The Capstone Project | Jenn Poggi | TEDxAllendaleColumbiaSchool
Students in the photojournalism program at RIT
are required to complete a senior capstone.
This is a year-long documentary project in which they research and pitch
and produce a story on a topic of their choice.
Their work is held in accordance
with the highest, professional, photojournalism standards.
Three and a half years ago, when I arrived at the RIT,
I was tasked with developing and implementing this curriculum.
I was also, at that time, completing my own master’s project.
That cohort of students was about twenty-one people.
But, within one semester it was down to thirteen.
I know, It doesn’t sound very successful.
But, actually, it wasn’t that big a deal.
The capstone process is daunting.
And students, as they realised the magnitude of what they’re being asked
to produce, for some, it was just a little too much.
The results of the projects that year formed a perfect bell curve.
There were one or two that were good.
Most of them were average, and a couple of them just didn’t work at all.
Today I want to talk to you about what I’ve learnt from the capstone process.
And I want to share with you how that’s impacting me
and the work that I’m doing today.
Most people approach this process with a gripping sense of fear.
They look at the blank page or canvas,
and they feel anxiety and fear just like I feel right now.
They look at it and they see a sense of possibility.
But that possibility is a double-edge sword.
It’s the possibility for success, but it’s also the possibility for failure.
I divide the capstone students into three groups:
there are the believers, there are the undecided and there are the doubters.
Those who embrace the process tend to approach the capstone
with a cautious sense of confidence.
That really opens them up to opportunities.
The doubters, they’re reluctant.
They often, also, doubt the value of doing such a project.
By and large, most of the people fall into the undecided category.
They accept that this is a requirement and they’re prepared to do the capstone.
But they are nervous, and they are maybe secretly doubting,
or not so secretly doubting, whether they have what it takes.
All three of these groups look at the blank canvas,
and they feel that anxiety and fear that I mentioned before.
But what sets these groups apart is how they manage that anxiety and fear.
The patterns become clear within the first few weeks of that year.
And the only thing that will upset that trajectory is an ‘aha’ moment.
Following that first cycle of capstone’s, we did a pretty rigorous post-mortem.
And we isolated lots of things where there was room for improvement.
But we also isolated one key factor that was preventing our students
from making meaningful progress in their capstone’s.
Our students were reluctant to create first drafts.
Our students were reluctant to create first drafts.
It was actually quite confusing to us at first,
because they were already in the middle of the process.
And they were making good work.
It was a simple yet stunning revelation.
Without a first draft, all forward progress was stunted
and quite stalled.
The quality of their final projects, it turned out,
could be directly traced back to how early
they had created their first drafts and completed a first draft.
What this also revealed was an overwhelming number of students
were turning in final projects that were just their first drafts.
They were genuinely proud of what they’ve had turned in
and the fact that they had completed the project.
But what they were not understanding was that the quality of the work
that they were producing was taking a backseat.
This too was a huge revelation for me.
Because it was really the first time that I understood
that many of these students never actually believed
that they could produce this project in the first place.
This is a picture of President Obama.
And he’s working on a speech on healthcare
that he delivered to a joint session of Congress in 2009.
I love this picture.
It was certainly not his first draft.
And, I’m guessing, it probably wasn’t the last draft.
And I can understand that, if you look at this picture,
you might feel some sense of anxiety.
But I feel comfort.
I look at this and I think: even the president works in drafts.
And in a time when we scrutinise everything,
I think it’s a really powerful statement that he was not afraid to show this.
Here’s what I know to be true: the fear of failure and rejection is powerful.
And they are forces that can prevent positive progress.
But if a student can transform their thinking,
they can learn to see these as opportunities for future success.
The students that completed the first draft early on,
they were able to obtain meaningful feedback.
They were able to isolate elements that were missing from their storytelling.
And they were able to get started on those changes much earlier.
This also made them more confident.
And as they gained that confidence, they were more likely to take risks
in their own storytelling, in their shooting and in their editing.
As I was going through this process with them,
I was also completing my master’s project.
And I was myself riding a roller coaster of emotions.
The serendipitous timing of this really allowed me an opportunity to see
what my students were confronting.
And the pieces of the puzzle were beginning to fit together.
We all have that answer inside of our heads
to the ‘I am’ statement.
What it turned out to be for my students was, actually, a powerful predictor
that answered the ‘I am’ statement.
It was a powerful predictor for how they might do on the capstone.
What kind of work they might produce and how successful they might be.
If I can transform my own approach at the beginning of the process,
when I’m working with students, there’s a chance that I can also combat
the psychological factors that are preventing hard working students
from making meaningful progress.
And, if the students can transform their own thinking,
they also have a higher probability of a successful outcome.
These days, I start the capstone process
asking students to shift their thinking.
I ask them not to think about the capstone project as a problem
that they have to overcome or work through.
But I ask them to think of it, instead, as an opportunity for them to dream big,
to work slow and to walk away with a really successful story.
Along the way, I talk about failure as an essential part of the capstone process,
I encourage them to fail early and fail often.
I also tell them that their first drafts are going to suck,
but that it’s also going to lead them to some unexpected leaps in their work.
I talk about my own mistakes and I definitely talk to them about fear
and how crippling it can be and also how it can lead to shame.
Last spring, I finished my master’s project.
And at the end of my defence, my committee members
were talking about the possibility of being published
and the possibility of a future exhibit.
And I laughed a little bit uncomfortably.
Because the reality was that I was just relieved that it was over.
And, then, one of them turned to me
and she said: ‘Jenn, you know, this is really just the beginning.’
And there it was, the biggest revelation of all for me.
I hope students walk away from the capstone process
with an amazing documentary project.
And so many of them do.
I also though hope they walk away with a greater sense of confidence
about what they’re capable of and perhaps a more affirmative answer
to that ‘I am’ statement.
Because, in the end, the capstone experience
is really just the beginning of all that they will face in life.


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A glimpse of the wolf attacking people and Valerie's possible encounter with the wolf are shared in this trailer.
Warner Bros. Pictures has debuted a full trailer for "Red Riding Hood" to follow-up the teaser. Making its way out via Apple, it delves deeper into the plot and shares more thrilling scenes as the villagers prepare to the coming of the wolf. Also, a glimpse of the beastly creature is included and Amanda Seyfried's Valerie's possible encounter with the wolf is shared.
Coming from "Twilight" director Catherine Hardwicke, "Red Riding Hood" offers a breathtaking vision of an old legend. Valerie who is the center role is torn between two men, a brooding outsider Peter and the wealthy Henry whom her parents want her to marry. Valerie and Peter are planning to run away when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village.
Gary Oldman's Father Solomon, a famed werewolf hunter, is called by the villagers to help them kill the wolf. But Solomon's arrival brings unintended consequences as he warns that the wolf, who takes human form by day, could be any one of them. As the death toll rises with each moon, Valerie begins to suspect that the werewolf could be someone she loves.
Scripted by David Johnson, the movie is produced by Leonardo DiCaprio along with Michael Ireland, Jennifer Davisson Killoran, Alex Mace and Julie Yorn. The horror thriller will be unleashed in the U.S. on March 11.

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Three store robberies ended with theft of a vehicle while posing as a police officer
By Sheila Nursimhulu
Armed robber Crispin Kent, who fired a gun at terrified Newham shopkeepers during a spate of robberies, has been jailed for 12 years.
The sentencing hearing at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 28 September took place after Kent, of Alnwick Road E16, was found guilty on three counts of armed robbery which took place in December 2019.
On all three occasions, between 11 and 18 December, Kent entered stores with his face covered, fired a gun at the floor before demanding money from the till. One brave shop worker chased him off the premises where he committed his last crime.
Undeterred, only an hour later, Kent and an accomplice went on to pose as police officers in nearby Bow where they asked a lone woman to pull over. They stole her vehicle and drove off. He was found guilty of posing as a police officer and robbery of a vehicle.
Police arrested him at his home in February 2020 where officers found clothing worn during the offences.
Forensic evidence, including DNA and ballistic evidence further linked Kent to the robberies after the gun was recovered. CCTV footage also appeared to show Kent replacing the number plates of the vehicle outside his home address.
The other man involved has never been identified and police are still trying to establish his identity.
Despite the terrifying experiences of his victims, the court was told there were no reported injuries.
After the hearing Detective Constable Craig Prout of the Metropolitan Police Flying Squad, said: “Kent is clearly a violent individual who thinks nothing of getting what he wants, or of the long-lasting impact his offences have had on these innocent victims.
“They are people who were going about their day as normal and Kent made them fear for their lives. I am pleased that the sentence handed down reflects the seriousness of Kent’s offending. It is entirely correct that he spends a significant amount of time behind bars.”


