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May 28 Appeals Court Rules Against Obama on Starting Immigration Program. Prof. Stephen Yale-Loehr Explains What Comes Next
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has blocked President Obama's executive action on immigration from going into effect. The executive action would have blocked the deportation of the parents of lawful citizens and would have granted work permits. The Court held that the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) likely violated federal law and the Constitution. Professor Stephen Yale-Loehr discusses the ruling in this report. (The original action was also discussed by Professor Loehr in this earlier LBN report.)
Prof. Stephen Yale-Loehr
Professor Loehr points out that the action by the Court of Appeals only concerns the preliminary injunction and does not address the merits of the lawsuit. In fact, the Court's decision was not a decision on the initial action, but on a request by the administration to stay the injunction while the basic lawsuit is decided. That request was the subject of the Court's adverse ruling.
As to what will happen next, the 5th Circuit will hear arguments on the preliminary injunction in July and will probably not issue a decision until the fall. If the government loses on the injunction, it might ask the Supreme Court to hear the case, but it is unlikely that the Supreme Court would agree to hear an injunction case. It would probably require a full trial in the district court before there could be any reasonable chance of an appeal to the Supreme Court.
As to what is likely to happen, Prof. Loehr notes that a number of things are going on in this case. One complaint is that the government violated the procedural requirement by not publishing a rule and asking for comments. That particular issue is the only thing before the 5th Circuit in the appeal from the preliminary injunction. However, the states have also argued that there are constitutional and statutory issues involved in the disputed policy. Prof. Loehr suggests that it will take some time for the district court to sort everything out in order to have a trial on the merits.
There is also the larger issue whether states should be allowed to inject themselves into the actions of the federal government in its implementation of immigration policy. Probably everyone would agree in principle that the federal government should be in charge. "Immigration touches foreign borders and foreign affairs." There shouldn't be fifty different immigration policies, one for each state. On the other hand, if a state feels it is being affected unfairly or disproportionately by a federal policy, it has a right to sue the federal government. The district court will have to work through all of this.
Stephen W. Yale-Loehr is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the Cornell University Law School. He is one of the nation's preeminent authorities on U.S. immigration and asylum law. A prolific scholar, he has written many law review articles, and is author or co-author of four standard reference works. He is the 2001 recipient of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)'s Elmer Fried Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2004 recipient of AILA's Edith Lowenstein Award for excellence in advancing the practice of immigration law. The Legal Broadcast Network is a featured network of the Sequence Media Group.
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Ontario's Hindu Cultural Centre plans $1.6 million expansion
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The Hindu Cultural Centre (HCC) in London (Ontario, Canada) has reportedly planned $1.6 million expansion.
This expansion, aimed to be completed in about two years, will reportedly approximately double its existing space, which includes enlarging the worship area; reports suggest.
HCC, founded 1971 and which opens daily, celebrates many festivals and holds various worship services; including bhajans, kirtan, mantra recitation, aarti, Vishnu Sahasranama, havan, Hanuman Puja, Ganesh Puja, Lakshminarayan Puja, Durga Puja, Satayanarayan Katha, etc.
Meanwhile, distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada today, commended efforts of temple leaders and area community towards expanding this temple complex in view of growing needs of the community.
Rajan Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, further said that it was important to pass on Hindu spirituality, concepts and traditions to coming generations amidst so many distractions in the consumerist society, and hoped that this Centre would help in this direction.
HCC also has a Youth Group and organizes Heritage Class, Vedanta Class, etc. Its Mission includes "To promote and preserve the Hindu religious and cultural heritage…" and its Objectives include "To hold regular religious services embracing the full spectrum of Hindu Spiritual Beliefs…"
Mohan Merchea, Tara Persaud and Shanta Doobay are President, Vice President and Secretary respectively; while Pundit Tiwari is the Priest.
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According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, The Awkward Etiquette of iPad Tipping, it's actually awkward for both parties.
The customer tries not to make eye contact. The worker tries not to make eye contact. It's awkward AF.
You could customize the tipping options if you're the owner of your establishment. But, owners have figured out that patrons are more likely to tip if there's a "No Tip" option.
Well, this comes down to the American issue of tipping, which most service-industry workers rely on to recover their full wage.
Workers shouldn't have to rely on tips to earn a living wage.
The awkward onus should be put on the owner, who should pay their workers enough. Period.


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Views, comments and analysis from me over the week's news headlines, and anything else that's caught my interest.
Innocent to remain on DNA Database
It was announced this week that the Home Office will be holding the DNA of innocent people arrested in England, Wales and Northern Ireland for no more than six years on the national database. Why are DNA profiles of innocent people being held for so long in the first place? I'm totally against this decision and see it as another example of this government's attempts to erode our civil liberties.
The Government has introduced this measure following the European Court of Human Rights ruling from last year, which stated that it was illegal for this country to hold the DNA of innocent people indefinitely on a national database.
I couldn't agree more with this ruling. Scotland seems to have the right idea, as they delete DNA profiles of individuals who are not charged with any offence. I don't understand why the Government doesn't apply this to the rest of the country.
