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It’s been a long time coming but at last Brits can enjoy direct flights from London Gatwick to Costa Rica – dubbed the world’s happiest country – thanks to Thomson Airways. The weekly service starts in November 2015 but what can you expect from this lush Central American country?
For one thing, though it is not the world’s biggest country, it has five per cent of the world’s biodiversity, across four mountain ranges, 800 miles of coastline, 200 volcanic formations and hundreds of national parks, that are easy to get to from the capital, San Jose.
One day you could be climbing through cloud forest and be visiting an active volcano the next, and later taking time out relaxing on a pristine white beach of bathing in natural hot springs and living the cowboy life on a working ranch.
But most people head here to get close to wildlife, notably cuddly sloths, white faced capuchin monkeys, howler monkeys and hundreds of tropical birds including the gorgeous quetzal – called by some birdwatchers the most beautiful bird in the world.
Costa Rica prides itself on its green credentials and this, together with its peaceful democracy (it has had no army since 1948) and abundance of natural beauty has earned it the name ‘the world’s happiest country’.
Where happier to get close to nature than in one of the country’s eco-lodges. They are found throughout Costa Rica, many in lush jungle in the south near the Pacific Gulf. Increasingly sophisticated with good food, stylish accommodation in wooden cabins and the opportunity to experience nature first-hand they allow visitors to make minimal impact without sacrificing creature comforts. Early morning tours let you see the rain forest wake up and leisurely kayak tours take you past rich mangrove forests alive with snakes, crocodiles, monkeys galore, sloths and toucans and parrots.
Many offer activities including fishing, yoga and chocolate making. Using beans from the forest, the staff at one lodge, which is built on the site of a disused cocoa plantation, shows guests how to peel, roast and grind the cocoa before cooking with sugar to make a delicious chocolate paste which can be rolled or formed into lovely sweets. They taste best washed down with a cup of finest Costa Rican coffee.
Monteverde’s rare ecosystem is internationally famous as one of the most extensive cloud forests in Central America. At 5,900 ft., this natural sanctuary has more than 2,500 different types of plants and animals, including 400 species of birds. Guided natural history walks take you through the Monteverde Reserve which is home to jaguars and pumas. There’s also a zip-line tour of the reserve where you look down on mammals such as the fuzzy martilla. But the best way to see the lush cloud forest and its inhabitants is by walking on hanging bridges which take you alongside the canopy of trees.
In the early 1950s, a group of Quakers from the United States left their homes in Alabama and arrived in Monteverde at a time when the region was just beginning to be settled. The Quakers, fleeing the United States to avoid being drafted into the Korean War, and attracted by the fact that Costa Rica had no army, established a simple life in Monteverde centred on dairy and cheese production. Some of these families helped establish the Monteverde and Santa Elena Cloud Forest Reserves some 20 years later. To this day they have an influence on the region, including owning hotels. The pretty town of St Elena looks like a Swiss village nestling beneath the misty mountains and has lively restaurants, hostels and bars filled with hikers and bird spotters.
Home on the Ranch
The cattle ranching region of Guanacaste is also home to the Rincon de la Vieja volcano, a thermally active area. Adventure junkies will thrive on the activities on offer here from zip wires, Tarzan swings, white water rafting, canyoning, tubing and horseback riding after which a dip in the hot natural springs provides a welcome relief to aching limbs. On the edge of the national park wannabe cowboys can stay at working cattle ranches with real hacienda style accommodation available and all the adventure tours on the doorstep.
Surfs Up – Head to the Beach
The Pacific Coast has some beautiful beaches with conditions that offer some of the best surfing in this part of the world. Towns such as Nosara are packed with bright driftwood signs pointing to surf shacks and sunset bars. Beaches have an abandoned Robinson-Crusoe feel with rickety shelters constructed from wood and sticks with covers of dried palm leaves. There are some upmarket resorts in this part of the country with Hollywood celebrities spotted sipping cocktails and admiring the views.
Costa Rica also has a Caribbean coastline, which has a different atmosphere with a cultural mix of Afro Caribbean, Tico (the 0name Costa Ricans give themselves) and old hippy vibe. Puerto Viejo has recently become a hit with tourists and has stunning white-sand beaches, tropical vegetation and is close to parks including a Sloth sanctuary.
The Way to San Jose
Most visitors to Costa Rica enter via the capital San Jose, but until recently not many of them chose to linger. Narrow streets, poor air quality and run-down neighbourhoods gave the city a bad name, but now it is regaining some of its old world charm and has several points of interest.
Start with the imposing St Joseph’s cathedral and then head to the imposing The Teatro Nacional built in the style of the Paris Opera from money raised by the coffee tax. Although tickets to see top shows can cost hundreds of dollars, on Wednesdays you can see a half hour taster performance of music, theatre or some other performance for just one dollar. Afterwards have a cocktail or coffee at the lovely Waldorf Hotel, the first hotel in the city to be built exclusively for tourists in the 1920s.
From November 2015, Thomson Airways will be the only airline operating direct flights from the UK to Costa Rica. Flights from London Gatwick to Liberia will operate weekly using 787 Dreamliners.
When to Go
Costa Rica has two seasons; the Dry Season from December-April and the Green (or Rainy) Season from May-November. However it doesn’t rain all the time during the Green season – showers tend to be brief – and this can be a pleasant, and more affordable, time to travel.
Costa Ricans speak Spanish, but English is widely spoken and understood in the main towns and hotels. The currency is the Costa Rican Colon with US dollars also accepted in most places.


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President Obama is right to recognize the need for new trade promotion authority and other resources to promote more exports. But he and Congress should not overlook some simple steps that would also help to remove obstacles that currently keep America’s Foreign-Trade Zones — a shining exception to the sluggishness of the overall export economy — from doing even better.
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A stronger U.S. industrial economy and surging imports are helping trucking companies hire more workers, despite continued reports of a driver shortage.
13 Jul 2014
The top 10 companies among JOC’s Top 100 exporters were responsible for exporting 1,454,700 TEUs in 2013.
26 Jun 2014
A West Coast port strike by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union would have a multibillion-dollar impact on a still-shaky U.S. economy, according to a study commissioned by retailers and manufacturers.
24 Jun 2014
Freight is flowing more quickly through LTL terminals nationwide — a sign, carriers hope, of a steadier economic recovery.
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Available truck capacity will increase this year for the first time since 2007, though not by much, ACT Research predicts
20 May 2014
U.S. shippers haven’t been this optimistic about volume growth in the coming 12 months since The Hurt Locker won the Academy Award for Best Picture and an Icelandic volcano disrupted flights to and from Europe.
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For the first time since the 2008-09 Great Recession, shippers have a “small smile on their faces” when it comes to the economy, National Industrial Transportation League President and CEO Bruce Carlton said. Their increasing optimism in the economy, however, doesn’t quell their concerns over a myriad of other issues, from tightening capacity to infrastructure investment. Carlton recently spoke with JOC senior editors William B. Cassidy and Mark Szakonyi about the expectations NITL members have for the coming months.
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With a cautious eye on the West Coast longshore contract negotiations that will begin on May 12, U.S. retailers expect containerized imports in May to increase 3.5 percent over May 2013, with year-over-year growth tapering through September.
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TUCSON, Ariz. — Booming U.S. oil and natural gas production is “one of the most underappreciated megatrends,” a senior equity research analyst told the Transportation Intermediaries Association conference here.
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U.S. containerized exports tumbled 9.0 percent year-over-year in February to 923,493 TEUs, the lowest monthly volume in 32 months, according to preliminary figures from PIERS, the Data Division of JOC Group. This 9.0 percent drop was also the steepest year-over-year decline since August 2009.

