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The books we're reading to start off the New Year right
By: Canadian Living
New year, new books to read! This month, we're turning our attention to the latest offerings that will help keep our resolutions on the right path.
THE AGE OF LIGHT (Fiction)
This year, my goal is to devote more attention to debut authors. To that end, Whitney Scharer's seductive and searing semifictional tale of the life of Lee Miller, 1920s model–turned-photographer-turned–Second World War correspondent for Vogue and muse/lover of artist Man Ray, is first on my list, and it's an amazing read. In Scharer's skilful hands, the blend of what's fact and fiction is seamless and reveals the brave, unconventional and daring Miller as—despite all her illustrious hyphenates—a heartbreakingly human woman whose extraordinary life is worth commemorating. Lee Miller—and Whitney Scharer—are my new idols. —Suzanne Moutis
The Age of Light (Little, Brown and Co.) by Whitney Scharer, $23.
KINDA VEGAN (Cookbook)
To be honest, restrictive diets aren't my thing. But with increased awareness of how food production impacts climate change (which is an in-our-lifetime threat), I'm seeking out new ways to add vegetable-based meals to my repertoire that are tasty and easy to pull together. It's a resolution I aim to keep this year, so I'll be relying on a few vegan and vegetarian cookbooks to help me through. I can't wait to make the Easy Black Bean Burgers and the Eggplant Puttanesca from this pick, out in January. —Alexandra Donaldson
Kinda Vegan (Adams Media) by Adams Media, $26.
GOOD AND MAD (Nonfiction)
Let's face it: As women, we live in a world that doesn't take our anger seriously and has taught us to suppress our rage. I know that I, for one, can bottle things up. So when I picked up the latest from Rebecca Traister—author of All the Single Ladies, writer for New York magazine and contributing editor at Elle—I was inspired by her sharp insights in this exploration of the power of women's anger and its ability to effect change and alter the course of history. Good and Mad will fire you up, leaving you educated and resolved to put your rage to good use in 2019. I'll be recommending it to everyone I know. —Amanda Etty
Good and Mad (Simon & Schuster) by Rebecca Traister, $36.
THE MARTHA MANUAL (Nonfiction)
My New Year's resolution takes
the cake (literally): Be more like Martha Stewart. I want to be tidier, better organized, able to fix anything, remove any stain, grow a great garden, mend my clothes, tackle my home handiwork, host a killer party and cook the perfect feast—with, of course, a perfectly frosted cake to finish it all off. Luckily, I've laid my hands on an expert how-to for everything listed above—The Martha Manual: How to Do (Almost) Anything. A tell-all tome for budding homemakers and aspiring do-it-yourselfers, this will be my key to being the queen of doing it all. —Sara Cation
The Martha Manual (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) by Martha Stewart, $50.
FROM OUR TEST KITCHEN
QUICK 400-CALORIE FAVOURITES (Cookbook)
Every day at Canadian Living, most of the staff has lunch together at our large meeting table. In fact, the two most-asked questions around the office are "What are you having for lunch today?" and "Is it lunchtime yet?" Of course, a lot of our culinary inspiration comes courtesy of the mouthwatering food that our Test Kitchen creates. So when we were talking about our 2019 goals, naturally the topic of eating came up. In a stroke of genius, we decided we would each…um…take a page, if you will, from the Test Kitchen's latest cookbook, Quick 400-Calorie Favourites (on sale Jan. 19) and devote one day a week to making a 400-calorie lunch with one of the recipes. With all the yummy dishes to choose from, we see a delicious year ahead!
Quick 400-Calorie Favourites (Juniper Publishing) canadianliving.com/books, $20.
OUR FAVOURITE BOOKS ABOUT LOVE
Pride and Prejudice (Harper Perennial) by Jane Austen, $12.50.
The Course of Honour (Arrow) by Lindsey Davis, $40.
Outlander (Doubleday Canada) by Diana Gabaldon, $45.
Venetia (HQN Books) by Georgette Heyer, $7.
The History of Love (WW Norton) by Nicole Krauss, $22.
Love Story (Bantam) by Erich Segal, $10.
Romeo and Juliet (Simon & Schuster) by William Shakespeare, $13.
OUR STAFF REVIEWERS
Sara Cation has wept her way through a litany of literary heartbreaks, from The Little Prince to A Little Life, but she's buoyed by the likes of Shteyngart and Safran Foer. She reads anything set in North Korea or India but never touches self-help or romances.
Alexandra Donaldson loves reading literary fiction, essay collections, dark humour, Canadian authors and magical realism. This, and the fact that she's one of our resident fashion editors, makes her the closest thing we have to Belle from Beauty and the Beast.
Amanda Etty has an affinity for nail-biting thrillers and smart, funny books written by smart, funny women. She's always on the hunt for her next favourite novel, although she's currently working her way through a stack of parenting books (toddlers, right?).
Suzanne Moutis almost always has her nose in a book, be it Golden Age mystery, Second World War history or Hollywood tell-all. She unapologetically loves Regency romances and young adult fiction but flatly refuses to read anything that will make her cry.
Jodi Picoult's new novel, "A Spark of Light," is timely, powerful and provocative
The author of Small Great Things is back with another gripping tale relevant in today's world.


On Memorial Day, I spent the evening with two of the sweetest people! Ben and Kara were both such a joy to meet. We started their engagement session at The Ohio State University where they both attended school. Many of their earliest memories together were on campus so of course it was the perfect spot to start their session!
We then ventured to the Short North which is one of my favorite spots in Columbus because every time I photograph there, no two sessions look the same! One stop we made was at Late Night Slice where Ben and Kara spent many college nights together. I love when my couples put thought into their locations and really make it somewhere special to them! I had so much fun and am so excited for their wedding next June!


