With a tsunami of regulation, the digital revolution, and increased competition, private banks and asset managers are preparing for a wave of mergers and acquisitions. The smaller companies in particular feel that they are a sitting target. "All diversity is at risk of being lost".
These days, thanks to the ambitious Supernova-festival, Antwerp's "Little Island" is the epicentre of state-of-the-art financial technology. But at the Antwerp brokerage firm Van Goolen & Co, a few hundred meters further in the shade of St. Paul's Church, there is little sign of the digital revolution which has caused such seismic shifts in the financial sector.
No omnichannel strategy, unique app or other hip buzzwords at this tiny office, which has a client portfolio of about 50 million euro. The Antwerp house, founded in 1920, remains resolutely "old-school": placing stock market orders or selling stocks via telephone or after a client visit to the office. The website of Van Goolen & Co comprises only one page, containing only the office's switchboard number.
'The new internet platforms have their own audience,' says manager Jan De Cleir. 'Our great advantage is that we can rely on a very loyal clientele. These are people who prefer to directly speak to someone they know well rather than sit in front of a computer screen to place an order. That said, our clientele is somewhat older and it's no simple matter to attract younger people. But the older clients also have children, who eventually come knocking at our door. Unless there is some big catastrophe, and as long as no more absurd European rules are dreamed up, I see us celebrating our centenary in 2020.
And so while Goolen & Co is well-equipped for the future, the dozens of private banks, asset managers and brokerage firms around the country are experiencing much more nervous moments. For a long time it seemed that this sort of company, which primarily focuses on wealthy clients, was buffered from all upheavals in the financial sector. But in the meantime, even the most fashionable houses must do their homework in order to endure.
Unlike the traditional banks, the burdensome mix of strict regulation, enforced digitisation and historically low interest margins are putting the revenue model of the smaller players under pressure. That has already brought about some remarkable deals. In July, the British Duet took over the Antwerp asset manager Merit Capital. A month later, the Dutch ABN AMRO acquired the Belgian private banking arm of Société Générale. The Bruges brokerage firm Weghsteen is also up for grabs. This has come about because the regulator National Bank became concerned about the course of events at the loss-making broker.
According to most experts, that's just the beginning of a much larger wave of mergers and takeovers in the sector. When you ask why, you'll quickly hear the five-letter word which is these days giving bankers nightmares: MiFID. This European regulation for the protection of investors is not new: it is for example the reason why you must fill out a questionnaire when you want to buy a share.
However, the revised MiFID rules, which have been in effect since the start of the year, go much further. The era of lifting the phone to quickly discuss an investment idea with tour banker or advisor is over. If your banker or asset manager wants to give advice, the new regulations mean that you must provide a detailed report - even the date of the call must be notified - and before an order is actually placed, it must be checked whether everything matches the client's risk profile.
'Of course, there is still space for smaller, independent establishments', relates Sam Adams, Managing Director of the Kortrijk brokerage firm Lawaisse. 'We see that in our returns and in the fact that the influx of our clients is still rising. Investment firms and asset management companies which are heavily dependent on investment advice have seen their working environment change considerably. That requires a strong focus from our board of directors, which must adapt its strategy accordingly.
The new consumer regulations are already causing some players to ask themselves whether they want to give advice at all any more. 'For economic reasons, we only still give advice to major clients', says Erik Peeters, manager of Antwerp's Leo Stevens & Cie. 'We continue to see this kind of service provision as our raison d'être. However, the reality is that out of pure necessity, many players are beginning to focus on only selling various investment products. But it's here that the larger players have the advantage. The diversity which previously existed in our branch is at risk of disappearing'.
When the personnel of a private bank leave after a takeover, they usually take the clients with them. Then you're left with an empty shell.
Analysts have long been predicting a wave of takeovers in the branch. But so far, this Big Bang hasn't come to pass. 'Also, don't forget that closing this sort of deal is much harder than it appears', says an insider.
Old-style client retention thus remains key. All the same, bankers should not underestimate the extent to which new digital applications can disrupt their business, says Kasper Peters of the Deloitte consultancy. As soon as clients start to take certain new services, such as a comprehensive mobile app with real-time overview of their investment portfolio, as a given, it gets tougher for companies who haven't kept up with the trend.
Moreover, the traditional private banks most pay ever greater attention to some newcomers in the branch. Houses such as Argenta or Crelan, who until now were inactive in this niche, are now also looking for opportunities and are seeking new revenue streams, says Van Laecke.
'Within five years from now, the landscape will look completely different. Some years back, banks tried to win a greater market share for savings books. In the meantime, everything is revolving around cheap credit. The margins have become wafer-thin, shifting the emphasis to investment products. The fact that people are being encouraged to invest more is of course a good thing, but we must ensure that we watch out that no price war erupts that will threaten the profitability of the sector'.
Remarkable: according to many insiders, the National Bank is also steering a wave of consolidation among the Belgian asset managers. They see evidence of this in the fact that the Bruges-based Weghsteen itself is in the shop-window, following pressure from the regulators. 'Both the National Bank and the stock market watchdog are starting to more closely scrutinise smaller asset management companies and brokerage firms', relates a banker, who requested to remain anonymous.


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Entertainment Celebrity Royal Meghan Markle heads back to Canada as Queen calls for an emergency summit
Meghan Markle, Prince Harry and Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace in June 2018. Photo: Getty
Meghan Markle has returned to Canada, where she just holidayed for almost two months, amid the increasing storm over the bombshell news she and Prince Harry plan to retreat from the frontline of royal life.
The BBC and other media outlets say Meghan has decamped to the country where she and Harry are tipped to start their new lives, leaving the duke to face down a family crisis.
Some reports say the former actress left son Archie, 9 months, in North America while she made her lightning return trip to the UK and will now be reunited with him.
As the royals face calls for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex to give up their titles, the Queen has called for an emergency family summit to find solutions for Harry and Meghan's wishes within days, say reports.
The monarch and Prince Charles are reportedly locked in "calm" conversations with Harry via a series of conference calls, Her Majesty in Sandringham and the heir Birkhall, Scotland.
Governments on both sides of the Atlantic are reportedly being asked to co-operate with navigating the next steps.
Kate Middleton's 38th birthday on January 9 was overshadowed by the crisis, which has been called "a declaration of war" by Harry and Meghan. They broke off any unspoken hostilities to post an upbeat comment on social media ("Wishing a very happy birthday to the Duchess of Cambridge!")
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It was the only sign of buoyancy on a bizarre day for the royal family, which in the last months has already endured the exiling of Prince Andrew over his friendship with late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Philip's hospitalisation at Christmas.
"The Queen, the Prince of Wales, and the Duke of Cambridge have directed their teams to work at pace with governments and the Sussexes's office to find workable solutions and this is expected to take days, not weeks," a royals source told People.
The monarch's major goal? A speedy conclusion and working through the tangled issues to put forwarded a plan "that works" for the aggrieved duke and duchess.
"This has moved from shock and a range of emotions to something more constructive," the source said.
"It is complicated. This is happening very quickly. And the proof in that is the fact that this will take days and not weeks."
Meghan and Harry at Canada House in London on January 7. Photo: Getty
Said to be central to the summit discussions are funding for the couple and their team, security and protection, and whether they will have official residences.
On Thursday (Australian time), Harry and Meghan detailed plans to "carve out a progressive new role within the institution" on their new Sussex Royal site.
They said they want financial independence from the palace and will give up the $10 million a year they have received under the Sovereign Grant to forge careers or businesses.
The issue of what kind of roles Harry and Meghan want to carry out on behalf of the monarchy also needs to be thrashed out by the UK government and that of wherever that choose to live.
The Sussexes' social media announcement and information on their website suggests they still plan to carry out official foreign tours. As they put it, they will "fly the flag" for the royals "as called upon."
Meghan and Harry in 2017, her first royal family Christmas. Photo: Getty
According to the Evening Standard, Harry's grandmother and father had asked the Sussexes to "hold off" after the family held "early talks" about the shock proposal before Christmas.
Harry approached Charles about spending more time in North America, and was told a "thorough plan" had to be devised, the newspaper said.
A request to meet with the Queen was blocked by courtiers, with the monarch reportedly explaining plans for Harry's role needed to be handled by his father.
"There is a lot of hurt about this," one royal source told People.
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        struct Vector
    {
        public:
        double x;
        double y;
        double z;
    }

I have this library which provides me with certain classes and their methods.
How do I extend these classes in my own application code?
right now I am memcopy this vector into a char array and then udp sending it, and then udp receive on the other side and then memcopy ing it into a vector instance from a  char array with 3*sizeof(double).
How do I extend the struct or similar classes so that I can simply
std::string<<vector;

and then send this string to my udp send
and udp receive and then copy the received message directly into a vector?

