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Most Hall County Government facilities will reopen for normal business hours Wednesday, Sept. 13 following their closure Tuesday in the wake of significant power outages that resulted from Tropical Storm Irma moving through the area.
All three of the County's community centers, Mulberry Creek Community Center, East Hall Community Center and North Hall Community Center, will remain closed. Laurel Park and River Forks Park will also remain closed due to power outages and storm damage.
The North Hall and Murrayville branches of the Hall County Library System will also remain closed Wednesday until further notice.
"I would like to reiterate our gratitude to the Hall County employees who have spent countless hours responding to storm-related issues across our community, ensuring the safety of our citizens and the roadways they utilize," said Interim Hall County Administrator Jock Connell.
Hall County's Emergency Operations Call Center remains open for citizens to report non-emergency issues such as downed trees or power lines (770-718-3300). As always, anyone seeking immediate emergency assistance is encouraged to dial 911.


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Like Kermit the Snitch, it's not my business if you enjoy cocaine. I think it's the most ridiculous drug of all because I associate it with the 1980s, which was easily the silliest decade I've lived through.
But I recognize there are people in this world who use it and since there is a demand, there are suppliers. And though these persons are law-breakers, home-wreckers and accomplices to terrorism, at least some of them probably listen to music that inspires them to be the best at being the worst.
And so because of this...Stitches.
If you've been walled up away from the world, like Fortunato in that one Poe story -- who actually did get a brick in his face -- you may have missed the Miami rapper's video for "Brick In Yo Face." In case you haven't seen it, here's what you need to know:
- It's about one man's affinity for the work he does;
- The rapper behind the video is a Florida teen who proclaims to be a longtime drug dealer;
- Whatever is normally considered "over the top" had a spire added to it and then Stitches scaled and jumped over that.
Stitches shouldn't be confused with the titular character of the 2012 B-horror movie, though both are disturbingly dangerous or hilariously clownish, depending on how much of what you're seeing you're believing. A recent Noisey article on the artist provides some background. Maybe because his breakthrough video is so outlandish, or because he's a white rapper from Miami -- we all know how that's turned out before -- his credibility has been questioned.
Since this commentary is about the video and not the artist, we don't have to worry about those tiresome questions. Let's simply enjoy this for what it is. It's a black and white video shot with lots of cocaine-filtered white. It features a cameo by Hellraiser's Pinhead, who treats a kilo of yayo like cheap talcum powder.
And, whatever you think of the song or the video, its central character is mesmerizing. He's a musclebound mass with a head that resembles a prickly pineapple. Everything about him reminds me of that old Eddie Murphy joke about Teddy Pendergrass and how he "scared the bitches into liking him."
Stitches can't really rap, but that hook is all supergluey, strong-holding and sticking on you when you really wish it wouldn't. If your trade is shuffling Peruvian marching powder, "Now whatchu gon' do with it" is the equivalent to "We will rock you" for athletes. This puts Stitches on par with Freddie Mercury, if only for the moment.
Bottom line, the song and its video are about people who put in work. Your job is probably something much safer and more law-abiding than slangin' dope, but nobody's rapping about how they love selling interest-sensitive universal life insurance with accidental death riders.
So crank this up and fantasize on the way to work. Even if he's just fantasizing, too, Stitches has given the working man an anthem for 2014.
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1) Mr. Roth Meets Mr. Lindbergh
When I got the news that a galley of the new Philip Roth novel was available, I raced down to the Union Square offices of Houghton Mifflin. It was late in the day, so by the time I got there, the offices were closed, but they'd been kind enough to leave an envelope for me leaning against the locked glass doors.
It's been a long time since I felt this kind of urgency about getting hold of a novel. Maybe not since Pynchon's Mason & Dixon or Robert Stone's Damascus Gate . Philip Roth's astonishing streak of late-life literary sensations is a phenomenon of sorts, and he's one of the novelists who still have the power to make you feel you need to know what they're up to as soon as possible . But to me, the subject matter made getting my hands on it more imperative, more personal.
You may have read some of the advance reports on the Roth book, his alternative-future novel in which Charles Lindbergh, in real life the figurehead for the isolationist and (in part) pro-fascist America First movement, runs for President in 1940, beats F.D.R. and-soon after his inauguration-makes a pact with Hitler.
It was the night of that Lakers-Pistons overtime game. I mention this because as soon as I got home with the Roth galley, I proceeded to read all 390 pages straight through the night, with only one interruption: watching that amazing last-quarter Lakers comeback, capped by Kobe Bryant's stunning game-tying, buzzer-beating three-point shot. It's not like Roth has to make a comeback or Kobe has something to prove (wait, that's not completely true), but there's at least a surface analogy there: Both the game and the reading experience were, in some primal way, unbearably suspenseful.
