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It was October 2015. She was 16 years old. Attending a local hockey team's "rookie party" was supposed to be a night out with her friends.
"I thought I was safe," the now 18-year-old victim of a Kingston assault wrote in an impact statement. But, she said, she was never allowed to read it in court.
Last week, after nearly two years, the story of 22-year-old Chance Macdonald — a hockey player and Queen's University student charged with sexual assault, but later reduced to a common assault plea — was reported by media.
But to his victim, who spoke to the Star and whose identity is protected under a publication ban, the case is something she lives with every day.
The setting was a "rookie party" in October 2015, for a Gananoque junior hockey team, which took place in the Queen's student district, the victim confirmed. She attended the party with friends.
At the house later that night, in a dark room with multiple people present, she says Macdonald made unwanted physical advances towards her and she became trapped under the weight of his body. She can't be sure exactly what happened in the dark, but she remembers that hands, some belonging to Macdonald, were shoved up her shirt and down her pants. Only when a friend entered the room and turned on the lights did the encounter stop.
At the urging of a friend, she reported the incident to the police. A month later, Macdonald was charged with two counts of sexual assault and one count of forcible confinement. Those charges were later reduced to one count of common assault, which Macdonald pleaded guilty to in April.
After the guilty plea, Justice Allan Letourneau postponed the business student's sentencing for four months. In that time, Macdonald completed a prestigious internship at Deloitte.
Letourneau's oral decision on Aug. 25 began with reference to his own past as an athlete.
"I played extremely high-end hockey and I know the mob mentality that can exist in that atmosphere," Letourneau said. "I'm sure you disappointed not only a lot of people including your parents, but yourself. Not everyone has the talents that you have, and you have them."
Letourneau then pointed out how lucky Macdonald was to plead guilty to common assault, instead of a sexual offense.
"That would have been extremely unfortunate given how accomplished you were at the time, and your potential," he said. "If there was a trial and you were convicted of a sexual offence, I have no doubt that would have dramatically changed the course of your life."
Taking the stand to testify could have been traumatic for Macdonald's alleged victim, Letourneau continued, saying that such an experience often resulted in anxiety and breakdowns.
"I am not here to say that all of that may factor into the statistics that (Crown attorney Gerard) Laarhuis talked about, 1000 incidents and how many are reported, and how many are pursued, and how many are actually found guilty," he said.
"You spared her all of that, that is significant."
The victim, though, said she didn't really understand what was happening when the charges were reduced.
"All I knew was I was 16 at the time and terrified to go to court," she wrote in a Facebook message to the Star. The Crown and the defense came to the agreement together, she confirmed, but "it wasn't really discussed with me, or if it was it wasn't spoken to me in a language a 16-year-old girl would understand."
"I had no idea until I was in the courtroom in April that he wasn't getting [sentenced for] sexual assault and only assault."
As for her victim statement, she alleged that Letourneau didn't agree with her use of the phrase 'hockey culture," and therefore wouldn't allow her to read her original draft in the courtroom.
She wasn't aware of the sentencing on Aug. 25 until the day before, she says, by which time she was out of town.
She provided a copy of her final victim impact statement to the Star, which includes harrowing details about pressure from some of Macdonald's fellow hockey players to drop the charges and leave the case alone.
"At first that is exactly what I wanted to do, but it is hard to forget about something that is constantly in the back of your mind," she wrote. Though the party was for "rookies," she noted that Macdonald wasn't one of them.
"He was a role model and he was setting an example for others," she wrote. "I worry that what has happened to me will happen to other young girls."
Since that night, she wrote that she's missed countless days of work and classes due to anxiety and depression. All details of the victim's statement have been published with her express consent.
"To Mr. McDonald," the last paragraph begins, "I hope this has taught you a lesson that will carry throughout your life."
Letourneau confirmed via a judicial secretary that he doesn't discuss cases with members of the public and would not be commenting. Meanwhile, an online petition to remove Letourneau from the bench had reached 11,485 signatures by Tuesday morning.
Macdonald's lawyer, Connie Baran-Gerez, also didn't return the Star's multiple phone calls.
Queen's administration issued a statement expressing sympathy for the "emotions that people are expressing about this case," but also noted that due to privacy, they wouldn't be speaking about it publicly.
In a statement, Kingston police sexual assault unit Sgt. Barbara Hough wrote that "for students hesitant to report a sexual assault, Kingston Police want you to know that we have several sexual assault investigators that are dedicated to providing a safe, respectful and supportive environment."
Deloitte Canada issued a statement after the sentencing, saying that they were unaware of the situation before it was reported by media last week and that Macdonald was no longer employed with their company.
Macdonald will serve his 88-day sentence on weekends.
He will be on probation for two years, including conditions to attend and participate in assessment, counselling, and rehabilitative programs as directed by his probation officer.
Meanwhile, the victim said, not a day goes by when she isn't affected by what happened that night in early October.
"I often have flashbacks and relive memories of what happened, wishing I could change my mind about going out that night with my friends," she wrote. "Maybe if I did then none of this would have happened."


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When it came to creating the almighty AdNews Power 50 in our in-print September edition, various ideas and themes sprung to mind. Should we make it the 'Amazon' issue perhaps? Zone in on the US multinational e-commerce beast and its potential power and influence on our market, get under the hood and pick apart the ways it'll rupture countless elements of our media landscape?
If it's secured a country manager, a huge warehouse in suburban Melbourne, is hunting for 'thousands' of jobs – not to mention its SVOD offering Amazon Prime taking off and Amazon Music about to launch here, surely such unstoppable power could even make it number one when it comes to market influence, no question?
But no. It just didn't feel right for many reasons. While Amazon's tendrils are in – soon to be hook, line and sinker – the fact is its force and penetration cannot be felt just yet. While we can assume and guess that its power is likely to ruffle a few feathers and tip a few boats, it's too soon as only tremors prevail. The seismic activity is yet to come.
Also, the AdNews 2017 Power 50 List is not about company power. While that is important, our list is about people power.
Power the very word itself can be weighed up in varying ways. Is it he that controls the biggest budget? Or she that has a bigger slice of the market or more offices? The ones that shout loud and call for change or shift cultural norms? Or the ones that are driving change and actively carving out and shaping the industry? Differing opinions will prevail, but one aspect all will agree upon is that power and influence are tied at the hip.
While the industry isn't short of talent, talent with power is another kettle of fish. It's not puppet power, it's much firmer than that, it's far-reaching and is a force to be reckoned with. That's why, after months of conversations, research and debates, it's the 50 in this September edition that have emerged as some of the great idiosyncratic media, marketing and advertising power players of 2017.
In this issue we also cast our eye over the 'potential' power players in our Ones to Watch spin-off list, as while a core 50 have been identified, there's aggressively ambitious undercurrents of up and coming fine minds waiting to surface. We take the compiling of this separate list just as seriously as the Power 50.
Also in this edition we profile one of Australian advertising's most influential and effective creatives, Tom McFarlane; chat to Domain's CMO Melina Cruickshank about the rapid growth of the media company, which is proving to influence much more than just property; look at the concept of disposable creative; question if social media is necessary for brand survival; speak with global drinks brand Hendrick's Gin and zone in on a mix of road safety ads in our campaign deep-dive, Creative Choice.
