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The Report on an Investigation into the Colour Problem in Liverpool and Other Ports or simply, The Fletcher Report of 1930 was a report sponsored by the Liverpool [England] Association for the Welfare of Half-Caste Children in December, 1927. The report, released on 1930-06-16, was written by Muriel E. Fletcher a 1920 graduate of the University of Liverpool's School of Social Science. She was at that time employed as a probation worker and given the task to investigate the socioeconomic plight of 'half-castes'. The social research played particular attention to the family structure of the [so-called] "half-caste" population in Liverpool1.
The Fletcher Report was written in response to the social tension created by the increased population of black (African) seamen who, via colonization—were deemed British citizens—and their "half-caste" ('mixed-race') children of their unions with white (English) women. This tension culminated with the Liverpool anti-Black riots of 1919. The report was based on a mere fraction the authors' purported sample size and had little, if any, concern for the actual well-being of 'mixed-race' children and their families. The report was imbued with the racist "hybrid degeneracy" pseudoscience of the day. Besides the fact that the Fletcher Report stigmatized 'mixed race' individuals for decades, the report owns another ignominious spot in race relations in that it embedded the pejorative term "half-caste" into the British lexicon.
The report is available at the Library of the University of Liverpool (Reference Number: D7/5/5/5). See: http://sca.lib.liv.ac.uk/ead/html/gb141unirelated-p4.shtml#uni.10.09.01.05.05.02
1Mark Christian, "The Fletcher Report 1930: A Historical Case Study of Contested Black Mixed Heritage Britishness," Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 21 Issue 2-3, (2008): 213 – 241.
Rhinelander v Rhinelander: The 1920s Race & Sex Scandal You've Never Head Of
Posted in History, Law, Media Archive, United States, Videos, Women on 2021-11-13 03:39Z by Steven
Melina Pendulum
Many people are familiar with Loving v Virginia the Supreme Court case that made interracial relationships legal in the United States. However, there is a much lesser-known court case that dealt with interracial marriage many years before in New York City: Rhinelander v Rhinelander.
Basically, the anti-Harry and Meghan
Tags: Alice Beatrice Jones, Alice Jones, Alice Jones Rhinelander, Kip Rhinelander, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, Melina Pendulum, New York, New York City, Rhinelander v. Rhinelander
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Octavia Spencer, Queen Latifah To Bring Racially Charged 'The Rhinelander Affair' To Screen With Zero Gravity
Posted in Articles, Arts, Biography, History, Law, Media Archive, Passing on 2018-07-30 00:28Z by Steven
Anita Busch
REX/Shutterstock
EXCLUSIVE: It's a great story that delves into the caste system, racism and sexism. The Rhinelander Affair, written by William Kinsolving, follows the controversial 1925 divorce trial in New York involving a man from an upper-class New Rochelle family who married a bi-racial, working-class woman. It is a ripped from the headlines story from the 1920s with many meaty roles in what was a roller coaster ride about money, love, racism and betrayal.
The project is now being produced for the big screen by Mark and Christine Holder (who found the story), Octavia Spencer, Queen Latifah and Shakim Compere's Flavor Unit Entertainment and Dave Broome (The Day I Met El Chapo). The Kingsolving manuscript, repped by Trident, is going out to publishers this summer.
Alice Jones and Leonard (Kip) Rhinelander
The story revolves around Leonard Rhinelander and Alice Jones, who fell in love (she was 22 and he 18), and then were kept apart by Rhinelander's family. However, they married in secret before it spilled into the papers and stayed that way for three years. At issue was whether Jones duped Leonard into marrying her by hiding the fact that she was bi-racial (she was the daughter of an English woman and an English-West Indian taxi driver). Leonard stood by Alice under intense media scrutiny until pressures — both internally with the family and externally — caused them to divorce…
Tags: Alice Jones, Alice Jones Rhinelander, Anita Busch, Christine Holder, Deadline Hollywood, Kip Rhinelander, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, Mark Holder, Octavia Spencer, Queen Latifah, Rhinelander v. Rhinelander, Shakim Compere, William Kinsolving
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Rachel Dolezal, Alice Jones' Nipples, the Rhinelander Fortune, and Racist White Fire Fighters Who Tried to Pass for 'Black'
Posted in Articles, Law, Media Archive, Passing, United States on 2015-10-30 00:24Z by Steven
Indomitable: The Online Blog of Essayist and Cultural Critic Chauncey DeVega
Chauncey DeVega
Alice Beatrice Jones and Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander of Rhinelander v. Rhinelander (1924).
I want to extend a sincere thanks to all of the kind folks who donated so far. I have about 10 more "thank you" emails to go. I am very close to the goal for the fundraiser. We have stalled today and hopefully if a few folks thrown in some supportive monies, I can pull in the begging bowl for another six months…
…I am not very kind to Rachel Dolezal. I chose to speak the truth about her racial con game and made my best effort to provide some context for her most offensive act of racial tourism.
Race may be a "social construct". But the colorline–and who is considered "white" and those considered "non-white" in the United States has a deep, long, and ugly history. Those boundaries have been policed by the law, enforced by violence, and as Ian Haney Lopez notes in the brilliant book White by Law (another complement read is Cheryl Harris's widely cited 2001 Harvard Law Review article Whiteness as Property") white racial group membership is a type of property with economic value that has been widely litigated in America's courtrooms.
While too much energy has already been spent on the Rachel Dolezal racial tragicomedy, one of the most important aspects of "passing" and its many variants (white to black; black to white; brown to black; black to brown; white to something else; Martian to human)–the relationship between race and the law–has been little commented upon by the mainstream pundit classes…
Legal scholar Randall Kennedy's 2001 Ohio Law Review article "Racial Passing" is an essential and highly informative survey of the law and racial passing in the United States.
It is wonderful writing that contains moments of great wit and storytelling.
Here is a great gem (of despicable behavior) about a scandalous case among turn of the 20th century New York City high society types in which the black body, intimate knowledge, and the color of a woman's nipples, were introduced as a type of evidence "proving" racial group membership:…
Tags: Alice Beatrice Jones, Alice Jones Rhinelander, Chauncey DeVega, Indomitable: The Online Blog of Essayist and Cultural Critic Chauncey DeVega, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, Rachel Dolezal, Rhinelander v. Rhinelander
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Bodies Under Re/view? Mediating Racial Blackness
InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture
Tiffany E. Barber, Adjunct Instructor African and African American Studies
"In our allegedly postracial moment, where simply talking about racism openly is considered an impolitic, if not racist, thing to do, we constantly learn and re-learn racial codes. [. . .] In short, it was Trayvon Martin, not George Zimmerman, who was put on trial. He was tried for the crimes he may have committed and the ones he would have committed had he lived past 17." – Robin D.G. Kelley, "The U.S. v. Trayvon Martin: How the System Worked"
In a 1995 keynote address titled "On Identity Politics," critical race theorist Mari J. Matsuda cautions against assumptions "that racial identity is the cause of racial division rather than a product of it." For Matsuda, critical race theory emerges "[o]ut of the struggle to understand the ways in which mainstream legal consciousness is white, male, Christian, able-bodied, economically privileged, and heterosexual." That is, how legal consciousness itself signifies a type of whiteness that excludes and marginalizes difference, difference that is seen in opposition to this constructed whiteness – i.e. black and other non-white subjects, queer subjects, women subjects, and so on. Matsuda's assertions bring into relation a politics of law, race, and gender that persist today, and demand a consideration of what these mediated relationships tell us about histories of identity formation particular to race, gender and sexuality in the U.S….