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Asia Morning: Dow Adds 2% on Continued Reopening Optimism
Ming Lam May 26, 2020 9:08 PM
On Tuesday U.S. stocks were mostly higher, boosted by the potential development of a coronavirus vaccine and further easing of lockdown measures in the U.S. and around the world...
On Tuesday U.S. stocks were mostly higher, boosted by the potential development of a coronavirus vaccine and further easing of lockdown measures in the U.S. and around the world. Biotechnology firm Novavax (NVAX +4.47%) said on Monday it has started the Phase 1 clinical trial of a novel coronavirus vaccine candidate, making it one of at least 10 now being tested in people globally.
Japan's government lifted the coronavirus-induced state of emergency that had been in place since April.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 530 points (+2.2%) to 24995, the S&P 500 rose 36 points (+1.2%) to 2991, while the Nasdaq 100 eased 24 points (-0.3%) to 9390.
Source: GAIN Capital, TradingView
Banks (+7.86%), Automobiles & Components (+4.7%) and Capital Goods (+4.41%) sectors were market leaders.
Macy's (M +18.43%), Alliance Data Systems (ADS +17.53%), United Airlines (UAL +16.30%), TripAdvisor (TRIP +15.57%) and Norwegian Cruise Line (NCLH +15.32%) were top gainers. On the other hand, Take-Two Interactive Software (TTWO -7.34%), Newmont Goldcorp (NEM -6.09%) and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN -4.33%) lost the most.
On the technical side, about 33.6% (32.0% in the prior session) of stocks in the S&P 500 Index were trading above their 200-day moving average, and 66.3% (65.7% in the prior session) were above their 20-day moving average.
U.S. official data showed that New Home Sales rose to an annualized rate of 623,000 in April (a decline to 480,000 units expected). The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index increased to 86.6 in May (87.0 expected).
Later today, the U.S. Federal Reserve will release its Beige Book economic report.
European stocks were broadly higher, with the Stoxx Europe 600 Index advancing 1.1%. Germany's DAX gained 1.0%, France's CAC jumped 1.5%, and the U.K. market was up 1.2%.
Spot gold price lost $16 (-0.9%) to $1,710 an ounce posting a two-day decline.
Oil prices regained strength on expectations of rising demand amid re-opening economies. U.S. WTI crude oil futures (July) increased 3.3% to $34.35 a barrel.
On the forex front, the ICE U.S. Dollar Index slid 0.7% on year to a three-week low of 99.01. Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said he expects the U.S. economy to recover strongly in the third quarter, with jobless rate dropping below 10% by the year-end.
EUR/USD advanced 0.8% to 1.0983. Germany's GfK Consumer Confidence Index bounced to -18.9 for June (-18.0 expected) from -23.1 in May.
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Home Motorsports Motorsport News MotoGP 2012 Catalunya: Tech3 Yamaha race day report
MotoGP 2012 Catalunya: Tech3 Yamaha race day report
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The Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team celebrated its first MotoGP podium in nearly a year today after Andrea Dovizioso claimed a fantastic third place in the Gran Premi Aperol de Catalunya. The Italian rider produced a display full of skill and determination in the early stages of the 25-lap race after he'd swept into third place on the third lap.
It was a position Dovizioso wasn't to relinquish for the remainder of the race and for the opening 10 laps, he pressurised Spanish duo Jorge Lorenzo an d Dani Pedrosa while they battled for the lead in front of a partisan home crowd of nearly 80,000 fans. A small mistake on lap 14 ended his stunning pursuit of Lorenzo and Pedrosa but Dovizioso rode a flawless second half of the race to keep hard charging Monster Yamaha Tech 3 team-mate Cal Crutchlow and reigning World Champion Casey Stoner at bay.
Stoner exerted intense pressure on Dovizioso on the final lap but he demonstrated ice cool concentration to claim his first Yamaha rostrum by less than 0.2s. Today's outstanding performance from Dovizioso gave the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team its first podium since Colin Edwards was third in the British Grand Prix almost one year ago. Today's race perfectly illustrated the strength of the Monster Yamaha Tech Team's line line-up in 20 12, with Crutchlow claiming his fourth top five finish of the campaign.
The British rider started from the front row of the grid for the third time this season and like in Jerez and Le Mans, the 26-year-old produced an epic effort to try and secure his maiden MotoGP rostrum. Crutchlow shadowed Stoner throughout but despite piling on the pressure he couldn't force the Australian into making a mistake and he settled for fifth place. Crutchlow remains in the top five in the overall World Championship rankings heading to his home race at Silverstone on June 7.
Andrea Dovizioso 3rd — 60 points
"I am really happy to get my first podium for Yamaha and this is a fantastic reward for all the effort my Monster Yamaha Tech 3 crew has put in since I came to this Team. We have been building up to this result for a while now, but it is great to be battling at the front in MotoGP on a satellite machine and I'm sure nobody expected us to be doing this so early. It was a very hard race because there wasn't a lot of grip but I am really happy because I was able to fight very close to Pedrosa and Lorenzo, who are so strong on this track. I was only losing one or two tenths and this is very positive. Maybe I could have stayed with them and fought for the win but I made a small mistake and that cost me a lot of time. I found my pace again but in the final laps Casey and Cal caught me, but I was determined to finish on the podium. I could hear Casey's bike and knew he was looking to attack, but I tried to give my maximum while not making a mistake and to finish third is great for the whole Team. Now we can go to Silverstone with a lot of confidence."
Cal Crutchlow 5th — 56-points
"I'd have liked to have battled for the podium at the end and I think if I could have passed Casey I could have gone with Andrea. I was strong in some parts of the track and Casey in others, so each time I'd close up, he would be able to pull away and manage the gap. I couldn't do anything else to get by him but he's not the World Champion for nothing. He rode brilliantly and I've got to be happy to be so close to him on a track I've only raced on twice now. I struggled for a bit of rear grip at the end and that cost me a bit of time but I qualified on the front row and finished in the top five, so there are so many positives to take away from this weekend. Now I'm really looking forward to my home race at Silverstone where I hope to be battling for the podium again in front of my own fans."
Herve Poncharal — Team Manager
"Today was a fantastic advert for MotoGP with exciting races in all three classes and for the Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Team it was obviously fantastic to be on the podium. We have been very close to this result before this season but it is so difficult to finish in the top three when you have Casey, Dani and Jorge lining up on the grid. But we were confident today because all weekend Andrea and Cal have been at the front and we had worked a lot on tyre management. Both of them got a good start and managed to stay in the leading group and Andrea did an amazing job to stay with Dani and Jorge. He made a small mistake, which scared us a little bit, but he recovered and rode brilliantly to keep Casey and Cal behind him. The last lap was nerve-wracking because Casey was pushing so hard, but Andrea remained very cool under pressure and to be on the podium is ama zing, particularly in the dry. Andrea demonstrated what a top talent he is today and we look forward to see him fighting for the podium a lot more now. Cal also rode a great race and he was always pushing for the podium, which proves how strong our line-up is this season. To be right behind a rider as strong as Casey for so long is a great achievement and we are sure he will be battling for the podium again at his home race in Silverstone. Big congratulations also to Jorge and Yamaha. The YZR-M1 is a very competitive machine and we are grateful for the support Yamaha has given Tech 3 so we can fight for the front row and podium each weekend."
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Carvens Lissaint
Carvens Lissaint is a Haitian American poet, actor, singer and playwright, currently starring in the Tony-winning musical HAMILTON as George Washington on Broadway.
Carvens Lissaint has graced stages across the United States, United Kingdom and The Caribbean. His work has been featured at Sundance Film Festival, The United States Green Build Council in Arizona, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Broadway at The New Amsterdam Theater and the Off-Broadway Hip-Hop Theater Festival, where he debuted his one-man show "Walk" at the Ohio Theater. He was on the second, third, and fifth seasons of the hit television series "Verses and Flow" on TV One.
issaint was a part of the touring cast of "Words Become Flesh," a play written and directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and has opened for the likes of John Leguzizamo, Elle Varner, Common, Luke James and Jill Scott. A graduate of The American Academy for Dramatic Arts and St. John's University with degrees in acting and dramatic arts for film and television, and he holds an MFA from NYU Tisch School of The Arts Graduate Acting Program.
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Pompeo crashes Brussels meet of European Union allies for Iran talks
Author: Marion Schneider ; Last update: 14 May , 2019 01:51:31
In a Friday press release, the department announced that Pompeo would leave on Sunday for a two-day trip to Moscow and Sochi, where the State secretary will meet with Putin and Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov.
"No one wants Iran to be in possession of a nuclear bomb".
Pompeo was coming to Brussels to discuss pressing matters, including Iran, with European officials, State Department spokesman Morgan Ortagus said.
European powers said they would "reject any ultimatums", after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani last week gave them 60 days to ease the impact of sanctions imposed in the oil and banking sector in particular.
Separately on Monday, Mogherini chaired a meeting of the so-called E3 - Britain, France and Germany - to discuss efforts to keep the nuclear deal going, including a special trade mechanism called Instex the trio set up to try to enable legitimate trade with Iran to continue without falling foul of USA sanctions.
European Union foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini said on Monday that European Union member states continue "to fully support the nuclear deal with Iran" ahead of a foreign ministers summit in Brussels.
Doris Day, Iconic Singer & Actress, Dead At 97
Doris was also a singer and performed the hit song " Que Sera, Sera ", and she was a famed animal rights activist. Her screen partnership with Rock Hudson was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s and '60s.
Iran said this week it would partially end its compliance with the deal unless European nations are able to circumvent the sanctions and provide it with benefits it was due under the accord, from which Trump withdrew past year. He plans to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Tuesday.
Mogherini said the talks would focus on "how to continue to best support the full implementation of the nuclear deal".
The highest-level talks in 10 months, the meeting comes as the two top world powers are at odds over Venezuela, Ukraine, North Korea, Iran and Syria, to name several hard issues that will be on the agenda.
The deal - originally signed by the United States, the European Union, the five permanent members of the UN security council and Iran to halt the latter's nuclear advancements - was already in bad shape, after the USA past year made a decision to unilaterally withdraw from it.
Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary, expressed alarm over the danger of stumbling into war as tensions escalated between Iran and the United States after the unexplained "sabotage" of vessels, including Saudi oil tankers, in the Gulf. "This is already the most unstable region in the world and this would be a massive step in the wrong direction". It comes as the Europeans struggle to keep financial supply lines open to Iran to offset the impact of USA sanctions on the Islamic republic's shattered economy.
His warning comes less than a week after a significant shift in the dynamic between the USA and Iran saw Washington deploy forces in the Gulf. This will be the highest-level talks between the USA and Russian Federation in 10 months.
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HMCS Oriole hosts an old friend
HMCS Oriole was berthed at the Rotary Sunset Park Pier in Whitby from August 10-13.
COURTESY OF HERB DRUMMOND
HMCS Oriole hosts an old friend in Whitby
By Lt(N) Bill King,
Public Affairs Officer
Almost 3000 visitors boarded HMCS Oriole for free public tours in Whitby recently. The visit was part of the Great Lakes Deployment (GLD) for 2018.
Built in 1921, HMCS Oriole served as the flagship of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club racing out of Toronto until it was gifted to the Navy League to provide a training platform for sailors during the Second World War. Later commissioned into the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in 1952, Oriole continued to serve as a training vessel based in Esquimalt B.C. until being sailed through the Panama Canal to Halifax last summer and undergoing a refit.
Local resident Art Corby served aboard Oriole IV in 1944.
LT(N) BILL KING
While sailing on GLD 2018, Oriole's crew of nine RCN sailors is augmented with a new batch of Sea Cadets each Sunday. On the occasion of the Royal Canadian Sea Cadets 100th Anniversary, these training billets are being provided to roughly 10 cadets each week. The young sailors receive hands-on seamanship training Monday through Friday as the vessel repositions for public tours in another port.
The tours are quite popular with local residents in smaller ports that seldom host a RCN vessel. One such visitor was Art Corby of Whitby.
Now at 93 years of age, Art joined the RCN in March of 1944 and headed off for basic training. Returning as an Able Seaman in May, he joined Oriole IV and sailed aboard the ship until December. The ship was not commissioned at that time, and went by the name the Gooderham family christened it as their fourth racing yacht.
"We trained Sea Cadets in sailing, steering, use of lead and line, and basic seamanship, mostly out of Toronto," said Art. "We went through the locks and up as far as Goderich that summer under the command of Lieutenant George Hamilton."
"Although Oriole is fitted out with modern navigation aids and safety gear, the sails are rigged and operated much as when it was originally built. I need all 21 hands on deck to hoist seven sails," said Commanding Officer, LCdr Drew Foran. "As a tall ship, Oriole is a piece of Canada's history that attracts an audience and gives folks an opportunity to visit the ship and speak with RCN sailors."
HMCS Oriole departed its home port of Halifax at the end of May. Thus far, the ship has hosted visitors in Toronto, Hamilton, Port Dalhousie, Oakville, Port Stanley, Windsor, and Port Colborne. Oriole moves on to Kingston, Trois-Rivières, Québec City, Sept-Îles, and Gaspé before returning to its home port in late September.