To see the whole AdNews Power 50 list, as well as 'The Ones to Watch', Top 10 Media Agency CEOs, Top 10 On Air Talent and the Big Five Cos, subscribe to AdNews.

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Spending Thanksgiving Day with the children at The Sanctuary Babies Home – now called Sanctuary Children's Home – was a joy. I love the warm welcome these kids offer and I love getting to know the little ones who are now becoming big.
The children were never so quiet as when I arrived this day. Why? They were eating. My goodness, you could have heard a pin drop. The children were sprawled around the room, mostly sitting on the floor, as they enjoyed their rice and bean lunchtime. But once they were finished they knew what was in store.
After a three-sentence lesson about giving thanks – with emphasis on giving thanks BEFORE we receive what we ask for – the kids dug into shading their picture. I watched as the various children exhibited differing levels of skill but each making progress as they learn. Most pointedly, LoHire was coloring perfectly inside the lines. All the adults remarked at the shift in this tiny tot from barely making a scribble to full out shading inside the lines.
But where was this masterpiece when we finished? I wanted to show you before and after proof. Instead LoHire decided she wanted to keep her art and hid it away somewhere that even Michael couldn't find. Ooo…that girl is smart as a whip!


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ACS Hillingdon Accreditations
CIS Global Citizenship Certification
ACS Hillingdon is proud to be a Council of International Schools (CIS) member school. CIS Global Citizenship Certification validates and recognises our focus on developing students as global citizens. What matters in Global Citizenship Certification is our community values on international education, the translation of these values into authentic learning across the community, developing intercultural understanding, values, and a range of skills for the students.
The achievement of Global Citizenship Certification is a school-wide accomplishment that fosters collaboration and whole-school discussion of values related to global citizenship.
Apple Distinguished School
The Lower School at ACS Hillingdon has been an Apple Distinguished School since 2016. The programme recognises schools that are centres of innovation, leadership and educational excellence and demonstrate Apple's vision of exemplary learning environments.


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Gaspard Best In Show
By Zeb Soanes
Gaspard, Peter and Finty are now the best of friends. They set out on a new adventure together and discover the local summer fete. When Gaspard inadvertently gets entered into the Dog Show, chaos and hilarity ensue in this delightful sequel to Gaspard the Fox. A charming and humorous picture book celebrating urban foxes and their relationship with the humans and animals they share the city with.
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LeGrand elected SPC president
Kevin LeGrand has been elected as president of the Society of Pension Consultants.
LeGrand - head of technical services at Buck Consultants - will take over from JLT Benefit Solutions chief executive Duncan Howorth on June 1. He started in pensions in 1978 and has worked for consultancies...
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This week's top stories included the launch of Punter Southall's defined benefit scheme consolidator, while The Pensions Regulator laid down three 'gateway principles' for superfund transfers.
Sole trustees will want to shout about our code
Escalating standards for sole trustees will become a norm for reputable firms, even if they are voluntary, says Nigel Hill.
Exclusive: APPT sets out sole trusteeship code
Sole trustees will be expected to assess whether to report to The Pensions Regulator (TPR) if they are removed, or resign, from an appointment because of sponsor's actions.
CMI: Mortality remains in line with pre-pandemic trends
Overall mortality remains in line with pre-coronavirus trends despite a recent increase in Covid-19 related deaths, according to the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI).
ITN Pension Scheme renews fiduciary appointment with Aon
Aon has been re-appointed by the £400m ITN Pension Scheme to provide fiduciary management services.


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Yodpiman River Walk… a Concept Mall on Rattanakosin Island
Yodpiman River Walk is a new concept mall close to Pak Klong Talad, the biggest fresh flower market in Bangkok. This concept mall offers you a 300-meter walkway on the bank of Chao Phraya River.
Honestly, I cannot differentiate between concept mall and community mall. For me, they are the same. They are places that have modern shops and restaurants and people go there to eat, shop, and chill out together. These days I have seen these kinds of mall more and more in Bangkok.
Last week I went to Pak Klong Talad. From there, I walked to Yodpiman River Walk. This new concept mall has just been opened and some parts of the mall are not finished yet. I think it is not different from any other malls in Bangkok except its location which is on the bank of the river offering great city views.
I went there in the afternoon, but I am sure the view at night there must be gorgeous. This place can be a place for your dinner on the day that you plan to visit historical sites in Bangkok.
Update: March, 2015
Location: Behind Pak Klong Talad and Yodpiman Talad, close to Saphan Phut or the Memorial Bridge.
How to go there: Since it is located on the bank of Chao Phraya River, I recommend you to take Chao Phraya Express Boat and get off the boat at Memorial Bridge Pier, and walk about 5 minutes.
**When I went there, Memorial Bridge Pier closed, but a pier named Pak Klong Talad was open. I am not sure whether it is permanent. Well, after getting off from Pak Klong Talad Pier, Yodpiman River Walk is right in front of you!
Website: http://www.yodpimanriverwalk.com/home-en/
Have you ever been to Yodpiman River Walk? Do you like it? Share you thought with me in the comment!


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"A hundred and sixty thousand pounds is a matter for the police. A million is a political offensive. It also lasts longer" – O'Shea
Number of Times Seen – 2 (25 Jul 2001 and 21 Sep 2016)
Brief Synopsis – A group of Irish Nationalists plan a robbery of the Bank of England to try and gain support for their freedom from Great Britain.
My Take on it – This is a film that I first saw about 15 years ago and being that I've seen a few heist movies lately, I was curious to find out what I would think about it upon rewatching it.
I enjoyed it a lot because of the way that the story plays out.
They are able to plan and perform such an interesting heist idea without the need of electronic gadgets or many of the tools used in heist films nowadays.
Aldo Ray and Peter O'Toole are both great here as adversaries and friends who are both trying to outwit one another the whole way thru.
It is rumored that base don his performance here, O'Toole was chosen for the lead in Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
I also really liked the way that they clued us in on each and every step of the heist and we knew what was going on the whole time as it was happening and why.
The whole sub plot with the widow played by Elizabeth Sellars was a bit distracting, but I understand why they added it to the story.
All in all, a fun heist movie that I assume most people haven't had the opportunity to be exposed to.
Bottom Line – Thrilling bank heist film that helps us sympathize with the criminals more than the law. Great performances by Ray and O'Toole make this fun to watch as they try to outwit one another. Loved how they explained things step by step so that the viewer knows constantly what is happening and why. Recommended!
MovieRob's Favorite Trivia – Peter O'Toole was originally considered for the part of Charles Norgate, which eventually went to Aldo Ray, but insisted on being cast as Monty Fitch, because he didn't want to be typecast as the Irish boyo. (From IMDB)
Rating – Globe Worthy
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Busby's fight for money owed after it goes into liquidation
A construction company which went into voluntary liquidation last month with debts of more than $2m, is suing two companies for money owed.
