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Like most literature fans, I don't read a lot of short story collections, and once I do, I don't re-read many of them. This is partly a pragmatic decision (who has the time to re-read everything?); but not many deserve re-reading, either. Then again, those that do deserve it don't necessarily inspire it: Dubliners, for example, is arguably the most famous short story collection ever, but I've not cracked its spine since I first read it 23 years ago. Compare that with my experience with Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son: I tore through it in an afternoon, but I could never really put it down, so to speak, until I finally gave in and re-read it over a year later.
Which brings me to Lisa Moore's 2002 collection, Open, which was a bestseller in Canada and a finalist for the Giller Prize there, but was largely unnoticed here in the States. (I have my public library to thank for bringing it to my attention: thank you, thank you, Multnomah County.) One could say that my decision to re-read Johnson and Moore and not Joyce says more about my reading tastes than their relative merits -- and you'd have a strong case. Moore's collection, at any rate, appears at first glance to be disappointingly homogeneous. Almost all of the ten stories are first-person (and those that aren't may as well be), the main character is always a woman, usually middle-aged with a child or step-child and an emotionally remote husband to whom she is nevertheless almost helplessly attracted. Even the stories' greatest strengths -- their sensuous, room-wrecking imagery and their odd fusion of past and present -- are unvarying from story to story, which is the sort of thing that usually causes my heart to sink.
With all that said, though, I found myself re-reading Open within a week of finishing it, and suggest you get started on her too. If you're a fan of the monotonously sequential or you're deaf to imagery (so to speak), then skip it. But if you've got an ear for voice and like stories that appear to be relentlessly allusive and indirect, than Moore should be on your bedside table by nightfall.
The stories in Open are fragmentary, non-sequential, unpredictable, and rely heavily on repeated imagery to convey their emotional undercurrents. Here's the section I found when browsing the book at the library that convinced me to check it out:
I guess I should read the Manifesto. The literary critic who spoke before you at the conference said it was an authorless tract. That Marx repeatedly tried to make it sound as though it came from thin air, or rose by itself from the people, spontaneously. He was willing to claim the bad poetry of his youth that even Penguin didn't want to publish. But the Manifesto just was. Just passed through his pen.
Tell me what happened? Did you meet somebody? (from "Mouths, Open," p. 29)
You don't need to know that the narrator and her partner (the "you" mentioned in the second sentence) are in a relationship, and that the narrator's partner is turning away from her -- it's abundantly clear. The longing in the second paragraph, the abrupt juxtaposition, is poignant. Marx's delusion, his attempt to remove his fingerprints from his own work, suggests fertile parallels: perhaps the narrator's partner is attempting to dissociate himself from his own work (the life he's built with the narrator, or his responsibility for breaking them up); or perhaps the narrator is trying to remove herself from the pain of his rejection by accepting that it "just is," that it's historically inevitable.
Much of Moore's fiction works like this, by suggestion and juxtaposition. In this way, she is able to dramatize how memory can radically impinge upon the present - many of her characters seem to live in an unstable storm of past and present, a cinematic montage of moments flashing by. In some stories, like "The Way the Light Is," she makes her debts to the cinema explicit; in others, like "Mouths, Open," she uses the technique and expects her readers to follow. She can pull this off because of the sheer sensuousness of her imagery and the sharp turns she takes to pull the reader through the story.
Like a poet, she is prodigal with her images: at an outdoor party, "a paper napkin flutters off the table and dips, like a dove shot out of the sky, a gash of lipstick on its breast" (154). Or this:
Melody comes out with a bottle of orange juice. It has stopped raining. Steam lifts off the asphalt and floats into the trees. Sky, Canadian flag, child with red shirt -- all mirrored in the glossy water on the pavement at our feet. A car passes and the child's reflection is a crazy red flame breaking apart under the tires. The juice in Melody's hand has an orange halo. A brief rainbow arcs over the wet forest behind the Irving station (8).
She can stumble, too, as she does here, when the narrator of "Craving" describes a childhood friend's dexterity in handling adolescent boys:
She could suss out the swift-forming passions of the gang of boys we knew, and make them heel. She knew the circuit of their collective synaptic skittering and played it like pinball (62).
I have trouble imagining "passions" coming to "heel," but more than that, "circuit of their collective synaptic skittering" isn't nearly as concrete as her imagery usually is - it's abstractly interesting, but works better for its sound than its sense. (Nor can I imagine playing a "skittering" like "pinball," but that's comparatively minor.) Sure, I'd've liked to see her edit this sort of thing out, but it's a mark of the sheer fertility of imagery that her stories don't suffer from lapses like this one - she knows her next one will be better, and so does the reader.
Her opening story, "Melody," is impressive because it tells four stories in one, almost all indirectly: the narrator, a teenager, slowly awakens to desire, sexual and otherwise, as she carelessly betrays her friends, including Melody, who has an abortion after getting pregnant by an older man; the narrator's subsequent marriage and five years of grief after her husband dies; the mistake of her second marriage to a rich dentist; and the wrenching power of Melody's reappearance in her life at 40. (Actually, the piece may contain fewer than four stories or it could be more; like all of Moore's work, it's hell to summarize.)
Other pieces are weaker -- "Grace," for example, the novella that closes the collection, is wonderful but shows the weakness of applying her technique to longer fiction: it's exhausting, after a while. One stops taking in the imagery and the connections and begins longing for closure. But there are many standouts here. "Craving" is about an old theme - the destruction of romantic illusion - but does it well. The narrator is at the dinner table with two old friends she hasn't seen since her teens, and their respective men:
She's thinking, Remember the guy on the surboard in Hawaii? I felt total abandon. An evanescing of self, my zest uncorked.
Yes, but if you had kept going, it wouldn't have been abandon. He wouldn't be a man swathed in the nimbus of an incandescent wave, muzzling the snarling lip of that bone-crushing maw of ocean with a flexed calf muscle. He would be one of these guys at the table, half drunk and full of mild love (62-3).
Perhaps the best story of all is "The Way the Light Is," in which the narrator is making a short film inspired by a poem by John Steffler. She describes the poem as being about "the elusive," and tries to do this by filming her friend Mina, who affects nonchalance that her husband sleeps with other women but unintentionally keeps revealing her pain. The narrator describes the video her own husband took of their son's birth, a series of jumpcuts of the contractions (the camera was shut off during all the peaceful, happy moments in between) and then the bloody, terrifying complication that follows. She and her son survive, and then she writes, ostensibly about Steffler's poem, "Everyone knows what it means to want something with such intensity you crush it in your haste to have it. " But of course she's talking about giving birth, and her friend Mina's longing for her husband, and even the way in which artists always fail to entirely grasp what they're reaching for, and so for that story alone, the book is worth your while.
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VIMN Buys Channel 5 For £450 Million
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Viacom International Media Networks has reached a deal with Northern & Shell to acquire free-to-air broadcaster Channel 5 for £450 million.
The two parties announced a definitive agreement for the deal today, with Viacom adding that the acquisition of Channel 5 will improve the content on offer to UK viewers on both Channel 5 and Viacom’s other UK channels – such as MTV and Comedy Central. Channel 5 airs a number of US dramas (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Mentalist) and commissions a diverse slate of factual programming and more recently made a move back into scripted drama. Channel 5’s output in all of these areas is expected to increase dramatically under the umbrella of VIMN
The deal, which is subject to regulatory approval, fell short of the £700 million price tag that Northern & Shell’s Richard Desmond was seeking during the bidding process, which began in January. It is nevertheless a big profit on the price he paid (just north of £100 million) for Channel 5 back in 2010. A number of possible buyers emerged during the process, though the frontrunners had always been considered to be Viacom and Discovery, who retracted their bid last month.
“The acquisition of Channel 5 accelerates Viacom’s strategy in the UK, one of the world’s most important and valuable media markets. Channel 5’s momentum is indisputable, with impactful programming, increasing popularity and a growing digital platform. Channel 5’s management and employees have done an outstanding job building their brand and we are pleased to welcome them to our team”, said Philippe Dauman, CEO and President of Viacom. “Viacom’s global resources, technology and expertise will help Channel 5 develop even more compelling programming and provide content to consumers in exciting new ways. In addition, we will introduce our popular content to new UK audiences and create a comprehensive offering for our commercial partners on-air and on-line.
While Paul Dunthorne, Channel 5’s Chief Operating Officer, added: “Since Northern & Shell’s acquisition of Channel 5 in 2010, the financial and operating performance of the business has been transformed with improved audiences and content offering. The combination of Channel 5 with Viacom’s global resources, technology and expertise adds further to the momentum of the business and offers numerous exciting opportunities for the channel’s future.”


lip lit: the girls
Emma Hardy
Emma Cline’s debut novel, The Girls, is a coming of age story set in extraordinary circumstances. Based on the true events of the Charles Manson family, The Girls follows Evie Boyd, a fourteen-year-old girl on the cusp of adolescence, as she is drawn into the inner circle of a soon-to-be-infamous cult.