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§ 140.12 Amount of financial protection required for other reactors.
(a) Each licensee is required to have and maintain financial protection for each nuclear reactor for which the amount of financial protection is not determined in § 140.11, in an amount determined pursuant to the formula and other provisions of this section: Provided, That in no event shall the amount of financial protection required for any nuclear reactor under this section be less than $4,500,000 or more than $74,000,000.
(b)(1) The formula is:
x=B times P.
(2) In the formula:
x=Amount of financial protection in dollars.
B=Base amount of financial protection.
(3) The base amount of financial protection is equal to $185 times the maximum power level, expressed in thermal kilowatts, as authorized by the applicable license.
(4) The population factor (P) shall be determined as follows:
(i) Step 1. The area to be considered includes all minor civil divisions (as shown in the 1950 Census of Population, Bureau of the Census, or later data available from the Bureau) which are wholly or partly within a circle with the facility at its center and having a radius in miles equal to the square root of the maximum authorized power level in thermal megawatts.
(ii) Step 2. Identify all minor civil divisions according to the same census which are in whole or in part within the circle determined in Step 1. Determine the population of each such minor civil division (according to the same census or later data available from the Bureau of the Census). For each minor civil division, divide its population by the square of the estimated distance to the nearest mile from the reactor to the geographic center of the minor civil division: Provided, That no such distance shall be deemed to be less than one mile. If the sum of the quotients thus obtained for all minor civil divisions wholly or partly within the circle is 1,000 or less, the population factor is 1. If the sum of these quotients is more than 1,000 but not more than 3,000, the population factor is 1.2. If the sum of these quotients is more than 3,000 but not more than 5,000, the population factor is 1.4. If the sum of these quotients is more than 5,000 but not more than 7,000, the population factor is 1.6. If the sum of these quotients is more than 7,000 but not more than 9,000, the population factor is 1.8. If the sum of these quotients is more than 9,000 the population factor is 2.0.
(c) In any case where a person is authorized under parts 50, 52, or 54 of this chapter to operate two or more nuclear reactors at the same location, the total financial protection required of the licensee for all such reactors is the highest amount which would otherwise be required for any one of those reactors; provided, that such financial protection covers all reactors at the location.
(d) Except in cases where the amount of financial protection calculated under this section is a multiple of $100,000, amounts determined pursuant to this section shall be adjusted to the next highest multiple of $100,000.
[25 FR 2944, Apr. 7, 1960, as amended at 26 FR 1397, Feb. 17, 1961; 32 FR 8125, June 7, 1967; 72 FR 49565, Aug. 28, 2007]
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Sunderland draws with Swansea to grab 1st league point
SUNDERLAND, England (AP) Sunderland rallied to draw with Swansea 1-1 Saturday and grab its first Premier League point of the season.
Bafetimbi Gomis scored in the final moments of the first half with an angled shot to the bottom left corner to put the Welsh side ahead at the Stadium of Light.
Jermain Defoe found the same corner to equalize in the 62nd.
It was the Black Cats' first draw after opening its season with two losses. Swansea had five points from three games.

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2023 Immanuel Wilkins Spring Quartet Tour
The music of saxophonist and composer Immanuel Wilkins is filled with empathy and conviction, bonding arcs of melody and lamentation to pluming gestures of space and breath. Listeners were introduced to this riveting sound with his acclaimed debut album ‘Omega.’
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION
ANNOUNCES INITIAL LINEUP FOR
2023 HOLLYWOOD BOWL JAZZ FESTIVAL
Co-curated by Herbie Hancock and Kamasi Washington
Beloved two-day festival celebrates 43rd year June 17-18 at the Hollywood Bowl
Hosted by Arsenio Hall, with artists slated to appear including Kamasi Washington, Leon Bridges, West Coast Get Down, St. Paul and The Broken Bones, Digable Planets, Poncho Sanchez, Aziza, Soul Rebels with Big Freedia, Samara Joy, Lionel Loueke and Gretchen Parlato, Boukman Eksperyans, Butcher Brown, Andrew Gouché and Prayze Connection and more
LOS ANGELES (Jan. 26, 2023) – The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association today announced initial details of the Hollywood Bowl Jazz Festival presented by the LA Phil over Father’s Day weekend, Saturday and Sunday, June 17-18, 2023
The 34th Annual Long Beach Jazz Festival
Purchase Tickets HERE!
Come celebrate the Long Beach Jazz Festival. Featuring a great line-up from classic R&B to hot summer night jazz. The only Southern California Jazz Festival staged on a gorgeous grassy knoll in a beautiful Lagoon setting. Long Beach Jazz Festival features some of the top artists of the year and includes VIP seating in an incredible outdoor setting with a great selection of food, art and much more. “Jazz”, an experience you will never forget!
Black Violin to Embark on “The Black Violin Experience Tour”
US Tour Dates this February, March, and April
January 31, 2023: This February, the classical-meets-hip-hop duo Black Violin will embark on “The Black Violin Experience Tour” across the US. The tour follows their recent GRAMMY nomination for “The Message,” a collaboration with Blind Boys of Alabama.
Janet Jackson returns to the stage with the 2023 party entitled Together Again
One of the most respected artists of any genre and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recipient hits the road again since the pandemic. Understandably, fans of Janet Jackson are already anticipating new songs and a remarkably long list of her greatest hits for the upcoming Together Again tour.
One Weekend Full
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and Great Music!
California’s Largest Traveling Tequila & Taco Music Festival is coming back to San Diego at Gallagher Square in Petco Park! Join us for TWO days of fun in the sun on Saturday, April 22 and Sunday, April 23rd.
Sierra Nevada World Music Festival Returns to Mendocino County in June with a Star-Studded Reggae Lineup
BOONVILLE, Calif., April 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Epiphany Artists is pleased to announce the 26th edition of the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival (SNWMF) which takes place at the Mendocino County Fairgrounds in Boonville, CA on June 16, 17, and 18, 2023. The premier roots reggae music and camping festival has been held on Summer Solstice/Father’s Day weekend since 1994 (except for a three-year Covid-induced break).
THE NEW EDITION 30-CITY “LEGACY TOUR” BRINGS BACK A NEW JACK SWING EXTRAVAGANZA WITH KEITH SWEAT, TEDDY RILEY, AARON HALL, AND DAMION HALL – THE ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF GUY – AND TANK
GENERAL ON-SALE DATE IS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16
NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Iconic Grammy-nominated, multi-platinum-selling R&B supergroup NEW EDITION closed out 2022 with the highly successful “The Culture Tour,” nominated as one of the Top R&B Tours in the country by Pollstar.
Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour–Celebrating 65 Years
Announces 25 Concerts in 12 States, January 17-April 23, 2023
MJF’s Sixth National All-Star Group Features Dee Dee Bridgewater, Kurt Elling,
Christian Sands, Lakecia Benjamin, Yasushi Nakamura, and Clarence Penn
Monterey, Calif.; The Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF) announces its sixth national tour in 2023, with 25 shows scheduled in January and April.

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CDC: Probable monkeypox cases up to 45 in the US
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there are 45 probable cases of monkeypox throughout the United States.
Health officials say 10 people have tested positive for orthopoxvirus in New York City and are all likely cases of monkeypox. The CDC says the virus can spread through direct contact with the body fluids of someone who has monkeypox.
The CDC says there is a vaccine for monkeypox and that they will increase testing if they need to.

