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Global mobility skills: an essential for effective communications on a global stage
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Cameron, R 2008, 'Global mobility skills: an essential for effective communications on a global stage', paper presented to the 13th Asian-Pacific Decision Sciences Conference, Brisbane, Qld., 2-5 July.
The concept of global mobility has always been an implicit notion within international human resource management (IHRM) and in particular expatriate placement however it is also now becoming more common place in the general career landscape and in particular the field of professional recruitment. This paper addresses the increasing importance of global mobility skills and the role these skills play in effective communications and decision making. Globalisation, the spread of multinational corporations and the increasing number of Australian based medium and small enterprises throughout the Asia Pacific region have boosted a trend within organisations for global skill bases. This will mean that for many recently graduated business professionals a placement in an overseas office is fast becoming an expectation and an element of professional career progress. Professional skills, knowledge and attitudes in the areas of global competencies, diversity management, cross cultural communication skills, employability skills and graduate attributes will be explored. This paper represents the first phase in exploratory research that will focus on global mobility skills as a professional skill requirement and career development essential for business graduates. The research integrates the discipline fields of professional management education, international human resource management (IHRM) and career development.

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Oahu homeless 'safe zone' turns to waste-ridden encampment
Feb. 12, 2018
HONOLULU (AP) — City officials have received complaints that homeless people from a large encampment are dumping human waste into Pokai Bay, among other issues, and one official warns the camp may be shut down unless changes are made.
State and city lawmakers once looked at the Pu'uhonua O Waianae encampment as a potential model for what government-sanctioned homeless "safe zones" could look like across the islands. But the encampment has taken a much different route since it opened in 2016, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Sunday.
Councilwoman Kymberly Pine said safe zones officials want to "have sanitary conditions, roofs over people's heads, security and an environment that does not destroy" natural resources. She said residents are concerned about the environment.
"Either they actually put houses there, or bathrooms there and security there or they find another location with all of the assistance they need," Pine said. "We are at risk of being forced to shut it down."
State Department of Land and Natural Resources officials worry that occupants living in the oceanfront encampment are running up the harbor's water bills while destroying cultural and natural resources on the land between Waianae High School and the Waianae Small Boat Harbor.
The Hawaii Interagency Council on Homelessness said in a December report to the state Legislature that the camp census has fluctuated from a high of 319 to a low of 170 individuals. Currently, the report said, "there is significant disagreement in the current estimated size of the Waianae camp."
Encampment resident Moki Hokoana, 45, said it's easy to blame the homeless for issues such as household appliances being dumped nearby.
"It's the outsiders that cause the trouble," Hokoana said. "It's not us. What are we going to do with water heaters?"
But Ed Underwood, administrator for DLNR's Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation, cited a long list of problems at the boat harbor tied to the encampment occupants.
"Often they just make a giant pile of trash in the harbor and we've had to clean up that pile," Underwood said. "There's vandalism in the bathrooms. They're flushing cans down the toilets. They leave water running. It's a never-ending battle. In my opinion, if you're going to do safe zones, you're going to need to provide social services, water, restroom facilities and all of that. There should be some sort of security involved."
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Nissan, the leading manufacturer of electric vehicles, is considering stopping production of batteries at its UK and US sites.
According to Reuters, the Japanese car-maker, which itself has been developing batteries for all of its electric vehicles, is looking to cut costs by sourcing battery technology from LG.
Reuters said two sources familiar with the matter confirmed that decision regarding the Nissan battery plant in Sunderland, UK, and Smyrna, Tennessee, USA, may be just weeks away.
"We set out to be a leader in battery manufacturing but it turned out to be less competitive than we'd wanted," Reuters quoted one of the sources as saying. "We're still between six months and a year behind LG in price-performance terms."
Nissan and its French partner Renault have been forced to look into cost-cutting measures as sales of electric vehicles failed to meet their projections.
According to the rumoured plan, Nissan would move all next-generation battery production to its domestic plant in Zama, Japan, and source the rest from LG, following Renault's example.
"Renault would clearly prefer to go further down the LG sourcing route, and the Nissan engineers would obviously prefer to stay in-house," another insider said. "The write-off costs are potentially huge."
Nissan's spokeswoman Rachel Konrad denied the speculations.
"Renault-Nissan remains 100 per cent committed to its industry-leading electric vehicle programme and has no plans to write down battery investments," Konrad said.
"We have not taken any decision whatsoever to modify battery sourcing allocation," Konrad added, saying that the alliance "does not confirm or deny procurement reviews".
However, the sources said negotiations between Nissan and its manufacturing partner NEC are already underway to shift to dual sourcing.
Nissan and NEC invested 23 billion yen (£132m) in their Zama battery and electrode manufacturing facility in Japan. A further £600m and £210m respectively went to the plants in Tennessee and Sunderland. The US and UK tax payers helped to pay the bill.
One option being explored would see LG, which supplies some Renault models, invest in its own battery production at one of the overseas Nissan plants as the car maker halts operations at the sites.
NEC and LG declined to comment.
Nissan-Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn launched a major push in electric vehicle technology in 2009. The company pledged to invest some £3.2bn to build models including the Nissan Leaf compact and as many as 500,000 batteries per year to power them.


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Game idea: it's a one-off freeform. It's bleak-as-fk sci-fi; the PCs are asteroid miners, and they need a constant personal supply of oxygen, represented by poker chips or something like that. Every 30 minutes, a GM comes around and collects a poker chip from each PC; any PC who can't produce a chip dies in 30 seconds. The chips represent bottles that can be screwed into your gear and are therefore tradeable; some PCs have far more than they need, some of them won't last the 3 hours. If I did this, I'd do it worth hard player elimination; no replacement PCs, if you die that's it. What are people's thoughts?
Frakkin' brilliant!
I rewatched Danny Boyle's Sunshine last week, so this idea instantly sent my mind racing. It's got built in tension, where there might be enough oxygen for everyone to survive, but might not...and if anyone exerts themselves (such as combat), they'd find they eat their way through their oxygen even quicker. It's got inherent game mechanisms that tie directly into the narrative fiction, in the form of those oxygen bottles that might be crucial to survival. It prompts player interaction and trade. You can tune the darkness of the scenario up or down by changing the amount of oxygen available.