Civil and mining construction company Busby Contracting Pty Ltd went into voluntary liquidation on February 5, owing $2.4 million to creditors, employees and the tax office.
On Thursday, Busby Contracting's lawyer Allan Grant was successful in an application to Rockhampton District Court to proceed with a lawsuit against another construction company and a mining company.
According to court documents, $184,223 is outstanding from a $3.2 million contract Busby Contracting had with Ostwald Bros Pty Ltd for expansion works of the Dugald River Mine Village north west of Cloncurry.
According to the claim Ostwald Bros went into administration on August 25, 2017.
MMG Limited owns Dugald River Mine and is listed as the second company Busby Contracting is seeking money from.
The work Busby Contracting carried out at Dugald River included filling walls, and painting walls and ceilings for 300 rooms.
The company also repaired or changed fittings, repaired seals, frosted bathroom windows, fitted locks, and carried out other repairs/fit-outs.
The claim says Busby Contracting also fitted out all 300 rooms with furniture and televisions, and did work on six laundries at the site.
Two other companies are listed in the lawsuit also seeking money from Ostwald Bros and MMG Limited.
Wurtulla Electrical Systems Pty Ltd is seeking $82,256 and Fermor Plumbing Services Pty Ltd is seeking $74,824.
The documents reveal MMG Limited has already paid the amounts sought by the three companies which were $36,859.44 by Busby Contracting, $16,457.77 by Wurtulla Electrical Systems and $14,970.82 by Fermor Plumbing Services.
Busby Contracting had been involved in projects at mines including Eagle Downs, Baralaba, Isaac Plains, Caval Ridge, Rolleston, Peak Downs, Broadmeadows, North Moranbah, Dawson, Curragh, Kestrel, Hail Creek, Coppabella, Jellinbah, Blackwater and Moorvale, and Dyno Nobel Ammonia Nitrate Plant.
Documents lodged with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on February 5 outlined the minutes of the general meeting where company directors Donald Stephen and Patrick Busby confirmed the company was insolvent and unable to pay debts.


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Cancer Stratification by Molecular Imaging
Heidelberg University Hospital, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Im Neuenheimer Feld 400, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Academic Editor: William Chi-Shing Cho
Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2015, 16(3), 4918-4946; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms16034918
Received: 15 October 2014 / Revised: 13 February 2015 / Accepted: 17 February 2015 / Published: 4 March 2015
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Molecular Classification of Human Cancer and Its Role in Tailored Cancer Therapy)
The lack of specificity of traditional cytotoxic drugs has triggered the development of anticancer agents that selectively address specific molecular targets. An intrinsic property of these specialized drugs is their limited applicability for specific patient subgroups. Consequently, the generation of information about tumor characteristics is the key to exploit the potential of these drugs. Currently, cancer stratification relies on three approaches: Gene expression analysis and cancer proteomics, immunohistochemistry and molecular imaging. In order to enable the precise localization of functionally expressed targets, molecular imaging combines highly selective biomarkers and intense signal sources. Thus, cancer stratification and localization are performed simultaneously. Many cancer types are characterized by altered receptor expression, such as somatostatin receptors, folate receptors or Her2 (human epidermal growth factor receptor 2). Similar correlations are also known for a multitude of transporters, such as glucose transporters, amino acid transporters or hNIS (human sodium iodide symporter), as well as cell specific proteins, such as the prostate specific membrane antigen, integrins, and CD20. This review provides a comprehensive description of the methods, targets and agents used in molecular imaging, to outline their application for cancer stratification. Emphasis is placed on radiotracers which are used to identify altered expression patterns of cancer associated markers. View Full-Text
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New evidence highlights a number of opportunities to target and reduce gender pay gaps across Australian organisations, including those in the minerals sector
Despite major advances for women in both educational attainment and workforce participation, the gender pay gap remains a permanent fixture of the Australian labour market, with the full-time gender pay gap remaining at or around 20 per cent for more than two decades. The pay gap currently stands at around 18 per cent, with women earning on average only 82 per cent of a man's pay (ABS, 2015). This means that a woman would have to work an additional 65 days each year to earn the same as a man (WGEA, 2015).
The persistence of the full-time gender pay gap is surprising given the advancements women have made in education, particularly younger generations. Australian women have achieved parity with men in education and health according to the Global Gender Gap Index, but do not fare as well in economic participation and opportunity or political empowerment. Women currently outnumber men at universities and achieve higher marks across the board throughout their schooling years. The lower labour market returns that women are likely to receive despite the considerable investment in human capital is a concern from both a social justice and an economic perspective.
Persistent gender pay gaps have been shown to affect economic growth negatively through disincentivising labour force participation (Cassells et al, 2009; KPMG, 2009). Gender pay gaps are manifested in other forms of gender inequity, such as restricting the accumulation of wealth in the form of property and superannuation, increasing the reliance on government assistance over the life-course, and increasing the likelihood of women living in poverty at every life stage.
Numerous actions and initiatives have been implemented by organisations, industries and government to address the gender pay gap. Legislation has been enacted to prohibit discrimination based on gender; government policies have sought to support women's participation in the paid labour force through childcare and the tax/transfer system; and numerous organisations have continued to advocate for gender equity within the workplace. Yet despite all of this activity, inertia exists and the full-time gender pay gap remains stubbornly high.
More recently, the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 was legislated to promote and improve gender equality in remuneration and employment within Australian workplaces. The act requires organisations to report annually against a number of gender equity indicators, including remuneration and female board representation, and provides each organisation with an individual report that compares its gender equity standing to industry benchmarks. In 2014-15 the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) reporting data captured almost 4 million employees and more than 12 000 employers.
Australia is one of only a handful of countries to require such comprehensive reporting of gender equality indicators across organisations. The UK has recently initiated a similar policy, but goes one step further by requiring big companies to publically disclose their gender pay gaps. A number of Australian companies have also made commitments to do this, with the big four accounting firms disclosing company-wide gender pay gaps towards the end of 2015.
The Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre (BCEC) partnered with the WGEA to produce a Gender Equity Series, using the new data reported by organisations across Australia. The insights contained in the report are intended to shine a light on the conditions under which gender pay gaps are most likely to occur and generate discussion and debate about how to promote pay equity in Australian workplaces. Some of the key insights
are discussed in this article.
Gender pay gaps among senior managers
A key finding of the report was the greater remuneration men receive compared to women in almost every scenario – particularly among more senior occupation levels, where award agreements play a lesser role and pay setting is more discretionary in nature.
Within the managerial grouping, the gender pay gap widens as the management level increases (Figure 1). Among top tier managers (those reporting directly to the CEO), female managers are paid on average $100 000 less than their male counterparts when comparing total remuneration.
A notable feature of these comparisons is that the average total remuneration for female managers is equal to the base salary for male managers across all managerial groupings. These gaps in remuneration can result in significant differences in earnings not only on an annual basis, but also as men and women progress through their careers.
Both women and men receive additional remuneration beyond their base salary, which can include superannuation, bonuses, share allocations, allowances, overtime and other discretionary pay. However, men consistently earn more additional remuneration than women. Women working full-time are paid an average additional 18 per cent of their base salary in extras and men an additional 25 per cent of their base salary. That leads to an average male 'bonus' premium of almost eight percentage points for full-time workers.
