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The Yomiuri Shimbun The Liberal Democratic Party looks likely to comfortably win a single-party majority of 233 seats in Sunday’s House of Representatives election, while opposition party Kibo no To (Party of Hope) appears to be losing momentum, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey and related coverage.
Kibo could struggle to retain the 57 seats held by its candidates before official campaigning for the election began, while the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan has picked up support since the early stages of the campaign and is poised to significantly build on the 15 seats its candidates held.
The survey, which was conducted from Tuesday to Thursday to gauge support for the political parties in the final phase of the campaign, is the second Yomiuri poll following one conducted for all 289 single-seat constituencies across the nation on Oct. 10 and 11 — the opening days of the campaign. The latest survey covered 114 chiefly tightly contested constituencies.
The election situation analysis, combined with results of the previous survey and coverage by The Yomiuri Shimbun general bureaus and other sources nationwide, paints a picture of voting trends as the clock ticks down to election day.
The LDP remains in a solid position. It has maintained the upper hand in the about 140 constituencies in which it held an advantage, and LDP candidates have pulled ahead of rival parties’ candidates in 16 of the 114 constituencies targeted in the latest survey. In knife-edge constituencies in Gunma Prefecture, Tokyo and elsewhere, many LDP candidates have grabbed the lead.
Komeito, the LDP’s coalition partner, has not gained more support in proportional representation blocs and is highly likely to lose some of the 34 seats it held. However, it is possible the LDP and Komeito could reach 300 seats in total.
Kibo has fielded 75 candidates in the 114 surveyed constituencies, but the party is struggling, with 31 of those candidates trailing the opposition.
Kibo is even finding the going tough in Tokyo, the electoral base of party leader Yuriko Koike, also the Tokyo governor. In Tokyo Constituency No. 10, Masaru Wakasa, a close aide of Koike and a founding member of Kibo, had been locked in a close tussle with an LDP candidate but has now fallen behind.
The Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan has been gaining strength, according to the survey. Three CDPJ candidates, including acting leader Akira Nagatsuma in Tokyo Constituency No. 7, have edged ahead in the closing days of the campaign, and now six CDPJ candidates have firm grips on their respective races. The CDPJ has eclipsed Kibo in the proportional representation blocs. When these seats and the single-seat constituencies are combined, the CDPJ could end up about equal to Kibo.
The Japanese Communist Party had positioned Kyoto Constituency No. 1 as a “must-win” seat. However, Keiji Kokuta, the party’s Diet affairs chief, trails the LDP candidate in this constituency. The JCP has been unable to recover overall from a shaky start to the campaign and could find it difficult to improve on the 21 seats it held before the campaign started.
Nippon Ishin no Kai candidates are facing uphill battles, even in the party’s home base of Osaka. Ishin Secretary General Nobuyuki Baba faces a tough fight in Osaka Constituency No. 17. According to the survey, Ishin is likely to end up with about 14 seats — the same as before the election — when single-seat constituencies and proportional representation blocs are combined.
It is touch-and-go whether the Social Democratic Party can increase the two seats it held before the campaign. The odds are stacked heavily against the Party for Japanese Kokoro.
About 20 percent of respondents to the survey did not state which candidate they would vote for in single-seat constituency races, so the overall situation contains some fluidity.
The survey was conducted via telephone on 75,336 households with eligible voters, with responses from 45,282 people, or 60 percent.
Support for Abe’s party strong
The survey revealed the LDP remained the dominant party and had steadily firmed up its support in the proportional representation blocs. Kibo was losing steam, and the CDPJ was poised to become the second-largest party in the lower house.
When the results for the 114 constituencies covered in the latest survey were compared with the findings from the survey conducted in the campaign’s initial stage, support for the LDP in the proportional representation blocs crept up from 32 percent to 33 percent. The LDP fared especially well among voters aged 18 to 29, where it gained support from 49 percent of respondents. The party’s popularity was evident across generations — leading other parties by 10 percentage points or more in all age brackets except for voters in their 60s.
A national estimate based on the survey results suggests the LDP will win about 60 of the 176 proportional representation seats up for grabs and remain the largest party.
Among the opposition parties, the CDPJ was picked by 17 percent of respondents (up from 14 percent) and overtook Kibo, which fell from 16 percent to 13 percent in the latest survey. In the first survey, respondents who did not support Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Cabinet were evenly split, with 25 percent saying they would vote for Kibo in the proportional representation race, and 25 percent opting for the CDPJ. However, in the latest survey, this figure increased to 31 percent for the CDPJ and slipped to 21 percent for Kibo — indicating that the CDPJ is becoming the preferred choice for voters looking to cast a ballot against the Abe administration.
The LDP also remained solid in single-seat constituencies. The LDP remains steadily in control in about 60 percent of the 38 constituencies in which it, Kibo and the CDPJ have all fielded candidates.
Kibo held an advantage in none of those 38 constituencies, according to the first Yomiuri survey. This situation continued in the latest survey. Although Kibo is putting up a good fight in Aichi Constituency No. 1, its back is to the wall in most of the others.
The CDPJ continues to hold the lead in three of these constituencies, unchanged from the earlier survey. Although the CDPJ has jumped ahead in what was a tight race in Tokyo Constituency No. 7, it has been dragged into a desperate scrap in Aichi Constituency No. 5. If the CDPJ can win some of these closely fought constituencies, it could significantly build on the 15 seats it held before the campaign.Speech

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Shower to Empower is a one-of-a-kind mobile service, offering basic needs such as complimentary showers and haircuts. We also offer on-site case management and medical services to those experiencing homelessness.
Providing the most basic human needs, we aim to restore dignity to Rhode Island’s homeless community.
Shower to Empower is a mobile navigation unit operated and funded through a partnership between the House of Hope Community Development Corporation (House of Hope CDC), Team Williams, LLC, and the City of Providence.
Medical Navigation Services
Shower to Empower provides showers, haircuts, medical services, and case management to those in need. This allows House of Hope CDC outreach workers to further engage with individuals in need.
Many services and referrals are provided on the spot during outreach, others will require a sit-down follow-up meeting, including applying for housing, employment, and social security benefits. Similarly, while the medical providers (a family nurse practitioner and psychiatrist) who do outreach with the House of Hope CDC are able to provide some care literally on the street, this support realistically requires a secure and confidential space.
The unit is a customized 20’ x 8.3’ trailer that includes two individual showers, heated floors, an area for case management, and an enclosed private medical space. The mobile unit is located in Providence alongside House of Hope CDC’s street outreach team providing hot showers, haircuts, case management, and medical navigation services to individuals experiencing homelessness.
Drawing on a strong network of existing partnerships with Providence based social service providers, Hope of Hope CDC will operate Shower to Empower as an innovative tool to engage with an otherwise disconnected population.
Through ongoing partnerships with Alpert Medical School of Brown University, the Rhode Island College School of Social Work, and the University of Rhode Island College of Nursing to incorporate students into Shower to Empower. Students work on interdisciplinary teams with House of Hope CDC’s case managers to support individuals in navigating the healthcare system and addressing complex healthcare needs.
Across the country, mobile units focused on both hygiene and medical services for homeless individuals have proven a successful mode of engagement particularly for individuals who are intimidated by traditional shelter and health care systems, or have experienced abuse. Organizations such as Oregon Harbor of Hope, Shower to the People, Dignity on Wheels, Live Fresh, and Lava Mae all focus on restoring dignity to those experiencing street homelessness through hygiene and personal care services with mobile shower and laundry RVs and buses.
As we found through our own search for a location, transportation is a serious issue that remains unsolved with any permanent space. Having a mobile unit with basic necessities that can complement House of Hope CDC’s street outreach team and serve people where they are will be extremely beneficial in bringing more people into contact with case management and medical care services.
With 1,180 individuals experiencing homelessness in Rhode Island on any given night, Shower to Empower serves some of the hardest to reach populations that are living on the streets of Providence, Pawtucket, and Woonsocket. The ongoing challenges of connecting those who are disconnected required a solution that is creative collaborative, and compassionate.
Bret Williams from Team Williams, LLC, was inspired by a series of firsthand video accounts of the impact a shower and haircut offers to those in need and was moved to see this implemented to those in need in his home state of Rhode Island. After talking to various non-profits on the issues of homelessness, the idea of a mobile unit came after a visit to Rich Trailers, a custom trailer manufacturer based in Indiana. After spending a night shadowing the outreach team at House of Hope CDC, the idea of a mobile unit began to take shape. An opportunity to collaborate with the City of Providence evolved and Shower to Empower became a reality.


