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So often, I am inspired by my fellow Bulletin writers, and that was the case for this week's article.
Black Like Us is written by Jiquanda who, during Black History Month, will highlight Black-owned businesses. I wanted to support her mission by writing about some businesses I work with that deserve to be in the spotlight, starting with Whit Interiors and Lesa Lewis-Whittingham.
This quote on Whit Interior's website epitomizes everything that Lesa believes. It's what she does day in and day out for countless clients-- many of whom are return customers.
She leaves beauty behind wherever she goes from her projects to her showroom; everything is better once Lesa gets her hands on it.
I was lucky enough to meet Lesa a few months ago, when she first opened shop in the building right in front of my little cottage office in our town center. As she was setting up her showroom, a couple of my summer associates came running in and said, "Wait...another design business is going up right beside OURS??!!"
I giggled at how territorial and protective they were being and said, "It's ok guys! There is plenty of business for all of us, plus just wait until you meet Lesa." They soon realized the new showroom was a GOOD thing, and what a great opportunity it was for us to have Whit so close.
The moment I met her I knew I LOVED her and invited her to be part of our REFRESH team. She is officially our go-to person for all our client's textile and upholstery needs.
In fact, in less than a year, we have worked together on many projects from custom cushions, to throw pillows to upholstery to full blown draperies. It's so easy to collaborate because we just get each other, and always seem to be on the same page--plus, my clients really appreciate her knowledge, creativity and swift efficiency.
She is a breath of fresh air and a total pro all at the same time.
I want you to get to know Lesa a little bit so you can feel her aura, check out her work, and learn how she got to where she is today.
HOW DID IT ALL BEGIN?
(I couldn't resist posting this picture. SO CUTE!)
Lesa: "I grew up in a household that epitomized current home décor trends. My mother was a perfectionist, dragging my sister and I on many a Saturday to find the perfect teal lacquer vase, or the brass 5 bulb floor lamp to cascade over our “living room set” (can you guess the decade?). From transforming 80’s traditional, to 90’s modernism, to simply switching out pillows and drapes each season, I loved every minute... And it stuck."
WHAT'S HER TRAINING?
Lesa: "My initial major in college was textile design, as my appreciation for pretty things could not be defined. Fashion was the path a started on, honing my style, helping others with theirs and understanding how beauty is literally in the eye of the beholder."
GOING OUT ON HER OWN...
Lesa: "In July of 2021, I opened Whit Interiors. My position as the Store Manager of Calico was ending, as the company closed our location due to new ownership. I was devastated. I loved my clients, my team, and custom décor! I spent over 20 years in the fashion and design fields, helping beautify spaces and updating styles, while incorporating client’s wants and needs. I knew the backend of custom design, sourced awesome fabrics, built relationships throughout the industry… I couldn’t let go. Thus Whit Interiors!"
WHAT WAS AN ON THE JOB LEARNING CURVE YOU HAD TO GET THROUGH EARLY IN YOUR CAREER?
Lesa: "When I began my career in interiors, I didn’t always trust myself. I came from the world of fashion, which was a smooth transition style wise, but interiors is more permanent. I would second guess my designs and change major details based off a client’s suggestion, instead of leading with what I knew was the best design. I had to learn to trust my instincts!"
HOW DO YOU COME UP WITH THE DESIGNS FOR YOUR CLIENTS? DO YOU HAVE A GO-TO METHOD? OR DO YOU JUST LET THE CREATIVITY FLOW?
Lesa: "My clients are my number one source of inspiration. I believe your home should reflect you. The clients style, adventures, family dynamic all inspire me when designing. It’s the small details in a favorite family photo or their go to vacation destination that get my wheels turning. I once designed an entire living room space, taking cues from the history of the home with reference from her favorite bed in breakfast. The space came out awesome… I added my touches to a style that she loved but never verbalized."
DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE DESIGN FROM YOUR PORTFOLIO?
Lesa: "I think almost every project is a favorite as I am working on it. One that stands out, is a client who wanted an early Palm Springs inspired living room. There was a single fabric swatch of an elephant (I know, random) that inspired it all. The space was simple, but the details pop (trim in the panels, awesome hardware, simple relaxed furniture) and the clients were fun to work with!"
I can't wait to see what this year holds for Lesa and REFRESH, and to continue working together to make client's happy in their homes.
Now that you've had a little nibble of Lesa and her work, I know you want to see more so follow her Instagram to find out what she's working on next!
Also: stay tuned for my next Black History Month article featuring Uncork and Unwind, and two of my favorite people. Keshunde and Chasity run the boutique wine shop and in my article, you'll learn more about their story, you'll find out what his "day job" is, and you'll get a peek into some of the design Chasity does on the side.


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VIDEO NEWS: Austerity Release Video For New Single ‘Imperialism’
Anarcho post-punks Austerity have released a music video for their new single Imperialism, made up of fan-filmed submissions.
“During this great societal pause we call lockdown, we’ve been inspired by the solidarity and sense of community that has poured out of every corner of the planet,” the band comment. “Seeing neighbours helping neighbours and communities looking out for each other has reminded us all that we are stronger together than we are alone. We wanted to celebrate that spirit of togetherness by asking our nearest and dearest to express themselves on camera, creating a montage of our collective isolation. Making it has made us feel even more connected to our surroundings and the people we love.”
“This is a special moment in history, when the wheels of capitalism have slowed down enough that we’ve found time to take stock of our society, to question the priorities of our economy and to re-assess what we value and who we hold dear,” they add. “We have a once in a lifetime opportunity to change the world…don’t let this moment slip through our fingers. We may be alone, but we are alone together. Solidarity to you all. See you on the other side!”
Austerity‘s debut album Anarcho Punk Dance Party is out now via every Man His Own Football/Quiet Backwater.

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The prison inmate phone call business is a multi-billion dollar industry that has been gouging families and those locked up behind bars for years.
FCC Commissioner Mignon L. Clyburn joined Roland Martin on Tuesday’s edition of NewsOne Now to discuss what is currently being done to reduce the outrageous costs of communicating with someone who is incarcerated.
“For individual families, it is not uncommon to pay upwards of $500 on the average a month” to stay in contact with an incarcerated family member, said Clyburn.
She added these exorbitant costs are being paid by “the most economically vulnerable families in our society.”
“They’re being weighted with a burden, not only of a loved one who might have been the primary bread-winner — now that bread-winner is gone and now that family is in essence being overly taxed” for making a phone call, said Clyburn.
According to the FCC Commissioner, “it is not uncommon for a family to pay a little over a dollar a minute to speak to a loved one.” She added, “in an age with all you can eat communications,” this practice of price gouging is “outrageous.”
“There is a perverse economic incentive” for the companies that supply phone service to prisons and for the prison facilities themselves, said Clyburn.
A system of “commissions” resides at the heart of the inflated costs and the FCC has been petitioned to step in and “regulate rates.” Commissioner Clyburn told Martin, host of NewsOne Now, that on October 22nd, the FCC has an opportunity to bring “sanity and just and reasonable rates” to those families that use these services to communicate with incarcerated loved ones.
Watch Roland Martin, FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, and the NewsOne Now panel discuss the price gouging practices of the prison phone industry that is raking in billions of dollars on the backs of economically vulnerable families in the video clip above.
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A store employee told police that Jerome Fleming, 59, was watching children in the toy section. He then waited for adults to leave the area before crouching down to commit the alleged offense.
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To ensure our judicial system functions as it should, capable judges, prosecutors and lawyers must be nurtured. So it is inevitable that law schools that play an insufficient role in training these much-needed workers in the legal field will be culled.
