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This week's weekly docket features upcoming talks on the public interest law career path and getting a federal clerkship in Chicago, Perkins Coie summer receptions in multiple cities, a call for nominations for the $1000 Pro Bono Publico Award for 2Ls and 3Ls, and a search engine for 3L jobs that resulted in 1411 search results.
Summer Luncheons and Receptions:
2Ls and 3Ls: Chicago, Public Interest Law Career Path, Wednesday, July 12, 11:45-1:00, John Marshall Law School, 304 South State Street, Room 1200, Chicago
This seminar features dedicated public interest law attorneys who will share their experiences in charting a career in public interest law. Panelists will include attorneys who have experience in legal aid and government, and with judicial clerkships and post-graduate fellowships.
- Charles P. Golbert, Deputy Public Guardian, Office of the Cook County Public Guardian
- Susan DeCostanza, Director of Guardian ad litem for Adults Program, Chicago Volunteer Legal Services
- Andy Kang, Legal Director, Asian Americans Advancing Justice
Enter the building at 304 South State Street and give your name to security.
Lunch will be provided for everyone in attendance. Online registration is required by 12:00 noon on Tuesday, July 11th. If you have questions or problems with the form, please contact Program Manager Brent Page by email or by phone at 312-832-5128.
ACS, PILI, and Skadden present : How to Land A Clerkship (Chicago), July 14, 12-1:30, Skadden Chicago, 155 North Upper Wacker Drive, Chicago
The Chicago Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society, PILI and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP present "How to Land a Clerkship: Practical Advice from Judges."
This panel will feature:
- The Honorable Sharon Johnson Coleman, Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- Michael Fridkin, Senior Staff Attorney, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- The Honorable Mary L. Mikva, Justice Illinois Appellate Court, First Division
- The Honorable Mary Jane Theis, Justice, Illinois Supreme Court
Moderated by:
- Charles F. Smith, Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; Member, Board of Advisors, ACS Chicago Lawyer Chapter
Skadden will provide a lunch for all attendees. Registration is required on the ACS website.
Please note, photo identification is required to access this event.
If you have any questions, please contact PILI Program Manager Brent Page by email or by phone at 312-832-5128.
For a complete list of firm receptions, check out symplicity's events tab and then click on workshops.
2Ls: Perkins Coie: Before OCI, Get the Real Story (Chicago, Phoenix, Seattle, DC, San Francisco)
The fall interviewing season for second-year law students can be daunting. We want to help you make sense of it all. Please join us for a panel and reception at one of our five participating offices to get real information about on-campus and callback interviews and the chance to hear from members of our recruiting team about what matters most during the interviewing season.
5:30 p.m. – Panel
6:30 p.m. – Reception
Phoenix, AZ
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Perkins Coie
2901 N. Central Avenue
20th Floor
Phoenix, AZ 85012
Chicago, IL
Thursday, July 13, 2017
Perkins Coie
131 S. Dearborn Street
16th Floor
Chicago, IL 60603
Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Perkins Coie
700 13th Street NW
Suite 600
Washington, D.C., 20005
Seattle, WA
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Perkins Coie
1201 Third Avenue
Suite 4900
Seattle, WA 98101
San Francisco, CA
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
Perkins Coie
505 Howard Street
Suite 1000
San Francisco, CA 94105
This event is for law students participating in the on-campus interview process in the late summer or early fall of 2017.
The discussion will begin at 5:30 p.m., followed by a reception with members of our hiring and diversity committees and other attorneys.
Questions? Contact Lisa Kelly at firstname.lastname@example.com.
2Ls & 3Ls: Call for nominations $1000 PSJD Pro Pono Publico Award, Due to me August 29
NALP is seeking nominations for the 2017 PSJD Pro Bono Publico Award. If you want to be nominated, email me by August 29 and submit your nomination packet to me by August 29. If you have questions, email me.
To recognize the significant contributions that law students make to underserved populations, the public interest community, and legal education by performing pro bono work.
The Pro Bono Publico Award is available to any second- or third-year law student. The recipient will be announced during National Pro Bono Week – usually held in October – and honored during an Award Ceremony at the recipient's school thereafter. The award recipient will receive a commemorative plaque and a monetary award of $1,000. I am allowed to nominate two students. Send me your applications by August 29 at 5:00 PM eastern.
Award Criteria
Selection is based on the extracurricular commitment the nominees have made to law-related public service projects or organizations; the quality of work they performed; and the impact of their work on the community, their fellow students, and the school. Actual probono work will be the primary consideration.
Nomination Packet Contents
Along with the nomination form and a résumé, nomination packets should include a two-page statement detailing the work the nominee has done, the impact it has had on the nominee's community, and why this nominee is deserving of the award. Input or quotes from those involved in the work or from impacted community members may be included and are strongly encouraged. PLEASE SUBMIT ONE PDF CONTAINING ALL THE NOMINATION MATERIALS.
3L Job Search Resource Spotlight: PSJD
If you're interested in public interest or government careers, then PSJD is your best friend. To access PSJD, you need to set up a free account but I promise it is really easy to do so. Once you're in, you can access PSJD's wonderful resource center, which contains helpful information on applying for public interest fellowships, student loan repayment, applying and interviewing for public interest jobs, and other useful information.
PSJD also has a great search function, where you can search for public interest and government job postings. To get the most out of your searching, go to "advanced search," click "search for job postings," scroll down to "job schedule," and click on "long term & full time" under "postgraduate jobs," and then under "experience level," click on "entry level 0-3 years." When I did that search today, I got 1411 results, including:
–Legislative Attorney with the Library of Congress
-Many "Fraud Attorney" positions with the Social Security Administration
-Many legal aid jobs such as with the Legal Aid Society of New York, Nevada Legal Services, Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach, and many more
–An Assistant Attorney General position with the Washington Attorney General's office
-Entry-level prosecution jobs
-A policy fellow at Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at the University of California, Boalt School of Law
If you have questions about how to search PSJD, make the best use of the resource center, or any of the specific jobs listed above, contact me.


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Here's a selection of work I've had published online, ranging from features about robot academics to reviews on puppet comedy.
The MipTV format buyer's guide – part 1
Berlusconi TV influence 'undemocratic
Proposed UK law threatens YouTube
BBCWW 'worth little' without BBC
C4 to cut commissioning cash by $75m
How can young people with mental illness find a job?
