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Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried Couple Up at 'In Time' L.A. Premiere
Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried dazzled on the red carpet of the Los Angeles premiere of "In Time" on Thursday night, October 20. The two stars who play a couple in the action film were seen all smiles as they posed together for the photographers at the event that took place in Regency Village Theater, Westwood.
Seyfried brought colors to the red carpet by donning a purple and white patterned knee-length dress. The blond beauty finished off her pretty look with a pair of black open-toe heels. Timberlake, meanwhile, opted a camel-colored suit and completed it with a brown shirt and a blue tie.
Joining Timberlake and Seyfried at the special screening was co-star Olivia Wilde. The brunette beauty who plays Timberlake's mother in the film looked stunning in a backless floor-length gown. She completed her glamorous look with an animal print miniaudiere and strappy sandals.
Other cast members spotted at the evening were Vincent Kartheiser, Toby Hemingway, Rachel Roberts and Yaya DaCosta. Director and screenwriter Andrew Niccol was also snapped on the red carpet, donning all-black ensemble.
To arrive in U.S. theaters on October 28, "In Time" follows Timberlake's Will Salas who is falsely accused of murder. He must figure out a way to bring down a system where time is money, literally, enabling the wealthy to live forever while the poor, like Will, have to beg, borrow and steal enough minutes to make it through another day.
Timberlake recently shared to Pop Sugar about why he decided to star in the movie. "When I read the script, for two or three days, I couldn't stop thinking about the themes - that one being one of them - but also our obsession with looking young forever," he explained.
"I saw this character [Salas] as an everyday man who gets pushed too far and decides to fight back," the singer-turned-actor added. "And then you keep reading and it's like, 'Oh, yeah, shooting guns and car chases and flipping cars around and kicking a** and kissing Amanda', You're kind of like, 'Yeah, OK. I'm in'."
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A 45-year-old man died after his motorcycle crashed into a lorry that ran a red light at the junction of Jalan Ahmad Ibrahim and Tuas West Road on Mar 25.
The 25-year-old male lorry driver was arrested for dangerous driving causing death, the police told Stomp.
Stomper Lau Lau alerted Stomp to a video of the incident which was posted on SG Road Vigilante's Facebook page.
In the video, the lorry can be seen moving forward even though the traffic light is red and not in its favour.
The lorry then comes to a sudden stop in the middle of the junction shortly before the motorcycle crashes into it from the right.
The rider goes flying and is later seen lying on the ground.
In response to a Stomp query, the police said they were alerted to the accident at 7.30am.
"A 45-year-old male motorcyclist was conveyed unconscious to the hospital, where he subsequently passed away," a police spokesperson said.
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In 1999, children living in poor and dysfunctional communities in George, South Africa, started attending Sunday School at a local church. After an investigation, the church set up an informal wooden structure in the township where they lived to feed the children once a week.
Two years later, Philip and Maryna DeVries from the USA accepted the challenge to come to build on this foundation as an NGO, and LIFE Community Services was born. They developed an outreach programme and mobilized local and overseas churches, foundations, businesses and individuals to assist communities suffering deprivation.
George is an area that has a high TB death rate, AIDS crisis, a high per capita alcohol abuse problem, and an escalating divorce rate. Through the implementation of community focussed programmes, LIFE began to successfully tackle these social concerns.
LIFE was registered as a Non-Profit Organisation in March 2001 and in 2008 as a Public Benefit Organisation.
Children growing up in South Africa’s poorest communities are faced with many challenges, including broken homes, high young unemployment and a failing education system. We are taking a holistic approach to directly tackle these social concerns.
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At LIFE, we reach more than 4000 orphaned and vulnerable children each week (aged 0-18) through dynamic intervention programmes. These programmes have been designed to tackle many of the crises these young people face growing up in some of South Africa’s poorest communities.
We believe in working at the very heart of the communities that we serve. That is why we have strategically positioned centres in 8 of the area’s neediest communities. From here, we provide children with educational support, ministry and a meal every day.
In South Africa, many children are failed by an overstretched education system. This often leads to them either failing to achieve the necessary grades to access post-school opportunities or dropping out of school altogether. Our Bible-based education programmes ensure children get the best possible start in life.
We have developed a number of programmes to tackle the alarmingly high-levels of youth unemployment in the area. These include life skills training and a job creation project called ISIPHO.

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Sure, you have often seen the fast-food restaurants ordered to clean up their acts, only to supply ‘healthy options’ that is merely as bad as did not have meals, they just presented better. Well, many of the best common ‘health foods’ and snacks are a perfect same! Do you really feel as if a multi processed frozen meal that tastes like cardboard and instead gives off you feeling dissatisfied and hungry is assisting you? Realize there are only it’s absolutely not.
I followed the diet to the letter, not cheating, checking two week “induction” period, of reduced carbohydrate intake (almost NO carb intake, really), and tested my urine using the Keto sticks every morning, first things, to be certain that I was maintaining Keto. I got both primary book because of the diet and the Atkins Cookbook, and learned how in order to some delicious food. I also used the Atkins Shake mixes and canned shakes, for as i was at the in the morning, along with to gulp down an breakfast.
People are attracted to low-carb diets as the loss is generally drastic. Don’t we all love instant results! Lots of Hollywood stars adopt a low-carb diet to drop a dress size for about a film or remain thin, but those usually involve drastic cutbacks that may not be healthy or even sustainable down the road.
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A name and nationality is every child’s right, enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international treaties. Nevertheless, the births of nearly 230 million children under the age of five have never been registered. This lack of formal recognition by the State usually means that a child is unable to obtain a birth certificate. As a result, he or she may be denied health care or education. Later in life, the lack of official identification documents can mean that a child may enter into marriage or the labour market, or be conscripted into the armed forces, before he legal age. If accused of a crime, unregistered children may be prosecuted as adults, due to their inability to prove their age. In adulthood, birth certificates may be required to obtain social assistance or a job in the formal sector, to buy or prove the right to inherit property, to vote and to obtain a passport. Registering children at birth is the first step in securing their recognition before the law, safeguarding their rights, and ensuring that any violation of these rights does not go unnoticed.
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My name's Rasmus. An 18 year old guy from Sweden which is about to start a project in school. My idea is to build a cruiser bike from scratch. I haven't really decided how the design of the frame will be but i'm working on it. What I do know is that I'll be using 1,5" tubes for the entire bikeframe and I've also been thinking about puting a 120mm wide motorcycle wheel as the backwheel for my bike.