(Strangely, as I write this, I'm reminded of my Familiar game... but instead of oxygen canisters, the characters require mystical energy to remain in the mundane world, and the more they exert themselves, the more mystical energy they use up. Hmm... food for thought.)
As a core mechanism, it's clever. But I always want to add a bit more to things.
We could easily port the concept across to a 'Starfleet' type of premise. Give each of the characters specific roles, where each of them will have the chance to use the abilities associated with their roles to gain additional oxygen for the economy, or modify the play environment in some way...
Engineer: capable of turning on (or off) power in various parts of the facility, or may fix broken things.
Bio-technician: capable of restoring the oxygen rejuvenating plant-beds, as long as other conditions are met. Also capable of healing minor injuries.
Security: trained combatant, may either instantly win physical conflicts, or may avoid using excess oxygen while fighting.
Medic: capable of healing major injuries, and access to a range of drugs and poisons which have various modifying effects.
Communications: capable of sending messages and distress calls. Also able to decode cryptic codes that might be found through the scenario.
Senior Officer: capable of giving orders to other crew that are expected to be followed. Able to modify the pay rates of crew (which will be paid out to any survivors at the end of the scenario).
(Optional Xeno-archeologist: capable of providing information about the alien artifact at the centre of all the problems, as long as other conditions are met)
There are all sorts of ways that we could play with this.
If we work off the idea that all characters have a name, a goal, a set of abilities that might be used to achieve a goal (preferably their abilities achieve someone else's goal), and an obstacle preventing their own goal's achievement (which can be overcome through someone else's abilities).., then that's all we need for the dynamics of a dramatic narrative to unfold.
The core goal for everyone is surviving the scenario.
Secondary goals might include:
earning a certain amount of money to pay for a loved one's medical treatment back home,
making sure someone specific doesn't survive the scenario, but making sure the death looks like an accident,
erasing compromising data from the server,
identifying the massive file on the server that seems to have been compromising several of the systems,
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Mental Illness Awareness Week
October 1-7, 2017
Each year millions of Americans face the reality of living with a mental health condition.
During the first full week of October, NAMI and participants across the country are raising awareness of mental illness. Each year we fight stigma, provide support, educate the public and advocate for equal care. Each year, the movement grows stronger.
We believe that mental health issues are important to address year-round, but highlight them during #MIAW provides a time for people to come together and display the passion and strength of those working to improve the lives of the tens of millions of Americans affected by mental illness.
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In honor of this year's Mental Illness Awareness Week, NAMI Wisconsin is asking you to participate in our Whiteboard Projects! Across the state, we are distributing whiteboards to all of our 31 local affiliates so advocates can tell us why mental health matters to them.
Each whiteboard includes the phrase, 'mental health matters because..' and a large blank space that can be filled in with a personalized message. After taking a picture with the whiteboard message, we encourage everyone to post that picture on social media with the hashtag #FutureofMentalHealth to share with as many people throughout the state of Wisconsin.
Dialogue is the key to breaking down stigma surrounding mental illness. By talking about the harsh realities of a mental illness diagnosis, our community can get on board to promote hope and recovery. There is not faster or cheaper way to communication with larger audiences than social media.
Even if you don't have a whiteboard, you can still participate! Here are the steps to participate at home:
- Step 1: Print this PDF and write a personalized message on the whiteboard to go along with the phrase "mental health matters because…"
- Step 2: Take a photo so that the whiteboard and the personalized message are clear and visible.
- Step 3: Post that picture on social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) along with the hashtag #FutureofMentalHealth
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Dirty Sexy Money may soon be skipping to the Liu.
Lucy Liu's publicist has confirmed to E! News that the TV vet is in negotiations to join the cast of ABC's returning drama as a series regular.
"It's true," the rep said.
Liu was last seen on the network's much-hyped, meagerly watched midseason series Cashmere Mafia. Liu's Dirty work apparently hinges on whether Mafia is consigned to the tube trash heap in the coming weeks.
Dirty Sexy Money already counts Donald Sutherland, Peter Krause and Blair Underwood among its starring ranks.
Liu's presence would help make up for the loss of first-season regular Samaire Armstrong, who was bounced by producers for the second go-round.


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Investigators don't believe there was any criminality in the mysterious death of a Queens welder outside a Midtown club early Saturday, law-enforcement sources said.
Michael Lin, 27, fell down a flight of stairs at District 36, on West 36th Street near Fifth Avenue, police believe.
Waitresses smoking outside on a 3 a.m. break noticed that he was bleeding profusely from the mouth. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Nothing suggests that club workers had moved him outside, sources said.
The medical examiner is doing toxicology tests to determine the cause of death.
Lin's friends say he was partying the night of his death to get over a recent breakup with his longtime girlfriend.


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Design submitted by Anders from Sweden.
This watch design tells the time like a standard analog watch, the difference is in how it does it. Everyone's done the school physics experiment where you pour iron fillings on a paper with a magnet underneath. Anders says that that was the inspiration for this concept. A blank face sprinkled with steel particles.
Hands beneath the face of the watch rotate a pair of electrodes each, which draw the steel particles to them when they are activated by the wearer shaking the watch or pressing a button. The shaking would also distribute the particles, making it possible for the magnets to catch them.
This version is a feminine, bracelet-like design with metal armband links clamped onto a leather band, making it easier to manufacturer and to adjust the length. The concept could easily be adjusted to a more masculine look by enlarging the body and changing the look of the links.
There are two versions of the face, one dark lit by a UV light with particles covered in fluorescent paint and one backlit by an OLED panel with particles matching the other metal.
This watch concept would appeal to people who appreciate applied physics, and the chance to wear it on their wrist.


