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This morning he got up on his own, ran into our room excited for another day! He walked around for 10 minutes with his backpack waiting on me to fix his lunch and for Michael to take him to school. After Michael took him to school he called me to say he did great! He walked in, put his stuff up, went over to a table to sit, and never looked back!
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As a parent, coach, and business owner, I know all about being busy, so I naturally respect your time. Therefore, I wouldn't ask you to watch the video below if I didn't believe it was beneficial. I have no affiliation with the creator, but I encourage everyone to embrace the message.
The basic premise from the video does not receive nearly as much attention as it deserves. Whenever health and fitness are discussed, the conversation typically focuses on those activities that are performed as part of a formal workout. Little attention is directed towards the remaining 23+ hours each day. Consequently, there are people in today's world who exercise more frequently than those from previous generations, yet still perform less overall movement.
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I do not limit my movement to exercise however. I am a big believer in getting up to move as often as possible. Whether I am walking my dog, wrestling with my kids, splitting wood, shoveling snow, raking leaves, or mowing the lawn, there are always opportunities to include movement within the week.
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Sadly, regular movement seems to be shifting towards the exception, not the rule. As stated in a past entry, the average person spends 4.4 hours of leisure time in front of a computer, tablet, or phone screen. And unfortunately, the 4.4 hour estimate comes from data collected a few years ago. Call it a hunch, but I'm willing to bet that the time spent in front of a screen has already increased and will continue to do so.
As a parent, I am also seeing more and more kids with smart phones and tablets. Kids learn by watching their parents. If a parent constantly browses their phone whenever there is a moment of free time, how can we expect children to act any differently? Kids learn by what you do, not by what you say to do.
When I was a kid, I couldn't wait to get home from school, so I could head outside to play. Nowadays, it seems more common for kids to rush home to download new apps and video games. The world has certainly changed, and much of the change has not been for the better. Our population continues to move less, and that is a problem.
Final Thoughts
The human body was designed to move. Let's not allow technology to change that. Most people could benefit from more movement throughout the day. Even many exercise enthusiasts could benefit by following some of the suggestions presented in the video above. Movement is medicine, and everyone needs a regular dose. And please note, I am not suggesting that you live in the woods without electricity. I am simply encouraging you to budget in more time to get up and move.
Your body will thank you for moving as the years pass.
"Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it." – Plato

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Extracts from the Annual Reports
Extracts from the Special Conference of the Irish Labour Party and Trades Union Congress on March 14th and 15th, 1924, in the Mansion House, Dublin
Protectionism Versus Free Trade
MR W CARPENTER (Irish Garment Workers' Union, Dublin) said: His Union had a high percentage of unemployment, but he thought it was a wrong approach to deal, with it as a question between Free Trade and Tariffs. The figures quoted by Mr Johnson about the cloth-ing imports were not the whole facts. Irish mills exported cloth to Leeds, and these exports came back as imports of ready-made clothing. The situation was largely due to the people's apathy in buying cheap ready-made goods. A suit could be made in Leeds—cut, made and trimmed and delivered in Dublin—for 10s 6d, but the workers in Leeds earned better wages than those in Dublin. But the employers in the trade in this country who were clamouring for Protection had refused even to try to manufacture that class of goods, although the workers were willing.
If workers would study economic geography, they would be able to understand the flow of trade, and to realise that Protection would be of very little use to the workers in this country. He was astonished to find Mr Johnson quoting Connolly in support of Protec-tion. He understood Connolly to have been advocating efficient industrial unions, which would be strong enough to enable the workers to control industry and trade as they pleased. There was really only one industry in Ireland, and that was agriculture; if they wanted to legislate for industry, that was the industry they should concentrate on. If it flour-ished, the country flourished.
Ireland could not compete with the big wheat farms of Canada and the United States of America, but it could become a flourishing dairy farming country if it were given wise State aid in organising proper marketing facilities. The voting on the resolution and the amend-ment could not be decisive, for a vote for either was a vote for tariffs… the proper course would be to defer the matter till August, and in the meantime the delegates could study economic ge-ography and similar subjects so as to prepare themselves for taking a decision.
MR F ROBBINS (Workers' Council, Dublin) supported the resolution. He regretted that lit-tle attention had been paid in the discussion to the control of the big financial trusts over industry and trade. He supported Protection, not because it might appear to benefit Irish in-dustrialists, but because it would give employment to Irish workers. The recent duties on imported manufactured tobacco were an example of that. As for imported goods being sweated goods, that was the fault of the Trade Unions themselves.
Protection might raise prices in some cases, but it would also increase earning and spending power, as had happened during the War. He questioned if it would mean less employment at the docks; raw materials would be imported instead of manufactured goods. The bottle trade at Ringsend was practically extinguished, but could be revived by a tariff. The same means would enable them to meet tactics like those of the Lever Soap Trust, who controlled Irish factories, were concentrating all their manufacturing at Port Sunlight, and maintaining their trade here by giving specially favourable terms to shopkeepers. The delegates must give their
representatives authority to take a definite line.
Click here to launch page 35 the 1924 Annual Report (PDF)
Representation on National Executive
The CHAIRMAN formally moved, on behalf of the National Executive:
To alter Standing Order No 12, paragraph 3, to read: —
The maximum number of delegates from any one organization that may be elected to mem-bership of the National Executive, otherwise than as Officers, shall be: —
For an organization with a membership not over 10,000—ONE.
For an organization with a membership over 10,000, but not over 20,000—TWO.
For an organization with a membership over 20,000, but not over 50,000—THREE.
For an organization with a membership of over 50,000—FOUR.
MR L J LARKIN (National Executive) seconded the motion.
MR J CARR (Workers' Council, Limerick) moved the following amendment:—
That any Union be only entitled to one member on the National Executive (outside of Offic-ers).
Mr Carr said the intention of the amendment was to secure the representation of a greater variety of interests on the Executive. If the motion were carried, any Union that became en-titled to three or four members of the Executive would naturally try to get them elected. Nei-ther the English nor the Scottish Congress allowed any one Union to have two or more members on the Executive. The whole question of representation on the Executive should be reconsidered.
