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Last month Econsultancy surveyed 1,000 consumers in the UK and 1,000 in the US to investigate attitudes to multichannel shopping and service.
The Multichannel Retail Survey, which accompanies our How the Internet can Save the High Street report, was a repeat of a study we ran last year and underlines the fact that attitudes to shopping are changing.
We have already blogged some of the results, which found that 32% of UK consumers have made a purchase using their mobile, and you can read results from the 2011 survey here.
Here is a summary of some of the other findings from the 2012 survey, which was compiled using TolunaQuick...
Consumer demand for multichannel retail
A majority of consumers said they would find it useful to have a choice of retail channels, with 40% of respondents in the UK saying it was very important.
Aggregated survey results from 2011 show that 33.5% of respondents from the US and UK said this was 'very important'.
Q. How important is it to be able to purchase from a retailer from different channels e.g. in a store, by mobile, online?
If you break the data down by age you can see that the younger the respondent the more likely they are to see the ability to purchase from a retailer from different channels as very important.
Q. How important is it to be able to purchase from a retailer from different channels e.g. in a store, by mobile, online? (charted by age)
Researching purchases online
In this survey, respondents were asked if they research purchases online before buying from a local store. Most respondents sometimes or always research purchases before buying.
Only 4% and 6% in the UK and US respectively never use the internet before an offline purchase.
Q. Do you research purchases on the internet before buying from a local store?
Reaction to a store not stocking a product
We asked respondents what course of action they take if a store doesn't have the product they are looking for, which revealed that people were most likely to remain offline and look for the product at another local store if this occurred, followed by searching online when they got home.
Only 5% of UK consumers said that they would turn to their mobile to try and find the product, with a similar response in the US.
Q. If the store doesn't have the product you are looking for, which of the following would you do?
In contrast, last year's survey found that respondents were more likely to go online when they got home to search for the product.
Q. If the store doesn't have the product you are looking for, which of the following would you do? (2011 results charted for comparison)
Use of reserve and collect
Big multichannel retailers in the UK have successfully been using reserve and collect services to increase sales, notably Argos' "Check and Reserve" service, which accounted for 29% of Argos' £819m sales in Q1 2012.
However the data shows that the service is far less popular with US consumers, with nearly half (46%) saying they have never used it.
Multichannel returns
The vast majority of both US and UK respondents expect to be able to return items bought online to a local store, a statistic which hasn't changed since last year's survey.
Q. If you buy something online from a retailer do you expect to be able to return it to a local store?
Use of catalogues
The use of catalogues before an online or offline purchase is still prevalent in the UK and US, with the majority of respondents in the UK (56%) and US (51%) having used catalogues at least once in the past year before a purchase.
Q. How often do you use catalogues before buying online or in store?
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This is a story about multichannel, yet you have only used one channel (online) to compile the data. If you conducted the same survey out on the street, or in a shopping centre, or door to door, you would get very different results.
While the data might prove useful in pitches to highlight the need for multichannel, the results aren't really of any use. Sorry.
Its a shame because I am sure the point that consumers attitudes to shopping is a valid one, but it can't be proven by only asking people who use the internet.
@Greg I see what you're saying, but I don't think you can discount the validity of the stats just because the survey was conducted online.
Let's face it, more than 85% of the UK population use the interent, so this is still a very significant sample. Of course, it does skew towards existing net users, but internet penetration is only going to grow in future.
In addition, this 85% that use the internet are the shoppers that brands reading this survey are targeting with mobile commerce and multichannel marketing
Also, we conducted the exact same survey last year, so we are able to see trends towards things like greater use of mobiles for shopping.
For example, the number of people that have made a purchase on their mobiles has increased from 13% in 2011 to 25% this year.
Here's last year's survey:
"Let's face it, more than 85% of the UK population use the interent, so this is still a very significant sample."
Just wondering where you are you getting that stat from? Stats as off the end of Dec 2011 show 84.1% UK penetration of the internet and this doesn't mean they all use it regularly, far from it:
"In addition, this 85% that use the internet are the shoppers that brands reading this survey are targeting with mobile commerce and multichannel marketing"
Of that 85% a huge proportion will be children or elderly people who fall outside of the target audience for these commercial entities surely?
Whilst the article is quite interesting, and I think the survey is valid (to a point), playing fast a loose with 'statistics' doesn't seem to stand up to scrutiny, unless you can actually substantiate these. Would be interesting to see these statistics you are quoting.
@Sheppard, no-one is playing fast and loose with stats. The methodology, the demographics, last year's stats etc are all there to see in the full survey, which you can download (free) via the link in the post.
I'm out and about, so can't check now, but I think I used ONS stats for that 85% figure. I don't see that one percent either way changes my point a great deal.
That 85% may well include children and elderly, but are they not target markets? Do the elderly not shop online? Do we not buy things for our children online, or reserve them to collect offline?
All this is beside the point to a certain extent. The survey shows, among other things, that the use of mobile as a multichannel shopping aid is growing rapidly (of course, there are other reports which show this) and that so many people research products online for offline purchase that the internet is a vital tool for offline businesses.

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I was going to start out writing this blog with apologetic feelings of not updating it since September...with a sort of "shame on you" kind of feeling.
But who am I kidding? It's my blog and shall hold no obligations nor reservations over my head.
About the title, November has opened up new meaning to me, because truly...I don't think it can come close to topping what October represents.
October - fall foliage begins, transition from warm to cold, fresh blast of colors on the leaves and all things nature, and what really stands out in my mind - Our trip to Munich, Prague, and friends.
Have you ever been to Oktoberfest??
I was utterly blown away at the organization, fantastical, colorful display of a festival that I have ever seen in my life. And since Oktoberfest has been around a lot longer than Disneyland, I think much credit is due to festival for so many similarities it holds.
Walt Disney would agree, because there is evidence that he made Cinderella castle based on the one in Munich called, ' Schloss Neuschwanstein'.
Moreover, Michelle, a good friend of mine with her very hospitable boyfriend Vincent; opened up their apartment to Sebastian and I for 5 days. They made us feel so welcome. Preparing dinners, and breakfasts, showing us around the Wien, and my favorite part: introducing me to a good game of poker, sharing their specialty case of Cuban cigars, and sipping wine all night. Cheers! to good people!
Prague was mind blowing. I'll never forget, for as long as I live the kindness of the man, and generosity he gave to show me a good time on our two year anniversary of being bf&gf. We took a train to Prague from his hometwon Dresden in the early morning. We snacked on our lunches packed by his Dad, and gazed lazily outside of our private booth windows and admired the scenery of the Elbe river with it's green luxurious trees and houses. We knew we were in Prague when the architecture started to change, and the radio we were listening to on his samsung switched into Czech stations.
Since our visit lasted only two days, and one night. We had planned ahead of time places to visit.
We were impressed, inspired, and grateful for the city which we both concluded on as romantic, dreamy, and sad to leave.
It was a nice reminder, why I love Europe...so much attention to detail, and so much preservation in the history of things. By things I mean, statues, gargoyles, door knobs, doors, windows, pathways, streets, and more.
Being a Leo, I am always flattered at the various displays of lions represented in different ways around the city. One moment it is a huge statue, the next a fountain spilling water, and the next a crafted door handle.
