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Can Zuckerberg really make a privacy-friendly Facebook?
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) After building a social network that turned into a surveillance system, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's shifting his company's focus to messaging services designed to serve as fortresses of privacy. Instead of just being the network that connects everyone, Facebook wants to encourage small numbers of individuals to carry on encrypted conversations that neither Facebook nor any other outsider can read. It also plans to let messages automatically disappear, a feature pioneered by its rival Snapchat that could limit the risks posed by a trail of social media posts that follow people throughout their lives. It's a major bet by Zuckerberg, who sees it as a way to push Facebook more firmly into a messaging market that's growing faster than its main social networking business. It might also help Facebook ward off government regulators, although the Facebook CEO made clear that he expects the company's messaging business to complement, not replace, its core businesses. But there are plenty of obstacles. Facebook has weathered more than two years of turbulence for repeated privacy lapses, spreading disinformation, allowing Russian agents to conduct targeted propaganda campaigns and a rising tide of hate speech and abuse. Zuckerberg submitted to two days of grilling on Capitol Hill last April. All that increases the challenge of convincing users that Facebook really means it about privacy this time. Encrypted conversations could alleviate some of those problems, but it could make others worse. Security is an "admirable goal," said Forrester Research analyst Fatemeh Khatibloo. "I'm just not sure it addresses the bigger issues Facebook is facing right now." Facebook grew into a colossus by vacuuming up peoples' information in every possible way and dissecting it to shoot targeted ads back at them. Anything that jeopardizes that machine could pose a major threat to the company's share price, which would also affect its ability to attract and retain talented engineers and other employees. In a Wednesday interview with The Associated Press, Zuckerberg predicted Facebook's emphasis on privacy will do more to help the company's business than hurt it. While most of the stock market slipped in Wednesday trading, Facebook's shares gained $1.25 to close at $172.51. The Facebook CEO has been telegraphing some of these changes to investors for the past six months, but his Wednesday blog post is the first time he has explained the idea to the more than two billion people that use Facebook's services and look at its ads. Those ads are expected to generate $67 billion in revenue this year, according to the research firm eMarketer. If everything falls into place, Facebook will also display similar advertising on the privacy-protected messaging services. Those services are also likely to offer other moneymaking features, such as a digital wallet, as Facebook attempts to build something similar to Tencent's popular WeChat service in Asia. "If you think about your life, you probably spend more time communicating privately than publicly," Zuckerberg said in his AP interview. "The overall opportunity here is a lot larger than what we have built in terms of Facebook and Instagram." That's far from proven. While Facebook has already tried to show ads in the Messenger app, it's seen only limited success, and hasn't even tested the concept in WhatsApp since it acquired that service for $22 billion in 2014. "There are some huge unknowns about how successful Facebook is going to be rolling advertising into a more private messaging environment," said eMarketer analyst Debra Aho Williamson. Some critics are convinced that Facebook has become so powerful even a threat to democracy as well as to people's privacy that it needs to be reined in by tougher regulations or even a corporate breakup. But unraveling Facebook could become more difficult if Zuckerberg can successfully stitch together the messaging services behind an encrypted wall. "I see that as the goal of this entire thing," said Blake Reid, a University of Colorado law professor who specializes in technology and policy. He said Facebook could tell antitrust authorities that WhatsApp, Instagram Direct and Facebook Messenger are tied so tightly together that it couldn't unwind them. Combining the three services also lets Facebook build more complete data profiles on all of its users. Already, businesses can already target Facebook and Instagram users with the same ads, and marketing campaigns are likely coming to WhatsApp eventually. Facebook's focus on messaging privacy raises other concerns. Messaging apps have in the past helped fake news and rumors spread fast, sometimes with deadly consequences. A report from University of Oxford researchers last year found evidence of widespread disinformation campaigns on chat applications like WhatsApp. In one particularly brutal example, the Indian government last year accused WhatsApp of fueling rumors that led to lynchings and mob violence that wounded dozens. Facebook responded by restricting the number of groups to which a message could be forwarded and labeling forwarded messages as such. On Wednesday, Zuckerberg said that Facebook needs to protect both privacy and safety as it encrypted messaging services, although he noted to an "inherent trade-off" between security and safety, simply because Facebook won't be able to read encrypted conversations. And in some cases, Facebook could allow some content to automatically disappear in a day or two, as if it were a fleeting mirage. "Some people want to store their messages forever and some people think having large collections of photos or messages is a liability as much as it is an asset," Zuckerberg told the AP. "Figuring out the balance is a really important one." ___ AP technology writers Anick Jesdanun, Tali Arbel and Mae Anderson contributed to this article from New York.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he's shifting his company's focus to messaging services designed to serve as fortresses of privacy. Instead of just being the network that connects everyone, Facebook wants to encourage small numbers of individuals to carry on encrypted conversations. It also plans to let messages automatically disappear, a feature pioneered by its rival Snapchat.
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How Much Of The Dark Matter Could Neutrinos Be?
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All throughout the Universe, there's more than what we're capable of seeing. When we look out at the stars moving around within galaxies, the galaxies moving withing groups and clusters, or the largest structures of all that make up the cosmic web, everything tells the same disconcerting story: we don't see enough matter to explain the gravitational effects that occur. In addition to the stars, gas, plasma, dust, black holes and more, there must be something else in there causing an additional gravitational effect. Traditionally, we've called this dark matter, and we absolutely require it to explain the full suite of observations throughout the Universe. While it cannot be made up of normal matter things made of protons, neutrons, and electrons we do have a known particle that could have the right behavior: neutrinos. Let's find out how much of the dark matter neutrinos could possibly be. At first glance, neutrinos are the perfect dark matter candidate. They barely interact at all with normal matter, and neither absorb nor emit light, meaning that they won't generate an observable signal capable of being picked up by telescopes. At the same time, because they interact through the weak force, it's inevitable that the Universe created enormous numbers of them in the extremely early, hot stages of the Big Bang. We know that there are leftover photons from the Big Bang, and very recently we've also detected indirect evidence that there are leftover neutrinos as well. Unlike the photons, which are massless, it's possible that neutrinos have a non-zero mass. If they have the right value for their mass based on the total number of neutrinos (and antineutrinos) that exist, they could conceivably account for 100% of the dark matter. That depends on the number of types (or species) of neutrino. Although we can detect neutrinos directly using enormous tanks of material designed to capture their rare interactions with matter, this is both incredibly inefficient and is only going to capture a tiny fraction of them. We can see neutrinos that are the result of particle accelerators, nuclear reactors, fusion reactions in the Sun, and cosmic rays interacting with our planet and atmosphere. We can measure their properties, including how they transform into one another, but not the total number of types of neutrino. But there is a way to make the critical measurement from particle physics, and it comes from a rather unexpected place: the decay of the Z-boson. The Z-boson is the neutral boson that mediates the weak interaction, enabling certain types of weak decays. The Z couples to both quarks and leptons, and whenever you produce one in a collider experiment, there's a chance that it will simply decay into two neutrinos. Those neutrinos are going to be invisible! We cannot typically detect the neutrinos we create from particle decays in colliders, as it would take a detector with the density of a neutron star to capture them. But by measuring what percentage of the decays produce "invisible" signals, we can infer how many types of light neutrino (whose mass is less than half the Z-boson mass) there are. It's a spectacular and unambiguous result known for decades now: there are three. Coming back to dark matter, we can calculate, based on all the different signals we see, how much extra dark matter is necessary to give us the right amount of gravitation. In every way we know how to look, including: from colliding galaxy clusters, from galaxies moving within X-ray emitting clusters, from the fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background, from the patterns found in the large-scale structure of the Universe, and from the internal motions of stars and gas within individual galaxies, we find that we require about five times the abundance of normal matter to exist in the form of dark matter. It's a great success of dark matter for modern cosmology that just by adding one ingredient to solve one puzzle, a whole slew of other observational puzzles are also solved. If you have three species of light neutrino, it would only take a relatively small amount of mass to account for all the dark matter: a few electron-Volts (about 3 or 4 eV) per neutrino would do it. The lightest particle found in the Standard Model besides the neutrino is the electron, and that has a mass of about 511 keV, or hundreds of thousands of times the neutrino mass we want. Unfortunately, there are two big problems with having light neutrinos that are that massive. When we look in detail, the idea of massive neutrinos is insufficient to make up 100% of the dark matter. The first problem is that neutrinos, if they are the dark matter, would be a form of hot dark matter. You might have heard the phrase "cold dark matter" before, and what it means is that the dark matter must be moving slowly compared to the speed of light at early times. If dark matter were hot, and moving quickly, it would prevent the gravitational growth of small-scale structure by easily streaming out of it. The fact that we form stars, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies so early rules this out. The fact that we see the weak lensing signals we do rules this out. The fact that we see the pattern of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background rules this out. And direct measurements of clouds of gas in the early Universe, through a technique known as the Lyman- forest, definitively rule this out. Dark matter cannot be hot. A number of collaborations have measured the oscillations of one species of neutrinos to another, and this enables us to infer the mass differences between the different types. Since the 1990s, we've been able to infer that the mass difference between two of the species are on the order of about 0.05 eV, and the mass difference between a different two species is approximately 0.009 eV. Direct constraints on the mass of the electron neutrino come from tritium decay experiments, and show that the electron neutrino must be less massive than about 2 eV. Beyond that, the cosmic microwave background (from Planck) and the large-scale structure data (from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey) tells us that the sum of all the neutrino masses is at most approximately 0.1 eV, as too much hot dark matter would definitively affect these signals. From the best data we have, it appears that the mass values that the known neutrinos have are very close to the lowest values that the neutrino oscillation data implies. In other words, only a tiny fraction of the total amount of dark matter is allowed to be in the form of light neutrinos. Given the constraints we have today, we can conclude that approximately 0.5% to 1.5% of the dark matter is made up of neutrinos. This isn't insignificant; the light neutrinos in the Universe have about the same mass as all the stars in the Universe. But their gravitational effects are minimal, and they cannot make up the needed dark matter. There is an exotic possibility, however, that means we might still have a chance for neutrinos to make a big splash in the world of dark matter: it's possible that there's a new, extra type of neutrino. Sure, we have to fit in with all the constraints from particle physics and cosmology that we have already, but there's a way to make that happen: to demand that if there's a new, extra neutrino, it's sterile. A sterile neutrino has nothing to do with its gender or fertility; it merely means that it doesn't interact through the conventional weak interactions today, and that a Z-boson won't couple to it. But if neutrinos can oscillate between the conventional, active types and a heavier, sterile type, it could not only behave as though it were cold, but could make up 100% of the dark matter. There are experiments that are completed, like LSND and MiniBooNe, as well as experiments planned or in process, like MicroBooNe, PROSPECT, ICARUS and SBND, that are highly suggestive of sterile neutrinos being a real, important part of our Universe. If we restrict ourselves to the Standard Model alone, we simply cannot account for the dark matter that must be present in our Universe. None of the particles we know of have the right behavior to explain all of the observations. We can imagine a Universe where neutrinos have relatively large amounts of mass, and that would result in a Universe with significant quantities of dark matter. The only problem is that dark matter would be hot, and lead to an observably different Universe than the one we see today. Still, the neutrinos we know of do behave like dark matter, although it only makes up about 1% of the total dark matter out there. That's not totally insignificant; it equals the mass of all the stars in our Universe! And most excitingly, if there truly is a sterile neutrino species out there, a series of upcoming experiments ought to reveal it over the next few years. Dark matter might be one of the greatest mysteries out there, but thanks to neutrinos, we have a chance at understanding it at least a little bit.
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We don't see enough matter to explain the gravitational effects that occur. Neutrinos are the perfect dark matter candidate. Unlike the photons, which are massless, it's possible that neutrinos have a non-zero mass. If they have the right value for their mass, they could conceivably account for 100% of the dark matter.
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What's making life hard for John Lewis?
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Image copyright Getty Images The John Lewis Partnership has announced a 45% drop in annual profit for 2018 and said its workers, who also own the firm, will only get a 3% bonus, down from 5% a year earlier. Its poor results come at a time of hardship for High Street stores in general and department stores in particular. While other chains come under real pressure - reporting losses large enough to imperil their ability to pay rent - or indeed face collapse, John Lewis's struggles must be seen in context, say retail experts. The company has some inbuilt advantages, they say. Employees - or partners as they are known at the company - will be hoping these can be used to turn around the firm's fortunes. In 2008, staff were awarded bonuses equivalent to 20% of their pay, sharing a 181.1m fund. Since then, the trend has been slowly downhill, and the 3% bonus is the lowest since 1954. Never knowingly undersold Under John Lewis's "never knowingly undersold" guarantee, the chain promises to match the price of a product with any of its High Street competitors. This means that they have been hit with "an unprecedented level of discounting in order to match rivals' prices which inevitably undermines profits," said Diane Wehrle of market research firm Springboard. This has been compounded by its competitors driving their own prices down as they try to tempt customers. ", asks retail consultant Richard Hyman. "It's retailers on the back foot, who don't really know what else to do, following the price down," he adds. "They feel they don't have any other lever to pull." The decline of the department store Department stores have a "relevance problem", says Natalie Berg, retail analyst and founder of NBK Retail. "This idea of under-one-roof shopping doesn't really exist any more," especially with the rise of online shopping. Last year, House of Fraser fell into administration before being bought by Mike Ashley, the billionaire Sports Direct founder, and earlier this week Debenhams issued another profit warning as its sales continued to fall. However, Ms Berg says John Lewis "has been more agile to adapt to these changes" because of its ownership structure. Employees own the company and so they are trusted to take on more consultative roles with shoppers, she says, offering the kind of service an online shop cannot. Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The 1950s were the last time staff received such low bonuses And Richard Hyman does not think that it's a hard and fast rule that the department store must die. "Irrelevant, poor department stores are dead, but look at Selfridges," he says. Selfridges reported sales up 8% in the first 24 days of December. The department store said it helped draw customers through various entertainments including a Christmas cabaret, confetti cannons, visits from Father Christmas and choirs. Retail malaise "Clearly John Lewis is not immune to the trading challenges currently faced by retailers, which is a general reining-in of consumer spending," says Springboard's Diane Wehrle. For Mr Hyman, too much shopping space, too many stores and too many websites chasing demand is cutting profits on the High Street. While costs for businesses rise ever upward, demand does not. And the outlook isn't good. "For the last five or six years, the retail market has become progressively more difficult," he says. "Next year will be tougher still." Image copyright Getty Images But for John Lewis this isn't the existential threat it has proved for retailers as diverse as LK Bennett, Hardy Amies, Patisserie Valerie, Maplin or Toys 'R' Us. "You have to judge these companies against their peers," he says. "Customer service, provenance, value and trust" are what may improve its fortunes. Staying on top At the same time, John Lewis has had to invest in IT, as many other retailers have, to meet customer demand, says Ms Wehrle. This helped January sales rise 1%, "but the capital investment it requires means that profit has taken a significant hit". "This is a market like no other we have seen," says Mr Hyman, and despite the company's strengths, it does face challenges. But, he says "we won't see an end to department stores". "It will be less what you do and more how you do it."
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John Lewis Partnership announces 45% drop in annual profit for 2018. Retail experts say John Lewis has some inbuilt advantages, such as its 'never knowingly undersold' guarantee. But they warn that the department store is not immune to the retail malaise. The company has been hit with an unprecedented level of discounting in order to match rivals' prices.
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Should every cup of coffee cost 15?
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News that Le Caf Alain Ducasse, at the Coal Drops Yard complex in Kings Cross in London, is now serving the perfect cup of coffee (their words) at 15 a pop has to be diplomatic divided opinion. While it may be tempting to see in that price-tag proof that some people have more money than sense, it still doesnt make Ducasse the Chanel of baristas. Even Starbucks can break the bank. (Remember when, back in 2013, a man paid $47.30 for a 48-shot quadriginoctuple frap 48 shots with a busload of extras.) Ducasses beans are from Yemen; the price reflects the challenges of growing coffee let alone harvesting, processing and exporting the beans in war-zone conditions, and paying fair wages for it. Were not there to try to negotiate the prices down, but to pay the farmers more, says AJ Kinnell, director of Monmouth Coffee Company, which has campaigned for ethical coffee since the late 1970s. As for what else goes into the price, beyond the raw ingredient: theres labour (which, already in 2013, made up nearly a quarter of the price), rent, utilities, cups, crockery, equipment such as grinders and espresso machines, milk and, of course, says Kinnell, the other milks that arent milk. All throw up ethical questions, and often increase expense. A central London roastery will charge more than a coffee shop in a Yorkshire village if only because of their rents. The price also depends on the kind of coffee, says the British Coffee Associations Chris Stemman, with high-end small-batch microlots selling for what he calls crazy sums: Eighty dollars a pound is not unusual. But someone, somewhere, will pay that like they do for wine or cheese because they find value in it. Most coffee is traded in US dollars, meaning the price paid by British importers is affected by any market volatility such as the Brexit vote, which caused a 20% drop in the value of sterling. With most of the UKs coffee imported from the EU, Brexit itself could be even worse. If we crash out with no deal, says Stemman, roast and ground beans will be hit with tariffs of more than 7%. And if you were thinking you would just stay home: the price of instant coffee comprising two-thirds of the 95m cups consumed daily in the UK is also expected to rise by 9%.
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Le Caf Alain Ducasse in Kings Cross is now serving coffee for 15.
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Should every cup of coffee cost 15?
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News that Le Caf Alain Ducasse, at the Coal Drops Yard complex in Kings Cross in London, is now serving the perfect cup of coffee (their words) at 15 a pop has to be diplomatic divided opinion. While it may be tempting to see in that price-tag proof that some people have more money than sense, it still doesnt make Ducasse the Chanel of baristas. Even Starbucks can break the bank. (Remember when, back in 2013, a man paid $47.30 for a 48-shot quadriginoctuple frap 48 shots with a busload of extras.) Ducasses beans are from Yemen; the price reflects the challenges of growing coffee let alone harvesting, processing and exporting the beans in war-zone conditions, and paying fair wages for it. Were not there to try to negotiate the prices down, but to pay the farmers more, says AJ Kinnell, director of Monmouth Coffee Company, which has campaigned for ethical coffee since the late 1970s. As for what else goes into the price, beyond the raw ingredient: theres labour (which, already in 2013, made up nearly a quarter of the price), rent, utilities, cups, crockery, equipment such as grinders and espresso machines, milk and, of course, says Kinnell, the other milks that arent milk. All throw up ethical questions, and often increase expense. A central London roastery will charge more than a coffee shop in a Yorkshire village if only because of their rents. The price also depends on the kind of coffee, says the British Coffee Associations Chris Stemman, with high-end small-batch microlots selling for what he calls crazy sums: Eighty dollars a pound is not unusual. But someone, somewhere, will pay that like they do for wine or cheese because they find value in it. Most coffee is traded in US dollars, meaning the price paid by British importers is affected by any market volatility such as the Brexit vote, which caused a 20% drop in the value of sterling. With most of the UKs coffee imported from the EU, Brexit itself could be even worse. If we crash out with no deal, says Stemman, roast and ground beans will be hit with tariffs of more than 7%. And if you were thinking you would just stay home: the price of instant coffee comprising two-thirds of the 95m cups consumed daily in the UK is also expected to rise by 9%.
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Le Caf Alain Ducasse is now serving the perfect cup of coffee at 15 a pop. The price reflects the challenges of growing coffee in war-zone conditions.
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Should every cup of coffee cost 15?
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News that Le Caf Alain Ducasse, at the Coal Drops Yard complex in Kings Cross in London, is now serving the perfect cup of coffee (their words) at 15 a pop has to be diplomatic divided opinion. While it may be tempting to see in that price-tag proof that some people have more money than sense, it still doesnt make Ducasse the Chanel of baristas. Even Starbucks can break the bank. (Remember when, back in 2013, a man paid $47.30 for a 48-shot quadriginoctuple frap 48 shots with a busload of extras.) Ducasses beans are from Yemen; the price reflects the challenges of growing coffee let alone harvesting, processing and exporting the beans in war-zone conditions, and paying fair wages for it. Were not there to try to negotiate the prices down, but to pay the farmers more, says AJ Kinnell, director of Monmouth Coffee Company, which has campaigned for ethical coffee since the late 1970s. As for what else goes into the price, beyond the raw ingredient: theres labour (which, already in 2013, made up nearly a quarter of the price), rent, utilities, cups, crockery, equipment such as grinders and espresso machines, milk and, of course, says Kinnell, the other milks that arent milk. All throw up ethical questions, and often increase expense. A central London roastery will charge more than a coffee shop in a Yorkshire village if only because of their rents. The price also depends on the kind of coffee, says the British Coffee Associations Chris Stemman, with high-end small-batch microlots selling for what he calls crazy sums: Eighty dollars a pound is not unusual. But someone, somewhere, will pay that like they do for wine or cheese because they find value in it. Most coffee is traded in US dollars, meaning the price paid by British importers is affected by any market volatility such as the Brexit vote, which caused a 20% drop in the value of sterling. With most of the UKs coffee imported from the EU, Brexit itself could be even worse. If we crash out with no deal, says Stemman, roast and ground beans will be hit with tariffs of more than 7%. And if you were thinking you would just stay home: the price of instant coffee comprising two-thirds of the 95m cups consumed daily in the UK is also expected to rise by 9%.
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Can Design Help Prevent Electronic Waste From Ending Up in a Landfill?
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The research-driven approach of design duo Studio Formafantasma might typically result in beautiful, poetic objects ranging from lighting and vessels to furniture, but the studio has been recently applying its efforts towards tackling a very contemporary problem: the recycling of electronic waste. In this moment, electronic waste is the fastest stream of waste growing globally. Only 30% is being correctly recycled while the remaining 70% is being exported to developing countries or simply ends up in the landfill, said studio co-founder Simone Farresin on Wednesday at the Fortune and Wallpaper* Brainstorm Design conference in Singapore. The obvious question here is why. While it may seem like stating the obvious, the recycling of electronic products is actually highly complex. Not only is the issue worsening thanks to the increasing number of circuit boards present in electronic products, but the fact that most copper and metal elements are covered in black rubber for safety also means that they are harder to detect by recycling systems that use imaging to identify and isolate various components by color. Studio Formafantasma has drilled down into the problem by collaborating with experts in Europe, India and Kenya to conduct extensive research through analysis of different levels of the recycling chain. Their design-led process included speaking with legislators, activists (who use GPS to track electronic waste), recyclers, non-governmental agencies (which support responsible recycling workshops), and manufacturers. Design can be used to mediate conversation, Farresin said. One of the problems we had while speaking to recyclers was the need to gain the information from them to actually design. What we did was dismantle electronic products which we placed, almost as a taxonomy, into different elements so that we could speak with them about the problematics in recycling very specifically. One of Studio Formafantasmas solutions includes the implementation of a color-coding system that identifies recyclable metal elements and helps separate them from hazardous components. When an electronic device is opened, there is currently no universal design language to indicate which materials are harmful or not. Another idea calls for the introduction of a labeling system that would be enforced by legislature. This system would require manufacturers to outline the shelf life of each product, rather than concealing its obsolescence, thus allowing consumers to make an informed decision of whether it is worth purchasing or not. Yet another suggestion is the creation of a digital passport for different types of plastics in the form of a QR code that will enable recyclers to know the composition of the type of plastic they are recycling. A lot of recyclers struggle to understand exactly what they are recycling because plastics are being engineered daily, Farresin explained. Studio Formafantasmas measures may seem simplistic, but they offer tangible, conceivable solutions to a mounting problem of a mammoth scale. We needed to be very pragmatic, Farresin said about his firms strategies. Rather than to completely rethink the system of recycling, we chose to operate within it. For more coverage of Fortunes Brainstorm Design conference, click here.
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Studio Formafantasma has been tackling the recycling of electronic waste. Only 30% is being correctly recycled while the remaining 70% is exported to developing countries or simply ends up in the landfill. One of the solutions includes the implementation of a color-coding system that identifies recyclable metal elements.
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Is seven-time champion Johnson NASCAR's most disrespected great?
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Kevin Harvick recently described fellow NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson as "one of the most disrespected great drivers". Seven-time title winner Johnson is currently on a winless streak in championship rounds stretching back to June 2017. Scroll to continue with content Ad But Harvick launched a vehement defence of Johnson's reputation after they appeared on a radio show together late last month. "Jimmie is one of the most disrespected great drivers that have ever come through this garage. Jimmie Johnson is just a good old fashioned great guy," Harvick said afterwards. "He helps people and has done great things in the garage and in a race car, out of a race car, and sometimes I feel like we forget that he has won seven championships and all the races that he has won and all the great things he has done. "It isn't like he came from a rich daddy or family that had a lot of money. "He came all the way up from the bottom to the top and worked hard and had a lot of success and has won as many championships as Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty. "I never feel like he is on that pedestal next to those guys appropriately." When told of Harvick's comments, Johnson said "I certainly appreciate those kind words" but played down his own feelings about how he is regarded. "I feel like every driver probably has something that they probably deserve and something they don't deserve along the way of progressing through this sport," he said. "I've had my good and my bad and it is what it is. Honestly, I quit paying attention to a lot of the public opinion stuff years ago. "It doesn't do me any good and I'm just going to keep my head down and keep working." Autosport says Dominik Wilde, special contruibutor Story continues NASCAR fans have short memories. After a winless 2018 and a somewhat calamitous start to 2019, many are blasting Jimmie Johnson as a serial crasher who needs to retire. That is utter nonsense. It's only been just over two years since Johnson won a record-tying seventh title - the same amount of time between his sixth and seventh triumphs - and that seventh puts him in a rather special club alongside Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt. Yet for some reason, Johnson is rarely regarded as being in the same league as the other seven-timers. Not only has he also outdone Earnhardt's Cup wins tally (in fewer races), but he's won all of his titles in less time that both Petty and Earnhardt. Comparing his numbers to his contemporaries, nobody comes close. Kyle Busch, a driver who many consider to be the best in NASCAR right now, not only took several years to finally achieve his so-far-only Cup title, but he's still a full 32 wins behind Johnson on the wins chart. Then there are other champions - Kurt Busch, Brad Keselowski, Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr, and Joey Logano; add up every single one of the championships won by other drivers in the 2019 Cup field and it's still fewer than Johnson's overall tally, yet we're still glossing over Johnson's achievements. Johnson's titles of course stretch across the Gen 4, Car of Tomorrow, and Gen 6 regulations. There's no doubt that both of those factors are key, but at the end of the day a car needs to be driven, and driven well. Johnson has had top-level competition, not just from rivals, but from team-mates in the same equipment as well in the shape of Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Mark Martin, Kasey Kahne, and Chase Elliott to name a few, and save for Gordon - who enjoyed most of his success before Johnson arrived on the scene - nobody has matched his achievements in Hendrick equipment. Much like how in Formula 1 Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel aren't always held in as high a regard as the likes of Juan Manuel Fangio and Ayrton Senna, Johnson isn't looked upon as fondly as those who have already had their names etched into the history books for decades, and that's a crying shame. Jimmie Johnson is one of NASCAR's all-time greats, and always will be. It's about time he was celebrated like the living legend he is, because with NASCAR's constant drive to bunch up the field, who knows when or if we'll see success like it again. Get unlimited access to the worlds best motorsport journalism with Autosport Plus
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Kevin Harvick described Jimmie Johnson as 'one of the most disrespected great drivers' Seven-time title winner Johnson is currently on a winless streak in championship rounds stretching back to June 2017.
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Is seven-time champion Johnson NASCAR's most disrespected great?
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Kevin Harvick recently described fellow NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson as "one of the most disrespected great drivers". Seven-time title winner Johnson is currently on a winless streak in championship rounds stretching back to June 2017. Scroll to continue with content Ad But Harvick launched a vehement defence of Johnson's reputation after they appeared on a radio show together late last month. "Jimmie is one of the most disrespected great drivers that have ever come through this garage. Jimmie Johnson is just a good old fashioned great guy," Harvick said afterwards. "He helps people and has done great things in the garage and in a race car, out of a race car, and sometimes I feel like we forget that he has won seven championships and all the races that he has won and all the great things he has done. "It isn't like he came from a rich daddy or family that had a lot of money. "He came all the way up from the bottom to the top and worked hard and had a lot of success and has won as many championships as Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty. "I never feel like he is on that pedestal next to those guys appropriately." When told of Harvick's comments, Johnson said "I certainly appreciate those kind words" but played down his own feelings about how he is regarded. "I feel like every driver probably has something that they probably deserve and something they don't deserve along the way of progressing through this sport," he said. "I've had my good and my bad and it is what it is. Honestly, I quit paying attention to a lot of the public opinion stuff years ago. "It doesn't do me any good and I'm just going to keep my head down and keep working." Autosport says Dominik Wilde, special contruibutor Story continues NASCAR fans have short memories. After a winless 2018 and a somewhat calamitous start to 2019, many are blasting Jimmie Johnson as a serial crasher who needs to retire. That is utter nonsense. It's only been just over two years since Johnson won a record-tying seventh title - the same amount of time between his sixth and seventh triumphs - and that seventh puts him in a rather special club alongside Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt. Yet for some reason, Johnson is rarely regarded as being in the same league as the other seven-timers. Not only has he also outdone Earnhardt's Cup wins tally (in fewer races), but he's won all of his titles in less time that both Petty and Earnhardt. Comparing his numbers to his contemporaries, nobody comes close. Kyle Busch, a driver who many consider to be the best in NASCAR right now, not only took several years to finally achieve his so-far-only Cup title, but he's still a full 32 wins behind Johnson on the wins chart. Then there are other champions - Kurt Busch, Brad Keselowski, Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr, and Joey Logano; add up every single one of the championships won by other drivers in the 2019 Cup field and it's still fewer than Johnson's overall tally, yet we're still glossing over Johnson's achievements. Johnson's titles of course stretch across the Gen 4, Car of Tomorrow, and Gen 6 regulations. There's no doubt that both of those factors are key, but at the end of the day a car needs to be driven, and driven well. Johnson has had top-level competition, not just from rivals, but from team-mates in the same equipment as well in the shape of Jeff Gordon, Kyle Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Mark Martin, Kasey Kahne, and Chase Elliott to name a few, and save for Gordon - who enjoyed most of his success before Johnson arrived on the scene - nobody has matched his achievements in Hendrick equipment. Much like how in Formula 1 Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel aren't always held in as high a regard as the likes of Juan Manuel Fangio and Ayrton Senna, Johnson isn't looked upon as fondly as those who have already had their names etched into the history books for decades, and that's a crying shame. Jimmie Johnson is one of NASCAR's all-time greats, and always will be. It's about time he was celebrated like the living legend he is, because with NASCAR's constant drive to bunch up the field, who knows when or if we'll see success like it again. Get unlimited access to the worlds best motorsport journalism with Autosport Plus
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Jimmie Johnson is a seven-time NASCAR Cup champion. Kevin Harvick recently described Johnson as "one of the most disrespected great drivers" Johnson says he 'appreciates' the kind words, but doesn't agree with them. Johnson is currently winless in championship rounds since June 2017.
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Is Karen Bradley running out of road?
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Image copyright AFP/Getty Image caption Downing Street may hope the storm over Ms Bradley's comments blows over Karen Bradley is not the first and probably will not be the last Northern Ireland Secretary to slip spectacularly on a political banana skin. There was Peter Brooke persuaded on an RTE TV chat show to give a rendition of "Oh My Darling, Clementine" on a day when seven Protestant workmen had been killed in an IRA bombing. There was Sir Patrick Mayhew - dressed in a dinner suit and bow tie on his way out after watching an opera - making light of a grenade attack which had injured 30 people by quipping that at least there was: "nobody dead. At the end of this opera, everybody's dead." After Peter Brooke's faux pas he offered to resign - Margaret Thatcher rejected his resignation, but he was dropped from the cabinet following an general election a few months later. Image copyright PA Image caption Sir Patrick Mayhew's lighthearted comment regarding a grenade attack was widely viewed as insensitive There is no sign at this point that Karen Bradley intends to offer her resignation, nor that her firm ally, Theresa May, would demand such a move. Those close to Mrs Bradley point out that she clarified her comment at the earliest possible opportunity, just three hours after pronouncing that security force killings were "not crimes". With the government obsessed by Brexit and Mrs May short of unconditionally loyal colleagues like Mrs Bradley, Downing Street may hope this blows over. 'Running out of road?' However, following her previous admission that, when appointed, she was not aware of voting patterns in Northern Ireland, the secretary of state seems to be running out of road. Not just nationalists but also the centrist Alliance Party believe she is compromised by the Conservatives' parliamentary alliance with the DUP and lacks the grasp of the many nuances of local politics and history required to navigate a way forward. Victims of state violence have proved reluctant to accept Mrs Bradley's clarification, perhaps because they believe her comments were part of a pattern. They have seen both the secretary of state and the prime minister keen to assuage the concerns of DUP MPs and Tory backbenchers lobbying on behalf of security force veterans, and view the Ministry of Defence's plans to potentially legislate to block supposedly spurious prosecutions against military veterans with acute suspicion. 'Laser-like focus' At their recent annual conference, the Alliance leader Naomi Long strongly criticised Mrs Bradley, lampooning her remark that she is directing a laser-like focus on the Stormont deadlock by quipping that all this meant was that lasers could be added to the list of things the Secretary of State does not know anything about. Alliance reiterated their long-standing demand that an independent chair - not Mrs Bradley - should be brought in to convene any future inter-party talks. The political dynamics at Westminster may mean this is not a resigning matter, but if she carries on regardless, Karen Bradley could risk becoming a lame duck secretary of state without the authority to deal with either Northern Ireland's troubled past or its politically paralysed present.
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No sign at this point that Karen Bradley intends to offer her resignation, nor that her firm ally, Theresa May, would demand such a move. However, following her previous admission that, when appointed, she was not aware of voting patterns in Northern Ireland, the secretary of state seems to be running out of road.
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Is Multi Unit, Multi Brand Ownership The Future Of Restaurant Franchising?
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Restaurant franchising has undergone a fantastic evolution in the last few decades. The present-day franchised restaurant business now attracts a variety of investors for a variety of different reasons. Beginning in the early years of the 1960s owning a single unit franchised restaurant was an entry point for everyday individuals to get into the restaurant business. This "First Wave" in restaurant franchising was the growth tool of choice for many entrepreneurs and first-time business owners. With Success Comes Change Many of these successful individual franchisees seeking growth went on to open numerous location under the same franchised brand name. Using their experience in real estate, restaurant operations and developing staff as well as their ability to leverage cash flow from their profitable businesses, many went on to open additional units in the '80s and '90s. Whether it's a single individual owning three to five franchised restaurants or larger investors that opened scores of locations, multi-unit ownership proved to be a method for financial growth by giving franchisees and investors an established model with a predictable result. Using this Multi-Unit development method as a means to increase enterprise value for the business owner became what I call the "Second Wave" in franchising. Many of these now professionally managed "corporate" franchisees have taken numerous franchise systems to new heights by developing hundreds of units in their designated territories. Today's "Third Wave" of franchise development lies in the concept of not only owning multiple restaurants of the same brand but also owning multiple units of various brands. Multi-Brand restaurant franchising has exploded in recent years. Countless franchisees now operate two, three or more non-competing restaurant brands. These large franchisees can sometimes develop additional brands in their original territory while many others choose to run restaurants in several regions. These franchisees are driven by revenue growth, brand diversification, open territory, capitalizing on existing human resources, local real estate, consumer trends and demographics in a market. The concept of owning multiple units of one brand has been eclipsed by what is now known as Multi Brand ownership. That's where a franchisee develops the business enterprise as a franchisee of various non competing restaurant brands. Private Equity Investors Dig Deeper for Gold Today, not only are the franchisor/parent companies the target of private equity investment and acquisition but so are large franchisee organizations. As franchisees, private equity firms are creating millions of dollars in profit by scaling the number of restaurants in their portfolios utilizing a proven system with a predictable result. Phil Druce, Partner with Atlantic Street Capital says "We feel strongly about the sustainability of the franchising category as multi-unit franchisee investors into the future. While some equity investors might shy away from broadly defined retail thinking that the category over the medium to long-term will be compromised with the proliferation of technology or delivery-based solution, we continue to feel positive about the sector. Druce continued; "Amazon risk will continue to be a popular phrase used across the industry as an undefinable risk. We feel as though the best operators and investors will find ways to drive door swings, engage with the customer in a meaningful way, and deliver a customer experience that keeps people coming back. The most sustainable businesses will complement their core retail business with technology solutions of their own that enhance, without cannibalizing, their value proposition." The number of Multi Unit-Multi Brand franchisees has grown to the point that some franchisees operate more units in their collective Multi-Brands portfolios than some of the individual franchisors they represent. This month is the Multi Unit Franchise Conference in Las Vegas. I'll be attending and I'll have more to say on this topic in my next article. Whatever the ultimate future direction of this type of franchise growth happens to be, Multi Brand franchising is here to stay and will continue to create larger and larger franchisees.
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Is Multi Unit, Multi Brand Ownership The Future Of Restaurant Franchising?
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Restaurant franchising has undergone a fantastic evolution in the last few decades. The present-day franchised restaurant business now attracts a variety of investors for a variety of different reasons. Beginning in the early years of the 1960s owning a single unit franchised restaurant was an entry point for everyday individuals to get into the restaurant business. This "First Wave" in restaurant franchising was the growth tool of choice for many entrepreneurs and first-time business owners. With Success Comes Change Many of these successful individual franchisees seeking growth went on to open numerous location under the same franchised brand name. Using their experience in real estate, restaurant operations and developing staff as well as their ability to leverage cash flow from their profitable businesses, many went on to open additional units in the '80s and '90s. Whether it's a single individual owning three to five franchised restaurants or larger investors that opened scores of locations, multi-unit ownership proved to be a method for financial growth by giving franchisees and investors an established model with a predictable result. Using this Multi-Unit development method as a means to increase enterprise value for the business owner became what I call the "Second Wave" in franchising. Many of these now professionally managed "corporate" franchisees have taken numerous franchise systems to new heights by developing hundreds of units in their designated territories. Today's "Third Wave" of franchise development lies in the concept of not only owning multiple restaurants of the same brand but also owning multiple units of various brands. Multi-Brand restaurant franchising has exploded in recent years. Countless franchisees now operate two, three or more non-competing restaurant brands. These large franchisees can sometimes develop additional brands in their original territory while many others choose to run restaurants in several regions. These franchisees are driven by revenue growth, brand diversification, open territory, capitalizing on existing human resources, local real estate, consumer trends and demographics in a market. The concept of owning multiple units of one brand has been eclipsed by what is now known as Multi Brand ownership. That's where a franchisee develops the business enterprise as a franchisee of various non competing restaurant brands. Private Equity Investors Dig Deeper for Gold Today, not only are the franchisor/parent companies the target of private equity investment and acquisition but so are large franchisee organizations. As franchisees, private equity firms are creating millions of dollars in profit by scaling the number of restaurants in their portfolios utilizing a proven system with a predictable result. Phil Druce, Partner with Atlantic Street Capital says "We feel strongly about the sustainability of the franchising category as multi-unit franchisee investors into the future. While some equity investors might shy away from broadly defined retail thinking that the category over the medium to long-term will be compromised with the proliferation of technology or delivery-based solution, we continue to feel positive about the sector. Druce continued; "Amazon risk will continue to be a popular phrase used across the industry as an undefinable risk. We feel as though the best operators and investors will find ways to drive door swings, engage with the customer in a meaningful way, and deliver a customer experience that keeps people coming back. The most sustainable businesses will complement their core retail business with technology solutions of their own that enhance, without cannibalizing, their value proposition." The number of Multi Unit-Multi Brand franchisees has grown to the point that some franchisees operate more units in their collective Multi-Brands portfolios than some of the individual franchisors they represent. This month is the Multi Unit Franchise Conference in Las Vegas. I'll be attending and I'll have more to say on this topic in my next article. Whatever the ultimate future direction of this type of franchise growth happens to be, Multi Brand franchising is here to stay and will continue to create larger and larger franchisees.
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Is Multi Unit, Multi Brand Ownership The Future Of Restaurant Franchising?
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Restaurant franchising has undergone a fantastic evolution in the last few decades. The present-day franchised restaurant business now attracts a variety of investors for a variety of different reasons. Beginning in the early years of the 1960s owning a single unit franchised restaurant was an entry point for everyday individuals to get into the restaurant business. This "First Wave" in restaurant franchising was the growth tool of choice for many entrepreneurs and first-time business owners. With Success Comes Change Many of these successful individual franchisees seeking growth went on to open numerous location under the same franchised brand name. Using their experience in real estate, restaurant operations and developing staff as well as their ability to leverage cash flow from their profitable businesses, many went on to open additional units in the '80s and '90s. Whether it's a single individual owning three to five franchised restaurants or larger investors that opened scores of locations, multi-unit ownership proved to be a method for financial growth by giving franchisees and investors an established model with a predictable result. Using this Multi-Unit development method as a means to increase enterprise value for the business owner became what I call the "Second Wave" in franchising. Many of these now professionally managed "corporate" franchisees have taken numerous franchise systems to new heights by developing hundreds of units in their designated territories. Today's "Third Wave" of franchise development lies in the concept of not only owning multiple restaurants of the same brand but also owning multiple units of various brands. Multi-Brand restaurant franchising has exploded in recent years. Countless franchisees now operate two, three or more non-competing restaurant brands. These large franchisees can sometimes develop additional brands in their original territory while many others choose to run restaurants in several regions. These franchisees are driven by revenue growth, brand diversification, open territory, capitalizing on existing human resources, local real estate, consumer trends and demographics in a market. The concept of owning multiple units of one brand has been eclipsed by what is now known as Multi Brand ownership. That's where a franchisee develops the business enterprise as a franchisee of various non competing restaurant brands. Private Equity Investors Dig Deeper for Gold Today, not only are the franchisor/parent companies the target of private equity investment and acquisition but so are large franchisee organizations. As franchisees, private equity firms are creating millions of dollars in profit by scaling the number of restaurants in their portfolios utilizing a proven system with a predictable result. Phil Druce, Partner with Atlantic Street Capital says "We feel strongly about the sustainability of the franchising category as multi-unit franchisee investors into the future. While some equity investors might shy away from broadly defined retail thinking that the category over the medium to long-term will be compromised with the proliferation of technology or delivery-based solution, we continue to feel positive about the sector. Druce continued; "Amazon risk will continue to be a popular phrase used across the industry as an undefinable risk. We feel as though the best operators and investors will find ways to drive door swings, engage with the customer in a meaningful way, and deliver a customer experience that keeps people coming back. The most sustainable businesses will complement their core retail business with technology solutions of their own that enhance, without cannibalizing, their value proposition." The number of Multi Unit-Multi Brand franchisees has grown to the point that some franchisees operate more units in their collective Multi-Brands portfolios than some of the individual franchisors they represent. This month is the Multi Unit Franchise Conference in Las Vegas. I'll be attending and I'll have more to say on this topic in my next article. Whatever the ultimate future direction of this type of franchise growth happens to be, Multi Brand franchising is here to stay and will continue to create larger and larger franchisees.
