"The success of Amazon and WFM should not come at the cost of exploiting our dedication and threatening our economic stability."
Last year, Jeff Bezos' Amazon acquired Whole Foods and set about streamlining and centralizing the grocery chain's existing model that had historically allowed each store to operate largely independently. But practically speaking, that focus on corporate efficiency translated to layoffs for Whole Foods employees. Now, the employees are doing their own centralized organizing.
After hundreds of in-store marketing staff were laid off earlier this summer, workers started agitating for a union. This morning, a group of employees released an email to New Food Economy that they said had been distributed to most of Whole Foods' tens of thousands of workers urging them to unionize.
Therefore, we should demand a labor model that offers a $15 minimum wage, 401k matching, paid maternity leave, lower health insurance deductibles, a fair and equitable gain share and bonus system, and equal profit sharing, amongst other benefits.
It goes on to specifically solicit union participation across all 490 Whole Foods stores.
To hold Amazon and WFM accountable in supporting its team members, we are forming a cross-regional committee of interested team members that would like to organize in working to create a platform to force Amazon to meet our demands. Accomplishing this as individual stores is extremely difficult. However, if we organize our efforts on a national scale it will be impossible for Amazon and WFM executives to ignore.
That said, world's-richest-corporate-overlord Jeff Bezos has worked to squash unions since Amazon's founding in 1994. Despite widespread reporting on the exploitative and sometimes dangerous working conditions in his factories and near poverty-level pay, Bezos has repeatedly employed intense pressure and punitive firings to prevent labor from organizing.
We respect the individual rights of our team members and have an open-door policy that encourages team members to bring their comments, questions and concerns directly to their team leaders. We believe this direct connection is the most effective way to understand and respond to the needs of our workforce and creates an atmosphere that fosters open communication and empowerment. We offer competitive wages and benefits and are committed to the growth and success of our team members.
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Home biography Ashley Yule
Ashley Yule Biography
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Ashley Yule
Previously worked for Gold Rush, Supeerhoodz
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Dating Parker Schnabel
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Gold Rush Season 7
Quick Timeline of Ashley Yule
1995 Born in Australia
2016 Joined a show called Gold Rush Season 7
2018 Has the net worth of $80,000
Detail Timeline of Ashley Yule
Born in Australia
Ashley Yule was born in the year 1995 which makes her 23 years as of 2018 in Australia, however little to no information has been revealed about her childhood.
October 14 , 2016
Joined a show called Gold Rush Season 7
Ashley was a part of the show called Gold Rush Season 7 along with her boyfriend Parker which aired from October 14, 2016.
Has the net worth of $80,000
Yule has an approximate net worth of around $80,000 because of the earnings of her TV appearance and her dancing crew as of 2018.
Ashley Yule is a reality TV star who rose to fame after she participated in the Discovery Channel's Gold Rush. She got further limelight following her romantic relationship with Gold Rush star Parker Schnabel.
Birth & Age
Ashley has also been very private about her personal and professional matters. She was born in the year 1995 which makes her 23 years of age, as of 2018.
Love Affairs, Boyfriend, & Dating
In regards to her personal life, Ashley dated her co-star Parker Schnabel. Their relationship attracted huge attention and they were in the headlines for quite a while.
Parker Schnabel met Ashley when he was on his trip to Australia, very soon the duo clicked with each other and ultimately fell in love. Yule frequently traveled to the United States to spend time with her beloved.
According to feed weekly wiki, Schnable talked about his love life with Ashley and called her pretty easygoing and a fun companion. He further explained how she understood him as a person and even had solutions for his rage. They enjoyed each other's company and liked spending time with each other.
When Ashley was a part of the Gold Rush, she kept herself very private regarding her personal life and people wonder if the couple is still dating. But due to some noticeable changes in her Instagram account, it does seem that the pair has called it quits.
In a Facebook Live Question and Answer, Schnabel exposed that he loved spending holidays with his girlfriend. But when the questions turned about the possibility of marriage, in a response to that, Schnabel laughed it out.
However, in an interview, Parker himself revealed that the couple had parted ways and blamed himself for it. He told that he wasn't able to manage his professional life with his personal life and could not give ample time to his girlfriend.
What is Net Worth? Career
All the details about her net worth and possessions are under review but it has been estimated that her net worth is somewhere around $80,000.
At the present time, Ashley Yule has returned to Australia and she seems to be continuing her hip-hop dancing career in Australia. She knows everything from videography to dancing and is currently connected to the dancing crew, Superhoodz, based in her motherland itself.
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Mitzvah Tools: Virtual Learning for Bar and Bat Mitzvah Students
Scrolling through my Facebook feed a few weeks ago, I noticed that the young woman whose bat mitzvah I officiated just weeks after being ordained as a rabbi a dozen years ago had walked down the aisle as a bride. That, combined with the realization that my oldest child will become a bar mitzvah early next year, caused me to feel nostalgic and also to consider how the bar and bat mitzvah training process has changed over the years.
While the bar mitzvah ceremony is a relatively new institution in Judaism, it hasn't changed much in terms of what the bar mitzvah boy or bat mitzvah girl actually does in the synagogue service. Of course, the ceremony differs from synagogue to synagogue, and what a girl is allowed to do for her bat mitzvah ceremony varies in Orthodox congregations and in some Conservative congregations.
What has certainly changed in recent years is how these Jewish teens are trained for their coming of age ceremony and how the synagogues handle the process. During my final year of rabbinical school I was serving a fledgling synagogue community in Northern Virginia while attending classes in New York City and living in News Jersey. The few b'nai mitzvah students I had to train that year met with me mostly over a speaker phone. I remember that when I had the opportunity to meet with these teens in person during one of my weekend visits to the congregation I realized how much of the important interaction I was missing because I couldn't see their faces during our tutoring sessions. The technology to tutor them virtually through video conferencing was not yet available.
Today, many bar and bat mitvah tutors are training Jewish teens who live hundreds or even thousands of miles away thanks to the advent of such video conferencing apps as Skype, Google Hangouts, Zoom and Apple FaceTime. Even beyond these communication apps, there are other technological tools being used to allow for a more interactive bar mitzvah training experience. Many online tutors use the Trope Trainer application, a computer software that has lessons, blessings and full readings for students. There is no shortage of online options for the parents looking for virtual training for their child's bar mitzvah preparations. In many cases, it is the family that is unaffiliated with a congregation that is looking to use technology for training. However, with busy extracurricular schedules for the teens and hectic work responsibilities for their parents, it is oftentimes easier for teens to be trained at home in front of a screen.
All of these new options for bar mitzvah training mean that congregations need to keep track of where and how their teens are being trained. They also have to manage the entire process of training and meeting the several benchmarks in place for the b'nai mitzvah program.
One rabbi in Canada is bringing the bar mitzvah management process into the Digital Age. Vancouver Rabbi Dan Moskovitz has created a groundbreaking b'nai mitzvah management platform to make the process much easier for congregations utilizing distance tutoring in a more personable way. He is the rabbi of a large congregation, but as a hobby he develops software programs to help manage synagogue operations and education programs. He recently released Mitzvah Tools 2.0.
Many congregations in the various Jewish denominations across North America already hold subscriptions to the original version of Mitzvah Tools, which is the first cloud-based management system for b'nai mitzvah. Over the years, congregations of all sizes have relied on this desktop app to maintain recordings of Torah readings, schedule appointments with students, track tutoring notes, participation honors and handle assignments. Thirteen years later, Moskovitz has teamed up with a cantor to augment the original software.
The new version of Mitzvah Tools is completely cloud-based and mobile friendly. It promises to transform the bar and bat mitzvah educational process for congregations making critical information and valuable resources easily accessible to participants like tutors, clergy, students and parents. Rabbis, cantors and bar mitzvah tutors will be able to use the Mitzvah Tools app to make multi-media rich assignments and tasks for students, maintain service notes, schedule appointments, initiate video chats for remote learning and maintain their congregation's own limitless online resource bank of audio, video and text files accessible to each student at any time.
"The expectations placed upon the b'nai mitzvah in the training process has not changed much in several generations, but the students, educators and parents have changed dramatically," Moskovitz explains. "Students now have more demands on their time, with extracurricular activities and hours of homework making huge demands on them. Mitzvah Tools allows students to study wherever and whenever they can with all of their materials right on their phone, including initiating a Skype/FaceTime session with a tutor with just a click of a button."
For parents, who are managing multiple calendars and projects, Mitzvah Tools creates organization. The app syncs appointment calendars, online scheduling, instant threaded messaging with the education team and an online resource bank that has every kernel of information about the b'nai mitzah process. Moskovitz correctly points out that with today's prevalence of intermarriage in the Jewish community, many parents of Jewish teens did not experience the bar or bat mitzvah training process in their youth so an application like Mitzvah Tools is helpful in that regard as well.
For educators, Mitzvah Tools provides one place for notes, files, assignments, calendar, honors during the service and important contact information. In a previous generation, many tutors kept a binder, which was never seen by rabbis or cantors. Now, however, everyone can be on the same page. In multi-clergy/multi-tutor environments this is an extremely helpful program.
"Until Mitzvah Tools came along, in order to keep track of the more than 100 students under my supervision or tutoring, I had to carry around a 4 inch ring binder, in which each child had their own pages," said Cantor Mark Britowich of Temple Judea in California. "With Mitzvah Tools, I can now manage these students easily. Everything I need to know is visible on whatever device I use and I maintain each child's file so that everyone on our staff can see exactly what the student is working on."
Mitzvah Tools is the perfect solution for distance learning with an online project management system, remote video chat and threaded discussions between students and educator the tutoring room in now in the cloud. In small, rural communities in which it is challenging to find bar mitzvah tutors, an online tutor can be engaged and with the use of Mitzvah Tools, the rabbi or other congregational designate can monitor the student's progress from the online dashboard and join in the process every step of the way.
"It is not like the Internet was just invented, but if you're still getting CDs and photocopies from your congregation, having to call to schedule appointments you'd never know it," Moskovitz said. "Mitzvah Tools changes all that for the better."
"Mitzvah Tools has been such a huge help for our son and his bar mitzvah studies," said Sharon Goldberg of Florida. "Having all of his recordings online and being able to schedule or reschedule his tutoring sessions from my phone makes it so much easier to stay on top of this whole process."
Twelve year old Jewish teens will continue to celebrate their bar and bat mitzvah ceremonies as their grandparents did before them, but the preparation process has been changed thanks to new technology. Online training websites and virtual tutors will become the norm for how these teens prepare for their milestone event on the Jewish lifecycle and new applications like Mitzvah Tools will help ensure the process is organized and managed appropriately.
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Sound Visual performance QUANTUM-TON is a 3rd chapter of his Hyper Serial Music project/series. The project expands on the history of serialism – an important 20th century method of music composition used by Arnold Schönberg, Karhleinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez, among others – by incorporating new technologies and new perspectives, including artificial intelligence. In the history of music technology, Hyper-Serial-Music will add innovation to the principle of Serialism three-point: "structural", "complex" and "noisy". These sounds are on the boundaries of the limits of human auditory perception, cognition. Evolution from past works. In this work Tatsuru developed and evolved into more complex and higher quality result, unfolding the relation between Sound and Quantum energy as like fictionally Science. And the relation itself constructs the Dramturgy. By means of algorithmic simulation, principles designing the audiovisual substance are correlated directly on showing the physical side of Universe through human perception.