After Prague, Sebastian's very best friend Georgie from La Grande Motte, France came to visit. It was refreshing to see Sebastian with the man that he calls his very best. Friends come and go, but some stick around for awhile. This would be the case for them, something I call bromance, and true friendship regardless of space and time. These two know how to keep in touch and stay updated constantly. We showed him around a bit, and had a wild good time. Since his visit, I've considered sending Sebastian back his way in the South of France to experience more fun. I have a feeling we take things to serious sometimes.
Oh! I also found a part time job to help make payments for rent and tuition, what a blessing...I am truly thankful. sMeet.com will always have my blessings. Moreover, getting this job was a testament that things can happen for me, and I am not some hopeless English speaking American in a German speaking country. For some reason, I reasoned like that - pity. Self loathing is sickening for me. It un-motivates me, hinders me, and drives competitiveness in me against friends and family. Sick stuff low self esteem. But I kept working at it, sending out applications, refining my resume, and gaining experience here and there...sure enough.
The process can be endearing, but as Claude Sawtelle says from the Story of Edgar Sawtelle, "You can do anything if you're willing to go slow enough." Yes Claude, this is true...but in my opinion, perseverance has a lot to do with it.
About November.
I've been in a funk lately about it. Rather depressed at waking up to grey skies, cold skin splitting weather, puddles, and early sunsets.
All on one day when I started to miss Hawaii and let the change in weather affect me, I was struck suddenly after eating out with a nastyyyy stomach virus (details spared).
I spent days in bed starting Thursday evening, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I had a lot of time to lay in bed and look out of the window anxiously. I spent morning after morning opening my eyes hoping to feel better, and each day I didn't - I somehow felt like I was missing out on the outside world.
And then at some point, into my sickness, I didn't care what the weather was, I just wanted to be out! I didn't even care if it was raining. I felt cooped, warm, bored, and lonely.
And then this appreciation for the outside surmounted. I realized, perhaps I was being closed-minded and negative. I spoke with my Dad and he suggested I start running. Not for it's physical purposes, but mainly for it's "you learn to appreciate the environment better when you face it everyday."
I couldn't agree more...say, I love to read! Why shouldn't I do it out there in the nasty weather? So I'll get myself a warmer coat and a water repellent blanket to lay out in wet spots.
I don't want to consider myself hindered anymore. Just because there is no ocean and constant sunset, that shouldn't stop me from going outside, and laughing, and loving, and truly living with my best friend. I hope he hasn't missed me too much. Because, I am back with a readiness, and willingness to work at what we're given....kind of like creative mud.


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Snow. Sunshine. More snow. The 2013 growing season is stylishly late, but sowing can't wait any longer.
Yes, now is the time to wake up your seeds from their winter snooze.
Fresh from our time with lively Master Gardeners at spring shows and latest training, here's Garden Organic's summary of what to plant this spring. The links open PDF files.
So go on, dust of the trowel, hook out a seed tray, and pour on some crumbly organic peat-free compost. Ooooh, lovely.
MARCH – included since our growing season is delayed by cold weather
- Fruit/veg: Asparagus, Aubergine, Broad Beans, Beetroot, Brussels Sprouts, Bulb Onion, Carrot, Celery, Cauliflower, Cucumber, Globe Artichoke, Jerusalem Artichoke, Lettuce, Leek, Rocket, Pepper, Salads (Oriental), Okra, Parsnip, Pea, Radish, Salad Onion, Spinach, Shallot, Summer/Autumn Cabbage, Turnip, Tomato (Indoor).
- Flowers: Pot Marigold, Borage, Nasturtium.
- Herbs: Basil, Chives, Parsley, Fennel, Lemon Balm, Marjoram, Mint, Sage, Sorrel, Tarragon, Thyme.
- Protect spring shoots from slugs.
- Dig in 'green manure' (plants grown for soil protection over-winter).
- Finish digging over beds, if needed, adding or spreading compost/manure for your most nutrient-hungry crops.
- Check structural supports of trained fruit, eg 'cordon' apples.
- Boost growth of container plants by replacing top 5cm of soil with compost.
- Reinvigorate crowded herbs by dividing clumps, eg chives.
APRIL – time to catch up between the showers
- Fruit/veg: Asparagus Pea, Aubergine, Broad Bean, Beetroot, Brussels Sprouts, Calabrese, Carrot, Cauliflower, Celery, Cucumber, French Bean, Globe Artichoke, Kale, Kohl Rabi, Leaf Beet, Leek, Lettuce, Parsnip, Pea, Melon, Radish, Rocket, Runner Bean, Salad Onion, Salad (Oriental), Salad (Spring/Summer), Salsify, Scorzonera, Seakale, Spinach, Summer/Autumn Cabbage, Sprouting Broccoli, Sweetcorn, Tomato, Turnip.
- Flowers: Borage, Pot Marigold, French Marigold, Nasturtium.
- Herbs: Basil, Chives, Coriander, Dill, Fennel, Lemon Balm, Marjoram, Parsley, Rosemary, Sage, Sorrel, Thyme, Tarragon.
- Plant early and maincrop potatoes after 'chitting' indoors in a cool frost-free and light place; rose-end up in boxes or trays. Great for early growth. Read more here.
- Start thinning rows of seedlings when large enough to handle.
- Move seedlings into larger pots as they grow, eg tomato.
- Protect fruit blossom from frosts with horticultural fleece.
MAY – nearly frost free. Full windowsills and glasshouses
- Fruit/veg: Asparagus Pea, Beetroot, Carrot, Cauliflower, Chicory, Courgette/Marrow, French Bean, Globe Artichoke, Kale, Kohl Rabi, Leaf Beet, Leek, Lettuce, Parsnip, Pea, Pumpkin, Melon, Radish, Rocket, Runner Bean, Salad Onion, Salad (Oriental), Salad (Spring/Summer), Spinach, Squash, Sprouting Broccoli, Swede, Sweetcorn, Sweet Potato, Turnip, Winter/Savoy Cabbage.
- Flowers: Borage, Pot Marigold, French Marigold, Nasturtium.
- Herbs: Bay, Chives, Coriander, Chervil, Basil, Coriander, Dill, Fennel, Lemon Balm, Marjoram, Mint, Parsley, Sage, Sorrel, Thyme, Tarragon.
- Pull up soil around potato shoots to increase yield and prevent tubers going green ('earthing-up').
- Conserve soil moisture by laying a 5cm thick compost 'mulch' around young trees.
Horticultural note:
Seeds are temperamental little chaps, sulking if too cold or too hot. So please vary your timing with local weather – sowing later in spring if growing higher up the UK, or a little earlier if living further south. And earlier if growing in an inner city or sheltered coastal spot.
Garden Organic's growing resources
- What's new in the veg world? Click here to discover unusual crops
- Become a member of the UK leading organic growing charity, Garden Organic
- Adopt a Veg!
- Read lively growing blogs by volunteer Master Gardeners:
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The Orange Circle Theory (Day #1 of 3)
Lesson 10 of 15
Objective: 1. Construct an explanation based on the evidence that the process of evolution primarily results from four factors, including reproductive potential, heritable variation, scarcity of resources, and survival of the fittest. (HS-LS4-2) 2. Construct an explanation based on evidence for how natural selection leads to adaptation of populations. (HS-LS4-4)
Big Idea: The Theory of Natural Selection can be thought of an on-going cycle whereby generations of populations encounter an ever changing environment that selects winners and losers. To the winners go the spoils!
Note: I recommend that you first check out this resource in order to get the most out of this lesson!
In high school I took several drafting classes and, for a while, I had hoped to become an architect. With respect to planning instruction and teaching, I feel that I can still live out the detailed approach to building something intricate and complex even though the product is a lesson rather than a certain "built environment".