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Restaurant franchising has undergone a fantastic evolution in the last few decades. The concept of owning multiple units of one brand has been eclipsed by what is now known as Multi Brand ownership. Countless franchisees now operate two, three or more non-competing restaurant brands.
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Should Entrepreneurs Start Thinking More Like Angel Investors?
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Starting your own company is hard. You can expect pain, frustration, setbacks and tears along the way and perhaps even failure. The wins make you feel unstoppable, and the downs like youll never figure out a way forward. Entrepreneurs often wax lyrical about their billion-dollar ideas. But since it's often reported that the majority of startups will fail, I started wondering if there was a better approach to building a successful company. Increasing Your Chances Of Entrepreneurial Success While focus is important, it can blind us to other opportunities and often, our own failures. When you become attached to a business you believe will change the world, youll probably fight tooth and nail to keep it afloat. But competition is fierce, and successful funding rounds dont always mean success in the market. You need to work out a plan to get you where you want to be, whether thats a $10-million exit, $100-million exit, an IPO or some other specific goal. An angel investor, for example, might invest around $25,000-$100,000 per startup to achieve positive returns on a small portion of them. One 2017 study, "The American Angel," cited average angel investments ranging from $32,000 to $44,000, depending on the U.S. region. Likewise, with $100,000 capital, you could potentially start 10 businesses with a budget of $10,000 each, build 10 minimum viable products (MVPs), and gather feedback on all of them to find the one that resonates with the market, which could take you one step closer to your goal. So, instead of piling lots of time, effort and money into one idea, you could spread your capital across several businesses and hedge as an angel investor would. Angel Investing Versus Traditional Entrepreneurship Like angel investing, the more companies you build, the greater the chance should be that one of them will become a life-changing return on your time and capital. Where an angel investor increases their portfolio to maximize returns, you, as an entrepreneur, could apply your talents to other business ideas to multiply your chances of success. Angel investors generally make small bets on startups and help them get through those tough early stages of growing a business. They make lots of these bets. "The American Angel" showed that angels with entrepreneurial experience have an average of 12 companies in their portfolio. Out of those small bets, only a handful a very small percentage of them are likely to become really successful. For example, the "American Angel" study found that angels studied had a positive return on about 11% of their investments. The odds of investing in a successful startup may be similarly low for both angel investors and traditional entrepreneurs. However, an angel investor diversifies to minimize losses and increase returns, while a traditional entrepreneur often chooses not to. Many of the entrepreneurs I meet spend years or even decades on one business. Not all of them will succeed. But if they adopt the same mindset as an angel investor, theres a good chance theyll achieve their goals. Multiply And Conquer: A New Model For Entrepreneurship In business, success can pay for failure many times over. If you build nine unsuccessful companies, for example, but your 10th one is a success, it's possible youll recover everything youve lost. Its important, therefore, not to get too attached to one idea at least until you have some traction, such as finding product-market fit with paying customers. In the meantime, I believe one of the most important steps in this approach is to get an MVP to market so you can gather feedback by speaking to customers and investors. It's much more powerful when you can share your vision with a working prototype. Becoming An Agile Entrepreneur An angel investor views each investment in terms of risk yes, it could be a multibillion-dollar company, but it probably wont be. So, they split their capital across several projects. In the same way, an agile entrepreneur splits their time and energy between several ideas. Remove your emotional attachment to one project, and youll start to see things objectively. If your business fails to impress mentors, investors and customers, close it down. Stick it on your resume, and move on to the next one. Time is your most valuable asset. To become an agile entrepreneur, you can think of your business ideas as an angel investor thinks of investment opportunities. Build a portfolio of startups, aiming for one of them to succeed. An angel investor could receive a small return on a few companies, so consider following that strategy by starting more companies over a shorter period of time. Sumner Redstone is credited with saying, "Great success is built on failure, frustration, even catastrophe." So dont be afraid of failure. Plan for it. Think more like an angel investor, and you can mitigate failure as you would any other risk.
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The more companies you build, the greater the chance that one of them will become a life-changing return on your time and capital. An angel investor diversifies to minimize losses and increase returns, while a traditional entrepreneur often chooses not to. " The American Angel" showed that angels with entrepreneurial experience have an average of 12 companies in their portfolio.
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Should the presidents family members receive high-level security clearances?
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By Cait Bladt New reports show President Donald Trump went against the counsel of his security advisers and other White House staff when he moved to provide his daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, with high-level security clearances. Jared and Ivanka have both claimed the pair did not receive any special treatment in getting the clearances. This new information directly contradicts these claims. The president is, however, allowed to provide security clearance to whomever he sees fit. According to CNN, the president has the legal right to grant clearances as he sees fit. If he believes a family member, especially family members with portfolios as extensive and varied as Jared and Ivankas, deserves a high security clearance, he can grant one. While Trump has the legal authority to grant clearances, most instances are left up to the White House personnel security office, which determines whether a staffer should be granted one after the FBI has conducted a background check. But after concerns were raised by the personnel office, Trump pushed Kelly and McGahn to make the decision on his daughter and son-in-law's clearances so it did not appear as if he was tainting the process to favor his family, sources told CNN. After both refused, Trump granted them their security clearances. Presidents typically defer to the judgment of their advisers when granting security clearances. Trump, however, has a well-documented history of disregarding this type of advice. The New York Times reports his advisers were in complete agreement that Kushner should not be provided security clearance and were upset by Trumps insistence. Mr. Trumps decision in May so troubled senior administration officials that at least one, the White House chief of staff at the time, John F. Kelly, wrote a contemporaneous internal memo about how he had been ordered to give Mr. Kushner the top-secret clearance. The White House counsel at the time, Donald F. McGahn II, also wrote an internal memo outlining the concerns that had been raised about Mr. Kushner including by the C.I.A. and how Mr. McGahn had recommended that he not be given a top-secret clearance. ...It is not known precisely what factors led to the problems with Mr. Kushners security clearance. Officials had raised questions about his own and his familys real estate businesss ties to foreign governments and investors, and about initially unreported contacts he had with foreigners. The issue also generated criticism of Mr. Trump for having two family members serve in official capacities in the West Wing. Rep. Elijah Cummings, chair of the House Oversight Committee, has requested documentation of the presidents security clearance requests for his family members. According to NBC News, Cummings believes Trump has crossed ethical lines with his security requests. The White House, however, has rebuffed these requests. "There is a key difference between a president who exercises his authority under the Constitution and a president who overrules career experts and his top advisers to benefit his family members and then conceals his actions from the American people," Cummings said in a statement. "The White Houses argument defies the Constitutional separation of powers, decades of precedent before this Committee, and just plain common-sense," Cummings wrote. "The White House security clearance system is broken, and it needs both congressional oversight and legislative reform. I will be consulting with Members of the Committee to determine our next steps. White House Counsel Pat Cipollone responded to Cummings, claiming the president was well within his rights to grant the security clearances. Per Politico: These actions suggest that the Committee is not interested in proper oversight, but rather seeks information that it knows cannot be provided consistent with applicable law, Cipollone wrote in a letter to Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings. We will not concede the Executive's constitutional prerogatives or allow the Committee to jeopardize the individual privacy rights of current and former Executive Branch employees. The Tylt is focused on debates and conversations around news, current events and pop culture. We provide our community with the opportunity to share their opinions and vote on topics that matter most to them. We actively engage the community and present meaningful data on the debates and conversations as they progress. The Tylt is a place where your opinion counts, literally. The Tylt is an Advance Local Media, LLC property. Join us on Twitter @TheTylt, on Instagram @TheTylt or on Facebook, wed love to hear what you have to say.
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Should the presidents family members receive high-level security clearances?
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By Cait Bladt New reports show President Donald Trump went against the counsel of his security advisers and other White House staff when he moved to provide his daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, with high-level security clearances. Jared and Ivanka have both claimed the pair did not receive any special treatment in getting the clearances. This new information directly contradicts these claims. The president is, however, allowed to provide security clearance to whomever he sees fit. According to CNN, the president has the legal right to grant clearances as he sees fit. If he believes a family member, especially family members with portfolios as extensive and varied as Jared and Ivankas, deserves a high security clearance, he can grant one. While Trump has the legal authority to grant clearances, most instances are left up to the White House personnel security office, which determines whether a staffer should be granted one after the FBI has conducted a background check. But after concerns were raised by the personnel office, Trump pushed Kelly and McGahn to make the decision on his daughter and son-in-law's clearances so it did not appear as if he was tainting the process to favor his family, sources told CNN. After both refused, Trump granted them their security clearances. Presidents typically defer to the judgment of their advisers when granting security clearances. Trump, however, has a well-documented history of disregarding this type of advice. The New York Times reports his advisers were in complete agreement that Kushner should not be provided security clearance and were upset by Trumps insistence. Mr. Trumps decision in May so troubled senior administration officials that at least one, the White House chief of staff at the time, John F. Kelly, wrote a contemporaneous internal memo about how he had been ordered to give Mr. Kushner the top-secret clearance. The White House counsel at the time, Donald F. McGahn II, also wrote an internal memo outlining the concerns that had been raised about Mr. Kushner including by the C.I.A. and how Mr. McGahn had recommended that he not be given a top-secret clearance. ...It is not known precisely what factors led to the problems with Mr. Kushners security clearance. Officials had raised questions about his own and his familys real estate businesss ties to foreign governments and investors, and about initially unreported contacts he had with foreigners. The issue also generated criticism of Mr. Trump for having two family members serve in official capacities in the West Wing. Rep. Elijah Cummings, chair of the House Oversight Committee, has requested documentation of the presidents security clearance requests for his family members. According to NBC News, Cummings believes Trump has crossed ethical lines with his security requests. The White House, however, has rebuffed these requests. "There is a key difference between a president who exercises his authority under the Constitution and a president who overrules career experts and his top advisers to benefit his family members and then conceals his actions from the American people," Cummings said in a statement. "The White Houses argument defies the Constitutional separation of powers, decades of precedent before this Committee, and just plain common-sense," Cummings wrote. "The White House security clearance system is broken, and it needs both congressional oversight and legislative reform. I will be consulting with Members of the Committee to determine our next steps. White House Counsel Pat Cipollone responded to Cummings, claiming the president was well within his rights to grant the security clearances. Per Politico: These actions suggest that the Committee is not interested in proper oversight, but rather seeks information that it knows cannot be provided consistent with applicable law, Cipollone wrote in a letter to Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings. We will not concede the Executive's constitutional prerogatives or allow the Committee to jeopardize the individual privacy rights of current and former Executive Branch employees. The Tylt is focused on debates and conversations around news, current events and pop culture. We provide our community with the opportunity to share their opinions and vote on topics that matter most to them. We actively engage the community and present meaningful data on the debates and conversations as they progress. The Tylt is a place where your opinion counts, literally. The Tylt is an Advance Local Media, LLC property. Join us on Twitter @TheTylt, on Instagram @TheTylt or on Facebook, wed love to hear what you have to say.
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New reports show President Donald Trump went against the counsel of his security advisers and other White House staff when he moved to provide his daughter, Ivanka, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, with high-level security clearances. The president has the legal right to grant clearances as he sees fit.
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Could Scotland's only state-run girls school admit boys?
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Image copyright Thomas Nugent Image caption Notre Dame High School has only admitted girls since its inception in 1897 A consultation is to take place on the future of Scotland's last girls-only state school starting later this month. Glasgow City Council said one option for the future of Notre Dame High School will be to admit boys too. Some parents who live nearby have been campaigning for this. But many parents of current pupils want to maintain the status quo. Notre Dame has a catchment area in Glasgow's west end but also considers placing requests from elsewhere. Ethos and character It is the only remaining girls-only state school in Scotland, although there are still a number south of the border. Notre Dame is a Roman Catholic school but it admits pupils of other faiths, such as Islam, and no faiths at all. The three options are: Leave the Notre Dame High School entry criteria as is - no change from being a girls' school. Retain the all-girl status, but change the catchment area. Change to be a co-educational denominational secondary school and alter the catchment area The consultation will open on 18 March. Image caption Dame Elish Angiolini, former Lord Advocate of Scotland, attended the school Following the decision to hold a consultation, a council spokeswoman said: "The consultation is the ideal opportunity for all interested parties to make their views known as part of the consultation process. "Public meetings are being held during April and May and we would urge people to come along and hear about the proposals and from the various campaign groups before submitting responses by the 26 May." Some parents who live in the west end of Glasgow have argued that Notre Dame should start admitting boys. Their key argument is simply that an all girls' school has no place in the modern era. However, parents of pupils at the school are likely to fight any move to admit boys. Last year BBC Scotland spoke to some students at the school. Some of them argued that they were more likely to study science and technology because there was no risk of them being wrongly seen as "boys' subjects". Reaching potential Michelle Watt, chairwoman of Notre Dame High School, said: "Notre Dame High School is almost full, with a majority of families from diverse cultures and backgrounds actively choosing to send their girls there via placing requests. "Removing that choice will remove improved opportunity for those areas of our city who do not have top schools close by. The school should be held up as an exemplar in our community... "It offers Glasgow families additional choice, high academic performance and helps close the attainment gap." She added that the school "encourages, supports and develops young women to reach their full potential". Speaking to BBC Scotland a year ago, one of the campaigners who want boys admitted argued that it was unfair that boys and girls who had attended the same primary school could be split up when they started secondary. She also believed it was wrong in principle to still educate boys and girls separately.
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Notre Dame High School has only admitted girls since its inception in 1897. It is the only remaining girls-only state school in Scotland.
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Could Scotland's only state-run girls school admit boys?
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Image copyright Thomas Nugent Image caption Notre Dame High School has only admitted girls since its inception in 1897 A consultation is to take place on the future of Scotland's last girls-only state school starting later this month. Glasgow City Council said one option for the future of Notre Dame High School will be to admit boys too. Some parents who live nearby have been campaigning for this. But many parents of current pupils want to maintain the status quo. Notre Dame has a catchment area in Glasgow's west end but also considers placing requests from elsewhere. Ethos and character It is the only remaining girls-only state school in Scotland, although there are still a number south of the border. Notre Dame is a Roman Catholic school but it admits pupils of other faiths, such as Islam, and no faiths at all. The three options are: Leave the Notre Dame High School entry criteria as is - no change from being a girls' school. Retain the all-girl status, but change the catchment area. Change to be a co-educational denominational secondary school and alter the catchment area The consultation will open on 18 March. Image caption Dame Elish Angiolini, former Lord Advocate of Scotland, attended the school Following the decision to hold a consultation, a council spokeswoman said: "The consultation is the ideal opportunity for all interested parties to make their views known as part of the consultation process. "Public meetings are being held during April and May and we would urge people to come along and hear about the proposals and from the various campaign groups before submitting responses by the 26 May." Some parents who live in the west end of Glasgow have argued that Notre Dame should start admitting boys. Their key argument is simply that an all girls' school has no place in the modern era. However, parents of pupils at the school are likely to fight any move to admit boys. Last year BBC Scotland spoke to some students at the school. Some of them argued that they were more likely to study science and technology because there was no risk of them being wrongly seen as "boys' subjects". Reaching potential Michelle Watt, chairwoman of Notre Dame High School, said: "Notre Dame High School is almost full, with a majority of families from diverse cultures and backgrounds actively choosing to send their girls there via placing requests. "Removing that choice will remove improved opportunity for those areas of our city who do not have top schools close by. The school should be held up as an exemplar in our community... "It offers Glasgow families additional choice, high academic performance and helps close the attainment gap." She added that the school "encourages, supports and develops young women to reach their full potential". Speaking to BBC Scotland a year ago, one of the campaigners who want boys admitted argued that it was unfair that boys and girls who had attended the same primary school could be split up when they started secondary. She also believed it was wrong in principle to still educate boys and girls separately.
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Glasgow's Notre Dame High School is Scotland's last girls-only state school. Council says one option for the school's future will be to admit boys too. But many parents of current pupils want to maintain the status quo.
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Could Scotland's only state-run girls school admit boys?
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Image copyright Thomas Nugent Image caption Notre Dame High School has only admitted girls since its inception in 1897 A consultation is to take place on the future of Scotland's last girls-only state school starting later this month. Glasgow City Council said one option for the future of Notre Dame High School will be to admit boys too. Some parents who live nearby have been campaigning for this. But many parents of current pupils want to maintain the status quo. Notre Dame has a catchment area in Glasgow's west end but also considers placing requests from elsewhere. Ethos and character It is the only remaining girls-only state school in Scotland, although there are still a number south of the border. Notre Dame is a Roman Catholic school but it admits pupils of other faiths, such as Islam, and no faiths at all. The three options are: Leave the Notre Dame High School entry criteria as is - no change from being a girls' school. Retain the all-girl status, but change the catchment area. Change to be a co-educational denominational secondary school and alter the catchment area The consultation will open on 18 March. Image caption Dame Elish Angiolini, former Lord Advocate of Scotland, attended the school Following the decision to hold a consultation, a council spokeswoman said: "The consultation is the ideal opportunity for all interested parties to make their views known as part of the consultation process. "Public meetings are being held during April and May and we would urge people to come along and hear about the proposals and from the various campaign groups before submitting responses by the 26 May." Some parents who live in the west end of Glasgow have argued that Notre Dame should start admitting boys. Their key argument is simply that an all girls' school has no place in the modern era. However, parents of pupils at the school are likely to fight any move to admit boys. Last year BBC Scotland spoke to some students at the school. Some of them argued that they were more likely to study science and technology because there was no risk of them being wrongly seen as "boys' subjects". Reaching potential Michelle Watt, chairwoman of Notre Dame High School, said: "Notre Dame High School is almost full, with a majority of families from diverse cultures and backgrounds actively choosing to send their girls there via placing requests. "Removing that choice will remove improved opportunity for those areas of our city who do not have top schools close by. The school should be held up as an exemplar in our community... "It offers Glasgow families additional choice, high academic performance and helps close the attainment gap." She added that the school "encourages, supports and develops young women to reach their full potential". Speaking to BBC Scotland a year ago, one of the campaigners who want boys admitted argued that it was unfair that boys and girls who had attended the same primary school could be split up when they started secondary. She also believed it was wrong in principle to still educate boys and girls separately.
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Notre Dame High School has only admitted girls since its inception in 1897. It is the only remaining girls-only state school in Scotland. Glasgow City Council said one option for the future will be to admit boys too. But many parents of current pupils want to maintain the status quo.
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Did John Kuhn throw the second-most famous block in Packers history?
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John Kuhn (30, on right) lays out after blocking Julius Peppers on a play that allowed Aaron Rodgers time to scramble and unload for a 48-yard touchdown in the final moments of the 2013 season. (Photo: Rick Wood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) John Kuhn, whose last name became a battle cry and who became a fan favorite during his nine seasons in Green Bay, announced he was retiring from the NFL as a Packer on Wednesday. He accounted for 28 total touchdowns in his career, used primarily in short-yardage situations, but perhaps his most famous play came on a chip block in 2013. RELATED: Former Green Bay fan favorite John Kuhn retires as a Packer RELATED:From 'absolute chaos' to a touchdown for the ages Let's revisit the Dec. 29, 2013 regular-season finale in Chicago, when Aaron Rodgers hit Randall Cobb for a 48-yard touchdown on fourth down with 38 seconds remaining. The block by Kuhn to slow down elite Bears pass rusher Julius Peppers became widely recognized as the play that helped make it all work. The Packers won the game 33-28 and clawed their way into the playoffs at 8-7-1 in the winner-take-all thriller for the NFC North title. Peppers joked later that the block "cost him his job," when the Bears released him and paved the way for him to sign with ... the Packers, in the subsequent offseason. It's not the most famous block in Packers history. That honor will forever belong to newly minted Hall of Famer Jerry Kramer, whose block of Cowboys defensive lineman Jethro Pugh created an opening for Bart Starr to plow through on the famous quarterback sneak that ended the Ice Bowl on New Year's Eve in 1967. Green Bay went on to beat Oakland in Super Bowl II. Admittedly, this is a tough thing to research. There's probably a memorable Brett Favre block that belongs in there, and it stands to reason that the Lombardi-era Packers had more than one famous block. Let us know what other big Packers blocks come to mind. JR Radcliffe can be reached at (262) 361-9141 or jradcliffe@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JRRadcliffe.
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John Kuhn's chip block in the 2013 regular-season finale allowed Aaron Rodgers to hit Randall Cobb for a 48-yard touchdown.
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Did John Kuhn throw the second-most famous block in Packers history?
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John Kuhn (30, on right) lays out after blocking Julius Peppers on a play that allowed Aaron Rodgers time to scramble and unload for a 48-yard touchdown in the final moments of the 2013 season. (Photo: Rick Wood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) John Kuhn, whose last name became a battle cry and who became a fan favorite during his nine seasons in Green Bay, announced he was retiring from the NFL as a Packer on Wednesday. He accounted for 28 total touchdowns in his career, used primarily in short-yardage situations, but perhaps his most famous play came on a chip block in 2013. RELATED: Former Green Bay fan favorite John Kuhn retires as a Packer RELATED:From 'absolute chaos' to a touchdown for the ages Let's revisit the Dec. 29, 2013 regular-season finale in Chicago, when Aaron Rodgers hit Randall Cobb for a 48-yard touchdown on fourth down with 38 seconds remaining. The block by Kuhn to slow down elite Bears pass rusher Julius Peppers became widely recognized as the play that helped make it all work. The Packers won the game 33-28 and clawed their way into the playoffs at 8-7-1 in the winner-take-all thriller for the NFC North title. Peppers joked later that the block "cost him his job," when the Bears released him and paved the way for him to sign with ... the Packers, in the subsequent offseason. It's not the most famous block in Packers history. That honor will forever belong to newly minted Hall of Famer Jerry Kramer, whose block of Cowboys defensive lineman Jethro Pugh created an opening for Bart Starr to plow through on the famous quarterback sneak that ended the Ice Bowl on New Year's Eve in 1967. Green Bay went on to beat Oakland in Super Bowl II. Admittedly, this is a tough thing to research. There's probably a memorable Brett Favre block that belongs in there, and it stands to reason that the Lombardi-era Packers had more than one famous block. Let us know what other big Packers blocks come to mind. JR Radcliffe can be reached at (262) 361-9141 or jradcliffe@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JRRadcliffe.
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John Kuhn's chip block in the 2013 regular-season finale allowed Aaron Rodgers to hit Randall Cobb for a 48-yard touchdown. It's not the most famous block in Packers history, that honor belongs to Jerry Kramer.
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Did John Kuhn throw the second-most famous block in Packers history?
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John Kuhn (30, on right) lays out after blocking Julius Peppers on a play that allowed Aaron Rodgers time to scramble and unload for a 48-yard touchdown in the final moments of the 2013 season. (Photo: Rick Wood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) John Kuhn, whose last name became a battle cry and who became a fan favorite during his nine seasons in Green Bay, announced he was retiring from the NFL as a Packer on Wednesday. He accounted for 28 total touchdowns in his career, used primarily in short-yardage situations, but perhaps his most famous play came on a chip block in 2013. RELATED: Former Green Bay fan favorite John Kuhn retires as a Packer RELATED:From 'absolute chaos' to a touchdown for the ages Let's revisit the Dec. 29, 2013 regular-season finale in Chicago, when Aaron Rodgers hit Randall Cobb for a 48-yard touchdown on fourth down with 38 seconds remaining. The block by Kuhn to slow down elite Bears pass rusher Julius Peppers became widely recognized as the play that helped make it all work. The Packers won the game 33-28 and clawed their way into the playoffs at 8-7-1 in the winner-take-all thriller for the NFC North title. Peppers joked later that the block "cost him his job," when the Bears released him and paved the way for him to sign with ... the Packers, in the subsequent offseason. It's not the most famous block in Packers history. That honor will forever belong to newly minted Hall of Famer Jerry Kramer, whose block of Cowboys defensive lineman Jethro Pugh created an opening for Bart Starr to plow through on the famous quarterback sneak that ended the Ice Bowl on New Year's Eve in 1967. Green Bay went on to beat Oakland in Super Bowl II. Admittedly, this is a tough thing to research. There's probably a memorable Brett Favre block that belongs in there, and it stands to reason that the Lombardi-era Packers had more than one famous block. Let us know what other big Packers blocks come to mind. JR Radcliffe can be reached at (262) 361-9141 or jradcliffe@gannett.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JRRadcliffe.
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John Kuhn's chip block in the 2013 regular-season finale allowed Aaron Rodgers to hit Randall Cobb for a 48-yard touchdown. It's not the most famous block in Packers history, that honor belongs to Jerry Kramer. There's probably a memorable Brett Favre block that belongs in there, too.
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Are Brie Bella & Daniel Bryan Moving Back to Phoenix?
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The WWE stars are in a disagreement about moving again in this exclusive clip from Sunday's new Total Bellas. Brie wants to break their lease in San Diego to move back to Phoenix while Bryan worries about the costs. Do we want to start searching for a house to buy?' But a part of me just feels like we kinda just need to go back to Phoenix just 'cause of Birdie and Vivian," Brie tells her family. "Prolly the best thing to do is, I don't know, break this lease, get something in Phoenix." "Brie just can't make a decision," Bryan later confesses. "If it were up to me, we would just have one house. That house would be the place that we would live all year round. I mean, everybody does it, except us."
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Brie wants to break their lease in San Diego to move back to Phoenix. Bryan worries about the costs.
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Are Brie Bella & Daniel Bryan Moving Back to Phoenix?
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The WWE stars are in a disagreement about moving again in this exclusive clip from Sunday's new Total Bellas. Brie wants to break their lease in San Diego to move back to Phoenix while Bryan worries about the costs. Do we want to start searching for a house to buy?' But a part of me just feels like we kinda just need to go back to Phoenix just 'cause of Birdie and Vivian," Brie tells her family. "Prolly the best thing to do is, I don't know, break this lease, get something in Phoenix." "Brie just can't make a decision," Bryan later confesses. "If it were up to me, we would just have one house. That house would be the place that we would live all year round. I mean, everybody does it, except us."
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Brie wants to break their lease in San Diego to move back to Phoenix. Bryan worries about the costs. "Brie just can't make a decision," Bryan later confesses.
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Are Brie Bella & Daniel Bryan Moving Back to Phoenix?
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The WWE stars are in a disagreement about moving again in this exclusive clip from Sunday's new Total Bellas. Brie wants to break their lease in San Diego to move back to Phoenix while Bryan worries about the costs. Do we want to start searching for a house to buy?' But a part of me just feels like we kinda just need to go back to Phoenix just 'cause of Birdie and Vivian," Brie tells her family. "Prolly the best thing to do is, I don't know, break this lease, get something in Phoenix." "Brie just can't make a decision," Bryan later confesses. "If it were up to me, we would just have one house. That house would be the place that we would live all year round. I mean, everybody does it, except us."
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Brie wants to break their lease in San Diego to move back to Phoenix. Bryan worries about the costs. "Brie just can't make a decision," Bryan later confesses. "If it were up to me, we would just have one house," he says.
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Could Vanderbilt fire basketball coach Bryce Drew after dreadful season?
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Vanderbilt basketball coach Bryce Drew may be making a case to keep his job when this unparalleled poor season ends soon. He is only halfway through a reported six-year contract. Drew will meet with new athletics director Malcolm Turner, review the reasons for this seasons unprecedented collapse and present his plan to pull off what he calls the biggest turnaround in the history of college basketball" if he returns next season. That meeting is coming soon, as it always does between a coach and athletics director at season's end. And after Vanderbilts 84-48 loss to Arkansas Wednesday night a program-record 18th consecutive loss Drew gave perhaps a preview of his pitch to Turner. We were the first (Vanderbilt coaching) staff to go to the NCAA tournament in our first year, Drew said during his postgame news conference. We recruited the best player to ever come to this school (Darius Garland). We played the hardest schedule in the country in back-to-back years. So obviously there are a lot of things you take pride in. This (season) is obviously a big scar. Bryce Drews pros and cons All those high points are true. Drew led the Commodores to the 2017 NCAA tournament with former coach Kevin Stallings players. He coached against the nations toughest schedule for two seasons. And he brought Garland, a five-star point guard and projected NBA lottery pick, to Vanderbilt in the best recruiting class in program history. But all that came before Garland suffered a season-ending knee injury and Vanderbilt (9-21, 0-17 SEC) struggled through the worst losing streak in its history. The Commodores 21 losses are the most in program history. They finished with a losing record at home for the first time in 67 seasons since Memorial Gym opened. And if Vanderbilt loses at No. 10 LSU Saturday, it will be the first SEC team in 65 years to go winless in conference play. At the end of every season, obviously, you worry about it, said Drew, who has a 40-57 record and 16-37 SEC mark in three seasons. You could lose (your job) at any point. As a coach, you control what you can control. My job right now is to keep these guys fighting. In a letter to Vanderbilt fans Wednesday, Turner was vague about his plans. "While it has been a challenging year for our men's and women's basketball programs," he wrote, "I am firmly committed to supporting the return of 'Memorial Magic.' Garlands injury tossed the team into an early season tailspin from which it never recovered. Another five-star freshman, Simi Shittu, regressed as the season went along. And transfers haven't made the impact that was intended. But Vanderbilt is set to return the same roster, except for lone senior Joe Toye, and add another strong recruiting class. Four-star prospects Dylan Disu and Austin Crowley have already signed, and Scotty Pippen Jr. has committed to sign in April. Plus, freshman Aaron Nesmith, a bright spot this season, appears to be a future star and NBA prospect. We feel like the future is bright, Drew said. Im excited about our guys. Aaron Nesmith is going to be a great player, one of the best ever here by the time he leaves here. We are excited about the new guys coming in. We are excited about (center) Ejike Obinna, whos almost 250 pounds now after redshirting this year. This only motivates me to work harder, to get these guys better, to get the right pieces to go with them and make this the biggest turnaround in the history of college basketball. Bryce Drews dad, brother won big after slow starts Buy Photo Vanderbilt head coach Bryce Drew talks with forward Yanni Wetzell (1) as he takes the court during their 48 to 84 loss against Arkansas at Memorial Gym Wednesday, March 6, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo: George Walker IV / The Tennessean) Drew comes from a family of coaches that each took a few years to hit their stride. His dad, Homer Drew, coached 370 wins in 22 seasons at Valparaiso despite a slow start. And Bryce's older brother, Scott Drew, has 317 wins in 16 seasons at Baylor after a lackluster start. In Homer Drews second, third and fourth seasons at Valparaiso, he posted a combined record of 14-68 overall and 5-39 in conference play. But he kept his job and reeled off eight 20-win seasons in nine years and made seven NCAA tournament appearances. Scott Drew went 21-53 in his first three seasons at Baylor, but he soon followed with seven NCAA tournament appearances. (My dad) went through three years when he won a combined (14) games. And if you fast forward 20 years, the court was named after him, Bryce Drew said. My brother went through a lot in his first (three) years at Baylor. So, obviously, you never want to do this. But its making me a better coach, its making our staff better coaches, and our goal is to make this the best turnaround in the country. DOWNLOAD THE APP: Get Vanderbilt basketball news from The Tennessean on your mobile device NEWSLETTERS Get the Sports newsletter delivered to your inbox We're sorry, but something went wrong Top and trending sports headlines you need to know for your busy day. Please try again soon, or contact Customer Service at 1-800-342-8237. Delivery: Daily Invalid email address Thank you! You're almost signed up for Sports Keep an eye out for an email to confirm your newsletter registration. More newsletters LETTER TO FANS: Vanderbilt AD Malcolm Turner addresses basketball programs, football stadium RECAP: Vanderbilt basketball drops 18th straight, first losing home record in Memorial Gym history Reach Adam Sparks at asparks@tennessean.com and on Twitter @AdamSparks.
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Could Vanderbilt fire basketball coach Bryce Drew after dreadful season?
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Vanderbilt basketball coach Bryce Drew may be making a case to keep his job when this unparalleled poor season ends soon. He is only halfway through a reported six-year contract. Drew will meet with new athletics director Malcolm Turner, review the reasons for this seasons unprecedented collapse and present his plan to pull off what he calls the biggest turnaround in the history of college basketball" if he returns next season. That meeting is coming soon, as it always does between a coach and athletics director at season's end. And after Vanderbilts 84-48 loss to Arkansas Wednesday night a program-record 18th consecutive loss Drew gave perhaps a preview of his pitch to Turner. We were the first (Vanderbilt coaching) staff to go to the NCAA tournament in our first year, Drew said during his postgame news conference. We recruited the best player to ever come to this school (Darius Garland). We played the hardest schedule in the country in back-to-back years. So obviously there are a lot of things you take pride in. This (season) is obviously a big scar. Bryce Drews pros and cons All those high points are true. Drew led the Commodores to the 2017 NCAA tournament with former coach Kevin Stallings players. He coached against the nations toughest schedule for two seasons. And he brought Garland, a five-star point guard and projected NBA lottery pick, to Vanderbilt in the best recruiting class in program history. But all that came before Garland suffered a season-ending knee injury and Vanderbilt (9-21, 0-17 SEC) struggled through the worst losing streak in its history. The Commodores 21 losses are the most in program history. They finished with a losing record at home for the first time in 67 seasons since Memorial Gym opened. And if Vanderbilt loses at No. 10 LSU Saturday, it will be the first SEC team in 65 years to go winless in conference play. At the end of every season, obviously, you worry about it, said Drew, who has a 40-57 record and 16-37 SEC mark in three seasons. You could lose (your job) at any point. As a coach, you control what you can control. My job right now is to keep these guys fighting. In a letter to Vanderbilt fans Wednesday, Turner was vague about his plans. "While it has been a challenging year for our men's and women's basketball programs," he wrote, "I am firmly committed to supporting the return of 'Memorial Magic.' Garlands injury tossed the team into an early season tailspin from which it never recovered. Another five-star freshman, Simi Shittu, regressed as the season went along. And transfers haven't made the impact that was intended. But Vanderbilt is set to return the same roster, except for lone senior Joe Toye, and add another strong recruiting class. Four-star prospects Dylan Disu and Austin Crowley have already signed, and Scotty Pippen Jr. has committed to sign in April. Plus, freshman Aaron Nesmith, a bright spot this season, appears to be a future star and NBA prospect. We feel like the future is bright, Drew said. Im excited about our guys. Aaron Nesmith is going to be a great player, one of the best ever here by the time he leaves here. We are excited about the new guys coming in. We are excited about (center) Ejike Obinna, whos almost 250 pounds now after redshirting this year. This only motivates me to work harder, to get these guys better, to get the right pieces to go with them and make this the biggest turnaround in the history of college basketball. Bryce Drews dad, brother won big after slow starts Buy Photo Vanderbilt head coach Bryce Drew talks with forward Yanni Wetzell (1) as he takes the court during their 48 to 84 loss against Arkansas at Memorial Gym Wednesday, March 6, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo: George Walker IV / The Tennessean) Drew comes from a family of coaches that each took a few years to hit their stride. His dad, Homer Drew, coached 370 wins in 22 seasons at Valparaiso despite a slow start. And Bryce's older brother, Scott Drew, has 317 wins in 16 seasons at Baylor after a lackluster start. In Homer Drews second, third and fourth seasons at Valparaiso, he posted a combined record of 14-68 overall and 5-39 in conference play. But he kept his job and reeled off eight 20-win seasons in nine years and made seven NCAA tournament appearances. Scott Drew went 21-53 in his first three seasons at Baylor, but he soon followed with seven NCAA tournament appearances. (My dad) went through three years when he won a combined (14) games. And if you fast forward 20 years, the court was named after him, Bryce Drew said. My brother went through a lot in his first (three) years at Baylor. So, obviously, you never want to do this. But its making me a better coach, its making our staff better coaches, and our goal is to make this the best turnaround in the country. DOWNLOAD THE APP: Get Vanderbilt basketball news from The Tennessean on your mobile device NEWSLETTERS Get the Sports newsletter delivered to your inbox We're sorry, but something went wrong Top and trending sports headlines you need to know for your busy day. Please try again soon, or contact Customer Service at 1-800-342-8237. Delivery: Daily Invalid email address Thank you! You're almost signed up for Sports Keep an eye out for an email to confirm your newsletter registration. More newsletters LETTER TO FANS: Vanderbilt AD Malcolm Turner addresses basketball programs, football stadium RECAP: Vanderbilt basketball drops 18th straight, first losing home record in Memorial Gym history Reach Adam Sparks at asparks@tennessean.com and on Twitter @AdamSparks.
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Vanderbilt basketball coach Bryce Drew may be making a case to keep his job when this unparalleled poor season ends soon. He is only halfway through a reported six-year contract. Drew will meet with new athletics director Malcolm Turner, review the reasons for this seasons unprecedented collapse and present his plan to pull off what he calls the biggest turnaround in the history of college basketball" if he returns next season. That meeting is coming soon, as it always does between a coach and athletics director at season's end. And after Vanderbilts 84-48 loss to Arkansas Wednesday night a program-record 18th consecutive loss Drew gave perhaps a preview of his pitch to Turner. We were the first (Vanderbilt coaching) staff to go to the NCAA tournament in our first year, Drew said during his postgame news conference. We recruited the best player to ever come to this school (Darius Garland). We played the hardest schedule in the country in back-to-back years. So obviously there are a lot of things you take pride in. This (season) is obviously a big scar. Bryce Drews pros and cons All those high points are true. Drew led the Commodores to the 2017 NCAA tournament with former coach Kevin Stallings players. He coached against the nations toughest schedule for two seasons. And he brought Garland, a five-star point guard and projected NBA lottery pick, to Vanderbilt in the best recruiting class in program history. But all that came before Garland suffered a season-ending knee injury and Vanderbilt (9-21, 0-17 SEC) struggled through the worst losing streak in its history. The Commodores 21 losses are the most in program history. They finished with a losing record at home for the first time in 67 seasons since Memorial Gym opened. And if Vanderbilt loses at No. 10 LSU Saturday, it will be the first SEC team in 65 years to go winless in conference play. At the end of every season, obviously, you worry about it, said Drew, who has a 40-57 record and 16-37 SEC mark in three seasons. You could lose (your job) at any point. As a coach, you control what you can control. My job right now is to keep these guys fighting. In a letter to Vanderbilt fans Wednesday, Turner was vague about his plans. "While it has been a challenging year for our men's and women's basketball programs," he wrote, "I am firmly committed to supporting the return of 'Memorial Magic.' Garlands injury tossed the team into an early season tailspin from which it never recovered. Another five-star freshman, Simi Shittu, regressed as the season went along. And transfers haven't made the impact that was intended. But Vanderbilt is set to return the same roster, except for lone senior Joe Toye, and add another strong recruiting class. Four-star prospects Dylan Disu and Austin Crowley have already signed, and Scotty Pippen Jr. has committed to sign in April. Plus, freshman Aaron Nesmith, a bright spot this season, appears to be a future star and NBA prospect. We feel like the future is bright, Drew said. Im excited about our guys. Aaron Nesmith is going to be a great player, one of the best ever here by the time he leaves here. We are excited about the new guys coming in. We are excited about (center) Ejike Obinna, whos almost 250 pounds now after redshirting this year. This only motivates me to work harder, to get these guys better, to get the right pieces to go with them and make this the biggest turnaround in the history of college basketball. Bryce Drews dad, brother won big after slow starts Buy Photo Vanderbilt head coach Bryce Drew talks with forward Yanni Wetzell (1) as he takes the court during their 48 to 84 loss against Arkansas at Memorial Gym Wednesday, March 6, 2019 in Nashville, Tenn. (Photo: George Walker IV / The Tennessean) Drew comes from a family of coaches that each took a few years to hit their stride. His dad, Homer Drew, coached 370 wins in 22 seasons at Valparaiso despite a slow start. And Bryce's older brother, Scott Drew, has 317 wins in 16 seasons at Baylor after a lackluster start. In Homer Drews second, third and fourth seasons at Valparaiso, he posted a combined record of 14-68 overall and 5-39 in conference play. But he kept his job and reeled off eight 20-win seasons in nine years and made seven NCAA tournament appearances. Scott Drew went 21-53 in his first three seasons at Baylor, but he soon followed with seven NCAA tournament appearances. (My dad) went through three years when he won a combined (14) games. And if you fast forward 20 years, the court was named after him, Bryce Drew said. My brother went through a lot in his first (three) years at Baylor. So, obviously, you never want to do this. But its making me a better coach, its making our staff better coaches, and our goal is to make this the best turnaround in the country. DOWNLOAD THE APP: Get Vanderbilt basketball news from The Tennessean on your mobile device NEWSLETTERS Get the Sports newsletter delivered to your inbox We're sorry, but something went wrong Top and trending sports headlines you need to know for your busy day. Please try again soon, or contact Customer Service at 1-800-342-8237. Delivery: Daily Invalid email address Thank you! You're almost signed up for Sports Keep an eye out for an email to confirm your newsletter registration. More newsletters LETTER TO FANS: Vanderbilt AD Malcolm Turner addresses basketball programs, football stadium RECAP: Vanderbilt basketball drops 18th straight, first losing home record in Memorial Gym history Reach Adam Sparks at asparks@tennessean.com and on Twitter @AdamSparks.
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Vanderbilt basketball coach Bryce Drew may be making a case to keep his job. He is only halfway through a reported six-year contract. The Commodores 21 losses are the most in program history. If Vanderbilt loses at No. 10 LSU Saturday, it will be first SEC team in 65 years to go winless in conference play.
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Can Meghan Markle and the Royals Have Political Views?