The argument put forward in favour of a large scale DNA database is that it allows the police to use DNA to solve crimes. The Home Secretary Alan Johnson was quoted saying:
"It is crucial that we do everything we can to protect the public by preventing crime and bringing offenders to justice. "
Well this is obvious. Clearly there has been a number of high profile cases solved through the use of DNA, which has been accessed from the database.
The issue that should be noted is the relatively small number of crimes that are solved through this evidence, in relation to the large numbers of innocent people already on the database. I don't believe it's justifiable.
If you're arrested your DNA will be held under the following circumstances:
Convicted adults - indefinite
Unconvicted adults - six years
Unconvicted, but arrested for terrorism - possibly indefinite
First minor offence - five years
Second minor or first serious offence - indefinite
Unconvicted 16 to 17-year-olds - six years for serious offence, three years for minor offence
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In addition to this, people who voluntarily provide their DNA to help with police investigations will also have their details held.
Personally this is something that I'd never do. Not because I don't want to help the police solve serious crimes, but because there's no reason why any government requires my profile to be stored.
The database came into existence in 1995 and to begin with only the DNA of convicted criminals was retained. The government then decided to change the laws in 2004 which meant anyone arrested for a recordable offence would have their DNA details held.
The clock should be turned back to before 2004 as the measures now introduced are a compromise, made to comply with the European Court legislation and appease civil liberty groups. It hasn't succeeded though.
Shami Chakrabarti the director of the civil liberties pressure group Liberty, was quoted on its website saying:
"It seems the Government still refuses to separate the innocent and the guilty and maintains a blanket approach to DNA retention...."
"Nobody disputes the value of DNA and anyone arrested can have a sample taken and compared to crime scenes. But stockpiling the intimate profiles of millions of innocent people is an unnecessary recipe for error and abuse...."
There are serious ethical questions that need to be considered when we think about a national DNA database.
I know it helps in solving more crimes and convicting criminals, but the problem I have is when you have so many innocent people on it. It implies that anyone is a potential criminal. We already have the largest DNA database in the world and I wonder what this says about the type of country we live in?
DNA evidence is mainly used in crimes of a sexual nature or murder, which despite media coverage and public perception are very rare crimes.
Secondly, your DNA profile is a physical part of you. Why should any government hold this information for such a significant period? What reasons do they have if you've never been found guilty of a crime?
Sometimes I think it's good to be a little bit suspicious when it comes to the motives of governments holding too much personal information about you. This probably explains why I was also against the introduction of compulsory ID cards.
Finally, I've discovered that certain groups of people are inadvertently discriminated against. For example, records show that black men are more likely to be arrested then other ethnic groups in the UK. This has resulted in a situation whereby 40% of all black men now have their DNA stored compared to 9% of white men.
To use the word 'disproportionate' is an understatement when you consider that black people in this country only make up 1% of the population!
Your DNA in my opinion should only be held indefinitely if you're arrested and convicted of a crime. If not it should be removed immediately.
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Cronkite
Douglas Brinkley
Douglas Brinkley presents the definitive, revealing biography of an American legend: renowned news anchor Walter Cronkite.
An acclaimed author and historian, Brinkley has drawn upon recently disclosed letters, diaries, and other artifacts at the recently opened Cronkite Archive to bring detail and depth to this deeply personal portrait.
He also interviewed nearly two hundred of Cronkite's closest friends and colleagues, including Andy Rooney, Leslie Stahl, Barbara Walters, Dan Rather, Brian Williams, Les Moonves, Christiane Amanpour, Katie Couric, Bob Schieffer, Ted Turner, Jimmy Buffett, and Morley Safer, using their voices to instill dignity and humanity in this study of one of America's most beloved and trusted public figures.
Befferly , 09/19/2018
Such a true and lovely book!
It cannot be under-stated, the impact of having the sheer, unvarnished truth at ones fingertips. Walter Cronkite. Until his death, it was impossible to imagine the state of limbo which now exists with no truth "unspun" and no lie unproven. I am so homesick for his gracious understated simplicity and rigid, unvarnished standards. Like George Clooney, i tend to dislike America in direct proportion to the magnitude of the loss of his influence. The author could not possibly have done a better job in renewing my belief in the need for honor in the business of news.
WalkingonSand , 12/07/2012
A brilliant book about a fascinating character that help shape news.
Rickpho , 06/17/2012
What I liked most about this book was that it seemed to be a very unvarnished but fair view of the most trusted man in America. Cronkite had people he liked and some he didn't. Unlike his professional demeanor he could let his hair down at times. While he made every effort to be fair and impartial on air, he was a man with his own viewpoint and leanings. Author, Douglas Brinkley did a fine job of balancing all the many facets of Cronkite's life. I also enjoyed the overview of American history that went along with telling of Cronkite's career. To my mind, this is a most worthy read.
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The Miller of Mansfield
Friendly pub meets fine dining at this Goring restaurant-with-rooms, a village retreat with serious aspirations.
