plan and have anticipated his arrival, adding to the mythic quality of Blake's tale. He eludes authorities, charms and kills slave-catching dogs, and, after making his way through southern plantations, leads a party of escaped slaves from the Franks plantation to freedom in Canada.
Slave Ship Diagram
Part 2 of the book finds Henry taking his quest to Cuba, where he locates Maggie. He helps her buy her freedom and reunites with his cousin Placido, a character based on Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés, the Cuban poet famously accused of sedition and executed by the Cuban government in 1844. (Set in 1853, the book compresses the historical time periods of 1840s and 1850s; the fictional world of the novel is both after the 1857 Dred Scott decision and before the 1844 execution of the Cuban revolutionary poet.) Henry surreptitiously enlists himself on a slave ship in order to lead an Amistad-like mutiny on the return from Africa. The mutiny never happens, and when the Africans arrive in Cuba, they join Blake's revolutionary cause. Blake and Placido help form the Army of Emancipation of the Oppressed Men and Women of Cuba, which in turn elects Blake as its general-in-chief. Henry's elaborate plans for a revolution grow and develop, but even as the tension continues to build, the novel breaks off before revolutionary action takes place.
Serial Publication
Martin R. Delany was a free black born in Charles Town, Virginia (later West Virginia). Raised in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, he attended Harvard Medical School before being asked to leave after protests from white students. Although Delany is well known for espousing an early black nationalist vision, his thinking and political action changed and evolved over his long career. A journalist, scientist, and political actor, Delany worked with Frederick Douglass at the North Star. In the 1840s he, along with Douglass, advocated freedom and citizenship for American blacks before coming to endorse South American and then African emigration in the 1850s. He would later be commissioned as the first black major in the U.S. Army, serving during the American Civil War (1861–1865). He worked for the Freedman's Bureau after the Confederate surrender.
Delany wrote Blake during the 1850s, when he was advocating for black emigration. While a few sample chapters were being published in the Anglo-African Magazine, he solicited the famous abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison to publish the entire novel, but when this did not happen, Delany continued to publish his book in the black periodical press.
Blake: or, the Huts of America.
The Anglo-African Magazine published chapters 28 through 30 in its January 1859 issue, and the next month it began serializing Blake from chapter 1. The magazine continued to publish the novel through July 1859, when the last installment stopped with chapter 23. This was probably because of Delany's departure to Africa on his "Niger Valley Exploring Party" trip to find a suitable place to which free blacks could possibly immigrate. At the end of 1859, magazine editor Thomas Hamilton reissued the year's issues as The Anglo-African Magazine, Volume I. Two years later, in November 1861, the Weekly Anglo-African newspaper (edited by Hamilton's brother, Robert) began publishing Blake again, this time with different installment breaks. The Weekly Anglo-African published chapters 1 to 74 through the issue of April 26, 1862. The last six chapters of Blake were probably published in the now-lost May 1862 issues of the Weekly Anglo-African. In 1970 Floyd Miller published all the available chapters in a single book form. Because the May issues of the newspaper have not yet been recovered, however, contemporary readers do not know how the novel ends.
Literary Context
Effects of the Fugitive-Slave-Law
Although Blake did not receive as much popular attention as Uncle Tom's Cabin during the nineteenth century, scholars are increasingly studying the novel (and Delany's other journalistic and scientific writing) for its portrayal of antebellum black life. Blake responds specifically to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which made it illegal for any free person living in a free or slave state to aid an escaped slave seeking freedom, and to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), which stripped all blacks living in the United States—enslaved and free—of any citizenship rights. At the same time, Blake departs from historical accuracy by also depicting the Cuban slave uprisings of the 1840s. While it may not be historically accurate, the scholar Eric Sundquist has pointed out that this collapse of historical periods allows the novel to imagine hemispheric violent revolution as a possible answer to New World slavery.
The novel has both domestic and international concerns. Henry Blake's travels take him through the United States, into Canada and Cuba, and back and forth from Africa. Indeed, as the nineteenth-century subtitle to the book details, Blake is "A Tale of the Mississippi Valley, the Southern United States and Cuba." Thus, the novel not only shows how the transatlantic slave trade is a problem; it also shows how a transnational black revolution might be a solution to that problem. Much like other seafaring novels of the nineteenth century, such as Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; or the Whale (1851), Blake is international in scope.
Blake also explores the role Christianity played in antebellum slave life. Henry Blake excoriates slave owners like Franks for beating their slaves and breaking apart slave families while claiming to be "Christian people." He also disapproves of slaves like Daddy Joe and Mammy Judy who adopt their masters' Christianity whole cloth. Rather than waiting on salvation, Blake asks slaves to be violent. Nevertheless, Blake himself does rely on religion in his own endeavors, frequently leading prayers among his followers. Ironically, while disapproving of the way that whites have distorted and used Christianity to advance their own interests, he claims that blacks should behave similarly. He states that "'[t]he whites accept of nothing but that which promotes their interests and happiness, socially, politically and religiously. They would discard a religion, tear down a church, overthrow a government, or desert a country, which did not enhance their freedom. In God's great and righteous name, are we not willing to do the same?'" Religion can be useful to Blake, as long as it is used to advance black freedom.
Blake is a significant cultural document for both its depiction of transatlantic slavery and its characterization of hemispheric, violent revolt as a fitting response to slavery. In this way, it is an important early progenitor of black nationalist thought. At the same time, as some scholars have pointed out, Blake does a great deal of revolutionary planning, but he does not incite a great deal of actual violent revolt. Because we have yet to recover the last six chapters of the book, readers are left to ask whether the revolution ever actually came.
Antebellum Period (1820–1860)
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Chiles, Katy L. "Within and without the Raced Nation: Intratextuality, Martin Delany, and Blake; or the Huts of America." American Literature 80, no. 2 (2008): 323–352.
Clymer, Jeffory. "Martin Delany's Blake and the Transnational Politics of Property." American Literary History 15, no. 4 (2003): 709–731.
Delany, Martin Robison. Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader. Edited by Robert S. Levine. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Levine, Robert S. Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Nwankwo, Ifeoma Kiddoe. Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
Sundquist, Eric. To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Chiles, Katy. Blake; or the Huts of America (1859–1861). (2021, February 05). In Encyclopedia Virginia. https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/blake-or-the-huts-of-america-1859-1861.
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Good afternoon; I am Unmi Song, President of the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation. The overhead issue is one of the most important — and most neglected — topics that funders should be thinking about and discussing.
There is a lot of buzz around "impact" and "outcomes" and "evidence-based practices." But there is not enough buzz around what it takes for nonprofits to achieve these things.
What I've learned recently is that the assumptions we funders have about overhead are wrong! If we think we know how one nonprofit calculates overhead, we are probably wrong. The variation in practice is extremely wide. And accounting principles — surprise! — provide little guidance.
So we need to have a conversation with the organization. We can't assume we know what they mean when they say overhead.
But this was even the bigger lesson for me: many nonprofits are afraid to initiate a conversation about overhead with their funders. And this fear is partly because they have their own assumptions about us: that we funders are unwilling to fund overhead.