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Friday is International Womens Day, and even Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex is taking some time to mark the occasion by appearing on a panel alongside notable figures in England like Annie Lennox and Adwoa Aboah hosted by Kings College London. This is not the first time Markle has celebrated the annual event with a high-profile engagement; back in 2015, she delivered a speech at the U.N. Women conference about gender and equality. Women need a seat at the table. They need an invitation to be seated there, and in some cases, where this is not available, well then they need to create their own table, she said then. So Markles interest in womens causes is no surprise, as many royal watchers and longtime Markle fans will already know. And its not necessarily a huge departure from the humanitarian work that others in the family like Prince Charles and Prince Harry have long taken on themselves. It is still significant when royals get political, however, because of the Queens impartial relationship to party politics. Youve got to be very careful in terms of how anything reflects on the Queen, explains CNN royals commentator Victoria Arbiter to TIME. Shes a politically neutral head of state. And the family is very careful in terms of where they go, because they cant cause her any embarrassment. The Brief Newsletter Sign up to receive the top stories you need to know right now. View Sample Sign Up Now This need for caution has been in place ever since the United Kingdom became a constitutional monarchy and reduced royal political powers in 1688. The reigning monarch is still technically responsible for a whole list of tasks, from appointing prime ministers to summoning and dissolving Parliament, and still holds the power to declare war and make peace. But the stability of the U.K. government is based on the fact that the monarch has remained politically neutral as head of state in the intervening centuries. Thats certainly the case for Queen Elizabeth II, who has now been the U.K.s longest-reigning monarch at 92. That doesnt mean other royals dont dabble, however as they are within their rights to do. The royals have long gone as close as they possibly can [to politics], says Arbiter, but they limit it to the humanitarian side instead of the political side. That means steering clear of taking a firm stance on a party issue like Brexit, for instance although in a roundabout way the Queen has talked about Brexit herself, Arbiter noted, as when she made what people perceived as veiled references in a speech this year. Its not as if Markle appears to be inserting herself where its something not appropriate for her to comment on, says author Leslie Carroll, who writes books of royal history and intrigue. The fact that shes an outspoken advocate for womens issues as she always has been isnt surprising. Markle has publicly declared herself a feminist and supported menstrual products for girls in India; she also made headlines as Duchess of Sussex when she was seemingly drawn into the Irish abortion debate. Her general work for women, it seems, has the stamp of approval of the Queen herself: Markle was recently made patron of Smart Works, a charity that supports unemployed women in their search for jobs, which demonstrates the Queens trust in Meghan, Carroll suggests. The other royals have all had their own causes, too. Prince William has long been focused on conservation and wildlife preservation. Prince Harry has been particularly engaged in mental health awareness programs and vocally concerned about climate change. Princess Diana, soon after her divorce, worked to de-stigmatize AIDS and draw attention to the landmine crisis in places like Angola, which got her called out by politicians for interfering in what they saw as a political issue. And Prince Charles, who was preaching the horrors of plastics for decades as an environmental supporter according to Arbiter, has courted controversy when he toed close to the political line by opting to write memos to make his case on policies. (The memos werent unearthed until years later.) William and Kate tread a finer line because theyre going to be king and queen eventually, so they have to be a little bit more beige, explains Carroll of Harrys brother and sister-in-law. Markle, meanwhile, is not part of the official royal line of succession, giving her a little more leeway. As for womens issues in particular, both Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Sophie, Countess of Wessex have supported womens causes: Camilla has worked on providing support for victims of sexual abuse, while Sophie is chair of a womens business cause and supports anti-sexual violence initiatives. Meghan by extension is continuing that, says Arbiter. Markle will also have the full guidance of a royal team to make sure that her rhetoric stays within the bounds of palace protocol, Arbiter and Carroll agree. All eyes may be on Markle as she takes the stage this International Womens Day, but her support of women is actually nothing new or all that political for the crown. It is a fine line, but one shes traversed well so far, and one that shell be very prepared for come Friday, Arbiter says. Write to Raisa Bruner at raisa.bruner@time.com.
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Can Meghan Markle and the Royals Have Political Views?
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Friday is International Womens Day, and even Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex is taking some time to mark the occasion by appearing on a panel alongside notable figures in England like Annie Lennox and Adwoa Aboah hosted by Kings College London. This is not the first time Markle has celebrated the annual event with a high-profile engagement; back in 2015, she delivered a speech at the U.N. Women conference about gender and equality. Women need a seat at the table. They need an invitation to be seated there, and in some cases, where this is not available, well then they need to create their own table, she said then. So Markles interest in womens causes is no surprise, as many royal watchers and longtime Markle fans will already know. And its not necessarily a huge departure from the humanitarian work that others in the family like Prince Charles and Prince Harry have long taken on themselves. It is still significant when royals get political, however, because of the Queens impartial relationship to party politics. Youve got to be very careful in terms of how anything reflects on the Queen, explains CNN royals commentator Victoria Arbiter to TIME. Shes a politically neutral head of state. And the family is very careful in terms of where they go, because they cant cause her any embarrassment. The Brief Newsletter Sign up to receive the top stories you need to know right now. View Sample Sign Up Now This need for caution has been in place ever since the United Kingdom became a constitutional monarchy and reduced royal political powers in 1688. The reigning monarch is still technically responsible for a whole list of tasks, from appointing prime ministers to summoning and dissolving Parliament, and still holds the power to declare war and make peace. But the stability of the U.K. government is based on the fact that the monarch has remained politically neutral as head of state in the intervening centuries. Thats certainly the case for Queen Elizabeth II, who has now been the U.K.s longest-reigning monarch at 92. That doesnt mean other royals dont dabble, however as they are within their rights to do. The royals have long gone as close as they possibly can [to politics], says Arbiter, but they limit it to the humanitarian side instead of the political side. That means steering clear of taking a firm stance on a party issue like Brexit, for instance although in a roundabout way the Queen has talked about Brexit herself, Arbiter noted, as when she made what people perceived as veiled references in a speech this year. Its not as if Markle appears to be inserting herself where its something not appropriate for her to comment on, says author Leslie Carroll, who writes books of royal history and intrigue. The fact that shes an outspoken advocate for womens issues as she always has been isnt surprising. Markle has publicly declared herself a feminist and supported menstrual products for girls in India; she also made headlines as Duchess of Sussex when she was seemingly drawn into the Irish abortion debate. Her general work for women, it seems, has the stamp of approval of the Queen herself: Markle was recently made patron of Smart Works, a charity that supports unemployed women in their search for jobs, which demonstrates the Queens trust in Meghan, Carroll suggests. The other royals have all had their own causes, too. Prince William has long been focused on conservation and wildlife preservation. Prince Harry has been particularly engaged in mental health awareness programs and vocally concerned about climate change. Princess Diana, soon after her divorce, worked to de-stigmatize AIDS and draw attention to the landmine crisis in places like Angola, which got her called out by politicians for interfering in what they saw as a political issue. And Prince Charles, who was preaching the horrors of plastics for decades as an environmental supporter according to Arbiter, has courted controversy when he toed close to the political line by opting to write memos to make his case on policies. (The memos werent unearthed until years later.) William and Kate tread a finer line because theyre going to be king and queen eventually, so they have to be a little bit more beige, explains Carroll of Harrys brother and sister-in-law. Markle, meanwhile, is not part of the official royal line of succession, giving her a little more leeway. As for womens issues in particular, both Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Sophie, Countess of Wessex have supported womens causes: Camilla has worked on providing support for victims of sexual abuse, while Sophie is chair of a womens business cause and supports anti-sexual violence initiatives. Meghan by extension is continuing that, says Arbiter. Markle will also have the full guidance of a royal team to make sure that her rhetoric stays within the bounds of palace protocol, Arbiter and Carroll agree. All eyes may be on Markle as she takes the stage this International Womens Day, but her support of women is actually nothing new or all that political for the crown. It is a fine line, but one shes traversed well so far, and one that shell be very prepared for come Friday, Arbiter says. Write to Raisa Bruner at raisa.bruner@time.com.
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Meghan Markle is an outspoken advocate for women's issues. The Duchess of Sussex is celebrating International Women's Day with a high-profile engagement. The Queen has remained politically neutral as head of state since 1688, but other royals can dabble in politics.
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What will the Steelers get for Antonio Brown?
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The Steelers reportedly want a first-round pick for receiver Antonio Brown. And theres a fairly easy way for them to be able to say they got one. Teams will commonly balance out trade terms by swapping picks in later rounds, flip-flopping selections in what looks like an inconsequential tail on the donkey but what turns out to be the key to finalizing the trade. Scroll to continue with content Ad If, for example, the Raiders send the last of their three first-round picks to the Steelers (hey, its still a first-round pick), Pittsburgh would have the 27th pick in the draft. Then, the Raiders could ask for something like the Steelers third-round selection (83rd overall) in exchange for Oaklands fourth-round pick (104th overall). The most equitable outcome also would entail a 2020 pick driven by Browns performance in 2019, because the better he plays this year, the more the Steelers should get. Unfortunately for the Raiders, however, this approach ties up multiple picks until its known which pick will head to Pittsburgh based on Browns production and/or the teams success. Thus, if theres a sliding scale that gives the Steelers anything from Oaklands fifth-round pick to its second-round pick (for example), the Raiders would be unable to do anything else with those picks if/when other trade opportunities arise between the time Brown is acquired through the 2019 trade deadline. Of course, the fact that the Steelers want a first-round pick doesnt mean theyll get one. But there are ways to make it look like the Steelers received a first-rounder when in reality the lesser-noticed terms will result in, as a practical matter, the Steelers getting less than that.
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The Steelers reportedly want a first-round pick for receiver Antonio Brown.
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What will the Steelers get for Antonio Brown?
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The Steelers reportedly want a first-round pick for receiver Antonio Brown. And theres a fairly easy way for them to be able to say they got one. Teams will commonly balance out trade terms by swapping picks in later rounds, flip-flopping selections in what looks like an inconsequential tail on the donkey but what turns out to be the key to finalizing the trade. Scroll to continue with content Ad If, for example, the Raiders send the last of their three first-round picks to the Steelers (hey, its still a first-round pick), Pittsburgh would have the 27th pick in the draft. Then, the Raiders could ask for something like the Steelers third-round selection (83rd overall) in exchange for Oaklands fourth-round pick (104th overall). The most equitable outcome also would entail a 2020 pick driven by Browns performance in 2019, because the better he plays this year, the more the Steelers should get. Unfortunately for the Raiders, however, this approach ties up multiple picks until its known which pick will head to Pittsburgh based on Browns production and/or the teams success. Thus, if theres a sliding scale that gives the Steelers anything from Oaklands fifth-round pick to its second-round pick (for example), the Raiders would be unable to do anything else with those picks if/when other trade opportunities arise between the time Brown is acquired through the 2019 trade deadline. Of course, the fact that the Steelers want a first-round pick doesnt mean theyll get one. But there are ways to make it look like the Steelers received a first-rounder when in reality the lesser-noticed terms will result in, as a practical matter, the Steelers getting less than that.
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The Steelers reportedly want a first-round pick for receiver Antonio Brown. There are ways to make it look like the Steelers received a first round pick. The most equitable outcome would be a 2020 pick driven by Brown's performance in 2019.
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What will the Steelers get for Antonio Brown?
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The Steelers reportedly want a first-round pick for receiver Antonio Brown. And theres a fairly easy way for them to be able to say they got one. Teams will commonly balance out trade terms by swapping picks in later rounds, flip-flopping selections in what looks like an inconsequential tail on the donkey but what turns out to be the key to finalizing the trade. Scroll to continue with content Ad If, for example, the Raiders send the last of their three first-round picks to the Steelers (hey, its still a first-round pick), Pittsburgh would have the 27th pick in the draft. Then, the Raiders could ask for something like the Steelers third-round selection (83rd overall) in exchange for Oaklands fourth-round pick (104th overall). The most equitable outcome also would entail a 2020 pick driven by Browns performance in 2019, because the better he plays this year, the more the Steelers should get. Unfortunately for the Raiders, however, this approach ties up multiple picks until its known which pick will head to Pittsburgh based on Browns production and/or the teams success. Thus, if theres a sliding scale that gives the Steelers anything from Oaklands fifth-round pick to its second-round pick (for example), the Raiders would be unable to do anything else with those picks if/when other trade opportunities arise between the time Brown is acquired through the 2019 trade deadline. Of course, the fact that the Steelers want a first-round pick doesnt mean theyll get one. But there are ways to make it look like the Steelers received a first-rounder when in reality the lesser-noticed terms will result in, as a practical matter, the Steelers getting less than that.
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The Steelers reportedly want a first-round pick for receiver Antonio Brown. There are ways to make it look like the Steelers received a first round pick. The most equitable outcome would entail a 2020 pick driven by Brown's performance in 2019, because the better he plays this year, the more the Steelers should get.
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Can The Bull Market Run For Another 10 Years?
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The current stock bull market, already the longest in U.S. history, turns 10 years old this month. Its been a phenomenally profitable time to participate, especially if youve stuck to an investment strategy that favors dividend-paying stocks. As you can see in the chart below, the amount of cash that S&P 500 Index companies have returned to shareholders has grown each year since 2009. In the final three months of 2018 alone, S&P companies paid out $119.8 billion, a quarterly record. Total dividends for the full year stood at $456.3 billion, up 9 percent from the previous yearanother new record. Thanks to corporate tax reform, stock buybacks also shot up to an all-time high of more than $800 billion in 2018. For the first time since 2008, this amount topped what S&P companies spent to replace or upgrade offices and equipment. While Im on this topic, a lot of noise has been made lately about how much companies spent last year repurchasing shares of their own stock. Many critics of President Donald Trumps tax overhaul suggest that buybacks have been made at the expense of investing and giving workers raises. This is misleading to say the least. Capital expenditures grew substantially from 2017 to 2018at their fastest pace since 2011, in factand often, the same companies that were buying back their stock also increased their investments in their own business and workers. Buffett Says Hed Buy the S&P Today For a while now, some financial analysts and pundits have been predicting the end of the business cycle, and the bull markets 10-year anniversary is only likely to intensify those calls. The truth is that business cycles do not die from old age alone. In the past, theyve unraveled as a result of economic shocks, debt crises, wars, changes in monetary policybut never simply because investors believed they overstayed their welcome. In other words, I dont think theres any reason why this bull run cant last another 10 years. Legendary investor Warren Buffett told CNBC just last week that he thinks the aging bull still looks attractive, and if given the choice right now between investing in S&P 500 Index companies and a 10-year bond, hed go with the former. If I had a choice today for a 10-year purchase of a 10-year bond or buying the S&P 500 and holding it for 10 years, Id buy the S&P in a second, Buffett said. A couple of caveats here: One, you cant invest directly in an index. And two, Buffett is a billionaire many times over, and so his threshold for risk, even at 88 years old, is probably somewhere in the upper stratosphere. Be that as it may, theres research available to support Buffetts rosy 10-year outlook. Below is a brief excerpt from Oxford Club Chief Income Strategist Marc Lichtenfelds 2012 bestseller Get Rich With Dividends: Investing in the stock market works. Since 1937, if you invested in the broad market index, you made money in 69 out of 76 rolling 10-year periods, for a 91 percent win rate. That includes reinvesting dividends. Past performance does not guarantee future results. A 91 percent win rate. Put another way, its historically been very rare for a portfolio of S&P stocks not to have generated positive returns on a rolling 10-year basis. According to Marc, only two out of the past 20 years2008 and 2009were losers for the 10-year period with dividends reinvested, thanks to the financial crisis. And thats only if you had cashed out at the worst possible time. Even the tech bubble of the late 1990s and early 2000s wasnt enough to prevent most investors from losing their principal investments made a decade earlier. It means investors have historically been rewarded when theyve taken a longer-term outlook and stayed disciplinedand, I might add, focused on companies that were raising their dividends and then reinvested those dividends. It Might Pay to Stay Invested If you believe that a recession or bear market will strike later this year or next, it still might not be time to get out of stocks altogether. Thats because returns have tended to be strongest 12 months or so before the start of a recession, as opposed to two or three years before. Take a look at the chart below. Based on Morningstar data compiled by Wells Fargo, average returns for large-cap stocks have been highest at almost 25 percent for investors who sold 12 months before an economic downturn. Small-cap stock returns have been even higher at 36.4 percent. In both cases, profits have been much smaller for investors who got out two or three years prior to a recession. As Ive noted already, past performance is no guarantee of future results. Also note the returns for intermediate-term government bonds. As you might expect, they were much smaller than those of large-cap or small-cap stocks, no matter when you cashed out. But dont let that deter you. Theres a place in most peoples portfolios for fixed income, as it can help counter potential equity volatility that has tended to arise late in the business cycle. Active Management Late in the Cycle Ten years is a long time, but again, I dont necessarily think investors should rotate completely out of stocks just yet. I do, however, believe that if youre going to stay invested, you might want to consider an actively managed fund. Passive ETFs are inexpensive and can give you broad exposure to the U.S. market, but theyre generally not as nimble as a fund managed by an investment professional. And nimbleness is what you should be seeking if youre worried about a downturn. Most ETFs rebalance on a quarterly or sometimes monthly basis. Thats perfectly fine for many investors, but if youre interested in a fund that can respond more quickly to unexpected market hiccups or rallies, an actively managed mutual fund might be a better fit. -- Stock markets can be volatile and share prices can fluctuate in response to sector-related and other risks as described in the fund prospectus. All opinions expressed and data provided are subject to change without notice. Some of these opinions may not be appropriate to every investor. The S&P 500 index is a basket of 500 of the largest U.S. stocks, weighted by market capitalization. The index is widely considered to be the best indicator of how large U.S. stocks are performing on a day-to-day basis. The Total Return Index calculates the results when cash payouts are automatically reinvested. The S&P Municipal Bond Intermediate Index consists of bonds in the S&P Municipal Bond Index with a minimum maturity of 3 years and a maximum maturity of 15 years. The Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Total Stock Market Index is a subset of the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index, which measures all U.S. equity securities with readily available prices. The index represents the largest 750stocks and is float-adjusted market cap weighted. The Dow Jones U.S. Small-Cap Total Stock Market Index is a subset of the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index, which measures all U.S. equity securities with readily available prices. The index represents the stocks ranked 751-2,500 by full market capitalization and is float-adjusted market cap weighted. There is no guarantee that the issuers of any securities will declare dividends in the future or that, if declared, will remain at current levels or increase over time. U.S. Global Investors, Inc. is an investment adviser registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). This does not mean that we are sponsored, recommended, or approved by the SEC, or that our abilities or qualifications in any respect have been passed upon by the SEC or any officer of the SEC. This commentary should not be considered a solicitation or offering of any investment product. Certain materials in this commentary may contain dated information. The information provided was current at the time of publication.
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Can The Bull Market Run For Another 10 Years?
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The current stock bull market, already the longest in U.S. history, turns 10 years old this month. Its been a phenomenally profitable time to participate, especially if youve stuck to an investment strategy that favors dividend-paying stocks. As you can see in the chart below, the amount of cash that S&P 500 Index companies have returned to shareholders has grown each year since 2009. In the final three months of 2018 alone, S&P companies paid out $119.8 billion, a quarterly record. Total dividends for the full year stood at $456.3 billion, up 9 percent from the previous yearanother new record. Thanks to corporate tax reform, stock buybacks also shot up to an all-time high of more than $800 billion in 2018. For the first time since 2008, this amount topped what S&P companies spent to replace or upgrade offices and equipment. While Im on this topic, a lot of noise has been made lately about how much companies spent last year repurchasing shares of their own stock. Many critics of President Donald Trumps tax overhaul suggest that buybacks have been made at the expense of investing and giving workers raises. This is misleading to say the least. Capital expenditures grew substantially from 2017 to 2018at their fastest pace since 2011, in factand often, the same companies that were buying back their stock also increased their investments in their own business and workers. Buffett Says Hed Buy the S&P Today For a while now, some financial analysts and pundits have been predicting the end of the business cycle, and the bull markets 10-year anniversary is only likely to intensify those calls. The truth is that business cycles do not die from old age alone. In the past, theyve unraveled as a result of economic shocks, debt crises, wars, changes in monetary policybut never simply because investors believed they overstayed their welcome. In other words, I dont think theres any reason why this bull run cant last another 10 years. Legendary investor Warren Buffett told CNBC just last week that he thinks the aging bull still looks attractive, and if given the choice right now between investing in S&P 500 Index companies and a 10-year bond, hed go with the former. If I had a choice today for a 10-year purchase of a 10-year bond or buying the S&P 500 and holding it for 10 years, Id buy the S&P in a second, Buffett said. A couple of caveats here: One, you cant invest directly in an index. And two, Buffett is a billionaire many times over, and so his threshold for risk, even at 88 years old, is probably somewhere in the upper stratosphere. Be that as it may, theres research available to support Buffetts rosy 10-year outlook. Below is a brief excerpt from Oxford Club Chief Income Strategist Marc Lichtenfelds 2012 bestseller Get Rich With Dividends: Investing in the stock market works. Since 1937, if you invested in the broad market index, you made money in 69 out of 76 rolling 10-year periods, for a 91 percent win rate. That includes reinvesting dividends. Past performance does not guarantee future results. A 91 percent win rate. Put another way, its historically been very rare for a portfolio of S&P stocks not to have generated positive returns on a rolling 10-year basis. According to Marc, only two out of the past 20 years2008 and 2009were losers for the 10-year period with dividends reinvested, thanks to the financial crisis. And thats only if you had cashed out at the worst possible time. Even the tech bubble of the late 1990s and early 2000s wasnt enough to prevent most investors from losing their principal investments made a decade earlier. It means investors have historically been rewarded when theyve taken a longer-term outlook and stayed disciplinedand, I might add, focused on companies that were raising their dividends and then reinvested those dividends. It Might Pay to Stay Invested If you believe that a recession or bear market will strike later this year or next, it still might not be time to get out of stocks altogether. Thats because returns have tended to be strongest 12 months or so before the start of a recession, as opposed to two or three years before. Take a look at the chart below. Based on Morningstar data compiled by Wells Fargo, average returns for large-cap stocks have been highest at almost 25 percent for investors who sold 12 months before an economic downturn. Small-cap stock returns have been even higher at 36.4 percent. In both cases, profits have been much smaller for investors who got out two or three years prior to a recession. As Ive noted already, past performance is no guarantee of future results. Also note the returns for intermediate-term government bonds. As you might expect, they were much smaller than those of large-cap or small-cap stocks, no matter when you cashed out. But dont let that deter you. Theres a place in most peoples portfolios for fixed income, as it can help counter potential equity volatility that has tended to arise late in the business cycle. Active Management Late in the Cycle Ten years is a long time, but again, I dont necessarily think investors should rotate completely out of stocks just yet. I do, however, believe that if youre going to stay invested, you might want to consider an actively managed fund. Passive ETFs are inexpensive and can give you broad exposure to the U.S. market, but theyre generally not as nimble as a fund managed by an investment professional. And nimbleness is what you should be seeking if youre worried about a downturn. Most ETFs rebalance on a quarterly or sometimes monthly basis. Thats perfectly fine for many investors, but if youre interested in a fund that can respond more quickly to unexpected market hiccups or rallies, an actively managed mutual fund might be a better fit. -- Stock markets can be volatile and share prices can fluctuate in response to sector-related and other risks as described in the fund prospectus. All opinions expressed and data provided are subject to change without notice. Some of these opinions may not be appropriate to every investor. The S&P 500 index is a basket of 500 of the largest U.S. stocks, weighted by market capitalization. The index is widely considered to be the best indicator of how large U.S. stocks are performing on a day-to-day basis. The Total Return Index calculates the results when cash payouts are automatically reinvested. The S&P Municipal Bond Intermediate Index consists of bonds in the S&P Municipal Bond Index with a minimum maturity of 3 years and a maximum maturity of 15 years. The Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Total Stock Market Index is a subset of the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index, which measures all U.S. equity securities with readily available prices. The index represents the largest 750stocks and is float-adjusted market cap weighted. The Dow Jones U.S. Small-Cap Total Stock Market Index is a subset of the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index, which measures all U.S. equity securities with readily available prices. The index represents the stocks ranked 751-2,500 by full market capitalization and is float-adjusted market cap weighted. There is no guarantee that the issuers of any securities will declare dividends in the future or that, if declared, will remain at current levels or increase over time. U.S. Global Investors, Inc. is an investment adviser registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). This does not mean that we are sponsored, recommended, or approved by the SEC, or that our abilities or qualifications in any respect have been passed upon by the SEC or any officer of the SEC. This commentary should not be considered a solicitation or offering of any investment product. Certain materials in this commentary may contain dated information. The information provided was current at the time of publication.
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The current stock bull market, already the longest in U.S. history, turns 10 years old this month. There's no reason why this bull run can't last another 10 years.
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Can The Bull Market Run For Another 10 Years?
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The current stock bull market, already the longest in U.S. history, turns 10 years old this month. Its been a phenomenally profitable time to participate, especially if youve stuck to an investment strategy that favors dividend-paying stocks. As you can see in the chart below, the amount of cash that S&P 500 Index companies have returned to shareholders has grown each year since 2009. In the final three months of 2018 alone, S&P companies paid out $119.8 billion, a quarterly record. Total dividends for the full year stood at $456.3 billion, up 9 percent from the previous yearanother new record. Thanks to corporate tax reform, stock buybacks also shot up to an all-time high of more than $800 billion in 2018. For the first time since 2008, this amount topped what S&P companies spent to replace or upgrade offices and equipment. While Im on this topic, a lot of noise has been made lately about how much companies spent last year repurchasing shares of their own stock. Many critics of President Donald Trumps tax overhaul suggest that buybacks have been made at the expense of investing and giving workers raises. This is misleading to say the least. Capital expenditures grew substantially from 2017 to 2018at their fastest pace since 2011, in factand often, the same companies that were buying back their stock also increased their investments in their own business and workers. Buffett Says Hed Buy the S&P Today For a while now, some financial analysts and pundits have been predicting the end of the business cycle, and the bull markets 10-year anniversary is only likely to intensify those calls. The truth is that business cycles do not die from old age alone. In the past, theyve unraveled as a result of economic shocks, debt crises, wars, changes in monetary policybut never simply because investors believed they overstayed their welcome. In other words, I dont think theres any reason why this bull run cant last another 10 years. Legendary investor Warren Buffett told CNBC just last week that he thinks the aging bull still looks attractive, and if given the choice right now between investing in S&P 500 Index companies and a 10-year bond, hed go with the former. If I had a choice today for a 10-year purchase of a 10-year bond or buying the S&P 500 and holding it for 10 years, Id buy the S&P in a second, Buffett said. A couple of caveats here: One, you cant invest directly in an index. And two, Buffett is a billionaire many times over, and so his threshold for risk, even at 88 years old, is probably somewhere in the upper stratosphere. Be that as it may, theres research available to support Buffetts rosy 10-year outlook. Below is a brief excerpt from Oxford Club Chief Income Strategist Marc Lichtenfelds 2012 bestseller Get Rich With Dividends: Investing in the stock market works. Since 1937, if you invested in the broad market index, you made money in 69 out of 76 rolling 10-year periods, for a 91 percent win rate. That includes reinvesting dividends. Past performance does not guarantee future results. A 91 percent win rate. Put another way, its historically been very rare for a portfolio of S&P stocks not to have generated positive returns on a rolling 10-year basis. According to Marc, only two out of the past 20 years2008 and 2009were losers for the 10-year period with dividends reinvested, thanks to the financial crisis. And thats only if you had cashed out at the worst possible time. Even the tech bubble of the late 1990s and early 2000s wasnt enough to prevent most investors from losing their principal investments made a decade earlier. It means investors have historically been rewarded when theyve taken a longer-term outlook and stayed disciplinedand, I might add, focused on companies that were raising their dividends and then reinvested those dividends. It Might Pay to Stay Invested If you believe that a recession or bear market will strike later this year or next, it still might not be time to get out of stocks altogether. Thats because returns have tended to be strongest 12 months or so before the start of a recession, as opposed to two or three years before. Take a look at the chart below. Based on Morningstar data compiled by Wells Fargo, average returns for large-cap stocks have been highest at almost 25 percent for investors who sold 12 months before an economic downturn. Small-cap stock returns have been even higher at 36.4 percent. In both cases, profits have been much smaller for investors who got out two or three years prior to a recession. As Ive noted already, past performance is no guarantee of future results. Also note the returns for intermediate-term government bonds. As you might expect, they were much smaller than those of large-cap or small-cap stocks, no matter when you cashed out. But dont let that deter you. Theres a place in most peoples portfolios for fixed income, as it can help counter potential equity volatility that has tended to arise late in the business cycle. Active Management Late in the Cycle Ten years is a long time, but again, I dont necessarily think investors should rotate completely out of stocks just yet. I do, however, believe that if youre going to stay invested, you might want to consider an actively managed fund. Passive ETFs are inexpensive and can give you broad exposure to the U.S. market, but theyre generally not as nimble as a fund managed by an investment professional. And nimbleness is what you should be seeking if youre worried about a downturn. Most ETFs rebalance on a quarterly or sometimes monthly basis. Thats perfectly fine for many investors, but if youre interested in a fund that can respond more quickly to unexpected market hiccups or rallies, an actively managed mutual fund might be a better fit. -- Stock markets can be volatile and share prices can fluctuate in response to sector-related and other risks as described in the fund prospectus. All opinions expressed and data provided are subject to change without notice. Some of these opinions may not be appropriate to every investor. The S&P 500 index is a basket of 500 of the largest U.S. stocks, weighted by market capitalization. The index is widely considered to be the best indicator of how large U.S. stocks are performing on a day-to-day basis. The Total Return Index calculates the results when cash payouts are automatically reinvested. The S&P Municipal Bond Intermediate Index consists of bonds in the S&P Municipal Bond Index with a minimum maturity of 3 years and a maximum maturity of 15 years. The Dow Jones U.S. Large-Cap Total Stock Market Index is a subset of the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index, which measures all U.S. equity securities with readily available prices. The index represents the largest 750stocks and is float-adjusted market cap weighted. The Dow Jones U.S. Small-Cap Total Stock Market Index is a subset of the Dow Jones U.S. Total Stock Market Index, which measures all U.S. equity securities with readily available prices. The index represents the stocks ranked 751-2,500 by full market capitalization and is float-adjusted market cap weighted. There is no guarantee that the issuers of any securities will declare dividends in the future or that, if declared, will remain at current levels or increase over time. U.S. Global Investors, Inc. is an investment adviser registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). This does not mean that we are sponsored, recommended, or approved by the SEC, or that our abilities or qualifications in any respect have been passed upon by the SEC or any officer of the SEC. This commentary should not be considered a solicitation or offering of any investment product. Certain materials in this commentary may contain dated information. The information provided was current at the time of publication.
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The current stock bull market, already the longest in U.S. history, turns 10 years old this month. There's no reason why this bull run can't last another 10 years, says John Sutter. Sutter: Companies that were buying back stock also increased their investments in their own business and workers.
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Does RuPaul think San Francisco drag queens arent good enough?
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As the hit TV show RuPauls Drag Race begins its 11th season, members of the Bay Areas drag scene ask why only one local queen has made it onto the show Honey Mahogany knows how to make an entrance. On Thursday, Feb. 28, as the performer arrives at the Lookout for the season 11 premiere of RuPauls Drag Race, she climbs the Castro gay bars stairs in a hot pink cheetah-print shift and motorcycle jacket, to be warmly greeted by the crowd. Honey Mahogany isnt just the host of the weekly Drag Race viewing party, alongside Sister Roma: She is also a former contestant. In fact, Honey Mahogany is the only Bay Area drag queen just one of 126 contestants over 11 years to compete on the show. Its a startling thing to consider in a drag mecca like San Francisco, a city home to well-known, entrepreneurial queens like Peaches Christ, Heklina, DArcy Drollinger and Juanita More. Despite the expensive housing climate of 2019, young drag hopefuls are still moving to San Francisco. Drag queens are a part of San Franciscos civic life like in no other city: Its a rare public event without Donna Sachet or the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in attendance. RuPauls Drag Race guest judges Audra McDonald (far left) and Kate Upton (far right) flank show judges Michelle Visage (left), RuPaul and Carson Kressley on an episode. RuPauls Drag Race guest judges Audra McDonald (far left) and Kate Upton (far right) flank show judges Michelle Visage (left), RuPaul and Carson Kressley on an episode. If you need proof of how mainstream drag has become in the 11 years Drag Race has been on the air, look to the recent Academy Awards. Season two contestant Shangela, who appeared with Lady Gaga in A Star is Born, is believed to be the first drag queen to attend the Oscars. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi even made news when she appeared on a recent season. That the show can be a major career starter is no surprise to Honey Mahogany, 35, who is also a legislative aide at San Francisco City Hall, the co-founder of San Franciscos Compton Transgender Cultural District, and a key player in local LGBT Democratic politics. It exposed me to a world I had only dreamed of, she says. It gave me a much bigger platform than I would have had otherwise in other sectors of entertainment and politics. 'Drag Race' viewing parties Club BNB, 2120 Broadway, Oakland, www.club-bnb.com, 7 p.m. Thursdays. The Lookout, 3600 16th St., S.F., www.lookoutsf.com , 9 p.m. Thursdays Midnight Sun, 4067 18th St., S.F., www.midnightsunsf.com , 9 p.m. Mondays (with drag show) Oasis, 298 11th St., sfoasis.com, Beginning March 14, 8:30 p.m. Thursdays White Horse Bar, 6551 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, 8 p.m. Thursdays DArcy Drollinger, co-owner of Oasis, a bar and drag venue in SoMa, points out that for a performer, the difference in booking rates and audiences before and after appearing on the show are significant. . There is all kinds of speculation on the local drag circuit about Drag Races San Francisco problem. Ive heard Ru just doesnt like San Francisco, says performer and Oaklash drag festival founder Mama Celeste. When Ru comes here, she goes to the Church of 8 Wheels, not the drag scene, she says, referencing the disco roller-skating venue. Im no longer surprised when we dont see San Francisco represented on the show, says Sister Roma. Not surprised, but still disappointed. Although RuPaul has called San Francisco my fave American city several times on Twitter, she and the Drag Race production team declined to participate in this story. To get to the bottom of Drag Races lack of San Francisco representation, we talked to local queensabout why they think more San Francisco talent isnt on the show. Theory One: The audition process According to WooWoo Monroe, who auditioned for seasons 9, 10 and 11, the shows audition process is extensive, involving a lengthy online application and video footage of the performer lip-synching, answering questions and modeling 12 to 14 different looks. Its common for queens to hire professional help putting together audition videos. Every season they require something different, she adds and that includes not repeating previous video footageor fashions. I cant even imagine what it costs me. Probably in the thousands for costumes. Mica Sigourney auditioned last season and calls the process ridic. The deadlines are unbelievably quick, she says. Highly unlikely, they agree. But its impossible to know how far any local talent has gotten in the audition process or, as DArcy Drollinger points out, whether the best queens are auditioning. Theory Two: San Francisco drag is too many things Photographer Magnus Hastings, who included several San Francisco queens in his 2016 book Why Drag? says that the diversity of San Francisco drag is one of the things that has made the scene attractive to photograph. But since San Francisco doesnt have one particular style of drag, it might make it harder to define a San Francisco type to include on the show. Mama Celeste adds that the variety in drag types here the local scene welcomes trans, biologically female and nonbinary-identifying queens as one of the positive ways San Francisco differs from Drag Race. Like the city, San Francisco drag is more progressive than other drag scenes, says Honey Mahogany, meaning both politically and culturally. Because it is so edgy I think it makes it less digestible for pop culture. Mahogany, Hastings and Drollinger all mention, for example, the show has never had a bearded queen in the competition, a hallmark of San Francisco drag since the 1970s drag performance troupe the Cockettes. Theory Three: Reality-show casting Reality television employs certain tropes in casting that go back to ancient theater: the heroine, the villainess, the ingenue, the double-crosser. Conflict is key, and in the queendom of RuPaul, the tendency to build in rivalries and play up the potential for a feud seldom goes ignored. Its possible, Hastings suggests, that these types takes precedent in casting. Sometimes the best queen for TV isnt the best queen, he says. Social media impacts everything in drag now, from makeup tutorials to bookers looking at your followings, says Hastings. Mica Sigourney points out that season 10 winner Aquaria was already a huge social star with a following on Instagram before she was cast, and few queens outside Los Angeles and New York reach that kind of influencer status. San Francisco has always been more about advocacy and less about self-promotion, says Honey Mahogany. Without answers from the show, its hard to know which of these four theories or any of them are true. But theyre indicative of the kinds of conversations both drag queens and fans all over the Bay Area have whenever Drag Race announces a new seasons cast and when, almost inevitably, we remain unrepresented. Hastings says, ultimately, it puts the show at a disadvantage. San Francisco drag is art in the truest form, Hastings says. San Francisco queens leave audiences asking What the hell? as often as they scream, Wow! You cant swing a wig in this town without hitting some arty queen, says Mica Sigourney. Wed make the show a lot less safe. In a city where drag is a central part of the citys social and artistic life, Drag Race viewers also miss an opportunity to engage with performers who view their art and their civic life in a more integrated way. For Juanita More, the question shouldnt be why San Francisco queens arent appearing on RuPauls show, but rather: Whats a better way of showcasing drag talent? She suggests taking a look at different regions drag traditions and telling the stories of local performers. Does it have to be in a competition? Tony Bravo is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: tbravo@sfchronicle.com
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Does RuPaul think San Francisco drag queens arent good enough?
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As the hit TV show RuPauls Drag Race begins its 11th season, members of the Bay Areas drag scene ask why only one local queen has made it onto the show Honey Mahogany knows how to make an entrance. On Thursday, Feb. 28, as the performer arrives at the Lookout for the season 11 premiere of RuPauls Drag Race, she climbs the Castro gay bars stairs in a hot pink cheetah-print shift and motorcycle jacket, to be warmly greeted by the crowd. Honey Mahogany isnt just the host of the weekly Drag Race viewing party, alongside Sister Roma: She is also a former contestant. In fact, Honey Mahogany is the only Bay Area drag queen just one of 126 contestants over 11 years to compete on the show. Its a startling thing to consider in a drag mecca like San Francisco, a city home to well-known, entrepreneurial queens like Peaches Christ, Heklina, DArcy Drollinger and Juanita More. Despite the expensive housing climate of 2019, young drag hopefuls are still moving to San Francisco. Drag queens are a part of San Franciscos civic life like in no other city: Its a rare public event without Donna Sachet or the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in attendance. RuPauls Drag Race guest judges Audra McDonald (far left) and Kate Upton (far right) flank show judges Michelle Visage (left), RuPaul and Carson Kressley on an episode. RuPauls Drag Race guest judges Audra McDonald (far left) and Kate Upton (far right) flank show judges Michelle Visage (left), RuPaul and Carson Kressley on an episode. If you need proof of how mainstream drag has become in the 11 years Drag Race has been on the air, look to the recent Academy Awards. Season two contestant Shangela, who appeared with Lady Gaga in A Star is Born, is believed to be the first drag queen to attend the Oscars. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi even made news when she appeared on a recent season. That the show can be a major career starter is no surprise to Honey Mahogany, 35, who is also a legislative aide at San Francisco City Hall, the co-founder of San Franciscos Compton Transgender Cultural District, and a key player in local LGBT Democratic politics. It exposed me to a world I had only dreamed of, she says. It gave me a much bigger platform than I would have had otherwise in other sectors of entertainment and politics. 'Drag Race' viewing parties Club BNB, 2120 Broadway, Oakland, www.club-bnb.com, 7 p.m. Thursdays. The Lookout, 3600 16th St., S.F., www.lookoutsf.com , 9 p.m. Thursdays Midnight Sun, 4067 18th St., S.F., www.midnightsunsf.com , 9 p.m. Mondays (with drag show) Oasis, 298 11th St., sfoasis.com, Beginning March 14, 8:30 p.m. Thursdays White Horse Bar, 6551 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, 8 p.m. Thursdays DArcy Drollinger, co-owner of Oasis, a bar and drag venue in SoMa, points out that for a performer, the difference in booking rates and audiences before and after appearing on the show are significant. . There is all kinds of speculation on the local drag circuit about Drag Races San Francisco problem. Ive heard Ru just doesnt like San Francisco, says performer and Oaklash drag festival founder Mama Celeste. When Ru comes here, she goes to the Church of 8 Wheels, not the drag scene, she says, referencing the disco roller-skating venue. Im no longer surprised when we dont see San Francisco represented on the show, says Sister Roma. Not surprised, but still disappointed. Although RuPaul has called San Francisco my fave American city several times on Twitter, she and the Drag Race production team declined to participate in this story. To get to the bottom of Drag Races lack of San Francisco representation, we talked to local queensabout why they think more San Francisco talent isnt on the show. Theory One: The audition process According to WooWoo Monroe, who auditioned for seasons 9, 10 and 11, the shows audition process is extensive, involving a lengthy online application and video footage of the performer lip-synching, answering questions and modeling 12 to 14 different looks. Its common for queens to hire professional help putting together audition videos. Every season they require something different, she adds and that includes not repeating previous video footageor fashions. I cant even imagine what it costs me. Probably in the thousands for costumes. Mica Sigourney auditioned last season and calls the process ridic. The deadlines are unbelievably quick, she says. Highly unlikely, they agree. But its impossible to know how far any local talent has gotten in the audition process or, as DArcy Drollinger points out, whether the best queens are auditioning. Theory Two: San Francisco drag is too many things Photographer Magnus Hastings, who included several San Francisco queens in his 2016 book Why Drag? says that the diversity of San Francisco drag is one of the things that has made the scene attractive to photograph. But since San Francisco doesnt have one particular style of drag, it might make it harder to define a San Francisco type to include on the show. Mama Celeste adds that the variety in drag types here the local scene welcomes trans, biologically female and nonbinary-identifying queens as one of the positive ways San Francisco differs from Drag Race. Like the city, San Francisco drag is more progressive than other drag scenes, says Honey Mahogany, meaning both politically and culturally. Because it is so edgy I think it makes it less digestible for pop culture. Mahogany, Hastings and Drollinger all mention, for example, the show has never had a bearded queen in the competition, a hallmark of San Francisco drag since the 1970s drag performance troupe the Cockettes. Theory Three: Reality-show casting Reality television employs certain tropes in casting that go back to ancient theater: the heroine, the villainess, the ingenue, the double-crosser. Conflict is key, and in the queendom of RuPaul, the tendency to build in rivalries and play up the potential for a feud seldom goes ignored. Its possible, Hastings suggests, that these types takes precedent in casting. Sometimes the best queen for TV isnt the best queen, he says. Social media impacts everything in drag now, from makeup tutorials to bookers looking at your followings, says Hastings. Mica Sigourney points out that season 10 winner Aquaria was already a huge social star with a following on Instagram before she was cast, and few queens outside Los Angeles and New York reach that kind of influencer status. San Francisco has always been more about advocacy and less about self-promotion, says Honey Mahogany. Without answers from the show, its hard to know which of these four theories or any of them are true. But theyre indicative of the kinds of conversations both drag queens and fans all over the Bay Area have whenever Drag Race announces a new seasons cast and when, almost inevitably, we remain unrepresented. Hastings says, ultimately, it puts the show at a disadvantage. San Francisco drag is art in the truest form, Hastings says. San Francisco queens leave audiences asking What the hell? as often as they scream, Wow! You cant swing a wig in this town without hitting some arty queen, says Mica Sigourney. Wed make the show a lot less safe. In a city where drag is a central part of the citys social and artistic life, Drag Race viewers also miss an opportunity to engage with performers who view their art and their civic life in a more integrated way. For Juanita More, the question shouldnt be why San Francisco queens arent appearing on RuPauls show, but rather: Whats a better way of showcasing drag talent? She suggests taking a look at different regions drag traditions and telling the stories of local performers. Does it have to be in a competition? Tony Bravo is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: tbravo@sfchronicle.com
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San Francisco drag queen Honey Mahogany is the only Bay Area drag queen to compete on the hit TV show "RuPaul's Drag Race" The show has become a major career starter for many drag queens in the U.S. Despite the expensive housing climate of 2019, young drag hopefuls are still moving to San Francisco.
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Will Alex Trebek Leave 'Jeopardy!' Following Cancer Announcement?