A: You need/want an overload of operator<<:
std::ostream &operator<<(std::ostream &os, Vector const &v){
   return os << v.x << "\t" << v.y << "\t" << v.z;
}

Note that instead of writing directly to a string, you'll use this to write to an std::ostringstream (but it's trivial to get an std::string of the contents of a stringstream.
For reading, you do pretty much the same thing with operator>>:
std::istream &operator>>(std::istream &is, Vector &v) {
    return is >> v.x >> v.y >> v.z;
}

Note that when you write, this does not automatically insert delimiters between the Vector objects. Typically you'll want to insert something like\n between one Vector and the next.
Also note that this stores the data in text format. Depending on your situation, you may prefer binary -- it's generally more compact and faster to read and write (but also more fragile, so seemingly minor corruption can destroy an entire file).
Oh -- one other detail. In case it wasn't clear, these functions should not be members of your Vector class, but if you put Vector into namespace, you want to keep these functions in the same namespace with it.

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Shaktikanta Das: Dimensions of India's external sector resilience
Speech by Mr Shaktikanta Das, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, at the Bloomberg India Economic Forum 2019, Mumbai, 19 September 2019.
The international environment is clouded with very challenging conditions. Global growth is slowing down and central banks across the world are bracing up to counter it by easing monetary policy; but there is no recession as yet. Trade wars have pushed world trade into contraction and threaten to morph into tech and currency wars, with no evidence of any significant gains accruing to anyone. Meanwhile, global commodity prices have weakened, with collateral benefits to net commodity importers and terms of trade losses for commodity exporters. The developments emanating from drone strikes on Saudi oil facilities are, however, still playing out. Sporadic flights to safety are driving capital flows out of emerging markets into advanced economy assets; but the universe of negative yielding bonds is growing disconcertingly large, posing a potential threat to financial stability.
2. In this hostile environment, India's external sector has exhibited resilience and viability. The current account deficit has averaged 1.4 per cent of GDP over the last 5 years and remains comfortably financed in spite of global spillovers imparting risk-on-risk-off volatility to portfolio flows. The level of foreign exchange reserves was at US$ 429 billion on September 13, 2019, sufficient to cover close to 10 months of imports or 21 months of debt of residual maturity up to 1 year. The Indian economy remains a preferred habitat for foreign direct investment (FDI) and is among the top 10 destinations for greenfield projects (Source: FDI Report, Financial Times, 2018). Net foreign direct investment at US$ 18.3 billion in April-July 2019 was higher than US$ 11.4 billion in the corresponding period of 2018-19.
3. Significant progress has been made in external debt management since the external payment difficulties encountered in 1990 which triggered wide-ranging structural adjustments and reforms. The level of external debt at 19.7 per cent of GDP and the debt service ratio (principal repayments and interest payments as a ratio of current earnings) at 6.4 per cent of GDP are among the lowest in emerging market peers. This places India among the least externally indebted countries of the world, by the World Bank's classification. In terms of a broader measure of external liabilities - the net international investment position (NIIP) which includes both debt and equity liabilities, net of foreign assets - India's exposure declined to 15.9 per cent of GDP at end-March 2019 from a peak level of 18.3 per cent at end-March 2015. Foreign exchange reserves covered 76 per cent of external debt and 94.6 per cent of the NIIP at end-March 2019, up from 68.2 per cent and 89.3 per cent, respectively, at end-March 2014. Short-term debt by residual maturity declined to 57 per cent of foreign exchange reserves at end-March 2019 from a peak level of 59 per cent at end-March 2013. Short-term debt by original maturity constitutes barely 20 per cent of total external debt.
4. These healthy developments are underpinned by the innate strength of India's underlying fundamentals. The degree of openness of the economy, measured by the ratio of exports and imports of goods and services to GDP, has risen from 20 per cent in the first half of the 1990s to 44 per cent in the latest five-year period from 2014-19. The share of India's merchandise exports in world exports has gone up from 0.5 per cent in 1990 to 1.7 per cent in 2018.
5. In line with the expanding share of services in domestic output, India's services exports have grown rapidly over the past two decades. In fact, India's services exports have shown a higher degree of resilience to global shocks than merchandise exports. At US$ 81.9 billion, net services exports financed 45 per cent of India's trade deficit in 2018-19. In the area of traded services, India remains a world leader in software exports and information technology (IT) enabled services, accounting for around 12 per cent of world software exports. India's IT sector, which earned US$ 78 billion through net exports in 2018-19, is leapfrogging into new technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics. The Indian diaspora is among the largest in the world and reflecting this, India currently receives the highest amount inward remittances in the world from Indians working abroad. Alongside, accretions to non-resident deposits have provided stable and reliable support to the balance of payments over the years. Financial openness, measured by the ratio of gross capital inflows and outflows to GDP, has increased three-fold from 15 per cent in the first half of the 1990s to 45 per cent during 2014-19.
6. Notwithstanding these achievements, there are several areas of concern as well which occupy centre-stage in the conduct of external sector management. First, merchandise exports have lost momentum under the weight of the slump in world trade. In spite of export volume growth averaging 4.2 per cent during 2013-18 (UNCTAD, 2019), India's export growth in US dollar terms has weakened - as in a host of emerging and advanced economies - to 2.2 per cent over the same period, as falling unit value realisations have taken their toll. The slowdown in global demand has affected our exports of petroleum products as well - they constitute 14 per cent of total merchandise exports. Second, the deceleration in domestic demand has pulled imports, especially non-oil non-gold imports, into contraction and this has reduced the inflow of intermediates, capital goods and technology that is vital for modernising our infrastructure and industry. Third, portfolio flows, which on average account for about 23 per cent of external financing in a normal year, have turned highly volatile, with net outflows of US$ 0.6 billion in 2018-19. During 2019-20 so far (up to September 13), portfolio equity outflows were of the order of US$ 1.4 billion but lower than US$ 2.9 billion in the corresponding period a year ago. Net inflows into the debt market of US$ 4.1 billion have, however, provided relief. Moreover, these portfolio capital movements have turned out to be conduits of global spillovers, impacting domestic equity, debt and forex markets, and asset prices. Nonetheless, the underlying resilience of India's external sector, anchored by the positive features I set out earlier, have cushioned these shocks and insulated the domestic economy.
Managing the External Sector
7. Against this backdrop, I would like to turn to several recent initiatives undertaken by the Reserve Bank of India and the Government of India to fortify India's external position and improve the capacity of the economy to deal with the headwinds that confront us in these testing times.
8. Exports hold the key to a sustainable balance of payments position. In the final analysis, liabilities in the form of debt and even equities cannot entirely substitute for foreign exchange earnings from exports of goods and services that create import purchasing power and liability servicing capacity. Over the years, the policy endeavour has been to secure a wide diversification in India's export profile in terms of both products and destinations. In particular, product diversification has enabled India to broaden its export basket relative to BRICS peers and reduce its vulnerability to trade shocks. Apart from diversification, India is now exporting sunrise products like electronics, chemicals and drugs and pharmaceuticals for which demand is expanding at the global level. In the smart phone segment of electronic goods, India has transformed itself from being a net importer to an exporter with the impetus from the phased manufacturing programme.
