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In many ways, the financial services industry is on more solid footing than it has been for quite some time. The U.S. economy continues to improve, although concerns remain in both Europe and some emerging markets.
Investor sentiment is a bit cautious going into 2015, despite profitability being quite strong in many sectors. But concerns – some new, some old – are keeping industry executives on their toes. Whether it is the evolving threat of cybercrime, rising cost of regulatory compliance, or pressure coming from nontraditional competitors, financial services leaders have challenges aplenty. Agility, innovation, and collaboration will be important to capitalise on new opportunities for growth in 2015.
Producing industry outlook reports has the result of exposing the authors to second-guessing; hindsight is 20/20. Nevertheless, we believe it is important to reflect on what we said a year ago, and put our prior prognostications to the test by analysing what we got right – and perhaps not exactly right – in our 2014 outlook. You will find this "Looking back" analysis leading off this year's edition, followed by a "Looking forward" summary of our views on the coming year.
The bulk of the report will then explore a number of key issues of importance for the industry over the coming year, each including a specific look at the "Focus for 2015" and a "Bottom line" that provides some actionable takeaways for industry leaders to consider.


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I've been hearing the words "deosil" used for clockwise and "widdershins" for anticlockwise, but where do they come from?
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On the cold, snowy night of March 5, 1770, a mob of American colonists gathers at the Customs House in Boston and begins taunting the British soldiers guarding the building. The protesters, who called themselves Patriots, were protesting the occupation of their city by British troops, who were sent to Boston in 1768 to enforce unpopular taxation measures passed by a British parliament that lacked American representation.
READ MORE: Did a Snowball Fight Start the American Revolution?
British Captain Thomas Preston, the commanding officer at the Customs House, ordered his men to fix their bayonets and join the guard outside the building. The colonists responded by throwing snowballs and other objects at the British regulars, and Private Hugh Montgomery was hit, leading him to discharge his rifle at the crowd. The other soldiers began firing a moment later, and when the smoke cleared, five colonists were dead or dying—Crispus Attucks, Patrick Carr, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick and James Caldwell—and three more were injured. Although it is unclear whether Crispus Attucks, an African American, was the first to fall as is commonly believed, the deaths of the five men are regarded by some historians as the first fatalities in the American Revolutionary War.
READ MORE: 8 Things We Know About Crispus Attucks
The British soldiers were put on trial, and patriots John Adams and Josiah Quincy agreed to defend the soldiers in a show of support of the colonial justice system. When the trial ended in December 1770, two British soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter and had their thumbs branded with an "M" for murder as punishment.
The Sons of Liberty, a Patriot group formed in 1765 to oppose the Stamp Act, advertised the "Boston Massacre" as a battle for American liberty and just cause for the removal of British troops from Boston. Patriot Paul Revere made a provocative engraving of the incident, depicting the British soldiers lining up like an organized army to suppress an idealized representation of the colonist uprising. Copies of the engraving were distributed throughout the colonies and helped reinforce negative American sentiments about British rule.
READ MORE: 7 Events That Led to the American Revolution
In April 1775, the American Revolution began when British troops from Boston skirmished with American militiamen at the battles of Lexington and Concord. The British troops were under orders to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington and to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord. Neither missions were accomplished because of Paul Revere and William Dawes, who rode ahead of the British, warning Adams and Hancock and rousing the Patriot minutemen.
Eleven months later, in March 1776, British forces had to evacuate Boston following American General George Washington's successful placement of fortifications and cannons on Dorchester Heights. This bloodless liberation of Boston brought an end to the hated eight-year British occupation of the city. For the victory, General Washington, commander of the Continental Army, was presented with the first medal ever awarded by the Continental Congress. It would be more than five years before the Revolutionary War came to an end with British General Charles Cornwallis' surrender to Washington at Yorktown, Virginia.


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Bringing It All Back Home: Occupied Chicago is America's New Normal
Gary Younge and Bernard Harcourt have good pieces in the Guardian about the "new normal" of America's militarized society, as exemplified by armed occupation of Chicago by a staggering array of "security" forces. Younge notes the bitter irony of the word "security" in a city where the poor are being subjected to ever-increasing levels of violence both from private predators and public "protectors": The dissonance between the global pretensions of the summit this weekend and the local realities of Chicago could not be more striking. Nato claims its purpose is to secure peace through security; in much of Chicago neither


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JLL named to the Best of The Global Outsourcing 100®
JLL recognized as a top-rated global outsourcing company by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals for more than a decade.
CHICAGO, Feb. 19, 2019 – A reputation for innovation, top customer references and corporate social responsibility have earned JLL a place on The Best of the Global Outsourcing 100®. The distinction marks JLL's now 11 consecutive years on the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals' (IAOP®) annual list of the world's top outsourcing service providers.
"Today's most progressive business innovators are thinking about outsourcing differently, seeking to improve human and financial performance," said John Forrest, Global CEO, JLL Corporate Solutions. "Rapid and complex change is creating a new world of work and as a result, new opportunities for organizations to drive value from their corporate real estate. Our longstanding recognition by IAOP underscores how our team's expertise and our best-in-class digital offering help clients unlock the potential of their portfolios and workplaces."
The Best of The Global Outsourcing 100 is a culmination of the very best companies featured in the last decade on IAOP's annual list.
"The Global Outsourcing 100 and World's Best Advisors showcase the dedication, expertise and sheer hard work of the best of the best in the outsourcing industry," said IAOP CEO Debi Hamill. "I congratulate JLL for being recognized on IAOP's 2019 Best of The Global Outsourcing 100 as it is, year-after-year, among the highest-rated companies in customer references, programs for innovation and corporate social responsibility."
JLL's global Corporate Solutions business partners with clients across industry sectors to enhance the performance of their real estate portfolios and people. Through a comprehensive global service delivery platform, Corporate Solutions provides a diverse range of strategy, services and digital solutions that address the entire real estate cycle on a local to global scale for more than 500 clients across 80 countries. JLL is committed to creating, delivering and managing environments that inspire people to do their best work.
The Future of Work is JLL's outlook on the changing world of work and its impact on the next generation of real estate. For more details visit https://www.futureofwork.jll/
About JLL
JLL (NYSE: JLL) is a leading professional services firm that specializes in real estate and investment management. Our vision is to reimagine the world of real estate, creating rewarding opportunities and amazing spaces where people can achieve their ambitions. In doing so, we will build a better tomorrow for our clients, our people and our communities. JLL is a Fortune 500 company with annual revenue of $16.3 billion, operations in over 80 countries and a global workforce of over 90,000 as of December 31, 2018. JLL is the brand name, and a registered trademark, of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated. For further information, visit jll.com
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IAOP is the global association that brings together customers, providers, and advisors in a collaborative, knowledge-based environment that promotes professional and organizational development, recognition, certification, and excellence to improve business service models and outcomes. Our members and affiliates worldwide are digging deep at IAOP conferences, learning at IAOP chapter meetings, getting trained and certified at IAOP courses and workshops, and connecting through IAOP social media, all with one goal: better business results. Whether you are a customer, provider or advisor, new to collaborative business models like outsourcing, or you are an experienced professional, IAOP connects you and your organization to our growing global community and to the resources you need to get the results your company deserves and demands. For more information and how you can become involved, visit www.IAOP.org.


