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SAGE Utah Advisory Board gives vote of no confidence to Utah Pride
StaffNovember 6, 2013
Another meeting is scheduled tonight to discuss SAGE Utah at the Utah Pride Center, however once again, notice of the meeting was not given to the current SAGE Advisory Board, nor was advance notice given to the community, merely a post on SAGE Utah's Facebook page late last night. As transparency was purported to be the new mantra of Center leadership, Advisory Board members are skeptical that can be accomplished.
"We hope for the sake of the community that communications improve at the UPC as the new board president, John Netto vowed at the last meeting, but obviously that plan hasn't been implemented yet," said advisory board member Michael Sanders who, along with Utah Pride board member Jon Jepsen, were appointed as liaisons between Utah Pride and SAGE Utah at the previous meeting held Oct. 30.
The advisory committee met Nov. 3 to discuss the future of SAGE Utah after the program director Charles Lynn Frost was laid off on Oct. 28 when Utah Pride found itself in a financial crunch after a review of their records. The committee then drafted a letter to the Utah Pride Board of Directors and executive director Valerie Larabee.
"[T]rust has been severely compromised over the last year, but more specifically, no one on the Sage Advisory Committee felt they held any trust or confidence in the management or leadership capacity of the Utah Pride Center," the letter stated.
The committee says that Larabee has little interest in the program, based on the fact she has not attended events, from pot lucks to galas to their annual awards brunch honoring local dignitaries.
They also take issue with redirecting a grant that helped pay for SAGE to general funds.
"We have no confidence in the Utah Pride Center's commitment to the demographic of the Sage community, as evidenced by taking funds intended for Sage and redirecting them in a manner that compromised the position of a dedicated employee hired specifically to address the needs of the Sage community," the letter reads.
At the meeting last week, Larabee said she could not contact advisory board members because she did not know who was on the committee.
"To not know who was on the advisory committee at this critical time of the program was a telling commentary of the awareness and investment the Utah Pride Center placed on Sage," the advisory board stated.
The committee was particularly concerned about the timing of the layoff, as the group was gaining traction on a number of issues relevant to aging gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender seniors.
"Sage was developing programs, outreach, community liaisons, evaluating needs, and identifying cultural competent care centers and places that seniors would seek as resources. Several projects, such as Sage Story, were in the works and will require the community to have confidence in the Pride Center. It is highly unlikely that Sage services can be sufficiently offered on a volunteer basis," the letter continued.
At last week's meeting, Larabee said the Center is dedicated to the programs of SAGE and cited three levels of SAGE that will be handled by Center staff.
"Someone needing help with something like getting their Social Security check will be handled by our case management team; those with socialization needs will be handled by a human being on the phone; and advocacy issues will fall on more senior staff, including myself," Larabee explained. "The key element is that we can't drop the ball on anyone's needs at a basic level."
She also said that projects that are underway are "on track" to continue.
Advisory board members, however, are highly skeptical that the work can be done without a full-time staffer dedicated to the program. Their answer is to pull the program from the Center and run it separately until such a time the Center can find funding for it.
"In order for Sage to at least remain current in its work, until an employee can be designated, it must be fully autonomous of the [Utah] Pride Center. In essence, Sage can be housed in the Pride Center, but outside of that, it must maintain its own books, budgets, and employee(s) and not be micromanaged by the Pride Center," the letter states. "We currently have [IRS] 501(c)(3) resources prepared to assist the Sage programming in moving forward. We are confident in our ability to raise the funds we need to secure the Sage Program. We require the autonomy from the Pride Center, although in the spirit of a community center, it would make sense to house the program within the Utah Pride Center."
"The circumstances in which we find ourselves are not a coincidence; they are the product of mismanagement and carelessness. We believe that the lack of awareness of what Utah Sage was accomplishing and the direction this program was heading is an interesting commentary of how the Sage demographic is respected," the letter continued. "Although we trust the vision of an LGBT community center, the nature of the management and the lack of awareness are of dire concern. To trust the Utah Pride Center at this point could be a fatal decision for Sage Utah. It is our intention to move this work forward as quickly and efficiently as possible."
The SAGE advisory board consists of Jerry Buie, Kate Call, Ingrid Davis, David Andreason, Brent Marrott, Peggy Kjelstrom, Daniel Musto, Mary Olsen, Julie Anderson, Kelly Kightly (absent from the meeting) and Michael Sanders.
