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ABC7 Anchor Cynne Simpson, Randy Bapst and BJolee founder Cindy Bapst
at Local Kicks' 3rd Anniversary party last Friday on the Donovan
House rooftop.
I'll be honest with you, I get a tad jealous when I watch The Hills and not only are the girls dressed to perfection, but they are enjoying their pomegranate martinis at some of the hottest rooftop pool bars.
Don't get me wrong, I love the nightlife here, but sometimes I wish I could hop off the metro and somehow be on the West Coast, especially with this brutal summer heat.
Wouldn't it be nice to taste the delicious mint of a Mojito while your toes are splashing in the pool of one of those cool West Hollywood hotels? Sounds unrealistic right? Think again.
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Living like it's LA in DC. Jon Cecchi and friend Kristin Rae Irish last
Friday at Local Kicks' 3rd Anniversary party on the rooftop of
the Donovan House.
Introducing The Donovan House hotel located on the newly revived 14th Street at Thomas Circle. This place defines Chic in the City.
And what better place to celebrate Local Kicks' 3rd Anniversary than its rooftop pool, which hosted a few of our fans from Alexandria and the District last Friday night.
"With a 2,000 percent uptick in unique users in just six months, and with our new content-sharing partnerships with NBCWashington.com and WHGMag.com, we have a lot to celebrate," Local Kicks' Editor and co-Publisher John Arundel told the more than 70 attendees. "Local news and features on the web is growing by leaps and bounds. We've come a long way."
Local Kicks founder and co-Publisher Shariff el-Sheikh could not make it, but among the evening's guests were Cynee Simpson, an anchor on ABC 7; Sheila and Jerry Cave, publishers of Washington Home and Garden magazine; Michael Maibach, president of the European-American Business Council; Freddie Wyatt, president of Jamestowne Entertainment; Angela Fox, president and CEO of the Crystal City BID; David Bass, president of Raptor Strategies; Chip Rodgers of The Real Estate Roundtable; Cindy Bapst, owner-founder of BJolee Fashions, and The Scene Bisnow's Makeda Saggau-Sackey.
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Michael Maibach of Old Town, President of the European
American Business Council, with Angie Fox, President of the
Crystal City BID, last Friday.
This was definitely a chic crowd at a chic place.
My first chic moment, if you will, was when someone had to swipe a card for the elevator to take me to the roof. It was so exclusive that I felt like I was dodging the paparazzi as the doors closed.
When I stepped out of the elevator it was as if I had just landed in LA, minus the jetlag. The rooftop was dimly lit with candles and a fireplace. Ladies reclined on the sleek white beach chairs wearing summer dresses layered in vintage costume jewelry. Men leaned on the ledge drinking their beers or bourbons while overlooking the incredible view of DC. It was all so surreal.
In the center of the socializing was the striking blue pool. Reflecting off the fireplace, the pool elegantly glowed creating a soothing atmosphere. I did not want to leave. Not only was the cherry Mojito absolutely divine, but I felt relaxed.
With the breathtaking view of DC, fabulous cocktails, and a swimming pool, what more can a girl ask for? Everyone left their stressful lives on the first floor.
The Donovan House isn't the only sleek new hotel in town. From Kimpton's Lorien Hotel in Old Town to the brand new W opening in early July, it feels like the region has gone through a badly-needed Extreme Makeover: Hotel Edition.
|Local Kicks Editor and Co-Publisher John Arundel with guests at
Friday's event at the Donovan House.
So, escape the bright city lights for a night at The Donovan House or any of the other chic new hotels this summer and make the girls from The Hills oh so jealous!
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Vincent Meessen. Blues Klair
The Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery presents Vincent Meessen. Blues Klair, the first solo exhibition by Belgian artist Vincent Meessen in Canada and the United States, and the North American premiere of the film Ultramarine.
Within a structure of layered textiles conceived in collaboration with designer Diane Steverlynck, blue is the chromatic, historical and discursive filter through which a performance by African-American poet Kain unfolds. The famed precursor of hip-hop in the late 1960s delivers his "spoken word" as the Belgian percussionist Lander Gyselinck improvises to the flow of his utterances. Throughout the performance various historical objects — astrolabe, mappa mundi, automaton, textile, fresco, film stock — are juxtaposed to Kain's performance props. They invoke affective retrospections on exile and belonging, slave routes and colonial trade.
Narratives and destinies obscured by history meet in the shared ground of the exhibition, where they mobilize and enter into a dialogue through the forms they take, their inhabitation of space, the sounds that circulate within it, and colour as a sensible lens for reading into the present.
Blues Klair is accompanied through the winter by a series of public programs addressing issues raised by the exhibition. The exhibition opens with a dialogue between Meessen and literary scholar Sylvano Santini. Later in November, Los Angeles-based poet and choreographer Harmony Holiday will present "Exilic Hope/We Don't Disappear" a new performance considering themes of absence, minor histories and the black radical tradition. For more information on the exhibition and our full calendar of activities, visit our website and follow us on social media.
Guided visits are free and available Monday to Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Reserve with Robin Simpson, public programs and education coordinator at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery.
Ultramarine was commissioned by Le Printemps de Septembre (Toulouse) for its 2018 edition. Jubilee in Brussels produced the film in collaboration with the Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery and The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, with support from the Flanders Audiovisual Fund, Vlaamse Gemeenschap and the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco.


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Reporter asks Jadeveon Clowney what he studied at ... Clemson?
Jadeveon Clowney was selected by the Houston Texans with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft.
Jadeveon Clowney went to South Carolina. You know this, and I know this. Everyone who saw "The Hit," knows this.
But some how, some way, a reporter at the NFL Draft in New York City did not know he went to South Carolina.
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Reporter asks Clowney what he studied at Clemson. Clowney: "Excuse you."
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It's one thing to screw up his college, but it's another thing to screw it up for his school's rival.
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A jazz-funk journeyman lends his talents to the truth process
The musicians filter into Greensboro's Sound Lab recording studio around 2 p.m. Friday afternoon, biding their time with idle chatter as the ubiquitous Joya Wesley '— who plies her trade as a publicist, freelance writer and jazz DJ, among other pursuits '— makes introductions. Within two hours, they're expected to knock out a theme song for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's cable access TV show. So they wait for the nod from the author of the composition and the producer of the session, wait with the professional poise of journeymen who know how to go in and get a job done.
No one's getting paid for this gig, studio owner Thomas Rowan included, and it's unlikely this recording session is going to help establish any of their careers, but a certain balance of giddy anticipation and healthy nervousness pervades the room due to the presence of Joya's father, Fred Wesley. The 61-year-old trombonist and arranger has driven up from his home in Manning, SC for the recording session, a book signing and a performance with his band at an outdoor amphitheater.
Word has gotten out and local guitar player Sam Frazier shyly pokes his head into the lobby, eager to meet the arranger and primary composer for James Brown's band from 1968 to 1975, the man known as '"the world's funkiest trombonist,'" who has straddled the worlds of jazz and funk and textured the music of everybody from George Clinton to Van Morrison.
In the room are local saxophonist Wally West and bass player Steve Haines, who directs UNCG's jazz studies program. Both are musicians with whom Wesley has played before.