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From paradise to LNG depot?
LOCATED LESS than a mile from historic Boston Light, Outer Brewster Island is the seaward gateway to the treasured Boston Harbor Islands national park. This beautiful island is the heart of a fragile cluster of islands and bays that provide critical habitat for protected sea and shore birds, juvenile fish, trophy striped bass, and the lobsters that are so important to the region's maritime economy.
These waters are among the most popular recreational destinations in the park for fishing, diving, bird-watching, and boating. The views are magnificent, the water clean and clear. Each spring Save the Harbor/Save the Bay brings hundreds of young people to Outer Brewster Island and Calf Bay to see the park's only breeding colony of seals.
So it is dismaying to learn about a Virginia company's plan to lease Outer Brewster Island to build the largest liquefied natural gas terminal and storage depot in the United States.
The proposal by AES Corp. to locate a second LNG terminal on Boston Harbor and convert the national park into an industrial park wouldn't replace the terminal in Everett or reduce LNG tanker traffic into Boston's inner harbor. It wouldn't put a stop to any of the 16 other LNG terminal proposals in the region, such as the one proposed for Weaver's Cove in Fall River.
In fact, the AES proposal for the construction of a second LNG terminal on Boston Harbor would substantially increase LNG tanker traffic in the region while further restricting the use of these waters by other vessels.
The plan requires extensive blasting of Outer Brewster Island itself and of the rocky ledges of the adjacent bay. Construction of the proposed Fenway Park-sized facility would destroy the integrity of the park and the fragile ecosystem as well as spoil the views of Boston Light.
Today high-speed commuter and excursion boats, whale watch vessels, fishing boats, and many other commercial and recreational vessels regularly pass within a few hundred yards of Outer Brewster through Hypocrite Channel. The security zone that this facility would require would severely restrict commercial and recreational access to this part of the park. Since 1986, billions of dollars have been invested in the Boston Harbor cleanup and millions more in the park itself. Today that investment is beginning to pay off, with island visitation up 30 percent in 2005. The proposed LNG terminal would destroy the integrity of a magnificent recreational resource, damage critical habitat, restrict public access, and spoil the views of Boston Light. Permitting it to proceed would send the wrong message to industry -- that public parklands are for sale for private gain.
There are currently 17 proposals to site LNG facilities in the Northeastern United States and Canadian Maritimes, including two off Gloucester that would feed the same pipeline as the Outer Brewster proposal, and two in Canada that are already permitted and ready to proceed. These proposals need further review. Surely there is a better way to meet energy needs than by siting another LNG terminal in a densely populated area -- or in a national park.
E. Bruce Berman Jr. is communications director of Save the Harbor/Save the Bay.


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Each week I uncover some interesting stats, tidbits and information that you may or may not know about. This week I take a look at target numbers by team and your weekly dose of "Did You Know?"
by Jeff Haseley, October 8 2015
Photo: Ron Chenoy, USA TODAY Sports
Target Leaders through Week 4
Highlighted in Green are players with at least 10 targets in a game. The Rec% column shows reception percentage. Red = less than 50%, Green = greater than 70%
Julio Jones had 104 receptions in 2014, however only 7 were in the red zone. The same stands true this year with 5 of his 38 catches occurring in the red zone.
Charles Clay is the only Bills player with more than one touchdown this year.
Cincinnati is the only team with three players with three or more touchdowns (Jeremy Hill 5, A.J. Green 3, Tyler Eifert 3)
Mike Wallace is the only Vikings wide receiver with a touchdown. He has one.
Travis Benjamin leads the Browns with 16 receptions, however Duke Johnson has 15 receptions in the last two games.
Jimmy Graham's 47.50 PPR fantasy points is as much as Kendall Wright, who already had his bye.
Eddie Lacy and Ameer Abdullah have the same number of PPR fantasy points (40.80) through Week 4.
The Falcons currently boast the #1 fantasy running back and wide receiver in Devonta Freeman and Julio Jones.
Kirk Cousins leads all quarterbacks with 35 completions on third down. The next closest is Peyton Manning with 29. Cousins also leads the league with 26 first down passes on third down.
Rams RB Benny Cunningham leads all backs in third down receptions with 8.
Demaryius Thomas has the most receptions from the goal line to midfield with 24. Julio Jones has the most receptions (17) from midfield to the opponent's goal line.
Alex Smith leads all quarterbacks with 401 yards passing in the fourth quarter and overtime.
Andy Dalton is averaging 11.0 yards per attempt on first down to lead all quarterbacks. He also has 555 yards passing on first down, tops in the league. Interestingly enough, Tom Brady has 539 yards passing on first down in only three games.
Five running backs are averaging 5.0 yards per carry or higher on first down (min 25 carries). Giovani Bernard, DeAngelo Williams, Chris Ivory, Adrian Peterson and Alfred Blue.
Six wide receivers have three games of 10 targets and 8 receptions - Antonio Brown, Julian Edelman, DeAndre Hopkins, Julio Jones, Jarvis Landry and Demaryius Thomas. In case you're wondering, Odell Beckham doesn't even have one.
Two running backs have at least 100 combined rushing and receiving yards in three games this year - Matt Forte and Jamaal Charles.
Jason Witten and Jordan Reed are the only tight ends to have six catches in three games this year.
Four players have at least two touchdowns in two games this year - Larry Fitzgerald, Jeremy Hill, Julio Jones and Devonta Freeman