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Byrd was charged with second- and third-degree assault and armed criminal action after getting in a bar fight that resulted from him (allegedly) groping some girl.
This is a little surprising. I figured the severe discipline instilled by pom-pom would carry over to life beyond college. Plus I thought Byrd saved fighting for important stuff like disputes over Playstation games.
No word on whether Byrd will write a book called "If I Tried to Hit a Guy with a Drinking Glass, This is How I Would Have Done It".
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The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS -- Prosecutors have charged St. Louis Rams rookie Dominique Byrd for allegedly hitting a bar patron in the face with a drinking glass early Monday morning.
The 30-year-old victim, whose name has not been released, confronted the player around 1:30 a.m. alleging that the player groped the victim's female friend at the Pepper Lounge, a restaurant and bar in St. Louis.
The two argued, and the victim said Byrd struck him in the face with a drinking glass, said police spokeswoman Schron Jackson.
The victim suffered cuts to the face and was treated at a St. Louis hospital. The Rams player had a laceration to his right hand but declined treatment, Jackson said.
Byrd was charged with second- and third-degree assault and armed criminal action. His bond was set at $25,000, said chief warrant officer Jeannette Graviss with the St. Louis circuit attorney's office.
Byrd's lawyer, Scott Rosenblum, said his client had posted bail and will plead not guilty to the charges.
"We're comfortable an investigation will reveal that the allegations are unwarranted," he said.
He asked people to keep an open mind, saying professional athletes can become targets for people with "less than honorable motivations."


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ABOUT THIS BOOK
PUBLICATION DATE: June 10, 2021
The Dying Detective (Easy Classics)
Original author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Adapted by Stephanie Baudet; Illustrated by Arianna Bellucci
An illustrated adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic Sherlock Holmes mystery – at an easy-to-read level for readers of all ages! Also includes a QR code for the free audiobook!’Well, Watson, something bad has happened to me,’ Holmes said. ‘It seems I’m not indestructible after all.’Watson’s worst fears have come true: his best friend, Sherlock Holmes, is dying! Watson is desperate to help, but Holmes is being his usual stubborn self and refuses to see a doctor. Yet with deadly traps, mysterious murder plots and a cunning coffee plantation owner to deal with, Watson begins to wonder whether everything is as it seems …
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was a prolific writer; his non-Sherlockian works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. Stephanie was born in England before emigrating to Australia – and later New Zealand – with her family, where she trained as a nurse. Whilst back in England on holiday, she met and married her husband, had a daughter and settled down.Stephanie’s lifelong interest in writing became more serious when her first children’s book, Avalanche, was published in the 1980s. Since then, she has had around forty children’s books published, and has also published an historical novella for adults. Stephanie works closely with schools, she tutors for two writing schools and occasionally runs writing workshops for adults.Stephanie joined Sweet Cherry Publishing in 2013 with her Mr Pattacake series, and she has since written The Dinosaur Detectives.Stephanie currently lives in the Chiltern Hills in Buckinghamshire.Arianna is a freelance illustrator based in Florence, Italy, where she majored in Entertainment Design at Nemo Academy. Since then she has worked as 2D artist with Italian independent video game studios. The Sherlock Holmes series is her debut novel as an illustrator for Children’s books.


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NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, USA – Gene Akins of Catalytic Generators was announced Florida Tomato Man of the Year at the annual Florida Tomato Committee Conference October 4, 2019.
Board members of the Florida Tomato Committee recognized Akins with this award for over 40 years of dedicated support to the tomato industry and Florida tomato growers. David Neill, “long-time” tomato grower and Committee member, spoke on behalf of the Florida Tomato Committee sharing, “Gene Akins and Catalytic Generators have been a constant supporter of our industry and we thank you for this long-term support.”
Once awarded, Akins spoke to the conference attendees stating, “It is an honor to accept this award. Our company and employees will continue to promote Florida tomatoes and mature greens.” Akins continued, “It is important that we as an industry maintain the proper phrasing of ‘applying ethylene’ to produce to promote the natural ‘degreening’ and ‘ripening’ of the fruit.”
After serving on the Florida Tomato Exchange board for over 25 years, Akins will be stepping down. Catalytic Generators will continue to support Florida Tomato as a resource for post-harvest handling of tomatoes and effective ethylene application.
About Catalytic Generators, LLC
The process of producing ethylene in ripening rooms was invented and patented by Catalytic Generators in 1973. The system consists of a catalytic-type generator that converts a liquid concentrate, called Ethy-Gen® II, into safe levels of ethylene, which is a natural plant hormone produced by many fruits, including bananas, tomatoes, avocados, mangos, and pears. With a strategic distribution network, Catalytic Generators offers its customers timely service and delivery across the globe.

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In large part because of an excessive burden of government, the American economy is suffering European-style stagnation, with even the Washington Post now confessing that growth far below the long-run trend.
This helps explain why job creation has been so dismal in recent years, with more than twenty million Americans out of work, underemployed, or dropped out of the workforce.
But there is one pocket of enormous prosperity in America. It will warm your heart to know that our overlords in Washington are living the life of Riley.
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“The Internet of Things” is the new mandate from Qualcomm, as the company transitions its Mirasol technology from tablets to wearable tech and smartphones. Many industry analysts wrote off Mirasol e-Paper technology as dead, but this couldn’t be further from the truth, as Qualcomm as updated the screens for a new breed of devices.
SID Display Week 2013 just kicked off in Vancouver and I had a chance to catch up with Jesse Burke, who is the new public face of Mirasol. He explained that Mirasol technology had an existing roadmap and that it has deviated from it in small ways to brave a new frontier of wearable technology. There were three new products showcased at the vent, such as a smartwatch, a secondary screen for a phone, and Mirasol technology as the main display on new smartphone.
One of the big adjustments to Mirasol across the board was fitting everything on a single screen. In the past, Mirasol had two different layers of screen for its line of tablets that came out a few years ago, including the Bambook Sunflower and the Kyobo. This gave the user a more washed out approach to images and colors and the tradeoff was great battery life. Qualcomm managed to merge the two layers, producing rich and vibrant color.
The Mirasol smartwatch was the main attraction at SID and had a 1.2 inch screen and lasts a few weeks before needing a re-charge. The intention behind this product is not just to tell the time, but to be an extension of your digital life. On average, we reach for our smartphones almost 100 times a day, to check Twitter, Facebook, messages, and missed calls. The watch will ping you with Google Now updates, Facebook Home, and other essential apps. Mainly, it will serve as a secondary screen that will assist you in staying on top of all the action, without constantly referencing your bulky phone. Currently, Qualcomm is shopping this technology to various vendors, and we will likely see something happening towards the end of 2013 and mid 2014.
Smartphone screen technology is a huge focus for Qualcomm right now and the opportunity is ripe for Mirasol to sweep in and gain some market share. The average phone has a better life of 12-24 hours, depending on your use. Mirasol will extend this up to six times, which amounts to hefty savings over LED and OLED screens
There were two phone displays shown at SID, one was a fully featured smartphone, using Mirasol, and the other was a second display screen on the back of the phone, that draws parallels with the upcoming Yota. The smartphone had sported a 5.1-inch panel with a stunning resolution of 2,560 x 1,440 pixels and 577 ppi. This phone is in the RND phase and is not commercially available yet. It is likely we will have to wait until 2015 to really see it in action. The second display was on the back of the phone, and mirrors the watch in terms of form and function. It allows you to have a secondary screen with dedicated apps running on it. Useful, but it remains to be seen if multi-screen smartphones are viable with your average consumer.
Michael Kozlowski has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past twelve years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.


ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Bills rookie cornerback Tre’Davious White didn’t have much time to stew after allowing Mike Evans to score a go-ahead touchdown.
The next time White took the field, he stripped the ball from Tampa Bay receiver Adam Humphries to set up Stephen Hauschka’s 30-yard field goal with 14 seconds left to secure Buffalo’s 30-27 win over the Buccaneers on Sunday. The Bills erased a 27-20 deficit by scoring twice in the final 2:28.
“Some of these wins aren’t the prettiest, but we’re finding ways to win,” said White, Buffalo’s first-round draft pick out of LSU. “I wouldn’t want to play with another group of guys. No one’s confidence wavered when we went down by that 7-point thing.”
Bills running back LeSean McCoy overcame his own miscue. Bouncing back from a lost fumble, McCoy scored his second touchdown on a 7-yard run to tie the game at 27.
Add it up and the Bills (4-2) have a winning record through six games for just the fourth time since their 17-season playoff streak began.
“I thought there is a lot of heart in this football team,” said Sean McDermott, who became Buffalo’s first rookie head coach to win his first three home games. “To me, that really personifies this city. Heart. Toughness. Blue-collar.”
The Buccaneers (2-4) found another way to lose in dropping their third straight game.
“We’re fighting, man, we’re fighting,” quarterback Jameis Winston said. “We’ve got to find a way to do it for four quarters, not just two, not just three. Four.”
Winston showed no signs of a sprained throwing shoulder that sidelined him during the first drive against Arizona. He finished 32 of 44 for 384 yards passing and three touchdowns.
Hauschka tied an NFL record by making 12 consecutive field goals from 50 yards or longer by hitting a 52-yarder put Buffalo up 20-13 with 13:31 left in the fourth quarter. The record is shared by Blair Walsh, Robbie Gould, Justin Tucker and Matt Prater. The Bills signed Hauschka in free agency this offseason after he spent the previous six seasons in Seattle. He’s not missed an attempt from beyond 50 yards since missing a 50- and 52-yarder in a 35-6 win over Arizona on Dec. 21, 2014.
DeSean Jackson made an acrobatic catch while also preventing an interception. Facing 2nd-and-6 at Buffalo’s 46, Winston threw a pass over the middle that was initially picked off by E.J. Gaines, who had a step on Jackson. Jackson, however, punched the ball loose , turned and caught it for what led to a 14-yard gain.
Gaines did not return after hurting his hamstring injury midway through the third quarter. Gaines was hurt while attempting to defend Jackson on a deep pass up the left sideline. Jackson made the catch but the 60-yard catch was negated by a holding penalty against tackle Donovan Smith.
Buccaneers: Starting MLB Kwon Alexander returned after missing four games with a hamstring injury.
Bills: LT Cordy Glenn made his first start since Week 2 in recovering from an injury to his right ankle. OT Seantrel Henderson was inactive in his first game back since serving a 10-game NFL suspension for violating the league’s substance abuse policy.