The number of applicants for the nation's 74 law schools for the 2009 academic year fell 25 percent from the previous year, marking the first time applications have fallen below 30,000.
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Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake are at it again. The comedic duo reunited on Tuesday night for some touchdown-related hijinks in a segment called “Evolution of End Zone Dancing.”
Timberlake is a frequent guest on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon,” and lent his considerable talents to the talk show host’s “Evolution of Dance” parody series. Fallon has already produced segments on the “Evolution of Dad Dancing” and “Evolution of Mom Dancing,” Vulture notes.
The “Evolution of End Zone Dancing” video started off with a few legitimate touchdown celebrations. Timberlake and Fallon demonstrated the “Ickey Shuffle” and the “Dirty Bird,” two of the NFL’s most memorable end zone dances. After that, things got a little out of hand.
At first, Fallon and Timberlake kept their performances relatively tame, dancing the “Touchdown Robot” and the “Earthquake Waiter.” The close friends soon set their sights on mocking the football world’s favorite targets -- Manti Te’o, Tim Tebow, and current homicide suspect Aaron Hernandez.
Hernandez was up first. In a dance called “I Thought I Just Saw Aaron Hernandez,” Fallon and Timberlake feigned looks of pure terror. For “Manti Te’o On A Date,” they each pretended to be locked in a romantic embrace with, well, no one -- a dig at Te’o’s infamous “fake girlfriend” incident. Finally, “Tebowing (2013)” featured each man dropping into the former NFL quarterback’s famed pose, only to give the crowd the middle finger.
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BLOOMFIELD – The Sisterhood of Beth Hillel Synagogue in Bloomfield has published a new cookbook, “Yum Tov Cookbook – Not Just Your Bubby’s Recipes.” This one-of-a-kind book is a compilation of more than 180 recipes collected from Sisterhood members and members of the congregational family, past and present.
According to cookbook co-chairs, Marla Cohen and Sheila Frankel, “The unique feature of this cookbook is that it focuses on the Jewish holiday cycle. Each section is preceded by a holiday description including customs and observances and is beautifully illustrated featuring photographs of the synagogue’s chapel windows that depict, in stained glass, the various symbols of each holiday.”
Each recipe credits the contributors as well an indexed listing in the back of the book. Also included is information about kashrut and how to keep a kosher kitchen.
The cookbook is available for purchase at the synagogue office: 160 Wintonbury Ave. Proceeds from the book sale will be used to further Sisterhood programs.
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Tokyo: India and Japan have agreed to advance their strategic economic partnership, with Tokyo agreeing to provide a $4.5 billion (Rs22,185 crore) soft loan to fund the first leg of the Delhi-Mumbai railway freight corridor, which will connect India’s northern states with ports in the country’s west.
Five Japanese companies will actively participate in setting up early-bird projects in power generation, enclave development and human resources development that will be set up on both sides of the corridor.
Prime Ministers Manmohan Singh and Taro Aso, at a press briefing on Wednesday, stressed that their growing economic and strategic relations had nothing to do with a third country, especially China.
“I sincerely believe that there is enormous scope for both countries to realize their development goals, there is no competition between India and China,” Singh said. “There is scope for both countries to grow, and our arrangement with Japan is not at the expense of any third country.”
Aso had similarly responded to another question on the possibility of the security cooperation between India and Japan being extended to “trilateral” cooperation with the US, and if this was being done at China’s expense.
“We don’t have any third country as the target,” the Japanese prime minister said.
Both answers came after the two sides issued a joint declaration on security cooperation and instructed their governments to develop an action plan.
Singh leaves for China on Thursday to participate in the 6th Asia-Europe meeting, the first time that India will be represented at the summit at the head of government level.
But, soon after Singh went out of his way to thank Japan for not coming in the way of the Indo-US nuclear deal at the Nuclear Suppliers Group in Vienna last month, Aso said Japan hoped India would stick to its nuclear test moratorium.
Singh responded to Aso’s comment with grace. “We do recognize the sensitivity of this issue in Japan, and therefore mentioned to the prime minister that India will move at a pace at which the Japanese government and people are comfortable with,” he said.
Earlier in the day, the visiting prime minister was feted by the elite of the Japanese industry, the Keidanren business group, at a luncheon meeting, a signal, an Indian official said on the condition of anonymity, that “Japan realizes that it needs to build a strong partnership with India, and needs to look beyond Asean and China”. Asean is short for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.


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As state legislators consider the legalization of recreational cannabis, communities like Glencoe are exploring the impact the change might have locally.
With Gov. J.B. Pritzker supporting legalization, momentum appears to be building toward a change in state law.
“I think it is eventually going to happen,” said state Sen. Laura Fine, whose district includes a portion of Glencoe. “We are looking at all aspects very carefully and what is going to happen, and how, to make sure it does not wind up in children’s hands and what are we going to do with people who have been jailed or charged because of possession and how do we clean those records. So there is a lot of different aspects.”
At a March 21 Committee of the Whole meeting, Glencoe trustees and staff received a presentation on the issues facing the village should recreational cannabis be legalized.
“I think this is going to be the state with the most comprehensive set of regulations coming out of the gate,” Attorney Stewart Weiss said.
Weiss noted medical cannabis was legalized in 2013, leading to 56 dispensaries and 20 cultivation centers in the state.
Weiss said under the legislation currently being considered in Springfield, if a bill is passed during this session, the expected effective date is January 1, 2020, with the first legal sales being June 2020. He added the state’s existing cultivation centers and dispensaries for medical cannabis would be given the opportunity to apply as “dual use” facilities.
“No consumption will be allowed until there is a legal means to purchase,” Weiss said.
Under a current proposal, use would be limited to adults 21 years of age and older, Weiss said.
“The product will be allowed to be sold in its raw form, put into edibles such as cookies or chocolate and then derivatives such as oils,” Weiss said.
The future of DUI laws was a concern to Glencoe Public Safety Chief Cary Lewandowski.
“I’m not happy with it because it doesn’t answer a lot of questions that we have such as how are we going to enforce driving under the influence and things like that,” Lewandowski said. “None of those things have been addressed as far as I can tell.”
Weiss said his law firm, Holland & Knight, has been retained by the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police to assess the impact of the legislation on workplace labor issues as well as general law enforcement concerns.
Weiss said other prohibitions will likely include consumption on private property that is open to the public such as cafes or bars, possession by people under 21, and fire, police or commercial driver’s license holders.
Part of the reason why the financially-ailing state is considering legalization is the anticipated tax revenue from sales. However, Weiss said the program for medical marijuana is operating below its projected and potential capacity.
Weiss and fellow attorney Steven Elrod acknowledge there are questions about where such a facility could be placed in Glencoe due to the distance and separation requirements in the 2013 state law. Under that law, dispensaries are not allowed to be with 1,000 feet of schools, parks or religious institutions.
Weiss said the recreational cannabis laws are expected to be even stricter.
“We don’t know what reasonable zoning restrictions would be,” Elrod said. “This is still unclear.”
Other questions involve the sharing of tax revenue, local licensing, nuisance complaints and state regulation demands.
Village President Larry Levin said under the village’s current zoning laws there are two areas in the village where a dispensary could be located based on the current medical marijuana statutes. One being in the southern tip of the village, the other downtown.
Levin said there would have to be additional discussion with the public before a decision is made about whether a dispensary could be in the village and he does not anticipate that will happen in Glencoe until at least a year after state laws are changed.