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Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet, playwright, and novelist. He is credited with a quote that has become a part of the public domain.
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
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Oct 21, 2014· A mine plans its death before its birth. The leftover waste from mines is so hazardous that mining companies must figure out what to do with it decades in advance, even before they start digging. That's how it works today, at least. But in 1981, when the United States government began requiring mines to have […]
Mines For Sale in the USA-Complete list of patented mines, BLM Mines, deposits, projects, mineral properties, and mining claims for Sale.
Mar 24, 2020· Arch Coal Inc.: Arch Coal is a top producer of thermal and metallurgical coal from surface and underground mines. The company has mining locations across the U.S. Arch Coal recently announced that ...
Bureau of Mines Bulletin 586; Historical Summary of Coal-Mine Explosions in the United States, 1810-1958 Bureau of Mines I.C. 7493, Major Disasters at Metal and Nonmetal Mines and Quarries in the United States (Excluding Coal Mines)
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Mineral Resources Data System catalogs information about mineral resources around the United States and the world. Using the map tool, users can zoom in to obtain reports and data on past and present mines, mine prospects, and processing plants. All of the data can be downloaded for further use and analysis.
Following is a complete list of all known underground mine tours in the United States.
The U.S. Geological Survey's National Coal Resources Data System comes with an interactive map that provides a huge amount of information on the distribution, thickness, and classification of coal in the United States. The interactive map contains over 250,000 data points, each typically representing a core sample, drill hole, or driller's log in a specific location.
The following table lists the coal mines in the United States that produced at least 4,000,000 short tons of coal.. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), there were 853 coal mines in the U.S. in 2015, producing a total of 896,941 thousand short tons of coal.
Apr 27, 2020· The Annual Coal Report (ACR) provides annual data on U.S. coal production, number of mines, productive capacity, recoverable reserves, employment, productivity, consumption, stocks, and prices. All data for 2018 and previous years are final. Highlights for 2018. U.S. coal production decreased 2.4% year over year to 756.2 million short tons (MMst).
A report by Research and Markets forecasts the mining equipment market in the United States to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.27 percent over the period 2015-2019. According to the report, one of the main factors driving market growth is the surge in mining activities throughout the United States. The country is also a
Major coal mines. The following table lists the 52 coal mines in the United States that produced at least 4,000,000 short tons of coal in 2007. Data have been compiled by the Energy Information Administration of the United States Department of Energy.
May 09, 2019· US coal production has fallen by a third since its peak in 2008, according to official energy statistics, and more than half of all mines have closed since …
Jun 02, 2017· Locals in Jennerstown, Pa., are celebrating the grand opening of a coal mine and the estimated 70 jobs it brings. But the broad trends pushing the …
One of the worst mine disasters in the United States occurred at the Darr Mine in Westmoreland County on December 19, 1907, when a gas and dust explosion killed 239 miners. Other major mine disasters in Western Pennsylvania include the Harwick Mine explosion of 1904 which claimed the lives of 179 miners plus two rescuers and the Marianna Mine Disaster of 1908 which killed 129 coal miners.
The United States is the third-largest gold-producing country, after South Africa and Australia. Mines in Nevada account for more than 80 percent of U.S. production. According to a 2005 article in The New York Times, Nevada had approximately 20 open pit gold mines, about half of the active mines in the United States. ...
Dec 26, 2019· Pages in category "Existing coal mines in the United States" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
An Overview Of Coal Production In The US. Over 40% of coal mining and production in the US is done on public lands; however, mining had reduced marginally from 1.17 billion short tons in 2008 to 986 million short tons in 2015. Wyoming, West ia, Kentucky, Illinois and Pennsylvania account for over 70% of the total coal industry in the US.
Comprehensive list of Coal companies listed in United States Of America, including company profiles, charts, stock quotes, news and user commentary. Coal Mining Companies Listed in United States Of America Category/Country Filter
Two Commercial Diamond Mines. Two locations in the United States have been worked as commercial diamond mines. The first was a mine near Murfreesboro, Arkansas.It was worked as a commercial diamond mine by a succession of operators in the early 1900s but closed because the deposit was subeconomic. Today it is known as the "Crater of Diamonds" and is operated by the State of Arkansas …
Nov 12, 2019· The most famous coal mines are in West ia, but Wyoming is by far the leading U.S. state in coal production, and Pennsylvania has the highest number of coal mines.
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List of coal mines in the United States Use the tools below to search for mines, quarries & sites. You can combine all inputs, e.g. just searching by name, or by combining with other search parameters.
Mining production in the United States decreased 7.50 percent year-on-year in April of 2020, the biggest decline since September 2016, amid the coronavirus pandemic. Mining Production in the United States averaged 2.23 percent from 1920 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 108.20 percent in April of 1923 and a record low of -28.80 percent in October of 1949.
Bureau of Mines Information Circular 8909: Historical Summary of Coal Mine Explosions in the United States, 1959-81 (2.9 ) Metal/Nonmetal Mines: Bureau of Mines Information Circular 7493: Major Disasters at Metal and Nonmetal Mines and Quarries in the United States (Excluding Coal Mines), 1885-1943 (1.4 )
Active mines and mineral plants in the US. Mine plants and operations for commodities monitored by the National Minerals Information Center of the USGS. Operations included are those considered active in 2003 and surveyed by the USGS.
Aug 14, 2019· The company, headquartered in St. Louis, Mo., has majority interests in 22 of the 23 coal-mining operations in the U.S. and Australia, and a 50% equity interest in Middlemount Coal …
45 · The following table lists the coal mines in the United States that produced at least 4,000,000 short tons of coal.. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), there were 853 coal mines in the U.S. in 2015, producing a total of 896,941 thousand short tons of coal.
As mining is one of the important sectors, mining companies in the US play a key role in the country's economic activity Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah. (Credit: Tim Jarrett/Wikipedia.) The US mining companies supplies coal, metals, industrial minerals, sand, and gravel to businesses, manufacturers, utilities and others.

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Ghanaian outfit, Real Tamale United (RTU) have confirmed the transfer of midfielder David Abagna Sandam to Sudanese outfit Al Hilal.
As reported by your most trusted online portal in the country early today, the Black Galaxies midfielder has signed a four-year contract with the club in Sudan.
“Completed successfully in Algeria. Let's welcome Black Stars midfielder David Abagna, a player for Al Hilal for 4 years from Ghana's Real Tamales,” a club statement from the Sudanese giants to confirm the signing of the Ghana midfielder said on Monday.
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✍ دعونا نرحب بمتوسط الميدان نجم البلاك ستارز 🇬🇭 ديفيد أباجنا لاعبًا في صفوف الهلال لمدة 4⃣ أعوام قادمًا من ريال تامالي الغاني 🙌 pic.twitter.com/FUpIIBvNVz
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Confirming the move this evening, RTU have extended best wishes to David Abagna in a short statement.
“Real Tamale United, has reached an agreement with Al Hilal of Sudan for the transfer of David Abagna Sandan. The club wishes David Abagna, well in his next endeavour and sends lots of gratitude to the skipper for his contribution and leadership role in the club,” the statement from RTU said.

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Harry Jowsey and Rylee Arnold have become the Dancing with the Stars pair everyone is talking about these days. Just days after they were spotted out holding hands, Harry, 26, and Rylee, 18, returned to the ballroom for Motown Night. After the episode, Harry and Rylee got the opportunity to respond to all the dating rumors running rampant.
“I just think that we’re trying to focus on the dancing and get good at it, and everyone’s got all crazy theories,” Harry told Page Six. “That video does look pretty wild but we got pushed into a corner. We were trying to get out of this concert. But, yeah, I don’t know. We’re just focusing on the dance and just enjoying being together and if something happens, something happens.”
They were asked whether or not their outing was a “date” or just a “group hang.” They initially reacted by looking at each other and laughing. “Yes, just a group hang,” Rylee said, before adding, “I don’t know.”
This isn’t the first time Harry and Ryle have been asked about the dating rumors. Before their PDA video sparked even more speculation, Harry and Rylee were asked about their chemistry and whether it’s translated out of the ballroom.
“We just enjoy hanging out, and we love each other, so it’s been great,” Harry told ET with a smile on his face. Rylee agreed and Harry added, “Keep the mystery in it.”
Harry and Rylee survived elimination after landing in the bottom three. Tyson Beckford was eliminated on Motown Night. Harry and Rylee are now headed into the show’s Disney 100 week. The celebrities and their pros will be dancing to classic Disney songs as the show celebrates 100 years of Disney. Dancing with the Stars season 32 airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on ABC and Disney+.