9. Looking ahead, several initiatives have been put in place and others are being launched on an ongoing basis to enable export industries to regain productivity and cutting edge competitiveness. They include upgradation of export facilities, integration of Indian farmers and their products with global value chains, and trade facilitation measures. More recently, efforts are going into reimbursement of taxes and duties, including electronic refund of input tax credits in GST. An action plan for 12 'champion' services sectors, including IT, tourism and hospitality, and medical services has been developed since February 2018. The Reserve Bank and the Government are actively engaged in the promotion of e-commerce platforms that will boost the exports of both merchandise and services. All these steps seek to create a more conducive climate for exports.
10. With regard to capital flows, India has adopted an approach marked by progressive liberalisation but calibrated to the realities of the domestic situation, including the evolution of financial markets. A diverse range of instruments for managing exchange rate risk for an expanding investor base has come into play. India's hierarchical policy approach - preferring equity flows over debt flows, and preferring FDI flows over portfolio flows within equity flows and long-term debt flows over short-term flows within total debt flows - has influenced the composition of capital flows.
11. Turning to equity flows, FDI policy has been progressively liberalised across various sectors in recent years to make India an attractive investment destination. Sectors that have been opened up in recent years include defence, construction development, trading, pharmaceuticals, power exchanges, insurance, pensions, financial services, asset reconstruction, broadcasting and civil aviation. 100 per cent FDI has also been allowed in insurance intermediaries. In August 2019, FDI norms in single-brand retail trade have been further liberalised. FDI up to 100 per cent has been permitted under the automatic route in contract manufacturing and coal mining.
12. With regard to foreign portfolio investment (FPI), several measures have been undertaken to create an investor-friendly regime and to put in place a more predictable policy environment. FPI limits are now being revised on a half yearly basis under the medium-term framework. FPI has been allowed in municipal bonds within the limits set for State Development Loans (SDLs).1 Greater operational flexibility has been granted to FPIs under a Voluntary Retention Route (VRR) which facilitates investment in G-secs, SDLs, treasury bills and corporate bonds while allowing investors to dynamically manage their currency and interest rate risks. The initial response to the VRR scheme has been encouraging. The Union Budget 2019-20 proposed to ease KYC norms for FPIs and also merge the NRI portfolio route with the FPI route for seamless investment in stock markets. Outward direct and portfolio investment have also been progressively liberalised to give Indian entities a global scan and presence.
13. External borrowing norms have also been simplified under two tracks: foreign currency denominated ECBs; and rupee denominated ECBs. The list of eligible borrowers has been expanded to include all entities eligible to receive FDI, registered entities engaged in microfinance activities, registered societies/trusts/cooperatives and non-government organisations. A rule-based dynamic limit for outstanding stock of ECBs at 6.5 per cent of GDP is in place. Rupee denominated bonds or Masala bonds under the ECB route offer an opportunity to domestic firms to borrow from international markets without the need for hedging exchange rate risk. ECBs up to US$ 750 million or equivalent per financial year are permitted under the automatic route. Recently, end-use restrictions relating to external commercial borrowings have also been relaxed for specific eligible borrowers for their working capital requirements, general corporate purposes and repayment of rupee loans. The mandatory hedging requirement had earlier been reduced from 100 per cent to 70 per cent for ECBs with minimum average maturity period between 3 and 5 years in the infrastructure space. Net disbursement of ECBs rose to US$ 7.7 billion in April-July 2019, as against net repayments of US$ 0.8 billion in the corresponding period of 2018-19.
14. Before concluding, it is only fair to say a few words about the exchange rate of the rupee. Over the last couple of years, the exchange rate has seen large two-way movements with considerable volatility imparted mainly by global spillovers. During 2019-20 so far, the rupee has traded in a narrow range, with modest appreciation in Q1 giving way to some depreciation in August and the first half of September, accentuated by drone attacks on Saudi oil facilities on September 14, 2019. In its External Sector Report of July 2019, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has employed a suite of models to assess the alignment of currencies with their fundamentals. For the rupee, the IMF estimates the REER gap to be zero, implying that the currency is fairly valued and broadly in line with fundamentals. India's exchange rate regime is flexible and market-driven, with the exchange rate being determined by the forces of demand and supply. The RBI has no target or band for the level of the exchange rate. Interventions are intended to manage undue volatility. This is reflected in the two-sided interventions conducted during the past two years - net purchases in 2017-18, followed by net sales in 2018-19. In fact, it is in recognition of this flexibility that the US Department of the Treasury has removed India from its watch list relating to currency manipulation.
15. Overall, the outlook for India's external sector is one of cautious optimism, albeit with some downside risks accentuated at this juncture. Among them, deepening of the global slowdown and escalation of trade and geopolitical tensions appear to be the most significant. Volatile international crude prices also continue to pose potential risks to the viability of the current account balance through trade and remittances channels. Yet, there are underlying strengths that can be built upon to buffer the external sector from these risks. The search for new export markets and new niches must go on so as to reap the benefits of changing dynamics of global value chains. Indian IT companies need to accelerate market diversification and invest in new skills and technologies to hone their comparative advantage. Remittances and non-resident deposits are likely to remain shock-absorbers over the medium term and need to be assiduously cultivated, including by ease of remitting/depositing and reducing transaction costs.
16. Ultimately, the strength of the external sector derives from domestic macro-fundamentals. Investors and markets need to be credibly assured of our ability to maintain macroeconomic and financial stability through continued focus on these areas. At the same time, we need to persevere with structural reforms in various sectors of the economy to unlock productivity and competitiveness gains. The overarching objective should be to keep the current account deficit within sustainable limits and financed by a prudent mix of debt and equity flows. As I stated earlier, the global environment is challenging, but it offers opportunities as well. By the IMF's assessment, India will account for a sixth of global growth in 2020. Trade wars are presenting new business relocation avenues that seem to be favourable to India from the point of view of the economies of scale and scope. Indian entrepreneurship, the rupee and our people are progressively but inexorably internationalising. Since 2018, India's working age population has grown larger than the dependent population, and this demographic advantage is expected to last till 2055. In this milieu, prudent external sector management with a close and continuous vigil on areas of external vulnerability assumes critical importance and will continue to receive RBI's close attention.
1 The limits for FPI investment in Central Government securities (G-secs), State Development Loans (SDLs) and corporate bonds are fixed currently at 6 per cent, 2 per cent and 9 per cent of respective outstanding stocks of securities for FY 2019-20.


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Q: Anaconda overriding python as the default site-packages directory windows 7 from what I remember of middle school, anacondas and pythons are large snakes that overpower their prey, but anacondas are much bigger and heavier, which may be how it is overtaking my python pathway:

I installed psycopg2 with an easy .exe on windows 7 last night, and it worked (to the anaconda path)- but when I tried to start a Django app, it is looking in Python27\lib\site-packages. I allowed Anaconda to add itself to the pathway when I installed it because a post recommending it said to, and I also have Python set up correctly with a windows path variable.
This makes me wonder, should I actually uninstall python2.7.10, since Anaconda came with python 2.7.9 built in, and use the anaconda prompt for everything, and also delete python 2.7 from my path variable in windows? So,exactly
What is the best way to use Anaconda with Django?

