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daughter of Pope Alexander VI., was thrice married, her last husband being Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara. Before her marriage with the duke she had a natural son named Gennaro, who was sent to be brought up by a Neapolitan fisherman. When arrived at man's estate he received a letter informing him that he was nobly born, and offering him a commission in the army. In the battle of Rimini he saved the life of Orsini, and they became sworn friends. In Venice he is introduced to the young nobles, who tell him of the ill deeds of Lucrezia Borgia. Each of them has had some relative put to death by her agency. Gennaro, in his indignation, mutilates the duke's escutcheon with his dagger, knocking off the "B" of his name, and changing Borgia into Orgia (orgies). Lucrezia, not knowing who has offered the insult, requests the duke that the perpetrator may be put to death, but when she discovers it to be her own son gives him an antidote to neutralise the poison he has drunk, and releases him from his confinement. Scarcely is he liberated when he and his companions are invited by the Princess Negroni to a banquet, where they are all poisoned, Lucrezia tells Gennaro he is her son, and dies herself as soon as her son expires. (Donizetti's opera.)
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If you own a Mac AirPort Wireless Router, then it will probably be your last one. The company has recently pulled the plug on further development of their router line, and will stop the manufacture and sale of them going forward.
This is hardly bad news, nor a sign that the company is any sort of trouble. The people working in the company's router division aren't being let go; they're simply being reassigned to other areas inside the company.
Apple first introduced its line of Wi-Fi routers in the late 1990's in a bid to help increase the popularity of Wi-Fi on the thinking that this would be a growth industry that would power their bottom line in later years.
They were absolutely correct on that count. Wi-Fi has become an indispensable business tool, and is now ubiquitous in virtually every corner of the world. In most places where it isn't, high speed LTE networks are available, so as far as Apple is concerned, it's mission accomplished. Routers were never part of their core competency anyway, so it makes a certain amount of sense to dump them now that their day has passed, and the Wi-Fi market is robust and mature.
Besides, the engineers who worked in Apple's wireless router division can apply their talents and expertise to other, more profitable areas of the company.
No firm decisions have been made or announced yet, but there's some speculation that Apple could reassign its AirPort engineers to their Apple TV division, or to the long-rumored "Siri, Echo-Killer App." Either of those could lead to a new dynamism in those products, or the tech giant could have something else entirely up its sleeves.
In any case, it's important to remember that Apple's Wi-Fi routers represented only a tiny fraction of the company's earnings, so the decision to close down the division definitely isn't a sign that the company is in dire straits, but merely that they're strategically repositioning themselves.

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On December 10, 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. For the first time in history, it was officially and globally stated that all human beings have the same fundamental rights, irrespective of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
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The Devil You Know: A Black Power Manifesto(HC)
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Race, as we have come to understand it, is a fiction; but, racism, as we have come to live it, is a fact. The point here is not to impose a new racial hierarchy, but to remove an existing one. After centuries of waiting for white majorities to overturn white supremacy, it seems to me that it has fallen to Black people to do it themselves.
Acclaimed columnist and author Charles Blow never wanted to write a "race book." But as violence against Black people—both physical and psychological—seemed only to increase in recent years, culminating in the historic pandemic and protests of the summer of 2020, he felt compelled to write a new story for Black Americans. He envisioned a succinct, counterintuitive, and impassioned corrective to the myths that have for too long governed our thinking about race and geography in America. Drawing on both political observations and personal experience as a Black son of the South, Charles set out to offer a call to action by which Black people can finally achieve equality, on their own terms.
So what will it take to make lasting change when small steps have so frequently failed? It's going to take an unprecedented shift in power. The Devil You Know is a groundbreaking manifesto, proposing nothing short of the most audacious power play by Black people in the history of this country. This book is a grand exhortation to generations of a people, offering a road map to true and lasting freedom.
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"The following day they did go to the Valle Giulia. They saw the stone coffins, the sarcophagi, adorned with statues and terracotta reliefs showing the ancient Etruscan dead living merrily, eating, drinking, carousing, embracing their women, and spreading the Etruscan gospel, which in their great wisdom they had never written down, never pausing long enough to develop a literature to express their cultural singularity. Yet their way was unmistakably carved on their statues' faces: only the moment counts, and the beauty of the moment shall never pass.
Waldheim showed him wide-lipped vessels. It was from these that the ancient Italians drank their wine, as the inscription said: Foied vinom pipafo, cra carefo.
"Today I drink wine, tomorrow I won't have any," Waldheim translated. "Now, tell me, can there be anything as short and sweet? This sentence in its archaic splendor is as definitive, as impregnable as polygonal city walls, as the erections of the Cyclops. Foied vinom pipafo, cra carefo."
"I don't get it," Mihály pretended. "I always thought the Greeks were terrified of death. The Greeks of Homer were never consoled much by an after-life, if my memory of Rohde's book is correct. And the Etruscans who lived for the moment were even more afraid of death."
"All that is true. These people were probably a great deal more afraid of death than we are. Civilization gives us such ready-made psychological templates that most of our lives we're able to forget that one of these days we're going to die. Eventually we'll put it out of minds as we have God's existence. This is civilization. But for ancient man, nothing was more immediate than death and the dead, whose shrouded after-life, destiny, vengeance, continually obsessed them. They were immensely afraid of death and the dead, except their psyches were much more ambivalent than ours. The great contraries lay closer to each other then. Death-fear and death-wish were more than just neighbors, and many times the fear was a wish and the wish a fear."