There were two main principles of representation—geographical and industrial or vocation-al. The Movement was more or less committed to the vocational principle, and ought there-fore
to apply it to the National Executive. Under the scheme of the motion, only one Union would at present be entitled to as many as four members, but with the development in the way of amalgamation that might be expected—single Unions for the building trades and for the distributive trades, for example—they might have the whole of the Executive being elected by three Unions, which would almost be giving the other Unions notice to quit the Congress. He was not sure whether Unions directly represented at Congress would be enti-tled to further indirect representation through Workers' Councils, but if so the strong Unions might still further increase their representation, and eventually the arrangement might lead to having a single organization in control.
MR J RENNIE (Society of Operative House and Ship Painters, Newry) seconded the amendment, as the best means of strengthening the influence of the Congress throughout the country. It was most discouraging to come to the Annual Congresses and find that cer-tain persons who were in a strong position in certain Unions were able practically to dictate to Congress and express opinions which went out as the opinions of the whole movement. For the benefit of the smaller sections, and also of the Trade Unions generally, he thought that the Executive should be representative of the greatest possible area of thought.
MR C J KENNY (Clerical Workers' Union, Dublin) supported the motion, which had found general favour in his Union. The amendment superficially appeared to ensure representation of the smaller Unions, but as the mover of it had pointed out, it would still be possible for the larger Unions to get representation through the Trades' Councils. The motion was simple and clear, and its adoption would not prevent a number of small Unions from getting repre-sentation by combining together.
MR D R CAMPBELL (Trades' Council, Belfast) was opposed to both motion and amend-ment. The amendment would be even more unsatisfactory than the present position. The mo-tion appeared to be designed to favour a particular Union. There was a good deal to be said for that on the basis of "per capita" representation. In fact, a Union of great strength could determine not only who should be its own representatives, but also who the others should be.
Again, it would be possible for a single Union to be represented by the four Officers and by four other members of the Executive, making a total of eight out of seventeen. That would not be inconsistent with its numerical strength, but at the time the Constitution was drafted it
was thought advisable not to give such full-scale representation. The particular organization concerned agreed at the time, and its agreement was accepted by Congress as a gracious ges-ture. It was difficult to find a logical ground for refusing representation on the basis of mem-bership, but he nevertheless would regret it if the proposal were adopted. He would have to vote against both motion and amendment.
MR T JOHNSON (Secretary) thought the … amendment very unwise. The larger Unions—not the largest—would be restricted to one member apart from the Officers. That was being unjust to the larger Unions in order to favour the smaller ones. The motion did not give an absolute right to representation. The members of the Executive would still have to be elect-ed by the whole Congress, and it would be quite possible for representatives of the smaller Unions to be elected if they were deemed to be the best fitted for the position.
The CHAIRMAN, referring to Mr Campbell's suggestion that it would have been better if the proposal had come from the Union principally concerned instead of from the Executive, recalled that the Congress of 1922 had instructed the Executive to make proposals for the reconstitution of the Executive. The Executive had considered the matter from every angle at two meetings, and had been unable to devise any scheme which would meet directly the objections made by Congress to the existing arrangement, but they believed that the scheme now proposed would in its working out be as satisfactory as could be expected. The amend-ment was even going a step back from the existing position.
MR M SOMERVILLE (National Executive and Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, Dublin) said that there was a suggestion that the proposed system would enable the Transport Union to secure practically the whole representation on the Executive. Yet two years ago that Union had tried to get two of its members elected on the Executive and had failed to do so, the system of voting being the same then as now. The Transport Union did not have a majority at the Congress. If a Union with 500 members was recognised as entitled to have one member on the Executive, if elected, surely a Union with 100,000 members was entitled to
something more.
MR W O'BRIEN (Treasurer, and Transport and General Workers' Union) said it was im-portant to remember the actual facts. His Union had fully one-half the membership, and con-tributed more than one-half of the funds of the Congress. But it had not half the voting strength at Congress, and Congress could, if it liked, decide not to elect a single member of the Union either as an Officer or as a member of the Executive. The position in England and Scotland was different, because there no Union had half the membership. Would those op-posed to the proposal agree to election by Proportional Representation? If that were adopted,
his Union would be able to secure a bigger representation than that now proposed. Frankly, he agreed with the suggestion that there ought to be only one Union, electing only one Ex-ecutive and carrying out a single industrial policy, but they had not reached that stage yet.
MR T. IRWIN (Plasterers' Society, Dublin) thought there might be a good many in favour of the One Big Union as an ideal, but there were some who seemed to think that the OBU must be the Transport Union, and he was not in favour of getting an OBU on those lines…
Click here to launch page 48 the 1924 Annual Report (PDF)
On Unemployment Insurance.
From the Executive report: The widespread and long-continued unemployment, of course, resulted in the practical breakdown of the Unemployment Insurance System. When the Un-employment Insurance Act of 1923 was being discussed in the Dail last May, the Govern-ment's spokesman admitted that its finance was based on the assumption of a general revival of industry by October of last year. The warning then given by the Labour Party that there was no ground for anticipating any such general revival, and that in the absence of it the fi-nance of the whole scheme would break down, has since been more than justified.
The matter has been the subject of repeated representations to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and to the Government in the Dail, but until June of this year no action was taken by the Government. The position has, therefore, been that since October, 1923, Unemploy-ment Insurance has been administered under the full rigour of the Act of 1920, although in Great Britain and the Six Counties the cruel absurdity of this course has been recognised by the Governments there. As a result of the Government's policy a very large number of workers—how large it is impossible to estimate, but it must run into many thousands—after having suffered acutely from unemployment over a priod of many months, or even years, have been left without even the meagre relief afforded by Unemployment Benefit.
A very large number of individual cases of refusal of unemployment benefit are reported to the Head Office, and action is taken thereon with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. In some cases it is possible to secure rectification of errors, but in very many cases the claimant is disqualified under the terms of the Act of 1920, usually under Section 8 (4), and the Min-ister was powerless to grant benefit in the absence of the necessary amending legislation.
Click here to launch page 72 the 1924 Annual Report (PDF)
On Assistance to German Trade Unions
From the Executive report: The financial collapse of Germany had disastrous effects on the Trade Unions, wiping out their reserves and reducing their income to a vanishing point. The National Executive subscribed £50 to the Relief Fund opened by the International Federa-tion of Trade Unions, and £20, £10, and £5 respectively were given by the Irish Women Workers' Union, the Irish Union of Distributive Workers and Clerks, and the Dublin Typo-graphical Association in response to a circular issued by the National Executive, bringing the total Irish contribution to £85.