A: I currently spent the weekend trying to tackle a similar issue. I have Anaconda (Miniconda3) installed for analytical work, however I also wanted to work on a Django project. In the end I ended up using an Anaconda virtual environment to work on my project. Here is basically what i did in cmd:
>mkdir mysite
>cd mysite
>conda create -n mysite-env python=3
>activate mysite-env
>conda install django

Basically this created a virtualenv in the envs folder in my Anaconda installation and I can create/work with django without having to worry about multiple python installations. Not sure if this is the best way, but its the way that works for me.

A: The issue you are having is that you may not have looked into what Anaconda is used for or what it solves. This step was pointed out in the installation steps when it adds Anaconda to your PATH. Being that Anaconda installs Python and has "environments" there is no reason to have 2 versions of the Python installation on your system, but Anaconda allows you to have different versions of Python with environments. Only one can use the "Python" command unless you execute it from the python.exe directory or make a separate alias as the python command and point it to the Anaconda or other Python installation. Again this is pointless as you can create a new environment with your Django project and requirements.
In short, having 2 separate Python installations is pretty much taking away what Anaconda helps solve.

A: In Windows 10, open Anaconda Navigator, search Not installed for 'django'.  Click the check box, then hit Apply.


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The Sleight of Hand at the Heart of Trump's Appeal
Stephen Ross, chairman and majority owner of the Related Companies, at the grand opening of the Hudson Yards development in Manhattan.
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In February, this magazine described Stephen Ross as "what [Donald] Trump used to play on TV" but never was: a brash deal-maker with a discerning eye for lucrative real-estate projects, the execution of which made him one of the richest people in New York City. When asked what he thought of the president, Ross was equally disdainful. "I don't like Donald, okay, we can stop there," he told New York. "We'd be here all day." On Wednesday, the Washington Post made it clear just how meaningful this aversion was. Ross is hosting a fundraiser at his Southampton home on Friday to benefit Trump's reelection campaign, the Post reported, and the president is scheduled to make an appearance. At between $100,000 and $250,000 per plate, the event is priced to exclude all but those rich enough to invest generously and expect an even bigger return. Ross is worth $7.7 billion. In 2017, a judge ruled that he'd scammed the IRS by overstating the value of one of his gifts to the University of Michigan, enabling him to claim a $33 million tax deduction on a donation worth $3.4 million. Given Trump's zeal for cutting taxes for the rich — and willingness to pardon those loyal to him, should they get in legal trouble — it's not hard to see why such a return might appeal to a man like Ross.
Of course, the 79-year-old magnate was careful to frame his support more diplomatically in public. "I have known Donald Trump for 40 years, and while we agree on some issues, we strongly disagree on many others and I have never been bashful about expressing my opinions," he said in a statement. Damage control was prudent. On top of his real-estate ventures, Ross owns the Miami Dolphins, the Equinox fitness company, and SoulCycle — entities which employ a large number of black athletes and cater to upscale female and LGBTQ urbanites, respectively. Some threatened boycotts after the Post's report. "I started my business with nothing and a reason for my engagement with our leaders is my deep concern for creating jobs and growing our country's economy," Ross added. "I have been, and will continue to be, an outspoken champion of racial equality, inclusion, diversity, public education and environmental sustainability, and I have and will continue to support leaders on both sides of the aisle to address these challenges."
This is a nimble sleight of hand: To reconcile his more egalitarian pursuits with efforts to ensure a two-term presidency for a virulent bigot, Ross is trying to split Trump in two ideologically — a racist one hand, and a leader with good ideas about the economy on the other (no matter that the economic growth for which Trump takes credit is mostly an extension of Obama-era trends). With unemployment already below the historical norm when he took office and monthly job gains topping 200,000 per month on average during his predecessor's second term, Trump just needed to keep the keys in the ignition. (So far, he's managed to create jobs at a lower rate than Obama.) With this bar set, surely one of the 22 Democratic candidates could be an equally competent steward worth Ross's investment — and as a bonus, perform said duties without the ICE raids or lethal prison camps for immigrants poisoning the results. Instead, Ross is either lying or delusional. Trump's racism cannot be divided from his economic policies, because the former enables the latter. Appealing to racists, xenophobes, and Islamophobes is how Trump mobilizes white middle- and working-class support for Republican economic policies, and especially its tax cuts, which are otherwise unpopular and disproportionately benefit rich people and corporations.
It also continues a trend older than the United States itself, by which monied interests stoked — and often created — racist divisions to consolidate their own power. To quote historian Edmund S. Morgan, the "screen of racial contempt" erected to quell interracial revolt in the early Virginia Colony is a case in point. Within this divide lay the seeds for American slavery, which became both the backbone of a fledgling U.S. economy and the rationale for a war that almost broke the country in two. In 1607, when Englishmen began settling the mid-Atlantic, those with means relied on the indentured labor of mostly fellow Europeans to build an economy atop farming, and most lucratively, tobacco. But the terms of servitude were such that workers were free after a few years. Landowners had trouble sustaining a steady labor stream. They lobbied successfully for new laws that extended the required time served and forced ex-servants to come back, resulting in a citizenry "continually on the brink of rebellion," as Morgan writes in his book American Slavery, American Freedom. By the late 1600s, when Nathaniel Bacon led his infamous interracial revolt against the Colony's white governors, black slaves had been present in Virginia for decades. But they were expensive, and had become a sound investment only once longer life expectancies made pricey laborers-for-life cheaper in the long term than less-expensive servants leased for a few years. The Colonists pounced on this opportunity, and made laws enshrining its dynamic. "By a series of acts," Morgan writes, "the assembly deliberately did what it could to foster the contempt of whites for blacks and Indians" — including forbidding black people from assaulting whites, but not vice versa.
As black enslavement became the norm and then the defining feature of black American life, these efforts produced an enduring black underclass still present more than 150 years after emancipation. This is why Eric Trump isn't exonerating the president when he says, "My father sees one color: green … He does not see race." Those who created American slavery and its corresponding caste system didn't do so out of an ideological commitment to white supremacy. They did so to get rich. And their blueprint has been kept alive by leaders of both political parties — even as racism's uses and manifestations have expanded, obscured, and been reconstituted to greet new persons and epochs. The dynamic is so timeworn that even the most outspoken bigots have tried appropriating its origin story as one that flatters them. Fox News' Tucker Carlson, a man who spends a chunk of his work hours spewing vitriol at "dirty" immigrants and Muslims, argued on Wednesday that progressives who draw attention to racism are the ones preventing class consciousness, not Republicans advancing white nationalism. "Every minute you're angry about race is a minute you're not thinking about class," said the right-wing demagogue with a cable show that draws $97 million in revenue annually. "[Rich pundits on MSNBC] whip you into a frenzy of racial fear so it never enters your mind. It's a diversion."
That racism remains profitable nonetheless is undeniable, as is the fact that it's the defining feature of Trump's rise and Carlson's success. Stephen Ross isn't just shrouding his support for the president in denial of its relevance. He's a breathing emblem of its material benefits. Even if he doesn't endorse racism himself, he's more than happy to reap its benefits. Because without it, the president he's entrusted with expanding his personal wealth would have to convince millions of everyday white people that corporate welfare is good for them on its own terms. This tall order has eluded Republicans since the civil-rights era — which is why, instead, the party has spent the subsequent decades casting integration, poverty, unemployment, and the federal largesse that sought to respond to them, as stemming from the innate pathologies of nonwhite people. Ross doesn't need to believe in this mission on a profound level to support it. Like those before him, dating back to the Colonial era, he just needs to recognize what's good for his pocketbook and hop onboard for the ride.
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Regina M. Mitchell, MHA, FACHE, native of Memphis, Tennessee, has served as Chief Executive Officer of New Horizon Family Health Services, Inc. since May 1998. Regina Mitchell leads with the professional motto, "I would rather attempt something great and fail than attempt to do nothing and succeed." She has over 25 years of experience in health care services planning, management, and administration. From 1990-1998, she served as Vice President of Operations, Chief Operating Officer, Deputy Director, Maternal & Child Resources Director, and Perinatal Coordinator at Family Health Centers in Orangeburg.
Mrs. Mitchell earned her Master of Health Administration from the University of South Carolina and Fellow from the American College of Health Care Executives. Regina Mitchell serves the community health center movement because of "the opportunity to touch the lives of many people in a meaningful way and help improve the quality of life in the communities we serve."
Some of Mrs. Mitchell's most memorable accomplishments include the establishment of school-based clinics in rural communities; planning and implementing health services programs for the homeless, persons with HIV/AIDS, pregnant women, migrants and other special populations; and serving as the lead organizer of a Rural Outreach network that coordinated public and private sector organizations to jointly plan and execute initiatives to improve health. She has also been a Special Olympics coach; a coordinator for programs for dually diagnosed adults and children in a residential setting to help them live as independently as possible; and the organizer of an annual community-wide baby shower.
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Waking Up to Social Justice
A Pledge from the Leadership of Centura College, Aviation Institute of Maintenance, and Tidewater Tech
A statement from Benjamin Franklin, borrowed from ancient Greek wisdom, has been quoted quite often lately: "Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are." That statement hits home with me in the wake of the George Floyd murder, as it says to me personally: Joel, if you are not just as outraged at acts of violence and systematic racism as an African American would be, then you're sleeping through one of the most importance crises of American history.
It's time to wake up.
I recently watched a program called "Into an American Uprising: White Accountability," which featured Tim Wise, a lecturer and author of several books that fight racism in America. Wise discussed the seemingly constant start-and-stop of race reform in our country, often sparked by a tragic killing of a person of color resulting in a temporary collective outcry, but then followed by distraction and forgetfulness. Wise said, "You have that moment where you wake up. But then too often, you just hit that snooze button and you go back to bed…. I'm hoping, especially because all of this is happening against the backdrop of the disparate racial impact of COVID-19, rather than hitting the snooze button for the 11th or 12th time, we are finally gonna get out of bed."
I cannot know whether the tragic killing of George Floyd will be an authentic beginning to true revolutionary change throughout our country, or whether it will end in another cycle of dozing off at the wheel. But I can tell you that for me, for my family, and for our institutions—Centura College, Aviation Institution of Maintenance, and Tidewater Tech—we will not hit the snooze button. Within our institutions, I pledge:
We stand against racism in every form.
We actively promote opportunity and prosperity equally among all races, genders, orientations, and identities.
We do not tolerate speech or action that harbors hatred or antagonism between groups of people.
We take practical steps toward inclusive relationships within our organization and throughout the community.
In early June, a group of leaders at our Home Office met to have an open discussion about how we can deliberately incorporate racial inclusion, celebration of diversity, and building of cross-cultural relationship into our conscious livelihood. We know, without a shadow of a doubt, that diversity is one of our school characteristics that makes us great. All of our campuses demonstrate not only a rainbow of races and cultures within our student body, but we are also blessed with diversity within our faculty and staff at every level.
To celebrate and improve upon this environment of inclusion, our leaders pledged to develop ongoing conversation about inclusion and cross-cultural relationship as a part of our ongoing process. This group is currently developing a webinar series, led by female and male African American, Hispanic, and Caucasian leaders at our Home Office, entitled "Diversity, Inclusion, Relationship: A Conversation with Institutional Leadership." I have asked every faculty and staff member in our institution to sign up for one of these conversations to discuss diversity and inclusion as one of our most important attributes within our educational process, and as one of our most important assets with which we can educate tomorrow's workforce as we grow together as a work family. One of the goals of these conversations is to get our staff's ideas on how we can make sure that this time in American history is transformational for us, and that we never fall back to sleep.
On March 31, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered an address at the National Cathedral in Washington, and I believe he was speaking directly to us today about sleep. Dr. King told the tale of Rip Van Winkle, who walked up a mountain and slept for twenty years—indeed, a full generation—while the world went on without him. Dr. King said:
The most striking thing about the story of Rip Van Winkle is not merely that Rip slept twenty years, but that he slept through a revolution. While he was peacefully snoring up in the mountain, a revolution was taking place that at points would change the course of history…. And one of the great liabilities of life is that all too many people find themselves living amid a great period of social change, and yet they fail to develop the new attitudes, the new mental responses, that the new situation demands. They end up sleeping through a revolution.
Within our institution, we will not sleep. We are committed to fully incorporating diversity, inclusion, and relationship into our conscious daily lives, not just our quiet, unspoken thoughts. We will be an outspoken mecca of racial harmony, not just a quiet place where we do good work together. I believe our country needs to embrace our collective outrage toward social injustice and systematic racism, and use that outrage productively to demand a better country. And with twenty campuses around the country, I believe we can have a strong impact, not only for our staff, faculty, and students, but also for our communities throughout America.
It's time to wake up and not fall back to sleep again.
Dr. Joel A. English
Aviation Institute of Maintenance | Centura College | Tidewater Tech