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A gourmet overnighter at dearly-departed George Michael's chichi local? Before I could punch The Miller Of Mansfield's Goring address into my sat nav, local journo and Muddy contributor Anna Brech had checked in *thwarted face*. So Anna, pray tell us, did it take you to the edge of heaven?
This 18th century coaching inn has long been a village stalwart in Goring-on-Thames, set up by a plundering miller who was said to have fled the wrath of the king many moons ago. It has all the elements you'd expect from a good country pub: wooden beams, roaring log fires, and a gaggle of pint-swilling locals.
But it also comes with a dash of foodie star power, too. Owners Mary and Nick Galer, who arrived in 2014, both trained within Heston Blumenthal's The Fat Duck Group. Their ambitious approach to seasonal cuisine and service has clocked up a string of awards in recent years, putting their baby firmly on the map. Food is the headline act here, so it's wise to come armed with a gladiator appetite (not a problem for me). And you can count pop royalty in its bag of tricks, too – the late singer George Michael lived just down the road and is a much-missed Miller of Mansfield regular.
When we arrived on a grey Friday night (aka "Fruity Friday" with discount cocktails) the bar area was heaving. We had to eke out space to order a drink with a shoulder shimmy or two, but it was worth it for the punchy Twisting Spirits gin and Good Old Boy ale sourced from a nearby brewery.
Everyone knows everyone at The Miller of Mansfield, at least in the pub bit, but it doesn't feel cliquey or parochial. It's just a friendly place to be; punters are greeted on a first-name basis, and you can sense the community vibes a mile off. Monty, an affable golden Labrador, appeared to have free rein of the place on the night we were there, wandering between punters, wagging his tail and graciously receiving pats.
It's not just a local boozer, though; there's a boutique feel too. The service is en pointe, and both the pub and restaurant area are upscaled with sleek furnishings, quirky design elements (such as rustic Wessex Mill flour bags placed here and there) and bold pops of colour. This is the kind of plush hideaway you can wear your skinny jeans and heels to on a Friday night. But beware you may, like me, end up popping the top button by the end of the evening: the food is that good.
If you're the kind of person who likes to scour a hotel room for hidden delights (*raises hand*), you won't be disappointed. A quick sweep of our nesting hole revealed luxuries such as a Nespresso machine, Ren toiletries, and deliciously chewy homemade golden syrup biscuits wrapped in wax paper with The Miller of Mansfield's own seal. Soon enough, I was happily ensconced with a Birchall red berry tea, sniffing out my neroli and grapefruit body cream with an ardour that would impress Monty the lab.
Rooms are divided into small, standard, superior and suite, each individually designed, with wildly varying themes and a hefty side dollop of charisma. Our superior room had Hollywood glamour at its heart, with a mirrored dressing table, gold-tinted drapes and retro flowered wallpaper. It felt like a very grown-up boudoir, with a four-poster bed, velvety throws and matching gold-and-brown lamps. Such an outré vision won't be to everyone's taste but, in a world where hotels often play safe, I admired the sense of fun behind it. And we could hear the owls hooting at night from the park opposite which was rather lovely.
SCOFF & QUAFF
Things kicked off with a seriously good-looking bread starter: a "brioche in a bag" tucked away in a hessian sack, a whole miniature loaf of home-baked bread, a scoop of smoky bacon dipping sauce and cylindrical coils of thickly salted butter. Next up was a Scottish sea trout version of gravad lax on a bed of punchy celeriac remoulade, with a wee crispy quail's egg that oozed out, exactly on cue, across the fish.
Another starter, native lobster, came with vivid puffballs of carrot puree and a flourish of crispy samphire. It's the attention to detail here that really stands out. Chef Nick shows his pedigree in beautifully thought-out flavour combinations, so you just know that you're in safe hands. My Cornish grey mullet main was flaky and delicate, and the gooey tang of hollandaise sauce was its perfect partner.
Chunky hunks of aged salt chamber beef were supercharged with a hint of salted crust, and a tarragon sauce that was super-tasty without being overbearing. The generous wine list didn't hurt either, with an intense Ontañon Rioja that would make any meat dish sing. Oddly, I think my standout nugget from the night would be the potato side: layered paper-thin in a creamy stack. It wasn't the showiest option, but a moreish take on the humble veg.
The friendly staff served us three desserts because we couldn't decide. All were delicious, but my favourite was the signature Miller Battenberg, served on a vintage tea tray. Again, the detail came into its own, with a gloop of Earl Grey tea that could be poured over the pink grapefruit cake, a sugared tuile and a crowning pouffe of honey yoghurt. I could practically hear my arteries groaning in protest, but it was worth every bite.
KID-FRIENDLY?
As we arrived on a boozy Friday night and left the next morning, we didn't actually see any kids in the vicinity. However, the fact that most of said boozers were mums and dads would suggest that this is a child-friendly arena. Nick and Mary have two boys themselves, so their children's menu is well-versed in little ones' favourites (there's a popcorn starter and everything). On Christmas Day, they even create a kid's version for every one of nine tasting courses, which is true dedication to the cause.
