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I know now that I will not finish my book challenge – it's the 31st January and I have only red 7 out of the 15 I was meant to read. That's not very good, is it? Memories of certain high school teachers saying those exact words to me have now come flooding back. I … Continue reading
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Party In My Gut! Jog on…
Well. Outraged doesn't even begin to cover it. Sadly I am now on a strict 'no caffeine' diet to sort out my troublesome heartburn, caused by bugs from the boys that I have suppressed (really – it wasn't intentional!). These bugs have decided to settle down and have a wee P.A.R.T.Y in my oesophagus. Rock … Continue reading
Sing Like No-one Is Listening
I have nearly reached the half way mark, I have defeated Book 6 of my challenge and with only 9 more to read in 9 days I think I need..erm…help! 'Sing You Home' by Jodi Picoult is the first book from this famous author that I have read. As this was the case, I had … Continue reading
Holiday Hell
Book 5 – 'Rush of Blood' by Mark Billingham My challenge (https://greatbigjar.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/the-15-book-challenge/) has taken me many places so far and Mark Billingham delivered another nail-biting book for me to get my teeth into. 'Rush of Blood' is a mesmerising story of the holiday from hell for three couples who are from the UK but meet … Continue reading
OK – I have missed a few days but I'm back on track now!
As most of you are aware I had set myself a little book challenge earlier this month (https://greatbigjar.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/the-15-book-challenge/). I am ashamed to admit that I have seriously lapsed on that front recently. I have no-one else to blame but myself and the flu virus that has been wreaking havoc in my house of late. We … Continue reading
Liebester Award!
My amazing friend Franza (http://franzad.wordpress.com/author/franzad/) has honoured me in her award list. I very humbly accept this award and thank her for being an amazing support and a true friend. We author's need to stick together! You got the Award, now what?: – I list 11 random facts about myself. – I will answer the 11 questions … Continue reading
The Forest
Sometimes you get comfy, sitting at your laptop, fire on, cats huddled together trying not to freak out at the wind. Calmly watching all the stuff that you thought was 'secure' flying about your garden and then you get distracted. You wonder to yourself, if that set of goals blows over the wall – where … Continue reading
Do you go to sleep when there are only a few more pages to read?
I completed The Blackhouse in the wee small hours and yet again I am a little bit sleep deprived but it was only because I could not put it down. I have this horrific mentality that I MUST KNOW WHAT HAPPENS NOW, not tomorrow, NOW. Do you put a book down when you only have … Continue reading
Book 3 completed…now what's next?
I am enjoying this book challenge even more, especially when I finish one book and pick up the next from my list. This could possibly be due to my slight OCD tendencies when it comes to completing tasks on a list – could be anything from a shopping list, to-do list for the day and … Continue reading
13 Books To Go!
The challenge continues with the demise of Book 2. Only 13 books to go on the long and winding road of my January challenge! https://greatbigjar.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/the-15-book-challenge/ I can't believe I actually did that! In between listening to One Direction on youngest CD player for an hour and trying to re-create 'The Best Boy Band Ever, Mum!' … Continue reading


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Member of Nursing team at S.L Raheja – A Fortis Associate Hospital, who for over two decades provided selfless care for the sick, continued doing so even after she was declared brain dead at the hospital, earlier today. The donor suffered a stroke and was admitted to S.L Raheja – A Fortis Associate Hospital for treatment 2 days ago. She was in the ICU on ventilator support and was subsequently declared brain dead.
Her family consented to donate her Heart, Liver and both Kidneys. While the Kidneys and Liver were transplanted into three waitlisted patients, the Heart was declared unfit for retrieval. Three city hospitals, five transplant coordinators and more than seven surgeons in the city worked tirelessly to retrieve, transport and transplant the donated organs. Liver and Kidneys from the 44yr old donor were transplanted to deserving patients across three city hospitals.
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Azelis Chooses Amber Road Solution to Help Ensure Compliance with Export Restrictions in Increasingly Regulated Environment
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ, June 3, 2014 -- Amber Road (NYSE: AMBR), a leading provider of global trade management solutions (GTM), today announced that Azelis, a top global specialty chemicals distributor, has signed a worldwide contract with Amber Road for an automated restricted party screening solution.
After a decade of rapid international growth, Azelis today combines more than 37 specialist distribution companies in a single organization serving the worldwide life sciences and industrial markets. It conducts around 430,000 export transactions annually with more than 50,000 trading partners around the world. The management complexity created by the sheer volume of trade transactions is exacerbated by the increasingly tough regulatory environment governing international trade.
As a group active with companies throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and Canada, Azelis must take special care not to ship products to any entities present on restricted party lists maintained by countries that host its network companies. In addition, due to contractual requirements from some of Azelis' United States-based suppliers, Azelis also must comply with restricted party lists in the US and with embargoes imposed by the US Government. Without a comprehensive and automated system, tracking fast-changing regulations on a global basis and continually evaluating existing and new trading partners is extremely difficult.
Realizing it needed to prevent illegal transactions and protect itself from potential fines, penalties and sanctions, Azelis sought an automated screening solution that would also reduce operational costs by eliminating time-intensive manual screening processes. In searching for the right solution, Azelis emphasized high accuracy and a low rate of false positives as key requirements.
Ultimately, Azelis chose the Amber Road restricted party screening solution, in large part because of its deep trade content, ease of use and comprehensive functionality.
"Amber Road's ISO 9001 process for updating trade content within 48 hours gives us vital confidence that we will remain compliant even in the face of changing regulations," said Gerrit De Vos, Chief Compliance Officer at Azelis. "We were also impressed by how easy it is to use the solution and yet at the same time its automated screening of transactions is comprehensive and powerful."
The proven ability to reduce false positives to consistently less than 0.5% and strong references in other BENELUX-headquartered global companies were additional factors in Amber Road's favor.
In its need for comprehensive restricted party screening, Azelis' situation reflects that of virtually any company involved in international trade. Recent developments, such as the sanctions and restrictions on Russia as a result of the Ukraine crisis and the more than $10 billion in fines expected to be imposed on French bank BNP Paribas related to breaches of US sanctions on Iran and other countries , bring the need into even sharper focus.
Amber Road CEO Jim Preuninger said, "Azelis' decision to ramp-up its compliance is very timely. With headlines touching on Russia, Syria, Iran and other markets, and increasing regulation, trade compliance is top of mind for many companies."
Amber Road's solution is to be integrated with Azelis' ERP system, with a planned rollout to 33 countries in stages starting with an Azelis entity in Belgium.
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In each of our chosen specialized market sectors we provide high-quality support and service for our customers and principals at an international, regional and local level. We have an industry-dedicated sales organization and our teams have specialist product and application expertise, which combined with our business know-how, enables us to add value in all of our business relationships.


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Starbucks Corporation is the leading roaster, retailer, and marketer of specialty coffee in North America In addition to a variety of coffees and coffee drinks, Starbucks shops also feature Tazo teas; pastries and other food items; and espresso machines, coffee brewers, and other assorted items. The company also sells many of these products via mail order and online at starbucks.com. It also wholesales its coffee to restaurants, businesses, education and healthcare institutions, hotels, and airlines. Through a joint venture with Pepsi-Cola Company, Starbucks bottles Frappuccino beverages and sells them through supermarkets and convenience and drugstores. Through a partnership with Kraft Foods, Inc., the company sells Starbucks whole bean and ground coffee into grocery, warehouse club, and mass merchandise stores. A third joint venture is with Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream. In addition, it distributes Starbucks premium coffee ice creams to U.S. supermarkets.
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Fruit Cobbler Bars
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Serves 6
1 cup flour
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/4 cup sugar
3 cups fruit (I used 1 cup each of blackberries, blueberries and peach)
1 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch
1/4 cup sugar (adjust as needed depending on sweetness of fruit)
1 pinch salt
1 teaspoon lemon zest
1 cup flour
2 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup milk
1 egg
1/4 cup butter
6 tablespoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 pinch salt
1/2 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon vanilla
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Crust: Mix butter, sugar and flour with pastry blender until crumbly, and firmly press the mixture into a lightly greased 8-inch square pan. Poke few times with fork and bake for 25 minutes or until barely golden.
