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Found in a Christmas Cookie
Over the weekend, my sister texted me a photo of my mom. It seems the two had gathered to bake Christmas cookies. The photo was simple: my mom sitting at my sister's kitchen table, a smile on her face, decorating cookies. I burst into tears at the sight of it.
This year was a hard one. My mom was sick – really sick – twice. There was more than one moment when I thought, "OK, this is it. I'm going to lose my mom." By the grace of God, she is still here with us. That photo, her smile, reminded me in one simple second how close I was to losing her.
One of the things I've been reflecting about all year – even before my mom got sick – was how she and my dad are both aging; how I am aging. That process – the process of aging – is a weird thing to try and understand. It's as if you are slowly peeling off a band-aid, revealing some version of skin that resembles your own. That skin, however, is a little less resilient, a little less vibrant, a little less able to take a blow and fully recover.
What I came to realize this year is that I am already grieving the loss of my mom as I once knew her. It's hard to truly describe, but I miss her, even though she is still here. The things we once connected over are often not the things that tie us together now. And her physical limitations often call on me to demonstrate more patience than I think I really have. But I am trying. I am trying to maintain patience when I have to repeat a sentence for the third time. I am trying to remain calm when she falls and I have to help her back up to her feet. I am trying to preserve the loveliness of our relationship when she's slow to follow or comprehend. I am trying to remember that she did all of those things (and more) for me once – when I was unable to stand on my own, make my own way, or understand the world. In the same caring way that she parented me, I am now trying to care for her.
There are days when I really miss the mom I had before. Most days, though, I am really grateful for the mom I still have here with me. Despite the challenges that come with her aging, I know that she is still teaching me valuable lessons – lessons that challenge me to grow in new ways, to develop qualities I wasn't sure I had, and to become the kind of woman she has always been: full of strength and love.
My mom is different now in many ways. Perhaps so am I. But in a simple picture, I saw the smile I have known my whole life. And, I am reminded of how she is still the same in so many of the ways that really matter. She is my mom. And I am lucky to have her.
Priceless lessons from an empty pocket
Last weekend, I was sitting on a train platform waiting for my ride when a seemingly homeless man approached. He was cheerful and friendly and when he smiled, his broken teeth paled in comparison to the light that came from his eyes. Some might argue that he was high or even crazy, but he was honestly the friendliest person I encountered on my walk to the train. As I talked to him, others moved away. Some were probably annoyed that I even entertained the conversation. It was, after all, designed to solicit money from me. But it was also something else: it was an opportunity.
After about five minutes of joke telling and shallow compliment giving, the man finally told me that he hadn't eaten in three days. He knew a place just upstairs in the train station where he could get a three-sandwich deal. He said that if I could help, he would buy one sandwich for himself and then take the other two to the shelter to share. Who knows if he was telling the truth? Maybe he was.
Here's my point. I had three dollars left in my pocket from the weekend. I had taken the train into the city, had dinner at a nice restaurant, saw a show, stayed in a comfortable hotel, gone out for breakfast, and purchased a ticket home. And I still had three dollars in my pocket. Before me stood a man in torn clothes, whose teeth were rotten from neglect, who said he hadn't eaten in three days. He had nothing in his pocket.
Please know that I am not naive. I know that some people who say they are homeless are not. I know that some who are on the streets live there because of drug use or addiction. I know that a series of bad choices often puts people in their place. But I also know that one bad break can be devastating and that not every person is blessed with the opportunities or supports I've had. I know that sometimes – despite all the best intentions – people just can't seem to get it together.
I gave that man my three dollars.
A friend who was traveling with me commented that she couldn't believe I did that. To those of you who are thinking the same thing, here's what I offer in response:
Think about the money in your pocket or bank account. Think about the people who love you, who care for you, who make sure you're ok. Think about the opportunities you've had and the blessings you enjoy. And then think about three dollars. Will you miss that three dollars when you go to bed tonight?
My answer to that question was no. In fact, in a day or so I probably won't even be able to recount all the places I spent my money over the past week. I am lucky to say that three dollars doesn't make a difference to me. But three dollars? It made a difference to that man.
In my opening paragraph, I mentioned that I was given an opportunity. Some may be thinking that the opportunity to which I refer was a chance to help. It was. But it was also so much more than that. My interaction with that stranger – a man I will never see again – gave me the opportunity to count my blessings. It was a chance for me to further train my brain to be more thankful. At this time of year, that seems especially important. But a happy person is one who cultivates an attitude of gratitude all year long. Three dollars seems like a bargain for that reminder.
Oh … and for three dollars I also got a pretty funny joke. Feel free to share it at your holiday parties.
How do you know Will Smith was out walking in the snow? You could see his fresh prints.
Merry Christmas, friends. May good blessings be obvious to you in the new year.
The Moment of Impact
I was recently talking with a friend of mine who is an avid golfer. He loves the game, practices religiously, and is committed to bettering his skills. As we talked, he educated me a lot about the various clubs in his bag and about the essential elements of his swing. But he said one thing, in particular, that sort of stuck in my head. He said, in relation to the initial drive, that he's seen a good number of golfers who position themselves into what appears to be a very strong drive. They have the right stance, the right arm and body position, and know how to hold the club. But, he said, for some reason, they slow their swing right at the very moment the club is set to hit the ball. That single moment of hesitation leads to a less than desired result.
In golf or in any other endeavor, I am led to think about how we respond right before any critical moment; that moment when the club hits the ball, if you will. That moment is the last of its kind. After it passes – and depending on how we respond – the future is shaped. That moment of impact is a defining moment. It sets our course.
If we move off the golf course, I think we see life moments like this all the time. Anytime we've invested ourselves into something, there comes a moment when our commitment and follow-through are tested. Can you think of a time when you second guessed something for just a moment and lost momentum? Perhaps a quick hesitation in an answer or an action changed the course of your life? I can certainly think of more than one time where I stepped up to hit the ball – and I mean I was really ready to whack it – and then, in that critical moment, I choked.
I'm not casting any judgement on moments of hesitation. Certainly, there are times when something just doesn't feel right. The universe sort of sends signs about a need to slow down or change course. What I am wondering about, however, are those moments of hesitation caused by fear. How often do we come fully prepared for something after giving it lots of thought or practice and then fail to deliver on our follow-through? How often do we maybe not commit to hitting that ball as hard as we could because we are afraid?
I guess that's the "think-about." In the critical moments, do we let fear slow us down or somehow alter our potential? Or, are we able to position ourselves to take the swing with the original impact we intended? I think the answer probably offers us something really meaningful to consider.