He has his composition written out in musical notation on a single sheet, copies of which he distributes to the musicians. It's called '"Ubuntu,'" he says, adding that Joya knows what it means. An online reference provided by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission identifies it as a word derived from the Xhosa and Zulu languages that describes a South African concept of shared humanity.
'"I wrote it,'" the trombonist says. '"We're about to complete the composition as we play it.'"
Ben Jensen, fresh out of the NC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem and waiting to see if he'll be accepted to UNCG, sits behind the drum kit, waiting for his cues. A percussionist from Winston known as Oseiku stands in the back of the studio watching as the session congeals. He'll play congas, cowbells and shakers on separate tracks that will be overdubbed later.
Then the piano player, a young man named Steve Gordon, enters the room and extends his hand to Wesley.
'"You don't remember me,'" he says. '"I was a trumpet player in the All-State Jazz Band. You did a clinic. I was one of the ones who actually got up and played.'"
Wesley nods.
The young man apologizes for showing up late.
'"That's all right,'" Wesley says, '"we found a replacement.'"
West quips: '"Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya,'" as the pianist sulks away, but Wesley stops him.
'"Steve, I'm just kidding,'" he says. '"I got a part for you.'"
Soon he's coaching the piano player and the drummer, pointing out the tempo, suggesting to Jensen that he make good use of the hi-hat.
'"Give me a strong hit on 'one' of each bar,'" he says, driving his fist down for emphasis. '"It's got to be kind of crazy on the downbeat when you come down on it. Don't worry about crazy. I want it crazy.'"
The action is quick. They'll have the track down in three takes, after Wesley gets the piano player straight on his noting and rhythm, and he and West run through their horn solos.
He reminds Jensen to emphasize the first beat to give the song an African feel. Then the musicians launch in, the horns sounding out an announcement of optimistic textures in a breezy song paced at a steady clip from Jensen's tumbling drumbeat. Wesley stretches the melody in an expository solo that is by turns argumentative and conciliatory, after which West answers him with a brighter sound that emphasizes clarity.
'"That's a keeper,'" Wesley says.
Usually he records with musicians with whom he has more familiarity and shared experience, Wesley says, but these are special circumstances.
'"This is Joya's thing,'" he says. '"She conscripted me and Thomas. I know Steve and Wally. The rest of the musicians are her friends she hit up.'"
Originally, Joya Wesley says, she considered pulling a track from her copy of the Africa Straight Ahead jazz compilation, but the community producer of Greensboro's Cable 8 warned her that she could run into copyright trouble.
'"She said: 'It's best if you can get some musicians,'" Wesley said. '"I know some musicians. I said: 'Daddy, we need a theme song.'"
The trombonist has by now repaired to the control room to listen to the track.
Oseiko records the conga track in one take. Haines looks beatific.
'"Yeah man, this guy's got it going on,'" he says. '"Happening.'"
When the percussionist enters the control room, he learns the track is in the can.
'"Are you serious?'" he asks. '"I thought I was just warming up.'"
By this time, Frazier has been tapped to record a guitar track. Fred Wesley is similarly pleased by the guitar player's performance.
Frazier executes some tight couplets that evoke a bright, melodic West African sound. Wesley asks for major chords on top of a sequence of honking saxophone, a little chunka-chunka figure that propels the track forward.
As the session winds down, the musicians' shop talk comes around to James Brown and other members of the Godfather of Soul's band '— the gig Wesley knows has given him his lasting reputation despite his aptitude in jazz and other advanced musical realms.
'"I saw him two weeks ago,'" he says of Brown. '"I recorded something for him and he didn't like it. He said it sounded like 'smooth jazz.' He's doing his thing and I'm doing mine. I get bored. I can't do the same thing every night.'"
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Aug 10 (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co non-executive Chairman Stephen Sanger is expected to step down before the bank's shareholder meeting next spring, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
Elizabeth Duke, vice chair of Wells Fargo's board, is expected to replace Sanger, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
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But to have such a mercy of God, you also need to have your mind turned toward Him in prayer. Your thinking should be toward the God, you need to become His devotee, you need to offer obeisance's to God and worship Him always. When you shall become absorbed in God in such a way then you shall become eligible for the God's mercy & He shall always Bless you.
Worshipping the God, becoming His devotee, doing service to God & making Him your only savior shall take you toward Him. Once you are eligible for such a mercy of God then He shall shower all His blessings on you. Below verses of Bhagwat Gita explain that only :
"samo 'ham sarva-bhutesu
na me dvesyo 'sti na priyah
ye bhajanti tu mam bhaktya
mayi te tesu chapy aham" (Bhagwat Gita: Chapter Nine verse 29)
"Sri Krishna said: O Arjuna, I envy no one, nor am I partial to anyone. I am equal to all beings. But whoever renders service unto Me in devotion is very dear to Me, and I am also very dear to him."
"sarva-dharman parityajya
mam ekam saranam vraja
aham tvam sarva-papebhyo
mokshayisyami ma suchah" (Bhagwat Gita: Chapter Eighteen verse 66)
"Sri Krishna said: O Arjuna, Abandon all varieties of religion or Setting aside all meritorious deeds, just surrender unto Me. I shall liberate you from all sins. Do not fear."
"ananyas cintayanto mam
ye janah paryupasate
tesham nityabhiyuktanam
yoga-ksemam vahamy aham" (Bhagwat Gita: Chapter Nine verse 22)
"Sri Krishna said: O Arjuna, But those who always worship Me with exclusive devotion, meditating on My transcendental form—to them I carry what they lack, and I preserve what they have."
man-maya mam upasritah
bahavo jnana-tapasa
puta mad-bhavam agatah" (Bhagwat Gita: Chapter Four verse 10)
"Sri Krishna said: O Arjuna, Being freed from attachment, fear and anger, being fully absorbed in Me and taking refuge in Me, many, many human beings in the past became purified by knowledge of Me—and thus they all attained transcendental love for Me."
"patram puspam phalam toyam
yo me bhaktya prayacchati
tad aham bhakty-upahrtam
asnami prayatatmanah" (Bhagwat Gita: Chapter Nine verse 26)
"Sri Krishna said: O Arjuna, If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it."
"tesam satata-yuktanam
bhajatam priti-purvakam
dadami buddhi-yogam tam
yena mam upayanti te" (Bhagwat Gita: Chapter Ten verse 10)
"Sri Krishna said: O Arjuna, To those who are constantly devoted to serving Me with love, I give the understanding by which they can come to Me."
So from the above verses of Bhagwat Gita it is very clear that when God shall shower His blessings on you then He shall provide you everything in life & shall always protect you. The only thing is that you should become eligible for such a mercy of God by becoming His devotee. So let God's grace and mercy always shine upon your lives. May God Always Bless You.
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It would have been easy for Sheila Heti to go awry with this book. With a title like How Should a Person Be?, a less confident writer might have been tempted to drag in the big guns: Heidegger, Sartre, maybe Levinas. A writer who felt she had more to prove might have tried to organize each chapter under the heading of a philosophical question, or theme, as indeed Heti does toward the end of the book. But by the time Heti begins to title her chapters "What is Empathy," "What is Freedom," "What is Betrayal," these questions have been thoroughly earned: there is no pontificating or showing off in sight, and they are surrounded by less loftily-titled chapters like "Sheila wanders in the copy shop" and "In front of the bikini store." This heterogeneous approach to fiction and philosophy is one of Heti's most endearing qualities, and it is at the heart of this novel's success.