For a diddy place, Goring-on-Thames is packed with small businesses so it's a real delight to have a nose around. Ruby Pepper and Mary S Interiors are two knick-knack shops of the kind that high streets used to thrive on, so go have a mosey to unearth a trove of delights.
If you're being organised about it, try to time your arrival in the village for about 4pm the day before, to book in for a hot stone massage or express manicure at Virgo Beauty, just down the road (it's in Muddy's Little Black Book – it's that good!). In the morning, head for Goring Grocer for a takeaway coffee and homemade pecan and parsnip cake. Then hit up the Thames, mere moments away, with a riverside footpath snaking around the weirs and boats that is lovely even on a misty November morning.
Wannabe chefs, it's worth noting that once a month, Nick runs live cookery demos from the hotel, where you can learn to rustle up food like a pro, followed by a group lunch together Finally, Wham! fans can pay homage to the singer with a look at his house, on the right as you leave The Miller of Mansfield (opposite Pierreponts Café).
THE MUDDY VERDICT
Good for: Top-notch food and service, teamed with decadent design. Bookmark this for an indulgent night away with a lover, your mother or a friend.
Not for: If you crave somewhere tucked away and tranquil for a weekend break. Granted, our room was directly over the bar on a Friday night, and the babble below seemed convivial rather than intrusive (it also cut out on the dot of midnight). But still, this is a livelier destination than some.
The damage: Starters will set you back around £10 each, with mains coming in at over £20 a pop, and cocktails hovering at the £8 mark; the same price as children's mains. This is not the cheapest place to dine out, but the calibre of food means it's worth it for a treat.
The Miller of Mansfield, Galer High Street, Goring, Reading, RG8 9AW; 01491 872829
Words: Anna Brech
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Billy (the musical)
My latest visit to a local theatre was to see the musical Billy at the Whitstable Playhouse, a theatre I'd never attended before. The production was by the Lindley Players, and starred the guy who played Bill Snibson in Me and My Girl when I was in the show in March. He is a performer I admire very much, and also a person that I like, and so I welcomed the opportunity to see him in a show from the auditorium rather than from the wings with no glasses on.
Billy is a musical version of Billy Liar, concerning a young Yorkshireman with a very active imagination, and follows him over the complications of one rather eventful day. The score by John Barry and Don Black is not one of my favourites, but I found I enjoyed and appreciated it more in context than I did when I listened to the cast recording, despite the reduced orchestration. The book (the spoken words of a musical) is by Dick Clement and Ian LaFrenais, better known for their work on some wonderful TV comedies, and is laugh-out-loud funny in parts. As I don't know the original novel or play, I don't know how much of that is down to them and how much is in their source material. In the second act, the comedy is still present, but the show becomes more moving as well (this often happens in musical theatre), with the characters gaining a real poignancy.
My reactions to the central character of Billy changed throughout the show, and afterwards I realised that this has a lot to do with my own character, leading to an intriguing bout of psychological self-analysis, which I won't share with you. The guy playing him (let's not name names) has a natural charm and assurance on stage which makes you want to like him, even when his actions aren't entirely honourable. His singing was marvellous, and more comfortably within his range than some of the songs from Me and My Girl were. He did struggle with a faux rock-and-roll song, but that's not in a style that suits him and he admitted quite openly that he finds that number very hard indeed. And his dancing had an ease and flow which seemed quite natural. None of the 'rabbit in headlights' look you often get in amateur theatre when the leading man has to strut his stuff. In the second act, I found his performance genuinely moving, almost despite myself, and the curtain call certainly dislodged a lump in my throat. I didn't cry, but then I rarely do at the theatre, but it certainly got to me. He's planning to take a break from musicals for a while, but I shall certainly make sure I attend whatever straight play he may become involved in, because, quite frankly, he's bloody good.
It wasn't a perfect production, by any means (but I'm not sure I've ever seen a perfect production). The scene changes were unnecessarily loud from time to time, and there were a few chorus members goldfishing (opening and closing their mouths at random, pretending to be singing) at various points, particularly during the curtain call. One of the ladies sang flat several times, once when she was singing harmony with others, which is always rather ucky. She had a pleasant enough voice when she was in tune, though. Another of the ladies, playing the part of Rita, was very good indeed. Really strong voice, entirely suited to the part (casting may possibly be the hardest task in amateur circles) and she acted the socks off her few scenes. Billy's family, particularly his grandmother, were an absolute joy to watch as well. I also enjoyed the choreography, which got everyone, dancer or not, moving. Just as well, as we've booked that choreographer for our own next show!
The theatre itself is a very wee one, and utterly charming. Nicely intimate without feeling cramped. And it has air-conditioning – bliss! I shall certainly be returning there in future, probably in the Autumn, when the Lindleys and the Canterbury Players are putting on some rather wonderful plays.
Dick Clement
Don Black
Ian LaFrenais
*runs in*
Trouble at t'mill!
I always wanted to do that 🙂
Hee hee.
Sadly, nobody says that in the show. But someone does sing a song about how 'It Were All Green Fields' when he were a lad. 🙂
David, I'm sorry I'm only now getting around to reading your entries here. They are all very entertaining.