All business owners have seen the ups and downs of running a business and one of the aspects is to have to sell it. You could choose to sell your business for a variety of reasons and once you do, the most important aspect is to get the best possible deal that takes into account every asset of your business and pays you the maximum. Selling your business on your own is not an easy task, you may or may not know how to take everything into account, you may or may not know how to find the right buyers, and you may or may not have the time to devote to an additional and definitely a more time-consuming activity like selling your business while still running it.
If you're thinking of selling your business then there is a range of brokers and mergers and acquisition specialists on the market to supply skilled help to assist you establish the worth of your business and the way the market would possibly respond.
Most businesses generally track their financial performance by using balance sheets, tax returns, and profit and loss statements. These reports are useful in determining the worth of a business. In most instances it's the cash flow that the possible buyers have to establish to perceive the health of a business. They need to additionally perceive the style in which the funds are being spent and therefore the on the market opportunities to come up with positive cash flow within the future.
When a business owner decides to sell his/her business, the process of recasting financial statements becomes most important in assessing the worth of the business. Recasting needs an intensive investigation to confirm all relevant and applicable changes are properly reported.
This is one of the several services that a business broker or merger and acquisition specialist would provide. They're adept at examining your financials beside the past performance of the business, and endeavor to spot keys to future performance and opportunities in the market.
The recasting method identifies things like discretionary and excessive and expenses and expenses and revenues that are nonrecurring. Recasting provides an economic read of the organization, and permits logical and meaningful comparisons with alternative investment opportunities.
However, the other benefits that the owner gets like the perks, the incentives, the pay, and also the loans and other discretionary expenses are also calculated and added into the worth of the corporate thus a future buyer will effectively be able to assess the business, its cash flow and the earning capability of the business in the future.
A lot of detailed steps go into the method of determining the worth of a business and selling it. Recasting the financial statements of a business provides a sign of the worth of a business and assists an owner to have correct expectations. A broker or a specialist with the right skills can assist you perceive the financial statements and assist you move forward toward the successful completion of the business sale so that you can benefit from it the way you want.
But for any organization sale it's imperative that you move using caution.


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The middle school football team scored early and often on their way to defeating Springfield last night 44-0. The Comet defense stifled the Spartans and forced several turnovers, while the offense was electrifying with many big plays. The team finished 5-3 on the season.
The middle school football team lost to Woodridge last night 26-14. Scoring for the Comets were Brady Watson with a touchdown run and Arico Pickett with a touchdown catch from Watson. They wrap up their season next Wednesday at home vs. Springfield.
The middle school football team stayed undefeated last night, defeating Cloverleaf 28-20. They are now 3-0 on the season. Leading the way for the Comets were Kenton Duty, Brady Watson, and Arico Pickett. They are next in action on Wednesday at Field.
The middle school football team started their season off strong, defeating Mogadore last night 22-8. 8th graders Kenton Duty and Brady Watson connected for 2 touchdown passes and Duty tacked on a touchdown run. The boys play next Wednesday at home vs. Norton at 4 pm.