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My Response to the First Statement of the Tenth Amendment, Essay Example
My response to the first statement is that the Tenth Amendment describes the difference in authority between the federal and state governments, stating that the powers not delegated to the United States through Constitution or prohibited by the states are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. Cases in which states have their own laws and limitations different than the federal government can pose problems, for instance in the California marijuana laws, where it is legal to grow and sell per state laws; however, it is still a violation of federal law. In cases like this, federal law should be limited and the state laws should have more enforcement as they are more likely to show greater interest in the citizens of their state than the federal government.
In response to detectives rising from the ranks of educated patrol officers, I feel that detectives shouldn’t have to start at the bottom. Most detectives have a college degree and have spent at least four years studying criminal justice in school. Any individual can be accepted into a police cadet program without a college degree. These individuals begin at the bottom and spend their time being educated in the police force. Detectives, who are academically educated, should be able to start at the level they have prepared for, as a detective. I do believe, however, that there should be a strategic officer field training program for detectives to take before beginning the job. Those who have not served as street patrol officers will need that type of training on the field for their own safety and protection.
The federal government can affect state autonomy in criminal justice areas because inefficient crime investigation can have more effect on the state than federally. However, I think the statement on the federal jurisdiction having a positive effect on certain crimes to be true. The federal agencies do have better resources through science technology. The federal forensics specialists can assist in particular cases, such as the Lindbergh baby case, and help catch and convict the person or persons responsible. The federal agencies do not seem to overstep state authority. The federal agencies only seem to choose cases of interest that will have an impact on a larger scale, rather than locally or within the state.
I feel that detectives should be at a higher level than officers who do not have the education requirements. It is true that there are abilities that only a detective can achieve through experience as a police officer; however, other police officers that have not gone to college will never have the education experience that the detectives have. I feel there should be a specific training program for detectives as they emerge into the police force. The United States military does this with their educated officers, for instance. Individuals who enlist in the military and who have a bachelor’s degree do not go to the same training as a regular enlistee. These individuals go to officer-candidate school and receive military training. They then begin at a higher rank than an enlistee, even an individual who has served in the military for several years. I feel that the police force should hold this true for educated individuals as well.
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ST. PAUL, Minn.—It looks like Minnesota lawmakers will get their wish to hear from a Delta Air Lines Inc. executive.
Delta President and Chief Financial Officer Ed Bastian will appear before the Minnesota House Commerce and Labor Committee on Monday, chairman Rep. Joe Atkins, D-Inver Grove Heights, announced.
Atkins had been complaining that Delta was ignoring his requests to send an executive to answer questions about Delta’s planned purchase of Northwest.
When a Northwest executive appeared before his committee last week, Atkins joked he would volunteer his frequent flier miles to get a Delta executive to St. Paul. That never happened—but some committee members did threaten to issue a subpoena.
The airlines don’t need the state’s permission to combine. But Northwest did promise to keep its headquarters in Minnesota in exchange for state-backed bonds and what amounts to a rent reduction at the airport, which also applies other airlines that fly out of the airport.
The state can force immediate repayment of the bonds if the headquarters leaves. Delta has said the new airline will be based in Atlanta.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty has said he intends to enforce those commitments. However, on Wednesday he said that bills that would force the state to demand immediate repayment might not help.
“If we have legislation that says ‘take it now,’ then their hands are completely un-handcuffed. They can do whatever they want. We have no leverage over them,” Pawlenty said.

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Bad jokes, boy we love them. Robert Altman’s real life final movie was about the fictional final episode of A Prairie Home Companion and all of the people involved with the beloved Garrison Keillor radio show. Unlike the real show, this involved an angel and a real Guy Noir walking around, but somehow that made it feel even more grounded to the guys as they took comfort in the comforting sounds of county music and puns.
Robert Altman’s Five
2) McCabe & Mrs. Miller
4) Short Cuts
5) A Prairie Home Companion
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Join us next Wednesday for their wrap-up of Robert Altman and the announcement of their next Five.
Artwork by Ray Martindale
Theme Song by Adam Lord


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Although I'm all into good healthy food, I'm also human and of course I need a snack from time to time. When I was in London a while ago I bought those super delish chocolate coated goji berries at Wholefoods and I ab-so-lutely LOVED IT...minor detail.. I paid over 7 pounds for a tiny package which I consumed in less then 5 minutes.. a great snack..but what I think a bit..uhm let's say..MAJORLY overpriced... so I started thinking.. this can't be hard to make myself right?.. and guess what..It's one of the most easiest things to make really! It will only cost you about 10 minutes to make them and some patience and the result is fan-f#cking-tastic! Scroll down for the recipe!
- Goji berries (as much as you feel like making)
- Pure chocolate (the higher the percentage of the cacao the better)
- Baking foil (this is really important, otherwise you won't be able to crack the chocolate from the plate)
Get a normal pan and fill it up with water half full. Now get a bigger bowl (as long as it's not plastic or wood) and place it on top of the pan. Put the heat on max and add the chocolate into the bowl. When the chocolate is all melted you can add the goji berries, I just keep on adding the gojiberries until there's no more melted chocolate on the bottom. Trust me..with just a little bit of chocolate you'll be amazed how many gojiberries can be coated with the chocolate. Now place your baking foil on a tray and spread the chocolate coated evenly. Put it in the fridge.. and in about 30 minutes or so it will all be hardened and you can crack them up into small bits. Really.. this by far beats M&M's or Skittles!
Make sure you buy the goji's organic! Goji's bought in regular stores contain E-numbers (so always check the back of a package).
I am Eva Lia and I am the founder of The Cookteaser - a food blog and whole food catering/event business based in Amsterdam.
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If you have any requests for me to use a certain product or dish you want me to give The Cookteaser Make-over, please contact me and I'll try to make it happen!
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South Dartmouth, MA
My pieces are sculpted rather than sewn. I seek to drape the body with the same beauty and grace of the traditional Indian saris I use in my work. I then respond to that by adding my own hand-dyed silks and loose wool fiber. I have zero fabric waste in my studio. Creating couture results without sewing is an ongoing adventure and I strive to create finely finished pieces.