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It's spring time and that means that asparagus is popping up on New York City's fruit stands! These guys not only have the best produce, they also have the best prices; I can buy three or four bananas for a dollar from the stand on my corner or one for 90 cents at Starbucks! I even once found a five-for-a-dollar stand, but that's rare. I digress. So I bought a bunch of asparagus this week. It cost me $2.
A couple of dollars and 15 minutes is all it takes to make this dish. Actually, maybe it takes a bit longer for your oven to get up to 400 degrees than mine. My oven in my new apartment is mini; 20 inches. It still has four burners (that are quite close together) and still fits my half-sheet pans perfectly, as well as my 5-1/2 qt. round Le Creuset. So I can't complain. The best part about my oven? It heats up extremely quickly. I have a handy little oven thermometer that tells me so, since it lacks a fancy digital display. Where was I? Oh, yes! So all of this recipe needs you to do is roast the asparagus for 10 minutes and viola! Nutritious and delicious.
What makes this asparagus red hot is the red hot paprika I used in addition to plain old salt and pepper. It gave it a nice kick and a little diversity from the garlic/olive oil/salt/pepper roasted veggies that I usually make.
- 1 bunch of asparagus
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 2 cloves of garlic, smashed
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 teaspoon red hot paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- Break off the woody ends of the asparagus and arrange spears in a single layer on a foil-coated baking sheet.
- Mix olive oil, garlic, salt, pepper, and paprika in a bowl. Pour over the asparagus.
- Roll the asparagus around the tray until evenly coated.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
We only ate 1/2 of these spears for lunch, so the next morning I chopped them up and made a Red Hot Roasted Asparagus Frittata. The addition of the paprika was extra appreciated in the eggs, topped with cheese and served with hot sauce!


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The widely dispersed opposition to proposals for high speed rail (genuine and faux) led Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood to say that the Administration would press forward in a patchwork fashion if necessary.
"Patchwork" may be an overstatement. House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R., Ky.) has plans to eliminate high speed rail funding in the current fiscal year. Already, holes have appeared in the high-speed rail plans with the cancellation of the Milwaukee to Madison line by Gov. Scott Walker and the cancellation of the Cincinnati to Cleveland line by Gov. John Kasich.
Should the Republican congressional high speed rail defunding proposal survive, it will could put an end to such proposals as the Miami to Orlando high-speed rail line, which has been advertised as an $8 billion project but which international experience suggests could easily reach $16 billion.
Further, the proposed defunding could render California's presently planned San Joaquin Valley "train to nowhere" (Corcoran to Borden, with stops in Hanford and Fresno) as less than patchwork. The California line was already on life support, with the newest estimates indicating a 50 percent cost increase over two years (to $65 billion), bringing overall per mile cost escalation since the initial 1999 estimate to approximately 100 percent (adjusted for inflation). As these difficulties were not enough, the Community Coalition on High Speed Rail reports that agricultural interests are now raising concerns about the impact of construct in the San Joaquin Valley. Strong citizen opposition has already developed on the San Francisco peninsula and in the Los Angeles area, which may have been part of the reason that the California High Speed Rail Authority chose the "train to nowhere" route as its first segment.
This could also make it unlikely that there will be any new funding for the Chicago to St. Louis high-speed rail line, which requires at least another $2 billion to complete the trip in four hours (at an average speed of 75 miles per hour). In fact, four hour service was promised in the US Department of Transportation documentation that accompanied the previous $1 billion grant.
It will probably also be the end of the $12 billion (more likely $25 billion) proposal to scrap the 75 mile per hour Chicago to St. Louis system after it is completed and replace it with a completely new, faster line that would travel twice as fast.
A number of commentators (including this author) have suggested that zeroing out high-speed rail is a litmus test of the resolve of Congress to control spending. The first steps may have been taken.


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If you dread seeing the doctor and your blood pressure reading always seems to be high at the doctor's office, a new review says you should take those elevated readings seriously.
The problem is called white-coat hypertension (because of doctors' traditional white coats) and it may signal an underlying problem.
The research defined white-coat hypertension as elevated readings at the doctor's office, along with normal blood pressure elsewhere. People who had untreated white-coat hypertension had double the risk of dying from heart disease or stroke compared with people with normal blood pressure.
The odds of having a heart attack or stroke were also about one-third higher for those with white-coat hypertension, according to the new review. Their risk of dying prematurely from any cause was also increased by about a third compared to people with no blood pressure problems.
"People with white-coat hypertension may not be monitored regularly. They may feel like nothing is wrong," said lead author Dr. Jordana Cohen. She is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, in Philadelphia.
Cohen said everyone needs to know their blood pressure outside the doctor's office. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a defined as a top reading of at least 130 or a bottom one of 80. The condition affects nearly a third of American adults, the researchers said.
"Know what your blood pressure is, and what your goal is. Learn how to take blood pressure so you get a quality blood pressure reading. I think everyone should have a home monitor, even if their health care provider doesn't specifically recommend it," she said.
The study was published June 10 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Besides looking at white-coat hypertension, the review also looked at white-coat effect. This is when elevated in-office blood pressure is treated with medication. The concern is that if readings are only elevated in the doctor's office, high blood pressure drugs might drop pressure too low.
But researchers didn't find any significant links between white-coat effect and heart disease and strokes, or deaths from heart disease and strokes, or deaths from any cause.
The review included 27 previously completed studies. Those studies had nearly 26,000 people with white-coat hypertension or white-coat effect, and more than 38,000 with normal blood pressure. The studies went on for between three and 19 years.
Dr. Daichi Shimbo wrote an editorial that appeared in the same issue of the journal. It recommended adding out-of-office blood pressure readings to determine whether someone has white-coat hypertension, or sustained high blood pressure.
"This paper was extremely important. White-coat hypertension is perhaps, not benign," he said.
"But if you have high office blood pressure, don't you want to know whether or not the out-of-office blood pressure is high or not? If the out-of-office is high, then it's sustained hypertension. This systematic review didn't look at sustained hypertension," Shimbo said.
