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Delivering in 2020
Karen Cooper, Chair
The pandemic has meant a great deal of change, both in our personal and our working lives, changing the way we work, live and communicate. We have had to adapt quickly to protect others, stopping or changing some practices and adopting new ones; constantly reviewing our decisions to ensure we are doing our very best to protect our residents and staff.
To protect staff and our homeless residents in the strongest way possible has meant some substantial changes. It quickly became our top priority, as soon as we understood the severity of Covid-19, to create a system of support to protect our homeless residents, many of whom fall into the Covid-19 vulnerability category.
Whilst it has been challenging, we are proud of the work we have done so far to protect those we support. We have had to learn a lot, and quickly, in the process of adapting our service delivery to keep our vulnerable, homeless residents safe and supported. Our Business Continuity Plan was implemented swiftly and efficiently as social distancing and other measures became necessary to control the spread of infection.
Life has undoubtedly changed for us all, but the tremendous effort of our staff, homeless residents and continued support from the community have kept us all going.
Amidst the pandemic, the death of George Floyd in the US saw a global response to the issues of systemic racism. We wholeheartedly oppose racism in all its forms, and I am pleased that we have been able to make promises of the actions we will take to tackle racism and promote diversity, and I can confirm that we intend to hold ourselves accountable for their implementation.
This will be my final statement as Chair of the Board for Evolve. At the end of my six year tenure, I will be stepping down at the end of 2020. It has been a privilege and a pleasure to Chair such a dynamic and diverse organisation. I'm incredibly proud of all that we have achieved over the last six years, and especially this year, and the challenges we have overcome in the face of such adversity. I would like to thank my fellow Board Members and staff for all their hard work and commitment over my tenure and to the residents that have inspired me with their stories. I know not only that Evolve will continue to thrive as an organisation, but that the people in our services will continue to find Evolve a safe place to begin their journey to independence.
Read on for a more in-depth look at our response to this year's events.
Our Response to the Pandemic > Operational response > Fundraising response Black Lives Matter Homelessness Stories Horizons Moving People into Independence Our Performance Thank Yous Governance and Leadership Fundraising Statement
Our Response to the Pandemic
To protect and reassure our staff, we immediately committed to paying full pay for any and all absences related to coronavirus
Launched the Covid-19 Emergency Appeal for homeless people in our services.
Wrote to all our homeless residents about Covid-19.
Issued Infection Control Guidance to support staff to work safely.
Closed head office and informed staff from central teams to work from home.
Updated staff on access to schools for key workers.
Launched emergency fundraising appeal.
Official UK lockdown announced.
Stopped all visitors/guests/non-essential visitors from entering our services
Provided information on priority access to shops for our key workers.
Contacted Local Authority partners to arrange parking for staff who can drive to work in order to avoid public transport.
First virtual board meeting.
Letter issued to all staff confirming their role and that they are essential workers.
Flow chart distributed to homelessness services on managing symptoms.
Amended our resident database to enable the recording of Covid-19 related concerns.
Stopped bank workers covering shifts in different services/moving between services.
Issued advice to teams on supporting residents who use substances.
Increased Leadership Team meetings to three times a week and all Managers' meetings to twice a week.
Issued guidance for high risk staff.
Redeployed colleagues with customer support experience to cover shifts in services.
Staff were furloughed where appropriate to protect them, the organisation and our homeless residents.
Resources for staff on wellbeing developed and shared.
Began working with Local Authority partners on managing residents who refuse to comply with self-isolation and social distancing.
Started 'Cheer for Colleagues' to highlight their incredible work.
Made information about testing for staff available.
Launched video updates from Leadership Team and sent to all staff with essential information from Government and new guidance.
Four members of the Leadership Team cover shifts on the bank holiday to reduce agency spend and support colleagues in services.
Communicated with colleagues who have experience of working with our homeless residents to cover shifts in services with high absences.
Amended our policy and procedures to change working practices. This ensured staff and residents were kept safe.
Our Health + Wellbeing team issued information, guidance, advice and tips for colleagues on how to deal with bereavement.
Provided free in-house weekly yoga lessons to colleagues.
Started the process of conducting individual risk assessments for everyone in the organisation.
Issued guidance on self-isolation and quarantine rules for colleagues returning from holidays abroad.
Extended our head office closure, and reminded colleagues of infection control in services.
Issued guidance for colleagues on getting a flu vaccination.
Sent information on Tier 2 in London to staff.
Reiterated Government message on national Lockdown.
Adapting our services to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has meant a great deal of change. It has required a tailored approach to each of our services and ongoing reviews to ensure we continue to provide a high standard of support for our homeless residents. Read on to learn how some of our services adapted.
We moved quickly to put measures in place to support both the staff and the 80 single homeless residents living at our service.
Residents at Alexandra House range from 18 to 65 years old and have a range of support needs. As soon as we received advice from the government around social distancing and staying safe, information was sent out to all of our homeless residents. Posters were put up all around the service explaining the guidance and what to do. […]
Mental Health Step Down
It has been a challenging but empowering few months managing mental health homelessness services during the Covid-19 pandemic. Based in Croydon, our service consists of Eva House, Emily House, and Crocus House and supports 27 people experiencing mental ill-health.
Supporting people who have been diagnosed with mental health conditions, such as paranoid schizophrenia, particularly concerned myself and the team. […]
Somewhere Safe to Stay Hub
Coronavirus has had an impact on all of our services, but even more so on services such as the Somewhere Safe to Stay Hub (SStSH) which provides a rapid response to rough sleepers.
On Friday 20 March a decision was reached with Croydon Council not to take any new referrals for into the SStSH. This enabled us to reduce the capacity of the service where multiple people were sleeping in a single room, to prevent the spread of Covid-19. […]
Evolve's 1-1 counselling service has been running for a number of years with tremendous success.
The programme was set up with the aim to promote good mental health and wellbeing that is free to all our homeless residents, with an emphasis on providing quality and professional counselling in a confidential and safe setting. […]
> Operational response
It was vitally important to continue meeting with our commissioners to agree new and safe ways to deliver our services.
Furthermore, we understood the importance of monitoring any Covid-19 cases (suspected or confirmed) and set up reporting mechanisms internally and with Local Authorities within all services.
Early on, we made the decision to create a 'risk map' to manage our response to the pandemic. This allowed us to assess all areas of the organisation to identify risk, impact and controls which in turn enabled us identify the priority areas for controls and actions needed. We shared this with our commissioners and stakeholders, and have updated it regularly in response to government guidance and developments. This helped identify further risks as lockdown eased, and is allowing us to adapt quickly as restrictions tightened again in November.
To ensure efficiency, operational decisions were communicated via our Area Managers initially. These were then drawn together into guidance on how to deliver a service during the pandemic, including enhanced infection control procedures and pandemic specific policies around medication, tenure management and referrals.
Changes to our On-Call rota
We rightly anticipated an increase in demand for our out of hours on-call support, especially in the initial period where people were worried or unclear on what to do if someone was symptomatic.
Our 'on-call' provision consists of a first and second tier, and we implemented an increased on-call payment and a back-up on-call system. Both first and second tier had a back-up they could call, should they need to attend site or should the volume of calls require further assistance.
We were also clear that if staff on-call had been so busy overnight that they had no rest period, they would be supported by their Area Manager to take the following day off work, helping to avoid burnout.
PPE and Infection control
In line with government guidance, our infection control procedures, including the use of PPE, were updated where necessary. As PPE would be required not just when dealing with a specific incident but also when staff and residents are unable to maintain the required social distance, we were going to need larger supplies. We immediately centralised the ordering of PPE and focused administrative resources on our Facilities Team to place orders. We also increased the number of suppliers, and implemented an ordering form for services to send to our Facilities Administrator on a weekly basis.
We began monitoring stock levels of PPE at the start of the pandemic, and have since started to build a stock of PPE. We have worked with our Local Authority partners to ensure we don't experience shortages during the second wave, and are making use of their supply chains and donations. We are centrally coordinating the distribution of stock to ensure all of our services have an adequate supply of PPE.
Closing Head Office
As soon as it became clear that the government was going to require those who could work at home to do so, we made arrangements to close our office at Kingston Road. We completed the close down by Friday 20 March before the lockdown was announced.
We have continued to keep our Head Office closed, with all of our central teams working from home.
Within a week of lockdown, we had almost 100 colleagues successfully set up and working remotely. We have provided laptops to staff who would otherwise be without appropriate equipment, and have implemented a strategy to improve our IT and communication systems, particularly video conferencing and access to sound on all devices across the organisation.
> Fundraising response
The impact of the pandemic came at a significant cost. Between March and June we lost 2076 staff work days directly due to Covid-19 related absences, in comparison to 2094 days lost throughout the whole year 2019/2020. The cost of this was immense. Yet the need to keep our services open was our top priority.
Fundraising was integral to our strategy to overcome the financial impact of the pandemic and ensure we could keep our vital services going throughout the pandemic.
The Evolve Sleep 'In'
In 2019, our Sleep Out event attracted over 160 people. We raised £75k to help us continue delivering our Work + Learning and Health + Wellbeing programmes, which are available to all our homeless residents. This year, amid event fatigue and already lower expected numbers, reports of the London Marathon and other mass participation event cancellations began to hit headlines as the pandemic took hold.
Our Sleep Out 2020 was planned for 29 March, and so we had to act quickly. We made changes to the event messaging to make it clear to everyone taking part the huge financial impact of the pandemic on our work, and the need to keep our frontline services open and safe.
What did we do?
Cancelled original plans for the Sleep Out
Created a safe and appropriate online alternative:- Sleep Out Plan B: the 'Sleep In'
Confirmed support from our sponsors – Croydon Business Improvement District, AMP House, Baydale and Property Furniture Letting Solutions
Contacted those that had pledged to Sleep Out and invited new people to take part
What did it achieve?
Amid the disruption that Covid-19 had caused at the beginning of lockdown, around 16 people took part
Social media engagement in the form of photos, messages of support and friends and families sharing stories were shared widely
Evolve Ambassador Bianca Miller-Cole, her husband Byron and their team all joined the Sleep Out – Plan B, taking to hard floors and gardens in sleeping bags
As the cost of staffing our services with a 20% absence rate became evident, our Fundraising and Communications Team swiftly launched an emergency Covid-19 fundraising appeal to the public.
We set up an appeal page, emailed our supporters and began a social media campaign explaining our needs.
A new supporter, Louise Dalton heard our story, and wrote and recorded a beautiful spoken word piece which we shared across our social media channels.
Over 230 people donated to our emergency appeal. New fundraisers also set up their own pages doing various challenges, including two supporters who did seven half marathons in seven days, raising over £4k.
We also raised donations, grants and funding from Marks and Spencer/Neighbourly, LandAid Covid-19 Emergency Fund, London Community Response Fund, Charity Relief Fund and the Walcott Foundation which allowed us to install WiFi in our Stockwell young people's accommodation.
One of the early challenges we recognised was the struggle our homeless residents had accessing food. Supermarkets struggled to keep up with demand and limited the number of certain products that one person could purchase, while some of our regular food donations stopped as businesses closed.
This had an impact on our residents who needed to self-isolate, and on those who could not afford more expensive food options when cheaper alternatives were not available.
Our Fundraising Team quickly began a campaign to ask local supporters and businesses to donate food. We were overwhelmed by the generosity from the communities in which we work. We also received donations of PPE, something else that was in short supply, and much needed to keep our staff and residents safe.
We also:
Submitted 17 applications to trust funders between March and July
Provided significant data to Local Authorities and worked with them to understand the additional costs
Responded to relevant news stories through press releases and on social media, ensuring that our voice was heard as we campaigned for funding and support to ensure the safety of our residents and colleagues.
We are very grateful for the additional financial support we received from the London Boroughs of Croydon, Merton, Lambeth and Bromley, and from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea which helped us meet the additional costs.
Through fundraising we have ensured we remain financially stable and we continue to adapt the way in which we work to meet the changing environment. We would like to say an enormous thank you to all our supporters who have helped us so generously during this challenging time.
In June, we issued a statement recognising that the issue of racism, surrounding the murder of George Floyd and others like him, is not simply specific to the US.
The systemic racism faced by Black people in the UK is our collective responsibility to change and it is vital that we work to understand and acknowledge this to create a more equal future, both for our colleagues and residents.
Knowing that actions speak louder than words, we pledged to:
Continue to support Black people to identify and fight discrimination in the workplace.
Actively amplify the voices of our Black colleagues + residents to dismantle and educate on inequality.
Create a more equal and diverse environment to ensure people feel they can freely speak to management about diversity and inclusion.
Meet regularly with the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion group to review our decisions and make certain we are doing what's necessary to put an end to divisions and disadvantage for our Black colleagues.
The fight for equality, diversity and inclusion starts with honest conversations and we will be speaking to our residents individually regarding how they feel about the Black Lives Matter movement.
We have a long way to go as an organisation, but we are holding ourselves accountable and we will keep this at the top of our agenda. It is our responsibility to do everything we can to stand up to racism and help tackle every form of prejudice. The time for change is now and we will be working with colleagues and residents to take more progressive steps forward and put an end to racism.
Since our first statement, we have recruited an Equality Diversity and Inclusion Advisor, to work with us to action these promises.
It's clear that living in a more inclusive world where connection, community and people are prioritised is the only way to ensure everyone can bring their full self to work. Within supported housing we know that Black and Brown people, care leavers and ex-offenders are disproportionately affected. […]
During Black History Month, we asked our residents and colleagues what it meant personally to them. Read on to learn more about the personal importance of this incredible month of reflection.
What does Black History mean to you?
We asked our residents and colleagues what Black History Month meant to them. Read on to learn more about the personal importance of this incredible month of reflection. Words by Evolve resident Akua For me, Black History Month is a time to celebrate, reflect on history and appreciate Black culture. There are so many learnings […]
"I wear my Black history like a badge of honor"
We asked our residents and colleagues what Black History Month meant to them. Read on to learn more about the personal importance of this incredible month of reflection. Words by Evolve colleague Peter McCarthy Black History Month (BHM) is usually a time of remembrance and reflection for me. I remember throughout my teenage and adolescent […]
"Black people were once in chains. We are now judges, doctors, actors…"
We asked our residents and colleagues what Black History Month meant to them. Read on to learn more about the personal importance of this incredible month of reflection. Words by Evolve resident Tyrell To me Black History Month resembles a moment of appreciation for the excellence and culture that Black individuals have brought forth into […]
In Summer 2020, we launched our Homelessness Stories page. This gave our residents a platform to reveal through their own words, their experience of homelessness and how they found their pathway back to independence with support from Evolve.
Tyrell, 20
Everyday Tyrell gazes out of his window and up at the Alto apartments that stand out looking over London. "That's the apartment block I want to retire in. It's an empowering thing to wake up and see that building every day. That's where I want to be. Before I even came to Evolve that was […]
Donna, 50
Donna's eager to get her laptop working, she's been doing e-learning courses to retrain as a sign language therapist. "I just need to get these brain cells working," she says. Sitting in an office in her supported housing in Croydon, it's clear she's brimming with determination to get back to work. Things started to go […]
Wayne, 50
I served a life sentence then slept rough in a park for nine months When Wayne smiles it's like clouds parting. Prison and then homelessness have swallowed a third of his life but he's come out the other side. At 50, he's putting it all behind him. He's calm now, happy even. It all started […]
Sam provides one to one and group-mentoring support in three secondary schools in Lambeth and Lewisham. We were due to roll out a Lunch-Time Literacy and 'Parked' Detention mentoring support after school, with the support of a volunteer mentor, but due to the pandemic, this hasn't yet been possible.
One to one work supports Year 7 to Year 11 students with self-esteem, and confidence issues, those not engaging in their education, and coping and resilience, to better equip them for the challenges of life. The group mentoring is a great help for Year 7s starting secondary school and supports them to settle into 'Big School'.
One of our schools in Lambeth requested that we work with their underachieving Black Caribbean boys in Year 11, to encourage and motivate them.
During the coronavirus school lockdown, Sam continued to support the mentees via telephone contact, as well as supporting parents where there was a need. When the schools re-opened in September, Sam returned to assist in lunchtime activities and support the teachers where they need it.
She has also provided well-being materials to all of our mentees and parents to help provide ideas, and encouragement while they were home-schooling, and sent these materials to all three schools, for pupils of parents who are key workers to access.
*Names of mentees and parents have been changed to protect identities and honour privacy.
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Moving People into Independence
We remain incredibly proud and confident in our abilities to support Evolve residents on their journey to independence. In spite of the pandemic, thanks to our quality accommodation, accomplished and dedicated staff, and the vital life-changing programmes we offer, over three quarters of our residents have moved into independence this year.
Click on the map below to see our top performing services.
*Figures show the percentage of people who have moved on to independence
Outcomes achieved by our homeless residents
Letting Activities£9,519,272
Housing Grants + Other Income£2,920,919
Conferencing£107,668
Interest£48,597
Charitable grants + donations£610,932
Total Income£13,207,388
Supporting Housing Activities£305,2639
Fundraising£172,778
Charitable activities£334,907
Interest£195,282
Total Expenditure£12,912,683
Our full annual accounts are available on our website
Thank you to everyone who has supported us throughout this year.
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London Borough of Croydon, London Borough of Merton, London Borough of Lambeth, London Borough of Bromley, London Borough of Wandsworth, London Borough of Lewisham, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Mayor of London's Rough Sleepers Innovation Fund, City Bridge Trust, St Gilles Trust, Sir Walter St John Educational Charity, Neighbourly, LandAid, Walcot Foundation via London Community Response Fund, Campden Charities, National Lottery Communities Fund, London Hostels Association, BBC Children in Need
Food and PPE
Doughlicious, Nando's, Holistic Wellness Hub, Doner Kebab, Chatsworth Bakehouse, The Central Gurdwara, Team Compliments, Croydon Voluntary Action (CVA), Homeless Link, Purley Food Hub, Deliveroo, Meat Liquor, Greggs, Croydon Covid-19 Mutual Aid Response group, COVID19 Crystal Palace Mutual Aid Response Group, Various individuals recruited through Facebook and the communities in which we work, Co-op Lansdowne Rd, Croydon Mosque Womens' Group, Tooting Community Kitchen, Chefs in Schools, Candy Mechanic
Corporates and Community Groups
Hagen & Hyde Pub, London Homeless Charities Group, Waitrose, Bromley Golf Club, William Morris Pub, Lush, St Helier Hospital
Board Chair
Karen Cooper
Chair of Audit Committee
Mark Rowe
Audit Committee Members
David Shrimpton
Paul Perkin
Vicky Wallace
Bukky McGlynn
Diana Coman
Isabel Sanchez
Paul Infield
Simon McGrath
Jeremy Gray
Alice Hainsworth
Director of Corporate Services and Company Secretary
Jenny Strudwick
Director of People and Culture
Elspeth Hayde
Deputy Director of Operations
Pamela Newman
Laura McLellan
Fundraising Statement
Charity law requires charities to make a statement regarding fundraising activities. The legislation defines fundraising as 'soliciting or otherwise procuring money or other property for charitable purposes'. Such amounts receivable are presented in in other operating income.
We have a Fundraising Strategy and a Stakeholder Engagement Strategy, both approved by our Board. We do not work with any professional fundraisers, or use cold calling or direct mail. We are registered with the Fundraising Regulator and comply with their code of practice. The day to day management of all income generation is delegated to the executive team who are accountable to the Directors.
We have received no complaints in relation to fundraising activities.