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We dont know what the future will hold. On Wednesday, Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek announced that he has been diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer, which is often a very grim piece of news. However, in true Trebek fashion, he kept the tone of his announcement as light as he could by joking about his Jeopardy! contract, which isnt up for another three years. Hi everyone, I have some news to share with all of you and its in keeping with my longtime policy of being open and transparent with our Jeopardy! fan base, Trebek said in the recorded video statement. I also wanted to prevent you from reading or hearing some overblown or inaccurate reports regarding my health. So therefore, I wanted to be the one to pass along this information. Related stories Luke Perry Reportedly Suffered a Stroke & Has Been Hospitalized Selma Blair Gets Candid About Life With Multiple Sclerosis Since Her Diagnosis Courteney Cox Says Having 'a Bunch of Miscarriages' Was 'So Emotional' He went on to explain that he was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, just like 50,000 other people in the United States each year. He noted that normally, the prognosis for this is not very encouraging, but Im going to fight this, and Im going to keep working. And with the love and support of my family and friends and with the help of your prayers also, I plan to beat the low survival rate statistics for this disease. To end his statement, Trebek joked, Truth told, I have to! Because under the terms of my contract, I have to host Jeopardy! for three more years! So help me. Keep the faith and well win. Well get it done. Thank you. If Trebek does take a break from his Jeopardy! hosting duties, it would make sense. It also wouldnt be the first time he was forced to go on medical leave for his health. After a fall in October 2017 in which he hit his head, Trebek took a break from the show over the holidays to recover, then went on medical leave in January 2018 after he had surgery to remove blood clots in his brain. According to People, Trebek has also weathered several other health scares, including two heart attacks, a torn achilles tendon and a full knee replacement. Following the latter, he hosted episodes of Jeopardy! while sitting, rather than take time off of work. Trebeks history suggests that he wont leave Jeopardy! unless he absolutely must. We hope his cancer treatments are successful and that hes able to keep doing what he seems to love for at least the duration of his contract. Sign up for SheKnows' Newsletter. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Click here to read the full article.
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Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek announced that he has been diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer. Trebek kept the tone of his announcement as light as he could by joking about his Jeopardy! contract. Trebeks history suggests that he wont leave Jeopardy! unless he absolutely must.
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When will LeBron James pass Kobe Bryant, Karl Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?
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CLOSE LeBron James is now fourth on the NBA's all-time scoring list after passing Michael Jordan. USA TODAY Sports' Jeff Zillgitt examines whether he can continue to ascend to the top. If James plays the remainder of the season, he will finish with around 32,740 points, which means he could pass Kobe Bryant (33,643) for No. 3 on the all-time scoring list next season, leaving him behind Karl Malone (36,928) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387). Its possible. James is averaging 27 points this season, and for the sake of this argument, lets say he averages 25 points in the next two seasons and is healthy enough to play 70 games each. Thats 3,500 more points, which would give him around 36,240 points headed into the final season of his Lakers contract, in 2021-22. He would pass Malone that season. Lets say his scoring dips to 22 points per game that season. He would finish with about 37,670 points 717 behind Abdul-Jabbar at 37 years old and without an NBA contract. Lets use more conservative scoring estimates and say James averages 22 points a game for the next three seasons while playing 68 games a season. That would give James about 37,200 points 1,187 points behind Abdul-Jabbar. A healthy James in 2022-23, when he turns 38, could become the NBAs all-time leading scorer. In a less exciting but still important exercise, James, who is 10th on the all-time assists list, could also move into No. 3 behind Jason Kidd (12,091) and the seemingly unpassable John Stockton (15,806). Follow Jeff Zillgitt on Twitter @JeffZillgitt and Martin Rogers @RogersJourno
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When will LeBron James pass Kobe Bryant, Karl Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?
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CLOSE LeBron James is now fourth on the NBA's all-time scoring list after passing Michael Jordan. USA TODAY Sports' Jeff Zillgitt examines whether he can continue to ascend to the top. If James plays the remainder of the season, he will finish with around 32,740 points, which means he could pass Kobe Bryant (33,643) for No. 3 on the all-time scoring list next season, leaving him behind Karl Malone (36,928) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387). Its possible. James is averaging 27 points this season, and for the sake of this argument, lets say he averages 25 points in the next two seasons and is healthy enough to play 70 games each. Thats 3,500 more points, which would give him around 36,240 points headed into the final season of his Lakers contract, in 2021-22. He would pass Malone that season. Lets say his scoring dips to 22 points per game that season. He would finish with about 37,670 points 717 behind Abdul-Jabbar at 37 years old and without an NBA contract. Lets use more conservative scoring estimates and say James averages 22 points a game for the next three seasons while playing 68 games a season. That would give James about 37,200 points 1,187 points behind Abdul-Jabbar. A healthy James in 2022-23, when he turns 38, could become the NBAs all-time leading scorer. In a less exciting but still important exercise, James, who is 10th on the all-time assists list, could also move into No. 3 behind Jason Kidd (12,091) and the seemingly unpassable John Stockton (15,806). Follow Jeff Zillgitt on Twitter @JeffZillgitt and Martin Rogers @RogersJourno
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LeBron James is now fourth on the NBA's all-time scoring list. James is averaging 27 points this season. A healthy James in 2022-23, when he turns 38, could become the NBAs all-time leading scorer.
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When will LeBron James pass Kobe Bryant, Karl Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?
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CLOSE LeBron James is now fourth on the NBA's all-time scoring list after passing Michael Jordan. USA TODAY Sports' Jeff Zillgitt examines whether he can continue to ascend to the top. If James plays the remainder of the season, he will finish with around 32,740 points, which means he could pass Kobe Bryant (33,643) for No. 3 on the all-time scoring list next season, leaving him behind Karl Malone (36,928) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387). Its possible. James is averaging 27 points this season, and for the sake of this argument, lets say he averages 25 points in the next two seasons and is healthy enough to play 70 games each. Thats 3,500 more points, which would give him around 36,240 points headed into the final season of his Lakers contract, in 2021-22. He would pass Malone that season. Lets say his scoring dips to 22 points per game that season. He would finish with about 37,670 points 717 behind Abdul-Jabbar at 37 years old and without an NBA contract. Lets use more conservative scoring estimates and say James averages 22 points a game for the next three seasons while playing 68 games a season. That would give James about 37,200 points 1,187 points behind Abdul-Jabbar. A healthy James in 2022-23, when he turns 38, could become the NBAs all-time leading scorer. In a less exciting but still important exercise, James, who is 10th on the all-time assists list, could also move into No. 3 behind Jason Kidd (12,091) and the seemingly unpassable John Stockton (15,806). Follow Jeff Zillgitt on Twitter @JeffZillgitt and Martin Rogers @RogersJourno
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A healthy LeBron James in 2022-23, when he turns 38, could become the NBAs all-time leading scorer. James is averaging 27 points this season, and for the sake of this argument, let's say he averages 25 points in the next two seasons.
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Why were US-Mexico border crossings at an 11-year high in February?
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The US Department of Homeland Security announced this week that February was the busiest month for apprehensions at the US-Mexico border since April 2008, a staggering increase driven by Central American families. Inside America's biggest facility for migrant teens Read more In recent months, there has been an increase in how many people are apprehended at the border, but the February levels represent a departure from a decade of relatively low border apprehensions. Border patrol apprehended 66,450 people at the south-west border. Another 9,650 people presented themselves at border checkpoints and were deemed inadmissible because they didnt have proper entry documents. Thats more than 76,100 people total. It is mostly families and unaccompanied children from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador Central Americas northern triangle. In February, more than 90% of the people were from Guatemala and there was an unusual spike in Hondurans apprehended from 10,047 in January to 17,523 in February. Customs and Border Protection commissioner Kevin McAleenan said at a press conference on Tuesday that people were mostly turning themselves in to officers. The northern triangle countries are beset by systemic corruption, organized crime and violence. They are also vulnerable to climate change, which experts say is exacerbating and sometimes causing other problems including poverty. Even with this unusual increase, apprehensions levels are still well below the record highs of the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2000, more than 1.6 million people were apprehended. In the two busiest months of 2008, March and April, more than 91,000 people arrived each month. By the end of fiscal year 2009, the number of people apprehended had a significant drop-off to 556,401. The rates continued to fall with small rises in the ensuing 10 years that never surpassed half a million people. The border infrastructure was built to respond to adult males traveling by themselves, not thousands of families. McAleenan said: The system is well beyond capacity, and remains at the breaking point. Increase in migrant detentions at US border reveals Trump's policy failure Read more Immigration advocates would make the case that funding for things such as aggressive immigration enforcement in the countrys interior and the wall if funding is ever approved could be reallocated to address humanitarian needs at the border. Even if that was to happen, it would not be immediate. The Trump administration has also been criticized for focusing its resources on deterring people from coming instead of addressing the factors pushing people to flee their homes. Donald Trump could use these numbers as ammunition in his campaign to expand the wall on the US-Mexico border, though experts predict a wall would do little to stem the flow. If funding for the wall was approved today and building started tomorrow, it could still take months for a structure to be erected.
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February was the busiest month for apprehensions at the US-Mexico border since April 2008. Border patrol apprehended 66,450 people at the south-west border. Another 9,650 people presented themselves at border checkpoints and were deemed inadmissible.
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The US Department of Homeland Security announced this week that February was the busiest month for apprehensions at the US-Mexico border since April 2008, a staggering increase driven by Central American families. Inside America's biggest facility for migrant teens Read more In recent months, there has been an increase in how many people are apprehended at the border, but the February levels represent a departure from a decade of relatively low border apprehensions. Border patrol apprehended 66,450 people at the south-west border. Another 9,650 people presented themselves at border checkpoints and were deemed inadmissible because they didnt have proper entry documents. Thats more than 76,100 people total. It is mostly families and unaccompanied children from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador Central Americas northern triangle. In February, more than 90% of the people were from Guatemala and there was an unusual spike in Hondurans apprehended from 10,047 in January to 17,523 in February. Customs and Border Protection commissioner Kevin McAleenan said at a press conference on Tuesday that people were mostly turning themselves in to officers. The northern triangle countries are beset by systemic corruption, organized crime and violence. They are also vulnerable to climate change, which experts say is exacerbating and sometimes causing other problems including poverty. Even with this unusual increase, apprehensions levels are still well below the record highs of the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2000, more than 1.6 million people were apprehended. In the two busiest months of 2008, March and April, more than 91,000 people arrived each month. By the end of fiscal year 2009, the number of people apprehended had a significant drop-off to 556,401. The rates continued to fall with small rises in the ensuing 10 years that never surpassed half a million people. The border infrastructure was built to respond to adult males traveling by themselves, not thousands of families. McAleenan said: The system is well beyond capacity, and remains at the breaking point. Increase in migrant detentions at US border reveals Trump's policy failure Read more Immigration advocates would make the case that funding for things such as aggressive immigration enforcement in the countrys interior and the wall if funding is ever approved could be reallocated to address humanitarian needs at the border. Even if that was to happen, it would not be immediate. The Trump administration has also been criticized for focusing its resources on deterring people from coming instead of addressing the factors pushing people to flee their homes. Donald Trump could use these numbers as ammunition in his campaign to expand the wall on the US-Mexico border, though experts predict a wall would do little to stem the flow. If funding for the wall was approved today and building started tomorrow, it could still take months for a structure to be erected.
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February was the busiest month for apprehensions at the US-Mexico border since April 2008. Border patrol apprehended 66,450 people at the south-west border. Another 9,650 people presented themselves at border checkpoints and were deemed inadmissible. It is mostly families and unaccompanied children from Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.
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How much trash did Mardi Gras 2019 produce?
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Mardi Gras has come and gone, but the citys cleansing continues this week after a festive trash-filled season. Through Monday (March 4), city officials say clean-up crews have tossed around 608 tons of Mardi Gras debris with more on the way to the landfill. Though city spokeswoman LaTonya Norton said crews finished sweeping Fat Tuesday parade litter early Wednesday morning, Sanitation Department staff are still emptying garbage cans, flushing streets and picking up scattered bits of debris. We will be cleaning and re-cleaning areas for the next few days, Norton said. If prior Mardi Gras clean-ups are any indication, the roughly 608 tons could be a low count for what the final trash tally may be turn out to be. Last year, crews swept up nearly 1,200 tons of debris, which city officials at the time ranked higher than the average 900 tons but slightly less than the high mark of 1,300 tons in 2017. Garbage Gras: Nearly 1,200 tons of trash collected during 2018 parade season Councilman asks why catch basin screens to block beads and other debris can't be used year-round About 500 people participated in the cleanup on Fat Tuesday, Norton said. They included city workers, temporary staff and contractors. Norton added that more than 119 pieces of equipment were also used in the clean-up efforts this year. This years Mardi Gras cleanup follows Mayor LaToya Cantrells launch of the Clean Up NOLA initiative, which aims to beef up the citys sanitation and litter-reduction efforts. Norton said the initiative this year pushed for more paradegoers to bring their own bags to help pick up trash. When citizens bag their trash, it reduces the volume of windblown debris, food debris that becomes an attraction to rodents and birds, as well as debris that may enter storm drains, Norton said. On top of in-house workers and contractors, Norton said the city also supports efforts by several groups to recycle beads and other parade throws. They include Arc of Greater New Orleans, the Young Leadership Council and the volunteer Grounds Krewe. As in previous years, ArcGNO is hosting drop-off days every second and fourth Saturday of each month for people to bring their beads and throws for recycling. Norton said the next city drop-off day is from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the city recycling center 2829 Elysian Fields Ave. For a full listing of locations in the New Orleans metro area to drop of beads, visit ArcGNOs website here.
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City officials say 608 tons of Mardi Gras debris have been tossed.
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How much trash did Mardi Gras 2019 produce?
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Mardi Gras has come and gone, but the citys cleansing continues this week after a festive trash-filled season. Through Monday (March 4), city officials say clean-up crews have tossed around 608 tons of Mardi Gras debris with more on the way to the landfill. Though city spokeswoman LaTonya Norton said crews finished sweeping Fat Tuesday parade litter early Wednesday morning, Sanitation Department staff are still emptying garbage cans, flushing streets and picking up scattered bits of debris. We will be cleaning and re-cleaning areas for the next few days, Norton said. If prior Mardi Gras clean-ups are any indication, the roughly 608 tons could be a low count for what the final trash tally may be turn out to be. Last year, crews swept up nearly 1,200 tons of debris, which city officials at the time ranked higher than the average 900 tons but slightly less than the high mark of 1,300 tons in 2017. Garbage Gras: Nearly 1,200 tons of trash collected during 2018 parade season Councilman asks why catch basin screens to block beads and other debris can't be used year-round About 500 people participated in the cleanup on Fat Tuesday, Norton said. They included city workers, temporary staff and contractors. Norton added that more than 119 pieces of equipment were also used in the clean-up efforts this year. This years Mardi Gras cleanup follows Mayor LaToya Cantrells launch of the Clean Up NOLA initiative, which aims to beef up the citys sanitation and litter-reduction efforts. Norton said the initiative this year pushed for more paradegoers to bring their own bags to help pick up trash. When citizens bag their trash, it reduces the volume of windblown debris, food debris that becomes an attraction to rodents and birds, as well as debris that may enter storm drains, Norton said. On top of in-house workers and contractors, Norton said the city also supports efforts by several groups to recycle beads and other parade throws. They include Arc of Greater New Orleans, the Young Leadership Council and the volunteer Grounds Krewe. As in previous years, ArcGNO is hosting drop-off days every second and fourth Saturday of each month for people to bring their beads and throws for recycling. Norton said the next city drop-off day is from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the city recycling center 2829 Elysian Fields Ave. For a full listing of locations in the New Orleans metro area to drop of beads, visit ArcGNOs website here.
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City officials say 608 tons of Mardi Gras debris have been tossed. Last year, crews swept up nearly 1,200 tons of debris, which city officials at the time ranked higher than the average 900 tons.
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How much trash did Mardi Gras 2019 produce?
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Mardi Gras has come and gone, but the citys cleansing continues this week after a festive trash-filled season. Through Monday (March 4), city officials say clean-up crews have tossed around 608 tons of Mardi Gras debris with more on the way to the landfill. Though city spokeswoman LaTonya Norton said crews finished sweeping Fat Tuesday parade litter early Wednesday morning, Sanitation Department staff are still emptying garbage cans, flushing streets and picking up scattered bits of debris. We will be cleaning and re-cleaning areas for the next few days, Norton said. If prior Mardi Gras clean-ups are any indication, the roughly 608 tons could be a low count for what the final trash tally may be turn out to be. Last year, crews swept up nearly 1,200 tons of debris, which city officials at the time ranked higher than the average 900 tons but slightly less than the high mark of 1,300 tons in 2017. Garbage Gras: Nearly 1,200 tons of trash collected during 2018 parade season Councilman asks why catch basin screens to block beads and other debris can't be used year-round About 500 people participated in the cleanup on Fat Tuesday, Norton said. They included city workers, temporary staff and contractors. Norton added that more than 119 pieces of equipment were also used in the clean-up efforts this year. This years Mardi Gras cleanup follows Mayor LaToya Cantrells launch of the Clean Up NOLA initiative, which aims to beef up the citys sanitation and litter-reduction efforts. Norton said the initiative this year pushed for more paradegoers to bring their own bags to help pick up trash. When citizens bag their trash, it reduces the volume of windblown debris, food debris that becomes an attraction to rodents and birds, as well as debris that may enter storm drains, Norton said. On top of in-house workers and contractors, Norton said the city also supports efforts by several groups to recycle beads and other parade throws. They include Arc of Greater New Orleans, the Young Leadership Council and the volunteer Grounds Krewe. As in previous years, ArcGNO is hosting drop-off days every second and fourth Saturday of each month for people to bring their beads and throws for recycling. Norton said the next city drop-off day is from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the city recycling center 2829 Elysian Fields Ave. For a full listing of locations in the New Orleans metro area to drop of beads, visit ArcGNOs website here.
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Mardi Gras clean-up crews have tossed around 608 tons of debris, city officials say. Last year, crews swept up nearly 1,200 tons of trash during the parade season. About 500 people participated in the cleanup on Fat Tuesday, a city spokeswoman says. The city also supports efforts by several groups to recycle beads and other parade throws.
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Why are Novant Health doctors joining Holston Medical Group?
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Two doctors leading the effort of dozens of physicians to split off from Novant Health said they want to use their new-found independence to improve the quality of their own lives and the care they provide patients. I wouldnt say anything negative about our relationship with Novant Health, one of the doctors, Ehab Sharawy, told the Observer this week. We spent many years doing things with Novant Health and will continue along that road. But coming into independent practice gives us a little more self-determination to move towards the things that we want to do. Its the first time the doctors have spoken publicly since the announcement in January that they were leaving Charlottes second-largest hospital system. For Charlotte, the breakup is major medical news in a region that for decades has seen hospital systems acquire independent practices though that trend has been reversing in recent months. Sign Up and Save Get six months of free digital access to The Charlotte Observer The 42 doctors leaving Novant represent the second wave of physicians in less than a year breaking away from a big hospital system to open an independent practice. Last year, about 92 doctors with Atrium Healths Mecklenburg Medical Group left to form Tryon Medical Partners. The Novant physicians a group of family doctors, obstetricians and gynecologists are expected to join Tennessee-based Holston Medical Group on March 19. One aim of the group is to reduce healthcare costs by at least one-third initially, said David Cook, the other physician heading the breakup. It is time that physicians have to own the cost of health care, Cook said. If you ignore cost, as a physician, youre not really doing anything to fix the system, he said. Youre part of the problem. Winston-Salem-based Novant declined to comment. Here are some highlights from the wide-ranging interview with the doctors: Atrium split gave courage The departure of the Atrium physicians was not the main reason the Novant doctors decided to leave, Cook said. But it provided motivation for the decision, which had been in the works, he said. In suing Charlotte-based Atrium last April to get out of non-compete agreements and operate independently, the Atrium doctors claimed the hospital systems practices were not always in the best interest of patients. Those included requirements that physicians refer patients needing further care to Atrium-owned or managed facilities, the suit said. The same day of the suit, Charlottes dominant hospital system said it would grant the doctors request to leave. We did look at them and sort of garner some of their courage to do this, Cook said. Our decision was long in coming. Id say 25 years in coming. The Novant doctors made their decision to leave last year, Cook said. The doctors said their split is driven by a desire to focus on an approach with four pillars: improve patient care and satisfaction; enhance the health of the local population; improve the work life of doctors, nurses and other staff; and reduce the per capita cost of care. The main reason why we want to break away ... is that we want to be clearly 100 percent focused on the patient in delivering the best care that we can, Sharawy said. Lowering costs In leaving Novant, the doctors say they want to address the growing problem of skyrocketing health care costs. A big contributor to that increase has been a decades-old model known as fee for service, Cook said. Under that system, health care providers are paid for every service they provide, from tests to office visits. Cook said that the model doesnt create incentives for the industry to keep people healthy and out of the hospital. Also, in Charlotte, the costs for the same service can swing wildly from one provider to the next, Cook said, noting that health care expenses are a large contributor to poverty in the U.S. Using the example of a knee-replacement surgery, he said the price for the procedure in Charlotte can range from $17,000 at one provider to $50,000 at another, with no difference in quality. Theres so many steps you can go through initially to keep that person from having to have surgery that we dont always go through or do, Cook said. A lot of times theres not a lot of incentives to do that, theres not a lot of payment in doing that. But we need to do that. By going independent, the doctors also said they can focus more attention on sicker patients. The ones that need to be seen when they need to be seen, Cook said, and provide really efficient menus for the millennials and others who dont necessarily want to be in the office to have their care delivered to them. What we want to do is sort of step off the treadmill in Charlotte with Tryon (Medical Partners) and others and say, Hey, theres a different way to do this. But lowering costs does not mean sacrificing quality, Cook said. Its not that were going to dumb down or cheapen health care, he said. Actually, in doing this youre able to provide more care for more people in a much more efficacious way. Like theyre widgets The fee-for-service model can also make doctors feel like they are on a hamster wheel, the Novant doctors said. That has helped contribute to the problem of physician burnout across the country, they said. Sometimes physicians feel like theyre widgets in care, Sharawy said. Youre on a treadmill, and the faster you run, the more widgets you take care of, but then you look back and youre like, Oh, my gosh, I dont see my family. By going independent, the doctors will also be able to quickly make big changes to improve care, which is not always possible when working for a large hospital system, he said. If you have an idea or just things that you know is a process you want to do, sometimes youve got to go through multiple layers to get there, Sharawy said. The Novant doctors and those who left Atrium are likely not the last groups of physicians to go independent in the Charlotte region, Cook said. Its not a blip, he said. Charlottes one of the most expensive places in the country to get health care, he said. The national trend is that you cannot sustain this expense any longer. Physicians, the burnout is extraordinary. Patient satisfaction is often down as they feel, too, like a widget. Other physicians will likely break away from hospital systems as they feel compelled to lower patient costs, he said. I think youll see in Charlotte others do the same as Tryon and our groups.
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The 42 doctors are expected to join Tennessee-based Holston Medical Group on March 19. Atrium split gave "courage" to the Novant doctors, one physician says. The doctors say they want to address the growing problem of skyrocketing health care costs.
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Could Sen. Martha McSallys rape disclosure revive ERA in Arizona?
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Opinion: The Republicans who control the Legislature refused, again, to give the ERA a hearing, saying it isn't necessary. Equal Rights Amendment gathering from the 1970s (Photo: Hulton Archive / Getty Images) The Republicans who control the Arizona Legislature refused again this year to give a hearing to a resolution to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (SCR1009), saying it isnt necessary. Theyre wrong. Theres evidence of that every day. Perhaps the recent disclosure by Sen. Martha McSally, who said that she was raped by a superior officer while serving in the Air Force, demonstrates just how much the ERA is still necessary. Times have changed, clearly, but not all attitudes. And not all legal protections or opportunities to redress grievances, as McSallys experience, and the experience of the untold number of women who have endured the same abuse, clearly shows. On Monday, March 11, women in Arizona are planning to begin three days of marches to encourage lawmakers to pass the ERA, making Arizona the 38th state to ratify the amendment. Its the number of states needed to put the ERA into the Constitution, depending upon expected legal challenges. The first march is scheduled to end at the State Capitol at noon Monday. Passing the ERA would be a fitting tribute to Arizonas Sandra Day OConnor. The former Supreme Court Justice introduced a bill supporting the ERA back in the 1970s, when she was a member of the Arizona Senate. She said at the time that the ERA stands in the tradition of other great amendments to the Constitution. Since then the campaign against the ERA often has been based on misinformation and fear mongering. What the amendment would do In February Arizona lawmakers received a letter from the president of the American Bar Association, Robert M. Carlson, urging them to pass the amendment. Essentially, the argument against the ERA these days comes from those who say its not needed. That womens rights are better protected now than they ever were. But theyre not yet equal. The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia put it this way: Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesnt. Discrimination not prohibited It should. NEWSLETTERS Get the Opinions Newsletter newsletter delivered to your inbox We're sorry, but something went wrong Our best and latest in commentary in daily digest form. Please try again soon, or contact Customer Service at 1-800-332-6733. Delivery: Mon-Fri Invalid email address Thank you! You're almost signed up for Opinions Newsletter Keep an eye out for an email to confirm your newsletter registration. More newsletters As the Bar Associations president put it, having an ERA means judges would use the same standard of review in sex discrimination cases that they now use in deciding cases involving discrimination based on race, religion, and national origin. There is probably no one tougher or more resilient than Sen. McSally. Shes proven that by how far shes come based on what shes had to endure. But her painful personal disclosure during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee shows that the playing field for women still isnt level. Its a simple premise, upon which I suspect we all agree. Or should. As the amendment reads: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. MORE BY MONTINI: Read or Share this story: https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2019/03/07/could-sen-mcsallys-rape-disclosure-revive-era-arizona/3094960002/
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Could Sen. Martha McSallys rape disclosure revive ERA in Arizona?
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Opinion: The Republicans who control the Legislature refused, again, to give the ERA a hearing, saying it isn't necessary. Equal Rights Amendment gathering from the 1970s (Photo: Hulton Archive / Getty Images) The Republicans who control the Arizona Legislature refused again this year to give a hearing to a resolution to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (SCR1009), saying it isnt necessary. Theyre wrong. Theres evidence of that every day. Perhaps the recent disclosure by Sen. Martha McSally, who said that she was raped by a superior officer while serving in the Air Force, demonstrates just how much the ERA is still necessary. Times have changed, clearly, but not all attitudes. And not all legal protections or opportunities to redress grievances, as McSallys experience, and the experience of the untold number of women who have endured the same abuse, clearly shows. On Monday, March 11, women in Arizona are planning to begin three days of marches to encourage lawmakers to pass the ERA, making Arizona the 38th state to ratify the amendment. Its the number of states needed to put the ERA into the Constitution, depending upon expected legal challenges. The first march is scheduled to end at the State Capitol at noon Monday. Passing the ERA would be a fitting tribute to Arizonas Sandra Day OConnor. The former Supreme Court Justice introduced a bill supporting the ERA back in the 1970s, when she was a member of the Arizona Senate. She said at the time that the ERA stands in the tradition of other great amendments to the Constitution. Since then the campaign against the ERA often has been based on misinformation and fear mongering. What the amendment would do In February Arizona lawmakers received a letter from the president of the American Bar Association, Robert M. Carlson, urging them to pass the amendment. Essentially, the argument against the ERA these days comes from those who say its not needed. That womens rights are better protected now than they ever were. But theyre not yet equal. The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia put it this way: Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesnt. Discrimination not prohibited It should. NEWSLETTERS Get the Opinions Newsletter newsletter delivered to your inbox We're sorry, but something went wrong Our best and latest in commentary in daily digest form. Please try again soon, or contact Customer Service at 1-800-332-6733. Delivery: Mon-Fri Invalid email address Thank you! You're almost signed up for Opinions Newsletter Keep an eye out for an email to confirm your newsletter registration. More newsletters As the Bar Associations president put it, having an ERA means judges would use the same standard of review in sex discrimination cases that they now use in deciding cases involving discrimination based on race, religion, and national origin. There is probably no one tougher or more resilient than Sen. McSally. Shes proven that by how far shes come based on what shes had to endure. But her painful personal disclosure during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee shows that the playing field for women still isnt level. Its a simple premise, upon which I suspect we all agree. Or should. As the amendment reads: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. MORE BY MONTINI: Read or Share this story: https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2019/03/07/could-sen-mcsallys-rape-disclosure-revive-era-arizona/3094960002/
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Ruben Navarrette: Sen. Martha McSally's rape disclosure shows ERA is still necessary. He says women in Arizona are planning three days of marches to encourage lawmakers to pass the ERA.
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Could Sen. Martha McSallys rape disclosure revive ERA in Arizona?
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Opinion: The Republicans who control the Legislature refused, again, to give the ERA a hearing, saying it isn't necessary. Equal Rights Amendment gathering from the 1970s (Photo: Hulton Archive / Getty Images) The Republicans who control the Arizona Legislature refused again this year to give a hearing to a resolution to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (SCR1009), saying it isnt necessary. Theyre wrong. Theres evidence of that every day. Perhaps the recent disclosure by Sen. Martha McSally, who said that she was raped by a superior officer while serving in the Air Force, demonstrates just how much the ERA is still necessary. Times have changed, clearly, but not all attitudes. And not all legal protections or opportunities to redress grievances, as McSallys experience, and the experience of the untold number of women who have endured the same abuse, clearly shows. On Monday, March 11, women in Arizona are planning to begin three days of marches to encourage lawmakers to pass the ERA, making Arizona the 38th state to ratify the amendment. Its the number of states needed to put the ERA into the Constitution, depending upon expected legal challenges. The first march is scheduled to end at the State Capitol at noon Monday. Passing the ERA would be a fitting tribute to Arizonas Sandra Day OConnor. The former Supreme Court Justice introduced a bill supporting the ERA back in the 1970s, when she was a member of the Arizona Senate. She said at the time that the ERA stands in the tradition of other great amendments to the Constitution. Since then the campaign against the ERA often has been based on misinformation and fear mongering. What the amendment would do In February Arizona lawmakers received a letter from the president of the American Bar Association, Robert M. Carlson, urging them to pass the amendment. Essentially, the argument against the ERA these days comes from those who say its not needed. That womens rights are better protected now than they ever were. But theyre not yet equal. The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia put it this way: Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesnt. Discrimination not prohibited It should. NEWSLETTERS Get the Opinions Newsletter newsletter delivered to your inbox We're sorry, but something went wrong Our best and latest in commentary in daily digest form. Please try again soon, or contact Customer Service at 1-800-332-6733. Delivery: Mon-Fri Invalid email address Thank you! You're almost signed up for Opinions Newsletter Keep an eye out for an email to confirm your newsletter registration. More newsletters As the Bar Associations president put it, having an ERA means judges would use the same standard of review in sex discrimination cases that they now use in deciding cases involving discrimination based on race, religion, and national origin. There is probably no one tougher or more resilient than Sen. McSally. Shes proven that by how far shes come based on what shes had to endure. But her painful personal disclosure during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee shows that the playing field for women still isnt level. Its a simple premise, upon which I suspect we all agree. Or should. As the amendment reads: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. MORE BY MONTINI: Read or Share this story: https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2019/03/07/could-sen-mcsallys-rape-disclosure-revive-era-arizona/3094960002/
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Ruben Navarrette: Sen. Martha McSally's rape disclosure shows ERA is still necessary. He says women in Arizona are planning to begin three days of marches to encourage lawmakers to pass the ERA. Navarette: Passing the ERA would be a fitting tribute to Arizonas Sandra Day OConnor.
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Who is Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's financial chief?
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After former Trump attorney Michael Cohen's public testimony last week, Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee have another Trump associate on their radar Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer (CFO) of the Trump Organization. Weisselberg has worked for the Trump family for decades, and his position as the organization's CFO means he has access to the most detailed financial data and inner workings of Mr. Trump's business dealings. Cohen testified Weisselberg was in the room when, weeks before the 2016 election, Mr. Trump directed them to arrange payments totaling $130,000 to cover up allegations of affairs. Asked if the committee will speak with Weisselberg, Chairman Elijah Cummings said it "probably will." Weisselberg was also among the dozens of people who received a request for documents this week from the House Judiciary Committee, which is investigating alleged abuses of power by the president. In August 2018, Weisselberg was granted immunity in connection to the investigation into Cohen and called to testify before a federal grand jury. Weisselberg's name also emerged last year when CNN obtained and published audio of a 2016 conversation between Mr. Trump and Cohen in which the two discuss a payment to a former Playboy model. At one point in the conversation, Cohen can be heard saying, "I've spoken with Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up." In Mr. Trump's 2004 book, "Think Like a Billionaire," Mr. Trump writes, "Allen has been with me for thirty years and knows how to get things done." Weisselberg, a New York native, has also worked as a treasurer for Trump Foundation, which the New York attorney general sued last year, alleging violations of campaign finance law, self-dealing and illegal coordination. Weisselberg is mentioned in emails the New York AG obtained and published. Weisselberg once served on the board of the Miss Universe Organization, which Mr. Trump used to own. Mr. Trump sold it in 2015 after owning it for nearly two decades. Despite his relatively low profile, Weisselberg did appear on one episode in the second season of Mr. Trump's "Apprentice."
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Who is Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's financial chief?
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After former Trump attorney Michael Cohen's public testimony last week, Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee have another Trump associate on their radar Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer (CFO) of the Trump Organization. Weisselberg has worked for the Trump family for decades, and his position as the organization's CFO means he has access to the most detailed financial data and inner workings of Mr. Trump's business dealings. Cohen testified Weisselberg was in the room when, weeks before the 2016 election, Mr. Trump directed them to arrange payments totaling $130,000 to cover up allegations of affairs. Asked if the committee will speak with Weisselberg, Chairman Elijah Cummings said it "probably will." Weisselberg was also among the dozens of people who received a request for documents this week from the House Judiciary Committee, which is investigating alleged abuses of power by the president. In August 2018, Weisselberg was granted immunity in connection to the investigation into Cohen and called to testify before a federal grand jury. Weisselberg's name also emerged last year when CNN obtained and published audio of a 2016 conversation between Mr. Trump and Cohen in which the two discuss a payment to a former Playboy model. At one point in the conversation, Cohen can be heard saying, "I've spoken with Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up." In Mr. Trump's 2004 book, "Think Like a Billionaire," Mr. Trump writes, "Allen has been with me for thirty years and knows how to get things done." Weisselberg, a New York native, has also worked as a treasurer for Trump Foundation, which the New York attorney general sued last year, alleging violations of campaign finance law, self-dealing and illegal coordination. Weisselberg is mentioned in emails the New York AG obtained and published. Weisselberg once served on the board of the Miss Universe Organization, which Mr. Trump used to own. Mr. Trump sold it in 2015 after owning it for nearly two decades. Despite his relatively low profile, Weisselberg did appear on one episode in the second season of Mr. Trump's "Apprentice."
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Allen Weisselberg is the chief financial officer (CFO) of the Trump Organization. He has worked for the Trump family for decades. He was granted immunity in connection to the investigation into Michael Cohen.
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Who is Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization's financial chief?
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After former Trump attorney Michael Cohen's public testimony last week, Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee have another Trump associate on their radar Allen Weisselberg, the chief financial officer (CFO) of the Trump Organization. Weisselberg has worked for the Trump family for decades, and his position as the organization's CFO means he has access to the most detailed financial data and inner workings of Mr. Trump's business dealings. Cohen testified Weisselberg was in the room when, weeks before the 2016 election, Mr. Trump directed them to arrange payments totaling $130,000 to cover up allegations of affairs. Asked if the committee will speak with Weisselberg, Chairman Elijah Cummings said it "probably will." Weisselberg was also among the dozens of people who received a request for documents this week from the House Judiciary Committee, which is investigating alleged abuses of power by the president. In August 2018, Weisselberg was granted immunity in connection to the investigation into Cohen and called to testify before a federal grand jury. Weisselberg's name also emerged last year when CNN obtained and published audio of a 2016 conversation between Mr. Trump and Cohen in which the two discuss a payment to a former Playboy model. At one point in the conversation, Cohen can be heard saying, "I've spoken with Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up." In Mr. Trump's 2004 book, "Think Like a Billionaire," Mr. Trump writes, "Allen has been with me for thirty years and knows how to get things done." Weisselberg, a New York native, has also worked as a treasurer for Trump Foundation, which the New York attorney general sued last year, alleging violations of campaign finance law, self-dealing and illegal coordination. Weisselberg is mentioned in emails the New York AG obtained and published. Weisselberg once served on the board of the Miss Universe Organization, which Mr. Trump used to own. Mr. Trump sold it in 2015 after owning it for nearly two decades. Despite his relatively low profile, Weisselberg did appear on one episode in the second season of Mr. Trump's "Apprentice."
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Allen Weisselberg is the chief financial officer (CFO) of the Trump Organization. He has worked for the Trump family for decades. He was granted immunity in connection to the investigation into Cohen and called to testify before a federal grand jury. He is also among the dozens of people who received a request for documents this week from the House Judiciary Committee.
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Why Have 21 Horses Died At A California Racetrack Since December?
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Enlarge this image toggle caption Frederic J. Brown /AFP/Getty Images Frederic J. Brown /AFP/Getty Images Since the start of the racing season in late December, a shocking 21 horses have died at the famed Santa Anita Park racetrack in southern California. It's horrified the racing world and experts say there's no clear answer as to why this is happening. Santa Anita's owners, The Stronach Group, announced on Tuesday that it was halting racing and training at the park in order to test the main track a picturesque spot tucked next to the San Gabriel Mountains where the champion racehorse Seabiscuit won big. "The safety, health and welfare of the horses and jockeys is our top priority," Tim Ritvo, chief operating officer of the Stronach Group, said in a statement. "While we are confident further testing will confirm the soundness of the track, the decision to close is the right thing to do at this time." That same day, a filly named Lets Light The Way was injured and euthanized while training on the main track, as the equestrian publication Blood Horse reported. "I loved that filly. I bought her at the saleliked the way she walked," trainer Ron McAnally told the publication. "I wanted to cry when we had to put her down." Like many, McAnally thinks bad recent weather contributed to the filly's death. Southern California has been experiencing heavy rain this winter, which has the potential to impact the conditions of the track's surface. But experts aren't sure that's the problem here. Mick Peterson from the University of Kentucky conducted ground radar testing on the track, and he spoke with NPR's Here & Now earlier this week about why the track is seeing death rates at twice the rate of the previous year. "What we see in horse racing always is, the challenge at any track is unusual weather," he says. But he hasn't yet found anything unusual about the track conditions. "We're looking at every option we can to begin to understand what's happening," he said. "This is not what we do as a sport." Santa Anita Park has expanded its testing now, bringing in its former track superintendent Dennis Moore. According to the track's owners, he'll use a machine that can approximate a horse running at a full gallop, to see how it impacts the surface. "There's no obvious answer. Is it the horses that are running on the surface?" Rick Baedeker, the executive director of the California Horse Racing Board, told NPR's All Things Considered. They're also questioning factors such as the type of training the horses receive, he says. Baedeker says he's never seen anything like this. "It's a nightmare for everybody involved in racing," he says. The board is also seeking answers by carrying out a necropsy on every horse that died. Particularly perplexing is the sheer diversity of the horses that have died, as Rick Arthur, chief equine veterinarian from the CHRB, told the Los Angeles Times. "They are all over the place, from Battle Of Midway, a well-seasoned horse, to a first-time starter," Arthur said. "They are from 19 different trainers. There is nothing that links them together." And, he says that we may never fully know why this is happening. "If you expect a definitive answer, I wouldn't expect that," Arthur told the Times. "We can hope that it identifies strategies that can make racing safer. It's not just the track. It's not just the horse. It's the whole schedule. The training program. The racing program. Everything." The deaths have drawn outrage from PETA, which has called for a criminal investigation into the matter. Baedeker says these deaths are coming at a time when the racing business has, over the last few years, taken steps to try to reduce racetrack deaths. "People involved in racing, whether they're fans or whether they're owners or trainers, the common thread is the affection for the race horse whether you enjoy watching them or taking care of them," he says. "The current situation does not reflect the whole story."
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Enlarge this image toggle caption Frederic J. Brown /AFP/Getty Images Frederic J. Brown /AFP/Getty Images Since the start of the racing season in late December, a shocking 21 horses have died at the famed Santa Anita Park racetrack in southern California. It's horrified the racing world and experts say there's no clear answer as to why this is happening. Santa Anita's owners, The Stronach Group, announced on Tuesday that it was halting racing and training at the park in order to test the main track a picturesque spot tucked next to the San Gabriel Mountains where the champion racehorse Seabiscuit won big. "The safety, health and welfare of the horses and jockeys is our top priority," Tim Ritvo, chief operating officer of the Stronach Group, said in a statement. "While we are confident further testing will confirm the soundness of the track, the decision to close is the right thing to do at this time." That same day, a filly named Lets Light The Way was injured and euthanized while training on the main track, as the equestrian publication Blood Horse reported. "I loved that filly. I bought her at the saleliked the way she walked," trainer Ron McAnally told the publication. "I wanted to cry when we had to put her down." Like many, McAnally thinks bad recent weather contributed to the filly's death. Southern California has been experiencing heavy rain this winter, which has the potential to impact the conditions of the track's surface. But experts aren't sure that's the problem here. Mick Peterson from the University of Kentucky conducted ground radar testing on the track, and he spoke with NPR's Here & Now earlier this week about why the track is seeing death rates at twice the rate of the previous year. "What we see in horse racing always is, the challenge at any track is unusual weather," he says. But he hasn't yet found anything unusual about the track conditions. "We're looking at every option we can to begin to understand what's happening," he said. "This is not what we do as a sport." Santa Anita Park has expanded its testing now, bringing in its former track superintendent Dennis Moore. According to the track's owners, he'll use a machine that can approximate a horse running at a full gallop, to see how it impacts the surface. "There's no obvious answer. Is it the horses that are running on the surface?" Rick Baedeker, the executive director of the California Horse Racing Board, told NPR's All Things Considered. They're also questioning factors such as the type of training the horses receive, he says. Baedeker says he's never seen anything like this. "It's a nightmare for everybody involved in racing," he says. The board is also seeking answers by carrying out a necropsy on every horse that died. Particularly perplexing is the sheer diversity of the horses that have died, as Rick Arthur, chief equine veterinarian from the CHRB, told the Los Angeles Times. "They are all over the place, from Battle Of Midway, a well-seasoned horse, to a first-time starter," Arthur said. "They are from 19 different trainers. There is nothing that links them together." And, he says that we may never fully know why this is happening. "If you expect a definitive answer, I wouldn't expect that," Arthur told the Times. "We can hope that it identifies strategies that can make racing safer. It's not just the track. It's not just the horse. It's the whole schedule. The training program. The racing program. Everything." The deaths have drawn outrage from PETA, which has called for a criminal investigation into the matter. Baedeker says these deaths are coming at a time when the racing business has, over the last few years, taken steps to try to reduce racetrack deaths. "People involved in racing, whether they're fans or whether they're owners or trainers, the common thread is the affection for the race horse whether you enjoy watching them or taking care of them," he says. "The current situation does not reflect the whole story."