The research that has gone into The Girls is incredible — few details stray from the actual Manson case, aside from a relocation to California — but it’s not historical fiction. Instead, Cline uses the time and setting to craft an enduring tale of girlhood. While the majority of the book is set in 1969, and possesses the dreamy echoes of a bygone era, Cline paints the details of the time lightly. She doesn’t get carried away with specifics, preferring to use the mood and tone to create a world that is distant, yet timeless.
The book is set in the present tense, narrated by a middle-aged Evie as she reflects on her time inside the cult. Cline is an exceptional stylist and uses this vantage point well. On numerous occasions her carefully crafted sentences unveil a depth of clarity and insight. It’s stunning to read, and more than once left me feeling as though Cline had described my own feelings with words I’ve been unable to find.
The novel begins when Evie is young, innocent and only just beginning to press against the boundaries of childhood and independence. She witnesses a group of girls with long, unkempt hair and is captivated by their freedom and careless sensuality. One girl captures Evie’s interest more than the others: Black-haired Suzanne with her unaffected attitude and dirty smock dress.
Evie is immediately bewitched by Suzanne and the other girls in the cult. She joins them on the ranch, enthralled by the way they share possessions, swim naked in the creek, and let their children roam wild.
At the centre of it all is Russell, who has a magnetic pull over the girls that Evie is both drawn into and repulsed by. She realises, with more fascination than repulsion, that all of the girls are sleeping with Russell. It’s not long before he begins making calculated advances on her, too. Evie is soon persuaded to perform unwanted sexual acts with the cult leader. It’s a perverse and upsetting scene — one of several in the book — coloured with Cline’s sharp insights into the male gaze and female vulnerability.
While we get to know fourteen-year-old Evie with great depth, her present-day portrayal remains lacking. You may, like me, be left with myriad questions about her life after her days in the cult ended. Cline doesn’t indulge those questions. Instead she uses present-day Evie as a tool to explore girlhood. Middle-aged Evie exposes the nuance of her younger counterparts, but does not develop much character in her own right.
Where Emma Cline shines is through her depictions of female friendships. At one point, she writes, ‘Girls are the only ones who can really give each other close attention’. The close attention Cline lends to female relationships is thrilling to read. From Evie’s evolving relationship with her childhood best friend to her romantic fascination with Suzanne, Cline endows every interaction between her female characters with nuance and meaning.
The Girls blurs the line between desiring and longing to be desired. Evie yearns for Suzanne while simultaneously wishing to possess Suzanne’s wild demeanour — does she want Suzanne, or does she want to be Suzanne? For an adolescent girl, desire is a complicated beast. Cline gives these relationships the power they warrant. Boys aren’t big players in this novel. Rather, they’re symptoms of the more powerful and complex dynamics playing out between the women.
Cline explores the cold, hard judgement that women place on one another as a place of conflict and commiseration. No one will understand you quite so well as another woman, but no-one can expose you quite so cruelly, either. Setting this against the gruesome events of the Charles Manson family allows Cline to heighten this cruelty substantially. It’s rare to be confronted with female aggression in literature, but The Girls captures the rough, violent edges of being a teenage girl with apparent ease.
The Girls is refreshingly honest, feminine and stunningly insightful. I can’t wait to see what Emma Cline does next. Until then, The Girls should be mandatory reading for anyone fascinated by what it means to grow up as a woman.
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Metal Mother is the neo-surrealist manifestation of Tara Timberman. The idea that we are all playing roles in some perverse ‘cosmic joke’ has been a key component of her process. Having written poetry since a young age, songs began forming after a small Yamaha keyboard was given to her by her sister, Guenevere, when she was 27 years old. What was initially a procrastination tool to stave off the homework of her theatre management studies and her fledgling cannabis business, turned into a 10-year journey of writing, performing, refining and rebirthing through the process of realizing Metal Mother.
She currently resides in Los Angeles, however, forests have always been a common place for her song writing. It’s noticeable in her music as it teems with a certain futurist devotion to the religion of Nature; it’s elemental, meta, pagan, and continually seems to defy classification and order... at the same time as being ever so familiar. The themes of the bittersweetness of life, love, death, and loss have been central elements of her creative process.


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Movie Review - The Boss Baby
Published Saturday, April 8, 2017
By Bob Garver
Good news, everyone: "The Boss Baby" isn't as bad as the advertising makes it seem. Frankly it would be hard to be that bad. I was expecting 97 minutes of painful, lowbrow baby jokes mixed with tired corporate stereotypes left over from the 80's. Some people thought the movie might be redeemed with political satire, since Alec Baldwin voices the Boss Baby and he has recently taken to playing America's most iconic boss, but this movie was completed long before any Trump jokes could be worked in. No, the movie has to rely on other ideas to redeem itself, and a few of them actually succeed. A few.
Seven-year-old Tim Templeton (Miles Bakshi) lives an idyllic life with his parents (Lisa Kudrow and Jimmy Kimmel), but his world gets turned upside down with the arrival of his little brother, the otherwise-unnamed Boss Baby. Immediately something seems off about the newborn. Some of it is just baby stuff that Tim has to learn to accept, but some of it is strange even by baby standards. He arrives unaccompanied in a taxi, he keeps the family awake all night, he wears a suit (fortunately the necktie is just a fabrication, more on that later), he takes the parents' attention away from Tim, and he's a spy from a corporation that supplies all the babies in the world.
There's a surprisingly intricate plot to this movie, but basically the Boss Baby is an adult with the body of a baby who was sent to Earth to stop evil puppy manufacturer Francis Francis (Steve Buscemi) from unleashing the world's cutest puppy to the masses. Supposedly adults will love the puppy more than babies, and this will lead to the depletion of the human race. Boss Baby doesn't have much luck recruiting other babies for the mission, but Tim is willing, provided Boss Baby goes back to BabyCorp afterwards and lets him have his parents all to himself again. Adventure, hijinks, bonding, and life lessons ensue.
Almost everything that happens in the movie is ridiculous, and the reason is that it's a story being told by an adult version of Tim (Tobey Maguire). It's established that Tim has an overactive imagination, hence the obvious embellishment. But the movie makes you think that it's taking one approach to the narrative when it's actually taking another, and I liked the first one more. The "real" version negates the whole story and it basically means that all the growing and learning that Tim does throughout the movie doesn't count. But at least it means that the parents didn't do frightfully irresponsible things like give the baby a necktie (I never could get past that detail).
I was really dreading the humor of "The Boss Baby," and make no mistake, there are a lot of dumb gross-out gags. But about five minutes in, I laughed at something. And then again at ten minutes. And then maybe at a creative action sequence around the 15-20 minute mark. The movie's strength is that it goes for so many types of gags and at such frequency that something is bound to work. If you can enjoy the baby humor, that's great, but there's also wordplay, pratfalls, deadpan, jokes for adults that will go over kids' heads, and when all else fails, Elvis.
There's a little something for everybody in "The Boss Baby," but I have to emphasize "a little." This movie probably isn't worth seeking out if you have no interest in it. But if you feel obligated to see it, say, if your kids want to go, then go with them. There's more to this movie than you think, though much of it is exactly what you expect.
Two Stars out of Five.
"The Boss Baby" is rated PG for some mild rude humor. Its running time is 97 minutes.
Contact Bob Garver at rrg251@nyu.edu.
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The Unity Trust is a charitable, not-for-profit trust, dedicated to world service promoting spiritually focused education, and meditation, whilst embracing a fully inclusive, non-sectarian and non-political heart and mind. The Unity Trust is the umbrella organisation created to oversee the GeoWalk Project. GeoWalk is a global meditation walk based on sacred geometry and the focusing and distribution of light, love and goodwill to humanity and the Earth.
The vision of the Unity Trust is a global one, and it is expected that its work will eventually be established throughout the world. The foundations are being mindfully created to establish templates in order to make this goal possible. Unity is the essential basis of all life, seen and unseen, and when humanity is able to fully embrace this essential and fundamental unity, our way of being on the Earth will manifest true love and harmony, in accord with divine principles.
About the Unity Trust
The Unity Trust was founded by Nicola Mannering in 2013 in Nelson, New Zealand. The idea for the Trust arose long before GeoWalk was inaugurated, however it took another two years after the inauguration of GeoWalk on 15 June 2011 before it was to take form as a registered charity. The Trust gained charitable status on 10 June 2013. The founding trustees are Carole Green of Nelson and Murray Rogers of Golden Bay. Corina Nino joined us in 2014.
While continuing to focus on the establishment of GeoWalk, the Trust is also launching a new project this year, 2015, The Unified Field Project. We plan to landscape and plant a permanent GeoWalk on the field, which has been given to the Trust for this purpose - THE UNIFIED FIELD.
Other projects which the Unity Trust will implement include Meditation Mission, a non-sectarian vehicle for assisting humanitarian and ecological crises through the combined use of group meditation and visualisation, and the raising and offering of funds to humanitarian organizations such as the Red Cross.