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The field of candidates onstage for the third Republican presidential debate will be the smallest yet.
Five hopefuls will participate in Wednesday night's debate at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, according to the Republican National Committee.
To have qualified for the third debate, candidates needed at least 4% support in two national polls or 4% in one national poll as well as two polls from four of the early-voting states — Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. All the polls used for qualification must have been approved by the RNC.
The White House hopefuls also needed at least 70,000 unique donors, with at least 200 of those coming from 20 states or territories. Additionally, they had to sign an RNC pledge promising to support the party's eventual nominee.
The escalating qualification markers have become increasingly difficult for candidates to satisfy. One candidate, former Vice President Mike Pence, suspended his campaign last month, avoiding the ignominy of failing to qualify.
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Early on, the Florida governor was seen as the top rival for Donald Trump, finishing a distant second to the current GOP front-runner in both early-voting state and national polls but raising an impressive amount of money.
DeSantis has recently shifted some of his Florida-based staff to Iowa, pinning his chances of emerging as an alternative to Trump alternative squarely on the leadoff state. This week he picked up the sought-after endorsement of Gov. Kim Reynolds.
The senator from South Carolina has been hoping that the debates could give his campaign a needed boost after his struggles to catch fire compared to his rivals. But there had even been some question of whether he would make the Miami stage, given its elevated polling requirements.
In a pre-debate memo shared with The Associated Press on Monday, Scott's campaign manager sought to contrast his candidate with DeSantis and Haley, saying Scott planned to ask how either could "present a contrast with Donald Trump when he made each of their political careers."
The only Republican woman onstage — and in the field — Haley has benefited from a bounce in attention following each of the previous debates, as well as the campaign's shift toward foreign policy after Hamas' surprise Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
As she and DeSantis have escalated their barbs over issues including the Israel-Hamas war and China's influence, Wednesday night's debate offers a chance for them to duke it out in person.
The political newcomer and youngest GOP hopeful has been a debate-stage target of attacks on his lack of experience — jabs that have previously helped boost both Ramaswamy's campaign coffers and his name ID in the broad Republican field.
After the second debate in September, Ramaswamy asked the RNC to change its rules for the third, requesting that participation be limited to four candidates, with a unique donor requirement of 100,000. The party kept its rules as is.
As many of his GOP rivals have gone all in on Iowa ahead of the state's leadoff caucuses, the former New Jersey governor often has New Hampshire all to himself.
Christie has charted a path there as the race's most vocal critic of Trump, casting himself as the only Republican willing to directly take him on, and arguing that Trump will lose to President Joe Biden next November if he's the party's nominee.
Without Trump at the debates, Christie has been left without his intended target but has brought him up nonetheless. In September, Christie looked directly into the camera and declared that if Trump keeps skipping debates, he would deserve a new nickname: "Donald Duck."
The current GOP front-runner is skipping his third straight debate, this time opting to hold a competing event of his own a half-hour away in Hialeah, Florida.
Trump says he is forgoing the debates because he does not want to elevate his lower-polling opponents by being on stage with them.
Burgum, a former software entrepreneur now in his second term as North Dakota's governor, will miss his first debate of the cycle after coming up short on the polling requirements.
The former two-term Arkansas governor participated in the first debate but failed to qualify for the second. He said in a statement after missing out on the second debate that his goal was to increase his polling numbers to 4% in an early state before Thanksgiving.
"If that goal is met, then I remain competitive and in contention for either Caucus Day or Primary Day," he wrote back in September.
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What is happening in China? I knew that China was moving away from a state controlled economy, but is there now also a shift away from radical liberal ideology and statist politics?
Admittedly, the article is written by an American, but it still seems significant to me that it should be featured at a Chinese website.
The article itself is something of a mixture of liberalism and conservatism. One of its conservative assertions is that there does exist a human nature, which ultimately places a limit on what can work in politics, and which therefore needs to be respected. As the author himself writes,
Human beings are free to adopt self-destructive ideas, but we are not free to make them work. Ideas based on a faulty view of human nature can grip the imagination of the powerful for decades, wreak havoc and suffering on untold millions, but they cannot triumph in the end. What is contrary to nature, including human nature, cannot ultimately survive.
The author then lists some aspects of this nature which human societies need to recognise in order to flourish. He asserts that,
the future belongs to those people and cultures that deeply commit to ideas grounded in human nature: Men and women are not interchangeable units, sex has a meaning beyond immediate pleasure, society needs babies, children need fathers and mothers, marriage is a word for the way we join men and women to make the future happen.
It would be difficult for most liberals to accept such a statement. For liberals, we are made human by our capacity to create who we are and what we do from our own will and reason. It's therefore difficult for liberals to accept that a pre-existing nature deeply influences the direction of our lives.
That's why liberals believe it is a positive liberation to act contrary to our inherited manhood and womanhood, or why so many liberals believe that there is no single way to define what a family is. For liberals, such things as an inherited manhood and womanhood are not valued parts of our inborn nature, but are impediments to our individual will and reason to be overthrown.