Click here to launch page 79 the 1924 Annual Report (PDF)
On elections
From the Executive report: The third Dail was dissolved on the 9th August, 1923, and Au-gust 27th was fixed for the date of the General Election. The Labour Party immediately pro-ceeded to press forward with the selection of candidates for the different constituencies. Lo-cal conferences were held of delegates from Trade Unions in accordance with our Constitu-tion. The National Executive was represented at each of them. Labour entered the field in twenty-six constituencies out of a total of thirty. The following table gives the names of these constituencies, the number of seats, and the names of the Labour Candidates.
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On Industrial Strategy
From the Executive report: Since the slump in wage rates in Great Britain in 1921, it has been the policy of the National Executive and of the Trade Unions to maintain, so far as cir-cumstances permitted, the wage rates secured during the boom period of previous years. The inevitable reaction that followed the collapse of the European Market so far shook the Trade Unions in Britain that (after a few major struggles had demonstrated that the advantages of the position lay with the employers)
their power of resistance was no longer sufficient to prevent wages being forced down to a point that, in many cases, was below the pre-war level.
Conscious that, considered in terms of pre-war values, the condition of the Irish worker of ten
years ago was very much worse than that of either the British, Belgian, French or Danish worker, grade for grade, we have contended that he must continue to retain for himself a higher standard of life than that which prevailed here before the European War. We have urged that if productive enterprises were directed purposely towards this end, the resources of the country are sufficient to provide such higher standard of living. Circumstances, the chief of which was the new consciousness created by the intensive Trade Union activity of the last eight years, favoured our endeavours in spite of other very serious obstacles. Notwithstanding that it has been found necessary, in a somewhat general way, to submit to reductions in wage rates, the Unions are to be congratulated on the fact that over the greater part of Ireland, if we except agricultural employment and a few severely depressed indus-tries mainly confined to Belfast, wage rates have not suffered anything like the reductions that our comrades in Great Britain were obliged to concede. Now that there is evidence that the downward tendency in Britain has been arrested, and that the Unions are attempting to recover the
position they held a few years ago, we may reasonably anticipate that the main argument by which Irish employers justified every attack launched against their workers will disappear.
Notwithstanding the fact that our tactics have enabled the Irish worker to retain, in spite of serious agricultural and industrial depression, internal warfare and unprecedented unemployment, a standard of life that, viewed from any angle, is an appreciable im-provement on his pre-war standard and is, in fact, superior to the present standard of his comrades in neighbouring countries, complaints are loud that the National Executive and the Trade Union
Executives have not been aggressively militant enough; that they have not continued to press for further advances; that they have not struck against every decrease in wage rates, no matter how small.
In our opinion the Trade Union Executives in this country are more closely in touch with the organisation and the movement they represent than the Trade Union Executives of almost every other country, and we believe they have lost no opportunity in taking any action that, having regard to the circumstances and the material at hand, would bring betterment to the people they were entitled to guide. Whenever they refrained from taking the more spectacu-lar action now so vehemently urged, we have good reason to think they were guided by a very sincere desire to preserve the integrity of the movement and conserve that power that would, in more promising circumstances, bring better results.


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What is a virtual reality (VR)? Virtual Reality offers us a possibility to experience the world that has been beyond our reach until now. Thanks to the Virtual Reality we can EXPERIENCE situations and places that we would never come across otherwise. It is called immersion.
Special films and applications give a chance to move the audience in the very middle of a story or a place to which we want to draw their attention.
What is the purpose of it? VR is entertaining and it is a great event special – experiencing stunning emotions during a fast roller-coaster ride, a flight 3 km over the ground or diving with sharks. VR is a 3D drawing or entering inside a computer game, also together with friends.
VR is also a new communication and professional marketing tool thanks to which the relation between the customer, the brand and the product has never before been so close.
VR offers unlimited opportunities of creating art, cultural assets and participating in cultural and sport events.
VR is also about education – learning and experiencing the world has never been so fascinating and efficient – a student can take an active part in the process they are being acquainted with, enter the worlds that are new for them, experiment in a safely manner. The created world of VR guarantees full concentration – in what other way can we here and now learn about the construction of pyramids or see with our own eyes the Solar System?
How to watch virtual reality? Put on virtual reality goggles (e.g. Samsung Gear VR or HTC Vive), look around and drift off. 360 degrees films can also be displayed on a regular PC by moving the screen view with a pointer or on a smartphone (e.g. through YouTube or Facebook).
200th anniversary of the University of Warsaw – an example of a 360 degrees film


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By the numbers, the peoples of Europe and the US are turning to politicians who challenge the visions and realities of the establishment.
The British magazine, The Economist, recently published an issue on the topic of the rise of illiberalism and populism. Donald Trump was, of course, at the centre of attention, and they discussed his populist appeal in an article bearing the title 'Playing with Fear'. But some attention was also given to the rising success of anti-immigration, Right-wing parties in Europe, including parties such as the Front National, Fidesz, and the Sweden Democrats, the latter being the anti-establishment party of my fatherland. The basis of the articles was not, however, serious political analysis, but the old technique of accusing anti-establishment politicians of exploiting irrational fear.
The prospect of liberalism breaking down in Sweden seems to especially frighten proponents of liberalism all around the world – and it should – because if illiberal parties can succeed here, then they can make it anywhere. And speaking of fear, it struck me how similar the rhetoric and analysis of The Economist is to that of the academics, pundits, and experts in my own country when they try to understand why a large part of the people have decided to abandon the establishment and have begun voting against its policies. This analysis often, in the end, boils down to speaking of the politics of fear.
Trump, they write in The Economist, plays on the fear of the angry, old White men whose jobs and wages are threatened by globalisation and immigration. The same goes for Europe, where Marine Le Pen, Jimmie Åkesson, Viktor Orbán, and all the others pretty much do the same thing. The tendency to apply psychology in order to transform conservatism and nationalism into pathologies is strong within northern European culture. I'm sure the same goes for the US. This is of course a very convenient way of dealing with the rising tide of illiberalism without having to consider the complete and utter failure of Left-wing liberalism, thus putting all the blame on the Right.