Large and persistent gender pay gaps among managers highlight the likely evidence of biased organisational behaviours, where men are given preferential recruitment and pay treatment over women at senior management levels. This is further evidenced by the greater additional remuneration that men receive compared to women beyond their base salary in the form of bonuses, superannuation and other discretionary pay.
These differences in remuneration at the top end of the occupation scale are shown to have severe negative impacts on women's expected career earnings, where women progressing through managerial levels at the same pace as men can expect to earn $600 000 less in a ten-year period.
A number of industries fare better than the overall industry average when examining gender pay gaps among managers. Table 1 shows the full-time gender pay gap across the four managerial levels within each broad industry grouping. Manufacturing, electricity, gas, water and waste services, wholesale trade, and education and training tend to have consistently lower gender pay gaps across their managerial levels when compared with the overall industry average.
The mining sector has considerably lower gender pay gaps across all management tiers when compared to the all industry average. However, as with most industries, the gender pay gap within the mining sector increases with the management level, from eight per cent for 'other managers' to 17 per cent for 'key management personnel'.
Women on boards and gender pay gaps
Female representation on governing bodies and boards speaks to basic considerations of gender equity in recognising the achievements of women in senior leadership positions. Yet there are many additional benefits from achieving gender balance in board representation. The role model effect from seeing women on boards gives powerful encouragement to talented women in management positions. Achieving gender balance in organisational governance structures is both reflective of, and can lead to, a broader recognition of equity and diversity in core business values. And there is strong evidence to show that improved gender diversity leads to better decision-making and business outcomes. A number of studies have shown a positive effect of board gender diversity on outcomes such as corporate performance (see for example Adams and Ragunathan, 2013; Anderson et al, 2011), fraud (Capezio and Mavisakalyan, 2015), and social responsiveness (eg Galbreath, 2011; Williams, 2003).
Overall, around 37 per cent of organisations have no female representation on their boards (Figure 2). For 29.8 per cent of organisations, women directors make up no more than a quarter of all board members. Around 12.7 per cent of organisations have up to a third of female board members, and a further 14.1 per cent up to a half. Only 6.3 per cent of organisations have more women than men serving on boards.
There is a huge gap between the best and worst performing industry sectors when it comes to achieving gender equity in board representation. For example, there are no women sitting on boards for at least half of all organisations in retail (50.7 per cent), mining (55.0 per cent), wholesale (55.5 per cent), manufacturing (56.8 per cent), construction (61.3 per cent), public administration and safety (64.7 per cent), and agriculture, forestry and fishing (69.6 per cent).
In contrast, nearly two in five organisations in health care and social assistance (17.3 per cent) and one in eight in education and training (12.4 per cent) have over 50 per cent female representation on their boards. Our findings indicate a clear gender-industry gradient in the share of women serving on boards.
A more positive finding borne out by a special investigation within the report reveals that greater representation of women on boards is associated with a significant reduction in organisation-wide gender pay gaps – particularly among managers.
Even after taking account of other factors that are likely to influence pay gaps at an organisational level, we find that increasing the share of women on boards from zero to equal representation is associated with a statistically significant 6.3 percentage point reduction in the gender pay gap for full-time managers and a 7.8 percentage point reduction for part-time managers.
At one level, achieving greater female representation on boards reflects a basic consideration of equity in access to governance roles between men and women. Yet this research has uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet that appointing more women to serve on boards leads to improved gender outcomes – specifically, reduced gender pay gaps in the workplace.
This new evidence highlights a number of opportunities to target and reduce gender pay gaps across Australian organisations. Decisions related to recruitment and remuneration (especially at the managerial level) are one such opportunity. Ensuring that new hires are drawn from a diverse pool, and that any tendencies to recruit in one's own image are minimised. Critically auditing the current employee pool and their remuneration and levels is also likely to result in better outcomes for gender pay gaps.
Furthermore, findings showing the relationship on increased female board representation and a lower organisational gender pay gap add strength to the business case for greater female board representation. The stronger this evidence becomes, the more likely it is that organisations will make the business decision to increase female representation on boards.
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Arsenal's and England international Theo Walcott could be on his way out at the Emirates with four Premier League interested in the Englishman.
Walcott has been with Arsenal for 11 years since joining as a 16-year-old from Southampton but it looks like the former Southampton star's time in North London is coming to an end, according to the Daily Mirror. With it being a World Cup year, the forward wants regular game time which he is not guaranteed at Arsenal.
His former side also said to be interested in him as they are currently struggling to score goals. Everton, West Ham United and Watford are the other sides to have enquired about his services. Everton didn't buy a striker following Romelu Lukaku's summer departure to Manchester United and although Walcott would be the right replacement they need, he should be able to provide them with at least 10 goals a season.
Has had registered four Premier League appearances for Arsenal this season all of which have come from the bench. The majority of Walcott's game time comes from playing in Europa League and Caraba Cup matches for what is Arsene Wenger's B team.
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin sent a letter to the Office of Government Ethics on Friday claiming that he didn't mean to violate ethics rules when he made a public plug for "The Lego Batman Movie," a film that Mnuchin's company financed.
When Mnuchin was asked at a discussion hosted by the news website Axios last week for movie recommendations, he responded, "
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Mnuchin wrote that he regretted his comment, which he claimed was made in jest in response to a "light-hearted question." But, Mnuchin wrote, it was reasonable to interpret his answer as encouraging the audience to see the film and, therefore, it was a mistake.
"I should not have made that statement," Mnuchin wrote.
Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs banker, co-founded RatPac-Dune, a production company that has funded and produced dozens of Hollywood movies, including "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" and "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them."
In response to Mnuchin's endorsement, Sen. Ron Wyden, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter to the head of the Office of Government Ethics on Monday expressing his concern about the comments and the status of Mnuchin's divestment from his businesses.
Wyden requested that the office review Mnuchin's comments and report back to Wyden and the Treasury Department.
"It's surprising he would treat it like a joke," Larry Noble, general counsel of the Campaign Legal Center, told Newsday. "It reflects a lack of concern for the ethics rules. Sometimes these seem like minor things, but they're not."
Federal ethics rules prohibit executive branch employees from using their position for personal gain or "for the endorsement of any product, service or enterprise, or for the private gain of friends, relatives or persons with whom the employee is affiliated in a nongovernmental capacity."
The controversy surrounding Mnuchin comes after Kellyanne Conway, President Donald Trump's senior counselor, encouraged Americans to buy Ivanka Trump's product line in February after the brand was dropped by Nordstrom's.
"It's a wonderful line. I own some of it," Conway said on Fox & Friends. "I'm going to give a free commercial here. Go buy it today, everybody. You can find it online."
The Office of Government Ethics wrote that there was "strong reason to believe that Ms. Conway has violated the Standards of Conduct and that disciplinary action is warranted."
Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, said in February that Conway had been "counseled" about her comments. The White House deputy counsel told the office that he met with Conway after her remarks and that she committed to follow ethics rules more closely in the future.
