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ALAN JONES: Death Of A Crooked Old Queen
I remember when I was a kid in the 90s growing up in Howard's Australia. Shit was pretty normal I guess. Boring, yes. But normal. Summers were hot, winters were chilly, the telly was shit and Alan Jones was on it every morning at twenty past seven. In millions of homes around the country this hate-filled, sweaty toilet lurker had a soapbox in which to give his two cents on pretty much anything from foreigners to dole bludgers. For many people it was the first thing they heard when they woke up. A scary thought but obviously an important contributor to Howard staying in government for eleven and a half years. For many years Jones was a key player in the Tory propaganda machine. He had an audience who were still young enough to not seem senile and a government and TV network backing him to the hilt. For 'Jonesy' life was good.
With his recent comment about Julia Gillard's father dying of shame, Alan Jones seems to have made a massive tit of himself and those who have been there to back him up in the past seem to be jumping ship. He isn't the Orwellian colossus he was in the 90's with seemingly only the elderly and mentally challenged still listening to him. Some of his sponsors seem to have had enough and have pulled out of any endorsement deals they have with him. Why wouldn't they? Being associated with Alan Jones is a bad look. In my humble opinion being associated with Alan Jones is second only to being associated with Dennis Ferguson, Australia's most hated paedophile. I'd rather Ivan Milat endorse my store than Alan Jones, at least the store wouldn't be full of dirty backpackers.
The longevity of Jones' message of conservative hatred is impressive. You would think after getting your cock out for a male undercover cop (and getting arrested for it) you wouldn't get the chance to be Australian radio's number one voice on decency and morality, but that's how conservatives work. They hate gays if said gays are out and proud and happy but they tolerate them in positions of power if they are indulging in buggery with rent boys in secret locations like the back of Alan Jones' Bentley or on top of Jones' $65,000 glass top coffee table. Alan Jones is gay and everyone knows it but he has never come out, presumably because it would hurt his ratings with backwards, retarded Australia (ie his entire audience). He could probably give himself a little bit of public credibility if he came out and became a voice for LGBT rights in this country but, no, not his style. He will take his 'secret' to the grave because ultimately he prefers having power over the uneducated masses than being known as another name on the long list of homosexual conservative ex-talkback hosts. He had a voice when his LGBT brothers and sisters needed one and instead pushed an agenda of a political party who already had several other talkback hosts in their pocket. Great job!
His vendetta against the current government is nothing new. He didn't like Rudd either and before that he couldn't stand Keating ('how dare there be a man in Sydney with more style than me!') Alan Jones probably has some weird Freudian thing going on where he hates the fact that a woman is running the country and will make every cheap shot he can to bring her down. Hell, we all know people like that, right? They're the people who don't like Gillard because they 'wouldn't fuck her'. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a huge fan of Julia Gillard. I still long for Kevin Rudd but I have to let that one go. Some guys just hate Gillard because she's female. Jones is a closet homosexual who happens to be a right wing talk back radio host. He's not the first.
It is this inability to get with the times that is killing Alan Jones. He could say and do whatever he wanted when Howard was in charge simply because, well, Howard was in charge. Howard's Australia seems like an eternity ago. We were good at sport, ate Sunblest and gay marriage was a punch line rather than a serious political issue. Australia accepted Jones's bullshit more back then but now he just seems like a gay version of Clint Eastwood in the first half hour of Gran Torino. He's a relic of an Australia that doesn't really exist anymore.
Whatever happens to Jones and his show only the future can tell but one thing is for sure, the dream is over. The media have shafted him now and the liberal party are going to have to follow suit sooner or later in order to at least seem in touch with the electorate.
I just hope that after his accidental death from auto-erotic asphyxiation he doesn't get a state funeral. But let's face it, he probably will.


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Review: 'Rust and Bone' defines romance in its own way
Jacques Audiard fearlessly tells a tale of self-destructive souls who somehow fit together. Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts deliver exceptional performances.