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Diversity & Inclusion:
Spotlight on Perspectives
Shining a Light on Different Perspectives
As a firm, we cultivate an environment in which everyone is valued for their individuality. Our success in building and maintaining a more inclusive culture stems from our appreciation and celebration of diverse ideas and innovative approaches to doing business. While we have not overcome every challenge, we are committed to embracing and bringing together the many different perspectives that help us tackle existing obstacles and emerging issues.
Susan C. Cornett - Dayton, Partner
"In the legal industry, [women] start off pretty even-heeled with men graduating from law school, but the number [of women] significantly shifts downward as you move into the partner level," said Susan. "While I know challenges exist, I haven't been faced with these issues at Thompson Hine. The firm does a good job promoting women and minority lawyers to ensure we have an even playing field."
Susan encourages all women and minority professionals to take charge of their careers and work hard to succeed. "Diversity and inclusion programs open doors, but the work yields long-lasting success," she said. "I challenge professionals to ask for help, rally for change and take advantage of opportunities to have their voices heard."
Eduardo Kim - Cleveland, Partner
"Diversity encourages a broad range of opinions, and through that, more solutions," said Eduardo.
Eduardo, a partner in the firm's Commercial & Public Finance and International groups, and Cleveland chair of the Diversity & Inclusion Initiative, has always held a strong belief in the importance of diversity. Born to Korean parents and raised in Argentina, he believes engaging in different cultures allows people to accept and embrace perspectives other than their own.
Z. Ileana Martinez - Atlanta, Partner
"I am very pleased to be part of an organization that truly understands the value of diversity and that supports and encourages it, not only with words, but more importantly, with actions. A diverse work force is a win-win proposition for our clients, our firm and our communities."
Ileana is a partner in the firm's Product Liability Litigation, Life Sciences and Business Litigation practice groups and the co-chair of the Diversity & Inclusion Initiative in the Atlanta office. Ileana is a member of the Hispanic Bar Association, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Latin American Association.
Mario J. Suarez - New York, Partner
"Our focus on diversity benefits both our clients and our firm. As a New Yorker, I am especially proud of our firm's commitment to diversity, as New York City is one of the most diverse cities in the world."
Mario is a partner in the firm's Real Estate practice group and the New York office chair of the Diversity & Inclusion Initiative. He has considerable experience in complex commercial real estate transactions with a particular focus on office leasing deals and international real estate development.
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Tony is a partner in Thompson Hine's Business Litigation practice group, a member of the firm's Executive Committee and partner-in-charge of the Columbus office. His practice focuses on complex business litigation with an emphasis on employment and transportation/trucking litigation. Tony is a member of the Columbus Bar Association's Managing Partners Diversity Initiative, which focuses on increasing the hiring and retention of minority lawyers at law firms in Central Ohio.
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Condo amenities get centre court focus
By Tracy HanesSpecial to the Star
Mon., Dec. 15, 2014timer6 min. read
"You are not going to fit 15 people into your suite. The party room is an extension of your suite . . .
Larry Blankenstein
president, Lash Group
Lounges and dining rooms reminiscent of high-end resorts . . . exercise facilities on par with deluxe fitness clubs. Those amenities have become de rigueur at new condominiums in the GTA while some of the very latest and trendy offerings include everything from rock-climbing walls to skating rinks to computer-gaming, arcade-style rooms.
Location is still top priority for condo buyers, followed by suite design. And now amenity packages are influencing purchase decisions — especially for buyers of small units — according to developers of several major Toronto projects.
Jason Fane of 45 Charles Ltd., developer of Chaz Yorkville, describes the amenities at the building where he lives in New York: "There's a nice garden with small water feature but mostly no one uses it and a storage room in the basement made into an exercise room."
Those kind of sparse offerings wouldn't fly with the sophisticated Toronto buyer, he says, especially since Chaz Yorkville is in one of the city's most prestigious neighbourhoods. That's why he's including more than 30 amenities in the building.
"Amenities used to be an afterthought but are not like that anymore," says Linda Mitchell Young, vice-president, sales and marketing at Vandyk Communities. The company's The Craftsman Condominium Residences in Clarkson Village, in Mississauga, is a 324-unit midrise project and Mitchell Young says the target, empty-nester local buyer is not keen on extensive amenities but they do want those included to be of high-calibre.
"Amenities are getting more elaborate but not more expensive," says Pauline Lierman, director of market research for Urbanation, a condo data firm. She says buyers are price-sensitive to condo fees and developers seek to offer features that aren't exorbitant to clean or maintain — once-popular indoor pools, for example, have fallen out of favour because of their price and required regular effort.
Developers are also getting creative with the design of spaces that can serve multiple purposes and are zoned with indoor and outdoor areas flowing into one another, Lierman says.
Although amenities rise and fall from favour depending on the building's buyers, a few trends are showing their muscle.
Fitness and wellness: These amenities are must-haves on current buyers' lists. Gone are the days of a few treadmills and a set of weights in a basement room. Today, fitness areas are light-filled spaces with inviting views, outfitted with state-of-the-art equipment and separate studios for yoga, Pilates and cardio. Some buildings have personal trainers on site, or residents can bring their own.
The Daniels Corp.'s Daniels Erin Mills is the first condo building in Canada to offer Wellbeats — fitness classes with a virtual personal trainer, delivered via large-screen TV. The basketball courts at Daniels' Limelight in Mississauga and Cinema Tower in Toronto's Entertainment District are popular and heavily booked, says Dominic Tompa, president of CityLife Realty, a Daniels subsidiary. A half-court gymnasium is planned for One Park Place, in Regent Park, along with squash courts.
At its HighPark Condominiums, where many buyers are active adults who enjoy getting outdoors, Daniels offers biking as an amenity.
"There is a bike share program with 20 bikes that people can use to get out and explore High Park," says Tompa. "There will also be a bike engagement program where residents can learn about biking from local experts, there will be planned excursions and there will be a bike cleaning and maintenance area."
At Lash Development Corp.'s ME Living condo in Scarborough, where there will be 900-plus units in four buildings, plans call for an outdoor reflecting pool to be transformed into a skating rink in winter.
"We're always trying to come up with innovative products and be at the forefront, trying to appeal to public and offer something they've never experienced," says Larry Blankenstein, president of Lash Group of Companies.
Amexon's 55-storey the Residences of 488 University will house its amenities in the high-end SkyClub, that will cover 30,000 square feet over two floors and face south to take in water and skyline views. Fitness and wellness offerings include an indoor saltwater pool with a retractable wall, steam room, saunas, Pilates, spinning, yoga and meditation studios and squash court.
"We wanted to do something Toronto had never seen before," says Jason Shiff, executive sales manager for The Residences. "We wanted to create a live-work-play environment, so buyers don't have to leave the development. It's like your own private country club."
Socializing spaces: Second on buyers' amenity wish list are entertaining and socializing spaces.
Party rooms of the past tended to be dull, low-ceilinged spaces with uninspired finishes. But the current incarnations boast sophisticated, hotel-like style with seating areas, bars, dining areas and catering kitchens.
"The new stuff is very well done," says Urbanation's Lierman. "There is a richness that you didn't see before and the aesthetics are pretty interesting."
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With suites getting smaller, people are paying attention to how they can entertain and continue to have the social calendar they had before.
You are not going to fit 15 people into your suite," says Blankenstein. "The party room is an extension of your suite for private parties or potluck dinners. Ours are utilized by residents and the condo board."
"The party room is something that's been really thought out," says Mitchell Young. "The Craftsman's party room has couches and chairs, a fireplace, TV screen, bars where you can put down drinks and a separate 10-seat dining area that can be open to the other spaces or closed off, so it's more intimate and formal for a sit-down dinner."
Lierman says party rooms and terraces are also being placed mid-building or on top floors to offer every resident the opportunity to enjoy prime views. Example include High Park, where the party room faces south, overlooking over the park canopy.
At Chaz Yorkville, the two-floor Chaz Club occupies the 36th and 37th floors and cantilevers out beyond the façade. It includes a lower-level cocktail lounge opening to an outdoor terrace, overlooked by the second-floor 20-seat dining room and caterer's kitchen.
Theatre rooms are also in big demand, says Tompa, where family and friends can gather to watch movies or sports events on the big screen.
The great outdoors: Indoor entertaining spaces are being integrated with outdoor, so there is a seamless flow between the two.
"Outdoor space is important. We are seeing a lot of terraces, green space, barbecues and firepits," says Lierman, who says indoor and outdoor amenities are often designed to connect. "The indoor-outdoor fireplaces are nice, there are a lot of cabanas and meditation areas and while not as common, some other have play paths for kids."
"One of the things people potentially miss when the move into a condo is outdoor space, so we have a rooftop lounge facing Birchwood Park," says Mitchell Young. "It's a park-like setting with a firepit and in evenings, people can gather around it or have an al fresco dinner."
Emerging amenities
Dog washing stationsPet lovers' needs have struck a chord with builders, and dog washing stations and pet spas are now on offer. The new twist is a separate entry so owners don't have to parade wet or muddy dogs through lobbies or corridors.
Urban gardening: Daniels pioneered condo urban agriculture and CityLife Realty's Tompa says residents really enjoy growing their own vegetables. They'll continue that trend at HighPark with second-floor community garden plots. The Craftsman is among the condos offering gardening and potting area, where residents can pot plants for their balconies.
Computer gaming: Fane says he insisted on a computer gaming arena at Chaz, which may seem curious considering that many buyers will be older. But even if mature residents don't play, it's something to help entertain the grandchildren. ME Living will also incorporate a gaming room for families to play together.