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\r\nHe has been a lead modeler on a number of key United Nations projects including the ICPD @ 15 Costing, High Level Task Force on Innovative Financing, and the Adding It Up reports. He is credited with being the lead developer of the tool used for costing the health-related Millennium Development Goals. He is also an adjunct professor at School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
\r\nPrior to joining the United Nations, Howard ran Analytic Solutions LLC, which provides consulting services in designing, developing and modeling data. This work also included teaching data mining and modeling techniques for major international corporations and foreign governments. Prior to that, he was a Director at Capital One, where he led teams of statisticians, analysts and programmers in operations and marketing.
\r\nHoward is the author of over 35 scientific articles and book chapters in areas of applied statistics, health economics with recent publications in the American Journal of Gastroenterology, Current Medical Research & Opinion, Clinical Therapeutics, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy, Clinical Drug Investigation and Value in Health.
\r\nHoward Friedman received his BS from Binghamton University in Applied Physics and a Masters in Statistics, along with a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University.
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US Infant Mortality Rate Higher Than Other Wealthy Countries
06/25/2012 12:07 pm ET Updated Dec 06, 2017
The following article is based on excerpts from the recently released book The Measure of a Nation: How to Regain America's Competitive Edge and Boost Our Global Standing A key goal in Measure of a Nation is to compare the United States to other wealthy countries, with the idea being to identify which countries are performing the best in each area of interest: health, safety, democracy, education and equality. In each of those areas, the countries that are performing the best are examined to determine which best practices might be applied here in America. In order to do this analysis, we selected the subset of countries that are both wealthy (nominal GDP per capita over $20,000) and have a population greater than 10 million (upper third of national populations, no city-state countries) as a comparison group. This comparison group consists of 14 countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Portugal, The Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Infant mortality rate is defined as the number of deaths of infants one year or younger per 1,000 live births. It is a critical measure because the death of a young child has a greater impact on a population's life expectancy than does a death from disease or injury in the middle or later stages of life. In the developing world, infant mortality tends to be a result of pneumonia, diarrhea, tetanus, and congenital malformation. In the developed world, it is typically associated with low birth-weight or extremely premature births.
We usually don't think about infant mortality in the United States. We associate it with the developing world or with the distant past. Globally, in just the brief period between 1960 and 2001, infant mortality declined from 126 infant deaths per 1,000 live births to 57 per 1,000 live births.
The United States has the highest rate of infant mortality of any of these comparison countries while Japan, the competitor with the longest life expectancy, has the lowest. In the United States, the most common causes of infant mortality are congenital malformations and disorders associated with low birth-weight and short gestation.
The fact that the United States has the highest infant mortality is not because of a lack of specialists or facilities for neonatal births; on the contrary, America has more neonatologists and neonatal intensive care beds per person than Australia, Canada, or the United Kingdom.
As with other health metrics, America's relative performance is declining. In 1960, the United States had the twelfth lowest infant mortality rate in the world. By 1990, we had dropped to twenty-third, and we sank to thirty-fourth in 2008. Our high infant mortality rate evidences the economic, ethnic, and racial disparities referred to earlier. For example, in 2005, African-American infants suffered a death rate of 13.63 per 1,000 births, more than twice the national average. The CDC's 2004 world rankings indicate that an African-American baby would have a better chance of survival if born in Russia or Bulgaria than in the United States. Low birth-weight incidence explains some of the racial inequality. Low-weight births, defined as newborns weighing less than 2,500 grams or approximately five pounds, are about twice as common among African Americans as among (non-Hispanic) Caucasian and Hispanic babies, occurring at a rate of 13 percent among the former and at a rate of only 6.5 percent among the latter. Among the factors contributing to these lopsided outcomes are disparities in prenatal care, nutritional supplementation for pregnant women, and inadequate social welfare. Yet even if we eliminate this racial disparity and compare only the infant mortality rate of Caucasian Americans, our ranking versus the competitor countries is unaffected.
Infant mortality is just one of many metrics where the US used to be a world leader and has slipped in the last few decades. Other countries have identified leading practices that United States can learn from and adopt to improve its health care system. The idea of applying competitive intelligence and identification of best practices to countries is explored in detail in Measure of a Nation, where the publicly available data is displayed, links are provided and suggestions for improving America based on this competitive intelligence are discussed.
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Insider Selling: Ventyx Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:VTYX) Director Sells 33,353 Shares of Stock
Ventyx Biosciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:VTYX – Get Rating) Director William Richard White sold 33,353 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, January 23rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $35.10, for a total transaction of $1,170,690.30. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this hyperlink.
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Ventyx Biosciences, Inc, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, develops small molecule product candidates to address a range of inflammatory diseases. Its lead clinical product candidate is VTX958, a selective allosteric tyrosine kinase type 2 inhibitor for psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and Crohn's disease.
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Gateway adapts application interfaces for viewing on screens of IP telephones.
For startup Net6 Inc., IP telephony means more than converging voice, data and video on a single network. Its also about bringing all kinds of enterprise applications directly to the telephone.
Net6, of San Jose, Calif., this week is introducing a network appliance that delivers data from applications with HTML and XML interfaces to the screens of IP phones. Called the Telephony Transformation Gateway, the appliance re- purposes the user interfaces of the applications so that they can be viewed on screens that vary in size, color and protocol among vendors.
"Changing and transforming applications to suit a variety of devices shouldnt be done in back-end middleware software and with custom software applications but with a network appliance," Net6 CEO Murli Thirumale said. "What weve done is changed the equation."
The Telephony Transformation Gateway works at Layer 6 of the network, known as the presentation layer, and alleviates the need for rerouting application data through middleware or writing custom programming, officials said.
Net6 officials see two main uses for the gateway. One could be to bring simple access to the IP phones that users already have.
These could provide corporate directories or business dashboards with key company statistics such as stock prices or performance indicators.
Second, the gateway enables IP phones to access more complex applications such as Microsoft Corp.s Exchange for e-mail, contacts or a calendar for users who dont have access to a PC.
Net6s goal is to provide a network appliance that bridges the interoperability gap among vendors IP phones and enterprise applications. But in the initial release, the Telephony Transformation Gateway supports only Polycom Inc.s SoundPoint IP phone.
Net6s ability to add more supported phones is important, since users say compatibility with multiple vendors phones and IP PBX systems is a common problem when deploying VOIP (voice over IP).
"The biggest thing is compatibility," said Chris Martin, WAN engineer at the Northwest Regional Education Service District, in Beaverton, Ore. "It often comes down to the phones you buy. Applications are so proprietary that theres not anything out there that supports everything."
Martin is assisting one of the districts schools in deploying VOIP and said that the ability to access features of collaborative applications such as a directory and e-mail would be useful. But the district runs Novell Inc.s GroupWise, and Martin said he hasnt found third parties offering support for that collaborative application on IP phones.
The technology behind the Telephony Transformation Gateway comes from Net6s initial product, the Content Mobility Engine, released last year.
That network appliance not only provides access from enterprise applications to IP phones but also to mobile devices, officials said.
Net6 also resells the technology to other vendors. The company has a deal with Cisco Systems Inc. to include its technology in Ciscos Content Transformation Engine 1400.
Net6 is working with other telephony equipment makers to add support for their IP phones in the gateway or resell the technology for inclusion in the vendors products, officials said.
Pricing for the Telephony Transformation Gateway, available now, starts at $7,995 with support for up to 10 phones. Each appliance can support as many as 1,000 IP phones with the price increasing accordingly.