The now, seemingly distant 2012 holiday season proved to be fertile ground for advocates of a cashless society and new ways to virtualize payments – and eventually your wallet. Online sales and electronic transactions continued their steady ascent, fuelled by the emergence of mobile commerce via smart phones and tablets and a widening preference for plastic over paper.
The potential for growth in this burgeoning payment sector is truly stunning: MasterCard, for example, estimates that nearly 85 percent of global commerce remains reliant on paper changing hands. In Canada too, cash and cheques are widespread even as competition to go digital intensifies: new payment schemes thus enjoin financial institutions, telecommunications and online service providers, and a host of upstarts. Accordingly, Silicon Valley’s latest darling, Square, makers of virtual payment platforms, is widely regarded as the IPO to watch for 2013.
Yet despite the fanfare, a cashless society has proven to be a remarkably trepid work in progress both domestically and abroad. Since the advent of e-government, proponents of paying virtually have invoked expanded and more efficient commerce on the one hand, and more inclusive and empowered communities via new and innovative lending and support services on the other.
Neither has occurred outright. The steady increase in electronic commerce and mobile payments lessened but hardly quelled holiday shoppers flocking to retail outlets and surrounding malls, many still with cash in hand.
With respect to social empowerment, in some instances the opposite may be true. Much of the world’s poor maintain an attachment to cash, viewed as tried and true and safe from collapsing banks, while the United Kingdom recently abandoned its plans to phase out paper cheques due to deepening fears and concern among the country’s most disenfranchised.
The case of Sweden, a digital and mobile bastion according to any e-government survey, is instructive. One recent survey by the SBAB Bank, however, found that roughly one half of all Swedes shun mobile commerce: security fears and expectations of hidden fees the deepest reasons for doubt. Yet paradoxically, Sweden is a world leader in reducing usage of paper bills and coins and much like its Scandinavian counterparts, the Swedish public sector is steadily phasing out paper-based transacting and payments for public services.
The Canadian scene is equally unsettled. Though in its infancy, mobile banking outpaces the initial uptake of online banking two decades ago. Undoubtedly a sign of things to come, the Royal Canadian Mint is replacing the penny with a ‘MintChip’ and coffee retailers such as Starbuck’s and Tim Horton’s are similarly competing for a more seamless counter experience.
The coffee scene is telling. For every person thrilled to wave their smart phone, another remains equally determined to rid themselves of coins. At least for now. Airlines going cashless for all onboard purchases suggests a sufficiently robust and trusted infrastructure that may one day render cash and currency mainly digitized formations. Still, easy to forget that only a small portion of the world’s population actually knows the “pleasure” of air travel.
While payment innovation is being driven mainly by industry, the role for government is paramount. In addition to macro-economic stability and regulatory oversight, two specific areas of public sector action (or inaction) will shape the acceptance of cashless payments and the emergence of mobile wallets: first, the underlying conditions of cyber-security jurisdictionally in an increasingly cloud and mobile-centric world; and second, the evolving apparatus of public sector service delivery.
On both counts the absence of more aggressive leadership on the part of federal and provincial governments is worrisome. The federal government in particular has been more cautious than most of its OECD counterparts in its exploration of cloud-based infrastructure, while recent Auditor General reports in both 2012 and 2010 expose the decrepit condition of antiquated IT systems. Most public sector providers, moreover, remain committed to providing a full suite of delivery channels: the politics of both place and paper loom large.
Indeed, central to the pursuit of a more cashless economy are complex and fluid societal matters such as privacy and security. In the absence of governmental leadership and public dialogue, a more splintered and polarized marketplace is certain. The Swedish government has an aggressive strategy to cultivate a paperless culture in a steady and inclusiveness manner. It is far from clear that the same can be said for its Canadian counterpart.
Jeffrey Roy is professor in the School of Public Administration at Dalhousie University (firstname.lastname@example.org).


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Islamabad, January 10, 2016 (PPI-OT): National Assembly of Pakistan decides to launch its official Social Media accounts for wider Parliamentary outreach to the public. The decision was taken in a meeting chaired by Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq at Parliament House, Islamabad.
Sardar Ayaz Sadiq underlined the need to develop new strategies and policies to support effective engagement between the National Assembly and citizens. Emphasizing the need for effective Parliamentary outreach, the Speaker highlighted that regular engagement with citizens is a pre-requisite for a stronger, vibrant and participative democracy. In the modern world, traditional democracies are turning towards e-parliament and one of the main tools utilised to connect with the people is “Social Media.” The Speaker termed Social media “an excellent platform for quick and direct engagement with the citizens”.
The Speaker directed the Officers of the National Assembly Secretariat to develop a team of experts in managing social media pages of the National Assembly. He also added that Social Media Pages of the National Assembly will disseminate timely information to the national and international audience, and the Parliament will receive feedback from the general public.
On this occasion, Ms Mariyum Aurangzeb, MNA remarked that institutional openness and transparency constitutes a vibrant democracy. She highlighted that the primary objective of Social Media platform is to ensure National Assembly as an open, transparent, accountable and accessible democratic institution.
Malik Muhammad Uzair Khan, MNA added that the presence of official account of National Assembly on Social Media will not only facilitate journalists in reporting on Parliament but also reach out more directly to the public and be able to react more quickly to news and events. As directed by Hon. Speaker, Media Wing of National Assembly has been running its Social Media Pages at Facebook and Twitter, link of the both pages are as under.
For more information, contact:
Karamat Hussain Niazi
National Assembly of Pakistan
National Assembly Secretariat,
Islamabad – Pakistan

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Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013
A student attempted to donate herself to charity last Tuesday, and managed to, with the help of friends, stick herself in the Alameda County Community Food Bank donation barrel. Students and teachers are reminded that the drive is open only until mid-December. All non-perishable food donations are welcome. Donations of canned foods are recommended, and even a small donation helps! Donations go to hungry people that cannot afford to feed themselves and/or family. Our goal is to fill both barrels by mid-December. Don’t forget to bring something from home!
Submitted by Citizen X.


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It was only a matter of time before the official Galaxy Note 10 renders were leaked. That’s precisely what has happened today. A source that’s usually accurate has posted the first press renders of the Galaxy Note 10. No renders for the larger Galaxy Note 10+ have surfaced so far but it’s only a matter of time now before they arrive as well.
We are less than a month from the official unveiling of Samsung’s new flagship smartphone. The company has already confirmed that it will launch the Galaxy Note 10 on August 7 at an event in New York City.
Leaked Galaxy Note 10 renders show a funky color option
We have previously revealed that Samsung will offer two Galaxy Note 10 models. This particular one has a 6.3-inch display while the Galaxy Note 10+ will feature a 6.75-inch display. These leaked Galaxy Note 10 renders confirm much of what was already known about this device.
The centered front camera hole is hard to miss and the bezels will be smaller compared to the Galaxy Note 9. Do note that marketing images tend to show slightly more trimmed bezels compared to what you get with the actual product. It had been reported previously that the Galaxy Note 10’s camera will be vertically positioned at the back. We can see that in these renders. Do note that the Galaxy Note 10 doesn’t have a heart rate sensor at the back.
The familiar Galaxy Note design will be available in a new silver color option with a funky gradient effect and a blue S Pen. You will also note that the dedicated Bixby key is missing from the handset. That is certainly going to make quite a few people happy.
Do you like what you see? It does appear to be in line with the expectations that many have so far. You can expect additional leaks in the coming days as the Galaxy Note 10 release draws near.


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Rahul inherits a Congress that has ceased to set the terms of political contestation
Rahul Gandhi’s elevation to vice-president of the party has understandably evoked enthusiastic responses from Congress circles. But we need to remember that he was already general secretary and, for all practical purposes, second-in-command in the party. So the recent organisational change in the Congress would not merit much analytical attention but for the fact that the party tends to rely heavily on his — and his mother’s — leadership and this development signals a decision by the Congress to project Rahul as its mascot for the coming Lok Sabha elections. After Rajiv Gandhi failed to win the elections for his party in 1989, there has seldom been a national level leader who won an election mainly on his personal appeal. Rahul Gandhi’s euphoric supporters should remember this useful lesson from contemporary history.
Rahul Gandhi begins with quite a few handicaps. His elevation would, of course, invoke the routine criticism about “dynastic” rule, but more importantly, he now leads a party bruised by a decade of incumbency. It would be a delicate task for Rahul to be leader of the ruling party and yet distance himself from the actions (and non-actions) of his party’s government. Crucially, Rahul and his Congress will have to adjust to the reality that our current politics inhabits a “post-Congress” polity. The party has found it hard to adapt to this reality so far — whether it is the idea of being a national party or the hard fact of having to deal with coalition partners. The Congress does not have much chance of winning a majority on its own in the near future, nor is it accepted as a party that sets the rules of the game anymore. This is not just to do with Rahul Gandhi’s leadership but with the psyche of the party and its decision-making core. It is the challenges arising from this larger political context that will truly test Rahul Gandhi’s capabilities.
Today, the Congress party rules only a handful of states on its own — Himachal, Haryana, Rajasthan, Assam, Manipur, Andhra, Delhi and Uttarakhand. It is part of ruling coalitions in states like Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Kerala, and is a less-than-significant force in the crucial states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu. In states where it rules, the governance record of the Congress is not