…To address these questions, I turn to two cases of precedence that establish relations between the U.S. justice system, racial blackness, and visuality. In 1921, Leonard 'Kip' Rhinelander, an affluent white male from a wealthy New York family met and courted Alice Beatrice Jones, a working-class woman of mixed-race ancestry. Jones's fair skin color permitted her to pass for white and it is unclear whether or not she self-identified as white. Over the next few years, Rhinelander and Jones grew closer and shared a number of intimate encounters, at least two of which were known to be sexual. The couple eloped in October 1924 and enjoyed secluded bliss – Rhinelander's parents did not approve of Jones – until scandal ripped through the relationship. Soon after, Rhinelander filed for an annulment. The charge? Racial fraud; Rhinelander claimed Jones had misrepresented her blackness…
Tags: Alice Beatrice Jones, Invisible Culture, InVisible Culture: An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, Kip Rhinelander, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, Rhinelander v. Rhinelander, Tiffany Barber, Tiffany E. Barber
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When One Of New York's Glitterati Married A 'Quadroon'
Posted in Articles, History, Media Archive, United States on 2014-06-09 15:17Z by Steven
Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity
Theodore R. Johnson III
Coverage of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's recent nuptial ceremony was only remarkable in what most reporters left out: he's black, and she isn't.
The generalized lack of interest in Kanye and Kim's race stands in sharp contrast to the 1924 marriage and separation of Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, son of the New York glitterati, and Alice Jones, a blue-collar woman with at least one black grandparent. Theirs became perhaps the most examined interracial relationship in our nation's history when Kip sued Alice for annulment on the grounds that she'd hid her "Negro blood" and intentionally deceived him into believing she was white.
The newspapers of the day alternatively called Alice a quadroon and octoroon. Quadroon was once used to describe someone who's one-fourth black. An octoroon was the offspring of a quadroon and a white person. (All this talk of quadroons and octoroons now feels more than a little offensive and silly.) Contemporary accounts vary as to whether Alice had one or two black grandparents. No matter the ratio of the mix, much of American society and statute adhered to the race standard colloquially called the "one-drop rule."…
Tags: Alice Jones, Alice Jones Rhinelander, Code Switch, Kip Rhinelander, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, National Public Radio, NPR, Rhinelander v. Rhinelander, Theodore R. Johnson III
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The Trouble with Transcendence: Is Defying the Gender Binary the New Racial Passing?
Posted in Articles, Gay & Lesbian, Law, Media Archive, Passing, United States on 2014-01-25 09:54Z by Steven
Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical
Mallory Nicole Davis
In 2010, Thomas Araguz III, a Texas firefighter died on the job, leaving behind his two children and transgender wife, Nikki.[1] The couple was legally married because although the state of Texas only recognizes heterosexual marriages, the state will validate a transgender union if the trans partner's identification documents dictate that s/he is the opposite legal sex of the spouse.[2] However, when Nikki sought survivor benefits after her husband's unexpected death, Thomas' family launched a case against Nikki, stating that Thomas did not know his wife was transgender. The suit argued that Nikki wrongfully deceived her husband, while lobbying for the nullification of their marriage and subsequently, Nikki's request for spousal benefits. The case was complicated further by the prosecuting attorney's interrogation of a deposition taken from Thomas in a separate court case—a battle over custody of his two sons with his ex-wife—in which he stated that he did not know that Nikki was transgender.[3] In response to the scrutinizing of her late husband's statement, Nikki insisted that Thomas lied during his deposition and pretended to be unaware of her transgender status in order maintain custody of his two small children. Nikki stated, "At the time, Thomas and I thought it was in the best interest of our children to lie. They were the center of (our) lives".[4] Whether Nikki neglected to disclose her trans identity to her husband or that the couple collectively decided to lie to the court during their custody case for the sake of their children, deception surrounding Nikki's trans status is at the center of this legal case; and undoubtedly, her credibility will be diminished regardless of how the court decides…
…Passing is a term typically used to denote a person's ability to move imperceptibly across racial lines, though the word is equally fitting to describe a trans* person's ability to transgress the gender binary. Nikki's perceived deceptions echoes the case of Alice and Leonard Rhinelander, an interracial couple who were married in 1924 who made national headlines because Alice, a light-skinned African-American woman, passed for white and married into the affluent Rhinelander family.[5] When negative press threatened to tarnish the Rhinelander family name, Leonard disappeared without warning and filed for an annulment, claiming that Alice misled him by presenting herself as a white woman. Ultimately, it was proved that Leonard had, in fact, known that Alice was African-American, and Alice counter-sued Leonard for abandonment. Although the Rhinelander family ended up offering Alice a monetary settlement upon her agreement to a divorce, the character attacks launched on Alice and her family, based upon her alleged racial deception were devastating. And like Nikki, Alice's identity came under fire in a torrential court case only after the transcendent nature of her identity proved threatening to the family of her husband…
Tags: Alice Jones Rhinelander, Kip Rhinelander, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, Mallory Nicole Davis, Nursing Clio, Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical, Rhinelander v. Rhinelander
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What Interracial and Gay Couples Know About 'Passing'
Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law
As I awaited news of the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in the same-sex marriage cases last month, I began to reflect on all of the daily privileges that I receive as a result of being heterosexual—freedoms and privileges that my husband and I might not have enjoyed even fifty years ago. For our marriage is interracial.
Given my own relationship, I often contest anti-gay marriage arguments by noting the striking similarities between arguments that were once also widely made against interracial marriage. "They're unnatural." "It's about tradition." And my personal favorite, "what about the children?" In response, opponents of same-sex marriage, particularly other blacks, have often told me that the struggles of gays and lesbians are nothing at all like those African Americans (and other minorities) have faced, specifically because gays and lesbians can "pass" as straight and blacks cannot "pass" as white—as if that somehow renders the denial of marital rights in one case excusable and another inexcusable. In both cases, denying the right to marriage still works to mark those precluded from the institution as "other," as the supposed inferior.
But what does it mean to "pass"? And what effect does passing have, in the longer term, on a relationship and on a person's psyche?