Heti has been a writer to watch since her first collection, 2001's The Middle Stories. Reading that volume put me in mind of that online video that went viral for awhile—the one with the three year-old French girl telling her story about Winnie the Pooh and the boxes with the animals that are poor. Both Heti and Clémentine enrapture with their own storytelling power, their narratives concise and pared-down, twisting in directions that could only have come from the idiosyncratic brain of the author herself.
I don't want to belabor this point, because I would imagine that Heti must be tired of being called childlike and gamine, and because that aspect of her work has been toned down in her subsequent books: Ticknor, a novella about a controlled jealousy that threatens to overwhelm the mannered composure of the text and its narrator, and the latest, a novel-hybrid called How Should a Person Be? These two volumes do not operate in the same surreal story-spinning space as The Middle Stories, but that work clearly bears Heti's DNA, which always informs the voice, style, and ethos of her work.
How Should a Person Be? sits neatly among Heti's previous books: they are all engaged with interrogating the modalities of storytelling. But whereas the first two texts are interested in how to tell a story, this last one is interested in how to be the storyteller. This authorial self-consciousness is clear from the novel's by-now conventional metafictional mode (all the characters are named after Heti and her friends; Heti herself told Canada's National Post that "it's a hard book to talk about for me, because everything I think about the book is in the book"); it is occasionally punctuated with segments of dialogue, reportedly recorded by Heti while hanging out with her friends over the period of a year.
The project of the book, Heti said in a 2008 lecture at the University of Alberta, was to find "a way of being not at all literary, and yet still writing a book, and not having metaphor, and still telling a story, and not making up characters: some kind of radical simplicity." The novel is accordingly stripped of devices like a narrator, descriptions, metaphors, etc., and yet it loses none of its poetry and succeeds as a literary artifact, rather than a collection of quotidian observations.
The plot, if there can be said to be one, hinges on Sheila's inability to write a play for a feminist theatre company. It doesn't have to be a feminist play, they tell her, but it has to be about women. "I didn't know anything about women! And yet I hoped I could do it, being a woman myself." At the same time, Sheila is living in the aftermath of a failed marriage, trying to figure out how to befriend an artist called Margaux, and experiencing all-consuming lust for a painter named Israel. But the play just won't come together, and, wanting desperately to be a genius, Sheila is terrified of failure.
In order, then, to write the play, Sheila begins her recordings, hoping to learn from her friends a bit more about how a person, and more specifically an artist, should be. Along the way she inadvertently ends up alienating Margaux, the one person who is as "serious" as Sheila. After the two girls travel to Miami together to attend Art Basel, Sheila writes an article about their trip. Margaux reads it and is so hurt she can no longer paint, Sheila feels responsible, and—well, I won't tell you how it ends. Suffice it to say, the path to enlightenment is more of a Dantean journey. Do people change? Can we learn things? Through her friendship with Margaux, Sheila goes from "stupidly living" to living with consciousness, intention, awareness. This trajectory would seem to be at odds with the self-awareness and anti-conventional aspect of the rest of the text.
Part of what distinguishes Heti's writing is the very banality of it. She tends to use short, staccato words, to dangle her prepositions, to make clear, simple pronouncements. In a chapter entitled "Interlude for Fucking," she highlights the banality of the language available to us for describing sexual acts and in so doing reaches sublime heights. If one were only to judge from the n + 1 http://nplusonemag.com/how-should-a-person-be">excerpt, one might think this was a book about blowjobs, but such matters only take up about a quarter of the novel's interest. (This may be disappointing to some.) Heti comes off as Henry Miller in a hoodie. One passage in particular is a truly rhapsodic ode to total sexual capitulation, as Heti flirts with different metrical registers and turns "slut" into a verb. And never will I sit in a library again, I feel sure, without recalling this passage:
I don't know why all of you just sit in the libraries when you could be fucked by Israel. I don't know why all of you are reading books when you could be getting reamed by Israel, spat on, beaten up against the headboard—with every jab, your head battered against the headboard. Why are you all reading? I don't understand this reading business when there is so much fucking to be done.
Then, before you know it, she's talking about the death drive, and sex becomes an act of self-definition: "And blessed is she who can answer for herself, What about living? What is it about living that you want?"
This is a typical move for Heti, the bait-and-switch that takes you from the most commonplace observations into the most important questions a person can ask. A lecture about Caspar David Friedrich and the sublime (given at clown school) suddenly makes sense to Sheila in the context of the drug-saturated nights she's been spending with Margaux. The clown professor lectures "Without a witness to the scene—" and Sheila supplies "Right! Right! It is not a picture of the sublime! Suddenly I understood our walks, mine and Margaux's, through the alleys, up and down them on our drugs."
In a brilliant chapter, told in film script-style dialogue, two of Sheila's male friends tell about their illuminating recent trip to South Africa. They are narcissistically preoccupied with their own narcissism, and believe that what they learned there has cured them of it. "Oh my God! These are all people! These are a million people that live in shacks that are awesome people, that are smart, and, you know, are people." Here she plays on several narrative levels, using italics to set off the banality of what he is saying while indicating Ben's awareness that what he's saying is at once completely obvious and completely unbelievable. You shall know our generation by our epiphanies of the readily apparent.
This points to what may be the crux of the book: that no matter how banal these questions and realizations may be, they are still the important questions to ask. Explaining the play they're writing, Ben lays out the project of Heti's own book: "Well a simple way to talk about it is it's about us, and about our embarking on a project together, trying to make something together as friends trying to take each other out of ourselves and into the world, and it evolves into an actual engagement in the world. Then comes the discovery of something that we're interested in replacing ourselves with." Heti's greatest interest is with the making of art: less how a person should be, but how a female artist should be. One particularly fruitful aspect of this question is the link between art-making and friendship: Sheila and Margaux become as necessary to each other as artists as they are as friends. "Life is with Margaux—talking to people!—which is an equally sincere attempt to make sense of myself and the world—just as sincere as writing a play!"
Sheila's problems come from the fact that (as her therapist warns her) she is an example of the Jungian archetype puer aeternus, the eternal child. Eternal children invest too much energy picturing themselves from the outside, we are told; the puer aeternus must learn to "work—without escaping into fantasies about being the person who worked." The reason Sheila needs to record her conversations—to develop a sense, through external means, of how she should be—is the very thing Margaux is most threatened by: her words "floating separate" from her body. "You there with that tape recorder looks like my own death," Margaux says. This aspect of the book is concerned with the ways in which Heti and her co-generationists (ahem) are aware that they are continually constructing the versions of themselves they want other people to believe in. Or as Margaux puts it, cannily, "we only exist in pictures."
But Sheila comes to define this externalized means of trying to become who she wants to be as "cheating":
It is cheating to treat oneself as an object, or as an object to tend to, or as an icon. It was true four thousand years ago when our ancestors wandered the desert, and it's as true today when the icon is ourself. . . . When we try to turn ourselves into a beautiful object, it is because we mistakenly consider ourselves to be an object."