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Back in November, for sale I followed the story about the Missouri football team boycott which ultimately led to the resignation of the university’s President and Chancellor. The team’s boycott was in response to a student movement, tadalafil including a hunger strike by one student, advice claiming that the school had not done enough to deal with racism on campus. The story garnered little national attention until the football team united together and threatened to boycott all football activities, including the upcoming game against BYU, unless the President resigned. I was conflicted about the story then, and I remain so today.
The power this college football team had to instantly grab attention and cause the resignation of two of the university’s highest ranking officials was stunning. Not only did the story dominate the headlines once the football team got involved, but the issue of racism on college campuses was instantly brought to the forefront of the news cycle. The President and Chancellor’s resignations were not in response to a major address by a civil rights leader, political figure, or world scholar. This was a football team threatening a boycott of a game that some argued had little meaning to the team’s season since Mizzou was not in the hunt for the SEC title. And we have to wonder, would the team have boycotted if the season had been on the line?
It is no secret that Mizzou would have lost $1 million if the football team boycotted the game. That had to get university officials, the athletic department, boosters, and season ticket holders anxious – to say the least. So this week a Missouri legislator introduced a bill in the state legislature that would have caused university athletes to lose their scholarships if they refused to play in a game for any reason other than injury. Let’s think about this: If the bill passed, it would have been illegal under Missouri law for student athletes to have refused to play in a game for any reason other than an injury. What could possibly go wrong under a law like that? There are so many problems I don’t know where to start.
Think the NCAA might want a say in what would constitute a student athlete losing his or her scholarship rather than a state law dictating such terms? Are student athletes now considered university employees? Somehow I think that NCAA is going to have a problem with that one. And what about the First Amendment? Yes, no issues there. Thankfully, that bill was withdrawn later this week. But its introduction has done exactly what its sponsors had wanted – created a discussion about how much power is too much power to hand to student athletes.
We know the athletes in this country have a tremendous amount of influence given their endorsement deals, access to mainstream media, and wealth. But it is not only professional athletes that have this platform. At a school such as Missouri where the football team is such an integral part of that school’s identity and tradition, when they unite for a cause, there is an instantaneous response. Their platform is enormous on a college campus – and even nationally. This Missouri football team clearly identified with and was passionate about their united mission. The question then becomes, where do we go from here? Are college sports teams now in a position to threaten to boycott over larger political issues that they feel passionate about? What if they are all not united?
I don’t have an answer for this, and I suspect most university officials do not either – yet. The consequences, both financially and structurally, could be devstating for a program if it actually had to forfeit money into the millions of dollars because its team would not take the field. Entire recruiting strategies would suffer if a program’s instability was evident. Therefore, this is not an easy issue and it will undoubtably develop over the next several months and years. But one thing is for sure: Sports are powerful and influential well beyond the actual game. But then again, we all knew that, right?


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|Reviews for CLOSER (A Little Green & Easybella Outtake)|
| grandmachix chapter 1 . 3/24/2016
Sweet story. A beautiful sexual interlude after the emotion of a performance. Also, I liked the Explanation of the Jessica moment. Thanks for this outtake. Judy
| twirob chapter 1 . 1/11/2016
thank you for sharing this o/t with us ;D
| debslmac chapter 1 . 10/23/2015
| maria holmes chapter 1 . 5/7/2013
This was a wonderful outtake of an already amazing story. I don't have anyone in my life who is autistic but you give so many details of his mannerisms that I can see it all in my head. LG&EB is a very special story to me not only because it feels like you're lenting your voice to some of those who can't describe themselves what it's like to be autistic but also because of the sheer amount of feelings it creates inside you when you read it whether the scene is sexy, sweet, funny or heartbreaking. Thank you for the privillege of reading your story; you're very talented. I'd also like to ask a question if you don't mind answering it; has your friend Alec helped you with writing the EPOVs by describing his thought process to you? It's just that your EPOVs especially are so captivating and they feel real... In any case, very well done. Little Green and his Easybella have stolen my heart _
| christag banner chapter 1 . 4/14/2013
It breaks my heart to read this, knowing that Katalina has now left us. I am so thankful that you wrote her this one shot as well as the song to help towards the cause. Thank you!
Loved the one shot and being able to see some more of Edward's past. I had a good bit of a laugh over Jessica's "assault" she gave Edward. I can't wait to read more of the rest of your LGaE story.
| blb1000 chapter 1 . 4/7/2013
Well, this explains some things. Why Esme kept their letters from them, for one. She was jealous. Hmpf!
| littlelizruth chapter 1 . 2/5/2013
I love these two! And it's awesome we go a little insight into the young Edward.
| Rachel Garber chapter 1 . 2/4/2013
Well, of course I read this before, you know since you got my review but I had to trip down memory lane anyway, I love that she still calls him Little Green sometimes. Of all the stories that Rob could read, this is among my fav for him. and he is just so sweet and sensitive, I think he would really love it. Since I have seen so many pictures of Rob at all ages, I picture him as he looked when he was modeling, esp the on with the snake around his body, not cause I imagine LG that way, but he has such a sweet look on his face adn just about LG's age there. This is just as lovely and sweet as it was before. Geez she has lived in Forks for awhile hasn't Esme noticed that Bella doesn't have many friends, she is inappropriately jealous. 3
| rubell chapter 1 . 1/30/2013
big heart hugs!
| acw1 chapter 1 . 1/29/2013
| Gennell chapter 1 . 1/26/2013
Awesome outtake. I am going with the assumption that since they were obviously okay at and after the concert that the cliffie with Chapter 34 will not have any serious repercussions. I have not been too worried because I do remember a conversation some time back where Edward essentially said he would not leave Bella even if she cheated because the things he loves about her are bigger than the things he doesn't...or something like that. So confusing situation or not, they will be okay. But the truth is that Little Green is so precious and I hate for him to have even a moment of stress. Which is why I am glad that Bella orchestrated him avoiding all the hand-shaking. The older I get the less importance I see in decorum, satisfying the expectations of others. Little Green gives all that he is comfortable with when he plays. It is a true gift when he chooses to share that. All the rest ruins the whole experience if he is stressed. Anyway, I am glad Bella saved him from that. I really enjoyed this.
| Moltz chapter 1 . 1/15/2013
Enjoyed reading the progression of Little Green's affection for his EasyBella.
The inappropriate kiss of young Edward on his order teenage female friend.
The resolution to blot out the idea of Bella to keep out the pain and be able to continue studying music.
Jessica was a unique character. Great way to tie in the unusual physical contact Edward had with a stranger.
The deep desire and need to connect physically and emotionally with love of their existence after his spectacular debut with the symphony.
Thank you for another tid-bit of their lives.
Can't wait for more of the original story to unfold.
| Eileen22 chapter 1 . 1/10/2013
Thank you for gifting us with this lovely outtake. I've been so eager to get some little green fixation.
| suzy 2010 chapter 1 . 1/7/2013
Good chapter. Insights into Edward life are always good.
| jansails chapter 1 . 1/5/2013
Wonderful composition with the flashbacks & flashforwards, gave more understanding to Edward's mind & heart as well as how Bella felt about him all along.