Until a recent trip with my husband to South Africa, my understanding of the harms caused by passing came primarily through my research on interracial family law, and in particular through the tragic love story of Alice Beatrice Rhinelander and Leonard Kip Rhinelander, to which I devoted the first half of my recent book…
Tags: Alice Beatrice Jones, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Kip Rhinelander, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, Loving v. Virginia, Rhinelander v. Rhinelander, The Atlantic
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On This Day: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander
Posted in Articles, History, Law, Media Archive, Passing, United States on 2012-12-29 04:45Z by Steven
Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement
Alison Shay
On December 5, 1925—87 years ago today—the jury in the annulment trial Rhinelander v. Rhinelander found in favor of a mixed-race woman sued for marriage annulment by her white husband.
Leonard Kip Rhinelander, a wealthy white society man, pursued and in 1924 married Alice Jones, a working class woman with British parents—one white, the other of mixed ethnicity. Only one month after their marriage, Leonard sued to annul the marriage, claiming that Alice had misrepresented her racial background.
Leonard's family had objected to the couple's relationship throughout their courtship, but had failed to break them up. By marrying Alice, Leonard caused her to be the first African American woman listed in The Social Register...
…In Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness (UNC Press 2009), Elizabeth Smith-Pryor argues that the Rhinelander trial encapsulated the tremendous anxieties over racial passing, class slippage, and black migration in the northern United States during this era.
Other books about the trial include Angela Onwuachi-Willig's According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family (Yale University Press, forthcoming in 2013) and Heidi Ardizzone's Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White (Norton 2002)…
Tags: Alice Jones, Alison Shay, Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Elizabeth Smith-Pryor, Heidi Ardizzone, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, Publishing the Long Civil Rights Movement, Rhinelander v. Rhinelander
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Miscegenation and "the Dicta of Race and Class": The Rhinelander Case and Nella Larsen's Passing
Posted in Articles, Law, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, United States on 2012-06-09 03:28Z by Steven
MFS Modern Fiction Studies
Volume 36, Number 4, Winter 1990
DOI: 10.1353/mfs.0.1034
Mark J. Madigan, Professor / Fulbright Program Advisor in English
Nazareth College, Rochester, New York
The 1986 Rutgers University Press edition of Nella Larsen's two novels, Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929), represents an important step in the resurrection of a neglected writer of the Harlem Renaissance. Larsen was the first African-American woman to win a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Writing (1930), and both of her novels were highly acclaimed before her literary career ended abruptly in the early 1930s for reasons that are still not wholly clear. There were well-publicized but unproven charges of plagiarism of a short story, yet, like most details of Larsen's life, the reasons for her disappearance from the literary scene remain a mystery. Larsen wrote no more than the two novels and the one story titled "Sanctuary," and in 1963 she died in obscurity after working some thirty years as a nurse in Brooklyn.
The Rutgers edition has made Larsen's novels more accessible not only by publishing both in one volume with a substantial introduction but also by annotating references in the text to public figures, events, and parlance of the late 1920s. There is, however, a reference to "the Rhinelander case" in an important paragraph in Passing that remains unidentified in the Rutgers first and second printings and only briefly explained in those following. A deeper understanding of the details of this controversial divorce case not only helps to explicate the paragraph in Larsen's novel but also provides an important historical subtext for the book and the several other Harlem Renaissance works dealing with racial passing.
The title of Larsen's novel refers to the capability of light-skinned African-Americans to cross, or "pass," the color line undetected. In writing of racial passing, Larsen worked within a well-established tradition: William Wells Brown, Charles W. Chesnutt, Kate Chopin, and James Weldon Johnson were only a few of the writers who had dealt with this topic before her. Passing, however, is distinguished by its deft presentation of the subject from the perspectives of two mulatto women of the 1920s: Clare Kendry and Irene Redfield. The novel begins in an expensive Chicago restaurant where both women are passing. There, Clare recognizes Irene as a childhood friend and invites her to tea at her home. Irene, the wife of a successful Harlem doctor, keeps the date, but when she meets Clare's racist white husband—who does not know his wife's true race—vows never to see her old friend again. The two do meet again, however, when Clare pays a visit to New York City two years later. Despite Irene's reluctance to rekindle the friendship, Clare makes frequent visits to the Redfields' apartment, and the plot is complicated when Irene begins to suspect that her husband is having an affair with Clare. Clare's husband further complicates matters when he learns by chance that his wife is actually a mulatto. Irene then fears that her own husband will leave her if Clare is divorced. The Rhinelander case is mentioned at this crucial point in the narrative, as Irene wonders whether racial deception could be grounds for Clare's divorce:
What if Bellew should divorce Clare? Could he? There was the Rhinelander case. But in France, in Paris, such things were easy. If he divorced her—If Clare were free—But of all the things that could happen, that was the one she did not want. She must get her mind away from that possibility. She must. (228)
Larsen's offhand manner of referring to the Rhinelander case assumes a familiarity on the part of her readers, but what was once common knowledge now demands some explanation. The case centered on the marriage of Leonard Kip Rhinelander, a member of one of New York's oldest and wealthiest families, and Alice B. Jones, a mulatto chambermaid, on 14 October, 1924—just one week after the twenty-two year-old Rhinelander had received a share of his family's fortune in cash, jewels, real estate, and stocks. The improbable love-affair between the young…
Read or purchase the article here.
Tags: Alice B. Jones, Alice Beatrice Jones, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, Mark J. Madigan, Mark Madigan, MFS Modern Fiction Studies, Nella Larsen, Rhinelander v. Rhinelander
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Love on Trial: An American Scandal in Black and White
Posted in Books, History, Law, Media Archive, Monographs, Passing, Social Science, United States on 2012-05-05 21:01Z by Steven
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-32309-2
Earl Lewis, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies
When Alice Jones, a former nanny, married Leonard Rhinelander in 1924, she became the first black woman to be listed in the Social Register as a member of one of New York's wealthiest families. Once news of the marriage became public, a scandal of race, class, and sex gripped the nation—and forced the couple into an annulment trial.
Tags: Alice Beatrice Jones, Alice Jones, Earl Lewis, Heidi Ardizzone, Kip Rhinelander, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, Leonard Rhinelander, New York, Rhinelander v. Rhinelander, W. W. Norton & Company

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what I would like to happen is to append the data to the previous file:
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How could I achieve something like this? I think I need to use .push(), but it gives me undefined.
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Health experts say some cases could be because children now tend to be significantly heavier than a few years ago, putting more pressure on their backs.
The age of the youngest recipient was 11. NHS figures show that in 2007/08, between one and five girls aged 11 had the procedure, as did between one and five girls aged 12. In 2010/11 the youngest was 13.
There are concerns that a girl of that age could be far too young to have the procedure because her body will not have finished developing. The patient faces the risk of not being able to breast-feed when older.
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The new requirements do not apply to cut or carved ivory, nor do they apply to the 170 tons of tusks already stockpiled.
Starting July 1, anyone in Japan who wishes to register and sell a whole elephant tusk must first prove its age through carbon dating. According to Ministry of the Environment officials, the new measure is meant to ensure that illegal tusks acquired after 1990, when international trade in ivory was banned, don't find their way into Japan's domestic ivory market—now the largest in the world.