Levin, who is also the co-chairman of the Northwest Municipal Conference, a regional government council, noted some concerns about the proposal.
“They will have to put much more control of it in the hands of local governments than they are currently planning to at the moment,” he said. “We think it should be treated like alcohol where if you are going to have a dispensary, you will have to have a local license as well as a state license so we have the opportunity to regulate it.”
As for when the legislation will be formally introduced, Fine said it is getting closer.
“They are bringing all the stakeholders to the table to make sure that everybody’s voice is heard, from public safety to taxing perspective to a community perspective,” she said. “They are making sure that everyone is part of the negotiations so it is done right.”


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Snoqualmie City Councilmembers unanimously punted on approving a new development and lease agreement earlier last month that would have paved the way for the Pacific West Rail Foundation to build a new model train museum near downtown.
Now the project, which initially received overwhelming support from the council, is likely headed for a delay. Snoqualmie Tribal members, who have concerns over the proposed location of the project due to its proximity to culturally significant lands, have asked for a six-month pause.
“We’re not asking for anything over and beyond,” Tribal Secretary Shauna Shipp-Martinez told the council during public comment. “Just time to be able to continue that discussion and hopefully come up with a better outcome than what is being proposed today.”
Construction of the museum is slated for Gateway Park, a vacant gravel lot at the corner of Railroad Avenue and Snoqualmie Parkway. Tribal members fear development would disrupt the Two Sisters Return and Snoqualmie Falls — nearby sites sacred to the Tribe as part of its creation story.
Snoqualmie Tribal Councilmember Chrissiee Sparling said the Tribe does not oppose development in most of the Valley, but the land around Snoqualmie Falls is an exception.
“That’s our place of creation. That’s where our two sisters returned. That’s our space. We fought really hard to get it and we continuously fight for its protection,” she told councilmembers. “That’s really all we’re holding on to. We don’t hold onto much else.”
For now the project will be returned to the city’s finance and administration committee as discussions on the plan continue, said Gail Folkins, a city spokesperson. She did not specify how long before the project returns to the full council, but noted the Tribe will be involved.
“The city has and will continue to meet with the Snoqualmie Tribe on opportunities for collaboration and items of mutual interest,” Folkins wrote in an email.
City leaders have been working on the museum project for a year, after they were approached by Peter Hambling in September 2022. Hambling formed the nonprofit Pacific West Rail Foundation (PWRF) to oversee completion of the project and agreed to a memorandum of understanding with the city last December.
Hambling, a Medina millionaire, is the creator of a locally famous 3,700-square-foot model train valued at $4 million. His group has proposed building a 20,000-square-foot museum for his model at Gateway Park using private funds.
The delayed 50-year development and lease agreement would have given PWRF the greenlight to start foundational work for the project, such as finalizing the design, getting construction permits and finding donors. Under the agreement, PWRF would have had five years to raise funds for the project.
A voicemail left for PWRF project manager Rob Nelson seeking comment was not returned.
Snoqualmie City Councilmembers believe the museum would become a major tourism draw, delivering more tax revenue for the city and additional foot traffic to downtown businesses.
A museum also makes use of a long-vacant property. Gateway Park, once planned to be built into a park, has remained mostly unused outside of overflow parking, equipment storage and an annual Christmas tree lot.
City leaders say a museum could help bring more traffic off of Snoqualmie Parkway and State Route 202 into downtown, noting it meshes well with existing train-themed facilities downtown managed by the Northwest Railway Museum.
Richard Anderson, executive director of the Northwest Railway Museum, said the organization had “no opinion” on the project during a phone interview last month.
“The city is asking us to support it, the Tribe asked us to condemn it,” he said.
Tribal leaders first publicly expressed their opposition to the project in July. In an open letter, Tribal Chairman Robert de Los Angeles wrote to Mayor Katherine Ross noting they were surprised the city was considering a new lease agreement and was considering action on the project.
“The fact the Tribe was not consulted in advance on this apparent decision by the city to lease the land is egregious,” he wrote. “The Tribe has expressed on multiple occasions that the Tribe does not support this construction project due to the cultural sensitivity of the area.”

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The chronological cross-reference Bible reading plan is a unique approach to reading the Bible that enables individuals to explore the Scriptures in a chronological order while also cross-referencing related passages. Unlike the traditional method of reading the Bible from cover to cover, this plan offers a fresh perspective by organizing the biblical events and teachings in a chronological sequence. This allows readers to gain a deeper understanding of the historical context and interconnectedness of various biblical narratives.
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One of the significant advantages of following a chronological cross-reference Bible reading plan is the enhanced comprehension and contextual understanding it provides. By reading the Bible in chronological order, readers can trace the flow of events and see how different narratives connect and relate to one another. This approach helps to fill in the gaps and provides a clearer picture of the historical context in which the events took place.
For example, instead of reading the Psalms and Prophets in isolation, this reading plan incorporates relevant passages from the historical books, such as Kings and Chronicles, which provide valuable context and background information. This deeper understanding of the historical and cultural context allows readers to grasp the intended message more accurately and apply it to their lives today.
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The chronological cross-reference Bible reading plan also offers individuals the opportunity for a deeper spiritual journey. By immersing oneself in the chronological order of events, readers can gain a deeper appreciation for the unfolding of God’s redemptive plan throughout history. This plan allows readers to see the progressive revelation of God’s promises and the fulfillment of those promises in Christ. It highlights the interconnectedness of various biblical narratives and reveals the unity of Scripture.
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The chronological cross-reference Bible reading plan facilitates comparative study and meditation. By presenting related passages side by side, this approach encourages readers to compare and contrast different accounts and teachings. This comparison helps to highlight the unique perspectives of each writer and the harmonious nature of Scripture. It also allows individuals to recognize patterns and themes that may not be evident when reading the Bible in a fragmented or disjointed manner.
Moreover, this reading plan encourages meditation on the Word of God. By spending time with related passages and reflecting on their significance, readers can gain new insights and deepen their understanding of God’s teachings. This intentional and focused study promotes spiritual growth, wisdom, and discernment.
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The chronological cross-reference Bible reading plan can also serve as a valuable tool for teaching and discipleship. By utilizing this plan in personal study or group settings, individuals can engage in meaningful discussions about the interconnectedness of Scripture and its practical implications for daily living. This approach encourages participants to dig deeper into the Word of God, ask probing questions, and seek understanding together.
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Most passengers interviewed by msnbc.com were asleep during the nuptials between two men on Virgin America Flight 28 yesterday, but were alerted to the happy event afterward by a flight attendant's announcement. Upon hearing the news that the pilot had wed the couple while in Canadian airspace (where gay marriage is legal), the plane burst into a round of applause. This raises some questions, however: Was this planned? And if so, what kind of gay people decide, "The place to get married is definitely somewhere where there's no flowers and all the food is slippery!" And if it was not planned, what kind of gay people would think, "Hey, the in-flight movie's over, why don't I ask this guy next to me to get hitched?" (Actually, we know the answer to that: Dudes who just watched The Proposal and got all hot and weepy. Both at the end, and during the nude scene featuring Ryan Reynolds.)
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The purpose of this lab is to acquire the ABO blood type of four unknown individual’s samples through a series of steps. Blood typing consists of a test in which ultimately determines an individual’s blood form. This procedure is an essential process for those who need blood transfusion or those willing to donate blood. The reason this stage is compulsory is because not all blood is compatible. Potentially a fatal transfusion reaction can occur if a unit of blood containing an ABO antigen to which the blood recipient has an antibody is transfused to the recipient. Therefore, to avoid all rational problems an individual must obtain a blood type before any blood transfusions to not experience a dangerous immune response.