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Milo: Milwaukee's Val Kilmer In Real Genius
Rory Ferreira, aka Milo, aka Scallops Hotel, aka whatever else he wants to be called, is an artist that despite many monikers is ready to be defined. During an interview I had with him a few weeks ago, he made clear his frustrations with the smaller local scenes and also what is in store for his music in the future. Making a move to Los Angeles in July is a big part of that, where he will join his other Hellfyre Club label-mates and hopefully solidify himself in the art-rap scene that he has been trying to push so hard in the Midwest. So join us as Milo discusses the aforementioned, as well as his roots, and inspirations behind his music below.
Me: You grew up in Kenosha for a large part of your life. How did growing up there influence your music? Many artists, especially in hip-hop grow up in a culture where influence is bounced off each other and their style is reflected as a product of their environment/culture. I.e. the east coast has a “sound”---did this make you more of an individual as an artist not having a “hip-hop culture”?
Milo: Well, I didn’t really grow up in Kenosha. I went to high school there my last two years of high school.
Me: You’re originally from Maine then right?
Milo: Yeah I was from Maine before that. Yeah, but I mean those are definitely your two big formative years in high school. In terms of our aesthetic, it was formed a lot by like…I didn’t really have any friends and I met a kid in my English class who rapped. He and I both rapped and would overhear the other one muttering, you know what I mean? So that was Nick Donalds, and then he, his brother, and I would record in his living room and then invited Alex over (Safari Al), and it just become sort of like a “Dungeon Family moment”. There were a couple other cats that would come by that studio too like Monty or TJ, and those dudes never really took it to another place and didn’t really pursue it for a living, but there is definitely an aesthetic in that living room that was linked a lot to what kind of hip-hop beats were played in anime. Our lyrical inclinations came from Nick and I, who were both obsessed with West Coast styles. Nick was more obsessed with Living Legends, and in particular a dude name The Grouch. He loves him or at least he did at that time, and then I was obsessed with Freestyle Fellowship, Project Blowed---so yeah, I’d say our sound is a lot like 90s, West Coast sh*t filtered through the modern, Midwest experience.
Me: You major in Philosophy and obviously we can hear that in your music. What was that moment in your life where you decided you want to major in philosophy, and what were some key moments in your life where you can point to that says, “yeah that’s why I act like this now”---or “this is why this aspect of the way I do things is important to me now”?
Milo: Well I guess I would say that if you listen to my rap stuff before college it still tends to be pessimistic, moody, monotone—all my signature style quirks are there but it just lacked a refinement. So more than anything I mean, I want to say that I was always philosophically minded. That’s why I majored in Philosophy, it just made sense to fall into that. But then studying philosophy gave me the vocabulary to talk about those ideas with more nuances and to be more artistic with how I delivered certain ideas or lines. Pre-college it was very rough and clumsy and now there is a little bit more finesse with it. But for me it was second semester, freshman year. There was this dude, Joel Van Fossen, who I went to college with and he was a year older than me. He was the first dude that I met in real life who had that “Good Will Hunting” ability to be on-the-spot brilliant, and I was just really impressed by that. He was a philosophy major and I wanted to hang out with him more.
Me: What is your process for making music? There is a lot that is obviously very personal, but I think that’s why many of your fans connect with it—because it’s coming from a real place and is sincere. Do you write when you are convicted to and then the rest comes later?
Milo: I’m just always writing. I keep notebooks, I’ve got notes on my phone , napkins, my computer, and I try to always be writing. Not always the same stuff, not always raps, or not always for the same rap project or whatever but I’m just trying to keep that open. Then what my process basically is, is a lot of raw content constantly being produced. Making an album or something for me is often a process of refinement---of like, “Ok this is a good idea, this needs to be elaborated on, this could be a crutch to this song…” you know what I mean? It’s a lot of finding where this raw data makes sense and then trying to fit it into the puzzle conveniently. That’s why some of my projects are exceptionally well-thought out and other ones are very immediate in terms of how they sound because they were immediate in how they were made.
Me: You also seem quite comfortable with your beats that you select from your main go-to guys Riley Lake & Iglooghost. How does this work, do you have any input in the direction you want your productions to go? What type of sound do you look for in your beats?
Milo: Basically, I found Riley Lake. Iglooghost found me, but the process was the same. It was initially like big folders of beats that were spanning many styles—sort of like a sampler. Then it’s like “ok we’ve tried a couple tracks out, we hone in on the vibe” and then it becomes much more focused, much more like commissioned work. It’ll be a very long e-mail of me describing exactly the sound I need from them using points of other songs we’ve made or other beats of theirs I’ve heard and they’ll present one or two beats that they make that they think fit that, and then we’ll bounce it back and forth and refine it into what I’m really looking for.
Me: Kind of touching on you being a vegan, what made you want to become this and how does this reflect a part of your greater worldview?
Milo: I’m just lacto-ovo vegetarian. I can still eat dairy and stuff but right out of high school you have that “young person idea” of suffering and I don’t know—all my life it had kind of been a weird thing for me that I could ignore, and then I took an ecology class and couldn’t ignore it anymore. I just felt very guilty about it. I just stopped eating meat and it feels good to not eat it. I guess what you are trying to kind of hint at is how does ethics form my worldview? So right, I tend to be a person who develops a maxim and then internalizes it; tries to operate according to duty. I really like rules—so “don’t eat meat”? I like that. I like that that’s a rule, I like that it’s concise and clear, and it’s a rule that I’ll follow. I guess that’s how ethics is important to me.
Me: You just finished a tour with the Hellfyre Club a little bit ago---what has been touring with some MCs that you’ve looked up to even before you were “Milo” been like? Have you learned anything from the live performance aspects of Open Mike Eagle & Busdriver?
Milo: Primarily I feel like touring with those guys from LA has done for me is made me more aware of---I don’t know--- how obsolete local scenes can be to a degree. For example, before I went on tour with those guys, I remember we would rap, we would do shows here in Milwaukee and it was like a never ending f*cking barrage of people critiquing our style or telling me that I sucked or whatever. Not being able to get help from any local press at all—and if it was, it was very backhanded, it was very pejorative. So touring with those guys, more than anything---more than learning a quirk from them, more than any influence has just been how in hip-hop the prevalence of the “co-sign” and once these guys had co-signed me, suddenly all of these things that people were highly critical of me for suddenly became “yo, that’s that sh*t dawg!”—and that’s really frustrating. I mean, I know your question is about style but more than anything touring with those guys has made it so now at my shows or whatever, especially central to this local scene people tend to act a little bit differently now. It weirds me out because yo, I still rap the same way that you used to say sucked and it makes me feel weird. But I definitely say with my first tour with Mike (Open Mike Eagle), we did this show in Des Moines and there were not a lot of people there and they weren’t really f*cking with me at all and I gave up. Right after that, Mike was just like “You gave up! Why’d you do that? Like I took you on this tour..” you know what I mean---he kind of laid in to me a little bit and it made me realize, any audience is an audience to be grateful to have, and introducing this idea of the live show as a craft and a trade, you are doing a service for these people. So giving a live show a sense of heightened purpose is something I got from Mike which then I think reflects on how the show is performed.
Me: What is your explanation for this ‘power of the co-sign’ or just in general, when an artist gets promoted on somewhere like Pitchfork---people are more prone to give the artist their time?
Milo: I don’t really know what that is but it f*cks with me so bad. Even this interview blows my mind away because you don’t even understand---When I was 18 I was on Radio Milwaukee performing live for the very first time, I thought my friends and I were ushering in a new wave of hip-hop and after that one time man, they just made it very clear that they didn’t f*ck with us. I remember I skipped class to go to the automated e-mail invite 88Nine awards thing and brought all of the homies and I’ve been nominated for something and they didn’t let me in because I was like 19. But I mean, anyone who throws an event knows that if you are part of the event but underage, it doesn’t matter. But just stuff like that would get me so mad. Early on, when no one would f*ck with me I would send in my mixtapes, Safari Al mixtapes, Nicholas J mixtapes---we would make these up, send them in to every local radio station, every local blog, and no one gave a f*ck about us man---including 88Nine---and I’m not saying that to be a dick, but it’s true. These people from far away took notice, I got on some bigger blogs, and suddenly it’s like now there is a little bit of “Milwaukee darling” or “Wisconsin darling” going on; and I don’t shun that but it just hurts my feelings because it’s like I wanted to be down from the jump and ya’ll didn’t want us to be down---and now it’s too late---like in July, I’m moving to LA. So, I don’t know what that is, why it’s just local to you, you kind of need someone else to be like “this is cool”---but I don’t know why that is, it sucks.
Me: Why did you choose “Milo” as your rapping pseudonym, and why does this name best fit who you are as an artist?
Milo: To begin, I don’t think any one name best fits me which is why right now, there are so many side projects: Scallops Hotel, working on this other thing called Black Orpheus, some fools and I just started a band. There are so many different aspects to creating, but certainly the name Milo for a certain kind of my solo projects makes sense because it’s kind of a boring name, it’s kind of forgettable. At the time I was super into Drake at 16 and I just didn’t know you could call yourself a name that boring. As soon as you say it it’s like “What did I say? I forgot it.” I just like how immediate his name was and it could just be a dude. At the time, I was re-reading The Phantom Tollbooth because I liked it as a kid and I liked how snotty he was. Milo in that book is kind of a dick. He goes on this adventure and is kind of like “I didn’t ask for this dawg, I didn’t want to do this!” So yeah, I just liked that “anti-hero” vibe and I liked how boring the name was so it kind of fit.
Me: How receptive are people from bigger cities such as LA and NYC to your music? Are there any key differences that you notice in general between Wisconsin and larger cities such as this?
Milo: In a larger city my times in LA and New York have been phenomenal. They are always packed, there are always so many people who are interested and eager in being part of a scene and cultivating a new aesthetic. I would say that smaller cities are insecure about what they can offer, so I would say that a bigger city wouldn’t let someone like WC Tank rap there for 10 f*cking years without acknowledging him whatsoever. It blows my mind that WC Tank has not won every award that is available in Milwaukee. I feel like if WC Tank lived in LA he would be like Lars Von Trier by now, you know what I mean? He would be like Gerhardt Richter, he would be a well-known, world famous artist because that’s the caliber of work he has always been presenting year after year after year after year after year. I think the danger there in the local scene is that it tends to be elitist and exclusionary and it breeds a resentment. Do you remember the group Chester French? That dude DA in Chester French is from Milwaukee. He doesn’t rep this sh*t because no one here f*cked with him. How many other musicians are from this place that keep it on the low because when they were here this elitist local scene rejected them for being weird and they went to a bigger city where they got put on. Dude is making songs with Pharrell and you know it’s like f*ck it—the local scene is cool but if it’s a hurdle then its going to be jumped over and its going to be obsolete. I think of that and it makes me sad because two years ago when I was a young kid in college I wanted nothing more than to be a part of this Milwaukee machine. My friends wanted nothing more than to be a part of this Milwaukee machine and now we are older and want to live off of our art now and want to make big moves. It’s like we never got the support here so we aren’t going to stay here, and it’s just bizzare man, I don’t know.
Me: I also was doing a little digging and saw that you’ve done a show with Zeroh a while back. In general, how has being signed to the Hellfyre Club, if at all, helped you network with other artists? Have you ever networked with any artists you’ve met on tour or been with on different shows? Also, talk about what it was like to meet Jill Scott.
Milo: First and foremost, shouts out to Zeroh, that’s the homie. Yeah, Zeroh’s great man. My boss Nocando threw an event over the summer called Daylight. Basically, it was a really cool rap-centric event and the bills would be curated so that one in particular was “left-field brown guys”---so it was like Mike Eagle, Zeroh, and myself. That was really cool, and he had other ones where he’d have like “quirky white rapper week” and it was really tight. So definitely being a part of Hellfyre Club opened up my network immensely and those dudes are pretty well connected and have been around a long time and it’s dope to have their support. The Jill Scott thing came kind of out of nowhere. Not to say too much, but someone close to her f*cks with my music and was playing it around her and she was like “What’s that?”, and yeah we hung out in LA and she’s the best---she’s honestly one of the nicest people I’ve ever met in my life, she’s great.
Me: Recently, you were featured on a Mello Music Compilation with L’Orange production. Speak a little bit on how that came about.
Milo: There is a writer named Dylan Tracey, he’s a music journalist, and I want to say that he put me on L’Orange’s map and I know at least he put L’Orange on my map. Then we just kind of followed each other and would DM a little bit about stuff we found interesting. It came time when he had that compilation thing and sent over a couple beats and asked for a song and it was super easy to write to. I banged that out in like an hour, the entire thing.
Me: Since you also have a great love for different things in pop culture (for example you cite Dragon Ball Z, Ash Ketchum, The Matrix, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles etc)—so just for fun, if you could give a metaphor for how you view mainstream hip-hop, what is the best reference you could give for your view on it?
Milo: I view mainstream hip-hop as like the Stark Armies in Game of Thrones and underground hip-hop is like the Brotherhood Without Banners. You know what I mean? It’s like we are kind of trying to do the same sh*t. I know people will try to pit Waka Flaka and I against one another and certainly when I was younger I would have participated in that, but I’m older now and I see the beauty in black guys being able to make art and make money off that. He and I are trying to do the same thing at the end of the day. That’s the bigger army that gets more attention and more hype and is definitely cooler and we are kind of like the seedy, on the low, like you don’t really know what I’m up to what I’m doing…so yeah, that would be the best reference.
Me: If you could describe your life through one film right now, what would that be?
Milo: My life is on some Real Genius sh*t. It’s like Val Kilmer his senior year, he’s just acting like a lunatic before he goes out in the real world, and that’s how I feel. If I think about Milwaukee and Chicago as scenes and my final year in participating in this rap climate before leaving to a different one---really being able to fool around with my boys and do shows that have potlucks in them and sh*t, if we are at that point.
Me: What is the biggest thing that you can take away from this past year and having a degree of success doing something that you love?
Milo: Biggest thing I learned in 2013 up to this point is that all of the really really good rap songs that really really count still don’t bring dead people back to life.
Me: You talk a lot about “killing lonliness”. Is this the main thing that you want people to take away from your music, “that you aren’t alone”?
Milo: I mean any system has certain axioms. That is definitely an axiom of “Milo” in my music is to kill loneliness. To understand any album I make or any show I do or any bizarre thing that you see coming out of the Milo camp---first and foremost what you need to consider is that we are just maximizing everything that we think could possibly kill loneliness. We are not trying to make friends for the sake of making friends either--I’m not really interested in that. I’m interested in kindness, & compassion, & not being an asshole to people. But being an asshole to people who deserve being an asshole to too. That’s another really important part. That too aids in killing loneliness: getting rid of the assholes. But definitely my number one takeaway more than anything if someone was like, “TWO WORDS! GO!”, it would be like “kill loneliness”.
Me: You mentioned earlier about some projects that you have been working on. Can you go more in depth about some projects that you will be releasing soon?
Milo: I’m working on an EP, something called Black Orpheus which sounds like if you took a butterfly fart and pitch shifted it down and then reversed it and then you played that and queue Lazarus’s goodbye horses at the same time---that’s basically what I’m going for with Black Orpheus. Then there is this thing called a “Toothpaste Suburb” which was a very ambitious project. On tour, sometimes you stay at other people’s homes, and so what I would do is record the sounds of me brushing my teeth in different bathrooms. That became a toothpaste suburb. Those are the two projects that are coming out this year.
Me: I heard that you don’t plan on doing music forever. Is this still true about you, and if so, what other ventures do you plan on pursuing after music?
Milo: I want to do music as long as it makes sense. We all know musicians who have just outlived their duration---it’s too long. Neil Young is still killing it, which is amazing to me. But then you think, I don’t know if I want to name any names---but you think about Chingy…he fell right the f*ck off. But yeah just certain artists, they fall off, and certain artists never fall off. I just know that if I fall off I want to fall off—like to not make anybody listen to me anymore. Should that happen then yeah, I’d definitely get into writing and probably the axioms would remain the same. I might explore them in a different way, but like I was telling my girlfriend the other day, I want to write a short story about a man remembering what it was like to eat a cheeseburger. That is probably some sh*t that I would write a song about, but I’d just write a short story about it instead. It would be pursuing the same thing fundamentally.