But as the author of the article points out, cultures which adopt the liberal view cannot sustain themselves in the longer term because acting against nature will inevitably have destructive effects.


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The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and the Department of City Planning announced today a study to strengthen and enhance the Fulton Street corridor as an important retail and arts/entertainment destination - stretching from the South Street Seaport to the World Financial Center. The study will examine the existing retail, arts and entertainment environment along Fulton Street; analyze the impact of September 11th on this vital commercial strip; and propose a revitalization strategy to strengthen and diversify retail outlets and arts/entertainment venues.
Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding Daniel Doctoroff said, "Our vision for Lower Manhattan's future includes places to shop and eat, open spaces for recreation, and cultural institutions to attract residents and visitors alike to the area. This study of the Fulton Street corridor is an essential next step in our efforts to revitalize the business, retail, arts and entertainment communities, create new jobs and enhance the streetscape of downtown."
LMDC President Lou Tomson said, "The LMDC is committed to revitalizing Manhattan south of Houston Street. These studies will help carry out the direction of the Governor and Mayor to create a vibrant, mixed used community in Lower Manhattan and attract the amenities that make a neighborhood great. Strengthening the retail, arts and entertainment mix on the Fulton Street corridor and creating a variety of housing will bring us closer to a Lower Manhattan that is active both day and night."
Amanda M. Burden, Director of the Department of City Planning said, "The Revitalization Strategy which will result from this effort will be crucial to a successful rebuilding plan for Lower Manhattan. We have an opportunity now to strengthen this critical corridor which connects the East River and Seaport on the east and the World Trade Center site and World Financial Center on the west."
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In response to the 2013 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (EPPSU), the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study was launched as a world-wide international collaboration hosted by CERN. The FCC study covered an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh), a highest-luminosity high-energy lepton collider (FCC-ee), the corresponding 100 km tunnel infrastructure, as well as the physics opportunities of these two colliders, and a high-energy LHC, based on FCC-hh technology. This document constitutes the third volume of the FCC Conceptual Design Report, devoted to the hadron collider FCC-hh. It summarizes the FCC-hh physics discovery opportunities, presents the FCC-hh accelerator design, performance reach, and staged operation plan, discusses the underlying technologies, the civil engineering and technical infrastructure, and also sketches a possible implementation. Combining ingredients from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the high-luminosity LHC upgrade and adding novel technologies and approaches, the FCC-hh design aims at significantly extending the energy frontier to 100 TeV. Its unprecedented centre-of-mass collision energy will make the FCC-hh a unique instrument to explore physics beyond the Standard Model, offering great direct sensitivity to new physics and discoveries.
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The signs of impending summer are all around. Azaleas are out, the oaks are coming into leaf and Tom Major is readying himself for Entrain's Memorial Weekend gig.
It's been 14 summers now since Mr. Major decided to put together a band based on the simple idea of "tons of drums," and to put his New York-based career as a freelance musician on hold for one summer while he tried it out.
"I thought the best thing was to come up to the Vineyard; I'd lived here for a while in the eighties and done seasonal gigs and I knew there was a nice musical community, a real supportive environment for doing that sort of thing," he recalled.
"It was going to be one summer, with guys who were Vineyard-based or, like me, went back and forth."
He brought with him a guitar player, John Cruz, who had an Island connection, and put the rest of the band together here. The heart of it was him on drums and two Island percussionists, Rick Bausman and Sam Holmstock, then playing with the band the Ululators.
"We rehearsed for a couple weeks and started playing every Thursday night at the Atlantic Connection. Our first gig was packed, the second was over-packed, and we played every week to 500 people inside and a line outside.
"By the end of summer we knew we were on to something. The next summer I left Bo Diddley [he was part of Bo's touring band] and moved back here full time."
Fourteen years and dozens of musicians later - Sam Homstock is the only remaining original member, although Mr. Bausman still often sits in, as he will when Entrain plays Sunday night at Outerland - Mr. Major is apt to wax philosophical, spiritual even, when he talks about the reasons for the band's longevity and about drumming in general.
"The band's name is derived from the law on Entrainment, which is synchronization of rhythms," he said. "We try to bring the rhythms together musically, but we also try to bring people together with them.
"I think spirituality is being able to connect with the oneness of the world. We have an album called All One. It's pretty much my philosophy. It's trying to maintain an awareness that you and I and everyone else in the world and everything in the world is all connected. It's like one big membrane that breathes together, one big organism that's affected by everything that anyone in it does." He continued:
"This winter I've been working on a project that I hope to launch by late fall - Entrain's Drums for Peace. It's going to be more of a theatre show, more as multimedia experience, with projected images behind the band, as well as songs we are writing now, and songs we already have to do with the subject of peace, love and unity."
Entrain's music, he says is suited to all age crowds.
"It's important to me personally to help point the way to the younger generations that you can have good music that's fun, enlightening, entertaining, informative, inspiring. It doesn't have to be negative. The lyrics we have are either straight up fun, or have a message, whether it's the environment, or unity of people, love. We try to keep it there without being preachy."
There is a question, of course, of how many people actually focus on lyrics, given that an Entrain gig is really all about rhythm and dancing. But, to Mr. Major, that rhythmic component is just as spiritually important. Hence the growing popularity of group drumming.