Letting Go
I've been thinking for several years now about getting a tattoo. Now in my 40's, I still worry about what my dad will say. But my delayed ink is more the result of being unable to commit to something that will be with me until the day I die. Funny, actually, since I have real trouble ever truly letting go of anything. Why would a permanent mark on my body instill such hesitation?
I think the answer to that question lies more in the fact that I just get bored too damn easily. I'm afraid that I'll choose something, look at it every day, and in time grow to hate it because it never changes or evolves. I'm afraid it will bore me. Last month, however, I purchased and wore a temporary tattoo that I think will finally inspire the piece I get inscribed on my skin. The design is a somewhat ornate depiction of two simple words: "Let Go."
After a decade of more of just thinking about the idea of a tattoo, why would two simple words speak to me so clearly and convincingly? Perhaps it has something to do with a quote by Shannon Adler that I recently read and loved: "Your heart's strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self-worth and faith is measured by finally letting go."
Lord knows my heart is strong. I have held on to ideas, to things, to people – in many instances – much longer than they held me back. And with that deep urge to hold on, I have maybe sacrificed pieces of myself that I will never reclaim. It's ok. They have made me who I am. And I believe my capacity to love is stronger and greater than it has ever been.
But it's time to reclaim my faith and to remember my self-worth. When I pause to think about the things I've held on to for so long, I am prompted to question what motivated me to do so. I think in situations like that, we often romanticize the reason for holding on as love, as some once-in-a-lifetime connection, or as some duty we have to an idea or person. But fear is probably the more accurate cause for holding onto something that no longer serves us well. What if we let go and aren't any happier? What if things change and I make a mistake? What if … what if … what if?
Instead of the viewing the "what if" as a negative and scary thing, I am motivated to take a good look at the "what if" as a completely positive possibility. This means, as the author of my quote suggested, taking those leaps of faith, diminishing my need to control every single thing, and being ok with not always being ok. Every chance we take is the beginning of something new; a chance to learn more about ourselves and the world around us. The greatest beginnings – as they say – are often found in the endings of something else.
What things have you been wanting to let go of? What chances might you take if you could relinquish the need to control what would happen? How much more satisfying might your life be if you could just "let go"?
The Habit of Love
Like many, I am a huge fan of the show This is Us. More often than I could say, a line from the show causes me to pause, to think, to reflect, to wonder. Last night's finale was no different. But before this turns into a blog about a TV show, let me shift my focus to the line that prompted this blog. One character to another said, "Next time you tell me that you love me, make sure it's not out of habit."
People who love me have heard me ask, "Why do you love me?" I don't ask that question because I want to hear a list of things someone else admires in me. Nor do I want to hear the person go on and on about the qualities they see in me that make me outstanding to them in some way. Rather, I ask the question for the very reason the line in the show was stated. That is, because I believe it is important to know why you love someone. After all, if love is an active verb (as I've often written it is), shouldn't we be actively aware of what it is in a person that makes us love them?
I have to wonder how many people are in relationships where the cause of their love is somehow lost. Certainly, as people grow and change, some of the qualities we fall in love with in the beginning of a relationship may also change – in both good and bad ways. Therefore, instead of simply getting in the habit of routinely saying "I love you," day after day, month after month, year after year, I think it is important to reflect on our love for another person from time to time. I believe that reflection is an act of love in itself. It gives us a much greater awareness of why we love someone well beyond the reasons we fell for them in the first place. And then, when we say "I love you," it is a confident statement rooted in the present, instead of something buried in habit and obligation for which the cause may no longer even be known.
Lots of people stay together or even get back together because they share a history. And certainly, those shared experiences bond us to another person in a meaningful way. But like the character on the show, I don't want someone to stick around because times were once good or because they once saw something in me worth loving. Love simply cannot be that complacent. Moreover and perhaps even more importantly, I believe that active reflection about love leads to gratitude. And so when I feel annoyed because he forgot to call, or because he left a spoon in the sink, my active reflection about why I love him reminds me that the spoon wasn't that important after all.
Three words said casually between people who've been together for a while can often feel routine. We get in the habit of saying them almost mindlessly. But I'd argue that the words "I love you" probably make us more vulnerable than anything we say to another person. When we say them, I believe they should be said with intention and without doubt that love is an action, promoted by something we can identify and appreciate. So tell people you love them. But once in a while tell them why. That why is a celebration not only of the love that exists, but also of the people who make it come alive.
I Fear a Lesson is Coming…
I've been seeing a number of posts in social media lately about how everything that happens in one's life (especially in relationships) should be seen as an opportunity to learn and grow. In other words, the posts discourage regret or sadness about past choices by suggesting that everything one has endured up to a certain point has been a teachable moment. The messages imply that if you haven't learned something from a decision that turned out to be the wrong one that you just aren't looking hard enough for the lesson.
Look, I'm all for learning from my mistakes and growing stronger from disappointment, but what happens if the depth of that disappointment feels like an abyss; like a hole one has fallen into by no fault of their own? But wait. We aren't supposed to blame others for the things that happen to us, right? We always play a role. OK. So what if our fault lies in loving someone too much, seeing the potential in someone who refused to see it in themselves, or just trusting another human being to do the right thing? You see, here's where my confusion about the lesson to be found begins. Am I supposed to learn not to love so much? Should I stop pushing to see the good in people? And how about trust? Should I be less trusting?
I know a great number of people who are jaded from relationships in which they suffered deep disappointment. For these people, the answer to most of the questions I posed above is a screaming, "Yes!" As a result of their experiences, these people do approach relationships differently than maybe they have in the past. They might stick a toe in to test the waters, maybe go knee-deep for another length of time, and maybe even make it into their waists. But they never fully submerge – and subsequently spend their lives complaining that they can't seem to find anything real and meaningful. I guess in these cases I wonder what the value of the lesson truly is. More importantly, I wonder what part of themselves they are sacrificing as protection from future hurt and disappointment. I'm not sure the lessons are serving them well. In fact, I think what is really happening is that they are punishing themselves – and anyone else they meet – for things that happened in the past.
That which doesn't kill us might make us stronger, but I think its ok to be broken for a while. Some things deserve to be felt, to be grieved. And that's ok. If you've spent all of your energy in loving someone or something that didn't work out, it's probably ok to spend some energy grieving its loss. And if you can't find a lesson in any of it, don't let that make you feel worse. Sometimes people just don't have the capacity to love in the same way you do. Sometimes, the lessons they think they've learned block them. Maybe knowing that is lesson enough.
In the end, perhaps the greatest lesson we can learn is more about ourselves than it is about any situation or person. And to that end, the most important question we can ask is whether we want to be motivated by love or motivated by fear. A seemingly simple question requires careful introspection. And living true to the answer may require courage. What will you choose? I have a feeling your answer will shape the lessons you learn.