For a long time now I've been locking on the Firebikes FBR bike and I'm thinking about having that design as some sort of output for the design. I've also been thinking about puting a springer fork on the bike but that pretty much everything i've decided so far.
I'm probaly going to start this topic by posting some ideas for the design and i'm glad if you guys could tell me what you think about things I'll be uploading here.
thats pretty much what I have to say for now, if you have any questions feel free to ask.
this is the latest sketch of the design, tell me what you think
I like the overall simplicity of the frame, can definitely see the influence from Firebikes.
I say, build it!
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Yep, that's Firebike allright. Good choice, 'cause it looks good. Springerfork looks o.k. too. Don't mind my personal taste, but I would reconsider the seat and sissybar. A nice cruisersaddle could give the bike a less massive look on its backside. But it's up to you to decide. Good luck and have fun, building it.
Nice design you have there. I'm currently having a custom frame built by Sam at firebikes with some of the same features your thinkin about. The cool thing about your bike is that your going to build it yourself. Awesome! Here is a couple of pics of my design.
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I sure wish I had the wherewithall to build frames. I like the shape, and I think a few rollers to guide the chain along with the frame, so it follows the lines of the frame, would look good.
Frame is looking good. I'm not liking the sissy bar. I think with 1.5" tube your springer fork will look "dinky." Why don't you build your own springer fork with some thicker tubing, say 1." I would also rake the front end some, cause that will look better and your foot won't scrape the front tire when cornering. Or just move the bottom bracket shell back. Keep us updated.
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glad to hear that you guys liked the framedesign. I've looked at your comments and i've redesigned the last sketch I made and acording to your thoughts the bike would look a little like this...
i've replaced the springerfork with a triplefork and tilted that a bit. And i've changed the seat to a regular cruisersaddle. Hope you guys like it even more this time
when i first saw design 2, i thought the rear was suspended, pivoting where it mounts to top tube. spring could go on the non-drive side at the bottom, opposite the chain, seat would move with the swingarm. were you thinking that too? even as a hardtail it looks pretty cool. not sure if a radial-spoked rear rim is up to the stress, but as a bicycle-drawing-person myself, they are much easier to draw.
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the saddle's going to be mounted on the top tube and it ain't going to move with the swingarm.
With my first design where i had the seat with the sissybar I kind of thought that the sissybar was going to be some kind of support for the rear but now i probably gonna stick with some sort of cruisersaddle
hope it was some sort of answear to you question
I think, the bike looks much better now. Wildcat mentioned a chainguide/-spanner and I agree with him. If your chain has a length of almost 2 regular chains, it's wise to consider some sort of tensioningsystem. With mine, I used a rollerskatewheel. And last, but not least: build it, following your own ideas. Have fun, dude.
Hi It's fun to hear that you like it
i will consider the chainguiding but first things first, the project is really "only" the building of the frame. I have a timelimit and to be sure to not surpass that time i set the project to only be the framebuild. The rest of the build is gonna be something i will have to deal with later
Does your design intent match your fabrication abilities?
Using 1.5" tubing for the chain/seat stays is problematic without some more design work.
“I am easily satisfied with the very best.”
God im lucky i can change a saddle
still trying to learn to ride a bicycle using a vintage mtb.
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Kanye West Matters…yes, but to whom..?
You know how it is stated, “What goes around, comes around…or even taking a page from The Beatles, “Instant Karma’s gonna get you…it’ll knock you right on your back…” In a minutia of self-disclosure I will openly admit that Kanye West is the epitome of a black rag-doll.
Furthermore, with his behavior and actions on the set of the MTV Music Awards (No! Not this year’s Grammy’s!) that featured a “Black Lives Matter” display of rubbish as Taylor Swift won for Album of the Year and as she walked, smiling, to receive her award, who jumps up onto the stage between Taylor Swift and the person presenting the award?
None other than Kanye West who had then, as he does now, nothing positive to say to an award winning artist…Taylor Swift. Instead he spews his stupid comments about how the Award belonged in Beyoncé’s hands.
This year prior to the Grammy Awards, West tweeted this about Taylor Swift: On the song “Famous” featuring Rihanna, Kanye raps: “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex, I made that b**ch famous.” What an arrogant, emphasizing unprofessional person of typical persona.
Swift began her acceptance speech by thanking her fans for the past decade and her 1989 collaborators, from Ryan Tedder to Jack Antonoff, before firing back at the 38-year-old rapper on music’s biggest night.
Talk about a class act, Ms.Swift’s response was everything professional and mindful of her fans and all people she stated, “And as the first woman to win Album of the Year twice, I want to say to all the young women out there, there are going to be people along the way who try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments and your fame,” she said.
Continuing, Taylor went gently on to say, “But if you just focus on the work and you don’t let those people sidetrack you, some day when you get where you’re going, you’ll look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there and that will be the greatest feeling in the world,” Swift continued.
In a completely unrelated matter Kanye West is experiencing a financial breakdown inasmuch as what he does not know is how to properly maintain a business. Consider the following, Kanye West has just written another long series of tweets to explain why he is asking billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg to give him money.
The 38-year-old rapper revealed the day before that he is $53 million in debt and he called upon the Facebook co-founder to give him $1 billion to fund his ideas.
“If I spent my money on my ideas I could not afford to take care of my family. I am in a place that so many artist end up,” Kanye wrote in his new tweets. “Also for anyone that has money they know the first rule is to use other people’s money.”
Kanye stepping out for a Valentine’s Day dinner with his wife Kim Kardashian on Sunday (February 14) in New York City.

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Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri (PPSLRSWMO) announced the launch of their new mobile abortion clinic on Monday, Oct. 3.
The mobile clinic announcement was one of two initiatives the group announced on Monday.
Planned Parenthood said the mobile clinic would both bring services closer to patients in Missouri and address the huge increase in demand.
Missouri was one of many states that had trigger laws in place when Roe v. Wade was overturned. PPSLRSWMO did open up two clinics in Illinois, where abortion remains legal, in anticipation of the decision. However, demand went up more quickly than expected. The Fairview Heights clinic, which is about 20 miles from the state line, has seen a 30% increase in new abortion patients. Clinics across Illinois have seen similar increases as the state becomes an island for access.
PPSLRSWMO said that at the Fairview Heights clinic alone, appointment wait times went from four days to two and a half weeks, patients from outside the bi-state area (Missouri and Illinois) increased by more than 340%, and patients coming for abortion after 14 weeks gestation increased by over 115%.