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The two judge bench aka Division Bench (DB) of the Delhi High Court heard an appeal filed by Mac Personal Care Pvt. Ltd (MPCL) against the restraint order dated February 19, 2015, passed by the Single Judge of the same court. The DB vide order dated January 28, 2016, dismissed the Appeal of MPCL and made interesting observations in relation to trans-border reputation of a mark. The suit for passing off to restraint use of LAVERA mark was originally filed by Respondent/Plaintiff, Laverana GmbH & Co. KG, Germany (Laverana)
Laverana, the proprietor of the mark LAVERA had filed the suit against MPCL for passing off, damages, delivery up, etc, before the Delhi High Court. The suit was based on the prior adoption and use of LAVERA mark and its extensive international use. Further, Laverana relied upon its trans-border reputation and spill over of reputation in India. Laverana argued that the word LAVERA in Latin language means 'the truth' and is an arbitrary word when used in relation to cosmetics and body care products. Therefore, MPCL's use of a virtually identical mark 'Mac's Lavera' in relation to identical products, i.e., cosmetics, amounts to passing off. Laverana also filed extensive documents such as foreign registration certificates, awards, article/s enunciating the quality of its products so as to substantiate its contentions. The Single Judge of the Delhi High Court after a detailed hearing confirmed the ex-parte interim injunction it had granted earlier in favour of Laverana restraining MPCL from using the mark LAVERA or any other mark deceptively similar to LAVERA till the disposal of the suit. While confirming the injunction the Single Judge clearly held that Laverana has succeeded in establishing its prior use and trans-border reputation in the LAVERA mark. Further, the Judge also raised doubts regarding the justification provided by MPCL for adopting a virtually identical mark LAVERA. Aggrieved by the said order, MPCL filed the appeal.
MPCL raised several contentions challenging the order of the Single Judge. The DB while deciding the appeal primarily considered the following points:
- whether Laverana has established a trans-border reputation;
- whether MPCL is the bonafide adopter and user of the mark LAVERA; and
- whether delay and laches would be detrimental to the case of Laverana.
Trans-border reputation
With regard to trans-border reputation, the DB discussed in detail the concept of trans-border reputation and the relevant factors which helps in deciding the claim of trans-border reputation. In this regard, the DB specifically considered the great advancement made in the field of science and technology coupled with the modern means of communication to conclude that nowadays anyone in any country at the click of a few buttons is able to view international trademarks with such ease that spill over factor has become easy to establish. Moreover, with regard to whether the mark LAVERA has acquired goodwill and reputation in the international market and the same has spilled over into India, the court considered the materials on record and identified the following factors whereby Laverana has succeeded in establishing reputation in the LAVERA mark and its spill over into India.
- Registration of a trademark in a jurisdiction abroad.
- Details/declarations of the registration are in the public domain and open to inspection.
- Registration has been granted by the authority after being convinced of the distinctiveness and registrability of the subject mark.
- Registrations in multiple jurisdictions create a stronger presumption in favour of the subject mark.
- Renowned magazines, publications, even if they are few.
- Volume of sales.
With regard to adoption of the mark LAVERA by MPCL the court held that the mark LAVERA in Latin means 'the truth' and is an arbitrary word when used in relation to cosmetic products. Moreover, the justification provided by MPCL in adopting an identical mark in relation to identical goods is least convincing and therefore the adoption appears dishonest.
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On the question of delay and laches, the court held that when the initial adoption of the mark by MPCL is itself dishonest and vitiated by fraud, delay is not a valid ground to allow misuse. Further, MPCL will also not be able to seek shelter under the guise of an honest concurrent user, as the adoption from the very inception is dishonest.
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DHL Expands Temperature Controlled Freight Services In North America And Europe
Enhances Global Capabilities for Life Science and Healthcare Industry
DHL Global Forwarding, the worlds leading air and ocean freight service provider, continues to enhance its global capabilities for the life science and healthcare industries by expanding its network of Envirotainer QEP certified sites. The proper and expert handling of the Envirotainer - a temperature and humidity-controlled air cargo container - is critical to successfully transporting climate sensitive products. DHL has enhanced its capabilities for meeting the temperature-sensitive requirements for customers at additional airport facilities in the U.S., Canada and Europe where the majority of volumes are transported for the life science and healthcare industries.
DHL leads the development of cold chain solutions, including temperature controlled package handling, in-transit visibility to shipments and best-in-class controlled environments for cold chain storage.
DHL personnel are now trained and certified by Envirotainer, a leading provider of temperature-controlled air cargo containers, for safe and proper handling of its containers for customers with temperature sensitive products at major airports across North America, including New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, Charlotte, and Los Angeles; Toronto and Montreal in Canada; and cities in Europe including Amsterdam, Basel, Brussels, Dublin, Frankfurt, London, Manchester, Milan, Muenster, Paris, Rome, Shannon, Stuttgart and Vienna.
DHL has gained Qualified Envirotainer Provider (QEP) accreditation, comprised of training and audits on proper material handling of the Envirotainers, as well as use of associated equipment including power supplies and temperature control systems. DHL Global Forwarding is now the largest mover of the air transportation containers manufactured by Envirotainer.
DHL Global Forwarding intends to expand its network of QEP certified sites for managing Envirotainers for customers at 100 locations globally by the end of 2008, achieving QEP status at every primary airport facility where the Envirotainer is used by DHL.
Few industries pose as much of a challenge to shipping and logistics than life sciences and healthcare. Temperature instability can impact the quality of the material, increase the product order-to-delivery cycle time, and create additional process management costs, said Angelos Orfanos, Vice President of Life Science and Healthcare at DHL Global Customer Solutions. DHLs capabilities for the life science and healthcare sector enable customers to safely and securely transport small or large volumes of critical vaccines, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), and other temperature sensitive pharmaceutical, biotech, diagnostic and medical materials.
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London Drugs to Carry Entire Suite of TRACE Products
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Feb. 18, 2016) - The Naturo Group announced today a major distribution partnership with London Drugs for the company's entire suite of TRACE natural water products. TRACE is now available to customers at London Drugs stores location across Canada.
Based in Vancouver, TRACE is a natural water products company offering +pH-balancing alkaline water with electrolytes, including a product line infused with minerals. These minerals come from organic plant source found within the earth and are combined with water that is sourced from the company's wholly-owned aquifer located in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. With zero calories, zero sugars, and zero carbs, TRACE Mineral Water, Black is certified BSCG, a drug free claim that meets the Olympic targets of clean products!
The distribution partnership with London Drugs also includes the release of a number of new TRACE products that round out the company's line of natural mountain spring waters. In addition to TRACE Original, the first and original mineral rich Blackwater; TRACE Base, clear alkaline water at pH 7.5; and the TRACE naturally flavoured coconut vanilla and blueberry waters, London Drugs will also be carrying the brand's new blue bottle sparkling alkaline water and TRACE Base in 1.5Litre bottle.