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Turner plays a nun who is assigned to help a young drug addict in the new Broadway drama. On "Good Morning America," Turner briefly discusses personally dealing with alcohol addiction in her past, and what this brings to her character and performance in the production.
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This concludes my case and the community may benefit from my experience. I am on the hook to fix my problem, be it replacing the swollen battery or anything else that might be causing the the back glass to separate.
The typical cost in my area, that is Fairfax, Virginia, is $79.99 for parts and labor for replacing the battery. The service provider offers 90 warranty for parts and labor. It would take them 1.5 to 2 hours to replace the battery.
Now I have to check out eBay, Amazon for battery and associated supplies and Youtube for DIY fix-it instructions. I am guessing for a handy person it would cost well under $20 and time and patience but also build confidence to do it again the next time. This battery business is not a one time fix and I would like to keep my phone a bit longer.
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rgang50 and everyone else... would you be interested in joining a Class Action Lawsuit against Samsung? I for one never received the paperwork for arbitrary when I bought my Samsung S7 Edge. I imagine since I didn't receive it you may have not either which means you can sue in court. This product is as defective as the Note 7 but the only difference is, is that the media isn't covering it yet. I can't believe Samsung would sell defective products and then make us pay to fix their mistakes. Not cool. If interested in joining the suit please send me your info at <hidden>
Unhelpful customer service leaves a bad taste in the mouth and lawyers are not going to be particularly helpful in this case. Besides, in a class action the victim sees less than a penny on the dollar. The bulk of the award goes to the attorneys and court costs. I am sure you already knew that.
My phone is having the same issue.
I think there will be many more S7's with the same issue and Samsung are trying to discreetly trying to repair them.
This should not go without penalty.
We should form a facebook group or pother site to come together and present Samsung with a case.
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My phone just started swelling up and it is 100% out.
I was charging it in the kitchen, I was outside and came back like 1 hour later to the horrific smell of toxic metal, made my tongue tingle a bit. I was afraid something was burning in my house like an appliance, nope it was my phone!!!
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Figure skating's bad-girl star Surya Bonaly makes new life in Minnesota
Each year in June, hundreds of teenage figure skaters descend upon the Braemar Arena in Edina. Painted and costumed, they hail from a dozen figure skating clubs across the Twin Cities metro.
In a state where practically all children have some memory of toddling around an ice rink, these young zealots are the ones whose families went further, hiring personal coaches and renting private ice. These are the kids who have grown up eagerly sacrificing all the hours of their after-school lives to perfect an exacting catalog of dizzying spins and spirals, leaps and loops. Some are buoyed by Olympic dreams.
Reed-thin Sunny Choi is a pirouetting red blur topped with a pert bun of black hair wrenched tight over her scalp. Choi, who recently turned 12 years old, is an exceptionally young contender in the intermediate-level choreographed skate.
Sunny circles the rink in yet another run of the same moves she's been rehearsing ad nauseam for the past 10 minutes. She glides in reverse on one skate, leaps into a triple spin, and crashes. When she climbs upright, her entire left thigh and hip are dusted in ice shavings. She throws her shoulders forward in dejection and groans, pouting at her rink-side coach.
Surya Bonaly motions Sunny over, claps her on the back, and repositions her arms tight across her torso. Fill in all this core to spin faster, Surya tells the girl in an accent thick with singing French notes. Choi is tripping because she does not yet have the ab strength to complete three full rotations cleanly before she starts coming down. She falls because she's unsure where she is in the air.
After the practice, Surya walks with Sunny and her mother, Jae Choi, in the hallway just outside the rink. A cloud of frustration sits over the girl as she presses close to Mom. She's worried that she won't earn a medal at this year's Braemar competition.
"It's okay... just because you don't get a medal, it doesn't mean you're not worth anything," Surya consoles Sunny. "What are medals good for anyway? Collecting dust?"
Sunny is in a self-punishing mood. She nods meekly to show that she has heard before they part ways.
"American culture is so different from Europe. Here, they cry if they don't come home with a medal. It's only what they have in mind, and it destroys them," Surya says. She's swaddled in layers of thermal sweatshirts bunched inside a puffy black parka. She wears no makeup, her bangs pinned back casually. "I tell the skaters if you did your best, you did good. Try to be happy."
Surya is a former Olympian, a nine-time French national champion, a five-time European champion, and a three-time World silver medalist. She is one of the most celebrated black figure skaters in the history of a lily-white sport.
And she's the only human being in the history of the world who can land a backflip on one blade.
The question of why Surya never attained Olympic gold, and the disqualification of her singular skill, is still a matter of controversy. It's the reason her fame inhabits a cult status rarely enjoyed by even the most decorated skating stars. It's why people still know her name long after she hung up her competitive skates for the last time in 1998.
Yet after a career that spanned three decades — starting when the now 43-year-old champion was discovered at age 10, skylarking about an ice rink in the south of France — Surya decided to move to America, settling in remote, modest Minnesota. She did it for love, as much as for the homegrown crop of hungry young talent.
Part of her coaching job is to impart the techniques for which she is best known: strength, speed, and air. The rest is teaching her students how to stay happy and confident.
It's a skill Surya developed over a lifetime of grappling with a world that seemed hell-bent on keeping her out.
Surya's Rising Star
When the world press first took note of Surya Bonaly, she was 17, winner of the 1991 European championships in Sofia, Bulgaria. She was the first French woman ever to earn that glory by landing five triple jumps out of seven. At the time, she had already won the French championship three times running.
Her pure athleticism was immediately evident. She was quick. She was aerial. It wasn't enough for her to simply glide and dance when she could leap and spin.
And she was already thinking about breaking records: For the upcoming 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France, Surya wanted to attempt the first quadruple toe loop jump — a spin with four full revolutions — in competition. It was something no woman had ever landed successfully. If anyone could, it was Surya.
Before she was a figure skater training under the renowned coach Didier Gailhaguet, Surya was a French national tumbling champion. Under the tutelage of her adoptive mother, Suzanne Bonaly, who taught physical education in Nice, Surya began gymnastics training at two years old. She was a silver medal winner by the 1986 Tumbling World Championships. At the same time, she learned to figure skate and began turning backflips in crowded rinks by age 12.
In the beginning, critics disapproved of her peculiar mélange of gymnastics and figure skating. They wrote off her style as inelegant, more a show of power than grace. Yet her unique tumbling background also gave Surya an unprecedented advantage. She could push the boundaries of what was considered physically possible in blades.
As fuel for his prize pupil's rising star, the flamboyant Gailhaguet told reporters that Surya had been born on the French island of Réunion, off the coast of Madagascar, and abandoned as a baby on a coconut-strewn beach. He said that she had been raised on a macrobiotic diet. That she ate birdseed for breakfast. That the 17-inch ponytail she wore in her first Olympic appearance had never been cut.
None of it was true. Yet Gailhaguet gambled on a circus mystique for young Surya as a way to contend with better-established, contemporaneous skating legends like Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan, and Midori Ito. They were athletes who intrigued and inspired the imaginations of huge fan followings.