More than that, officials believe that carbon dating will prove to be so burdensome as to dissuade private citizens—who hold untold numbers of tusks—from selling their ivory to dealers. As dealers exhaust their remaining stockpiles, this will cause Japan's market to slowly peter out, they say.
"We expect that the number of newly registered whole ivory tusks that enter into the domestic market will be extremely limited after this," says Toshio Torii, deputy director-general of the Ministry of the Environment's Nature Conservation Bureau. With the new requirement in place, "the trade in Japan will never contribute to poaching or to illegal trade of any kind," he says.
The carbon dating requirement will apply only to whole tusks registered after July 1, not to the 170 tons of tusks already stockpiled. Nor does it apply to cut tusks or carved ivory. For these reasons, a number of conservationists predict that carbon dating will have little, if any, impact on curtailing illegal ivory trade in Japan.
Japan's system for ensuring the legality of its ivory trade has long been criticized by Sakamoto and others. Evidence indicates that traders readily abuse loopholes in domestic laws to launder ivory of unknown origins into legality.
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"My personal feeling, though, is that they should just not have ivory sales at all—that they should just get the stuff out of the marketplace," Cerling says.
Japan faces increasing pressure from governments and conservation groups to join China, the U.S. and many other nations in banning domestic ivory trade. The government has so far resisted, citing a lack of evidence connecting its ivory market to recently killed elephants in Africa.


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People whose first question is asking what the budget is are asking the wrong question first. Make no mistake: "How much does an app cost?" is an important question, but when it's the first question, it's with a mobile-last mentality. This is when mobile is an afterthought, a reactionary response to a perceived trend, rather than an investment in a predominant medium with huge savings and revenue potential.
Asking up front for an app cost hard number is like choosing a home builder based on how many Yelp dollar signs they have. It's important, but when it becomes the deal breaker up front, you are either too small of a company for custom mobile apps or your understanding of the power of mobile is underdeveloped.
The right question is, "What is our market worth?" or "What is the opportunity here?" either for operations cost savings or revenue potential. This flips the typical cost question on its head and shows a mobile-first approach. This question means we understand the power of mobile to change the way people are working.
Once you understand the value of your market, you're on the road to understanding the business case for mobile apps. The short of it: if you can't articulate a business case for an app, you shouldn't be building an app at all. This is very likely putting them in the trap of spending money on the wrong mobile app, which isn't going to have a return. Having a return on your app is the only reason you'd be asking how much the app costs. If the app is actually expected to have a big return, the cost is not a problem.
There are a number of studies out there indicating app costs. Conservative estimates say custom business apps start at $50,000 to $150,000, depending on what functionality you're looking for and which back-end systems you're connecting to. For suites of apps and more complex apps and platforms, apps can cost as much as $1 million. It should be noted that although the initial build might cost $100,000, it will cost more over time because you have to promote it and maintain it. But as you maintain it and continue supporting it, you're also getting more value.
Does the word "millions" next to "app" scare you? It shouldn't. The $100,000 or the $1 million that you spend on building an app should be insignificant compared to the return it gets for you in 24 months or less. You really shouldn't be spending this money unless the app is worth tens of millions or more to you.
Building an app is like building a house. There are many different ways of doing it and many different types of materials and expected outcomes. You have to have the right partner to help you work through these business model questions, a partner that understands that companies and workflows are not created alike, and neither should your apps be.
Hand Saw or Assembly Line?
It's like this. If you're in the chair manufacturing business, you need to build chairs. One might ask, "How much is it to buy a chair manufacturing system?" and, of course, the answer isn't easy. What kind of chair are you building? Are you building it with a hand saw and lathe or are you building it with an automated system? Perhaps you're building it with something in between those two extremes? If you're using a handsaw—the cheapest way—you'll get the job done, but does it match the scope of your goals and your workflow needs?
Apps are the same. You can spend little, and the app will do very little. Or you can spend more and you can do more. You're spending money to generate additional capabilities and additional efficiencies. There's no such thing as a one-size-fits-all app.
Apps are deceptively simple. We see apps in the app stores that are 99 cents and they're really easy: easy to think about them, easy to build, and easy to think about applying them in the business. However, a lot goes into developing those easy apps. We can look to Apple, who exemplifies simplicity. Simplicity requires a huge amount of work and a proper investment.
Returns—even big returns—should be the rule and not the exception. You should have ROIs of six months are less. In many cases, people are seeing five to 10 times returns in a year or less.
We'll show you. Reach out and we'll show you examples of apps with incredible returns—no BS. Just great companies trying to solve real-world business problems and succeeding with mobile.


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When you're in need of printing supplies, you head out to the big box stores, right? Sure! We all do. They're close by, convenient, and they generally have what we're looking for.
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The place is so big. We don't know where anything is. We don't really know what KIND of thing we're really looking for – "you know, the blue one from HP" – and we end up asking for help.
Maybe we get someone with the right kind of experience. Often, we get "Kenneth," the part-time college student who can point us in the general direction of the aisle where our item may or may not be located.
Kenneth's not a bad guy, but he's typically not the expert you need when you're looking for top printing supplies at a price you can afford.
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Christy Dibble, DO, director of Women & Infants' Center for Women's Gastrointestinal Health and assistant clinical professor in the Department of Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, has received the Dr. Joseph DiMase Memorial Healthcare Professional Award from the Partnership to Reduce Cancer in Rhode Island, Rhode Island Department of Health.
Dr. Dibble received the award for her work as physician-chair of the Rhode Island Screening and Detection Workgroup of the Partnership to Reduce Cancer in Rhode Island, part of Rhode Island's Cancer Control Plan. The focus of the workgroup, on which Dr. Dibble has been chair since 2005, is reducing colorectal cancer and eliminating disparities in screening and detection in Rhode Island. This award is to recognize a state's comprehensive cancer control coalition that has successfully achieved evidence-based and measurable impact in projects and/or interventions.
The Detection and Screening workgroup, under Dr. Dibble's direction, has served as a springboard for statewide and regional collaboration aimed at decreasing the burden of colorectal cancer for all Rhode Islanders. To this end, the workgroup supported the Screening Colonoscopies for the Underserved Program (SCUP) to address the critical issue of screening for the un- and underinsured. The SCUP program served as a vital pilot program for the state, aiming to improve eligibility for future favorable federal grant funding for colorectal cancer screening programs. Through SCUP, Partnership members gave their time to provide training and support to patient navigators at community health centers.
More than 250 colonoscopies have been performed through SCUP, including pathology and follow-up. Screenings are performed by more than 60 volunteer surgeons who provide the screenings to patients at sites either in or close to their own communities. As a result of this initiative, data for the rate of adenomatous polyps discovered, cancer detected, and polyps removed has increased significantly. This initiative has also resulted in an increase in the number of Hispanics served.