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Since December, 21 horses have died at the famed Santa Anita Park racetrack in southern California. Experts say there's no clear answer as to why this is happening. The track's owners have halted racing and training at the park in order to test the main track.
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Does Chick-fil-A need a cheese dipping sauce?
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By Jessie Blaeser True to Chick-fil-As legacy, the restaurant would be remiss to serve average chicken and apparently, average cheese-dip. Despite its southern roots, Chick-fil-A rolled out its new cheese dip in restaurants across the Midwest and Northeast in early 2019. The dip earned fast fans, with some saying it rivals the beloved Chick-fil-A sauce. Others are hesitant about the idea of dipping their nuggets in a warm-ish, goopy cheese blend. Chick-fil-A's cheese dip first appeared on select menus in 2012, only to disappear shortly thereafter. Whatever drawing board the Chick-fil-A geniuses went back to seems to a magical one, because after rolling out the dip to 436 locations in early 2019, customers are coming away obsessed with the new dip. According to Delish, the cheese dip is a blend of Swiss and Parmesan cheeses and comes in a three-ounce serving in a warm dipping dish. BuzzFeed's Jon-Michael Poff and Andrew Ziegler took it upon themselves to give the dip a try and came away amazed: Andrew's thoughts: The cheese sauce tastes really good better than Chick-fil-A Sauce in my opinion...It's basically a queso without any spice, and if you're like me (obsessed with queso) you can dip just about anything on the menu in this sauce. Jon-Michael's thoughts: By almost every measure, the new sauce is near-perfect. Unlike so many other cheese sauces out there, Chick-fil-A's tastes and looks like real cheese (because it is! )...And like Andrew said, its dippable consistency is spot-on. I tried the cheese sauce with both chicken nuggets and waffle fries, and IMHO, it goes much better with the nuggets. But not everyone is on board. Some Chick-fil-A-goers don't see the tie between a "warm" cheese dip and a restaurant renowned for a fried chicken sandwich. Sure, cheese goes great on everything, and queso is liquid gold, but Chick-fil-As chicken already has a distinct, tangy flavor (thank you, pickle juice!) that is well-supplemented by an array of existing sauces. Cheese shouldnt be one of them. More cheese dip for the rest of us, Twitter says. Name one time Chick-fil-A has failed you. Ill wait. Lunch was epic. The @ChickfilA Cheese sauce is dreamy. Pro tip, add in some buffalo sauce, mix with fries, enjoy. Now I just need a #pubg dinner and I'm all set! pic.twitter.com/6cL0DdUA6A Greg Cannon (@GamerGregCannon) February 28, 2019 Some are annoyed that Chick-fil-A isnt calling its new warm cheese dip what it is: queso. The concept is not new, and Chick-fil-A isnt fooling anyone. Plus, the dip doesnt just come with your meal like your average honey mustard, Polynesian or Chick-fil-A sauce would. The three-ounce serving will set you back $1.19. If your local Chick-fil-A gives you three, one-ounce servings of Chick-fil-A sauce for free, this queso-poser should at least be the same. Petition for @ChickfilA to fill their cheese sauce to at least here or lower the price. This stuff is $1.19! pic.twitter.com/8y3RnHh5Su Betti Linert (@xoxo_bethh) February 28, 2019 The Tylt is focused on debates and conversations around news, current events and pop culture. We provide our community with the opportunity to share their opinions and vote on topics that matter most to them. We actively engage the community and present meaningful data on the debates and conversations as they progress. The Tylt is a place where your opinion counts, literally. The Tylt is an Advance Local Media, LLC property. Join us on Twitter @TheTylt, on Instagram @TheTylt or on Facebook, wed love to hear what you have to say.
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Does Chick-fil-A need a cheese dipping sauce?
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By Jessie Blaeser True to Chick-fil-As legacy, the restaurant would be remiss to serve average chicken and apparently, average cheese-dip. Despite its southern roots, Chick-fil-A rolled out its new cheese dip in restaurants across the Midwest and Northeast in early 2019. The dip earned fast fans, with some saying it rivals the beloved Chick-fil-A sauce. Others are hesitant about the idea of dipping their nuggets in a warm-ish, goopy cheese blend. Chick-fil-A's cheese dip first appeared on select menus in 2012, only to disappear shortly thereafter. Whatever drawing board the Chick-fil-A geniuses went back to seems to a magical one, because after rolling out the dip to 436 locations in early 2019, customers are coming away obsessed with the new dip. According to Delish, the cheese dip is a blend of Swiss and Parmesan cheeses and comes in a three-ounce serving in a warm dipping dish. BuzzFeed's Jon-Michael Poff and Andrew Ziegler took it upon themselves to give the dip a try and came away amazed: Andrew's thoughts: The cheese sauce tastes really good better than Chick-fil-A Sauce in my opinion...It's basically a queso without any spice, and if you're like me (obsessed with queso) you can dip just about anything on the menu in this sauce. Jon-Michael's thoughts: By almost every measure, the new sauce is near-perfect. Unlike so many other cheese sauces out there, Chick-fil-A's tastes and looks like real cheese (because it is! )...And like Andrew said, its dippable consistency is spot-on. I tried the cheese sauce with both chicken nuggets and waffle fries, and IMHO, it goes much better with the nuggets. But not everyone is on board. Some Chick-fil-A-goers don't see the tie between a "warm" cheese dip and a restaurant renowned for a fried chicken sandwich. Sure, cheese goes great on everything, and queso is liquid gold, but Chick-fil-As chicken already has a distinct, tangy flavor (thank you, pickle juice!) that is well-supplemented by an array of existing sauces. Cheese shouldnt be one of them. More cheese dip for the rest of us, Twitter says. Name one time Chick-fil-A has failed you. Ill wait. Lunch was epic. The @ChickfilA Cheese sauce is dreamy. Pro tip, add in some buffalo sauce, mix with fries, enjoy. Now I just need a #pubg dinner and I'm all set! pic.twitter.com/6cL0DdUA6A Greg Cannon (@GamerGregCannon) February 28, 2019 Some are annoyed that Chick-fil-A isnt calling its new warm cheese dip what it is: queso. The concept is not new, and Chick-fil-A isnt fooling anyone. Plus, the dip doesnt just come with your meal like your average honey mustard, Polynesian or Chick-fil-A sauce would. The three-ounce serving will set you back $1.19. If your local Chick-fil-A gives you three, one-ounce servings of Chick-fil-A sauce for free, this queso-poser should at least be the same. Petition for @ChickfilA to fill their cheese sauce to at least here or lower the price. This stuff is $1.19! pic.twitter.com/8y3RnHh5Su Betti Linert (@xoxo_bethh) February 28, 2019 The Tylt is focused on debates and conversations around news, current events and pop culture. We provide our community with the opportunity to share their opinions and vote on topics that matter most to them. We actively engage the community and present meaningful data on the debates and conversations as they progress. The Tylt is a place where your opinion counts, literally. The Tylt is an Advance Local Media, LLC property. Join us on Twitter @TheTylt, on Instagram @TheTylt or on Facebook, wed love to hear what you have to say.
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Chick-fil-A's new cheese dip is a blend of Swiss and Parmesan cheeses and comes in a three-ounce serving in a warm dipping dish. Some fans say the new dip is better than the original, while others are skeptical about the idea of dipping their nuggets in a goopy cheese blend.
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Will Hendrick's 200th win come at Kansas?
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It's hard to believe, but 13 races have passed since Hendrick Motorsports' last win in the Sprint Cup Series. Jimmie Johnson gave team owner Rick Hendrick his 199th and most recent victory in NASCAR's premier series on October 9, 2011 at Kansas Speedway. Six and a half months later, the series returns to the 1.5-mile track. And Hendrick is hoping this will be the weekend he gets his long-awaited 200th win in the series. The 13-race winless drought is the longest for Hendrick since the latter part of the 2002 season and the beginning of 2003, when the racing organization went 15 races without a victory. That streak, nearly a decade ago, coincidentally began after Jeff Gordon's win at Kansas. Since last fall's race at Kansas, a Hendrick driver has finished in the runner-up spot four times, including Johnson's second-place run last Saturday night at Texas. Earlier this month, Johnson was denied the victory at Martinsville. The five- time series champion held the lead late in that race but was involved in a multi-car crash during a green-white-checkered finish. He wound up finishing 12th. "Whenever it happens is going to be very special for the company," Johnson said. "I just want to win. I don't care where it is, whatever reason. There's 36 [races] a year, and I want to take home a bunch of trophies. Second is nice, but winning is everything." Hendrick has the most car owner wins at Kansas with four -- two with Johnson and two with Gordon. Whenever Johnson, Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr. or Kasey Kahne wins another race, HMS will become just the second team in NASCAR's top racing circuit with 200 or more victories. Petty Enterprises holds the record with 268 wins. Hendrick is guaranteed at least one milestone on Sunday at Kansas. The team will make its 3,000th start, becoming the first one to reach that achievement. Its first Cup start came with driver Geoff Bodine in the 1984 Daytona 500. Johnson dominated most of the 500-mile race at Texas by leading 156 laps, but Greg Biffle passed him for the lead with 30 laps remaining and then held it for the win. Biffle captured his 17th career Sprint Cup victory but his first since October 2010 at Kansas (49 races ago). He also gave crew chief Matt Puccia his first win in the series. Biffle has had a superb season so far. He currently holds a 19-point lead over his Roush Fenway Racing teammate, Matt Kenseth, and Earnhardt Jr. "Kansas is a great track, and I have two wins there," Biffle said. "We are coming off the win at Texas, and I'm ready to go. Kansas and Texas might be the same distance, but they are extremely different tracks. Kansas is much flatter, and the track is more uniform from one end to another." Biffle's first victory at Kansas came in September 2007. Brad Keselowski won last year's inaugural spring race at Kansas. While gambling on fuel late in the race, Keselowski took the lead for the first time with nine laps remaining when his then Penske Racing teammate, Kurt Busch, the pole sitter, was forced to pit and relinquished the top position. He then coasted his No. 2 Dodge as much as he could during the last nine laps to claim his second career Sprint Cup win. Keselowski enters this race 15th in points, which is significantly better than one year ago when he sat outside the top-20. Forty-six teams are on the preliminary entry list for Sunday's STP 400. Series: NASCAR Sprint Cup. Date: Sunday, April 22. Race: STP 400. Site: Kansas Speedway. Track: 1.5-mile oval. Start time: 1 p.m.(ET). Laps: 267. Miles: 400.5. 2011 Winner: Brad Keselowski. Television: FOX. Radio: Motor Racing Network (MRN)/SIRIUS NASCAR Satellite.
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Will Hendrick's 200th win come at Kansas?
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It's hard to believe, but 13 races have passed since Hendrick Motorsports' last win in the Sprint Cup Series. Jimmie Johnson gave team owner Rick Hendrick his 199th and most recent victory in NASCAR's premier series on October 9, 2011 at Kansas Speedway. Six and a half months later, the series returns to the 1.5-mile track. And Hendrick is hoping this will be the weekend he gets his long-awaited 200th win in the series. The 13-race winless drought is the longest for Hendrick since the latter part of the 2002 season and the beginning of 2003, when the racing organization went 15 races without a victory. That streak, nearly a decade ago, coincidentally began after Jeff Gordon's win at Kansas. Since last fall's race at Kansas, a Hendrick driver has finished in the runner-up spot four times, including Johnson's second-place run last Saturday night at Texas. Earlier this month, Johnson was denied the victory at Martinsville. The five- time series champion held the lead late in that race but was involved in a multi-car crash during a green-white-checkered finish. He wound up finishing 12th. "Whenever it happens is going to be very special for the company," Johnson said. "I just want to win. I don't care where it is, whatever reason. There's 36 [races] a year, and I want to take home a bunch of trophies. Second is nice, but winning is everything." Hendrick has the most car owner wins at Kansas with four -- two with Johnson and two with Gordon. Whenever Johnson, Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr. or Kasey Kahne wins another race, HMS will become just the second team in NASCAR's top racing circuit with 200 or more victories. Petty Enterprises holds the record with 268 wins. Hendrick is guaranteed at least one milestone on Sunday at Kansas. The team will make its 3,000th start, becoming the first one to reach that achievement. Its first Cup start came with driver Geoff Bodine in the 1984 Daytona 500. Johnson dominated most of the 500-mile race at Texas by leading 156 laps, but Greg Biffle passed him for the lead with 30 laps remaining and then held it for the win. Biffle captured his 17th career Sprint Cup victory but his first since October 2010 at Kansas (49 races ago). He also gave crew chief Matt Puccia his first win in the series. Biffle has had a superb season so far. He currently holds a 19-point lead over his Roush Fenway Racing teammate, Matt Kenseth, and Earnhardt Jr. "Kansas is a great track, and I have two wins there," Biffle said. "We are coming off the win at Texas, and I'm ready to go. Kansas and Texas might be the same distance, but they are extremely different tracks. Kansas is much flatter, and the track is more uniform from one end to another." Biffle's first victory at Kansas came in September 2007. Brad Keselowski won last year's inaugural spring race at Kansas. While gambling on fuel late in the race, Keselowski took the lead for the first time with nine laps remaining when his then Penske Racing teammate, Kurt Busch, the pole sitter, was forced to pit and relinquished the top position. He then coasted his No. 2 Dodge as much as he could during the last nine laps to claim his second career Sprint Cup win. Keselowski enters this race 15th in points, which is significantly better than one year ago when he sat outside the top-20. Forty-six teams are on the preliminary entry list for Sunday's STP 400. Series: NASCAR Sprint Cup. Date: Sunday, April 22. Race: STP 400. Site: Kansas Speedway. Track: 1.5-mile oval. Start time: 1 p.m.(ET). Laps: 267. Miles: 400.5. 2011 Winner: Brad Keselowski. Television: FOX. Radio: Motor Racing Network (MRN)/SIRIUS NASCAR Satellite.
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Rick Hendrick hopes Sunday's race at Kansas will be the weekend he gets his 200th win. Hendrick Motorsports' last win came in October 2011 at Kansas Speedway.
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Will Hendrick's 200th win come at Kansas?
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It's hard to believe, but 13 races have passed since Hendrick Motorsports' last win in the Sprint Cup Series. Jimmie Johnson gave team owner Rick Hendrick his 199th and most recent victory in NASCAR's premier series on October 9, 2011 at Kansas Speedway. Six and a half months later, the series returns to the 1.5-mile track. And Hendrick is hoping this will be the weekend he gets his long-awaited 200th win in the series. The 13-race winless drought is the longest for Hendrick since the latter part of the 2002 season and the beginning of 2003, when the racing organization went 15 races without a victory. That streak, nearly a decade ago, coincidentally began after Jeff Gordon's win at Kansas. Since last fall's race at Kansas, a Hendrick driver has finished in the runner-up spot four times, including Johnson's second-place run last Saturday night at Texas. Earlier this month, Johnson was denied the victory at Martinsville. The five- time series champion held the lead late in that race but was involved in a multi-car crash during a green-white-checkered finish. He wound up finishing 12th. "Whenever it happens is going to be very special for the company," Johnson said. "I just want to win. I don't care where it is, whatever reason. There's 36 [races] a year, and I want to take home a bunch of trophies. Second is nice, but winning is everything." Hendrick has the most car owner wins at Kansas with four -- two with Johnson and two with Gordon. Whenever Johnson, Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr. or Kasey Kahne wins another race, HMS will become just the second team in NASCAR's top racing circuit with 200 or more victories. Petty Enterprises holds the record with 268 wins. Hendrick is guaranteed at least one milestone on Sunday at Kansas. The team will make its 3,000th start, becoming the first one to reach that achievement. Its first Cup start came with driver Geoff Bodine in the 1984 Daytona 500. Johnson dominated most of the 500-mile race at Texas by leading 156 laps, but Greg Biffle passed him for the lead with 30 laps remaining and then held it for the win. Biffle captured his 17th career Sprint Cup victory but his first since October 2010 at Kansas (49 races ago). He also gave crew chief Matt Puccia his first win in the series. Biffle has had a superb season so far. He currently holds a 19-point lead over his Roush Fenway Racing teammate, Matt Kenseth, and Earnhardt Jr. "Kansas is a great track, and I have two wins there," Biffle said. "We are coming off the win at Texas, and I'm ready to go. Kansas and Texas might be the same distance, but they are extremely different tracks. Kansas is much flatter, and the track is more uniform from one end to another." Biffle's first victory at Kansas came in September 2007. Brad Keselowski won last year's inaugural spring race at Kansas. While gambling on fuel late in the race, Keselowski took the lead for the first time with nine laps remaining when his then Penske Racing teammate, Kurt Busch, the pole sitter, was forced to pit and relinquished the top position. He then coasted his No. 2 Dodge as much as he could during the last nine laps to claim his second career Sprint Cup win. Keselowski enters this race 15th in points, which is significantly better than one year ago when he sat outside the top-20. Forty-six teams are on the preliminary entry list for Sunday's STP 400. Series: NASCAR Sprint Cup. Date: Sunday, April 22. Race: STP 400. Site: Kansas Speedway. Track: 1.5-mile oval. Start time: 1 p.m.(ET). Laps: 267. Miles: 400.5. 2011 Winner: Brad Keselowski. Television: FOX. Radio: Motor Racing Network (MRN)/SIRIUS NASCAR Satellite.
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Rick Hendrick hopes Sunday's race at Kansas will be the weekend he gets his 200th win. Hendrick Motorsports' last win came in October 2011 at Kansas Speedway. The team will make its 3,000th start, becoming the first one to reach that achievement.
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Is there a link between Scotland's exclusion rates and knife crime?
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Image copyright Getty Images A spate of knife crime in England has been linked to an increase in the number of young people excluded from school. But in Scotland - where just five pupils were permanently removed from the classroom in 2017 - knife violence has fallen. Official statistics show that more than 18,000 children were temporarily removed from their classroom in 2016/17. Just five young people were excluded permanently or "removed from the register". Exclusions of all kinds have dropped by 59% since 2006/07, when 44,794 children were suspended from school - 248 of them on a permanent basis. The statistics relate to publicly-funded local authority schools in Scotland, not grant-aided or independent schools, or early-learning and childcare establishments. Total number of pupils excluded from Scotland's schools Year Temporary exclusions Removed from register 2002/03 36,204 292 2003/04 38,736 176 2004/05 41,703 271 2005/06 42,726 264 2006/07 44,546 248 2007/08 39,553 164 2008/09 33,830 87 2009/10 30,144 67 2010/11 26,784 60 2012/13 21,934 21 2014/15 18,425 5 2016/17 18,376 5 However in England Department for Education figures show that permanent exclusions increased by 56% between 2013/14 and 2016/17. The number of permanent exclusions across all state-funded primary, secondary and special schools stood at 7,720 in 2016/17. Young people in Scotland can only be excluded from school in the most extreme circumstances. And councils are duty-bound to provide a school education to all excluded pupils - whether that is in another local school, a school in a different education authority, or at an alternative location to school. A spokeswoman for the Scottish government said: "We are committed to ensuring that all children and young people get the support that they need to reach their full learning potential with a focus on prevention and early intervention. "Pupils are not 'removed from the roll' in Scotland and we expect children continue to receive an education while excluded, either at another school or alternative location." She added: "Our approach to knife crime, also focusing on early intervention and prevention with young people, is recognised across the UK and internationally as making a real difference in keeping people safer." For many young people facing exclusion, their behaviour has been a "cry for help". Meg Thomas, who works with schools in Glasgow and North Lanarkshire, said pupils can be communicating stress they are experiencing at home. If they are excluded and sent back home, they return to that stressful place. It can also put them at risk of sexual and criminal exploitation. Ms Thomas works for Includem, a third-sector organisation that supports young people in challenging circumstances. She said that when students are at risk of exclusion, Includem often join meetings which are held with social workers, health staff, police officers. Image copyright Getty Images They try to uncover the root of the difficult behaviour, to help the young person understand the consequences of their actions and their own emotions. She may discover that they have experienced trauma, witnessed domestic abuse or they undiagnosed health problems. And it allows the school to understand how they can best help the student - without resorting to exclusion. Ms Thomas says it is a system which works but Includem currently only works in a small number of Scottish local authority areas. "We need to stop getting kids excluded because we know it mean they stop entering the criminal justice system," she said. "If we put the money in the right place at the right time, it will have long term cost savings across Scotland." Research by Edinburgh University academics has found that young people who were excluded from school were much more likely to be end up in the criminal justice system and prison. But Prof Susan McVie, one of the authors of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, said the link with knife crime was less clear. "There is a connection in the sense that people who are excluded from school are more likely to be involved in carrying weapons," she said. They found that young people who carried weapons were twice as likely to be excluded from school as those who did not carry weapons. "But when we looked at a whole raft of factors that might impact on whether people carried weapons, school exclusion actually turned out to be quite marginal," Prof McVie added. "It wasn't the most important thing in terms of explaining people's behaviour." She said young people who self-harmed were more likely to carry weapons, as were those who were poorly supervised by their parents and those who felt socially-marginalised in their communities. Although there has been a reduction in violent crime in Scotland and school exclusions, she said it was very difficult to prove a causal connection. Image copyright Justice Analytical Services And she suggested that Scotland's experience prove there was not one single solution to the apparent surge in knife crime in England. "We have seen big reductions in violent crime in parts of Scotland where it was very, very high," she said. "But it's worth also saying we've seen big reductions in violence where it wasn't very high. It not just what was done in Glasgow around the violence reduction unit that has been effective, there's a whole raft of things, of which reducing school exclusion was one. "But better education, better youth work, better employment opportunities for young people - there's a whole raft of things and there's no one single solution."
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Knife crime has been linked to an increase in the number of young people excluded from school in England. But in Scotland - where just five pupils were permanently removed from the classroom in 2017 - knife violence has fallen.
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Is there a link between Scotland's exclusion rates and knife crime?
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Image copyright Getty Images A spate of knife crime in England has been linked to an increase in the number of young people excluded from school. But in Scotland - where just five pupils were permanently removed from the classroom in 2017 - knife violence has fallen. Official statistics show that more than 18,000 children were temporarily removed from their classroom in 2016/17. Just five young people were excluded permanently or "removed from the register". Exclusions of all kinds have dropped by 59% since 2006/07, when 44,794 children were suspended from school - 248 of them on a permanent basis. The statistics relate to publicly-funded local authority schools in Scotland, not grant-aided or independent schools, or early-learning and childcare establishments. Total number of pupils excluded from Scotland's schools Year Temporary exclusions Removed from register 2002/03 36,204 292 2003/04 38,736 176 2004/05 41,703 271 2005/06 42,726 264 2006/07 44,546 248 2007/08 39,553 164 2008/09 33,830 87 2009/10 30,144 67 2010/11 26,784 60 2012/13 21,934 21 2014/15 18,425 5 2016/17 18,376 5 However in England Department for Education figures show that permanent exclusions increased by 56% between 2013/14 and 2016/17. The number of permanent exclusions across all state-funded primary, secondary and special schools stood at 7,720 in 2016/17. Young people in Scotland can only be excluded from school in the most extreme circumstances. And councils are duty-bound to provide a school education to all excluded pupils - whether that is in another local school, a school in a different education authority, or at an alternative location to school. A spokeswoman for the Scottish government said: "We are committed to ensuring that all children and young people get the support that they need to reach their full learning potential with a focus on prevention and early intervention. "Pupils are not 'removed from the roll' in Scotland and we expect children continue to receive an education while excluded, either at another school or alternative location." She added: "Our approach to knife crime, also focusing on early intervention and prevention with young people, is recognised across the UK and internationally as making a real difference in keeping people safer." For many young people facing exclusion, their behaviour has been a "cry for help". Meg Thomas, who works with schools in Glasgow and North Lanarkshire, said pupils can be communicating stress they are experiencing at home. If they are excluded and sent back home, they return to that stressful place. It can also put them at risk of sexual and criminal exploitation. Ms Thomas works for Includem, a third-sector organisation that supports young people in challenging circumstances. She said that when students are at risk of exclusion, Includem often join meetings which are held with social workers, health staff, police officers. Image copyright Getty Images They try to uncover the root of the difficult behaviour, to help the young person understand the consequences of their actions and their own emotions. She may discover that they have experienced trauma, witnessed domestic abuse or they undiagnosed health problems. And it allows the school to understand how they can best help the student - without resorting to exclusion. Ms Thomas says it is a system which works but Includem currently only works in a small number of Scottish local authority areas. "We need to stop getting kids excluded because we know it mean they stop entering the criminal justice system," she said. "If we put the money in the right place at the right time, it will have long term cost savings across Scotland." Research by Edinburgh University academics has found that young people who were excluded from school were much more likely to be end up in the criminal justice system and prison. But Prof Susan McVie, one of the authors of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, said the link with knife crime was less clear. "There is a connection in the sense that people who are excluded from school are more likely to be involved in carrying weapons," she said. They found that young people who carried weapons were twice as likely to be excluded from school as those who did not carry weapons. "But when we looked at a whole raft of factors that might impact on whether people carried weapons, school exclusion actually turned out to be quite marginal," Prof McVie added. "It wasn't the most important thing in terms of explaining people's behaviour." She said young people who self-harmed were more likely to carry weapons, as were those who were poorly supervised by their parents and those who felt socially-marginalised in their communities. Although there has been a reduction in violent crime in Scotland and school exclusions, she said it was very difficult to prove a causal connection. Image copyright Justice Analytical Services And she suggested that Scotland's experience prove there was not one single solution to the apparent surge in knife crime in England. "We have seen big reductions in violent crime in parts of Scotland where it was very, very high," she said. "But it's worth also saying we've seen big reductions in violence where it wasn't very high. It not just what was done in Glasgow around the violence reduction unit that has been effective, there's a whole raft of things, of which reducing school exclusion was one. "But better education, better youth work, better employment opportunities for young people - there's a whole raft of things and there's no one single solution."
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Knife crime has been linked to an increase in the number of young people excluded from school in England. But in Scotland - where just five pupils were permanently removed from the classroom in 2017 - knife violence has fallen. More than 18,000 children were temporarily removed from their classroom in 2016/17.
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Did police spy on Welsh miners during strike?
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Former miners hope that question will be answered by the current public inquiry into covert policing in the UK. The suspicion that specially-trained police spies were active in Wales during the 1984-85 strike has hung over mining communities for years. One former senior NUM member says he knows of at least one person who left Wales suddenly once the strike ended. In 1968 the Metropolitan Police set up an undercover unit called the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS). Part of Special Branch, its purpose was to infiltrate protest groups. After it emerged in 2013 that SDS officers had spied on the family of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, Theresa May - then Home Secretary - set up the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) into how covert policing operations were run. The NUM has been given core participant status at the inquiry, along with organisations like London Greenpeace, Reclaim the Streets and Cardiff Anarchist Network. Core participants can give evidence and hope to find out if, and to what extent, they were spied on. One former high-ranking miners' representative told BBC Wales Investigates he believes a handful of specially-trained undercover officers were active in Wales during the miners' strike. Tyrone O'Sullivan, former NUM branch secretary, says he and other miners are convinced that undercover officers infiltrated their ranks during the strike - and were feeding information to the police, and ultimately back to the government. Image caption Former NUM branch chairman Tyrone O'Sullivan believes police were trained to infiltrate the miners "We were a huge threat (to the government). They spent billions to defeat us," said Mr O'Sullivan. "They tapped our phones, they infiltrated into us. That didn't happen because of the strike, it started years before. "You can't do it (infiltrate the community) a week before the strike - you can do it two years before the strike. You can be part of the community that way." Mr O'Sullivan, now chairman of Goitre Antrhacite Ltd, owners of Tower Colliery near Hirwuan, says he has strong suspicions about one individual, who he is not naming. "Definitely now, at the time no, but with what happened after the strike we thought there was a reason for this. He'd gone away too soon, he'd left too soon. He'd left a girl he had made so many promises to. "I think it was very well organised - it wasn't the PC up the street. This was a far larger organisation. These people were trained purposely not only to undermine miners but to infiltrate everything." The Metropolitan Police declined to comment on the NUM allegations, as they are part of the UCPI. The public inquiry, which began in 2015, is not expected to publish its findings until at least 2023. You can watch BBC Wales Investigates Undercover Cops: Abuse of Duty on iPlayer
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Former NUM branch chairman believes police were trained to infiltrate the miners. He says he has strong suspicions about one individual who left Wales suddenly after the strike. Undercover Policing Inquiry into covert policing set up by Theresa May.
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Did police spy on Welsh miners during strike?
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Former miners hope that question will be answered by the current public inquiry into covert policing in the UK. The suspicion that specially-trained police spies were active in Wales during the 1984-85 strike has hung over mining communities for years. One former senior NUM member says he knows of at least one person who left Wales suddenly once the strike ended. In 1968 the Metropolitan Police set up an undercover unit called the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS). Part of Special Branch, its purpose was to infiltrate protest groups. After it emerged in 2013 that SDS officers had spied on the family of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, Theresa May - then Home Secretary - set up the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI) into how covert policing operations were run. The NUM has been given core participant status at the inquiry, along with organisations like London Greenpeace, Reclaim the Streets and Cardiff Anarchist Network. Core participants can give evidence and hope to find out if, and to what extent, they were spied on. One former high-ranking miners' representative told BBC Wales Investigates he believes a handful of specially-trained undercover officers were active in Wales during the miners' strike. Tyrone O'Sullivan, former NUM branch secretary, says he and other miners are convinced that undercover officers infiltrated their ranks during the strike - and were feeding information to the police, and ultimately back to the government. Image caption Former NUM branch chairman Tyrone O'Sullivan believes police were trained to infiltrate the miners "We were a huge threat (to the government). They spent billions to defeat us," said Mr O'Sullivan. "They tapped our phones, they infiltrated into us. That didn't happen because of the strike, it started years before. "You can't do it (infiltrate the community) a week before the strike - you can do it two years before the strike. You can be part of the community that way." Mr O'Sullivan, now chairman of Goitre Antrhacite Ltd, owners of Tower Colliery near Hirwuan, says he has strong suspicions about one individual, who he is not naming. "Definitely now, at the time no, but with what happened after the strike we thought there was a reason for this. He'd gone away too soon, he'd left too soon. He'd left a girl he had made so many promises to. "I think it was very well organised - it wasn't the PC up the street. This was a far larger organisation. These people were trained purposely not only to undermine miners but to infiltrate everything." The Metropolitan Police declined to comment on the NUM allegations, as they are part of the UCPI. The public inquiry, which began in 2015, is not expected to publish its findings until at least 2023. You can watch BBC Wales Investigates Undercover Cops: Abuse of Duty on iPlayer
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Former NUM branch chairman believes police were trained to infiltrate the miners. He says he has strong suspicions about one individual who left Wales suddenly after the strike. Undercover Policing Inquiry has been set up into covert policing in the UK. The inquiry is not expected to publish its findings until at least 2023.
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What is the song in Captain Marvels girl-powered fight scene?
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Captain Marvel features lively action scenes, MCU cameos and dizzying special effects. But its sense of nostalgia may stay with you most. Captain Marvel is set in 1995, in case you cant tell by Carol Danvers Nine Inch Nails T-shirt. That means some amazing references many of us have forgotten about, from Blockbuster to RadioShack. Theres also the music. Massive hits by TLC, Smashing Pumpkins and Hole blare through movie theater speakers. But the song that resonates most comes during a fight scene where Danvers discovers the extent of her powers. Of course, some may find it obvious to point out the scene is choreographed to Just a Girl, the lead single from No Doubts blockbuster album Tragic Kingdom. Still, there is a generation of music fans who know Gwen Stefani best for Hollaback Girl or (gasp) as a judge on NBCs The Voice. So listen the sweet sounds of mid-1990s ska punk with new wave touches and familiarize yourself with Stefani at her true peak.
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Captain Marvels sense of nostalgia may stay with you most. During a fight scene, the song that resonates most is "Just a Girl" No Doubt's "Tragic Kingdom" is the lead single from No Douben's blockbuster album.
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Could Sen. Martha McSallys rape disclosure revive the Equal Rights Amendment?
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Attitudes, protections and opportunities to redress grievances have not all changed with the times, as abuse endured by McSally and other women shows. The Republicans who control the Arizona Legislature refused again this year to give a hearing to a resolution to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, saying it isnt necessary. Theyre wrong. Theres evidence of that every day. Perhaps the recent disclosure by Sen. Martha McSally, who said this week that she was raped by a superior officer while serving in the Air Force, demonstrates just how much the ERA is still necessary. Times have changed, clearly, but not all attitudes. And not all legal protections or opportunities to redress grievances, as clearly shown by McSallys experience and the same abuse endured by an untold number of women. On Monday, women in Arizona are planning to begin three days of marches to encourage state lawmakers to pass the ERA. That would make Arizona the 38th state to ratify the amendment and that is the number of states needed to put the ERA into the U.S. Constitution, depending upon expected legal challenges. Gloria Steinem, Dick Gregory, Betty Friedan and Reps. Elizabeth Holtzman, D-N.Y., Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Margaret Heckler, R-Mass., at ERA march in Washington on July 9, 1978. (Photo: DENNIS COOK, AP) Read more commentary: Year of the Woman 2: Record election success for women goes way beyond numbers Klobuchar's bad-boss flaws are disturbing. Astrophysicist Barbie is perfect. That's not how you attract more girls to STEM careers. Passing the ERA would be a fitting tribute to Arizonas Sandra Day OConnor. The former Supreme Court Justice introduced a bill supporting the ERA back in the 1970s, when she was a member of the Arizona Senate. She said at the time that the ERA stands in the tradition of other great amendments to the Constitution. Since then the campaign against the ERA often has been based on misinformation and fearmongering. Constitution doesn't prohibit sex discrimination In February Arizona lawmakers received a letterfrom the president of the American Bar Association, Robert M. Carlson, urging them to pass the amendment. Essentially, the argument against the ERA these days comes from those who say its not needed. That womens rights are better protected now than they ever were. But theyre not yet equal. The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia put it this way: Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesnt. McSally shows field isn't level for women It should. As the Bar Associations president put it, having an ERA means judges would use the same standard of review in sex discrimination cases that they now use in deciding cases involving discrimination based on race, religion, and national origin. There is probably no one tougher or more resilient than McSally. Shes proven that by how far shes come based on what shes had to endure. But her painful personal disclosure during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee shows that the playing field for women still isnt level. Its a simple premise, upon which I suspect we all agree. Or should. As the amendment reads: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. EJ Montini is a columnist at The Arizona Republic, where this column first appeared. Follow him on Twitter: @ejmontini You can read diverse opinions from our Board of Contributors and other writers on the Opinion front page, on Twitter @usatodayopinion and in our daily Opinion newsletter. To respond to a column, submit a comment to letters@usatoday.com. Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/03/08/mcsally-rape-disclosure-revive-equal-rights-amendment-arizona-column/3096911002/
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Sally Kohn: Sen. Martha McSally's rape disclosure shows need for Equal Rights Amendment.
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Could Sen. Martha McSallys rape disclosure revive the Equal Rights Amendment?
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Attitudes, protections and opportunities to redress grievances have not all changed with the times, as abuse endured by McSally and other women shows. The Republicans who control the Arizona Legislature refused again this year to give a hearing to a resolution to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, saying it isnt necessary. Theyre wrong. Theres evidence of that every day. Perhaps the recent disclosure by Sen. Martha McSally, who said this week that she was raped by a superior officer while serving in the Air Force, demonstrates just how much the ERA is still necessary. Times have changed, clearly, but not all attitudes. And not all legal protections or opportunities to redress grievances, as clearly shown by McSallys experience and the same abuse endured by an untold number of women. On Monday, women in Arizona are planning to begin three days of marches to encourage state lawmakers to pass the ERA. That would make Arizona the 38th state to ratify the amendment and that is the number of states needed to put the ERA into the U.S. Constitution, depending upon expected legal challenges. Gloria Steinem, Dick Gregory, Betty Friedan and Reps. Elizabeth Holtzman, D-N.Y., Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Margaret Heckler, R-Mass., at ERA march in Washington on July 9, 1978. (Photo: DENNIS COOK, AP) Read more commentary: Year of the Woman 2: Record election success for women goes way beyond numbers Klobuchar's bad-boss flaws are disturbing. Astrophysicist Barbie is perfect. That's not how you attract more girls to STEM careers. Passing the ERA would be a fitting tribute to Arizonas Sandra Day OConnor. The former Supreme Court Justice introduced a bill supporting the ERA back in the 1970s, when she was a member of the Arizona Senate. She said at the time that the ERA stands in the tradition of other great amendments to the Constitution. Since then the campaign against the ERA often has been based on misinformation and fearmongering. Constitution doesn't prohibit sex discrimination In February Arizona lawmakers received a letterfrom the president of the American Bar Association, Robert M. Carlson, urging them to pass the amendment. Essentially, the argument against the ERA these days comes from those who say its not needed. That womens rights are better protected now than they ever were. But theyre not yet equal. The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia put it this way: Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesnt. McSally shows field isn't level for women It should. As the Bar Associations president put it, having an ERA means judges would use the same standard of review in sex discrimination cases that they now use in deciding cases involving discrimination based on race, religion, and national origin. There is probably no one tougher or more resilient than McSally. Shes proven that by how far shes come based on what shes had to endure. But her painful personal disclosure during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee shows that the playing field for women still isnt level. Its a simple premise, upon which I suspect we all agree. Or should. As the amendment reads: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. EJ Montini is a columnist at The Arizona Republic, where this column first appeared. Follow him on Twitter: @ejmontini You can read diverse opinions from our Board of Contributors and other writers on the Opinion front page, on Twitter @usatodayopinion and in our daily Opinion newsletter. To respond to a column, submit a comment to letters@usatoday.com. Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/03/08/mcsally-rape-disclosure-revive-equal-rights-amendment-arizona-column/3096911002/
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Sally Kohn: Sen. Martha McSally's rape disclosure shows the Equal Rights Amendment is still necessary. Kohn says women in Arizona are planning three days of marches to encourage state lawmakers to pass the ERA.
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Could Sen. Martha McSallys rape disclosure revive the Equal Rights Amendment?
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Attitudes, protections and opportunities to redress grievances have not all changed with the times, as abuse endured by McSally and other women shows. The Republicans who control the Arizona Legislature refused again this year to give a hearing to a resolution to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, saying it isnt necessary. Theyre wrong. Theres evidence of that every day. Perhaps the recent disclosure by Sen. Martha McSally, who said this week that she was raped by a superior officer while serving in the Air Force, demonstrates just how much the ERA is still necessary. Times have changed, clearly, but not all attitudes. And not all legal protections or opportunities to redress grievances, as clearly shown by McSallys experience and the same abuse endured by an untold number of women. On Monday, women in Arizona are planning to begin three days of marches to encourage state lawmakers to pass the ERA. That would make Arizona the 38th state to ratify the amendment and that is the number of states needed to put the ERA into the U.S. Constitution, depending upon expected legal challenges. Gloria Steinem, Dick Gregory, Betty Friedan and Reps. Elizabeth Holtzman, D-N.Y., Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., and Margaret Heckler, R-Mass., at ERA march in Washington on July 9, 1978. (Photo: DENNIS COOK, AP) Read more commentary: Year of the Woman 2: Record election success for women goes way beyond numbers Klobuchar's bad-boss flaws are disturbing. Astrophysicist Barbie is perfect. That's not how you attract more girls to STEM careers. Passing the ERA would be a fitting tribute to Arizonas Sandra Day OConnor. The former Supreme Court Justice introduced a bill supporting the ERA back in the 1970s, when she was a member of the Arizona Senate. She said at the time that the ERA stands in the tradition of other great amendments to the Constitution. Since then the campaign against the ERA often has been based on misinformation and fearmongering. Constitution doesn't prohibit sex discrimination In February Arizona lawmakers received a letterfrom the president of the American Bar Association, Robert M. Carlson, urging them to pass the amendment. Essentially, the argument against the ERA these days comes from those who say its not needed. That womens rights are better protected now than they ever were. But theyre not yet equal. The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia put it this way: Certainly the Constitution does not require discrimination on the basis of sex. The only issue is whether it prohibits it. It doesnt. McSally shows field isn't level for women It should. As the Bar Associations president put it, having an ERA means judges would use the same standard of review in sex discrimination cases that they now use in deciding cases involving discrimination based on race, religion, and national origin. There is probably no one tougher or more resilient than McSally. Shes proven that by how far shes come based on what shes had to endure. But her painful personal disclosure during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee shows that the playing field for women still isnt level. Its a simple premise, upon which I suspect we all agree. Or should. As the amendment reads: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. EJ Montini is a columnist at The Arizona Republic, where this column first appeared. Follow him on Twitter: @ejmontini You can read diverse opinions from our Board of Contributors and other writers on the Opinion front page, on Twitter @usatodayopinion and in our daily Opinion newsletter. To respond to a column, submit a comment to letters@usatoday.com. Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/03/08/mcsally-rape-disclosure-revive-equal-rights-amendment-arizona-column/3096911002/
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Sally Kohn: Sen. Martha McSally's rape disclosure shows the Equal Rights Amendment is still necessary. Kohn says women in Arizona are planning three days of marches to encourage state lawmakers to pass the ERA. She says the argument against the ERA these days comes from those who say its not needed.
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How Will Calvin Klein Forge Ahead Without Its Runway Collection Division?
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When Calvin Klein Inc. parted ways with Raf Simons, the brand's chief creative officer up until last December, the company said it would relaunch its collection business (the high-end 205W35NYC line Simons presented during fashion week in New York) under a new name and creative approach. However, those plans did not last long at all, as the company announced this week that they have decided to shutter its collection business altogether. As a result, 100 employees in the New York and Milan offices were let go. This also means that Calvin Klein's collection business will no longer show at New York Fashion Week, which marks the culmination of years of runway shows the brand has produced. Parent company PVH was said to have invested between $60-$70 million in Calvin Klein 205W39NYC over the past three years, but they had not seen a financial return on their efforts. While underwear, jeans, and fragrance have always made up the lion's share of the brand's revenues (thanks to lucrative licensing arrangements), the designer collection business was seen as a marketing expense that provided a halo effect for the brand's lower-priced merchandise in department stores. By eliminating that portion of the business entirely, the company appears to believe that a halo business is no longer as important as it once was. But even though the brand will no longer produce a runway collection, they still plan to include some level of aspirational product. That will fall under a new fashion/design director, who would lead design efforts for all product categories. That said, they will likely not higher a big marquee name like Simons to oversee everything. As for how Calvin Klein will go about charting a new future without a designer line, recent projects signal a new and tightened focus on its digital marketing approach. If its recent #MYCALVINS ad campaigns for its jeans line are any indication, efforts to capture the all-important millennial and gen Z market segment are well underway thanks to famous internet-friendly faces and young celebrities with global reach. Some industry analysts point to fellow PVH brand Tommy Hilfiger, which partners with influencers and celebrities like Gigi Hadid and Zendaya on collections that are on the affordable-premium end of the price spectrum. The company stages grand events during fashion week all over the world showcasing these special lines each season but does not set out to show a high-end designer collection. A similar approach might very suit well Calvin Klein, a brand with already great name recognition that, like Tommy Hilfiger, gets the bulk of its sales through lower-priced clothes at mass retailers. With a strong foundation, brand perception, and marketing team behind it, Calvin Klein understood that investing in an expensive collection business was no longer needed. Even though its runway shows attracted plenty of hype and celebrities in the front row, the new Calvin Klein will have a different approach to building buzz moving forward. Only time will tell how these efforts will play out in the long run.