2. Accumulate at least 30 hours, 5-20 minutes at a time, of true Image Streaming as directed herein, and you will gain substantial increases in "I.Q." Your language skills will jump noticeably, contributing to 100 points or greater gain overall in such standardized tests as the G.R.E. (assuming you aren't already close to the test's ceiling -- see below). Your gain in more numinous aspects will be even more striking. This must be - or rapidly become - true Image Streaming as described herein, using a tape recorder or a live person listening.
At this time we do not know whether the gains from following both procedures together would be merely additive, or whether they will be positively synergistic. Pending formal measurement studies, our expectation is the latter. At least we know that either program by itself will, by itself, provide the benefits cited for it, apparently permanently.
attention will be quickly repaid many times over and then go on as a "dividend income" for the rest of your life.
A-ha, you knew there must be a catch to this! --Only, there truly isn't, only some common sense.
Of course, to qualify for refund you would need to demonstrate by some well-recognized standardized test that there was no gain resulting comparable to those cited. We would hope, in fact, that you would have more positive reasons for tracking your progress by test, if only curiosity. Making that part of things easier for you is the likelihood that most of you already have, as your before test, an I.Q.-related score of some sort already on record - in which case, all you would need to do is to arrange for a different or new form of the same instrument for your after measurement.
A. Whatever test you use to measure your benefits from this must be good at measuring in the upper ranges, and have either a high ceiling or no ceiling. If you already are at or above the ceiling on the test, whatever improvements you make in fact would not be reflected ion the score, obviously.
B. The test you use should be in 2 different forms, one for the "before" and a different one for the "after," to minimize test gains which are attributable to practice instead of to the effects you are seeking to measure.
C. The "after" test should be performed at least 60 days, preferably 90 days, after completion of your process intervention. Your intelligence gains appear to be permanent, but take some while to work their effects through the habituated ways in which your brain and mind think, perceive and work. A test for intelligence immediately after the intervention would show little if any gain, though some of the other gains do show up more immediately.
Next question: are you intelligent enough already to appreciate the value of more intelligence? --Especially since so many people "know," including many qualified professionals, that you cannot increase or improve human intelligence - that you are stuck with the level of intelligence - or lack of it - that you were born with???