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Q: Cannot do OOP Callback function for usort I have read through a few dozen discussion of the use of class members as callback functions but none of the examples address what seems to me to be the obvious OOP design, based upon working with other OOP languages such as C++ and Java.
I have defined a comparison method within the class:
class TestClass {
private $aField; // integer value
function _construct($value)
{
        $this->aField   = $value;
}       // TestClass::_construct

function compare($other)
{
    if ($other instanceof TestClass)
    {           // comparing two instances
    return $this->afield - $other->afield;
    }           // comparing two events
    else
    throw new Exception("parameter is not instance of TestClass");
}       // TestClass::compare
}       // class TestClass

$instances  = array(new TestClass(5),new TestClass(3));
// the following fails because:
// 1. $this is not defined outside a class member
// 2. compare does not take two parameters
usort($instances, array($this, 'compare'));

// the following kluge works around this
function order($this, $that) { return $this->compare($that); }
usort($instances, 'order');

All of the examples I can find on this forum and in the PHP documentation are not complete in that they do not show the context of the call to usort.  Now I can get around this by making the comparison function a static function with two parameters and invoke it as a callable by array('TestClass','compare'), but it is not intuitive to define a comparison method as a static function of the class.  Based upon over 30 years of personal experience in OOP static functions are in most cases a result of poor class design.  In particular static methods defeat polymorphism.
What I am looking for is a sort function like that of Java, which exploits the Comparable interface.  I see that there has been some discussion dating back to 2010 about defining a Comparable interface, but that discussion is only in connection with the comparison operators, and makes PHP purists uncomfortable because it overloads operators.  However the Java Comparable interface does not overload operators since, with the glaring exception of the String class, Java does not support overloading operators.  Implementing the Comparable interface in Java enables you to use the class in SortedMaps and to sort instances within a Collection, but if you wish to compare two objects you must explicitly call the compareTo method.  I also see that there is an essentially undocumented compare_objects method which already overrides the default implementation of the comparison operators.  In other words despite the purists' objections PHP already permits you to overload the comparison operators for a class.  However it is undocumented whether or not the PHP sort function uses compare_objects when it is asked to sort objects.