"This major distribution partnership illustrates the reach and interest in TRACE due to its all-natural, life-enriching ingredients," says Marcello Leone, CEO of the Naturo Group. "Our team has experienced the benefits of TRACE products firsthand and we are delighted to partner with new retailers, such as London Drugs, to help reach a broader market of consumers across the country."
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Samvel and his wife Narine live with their two children and Samvel's mother in Shikahogh village, Armenia. Before becoming participants of Heifer Armenia's Kapan Cattle Breeding Project, the family survived by selling the cheese Narine prepared from their five goats. After Heifer provided Samvel with a pregnant heifer, he rebuilt the family's old barn to provide better conditions for the animals.
Samvel and Narine said the pregnant heifer brought the family out of extreme poverty, and they are thankful for the fresh source of curds, butter, cheese and matsoun (Armenian yogurt). The couple intends to develop a small family farm after Passing on the Gift® of their heifer's first calf. Their new self-reliance has brought hope to their family and their neighbors.


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When Maksim Chmerkovskiy guest stars on All My Children on February 26, he'll be teaching a few character how to pole dance.
So, the former Dancing with the Stars professional must know a thing or two about that fine art, right? Right?!?
"When I got to [All My Children] they were shocked that I've never done pole-dancing before —like, why would I? — but I figured it out and tried to keep it clean," Chmerkovskiy told TV Guide.
The dancing pro might be excited about this opportunity, but he insists he has no interest in acting, having nixed most other non-dancing offers.
"People have wanted to put me in a cowboy hat and make me the next Nashville Star," he said. "Trust me, that's not where my talent is. I'm like a peacock — beautiful but you don't want to hear it sing."
Fair enough. But what was Maxsim's impression of All My Children?
"It's really hard work but, to be honest, soaps are a bit cheesy," Chmerkovskiy said. "All the girls were telling me about their crazy storylines. One of them had been in a coma three times. Another one used to be a ghost."
Rough stuff, indeed.One of those women Chmerkovskiy helps on the episode is Rebecca Budig (Greenlee), who had to reintroduce herself to Chmerkovskiy when he came to the show's studio.
"Maks is really sweet but he didn't remember me, even though I only met him like a gazillion times when I went to watch Cameron Mathison [AMC's Ryan] do Dancing with the Stars," says Budig. "Apparently the 'real' Greenlee isn't that memorable!"
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In his dichotomy suggested in 1887 Ferdinandt Toennis (1855-1936) introduced Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft to differentiate between traditional and modern societies. American researcher Neil Smelser found out five distinctions between the concepts: 1. Gemeinschaft which is based on a feeling of togetherness, stimulates people's desire to live according to the communal principles, for instance, at harvester peasants help each other free of charge.
Gesellschaft is based on people's rational realization of individual interests, its example is a state where individuals interact in impersonal situations and pay money for particular goods and services. 2. In the sphere of social control Gemeinschaft gives priority to traditional beliefs, customs and non-written laws while Gesellschaft is a society based on formal law.
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They were never officially fired.
In the late '80s, slide guitarist Sonny Landreth, bassist Dave Ranson and drummer Kenneth Blevins were riding shotgun with singer/songwriter John Hiatt on a journey that was transforming Hiatt from an unknown into one of the most respected names in rock 'n' roll. Dubbed "the Goners" by Hiatt, the Louisiana band watched small nightclub audiences mushroom into sold-out theater crowds and television appearances on Saturday Night Live and Late Night With David Letterman, recorded Hiatt's 1988 masterpiece Slow Turning, and started preparing for Hiatt's follow-up album. Then things took a strange turn.
"I got a call from Jo-El Sonnier," remembers Blevins, "asking me if I was interested in working with him. He told me how much it paid a week, and out of curiosity and courtesy, I called John and said, I got a call for this gig, and before I could even get 'Sonnier' out of my mouth, he said, 'Take that gig.'"
The news that Hiatt was severing ties reached the rest of the band in similar roundabout fashion. "The way I recall it was, they had [Hiatt's] management call Sonny, then had Sonny call us," says Ranson. "It was a bit of a surprise, especially because we'd already recorded demos of things like 'Real Fine Love' and 'Through Your Hands,' and they sounded great. (The songs later showed up on Hiatt's next album, 1990's Stolen Moments, without the Goners' participation.) But Hiatt was known for that, as far as using a lot of different people, and never sticking for one band."
The Goners returned home. Landreth relaunched a successful solo career (with Hiatt singing backup vocals on Landreth's 1992 album, Outward Bound), and Blevins and Ranson each played with a variety of bands, including Tiny Town and Lil' Band o' Gold. But there were frequent, poignant reminders of their time together as John Hiatt and the Goners.
"When people found out that I played on Slow Turning, a lot of times they'd go into this thing about how it changed their life, or they'd remember a specific concert," says Blevins. "Every time I see Rodney Crowell, he tells me that our show with John at the Cannery in 1988 was the best live concert he's ever seen in his life."
Hiatt went on to record a steady stream of albums in the '90s, with varied results. His much hyped-reunion with former collaborators Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe, and Jim Keltner as Little Village resulted in an underwhelming album and brief tour before the band splintered. Over the next few albums, Hiatt's writing moved further and further away from the heartfelt truths of his best work, getting bogged down in attempts at flat humor and strained cleverness. (It's no coincidence that on the two-CD John Hiatt Anthology recently released by Hip-O Records, songs from Bring the Family and Slow Turning compose a quarter of the collection.) As 2000 approached and Hiatt took stock of his career, he felt a familiar pull.
"I just thought, we're coming up on the tail end of the 20th century, and it'd be fun to play with those guys, and get the Goners back together," says Hiatt by phone from a stop on his current tour with B.B. King and Buddy Guy. In the spring of 1999, Hiatt summoned Landreth, Blevins and Ranson to join him in Tennessee for a pair of informal and intimate club shows. "It was just like riding a bicycle," Hiatt says. "At the same time, it's one of those things where nothing's changed, but everything's changed."
Their old musical bonds intact, Hiatt and the Goners booked studio time to make The Tiki Bar Is Open, which hits record stores this Tuesday, Sept. 11, and is their first album together in a decade. When sessions for the album began, the question was whether the quartet could reach the benchmark they set a decade ago.