That's quite all right. I'm glad you've enjoyed reading my ramblings.
Drat, that part is the only bit of Billy Liar I remember from having to do it at school umpteen year ago!
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BOOK TITLE: MY DOSSIER
AUTHOR: Wole Olarinde
PUBLISHER: Benefits Media Ministry
REVIEWER: Gbenga Osinaike
As simple as it may look, writing an autobiography usually does not always come easy. The author is usually caught in the dilemma of writing facts about himself and what he wants the public to read.
As much as the author would love to lay the facts bare, autobiographies are not usually 100 percent accurate presentation of a man's life or trajectory.
So, going through the length of the book: My Dossier by Wole Olarinde one is saddled with the realization that the author is telling his own story from his own point of view.
Indeed, the story of a man is either told by himself or by others. In English parlance, a book that is written by a writer on himself is called autobiography while the one written by a writer on another person is called Biography. So on a broad scale, there are two perspectives about a person: The person's perspective about himself and the perspective of others about the person.
I dare add that there is the God perspective which I will like to call Christography. That is what Jesus thinks about us. That is a matter for another day. But let me say that at the end of the age, there are only two perspectives from God that will summarize our stay here on earth. It is either well done good and faithful servant or depart from me ye workers of iniquity.
That is for the age to come. My job here is to review the book that chronicles the story of Wole Olarinde and how the vision of Christian Benefit was birthed. Let me observe first that the book is not a full autobiography as it were as it does not espouse the early years of the author. From the title point of view, we are presented with a dossier which is more or less documentation of a series of events in the life of Olarinde and how those events tie to the Christian Benefit project.
The book confronts you with a bold but enchanting portrait of the author. It leaves you with no pretension as to what and who it is all about. As one flips through the pages one is held down by a seamless rendition of a twenty-year account of the life of the author in the publishing world; with snippets from his school days.
Each of the 11 chapters has a handful of nuggets and lessons for the reader. The first chapter gives the reader an insight on how the author was called into the publishing ministry. Though he felt inadequate for the task like Moses and some of God's servants, he nonetheless succumbed to the template that God had laid down for him to navigate.
Thus, a simple instruction from his pastor during a cross overnight turned out to be the seed that birthed a project that has lived for 20 years. What is that instruction? You will do yourself a great favour to look out for this as you get a copy of the book. This chapter also tells the story of how the author arrives at studying mass communication and not the law that he had intended to study.
In the subsequent chapter the author takes the reader to the department of Mass communication of the great Ibadan Polytechnic and paints the picture of a lecturer who rather than encourage students in the department to brace up for a bright future became too frank to a fault. His words on the first day of the lecture were to later send many away from the department. But the diehard ones including the author stayed through.
As the reader progresses through the volume he is confronted with the author's exposure to the practical end of the profession. His first days in the Guardian Newspapers where he did his industrial training are quite exciting and one could not help but wonder what has become of the journalism profession these days. The author exemplified the old zeal by taking on tasks that many would not want to take these days.
He was a rookie reporter but his byline hit the front page of the defunct Guardian Express just a day after he resumed. He performed the same feat on the third day and did many reports for the publication which earned him some respect. That is quite unprecedented in this age when some mass communication graduates struggle to write a news story.
What happened? How did he manage to source for a story that became the talk of the town? Those are things you may have to look out for in the book. The story which Olarinde was able to source which hit the front page of Guardian Express is a story that will give hope to many. You definitely won't get a copy of the Guardian Express which is long dead. But you can get to read about the story in the book. It will make a world of difference for you.
The remaining chapters of the book give us an insight on the NYSC year of the author, how he began work with the defunct Media Review and how he began Christian Benefit. It is quite instructive that by the time Christian Benefit was floated the author did not have the privilege of seeing a publication that reports the church the way he wanted to. There was no example to look up to as it were. So, he had to depend on his intuition to pursue a dream he practically had no prototype to follow.
But God was with him. He started small and here we are today. But then you probably would think all has been smooth for Olarinde. From revelations in the book, the journey has not been only rough it has been frustrated by the very people that the Lord called him to help. Apart from battling with the pain of coughing out thousands of naira every month with no corresponding return, he has had to battle with some preachers of the gospel and their minions who rather than encourage him have tried to kill the vision.
He shared the experience of how his marketers were locked up in a popular church for daring to come and sell the magazine in the church premises. It is so interesting that some church leaders would celebrate their stories in the secular papers and would encourage members to buy them while they send security men to hound and maul purveyors of publications that are solely for the church.
Olarinde shares the experience of how copies of the magazines were confiscated and literally destroyed in another respected Church. The marketers were literally pursued out of the church premises after the journals had been seized.
It was at this point according to his account that he began to question his involvement in church-based journalism. There and then, the Lord opened his eyes and warned him against projecting the churches that have become somewhat establishment. But rather should seek to publish the ones that were just coming up and help them with advertising their programmes. That was how he changed gear.
But then he was yet going to face another obstacle as the small churches presented a false image of themselves. One of the pastors of one of the growing churches told him his paper was far below his standard. He was comparing Christian Benefit with journals that have been existing for years. Rather than take offence, Olarinde was quick to let the pastor know that his own church was far behind compared to the big names. That remark put a seal on the mouth of this pastor.