In 1901 Karl Landsteiner made the first discovery that the mixing of blood from one person with another could lead to clumping and clotting that would eventually kill the them, due to antibodies latching on to multiple blood cells. In 1940 Alexander Weiner discovered the Rh factor. Both these scientists contributed to the blood typing by discovering the main parts of it.
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Over £1, 000 was raised at The Met’s 24 hour folk-a-thon on the 21 – 22 March held in Malt Bar to raise money for refurbishment project, A Better Met.
The fundraiser included professional and amateur folk musicians from all over the country who provided entertainment for a whole 24 hours with no more than 3 minutes in between turns. Artists performing included Findlay Napier, Bryony Griffiths and Will Hampson, the Oakenhoof Cloggers and Nicola Beazley who had the brave task of pushing through the night to perform in the small hours of the morning!
Despite the slightly surreal nature of listening to and playing folk music throughout the night folk-lovers continued to stay late into and turn up in the early hours of the morning to support the fundraiser. Thank you to everyone who came down throughout the day and night but huge thanks must go to Esther Ferry-Kennington who organized the event and stayed awake for the whole 24 hours!
Donations are still being accepted for the event, if you would like to make a donation please visit https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/estherferrykennington1
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A Better Met is our campaign to refurbish and improve the 165-year-old building that is our much-loved venue. The aim is to create an exciting and vibrant space for audiences and artists whilst retaining The Met’s unique character. For the past three years a lot of hard work has been going on behind-the-scenes to make this happen and so far 4.1 million has been raised of the 4.6 million needed to make this transformation happen. A number of events have taken place to raise the final £500, 000 but this is the most ambitious yet.


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When the Virginia Peninsula Chamber of Commerce recruited its thirteenth new member for 1995, chamber officials thought it was good luck that it happened on Friday the 13th.
As they prepare to launch their 1995 initiatives, chamber officials are confident that more than luck has changed for the 1,105-member business organization.
After years of racking up financial losses, the chamber boosted revenue enough in 1994 - through membership drives and profit-producing events - to get out of the red, chamber President Clyde Hoey said Friday.
Treasurer Alfred Shrieves said the chamber should close its books next week at a break-even point, although it still has to make up for having spent dues in advance.
Shrieves said the chamber had spent about $188,000 of its 1995 dues at one point in 1994, although that amount has been reduced to $100,000 as extra revenue came in.
Hoey said he expects that outstanding amount to continue to diminish in 1995, primarily because the chamber has cut its largest expense - a $120,000 lease payment that's been renegotiated down to $90,000.
The chamber will sublet about one-third of its 6,000-square-foot office to the Peninsula Advanced Technology Center starting in the spring. The chamber also plans to share some administrative and equipment expenses, such as the cost of a bookkeeper, with the tech center.
In 1995, Hoey said, the chamber is committed to providing more services to its members, including reinstating a monthly educational breakfast forum and conducting some training seminars.
C. Wayne Williamson, chamber board chairman, also emphasized that the chamber plans to be more involved in the community, particularly in the educational arena.
The 1995 action plan adopted at a board retreat last week calls for more internships, seminars and other educational forums for area teachers and students.
Williamson said a task force will determine other things the chamber should be doing for the community. The group will meet with area civic leaders as well as visit other chambers in the state and report back by June 1.
Shortly before Hoey became the chamber's top executive in August, representatives of the group acknowledged that it had been operating at a net loss since 1989. That was the year the chamber moved out of a relatively inexpensive space at Hampton's Coliseum Mall and signed a $120,000-a-year, 10-year lease at the Morgan-Marrow Building off Magruder Boulevard in Hampton.
Hoey said the chamber expects membership dues to continue to bring in more revenue during 1995. A total of 349 new businesses joined the chamber in 1994, and officials hope to match or top that number in 1995. Chamber dues start at $260 and range up to $8,000 a year, depending on how many workers a business employs.


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Businesses in Mansfield are being urged to shout up about the good news stories behind their companies.
Whether its winning a big new contract, expanding premises or taking on new staff, bosses are being encouraged to tell of their success.
That was the message delivered at a seminar organised by business club Mansfield 2020.
They set up the free event to help local companies find out how they can raise their profile through effective PR.
Delegates learnt what can make a good press release and how they can use PR to promote their businesses.
Mansfield 2020 invited local PR organisation Xposure to take the delegates through the full process, from conceiving ideas and choosing media targets to taking advantage of new digital platforms.
Stephen Thirkill, news editor from the Chad also spoke to the group and provided the group with hints and tips on how to get business news stories published and the key points newspapers look for in a good news story.
He said: “There are a lot of excellent businesses across Mansfield and Ashfield and it is important that people shout up and celebrate their success stories.
“The talk gave us an excellent opportunity to advise businesses on the best way to get their stories out there and I am thankful for the opportunity from Mansfield 2020.
“Already we have been contacted by new businesses eager to get their stories in Chad.
“We look forward to working the business community in 2014 to help make our local economy stronger.”


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House Keys Operations Aggregate Report (2 February 2016)
The Federation has released the first aggregate report from House Keys: Operations. The report provides information about the levels of tenant satisfaction, housing management and financial performance amongst the 37 CHPs that have participated in the industry’s own benchmarking system, House Keys. Click here to view the report. House Keys aggregate reports will be released annually and expanded over time.
MEDIA RELEASE (30 January 2016)
Housing fund good news but will meet just a fraction of demand
The Premier's commitment to establishing a $1.1billion investment fund that will help build at
least 3000 affordable homes over the next few years is the first serious initiative to address
housing affordability in NSW since the Commonwealth's 2008 National Rental Affordability
Scheme, the state's peak not-for-profit housing body said today. read more...
Housing Matters: January Edition
The January edition is available here
MEDIA RELEASE (25 January 2016)
Not- for-profit community sector to help transform social housing
The state's peak community housing body today welcomed NSW Government plans to
engage the non-government sector in delivering up to 23,000 new and replacement social
housing dwellings to address the chronic shortage of social and affordable housing in NSW. read more...
Tenant Training, 15th March 2016 (18 January 2016)
Following interest from our Members, The Federation has organised a half day workshop to increase and improve the capacity of tenants to participate in their CHP. More info
Community Housing in NSW: Update on the state of the sector in 2015 (12 January 2016)
The NSW Federation of Housing Associations is pleased to launch the community housing sector's key performance data for 2015. The data highlights the strength and capacity of the community housing industry. We can demonstrate to government and private sectors that the community housing sector is a strong, reliable and a sound investment for the future.
The Federation has prepared the data in an easy to read and shareable format available here.
Housing Matters: December Edition
The December edition is available here
Housing Matters: November Edition (27 November 2015)
The November edition is available here
Ecclesia Housing success at Wadalba (27 November 2015)
In October 2015 Ecclesia Housing completed construction of 19 affordable and social housing dwellings at Wadalba on the NSW Central Coast. Read more...
SGCH celebrates 30 years of creating homes (27 November 2015)
SGCH celebrated 30 years of creating homes with a stakeholder event at Parliament House on 17 November.
The event was well attended by politicians, government agencies, corporate partners and SGCH’s Board and staff. Read more...
Hume Community Housing starts a new development in Warwick Farm (27 November 2015)
With affordable housing presenting as one of the most significant issues facing NSW today, Hume Community Housing’s innovative $7 million residential development in Sydney’s Warwick Farm provides a model of how these challenges may be met through collaborations between the non-government, government and private sectors. Read more...