I didn't think that we at the Fry Foundation were so different, and I'm still not sure that we are. The Fry Foundation wants to cover overhead expenses: we believe they are essential for the operations of a well-run organization.
I also want to point out that indirect costs are not the same as administrative overhead. Indirect generally refers to "fixed costs" (as compared with variable costs). What most people think of as indirect costs — such as rent, utilities, office supplies, technology — are not administrative or overhead costs. They are program costs. They absolutely should be in all program budgets: it's impossible to run a program without these expenses! Such expenses should be appropriately allocated across all programs.
In addition, the budget for an effective program should also include staff training and professional development: activities necessary to keep up on the latest research and understand best practices. If an organization does not provide high quality training for staff, it is not likely to have an effective program. If they do train their staff, those expenses should be in their program budget and we as funders need to cover them.
Every once in a while we get a request to send staff to a conference or to buy new software. If you ask me, those costs should not be covered through special one-off requests. Those costs should be in every program budget. After all, how do you run an effective program with outdated software? How do you manage high-performing staff if you don't provide training and effective supervision?
What are the components of your line item called overhead or administrative expenses?
We are concerned because this number seems too low/too high to us . . .
The budget in your proposal doesn't have any indirect costs or overhead in it; let's discuss what is needed.
When we as grantmakers do not have these conversations, we inadvertently enforce an implicit cap on overhead. We are not encouraging nonprofits to make the investments necessary for strong budgeting, improving programs, and maintaining quality.
Have the strongest and most rigorous monitoring and assessment programs.
Such activities are not "overhead" activities to be kept as low as possible.
This conversation about overhead starts with the acknowledgement that an overhead rate is not a meaningful measure of very much; it is certainly not a measure of effectiveness or even efficiency. Talking about overhead is almost a distraction.
The conversation needs to get to how to allocate costs in a meaningful way: in a way that provides insight into efficiency, the effectiveness of scarce resources, and in a way that helps us understand the outcomes we are getting from society's investments.
And we as grantmakers are the critical link. Grantees are not going to bring this up to us. We have that responsibility. If we do not initiate the conversation, it won't be had. It's too important an issue to continue to be ignored.
Share knowledge so that information which can help low-income communities and individuals is widely and readily available.
Ms. Song, I just want to say that you just won over a personal fan. As an executive director for a nonprofit, I can't tell you how many foundations that claim they are helping with capacity building refuse to pay the true cost of running a nonprofit. My organizations have PhDs, environmental engineers, etc. I once asked a foundation officer how much they pay for their car mechanic per hour. He told me $150-$200+/hr, but I wasn't allowed to charge more than $60/hr for my staff.
This distinction between indirect rates and overheads are not understood by many. I feel that I am on the losing side because I refuse to take funds that do not pay for overhead without knowing how it will be otherwise subsidized.
Truly, if they had a foundation hero, you would win the award. Please, please keep telling this story! I wish I could send you along to some of these foundations that have no clue about this stuff.
Providing funds for programs but only for overhead, indirect or administrative costs is like providing funds for a race car but not the gas. Good luck crossing the finish line!
Thank you, Unmi, for raising this important and often maddening issue. In addition, I would like to remind funders that livable wages and supportive benefits must be included when they consider the real cost of doing business.
At Third Sector New England, we have just completed a regional compensation study – a snapshot of the salaries and benefits of over 200 nonprofits in our region. From our sample data, one of the alarming findings is that 43% of the employees represented in this survey are earning less than $28,000 per year. Given the costs of housing, student loan payments, child care and other necessary expenses, this basic salary falls short of a living wage. This is especially concerning to those of us who believe a nonprofit career, even a career working in the smallest of organizations, should be a viable option for anyone who wants to travel that path. Better wages and benefits contribute greatly to developing a professional, high-performing staff for nonprofits and ultimately for the funders invested in their success. One should be able to dedicate their life to doing good without having to do without. And funders need to remember that livable wages don't constitute excess.
Findings from our 2010 Compensation Survey are on available at http://tsne.org/valuing-our-nonprofit-workforce-2010 The new study will be available on our website by June 1.
Thank you for your comments. Paying family supporting wages is so important. I would add that I am concerned the nonprofit sector is not doing enough to provide retirement benefits.
Our auditor tells us that our 15% admin/fundraising share is simply not sufficient for an organization of our size, that it indicates too much vulnerability to loss of key staff members who are carrying unreasonable loads. She says that a healthy nonprofit should be in the 25-35% range for these activities – yet many granting organizations will only pay 10-15% for them. Thank you for opening the discussion.
I hope that funders should reconsider increasing the percentage of the overhead cost from 5% to 15%.
"indirect" costs? Are they the same?
An excellent and frequently asked question! Sometimes Administrative and Indirect costs refer to overlapping expenses; often they are different. It all depends on an organization's definition and accounting approach. Indirect costs usually refer to costs which are "fixed" for the organization but which get allocated to programs because the programs use those expenses. These include things like rent, utilities, technology expenses.
Administrative tends to refer to expenses that relate to the organization overall or supervisory staff, including finance, human resources, legal expenses, liability insurance, fundraising, board related expenses, corporate office expenses.
I would welcome other comments and clarifications on this.
More funders and grantees need to recognize the important difference in indirect vs. admin costs.
Thank you Unmi for recognizing this important issue and sharing it!


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BBC Sport – Lee Haskins stops Iwasa to win interim IBF bantamweight title.
Bristol's Lee Haskins claimed the interim IBF bantamweight world title with a classy sixth-round stoppage of Japan's Ryosuke Iwasa.
Haskins dominated from the first bell and floored his opponent in the sixth moments before the fight was stopped.
The victory opens the door to a potential fight against IBF champion Randy Caballero, currently injured.
"I've had 35 professional fights and that was the best performance," said 32-year-old Haskins.
It was only Iwasa's second defeat in 21 fights but, fighting outside Japan for the first time in his career, struggled at the Indoor Action Sports Centre in Whitchurch.
Haskins, who takes his record to 32 victories from 35 fights with three defeats, could also opt for a rematch with WBA bantamweight champion Jamie McDonnell.
A confident start from the Englishman saw him catch his opponent on several occasions with some classy switch-hitting while Iwasa preferred to box behind his jab.
A booming left-right combination unsettled the Japanese early in the second round before Haskins also enjoyed success late in the round as his quick start continued, watched at ringside by Britain's latest world champion Lee Selby and roared on by partisan home support.
The visiting fighter enjoyed his best round in the fourth with an early left hook and two further shots catching Haskins as the fight continued at a ferocious pace.
A left hook caught Haskins flush in the sixth but despite a bloodied nose he took the shot well and came back to floor his opponent with what he later called "the shot of his career".
Iwasa survived the count but moments later Haskins finished the job with a barrage of shots, leading referee Phil Edwards to stop the fight.


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According to Motherboard, around 250 bounty hunters and related companies had access to AT & T, T-Mobile and Sprint location data. The documents also show that telecommunications companies have sold data to be used by 911 operators and first responders to data aggregators who sold them to bounty hunters. In some cases, the data was so accurate that a user could be tracked in certain places within a building.