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The Unity Trust aims to promote peace, goodwill, equality and right understanding between all peoples of the world, regardless of race, creed, gender, background, culture or colour, and to offer education as to the true, underlying unity of humanity and indeed of the Earth and the Cosmos. We also aim to encourage a right relationship with the Earth in supporting a sustainable way of life and the wise use and sharing of the Earth’s resources.
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3.1 Promote peace, goodwill, unity, equality, and right understanding between all peoples, and the encouragement of a right relationship with the Earth.
3.2 Educate through the publication and dissemination of material promoting the non-sectarian Ageless Wisdom teachings and any or all other Wisdom teachings which expound and deepen understanding of the Essential Unity of Life, and of humanity’s movement toward greater understanding, brotherhood, sisterhood, and unity.
3.3 Establish GeoWalk, a non-sectarian global meditation vehicle for united global action aimed at promoting goodwill, right human relations and understanding.
3.4 Establish Meditation Mission, a non-sectarian vehicle for assisting humanitarian and ecological crises through the combined use of group meditation and visualisation, and the offering of funds to established humanitarian organizations such as the Red Cross.
3.5 Establish Standing for Peace, a global peace meditation initiative for people of all faiths.
3.6 Promote the scientific path of service and compassion in order to assist our brothers and sisters and the lower kingdoms (animal, vegetable and mineral), and develop our true spiritual nature, that is, to come into rapport with the Self, the soul, the true spiritual entity.
3.7 Establish links and commonalities between the study of divine, inter- dimensional science and the continually developing discipline and field of science, as it exists today.
3.8 Provide other support and assistance consistent with this charitable purpose.
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The Unity Trust symbol or logo is based on the letters U and T, which embody the receptive and creative principles respectively. These principles, made concrete through the letter symbols, have been intertwined so as to become fully united, balanced and harmonious. The U symbolises the Chalice, the feminine principle of receptivity, containment and nurturing. The vertical stroke of the T symbolises the Sword of Spirit, entering the Chalice, the Matrix of Matter. The T joined with the U creates the Unity between Spirit and Matter. As an integrated whole, the Unity Trust symbol expresses also the third, or middle principle – that of Consciousness – which emerges when the two opposing poles, creative and receptive, unite.
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Nicola Mannering was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1954. She trained as an artist at the University of Canterbury in the early 1970s, after which time she travelled in Australia and India with her teacher, a Canadian Buddhist monk in the Tibetan tradition. She later joined a Japanese spiritual organization, learning to give light from the palm of the hand. After raising a family and on suffering a major health crisis, she was contacted by those who serve on the inner planes on the side of the light. She began to receive regular hints and short instruction via mental impression, a form of telepathy. She recognized the spiritual power and beauty, and the global implications, of what was being given. It is this continuing guidance and inspirational impulse which led her to found the Unity Trust and the GeoWalk Project. Nicola is also a writer and has dedicated her life to the search for spiritual understanding.


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You're Paying Your Rent, But You Could Still Be Evicted
A rent-paying woman in New York City almost was kicked to the curb.
By Lauren Passell
Published Mar 13, 2013 at 9:20 AM | Updated at 9:21 AM PDT on Mar 13, 2013
WILLMAR, MN - AUGUST 10: A For Rent sign stands in the window of a business August 10, 2004 in the financially struggling town of Wimar, Minnesota. Greyhound, the iconic bus company, will stop servicing Wilmar, and 266 other small communities west of Chicago as of August 17. For many of these communities, Greyhound is the last form of affordable public transportation for people wishing to get out of their communities to larger cities and towns.(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images for Fortune Magazine)
A recent story in the New York Times reads like a nightmare for anyone renting. You pay your rent (and in New York City, you pay your ridiculously high rent) and you think that's the end of the story--the only people who get evicted are people who refuse to pay, right?
Not this time. Charanna Alexander was living in an apartment in Harlem with her roommate, and one day got an eviction notice from the city marshal, out of the blue. The note said she had six business days, but time had been ticking for four days, so Alexander, who had certainly been paying her rent, had to act fast. Apparently Alexander's landlord, who did not actually own the building, had stopped paying his rent. (For two years.)
Alexander called the city marshal, who told her that there was nothing that could be done. She went to Housing Court, where she was shuffled from office to office, waiting in line after line. Until she met a man named Steve when talking to a legal aid representative. Steve had Alexander fill out a show-cause order, which allowed her to go before a judge to explain why she shouldn't be evicted.
A few days later, the judge approved the contract Alexander had written. Phew. Happy ending, right?
At least, this time. Her advice if the same thing happens to you? "Ask for Steve."
Read the full story on the New York Times.


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Intermodal Infrastructure Drives Regional Growth and Expansion
Without a solid logistics infrastructure, a company could not efficiently and cost-effectively serve its customers and grow their business as well as its own.
Jim Romeo
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In Columbus, Ohio - as in other places across the nation - companies need the essentials of an intermodal infrastructure to enable them to supply their customers within and outside the region and to maintain efficient operations.
For example, the Honda plant in Marysville, Ohio, operates the leanest of supply chains and relies extensively on a network of strategic suppliers to provide just-in-time assemblies and goods for its Honda Civic production lines. Columbus' Rickenbacker Inland Port is one part of a multi-modal logistics hub known for its expansive network of freight forwarders, cargo airlines, and trucking companies, as well as rail siding to support companies like Honda. The vitality of this region depends on the logistical infrastructure that supports it.
A Win-Win Situation
Logistics firms are expanding and locating to regions where they are in demand, i.e., where firms seeking an efficient time-to-market would also like to expand and relocate. When such a marriage occurs, both benefit, as does the economy of the entire region.
In June of 2012, the Murphy Warehouse Company, one of the Upper Midwest's largest asset-based logistics companies, sets its sights on expansion beyond its Minnesota presence. The company leased a 50,000-square-foot logistics facility in North Kansas City, Missouri. The expansion represents a strategic move to expand its own growth while enabling customers in this new area to be supported and also grow and expand.
"We've worked hard as a company to be able to grow our business at this time," says Richard Murphy, Jr., president and CEO of Murphy Warehouse and fourth-generation business leader. "This expansion will allow us to serve existing customers with a presence in the Kansas City area and reach new customers."
According to Murphy Warehouse, the new facility will serve customers in the apparel recycling, food, and telecommunications industries throughout Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska. Its part of the company's strategy to meet an anticipated increase in demand for its warehousing services. The firm also expects to expand the new facility to 135,000 square feet by the end of 2012 and add 12 employees to manage the facility.
Murphy Warehouse is also considering upgrades to the company's North Kansas City logistics site. It hopes to integrate a connection to rail access. Rail access is available at its existing Minnesota-based logistics campuses. For many firms, rail access is as important as truck access, highway access, and other transportation modes and arteries in designing strategic distribution for globally competitive companies throughout the country. The services that a rail carrier offers can greatly benefit a location.
Shortline Railroads Complement Other Services
Murphy Warehouse also recently purchased a 350,000-square-foot warehouse facility in Eagan, Minnesota, to serve the food, medical, retail, paper, and home construction industries. The company plans to invest $3 million in improvements. Part of its vision is to facilitate smoother truck movement in and out of the campus, as well as re-establishing rail connections to bring rail cars indoors. "By re-establishing the Progressive Rail connection, we complete our goal of having our facilities on all railroads serving the Twin Cities," said Murphy in a statement released by the company.
Progressive Rail is a shortline railway, as is Illinois Railway. "As a shortline rail carrier, Illinois Railway [a division of OmniTRAX] serves a diverse base of customers [who] are seeking to transport their products within Northern Illinois communities," says Patrick Black, director of marketing and sales for OmniTRAX's Chicago region. "OmniTRAX owns and operates a total of 113 miles of trade and interchanges and provides many specific benefits to its customers including flexible pricing, customized service based on the destination, local decision-making, and the ability to link communities and companies that otherwise would not have access to rail service."
Class 1 rail carriers are those whose revenue exceeds $398.7 million and operate more than 95,000 miles of the U.S. rail network; they can transport products in an efficient method from point A to point B across the country with no stops in between. "For example, if a company needs [its] product to go from Chicago to Los Angeles without any stopping points, the Class 1 railroads provide excellent efficiency in that transportation," Black explains. " However, in many cases, companies need to transport their products in short distances via shortline rail carriers, and this provides competitive options to companies that don't have the capability to locate on Class I lines."
"We have the unique ability to help grow the region and serve the region," says Black. "More consistently, we are finding that companies are seeking to move their product by rail - and within a shorter distance. So by offering the short-rail service line and providing competitive pricing, we are providing a competitive advantage for those companies locating and/or growing in our region and seeking to transport their products efficiently and cost-effectively." He further explains, "Companies that are sensitive to logistics need to know that you have globally competitive logistics infrastructure available in the local market. In addition these companies want an efficient access to their markets and suppliers, a relatively lower costs of operations location, and an area with a favorable business climate."