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Minimum wage bill heads to the Governor
On a vote of 23-6, the Senate voted on Thursday to concur with the committee of conference report on minimum wage. The House passed the bill last week on a vote of 93-54. The bill now heads to the Governor. The bill will increase the minimum wage by $1.59 over two years, from $11.75 in 2021 to $12.55 in 2022. The Governor has expressed concerns about an increase in the minimum wage and the impact in rural areas of the state.
Governor vetoes Paid Family Leave bill
As expected, Gov. Phil Scott has vetoed a paid family leave bill that was passed by the legislature. In a veto statement that he issued on Friday afternoon, he reiterated that he would not support a mandatory paid family leave program that includes a payroll tax. While dismissing the efforts of the legislature, he is moving forward on a voluntary plan that begins with the implementation of a program for Vermont’s state employees.
The House and Senate will attempt to override the Governor’s veto. Needing two-thirds of those present in both the House and Senate will be a challenge. The Senate appears to have the votes for that effort but the House numbers are much closer. There were a number of liberal-leaning Democrats and Progressives who voted against the bill because they didn’t believe it was generous enough. Democrats and Progressives may feel pressure to override the veto in an effort to give Lt. Governor David Zuckerman an election issue in his upcoming challenge to Gov. Scott.
Workforce a priority for health care committee
The House Health Care Committee has identified workforce as a priority. This week, it heard from Rural Health Task Force member Laura Pelosi that Vermont’s health care workforce is aging, there is a decline in licensed professionals, and there are workforce vacancies in every sector. She said Vermont’s health care workforce crisis is driven by factors including student debt, education and credentialing challenges, licensing challenges, and provider burnout. Pelosi said the task force recommendations include occupational licensing reforms, higher education reforms, financial incentives, and maximizing of the workforce by removing telehealth barriers and reducing administrative burdens. The report can be found here.
The committee also heard from VNAs of Vermont Executive Director and task force member Jill Olson on care coordination. Olson thanked the committee for its support of the delivery system reform dollars to OneCare Vermont, which has allowed health care sectors to work as a system to provide care in the most appropriate setting. She described the UVM Health Network Home Health and Hospice Longitudinal Care Program, which is being expanded to other communities thanks to delivery system reform funding. It allows patients to receive nursing, community health worker visits and telemonitoring services at home beyond the point where Medicare requires discharge. In Chittenden County, the program has successfully reduced hospital admissions and emergency department visits, reducing costs and improving patient experience.
Bi-state Primary Care Association holds legislative day
Members of the Bi-State Primary Care Association presented to the health care committees as part of its Legislative Day on Tuesday. BSPCA is a member organization made up of federally qualified health centers, rural health clinics, clinics for the uninsured, the area health education center network, and Planned Parenthood of Northern New England clinics. BSPCA Director of Vermont Policy Helen Labun said the health centers are committed to improving the health status of Vermonters and ensuring that all individuals have access to affordable and high-quality medical, mental health, substance abuse, and oral health care, regardless of insurance status or ability to pay.
Kim Anderson, Director of Development and Communications for Community Health Centers of Burlington, said CHCB addresses the needs of its community by providing an array of health services regardless of financial status or life circumstance – providing medical, dental, counseling and psychiatry services. Anderson said CHCB has played a critical role in combatting the opioid crisis with its robust medication assisted treatment program. She said its array of integrated services and collaborations with community partners isn’t limited to substance use. CHCB is the only federally granted Homeless Healthcare Program in the state and serves approximately 1,500 individuals experiencing homelessness each year.
Gifford Health Care Chief Medical Officer Dr. Josh White described strategies to address workforce issues. The hospital is hiring international nurses and is utilizing telemedicine with external agencies and internally between its clinics. This has been especially useful in psychiatry. He said the recent news about financial struggles at the Brattleboro Retreat is extremely frightening for all hospitals given the number of mental health patients that need treatment.
Senate advances Budget Adjustment Act
On a vote of 28-1, the Senate advanced the FY 2020 Budget Adjustment Act on Thursday. Sen. Corey Parent, R-Franklin, was the lone dissenting vote. Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Jane Kitchel, D-Caledonia, said the BAA is supported with an additional $18 million in revenue from July’s revenue upgrade. The most recent upgrade in January will be part of the FY2021 state appropriations bill.
Parent rose in opposition to the bill due to cuts to the OneCare Vemont RiseVT program. He said RiseVT started at his local hospital and has expanded to many rural communities in the state. The program helps children and families embrace healthier lifestyles and he opposes the budget reduction of $550,000. Kitchel responded that the Department of Vermont Health Access has made a commitment to OneCare and will honor that. She said the committee wanted to have a rigorous process between the Agency of Human Services and OneCare for the allocation of delivery system reform dollars to prevent duplication of state programs.
- Transfers funds to address deficits in the Workers’ Compensation and State Liability Insurance funds;
- Provides funding to the Department of Corrections for out-of-state beds, medication assisted treatment, and Hepatitis C treatment;
- Addresses the gap in the Vermont Technical College National Guard tuition program;
- Provides for a rate increase at the Brattleboro Retreat;
- Funds increased costs in Judiciary; and
- Provides funds to the Department of Aging and Independent Living for increased costs of serving higher acute needs patients at nursing homes.
Department of Mental Health presents 10-year plan
The Department of Mental Health appeared before the House Health Care Committee on Wednesday to present its report on the 10-Year Plan for an Integrated and Holistic System of Care. DMH Commissioner Sarah Squirrell said the plan is informed by input from community members and stakeholders to include individuals with lived experience.
Squirrell said the plan promotes a population health approach to build a holistic and integrated system that includes all aspects of health. She said the goal is a model to present a whole-person approach in all aspects of wellness promotion, prevention and treatment of illness, health equity, social justice, and person-led care, with stigma elimination as a priority.
Squirrell said community members and stakeholders reviewed data describing the current state of the system as well as demographic trends to inform strategies and steps for implementation. Data show overall high rates of health and access when compared nationally, while other trends reviewed include high rates of suicide deaths, and an aging population.
Squirrell said the plan is organized into eight action areas supported by short-, mid- and long-term strategies for implementation. These include:
- Promoting health and wellness to improve the health of populations;
- Influencing social contributors to health to ensure individuals meet their most basic needs;
- Eliminating stigma and discrimination;
- Improving client experience by expanding access to community-based care;
- Enhancing intervention and discharge planning services for Vermonters in crisis;
- Embedding peer services in all levels of care;
- Ensuring service delivery is person-led; and
- Committing to workforce development and payment parity.
DMH also recommends creating a council or board with the authority to oversee and guide strategies in the plan.
Testimony continues on bill to fan flavored tobacco
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee heard more testimony this week on a bill, S.288, that would ban the sale of flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes. The committee heard from a health expert from the University of Vermont and a UVM Medical Center researcher who presented compelling evidence that menthol cigarettes and flavored products are resulting in high levels of addition by young people.
The committee is expected to vote on the bill next week.
Senate finance panel considers eliminating primary care cost sharing
The Senate Finance Committee took testimony Tuesday on S.245, a bill that proposes to eliminate cost-sharing requirements for primary care. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont Director of Government Affairs Sara Teachout told the committee that there is already no cost share for preventative care, and this proposal would only affect 25 percent of Vermont’s population. Teachout testified that although “spending money on primary care is the right thing to do … , it doesn’t produce cost savings,” as people will live longer and require longer and eventually require more expensive care. Sen. Chris Pearson, P/D-Burlington, sponsor of the bill, pushed back, saying, “Everyone has said that if we can treat people up front, we can save money. It is the basis of our health reform efforts.”
Both Teachout and Susan Gretkowski of MVP said that the requirements of the federal Affordable Care Act would make it difficult to meet the proposal’s requirements. Each plan must fall within a range of cost share percentage between insurer and insured. Locking in the amount for the copay for primary care (of zero) will put pressure on other line items. Both said that this proposal would increase premium costs.
Chief Health Care Advocate Michael Fisher is supportive of the idea, but he told the committee that the proposal may need to be revised to reach the right balance so as not to increase insurance costs.
The committee will return to the bill in the next few weeks.
Scott administration proposes Woodside as secure residential site
The commissioners of the departments of Mental Health and Building and General Services have recommended the closure of the Middlesex Therapeutic Community Residence, and the construction of a new facility at the site of the Woodside Juvenile Detention center. On Friday, BGS Commissioner Chris Cole told the House Health Care Committee that the Scott administration is proposing that the Woodside facility be demolished and replaced with a 16-bed, state-run, physically secure residential program with increased clinical capacity. Cole said funds to support the planning and development of a larger, permanent facility are included in the proposed FY 2020 Capital Bill. Cole told the committee that it is not possible to retrofit the existing space into a therapeutic environment.