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Mike O'Koren
Whoop-De-Damn-Do
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Two days ago, while I sat in a cubicle, unaware, the weather turned, snapping the withered neck of autumn. I had to work a little late, and when I got outside there wasn't any daylight left. It had gotten very cold, and strong gusts blasted spiraling snowdust across the parking lot. As I crossed the parking lot and approached Golf Road, I saw two buses lumber past the empty bus stop, dooming me. That's how I interpreted the turn of events: fuck, I'm doomed. The bus stop didn't offer much protection against the elements, and I had to wait a long time for another bus to come. The battery died on my aging portable XM radio, right in the middle of a replay of a mildly diverting interview with 50 Cent on the Howard Stern Show. Without that satellite babble, which I use to paper over moments whenever I can, there was only the wind blasting past the filthy plexiglass of the shelter. But something was happening with the snow and the wind that I hadn't noticed before, the snow dust coursing across the field behind the bus stop and across Golf Road like a fast rippling river. I stood apart from the river, blocked from the wind, but when the bus finally came and I stepped toward it there was a very brief interlude, in between the waiting for the bus and the waiting in the weary crowded sniffling congregation for the ride to be over, when I seemed to stand in a rushing shin-high river the color of ghosts. It was a moment.
The Nets have had their moments. The first and best came during the ABA, when Dr. J led them to two championships in the renegade league. After that pre-NBA peak, they fell into a persisting pattern in which they would bottom out for several years, then make a relatively brief foray into the realm of the promising, then fall apart and start all over again. In some ways, Mike O'Koren is the prototypical Net, joining them as a rookie during a season in which the sting, or stink, of their generally horrible play was muffled slightly by the overwhelming presence of youth on the roster. While the first card featured in this series showed the wizened veterans, Maurice Lucas and Mike Newlin, who were actually shouldering the scoring and rebounding load, the last three cards have been of rookies who had made significant contributions during the 1980-81 season. O'Koren, a New Jersey native, stuck around beyond the 58-loss season and so was there, a poor man's Bobby Jones, during the Nets' first mildly successful NBA era, backing up the talented young frontcourt of Buck Williams and Albert King. With a youthful core, the Nets made the playoffs five years in a row. O'Koren was there for all of those brief playoff campaigns (they only won one series, a shocking 1984 first-round upending of the defending champion Philadelphia 76ers), his diminishing contributions mirroring the diminishing promise of the team. He was traded to the Bullets in 1986, a move that did not save the Nets from reverting to the exact 24-58 record that had greeted Mike O'Koren's arrival in the league. The Jersey boy returned a year later, in a deal involving an undisclosed amount of cash, to log 52 total minutes in the Nets' worst NBA effort yet, the team finishing out the 1987-1988 trudge with 63 losses.
I played my last year of organized basketball that same year, sitting on the end of the bench for a Johnson State College Badgers team that had an even poorer winning percentage than the Nets. The JSC athletics website has the 1987-88 team record at 7-14, but I am pretty sure that this is a wild miscalculation on the part of the website; we won one or maybe two games. You'd think I'd have a clearer memory of our rare wins, but for the first semester of the season I was an "alternate," which meant I was not one of the eleven full-time members of the team but one of four skinny partial rejects who took turns going on road trips to log the ol' "DNP-Coach's Decision," and the team's only taste or possibly tastes of victory came when I was back home in my room reading Dostoevsky or pulling my pud. In the second semester, when several grade-point average violations and the mid-year graduation of our sober-minded point guard, Norm, thinned the roster enough for me to be a full-fledged member of the team, I remember only losing, game after game after game.
That's not exactly true. In fact, it's not true at all. I remember a lot of other things, too. Once, after a road trip loss to a team that we had pegged as our best chance at a win (they hadn't won all year to that point), we stopped at the house of the team manager. He lived on a farm in New Hampshire, and I remember standing with our team's soulful, suffering leading scorer, Dave, as we stood by a fence that had some sheep on the other side. Dave reached over and gently patted the head of a lamb.
"This is God, man," Dave said with a hushed voice.
Dave was some years older than the rest of us and had bounced around for a while between high school and college. He had a mustache and was in AA. In an early-season road game that I hadn't been at, he had engaged in a thrilling mano y mano duel with the opposing star, tallying over 50 points to his opponent's 40-something in a triple-overtime loss. (The unreliable Johnson State College website doesn't have a record of this game.) But after that peak he, like the rest of us, struggled, becoming increasingly less sure of himself, less assertive, less focused, more adrift and agitated.
In April, either at or near the end of the season, Dave and I went down to his hometown, Hartford, Connecticut, to see the Grateful Dead. Here's what I remember about my last year of organized basketball: Dave standing on the street outside the arena after the show, a large mournful man with a mustache, his arms outspread. All around us people were stumbling around or selling things or trying to find a ticket for the next night's show. Most of these people gave Dave a wide berth. But once in a while someone got curious.
"What are you doing?" Dave was asked.
"Giving out free hugs, man," Dave boomed.
Some of the people who asked him the question just laughed, some said "right on" and kept walking, but a couple people shambled into his big embrace. It didn't seem to help much. When I think of that season I think of Dave, and when I think of Dave I think of a guy who needed something, needed it so bad it pained him, and he hadn't figured out how to ask for it, or even what it was.
Just a few years later, I stood on a street in Manhattan with my brother and my friend Pete. I had my New Jersey Nets cap on my head. College was over, playing organized sports was over. Now what? On the weekends this question seemed to crescendo, resulting in an internal pressure to have something magnificent and amazing occur. I was young and living in the city of the Beats and the Fugs and the Velvet Underground and the Ramones. A city of magnificent transformations, of young people shattering the inherited parameters of art and copulating profusely, and where was I? Where was my Hydrogen Jukebox? Where was my Sweet Jane?
So that night, at least as I understood things, we had decided to Do Nothing. We had decided to go out onto the street and stand. Not even stand there or stand around. And we certainly weren't out there to make a stand. We would just stand. Just . . . stand.
It didn't last long before we gave up on the absurdity of standing in the middle of the sidewalk in a three-man triangle on the corner of Seventh Street and Second Avenue, our arms at our sides, staring at or past one another with idiotic blankness on our faces. But there was a moment, before we packed it in and drifted a block east to the International to drink, when I dipped my feet in the river that is always rushing past our shins, the river we only sense in stillness. As I remember it now, it was as if a voice had come to me, had quieted all the noise and questioning and half-assed questing and retreating in my tumbling mind.
The voice said: Whoop-De-Damn-Do.
At that time, the Nets had just crested again, for the first time since Mike O'Koren's early seasons, and were in the midst of another collapse. The central figure in both the promising rise and the disappointing fall of the Nets this time was Derrick Coleman, a big, quick player who had as fluid and intuitive a feel for the game as anyone I'd ever seen outside of Larry Bird. Some players, for example Karl Malone, dominated through strength and will and calculating intellect; Coleman's abilities were more musical, his talent lying in his ability to synch himself effortlessly into the complicated rhythm of the game and, if he desired, to nudge that rhythm in his direction. When he failed to seem to care about influencing events, basketball fans—who watched the game hoping to see the kind of rarified artistry Coleman was capable of—grew increasingly disappointed in the player. His orientation toward putting in the work needed to develop or even maintain that artistry was laid bare during the Nets' collapse, when he was asked to comment on fellow team leader Kenny Anderson's failure to show up at practice.
"Whoop-de-damn-do," Coleman said.
It became tabloid fodder for while. It found a place of honor on the bulletin board in the apartment I shared with my brother. It was something we laughed about, repeatedly, and perversely cheered for its entertainment value. What did we care? Even though I wore a New Jersey Nets cap, the Nets weren't really my team. They were only my team in air quotes. Whoop-de-damn-do to their collapse. Whoop-de-damn-do to my own. Whoop-de-damn-do to the whole spinning world.
But everything was in air quotes. Everything was half-sarcastic. Everything was never begun. Deep down, I was waiting. But for what? And as I stood on the street with my brother and Pete, I heard the words of Derrick Coleman, transformed into something beyond the context in which they were originally uttered, transformed into something beyond an existence bubble-wrapped in air quotes. Within seconds I'd lose the meaning again, just as, a couple days ago, I lost the touch of the river of ghosts the second I entered the hot, close air of a Pace bus. But there was a moment when I knew. There was a moment when there's no winning and no losing. There is always this moment. There is always a voice saying Whoop-de-damn-do.
Posted in by Josh Wilker, The Basketball Kid |
Tremendous piece, Josh. Loved in particular the parts about Dave.
by jonweisman December 11, 2009 at 12:45 pm
i was a nets fan when i was a kid, not only because they were from new york (and new jersey), but because a few of them would always come to our last practice before we started our local basketball league each season. i recall meeting bill melchionni, brian taylor, billy paultz, and john roche. (i met lou carneseccha when he came to talk at our temple.) they were a groovy bunch of cats; our team even got to play a few minutes at halftime on the coliseum court during one game.
my brother and i put up two nets decals on our bedroom window, the kind you have to stick on from the outside and faces in. i often felt like that, on the outside facing in, during those basketball years.
josh, this is another great series.
by seaver41 December 11, 2009 at 3:09 pm
And here I thought the title would be an homage to Clarence Thomas:
http://www.whoopdeedamndo.com/?p=5
It seems "whoop-de-damn-doo" was the "yadda yadda" of the early '90s. I admire your attempt to bring it back, Josh, but once somebody is on record "whoop-de-damn-do"-ing Supreme Court confirmation I'm not sure there's anyplace left for that phrase to go.
(Loved the series — I always look forward to them.)
by sansho1 December 11, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Another great series. Thanks, Josh.
by redsoxeveryday December 14, 2009 at 6:09 am
Excellent series , as always, peopled with great characters. The Fugs Derrick Coleman and the free hug guy sharing the same space as well they should.
And I thought I was the only guy who ever thought 'what to do, what to do–read Dostoevsky or tug a little.'
by sthek December 14, 2009 at 11:02 am
My hat of choice for a while in HS was a blue Nets hat with the sewn-in Coleman autograph. That was the year Drazen died…
by gedmaniac December 15, 2009 at 8:10 am
As a lifelong knicks fan I must admit I loved these old nets uniforms, both home and away. I have always been bitter about two things related to the nets: 1. They never had a chance to play in the NBA with Julius. 2. The nets offered the knicks Dr. J in lieu of paying a territorial fee to the knicks to enter the NBA and THE KNICKS TURNED THEM DOWN!
by shealives December 26, 2009 at 7:50 pm