The lesson-planning document that I uploaded to this section is a comprehensive overview of how I approach lesson planning. This template includes the "Big Three" aspects of the NGSS standards: Disciplinary Core Ideas, Crosscutting Concepts, and Science Practices. Of course, there are many other worthy learning goals, skills, instructional strategies, and assessments that can be integrated into a class session. I don't feel compelled to check every box but, rather, use it as a guide to consider various options and tailor the lesson in light of these.
With regard to this particular lesson...
1. students will construct an explanation based on the evidence that the process of evolution primarily results from four factors (HS-LS4-2):
- the potential for a species to increase in number
- the heritable genetic variation of individuals in a species due to mutation and sexual reproduction, among other factors
- competition for limited resources, and
- the proliferation of those organisms that are better able to survive and reproduce in an environment
2. students will construct an explanation based on evidence for how natural selection leads to adaptation of populations, including effect(s) of changing biotic and abiotic conditions on resulting in changing adaptations among members of a population. (HS-LS4-4)
I hope you get some value from my work!
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This instructional series represents the culmination of the instruction and learning that has been happening for some three weeks now. So there is a good body of concepts, facts, processes, and a mental model of "theory" thrown in.
Teaching Challenge: How do I support students to persevere and grapple with complex tasks?
It begins with activating prior knowledge (where we have been) and a clear sense of where we are presently. In light of this, I pose the following question to assess what students have actually learned and can recall. This response will be a foundation upon which to build during this, and the following two, lessons in this mini-series. Students should spend about five minutes during the first part of class and just free write; I emphasize that grammar, spelling, and organization are not the most important (in this particular case only).
Quick Write (1.0)- "What are the underlying biological processes make evolution happen?" In other words, explain how evolution works.
Necessarily, my instructional plan accounted for several key hurdles that students will need to encounter and overcome:
1. How do I make sense of a really abstract idea (Theories in general and Natural Selection in particular)?
2. What should an argument look like? How do I meld a claim, its evidence, and underlying thinking (reasoning)?
3. What is the evidence brought forward by evolutionary biologists?
4. When looking at nature, how would Darwin explain its patterns and processes?
Teaching Challenge: How do I support my students to compose, communicate, and evaluate a clearly stated, evidence-based argument?
Teaching Challenge: How do I support students to develop and use scientific models?
Structure of the CER model (refer here for a more thorough explanation). Mental model of a scientific theory. Lines of evidence. Mental model of Natural Selection. Case study application.
These scaffolded elements will be necessary to help students walk through the process of explaining, based on evidence, the processes driving Natural Selection. This then is the output of this series built on the combined skills and knowledge leading up to this point.
Using an interactive lecture strategy, the specific tenets of Natural Selection will be outlined and investigated in turn.
The Theory Lecture (slides #1- 18)- Emphasis on these concepts:
- the nature of a theory (slide #6): With slides #1-3, as a class we discuss the general similarities and differences among the different birds and suggest reasons for those traits, how they became different (genetics), and suggest advantages and disadvantages for them. Slide #6 is a review for how to visualize a theory.
- a mental model to guide the explanation of natural selection (slides #8-13): This is a super important set-up for what is to come next. While others may take exception to how I have packaged the theory of Natural Selection into this mental model, it is important for students to "hang their thinking" onto some framework. I see the theory (process) working at the population level and acting on each and every succeeding generation, itself influenced by a population's genetic variation that imbues certain adaptations to its members. The utility of these adaptations is judged by the selective pressures of the environment. Should this test be passed by the organism in question (at least for the present time), survival and possibly reproduction await it which then repeats the cycle. Should the population gene pool split for some reason (allopatric and/or sympatric speciation), the divergent cycle becomes fragmented from the original and the pathway to a new species has begun. Or it is just a bright orange circle. You can decide for yourself.
- two common misconceptions (slides #14-18): By addressing and reframing these two misconceptions, much headway will be made to dispelling what too many people altogether claim as truth!
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3-2-1 Exit Task:
Students are prompted to jot down three things learned, two questions they still have, one thing they still wonder about.
Please click here for the next lesson in this series.
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Dutchmen are first ECAC team to make semis since 2003
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Union reached the Frozen Four for the first time with a 4-2 win against Massachusetts-Lowell in the NCAA East Regional on Saturday night.
Daniel Ciampini, Kyle Bodie, Jeremy Welsh and Josh Jooris scored for the Dutchmen (25-7-7), who were making their second appearance in the Division I NCAA tournament.
Union will face the Midwest Regional champion in the national semifinals on April 5 in Tampa, Fla.
Troy Grosenick, a Hobey Baker Award finalist, made 19 saves for Union, a small school from Schenectady, New York.
The River Hawks' Doug Carr made 35 saves, and Matt Ferreira and Terrence Wallin scored.
Lowell cut the lead to 3-2 at 5:40 into the third. Welsh lost the puck going behind the net, and it slipped to the front, where Ferreira fired it past Grosenick.
Grosenick made a big save on a rebound try by Ferreira with 4:49 remaining to preserve the lead, and he stood up to another Lowell scramble with about three minutes to go.
Bodie put it away with an empty-net goal from the neutral zone with 40.6 seconds remaining.
Union outshot UMass-Lowell 12-4 in the second period and scored twice to take control.
Welsh scored his 27th goal of the season in the slot on a rebound to make it 2-0.
Lowell scored on its 13th shot, 14:06 into the second. Terrence Wallin cut in off the left-wing boards and flipped a shot that banked into the net off Union defenseman Mat Bodie.
But the Dutchmen restored their two-goal lead with a late power-play goal. After UMass-Lowell captain Riley Wetmore was sent off for holding Welsh, Jooris scored off freshman Shayne Gostisbehere's drop pass in the slot, beating Carr just inside the right post with a backhand shot.
Union scored 3:03 into the game. Kevin Sullivan, from nearby Darien, negated an icing, which allowed the Dutchmen to set up. Kyle Bodie centered to freshman Ciampini in the slot for his third goal of the year.
An ECAC team had not made the Frozen Four since Cornell lost in the semifinals in 2003. Lowell was also seeking its first Frozen Four berth. The River Hawks made their fourth NCAA tournament appearance in Division I and their first since 1996.


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Happy New Year – Unhappy Old Nation?
By Sam Francis
New Year's is often the occasion for looking ahead at what the future will bring, and for the United States whatever we can see doesn't look much like it did in the past. From California comes news that that state will soon look even less like it used to—and as California goes, so goes the nation.
A new study of babies born in California in 1998 by the University of California at Los Angeles reveals that soon the entire state will look like Los Angeles does now—that is, Latino.
"We can see the future of California by looking into delivery rooms today," the study crows. "By the time today's kids become adults, the state will be just slightly under half Latino and we won't need any immigration to achieve it," says the study's author, David E. Hayes-Bautista, [send him mail] director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Who, you may wish to ask, is "we"?
"We" are the future people of California, the people who are carrying out what "we" call the "Reconquista," the Reconquest. As David Lopez, a sociologist at California State University at Northridge, [send him mail] expresses it, "In 1848, Mexico lost the war, but in 2050, Mexico will have reclaimed what was rightfully theirs."
Well, at least we (that is the real "we," the old American people as opposed to the new one lurching toward Los Angeles to be born) know whose side he's on.