The American Cancer Society says at least 3,000 people will be diagnosed with mesothelioma this year. Most victims will be older men (average age 69) who developed the disease decades after being exposed to asbestos on the job. The majority of these individuals will be diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma, a cancer that affects the tissue that surrounds the lungs.
If the disease is caught at an early stage, it can be treated. Unfortunately, because the latency period between exposure and diagnosis is so long, many victims are diagnosed when the disease has reached an advanced stage. At this point, treatment options are limited, with some only aimed at making the patient comfortable. The prognosis is poor for mesothelioma that has reached an advanced stage, so families are often left with medical expenses and mountains of other debt that could reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars—if not millions.
The companies responsible for the victim's mesothelioma will ultimately have to pay—and not just for medical costs. Lost income, pain, suffering, and emotional distress, and loss of support and companionship are other components of a typical trial award—an award that a recent Mealey's Litigation Report says is often in the millions.
According to the report, the average mesothelioma trial award is estimated at $2.4 million. The report also noted at least one larger trial award that totaled $25 million. The victims in this case were awarded $12 million in compensatory damages, $12.5 million in punitive damages and $430,961 in medical damages, plus interest. Though this is considered the exception, awards in the tens of millions do occur, in part, to deter others from engaging in similar conduct that formed the basis of the lawsuit.
Mealey's noted that while some cases do go to trial, the majority of cases are settled before reaching the courtroom. In these instances, the average settlement is still a hefty $1 to $1.4 million, says Mealey's, and they are often paid by multiple defendants.
If you have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, it is important to understand your legal rights. A legal expert can answer questions about your rights and help you navigate the complex legal process that comes with filing a claim. Contact to a legal expert to help you with your claim today.
Hartley, Kirk T., and Brian Redding. "Looking Further Behind The Curtain: Examples Of Mesothelioma Claim Stories Derived From A Limited Dataset From The Garlock Chapter 11 Case, And Some Resulting Questions." Mealey's Litigation Report: Asbestos (2015): n. pag. Gnarusllc.com. LexisNexis, 16 Dec. 2015. Web. 26 Mar. 2018.
"What Are the Key Statistics About Malignant Mesothelioma?" American Cancer Society. American Cancer Society, Inc., 2018. Web. 26 Mar. 2018.