Filling: In a mixing bowl, combine sugar, cornstarch and salt. Stir in the fruit and zest until combined. Set aside.
Biscuit Layer: Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Combine milk and egg and add all at once to dry ingredients, stirring just until moist.
Topping: Mix all ingredients with pastry blender until butter is in small pea-sized pieces and mixture begins to clump together.
Assembly: Increase oven temp to 400. Spread 2 cups of fruit over baked crust. Use spoon to dollop biscuit dough some what evenly over fruit. Top with remaining 1 cup of fruit and sprinkle with topping.
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I regularly teach the following courses. I also supervise both graduate and undergrad research units.
Lower level
- 050.107, "Language and advertising". Most recent (and first) version was Spring 2010.
Upper level / graduate
- 050.317/050.617, "Semantics I". This course provides an advanced introduction to semantic theory, focusing on pragmatics, extensional semantics, and lexical semantics. The textbook is Heim and Kratzer, "Semantics in Generative Grammar". The most recent version was Fall 2009.
- 050.322/050.622, "Semantics II". This course provides a continuation of semantics I, focusing this time on intensional semantics. I am currently teaching this (Fall 2010).
- 050.370/050.670, "Formal methods in cognitive science: language". This course provides an introduction to various mathematical tools used in building formal linguistic theories. The focus is on discrete math, and about half the course is on formal language theory. The most recent past version was Fall 2008. I am currently teaching this (Fall 2010).
- 050.321/050.621, "Syntax II". This has yet to happen, but I will be occasionally teaching syntax II, as a "topics in minimalist syntax" course.
Graduate only
- 050.817, "Research seminar in semantics". This course alternates between a structured seminar, and a lab-meeting style course, where we read current literature related to participants and my research. The 2009-2010 version has been lab-meeting style.
Recent teaching schedule
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Research seminar in semantics (lab meeting
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Modern fruiting pear trees are grown from a rootstock and a grafted scion (small branch). The rootstock must be matched with the climate where it will be grown, and the scion determines the variety of pear the tree will produce. A Bartlett pear tree in Virginia probably has a different rootstock from a Bartlett pear tree in Iowa. Each will have predictable growth in its particular climate.
Pears require a period of cold dormancy to produce fruit. The length of cold dormancy varies between varieties and rootstock. Pear trees for southern planting zones might require only 25 to 40 days of temperatures 45 degrees or lower. Pear trees for northern climates where there are prolonged winter freezes may require 40 to 60 days of cold temperatures.
Bud Swell
As spring temperatures become warmer, the second stage of growth, called bud swell, begins. In the bud-swell stage, the sap flow increases, and the buds begin to show the first signs of green at the tips as the pear tree comes out of winter dormancy. Bud swell refers to the small buds that are still only "bumps" along the branches.
Bud Burst and Green Cluster
Bud burst is the next growth stage. It happens when the bud tips break open and the tiny flower buds are exposed. They do not resemble flower buds, but instead look like small tangles of fuzzy green yarn.
The buds continue to grow until they reach the green cluster stage. Here, the buds are visible as individual flower buds on longer stems. They are still completely green.
White Bud and Bloom
As temperatures continue to warm, pear trees move into the white bud stage of growth. The buds begin to open, showing the still tightly wrapped white petals. The stems continue to lengthen.
The bloom stage occurs when the flowers are fully open, and pollination can take place. Without proper pollination, the tree will be barren.
Petal Fall and Fruit Set
Petal fall occurs after the blossoms have been open for several days. They may or may not have been pollinated. A pear tree reaches the petal fall stage when about 75 percent of its petals have fallen.
Depending on the variety, fruit set is evident seven to 10 days after petal fall. At this time, the flower ovaries that have been successfully pollinated will show the beginning swell of fruits.
Fruit Harvest
Pears ripen in late summer through fall. Different varieties ripen at different times. Ripening also may be affected by weather conditions such as too much or too little rainfall, extended hot spells, or unseasonable cool weather.
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John McGowan, Angela Gilchrist and Rachel Terry discuss the 2017 UK General Election campaign and its uncertain aftermath.
In this edition our panel offer some thoughts on the 2017 General Election: called by the Prime Minister in the hope of winning a large majority, but offering a far less clear result. To help us along we have an interview with our colleague Dr Mark Bennister, Reader in Politics and a specialist in political leadership. Mark talks us through the campaign, analyses the leaders' performances and assesses the current situation with a hung Parliament. We talk about how psychological theories may shed some light on how people voted. We also discuss populism, rationality, the strong feelings raised on all sides and whether any politician can get elected if they tell us we'll lose out.


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Chest Compressions Key to Revised CPR Guidelines
SUNDAY, Oct. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Maintaining blood flow to the brain and other vital organs is the key to simplified cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) guidelines that emphasize chest compressions over rescue breathing, particularly for heart attack victims.
In fact, the revised recommended ratio is just two breaths per every 30 chest compressions. That's twice as many compressions as was recommended in the past.
"Just doing chest compressions can make a difference," explained Dr. Shukri David, chief of cardiology at Providence Hospital of St. John's Health System, in Southfield, Mich. "When you compress the chest deep enough, you create a vacuum that pulls in air as you release."
However, David and other experts caution that in the case of drowning victims or people who were deprived of oxygen, rescue breaths are still necessary. Because health experts wanted to make the revised CPR guidelines as simple as possible, and they felt it might be difficult for lay people to differentiate who needed rescue breaths and who didn't, the guidelines include rescue breaths, as well as the rescue breaths-to-chest-compression ratio.
The need for simplified CPR was clear. Little progress had been made in the CPR survival rate over the past decade, according to the American Heart Association. And, it wasn't for lack of CPR opportunities. Four out of five heart attacks occur in the home, according to the American Heart Association, and many are witnessed by family members.
The biggest problem was that standard CPR allowed for too much time without chest compressions. Even health-care professionals, such as nurses or emergency workers, trained to do CPR often weren't providing an adequate number of chest compressions per minute, according to past studies. And, getting enough chest compressions can make the difference in survival. In animal studies, researchers have found that when animals in cardiac arrest receive 80 compressions per minute that 100 percent survive. When that number dropped below 80 compressions per minute, just 10 percent survived, according to a recent editorial in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
In a study of CPR given to people in cardiac arrest, the editorial reported that those who received "good" CPR from bystanders had about a 23 percent survival rate compared to less than 6 percent for poor or no CPR.
"The most common reason that many people die is because none of the people nearby knew CPR, and if they knew it, they didn't do it. One of the reasons is that the skill has been too complicated. [The revised] guidelines simplify the instructions and make them easier to remember," Dr. Michael Sayre, an associate professor of emergency medicine at Ohio State University School of Medicine, said in a prepared statement.
The revised guidelines, introduced in late 2005, emphasize chest compressions to restore blood flow. Rescuers should push hard and push fast and try to maintain a rate of 100 chest compressions per minute, according to the guidelines. The chest must be allowed to return to its normal position completely after each compression to allow the heart to fill with blood. And, the guidelines remind rescuers that every interruption in compressions stops the blood flow.
The updated guidelines also establish a universal compression-to-breath ratio of 30 compressions to two breaths, and that each breath should last just one second.
These changes are already starting to pay off. "In various studies, a clear improvement in outcomes in the community is becoming apparent," said Dr. Paul Pepe, chief of emergency medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
And, Pepe added, he expects CPR to improve even more with the introduction of faster, easier training of CPR, with more feedback. The American Heart Association has recently introduced its CPR Anytime Personal Training programs that teach CPR at home in less than a half-hour. "This will be a breakthrough in CPR. We will see a lot more lives saved," he said.
Other training programs are also available through the American Red Cross and local community groups.