If you don't think there are two sides, then you're probably part of the Open Borders crowd, which has been chirping about the massive influx of immigrants for years, denouncing anyone who questioned it as a racist and hatemonger and assuring anyone who cared to listen that the new immigrants would assimilate and become good Americans. As usual, the Open Borders crowd got it wrong—totally wrong.
Good Americans don't boast of how "Mexico will have reclaimed what was rightfully theirs" when the Latinos come marching in. What the demographic explosion of Latino babies in California foreshadows is not just the ethnic transformation of the state but its political and cultural return to Mexico—as the Los Angeles Daily News, which reported on the new study, says, "As Latino populations continue to surge, California as a whole will revert to its roots." [Peter Brimelow reflects on this idea that America is an "aberration".]
In Los Angeles county, nearly two-thirds—62.4 percent—of all births are Latino. Of the more than 500,000 babies born in the state in 1998, 47.5 percent were Latino. In Los Angeles Latinos already outnumber non-Hispanic whites by 42.1 percent to 41.6 percent, and by 2016, the study projects, Latinos will make up the majority of young adults in the entire state.
As Mr. Hayes-Bautista noted, "we" won't need immigration to achieve majority status, but it certainly helps. "If the (Latino) immigration were ever to cease, I think the Hispanic birth rate would decrease dramatically," says another expert, David M. Heer, senior scholar of the Center for Immigration at the University of California, San Diego. "But I don't see immigration declining." Nor should he.
Yet another study, this one conducted by the National Population Council, an agency of the Mexican government, says that between 400,000 and 500,000 Mexicans will migrate to the United States every year for the next 30 years. "Within three decades, the study predicts 18 million Mexicans living in the US, in addition to more than 14 million second and third generation Mexicans already living north of the border."
Note that the report, from the Mexico News Service, doesn't hesitate to call them "Mexicans," even if they come from folks living in the United States for two or three generations.
That's why they call it "reconquista."
Immigrants who come in such huge numbers are not really immigrants at all, of course, but invaders, and the invasion of the Southwestern United States by Mexico is precisely what is happening. Indeed, the UCLA study of new births in California makes clear that what I have previously called "colonization" is an even better term for what's going on.
It's going on because the Mexican government and ruling class has never convinced itself that it lost the Mexican-American war fairly or that the land that was ceded to the United States is really no longer Mexican. Hence, the Mexican government does everything it can to encourage mass immigration into the United States and to manipulate the Mexicans who immigrate for its own national purposes.
That is perhaps understandable. What is not understandable is why "our" government—"our" referring to the real American people, whose ancestors created the United States—tolerates and even seems to be in league with what is now clear will be the destruction of American national unity and probably, as Latino birth rates and immigration continue to swell even beyond California, of the United States itself.
December 7th, September 11th And Immigrant Assimilation
A few years ago, after writing an article on the high crime rate among illegal immigrants in California, I received an irate phone call from an immigrant who, although claiming to be a naturalized citizen, kept referring to "you Yankees." As a third-generation Japanese American, I'm a "Yankee" if that means that I'm an American. So was that immigrant naturalized citizen, but though he may have been a citizen on paper, he was not an American in his heart.
Remembering that incident got me to thinking about Pearl Harbor. September 11, 2001 was a second Pearl Harbor—a vicious sneak attack that killed thousands of Americans. While the attacks may be similar, however, the general reaction of Japanese Americans in 1941 and those of Muslim Americans nearly sixty years later to the tragedies of the day have been very different. This is not surprising, though, considering our politically correct emphasis on multiculturalism over immigrant assimilation.
After Japanese warplanes attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, thousands of Japanese Americans ended up being interned in camps for the duration of World War II. Despite the abridgement of their constitutional rights, the vast majority of Japanese Americans remained strongly loyal to the United States. As one wartime Japanese American said, "Yes, the United States did make a mistake [about the internment] but we felt it was our country–right and wrong."
Such pro-U.S. sentiment among Japanese Americans was due, in large part, to the strong assimilation process that existed before the war. Rather than today's multiculturalism, which believes that all cultures are equally good and which Balkanizes immigrants and separates them from historic American culture, immigrant Japanese and their children were expected to become mainstream Americans. Japanese-American community leaders and organizations emphasized this goal. A 1942 Japanese-American creed stated: "I believe in [America's] institutions, ideals and traditions; I glory in her heritage; I boast of her history; I trust in her future. Because I believe in America, and I trust she believes in me, and because I have received innumerable benefits from her, I pledge myself to do honor to her at all times and in all places." The result of this assimilation process was a sincere and deep patriotism on the part of most Japanese Americans.
Perhaps the most visible sign of this patriotism was the willingness of legions of young Japanese-American men to join specially formed combat units of the U.S. Army. The 442nd Regimental Combat Team, composed of Japanese Americans, became the most highly decorated unit of the war for its bravery in the European theater. It's worth noting that many Japanese Americans had wanted to fight against Japan. One Japanese-American recruit said, "I was excited and felt we were going to the Pacific Theater at that time. I talked to a number of officers and enlisted men of Japanese American ancestry about the possibility of going to the Far East. No one had any objections. We were ready to go."
Contrast those sentiments with the pronouncements and actions of Muslim American spokesmen and groups in the wake of the September 11th attack by Muslim terrorists, many of whom had illegally immigrated to the U.S.. There have been no stirring pleas for young Muslim Americans to enlist in the American military or organizing of patriotic rallies in Muslim communities. Indeed, on a recent segment of 60 Minutes, a supposedly moderate Muslim American cleric, citing U.S. foreign policies, accused the U.S. of being an "accessory" to the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
Although condemning terrorism in general, officials for key Muslim American groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) have been hesitant to condemn Osama bin Laden, the all but certain mastermind behind the September 11 terror attacks. This is unsurprising given that CAIR and other Muslim groups such as the American Muslim Council (AMC) have in the past refused to condemn known Islamic terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah and have criticized the conviction of the Islamic extremists who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993. Adopting the strategy of other ethnic-based groups, CAIR and AMC prefer to fight perceived biases against Muslims in American society rather than making immigrant Muslims better Americans.
As so many officials from George W. Bush on downward have pointed out, most Muslim Americans are decent law-abiding people. But today's multiculturalist ethos doesn't seek immigrant assimilation or require immigrants to be patriotic. The natural result is that many immigrants are not assimilated and have little feelings of patriotism. In a survey of Muslims in Los Angeles County, Kambiz GhaneaBasiri, a fellow of Harvard's Center for the Study of World Religions, found that "a significant number of Muslims, particularly immigrant Muslims, do not have close ties or loyalty to the United States." Indeed, he found that 12 out of 15 immigrants feel more allegiance to a foreign country than to the United States. Thomas Sowell has warned that immigrants "may be hijacked by those activists who are ideologically committed to keeping them speaking foreign languages, loyal to foreign values and—if possible—taught to feel historic grievances against the country that is welcoming them today."
All this is not to single out immigrant Muslims for potential disloyalty to the United States. Remember the infamous incident in Los Angeles several years ago when tens of thousands of immigrant Mexicans booed and hurled abuse on the U.S. national soccer team in a match against Mexico.
The real problem, then, is twofold. First, America's immigration system annually allows in tens of thousands of immigrants, many of them illegal, with little regard for their economic productivity, their social pasts, or their interest in assimilating into mainstream American culture. The second problem is the complete lack of will to limit immigration and ensure immigrant assimilation.