A: You're calling $this outside of your class.
$obj = new TestClass();
$sorted = usort($instances, array($obj, 'compare'));

You could also do something like this (didn't test the code)
class TestClass() {
    function compareWith($other) {
        $arr = array($this, $other);
        usort($arr, function($that, $other) {
            if ($other instanceof TestClass)
            {           // comparing two instances
            return $other->afield - $that->afield;
            }           // comparing two events
            else
                throw new Exception("parameter is not instance of TestClass");
        });
        return $arr;
    }
}

$instance1  = new TestClass();
$instance2  = new TestClass();
$sorted = $instance1->compareWith($instance2);

A: You mentioned a collection class in your comments – so here's an example using (a very rudimentary) one, combined with the method of sorting taken from the user comment in the manual that I mentioned:
class Collection {
  private $itemType;
  private $items;

  public function __construct($itemType) {
    $this->itemType = $itemType;
    $this->items = [];
  }

  public function add($item) {
    if($item instanceof $this->itemType) {
      $this->items[] = $item;
    }
    else {
      throw new Exception('Only items of Type ' . $this->itemType . ' can be added!');
    }
  }

  public function sort() {
    usort($this->items, array($this, 'compareItems'));

    var_dump($this->items); // test output, to check the result
  }

  private function compareItems($a, $b) { // calls the compare method of the item class
    return $a->compare($b);
  }
}

class TestClass {
  private $aField;

  public function __construct($value) {
    $this->aField = $value;
  }

  public function compare($other) {
    if($other instanceof TestClass) {
      return $this->aField - $other->aField;
    }
    else {
      throw new Exception('Parameter is not instance of TestClass!');
    }
  }
}

$collection = new Collection('TestClass');

$collection->add(new TestClass(5));
$collection->add(new TestClass(1));
$collection->add(new TestClass(3));

$collection->sort();

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Lifetime's 'Patsy and Loretta' is a musical biopic for the #MeToo era
Carla Meyer	October 14, 2019Updated: October 15, 2019, 12:40 pm
Jessie Mueller (left) and Megan Hilty play Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline in "Patsy and Loretta." The film premieres on Lifetime on Friday, Oct. 18. Photo: Jake Giles Netter / Lifetime
Megan Hilty and Jessie Mueller, stars of the Lifetime movie "Patsy and Loretta," have some gigantic white-fringed cowboy boots to fill.
Not only are they portraying two of country music's greatest stars, Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn, but their movie, premiering Saturday, Oct. 19, covers the same ground as the best musical biopic ever made, 1980's "Coal Miner's Daughter."
Based on Lynn's memoir of growing up in Butcher Hollow, Ky., marrying at a very young age (heinous, but it really happened), and finding stardom, "Daughter" had that warm, grainy quality of all the best 1970s studio films. It also was the rare Hollywood film to venture into the impoverished hill country and come back authentic instead of patronizing.
Spacek, then in her late 20s, believably played Lynn from her teenage years into her 30s. In concert scenes, Spacek captured Lynn's very specific twang, and how it gained confidence with age.
Beverly D'Angelo had far less screen time as Cline, Lynn's friend and mentor. But she re-created Cline's singing voice — a far richer instrument than Lynn's — without doing a note-for-note impression. She also embodied Cline's life-of-the-party ebullience.
Sissy Spacek, as Loretta Lynn, in "Coal Miner's Daughter" (1980). Photo: Universal Pictures
It was clear the day of its release that "Daughter" was very good. But it did not yet seem transcendent. Rather it was of a piece with two other films with bravura lead performances and real singing: 1978's "The Buddy Holly Story," with Gary Busey, and 1979's veiled Janis Joplin biopic "The Rose," with Bette Midler.
It is only with the benefit of hindsight, of witnessing decades of lip-syncing Jessica, Jamie and Rami come-latelies, that "Daughter's" more extraordinary qualities become evident.
Being equally great at singing and acting is impossible. When audiences hear Meryl Streep sing, and think she did a great job, it's not appreciation. It's relief, that America's finest actress did not turn out to be America's worst singer.
An actor trying to replicate the voice of a famous singer is the highest-wire act in show business. Music superstars have distinctive, resonant voices, and can project into the cheap seats. An actor inevitably sounds wan by comparison.
Yet actors must attempt to sing for the performance to be organic. A lack of throughline from dialogue to music scene is too noticeable to ignore. It creates the same disconnect that happens when backing tracks become obvious at a live show.
This disconnect happened when Jessica Lange played Cline in 1985's "Sweet Dreams." Unlike D'Angelo (and Hilty in "Patsy and Loretta"), Lange lip-synced, and broke the spell every time she went onstage.
Yet Lange was nominated for an Oscar, and Jamie Foxx and Rami Malek won Oscars for lip-syncing in "Ray" and "Bohemian Rhapsody." (Although Foxx really played piano, which made his lip-syncing less jarring. And Malek's voice was at least part of a composite sound).
The argument goes that no actor could sound like Ray Charles or Freddie Mercury. Yet it genuinely would have been nice to see them try. Watching an actor be vulnerable helps sell the character's vulnerability.
Renée Zellweger does not sound like Judy Garland in "Judy," but she had to sing in the movie, an intimate backstage story. It would have been disastrous if Zellweger, as Garland, had stumbled onstage drunk only to have the real Garland's voice burst out when she reached the microphone.
Similarly, Taron Egerton singing in "Rocketman" brings an emotional consistency to his performance lacking in Malek's, even when Egerton mangles "Tiny Dancer."
Megan Hilty (left) and Jessie Mueller star as Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn in "Patsy and Loretta," based on the true story of the friendship between two of country music's greatest icons. Photo: Jake Giles Netter
Hilty and Mueller are Broadway musical veterans, so no songs get massacred in "Patsy and Loretta," which is well acted and well sung, if also less lively than "Daughter."
You can see the effort expended by Hilty (who was the best part of NBC's "Smash") when she sings Cline. You also appreciate that she is making the effort, because she sounds wonderful, and gets technically closer than D'Angelo did. Hilty also imparts Cline's self-assurance and caring nature in moments when Patsy stands up for Loretta and urges her to stand up for herself.
Mueller, who won a Tony for playing Carole King on Broadway, does not resemble Lynn (as Spacek kind of did) or sound much like her. But her singing voice is better than Spacek's or Lynn's, and thus is still a pleasure to hear. She also captures Lynn's shyness and winning aw-shucks stage presence.
One wishes for even more moments of Hilty and Mueller singing. But director Callie Khouri (writer of "Thelma & Louise") emphasizes the women's friendship and private lives instead. This approach is wonderful in theory but can be a little dull, and also sometimes troubling, since Patsy and Loretta talk a lot about their husbands, who are abusive creeps.
Because it was made nearly 40 years ago, and not made by Khouri, "Daughter" sometimes romanticized Lynn's marriage to Doolittle Lynn (Tommy Lee Jones), a hot-tempered philanderer.
The post-#MeToo "Patsy" does not fuzz the truth of the women's marriages. This movie makes you wish both real-life husbands could be prosecuted posthumously for spousal abuse.
Otherwise, "Daughter" does not seem dated. Here's hoping "Patsy and Loretta" introduces a new generation to the music of the late Cline, and the now 87-year-old Lynn, and by extension, to that other film about them. The near-perfect one.
Patsy and Loretta premieres at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, on Lifetime.
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I suspect that even if I didn't struggle with timeliness ordinarily, I would in this instance. It's a lot of work to get the six of us ready and out the door. Some of us struggle with falling asleep and therefore drag in the mornings. One of us has arthritic joint pain that is worsened by cold weather, and it's typically colder in the morning here than in the afternoons (so that slows things down also). Some of us need a certain temperature of water to wash up; certain types of lotions or body moisturizers that don't create a sensory nightmare…and/or a particular brand/flavor of toothpaste. Hair brushing must be done starting from a certain side of the head and in a certain order with just the right pressure – not too hard, not too soft.
Getting dressed? The clothes that are selected must feel comfortable…no itchy tags or bunched up seams. No buttons or zippers that pinch against the skin. No shoes that hug the feet too snugly.
"Just wake up earlier then," you might say, "to make up for all of that." Sometimes that is a solution, but often it is counterproductive.
My kiddoes need a certain amount of sleep in order to be able to function. When they have to face the day with less, they have a difficult time making it through the day. And so do I, for that matter.I have my own routines too. I check the light switches as I'm heading out the door to make sure they're turned off, and I always check in the same order. I grab my keys in the same hand each day. I put on my employee badge and make sure the lanyard is facing the way I want it to face. I start praying aloud with the kids for our day as I reverse the car and finish before we make our second right turn.
One day we were running even more behind than we usually are. Fearing negative consequences at work, I attempted to rush everyone out of the house. Knowing that being rushed can be stressful for some of the children, I tried a little humor to speed things up. I made up a goofy departure jingle and sang it in a silly, off-tune voice. I added a bouncy dance to go with it and deliberately swayed off beat. My plan backfired; the kids were amused by my antics and started laughing loudly. Because they were laughing, now there were moving even more slowly than normal.
Bad idea. Time for plan B.
going NOW! This earned me whining from the younger kids and loud sighing from the older kids, along with a few "You don't have to get all mean!" glances.
I groaned inwardly. Time was running out. I was going to need a different approach.
I decided that it was time for some honesty.
AND it was time for some begging.
"Guys," I said, "I've been late to work a lot lately. I really need to get up there on time. If I keep coming late I can get in trouble.
swiftness in his movements. He dawdled happily near the front door in his bare feet, backpack still hanging on the peg. Under his breath he was humming the jingle I had just finished singing. It was clear that he had no intention of rushing.
Still humming, he turned away from the socks and shoes and instead toward some toys. Bending low, he reached for them and began to line them up in precise order.
Several toys slipped from his hands, knocking against the ones he'd already lined up and disrupting the straightness of the line. He frowned in distress at the disorder. I felt like frowning too; it did look out of whack…plus I was getting even later. Without thinking, I walked over and straightened the line.He stiffened, cried out, and swung his foot across the part of the line that I'd touched. His face contorted and I knew he was hurt and near tears. I winced, understanding exactly what I'd done wrong. What a jerk move on my part.
I am the main one who admonishes people to give my kids, especially my son, time. I constantly emphasize to others the importance of showing him the respect of letting him do things on his own. I also highlight how he self-regulates through some of his scripting and patterns. And why wouldn't he need to try to calm down when his mother had been acting like as erratically as I had been that morning? Was I really SO late that I couldn't afford my child a few much-needed seconds to right himself for the day? Was saving a few seconds worth his psyche? Ugh. I know better.
He stood near the mess, not looking at me and not moving. We waited in silence together.
that to you. May I hold the ones you're not using so you can fix the line?" I asked. "Then when you're ready for them, you can come get them from me and put them in their place in line. I won't do the line for you. I'll just stand here and hold them until you need them."He pondered, and gently handed me some of the toys he had clutched in his arms. What a sweet, forgiving child I have. I watched as he tidied the line. Then he came over to me and reached for the toys I was holding. I watched as he added them to the line. Now finished, he smiled at his work. Then he smiled at me. I smiled back.
mom." He reached for the other sock and put it on himself, albeit crooked. He smiled broadly at me. I smiled back and lifted him into my arms.
at best, and though they are of value, they should never surpass more meaningful things.
I run late. A lot. And even right now as I write this the dishes need washing; laundry needs folding; the oil in my car needs changing; tests need grading; lessons need planning; and I have emails and PMs that need answering. As an autistic mom to autistic kids and kids with other disabilities, I have a unique set of life circumstances that require a lot from me – and I'm not going to pretend like I always have my stuff together. I don't. I try hard, but I don't – period. I am far from a perfect employee or a perfect parent. I know that very well.Yet despite my many imperfections, I was somehow fortunate enough to land the "job" of mom to a handful of awesome little people who love me very much even when I screw up.That day my son did me a great service; he reminded me there's no greater job on Earth than the one I have as their mom. I don't always do it right, but I am grateful to have this role, and I will keep striving to be the best at it that I can be, because they deserve that and more. And no matter how late I might be, I will try my best to always make time to learn how to be the mom that they need.
I'm another autistic woman with time agnosia — it's honestly one of the more disabling aspects of my autism, I think.
You seem to be handling yours pretty well!