And, he said, sustained high blood pressure is the real concern. Shimbo added that the people with white-coat hypertension who had the biggest risks were those who also had other risk factors, such as prior heart disease or chronic kidney disease.
Dr. Traci Marquis-Eydman is an associate professor at Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn. She agreed that the strongest risks appeared to be in people who had white-coat hypertension and other risk factors, such as an older age.
The review calls to mind the approach to diabetes management, she noted. "It's important to individualize people's treatment plans," Marquis-Eydman said.
"This study shows it's important to monitor blood pressure in more than one setting," she explained.
All three experts said it's important that blood pressure is taken properly — both in the office and out.
The American Heart Association advises avoiding caffeine, tobacco products and exercise for a half-hour before taking your blood pressure.
Empty your bladder, then sit quietly for at least five minutes before taking a reading. Sit with your back supported and your feet flat on the floor. Your arm should be supported on a table or other flat surface. Check the instructions on your monitor for proper placement of the cuff.
Cohen noted that your doctor may also order "ambulatory monitoring." That means you wear a blood pressure cuff that takes measurements throughout the day and night.
More information
Here's more on monitoring your blood pressure at home from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Between about 1:00 pm and 2:40 pm ET on Wednesday, April 17, the CNN news team was at the worst I've ever seen them. The afternoon began well, with the exciting revelation that the FBI now had recovered video of a suspect from a security camera at Lord & Taylor Department Store. But things went all downhill from there
John King reported that his source told him that the individual in the video was a dark-skinned male: "I was told they have a breakthrough in the identification of the suspect, and I'm told — and I want to be very careful about this because people get very sensitive when you say these things — I was told by one of these sources who's a law enforcement official that this was a dark-skinned male. The official used some other words, I'm going to repeat them until we get more information because of the sensitivities. There are some people who will take offense even in saying that. I'm making a personal judgment — forgive me — and I think it's the right judgment not to try to inflame tensions."
Then Wolf Blitzer, refusing to take King's hint that he didn't want to say the words "Arab" or "Muslim," asked if the person on the videotape could be heard speaking with an accent.
That was the low point. They were hinting around about Arabness or Muslimness, using skin color and accent as euphemisms. (Never mind that these are actually inappropriate markers for either group of Americans). King seems to have been told more of that kind of thing by his Boston PD source but, in his one piece of wise caution for the day, declined to retail further racist rumors. Blitzer can't possibly be so naive about surveillance cameras as to think that they have audio. The question was a loaded one.
The moral tone could not have gotten any worse, but the journalistic one surprised us all by taking a nosedive. John King announced that a source in law enforcement had informed him that the authorities had made an arrest. This allegation was untrue, and Jon Stewart's Daily Show raked King over the coals for being so eager for an exclusive scoop that he rushed to camera with a single, anonymous, uncorroborated source. In his defense, he later said that the source, in the Boston police department, had been reliable before, so he had a track record with the person. But clearly King should have checked with other sources before going on camera with that information. Dependence on a single highly placed source and willingness to grant the source anonymity are both banes of contemporary journalism.
Worse, it may have been a misunderstanding. CNN said the Boston PD source had said, "We got him!" Presumably that meant they had found a person on videotape who looked like the perpetrator. Did King simply misunderstand the exclamation? Did he not take the time to ask, "What do you mean by that?"
What made the afternoon truly horrible was that none of the substance reported or speculated on was known to be true by the FBI. The Bureau issued a denial that they had anyone in custody, or even had made a positive identification of the person in the video, about an hour after King's breathless pronouncement.
CBS News in Boston reported that no suspect was in custody. Then its Bob Orr dropped the bombshell on Twitter:
JUST IN: Man sought as possible suspect is WHITE MALE, wearing white baseball cap on backwards, gray hoodie and black jacket.
— CBS News (@CBSNews) April 17, 2013
The guy, he said in caps, was a WHITE MALE. Orr did not say if he spoke with an accent.
Almost nothing the experienced CNN television reporters said was true. At 2 pm you would have thought that a dark-skinned male, maybe a foreign one, was sitting handcuffed in a police car, the smell of bomb-making chemicals on his hoodie.
By the time we went to bed, we knew nothing again. Orr's report on the appearance of the alleged perpetrator may or may not be true, itself.
What went wrong?
The technical problems derived from the capitalist model of news broadcasting. In a competition for advertising dollars, the scoop is not just the supreme public service or a source of prestige, it is big, big bucks. It is no secret that CNN's ratings have been spiraling down. Hence the drive for the scoop that cuts corners, that accepts imperfect information from a single source not checked against others. The problems derived also in part from the 24-hour cable news format for dealing with big stories, which is to make them the only story for hours on end, requiring anchors and reporters to fill air time with speculation. It isn't news reporting, it is chit chat, and derives from the entertainment model of news forced on the reporters by the networks' search for advertising dollars. They are competing for eyeballs not because they have an important piece of breaking news to share but because each eyeball equals in increase in advertising rates. The goal is to keep people watching. They are petrified that if they switch to covering some other story than the one they have decided is on everyone's mind, the audience will switch to a competing network. They therefore have to stay on the one story even when there are no developments, and are forced to emulate a talk show, engaging in a stream of consciousness discourse with one another, trying to keep the audience entertained with random thoughts expressed by good-looking people on weighty matters.
Streams of consciousness throw up streams of the unconscious, and sometimes darker thoughts and unworthy ideas bubble to the surface. The ethical problems enter there, superseding the technical ones. The contemporary anxiety around Arabness and Muslimness, despite the rarity of violence in the US from those quarters (American Muslims are disproportionately well-educated, well off, and Establishment) compared to terrorist actions of white supremacists, expresses America's long national terror of the immigrant. That consideration is the significance of the marker of the accent in Blitzer's question. (Again, never mind that by now most American Muslims are not immigrants). The underlying question is nevertheless the immigrant– that immigrant so necessary in a barracuda capitalist society for cheap labor but that immigrant so frightening for not yet being socialized to "American" values. That America has adopted fortress Israel as its frontier state, bestowing on it a role once played by Arizona and then by the Philippines, of being the furthest extension of white dynamism and virtue into a chaotic and barbaric brown world, reinforces the themes of the fear of the Arab and the Muslim, the inconvenient populations who decline to acquiesce in white assertion of superiority and dominance, the barbarians who resist despite their obvious inferiority. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), even manages to mix together in his fevered mind the supposed Latino threat with the supposed Muslim one.
Ironically, 100 years ago it would have been the Irish and the Jews, the Italians and Poles, to whom American racial anxieties attached, who would have been viewed as suspicious or dangerous for not being free market Protestants. (E.g. Sacco and Vanzetti.) The big wave of immigration that began around 1880 and was stopped by law in 1924 resembles that of our own day.