Want to read more about fear vs. love? I found another blog that deals with this topic: https://wordfromthewell.com/2012/08/03/love-vs-fear-the-most-important-decision-youll-ever-make-and-youre-making-it-right-now/


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Samantha Bailey: Space On Her Own Terms/
Interview by Charia Rose
Photos by Will Inman
Interviewing a creative whose work has left me feeling raw and exposed was an intimidating thought for me. Sam's art locks you in a closet with a bright light and lays the deepest, most intimate parts of yourself before you. There is no moving away, no shame, just truth. To be in the presence of someone who does not seem to fear or find flaws in the dirty honesty of intimacy is exciting and scary and inspiring all at once.
Samantha Q. Bailey, a writer, actor, director and all around bad bitch, is very self-aware. She is aware of her world, the way she presents herself, and the way she maneuvers and takes space. Space is something that can be difficult for Black Women to sit in deeply: What are we allowed? How do we continuously make ourselves smaller without sacrificing our sense of self? It is an impossible facade of balance. And yet, something about Sam feels as if she has it all figured out, regardless of how desperately she wants you to know that she doesn't.
Her rise came with her first web series You're So Talented, which premiered on the then infant Opentv. A show focused on Bea (played by Bailey), a 20-something actor attempting to survive heartbreak, judgement and the harsh reality of living as a Black millennial in Chicago. As writer, producer, director, and actor on the show (how dare she?!), it was the one thing Sam had always wanted to do, regardless if anyone loved it. The Gotham and Emmy nominations are proof that people did. Speaking with another midwestern artist also reminds me of what I miss about being home, and the creative spaces that are crafted for us and by us there. On the west coast, a sense vulnerability is missing. In midwestern spaces, people are more concerned when you dedicate your life to the arts. So many people throughout my life have told me: "It's unstable. Uncertain. No way to make a solid life or way for yourself and future family." People like us live to prove "good intentions" wrong. We drop everything that makes us comfortable and work four jobs and live in communes and drive cross country to foreign places in the pursuit of destiny. I think of my artistic nature as a midwestern work ethic with a healthy dosage of west coast self-sabotage."
Los Angeles is a foreign space for both of us; this place is built on entertainment as industry. Most people here are involved in Hollywood some shape or form. The goal is always success and accolades here, but we agreed that it oftentimes does not feel "real" or conducive to true community building. Especially when you have to focus on the career side of the landscape.
"I think about LA and myself in LA A lot. My experience of LA is not LA, it's Hollywood. I moved to the industry, I did not move to the city. I am not around the LA that built NWA or Ava DuVernay… LA has a lot of strong communities of color and strong feelings of community and I don't want to negate that. But I don't think Hollywood has a strong feeling of community."".
There is another facade rooted in trying to find the balance of wanting to work in the field that moves you with the harsh realities of the space's refusal to make room. It's something I struggle to reconcile; something that holds me back from going full throttle towards my goals. But Sam refuses to let the systems at work keep her from doing what she was born to do. She found her way to film post graduating from Columbia College with a degree in acting. After a short move to New York and one particularly excruciating theater experience, she decided to start writing for herself.
"I got to a place where I was doing this play and got asked to twerk in a slave costume with a gun pointed out to the audience and was like, you know what, there is a line of self respect and I've been hitting up against it for a few years now and that was just not something I was going to do. Chicago has a very big live lit scene and Sam Irby was one of the first people I met there and she was the one voice that made me want to write. I started doing Second City work and again realized that I didn't want to do performing but really did like the short form which brought me to the webseries (You're So Talented)...We got Tribeca and it's been rolling ever since".
I was really drawn to the way Sam's career has begun to take shape. It is not a fairytale or a lucky occurrence, but a consistent determination to find the medium that will best service the art she is striving to share with the world. I have spent most of life in silence, and attempting to make myself as small as possible. It's why I became a writer: creating worlds bigger than myself without having to ever truly expose my identity was gratifying for me. Words on a page are universal. In a book or a script, I could be whoever I needed to be to enact the change I needed folks to see. But Sam has broken away from that notion. Her words are a critical extension of her as a as a black woman. As a creative. As a midwesterner. If there is any takeaway from this interview, it's that the thing you are missing is out there, and you just have to be invested in the search to discover it.
Sam has an astonishing amount of projects happening simultaneously. She is currently directing for television, finishing up the Film Independent Program and developing multiple projects for various formats (yes, including Brown Girls for all the fans out there lusting for information on the show's arrival. It's still in development at HBO). She barely has time for herself, her days consisting of being on set, in general meetings or writing and creating decks for her projects in production. As millennials, we are conditioned to do as many things as we can as often as we can and through that there is a loss of balance. Add being in an environment that is not conducive to cultivating that balance, it makes it even more foreign. I can honestly say I have never met balance. Sam is no different. Even though we are at different points in our lives, it is something that we cannot deny we would like to have. "I really want the balance. I'm 29 and going into being 30 so I have a whole different phase of my life [coming] and wanting stability even if it's shaky stability… I know that I don't want to be a director for hire for my whole life.
In order for me to not do that I need to be creating content and in order to do that I have to be in Chicago… Here, I don't ever really feel grounded."
For a theater kid who didn't consider film "art" until a few years ago, Sam has an incredible eye for direction. Her style of directing and her vision for a shot are so particular, but so free from the constructed rules of a standard filmmaking that it makes her one of the most skilled in the game. In You're So Talented, there are moments that are so intimate, and the camera just holds, no escaping the discomfort of being vulnerable. I mentioned how much her works reminds me of mumblecore and she lit up.
"This black girl was hella inspired by mumblecore! People really get mad at me about this, but I really only watch movies as fun entertainment. Like, INDEPENDENCE DAY is one of my favorite movies. I was just such a theater person. I took a [course in college] called Story in International Film and Fiction. I saw all these foreign films and fell in love with Gael Garcia-Bernal and like Y TU MAMA y TAMBIEN and AMORES PERROS. I was like oh shit, there's an art to this that I didn't even know about. It's interesting. Film is such a young art in general and to have this mainstage of white men who are considered the gods of it [even though it's a new form]. And everyone is just recreating what they've done. So I'm really interested in different ways of storytelling. And different ways of exploring characters. Which is why mumblecore was so exciting to me. It was something that felt like it went against the status quo of how these films were made… And it also made me feel like, 'oh I can do that'. I can sit in my living room and put a camera on and just shoot my friends".