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How Will Calvin Klein Forge Ahead Without Its Runway Collection Division?
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When Calvin Klein Inc. parted ways with Raf Simons, the brand's chief creative officer up until last December, the company said it would relaunch its collection business (the high-end 205W35NYC line Simons presented during fashion week in New York) under a new name and creative approach. However, those plans did not last long at all, as the company announced this week that they have decided to shutter its collection business altogether. As a result, 100 employees in the New York and Milan offices were let go. This also means that Calvin Klein's collection business will no longer show at New York Fashion Week, which marks the culmination of years of runway shows the brand has produced. Parent company PVH was said to have invested between $60-$70 million in Calvin Klein 205W39NYC over the past three years, but they had not seen a financial return on their efforts. While underwear, jeans, and fragrance have always made up the lion's share of the brand's revenues (thanks to lucrative licensing arrangements), the designer collection business was seen as a marketing expense that provided a halo effect for the brand's lower-priced merchandise in department stores. By eliminating that portion of the business entirely, the company appears to believe that a halo business is no longer as important as it once was. But even though the brand will no longer produce a runway collection, they still plan to include some level of aspirational product. That will fall under a new fashion/design director, who would lead design efforts for all product categories. That said, they will likely not higher a big marquee name like Simons to oversee everything. As for how Calvin Klein will go about charting a new future without a designer line, recent projects signal a new and tightened focus on its digital marketing approach. If its recent #MYCALVINS ad campaigns for its jeans line are any indication, efforts to capture the all-important millennial and gen Z market segment are well underway thanks to famous internet-friendly faces and young celebrities with global reach. Some industry analysts point to fellow PVH brand Tommy Hilfiger, which partners with influencers and celebrities like Gigi Hadid and Zendaya on collections that are on the affordable-premium end of the price spectrum. The company stages grand events during fashion week all over the world showcasing these special lines each season but does not set out to show a high-end designer collection. A similar approach might very suit well Calvin Klein, a brand with already great name recognition that, like Tommy Hilfiger, gets the bulk of its sales through lower-priced clothes at mass retailers. With a strong foundation, brand perception, and marketing team behind it, Calvin Klein understood that investing in an expensive collection business was no longer needed. Even though its runway shows attracted plenty of hype and celebrities in the front row, the new Calvin Klein will have a different approach to building buzz moving forward. Only time will tell how these efforts will play out in the long run.
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The Calvin Klein collection business has been shut down. The company will continue to produce an aspirational collection. The brand is focusing on digital marketing to gain millennials and Gen Z market share, which is key to the future of the brand. The new Calvin Klein will likely not higher a big marquee name like Simons to oversee everything.
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What Are Women Most Afraid Of?
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Fear can be a driver, fear can be a long-time companion, and fear can also be an obstacle between you and your next step. Be it in your career or your private life, youll come across it all the time. On the occasion of International Womens Day, lets have a look at what women are afraid of and how they can conquer their fears. After all, International Womens Day is about womens empowerment and giving them a seat at the table (and not a flower). Their employer First things first. Women spend most of their time at work. And this is also where they face one of their biggest fearsthe employer. Women represent half of the workforce, they are often the main caregiver when it comes to children. Before having them, the fear already starts. A survey by the London Business School revealed that 70 % of women felt anxious about taking a career break. Ill let you imagine what effects this has on their performance and willingness to take risks. To clarify, its not only about taking a career break to raise children, its also about taking a career break to take a time out, travel, volunteer or look after older family members. Supported by The Rockefeller Foundation, the Thomson Reuters Foundation wanted to find out more about the key challenges that women faced at work. Findings show that 47 % of women across G20 countries believed that having children wasnt damaging for their career. There are huge differences between the countries, though. In Brazil, 74% of the respondents said that a child wouldnt damage their career whereas in Germany only 21% of the women chose the same answer. The fear is real. Other women Its very often the elephant in the room and nobody wants to touch upon this topic. But its a fact, women are often the biggest critics of other women. As an #IamRemarkable facilitator, I also often hear this from my participants. Especially when it comes to self-promotion or talking about ones achievements, women will be always perceived as braggers by both men and women. Theres also scientific evidence for this in case youre looking for some hard facts. After all, its a very emotional topic as well. The amplification strategy used by female staffers of the Obama administration is an excellent way to combat the anti-self-promotion tendency. Its as simple as this: When a woman made a key point, other women would repeat it, giving credit to its author. Share this piece of guidance with your female colleagues and use it at your next meeting! Its more powerful than an 8th March greeting card and flowers. Success Yes, you read it correctly. Women fear success. Its a consequence of the previous points. Imagine that you live with a constant fear of being judged the natural reaction is to keep a low profile and to not try to make yourself too noticeable. You might be afraid of the attention that youd get once you have more success and climb the career ladder. Its not all bad out there, but this is how many working women feel. The higher the fear of success, the higher the discouragement from competing for the achievements. This is just one of the findings from the article Fear of Success on Women's Career Development: A Research and Future Agenda. Themselves It might seem contradictory or even schizophrenic, but it is what it is. Were afraid of ourselves and our potential. If you can relate to it, you might want to send the following quote to your friend, sister, mother, daughter. And it would also look great on a Post-it on your computer. Its a daily reminder to believe in yourself, to not give up on yourself. Happy International Womens Day!
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Is Gronk's Boston condo being for sale an indicator of his future with Patriots?
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originally appeared on nbcsportsboston.com It's another offseason of uncertainty for the Patriots and their fans as they again await a decision from Rob Gronkowski on whether he'll continue his football career or retire. Scroll to continue with content Ad On one hand, the All-Pro tight end has still been frequenting the team facility at Gillette Stadium since the Super Bowl, on the other, the seaport condo that is likely his Boston digs was just put on the market for $2.4 million. While the listing agent for the property wouldn't reveal the name of the owner to Boston Magazine, the Boston Herald reported back in 2016 that the penthouse sold to Gronkowski Endorsements LLC for $1.9 million. Here's a look at the place, via zillow.com: While a mere real estate sale doesn't begin to predict a player's future, that didn't stop the speculation to begin that Gronk has his bags packed and he's ready to kick that movie career into high gear. https://t.co/cB8I9coBTN Mike Mutnansky (@MutWEEI) March 7, 2019 Story continues Earlier this week, NBC Sports Boston Patriots Insider Tom E. Curran wrote that getting Gronk some help at tight end, after the Patriots released Dwyane Allen, could be a factor in the big guy's decision, along with him not exactly being ecstatic about his contract situation. Click here to download the new MyTeams App by NBC Sports! Receive comprehensive coverage of your teams and stream the Celtics easily on your device.
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Rob Gronkowski's Boston condo is on the market for $2.4 million. The All-Pro tight end has yet to make a decision on his NFL future.
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Is Gronk's Boston condo being for sale an indicator of his future with Patriots?
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originally appeared on nbcsportsboston.com It's another offseason of uncertainty for the Patriots and their fans as they again await a decision from Rob Gronkowski on whether he'll continue his football career or retire. Scroll to continue with content Ad On one hand, the All-Pro tight end has still been frequenting the team facility at Gillette Stadium since the Super Bowl, on the other, the seaport condo that is likely his Boston digs was just put on the market for $2.4 million. While the listing agent for the property wouldn't reveal the name of the owner to Boston Magazine, the Boston Herald reported back in 2016 that the penthouse sold to Gronkowski Endorsements LLC for $1.9 million. Here's a look at the place, via zillow.com: While a mere real estate sale doesn't begin to predict a player's future, that didn't stop the speculation to begin that Gronk has his bags packed and he's ready to kick that movie career into high gear. https://t.co/cB8I9coBTN Mike Mutnansky (@MutWEEI) March 7, 2019 Story continues Earlier this week, NBC Sports Boston Patriots Insider Tom E. Curran wrote that getting Gronk some help at tight end, after the Patriots released Dwyane Allen, could be a factor in the big guy's decision, along with him not exactly being ecstatic about his contract situation. Click here to download the new MyTeams App by NBC Sports! Receive comprehensive coverage of your teams and stream the Celtics easily on your device.
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Rob Gronkowski's Boston condo is on the market for $2.4 million. The All-Pro tight end has yet to announce whether he'll continue his football career or retire. Gronkowski has been spotted at the team's facility since the Super Bowl. The Patriots have not commented on the condo sale.
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Should Mike Trout join Bryce Harper in Philadelphia?
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By Daniel Tran Newly signed Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper did not take long to recruit some help. He told reporters he would be crazy not to try and recruit Mike Trout, a potential free agent in 2020, to play for the team. Trout is considered the best player in the league and teaming with Harper could give him a great chance at a championship. However, Trout is a competitor and teaming with a rival like Harper wouldnt be great for MLB. Trout has been languishing on an Angels team that is going nowhere. Joining Harper, to a city closer to his family and home to the beloved Eagles is a no-brainer. Imagine seeing two of the best players in the game teaming up, flying around the field and hitting homer after homer. The league would be better seeing what these two can do together. They should be on the same team! MLB rumors: Angels cry foul over Mike Trout tampering | Phillies Bryce Harper stands by comments, gets a talking to by front office (UPDATE) Bryce Harper signed a 13-year, $330 million contract with the Phillies. Angels CF Mike Trout will be a free agent in 2020. When Kevin Durant joined the Golden State Warriors, people killed him for destroying the competitive balance and running away from a challenge. If Trout loves baseball as much as he says he does, he wont form a super-team with Harper. Baseball needs rivalries like this. There is only so much Chicago-St. Louis, New York-Boston and Los Angeles-San Francisco people can take. Trout and Harper clashing on opposite sides of the field trying to one-up each other is what MLB needs to happen. A squad with Trout and Harper would be horrible for the league. Its disrespectful to the Angels and to the greater game to start trying to influence a guys future ahead of time. - Tony La Russa on Bryce Harpers recruitment of Mike Trout pic.twitter.com/AsRSj5gNlH Golic and Wingo (@GolicAndWingo) March 7, 2019 The Tylt is focused on debates and conversations around news, current events and pop culture. We provide our community with the opportunity to share their opinions and vote on topics that matter most to them. We actively engage the community and present meaningful data on the debates and conversations as they progress. The Tylt is a place where your opinion counts, literally. The Tylt is an Advance Local Media, LLC property. Join us on Twitter @TheTylt, on Instagram @TheTylt or on Facebook, wed love to hear what you have to say.
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Should Mike Trout join Bryce Harper in Philadelphia?
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By Daniel Tran Newly signed Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper did not take long to recruit some help. He told reporters he would be crazy not to try and recruit Mike Trout, a potential free agent in 2020, to play for the team. Trout is considered the best player in the league and teaming with Harper could give him a great chance at a championship. However, Trout is a competitor and teaming with a rival like Harper wouldnt be great for MLB. Trout has been languishing on an Angels team that is going nowhere. Joining Harper, to a city closer to his family and home to the beloved Eagles is a no-brainer. Imagine seeing two of the best players in the game teaming up, flying around the field and hitting homer after homer. The league would be better seeing what these two can do together. They should be on the same team! MLB rumors: Angels cry foul over Mike Trout tampering | Phillies Bryce Harper stands by comments, gets a talking to by front office (UPDATE) Bryce Harper signed a 13-year, $330 million contract with the Phillies. Angels CF Mike Trout will be a free agent in 2020. When Kevin Durant joined the Golden State Warriors, people killed him for destroying the competitive balance and running away from a challenge. If Trout loves baseball as much as he says he does, he wont form a super-team with Harper. Baseball needs rivalries like this. There is only so much Chicago-St. Louis, New York-Boston and Los Angeles-San Francisco people can take. Trout and Harper clashing on opposite sides of the field trying to one-up each other is what MLB needs to happen. A squad with Trout and Harper would be horrible for the league. Its disrespectful to the Angels and to the greater game to start trying to influence a guys future ahead of time. - Tony La Russa on Bryce Harpers recruitment of Mike Trout pic.twitter.com/AsRSj5gNlH Golic and Wingo (@GolicAndWingo) March 7, 2019 The Tylt is focused on debates and conversations around news, current events and pop culture. We provide our community with the opportunity to share their opinions and vote on topics that matter most to them. We actively engage the community and present meaningful data on the debates and conversations as they progress. The Tylt is a place where your opinion counts, literally. The Tylt is an Advance Local Media, LLC property. Join us on Twitter @TheTylt, on Instagram @TheTylt or on Facebook, wed love to hear what you have to say.
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Should Mike Trout join Bryce Harper in Philadelphia?
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By Daniel Tran Newly signed Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper did not take long to recruit some help. He told reporters he would be crazy not to try and recruit Mike Trout, a potential free agent in 2020, to play for the team. Trout is considered the best player in the league and teaming with Harper could give him a great chance at a championship. However, Trout is a competitor and teaming with a rival like Harper wouldnt be great for MLB. Trout has been languishing on an Angels team that is going nowhere. Joining Harper, to a city closer to his family and home to the beloved Eagles is a no-brainer. Imagine seeing two of the best players in the game teaming up, flying around the field and hitting homer after homer. The league would be better seeing what these two can do together. They should be on the same team! MLB rumors: Angels cry foul over Mike Trout tampering | Phillies Bryce Harper stands by comments, gets a talking to by front office (UPDATE) Bryce Harper signed a 13-year, $330 million contract with the Phillies. Angels CF Mike Trout will be a free agent in 2020. When Kevin Durant joined the Golden State Warriors, people killed him for destroying the competitive balance and running away from a challenge. If Trout loves baseball as much as he says he does, he wont form a super-team with Harper. Baseball needs rivalries like this. There is only so much Chicago-St. Louis, New York-Boston and Los Angeles-San Francisco people can take. Trout and Harper clashing on opposite sides of the field trying to one-up each other is what MLB needs to happen. A squad with Trout and Harper would be horrible for the league. Its disrespectful to the Angels and to the greater game to start trying to influence a guys future ahead of time. - Tony La Russa on Bryce Harpers recruitment of Mike Trout pic.twitter.com/AsRSj5gNlH Golic and Wingo (@GolicAndWingo) March 7, 2019 The Tylt is focused on debates and conversations around news, current events and pop culture. We provide our community with the opportunity to share their opinions and vote on topics that matter most to them. We actively engage the community and present meaningful data on the debates and conversations as they progress. The Tylt is a place where your opinion counts, literally. The Tylt is an Advance Local Media, LLC property. Join us on Twitter @TheTylt, on Instagram @TheTylt or on Facebook, wed love to hear what you have to say.
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Did late SF Public Defender Jeff Adachi keep plea deals secret from clients?
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In the two weeks since Public Defender Jeff Adachis shocking death, admirers of the larger-than-life attorney have praised his aggressiveness, his brashness and his never-give-up courtroom style. At his City Hall memorial on Monday, he was eulogized as, Our sensei Superman ... fighting for truth, justice and the American way. During a Board of Supervisors commemoration the week before, Supervisor Hillary Ronen said Adachi told attorneys in the public defenders office, including her husband, to fight with everything theyve got for every single client to take risks, to push boundaries. Theres no question that Adachi pushed enough boundaries to turn the office into the premier public defenders unit in the country. It is funded and staffed to match, and often trounce, the district attorneys office. This happened to be a matter I was looking into shortly before his death and one that was the subject of my last interview with Adachi. At issue were court records suggesting attorneys in the Public Defenders Office failed to tell their clients of plea deals offered by the district attorney, instead insisting the cases go to trial. Failing to convey plea offers is an offense so anathema to proper legal conduct, it could get an attorney disbarred. Robert Joy said it happened to him. On Jan. 29, 2016, Joy, then 21, was driving to a hospital where his pregnant wife was in labor. Joy was speeding and struck a traffic control officer, who sustained minor injuries. Joy was quickly arrested and missed the birth of his daughter. He was charged with two felonies, later dropped to two misdemeanors and an infraction, and was represented by an attorney in Adachis office. The case went to trial, and a jury found Joy guilty on all counts on Dec. 18, 2017. He faced up to a year in prison and hired a private attorney, Alexander Guilmartin, to appeal the conviction. Guilmartin sought a new trial on the grounds that Joys public defender had failed to convey a plea deal the district attorneys office offered days before the trial started. Under the deal, if Joy pleaded guilty, paid a fine, completed 80 hours of community service and took a drivers safety course, hed be left with just a single misdemeanor vehicle code violation on his record. Hed also avoid jail time. Mr. Joy proceeded to trial in complete ignorance of this plea offer, Guilmartin wrote in court records. Mr. Joy was similarly unaware of the long-rumored policy of the San Francisco Public Defenders Office to encourage trials in misdemeanor cases, thereby filling courtrooms and forcing favorable resolutions in felony cases. The theory is that Adachi wanted his misdemeanor attorneys to go to trial to take up courtroom space and judges time. That would mean felony trials would take longer to schedule and that witnesses memories could fade, they might move or they could die, resulting in better outcomes for the public defenders clients charged with the most serious crimes. Its a rumor that has circulated at the Hall of Justice and City Hall for years, and one that Adachi flatly disputed. Thats ridiculous, Adachi told me several weeks before he died. That we would try misdemeanor cases for the purposes of delaying felony cases makes absolutely no sense. The clients are completely separate. He did admit proudly that his office takes a lot of misdemeanor cases to trial, more than public defenders offices in other California counties. We do spend a lot of court time trying misdemeanor cases, Adachi said. We spend a lot of time training our attorneys to go to trial, and we encourage our attorneys to go to trial. Encourage might have been an understatement. Adachi set myriad targets for his attorneys each year, including 10 trials each for misdemeanor attorneys. Failure wouldnt necessarily get an attorney fired, but were going to examine what youre doing, he said. He said when he arrived at the Public Defenders Office in 1986, it was a plea-bargaining mill, with clients encouraged to take whatever deal the district attorneys office offered. Now, he explained, most misdemeanor cases are still settled, but taking some cases to trial keeps his attorneys sharp. But going to trial isnt only good for his attorneys, its also good for his clients, Adachi said, because the ultimate verdict is often better for them than the original plea offer. He provided statistics showing the outcomes after trials of misdemeanor cases and felony cases combined were better than the plea offer 59 percent of the time last year and worse just 15 percent of the time. The rest of the time, the outcome matched the plea offer. The District Attorneys Office does not track that data but said it was dubious the statistics were correct. Brian Pearlman, managing attorney of the public defenders misdemeanors unit, answered more of my questions after his boss death. He was adamant that attorneys always convey plea deals and that doing so is a very clear standard in the office. That said, he readily acknowledged that attorneys often try to persuade their clients to reject plea deals and go to trial instead. He said he sometimes spends up to 30 hours over many jail visits trying to persuade a client to reject a plea offer. He gave a hypothetical example of a mentally ill or high man dropping his pants to urinate on a sidewalk. A woman passing by might think he was masturbating, and he could be charged with indecent exposure. But pleading guilty to get out of jail quickly could mean he would have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. The system is set up as a plea mill where they want people to come in, plead guilty and go home, Pearlman said. We empower our attorneys, and in turn, they empower their clients to fight these cases. But clients cant be talked out of accepting a plea offer they never knew about in the first place. And thats the allegation from Joy and a few other clients. There was the case of a man who talked to me on the condition he not be named because he feared losing his security job who was at a Beyonc concert at AT&T Park in 2014 when he swiped tickets for the next nights concert from an office desk. The case dragged on it required dozens of court appearances, he said before he dumped his public defender in frustration and hired a private attorney. Only then did he learn that the district attorneys office had offered him pretrial diversion. If he had taken 12 classes designed to discourage theft, including learning impulse control, his case would have been dropped. Emails reviewed by The Chronicle show his public defender rebuffed the offer of pretrial diversion two minutes after receiving it. The district attorneys office agreed to drop the case after learning the man hadnt been told about the classes. In the 2017 court hearing to end the case, Judge Kay Tsenin said to the defendant, I have my own issues with the way public defenders handle cases in court. I have for 20 years. ... You are speaking to the choir. The man said afterward that when he learned of the pretrial diversion offer, My heart was pounding. I couldnt believe it. Adachi had said that in the Beyonc case and the Robert Joy case, the men simply werent telling the truth. They had been informed of the offers and rejected them, he said. Its not unusual for a client to have second thoughts, Adachi said. Im 100 percent certain our attorneys completely complied with our offices procedure that each and every offer be conveyed. In a third case, defendant Benjamin Chase was convicted of multiple crimes related to a home burglary. Chase requested that the court appoint a new attorney because his public defender had failed to tell the prosecutor that he had accepted an offer to plead guilty to one count of residential burglary in exchange for two years in state prison. I at no time wanted to ever go to trial, Chase said in court, according to a transcript. The Court of Appeal sided with Chase in May 2018 and granted him a new trial. The district attorneys office agreed to allow Chase to take the original deal of two years in state prison. Adachi said his attorney had been deep into another trial and immediately left for an international vacation, thinking the offer would still be on the table when she returned. But in the meantime, a different prosecutor was assigned to the case, and the offer was removed. Court records show similar patterns in a few other cases, though Adachi had explanations for each one. District Attorney George Gascn declined to comment for this column. His spokesman, Max Szabo, talked about the matter before Adachis death. He said that because prosecutors cant talk to defendants, its extremely rare for these kinds of allegations to surface. Thats why having this many occurrences surface publicly is so concerning, he said. Its impossible to know how many other defendants are out there who dont even know an offer was conveyed. He added: Attorneys are required to make the interests of their client paramount, not their own interests, and certainly not the interests of their boss. If the public defender is pushing his attorneys to go to trial, and reportedly rewarding them for it, that would seem to create an office-wide conflict. The reward can include a promotion to the felony unit after completing 20 misdemeanor trials. Pearlman said that number is not a hard-and-fast rule but added, Around 20 trials is a good barometer. The case of Joy, the new dad who hit the traffic control officer, was before Judge Stephen Murphy in November. Joys private attorney asked that his convictions be vacated and that he be allowed to take the original plea deal. Murphy agreed. I asked Joy what he planned to do now that the nearly three-year ordeal is over. Live my life, he said. Do some community service, too, his lawyer interjected. Yes, community service and take care of my children, Joy said. Thank God. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight appears Sundays and Tuesdays. Email: hknight@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @hknightsf
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Did late SF Public Defender Jeff Adachi keep plea deals secret from clients?
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In the two weeks since Public Defender Jeff Adachis shocking death, admirers of the larger-than-life attorney have praised his aggressiveness, his brashness and his never-give-up courtroom style. At his City Hall memorial on Monday, he was eulogized as, Our sensei Superman ... fighting for truth, justice and the American way. During a Board of Supervisors commemoration the week before, Supervisor Hillary Ronen said Adachi told attorneys in the public defenders office, including her husband, to fight with everything theyve got for every single client to take risks, to push boundaries. Theres no question that Adachi pushed enough boundaries to turn the office into the premier public defenders unit in the country. It is funded and staffed to match, and often trounce, the district attorneys office. This happened to be a matter I was looking into shortly before his death and one that was the subject of my last interview with Adachi. At issue were court records suggesting attorneys in the Public Defenders Office failed to tell their clients of plea deals offered by the district attorney, instead insisting the cases go to trial. Failing to convey plea offers is an offense so anathema to proper legal conduct, it could get an attorney disbarred. Robert Joy said it happened to him. On Jan. 29, 2016, Joy, then 21, was driving to a hospital where his pregnant wife was in labor. Joy was speeding and struck a traffic control officer, who sustained minor injuries. Joy was quickly arrested and missed the birth of his daughter. He was charged with two felonies, later dropped to two misdemeanors and an infraction, and was represented by an attorney in Adachis office. The case went to trial, and a jury found Joy guilty on all counts on Dec. 18, 2017. He faced up to a year in prison and hired a private attorney, Alexander Guilmartin, to appeal the conviction. Guilmartin sought a new trial on the grounds that Joys public defender had failed to convey a plea deal the district attorneys office offered days before the trial started. Under the deal, if Joy pleaded guilty, paid a fine, completed 80 hours of community service and took a drivers safety course, hed be left with just a single misdemeanor vehicle code violation on his record. Hed also avoid jail time. Mr. Joy proceeded to trial in complete ignorance of this plea offer, Guilmartin wrote in court records. Mr. Joy was similarly unaware of the long-rumored policy of the San Francisco Public Defenders Office to encourage trials in misdemeanor cases, thereby filling courtrooms and forcing favorable resolutions in felony cases. The theory is that Adachi wanted his misdemeanor attorneys to go to trial to take up courtroom space and judges time. That would mean felony trials would take longer to schedule and that witnesses memories could fade, they might move or they could die, resulting in better outcomes for the public defenders clients charged with the most serious crimes. Its a rumor that has circulated at the Hall of Justice and City Hall for years, and one that Adachi flatly disputed. Thats ridiculous, Adachi told me several weeks before he died. That we would try misdemeanor cases for the purposes of delaying felony cases makes absolutely no sense. The clients are completely separate. He did admit proudly that his office takes a lot of misdemeanor cases to trial, more than public defenders offices in other California counties. We do spend a lot of court time trying misdemeanor cases, Adachi said. We spend a lot of time training our attorneys to go to trial, and we encourage our attorneys to go to trial. Encourage might have been an understatement. Adachi set myriad targets for his attorneys each year, including 10 trials each for misdemeanor attorneys. Failure wouldnt necessarily get an attorney fired, but were going to examine what youre doing, he said. He said when he arrived at the Public Defenders Office in 1986, it was a plea-bargaining mill, with clients encouraged to take whatever deal the district attorneys office offered. Now, he explained, most misdemeanor cases are still settled, but taking some cases to trial keeps his attorneys sharp. But going to trial isnt only good for his attorneys, its also good for his clients, Adachi said, because the ultimate verdict is often better for them than the original plea offer. He provided statistics showing the outcomes after trials of misdemeanor cases and felony cases combined were better than the plea offer 59 percent of the time last year and worse just 15 percent of the time. The rest of the time, the outcome matched the plea offer. The District Attorneys Office does not track that data but said it was dubious the statistics were correct. Brian Pearlman, managing attorney of the public defenders misdemeanors unit, answered more of my questions after his boss death. He was adamant that attorneys always convey plea deals and that doing so is a very clear standard in the office. That said, he readily acknowledged that attorneys often try to persuade their clients to reject plea deals and go to trial instead. He said he sometimes spends up to 30 hours over many jail visits trying to persuade a client to reject a plea offer. He gave a hypothetical example of a mentally ill or high man dropping his pants to urinate on a sidewalk. A woman passing by might think he was masturbating, and he could be charged with indecent exposure. But pleading guilty to get out of jail quickly could mean he would have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. The system is set up as a plea mill where they want people to come in, plead guilty and go home, Pearlman said. We empower our attorneys, and in turn, they empower their clients to fight these cases. But clients cant be talked out of accepting a plea offer they never knew about in the first place. And thats the allegation from Joy and a few other clients. There was the case of a man who talked to me on the condition he not be named because he feared losing his security job who was at a Beyonc concert at AT&T Park in 2014 when he swiped tickets for the next nights concert from an office desk. The case dragged on it required dozens of court appearances, he said before he dumped his public defender in frustration and hired a private attorney. Only then did he learn that the district attorneys office had offered him pretrial diversion. If he had taken 12 classes designed to discourage theft, including learning impulse control, his case would have been dropped. Emails reviewed by The Chronicle show his public defender rebuffed the offer of pretrial diversion two minutes after receiving it. The district attorneys office agreed to drop the case after learning the man hadnt been told about the classes. In the 2017 court hearing to end the case, Judge Kay Tsenin said to the defendant, I have my own issues with the way public defenders handle cases in court. I have for 20 years. ... You are speaking to the choir. The man said afterward that when he learned of the pretrial diversion offer, My heart was pounding. I couldnt believe it. Adachi had said that in the Beyonc case and the Robert Joy case, the men simply werent telling the truth. They had been informed of the offers and rejected them, he said. Its not unusual for a client to have second thoughts, Adachi said. Im 100 percent certain our attorneys completely complied with our offices procedure that each and every offer be conveyed. In a third case, defendant Benjamin Chase was convicted of multiple crimes related to a home burglary. Chase requested that the court appoint a new attorney because his public defender had failed to tell the prosecutor that he had accepted an offer to plead guilty to one count of residential burglary in exchange for two years in state prison. I at no time wanted to ever go to trial, Chase said in court, according to a transcript. The Court of Appeal sided with Chase in May 2018 and granted him a new trial. The district attorneys office agreed to allow Chase to take the original deal of two years in state prison. Adachi said his attorney had been deep into another trial and immediately left for an international vacation, thinking the offer would still be on the table when she returned. But in the meantime, a different prosecutor was assigned to the case, and the offer was removed. Court records show similar patterns in a few other cases, though Adachi had explanations for each one. District Attorney George Gascn declined to comment for this column. His spokesman, Max Szabo, talked about the matter before Adachis death. He said that because prosecutors cant talk to defendants, its extremely rare for these kinds of allegations to surface. Thats why having this many occurrences surface publicly is so concerning, he said. Its impossible to know how many other defendants are out there who dont even know an offer was conveyed. He added: Attorneys are required to make the interests of their client paramount, not their own interests, and certainly not the interests of their boss. If the public defender is pushing his attorneys to go to trial, and reportedly rewarding them for it, that would seem to create an office-wide conflict. The reward can include a promotion to the felony unit after completing 20 misdemeanor trials. Pearlman said that number is not a hard-and-fast rule but added, Around 20 trials is a good barometer. The case of Joy, the new dad who hit the traffic control officer, was before Judge Stephen Murphy in November. Joys private attorney asked that his convictions be vacated and that he be allowed to take the original plea deal. Murphy agreed. I asked Joy what he planned to do now that the nearly three-year ordeal is over. Live my life, he said. Do some community service, too, his lawyer interjected. Yes, community service and take care of my children, Joy said. Thank God. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight appears Sundays and Tuesdays. Email: hknight@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @hknightsf
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Ruben Navarrette: San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi was known for his aggressiveness. He says Adachi's office was accused of failing to tell clients of plea deals offered by DA.
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Did late SF Public Defender Jeff Adachi keep plea deals secret from clients?
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In the two weeks since Public Defender Jeff Adachis shocking death, admirers of the larger-than-life attorney have praised his aggressiveness, his brashness and his never-give-up courtroom style. At his City Hall memorial on Monday, he was eulogized as, Our sensei Superman ... fighting for truth, justice and the American way. During a Board of Supervisors commemoration the week before, Supervisor Hillary Ronen said Adachi told attorneys in the public defenders office, including her husband, to fight with everything theyve got for every single client to take risks, to push boundaries. Theres no question that Adachi pushed enough boundaries to turn the office into the premier public defenders unit in the country. It is funded and staffed to match, and often trounce, the district attorneys office. This happened to be a matter I was looking into shortly before his death and one that was the subject of my last interview with Adachi. At issue were court records suggesting attorneys in the Public Defenders Office failed to tell their clients of plea deals offered by the district attorney, instead insisting the cases go to trial. Failing to convey plea offers is an offense so anathema to proper legal conduct, it could get an attorney disbarred. Robert Joy said it happened to him. On Jan. 29, 2016, Joy, then 21, was driving to a hospital where his pregnant wife was in labor. Joy was speeding and struck a traffic control officer, who sustained minor injuries. Joy was quickly arrested and missed the birth of his daughter. He was charged with two felonies, later dropped to two misdemeanors and an infraction, and was represented by an attorney in Adachis office. The case went to trial, and a jury found Joy guilty on all counts on Dec. 18, 2017. He faced up to a year in prison and hired a private attorney, Alexander Guilmartin, to appeal the conviction. Guilmartin sought a new trial on the grounds that Joys public defender had failed to convey a plea deal the district attorneys office offered days before the trial started. Under the deal, if Joy pleaded guilty, paid a fine, completed 80 hours of community service and took a drivers safety course, hed be left with just a single misdemeanor vehicle code violation on his record. Hed also avoid jail time. Mr. Joy proceeded to trial in complete ignorance of this plea offer, Guilmartin wrote in court records. Mr. Joy was similarly unaware of the long-rumored policy of the San Francisco Public Defenders Office to encourage trials in misdemeanor cases, thereby filling courtrooms and forcing favorable resolutions in felony cases. The theory is that Adachi wanted his misdemeanor attorneys to go to trial to take up courtroom space and judges time. That would mean felony trials would take longer to schedule and that witnesses memories could fade, they might move or they could die, resulting in better outcomes for the public defenders clients charged with the most serious crimes. Its a rumor that has circulated at the Hall of Justice and City Hall for years, and one that Adachi flatly disputed. Thats ridiculous, Adachi told me several weeks before he died. That we would try misdemeanor cases for the purposes of delaying felony cases makes absolutely no sense. The clients are completely separate. He did admit proudly that his office takes a lot of misdemeanor cases to trial, more than public defenders offices in other California counties. We do spend a lot of court time trying misdemeanor cases, Adachi said. We spend a lot of time training our attorneys to go to trial, and we encourage our attorneys to go to trial. Encourage might have been an understatement. Adachi set myriad targets for his attorneys each year, including 10 trials each for misdemeanor attorneys. Failure wouldnt necessarily get an attorney fired, but were going to examine what youre doing, he said. He said when he arrived at the Public Defenders Office in 1986, it was a plea-bargaining mill, with clients encouraged to take whatever deal the district attorneys office offered. Now, he explained, most misdemeanor cases are still settled, but taking some cases to trial keeps his attorneys sharp. But going to trial isnt only good for his attorneys, its also good for his clients, Adachi said, because the ultimate verdict is often better for them than the original plea offer. He provided statistics showing the outcomes after trials of misdemeanor cases and felony cases combined were better than the plea offer 59 percent of the time last year and worse just 15 percent of the time. The rest of the time, the outcome matched the plea offer. The District Attorneys Office does not track that data but said it was dubious the statistics were correct. Brian Pearlman, managing attorney of the public defenders misdemeanors unit, answered more of my questions after his boss death. He was adamant that attorneys always convey plea deals and that doing so is a very clear standard in the office. That said, he readily acknowledged that attorneys often try to persuade their clients to reject plea deals and go to trial instead. He said he sometimes spends up to 30 hours over many jail visits trying to persuade a client to reject a plea offer. He gave a hypothetical example of a mentally ill or high man dropping his pants to urinate on a sidewalk. A woman passing by might think he was masturbating, and he could be charged with indecent exposure. But pleading guilty to get out of jail quickly could mean he would have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. The system is set up as a plea mill where they want people to come in, plead guilty and go home, Pearlman said. We empower our attorneys, and in turn, they empower their clients to fight these cases. But clients cant be talked out of accepting a plea offer they never knew about in the first place. And thats the allegation from Joy and a few other clients. There was the case of a man who talked to me on the condition he not be named because he feared losing his security job who was at a Beyonc concert at AT&T Park in 2014 when he swiped tickets for the next nights concert from an office desk. The case dragged on it required dozens of court appearances, he said before he dumped his public defender in frustration and hired a private attorney. Only then did he learn that the district attorneys office had offered him pretrial diversion. If he had taken 12 classes designed to discourage theft, including learning impulse control, his case would have been dropped. Emails reviewed by The Chronicle show his public defender rebuffed the offer of pretrial diversion two minutes after receiving it. The district attorneys office agreed to drop the case after learning the man hadnt been told about the classes. In the 2017 court hearing to end the case, Judge Kay Tsenin said to the defendant, I have my own issues with the way public defenders handle cases in court. I have for 20 years. ... You are speaking to the choir. The man said afterward that when he learned of the pretrial diversion offer, My heart was pounding. I couldnt believe it. Adachi had said that in the Beyonc case and the Robert Joy case, the men simply werent telling the truth. They had been informed of the offers and rejected them, he said. Its not unusual for a client to have second thoughts, Adachi said. Im 100 percent certain our attorneys completely complied with our offices procedure that each and every offer be conveyed. In a third case, defendant Benjamin Chase was convicted of multiple crimes related to a home burglary. Chase requested that the court appoint a new attorney because his public defender had failed to tell the prosecutor that he had accepted an offer to plead guilty to one count of residential burglary in exchange for two years in state prison. I at no time wanted to ever go to trial, Chase said in court, according to a transcript. The Court of Appeal sided with Chase in May 2018 and granted him a new trial. The district attorneys office agreed to allow Chase to take the original deal of two years in state prison. Adachi said his attorney had been deep into another trial and immediately left for an international vacation, thinking the offer would still be on the table when she returned. But in the meantime, a different prosecutor was assigned to the case, and the offer was removed. Court records show similar patterns in a few other cases, though Adachi had explanations for each one. District Attorney George Gascn declined to comment for this column. His spokesman, Max Szabo, talked about the matter before Adachis death. He said that because prosecutors cant talk to defendants, its extremely rare for these kinds of allegations to surface. Thats why having this many occurrences surface publicly is so concerning, he said. Its impossible to know how many other defendants are out there who dont even know an offer was conveyed. He added: Attorneys are required to make the interests of their client paramount, not their own interests, and certainly not the interests of their boss. If the public defender is pushing his attorneys to go to trial, and reportedly rewarding them for it, that would seem to create an office-wide conflict. The reward can include a promotion to the felony unit after completing 20 misdemeanor trials. Pearlman said that number is not a hard-and-fast rule but added, Around 20 trials is a good barometer. The case of Joy, the new dad who hit the traffic control officer, was before Judge Stephen Murphy in November. Joys private attorney asked that his convictions be vacated and that he be allowed to take the original plea deal. Murphy agreed. I asked Joy what he planned to do now that the nearly three-year ordeal is over. Live my life, he said. Do some community service, too, his lawyer interjected. Yes, community service and take care of my children, Joy said. Thank God. San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight appears Sundays and Tuesdays. Email: hknight@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @hknightsf
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Ruben Navarrette: San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi was known for his aggressiveness. He says Adachi's office was accused of failing to tell clients of plea deals offered by DA. Adachi denied the accusation and said he didn't try misdemeanor cases for the sake of delaying felony cases, he says.
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Youve probably noticed the brown tint to the skies over Denver, and the unhealthy air quality thats been in place through the Front Range much of this week. You can blame this filthy air and the brown skies on a temperature inversion, or an increase in temperature with height. If that sounds unusual, it is. Usually, as you go up in elevation, the air cools (think about the top of a fourteener versus Denver). In an inversion, however, that changes. The air actually warms as you go up in elevation, often due to a change in wind direction with height. We often think about air masses being divided on a horizontal scale. For example, a cold front separates a colder air mass further north from a warmer one to the south. But in this case, the separation is taking place vertically. Northerly and easterly winds are pushing in cold air from the north and east at the surface. But westerly winds above us are bringing in warmer air (and tons of snow to the mountains). Heres the final piece to the brown cloud equation: Colder air is heavier than warmer air. Air molecules are bunched together in a cold air mass, creating an increase in air density. So if a cold and a warm air mass are in place, the colder air will settle toward the surface, while the warm air is usually further up in the atmosphere. Because of that, the warm air essentially acts as a lid on any pollutants that try and escape into the atmosphere. Denvers geography in the lee of the Rocky Mountains often pits it in between two distinctly different air masses; often its warmer, wetter air from the Pacific Ocean to the west, and typically drier and cooler air from the continental air mass to the east. The dividing line between these two different air masses has been centered roughly over Denver this week, and the result is different air masses battling it out over the skies above us. In the meantime, they create a filthy view down below. The longer an inversion goes, usually, the worse air quality gets. Pollutants at the colder surface accrue over time, and they have no way to escape, because of the lid of warmer air above. This week has featured a fairly consistent temperature inversion, allowing pollutants to stay trapped and accumulate. Fortunately, it appears that the inversion will break soon. Weve already started to see an erosion of the Arctic air at the surface temperatures warmed to 50 degrees on Thursday for the first time so far this month. A storm system will brush through Denver on Friday night into Saturday morning, bringing with it some light snow chances, but it should help continue clearing the brown cloud thats been stuck over the Front Range this week. Chris Bianchi is a meteorologist for WeatherNation TV.
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A temperature inversion causes an increase in temperature as you go up in elevation. The inversion allows pollutants to accumulate in the air above Denver. The weather is expected to break soon, but the brown cloud will remain for a few more days, meteorologist says. The brown cloud has been centered roughly over Denver this week.
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Can Cisco Respond To Zoom's Challenge in $20B Videoconferencing Market?