Black notes that OmniTRAX owns and operates a total of 113 miles of trade and interchanges and provides many specific benefits to its customers including flexible pricing, customized service based on the destination, local decision-making, and the ability to link communities and companies that otherwise would not have access to rail service. This provides competitive options to companies that don't have the capability to locate on Class I lines.
Intermodal to the Rescue
Other companies - both logistics and industrial firms - are expanding their logistics capabilities as well. For example, Continental Transportation Solutions of Bensenville, Illinois, recently expanded its operations with a new 134,000-square-foot facility with more than 20 exterior docks to quickly receive shipments, sort and segregate product, cross dock various material, and quickly prepare for final delivery. Continental provides transportation solutions for firms in the financial, healthcare, marketing, and food industries.
Amazon recently broke ground on its latest fulfillment center in Jeffersonville, Indiana - its fifth in the state as the company is growing, moving, and expanding its fulfillment operations to afford a more competitive offering with its products often arriving on or about the next day. Such an offering is only possible with a very strategic and carefully selected mix of fulfillment centers and supporting modes of transport.
Companies within certain industries will target regions where the logistics infrastructure is developing to meet the transportation and intermodal demands of companies. Black uses the example of his locale in Rockford, Illinois.
"Industries that should consider the Rockford area because of its rail assets are those that ship much of their product by rail, such as plastics, steel manufacturing, building products and materials, automotive manufacturing and support, agricultural product processing and shipping, heavy equipment manufacturing, and food products processing," he says. "As a shortline rail carrier, OmniTRAX serves a diverse base of customers that are seeking to transport their products within Northern Illinois communities."
This very topic is ripe for discussion among the many members of critical supply chains. Recently, Transplace, a provider of transportation and logistics technology, held its Shipper Symposium in Phoenix, Arizona, which focused on the trends in transportation and logistics technology and the industry's outlook. Transplace President George Abernathy served on a discussion panel with Richard Hyland, president of Celtic International, an intermodal brokerage service that joined forces with Transplace in 2011, to discuss what they call the three essential elements of a successful supply chain: transportation management, intermodal, and brokerage.
"When the economy rebounds and truck drivers begin to retire or leave for higher paying jobs that are closer to home, intermodal can come to the rescue," said Hyland. "The growth of intermodal has caused the length of haul for drivers to become shorter and shorter. Additionally, intermodal is continuing to become an attractive option for companies as it is a cheaper alternative to over-the-road transportation. It is estimated that converting 10 percent of trucking shipments to intermodal would save hundreds of millions of gallons of gas."
This aligns with Starbucks International's decision to expand its operation with a facility in the Southeast. In mid-2012, Starbucks International broke ground on one of the first company-owned production plants in Augusta, Georgia. The facility will produce products currently manufactured abroad, including Starbucks VIA® Ready Brew, as well as the coffee base for Frappuccino® blended beverages and many of Starbucks® ready-to-drink beverages.
Why Augusta, Georgia? According to the company, not only did the community offer the ever-important attributes of strong work force and technology support for the new facility, but it also had a transportation and logistics infrastructure that was akin to what Starbucks needs to sustain its business goals and visions. "During such challenging economic times, I am thrilled that we are creating jobs and building something special right here in Georgia," says Peter Gibbons, executive vice president of Starbucks Global Supply Chain Operations.
"Starbucks has long believed that there is a direct link between our success and the vitality of the communities in which we do business. With access to a skilled labor force, advanced technology, and critical transportation and logistics infrastructure, Augusta is a great example of how building high-tech manufacturing facilities in America makes good business sense while supporting the communities where our customers and partners live and work."
Jim Romeo is a writer based in Chesapeake, Virginia. Specializing in business-to-business and high-tech writing, he has more than 700 publishing credits. Romeo has written extensively about the industrial and technology sectors and is the author of two non-fiction business books. He holds an MBA in Marketing from Columbia University.
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Novelist Yun I-hyeong wins 43rd Yi Sang Literary Award
Novelist Yun I-hyeong Courtesy of Munhaksasang
By Kwak Yeon-soo
Novelist Yun I-hyeong was named the winner of the 43rd Yi Sang Literary Award, one of the most prestigious literary awards in Korea, Monday.
The 43-year-old won the grand prize for her latest novel, "Their First and Second Cat," described by the judges as "a trailblazing novel that highlights the importance of loving all living creatures."
The story was published in the November and December issues of local literary magazine Munhaksasang.
The judges were unanimous in their choice of winner due to her utterly distinctive depiction of a married couple struggling with hardships in life, including financial difficulties. In the story, the couple eventually gets divorced and the mother takes custody of the daughter.
Kwon Yeong-min, Life & Thought's chief editor who was on the judging panel, said he was impressed by how writer Yun depicted divorce without acrimony and hatred.
The story and title of the novel were inspired by Yun's experience after the death of her cat, according to the author.
"I was devastated by the loss of my cat last year. Then I started to delve into dark themes about life and death. As a result, I crafted the story about people who find new life through death," Yun said during a press event held in Seoul, Monday.
"The novel is commended for giving us a deep understanding of death, the limitations of the marriage system and a divided society," she added.
Yun, who debuted in 2005 after winning the Joongang Rookie Literary Award with "Black Starfish," has written novels that explore the boundary between reality and imagination with immersive prose.
Prior to receiving the Yi Sang Literary Award, the writer has won the Munhakdongne Young Writer Award and Moonji Literary Award. Her other novels include "A Waltz for Three," "Love Replica" and "Personal Memories."
The 2019 Yi Sang collection, consisting of "Their First and Second Cat" and five other finalist works, will be published Jan. 21 and the award ceremony will be held in November. Five other works that earned runner-up prizes are Kim Hee-sun's "Grave at the Beach," Chang Kang-myoung's "Three Bakeries in Hyeonsoo-dong," Jang Eun-jin's "Cry," Jung Yong-jun's "Things that disappear" and Choi Eun-yeong's "One Year."
The grand prize winner will receive 35 million won and the runner-up prize winners will get 3 million won respectively.
The annual Yi Sang Literary Award ceremony was established in 1977 to celebrate the finest Korean fiction.
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Great Western Academy in Swindon Completes
The Scott Brownrigg-designed Great Western Academy (GWA) in Swindon has completed. The £21 million building was built by BAM Construction.
Won through the ESFA Framework with BAM, the Academy has been developed in close collaboration with the ESFA and New College Swindon.
Built on the fringe of the award-winning Tadpole Garden Village development, the new 9,350 sq m school for 1,210 pupils includes a 460-place sixth form and offers stunning views towards the Cotswolds.
The academy has been developed in response to Swindon’s need for more education places, following a growth in new local housing developments and a population surge.
With modern, state-of-the-art facilities to support 21st century learning, the architectural design promotes openness and transparency, central to the school’s educational philosophy.
Academy Principal Graham Davis said of the new design, “The Great Western Academy building is visually striking both inside and out, and has been designed to maximise teaching and learning opportunities. It provides a light and vibrant environment in which our students will be able to thrive, making the very most of specialist areas such as the science labs, activity studio, sports hall and main hall/theatrical space. The spaces outside have been carefully thought through to mix sport and social areas effectively. The excellent design, by Scott Brownrigg, means that many parts of the building can easily be made available for use by the community at evenings and weekends too, meaning that it we can help benefit all those living locally, not just our students.
There are just 18 schools in the country opening in brand new buildings this year and this must be one of the best, we feel very fortunate to be able to have such a superb environment in which to develop and grow our students.”
Arranged over three storeys, the design incorporates four distinct areas within it – Sports and Cmmunity Drama, Music and Art, General teaching and the IT rich Heart space. The central space has been maximised and creates a hub to the Academy, which contains dining and social enrichment areas, a library, administration areas and a feature staircase, and provides a connection to the wider facilities and external areas. The central space aids passive supervision and spills out onto a protected courtyard that is partially covered by an upper level overhang.
The reception and administration areas overlook the main entrance, which helps with security and creates an active frontage to the building.
BAM’s Construction Manager Rob Shipp said: ‘The school looks smart with a clean and fresh design and great views. It will be a lovely place for young people to learn and develop. It's been a big success for the Education and Skills Funding Agency and for the school. Our collaborative approach has worked very well and and I think the parents, teachers and the community will truly appreciate these new facilities.'
With a strong focus on Business, ICT and Enterprise, and with close links to local and international businesses, a professional working environment has been delivered which visually references these business connections. This approach has not only met the ethos of the Academy, but has also delivered a cost effective new building for the Academy and its community.
The official opening takes place on the 22nd October.


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Nazareth Teen Mom 2 to sign new book in Whitehall
Posted by Kathy Lauer-Williams at 08:46:38 AM on June 30, 2014
Meet Nazareth Teen Mom Kailyn Lowry when she does the first signing of her new book in the Lehigh Valley.
Lowry will sign "Pride Over Pity" at Barnes and Noble at the Lehigh Valley Lifestyle Center/Lehigh Valley Mall, in Whitehall at 2 p.m. Saturday July 5.