The story of Christian Benefit, however, is not all about gloom and doom. The author shares the account of numerous supports he got from some church leaders. He mentioned specific names in the publication and took time to thank them for extending a hand of fellowship to the publication. Perhaps but for these angels that came his way, the publication would have suffered stillbirth in its first trimester.
It is cheering to note that a project that started with virtually no capital, no loan and no visible source of financing has survived the turbulent weather of Nigeria's economy. Many publications have come and gone, but Christian Benefit stands. The credit goes to God. It goes to the supporters of the vision and it goes to the man who carries the vision and his wife who have labored tirelessly in the trenches.
My Dossier tells the story of this adventure. It tells the story of a publisher's nightmare. It tells the story of resilience and doggedness. The book is an easy read. It takes about 48 hours to finish reading the book. The strength of the book lies in its graphic presentation and the unravelling of facts and figures about the media industry. Reading through my dossier somewhat gives a picture of how both the Christian and secular media run in the last 20 years.
This book will do a lot of good to those who desire to take a vacation in publishing. It will bless the believer who wants to learn how to grow a vision and educate media men and women on what to do. I hereby call on you on this auspicious occasion to extend your support for the book and by extension the Christian Benefit project. Thank you. God bless.
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Securing instructions is easy for some, but not others. Pippa Blakemore provides five steps to sucess Converting contacts into clients is a fundamental requirement of lawyers today. However, although there are many to whom it comes naturally, there are many more who find it difficult and embarrassing because they feel as if they are being […]
Firm profile: Howrey Simon (London)
Howrey Simon Arnold & White's London outpost is among the most successful of the US firm's international outposts, reporting a fee income for 2004 of £8.8m, up by £1.9m on 2003's figure. Management team (London): James Irvine, Isabel Davies and Peter Fitzpatrick Turnover: £8.8m Total number of partners: Seven Total number of lawyers: 21 Main […]
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The pages "list" view in the CMS is a powerful alternative to visualizing
your site's content, and can be better suited than a tree for large flat
hierarchies. A good example would be a collection of news articles,
all contained under a "holder" page type, a quite common pattern in SilverStripe.

The "list" view allows you to paginate through a large number of records,
as well as sort and filter them in a way that would be hard to achieve in a tree structure.
But sometimes the default behaviour isn't powerful enough, and you want a more
specific list view for certain page types, for example to sort the list by
a different criteria, or add more columns to filter on. The resulting
form is mainly based around a `[GridField](/reference/grid-field)` instance,
which in turn includes all children in a `[DataList](/topics/datamodel)`.
You can use these two classes as a starting point for your customizations.

Here's a brief example on how to add sorting and a new column for a
hypothetical `NewsPageHolder` type, which contains `NewsPage` children.

	:::php
	// mysite/code/NewsPageHolder.php
	class NewsPageHolder extends Page {
		private static $allowed_children = array('NewsPage');
	}

	// mysite/code/NewsPage.php
	class NewsPage extends Page {
		private static $has_one = array(
			'Author' => 'Member',
		);
	}

We'll now add an `Extension` subclass to `LeftAndMain`, which is the main CMS controller.
This allows us to intercept the list building logic, and alter the `GridField`
before its rendered. In this case, we limit our logic to the desired page type,
although it's just as easy to implement changes which apply to all page types,
or across page types with common characteristics.

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Now you just need to enable the extension in your [configuration file](../../configuration).

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You're all set! Don't forget to flush the caches by appending `?flush=all` to the URL.


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Texas Troubadours: Texas Singer Songwriters
by Kinky Friedman (Foreword by), Steve HarrisKinky Friedman
Whether they headline major music festivals or play in small, nearly empty clubs, singer-songwriters are among Texas's most authentic and enduring musicians. Steve Harris has been photographing these artists for many years, creating an unsurpassed photo gallery of both well-known and emerging Texas singer-songwriters. In Texas Troubadours, he showcases over fifty songwriters with evocative black-and-white photographs accompanied by original quotes in the musicians' own handwriting, which allow viewers to engage with the musicians both visually and personally.
Texas Troubadours is a virtual who's who of singer-songwriters. The book includes such nationally and internationally acclaimed musicians as Kris Kristofferson, Alejandro Escovedo, Guy Clark, Robert Earl Keen, Steve Earle, Rodney Crowell, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, along with singer-songwriters whose followings are growing. In his introduction, Steve Harris describes how the losses of Townes Van Zandt and Doug Sahm inspired him to document Texas singer-songwriters and how the book developed as he took his 4 x 5 camera and notebook wherever a singer-songwriter was willing to be photographed.
The portraits in Texas Troubadours are as genuine and soulful as the musicians themselves. When you look into these faces, you see lives that, as Kinky Friedman says, have known "the road, the cheap motels, the beer joints and half-filled houses, the days when our autographs were bouncing, the long nights of pain and beauty beyond words and music."