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Seelow Flag
Seelow Banner
Seelow old Banner
Seelow Coat of Arms
County and City Flags (Brandenburg)
Märkisch-Oderland County
Seelow is the seat of the Märkisch-Oderland County and Seelow-Land Subcounty.
Jens Pattke, 29 June 2002
It is a blue-white-blue horizontal triband with ratio of stripes 1:3:1. The coat of arms is in the middle of the white stripe.
Source: this online catalogue and �2) of Hauptsatzung of Seelow City, version 3 December 2003
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Dec 2019
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Dec 2019
It is a blue-white-blue vertical triband with ratio of stripes 1:3:1. The coat of arms is in the middle of the white stripe.
image by Jens Pattke, 29 June 2002
It was a vertical blue-white-blue-white-blue 5-stripes flag. The coat of arms was in a white bannerhead.
Shield Azure, two boat hooks Or in saltire; surrounded by a mitre Or in chief, a waxing crescent Argent in dexter flanch, a cross moline Argent in sinsiter flanch and a facetted 6-point star Or in base
The arms are based on the oldest known city seal from 1429. The two boat-hooks are attributes of St. Adalbert of Prague, who acted as a missionary in the region and who was killed by fishermen using boat hooks. The moon and star are attributes of St. Mary; the cross probably is also alluding to St. Adalbert. The mitre in the upper part is alluding to the rule of the Bishops of Lebus since the 13th century. Mary and Adalbert had been the patron saints of the Bishopric of Lebus. The chapter of the cathedral in Lebus used a similar seal with the boat hooks. The oldest seal shows in the upper part an unknown figure (the seal got lost during WW2), but the second seal of the city, known since 1556, clearly showed a mitre. In the 19th century the design of the seal was changed; the hooks were replaced by scythes superimposed by a grindstone. The mitre became a coronet, representing the Kings of Prussia. This design was used by Otto Hupp (1925) as arms of the city, and as colour of the shield blue was chosen. In the middle of the 20th century the colour was changed to red.
Sources: Bensing et alii 1984, pp.422-423, Ralf Hartemink's webpage and �1) of Hauptsatzung of Seelow City, version 3 December 2003
According to the municipality Seelow gained city rights in accordance with the Magdeburg version on 28 June 1252. On occasion of its 750 anniversary, the city adopted a new statute, which defines a new coat of arms and flag. The coat-of-arms is inspired by the historic one. Compared with the coat-of-arms from the German Democratic Republic era the colour red was changed to blue; the scythes became boat-hooks and the crown became a bishop's mitre. The whetting-stone was omitted. In 1996 the colours had already been changed; the change to the other figures has only now been executed.
Jens Pattke and Jarig Bakker, 29 June 2002
The arms were approved with a red shield on 24 January 1992. In 2001 the city returned to the oldest known design, but with the colour as chosen by Otto Hupp. The old banner was adopted and hoisted on occasion of 750 years of city rights on 28 June 2002. It is nowadays only a decoration banner (Schmuckbanner) for special occasions.
Jens Pattke, 29 June 2002 and Klaus-Michael Schneider, 6 Dec 2019
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It will first take place at Gala Centre, 415 Hoang Van Thu street, HCM City from August 11-12 and Lotte Hotel Hanoi, 54 Lieu Giai street from August 24 – 26.
Soon-to-weds visiting the fair will have an opportunity to get special gifts and exclusive offers from leading wedding and honeymoon service providers.
Black, white and yellow are the theme colours of the 10th edition and this year's trends of Vietnamese wedding season.
It is scheduled to host various activities, such as a lucky draw, run for love, wedding workshop, bride makeover and more.