The organization has also opened up a new health center in Rolla, Mo., 100 miles to the southwest of St. Louis. While Missouri bans abortion, the clinic will still offer Planned Parenthood’s other services including birth control, STI testing and treatment, annual exams, vasectomies, and gender-affirming care. The Rolla location is their first facility in a rural area.
“One hundred days post-Roe we stand in defiance to say: we are not backing down,” said Yamelsie Rodríguez, president and CEO of PPSLRSWMO. “When Roe fell 100 days ago, we doubled down on our commitment to patients. Today we march forward, expanding access to family planning in Missouri while we take abortion care on the road in Illinois. Abortion bans, ‘defunding’ Planned Parenthood, and attacks on reproductive freedoms writ large are deeply unpopular. We’re standing in the gap created by politicians and ensuring all people can access the health care they deserve, no matter where they live.”
The Rolla health center will start seeing patients in the first week of November and the mobile abortion clinic will be operational by the end of 2022.
“Increasing our capacity to see more patients in Missouri and Illinois is helping combat multiple public health crises — from health care provider shortages, rising STI rates, worsening Black maternal mortality rates, and abortion bans across the South and Midwest,” said Dr. Colleen McNicholas, chief medical officer. “Planned Parenthood is proud to bring creative solutions to an unjust health care system and doing our best to depoliticize decisions that should be left between providers and their patients.”


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Nanowires for detecting molecular signs of cancer
A paper describing the work will appear in October in the journal Nature Biotechnology and is now posted on the journal's web site.
"This is one of the first applications of nanotechnology to healthcare and offers a clinical technique that is significantly better than what exists today," says author Charles M. Lieber, Mark Hyman Jr. Professor of Chemistry in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "A nanowire array can test a mere pinprick of blood in just minutes, providing a nearly instantaneous scan for many different cancer markers. It's a device that could open up substantial new possibilities in the diagnosis of cancer and other complex diseases."
Lieber and his colleagues linked slender nanowires conducting a small current with antibody receptors for certain cancer markers -- such as prostate specific antigen (PSA), PSA-a1-antichymotrypsin, carcinoembryonic antigen and mucin-1. When these telltale proteins come into contact with a receptor, it sparks a momentary change in conductance that gives a clear indication of the marker's presence. The detectors differentiate among various cancer markers both through the specific receptors used to snag them and because each binds its receptor for a characteristic length of time before dislodging.
"Our results show that these devices are able to distinguish among molecules with near-perfect selectivity," Lieber says, adding that the risk of false readings is minimized by the incorporation of various control nanowires.
The scientists also fitted some nanowires in the arrays with nucleic acid receptors for telomerase, an enzyme inactive in most of the body's somatic cells but active in at least 80 percent of known human cancers. In testing of extracts from as few as 10 tumor cells, these receptors allowed real-time monitoring of telomerase binding and activity.
Lieber says nanowire arrays could easily be scaled up to detect many different cancer markers -- more of which are being found all the time, thanks to the current boom in proteomics. Widespread use of these cancer markers in healthcare will ultimately depend upon the development of techniques that allow rapid detection of many markers with high selectivity and sensitivity.
"Genomics and proteomics research has elucidated many new biomarkers that have the potential to greatly improve disease diagnosis," the scientists write. "The availability of multiple biomarkers is believed to be especially important in the diagnosis of complex diseases like cancer, for which disease heterogeneity makes tests of single markers inadequate. Patterns of multiple cancer markers might, however, provide the information necessary for robust diagnosis of disease … [and] detection of markers associated with different stages of disease pathogenesis could further facilitate early detection."
While initial rounds of cancer testing today identify only whether or not cancer is present, nanowire arrays have the potential to immediately fill in details on exactly what type of cancer is present. Nanowires could also track patients' health as treatment progresses. Because the arrays detect molecules suspended in fluids, drops of blood could be tested directly, in a physician's office, without any need for biochemical manipulation.
Lieber's co-authors are Gengfeng Zheng, Fernando Patolsky, Yi Cui and Wayne U. Wang, all of Harvard's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Biophysics Program and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Cancer Institute.
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Most online casinos have grown in line with the internet: thanks to technological advances and an increasingly powerful network, casinos have also been able to expand as a result, becoming real gambling monsters capable of competing and overcome the physical gambling halls.
Although the network is synonymous with freedom, soon the legislators of all the countries of the world, including Italy, had to deal with online betting and start to put in place adequate measures to regulate this particular market.
Let’s take a look at the phenomenon, highlighting how regulation has affected the growth and development of online casinos.
As anticipated, all countries in the world have had to take steps to regularize the world of online gambling, in the same way as they have dealt with the issue of physical casinos and gambling halls in the area for decades.
The regulation of gambling, especially online gambling, changes a lot depending on the laws of the various countries, so we will be faced with different situations. Let’s look at some examples.
Italy boasts one of the best regulations in the world. Thanks to the ADM (formerly AAMS), a document of over 100 pages of requirements has been drafted, which every online casino must meet in order to obtain a license to operate on Italian soil.
The ADM license, which online casinos can obtain through a call and later after paying a figure of around € 350,000, is an essential requirement to be able to offer their games to a people of bettors like the Italians.
The license was established through several steps, already in 2008 the online poker market was regulated. Only in 2011, however, did the decisive blow come: all casinos without a license and the essential requirements to operate in Italy have been permanently closed by ADM.
There has been and still is a real fight against irregular operators, so much so that every year ADM continues to close hundreds of non-standard sites.
In addition to this, at some point in 2018, to combat the phenomenon of gambling and child gambling, lawmakers have also pledged to counter the advertising of casino operators, although this decree was revised the following year because in It also went against the interests of the state, which in any case receives millions of tax revenue from gambling.
In general, since the introduction of the ADM license, online gaming has grown strongly in Italy. Both operators and bettors feel more protected and this has made a decisive contribution to the relaunch of gambling in Italy.
The situation in Germany is very different. Until recently, German regulations imposed severe restrictions on online gambling, especially casinos and poker. Until mid-2021, only online betting could be made in Germany, but later this country also opened up to casinos, poker and in general to all online gambling.
However, as ADNKRONOS also testifies, there are still strong limits that in fact do not make gambling take off in Germany: maximum bet ceiling of € 1, no jackpot, maximum deposit of € 1000, no advertising in the morning.
Here, too, the situation is more like Germany than Italy. In 2021, a law came into force that opens more to online casinos, introducing different licenses depending on whether the operator wants to open poker or casino games or sports betting.