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Greensboro, NC - The future of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum is still unknown after Tuesday's council meeting ended with no vote on a funding request.
The city council was expected to decide if they will give a $1.5 million loan to the museum. But after much debate and questions regarding the funding, leadership and the sustainability plan for the museum; the council decided to hold off on making a decision for now.
The meeting started at 4 p.m. on Tuesday afternoon because there was so much to get through. It didn't wrap up until 1:22 a.m. Wednesday morning.
The council heard from many local residents and supporters of the museum who all tried to convince the council to give the museum the money for operating expenses. Amongst the supporters who commented was Franklin McCain, one of the Greensboro Four. He talked about the importance of the museum and spoke on vision and leadership.
Some of the Greensboro council members told News 2 that they don't think more money will save the Civil Rights museum.
"I think there's more questions than just one person stepping down as chair and remaining on the board. I think there's a lot to be discussed on programming and just throwing money at something isn't the right answer," said Councilman Zack Matheny.
In a surprise move on Monday night, the chair of the museum resigned. Skip Alston said he didn't have the time to devote to the museum but decided to remain on the board.
Read here: Skip Alston Resigns As Civil Rights Museum Chairman
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Help us create a powerful, accessable, covid-cautious, and efficient climate action project in cities and towns across Wisconsin. We’re calling it March Forth to Earth Day. March 4th is the deadline for submitting comments to the DNR regarding their draft Environmental Impact Statement. (350 Madison makes it easy to sign on here.) March 4 is also the first of 8 Fridays that will hold a large number of simultaneous climate justice actions all over Wisconsin. Help make this a success in your part of Wisconsin.


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Looking West Towards Sixth Avenue On 42nd Street – 1890s
We are looking west along 42nd Street towards Sixth Avenue in a photograph taken sometime during the last decade of the 19th century.
A cropped version of this photograph appeared in the must own book New York Then & Now 83 Matching Photographic Views from 1864-1938 and from the 1970s by Edward B. Watson and Edmund V. Gillon (Dover) 1976.
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When published in the book the date was given as 1900, but on the original photograph (seen above) taken by the firm of H.N. Tiemann, the caption says 1889 and lists the church as Dr. Parkhurst’s. This is definitely incorrect as Parkhurst was presiding at the Madison Square Presbyterian Church. The building next door, the Spalding Building was not constructed until around 1890, so there is doubt as to the true date of the scene.
Rapid transit is on display in the form of a couple of horse drawn trolleys and the Sixth Avenue Elevated’s 42nd Street station in the background.
West Presbyterian Church 1897 photo Byron & Co via MCNY
On the north side of the street is the West Presbyterian Church (built 1862, demolished 1911) Continue reading →
The year is 1937 and we are looking north on the west side of Sixth Avenue. The Sixth Avenue Elevated in the background will soon be torn down. Sitting out in front of Roxy Jewelers is a man trying to drum up busness to “sell your diamonds, pawn tickets, gold, silver, jewelry & antiques for the highest prices paid.” The Great Depression saw many people selling off whatever valuables they had to pay the rent or just have enough to eat.
Roxy Jewelers (1191 Sixth Avenue, between 46th and 47th Streets) is long gone, replaced by a full block-long commercial skyscraper, 1185 Avenue of the Americas, (a.k.a. Sixth Avenue) whose major tennants include Hess, The National Hockey League and News Corporation.
Directly across the street from where Roxy Jewelers once stood, you will find this shop at 1190 Sixth Avenue. Showing that some things never change, our “Great Recession” has had an effect on the economy as pawn shops offering “instant cash” have popped up everywhere, having very similar deals to the ones they had in 1937.
Herald Square (Before It Became, Herald Square) circa 1888
34th Street where Sixth Avenue and Broadway intersect is known as Herald Square because the New York Herald newspaper had their building located there. It was designed and completed in 1894 by the famous architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White. The building was torn down in two phases, 1928 and 1940.
This photograph predates the naming of Herald Square. The 71st Infantry Regiment (not their armory, which was on 34th Street and Park Avenue) two story building occupies the triangular spot on the right side that would become the location for the Herald’s building.
Macy’s moved uptown from 14th Street to the Herald Square area in 1902.
The train tracks in the lower right side of the photo are part of the Sixth Avenue Elevated. It was opened in 1876 and closed in 1938 and finally demolished in 1939. There was a much believed rumor that scrap metal from the elevated was sold to Japan and the Japanese then used that steel to make munitions that were used against the United States in World War II.

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I generally stayed clear of the recent American health care debate on Gubu World. However I can't help but sympathise with all the conservative commentators who claim that a government run health care system will be an inefficient and bureaucratic monstrosity dominated by the unions. The USA is different than Europe as the Tea Party people love to say. The American people appear to have a genuine deep distrust of government intervention in the economy. Can you really blame them. Just look at the picture I took of people queing at the passport office in Molseworth Street during the recent "slow down" protest by the public sector unions.


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Lying leisurely on my stomach as I received a massage, a school of fish glided through the coral beneath me. A glass floor in a spa perched above a lagoon — ah, genius. At a sister resort, swimming fish were visible through my living room coffee table, topped by a removable piece of spotless glass. Again, the ingenuity was nearly as impressive as the gorgeous spectacle of marine life. No matter which InterContinental Hotels & Resorts property I visited, it was as if I had my own private aquarium throughout my stay in French Polynesia.
The secret to the strength of the InterContinental’s portfolio of four properties in French Polynesia is actually quite simple. Find a piece of paradise, build the stuff of bucket list dreams, maintain the facilities, offer great Polynesian dining and entertainment and respect the natural resources. Contributing to the resorts’ special connection to Polynesia, the general managers of the properties have been with the company for a total of 65 years, and the regional president of operations, Philippe Brovelli, has been in his position for 30 years.
“The stability of the management has no equal,” said Pierre Lesage, regional director of sales and marketing for InterContinental Resorts French Polynesia. “They know the destination, the market, the clientele and the staff, and they are highly respected both locally and internationally.”
According to Lesage, the average stay in French Polynesia is generally 10 days: an introductory and final day in Tahiti, followed by four days in Moorea and four days in Bora Bora. The brand’s four properties are located on the Society Islands, providing the convenience of booking with one brand.
The four properties are far from identical though, and knowing their particular strengths will help when qualifying clients. Families will enjoy InterContinental Moorea Resort & Spa, which offers a variety of bungalow configurations, a dolphin center and a turtle sanctuary. If enjoying the gorgeous silhouette of Moorea from a sand-bottom infinity pool is what your clients prefer, the InterContinental Tahiti Resort is the obvious choice. But what to do in Bora Bora, where the brand offers not one, but two stunning properties?
The newest addition to the brand’s portfolio, the InterContinental Bora Bora Resort & Thalasso Spa, opened in 2006 and has quickly become a sweetheart of top travel lists. It’s no mystery how the resort earned its spot on the Conde Nast Traveler 2013 Gold List: For one, it lies on a virgin beach whose name translates to “two hearts” in Tahitian. A water taxi leaves several times daily from the InterContinental Bora Bora Le Moana, and the ride between the two resorts is thrilling in itself. At the property, the spectacle continues: Polynesian “warriors” greet VIPs who include destination wedding parties and spa-goers. The rooms are the brand’s most luxurious — 80 villas are overwater, and bedrooms include a glass wall that overlooks the lagoon.
The 13,000-square-foot Deep Ocean Spa is luxuriously sprawled in between the lagoon and the ocean, which is not just for show here. The first thalassotherapy center built in the South Pacific uses ocean water drawn at depths of more than 2,600 feet. Also notable are the spa’s overwater, glass-floored bungalows and its extensive pre- or post-treatment circuit.
Booking the most destination weddings of the four, InterContinental Thalasso recently launched a Facebook page to showcase its excellent romance experience product: the world’s first overwater, glass-floor chapel, a cruise to a private motu to enjoy a four-course gourmet menu by sunset and more.
“If clients are looking for a trendy, modern, upscale boutique resort with a touch of Polynesia, it would be here, where they can listen to lounge music and where the clientele is trendier,” said Lesage.
On the other hand, Lesage finds that the InterContinental Le Moana is the most Polynesian of the resorts. Attracting discreet rather than trendy clients, I too found it more intimate. The general manager, Laurence Levy, started there 20 years ago and personally meets and sends off every guest. The image of Levy — tall, tan and clad in fresh flowers and a long, flowing dress — is one that I will always associate with the property.
The rooms aren’t as modern as those found at InterContinental Thalasso, but I loved the Polynesian materials, such as bamboo, mother of pearl and pandanus. The small network of overwater bungalows extends to a blue-sky-and-ocean-backdrop as well as some specks of white: the property’s four most romantic rooms, marked by hearts.
Simple or genius — InterContinental’s Polynesian properties are hard not to love.