"If you perform CPR, you can save someone's life. It's simple and easy to do. All you really need to do is put your hands in the middle of the breast bone and push down two inches," David said. "If you do CPR immediately on someone with cardiac arrest, the survival rate goes from 6 percent to 50 percent. This will really make a difference if the population pulls together."
More information
For more on the revised CPR guidelines, visit the American Heart Association.
SOURCES: Shukri David, M.D., chief of cardiology, Providence Hospital, St. John's Health System, Southfield, Mich.; Paul Pepe, M.D., chief of emergency medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas; Jan. 19, 2005, Journal of the American Medical Association; Nov. 28, 2005, American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR


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German tourist drowns in Masurian lake
A German tourist drowned on Wednesday evening while swimming in one of the popular Masurian lakes of north east Poland.
Police revealed that the 67-year-old man had been staying at a hotel in the vicinity of Lake Talty (pictured), which is the deepest lake in the region.
The man went for a swim on Wednesday evening, but about 150 metres away from the bank, he disappeared beneath the water.
Firemen located the man's body with the use of sonar.
Since the beginning of May, as many as 13 people have drowned in the Masurian lake region, which counts among Poland's most frequented tourist destinations.
Police say that about half of the deaths are believed to have been alcohol-related.
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by Deborah Atherton
Most people I know in the midst of a creative (or in fact almost any kind of) project pause at some moment, whether they have just started or are almost done, to tell themselves, "It's not good enough." Sometimes they keep this to themselves, and sometimes they immediately post it on Facebook. (I've noticed a lot of posts this month especially, since we're in the midst of NaNoWriMo.)
Of course, sometimes it's true—you've tried your hardest, and it really isn't good enough. You started too soon or too late, or with an incomplete vision, and the essential idea, the thing that inspired you, has somehow been lost. But more often, it's not about your novel or sketch or film or song or poem at all; it's about the impossible and elusive standard we set ourselves—the standard we can never, ever meet, but one that somehow that guy we once encountered in college or at a party or on Twitter has not only met and surpassed—and has subsequently been rewarded with a bestseller or an Oscar nomination or at least an invitation to a much cooler party.
We won't go too much into the many evils of social comparison—how we make ourselves unhappy by comparing our lives to those of our friends, neighbors, and colleagues—we all do it, and we all suffer for it. But the question is, how do we know, when we take that moment to examine and ask ourselves—is it good enough—whether we are using our own actual best judgment, or asking ourselves from the depths of our fear of never ever making something good enough—or even as good as what we've done before?
Our best bet, I think, is to take ourselves out of the moment, and examine what exactly sparked it. Was it really the way we captured the light, or worded a phrase—or was it that review of our acquaintance's work that just popped up in our newsfeed or, even more shattering, a casual comment from a passing friend or relative? Are we actually having a dialog with our work or with our own sense—or someone else's sense—of exactly where we ought to be in our lives right now?
Because really, the only voice in the room should be yours—unless of course your work is talking to you, and we always want to listen to what our work has to say. If your work is begging to be re-booted and re-vamped, then go to it. But if it's really that everyone else seems to be getting deals and awards and reviews—kick them all out. Because how can they know? Only you had the idea, and only you can see it through.
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Amid social media fury, Komen backs down, pledges to continue Planned Parenthood funding
Here's the press release that just dropped from the Komen Foundation
We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women's lives.
The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not.
Our original desire was to fulfill our fiduciary duty to our donors by not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation. We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. That is what is right and fair.
Our only goal for our granting process is to support women and families in the fight against breast cancer. Amending our criteria will ensure that politics has no place in our grant process. We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their communities.
It is our hope and we believe it is time for everyone involved to pause, slow down and reflect on how grants can most effectively and directly be administered without controversies that hurt the cause of women. We urge everyone who has participated in this conversation across the country over the last few days to help us move past this issue. We do not want our mission marred or affected by politics – anyone's politics.
Starting this afternoon, we will have calls with our network and key supporters to refocus our attention on our mission and get back to doing our work. We ask for the public's understanding and patience as we gather our Komen affiliates from around the country to determine how to move forward in the best interests of the women and people we serve.
We extend our deepest thanks for the outpouring of support we have received from so many in the past few days and we sincerely hope that these changes will be welcomed by those who have expressed their concern.
Here's a sampling of what we saw from social media where many were unhappy with Komen's decision to stop funding Planned Parenthood, citing that they would not fund any organization that was under investigation. Planned Parenthood is currently being investigated over how they deal with abortions.
Komen has said its decision reflects a new strategy aimed at using donation money more effectively by eliminating duplicate grants and tightening eligibility rules.
That included barring money to groups under investigation by U.S. authorities. Planned Parenthood is the subject of a probe by U.S. Rep. Cliff Stearns, a Florida Republican who opposes abortion.
We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/


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Local councils are shelling out thousands on compensation for damage caused by potholes to vehicles. Why not spend that money on actually fixing them?!
The recent cold weather has really taken its toll on the roads as more potholes come a cropper.
Despite paying through the nose, local councils are allowing our roads to deteriorate year on year. It has been reported that road maintenance in England and Wales is underfunded by around £1 billion every year (55%), according to potholes.co.uk. No wonder some critics have suggested it won't be long before our roads are comparable to those of a 'third world country'.
Why are the roads so bad?
Water seeps down below our road surfaces and then freezes in the winter. This pushes up the asphalt and causes holes.
But it is not just the weather that is causing such havoc. Other contributing factors are vastly increased traffic flow, which is putting pressure on roads of all sizes throughout the UK, and the constant digging up of our roads by utility companies. When electricity and water companies perform repairs to their cables and pipes, they tend to simply patch up the road rather than resurfacing it, and this makes them more susceptible to damage.
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What damage is being done?
Our vehicles are suffering from these uneven surfaces. The most obvious damage is to our wheels, with both wheel rims and punctured tyres being major complaints.
Driving on a consistently uneven surface can also take its toll on our suspension, steering mechanisms, exhausts and roll bars, which can rattle free with the constant abuse.
How to claim
Each county council will have a specific procedure for compensation claims, so make sure you check your local council's website for specific information. Remember, you can claim for damage to bikes and motorcycles as well as cars.
As a general rule of thumb, if you aim to follow the steps below you won't go far wrong.
- Take a photograph of the pothole and note down its rough size and depth as well as its precise location (make a sketch of the area if you can).
- Report it to your council using the reporting procedure specified on your council's website.
- If the council has not repaired it within a reasonable time (some say around a week is enough time to give) then this should strengthen your case.
- Consider submitting a Freedom of Information Act request to the council or Highways Agency to find out as much as you can about the road and its maintenance history, as this could also strengthen your case.
- Put all your complaints in writing and ensure that all contact with the council is done via letter or email (a phone call can always be denied). In your letter include: a full description of the accident, where and when it was (date and time), your photographs and your sketch plan of the area. Also include a copy of your repair bill for the damage caused and keep copies of all your letters!
- Consider Twitter too. Tweeting will put pressure on your local council as its other followers are likely to see the tweet.
- The free RAC Report Pothole app uses GPS to quickly identify where you are and can send a report to your local council automatically. You can send up to three photos of the pothole as well as signange problems, street light problems and more. It's available on iOS and Android.
- If the council makes you an offer you should give it proper consideration even if you are not entirely happy. If you wish to fight on, your next option will be to take court action. Provided your claim is for under £5,000 you can take action in the Small Claims court. You won't need a solicitor and you can issue proceedings online via their MoneyClaim Online system.
Am I likely to get a pay-out?
It won't be easy! The council will vigorously defend itself under section 58 of the Highways Act (which basically states they just have to prove they have taken 'reasonable' care of the road). But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. While evidence suggests that the vast majority of claims are automatically turned down in the first instance, persistence is key.
Authorities currently pay out more than £30 million in compensation for potholes so it's worth your time.
Start a revolution
Each individual pothole costs on average around £53 to repair, but records show that a compensation pay-out can be anywhere up to £3,000. With councils paying out hundreds of thousands each year in compensation, why isn't the money being earmarked for repairing the roads instead?