We've been here before. In Yogi Berra's phrase, it is deja vu all over again. In response to a bombing in the West that killed former Idaho Gov. Frank Steunenberg in 1905, high officials of the Western Federation of Miners were arrested and tried for complicity (the "Haywood-Moyer-Pettibone Case"). The Chicago Daily Tribune reported on May 20, 1907 on a sympathy march staged to support the accused union leaders. The article was entitled "Socialist Parade under Red Flags" (the chief of police had unsuccessfully tried to ban the red flags). Those marching, the report sniffed, included "One Polish revolutionary society, which had several hundred marchers in line, sang the "Warsha Vyanska," or "Song of Revolution," as it passed along the route. The Poles carried a banner which read: "I'm an undeniable citizen but Teddy Roosevelt wants my vote." The newspaper reassured the North Shore elite that an attack on the police had been forestalled.
A bombing, a restless oppressed group; uppity immigrants with radical foreign ideas and accents who use strange phrases; their assertions of Americanness mingled with a challenge to the WASP status quo– the keyword terrain of the 1907 article is identical to our own desultory news day in 2013.
It is, however, over 100 years later, and we ought to have made some progress.


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Daily Readings for Sunday, July 14, 2024
- Morning Psalms 103; 150
- First Reading Joshua 1:1-18
- Second Reading Acts 21:3-15
- Gospel Reading Mark 1:21-27
- Evening Psalms 117; 139
Morning Psalm 103
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul,
and all that is within me,
bless his holy name.
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul,
and do not forget all his benefits —
3 who forgives all your iniquity,
who heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the Pit,
who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
5 who satisfies you with good as long as you live
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.
6 The LORD works vindication
and justice for all who are oppressed.
7 He made known his ways to Moses,
his acts to the people of Israel.
8 The LORD is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
9 He will not always accuse,
nor will he keep his anger for ever.
10 He does not deal with us according to our sins,
nor repay us according to our iniquities.
11 For as the heavens are high above the earth,
so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
12 as far as the east is from the west,
so far he removes our transgressions from us.
13 As a father has compassion for his children,
so the LORD has compassion for those who fear him.
14 For he knows how we were made;
he remembers that we are dust.
15 As for mortals, their days are like grass;
they flourish like a flower of the field;
16 for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
and its place knows it no more.
17 But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting
on those who fear him,
and his righteousness to children's children,
18 to those who keep his covenant
and remember to do his commandments.
19 The LORD has established his throne in the heavens,
and his kingdom rules over all.
20 Bless the LORD, O you his angels,
you mighty ones who do his bidding,
obedient to his spoken word.
21 Bless the LORD, all his hosts,
his ministers that do his will.
22 Bless the LORD, all his works,
in all places of his dominion.
Bless the LORD, O my soul.
Morning Psalm 150
1 Praise the Lord!
Praise God in his sanctuary;
praise him in his mighty firmament!
2 Praise him for his mighty deeds;
praise him according to his surpassing greatness!
3 Praise him with trumpet sound;
praise him with lute and harp!
4 Praise him with tambourine and dance;
praise him with strings and pipe!
5 Praise him with clanging cymbals;
praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
6 Let everything that breathes praise the Lord!
Praise the Lord!
First Reading Joshua 1:1-18
1After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' assistant, saying, 2"My servant Moses is dead. Now proceed to cross the Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the Israelites. 3Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, as I promised to Moses. 4From the wilderness and the Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, to the Great Sea in the west shall be your territory. 5No one shall be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you. 6Be strong and courageous; for you shall put this people in possession of the land that I swore to their ancestors to give them. 7Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to act in accordance with all the law that my servant Moses commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may be successful wherever you go. 8This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to act in accordance with all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall be successful. 9I hereby command you: Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."
10Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, 11"Pass through the camp, and command the people: 'Prepare your provisions; for in three days you are to cross over the Jordan, to go in to take possession of the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess.'"
12To the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh Joshua said, 13"Remember the word that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, 'The LORD your God is providing you a place of rest, and will give you this land.' 14Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall remain in the land that Moses gave you beyond the Jordan. But all the warriors among you shall cross over armed before your kindred and shall help them, 15until the LORD gives rest to your kindred as well as to you, and they too take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving them. Then you shall return to your own land and take possession of it, the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan to the east."
16They answered Joshua: "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. 17Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. Only may the LORD your God be with you, as he was with Moses! 18Whoever rebels against your orders and disobeys your words, whatever you command, shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous."
Second Reading Acts 21:3-15
3We came in sight of Cyprus; and leaving it on our left, we sailed to Syria and landed at Tyre, because the ship was to unload its cargo there. 4We looked up the disciples and stayed there for seven days. Through the Spirit they told Paul not to go on to Jerusalem. 5When our days there were ended, we left and proceeded on our journey; and all of them, with wives and children, escorted us outside the city. There we knelt down on the beach and prayed 6and said farewell to one another. Then we went on board the ship, and they returned home.
7When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais; and we greeted the believers and stayed with them for one day. 8The next day we left and came to Caesarea; and we went into the house of Philip the evangelist, one of the seven, and stayed with him. 9He had four unmarried daughters who had the gift of prophecy. 10While we were staying there for several days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. 11He came to us and took Paul's belt, bound his own feet and hands with it, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'This is the way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and will hand him over to the Gentiles.'" 12When we heard this, we and the people there urged him not to go up to Jerusalem. 13Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus." 14Since he would not be persuaded, we remained silent except to say, "The Lord's will be done."
15After these days we got ready and started to go up to Jerusalem.
Gospel Reading Mark 1:21-27
21They went to Capernaum; and when the sabbath came, he entered the synagogue and taught. 22They were astounded at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes. 23Just then there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, 24and he cried out, "What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are, the Holy One of God." 25But Jesus rebuked him, saying, "Be silent, and come out of him!" 26And the unclean spirit, convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him. 27They were all amazed, and they kept on asking one another, "What is this? A new teaching - with authority! He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him."
Evening Psalm 117
1 Praise the LORD, all you nations!
Extol him, all you peoples!
2 For great is his steadfast love toward us,
and the faithfulness of the LORD endures forever.
Praise the LORD!
Evening Psalm 139
1 O LORD, you have searched me and known me.
2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
you discern my thoughts from far away.
3 You search out my path and my lying down,
and are acquainted with all my ways.
4 Even before a word is on my tongue,
O LORD, you know it completely.
5 You hem me in, behind and before,
and lay your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
it is so high that I cannot attain it.
7 Where can I go from your spirit?
Or where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there;
if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there.
9 If I take the wings of the morning
and settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
10 even there your hand shall lead me,
and your right hand shall hold me fast.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me,
and the light around me become night,"
12 even the darkness is not dark to you;
the night is as bright as the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
13 For it was you who formed my inward parts;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
that I know very well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes beheld my unformed substance.