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Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
STEVE HARRIS is a professional photographer based in Houston, Texas. In addition to photography, which he pursues for work and pleasure, Harris climbs mountains, surfs remote waves, skates empty pools, and rides mountain bikes.
Foreword by Kinky Friedman
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26 Jan The history of Tesco - 98 years of every little helps
Posted at 11:28 in Customer experience by Team S4RB
Hello friends, and welcome to another edition of my Food Retailer History Blog Series. This time, we have landed in the 20th century.
Tesco, as we know it today, started way back in 1919. Like most supermarkets, it all started from a market stall in London Town.
1919 - 1939 - Thomas Edward Stockwell and Jack Cohen
Tesco started in 1919, when Jack Cohen started selling surplus groceries from a market stall in Hackney.
The Tesco brand didn't appear until 1924, when Jack purchased a shipment of tea from Thomas Edward Stockwell, and made the new labels by using the initials of the supplier (TES) and the first two letters of his surname (CO), forming TESCO.
Jack's market stall grew, and by 1929, the first Tesco store opened in Burnt Oak, Edgware. The store focused on dry goods, including the Tesco branded tea!
During the next 10 years, the business continued to grow, with Jack opening stores in expanding London Suburbs. In 1934, Tesco purchased a plot of land in Edmonton to allow him to build state of the art headquarters and warehousing. It was one of the first modern warehouses built for food, and introduced breakthrough ideas for stock control.
A Tesco tea truck
A typical store in the 1930s and 1940s
1940 - 1960 - Super-Self Service
In 1947, Tesco was floated on the stock exchange as 'Tesco Stores (Holdings) Limited'. The Tesco stock was offered for sale at 25p per share. This flotation jump-started Tesco's journey into self-service stores, with its first supermarket arriving a few years later.
In 1947, the first big step was taken, which began the transformation into the retailer we know today. Tesco opened its first self-service store. Jack had travelled to America to research self-service stores. Tesco was changing the way it served its customer. In traditional stores, customers would form a line at a counter and a store assistant would gather the shopping from the back of the store. Self-service allowed customers to walk round the store, picking their own shopping from the shelves. The first Tesco self-service store opened in St Albans in 1948, with initial mixed feedback from customers. The change was as polarising as self-service checkouts are today.
In 1955, Tesco took over 19 stores from Burnards. Between 1955 and 1960, Tesco purchased over 500 stores via a series of acquisitions.
The next big step was taken in 1958, just 10 years after its first self-service store, when Tesco opened its first superstore. The store opened in Maldon. This new supermarket introduced cheese and meat counters.
The first Tesco supermarket opened under the Burnards Brand.
1960 - 1980 - Stamp of Approval
The 1960s saw Tesco continue its aggressive expansion, by the acquisition of 212 Irwin stores. For the first time, Tesco started to offer new product ranges outside of its food stronghold. In 1960, home electronics started appearing in its larger stores.
The new home electronics department in Tesco
Tesco founder, Jack Cohen, agreed to introduce the Green Stamp saving scheme in 1963. This allowed customers to collect stamps when purchasing goods from Tesco. The Green Shield Stamps could be saved and then exchanged for gifts from a catalogue, or from any affiliated retailer. The scheme was a forerunner to the Clubcard.
1968 - The term 'Superstore' was first used by Tesco, when they opened a 40,000 sq. ft store in Crawley.
1973 - Tesco moved its head office to a purpose built complex called New Tesco House in Cheshunt.
1973 - Tesco opened its first petrol station at major sites across the UK.
1977 - Tesco started a massive cost-saving drive, known as 'Operation Checkout'. As part of this cost-cutting drive, the Green Shield Stamp saving scheme was phased out. Major price-cutting was seen across the store.
1979 - Shook the Tesco business, as its founder Jack Cohen passed away.
1980 - 2000 - Every Little Helps
Tesco started the 80s by introducing its first computerised checkouts in 1982. This move allowed Tesco to keep a closer eye on stock in its stores and paved the way for barcodes.
1982 - Tesco started a new cost cutting scheme called "Checkout 82". The scheme cut prices on 1,500 food items by between 3% and 26%.
1985 - Tesco's healthy-eating own-brand range launched. Tesco was the first major retailer to launch a dedicated healthy range.
1989 - Tesco started a high profile ad campaign, starring Dudley Moore. The campaign highlighted Tesco's great range of high quality products.
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1992 - The very popular 'Computers for Schools' campaign was started. Shoppers collected vouchers that schools could redeem for computers. The first Tesco Metro store was also opened in 1992, in Covent Garden. The store offered products tailored to the local market.
1993 - 'Every Little Helps' slogan first started to appear in Tesco branding in-store. This was followed by a high profile advertising campaign. The Tesco Value brand was also launched in 1993, giving shoppers a new low cost brand.
1994 - The first Tesco Express store opened in London. Offering local convenience shopping. Within a few months, 13 had opened across London.
1995 - The high profile adverts, staring Dotty, started showing on our television screens. The adverts proved very popular for Tesco. Along with the 'Every Little Helps' slogan, this introduced over a million new customers to Tesco.