The body that regulates the market is the KSA, which has introduced licenses from € 45,000 (however, at a much lower cost than in Italy). Only operators with strong financial guarantees can operate in these countries, so if we want the players are extremely protected.
The Danes were the first to introduce the self-exclusion system, allowing gambling sufferers to control their problems. It has also introduced an application that allows the player to monitor at all times the bets made, winnings and even losses, in order to make fans even more aware of the economic risk.
In general, therefore, Denmark has excellent protection for bettors and is a model for all other countries.
Switzerland would expect a wide opening to online gambling, but all online betting is banned. Gambling can only be played in land-based casinos, obviously to protect the historic casinos that have been operating for years in Lugano and other Swiss cantons.
Rest of the World
There are countries where online gambling is banned, which is in fact illegal. Examples include North Korea, the United Arab Emirates, and Brunei.
In the United States, however, the situation is hybrid: there are states that have legalized online gambling and others that instead ban it. In Canada, however, it is illegal, but the legislation is not yet clear. As in the United States, there are some provinces in India where gambling is tolerated, while in many others it is illegal.
Regulation greatly affects the growth and development of online casinos. On the one hand we have countries that use the laws to safeguard players against gambling and child gambling, on the other hand countries like Italy that have heavily regulated the industry but have also reassured players and open to all online casinos in order , allowing the growth of the market.
Then there are situations like the one in Switzerland, where online gambling does not take off precisely because of very strict laws in favor of physical gambling.


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This bold blend is a combination of smoky Lapsang Souchong, creamy whiskey flavor, and a note of dark chocolate. Enjoy on a cold night under the open sky or by a crackling fire in your favorite armchair.
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So financial literacy helps not only in kids learning at an early age about investing and savings, but they also learn about financial-services careers that can be so lucrative. And we think it prepares them to be better entrepreneurs if they get exposed to financial literacy at an early age, learning how to budget and all the things necessary to start a business.
But I do think, when I talk to parents about how can you create wealth for your families, I tell them the most important thing is to get your child into the appropriate studies that will allow them to be qualified to work in the parts of the economy where the wealth and the jobs are being created today.
And most people in our community, because of the discrimination we face, we don't know about hedge funds, we don't know about private equity. We don't know much about venture capital. We don't know about the enormous wealth that is created by these parts of the economy that have just sort of sprung up. If we want to bring wealth to our communities, we have to get our young people exposed to the markets at an early age so they can get career paths that will lead them to the right places.
At the same time, these private-equity firms and hedge funds and venture-capital firms have to start getting out of their comfort zone and stop only hiring people that look like them and hiring from their own communities in our segregated society. We have to hold these institutions accountable.
Pension funds hire private-equity firms; family offices do, universities and hospitals and foundations do. If all those anchor institutions in our community told their private-equity managers and their hedge-fund managers and their venture-capital managers that they had to have staff that looked like America and they had to have leaders in those organizations that look like America, I guarantee you, they would find that talent once the customers asked and insisted on it.
MarketWatch: I want to hear more about the private sector, but first I want to hear more about the public sector: Are there any regulations or tax-code changes or laws that could be changed in order to help close the wealth gap?
Rogers: I was very fortunate during the Obama administration to chair his Council for Financial Capability for Young Americans, and one of the suggestions we gave the president at the end was that we would hope that the government would encourage financial institutions to partner with urban schools in the way that we have. The federal government can't mandate it, but I think that would go a long way.
If all the major financial institutions in this country, small, mid-sized and large, did what we've done with the Ariel Community Academy, (link)you would have a whole different story out there. It would be an amazing success story.
I think the second thing the government can do is follow what's happening in Australia. Australia has the best kind of Social Security on steroids where they allow all citizens to create wealth and, over a long period of time, have money put aside for their retirement benefits.
[The government can] put tax incentives in place to bring back defined-benefit plans. Right now, all the regulatory and tax law incentivizes corporations -- strongly incentivizes corporations -- to get out of the pension-fund business, and replace it with the 401(k) business.
And that's especially debilitating for Black and brown folks coming along, who are not as familiar with the markets. So they're going to, of course, get into the 401(k) late and they're going to get in and out, sell their securities at the wrong time. When the markets are panicking, they're going to panic. They're going to also be more likely to take hardship withdrawals or loans from their 401(k) plans. All those things conspire for people of color to be able to not have the kind of retirement they deserve.
It would be wonderful if the government could intervene backwards, and go back to the way it used to be, where the incentives for corporations were in line to have strong pension plans. It was meaningful and material and made all the difference.
I was on a call with [BlackRock (BLK) chairman and CEO] Larry Fink. He's talked a lot about this, and he was saying he didn't understand why the press, why the presidential candidates, (link)why congressional leadership wasn't focused on this issue of the future of retirement income for Americans. And I made the point to Larry that it's much worse for people of color. This is a crisis for everyone, but it's a super crisis for folks of color.
MarketWatch: Now getting to the private sector, and boardrooms in specific. You've been on both sides: You sit on some boards, and in Ariel Investments, you encourage boardrooms to become more diverse. Why do you do that and what have the results been?
Rogers: We can point to now over 45 instances where we have caused a corporation to have what we call a Jackie Robinson moment, and have their first diverse board member. So we're really quite proud of that, from Sotheby's (BID.JO) to Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL).
When we talk to these companies, we tell them, "We're one of your bigger shareholders, we believe in you, we think you're going to be a great business. But if your management team and your board looks like a 1940s company, it's hard for us to have confidence in you as an investment. We want a company that looks like a 21st-century company that cares about these issues but understands that if you search for diverse talent, you're going to have a stronger team."
There's a lot of research (link) that shows diverse perspectives lead to better decision making. And, of course, when you have diverse leadership you're going to have better understanding of your diverse customer base. And that's really, really important.
As the country gets more and more diverse, if you don't do this well, you're just going to get further and further and further behind. And your competitors that get it will race ahead of you because they are going to have better talent, deeper talent and better connections with their customer base.
I know sometimes people think we're a pain in the ass, because we keep plugging them and plugging them, and pushing them and pushing them. But if a company doesn't get it, then at some point we may have to decide we're going to sell.
Under the leadership of our ESG team, we are going to be keeping track of this and then voting against directors a year out if they have not had that Jackie Robinson moment.
MarketWatch: To what extent can ESG [environmental, social and corporate governance] investing close the racial wealth gap?
Rogers: I always use the example of the University of Chicago, where I've been a longtime trustee, close to 20 years. We were talking about the fact that at the time when Bob Zimmer became president and, at some point, realized I was the only Black trustee there out of 60 trustees.