In your book were written
all the days that were formed for me,
when none of them as yet existed.
17 How weighty to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 I try to count them — they are more than the sand;
I come to the end — I am still with you.
19 O that you would kill the wicked, O God,
and that the bloodthirsty would depart from me —
20 those who speak of you maliciously,
and lift themselves up against you for evil!
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against you?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred;
I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my thoughts.
24 See if there is any wicked way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.


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Jan 18, 2018 10:47:56 AM by Tilde S
I signed up for Upwork while I was travelling but didn't finish my profile. My country is set to Serbia but I now live in the US. Every time I try to access the account settings page to edit location it just redirects me to the "create profile" page. How am I meant to change my country before submitting my profile for review?
Solved! Go to Solution.
Jan 31, 2022 12:06:07 PM by Andrea G
Hi all,
This thread has been closed from further replies due to its size and because the information shared here is now outdated. We appreciate your participation in the Community.
Thank you!
Feb 20, 2021 02:19:45 PM Edited Feb 20, 2021 02:20:04 PM by Luiggi R
Hi Shalom,
You can change your location settings under Settings> Contact Info> Location. Please note that If you're moving for a short period of time, there's no need to update your location. You can check this help article to learn more.
Feb 20, 2021 02:27:43 PM by Shalom A
Feb 20, 2021 03:59:22 PM by Luiggi R
Hi Shalom,
Your country has been updated. Feel free to fill out the rest of your address.
Mar 2, 2021 12:12:51 PM by Brandon N
Hey Team,
I also need assistance switching my account from a USA account to a CAD account.
Mar 24, 2021 01:15:38 AM Edited Mar 24, 2021 01:16:05 AM by Jean Yann H
I seem to also have an issue to change my profile location.
The settings allowed me to change my company location but not my profile one.
Would you be able to update it for me? I believe it is set to USA but it should be AUSTRALIA.
Mar 25, 2021 03:43:20 AM by Hosea N
I set up my account in Kenya but moved to Milan, Italy to complete my Master's. How do i change the location? At the moment, it shows Kenya yet I am in Italy
May 4, 2021 10:21:36 PM by James P
My location is Los Angeles, not Czech Republic. Can this be updated? Thanks.
May 7, 2021 03:18:11 PM by Norbert H
Hi Bojan,
I have a similar problem. I just opened today my account, but I realized that you dont allow me to change my registered location to Austria. The reason why I put Mexico, is that I am currently in Mexico and looking forward to get some business there. But my current company location is Austria.
Can you do that for me, or do I have to cancel my whole profile and re-start the whole process, which would be of course very inefficent.
May 7, 2021 05:19:18 PM by Joanne P
Hi Norbert,
If you are travelling and are away from your country of residence temporarily, you don't need to update your location. If it does raise any flags on our end, the team will reach out to you directly. If however, you are going to be away for an extended period, such as moving some place, then you should make updates to your account location. Also, it's recommended that you check with a legal adviser if you need a certain type of visa or a work permit to be able to work on Upwork while travelling.
May 15, 2021 01:39:35 AM by Charly C
I need to change my country of residence but when I select "contact info" on the menu, it immediately sends me to "password & security" and no other options are available. Advice required please or ADMIN of upwork, please contact me as this is really a simple design tool that you need to adopt as I see it is a problem for a lot of people registered
May 15, 2021 02:58:51 AM by Joanne P
Hi Charly,
I checked your account and it seems like you have not set up your password and security yet. If you have not completed this step, the system will prompt you to do so to access your settings page. Please follow the prompt to set up your password and security. Once done, please try to access your Contact info section again. if you still encounter issues, please let us know.
May 21, 2021 07:58:18 PM by Christopher J
May 21, 2021 09:37:08 PM by Joanne P
Hi Christopher,
I've escalated your concern to the team. One of our agents will reach out and assist you directly via a support ticket.
May 28, 2021 10:30:39 PM by Pinku D
i change country so i need change my upwork profile location any one hlep me
May 28, 2021 11:40:43 PM by Joanne P
Hi Pinku,
I can see that you already have an open ticket regarding this issue. One of our agents will update your ticket and assist you further.
Jun 8, 2021 10:01:32 PM by Tanmay K
I am unable to change my location , says I need to update my w-9 info but there is no column to update that
Jun 8, 2021 11:13:53 PM by Joanne P
Hi Tanmay,
Could you please confirm the name of the country you are currently located so I can check?
Jun 8, 2021 11:15:10 PM by Tanmay K
I am currently in USA but my location set is INDIA which I am unable to change !
Jun 8, 2021 11:43:14 PM Edited Jun 8, 2021 11:43:31 PM by Aleksandar D
Hi Tanmay,
One of our team members will reach out to you directly via a support ticket to assist you further.
Thank you.
Jan 31, 2022 12:06:07 PM by Andrea G
Hi all,
This thread has been closed from further replies due to its size and because the information shared here is now outdated. We appreciate your participation in the Community.
Thank you!


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Winter in Ukraine is freezing. And as summer turns to fall, Russian forces have targeted Ukraine's energy supply. The largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine has been under Russian occupation for months. And right now, it isn't generating electricity for safety reasons. Russian shelling recently hit power and heating plants in several parts of Ukraine, including a missile attack near a different nuclear power plant, and many of Ukraine's coal mines in the east are under Russian control. All of this is in the portfolio of Ukraine's energy minister. German Galushchenko is in Pittsburgh right now for a clean energy conference, and that's where we have reached him. Minister Galushchenko, welcome to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.
GERMAN GALUSHCHENKO: Hello, sir.
SHAPIRO: To begin with the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the International Atomic Energy Agency has visited, the U.N. has issued its report, yet last night there was another attack on the plant. What's the current situation there?
GALUSHCHENKO: Yeah. You are right. This night it was another attack on the Zaporizhzhia NPP. Russia destroyed the line which supplied electricity for our own use, and it makes to the result that the diesel generator stopped working for the sixth unit. And due to our staff, they managed to reconnect the sixth unit to the other units, and now the situation looks more safe.
SHAPIRO: More safe for now - but long-term, is Ukraine going to be able to produce nuclear energy to get you through the winter?
GALUSHCHENKO: Of course, we are raising this issue of demilitarization of the nuclear stations. Especially, we are talking about Zaporizhzhia because, until the Russian soldiers are on this side, that is the great danger.
SHAPIRO: And if Russia does not stop shelling, what is Ukraine doing to plan for what could be a very cold winter?