Thursday, May 9th, 2019 will be our next dinner meeting and Ostergren Awards Night.
Our May 9, 2019 Speaker will be Jack Fultz, Winner of the 1976 Boston Marathon. Because the temperature on that marathon day reached 100 degrees, it was nicknamed, the "The Run for the Hoses" as the spectators cooled down the runners with garden hoses.
The Touchdown Club's April 11th special guest speaker was Mike Eruzione, Captain of the "Miracle on Ice" 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team and Gold Medal Champions. Mike gave a truly inspiring, humorous, and motivational speech, mentioned that his newly written book will be coming later this year, and received a standing ovation from the crowd. Donations from the Club were made in Mike Eruzione's honor to Winthrop Charities, Fidelity House, and The Arlington Boys & Girls Club.
Abi Ewen is the 2018 winner of the Ostergren Award. She is a highly motivated student-athlete who possesses outstanding leadership skills.
Athletically, she has enjoyed a wonderful career on the playing fields of Arlington High School. Abi has earned three varsity letters in soccer, four letters in basketball and four letters in softball. In addition, she was named captain of all three sports this year. Furthermore, she was a Middlesex League and Eastern Mass. All-Star in soccer.
Beginning in the Fall of 2018, Abi plans to further her education at Boston University.
John Bowen is the 2018 winner of the Ostergren Award. He is a very talented 3 sport student-athlete for our Arlington Spy Ponders. John earned varsity letters in football, wrestling and lacrosse, serving as captain for all three teams. Some of his many accomplishments include Middlesex League All-Star in both football and wrestling, Defensive Player of the Year in football, and Sectional Champion as well as two-time team MVP in wrestling.
Starting in the Fall 2018, John plans to further his education at Salve Regina, where he will play football.
Please note that dinner reservations are required, please do so by 12:00pm on Tuesday prior to the meeting. It will cost $40 for people who do not RSVP by the deadline.
or call 781.572.4132 to RSVP to the next meeting.
From left to right: Touchdown Club VP, Paul Kent, 2018 Ostergren Award Winners, John Bowen and Abi Ewen, & Guest Speaker/2015 Ostergren Award Winner, Frank Roche.
Speaking at the 2018 Ostergren Awards Dinner, Rev. Jack Graham from St. Agnes Parish.