NHS head: Children still on adult psychiatric wards despite target
NAS: Research into causes of autism must be handled responsibly
Prince's Trust: One in ten young people feel life is meaningless
Investigated MPs expenses using crowd-sourcing tool for news editor
Why it's still too early for QPR fans to start mentioning the 'P' word (that's 'Promotion' by the way)
Why Wayne Routledge can be QPR's talisman this season
Why Jim Magilton has got QPR fans thinking he may not be the man to win promotion
Review: Sammy J and the Forest of Dreams
Review: Greenwich Comedy Festival 2009
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Date: Thursday 19th November 2015
Location: Dublin
Trainer: IBT
Cost: €240 funding applied
Motivate, Support and Encourage your Team
Effective mentoring provides support that identifies the qualities and abilities in other people and develops them. It identifies difficulties and finds ways around them or circumvents them where appropriate. If it very important at the outset to understand the difference between mentoring and coaching. Mentoring involves a partnership between an experienced mentor and a mentee who wants to learn from that experience. Coaching involves a relationship between a professionally trained coach and coachee who needs to clarify and accomplish specific development and performance goals. This session focuses on the techniques by which managers develop and improve the performance of their team through mentoring.
Who is this course for?
This session is initially aimed at Managers/Supervisors whose opinions and direction will be incorporated in the roll out of further programmes
Defining your role(s)
Understanding Mentoring
How you can act as a Mentor – expectations of Mentees
The difference between Coaching and Mentoring
Developing relationships and creating trust
Understanding the need for open communication
Setting clear objectives
Dealing with emotions (EI)
Dealing with conflict and difficult situations
Building confidence and developing rapport
How will you learn?
This course involves an interactive workshop format and will consist of a mix of:
Teaching by an expert trainer using a variety of quality learning materials
Group and individual learning activities
Group discussion
Opportunity to practice relevant mentoring scenarios and receive detailed feedback
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A costume designer with years of experience, through painstakingly accurate period pieces to frayed-at-the-edges regional cop shows, pointed out the obvious: the clothes are always wrong. The only era-specific conformity in any TV image grab is that the outfits do not conform; they arrive piecemeal, in survival instalments from lost decades.
"Clothes are our weapons, our challenges, our visible insults," Angela Carter said in her 1967 essay, Notes for a Theory of Sixties Style. They have been imposed on us by the papal dictums and wild misjudgements of the fashion industry. They infiltrate group consciousness from paparazzi flares of celebrity shame. Kate Moss down on all fours, red carpet to air rage.
A carousel of between-gigs models falling out of clubs into taxis. To retain faith in individualism, the mob (that is: you, me) are in a perpetual flush of copycatism.
Postcode gangs mark their turf with trainers slung from telephone wires. Fashion slaves operate the same system with discriminations of footwear: brown brogues, heels, sandals, bovver boots. We slope out in sports brands that will never be blooded in a boxing ring. The only fashion compliment I ever received came in Texas: for a pair of modest, sand-coloured Skechers lace-ups from Debenhams in Hastings.
If I interrogate my past through photo albums, a purgatorial landscape of fashion crimes is revealed. I am always wandering into the wrong wedding reception in a tight-under-the-armpits, wear-once suit. Or experimenting with a Mediterranean outfit from someone else's mislaid Northern Lights suitcase.
I never supported Chelsea FC, even in the swaggering King's Road days of Peter Osgood and Alan Hudson, but I acquired the T-shirt. It was a nice deep blue, and was being knocked out cheap from a stall on Kingsland Waste, a now defunct Hackney street market.
Buying clothes was a shiftily neurotic activity confined to the open air. Shops made me claustrophobic. They were fine if I didn't have to purchase anything. I mean: as environments.
A stroll on a rainy day through galleries of never very appealing exhibits. The Chelsea T-shirt, only to be exposed outside Chelsea, outside England, came with a pimpish Peter Wyngarde moustache and dark glasses of a bloodshot glaze, like the promise of a permanent hangover. It took many years and a steady drip of marital scorn to understand that quality is worth its price tag. If there is a price tag.
The folded shirts displayed in those Shoreditch installations, laid out on their blocky central altars, between minimalist clothes racks, are not defaced with tickets. If you have to ask, don't bother. Try somewhere budget like Bond Street.
When I progressed from assemblages of saggy-necked T-shirts, Chinese jeans, thin white socks and autopsy jackets too long in the arms, to varieties of black-on-black linen, audiences at readings saw me as a demented, non-conformist preacher. I probably sounded like one, too. Which was not the effect I intended. But as soon as there is an effect, we are undone. We shift from covering our nakedness to playing a part.
How To Buy A Winter Coat
Everything You Need To Know About Buying A Watch
How To Dress Like Paul Newman
Years of education and social conditioning, supported by a complex hierarchy of uniforms, graded ties, stiff collars with choking studs and tolerated levels of drainpiping in the grey flannel department, were based around the thesis that fashion does not exist. It's a metropolitan aberration, effete, morally suspect. And that brainwashing took: proper coats were inherited and passed on. The material was indestructible. It was like wrapping yourself in a mildewed section of Hadrian's Wall.
Fashion made a big comeback around 1965. There were new markets to exploit by way of new media. Angela Carter remarks, very astutely, that fine details of women's apparel are sprinkled over novels by male authors in order to convince us that they can do female characters. In truth, what females regard, with beady or approving eye, is each other.
The late Sixties was the period when writers of Carter's standing began to publish pieces on clothes. It was now acceptable, even hip, to riff on Moroccan scarves, tattoos, body piercings and the transit of fetish freakdom into mass-market commodity.
Have writers ever been reliable as fashion role models? Two Londoners whose generically promiscuous books were a goad when I started out were Carter and Michael Moorcock. Both had style, not only in their confident prose, but in their persons. Both dressed as they wrote, across the generations: Edwardian quotations, elective affinities.
Rings, hats, waistcoats, walking sticks for Moorcock. His character Jerry Cornelius set the template for Jagger and Bowie and the Savile Row aspects of James Bond. Carter understood how clothes acted as signifiers for a new book: she changed her look dramatically from cover portrait to cover portrait. "We think our dress expresses ourselves, but in fact it expresses our environment," she said.
