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A wedding is often a once in a lifetime event but it doesn't make sense to go in debt for years just to splurge on one day. Going into debt is no way to start married life. A simple wedding is the best way to start your new life together on a solid financial foundation. This article can help you to have a wedding that fulfills your wedding dreams without emptying out your bank account.
Your hair is one of the most imperative parts of your wedding, as you will want this to look great for the photographs that are taken at the reception. Schedule a trial appointment with the hair stylist of your choice so that you can get an idea of the style you want.
If you are going to be getting married soon it would be wise to decide whether it will be a simple wedding or a grand wedding. Having this squared away from the first moment will help center and guide all the decisions related to the wedding. This will prevent a clutter of ideas.
One way to add glamour to your look on wedding day is to research the possibility of renting diamonds to add to your ensemble. This will give you the stunning look that you desire but will not cost you a lot of money, allowing you to stick to your budget.
If you are planning a wedding, consider keeping your guest list on the smaller side. You can save money by having not so many guests. You can show your small number of guests' greater details such as large gift baskets, large meals, and limo services. This can be paid for just by reducing your guest list.
If you don't think your wedding guests will participate in a traditional part of the wedding, then skip it. If no one likes to dance, especially the bride or groom, then don't force them to. If you're only having married women in attendance, don't have a bouquet toss at all.
No one wants to wait a long time for your wedding to start, so many sure that everyone knows what's happening so it can run smoothly. Hand out itineraries to the most important party members and ask them to try their best to keep things moving along quickly and efficiently.
If you want to save money on a cake, consider cupcakes or mini-tarts. Times have changed and despite the oddness you may feel based on tradition, guests tend to prefer this and it saves not only money but also prevents waste. Guests will be able to get some cupcakes when they leave and then they will put them in a container that's takeout inspired.
A great destination wedding for people who plan to have many children in attendance is at the beach. The kids can play with toys in the sand while the adults watch the nuptials. Provide some toys like buckets and shovels, and ensure someone is willing to watch the kids (provide them with a video of the ceremony afterward.)
If your wedding meal is long and involved, be sure to have appetizers on the table to keep your guests occupied between courses. Flavorful crackers will get the job done well.
When planning your wedding, you need to talk with your partner about what they want. A man might be tempted to let his future wife decide, and a woman might be tempted to take the lead. Make sure everything is a common decision and that you will both enjoy this special day.
As revealed above, a lavish wedding can lead to years of debt for the newly married couple. Being newly married is stressful enough without saddling yourselves with debt. A much wiser approach is a simple wedding. By adopting the strategies in this article, you can have the best of both worlds with a beautiful wedding and a financially stable beginning.


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'The Pale Horse' preview: Rufus Sewell stars in BBC's new Agatha Christie drama
The first photo has been released from the BBC's next Agatha Christie adaptation.
Based on 1961's The Pale Horse, the new two-part drama began filming in and around Bristol, England last summer.
Screenwriter Sarah Phelps has described the story as "a shivery, paranoid story about superstition, love gone wrong, guilt and grief."
Phelps has previously adapted Christie's The ABC Murders, And Then There Were None, Ordeal By Innocence and Witness for the Prosecution for the BBC.
A newly-released promotional image for The Pale Horse shows Rufus Sewell (Victoria, The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel) as Mark Easterbrook:
The Pale Horse is expected to air on BBC One in the UK in early 2020 and it'll premiere in the US on Amazon Prime Video later this year.
The official synopsis reads: "The Pale Horse follows Mark Easterbrook as he tries to uncover the mystery of a list of names found in the shoe of a dead woman. His investigation leads him to the peculiar village of Much Deeping, and The Pale Horse, the home of a trio of rumoured witches.
"Word has it that the witches can do away with wealthy relatives by means of the dark arts, but as the bodies mount up, Mark is certain there has to be a rational explanation."
Alongside Rufus Sewell, the large ensemble cast for The Pale Horse also includes Kaya Scodelario (Skins), Bertie Carvel (Doctor Foster), Sean Pertwee (Elementary), Henry Lloyd-Hughes (Indian Summers), Poppy Gilbert (Call the Midwife) and Claire Skinner (Vanity Fair).
Executive producer Helen Ziegler has promised "a tale of guilt, terror and witchcraft with we hope will delight and terrify viewers in equal measure!"
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Shifting and falling leaves. A chill in the air. The reappearance of last year's flannel shirts and hoodies. All of this can only mean one thing: It's time for Pumpkin Spice!
This year, I've searched high and low to bring you Long Island's most distinctive and innovative twists on the PSL. No need to thank me (it's my job), but do go out and try these because they're all really good.
1. North Fork Roasting Company
This season, North Fork Roasting Company is once again reinventing chai (this past winter they offered chestnut chai—which was amazing). For autumn, they're bringing back the seasonal Dirty Pumpkin, which is organic pumpkin purée in simple syrup form made with their popular chai latte—a simmered mixture of loose-leaf Serendipi-tea chai tea, warm spices like cinnamon sticks and nutmeg, and a bit of nature with pure honey and maple syrup. This latte is topped off a shot of espresso and foamy milk, which is what makes this pumpkin chai "dirty." If espresso is not your thing, you can still order a delicious straight up pumpkin chai with steamed milk. It's the perfect start or ending to a day of picking pumpkins.
2. Tend Coffee
Shirley & Holbrook (Sachem Library)
Tend's PSL falls on my list because they make their own in-house syrup resulting in a multi-layered flavor experience—or, in other words, it's like taking everything delightful about autumn and putting it in a cup. Using a combination of fall spices (cinnamon, ginger and clove), they add fresh brewed and perfectly roasted espresso and steamed milk resulting in truly flavorful PSL. Of course it doesn't stop there, because this PSL is topped off with whipped cream for richness, caramel for toasty notes, and a sprinkle of nutmeg. It's the perfect way to start off your morning, especially if you're off to a day full of corn mazes and apple picking.
3. Roast Coffee & Tea Trading Company
According to Wendy Closson, general manager of Roast Coffee and Tea Company, she and her team have always had a very simple mission: Make special seasonal drinks with real ingredients. The PSL was one of the first seasonal beverages they tackled. It's made with real pumpkin and Closson explains the secret: "We keep it warm in a crock pot so the latte is hot—heated milk alone isn't able to bring it up to the proper temperature." The "spice" ingredients are typical pumpkin spices—nutmeg, cinnamon, allspice. Don't think just because they've improved this PSL that they are done reinventing it. This year they've added new depths of flavor with the addition of a bit of ginger tea and brown sugar to the pumpkin base, resulting in an extra zing of sweetness.
4. Soul Brew
St. James
I've been told that Soul Brew loves all things fall, including the GREAT pumpkin! While the team of baristas at Soul Brew are happy to serve you up the classic PSL, they also take great pride in offering a variety of "soulful" twists on this fall classic. They constantly work together to create interesting and funky flavors and this season is no exception. New to the menu this season is the Dark Chocolate PSL and, if for some reason dark chocolate isn't your thing, they are also offering the White Chocolate Pumpkin Pie Latte (a mouthful to say and a delight to drink). Soul Brew doesn't want to leave its tea drinkers out of the pumpkin craze, so they've been kind enough to also create an autumnal hand-crafted Pumpkin Chai Latte. Soul Brew makes my list because they're not only innovative and fun, but they never use pre-made mixes and always brew/steep local goodness.