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MIDDLEBURY, Ind., – Grand Design RV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Winnebago Industries (NYSE: WGO), has again been recognized as a Best Employer in Manufacturing in The Goshen News 2024 Best of the Best contest, according to a press release from the company. This year, Grand Design additionally captured a Best Employer in Business, Management & Administration designation.
“We are thrilled and honored to once again be recognized as a Best Employer in Manufacturing by the Michiana and surrounding communities,” said Don Clark, President and CEO, Grand Design RV. “The added recognition in the Business, Management and Administration category underscores our commitment to create a culture where our team feels valued. We sincerely thank all our Grand Design team members for their partnership to produce and service superior recreational vehicles.”
Each year, The Goshen News asks their readers throughout Elkhart, LaGrange, Noble and Kosciusko counties who their favorite businesses are, and readers cast their votes online and in print. Readers score their favorite organizations in 12 categories: Automotive, Employer, Entertainment, Financial Services, Food & Drink, Health & Wellness, Home Sweet Home, Living Well, Looking Good, Professional Services, Specialty Retail and Travel. The competition recognizes businesses, organizations and professionals who earn readers’ votes through hard work, excellent customer service, and great products.
Grand Design employs more than 2,000 area residents. For more than 10 years, the company supports many organizations and local efforts in Goshen, Elkhart, and Middlebury, including Toys for Tots, Boys and Girls Club, and the Elkhart 4H Fair. Grand Design was also recognized as a runner up this year in the Specialty Retail/RV category.


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Dodge Grand Caravan ES
With Generation III, the Chrysler minivans were available in long- and short- wheelbase models; three- and four-door configurations; and eight different powertrains, including electric and compressed natural gas; on a single, flexible platform.
In development for nearly 5 years from early 1990 (full development from 1991) to December 26, 1994 (final design by Don Renkert was approved on September 23, 1991 and frozen in May 1992), the 1996 model was introduced at the 1995 North American International Auto Show using the Chrysler S platform. It included a number of innovations, including a driver's side sliding door (optional initially, to become standard equipment later), a first for Chrysler and a non-compact minivan for the United States & Canada (the Honda Odyssey had introduced the first four-door non-compact minivan for the United States & Canada in 1994, although the first-generation Odyssey had conventional hinged rear doors). With Generation III, Chrysler introduced a seat management system marketed as Easy Out Roller Seats. A conventional door handle and lock was added to the rear hatch, eliminating the confusing pop-and-lift maneuver which had been required on earlier models.
Base models of the Caravan were offered in most states with either a 2.4 L four-cylinder or the 3.0 L Mitsubishi 6G72 V6 engine, except in several northeastern states, where the Mitsubishi didn't meet emissions standards. In those locales, the 3.3 L engine was offered as the V6 option from 1997 through 2000. The 2.4 L four-cylinder engine produced more power than the Mitsubishi 3.0 had in the first two generations.
The 1996 Caravan, along with the Plymouth Voyager and the Chrysler Town & Country won the North American Car of the Year award. The Caravan itself won Motor Trend magazine's Car of the Year 1996 and appeared on the Car and Driver Ten Best for 1996 and 1997. 1999 also saw the addition of a one-year only 15th anniversary "Platinum Edition", to mark Caravan's 15th year of production. This package was offered on various trim levels, and included Platinum Metallic paint, and fender badges. The 2000 model year offered packages which included the "2000+" and "Millennium" package, however these were little more than unique fender badges on vans with popular equipment.
In 1998, the 1999 Dodge Grand Caravan got new front styling on all trims above SE, and Sport and ES models received even sportier styling. The ES model was the first minivan to receive the "AutoStick" transmission and 17 inch wheels. A cargo net between the driver and front passenger seats was added. Some other changes during this generation included new colors, and interior fabric. Color keyed door and lift-gate handles were standard across the whole range, in addition to a new keyless entry remote. Base and SE models had options for a spoiler as well as color keyed bumpers and trim (grey or color molded bumpers and trim were standard). The driver's side sliding door became standard. Chrysler had updates of the Plymouth Voyager in 1996 for the 1997 model year and the Chrysler Town & Country in 1997 for the 1998 model year, prior to the 1998-2007 DaimlerChrysler era; it was the only exterior update of the NS Dodge Caravan.
1996-2000 2.4 L EDZ I4, 150 hp (110 kW), 167 lb·ft (226 N·m) (Canadian vans beginning in 1999 included a 3.0 L V6 as standard equipment)
1996-2000 3.0 L Mitsubishi 6G72 V6 150 hp (110 kW), 176 lb·ft (239 N·m) (not available in certain U.S. states, 3.3 L V6 offered as standard equipment in those states instead)
1996-2000 3.3 L EGA V6, 158 hp (118 kW), 203 lb·ft (275 N·m)
1996-1997 3.8 L EGH V6, 166 hp (124 kW), 227 lb·ft (308 N·m)
1998-2000 3.8 L EGH V6, 180 hp (130 kW), 240 lb·ft (330 N·m)
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You may be under the impression that vegetable oil, safflower oil, corn oil, etc. are all healthy oils that should be used in place of butter and shortening for cooking and baking. In Canada, vegetable oils and foods containing these oils are allowed to suggest “a reduced risk of heart disease by lowering blood cholesterol levels” on their labels. But a new analysis published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal is questioning such a claim.
“Careful evaluation of recent evidence suggests that allowing a health claim for vegetable oils rich in omega-6 linoleic acid but relatively poor in omega-3 alpha linolenic acid may not be warranted,” stated the researchers. The researchers refer to a study published earlier this year in which saturated fat was replaced with safflower oil (high in omega-6 and low in omega-3). While cholesterol levels decreased, the rates of death from all causes of cardiovascular disease significantly increased.
This tells us two things. One, replacing saturated fats with these so-called healthy oils is not heart healthy. Two, lowering cholesterol is not an indication that your heart health will improve. (Now that’s an eye-opener for many.) Canola oil and soybean oil are higher in omega-3 than vegetable oil, safflower oil and corn oil, but they are also usually sourced from genetically modified canola or soy. For a great cooking oil, opt for olive oil, coconut oil, and yes, even butter. Skip the traditional vegetable oils, and be sure your omega-3 intake is adequate.
certain websites say that hydrogenated oils, like the ones you mention, turns human blood into plastic when taken in consistently.