"It's a really healing activity. More so I think than any other instrument. The Hawaiians have this theory of the three selves, a mind-body-spirit kind of thing. The activity of drumming exercises all three places," he said.
The act of hitting he calls a grounding experience. The need to concentrate on time and patterns was intellectual and the interaction of the whole group was spiritual.
"It's a lot easier being spiritual, living on Martha's Vineyard, too." he said, adding:
"I was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Long Island and Manhattan, and I lived with such craziness for so much of my life. The music business is crazy and being on the road is very crazy.
"It's nice to come back to a place where you can breathe clean air and people smile at you and it's like living in a postcard, and there's one traffic light and it blinks.
"It's the yin-yang. I think if I was living out in Manhattan or Boston right now, it would be difficult to refuel.
"People say to me, 'How can you deal with that ferry? Doesn't it drive you crazy?' And I'm like, no, it's all about the ferry. I get on that boat after speeding round doing gigs, and it just slows me down and I get back already chilled out."
Living on the Island comes at some career cost in sessions and big tours missed, but he said the tradeoff in lifestyle is worth it.
"I'm trying to find ways to alleviate the stress in my life and be able to be more productive and creative," he said.
And he is hardly stagnating. The band has seven albums to its credit, plays 150 or so gigs, mostly off Island, each year and has played with some big names (including Bill Clinton). They've played in China and are looking to go back again for the 2008 Olympics. Still, he supplements his income by teaching drums to kids on the Vineyard.
When he started, Mr. Major found himself assessing their talent and future prospects as drummers.
"But I quickly realized that doesn't matter, It's good for anybody," he said, recalling:
"Early there was this one kid who kept coming to lessons, but who wasn't doing much with it, wasn't playing in a band, or aspiring to, so I asked, 'Why are you still coming?' And he said: 'I just like getting better at something.' "
It is interesting that he has the patience to instruct the not-very driven or gifted, given his own story.
The son of a drummer, Mr. Major has worked at honing his art for 45 odd years - from the sea scouts marching band when he was seven or eight ("I think that's where the original love of this big mondo drum sound came from") to studies with Jim Chapin in New York ("an amazing jazz drummer and one of the best teachers in the country") to Berklee College to sessions with as many different styles of musicians as he could find.
"As a freelance drummer I got a lot of calls," he said, "so I was able to pick and choose what style of music I wanted to play on a given night. It was like, okay, a reggae band on Wednesday and a blues band on Thursday and a jazz band on Friday and a rock and roll band on Saturday."
Add in some west African rhythms picked up on his travels and years spent listening to all sorts of world music. And of course Bo Diddley, who helped Mr. Major to the conviction that a band like Entrain could work.
"It was when I was playing with Bo that I realized there was so much power in the rhythm alone. I would start the show with that Bo beat, and people would go crazy before he came in or the guitar or anything," he said.
"So Entrain is to me all the styles of music I love, rolled into one."
It's also, he concedes, hard on the body of a man who is pushing 53.
"The beats I come up with are not easy to play. Sometimes I'm up there, killing myself and it's like 'What was I thinking?'
"You see some other drummers chilling out, not breaking a sweat, whereas I'm drenched by the end of the night. If I don't feel physically spent after a performance, I feel I didn't really have a full experience."
He looks upon it not just as music, though, but an athletic experience.
"I plan on playing well into the twilight of my life. Bo Diddley is a hero. He had a stroke recently but he was 82 and still cranking along," he said.
"Another hero is an old jazz drummer named Art Blakey. I'm not sure how old he was when he passed away a few years ago, but he was playing his butt off. He played like a 17-year-old kid when he was in his 80s. He was fit, he was ripped. I was just blown away by his vitality. He was on fire.
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By Jess Clarke
Today's emerging resistance movements can draw on a long and varied history to challenge the reactionary US government. Racial justice organizing has been the leading edge of progressive change for generations, and lessons learned and leadership from Black liberation struggles are key to moving beyond resistance and toward revolutionary abundance.
This issue of RP&E, Conversations on Race and Resistance, brings together the voices of dozens of organizers and artists working in today's racial justice movements, particularly Black Lives Matter (BLM), to explore the history and trajectory of struggle—from the Black Panthers, to the founding of the Environmental Justice (EJ) movement, to the present.
Articles by Eric K. Arnold and J. Douglas Allen-Taylor examine the strengths and weaknesses of BLM organizing; interviews with Cat Brooks (Anti-Police Terror Project and BLM Oakland) and Robbie Clark (Just Cause) give us first hand accounts of the ideological and practical origins of this work. Brooks zeroes in on the fact that police violence toward people of color is not an accidental system failure but the necessary action of a system of suppression. Clark digs deep to place gentrification in a broad spectrum of state violence perpetrated through policing, health and housing policies. Both Brooks and Clark situate BLM in a continuum of organizing for Black liberation and challenge organizers to evolve new approaches to educating the broader public about how capitalism itself needs to be attacked at its roots.
Steve Martinot describes a process of racialization that began with white fear of slave revolts and came to fruition with the incarceration of people of color in a prison system clearly descended from the slave plantation. He proposes that we see "race" as a verb, something done to people, not a noun describing their identity. Martinot asserts that one essential function of BLM organizing is affirmation in the face of the racialization process that devalues Back people. Opal Palmer Adisa echoes that sentiment by taking the occasion to interview 11 Black men talking about why "The Living Matter."