In 1987, Hiatt was a music industry veteran who'd released seven albums with little to show for it. Albums like 1979's Slug Line and 1985's Warming Up to the Ice Age found Hiatt constantly searching for a signature sound, flirting with everything from pop to punk to new wave -- but usually winding up resembling an awkward teenager whose clothes don't fit quite right. He also went through devastating personal setbacks in the early '80s; his wife committed suicide shortly after the birth of their daughter, and Hiatt battled drug and alcohol addiction.
Hiatt got sober in 1984, and remarried in 1986. He felt like a new man when he got a contract with A&M Records, and recruited slide guitar wizard Ry Cooder -- whose band Hiatt played with for Cooder's 1980 Borderline album and tour -- and bassist Nick Lowe and drummer Jim Keltner, a pair of former Hiatt associates. Armed with that lineup and a new batch of songs that chronicled his troubled past and hopeful future, Hiatt recorded Bring the Family, which met immediate and widespread critical acclaim. There was one hitch, however; Cooder and the band weren't available for the subsequent tour.
"Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel heard that I was looking for a band that could play this stuff," remembers Hiatt. "He called me up and said, there's this guy you've got to hear -- he's the other slide guitar player."
"I was doing session work for Asleep at the Wheel," says Landreth, "and I'm in the studio getting ready to do this track, and when I started playing, Ray walks in holding up the phone. That's how I met John."
Former Clifton Chenier sideman Landreth quickly landed the gig, and spoke up when auditions for a rhythm section were going nowhere fast. He and bassist Ranson were childhood friends who'd been playing in bands together since 1970, and Blevins had distinguished himself in the Lafayette music scene by playing with progressive Cajun rock band Coteau. Hiatt was under the impression that Blevins and Ranson were Landreth's rhythm section, but the three men rarely played together. Landreth had to track Blevins down at a gig he was playing in Canada, with short notice of the audition for Hiatt.
"I bought a tape of Bring the Family in a Montreal music store and got on the plane to fly to Nashville to play with them," remembers Blevins. "It's a three-and-a-half hour flight, but there was no way I was going to be able to chart each song. So I said, well, I'll listen to the first song on the record ('Memphis in the Meantime'), and if he asks me what I want to play, I'll say that one. I get there, and Hiatt says, 'Let's play "Memphis in the Meantime."' So we did, and he goes, 'That's it. Cancel the rest of the auditions.'"
For Hiatt, the Goners' instrumental prowess helped convey the emotional grit of his songs like "Alone in the Dark" and "Lipstick Sunset." "It just clicks, because I work in these different styles, and the Goners seem to be able to shift gears so quickly," says Hiatt. "It's tradition in Louisiana that you just don't play one style, you play it all, blues and zydeco and Cajun and swamp pop. They come from that tradition, so for them to go from straight up rock to blues or gospel, it's nothing to them."
With the Goners in tow, the Bring the Family tour quickly established Hiatt as a rising star, and gave an immeasurable boost to his reputation as a gifted songwriter. Bonnie Raitt relaunched her storied comeback with a version of Bring the Family's "Thing Called Love," while "Have a Little Faith in Me" was covered by Joe Cocker, Delbert McClinton and recently, Jewel. Louisiana artists such as Aaron Neville, Johnny Adams and Irma Thomas have all recorded Hiatt tunes, and Bob Dylan even called and asked him to write a song for him for the movie Hearts of Fire. "When Bob Dylan calls, you do what he asks you to do," says Hiatt. "He didn't wind up doing any of the three songs that I wrote for him, because they sounded like bush league Bob Dylan songs. But he cut [Hiatt's song] 'The Usual' instead, and it just blew my mind."
Despite the Goners' superb performances on their first tour, Hiatt initially didn't ask the band into the studio for the Slow Turning sessions. He cut early versions of songs like "Trudy and Dave" using another slide guitar ringer, David Lindley, and vocal group the Chambers Brothers. But he wasn't satisfied with the results, and brought back the Goners. With legendary producer Glyn Johns (whose credits include the Who, the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton) at the helm, the reconvened team came up with an album that is arguably stronger than its predecessor, and the Goners had front-row seats to witness Hiatt's songwriting genius.
"As a songwriter myself, I'm completely blown away by him," says Landreth. "He's a songwriting machine. He writes great songs very quickly, and just keeps on going. One morning or afternoon he walked into the studio and said, 'Here's one I just came up with,' and it was 'Georgia Rae.' It's really cool to hear him in the process, and you just hope some of that magic rubs off."
Besides containing a number of songs that are still staples of Hiatt's repertoire ("Drive South," "Tennessee Plates," "Icy Blue Heart" and the title track), Slow Turning also boasts "Feels Like Rain," one of the most beautiful songs ever written with a Louisiana backdrop. But Hiatt's brilliant use of Lake Pontchartrain and the Causeway as the song's emotional bridge didn't come from personal experience.
"I wrote that song sitting in my living room in Tennessee," remembers Hiatt. "It was my first house, and we had just fooled the bank into thinking we could pay for it. My wife and I had two kids going into our marriage, and our daughter had just been born. I was in love with my wife and thinking about her, and I was thinking about the Goners, too, and how much I love the music these guys make. Most of what I know about Louisiana I get from the Goners."
The critical and commercial success of Slow Turning, however, didn't change Hiatt's restless nature. If anything, the album's achievements afforded him new career opportunities -- which didn't involve the Goners. "It was just my musical wanderlust," says Hiatt. "There's a certain autonomy in the singer/songwriter thing by nature, and I wanted to try something different. I'd never made a record with studio musicians, and thought, what the hell, I'll try that. Stolen Moments was an experiment, and now I know that it's not my favorite sound. But I wouldn't change anything.
"There's something special in what we (Hiatt & the Goners) do, and we don't talk about it much, but it's there. It's the music money can't buy, and it doesn't come along any day. For whatever reason, we let it sit for 11, 12 years."
If there were any uncomfortable feelings lingering over their initial breakup, they quickly dissipated when Hiatt and the Goners began recording new material in the fall of 1999. "What was the most delightful thing was how well we've all aged," says Hiatt. We've all grown up, and all the silly little bullshit which might have come up in the past, everyone has worked out those ruffles -- or we still have 'em and nobody pays any attention to 'em."
The sessions found Hiatt on a songwriting tear, and the band quickly completed a full album's worth of material. Executives at Hiatt's label, Capitol Records, weren't as enthusiastic when they heard the tracks. Instead of acquiescing to label brass, Hiatt decided to try and buy his way out of his contract. The tenuous process threatened to derail the project, but Hiatt had faith.