GALUSHCHENKO: Of course, we are looking for the possibilities to substitute this electricity in the system, but we have another three nuclear station in our system, and they could provide electricity with the necessary level. By the way, two days ago, the Russians shelled another one - station, which is South Ukrainian NPP. And of course, we want to see the - our army is going ahead now, especially on the South. And that has just help us to settle the issue of returning back to Ukraine the Zaporizhzhia NPP.
SHAPIRO: Given that there are these ongoing attacks on and near energy facilities, do you think Russia is actively trying to attack your energy grid and freeze people out?
GALUSHCHENKO: Yeah. That's true. That's true. That's what we see, and on September 11, it was massive attack on energy infrastructure. So they destroyed a number of facilities, and thousands of Ukrainian were cut from supply of electricity, and it looks like that is the strategy. I mean, that is, of course, not something similar to the war action. That's more close to the terrorism.
SHAPIRO: The last six months have left many people with no glass in their windows. Windows have been bombed out all across Ukraine. And so as the temperatures drop below freezing and energy supplies are limited, how can you prevent people from dying of the cold?
GALUSHCHENKO: Of course we will do everything to provide the necessary electricity from the point of view of electricity and from the point of view of gas supply. The one - the most dangerous issue and the most risky issue for us, of course - that is the shellings. In case of the shellings, so we need to repair quickly. And when they shell massively, of course, that takes time.
SHAPIRO: If the Zaporizhzhia Power Plant is offline, if coal mines in the East are in control of Russia, how do you have the energy stockpiles to get through the winter?
GALUSHCHENKO: In fact - so we know how to substitute, in this situation, the Zaporizhzhia NPP in our energy. And so the mines which we lost in the east - they are not critical for production of the coal, and so today we understand how to manage to go through the winter.
SHAPIRO: What is your biggest worry right now about the security of Ukraine's energy grid?
GALUSHCHENKO: One of the biggest worry is, of course, the nuclear station. And that is - I mean, that is not now only the question of possibility of the station to supply electricity to Ukrainian energy system. That is more, now, the situation when - what I mentioned, that the - when the diesels start operation. So this is more the question of nuclear safety. And in case - I mean, all this Russian crazy actions around Zaporizhzhia could have the results of a nuclear accident, and that's the situation when that would be not only Ukrainian problem.
SHAPIRO: As I mentioned, you are at a clean energy conference in Pittsburgh. With everything else that is raining down upon Ukraine right now, tell me about your decision to take time to come to the United States and focus on renewable energy.
GALUSHCHENKO: That's a very important issue to raise. I mean, that - all this dependence, let's say, to Russian energy, especially - that's not only the case of Ukraine, but this is the issue for Europe, and, of course, there's Russia aimed to make Europe addicted to its energy. And the best solution to get rid of Russians on the energy sector is to move to renewables. And that is the solution.
SHAPIRO: German Galushchenko is Ukraine's minister of energy speaking with us from Pittsburgh today. Thank you very much.
GALUSHCHENKO: Thank you, sir.
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What happens in Austin should perhaps stay in Austin . . . but I'm sharing anyway. Yee-Haw!!!
who knew you could ride a sewing machine? |
The best part of QuiltCon was meeting and making new friends and it started in the airport on my outbound flight. I just knew there would probably be a few quilters on my flight and sure enough I had the chance to meet five from both the Denver Metro MQG and the Front Range MQG. Even got to sit with one (Chris from FRMQG) on the way to Austin. We talked non stop. First time I've never bothered to crack a book on a plane ride. : )
Met up with my roomie Cindy of Live a Colorful Life in the airport. I'd never met Cindy in person and now feel like we are BQB (best quilt buddies). I owe the fact that I even went to QuiltCon all to her. She gave me the kick in the rear I needed to actually commit to going when she asked me to be her roomie. THANK YOU CINDY!!!!!
A quick hotel check-in and we were off to registration. There we immediately ran into Elizabeth of OPQuilt and her friend Leisa. Also Leanne of She Can Quilt and Marianne of The Quilting Edge, who are both from Canada. Plus there was Amy of Amy's Crafty Shenanigans from the UK and Stephanie of Venus de Hilo from Hawaii. How's that for spreading the quilty love? These were just a few of the quilters/bloggers that I already had a connection with prior to QuiltCon. I was happy to meet many more throughout the event by trading pins and a laugh or two. Quilters from all over the world attended.
Meeting some of my MidCenturyModern bee mates was definitely a major highlight. Wish we could have spent a little more quality time together. Maybe a MCM retreat is in order soon. I also had a great time getting to know some of the Boulder MQG members better, especially during a lovely dinner with Cynthia, Kim and Kim's sister-in-law Ruth. Sadly I didn't take many people pics. Here are just a few.
Cindy, Me and Elizabeth |
MCM bee dinner with Cindy, Elizabeth, Debbie, Linda, Leisa, Rene', Elizabeth, me and Michelle. |
Rene', Linda, me and Cindy |
walking back from dinner, Cynthia, Kim and Ruth |
Trading pins with lots of people was so much fun and an excellent way to introduce yourself to total strangers. Although quilters are never really strangers, are they? My lanyard got so heavy I finally had to take all the pins off just to save my neck.
Giving and receiving handmade gifts added such a special touch to the whole experience. Cindy gifted me the most beautiful Sew Together bag. I've admired them from afar but have not been brave enough to make one. She nailed it with all the Kaffe fabrics plus it was full of little Kaffe charm squares. She knows me well. Linda of Flourishing Palms made the handy fabric tray to hold loose items on the night stand when you travel. I made use of this right away. Read more about them here. And Elizabeth handed out Washi tape that is so so cute. Can you believe I've never bought any Washi tape? Love them all . . . the gifts and the givers.
My talented daughter also gifted me with this custom quilty necklace and set of earrings before leaving. It couldn't have been more perfect. Thank you daughter dearest. You're the best. If you'd like a necklace or pair of earrings of your very own she'll be happy to make a custom one just for you. Choose your own quilty phrase and color scheme. You can contact her through her website. EmilyClaireStudio.com.
I made little fabric pin cushion rings for all the MCM ladies and all the Boulder MQG members at QuiltCon. Loved making them and can't wait to whip up some more. Each one became my favorite and now there are none left. Not even one for me. Time to cut more scraps and fill my bowl again. : )
For the longest time, QuiltCon seemed so far off into the future . . . plenty of time to make, prepare, get ready and plan for the event. Then it was here. Now it's over. : (
It went by in a flash and I felt like I was in a complete daze the entire time. Let me repeat. A complete daze the entire time. Normally I'm quite the planner. Very organized, very structured. Not this time. Not at all. My apologies to anyone I met who thought I was a space case. I'm not. Believe me.
I'll be back with another post on my favorite quilts in a few days. Of course one of my favorites was my own called Matrix Blooming. There's nothing like coming around a corner and seeing your very own quilt hanging in a show.