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Robert Horton is a Scarecrow board member and a longtime film critic. He will be contributing a series of “critic’s notes” to the Scarecrow blog—a chance to highlight worthy films playing locally and connecting them to the riches of Scarecrow’s collection.
I don’t want to jinx anything, but as I write this, the Seattle Mariners are about to end their 21-year playoff drought. Probably. This put me in mind of baseball movies, and the time I interviewed Dennis Quaid for his G-rated Disney picture, The Rookie. A Mariners cap makes a cameo appearance in the interview, so I’m including the interview, originally published by The Herald in 2002 here. It’s not a revelatory conversation or anything, but it will recall a time when people could smoke during interviews.
Dennis Quaid and Jim Morris
Dennis Quaid came to the area recently to publicize his new film The Rookie, in which he plays baseball pitcher Jim Morris. When I interviewed him in his hotel room, he was sitting with the real Jim Morris, whose remarkable, unlikely story (a return to pro ball after years of complete obscurity) is told in the film.
Quaid didn’t mince words when it came to one of the key elements in the movie. “I didn’t want to look like a little girl throwing,” he said, shaking his head.
You see those movies, Quaid mused, with Hollywood actors pretending to be baseball players, and looking none too athletic. “I haven’t really played since Little League,” he said, “so I got a Dodger pitcher to come to my house and work with me for three months.” Morris, an amiable, beefy guy who looks like an Everyman, concurred that Quaid got it right. “Major League players are a tough audience,” Morris said. “They watch baseball movies, and they’ll pick it apart if it looks hokey.” In the end, Quaid found himself in the Ballpark in Arlington, home of the Texas Rangers, throwing about 200 pitches for the cameras. And, he noted, not hurting himself in the process.
Quaid is as lean and cowboy-like in person as he is on screen. Politely asking if anybody would mind if he smoked a cigarette, and wearing a casual-but-cool wool cap worn backwards, he spoke in a relaxed style. (A Mariners cap lay nearby; he was collecting baseball caps in different cities on his tour.)
A native of Texas, he was pleased to return to his home state to film The Rookie, which was shot in and around Austin. “It’s a culture I find really interesting, that I understand. The state is so vast, desolate—and the people stand out in relief to that. And the director, John Lee Hancock, is a Texan. I like strong directors, and I scoped that out before I signed on to the film. We made Texas a character in the film. There are references to The Last Picture Show and Hud. It has that look.”
The pitching instruction for the movie was nothing new for Quaid, whose career has been marked by playing real people: he learned how to fly when he played astronaut Gordon Cooper in The Right Stuff, and he picked up piano when he played maniac rock and roller Jerry Lee Lewis in Great Balls of Fire. When he essayed the sickly Doc Holliday in Wyatt Earp, he became alarmingly skeletal by losing weight.
“I know how I’d feel if somebody did my life story,” Quaid smiled. “But this time I had Jim there on the set all day.” Quaid could check in with his real-life counterpart if anything didn’t feel authentic. For a scene in which Quaid, as the high-school coach, gives his kids a pep talk, something was missing. Morris supplied the reality of what happened, and they put it in the movie right then and there.
The Rookie is one of Quaid’s best roles in years, and one can’t help but guess that he relates to the main character. The movie’s a comeback of sorts for the actor, whose private life (a marriage, and a tabloid breakup, with Meg Ryan) has somewhat eclipsed his career of late.
“The emotion and sentiment you feel in the movie is earned,” Quaid said quietly. “You’ve gone on a journey with the guy, and you feel like you’ve really been there—instead of the music manipulating you. I find that sappy when they do that. The movie’s about second chances. All of us can relate to that.”
September 30, 2022
Robert Horton is a member of the National Society of Film Critics.