Dr. Joseph DiMase, founder of SCUP, passed away of leukemia in April 2012. Because of his vision for SCUP, the program served hundreds of uninsured Rhode Islanders, ultimately saving lives, and will continue to screen those at risk for colorectal cancer. It is because of his extraordinary efforts that the Partnership created the Dr. Joseph DiMase Memorial Healthcare Professional Award to honor those health care professionals who go above and beyond to support the mission of the partnership.
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Women & Infants and Brown offer fellowship programs in gynecologic oncology, maternal-fetal medicine, urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, neonatal-perinatal medicine, pediatric and perinatal pathology, gynecologic pathology and cytopathology, and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. It is home to the nation's first mother-baby perinatal psychiatric partial hospital, as well as the nation's only fellowship program in obstetric medicine.
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Do you know how many calories you should eat every day to slim down? Core expert Chris Powell reveals how you can lose weight by identifying your calorie type and eating the right foods.
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Dr. Harley Rotbart, Dr. Joyce Oleszek, and Dr. Chauncey Crandall share stories about their former patients that defied scientific explanation and inspired their shared belief in faith.
Cardiologist Dr. Chauncey Crandall shares the story of one of his former patients, Jeff. After collapsing from a heart attack, Jeff was declared dead by Dr. Crandall and his team. What what happened next.
Pastor Carl Lentz shares an anecdote about finding his way through New York City and discusses how to live life with purpose.
Dr. Oz and preacher DeVon Franklin talk about the bigger picture behind the stories of people who recovered despite all the odds.
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Splunk Add-on for Kafka: Where do I find the pre-built dashboard panels?
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Learn how to add and edit dashboard panels.
To learn about types of dashboard panels, see Working with dashboard panels.
Add panels to a dashboard with the dashboard's Edit menu. Access the Edit menu directly from the dashboard or from the list of dashboards on the Dashboards page.
Select Edit to open the dashboard editor.
Expand one of the panel categories.
(Optional) To search for specific panels, enter text in the Filter text box.
Select a panel and preview the selection.
Use filters in the search field to locate or create specific panels. The search looks for specified terms in existing dashboards, panels, and reports. It provides results for new panels using the specified search terms, and links to existing dashboards and panels containing the terms.
The following tips can help you with searching and filtering.
Panel title or panel ID are useful items to search for.
Search for map to return results to dashboards implementing a map visualization or to create a new panel with the map visualization.
Search for multiselect for results with a multiselect form input.
You can filter for multiple items, but all items must appear in the order that you specify in the search field.
Drag and drop panels to rearrange their position on a dashboard.
If you are not in edit mode for the dashboard, select Edit.
Select a panel and drag it to its new position.
When you create an inline panel, you select a visualization and specify a search for the panel.
Expand the panel category New and select a visualization for the data.
(Optional) Enter a title for the panel.
Enter a search string that returns the data to display in the panel.
(Optional) Select Run Search to preview the search results.
Select a time range for the search.
When you create a panel from a report, you select from a list of available reports.
Expand the panel category New from Report to view available reports.
(Optional) Use the Filter option to search for specific reports. See Filter the search for available panels.
Select a report to view a preview of the report.
You can clone a panel from another dashboard. The panel appears on your dashboard with the same editing capabilities as the cloned panel.
Expand the panel category Clone from Dashboard to view available reports.
(Optional) Use the Filter option to search for specific panels. See Filter the search for available panels.
Select and expand a dashboard. Select a panel to view a preview of the panel.
You can create a panel that you can later add to dashboards by reference. This prebuilt panel is useful if you plan to reuse it often in various dashboards.
There are two ways to create a panel that you can reference from other dashboards.
Convert an existing panel to a prebuilt panel that you can reference.
Create a panel in simple XML code from the Settings page.
Typically, you create the panel using the dashboard editor, and then convert it to a prebuilt panel. You can also create the panel in simple XML code.
You can convert a panel to a prebuilt panel only if the panel does not contain a post-process search. A post-process search is a search that uses the base attribute to reference another search.
In the dashboard containing the panel that you want to convert, select Edit > Edit Panels.
From the Options Menu for a panel, select Convert to Prebuilt Panel.
(Optional) In the dialog that opens, specify the following details.
ID: The filename for the panel. Only alphanumeric characters, '-' character, and '_' are allowed.
Panel Permissions: Select either Private or Shared in App.
Private: Only you have permissions to view and edit the panel.
Shared in App: The panel is available to view and edit by other users of the app.
If this is your first time working with Simple XML, see Editing simple XML. See also the Simple XML Reference for more information on panel configurations.
From Splunk Web, go to Settings > User Interface > Prebuilt Panels.
In the Panels page, select New to open the Simple XML Editor.
Destination app: Select an app for the context of the panel.
Prebuilt Panel ID: Enter a name for panel.
The name you enter is the filename on disk. Only alphanumeric characters, '-' character, and '_' are allowed.
Prebuilt Panel XML: Simple XML code to define a panel element.
The simple XML code for a reference panel contains only the <panel> element and its child elements.
From the dashboard, select Edit > Edit Panels.
Expand the panel category Add Prebuilt Panel to view the reference panels available.
Select a reference panel to view a preview of the panel.
You can convert a prebuilt panel to an inline panel. The prebuilt panel cannot contain a post-process search. A post-process search is a search that uses the base attribute to reference another search.
The conversion of a prebuilt panel to an inline panel lets you customize the search and visualization.
From a dashboard, select Edit > Edit Panels.
From the prebuilt panel you want to convert, click the Options Menu and select Convert to Inline Panel.
Panels and visualizations have separate titles.
You can specify a title when creating a panel. You can also use the dashboard editor to change panel titles, with one exception. Prebuilt panel titles cannot be edited in the dashboard editor. See Edit a prebuilt panel for more information.
Locate the panel that you want to edit in a dashboard.
Click Edit to open the dashboard editor.
Use one of the following options.
Next to Edit Dashboard at the top left of the page, make sure that the UI editor is selected.
Click the panel title that you want to edit and change the text.
Next to Edit Dashboard at the top left of the page, make sure that the Source editor is selected.
Locate the <title> element inside the <panel> that you want to edit.
Change the panel title text.
Use the Prebuilt Panels page to access a panel source code editor.
From the home page, navigate to Settings > User Interface > Prebuilt Panels.
Locate the panel that you want to edit and select Edit.
Edit the Simple XML source code.
Click Save. The panel is updated in dashboards that include it by reference.
From the Dashboard Editor, in panel-editing mode, click the Options menu for a panel and select Delete.
Or you can click the Delete icon, X, which is in the upper right corner of the panel.
In simple XML source code, delete the <panel> element and its contents.


Last time I had a look at a political thriller and noted how the politics, in the classic style of the Hitchcockian McGuffin, acts as a powerful motivation for the characters inside the drama while remaining nothing more than a plot device in the eyes of the audience. The classic western rarely went down the overtly political route and tended to reserve its commentary for broader sociological and philosophical issues. Even in those cases, messages were, as often as not, delivered via implication and with the kind of subtlety which left it up to the viewer to decide how much or how little attention to give them. More direct political points could be said to appear in films set on the Mexican side of the border, and in particular those which make explicit reference to the revolution. The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955) plays out in such an environment, a number of the characters being clearly driven by their convictions and stating that fact on a few occasions, but this really isn't the main focus of the movie, neither from the perspective of the figures on screen nor we who watch them.