We were having lunch or breakfast, and I said, "Bob, if every progressive institution like University of Chicago never works with minority-owned companies or asks the majority companies to have minority leaders in their relationship with the university, how do you expect us to create the wealth and stature to qualify to be on the board?" He said, "Every once in a while, someone helps you think about a new way to solve a difficult problem. And so John's done that for me."
There's now over 95 companies that are doing business with the University of Chicago -- professional services, financial services, technology, et cetera -- that weren't 11 years ago.
There's some other institutions in town doing great work like that. Northern Trust (NTRS), McDonald's, Exelon (EXC) have been absolutely fantastic.
But those are sort of the exceptions, really, that have really made a true commitment. I'm sure there are some others out there, and some others out there nationally. But too often, the economic opportunities are not open for people of color, even today. And, you know, as Dr. [Martin Luther] King said, many well-meaning white Americans deplore prejudice, but accept or ignore economic injustice (link).
(link)And we continue to see that in our country today.
MarketWatch: What did the Paycheck Protection Program in the CARES Act and the money it distributed to Black-owned businesses show about the wealth gap, and race and business?
Rogers: It was much harder for Black and brown businesses (link)to get access to that vitally needed capital in the heart of the pandemic.
We didn't have the relationships with the banks. We just did not get the opportunities to save our businesses the way that the majority community did. So I think that's part of this whole financial-literacy issue; it's part of this whole relationship. Again, segregation, discrimination. Implicit, unconscious bias is still out there where people think that we're not worthy of the loans and the opportunities that PPP brought forth.
The second thing that's really important, and I think it's not been talked enough about, is the disproportionate amount of Black and brown businesses that are in the parts of the economy where the pandemic hurt them the worst.
If you're in construction and catering, janitorial services, low-margin businesses to start with, you're out of business when the pandemic hits. If you're in private equity, hedge funds, venture capital or lawyers, accountants -- they're able to work from home. Many are doing as well or better, financially, than before the pandemic hit.
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Manchester Community Music School, located in historic north Manchester, provides quality musical instruction, music therapy and performance opportunities for students and clients of all ages. The Music School is home to 50 of New England’s finest music educators and music therapists and over 1,500 students and clients from across New Hampshire. As a cultural performance center, we offer programs in an environment that encourages participation, interaction, and enjoyment. We are dedicated to supporting the artistic development of the community through our programs, and our classes are open to all regardless of age, race, national origin, physical challenges, or ability to pay.
Why become a student at Manchester Community Music School?
At MCMS, We Educate a Well Rounded Musician
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This multi-generational group is comprised of individuals of all ages and all walks of life from early teens to mid-eighties. They represent all levels of ability from middle school students needing more challenging repertoire, to high school and college students, community members returning to their musical roots, music majors, and professional musicians. Together they make up a community who love to come together and play fun, summertime band favorites.
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Football is a team game, and connections are important to make the team click. Spending so much time together in training, match days, pre-season tour and socially, occasionally we see a certain pair of players connect on a level above the rest.
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7. Dele Alli and Eric Dier
Like most friendships between Brits, these two demonstrate their love for each other by bantering off. Dele tweeted an embarrassing video of Dier dancing, which the former retaliated to with an equally embarrassing video of Dele singing. Dele Alli even managed to schedule a ‘fight’ with man mountain Anthony Joshua to the laughter of Dier. The two have nearly been inseparable since joining forces at Tottenham Hotspur back in 2015.
6. Jose Mourinho and Marco Materazzi
It’s fair to say Jose Mourinho is a ‘Marmite’ manager. Some would go to war for him, some absolutely despise him! But it’s testament to the man’s coaching style that so many top name players gave everything for him and still respect him so highly.
Back in his Inter Milan days, no player bonded with Mourinho on such a level as Marco Materazzi. The two would embark upon the most successful season in the club’s history in the 2009/10 season where they won the treble of Serie A, Coppa Italia and the Champions League, becoming the first Italian side to achieve such success.
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After graduating, I was awarded a scholarship to complete my Master’s Degree in Management Science and Engineering. As part of the scholarship, I was required to teach, and enjoyed the opportunity to share my knowledge of, and developments in, Economics. My passion for Economics originates from the same curiosity that first interested me in translation; it allows me to understand and see the world from a different perspective.
After completing my first Master’s Degree, I was granted another scholarship to complete a Master’s in International Business at Griffith University. At that time I had just started my PhD in China, under the supervision of Professor Qinxian Bai, a pioneer in his field, whose work influenced Chinese banking reform and focused on sustainable economic development and positive social change. Professor Bai suggested I take this opportunity to focus my research on Australia’s financial reform and financial regulation.
I took his advice and decided to explore Australia’s financial evolution and the interrelationships between financial structure, financial environment and financial function. Coming from China, I had studied Western economics in great depth, but being here allowed me to gain a better understanding of the modified market economy in Australia.
While I was working on my PhD, I lectured and tutored in Finance and Economics at Griffith University. I did this for eight years before I realised the importance of studying economics at secondary school. Many of my students were not educated on basic economic literacy and numeracy. University curriculum has some limitations and I wanted to teach current social economic issues such as income inequality, wage growth, youth unemployment and trade tensions more broadly.
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drought since the Four Horsemen roamed South Bend. Notre Dame and its
high-powered offense, led by Heisman hopeful quarterback Brady Quinn, hope to
take the first step toward ending that drought against the Yellow Jackets, who
ranked ninth in the ACC in pass defense (213.6 yards per game) in 2005.
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heavyweights aren't what they used to be, but at least Samuel Peter (left) and
James Toney (right) had the kind of old-fashioned they-really-hate-each-other
press conference that gets your attention. (After a tirade Toney threw a water
glass at Peter's manager and was escorted out by security.) Many think the
25-year-old Peter (26--1), a.k.a. the Nigerian Nightmare, is the future of the
division. Toney (69-4-3), 38, is on the downside, but he hasn't lost since
1997. The winner tonight in L.A. becomes the top-rated challenger for Oleg
Maskaev's WBC title.
Showtime 10 p.m.
Championship: Gold Medal Game
Team USA battered the competition in group play (average margin of victory in
its five wins: 23.0 points) and appears destined to face Argentina in the
final. The 2004 Olympic gold medalists, who also finished group play
undefeated, are led by Spurs guard Manu Gin�bili (left) and Bulls forward
ESPN2 6:30 a.m.