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How Long Do You Leave Tap Water Before Adding Fish in a Pond?
If you are planning to set up a fish pond, one important consideration is the water quality. Tap water is a convenient and readily available source for filling the pond, but before adding fish, it is crucial to ensure that the water is safe for them. Let’s explore how long you should leave tap water before introducing fish to your pond and address some frequently asked questions.
1. Why is it necessary to wait before adding fish to tap water?
Tap water is treated with chemicals like chlorine and chloramine to make it safe for human consumption. However, these chemicals can be harmful to fish and other aquatic creatures. Waiting allows these chemicals to dissipate, making the water safe for fish.
2. How long should I wait before adding fish?
To be on the safe side, it is generally recommended to wait at least 24-48 hours. This time frame allows the chlorine in the tap water to evaporate. However, if your tap water is treated with chloramine, you may need to wait longer, up to a week, as chloramine takes more time to dissipate.
3. Can I use water conditioner to speed up the process?
Yes, water conditioners are designed to remove chlorine and chloramine from tap water instantly. Adding a water conditioner as per the manufacturer’s instructions can make the water safe for fish immediately, eliminating the need to wait for extended periods.
4. Is it necessary to dechlorinate well water?
Well water is typically free from chlorine or chloramine, so there is no need to dechlorinate it. However, it is still crucial to test the water for other parameters like pH, hardness, and alkalinity to ensure it is suitable for fish.
5. How can I check the chlorine levels in tap water?
You can use a simple test kit available at pet stores or aquarium supply shops to measure the chlorine levels in your tap water. These kits provide a quick and accurate way to determine if the chlorine concentration is safe for fish.
6. Should I also test for other parameters before adding fish?
Yes, it is essential to test the tap water for pH, ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates as well. These parameters play a vital role in maintaining a healthy pond environment for fish.
7. Can I add fish immediately if I use a pond dechlorinator?
Pond dechlorinators work similarly to water conditioners, neutralizing chlorine and chloramine. However, it is still recommended to wait for a short period, usually 15-30 minutes, after treating the water before introducing fish.
8. What about water temperature?
The temperature of the water in your pond should be suitable for the specific fish species you intend to keep. It is advisable to acclimate the fish to the water temperature gradually. Sudden changes in temperature can be stressful and harmful to the fish.
9. Can I add beneficial bacteria to the pond to speed up the process?
Yes, introducing beneficial bacteria to your pond can help establish a healthy ecosystem. These bacteria help in breaking down organic waste, reducing ammonia and nitrite levels. However, they do not directly influence the dechlorination process.
10. Are there any signs that indicate the water is safe for fish?
Once the chlorine and other harmful chemicals have dissipated, the water should appear clear and have no strong odor. Testing the water parameters will provide a more accurate indication of its safety for fish.
11. Can I add hardy fish species immediately without waiting?
Some hardy fish species like goldfish or koi can tolerate a range of water conditions, including low levels of chlorine. However, it is still advisable to wait for a short period or use a water conditioner to ensure the best chances of success.
12. Is it possible to add fish immediately if I use a pre-cycled filter?
A pre-cycled filter contains beneficial bacteria that help establish a stable environment quickly. While it can speed up the process, it is still recommended to wait for a short period or use a water conditioner to ensure the water is safe for fish.
In conclusion, it is crucial to wait for at least 24-48 hours, or longer if using chloramine-treated water, before adding fish to tap water in a pond. Alternatively, using a water conditioner can instantly remove chlorine and chloramine, making the water safe for fish. Remember to test the water parameters and acclimate the fish properly to ensure their well-being in the pond.


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GUYS!~ I'm bad at photoshop...so I'm just gonna do a traditional drawing today.
Btw. I just wanted to post my Mandala from my Color & Design final since I didn't put that up yet.So this is the initial sketch I did!! The day before it was due....*warning* bad idea to do that. Procrastination Baaadd
Final image~ The CIRCLE WAS SO HARD TO CUT!!! Johan tried his best to help me, plus I was late because I also procrastinated again *Bad* But I got an A!!! : 3
I had a great time in that class~ even though I didn't really make any friends and I was mostly alone in the front of the class the whole yr. Most people scared me and said it was gonna be a KILLER class. But I actually had a really great time learning the concepts and how to mix my own colors, it was an ability I was really lacking in. SO HAPPY I LEARNED THAT STUFF! Complimentary colors etc, believe it or not I had no idea how to mix.
One thing I'd say about the class is try your best to enjoy the assignments! You have the ability to choose anything you want to design so I suggest doing something you really like because you'll be spending a good amount of time on it~ I choose little Momotaro and his 3 friends a pheasant, a monkey and a dog! I also listened to a song called "Baby Universe" alot and that made me happy ^_^


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Often on Sundays, I have two helpers for making tortillas. Abigail weighs out the dough into 1 1/2 ounce balls. She’s extremely good at it, too. Then, Bethany fashions it into beautiful balls for me to roll out. At the end of our process, I try to have enough for the girls to each make 3 tortillas. The girls are awesome help!
This is the really sweet part. They choose who they’re going to make theirs for, and they work so hard at rolling the dough balls out to get them big. Even at 7 and 4, Abby and Bethany can make large, round tortillas! I don’t help. This is their opportunity to do however they’d like. Which has prompted me: how often do we think a little kid can’t do something, but we haven’t let them try? Or, sometimes they might need a bit of instruction at first and then they blossom. All it took with this was to coach the girls how to roll them and how to push hard.
I checked the blog archives, and it seems to have been awhile since I posted our tortilla recipe, and I’ve modified it since, so I’ll post it here.
Maxwells’ Tortilla Recipe
- 4 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 tsp. salt (or a little less: depends on what saltiness you like)
- 4 TB. butter
- Water (don’t have an exact measurement: probably 1 to 1 1/2 cups)
Mix flour and salt together while melting butter. Stir in melted butter. Add water until dough is soft. If you have thick dough, it’ll be extremely difficult to roll out, and if it’s too soft, your dough will break and tortillas with holes aren’t pretty! Portion dough into balls. I like 1 1/2 ounce balls. Using a well-floured surface, roll out. Cook in a dry skillet lightly on each side. (I generally put the skillet on the stove and let it heat up before I begin to cook.) Stack on a plate and cover with a towel. Enjoy!
Yields: 15-17 tortillas
“Give us this day our daily bread.”


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All funders with an interest in environment, community greening, sustainability, climate change, and food systems are invited to join the Green Funders to brainstorm issues for 2018 programs and to share with colleagues their favorite projects and
When population vulnerability coincides with a pattern of pollution exposure, we call it environmental injustice. How do we objectively identify such cases?
With environmental protections under attack at the federal level, how have Maryland legislators responded?
Environmental funders are aware of the need to diversify the movement and build support, especially in urban centers. Protecting our environment depends on having a robust and diverse grassroots base.
All Maryland Philanthropy Network members with interests in urban greening, climate change, community resiliency, conservation, environmental protection, and sustainability are invited to participate in this meeting.
People and communities of faith contribute to environmental causes, both by stewardship of their own properties and by advocating for environmental protections as a tenet of their faith. Pope Francis' encyclical has raised awareness of the role of faith leaders in calling for a range of environmental reforms. Three Maryland organizations that support activism in faith communities will share their work with us.
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DETROIT (AP) — A judge declared a mistrial Thursday after jurors said they couldn’t reach a verdict in a dispute over whether two engineering firms should bear some responsibility for Flint’s lead-contaminated water.
Veolia North America and Lockwood, Andrews & Newman, known as LAN, were accused of not doing enough to get Flint to treat the highly corrosive water or to urge a return to a regional water supplier.
A mistrial was declared in federal court in Ann Arbor, Michigan, said Tarrah Cooper Wright, a spokeswoman for Veolia.
After hearing months of evidence, the jury began deliberations on July 25 but also took a planned 11-day break before returning Tuesday.
Flint’s water became contaminated in 2014-15 because water pulled from the Flint River wasn’t treated to reduce the corrosive effect on lead pipes.
During closing arguments, attorneys for four children argued that Veolia should be held 50% responsible for lead contamination and that LAN should be held 25% responsible, with public officials making up the balance.
But Veolia’s lawyers noted the firm was briefly hired in the middle of the crisis, not before the spigot was turned on. LAN said an engineer repeatedly recommended that Flint test the river water for weeks to determine what treatments would be necessary.
LAN attorney Wayne Mason said outside engineers were getting lumped in with a “platoon of bad actors,” namely state and local officials who controlled all major decisions and seemed more concerned about the cost of water than its quality.
Veolia and LAN were not part of a landmark $626 million settlement involving Flint residents, the state of Michigan and other parties.