Romantic but pitiless, fearlessly emotional as well as edgy, "Rust and Bone" is a powerhouse. It's the kind of risky venture only a consummate filmmaker could manage, and then only with the help of actors who are daring and accomplished. With director Jacques Audiard in charge and Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts as stars, all the pieces have fallen exactly into place.Although "Rust and Bone" is old fashioned and sentimental at its core, this film's idea of romance is not everyone's, and it's certainly not Jane Austen's. The story details the relationship between an arrogant trainer of orcas whose world is shattered when she loses her legs and a brutish street fighter whose thoughts are exclusively about himself. It's set in a bleak and violent contemporary France where we worry about the protagonists' physical and psychological well-being because we know we have to.
Audiard, whose last film was the exceptional, Oscar-nominated "A Prophet," has always been interested in extreme situations and the people who make their way in them. This time, he's created an unapologetically melodramatic film (inspired in part by Lon Chaney/Tod Browning silents like "The Unknown") whose aim, he said frankly at the film's Cannes premiere, was "to look emotions in the eye and take them to the end, even to risk going too far and being excessive and ridiculous."
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But if "Rust and Bone" is an unashamed melodrama, it is melodrama executed by a film artist with a gift for the genre. Starting from a short story collection by Canadian Craig Davidson and working with co-writer and frequent collaborator Thomas Bidegain, Audiard is an exact calibrator of cinematic effects, someone who knows precisely how far he can push a given situation.
Having constructed what is essentially a two-character drama, Audiard has been fortunate in the actors who bring it to life. Cotillard, a regular for director Christopher Nolan and a lead actress winner for "La Vie en Rose," and Belgian actor Schoenaerts, who staggered audiences last year with his role in the Oscar-nominated "Bullhead," convincingly convey a range of emotions that is way out of the ordinary.
It is Schoenaerts' Ali we encounter first, a former boxer walking with unwavering determination and trailed by his 5-year-old son, Sam (Armand Verdure), an uncertain child he barely knows. Scrounging and scuffling, these two end up in Antibes, in France's south, staying with Ali's sister Anna (Corinne Masiero), a woman he has not seen in five years.
Clearly, personal relationships are not Ali's strength. He is a bruiser, physically and psychologically, and Schoenaerts, gifted at playing both sides of that equation, expertly creates a detached, self-involved man no one gets close to. When Ali says, as he frequently does, "I could care less," you know he means it.
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Ali signs on as a bouncer at a hot club called the Annex, where he encounters Stephanie (Cotillard). An angry, on-edge woman who enjoys provoking men, Stephanie is as much trouble as Ali. He meets her in his professional capacity because she has incited a brawl in which she has been knocked out.
Driving her home, Ali, ever the diplomat, matter-of-factly tells Stephanie that she dresses like a whore. In her apartment, when he takes note of some photos of her training killer whales at Antibes Marineland, she snaps back, "You're surprised a whore can train orcas." Ali leaves his phone number as a reflex, but he could care less if she calls, and she doesn't.
Then, quickly, unimaginably, Stephanie loses her legs in an orca attack. While state-of-the art CGI work makes her diminished body undeniably real, it is Cotillard's magnificent acting that makes what has happened to her believable. Stephanie's no-holds-barred hysteria, followed by desperation, pain and despair, is communicated largely without words in a performance that is remarkable for vulnerability thrillingly conveyed.
While Stephanie is dealing with a radically changed life, Ali is shifting his focus. Through Martial (Belgian actor Bouli Lanners), a sleazy individual he meets via security work, Ali, who has boxed and kickboxed in his past, gets involved in no-holds-barred, illegal street fighting. He's attracted by the money involved and, for someone close to immune to fear, because it's fun.
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Then, completely unexpectedly, there is a phone call from Stephanie. It has been months since the much-publicized orca attack, and, likely sensing that there's no room for pity in Ali's distant, emotionless makeup, she asks him to visit. He shows up and, as she expects, he is unconcerned, even indifferent to what has happened to her, which is just what she is looking for. At least at first.
It is the business of "Rust and Bone" to take us along as this atypical relationship unfolds, to draw us in as both Stephanie and Ali attempt to figure out what is possible for them on emotional levels neither one has been comfortable with before. They don't make it easy for each other, and Audiard makes it equally difficult for the audience: He insists we take these people for who they are, without illusions, without pity, protagonists in a violent fairy tale that is true to itself to the very last frame.