Writing earlier this year, famed Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington said that modern immigrants to the United States maintain dual identities, so much so that Mexican presidential candidates now campaign for votes and money in Los Angeles. In view of today's unending flow of immigrants, Huntington says that the U.S. cannot assume that because it was successful at assimilation in the past it will be successful in the future.
Indeed, until we free ourselves of the constraints of multiculturalist dogma, and reaffirm the central importance of historic American culture and immigrant assimilation into that culture, we will face an immigrant situation that is not only a social problem, but also a national security risk.
America's Minority Mortgage Meltdown/ Diversity Recession: The Smoking Gun?
By Steve Sailer
The ongoing financial crash was caused by overleveraging at all levels of society, from Wall Street to Main Street to the slums. The initial cause, however, was the popping of the subprime mortgage bubble.
At their bubblicious peak, American homes were theoretically worth $24 trillion. The amount of wealth that has evaporated in the popping of the American real estate bubble so far appears to be in the $5 trillion range, to pick a very round number. The blogger Dr. Housing Bubble recently estimated the loss to be $4.68 trillion using Case-Shiller data. Another source estimates $6 trillion. And we haven't necessarily hit bottom yet. So the wealth loss already amounts to a quarter to a third of US GDP—greatly magnified, and spread around the world, by the simultaneous metastasizing of poorly-understood financial derivatives.
I've long argued that the massive ideological and demographic trends in our society toward "diversity" played an underappreciated role in the disaster. Now we're now getting very close to finding the smoking gun that proves my "Diversity Recession" theory.
Many readers have expressed doubts that minorities could possibly play a large enough role in the mortgage market to matter. Actually, they do. In fact, we can now see that, more than anything else, the Housing Bubble was a Hispanic Housing Bubble. Mortgage dollars flowing to Hispanics for home purchases increasing almost eightfold from 1999 to 2006!
As I've argued, the Bush Administration wanted to turn Hispanics into Republican voters by making them homeowners through easy credit. George W. Bush and Karl Rove don't deserve all the blame, however. Their lax mortgage policies were largely a continuation of trends to boost minority and low income mortgage access that were well under way in the Clinton Administration—as I pointed out in my June Takimag.com article on "The Diversity Recession." These lax mortgage policies also had the secondary effect of encouraging residential real estate speculation—"flipping"—by minorities and non-minorities alike.
The federal government doesn't make it easy for citizens to find information on mortgage defaults and foreclosures by race. But it does collect a huge amount of information by race on mortgages handed out, in order to encourage lending to minorities by threatening lawsuits against financial institutions accused of discriminating against them.
A very helpful reader named "Tino" sent me a link to the federal Home Mortgage Disclosure Act website: The HMDA National Aggregate Report,
I've chosen to look at conventional home purchase mortgages originated in 2006, the peak of the Bubble, the year of the worst "toxic waste" mortgages.
Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out how to break out subprime dollars, which is where most of the unexpected defaults occurred. But looking at total dollars loaned on the purchase of homes, prime and subprime aggregated together, is revealing enough.
I looked at total mortgage dollars originated for home purchases in 2006. It appears the minority share of overall mortgage dollars was slightly larger (35%) than their share of the population (about 33% in 2006). This is due to higher average mortgage sizes for minorities ($188,000) than for whites ($183,000).
This may seem counterintuitive—until you stop and think about it. Minorities tend to be concentrated in metropolitan areas with expensive land prices. Rural areas with very cheap land are almost all white.
Further, America's largest and most expensive state, California, the epicenter of the housing bubble and thus the global financial earthquake due to subprime defaults, is now majority minority (with non-Hispanic whites making up only 43 percent of the financially tarnished Golden State's population in 2005).
For home purchase mortgages originated in 2006, Asians averaged $255,000, Hispanics $183,000, non-Hispanic whites $183,000, and blacks $153,000.
Compared to 1999 (the first year in the federal database), which was before the Housing Bubble, it's striking to note how much more mortgage money has flowed to Hispanics. The growth in mortgage dollars for home purchases by Hispanics grew 691 percent from 1999 to 2006! Hispanics originated only $21 billion in purchase mortgages in 1999 v. $163 billion in 2006.
Not surprisingly, four heavily Hispanic states—California, Florida, Arizona, and Nevada—account for 50 percent of the mortgage defaults in America in 2007, and, due to California's ridiculous home prices, no doubt an even larger share of defaulted dollars.
Blacks also received far more mortgage dollars in that seven-year stretch from 1999 to 2006, up 397 percent from $17 billion to $84 billion. Both Hispanics and blacks participated heavily in the subprime market, with two to three times higher percentages of their mortgages being subprime than among whites. So much of this breakneck expansion in borrowing among Hispanics and blacks must have been due to subprimes, which is where the financial collapse started.
Despite rapid immigration, Asians were up only 218 percent in total new mortgage dollars from 1999 to 2006, from $24 billion to 77 billion. We know they mostly stuck to prime mortgages, at about the same rate as whites.
Total minority purchase mortgages taken out in 2006 were $360 billion, compared to $678 billion for non-Hispanic whites. So, minorities were slightly over-represented in purchase mortgage dollars relative to their share of the population.
Unfortunately, changes in reporting methodology from 1999 to 2006 make comparison difficult for non-Hispanic whites. (They weren't broken out separately from "Whites" in 1999, so the 1999 figures may or may not include some Hispanics. In contrast, non-Hispanic whites are identified separately in 2006.)
It's not all that important a methodological problem, though, because Hispanic borrowing wasn't huge in 1999. So, my estimate for non-Hispanic whites is that mortgage dollars flowing to them increased about 100 percent over those seven years.
The picture in refinancing of existing mortgages in 2006 is quite similar, with minorities getting 33 percent of home refinancing dollars originated in 2006. Interestingly, the average minority refinancing was bigger ($218,000) than the average non-Hispanic white refinancing ($188,000). Refinancing dollars flowing to Hispanics increased more than seven-fold, while whites were up somewhat more than double.
So the ethnic change wasn't quite as extreme as in home purchase mortgages, but they weren't very different. The total value of refinancing and purchase mortgages were fairly similar in size in 2006. So minorities accounted for about 34 percent of purchase and refinancing of mortgages in 2006.
I couldn't find usable numbers in the database on subprime dollars alone, although a more assiduous researcher may well be able to tease out the facts. But if minorities in 2006 accounted for 35% of all mortgages (see above), they would have accounted for a higher share of subprime dollars mortgages. Defaults so far have been concentrated in subprime adjustable rate mortgages. They accounted for 6% of mortgages and 39% of defaults.
Therefore, it's likely that it will turn out that the majority of unexpected default dollars, above normal trend lines, in 2007 were from defaults by minorities.
The conventional wisdom that emerged from the crisis of the Great Depression dominated American ideology until almost 1980. Similarly, the reigning ideas that congeal in the next few weeks about the causes of this crash will determine the course of politics for decades to come. Right now, the elite consensus (as in the 1930s) is that the free market failed. The truth, to which we blinded ourselves in an orgy of political correctness, is that the America of 2008 doesn't have the human capital to justify the valuations of wealth it thought it had.


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Not Just Another New Year's Resolution: Learning to Practice Lasting Self-Compassion
A new year brings new opportunities and gives us a fresh start to take in where we've been, where we are, and where we're going in our lives. Perhaps you made a resolution, or maybe you're still working towards goals you made last year. If you didn't make determinations or if you've already fallen out of sync with your best intentions, don't worry! Rather than being hard on ourselves because of what we haven't accomplished, this is actually a great time to practice self-compassion. Yoga offers us the opportunity to be compassionate with ourselves. It encourages us to notice and appreciate where we are at any given moment. Adopting this kind attitude is incredibly helpful when we're faced with demands and expectations that come with a new year.