JG Ballard, Moorcock's great collaborator in the days of New Worlds magazine, was so much anti-fashion that he was doomed, after the late success of Empire of the Sun, to be pure fashion. His fashion mistakes – including a selection of Hawaiian shirts with floral ties – could be seen as ironies. Ballard's mentor, William Burroughs, stood out from the crowd of low-rent scribblers by trying to dress as anonymously as a suburban bank manager. I devoured their books, but stuck with what arts critic Rachel Cooke, describing the Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson, called "nubby Scandinavian". Like getting dressed in the dark.
Faces in Bethnal Green realised that the Krays were finished when Reggie appeared on the street without a tie. Late-boho invaders labour after a rigidly casual stance, lumberjack beards and skinny trousers, where the old villains, in the same parts of town, threw off their working clobber and dressed to kill, literally, for that funny night out in The Carpenter's Arms.
Shifts of fashion are now so virally swift, so responsive to movement through location, that I had to walk north from Dalston Junction to Stoke Newington to get a taste of what was really happening. There were jumps of ethnicity and presentation, outlets dissolving from charity bunkers to wedding bling to hipster display. Until I arrived at the 1894 building that once offered space to a Kurdish diaspora. It was labelled "Beyond Retro, Vintage Clothing". The strap line said it all: "Life is too Short to Wear Matching Socks".
Unless you are Jon Snow. And those socks are your brand recognition for grappling with the day's news on Channel 4.
Iain Sinclair is an award-winning writer and film-maker
Men's Biggest Style Crimes
The Best Coats Under £300 To Get You Through The Winter
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The Global Dividend for Maximum Impact (GDM-I): Advancing Women for Global Equity and Innovation
Imagine for a moment meeting a young girl in Afghanistan or Eritrea, walking to primary school in the morning. She tells you that she loves school; she tells you with enthusiasm that she wonders what is out there in our galaxy. You can see that she has the confidence to let her imagination explore the possibilities for affecting real change, and she yearns to learn more. While her primary education undoubtedly will provide her with the tools to be a better and more informed family member, mother, and contributor to her community, you are left with the certainty that she is capable of more. At age 12, there are few, if any, options available for her to continue with her education. In fact, we know this girl and what her future holds. It does not look like yours. She is hardly empowered and, in the long term, who benefits?
This is precisely the scenario faced by far too many young girls in developing countries, particularly across the global South and within disadvantaged populations, such as those with disabilities and indigenous peoples. They are not alone. Too many bright girls and boys all over the world have no pathway beyond primary education outside their home communities. Society has no chance to harness the potential, innovative contributions that these millions of isolated, marginalized, and disempowered young women and men can offer. How do we change this?
More than anything, this global scenario points to the intractability of extant foreign development policies of industrialized countries, the paucity of quality educational and research practices of developing countries, and the imperative for advanced research capacity in developing countries to partner with researchers in developed societies.1 At the same time, it places the development agenda, and in particular the issue of gender equality, in a uniquely critical and opportunistic position. Access to talent, particularly talented women, from all corners of the world, is now increasingly viewed as one of the most important natural, untapped resource. However, "the real power comes from [the diversity of ] women and men working together and using their experience to solve complex problems and accelerate innovation".2 In fact, the professional services network Deloitte claims that those who master that talent challenge will dominate the markets in the twenty-first century.
International recruitment of students, faculty, highly skilled workers and executives has become the norm, as countries seek to secure a competitive advantage in the highly interdependent and interconnected global marketplace. Ideas are borderless and talent is mobile. Quality human capital -- educated people -- is what drives excellence and solutions, and is the pillar of an established knowledge economy.
Ironically, these goals are at odds with current practices that perpetuate gender inequality and inhibit the advancement of developing countries, thereby constraining the development and free flow of talent. With the exception of a few countries, women are significantly under-represented in leadership roles, including academia, even where their qualifications equal or surpass those of men.3 Although part of the reason may be due to gender differences and choices, the gender discrimination, cultural differences and institutional barriers are major contributing factors.
In 2009, Newsweek International identified 1,000 scholarships for international students and 100 specifically for students from developing countries to study internationally. There are also many scholarships that target women. Nevertheless, the number of scholarships is nowhere near sufficient to bridge the gender gap for women and the need for access to quality higher education for students from developing countries, particularly in the science and technology sectors. Notably, women are seriously under-represented in the Information Technology (IT) sector, a sector that is integral to all innovation: social, cultural, technological, and organizational.4 The IT sector and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (the STEM disciplines) are critical to poverty alleviation and addressing climate change, health, and energy. Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women speaks forcefully and eloquently on all of these issues.
Developing countries and vulnerable communities must shift away from a classic development model to one that creates an enabling environment, not only to solve domestic challenges of inequity and social injustice, but to establish truly multilateral and mutually beneficial relationships to address pressing global issues, secure competitive advantages, and build stable economies. In other words, just like established and emerging economies, developing nations must create an infrastructure for ensuring sustainability. To do this, they need partnerships for quality higher education, advanced research, and an integrated innovations agenda.5
The strategy of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) continues to proffer the classic view of development. In fact, it does work to address basic goals for 50 per cent of the world's 7 billion people that live in vulnerable communities. Although improvements have come, many countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, are unlikely to reach the goals.6 Furthermore, "while the MDGs may have galvanized activists and encouraged bigger aid budgets.promising too much leads to disillusionment and can erode the constituency for long-term engagement with the developing world".7
The fundamental weakness of the MDG strategy is that it does little to build domestic capacity for innovation through investment in quality higher education and research, especially through programmes for women. It fails to enable the communities to advance their own development. Further, there has been a failure to recognize many of the advances that developing countries have made and are making in relation to core performance metrics that are central to development and innovation.8
Focusing on advanced education for women and for developing countries and other vulnerable communities can bring powerful results: decreasing birth rates, remittance support to families and communities, increases in productivity and consumption, and diversity in the workforce leading to innovative ideas and products. Indeed, it has been noted that "there are positive correlations between female educational attainments and capacity to make informed decisions about various aspects of life including health, marriage, and reproduction.there is a positive correlation between educational attainment and economic productivity, exercise of social and political responsibility and the authority to demand the respect of individual and groups' rights".9 Where organizations and communities have invested in women, the results have been both dramatic and profound, and all benefit.10 Enabling women to take on leadership roles in the STEM disciplines will address global labour shortages in core areas of infrastructure, development, and innovation.
The question is, do we have the willpower to mobilize an agenda for gender equality and higher education? The answer to date, sadly, is no. However, times do change.