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Running time: 2 hours, 2 minutes
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Her auto loan now carries a 25 percent rate. Her car insurance premiums have skyrocketed. She can only afford a one-bedroom apartment where she lives with her three kids. And forget about buying another home. "Nobody will give me a mortgage," she said.
Citi declined to comment on the case. Nathan said she has since paid off the lien with the hope that Citi will take the deed on the home.
Mustapha Sesay, a 45 year-old father of two, thought he had lost his Brandywine, Md., home in 2008. But two years later, a debt collector called telling him he owed $70,000.
The holder of his second mortgage had never forgiven his debt -- even though the lender holding his primary mortgage had foreclosed on the home.
Typically the second mortgage holder is out of luck if there isn't enough cash from the foreclosure sale to pay off both the first and second lien, said Cheryl Cassell, director of the housing counselor network for the National Community Reinvestment Coalition. But, depending on state law, second mortgage holders can sue homeowners to pay off the notes -- even after they lose the home in a foreclosure or the lender can sell the debt to a collection agencies.
In Sesay's case, the debt collector calls every week or two. He has had little luck stopping it. "I talk to credit counselors, lawyers," he said.
Sesay would have been well on the way to credit score recovery. But now, he said, "I could move to Alaska in winter and no one would lend me ice."
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All about the animals: October celebrates city's animal shelter
By Kenny Green,
Published: Monday, October 8, 2012 10:31 AM CDT
The city of Rowlett is making a major push to bring focus to its animal shelter during the month of October. The shelter has designated the month as Adopt a Shelter Dog Month.
The shelter has been under the direction of the police department since 2010 when the city reallocated its personnel to improve the efficiency of the city's operations. In the two years since the supervision was placed under the direction of the police department there have been significant changes to the shelter's operations.
"The police department came in and implemented a lot of new policies and procedures as well as several improvements at the shelter," said Jeff Ochsner, shelter supervisor.
The city contracted with Strategic Government Resources to assess the shelter and determine what improvements could be made to enable the shelter to become more efficient. The list was prioritized and more than 90 percent of the recommendations have already been implemented.
"There has definitely been a more supportive effort to bring everyone together," Oschner said.
Some of the biggest improvements to the shelter were the addition of a commercial dishwasher for dog pans and litter trays and a security fence that limits the access to the rear of the facility.
"We also had two part time positions added to come in and clean in the mornings. It has really helped us get the shelter ready for operations," Oschner said.
The city also tasked Animal Shelter Advisory Board with researching the possibility of making the Rowlett shelter a no-kill animal shelter. The board determined that due to the city's financial constraints and space limitations at the shelter it was not feasible for the shelter to become a no-kill facility.
The shelter has seen an uptick in adoptions over the last two years. Oschner credits it to the support of the city and the shelter's volunteers.
"There have been a lot of people that have helped out," Oschner said.
The shelter also now does not take owner surrenders when it is overcrowded.
"If we don't have to take owner surrenders when we are overcrowded it allows us more time to find homes for the animals we already have," Oschner said.
The animal shelter will have a fall animal adoption event from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20 to bring awareness to the shelter and get some of the shelter's animals into permanent homes. As part of the event the adoption fees will be reduced to $25.
"We are partnering with The Friends of Rowlett Animals. They will have some of their volunteers out here which will allow us to get more animals out of their cages and into the hands of perspective adopters," Oschner said.
The shelter will offer a low cost vaccination clinic from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 6 and Saturday, Oct. 20.
"This is one our few outreach programs. We are protecting the dogs and ourselves from the rabies virus by offering this clinic. It also brings attention to the shelter which is good because we always have an abundance of animals looking for homes," Oschner said.
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The Polk County Tax Assessors were recently tasked to go out and reassess real property for the purpose of increasing revenues. The strategy being to increase appraised values, then the county commissioners and school board increase the millage rates on the increased values.
Of course, when this is presented to the board of commissioners, the school board, and the tax commissioner, the response is to basically deny this. However, those of us who lay our yearly tax bills down side by side can "connect the dots."
The citizens of Polk County who read this paper on a regular basis are familiar with and have read the discussions regarding revenue shortfalls in the school budget as well as the maintenance and operating budget.
To the average citizen, there is no clear evidence that there has been an increase in the number of school age children and there is no significant evidence that the county is spending additional money on maintenance and operating activities.