In Sweden, multiculturalism was accepted and voted into the Constitution in 1975 by our Parliament. At that time, no one anticipated the mass immigration that would come at a later stage and which would reach extraordinary heights during the 1990s, going beyond even that when Fredrik Reinfeldt was elected as Prime Minister in 2006. It is interesting, however, to note that the stage was set over forty years ago for the problems which we deal with today. One can certainly get the impression that the problem with immigration is a new thing when one hears the debate on the so-called refugee crisis. But this is not the case; multiculturalism and immigration have been failing for a long time.
And over the course of several decades, we have had an elite which has pushed this agenda. Immigration and multiculturalism did not come out of a vacuum; quite the opposite. They have, during this period, been willed by our politicians, our academics, our media, and our big business. I'm writing from a Swedish perspective, and when looking back some 20 to 25 years, to when the opposition against immigration first began to organise, it is astonishing how much has happened since. For many decades, the elite was more or less unchallenged when it came to imposing immigration and multiculturalism on the Swedes.
Today, the situation has reversed. The Sweden Democrats – a party critical of immigration – was elected to the Parliament in 2010 and have since had rising success in the polls. But the change has not only occurred within the realm of politics. The conditions for the media have changed just as much. Today's media does not have a monopoly on information any longer. They also have to deal with declining readership, and thus lesser incomes than they had prior to the rise of alternative media. The ice is breaking under the feet of the establishment, and quite a lot of its members certainly feel a slight chill down their spines.
At the same time, it would be a mistake to attribute this chill only to the prospect of their material benefits withering away. The bread and butter is about to be taken from the mouths of the politicians and journalists, but this is not everything. To an even greater degree, it is their ideas that have failed and are on the verge of collapsing entirely. They are collapsing, to borrow a phrase from Marxist terminology, because of their internal contradictions.
The cardinal values of the establishment are feminism, multiculturalism, equality, globalism, inclusion, and openness. All of these are in the process of breaking down. All of those things in which they have believed and worked for over the course of decades are now being rejected by the peoples on whom they were imposed. And by the numbers, the peoples of Europe and the US are turning to politicians who challenge the visions and realities of the establishment.
It is a sign of the times that the defenders of the establishment can only conjure up such a weak response as accusing people like Trump of playing on irrational fear. When their ideas are failing, the only thing they can do is to try and transform the critical stance of their antagonists into pathologies. But who is really afraid?
The technique of making one's opponent's ideas and views into pathologies is certainly a dishonest one. But in this case, I believe myself to be justified in turning the trick on the Economist writers back on them. There is another interesting concept in the field of psychology: projection. And when apologists in the service of the Left-wing establishment accuse us of being ruled by fear, they are certainly projecting their own state of mind into their antagonists. Because the truth is, they have every reason to be afraid, whether they happen to be operating in the American or Swedish context.
Their utopias have been in power for quite some time, with horrifying consequences. Policies and ideas – like the virtues of immigration and multiculturalism – that used to go unquestioned, are now being critiqued, and are failing on their own account. The power and privileges that used to be reserved for politicians and pundits of a certain ideological dispensation are on their way of being appropriated by new actors. Accusing people like Trump of 'playing with fear' won't make such failing ideas any better, and neither will it help to preserve the privileges of the current establishment in the future.
The real fear here is that of the Left-wing establishment. They have everything to lose, and we have everything to gain. A fire has been started, and the fire is rising.


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Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has been rising drastically in the national polling for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination. Frightened by that rise, Democratic candidates from center-left to communist have risen as one, declaring that Bloomberg has done the process dirty: By dropping hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising, he has thwarted the process, and thus, the will of the people. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., proclaimed: "It's a shame Mike Bloomberg can buy his way into the debate. But at least now primary voters curious about how each candidate will take on Donald Trump can get a live demonstration of how we each take on an egomaniac billionaire." And former Vice President Joe Biden stated, "Sixty billion dollars can buy you a lot of advertising, but it can't erase your record."
All of which raises a serious question: Is Bloomberg doing something deeply wrong -- is he "cheating" -- by spending oodles of his own money on political advertising?
The answer, of course, is no. Tom Steyer, another Democratic billionaire, has spent over $200 million on political advertising, with little response -- he won 0.3% of votes in Iowa and 3.6% of votes in New Hampshire. Bloomberg is resonating because he is vying for the moderate lane in the Democratic primaries just as Biden, the wire-to-wire front-runner until the primaries actually began, flamed out completely. Money, obviously, isn't everything.
But, say the critics, dollars can buy you an entry ticket into the political race. That's undoubtedly true. Dollars plus a political case is better than no dollars plus a political case. But it's also true that dollars become increasingly important in a political system in which candidates can gain outsized attention and vote share by spending money that doesn't belong to them. Bloomberg, to his credit, is spending his own money. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Warren are pledging to spend everyone else's. "Stop trying to buy elections!" rings hollow from a cast of characters who have promised Americans "free" health care, "free" college tuition, "free" child care and "free" housing, among other giveaways.
It also rings hollow from people who have received hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of attention from their like-minded allies in the media. Sanders has earned hundreds of millions of dollars in media attention; so, too, has Warren. Our media act as attention-providing political gatekeepers. For Bloomberg to end-around them is hardly illegitimate.
In truth, the problem for Democrats isn't Bloomberg's spending. The problem is that the Democratic Party now treats wealth itself as an indicator of immorality. This week, Sanders tweeted, "Together, we are going to end the greed of the billionaire class." Never mind that creating tens of billions of dollars in value via voluntary exchange, employing tens of thousands of people, and providing goods and services to millions is far less indicative of greed than living as a taxpayer-funded, parasitical, self-styled revolutionary for six decades. The size of Bloomberg's bank account makes him morally suspect in the world of the modern Democratic Party. There's a reason former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg keeps telling debate crowds that he's the poorest candidate running, as though lack of financial success is a tremendous indicator of governing ability. As Trevor Noah recently joked, being called a wealthy person is, for "progressive white people ... like being called the N-word."
This perspective represents the reversal of the American dream: We should all aspire to government dependency, patting our own backs for our altruism while drawing on the public dime. After all, if wealth is sin, then chiding the wealthy while living off of them is sainthood. That's the Democratic line going into 2020. We'll see soon enough whether Americans are willing to give up the true American dream in favor of yelling at billionaires.