She is only able to reach this epiphany through her friendship with Margaux. Sheila realizes that in using Margaux's words from her recordings
I had plagiarized her being and mixed it up with the ugliness in me. Then she had looked into it, and like looking into a funhouse mirror, thought the decadent, narcissistic, meaningless person she saw was her—when it was myself. Unwilling to be naked, I had made her naked instead. I had not worked hard, or at all.
This goes against Margaux's own artistic ethos, which remains steady throughout the novel, even as Sheila searches for an ethos of her own. Marguax's ethics is emblematized by the Ugly Painting Competition that begins and ends the novel, wherein she and her artist friend, Sholem, resolve to paint the ugliest painting possible. Sholem goes about this by making lists:
lists of beautiful subjects, beautiful colours, and beautiful forms. And he tried to understand what ugliness was made of, to avoid making something so ugly that it filled him with shame—the feeling of having raped himself. He made lists of what to avoid—formal arrangements and styles.
But once he has created the ugly painting, it haunts him: he can't free himself from the awful feeling of having deliberately made something ugly. This, Heti implies, is the problem with Sholem as an artist: his fear of failure, and his need for control. "Sholem should have been ugly with all of his heart," says Margaux. "From his centre, not from a list."
This is of course the lesson Sheila has to learn over the course of the novel: that art has to come from within. From the beginning Margaux encourages her to "put on this crappy play" because it would be "more in the service of [Sheila's] life." Later, she asks, "Does it have to be a play?"
So perhaps this book is Sheila Heti's ugly painting. The genius of Heti's conceit is that if the novel seems sometimes a bit thin, or self-indulgent, a case could be made that this is part of the point. I did get the feeling, reading How Should a Person Be?, that Heti's editor at Anansi is a little afraid of her. There are occasional digressions that amount to little, as well as a whole sub-theme involving ancient Jews that didn't seem to cohere with the rest. But these faults are minor and it would be wrong to linger on them: with Heti, it's all about the writing. From pithy quotables ("Night fell, but then, there are always holes to fall into,") to the oddly profound ("If now in some ways I drink too much, it's not that I lack a reverence for the world"), this is a novel that rewards reading, sitting with, and rereading.
Lauren Elkin is a Paris-based writer and literary critic. She recently obtained her PhD in English literature, and her first novel, Floating Cities, will be published in the fall by Editions Héloïse d'Ormesson. She teaches at New York University in France.
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ECP to provinces: Gear up for LB polls
The directives were issued at a meeting, presided over by the Chief Election Commissioner Sardar Muhammad Raza, of the ECP held in Islamabad.
The meeting reviewed matters pertaining to holding of local government elections in Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces.
Acting Secretary of Election Commission Usman Ali informed the meeting that progress had been made in delimitations in Sindh and Punjab. The acting secretary said holding of local bodies' election in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa through biometric system was not possible before September next year.
He said a committee had also been constituted to review matters regarding local government system in Sindh.


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Canadian dollar not sole factor in NHL revenue growth: Bettman
NHL commissioner Gary Bettman told Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday that league revenues are healthy even after taking into account the strength of the Canadian dollar.
The Toronto Star, citing an internal league communique, reported this week that Canadian teams accounted for 31 per cent of league ticket revenue, pegged at $1.1 billion US.
Bettman told interviewer Ron McLean before Game 4 of the Stanley Cup final in Pittsburgh that interest in Canada is helping drive revenue but that it was partly a reflection of market forces and not cause for concern.
"It's a little disproportionate and I think that may be a good thing, because if you go back seven or eight years ago when people were saying we'd only have one club left from Canada, the revenues were disproportionate the other way," said Bettman.
"What it means is we've done a very good job of getting the Canadian clubs healthy. Frankly revenues are growing across the board — it isn't just the Canadian dollar and it isn't just the Canadian clubs and any suggestion to the contrary is somebody trying to get a headline."
"What that tells you is we stick by situations and make them work," he added.
In the Toronto Star report, an anonymous NHL club executive based in the United States told the newspaper that revenue growth since the 2005 lockout would be only two per cent for the American clubs. Bettman said the true figure was closer to eight per cent.
Bettman said that while certain clubs in the U.S. may have "issues," none was in jeopardy, as Pittsburgh and Nashville have been in recent years.
Regarding the sale of the Predators last year, Bettman re-iterated that the Canadian Competition Bureau investigated and found the NHL had not engaged in any anti-competitive behaviour after a letter of intent was signed to sell the club to Ontario-based executive Jim Balsillie.
Negotiations with Balsillie broke down, and then-owner Craig Leipold eventually sold the club to a consortium of Tennessee businessmen and others, including William "Boots" Del Biaggio.
The Nashville conversation came up in light of news this week that Del Biaggio is being sued by an investment firm that alleges he engaged in fraud to secure a multimillion-dollar loan. The San Jose Mercury News reported that he was also being investigated by U.S. federal authorities.
Del Biaggio, who once had a stake in the San Jose Sharks and lobbied to try to bring an NHL club to Kansas City before the Nashville deal, resigned on Monday from the investment firm he co-founded over a decade ago.
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My name is Vanthay Hong. I was born in Siem Reap, Cambodia to Leth and Kim Hong. I have three siblings - two sisters and one brother. I am the second child of the family. I played division soccer for a year at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. After I obtained a knee injury, I transferred to Augsburg University and graduated from there with a biology degree. Now, I work at Deloitte & Touche and run a nonprofit called Spam FC Scholarship Foundation that helps students pay for college.
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Learkana is a Cambodian American writer whose work has been featured in All about Skin: Short Fiction by Women of Color, The Asian American Literary Review, and Sample Space; and is forthcoming in Stilt House. She currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area. When she isn't writing, she's probably dissecting cultural and political thinkpieces on her Facebook feed, eating too much junk food, or learning how to drum. You can check out her musings on awkward dates, sexuality, pop culture with an intersectional lens, and other miscellaneous topics at lampshadeonherhead.com.
Kimberly Nguyễn is a Vietnamese-American poet originally from Omaha, Nebraska but currently studying at Vassar College in upstate New York. Her poetry explores complications of language, home, and identity. In addition, she is a groundbreaking investigative journalist for her college newspaper, The Miscellany News. Her articles have garnered widespread attention and have been the catalyst for policy changes from senior administration. You can stay up-to-date on her work at www.kimberlynguyenwrites.com.
Susan Lieu is a Vietnamese-American playwright, solo performer and activist whose parents are Vietnamese refugee nail salon workers. "140 LBS: How Beauty Killed My Mother" is the unfortunate true story of how Susan's mother died from plastic surgery malpractice. At the time, Susan was 11 years old. The show weaves together several through-lines: the multi-generational immigrant experience; body insecurity and shame; repression and subsequent examination of personal loss; lack of accountability in the medical system. "140 LBS" will make its world premiere as a full-length production February 7-17, 2019 at Theatre Off Jackson in Seattle, Washington. Click here for ticket info.