According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, in 1970, women made up 36 percent of the U.S. workforce, but a mere 7 percent of the U.S. STEM workforce. By 2011, the total workforce was 48 percent female and the percentage of women who made up the STEM workforce had risen to 26. Now more than ever, American women are pursuing STEM-related fields in their academic and professional careers.
But a new study published in Psychological Science found in countries that heavily promote women's rights and have significant support for gender equality movements, like the U.S., the percentage of women pursuing STEM-related fields is significantly lower than that in countries rife with gender inequality, such as Turkey, Algeria and Tunisia. For example, the study found that in Algeria, more than 40 percent of STEM college graduates were women—a full 15 percent higher than here in the U.S.
The reason for the disparity is not completely clear. In an interview with The Atlantic, University of Wisconsin Gender Studies professor Janet Shibley Hyde said, "In wealthy nations, they believe that they have the freedom to pursue those alternatives and not worry so much that they pay less." In other words, the disparity could be because countries with greater gender inequality, in turn, have greater wage inequality, as well as less extensive welfare programs, meaning that poverty rates for women are higher. As such, women in these countries may pursue STEM-related fields because they offer a more certain economic future.
Similarly, within the U.S., a recent study at Cornell University found that students' choice of college major bears a significant correlation to their parents' income. Specifically, students who come from higher-income families are more likely to select a major in the humanities, such as English, history, visual/performing arts and sociology. Alternatively, students from lower-income families, tend to select majors in more reliably lucrative fields, such as computer science, medicine and mathematics.
Cornell sociologist Kim Weeden, head of the study, suggested, "Kids from higher-earning families can afford to choose less vocational or instrumental majors because they have more of a buffer against the risk of un- or under-employment." Basically, students with a financial cushion from their parents have the flexibility to be able to choose a career with a less certainly lucrative financial future.
Pursuing a STEM-related field bores significantly less financial risk, as careers in such fields tend to have higher salaries, almost entirely across the board. Those with a less stable financial background or a politically less certain financial future likely choose these fields in order to ensure the ability to establish financial independence.
Strictly speaking, being able to choose a financially riskier major is a privilege. This is not to say that fields such as history, English and performing arts are unimportant. These disciplines are rigorous, intellectually challenging and vital to society. A society could not exist without experts in these areas and moreover, even students studying STEM fields should be well versed in humanities disciplines in order to have a more holistic view of the world.
With that said, focusing in humanities courses is not as easy for some. With less financial flexibility, careers have to be about making enough money to live. With greater financial freedom comes the ability to choose a career based on not only earning potential but also based on passion. Students from higher-income backgrounds and more supportive communities have more freedom to pursue passions without fear of failure leading to insolvency.
Just as with any type of privilege — whether racial, sexual orientation-based, gender-based or otherwise — the first step to addressing it is to acknowledge it. Having enough privilege to pursue higher education in the first place is one thing, but it's important to recognize that the buck doesn't stop there. Within institutions of higher education, there many, many tiers of privilege that we often don't see when thinking about ourselves as one community of badgers.
Attending college boasts the opportunity to do what you love and pursue your passions, but that isn't necessarily realistic for everyone. Recognizing how your experience at UW may be different from that of your peers can go a long way toward equalizing higher education and allowing more students at UW and around the world to pursue their passions, as opposed to merely seeking financial security.
Cait Gibbons ([email protected]) is a sophomore majoring in Chinese with a certificate in statistics.


Betka is behind the Bagbet eco fashion brand, Zuzana founded the Dutka concept that deals with the processing of textile waste and manufacture of household products. Ľubo is a photographer and Brody a graphic designer.
Swapping practically means exchanging clothes, accessories, shoes and handbags. SWAP is an eco-friendly way to refresh one's wardrobe without ruining your wallet and planet. SWAP is a guilt-free "shopping".
You bring your sorted clothes to a common pooland in turn, you may take away anything you find, need or like.
1) Clothes and accessories you want to swap. But they must be in an excellent form. They must smell good, be clean, nice and undamaged, they must be in such a shape that your good friend would take them.
2) Clothes with no potential to serve further in their original form. These ones will be used for recycling purposes. We will address not only big recycling companies that make new products from textile waste, but also local designers that upcycle textile waste. You can, however, bring only clothes. Unfortunately, it is so far impossible to recycle shoes and accessories in Slovakia.


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Haaretz | Opinion
Racism-as-Zionism. Don't Call It 'pro-Israel.' Call It What It Is: Disgusting
It's time to stop pretending that racism can ever be good for the Jews.
Bradley Burston
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A pro-Israel demonstration in New York's Times Square.Credit: Reuters
No more.
Israel Is Plunging Even Further Right. Time to Move. Left.
What We Talk About, When We Talk About Israel and Genocide
I Thank God That There's an Israel
It's time to stop pretending that racism can ever be good for the Jews. Not in practice, and not in propaganda.
It's time to stop fooling ourselves that there's any reasonable benefit for Israel in practicing racism against Palestinians, whether in flagrantly discriminatory policies in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, or in less obvious but still keenly felt official inequality toward Palestinian citizens of Israel.
It's time, as well, to call out "Pro-Israel" voices who "defend" Israel by demonizing and dehumanizing Palestinians as a people, as a society, as a whole and as individuals. It's time we called racism-as-Zionism what it is: Disgusting.
It's time to stand up and answer the know-it-all social media zealots who, from the comfort and insulation of their armchairs in North American suburbs, post incessantly about how all Palestinians — people whom they've never ever met nor spoken with — are fanatic, base, primitive, bloodthirsty Jew-hating animals, for whom Jew-murder is the be-all and end-all of their lives, and — incidentally — are also not a real people, so deserve no rights beyond the right to be expelled.
It's time to ask, if this is what "pro-Israel" means, what does this Israel stand for?
"There is irrefutable evidence of the barbaric and genocidal nature of Palestinian society. Indeed, the reality is that, despite maintaining a 'moderate' stance to the outside world, internally the Palestinians and the Islamic State group are birds of a feather — although the Palestinians are probably more corrupt."
The author is Isi Leibler, former leader of the Australian Jewish community and ex-chairman of the governing board of the World Jewish Congress, who moved to Israel in the late 1990s and is now a columnist for Israel Hayom and the Jerusalem Post.
His column, published by both media outlets last week, held out little room for the possibility that Palestinian society is fragmented and diverse, split over a broad range of issues, among them, one state versus two, the role of religion in politics, and the question of an eventual accommodation with Israel.
Two days before the column appeared, a respected poll of Palestinian public opinion showed that 51 percent of Palestinians support a two-state solution.
But for Isi Leibler, the only thing which Palestinians truly support, is slaughtering Jews.
"While Arab hostility to Jews prevailed even during the Mandatory period, it was not comparable to the culture of death and evil that today saturates every aspect of Palestinian life," he writes.
"The Palestinian Authority has become a criminal society and can be compared to prewar Germany when the Nazis transformed their population into genocidal barbarians by depicting Jews as subhuman."
You have to hand it to Isi. A great sense of timing. His statements on Palestinians come just as the school year begins, and students, many for the first time, will be learning about the Israel-Palestine conflict.
According to Leibler, the direction of the debate over Israel is all wrong. In his view, "exposing the barbarity of our neighbors should be made the top priority in our foreign relations efforts, rather than the endless disputes over whether the minuscule 2% of territory comprising settlements (which are not being expanded) is justified."
Let's forget, for the moment, that neither the two percent figure nor the observation regarding non-expansion are, in fact, even remotely representative of the reality of occupation.
The problem is reducing millions of Palestinians, people of all ages and aspirations and backgrounds and temperaments and dreams, to a darkly uniform mass of murderers.
The problem is racism. The problem is using racism against Palestinians as a defense of Israel. Using racism against Palestinians as a substitute for information, for honesty, for any vision at all of a way forward, a way out.
In a reality like ours, a morass of rage, frustration, colossal unfairness and despair, racism has a definite allure. It's the easy way out, the tempting default, the feel-good heat sink.
The problem is, it's wrong. It's disgusting. It appeals to the worst in us, and makes nothing better.
The problem is not Isi Leibler. For every Isi Leibler, there are countless others, much worse, pumping out hatred against Palestinians on social media as if the hatred itself were somehow helpful, useful, as if it somehow made Israel stronger. Some people even hate Palestinians for a living. Some of them are in the Knesset. One of them now has the biggest office in the Defense Ministry.
There is a prime minister who exhorts Israeli Jews to drop everything and run out and vote for him because Arabs in droves are coming over the hill.
A prime minister who exploits a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv in order to accuse Arab Israelis as a whole of disloyalty to the state.
Is this really the best that Israel's got going for it?
Are there no better arguments from the right supporting Israel — and doing everything possible to fend off any eventuality of a Palestinian state alongside it — than branding Palestinians genocidal, barbaric criminals?
When the right uses racism as a public relations tool, all it's really doing is preaching to its choir. But what does that say about the preacher, and what does that say about the choir?
In the end, in marshaling racist arguments in order to "defend" Israel, what they've shown the rest of us, is only this:
Racism is not a defense. Racism is a confession.
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London copper was trading steady on Monday morning after it registered its second weekly loss as an intensifying trade war between the United States and top metals consumer China raised concerns over demand. For the week, LME and Shanghai copper are down 1.7 percent. U.S. President Donald Trump has said he is prepared to quickly ramp up the trade war with China and has told aides he is ready to impose fresh tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports as soon as a public comment period on the plan ends. China will be forced to retaliate if the United States implements any new tariff measures, China's commerce ministry warned on Thursday. Road access to MMG Ltd's Las Bambas copper mine in Peru, which was blocked by protesters last week, has been restored and company logistics are operating normally, the company said late on Wednesday. European customers will avoid deals with Russia's United Company Rusal, under U.S. sanctions, when the industry meets in Berlin next week to seal 2019 metal supply agreements, three sources familiar with the discussions said. On-warrant stocks of copper available to the market in LMEregistered warehouses rose by 850 tonnes to 147,450 tonnes but are still down from more than 234,000 tonnes in mid-August, signalling a tighter market. Stockpiles in Shanghai Futures Exchange (ShFE) warehouses have fallen to 136,051 tonnes from more than 300,000 tonnes in April.
Oil prices rose on Monday as US drilling for new production stalled and as the market eyed tighter conditions once Washington's sanctions against Iran's crude exports kick in from November. US energy companies cut two oil rigs last week, bringing the total count to 860, energy services firm Baker Hughes said on Friday. The US rig count has stagnated since May, after staging a recovery since 2016, which followed a steep slump the previous year amid plummeting crude prices. Outside the United States, new US sanctions against Iran's crude exports from November were helping push up prices. Several major Iran customers like India, Japan and South Korea were already cutting back on Iran crude. While Washington exerts pressure on other countries to fall into line and also cut imports from Iran, it is also urging other major producers to raise their output in order not to create too strong a price spike. US Energy Secretary Rick Perry will meet counterparts from Saudi Arabia and Russia on Monday and Thursday, respectively, as the Trump administration seeks the world's biggest exporter and producer to keep output up. One key question going forward is how demand develops amid the trade dispute between the United States and China, as well as general emerging market weakness.