Your backdrops are a lovely complement to the stones ... and I'm now tempted to do some archive mining to see more.
I love your work with the stones! and the 'old' colorful too.
Another fun post - I always like to see what you've done with the latest stones. Hard to believe it's nearly been a year. Now I am beginning to wonder what your plan will be for next year!!


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DA Torrez Political Damage Control: Mission Accomplished!
"Political damage control" is when an elected official gives extended news interviews to the Albuquerque Journal Editorial Board and then makes the rounds to the various news stations or media outlets including doing Sunday news programs on a single controversial topic.
District Attorney Raul Torrez did double time in just 10 days with his damage control to explain the plea agreement he negotiated with the mother of 10-year-old Victoria Martens.
Within a 10-day time span, Torrez has held a press conference covered by all local media news organizations, followed by a meeting with the Journal Editors and reporters 6 days later, has had three front page Journal stories and has been interviewed by Chanel 4 news reporters on the "Eye on Albuquerque" Sunday program on the Victoria Martens murder case and the plea agreement he negotiated.
Torrez can claim "Mission Accomplished" at least for now with the Victoria Martens murder case plea agreement he negotiated.
THE PLEA AGREEMENT
Torrez announced that his office did a two-year investigation and review of the evidence found Michelle Martens falsely admitted to committing the crimes she was charged.
According to Torrez, the forensic evidence revealed Martens and her boyfriend were not even present and did not participate in the murder of 10-year-old Victoria Martens who was raped, murdered, dismembered and then burned in a bathtub of her home.
The plea agreement Torrez negotiated was to one count of child abuse, recklessly caused, resulting in the death of a child under 12 and guarantees a 12 to 15-year sentence and dropping the most egregious charges.
DA Torrez agreed that Michelle Martens' crime she plead guilty to will not be classified as a serious violent offense, meaning she could see her sentence cut in half for good behavior and serve as little as 6 years if she is sentenced to 12 years.
The probability that Martens will be sentence to 12 years is high.
A pretrial sentence report will be prepared for the judge and given her impaired mental capacity, the fact she has no prior record and she is cooperating with authorities by turning state's evidence, a recommendation will be made as to her sentence with a reduced sentence within the realm of possibilities.
Michelle Martens will get two years credit for time served because she has been in jail for two years pending trial, so it is possible that Martens could be out of prison in 4 years.
District Attorney Raul Torrez has had tremendous public outcry regarding the plea agreement he negotiated with the defendant Michelle Martens.
In the minds of many people, Michelle Martens was given considerable leniency by District Attorney Raul Torrez for her involvement in one of the most heinous crimes involving her own child
CHRONOLOGY OF DAMAGE CONTROL EFFORTS
On Friday, June 29, 2018 District Attorney Raul Torrez did a late afternoon press conference announcing that he had negotiated a plea agreement with defendant Michelle Martens, the mother of 10-year-old Victoria Martens.
You can read the full story here:
https://www.abqjournal.com/1191031/michelle-martens-pleads-guilty-to-child-abuse-faces-12-to-15-years.html
Elected officials often do late Friday afternoon press conferences to announce controversial decisions to reduce negative press coverage.
Late Friday afternoon press conferences are usually not very successful in deflecting negative press with highly controversial decisions such as the one announced by District Attorney Raul Torrez.
ALBQUERQUE JOURNAL DAMAGE CONTROL
On Thursday July 5, 2018, Torrez went to the Albuquerque Journal Center to be interviewed by the Albuquerque Journal Editors and its reporters about the plea and the pending criminal case.
District Attorney Raul Torrez in his interview with the Journal editors shared extensive details and prosecution strategy on the pending criminal prosecution against two other defendants, one identified and one yet to be found.
On Friday July 6, 2018, the Journal reported the details of the July 5, 2018 meeting with Torrez by splashing them on the front page of the Albuquerque Journal.
The banner headline read: "Details emerge in search for 4th Martens suspect".
The full story can be read here:
https://www.abqjournal.com/1193335/details-emerge-in-search-for-4th-martens-suspect.html
Torrez told the Journal editors that DNA samples from 16 men have been found with five of those persons of interest having been eliminated, with forensic test results for 11 still outstanding.
The bombshell is that authorities are seeking to identify a fourth suspect in the Victoria Martens murder.
District Attorney Raúl Torrez reiterated what he said at his news conference that there is no evidence that the girl's mother, Michelle Martens, was involved in Victoria's death or dismemberment, or knew the identity of the fourth suspect police are now seeking.
Torrez told the Journal Editors that he hopes Michelle Martens will offer useful information now that she has accepted a plea deal that requires her to provide statements to authorities.
According to Torres:
"She [Michelle Martens] may know who this individual is and not know that this individual [was involved in the crime]. … She may know who this individual is because he was there previously."
SUNDAY FRONT PAGE JOURNAL COVERAGE
On Sunday July 8, 2018, the Albuquerque Journal published a third front page, banner headline report entitled "VICTORIA MARTENS CASE: 'We want to make it right for this little girl' and the full story can be read here:
https://www.abqjournal.com/1193963/we-want-to-make-it-right-for-this-little-girl.html
The above Journal headline is a quote from District Attorney Raul Torrez.
The quote could not have been any better for Torrez to deflect the negative press coverage he was getting on the plea deal he negotiated.
The Journal story was published on the front page of the Journal along with a full page and a half story published in the "A section" of the Journal pages, A-4 and A-5 and with a detailed "time line", no doubt provided by Torrez.
JOURNAL EDITORIAL LAYING BLAME
On Sunday, July 8, 2018, the Albuquerque Journal did its editorial blaming everyone they could for the mishandling of the case, except Raul Torrez who they commended.
You can read the full editorial here:
https://www.abqjournal.com/1193938/a-case-of-law-and-disorder.html
A few paragraphs in the Journal editorial are worth quoting:
"Then-police chief Gorden Eden declared it "the most gruesome act of evil" he had ever seen in his career.
"I want to assure the public that we will pursue justice and we will make sure that we exhaust every resource into this investigation," Eden said. He also assured those who lived near the crime scene that their neighborhood was safe and that there were no other suspects in the case."
"There is no threat to public safety," he said.
"To his credit, Torrez immediately ordered a case review when he took over as DA in January of 2017, four months after Victoria's death. He said he discovered lapses with how the case was handled, including the failure to fast track the processing of DNA collected from the crime scene. And his office continued to dig as Michelle Martens' statement began to unravel. Torrez assigned a team that includes two seasoned prosecutors and a seasoned paralegal, and APD contributed two seasoned detectives. They have been focused on this case for more than a year."
One paragraph in the editorial sticks out:
"The manner in which the Albuquerque Police Department and the District Attorney's Office handled this case – under the leadership of Eden and former DA Kari Brandenburg, respectively – raises serious questions about the two agencies. This was arguably the highest profile case this state has seen in at least a decade, and they botched it."
With this one paragraph, the Albuquerque Journal editors condemns and places the entire blame for mishandling of the case on former APD Chief Gordon Eden and former District Attorney Kari Brandenburg.
It is hard to understand the Journal's claim that former DA Brandenburg "botched" the case given the fact that the murder occurred just 4 months before Brandenburg left office with forensic DNA evidence still being tested.
Former Mayor Richard Berry, who was Mayor a full 14 months after the murder, was not even mentioned in the stories nor editorial by the Albuquerque Journal.
Failure to mention Berry in the editorial should come as no surprise seeing the Journal has given Berry favoritism and political coverage for a full 8 years.
CHANNEL 4 "EYE ON NEW MEXICO" EXTENDED INTERVIEW
On Sunday, July 8, 2018, an extended interview by Channel 4 with District Attorney was telecast on the "Eye on New Mexico" program.
You can view the entire program here:
https://www.kob.com/albuquerque-news/eye-on-new-mexico-da-torrez-reveals-new-information-about-victoria-martens-murder-case/4980894/?cat=500
The Channel 4 interview dove tailed perfectly into the Journal stories and editorial.
The Eye On New Mexico telecast was basically the same information Torrez gave to the Albuquerque Journal in his press conference and the Journal editorial board interview.
COMMENTARY: POLITICAL DAMAGE CONTROL FOR NOW