Perhaps you've heard of the three A's: Awareness, Acceptance, and Action. By incorporating these practices into our daily routines, both on and off the mat, we can learn to be gentler with ourselves, a habit that will help us to more fully enjoy many new years to come.
In your yoga class, you may have heard your instructor saying things like "notice where you are" or "how are you feeling today?" Perhaps we can challenge ourselves to practice this mindfulness on our own. Maybe we haven't been eating as well as we resolved to for New Years. Simply noticing where we are is a powerful tool.
Acceptance involves taking responsibility (not blame) for where we find ourselves. Noticing and taking in our feelings about our circumstances can be empowering. We may find that we don't like how we feel about something, but we can choose to accept rather than react to that discomfort.
Once we have taken the time to notice and accept where we are, we are then in a better place to choose what to do next. If we find we are not quite meeting our goals, we can make a fresh determination and enjoy the opportunity to start anew every day.
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Amir and Osmaan Shah were indicted recently for allegedly masterminding a multi-million dollar SPAM operation based out of Missouri. Amir and Osmaan are both former University of Missouri students. Amir (on the left) lived in St. Louis, his brother Osmaan (on the right) lived in Columbia.
According to the indictment, Amir was the "idea guy." He served as "the face of the company to negotiate contracts" for all aspects of the business. Osmaan was the "computer guy," who "served as the equivalent of a Chief Operating Officer for the conspiracy."
Federal prosecutors charge that the operation illegally "harvested" e-mail addresses from the Mizzou system, eventually accumulating more than 37 million e-mail addresses for their SPAM business. Prosecutors say the Shahs targeted college students with ads offering teeth whitener and other products. The indictment says the Shah's bombed more than 2,000 colleges and universities with SPAM.
Here's a copy of the indictment. 0430_Shah_Indictment.pdf
On page 18 of the indictment you can read transcripts of the conversations between the brothers as they allegedly bombed colleges with SPAM. The indictment says the brothers used the profits to buy a house in south St. Louis, a loft on Washington Avenue and expensive cars, including a Lexus sedan.
According to the indictment, the brothers used servers in China to distribute the SPAM at a rate of up to one million e-mails an hour.
David Maestas, a computer security expert at TechGuard, a Chesterfield-based firm specializing in creating systems that protect government and corporate information, told us it's extremely difficult tracking down SPAMMERS. Maestas says most SPAM comes from webservers in foreign countries like China where the U.S. doesn't have a cooperative law enforcement agreement. That gives SPAMMERS an extra layer of protection. In many cases, the foreign servers send e-mails that entice you to open them. When you open the e-mail it attaches software to your computer.
"There will actually be software on that PC that will make a connection outbound through your internet connection to a server possibly in China," Maestas told me. The PC would then "ask that server what do you want me to do?"
Maestas says that server can send commands to computers telling them to send personal information like e-mail addresses to the central server. Then, the SPAMMERS have the ammunition to launch a massive campaign.
"There have been studies that have shown that 20-30 percent or more of the bandwith on the internet backbone is consumed with just junk mail and traffic," Maestas said.
Maestas told me that SPAM slows down the internet and makes it more expensive for the rest of us.
Even though the Shahs face years in prison, many experts say their indictment will likely have little, if any, impact on SPAM.
The Shahs have pleaded not guilty. Federal prosecutors argued the Shahs should be held in detention, partly because of their connections to Pakistan. Here are the documents: shah support of pretrial detention.pdf
During a scheduling hearing three weeks ago, the prosecution revealed in court records that it has an "incriminating statement of defendant,"there are informants" in the case and "electronic surveillence" was used to collect evidence against the Shahs. Here's the record of the hearing: shah scheduling and trial order.pdf
The Shah brothers were released on a $50,000 dollar unsecured bond paid by their parents. One of the conditions of their release is that they restrict their use of computers and the internet.


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MulPix is an advanced instagram search engine, which gives you options, that are not available in official Instagram API. With Instagram API you could search by only ONE tag and by user. In this site you could search by multiple tags like #mtv #ema #awards #2015 or #quinoa #recipes. There are also about 10% of all Instagram photos and videos that does not have any tags attached to it - i.e. you could not find them via officail Instagram search. In this site you could also search in mentions - i.e. you want to check all mentions of @badgirlriri with #givenchy tag in the caption. You should definitely check the website. It's very promising. I hope they will develop it further because it has a lot of potential. The best Instagram search engine so far.
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Creators of the site Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar said : "At its core, We Feel Fine is an artwork authored by everyone. It will grow and change as we grow and change, reflecting what's on our blogs, what's in our hearts, what's in our minds. We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller, and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life". This time we will not make a review. We will just recommend you to spare couple of minutes and see the great idea behind the site, and the brilliant interface of it! You can read more about the idea here wefeelfine.org mission.
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"Dance, of all arts, is THE one that most influences the soul."Plato
Our curriculum is designed to:
· Engage students in a wide range of dance
· Nurture individual confidence
· Nurture sensitivity to others
· Provide a means of personal and social expression
· Make provision for SEN, G&T and EAL students
· Develop social skills
· Develop self-discipline and personal responsibility
· Develop abilities to solve problems
· Develop individual and group identity
· Develop independent life-long learners
· Develop trust and understanding of others needs
Three strands of study are the basis of the curriculum design and each unit includes aspects of each:
Performance – applying and adapting a wide range of skills and techniques effectively in performing dance.
Composition – applying and adapting a wide range of skills and techniques effectively in composing dance, including the ability to improve and creating dances for a range of purposes and in response to different stimuli.
Appreciation – developing the ability to analyse, evaluate and appreciate dance and appreciate the contribution of dance to personal and social health, fitness and wellbeing and be aware of the range of opportunities and pathways available in dance.
Key Stage 3
Years 7 & 8 are timetabled one lesson per week. Year 9 have one unit of dance seven weeks approximately in the PE curriculum.
Year 7 Units of Work – One unit per half-term approximately
1. Capoeira – Brazilian martial arts dance, incorporating Dance Tek Warrior by Union Dance Company
2. Actions – exploration of movement vocabulary in dance. Motif development, cross-curricular link Music, PSHCE
3. Gladiator – ideational/thematic, based on the Gladiatorial contests in the Coliseum ofRome, incorporating Troy Game by Robert North & Namron
4. Maths-Dance – focusing on polyhedra, partitioning, shape, symmetry, mathematicalsymbols, angles, cross-curricular link with Maths
5. Recycling – environmental awareness, cross curricular link with PSHCE
6. Professional Work – (tbc) with ICT and in-depth video analysis &homework project
1. Jazz – historical dance including Charleston, Lindy-Hop, Shim-Sham, Hand Jive, etc
2. Bollywood – mixture of Indian classical and western styles of dance
3. Trust – contact work, using weight-sharing exercises, incorporating Critical Mass byRussell Maliphant
4. Freedom – ideational, based on the Slave Trade, cross-curricular link with History
5. Guernica – visual stimuli, based on Picasso's Painting, cross-curricular link with Art &Design
6. Professional Work -The Car Man by Matthew Bournwith ICT and in-depth video Analysis & homework project
Year 9 Units of Work – Each unit fits into 6/7 PE double lessons
1. Street Dance – set work and compositional tasks based on professional choreographyfrom the genre using break dance, popping, locking, etc
2. Professional Work- Contact Choreography using Naked by The Ballet Boyz & RussellMaliphant & Driven by Motionhouse
Key Stage 4
We follow the AQA GCSE Dance course 4230. Students learn the technical and expressive skills to perform dance, the compositional skills to create their own choreographies and the skills required to analyse professional dance that we study at the theatre and on film. The course is 80% practical and 20% written which means the majority of curriculum time is actually spent dancing!