In the 1990s, figure skating was as popular as ever, and every advantage that could be manufactured was a point in the rubric of a subjectively judged sport. Skating events were televised every day during the Olympics, sometimes two or three times. It was over skating that the world's superpowers chose to stage their ancient political rivalries and to prove the legitimacy of their governments.
In figure skating some of the best in the world were state-sponsored athletes from Russia and East Germany. For these women, bringing home a medal meant financial comfort for their entire families. To lose was to become a national disgrace. The coach of Katarina Witt was a German terror who was said to be able to trip her opponent with just a glare. Skaters would lock their bags, or safer yet, take their skates with them whenever they left the dressing room.
The so-called "ice princesses" who ruled the sport were never truly wilting damsels. At its apex, figure skating was a sport of bruising, bleeding, and backstabbing. It was the sort of environment in which American Olympian Tonya Harding would conspire to have a hitman break rival skater Nancy Kerrigan's leg, skyrocketing skating to hypnotic heights of public interest.
And it was in this hotbed of politics that Surya hoped to win for France, a country that not only hadn't medaled in world figure skating, it hadn't been a contender.
Art and Artifice
At the 1992 Albertville Olympics, France elected Surya to take the Olympic Oath as representative of all its athletes. The fabled fashion designer Christian Lacroix donated to her two skating costumes: one featuring a fiery matador jacket embroidered with red carnations, the other a sheer blue skirt set with rhinestones.
But as with any measure of reputation, controversy followed closely.
During a practice session, Surya performed a backflip and landed — as it seemed to one incensed referee — far too close to Japan's Midori Ito. Accused of rattling the emotionally delicate Ito and causing her to fall during her long performance, Surya was warned never to pull the stunt again.
There were many reasons why backflips were never accepted by the governing chiefs of the figure skating world. Skaters were discouraged from being acrobats in order to avoid cross-contamination with gymnastics. There were practical liabilities too. People could get concussions, break a neck, dislocate a jaw. It was a skill that could never be institutionalized, so there was no way to judge it.
Later in the 1992 Olympics, Surya ignored her predetermined choreography and spontaneously became the first and only woman to attempt a quadruple toe loop in competition. She underrotated and landed awkwardly midspin. The judges stripped points. It was conceit to think she could land such a move, they seemed to say. Surya finished fifth overall.
There was a nasty breakup with Gailhaguet, who was bitterly disappointed to leave the Olympics sans medal. Yet he never directed a single complaint at his young prodigy. Instead, he placed all the blame with her mother, Suzanne.
Suzanne Bonaly was a devoted physical education teacher in the sunny south of France. When she married her husband, the architect Georges, she had the word "sport" engraved on her wedding band. She was Surya's first coach, introducing her to all the outdoor sports that Nice had to offer.
She pressed Surya to outperform every self-imposed limitation. Yet she never thought to mold Surya into a champion, Suzanne says, "because in Europe, you don't dream like that."
"To progress and progress and progress is what I do with my students. Could I say, 'Come on, we are going to do the competition and win this?' No. That's not me."
So when Gailhaguet invited Surya to come away with him, promising to make her a star, Suzanne accompanied her daughter to Paris while Georges remained in Nice. There, Suzanne kept close to Surya's side, never straying from the rink-side compartment meant for coaches. She watched over practice like a hawk.
From the beginning, the media was perplexed by Suzanne. They nicknamed her "the Dragon Lady" on account of her constant involvement with Surya's training and the way she alienated Surya's coaches. Her not-so-subtle disdain for the artificial etiquette of the competitive world — the kowtowing to judges' particular preferences and the way skaters were expected to smile graciously, blush, and curtsy — offended the community.
At the same time, Gailhaguet's bad-mouthing of Suzanne came off like the ravings of a slighted parent in a noxious custody battle. He accused Suzanne of yelling at Surya, slapping her, and hitting her in the face with hockey sticks if she ever skated below expectation.
When word of this abuse got around to Surya, she burst out laughing. Suzanne was aghast. No one who had ever trained with the two of them could corroborate Gailhaguet's allegations. And in the tug-of-war between mother and coach — between the private virtue of self-improvement and the public glory of winning gold — Surya chose the former.
She could have been the best there ever was, Gailhaguet lamented when Suzanne whisked her daughter away to a resort in the French Alps to train and to heal.
But for Surya and Suzanne, the break was a necessary respite.
"The best part of skating with Surya, we did in the mountains after we fight with Didier Gailhaguet, and she left Paris," Suzanne reflects now. "The ice rink of la belle view in the mountains, and we can see the pine and the peak, we put on the music and she skate.... Oh you can imagine, that was beautiful. What I see there was the best of the skating. All the competition was trouble, difficulty, but this was real. It was true art."
One Last Chance
The respite from competition wouldn't last long. Surya loved to perform, loved making art that others could watch. She craved the crowd, the applause, the couture, and the drama of the world stage.
To make an honest, reconciliatory bid for an Olympic medal, Surya went to California to study under Michelle Kwan's coach Frank Carroll. He told her the hard truth: She needed to appeal to the judges' sense of good skating and put her own aesthetics aside.
Surya gave up on trying to perfect the quadruple spin. She no longer practiced the backflip in view of referees. She even cut her thickly braided ponytail — because the judges didn't like it, her mother explained.
She began 1994 with her fourth consecutive win of the European championship. At the Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, she placed fourth, behind the bronze medalist.
Following the Lillehammer Olympics, Surya competed in the 1994 World Championship in Chiba, Japan. She performed perfectly, and received a final score that was but two-tenths of a point less than that of hometown hero Yuka Sato.
When the judges cast final votes for their preferred gold medalist, they indicated 5-4 that it should be Sato.
Beaming, the young Japanese star darted onto the ice for the medal ceremony while Surya followed slowly after, her face streaked with tears. She refused to stand on the podium to receive the silver, cuing hisses from the crowd. The awards presenter was barely able to force the medal over Surya's unbent head before she tore it off again.
Suzanne watched on from her place just beyond the rink, her face an impassive mask.
When the "Kimigayo" was sung and Surya was finally free to leave, a horde of reporters brandishing microphones encircled her before she could make a full retreat. Who told her to do it, they demanded of the shocked 21-year-old. Had Suzanne put her up to rejecting the podium?
"No one told me," Surya stuttered. "I'm just not lucky I guess."
She'd changed everything about the way she skated, what made her different, and special, even how she looked. She played by the rules. It still wasn't enough.
Thinking back to the disastrous 1994 World Championships, Surya says she never meant to upset so many people.
"It happened so fast and in a way I was like, 'Ohh, I feel really pissed off.' I felt I was deserving the medal, number one," she says. At the time, it felt like however well she skated, the judges wouldn't recognize her skills. "You don't want to be a bad person, but it happens all the time, and if people don't know that you're pissed, the judges can do this over and over, repeatedly, and you have to take it."
After 1994, Surya had one last chance to prove herself. She set out to win the 1998 Olympics or fade into obscurity. By 1995, injuries were beginning to accrue. She won her fifth-straight European championship with a broken right toe. The following year, she snapped her Achilles tendon practicing her trademark backflip. In 1997 she nevertheless won her ninth and final consecutive French National title, qualifying for the 1998 Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
As she prepared to compete once more on the grandest world stage, bad press followed her. The New York Times thought she was a sore loser. The French papers mercilessly bashed her mother's decision to never hire a full-time coach after parting with Gailhaguet following the 1992 Olympics.