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08 August 2017 | Chuck Collins | The Next System
The US economy’s deep systemic inequalities of income, wealth, power, and opportunity are part of global inequality trends, but US-style capitalism and public policy make inequalities more acute. Their observable and felt harm to our civic and economic life is corroborated by research from many disciplines. Yet, by the same token, moving toward a more egalitarian society would realign most aspects of economic and social life for the better. So how can we bring these changes about?
For starters, we must know what we are up against. These inequalities do not spring mainly from technological change and globalization, though both compound and complicate the rift. Instead, imbalances of power and agency embedded in our political and economic system are the main drivers and accelerators of inequality.
Reducing inequality requires a “next systems” analysis and playbook. Here, we briefly examine our current inequality predicament and show how these inequalities undermine our democracy, economic stability, social cohesion, and other cherished values. We then explore the systemic causes, perpetuators, and superchargers of inequalities and, finally, evaluate policy interventions and pressure points for leveling them.
The path through this thicket is only partly uncharted. The United States can learn from other advanced industrial countries with significantly less inequality, adapting policies and practices to US needs and circumstances. We can also learn from our own history—from understanding that our rigged rules have been racially biased—to how we dramatically reduced inequality between 1940 and 1975.
That said, part of the path is uncharted. Grappling with climate change and other breached ecological boundaries—whether ocean acidification, fresh water contamination, or methane dumping—intensifies the challenges of reducing extreme inequality. And many of the New Deal and post-World War II policies that reduced inequality for earlier generations won’t work now given today’s levels of population, resource consumption, and ecological risk.
Together, the extent and widely felt effects of inequality challenge us to put a fine-tuned combination of historical insights, policy innovations, best practices, and fresh thinking to the test. Just as urgently, we also need a vision of a more equal and opportunity-rich society.
Today’s climate of extreme inequality reflects forty years of polarizing wages, wealth, and opportunity. Signs of the times include:
Over the past four decades, the US economy has doubled in size, but the bottom half of US house- holds has seen no income gains. In 1970, the bottom half of wage earners made an average of $16,000 a year in current dollars. By 2014, this group’s earnings had risen to only $16,200. During those same years, the top 1 percent of workers saw their annual income grow from an average of $400,000 to $1.3 million.1
Wage stagnation has been masked in many households by people working longer hours, assuming debt, and enlisting more household members to take paid jobs. Almost half of US workers earn under $15 an hour. One in three earns less than $12 an hour.2
Despite four decades of economic expansion, poverty in the US has changed little. Over 43 million people—one of every seven Americans— live below the poverty line in urban and rural communities. The poverty rate for African Americans is 24.1 percent; for Latinos, it is 21.4 percent. One in five children lives in poverty.3 Most poor people work, but others cannot because they are disabled, mentally ill, or too young or old. Such poverty spells hunger and food insecurity, insufficient health care, poor and unsafe housing, lack of savings or financial cushion, and social exclusion and marginalization.4
Income Inequality Across Regions, States, and Cities
In 2013, the nation’s top 1 percent of households made 25.3 times as much as the other 99 percent. Some states are more unequal than others. Nine—including New York, Connecticut, and Wyoming—have gaps between the top 1 percent and the bottom 99 percent that exceed forty to one.
Our country’s most unequal county is Teton, Wyoming, home to the billionaire sanctuary of Jackson Hole. In Teton, the average income of the 1 percent is a whopping $28.1 million, over 233 times the average incomes of other 99 percent. The most relatively equal county in the US is Wade Hampton, Alaska. There, the 1 percent’s average income of just under $150,000 is only five times the average income of the other 99 percent.7
Changing Nature of Work
Over the past thirty years, the nature of work has changed. A growing percentage of the US workforce holds jobs that are contingent and part time, typically without security, health care, and benefits. The millions of new workers in the “sharing economy” who rent rooms out or drive for Uber as independent contractors number among them.
Technological change is also displacing a growing segment of jobs. According to one Oxford study, about 47 percent of US occupations are at risk of elimination due to technological change and automation.8 The jobs most likely to be “substituted by computer capital” are transport and logistics, with the advent of self-driving vehicles, and office support. We can expect polarization of the job market as one result, with a continued decline in middle-skill jobs, such as manufacturing and certain service jobs, and an expansion of low-skill and high-skill professionally trained jobs.9
The distribution of assets and wealth is even more unequal than income distribution. Median net worth for most US households has stagnated or fallen. The share of wealth owned by the richest 1 percent of households has increased from 33.8 percent in 1983 to 36.7 percent in 2013. The share owned by the richest 20 percent rose from 81.3 percent to 88.9 percent over the same period.10 The top one-tenth of 1 percent (an estimated 160,000 households with net worth that starts at $20 million) now own more than 22 percent of all US household wealth in 2012, up from 7 percent in the 1978. This tiny subgroup—the true America
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„A few days after breaking up with my then-girlfriend, I found myself overlooking a Thailand sunset on the edge of a massive cliff. I felt so overwhelmed by the unbelievable beauty that it gave me a little bit of hope; eventually, everything was going to be okay.
However, that evening took on a different meaning when my ex and I met up six months later. Seeing her again warped my memory of that night. I felt like she was dangling me over the cliff and holding me hostage, instead of feeling like everything would get better from there on out.
“Cliffs” (produced with Elijah Woods, Matt Kahane, Quin Kiu) captures a mood that is both energetic and melancholy; almost like a nervous anxiety. I wanted to encapsulate that weird feeling where you can’t let go of something, even when you know it’s the right thing to do.
Now, I’m fully recovered, fully honed, and fully ready to launch into my next musical chapter with the release of my debut solo EP – Cheap Therapy – on April 2nd.
Thanks for listening!“