The imperative is for international and domestic Governments, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), industry, and multilateral agencies to establish both the mechanisms for working together,11 and a new set of norms for advancing sustainable development. The first step is to shift from a goal-oriented, traditional development strategy to an enabling and creative investment strategy that focuses on impact. Second, the principle of equity for women and men must be at the centre of that strategic agenda. In other words, all programmes must benefit women to create equity and diversity. The result is the creation of a global dividend that will provide maximum impact -- a GDM-I.
Opportunities need to be made available to women in developing countries which advance women and men through a lens of innovations and equity. That is the power of the GDM-I, an innovative, equitable approach that can help achieve environmental, social, and economic balance, security and stability, and explore new frontiers, such as space, science, commerce, history, and relations for the benefit of all. An innovations agenda that steadfastly maintains a strategic focus on women will lead to immediate global dividends in the emerging knowledge-based economy.
A broad strategy for developing countries and vulnerable communities designed to increase the number of women who have access to quality higher education, with a focus on research and knowledge translation through multi-stakeholder partnerships, will lead to a GDM-I. This includes the chronic problems that the MDGs recognize and address, but the solutions to address them need to utilize alternative financial models and innovations. By cultivating globally aware citizens and global networks committed to gender equality and diversity in decision-making, and by providing incentives for institutions to include women in all leadership roles at all levels of their organizations, GDM-I transformations will follow. To inform and engage the brightest young minds to be entrepreneurial, creative and invest in their ideas through collaboration will bring new solutions. Collectively, these initiatives will create global awareness and harness limitless opportunities and talent in developing countries with life-changing impact.
A GDM-I strategy that would complement and enhance the MDGs requires considerable thought and consultation cannot be fully addressed in this article. What is envisaged, however, is an investment plan in women and higher education in developing countries and other vulnerable communities that would encompass the following core components:
1. invest in campus-based and e-learning quality higher education and advanced international research institutes for at least 10 million students;
2. provide 100,000 international scholarships for female undergraduate and graduate students to study in high quality educational and research institutions;
3. invest in 100,000 global mobility internship scholar- ships for students from all over the world in developing countries or within vulnerable communities to undertake research and professional development, in collaboration with public and private sector institutions and agencies;
4. encourage institutional policies and incentives for gender equity for all development agencies and programmes, including donor and multilateral agencies;
5. institute competitions for the most gifted students from all over the world to provide leading creative and implementable solutions to tackle development challenges.
All programmes must ensure equal participation for women. The programmes should target the STEM and IT sectors. Industry, NGOs, universities, and foundations should be encouraged to match the contributions of donors by providing at least 20 per cent of the funding.
It is estimated that such a plan would cost in the order of $20 billion a year over a minimum of 10 years -- approximately one-third of the proposed increased investment in the MDGs.12
The GDM-I strategy will provide nothing less than a bold and expanding cadre of innovators; a resource desperately needed. A vibrant, global knowledge economy where women and men around the world are aware of the cultural, social, technological and geographic diversity present in the world is within our collective grasp.
Challenges will continue, but they will be offset by opportunities. Over time, the building of domestic infrastructure, combined with the potential for growth, will curtail the need and desire for students to travel abroad. It may even encourage the diaspora to return to their home country, as has happened in the emerging economies.
This is a challenging but powerful moment in time. Those in influential positions need to weigh in. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon himself has been witness to the value of investing in higher education in his home country of South Korea. He has also witnessed the cultural and societal barriers that face highly educated women. By virtue of the United Nations mandate, he has the ability to bring together all countries, and a powerful network of like-minded, influential stakeholders, such as Cherie Blair in the United Kingdom, Jeffrey Sachs, Bill Clinton, Marissa Mayer and Bill Gates in the United States, Zhang Xin in Asia, Graça Machel in Africa, Peter Singer in Canada, and Dilma Rousseff in Latin America. Together, along with their networks, they can spearhead the changes necessary to end poverty, advance global stability, and pursue new frontiers. This can be done by harnessing the power of women, and providing them access to quality higher education.
At the very least, such leadership would provide hope, opportunity and choice to half of the global population. That young girl in Afghanistan or Eritrea could study. She might explore our planet and whatever lies beyond. She might even bring advances in e-health satellite technologies to counter- act the shortage of health workers in isolated regions of the world.13 We can see the opportunities that could be available to her, but we need her to see them, and we need her to be able to realize them. This is possible.
1. Edmonds & Guebert, 2009, Nature 2008
2. Pellegrino, D'Amato & Weisberg, 2011, p.7
3. Hausman, Tyson & Zahidi, 2011, Council Canadian Academies, 2011, Wilson, 2004
4. Mayer, 2011, Morley, 2010
5. Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, 2011; Nature, 2008
6. Beynon & Dusu, 2010
7. Clemens, M., & Moss, T. (2005). What's wrong with the Millennium Development Goals? Centre for Global Development
8. Easterly, 2009
9. Assié-Lumumba, 2006
10. Pellegrino, D'Amato & Weisberg, 2011, UN News Centre, 2008
11. Arnkil, Jarvensivu, Koski, & Piiranen, 2008
12. Devarajan, Miller & Swanson, 2009
13. Horsch, 2011
Arnkil, R., Jarvensivu, A., Koski, P., & Piiranen,T. (2010). Exploring the Quadruple Helix - Research Report. Retrieved from http://www.cliqproject. eu/en/products/research/quadruple_helix_research/?id=127
Assié-Lumumba, N. (2006). Empowerment of Women in Higher Education in Africa: The Role and Mission of Research, Paper Commissioned by the UNESCO Forum Secretariat. UNESCO Forum Occasional Paper Series Paper no. 11
Bachelet, M. (2011). Empowering Women to Change the World: What Universities and the UN Can Do, Keynote address delivered by UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet at the 5th Global Colloquium of University Presidents, University of Pennsylvania, 5 April 2011. Retrieved from http://w w w.unwomen.org/2011/04/empowering- women-to-change-the-world-what-universities-and-the-un-can-do/
Beynon, J., & Dusu, A. (2010). Development paper No. 2010/01Budget support and MDG Performance. European commission directorate- general for development and relations with African, Caribbean and Pacific states.
Bloom, D., Canning, D., & Chan, K. (2005). Higher education and economic development in Africa. World Bank.
Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2011). Canadians Making a Difference. Retrieved from http://www.facebook.com/canadiansmakingadifference
Chung, Ji-Sun (1994). Women's unequal access to education in South Korea. Comparative Education Review. 48(3) pp.487-505.