The headline doesn't do justice to the story. It seems that Rhona S. Applebaum, the calorie-laden soft drink maker's top scientist quit in the wake (fizz) of revelation that Coke was funding scientific research that played down the role of coke products in the spread of obesity!
Get this: Applebaum and Company created a non-profit group call the Global Balance Energy Network, a non-profit group that doubles as a research ruse to distract consumers from the soft drink's heinous role in fattening up Americans. Coca-Cola invested $1.5 million in the GBEN to fund research that would "balance the debate" about soft drinks.
That's like trying to balance the debate about global climate change, It's here, people.
In other words, this whole sordid plot to pay researchers to point the finger at physical inactivity and away from soft drinks was driven by the CEO himself. Talk about unethical!
Were it not for the soft drink's timing in the news cycle, we'd all be discussing CokeGate today.
Here's another PR disaster: I haven't read a single word about this uber image and reputation scandal in any of our industry trades.
Maybe too much physical inactivity is the cause?
Has the word disruption been disrupted?
If I had a dollar for every dreamy-eyed entrepreneur who strolled into our office over the past decade and proudly claimed her new business model would prove to be a disruptive technology, I'd be worth more money than Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and Don Middleberg combined.
Every Zuckerberg wannabe wants to believe his model's speed in tandem with a back-end infrastructure and algorithm that would befuddle Plato, will totally upset the existing market and make him (and his sycophantic minions overnight millionaires).
Needless to say, the probability of these seismic disruptions coming to fruition is about as likely as the Chicago Cubs winning the 2016 World Series.
But, here's a cool development in the world of disruptive technology: the phrase itself is becoming passé. Disruptive technology has, well, been disrupted.
A just-released survey from IBM's Institute for Business Value (or, IBM/IBV, if you prefer) says "Uberization" is the next, new thing keeping CEOs up at night.
Unlike disruption, which typically occurs within a static industry (Think: Amazon and Borders, or Peppercomm and Edelman), uberization occurs when competitors from OUTSIDE an industry invade the homeland to provide services in new and unique ways.
Fully 54 percent of the 2,500 CEOs surveyed said new, and unexpected, technology is coming from outside their industry. Linda Ban, Global C-Suite Program Director at IBM/IBV says this "….whole notion of being Uberized – where the competition is coming from a place we didn't know about – means things are not necessarily industry-dependent anymore." Holy ambush, Batman!
IBM's identified a seismic sea change that, I'm not sure too many businesses grasp. Take the PR industries trade media. Please.
One recently ran a front page story entitled, "Is the agency model broken"? The traditional one most certainly is, and we're being Uberized by players who were still in diapers when Billary ruled the Oval Office. But the smartest, and fleetest, of agencies are changing on the fly and will continue to thrive, despite the uberization threat from outside our industry.
But, here's the rub. The traditional trade journal model is rife for uberization. All it will take is a couple of smart journalists, a visionary sales executive and a killer app to totally uberize PR journals.
When it occurs, and it will, we'll be able to wave bye-bye to all of those costly and unnecessary awards programs. We'll also say sayonara to content that focuses solely on the top 10 global agencies. And, we'll be able to say hello to an uberized PR content model that is dramatically faster, far cheaper and more objective than the current crop of publications.
We're I to team up with a Journo, sales whiz and technologist, and uberize our industry's trades, I think I'd call my new app, PRbFree.
Uberization should be a wake-up call for companies in every business & industry. It's not the disruptor within the industry you should fear most, it's the one in the category you'd least expect to come in and eat your Thanksgiving turkey.
I'm taking these findings very seriously, and will never again dismiss the souvlaki guy on the corner as just another service provider. For all I know, he may be in the midst of cooking something up to Uberize the entire PR profession.
I see too many company content hubs that rely on generic content.
Some of it is curated by third-party content providers, which leaves me scratching my head wondering how this content gets posted.
The other day I found a content hub hosted by a company targeting restaurant owners. But the hub was filled with generic small business "news articles" from the BBC, Business Insider and the like.
Remember, this is a company targeting restaurateurs, yet most of the content was very broad. For example, a retired army general offering leadership lessons.
Be unique: Our recent Peppercomm-Economist Group content marketing study, Missing the Mark, shows that two-thirds of business executives prefer uniqueness and timeliness in the content they read. While the BBC is a great news organization, there's nothing unique about reposting one of their old articles on your company's content hub.
Be relevant: Executives don't come to brands looking for news. Our survey shows that three-quarters of them seek out content to research a business idea. Unless your content is laser-focused on what's keeping your customers awake at night, they'll go elsewhere.
Be flexible: Executives want their content in different formats. For example, younger executives are more than twice as likely to open video content compared to veteran executives. If your content hub is filled with text articles, you're turning off a large part of your audience.
The bottom line: Content that drives people to action takes strategic planning and carefully deployed resources. There are no shortcuts.
I've recently interviewed a few individuals who've had no clue as to what they wanted to do, and where they wanted to go. One was 25 years of age. The other had to be pushing 60.
The Millennial had spent four years plying his trade in the sports broadcasting arena. He'd landed a few gigs in markets that would make Buffalo, Wyoming, seem like the big time, but had yet to even scratch the surface in terms of advancement.
Since his uncle was a good friend, I invited him to come in and talk.
I told the Millennial to take some time, narrow his focus and come back when he knew what he wanted to do with his life.
I wished her well on chapter two, but suggested she first figure out what she actually wanted to do.
Today's business world is absolutely brutal. It rewards the specialists, and ignores or discards the generalists.
In fact, one might liken the job seekers to the Flying Dutchmen of business who will forever wander the job market until they figure out who they are, what their area of specialization is and what they can bring to the plate (or shoreline, if you prefer).
I don't think anyone would disagree this year's race for the presidency is far and away the most bizarre (and entertaining) in American history.
1.) Who would you like to see become America's next president?
– Hillary. She has the dignity, intelligence and b*lls to do what is right for the U. S. and the world.
– Amongst the current crop, I'd be forced to go with Hillary but she's too entrenched, untrustworthy and Machiavellian. I'd rather see someone like Elon Musk, who has the get-up-and-go, the grand vision and motivating spark needed to succeed in the modern world. I'd pair him with Oprah Winfrey, a woman who possesses deep emotional intelligence.
-I'd either go with Hillary (the devil you know) or Bernie Sanders (just because he seems less like a politician and more of a genuine person). The only credible Republican candidate is Carly Fiorina, whose gotten her gains by being damn good at what she does without going bankrupt or being a raging bible-thumping fascist.
2.) What about Donald Trump? What does the average Brit think of him?
– Allowing this buffoon anywhere near a position of power in civil society should amount to a hate crime. He is the personification of everything negative the rest of the world views about America.
– As long as he never has any power or authority, we think he's very funny.
3.) What about Obama? Has he helped or hurt America's image globally?
– He's the most globally-loved American president since JFK. His deficit lowering, health care loving, NRA-defying, Iraq war-ending legacy is seen as amazing by the rest of the world.
– I see the sniping about ObamaCare as carping from the wealthy and self-interested. He's a spectacular symbol of a multi-racial tolerant society. The parents of black kids moving into self-awareness must now see that the sky's the limit.
4.) Finally, are America's best days behind her?
– Not at all. But things will have to get worse before they get better. Something will have to shake America to its very core in order to turn things around.
– America's reluctant attitude to immigration is economic madness. The U.S. needs to attract more, younger and educated people in order to compete with China and India. Population MATTERS. Why on earth wouldn't you want more eager and ambitious people to power your economy?
Note: The views expressed in this column reflect neither those of RepMan nor Peppercomm.
These ideas are great! Why didn't we see them before?
How the Mini-Pitch can help you avoid the agency kiss of death.
"This just a process we have to go through." Your longstanding client calls to tell you the bad news, it's a re-pitch. You love the client and now they have a new head honcho, so you don't mind being asked to showcase your talent and refresh the account.
It's over. Pack up your bags and leave.