There was also Surya's obvious racial distinction, of which she never made as much as the papers did and still do. She never fixated on whether the judges shortchanged her at the 1994 World Championships because she was black.
Instead, the color of her skin was an internal motivator for Surya. She believed she had to be objectively exceptional, so that race could not be held against her. Or used as an excuse. She was nevertheless used as a symbol — called a rebel, a diva, a badass, another oft-scrutinized black body. People talked about her muscles, her thighs, as if they were weapons in a cultural war.
The Olympics were agony for Surya. She knew it was her last competition. She had too many injuries to go further in her career. At the same time, the broken Achilles liberated her. Realistically, she knew there was no place for her in the top three. She had nothing to lose.
When it came time for her free skate, Surya tried to imagine if the International Skating Union legalized backflips someday in the future, and if other skaters started to do it. How would she feel, knowing she'd never given it a shot in competition, even though she was the only one in the world who was capable of doing it?
Skating to Vivaldi's tempestuous The Four Seasons, she fell on a triple, regained her composure, and backed into a spontaneous backflip.
The audience exploded. Bouquets hailed from the stands. Hearts thundered throughout the frigid arena as people turned to each other, wide-eyed and slack-jawed because they didn't believe their own eyes.
Surya, when she had finished, bore an exuberant smile. She turned her back to the judges and bowed first to the fans.
She came in 10th. But she would not be forgotten.
"It was enough just for me to challenge myself and fight against myself, not to get this girl, to beat that girl. My thing was to make sure that I come out and feel strong enough in myself to say, 'Hey, I did what I was supposed to do.'"
Flipping Back into Action
When Minnesota's Tom Collins founded the touring skating company Champions on Ice back in 1969, the pitch was simple. Olympians who had retired from competition and wanted to start making big money need only come to him, and he would use their names to stock stands by the thousands.
At the peak of the late-1990s figure skating hysteria, the ice show magnate made a fortune with programs that bore the names of Brian Boitano, Nancy Kerrigan, and Viktor Petrenko. Skaters who could barely look at each other while competing neck and neck.
"She would be one of the highlights," Collins says of Surya. "Her and Michelle Kwan, and maybe a couple other people. She would get one of the biggest applause in the show. She really did, because she was different, and she stood out."
For 15 years Surya toured with Champions on Ice, performing for crowds of 15,000 in major cities across Europe and America, living on the road for months at a time. On days that she woke up in France but was needed in Madison Square Garden for a prime-time performance, she took Concorde jets that flew her from Paris to New York in three hours. She kept company with two presidents of France.
Surya says she pretended every show was the World Championships.
Every night, Surya performed her signature backflip because that was what the crowds wanted more than anything. She never stepped off the ice without doing it. Over the years, Collins estimates that Surya must have performed it some 500 times.
"Oh my gosh, flipped halfway around, opened up…the thought of it." He can't think back to the potential for injury each of those times without a squeamish groan. "Okay, but she was just gung-ho. She had all the confidence in the world."
With her mother Suzanne there at every show as coach and companion, Surya never fell.
Over time, the two settled in Nevada and became U.S. citizens. Surya made a Las Vegas Strip rink her home practice turf, and it was there that she met Pete Biver.
Biver is a classic blond-haired, blue-eyed giant of Minnesota stock, a five-time U.S. Nationals gold medalist in pairs who retired into coaching following his competitive career. The 2013 International Skating Institute coaches convention brought him to Las Vegas. An on-ice reprieve from classroom seminars eventually led him to Surya's rink.
And there she was, with her mother. Biver recalls seeing Suzanne first, this daunting force in figure skating. Tentatively, respectfully, he began to chitchat with her.
At the end, Biver got up the nerve to skate out to Surya. He knew she had also skated pairs, so he asked her if she would like to do a death spiral.
"And she said 'yeah,'" Biver laughs, reminded of the excitement of taking Surya by the hand, anchoring one toe into the ice, and sweeping her into a low, low spiral with her body lifted but a few intimate inches off the ice as they twisted in tandem.
Afterward, they talked for a while. Surya knew of Biver's accomplishments at Nationals, but she hadn't remembered that they'd met once before, some 10 years before when she came to Lake Placid, New York. Biver was training there at the time. In between training sessions, Biver got in line to get Surya's autograph.
He was just a fanboy, Biver jokes. When Surya suggested that she might be interested in attending his coaches' conference, he was utterly taken aback. Could he save her a seat next to him? she asked.
Surya attended a couple of classes with Biver, and afterward they went out for sushi. They spent the entire weekend together. It was surreal, he says.
Two trying years of long-distance dating followed. At one point Surya returned to France to shoot a TV show, the equivalent of Dancing With the Stars. Biver stayed with her there for about a week, and she would visit him in Minnesota. They each had exacting schedules, and whenever Surya flew to France, she would ask for a connection to Minneapolis. They often ended up meeting each other at MSP airport, where they might have a couple hours to have lunch, say hello, take a picture, and say goodbye.
Eventually they decided that if "it" was going to work out, one of them had to move.
Sweet Home Minnesota
For three hours after school, Surya can be found at Parade Ice Garden in Loring Park, where she dons a pair of skates and chases her students across the ice to a Disney soundtrack, chirping, "Push, push, push, push!" She rubs their backs and reminds these angular teenage girls to slink, gracefully, like cats, instead of stomping like ducks. They laugh.
The last time Surya performed a backflip, it was two years ago during a show in Brazil. By then, a deep and unrelenting ache radiated in her lower spine. While she toured, Surya would lie awake at night, stretched out on the floor of fancy hotel rooms with her left leg propped up on a chair. At home she slept on a plank of wood.
At first she was reluctant to seek treatment, Surya says, because pain was something that she'd lived with all her life.
True skaters fall at least 50 times a session, but before she learned how to do it properly, she fractured both wrists. At 11, she had just landed a spin when her ankle suddenly buckled and broke beneath her. Later she received her first and only concussion falling from the balance beam midbackflip. She snapped her Achilles tumbling barefoot in the gym, and then she snapped it again in high-heeled ice skates.
You weren't supposed to complain, Surya says. That was the way of gymnastics, where gossip flowed abundantly about so-and-so who'd fallen on her head, who crashed and tore her jaw, who broke her nose.
"When you're in pain and the show must go on, you have to do everything you can to look amazing for those people who pay money for tickets," Surya says of her final years with Champions on Ice. "What can you do? Give me 10 pills, make me feel better."
Ibuprofen kept the pain at bay, but eventually it too lost its potency. Faced with the reality that she might actually overdose, Surya sought a doctor's opinion. It turned out that she had a proliferation of cysts all along her spinal cord. They weren't cancerous, but they were large enough to pinch her nerves.
Surya went under the knife last year. Since the operation, her left leg has felt numb from knee to toe. Her surgeon warned her against any more backflips.