Ben Shapiro, 36, is a graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School, host of "The Ben Shapiro Show" and editor-in-chief of DailyWire.com. He is the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller "The Right Side of History." He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles.


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With the emergence of trends in social media many brides are looking for ways to use it to their advantage. With your wedding being the most important day of your life, you want to capture every moment and remember them forever. Although your photographer will be your best friend when it comes to this, they can't capture every moment of the night among all of your guests. This is where guests taking pictures comes into place to save the day. Websites like Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter are easy ways for pictures from your big day to be shared among your family and friends. Although we strongly discourage allowing guests to take pictures during the ceremony, the reception is a great place for your friends to take pictures. Pictures your friends take make a great addition to your wedding album. The problem with this? You have so many different guests taking pictures and it's hard to keep track of them all and it takes a lot of effort to reach out to everyone to acquire these pictures. The answer? Hashtags.
In 2009, Twitter began to hyperlink the hashtags that their users would use in their tweets. A few years later, Facebook followed suit. Hashtags are a great way to help certain phrases, categories, and pictures trend on the internet and gain attention from other users. All you have to do is search for a phrase and multiple posts and pictures also tagged with that phrase show up. In wedding terms, a bride can create a unique hashtag and have her guests post it with their social media posts/pictures, and her wedding can be easily found on social media in just ONE place! This is a great way for you to see all the pictures guests take at your wedding and posts they directed towards you and your groom to congratulate and acknowledge your big day. So no more flash drives, multiple emails, and downloads during the wedding; hashtags make life so much easier for both you and your guests.
From: https://www.etsy.com/
You can be as creative as you want in coming up with your personal wedding hashtag. Hashtags are a great opportunity for you to use and debut your new last name!There are different websites like Nuncamind.com that will generate hashtags for you. All you have to do is type in your names or a phrase and it will generate ideas for you! You can also brainstorm phrases unique to your love story and incorporate those into a hashtag. For example, say you're getting married in an estate in 2014 and your names are Barbie and Ken Jones. You could use a hashtag like #estatewedding2014, #Jonespartyoftwo, #Joneswedding2014, #BarbieandKen, #BarbieandKenwed, or #mr.andmrs.jones2014. You can also set up a fun scavenger hunt for your guests to find certain things at the wedding, photograph them, and post them to social media with your unique hashtag. This helps you accumulate a variety of fun pictures you wouldn't otherwise have. Another fun idea is to use a tv or screen to project your personal hashtag feed during your reception. This way you and your guests can enjoy viewing these images during the dancing and other fun festivities.
A few simple things to remember: there are no spaces between the words in a hashtag, keep it simple for your guests to remember, and start advertising early. If you can, include your hashtag on your invitations and include a sign at your reception with a reminder to use your hashtag. Have fun and be creative when brainstorming your hashtag and enjoy finding all of your pictures in one place! Happy hashtagging!
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Remote Work Checklist for Employers
So, currently, all businesses find it quite challenging to arrange efficient work-from-home conditions and rules. The transition includes lots of vital steps ranging from selecting the right set of tools to the adoption of certain skills needed for telecommuting to be successful.
So, here is a checklist for you to follow:
1 Provide the Needed Devices
Using the company's devices rather than personal devices like PCs, laptops, phones, headsets/headphones is the best practice to ensure security we have discussed above.
Working from home often implies having your relatives or dear ones working beside you. So, the availability of high-quality headsets will come very handy to eliminate unwanted background noises from other people in the household.
2 Grant Access to the Required Tools
Any business, whether big or small, leverage certain proprietary tech tools that your remote workers will most likely need access to.
Here is the list of some of them:
- CRM, ERP, HRM and your document management system.
- Tools for videoconferencing and remote collaboration like Slack (a great tool for remote teams that serves as a collaboration hub that easily integrates with many applications like Google Docs, etc. It helps people share the information and get connected easily), Zoom (a cloud-base platform for video/audio conferences, webinars, and chats), Microsoft Teams (a tool for keeping all the team's communication like chats, files, and applications in a single place, Video/audio/web conferencing features are also available), Jira (a tool for Agile teams that develop software). Some of them are giving away special offers and premium features for free.
- Time tracking and report making instruments like Time Doctor, Clockify or your custom tool (we have this feature in our custom-made CRM system), etc. Tracking is required for the employees whose wages depend on the number of hours they have worked. Plus, this helps create detailed reports indicating the time spent on performing certain tasks.
3 Prepare Remote Work Documents, Guidelines, and Policies
It is quite tricky to manage remote staff. If your team is used to working in the office under supervision, they may find it quite difficult to stay focused in their home atmosphere while telecommuting during the lockdown.
Therefore, it is going to be very helpful if you prepare clear and detailed documents with the rules for successful work from home including the ones related to the proper utilization of the software and devices. These documents should outline the following points:
- Working from home
General rules and guidelines on telecommuting, schedules, equipment use, communication ethics, etc.
- Setting Up Remote Access
Procedures regarding gaining and canceling access to the local networks of the company and their information.
- Using VPN
Guidelines for deploying VPNs including the rules of using personal equipment while working from home.
4 Carry Out Training
Working remotely may be stressful for people. To avoid this and possible mistakes while using new online tools, think of holding online recorded screencast tutorials or webinars explaining how to use or set up a certain program. They can share these tips with their subordinates.
The information should concern topics like new corporate ethics, channels of communication, recommendations on arranging the workspace at home and establishing relationships with the family members during the working hours.
Save this data in a channel or a knowledge base and make them available any time for all the people in your company. This can significantly reduce the time spent answering the same questions individually. Plus, people will feel taken care of.
5 Take Care of Secure Acсess
Security is an essential condition for companies that work with sensitive data. You shouldn't forget about the responsibility for the breach of GDPR and other national data protection rules. Moreover, your corporate data should also be kept confidential.
So, make sure your employees get connected to the company's network through secure (encrypted) connection. Take care of making guidelines on the usage of the company's VPN and other needed solutions like TeamViewer. You should also keep in mind that these tools may lack the capacity to serve the needs of the whole team working remotely. So, make a Plan B to have connect to a different tool.
Moreover, ask your network administrator to estimate the needed Internet speed your employees will require for efficient telecommuting.