This is the first time Lowry will be signing locally since she wrote her new tell-all memoir about her experiences becoming a mother while still in high school and appearing on a reality show, with friend Adrienne Wenner. “Pride Over Pity,” was released last month by Post Hill Press.
MTV is reporting the book is a New York Times bestseller making it to #10 on the week's combined print and e-book nonfictio list.
The Nazareth grad starred in the second season of MTV's reality series “16 and Pregnant” when she was a senior at Nazareth High School, along with three other pregnant teens - Jenelle Evans, Chelsea Houska and Leah Messer. Lowry's son Isaac was born Jan. 18, 2010.
The stories of the four young mothers continued in MTV's "Teen Mom 2" which premiered January 2011 and just started its fifth season. "Teen Mom 2: airs at 10 p.m. Tuesdays.
The show first followed her relationships with Isaac's father Jonathan Rivera, which fell apart under the stress of raising their child. Lowry moved out amidst their constant fighting, and moved on to a new relationship with co-worker Jordan, who is co-writer Wenner's cousin, only for that to end after Lowry briefly went back to Rivera. Then Lowry met Javi Marroquin and she became pregnant with Marroquin's child. Lowry married Marroquin last fall and the wedding at Adventure Aquarium in Camden, as well as the birth of the couple’s son Lincoln Marshall Marroquin, on November 16, 2013 were featured on the fourth season of the show.
According to a press release, the book "gives readers a raw and brutally honest account of her troubled, often painful story and, for the first time, reveals the dark secrets she has so closely guarded
The book will take readers behind the scenes as Lowry stays at a homeless shelter to qualify for a program that would provide a safe home for Isaac; talks about the question of her sexuality, and discusses traumatic sexual experiences that have left her scarred. It also will delve into her custody battles for Isaac, her diagnosis with bipolar disorder, and struggle with online bullying.
In an excerpt from the book, Lowry writes “If I ever gaze at the past, I shudder. I shudder to count how many times I mistakenly thought I was loved. I quiver unpleasantly to recall the person I used to be and how I acted in some of my relationships. Looking back, it’s not surprising that I turned to boys for love so early. I needed appreciation. I needed to feel worthy. Most of all I needed support.”
Wenner of Bethlehem who wrote the book with Lowry, also took the cover shot of the teen mom.
The book is available at www.amazon.com and costs $19.99 for the hardcover and $9.99 for the eBook.
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How Disney Fooled The World in These Classic Films
This will make you question your childhood
Ray Porter October 14th 2017 Entertainment
Everyday it seems like Earth shattering information is being uncovered by internet sleuths, which has the potential to blow our minds and make us take a second look at things we remember from our childhoods. In this list, we prove that Disney fooled us all by reusing classic scenes throughout their films in order to save costs on animation. Luckily, it's not really plagiarism if it's against yourself, so Disney gets a pass here--but they've still been caught red handed!
Tricking Us Through Animation
As it turns out, Disney has been fooling their fans for years and years by reusing animation from old films in other projects in order to cut corners on animation costs and reuse their own ideas! These examples are really cool to see.
Example 1: The Jungle Book
The first example we will be looking at is this still from the 1967 classic Disney film, The Jungle Book. Here, we can see Mowgli standing near some trees on what appears to be a cliff. What we're about to show you, is that Disney reused this scene in a later film!
Example 1: Winnie the Pooh
That later film was the 1977 film Winnie the Pooh, which was featured around the titular character of Winnie the Pooh, as well as his friends and their adventures. Here, Christopher Robin is standing in the exact same place and way as Mowgli stood in The Jungle Book, showing that Disney reused this animation 10 years later.
Example 2: Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty is one of the most classic tales of all time, and the Disney film that was released to cinemas in 1959 features some extremely classic scenes. Here, the titular sleeping beauty can be seen dancing in a what appears to be a ballroom.
Example 2: Beauty and the Beast
Disney would go on to reuse almost the exact same scene in the 1991 Disney film, Beauty and the Beast. They almost got away with it, but some clever folks online managed to spot the similarity in the animation and positioning of these two scenes.
Example 3: The Sword in the Stone
This 1963 Disney film features another example of Disney playing a little bit of a trick on their audience. They decided to recreate this scene of the characters being playfully tackled by these two dogs shown here in this screen capture.
The Jungle Book (1967) makes this list for a second time, but this time it is the one doing the self-plagiarizing. Disney recreated this scene from The Sword in the Stone in The jungle Book only 4 years later, with Mowgli.
Example 4: Snow White
This scene of Snow White playfully dancing with one of the 7 dwarves was a fun scene in the 1937 Disney film version of Snow White. The animation here would be used again in a later Disney project, as we're about to show you.
Example 4: Robin Hood
When Robin Hood came out in 1973, it was another huge success for Disney. Here, this scene seems reuse the animation from the Snow White scene, since the dancing style and way the characters are holding hands is extremely identical.
Here we take a look at The Jungle Book (1967) for the third time on this list! The dancing that occurs here must have been expensive to animate, because Disney ended up using the animation again in a later film!
Here, the film in our example is Robin Hood (1973), which reused the scene from The jungle Book and simply replaced the characters and the backdrop to create a new scene without anyone noticing--until internet sleuths solved the mystery, that is.
Example 6: Bambi
This scene of the rain hitting a bird in Bambi (the 1942 Disney classical film) was quite brief, and that's probably why Disney didn't see any harm in using the scene again in a later film project. Tricking us all!
Example 6: The Fox and the Hound
This one is probably the most evident example on the list, since these scenes are almost exactly the same except for a few changes to the size and color of the bird, and the amount of debris in the background.
Example 7: The AristoCats
This lovely scene from the 1970 Disney film titled The AristoCats, is one of the best of the film, and Disney were quick to reuse it three years later with some changes made in order to fit it into their newer film.
Robin Hood (1973) came out 3 years later and has this very similar scene that caused a few observant Disney fans to raise an eyebrow. As it turns out, the animation was reused and they almost got away with it. Nice try, Disney!
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Easter events in the South Bay
By The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin | dailybulletin@dfmdev.com |
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Easter’s a little early this year, but there was still time to plan some events in the South Bay. Here is a sampling of some of them:
Festival de Los Ninos
Lennox Park will be the setting for Festival de Los Ninos, an annual Easter Hispanic community fair, featuring music, food, arts and crafts, face painting, music and free gifts and samples. The event will also have information booths on a variety of important subjects, such as immigration, health, legal services, job opportunities and more.
Festivities are from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Lennox and Hawthorne boulevards, Lennox.
Admission is free. Call 818-718-7956.
Easter breakfast and egg hunt
Ruby’s Diner, Redondo Beach and the King Harbor Association are organizing an Easter breakfast and egg hunt with a portion of the proceeds going to the Leadership Redondo Beach 2007 class project of building a permanent tribute monument using the piece of steel donated by the New York Fire Department.
The event will be from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday at Seaside Lagoon, 200 Portofino Way, Redondo Beach.
Tickets are $25 for one child with one adult; $35 for two children with one adult (or vice versa); $50 for a family of four to six members. Tickets can be pre-purchased at Ruby’s, 245 N. Harbor Drive; or the Redondo Beach Marina Office of Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau, 181 N. Harbor Drive. Call 310-376-7829 for ticket availability. Day of event sales will be limited to space and food available.
El Prado Egg Hunt
The Old Torrance Neighborhood Association presents its 27th annual Easter in El Prado Park event starring Mr. & Mrs. Bun, who will arrive at the park in the bright blue Bunny Mobile, pose for pictures, and lead the children in the bunny hop.
Immediately following the hop, the Easter egg candy hunt will begin. The event is for children 11 and younger, and just so the younger kids won’t get lost in the shuffle, there is a special section called Peggy’s Patch for children ages 3 and under.
The festivities get underway at 10 a.m. Sunday and will last about a half an hour. Families are welcome to stay afterwards to enjoy the day. The park is at Arlington and El Prado avenues in downtown Torrance. Admission is free.
Big Bunny’s Spring Fling
Come and get egg-cited as you pet a fuzzy bunny, plant a carrot, paint your face, make bunny ears, enjoy musical entertainment and take a photo with the Easter Bunny. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today through Sunday at the Los Angeles Zoo, 5333 Zoo Drive, Los Angeles. Free with paid zoo admission. (323) 644-4200. www.lazoo.org.
Easter/Passover Street Fair and Brunch
Join celebrity host Dick Van Dyke in serving needy men, women and children with delicious holiday meals. Destribute shoes for women and girls and participate in an Easter Village. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at the Midnight Mission, 601 S. San Pedro St., Los Angeles. (213) 624-1026. www.midnightmission.org.
Signed Easter Egg Hunt
The Reagan Library has hidden 14 wooden Easter eggs, autographed by celebrities and politicians, all over the Museum and the Air Force One Pavilion. Children can search for them, and those that find 10 of the eggs can enter a drawing to win a signed egg. Daily through March 31. Admission is free with paid museum entrance. (805) 522-2977, www.reaganfoundation.org.