"My manager was confident that we could get out of there with the record, and because we felt so strongly about it, we just said, it's gonna be okay. It was nice because I didn't have to worry about the guys -- Sonny has his solo career and is a great songwriter, Dave plays with Lil' Band o' Gold, and Kenneth's been going out and playing with a bunch of people. I knew that when we found a home for the album, it would all be good."
The dispute turned out to be a blessing in disguise. In the interim, Hiatt channeled his inspiration he'd found writing and playing with the Goners into Crossing Muddy Waters, a superb stripped-down acoustic record. For the first time in his career, he retained ownership of the master tapes, and leased the album to Vanguard Records. He used that same blueprint when he eventually was released from Capitol Records, giving Hiatt and the Goners complete artistic freedom on The Tiki Bar Is Open. (Hiatt leased the new CD to Vanguard Records as well.)
The whole process gave the new songs an ultimately exhilarating jolt, and for Hiatt, it felt like tapping a familiar creative wellspring. "The Goners are an enormous rhythm machine," says Hiatt. "Dave and Kenneth are the biggest rhythm box in the world, and Sonny's whole thing is rhythmic, too. The way my rhythm [guitar] playing fits with them, it's immeasurable."
"He can't believe we're so old and can play with so much power," says Blevins with a laugh. "I've played with a lot of bass players, but never with anybody like Dave. He manhandles that sucker, and we've got that south Louisiana thing, so it's very unique what happens when we play together."
The proof is in the grooves of the album's uptempo songs, from the frenetic ensemble churning of "Everybody Went Low," Landreth's careening lead on "Lilacs in Ohio," Blevins and Ranson's hammerlock pounding on the title track, and the downright nasty swamp vibe of "I Know a Place." The band also stretches in some new directions, best exemplified on "Farther Stars," an ethereal nine-minute piece of psychedelia.
"I showed them the chord changes for 'Farther Stars,' which is as far as we go for rehearsal," remembers Hiatt. "[Producer] Jay Joyce has all these little [electronic] boxes that cost 50 bucks, and he wasn't even finished with this one, but we just went out and started playing to it. And that sound Sonny gets -- it's some gadget or stomp box, and in his hands, it's like the sound of God's planet."
While the album's intoxicating and sleek production crackles with energy, the ballads on The Tiki Bar Is Open show Hiatt returning to his greatest strength, writing about kin, love and loss. The bittersweet melodies and lyrics on "Something Broken," "Rock of Your Love" and "I'll Never Get Over You" are a full-circle return to the feeling and themes of Slow Turning. And there's no greater example of those rekindled emotions than "My Old Friend."
"I remember writing 'My Old Friend,'" Hiatt says, "and thinking about how my kids are growing up and watching them get interested in music, and how much music meant to us, but it's kind of about the Goners, about us getting back together."
"The one thing about John," says Landreth, "is that there's a strong sense of family that's obvious in his work and songs, and that carries over in the group as well. When you come back and work things out, there's a good bit of feeling of what we've all gone through. Like 'My Old Friend,' there's a deeper level here. Dave and Kenneth and I go way back, and then you add that combination with John, and it's more layers of friendship that go way back. That makes it stand."
Hiatt and the Goners are currently on a package tour with B.B. King and Buddy Guy, with dates booked into October. These dates only allow for a 45-minute set from the band, and with The Tiki Bar Is Open now in hand, all parties are eager to begin their own headline shows in the fall, straight into 2002, and give the new songs their proper debut in a full show. Given past history, no one is saying how long the current reunion will last -- but they're going to enjoy every minute of it.
"It's hard to believe it's been 12 years since we've been together, but this is going smoother now than I ever would have thought," says Ranson. "But you don't take anything for granted. I could be home playing wedding receptions next month." He pauses. "And that'd be alright, too."


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"I highly recommend this program. It touched upon all TEKS objectives in an exciting, fun, interesting, and informative way. Great activities led to great writing. Lots of connections were made across the curriculum. Thank you so much!"
—Teacher from Withers Elementary
Go van Gogh® brings the Dallas Museum of Art to Kindergarten through 6th grade students in schools throughout North Texas free of charge. Trained volunteers come to your school and lead experiences that encourage students to look closely at works of art, ask and answer questions, and make personal connections. All programs include hands-on activities that provide opportunities for individual creative expression. Students also receive information about the DMA's educational programming for the families. Below are some frequently asked questions about the program.
Where does Go van Gogh® go during the school year?
Where does Go van Gogh® go during the summer?
How much does it cost to have Go van Gogh® visit?
What program topics are available this year?
How many classrooms can Go van Gogh® visit at one time?
What does the DMA provide for Go van Gogh® programs?
How do I schedule a Go van Gogh® visit to my school in Dallas?
When are visits available?
What if I have a conflict with my program or need to cancel?
How should I prepare my classroom and students for their Go van Gogh® program?
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Where does Go van Gogh® go during the school year?
We offer two versions of school outreach with Go van Gogh® during the school year: programs for schools in Dallas and programs for schools outside of Dallas.
- School Outreach in Dallas: Available to public and private schools, grades Kindergarten through 6th grade, within Dallas city limits.
- School Outreach Outside Dallas: Satellite Outreach programs bring Go van Gogh® to schools and school districts or single campuses outside Dallas city limits. Entire school districts outside Dallas city limits may participate in the Go van Gogh® Satellite Outreach program. If you have any questions about Go van Gogh® satellite programs, please contact the Manager of Go van Gogh® and Community Teaching Programs, Amy Copeland, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Where does Go van Gogh® go during the summer?
During the summer, we bring Go van Gogh® into the community and offer programs for community organizations, such as Dallas Public Libraries, Dallas-area recreation centers, YMCAs, and Boys & Girls Clubs.
How much does it cost to have a Go van Gogh® visit?
Go van Gogh® is a FREE program offered by the Dallas Museum of Art. Schools and school districts within Dallas do not have to pay any fees whatsoever. Satellite schools or districts outside of Dallas city limits provide the volunteers and supplies for the art activities.
What program topics are available this year?