This is very much in line with the "I Am San Francisco" Black oral history project that we began publishing in 2015. In the current edition, in addition to several short excerpts, we feature an interview by Jarrel Phillips with Emory Douglas. The conversation opens a window into how, over 50 years ago, an aspiring artist taking graphic design classes at City College of San Francisco was drawn into the newly founded Black Panther Party (BPP) and to propagating its influential 10-point program. Douglas, who became the minister of culture of the BPP, went on to create iconic art that shaped the imagination of a generation of Black liberation struggles, including the next wave of organizing under the banner of environmental justice.
As Dana Alston details in her RP&E reprint from 25 years ago, 300 activists from a very broad range of organizations met at the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit and came to consensus on "the 25 principles of environmental justice" (see page 82). For its time, environmental justice was a high-water mark in understanding how different structures of oppression intersect.
In a panel discussion commemorating the 25th anniversary of the summit, Dr. Mindy Fullilove, a professor at The New School in New York, probes the complex interaction of segregation, health outcomes and how gentrification is creating intergenerational trauma. She tracks how government-sponsored redlining maps, developed in the 1930s, moved segregation out of the legal system and into the financial system where it continued to metastasize. She analyzes the common origins of environmental injustice—siting toxic facilities in communities of color—and gentrification and displacement.
This sort of intersectional analysis is an urgent task for our movements today. We need to be able to put together coalitions that can encompass the displaced residents of Mossville, Louisiana driven out of their homes by petrochemical corporations and urban tenant organizers fighting evictions and rent hikes caused by corporate hyper-commodification of land in cities across the country. The Renters Day of Action in fall 2016, when local organizations across the country coordinated a national day of protest, was a step in the right direction. The multisector solidarity shown at Standing Rock is another encouraging sign.
Resistance to gentrification, access to public education, defense of workers' rights and preservation of public ownership all intersect in the battle to save City College of San Francisco. A multifaceted campaign saved the college from losing its accreditation—and won a November 2016 ballot measure that taxed luxury real estate sales to fund tuition-free classes at the school for San Francisco residents. But despite approval by the voters and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, backers of "Free City" have had to battle Mayor Ed Lee to release money for the program.
In our latest installment on this story, Marcy Rein follows the controversy over the Balboa Reservoir, one of San Francisco's largest tracts of undeveloped public land. Will this parcel next to City College be used for affordable housing and for the transportation needs of the students—or luxury condos? In light of the passage of free tuition for the school, perhaps this fight can also be won.
The right-wing attacks by the Trump regime and corporate monopolists make it easier than ever to understand how our struggles are linked and Dawn Phillips makes an eloquent and impassioned case for why collaborative action is essential to successful resistance. But absent systematic theoretical frameworks—including, at the minimum, an understanding of how capitalism uses race to make investment and disinvestment decisions—joint actions may wind up simply assembling a lowest-common-denominator grab bag of reformist demands. We need to aspire to a higher goal than reforming systems whose actual purpose is to defend the economic structures that oppress and exploit our communities.
The Movement for Black Lives platform (policy.m4bl.org) is a useful starting point for crafting a multi-issue, multi-strategy alliance that can challenge the white supremacist dinosaurs and fossil fuel barons whose time has passed. Coherent action using every available means of resistance, including mass protests, blockades, boycotts, strikes, divestment, local government resolutions, municipal and state legislation and constant pressure on elected and unelected leaders in government and business are time-tested methods of creating political space for real change.
Black Lives Matter, like Occupy before it, harnessed the power of social media and mass public dissent to change the nature of the national discourse. The widespread cultural resistance that has continued to grow from these are strengthening our communities. But the next stage in our movement must move beyond changing the conversation to reshaping the terrain of conflict. To create revolutionary abundance for all, we need to Reimagine!—everything. ~
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New technologies operate at superhuman speed. Social, political, and economic forces move much more slowly. To use learning as a competitive advantage, companies must be able to learn on both timescales.
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Imagine if your company could measure, customize, and charge for—in real time—the value your products or services create for each customer. Seized to its fullest extent, such an opportunity would enable you to provide more value to more customers and still earn more money.
Progressive pricing is turning that idea into reality, one that more sensibly aligns with today's digital products and services than traditional industrial-era pricing models could ever do. This innovative approach—already embedded in the sharing economy and in other sectors such as financial services—scales prices up or down on the basis of the value an individual customer derives. While progressive pricing might sound too good to be true—even a violation of the rules of traditional economics—technological advancements and the rules of digital economics are already making it possible. Indeed, the relationship between firms and customers is shifting so quickly and fundamentally that this approach will soon be a competitive necessity, not merely an intriguing alternative, as companies make the measurement of discrete customer value a core competence.
We use the term "progressive" as it's used in contexts such as tax systems. But unlike taxes, the levels of prices under progressive pricing are value-based, not means-based. Think of the price that a customer pays as an investment in a desired level of value. Each paying customer receives a proportional return on that investment. The prices align properly to value without penalizing customers—by denying access to some customers because of an artificially high price barrier or by charging some customers their maximum willingness to pay while others enjoy a big surplus (the difference between the value they derive and the price they pay).