5. Golden Sparrow Market
The Golden Sparrow is offering two pumpkin spice-inspired beverages this autumn. The first is a cleaner take on the traditional PSL, featuring an organic real-ingredient pumpkin latte with your choice of vegan milk. (I personally recommend the cashew milk with its rich, creamy body for this latte.)
Their other creation is a pumpkin spice-inspired smoothie that takes the love of pumpkin to a whole new level. This smoothie embraces the same ingredients of organic pumpkin puree, a seasonally inspired and in-house spice blend that is found in the PSL, but includes a new addition to the Golden Sparrow's menu—oat milk! For those of you not familiar with oat milk, it offers sweet, grainy notes and is more textured than regular milk, lower in fat and also vegan—making it perfect for smoothies (and a really cool canvas if you're into making latte art).


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Here are the 50 New Features and Changes in iPadOS 13 [VIDEO]
The folks over at 9to5Mac have published a new video providing a detailed walkthrough of the new iPadOS 13. With nearly 50 new features and changes included in Apple's new OS for the iPad, the video covers new multitasking capabilities, Home screen enhancements, Apple Pencil updates, and more.
iPadOS 13 is part of Apple's renewed focus on adding productivity features and tools to the iPad, something the company's tablet line has needed for the past few years. By giving the iPad its own operating system, Apple is now able to create dedicated features for the device without leaving iPhone users out or creating a similar experience.
If you have an Apple developer account, you can download the first beta of iPadOS 13 by logging on to the developer's portal. A public beta is set to drop in July whereas the final release is set for this fall.
In the meantime, check out the iPadOS 13 video walkthrough below and don't forget to share your thoughts in the comments section.


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BakeryandSnack Chat Podcast: Traversing the snacking landscape brought about by coronavirus
As many parts of the world are starting to ease back on lockdown regulations, the "wide swings" in eating and shopping habits adopted by consumers to tackle the stay-at-home period have begun to 'normalise', according to Poorvi Patodia, founder and CEO of Biena Snacks.
"I think what we've clearly seen both in the data and what we've experienced ourselves with our brand … is that there was this peak in buying in March, then all the social distancing measures started to be implemented … and that started having an impact on how many trips people were making to the store and what they were buying and how they were buying," said Patodia.
Consumers made fewer trips to the store, and more time spent together, which meant that collective consumption increased and there was a drop in specialised shopping.
Patodia believes consumers could continue to follow these habits, noting it now "feels like people have entered a new phase of eating and buying food."
The importance of being flexible
For the past several months, brands have had to quickly adapt in order to cope with sudden increases in demand and challenges like those put onto the supply chain.
Some of these strategies – like focusing more on social media and the obvious rise in ecommerce – will remain on the fast track going forward.
"We are seeing that the ecommerce part of our business is certainly more than doubling and in certain cases, more than tripling," said Patodia.
"Where we had a certain amount of focus there before, we have really doubled down on our efforts to have a stronger presence with various ecommerce retailers and really position ourselves well for a future where consumers, perhaps because of the pandemic, tried out buying their … snacks online and they found it to be really convenient."
While the outbreak of the virus may have changed the way a brand needs to remain relevant, Patodia said it has not changed the evolving 'snackification' trend, which is more prevalent than ever.
"It has been amazing to be a snack brand watching these trends and being part of the trend over the past five or so years, which is that people truly are no longer eating three times a day.
"People are now grazing throughout the day and that, frankly, is one of the key drivers of our growth … as consumers are no longer seeing snacks as this throwaway filler in between meals but they're actually looking to snacks as a way to get some sustenance and nutrition into their bodies."
She believes that while trends like plant-based proteins and a bigger focus on gut health will continue to grow, consumers will be searching out "foods that are really simple and going back to their roots of what food is and where it comes from."
Listen to our podcast to find out more strategies Biena Snacks has adapted and adopted to keep product on shelves and relevant to consumers.
Poorvi Patodia launched Biena, a plant-based snack brand, in 2012 with a line of protein-rich Roasted Chickpea Snacks, a current category leader. Last year, the producer took the chickpea to the next level and launched Biena Chickpea Puffs. From its roots in a single store outside Boston, Biena Snacks are today available online and in 15,000 retail locations across the US.


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Why Write Poetry?
Australia is rich in unsung home poets, journallers and writers who write for the love of it, whether we will ever be published or no.
We still call it writing, even though much of it happens at keyboards.
I write because words are in me and they rise up. I I delight to craft words, be they in an email to a friend, or in a sestina which batters both hemispheres of my brain with its demanding structure.
Not to work with written words in some fashion, is to switch off a part of me.
What about you?
Creative space
For me this is a no-brainer: God creates, people are made in his image (though marred), ergo we are creative beings too. If you want to leave out a creator God, your foundational story for why humans love to create will likely be more complex.
For some of us, the creative urge is satisfied by writing, seasoned perhaps with a little gardening, music or other crafts.
However creativity shows itself, it's there, we love it and need to nurture it.
Why poetry?
Poetry is my favourite corner of the writing pie. Perhaps this began from reading and re-reading AB Paterson's and Henry Lawson's collected works, as a primary school kid desperate to devour any book with horses on the front cover.
Lately I have been distracted from writing poems, by the adventure of learning to
read Koine Greek and rediscovering the Bible in an old language.
Poems out loud
Some authors speak their work as well as writing it.
There's even a theory that poetry is meant to be spoken. For many centuries, people have revelled in poetry and song, whether they read or not. If you create poems to be heard: go for it.
admire performance poets, but I have no desire to join them. I delight in silent reading and quiet reflection.
Sometimes poems rely on a reader's eye, not a listener's ear. There is a play on words, homonyms or punctuation that is missed if the poem is only heard. Other works are best brought to life in sound and action by a skilled reader, perhaps with video or a picture book. There's room for all.
Poems for cash
Competitions of all sorts somehow became part of Western lifestyle. There are plenty of poetry competitions. There is advice online about which ones are dependable, which are likely to be fraudulent.
I've sent poetry in to writing competitions and occasionally gained a prize. I stopped for several reasons - like constantly forgetting deadlines for the 'right' competition for this or that poem. Main cause was my own weakness: over-keen to win, I would rework and distort poems to please an imaginary judge. My tension chewed the life out of the work. Other poets might face similar temptation.
One downside to most competitions I entered, was the lack of feedback.
Often you don't know what judges are looking for before you enter; that is more like entering a lottery than a competition. You might never find out afterwards how they selected the winners, or whether your poem made it past the first cut. You might not even get to read the winning works. What then is the benefit of entering? How does the competition improve entrants' writing skills or confidence?
Opinions vary on poetry's status as a sellable commodity. There is a reliable market in my area for local writers' works. If you are keen to convert words to $, research the prospects for your own genre and your own target audience. Don't be too easily put off by the doom & gloomers.
Professional writing is a sphere that has been heavily infected by the loud and self-righteous censorship of political correctness and cancel culture. If poets don't write to the script, it is a brave judge or publisher or reviewer that awards due honour to even their most praiseworthy work.
A conceivably right wing poem that I wrote while Julia Gillard was Prime Minister, won a small competition some years ago. I went to the presentation day and read the poem out. The listeners' frowns and frozen silence said it all! This was merely a light humorous work in bush verse, surely the appropriate medium for poking a little political fun without censure.