And so after a lifetime on the road since she was 15 years old, Surya has fully traded in performing for coaching. She moved in with Biver — first to Blaine to be near the superarena, and then to St. Louis Park, closer to the epicenter of all the metro area ice rinks where they coach private lessons.
It's the first time she's ever lived with a boyfriend. All her previous relationships had been long distance, and the distance inevitably became the breaking point.
At the thought of Surya's newfound peace, Suzanne breathes a long, satisfied sigh. She believes Biver is a nice boy. He accompanied Surya to visit her once, in Las Vegas, but she tried her utmost to not interfere.
"I tried to let them be independent," Suzanne recalls. "I leave them to be closer and closer and closer and perhaps… perhaps!"
After decades of living together or near each other, as mother and daughter, coach and athlete, Suzanne and Surya now talk on the phone mostly. Back in Las Vegas, they shared acres of land and gardened every day after practice: lemons and nectarines, figs and olives. Suzanne sends Surya photos of the peach harvest and Surya responds with clips of her students' work. Some days it's just not enough to keep the homesickness at bay.
Surya coaches six days a week, sometimes up to 12 hours on competition days. Biver works all seven.
Sometimes driving from one rink to another is about all the breathing room they get, and even then, they replay their students' routines in their minds. Dinners together are rare. Often, it's only late at night that they'll have a quiet moment to themselves.
At times, the daily hustle of this work has been a difficult transition for Surya to master. She's found that it's not so easy to be a transplant in Minnesota, to make friends, to find things to do outside of work. Once in a while, when Biver is training at the rink, she'll go see a movie by herself.
There is no time, and no place, to garden in a condo in St. Louis Park. Still, Surya says mentoring her students is not unlike the laborious cultivation of a desert zucchini.
"It takes forever. Like growing a garden, growing a good salad, it takes forever to get a zucchini big like that," she says. "You have to be patient. It doesn't grow overnight."
Biver admits his bias, but after working with Surya day after day, he's seen firsthand the qualities in her that make a top coach. She has a way of making skaters laugh, he says, of finding nicknames for all her students, understanding their motivations. She extracts humor from moments of frustration that could otherwise devastate a young student over time.
"She's so appreciative of everyone who is interested in skating, and pushing themselves beyond what they think is [possible]," he says. "She showed that you can stand up and speak for yourself because if you don't, no one else will. And I know her path has not been easy, and I take my hat off to her for being so vocal, that in such a judged and contrived world of figure skating that she stood as an original."


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Feels Good Coffeeshop is located on Oudezijds Voorburgwal, just a bit north of the De Oude Kerk (The Old Church). It is also within the Red Light District, towards the north end. This is one of the busiest sections of the city center, especially with visitors. Consequently, the narrow road that hosts this coffeeshop sees a great deal of foot traffic daily. Some nights, the area gets downright packed.
The first thing you notice about this shop is the turnstile at the front doorway. Perhaps they want you to feel like you are entering an amusement park? Pushing through brings you to their front room. It is dimly lit, with strong accent lighting in green neon. You make your purchase at a counter here, which is fully behind a clear partition (bank teller style). The menu is written all over neon blackboards, adding to the accent lightning.
It has an interesting vibe; feels like you have walked into a small neighborhood nightclub. In the back of the shop is the smoking lounge, which is partitioned-off behind a glass door. The décor is basic. Wooden tables and benches. Old wooden floors. The odd bit of artwork or photographs hung on the walls. It is fairly spacious though, and has a bit of privacy with the shape of the room and its sunken/elevated areas.
Feels Good Coffeeshop has a reputation for quality cannabis at not-so-extreme prices. As such, you tend to find many locals in this place. Though also welcoming of tourists, the dark no-frills nature of this shop tends to put it lower on the list of "go-to" establishments. This might be a benefit to the savvy traveler. At Feels Good one may trade a bit of the unnecessary extras like table service and a fancy décor, for a more "real" Dutch coffeeshop experience. When you distill it to its basics, this means quality weed, a chill environment without any pretense, and perhaps some good conversation with your neighbor.
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An amazeballs, no-frills place, with a really friendly vibe. Counter staff superbly helpful to first time punters as well as officianados.
Quality weed and not at silly prices. Cakes excellent. Hippy style smoking area and great tunes to start your journey. Can't recommend highly enough :)
July 2019
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Great place and cool vibe.
Counter staff very helpful and that makes a big difference. Local recommendations for quality and price were proved to be correct.
Great location. Compact and bijou with a 20/25 person smoking area. Close to Central station - so one of the first you come to on arrival.
Definitely highly recommend.
April 2019
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Awesome cafe!!!
Top cafe. Always my go to when we are in dam.
Also the staff are helpful and happy to help and have a chat.
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North Madison Happy Pals 4-H Club records
Identifier: IWA0666
Scope and Contents
The North Madison Happy Pals 4-H Club scrapbooks date from 1952 to 1979 and measure 1.25 linear feet. There are seven volumes. They are the official club scrapbooks and include photographs of members and events, newspaper clippings from the Oskaloosa Herald and the New Sharon Star, club minutes, secretary and treasurer records, programs, and awards. A useful source on the experience of children in rural areas, the scrapbooks also illuminate societal expectations for young girls.
- 1952-1979
- North Madison Happy Pals 4-H Club (Mahaska County, Iowa) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The scrapbooks are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright held by the donor has been transferred to The University of Iowa.
Biographical / Historical
The North Madison Happy Pals 4-H Club of Mahaska County, Iowa was organized on October 24, 1952 with eight girls present. The group held monthly meetings with various discussions, talks, and demonstrations by members or guest speakers scheduled at each one. Topics included "Planning Your College Wardrobe" and "Freezing Fruits." The members also participated in programs such as Rally Day and Achievement Day. The North Madison Happy Pals and all other Iowa 4-H clubs are a division of the youth phase of the collaborative Extension Service of Iowa State University. The purpose of the national 4-H program, run through the United States Department of Agriculture, is to help youth learn and grow through informal education and experience. The goal is for these young people to become more self-directed and productive and contribute more as members of society. Anyone between the ages of nine and nineteen may join 4-H. The club motto is "To Make the Best Better."
1.25 linear feet
Local chapter of 4-H organized in Mahaska County, Iowa, 1952.
Method of Acquisition
The scrapbooks (donor no. 216) were donated by Beverly Everett in 1994.
Other Descriptive Information
- 1951-1960
- 1961-1970
- 1971-1980
- 4-H clubs
- Administrative records
- Archives (groupings)
- Education
- Mahaska County (Iowa)
- North Madison Happy Pals 4-H Club (Mahaska County, Iowa)
- Photographs
- Rural girls
- Rural women
- Scrapbooks
- Social participation
- Women -- Societies and clubs
- Women in agriculture
- Youth development
- North Madison Happy Pals 4-H Club (Mahaska County, Iowa) (Organization)
- Author
- Kristen Clark, 1994.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Iowa Women's Archives Repository
100 Main Library
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City IA 52242 IaU
319-335-5900 (Fax)
100 Main Library
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City IA 52242 IaU
319-335-5900 (Fax)


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