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Shakargarh (en ourdou : شکرگڑھ) est une ville pakistanaise, située dans le district de Narowal, dans le nord de la province du Pendjab. Elle est la capitale du tehsil éponyme.

La ville a été fondée en 1912. Elle est située à seulement quelques kilomètres de la frontière indienne et de l'État Jammu-et-Cachemire, ainsi que de la grande ville pakistanaise Sialkot. Elle se trouve également sur la rive ouest de la rivière Ravi.

La population de la ville a été multipliée par plus de quatre entre 1972 et 2017 selon les recensements officiels, passant de  à . Entre 1998 et 2017, la croissance annuelle moyenne s'affiche à 2,6 %, un peu supérieure à la moyenne nationale de 2,4 %.

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Voir aussi
 Liste de villes du Pakistan

Ville dans la province du Pendjab (Pakistan)


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Combat Mission - General Discussion
Help Battlefront Out & Leave A Steam Review
By ZackTactical34,
September 2, 2020 in Combat Mission - General Discussion
landser 110
Wow, this is some thread. The tribalism is strong.
I've been playing Combat Mission for 20 years and I probably would NOT recommend it except for very specific players. I praise WEGO, the tactical battlefield, and particularly the spotting, C2 and ballistics. But for me virtually everything else is out of date or substandard, including but not limited to the transaction process (Steam takes care of this), the upgrade method (also good now with Steam I suppose), AI, campaign system, editor, UI, QMB, graphics, and more.
How do I get Steam keys?
Edited September 2, 2020 by landser
added WEGO, because it's brilliant
Freyr Oakenshield 0
Freyr Oakenshield
1 hour ago, Thewood1 said:
Holy cow. And this type of comment is exactly why BFC and its beta teams have such a poor reputation. Exactly this. Unfortunately, there was a period of time where any negative comment was virtually set upon by people on this forum. And it was condoned by BFC though inaction. Because of that, this forum became its own little insular world. But the internet has a long memory. And exposing BFC to the Steam masses gives those previously aggrieved a forum for revisiting past issues without BFC being able to control the narrative. As soon as BFC made the Steam announcement, I knew what would happen on both sides. But to see thjis kind of comment and general degradation of people who just don't happen to like the game, BFC, or maybe Steve, sure exposes the worst of this forum. And this comment is worse than any I have seen on Steam...ever.
It's not really the worst comment I've seen about games (or even wargames) on Steam...
I think that part of the "problem" is Steam's policy on prices. Games get old very quickly on Steam and masses of Steam users expect huge discounts on older games. Some other games by Matrix/Slitherine, for instance, also got similar hate when they were released on Steam. For example, Gary Grigsby's War in the East and War in the West is a good case in point. They had already been in use for a couple of years (especially War in the East) when they came out on Steam, and their prices were quite high (with small discounts) considering their age (and considering Steam's standards)... Games as old as Shock Force 2 usually get 75%-90% discounts on Steam. That's probably the reason for the hate. Steam really is a minefield for such games, but it's something Matrix/Slitherine guys should be aware of...
Thewood1 317
Thewood1
I think there are a lot more people out there like landser than anyone cares to admit. Look at the number of people on Steam that said the owned the games, but hadn't played them in years. For BFC and its "fanbois", its a shock to have the state of the market rubbed in their face. Reputations don't get built in a vacuum.
com-intern 72
com-intern
19 minutes ago, landser said:
2 minutes ago, Freyr Oakenshield said:
It's not really the worst comment I've seen about games (or even wargames) on Steam..
Its not the worst comment about a game, but its easily the worst comment I have seen from an unofficial team member towards any part of an audience.
55 minutes ago, com-intern said:
They are unpaid volunteers but I'm describing the view point of people outside these forums. If you have the beta tester tag you are a de-facto representative regardless of whether Battlefront wants you to be or not.
Finally, someone speaks the quiet part out loud. Have been saying this for years. It is probably 80% of the reason this forum has a bad rep out in the wild.
IICptMillerII 1,013
IICptMillerII
Sassy Fanboy
1 hour ago, com-intern said:
Yea this sort of post is absolutely ****ing whack.
Pro-tip: If you are going to lead with calling people who dislike the game mentally disturbed maybe you should stop posting here.
Like this is embarrassing to anyone who attempts to talk about the game in other venues. How do I go on Steam Discussion or Reddit or whatever and say "well they actually aren't huge snobs" when 3rd post literally calls them mentally unstable?
Especially if your label is Beta Tester you ought to be presenting yourself better since you are de-facto a representative of the game to many people.
Oh boo-hoo. This kind of moral virtue signalling crap is exactly that, and I stand by my statement. Anyone who has devoted the past 20 years of their lives (and yes, there are some) to trash a game online at every possible chance they get across every possible medium is mentally disturbed.
I also love that you have conflated what I said to be a personal attack against you and anyone else that has ever criticized the game. Guess I just absolutely destroyed myself then! Consider me slayed.
Yea, its more than a little frustrating as someone whose enjoyed the games a lot. I'm spending a fair amount of time in the last few days trying to help people out over on the Steam forums and put a good face on the game. I don't want to have to deal with people talking faster than they can think.
1 minute ago, IICptMillerII said:
lawl - so much for some humility.
@IICptMillerII
I mean really the whole thing is pretty simple - I would think it would be common sense;
1. Don't call people mentally damaged
2. Maybe don't go around complaining about moral virtue signaling after you called people mentally damaged.
3. If you can do neither of those then don't make the post.
3a. If you absolutely cannot help yourself remove the beta tester tag.
Because fundamentally if there are in fact these mental defectives obsessed with Combat Mission your posts will not dissuade them. However, your posts sure as hell paint Battlefront in a bad light.
Just now, com-intern said:
Nah I'm good. I'll go right ahead and call a spade a spade, and mental damage mental damage. And I certainly wont be following orders from some rando on the forums. I don't fear the outrage mob, nor will I compromise for it or appease it.
Wow. I thought it would take a lot longer for someone to come in and prove my point. I'll start setting expectations a little lower on how BFC wants to be represented.
BFCElvis 24
BFCElvis
Well.....While I appreciate the original post's sentiments about wanting to rally troops to post their reviews I don't think it is necessary. Anyone who wants can review or not review their Steam game as they see fit.
Since then this thread has gone south pretty badly and there really isn't any reason to keep it going. I think everyone has had a chance to freely express their thoughts on the issue.
Sep 2 BFCElvis locked this topic


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