The early great bush poets would not have hesitated to lampoon today's power-hungry, censorious hypocrites in far more savage verse.
In my view there's a ream of poetry waiting to be written, to reveal truth and redeem our land from woke anti-culture; and that's a great reason to write.


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The Radio Dept. was formed in 2001 by Johan Duncanson and Martin Carlberg. The name was stolen from an art pop band Johan had had with a couple of highschool friends during the later part of the 90s. (A little later bass player Lisa Carlberg and drummer Per Blomgren joined the band as they started rehearsing in the way bands so often do.) In 2002 Swedish music magazine Sonic drew attention to the band as the song Why Won't You Talk About It was featured on their accompanying CD-sampler, which was also how Labrador discovered the band. After having released a 7" on their own label Slottet, the debut four track ep "Against The Tide", they were signed to Labrador.
The Radio Dept.'s debut album "Lesser Matters", was released in the spring of 2003 and by then keyboard player Daniel Tjäder had joined the band. The album became an underground success both in Sweden and internationally. The buzz that slowly grew to give the band worldwide recognition came with a little help from XL Recordings who released the album in large parts of the world some time later. In between albums and touring two EP:s were released, Pulling Our Weight in late 2003 and This Past Week in 2005.


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Target Corp. is launching its holiday free-shipping promotion on Nov. 1—two weeks earlier than last year—and applying it to twice as many items, the company says. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is using free shipping in its holiday fight with Amazon.com Inc.: Both retailers are selling 10 popular books at a deep discount—but Wal-Mart is throwing in the shipping.
Last December, 250 stores ranging from J.C. Penney Co. to Pottery Barn participated in a "Free Shipping Day" event organized by Freeshipping.org, an ad-supported site that lists free-shipping deals. This year, the number of participating retailers for the Dec. 17 event is expected to double, with stores like Toys "R" Us joining for the first time.
Retailers are jumping on the free-shipping bandwagon because it is a proven way to catch shoppers' attention. The strategy is also an attempt to cut down on the huge number of virtual shopping carts that are abandoned at check-out. Indeed, a May survey by eBay Inc.'s Paypal found that 46% of shoppers claimed high shipping charges—more than any other reason—was why they ditched potential purchases in online shopping carts.
Cracking Coupon CodesTo snare many of the new shipping deals, shoppers have to be in the know: They need to input the right "coupon code" when checking out online. These codes are often delivered via email, advertised on the retailer's Web site or sent in the mail. For example, Nordstrom.com is giving free shipping on footwear to anybody who enters the code "SHOES." (The code expires on Oct. 26.) But you need not be an insider to crack retailers' coupon codes. Dozens of sites post codes for various online offers, including SlickDeals.net, RetailMeNot.com, DealNews.com and FatWallet.com. Most of the sites even have their own Twitter feeds that deal-hungry consumers can follow. "Retailers will sometimes say 'This coupon code is not for distribution,' but that doesn't mean you are legally obligated not to share it," says Dan de Grandpre, chief executive of Dealnews.com. Some retailers do limit the number of times a given code can be used. But you don't need to keep an eye on deal sites to find coupon codes. A simple Web search will do: Just enter the name of the retailer and the word "coupons." Because some sites post expired codes, it could take a few entries to actually hit the jackpot. Another tip: searching for "printable coupons" will yield codes that can be used in stores, in case you want to try something before buying it. –Rachel Dodes and Geoffrey A. Fowler |
"Free is very exciting," says Dan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at Duke University. "Free shipping is not just another discount." Mr. Ariely found in an experiment that people are between four and five times as likely to spend $5 for an item if either the shipping or the item is free as they are to pay $2.50 for the same product plus $2.50 for shipping.
Many new offers are likely to come around Thanksgiving and toward the middle of December. That's when retailers with extra inventory are looking for ways to liquidate it before the end of the season. Some of the deals come in limited-time specials and require special coupon codes to be entered at checkout; they are sometimes announced only to select customers via email. Others require consumers to spend a certain amount or are part of loyalty-program benefits.
But shoppers will have to keep their eyes peeled for some of the offers: Sites don't often give a lot of advance notice of their free-shipping deals. Luke Knowles, chief executive of Freeshipping.org says many stores are likely to keep mum about participating in "Free Shipping Day" until the event approaches. They "don't want people to hold off on buying today because they are waiting for free shipping," says Mr. Knowles.
Many retailers lowered the bar on free shipping after the economy worsened last fall: It was a bid to woo shoppers and liquidate inventories. A year later, many have slashed inventory levels—but most are keeping or expanding free shipping, even as the costly benefit cuts into profits.
Macy's Inc.'s Bloomingdale's chain, now gives shoppers who use its credit card and spend more than $150—and noncardholders who spend more than $300—free shipping. Nordstrom is lowering its free-shipping threshold to $100 from $200 on Nov. 2 for the holiday shopping season. Luxury retailer Saks Fifth Avenue says it has increased the frequency of its sporadic free-shipping offers since last September. "We believe, especially in this kind of economic environment, people appreciate that value even more," says Denise Incandela, president of Saks Direct.
Mark Pierce, chief executive of MarketLive Inc., which develops and hosts e-commerce sites for 100 retailers, says free shipping is an important driver of e-commerce transactions because the offer "liquefies consumers' largest objection to shopping online." Free shipping and free returns ranked as the top two factors that influence shoppers' purchasing decisions online, and high shipping charges were found to be the top deterrent, according to a recent survey by MarketLive and eMarketer, a research firm.
Amazon.com has won legions of new customers with a shipping program called Amazon Prime that isn't actually free but makes shoppers feel like shipping costs aren't a worry. Subscribers to the program—which costs $79 a year—get automatic two-day shipping for many products sold on the site. A PiperJaffray survey in May estimated that the program has attracted two million members, who increase their spending by about 20% after signing on.
"I have to admit, [free shipping] has spoiled me," Lucas Shaffer, a graduate student from Phenix City, Ala., says of the Prime service. The 29-year-old buys everything from books to boxers on the site, and estimates he has saved at least $400 in shipping costs in the past two years.
But free shipping can mean huge costs—and headaches—for merchants: Shipping cost Amazon.com $630 million last year. Amazon offers free "Super Saver" shipping to all customers for many purchases of more than $25. (But gift-givers have to plan ahead: "Super Saver" shipping takes five to nine business days. The cut-off for a delivery in time for Christmas is Dec. 17.) Last year, Zappos had to cut back on the guaranteed speed of its free shipping to make sure it could meet customer expectations.
Some sites are balking at extending free-shipping offers. Particularly for discounters, deciding whether to offer free shipping "is a huge issue right now," says Adam Bernhard, chief executive of HauteLook, which sells fashion brands' overstock online. "Because our margins are so thin and our customers are getting such a good deal, we just can't do it," he says. The site charges around $5 to $8 for shipping.
The risk for retailers that expand their free-shipping offers is that once customers get used to it, taking it away can spark a backlash. Kohl's recently ended its practice of regularly sending free-shipping codes to its "Most Valued Customers" after too many non-MVCs were able to find the codes posted on sites like Slickdeals.net. After the change, the valued customers—who spend more than $600 a year at the retailer—were furious.