I gushed about how much I loved YST and was intrigued to know how involved with creating the shot list and the overall production process she was. As a first time director, it can be harrowing to take on so much responsibility out the gate. But she loves nothing more than taking shit head on.
"I am very involved with the shot list. And I did not know what any of that was in the first parts of shooting YST. But, Mateo Gonzalez who is my favorite cinematographer in Chicago, literally told me, 'I don't think you know that you're a filmmaker'. I'd send him pictures and we'd talk for hours and he taught me in that way. So I always say I come from the school of Mateo. There is something in the way that I shoot that is not film school". She is very adamant about how much she dislikes the traditional way of doing things (The Aquarius in her jumps out and I love it). "Let's try to figure out how to get coverage in a nonconventional way. Let's play shit out in one take. I want to do more exciting and interesting things that open things up. Or brings them in more. I'm a very intimate director. I am interested in intimacy and the human condition in that way. I want to shoot life in urban settings. I want to show growth in concrete jungles".
Feeling a strong sense of community is a crucial human need. For those living with more marginalized identities, it is often times a gift and not a right. It is something we have to find, cultivate and protect at all costs. Seeing someone like Samantha, who is so vocal about not only what she wants but what she needs, is crucial. Her focus on building up the community for creatives of marginalized identities, is so comforting. She is forcibly making space in a world that, regardless of all the articles and "Initiatives" being announced, still does not give a fuck about what we want or need.
"Fatimah [Asghar] and I work together a lot. Sam Irby and I are trying to work together. I try to be cognizant of who I collaborate with. I am constantly talking about how I want to meet more creatives of color who are on my level so that we can create together and move up. I think they oddly keep us separate from each other to keep up this crabs in a barrel thing. Like, you're gonna be the special black unicorn and we just make you shoot to the top. And like, that's dope but also lonely because once you get there and look around and see that the only people celebrating and collaborating in your success are old white guys. That's not what I want. I want to be creating with people who are like me and move up together. Like that Judd Apatow thing but without those guys. Doing that for us"
Even with this "renaissance" occuring in media, there is still a feeling of disconnect. Its hard because we have cried and fought for black stories and queer stories and female stories to finally be respected and told through our lens, but even that doesn't feel like enough. I find myself turning away from television, even though I love it. There is too much of it, and even with that, none of it ever seems to scratch the itch of what I feel like I need. And then feeling emboldened to critique those things? We have three major black lead shows, and if you say an ill thought about it, then people think you were never with the shits. How do we exist and create and critique our work without it sabotaging the movement? Can we widen the space and also be critical? It often feels like a trick question. We talked about the idea of these shows being slices of life, but ultimately, a slice of a singular pie will never be enough. We need the whole damn bakery. And we deserve it. Because our experiences are different, no matter how many identities we share. The way we exist is completely our own, and we have to feel emboldened to tell our experiences and take up space in our own nuanced ways.
I asked her the one thing I ask everyone, and I am always grateful when people answer. The question of what does liberation look like, in your own eyes. A question that, to me, is an invitation into the soul of a person. "Liberation looks like, to me, being able to experiment and work without the burden of [being] perfect. There is a particular burden on people from marginalized communities to represent every aspect of their communities. That is really difficult for artists. I think someone tweeted once like y'all love art but hate artists. And that's some real ass shit. They want your work but don't care about the mental gymnastics you have to do in order to curate and create that work. Like, Brown Girls cannot represent every brown girl. It can't. Not if we want to to tell a real nuanced story that feels real and intimate. But maybe you'll find something in it that you do and can appreciate...That is all I can do."
Sam is not simply talking about inclusion or what Hollywood should do. Her life is her action plan. Her work is her liberation. Her crew is inclusive by design but also simply because it is an extension of herself. She is commandeering these spaces and taking no prisoners because, for her, there is no other way. She is not trying to be anything other than what she is. There is nothing more jarring and powerful than a black woman understanding her power and utilizing it. It is a kick in the stomach, and it makes you question the ways that you maneuver this fucked up world. No one is safe from the harshness of this society, so the least you can do is kick some ass while you figure it out. Sam is kicking ass, taking names, and being 100% herself whilst doing it.
"I'm a black midwesterner who grew up baptist who is no longer religious who has a lot of queer friends and practices in queer communities and hates industry. That is my experience and most of my work will come from that lens... There's nothing about Hollywood that I am trying to preserve. I don't want to be attached to anything or anyone that is harmful to communities that I am a part of or adjacent to. I don't want to help sustain that. So I say burn it all down".
And you better believe that she is more than willing to light the first match.
You can follow Sam on all socials:
Twitter: @SamQBailey
Insta: @samb.chi
And see her webseries You're So Talented & Brown Girls, in full on opentv @ weareo.tv


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The speaker of the Russian State Duma has said the last two years, during which Luxembourg lawmaker Anne Brasseur was president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), "discredited" that institution.
Sergei Naryshkin made the comment in an interview with Russian state television on January 30.
He called Brasseur's tenure "a very discredited time in the history" of PACE and the Council of Europe. He also attributed to Brasseur a "personal role" in the worsening of relations between PACE and Moscow.
PACE, which is the parliamentary organ of the 47-member Council of Europe, voted in 2014 to strip the Russian delegation of its voting rights because of Moscow's annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea and its political and military support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.
PACE also suspended Russia's right to participate in Council of Europe governing bodies and election-monitoring missions.
As a result, the Russian delegation walked out of the assembly and has not participated in PACE activities since.
Naryshkin and Federation Council Chairwoman Valentina Matviyenko recently told PACE the Russian delegation would be ready to return "if the rights of national delegations are observed." Brasseur responded that the sanctions against Russia will remain in place at least until after Russia's legislative elections in September.
Brasseur's term as PACE president ended earlier this month, and she has been succeeded by Spanish lawmaker Pedro Agramunt.
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The speaker of the Russian State Duma has said the last two years, during which Luxembourg lawmaker Anne Brasseur was president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), "discredited" that institution.
Ukrainian humanitarian activist Maryna Cherenkova has reportedly been detained by separatist security forces in the eastern city of Donetsk.
Activists with the Responsible Citizens group reported on social media on January 30 that Cherenkova sent a late-night text message that said simply, "I have been taken by MGB," referring to the separatists' "security ministry."
She has not been heard from since despite activists spending the entire night trying to learn of her whereabouts. The activists said police told them they do not have Cherenkova.
Since the conflict between Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists began, Cherenkova has been active in securing humanitarian relief for civilians in the Donetsk conflict zone.
Journalist Oliver Carroll posted on his Twitter feed that Cherenkova is "a larger than life character" who has "been at the forefront of [the] humanitarian effort in Donetsk."