I also designed the quilt made by the BoulderMQG for the charity challenge. My design, everyone's help sewing and Cynthia's fantastic quilting. I believe there were around 70 charity quilts hanging. That's a lot of charity quilts people.
I know this is a stretch, but pulling all my thoughts together really is my WIP for this week so I'm linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced. I had hoped to meet her in person but sadly didn't get the chance. Maybe next time.


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It's nice to have a friendly work environment. But in some cases, work friends shouldn't be Facebook friends. Why not? A status update published on a Tuesday night can easily turn into office gossip on Wednesday morning. Even worse: co-workers and managers could take you less seriously, you could be skipped over for a promotion and you might find yourself first in line when layoffs occur, all based on your activity on Facebook.
In a new report conducted by my company, Millennial Branding, and Identified.com, we gathered information from 4 million Gen Y Facebook profiles to see how their personal and professional online identities overlap. We discovered that, to some degree, most users limit the details of their professional lives on Facebook. Nearly two-thirds (64%) of Gen Y Facebook users don't list their employer in their profile, some likely out of worries that they could be easily searchable by co-workers — a situation they'd prefer to avoid.
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We also found that the typical Gen Y Facebook user is connected to about 700 friends. But only 16 of those friends, on average, are co-workers.
Even so, are young workers today connected to too many colleagues and prone to sharing so much that it could hurt their careers? Through Facebook, one's personality, self-image and interests are exposed, and these details can affect how we're perceived by co-workers and managers.
There's even reason to be careful about friending people you don't work with. The data shows that young people are job hoppers. They spend just over two years at their first corporate job before moving on. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the average American will have about nine jobs between the ages of 18 and 32. All this job hopping increases the likelihood that a Facebook friend will someday be a colleague at work — perhaps even an in-office rival or the person who decides whether you get a promotion.
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Placing friends in certain groups on Facebook is difficult because the status of your connections evolves over time. The smartest approach is to assume that what you're sharing will eventually be seen by people you work with and to be mindful that your Facebook timeline could give an employer a reason to decide against hiring, promoting or recommending you.
Here is more advice for using Facebook in the least-risky fashion possible:
Don't friend co-workers you don't trust. Gen Y is known as a competitive group in the workplace, and especially in the shaky state of the job market, every employee is looking for an edge. So be careful — paranoid, even — about which co-workers you're friends with online lest a "friend" sabotages your career.
Avoid friending your direct manager. Your boss has a big influence on your career trajectory. He or she helps decide who gets a raise and who doesn't, and who takes on what projects. Basically, your manager can make your work life wonderful or miserable, and to avoid the latter, it's safer to keep Facebook out of the equation.
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Set your privacy settings and review them regularly. On Facebook's privacy-settings page, make sure to check the option that allows you to approve all tags, pictures, videos and mentions of your name. This way, you'll have recourse when a friend shares something that you don't want your followers to see.
Be smart about what you post. The main picture used in your profile is the first impression people will get of you, so choose wisely. It's also, obviously, a bad idea to complain about your boss or co-workers or to say anything negative about your employer in Facebook posts. Griping online may feel therapeutic, but it can also hurt your career. With a smart phone, Facebook users can post from anywhere in the world, and they do so instantly and impulsively — greatly increasing the chance that they'll share something they later wish remained private. What happens in Vegas, or anywhere else, will be forever exposed to the world on Facebook if you let it.
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Build your network intelligently. The people you associate with have an impact on how successful you are. If you align yourself with the wrong people and they post hurtful, racist, outlandish or immature comments on your wall, it makes you look as bad as they do. Think twice before adding friends who could tarnish the reputation you've worked so hard to build.
Schawbel is the managing partner of Millennial Branding, a full-service personal-branding agency. He speaks on the topic of personal branding, social media and Gen Y workforce management for companies such as Google, Time Warner, Symantec, CitiGroup and IBM. Subscribe to his updates at Facebook.com/DanSchawbel.


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Another Delivery at the Zoo: Make Way for White-Naped Cranes
The National Zoo has two new long-necked, long-legged friends.
The white-naped crane chicks, born May 12 and May 14, are the newest residents of the zoo's Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia. Native to China, Russia and Korea, the cranes number just an estimated 5,000 in the wild due to destruction of its native wetland habitat.
Breeding the rare birds has become something of a specialty at the institute. Researchers there have managed to successfully breed older birds, or birds with behavioral or physical problems, using artificial insemination. The process has resulted in the births, over the past eight years, of nine "genetically valuable" chicks, as researchers like to call the birds who are bred to capture genes that otherwise would have been lost. Currently the institute is home to 12 of the 60 cranes that are part of the breeding program, the North American White-Naped Crane Species Survival Plan.
The chicks' mother was artificially inseminated at the end of March, and the chicks' eggs were laid in April.
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The typical summer pattern had been, very early top water action, and then the rest of the day was spent slow worming, or even a drop shot, and flipping, flipping, flipping. Water temperatures as of late have started out around 83-85 degrees first thing in the morning thanks to the summer rains we have finally gotten, which is roughly a 5 degree drop in temperature to start the day, which has helped out the bite throughout the day. But this is also my favorite time of the year, as clients generally won't even ask about shiners!
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What Other Unions Can Learn from the Historic Gains We Won in the Chicago Teachers Strike
Jackson Potter
As a Chicago Public Schools (CPS) student from first grade through high school, and in my 17 years of teaching in the system, none of my schools ever had a full-time social worker or nurse every day of the week.
In the first contract the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) secured in the era of legalized public sector bargaining, in 1967, the language states: "a plan shall be devised to make available to teacher nurses a list of vacancies to which they may indicate their desire to transfer." That language, providing no firm guarantee of staffing ratios, remained virtually unchanged for half a century. All subsequent contracts until 2019 include no references to bilingual education, dedicated staff and resources for our homeless students, case manager positions for our diverse learner population, sanctuary language to protect undocumented students from ICE, living wages for our lowest-paid paraprofessional members, or a dedicated article on early childhood education. Now, that's all changed.
After 52 years of struggle, and an 11-day citywide strike, we were finally able to secure these critical demands — and more. We won 180 case-manager positions, 20 English language program teachers, full-time staff for homeless students, up to $35 million to lower excessive class size and even nap time for our little ones. This dedicated effort to win seminal staffing supports and educational justice for CPS students did not happen overnight — it's been a long and protracted fight for the schools they deserve.