There is no doubt that District Attorney Raul Torrez can claim "mission accomplished" with his damage control efforts with the Albuquerque Journal and the TV news media outlets, at least for now.
Notwithstanding the successful political damage control by Torrez, the public condemnation with the plea agreement Torrez negotiated will continue to be a source of major political problems for Torrez.
The leniency Torrez showed towards a mother who placed her 10-year-old child in harm's way and made the child a victim of one of the most horrendous murders in Albuquerque history will be remembered given his own past statements on our criminal justice system and conduct towards Judges.
In 2016, when Torrez was running for District Attorney, he proclaimed that our criminal justice system was broken and that he was the guy who could fix it.
Just a mere year ago, Torrez again claimed that our judicial system was broken stating the decisions by the judges to dismiss cases were "absurd".
https://www.abqjournal.com/1025697/judges-court-deadlines-arent-to-blame-for-rise-in-crime.html
Torres proclaimed defense attorneys were "gaming the system" to get their clients off.
Torrez claimed he was frustrated with elected District Court Judges blocking his efforts to keep dangerous criminals in jail.
Torrez asserted that the Judges were being too lenient on criminals and went on to blame Judges for our high violent crime rates.
It is hard to reconcile the Albuquerque Journals conclusion that it was then District Attorney Kari Brandenburg office who "botched" the case given the time line involved and Torrez's own involvement with the prosecution.
The Victoria Martens murder occurred in August, 2016, just four months before Brandenburg left office and before Torrez was sworn in as District Attorney on January 1, 2017.
It was widely reported that District Attorney Elect Raul Torrez was briefed for a full 2 months on major cases before he was sworn in to office on January 1, 2017, no doubt including the Victoria Martens murder case.
For a full 19 months, Torrez was in charge of the Victoria Martens murder case and was calling all the shots, not Brandenburg as implied by the Journal.
Former APD Chief Gordon Eden and former Mayor Richard Berry were in office the first full year of Raul Torrez's term, yet Torrez made no mention of any contacts with either of them.
Torrez did go out of the way to say he has had extended conversations with Mayor Tim Keller, Chief Geier and the Deputy Chiefs on the case, yet said absolutely nothing about conversations with former Mayor Berry and former Chief Eden.
Mayor Keller and Chief Geier did not attend Torrez's press conference and they have not commented on the plea agreement.
At least two defendants have been held in custody for two years for the brutal murder of Victoria Martens, a crime they did not commit.
What is extremely problematic is that District Attorney Raul Torrez in his interviews with the Journal and media outlets shared additional details as well as prosecution strategy on a pending criminal prosecution against two other defendants.
Defendant Jessica Kelley will go on trial in January, 2019 facing charges of rape and murder, and one suspect has yet to be identified by the authorities.
You can bet the pretrial publicity in this case generated by Torrez himself with his press conference and making the rounds at the news stations to explain the plea and what happen will have an impact on the case.
The results of Torres's press contacts could be at a minimum suppression of evidence in the case or worse down right dismissal of the charges pending against the others.
No doubt Torrez has ingratiated himself with the media, but he sure is not helping his cause in seeking justice for 10-year-old Jessica Martens.
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Postby Phara » Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:13 am
//Fill
Is it weird that I find "herstory" annoying as fuck?
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Postby Skywalker » Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:35 am
As a public historian, I understand why we have months like this. It is so history program can be created in museums and other historic sites. If you look at the way that women's history has been written, or the lack thereof there is a large gap in the public understanding of female history.
So a month is created, this month there are programs which help celebrate woman and their accomplishments in society as a whole. While many may want this to be longer than a month, this may never truly happen. It is done in the same breath that Black History Month is also done; it helps highlight the historical achievements, of a group of people who history was not at one point in time written down or celebrated.
As a public historian, just because these months exist does not mean that the public will learn anything. The programming might exist, but you can not force someone to interact with it. Getting the public to enter a historic site is an issue for anyone who runs a museum or historic site.
As for herstory, I understand the history and context of the word. I feel that it does nothing to help promote the great achievements of women. Now the National Women's History Museum (https://www.nwhm.org/) does everything possible, and they do not even have a building! I follow them on Facebook.
I apologize for the amount of passive voice, it is too early to write in the active.
Postby Phara » Mon Mar 28, 2016 12:38 pm
lolol, great post. defo. will be back soon, perhaps at 43 hours up. o_O
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Postby NaranjaRa » Mon Mar 28, 2016 6:10 pm
although it is rarely acknowledged, it was actually a WOMAN who pioneered the first photographic image using a process called cyanotype.
her name was Anna Atkins. her contribution is still argued about today.
so what do we call it when significant developments made by women are cast aside and credited to men? male-washing?
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Postby Zansi'Vara » Mon Mar 28, 2016 7:52 pm
Phara wrote: //Fill
Lol, whenever someone uses the word, "Herstory" I always like to correct them to, "Hertory", because it sounds derpier and is actually correct if they're going to spout their bullshit that, "It's no longer HIStory!", in complete ignorance of etymology and basic spelling.
Honestly, I don't really have feelings one way or another on such holidays. People can celebrate whatever they want, learn about their historical heroes, praise their achievements, etc. Just don't hurt anyone else or turn the event into a forum to spout hate about groups outside of the ones being celebrated, and past that I don't really care with what you occupy your time.
Postby Phara » Mon Mar 28, 2016 8:04 pm
NaranjaRa wrote: although it is rarely acknowledged, it was actually a WOMAN who pioneered the first photographic image using a process called cyanotype.
her name was ATkins her contribution is still argued about today.
That's friggin brilliant. Hmm... Male-washing, splaining indeed
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This made me crack up. Yep, so on point.
I just wish we spent more time learning cool facts about women. Period. Rather than having a whole bunch of factoids thrown at us for a month.
2 words?
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Phara wrote: This made me crack up. Yep, so on point.
Amen. It would definitely be awesome if we just shifted general focus to a wider range of historical persons. People from all walks of life have done unimaginably incredible things, and they deserve to be remembered for their legacy. After all, the things we have done, the little or big ways we have changed the world, that is the only true immortality we have yet to discover. We should honor it.
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Postby DaEllimist » Tue Mar 29, 2016 4:10 am
Phara wrote: 2 words?
YES! The shit that must have gone on in her head!!
I think it's interesting to have a month dedicated to "women" and the impact they have had in this world but of course it's also sad that it has to be placed in its own little special month instead of year-round (counter-intuitive?) So I take it this means most of us are not social justice warriors?
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Postby PhlawlessPhelon » Thu Mar 31, 2016 6:28 am
Cooney, Celia (1904-1992)
Celia Roth Cooney (1904-1992), aka, the "Bobbed Haired Bandit," was an outlaw that went on a crime spree throughout New York in 1924. "In the spring of 1924, a poor, 19-year-old laundress from Brooklyn robbed a string of New York grocery stores with a "baby automatic," a fur coat, and a fashionable bobbed hairdo. Celia Cooney's crimes made national news. With her husband Ed at her side, Celia raised herself from a life of drudgery to become a celebrity in her own pulp-fiction novel, a role she consciously cultivated. She also launched the largest manhunt in New York City's history, humiliating the police with daring crimes and taunting notes. To progressives, she was an example of what happens when a community doesn't protect its children. To conservatives, she symbolized a permissive society that gave too much freedom to the young, poor, and female. These competing stories distill the tensions of the time" (quoted from http://nyupress.org/books/9780814719800/ ).
For further, more detailed information, check this link out: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/nyregion/the-bobbed-hair-bandit-of-brooklyn.html?_r=0
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-NOW- Their statement of purpose