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|Statement||by Kimberley White|
|Series||Dafina Books contemporary romance|
|Contributions||Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress)|
|LC Classifications||CPB Box no. 3086 vol. 8|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||344 p. ;|
|Number of Pages||344|
|LC Control Number||2010479221|
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Customizability and fast service are likely to be significant drivers of restaurant business in 2015.
The fast-casual service style, in which customers order and watch their food made in front of them, has trained diners to expect exactly what they want when they want it. Combine that with the rapid spread of highly functional mobile technology, mobile ordering and payment systems, and you have consumers with high expectations for instant gratification. Those expectations will likely drive trends in restaurants in 2015.
So will this: As the U.S. economy continues to improve — gross domestic product is currently growing at 3.9 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis — and the public’s growing infatuation with food accelerates, so will the proliferation of premium products and customers willing to spend more money on them.
We’ll likely see restaurant customers continue to trade up from traditional quick service to fast-casual dining, and from casual dining to polished casual. Barring any new economic catastrophes, fine dining will probably continue to flourish, as it did in 2014. Corporate dining will buoy that spending. Dinova, a company that connects restaurants to business travelers and event planners, projects corporate dining to increase between 5 percent and 8 percent of spending in 2015.
When it comes to food, “fresh” will probably remain the most resonant, if undefined, buzzword in the marketplace, as it has for at least the past decade, followed by “natural.” Local sourcing, though important to some consumers, might continue to give way to the notion of authenticity.
Apart from those broad trends — and an expanding interest in spicy food that shouldn’t be ignored — changes in nomenclature, technology, pricing and a slowly expanding sense of adventure among many Americans will be brought to bear on the marketplace in 2015, when we will also likely see the following:
Specific cuts of pork
This January’s Meat Buyers Guide, published by the North American Meat Association, will have several new designations for “pork chop.” Rather than that generic term, meat buyers can now specify what part of the pork loin they want to buy, similarly to what they have done with beef loin and shoulder for years. Just as chefs and restaurateurs have been able to buy porterhouse, T-bone, ribeye and sirloin steaks, in 2015 they will be able to buy those same cuts in pork-chop form. This should allow restaurateurs to raise the perceived value of pork chops and thus charge more for them.
Some chains have already done that. Both Brio Tuscan Grille and Outback Steakhouse currently have pork porterhouses on their menus.
Pasta in limited-service restaurants
Improved quality in pre-cooked, microwavable pasta means we’re likely to see it in restaurants that aren’t prepared to cook it in-house. Schlotzsky’s is reportedly testing pasta in some locations, and McAlister’s Deli is planning to offer four pasta dishes as limited-time offers in the first quarter of 2015, following successful tests this year.
Lesser-known species of wild salmon
King and sockeye salmon are the darlings of independent restaurants, and coho has gained traction in some noncommercial dining facilities. But as prices for all animal proteins continue to rise, other species of wild salmon are also making it onto menus.
In 2014, Denny’s introduced keta salmon to its core menu nationwide. Also known unflatteringly as chum salmon, or “dogs” by Alaska fishermen, this relatively lean wild salmon enjoys wide distribution in Alaska and is priced lower than its higher-profile cousins.
So is pink salmon — the smallest species and one that traditionally has been canned. It’s also lean and small-flaked, but it’s becoming increasingly available as frozen fillets and in such value-added forms as salmon burgers and marinated steaks, making it more convenient in a wider variety of foodservice settings — something restaurateurs are likely to take advantage of in 2015.
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Datassential reports that lamb is the fastest-growing animal protein on restaurant menus, and in 2014 appeared on 13-percent more menus than in 2010.
Much of that growth is outside fine dining, where lamb is traditionally served. Its presence is actually shrinking in fine dining: The price of rack of lamb has spiked by more than 50 percent over the past year.
Lamb burgers are becoming more widespread. Casual-dining chain Not Your Average Joe’s introduced lamb sliders this year, and fast-casual burger chain Slater’s 50/50 introduced a gyro burger that combined beef and lamb.
Prices for 81-percent lean ground beef have risen more than 26 percent over the past year, and 80-percent lean ground lamb prices have increased around 11 percent, according to commodities expert John Barone. With ground beef prices expected to continue to rise in 2015, and more Americans are showing willingness to try the slightly exotic, expect to see more lamb in casual venues next year.
As coffeehouses with single-origin brews and relatively technical brewing methods proliferate, expect consumer demands for better coffee to trickle down to non-coffee specialists in 2015.
Chick-fil-A turned up the heat in the quick-service coffee wars in August with the introduction of the first coffee in that segment to fit the criteria of the Specialty Coffee Association of America. The Atlanta-based chicken chain is also working with Thrive Farmers Coffee to source beans directly from farmers. Thrive Farmers is selecting and roasting beans to pair well with Chick-fil-A’s food.
India Pale Ale
2014 was the year of the IPA, and 2015 is looking to be the second year of the IPA. According to retail scan data reported by the Craft Brewers Association, IPA sales have risen 49 percent in dollar terms and now account for 23 percent of off-premise beer sales.
On-premise, the menu incidence of IPAs has risen nearly 40 percent year-over-year as of the third quarter of 2014, according to restaurant research firm Technomic. The number of operators specifically mentioning IPAs on their beer menus has increased 33 percent during that period.
No other type of beer comes close to that kind of growth, but it’s worth noting that sales of beer variety packs in retail settings have risen 24 percent by dollar sales, so giving guests choices remains crucial.
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Although the number of vegetarians and vegans in the U.S. doesn’t seem to be rising very quickly, a growing number of people seem to be cutting back on meat and looking for alternative ways to fill up.
Although some chains, such as fast-casual sandwich maker Which Wich, are testing meat substitutes, others are taking different a approach.
Salata, a 40-unit chain based in Houston, recently added quinoa, falafel and tofu to its salad bar. P.F. Chang’s currently offers at its Dallas locations quinoa as a substitute for rice, for a $2 surcharge.
Protein was a hot ticket in 2014, and it will likely be a dietary priority for many Americans in 2015. But as they seek to slim down or to lower their carbon footprint, and as animal protein prices continue to rise, you can expect to see more plant-based protein on menus.
Imports of this affordable luxury from Spain grew an average 3 percent per year between 2003 and 2013, but the year to August saw 7-percent year-over-year growth — an indication that it may have reached a tipping point. The vinegar will be used to add a sense of place and authenticity to menu items in 2015.
Liver and onions
This one is a wilder guess than the previous predictions, but consider the growth of nose-to-tail cooking at independent restaurants and the rise of offal, including sweetbreads, poultry liver and, to a certain extent, heart, tendon, tripe and brain. By comparison, this classic presentation of beef or calf liver is mild and easily digestible. It also fits in nicely with the ongoing retro trend. And with the nation continuing to produce so many excellent chefs, the modern liver and onions won’t resemble the dried shoe leather of yore. It’s true that many Americans wrinkle their noses at the thought of liver and onions, but they used to do the same thing to Brussels sprouts.
This story has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: Jan. 15, 2015 An earlier version of this story misstated the headquarters and unit count of Salata. The chain is based in Houston and has 40 locations.
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2016 CESA AON Engineering Excellence Awards: Commendation for the Century City “MyCiTi” IRPTN Station
The Century City MyCiTi bus station is an innovative bus terminal situated within an existing, busy public transport interchange. The new terminal station provides seamless integration with existing bus and taxi public transport operations, private vehicle parking areas and pedestrian network.
This project is the largest private sector investment in public transport infrastructure in the Western Cape to date, according to the Mayor of Cape Town, Patricia de Lille. The success of the project is the result of close collaboration between Rabie Property Group, Transport for Cape Town and the City of Cape Town as MyCiTi operator. HHO Africa provided leadership to a full, multi-disciplinary professional team to deliver an efficient, integrated public transport facility within budget and on time.
The interchange had to fit onto an existing, fully operational public transport interchange on a severely constrained site. The unconventional platforms had to be specially tailored to suit the site without compromising operational efficiency, or disrupting existing operations.
The project delivered high quality infrastructure, which integrates perfectly with traditional modes of public transport and provides increased interchange efficiency. Attention to such details as universal access ensures that the Century City MyCiTi bus station is accessible to all citizens who can now enjoy the benefits of low cost, high quality, reliable and efficient public transport.


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Bhubaneswar, Sept 11:
In a tragic incident, two engineering students were killed in a road accident on the outskirts of Odisha’s capital city this afternoon.
According to reports, two engineering students were on their way to Bhubaneswar when their bike had a head-on collision with a speeding Indica car near Jaanla. Both died on the spot.
The deceased were identified as Nitish Kumar (22) and Manish Kumar Singh (22) . Both were fourth year students in the Mechanical branch of a city-based private engineering college under Tamando police limits.


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He locked eyes with me, probing into my every thought. I couldn't look away, much as I tried. His questions were dull noise in comparison, and I ignored them to look at the eyes locked with mine. I'd never done this, not once. Catching someone's eyes leads to talking, leads to being noticed. It felt like jumping into a cold pool; the fear, the shock, the joy, all washing over me and making me shiver.
Then, ignoring every instinct I had to run, to run and never come back, I took his hand, and we ran. I could feel my heart in my mouth, the acrid taste of fear curling around my tongue. We reached a door, smooth, brushed steel, and I tried to pull my hand back as a burning sensation ripped through it. He gripped tighter, pulling me through the door, and my head exploded into riotous sound and colour, overwhelming my tongue, and pulling me to the ground.
The voices, always the voices. I could feel them building, one by one, ripping into my head, screaming, louder and louder. I tried to beat them out this time. I had to preserve my secret. I had to. Nothing would be worse than him knowing. The screams morphed and blended with loud, hysterical laughter, over and over and over, pressing at my skin until I felt blood well on my cheekbone. My mouth opened, and the words flowed out of my mouth, filling the air with unearthly screams. My mind skittered away from any conscious thought until I came around, breathing heavily, with the eyes once more fixed onto mine, his legs crossed by my shoulder. I reached up, and felt a pillow beneath my head. He had a hand to my cheek, stemming the blood, and, I felt as I reached to lift it, holding it in position. I closed them again, trying to block him out. I had been a fool. Sympathy will only bring him closer, and bring him into harm's way. Kindness is wasted here.