She has been "arguably as important as any international [organization]," he added.
Earlier this week, separatist forces detained respected religious-studies professor Ihor Kozlovskiy. His relatives say he was taken from his home in Donetsk on January 28 and has not been heard from since.
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Quick story to start your Friday and then I gotta bounce. I got this sweet ass job, you see, one that I absolutely adore and it's given me all this power that I didn't know about? Like, I kinda remembered that on most days, I like to Do A Look™ and put together a cute outfit and hair and makeup instead of just rolling to work late in scumbag clothes with my grease stringles stuck under a hat, and this job is in the city like five minutes from my house and I'm all walking to work with coffee in my sassy travel mug and my hair bouncing around like it's the opening credits of Maude, and I'm just fucking happy about it, get off my back.
The world still sucks, though. To wit:
A few nights ago I was at a public establishment at which I often spend time because my friend works there and it's close to my house. It's later in the evening, pretty quiet, and I'm basically just there to pop in and say hi. So I grab her, we head to the front door to step outside and suddenly this dude goes, "Victoria."
So I'm like, OK, this is it, the moment I get murdered or served with papers to come and do a maternity test (the kid is not my son!), but instead of that, this dude goes, "Abelard*... from Tinder."
*not his real name, but a HILARIOUS name.
It's been a minute since I've been on The Tinders, and it takes me a second to place why this douche would think I'd remember him. But then I was like, "oh, right, I remember, you're the one who invited me to dinner and then stood me up."
He's like, "yeah… that's me."
Abelard not following through on plans and not communicating about it - "ghosting," as The Youths call it - was kinda what put the final nail in the coffin of even my my half-hearted attempts at swiping, which were few and far between because Tinder is the worst and it can suck my dick and if I have to look at another middle aged dude who doesn't take care of his body posed with a goddam Harley or a motherfucking fish, I'm going to actually go insane. -er. Insane-er. More insane.
Anyway, we go outside, where he proceeds to apologize and explain that he's just super depressed and he shouldn't be dating because he's so fucked up but do I want to make out? Meanwhile, my friend is in the corner with a shit eating grin on her face, because this is so dumb and hilarious.
I tell this dude, no, bruh, I don't wanna make out. He says he'll buy me a drink. I'm poor, so yes, sure, buy me a drink. Now I have to talk to him while I drink it because I'm not a monster, and I gotta say, man, from the bottom of my heart, I am fucking sick to death of white dudes. "I'm just really struggling with depression, I have a hard time… I love Kendrick Lamar… what time do you have to work in the morning?... I moved here after my divorce… wanna come over and listen to some music?"
And I'm just like… ok, look, MY DUDE, what music could you POSSIBLY play for me that I haven't heard, you normcore piece of boring. Like, you're acting like it's some kind of fucking gift that you're inviting me back to your shitty divorcecore apartment, to "listen to music," which translates to "so I can try to fuck you - badly and narcissistically - before passing out because I'm too drunk, while you figure out how to get an uber since it's so late at night."
Like, dude, come on. NO. No. That doesn't sound fun for me at all. It's so needy and self-obsessed and gross it gave me a Puke, Jr.™ just thinking about it all again just now. You're almost 40 years old. Grow the goddam fuck up.
So he's like, "just come over tonight," and I go, "I will not."
"Because I like myself."
MIC DROP, you dumb slut. Plus, JOKES BECAUSE I DON'T EVEN LIKE MYSELF, but I like myself ENOUGH to avoid your dumb ass. Realize there's another PERSON in front of you, not just a sentient vagina who can make you forget how sad and empty your life is for thirty seconds. You can just buy one of those online, I think and I know they have a name but I can't think of it right now and I don't feel like googling it. Also, that's not my job. It's not my job to make you feel better. Learn to fucking do that for yourself. God I fucking HATE being treated like a THING. I mean unless it's consensual and negotiated in advance and involves me wearing handcuffs or similar and you bringing me fried chicken and telling me I did a good job after.
We all have our stuff. Don't be so judgy.
Anyway, kind of related, I was talking to my pal from NYC last night and she said this:
Life is a real fucking shitty mess, and there are only tiny little moments of non-shittyness and those somehow justify life as a whole. The fact that we have to struggle through everything, that's all we got to keep going on. If we didn't have these little wins every now and then, how would we keep going on? Moments from now things could get shitty again. Treasure what you can.
Girl. TRUTH.
Friday February 23
Dave Gutter (Rustic Overtones, PSC) is at Bayside Bowl with Will Bradford (SeepeopleS, TheWorst). This is a free, all-ages show with two of Portland's best songwriters and most accomplished performers. Dave and Will are the real thing.
Xylouris White, the duo of Cretan lute player George Xylouris and Australian drummer Jim White, are with Portland songwriter/performer Asa Irons at SPACE Gallery.
Songwriter/performers Krister Rollins and Nic Robes are doing a new thing at Empire called NITECAP! It's a variety show combining comedy, interviews and music. This first installment - which is free and being recorded live - features comedian Josh Day, a conversation with rapper Spose and music from Pretty Sad
For the rest of Friday night, check out the Calendar.
Saturday February 24
New(ish)comers Beautiful/Weird are at Stroudwater Distillery with Ciel Roi early from 6-8. Texas Grace Kitchen will be there slinging barbecue as well.
KGFREEZE are releasing their new Initiator album at PHOME with Mouth Washington, Burr and $300. Mouth Washington doesn't play around too much these days, so get there early enough to see them.
Onyx, they of the hit 1993 single "Slam," are at Oxbow for the Hip Hops series they do. Additonal performances by Alyssa Marie and Milez Grimez, Ben Shorr & DJ Myth, B. Aull, Sea Level (Dan Capaldi and Zack Jones) and Party Killer (Graphic Melee & Ill Murray).
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(CBS/KGAN/AP) LAS VEGAS - Police in Las Vegas say rapper and reality TV show star Flavor Flav was arrested over the weekend on four outstanding misdemeanor warrants for various driving offenses.
The arrest took place Friday night after a traffic stop east of the Vegas strip.
According to CBS affiliate KGAN, police say the rapper had two outstanding arrest warrants for driving without a license, one for driving without insurance and one related to a parking citation.
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Before becoming a reality TV star, Flavor Flav, who's real name is William Jonathan Drayton, was a member of the rap group Public Enemy.
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DETROIT — Niklas Kronwall scored to give Detroit a two-goal lead, and later in the first period, he knocked Anders Lee off his feet with a high, hard hit.
After that, the Islanders began asserting themselves.