As part of the course students get many performance opportunities, both in school and in a range of other venues. Each year we take students on the Careers in Dance day at Sadler's Wells Theatre to consider dance-related options after GCSEs.
Some students go on to pursue a career in the dance industry, whilst many simply enjoy using their ability and enthusiasm to achieve their GCSE certificate.
Key Stage 5
A level Dance is the perfect progression from GCSE for those students achieving A/B grades in GCSE Dance, or those with equivalent levels of ability.
Extra Curricular
Extra curricular dance provision and regular theatre visits are fundamental to our success. We offer opportunities for students from all year groups to participate in activities outside of the curriculum offer in our Dance Studio.
Students from KS3 and KS4 perform at the Lewisham Schools' Dance Showcase held at the Broadway Theatre every year.
You can access the FHS Dance site here.


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Sonny Greenwich
Turning exclusively to jazz by 1960, Greenwich appeared at such Toronto venues as The Cellar, The First Floor Club, and The Bohemian Embassy with his own bands, and also performed locally with the tenor saxophonist Don William (D.T.) Thompson and others.
Turning exclusively to jazz by 1960, Greenwich appeared at such Toronto venues as The Cellar, The First Floor Club, and The Bohemian Embassy with his own bands, and also performed locally with the tenor saxophonist Don William (D.T.) Thompson and others. After playing in the USA 1966-7 with the US saxophonist John Handy, in the company of the bassist Don (Winston) Thompson and the drummer Terry Clarke, he settled in Boucherville, near Montreal. Greenwich appeared at the Village Vanguard in New York for a week in 1968, leading a quartet completed by US musicians.
Greenwich's career thereafter was interrupted by other interests (including the pursuit of a personal religion similar to pantheism), US immigration concerns, and by poor health related to a childhood head injury and recurring lung problems. Although he was invited to join Miles Davis' band after a week's audition at Toronto's Colonial Tavern in 1969, he was unable to secure the necessary documentation to work in the USA. His performance record was spotty during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s as he made occasional appearances in concerts and clubs in Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City, and Ottawa. He appeared at the FIJM several times and in 1987 performed at the New York club Sweet Basil, an event which was preserved on a recording for the Justin Time label, Live at Sweet Basil.
Long known more by reputation than through personal exposure outside Canada, Greenwich reached a greater number of listeners from 1990 on. He formed his own label, Kleo, and released three recordings, Standard Idioms (1992), Hymn to the Earth (1994), and Spirit in the Air (1995), before returning to Justin Time for Welcome Mother Earth (1995), recorded with his son, the guitarist Sonny Greenwich Jr, The Kenny Wheeler and Sonny Greenwich Quintet at the Montreal Bistro (1997), and a set of duets recorded with the pianist Paul Bley. In 2000 Sackville Records released a set of 1979 duets with the guitarist Ed Bickert, and in 2001 Cornerstone Records released Fragments of a Memory, a session originally recorded for the CBC radio program "Jazz Beat." In addition, Greenwich's 1967 recordings with the tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley were reissued internationally by Blue Note Records.
As a result of his heightened profile in the 1990s and 2000s, Greenwich was the recipient of numerous awards and honours, including several Jazz Report Awards for best Canadian guitarist.
Suggested Reading
Norris, John. 'Sonny Greenwich,' Coda, Nov-Dec 1965
McNamara, Helen. 'A musician with a mission,' Toronto Telegram, 24 Apr 1969
Gallagher, Greg and Barnes, Lilly. 'Love of jazz dispels contrasts between musicians-composers,' MSc, 263, May-Jun 1975
Waxman, Ken. 'Sonny Greenwich keeps his secrets,' SatN, Nov 1978
'Sonny Greenwich,' interview with Ted O'Reilly, Coda, 184, Jun 1982
Sutherland, Greg. "Moving Forward: A profile of Sonny Greenwich," The Jazz Report, Winter 1993-94
Hale, James. "Jazz guitarist Greenwich picks past legend of missed gigs," Ottawa Citizen, 14 Sep 1995
Fraser, Hugh. "A jazz homecoming - of sorts," Hamilton Spectator, 16 Sep 1995
Jazz in Canada
Boogie, Pete & The Senator
Gilmore, John. Who's Who of Jazz in Montreal: Ragtime to 1970 (Montreal: Véhicule Press 1989)
Miller, Mark. The Miller Companion to Jazz in Canada (Toronto 2001)


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We've heard this one before, but the latest version came with a twist. Folks are thinking they have to work until age 70 to receive their full Social Security benefit. The reason has something to do with those giant alligators living in your city's sewers.
What do alligators have in common with Social Security? In this case, it's a matter of urban legend. The latest story we've heard about why your Social Security benefits won't click in at full value until age 70 is that it has to do with a loan the U.S. made to Mexico during the first Bush administration. Apparently the loan wasn't repaid and now the government, having lost all that money, is forced to cut back on Social Security payments unless you postpone taking benefits until you're a septuagenarian. Or something like that. It's a bunch of hooey, of course. But there's a serious confusion behind the ludicrous story, and we need to understand where it comes from.
Normal benefit at full retirement age
Begin with the fact that your normal retirement benefit is payable beginning when you reach full retirement age. This age depends on your year of birth. For people born in 1943 through 1954, it's age 66. Add two months for each year after that (for example, it's 66 years and four months for people born in 1956) until we reach 1960. People born that year, and every year thereafter, will reach full retirement age when they turn 67. Under current law, no one has to wait until age 70 to receive their full benefit, and no one is proposing that this will be true in the future.
Starting early or late
The law recognizes that different people have different needs, so we aren't all required to start taking our Social Security benefit at full retirement age. You can start receiving your Social Security benefit any time after you reach age 62. If you start early, though, your monthly payment will be smaller than if you waited until your full retirement age, when you qualify for the full benefit you earned.
You can also boost your monthly payment above the normal amount by delaying your start date even after you reach full retirement age. Postpone your start by one year and you'll get a permanent increase in your monthly payment that will more than make up for that year of forgone payments if you live long enough. Wait another year and your monthly payment will be still greater. These increases continue until you reach age 70, after which the rules provide no further boost in the monthly benefit.
Clear enough, except when it isn't
Okay, that's reasonable, but here's the problem. Every year the Social Security Administration sends each of us a statement showing our earnings history and projected benefits. The statement estimates the amount you'll receive if you start taking payments at full retirement age and also the amount you'll receive if you wait until age 70, or retire early, at age 62. This is good information that can be helpful in planning your retirement.
If you don't understand the reason for the different payment amounts, though, it's easy to compare the number at full retirement age with the larger number for age 70 and reach the incorrect conclusion that you're being denied your full benefit if you start before age 70. The annual statement we receive from the Social Security Administration doesn't make it clear that the age 66 benefit is the full benefit you've earned, and the age 70 benefit is an increase above that amount. And that means there are plenty of people thinking something has been taken away from them, and coming up with fanciful reasons how that might have happened.