Firstly a confession, while I'm an agency guy now, I've been on both sides of this conversation. I was lucky to serve as the Head of Media relations for one of the UK's top firms, and then oversaw about a dozen agencies for an international tech business. As a client I found myself uttering these killer words on more than one occasion, and it got me thinking – could it be my fault – as a client?
That is one responsibility each for the agency and client, and two shared. So yes, it was my fault.
I tried five or six approaches to solve the problem of 'how to stimulate on-going world class ideas from the agency roster" over and above their high quality regular work. Here is the one that routinely produced the best results: the mini-pitch.
A few times a year, we would put aside a small amount of budget for planning, and a project fee – this was outside of the normal retainer, and used a different pool of agency hours – it wasn't a huge amount, but it must be distinct. The symbolism is important, as is the sense of competition.
We issued a 'new' brief to a selection of agencies from across the roster and asked / funded them to invest time and effort into generating a plan that would work across all marketing disciplines. The best plan would 'win' the business – and these ideas would supercharge the retainer work across the marketing mix for all the agencies. The winning agency would operate as the hub for that piece of work- obviously gaining exposure for their agency, and serious kudos.
This methodology taps into the method and madness of agency life – new pitches are exciting; they stimulate cross agency thinking and generate the best ideas – and competition lies at its heart.
It took me a while to get here, as a client my pretty dogmatic opinion was that the agencies should always do this anyway; hell, we were paying them for ideas and execution. Once we adopted the new approach, the combined agency/client team generated much better results across all marketing channels.
Mini-pitches keep the account fresh and generate spikes of interest and engagement, before things get too late.
I must begin by saying I despise almost every American air carrier, with United being far, and away, the worst.
But, just yesterday, I experienced a most horrific customer experience on a British Airways flight from Rome to Heathrow.
Truth be told, I had made my coach reservation at the last second but, based upon BA's superb reputation, I was expecting a superior boarding experience a la Southwest or JetBlue in the States. Silly me.
To begin with, BA has more classes of membership than an oversubscribed class of Oxford freshman.
I stood in the boarding area as first, global class passengers were welcomed to find their seats. They were followed, in turn, by world class, continent class, St. John's Wood class (which had to have been comprised of Sir Paul, Ringo and Klaus Voormann) and, then, blue or red class (I couldn't detect based upon the accent).
That was followed by economy elite, economy and last, and certainly least, street urchins like me. I decided we should be called the steerage class, since that's how the gate agents made us feel.
As expected, I was seated in the penultimate row, along with my fellow steerage passengers. (I must say the whole thing reminded me of the boarding process on RMS Titanic, with me in the role of Leo, of course).
But, wait love, it got even worse.
I was both upset and non-plussed. What had become of British manners? Is this how Richard Branson built Virgin? I think not.
I know one should not judge an entire airline based upon a single, sullied experience. But, if last night's rudeness is any indication, BA has moved to the bottom of the customer experience standings right alongside the rightly despised United Airlines.
BA did everything possible to make me feel like the steerage class passenger they'd singled out for boorish behavior from the very first touch point.
And, after tonight's abomination, methinks the BA in British Airways should really stand for Boorish Attitude. It fits them tighter than an overhead bag being squeezed into the Row 17 overhead compartment.
Open mouth. Wider, please. Now, insert feet. Yes, both of them. When brands act like knuckleheads, it's not just the brand that loses, their trusting customers can lose by association.
This is especially true in the case of Airbnb in San Francisco. I'm guessing they thought they'd win a head-nod from Joe Public by complaining, like we all occasionally do, about having to pay back taxes. They did it quite publicly with a slew of outdoor ads in San Francisco with statements like, "Dear Public Library System, We hope you use some of the $12 million in hotel taxes to keep the library open later. Love, Airbnb".
Gosh, isn't that amazing, a 25 billion dollar corporation paid some taxes. So did I, but I didn't spend a tidy sum to whine about it in public while telling the city what to do with their money. And $12 million doesn't add up to the king's fortune like it used to. Martha Kenney, an assistant professor at San Francisco State University, pointed out that once you do the math on the portion that would actually go to libraries, then factor in salaries, etc., they stay open maybe another minute. Another billboard suggested the taxman not spend the entire $12 million in one place. On the next billboard; but if they did, spend it on burritos. Yes, they suggested burritos.
This is snarky arrogance on a whole new level. Snarky will not build trust. And Airbnb relies on a whole lot of trust for their system to work. Trust on both sides, from the folks offering their precious homes to strangers and those strangers who are sleeping in an unknown bed.
Advertising has always been a great tool to start a dialogue. Smart marketers need to think the conversation all the way through before blundering onto the city landscape. In this case, the public responded, through various social media, swiftly and most decidedly. Airbnb lost control of the script and it didn't end well. The posters and billboards are coming down along with some hard earned trust and respect. Sure, push boundaries. But you must always mitigate risk.
Airbnb's tag line is, Belong Anywhere. This ad campaign did not belong anywhere and should not have left TBWA/Chiat/Day L.A., full stop.
Fire the Wall Street Journal!
The Republican National Committee's (RNC's) decision to punish NBC for the "gotcha" questions posed by their CNBC correspondents in the last debate prompted a Pavlovian-like response from this blogger.
The incident occurred at the height of the Reagan Administration when we were collectively basking in being part of what Ron was accomplishing in that shining city on the hill (DC today is more like a trailer park sitting along a swamp-infested swamp).
I was representing a global consulting firm that, shockingly, was spending big bucks on a fully integrated campaign. And, I was orchestrating the entire effort, thank you very much.
In addition to running full page advertisements in Forbes and The Wall Street Journal, I spearheaded an aggressive media relations campaign that quickly bore fruit. Indeed, I scored a major coup by convincing a Journal reporter to write a feature about this virtually unknown consulting powerhouse.
I made sure the writer had access to senior management, clients, former clients and employees alike. The day before the piece was set to run, the Journal reporter called to thank me for opening so many doors, and tipped me off that the feature would appear on page one of the following day's Journal. I was floating higher than a Kansas City Royals fan.
Around 6am the following morning, my phone rang: "You and your f*cking Journal article have ruined my company! Fire them immediately!" It was the CEO. And, to suggest he wasn't anything but ripsh*t mad is like saying policemen everywhere loved Quentin Tarantino's recent remarks.
Back to the story. I raced out to grab a copy, and read the front-page WSJ story. To borrow the tag line of a well-known, right wing network, I found the piece fair and balanced.
I immediately called the CEO back, and tried to explain that all good journalists write objective pieces and that the positive comments far outweighed the negative ones. I also added that news coverage on the Journal's front page was far more effective than any amount of print advertising. "I don't give a sh*t. Fire them! And, I should fire you while I'm at it," he shouted as he slammed down that same poor, battered phone.
I did as I was told. I called the Journal space rep, and canceled our advertising contract. I also made a point of laying low for the next few weeks.
Then, I attended my first senior management meeting since the dreaded Journal piece had appeared and "destroyed" the consulting firm's business. Midway through a discussion of sales leads, the CEO paused, looked at me and smiled, "Cody, that damn Journal piece has had the phone ringing off the hook. Every lead you've heard us discuss today is a direct result of it. Tell the *sholes they're rehired," he said. Then he added, "And wipe that sh*t-eating grin off your face before I smack it off!" He was a real sweetheart.
And, so calmer heads prevailed, we continued our integrated marketing campaign and the firm's awareness, credibility and leads improved correspondingly.
All of which brings me back to the RNC's knee-jerk reaction to punish NBC. Like the long-ago CEO's consulting firm, the only people being punished by the Republicans are the Republicans themselves. As Harry Truman famously said, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen". It seems to me the RNC has sprinted out of the kitchen, and are busy setting up their own members-only tailgating party that will only serve food and drink that they approve of in advance.
It makes one wonder how the eventual Republican candidate would react if he/she thought Putin was nailing him/her with gotcha questions. I shudder to think of the consequences.