Matt Martin scored a tiebreaking goal with 16:36 remaining in the third period, capping an impressive comeback for the Islanders in a 3-2 victory over the Red Wings on Saturday night. The Isles trailed 2-0 after the first period but rallied with goals by Casey Cizikas, Ryan Pulock and Martin.
Tempers flared after Kronwall's hit on Lee. Moments later, Josh Bailey of the Islanders took Kronwall down in the corner. Then Bailey and Larkin had a scrap that earned fighting majors for both.
"I thought when that hit happened, with Bailey going over there and answering the bell, I thought from that standpoint, he pulled the rest of the group in," Islanders coach Barry Trotz said. "Our leadership, the guys were really good."
Lee was able to return to the game after getting stitched up, and he didn't seem to have much of an issue with the hit.
"I had my head down, looking for the puck in my skates, and he hit me with a good shoulder check," Lee said. "That's hockey."
There was no penalty assessed on the play.
"The hard part when you're coming north-south is to not touch the head at all," Kronwall said. "I think when you're skating, you're in a position where your head is basically the point of your body that's the most forward. You try to go through the chest or shoulder. Sometimes you end up catching the head. That's basically all I can say about it."
Justin Abdelkader and Kronwall scored for Detroit in the first, but the Islanders came all the way back. The game winner came when Luke Witkowski of the Red Wings wasn't able to handle the puck cleanly when it bounced off the boards behind the net. It ended up on Martin's stick in front of the goal, and he capitalized for his fourth goal of the season.
"I loved the way we responded tonight," Martin said. "We were 2-0 down and our captain is down and bleeding — that's a pretty bad start, but we talked about it after the first period and we decided we weren't going to let this one get away that easily. We had to step up. Our leading scorer got into a fight, which you don't see very often, but that's the kind of player Josh is."
Detroit opened the scoring when Larkin split two New York players and forced a save by goalie Thomas Greiss. Abdelkader scored on the rebound.
Seconds later, the Red Wings had a goal called back for offside, but they eventually went up 2-0 on Kronwall's tally. The Islanders gave the 37-year-old defenseman plenty of time to skate to the middle and shoot past a screened Greiss from just inside the blue line. It was his first goal of the season.
The Islanders quickly rallied to tie it in the second. After Cizikas made it 2-1, Pulock scored on a slap shot from the right circle while the Islanders had a two-man advantage.
"We had an excellent first period, and we could have had more goals," Red Wings coach Jeff Blashill said. "We needed to either score at least one more or not take the 5-on-3, because you are always likely to give up a goal on those and then it was a new game."
Later that period, there was another fight, this one between Abdelkader and Johnny Boychuk.


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May 2018—
Meeting Millennials where they are in their lives is one of the many topics to be explored at Insights 2018
WHAT: Insights 2018
WHERE: Minneapolis
WHEN: Sept. 14-15
8 Learning Labs – 11 Topics – 5 Networking Opportunities – 17 Events
Millennials spend their weekends binging on commercial-free Netflix. Baby Boomers drive their children around town listening to commercial-free satellite radio. And good luck trying to get any generation to allow pop-up ads on their computers. In an era when many consumers are actively trying to avoid advertising, retailers—be they in furniture, fashion or anything in between—are increasingly searching for other ways to reach them.
Some are blurring the line between advertising and content, hoping to pass through the filter of what consumers actually see and read.
Others are diving deeper into big data and location targeting (see last month's RetailerNOW) on the theory that consumers will embrace ads they find relevant. Others are hoping to meet shoppers where they are in their daily lives with active, meaningful experiences that, oh by the way, position their brand in front of consumers.
That last strategy is known as experiential marketing, and it's one of the many topics that will be explored at Insights, the Home Furnishings Association's 2018 conference in Minneapolis later this year. Maggie Ellison of Event Marketing Strategies (EMS), says the growing difficulty furniture retailers face in reaching consumers through traditional advertising is why many are turning to experiential marketing and social media to attract Millennials.
Ellison admits it's a sweeping generalization, but Millennials are known for their love of experiences. They attend festivals, concerts, trade shows, exhibits and sporting events with regularity. They want to experience the latest thing. In fact, a study from the Harris Group reported that 72 percent of Millennials would rather choose an experience over a material item.
Ellison says retailers who are highlighted at these events are not only exposing Millennials to what they sell, but also sharing their brand in a context they enjoy.
By integrating their brand into the Millennials' environment, Ellison says retailers are ensuring their brands will be on their radar.
Ellison says there's been a fundamental shift in marketing in the past decade. Marketing used to be about creating a story and telling it. "Today," she says, "it's about putting your real brand out there and sharing it."
For example, when furniture retailer, Z Gallerie, last year opened a new store in Columbus, Ohio, the company put together an experiential campaign to energize the city and make it aware of the new brand.
To build excitement in the weeks leading up to the store opening, Ellison's company created a contest supported by social media to promote a $1,500 room makeover giveaway.
Giant eight-foot tall, three-dimensional Zs filled with thousands of gold Z heart C stress balls were placed in two high-traffic areas within Columbus to serve as the event scenes. Passersby were asked to guess the number of stress balls in the Z.
Both venues boasted a full Z Gallerie furniture and décor display alongside the Z. EMS brand ambassadors prompted guests to take a selfie with the Z and post their photo to social media channels with hashtag #WhatTheZ along with their guess of the number of gold balls inside the Z. Participants who registered to win were rewarded with a custom branded Z heart C vintage tee.
The results?
Z Gallerie reached its projected first-day sales in the first two hours of the debut. "The people that campaign reached were people the store would probably never reach through traditional advertising and that's what experiential marketing does," says Ellison. "It provides brands like furniture stores with the opportunity to connect one-on-one in a way no other marketing program can do."
Experiential marketing has been around in some form or another since the late 1970s. By the early 2000s, small and large retailers, as well as major consumer brands, picked up on the idea of popping into popular gathering places as a method of engaging consumers where they are in their lives.
Ellison recalled an experiential marketing program in 2014 where IKEA promoted the opening of a store in France by building an apartment floor furnished in IKEA furniture into a vertical rock-climbing wall.
Today, Ellison says retailers are melding their brand experience in complementary settings, inviting consumers to engage with their products in different, welcoming environments. One example: Home furnishings chain West Elm will enter the hospitality business, with five West Elm hotels. Again, the concept is meeting consumers where they are in their lives rather than trying to engage them in traditional advertising. In West Elm's case, the store is comforting shoppers with its brand during a vacation or business trip.
"With experiential marketing," says Ellison, "consumers are now experiencing the brand rather than the advertisement. Sometimes what takes weeks or months to accomplish, experiential marketing can do on a Saturday afternoon."