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A screen that the motherboard of a phone has found about its GPS data. The motherboard has blurred and cut off parts of the image to protect the privacy of individuals. Image: Motherboard [19659007] At least in 2012, by the end of 2017, the now-defunct data vendor named CerCareOne was able to extract the real-time location of AT & T, T-Mobile, and Sprint mobile phones from bounty hunters, bailiffs, and bailiffs The company's trusted source sometimes charged the company up to $ 1,100 per telephone location. Motherboard shared this anonymity with a number of sources to provide details on a controversial industry practice.
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I have the day off from work today*. I woke up at 9am, spent over an hour at the gym, showered, ran some errands, picked up lunch, started laundry while eating lunch and when I remove my laundry from the dryer, I am going to go to a coffee shop and do some writing. I also managed to do some social networking/promotion of my book between the gym and getting in the shower. Since I normally have a full-time day job, I usually need to find the time to do all of the above with approximately 9 less hours in the day, but today I did it all without feeling the slightest bit rushed.
Having the day off from my day job allows me to pretend to be a full-time writer. I allow my mind to imagine how awesome it would be if I didn't need the day job. If I won the lottery, married rich, or sold enough books that I could write full time. But I fear I might be dreaming too big, so let's take a step backwards.
Last month, I took half a day off from work on February 14th. It had nothing to do with wanting to spend the morning in bed with my boyfriend on Valentine's Day (especially since we had broken up a week earlier). No, I took half a day off from work because I was engaged in a cross-promotion of A State of Jane with eight other authors and I knew that I wanted to tweet it, share it, blog it and email anyone and everyone I knew who might be interested in buying my book and those of my comrades at a fraction of the cost. I knew if I went to work that morning, I would be too busy being a trademark paralegal to be a writer. I can't afford to let my day job suffer as a result of my writing but I also did not want to waste an opportunity to get my book in the hands of people who would rather test the waters of my writing for 99 cents than $2.99 by not promoting the sale to the greatest extent possible. So, I compromised and took the morning off from work. It was fantastic. I woke up early and went to the gym, ran some errands, spent a few hours on various social media sites promoting the sale and got into work at 2pm. Only working in the afternoon allowed my mind to imagine how awesome it would be if I didn't need a full-time day job. If I won the lottery, married rich or sold enough books that I could afford to work a day job only part time.
As of now, I still need my full-time day job and I thank goodness it needs me as well. That being said, I am selling more books than I ever did before. The publication of my 2nd book is definitely driving the sales of my first one and I hope to publish a third one later this year (fingers crossed). So, while I will continue to feel blessed that I have a day job that pays my rent, affords me the ability to have an active social life and take trips when I want, and comes with medical insurance and a 401k plan, I will also continue to hold onto hope that someday…someday, I will sell enough books so I can be a full-time writer and don't have to "imagine" what it would be like.
*This post was actually written last week.
I read a tweet today that said, "book writing is much easier than blog post writing." I responded to the tweet that I agreed and I do wholeheartedly.
I didn't always feel this way. In fact, I was a really good blogger "back in the day." I used to blog about my dating experiences, my heart breaks, my frustrations with men, friends and family and just life in general. I loved every minute of it and what's more, I never ran out of material!
Then one day, seemingly out of nowhere, I became much less comfortable putting myself so "out there" and I stopped blogging. After I published Just Friends with Benefits, I started blogging again but I tried to keep it "professional." I blogged about writing and the publication process in general but I kind of hated it. I love to write more than almost anything in the world but I don't really care for writing about writing.
I follow another writer's blog and she manages to write a new post almost every single day and it astounds me. Never mind the fact that I just don't have the time for that, I wonder how she comes up with the material! I'm a very open person in general and so I would absolutely love to let you all in on my deepest feelings and I have a lot of deep feelings! For instance, it would be so easy to blog about how I'm dealing with my recent breakup, my reentrance into the single world and new men that might come in (and out…) of my life. But I just don't think I would be comfortable putting my business out there, especially since my business involves other people too. And I would love to vent about my insecurities about writing and the manic/depressive like symptoms I experience when I go from reading a 5 star review of A State of Jane to a 3 star one and the chronic fear I have of future 1 and 2 star reviews. But since I am trying to be a mature, professional author (cough, cough), that's not an option either!
Coming up on my blog, I am hosting an Interview and Giveaway with Sophie Meyer, author of the chicklit novel "Where's the Groom?" I wish I could give you the heads up on what else is coming down the pike on www.meredithschorr.com but I really have no idea and will have to play that by ear. My intention is to keep this blog a hybrid between topics related to writing/writers/books and pop culture relating thereto and topics relating to me, myself and I (to the extent I feel comfortable). I did promise in my earlier post "Blog Vows" that I would keep it real and not only blog about writing and I will do my very best to honor that vow.


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Back to Conferences
Keynotes and Plenaries
This year, we're excited to present some incredible speakers, including our Opening Keynote, presented by Splashables Inc., Simon Whitfield, Canadian Olympic Gold and Silver Triathlon Champion, who will speak on high performance sport and the influence it had on his life, and Joey Rusnak, founder of the Lifeguard Authority, who will highlight the importance of connecting aquatic porfessionals with their inner superheroes.
Learn more about the inspiring Keynote and Plenary presentations below.
Opening Keynote, presented by Splashables Inc.: Simon Whitfield
Opening Keynote, sponsored by | 9:15 am — 10:15 am
In Pursuit of the Mastery of Sport — A Life's Journey
Presented by Simon Whitfield
Simon Whitfield will speak on high performance sport, the impact the pursuit of excellence has had on his life, mistakes made, lessons learned and how he applies this in his day-to-day having retired from professional sport. He will speak about where sport fits into his life now, from the obsession required of Mastery, to a focus on social connection, fulfillment and joy. This is a story of sacrifice and obsession, of achievement and consequences, of adulation and isolation, and ultimately the realization that life is about relationships, a sense of belonging, and the people we meet along the way.
Simon Whitfield is a retired Olympic gold (2000) and silver (2008) triathlon champion who is recognized as one of the most influential Olympians in Canada. He was Canada's flag bearer during the 2000 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony in Sydney, and at the Opening Ceremony in London 2012, making him one of the few athletes to be honoured twice as Canada's Olympic flag bearer. Simon is well known for his leadership, advocacy and mentorship. Since retiring from competition in 2013, he has become an ambassador for sport and healthy living, frequently visiting schools to talk to students about finding their passions and setting goals. He is currently a certified guide with PaddleCanada, and owner of Velofix mobile bike shop. During his competitive career, Simon has amassed a total of 12 national championships and 14 world cup wins, in addition to his gold and silver Olympic medals. He was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 2017, the International Triathlon Union Hall of Fame in 2015, and the Canadian Triathlon Hall of Fame in 2014. In 2016, he was also honoured with honorary doctor of laws from both the University of Guelph, and the University of Victoria.