Some wrote angry missives on the company's Facebook page. "So this is the way you treat your MVCs," wrote a person calling himself Will Weegs. "You can stick the Kohl's card and my business where the sun doesn't shine."
Will Weegs, whose real name is William Wiegele, a 46-year-old from Appleton, Wis., says that until recently he always got free shipping on Kohl's site. "Why would they take that away?"
Kohl's chief marketing officer, Julie Gardner, said in a statement, "We appreciate the conversation and spirited dialogue on our Facebook page." She added that Kohl's has increased the frequency of free-shipping offers with a minimum purchase requirement this year by more than 40% compared with last year. "We will continue to be aggressive with shipping offers throughout the holiday season and into next year," she said.
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The Stamford, Lincs-based company has become the media agency for UK Golf Services – worldwide distributors of Stuburt golf shoes and waterproofs and UK and European distributors of Ram Golf.
UKGS joins the list of clients at Hiseman Partners which includes Playgolf Northwick Park – the £7 million 'golf in an hour' leisure complex in West London, UKOR Enterprise – UK distributors of Honma and Bridgestone, Urban Golf Gear – the Samuel L. Jackson-backed apparel firm from California, and The Shire London – the new Seve Ballesteros course in Barnet.
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Diana West is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Red Thread: A Search for Ideological Drivers Inside the Anti-Trump Conspiracy (Center for Security Policy Press, 2019), American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character (St. Martin's Press 2013) and The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization (St. Martin's Press 2007). In Fall 2013, West brought out a companion volume to American Betrayal titled:The Rebuttal: Defending American Betrayal from the Book-Burners, which includes essays by Vladimir Bukovsky and M. Stanton Evans, among others. She is also one of 19 co-authors (including Frank Gaffney, Andrew C. McCarthy and James Woolsey) of Shariah: The Threat to America, a 2010 publication of the Center for Security Policy.
Given in the following are articles and videos dealing with each of her books. Note that there is a two-front "battle" that is beng undertaken: not only exposing the Left and its Marxist ideology, but also dealing with some on the Right who disagree with the depth or perhaps content of her critique of the Left.
Death of Grownup
Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization
From Amazon, for this 2008 book: With insightful wit, Diana West takes readers on an odyssey through culture and politics, from the rise of rock 'n' roll to the rise of multiculturalism, from the loss of identity to the discovery of "diversity," from the emasculation of the heroic ideal to the "PC"-ing of "Mary Poppins," all the while building a compelling case against the childishness that is subverting the struggle against jihadist Islam in a mixed-up, post-9/11 world.
Concerns about Islam
During the years following 9/11 and into the Obama presidency, like many other conservative journalists and writers, Diana West was concerned about Islam, especially with the inroads into the US cultural and political scene. Her focus on these concerns seemed to dovetail with the information she was gathering with respect to the penetration of Communism into the US during much of the 20th century.
In fact, as she became increasingly aware of if the influence of Islam within the American government, she wondered if this was a unique phenomenon, or had that happened before? The answer was a definite "yes", as she began to assemble the outline of "American Betrayal."
The three linked articles below provide insight into her concerns:
Diana West: A Nation's Attempt to Survive Isn't Racism
2014-03-24 Diana West compares the pushback to unlimited immigration in Switzerland to the similar need for pushback in the US. This clearly during the Obama administration.
Diana West: Enforcing Islamic Law at Brandeis
2014-04-10 Diana West discusses the dis-invitation of Ayaan Hirsi Ali to receive an honorary degree at Brandeis University, because she — being a Muslim — speaks out against Islam, and is thus not considered Politically Correct.
Report from the Future: The Umma States of America – Diana West
2014-05-24 Disagreeing with an Andrew C. McCarthy National Review article supporting a middle-of-the-road approach to dealing with Islamic inroads in America. Note that McCarthy has intimate knowledge of domestic Islamic activitiy as detailed in his 2010 book, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America.
The following videos further elborate her concerns:
Diana West On Muslim Brotherhood Infiltration (11:59)
2013-07-17 Discussion of Muslim Brotherhood activity in the US with Erick Stakelbeck of The Blaze.
2013-10-06 Diana West and Glenn Beck compare the Islamic penetration into the US government compared to the similar penetration of the US government by communists during the 1930s and 1940s.
The American Betrayal Controversy
When published in 2013, American Betrayal broke new ground. For one thing, it contained knowledge obtained from the opening of top secret files in both Russia and the West following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Most of the classic texts on the political and governmental intrigue in the years leading up to World War II and well into the Cold War era did not have the benefit of that new information. Then based in part on that information, and taking a fresh look at the overall narratives seemingly fixed in place, a series of new perspectives have been provided by the author. There are two sections found below: the book itself, and the controversy that followed.
American Betrayal the book
Diana West: American Betrayal – The Secret Assault on Americas Character
This very comprehensive book unveils the great degree of Communist infiltration into the US government before, during and after World War II. Much of this aspect of the history of that era has needed to be rewritten due to the great body of new information obtained by the opening of the KGB files (and some of the similar US files) during the Yeltsin regime in the early 1990's. Diana West's haunting question is, "Who really won WWII?" The resounding answer appears to be the Left.
A Conversation with Diana West (1:02:21)
2013-06-12 Pastor David Stokes has a conversation with best selling author, Diana West about her new book "American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character".
American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character (1:02:37)
2013-06-17 In "American Betrayal", Diana West argues that — current policies today notwithstanding — America began to abandon its core ideals and march toward Socialism nearly 75 years ago. Starting in the late 1930s, at the time of FDR, the Soviets were already in a position to take advantage of the many communist sympathizers in the U.S. Not only FDR, but also Presidents Truman and Eisenhower and those in their inner circles played roles in enabling the U.S.S.R. as well as concealing the massive Moscow-directed penetration of American society. West shows that the system of spies designed to denigrate the American way of life was deep and extensive.
Diana West 'American Betrayal' at Politics and Prose Bookstore DC (36:29)
2013-07-17 Diana West talks about her 2013 book, "American Betrayal" at the DC area Politics and Prose bookstore. (From YouTube:) In her bold refutation of recent history's official stories, West, Dispatch International Washington correspondent, casts a skeptical eye on FDR and other leaders, asking if the West's "victory" in the Cold War was in fact more of a deal with the devil – one that led to today's moral relativism and other social ills.
Diana West – American Betrayal – LIVE from Boston (2:07:46)
2013-08-29 A LIVE broadcast from the Rabbi Jon Hausman Memorial Speakers Series, Ahavath Torah Congregation 1179 Central Street Stoughton, MA. In this lecture, Diana West discusses her latest book American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation's Character in which she takes a deeper look at America's historical record, uncovering a body of lies that Americans have been led to regard as the near-sacred history of World War II and its Cold War aftermath.
This lecture was given three weeks after the Ron Radosh putdown of American Betrayal.
2013 Mightier Pen Award: Diana West (21:31)
2013-11-21: Acceptance speech at the 2013 award ceremony, dealing with her book "American Betrayal" and the controversy surrounding it.
The Rebuttal
"American Betrayal" was published in May of 2013. It was initially well-received, including a positive review published in FrontPage Magazine. However, FrontPage owner David Horowitz disagreed with the review to the extent that he withdrew it from the FrontPage website. As the months rolled by, a controversy arose among conservative intellectuals concerning the book.