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The Clare Spark Blog
Who were the precursors of the New Left? The WASP establishment or Communists?
Filed under: Uncategorized — clarelspark @ 8:54 pm
Tags: 1940s liberals, Chosen People, FDR, Generation of Vipers, Gordon Allport, Henry A. Murray, Karl Jung, Momism, Nazis, negative images of Republicans, New Left, Philip Wylie, Talcott Parsons, Walter Langer
Until I read Philip Wylie's best seller A Generation of Vipers (1942), I had assumed that the sprinkling of red-diaper babies who rose to prominence in the social movements of the 1960s, were the bearers of the intellectual ideas that gave rise to the women's movement, the antiwar movement, the back to Nature movement, and to multiculturalism, with its emphasis on "race" over "class."
(I should have known that no true communist would sort people out by "race" as the anti-racist Soviet Union was adamant about the conception of proletarian internationalism; moreover, communists wrote A World View of Race in the mid-1930s, that identified the fiction of "race" with the aims of the imperialist bourgeoisie, letting workers off the hook.)
I had already learned at Cornell U. in my course with David Brion Davis that "evil was back" with the renewed popularity of Reinhold Niebuhr, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne in the 1940s. And the "evil" within each of us (to cite Penny Dreadful), was there to offset excessive progressive optimism about the promise of American life, which enabled upward mobility for the Common Man or Woman.
What stunned me about the Wylie "sermon," that echoed everything that Henry A. Murray and his Harvard associates alleged (e.g., Walter Langer, Talcott Parsons, Gordon Allport, etc.), was his diatribe against Cinderella turning into Mom, the source of all angst in the male sex, including the medical profession. Here is a sample of Wylie's vituperative book of essays:
"MOM IS THE END PRODUCT OF SHE. She is Cinderella…the shining-haired, the starry-eyed, the ruby-lipped virgo aeternis, of which there is presumably one, and only one, or a one-and-only for each male, whose dream is fixed upon her deflowerment and subsequent perpetual possession. This act is a sacrament in all churches and a civil affair in our society. The collective aspects of marriage are thus largely compressed into the rituals and social perquisites of one day. Unless some element of mayhem or intention of divorce subsequently obtrudes, a sort of privacy engulfs the union and all further developments are deemed to be the business of each separate pair, including the transition of Cinderella into mom, which, if it occasions any shock, only adds to the huge, invisible burthen every man carries with him into eternity….Mom is an American creation." (Chapter XI, p.184)
Wylie, like Henry Murray, was a convinced Jungian and primitivist, and like the pagan Murray, was an avowed elitist, also a free-love kind of fellow (but not an advocate for gay rights, for "nances" were sub-textually tied to Mom.) So Wylie was obviously attacking "sentimental" conservatives of a fundamentalist religious bent. He shared with Murray an admiration for the true grit of the Russian people, a taste for internationalism, and for FDR's personality, with Wylie going so far as to suggest that those who lacked the [independent, masculine, upper-class unsentimental education] should not even vote or hold elective office.
Moreover, the immigrants, preceded by the Nature-wrecking pioneers were a bunch of rowdy rascals. Anyone who denied this was a Mom-identified sentimental "patriot" and deserving of contempt—in short, a viper of the type that devout Christians embodied. Such conservatives, he alleged, had twisted the life and legacy of Christ, ignoring the imprecation to "know thyself," i.e., to know thy limitations, that such (feminized) devils are not "trained to rule" (Murray's notes to Melville's White-Jacket).
I have reported elsewhere that Murray thought that Hitler had Jewish blood (https://clarespark.com/2009/12/13/klara-hitlers-son-and-jewish-blood/, footnote 2), and I didn't understand this until I read Wylie on the Jews. Wylie spurned vulgar beliefs that upper-class Jews controlled the world (they were but a small portion of the elite, though they controlled the new media), but agreed with Talcott Parsons (Murray's colleague) that the Jews were vain and believed in their chosen-ness and separateness. And Hitler's crime was not just to persecute the Jews, but to imitate Jewish pridefulness; the Germans were the new Chosen People.
Where could Hitler have gotten this horribly mistaken idea unless he was something of a Jew himself, putting on airs and vain…rather like Mom.
The Wikipedia bio of Wylie states that he went on to become an early Green and fierce opponent of nuclear power. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Wylie.)
Philip Wylie, nature-lover
Although recent research has to some degree vindicated Joe McCarthy, uncovering the presence of Communist spies out to steal secrets for the benefit of Soviet-style internationalism, we should pay more attention to the dour pessimism of the old WASP establishment, who were the true parents of New Left movements, all smacking of the populism and "middle way" espoused by Philip Wylie and his contemporaries.
Wylie's daughter, a novelist herself, has insisted that her father was no misogynist, it should be noted that "Mom" is a middle-class clubwoman married to a businessman, beguiled by materialism/consumerism/: the Northeastern elite's idea of a Republican. And such benighted sentimentalists shouldn't be trusted to vote.
Index to blogs on antisemitism
Tags: "Jewish" racism, anti-Christian propaganda, antimodern propaganda, antisemitic cartoons, Arab antisemitism, Chosen People, degeneration discourse, disruptive Jews, Eric Hobsbawm, Frankfurt "cultural Marxists", genocide, Gustave Doré, Hollywood propaganda, Irving Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Martin Broszat, multiculturalism, Nazi antisemitism, noam chomsky, Saul Friedlander, Sigmund Freud, spinmeisters, the "Jewish" city, the Jewish vote, Voltaire, walter lippmann, Woodrow Wilson
Saudi cartoon 2008
https://clarespark.com/2009/07/29/a-synthesis-for-antisemitism-since-the-american-civil-war/.
https://clarespark.com/2009/08/19/noam-chomskys-misrepresentation-of-walter-lippmanns-chief-ideas-on-manufacturing-consent/
https://clarespark.com/2009/07/04/unfinished-revolutions-and-contested-notions-of-identity/
https://clarespark.com/2009/07/11/multiculturalists-and-wilsonians-cant-diagnose-the-new-antisemitism/
https://clarespark.com/2009/07/29/the-centrality-of-the-holocaust-to-nazi-war-aims/
https://clarespark.com/2009/11/17/melencolia-i-and-the-apocalypse-1938/
https://clarespark.com/2009/08/30/that-slippery-word-populism-a-clarification-and-a-road-map-to-this-site/
https://clarespark.com/2009/12/13/klara-hitlers-son-and-jewish-blood/
https://clarespark.com/2010/04/03/liberals-and-jewish-racism/
https://clarespark.com/2010/08/15/nazis-exhibit-der-ewige-jude-1937/
https://clarespark.com/2010/11/14/the-abcs-of-antisemitism/ (a synthesis that takes account of the "Hebraic" Reformation sects)
https://clarespark.com/2010/11/16/good-jews-bad-jews-and-wandering-jews/
https://clarespark.com/2011/03/28/index-to-multiculturalism-blogs/ (index to German Romantic sources for multiculturalism and related issues, such as identity politics)
https://clarespark.com/2010/08/07/american-music-and-jewish-composers-irving-berlin-and-leonard-bernstein/
https://clarespark.com/2009/09/17/moderate-men-and-dirty-jews-part-two/
https://clarespark.com/2011/10/15/baltzell-on-the-good-jews/ (retitled The Protestant Establishment Taps a Good Jew)
https://clarespark.com/2011/06/17/the-famed-jewish-vote/
https://clarespark.com/2011/06/19/index-to-links-on-hitler-and-the-big-lie/
https://clarespark.com/2012/11/08/the-magical-power-of-negroes-and-other-beautiful-people/
https://clarespark.com/2012/08/06/gellhorns-blind-spot-on-israel/
https://clarespark.com/2012/09/28/bibi-and-the-human-nature-debate/
https://clarespark.com/2013/03/10/what-remains-useful-about-freud/
https://clarespark.com/2013/07/12/blogs-on-the-integral-nation/
https://clarespark.com/2012/12/08/hobsbawm-obama-israel/
https://clarespark.com/2014/04/05/standing-up-to-bullying-social-democrats/
https://clarespark.com/2014/05/23/gentlemans-agreement-remains-of-the-day-professionalism-and-prejudice/
https://clarespark.com/2014/07/18/sartre-existentialism-and-red-antisemitism/
https://clarespark.com/2015/01/15/antisemitism-vs-anti-zionism-is-there-a-difference/
https://clarespark.com/2015/01/18/is-antisemitism-rational-or-irrational/
https://clarespark.com/2015/01/30/hbos-night-will-fall/
https://clarespark.com/2015/02/03/jews-not-killed-for-just-being-jews/
https://clarespark.com/2015/04/24/multiculturalism-vs-yid-red-spies-which-agitates-the-right/
https://clarespark.com/2016/04/10/new-york-values-as-heard-by-iowans/
https://clarespark.com/2017/09/05/the-rule-of-law/ (on the pervasiveness of "Christian anti-Semitism")
It is a misconception to think that a person's views toward individual Jews tests their antisemitic views one way or another. A-S is above all, a theory of history, most recently a reaction to the "disruptive" effects of modernity, and an identification of the source of Evil. Most or all antisemitism is racist, for no matter how assimilated a person of Jewish descent may be, that person retains mental, physical, and moral attributes attributed to "the Jews" considered as a collective entity. Of these, none is more pernicious than the notion that all "Jews" partake of the Old Testament God as read by non-Jews, most famously by Voltaire (whose admirers were possibly angrier at Christianity, the offshoot of Judaism). That deity is domineering, militaristic, and genocidal, looking out solely for his "Chosen People." One would think that such a powerful set of misconceptions would be corrected in the schools and in the mass media, but no. For in a highly populated globe, the masses must be controlled, and there is no more potent poison, directing popular anger away from abusive elites, than antisemitism: our innermost desires for truth, for a relatively accurate inventory of our past, is stigmatized as disintegrating to "the family." So despite occasional hand-wringing over "the Holocaust," antisemitism is still poorly, even crudely, understood by most, if not all, trained intellectuals.
Gustave Doré: Lost Satan
https://clarespark.com/2009/07/29/a-synthesis-for-antisemitism-since-the-american-civil-war/
About Clare Spark
About the Yankee Doodle Society (YDS)
Spengler, decline, postmodernism, myth
Was Martin Luther King Jr. ever a black nationalist?
I spent a long time in wondering whether or not David Armstrong, the author of A Trumpet to Arms… (1981) was a liberal Democrat or a Red, and then I realized that it was my problem, for I have some difficulties with my conservative FB friends (around issues of feminism, etc.). This blog is about Armstrong's book on the emergence of the counter-culture and alternative media, begun in the 1960s in the Berkeley Free Speech movement, and then the US involvement in Vietnam, but culminating in ecology (including nuclear power), multiculturalism (as contrasted to "imperialism"), anti-racism, New Age mysticism, anti-Puritanism, "subjectivity," drug culture, the vogue for electric cars, high rises, "balance," localism in the style of Woodrow Wilson, excessive wealth, feminism, gay liberation, and the preference for "Love" over "hate." All these were issues with which I grasped during my short stint as Program Director for the Los Angeles Pacifica radio station, KPFK-FM. (I wondered then too, whether it was a social democratic vs. Marxist outfit. I found the same conflict during graduate work at UCLA). It is same fight for anti-capitalism vs. laissez-faire market forces that I have devoted much of this website to, whatever the topic.
Turning points in the ascent/decline of the West
The Woman Question in Saul Bellow's Herzog
The Cold War, a moderate liberal version
The culture war over US and World History Standards
Bohemia and the New Left
Richard Hofstadter on Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1865-1915 (1944)
Four books on Hitler and the Rise of Nazism.
Melodrama, Jeffrey Epstein, and "The Loudest Voice" Finale
"Mental Health" as Ideology
The Loudest Voice: social democratic or communistic?
Is "America" racist?
The "women of color" meme is bogus
"Health care" and the Body
Bad "Fathers"
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Home » Tyson Foods staying the course
Tyson Foods staying the course
Tyson's branded, value-added Chicken and Prepared Foods business units are focused on innovation and brand building.
NEW YORK — Tyson Foods, Inc.'s value-added chicken business combined with the acquisition of Hillshire Brands has created a prepared foods powerhouse. It has also given the company a diverse portfolio of businesses. On one side is the branded, value-added Chicken and Prepared Foods business units focused on innovation and brand building. On the other side is the more traditional commodity-oriented Beef and Pork businesses, which are committed to adding value to products, but also stocking the fresh meat cases of retailers with traditional cuts of beef and pork.
The diversity of the company's portfolio prompted an analyst to ask during Tyson Foods' May 17 presentation at the BMO Capital Markets Farm to Market Conference if management would ever consider divesting or spinning off its fresh beef and pork operations. Thomas P. Hayes, president and chief executive officer of Tyson Foods, said it is a question that is constantly asked of the company's management team.
Thomas Hayes, president and c.e.o. of Tyson Foods
"What I would share is that, as we continue to drive the business and be the most efficient we possibly can, we have a great position to continue to generate a lot of cash from that business …," Mr. Hayes said.
During fiscal 2016, ended Oct. 1, Tyson's Beef and Pork business units generated 49% of the company's total sales volume of approximately $37 billion. The company operates 12 beef plants and 9 pork plants and it averaged a slaughter rate of 125,000 cattle and 415,000 hogs per week during fiscal 2016. In comparison to its peers, Tyson Foods ranks as the No. 1 beef packer and the No. 3 pork packer in the United States.
Tyson Foods' fresh meat offerings give it a strong position on the perimeter.
Mr. Hayes added that as sales from the center of the supermarket have slowed, the perimeter is becoming more important. Tyson Foods' fresh meat offerings give it a strong position on the perimeter. The company also is helping retailers reduce fresh meat costs through the development of more sophisticated case-ready programs. Case-ready products are manufactured and packaged at the plant, but look as if they were prepared in a supermarket's back room by a butcher.
"Those items have been very, very, well, embraced by all retailers and it's increasing as a percentage of the total volume," Mr. Hayes said.
While he expects management will continue to get the question, because of the stark differences between the prepared foods and commodity businesses, Mr. Hayes said it makes sense to keep the fresh meat business in the portfolio.
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Tyson Foods wins the bidding for Hillshire Brands
The challenges and opportunities facing Tyson Foods
Tyson Foods creates fund to invest in the future of food
Red meat propels Tyson Foods further into the black
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Yu Hung-chun (; 4 January 1898 – 1 June 1960), also known as O. K. Yui, was a Chinese political figure who served as mayor of Shanghai, chairman of the Taiwan Provincial Government and  Premier of the Republic of China.