At first glance, progressive pricing seems to violate the rules of traditional economics, which assume that customers buying the same product or service will pay the same price. But today's technologies and the pervasiveness of data have put an end to "same." Firms now can and do differentiate their products and services by individual customer and differentiate their prices accordingly.
Progressive pricing enables that differentiation by pushing the logic of discrete price points to its practical limit, offering each customer a fair, personalized product and price point. What makes this possible are the properties of digital economics, built on the idea that added value is customizable at zero marginal cost. Instead of optimizing a small number of price points, the firm optimizes a continuum of prices. The key element is a value-sharing algorithm that dynamically sets prices specific to the value an individual customer derives based on time, location, and occasion.
In that sense, progressive pricing stretches familiar ideas on price optimization and yield management far beyond their current implementation, creating a win-win that continually improves for firms and for customers. Companies fuel more innovation by expanding their markets at higher profitability than under a traditional fixed-price approach, while customers enjoy an ever-expanding value surplus.
Because progressive pricing offers unprecedented opportunities for companies to discriminate by segments of one and by markets in real time, those businesses no longer need to choose between gaining more customers or more money. They can calibrate value at the individual level, which means they can offer lower prices to previously unserved customers without endangering the higher prices they charge to customers who have always derived—and desired—a higher level of value.
Ride-sharing companies already use a version of such pricing in their day-to-day operations. For example, at the end of a concert or sports event, when hundreds of customers are requesting pickups at the same time at the same location, the cost of a ride goes up in line with that demand. Customers who group together, walk to a different location, or wait even half an hour to request a ride will likely see the price change based on how those conditions changed. But this kind of pricing logic is not unique to ride-sharing. China's Meituan Dianping, which operates the world's largest on-demand food delivery service, used its "proprietary real-time intelligent dispatch system" to make more than 14 million food deliveries per day in an average time of 30 minutes. When a surge occurs, Meituan offers its drivers higher commissions to ensure there is enough capacity to keep the service running.
The exhibit reveals the four most important differences between progressive and traditional pricing approaches:
Progressive pricing works because measurement technology has finally caught up with the demands and pressures of digital economics. It works because instead of "paying a price," customers now "make an investment in value" and expect a fair and measurable return on that investment.
As "smart" products proliferate and the dream scenario we described in our introductory paragraph becomes commonplace, progressive pricing is turning into a competitive necessity. (See "How the Internet of Things Will Change the Pricing of Things," BCG article, December 2017.) Such pricing represents a win for everyone involved.
For companies, progressive pricing actively controls and manages the creation and sharing of value with all customers. But when a firm instead sets prices using traditional approaches, it risks having its added value coopted or "stolen" by companies that have implemented progressive pricing. If a business tries to apply traditional pricing approaches to its data-driven innovations, it is liable to provide such services as incremental add-ons to existing products or, worse yet, to set a fixed price that is too low—too far to the right side of the demand curve (see the exhibit). Such a price might yield a critical mass of customers, but the margins and overall profit will be insufficient to fuel further innovation.
For customers, every individual's price is at least as favorable under progressive pricing (see the right side of the exhibit) as it was under the traditional economic approach (left side). In other words, every customer derives a surplus greater than or equal to that derived under a traditional pricing approach. That last point is especially important to customers who get squeezed under traditional models. Customer value declines as we move from left to right on the left side of the exhibit, toward the intersection at price P, where the customer surplus (the blue area between the willingness to pay and the price) dwindles to zero. Many customers who buy derive little or no surplus under this model. Progressive pricing, in contrast, leaves the customer with more surplus value and the firm with more margin, thanks to zero marginal costs and a value-sharing algorithm instead of a small number of fixed ("optimal") price points.
Calibrating this value-sharing algorithm is crucial. It takes both a large number of customers and high margins to capitalize on the future profit opportunities inherent in the data that customers have entrusted to the firm. The new winning paradigm is that the firm continues to innovate, because it has a pricing model that supports both a larger customer base and higher margins. When a company lacks one of those two elements, it ultimately falls behind firms that have both and can therefore innovate continually. This is an area where start-ups have an advantage over incumbents. Start-ups' data-driven innovations must stand alone—meaning those firms have no choice but to adopt a progressive pricing model that generates the growth in both customers and profits necessary for survival.
Neither traditional pricing approaches nor yield management (a limited form of progressive pricing) generates such growth. Conventional yield management, which allows companies to customize prices in low-marginal-cost situations, has conditioned customers to accept tiered services and dynamic prices. But it faces two constraints. It generally applies to segments or tiers rather than individuals, and it applies primarily to markets constrained by a fixed, perishable capacity (such as airlines, hotels, sports events, concerts). Neither constraint applies to progressive pricing, which pushes customization and real-time price discrimination to their extremes by enabling a business to serve all customers in a market profitably at prices set relative to real-time value.
Two trends are already transforming progressive pricing from an ideal into profitable day-to-day reality, not only in native 21st century industries but also in much older, mature ones. The first is the fact that innovation today isn't dependent on costly physical improvements to products; the second is the omnipresence of mobile technology, which has enabled companies and customers to forge unprecedented links with each other.