In October 2013, Diana West published a book entitled "The Rebuttal: Defending 'American Betrayal' from the Book Burners." In this book, she takes on the criticisms which had been cited, and attempts to clarify and refute, often with the concluding statement, "Not in my book."
In early December, National Review Online's Andrew C. McCarthy published an extensive review of the book, followed a few weeks later by another extensive article dealing with the controversy.
The articles and video listed below provide some idea of the concerns on all sides.
David Horowitz: Diana West Invents a New Conspiracy
2013-09-08 David Horowitz reviews the sequence of events that led up to this posting relative to his actions in respect to American Betrayal. Initially, he had removed a favorable review of American Betrayal, and in this posting he explains why. He deals with what he considers Diana West's over-the-top response to Horowitz's critique, as well as to other unfavorable reviews posted in Frontpage Magazine and elsewhere.
M. Stanton Evans – In Defense of Diana West
2013-09-13 M. Stanton Evans responds to the controversy surrounding American Betrayal, and outlines in some depth his support for Diana West's conclusions.
2013-09-26 Essay in support of Diana West and American Betrayal, written by two Russian exiles:
Vladimir Bukovsky is one of the founders of the Soviet dissident movement. He spent twelve years in Soviet prisons, labor camps and psychiatric hospitals during his fight for freedom. In 2007, he was nominated for president of Russia by the democratic oppostion in moral protest of Putin's powers. His many works include To Build a Castle and Judgement in Moscow.
Pavel Stroilov is a Russian exile in London and the editor and translator of Alexander Litvinenko's book, Allegations. He is co-author with Bukovsky of EUSSR: The Soviet Roots of European Integration, and the author of Behind the Desert Storm: A Secret Archive Stolen From the Kremlin that Sheds New Light on the Arab Revolutions in the Middle East.
The Rebuttal: Defending 'American Betrayal' from the Book-Burners
2013-10-02 Diana West and a host of others – including illustrious authors M. Stanton Evans and Vladimir Bukovsky – defend her new book, "American Betrayal," against a wave of calumnious charges and vicious personal attacks.
Diana West Responds to Conrad Black (10/23/2013)
2013-10-23 Diana West posts a defense in National Review with the following initial question: "Why is NRO trashing American Betrayal, dismissing Vladimir Bukovsky, whitewashing Alger Hiss, and glorifying FDR?"
American Betrayed, Part 2: Planet X
2013-11-03 Posting by Ned May in his blog Gates of Vienna. The "Plant-X" phenomena he discusses refers to the hidden agenda of conservatives who have rejected some of the major findings of American Betrayal.
Diana West: American Betrayal and Planet X
2013-11-05 Diana West expands on Ned May's "Planet-X" comments in Gates of Vienna.
Diana West Controversy Erupts During Horowitz QnA with Stanton Evans (14:02)
2013-11-12 The American Betrayal controversy is raised during a Q&A of a David Horowitz lecture at the Heritage Foundation. M. Stanton Evans raises one of the questions, in suppot of Diana West.
2013-12-03 Andrew C. McCarthy's initial and extensive review of American Betrayal.
Andrew C.McCarthy – On American Betrayal (December 2013)
2013-12 A brief comment relative to some initial feedback to his extensive review of American Betrayal.
January 2014 American Betrayal, an exchange: Andrew C. McCarthy
2014-01 This extensive article attempts to deal with all sides of the American Betrayal controversy. It is noted that many of the important players on both sides are friends of Andy McCarthy.
M. Stanton Evans at Breitbart: McCarthyism by the Numbers
2014-01-21 Diana West comments on Evans' Breitbart article which defends both Sen. Joe McCarthy and West.
American Betrayal: Update Reviews Debates Discussion (2/7/2014)
2014-02-07 Diana West discusses responses to American Betrayal from overseas reviewers.
Diana West: Who Really Won the Cold War?
2014-04-04 Diana West raises the question as to what ideology has emerged in the West since the fall of the Soviet Union.
JR Nyquist on American Betrayal
2014-04-29 Diana West comments on a defense of American Betrayal and the resulting controversy by J.R Nyquist.
Diana West: Influence and the Experts – Part 1
2014-05-06 First of two articles addressing the issue of "influence" of pro-Soviet sympathizers rather than actual Soviet assets in the US government, as discussed in American Betrayal.
Diana West: Influence and the Experts – Part 2
2014-05-09 Second of two articles addressing the issue of "influence" of pro-Soviet sympathizers rather than actual Soviet assets in the US government, as discussed in American Betrayal.
Supportors of American Betrayal
Two important supporters of American Betrayal are highlighted: author M. Stanton Evans, and Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky.
M. Stanton Evans
(From Amazon) Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even today, a half century after his death, his name remains synonymous with witch hunts. But that conventional image is all wrong, as veteran journalist and author M. Stanton Evans reveals in this groundbreaking book.
The long-awaited Blacklisted by History, based on six years of intensive research, dismantles the myths surrounding Joe McCarthy and his campaign to unmask Communists, Soviet agents, and flagrant loyalty risks working within the U.S. government. Evans's revelations completely overturn our understanding of McCarthy, McCarthyism, and the Cold War.
M. Stanton Evans is the author of 'Blacklisted by History' (27:54)
2008-07-08 M. Stanton Evans is interviewed bu Howard Phillips, Founder of the Conservative Caucus. (From YouTube:) M. Stanton Evans is the author of "Blacklisted by History". Mr. Evans owns the FBI files from the McCarthy Trials. The book proves that Senator Joe McCarthy was right about Soviet Agents in the U.S. government. Mr. Evans discusses the impact of the McCarthy trials on American Policy. He founded the National Journalism Center.
Vladimir Bukovsky
Vladimir Bukovsky and the West's Collusion with Soviet Russia
This webpage provides an introduction to Soviet dissident and human rights advocate Vladimir Bukovsky. He first ran afoul of the Soviet authorities in 1958 as a 16-year-old, being involved in organizing protests against the post-Stalin regime. He ultimately served a total of 12 years in Soviet "psychiatric" hospitals and prisons. He was released to the West in 1976 as part of a prisoner swap with a Chilean communist, and settled in the UK.
The Red Thread (2019)
(From YouTube:) There was nothing normal about the 2016 presidential election, not when senior U.S. officials were turning the surveillance powers of the federal government — designed to stop terrorist attacks — against the Republican presidential team. These were the ruthless tactics of a Soviet-style police state, not a democratic republic.
The Red Thread asks the simple question: Why? What is it that motivated these anti-Trump conspirators from inside and around the Obama administration and Clinton networks to depart so drastically from "politics as usual" to participate in a seditious effort to overturn an election?
Finding clues in an array of sources, Diana West uses her trademark investigative skills, honed in her dazzling work, American Betrayal, to construct a fascinating series of ideological profiles of well-known but little understood anti-Trump actors, from James Comey to Christopher Steele to Nellie Ohr, and the rest of the Fusion GPS team; from John Brennan to the numerous Clintonistas still patrolling the Washington Swamp after all these years, and more.
Once, we knew these officials by august titles and reputation; after The Red Thread, readers will recognize their multi-generational and inter-connecting communist and socialist pedigrees, and see them for what they really are: foot-soldiers of the Left, deployed to take down America's first "America First" and most anti-Communist president.