Closing Plenary: Dr Steve Beerman, Lisa Hanson Ouellette, and Chris Wagg
Closing Plenary| 3:15 — 4:15 pm
Drowning Prevention — Global to Local
Presented by Dr. Steve Beerman, Chris Wagg, and Lisa Hanson Ouellette
This interactive, multimedia session, presented by three aquatic experts from the Canadian Drowning Prevention Coalition, will leave you energized with ideas for drowning prevention initiatives in your region, community, backyard…yes, even your bathtub. You will hear about new, innovative strategies from a world-renowned expert on drowning prevention and highlights from the 2019 World Conference on Drowning Prevention (WCDP). First-hand experience will be shared with you from one of your recreation peers on how to implement a drowning prevention framework in your own community! Understand how a presentation at a WCDP influenced her to develop a highly successful community-based drowning prevention coalition made up of more than 18 multi-sectoral stakeholders who are making a real difference. Plus, tap into the most recent edition of the Canadian Drowning Prevention Plan with simple guidelines on how to create your own plan to address and prevent fatal and non-fatal drownings in your area. It is time to think outside the box – drowning prevention is more than a recreation issue. It's a public health issue that affects your community, your family, friends, and you! Finish Day 1 of Ripple Effects with a new understanding of how you can contribute to the prevention of drownings in Canada.
Dr. Steve Beerman has been a family physician in Nanaimo since 1997. He has a busy clinical practice and participates in research, teaching and community service. He is the principal investigator of a Grand Challenges Canada, Stars ofGlobal Health Research Project to reduce child drowning in low income nations. He was also a contributor and advisor for the WHO World Report on Child Injury Prevention (2008) and the WHO Global Report on Drowning (2014). Dr. Beerman was President of the International Lifesaving Federation from 2008-2012 and President of the Lifesaving Society Canada from 1990—1993.
Lisa Hanson Ouellette, M.A, is the Project Manager for the Canadian Drowning Prevention Plan and the Canadian Drowning Prevention Coalition. She has more than 21 years of experience in the recreation & aquatic industry; 19 years of management experience; and 15 years conducting research, completing program evaluations and measuring performance. She has made presentations at local, national, and international conferences.
Chris Wagg is an aquatic professional working for the City of Ottawa for over 35 years. Her dedication to the prevention of drownings has taken her outside of her day job to hold many positions within the Lifesaving Society, Ontario Branch, where she is now Vice President of Public Education. She is also on the steering committee for the newly formed Canadian Drowning Prevention Coalition. Chris was one of the founding members of the Ottawa Drowning Prevention Coalition.
Opening Plenary: Gary Sanger
Opening Plenary | 9:15 am — 10:15 am
The Greater Impact of Drowning on Communities and Families
Presented by Gary Sanger
We all know that swimming pool accidents can lead to tragic human suffering and loss and expose a municipality/organization to the most serious civil claims they will ever face. But have you really thought about the true impact and deep lifelong loss that is felt by family and friends of those who have drowned? This session will take a thought-provoking and hard look at real life and death cases and the impact these incidents have had on communities and families. For those of us who manage pools, this is a message that all aquatic staff should hear in order to truly understand the importance and their responsibility to remain vigilant, attentive and alert at all times while supervising swimmers, and the implications if they fail to do so.
Gary Sanger has been employed by the City of Toronto for many years and is Supervisor of Aquatics in Toronto & East York District of the Parks, Forestry & Recreation Division. He is the current Vice-President of Safety Standards with the Lifesaving Society and Past President of the Aquatic Branch of Parks and Recreation Ontario. He has travelled extensively across Canada delivering sessions on the topic of aquatic risk management and the real-life aftermath of dealing with catastrophic incidents.
Closing Keynote: Joey Rusnak
Closing Keynote | 3:15 pm — 4:15 pm
Inspiring Superheroes
Presented by Joey Rusnak
Joey Rusnak, founder of Lifeguard Authority, poses the question: What defines a hero? Are heroes people that save lives and stop bad things from happening? We recognize military personnel, firefighters, and police officers as heroes, but why not lifeguards and aquatic professionals? Participants will learn to connect themselves with their superhero within. If we can't see ourselves as heroes how can we ever expect our communities to celebrate our lifeguards as heroes? How we talk, walk and look are all factors that affect our image to ourselves and our communities. Lifeguards are heroes and it is imperative that we, as an industry, better recognize this and start celebrating it!
Joey Rusnak, founder of Lifeguard Authority, began his recreational career in the aquatics industry in his teen years. After completing studies in hospitality management, he quickly realized his heart was in recreation and returned to school to study Recreation and Leisure Services. Over the course of his career in aquatics, he has had the privilege to lead many teams in various recreation departments for indoor/outdoor/waterfront aquatic operations, general community programs, community development, fitness, camps, preschool, skating and sports. He stays connected and actively collaborates with recreation professionals internationally, always seeking new and innovative ways to engage communities, teams, and to prevent and eliminate drowning. Joey is committed to continual self-development and learning and can be found attending various aquatic and recreation conferences across sectors. His personal mantra is connect, collaborate, and contribute.
View the Program Guide to learn more about the sessions and Extra Workshops.


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French Government Seeks To Oust Arrested Ghosn From Renault
Investors were quick to price in the arrest of Carlos Ghosn, the iconic leader of the Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi alliance (which manufactures one of every nine cars sold around the world) and arguably the most prominent personality in the automotive sector in the past decade, sending shares of Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi lower by double-digits on Monday.
Now, investment bank analysts are scrambling to catch up: Analysts at BAML have cut their rating on Renault from buy to neutral and slashed their price target on the company's shares to 74 euros from 110 euros, arguing that the potential for a more "formalized" alliance between the two companies (possibly consummated via a merger) has diminished because of the scandal.
BAML isn't alone: Citigroup analysts said on Monday that Ghosn's arrest could prevent a "potential collapse" of the Renault-Nissan structure, while Arndt Ellinghorst at Evercore ISI said Ghosn's departure will be a major headwind for Renault and Nissan shares because of its impact on consolidation chances. Soon, Ghosn, who is still chairman of Nissan, Mitsubishi and Renault (in addition to being CEO of Renault), will likely be stripped of all his leadership roles in a purge that will result in nothing short of the death of one of the most widely respected CEOs in Japan.
Then on Tuesday, France's finance minister said the French government (which owns a 15% stake in Renault) was pushing for Ghosn's ouster, saying that the company's deputy CEO is of "great quality" and would be well-positioned to succeed Renault.
Still, the French government is hedging its bets: Bruno Le Maire (Macron's finance minister) said the French government has seen "no proof" of wrongdoing and wouldn't yet ask Ghosn to surrender his board seat, while Renault's senior management said it stood behind Ghosn, offering "full support." Renault's board will meet Tuesday to decide Ghosn's fate. Analysts at Deutsche Bank, meanwhile, said there is a "high likelihood" that Ghosn loses his leadership role at all three companies, according to the FT.
Renault's Chief Operating Officer Thierry Bolloré took over much of the day-to-day operations of Renault earlier this year.
"We have today a deputy CEO, Mr Thierry Bolloré, who is of great quality. We will see what the board decides, but we need to put in place as quickly as possible an interim leadership," said Mr Le Maire.
Deutsche Bank noted that Mr Ghosn had ceded much of the day-to-day operations at Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi: "We believe there are highly reputable managers who can run the company, we are not concerned about the health of operations."
Mr Ghosn, who was credited with rescuing the Japanese carmaker from the brink of bankruptcy, is expected to be removed as Nissan chairman at a board meeting on Thursday.