The Clubcard was launched in 1995 and attracted 5 million users in its first year.
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1997 - The first Tesco Extra store was opened in Essex, offering a one-stop shopping experience.
1997 - Terry Leahy became CEO of Tesco, giving the business new direction. Tesco also opened its first store in Poland.
1998 - Just 5 years after its Tesco Value launch, Tesco introduced its Finest range. Finest offered customers a touch of luxury and quality not previously seen in Tesco
2000 - 2017 - Online Modern Retailer
Tesco started its internet shopping business when it obtained a 35% stake in US retailer GroceryWorks. Tesco was one of the first retailers to offer online shopping to its customers. In the same year, Tesco confirmed its commitment to convenience stores with the purchase of 870 One Stop stores.
F&F launched to customers. This was Tesco's first major push into fashion retailing.
In 2007, the first US Fresh & Easy store was opened. This was Tesco's first move into the US Market.
Tesco Bank launched in 2009, after the company purchased RBS' 50% stake in Tesco Personal Finance. The Clubcard was also relaunched, offering customers the chance to double their points!
2010 - The first zero-carbon store was opened. The Clubcard app was launched in the same year.
2012 - The Tesco Value range was re-branded to Everyday Value. The new products introduced improved quality.
2012 - After a review of its business in the US and Japan, Tesco agreed the sale and exit of both markets.
2013 - Tesco opened its sixth dotcom store (Dark Store) in Erith. This new store supported the growing online business. Tesco also improved its Finest range, with the introduction of 400 new products and redesigned and improved packaging across the range.
2014 - Tesco introduced its new 'Healthy Living' brand, supporting its customer to lead healthier lives.
2017 - Tesco agrees a £3.7 billion takeover of Bookers Wholesale Group. Tesco commented "The combined group will be well placed to serve the large, established 'in home' food market as well as the faster growing 'out of home' food market.
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Music from the Holocaust
Posted on September 3, 2020 by babbityjean
I t was 1988 when Francesco Lotoro, a pianist and composer from Barletta in Puglia, first heard about the music composed in the death camps. He felt that the music should be heard, and he embarked on a very ambitious project to collect as much as he could find. More than 30 years later, he is building a citadel, which is known formally as the Istituto di Letteratura Musicale Concentrazionaria—to house and play the more than 8,000 works he has collected and catalogued.
Lotoro has been all over the world and has found symphonies, operas, folk songs, and many other genres. On a visit to Prague in 1990, he discovered a five-act fairy tale opera, "Three Hairs of the Wise Old Man," by Rudolf Karel, a Czech composer. Karel wrote the opera with medicinal charcoal (to treat dysentery) on sheets of toilet paper, which were later smuggled out of the camp in laundry sacks. Karel died at Terezin Theresienstadt just north of Prague, a camp the Nazis had set up as a model community to try to trick the world, through propaganda films, that they were treating the Jews humanely.
Other prisoners wrote their music on food wrappers, potato sacks, newsprint or whatever they could find. It was a testament to their resourcefulness, but also to their need for music to soothe the soul, to escape, to remember their former lives, and to comment on their experiences. Being in an orchestra in a concentration camp saved some lives, but the experience was often humiliating. Musicians were forced to play "command music" as prisoners were marched off to forced labor, and they also were forced to play concerts for SS officers and visiting "dignitaries." But when the prisoners played music on their own initiative, it gave them consolation and hope.
Other musicians and historians have joined in Lotoro's passion to preserve the musical history of the Holocaust. Some are staging performances, while others are searching for music banned by the Nazis as "degenerate," much of which was composed by Jews. Also expanding is the search for musical instruments, books about music, and original or printed scores stolen by the Nazis.
But Lotoro's vision is perhaps the broadest. He has also arranged and recorded works composed in the camps. In some cases, he is writing music to finish incomplete works. Even his collection has expanded to include works from political and religious prisoners in many countries and from musicians of any national, social or religious background.
Lotoro's citadel – Istituto di Letteratura Musicale Concentrazionaria — will include a museum, a library and a theater at a cost of about $45 million. The city of Barletta donated a two-acre site of an abandoned brandy distillery and is also providing an additional $2.7 million for the construction of a 30-room hotel nearby for students, scholars and others to study the music. The Italian government has provided $5 million in funds so far, and Lotoro is hopeful of receiving up to $36 million more. He is also raising money through an international fund-raising campaign.
Helping him on this project is his wife Grazia. Raised Catholic, they converted to Judaism in 2004. Then Francesco discovered that his grandfather's grandfather was Jewish and had converted to Christianity because it was difficult to be a Jew at that time in Barletta. For this modest musician who has lived in this small Adriatic town all his life, the completion of the citadel will be a lifetime dream to leave a musical legacy.
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Jean Perloff says:
Molto interessante! Il mio nonno paternale (?) era ebreo e violonista. Studio a Berlin quando era giovane. Suo zio, il mio biszio, aiuto alcuni parenti ad entrare negli Stati Uniti. Scaparano prima in Italia. Non era una buena scelta ma potevano sopravvivere . Jean


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