During the lead up to the 2019 strike, the editorial pages of the two major newspapers in town, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times, took turns slamming us for intransigence, greed and idealism, often in the same sentence. The Sun-Times ran an editorial in the days before the strike that demanded we "Take the deal" and stated we "should accept the latest contract offer from the Board of Education, a sweet deal that most Chicagoans would just love to get." Prior to the strike, Mayor Lori Lightfoot offered a 16% raise over a 5-year agreement, a salary offer that the CTU eventually accepted. However, none of the central issues raised from when the strike began to when it ended had anything to do with that initial salary offer.
In the last months of 2018, the CTU collected hundreds of proposals from our 27,000 members. Of the hundreds of submissions, many described how to fix a broken and anxiety-ridden teacher evaluation system, how to ramp up preparation and collaboration time, adequate pay and benefits, and more. There were also a number of ideas that went well beyond a traditional collective bargaining agreement. One proposal demanded the school district provide housing for all 18,000 homeless students in the district by creating affordable housing through a real estate transfer tax, corporate head tax and utilizing the city's Tax Increment Financing (TIF) program. Despite Mayor Lightfoot's claims to support a progressive agenda that reflected the CTU's vision for schools, reality proved more complicated.
Lightfoot campaigned on a promise to prevent a strike by addressing our key concerns and demands. Yet, during negotiations, her team refused time and again to meet them.
Once CTU went out on strike on October 17, Lightfoot claimed the contract was not the "appropriate place" to address the needs of homeless students. While she promised to add more social workers and nurses to the school budget, she refused to put it in writing and make those commitments explicit within the collective bargaining agreement. By the end of the strike, we made sure that both supports for homeless students and guarantees for more social workers and nurses were indeed put in writing. At the inception of the strike, Mayor Lightfoot was adamant that there was no more money for our contract. But by the end, we won tens of millions more dollars in the new contract.
This contract fight wasn't the first time the CTU raised "common good" proposals to elevate broader demands not typically associated with a union contract.
In 2010, we suggested that the Chicago Board of Education tap into the TIF program — a system where decades worth of property taxes are frequently diverted from schools, parks and libraries to support developments in the wealthiest parts of the city. At the time, Mayor Richard M. Daley's chief negotiator for the teachers' contract, Jim Franczeck, told us that "TIF is too complicated" and that the funds were unavailable to schools due to a firewall between the city and school budgets.
By 2016, we cracked the purported TIF firewall and forced then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel to unleash a record $87.5 million to stave off a strike. This year, Mayor Lightfoot, followed suit and released another record TIF surplus of $163 million to the public schools.
On top of winning new funding streams, our broader social justice demands built upon victories in the recent Los Angeles teacher strike, as well as Boston's teacher contract campaign that won language on class size restrictions. In no small way, the 2019 CTU strike was connected to a rising movement of teachers nationally that has fundamentally altered the political and labor landscape in the United States.
When we struck in 2012, the action was largely defensive in nature and came on the heels of Scott Walker's attack on collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin. This year's strike represented a move into offense — beyond efforts to stop school closings, vouchers, bankruptcies, pension liquidation or state take-overs. Instead, we've added about 750 new positions into our schools, staffing that will dramatically increase investments into our classrooms for the first time in decades. We've also added new language that establishes "sanctuary schools," requiring CPS to prohibit the entry of ICE agents into our buildings unless they have a warrant. The new agreement also provides critical immigration and legal services to our students and their families.
The labor movement will look back on the 2019 strikes in Chicago and LA as the time when #RedForEd began to supplant austerity and corporate reform with educational equity and investments into our Black and Latinx school communities. While we have a way to go before public schools in Chicago match the school funding received by wealthy suburban districts, this agreement gets us closer.
One of the keys to our victory was labor solidarity. Chicago teachers struck alongside the 7,000 school employees in SEIU Local 73, which did not occur in 2012. These school workers also won large-scale victories in their contract, and by standing with us on the picket lines, they showed the power of true collective action.
The victories in our strike built upon years-long efforts to bring Chicago charter school teachers into the CTU, aligning 11 charter school contracts. This strategic choice led to the first charter school strikes in the nation's history, and won provisions on class-size and sanctuary schools that set the stage to win them throughout the district.
To win more, we teachers should consider partnering with private sector union struggles. Imagine if we had been able to join forces with the United Auto Workers in their labor struggle with GM, or coordinated with warehouse workers to shut down the region's supply chains? Such an approach could help build the social power necessary to advance a set of regional worker demands to significantly alter the political and economic landscape for all workers.
When I was a first-grader in CPS in 1984, there weren't social workers or nurses in every school, no case managers, no coordinators for homeless students, and limited adherence to legal limits on special education, bilingual and early childhood state laws. On November 16, over 81% of CTU members ratified a contract that possesses all of those components. While there are many demands we were unable to win, we made massive strides toward equity in the classroom.
Throughout history, social movement struggles have always been protracted. It's taken three contract cycles for the CTU to turn back nearly 40 years of attacks on our public schools. It's a shift made possible through strike action coupled with a burgeoning national teachers movement — and taking risks to lift up working-class demands that go far beyond traditional collective bargaining.
As a high school student in Chicago in 1995, Jackson Potter led a walk-out to push for equitable school funding in Illinois. He later taught at Englewood High School and was the union delegate there when the district slated the school for closure. He and Al Ramirez formed the Caucus of Rank and File Educators (CORE) in 2008 and the Grassroots Education Movement (with other community organizations) shortly after. He and future Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis served together as the first co-chairs of CORE. After working as CTU's staff coordinator for eight years, Jackson went back to teaching from 2018 to 2022 and now serves as the union's vice president.


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The French version of "Schools Out" "L'école est finie " by Sheila
Alice Cooper in France singing "Schools Out"
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No Doubt Pay Tribute to Deceased Fan
The first few days of January were tough ones for the members of No Doubt. One of their most devoted fans Amy Pepper passed away right around the New Year. The band was so saddened to hear of her death, that they posted a special tribute message on their official website.
Along with some snapshots of the quartet with Amy Pepper and solo shots of the beloved fan, Gwen Stefani, Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont, and Adrian Young wrote a note to the Ms. Pepper. "In memory of our friend Amy Pepper. Thank you for the years of love and support. We will miss you," the band wrote on their site.
Pepper's death must have come to a shock to the 'Don't Speak' hitmakers, since they had just tweeted her well wishes for the holiday season prior to her passing. "Special holiday message for our friend @amypepper. We hope you get well soon and wish you a very happy new year xx," No Doubt tweeted at Pepper on New Year's Day.
Pepper actually wrote back to the rockers, "@nodoubt I'm feeling the love & support. It goes beyond my wildest dreams.Wishing you all a great holiday season & new year." Sadly, Pepper passed away shortly after this message exchange. According to an obituary, it seems as if Pepper may have lost her battle against cancer. We send Pepper's family our condolences during this time.


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