Many of the details surrounding Ghosn's arrest and the investigation remain unclear (including where Ghosn is being held). Though some more details trickled out on Tuesday, including details of a plot to buy luxury properties under the auspices of Nissan that Ghosn accessed for personal use. Nikkei reported Tuesday that Ghosn received 4 billion yen ($35.5 million) in stock-related earnings over 5 years that also wasn't included in Nissan's earnings reports.
The Japanese group said its internal investigation, which followed a whistleblower complaint, found Mr Ghosn understated his salary for several years, which would be a violation of Japan's Financial Instruments and Exchange Act.
According to the Tokyo Prosecutor's Office, Mr Ghosn made nearly ¥10bn ($88.7m) over five years through March 2015, but reported only half of that. If found guilty he could face up to 10 years in prison, a fine of up to ¥10m, or both.
Japanese media on Tuesday cited unnamed people close to the investigation as saying Mr Ghosn had used a string of company-owned residences in Brazil, the Netherlands and elsewhere, located in places that had little or nothing to do with Nissan's business.
Mr Ghosn could not be reached for comment. However, some analysts and investors told the Financial Times that Nissan's suggestion Mr Ghosn masterminded his alleged misconduct without widespread internal co-operation was implausible. They also raised questions why the company required an internal investigation to discover how much it was paying its own chief executive.
An internal investigation found that Ghosn and Greg Kelly, the other board member arrested in the scandal, had collaborated to underreport Ghosn's earnings in filings to the Tokyo stock exchange by about 5 billion yen (roughly $44 million) over a five year period ending in March 2015.
In Japan, the maximum punishment that Ghosn could face would be 10 years in prison and a fine of up to 10 million yen (a paltry $89,000). However, Nissan said it also uncovered "numerous acts of misconduct" during its investigation. Whatever those may be, a scandal like this is the last thing the Japanese carmaker needs so soon after Nissan and Mitsubishi got caught up in a global emissions-rigging investigation.


We're so excited for a not so little project that has been brewing in the casper&pearl studio these last few months! What makes it that bit more exciting is that some of our most favourite Australian bloggers are getting involved! This collaboration is giving us tingles of excitement, what is better than supporting emerging designers, street style, hand written letters and saving lives? Well we can't think of anything!
Sounds exciting ! ^^ Some of my fav bloggers there.


The Bend Brew Fest kicks off today, and they promise this year will be "bigger and better than ever". Judging from the brewers list, it would appear they're right. Their web site is boasting 45 different producers of beer, cider, and even wine. I've missed this event for the past couple of years due to travel, so I'm excited that I'll be in town for the kick off.


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by ravendrum | Jan 11, 2023 | News
TILTON — Already a special, cherished group, the residents of the New Hampshire Veterans Home went up a level of coolness Monday when they got a chance to play and schmooze with a real rock star: Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen. Def Leppard, whose beat Allen has kept since 1977, was inducted into...
by ravendrum | Nov 5, 2021 | Charity, Events, Healing, Philanthropy, PTSD, Resiliency, Suicide Prevention, Veterans
12 Drummers Drumming Auction: Registration Now Available
Registration is open for 12 Drummers Drumming, our personal favorite of all the gifts listed in the classic holiday carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas." To fund crucial suicide-prevention and trauma-recovery programs, we've gathered some of our favorite drummers for an...
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ABC News Features Rick – His Journey, His Art & His Heart
Phil Lipof visited Rick and Lauren for a deep conversation, exploring what drives them to service.
by ravendrum | Oct 26, 2021 | Healing, Philanthropy, Suicide Prevention, Veterans
A Message from the Founders
Dear Friends and Supporters, 2021 has brought us another year of uncertainty, but it also marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of Raven Drum Foundation. We have been reflecting on our incredible community of donors and believers that has allowed us to transform ourselves and help others...
Lauren Monroe & Rick Allen Talk About Mental Health Awareness Month: New Music: And Upcoming Live Performances
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NBC Tampa: Def Leppard's Rick Allen and Styx's Tommy Shaw preview The Big Love Benefit Concert
Legendary rockers Tommy Shaw and Rick Allen previewed their upcoming performance, The Big Love Benefit Concert. "Los Angeles, CA: January 2021 – At a time in which the music industry is reeling from the loss of touring and live performance leaving career musicians and music industry workers to...
Rolling Stone: Billy Idol, Bret Michaels, Wynonna Judd Lead Big Love Benefit Concert
Allman Betts Band, Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen, Lauren Monroe, and more to take part in January 23rd livestream benefiting Sweet Relief Foundation Billy Idol, Bret Michaels, Wynonna Judd, and the Allman Betts Band will take part in the Big Love Benefit Concert to raise funds for the Sweet...


Tim Lynch is a partner at Swartz & Lynch LLP where his focus is on complex tort cases. He enjoys a wealth of trial experience dealing with complex legal matters. He has handled cutting-edge work, such as tobacco litigation, medical device litigation, and household products. While Tim enjoys many multi-million dollar settlement and verdicts, in 1998, he won what was then the largest personal injury verdict ($26.5 million) in Massachusetts at that time. He has many and varied interests in the law, including products liability, premise liability, negligent security, negligent hiring, and medical malpractice. He is also dedicated to the rights of children. Since 2000, he has served as President of Boston CASA, a charitable organization devoted to advocacy for abused children. His tireless work on behalf of abused children was formally recognized when he won the Massachusetts Bar Association's 2013 Pro Bono Publico Award.
Massachusetts Bar Association's 2013 Pro Bono Publico Award.
1998 Won largest Personal Injury Jury Verdict in Massachusetts history, winning $26.5 million for wrongful death of a 32 year old quadriplegic man.
1991 Won Jury Verdict of $479,001 for Neon Coke Sign that client paid $1 for, based upon commercial/historical significance of sign.


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Member Research and Reports February 8, 2019
Temple: Parents with Mental Illness More Likely to Have Contact with Child Protective Services, Study Finds
Previous research shows that contact from Child Protective Services (CPS) can have significant, long-term implications for children and their parents. Children who are involved with the child welfare system have been shown to face poorer mental health, developmental and social outcomes. According to a new study from Temple University's Collaborative on Community Inclusion, adults with severe mental illnesses are estimated to be parents at almost the same rate as adults without a mental illness; however, parents with a mental illness are much more likely to have contact with CPS.
The study, published in Psychiatric Services in January, found that in a survey of 69 percent of surveyed adults with a severe mental illness reported being a parent compared to 71 percent of adults without a severe mental illness.
Scientific evidence suggests that adults with a severe mental illness are entirely capable of being a parent for a child. But according to Dr. Mark Salzer, professor at Temple University College of Public Health, the director of the Temple Collaborative, and a co-author on the study, people with severe mental illnesses are often discouraged from becoming parents, including by their own family or their medical providers. Dr. Salzer says this recent study is one of the few on the topic, and the most recent in about 20 years to compare rates of parenthood among adults with severe mental illnesses with the general population.
"Research on people with severe mental illnesses typically focuses on diagnostic, symptomatic and service use issues, and less commonly examines inclusion and participation, such as parenting," says Dr. Salzer, whose center spearheads efforts to study how individuals with a severe mental illness can participate in meaningful social roles in everyday life.