In 2018, she performed this show at the On the Boards' Northwest New Works Festival and Bumbershoot, North America's largest contemporary arts festival. Her work has been profiled in NPR, KING5 News, and the Northwest Asian Weekly. Her work is supported by the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, 4Culture, Artist Trust and STG. Lieu works with non-profit Washington Advocates for Patient Safety to increase awareness on looking up the background of medical providers before invasive procedures.
Susan began performing comedy in 2012, at venues including the Purple Onion, Carolines on Broadway and Jet City Improv. Her training includes Yale School of Drama and Freehold Theatre. She has a BA in Social Studies from Harvard, an MBA from Yale and is the co-founder of Socola Chocolatier, an artisanal chocolate company in San Francisco. She has been the Artist-in-Residence at The Collective in Seattle and is an alumna of the World Economic Forum Global Shapers Program and Coro Fellowship in Public Affairs.
Jennifer Ho grew up in San Diego and lives in Chicago. By day she is an archivist; by night she runs Lawrence & Argyle, an apparel company that celebrates America's immigrant heritage.
I am Hok Sreng Te. I was born in Cambodia and immigrated to the United States when I was twelve. I am the youngest and seemingly the most American in my family. However, unlike my parents and older siblings who are Asian, my identity is split. I am situated in a spot in which I am neither Asian nor American. I am a little bit of both, but I cannot ever say that with ease because it would oversimplify my complex and intertwined web of identity. I am currently a pre-med student at the University of Minnesota, and I hope to bring healing to all people by becoming a physician who goes beyond the biological causation of disease by addressing health disparities and promoting health equity.
Samnang Than is a Cambodian American born in Kirkland, Washington but raised in Olympia. He has two older siblings. His family are refugees from Cambodia. He is the first in the family to be graduating college with a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing at Western Washington University. His goal is to pursue a career in Secondary Education where he can share his passion for writing. His biggest goal is to introduce and expand Cambodian literature in the U.S. He hopes to travel to Cambodia to learn more about his cultural roots. Click here to see more of Samnang's writing.
Vanuyen (she/her) is born and bred in the Bay Area, which for her means she will always root for the A's and have a deep appreciation for BART. She studied history in college and seeks to understand how stories from our past can help us heal in the present and inform systems changes in our future. Vanuyen is proud to be a second generation Vietnamese American and is grateful for the enduring love and strength her family has taught her. Although she complained about going to Vietnamese school every Saturday when she was younger, she is now grateful for the ability to speak with her grandma and parents in their native tongue, and she hopes to someday keep learning more languages.
Born and raised in Iowa, Alex Baccam is a second generation Asian American and a daughter of Tai Dam refugees. She prides herself in her lesser-known ethnic identity and strives to preserve it by listening to her father's stories and remembering her grandmother's, by writing, and learning to prepare traditional cuisine.
Alex graduated from the University of Iowa with her BSN. She is currently working at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics as an adult oncology Registered Nurse.
Alex is constantly looking to expand her knowledge and skill through her many interests including yoga, gardening, traveling, cooking, and being outdoors. She appreciates the connections she cultivates through these hobbies and through her career and believes that they are pertinent to exploring her Asian American identity.
She hopes to encourage others to explore their identities in doing what they love.
David Lor is Cambodian-American and lives in Long Beach, CA with his wife Ashleigh and dog Jackie. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature, as well as a Master of Science in Transportation Management. His parents, Huot and Huoy Lor, escaped the repressive Khmer Rouge regime and landed in the United States in 1979. He writes on his parents' immigrant experience as a way to learn more about himself and his family. To follow along, visit his Seeing Hands project.
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UyenThi lives in Minneapolis and is the daughter of Vietnamese refugees. She received her Master's in Educational Psychology from the University of Minnesota, but is a Wisconsin Badger at heart, and occasionally puts that journalism degree to use by contributing to Project Yellow Dress. UyenThi is a cat mom, friend to many dogs, and infrequent knitter. Find her on Twitter @vanitycake.
My name is Vanthay Hong. I was born in Siem Reap, Cambodia to Leth and Kim Hong. I have three siblings - two sisters and one brother. I am the second child of the family. I played division soccer for a year at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. After I obtained a knee injury, I transferred to Augsburg University and graduated from there with a biology degree. Now, I work at Deloitte & Touche and run a nonprofit called Spam FC Scholarship Foundation that helps students pay for college.
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My name is Terra and my pronouns are she and her. I am a first generation, non-binary Cambodian-American who is passionate about intersectional feminism within public health, public policy and governance, and economics. My long term career aspirations involve structural reform to promote the wellness of minority populations, including the socially and economically displaced, those LGBTQ+, people of color, and many more mis- or underrepresented. In time, I hope to be a leader in work which equitably shapes policies and social structures.
Outside of academics, I love experimenting with makeup, playing Pokemon, and watching intense shows and movies.
June Kuoch is an aspiring activist-scholar-writer-artist. June is a queer and trans-nonbinary child of Khmer-Refugees. They use they/them pronouns. They are a recent college graduate from the University of Minnesota. They're a local community organizer. Their activist works have been inspired by the Japanese American activist Yuri Kochiyama. They have worked with grassroots groups in Minnesota such as ReleaseMN8, TCJ4J (Twin Cities Justice 4 Jamar), RadAzns, and Shades of Yellow (SOY). In the fall, they will be a first-year MA student at UCLA in Asian American Studies. Their current research focuses on haunting as it pertains to memory politics brought by United States empire building, specifically as it intersects with critical refugee studies, Asian American studies, critical archival studies, and queer of color critique. Follow them on Instagram: @gucci_kuochie
Thuy Thi Nguyen serves as the seventh President of Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California, a position she has held since July 2016. Nguyen is believed to be the first Vietnamese American college president in the country.
Prior to her arrival at Foothill, Nguyen served as interim general counsel for the California Community College's Chancellor's Office. For over eleven years, Nguyen was the General Counsel for the Peralta Community College District.
When she was 3, she and her family joined the wave of "boat people" who fled Vietnam after the end of the war. They drifted in the Pacific Ocean on a boat for more than 20 days before a commercial ship rescued them and took them to a refugee camp in Japan. Eventually, the family relocated to Wichita, Kansas, and then moved to the warmer climate of New Orleans, and later to Oakland, California.
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An Uong is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and a current Creative Nonfiction MFA candidate at Emerson College. She is Editor and Community Liaison at AIR (the Association of Independents in Radio). Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Catapult, Skin Deep Magazine, Roads and Kingdoms, and Wildness Journal. She lives in New England, where she can be found camping, hiking, or rock climbing when she's not running after a bus or subway. She also has a knack for ill-timed laughter. Find her on Twitter or Instagram: @anuonganuong.
My name is Hứa Kim Hiền. Originally from Boston, I'm a nonbinary Chinese Vietnamese American (they/them pronouns), who's currently finishing a BA at Smith College. As a student activist and aspiring community organizer/researcher, I want to continue to push for social justice, equity, and the destruction of all systemic oppression while trying to center softness, radicalism, and resilience in my life.
I wrote this poem to celebrate what it means to be "yellow". Yellow is a soft color, a lovely color and I hope this poem can be a reminder for us to love and honor our "yellowness" - our skin color, our body, and the stories that comes with the image of us.