Go van Gogh® offers a variety of programs. Of these programs, four are one-hour long and two are expanded into ninety minutes. Each program is tailored to specific grade levels and offered either in the fall or the spring. Program content often dovetails with grade level and curricula and meets TEKS objectives. We also offer a program specifically for special education students. Only one program topic may be scheduled on a single day.
How many classrooms can Go van Gogh® visit at one time?
For the hour-long programs, we can lead lessons in one to eight classrooms in a single morning. Classrooms may have no more than thirty students. Classes with more than one grade are encouraged to pick the program for the younger grade. For ninety-minute programs, we can lead lessons in one to three classrooms in a single morning.
If you are scheduling for one to three classes, please schedule all programs at 9:30 or 10:30. If you are scheduling for four to eight classes, please schedule half the classes at 9:30 and half the classes at 10:30. For example, if you have four classes, please schedule two classes at 9:30 and two classes at 10:30.
What does the DMA provide for Go van Gogh® programs?
- For School Outreach in Dallas: The DMA provides everything for the program, from art supplies to instructors.
- For School Outreach Outside of Dallas: The DMA provides artwork images, program content, and training necessary to conduct outreach presentations. Satellite schools or districts must purchase required supplies and equipment necessary to complete the art activities for all programs. The Museum provides a list of necessary supplies for the art activities and names of suggested suppliers. For more information, please email the Manager of Go van Gogh® and Community Teaching Programs, Amy Copeland, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
How do I schedule a Go van Gogh® visit to my school in Dallas?
To schedule a visit, follow these four easy steps:
- STEP 1: Determine five possible dates for your visit, double-checking test dates, holidays, class change times, and lunch schedules. If scheduling for other teachers at your school, confirm dates and start times with them before submitting your request.
- STEP 2: Choose your program.
- STEP 3: Fill out the corresponding Go van Gogh® Request Form at least four weeks before your requested program date.
- STEP 4: Check your email. You will receive e-mail confirmation of your scheduled date and time within approximately three to five business days of submitting your request form.
When are visits available?
In Dallas, visits are available Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday mornings from September 20, 2017, to May 25, 2018.
What if I have a conflict with my program or need to cancel?
Programs cannot be shortened to accommodate conflicts such as lunch schedules or class change times. If changes occur to your visit after you submitted your Go van Gogh® Request Form, such as changed testing dates, number of classrooms or students, contact email@example.com or call 214-922-1270 at least one week before your program date.
How should I prepare my classroom and students for their Go van Gogh® program?
One week before your scheduled Go van Gogh® program, additional confirmation materials will be sent to you to review and distribute to other scheduled teachers.
If possible, arrange desks in groups of four to five students each. This will aid in distributing art supplies during the program.
Teachers must remain in the classroom during the entire Go van Gogh® program.
If you are doing a Creative Connections program (90 minutes), teachers are required to lead activities provided by the DMA in advance of the program in their classroom.
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If you would like to learn more about educational programs at the DMA, please sign up to receive our quarterly Educator Newsletter. Click here to sign up and check the "Information for Teachers" box.
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I'm thinking that you mean chapter 15. Maya returns exuberantly to the Store with the books and a bag of cookies for Bailey. Finally using her voice, Maya announces that Mrs. Flowers baked some cookies for Bailey. However, Momma flies into a rage and whips Maya because she used a phrase that Momma obscurely found offensive to God.


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U.S. Supreme Court Denies Request for Stay on Sex Offender Laws Ruling
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan recently denied a request from the Michigan Attorney-General for an emergency stay. The motion would have halted the rollback of two laws that retroactively punished sex offenders.
Michigan's sex offender registry contains nearly 43,000 people, and has 39,000 pictures with matching names. 32,200 of the people on the list are not in jail or prison. It is the nation's fourth largest sex offender registry, even though Michigan is ninth in the nation in population. Critics of Michigan's sex offender registry point out that it is so vast that it encompasses a large number of people who are not truly dangerous.
Laws that Punish People Retroactively Are Unconstitutional
In 2011, a law was passed which retroactively placed certain registered offenders permanently on the public sex offenders list. This statute divided the registrants into three categories based upon the seriousness of their crimes. Previously, individual assessments were used to categorize offenders. Five years earlier, Michigan had enacted a law prohibiting any listed offenders from working, living, or loitering within 1000 feet of a school zone.
A lawsuit was brought on behalf of six individuals by the ACLU and the University of Michigan Clinical Law program challenging the retroactive application of these two laws. Some of the six people for whom the lawsuit was brought were registered offenders because they were older teens who had sex with underage teens – and they would have potentially been on the registry for life.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the two laws placed new, and unconstitutional, restrictions on offenders after they had already been convicted.
An Emergency Stay
Michigan's Attorney-General appealed the decision and also asked the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency stay. The purpose of the emergency motion was to block the enforcement of the Court of Appeals ruling until the appeal could be heard by the Supreme Court. The Attorney-General argued that the stay would prevent law enforcement from making time-consuming and costly changes that may not remain in effect if their appeal was successful. The request for the emergency stay was denied.
Significance of the Denial
The significance of the Sixth Circuit's ruling is that it preserves our constitutionally protected right not to be punished retroactively. If laws such as these are permitted, then the state would have unlimited power to punish people for wrongs that they committed in the past. The denial of the emergency stay means that Michigan's law enforcement agencies must immediately begin complying the Circuit Court's ruling.
If you feel that your rights have been violated or that this ruling may affect your case contact Peter J. Johnson Law Office, PLLC, highly experienced and reputable sex offender attorney in Berrien County today 269.982.1100 or visit www.AttorneyPeterJohnson.com for further information.


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If you think Brock Turner got off too easy for the sexual assault he committed at Stanford, you'll want to know what the state of California is doing about prison sentences for those who commit similar crimes in the future.
A bill that will require prison time for those who commit certain sexual assaults is now headed to the California governor's desk, the Los Angeles Times reports. The proposed new mandate comes after the sexual assault case at Stanford University that gained nationwide notoriety and outrage.
Currently under California law, only those who commit rape using physical force must serve in prison. The bill, Assembly Bill 2888, mandates prison time for sexual assault perpetrators whose victims are unconscious, incapacitated or otherwise unable to give consent for sex.
So if and when Governor Jerry Brown signs the bill into law, in the state of California, if you sexually assault someone who passed out, you won't be able to avoid prison time.