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An entrepreneur starts a company, sells it to a big company, sticks around and watches the acquirer dismantle what worked so well. The entrepreneur gets so frustrated that he leaves to start a new company that will solve all the customer problems that the acquirer has caused -- and strives to win back those customers with a better value proposition. This comes to mind in considering Zoom's efforts to take market share from Cisco Systems in the videoconferencing market which is expected to grow at a 14% annual rate to $20 billion by 2024, according to Global Market Insights. After interviewing people on both sides of this battle, there seems to be room enough for both companies in this market. Yet Zoom strikes me as being more responsive to what customers want than Cisco. (I have no financial interest in the companies mentioned in this post). Before getting into this, let's take a look at how Cisco is doing. In the 1990s I was very impressed by its ability to keep growing at over 40% a year -- abetted by its aggressive strategy of acquiring companies that were attracting budget dollars from its enterprise customers. Cisco is doing pretty well but its shares still trade at 38% below their March 2000 high of $82. Its revenue growth over the last five years has barely budged -- up at a 0.3% average rate to $49.3 billion in 2018 while its net income has been declining at a 59.4% average rate to nearly $6.4 billion, according to Morningstar. One of the companies that Cisco acquired was WebEx. As Zoom CEO Eric Yuan explained in a September 2017 interview, he left Beijing in 1997 to be the founding engineer of WebEx. Cisco Systems bought the video conferencing company in 2007 for $3.2 billion and Yuan stuck around Cisco as a VP in its Collaborative Systems group. In 2011, Yuan left to start Zoom which was then growing faster than the industry. FORBES reported that Zoom grew 300% in 2016 after raising $100 million in January 2017 at a $1 billion valuation. Yuan was not happy with the way Cisco was managing WebEx when he left in 2011. As he said, "I was paid very well as a VP at Cisco. But WebEx was my baby. In 2010 and 2011, I did not see happy customers. I was very embarrassed that I spent so much time on the technology. Why are the customers not happy?" He could not convince Cisco management to fix the problems. As Yuan explained, "Cisco would not change its collaboration strategy. I said I had a different view and left Cisco. 35 to 40 WebEx engineers left with me. Six years later we are doing well with 750,000 customers [up 67% from 450,000 in January 2017]. We are growing thanks to our simplicity, quality, features and price and we have a very high net promoter score of 69." IDC reported that Cisco was the dominant player with Polycom and Huawei taking second and third place. In the third quarter of 2016, Cisco's revenues grew 6.4% and it controlled 46% of the worldwide video conferencing equipment. More recently, Gartner placed Cisco and Zoom in the Leader quadrant of the 2018 Meeting Solutions Magic Quadrant. And by October 2018, Zoom had experienced "triple-digit YoY user and revenue growth and 110% growth in employee headcount," according to Digital Transformation. While Zoom is growing faster, Cisco is not worried. As Aruna Ravichandran, VP of Marketing for Cisco Collaboration, said in a March 7 interview We do not comment on competitors' case studies. In the meetings business customers switch vendors all the time. Our webex.com online e-commerce business is growing rapidly, and I can share with you that last quarter alone Cisco collaboration took 50,000 seats away from Zoom. This is in large part due to the fact that customers are looking for a complete solution [which includes] world-class endpoints, meetings, team collaboration, contact center solutions and more...Our group within Cisco grew 24% last quarter, and 18% in Q1. I spoke with a former Cisco customer who switched to Zoom and he revealed what look to me to be Zoom's considerable competitive advantages -- Zoom understands what this customer wants and its technology and customer service satisfy them better than competitors' do. BAYADA Home Healthcare -- a 28,000 employee, 32,000 client in-home health care service provider switched to Zoom from Cisco and Skype. As BAYADA application manager Dennis Valonne explained in a February 11 interview, [Cisco and Skype] have been relentlessly trying to win us back since we switched to Zoom five years ago. We use video and collaboration tools for remote physician check-ins. We need high quality, reliable video in all locations -- not just the ones with high bandwidth. Zoom was the only one that could deliver that. Zoom was easier to use, cloud-based, did not require a hardware investment, and its pricing model -- free for up to 500 users -- made it convenient to try without an investment. We reconsider our videoconferencing needs every year -- but we stay with Zoom because they listen to what we ask for and unlike the others, they actually provide it. For example, we asked for digital signage and room scheduling and they delivered. Valonne does not know why it is so difficult for other providers to respond to its needs. As he said, "Sometimes when a company gets too big it becomes too political. It is hard to push change through. Eric Yang has a culture of really listening to customers and responding." Zoom does not always add the features that customers want -- but it does listen and execute when it sees a significant market opportunity. As Jim Mercer, Zoom's head of customer success, explained in a February 22 interview, Before Zoom I spent 16 years at Citrix and I have seen [market share change hands] based on how well customers are treated. Here execution for the customer is our true north. We have a consultative approach to building our service -- working with our customers and our product development teams. We listen and implement features if enough customers request them. We have a customer advisory board for our up-market customers and use AI and automated tools to boost engagement with our product for down-market customers. When it comes to the onboarding process for new customers, some of our competitors merely provide video tutorials and a one page PDF. Another Zoom customer, Autodesk, switched from many audio and video conferencing to Zoom alone -- starting with an April 2017 pilot. According to a March 7 interview with Prakash Kota, CIO, Autodesk, "We enjoy working with Zoom due to high employee adoption and satisfaction rates. [Zoom best met our requirements for] a secure, modern global solution that was platform agnostic, 30 frames per second content share, and the ability for external participants to easily join and collaborate." Zoom is growing at over 100% a year while Cisco's videoconferencing revenues rose 18%. If Cisco can surpass Zoom's competitive advantages, it will be in a better position to sustain its market share lead.
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Can Cisco Respond To Zoom's Challenge in $20B Videoconferencing Market?
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An entrepreneur starts a company, sells it to a big company, sticks around and watches the acquirer dismantle what worked so well. The entrepreneur gets so frustrated that he leaves to start a new company that will solve all the customer problems that the acquirer has caused -- and strives to win back those customers with a better value proposition. This comes to mind in considering Zoom's efforts to take market share from Cisco Systems in the videoconferencing market which is expected to grow at a 14% annual rate to $20 billion by 2024, according to Global Market Insights. After interviewing people on both sides of this battle, there seems to be room enough for both companies in this market. Yet Zoom strikes me as being more responsive to what customers want than Cisco. (I have no financial interest in the companies mentioned in this post). Before getting into this, let's take a look at how Cisco is doing. In the 1990s I was very impressed by its ability to keep growing at over 40% a year -- abetted by its aggressive strategy of acquiring companies that were attracting budget dollars from its enterprise customers. Cisco is doing pretty well but its shares still trade at 38% below their March 2000 high of $82. Its revenue growth over the last five years has barely budged -- up at a 0.3% average rate to $49.3 billion in 2018 while its net income has been declining at a 59.4% average rate to nearly $6.4 billion, according to Morningstar. One of the companies that Cisco acquired was WebEx. As Zoom CEO Eric Yuan explained in a September 2017 interview, he left Beijing in 1997 to be the founding engineer of WebEx. Cisco Systems bought the video conferencing company in 2007 for $3.2 billion and Yuan stuck around Cisco as a VP in its Collaborative Systems group. In 2011, Yuan left to start Zoom which was then growing faster than the industry. FORBES reported that Zoom grew 300% in 2016 after raising $100 million in January 2017 at a $1 billion valuation. Yuan was not happy with the way Cisco was managing WebEx when he left in 2011. As he said, "I was paid very well as a VP at Cisco. But WebEx was my baby. In 2010 and 2011, I did not see happy customers. I was very embarrassed that I spent so much time on the technology. Why are the customers not happy?" He could not convince Cisco management to fix the problems. As Yuan explained, "Cisco would not change its collaboration strategy. I said I had a different view and left Cisco. 35 to 40 WebEx engineers left with me. Six years later we are doing well with 750,000 customers [up 67% from 450,000 in January 2017]. We are growing thanks to our simplicity, quality, features and price and we have a very high net promoter score of 69." IDC reported that Cisco was the dominant player with Polycom and Huawei taking second and third place. In the third quarter of 2016, Cisco's revenues grew 6.4% and it controlled 46% of the worldwide video conferencing equipment. More recently, Gartner placed Cisco and Zoom in the Leader quadrant of the 2018 Meeting Solutions Magic Quadrant. And by October 2018, Zoom had experienced "triple-digit YoY user and revenue growth and 110% growth in employee headcount," according to Digital Transformation. While Zoom is growing faster, Cisco is not worried. As Aruna Ravichandran, VP of Marketing for Cisco Collaboration, said in a March 7 interview We do not comment on competitors' case studies. In the meetings business customers switch vendors all the time. Our webex.com online e-commerce business is growing rapidly, and I can share with you that last quarter alone Cisco collaboration took 50,000 seats away from Zoom. This is in large part due to the fact that customers are looking for a complete solution [which includes] world-class endpoints, meetings, team collaboration, contact center solutions and more...Our group within Cisco grew 24% last quarter, and 18% in Q1. I spoke with a former Cisco customer who switched to Zoom and he revealed what look to me to be Zoom's considerable competitive advantages -- Zoom understands what this customer wants and its technology and customer service satisfy them better than competitors' do. BAYADA Home Healthcare -- a 28,000 employee, 32,000 client in-home health care service provider switched to Zoom from Cisco and Skype. As BAYADA application manager Dennis Valonne explained in a February 11 interview, [Cisco and Skype] have been relentlessly trying to win us back since we switched to Zoom five years ago. We use video and collaboration tools for remote physician check-ins. We need high quality, reliable video in all locations -- not just the ones with high bandwidth. Zoom was the only one that could deliver that. Zoom was easier to use, cloud-based, did not require a hardware investment, and its pricing model -- free for up to 500 users -- made it convenient to try without an investment. We reconsider our videoconferencing needs every year -- but we stay with Zoom because they listen to what we ask for and unlike the others, they actually provide it. For example, we asked for digital signage and room scheduling and they delivered. Valonne does not know why it is so difficult for other providers to respond to its needs. As he said, "Sometimes when a company gets too big it becomes too political. It is hard to push change through. Eric Yang has a culture of really listening to customers and responding." Zoom does not always add the features that customers want -- but it does listen and execute when it sees a significant market opportunity. As Jim Mercer, Zoom's head of customer success, explained in a February 22 interview, Before Zoom I spent 16 years at Citrix and I have seen [market share change hands] based on how well customers are treated. Here execution for the customer is our true north. We have a consultative approach to building our service -- working with our customers and our product development teams. We listen and implement features if enough customers request them. We have a customer advisory board for our up-market customers and use AI and automated tools to boost engagement with our product for down-market customers. When it comes to the onboarding process for new customers, some of our competitors merely provide video tutorials and a one page PDF. Another Zoom customer, Autodesk, switched from many audio and video conferencing to Zoom alone -- starting with an April 2017 pilot. According to a March 7 interview with Prakash Kota, CIO, Autodesk, "We enjoy working with Zoom due to high employee adoption and satisfaction rates. [Zoom best met our requirements for] a secure, modern global solution that was platform agnostic, 30 frames per second content share, and the ability for external participants to easily join and collaborate." Zoom is growing at over 100% a year while Cisco's videoconferencing revenues rose 18%. If Cisco can surpass Zoom's competitive advantages, it will be in a better position to sustain its market share lead.
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Zoom strikes me as being more responsive to what customers want than Cisco. Zoom grew 300% in 2016 after raising $100 million in January 2017 at a $1 billion valuation. In the third quarter of 2016, Cisco's revenues grew 6.4% and it controlled 46% of the worldwide video conferencing equipment.
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Has Miami Heat finally found rotation with playoffs near?
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The weekly Miami Herald Heat mailbag is here to answer your questions. If you werent able to ask one this time, send your questions for future mailbags via Twitter (@Anthony_Chiang). You can also email me at achiang@miamiherald.com. Anthony Chiang: I want to wait a few more games before I answer this question with a yes. There have been other times when it looked like the Heat had found a rotation, only for a few losses to force Erik Spoelstra to shake things up again. But this rotation makes sense. Sign Up and Save Get six months of free digital access to the Miami Herald Starters: Justise Winslow, Dion Waiters, Josh Richardson, Kelly Olynyk and Bam Adebayo. Bench: Dwyane Wade, Goran Dragic, Derrick Jones Jr. and Hassan Whiteside. And, occasionally, Rodney McGruder. It allows the Heats young core of Winslow, Richardson and Adebayo to start games together, with Olynyks stretch-big game complementing Adebayos physical interior presence in the front court. This starting five of Winslow, Waiters, Richardson, Olynyk and Adebayo is a plus-nine in 71 minutes together this season and a plus-14 in 66 minutes together during the past five games since it was instituted as the Heats starting lineup. As for the bench unit, playing Wade, Dragic and Whiteside as reserves seems questionable on the surface. Wade is one of the greatest shooting guards in NBA history, Dragic was the Heats only All-Star last season and Whiteside is the highest-paid player on the roster. But Spoelstra has really tried to pair Dragic and Wade together in the time Dragic has been available since returning from knee surgery, as the two have played 63 minutes together since the All-Star break. And Whiteside has played well off the bench during his career, as he averaged 16.5 points, 12.8 rebounds and 3.5 blocks in 30 games as a reserve in 2015-16. Jones is the perfect bench guy to come in the game and offer athleticism and energy. As for James Johnson, hes just the one left out of the rotation right now. With a surplus of rotation-level players on the Heats roster, theres going to be at least one who doesnt make the cut. Johnson is the one right now. It doesnt help that Johnson owns a team-worst plus-minus of minus-90 this season. Who knows. But its working right now, and thats all the Heat cares about as it fights to make the playoffs. @vickegilaf: Predict where the Heat finishes. No. Anthony: I still think if the Heat makes the playoffs, the eighth seed is the most realistic landing spot. With 18 regular-season games remaining, Miami entered Friday 2.5 games behind No. 7 Brooklyn and No. 6 Detroit. Its going to take a very strong finish from the Heat to pass those teams up, especially with nine of its final 13 regular-season games coming on the road. But the Nets schedule isnt easy either, with a brutal seven-game trip coming later this month. Ill make this prediction: If the Heat posts a 11-7 record the rest of the way to finish 41-41, it will enter the playoffs as the Easts No. 6 seed.
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Miami Heat mailbag: Has Erik Spoelstra found a rotation with playoffs near? Anthony Chiang: It's working right now, and that's all the Heat cares about as it fights to make the playoffs.
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Which newcomers stood out to Ed Orgeron in LSUs 1st spring practice?
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As the LSU football team kicked off spring drills on Thursday (March 8), the Tigers have just five fresh faces on the field that werent present last season. But plenty of them made good first impressions in practice for coach Ed Orgeron. Siaki Apu Ika, a freshman early-enrollee nose tackle from Salt Lake City, was the first defensive player Orgeron mentioned in his post-practice press conference. Apu Ika was outstanding, Orgeron said. I know hes going against the second team, but he had a dominating day. We didnt have pads, but he was dominating. Orgeron, later while talking about the defensive line depth, said Ika looked fantastic in his first LSU spring practice. LSUs Jacob Phillips out for spring drills, Ed Orgeron says, other injury updates K'Lavon Chaisson will be held out of contact, but can practice. Orgeron mentioned freshman cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. in the same breath, saying he had an outstanding practice, adding that Stingley got in some work on punt return. Orgeron dropped Stingleys name again later in the press conference after addressing how star cornerback Kristian Fulton is recovering from foot surgery. Orgeron said he was real impressed with Stingley and Kelvin Joseph in those reps. Though, Thursday wasnt Stingleys first practice with LSU. He practiced with the Tigers before the Fiesta Bowl. Back in December, Orgeron joked about wishing he could have Stingley suit up in the Fiesta Bowl because of LSUs depleted secondary. K'Lavon Chaisson was back at practice after tearing his ACL in September. Junior college transfer tight end TK McClendon, Orgeron said, had some good catches, adding that he looked good in a position that also lacked depth due to injuries last season. McClendon will have plenty of opportunities to get spring reps, as both tight ends Thaddeus Moss and Jamal Pettigrew are 50/50, Orgeron said as they recover from their respective foot and knee surgeries. The third freshman early enrollee, Charles Turner, originally signed with LSU as a center, but he was moved out to tight end. Orgeron said Turner gained like 25 pounds, so they moved him back to offensive line. Charles is quick, really quick and light, Orgeron said. ... But he still has a ways to go.
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As the LSU football team kicked off spring drills on Thursday (March 8), the Tigers have just five fresh faces on the field that werent present last season. But plenty of them made good first impressions in practice for coach Ed Orgeron. Siaki Apu Ika, a freshman early-enrollee nose tackle from Salt Lake City, was the first defensive player Orgeron mentioned in his post-practice press conference. Apu Ika was outstanding, Orgeron said. I know hes going against the second team, but he had a dominating day. We didnt have pads, but he was dominating. Orgeron, later while talking about the defensive line depth, said Ika looked fantastic in his first LSU spring practice. LSUs Jacob Phillips out for spring drills, Ed Orgeron says, other injury updates K'Lavon Chaisson will be held out of contact, but can practice. Orgeron mentioned freshman cornerback Derek Stingley Jr. in the same breath, saying he had an outstanding practice, adding that Stingley got in some work on punt return. Orgeron dropped Stingleys name again later in the press conference after addressing how star cornerback Kristian Fulton is recovering from foot surgery. Orgeron said he was real impressed with Stingley and Kelvin Joseph in those reps. Though, Thursday wasnt Stingleys first practice with LSU. He practiced with the Tigers before the Fiesta Bowl. Back in December, Orgeron joked about wishing he could have Stingley suit up in the Fiesta Bowl because of LSUs depleted secondary. K'Lavon Chaisson was back at practice after tearing his ACL in September. Junior college transfer tight end TK McClendon, Orgeron said, had some good catches, adding that he looked good in a position that also lacked depth due to injuries last season. McClendon will have plenty of opportunities to get spring reps, as both tight ends Thaddeus Moss and Jamal Pettigrew are 50/50, Orgeron said as they recover from their respective foot and knee surgeries. The third freshman early enrollee, Charles Turner, originally signed with LSU as a center, but he was moved out to tight end. Orgeron said Turner gained like 25 pounds, so they moved him back to offensive line. Charles is quick, really quick and light, Orgeron said. ... But he still has a ways to go.
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Will Diamond Producers Association's New Program Help Jewelry Stores Sell Diamonds To Women?
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The Diamond Producers Association has just launched a new campaign to help jewelers tap the other half of the potential diamond marketwomen. The campaign, entitled For Me, From Me, is designed to add extra juice to what the DPA calls the industrys strongest growth engine, self-purchasing women. Today womens self-purchases represent about one-third of all U.S. diamond jewelry sales , which De Beers reports is a $43 billion market. DPAs qualitative research conducted in 2018 helped uncover why women consider natural diamonds the ultimate self-luxury: they can be worn every day with any outfit, they last a lifetime and can be passed down, and they are a good investment because they retain their value, said Kristina Buckley Kayel, managing director of North America for the DPA, in a statement. Our latest campaign celebrates the distinct pride and joy women feel in purchasing a diamond for themselves, a celebration of self that is beautifully embodied by the enduring qualities of a natural diamond. Its timely for the diamond industry to acknowledge the different needs and mindset of the female self-purchaser and position itself to optimally service her, she continued. With the campaign focused specifically on the needs of retailers, the DPA is enrolling leading retailers now to begin using the programs assets, which include videos, media campaign, social media content to share, in-store materials and sales training modules. Ben Janowski, who advises retailers, manufacturers and organizations in the gem and jewelry markets, doesnt think so. Not the good ones, he quips. No good jewelry retailer is going to sleep on this concept. Sure, stores need help in terms of displays, promotional materials and internet resources, but retailers are doing all they can to move diamonds, Janowski adds. Women havent been sitting on their hands either regarding diamonds. Research among millennial women conducted by MVI Marketing found that diamond jewelry was their number one choice for jewelry self-purchase, with 51% of women reporting they purchase jewelry for themselves. The number one reason why they purchase is interesting too: Because I want something specific and can get exactly what I want. This was where I found flaws in the For Me, From Me concept. My instinct was the program was more condescending than inspiring to women. Noted authority on marketing to women and author of the so-named book, Marti Barletta disagreed. I quite like the campaign, she told me. I agree that it is telling women or giving them permission to buy diamonds for themselves, but I think thats a good strategy for them. To me the ads, but most especially the videos, are inspiring by telling the stories of women who are super-relatable about why they bought their piece of jewelry at the time, she continues. However, Barletta thinks the three reasons DPA is building its case for women to buy diamondswear with anything, durable over a lifetime and as a legacyare more left-brain practical reasons to justify making such an expensive purchase. Rather, she suggests the program would do better if it helped women emotionally overcome barriers to making such an expensive purchase for herself. Women tend to have a feeling that they shouldnt spend so much on themselves. This is a common attitude among womenmy wants come lastand the key reason I have no problem with the giving-permission aspects of a campaign like this, Barletta says. MVI Marketings Liz Chatelain, who headed up the latest research on self-purchasing women, also thinks the For Me, From Me message is on-point. Spending a lot of money on just yourself is still a message that women should hear. On the other hand, Marty Hurwitz, who works with Chatelain, is more skeptical. Its a bit self-serving and preachy for DPA to give women permission. They still soundand maybe still areold, rich white men telling females what to buy. Ultimately women are going to decide whether the new DPA programs talks to them with their pocketbooks. Janowski knows that a lot is riding on it for DPA and the jewelry industry it represents. Going forward 20 years, the business of mining diamonds is going to peter out, as compared with the historical business. What they are doing now is trying to keep this animal alive anyway they can, as long as they can, he believes. As for this campaign, it is a ho-hum idea, Janowski continues. But he thinks, it may do better than the right-hand ring campaign De Beers launched in 2004 toward women self-purchase, because it shows a broader selection of diamond jewelry, including earrings (which 50% of millennial women are very likely to buy for themselves) and necklaces (41%) which women are more likely to buy for themselves as compared with rings (33%). Ultimately for those retailers and companies dependent on moving these rocks, every little bit helps. There are only six ways to acquire diamond jewelry-- gift, self-purchase, inherit, make, find or steal and the last three account for less than 1.5%, Chatelain adds.
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Will Diamond Producers Association's New Program Help Jewelry Stores Sell Diamonds To Women?
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The Diamond Producers Association has just launched a new campaign to help jewelers tap the other half of the potential diamond marketwomen. The campaign, entitled For Me, From Me, is designed to add extra juice to what the DPA calls the industrys strongest growth engine, self-purchasing women. Today womens self-purchases represent about one-third of all U.S. diamond jewelry sales , which De Beers reports is a $43 billion market. DPAs qualitative research conducted in 2018 helped uncover why women consider natural diamonds the ultimate self-luxury: they can be worn every day with any outfit, they last a lifetime and can be passed down, and they are a good investment because they retain their value, said Kristina Buckley Kayel, managing director of North America for the DPA, in a statement. Our latest campaign celebrates the distinct pride and joy women feel in purchasing a diamond for themselves, a celebration of self that is beautifully embodied by the enduring qualities of a natural diamond. Its timely for the diamond industry to acknowledge the different needs and mindset of the female self-purchaser and position itself to optimally service her, she continued. With the campaign focused specifically on the needs of retailers, the DPA is enrolling leading retailers now to begin using the programs assets, which include videos, media campaign, social media content to share, in-store materials and sales training modules. Ben Janowski, who advises retailers, manufacturers and organizations in the gem and jewelry markets, doesnt think so. Not the good ones, he quips. No good jewelry retailer is going to sleep on this concept. Sure, stores need help in terms of displays, promotional materials and internet resources, but retailers are doing all they can to move diamonds, Janowski adds. Women havent been sitting on their hands either regarding diamonds. Research among millennial women conducted by MVI Marketing found that diamond jewelry was their number one choice for jewelry self-purchase, with 51% of women reporting they purchase jewelry for themselves. The number one reason why they purchase is interesting too: Because I want something specific and can get exactly what I want. This was where I found flaws in the For Me, From Me concept. My instinct was the program was more condescending than inspiring to women. Noted authority on marketing to women and author of the so-named book, Marti Barletta disagreed. I quite like the campaign, she told me. I agree that it is telling women or giving them permission to buy diamonds for themselves, but I think thats a good strategy for them. To me the ads, but most especially the videos, are inspiring by telling the stories of women who are super-relatable about why they bought their piece of jewelry at the time, she continues. However, Barletta thinks the three reasons DPA is building its case for women to buy diamondswear with anything, durable over a lifetime and as a legacyare more left-brain practical reasons to justify making such an expensive purchase. Rather, she suggests the program would do better if it helped women emotionally overcome barriers to making such an expensive purchase for herself. Women tend to have a feeling that they shouldnt spend so much on themselves. This is a common attitude among womenmy wants come lastand the key reason I have no problem with the giving-permission aspects of a campaign like this, Barletta says. MVI Marketings Liz Chatelain, who headed up the latest research on self-purchasing women, also thinks the For Me, From Me message is on-point. Spending a lot of money on just yourself is still a message that women should hear. On the other hand, Marty Hurwitz, who works with Chatelain, is more skeptical. Its a bit self-serving and preachy for DPA to give women permission. They still soundand maybe still areold, rich white men telling females what to buy. Ultimately women are going to decide whether the new DPA programs talks to them with their pocketbooks. Janowski knows that a lot is riding on it for DPA and the jewelry industry it represents. Going forward 20 years, the business of mining diamonds is going to peter out, as compared with the historical business. What they are doing now is trying to keep this animal alive anyway they can, as long as they can, he believes. As for this campaign, it is a ho-hum idea, Janowski continues. But he thinks, it may do better than the right-hand ring campaign De Beers launched in 2004 toward women self-purchase, because it shows a broader selection of diamond jewelry, including earrings (which 50% of millennial women are very likely to buy for themselves) and necklaces (41%) which women are more likely to buy for themselves as compared with rings (33%). Ultimately for those retailers and companies dependent on moving these rocks, every little bit helps. There are only six ways to acquire diamond jewelry-- gift, self-purchase, inherit, make, find or steal and the last three account for less than 1.5%, Chatelain adds.
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Can the Cleveland Indians overcome a winter of change as new season begins?
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MINNEAPOLIS -- A winter of sweeping change is over for the Indians. But every now and then a reminder is needed to realize how much has occurred since the Indians three-game sweep by Houston in the ALDS in October. Fans know the details by now. There is no need for a blow-by-blow description, but with the season opening Thursday against the Twins at Target Field heres one last stark reminder. On March 29, 2018 the Indians opened the season against Seattle at Safeco Field with this lineup: SS Francisco Lindor, 2B Jason Kipnis, 3B Jose Ramirez, 1B Yonder Alonso, DH Edwin Encarnacion, RF Lonnie Chisenhall, C Yan Gomes, LF Tyler Naquin, CF Bradley Zimmer and RHP Corey Kluber. Here is the projected lineup the Indians will use in Thursdays opener against the Twins: CF Leonys Martin, LF Jake Bauers, 3B Jose Ramirez, DH Hanley Ramirez, 1B Carlos Santana, RF Tyler Naquin, C Roberto Perez, 2B Brad Miller, SS Eric Stamets and RHP Corey Kluber. Kluber, Naquin and Ramirez are the only holdovers. Lindor, Kipnis and Zimmer are still in the organization, but open the season on the injured list. Ramirez, in fact, just rejoined the team on Wednesday night after fouling a ball off his left knee Sunday against the White Sox. He underwent three days of intense treatment at the teams training site in Goodyear, Ariz. to get him back on the field. Lindor has not been as fortunate. Hes spent the entire spring rehabbing from a strained right calf, but on Tuesday he sprained his left ankle running the bases during an intra-squad game in Goodyear. The teams doctors are still trying to calculate how much time that will cost him. As for the rest of the 2018 lineup, Alonso, Encarnacion and Gomes were traded. Chisenhall turned free agent and signed a one-year deal with the Pirates. Michael Brantley didnt start the opener, but he left as well through free agency to sign a two-year deal with Houston. Weve had more turnover than at any time since Ive been here, manager Terry Francona has said more than once during spring training. Francona, entering his seventh season in Cleveland with 14 straight winning seasons on his managerial resume, says he likes the challenges that this season presents. Part of what you do is you get challenged, said Francona. Sometimes you dont know where the challenges lie. Every team is going to have to battle that. Weve already had a couple. You dont know where the rest of them lie. But I admit I do enjoy going through it with these guys. Its not always going to be perfect. Well have ups and downs. But I feel like, if were going in the right direction together, well figure it out. Another challenge is expected to come from the Twins, who have watched the Indians cruise to the last three AL Central Division titles. The front office has given rookie manager Rocco Baldelli a stacked lineup to alter that outcome this season. Heres Minnesotas projected lineup for Thursday: RF Max Kepler, SS Jorge Polanco, DH Nelson Cruz, LF Eddie Rosario, 1B C.J. Cron, 3B Marwin Gonzalez, 2B Jonathan Schoop, C Jason Castro, CF Byron Buxton and RHP Jose Berrios. I know Rocco, hes a great kid, said Francona. I dont know how that goes to how theyre going to play strategically. Potentially, they have a really good lineup. Were going to play them 19 times this season so Im guessing well get a pretty good feeling (about it) pretty soon." Baldelli played for Francona when he managed the Red Sox. The Indians answer to the Minnesotas offense will be their starting rotation. Kluber, Trevor Bauer and Carlos Carrasco will start this series. It will be Klubers fifth consecutive opening day start with the Indians. I feel good about our team, said Kluber. Every year we go into the season expecting to win. Thats the goal here and nothing different than that. Just like every other year, I think the spring has been good in the sense weve developed that identity as a team and that continues to evolve throughout the course year. Kluber is 9-6 with a 3.45 ERA in 22 career starts against the Twins. Gonzalez, one of the free agents the Twins signed over the winter, is hitting .455 (10-for-22) with two homers and six RBI against Kluber. Berrios is 3-2 with a 4.82 ERA in seven starts against the Indians. Santana is a lifetime .444 (4-for-11) with one homer and three RBI against Berrios. Kluber will be working with a new double play combination. Eric Stamets, making his big-league debut, will start at shortstop in place of Lindor. Brad Miller, a six-year veteran acquired as a free agent on Sunday, will be starting at second base for Kipnis. Ive got no concerns, said Kluber. As a pitcher, regardless of whether its new infielders or outfielders, your job is executing pitches. I think the team has confidence in whoever is out there or they wouldnt be out there. Martin has batted leadoff for much of the spring in place of Lindor. Hes expected to stay there until Lindor returns. I absolutely love Frankie in that spot, said Francona, because he loves it and because of how many runs he produced, scored and drove in last year. But hes not here. Leonys has done it before and hes comfortable there. After Thursdays 4 p.m. opener, Friday is an off day. Bauer will face Minnesotas Jake Odorizzi on Saturday at 2:10 p.m. and Carrasco will face Michael Pineda on Sunday at 2:10 p.m. Get Tribe Insider texts in your phone from Paul Hoynes: Cut through the clutter of social media and communicate directly with the award-winning Indians reporter, just like you would with your friends. Its just $3.99 a month, which works out to about 13 cents a day. Learn more and sign up here.
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Can the Cleveland Indians overcome a winter of change as new season begins?
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MINNEAPOLIS -- A winter of sweeping change is over for the Indians. But every now and then a reminder is needed to realize how much has occurred since the Indians three-game sweep by Houston in the ALDS in October. Fans know the details by now. There is no need for a blow-by-blow description, but with the season opening Thursday against the Twins at Target Field heres one last stark reminder. On March 29, 2018 the Indians opened the season against Seattle at Safeco Field with this lineup: SS Francisco Lindor, 2B Jason Kipnis, 3B Jose Ramirez, 1B Yonder Alonso, DH Edwin Encarnacion, RF Lonnie Chisenhall, C Yan Gomes, LF Tyler Naquin, CF Bradley Zimmer and RHP Corey Kluber. Here is the projected lineup the Indians will use in Thursdays opener against the Twins: CF Leonys Martin, LF Jake Bauers, 3B Jose Ramirez, DH Hanley Ramirez, 1B Carlos Santana, RF Tyler Naquin, C Roberto Perez, 2B Brad Miller, SS Eric Stamets and RHP Corey Kluber. Kluber, Naquin and Ramirez are the only holdovers. Lindor, Kipnis and Zimmer are still in the organization, but open the season on the injured list. Ramirez, in fact, just rejoined the team on Wednesday night after fouling a ball off his left knee Sunday against the White Sox. He underwent three days of intense treatment at the teams training site in Goodyear, Ariz. to get him back on the field. Lindor has not been as fortunate. Hes spent the entire spring rehabbing from a strained right calf, but on Tuesday he sprained his left ankle running the bases during an intra-squad game in Goodyear. The teams doctors are still trying to calculate how much time that will cost him. As for the rest of the 2018 lineup, Alonso, Encarnacion and Gomes were traded. Chisenhall turned free agent and signed a one-year deal with the Pirates. Michael Brantley didnt start the opener, but he left as well through free agency to sign a two-year deal with Houston. Weve had more turnover than at any time since Ive been here, manager Terry Francona has said more than once during spring training. Francona, entering his seventh season in Cleveland with 14 straight winning seasons on his managerial resume, says he likes the challenges that this season presents. Part of what you do is you get challenged, said Francona. Sometimes you dont know where the challenges lie. Every team is going to have to battle that. Weve already had a couple. You dont know where the rest of them lie. But I admit I do enjoy going through it with these guys. Its not always going to be perfect. Well have ups and downs. But I feel like, if were going in the right direction together, well figure it out. Another challenge is expected to come from the Twins, who have watched the Indians cruise to the last three AL Central Division titles. The front office has given rookie manager Rocco Baldelli a stacked lineup to alter that outcome this season. Heres Minnesotas projected lineup for Thursday: RF Max Kepler, SS Jorge Polanco, DH Nelson Cruz, LF Eddie Rosario, 1B C.J. Cron, 3B Marwin Gonzalez, 2B Jonathan Schoop, C Jason Castro, CF Byron Buxton and RHP Jose Berrios. I know Rocco, hes a great kid, said Francona. I dont know how that goes to how theyre going to play strategically. Potentially, they have a really good lineup. Were going to play them 19 times this season so Im guessing well get a pretty good feeling (about it) pretty soon." Baldelli played for Francona when he managed the Red Sox. The Indians answer to the Minnesotas offense will be their starting rotation. Kluber, Trevor Bauer and Carlos Carrasco will start this series. It will be Klubers fifth consecutive opening day start with the Indians. I feel good about our team, said Kluber. Every year we go into the season expecting to win. Thats the goal here and nothing different than that. Just like every other year, I think the spring has been good in the sense weve developed that identity as a team and that continues to evolve throughout the course year. Kluber is 9-6 with a 3.45 ERA in 22 career starts against the Twins. Gonzalez, one of the free agents the Twins signed over the winter, is hitting .455 (10-for-22) with two homers and six RBI against Kluber. Berrios is 3-2 with a 4.82 ERA in seven starts against the Indians. Santana is a lifetime .444 (4-for-11) with one homer and three RBI against Berrios. Kluber will be working with a new double play combination. Eric Stamets, making his big-league debut, will start at shortstop in place of Lindor. Brad Miller, a six-year veteran acquired as a free agent on Sunday, will be starting at second base for Kipnis. Ive got no concerns, said Kluber. As a pitcher, regardless of whether its new infielders or outfielders, your job is executing pitches. I think the team has confidence in whoever is out there or they wouldnt be out there. Martin has batted leadoff for much of the spring in place of Lindor. Hes expected to stay there until Lindor returns. I absolutely love Frankie in that spot, said Francona, because he loves it and because of how many runs he produced, scored and drove in last year. But hes not here. Leonys has done it before and hes comfortable there. After Thursdays 4 p.m. opener, Friday is an off day. Bauer will face Minnesotas Jake Odorizzi on Saturday at 2:10 p.m. and Carrasco will face Michael Pineda on Sunday at 2:10 p.m. Get Tribe Insider texts in your phone from Paul Hoynes: Cut through the clutter of social media and communicate directly with the award-winning Indians reporter, just like you would with your friends. Its just $3.99 a month, which works out to about 13 cents a day. Learn more and sign up here.
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The Cleveland Indians open the season against the Minnesota Twins on Thursday. The Indians have had a winter of sweeping change since the 2017 season. Manager Terry Francona says he likes the challenges that this season presents.
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Can the Cleveland Indians overcome a winter of change as new season begins?
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MINNEAPOLIS -- A winter of sweeping change is over for the Indians. But every now and then a reminder is needed to realize how much has occurred since the Indians three-game sweep by Houston in the ALDS in October. Fans know the details by now. There is no need for a blow-by-blow description, but with the season opening Thursday against the Twins at Target Field heres one last stark reminder. On March 29, 2018 the Indians opened the season against Seattle at Safeco Field with this lineup: SS Francisco Lindor, 2B Jason Kipnis, 3B Jose Ramirez, 1B Yonder Alonso, DH Edwin Encarnacion, RF Lonnie Chisenhall, C Yan Gomes, LF Tyler Naquin, CF Bradley Zimmer and RHP Corey Kluber. Here is the projected lineup the Indians will use in Thursdays opener against the Twins: CF Leonys Martin, LF Jake Bauers, 3B Jose Ramirez, DH Hanley Ramirez, 1B Carlos Santana, RF Tyler Naquin, C Roberto Perez, 2B Brad Miller, SS Eric Stamets and RHP Corey Kluber. Kluber, Naquin and Ramirez are the only holdovers. Lindor, Kipnis and Zimmer are still in the organization, but open the season on the injured list. Ramirez, in fact, just rejoined the team on Wednesday night after fouling a ball off his left knee Sunday against the White Sox. He underwent three days of intense treatment at the teams training site in Goodyear, Ariz. to get him back on the field. Lindor has not been as fortunate. Hes spent the entire spring rehabbing from a strained right calf, but on Tuesday he sprained his left ankle running the bases during an intra-squad game in Goodyear. The teams doctors are still trying to calculate how much time that will cost him. As for the rest of the 2018 lineup, Alonso, Encarnacion and Gomes were traded. Chisenhall turned free agent and signed a one-year deal with the Pirates. Michael Brantley didnt start the opener, but he left as well through free agency to sign a two-year deal with Houston. Weve had more turnover than at any time since Ive been here, manager Terry Francona has said more than once during spring training. Francona, entering his seventh season in Cleveland with 14 straight winning seasons on his managerial resume, says he likes the challenges that this season presents. Part of what you do is you get challenged, said Francona. Sometimes you dont know where the challenges lie. Every team is going to have to battle that. Weve already had a couple. You dont know where the rest of them lie. But I admit I do enjoy going through it with these guys. Its not always going to be perfect. Well have ups and downs. But I feel like, if were going in the right direction together, well figure it out. Another challenge is expected to come from the Twins, who have watched the Indians cruise to the last three AL Central Division titles. The front office has given rookie manager Rocco Baldelli a stacked lineup to alter that outcome this season. Heres Minnesotas projected lineup for Thursday: RF Max Kepler, SS Jorge Polanco, DH Nelson Cruz, LF Eddie Rosario, 1B C.J. Cron, 3B Marwin Gonzalez, 2B Jonathan Schoop, C Jason Castro, CF Byron Buxton and RHP Jose Berrios. I know Rocco, hes a great kid, said Francona. I dont know how that goes to how theyre going to play strategically. Potentially, they have a really good lineup. Were going to play them 19 times this season so Im guessing well get a pretty good feeling (about it) pretty soon." Baldelli played for Francona when he managed the Red Sox. The Indians answer to the Minnesotas offense will be their starting rotation. Kluber, Trevor Bauer and Carlos Carrasco will start this series. It will be Klubers fifth consecutive opening day start with the Indians. I feel good about our team, said Kluber. Every year we go into the season expecting to win. Thats the goal here and nothing different than that. Just like every other year, I think the spring has been good in the sense weve developed that identity as a team and that continues to evolve throughout the course year. Kluber is 9-6 with a 3.45 ERA in 22 career starts against the Twins. Gonzalez, one of the free agents the Twins signed over the winter, is hitting .455 (10-for-22) with two homers and six RBI against Kluber. Berrios is 3-2 with a 4.82 ERA in seven starts against the Indians. Santana is a lifetime .444 (4-for-11) with one homer and three RBI against Berrios. Kluber will be working with a new double play combination. Eric Stamets, making his big-league debut, will start at shortstop in place of Lindor. Brad Miller, a six-year veteran acquired as a free agent on Sunday, will be starting at second base for Kipnis. Ive got no concerns, said Kluber. As a pitcher, regardless of whether its new infielders or outfielders, your job is executing pitches. I think the team has confidence in whoever is out there or they wouldnt be out there. Martin has batted leadoff for much of the spring in place of Lindor. Hes expected to stay there until Lindor returns. I absolutely love Frankie in that spot, said Francona, because he loves it and because of how many runs he produced, scored and drove in last year. But hes not here. Leonys has done it before and hes comfortable there. After Thursdays 4 p.m. opener, Friday is an off day. Bauer will face Minnesotas Jake Odorizzi on Saturday at 2:10 p.m. and Carrasco will face Michael Pineda on Sunday at 2:10 p.m. Get Tribe Insider texts in your phone from Paul Hoynes: Cut through the clutter of social media and communicate directly with the award-winning Indians reporter, just like you would with your friends. Its just $3.99 a month, which works out to about 13 cents a day. Learn more and sign up here.
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Cleveland Indians open season against Minnesota Twins on Thursday. Indians have had a winter of sweeping change. Manager Terry Francona says he likes the challenges that this season presents. Twins have watched Indians cruise to last three AL Central Division titles, but new manager Rocco Baldelli has stacked lineup.
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How did my MP vote on Parliament's Brexit options?
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MPs have been voting on eight different options for the next steps in the Brexit process, including leaving without a deal, revoking Britain's departure from the European Union, or seeking a customs union. None of the proposals earned a majority of parliamentary support. To find out how your MP voted on each of the options, use the look-up below. Enter a postcode, or the name or constituency of your MP Seat vacant Click here if you cannot see the look-up. Data from Commons Votes Services. Ken Clarke's customs union proposal came closest to securing a majority, losing by eight votes - 272 to 264. Margaret Beckett's proposal for a second referendum to validate any withdrawal agreement received the most votes, 268, but 295 MPs voted against it. Labour's alternative plan was the only other option to get more than 200 votes. The full list of how MPs voted is below, in order of the option with the most support. Conservative backbenchers were given a free vote, but cabinet ministers were told to abstain. Labour MPs were asked to back proposals put forward by the party leadership.
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MPs have been voting on eight different options for the next steps in the process. None of the proposals earned a majority of parliamentary support. Ken Clarke's customs union proposal came closest to securing a majority, losing by eight votes. Margaret Beckett's proposal for a second referendum to validate any withdrawal agreement received the most votes.
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Can post-industrial towns survive automation?