Right before the Battle of Shanghai, he tried to negotiate with the Japanese unsuccessfully.

Chronology
 23 March 1937 – the Executive Yuan resolved that Yu Hung-chun may act as mayor of Shanghai.
 27 July 1937 – the Nationalist Government appointed Yu Hung-chun as mayor of Shanghai.
 30 June 1958 – resigned as the president of the Executive Yuan.(Premier of the Republic of China)

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1898 births
1960 deaths
People from Xinhui District
Premiers of the Republic of China on Taiwan
Republic of China politicians from Guangdong
Finance Ministers of the Republic of China
Mayors of Shanghai
Taiwanese people from Guangdong
St. John's University, Shanghai alumni
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3 ways Maine leaders are shirking their responsibilities
May 17, 2016 Home, Opinion, Politics127 Legislative Council, George Soros, National Park Director Jonathan Jarvis, National Park Service, Peter B. Lewis, Rob Kampia
A couple weeks ago I wrote about how reading the news left me thinking, seriously?!? Today's recurring theme is, why do we elect leaders who shirk the mantle of leadership?
Shirk #1
Perhaps the most glaring example is the decision to suspend the recording and archiving of legislative committee meetings — thanks to the BDN editorial calling the 127 Legislative Council out on the action! I remember that the issue being discussed but somehow missed that the council voted unanimously to stop this form of public access. One of the reasons legislative leaders offered for the suspension is that people testifying at committee public hearings may not understand that the meetings are being recorded.
Really? It's 2016 in the United States of America. I'm thinking most people would expect something called a "public hearing" in a legislative committee meeting to be recorded.
Another reason offered is the fear that testimony could be used against legislators in campaign ads. So what? Our elected officials serve at the will of the people, not the other way around. The discussion about recording and archiving meetings should be about citizens' rights, not politicians' rights to remain in office regardless of what they say on key issues in committee meetings.
As a blogger I found access to recorded testimony during the Government Oversight Committee investigation into Governor LePage's role in the firing of Speaker Mark Eves from Good Will Hinckley useful. Because of the access to recorded testimony, I was able to blog about reaching a different conclusion regarding the fairness of the hiring process than the committee reached. Further, I heard from several readers who were grateful to hear this perspective.
Cutting off access to this recorded data makes it sound like committees, such as the Government Oversight Committee, don't like transparency, which is something of a non sequitur.
Another glaring example of shirking the mantle of leadership, is the National Park Service and the people in charge of it, namely the president and Congress. The director of the service, Jonathan Jarvis, came to Maine this week to discuss a possible national monument designation in the Millinocket region. From what I read the meetings were a wonderful opportunity for interested parties on both sides of the debate to air their feelings and concerns.
All of which is well and good, except, as a mom of millennials who is hoping for grandchildren, I have a huge bone to pick with Congress when it comes to the park service. Rather than reading about field meetings related to new acquisitions, I would like to read about Jarvis meeting with Congress to design a plan that will make our park service solvent, viable, and sustainable for future generations.
Call it fiscal conservatism or common sense, but that's the way this mom sees it.
Running the service with an almost $12 billion dollar maintenance backlog while adding new acquisitions is like me running up a ginormous debt right before I die knowing that my children will have to pay it back. I wouldn't do that to my children, and I find it amoral that Congress keeps doing that to them. My maternal instincts won't let me align with so many of my fellow citizens who support Congress continuing to saddle future generations that way.
If conservation of our lands is so critical to who we are as a nation, then we need to pay for said conservation as we conserve. If we don't want to pay for conservation through the park service, then we need to quit acquiring lands under the park service. End of story — or it should be if elected leadership took leadership seriously.
Because of the fiscal irresponsibility of previous generations, millennials are already struggling to afford college educations, homes, and vehicles — things previous generations considered default middle class achievements. Add to those burdens unsustainable bureaucracies, like the park service, and they'll have ample reasons to dance on our graves.
The last glaring example of our leadership shirking the responsibilities of elected office is the issue of legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. In Maine we will be voting for or against recreational marijuana on the ballot in November. Or at least we think we are voting for or against.
I would encourage voters to read the fine print of the proposed legislation. I will be doing at least one post about the details in the near future, but I am troubled by my research so far. Just like most other political issues today in Maine and around the country, big money is involved: George Soros and the late Peter B. Lewis of Progressive insurance.
As reports to the Maine Ethics Commission show, the movement behind our referendum question isn't quite homegrown. Besides reporting significant donations from organizations affiliated with Soros and Lewis, Rob Kampia is listed as an officer of the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, the political action committee behind the referendum campaign her in Maine. Kampia is the national director of the Marijuana Policy Project who, among other things, was embroiled in a controversy about threatening the livelihood of a dispensary operator in Arizona last year.
Kampia is also someone who has gone on the record to explain and justify his questionable treatment of women in his employ at MPP by comparing himself to Bill Clinton.
The proposed Maine legislation is very specific in the way it sets up the parameters for a future legal market for marijuana in Maine. I would prefer such specificity be hashed out and vetted by our citizen legislature rather than the special interests who have moved this referendum question forward. From what I have learned, what we will really be voting on in November is whether we are for or against the recreational use of marijuana sold in a market designed by the special interests who proposed the legislation.
Basically, by avoiding addressing this issue, the Maine legislature has deferred the responsibility for the development of a potentially lucrative market to special interests; the same can be said of Congress' handling of this matter on the federal level. A report by the Tax Foundation estimates the national marijuana market to be worth $45 billion. Instead of seeing legalization as a boon to our small business economy and a new market in need of lawmaker influence to preserve the best interests of Maine citizens, legislators have avoided the issue.
To bring the shirking theme around full circle: Instead of worrying about a record of what they say and do in committee meetings, our politicians should be more concerned about the record of what they are not saying and doing.
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People don't care for the nice guy.
like the saying goes, nice guys finish last.
they much prefer the butcher.
these are the people who earn our respect.
the nice guy is an anomaly of nature.
is considered the village idiot.
there is no room for a person like this in society.
can he make any money?
indeed, the nice guy is a liability.
he is someone to reckon with.