Julia Ha is one of the co-founders of Project Yellow Dress. A Chinese-Vietnamese American from the San Francisco Bay Area, she is also the child of Vietnamese Boat People refugees who came to the U.S. in the early 1980s. You can follow her on Instagram at @jbwahaha or contact her directly via email at email@example.com.
Casey Tran is a poet and storyteller in the San Francisco Bay Area. For more of her writing, visit medium.com/@caseytran or follow her on Twitter @tran_casey.
Tara Tran is a high school senior who wrote the following response to a personal statement prompt that asked, "What matters to you, and why?" We were so incredibly struck by the topic she chose, her creative writing approach, and her heartwarming insight. We are so happy that she graciously agreed to allow us to share it on PYD.
Tim Reason is an editor in Boston. He grew up in New York City and his father served as sponsor for nearly 20 Cambodian and Laotian refugees in the early 1980s. The taste of lemongrass still instantly transports him back to his first time eating Cambodian food while sitting cross legged on the floor of an apartment in Queens. He can be reached at @cleverreason
UyênThi has a B.A. in Journalism but only recently returned to writing. The youngest in the family of six, she is the daughter of refugees, and grew up less than a mile away from Paisley Park, although she spent much of her childhood singing along not to Prince, but to The Sound of Music. UyênThi has a healthy appreciation for fresh journals, Tom Hardy, and golden retrievers, but she is a cat mom at heart. She and her partner (and hopefully a fur baby in the near future) live in Minneapolis, Minnesota. You can find her online at https://whenyousaywe.wordpress.com/ or on Twitter @vanitycake.
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Kim Truong is a recent American University graduate. A transplant from Vancouver, Canada, she now calls Washington D.C. home. She works in social change communications and in her free time writes essays and stories about voluntourism, travel privilege and cultural authenticity. For more of her work, visit: medium.com/@kttruong_
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I had actually written this piece a couple of months ago and submitted it to a literary journal. But as the political climate in the United States becomes increasingly unsympathetic and the government increasingly hostile to refugees and immigrants, I thought it important to share my story now, and I withdrew it from consideration. Our voices are more important than ever now, in support of and solidarity with people of color here and around the world.
Writer: Teresa Pham
I wrote the poem The Children Who Live in Boats because the plight of boat people feels especially relevant in the current political climate. Our supposed "leader of the free world" is a man who is dead-set on fomenting more and more fear and xenophobia within the population, on closing the borders and turning away those who seek sanctuary. It's a strange and sad time to be the child of refugees in America.
There's this narrative that we're fed in this country, that America is a melting pot of immigrants who came here seeking a better future. It's this idealized promised land. And while that may be true for many families, the Vietnamese American experience is largely separated from this narrative because our parents aren't immigrants by choice - they're refugees. They came here because it was the only option available to them when their home became a war zone, when everything they knew and loved became untenable.
There's a Warsan Shire poem titled Home that goes: "you have to understand/no one puts their children in a boat/unless the water is safer than the land." To me, that feels like the crux of what refugees face when they put their children in rickety vessels and pray for a safe passage.
The refugee experience is one in which there are no good choices or a sought after American utopia. There's only the hope of survival - for yourself and for future generations.
Teresa Pham lives and writes in Oakland, California.
This is a letter from Phi Minh Tam, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Class of 1963, writing to the Director of Alumni Affairs and his fellow alumni about his attempts to escape Vietnam in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Below is a photo of the copy of the letter, followed by a transcript of the text.
Note from author: This is my college personal statement and the prompt was about describing our favorite word. My favorite word is peservance because it reflects my family's hard work and the world they come from.
Julia Ha is one of the co-founders of Project Yellow Dress. A Chinese-Vietnamese American from the San Francisco Bay Area, she is also the child of Vietnamese Boat People refugees who came to the U.S. in the early 1980s. You can follow her on Instagram at @jbwahaha or contact her directly via email at email@example.com.


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The N.C. House will take its final vote on the budget compromise at 12:01 a.m. Friday after legislators rejected an attempt to hold the vote a day earlier.
Under House rules, the budget bill must be publicly available for at least three days before the first vote. Because it was posted online at 11:30 a.m. Monday, the vote must wait until Thursday. The Senate has no such rule and scheduled its first vote for Tuesday afternoon.
House Rules Chairman David Lewis said Monday that he was interested in suspending the rules to allow an earlier vote. But he said Republicans would only do it if House Democratic Leader Larry Hall didn't object.
Hall did oppose the move, saying legislators need more time to review the budget, but fellow Democratic Rep. Elmer Floyd of Fayetteville made a motion on the floor Tuesday to speed up the process.
Suspending the House rules requires a two-thirds majority vote, so Floyd's motion failed because the vote was 62-41.
House Majority Leader Mike Hager said voting a day earlier would still allow legislators to read the 429-page budget bill. "I think it's ample time," he said. "I think our folks want it to be efficient and be effective."
Others pointed out that a midnight vote Friday morning would give Gov. Pat McCrory just hours to sign the bill before the current temporary budget expires Friday night. If he vetoed the budget or didn't sign quickly, lawmakers would need to extend the temporary budget by day's end, or much of state government would shut down.
Hall – along with a number of Democrats and Republicans – disagreed. "We have not as a caucus had a chance to have a full briefing from legislative staff, and certainly we like to know what we're voting for or against," he said. "We would be committing borderline legislative malpractice."
Hall was joined in opposition by Republican Rep. Michael Speciale of New Bern, one of the chamber's most conservative members.
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Once again there are rumblings and warnings of a fresh financial crisis along the lines of 2008. Banks are supposedly better regulated now, and have generally lower corporate lending levels. Potential banking fallout should therefore be less dramatic than that witnessed in the period following 2008. However, this will not stop a number of banks starting reviews of their already heavily-scrutinised credit portfolios. ..


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Yesterday, I reached the point in my Cinderella retelling where I print it out and go over it with a red pen. I am just a more effective editor on paper, and I print out all stories/novellas/novels at least twice during the editing process. You may think that this is a waste of paper, but there is NOTHING like seeing your work printed out. After all, the finished product will appear on paper (or e-ink, which is in many ways better than paper, for reading purposes). If you are not doing this, go ahead and try. I think you will be astonished at all the errors that sneak in. For this reason, I'd hate to ever see my blog printed.
The first time I print it is when I'm still trying to organize the story. This story is still a dreadful mess, and I just need to draw arrows all over it and generally have the freedom of a pen. I print it out a second time when I THINK I am done. Once again I use my red pen on it--hopefully making way fewer marks--and I read it aloud. Hearing the story also helps me hone the voice. Especially when trying to polish the rhythm of dialog.
I still have not finished the ending. My first stab will go in the garbage--I don't like it. I'm trying to refine a second ending, but I need to think of a devious plan for one of my antagonists, and I'm just having a hard time thinking of one. I'm hoping the exercise of reading it aloud will help spur a few ideas.