6 Make More Team Calls
Isolation may be quite discouraging for some people. So, it is prudent to schedule more videoconferences with your colleagues to stay more productive and avoid miscommunication. Make sure to use cloud-based, fast, and light-weight dedicated tools. Some major ones are offering free versions to use during this Coronavirus pandemic (Zoom, Slack, Dropbox, etc..
7 Make Shared Spaces
Create Google Drive or Dropbox Folders to store shared files and grant access to the relevant people. This will help save time on finding the needed information for each team/department.
So, it is important to create a shared space to encourage people to keep each other updated on the news or completed tasks. People may feel like they are cut off from corporate life because they will lack small talks at the coffee machine (which are also important because they help build trust and spread important info).
Be sure to replace real-life communication with something like internal newsletters, staff videoconferences, chats, etc. Be honest with your team and keep them aware of the current state of affairs and your crisis management plan.
8 Train Your Managers to Anticipate WFH Challenges
It is important to equip managers who have not experienced distant management before. The virtual team running requires a bit more skills than they are used to. They need to anticipate the most common challenges.
For instance, they need to keep in mind that video connection is really important.
While working in co-located environments, people are exposed to spontaneous conversations all the time. Losing such interaction may cause people to feel isolated. This feeling of loneliness has very negative consequences in terms of performance because people feel isolated and unaware of the big picture.
So, managers should be trained to see that coming and do their best to make the remote collaboration as smooth as possible by ensuring seamless and regular communication.
9 Process Feedback From the Remote Teams
Think of the way to gather the feedback from the remote teams to see how well they are adjusting. You could create a Google Form with a survey asking the following questions:
- Have you arranged a comfortable working space at home?
- Are there any problems with the newly adopted tools?
- Are you satisfied with internal communication?
- Do you have any tasks that take up more time than usual?
- Do you have any questions about the current state of affairs?
10 Develop New Remote Culture
Leverage the experience of many companies that use wfh as a normal practice. Here is a shortlist of insights:
- Keep everything documented
- Video record meetings
- Share access
- Have different communication channels for work and chatting
- Establish restrictions on spam
- Leverage statuses in the tools like Slack
- Use emoticons to seem more friendly.
- Allocate time for self-education
- Have an internal knowledge database
- Encourage connection
Tips to Arrange Meeting Remotely
It is possible to make virtual meetings very effective. Here are some rules to follow:
- Circulate the agenda beforehand
- Set a time limit based on the type of a meeting – one-in-one (15-20 min), stand-up/daily (10-15 min), weekly (30-60 min), retrospective (60+ min) or brainstorming (30-60 min), etc.
- Eliminate distractions and possible interruptions
Set the status "at the meeting" as a status in a chat/messenger
- Appoint a record keeper
- Stick to the agenda
- Mute the sound when silent
- Attend meetings
- Circulate the decisions among the participants.
Overall, we recommend looking at the bright side of the things and adjust to the new normal by transforming your working processes. If you need any help from our experience or need to transform your business digitally with custom IT solutions, we are here to help.


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- a wealthy person who gambles large amounts.
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text: In a recent case before the Employment Appeals Tribunal, Kerrigan v Smurfit Kappa Ireland Limited (UD 1921/2011) the employee appealed against a recommendation of a Rights Commissioner (ref r-105234-ud11 JOC,) under the Unfair Dismissal Act 1977 (as amended). The case is interesting insofar as it reiterates again the importance of allowing an employee take the appropriate advice before signing a settlement or compromise/waiver agreement.Preliminary issueAt the outset the Respondent raised a preliminary issue that the Tribunal had no jurisdiction to hear the unfair dismissal claim as the claimant had signed a compromise agreement in full and final settlement of all claims. Evidence was given that on 7th September 2010 the claimant who worked in Waterford was called to a meeting in Cork the following day. The general manager and regional sales manager were present and the claimant was told the sales team was being restructured and his position was being made redundant with immediate effect. The claimant was very upset after the meeting and was subsequently invited to a following meeting on 10th September.At the meeting on 10th September, the claimant refused to sign the Form RP50 as the date of termination and monetary calculations were incorrect. The claimant was also handed a discharge form to read which he understood was incorrect and refused to sign it. The claimant's position was that he was told that if he did not sign the Discharge Form he would not receive the ex-gratia element of his severance payment. The general manager stated that he had gone through the severance agreement with him.On 14th September the claimant read the discharge agreement in full and signed it together with the Form RP50. The discharge agreement read as follows:"I ,(the claimant), hereby accept the sum of €25,280.76 gross in full and final settlement of all claims arising out of my employment with (the respondent) or the termination thereof, both under statute and under common law in all respects for all purposes.I confirm that this sum is inclusive of but not limited to any entitlements, rights, or claims that 1 have or may have had under the Minimum Notice and Terms of Employment Information Act, 1973-2001, the Industrial Relations Acts 1949-2004, the Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977-2001, the Redundancy Payments Act 1967-2003, the Protection of Employees (Part Time Work) Act 2001, the Protection of Employees (Fixed Term Work) Act 2003, the Payment of Wages Act 1991, the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 and the Employment Equality Act 1998-2004 etc.I confirm that this document has been read over and explained to me prior to my signing it and that accordingly I both understand and accept the contents of this document in full."The respondent stated that the claimant had negotiated the settlement figure but the claimant was not advised to seek advice before signing it.Determination on Preliminary IssueThe Tribunal ruled that it had jurisdiction to hear the appeal and referred to caselaw including Hurley v the Royal Yacht Club [1997] ELR 225 where Buckley J.in the Circuit Court concluded that there must be informed consent in respect of a waiver and explained what this meant."I am satisfied that the applicant was entitled to be advised of his entitlements under the employment protection legislation and that any agreement or compromise should have listed the various Acts which were applicable, or at least made it clear that they had been taken into account by the employee. I am also satisfied that the applicant should have been advised in writing that he should take appropriate advice as to his rights, which presumably in this case, would have been legal advice. In the absence of such advice I find the agreement to be void"The Tribunal also referred to the decision of the High Court in Sunday Newspapers Ltd v Kinsella and Brady[2008] ELR 53 which sets out a statement of the law in this area. The Tribunal noted that the Hurley test encompassed two elements and that it was "vital" that an employee be advised to seek appropriate advice.Substantive CaseThe Tribunal heard that the Respondent had three