The letter will also be presented at tonight's meeting, which will be facilitated by Netto. The meeting is at the Center, 255 E 400 S, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Leaders of the Utah Pride Center were asked for a response, but the deadline for this story was tight and no response has yet been received. This story will be updated when that happens.
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Meeting tonight. SAGE Utah Advisory Board gives vote of no confidence to Utah Pride
Doug White says:
It looks like it is heating up to the point of a rather interesting meeting this evening. Round 2 begins at 6:00 p.m.
Mat Uhl says:
Pride Day is and should be an public holiday event, not a fundraiser for a pride center which presents a conservative away view, it has been used as a grab for money and power behind an agenda that is not progressive for even the most lame of programming…and I open the pride center and sat on the planning board since 1992,,, more proff utahs gay scene is unauthentic and a special interest group. Shame on Jason Bowcutt who touts his imortance of being involved with integrity. I had Paula Wolfe fired after her six years of inteptude. Non confidence is the anti theist to PRIDE…LAUGHING STOCK
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Up to 60 students will be selected to participate each year. Thank you to all the students that participated in the 2018 program on December 4. The application period for 2019 will open in the fall. In line with our Equity & Empowerment Framework, nominations will aim to have students representative of different genders, ethnicities, high schools, council districts, and life experiences.
On Student Government Day, the following is the schedule of events for all participants.
Students will check-in with their respective Tacoma Public High Schools and will then be released to the Office. Students will then be bused to the Tacoma Municipal Building. Tacoma Public School students will be provided transportation from the students' respective high schools to the Tacoma Municipal Building. All other students will need to provide their own transportation or contact staff (Will Suarez) to arrange bus vouchers.
Arrive at the Tacoma Municipal Building (TMB) at 747 Market Street and report to Room 148 on the first floor. Students will receive name tags and a welcome packet.
Overview of the day's activities, logistical outline, expectations for student behavior and an introduction to Municipal Government.
Introduction to departmental liaisons and government careers. During this time students will learn more about specific jobs within municipal government.
The departmental visits and tours are designed for students to learn about the day-to-day operations of the employees in the City Government and understand how the various departments and offices of the government function.
Lunch with the City Council. Your lunch will be provided by the City of Tacoma.
Students will have the opportunity to tour the Center for Urban Waters and the Tacoma Police Headquarters.
City staff will talk about opportunities for youth to get involved in local government initiatives and programs.
The discussion session will include preparing for the Mock City Council Meeting, producing an ordinance or resolution, and reviewing scripts.
The Mock City Council Meeting is set for students to learn how the City Council business meetings are conducted and how decisions for the City are adopted.
Before the Mock City Council Meeting students will vote for five students to act as the Mayor and four Council Members. The rest of the students will be assigned to departments to discuss and decide on proposed budget allocation and priorities for the City. Students will then present them in the meeting where the assigned Mayor and Council Members will vote for approval.
Students will then fill out a feedback form to provide input about the day and will submit the completed Student Government Day worksheet.
Students will take a group photo with Mayor and City Council. If you wish to participate in the group photo, then you must submit a completed image release form.
Students will be recognized by the Mayor during the Proclamations and Recognitions portion of the agenda. Students are free to leave after the conclusion of the Recognition.
Bus vouchers will be made available to any student needing to use public transportation to return to their place residence. Please contact staff for more information.
Students will start the day at their home rooms and will be released to the office of their High Schools. Students will then be bused to the Tacoma Municipal Building by Tacoma Public Schools.
Check out with a Tacoma Public Schools representative if needing to leave the event early for any reason.
Report any problems or concerns immediately to an advisor or City staff member.
Be punctual to scheduled activities and remain present until the activity is complete.
Tacoma Public Schools will provide transportation to Student Government Day from all Tacoma Public High Schools and provide transportation to and from the city facilities during the departmental tour session.
Representative from the School District will ensure students receive their information packets, schedule, and monitor students' progress.
The dress code for this events is business casual. If you are unsure if what you are going to wear is acceptable, ask an advisor prior to your arrival.
Advisors are expected to attend all activities and meetings along with students during the event day. Students should not be in attendance at any portion of an event without adult supervision. All employees, advisors and staff members in contact with students must be adults 21 years of age or older and have completed background checks.