If we just give it a pull, the "red thread" is very long and very deep.
Book published February 21, 2019. (From Amazon:) The first investigation into why a ring of senior Washington officials went rogue to derail the election and the presidency of Donald Trump.
There was nothing normal about the 2016 presidential election, not when senior U.S. officials were turning the surveillance powers of the federal government — designed to stop terrorist attacks — against the Republican presidential team. These were the ruthless tactics of a Soviet-style police state, not a democratic republic.
The Red Thread asks the simple question: Why? What is it that motivated these anti-Trump conspirators from inside and around the Obama administration and Clinton networks to depart so drastically from "politics as usual" to participate in a seditious effort to overturn an election?
Diana West's 'The Red Thread' Book Launch–Featuring Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch (1:02:40)
2019-03-14 Last week, a group of experts–including Judicial Watch Director of Investigations & Research, Chris Farrell–appeared in a broadcast by the Center for Security Policy to discuss author Diana West's new book–"The Red Thread."
The Red Thread – Who Runs the Anti-Trump Conspiracies – West Molyneux (58:40)
2019-03-31 A discussion between Stefan Molyneux and Diana West talk about her new book, The Red Thread.


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Bridge inspections by drone is proving to save money, avoids road closures and improves repair programmes, according to Essex County Council.
Camera drones are already being used in industry but, in a major innovation, drones and related tech are now helping Essex Highway engineers to carefully inspect critical structures like bridges and culverts in better, safer, and recordable ways.
Councillor Lee Scott, Essex County Council Cabinet Member for Highways Maintenance and Sustainable Transport, attended a demonstration of the drones in action at the bridge crossing the River Wid, located on A414 Greenbury Way, Chelmsford.
Councillor Lee Scott said: "Use of advanced drone technology in this way to help us inspect and maintain bridges much more efficiently is a huge benefit to road users in Essex. We have around 1,500 bridges and culverts across the county and if we have to close them, residents, businesses, local services, and other road users all suffer.
"The Council is completely committed to bringing this and other innovations forward quickly to help us manage all our bridges and other structural assets to help us get the maximum value from highways budgets.
"Our strategic partnership with Ringway Jacobs continues to deliver major improvements just like this one, for everyone in Essex."


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Seven guide dogs in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, went into service in September 2017. (Photo: VCG)
All registered dogs in Shenzhen, a coastal city in South China's Guangdong Province would be implanted with microchips for free, which would be used to help find lost dogs, determine ownership of dogs, and other purposes.
The Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau in Shenzhen announced on Friday that the city will complete the implantation for all registered dogs by the end of the year. Those without the microchips by then will be categorized as unlicensed dogs, according to Dutenews, a Shenzhen-based news outlet.
Other cities in China have also promoted the use of microchips for dog identification, such as Hangzhou and Ningbo in East China's Zhejiang Province and Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality.
The chip serves as an identity card for dogs, which accurately binds the information on the dogs and their owners, said Yao Yue, manager of Better Lives for Dogs Campaign, World Animal Protection.
Yao told the Global Times on Sunday that a variety of individual identification methods are used for dogs overseas, such as tattoos and ear notching. The microchip is considered the best method as it has the highest accuracy and lasts longest.
Though the microchip is generally more expensive than other methods, Shenzhen will offer free implantation for some 198,000 registered dogs in the city, except for sick dogs, pregnant dogs and puppies less than 3 months old or weighing less than 2 kg, said Feng Zengjun, deputy director of the city's urban administrative and law enforcement bureau.
The implantation work will be carried out in local dog admission centers. To date, three dog admission centers have carried out pilot microchip implantation and everything has gone well, Dutenews reported.
Dogs will have the chip, about the size of a rice grain, injected under the skin in their neck. The chip is covered with material on the surface that helps prevent slip-off and damage and is said to have almost no effect on the dog's health, according to the report.
The whole process takes a few seconds, Li Tuo, a doctor at a Shenzhen-based pet hospital said, noting that the chip can also be taken out if needed.
The chip, with a life span of 15 years, encodes the dog owner's name, contact number, the dog's name and breed.
It can only be accessed by authorized personnel through specialized equipment connected to the department in charge, according to the authorities, thus dismissing concerns over privacy breach issues.
According to the Shenzhen dog management association, the technology helps to better manage dogs in the city and effectively reduce the incidence of injuries they cause.
"The identification of dogs on an individual level will not only help track lost dogs but also hold the owners responsible for whatever they do to the dogs, such as abandoning, mistreating or intentionally hurting them. It offers real protection to dogs," said Yao.


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2022 Update: In recent versions, the Jacl (Java port of Tcl) scripting in WebSphere administration is deprecated, and Jython (Java-based Python) is recommended as its replacement. See for example this section of WebSphere docs . Note also, the Websphere that still supports Jacl (albeit as deprecated) is called "Traditional", and the newer "Liberty" branch of WebSphere does not include Jacl at all.
"WSCP" is the WebSphere Control Program--WebSphere's Java-coded "console". Structurally, it's similar to OEM. Since version 3.5 of WebSphere, WSCP has shipped with a (modified?) Jacl 8.0 (1.2.5, in fact) (for WS 4.0, and maybe for 3.5) that permits Tcl-simple scripting of administrative actions. WSCP is available only with the Commercial Version of WebSphere, NOT any of the Single Servers or such.
The "Admin Console" is what WSAS users regard as the more traditional, GUI-based administrative utility.
"IBM Websphere Control Program" [L1 ]
Faults reported for the WSCP Jacl:
IBM published an article entitled "Tcl for WebSphere Application Server Administrators" [L2 ]. IBM's rather weird about the product, though; public relations staffers in the US repeatedly have told CL that there's no product manager who can speak about WSCP.
Recently on comp.lang.tcl, Tom Poindexter writes:
The best WSCP reference seems to be the chapter from the WebSphere Handbook, 'Command-line administration and scripting'. However, I've found that the docs don't always agree with the current code base, especially when building up a list of attributes for a specific WSCP Tcl command. The next best doc for WSCP is WSCP itself: just crank up an interactive session 'wscp.sh' and type 'Help'. Most of the WSCP commands also have varying degrees of help text embedded, e.g. 'ApplicationServer help'.
Get the WebSphere V4.0 Advance Edition Hanbook in PDF from http://www.redbooks.ibm.com
As far as additional packages, remember that WSCP is using Jacl v1.2.5, the Tcl implementation written in Java. The only other package shipped with WSCP is the Jacl 'java' pacakge, which allows access to any Java class on your CLASSPATH. E.g.:
$ wscp.sh wscp> package require java 1.2.5 wscp> set ht [java::new java.util.Hashtable] java0x1 wscp> $ht put foo bar java0x0 wscp> $ht toString {foo=bar} wscp> [$ht get foo] toString bar
I'm building up scripts to automate JDBC/JNDI configuration and .ear deployment. No rocket science, just simplifing the WSCP specific commands.
Flash: as of fall 2002, the word from IBM is that "WSCP is being dropped in WAS V5 and a new component called wsadmin is replacing WSCP. wsadmin supports [or will support] tcl plus several other scripting languages."
Tom Poindexter is good with WSCP.
IBM apparently claims to support WSCP through the "WS 5 forum" news://news.software.ibm.com/ibm.software.websphere.application-server.v5 There are other Web fora that also claim to cover WS; CL finds none of them satisfying.