main plants in Ireland including Dublin, Lurgan and Cork and smaller plaints including Waterford and the Mallow Road. During 2008 business dropped dramatically and the Cork plant and the smaller plants lost 50% of business. As a result a series of redundancies were made. Over the period, 110/120 employees in the Cork plant, comprising 80% of its workforce, had been made redundant.The sales team was the last to be restructured as the respondent wanted to keep its customers reassured and looked after. Three sales development executives, including the claimant, reported to the Cork office and each was responsible for a particular area. A review took place in mid 2010 which confirmed a need for a redundancy in the sales structure. The general manager opened a spread sheet to the Tribunal to explain the percentage volumes and values of work done by the three sales development executives reporting to the Cork office. Based on these figures the respondent decided to retain the Cork sales development executive in Cork, to transfer the Galway sales executive to Lurgan and to make the claimant redundant. The general manager further noted that this was explained to the claimant at the meeting on 8 September 2010. He noted that the claimant's performance was not an issue and there was no other vacancy in the company as there had been 140 redundancies.The claimant's role was terminated almost straight away due to commercial sensitivity and knowledge of customers and pricing. the general manager further noted that it was common case that last-in-first-out principle applied on a site by site basis and the claimant was the only sales development executive and employee in the Waterford area.The claimant did not accept that each sales development executive had a defined geographical area. He also could not understand the timing of his redundancy as only a few days before the decision was taken he was given a new car. The claimant stated that he was very shocked when he was told about the redundancy at the meeting of 8th September. He stated that he was told not to go into the office on 9th September and was told some of his customers had been contacted and he was afraid some of the customers could draw inferences. The claimant felt the decision to make him redundant was made without consulting him and other options should have been considered. The claimant also stated that he did not wish to waive his notice and wanted to work it but unlike employees in previous redundancies, he was not allowed to.Determination on Substantive CaseThe Tribunal accepted the claimant's evidence that he was only given the first page of a document entitled Compulsory Redundancy/Restructuring Terms" (which had been drawn up in August 2009 as a result of negotiations at the LRC at the time of previous company redundancies). The Tribunal noted that the second page of the document stated that LIFO would apply. The Tribunal noted in this instance that the selection of the claimant on this basis was not unfair as it was common case that LIFO applies on a site by site basis.The Tribunal noted however as therewas a lack of fair or any procedures surrounding the dismissal, the Tribunal was entitled to exercise the discretion conferred on it by Section 6 (7) of the Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977 as substituted by section 5 (b) of the Unfair Dismissals (Amendment) Act 1993, which provides:"Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1) of this section, in determining if a dismissal is unfair dismissal, regard may be had, if the rights commissioner, the Tribunal or the Circuit Court, as the case may be, considers it appropriate to do so:(a) to the reasonableness or otherwise of the conduct (whether by act or omission) of the employer in relation to the dismissal". 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22-year-old son's blood alcohol content amounted to 0.164%
The eldest son of Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Chung Eui-sun was indicted for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol last month when his father was out of the country.
The Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Offices recently said that it slapped a fine of 9 million won ($7,700) in a summary indictment on the younger Chung for a drunk-driving offense charge.
The 22-year-old was accused of having hit a guard rail in eastern Seoul while driving a Hyundai SUV, dubbed the Genesis GV80, on early July 24.
Back then, his father was in Tokyo for the Olympic Games as the chairman of the Korea Archery Association. Chung took charge of the job midway through the 2000s.
Of note is that the Genesis GV80 is the same model that U.S. golfer Tiger Woods crashed in the Los Angeles area early this year, injuring his legs and putting his career in jeopardy.
The police reportedly found that the younger Chung's blood alcohol content was 0.164 percent, which is far higher than the license revocation level of 0.08 percent.
Korean prosecutors tend to seek a summary indictment in less serious offenses, in which proceedings are executed in a written format and do not go to court.
It remains to be seen whether the younger Chung will only receive a fine because it is up to the court.
This June, the prosecution demanded a fine for Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong, who allegedly had taken illegal propofol shots at a plastic surgery clinic in Seoul in 2017 and 2018.
But a Seoul court decided that the Samsung scion should face an official trial over the charges instead of merely paying a fine.
The country has a very strict law against driving under the influence as the violators with a blood alcohol concentration between 0.08 percent, and 0.2 percent can be subject to a jail term of up to two years.
"As no one was hurt by the offense, I don't think that Chairman Chung's son will go through a formal trial. His drive license will be revoked, though," Daelim University automotive professor Kim Pil-soo said. "Hyundai would try to prevent the case from damaging the company's reputation."
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CHIEF RAZAQ OKOYA AND WIFE JOIN AMBASSADOR OGUNTADE ON HIS 80th BIRTHDAY IN LONDON
Chief Razaq Okoya, the Nigeria billionaire industrialist and his delectable wife and Corporate Amazon, Chief Dr. Mrs. Sade Okoya who are arguably Nigeria's foremost high flying celebrity couples were among prominent Nigerians in the United Kingdom on March 10 that joined The Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ambassador George ADESOLA Oguntade, CFR, CON, to celebrate his 80th birthday in far away London,UK.
George Adesola Oguntade (CFR, CON) who was born in Epe Lagos on March 10, 1940 is a retired Nigerian jurist who served as Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria from May 19, 2004 to May 10, 2010.
The revered jurist assumed duty at the Nigeria High Commission on 9th October, 2017 and has served in Nigeria's most important foreign mission meritoriously to date.
It is no wonder that Sade Okoya and her husband did not spare any expenses, taking time off their ever demanding business and social engagements to fly to the United Kingdom to celebrate with this great Nigerian Octogenarian and Statesman.
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Kevin Price, Host of the Price of Business on Business Talk 1110 AM KTEK (on Bloomberg's home in Houston) recently interviewed Nicole Hoglund.
About the interviewee
Nicole Hoglund, is the owner of Honestly Able, LLC, a marketing consulting service that serves up honest advice on how you're able to market your business online. Nicole has been in the marketing industry for over 7 years and has worked for companies such as Minuteman Press International, Autoshop Solutions and Hirease. She has a knack for advising businesses on how to incorporate online marketing into their everyday business model. She is also passionate about continuing her education to learn more about marketing and giving back to the community she is living in.
Tell me about your firm (number of employees, location, type of companies you work with, etc.).