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Module: scrape_futaba.py
Desc: use twisted to get futaba front page and scrape info
Author: on_three
Email: on.three.email@gmail.com
DATE: Saturday, January 25th 2014

  1. Initiate fetch of futaba board (which one tbd)
  2. Scrape contents (posts, responses, image urls)
  3. Dump scraped info to stdout (that's all, really)

"""

import os
import os.path
from os.path import expanduser
import re
import uuid
import sys
from time import strftime
import argparse
import string

from futaba import scrape_futaba
from futaba import get_threads

def main():
  parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='fetch threads from futaba image board and scrape to stdout.')
  parser.add_argument('-u', '--url',  help='url to fetch for scraping.', type=str, default='http://dat.2chan.net/img2/futaba.htm')
  args = parser.parse_args()

  url = args.url

  threads = get_threads(url)
  for thread in threads:
    print unicode(thread)

if __name__ == "__main__":
  main()

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Kawambwa District is located in Luapula province in northern Zambia. It is the largest district in Luapula and has a population of 130,000 Zambians. There are also 20,000 Congolese refugees living in a refugee camp that was established by the United Nations in 1998. Fishing is the primary industry in the river valley, while farming dominates the plateau.
Kawambwa District is known as the Land of Falling Waters. It boasts two of the most spectacular waterfalls in all of Zambia. The Ngona River forms two parallel falls about 30m in height known as Ntumbachushi Falls (Bottom Left). Lumangwe Falls (Left), a near replica of the more famous Victoria Falls, is within the district. Kawambwa also provides access to Kabwelume Falls (Bottom Right) in Northern Province. Efforts are currently underway to develop a game park for further recreation.
The natural resources in Kawambwa boast huge potential. It is one of the few surplus food districts in all of Zambia. Efforts are being made to establish large scale farming enterprises as well as utilize the full potential of small farms. Currently, the largest tea plantation in Zambia is located in Kawambwa, and the Wena Farmblock partitions plots for growing coffee, potatoes, and pineapples, among other produce. Also, It's rivers are prime for hydroelectric power plants.
In spite of the wealth of potential these natural resources hold and the rich cultural tradition of the people, Luapula province and Kawambwa district remain some of the poorest in all of Zambia.
The people of Kawambwa are unable to establish the infrastructure needed to utilize the potential their district holds. There is not capital available to them to make such investments. So even though they are surrounded by potential, the people of Kawambwa continue to live in poverty.
Poverty: It is estimated that over 70% of Kawambwa's residents live in poverty.
HIV/AIDS: The spread of HIV/AIDS is rapid in rural areas like Kawambwa. HIV/AIDS breaks families and destroys social structures, often removing the main breadwinners from a family during the prime of life.
"As a Christian nation, Zambia recognizes the need for the church to take a leading role in the development of our country. Effective, sustainable development can not occur until the church becomes the driving force behind our development practices. It is crucial for us to understand the connection between social and spiritual nourishment and let that connection influence the ways we work for sustainable development. So I am excited to see Micah Challenge and the church working to forward the Millennium Development Goals in Kawambwa" – Mr. Siame, Permanent Secretary of the province of Luapula.
Micah Challenge Zambia is a fast growing coalition of member organizations, churches, denominations, institutions and individuals committed to engaging in poverty reduction and helping achieve the Millennium Development Goals in Zambia.
Goal 1: To see hunger and extreme poverty eradicated through assisting churches with care programs, investing in local businesses, supporting the development of local infrastructure, and encouraging tourism to Kawambwa.
Goal 6: To halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS through continued education, church based care programs, and alternative recreational activities.
Goal 8: To develop global partnerships for development by creating international relationships between churches and between businessmen, relationships that will edify and empower both sides. The church in Kawambwa is working hard to lift their brothers and sisters out of poverty, but this must be a global effort. The Kawambwa church can not achieve their goals without global partnerships.
Micah Challenge Core Values: Micah Challenge is committed to the Good News: We affirm that the good news of Jesus demonstrates concern for the spiritual, physical, mental, social, economic and emotional well being of people.
We are committed to the following key values: the Good News; Jesus; the Bible; working with those living in poverty; justice; prayer; relationships; learning and sharing; efficiency and accountability.
Full details of the values can be found on our website or by contacting us. In order to work together well, all coalition members are asked to read and work within the MCZ Coalition Principles, Core Values and Operating Principles.
Join the Coalition: You can join as an individual, organization, church, denomination or institution. Simply visit our website and download the form or contact us through the details below.
In 2006 a group of church leaders in an economically poor community in Zambia turned their passion for seeing their community transformed into action. The church leaders of Mapalo solicited the support of their community – and created a memorandum of understanding between their candidates standing for election as Councillors and Member of Parliament and their community. Every candidate standing for election signed the memorandum of understanding in the run-up to the elections. The community now has a united vision of what their needs are and a powerful lobbying tool to use with their newly elected Councillors and MP for seeing their agreed needs to be met in the next three years.
Jubilee Centre has written a case study of this work – you can download this case study in full: Memorandum of understanding case study (you will need a PDF viewer to view this file – download one for free from Adobe reader or Sumatra PDF).


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Polypedilum udominutum är en tvåvingeart som beskrevs av Niitsuma 1992. Polypedilum udominutum ingår i släktet Polypedilum och familjen fjädermyggor. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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How to Complete an Economics Doctoral Dissertation Proposal: the Fundamentals?
A student's doctoral dissertation proposal in economics should be submitted to the supervisor before the expiration of the third academic session. This vast academic paper in economics must have a good doctoral proposal stating planned researches done by the student in economics. The proposal has two sections such as written and verbal parts. Most post graduate economics students do meticulous studies and plans to format doctoral economics papers . Fundamental guidelines must be followed by a post graduate student to submit the bunch of doctoral papers in this subject. .
At first, an economics student has to place the drafted research papers to the committee for preliminary assessment. It is a short project evaluation seminar which is held at the university to help post graduate students resetting papers before the final submission of all documents to the supervisor. The first part of the proposal has the eye-catching title and procedures collected from the brochures of universities. A student has to reveal his intentions and objectives of conducing longer findings to write this doctoral paper.
The second section of the economics proposal must explain the pre-planned workouts for giving new facts, formulae and innovative theories to readers. So this section of the doctoral proposal is very important to a post graduate student. Though there is no strict rule to complete the content assessment under the guidance of the college committee members, students should approach to the advisory committee members to take new suggestions to process the whole academic assignment with a qualitative proposal in economics. This drafted economics proposal should be long with various details to analyze the theories and plans. Researchers will use their own experience to edit the papers by including or excluding irrelevant points. Therefore, students must do extensive content illustration by including more points for demos at the project presentation seminar.
The doctoral economics proposal doesn't ensure the full fledged last commitment of the writer. Well researchers try to monitor the impact of the self-discovery study done by a student. What makes them interested to know whether post graduate students have done adequate researches, experiments and table work to gather information. They are eager to measure the interests of students to write qualitative doctoral papers to earn PhD citation with good appreciation from professors. College supervisors or advisory committee members assess original contributions of the students with good dedication to complete the findings. The doctoral proposal must have substantive information with excellent layout and awe-inspiring writing style.