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Business group asks Belleville council to help with noise, loitering downtown
February 13, 2020	at 9:44 am
By Thomas Goyer
BELLEVILLE – The association representing downtown store owners is asking Belleville council for help with problems of noise, loitering and other issues.
Kathryn Brown, chair of the Downtown District, appeared before council Monday to ask for its support.
"We are finding that we're experiencing an increase of foot traffic of people who are not here to shop or dine but are loitering," Brown told QNet News Tuesday. "In doing so, they're creating an uncomfortable atmosphere for the people who do visit."
Millions of dollars have been invested by the city in downtown revitalization in recent years. Brown said a lot of progress has been made, but making sure visitors have the best experience is of utmost importance.
"If people are coming to the downtown and are having a bad experience their first time, then typically they won't come back," she said. "They are likely to tell other people of their experience, and they won't come either."
Kate's Kitchen owner Kathryn Brown, who spoke to council this week about problems downtown, said planters in front of her shopt have been damaged." Photo by Thomas Goyer, QNet News
Brown, the owner of Kate's Kitchen on Front Street downtown, said planters in front of her store have been damaged.
While she expressed support for the recently opened Grace Inn homeless shelter on Church Street and the warming centre in the Belleville Public Library on Pinnacle Street, both of which are to help the homeless population, she added that they have unanticipated side effects for downtown.
The homeless people who use the shelters tend to stay downtown during the day when the shelters are closed, she said.
After her presentation Monday, council referred the matter to city staff for more study.
"We were very pleased by council's response," Brown said.
"Unfortunately we had to expose the underbelly of downtown to get a dialogue started."
But several people have pushed back against Brown's message.
She told both council and QNet that another factor in the problem is a summer food program in Market Square that distributes hot meals to those who need them every night during the summer.
The food program is put on by Not Alone Team Quinte, an advocacy group for the homeless.
Not Alone Team Quinte founder Debbie Pike responded to Brown's comments on Facebook, saying: "We provided a much-needed meal program in the heart of downtown when no other programs were available."
The Facebook page for Not Alone Team Quinte was filled this week with commenters saying Brown had pointed blame at the homeless during her presentation to council, and that this was unfair.
"As someone who owns a home in the downtown, works and pays taxes and spends money locally, I stand with those in most need of friends," wrote one commenter, Sean McNeill.
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1. That the United States Federal Court system should be significantly reformed.
2. When in conflict, the right to individual privacy is more important than national security.
The U.S. Attorney welcomed our visitors and spoke about the mission of the office, he then opened up the floor for questions. Assistant U.S. Attorneys from the office's Civil Division, Criminal Division, and Appellate Division took turns answering the questions and providing valuable input for the students to consider as they form their resolutions.
There were definitely some future lawyers among this group.


Jad Jebara, Co-founder and CEO, Tuangru shares how the concept of all workloads residing in a physical data center is shifting fast, and explains how everything is moving towards Hybrid IT environments.
Please tell us about the company Tuangru—the idea behind it, the products, and the vision for the company. Also, how does your approach to cloud management differ from other solutions on the market?
With hybrid IT's promise of increased efficiencies and cost savings, comes greater complexity. Tuangru's hybrid IT infrastructure management software lets you manage and monitor assets across on-prem, cloud, colocation, edge data centers—wherever your application workloads reside—in a single, easy-to-use platform.
"Our vision is to enable economic performance, reduce environmental impact, and enhance social equity of critical infrastructure, and our mission is to make critical infrastructure think."
What is the current state or the important aspects of the hybrid cloud market? What are some of the key pain points your customers have talked about when managing clouds?
Hybrid IT infrastructure (or hybrid cloud) is used when an enterprise has application workloads, both, on-premises in a data center and in the public cloud. This model is growing in adoption, the main drivers being a much lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and far higher efficiency. In fact, Gartner expects 90 percent of enterprises to adopt hybrid IT infrastructure by 2020. Our software empowers enterprises to manage this complex IT infrastructure model and realize the expected cost savings.
As more and more agencies jump into cloud, age-old fears about vendor lock-in persist. In your view, what's the smartest way to make the migration and side step concerns about vendor lock-in?
Having data-driven management tools to guide decisions is the best way to reside within your IT infrastructure. When looking at cloud, it's important to continually right-size workloads at the right cost to maintain the lowest TCO. Adopting a multi-cloud strategy aligns with this, as well as, avoids vendor lock-in.