Currently my company only has one employee (myself). It's a consulting agency that I started after getting laid off from a previous position in March. I started the company, not only to be my own boss, but because I want to be able to help and advise businesses (small and medium sized to be exact) on how they are able to market their business through different types of online marketing.
What type and size of companies do you have as clients?
So far I have had one client, it was a contract deal to help them implement and start an inbound marketing strategy. It was for a month and a half and ended in mid-may. The client had over 50 employees around the world and was well known within their industry as an expert. They were a high-end web & app development company. My ideal clients would be small and medium sized businesses with the goal of advising and helping them create online marketing strategies to help generate sales and success.
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In order for your business to move forward you need to have some type of a sales pipeline. When you are just starting out with your business it all comes down to the connections you have and the work you have done in the past in order to get the pipeline going. Reaching out to old connections or co-workers can help generate new clients or connections that can lead you to your next sale. Connecting with them on social sites like LinkedIn can give you a way to get the conversation started.
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Iconic French luxury brand Hermès has reopened its Toronto flagship, in a retail space that is considerably larger than its former location up the street. The expanded Hermès marks a milestone in the transformation of Bloor Street West, as it continues to attract global flagships.
Now located at 100 Bloor Street West, Hermès' new Toronto flagship includes about 5,800 square feet of retail space. In total, the store occupies almost 12,000 square feet with about 4,000 square feet on the ground-floor, as well as an additional 8,000 square feet on the second level.
Arlin Markowitz of brokerage CBRE's Toronto Urban Retail Team negotiated the 100 Bloor Street West Hermès deal.
Hermès' previous location at 130 Bloor Street West, which closed last week, had about 2,300 square feet of retail space in a leased premises spanning 3,965 square feet (Now downsized to 2,520 square feet, the former Hermès space is being offered for lease by CBRE's Mr. Markowitz).
The new Hermès is about 10 times the size of the brand's first Toronto boutique, which opened at Hazelton Lanes (now Yorkville Village) in 1976 with just 600 square feet of accessories (it expanded in 1981 to carry ready-to-wear). York Hannover, Hazelton Lanes' developer, sold the licensed boutique to Jennifer Carter in 1989 and in the spring of 1992, she relocated the boutique to The Colonnade at 131 Bloor Street West (in the 2,240 square foot retail space now occupied by Mulberry). In the summer of 2008, Hermès relocated to 130 Bloor Street West, and Ms. Carter remains President of Hermès Canada to this day.
Hermès new 100 Bloor Street West store is located in a retail space formerly occupied by Williams Sonoma, which exited Bloor Street in January of 2017. A Holt Renfrew Men's store is located next to Hermès to the east, and a luxury brand will open a boutique next year on the other side of Hermès.
The new Hermès' exterior includes a simple beige rose brickwork facade with beveled windows and large, recessed windows. The original Williams Sonoma store interior was stripped to the studs and rebuilt — the complicated and disruptive process took months. Parisian architecture agency RDAI designed the space.
At the centre of the store is an oval staircase with marble steps and cherry wood topped with a leather handrail. It's immediately visible as one enters from the ground floor, which also houses scarves, jewellery, fragrances, and men's ready-to-wear. The fragrance area includes a dedicated table, and the men's area includes custom-made hockey sticks created specifically for the new store.
The second floor includes an expansive offering of women's ready-to-wear, as well as Canada's first Hermès home department. Included in the home section are wallpapers and textiles as well as tableware, plaids, and objects for the home. The second floor also includes a personalized space that can be closed off for privacy.
Because of the configuration of the space, which includes ample second-level back-of-house operations, the store's retail 5,800 square foot area is smaller than some of Hermès' North American flagships. In New York City, Hermès occupies more than 30,000 square feet on Madison Avenue in two stores (Hermès operates a standalone men's store as well as a grand space for women/home, as well as atelier) and other large stores include Beverly Hills (12,000 square feet), Las Vegas (Wynn, 13,000 square feet), Houston (10,117 square feet), Dallas (8,400 square feet), Miami Design District (12,000 square feet), Boston (8,700 square feet) and at The Bravern in suburban Seattle (9,300 square feet). A substantially expanded San Francisco flagship is also due to open soon.
Hermès will continue to expand its presence in Canada over the next couple of years. In a press release, Holt Renfrew confirmed that Hermès will expand its Montreal presence with a new 3,000 square foot boutique in an overhauled 'Holt Renfrew Ogilvy', which will result in the closure of a nearby Holt Renfrew as the retailers merge (Hermes operates a small street-front boutique at Montreal's Holt's). Vancouver will also see an Hermès flagship open in about 18 months, with about the same amount of retail space as the new Toronto flagship. Hermes also has a small boutique at Holt Renfrew in Calgary, which it opened in 2009.
Toronto's Bloor Street West is undergoing a luxury transformation that includes the addition of several new retailers. Moncler, MCM and APM Monaco recently opened on the street, and Prada is almost finished with an overhaul that has substantially expanded its Colonnade space into a massive global flagship. Luxury brand Christian Dior is another significant movement for Bloor Street West — towards the end of 2018, Dior will open a store spanning in excess of 13,000 square feet, making it Dior's largest single retail space in all of North America.
On the other side of Bay Street, Holt Renfrew is beginning the process of renovating its 50 Bloor Street West flagship and across the street at the Manulife Centre, Eataly will anchor a $100 million commercial podium redevelopment. At the corner of Yonge and Bloor will be One Bloor Street East and One Bloor Street West are substantial developments that will add exciting new retail and food and beverage offerings to the area — Retail Insider will profile Toronto's Mink Mile extensively in an updated article next month.


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Today marks the one-year anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden. CNAS has asked several of its experts to reflect on how U.S. policy has changed - or not - over the past year in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the region and what this means for the future of U.S. strategic priorities and military operations. Dr. Andrew Exum, Senior Fellow, discusses the impact of the death of bin Laden on the future of al Qaeda and Afghanistan.


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On Friday, January 11th, 120 library patrons enjoyed a fun morning together being entertained by Greg Schreiner, President of the Marilyn Monroe Society in Los Angeles. Greg talked about how he fell in love with Marilyn and became president of her club. He also shared stories about the many wonderful people he met who knew Marilyn and explained how he acquired one of the largest collections of items owned by Marilyn.
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