The purpose of NOW is to take action to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men.
NOW is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States. NOW has 500,000 contributing members and 550 chapters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Since its founding in 1966, NOW's goal has been "to take action" to bring about equality for all women. Both the actions NOW takes and its position on the issues are often unorthodox, uncompromising and ahead of their time.
NOW was established as a major force in the sweeping changes that put more women in political posts; increased educational, employment and business opportunities for women; and enacted tougher laws against violence, harassment and discrimination. NOW's official priorities are winning economic equality and securing it with an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that will guarantee equal rights for women; championing abortion rights, reproductive freedom and other women's health issues; opposing racism and fighting bigotry against lesbians and gays; and ending violence against women.
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Thread is among the most important materials in the universe. Chances are, unless you're a nudist, thread is touching you right now. It holds our clothing together, makes our bed sheets soft, heals wounds, binds furniture coverings and car upholstery, and makes our window shades go up and down. It is likely that not a day goes by that thread doesn't touch your life, and in the second show at her new Oakland gallery, curator Kim Johansson chose it as the medium of focus. Eight divergent artists are represented in the group show entitled Thread, and are unified by a common medium.
Alex Case exhibits canvases of patched fabric, paint, and various industrial parts. Influenced by life in Martinez, Case grew up surrounded by oil refineries and a family in the textile industry. He globs dark acrylic, soot-like paint onto the surface, surrounding industrial-looking forms made of dirty sewn canvas scraps. One abstract piece was titled Dinosaur but looked nothing like a prehistoric lizard unless, of course, you have some imagination. Fossil fuel doesn't look like a dinosaur either.
Perhaps the most amazing piece in the show is internationally-renowned artist, Devorah Sperber's installation of 500 spools of thread in muted shades stacked symmetrically and suspended from silver ball chains. The amazing part is the "viewing sphere" centered strategically on the piece, a few feet away. The sphere is a simple clear acrylic ball placed atop a black metal stand. When you peer through it, the spools hanging from the wall shrink and invert, and before you know it, you're looking at a tiny blurred image of Grant Wood's famous American Gothic painting of a farm couple from 1930. Utterly surprising, Sperber's work has created an unimaginable illusion. At first glance, you would've never known that simple technology could turn several hundred spools of thread into such a recognizable image.
San Francisco's Steve MacDonald was an obvious choice for the exhibit, as he is quickly becoming one of the most recognized male embroidery artists in the Bay Area arts scene. MacDonald -- who recently designed the new Modest Mouse tour t-shirt -- was showing large-scale golden landscapes stitched with his signature red thread. Two smaller pieces titled Ramblin Worker Cargo Ship and Embroidered Op Art were delightful and inviting. The latter was made up of blocks of rectangular stitched stripes but it made my eyeballs jiggle, causing an optical freak-out due to the juxtaposition of color, line, and threadwork. The image was reminiscent of stacked shipping containers, maybe because a picture of a ship hung just above it. With a friendly white puff drifting out of its smoke stack, the ship worked together with the op art piece to create a feeling of nostalgic shipyard imagery, reminding me of those colorful K Line cargo containers stacked near the East side of the Bay Bridge.
Another favorite series of works was Tucker Schwarz's sweetly stitched line drawings of buildings, trees and power lines. Inspired by her own photographs of local neighborhoods, Shwarz sews on raw muslin, leaving colorful thread ends hanging, lightly veiling the images. At the front of the gallery, Christy Matson's interactive Gradient Noise appears to be a basic woven length of patterned fabric, until you notice a speaker and a box with a switch that says "pitch" and "thresh" hanging next to it. When the switch is flipped, the piece (woven with thread and copper wire) will make different noises depending on how close you bring your hand to the wall, creating art that talks back.
The Johansson Projects gallery is a perfect addition to Oakland's art strip at 23rd and Telegraph. It has a ceiling of dried green moss and holds a promising future as Thread was an impressive and memorable exhibit. An often-unsung genre, fiber art is one that can feel most mysterious, yet closest to home. Its tactility and familiar qualities add to fiber's allure, and it has a transcendental way of reminding a viewer of old memories, such as time spent in your granny's sewing room or a favorite old teddy bear. So get dressed in your best threads, floss your teeth and lace up your shoes -- it's time to discover a new art space in Oakland.
Thread runs through August 25, 2007 at Johansson Projects.
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Brussels, 21 October 2010 – The Belgian Foreign Minister, Melchior Wathelet, has decided to no longer transfer asylum Migrants live in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions at Pagani detention...
Brussels, 21 October 2010 – The Belgian Foreign Minister, Melchior Wathelet, has decided to no longer transfer asylum
Migrants live in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions at Pagani detention centre in Lesvos, Greece (MSF)
seekers to Greece, a country which does not respect the rights of refugees. Belgium will process their asylum applications instead.
Amnesty International, CIRE, the Belgian Committee for Support to Refugees, JRS Belgium and Vluchtelingenwerk Vlaanderen have all welcomed this decision.
Above all, JRS and the other NGOs have demanded a review of the Dublin Regulation which authorises the return of refugees to states which do not sufficiently guarantee their protection. This decision demonstrates the need to reassess this regulation.
According to the Dublin Regulation, the EU state where the asylum seeker first enters is responsible for the examination of their asylum application. This has put serious pressure on EU border states.
This regulation should be replaced by a just system, both for asylum seekers and for states. The introduction of a temporary suspension mechanism would be a first step in the right direction. It should be applied in cases where a state is faced with a significant influx of asylum seekers or where the refugee determination procedure does not respect European and international norms.
The return of asylum seekers to such states could then be temporarily suspended while the EU calls on them to respect their obligations and take concrete steps to rectify the failures. At the moment only a few states have suspended transfers to Greece. A suspension mechanism would oblige all EU states to adopt the same measures.
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The decision of Melchior Wathelet has been long expected. Greece is one of the principal entry points into the EU and is considered the asylum seekers' worst nightmare. They are forced to live on the streets or are locked up in cramped and unsanitary detention centres. The asylum procedure is a failure.
An Iraqi has almost no chance of being granted protection in Greece, whereas in the Netherlands, for instance, 77 percent of Iraqis are recognised as refugees. The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) recently described the situation in Greece as a veritable humanitarian disaster.
Over the past few years, JRS has urged EU states to stop the return of asylum seekers to Greece. Since then, Iraqi and Afghani refugees live in constant risk of being returned to their countries of origin.
Norway, the UK and the Netherlands have recently made the same decision as Belgium. These states, however, have not acted on their own initiative. National and European courts have prevented them from returning asylum seekers to Greece.
Belgium is currently at risk of being condemned by the European Court of Human Rights in an emblematic case: in 2009, Belgium returned an Afghan asylum seeker to Greece. Today he is living on the streets without the right to access a fair asylum procedure.
The proposed revision of the Dublin Regulation is currently on the table at European discussions. The European Commission has submitted a good proposal for recasting the Dublin Regulation. It is up to the Belgian Presidency to use its full political weight in the negotiations to ensure this revision pushes reform in the right direction.
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Head of the Leader's military office Brigadier General Mohammad Shirazi had a telephone conversation with Commander of Iran's Air Defence Brigadier General Alireza Sabahi-Fard on Monday to relay a message from Ayatollah Khamenei.
"Send my regards to the vigilant personnel of the country's Air Defense. The country owes its security to Air Defense' preparedness and wakefulness. Our pious people are grateful for your unwavering efforts. Be appreciative of this," the Leader told the Air Defence units in the message, passed on by General Shirazi.
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