Council of Canadian Academies (2011). Assessment of Women in University Research Expert Panel. http://www.scienceadvice.ca/en/assessments/ in-progress/women-researchers.aspx
Devarajan, S., Miller, M., & Swanson, E. (2009). World Bank Policy Working Paper Development goals: History, prospects and costs. World Bank.
Easterly, W. (2009). How the millennium goals are unfair to Africa. World Development 37(1) pp. 26-35.
Edmonds, L.J. & Guebert, J. (2009). Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research: An innovation agenda. Paper presented at the Annual Board Meeting, June 2009.http://www.ccghr.ca/
Hausman,R., Tyson, L. & Zahidi, S. (2011). The global gender gap 2011.
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Horsch, A .(2011). Health for Africa: Building e-health services for Sub-Saharan Africa. Presentation made at the 21st United Nations Workshop, Space for Human and Environmental Security, Capetown, South Africa.
Kellerman, B & Rhode, D. (2004). Viable Options: Rethinking Women and Leadership.Compass: A Journal of Leadership Fall 2004
Mayer, M. (2011). Acceptance Speech at Women Leadership Award at the Global Summits Award: Creating the Future, Womensphere, New York City, September 23, 2011. http://www.womensphereglobalsummit. com/
Morley, L. (2010). Hyper-Modernisation and Archaism: Women in Higher Education Internationally. Retrieved from http:// www.springerlink. com.content/w26037g0032k626
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Novels: Goldenland Past Dark
- two ghostwritten YA novels
Website: http://www.chandlerklangsmith.com
> What is Goldenland
Past Dark about?
Goldenland Past Dark tells
the story of a hunchbacked clown, Webern Bell, who survives
unpleasant experiences by translating them into circus performances
that come to him in dreams. When murder, heartbreak, and betrayal
throw his life entirely off the rails, though, he loses his already
frail grip on reality and falls into the vortex of his imagination.
Other characters include a delusional ringmaster, a haughty Lizard
Girl, an imaginary friend with a mind of his own, and a kindly,
Scotch-swilling ape.
> What drew you to writing about a
travelling circus?
Circuses are like misfit
families, made up of people united by their difference from the norm
– not necessarily their similarity or compatibility with each
other. I was interested in the variety of characters a circus would
allow me to use, and the colorful conflicts and personality clashes
that would result. Also, as a writer in a culture that's usually
focused on celebrities and new media more than books, I wanted to
explore an art form that was going out of fashion, as the circus was
in the 1960's, when my book is set.
> Were the various
talents of the characters in your book drawn from real circus acts or
did you create some of them yourself?
It was really a combination.
As part of my "research," I attended a bunch of live circus,
clown, and carnival shows: Ringling Bros & Barnum and Bailey,
Cirque de Soleil, the New York Goofs, the Coney Island Sideshow, and
most notably, Circus Contraption (an extraordinary vaudeville team
from Seattle). I also watched many classic films, including Children
of Paradise, Tod Browning's Freaks, The Greatest Show
on Earth, and Charlie Chaplin's The Circus, to get a
sense of historical perspective. These all seeped into my imagination
in various ways and informed the performances I describe in my book.
> You've
ghostwritten two YA novels. How did that process differ from being
published under your own name?
Ghostwriting taught me a lot
about how to create a page-turning structure, and how to write
quickly, even when I didn't feel inspired or excited about it. But
it's not something I'd want to do again, unless the money was
amazing. Writing is inherently an act of communication, and there's
something straining and false-feeling about speaking for that many
pages in a voice that's not your own.
> What made you
want to be a writer?
I'm an only child, and,
like many writers, grew up feeling lonely, awkward, and weird.
Reading gave me a way of feeling connected not only with fictitious
characters, but also with the authors who created them. My hope is
that someday my books will reach readers the same way.
> If
you could, would you change places with any of your characters?
Probably not – a lot of
terrible things happen to them! But I do greatly admire the way that
clowns, stage magicians, and other performers can create their art on
the spot, in front of a live audience. I wish I could do that.
What's the best/worst thing about writing?
It's ironic that I became a
writer partly because of loneliness, because it's one of the
loneliest activities a person can undertake. So that's the
downside. The upside, though, is that it's one of the few modes of
creative expression where it's possible to do practically anything
you want. Unlike filmmaking or theater, you don't have to consider
the cost and logistics of special effects, costumes, or sets when you
come up with fantastical imagery to use in your work. If you can find
the words to describe it, then it's there. To me, that's
> What is something you didn't know about the
publishing industry before you had your first book published?
Fortunately or unfortunately,
I had a lot of experience working in publishing prior to the
publication of my first book, even successfully selling a nonfiction
title by a client during a stint as an associate agent at a literary
firm. So there weren't a lot of surprises in the process for me…
although I did learn that it feels very different when it's
your own work at stake!
> Do you have any advice for
hopeful authors?
Don't get too attached to
your first draft of a novel – keep yourself open to reimagining
even the major things, like structure and characterization.
Any tips against writers block?
If you're struggling to
muster the enthusiasm and energy required to get through a scene or
expository passage, take a second to pull back and consider what
purpose you want the section to serve in the work. Why does it
Too often, I think writers (myself included) get it in their heads
that certain events or ideas have to be included in the book when
they're actually just an unnecessary slog – for writer and reader
both. Jonathan Lethem has a great quote about how to avoid this
conundrum: "I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read
fiction - by skipping
the parts that
bored me."
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Amid the swirl of headlines that focus on the back and forth between China and the United States, and the continuing escalation of tariffs, the ripple effects and casualties will be far-reaching. As with so much else in life, there will be winners and losers, but maybe not among the usual suspects.
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Facing each other across Sunderland's Fawcett Street are a bright red Virgin Money branch and a bright yellow pawnbroker's. Money makes the world go round, according to the catchy but sleazy song from Cabaret.
Signs and song are in my head – along with the street stall selling nectarines, five for £1 – as I enter nearby Sunderland City Library and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art where the new exhibition is called Show Me The Money (a line from another movie, Jerry Maguire).
In the foyer, by way of introduction, are large photos of bankers letting their hair down (to put it politely).
They were taken by documentary photographer Immo Klink, whose name sounds uncannily like a cash register, and they are a taster of what awaits at the top of the escalators.