The public cloud is often used for quick projects to see if something works. Is there a danger of enterprises locking themselves into an environment that later becomes difficult to move to in-house IT? Do startups need to worry about locking themselves into public clouds?
"Going all into the public cloud can prove to be disastrous. We've come across many companies who have done so, only to regret the decision due to skyrocketing costs, loss of control and/or compliance issues"
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has recently been talking about enterprises that are now running up against a "cloud cliff", an over-reliance on the public cloud leading to performance, cost, or control issues. This is one of the main drivers for adopting a hybrid IT infrastructure strategy.
Is public cloud always the least expensive option, and where might private clouds be more cost effective?
No. As mentioned earlier, for certain workloads, private clouds can prove to be far more economical and provide greater control. That is why it is important to leverage hybrid IT management software to get data-driven recommendations.
Why is software like yours so important to the success of a business today? What are the biggest frustrations your clients come to you for project management? What are the risks of not managing workflow digitally?
Today's CIO is continually being tasked to reduce the total cost of ownership of infrastructure, as well as, be operationally-efficient, and greener for that matter.
"Our software allows CIOs to achieve these cost-saving and operational efficiency goals by removing the complexity associated with managing many workloads across a multi-sourced environment."
Looking at the future of federal IT, it seems fully embracing and implementing a cloud infrastructure is pivotal for any public-sector organization looking to meet mission and keep up with the demands of its many consistencies. What's your take on the current state of cloud in the federal government?
The adoption has been very slow. So slow, the federal government has launched the Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) to effectively shut down and/or collapse existing legacy infrastructure into fewer more efficient facilities, and outsource the rest to the cloud. They have missed their targets twice now, however, I do see a big shift over the next 10 years towards more efficient hybrid IT environments.
Looking to the next 10 years of IT, what are the things agencies can do today to "future proof" their infrastructure and ensure they're not simply investing in tomorrow's costly, legacy system?
A hybrid IT strategy provides the maximum flexibility for today's enterprise for the simple fact that you are not locked into a single-sourced infrastructure. Having the freedom to match workloads to the right infrastructure to achieve the lowest overall TCO is an enduring strategy.
Are there any upcoming releases/products that you would like to tell us about? What can customers expect over the next one to two quarters from Tuangru?
Recently, we added the ability to manage our multi-cloud instances in Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. We will continue to build on this feature in 2018 with more robust tools to help determine which workloads to keep on-prem and which ones to migrate to the cloud.


Tolkien-scholar Devin Brown's latest book Hobbit Lessons, A Map for Life's Unexpected Journeys was released nationwide in October 2013. It presents timeless lessons and tangible bites of wisdom that are moving, fun, and help navigate life's journey.
Brown teases out the wisdom that Tolkien has woven into his timeless story in a way that becomes a story in itself. We learn what it means to join together with friends on a mutual quest, not to be overly fond of certain things even as we learn to see the priceless value of others, and to recognize our own place in the wide world and where it is that we truly belong.
For those new to The Hobbit or long-time fans, Hobbit Lessons will bring the book alive in a new way and provide life lessons about loyalty, selflessness, friendship, and dedication—lessons as precious as a golden ring.
We best know Devin Brown from his previous Tolkien book The Christian World of the Hobbit, a book-length examination of the faith elements in J.R.R. Tolkien's enchanting prelude to The Lord of the Rings. We are happy to see he now wrote yet another book, this time tackling The Hobbit. The new book, Hobbit Lessons, is less focused on literary analysis and offers tangible take-aways and profound life lessons on joy, friendship, dedication, sacrifice, and more.
Millions of fans worldwide have been attracted to The Hobbit for its unique combination of high adventure and profound truths. Tapping the excitement around the highly-anticipated second installment of the Hobbit movie trilogy (in theaters since December 2013), Tolkien-scholar, Devin Brown, presents a fast-paced and easy-to-follow presentation of timeless spiritual messages to help navigate your spiritual journey. Peppered with illustrations throughout, Hobbit Lessons offers troll-sized portions of relevance and regular nuggets of good Hobbit sense.
The result is a collection of tangible bites of wisdom that are not only deeply moving but also great fun. These lessons on joy, friendship, dedication, sacrifice, and more will appeal to Hobbit fans, parents, teachers, librarians, youth pastors, graduates—and anyone looking for a creative way to explore timeless life lessons and important values of faith.