DMH Commissioner Sarah Squirrell said six of seven beds at MTCR are filled and potential referrals are being reviewed for the seventh bed. At any given time, there are 10-15 people who could be referred to a secure residential program that has the capacity to perform occasional Emergency Involuntary Procedures. EIPs include restraint, seclusion or emergency involuntary medication. Squirrell said this cohort of individuals occupy significant inpatient hospital bed days and cannot be appropriately served at the Middlesex secure residential program due to current regulations for Therapeutic Community Residences, the facility’s design, and the staffing pattern. She said the new facility will continue to serve individuals who no longer require acute inpatient care, but who remain in need of treatment within a secure setting for an extended period.
The committee plans to take additional testimony on the proposal.
Physician Assistants seek licensing changes
The Senate Health and Welfare Committee continued on Wednesday to take testimony on a proposal to modernize state law regarding the licensure of physician assistants. S.128 would simplify documentation and administrative requirements in the current PA and physician relationship.
Last week, Vermont Medical Society Executive Director Jessa Barnard told the committee that the changes in the statute governing PA practice was necessary to reduce barriers to licensure and healthcare workforce employment in Vermont. The proposed changes would bring the law into alignment with current practice, and would not change the scope of practice of PAs. The need for delegation agreements with primary and secondary supervisory physicians would be removed, as would physician liability for PA practice solely based on being a participating physician who completes a practice agreement.
The bill would mandate a practice agreement between a physician assistant and a physician. A practice agreement would not be submitted to the Board of Medical Practice for approval or filing, but would maintained by the physician assistant and provided to the board upon request. The Physician Assistant Academy of Vermont supports this language and testified that the board has rejected delegation agreements for minor reasons such as word choice, although the board is tasked with only accepting the agreements, not reviewing them. Other states in the region do not require the agreements to be filed with a regulatory board.
David Herlihy, the Executive Director for the Vermont Board of Medical Practice, urged the committee to consider requiring the filing of agreements with the board, saying that they are part of the authoritative public record on licensing, and with the shift in liability from physicians to physicians assistants, it would be beneficial to have them on file with the board. It would be difficult for the public to access the agreements if they were filed at hospitals.
Committee Chair Ginny Lyons, D-Chittenden, said that her committee will review an updated proposal next week.
The Agency of Human Services and half of its departments present budgets changes
The House Appropriations Committee heard testimony this week on the proposed FY 2021 State Appropriations for the Agency of Human Services, the Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living, and the Vermont Department of Health. On Tuesday, AHS Secretary Michael Smith provided a general overview of the entire agency budget, noting AHS saw an overall budget increase of $15.1 million. Smith also revealed that meetings with Brattleboro Retreat’s Board of Directors “have been cordial and very productive,” and that he expects “to get an ask soon.” Additional departments will be presenting their budgets to committees during the next few weeks.
Department of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living: DAIL Commissioner Monica Hutt reviewed her department’s FY 2021 Budget in the House Appropriations and Human Services Committee. Hutt said it is the goal of her department to make Vermont the best state in which to grow old or to live with a disability. She said DAIL has embraced Results Based Accountability and continues to focus on program performance measures and performance improvement.
Hutt presented the Choices for Care Savings Report. Appropriations Chair Kitty Toll, D-Danville, asked why DAIL is proposing to raise the case management services cap from twelve to twenty-four hours annually. Hutt replied that many providers are already giving more than twelve hours service, so the change aligns the cap with current practice.
Rep. Dave Yacovone, D-Morrisville, asked Hutt whether DAIL had “any way of knowing the financial fragility any of the entities within your system and programs. Hutt responded that DAIL does collect that information for some programs like home health agencies, but does not for others like residential care. Wood expressed concern that residential homes aren’t getting increased reimbursement, while also being burdened by added requirements and regulations. Hutt pointed out that the Medicaid Vermont Assistive Community Care Services funding was increased by $5 per day last year. Human Services Chair Ann Pugh, D-S. Burlington, told Hutt that she would like budget dollars directed at oversight and training in nursing homes that are “having issues.”.
In the Human Services Committee, Rep. Theresa Wood, D-Waterbury, questioned Hutt on the moderate needs wait-list. Hutt stated that the majority of the wait-list is under the homemaker services program, and that it is difficult to find people to hire to provide services. Wood also noted that there is no cost of living increase for Medicaid provider reimbursements. She has asked the Department of Vermont Health Access to determine what a one, two, or three percent COLA would cost.
The Human Services Committee will take additional testimony and will provide recommendations to the Appropriations Committee.
Vermont Department of Health: On Wednesday, the committee heard from the Vermont Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Mark Levine on his FY 2021 budget request. Levine said his department focuses on public health and prevention programs to keep communities healthy. The FY 2021 budget will continue to sustain the following:
- Providing access to reproductive health services;
- Working to prevent disease by ensuring high vaccination rates;
- Reducing exposure to toxins, especially among children;
- Enhancing the Universal Afterschool Network; and
- Building Resilience and Primary Prevention of adverse childhood experiences.
Department of Children and Family Services: DCF Commissioner Ken Schatz presented his department’s FY 2021 budget to the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday. Schatz said his department fosters the development, safety, and well-being of Vermonters. The goal of his department is to reduce poverty and homelessness, improve the safety and well-being of children and families, create permanent connections for children and youth, and provide timely and accurate financial supports for families. The FY 2021 budget supports these goals.
Schatz discussed the elimination of the Specialized Childcare Transportation and Emergency Housing Motel Voucher Program. Committee Chair Kitty Toll, D-Danville, and Rep. Mary Hooper, D-Montpelier, questioned if the allocations to these programs were bridge funding for new plans that have yet to be developed. Schatz explained that while that is the case for Specialized Childcare Transportation, DCF has a plan to replace the voucher program. Schatz relayed that the Children Integrated Bundled Services will be seeing rate increases in some districts but not all. He said that an independent consultant felt the same rate should be applied to all districts, but that DCF would need an additional $2 million in funding to be able to accommodate that.
Hooper raised concerns about seeing a huge loss in child care facilities in the state, Schatz expressed that DCF’s partnership with Let’s Grow Kids is very helpful in addressing this issue. He said Let’s Grow Kids help fund child care facilities that are financially unsustainable or they would help families transition to a new facility if the facility had to close. Concerning the proposed federal rule changes for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, DCF would rather expand that program and not reduce it, and the committee agreed.
Woodside closing: a reflection of “good things going on” in the communities of Vermont
The House Human Services Committee heard testimony regarding the Woodside Juvenile Detention Center from the Department for Children and Families Commissioner Ken Schatz. Schatz said there is a reduction in the need for restrictive centers like Woodside, and that this must be a reflection of good things going on in communities. Concerns expressed in the committee revolved around making sure there are beds that provide stabilization services and that can be locked. Schatz said “our system of care is built on short and long-term placement. The Scott administration does not believe there is a need a 30-bed facility at Woodside to fulfill this service. There are several places that can offer stabilization services.” A request for proposal has been issued.
Panel reviews health care price transparency tools
Rep. Lucy Rogers, D-Waterville, gave a presentation on Thursday to the House Health Care Committee on health care price transparency as part of the committees review of issues to focus on for the rest of the session. Rogers reviewed Vermont’s insurance claims database, Vermont Health Care Uniform Reporting and Evaluation System and detailed the steps to access information from the database. By law, the data must be available as a resource for insurers, employers, providers, purchasers of health care, and State agencies to continuously review health care utilization, expenditures, and performance in Vermont.
After a brief overview of other states’ All Payer Claims databases Rogers suggested supporting H.795, a proposal that would increase hospital price transparency, or supporting the Green Mountain Care Board’s current price transparency work. The Board was required as of Act 53 of 2019 to research and review price transparency tools, and all five board members have named price transparency as a high priority. Christina McLaughlin, Health Care Analyst for the GMCB, reported that Board staff and stakeholders have completed a tool survey and are implementing the next steps in developing a health care transparency tool website.
Committee review of bills.
Committees heard from legislative sponsors on the following bills:
H.607: Introduced by Rep. Chip Conquest, D-Newbury, the bill proposes to establish a rural primary care physician scholarship program funded evenly by the state of Vermont, the University of Vermont College of Medicine, and OneCare Vermont. It establishes a primary care access tax credit for individuals who practice in a rural and underserved area. It requires any graduate medical education payments to the University of Vermont Health Network made by Agency of Human Services be contingent on the hospital maintaing at least 30 family physician residency positions by 2026.
S.202: Introduced by Senate Health and Welfare Committee Chair Ginny Lyons, D-Willison, the bill proposes to limit the co-payment amount for chiropractic services in silver- and bronze-level qualified and reflective health benefit plans to not more than 125 percent of the amount of the co-payment applicable to care and services provided by a primary care provider under the same plan. Because plans are designed almost two years ahead, insurers expressed concern that the limit would apply to 2021 plans that are already designed.
Green Mountain Care Board
The Green Mountain Care Board met briefly on Wednesday to review staff recommendations for the Non-Standard Qualified Health Plan Approval Process and 2021 Evaluation Criteria. Non-standard plans are approved to promote plan innovation and are required to add value to the Vermont individual and small business health insurance market. These plans often fill a product gap identified by consumers. There was little discussion on the topic, and the Board will be voting on the process and criteria on February 5th at the close of public comment.