Ellison is one of several speakers who will help retailers improve the customer experience in their stores at Insights in Minneapolis, Sept. 14-15.
Insights 2018 is throwing out the old way retailers gathered for conference. Gone are the days where retailers spent three or four days away from their stores sitting on uncomfortable chairs for 90-minute lectures. Insights speakers such as Ellison, some of the brightest and most innovative experts on customer experience in the furniture retail industry, will create a hands-on, experiential learning environment. Retailers will break up into small groups throughout each day to discuss needs and collaborate on solutions specific to their stores.
Every day will feature Insights' exclusive Learning Labs, experiential, interactive breakout sessions designed to personalize strategies and help retailers better understand the customer experience for their stores.
The Solution Room will allow retailers to take a deeper dive into the day's topics. Retailers can simply choose a topic from the day's events and join friends and peers to come up with solutions catered to their store.
"You're not just learning from our panel of experts," says Sharron Bradley, CEO of the Home Furnishings Association, "you're going to be learning from your peers. There's no better group of experts than the members of our association."
Best of all, says Bradley, Insights attendees will take in all this learning and sharing over a weekend. "Retailers will want to be back in their stores first thing Monday to start implementing what they learn," says Bradley.
Insights 2018 isn't just for learning—it's for celebrating, too. The HFA will be honoring its 2018 Retailers of the Year as well as its Emerging Star and Trailblazer award recipients.
Insights 2018 will be held at the Radisson Blu Minneapolis Downtown in the heart of the city and within easy walking distance of theaters, restaurants, Target Field and U.S. Bank Stadium.
"I'm excited about the changes we've made to our usual conference," says Bradley. "Insights is going to be invaluable for retailers who are serious about growing their business."


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Gary Andersen is done as the head football coach at Oregon State, both sides announced on Monday.
The sides said the decision was mutual even though Andersen had four years left on his contract. Assistant Cory Hall will take over the team on an interim basis.
Andersen's tenure as Beavers head coach was nothing short of a disaster. He went 7-23 in his two-plus seasons and Oregon State became by far the worst program in the Pac-12 under his watch.
Though Oregon State was terrible in the '80s and much of the '90s, Dennis Erickson and then Mike Riley turned them into a successful program that put players in the NFL and regularly made bowl games. Andersen didn't come close to continuing that.
Andersen went 19-7 in two seasons at Wisconsin before leaving for Oregon State, making his struggles in the Pac-12 even more confounding. He had success at Utah State prior to joining Wisconsin.


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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women
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In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."
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The 2016 Mountain West football helmet schedule is available for fans to download, print, and use to follow the game action. We have included a printable version of the full 2016 college football season schedule for league teams below for you to use for free in image format. Please feel free to share or use how you wish. The 2016 Mountain West football season gets started on August 26th with Hawaii playing California in Sydney, Australia in one of the first games of the college football regular season. The first conference game is scheduled for September 24th featuring Utah State hosting Air Force. The MWC football championship game is scheduled to take place on December 3rd at the home field of the highest ranked divisional winner in the league based on the college football playoff rankings. If you are interested in checking out other college football helmet schedules, we have posted a number of them here for you to enjoy. We also have the 2016-17 college football playoff schedule and the college football bowl schedule posted for you to enjoy.
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Cops seek man in party shooting
Police were seeking the shooter who fired a bullet that went through the left calf of a 19-year-old man late Tuesday during a party at the victim's North Amityville home.
Darryl Walker was outside his Smith Street home about 10:45 p.m. when he was shot in the left calf, said First Precinct Det. Lt. Robert Edwards. "We don't believe it was a random shooting," he said. "We believe he was targeted."
Walker was treated at Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip and released, police said.
The motive for the shooting was not clear, police said.
Detectives ask anyone with information about the shooting to call them at 631-854-8152 or Crime Stoppers at 800-220-TIPS.
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A Manhattan woman has been charged with forgery and other crimes after she tried to cash a check in another woman's name at a Greenvale bank, Nassau County police said.
Kathleen S. Morrison, 54, of 507 W. 42nd St., was arrested at 5:10 p.m. Tuesday after she presented a forged driver's license at a Wells Fargo Bank branch on Northern Boulevard and tried to withdraw money from another woman's account, police said.
She was being held on $5,000 cash or $10,000 bond following arraignment in First District Court in Hempstead on charges of forgery, possession of forged instruments, identify theft and grand larceny, according to online court records.
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When the fine folk at Electric Literature publish a story, they commission a short animation inspired by a single sentence. This one is based on a line from "The Reader" which will appear in Electric Literature #6. It was animated by the amazing Drew Christie.
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I hope that you are doing great and that you are keeping up with our diet challenge for this week.Today we are doing super a intense combined workout. The workout is divided into 3 parts that you will do back to back. The first part of the workout is 4 minutes of high intensity interval training and the only thing you will need is your Gymboss Interval Timer. Set your timer for 16 rounds of 5 second and 10 second long intervals. You start with the short interval and as soon as you hear the beep of your timer start doing high knees at your maximum effort. Your goal is to put all of your energy into the exercise and sprint as fast as you can during the 10 second interval. As soon as you hear the beep tone again, drop down on your belly and stay there for 5 seconds until the timer tells you to get up and keep going with the high knees. You will complete 16 rounds of this craziness. At the end of the 4 minutes you should be sweating and breathing hard like me. If your not, then it means only one thing – you haven't been pushing yourself at your maximum effort!
After a short break – 1 minute and a sip of water, you will move on to the second part of the workout which is a time challenge. You will need your Gymboss Interval Timer again and this time you will set it up as a stop watch. I was also using my 35 pound Sandbag, so unless you are a complete beginner, you can use the extra weight to kick up the intensity of this challenge. You can always play with the weight of the sandbag and make it as heavy as you need to for your fitness level. I went over the exercises and modifications for beginners in the instructional video for this workout.
I completed part 2 in 7 minutes and 54 seconds, so you guys can try to beat my time. There are 30 sets in this mini workout that you have to complete as fast as possible. Check out the step by step photo tutorial and the instructional video so that you know the exact flow of this routine.
Finally the 3rd part of this workout is the same as part 1. At this point you might be considering giving up, however I hope that you will find that last little bit of strength inside and do it. BodyRockers never give up 😉
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$90 // 6:00-8:00 pm // Tuesdays // July 31, August 7 and 14 // Beginner - Advanced
Are you confused about color terms, like granulation, opacity, lightfastedness, complementary, cool vs. warm, tint, etc.? Do you struggle to mix colors that are beautiful, not muddy? Do you know how to plan a painting with a value study and a color plan? Join Peg as she breaks down the complexity of color into short, easy-to-follow exercises. Discover the hundreds of colors you can mix with the tubes of paint you already own! This class will include: demonstrations, color worksheets, and individual help.