If you are successful in your compensation claim, and are feeling particularly altruistic, you could consider returning your pay-out to the council on the proviso that they repair your neighbourhood roads. You will be a local hero!
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Looking for information on paternal grandmother. Name Annie Mae Covington was married to Neal Hicks around 1920's+. Gave birth to Edward (Eddy) Hicks in 1923. May have on Reservation in SE states (AL GA or TN) in 1950's. Any leads would be greatly appreciated.
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Lest there be any doubt that we're in the midst of an opioid abuse crisis, September has been declared "Drug-Free Pain Management Awareness Month."
Emphasis on "drug-free."
Lost in the headlines over the sheer number of deaths from overdoses of the drugs — more than 90 Americans each day — is how all too many patients' downward spiral began with what must have seemed like a routine initial doctor's prescription for painkillers like OxyContin.
"It's become a sadly common story," NPR reported. "People get prescribed painkillers. They become addicted. And then they seek out cheaper and more potent drugs like heroin and synthetic opioids."
That the September designation comes from the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress, and is included on the SHSMD/American Hospital Association's Calendar of Health Observances & Recognition Days, makes perfect sense.
Many health experts have long backed a "chiropractic-first" approach — arguing that it was an effective, safer way of addressing many patients' spine and joint-related pain. Still others got on board after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last year finally began urging physicians to use alternatives to opioids and the American College of Physicians recommended spinal manipulation.
The month-long series of nationwide events — open to the public, state legislators, and healthcare professionals — will highlight the value of chiropractic for seniors, athletes, pregnant women, military veterans, and other pain sufferers.
"I'm living proof that chiropractic works,' said Ret. Brig. Gen. Becky Halstead, who made history as the first female graduate of West Point (1981) to be promoted to General Officer. Halstead, the events' honorary chairperson, credits her own chiropractor for finally relieving the pain from her chronic fibromyalgia.
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Rutgers University is one of the oldest learning institutions on the East Coast. Rutgers has been educating people for more than 200 hundred years. When the city of New Brunswick was going through a metamorphosis in the 1960s, Rutgers University maintained a sense of well-being in the city. Today, the university has one of the best medical schools in the country.
When downtown New Brunswick started to deteriorate in the 1960s, Omar Boraie, the Egyptian chemist, and New Brunswick resident decided to do something about it. Boraie purchased 21 dilapidated downtown properties, in the 1970s, and with a green light from city officials, Boraie started a major inner-city redevelopment project. Boraie is responsible for building the first high-rise office building on Albany Street. His company developed several other high-rise buildings since the Albany Street Plaza One building was finished in 1983.
But Omar Boraie has always been interested in medical advancements, and that is one of the reasons he decided to follow the groundbreaking work that the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Brunswick is doing. According to an article published by Newswise.com, the Omar Boraie Chair in Genomic Science was established recently. An endowment chair is considered the pinnacle of academic discipline. Endowment chairs help support research developments, and Omar pledged $1.5 million to support the chair.
The Omar Boraie Chair is just one chair in the Rutgers University '18 Chair Challenge. An anonymous donor is matching the $1.5 million donations for all 18 chairs. That means each chair is supported with a $3 million donation. See, http://patch.com/new-jersey/newbrunswick/omar-boraie-chair-genomic-science-established-rutgers-cancer-institute.
Genomic science is changing the way the medical profession approaches cancer treatments. Cancer tumors are analyzed at the genetic level, and that gives oncologists a better understanding of how different types of cancer react in the body. Cancer is not just one disease. Cancer is a group of diseases, and these diseases impact the molecular structure of individuals differently. Genomic science and precision medicine are changing the way doctors treat cancer patients. Rutgers is one of the first medical institutions in the United States to apply genetic sequencing to patient care. Omar Boraie wanted to be part of the groundbreaking research. He has the resources to be part of the quest to understand cancer in all its forms and has the time to focus on the work.
Omar Boraie has been instrumental in the development of New Brunswick as a healthcare center and his support of the Rutgers Cancer Institute shows his endless dedication to the city and the people.


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Two States Reject Tax Increases for Schools, Children
Voters in Michigan and Washington State last week overwhelmingly rejected ballot proposals to raise taxes for education.
Defeat of the plans--which lost by margins of 2-to-1 or more--returned divisive issues to the legislatures and renewed questions about the public's willingness to pay for school improvements.
Advocates of the proposals insisted that the results were not indicative of popular dissatisfaction with schools. Instead, they attributed the losses to a wide variety of factors, including distrust of government, negative campaigning, voter confusion, and anti-tax sentiment.
"I don't think this was a vote against kids," said John LeVeque, campaign director for the so-called Children's Initiative in Washington. The plan would have created a $360-million trust fund for services for the young.
Supporters of the initiative have vowed to press the legislature to adopt it in the next session, he said.
Although the initiative won only 34 percent of the vote, Mr. LeVeque argued that the campaign succeeded in creating "a broad new coalition that's going to keep working for children."
Observers described the Michigan situation as considerably more muddled, however. The legislature has been unable to resolve differences over the state's school-finance formula for several years, and the defeat of two proposals that would have provided more money to schools may prolong the deadlock.
Some lawmakers said the legislature may be unwilling, or incapable, of settling the matter.
Proposal A, which would have increased Michigan's sales tax by half a cent and earmarked the resultant $400 million in revenues for education, won only 28 percent of the vote.
Proposal B, which sought both to raise funds for schools and to provide property-tax relief by raising the sales tax by 2 cents, won approval of a mere 24 percent of voters.
"It's tough to get any kind of a tax increase passed anywhere," said Daniel Fugate, a spokesman for the Promote Michigan Education Committee, which backed Proposal A.
He emphasized, however, that he did not interpret the loss as a defeat for education. He remains "convinced the public cares about education," he said, adding that the committee plans to stay intact.
Mr. Fugate also blamed opponents of the plans for their "negative" campaign. "They misled voters and confused them," he said.
John D. Marrs, campaign director for Proposal B, said the presence of Proposal A on the ballot "confused the voters terribly." Mr. Marrs also observed that divisions within the education community hurt both proposals. The state's two teachers' unions supported Proposal A, while most administrators' and superintendents' groups favored the other plan.
But both Mr. Fugate and Mr. Marrs blamed the legislature for what they said was its lack of leadership.
"To me, this vote says there's some expectation that there ought to be some agreement over there," Mr. Marrs said.
Some legislators agreed with that criticism, but said school-finance equity was an unusually tough issue.
"I don't think the mood here now is to put anything more on the ballot," said Senator Dan L. DeGrow, chairman of the appropriations panel for K-12 schools. "The mood is to deal with this problem internally."
That will not be easy, he admitted, and some colleagues agreed.
Because school finance "involves political as well as technical problems," said Representative H. Lynn Jondahl, it is a particularly intractable problem for the legislature.
Proposed changes in the complex funding formula are often difficult for lawmakers to understand, he said. Moreover, he noted, members frequently find themselves under heavy, conflicting pressures on the issue from different constituent groups.
But Mr. Jondahl, who chairs the House Taxation Committee, also said the legislature may have permanently lost credibility on the issue, and suggested formation of a citizens' task force to address the matter.
"Maybe what the people are telling us is, 'You bunch of disreputable characters can't be trusted with this,"' he said.
Supporters of the Washington initiative--which would have raised the sales tax by 0.9 cents--also consoled themselves with the knowledge that they were challenging one of the basic facts of political life.
"We knew going in that passing a tax increase is a difficult proposition," said Mr. LeVeque.
A $350-million budget surplus produced by the state's thriving economy made the tax increase all the more unpalatable to voters, he added.
Ronn Robinson, education adviser to Gov. Booth Gardner, said the Governor's next budget would include increased aid for children's programs.
"The problems are still there, and we will continue to address them," Mr. Robinson said.
Senator Dan McDonald, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and an opponent of the initiative, said he thought the Senate would approve higher spending on such programs.