Consider the first trend. The vast majority of value-added innovation in most industries now occurs through the use of data, software, intellectual property (brands, patents, and so on), and intelligence embedded, all of which have zero marginal cost. For instance, in the high-tech sector, software rather than the associated hardware increasingly accounts for the added value for networking storage.
But such innovations are by no means limited to high-tech. At the other extreme, innovative data-driven services are starting to transform the market for smokestack commodities, such as asphalt. For hundreds of years, making better asphalt meant improving durability, viscosity, or other physical features. Thanks to sensors and software, asphalt now joins the Internet of Things. "Smart pavement" can reduce maintenance costs and improve road quality by self-diagnosing the location of damage, flood waters, or other potential hazards. Down the road, the added value and the profits from asphalt will also come from the pavement's ability to "read" in rich detail the vehicles and passengers riding on it, enabling everything from optimized urban traffic flows to location-based services.
At the same time, continual, voluntary exchanges of data between customers and firms enable firms to personalize their products and practice price discrimination simultaneously. For the first time, firms can easily propose a fair, individualized price in real time on people's mobile/connected devices. Companies in areas as diverse as online searches and connected in-home devices also currently offer customized, individualized solutions to any individual customer or segment of one who opts-in to share personal real-time data. Choices about whom to serve and under what terms become more precise and concurrent, supplanting traditional exante decisions burdened by guesswork.
Making progressive pricing a profitable day-to-day reality can happen only if firms change how they create, define, and measure value so that they can share it fairly. These are no easy tasks. Progressive pricing may be inevitable, but its implementation remains a high-investment, high-reward undertaking.
The good news is that advanced analysis and interpretation of the data exchanged between firms and customers makes it is easier than ever both to quantify value precisely and to understand individual customers' purchase decision process. This marks a watershed change. Under traditional pricing practices, firms usually know their marginal costs in detail but know customer value less precisely and can only infer it by segment. Today, with pervasive data and almost unlimited test-and-learn analytical capabilities, companies can derive more precise estimates of value by customer and situation, and also know that their marginal costs are zero.
The transition from traditional pricing approaches to progressive pricing requires fundamental changes in how a company thinks about customers, value, and prices. To achieve progressive pricing, companies will need to fulfill four imperatives.
Invest to innovate with data, software, and artificial intelligence. The vast majority of value-added innovation involves delivery of services at zero marginal cost rather than the improvement of costly physical products. But firms will incur significant fixed costs as they invest to innovate, create, and customize value. The technology and intelligence required to simultaneously deliver value at zero marginal cost and at individualized prices likewise warrant heavy upfront investment. But these investments confer two important advantages. First, the firm can now offer innovations as a continuous stream rather than as a series of discrete, timed events. Second, the firm has a stream of rich customer data to analyze in order to fuel more innovation. This leads to our second imperative.
Become a trusted custodian of customer data. Companies need to establish and reinforce a bond of trust between themselves and potential customers, so that customers perceive that the benefits of sharing their data far outweigh any risks. One of the surest ways for companies to reinforce trust is to transform the data customers have provided into a set of steadily improving services that they can't resist. But businesses don't use the data only to create more direct value for customers. Perhaps more important, the sharing of data allows the company to better predict customer wants and needs by analyzing purchasing patterns.
To accomplish all this, a firm must have access to and control over rich streams of customer data. The controversy involving data exposure between Facebook and Cambridge Analytica in early 2018 highlights two of the trickiest hurdles to meeting this prerequisite: permission and protection. Firms must put measures in place to ensure that customers' data is protected from third parties and used only for purposes the customer has agreed to.
Make your value explicit, transparent, and personal. Customers perceive a considerable risk when they share their data, which means they not only warrant a return on that investment but in some cases a risk premium as well. Firms must therefore be explicit about how much value they create, ideally on a customer-by-customer basis rather than at the traditional segment or market level.
This challenge transcends the objective ability to measure value precisely, which often reduces itself to narrowly defined buckets of "save time" and "save money." Companies must first step back and reimagine the concept of value in their market. How can a business combine its own capabilities with the close personal knowledge of its customers to create something that fundamentally changes a customer's life? Once that task is accomplished, how can the firm help customers perceive a price-value relationship that makes sense for both parties? It all boils down to this: Can you define value, measure it, and get everyone to agree on what that value is? This leads to the fourth imperative.
Redefine fairness. As we said earlier, the calibration of the value-sharing algorithm is decisive. Traditionally, a fair price is a price others have paid. When prices vary, customers generally perceive the differences as fair if they are justified by costs. This basic understanding of fairness is challenged in a world with no marginal costs, where prices can vary widely from one customer and situation to another. To put a progressive pricing model in place, firms must redefine fairness and make the case that the criteria that drive price differences are fair. One example is supply and demand. Customers understand that the prices of concert or airline tickets vary over time because of demand for a limited supply. Likewise, consumers understand that sitting closer to the stage or flying first class is a more valuable experience than sitting in a faraway seat or flying economy. Another example is the savings that are associated with a product or a service. Firms can also help customers understand that prices can vary as a fixed proportion of value, such as when an investment manager's fees are based on the ROI delivered.