This exhibition, initiated by Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (NGCA) with a bunch of academics from Manchester, Southampton and Edinburgh, is utterly absorbing.
The relationship between art and money has always intrigued – we'll come to the film of the art mavericks of K Foundation making a bonfire out of £1m – but the credit crunch really gave artists stuff to get their teeth into.
Suddenly, back in 2007-8, solid certainties went up in smoke as trusted high street banking names attained more than a whiff of that Cabaret sleaze.
Bankers went bonkers and artists had a field day.
A good deal of what the latter produced is in this exhibition but it is set in the context of history. Here are banking relics from the collection of Barclays, including a coin shovel, a clerk's desk and a discount ledger from 1729-33 recording that one Daniel Defore (author and temporary resident of Gateshead) was lent money three times and switfly repaid.
Simon Roberts, in his Credit Crunch Lexicon, makes art out of the language of recession, the stuff spouted in the media as bankers made for the hills. His wall-mounted text runs from 'A crisis' to 'zeroflation' via 'negative data negative equity negative futures... no viable alternative nobody responsible... predatory capitalism predatory pricing...' and so on and on.
Roberts also has a piece called Brokers With Their Hands On Their Faces. It's a self-explanatory collage of photos and a collective gesture of despair.
Another photographer, James Jenkins, presents images under the heading 17 April, 2013. They show pin-striped fellows clinging to ledges, as if preparing to emulate the American bankers who took the quickest route to the sidewalk during the Wall Street Crash.
Actually, they were striving for a view of Lady Thatcher's funeral courtege which passed through the City of London so financial sector workers could pay their final respects.
Money is about winners and losers, failure and success, stinking rich and dirt poor and reminders of the ficklness of fate are everywhere, from William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress – tracking the path from wealth to debtors' prison – to Mark Boulos's work, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air.
This is the first piece you see and it isn't funny. Actually, it is extremely scary.
It consists of two films showing simultaneously on facing screens. One shows traders in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange on day one of the credit crisis, relative calm giving away to an angry babble and a forest of jabbing fingers.
These are the traders in commodities, striving to accrue wealth from oil and other materials sourced from places they'll never see. A few women are present but mostly it's a testosterone-fuelled bear-pit. You wouldn't want to be there.
The other screen shows fishermen in Nigeria's Niger Delta whose living is threatened by the international oil industry. These are very angry men indeed. They wield guns and dance to summon a war god called Egbisu.
One man, addressing the film-maker while slapping his torso with a large cleaver, warns him that he must not return. White men have destroyed the fishing on which he depends to feed his family.
This is a very long way away from young men getting drunk in London cocktail bars and nectarines being sold on Fawcett Street but it makes the point that money is like the air we breathe. It shapes our attitudes and our world.
This is literally true, as you will learn from the work of Gordon Cheung who makes art out of the stock listings pages of the Financial Times.
Cheung's wall-mounted piece here is called The City of Palaces and it was inspired by the Kangbashi New Area at Ordos City in Inner Mongolia.
This is a development that was designed to accommodate one million people and was fuelled by Chinese speculative investment. Apparently it's now a virtual ghost city.
The artist has reimagined it as a fantasy landscape which seems apt. So much of the workings of finance is mysterious. That, presumably, is how so many reputable guardians of our hard-earned cash were able to mess up so completely without any of us – apart from Robert Peston, obviously – smelling a rat.
Perhaps the most shocking thing I learned from Show Me The Money came via a photograph by photographers Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann. It lacks a snappy title but High Frequency Trading Work Space 9, Willis Tower, Chicago is a horror. I'd say it smacks of the future buit clearly it is the present.
There are no people in the photo but there doesn't need to be. It shows banks of screens and the caption explains that 50-70% of all US stock trading comes under the high frequency trading (HFT) tag and is automatic.
Computers exploit split second differences in prices (and somewhere far away, I'm thinking, a despairing fisherman puts down his net and picks up a cleaver).
The K Foundation, alias artists Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, caused a stink 20 years ago when they purported to burn £1m in banknotes in a Surrey field. Cue the outraged cry from millions: "I could have done with a bit of that!"
You can see the video they shot here – opposite another by Geraldine Juárez, who did a similar thing with computer currency bitcoin – and you will learn that it's still not clear if the money they torched was legal tender or just some old notes the banks had taken out of circulation.
Newcastle artist Wolfgang Weileder teases us with Cash Point, a 3D facsimile of a 'hole in the wall' dispenser but with only a tiny slot. Apparently it is programmed to dispense a single banknote once every 24 hours to benefit whoever is standing nearby. Unfortunately I cannot verify this.
Traditional painters have had fun with banking excesses over the years.
Here you can see The Bulls and Bears in the Market by William Holbrook Beard, a reproduction of a19th Century canvas showing speculators as animals (in a bull market prices are predicted to rise, in a bear market the opposite is the case).
Nearby is Debt and her Debtors by contemporary New York artist Molly Crabapple which similarly shows the principle players portrayed in bestial fashion and stripped of their dignity.
A 70ft installation featuring a novel by artists Simon Goldin and Jakob Senneby is called Looking For Headless and it's a fictionalised account of their investigation of an offshore company based in the Bahamas.
This you follow towards the exit via Jane Lawson's film, The Detoxification of Capitalism and Freedom, which shows what happened when she time-lapse filmed toxin-consuming oyster mushrooms snacking on capitalist tracts.
It was something to think about when heading back outside for some nectarines.
Show Me The Money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the Present is at the NGCA until August 30 and is then on tour. The gallery opens daily except Sunday. Check www.ngca.co.uk


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stole this from the bob blog (go check him out, he's great):
this will also be the last post on strangerelationship.wordpress.com. i feel really confined by this blog, perhaps choosing a name such as strange relationship (the title of which is a song, a song that has very deep, very complex memories/meanings for me) wasn't such a good thing. i haven't given up on blogging, far from it, in the new year – i plan to do a lot more of it. i hope that most of you will follow me (hint, click the pic) – but if not, c'est la vie… thanks for staying on the train as long as you did.
with that in mind – and with the instructions as a guide, some closing thoughts:
love yourself. everyday. or try your damnedest.
realize that you have value, and people love you – doing self-damaging things, well that just validates whatever issue you may be trying to circumvent (trust me, i know)
find joy/bliss/nirvana in the small things.
try to learn one new thing every day. that's a huge thing for me, something i will be working on in the new year.
turn off your t.v. for 1 full day every week & go for a walk.
you know those moments where you don't know what to say, or what to do? just say something! just do something! anything.
enjoy the people that love you. even if they're a little challenging to enjoy (hi mom!).