However, in November 2005, Patrick Finnegan offered this more constructive information: "IBM have essentially OEMed JACL for use as the scripting interface for WebSphere to simply the JMX bean based administration interface. It's possible to automate administration using pure java but adminstrators need a dynamic language solution for short utility scripts.
There is an Austin based 'department' within IBM that architected the WAS JMX interface. Some of [the] lead developers worked on the IBM WebSphere System Adminstration guide [L3 ].
Leigh Williamson <[email protected]> led the design and implementation of the WebSphere Version 5 new administrative architecture.
Roger Cundiff <[email protected]> was the first development team member for application server management at IBM in Austin, Texas, and continues to work on WebSphere systems management there.
Shawn Lauzon <[email protected]> is working on the next release of WebSphere with Aspect-Oriented Software Design."
Note that Williamson wrote http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/0301_williamson/williamson.html#scriptingtool
By 2005, IBM had been, to put it bluntly, mismanaging WSCP for several years. In 2010, such articles as this [L4 ] appeared: Jython-for-WSAS is supported, Tcl ignored.


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House Progress #1 - Experiments with Polyfilla
We spent the first week buying everything we need to live quite comfortably in our house. In order of purchase, this included:
- Washing machine
- Beds
- Toaster and Kettle
- Fridge
- Chest of Drawers for my bedroom
- Dishwasher
- Dining table
- Desks for the loft and a rug
One of my bedroom walls had about 20 holes in it. At some point someone had mounted a TV on there, and didn't do a good job. I should probably replace the entire piece of plasterboard, but polyfilla and new wallpaper and paint will have to do. Eventually we may plasterboard and plaster the loft, but for now it is not a top priority as it might end up being quite expensive. It does what it needs to for now.
Here are some new photos :)
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Miners walk off with 3-2 win
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June 25, 2009
MARION, Ill. – Brad Miller
capped a two-run ninth inning with a walkoff RBI single on Thursday as the Southern Illinois Miners rallied to beat the Rockford RiverHawks, 3-2.
The Miners rallied in the bottom of the ninth inning against Rockford closer
John Muller
, who had pitched the RiverHawks out of an eighth-inning jam. With one out in the ninth,
Travon Jackson
doubled to left field. Tony Roth tied the game with a pinch-hit double to the corner in right.
Kevin Koski
reached on an infield hit and
Justin Randall
hit into a force play at second base. Miller worked the count full and drove in Roth with a line drive to left.
Rockford had itself rallied to take a late lead. The RiverHawks tied the game at 1-1 in the sixth inning when
Jason James
led off with a double and later scored on a
Ross McCoy
groundout. With two outs in the eighth inning, Rockford rallied against reliever
David Stringer
to take the lead.
Robert Sabates
worked the count full and drew a walk.
Todd Martin
followed and hit a 3-2 pitch to the wall in center for a RBI double.
Rockford starter
Brett Durand
struck out six and scattered a run on six hits, but got a no-decision. He left after
Jereme Milons
' two-out double in the bottom of the eighth. Muller (0-2) got the RiverHawks out of the eighth, but was touched for four hits in the ninth.
Michael Phelps
(2-0) retired the last four Rockford batters in order and won in relief.
James was 2-for-4 and extended his hitting streak to 23 games. McCoy was 0-for-4 and his 12-game streak ended.
Caleb Fields
was 1-for-4 and his streak is at 11 games.
The rubber match of the three-game series is at 7:05 p.m. Friday.
The RiverHawks come home for a three-game series against Gateway on June 30. They open the homestand with a Two-For Tuesday. Tickets are two for the price of one, and so are hot dogs.
The RiverHawks are members of the Frontier League, a 12-team independent professional baseball league in its 17th season. The RiverHawks host the 2009 Frontier League All-Star Game at 7:05 p.m. on July 15. Advertising and ticket information is available by calling (815) 885-2255. Fans can also visit the RiverHawks online at www.rockfordriverhawks.com. Most games are broadcast live on ESPN 1380, and on the team website.
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December 12, 2017
Congratulations to Todd Cosenza and Michael Schachter who were selected as MVPs by Law360 in its 2017 list. From over 1,000 nominations, Law360 selected Mr. Cosenza as one of six attorneys recognized in the Banking category for his victories on behalf of several banking institutions, including for Barclays Bank PLC in MBI International Holdings Inc. v. Barclays Bank PLC. and Mr. Schachter as one of six named in the White Collar category for his victory in a Second Circuit LIBOR manipulation case, U.S. v. Anthony Allen. In announcing their selection, Law360 notes the attorneys "distinguished themselves from their peers by securing hard-earned successes in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals."
Feature article profiles on Mr. Cosenza and Mr. Schachter will be published in the coming weeks.


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The following post was written by Kristi Culbreth, our youth ministry director.
Sitting at a dinner a few weeks ago, I met some lovely women who have been faithfully serving in their Baltimore congregation for several decades. After chatting a bit about our ministries, they shared that they first met Jesus when their children brought the Gospel home from a summer Vacation Bible School. Hearing these testimonies helped me remember the reverberations our summer ministries can have in our neighborhood!
Simply, our church's heart is for everyone in our neighborhood to hear the Good News about what Jesus has done for us, to be transformed, and to experience reconciliation with God and other people! Vacation Bible School plays such an important role in this work! For a whole week, we will be meeting every night as a large group of adults and kids (both from our church and from our neighborhood) for musical worship, games, crafts, and Bible study.
Our theme this year is In the Wild! It focuses on several encounters with Jesus throughout his ministry – leading to an encounter with the risen Christ at the tomb. Our songs, games, and crafts will all focus on these important stories of Jesus, showing God's plan for reconciliation in our lives.
My favorite parts of VBS are the relationships our volunteers build with the kids and their parents. There's nothing like seeing kids from VBS at our Youth Night or in Village Kids on Sundays! Also, while some of the kids may not regularly attend our church throughout the year, we are frequently stopped in Giant or on the Avenue by their families who want to make sure that their kids are signed up for the upcoming VBS. These serve as great opportunities for us to see how those families are doing and to keep them in our prayers.
While volunteering for VBS is a big commitment that takes a lot of physical and emotional energy, it helps us to be better neighbors. Serving helps our hearts remember others, loving them as Jesus does. And VBS can remind us of our weaknesses and our own need for a Savior.
We're still a few volunteers short of our goal of 25. If you're available, please consider serving with us. You won't regret it!


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This post is part of a year-long series. If my work is helpful for you, consider a contribution through Venmo to support this crucial work of unlearning racial bias.
Most of this series is intended to be instructive: to plumb depths of a black cultural experience that are unable to be explored unless you yourself are black and also immersed in black culture. But I noticed a comment in an online group recently that much of our Black History Month celebrations is offered just to show nonblack people that we are human, just as they are. The statement was astute and frustratingly, incisively true. Our time and energy can be so invested in convincing the culture at large that we are worthy of life and liberty, that we neglect to promote and publicize our own pursuit of happiness
Since June, I have come to this digital space most weeks to share bits of black American history, a perspective on how race relations in our country came to be how they are, and offer a small mirror to reflect the emotions which emerge when white people examine new-to-them information about a people group they thought they already knew thoroughly. What I have perhaps neglected in this series – which is devoted to guiding would-be allies in reflection to help them unlearn racial bias they may not even realize they espouse – is the complete joy I feel in being black. The pride I feel in the resilience and hopefulness of my people.