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The Pledge of Allegiance is a short speech that goes: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." In the United States, it is often recited at public events and it is commonly recited at public schools, especially elementary schools. To recite it, school children are meant to stand facing the American flag with their right hand over their heart.
The Pledge of Allegiance was written in 1892 by a Baptist minister and socialist author named Francis Bellamy. Bellamy wrote the pledge as part of an advertising campaign for a magazine called Youth's Companion, as a way to celebrate the 400-year anniversary of Christopher Columbus' journey to America. Bellamy's original text, however, did not include any reference to God.
The inclusion of the phrase "under God" was inspired by a Catholic group called the Knights of Columbus, who added the phrase to their own recitals in 1951, and attempted to make it a formal part of the pledge. However, the Pledge of Allegiance was not officially changed to include the phrase until 1954, when Minister George Docherty recited a sermon about it while president Eisenhower was in attendance. Docherty and Eisenhower spoke after the sermon, and Eisenhower introduced legislation to modify the Pledge of Allegiance the next day. Since that time, "under God" has been officially recognized as a part of the text.
However, many people dispute the allowance of the phrase "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. They argue that, because the pledge is recited in public schools and at public events, it breaks the First Amendment claim of separation of church and state. In 2002, a case was brought to the Supreme Court by Michael Newdow, an atheist who did not want his daughter to have to recite the words "under God" in her classroom. However, the Supreme Court ultimately claimed that Newdow did not have the right to bring the case to trial, because he was divorced and was not the parent with primary custody. Because of this, they did not have to make a judgment regarding whether it represented a breach of the First Amendment.

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Michael Tamblyn Promoted to CEO of Kobo, Aiki to Stay on as Kobo Chairman
Kobo announced on Thursday that Michael Tamblyn will be taking over as CEO of Kobo on 1 January 2016. One of the earliest employees at Kobo, Tamblyn became Kobo’s President in April 2014, shortly after Takahito Aiki stepped into the role of Chairman and CEO.
Aiki said: “I came to Kobo in February 2014 with a mission to work closely with the executive team to bring the company to its next level of sustainable growth on the global stage. We have done incredible work in the past 22 months and the discipline, innovative thinking, financial planning and customer focus are exactly where they need to be for success.”
Starting next year, Tamblyn will be taking over the role of CEO. Aiki will continue as the Chairman of Kobo, and he will also continue in his role as Managing Executive Officer of Rakuten’s Global eBook Business.
Aiki added: “We have achieved dramatically improved financial performance and I have full confidence in the current executive to lead this company into the future. I very much look forward to working closely with Michael as CEO and as a partner guiding all of Rakuten’s digital reading properties, to extend Rakuten’s vision of global leadership in offering digital and internet services that connect people and empower society.”
In other words, Aiki will continue to run Rakuten’s ebook division, which consists of Kobo, Aquafadas, and OverDrive, the library ebook company Rakuten acquired in March 2015 for $410 million.
Tamblyn said: “I am looking forward to my role in ensuring our parent company, Rakuten, achieves its vision of enriching every stage of a reader’s life. Together with OverDrive and Aquafadas, we want the best possible reading experiences for schools, libraries, institutions, corporations and consumers, enabling readers to buy or borrow digital content anywhere in the world.”
In short, Rakuten’s turnaround specialist is still in charge of Kobo, a sign that the retailer is still invested in the ebook market.


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"Today during my morning sit which was from 8-11am I was able to radiate metta for the first hour until my body dissolved and I felt no discomfort at all. And my mind got so quiet and I was able to see just the vibrations that eventually become thoughts and I was able to relax these vibrations before they become distractions. It was so clear how all things in the 6 sense doors arise due to some cause and how ignorantly we tend to react to them and create a mental proliferation about these things in our mind. When none of it is under our control. It’s all just happening and I was able to watch this process for many hours today. It was very beautiful state to be in it even stretched into meal time and as I walked. The quiet mind stayed along as I kept 6ring all the distractions before they took my mind to far into mental proliferation. This is a very amazing technique. I’ve been doing Goenka style vipassana for 13 years and in all my time I haven’t seen dependent origination so clearly"
~Mr A from an online retreat.( Name withheld as attainments and experiences are only disclosed/discussed between teacher and student)
Physically, my body felt light and at times it felt like I didn't really have a physical body except for the sensations I was feeling on the top of my head.
Mentally, the excitement/pressure feeling from the initial days of the meditation has subsided. Now the feeling of metta is more calm in a way without the excitement.
This continues during the walking meditation as well. My mind is more silent and quite with the intention of metta but not the excitement and the pleasure of it. I am genuinely surprised as to how silent my mind has become especially during walking meditation and during daily activities. Starting to understand what bhante meant when he said "life is meditation, meditation is life."
Mr AY, Mumbai, from an online retreat.

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'Not Lovers of Blood'Uh huh, sure. And the MSM laps it all up.
The Hamas leader on Israel and the Palestinians
...Last week NEWSWEEK's Lally Weymouth spoke by phone to the newly designated Hamas prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh. He was speaking from Shati refugee camp in Gaza, where he lives with his wife and 12 children [lots of future martyrs in this family, I'm certain of that].
Haniyeh: The withdrawal from Gaza was based on a unilateral decision and a unilateral plan. It was not [done] out of the generosity of Israel. We ask, is Israel committed to all these agreements? We are not war seekers nor are we war initiators. We are not lovers of blood. We are oppressed people with rights. If peace brings us our rights, then this is good.
And so do the dhimmicrats on both sides of the Atlantic. The EU has announced 'emergency funds' to the tune of 120 million euros to "stave off (a) Palestinian funds crisis". Meanwhile, the "Islam is Peace" White House has pledged to continue, ahem, "humanitarian funding" for those poor Palestinians. Really, just because they elected a bunch of tyrannical murderous terrorist thugs, now why should we should let them starve or go without band-aids?
Got to hand it to Bush, he never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.


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Editor: Why a diverse newsroom is critical to accurately telling our community’s stories
Ensuring the Akron Beacon Journal’s journalists are representative of the richly diverse population they cover isn’t a new concept in our newsroom.
It was a priority long before George Floyd’s death under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer sparked renewed demands for true social justice in America.
The Beacon Journal has a history of recruiting, hiring and retaining superb minority journalists, including several long-term staffers. It’s also true that we’ve slipped in recent years for a variety of reasons, including not doing enough to recruit diverse candidates when openings occur.
Today, we’re making a commitment in Akron and across the USA TODAY Network to increase the diversity of our local and national news staffing to ensure that our journalism reflects this remarkably diverse community and nation.
It’s simply the right thing to do.
Nonwhite residents make up about 28% of the Greater Akron region’s population, while only 18% of our staff is nonwhite. Black residents comprise 18% of the population and 8% of our staff, including one of seven editors.
That’s a reasonable start, but not good enough. Additionally, only 36% of our staff are women.
To improve our coverage, we added a reporter this summer through the Report for America program to focus on minority and immigrant issues, while understanding that diversity should never be limited to one beat. Seyma Bayram, who is Kurdish and emigrated from Turkey and eventually to the United States as a child, joined us in June and is quickly learning about Akron and contributing meaningful stories.
In fact, Bayram immediately joined with other reporters who had developed a long list of articles on social justice and policing that we needed to pursue after protests regarding Floyd’s death spread to Akron on May 30. We’ve published several in-depth reports examining the diversity of Akron police, efforts to hold police accountable, police training and the history of community policing locally and nationwide.
For those stories and others, our journalists know they need to seek diverse sources and ensure all viewpoints are included. It’s a routine part of conversations and story assignments.
But the bottom line is that we need to further diversify our staff so that our journalism, day in and day out, better reflects the people of the Akron region. Ensuring that all diverse voices are heard should not require a special effort.
The Gannett Co., which owns the Beacon Journal, strives to make the communities it serves stronger and has long focused on inclusion, diversity and equity as core values.
Our company also recently pledged three sustainable actions to support Black communities, including:
• Our journalism: Our commitment to reflecting and covering our country’s diverse communities will be bolstered by enhanced training on covering systemic racism; seminars to further educate ourselves on racial issues; and the launch of Race in America, a new hub on USATODAY.com, to highlight and amplify our work on race and social justice.
• Our workforce: We are committed to building a more inclusive, diverse and equitable workforce. We will measure progress against this important pillar of our company’s transformation, as we look to accelerate change and build allyship across the organization through our employee training and recruitment programs, Employee Resource Groups and our Employee Assistance Program.
• Our resources: We are aligning our resources in support of social change. The Gannett Foundation is making direct grants and matching employee donations to organizations focused on racial equity and social justice. We will leverage the vast reach of our advertising platforms to drive awareness on issues of systemic racism. And we will support our employees’ volunteer efforts in this space by providing paid time off.
As part of this effort, Gannett recently conducted an internal diversity census, and we are reporting the findings here today to be transparent about our status and our goals. We will continue to report our progress as we build stronger newsrooms.
Michael Shearer is editor of the Akron Beacon Journal and BeaconJournal.com and northern Ohio regional editor for Gannett’s USA TODAY Network. He can be reached at 330-996-3750 or email@example.com.