"We may have differed on this one issue," he said, "but we know we all have to work together."
Still, supporters of the initiative displayed some bitterness about the campaign, during which both sides traded accusations about each other's veracity and intentions.
Carla M. Nuxoll, president of the Washington Education Association, for example, vowed to turn against opponents one of their key contentions, which was that there was already enough money in state coffers to fund children's programs.
"We are going to be taking the opponents' arguments at face value," she said. "We'll be coming right back at them."
In the nation's only two gubernatorial campaigns, Lieut. Gov. L. Douglas Wilder of Virginia and U.S. Representative James J. Florio of New Jersey were victorious. Both are Democrats.
Although education had not been a major factor in either campaign, education groups greeted the results with satisfaction.
Edward J. Gallagher, spokesman for the New Jersey Education Association, predicted that the union would enjoy "greater accessibility" with Mr. Florio than it did with his Republican predecessor, Thomas H. Kean.
"We're ecstatic" about Mr. Wilder's victory, said Madeline Wade, president of the Virginia Education Association. Mr. Wilder--who won by a razor-thin margin that was subject to a recount--has pledged to raise teachers' pay.
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- Funeral plans released for Earl Bernhardt, Hand Grenade drink co-creator
- Drew Brees on Saints injury report - no need to overreact
- Jordan, Armstead, Cook upgraded on Saints injury report, Brees makes list
- Hard Rock Hotel victims' remains to be recovered by end of February
- Cyber attack strikes New Orleans City Hall
- Cops bust 'Grinch' with stolen Christmas decorations
- Bringing down the house: new timeline for Hard Rock demolition
- Vaughan Johnson, member of the Saints famed "Dome Patrol" dies at 57
- Saints fans, swallow your pride and root for this hated rival on Sunday
- Hard Right: GOP House Speaker candidates campaign behind closed doors
- Drew Brees on Saints injury report - no need to overreact
- Jordan, Armstead, Cook upgraded on Saints injury report, Brees makes list
- Letter from Billy Cannon's family meant a lot to LSU's Joe Burrow
- Joe Burrow could become LSU's second Heisman Trophy winner Saturday night
- Brees, Saints hope for another fast start against Colts
- Drew Brees on Joe Burrow: "He's going to be the Heisman winner"
- Cameron Jordan & Vonn Bell among 6 Saints not practicing
- Sean Payton details his "worry about your meat" episode at the grocery store
- Terron Armstead named Saints Man of the Year
- Saints QB Teddy Bridgewater meets fans at Rouses
- Judiciary panel takes first steps toward impeachment vote
- Jersey City's mayor says gunmen targeted kosher market
- Monumental statue of black man defies Confederate monuments
- Democrats poised to unveil 2 impeachment articles vs. Trump
- Watchdog report: FBI's Russia probe justified, no bias found
- Saudi gunman tweeted against US before naval base shooting
- Deadly shooting at NAS Pensacola
- Pelosi OKs drafting of impeachment articles against Trump
- Military: Sailor shoots 3 at Pearl Harbor, takes own life
- House report: Trump misused power, obstructed Congress
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Tuesday, September 10th
It's The Last Lap with Seth Dunlap. On today's show, Seth Talks about the BIG WIN on the New Orleans saints season opener on Monday Night Football.Seth also brings in Saints all time leading rusher Deuce McCallister to discuss some key points in Monday nights game. Marlon Favorite also discusses LSU'S big win this past weekend.


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Published at Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019 - 05:26:08 AM. Worksheet. By Isabeau Lesage.
Worksheets, workbooks, and printables. Is there a place for them in the early childhood setting? Today I'm explaining why I think worksheets are not appropriate for young children. Welcome to the Child Led Environments Series where we are exploring how to set up and cultivate an environment conducive to child-led learning. How to Cultivate a Love of Learning, Toy Rotation: Why It's Beneficial for You and Your Child, How to Incorporate an Encouraging Home Preschool Environment,9 Reasons Why Worksheets Are Inappropriate for Young Children,4 Aspects of the Adult's Role in a Child-Led Approach. As a parent and educator, when I walk into an environment with early learners, whether that be in a homeschool setting or preschool setting, I want to see those kids engaged in their learning. Young children should be manipulating materials, testing hypothesis, and exploring the world around them. No matter where I look, I should not see a child doing a workbook. Worksheets are not appropriate for young children for many reasons. Let me start off by explaining what a worksheet means to me.
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Is this girl still around? Contact info or website?
Is this girl still around? Contact info or website?
Go the thereviewboard.net (trb), click on "links" button and scroll down to "out of state visitors" for contact info.
A 90 day search of the trb message board will result in ten messages including duo action with lovelee. Looks like contact is by email. She also attended the LMR and Spring Fling in Seattle . . . very hot looking lady.
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If you are asking about Baylee LeFever, I just saw her last month. I missed her when she came through town last week but I am planning on seeing her as soon as she comes back. Baylee is as good as it gets. She really has no limits except for Greek. Besides being hot, her skills are exceptional. I know she tours quite a bit in the states....I don't know if she comes up to Canada but if she doesn't consider the exchange rates and the going rate up in BC, then she might be on the high side. Her rates are $300USD. But if money is no object, then she is a great experience and I have no problem highly recommending her. You can email her at [email protected] and inquire whether she comes up North.


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Song of the Dove
written by Errol Broome
illustrated by Sonia Kretschmar
Walker Books | ISBN 9781921529245
Hardback – 32 pages
Member's price: $13.46
A picture book about the young musician, Bellini, and the tragic love story behind his ascension to fame and glory. Bellini is a young music student in Naples. He gives singing lessons to the beautiful Maddelena and they form a strong bond. A bond similar to a pair of love birds. When Maddelena's family forbid them to marry, they are forced to only write to each of their love and trust. When Bellini leaves Naples to compose his famous operas, their love is put to the ultimate test.


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In late September, when Donald Trump spoke in Chester Township, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia, he wasn't the only star at the event. Kellyanne Conway, his new campaign manager, who grew up nearby, and who has become ubiquitous on television, was greeted as a celebrity. "Did you see the people asking me to sign their posters and hats?" she asked me in a text while Trump was speaking. "So weird."
In August, Conway, who is forty-nine, and a longtime Republican pollster, became Trump's third campaign manager. Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart, a right-wing news site that has championed Trump's candidacy, was named C.E.O. Conway, who is the first woman to run a Republican Presidential campaign, told me that she was proud of the milestone but not hung up on it. "I've been in a very male-dominated business for decades," she said. "I found, particularly early on, that there's plenty of room for passion, but there's very little room for emotion." She added, "I tell people all the time, 'Don't be fooled, because I am a man by day.' "
When Conway took over, the campaign was foundering, owing to Trump's repeated insults to the parents of Humayun Khan, a soldier killed in action in Iraq. Polls showed that Trump was losing to Hillary Clinton by up to ten points. By the time of the Chester speech, four days before the candidates' first debate, Conway and her team had brought the race to a near-tie. Trump, reading from a teleprompter, sounded almost like a conventional politician as he spoke about "breaking up the special-interest monopoly" and described America as "a nation of strivers, dreamers, and believers." Conway was being lauded as the "Trump whisperer"—the only person who could persuade him to prepare for his crucial showdown with Clinton.
For the first twenty minutes of the debate, held at Hofstra University, on Long Island, on September 26th, Conway seemed to have succeeded. Trump adroitly pressed Clinton on the fact that she had once praised the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, which she now opposes. The comedian Samantha Bee, on her show "Full Frontal," depicted the start of the event with an image of Conway controlling Trump with an electronic dog collar. But Trump soon reverted to his natural state, bragging about not paying federal taxes, claiming that cheering for the housing-market crash was "good business," lying about his support for the Iraq War, failing to apologize for his tenure as the leader of the birther movement, and gratuitously attacking Rosie O'Donnell.