"Sadly, there is still prejudice and discrimination about people with a severe mental illness being parents. Our center started to address parenting issues in 2003, and we have been at the forefront in the mental health community since then," adds Dr. Salzer, whose co-authors on the study include Collaborative affiliates Dr. Katy Kaplan and Mr. Eugene Brusilovskiy as well as Penn State assistant professor Dr. Amber M. O'Shea, a former Collaborative researcher and graduate of the College of Education's doctoral program.
The study's other major finding is that parents with a severe mental illness reported having some contact or involvement with CPS at a rate nearly eight times higher than adults from the general population. Looking at just the population of parents who have had CPS contact —which helps control for environmental factors, like financial instability, that correlate with child welfare services interactions— parents with a severe mental illness still had contact with CPS at a higher rate than parents without a mental illness.
The study's authors suggest that higher rates of CPS contact among parents with a severe and persistent mental illness may be in part due to prejudicial attitudes as well as environmental factors.
Dr. Salzer points out that having a severe mental illness correlates with higher rates of poverty s, housing instability, and contact with mandated reporters in the course of receiving medical treatment. These factors, according to Dr. Salzer, could be the triggers of increased CPS contact, rather than the parent's mental illness itself. "Mental illness may not be the primary culprit of CPS involvement," says Dr. Salzer. "It is plausible that the increased contact is at least partly due to a greater exposure to poverty and other factors that are associated with greater CPS involvement for any family in the general population."
Therefore, Dr. Salzer says that it is necessary to examine whether mental health biases influence reporting and CPS contact and also bolster support systems, like peer-to-peer counseling, that can help adults with a severe mental illnesses parent to their fullest ability. "There are a smattering of programs around the country, but not nearly enough," Dr. Salzer notes.
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Dear Newell, I am a newish Minnesotan but I think I happened upon your blog via the group of Spanish speakers who meet in Hopkins. I am in San Miguel de Allende currently but am headed to Oaxaca for the first time March 1. I have enjoyed your blogs and would love to meet you. I see you will be teaching outside of Oaxaca. I continue to try to learn Spanish. I have used your idea to journal in the language and will do that again now that I am here. Tomorrow I go to school once again. Could we touch base via email and hopefully meet in Oaxaca. My husband will accompany me but does not speak Spanish. Right now I am in the "communicate enough to get needs met" but not understand the overheard conversation of two native speakers. That is my goal. And then more fluency. More vocabulary. Do you still meet with people in Minneapolis to speak Spanish?? Thanks for your consideration..


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World Trade Center Saint Louis > St Louis Sister Cities Program > Nanjing, China
ST. LOUIS SISTER CITIES PROGRAM
In 1979, St. Louis was linked with the city of Nanjing (formally Nanking) and became the first U.S. municipality to have a sister city in the People's Republic of China. Inspired by President Dwight Eisenhower , Sister Cities International pairs communities throughout the world. Sister cities conduct, educational, cultural, municipal and economic exchanges that promote mutual understanding. The St. Louis – Nanjing Sister City Committee has sponsored many exchanges that have touched thousands of people in our two communities from school children to corporate leaders. Mayors of both cities have led official trade delegations and given enthusiastic support to our sister city activities.
The Nanjing Committee organizes special trips to the People's Republic of China highlighted by visits to our sister city. These trips offer exceptionally qualified tour leaders from the U.S. and China and the special hospitality extended by Nanjing. These trips encompass the business, educational, and cultural exchange efforts of the committee that are meant to create long term sustainable benefits for both St. Louis and the city of Nanjing.
The City of Nanjing:
Nanjing is the capital city of Jiangsu with a population of 4.5 million. Owing to its superior geographic location, the city has remained the transportation center of the Yangzi Delta region. Once prospering on its shipyards, Nanjing has now grown into a commercial hub and cultural center of southeast China.
For almost 2,000 years, Nanjing ("China's Southern Capital") has witnessed some of the most significant events in Chinese history, including its position as the nation's capital during the Six Dynasties (220-589 AD) and the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279 AD), the onset of the Ming Dynasty in 1368 by Zhu Yuanzhang who made Nanjing capital for almost two decades, the signing of the Sino-British treaty in 1842 that ceded Hong Kong to Britain, and its most painful moment known as "Rape of Nanjing" when Japanese troops brutally slaughtered 300,000 civilians in 1937. Many of these events are recorded in the Nanjing Museum.
For tourists, Nanjing is one of China's most attractive cities. The city has a balanced layout between traditional and modern architecture. Its many broad boulevards are well shaded from the summer heat by tall trees. The riverbank by the Yangzi River reflects serene night views; the beautiful and quiet Xuanwu Lake and its forested islands soften the tough edges of a commercial metropolitan skyline.
A must-see of Nanjing is Dr. Sun Yatsen's Mausoleum, where the father of modern China is buried on the mountaintop of Zijinshan. The pilgrimage trip to the tomb is composed of an enormous stone stairway, 323 meters long and 70 meters wide. The scene is respectfully magnificent.
Another important site in Nanjing is the Memorial of the Nanjing Massacre, which exhibits documents and pictures of the atrocities by Japanese troops in 1937, a painful moment for the city and its residents. Also on display is furniture used at the signing of Japan's surrender to China, carrying an undisputable message to the country which still refuses to issue a formal apology to the war victims – don't forget history! The exhibits conclude on a more optimistic note, with the last room dedicated to the post-war Sino-Japanese reconciliation.
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Only 18% of companies believe they can gather and use data insights effectively. Data translators bridge the communication divide that often develops within an organization between data scientists and executive decision-makers to help guide the conversation about using data to inform decisions and point out biases that result by an overreliance or underutilization of data. The choice is not whether to hire a data scientist or a data translator as you are likely to need both.
You can invest in data technologies and collect all the data you can possibly imagine, but it's worthless if it's not analyzed or communicated to decision-makers so that action can be taken from the insights. Some organizations attempt to communicate data findings across departments of an organization, but something typically gets lost in translation as it makes it way from the data scientists to the executive decision-makers. This issue is so prevalent that only 18% of companies believe they can gather and use data insights effectively, according to a McKinsey survey. Due to this reality, some organizations have opted to add a data translator to help bridge the gap.
I have recently been approached by two separate clients about data translators, one wanted me to fulfil the role as part-time chief data translator and the other wanted my help in recruiting and training internal data translators. Given this sudden interest in this new role I thought it would be a good idea to explore what a data translator is and whether your organization needs one.
What is a data translator?
A data translator is a conduit between data scientists and executive decision-makers. They are specifically skilled at understanding the business needs of an organization and are data savvy enough to be able to talk tech and distil it to others in the organization in an easy-to-understand manner.
This professional must be someone who can "talk the talk" of both the executives and the data scientists. They are adept at extracting the business meaning and applications from the information they are provided by the data scientists. They not only respect the functions of the data scientists, but also understand the needs of decision-makers; therefore, successful data translators are typically respected by those entities in return.
How can data translators help organizations?
Data translators bridge the communication divide that often develops within an organization between data scientists and executive decision-makers. They are able to communicate with language that a decision-maker understands.