Brown Devin is a Lilly Scholar and a Professor of English at Asbury University where he teaches a class on Lewis and Tolkien. He has spoken at Lewis and Tolkien conferences in the UK and the U.S. Devin earned a PhD at the University of South Carolina and currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
Brown has published numerous essays and scholarly articles on Lewis and Tolkien, who were not only contemporaries, but friends. His Lewis books include Inside Narnia: A Guide to Exploring The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe(2005), Inside Prince Caspian: A Guide to Exploring the Return to Narnia(2008) and Inside the Voyage of the Dawn Treader: A Guide to Exploring the Journey beyond Narnia(2010).
His latest book on Tolkien was The Christian World of The Hobbit about which we released an interview.


It has been quite some time since we blogged about Rod Stewart and his Las Vegas residency. Since then he has squeezed in a joint tour with Stevie Nicks this past summer and went right back to his Vegas stint at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
Now Stewart has decided to continue his residency into 2013 with the announcement of new dates for January and February. The new dates Stewart revealed are January 23, 26, 27, & 30 and February 1, 2, 6, 8 and 9. Tickets for these new shows go on sale September 28.
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We last talked about Rod Stewart, one of the most successful singers of all-time, when we looked at the most expensive concerts of all time where one of his Las Vegas shows tallied up a staggering average ticket price of $784. Surprisingly, Rod Stewart is the only artist to have 2 separate events inside the top 10 of our most expensive concert events list. But don't worry, although most of his events are highly demanded, not all of them are as high as the two referenced above. You can see a list of all Rod Stewarts average ticket prices below since the beginning of 2011.
Starting in August of 2011, Rod Stewart is performing a two year residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, NV – taking a page out of the Celine Dion and Elton John playbooks. You can see below that Rod Stewart Caesars Palace tickets tend to average around $200 each.
Are you going to see Rod Stewart in Las Vegas 2011/2012? Let us know the comments.


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The Young Turks Really, Really Don't Want You to Compare Them to Breitbart
Young Turks co-founder Cenk Uygur pictured in Pasadena, California in 2012.AP Photo/Danny Moloshok
Cenk Uygur bristles at the notion that the progressive media company he co-founded more than a decade ago, the Young Turks, is becoming the Breitbart of the left—that is, a pugilistic news outlet waging an ideological war with the establishment class. If you ask him, the comparison is backward. "Andrew Breitbart, when he was on my show before he passed away, said they emulated us, not the other way around," Uygur told me in mid-March, after finishing a panel at South by Southwest. "They get a lot of credit now because our idiot president reads them, but in terms of traffic, they're nowhere near us." Besides, he added, Breitbart had done it wrong. "The trick is to be honest, and that's the part they left out."
The comparison, though, was still on Uygur's mind a few days later. "We have 80 million unique viewers" a month, he said on his nightly YouTube show—a figure that's roughly double Breitbart's monthly readership. "Breitbart is a pimple on our ass."
Yet in the aftermath of the 2016 election, the 46-year-old Uygur, a longtime critic of the Democratic Party's political establishment, has ventured into an unfamiliar and uncertain place in Democratic politics. Fed up with the "sellouts" in Washington, Uygur has emerged as a leader of a coordinated progressive effort to unseat incumbent Democrats en masse in House and Senate primaries next year.
"Andrew Breitbart, when he was on my show before he passed away, said they emulated us, not the other way around," Uygur says.
In December, Uygur, Kyle Kulinski, a Young Turks network colleague who hosts "Secular Talk," and a pair of top Bernie Sanders campaign staffers launched Justice Democrats, a political action committee that aims to recruit and fund a slate of primary challengers under an anti-corporate, progressive banner. Justice Democrats boasts 200,000 members and has raised more than $1.5 million. In March, it formally joined forces with another branch of the Sanders diaspora, Brand New Congress, which has vowed to run more than 400 progressive House and Senate candidates in 2018.
To further this effort, Uygur is preparing to deploy his show—which appears on YouTube and the Young Turks website—as a battering ram against Democrats who don't fall in line. He says he will offer airtime and fundraising help for progressive challengers.
The Young Turks (TYT) is the political opposite of Breitbart, Stephen Bannon's alt-right home page. But Uygur's platform increasingly shares one big thing in common with the combative right-wing site that unabashedly eggs on intra-Republican challenges and sells "RINO hunter" coffee mugs in its online store: a mission to make the establishment squeal.