Go Pro or Go
CSTV hops on the reality bandwagon with this three-week series, in which 16 of
the country's top women's college volleyball players compete for a spot on the
AVP Crocs Tour. Their first challenge: the three-day AVP Invitational Camp in
Manhattan Beach, Calif.
CSTV 8 p.m.


As photographers, we are responsible for protecting Mother Nature, especially in protected conservation areas. Our behaviour defines our character. If our behaviour defines us as negligent people, it doesn’t just tarnish us – it blackens everyone within the photography community.
When tourists visit wildlife encounters, the money they spend on interacting, petting and walking with predators does not contribute to wildlife conservation or the preservation of natural habitats. Instead that money buys more animals, builds more animal encounters, promotes fake voluntourism, and contributes to animal suffering and death.
Close proximity wildlife tourism has also been blamed for anthropogenic disturbance and psychological stress in Indian tigers and African cheetahs too. If the animals are subjected to prolonged stress, their survival and reproduction will be at risk.


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Five-part flashcard story about John Paton, pioneer missionary to the New Hebrides Islands. This story tells of Paton’s struggles as a teacher in Scotland, a witness to the lost people of Glasgow and later as a missionary to the cannibals of Tanna Island. Children and adults will be inspired by this action-packed true story!
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Included: CD containing lesson guide.


Amy Winehouse Confirms and Talks New Album
Amy Winehouse has confirmed her long-awaited new album will be released within six months - and is packed with "jukebox"-friendly songs. The singer has not released any new material since her Grammy-winning record "Back to Black" in 2006, and has spent much of her four-year hiatus battling drink and drug demons.
Several reports suggested her planned third album had been scrapped altogether - but the "Rehab" hitmaker has now confirmed the disc will hit stores by January. She tells Britain's Metro newspaper, "The album will be six months at the most. It's going to be very much the same as my second album, where there's a lot of jukebox stuff and songs that are... just jukebox, really."
Earlier this month, Winehouse made a rare live appearance, performing alongside her "Valerie" collaborator Mark Ronson at an intimate gig at London's 100 Club.
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- Rs 450 crore for Swachh Punjab
Punjab finance minister Manpreet Badal in his budget on Tuesday announced a new scheme ‘Swacch Punjab, Swasth Punjab’, saying ‘safe water’ was as much important as that required for irrigation even as the row over sharing of water over Sutlej Yamuna Link (SYL) canal is still on with Haryana. “To achieve the target an enhanced allocation of Rs450 crore has been proposed for 2017-18, under the World Bank aided project,” Badal told the House.


With Pennsylvania struggling in comparison to other states in terms of economic development and job creation, Gov. Edward G. Rendell followed up on his promise to invest state dollars in much-needed economic development projects to revitalize PA’s towns and cities by granting the City of Easton $2 million for the construction of a new intermodal parking and transit facility.
The announcement, made at the office of Mayor Thomas F. Goldsmith, featured several area leaders who lauded the project as exactly what Easton needs to continue the progress the City has made in recent years. The Governor, who joined the event by phone, also praised the Easton success story, as he proudly insisted that this $2 million in Capital Redevelopment Assistance funding would allow for the construction of the new facility at the eastern end of the City’s downtown, a crucial passageway between Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and adjacent to the Hotel Easton.
"The progress that Easton has made in recent years must not come to a standstill," Rendell said. "The construction of this facility and the redevelopment of the Hotel Easton largely represent the future of the economy of this city, and I am proud to be able to be a part of Easton’s progress."
The governor said that the development of the nine-story Hotel Easton would depend on centralized parking and transportation near the site. The new transit facility will be able to accommodate not only local and county transit lines, but also national lines such as Greyhound Buses. It was determined that the construction of such an intermodal facility was pivotal to the future success of the proposed Hotel Easton Conference Center, a project which stands to continue Easton’s recent success by attracting further tourism and creating up to 400 new jobs.
"These are exactly the projects that we must take advantage of in towns and cities in every corner of this Commonwealth. We need to invest in our future to grow Pennsylvania out of economic doldrums and thrust ourselves forward into statewide prosperity," Rendell said. "That’s why I’ve put forth a plan that can help us accomplish this - a Plan for a New Pennsylvania, a plan I believe in, and the plan that I was elected to execute."


A scale model has appeared in public depicting Taiwan’s newest warplane.
Taiwan’s Aerospace Industrial Development Corp, or AIDC, built a model of the Blue Magpie for the 2019 Taipei Aerospace & Defence Technology Exhibition, photos reveal.
The $2.2-billion Blue Magpie program, which aims to build 66 high-performance training planes for the Taiwanese air force, could help to sustain the island country’s aerospace industry as it struggles to maintain a large and aging fleet of fighters.
Diplomatic pressure from China complicates Taiwan’s efforts to acquire warplanes from foreign manufacturers. Taipei for years has asked to buy new F-16s from U.S. firm Lockheed Martin, but the administrations of several U.S. presidents have rejected the request.
The Taiwanese air force in 2008 first proposed to buy new training jets to replace decades-old AT-3 and F-5 lead-in fighters. The air arm considered several foreign designs. But Pres. Tsai Ing-wen, who won election in 2016, made it her policy to develop the local defense industry.
The air force pivoted to the Blue Magpie, a development of AIDC’s Indigenous Defense Fighter, which entered service with the Taiwanese air force in 1997.
ADIC reportedly assembled a team of 300 people to develop the new trainer. “AIDC is to design models to undergo wind tunnel testing in the US and other tests in Taiwan, with the first Blue Magpie prototype to be built by 2019 and the first trial flight set for 2020,” Taipei Times reported.
Blue Magpie indirectly benefits from American help. “The IDF was produced with the technical assistance of several U.S. companies, including General Dynamics Corp., which helped with the frame; Hughes Corp., which designed the engine; and Westinghouse Co, which produced the avionics system,” Taipei Times noted.
If the scale model is accurate, the Blue Magpie will lack an internal cannon as well as wingtip rails for air-to-air missiles. Those design choices point to an unarmed trainer that might not have a front-line role during wartime.
Taiwan’s fighter fleet -- 25 F-5s, 46 Mirage 2000s, 102 IDFs and 114 F-16s -- would be a prime target during a Chinese invasion attempt. China could strike Taiwanese bases with hundreds of ballistic missiles during the early hours of an attack. Hundreds of Chinese warplanes quickly could deploy in Taiwanese air space.