The post-credits caption places the events in 1915, right in the middle of the revolution. Tom Bryan (Rory Calhoun) and Juan Castro (Gilbert Roland) are under siege in wilderness and taking a breath, ruefully commenting on their fabulous wealth as the Federales creep ever nearer. Somewhat paradoxically, we find ourselves beginning at the end of the tale as follows on from his point is delivered via flashback. The machine-gun wielding Bryan is the classic mercenary figure, tough and bluntly proud of his own love for cash and corresponding disinterest in ideals. He's introduced providing the firepower to facilitate the raids necessary to secure the finances Villa needs to stay in the revolutionary business. Despite professing a desire to retire and enjoy the profits of his toil, he finds himself drawn back into one more caper – all in the name of friendship. Castro is one of Villa's colonels and Bryan's fiend, and it's hard to say no to an old friend when he asks you to help take a gold-laden troop train and then transport the spoils overland. Initially, the American seems to have been swayed principally by the rewards promised, but the presence of an idealistic woman (Shelley Winters), also from the US, and a shifty bandit (Joseph Calleia) who has a score to settle with Castro play an increasingly important role.
I can't get enough of George Sherman's work, particularly those films made in the 1950s. I find it addictive and entertaining, becoming progressively stronger and more complex as the decade wore on and building towards such beautifully realized pieces as The Last of the Fast Guns. I mention that movie here because not only is it arguably Sherman's finest and most accomplished, but it also shares some features whose roots can be seen in The Treasure of Pancho Villa. The setting is, of course, the obvious link and a number of locations appear in both productions. There's even something on the costuming of the leads – Calhoun is clad predominantly in black with Roland largely favoring white, which seems to be foreshadowing the completely black/white outfits adopted by Mahoney and (again) Roland in the later film. Still and all, it's that theme of redemption which never ran far below the surface of any 50s western that draws the attention more. Sure there are some noble words on freedom and justice voiced by the characters (mainly Winters) but such proselytizing is rarely interesting or effective in my opinion, and I get the impression that neither Sherman nor screenwriter Niven Busch were all that enthused themselves. Instead, greater emphasis is given over to more personal motifs – loyalty, friendship and the discovery of something deeper and more meaningful within oneself.
Calhoun had a terrific run in westerns in the 50s and this film offered him an excellent showcase for his talents. The hard-boiled mercenary with one eye ever on the main chance was the type he could carry off in his sleep, and the way that role then develops and becomes more textured as the story progresses shows that he had sufficient depth when called upon. I'm struggling to think of a part played by Gilbert Roland that I didn't enjoy – the energy he invested in his characters is quite infectious and it's easy to be swept along by his charm. Any film that saw him handed an expanded part is invariably worthwhile. On the other hand, I've rarely been all that taken with Shelley Winters – too often she was assigned needy and, ultimately, irritating roles. While that's not the case in The Treasure of Pancho Villa, she's asked to play the kind of starchy and self-righteous woman who again fails to elicit a lot of sympathy. This is a weakness in the film for sure, however, everything is handily shored up by a great bit of villainy and duplicity from the typically excellent Joseph Calleia.
Generally, where possible, I like to make some comment about the availability of films which are featured on this site, not least because people often wonder about the relative merits of what copies are currently on the market. In the case of The Treasure of Pancho Villa, there is a DVD which has been released in Spain (also, I think there's an Italian version – possibly the same print – too) but the quality is frankly poor and it's not a disc I'd be happy to recommend to anyone. I've heard rumors before that Warner Brothers in the US is working on a restored version of the title and I'd like to think that is true – this is a fine movie and it deserves to be seen in far better quality that what is out there right now. The setting in revolutionary Mexico almost immediately conjures up images of spaghetti westerns, and in turn the image of the lead with a machine-gun might well make you think of the likes of Django. Nevertheless, this is very definitely a western out of the classic mold, with all the sensibilities that implies – very enjoyable and highly recommended.


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Celebrity Chef Giada de Laurentiis Sells Scenic Pacific Palisades Home for $7 Million
The celebrity chef and host of "Giada at Home" is downsizing, but staying in the same Pacific Palisades neighborhood, where she recently purchased a smaller $5 million home.
The host of Food Network's Giada at Home has quietly sold her stunning five-bedroom home — with a massive kitchen anchored by a 24-foot stone island — for a whopping $7 million.
Located in the coveted Via Bluffs enclave of the Pacific Palisades, the modern home was not publicly listed, but touted directly to interested buyers as a super secret pocket listing. Needless to say, the approach worked like a charm, and credit for the sale goes to Smith Cho of Compass, the listing agent for the property.
Completed in 2015, de Laurentiis' now former home is a bright and spacious 6,500-foot residence with massive sliding windows that open up to beautiful views of Potrero Canyon and beyond.
Giada de Laurentiis' former home. Image credit: Smith Cho / Compass
The sumptuous 5 bedroom, 5.5 bathroom home is filled with natural light streaming in from the surrounding floor to ceiling windows and sliding glass doors, while the skylights pour even more light onto the main and top floors.
The luxury home also flaunts features like a dual faced fireplace, a nearly 24-foot kitchen island, and a distinct living room that's pouring out onto the outside deck overlooking the pool.
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A large open-layout living area is anchored by, what else, a beautiful kitchen. It's got a nearly 24-foot stone island with plenty of room for prep work and dining, with modern, sleek cabinetry finishing the exquisite look.
The architectural stairs take you up to the top level which holds four of the bedrooms, with the kids room placed next to the grand master suite. There's also an expansive media/game with an independent walk-in glass-cased wine room that has provocative underwater views of the pool.
Completed in 2015, the home has been maintained in pristine condition with no expense spared, and it shows. While feeling expansive and lavish, the home retains a sense of intimacy, which makes it only natural for it to appeal to the famous chef.
Giada de Laurentiis is an Italian-born chef that rose to fame with her Food Network shows Everyday Italian and Giada At Home, as well as frequent appearances as contributor and guest co-host on NBC's Today.
She has been frequently nominated for Emmy Awards for her cooking shows and even brought home an award for Outstanding Lifestyle Host in 2008. In addition to TV appearances, she also owns Italian restaurants in Las Vegas and Baltimore.
Giada de Laurentiis reportedly bought the Pacific Palisades home back January 2016 and paid $6.9 million for the property, which means she's now selling at a profit. Though that might not necessarily be such a huge incentive for the celebrity chef, as de Laurentiis has already purchased a mid-century bungalow in the same Pacific Palisades neighborhood back in August for $5 million.