At this point, Before my sale, I would have set the whole story aside. But I've made an oral commitment to produce another fairy tale retelling, and I think they expect it within a year. And I'm finding that setting the entire story aside isn't really required. Instead, I can simply skip a scene and write the scene that I really want to write. And if I need something fresh, why what works better than a new plot twist? Both of these techniques spur on those scenes in the middle, which will hopefully result in a finished story.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
The Print-Out Phase
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A reverse mortgage is a loan available to homeowners, 62 years or older, that lets them to convert part of the equity in their homes into cash.The Reverse Mortgage Program was created to help retirees with limited income use the accumulated wealth in their homes to cover basic monthly living expenses and pay for health care. However, there is no restriction how reverse mortgage proceeds can be used. The loan is called a reverse mortgage because instead of making monthly payments to a lender, as with a traditional mortgage, the lender makes payments to the borrower.
The borrower isn't required to pay back the loan until the home is sold or vacated. As long as the borrower remains in the house he or she is not required to make any monthly payments towards the loan balance. The borrower must remain current on property taxes, homeowners insurance and homeowners association dues (if applicable).A reverse mortgage is a type of home loan for people over 62 that requires no monthly mortgage payments.
How Does a Reverse Mortgage Work?
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De Brauw's Regulatory and Criminal Enforcement group leads internal investigations into matters such as market manipulation, corporate fraud and regulatory and antitrust violations.
During the past years, De Brauw has been at the forefront of conducting large-scale multi-jurisdictional internal investigations for corporations and financial institutions, listed in Europe, the United States and Asia. Recent investigations include topics such as:
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• Money laundering
• Regulatory compliance failures
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• International trade: UN, US and EU sanction programs and export controls
So far, we have succeeded in keeping most of these matters confidential, resolving issues with enforcement agencies amicably and out-of-court.
For each investigation, De Brauw forms a multi-disciplinary team, leveraging the vast resources of the firm in corporate governance, litigation, compliance, regulatory enforcement and data protection laws. Often De Brauw instructs or closely cooperates with members of our international network of law firms and financial and IT specialists.
De Brauw also counsels its clients on preventive measures and compliance programmes.
Please contact Marnix Somsen or Patrick Ploeger for more information.


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Outreach Ministry exists to encourage people in their time of need and present the Gospel in a way that brings about change in their lives. We accomplish this through: outreach to displaced families, downtown homeless ministry, Good News Club, Campus Evangelism, Show the Love events and Missions trips.
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Patrick Laverdant crosses his native island with the camera slung over his shoulder. This self-taught Mauritian photographer takes a tender and human look at the lives of Mauritians, especially those of the most humble. His artistic clichés give us to see an island Mauritius full of colors, authentic and alive. His work is exclusively based on spontaneous photography, immerging himself into local life to get as close as possible to the people. Perfectionism illuminating his work, rocks the sensitivity that punctuates his life. He offer us his unpretentious love of the image.
Patrick is very passionate about photography, surfing and the sea. At the age of 23, he starts his own surfwear company in Tamarin, which over the years has been a huge success across the island but separated in 2007, tired of the routine. He then equips himself with a camera and reconnects with this old passion. Technology has evolved but adaptation to digital is fast. In 2008, he leaves Mauritius for Switzerland where he will remain 5 years and returns regularly to fill up the images that feed his website.
His artistic approach through his photos of saltpans, small shops, fishermen, among others, is also a testimony to the traditions of Mauritius and Rodrigues. Its beautiful Blacks and Whites are very much appreciated and exhibited in the most beautiful hotels on the island as well as in international magazines.


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Oscar Raymond Fillpot Sr.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Oscar Raymond Fillpot Sr. was born Oct. 27, 1933, in Papinville, Mo., the son of George and Lottie (Wells) Fillpot. He died Friday, July 20, 2012, at the Willow Lane Care Center, Butler, Mo.
Funeral services were Monday, July 23, at 10 a.m., at the Hume Christian Church, with the Rev. Ed Sneed officiating. Interment and military rites were in Salem Cemetery, Foster, Mo.
Arrangements were made by the Heuser Funeral Home, Rich Hill, Mo.


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We are very excited to announce the birth of our little girl, Eva Mirembe Sparks!!! She came Friday October 7th at 7:40 pm weighing 9 lbs 2 oz and measuring 20 inches long.
We chose the name Eva (pronounced Eve-uh) because we like both the name and the meaning (Giver of life). Her middle name Mirembe (pronounced Me-rem-bay) means peace in Luganda the tribal language spoken in our area of Uganda. The past several months have been a time of real rest and peace for us even including her birthday which was a beautiful fall day in the 70s with the leaves changing colors one of our favorite times of the year. We took a walk down by the lake and were just enjoying the day when we decided that we needed to go to the hospital. So, Mirembe was very fitting for her. We pray that Eva will learn to rest in the Lord as she grows and find her peace in Him.
Both Andrea and Eva are doing well. Her delivery went very well with no problems. We thank God for giving us a healthy little girl and for the peace He has been to us.
Malachi came with Andrea's family to meet her last night. He was kind of quiet, taking it all in and then wanted to hold her and kiss her. I think he will be a great big brother.
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SPRINGVALE, Maine — York County's Maine Harvest for Hunger Program gathered 48,641 pounds (more than 16 tons) of fresh produce from York County farms, orchards, community gardens and home gardens in 2013, which was distributed to 45 hunger relief agencies.
The Master Gardener Volunteers for the University of Maine Cooperative Extension coordinated the program.
The growers' generosity and the work of more than 60 volunteers were celebrated at a recent potluck dinner at the UMaine Extension office in Springvale.
Frank Wertheim, educator for UMaine Extension in York County, said that Bill and Anna Spiller of Spiller Farm in Wells contributed 22,550 pounds of vegetables and fruits during the season. Wertheim noted the "incredible generosity of the Spillers" who have participated in the program since it began in 2000.
Each year, Wertheim says the Spillers find a way to donate more than the previous year. During the growing season, teams of volunteers regularly harvest twice a week at Spiller Farm.
Smith's Red Apple Farm of Acton, McDougall's Orchard of Springvale and Lakeview Orchard of Alfred hosted teams of volunteers weekly during the season and contributed a combined total of nearly 11,000 pounds of apples. Smith's had already donated 6,500 pounds of apples before a late-season freeze. Smith's asked volunteers to pick apples before they froze on the trees and 17 Master Gardener Volunteers responded, collecting than 1,800 pounds of apples and distributing them to 20 food pantries, soup kitchens and senior housing centers throughout the county.
The late John Zacharias of Zach's Farm in York was honored posthumously by Maine Harvest for Hunger for his long-time generosity to the program. At the end of each day, Master Gardener and food pantry volunteers picked up unsold produce from Zach's Farm Stand; this year, that totaled more than 8,000 pounds of market-quality vegetables.
George Hermans of Kennebunk, Glenn Wildes of Sanford and Ernie Russo of Kennebunk were also honored for their outstanding longtime volunteer efforts.
Other noted long-time contributors included Snell Family Farm in Buxton, Harris Farm in Dayton, Grant Farm in Saco, Berry Best Farm in Lebanon and Lakeview Orchard in Alfred. New contributors in 2013 included Frinklepod Farm in Arundel, Gray Farms in Wells and Leary Farm in Saco.