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Here I am, lying on my sofa after 4 weeks of intense, chronic back pain, typing away at my keyboard the way I’ve been doing for the past month.
While this isn’t how I envisioned the end of the year going, in some ways, it might actually be a pretty good metaphor for how my 2018 went.
I’ve never written a “Year In Review” before, although I write a lot of things all the time.
Reflection and introspection are core to my being and key tenets of both my work and personal existence, but the whole “let’s tell everyone how my year went” thing isn’t really my style. However, I do see value in looking holistically and honestly at the year as it was, and extracting what lessons, experiences, and memories I can. As such, here I am, starting to think about my year as a whole, and looking for the themes, takeaways, and insights I can compile from almost another 365 days of existence.
What Went Well In 2018?
I created, marketed, and sold my first digital product!
This is something I’ve been wanting to do for YEARS, but never made the space in my life to actually apply myself towards. In 2018, however, things changed. With the help of some close friends and my loving partner Arielle, I was able to give myself permission to make the space necessary to see a creative endeavor through from start to finish.
The jury’s still out on how it is being received, but that’s not really what’s important to me right now. What’s important is that I did the thing I wanted to do, and I validated the two things I set out to validate:
- That I could take a creative project of my own and see it from start to finish, and
- That if I offered it up for sale online, people would spend their money to purchase what I created.
And the fact is, both of these things are true!
I’ve rarely felt so proud, because I really worked hard on this, and now I have proof that I am moving in the direction that is right for me.
That, is incredibly inspiring.
I turned a house into a home while building some really meaningful friendships
Arielle and I bought our first house in May 2017 and moved in that June. While the buying of a house is a big deal, for me, making the house a home is the more important part. I’m so grateful we were in a position to buy the home, and even more so to have found a beautiful 124-year-old structure that has slowly been becoming “our home.”
[caption id=”attachment_625” align=”aligncenter” width=”768” height=”1024” alt=”Our warm and cozy living room in Philadelphia, PA”] Our warm and cozy living room in Philadelphia, PA[/caption]
Throughout the year we’ve hosted parties, holiday meals, social gatherings, game nights, backyard campfires, and so much more. I’ve gotten back to my handiness and fixed things around the house, installed a new fence, built a table, and more. Arielle and I painted rooms and set up our individual home offices, which we love.
Most importantly, though, I’ve been fortunate enough to feel the warm and fuzzies so many times when we host friends and family in our space.
Filling our home with love, laughter, and joy is truly one of the most rewarding and comforting experiences for me, and we’ve been fortunate to do so quite frequently.
I saw many new places in the world
2018 was an incredible year of travel for Arielle and me, both together and individually.
For Arielle’s work-related Buffer retreat we went to Singapore for a week and chose to bookend the trip with a week in Chiangmai, Thailand, and a week in Bali, Indonesia. We had experiences of all kinds: spiritual, social, cooking, meditative, yogic, foodie, adventurous, carefree, stressful, soothing, rejuvenating, and so much more. I could not be more appreciative of the privilege to explore Asia, and I cannot wait to go back and see even more of such a beautiful continent.
A mere 6 weeks after Asia we flew to South Africa for 2.5 weeks in celebration of her grandmother’s 90th birthday! She, and much of her family live in Cape Town and Johannesburg. We started our trip in the Drakensberg Mountains, hiking and exploring an AMAZING landscape of mountains, gorges, waterfalls and more. We then met up with family — some who live with us in Philadelphia, and others who live in Vancouver — for a week-long family reunion in Umhlanga, which is a lovely beach town. I’ve never had a family reunion because my side of the family is a bit…messy; but this experience was so incredibly warming and welcoming I cannot wait to be back! It was a beautiful experience with four generations of her family running around a resort having braai’s (SA’s BBQ), driving the coasts, exploring the towns, and spending true family time.
And to close out the trip we spent a week staying with her cousins in Cape Town where we further explored, hiked to the top of Table Mountain, found delicious local hipster restaurants and cafes, and saw some friends of ours who happen to live in CT.
[caption id=”attachment_624” align=”alignright” width=”1024” height=”1024” alt=””] Arielle climbing her way to the top! Table Mountain, Cape Town, South Africa[/caption]
To cross a second continent off my list in a matter of weeks is simply incredible.
After those trips, we were so excited to settle back home, yet somehow we ended up with both personal and business trips to Boston, New York, Dallas, Portland, Nashville, Ottawa’s countryside, and probably a few other US cities.
Truly a wild year for travel, it’s nice to be nesting at home right now.
I stabilized my mental health
Long story made short, my mom passed away in 2014 and things have never been the same for me. Shortly after that, I set out into self-employment, which added a whole new level of stress. We bought our house in this time period, which was a crazy new endeavor as well, in addition to other things happening in life that compound the stress.
In short, I spent a few years moving through grief while living with intense periods of depression and anxiety. For a long time, I was struggling pretty hard. Not having a mom after decades of a close relationship is painful. I’ll leave it at that. Starting a business and leaving all the traditional support systems and structures behind is also a challenge, and absolutely elevates stress and uncertainty.
Without too many details, let’s just say I was having a hard time and my regular therapy wasn’t enough. This led me to seek new treatment, which led to medication, which led to me now feeling stabilized, comfortable, and at peace with myself.
If there’s anything I’ve struggled with throughout life it’s my personal mindset that I do not have enough, and my personal fear of losing what I have. While I have not “solved” this in its entirety, I have grown to become much more comfortable and content with who I am, what I have, how I live, and various other existential quandaries.
All I all, 2018 was a really good year for my mental health, as I went from “deep dark places” to “I feel pretty good most of the time.” This, my friends, is a huge win.
I have met so many amazing people this year I don’t even know where to begin
Throughout the year I have had personal get-to-know-you conversations with dozens of people from all over the world, mostly from the comfort of my own home. These people have gone on to become friends, collaborators, clients, advisors, companions, and basically a homemade support system.
Some do similar work while others do the work I aspire to be doing. Some share values and beliefs while others have very different perspectives. Some support me and my work while others actively contribute to my growth.
All in all, I would not be where I am or doing what I’m doing if it was not for all the love and support and friendship of each and every person who has supported me along the way.
If you’re reading this, I hope you know who you are, as I remember each and every one of you. You are invaluable to me, and I thank you for all your love and kindness and offers of support, strength, and companionship.
I’ve become much more comfortable and confident as an independent professional and business owner
Since the day I started my company I never felt like a business owner, and I never felt like I was “doing it right.” I’ve had many clients over the years, I’ve worked on a variety of challenging projects, and I’ve earned income from myriad sources — yet somehow I still never felt like I was being successful in my work.
I said I wanted to run workshops, so I found people to pay me for workshops, but that wasn’t enough. I said I wanted to be a strategist so I found people to pay me to think, but that wasn’t enough. I said I wanted to create and sell products online, so I did that successfully, but that wasn’t enough.
You get the theme.
For me, it’s never enough. And that’s something I’m actively working on improving.
However, throughout the course of 2018, the reality is that I delivered work for some really great clients, worked alongside some really great people, and found ways to express gratitude for the work I was participating in and the life I’ve been living. At this moment, I’ve never felt more confident in my abilities as a creator, a thinker, and an independent worker.
The world is set up with structures, systems, and societal norms, and when we stray from those, they work really hard to pull us back into them. In fact, the further from the mean we stray, the more resistance we meet and pullback we feel — that is, until we break away, stabilize ourselves, and become comfortable being the outlier within a set of normalized behaviors, lifestyles, and desires.