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Newly established in 2016, the Office of Rural Outreach will work with priests, deacons, and the people of God in the 51 rural parishes in the Diocese of Tulsa. The mission of the office is to help efforts of discipleship and evangelization at the parish and community level, foster deeper communication and engagement between the Chancery and these parishes, and to help the Catholic community in these rural locations to grow in their understanding of what it means to live their Catholic faith every day. It will also be working with larger urban and suburban parishes as resources for the needs in rural eastern Oklahoma.
In April 2016, two Rural Parish Summits were conducted to facilitate discussion among the leaders of rural parishes regarding the joys and challenges of ministry in their particular settings. The concept was approved by Bishop Edward J. Slattery and initiated by Father Elkin Gonzalez, vicar general, and Harrison Garlick, chancellor, so they could listen and learn from rural leaders in preparation for the forthcoming changes in the diocese with the upcoming retirement of Bishop Slattery.
These summits, held in McAlester and Bartlesville, would also give leaders in rural parishes ownership over the evangelization resources received from the Rooted in Faith, Forward in Hope capital campaign. These discussions prompted the creation of the Office of Rural Outreach and, along with the foundational information gathered at the summits, have been a catalyst for more intentional and consistent communication between and among the Chancery and rural parish leaders. These ongoing discussions will lay the foundation for a strategic plan tailored to rural communities as articulated by their own leadership. Bishop David Konderla is actively participating in shaping the vision and direction for this new ministry.
Fr. John O'Neill has been named the Diocesan Coordinator for Rural Outreach and will work closely with Bishop David Konderla, the Chancery staff, priests, deacons and lay faithful from across the Diocese to explore and understand the unique needs of each parish, work with the pastors and lay faithful to develop plans to address these needs, identify resources needed and available, and assist in implementation of the plans. As this will be a team effort, Fr. John will be relying on the expertise and input from all involved and will be working closely with the local faithful to support and bolster their efforts.
Fr. John grew up in Okeene, Oklahoma, a rural parish in the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City. St. Anthony of Padua in Okeene has two mission parishes in Fairview and Seiling. Fr. John most recently spent eight years as Coordinator of Volunteer Resources for Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Tulsa. He worked to establish two rural outreach centers in McAlester and Poteau, as well as coordinated volunteer efforts in Sallisaw, and Muskogee.
Fr. John will also be the Associate Pastor of the Church of St. Benedict in Broken Arrow, OK. Balancing the duties between a larger suburban parish and working with the rural parishes should give Fr. John a unique perspective that can benefit the entire Diocese.
Fr. John can be contacted at 918.307.4933 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Your input and assistance is needed and welcomed.


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Lauryn Hill Sounds Better Than Ever on Her Cover of Nina Simone's 'Feeling Good'
She recorded six covers for the upcoming Netflix documentary.
Next Friday, Netflix will premiere Liz Garbus's stirring Nina Simone documentary, What Happened, Miss Simone? With it comes a soundtrack of Simone covers recorded by her daughter, Lisa Simone, as well as Mary J. Blige, Common, Gregory Porter, Jazmine Sullivan, and more. But the biggest and most unexpected presence on that album is Lauryn Hill, who, despite only planning to contribute two covers, ended up recording six. Given her own elusive history, it feels appropriate.
"Because I fed on this music … I believed I always had a right to have a voice," Hill explained of her connection to Simone. "Her example is clearly a form of sustenance to a generation needing to find theirs. What a gift." At a premiere of the film earlier this month, Hill performed a few of those covers, and now Rolling Stone has premiered what'll likely be the most-talked-about of all her covers: Simone's signature song, "Feeling Good." If you were worried Hill's voice has somehow waned in the decade-plus since her last album, this will quickly shatter any doubt.


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With over 25 km of nordic trails to explore, we have the gear to get you off the beaten track. We have an extensive selection of classic skis and skate skis, as well as snowshoes of every size.
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Prices do not include tax and are subject to change without notice.
Rental FAQ
Where do I pick up my rentals?
Rental equipment can be picked up from the Rental Shop in the Village Centre Mall.
Can I pick up my rentals the day before?
Yes, you can. However, when there is no night skiing, the rental shop closes at 4:30pm. Night skiing typically commences on December 18th, weather permitting.
What do I need in order to rent?
All renters require a photo identification document as well as a credit card for security deposit. Renters under the age of 19 should be accompanied by a parent or guardian who will need to sign the rental contract on their behalf.


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PRINCESS ANNE — Princess Anne. THE WORDS ''small college'' and ''bucolic, pastoral setting'' seem to go together. And William P. Hytche, striding along the greenery-lined walkways at the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore, must like it bucolic. He's been here more than 30 years.
But President Hytche knows something the rest of us are just now noticing. His campus, deep in the Delmarva farm country, has not ignored the changes shaking up the modern world. Rather, it has responded with new academic programs, an aggressive new building program and an impressive, can-do approach to problem-solving.
There is construction everywhere. What else can you do with double-digit growth? Eastern Shore's students increased by 17.6 percent in 1988, 17.9 percent in 1989 and 13.4 percent this year -- 63.8 percent over the last 10 years. The school has opened a 480-bed apartment complex, financed by student fees.


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Our Young Writers Group is a groundbreaking initiative to give young people in rural areas a chance to learn about playwriting and to have their plays produced by professional actors, designers and directors.
This year, we're running two groups. One based in Shropshire and one based in Yorkshire. Their plays, called NEW FUTURES, will be on at Ludlow Fringe Festival and Skipton Town Hall in June.
Both groups began in September. There are six writers in the Shropshire group and five in the Yorkshire one. Both groups are meeting monthly and taking part in workshops run by professional theatre-makers, reading plays, writing scenes and generally getting into theatre. In summer 2017, both groups will see their short plays given a professional public production.
If you'd like to join one of next year's groups, which will begin in September 2017, register your interest by dropping us an email.
Our First group started in 2013. Meeting once a month over 9 months from September to June, under the guidance of our Artistic Director and professional playwrights, directors and actors, they wrote their own plays. We produced them at Shropshire's first ever YOUNG WRITERS FESTIVAL in June 2014.
Our Second Group wrote RED SKY AT NIGHT, performed at the Ludlow Fringe Festival and Latitude Festival in 2015. The plays were also released as podcasts - you can listen to them HERE.
Our third group explored themes of journeys and migration in LAST JOURNEY, which we produced at the Ludlow Fringe and Latitude Festival in July 2016.
Here's what previous young writer Tom said about his experience:
"I've been lucky enough to be a regular visitor to the company in recent months, as a member of the first Young Writers Group. This is an exciting opportunity for 7 of us to get together every three weeks for workshops, discussions and to generally chat about the craft, pleasure and sometimes pain of writing. (Plus there's always the added bonus tea and cake!) The group really spans a broad spectrum of ages (up to 25) and experiences but, the group, led by Artistic Director Elizabeth and professional playwright Simon, is a truly supportive and open environment.
But don't be fooled… the group isn't just an excuse for a chinwag. We've also been lucky enough to take part in a really inspiring workshop from writer and performer Francesca Millican-Slater; explored how words on the page translate when working with actors and I'm already looking forward to next time's session which will be led by writer Phil Porter. Plus there is always precious time to try our hand at a writing exercise which can often produce some surprising and delightful results. Last time we started to share some of our work and it was so nice to hear – even from tiny, unpolished pieces – just a few of the different voices within the group and I can't wait to hear much more from my fellow writers."
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