MEDIA RELEASE: Rental Index highlights need for 30% affordable housing targets (24 November 2015)
Sydney's last place ranking in today's National Shelter's Rental Affordability Index again
highlights the need for urgent action at all levels, including 30% affordable housing targets on
new developments, the NSW Federation of Housing Associations said today.
Federation CEO Wendy Hayhurst said National Shelter report show that almost all renters
struggle, with low-income households having to spend 65% of their income to rent a property
under current market conditions. Read more...
MEDIA RELEASE: Time for NSW Government to reveal plans for housing affordability (20 November 2015)
NSW needs a clear plan for addressing the housing affordability crisis affecting 4 in 5 renters,
the state's peak not-for-profit housing body said today.
NSW Federation of Housing Associations CEO, Wendy Hayhurst, said urgent action was
needed to increase the supply of social and affordable housing for low and middle-income
earners struggling to find anywhere to live in Sydney or regional centres.
"The are about 60,000 applications on the public housing waiting list, with waiting times of
more than 10 years in most of Sydney, according to Government estimates updated
yesterday," Ms Hayhurst said. Read more...
New Masters Degree Program at UNSW (20 October 2015)
The new Urban Renewal and Housing Masters Program is being launched in 2016. The first Degree of its kind in Australia, this Program aims to appeal to mid-career professionals as well as recent graduates. It will equip students to enter or progress in a range of employment fields including not-for-profit housing development and management. Enrolments for Semester 1 (March 2016) close 30th November. Read more on our Events Page.
Housing Matters: October Edition
The October edition is available here.
MEDIA RELEASE: Partnerships the way forward for affordable housing in NSW (22 October 2015)
The NSW Federation of Housing Associations is delighted that the Government is seriously
interested in partnering with the community housing industry to build new affordable housing
in the 2500 unit Ivanhoe Estate at Macquarie Park.
Advertising in today's Australian Financial Review this morning calls for Expressions of
Interest in providing "integrated social, affordable and private housing redevelopment
opportunities" at the Ivanhoe Estate, and 550 new homes on six sites in Sydney, Gosford,
Newcastle and Tweed Heads. Read more...
MEDIA RELEASE: "NSW needs 30% target for affordable homes" under a new affordable housing strategy by the Federation (30 September 2015)
One third of all new homes in NSW should be designated affordable housing under a new
strategy by the NSW Federation of Housing Associations.
Federation Chief Executive Wendy Hayhurst said the state's 40 largest community housing
providers are calling for a major overhaul of NSW planning laws to encourage investment in
new affordable housing for key workers and households on very low to moderate incomes.
The detailed industry paper also targets roadblocks at a local council level. Read more...
Read the full Industry Strategy here.
Read the summary here
Housing Matters: September Edition
The September edition is now available.
Talking to Tenants about Assets (23 September 2015)
Most organisations do tenant participation because it is recognised to be best practice and because, if it is done well, it can significantly improve service delivery and save money. So why don’t you ask tenants about the assets you manage? Read more...
MEDIA RELEASE: Community housing "sophisticated", "sustainable: Auditor General (16 September 2015)
The state's peak not-for-profit housing body has welcomed today's NSW Auditor General's
findings that community housing can help ease the housing affordability crisis for struggling
households. Read more...
Sydney Morning Herald article on taxing vacant properties (17 August 2015)
The Federation's CEO, Wendy Hayhurst, has been quoted in a SMH article today, advocating for taxing vacant properties: "While debate on affordability has so far centred on major reforms to negative gearing and land tax, the Federation wants to instigate local change." Read more...
Launch of the CFO Network (11 August 2015)
The Federation is pleased to launch its new Chief Financial Officer Network. CFOs and other staff with financial management, investment and reporting responsibilities are welcome to connect and keep up to date with others in the sector. First meeting is free to all who would like to attend. More details available HERE.
City of Sydney’s Housing Issues Paper (30 July 2015)
The Federation has submitted its response to the City of Sydney’s Housing Issues Paper available HERE. The response outlines how community housing can deliver solutions to Sydney’s affordable housing crisis through several key areas.
Bridge Housing creates affordable housing pipeline in western Sydney (3 July2015)
Growth Strategy for community housing launched (19 February 2015)
Our new industry growth strategy Housing Affordability: the Challenge is available here. The growth strategy, which was developed in close consultation with members, sets out five priority areas for action on housing affordability.
Industry Capability Statements Launched
The Federation is proud to release two new industry capability statements and three case studies, which demonstrate the purpose and capability of NSW community housing providers. These resources were developed under the Industry Development Strategy, a joint project of the Department of Family and Community Services and the Federation, through a collaborative between the Federation's members and staff, staff of the Department and staff of the office of the Registrar of Community Housing.
Further materials from the project are available to members.
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BRP ADDS TO ITS CAN-AM SIDE-BY-SIDE LINE-UP
Power Steering; All-new Colour Updates Introduced on Commander 1000 X and Limited Models
Valcourt, Québec, Canada, June 4, 2012 – BRP has enhanced its award-winning Can-Am Commander side-by-side vehicle line-up for 2013 with the addition of Dynamic Power Steering (DPS) and two striking colour schemes for both its Commander 1000 X and 1000 Limited packages. The Can-Am Commander side-by-side vehicles deliver even more on the Can-Am pledge to produce enthusiast-inspired vehicles with cutting-edge design and meaningful innovation by offering two proven engine options, five overall platforms, including a new DPS package*, and industry-leading versatility.
“The addition of DPS was a logical progression that blends well with our long-standing belief to offer vehicles that appeal to the end user’s brand enthusiasm and also produce the most powerful, capable and comfortable products in the industry,” said Yves Leduc, vice-president and general manager, North America. “The new Can-Am Commander side-by-side vehicles with DPS, which continue to lead the industry in terms of overall innovation, appeal, convenience and versatility, have raised industry standards once again and will enable ourdealers to better achieve overall customer satisfaction.”
This new Can-Am Commander DPS package* takes the base Commander and adds the Dynamic Power Steering system with Visco-Lok QE (quicker engaging), and 27-inch (68.5-cm) Maxxis Bighorn 2.0 tires on 14-inch (35.5-cm) cast aluminum wheels. Returning for 2013 are the XT and LIMITED packages as well, adding such features like a 4,000-pound (1,814-kg) WARN winch, half-windshield, premium wheels and tires and an entertainment system with integrated Garmin touchscreen GPS.
BRP offers two Rotax V-Twin EFI engines (800R or 1000), which give a key ingredient to the Can-Am Commander formula: power. It is, however, the consumer-friendly features like the exclusive Dual-Level cargo box, comfortable seats and ample room for two adult passengers that complete the overall package.
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Wendy Leonard, MD, AAHIVS
Dr. Leonard founded TIP in 2008 as a means of inspiring local health system innovation to provide high quality health care to vulnerable people in resource-limited settings. She served as the first physician to volunteer for the Clinton Foundation’s HIV clinical mentoring program in Rwanda, and she has continued to work as an educator and consultant to the health care providers in Ruli, Rwanda. In the United States, she is dedicated to providing quality health care to vulnerable members of her community. She is the Director of Santa Cruz County’s HIV Quality Management Program, and has served as the county’s Tuberculosis Controller since September of 2007. In this work she has successfully collaborated with Public Health around HIV and TB care, including program design, management and evaluation, and individual patient care. In prior years, Dr. Leonard served as President of the Board of Directors for the Santa Cruz AIDS Project, where she worked to expand HIV prevention, education and care services to the Latino community.