2018 was, for me, the year that I became more comfortable and stabilized as an independent.
I’ve learned to live with the extreme volatility of income and not let it affect me as much as it did. I’ve learned to not care what people think of me as much, and I’ve learned that I don’t need to label and identify myself all the time. Similarly, I’ve learned that I am a Strategist, Writer, and Coach, and even though I don’t always feel like I have the perfect credentials to be these things, the fact is, I cannot not be these things, so therefore by nature, I am. Period.
That feeling of contentment and comfort with myself is so incredibly liberating, I cannot wait to see what happens in 2019 when I fully own who I am, what I do, and how I live.
[caption id=”attachment_627” align=”aligncenter” width=”768” height=”1024” alt=”A small sliver of my office, creative space, and nerd den”] A small sliver of my office, creative space, and nerd den[/caption]
What Didn’t Go Well In 2018?
I spent a lot of time feeling chaotic and unorganized
Even though I have all the tools in the world — apps, notebooks, calendars and more — somehow I manage to still feel entirely lost and unorganized at most moments of the year. When I’m not focused on a project and I’m out there floating around in my world of working for myself, I found it really hard to wrangle up all the writings, projects, ideas, meeting notes, conversations, habits, and all the things I like to keep organized.
For some reason I find myself searching and yearning for this perfect state of organization where I’m on top of every single detail that exists in every facet of my life. Home improvement projects? There’s a Trello board for ideas. Launching my new product? There’s a Things project to track tasks. Organizing stuff around the house? I’ve got spreadsheets for games, plants, books, movies and more. Finances? 5 apps to track them all. And so on and so forth.
I’m a bit obsessive when it comes to organization, and I think it’s become a bit of a weakness these days, as I find myself frequently striving for more organization and more control.
In fact, I bet that’s exactly what it is: It’s me trying to be in control of everything, despite the fact that there are some things in our lives that we just cannot control.
Maybe this is related to losing my mom, I don’t know. Whatever it is, I’d really like to find ways to surrender to the ebbs and flows of life and business, and learn to be more easygoing and less of an anxious controller. I used to be that way, so I’m hopeful I can get back to it.
I might need a spreadsheet and Asana setup to get started, though.
I often feel like I’m not doing enough, or not being enough
Like many, I’ve been insecure since I was born. Insecure, as in insecure to the core fibers of my being, about everything I do and all that I am, and I-don’t-know-why-people-like-or-listen-to-me insecure. I think this might shock some people, but it’s the honest truth.
Add on this whole “internet” thing where we can see into everybody’s lives, read about everybody’s accomplishments, learn as much knowledge as we want about any given subject, track our habits and behaviors and to-dos and should’ve-done’s and so on, and I’ve exacerbated my traits of being insecure and always striving for more.
I mentioned above that I have a hard time being content with what I have and who I am even though I know I have a wonderful life made up of very little severe constraints to complain about. For some reason, in 2018, I really struggled with this. Especially working for myself, where there aren’t necessarily deadlines, or bosses, or structures.
I’ve spent a lot of this year in angst and anxiety about not being enough and not doing enough. Both at work and at home, I regularly feel like I should be doing something and I should be feeling something, even though my therapist of a mother would always say to me “there are no shoulds,” and I know that I am way too hard and judgmental on myself and sometimes it’s best to just relax.
Whatever is going on behind the scenes of my brain and emotions, I really want to find a way to come to peace with how I spend my time, and get rid of that voice telling me I need to be more, do more, and achieve more.
I know I’m doing fine, so now it’s just a matter of being more kind to myself. Which is actually a reminder I get every morning on my phone.
Even though for years I’ve been an advocate of disconnecting from screens and devices, I think I fell deeper into the hole of always connected, always with a screen
I’m really not proud of this, but I spend way too much time in front of these screens.
I used to have rules such as “no phones in the bathroom” and “no phones in the bedroom” and “no screen time after 9p” and “no phones in elevators, lines, and cars” and sadly, as much as it pains me to say it, pretty much all of these rules have been smashed to smithereens. (Sidenote: that’s a really fun word to write, and I don’t think I’ve ever written it before!).
Last week I started making myself keep devices out of the bathroom. Moving forward I want to have all those rules back, and maybe even get back to leaving the house without my phone, ignoring my email for as long as I want, scrolling on Twitter much less, and so on. I’m happy to say I scrolled Facebook probably <10 times this whole year, so there’s that. Although if we’re being honest, I would occasionally participate in some community groups for my new neighborhood, but that doesn’t really count to me since my intention is to become a part of the community and not mindlessly waste time.
Anyway, you get the gist. Moving forward I, like probably many other people, will be refocusing on clear boundaries for devices and busting my bad habits. I know I’ll feel better about it on the other side—I just need to commit. So this is me committing.
Biggest Surprise of 2018?
I learned that people will actually buy products that I offer up for sale!
I mentioned this above so I’ll keep it short. As I’ve noted, I have a lot of insecurity and fear. Creating something and asking people to pay for it is not easy to do. With the support of many people, I was able to create something, offer it online, and accept money from people in exchange for what I created. And I did that with dozens of people, without any kind of large marketing plan or push. For me, that was a huge surprise, and really validated my faith in myself, my work, and my beliefs.
What Were My Most Impactful Lessons Learned?
The best way to move forward is to do something instead of thinking about what to do
Simple as that, one of my new mantras is “doing over thinking.”
I learned that I can do what I set my mind to
It took me roughly 2.75 years to create a product when 3 years ago that was one of my top goals. The problem was, I never gave myself permission to take the time and focus on this specific project. When I finally gave myself space and permission to create and do what I believe in, I was able to accomplish exactly what I wanted to accomplish. And HOT DAMN does it feel great!
I have more than I need
I’ve always known this intellectually, but feeling it, however, and fully believing and operating with the belief, is a different ballgame entirely. In 2018 I made a lot of progress through gratitude and appreciation for the life I’ve been given. As I wrote to myself the other day, I have a BEAUTIFUL LIFE, and I’d do well to accept that fact and let myself live it, instead of constantly operating out of fear of not having.
Abundance instead of scarcity. That’s my target mindset.
How Am I Framing 2019?
At ease, soldier
Potentially a ridiculously silly thing to say, but honestly, I think it’s what I need to hear.
For YEARS I’ve been way too high strung. While I think I’m a fun, chill, down to earth guy, I also think that I take things way too seriously, and I’d like to cut that out.
Not everything is life or death.
In fact, few things are.
Going broke and not having anything left at all is arguably my greatest fear. Fortunately, my therapist helped me realize that there are virtually zero potential scenarios where I end up going broke, homeless, and starving. I have a fortunate, privileged life, and for that I am grateful. So, I’d also do well to let go of that fear and let myself live my life.
Sadly, over the years, I think this fear has turned me into a bit of a ball of stress, due to my desire to achieve financial security for the rest of my life — even though I’m only 32, and having financial security at this age sounds absurd.
Looking into 2019, I’d like to find ways to approach things from a place of serenity. A place of calm, contentment, and abundance, instead of fear, insecurity, and scarcity.
I’d like to get better at taking things as they come, while not taking myself so seriously.
Life is a beautiful thing, and I’m fortunate enough to have a healthy one full of wonderful people, places, and opportunities, and I do not want to take that for granted.
2019 for me is a year of ease. I’ve worked hard to get where I am, and I’ve stressed myself out enough for a lifetime.
In 2019, I’d like to be at ease as often as I can.
I think that will help me get even better at my work, be even more connected in my relationships, and feel even more joy on a regular basis.
Now it’s your turn.
What are your biggest takeaways from 2018?
What lessons have you learned and how will you apply them in 2019?
We’d both love to read yours and support you!