After the debate, Trump's aides were slow to enter the spin room, a gymnasium, where each campaign made the case to reporters that its candidate had won. Bannon, in a blazer and open shirt, kept his distance from the cameras and the microphones. Conway, wearing a royal-blue lace dress, stepped forward to deliver the Trump campaign's message.
"I love the fact that he restrained himself tonight and he was a gentleman toward her," she told a knot of reporters. "He definitely could've gone where a lot of America was thinking he should or could go, which is to talk about her husband and women, and he did not. He restrained himself, and you know what? Restraint is a virtue, and it is certainly a Presidential virtue, and I think many voters today, particularly women, probably saw that and respected that a great deal."
For almost three hours, Conway strolled around the Hofstra gym, spreading the message with a smile. Others in the Trump campaign thought his performance was catastrophic, and they blamed the Conway camp. (The Trump campaign has several power centers, and his advisers are quick to savage one another, though not always on the record.) "I view her as an enabler," one Trump campaign official told me. "Right now, post-debate, I guarantee you there's a fucking Kool-Aid cooler the size of a fucking wheat silo that they're all drinking from. I guarantee you, because none of them can accept the blame for what they failed to do."
The next day, Conway was sitting in the Trump Grill, in the peach-marbled lobby of Trump Tower, which has served as a set for several of the campaign's famous moments. The restaurant has a view of the escalator that Trump and his wife, Melania, descended when, on June 16, 2015, he declared his candidacy, and adjoins the area where, the same day, he claimed that Mexico was sending rapists to the United States. Eric Trump, the candidate's thirty-two-year-old son, who is an executive vice-president of the Trump Organization and one of his father's closest campaign advisers, was dining at a nearby table. Conway noted his presence with a wink, as if to signal that we should be on our best behavior in front of the boss's kid.
She had already appeared on four morning shows, but she seemed as energetic as ever. She was, though, irritated by some conversations on Twitter. Her assistant, who had access to her Twitter account, was posting the results of nonscientific polls that declared Trump the winner of the debate, and readers were pillorying Conway for sharing bad data. She tapped out an urgent message to her assistant, asking her to stop polluting her feed.
Conway had no such control over Trump. As we met, he sent out a celebratory montage of the results of ten online polls. "Such a great honor," Trump wrote. "Final debate polls are in—and the MOVEMENT wins!" In fact, according to polls that used representative samples, voters believed, by a two-to-one margin, that Clinton had won.
There were other frustrations. The day before, BuzzFeed had posted an article suggesting that Conway was nothing more than window dressing for the campaign. "Well, I know better," she told me. "I thought it was really sexist, and I'm not one to run around screaming about sexism."
Shortly after the debate, Stuart Stevens, who served as Mitt Romney's top strategist in 2012, and who is outspoken about his distaste for Trump, had picked up the criticism. "Saw last night why campaign managers focus on helping their candidates prepare for debates & don't live on tv talking about debates," he tweeted. He later noted that, during the primaries, Conway had helped run Keep the Promise, a Ted Cruz super PAC, and that Trump had criticized Cruz's wife's appearance. "And yet Conway still goes to work for that man?" Stevens told me. "To me, that smacks of desperation."
The attacks stung Conway. She supported Romney four years ago, donating to his campaign and offering it advice. "I was a good little soldier," she said. "And, even if they"—Romney and his former aides—"can't give that kind of support in return, then they should at least realize, hey, give us our chance to lose eight of the nine swing states like you did! I've noticed a lot of people are very bold and blustery on Twitter, because it's easy to do that with the poison keyboard and a hundred and forty characters."
Conway, who has four young children, continued, "For Stuart Stevens to say I, quote, live on TV? You know where I live? I live with four kids who need their mother, in a household that I run." She added, "This smacks of misogyny and sexism, to suggest that I can't do the job of a campaign manager—I can only go on TV. How about if I could do all of the above?"
She said that she was trying to spend more time on campaign management, but for Trump a measure of her success was her presence on television. "I've cut my TV time in half," she told me. "And he's, like, 'I didn't see you on TV in the last hour. Where are you?' I'm, like, 'Mr. Trump, managing the campaign means talking to the state directors and the mail house and the R.N.C.' "
Conway worked for Newt Gingrich in the nineties, when he was rising in the House of Representatives, and in 2012, when he ran for President. Gingrich, who is one of Trump's most prominent supporters, told me that he had recently observed Conway and Trump on Trump's plane. "They have very good chemistry," he said, adding that previous advisers had made the mistake of trying "to reshape him."
Gingrich said, "That's not going to happen, because he's a seventy-year-old adult billionaire who has been on a top-rated TV show, had the No. 1 book in the country, beat sixteen people, got the record number of votes as the nominee. He actually thinks he knows something." Gingrich went on, "Her view is that she needs to intuit what he's good at and what he's bad at, and how to deal with them."
Running Donald Trump's campaign is like being the drummer in Spinal Tap: those who take the position tend to disappear in mysterious circumstances. First, there was Corey Lewandowski, an operative from New Hampshire, who oversaw Trump's rise from reality-television star to Republican-primary front-runner, but who was seen as indulging his erratic behavior. "Corey was ideal for that first phase, because Trump just wanted someone who would follow orders," a Trump adviser told me. "There was never any juncture during which Corey would ever say to him, 'Well, wait a minute, Mr. Trump. Maybe that's not a good idea.' "
Lewandowski had near-total control of the campaign, and he gradually alienated Trump's eldest children, Donald, Jr., Ivanka, and Eric, and Ivanka's husband, Jared Kushner, the owner of the New York Observer. "The Trump children didn't like Corey, because they thought Corey was becoming too familiar," the Trump adviser said. "He started regarding himself as another Trump child. Corey, who is from a relatively poor, working-class background, became quite mesmerized with the life style."
In March, Trump hired Paul Manafort, a Republican lobbyist who was a partner in the firm Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly. His job was to make sure that Republican delegates would not be able to stage a coup against Trump at the Convention. The end for Lewandowski came when Manafort and Kushner allied against him. "When Manafort was brought on, Corey and Manafort basically went head to head," the Trump campaign official said. "Jared, the son-in-law, who is a snaky little motherfucker, a horrible human being, hated Corey, so Jared sided with Paul to get rid of Corey."
Manafort became the campaign chairman in May, and took full control when, a month later, Lewandowski was fired. But Manafort turned out to be too blunt to get Trump to do his bidding. "You have to know how to influence Trump's thinking, and that takes a mix of diplomacy and psychiatry," the Trump adviser told me. Manafort, he claimed, had "no chemistry with Donald." Manafort wanted Trump to pay for polling and focus groups to test TV advertisements. "Donald went berserk," a Republican close to Manafort said. Trump is known to disdain the traditional tools of politics. He thinks "this is all just a public-relations exercise," the Trump adviser said, "and he's a master of public relations, and the rest is all bullshit." Kushner sided with Trump.
By early August, Manafort was further weakened, by scandals related to political work that he had done in Ukraine. After the Times reported that he might have received millions of dollars in cash payments from a party aligned with Vladimir Putin, there was open speculation about how long he could keep his job. "When the Ukraine stuff comes to pass, Jared now is holding the axe over Paul's head," the campaign official said. The Trump adviser added, "The real campaign manager, in fact, the entire time, has been Jared Kushner, who is still the real campaign manager, even today."
At the start of the election cycle, Conway talked to several Republican candidates, including Rand Paul, Scott Walker, Rick Santorum, and Carly Fiorina, about joining their campaigns. She spoke to Lewandowski, too, but she ended up working for Keep the Promise, the Ted Cruz super PAC. Keep the Promise had an important supporter, the conservative hedge-fund manager Robert Mercer, who donated more than ten million dollars to the PAC. Conway said that working for Cruz was "a geographic decision, because the Mercer super PAC is in New York." But she also knew Mercer's daughter Rebekah, who leads many of the family's political efforts. "Rebekah's a very close friend of mine, personally," Conway said.