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Image copyright Getty Images Some 20 years ago, four million people across the UK worked in manufacturing, but according to the Office for National Statistics that figure has dropped by 30% as new technology replaces jobs. Former coal mining communities, already struggling with high levels of unemployment, have been hardest hit. So much so, that in 2018 think tank the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) identified 10 former manufacturing towns where social deprivation is already high, and jobs are at risk from automation. The 10 post-industrial towns are Doncaster, Wigan, Blackpool, Mansfield, Barnsley, Bradford, Plymouth, Stoke-on-Trent, Wakefield and Dudley. Patrick Spencer from the CSJ says they need to "cultivate a business community that's going to create jobs locally" in order to survive. BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme reports from two of those towns, Doncaster and Wigan, to find out what they're doing to turn things around. Wigan: The home of Heinz Wigan is a former mining town in Greater Manchester with a borough-wide population of more than 300,000. Image copyright Getty Images/Topical Press Agency Image caption Coal production in the Wigan area was at its peak in the late Victorian era It has a higher-than-average number of people working in factories, is above average for workless households, and lower than average for weekly wages. One of its biggest employers, Heinz, opened its factory in Kitt Green in 1959. Since then the speed with which they can make cans has dramatically increased. New can-filling technology means they can produce around one billion cans every year. John Brockley works in the operations team at the factory. He's been with the company for 36 years, after starting as an apprentice when he was 16. Over that time he says that because of new technology, staff numbers have fallen from 3,000 down to around 800 on site. Heinz dealt with the reduction in its workforce by offering good redundancy packages and reinvesting in the site. Mr Brockley accepts there might come a time when his job is no longer needed. Image copyright Heinz Image caption John Brockley has worked for Heinz his whole adult life Offering good redundancy packages is one way of managing change. Another is to try to attract new businesses into these towns. Wigan's Labour-led council has a policy of supporting new business by making sites available for development. Council leader David Molyneux says it is part of a wider plan that includes attracting younger people to the town. "We've got to turn out young people who've got the skills to grasp what the 21st Century has to offer," he says. "A lot of people go off to university, but I want to make sure that they come back once they've got the skills we need to see Wigan grow." There are some businesses in Wigan that are looking closely at what opportunities new technology can provide. Keytech, a small IT business, is investing in virtual reality as a training tool. The idea is that they'll manage a system where trainees wear a virtual reality headset to learn how to do a job. David Craig from the company says: "That will service many industries from medical, to logistics to field engineers. There will be investment for engineers to manage the virtual reality technology." Listen to the You and Yours Wigan programme. Doncaster and Amazon Doncaster is a former mining town in South Yorkshire with a population of more than 300,000. Image copyright Getty Images/Bert Hardy Image caption Mining in Doncaster has been replaced by a variety of companies in the services sector and light manufacturing It has three Amazon fulfilment centres employing 1,000 staff, one of which is the size of 15 football pitches. There is also an Amazon Pantry warehouse, one of just a few in the UK that uses robots. The robots bring pallets to the staff who pick and pack the items. The robots in Amazon warehouses in a number of locations including Doncaster and Dunstable, are controlled by a computer system, and only specially trained staff are allowed inside the floor where the robots are operating. Jane Colquhoun started as a temporary worker after giving up her job as a cleaner. Now she works with the robots as a fulfilment centre staff member. Image caption Jane Colquhoun started as a temporary worker at Amazon "I've been here since it opened three years ago, when we used to walk around with carts," she says. "It was before the robots. We don't have to do as much walking around now. "It was scary at first. When you see them you think they're going to hit, but they never have." Mark Hemming, Amazon's regional operations director, says that despite introducing the robots the company is employing more people. He says Amazon has added "thousands of jobs year-on-year, at the same time as bringing in technology that helps our employees". Basic roles still exist, but technology can create new training opportunities and jobs, so it doesn't have to mean fewer staff. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Instead of humans walking miles to pick goods, these robots take the shelves to the pickers Another worker, Richard Cowlishaw-Ellison, who is from a former mining village, got a temporary job at Amazon after taking voluntary redundancy from a law firm. "The firm's now gone," he says. "It was a really tough decision for me. One Christmas I ended up working nights [at Amazon]. Looking back it was the right decision to make, but there were times when I definitely questioned it." Richard, who now has a permanent job as a senior operations manager, adds: "I guess it's the new conversion to what the mining industry was. It was a big employer back then. Amazon is one of the bigger employers in the region now." Listen to the full Amazon report from You and Yours at 12:30 GMT. The government has acknowledged the threat automation poses in the north of England. To ensure no region is left behind, it is giving 9bn to Local Enterprise Partnerships to create opportunities for businesses and communities across the country. Image copyright HM Government Image caption A number of Enterprise Zones have sprung up, including in Northampton Since 2012, 48 Enterprise Zones have been established across England, generating more than 38,000 jobs and 3.5bn of private sector investment, according to the government. Ministers have also started a national retraining scheme which it says will boost people's digital skills and the creation of new jobs. The Centre for Social Justice has said that businesses should be given financial support to re-skill workers.
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Can post-industrial towns survive automation?
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Image copyright Getty Images Some 20 years ago, four million people across the UK worked in manufacturing, but according to the Office for National Statistics that figure has dropped by 30% as new technology replaces jobs. Former coal mining communities, already struggling with high levels of unemployment, have been hardest hit. So much so, that in 2018 think tank the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) identified 10 former manufacturing towns where social deprivation is already high, and jobs are at risk from automation. The 10 post-industrial towns are Doncaster, Wigan, Blackpool, Mansfield, Barnsley, Bradford, Plymouth, Stoke-on-Trent, Wakefield and Dudley. Patrick Spencer from the CSJ says they need to "cultivate a business community that's going to create jobs locally" in order to survive. BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme reports from two of those towns, Doncaster and Wigan, to find out what they're doing to turn things around. Wigan: The home of Heinz Wigan is a former mining town in Greater Manchester with a borough-wide population of more than 300,000. Image copyright Getty Images/Topical Press Agency Image caption Coal production in the Wigan area was at its peak in the late Victorian era It has a higher-than-average number of people working in factories, is above average for workless households, and lower than average for weekly wages. One of its biggest employers, Heinz, opened its factory in Kitt Green in 1959. Since then the speed with which they can make cans has dramatically increased. New can-filling technology means they can produce around one billion cans every year. John Brockley works in the operations team at the factory. He's been with the company for 36 years, after starting as an apprentice when he was 16. Over that time he says that because of new technology, staff numbers have fallen from 3,000 down to around 800 on site. Heinz dealt with the reduction in its workforce by offering good redundancy packages and reinvesting in the site. Mr Brockley accepts there might come a time when his job is no longer needed. Image copyright Heinz Image caption John Brockley has worked for Heinz his whole adult life Offering good redundancy packages is one way of managing change. Another is to try to attract new businesses into these towns. Wigan's Labour-led council has a policy of supporting new business by making sites available for development. Council leader David Molyneux says it is part of a wider plan that includes attracting younger people to the town. "We've got to turn out young people who've got the skills to grasp what the 21st Century has to offer," he says. "A lot of people go off to university, but I want to make sure that they come back once they've got the skills we need to see Wigan grow." There are some businesses in Wigan that are looking closely at what opportunities new technology can provide. Keytech, a small IT business, is investing in virtual reality as a training tool. The idea is that they'll manage a system where trainees wear a virtual reality headset to learn how to do a job. David Craig from the company says: "That will service many industries from medical, to logistics to field engineers. There will be investment for engineers to manage the virtual reality technology." Listen to the You and Yours Wigan programme. Doncaster and Amazon Doncaster is a former mining town in South Yorkshire with a population of more than 300,000. Image copyright Getty Images/Bert Hardy Image caption Mining in Doncaster has been replaced by a variety of companies in the services sector and light manufacturing It has three Amazon fulfilment centres employing 1,000 staff, one of which is the size of 15 football pitches. There is also an Amazon Pantry warehouse, one of just a few in the UK that uses robots. The robots bring pallets to the staff who pick and pack the items. The robots in Amazon warehouses in a number of locations including Doncaster and Dunstable, are controlled by a computer system, and only specially trained staff are allowed inside the floor where the robots are operating. Jane Colquhoun started as a temporary worker after giving up her job as a cleaner. Now she works with the robots as a fulfilment centre staff member. Image caption Jane Colquhoun started as a temporary worker at Amazon "I've been here since it opened three years ago, when we used to walk around with carts," she says. "It was before the robots. We don't have to do as much walking around now. "It was scary at first. When you see them you think they're going to hit, but they never have." Mark Hemming, Amazon's regional operations director, says that despite introducing the robots the company is employing more people. He says Amazon has added "thousands of jobs year-on-year, at the same time as bringing in technology that helps our employees". Basic roles still exist, but technology can create new training opportunities and jobs, so it doesn't have to mean fewer staff. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Instead of humans walking miles to pick goods, these robots take the shelves to the pickers Another worker, Richard Cowlishaw-Ellison, who is from a former mining village, got a temporary job at Amazon after taking voluntary redundancy from a law firm. "The firm's now gone," he says. "It was a really tough decision for me. One Christmas I ended up working nights [at Amazon]. Looking back it was the right decision to make, but there were times when I definitely questioned it." Richard, who now has a permanent job as a senior operations manager, adds: "I guess it's the new conversion to what the mining industry was. It was a big employer back then. Amazon is one of the bigger employers in the region now." Listen to the full Amazon report from You and Yours at 12:30 GMT. The government has acknowledged the threat automation poses in the north of England. To ensure no region is left behind, it is giving 9bn to Local Enterprise Partnerships to create opportunities for businesses and communities across the country. Image copyright HM Government Image caption A number of Enterprise Zones have sprung up, including in Northampton Since 2012, 48 Enterprise Zones have been established across England, generating more than 38,000 jobs and 3.5bn of private sector investment, according to the government. Ministers have also started a national retraining scheme which it says will boost people's digital skills and the creation of new jobs. The Centre for Social Justice has said that businesses should be given financial support to re-skill workers.
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Image copyright Getty Images Some 20 years ago, four million people across the UK worked in manufacturing, but according to the Office for National Statistics that figure has dropped by 30% as new technology replaces jobs. Former coal mining communities, already struggling with high levels of unemployment, have been hardest hit. So much so, that in 2018 think tank the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) identified 10 former manufacturing towns where social deprivation is already high, and jobs are at risk from automation. The 10 post-industrial towns are Doncaster, Wigan, Blackpool, Mansfield, Barnsley, Bradford, Plymouth, Stoke-on-Trent, Wakefield and Dudley. Patrick Spencer from the CSJ says they need to "cultivate a business community that's going to create jobs locally" in order to survive. BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme reports from two of those towns, Doncaster and Wigan, to find out what they're doing to turn things around. Wigan: The home of Heinz Wigan is a former mining town in Greater Manchester with a borough-wide population of more than 300,000. Image copyright Getty Images/Topical Press Agency Image caption Coal production in the Wigan area was at its peak in the late Victorian era It has a higher-than-average number of people working in factories, is above average for workless households, and lower than average for weekly wages. One of its biggest employers, Heinz, opened its factory in Kitt Green in 1959. Since then the speed with which they can make cans has dramatically increased. New can-filling technology means they can produce around one billion cans every year. John Brockley works in the operations team at the factory. He's been with the company for 36 years, after starting as an apprentice when he was 16. Over that time he says that because of new technology, staff numbers have fallen from 3,000 down to around 800 on site. Heinz dealt with the reduction in its workforce by offering good redundancy packages and reinvesting in the site. Mr Brockley accepts there might come a time when his job is no longer needed. Image copyright Heinz Image caption John Brockley has worked for Heinz his whole adult life Offering good redundancy packages is one way of managing change. Another is to try to attract new businesses into these towns. Wigan's Labour-led council has a policy of supporting new business by making sites available for development. Council leader David Molyneux says it is part of a wider plan that includes attracting younger people to the town. "We've got to turn out young people who've got the skills to grasp what the 21st Century has to offer," he says. "A lot of people go off to university, but I want to make sure that they come back once they've got the skills we need to see Wigan grow." There are some businesses in Wigan that are looking closely at what opportunities new technology can provide. Keytech, a small IT business, is investing in virtual reality as a training tool. The idea is that they'll manage a system where trainees wear a virtual reality headset to learn how to do a job. David Craig from the company says: "That will service many industries from medical, to logistics to field engineers. There will be investment for engineers to manage the virtual reality technology." Listen to the You and Yours Wigan programme. Doncaster and Amazon Doncaster is a former mining town in South Yorkshire with a population of more than 300,000. Image copyright Getty Images/Bert Hardy Image caption Mining in Doncaster has been replaced by a variety of companies in the services sector and light manufacturing It has three Amazon fulfilment centres employing 1,000 staff, one of which is the size of 15 football pitches. There is also an Amazon Pantry warehouse, one of just a few in the UK that uses robots. The robots bring pallets to the staff who pick and pack the items. The robots in Amazon warehouses in a number of locations including Doncaster and Dunstable, are controlled by a computer system, and only specially trained staff are allowed inside the floor where the robots are operating. Jane Colquhoun started as a temporary worker after giving up her job as a cleaner. Now she works with the robots as a fulfilment centre staff member. Image caption Jane Colquhoun started as a temporary worker at Amazon "I've been here since it opened three years ago, when we used to walk around with carts," she says. "It was before the robots. We don't have to do as much walking around now. "It was scary at first. When you see them you think they're going to hit, but they never have." Mark Hemming, Amazon's regional operations director, says that despite introducing the robots the company is employing more people. He says Amazon has added "thousands of jobs year-on-year, at the same time as bringing in technology that helps our employees". Basic roles still exist, but technology can create new training opportunities and jobs, so it doesn't have to mean fewer staff. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Instead of humans walking miles to pick goods, these robots take the shelves to the pickers Another worker, Richard Cowlishaw-Ellison, who is from a former mining village, got a temporary job at Amazon after taking voluntary redundancy from a law firm. "The firm's now gone," he says. "It was a really tough decision for me. One Christmas I ended up working nights [at Amazon]. Looking back it was the right decision to make, but there were times when I definitely questioned it." Richard, who now has a permanent job as a senior operations manager, adds: "I guess it's the new conversion to what the mining industry was. It was a big employer back then. Amazon is one of the bigger employers in the region now." Listen to the full Amazon report from You and Yours at 12:30 GMT. The government has acknowledged the threat automation poses in the north of England. To ensure no region is left behind, it is giving 9bn to Local Enterprise Partnerships to create opportunities for businesses and communities across the country. Image copyright HM Government Image caption A number of Enterprise Zones have sprung up, including in Northampton Since 2012, 48 Enterprise Zones have been established across England, generating more than 38,000 jobs and 3.5bn of private sector investment, according to the government. Ministers have also started a national retraining scheme which it says will boost people's digital skills and the creation of new jobs. The Centre for Social Justice has said that businesses should be given financial support to re-skill workers.
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Are Lyft, Uber, WeWork And Bird The Next Shooting Stars?
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Since the dawn of the Internet, entrepreneurs have been encouraged to Think Big, Start Small and Scale Fast. This mantra particularly the last part has been enabled by VCs awash in capital, cheered on by the business press, and further validated by Wall Street bankers increasingly inclined to underwrite IPOs with rapid growth in both revenues and losses. No wonder founders have taken to heart the belief that growth trumps profits in the race to market domination, fame, and fortune. Over the past two decades, there has been no shortage of startups that soared to stratospheric valuations before crashing from the weight of unsustainable economics. And yet, we seem to have entered a new era where investments in unprofitable hyper-growth ventures are bigger than ever. In order to understand why the siren song of inspirational, game-changing brand promises so often crowds out a rational assessment of underlying business fundamentals, a little history is in order. Shooting stars The Internet bubble at the turn of the millennium certainly had its share of epic flameouts. More recently, Theranos, Better Place, Fab, and Beepi each raised hundreds of millions of venture capital dollars before liquidating the crumbs of their failed enterprises. Time will tell whether Lyft, Uber, WeWork, Bird and other highly valued, massively funded, chronic money-losing ventures become the next generation of shooting stars. Author archive While these companies span different categories and time periods, they share three traits that help explain their fundraising prowess and ignominious demise. First, each purveyed a compelling brand story that intrigued and captivated consumers, VCs and a fawning business press. Second, none possessed the requisite know-how, processes, business model or addressable market to achieve sustainable profitability. And third, with VC help, each made massive bets they could reach market domination and profitable scale before the money ran out. Take pets.com for example. At the dawn of the Internet, pet owners marveled at the low prices, free delivery and convenience of ordering dog food and pet supplies online, not to mention an irresistibly cute sock puppet featured in pet.coms ill-considered Super Bowl ads. Kozmo, eToys, and Webvan also had consumers and VCs believing that a wide range of goods could efficiently leap from their computer screens to their doorsteps. But lurking behind these compelling brand stories lay the reality circa 2000, that market acceptance of e-commerce services was still quite low, and order-to-fulfillment processes were primitive, unreliable and expensive, dooming the economic viability of these ventures from the start. Author archives Reflecting on Webvans failure, the companys former operations VP explained the challenge to me as follows. I was sitting in my office one day when a call came through from an irate San Francisco customer, complaining that her afternoon grocery delivery hadnt arrived. I feigned remorse and gave an empty promise that her groceries would arrive soon. But what I really was thinking was, lady, I dont have time to worry about your goddamned grocery order; Im up to my eyeballs racing to launch Webvan in 26 cities. As it turned out, Webvan never did iron out the kinks in their supply chain processes, and their race to market domination turned out to be a race to oblivion, costing private and public investors $1.5 billion. One might excuse early flameouts as the result of irrational exuberance at the dawn of the Internet. But in the years to come, other great brand stories also proved too good to be true. Take Theranos, who promised to revolutionize health care (Painless! Inexpensive! Empowering!). Better Place had us believe that we could all drive electric vehicles with swappable battery packs to eliminate range limitations. Beepi crafted a peer-to-peer used-car marketplace that took dreaded salesmen out of the loop. And Fab dazzled us with fabulous flash sale merchandise at crazy low prices. Great stories all, but in the end, none of these companies could develop the capabilities required to deliver their brand promise at prices enough consumers were willing to pay, and a cost yielding attractive profits. It turns out that human beings are wired to respond emotionally to compelling stories. There's scientific evidence to explain how storytelling triggers the release oxytocin, a hormone that boosts our feelings of trust, compassion, and empathy. Neuroscientists have found that when listening to an interesting, well-told story, our brains react as if we are experiencing the story ourselves. To wit, Theranos is how I would like to take a blood test, WeWork is where I would like to work, and riding scooters sounds like so much fun! Were all suckers for a great story, and that includes consumers, investors and especially the business press who have obvious incentives to promote compelling storylines with widespread reader appeal. Just think about how much glowing press coverage welcomed the launch of Bird scooters, Snapchat and Tesla, each of whom had compelling brand stories to tell, if not proven economics. Which brings us to the current generation of ventures with stratospheric valuations, supported by VCs making big bets on companies with inspirational brand stories, rapid growth, but deeply negative cash flows. And the bets are getting bigger than ever. Capital investment by US VCs reached an all-time high of $130 billion in 2018, driven by a spike in mega-rounds (defined as $100 million or more). These outsized investments rose 90% YOY, more than doubling mega-round deal value, and accounting for nearly half the total venture capital invested last year. The emphasis on growth over profitability is extending into public capital markets as well. During the first three quarters 2018, an all-time record 83 percent of U.S.-listed companies lost money in the 12 months leading up to their debut. The prior dubious record for the propensity of investors to welcome money-losing companies into public markets was set in 2000, just before the Internet bubble burst. These trends suggest we may be witnessing yet another round of irrational exuberance towards ventures with a great brand promise but little evidence of sustainable economics. Take The We Company for example, better known by its original brand name WeWork. The company was founded in 2010 to provide shared workspaces for entrepreneurs, freelancers, small businesses, and more recently, large company employees as well. Recent reports suggest that while WeWork has been growing at a breakneck pace, with revenues approaching $2 billion in 2018, losses have been mounting at an even faster rate. To fund its rapid growth, WeWork has been a prodigious fundraiser, attracting nearly $13 billion in venture capital since inception, with the most recent cash infusion valuing the company at $47 billion. By any measure, WeWorks valuation is exceptionally high. Approaching its tenth anniversary, WeWork has never been profitable, and losses have been accelerating. By comparison, tech company superstars Facebook, Google, Airbnb and Salesforce were solidly cash flow positive by the time they reached WeWorks age. WeWorks underlying business model is intrinsically risky, as it is arbitraging decades-long lease commitments for flexible, short-term rentals (often as short as one month). WeWorks bet arguably could pay off in a bull market, but it hasnt yet despite the fact that demand for flexible office space has grown every year since WeWork launched. WeWorks occupancy rate declined in 2018 as perhaps a leading indicator of expected softer global market conditions to come over the next two years Weve already witnessed the effects of a boom/bust cycle in this sector with WeWorks closest comparable, IWG (operating under the brand name Regus). Regus launched in the late 1980s, and expanded rapidly to become the worlds largest provider of temporary workspace. But in 2003, Regus was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US after the dot.com bubble collapsed, sharply reducing office space demand. After reorganizing and continuing its global expansion, Regus experienced weak demand again in the wake of the 2008 recession, which cut Regus operating profits in each of the ensuing two years by 52% and 66% respectively. In contrast, with a weaker balance sheet, WeWork has yet to experience, let alone demonstrate how well it could weather an economic downturn Regus doesnt trade at anywhere near the valuation premium that WeWork enjoys. Regus parent IWG is about the same size as WeWork, and has grown its topline and net profit over the past two years by respectable annual growth rates of 11% and 17%, respectively. Nonetheless, IWGs market cap is currently trading at only about one times revenue, whereas WeWork is valued at >20X revenue. Granted, WeWork is growing considerably faster than Regus, but the company hasnt proven that it can earn attractive margins on its burgeoning topline.WeWork does have the advantage of reducing its tenant space requirements relative to traditional office layouts. And it is efficient in converting newly acquired (or leased) buildings into rentable space. But these are marginal improvements over competitive norms in this space that don't justify a 20X valuation premium over Regus and others. There has to be something fundamentally different in how investors view WeWorks business potential. Three interrelated factors appear to be at play, which sound hauntingly similar to prior tech industry shooting stars that ultimately failed. WeWork has created a unique and compelling brand story To their credit, a decade ago, WeWorks founders recognized the unmet needs of workers yearning for a more fulfilling workplace environment that could enhance social interaction, well-being, productivity, creativity and happiness. And the founders further reasoned there could be opportunities to extend WeWorks brand promise to enhance how We Live, We Party, We Network, We Exercise, We Learn, We Care For Our Children, We Design Office Space, etc. This vision underscores WeWorks intriguing brand story, which the companys CEO describes as a "state of consciousness" rather than as a stodgy real estate company. As the Financial Times noted: WeWorks vast valuation premium is only justified if it can prove that it is far more than a provider of flexible office space. That may be why it has expanded into ancillary services. These include social network Meetup, coding trainer Flatiron School and soon a kindergarten in New York called WeGrow, where tuition will be $36,000 a year. Synergies with Spanish wave pool company Wavegarden, in which WeWork bought a stake in 2016, are harder to imagine. In essence, WeWork has positioned itself as a lifestyle platform arguing that its collective value far exceeds the value of its individual businesses. But there is little evidence that WeWorks underlying business model justifies the kind of valuation multiple normally seen only in true technology platforms, which enjoy exceptionally high margins, strong scale economies, customer lock-in, and robust network effects. In contrast, WeWork is a capital intensive, cyclical business, with inherently modest operating margins, high customer churn, limited economies of scale and unproven network effects. Moreover, it is unclear whether WeWorks nascent and materially insignificant ancillary services WeLive (furnished apartments), Rise by We (wellness centers) and WeGrow (schools) can capture additional share of wallet from WeWork office space renters, or yield attractive returns in their own right. WeWorks core and ancillary services primarily cater to a distinct consumer lifestage tech-savvy, upwardly mobile millennials who are likely to outgrow WeWorks services if they are successful, or will no longer need or be able to afford WeWorks services if they are not. WeWork is thus likely to face chronic high customer churn, cyclicality, and the need for ongoing expensive sales and marketing efforts to maintain high occupancy rates in its core business, and memberships in its ancillary services. The business press has often highlighted the human interest angles of WeWorks brand story, without questioning the viability of WeWorks business model Earned media is immensely valuable for companies trying to create a distinctive brand image, and in this regard, the press has been a valuable ally in reporting WeWorks intriguingly different business tactics, from its lavish annual bacchanalia for thousands of employees (dubbed Summer Camp), to unlimited craft beer at many of its workspaces to its ever-expanding range of new services to its recently enacted vegetarian policy for employee meals. The New York Times certainly seems to think so in its recently published essay on WeWorks customer experience. WeWork is right to perceive that it provides its members with a heightened sense of social organization. To join WeWork is to feel gently buoyed along in a strange kind of substrate, neither fully adrift nor fully anchored, loosely bound to others by novel waveforms. These ties alternately resemble deals between independent contractors, collaborations between colleagues, flirtations between strangers and intimacy between friends and insofar as they muddy the boundaries between these things, they ultimately feel like none of them. There is a near-imaginable WeWorld in which all human endeavor outsources itself to associations of WeNodes that in an eternal churn arise as spontaneously as they disperse. If a very clever combination of architecture, technology and hospitality serves as an analgesic for the disaggregated, it can just as easily function as a solvent for the institutions that remain. Now that is not your run-of-the-mill temp office space rental company! A mega-VC, Softbank, has doubled and tripled down on its investments, enabling WeWork to pursue its bold vision A new breed of mega-VCs and sovereign wealth funds has emerged in recent years, dramatically ramping up the scale of private capital invested in tech startups. Softbanks Vision Fund is by far the biggest player in this new game, as evidenced by its recent investments in Uber ($9.3 billion), SoFi ($1 billion) and ten other ventures receiving investments in excess of $1 billion. Softbank has even invested $300 million in a US-based dog walking service (Wag) from its $100 billion war chest. Unprecedented investments of this scale enable -- indeed require -- ventures to grow rapidly, often before the underlying business model has been validated, key operational processes have been built, customer behavior is fully understood, or competitive resilience is properly gauged. This has certainly been the case with Softbanks $10+ billion investment in WeWork over the past two years, which has enabled the company to expand operations to over 550 buildings, in 92 cities, spanning 32 countries, serving over 270,000 members as losses continue to mount. In fact, Softbank had planned to invest $16 billion last October to acquire a majority stake in WeWork, but had to back down, after facing unusual pushback from its limited partners. As a result, WeWork had to settle for a Softbank cash infusion of only $2 billion in January, which boosted its valuation by $8 billion from the prior Softbank funding round only two months earlier. But mega-VC investments can have downside consequences. By becoming WeWorks sole source of equity capital over the past two years, Softbank has put the venture and itself in a vulnerable position. WeWork will undoubtedly need additional cash over the next few years to offset its annual burn rate of over $1 billion, and to cover $18 billion in long-term lease commitments coming due in stages through 2023. Softbanks LPs have already signaled their reluctance to commit additional capital to WeWork, forcing the company to look elsewhere for financing. In fact, only half of Softbank's last investment was new capital; the rest was to buy out existing shareholders at a lower valuation. Since there has been no independent validation for WeWorks lofty $47 billion valuation, VCs may well resist providing fresh capital without a lower valuation and/or other investor-friendly terms. WeWorks last bond sale about a year ago was rated as junk , and has underperformed the corporate high yield index ever since, signaling investor worries with WeWorks mounting losses and weak balance sheet. , and has underperformed the corporate high yield index ever since, signaling investor worries with WeWorks mounting losses and weak balance sheet. A number of economists have expressed concerns about the stability of the global economy amid rising debt levels and slowing GDP growth. Obviously, WeWorks fundraising prospects would be further constrained by a global recession. With a lot of help from a magnanimous mega-VC, an intriguing corporate vision widely covered by the business press, and an abundant supply (for now) of satisfied customers, WeWork has become the second-highest valued private tech company in the US (behind Uber). But the founders soaring ambition to run the company on a hyper-growth/mega-fundraising treadmill has forced WeWork to consistently prioritize global expansion over profitability, putting the company at risk, with a weak balance sheet, deep and chronic operating losses, uncertain future funding prospects, and the looming possibility of having to face its first-ever downturn in temporary workspace demand. Past experience with other companies that jumped on a hyper-growth/fundraising treadmill suggests that the endgame can be ugly. WeWork is not alone in zealous pursuit of hyper-growth Uber raced to global market share leadership in the rideshare sector on the strength of over $9 billion of investment from Softbanks Vision Fund. But its hyper-growth strategy was based on six critical assumptions that have all proved to be false or yet to be proven. Uber's asset-light business model and strong network effects would allow it to achieve huge economies of scale and an unassailable first mover advantage in each of the markets it entered. Uber's prodigious fundraising success would give it ample reserves to drive competition from the market and establish global monopoly control and pricing power. Ubers scale advantage and sophisticated AI algorithms would power a superior service offering, translating into shorter wait times for passengers and drivers and improved driver productivity, which in turn would allow Uber to achieve the trifecta of low fares, attractive driver compensation and corporate profitability. With consumers on its side, Uber could run roughshod over municipal governments, who would be unwilling or unable to restrict its ever-expanding operations, even after recognizing that Ubers business priorities often conflict with public policy goals for sustainable, efficient public transportation, reducing congestion, and adequate compensation for a large and growing sector of city employment. Ubers urban mobility platform and large installed base of rideshare drivers would provide numerous opportunities to expand into other last-mile businesses that would drive profitable growth Longer term, the combination of available funds from capital markets and retained corporate earnings would fund a seamless transition to autonomous vehicle operations, promising an even more utopian corporate future. While Uber has indeed become the largest rideshare company in the world, it has also earned the dubious distinction of losing more money, faster than any startup in history. As it approaches its tenth year anniversary, Uber is planning what would be by far the largest public offering in history, on the heels of operating losses of nearly $4 billion last year, slowing growth and increasing regulatory concerns. Moreover, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi recently acknowledged that in his US core ridesharing business Im not optimistic that market is going to be profitable any time soon. Bird also fits the profile of a mega-funded venture with a compelling brand story adult scooters that will transform urban mobility! -- that became the fastest startup ever to exceed a $1 billion valuation. Founded in September 2017, Bird became a unicorn in less than 9 months, after closing a C-round that brought its total funding to over $.5 billion at a valuation of $2 billion. Bird used its venture capital to expand at breakneck speed. Within the companys first 14 months, Bird launched in more than 120 cities, from Russellville, Arkansas, to Los Angeles in the US, and farther afield in Paris, Antwerp, Tel Aviv, London, and Mexico City. But like many prior ventures that expanded far faster than they could validate key business assumptions, Bird soon faced troubling and unanticipated operating problems across its global enterprise. Durability and Cost During its first year of operations, Bird found that the majority of its $550 per unit scooters were lasting less than two months in heavy shared use. Both these key operating metrics turned out to be far worse than originally assumed, crippling the companys financial performance . In order to break even going forward, Bird will have to double scooter service life, reduce unit acquisition costs by one-third, raise prices, or some combination of all three. In the meantime, the company recently announced layoffs for 5% of its workforce. During its first year of operations, Bird found that the majority of its $550 per unit scooters were lasting less than two months in heavy shared use. Both these key operating metrics turned out to be far worse than originally assumed, . In order to break even going forward, Bird will have to double scooter service life, reduce unit acquisition costs by one-third, raise prices, or some combination of all three. In the meantime, the company recently announced layoffs for 5% of its workforce. Safety In their breakneck race to establish first mover advantage, scooter companies have experienced a troublingly high rate of rider injuries and maintenance-related safety problems. The Centers for Disease control just launched a first-ever study of electric scooter safety after growing reports of trauma center admissions In their breakneck race to establish first mover advantage, scooter companies have experienced a troublingly high rate of rider injuries and maintenance-related safety problems. The Centers for Disease control just launched a first-ever study of electric scooter safety after growing reports of Competitive intensity Birds first-mover launch, high initial growth, and rosy financial forecasts sparked a VC frenzy which quickly gave rise to numerous scooter competitors, including Lime, Scoot, Skip, Spin, Jump (owned by Uber), and Lyft. In fact, Bird is no longer the global market leader in scooter ridership or revenue, ceding that money-losing honor to Lime. Birds first-mover launch, high initial growth, and rosy financial forecasts sparked a VC frenzy which quickly gave rise to numerous scooter competitors, including Lime, Scoot, Skip, Spin, Jump (owned by Uber), and Lyft. In fact, Bird is no longer the global market leader in scooter ridership or revenue, ceding that money-losing honor to Lime. Regulatory backlash Taking a page out of Ubers playbook, Birds CEO Travis VanderZanden (a former Uber and Lyft executive) raced to launch scooter operations without asking for city government permission. Bird's launch-first, explain-later policy backfired in San Francisco, when city officials banned scooters, pending the creation of a licensed pilot program, which initially excluded Bird. While Bird ultimately did secure an operating license in SF, it now must compete against three other operators all of whom face supply caps. A similar story unfolded in Birds hometown of Santa Monica and in Denver, while other municipalities have banned scooter operations outright (e.g., Beverly Hills, New York). So much for first-mover advantage. In light of these adverse developments, the early euphoria surrounding Birds explosive launch has given way to a more sober outlook on the business, where market share leadership is no longer the CEO's top priority. Bird has slowed its expansion plans and pivoted to a new business model where it will license the use of its brand and platform to independent contractors who assume responsibility for scooter acquisition, charging, and maintenance. While Birds new asset-light, Uber-like business model may not ultimately solve the business model challenges in this category, at least for now, the company has jumped off the hyper-growth/ fundraising treadmill. As CEO Travis VanderZanden explains: What matters the most is getting the economics dialed, meaning losing less money per ride If youre growing recklessly without good economics, you lose control of your destiny. You might be able to ride some venture capital in the short term, but at the end of the day if you dont build a good business, who knows where that will take you. Lessons Learned Next-generation entrepreneurs with compelling brand stories and access to seemingly unlimited VC investment would be well advised to heed VanderZandens advice. Each of the cases cited above illustrates that first-mover advantage is usually not all it's cracked up to be, particularly in the vast majority of cases where scale economies and network effects are minimal and IP is easily replicable. FOMO pressures in the VC community often drive a herd mentality that creates too many competitors, with too much money, chasing unproven markets before the operating realities of the new ventures are well understood. And Wall Street is now eagerly awaiting a raft IPOs, starting with Lyft, seeking public capital at inflated valuations to cover ongoing money-losing operations. Before queuing up later this week to add more capital to Lyft's unfulfilled brand promises, investors should seriously rethink whether the multiple reasons for the company's deep losses to date are likely to change any time soon. The same holds true for Uber and other shooting star ventures, whose investor-fueled race for global domination may turn out to be a race to oblivion.
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Lyft, Uber, WeWork, Bird and other hyper-growth ventures are bigger than ever.
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Should we kill cats and rats to stop extinctions?
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Feral cats can kill wildlife Scientists are calling for a widespread cull of feral cats and dogs, pigs, goats, and rats and mice to save the endangered species they prey upon. Their eradication on more than 100 islands could save some of the rarest animals on Earth, says an international team. Islands have seen 75% of known bird, mammal, amphibian and reptile extinctions over the past 500 years. Many of the losses are caused by animals introduced by humans. Not naturally present on islands, they can threaten native wildlife. "Eradicating invasive mammals from islands is a powerful way to remove a key threat to island species and prevent extinctions and conserve biodiversity," said Dr Nick Holmes, from the group Island Conservation. More stories like this: The study, published in PLOS ONE, identified 107 islands where eradication projects could benefit 9.4% of the Earth's threatened island species. The likes of feral cats are not of conservation concern, say the researchers. The species they threaten, though, are often found only on islands where the entire population is at risk of extinction. Image copyright Andy Schofield (rspb-images.com) Image caption Gough Island provides vital nesting habitat for a number of species including the Tristan albatross Image copyright Jonathan Hall (rspb-images.com) Image caption An Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross on Gough Island Stuart Butchart, chief scientist at Birdlife International, said the action could save "extraordinary species that have evolved in isolation and are only found on these remote islands". Some culls have already taken place on islands. The world's largest rodent eradication project was recently declared a success, with the UK territory of South Georgia becoming rat-free for the first time in more than 200 years. Among the islands identified in the new study are 20 belonging to the UK's Overseas Territories, including: Gough Island, which is part of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. There are plans to eradicate mice on the islands which are eating seabird chicks, to save the Tristan albatross and Gough bunting from extinction Henderson Island in the Pacific, part of the Pitcairn group. A rat eradication project here could save the Endangered Henderson petrel Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Feral goats, seen here in Australia, can damage the natural landscape "This study shows how important it is to remove invasive mammals from islands to prevent further extinctions," said Jonathan Hall, the RSPB's Head of UK Overseas Territories. "What is needed now is the political will and funding to help carry out this much needed work and restore these islands to their previous magnificence." Follow Helen on Twitter.
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Feral cats and dogs, pigs, goats, and rats and mice could save endangered species.
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Should we kill cats and rats to stop extinctions?
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Feral cats can kill wildlife Scientists are calling for a widespread cull of feral cats and dogs, pigs, goats, and rats and mice to save the endangered species they prey upon. Their eradication on more than 100 islands could save some of the rarest animals on Earth, says an international team. Islands have seen 75% of known bird, mammal, amphibian and reptile extinctions over the past 500 years. Many of the losses are caused by animals introduced by humans. Not naturally present on islands, they can threaten native wildlife. "Eradicating invasive mammals from islands is a powerful way to remove a key threat to island species and prevent extinctions and conserve biodiversity," said Dr Nick Holmes, from the group Island Conservation. More stories like this: The study, published in PLOS ONE, identified 107 islands where eradication projects could benefit 9.4% of the Earth's threatened island species. The likes of feral cats are not of conservation concern, say the researchers. The species they threaten, though, are often found only on islands where the entire population is at risk of extinction. Image copyright Andy Schofield (rspb-images.com) Image caption Gough Island provides vital nesting habitat for a number of species including the Tristan albatross Image copyright Jonathan Hall (rspb-images.com) Image caption An Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross on Gough Island Stuart Butchart, chief scientist at Birdlife International, said the action could save "extraordinary species that have evolved in isolation and are only found on these remote islands". Some culls have already taken place on islands. The world's largest rodent eradication project was recently declared a success, with the UK territory of South Georgia becoming rat-free for the first time in more than 200 years. Among the islands identified in the new study are 20 belonging to the UK's Overseas Territories, including: Gough Island, which is part of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. There are plans to eradicate mice on the islands which are eating seabird chicks, to save the Tristan albatross and Gough bunting from extinction Henderson Island in the Pacific, part of the Pitcairn group. A rat eradication project here could save the Endangered Henderson petrel Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Feral goats, seen here in Australia, can damage the natural landscape "This study shows how important it is to remove invasive mammals from islands to prevent further extinctions," said Jonathan Hall, the RSPB's Head of UK Overseas Territories. "What is needed now is the political will and funding to help carry out this much needed work and restore these islands to their previous magnificence." Follow Helen on Twitter.
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Feral cats, dogs, pigs, goats, and rats and mice could save rarest animals on Earth, say scientists. Study identified 107 islands where eradication projects could benefit 9.4% of the Earth's threatened island species.
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How many cigarettes in a bottle of wine?
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Image copyright Getty Images Drinking one 750ml bottle of wine a week increases the risk of developing cancer over a lifetime by the equivalent of 10 cigarettes a week for women and five for men, a study says. The UK researchers said this was a good way of communicating the health risks of moderate drinking. But experts said that smoking carried much greater cancer risks than alcohol, for most drinkers. And the only way to cut the risks from smoking was to quit completely. Government guidelines on alcohol consumption advise men and women to drink no more than 14 units of alcohol a week - the equivalent of six pints of average strength beer or seven glasses of wine (or a bottle and a half of wine). The guidance also says there is no "safe" level of drinking when it comes to health risk. This study says even moderate drinking can put people at risk of cancer, particularly breast cancer, which is the most common cancer in women in the UK. Communicating cancer harms Writing in BMC Public Health, the researchers calculated that if 1,000 non-smoking men and 1,000 non-smoking women each drank one bottle of wine a week, around 10 extra men and 14 extra women could develop cancer during their lives. In women, alcohol intake was link to increased risk of breast cancer and in men, it was linked to cancers of the gastrointestinal tract and liver. For their calculations, the research team from the University of Southampton and Bangor University, used data on cancer risk from Cancer Research UK and data on the number of cancers in the population that could be linked to tobacco and alcohol. Dr Minouk Schoemaker, scientist at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, who conducts research into the causes of breast cancer, said the study offered an "interesting insight" but he said the picture was not simple. "The overall picture of cancer risk is enormously complex and nuanced, so it's important to keep in mind that this new study is subject to a number of assumptions," she said. "For example, it is difficult to disentangle the effects of alcohol and cigarette smoking entirely, and the study did not take into account the duration of smoking or time since stopping." The study only looked at cancer - not at any other disease, such as cardiovascular or lung diseases common in smokers. It also used data from 2004 and did not take into account other factors which could cause cancers, such as age, family genes, diet and other aspects of lifestyle. And the numbers of cigarettes "equivalent" to alcohol are small, when most smokers smoke many more a day. As a result, for some, the jury is out on how useful the study is. 'Smoking more hazardous' Prof John Britton, director of the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies at the University of Nottingham, said: "I'm not sure many people decide whether to smoke or drink... based on how comparable the risks of the two are. "This study demonstrates that in relation to cancer risk, smoking is substantially more hazardous than alcohol consumption. Smoking is also far more hazardous than alcohol in relation to a range of other diseases. "If smokers are worried about their health, the best thing they can do is quit smoking. "People who consume alcohol should try to stick within the recommended guidelines of 14 units per week," Prof Britton added. But Dr Bob Patton, lecturer in clinical psychology at the University of Surrey, said the study could transform public opinion. "It is likely that the findings from this simple study will have a profound effect on the way that drinkers, and in particular female drinkers, regard the risks associated with alcohol consumption," he said. "Viewing alcohol drinking in the same light as cigarette smoking may well result in a decrease in consumption and its related harms."
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How many cigarettes in a bottle of wine?
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Image copyright Getty Images Drinking one 750ml bottle of wine a week increases the risk of developing cancer over a lifetime by the equivalent of 10 cigarettes a week for women and five for men, a study says. The UK researchers said this was a good way of communicating the health risks of moderate drinking. But experts said that smoking carried much greater cancer risks than alcohol, for most drinkers. And the only way to cut the risks from smoking was to quit completely. Government guidelines on alcohol consumption advise men and women to drink no more than 14 units of alcohol a week - the equivalent of six pints of average strength beer or seven glasses of wine (or a bottle and a half of wine). The guidance also says there is no "safe" level of drinking when it comes to health risk. This study says even moderate drinking can put people at risk of cancer, particularly breast cancer, which is the most common cancer in women in the UK. Communicating cancer harms Writing in BMC Public Health, the researchers calculated that if 1,000 non-smoking men and 1,000 non-smoking women each drank one bottle of wine a week, around 10 extra men and 14 extra women could develop cancer during their lives. In women, alcohol intake was link to increased risk of breast cancer and in men, it was linked to cancers of the gastrointestinal tract and liver. For their calculations, the research team from the University of Southampton and Bangor University, used data on cancer risk from Cancer Research UK and data on the number of cancers in the population that could be linked to tobacco and alcohol. Dr Minouk Schoemaker, scientist at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, who conducts research into the causes of breast cancer, said the study offered an "interesting insight" but he said the picture was not simple. "The overall picture of cancer risk is enormously complex and nuanced, so it's important to keep in mind that this new study is subject to a number of assumptions," she said. "For example, it is difficult to disentangle the effects of alcohol and cigarette smoking entirely, and the study did not take into account the duration of smoking or time since stopping." The study only looked at cancer - not at any other disease, such as cardiovascular or lung diseases common in smokers. It also used data from 2004 and did not take into account other factors which could cause cancers, such as age, family genes, diet and other aspects of lifestyle. And the numbers of cigarettes "equivalent" to alcohol are small, when most smokers smoke many more a day. As a result, for some, the jury is out on how useful the study is. 'Smoking more hazardous' Prof John Britton, director of the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies at the University of Nottingham, said: "I'm not sure many people decide whether to smoke or drink... based on how comparable the risks of the two are. "This study demonstrates that in relation to cancer risk, smoking is substantially more hazardous than alcohol consumption. Smoking is also far more hazardous than alcohol in relation to a range of other diseases. "If smokers are worried about their health, the best thing they can do is quit smoking. "People who consume alcohol should try to stick within the recommended guidelines of 14 units per week," Prof Britton added. But Dr Bob Patton, lecturer in clinical psychology at the University of Surrey, said the study could transform public opinion. "It is likely that the findings from this simple study will have a profound effect on the way that drinkers, and in particular female drinkers, regard the risks associated with alcohol consumption," he said. "Viewing alcohol drinking in the same light as cigarette smoking may well result in a decrease in consumption and its related harms."
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One 750ml bottle of wine a week increases the risk of developing cancer by the equivalent of 10 cigarettes a week for women and five for men. UK researchers said this was a good way of communicating the health risks of moderate drinking.
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