"Let them keep thinking what they're gonna think," Uygur said of the Democratic Party's consultant class. "We're gonna rout them. It's a whole new world. And yes, new media will drive us to totally new results. It'll be a much more progressive future. They have no idea what's gonna hit them."
There is plenty of cause for skepticism. Liberals don't have much of a track record when it comes to knocking off Democratic incumbents. Their biggest success in recent years came in 2006, when Democrat Ned Lamont, an opponent of the Iraq War, beat Sen. Joe Lieberman, a prominent hawk, in the Democratic primary. Yet Lamont went on to lose to Lieberman in the general election, when the incumbent ran on the "Connecticut for Lieberman" ticket. Uygur, though, believes the progressives' lack of success in knocking off centrist or moderate Democrats has been partly due to mainstream media outlets depriving would-be challengers of oxygen. And that's where he comes in.
The Young Turks started as a radio show in 2002 and eventually grew into a YouTube-based media company with 11 shows. (Uygur also hosted a MSNBC show by the same name for six months in 2011.) It is a for-profit company that received a $4 million investment three years ago from a venture capital firm headed by former Louisiana Republican Gov. Buddy Roemer. (The partnership is not as strange as it sounds; Roemer has become a leading critic of the post-Citizens United campaign finance world.)
At the same time Uygur is gearing up to do battle in Democratic primaries, he's mounting a major expansion at TYT. Since the election, TYT has raised $1.4 million in crowd-sourced donations and hired eight new staffers and contributors. The new hires largely fit Uygur's combative model. One new recruit is Michael Tracey, a bomb-throwing former Vice writer who recently called the media's "bizarre new obsession with (allegedly) rising anti-semitism" a "moral panic." Other recent hires include Shaun King, the Black Lives Matter activist and former New York Daily News columnist, and Nomiki Konst, a reporter and commentator who was chosen by the Sanders campaign to serve on the Democratic National Committee's post-election unity commission. The Huffington Post's Washington bureau chief Ryan Grim signed on as a TYT commentator, as did David Sirota, a popular progressive journalist who has recently specialized in business reporting.
TYT is gleefully in-your-face, with an advocacy bent that's atypical for a news outlet. Last month, while Konst was covering the election of the Democratic National Committee's new chairman in Atlanta, she found herself in a Twitter skirmish with longtime Hillary Clinton adviser Neera Tanden, the president and CEO of the Center for American Progress. During this scuffle, Tanden criticized TYT for taking money from Buddy Roemer. Konst replied that her own position was crowd-funded, and then she pulled out a smartphone and filmed a TYT Facebook Live segment threatening to expose Tanden for "all the money you've taken and all of the things you've done." (Asked about this later, Konst would not specify what she was referring to, but said it would be the subject of an upcoming story.)
Although TYT itself does not back candidates—and staffers such as Konst aren't involved with Justice Democrats—Uygur and Kulinski say they intend to use their shows and their social-media accounts to provide a platform and raise money for the candidates they endorse. This is not Uygur's first venture into direct political action. In 2011, he launched Wolf PAC, a group that aims to end corporate political influence by forcing a new constitutional convention of the states. The convention would then, in theory, pass a "Free and Fair Elections Amendment" limiting corporate donations. (Five state legislatures have backed his plan so far; 34 are needed to trigger a convention.*) In February, Wolf PAC raised $55,000 for a Connecticut Democratic state Senate candidate, Greg Cava, who came up short in a special election in the state's most Republican-leaning district. The previous Republican had won by 36 points; Cava lost by 10. "So the message I had after the election was, 'If you're gonna vote against Wolf PAC, go ahead and do it, but you should make sure you have a 27-point lead,'" Uygur said.
Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress aren't the only progressive outfits that have sprung up to challenge their party's incumbents. Another group founded by Sanders campaign alumni, We Will Replace You, was launched in February with a similar intent. Unlike the other groups, We Will Replace You does not intend to recruit candidates; it is more focused on applying pressure on the Democratic lawmakers it considers most vulnerable, though it also plans to eventually aid candidates who fit its mold.
Co-founder Claire Sandberg, who was Sanders' director of digital organizing, is bullish about the idea of replicating the decentralized model of the Vermont senator's presidential campaign on behalf of other long-shot challengers. "We want to make it clear to Democrats that they need to pick which side they're on," she said. "They can either pick the side of Donald Trump and his Wall Street cronies, or they can pick the side of the people who are on the streets."