Amidst the love I feel for my blackness, nothing is quite so magical as witnessing the strong, deep bonds of love between us: romantic, platonic, and familial.
This week, in honor of black love and Valentine's Day, I'll be sharing a playlist of love songs by us and for us, in celebration of our resilience and determination and outright refusal to accept the pain we constantly endure without also consciously making space to seek out and nourish joy and connection with each other. This playlist is a salute to '90s and early 2000s black music: the melodies that take us back to our middle school crushes; the themed music videos that feature our favorite '90s sitcom stars; the smooth, unfiltered voices that used to flow from the speakers of our parents' cars; the Saturday afternoons we'd spend listening to the radio with our fingers poised over the "record" button on our cassette players so we could capture the newest tune and memorize all the words by the time we made it back to school Monday morning.
In addition to this week's black love songs playlist, I invite you to spend some time learning about Loving vs. Virginia. Several movies and documentaries about the Lovings are available to stream, and a host of books and articles have been published as well. Interracial couples like my husband and me could not marry and live in peace without the crooked road made straight by the Lovings' 1967 Supreme Court case. Some legal scholars have also posited that the Loving precedent paved the way for marriage rights being extended to our LGBTQ siblings.
Generations of consenting adults who are not same-race, opposite-sex couplings will continue to stand on the shoulders of the Lovings, whose quiet, steady persistence won for them the right to build their lives as husband and wife.
As you explore these resources, I hope you will marvel with me at the strength of black culture to withstand constant attacks from the dominant culture and its dogged determination to keep living and loving in freedom. And I hope you'll ask yourself –
- Have you ever resisted a black friend or family member's assertion of their truthful lived experience because it causes you to feel bad?
- In that discomfort, have you pressured them to put on a happy face or recount a happy experience so that you can balance out your own emotional response to their truth?
- When you think of classic love songs, how many of them are by black artists? Why do you think that is – a lack of black representation in a certain genre or a lack of diversity in the music you grew up listening to?
I'll meet you here again soon, so we can keep struggling, rejoicing, and learning together – to build a more peaceful world, one piece at a time.


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There are a few countries sitting at the top of the podcast listening ladder, but Sweden provides some useful insights in what has been driving the podcast revolution
A few days earlier Statista, the German market and consumer data firm, released a report titled Where Podcasts Are Most Popular.
Sweden topped the list of 54 countries surveyed for podcast consumption. A grand total of 47% of respondents claimed they listened to a podcast in the last 12 months. Admittedly some people listen to podcasts without even knowing it (especially those listening on YouTube, a top platform for audio consumption).
The Nordic podcast leader is followed by Ireland and Brazil. Both are above the 40% threshold of people having listened to a podcast in the last year. (Results found by the 2021 Digital News Report were similar, with Ireland first, followed by Spain and Sweden.)
In the UK, USA, Canada and Australia about a third of respondents said they listened to a podcast, while countries in the Eastern hemisphere scored comparatively lower. China had just a 19% share of podcast listeners among participants.
Predictably, podcast consumption is driven by younger people. The 2019 Digital News Report found that in Sweden young people were more likely to consume podcasts (59% among 18 to 24-year-olds, 57% among 25 to 34-year-olds).
"Why Sweden?" and the role of Swedish Radio
Sweden was already a country to follow years ago when I first got interested in podcasting more professionally – more than just as a consumer looking for the next best show to listen to.
Sure, the history of podcasting in the UK is significant as well. Not least because the term "podcasting" was coined there, by The Guardian journalist Ben Hammersley. Still, Sweden keeps outperforming the UK in most surveys when it comes to podcast listening.
Just like other Nordic countries, Sweden has a strong tradition of radio consumption. Some 60% to 70% of people (depending on which data you look at) listen to radio daily.
It is a very digital advanced market. For example, revenue from streaming music in Sweden overtook physical sales already 10 years ago. By 2014 it accounted for 84% – that's called skyrocketing growth. Such fast changes in the digital landscape no doubt created a favorable setting for people to fall in love with podcasts.
Swedish Radio, together with BBC and some other European national broadcasters, understood early on that it was worthwhile to give people an online option to listen to radio shows. But online archives were often hard to navigate, making podcasts a better option. The idea turned out to be very successful and actually brought in new listeners.
Of course, it's not just about putting your shows out as podcasts. The quality of the content matters. Swedish Radio podcasts have been attracting the most listeners for some years now and have the biggest reach country-wide (see chart below).
Spotify, Acast and Poddindex
Sweden is also unique thanks to multiple big digital audio players who compete not only nationally but also globally. Take Spotify, the world's biggest music and audio streaming platform, which started out in Stockholm in 2006.
Spotify has been aggressively pushing to become a global leader in podcasting starting with rearranging the app interface to feature podcasts more prominently. It also made acquisitions, ranging from talent (the Joe Rogan show) to podcast hosting companies (Megaphone, Anchor.fm) and podcast producers (Ringer, Gimlet).
Spotify's success and focus on podcasting is boosting the genre's popularity, the company hints in its Swedish podcast report. Further, the amount of podcasts in Swedish is increasing – up 89% on Spotify, the main platform, in just one year.
Acast is another Swedish-founded company with global presence. It provides hosting, monetization and growth support to podcasts. In 2014, it developed a dynamic insertion solution which targets advertising within podcasts based on location, time, and personal data. In 2018, Acast struck a deal with BBC to monetize its podcasts outside of the UK.
Acast produces its own podcasts both in Sweden and internationally. Recently, COO Oskar Serrander published a blog saying Acast is the third largest podcast network in the US (next to NPR and iHeartRadio) with more than 14 million Americans listening to podcasts powered by Acast every month.
Another important fact when it comes to the success of podcasting in Sweden is the fact that an industry-wide initiative led in 2017 to creation of Poddindex, a Swedish podcast measurement standard. It measures reach and listens, and also includes paid shows.
The existence of Poddindex is in my opinion (but I can be proven wrong here) a big piece of the puzzle. The main monetization option for podcasts remains ads, even though 2021 could be looked at as the start of the global paid podcast revolution (both Apple and Spotify doubled down on paid podcast features for podcasters).
For ads to work and advertisers to know what they are buying, how many people they are reaching, there needs to be an industry-wide standard metric which everyone agrees on.
With Poddindex Sweden has pulled ahead of many countries in the world, especially in Europe. In France, ACPM runs a similar chart, but as Sarah Toporoff wrote a while ago, the French approach is a hybrid one and has its problems in contrast with Poddindex.
In the US, there is the Podcast Consumer Tracking Report by Edison Research, Triton Digital runs its own ranking system and there are solutions from Chartable and Podtrac.
Still, even if there was a Poddindex in every country, Sweden would be at the top of the podcast listening charts.
You might think the country is lucky (and you would be right). Importantly, though, Sweden shows how a few leaders (both companies and people) with the right mindset, leadership skills and understanding of the digital media landscape can push the whole ecosystem forward.
This piece was originally published in The Fix and is re-published with permission. The Fix is a solutions-oriented publication focusing on the European media scene. Subscribe to its weekly newsletter here.