Progressive pricing extends the ability to discriminate by price into areas where customers' exposure to dynamic price variation may not be as extensive. Businesses will therefore need to define and communicate the fairness principles behind their algorithms. They need to emphasize that value is shared with customers rather than extracted from them, and do so in a way that customers can understand and embrace. The only constraints on how value gets defined, and by what metric, is the supplier's ingenuity and creativity and the individual customer's perception of fairness.
The definition of fairness and the value-sharing algorithm may require a new price metric. While we couldn't possibly go through the range of all potential metrics in a brief report such as this, we can reiterate the underlying premise behind such metrics: value. Most firms are accustomed to expressing prices in units of product or some other basic metric such as hours. If they can instead calibrate prices in terms of a unit of value, then the price per unit of value can remain constant and the amount a customer pays can scale in proportion to the value demanded. That is the essence of fairness.
The combination of industrial-era pricing models with digital products and services was always an unhappy marriage. Businesses lacked a viable alternative approach that would bring advanced technologies, digital economics, and the needs of both companies and customers into alignment. Progressive pricing fills that void. Companies will need patience and ingenuity to implement it, but the benefits progressive pricing offers surpass traditional pricing approaches by extending the benefits of newer approaches such as yield management.
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To eat well on a budget I look for foods that are packed with nutrients, naturally delicious and cost pennies a serving. Often, they are so cheap and abundant that I can afford to go for the organic version and feel great about what I put on the table for my family each night.
Here are twelve of the most delicious, inexpensive and nutritious foods your dollar can buy.
1. Sweet potatoes
These are full of fiber and vitamins and taste terrific. I like them best simply roasted in just a tiny bit of olive oil; prepared this way they are gorgeously rich and sweet without adding butter or sugar. Sweet potatoes are also terrific in curries and stews.
2. Winter squash
Butternut, acorn, and other hard squashes are terrific sources of vitamins and fiber. An added benefit is that they keep well, so you can buy them while doing your weekly shopping and not have to worry about them spoiling after just a day or two. One of my favorite dishes is a simple soup made of pureed squash served with homemade bread.
3. Lentils
Unlike beans, lentils do not require any presoaking and cook in just 20 minutes. They contain a good amount of protein and are very filling. While they have a pleasing flavor on their own, they also stand up well to strong spices and can be a good substitute for meat in dishes like curry and chili.
4. Collard greens
I happen to love traditional, long cooked mushy collards greens but if you're not a fan try cutting them into thin strips and briefly sauté. Collards and other greens such as mustard, turnip and beet greens can all be prepared this way for an inexpensive and nutritious side dish. All dark green leafy vegetables contain vast amounts of phytonutrients and nearly all of them are extremely affordable.
5. Kale
I separated kale from the other dark green leafy vegetables because it can also be used in green smoothies as it's not as tough and strong tasting as the others. In most areas, kale is a lot cheaper than chard or spinach or other salad greens, which makes it a budget friendly as well as healthy choice.
6. Cabbage
There is a reason that so many cultures have relied on cabbage as a dietary staple. It's inexpensive, easy to find and prepare and tastes pretty good, too. Try shredded cabbage instead of iceberg lettuce on your tacos or slice it thinly and sauté lightly in olive oil with a bit of cumin.
7. Carrots
Don't overlook the humble carrot, they are delicious eaten raw and are a great way to stretch more expensive vegetables in stir fries, stews and other dishes. They are also fairly hardy and can live in your crisper for quite a while so that you can always have them on hand.
8. Oatmeal
It's not only for breakfast! You can use super healthy oatmeal in your baking to beef up the nutritional content of your goodies without spending a lot of cash. It can also be used in meatloaf and meatballs instead of bread crumbs. Steel cut oats are particularly delicious; they are more expensive than rolled oats but if you buy them from bulk bins at your health food store they are cheaper than processed cold cereals.
9. Bananas
These are one of the least expensive fruits that you can regularly find in your supermarket and are packed full of fiber and nutrients. They are so easy to set out on the counter for quick snacks and if they are starting to brown, you can pop them in the freezer, skin and all, to use later for smoothies and baking.
10. Strawberries
Don't bother with strawberries off season, when they are expensive and not very flavorful, but in the spring and early summer when they are abundant and cheap, take full advantage. Strawberries are known for being loaded with antioxidants and fiber. They freeze beautifully so if you find a good price, save some to enjoy later in the year in smoothies, sauces and baked goods.
11. Dried beans
Beans are extremely versatile along with being cheap and nutritious. If you include meat in your diet, you can still stretch many soups and stews with beans to make a delicious, protein rich, filling one dish meal. Bean burritos, bean burgers and bean chili are all easy to make, very tasty and budget friendly.
12. Quinoa
This can be expensive if you buy it in boxes at the supermarket; however health food store bulk bins often have it for a very affordable price. You can use quinoa in the place of rice or potatoes as the starch component of a meal or cook it like oatmeal for a hearty breakfast cereal. Quinoa is a complete protein on its own and also contains a fair amount of iron and magnesium. One super easy way to prepare quinoa is by using a rice cooker.
If you are not familiar with any of these foods, try Googling the name of the ingredient plus recipe. Ethnic cuisines are a fantastic source of recipes and can give your diet a lot of variety while using inexpensive ingredients. Cheap food doesn't have to equal low in nutrition; a lot of humble foods are incredibly good for you.
What are some of your favorite ways to prepare nutritious, inexpensive ingredients?
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