- oh, and that whole thing about 'no regrets'? i don't buy it. regrets can teach you tons. just listen to your gut.
see ya'll in 2009 (somewhere)


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Just two months after Amazon.com Inc. opened its first brick-and-mortar bookstore, the corporation has plans to open hundreds more, according to Sandeep Mathrani, chief executive of General Growth Properties. His company operates about 120 shopping malls across 40 states.
In an earnings call with analysts, Mathrani said "You've got Amazon opening brick-and-mortar bookstores and their goal is to open, as I understand, 300 to 400." AMIBA's call to request comment from Ty Rogers, Amazon Communications Manager, was not returned.
The news comes five years after the demise of Borders Books and Music, which operated about 500 superstores before going bankrupt in 2011. Borders' failure was attributed largely to losing market share to Amazon's aggressive discounting.
But also faced with Amazon.com's growth, independent booksellers have thrived in recent years. The American Booksellers Association, the national trade association for independent bookstores, has seen member storefronts grow from 1,660 in 2010 to 2,227 last year.
Meanwhile, of the surviving chain booksellers, Barnes & Noble Inc. operates about 540 stores and Books-A-Million maintains 225.
While independent bookstores are growing, the market share of e-books has flattened, providing one potential impetus for Amazon's move into storefronts as part of its bid to be the seller of all things.
Amazon also has experimented with physical stores in the form of mall kiosks (mostly electronics) and Zappo's shoe outlets (an Amazon subsidiary) in Kentucky and Nevada. Amazon's Seattle flagship store stocks about 5,000 titles.
Amazon has at least one more store already under construction in San Diego.
Mathrani's statement was first reported in the Wall Street Journal.
For a collection of the best reporting on Amazon Inc., see All About Amazon.
Tags: bookstores


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"I'll Be Back" : The Story of Redd Foxx
Today marks the birth date of Redd Foxx, an "overnight sensation" in the comedy world whose early life was defined by adversity and later years by a blur of women, cocaine, endless lawsuits, and financial chaos. Read on for an exclusive excerpt from Black and Blue: The Redd Foxx Story, brought to you by Michael Seth Starr and Applause Theatre & Cinema books.
Dawn broke hot and hazy that fall Friday in 1991. It wasn't the typical October day in Southern California, where the blazing summer sun usually concedes to cooler fall temperatures. This was a different kind of day. The weather had turned harsh during the past week as the city of Los Angeles, along with the rest of the state, baked in the grip of an unprecedented heat wave. Temperatures the previous day had reached 107 degrees in downtown Los Angeles—a new record. And it wasn't much better today.Inside the cavernous, air-conditioned Stage 31 on the Paramount lot in Hollywood, the cast and crew of the new CBS sitcom The Royal Family were preparing to rehearse a scene for that week's show, which would be taped the following night before a live audience. The mood on the set was business-like but friendly, with a touch of jocularity. Everyone was feeling good, and why not? The Royal Family had premiered three weeks before to mostly positive reviews and solid ratings, pleasing the suits at CBS—a vibe that trickled down to the cast and crew. The show had legs.
While assistant directors scurried around, sound men positioned their boom mikes, and episode director Shelley Jensen barked last-minute blocking instructions to the cast and crew, series star Redd Foxx was backstage, being interviewed for an episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. The irony wasn't lost on anyone, since Redd, while certainly still famous, was no longer rich, and hadn't been for some time. His profligate spending, failed business ventures, willingness to open his wallet to anyone who asked for a handout—and the long arm of the Internal Revenue Service—had seen to that. But Lifestyles host and executive producer Robin Leach—chronicler of the jet-setting crowd with his plummy "Champagne wishes and caviar dreams!" mantra— knew that The Royal Family marked an important baby step in Redd Foxx's comeback from the abyss of financial and professional ruin. It made for a good story.
Redd knew how much The Royal Family meant to him now. He didn't need any more reminders of how far his star had fallen, or how he was going to repay the millions he still owed to the IRS. It was somewhere in the neighborhood of $3 million, but who the hell really knew? Maybe it was more, maybe it was less. It didn't really matter anymore. The bastards had taken pretty much everything he owned—even ripped the gold watch Elvis Presley had given him right off his wrist—and now they were garnishing his Royal Family salary. Was there no end to the humiliation? Redd tried to laugh it off—passing a hat around at his live stage shows in Las Vegas, asking for help to pay his bills—but it hurt him deeply. Deep down he knew he had only himself to blame.
And then, with the Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous cameras rolling, as Redd was answering a question about his new cast mates, an unseen
Royal Family production assistant suddenly interrupted him midsentence. He was told he was needed on the set to rehearse a scene in which his sitcom character, Al Royal, would pass through nonchalantly in the background, unnoticed by his wife, who was played by Della Reese. It was a job that could have been handled by anyone with a pulse. Did they really need Redd now, in the middle of an important interview? Couldn't it wait?
Remembering the incident almost twenty years later, Della Reese was still angry about that interruption. "It was not required at all," she said. "Redd was very polite. He felt embarrassed that this man, in the first place, spoke to him in front of these strangers [from Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous]."
But Redd also knew there was nothing he could do about it. Maybe back in his Sanford and Son heyday, but not now. There was too much water under the bridge. He knew he was on a short leash, knew that The Royal Family producers and the network watchdogs on the set held the upper hand now. They were all-too-aware of Redd's reputation for making trouble behind the scenes. He needed them now more than they needed him. It was a simple Hollywood equation. Do what we tell you, or take a hike. We'll find someone else. It doesn't matter that you're Redd Foxx, who once played Fred Sanford. It doesn't matter that you're Redd Foxx, who was once the highest-paid star on television. It doesn't matter that you're Redd Foxx who, once upon a time, single-handedly brought a network to its knees. That was twenty years ago. A lifetime in this business. This is now. What have you done for us lately? "They were forever on Redd about something or other, in some respect," said Reese. "They wanted to be in charge of Redd, which nobody ever was going to be."