Dr. Leonard received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology, with a minor in Health Care, Social Issues from University of California, San Diego. She went on to earn her Medical degree at Albany Medical College. She has been certified as an HIV Specialist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine for over 10 years.
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It started with an idea to build an outlandish treehouse, and ended with something much more impressive.
So it came as a sweet shock to learn that this particular millionaire, David Sutherland, isn’t a stereotypical, line-the-walls-with-gold kind of guy. Rather, he’s a Willy Wonka-like millionaire, spending his riches on an imaginative wonderland for the sheer fun of it.
I discovered all of this on my first trip to the park, Whoa! Studios, exactly a week after Donald Trump was declared President-Elect. Leonard Cohen tributes accompanied the melancholic drive there, through wispy, non-committal rain. But by the time I left, having jumped on a crochet trampoline, toured a film studio and heard chef Ben Bayly’s vision for an epic new eatery, all #fuckyou2016 vibes had drained away.
Sutherland’s road to riches began when he fell into an IT career “by accident”, and in 1993 set up a business in his Henderson garage, Integral Technology Group. In 2010, he sold it for $64 million. Suddenly wealthy, he bought some disused farm machinery buildings in Henderson with a vague idea in mind: to do something good for the community.
He started with a single idea – to build an outlandish treehouse – and ended up creating something completely unique: a playpark, restaurant, studio-tour-meets-theatre-wonderland named for the reaction the aforementioned treehouse routinely provokes: ‘Whoa!’. It was my reaction, too. Housed in one of three industrial warehouses, the treehouse is a stage built to look like a burrow in a huge, gnarled tree, created by local set builders of Lord of the Rings, Narnia, and Power Rangers calibre. Live, pantomime-style puppet shows will be performed up to four times daily, priced to make live performances accessible for families.
Through double doors to the left of the theatre is another shed containing more theatrical sets in addition to props and state-of-the-art film-making technology. This might sound completely random, but there’s method behind the madness. Having first built the treehouse, and invented and created characters and puppets to represent them three and a half years ago, Sutherland’s growing team of film creatives decided they may as well actually make a kids’ movie. It’s called Custard’s World, and is currently in pre-production. Having seen the magic behind making movies, Sutherland thought it would be cool to share the experience with children by offering a short studio tour, and using the world of the film to create the live theatre shows.
An upmarket toy emporium rounds off the experience for the children inside, while outside there’s a playpark with slides and rockets, pirate ships and castles, all created by New Zealand set builders. On hot, sunny days and for special events, a giant inflatable slide and obstacle course will occupy the site’s main lawn. The most Instagrammable feature is the giant, crochet trampoline-like net, hand-woven by 76-year-old Japanese artist Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam. The psychedelic nylon structure, which can accommodate up to 50 children, is the first in Australasia and likely to remain the only. To enter, kids crawl through a series of small holes that lead to various layers of netting to hide in, and the main, springy clearing.
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Visitors to Whoa! Studios can expect to eat well, both in the daytime, on weekends and school holiday evenings. Sutherland called on Ben Bayly, executive chef at The Grove and Baduzzi, and My Kitchen Rules judge, to create The Grounds, a grown-up restaurant and tuck shop catering to family eating without recourse to a kids’ menu. Using seasonal produce from west Auckland, there’s casual grab-and-go food like Cuban sandwiches, cold pressed juices and handmade ice cream, alongside an à-la-carte menu featuring food cooked on a Japanese grill and plenty of on-trend fermented foods. Mike Shatura is leaving his position as The Grove’s head chef to run the kitchen day-to-day.
As you can probably gather, the project developed in a meandering, organic fashion. After years of working in an industry Sutherland calls his trade, not his passion, building the park was, he says, “very much a rebellion against my profession”. He says when he told people he was building the treehouse, they didn’t really take him seriously until they saw the epic scale of the professionally-built set. And when he said he had an interest in puppets, “they imagined a branch and a bit of cloth, because puppetry is typically very poor here compared to what you see in the States.” But he was serious, and sent his puppeteers on courses, leading American puppeteer Peter Linz of The Muppets to connect with the project. Similar adventures in film-making led him to Wallace & Gromit scriptwriter Bob Baker, who has just completed the second draft of the Custard’s World script.
He didn’t hand over all the fun, though. He developed the film’s villain, Dr. Gloom, in his spare time over the course of three months. The villain wants to wipe the smile off every face on earth by chucking everything bad – parking tickets, bad coffee, everyday sexism (probably) – into his Gloomsday Machine to generate ‘Depresso’, a gas designed to make us all miserable. In any other year, a kids’ film about a funny-looking guy vying for the title of Super Villain on the Year would be whimsical, but in 2016 it feels a bit like a gentle way to introduce our young people to a real-life, Trumpian sense of doom.
A conversation with Sutherland is the opposite of a puff of Depresso. He speaks in puns and has a way of making complex things seem simple, in a manner typical of good parents. A father of two (now adult) children, he says his biggest achievement isn’t creating his own multi-million-dollar IT business, but the fact he managed to see his kids before they went to bed nearly every night when they were growing up. “I’m glad the price tag for my so-called commercial success – which is very hollow – didn’t mean sacrificing that,” he says.
You can tell he means that by the way he’s freely invested in the studios. As the launch neared, however, he was excited at the prospect of the park generating income. “You get towards the tail-end of the project and you think, ‘oh gee, I don’t have quite as many millions left to throw at it’.” He’s hoping to attract corporate sponsorship to keep prices reasonable for families, particularly when it comes to live theatre. Puppetry and storytelling workshops, dance shows, corporate events and special charity days are all part of Whoa! Studios’ plan, though really, the potential for the site seems limitless.
Sutherland says the main goal is to provide a bit of magic for people. “There’s still in our DNA that desire to create a sense of magic, that moment where you can break out of what you’re going through.” At the end of this year, of all years, it’s pretty wonderful to hear those words spoken by a millionaire.
Whoa! Studios is now open to the public at 8-14 Henderson Valley Road, Henderson.


North Korea’s near-incessant military provocations in recent weeks are widely assumed to be a prelude to the ultimate demonstration of Pyongyang’s might: a seventh underground nuclear test. And that is stoking renewed fears in South Korea that the erratic regime in the North might one day actually use one of its fearsome weapons.
For a growing number of South Koreans, obtaining a comparable nuclear deterrent is becoming a realistic option to counter the North’s provocations. The issue, however, is deeply polarizing.
North Korea has fired hundreds of artillery rounds and rockets into the sea off its east and west coasts in the last two days. It has followed up the barrages with demands issued through state media on Wednesday that the US and South Korea halt bilateral exercises, which a government official described as a “highly irritating, provocative act in the frontline area.”
The bombardments were a breach of the 2018 inter-Korean agreement on reducing military tensions along the border that divides the peninsula, Seoul insists. And they come after the launch of more than a dozen short- and intermediate-range ballistic missiles, including a weapon that Pyongyang claims was an advanced new missile, which flew over northern Japan.