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Same-Sex Marriage: Giant Leap in the Wrong Direction
Frank Pastore
The California Supreme Court has now legalized same-sex marriage, overturning the will of the people. In 2000, 61 percent of Californians voted for Proposition 22 which reads, simply and clearly, "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." In November, voters will have the opportunity to write this identical language directly into the California Constitution and prevent future state courts from thwarting their will ever again.
Here's why California voters should protect traditional marriage:
• Same-sex marriage is legally unnecessary. Homosexual couples in California already enjoy all of the legal rights and privileges of marriage, short of the name. They can already adopt, utilize sperm banks and access surrogacy services to create legally recognized family units. They don't need marriage in order to do so.
• Where it has been legalized, same-sex marriage decreases the total number of marriages while increasing illegitimacy. Nine European nations have had same-sex marriage since the early 90s—and just 2 percent of same-sex couples in these countries ever bother to marry, while there has been a 46 percent increase in out-of-wedlock births. Same-sex couples simply do not marry in significant number when given the legal right to do so, while more heterosexual couples will not bother to get married before having children. In these nations, 70 percent of all births now take place outside of marriage, and among first-time mothers, 80 percent are unmarried. Same-sex marriage will result in fewer total marriages and more children born out of wedlock.
• Both religion and political philosophy recognize that it is for the common good that states preserve, protect and promote successful marriages and healthy families in order to produce the maximum number of healthy children who later become productive citizens. However, since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, we have increased the number of broken families producing damaged children, and these damaged children have burdened both the size and cost of the welfare state.
The combined effects of the pill, condom distribution, abortion on demand, no-fault divorce and the acceptance of illegitimacy have been socially and economically devastating. Half of all American marriages now end in divorce. One-third of all American children are now born outside of marriage—including one-half of all Hispanic kids and nearly three out of four African-American kids. Half of all urban freshman never graduate high school. Our prisons are overflowing. As all social science research has proved time and again, illegitimacy begets poverty, poverty begets crime, crime begets social decline and social decline begets higher taxes to pay for the bigger government necessary to care for the social and economic costs associated with the millions of "at risk" children who, disproportionately, become unproductive citizens.
The trillions of dollars spent on the wars on poverty, drugs and crime have failed to create the Great Society, for these are but symptoms of the disease. Our social problems are not due to a lack of spending, but to a lack of moral values. The answer to our social and economic problems is not to grow a bigger welfare state that will only hasten our moral decline, but to strengthen the American family and return to the Judeo-Christian values that created our prosperity to begin with. Abstinence, "till death do we part" marriage, then children born into a nurturing family—this was the path to American greatness. Illegitimacy, no-fault divorce and broken families is the path of our destruction.
• Same-sex marriage will inevitably lead to polygamy and perhaps "consensual" incest. The collective wisdom of Western civilization, and the Judeo-Christian value system beneath it, have always restricted marriage to two people, not closely related, one man and one woman, of legal age. For over 2,000 years, there have been laws against bigamy, polygamy, incest and minor marriage. No society in history has ever granted same-sex marriage while maintaining prolonged prohibition of polygamous and incestuous relationships. The California court asserts some version of a "constitutional right to same-sex marriage" at least 78 times before undermining that very claim in Footnote 52 on page 79 of the opinion, which reads:
We emphasize that our conclusion that the constitutional right to marry properly must be interpreted to apply to gay individuals and gay couples does not mean that this constitutional right similarly must be understood to extend to polygamous or incestuous relationships. Past judicial decisions explain why our nation's culture has considered the latter types of relationships inimical to the mutually supportive and healthy family relationships promoted by the constitutional right to marry…. Although the historic disparagement of and discrimination against gay individuals and gay couples clearly is no longer constitutionally permissible, the state continues to have a strong and adequate justification for refusing to officially sanction polygamous or incestuous relationships because of their potentially detrimental effect on a sound family environment…. Thus our conclusion that it is improper to interpret the state constitutional right to marry as inapplicable to gay individuals or couples does not affect the constitutional validity of the existing legal prohibitions against polygamy and the marriage of close relatives.
If the 2,000 years of Western tradition was insufficient to maintain this court's prohibition against same-sex marriage, how can this court appeal to that same tradition to prohibit incest and polygamy? If past generations have found incest, polygamy and same-sex marriage "inimical to mutually supportive and healthy family relationships" because of their "potentially detrimental effect on a sound family environment," how can this court accept the traditional prohibitions against incest and polygamy, while rejecting the traditional prohibition against same sex marriage? If this court can overturn tradition and find a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, what will prevent future courts from similarly overturning tradition to find a constitutional right to incest and polygamy?
Same-sex marriage is a giant leap in the wrong direction. We must turn around while our course is still reversible.


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