During the primaries, Conway occasionally took shots at Trump on behalf of Cruz. She said that Trump should be "transparent" about his tax returns, and described his personal attacks on his rivals as "fairly unpresidential." And she objected to his comment, in a television appearance in March, that "there has to be some form of punishment" for women who have abortions. Conway passionately opposes abortion rights, but she knows the subject has to be addressed with care, and has spent years shaping language to articulate the pro-life position. When we spoke, she was still bothered by Trump's statement. "Pro-lifers believe there are two victims in an abortion: the unborn child and the woman who felt that that was her best option," she told me. "We never look at her as the perpetrator—ever." Trump's remark was "a great example of him just undoing decades of work where we worked really hard."
Steve Bannon had his own alliance with the Mercer family. Since 2011, Robert Mercer has been a major backer of Breitbart, Bannon's news site, and Bannon has served as a political adviser to the Mercers. Breitbart enthusiastically embraces the nationalist right, and, as Trump's political fortunes rose, Breitbart became his most obsequious media booster. "You can make the case that Breitbart pretty much wrote Trump's immigration policy," Kurt Bardella, who resigned as Breitbart's spokesman in March, told me. He added, "Bannon is the poster child for that white, nationalistic, alt-right world view."
After Trump's victory in the Indiana primary, on May 3rd, Cruz dropped out of the race, and the Mercers, with Bannon's encouragement, moved into the Trump camp. Later that month, Rebekah Mercer and Conway met with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner at Trump Tower to discuss the campaign. In late June, the Mercers transformed Keep the Promise into Make America Number 1, a Trump super PAC, and the Trump campaign, at the Mercers' urging, hired Conway as a pollster.
With Manafort falling out of the Trump family's favor, Conway began subtly undermining his strategists. When Tony Fabrizio, the lead pollster, submitted a budget that Kushner thought was too high, Conway offered a cheaper alternative. "Kellyanne gives him a budget of between one and a half and three million dollars," the campaign official said. "Come on. I mean, Senate races do more than that. You can't do a modern Presidential campaign on that."
In August, the Mercers recommended that Trump bring in Bannon to lead a reorganized effort. "I've never run a campaign," Bannon told Trump. "I'd only do this if Kellyanne came in as my partner." Conway said that Trump offered her the job of campaign manager on August 12th, in a private meeting in his office.
"We're losing," she told him.
"No—look at the polls," Trump replied.
"I looked at the polls. We're losing," she said. "But we don't have to lose. There's still a pathway back."
In a sense, Conway's life prepared her for a boss like Trump. Born Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, she grew up in Atco, New Jersey, twenty miles from Philadelphia. Her mother raised Kellyanne in a house that they shared with her grandmother and two unmarried aunts. "These four Italian women raised me," she said. "It's like South Jersey's version of 'The Golden Girls.' " When Kellyanne was a teen-ager, her mother worked at the Claridge Hotel and Casino, in Atlantic City, as a shift supervisor in the main cage, where players cash their chips.
Her father was a truck driver, and was divorced from her mother by the time Kellyanne was two years old. She didn't see her father again until she was twelve or thirteen. She said, rolling her eyes, that he is now married to his fourth wife.
The family was religious. "We had pictures of the Pope and the Last Supper and anything I drew at school," she said. "We never had pictures of Kennedy or Reagan. We never had a single political conversation that I can remember. I should've been a Democrat. I mean, I grew up with all women in the nineteen-seventies." She recalled that someone gave her mother a subscription to Ms.
She discovered politics in 1984, when, in high school, she wrote for a local paper about the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. "I loved Cuomo and Ferraro at the Democratic Convention," she said. Geraldine Ferraro, the first female nominee on a major-party Presidential ticket, and Mario Cuomo, then governor of New York, were the two best-known Italian-American politicians in the country, and both gave speeches. But when she saw Ronald Reagan's speech she knew that she was a Republican. "He really touched me," she said. "I liked the more uplifting, aspirational, yet tough-guy kind of thing."
Conway went to Trinity Washington University, a Catholic college in Washington, D.C., and received a law degree from George Washington University. She pointed out that, while Hillary Clinton failed the D.C. bar exam in 1973, before passing in Arkansas, Conway was allowed into the D.C. bar after passing the exams in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Conway said she thought about that during the first debate: "Boy, she really can cram a lot of information into her head for one performance. How the heck did she fail the D.C. bar?"
While Conway was in law school, she worked as a research assistant in the firm of Richard Wirthlin, Reagan's longtime pollster and strategist. She briefly practiced law, and later worked for the Republican pollster Frank Luntz. The polling business was dominated by men. "I'm a female consultant in the Republican Party, which means when I walk into a meeting at the R.N.C. or somewhere I always feel like I'm walking into a bachelor party in the locker room of the Elks club," she said.
Conway found mentors in political fixers such as Charlie Black, a partner in Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly. To Conway, the firm's principals, who worked for Reagan and George H. W. Bush, "were the untouchables. They were the gold standard of lobbying, Capitol Hill access." Early in her career, Conway was invited to Black, Manafort, Stone's Christmas party, and, she said, "it was, like, 'What am I gonna wear?' It was like Cinderella."
They talked, and she listened. "Charlie's one of those men in Washington—and there have been many of them—who, early on in my career, took an interest in what I was doing and would stop by the office, or we'd go have lunch at the Palm," Conway said. "I tended to learn from what I would consider the revered wise men, the veterans, the political veterans who really took an interest in my career."
Conway founded her own firm, the Polling Company, in 1995, and developed a niche advising corporations—American Express, Hasbro, Vaseline, and others—about consumer trends, especially among women. Her most well-known political clients, including Gingrich, Mike Pence, and Dan Quayle, have been socially conservative Republicans who needed help reaching female voters. "She spent most of her career looking at polling data, with a particular emphasis on consumers and on women," Gingrich said. "So she sees them more holistically than a lot of political pollsters."
In the nineties, Conway started appearing on television, as a panelist on Bill Maher's "Politically Incorrect," which brought together an eclectic group of entertainers and political commentators, and featured a new generation of female pundits. Bill Maher gave "a great platform" to "the young conservative women who were just coming into their careers," Conway said. "You can't put a young girl in her twenties of any political affiliation alone in a room with half of Congress. It's like an occupational hazard. But I always felt Bill Maher was a perfect gentleman."
Maher said, "I think we're the show that kind of made Ann Coulter and Kellyanne and Laura Ingraham—you know, those were, like, our blond Republican ladies."
For a time, Conway stopped appearing on Maher's show, because she had grown tired of his anti-Catholic sentiments. Earlier this year, Trump showed his own lack of respect for the Church. Pope Francis said that a person who wants to build walls is "not Christian," and Trump called the comment "disgraceful." Conway spun this into proof of Trump's virtue. "Oftentimes, Mr. Trump punches down," she told me. "I actually think the Pope is punching up or punching across, if you will, if you're Mr. Trump."
Maher, who despises Trump, said that he didn't remember any disagreement with Conway—"I've blocked it out, like an uncle who molested me"—but he was incredulous at her description of Trump's response to the Pope. "Wow," he said. "That so epitomizes the whole campaign. Everything Donald Trump does is marked on a curve." He went on, "Because Donald Trump is normally a giant asshole who punches down, the one time that he does it up to the Pope then we say it's O.K. If there's a Nobel Prize in hypocrisy, those people have got to win it this year."
Kellyanne's husband is George T. Conway III, who as a young lawyer played a historic—and largely hidden—role in the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Conway, a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, worked at the New York City firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and was a member of the Federalist Society, the conservative organization that led many of the legal challenges to the Clinton Administration. When Paula Jones sued Bill Clinton for sexual harassment, Conway wrote the Supreme Court brief, though his name never appeared on it. The Court, in a landmark decision, agreed with Jones's argument that a sitting President could face a civil lawsuit. During depositions in the lawsuit, Clinton denied having a sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky, which eventually led to his impeachment trial. George Conway became deeply involved in getting out information from the depositions. During that period, he reportedly e-mailed Matt Drudge an infamous scoop about the shape of Clinton's penis.