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“You can’t take your eyes off Rooney Mara as the notorious Lisbeth Salander, in the American movie version of Stieg Larsson’s “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” (opening December 21st). Slender, sheathed in black leather, with short ebony hair standing up in a tuft, her fingers poking out of black woollen gloves as they skitter across a laptop keyboard, Mara (who played Mark Zuckerberg’s girlfriend at the beginning of “The Social Network”) cuts through scene after scene like a swift, dark blade. Salander is a twenty-four-year-old hacker with many piercings, of herself and of others. She’s both antisocial and intensely sexual—vulnerable and often abused but overequipped to take revenge. She lives in an aura of violence. Salander obviously accounts for a big part of the success of Larsson’s crime novels—both men and women are turned on by her—and Mara makes every scene that she appears in jump. She strips off and climbs right onto Daniel Craig, as Mikael Blomkvist, the investigative journalist who takes Salander on as a partner, and whom she makes her lover. Craig looks a little surprised. In this movie, he is modest, quiet, even rather recessive. It’s Mara’s shot at stardom, and he lets her have it.”
“Much of the movie is set on a private island controlled by the Vanger clan, a wealthy Swedish industrial family peopled with criminals, perverts, solitaries, exiles, dead Nazis, and a grieving old man, Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer), who has never got over the disappearance of his grandniece, forty years earlier. In one last attempt to find her, he hires Blomkvist, who has been temporarily discredited in a libel suit, and sets him up as an investigator on the island, a place that no American one-per-cent family would ever dream of owning. It’s way up north, windy, snowy, and treacherously beautiful; once you cross the bridge to this enclave, you enter an icy hell. Blomkvist and Salander, warming each other, conduct their investigation from the island, hacking into whatever files they need; they leave only when they have to, with Mara, head down in the wind, tearing around Sweden on a motorcycle like—well, like a bat out of hell. The movie zips ahead, in short, spiky scenes punctuated by skillfully edited montages of digitized photographs and newspaper articles. David Fincher, who directed the picture (working with Steven Zaillian’s screenplay), moves at a much faster pace than he did in “Zodiac,” his 2007 movie about a murder investigation. In “Zodiac,” every time a piece of evidence trembles into view, it quickly recedes again. That movie is an expression of philosophical despair: the truth can never be known. “Dragon Tattoo” says the opposite: it celebrates deduction, high-end detective work—what Edgar Allan Poe called “ratiocination.” Everything can be known if you look long and hard enough, especially if you have no scruples about hacking into people’s bank accounts, e-mails, and business records. Salander is a criminal, but she’s our criminal.
At heart, of course, the material is pulpy and sensational. The Vanger men committed atrocious crimes against women in the past, and Salander, who is a ward of the state, is twice brutalized by a smarmy social worker who controls her money. There are certainly lurid moments, but I wouldn’t say that Fincher exploits the material. When Salander is raped, the scene registers as a horror; it’s prolonged and discomforting. And her revenge, however justified, and however much it may amuse the audience, is another horror. This is a bleak but mesmerizing piece of filmmaking; it offers a glancing, chilled view of a world in which brief moments of loyalty flicker between repeated acts of betrayal.”Daniel Craig David Fincher Reviews Rooney Mara The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo


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After a tricky couple of seasons under the stewardship of Mauricio Pellegrino and Mark Hughes, Southampton’s status as a stable, well-run Premier League club looks to have been restored. Led by ‘the Alpine Klopp’ Ralph Hasenhüttl, the Saints recorded an 11th placed finish in 2019/20 and ended the campaign on a seven-match unbeaten run.
Things are looking up for Hasenhüttl’s side and there is plenty of optimism ahead of the coming season at St Mary’s. That hasn’t always been the case on the South Coast though. Just a decade ago Southampton were languing in the third tier of English football and the very notion of being a Premier League side felt like a distant memory.
This was a club that had been pushed to the brink – relegated from the Championship in 2008/09, placed into administration when on the verge of bankruptcy and deducted 10 points during their maiden season in League One.
But the Saints’ rebirth is just as dramatic as their fall from grace. As quickly as they plummeted, Southampton returned to the Premier League within a matter of seasons after back-to-back promotions from 2010-2012. They did it in style too, both on the pitch and while wearing a trio of iconic kits, as they climbed the EFL ladder and navigated their debut campaign back in the top flight.
This is the story of Southampton’s journey back from the brink, through the prism of three shirts that defined their renaissance.
2010/11: League One promotion
The Saints were searching for a new beginning but also a return to their former glories. This was reflected in the launch of the club’s new kit in June 2010. Southampton ditched their traditional red and white stripes to celebrate their 125th anniversary, reverting to the original pattern and colours that they wore back in 1885.
The kit was produced by Umbro and consisted of a white shirt with a thin diagonal red sash, alongside white shorts and black socks. There was no sponsor either, meaning the strip drew comparisons with the Peru national team – one of the great colour combinations in international football. Frankly, it looked fantastic and signified a fresh start for the Hampshire-based side, who took League One by storm that season.
Alan Pardew was replaced in the St Mary’s dugout by Scunthorpe United boss Nigel Adkins and it proved to be a masterstroke. The former physio was able to make the most of a supremely talented squad that included future Premier League stars Morgan Schneiderlin, José Fonte, Rickie Lambert, Adam Lallana and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. Southampton recovered from a difficult start, losing four of their opening six games, to finish in second place with 92 points.
The Saints were the division’s second top scorers too – finding the net 86 times thanks, in part, to Lambert’s 20 strikes across the campaign. That anniversary kit certainly evokes memories of goals and entertainment for supporters on the South Coast.
2011/12: Championship promotion
2011/12 saw a return to tradition, as the Saints rolled out a classic red and white striped shirt that favoured simplicity over frills. It was most notable for new main sponsor ‘aap3’, a Southampton-based business solutions company, adding a pleasantly local element to this Umbro offering.
This felt like a kit symbolising a club back on track and doing things ‘the Southampton way’. With an away strip reminiscent of Saints’ yellow and blue 2003 FA Cup final kit, there was a clear nod to the Hampshire outfit’s recent Premier League history, as Adkins’ men targeted a return to English football’s top table.
They didn’t disappoint, with Southampton securing an improbable second consecutive promotion in even more emphatic style than their 2010/11 success. While they again finished in second place, this time behind Brian McDermott Reading, no team could match their goal tally of 85 as star man Lambert took centre stage once more.
A ludicrous 27 goals and 13 assists saw the Liverpudlian grab the headlines, but there was a significant contribution from the supporting cast too. Billy Sharp joined the club in January and chipped in with an impressive nine goals in 15 games, while Lallana, Frazer Richardson and Danny Fox provided the ammunition with 30 assists between them.
Southampton were back and ready to reclaim their place among the elite.
2012/13: Premier League survival
The Saints marked their return to the Premier League with a showpiece strip that reflected their newfound significance as a top flight outfit. The tradition of the previous season was short lived, as an all red kit with thin white pin stripes on the shirt replaced the club’s regular colours. That combination was inverted for the away kit (an all white strip with red pinstripes), creating a ‘ying and yang’ effect between the two outfits.
The division of the club’s colours was appropriate for a season that can clearly be split into two parts. Southampton fans were aghast as the board decided to sack manager Adkins in January, after winning two promotions and with the team sitting clear of the relegation zone in 15th place. Replacing him with Espanyol boss Mauricio Pochettino was viewed as both harsh and a huge gamble at the time, though with hindsight it was a call that helped make Southampton the club it is today.
Pochettino steered the Saints to safety before instigating a high intensity pressing game that helped the club achieve a top half finish the following season. As the likes of Dejan Lovren and Sadio Mané joined the St Mary’s revolution over the coming years Southampton evolved into one of the Premier League’s top talent factories, qualifying for Europe on two occasions.
Southampton were bold with their kit choice in 2012/13 and equally bold in their decision-making. After three stellar campaigns the Saints’ rebirth was complete, as the club ushered in one of the most successful periods of their recent history.