Taipei’s efforts to sustain its industrial base, including by developing warplanes such as the Blue Magpie, mean Taiwan in theory can continue to equip its forces with modern weaponry.
Chinese forces are at least as sophisticated and easily outnumber Taiwan’s own forces. But that doesn’t mean China easily could conquer Taiwan. “An attempt to invade Taiwan would likely strain China’s armed forces and invite international intervention,” according to the 2019 edition of the U.S. Defense Department’s annual report on Chinese military developments.
“China has an array of options for a Taiwan campaign, ranging from an air and maritime blockade to a full-scale amphibious invasion to seize and occupy some or all of Taiwan or its offshore islands,” the report continued.
Invading Taiwan would require large numbers of ships to cross the heavily-defended Taiwan Strait. As of 2019, China doesn’t have them. “There is no indication China is significantly expanding its landing ship force necessary for an amphibious assault on Taiwan,” the Pentagon noted.
Even building more ships wouldn’t ensure victory for China. “Large-scale amphibious invasion is one of the most complicated and difficult military operations,” the American report warned. “Success depends upon air and maritime superiority, the rapid buildup and sustainment of supplies onshore and uninterrupted support.”
“These stresses, combined with China’s combat force attrition and the complexity of urban warfare and counterinsurgency, even assuming a successful landing and breakout, make an amphibious invasion of Taiwan a significant political and military risk.”
Maintaining an aerospace industrial base is just one part of Taiwan’s defense strategy. Geography and politics arguably are more important. Even so, Taipei seems determined to build a new jet trainer. Just in case it someday also needs to build new fighters.


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By Louise Watson, Amazonas Staff Report
Images: Rafael Salazar/www.amazonwatch.org
Excerpt from AMAZONAS, November/December 2012
Biologists and human rights observers are calling it an epic disaster in the making, a massive river-damming complex in the heart of the Amazon basin that threatens tens of thousands of native rainforest dwellers and the fish populations that sustain them and enrich the aquarium world.
Belo Monte, the third largest hydroelectric project in the world, is part of the Brazilian government’s plan to power a growing economy and reduce dependence on fossil fuels, but opponents say that there are far more environmentally sound ways to save and generate electricity and that the damage—including the release of huge amounts of methane, a gas 25 times as potent as carbon dioxide—would far outweigh the benefits.
According to Amazon Watch, an NGO founded “to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon Basin,” 80 percent of the water in the Xingu River, a major tributary of the Amazon, will be diverted into two giant canals, each one-third of a mile wide, the creation of which would excavate more earth than was moved to build the Panama Canal. The dam would flood 258 square miles (670 km2), over half of which is rainforest, and displace as many as 40,000 people, according to some estimates.
An independent panel of experts made up of scientists from Brazilian research institutions came to the conclusion that the dam project would cause a permanent drought in the area, with the following consequences:
• Fish stocks, which are especially rich and diverse in the Xingu, would be decimated. (Inhabitants of the region get 70 percent of their protein from fish.) The ornamental fish trade, an important source of income for poor fisher families, would be crippled. The tribes whose ancestral lands, homes, and ways of life are threatened include the Kayapó, Arara, Juruna, Araweté, Xikrin, Asurini and Parakanã Indians.
• The reduction in the river’s flow would restrict or prohibit navigation, preventing trade and access to medical care. Below the dam, agriculture would suffer from lack of water; upstream, wells would be contaminated by the rise in the water table and water-borne diseases would proliferate.
• The promise of construction and support jobs would entice up to 100,000 people into the unspoiled region via a network of new roads. These newcomers would compete for about 40,000 jobs and place an untenable burden on already frail physical and social infrastructures. Many of these immigrants are expected to settle in the rainforest and take up illegal logging and ranching.
There is more to the Belo Monte project than meets the eye: Additional upstream dams would be required in order to guarantee year-round power output, because water flow in the Xingu is subject to wide seasonal variations. And 30 percent of the power that would be generated has already been sold to the huge Eletrobras electric utility company, which will resell it to mining operations and other unsustainable and power-intensive industries.
A number of NGOs opposing the dam, including International Rivers, Xingu Vivo, and Amazon Watch, have been joined in their fight by celebrities—including James Cameron, director of the film Avatar, and actress Sigourney Weaver, who starred in the movie. Videos featuring both can be seen on the Amazon Watch website.
Construction of access roads to the site began in March 2011, but those opposed to the dam complex have been cheered in recent weeks as high-level forces have been attempting to halt construction via legal means. Federal judge Souza Prudente, whom many hailed as courageous for championing the rights of indigenous peoples, ordered work to stop in August 2012. The order was overturned within days by the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil. It was the latest in a series of conflicting rulings, and more are expected as worldwide opposition to the plan grows. (The Federal Public Prosecutors’ Office filed an appeal on September 3).
Prudente said, “The court’s decision highlights the urgent need for the Brazilian government and Congress to respect the federal constitution and international agreements on prior consultations with indigenous peoples regarding projects that put their livelihoods and territories at risk. Human rights and environmental protection cannot be subordinated to narrow business interests.”
An incomplete environmental impact assessment, the failure to inform and consult with the people who would be affected, and a judge’s ruling that the project could go ahead without these essential components have angered many, and a number of protests have been staged, including a three-week occupation of the site this June.
On the Internet:
International Rivers: http://www.internationalrivers.org
Amazon Watch: http://amazonwatch.org/work/belo-monte-dam
James Cameron, A Message from Pandora:
Sigourney Weaver, Defending the Rivers of the Amazon: http://amazonwatch.org/news/2010/0830-defending-the-rivers-of-the-amazon-sigourney
Survival International: http://www.survivalinternational.org/about/belo-monte-dam
Xingu Vivo (Portuguese only): http://www.xinguvivo.org.br/

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Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has warned that his government might take over oil distribution firms, many of them foreign, to secure fuel supply in his country. Mr. Mugabe also used the speech on Saturday to remind Zimbabwean whites who thought they were still in Rhodesia to leave the country.
President Mugabe blamed the fuel crisis on those tasked with procuring it for the country which has faced irregular supplies of fuel and suffered intermittent shortages for more than two years.
Addressing delegates at the close of the annual conference of his ruling ZANU-PF party in Chinhoyi, a farming town 115 kilometers north of the capital Harare, Mr. Mugabe said he had entered into a deal with Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for his country to supply Zimbabwe with fuel.
"We agreed that Libya would supply us with fuel and we would pay them in Zimbabwe dollars which they would invest here in Zimbabwe in joint ventures in fuel sales, tourism, agriculture and that they would buy foodstuffs from Zimbabwe," he said.