Breakfast with the Easter Bunny includes egg hunt, decorating cookies, puppet show, pictures with Easter bunny; $15, pre-registration required, (310) 618-2720; 9 a.m.-noon Saturday; Torrance Cultural Arts Center, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance.
Easter in El Prado Park with Mr. and Mrs. Bunny includes posing for pictures and egg hunt for children 11 and under; free; 10-10:30 a.m. Sunday;3/23 El Prado Park, El Prado Street and Arlington Avenue,
Torrance, (310) 328-7549.
SUNRISE SERVICES
WHAT: Green Hills Memorial Park is sponsoring the 60th annual Easter Sunrise Service. The multi-denominational service is held in conjunction with the South Coast Interfaith Council with the San Pedro Pastor’s Fellowship. The Rev. Ginny Wagener of the South Coast Interfaith Council will offer this year’s message. Musical selections performed by Trinity Lutheran Worship Team, San Pedro.
WHERE: 27501 S. Western Ave., Rancho Palos Verdes.
WHEN: 6 a.m. Sunday. Gates open at 5:15 a.m.
INFORMATION: Refreshments will be provided before and after the service.
WHAT: Hope Chapel Hermosa’s Easter Sonrise/Sunrise Service. The service will include special music and a message from the Rev. Zac Nazarian.cq
WHERE: In the former Albertsons parking lot at the corner of Artesia Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway, Hermosa Beach (next door to Hope Chapel).
WHEN: 6 a.m. Sunday.
INFORMATION: Call 310-374-4673.
WHAT: Calvary Chapel South Bay Sunrise Service at Home Depot Center. Click www.ccsouthbay.org/events/Easter08/HomeDepotDirection.pdf for printable directions.
WHERE: Home Depot, 18400 Avalon Blvd., Carson.
WHEN: 6 a.m. Sunday
IN ADDITION: Regular Easter services will be held at the church www.ccsouthbay.org, 19300 S. Vermont Ave., Gardena, at 9 and 10:45 a.m. and 12:30 and 6:30 p.m.
WHAT: Calvary Presbyterian Church’s Easter Sunday Celebration.
WHERE: 13560 Hawthorne Blvd., Hawthorne.
WHEN: 10:15 a.m. Sunday.
WHAT: King’s Way Community Church Easter celebration. The King’s Chorale will sing “The Risen Savior.” Brunch will be served before each service.
WHERE: King’s Way Community Church, 1748 W. 251st St., Lomita.
WHEN: 8:30 and 10:45 a.m. Sunday.
WHAT: Unity Church of South Bay Easter Breakfast, Service and Easter Egg Hunt.
WHERE: 2545 W. 237th St., Torrance.
WHEN: Breakfast is at 9 a.m. Sunday; service at 10:30 a.m. followed by egg hunt.
INFORMATION: 310-326-2760.
WHAT: Faithful Central Bible Church and the Family of Champions presents the annual Citywide Easter Celebration. Highlights include dancers, live animals, and a 40-piece orchestra accompanying a 200-voice Mass choir. Stella Award-winning Tramaine Hawkins and Grammy Award-winning Chaka Khan will also perform.
WHERE: The Forum, 3900 W. Manchester Blvd. (at Prairie Avenue), Inglewood.
WHEN: 10 a.m. Sunday; 3/23
INFORMATION: Admission is free. Call 310-330-8000 or visit www.faithfulcentral.com.
WHAT: Wayside United Methodist Church Easter worship service and continental breakfast.
WHERE: 25904 Cayuga Ave., Lomita.
WHEN: Breakfast is at 9 a.m. Sunday; service is at 10:30 a.m.
Hope Chapel Gateway presents “Easter at the Armstrong 2008,” an annual event.
WHERE: James Armstrong Theatre, 3330 Civic Center Drive, Torrance.
WHEN: 10 a.m. Sunday.
INFORMATION: Admission is free. Call 310-320-2440 or visit www.hopegateway.org.
WHAT: Hope Chapel Hawthorne’s Big Tent Community Easter Service with special music, children’s activities and lunch.
WHERE: 13560 S. Hawthorne Blvd., Hawthorne.
WHAT: The First Southern Baptist Chruch is hosting an Easter program titled “I Will Follow Christ” followed by music and refreshments.
WHERE: 1025 Marine Ave., Gardena.
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Einstein's Universal Changes
December 23, 1999 / 4:48 PM / CBS
Albert Einstein is the most influential person of the 20th century, as chosen by Time and CBS News. Written by CBSNews.com's Gary Paul Gates.
Of all the great thinkers who left their mark on the 20th Century, there was one genius that towered above all others as the intellectual giant of his age. And that man - Albert Einstein - is who Time magazine and CBS News have chosen to honor as the person of the century.
The century was in its infancy and Einstein himself was just a young man of 26 when, in 1905, he suddenly captured the attention of the world's most eminent physicists.
In his day job that year, Einstein was working as an obscure clerk in a patent office in Bern, Switzerland. But in his spare time, he wrote and published three revolutionary research papers, including the one in which he unveiled his famous theory of relativity.
Until then, the laws of physics hadn't changed since Sir Isaac Newton set down his principles of time and motion - gravity - in the 17th Century. But in his theory, Einstein utterly demolished Newton's central assumption that time is absolute, and in doing so, he forged a link between time and space that, in effect, transformed the basic law of the universe.
In writing about that astonishing achievement many years later, one awestruck admirer noted that Einstein "discovered, just by thinking about it, the essential structure of the cosmos."
Or as the great man himself observed in one of his rare public comments: "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
Another landmark discovery came from Einstein's study of the connection between energy and matter, which led to his celebrated formula - E equals MC squared - and which, in turn, led to the atomic bomb. In fact, he played a discreet but critical role in the development of the bomb.
When the Nazis came to power in his native Germany in 1933, they confiscated all of Einstein's work because he was Jewish, and soon thereafter he fled to the United States, which became his home for the rest of his life.
Six years later, on the eve of World War II, he wrote a letter to President Roosevelt expressing his urgent concern that Hitler's scientists were using his formula to build an atom bomb.
That letter prompted Roosevelt to establish the top-secret Manhattan Project, the first step toward producing the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
But setting in motion the process that enabled the United States to become the world's first atomic power was just part of Einstein's legacy. His revolutionary theories also served as the guiding lights to space travel, to television and to other electronic breakthroughs that have brought us to the computer age and the wonders of cyberspace.
In a century that was blessed with great advances in science, Einstein stands out as the greatest scientific genius of his time - and perhaps th most profound scientific mind of all time.
And even those of us who have trouble grasping the complexities of his theory of relativity can appreciate the droll wit of the limerick it inspired:
"There was a young lady named Bright/ who could travel much faster than light/ She went out one day/ in a relative way/ and came back the previous night."
Einstein was one of three finalists drawn from the list of outstanding men and women Time and CBS News have selected as the 100 most influential people of the century. The other two were Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mohandas Gandhi.
Roosevelt was picked in the Top Three because more than any other leader, he was the driving force behind the century's greatest political achievement - the triumph of democracy.
When Roosevelt was elected president in the bleak autumn of 1932, the country was mired in the most severe economic catastrophe in its history. Because of the Great Depression, millions of Americans not only felt betrayed by the capitalist system but were losing faith in the democratic institutions that governed the nation and held it together.
The hardship of economic crisis had spawned a political crisis. But Roosevelt met that daunting challenge with vigor and confidence.
"This great nation will endure, as it has endured, will revive and will prosper," FDR promised in his first inaugural address. Then came the words that will forever be enshrined in America's political lexicon: "So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Backing up the strong rhetoric with action, Roosevelt launched the "New Deal," a flurry of new federal programs designed to provide relief and lead to recovery. Some of the new laws - such as Social Security and unemployment compensation - would go on to become cornerstones of American life.
The bold steps FDR took to combat the economic misery revived hope for millions and restored their faith in both democracy and capitalism.
Then a few years later, as Commander in Chief of the world's largest democracy, Roosevelt had to confront an even greater threat to freedom: the military aggressions of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
In leading the allies to victory over those two despotic forces, FDR both preserved and strengthened democracy at home and abroad. Moreover, that supremely critical triumph in World War II pointed the way to the democratic revolutions that swept communist governments out of power in Eastern Europe later in the century.
In his own way, Gandhi was no less influential. The struggle he led against British colonial rule in India changed the face and future of political revolution.
Until he came along, political rebels had mainly been firebrands who believed that violence and bloodshed were necessary to achieve their goals.
Gandhi rejected that approach, and by adopting the unorthodox tactics of nonviolence and passive reistance, he turned a political revolution into a moral crusade.
In fact, he was essentially a spiritual leader who once defined the movement he launched as an attempt "to introduce religion into politics." And throughout the world Gandhi was revered as a saintly man.
Even so, he did make enemies along the way. For the sad irony is that in 1948, just one year after India finally achieved its independence, Gandhi - the great apostle of nonviolence - was assassinated by one of his own countrymen. To many, his murder brought to mind the Biblical assertion that "a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country."