In January, 1998, the month that Drudge broke the Lewinsky scandal, Conway saw a picture of Kellyanne Fitzpatrick on the cover of a Washington society magazine and asked a mutual friend to set them up. They met the following year, and married in 2001. Their four children are between the ages of six and eleven. "I had my first children at thirty-seven, then I had two daughters in my forties, forty-one and almost forty-three," she said. "They say there are no eggs left in your forties, but there were two rolling around in there somewhere. I was surprised both times, like, 'Oh! O.K. Not a stomach ache.' "
In 2004, Conway wrote a book with Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster, called "What Women Really Want." "We have the common bond of struggling in a male-dominated business," Lake said. "Lots of women consultants told us to be careful how much you do about women voters, because that can be a ghetto, not just a franchise." Lake joked to me that Conway has tried to teach Trump some of the lessons of their book, which emphasizes that women respond better to the language of inclusion than to that of division, "but Trump won't stay on the lessons learned."
In 2001, the Conways bought an apartment in Trump World Tower, near the United Nations, where they lived for seven years, and where she got to know Trump. "I sat on the condo board, and he's very involved in his condos," she said. "Over the years, he would ask me my opinion about politics." One of her top clients at the time was Major League Baseball, which relied on her advice about marketing the game to female fans. In 2008, the Conways moved to a six-million-dollar home in Alpine, New Jersey, a town that Forbes has called "America's most expensive Zip Code."
In late 2013, Trump was considering running for governor of New York, and Conway produced a poll for him. "She thought that it was possible for him to win New York," Michael Caputo, a Trump adviser at the time, who resigned from his Presidential campaign after clashing with Lewandowski, told me. In a memo on the poll results, Conway wrote, "NY loves its celebrity politicians and families: the Kennedys, Moynihans, Buckleys, Clintons, and even the Cuomos. Donald Trump fits that (loose) bill, and he has the money and moxie to compete if he chooses to enter the race." Conway's research showed Trump losing to Andrew Cuomo by thirty-five points, but she chose not to include that figure in her memo.
A Trump adviser involved in the discussion said that Conway misrepresented Trump's prospects: "She produces an analysis that buries every terrible number and highlights every positive number. It's just an enormous crock of shit." He added, "She's looking for a client because Trump is talking about spending a hundred million dollars to run for governor, which we both know he was never really going to do, just like he was going to spend a hundred million dollars in this race, which he has not done." Conway responded, "I see nowhere in the memo where I claim Trump is ahead or can win." She added, "This does not account for the private presentation I and another team member had with him about the data."
Conway told me that some advisers asked Trump, "'If you're going to run for office, why not start with President of the United States?' And, you know, it's a fair question, and he ultimately decided that."
The period after the first Presidential debate has been perhaps the worst of Trump's campaign. Of the first two dozen swing-state polls that were released, Clinton led in all but one. Trump's pre-debate gains evaporated as he reverted to the erratic caricature that the two previous campaign teams had struggled to control. The campaign official claimed that Conway and Bannon sent Trump onstage without a strategy for the debate or what followed. "These people make decisions knee-jerk and haphazardly," he said. "There has never been a written campaign plan for this campaign, ever. "
Another senior member of the campaign said that the goal of the first debate was simply "risk mitigation," and claimed, "I think he won. You know why? Because we got through the first big thing in front of eighty million people, where she's the greatest in world history and she brought a good game, and guess what? Nothing happened, right?" He noted Trump's direct hit on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but conceded that Trump was unable to deliver the lines that were prepared for him on immigration, Obamacare, and other policy issues. He had "five other packages ready to go. They didn't come up—or he wasn't able to bring them up into the debate."
During the debate, Clinton baited Trump by speaking about a woman named Alicia Machado, who was named Miss Universe in 1996. Later that year, Trump bought the contest, and he humiliated Machado, calling her "Miss Piggy" and "Miss Housekeeping." Conway and her colleagues couldn't get Trump to let it go. On Twitter, he called Machado "disgusting" and told supporters to "check out" her "sex tape" (none emerged).
Conway told me that she understood Trump's impulse to respond once he's provoked. "He and I have this in common," she said. "I really don't draw first blood. There's no fun, there's no point, and there should be no joy in gratuitously attacking someone or picking an argument out of whole cloth." She continued, "He feels that he should be able to defend himself. Everybody says 'no grievance too large or too small,' but that's just the way he feels: that there's a way to settle the score."
On Friday, Conway's task of spinning Trump became all but impossible. The Washington Post published a video from 2005 in which Trump talks about women in the most degrading terms. "When you're a star, they let you do it," he says. "You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy." (Conway declined to comment.)
Conway told me that she did have a productive conversation with Trump, on the day he hired her as campaign manager. She was upset with him after he appeared on CNBC and said that he wouldn't mind if he lost, because he would just "go back to a very good life." He added that he would take "a very, very nice, long vacation." Conway confronted Trump: "I told him, 'You can't say that.' Everybody thinks I sugarcoat it, but I don't. I can actually deliver tough news in a friendlier way."
Conway says that she told him, "People believe that this election is not about you—it's about them. And when you say 'I, I, I' you sound like her: 'I'm with her,' 'Ready for Hillary.' She should just shortcut all of her slogans to say 'Me, me, me, me, me.' " Conway continued, "You've built a whole movement, and people feel like they're part of it. Mr. Trump, people have stood in the rain for three hours just to say they were there when you were there. They so believe in you that when you say, 'Eh, if it doesn't work out, I'll go back to the happy place,' they don't think that they will." Since his dressing down by Conway, Trump hasn't repeated the remarks.
At the end of our interview at Trump Tower, Conway told me that she will turn fifty on January 20th, Inauguration Day. Before she started working for Trump, she promised her family a trip to Italy to celebrate her birthday. Now she hopes to be in the capital, but, like Trump, she has a backup plan. "I'll either be at a fabulous party in Washington, D.C., or I'll be in Italy," she said, with a smile and a wink. "I can't lose." ♦


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The very best of the French savoir-faire and the Chilean terroir in a single bottle!!! This is the wine you must have for any great reception! Aromas of blackberry, black cherry, violets, black pepper, and nutmeg. The Syrah lends grip and structure, w...
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Tonight I attended our second tasting of Chilean wines at the Crystal City Wine ... tasting of wines from the Botalcura Winery in Santiago, Chile - special because the Winemaker Philippe Dubrus was there to introduce the wines. That's me in a selfie with him below. This winery has been featured before at Snooth, so I was very excited to final... Read More
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Dusty, oily bramblefruit. textbook chilean red. I don't believe I have ever had a chilean malbec, but they really should make more because it's just as good as argentina. We decided to pair this with spicy merguez sausage and potato pancakes. Fit like a glove. Any grilled lamb dish like middle eastern shwarma would be great with this. Read More
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Medium-pale yellow with yellow highlights.The attractive nose recalls white tree fruits such as apricot, peach, and pear, joined by notes of grapefruit and tangerine, delicately balanced with toast and vanilla.Soft and attractive, with broad balance on the mid-palate, delicate top notes, and a characteristic slight bitterness on the medium finis... Read More
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The very best of the French savoir-faire and the Chilean terroir in a single bottle!!! This is the wine you must have for any great reception!Aromas of blackberry, black cherry, violets, black pepper, and nutmeg. The Syrah lends grip and structure, while the Malbec provides color, aromatic complexity, and voluptuous body. Read More
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Harvard Business Review has an interesting article created by PriceWaterhouseCoopers:
In a 2013 survey of nearly 700 executives across a variety of industries, our firm asked respondents to rate the effectiveness of the top leaders of their companies. How many excelled at strategy? How many excelled at execution? … These responses are sobering:
- Only 16% of top leaders were rated very effective at either strategy or execution.
- Only 8% were very effective at both
- 63% were rated neutral or worse on at least one dimension.
These results suggesting 92% of top executives are at risk for losing their jobs?
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Senior leaders need help to shore up weaknesses. You can run, but, you can't hide.
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