Instructor Peg Sheridan has been painting in watercolors for 39 years, and teaching for 19 years. She is known for her encouraging, "no fears" way of teaching watercolor painting. She is a signature member of the Virginia Watercolor Society, and has won many regional awards for her paintings.
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I am not particular about brushes or paints, but I insist on Arches 140 lb. cold press watercolor paper. This is why: it is impossible to do the techniques I teach using cheap paper. You will need 2 sheets (22X30). Do not bring Strathmore of any weight. For the color exercises, you can paint on the backs of old paintings.
Watercolor brushes, including: 1″ flat, #8 or #10 round, and any other brushes you may want to bring. Bring your largest sized brushes, as they will help you to paint more loosely.
A covered palette is preferred. If you cover it after a painting session, you can reuse the paint. Otherwise, a white china or plastic plate works for a palette.
Student or professional grade paints, not Artists Loft brand (sold at Michaels). That brand has a lot of fillers, and will not work for this class. The M.Graham brand, sold at Larkin Arts, is great for this class. You will need a warm and a cool of each of these colors: red, yellow, blue. Colors I recommend are:
Warm Yellows: Quinacridone gold // Gamboge
Cool Yellows: Azo // Hansa // Lemon Yellow
Warm Reds: Quinacridone // Pyrrol // Napthol // Cadmium Red
Cool Reds: Quinacridone Rose // Alizarin Crimson // Rose Madder
Warm/neutral Blues: Ultramarine // Cobalt Blue
Cool Blues: Prussian // Antwerp // Turquoise Blue
Warm Browns: Quincridone burnt orange // Quinacridone rust // Burnt sienna
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-Add any of your favorite colors.
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-Sketchbook or loose paper, to take notes and make small sketches
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|One World Trade Center towers over the lower Manhattan skyline, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2011 in New York. The skyscraper is now 76 floors and will reach 104 floors.
Concrete laborers who had refused to work at the World Trade Center for three days returned to the job Thursday after their union reached a deal with contractors the night before.
But labor turmoil at the World Trade Center is not over: Another clash looms with the carpenters union—which voted to authorize a strike Wednesday.
The Cement League, a contractors' association that represents management, and the Cement and Concrete Workers District Council, representing concrete workers, agreed late Wednesday night to extend a contract until Aug. 16. Both declined to comment.
Talks will resume Friday, said Louis Coletti, president of the Building Trades Employers' Association, a management umbrella group. "I think it's a good thing. That means they will continue to talk and hopefully find a way to resolve it," he said.
Meanwhile, the union that represents about 22,000 carpenters voted on Wednesday night to authorize a strike if they don't reach a deal with management by Friday, when their contract extension ends.
"You can't stop it," said Steven Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York, regarding a strike by the carpenters. "If it does happen, I don't think it will be broad-based."
A spokesman with the federally monitored New York City District Council of Carpenters said progress was being made and an agreement was possible.
Carpenters are negotiating with several contractor groups, including the Cement League.
Carpenters joined hundreds of cement workers earlier this week at a work stoppage that began Monday. The job action affected work at One and Two World Trade Center, its downtown transit hub, the new Barclays Center, Madison Square Garden, Weill Cornell Medical Center and a residential development on 57th Street.
A labor arbitrator ordered some of those workers back to their jobs on Tuesday and Wednesday because their project labor agreements had no-strike provisions. But concrete workers at One World Trade Center and its 800,000-square-foot transit hub had no such agreement and threatened to remain off the job until they had a contract.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey confirmed Thursday that the workers had returned to their jobs.
The main dispute is over contractors' insistence that concrete workers accept 20% less in wages and benefits for residential and hotel construction relative to commercial construction. The union has refused to give in on that demand so far.
Patrick Keane, a concrete laborer from New Windsor, N.Y., said he is afraid that $200, or 20%, is going to be plucked from his weekly wages. "Allow us to live and allow us to live decently," he said. "It's another basic right—we're not looking to break anybody."


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The Darkroom's Pets & Animals themed Contest is complete and we have a winner. It's obvious that people are passionate about their animals and we had a lot amazing photos to choose from. We are thankful to to all who participated and congratulations to Shawn Randolph for his photo of "The Laughing Horse". Shawn will receive a bitchen Lomography Fisheye Baby 110 camera.
Winner: The Laughing Horse by Shawn
Honorable Mentions
We can only pick one winner, but we had a lot of great photos, so we wanted to recognize some of the notable images that didn't win.
Winners 2011
Homer Horowitz's "Electric Kool Aid Kitty"
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This course aims to improve and develop skills and strategies for students to understand complicated oral and written communications in Dutch. This may be required in a variety of social situations, including part-time employment and/or future studying in the Netherlands. Assignments are designed to make the students think critically. The course also focuses on Dutch culture in relation to language.
Integrating language and culture: students will improve their knowledge and abilities in the Dutch language while at the same time interacting with aspects of (local) Dutch society and culture. This will assist with their integration and participation in Dutch society.
The classes will be in Dutch. At the end of this course students will be able to understand written and oral language on familiar topics, as well as more complicated texts that will be encountered in Dutch media on topics such as politics, future employment and study prospects, and art and literature. Students will also be able to engage in discussions covering current-day events. The course includes writing formal letters and essays, involving grammar constructions such as the relative pronoun, indirect speech, the passive voice and subordinated sentences. Language skills and cultural knowledge and awareness will be integrated in writing an essay and giving a presentation, in Dutch, on a theme chosen by the student.
Language acquisition through culture will build upon what students have learned in previous courses, enhancing their critical thinking. More complex exercises will be introduced in order to consolidate the learning process, including the use of Dutch newspaper articles for discussion on specific topics, local excursion(s), and the use of film, music and literature as the basis for Dutch-language presentations. Students will meet local inhabitants as a part of a speaking project aiming at enhancing oral communication. The students will also set up and conduct 'life interviews' with local residents of their choice, which can be filmed, as a separate course project.
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Liselotte Cornelissen (31, Dutch) joined Gilde's Utrecht office in January 2018. Liselotte previously worked as a management consultant at Bain &Company, where she was based in Amsterdam and Johannesburg.
Liselotte has an MBA from Columbia Business School and an MA degree in European Economics from the College of Europe (Bruges, Belgium). She previously obtained a BA in International Relations and a BSc in Economics from the University of Groningen (Netherlands).