So, the question becomes, why is there a shortfall in revenue? Could it be that we have been in a recession for the past several years? Could it be that revenues are down because homes have been going into foreclosure? Could it be that homes have been sold for reduced prices?
Within my neighborhood, there are pieces of property that have been on the market for several years. There are also homes that have gone into foreclosure. I'm willing to bet that my neighborhood is typical of other areas in the county.
A search this week indicated that there are 270 homes in foreclosure in the county.
If the School Board, the County Commissioners and the Tax Commissioner continue with the strategy they appear to be following, the outcome will be more homes going into foreclosure and more short sales of homes.
That is a downward spiral that does not increase revenue but does the opposite.
I want to caution our county leaders that many of us do not have the option of increasing our revenue. Those that have jobs are lucky to be able to keep them. Many of the rest of us are on fixed incomes.
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Marcus from Philadelphia, PA
04/22/2010Reviewer is Accepted here and planning to attend soon. Reviewer has been to campus.
1 out of 4 people found this review useful. 1 of 6
Categories Comments Great for these types of students Apply Apply Apply !!! and good luck
Bang for the buck ?????
Will enjoy being here The activities are always booming can't wait to get involved !
Will learn a lot Love The small atmosphere it feel like home !
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Marcus Antoin from Wilmington, DE
03/24/2011Reviewer is A current student here.
1 out of 1 people found this review useful. 2 of 6
Categories Comments Great for these types of students great for International students, and athletic students, and also our brainiac students.
Tips for prospective students Apply Apply Apply...you wont regret it, also stop by and receive a tour to get a better feel for the school.
Bang for the buck The Financial Aid office is very accessible. My advisor was very help for and she made sure i received the best financial aid package.
Am enjoying being here Goldey have many events, and programs here, Karaoke Night, Pool Tournaments, and Pizza Parties....Casino night was the best, even though I gambled away most of my money loll
Am learning a lot The school is very helpful to student academically. We offer peer tutoring, and very flexible office hours for our professors, Psychology was the best so far. My psychology teacher was actually the author of the text book we used, which i found very fascinating.
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Daryl from Elkton, MD
05/09/2012Reviewer is A current student here.
1 out of 1 people found this review useful. 3 of 6
Categories Comments Bang for the buck It's fairly expensive but after all it is a private college, and our degree means so much.
Tips for prospective students Try and get an athletic scholarship it helps a lot with housing costs and you can't beat more scholarship money!!!
In three sentences It's a small, yet private business college. The classes are smaller than normal colleges, and you get a lot of one on one time if needed.
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Alexandria from Wilmington, DE
12/03/2012Reviewer is A current student here.
4 of 6
Categories Comments Bang for the buck It's an expensive school when you look at first, but with the amount of scholarships and aid they offer you, it is really affordable.
What to do for fun There are always all types of events posted around campus, and on weekends there are a lot of bus trips to different museums, aquariums, NYC, etc.
Food and Dining I enjoyed the student lounge cafe. They were quick and inexpensive.
Dorm Life I never lived in the dorms but I have heard good things.
Academic Rigor It's a fast paced school, so the classes are fair, but they go by so quickly you must be prepared.
Tips for prospective students Make sure you study.
In three sentences Great college for students that want to work at a fast pace. The professors are always available for help. The classes are always small.
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12/07/2012Reviewer is A current student here.
5 of 6
Categories Comments Campus Safety Excellent. I have never once felt unsafe. I have yet to see a non-geriatric security guard. Don't get me wrong they are nice, and for a campus that has no criminal activity problems it's great. But if a serious assault situation, or break in, or any situation that requires speed strength and stamina, I seriously doubt they can provide the security force necessary if a serious situation were to ever occur.
Clubs and Activities I have NEVER seen anyone take these clubs seriously. They are great and their intentions are beautiful, but they don't receive the attention they deserve.