But Gandhi's doctrine of nonviolence proved to be a powerful legacy, one that has had enormous influence on other revolutionary leaders.
Martin Luther King was an ardent disciple of Gandhi. So was Nelson Mandela. And the nonviolent crusades for freedom and justice that they led in their countries were, in large part, inspired by Gandhi.
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First published on December 23, 1999 / 4:48 PM


From A World To Win News Service
Saudi Arabia: the West’s chosen Islamist head-cutters
January 12, 2016 | Revolution Newspaper | revcom.us
The interests, objectives, and grand designs of the imperialists are not our interests—they are not the interests of the great majority of people in the U.S. nor of the overwhelming majority of people in the world as a whole. And the difficulties the imperialists have gotten themselves into in pursuit of these interests must be seen, and responded to, not from the point of view of the imperialists and their interests, but from the point of view of the great majority of humanity and the basic and urgent need of humanity for a different and better world, for another way.
Bob Avakian, BAsics 3:8
4 January 2016. A World to Win News Service. The latest executions in Saudi Arabia should make it very clear that the Western powers’ “war on terror” has nothing to do with opposition to chopping off heads and sectarian religious fanaticism. Instead of condemning this crime, the U.S., UK and other Western powers have continued to give the Saudi regime, if not their public political blessing, at least their practical backing—in the name of the necessary alliances they claim flow from that “war on terror.”
These crimes were part of the beleaguered Saudi royal family’s efforts to defend its rule by wielding state violence and religious authority, both represented by the executioner’s sword. The most prominent of those put to death was Nimr al-Nimr, a leading Shia cleric tried in secret and convicted of supporting the protest movement that swept the Shia population in eastern Saudi Arabia and neighboring Bahrain in 2011, especially among youth influenced by the Arab Spring. Several people accused of participating in political rallies at that time, arrested when they were young teenagers, are set to be executed next.
Nimr’s execution, along with that of several other Shias, was a heinous response to legitimate protests against discrimination in employment, education and other fields—proof, if any is needed, that the Saudi regime, rather than moving away from religious fanaticism under the year-old reign of King Salman and his princes, is escalating its use of religiously-justified murder against any political challenge.
Even more, it was a deliberate provocation against Shia political forces internationally, especially the Iranian regime, very likely with the hope of forcing the Iranian ruling clergy—themselves notorious for mass executions—to react in such a way as to complicate the endeavors of those within the Iranian regime seeking agreements with the U.S. and those in the American ruling class who believe that U.S. interests now require such agreements.
It was also meant to put an end to challenges to the legitimacy of the House of Saud coming from Al Qaeda, Daesh (also known as ISIS or ISIL) and the like, inside as well as outside the kingdom and even among the myriad members of the royal family, seizing the role of leader of all Sunni believers with overtones of a religious showdown.
The executions were a barbaric act but not a deranged one—they served very clear political goals, the same goals behind the Saudi-led war on Yemen and Saudi efforts to confront the Syrian Assad regime and its Iranian backers on religious grounds and contend with Daesh sharia by imposing Saudi sharia. These are goals which, in some aspects, converge with thinking among the Western powers about how to shape the chaos in the Middle East to their advantage.
The difference with Daesh is not that the Saudi regime is more “moderate” or in any way less cruel. The monarchy’s relationship with the U.S. is complex and potentially volatile—the U.S. has played both sides of the Sunni/Shia divide, including working with the Iranian Shia fundamentalist regime in some places at some times. But the fact is that the U.S. and its allies would not have been able to dominate the Middle East without their alliance with Saudi Arabia, as fraught as that alliance might be for both sides right now.
Obama personally came to meet with King Salman after his enthroning a year ago, and his reign has been hailed as inaugurating an era of reform by Westerners like the leading American liberal commentator Thomas Friedman (New York Times, 25 November 2015—written at a time when these executions were already set to take place). The main “reform” so far has been holding elections for insignificant municipal bodies, and allowing women to vote in them, although not to drive to the polling places or anywhere else, or make any decisions without the permission of their male guardian. Over the last year the Saudi regime has stepped up its executions, in some cases crucifying the decapitated victims and leaving their bodies to rot on public display. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
That’s why U.S. President Barack Obama, UK Prime Minister David Cameron and French President François Hollande have kept silent in the face of these executions. At first deputies were deployed to cluck their tongues about the general atmosphere of “sectarian tensions in the region,” as if Western intervention itself were not the biggest factor churning the voracious whirlpool of religious conflict in the Middle East. As shock waves mounted, their governments expressed concern solely about the possible political inconveniences arising from the killing and not the injustice of it.
The 4 January editorial in the UK Independent could not have been more explicit: while distancing itself from the Tory Party’s shameless enthusiasm for the Saudi regime—noting that PM Cameron recently supported the successful Saudi bid for the chairmanship of the UN Human Rights Council—the newspaper concluded that “it is not in our interest to see, let alone provoke, the fall of the House of Saud.” This is also, of course, the policy followed by Obama, who a year ago proclaimed “the importance of the U.S.-Saudi relationship as a force for stability and security in the Middle East and beyond.”
The Western imperialists have always known what the Saudi regime is like. It has always practiced decapitating alleged apostates (accused of abandoning Islam)—the young Palestinian poet and artist Ashraf Fayadh is still scheduled to be executed for this “crime.” Many of the 153 people executed in 2015 and the total of at least 2,200 people over the last three decades were migrant workers from South Asia and elsewhere, who have constructed the Gulf region’s palaces, palatial shopping malls, museums, sports stadiums and other architectural marvels in virtual bondage enforced by the sword.
The Saudi rulers are beholden for their swords, in the broadest sense, to the Western powers. In November, not long before the executions and long after the Saudi government announced its plans to carry them out, Obama’s State Department approved a Saudi request to buy 1.29 billion U.S. dollars’ worth of bombs and missiles. The State Department website gives a chilling itemization of the purchases, the kinds of munitions that Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies have been raining down on the Yemeni people in a war that has killed at least 5,700 people, half of them civilians, since the air and land invasion began in March 2015. This war of aggression against a country Saudi Arabia has traditionally considered its rightful “back yard” could not be carried out without the logistical support, air refueling and targeting teams provided by the U.S.—this latter aspect making Washington directly responsible for the bombing of schools and hospitals.
Although the factors are complex, this war, like the executions, is being carried out in the name of the Saudi royal family’s religious authority against Shia and other disbelievers. (The Houthi rebels in Yemen, whose Zaydi religious banner makes their faith a cousin of Shiaism, are backed by Iran—which is far from the main factor in the rebellion by Houthis and others against the Saudi-backed regime.) This is another example of how the Saudis are seeking to escalate the religious dimension of the region’s conflicts—with concrete U.S. support.
Obama personally came to meet with King Salman after his enthroning a year ago, and his reign has been hailed as inaugurating an era of reform by Westerners like the leading American liberal commentator Thomas Friedman (New York Times, 25 November 2015—written at a time when these executions were already set to take place). The main “reform” so far has been holding elections for insignificant municipal bodies, and allowing women to vote in them, although not to drive to the polling places or anywhere else, or make any decisions without the permission of their male guardian. Over the last year the Saudi regime has stepped up its executions, in some cases crucifying the decapitated victims and leaving their bodies to rot on public display.
Members of the royal family (which, thanks to polygamy, numbers in the thousands) and high-ranking members of the regime itself have supported Al Qaeda, and the regime met Al Qaeda’s sharpest criticism of it, the stationing of U.S. troops in Moslem holy lands, with the transfer of those troops to bases elsewhere in the Gulf. In Syria, Saudi Arabia has armed and financed a shifting constellation of Islamist fundamentalist alliances. As for Daesh, which shares the Salafi (fundamentalist) ideology that legitimizes the rule of the House of Saud and similarly centers its system of oppressive relations on the extreme oppression of women, the group’s name change from ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Greater Levant) to the Islamic State signaled a direct threat to the Saudi regime’s claim to hold authority over the world’s Sunni Muslims.
The Saudi absolute monarchy calls for obedience as the earthly “protector of the Ummah” (the so-called community of believers) and not on the basis of direct religious rule like Daesh’s caliphate, run by a self-proclaimed descendent of Mohammed. This distinction is both a danger to the Saud dynasty’s existence, and at the same time not much of a difference at all, especially insofar as the Saudis respond to Daesh’s particular signature, its determination to exterminate Shias as apostates worse than infidels, by putting itself forward as the greatest Shia slayers of all.
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The Western imperialist powers knew very well what they were getting in their relationship with the Saudi monarchy. Britain helped establish the monarchy in 1932, after encouraging the rise of Wahhabism (the specific form of Salafism associated with Arabian tribal authorities) in its campaign to absorb the Ottoman Empire into its own. In a 1945 treaty signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the U.S. promised to keep the Saudi monarchy in power, a pact renewed by George W. Bush in 2005. Although the U.S. grabbed the country away from Britain, as part of replacing British domination of the Middle East, the UK continues to maintain close financial and military ties with Saudi Arabia. France, under the Socialist president Hollande, is now also forging new political and military links with the regime.