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Have you ever sent an e-mail rather than write a letter, or made a call on that new fangled invention called a telephone? Because, my friends, if you have, you’re no longer a social media virgin, and you can’t go back home again. Now, you may argue that the telephone doesn’t really apply. I disagree, but e-mail qualifies unquestionably as social media.
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Social media is not revolutionary, it’s evolutionary. The key, as in any evolutionary tale, is adaptability. As a baby boomer you are part of the last generation born before the advent of computers. If you are a baby boomer business owner or professional… the benefits of including current and future social media technologies in your marketing tool kit far outweigh the hassle.
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A Writer Crosses Over
Roberto Bolaño’s Latest: Translated From the Spanish — and the Dead
S o here’s what you’re up against if you’re an American publishing house like Farrar, Straus and Giroux trying to persuade readers to shell out $27 for the first English translation of Roberto Bolaño’s nearly 600-page novel, “The Savage Detectives,” just out this week.
You’ve got to introduce them to an author of indeterminate nationality of whom, it is safe to say, 99 percent of Americans have never heard. The Chileanborn Bolaño spent most of his adult life in Mexico and Spain; he liked to call the Spanish language his homeland.
You’ve got to sell the book in a crowded market notoriously resistant to literature in translation. You’ve got to sell it without benefit of author interviews in newspapers or blogs, on television or NPR, because your author isn’t around to do them: Bolaño died of liver disease, at 50, in 2003.
Most important, you’ve got to explain why the heck readers should want to spend large chunks of their scarce leisure time in the company of Bolaño’s scruffy, combative protagonists: two obscure poets who, in the novel’s key plot juncture, leave Mexico City for the Sonoran Desert — pursued, as it happens, by an enraged pimp — on a quest to track down an even more obscure poet from a previous generation. Bolaño never portrays the marginal lives and literary passions of the pair directly. They are glimpsed, instead, through the retrospective testimony of more than 50 narrators who have, however briefly, encountered them.
Fifty narrators! “The Savage Detectives” is simply lousy with poets and would-be poets. They drink too much, sleep with each other and feud over poetic principles never fully defined. What unites them is the conviction that literature, taken seriously, can function as a belief system, a religion, a way to confront the glorious, doomed insanity of human existence.
This is the key to Bolaño’s appeal, says Farrar, Straus and Giroux president and publisher Jonathan Galassi.
Sure, he concedes, a novel peopled with penniless foreign poets might seem off-putting. But “it’s a metaphor, you know, it’s not literally a novel about poets. It’s about poetic temperament in the world. It’s romantic. It’s about young idealists coming up against corruption and tragedy.” There’s no doubt in his mind. “It’s a perfect book for us to publish,” Galassi says.
The tale of how “The Savage Detectives” came to be published in the United States is a story about the difficulties inherent in literary migration between cultures. It is about the commercial food chain in which small publishers’ successful initiatives get followed up by larger houses. It is about how Latin American writing has evolved beyond the boom sparked by Gabriel García Márquez’s “One Hundred Years of Solitude” four decades ago.
But most of all, it is the story of an extraordinary writing life. Bolaño, whose work has been widely celebrated abroad since “Los Detectives Salvajes” was published in Spain in 1998, remains so obscure here that Farrar, Straus felt the need to commission the book’s translator, Natasha Wimmer, to research and write a lengthy biographical essay to introduce him.
Wimmer herself had never heard of the author before Farrar, Straus asked her to look at the book. “I was completely blown away by it,” she says. “I thought it was the best thing I had read in any language in years.”
Bolaño, she learned, was born in Santiago in 1953, the son of a truck-driving, amateur-boxing father and a mother who taught math and statistics in the smaller Chilean towns where they mostly lived. When he was 15, he moved with his family to Mexico City, where he soon, as Wimmer sums it up, “dropped out of school to devote himself to reading and writing and adolescent rebellion.”
She begins her essay with a scene in which “a 23year-old with wild hair and aviator glasses” reads a manifesto in a bookstore called Librería Gandhi that “urged his fellow poets to give up everything for literature, to follow the example of Rimbaud and hit the road.” This was Bolaño in 1976, helping launch a movement known as “infrarealism,” whose adherents — in Wimmer’s words — were supposed to “abandon the coffeehouse and take the part of . . . the lonely, the unnoticed and despised.”
In “The Savage Detectives,” which is heavily autobiographical, infrarealism becomes “visceral realism” and Roberto Bolaño becomes “Arturo Belano.” In real life, as Wimmer notes, the writer lived by his principles for many years, “drifting from one menial day job to another and writing by night.”
Much of this drifting took place in Europe, for which Bolaño left Mexico in 1977. Returning to Chile was not an option. He’d gone home four years earlier, arriving a few months before Gen. Augusto Pinochet launched his 1973 coup against socialist President Salvador Allende. Bolaño had thrown in his lot with pro-Allende forces — though his contributions were modest, to put it mildly. He was arrested and briefly imprisoned, escaping only through the fortuitous intervention of a couple of former schoolmates turned prison guards.
Eventually settling in Barcelona, he worked as, among other things, a longshoreman, a dishwasher, a garbageman and (his favorite job) a night watchman for a campground near the city. Poor, sick and at one time addicted to heroin, he continued to write poetry and scorn the literary establishment. Finally, marriage and the birth of a son (in 1990; a daughter followed) persuaded him to start writing prose fiction — a form he had always considered inferior, but one that might actually produce income. It did. By the early 1990s he was supporting his family by writing stories and novellas. By the end of the decade, “The Savage Detectives” had won the Rómulo Gallegos prize, the Spanish-speaking world’s most significant literary award.
But there was more driving Bolaño than money. “In 1992,” Wimmer writes, “he had been diagnosed with a fatal liver disease, which meant that nearly all his fiction was written under the threat of death.”
Despite his growing reputation in continental Europe and Latin America, the English-speaking world was slow to take notice.
The Brits got there first. In 2003, Harvill Press published a translation of Bolaño’s novella “By Night in Chile,” which takes the form of a deathbed confession by a priest and literary critic involved with the Pinochet regime. Meanwhile, in New York, Barbara Epler — editor in chief of New Directions, a widely respected small press with a long history of publishing literature in translation — had been lobbied by Bolaño admirers such as Guatemalan American novelist Francisco Goldman.
“You’ve got to look at Bolaño!” Epler remembers Goldman urging. When Epler heard the Harvill translation was in the works, she called and asked to see the galleys.
“I had never read a book like ‘By Night in Chile,’ ” Epler says. “I was beside myself.”
New Directions published the book in December 2003. It sold a modest 6,000 copies or so — “that’s good for us,” Epler says — and she followed up with two more Bolaño novellas (“Distant Star” and “Amulet”) and a story collection (“Last Evenings on Earth”). She figured New Directions would do his longer fiction as well. No such luck. Bolaño’s estate decided it wanted a bigger publisher for “The Savage Detectives” and the even more massive novel, “2666,” that Bolaño completed shortly before his death. Enter Farrar, Straus and Giroux, which bought world English rights to both books (for a sum most likely in the very low six figures) then spun off United Kingdom rights to Picador. Farrar, Straus will publish “2666” next year. Epler was disappointed but not bitter. “What can we say? It’s like — rats!” she says. But Farrar, Straus “is a good publisher” whose size and corporate ownership give it “more muscle and marketing power.” Besides, any marketing muscle applied to “The Savage Detectives” will surely boost interest in Bolaño’s other work.
New Directions has half a dozen more short Bolaño works coming, Epler says, “and I think we’ll eventually do the poetry.”
Farrar, Straus editor Lorin Stein has his own story of discovering Roberto Bolaño’s work.
Stein — an intense, slightly built man of 33 who grew up in Washington — is precisely the kind of literary obsessive most likely to be drawn to a writer like Bolaño. In high school, at Sidwell Friends, he gravitated immediately to the literary magazine. One summer, he and some friends pooled their money and hired a favorite Sidwell teacher to conduct a special poetry class.
Scuffling around after college, Stein got a parttime job at Publisher’s Weekly while trying to find work with a book publisher. He didn’t know one from the other when he started, but he learned.
One day a PW colleague pulled a book off a shelf and offered it to him to take home and review over the weekend. Farrar, Straus is publishing it, she told him, “so it probably won’t be a waste of your time.”
“I’ve told my boss this so many times,” Stein says, laughing, “when there was a book I didn’t think we should publish.”
He landed his first Farrar, Straus position in 1998 — he started as Galassi’s assistant — and worked his way into an editing job. He also made a Spanish friend who’d known and loved Bolaño, and in 2004, the year after Bolaño’s death, Stein went to Barcelona to visit her.
“We were in a bookstore,” he recalls, “and she said, ‘Look, here’s an English translation of ‘By Night in Chile,’ you have to read this.’ ”
He took her advice, inhaling the book on the first leg of his flight home, and found himself thinking: “If this exists and I didn’t know about it, then we should be doing a lot more foreign fiction.”
Galassi, meanwhile, first heard about Bolaño from the late Susan Sontag, who served as a kind of early warning system for superior literature from overseas. He read “The Savage Detectives” in an Italian translation and immediately wanted to publish it.
Who did he see as its audience? The same people who read Faulkner, he says, or García Márquez — though Bolaño represents something quite different from the great Colombian magical realist.
“This is what’s going on in Latin American literature in the post-boom years,” Galassi says. “This is a whole new kind of thing. It’s influenced by surrealism, but it’s not inhumane. It’s very accessible, but it’s not quite realistic. It’s tragic, but it’s sexy. It’s panoramic.”
It’s also replete with slang from, at minimum, five countries — Mexico, Chile, Peru, Argentina and Spain — which made it no joke to translate. Wimmer says it took her close to a year.
“The obvious challenge is that there are so many voices,” she says. She’d plug idiomatic phrases she didn’t know into the Internet (“it’s really good for finding how words are used in context”). She also wrestled with the rhythm of Bolaño’s sentences. Should she break them up, because run-on sentences are far more common in Spanish than English, or should she declare them a stylistic choice not to be messed with? (Short answer: some of each.)
Wimmer and Stein had their share of fights, Stein says, as translators and editors will. But these were outweighed by their shared passion for the book. What exactly makes him love it, Stein is asked? He has some trouble answering, but he works at it.
For one thing, Bolaño’s portrait of poetry-obsessed Mexican youth “made me nostalgic,” he says, “because that’s the way we were — I mean, that’s the way any artsy kid is.” He shares with Bolaño’s characters what he calls “a basic fruitful misunderstanding,” which is “that poetry and books matter.” Bolaño treats literature as if it’s “a church that no one quite believes in anymore — but that no one can live without.” But there’s more. Bolaño’s novel follows its two main characters into a future where every poetic principle they cared about is lost or forgotten — but it doesn’t have to be about poetry. “Everything disappears,” Stein says, “and your own youth disappears, and these guys — they never get it back. You know? You watch them just trail off into the distance.”
It sounds desperately bleak. But somehow, “The Savage Detectives” makes it exhilarating.
“I told Natasha afterwards that I felt more alive reading it than I felt when I went out and lived my life,” Stein says. “And she said, ‘I’m so glad to hear you say that. I felt the same way.’ ”
So how do you sell someone as strange, original and indisputably non-American as Roberto Bolaño in a U.S. market surrounded, as Sontag once wrote, by a “wall of indifference to foreign literature” — a market in which, as Epler calculated a few years back, less than .5 percent of the books published are fiction in translation?
That’s what Farrar, Straus publicity and marketing chief Jeff Seroy is paid to think about. But Seroy laughs at the notion that he can wave a magical marketing wand and send “The Savage Detectives” flying off bookstore shelves.
“I mean, we’re not pulling rabbits out of hats,” he says.
Members of the Farrar, Straus team have tried to highlight the book’s significance in various small ways. There was the two-page spread in the catalogue, for example, and the roughly 3,000 advance reader’s copies sent to reviewers and booksellers. “That’s not typical for us to do with books in translation,” Seroy says, “so that sent a signal.”
They worked hard on the type-driven cover, with its ragged, graphic title and jumble of excited quotes on the back. And they took an unusual approach to the front flap copy.
“Ordinarily one goes into a lengthy description of the book,” Seroy says, but in this case, he and Stein decided less would be more. “We really just needed to say: This is a dazzling work which established the international reputation of an important world writer. The plot summary is half a sentence.”
There was Wimmer’s essay, sent to selected reviewers and journalists and posted on a Web site built for “The Savage Detectives.” And there was the fact that the Web site refers readers to the New Directions Bolaños — an unusual cross-pollination that says: The writer is what’s important here.
But in the end, Seroy says, their strategy was simple: They needed to convey “the right kind of excitement to the right people.” By this he means letting those in “the literary establishment and the review establishment” know that he, Galassi and Stein truly believed, institutionally and personally, that they were dealing with a great and important book. Will it work? Maybe. There’s already been considerable pre-publication press, both in smaller literary publications and in mainstream magazines such as Harper’s and the New Yorker, where Daniel Zalewski wrote that the original publication of “The Savage Detectives” in 1998 “aroused the same level of excitement in Latin America that ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ had, three decades earlier.”
Bolaño’s trajectory could mirror that of W.G. Sebald, whose first books, written in German and unknown here, were also published by New Directions — to wide praise — beginning in 1998. Sebald then jumped to Random House, which made a modest splash with his novel “Austerlitz” — taking great care, as Epler notes, not to highlight the fact that it was a translation.
Yet even the most ecstatic press doesn’t necessarily sell books. No one at Farrar, Straus is ready to make profit projections on “The Savage Detectives.”
“I’m not looking at a P&L at this point,” Seroy says. But even if the book ends up losing money, “it won’t put us out of business.”
Then he sums up the publishing philosophy, not universally shared, that made his colleagues go after Roberto Bolaño in the first place:
“We’ll still always be happy that we published the book. And what more could you ask?”
Many believe in the vision and work of the late Roberto Bolaño. Above, Farrar, Straus and Giroux editor Lorin Stein and translator Natasha Wimmer. Below, far left, Farrar, Straus publisher Jonathan Galassi; far right, editor in chief of New Directions Barbara Epler. Below center, Bolaño, left, with Spanish writer Alberto Olmos in 1998.