Bang for the buck It all depends on you and of you let their mistakes get to you: Totally incompetent staff in the Business Office, if you enjoy STUDENTS handling your account with their numerous errors go ahead and apply. Inadequate professors who despite bad reviews (they lie and say they will not invite a professor to come back if they have overall negative reviews) are still gainfully employed; professors that are NOT student friendly and dictate lessons from absolute personal perspective/ bad attitudes; if your opinion differs good luck with that. NOT all, but you WILL encounter them at least twice a semester and there's nothing anyone does about it. Overall it seems welcoming but the school is really about the selves, making money, and desperate to hire any person who had the top rank in their degree. All they see is money and how to make money. In the beginning you will see Goldey is cool, but as time progresses you realize you're paying the salary for these people and they WILL NOT accommodate you if it is an inconvenience or will make anyone look bad. They keep interdisciplinary and whatever other problems under wraps. Only doing damage control to fix their image, coercing students to think of a situation differently, or say they will take action and don't and if you follow up its some lame excuse for why it didn't happen. I have NEVER seen a staff member get the blame, unless of course they are trying to squeeze them out. Which I have seen that before also. Don't live on campus, don't socialize and make personal relationships, go there get your education and leave.
What to do for fun There's a plethora of things to do at Goldey and in the surrounding areas.
Food and Dining Excellent food and dining. The staff is the complaint. The students who do work in the cafeteria are NOT friendly, only to those with whom they are friends, they are NOT disciplined for their bad attitudes ever.
Dorm Life If we pay for room and board, tuition and whatever else don't you think it would at least be nice if they assured all students who LIVE on campus can access wifi? Yeah. Not everyone can because the signal is horrible.
Tips for prospective students Keep to yourself, take good notes, and keep all detailed important interactions of an degree recorded. Mistakes are inevitable, we are humans. But unless you have it noted and can prove it, you will never win.
In three sentences Excellent student to professor ratio. Very comfortable setting. READ THE REST OF THIS REVIEW BEFORE MAKING A DECISION.
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Serena from Chincoteague Island, VA
01/06/2013Reviewer is A past student here.
6 of 6
Categories Comments Campus Safety The campus is heavily watched with 2 security guards and on duty RA's for a campus of about 400 students. Everything is watched and is found out quickly by the staff of the school.
Greek Life There isn't any Greek Life on this campus or at this school.
Clubs and Activities There are sports teams and also clubs such as Student Government (SGA) , a Drama Club,(TAB) and a Gay Straight Alliance,(GSA).
Great for these types of students This school is great for students that know what they want to study, also great for students with very shy personalities.
Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus There aren't any traditions or rituals at this school.
Bang for the buck This school is very expensive for the quality of the education. The prices is just about as much as attending ivy league schools such as NYU or Columbia University.
What to do for fun There honestly isn't much to do unless your into sports. This school revolves around sports.
Food and Dining There is a food court at the school but there are strict hours. All your food is on you, but there are lots of places to eat out and deliver as well, even a supermarket across the street.
Dorm Life There isn't really much going on other then activities during the week. The dorms are spacey but there inst much privacy. The campus is extremely small.
Academic Rigor Some of the professors are more strict on you then other. The courses are way too easy, there is also classes that are empty credits because they will not transfer to other schools.
Tips for prospective students Keep in mind to what you really want to study because there isn't a wide range of majors. Also keep in mind is living on campus what you really want to do.
In three sentences A very small conservative school. The staff is very friendly and create close bonds to their students. there is not a wide verity if majors.
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Combat's different today than when your grandfather earned his medals. Armies no longer advance and retreat along battle lines. Tanks no longer maneuver. Fleets don't engage. We're past all that.
The United States already dominates most parts of the world that don't belong to other major nations. Domination, however, doesn't mean we're in full control. And many citizens of those places insist on misbehaving.
This misbehavior takes various forms: shooting at our soldiers, burning our property, attacking our surrogates, and other hostile acts. Washington responds to these disturbances with our troops, drones, mercenaries, and Special Forces. And we keep building still more military bases, because having 1,000 of them overseas is apparently not enough.
These displays of power typically create additional enemies, which can prove quite useful back here at home. "Enemy" nations lend weight to lobbying by the Pentagon and arms merchants who argue for more billions to pile onto our already grotesquely bloated military budget.
Meanwhile, our non-nation enemies are automatically deemed to be terrorists, which allows this endless war to be waged within our borders too.
Ever since 9/11 erected a convenient backdrop, the existence of such groups has enabled our government to stoke fears and install ever more "anti-terrorism" laws and procedures. Continued...