So Redd did what he was told, like an errant child being scolded by a parent or a teacher. Visibly embarrassed and harrumphing again in short staccato bursts, he shot daggers at the person who had interrupted his interview with Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, as the show's camera continued to roll, capturing the awkward scene. "Boy, that ticks me off," Redd mumbled, removing his glasses and wiping them absent-mindedly. The man who had created one of the most indelible characters in television history, who turned Fred Sanford's "You big dummy!" and histrionic "heart attacks" into national comedic treasures, was reduced to a chastened, embarrassed network employee, mumbling an apology to his interviewer. "I'm sorry about the interruption. I'll be back," he said, getting up from his chair to head back to the set. Within minutes he would collapse into unconsciousness.
Within hours, he was dead.
Black & Blue: The Story of Redd Foxx
Redd Foxx's frank, trailblazing style as the "King of the Party Records" opened the door for a generation of African-American comedians including Dick Gregory, Bill Cosby, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, and Chris Rock.
Foxx took the country by storm in January 1972 as crotchety, bow-legged Watts junk dealer Fred Sanford in Sanford and Son, one of the most beloved sitcoms in television history. Fred's histrionic "heart attacks" ("It's the big one, Elizabeth! I'm comin' to join ya, honey!") and catchphrases ("You big dummy!") turned Fred Sanford into a cultural icon and Redd Foxx into a millionaire. Sanford and Son took Foxx to the pinnacle of television success – but would also prove to be his downfall.
Interviews with friends, confidantes, and colleagues provide a unique insight into this generous, brash, vulnerable performer – a man who Norman Lear described as "inherently, innately funny in every part of his being." Available for purchase here.
Posted on December 9, 2011, in Comedy, Film & TV and tagged Applause Books, excerpt, Michael Seth Starr, Redd Foxx, redd foxx birthday, sandford and son. Bookmark the permalink. 5 Comments.
My developer is trying to convince me to move to .net from PHP. I have always disliked the idea because of the expenses. But he's tryiong none the less. I've been using WordPress on several websites for about a year and am nervous about switching to another platform. I have heard great things about blogengine.net. Is there a way I can import all my wordpress content into it? Any kind of help would be really appreciated!
It's a relief to find sonomee who can explain things so well
can someone pleaseeeeeeeeeee post the inside edition video of redd foxx, or his last interview with lifestyles of the rich and famous!


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You need some framing done and you need it done at the right price.
Maybe you have seen some frames in the department stores, and you see that white/black frames with white mats look to be in fashion. And the thinner the frame the more affordable it will be – right? Well, no.
When you walk into a Framing shop there are a couple of things we can recommend that will help you receive maximum value from the experience.
Firstly, white/black frames with white mats look great in very few environments, and they may cost the same as a tailored-to-complement-the-art frame with a mat that completes the image being framed. The frame and mat combination that is tailored to the art will look better in the variety of environments it will hang in it's lifetime (which can be long).
The cost difference between a tailored moulding and a small black frame may be less than 5% of the overall job. The (say) blue mat that accentuates with the eyes/sea/flowers in the image costs exactly the same as the white mat, which maybe accentuates the white paper the print was printed on.
The labour is a significant percentage of the total cost of having a frame built. There is at least an hour of love that goes into designing, documenting, making and wrapping each frame ready for you to hang. The labour charge will be so similar for a badly designed and executed frame from one shop that another shop with great design and execution will charge.
So the message is, go in with an open mind, and look for a frame designer that is capable of great design first and foremost. When the quoted value for the frame is above what you were looking to pay, ask how the design can be modified to meet your budget. This way, you can choose the increments that add most value, should you wish to.
After all, great value is a function of how much you like something, and how long it gives you that feeling. You can always spend less, but if you don't like it much on day one and it is ruined in a couple of years by poor quality components, you have received next to zero value.
On the flip side of that, if you cared enough about your art (photo, print, poster, certificate, needlework, canvas etc etc) to take it to a good framer and they make a design that you really like, and the framed item gives you lasting contentment/inspiration/joy/pride (which may grow the more time passes) then you have received excellent value indeed.


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You had one job, ITV4. Well, you probably had a few - but that was one hell of a mistake you guys made on Thursday night (September 1).
As motorcycling fans around the nation were psyching themselves up for a fascinating documentary about the Dunlop family from 10pm, titled Road, they probably weren't expecting to stumble across Viggo Mortensen's post-apocalyptic drama from 2009, The Road.
Oops indeed. The Road wasn't even that good, right?
It's fair to say viewers weren't exactly forgiving…
Still, at least one guy was alright with it.
Digital Spy has reached out to ITV4 in case they want to
apologise comment over last night's error.


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Starbucks executive chairman Howard Schultz says that male executives must be vulnerable to be great leaders.
"We pretend as men not to have a level of sensitivity that's required to understand what's really going on in the company," the former Starbucks CEO said during a luncheon at the Economic Club of New York on Wednesday. "One of the undervalued characteristics of leadership is being vulnerable."
Schultz's reflections came just a month after he ended his wildly successful tenure as Starbucks CEO. His biggest takeaway is that it's crucial to be completely upfront, even when information is difficult or embarrassing to share.
"I think the most important lesson in building our company is to over-communicate," he said, adding men are "conditioned sometimes to not be transparent."
Related: Some Starbucks now have coffee ice cubes -- for 80 cents more
Schultz is credited with transforming the Seattle-based company from a few small shops into a global powerhouse.
It hasn't all been smooth sailing. Schultz explained that the first time he walked away from the CEO spot, back in 2000, he didn't handle the transition the way he should have.
Schultz's leadership style, he said, has always been to try to strike the "fragile balance between profit and conscience" -- rather than to think solely about shareholder value. Schultz said he didn't do enough to ensure the those values were firmly in place when he left in 2000.
By 2008, Starbucks sales were slumping and its reputation had soured. Schultz returned as CEO that year, and has since steered the company back in the right direction.
"We weren't as hungry; we weren't as challenged. We had a self-induced disease, which was hubris. That'll never happen again," he said.
Related: Starbucks to add 240,000 jobs worldwide by 2021
This time, Schultz said, he worked closely with his replacement Kevin Johnson for eight years, and they implemented the succession plan over the course of the past three years. Johnson was promoted from his former post as chief operating officer when Schultz left in April.
Schultz added that it's more important than ever for a company to have strong moral values.
He's been a vocal critic of the Trump administration, and said Wednesday that he thinks America is "going down a path right now in which many, many people are going to be left behind...that means businesses and business leaders are going to need to do more for people."
The country needs "moral transformation," he said.