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Read 'em, Cowboy! Actor extraordinaire, Jon Michael Davis, takes a break to read Rapeseed while on set of The Adventures of Pepper and Paula. I love seeing the book in exotic, far-flung places, but I never expected a Rapeseed travel pic going back in time to the Wild West. Awesome shot, JMD!
Gorgeous sky over Israel, lovely doggie checking out Rapeseed in the hands of my South African friend Mandi, who's holding Swedish reader Maria's copy, borrowed from Switzerland. In this shot, the book is just a tiny piece of a big beautiful scene... as books so often are, in our lives.
Rapeseed gets read in Red Square, Moscow. Seeing those gorgeous gloves holding the book there warms my heart. "Spasibo" to Canadian reader Colleen Hamilton for this one.
Tea and reading... Jill and David Liddiatt, who launched my love affair with England, as my Rotary Exchange hosts when I was fifteen. Big thank you to my great friend and "English sister" Penny for this gorgeous photo!
Bonnie Baker Boyles sent this one of Rapeseed's bookstore debut in one of my favorite indie book stores, Rainy Day Books -- FACE OUT display, even! And it's shelved there among such good company.
Reading for the Geneva Writers Group, and was treated to a spontaneous gift of this drawing one of our very talented members did while I read. She tore it out of her notebook and gave it to me as we said good-bye in the parking lot at the Press Club that afternoon. What a treasure!
Sirenland Writers Conference,
Shot from the hotel room balcony at Le Sirenuse before reading at Antonio and Carla Sersale's gorgeous home. This copy now has a heartfelt thank you note iinscribed in the front to Andre Dubus III and was hand-delivered to his beautiful wife, Fontaine.(Lesson learned about reading from a published book instead of a 14-point print-out: those little squiggles on the page do exactly what they did to Chip during his speech in the novel). Art imitates life, and then it bounces back and whacks you in the face. Happily struggled through, in any case!)
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Beach read! I think that lifeguard is racing down to read a chapter with Debby Kirby. That copy of Rapeseed traveled MILES to Los Angeles from Bristol, England.

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