Yet Saudi Arabia’s association with imperialism has deeply transformed the country and its ruling class. Like other Gulf states, it has become a major site of capital accumulation in its own right within the globalized capitalist economy dominated by the Western imperialist powers. This has happened both through the exploitation in the Gulf of laborers from the Moslem world and far beyond, on the one hand, and on the other the investment of Saudi and other Gulf capital in much bigger countries like Egypt, whose economy, politics and religious life are conditioned by this relationship.
In many ways, such as political influence and subsidies to regimes like Pakistan, the religious inculcation of the millions of Arabs brought to work in the Gulf and the sponsorship of enormous religious and “charitable” institutions and hundreds of TV preachers and media outlets, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf monarchies are the main vectors bringing modern Salafism to the Sunni Moslem world, even as all of these countries are connected ever more tightly to the international market and the global capitalist system, with all its inevitable rivalries among ruling classes that can only accumulate capital in deadly competition with one another.
It is true, as Obama said, that “the U.S.-Saudi relationship” has been invaluable to the U.S. and the West as a “force for stability and security in the Middle East and beyond.” But at the same time, that relationship has played a major role in creating the conditions for today’s instability in the region, where the U.S.’s continued domination is not secure at all. High stakes require desperate measures.
A great many people, especially in the Middle East, whose people are by far the main targets and victims of Daesh and all forms of Islamic fundamentalism, think that the U.S. deliberately created Daesh and the rest. That’s not literally true. Although Washington, London and Tel Aviv encouraged Islamism in opposition to more radical trends in the region, and although the workings of the imperialist system created the conditions from which Islamists arose, today various forms of Islamic fundamentalism are an intractable problem for the U.S. and other Western imperialists. Yet the reality underlying the “war on terror” is not a neat lineup of two sides. Instead, rival imperialists and regional powers are moving to advance their own reactionary interests in collusion and collision with one another on a very complex battleground. At the same time, in a general way, all the contending monsters are feeding religious fundamentalism of every sort, both intentionally and as a by-product of their political and military maneuvering and the backward economic and social relations they represent.
Imperialist capital now represented by people like Obama and his fellow “Western leaders” needs the rule of people like Saudi King Salman and his murdering princes, who call on ancient ideologies and social systems but would be powerless without modern imperialism. The U.S. and its partners and rivals can’t stop making Islamic and other religious fundamentalisms an increasingly major feature of the twenty-first century. The “war on terror” is a fraud—it is a contest over who can impose their interests and the most terror.
A World to Win News Service is put out by A World to Win magazine, a political and theoretical review inspired by the formation of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, the embryonic center of the world's Marxist-Leninist-Maoist parties and organizations.
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The historic Sumas Powerhouse goes up for auction starting on Friday. Submitted photo
Former B.C. Electric substation, now luxury mansion, up for auction
Historic estate in Abbotsford open for bids starting Friday
Ben Lypka
Mar. 19, 2019 3:33 p.m.
One of the oldest buildings in Abbotsford is officially open for bids beginning on Friday.
The Sumas Powerhouse, built in 1906 by the B.C. Electric Corporation, is available to the highest bidder, and the completely restored and modernized property will sell without reserve by March 28.
Located at 39623 Old Yale Road, the Powerhouse boasts 12 bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, five kitchens, four balconies, an elevator and a 1,000-bottle wine cellar.
The property spans 11,462 square feet and includes more than 2.35 acres of land.
It was last listed at $4.999 million, but the without-reserve stipulation means the market will dictate both its pricing floor and ceiling.
American company Concierge Auctions is handling the auction portion of the sale, and project sales manager Scott Pate said his company offers luxury-property sellers the chance to ease the sales process.
“Luxury property can sometimes sit on the market for a long time, and this electric station is a great example of a very unique property that is difficult to find a buyer for because there really are no comparables,” he said.
Pate arrived in Abbotsford in late-February and has been hosting open houses at the location every day.
“A project manager like me comes on site for four to six weeks and we market the property extremely hard,” he said. “We want to create a buzz for it in Abbotsford and Vancouver, but we have wide-reaching arms all over the world, and the auction process makes it more available for people in all different time zones.”
The auction process is similar to eBay, with all bids being submitted online.
Those interested in participating in the auction must sign all the terms and conditions and wire in a $100,000 refundable bidder deposit.
The winning bid has 30 days to close the sale, just like any other real estate transaction.
Pate and Concierge Auctions also partner with a local agent, and in this case are working with Sara Gilloly of Re/Max All Points Realty.
Pate said the Sumas Powerhouse, which was used for many years to house equipment for the Fraser Valley line of Vancouver’s commuter and cargo streetcar system, is an extremely unique property.
“What a legendary building this is,” he said. “I’ve heard lots of stories from many of the locals coming in. I didn’t see what it looked like before, but what an amazing finish job the seller has done. There is so much imagination put into it and the overall quality is just fantastic.”
Bidding opens on Friday at 2 p.m. For more information, visit conciergeauctions.com/auctions/39623-old-yale-road-abbotsford-british-columbia-canada.
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Sesame Street Launches Newest Initiative to Support Military Families
Elmo and Rosita Report for Duty to Help Military Families Transition to Civilian Life
New York, NY—(January 27, 2016)—Sesame Workshop announced today the launch of Sesame Street for Military Families: Transitions, the latest effort in its 11-year commitment to meet the needs of American military families. Informed by extensive research and recommendations from parents and caregivers plus child development and military advisors, the innovative resources feature the lovable Elmo and Rosita with success strategies for every member of a family facing the major milestone of leaving military service. Adults are provided tips for maintaining everyday routines, keeping lines of communication open and reaching out for help if needed; children will find fun, comfort and coping tactics with characters they love.
Sesame Street for Military Families: Transitions was funded with major support from Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation and additional contributions from Prudential. The free resources will reach families nationwide as Sesame Workshop partners with military, veterans and employment organizations as well as university and human resource departments for distribution across multiple channels.
Previous military-focused Sesame Street initiatives approached issues like deployment, homecoming, injuries and grieving. Now Elmo and Rosita address an unmet need in the community – emphasizing a child’s perspective in new resources for families transitioning from active duty to civilian life.
More than a million personnel will exit the military between 2011 and 2016.1 The challenges they and their families face may be considerable–the search for new employment, a new home, new family roles and routines–and they often happen simultaneously. In 2013 and 2014, 148,000 children under age 10 had a parent who transitioned into the civilian community2 – more than 50 percent of families said that readjustment to civilian life was “difficult.”3
Sesame Street for Military Families: Transitions aims to help with resources including:
My Story, My Big Adventure Activity Book: A printed keepsake book to support kids through the transition, with activity and conversation ideas to spark family excitement about new possibilities. Printable pages will also be available on web site.
10 New Videos: Original musical anthem, “It’s an Adventure” featuring Elmo and Rosita, interviews between Elmo and kids, a new animated segment and video moments of parents sharing their transition experiences.
Implementation Toolkits: Guides for partner organizations to spread the word about these resources on social media, at meetings and more.
Web Site: A new page on sesamestreet.org to house all the Sesame Street for Military Families: Transitions resources.
The Adventure Campaign: A series of engaging e-newsletters that provide helpful tips and relevant content to caregivers and on a bi-weekly basis. Anyone can sign up here to share in the adventure!
“Sesame Street for Military Families: Transitions was designed to help alleviate anxiety and stress that our service members and their families may experience as they begin reintegration into civilian life,” said Sherrie Westin, Sesame Workshop’s EVP of Global Impact and Philanthropy. “We are honored to continue supporting our nation’s military families and hope that these resources will help fill a gap by addressing the needs of the whole family at a time of transition.”
“For many military families, the transition to civilian life can be challenging because they often lose their existing support networks,” says John Damonti, president, Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation. “We are proud to support Sesame Workshop’s efforts to make this transition easier for military families and to help the general public better understand and recognize the service and sacrifice of all veteran family members, especially children.”
Sesame Workshop will work in collaboration with military, veterans and employment organizations to distribute the materials and implement them into their communities. In addition, a combined effort with the USO will help reach targeted communities across the U.S. and bring additional resources supporting military transitions to families nationwide.
“We have appreciated the long-standing working relationship with Sesame Workshop,” said Rosemary Williams, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy. “Their unique ability to translate difficult topics into language easily understood by children and trusted by their parents is most unique. These fun and engaging products will only help military families as they adjust to new changes with the same resilience that marked their service to our nation.”
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1: White House. (2011, August). Fact Sheet: President Obama’s Commitment to Employing America’s Veterans. Retrieved from http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/08/05/fact-sheet-president-obama-s-commitment-employing-america-s-veterans
2: Defense Manpower Data Center. (2014). Information transmitted by email on request.
3: Blue Star Families. (2013). 2013 Military Family Lifestyle Survey. Retrieved from http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/141215832
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