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Stoking the engines of China's next growth wave
By East Asia Forum
Authors: Ligang Song, ANU, Yixiao Zhou, ANU, and Luke Hurst, Asialink Business
The highly publicised meeting between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the recent G20 Osaka summit signals a temporary truce in the trade war between the world's two largest economies. While the return of China and the United States to the negotiating table may give international markets some breathing space, big questions about global growth remain.
Central to this is whether a rising China will continue to grow and transition into a high-income economy, or whether trade tensions — and other complex domestic headwinds — will derail this growth.
Over the past four decades, China has experienced three growth surges — the initial 'reform and opening up' from the late 1970s, taxation reform in the 1990s, and accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001. This incremental approach to reform transformed China into the largest contributor to global economic growth. Its economy averaged annual growth of more than 9 per cent from 1978 to 2018 with per capita income reaching US$9723 and total foreign trade reaching US$4.6 trillion in 2018.
China's current growth is still robust but has slowed considerably since 2010. Buffeted by an ongoing drop in domestic productivity, an ageing population and a decline in domestic savings, China finds itself at an economic crossroads where tough choices are required to enable future growth.
There is still great scope for further reforms to unleash a new round of high-quality growth in China.
For China to achieve this transition to a high-income economy, it will be essential to stoke the fires of three growth engines. These are not newly-found sources of growth but are areas that have long been identified as critical, yet still have great room for reform and improvement.
The first growth engine will be fuelled by deep institutional reform to drive improvements in the business and regulatory environment and deepen integration with global markets.
In the latest World Bank Ease of Doing Business index, China ranked only 46 out of 190 — for comparison Hong Kong ranked 4th, Australia 18th, and Kosovo was 44th.
Deepening institutional reform will require China and its trading partners to uphold the multilateral trading system, while exploring how that system can be reformed to accommodate new trade and investment flows. This is both pressing and confronting given the current trend of 'deglobalisation', rising protectionism, and the global 'rules based economic disorder'.
Although uncertainty around the future of globalisation is high, the temporary truce between the United States and China could provide a boost to growth prospects for both sides as well as the wider global economy.
To improve the business environment and encourage investment, the Chinese government has lowered value-added tax from 16 to 13 per cent. Even though the policy saw a fall in tax revenue in the first half of this year, it is expected that the policy will enhance growth from the second half of 2019. The impact of this significant change in fiscal policy can be further enhanced by possible cuts in official interest rates, following similar attempts by a number of economies including Australia, to boost economic growth.
The second engine of growth will be stoked by continuing to open the door to global innovation and foreign investment.
China's goods, capital and labour markets have all been liberalised to varying degrees over the past four decades. But China needs to continue to lower barriers to market entry if it is to encourage global collaboration on research, innovation and business. There are a number of promising moves in this direction — for example, China's new Foreign Investment Law adds the principle of 'non-interference' to the FDI approval process and increases financial penalties for those who infringe trademark rights. In financial services, caps on foreign ownership of local banks were removed and foreign insurance companies were allowed to establish businesses.
These policies are helping China to increase its attractiveness as a destination for FDI. But significant potential remains to grow the total share of FDI in China's overall investment. This will become increasingly important as domestic savings fall and new FDI is required to sustain growth.
The third engine will be powered by China's capacity to realise its human capital potential and contribute to the global talent pool. Significant education and skills gaps need to be addressed to…
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Breaking: APFA President Laura Glading Submits Resignation
Gailen David
Laura Glading has sent a letter to the APFA Board of Directors outlining her plans to resign her position as President of the APFA just as thousands of her members are planning to arrive in Dallas to demand her resignation or recall. Catch up on why American Airlines flight attendants were demanding she leave.
Video: Created by American Flight Attendants, asking Laura Glading to resign effective immediately
Flight attendants at American, who are working under a concessionary agreement she crafted in close coordination with American's CEO Doug Parker, are not planning to allow her to rewrite history as she has attempted in her resignation letter and then slip off with lifetime positive space passes and a second career in Washington.
If all goes as planned, Laura Glading will forever be known as someone who sold her membership down the river for her own personal gain and her members want her to be removed from APFA property NOW.
According to one of my APFA moles, Leslie Mayo, former APFA Communications Chair who recently defected from the union to a more desirable position with American Airlines Corporate Communications, reportedly wrote Laura's resignation letter for her while on AA's corporate payroll. The lines have become very blurred, but APFA members are seeing very clearly.
From Laura Glading's personal Facebook page:
"I just sent this letter to our APFA Board of Directors
APFA Board of Directors,
When I was elected to my first term as National President of the Association of Professional Flight Attendants almost eight years ago we were working under a concessionary contract. We began negotiations immediately with a strong start, but in 2008 oil prices rose to record-breaking levels. A year later, the U.S. economy was crumbling. American quickly adopted its mantra of zero-sum – any improvement would be offset by a concession of equal value. By 2011, three years after our negotiations had begun, American had shifted its focus away from bargaining to staving off and eventually filing for bankruptcy.
Late that year when it became clear that AA was on the brink of a Chapter 11 filing, I decided to run for a second term. I simply could not walk away when the Flight Attendants were about to endure the devastation bankruptcy has historically – and would most likely – deliver. I believed then, as I do today, that continuity of leadership was important to ensuring our workforce had a voice at the table.
From the start, American's bankruptcy traveled down a road that had never been taken before. Through the solidarity of the APFA membership and support of the Allied Pilots Association and the Transport Workers Union, we were able to influence and even help steer our Company into a merger with US Airways. This was simply unprecedented in any bankruptcy.
As a result we went from American's 1113 proposal to gut our contract and eliminate 2400 jobs, to a merger that would result in the hiring of over 3,000 new Flight Attendants. If not for this incredible, unprecedented accomplishment, the 5,000 most junior Flight Attendants would not even be here today. In addition, we preserved and improved our work rules, and raised our wages by over 13% for the Legacy American Airline (LAA) Flight Attendants and over 16% for the Legacy US Airways (LUS) Flight Attendants. We secured a claim through the reorganization process that resulted in the LAA Flight Attendants receiving valuable shares of stock in the reorganized Company.
Over the past nine months we have worked tirelessly to implement the new Joint Collective Bargaining Agreement (JCBA), incorporate the LUS bases into our system of governance, and do everything else possible to fully integrate the operations of two very different airlines. The Joint Scheduling Implementation Committee (JSIC) and the Joint Implementation Resolution Committee (JIRC) have spent thousands of hours making sure that the dozens of changes mandated by the JCBA are put in place as quickly as possible. Every day the JSIC speaks with Company officials and members of American's IT staff about the progress and challenges of implementation. At the same time the JIRC oversees the LUS scheduling systems of Preferential Bidding System (PBS), Iterative Schedule Adjustment Period (ISAP) and the Electronic Trade Board (ETB).
While all this has been happening, APFA's legislative team has been committed to keeping Open Skies open by preventing government-sponsored airlines from destroying what has been up until now a level international playing field. We continue to fight for legislation and regulations that will once and for all eliminate Flight Attendant fatigue and guarantee cabin air quality.