A MYSTERIOUS X-ray glow that surrounds the sun may be evidence for the existence of an exotic particle that physicists have been hunting for decades.
Astronomers have been puzzled by the sun’s X-ray halo since it was first detected in the 1940s. Curiosity deepened when the Japanese satellite Yohkoh, launched in 1991, sent back X-ray pictures showing spectacular flares streaming from sunspots and a gentle glow emanating from the sun’s outer atmosphere.
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Are you ready to wear a pair of safety goggles with your face mask?
Dr. Anthony Fauci says that eye protection may be recommended at some point to help prevent spreading COVID-19.
The infectious disease expert sat down for a remote Q&A with ABC News via its Instagram account on Wednesday — and his eyewear comments raised a lot of eyebrows on social media.
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““If you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it.””
Fauci explained that the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 infects mucosal surfaces — or parts of the body including the eyes, nose and mouth that secrete mucus to stop pathogens and dirt from getting into your body. So “perfect protection” of your mucosal surfaces would include covering every one of them up, he said.
“Theoretically you should protect all of the mucosal surfaces, so if you have goggles or an eye shield, you should use it,” he said.
“It’s not universally recommended, but if you really want to be complete, you should probably use it if you can,” he continued. But one reason that this hasn’t been pushed for the general public yet, he suggested, is because, “it’s so easy for people to just make a cloth mask.”
And getting Americans to agree to wear a face mask that fully covers their nose and mouth in public has been enough of a struggle, as it is. How would they react to being told to shield their eyes, too?
Some initial responses on Twitter US:TWTR and the Facebook-owned US:FB Instagram suggest many people are against it. “How long until we’re told that hazmat suits are recommended?” tweeted one reader under the name Jeffrey Wozniak.
“I can just see it now...everyone walking around with swimming goggles plus a mask. I wonder if ski goggles will catch on too,” mused another.
Others saw this as another concerning sign of how rapidly the pandemic has progressed. The U.S. death toll reached 150,000 on Wednesday, and the White House Task Force warned that 21 states had recorded more than 100 new cases per 100,000 people in the past seven days.
For now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not issued a formal guidance recommending that people don goggles or eye protection. It only suggests protective eyewear for health care professionals, noting on its site that “use of eye protection is recommended in areas with moderate to substantial community transmission.” So you might see doctors or nurses wearing goggles or face shields in the ICU or areas where they are coming into close contact with COVID-19 patients. But for areas with minimal to no community transmission, eye protection is considered optional, the CDC says, unless otherwise indicated as part of standard precautions.
Qatar Airlines recently asked flight attendants to start wearing safety goggles, however, as well as full protective suits, masks and gloves. And some of the health experts who spoke with NPR recently suggested it might be wise to wear goggles or a face shield on a crowded airplane.
But a recent report published in The Lancet that analyzed 172 observational studies on how physical distancing, face masks and eye protection affected the spread of COVID-19 suggested that people could be three times less likely to get infected if they wear eye protection. Face shields, goggles and glasses were associated with a lower risk of infection (6%) compared with no eye covering (16%).
And there are some people, including virologist and epidemiologist Dr. Joseph Fair, who believe that they were infected with COVID-19 through their eyes. Dr. Fair told NBC’s
“A recent report published in The Lancet suggests that people could be three times less likely to get infected if they wear eye protection.”
So why is eye protection being recommended for health care workers, and not the general public? Dr. John Brooks, chief medical officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID-19 response, recently told the AARP.org that, “The virus could enter the body through mucous membranes that cover the white parts of our eyes — but it would be very hard to prove.” Researchers do know that COVID-19 spreads between people who are in close contact to each other through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks. But pinpointing exactly where the coronavirus took root in someone’s body — through the nose, the eyes, the mouth or a combination of all three — is next to impossible.
Preliminary research suggests that we’re probably most likely to get infected through the nose and mouth. In fact, a recent study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that the SARS-CoV-2 — the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 — infects the cells in your nose much more easily than the cells in your throat or your lungs. And early research has found that only a small percentage of hospitalized COVID-19 patients whose eye fluid was tested came up positive for having the virus in their eyes — although it should be noted that swabbing eye fluid isn’t standard in coronavirus patient care, so there could certainly be more cases than have been recorded.
Plus, Dr. Thomas Steinemann, a spokesperson for the American Academy of Ophthalmology, told NPR that the coronavirus would have to run “a more circuitous route” to travel from your peepers to your respiratory system. First, the virus would have to get through the eyes’ mucous membrane. Then it would need to be swept by tears behind your cheeks to reach your nasal cavity. And from there, it would need to flow from your nose to your throat. It’s certainly possible, but it’s less direct than inhaling the virus directly through your nose or mouth. And the CDC notes that while the nose and mouth are the main areas where the virus enters the body, “it may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes.”
This could be subject to change as we learn more about the virus, however. Health officials including Fauci and the CDC initially discouraged the public from wearing face masks early in the pandemic, after all, before reversing course and calling for uniform mask wearing once they realized the extent of asymptomatic spread. Keep in mind that COVID-19 is a brand new disease that has infected almost 17 million people across the globe in just a little over six months.
Public safety recommendations will continue to evolve.
So should you pair goggles or a shield with your mask when going to the store or traveling through a crowded area? The bottom line is that it’s not recommended for the general public just yet, but it also couldn’t hurt if you want to take an extra step to protect yourself. You should definitely wear a mask in public, avoid crowded places and wash your hands before and after touching your face, however. And avoid touching your eyes.
Follow more of MarketWatch’s coronavirus coverage here.


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A crowd of people, wishing to take a look at the Russian president, was trying to approach Putin
President of Russia and Kazakhstan corrected the decision that Russian and Kazakh prime ministers made in March of the current year. According to the decision, the citizens of the two countries were supposed to have passports to travel from one country to another. Vladimir Putin and Nursultan Nazarbayev agreed that a passport would not be required.
The meeting of the two presidents took place in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. Having laid wreaths to the Eternal Fire, Putin and Nazarbayev went to see the city.
A crowd of people, wishing to take a look at the Russian president, was trying to approach Putin, but they hardly had a chance to see the president at close range. The people spent three hours waiting in the central street of Chelyabinsk, hoping to see Vladimir Putin. When they finally saw the Russian leader from afar, the crowd of people started screaming “Hurrah!” The luckiest ones had a chance to shake Putin's hand and touch the sleeves of his jacket.
Having seen the local places of interest, the two presidents visited an Irish pub. Putin and Nazarbayev ordered Harp and were enjoying their beer traditionally - with jokes and laughter. It is noteworthy that Putin's favorite beer is Radeberger.
The waiters of the pub were warned about a possible visit of the VIP guests. Having taken the first sip, the president of Russia relaxed, said hello to the people sitting at another table and left his autograph to the pub.
It could be seen from the gestures of the two presidents that the beer was strong enough. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev obviously enjoyed his beer, the Kommersant newspaper wrote. When the presidents finished drinking beer and eating in the pub, they went to a local skating rink. A local well-known skater, who was meeting the leaders of the two countries, wondered if Vladimir Putin could skate. The Russian president can ski, drive a KamAZ truck, pilot a plane and do judo, but he does not skate. “The hooves slide apart,” Putin joked, meaning that he can not stand on ice wearing skates.
Putin and Nazarbayev carefully avoided the discussion of the problem in Uzbekistan. Journalists did not have a chance to ask this question to the leaders of Russia and Kazakhstan either: the scheduled press conference had been canceled, Newsru writes.
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