Data scientists often prefer the independence of assessing data rather than explaining to non-tech people the implications of the data, how it can help support or solve business issues, or being pulled into executive meetings to defend the data insights or why data should be trusted.
Executives can be dismissive of the data which can impact those that are responsible for it within the organization. Decision-makers usually like to know they are in control, but when faced with data they often don't fully understand, it can make them uncomfortable.
Since they understand the core business objectives of an organization, data translators can identify business actions based on the findings of the data that neither the data scientist or executive are able to extrapolate. They can add value to the data insights that propel the organization toward its goals.
Data translators can help guide the conversation about using data to inform decisions and point out biases that result by an overreliance or underutilization of data. In both cases, a person's individual perspective can impact the way the data is used; data translators can help identify when your team is heading off track. Even though data is critical input for making business decisions, it's not the only criteria used.
What skills does a data translator need?
How do you know if your organization needs a data translator?
One of the main reasons that organizations decide to add a data translator is to minimize the frustration and miscommunication and maximize the business returns of the data. If your team is collecting and storing a lot of data, but you can't see how that data has resulted in business decisions or enhancements, it might signal that you are not using the data to its full potential. The solution might just be in better communication.
You might already have an individual on staff who might be uniquely qualified to step into this role. They just need to have the core communication skills and a desire to bridge the gap between data scientists and executives. Their knowledge about your business operations gives them a head start to being successful as your data translator.
Data translator instead of data scientist?
Let's be very clear here, the choice is not whether to hire a data scientist or a data translator as you are likely to need both. I have had the pleasure to work with some fantastic data scientists that had both, the analytical skills and the data translation skills, but those are rate and as such have sometimes been called unicorns.
I think the role of data translators is a great new addition to the ever-expanding data-related job market and one that could ensure organizations deliver even more business value for their data.


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Who is Rangers target Pedro Caixinha? We profile the Portuguese manager
The 46-year-old is on the club's shortlist of targets so what do we know about the man who nearly came to Ibrox two years ago?
Darren Cooney
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In almost every managerial shortlist there is one left-field option.
Among the usual suspects, you can often read a name that may catch you by surprise.
For Rangers fans, Pedro Caixinha is that man.
The Portuguese has emerged as a name on the shortlist to replace Mark Warburton, who left the club almost three weeks ago.
He was previously close to coming to Ibrox in the summer of 2015, before Warburton took the job. Caixinha was set to sign for Rangers as No.2 to Vitor Pereira but the duo pulled out after the club failed to win promotion.
But what else do we know about the man Record Sport exclusively revealed is a candidate for the Glasgow giants? Here we attempt to find out...
Rangers close in on new manager with Alex McLeish and Pedro Caixinha in the frame for the Ibrox post
Caixinha didn't rip up trees as a player (Image: Getty)
Like so many modern-day managers, Caixinha had an undistinguished playing career. He began coaching at the age of 28 after playing for a number of lower-league Portuguese sides, with his first role taking charge of Beja's youth teams – a club for whom he previously played.
That job lasted for just one year, however, as he was appointed manager of amateur team Vasco de Gama. Again, he was in the role for only a year before he began a six-year partnership with the well-travelled Jose Peseiro. Caixinha was Peseiro's assistant at Sporting Lisbon (where he helped lead the Portuguese side to the UEFA Cup Final), Al_Hilal, Panathinaikos, Rapid Bucharest and the Saudi Arabian national side before going it alone.
HIS OWN MAN
The 46-year-old returned to head-coaching duties in 2010 with UD Leiria and guided the central Portuguese side to 10th place in the Primeira Liga. But, just a handful of games into the following season, Caixinha quit as the club suffered from financial problems. After just a couple of months out of work, next came Madeiran side CD Nacional.
But this was to be shortlived, too, again staying for just one year. During the first season, he guided the unfancied outfit to seventh. In his second campaign he resigned after an inauspicious start that left Nacional in the relegation zone.
ALL SYSTEMS MEXICO
Pedro Caixinha during his time coaching in Mexico (Image: Getty Images)
Again, Caixinha wasn't to be out of work for long. Two months after quitting Nacional, he took over at Mexican club Santos Laguna and it was here he made his name. In two years, the Portuguese had won three major titles, as well as guiding Santos to the final of the CONCACAF Champions League in 2013.
At that point he was the world's 36th best manager, according to Football Coach World Ranking, and his team was for the first time named in the world's best 100 clubs, in 58th place. He is currently head coach of super-rich Qatari side Al-Gharafa, earning a tax-free salary of around £2million.
Mourinho urged Caixinha to come to Scotland (Image: PA)
Caixinha has a 41 per cent win rate over his managerial career and prefers a 4-4-2 formation. His average term in a job is just 1.47 years, so, if he is appointed at Rangers, supporters should perhaps not be surprised if he doesn't stay for long.
In January 2011, Caixinha featured in our sister title the Sunday Mail , with the coach revealing: " Jose Mourinho told me to come to Scotland if I wanted to be a better boss". Caixinha arrived in Glasgow six years ago for his coaching badges. He said at the time: "I'm not the first Portuguese coach to come here. Andre Villas Boas did the course too - and look at how he is doing with Porto now. However, it's because of Mourinho that I'm here.
"He was the one who advised me to come, he was the guy who wrote a recommendation letter to get me on the course."
You can read the full interview here...
Jose Mourinho told me to come to Scotland if I wanted to be a better boss, says Pedro Caixinha
LOAD OF BULL
(Image: CEN/Sebastian Castella Facebook)
Caixinha is an accomplished bullfighter and explained: "I've faced about 90 bulls in my life.
"My taste for bullfighting came through my father, Joao, who was also in the Group of Forcados Amateurs of Montemor, and we used to accompany him when he went fighting.
"At the age of 17, I tried it myself and enjoyed it. I went on training sessions and became a Forcado.
"What I like about it is the value of your team mates and the demand for perfection.
"In my coaching career, I learned a lot from fighting the bull. You have to give everything for each other. The preparation is demanding, the physical side of it, the analysis.
"The downside to it has been the physical injuries that have occurred. But fortunately, I have escaped injury.
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This loyal dog refused to budge, even after EMTs arrived. Now the heartwarming photos are going viral.
How sweet and loyal this dog is!
A man named Jesús Hueche had been pruning a tree outside his home in Argentina when he tumbled from a height of about six feet. He had hit his head and soon became unconscious after the concussion. When paramedics arrived, they found his beloved dog, Tony, lying with its two front paws on top of his body.
One of the medical staff even took some photos of the dog showing concern for his owner, which quickly went viral online.
As paramedics fitted Jesús with a neck brace, Tony continued to comfort him in his own by refusing to leave his owner's side. This has touched the hearts of many around the pair.
When staff loaded Jesús onto the ambulance via a stretcher, Tony wanted to go with him, but could not do so. Thankfully, the two were not kept apart for too long. At the hospital, Jesús was found to have only suffered mild head trauma, ensuring his quick release from hospital shortly after!
A local radio station even reported that the pair had been successfully reunited – shortly after Jesús was discharged! La Brujula 24 also added that Tony had been a former stray dog until Jesús rescued him from his poor life on the streets, and providing him a loving forever home in the process.