I want you to know that many of your fellow Flight Attendants have worked, and continue to work, tirelessly for you. Words cannot express the gratitude I have for all of APFA's Department Chairs; committee members; the Joint Negotiating Committee, JIRC and JSIC; the Regional Representatives; the Executive Assistants; the entire staff at APFA Headquarters; my fellow National Officers (past and present) and all of the APFA Representatives that take on the extraordinary responsibility of giving all they have to give to improve and protect the livelihoods of our members. They have endured unprecedented change with professionalism, dedication and optimism.
All of these achievements reflect the work of a strong, united team. And although we have healthy and necessary debate at the union leadership level, we know progress is achieved when we are represented, and speak with, a unified voice.
However, today, our voice is not unified and I believe some appear to have lost sight of our duty to represent and advocate for our fellow Flight Attendants. Consequently, we have not always been able to do what we've thought was needed. We tried to institute new programs to better serve our members, including educating new hires on the whys and wherefores of unionism generally and APFA specifically. We tried to conduct a survey of our members last summer in light of the fact that the last major one we did was years ago and we haven't done one since the merger. For reasons that I still cannot fathom, a majority of the current Board of Directors rejected these efforts. More disheartening though, is the fact that they offered no alternatives that would similarly engage or benefit our members. That is precisely the wrong direction to go as an organization. With new hires coming onboard every month, we must build for the future of APFA and we must engage with this next generation of members. My hope is that the next administration will pick up that mantle and execute an engagement and education program that reaches all of our members.
My current term will expire in less than six months and we are now preparing to elect new National Officers. Although I have publicly announced I will not seek a third term, some of our Board members are considering the deployment of a provision in APFA's Constitution that was never intended to be used as a political weapon. At the next meeting of the Board on October 5 and 6, these Board members would like to put forward a resolution that may result in a balloting of the membership on whether I should be recalled as APFA's National President.
The background on this provision is important for you to know, and the current state of play is as follows: In 1990 the APFA leadership appointed a committee that included several APFA past Presidents to completely overhaul our Constitution. That Constitution continues to be the foundation of our organization today, and although there have been a few referendums to modify it, there has never been consideration or discussion on the two specific processes for recalling a national officer. The Constitution provides that APFA will issue a recall ballot through either of the following two mechanisms: 1) if 30% of the members in good standing sign a petition in support of such a ballot, or, 2) if two-thirds of the Board move to mail such a ballot to members' homes. The same Constitution Committee that created the processes for recall has recently sent a letter to our Board explaining that a resolution by the Board to initiate a recall ignores the very reason these processes were adopted.
The committee members explain that a ballot to override the members' election of a national officer to a four-year term is an extraordinary event. If members are dissatisfied with a national officer, the Constitution allows them to seek recall by having 30% of the membership sign a petition. If the APFA Board of Directors sends out a recall ballot, it would only take this step in extreme cases of good cause (i.e. acts of misconduct that render the officer unfit for office); not for reasons of perceived popularity or petty politics.
In addition to their opinion letter, the Constitution Committee sent the Board of Directors a copy of the 1985 Stu Adams-Lundy Arbitration Opinion and Award – a document that they relied on heavily to protect a majority rule and the stability of our union when drafting our Constitution. Both their opinion letter and the award were posted on the hotline and are attached to this letter.
In response to the 1990 Constitution Committee opinion letter, a number of APFA members have informed the APFA that should the Board pursue its recall initiative, they will file internal disciplinary charges under Article VII of the Constitution against those Board members who vote to send out a ballot. Such charges would result in a series of expensive and prolonged arbitrations.
I have no intention of letting our union suffer the turmoil that these actions – and reactions – would undoubtedly precipitate. First, I can't imagine the chaos of putting out a recall ballot while on the eve of an election for a new National President. I can't imagine exposing our union to this turmoil when all that this ballot, if successful, would do is reduce my term by no more than a few months. I won't let our union be subjected to the expense, distraction and divisiveness that charges and counter-charges will surely breed. And I won't let our union waste the $200,000 of union dues it would likely cost to send out a ballot that does not improve the work life of a single Flight Attendant on a single trip.
The 25,000 members of the APFA deserve far better than what their Board of Directors is considering and the devastating and lingering aftermath it would cause. If any of us can stop it, we should.
During the decades that I have served APFA as a representative, especially during the almost eight years I have served as National President, I have had to make some extremely difficult, at times even gut-wrenching and heart-breaking decisions. I have never made one decision that I did not firmly believe was in the best interest of the membership.
The amazing calls, emails and letters I have received over the years – and particularly in the past few months – have given me inspiration, strength and direction. And I will forever appreciate the support of the APFA membership throughout the most trying of times.
A crew recently asked me if I had any regrets since taking office. My response was – and still is – that I have thoroughly loved serving the membership, and that, my only regret is the time not spent with family and friends.
To prevent the distractions, divisiveness and expense that a recall ballot resolution would cause, and for the betterment of the APFA, I have made the decision to tender my resignation as National President of the APFA effective December 2, 2015.
Laura Glading
APFA National President"
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Gailen David is co-host of the nationally syndicated travel talk show, "The Jet Set" with over 1.8M weekly viewers in over 200 television markets in 12 countries. A former flight attendant, he leads a global discussion about "Jetiquette", the rules or code of civilized travel. Gailen is a frequent contributor to CNN, HLN and USA Today on topics related to the airline travel experience and of course, Jetiquette. Visit Gailen's website
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Jamie Lynn and Britney Spears' Dad 'Almost Died,' So Pop Singer Scraps Vegas Residency
Billy Dukes Published: January 4, 2019
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Jamie Spears — father of pop icon Britney Spears and country singer and actress Jamie Lynn Spears — has suffered a medical emergency that almost killed him. Britney shared some details in announcing her new Las Vegas Residency Domination has been scrapped.
"I don't even know where to start with this," Britney Spears writes on Instagram in a post that was re-grammed on Jamie Lynn's Instagram. "I will not be performing my new show Domination."
Billboard reports that Jamie Spears' colon spontaneously ruptured two months ago, and he spent four weeks recovering from surgery. He's expected to make a full recovery, but Britney wants to be there for him.
"It's important to always put your family first ... and that's the decision I had to make," she writes, stating that her father "almost died."
"We're all so grateful that he came out of it alive, but he still has a long road ahead of him. I had to make the difficult decision to put my full focus and energy on my family at this time. I hope you all can understand," the pop singer adds.
Ticket refund information for Domination is available at Britney Spears' website. The lengthy caption came with a throwback photo of her with both parents.
Jamie Lynn Spears has been writing, recording and releasing country music for about a decade. In 2013 she released the critically-acclaimed "How Could I Want More" from an EP called Journey. She has since penned "I Got the Boy," a hit for Jana Kramer, and released a song called "Sleepover." Personal news has interrupted her country music aspirations, like the time she broke up a knife fight. In 2017 her daughter Maddie was nearly killed in an ATV accident. Most recently it's been positive, with the birth of her second daughter Ivey in April 2018.
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