For now, Justice Democrats and Brand New Congress are putting in the behind-the-scenes work, recruiting and grooming a slate of candidates who will be rolled out later this year. The groups solicited the names of potential candidates from TYT viewers and progressive activists and received 8,000 suggestions. After four rounds of vetting, that list was whittled down to about 70 people. Of those, 30 candidates are currently being trained by Sanders campaign alumni. The first candidate the groups endorsed is Cori Bush, a pastor and nurse from St. Louis, who is running in a primary against nine-term Democratic Rep. Lacy Clay.
As for the Senate, Uygur and his allies' most immediate targets are moderate Democrats Sens. Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Joe Manchin of West Virginia. (Manchin recently has dared progressive activists to primary him.) No progressive challenger has yet materialized to take on either of them, but Uygur is confident he will find contenders.
"I don't have a time frame on it, but I can guarantee you that it'll happen," he said. "But Manchin is the tip of the iceberg. Who cares about Manchin? We're going after the core of the party—he's just the symptom."
*Correction: This article originally misstated the number of states needed to trigger a constitutional convention.
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Little Women – Movie Review
Posted by Darshana V. Nadkarni, Ph.D. in Movie Reviews on January 5, 2020
Director Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel "Little Women" is a heart warming story of tender ties of sisterhood. The story weaves in and out of past and present events in the lives of four March sisters, passionate and fiercely independent Jo March (Saoirse Ronan), wise and practical eldest sister, Meg March (Emma Watson), tender, shy and deeply caring, Beth March (Eliza Scanlen), and artistic one with a flair for dramatics, Amy March (Florence Pugh). This talented cast is further enhanced with Laura Dern as infinitely patient, wise and loving, Marmee, Timothee Chalamet as Laurie, their neighbor, and Meryl Streep as deliciously sharp and judgmental, Aunt March.
Alcott herself was a fascinating woman who served as a nurse during the Civil War, survived typhoid fever, took lessons from Henry David Thoreau, was an abolitionist and feminst and remained unmarried and was committed to her writing throughout her life. In LIttle Women, she raises questions pertinent to women's rights and society's expectations of how women should live their lives. Her characters raise these issues in a candid and forthright manner. Gerwig's masterful adaptation of this timeless classic is not only bold but beautiful; it's not just a story of life and death, but story of life, energy and hope; not just a story of adapting to change but staying true to one's mission. Previously having seen the theater version (http://bit.ly/2QqNTNN), I recently saw the entire television adaptation series of Little Women, on PBS. It was a treat to see this beautiful movie on the silver screen, while the characters were so fresh in my mind. (Image courtesy Lydia Wang's article on Entertainment).
Heroines in Little Women don't hesitate to have big dreams and voice big ideas as in "I'd be respected, if I didn't feel loved"; and "girls have to go into the world and make up their own minds about things". Gerwig has injected freshness and vitality and love into this timeless classic. Last 30 minutes of the film is just priceless. As you settle into the rhythm of life of March household, you are so uniquely drawn into their home that when it ends, you feel you are walking away from a family, you're certain to meet again soon.
It was so nourishing to my soul, today it was just what I needed. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being excellent, I rate the movie 4.8.
abolitionist, Amy March, Aunt March, "Little Women", Beth March, Eliza Scanlen, Emma Watson, feminst, Florence Pugh, Greta Gerwig, Henry David Thoreau, http://bit.ly/2QqNTNN, Jo March, Laura Dern, Louisa May Alcott, Marmee, Meg March, Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, Timothee Chalamet
Little Women – Play Review
Posted by Darshana V. Nadkarni, Ph.D. in Play Reviews on December 10, 2013
Director Robert Kelley has done it again; a superb job of bringing the classic "Little Women" by Allan Knee, based on the original novel by Louisa May Alcott, on stage at www.theatreworks.org . This classic tale of four sisters is brought on stage in the form of a musical, with lovely lyrics by Mindi Dickstein and music by Jason Howland, under musical director, William Liberatore. It is playing in Palo Alto, at Lucie Stern Theater, until January 4, 2014. The play is set in 1868, during the time of the civil war, in New England. Costume Design befitting the period is beautiful and the credit goes to Fumiko Bielefeldt and creative scenic design is by Joe Ragey.