But he blamed on "those we work with" of "dragging their feet" in the implementation of the Libyan deal while buying fuel from other countries using foreign currency of which there is a shortage in Zimbabwe.
Earlier this week the state daily newspaper The Herald accused officials of the national oil procuring company the National Oil Company of Zimbabwe, ministry of finance and central bank officials of benefiting from oil purchases by using foreign currency.
The president said the Libyans got offended and started demanding payment in foreign currency. Up to now the government has blamed the shortages on "logistical problems," hoarding by consumers and oil companies holding back supplies in anticipation of price rises.
Mr. Mugabe said his government had been foolish since independence 22 years ago by procuring fuel for the major western oil companies that in turn made big profits. He challenged the companies to use their own money to import fuel and stop relying on government. Otherwise, he warned that his government would consider taking their distribution points and compensate them.
President Mugabe once again attacked white Zimbabweans saying that most of them thought they were still in Rhodesia. "The Rhodesians should go to Rhodesia, I do not know where it is. [British Prime Minister] Blair will show them where Rhodesia is. Here, President Mugabe is president of Zimbabwe," he said.
The president also said that in the face of continued Western hostility Zimbabwe should look at strengthening its relations with other developing countries.


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It is month three of the new year and many are already struggling to stick with their New Year’s resolution(s). It is the same thing every year. You set a goal and begin the New Year with such will power. As time goes by, the resolution is ultimately broken. But you are hardly alone. In fact, according to U.S. News & World Report, 80 percent of New Year’s resolutions fail by February. Among top resolutions in 2018, as in most years, saving money and losing weight (53 percent of respondents said to save money, while 45 percent wanted to lose weight or get in shape).
Despite best laid plans, often our New Year’s resolutions fail, say psychologists, because either we are overwhelmed by the task or the resolution becomes emotionally irrelevant. So, how do you reinvigorate your resolution and get back on track? Here are some simple ways to do just that.
Be realistic about the past to move into the future
Think about what led to previous resolution failures. Is this resolution something you want to do or is it something someone else suggested for you? You must find an emotional connection to resolutions.
Redefine your resolutions into short-term goals
Don’t try to overhaul your entire lifestyle in one action, because this makes your resolution seem unattainable, leading to frustration until you lose interest. Turn this long-term goal into multiple actions or steps. For example, if your resolution was to give up candy, instead of attempting to do so cold turkey, do it progressively. Short-term goals could be to only buy snack-size candy, to drink a glass of water prior to eating candy, or to refrain from storing candy at home or work. After a set amount of time, those goals may shift to include an alternative to candy such as peanut butter and celery sticks. This example reduces of the amount of candy and can easily lead to eliminating candy intake completely.
If you encounter an obstacle and get stuck, you are less likely to quit because the short-term goal seems within reach. Now you are energized and more determined to stay the course. This emotional stimulation leads to feelings of being energized, and the realization that success is attainable. When you don’t have short-term attainable goals, you tend to feel defeated rather than empowered. This results in a loser-takes-less effect on the brain resulting in the feeling of loss.
Set a deadline for each goal
Setting deadlines will motivate you to move towards a mark. Think of deadlines as pitstops on a long road trip. By stretching your legs and viewing other sites, you enjoy the journey and don’t focus as much on the final destination. The trip doesn’t seem as long, which prevents frustration. Using the same example as before, get a calendar and mark all deadlines. By the end of month one, drink a glass of water before eating candy. Within two months, continue drinking water before eating candy and only buy the 10-pack candy snack size. Each short-term goal builds upon the last goal. Eventually, candy will be removed and replaced with the alternative snack.
Be realistic about your short-term goals
Thinking back to arousal – biased competition, Fecteau & Munoz detailed two factors that determine priority in their 2006 article “Salience, Relevance, and Firing: A Priority Map for Target Selection.” One factor refers to how the individual assigns importance to something and the expectations set. Are the short-term goals putting you in a position to achieve something you care about? The other factor refers to how well something draws your attention. If you think the alternative option to a candy bar is nasty and does not give nostalgic feelings, the alternative solution will always invoke a “negative” emotion and you will continue to fail at that resolution until you change your perception.
Keep at it
Remember two things: celebrate small and big wins, and you will have days when you want to quit. Wanting to quit is normal. Don’t let this become an excuse. You are not alone. Call someone who can help you get through the obstacle and continue on with your plan.

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My experiences as a young person at COY16 and COP26
For the past week, I was fortunate enough to be in Glasgow, Scotland attending the pre-summit Conference on Youth (UKCOY16) as well as the United Nations’ annual Climate Change Conference (COP26). I was amazed by the energy surrounding the event and felt recharged by the enthusiasm that saturated the atmosphere, despite combatting jet lag and a wave of assignments.
The UN Climate Change Conference of Youth (COY) is an event under the banner of YOUNGO – The Official Youth Constituency of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The conference takes place right before the annual UN Climate Change Conference, also known as Conference of the Parties (COP), in the same host country as the COP. COY serves as a space for capacity building and policy training, in order to prepare young people for their participation at COP.
COP 26 is the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the third meeting of the parties to the Paris Agreement. This conference is the first time that parties are expected to commit to enhanced ambition since COP21.
During COY, I was fortunate enough to network with other youth climate advocates, give a speech on the Social Cost of Carbon, be interviewed for a spotlight in a COY16 documentary, and attend informative sessions hosted by other youth.
COP was another beast entirely. The sessions are divided by blue and green zones, where blue requires stakeholder registration for negotiators, country delegates, observers, parties, etc. The green zone is a public-facing parallel that organizations are able to host parallel events through. (You can also find in-depth coverage of my experience through my Instagram takeover of @unausayouth under the COP/COY ’21 highlights section.) I want to note here how grateful I was to be able to access this opportunity as well as how thankful I am to the tireless work of the organizers in ensuring this would be a safe and productive gathering.
I was also able to connect ahead of time with other UNA-USA members who were also attending COP26. One part of UNA-USA that I love is that there are so many others who are interested in similar initiatives – there’s always someone to talk to about any SDG-related program! Both UN Foundation employees and UNA-USA attendees were also incredibly helpful and supportive in navigating the logistics of my first COP.
While COP26 is still ongoing, I am confident that the youth who have been working tirelessly toward a more ambitious climate future have positively influenced the trajectory of the conference. If any of our readers ever have a chance to attend, I highly recommend seizing the opportunity.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to reach out to me at: email@example.com