These "anti-terrorism" measures accomplish two important goals for the government that have nothing to do with our safety. First, they justify a much higher level of government secrecy. Second, they make it possible to punish dissenters much more harshly.
Many unpopular or embarrassing federal actions can now be arbitrarily classified, and whistleblowers can be prosecuted for revealing them. Anyone suspected of supposedly posing a threat may be spied upon, arrested, infiltrated, and have their computers, cell phones, etc. confiscated. So far, the general public seems to be just fine with these egregious privacy violations.
But the worst impacts of this endless war are suffered abroad. Yes, tens of thousands of deaths and hundreds of thousands of deformities caused by Agent Orange have been endured by families of those who served in Vietnam, but sufferers on the other side number in the millions.
Likewise, the Iraq War left an unknown number of our troops with cancers and deformities from the countless tons of depleted uranium we exploded. But in Iraq and Afghanistan, civilian casualties alone have reached at least 132,000.
Most Americans aren't paying attention to our endless state of war. Fewer and fewer of our own kids go to fight in it, while we let more and more drones do our dirty work.
This perpetual conflict has fallen so far under our radar that both presidential campaigns neglected to address it. Mitt Romney didn't even bother to mention the military in his convention speech and his omission probably contributed to his lopsided loss at the ballot box.
The former Massachusetts governor drew plenty of flak for being the first Republican presidential nominee to gloss over war like that in 60 years, but he was just reflecting the status quo. Our society has accepted endless war and its terrible price as a part of life. As long as it's fought by other people on someone else's soil, we can live with it.
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Dreaming of Necker
It was daunting thinking about spending the better part of two days flying over to the British Virgin Islands. But at the same time, the anticipation of what awaited seemed to mollify any fears. For one reason or another - some lucky combination of good company and the promise of inspiration - meant that before we knew it, we had arrived.
And so it began.
An interesting mix of people from different backgrounds and cultures, with different experiences, gathered on this idyllic island to listen and share and discuss ways of being involved, of doing good, of doing 'better'. When I sat and listened I couldn't help but feel a sense of shared values, of gratitude and appreciation and a willingness to confront difficult issues and consider positive solutions directed at the core.
Jean, CEO from Virgin Unite got the ball rolling in her uniquely warm and informal way and then we were treated to hear Ben and Jerry talk about their humble beginnings in Vermont and how they set about changing the system they didn't like – one ice cream at a time! Lisa Lake spoke of the work she is doing at the Branson Centre of Entrepreneurship, guiding young entrepreneurs. Paul van Zyl moved us all with an insight into life in apartheid South Africa and the work he did in establishing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and of his exciting new venture – Maiyet – a luxury brand empowering artisans from around the world. Ian Darling from Shark Island Productions gave us a taste of life as a film maker and the way he brings these many confronting and often left unspoken issues into the broader domain. Jochen Zeitz spoke about the pioneering work he has been leading with Puma and their environmental initiatives. Suzi Carp spoke of the power of collaboration and the incredible work that Jane Tewson and the Igniting Change team are doing. And then there was Bryan Stevenson…
I think it would be hard to write about the trip without describing the experience of listening to one of the most beautiful human beings I have ever met. Bryan rose to prominence through Ted Talks and is a human rights lawyer (amongst other things) who has been working on criminal justice in the US for some years. He spoke of identity and compassion and he spoke from the heart. I think Bryan embodies the very essence of what it means to be human – his love and care and humility and goodness radiate. We were all very blessed to meet him; indeed all of us are very lucky that there are people like him in this world.
So as I sit here writing and reflecting on the trip, on this leadership and entrepreneurship gathering, I feel an overriding sense of hope. It was such a positive experience. People, who despite a keen awareness of the difficulties in the world have such a positive way of looking at them and thinking of the best way to tackle them.
What sort of world do we want to see evolving and how can we act to create it? How can we use the power of business and markets to create meaningful and significant change? These are some of the things that Necker stirred for me.
To Richard and Joan for your generosity, to Jean, Virgin Unite and all the incredible Necker staff and to Jane and Suzi and Igniting Change, and to all the other Neckers – my sincerest, thank you.
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