Alcott wrote the novel "Little Women", based on familiar references from her own life. In the play, the father of four girls (the March sisters), is away, fighting in the war, leaving their mother, Marmee, (beautifully played by Elizabeth Ward Land) to run the household full of four young women. Emily Koch is absolutely stupendous as Jo the second sister, an aspiring writer, who is feisty, a non conformist, loves books, and spurns traditions. Jo has a hard time getting her book published and is told to come up with a "better" plot. The play opens with a musical about her book and she asks "better than what, better than this dazzling plot?" In an era when women were to do as they were bid, Jo reaches high, and she is confident, she will attain what she is reaching for.
While Jo finds solace in her writing, her younger sister Amy (superbly played by Arielle Fishman) is both jealous of Jo and desirous of what may be within Jo's reach. Amy is vivacious and full of life. When Jo and eldest sister Meg are invited to their first Ball, Amy is so jealous that she burns to ashes, Jo's half written novel. Jo sings "I will never fall asleep again" and it falls on Marmee to make peace between the two sisters. Sharon Rietkerk plays the oldest sister, Meg, who is the family beauty, is simple, sweet and easily falls in love with John Brooke (played by Justin Buchs), and Julia Belanoff does a fabulous job as Beth, the youngest sister who is sweet, sensible, satisfied with her herself and sadly succumbs to an illness.
Little Women is a story of the four sisters, growing up, finding love, rejecting love, supporting one another through life's trials and tribulations, getting beaten down by life's struggles, overcoming them, attaining their dreams, and holding the family together by a tie that binds. Matt Dengler (as Laurie, grandson of the March family's neighbor), Richard Farrell (as the old and crusty neighbor with a soft heart), Justin Buchs (as Laurie's tutor), and Christopher Vettel (as Jo's professor) have played their roles nicely and they add the right touch of yang to the yin of the March women. I love the cast in this play and Elizabeth Palmer as stern Aunt March is also wonderful.
But it is fantastic Emily Koch as Jo, whose performance makes this a show to remember. There are many warm, funny, sweet moments in the play that the sisters enjoy. And yet, in the end, it is the heartbreak that ignites Jo to write a novel that brings her recognition and fame, and it is her writing that helps her overcome the heartbreak, and adapt to the changing family.
This is a beautiful not-to-miss play of the season, to start off the holidays filled with family celebrations. The opening night performance was completely sold out and the audience gave a standing ovation. Book your tickets early at http://www.theatreworks.org .
Cover of Little Women (Pavilion Classics)
1868, Allan Knee, Arielle Fishman, "Little Women", Christopher Vettel, civil war, Elizabeth Palmer, Elizabeth Ward Land, Emily Koch, Fumiko Bielefeldt, Jason Howland, Joe Ragey, Julia Belanoff, Louisa May Alcott, Lucie Stern Theater, Matt Dengler, Mindi Dickstein, Play Reviews, Richard Ferrell, Robert Kelley, Sharon Rietkerk, William Liberatore, www.theatreworks.org


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Q: Solve for parameter in ParametricNDSolve I have a simple 2-variable ODE system with a parameter
$P'[z] = -2\Phi[z]$
$\Phi'[z] = -2\frac{P[z]}{a}$
I've implemented the code as follows
Pin = 20*10^5;

eqs = {P'[z] == -Phi[z], Phi'[z] == -Phi[z]/a};
bconds = {Phi[0] == 2, P[0] == Pin};
pfun = ParametricNDSolveValue[{eqs, bconds}, {P, Phi}, {z, 0, 1},{a}]

How can I solve for this parameter so that $\Phi[1]$ is given by a specific $\Phi_{0}$. I've tried to define an inline function
EndPhi[x_] := (pfun = ParametricNDSolveValue[{eqs, bconds}, {P, Phi}, {z, 0, 1}, {a}];
xEnd = pfun[x][[1]][[1, 1, -1]];
pfun[x][[2]][xEnd]);

When I use
NSolve[EndPhi[x] == 0.2,x]

This does not lead to the solution. However, EndPhi[x] yields numbers for input values.

A: Are you looking for something like this?
sol = ParametricNDSolve[{eqs, bconds}, {P, Phi}, {z, 0, 1}, {a}];

Plot[Evaluate[(Phi[a][1] - 2) /. sol], {a, 10^15, 10^16}]

FindRoot[(Phi[a][1] - 2) /. sol, {a, 10^15}]

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