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La Puerta Real, denominada hasta 1570 como Puerta de Goles, fue una de las puertas de acceso del recinto amurallado de la ciudad de Sevilla (Andalucía). Estaba situada en la confluencia de las calles de Alfonso XII, Gravina, Goles y San Laureano, y en la actualidad únicamente queda de ella un paño de muralla sobre el que se asentaba, en el que existe empotrada una lápida que fue recogida de la puerta.

Está considerada una de las puertas surgidas durante la ampliación del sultán Alí ibn Yúsuf (1083-1143) y por lo tanto de la época almorávide de la ciudad. Los historiadores Rodrigo Caro y Peraza, apoyándose en una leyenda, la atribuyen su origen a Julio César, considerando la denominación goles como una degeneración de Hércules, a quien la leyenda sostiene estaba dedicada.

Fue totalmente reconstruida en 1565, eliminándose todos los aspectos militares de que disponía, y en su interior albergaba una capilla dedicada a la Virgen de las Mercedes y otra al Cristo de la Redención. Fue derribada en 1862, y en 1995 se llevaron a cabo obras en el lienzo de muralla existente, donde se señaló la antigua existencia de la puerta.

De Puerta de Goles a Puerta Real
La primera entrada oficial y su consiguiente jura de privilegios a la ciudad por parte de los monarcas de Castilla se realizaron siempre a través de la Puerta de la Macarena, y así lo hicieron en ella Isabel I de Castilla (1477), Fernando II de Aragón (1508), su nieto Carlos I de España y la prometida de éste, Isabel de Portugal (1526), que su entrada en la ciudad fue debida a sus desposorios, celebrados en los Reales Alcázares el referido año.

Sin embargo, cuando en 1570 la comisión organiza la primera y única visita a la ciudad de Felipe II de España, encontró varios inconvenientes para hacerlo, igual que sus antecesores, por la Puerta de la Macarena. Sin el beneplácito de todos los miembros de la comisión se decide que finalmente el rey haga su entrada por esta puerta en vez de por la de la Macarena, aportando como motivos la vista general que presentaba el arrabal, sumado a que estaba cercada de calles estrechas que provocaban incomodidad para un acontecimiento de estas características. A consecuencia de esta entrada, la puerta dejó de ser nombrada como hasta entonces, para adoptar el nombre de Puerta Real. El monarca Felipe IV de España, que visitó la ciudad en 1624 retomó la tradición antecedente, haciendo su jura e ingreso por la Puerta de la Macarena, por lo que se trató únicamente de una ocasión especial.

Capilla Puerta Real

Tiene una capilla donde está la sede de la hermandad de la Mereced de Puerta Real que salen el mes de septiembre de glorias de sevilla.

Referencias

Bibliografía
Albardonedo Freire, Antonio (2002). El urbanismo de Sevilla durante el reinado de Felipe II. Sevilla: Guadalquivir Ediciones.ISBN 84-8093-115-9.
 Albardonedo Freire, Antonio José, "Documentación sobre la reforma de la Puerta de Goles (Real) entre 1560 y 1566", en Laboratorio de Arte, 2000. Núm. 13, pp. 11-37.

Enlaces externos

Puertas de las murallas de Sevilla
Real
Arcos monumentales de España
Patrimonio desaparecido de Sevilla
Arquitectura de España del siglo XII


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Books, Games, Movies
Celebrating Halloween's Suspense (Without the Scares)
October 15, 2017 December 12, 2017 Ashley Hagood
Halloween is a scary holiday, which I sometimes struggle to celebrate because I don't like horror. If it's dark or suspenseful, fine. If it's creepy or spooky, I can take it. But I'm not into too many jump scares, or anything too unbelievable, or scenes so disturbing I won't be able to sleep afterwards.
For me, a touch of darkness is all that's needed to enjoy Halloween. So if you're looking for something dark, suspenseful, or creepy to celebrate the season — instead of something that will make you scream — here are a few of my favorite moody movies, books, and video games.
Alan Wake (video game)
This was the first horror video game I ever played. The story is strange and suspenseful, following a writer whose wife is kidnapped and who finds that his unfinished book seems to be coming to life. It's a little hard to piece things together at times, but Alan's confused narration ushers you from one chapter to the next. Wandering around the eerie nighttime settings definitely wears on your nerves after awhile — and be prepared for a lot of fights.
Pan's Labyrinth (movie)
This film by Guillermo del Toro is one of the strangest I've ever seen. It's not exactly horror — more magic realism, or a dark fantasy. It depicts 11-year-old Ofelia living life in fascist Spain, who's whisked away to a labyrinth that seems to be part of another world. She interacts with strange creatures such as a mantis and a faun, whose intentions are hard to decipher. What makes this movie creepy is that it's not a traditional fantasy for any child — the atmosphere is dark, there are disturbing personal and politics scenes, and the creatures Ofelia encounters seem like they walked out of someone's nightmares. If you haven't seen this movie, it's a visual feast that will keep you thinking long after it ends.
Until Dawn (video game)
Until Dawn made its debut a couple of years ago as a truly unique horror game, largely because the story was interactive. It centers on a group of teenagers who go on a cabin getaway — but a serial killer is on the loose there. The game is full of suspense, the occasional jump scare, and enough twists and turns to keep you guessing the whole way. Dialogue choices and in-game actions affect what happens next, so you may end up with a very different finale than other players. You can turn on crowd sourcing to see what other players did in different scenarios, but I preferred to play blind and see where my actions led me. I'll just say it was not pretty, but as an interactive story it was very memorable. (Read my review here.)
The Bloody Chamber (short stories)
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter is a series of short stories, all familiar and at the same time strange. Many are dark takes on traditional fairytales, such as Beauty and the Beast, Little Red Riding Hood, and Sleeping Beauty. They are poetic and tense, but what makes them really interesting is the strength of the women in them. You won't get your damsel-in-distress fairytale here. I recommend them if you want to sink your teeth into the otherworldly atmosphere of the stories.
Bloodborne (video game)
I'll admit I didn't play this game, because it seemed too scary for me. Then I watched my boyfriend play the game, and I totally fell in love with the dark gothic world it brought to life. The main thing that put me off at that point was the game's difficulty, but I still enjoyed watching the game and exploring the nooks and crannies of the old city it depicts. Towering cathedrals, dark alleys, and monsters around every corner make the place feel haunted. If you're up for a challenge, I recommend this game to really immerse yourself in a macabre world.
28 Days Later (movie)
Maybe what makes me love this movie so much is that it feels more like a dark indie film than horror. It's about a virus sweeping through London and beyond, leaving a survivor (Cillian Murphy) to try to make his way out of his ravaged city. The story feels gritty and real, and the movie is shot in a way that gives it the grainy edge of a documentary. If you like horror, this is a gritty yet stylish take on it.
Hellblade (video game)
I've recently written about the early hours of this game, which depicts both a hellish Viking world and the turmoil of mental illness. The heroine must enter strange worlds to fight gods in an attempt to save her lover from hell, but the whole time she must also battle voices in her head — some of whom seem intent on defeating her. Developed by Ninja Theory, Hellblade explores mental illness in a setting that weaves history with magic in a way I've never seen before.
Tagged 28 Days Later, Alan Wake, Bloodborne, books, fantasy, Halloween, Hellblade, macabre, movies, Ofelia, Pan's Labyrinth, spooky, suspense, Until Dawn, video games
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5 thoughts on "Celebrating Halloween's Suspense (Without the Scares)"
These are some really good picks! And I'm with you on the horror stuff. I'm not a fan of the genre either, but I do like suspense and psychological thrillers the most. Those can get creepy and terrifying fast!
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Ooh I like psychological thrillers too. I agree, those get scary fast and they sometimes feel more realistic than the gory or jump scare horror movies.
Like you, I'm not the biggest fan of traditional horror. This is what I appreciated about TSW. It was more about setting a mood and telling a good story than cheap scares. Been playing that a bit again lately just cause of the time of year. Might as well enjoy it while I can.
I also tend to watch a lot of old Simpsons Halloween episodes this time of year.
Oh yeah, that's a great idea to watch Halloween episodes of shows. I never really watched the Simpsons though! I'm sorry you have to say goodbye to TSW, but nice to hear you're enjoying it this season while you can.
If nothing else, you should try to watch the Simpsons' take on The Raven some day. It's a classic. Can probably find it on YouTube or something.