The new bill passed unanimously in the state assembly.
"If we let a rapist off with probation and little jail time, we re-victimize the victim, we dissuade other victims from coming forward and we send a message that sexual assault of an incapacitated victim is just no big deal," Assemblyman Bill Dodd, a coauthor of the bill, said on the assembly floor.
This development comes in the wake of a sexual assault case in which former Stanford student Brock Turner was found guilty of assaulting an unconscious woman behind a Dumpster on campus. The sentence he received, six months in prison, sparked outrage as it was widely perceived as being light.
As it is, because of good behavior, Turner left prison after just three months and is now serving three years' probation at home in Ohio.
Under the new California bill, the crimes Turner was convicted of would result in a mandatory prison sentence of 3 years, according to Rolling Stone.


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On Mar. 24, the 186th Birthday of Matilda Joslyn Gage, students from six Central New York Schools were honored for their entries to the Gage Essay contests for 2011-12.
Thirty-five students participated in three levels of competition. They were asked to learn something about Gage's work and to apply it to their lives or to current event issues. Gage was a remarkable local 19th C. woman who dedicated her life to Abolition, Women's Rights, Native Aerican sovereignty, Separation of Church and State, and the Utopian Vision of Oz. These 5 themes are illustrated in the museum recently opened in her former home at 210 E. Genesee St. in Fayetteville.
Entries were from East Syracuse-Minoa (ESM), Jamesville-Dewitt (JD), Fayetteville-Manlius and Nottingham High Schools, Wellwood Middle School and Brewerton Elementary. There were also international essays from as far away as Macedonia and a national entry from Connecticut.
All participants and their parents were invited to a tour of the Gage Center by a costumed Matilda enacted by Pam Poulin, an Awards Ceremony and the celebration of Gage's birthday with cake and song.
Hristina Nikolovska from Macedonia won the Gage International Essay Award while Teachers Don Little and Sean Martin, along with Nottingham High School student essayists, won an award "in recognition of their outstanding work in spreading a greater appreciation of Matilda Joslyn Gage and her relevance to our society today". Nottingham was a new school to the contest and had the most essay entries.
The winners of the Elementary Contest were from Jennifer Schantz's 4th grade class at Brewerton: 1st Place: Morgan Foland, 2nd Place: Alyssa Harrell, 3rd Place: Allyson Isereau.
The winners of the Middle School Contest were from JoAnn Harrod's 8th grade class at Wellwood Middle School: 1st Place: Katie Neuburger, 2nd Place: Anya Greenberg.
The winners of the High School Contest were: 1st Place: Tom Schneible, ESM, 2nd Place: Brianna Suslovic, JD, 3rd Place: Eric Spero, ESM.
By clicking on each of the student's names, you will be able to read their contest entry.


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BROOKLYN BOROUGH HALL — The Taxi and Limousine Commission voted Thursday to legalize livery cab street hails in Upper Manhattan and the outer boroughs, despite fierce objection from yellow cab drivers.
Under the new rules, which TLC Commissioner David Yassky hailed as "historic," a new class of up to 18,000 licensed liveries will be permitted to pick up street hails in the outer boroughs and in northern Manhattan, above East 96th Street on the East Side and West 110th Street on the west.
The new livery licenses will hit the market at $1,500 each, and the cars, which will be outfitted with roof lights and credit-card machines and charge standard, by-the-mile fares, are expected to hit the streets by summertime.
"I think this will be, for the Bloomberg administration, one of its major legacies that we've expanded the city's terrific taxi service to all five boroughs," said Yassky after the 8-2 vote.
"Once this rule goes into effect, people in Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island, northern Manhattan will be able to have the first-rate service that's now available only in Midtown."
But yellow taxi medallion owners are furious about the change, which they warned will cut into profits and severely reduce the value of medallions, which many spent lives saving to buy and have used to leverage everything from mortgages to kids' college tuition.
Medallions now sell for upwards of $1 million each, and as part of the state-approved deal, 2,000 more are set to hit the market soon.
Some estimated that the medallions could lose as much as 25 percent of their value through the combined plans.
"It's going to be a jungle," warned New Jersey cabbie Anthony Focarino, 59, during the raucous hearing at Brooklyn's Borough Hall, where hundreds of yellow cab and livery drivers and operators spent nearly six hours sounding off, leading to numerous shouting matches and several individuals being escorted out by police.
"It's going to hurt us. It's going to hurt the yellow industry," agreed Erhan Tuncel, 52, a driver-owner who lives on the Upper East Side. "I feel betrayed."
Many in the yellow cab industry slammed livery drivers as "hoodlums" and "criminals" who were now being awarded after spending years breaking the rules, with barely-existent enforcement. The TLC estimates that livery cars accept, on average, 100,000 illegal street hails a day.
Others, including one group of owners who filed a lawsuit Wednesday, claim the changes violate the rights of medallion holders, who believed they were buying the exclusive right to street hails.
"You made an agreement, a promise, that we had exclusive rights!" said Sandra De Toni, speaking on behalf of her father, Gabriel, 78, who drove a yellow cab for over 20 years and now depends on the money he makes from its lease to pay expensive medical bills and other costs.
Ethan Gerber, executive director of the Greater New York Taxi Association, also argued that the agreement would leave outer borough residents with "second-class borough cars" and sub-par drivers because, unlike yellow cabs, the liveries will not have any car age or English language requirements.
"This is not a gift to the boroughs. This is an insult!" he said to loud applause
Gerber said his group is considering a lawsuit as well.
But livery drivers celebrated the new rules, which they said finally give them legitimacy after years of facing fines for servicing neighborhoods that yellow cabs abandoned decades ago.
TLC officials said that just 3 percent of current yellow cab business comes from the areas where the new liveries will be permitted to serve.
"We've been doing honest work serving the community," said John Moreira, 40, who owns LBO Brooklyn, a livery company in Bushwick, and said many in his neighborhood who rely on his service support the move.
"This gives dignity and will forever change how our industry as viewed," agreed Cira Angeles, the general secretary of Livery Base Owners Inc., whose father founded Riverside Radio Dispatch in Washington Heights decades ago.
She said the change will ultimately benefit passengers, who will not only have more service options, but will also never again have to haggle for a ride.
"I think the riding public is going to benefit from a legal service that is identifiable, that is safe.... I believe this is historic," she said.