Today, Jesús has recovered and rested well since the unfortunate incident. He credits his loyal dog, Tony, for staying by his side during that hard and painful time. It was obvious that Tony felt that it was his sworn duty to do so. After all, what is a man's best friend for?


Water Ionizer Expert is excited to have the newest Life Water Ionizers to come to market. The new Life Ionizers are here and we've had a time to put them through their paces. For 2018, Life introduced their new Hydrogen XL technology. Life guarantees that their machines will generate more molecular hydrogen than any other brand. The new Life Ionizer MXL9 gives the highest pH and -ORP readings we've ever seen. We consistently get a pH of 11.3 or higher with a -ORP of 800 or more. To get anywhere near that performance with the more expensive Kangen machine, you have to slow the flow of the water way down and then it doesn't even come close to this new M13.
Why the rave reviews for Life Ionizers?
Life Ionizers have been the industry leader in water filtration technology from the very beginning when water ionizers first entered the US market in the 1990's. Life Water Ionizers advanced filtration system allows these ionizers to maintain maximum water purity even at the machines' highest flow rate.
Compare that to the single-filter kangen machine which may only remove 80% of the chlorine in water at the machine's highest flow rate. (source Enagic website, SD-501 water filtering specifications). This means that you have to may have to run a kangen machine at a much slower flow rate. Even then you still won't obtain the water purity that you would get from the LIFE M13.
Life Ionizers is able to maintain filtration performance at high flow rate because Life Ionizers come with a 3 filter system. Their ionizers have two internal filters which incorporate their patent-pending Vitamin C Ceramic Block technology. The advantage of a Vitamin C filter is that it is equally effective against chlorine and chloramines. The third filter is a custom-configured pre-filter system. The specially trained water technicians at Life Ionizers select your pre-filter based on their evaluation of your local water quality report. Your municipal water authority has to file a water quality report annually with the EPA. That report lists the contaminants that were found in your water supply. The pre-filter system you get is selected to protect you from those contaminants and to extend the life of your internal filters. Life Ionizers is the only water ionizer company that gives you a pre-filter system. All other brands make you pay extra for a pre-filter system.
As we mentioned earlier if you slow the flow rate down you get higher pH and -ORP. We tried this with the new Life Ionizer M9 and we got alkaline water with a pH of 12.1 at -880 ORP! The machine also put out 3.8 ppm molecular hydrogen. We have never seen a home water ionizer reach that high or make that much hydrogen without chemicals. The Kangen water machine uses chemicals to reach that high. But you can't drink the alkaline water it makes. This is because strong Kangen water is actually a dilute solution of bleach!
At maximum flow rate, the Life Ionizer makes alkaline and acidic water that is strong enough to optimize your health. You get alkaline water strong enough to neutralize the acidity of your favorite fruit juice. Or my personal favorite alkaline water strong enough to alkalize your body for maxing out your workouts!
The Life Ionizer M-Series gives amazingly high performance at it's maximum flow rate. Life Ionizers has equipped them with new larger plates, and an ionization chamber that was designed specifically for high performance. The machine also has a huge amount of power.
The nine plate LIFE M-9 has a higher plate surface area than the kangen water machine. It also has a lot more power. Life Ionizers calls their new plates MAX Plates™, and they come with a GRID option that increases the pH and -ORP performance of the new MXL-Series by as much as 15%. The MXL11 and MXL13 have even larger total plate surface areas.
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LIFE bumped up the power of their SMPS power supply to match it up with those great big plates. The LIFE MXL-9 can reach as high as 500 watts! This makes the LIFE MXL-9 one of the most powerful home water ionizer in the world.
The LIFE MXL-9 comes with an unlimited lifetime warranty. That means your new LIFE Ionizer is designed to last as long as you do. Given the purity and strength of the alkaline water made by LIFE's new M-Series, you will probably be around for a long time!
LIFE's new MXL-Series has been completely restyled from their previous ionizers. The controls are located on a beveled panel along the top of the ionizer which makes them very easy to operate. The MXL-Series comes with a larger display too, which is bright and easy to read. The machines case is very sleek with a surprisingly small footprint that helps these machines fit in small places.
Undercounter MXL-Series ionizers come with an attractive stainless steel faucet with built in controls. Compare that to the Kangen machine under counter ionizer which has controls that are separate from it's faucet. With the under counter kangen machine you have to cut holes in your wall and run the wire behind your wall. This makes the under counter kangen unit a lot more difficult to install! Enagic's faucet and control unit are also pretty ugly. If you value the look of your kitchen, avoid the kangen machine.
LIFE's new MXL13 Series definitely backs up LIFE's claim that M is for More. These new ionizers give you the strongest pH and -ORP performance at high flow rates. All that performance is backed by LIFE's industry leading filtration system. You get the purest alkaline water possible. The bottom line on these new MXL-Series is that they are the absolute best value for the money. You owe it to yourself to check out the new MXL-Series before you choose your new ionizer.
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Young Critics Meet & Discuss by the Lake
For the fifth time, a special edition of the EFA project A SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY gathered a group of young film critics and journalists. Organised in co-operation with the T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival Wroclaw, and while the festival kicked off, the meeting took place at Fregata in Zagórze Śląskie, Lower Silesia.
The group spent the days watching movies and talking about them, and about cinema and cinephilia in general, cooking and eating together, and networking in a charming old guest house by the Bystrzyckie lake. Expert for this edition was the Dutch critic Dana Linssen from NRC Handelsblad and de Filmkrant.
On Friday the participants watched the Polish-British co-production ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS and discussed with the director Michal Marczak who stayed for the whole weekend. They were joined by two more directors: Mike Ott, whose film ACTOR MARTINEZ (co-directed with Nathan Silver, USA) they screened next, and jury member Gust Van den Berghe from Belgium whose 2010 Cannes debut LITTLE BABY JESUS OF FLANDR the group screened on Saturday morning. After a lively discussion about art and inspiration, they watched INERTIA and then welcomed Israeli director Idan Haguel for dinner and inspiring talks about the role of the critic in a filmmaker's career and the expectations or demands the professions have towards each other. The conversations continued long into the night.
The group was composed of twelve people from ten different countries: Ádám Csiger (Hungary), Klara Cykorz (Poland), Freja Dam (Denmark), Yael M. Danon (Israel), Mirela Delic (Germany), Grzegorz Fortuna (Poland), Iratxe Fresneda (Spain), Anja Krämer (Austria), Andreea Mihalcea (Romania), Rudolf Schimera (Czech Republic), Jelle Schot (the Netherlands) and Hannes Wesselkämper (Germany).
As a former participant said: "It is not only a weekend of thought provoking discussion of the past, present, and future of film criticism. First and foremost, it provides a unique encounter of like-minded and future friends from all over Europe."
Other guests included Jakub Duszyński, director at Gutek Film distribution company, Monika Richter from filmPOLSKA's critics programme "Über Filme schreiben …" (Writing About Films) and Robert Dwernicki of b88 Seed and Venture Capital.
The project was organized by the European Film Academy and New Horizons Association with the support of the Polish Film Institute, the local cultural institutes and the Krzysztof Mętrak competition for young film critics.
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