Classification F.C.I. N. 195; Group 5 - Spitz and primitive type; Section 4 European Spitz; without working trial.
The Italian Volpino is a relatively young breed, which was born around 1600. It comes from Northern Europe dogs. A very popular breed among the Roman and Tuscany nobles, as it is considered very elegant. Its name derives from the word "fox".
A small sized dog, mesomorphic, graceful and harmonic, it has a long thick stand-off coat.
It is a very clever, lively and graceful dog, affectionate and morbidly attached to the family and to the person that takes care of it.
Some experts say that the reasons for its rarity lie in the fact that it used to be confused with the Pomeranian dog, which is quite similar in the aspect, and that it has overwhelmed the Italian breed. It is a little dog with surely appreciable attitudes and qualities.
Pyramid shape, length reaching almost 1/4 the height at the withers.
Longer than the muzzle (6,5:5), its bizygomatic width is more than half the length of the head (7,3:11,5); is slightly ovoid (egg-shaped) as much in longitudinal as transversal direction; medio-frontal furrow very slightly marked; occipital protuberance slightly marked. The superior axes of the skull and muzzle are slightly convergent. The bony protuberance of the forehead, well developed, come down almost perpendicular onto the onset of the muzzle.
Nose: wet, cool, with well opened nostrils. Seen in profile, set in the same line as the topline of the foreface and does not protrude beyond the front line of the lips. Its colour is always black, as well in subjects with white coats as in those with red coats.
Muzzle: of inferior length to that of the skull with lateral surfaces convergent, is pointed. The foreface is straight. Seen in profile, the lower edge of the muzzle is determined by the lower jaw.
Lips: from the front, the upper lips, by their lower edge, draw a straight line. The mucous of the labial commissure is not visible, so the lips are very short. The edges of the lips are black.
Jaws: apparently not very strong, normally developed and meeting perfectly level on front. The branches of the lower jaw are straight.
Teeth: white, regular in alignment, complete and perfectly developed. Scissor bite, pincer bite tolerated.
Eyes: well opened and of normal size, denoting vigilance and vivaciousness. Roundish eye aperture, set in plans forming a very open angle towards the rear; eyelids fitting perfectly the shape of the eyeball. Colour of the iris is dark ochre, the rims of the lids are black.
Ears: short, triangular shape, pricked, with a rigid cartilage and the inner surface of the lobe showing forward. High set, close together. The length of the ears reaches almost half the length of the head.
Its length is almost equal to that of the head. Always carried upright. Skin closely fitting.
Square built, its length measured from the point of the shoulder to that of the buttock is equal to the height at the withers.
Top line: dorsal line straight. Over the loins slightly convex.
Withers: slightly raised from dorsal line.
Chest: descending to level of elbows; ribs well sprung. Sternal region is long.
Rump: extends the line of the loin. Obliqueness from the hip to base of the tail is of 10ƒ below the horizontal.
Underline: from sternum to belly rising only slightly. The hollow of the flanks is slightly accentuated.
Tail: set in the prolongation of the rump, carried permanently curled over the back. Its length is a little less than the height at the withers.
Considered on the whole parallel to each other and, in relation to the median plane of the body, perfectly straight.
Shoulders: their length is equal to 1/4 of the height at the withers and their obliqueness below the horizontal is of 60ƒ.
Upperarm: longer than the shoulder and its obliqueness below the horizontal is of 60ƒ. Is approximately parallel to the median plane of the body.
Forearm: continuing the vertical line, finely boned. Its length, from ground to elbow, is slightly more than half the height at the withers.
Carpus and metacarpus: seen from the front, they continue the vertical line of the forearm. Seen in profile, the pasterns are sloping.
Forefoot: oval shaped with closely-knit toes. The pads and the nails are black.
Seen on the whole and from behind, they must follow a perfectly vertical line from the point of the buttock to the ground. They are parallel to each other.
Thigh: its length is equal to 1/3 of the height at withers. Perfectly parallel to the median plane of the body.
Leg: its length is a little less than that of the thigh. Of a light bone structure and its obliqueness below the horizontal is of 55ƒ to 60ƒ.
Hock join: distance between the point of the hock and the ground is slightly more than 1/4 of the height at the withers.
Metatarsal: vertical and perfectly straight seen as much in profile as from behind.
Hindfoot: oval like the forefoot with all the same characteristics as this latter.
Well applied and taut, without looseness in any region.
Nature of the hair: hair bushy, very long and exeptionally standing-off. Of harsh texture with straight stiff hairs; must never be falling; must be upstanding even when there is not a lot of coat. The body gives the impression of being wrapped up in a muffle, particularly on the neck where the coat forms an abundant collar. The skull is covered with semi-long hairs which hide the base of the ears. Hairs are short on the muzzle. On the ears, the hair is very fine and smooth. The tail is covered with very long hair. On the edges of the hindquarters, the coat forms fringes.
Colour of coat: a) all-white b) all-red c) champagne, colour accepted but not desirable. Pale orange shades on the ears are tolerated, but in any case constitute an imperfection.
Faults: any departure from the foregoing points constitutes a fault which when judging must be penalized according to its seriousness and extension.


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Listening To Customers: Making A...
In the 1970s, Lego boxes would contain the following note for parents:
"The urge to create is equally strong in all children. Boys and girls. It's the imagination that counts. Not skill. You build whatever comes into your head, the way you want it. A bed or a truck. A dolls house or a spaceship. A lot of boys like dolls houses. They're more human than spaceships. A lot of girls prefer spaceships. They're more exciting than dolls houses. The most important thing is to put the right material in their hands and let them create whatever appeals to them."
As much as the company wanted young girls to buy and use its products, they didn't. In 2011, the LEGO Group identified a market opportunity: girls.
LEGO used gender biased research which certainly did not further the cause of equality or feminism. However, LEGO successfully identified a market opportunity and, after making an effort to understand who their customers weren't, successfully acquired a swath of new customers.
Until 2011, the tiny-toymakers had focused their products on a male demographic, without expressly considering the constructive play needs of their female counterparts. In short, LEGO found that boys received over 90 percent of all LEGO sets bought. Products like the then-largest ever Star Wars Millennium Falcon set and the Indiana Jones line, one might argue, were clearly marketed towards boys. The research operated under the assumption that boys and girls played differently: Boys played with LEGOs by constructing things, and girls played with LEGOs by… well, effectively, they didn't. Only nine percent of LEGO sets were bought for girls, and LEGO set out to find out why.
To get more girls to play with LEGOs, the company figured, they needed to not only market to them with gender-inclusive figurines but offer toys that girls would actually play with. LEGO needed to figure out how girls play with toys, rather than simply which toys they play with. Enter the LEGO Friends line, complete with five characters who have detailed backstories in shades of purple and pink. The line includes a pop star, an outdoor adventure-seeker, a fashion designer and photographer, a wrench-wielding handywoman with a robot best friend, and a champion tennis player. Andrea, Mia, Emma, Olivia, and Stephanie, respectively, were crafted based on years of careful market research.
Drawing our attention briefly to the reality that this has been considered deeply offensive by many, it did work.
Here's why: LEGO Friends was the result of a four-year research initiative intended to understand a potential customer base and then deliver to them.
The new Friends line sought to encourage girls to build, and while it has received widespread criticism for its limitations (e.g., fixed wrists and legs and pinkification, among others), LEGO's push to understand how girls play with toys and its desire to suit those characteristics reaped massive returns. Nanna Ulrich Gudum, LEGO Group Vice President, said the following of the initiative:
"The [3500] girls we talked to let us understand that they really wanted a LEGO offering that mirrors what the boys experience, but in a way that fulfills their unique desire for redesign and details and combined with realistic themes in community and friendship."
LEGO doubled sales forecasts in the year following its Friends launch and, according to the Guardian, net profit rose 35 percent from January 2012 to June 2012. The company's success with the new product line was the result of listening to their target customers' wants and needs (to the extent that we are focusing on the case at hand).
Companies like LEGO are well-versed in what we're in the business of at Avenue Group: Customer Diplomacy. Customer Diplomacy not a prescribed research process, and it's more straightforward than you'd think. Primary market research methods vary in degrees of complexity, at times returning bias-inflected results with little recourse as how to proceed based on data. At Avenue Group, we employ best practices from a range of primary market research methods, creating our own approach that is adaptive to each research objective we encounter. By listening deeply, and by positioning one's customers' insights in the greater context of one's business, companies stand to excel at serving their customers' needs.
This article was written by Avenue Group Content Strategist Chelsea Catherman.
Yes, You Have a Customer Diplomacy Problem
As business owners and leaders, we know that our customers are the lifeblood of our companies. Without them, we wouldn't exist. When customers leave us for our competitors, express dissatisfaction,...