Wertheim said contributions from community gardens continue to increase — Kennebunk Community Gardeners donated more than a ton of produce in 2013. Wertheim said that each year more town and community gardens are planted with donating the harvest in mind.


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"Vision 20/20: Our Legacy, Our Horizon"
May 17, 2013 • San Francisco, CA
Greenlining's 20th Anniversary Economic Summit was a rousing – albeit exhausting! – success, with 1,000 community activists, corporate leaders, government officials and ordinary citizens joining in lively discussions and reliving some inspiring history.
Following a welcome from San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee, former White House aide and Rebuild the Dream founder Van Jones kicked things off with an exhilarating keynote address. He joined Greenlining's call to protect the revenues from California's new cap-and-trade program, which are supposed to be used to reduce carbon emissions, with a major portion going to low-income, highly polluted communities. Jones called Gov. Brown's proposal to borrow that money for the state general fund "a terrible blemish on his record." In his usual pull-no-punches style, Jones added, ""You can't steal from poor people and the planet and get away with it in California."
One of the day's most interesting panels looked at the demographic revolution that is changing California and the U.S., with people of color destined to be the American majority by around 2040. Moderator Maria Leticia Gomez, news anchor at Univision 14 in the Bay Area, noted, "Our social-political system claims objectivity, but doesn't represent the interests of the soon to be majority."
Based on the energy in the room and throughout the day, we think that's going to change.
The lunch program focused on major companies' increasing awareness that corporate social responsibility can no longer just be window dressing. Sempra Energy CEO Debra Reed put it simply: For successful companies, she said, being responsive to the needs of the communities they serve "is not an option anymore."
A new and innovative feature this year was the Idea Lab, an interactive session in which participants met in small groups to brainstorm the future of social justice and the priorities that Greenlining and our partners must address in the coming years. The discussions were lively and passionate, but the process isn't over: Greenlining is already compiling all of the notes from the discussion and will hold a call with all interested participants on June 11at noon PST to share our findings. These findings will also be summarized in a letter to President Obama detailing our collective vision for the leadership to prepare communities of color and our nation as a whole for 2040.
The emotional heart of the day, though, was the dinner program. It's safe to say that the whole audience was moved by Leadership Academy alum Frankie Guzman's acceptance of his Torchbearer Award. Guzman, who spent six years locked up in the California Youth Authority for a robbery he committed at 15, turned his life around, became an attorney, and has stepped forward to help transform the juvenile justice system via a coveted Soros Justice Fellowship that's funding his work at the National Center for Youth Law in Oakland.
Legacy Awards went to former Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chair Sheila Bair, who was a brave voice for regulation of subprime lending during the run-up to the financial meltdown, and California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Peevey, whose championing of the CPUC's supplier diversity program has led to literally billions of dollars in contracts for businesses owned by women, people of color, and disabled veterans.
The evening concluded with a special half hour in which Greenlining board members and Academy alumni, accompanied by historic images and video, took the audience on a historic trip through Greenlining's first 20 years. From the dramatic to the humorous ("Learning from our mistakes – we practically have that embroidered on throw pillows around here!"), it was an inspiring conclusion to an exciting day.
Many thanks to our sponsors and the incredibly hard-working Greenlining staff and Academy participants whose efforts made this year's Summit possible, as well as everyone who attended. We promise that next year's will be even better!
Click here to view the program and read more about the day's activities.


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A record one billion smartphones will be shipped in 2013 and more than 90 percent of user-generated passwords will be vulnerable to hacking in a matter of seconds were among the other findings of the Deloitte Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Predictions 2013 report launched in Dubai Media City today (May 1).
"This is the first time Deloitte is presenting a Middle East version of the TMT predictions, directly relevant to the region," said Santino Saguto, partner and TMT Leader, Deloitte Middle East.
"We believe it is vital for our local clients and industry practitioners to understand the drivers that are shaping this sector across the region. Hence, these 10 TMT predictions have been formulated to highlight where we are heading."
Of the hot topics in the TMT predictions, particularly relevant for the region include an upsurge in momentum behind Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile networks across the GCC, which experts say will need to be combined with a better understanding of end-game strategies from the new technology. In addition, leading operators across the region are likely to devote greater effort towards managing data profitability.
The Deloitte TMT Predictions report also points to advertisers who are expected to navigate in a rapidly growing digital space, with mobile advertising emerging as a major beneficiary.
"I am pleased that Dubai Media City is able to support the launch of Deloitte's Middle East TMT Predictions 2013. As a thriving community that has become home to many global, regional, and local media organizations, it is our duty to support research and study into the future of our sector. Identifying the key trends that will shape our industry over the near, mid and long term," said Mohammad Abdullah, managing director, Tecom Investments Media Cluster.
"This report's findings contain many valuable insights that will be able to serve as a guide to many operators whether they are in advertising, technology, broadcast production, or content development."
"This year's predictions cover a range of topics, from the continued dominance of personal computers (PCs) despite inferior sales relative to smart devices, the developments around LTE, and data access, to smartphones and the vulnerability of passwords," said Paul Lee, director, Deloitte TMT Knowledge & Research.
"With the splitting of 'mobile' advertising into separate mobile and tablet categories, advertisers should begin to consider new forms of advertising specific to smartphones, such as interactive videos or game functionality, and tablets meanwhile, may borrow content created for PCs as well as usage formerly undertaken on PCs."
Additionally in 2013, the smartphone sector may globally generate $4.9 billion in revenues in 2013, while advertising on tables may generate $3.4 billion. Revenue per unit however reveals a different dynamic: smartphone display ad revenues are forecast at $7 per tablet and $0.60 per smartphone (including in-app ads).
In the Middle East and Africa (MEA) the tablet market grew by 90 per cent year on year - reaching a total of 1.36 million units for the fourth quarter of 2012. This surge is the result of a number of factors, including the introduction of cheaper tablet models, reduced prices by vendors, and overall rising consumer demand for these devices.
There will also be an upsurge in momentum behind LTE, with 2013 being the first year in which LTE thrives across multiple markets. The subscriber base will triple to 200 million by year end, and those on LTE tariffs will represent about 10 percent of all service revenues.
Usage of LTE will be evolutionary rather than revolutionary: the major benefits of subscribing to LTE from 3G are likely to be better performance from existing applications from e-mail to updating social networks.
Additional highlights of this year's TMT predictions to impact the Middle East marketplace in 2013 include:
* Mobile advertising thrives, led by tablets, but smartphone display lags - Mobile advertising - a category including tablets, smartphones and feature phones -should grow by 50 percent to reach $9-billion globally.
* A strong year for LTE, but end-game strategies of regional operators are as yet unclear- Several LTE launches expected across the region in 2013, however operators would need to have a clearly though out value proposition for LTE
* Dual screening readies for prime time - Evidence of ownership of multiple screens in the region but television remains the predominant screen for viewing video content
* PC is not dead, it's about usage and not units - PC sales to end-users will continue to remain strong and drive a significant portion of internet traffic
* The looming spectrum shortage : Spectrum harmonization and re-farming critical to growth
* Over-the -top may lift broadcasters and distributors more than pure plays - Several OTT models prevalent in the Middle East but broadcasters are likely to emerge as the most likely winners - TradeArabia News Service
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