The novel's distinctiveness derives not just from suspense-although I have to say, Roth proves himself capable of weaving ominous intimations into the texture of his narrative, creating compelling suspense with the best of them.
I feel constrained about what I can say about a pre-publication galley (the book won't be out till early October), but before I get to my High Concept here, which links Lindbergh, Spielberg, A. Scott Berg and Philip Roth, let me talk about Roth's title a little bit-that's not forbidden. Some Pynchon scholars have told me they still recall the essay I wrote in these pages on the title of Pynchon's closely held new novel ( Mason & Dixon ) before I-or anyone-had read the book. An essay in which I predicted that, knowing Pynchon's thematic concerns, one focus of Mason & Dixon would surely be the "Transit of Venus" and its metaphorical resonances-as indeed was the case. (But not enough Pynchon scholars have taken notice of the delicious hoax on postmodern Pynchon scholarship I uncovered, the one David Bromwich and Edward Mendelson authored under a pseudonym in Raritan .)
But I turned out to be wrong, at least in part, in the extrapolation I'd made from the Roth title. The book is called The Plot Against America . When I first heard it, I took it as another instance of Roth's deliberate doubleness. Doing pastiche and sending it up, as he did in his 1998 title I Married a Communist , a send-up of deadly earnest 50's F.B.I. Story – I Led Three Lives pop lit and an Amazing Tales comic-book adventure mindset. But this new novel wasn't just doing pastiche and sending it up. This was transcending it, all the while enjoying the genre-pleasure of manipulating narrative seductiveness (as in the espionage plot of Mr. Roth's Operation Shylock , for instance).
What is the "Plot Against America"? I ain't tellin', but it gets freaky toward the end and scary throughout: There was just no way I was going to get to sleep without finishing the book. I hope the serious-minded literati among you will forgive me for dwelling on the confluence of the Kobe Bryant shot and the Roth novel, but the Kobe shot had something of a similar quality, a jaw-dropping last-quarter gamble that pays off and leaves you astonished. A long rainbow arc. Nothing but net.
This is not a review; as I said, I'm not going to spoil the plot, or share my many complex feelings about the choices Roth makes, until a later column. But I do want to share an idea that came to me at the groggy end of the night, see if it survives the light of day. It was then I saw a connection to something I'd been thinking of writing about Steven Spielberg and Mel Gibson. About Mr. Spielberg's silence on the question of The Passion of the Christ , a silence pointedly remarked on by Frank Rich at a panel I'd moderated the week before.
It was then that I remembered Steven Spielberg and his ill-advised Lindbergh project. And then I had an idea about Spielberg and Roth and Lindbergh.
But first, to put my idea in context, a little more about the Lindbergh of history and the Lindbergh of the Roth novel. Did you notice Mr. Roth actually felt compelled to write a letter to The Times (which ran on March 5, 2004) trying to clarify the distinction-or, in this instance, lack of one-between the Lindbergh of history and the Lindbergh of his novel? The Times ' initial report on his novel had read, in part, "His [Roth's] Lindbergh blames Jews in a radio address for selfishly pushing America toward a pointless war with Nazi Germany."
No, Roth wrote to The Times , it isn't just "my" (fictional) Lindbergh who attacked an alleged Jewish cabal, it's the Lindbergh of history. Mr. Roth quoted from the actual speech attacking Jews (and British agents and F.D.R., all part of the sinister cabal), a speech Lindbergh made at an America First rally in Des Moines, Iowa, on Sept. 11, 1941, in which he said, "No person of honesty and vision can look on [the Jews'] pro-war policy here today without seeing the dangers involved in such a policy both for us and for them …. We cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead our country to destruction."
This may explain Mr. Roth's decision to include, as an appendix to his novel (at least in the galleys), the full damning text of Lindbergh's Des Moines speech-more about that speech later-as well as a passage from A. Scott Berg's biography of Lindbergh, in which the aviator's fear of "inferior blood" and other Master Race idiocies are described.
It's fascinating the way that Lindbergh-who could well have won the war for Hitler, even without running for President, if his isolationist campaign had succeeded-nonetheless still occupies a niche as that great American archetype, the "deeply flawed hero." (As does Henry Ford, peddler of The International Jew , a four-volume Americanized riff on The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion that became a key inspiration for Adolf Hitler.) This is essentially how A. Scott Berg's biography-a book written with some cooperation from the Lindbergh family-portrays Lindbergh, and most of the media have been inclined to follow.
Roth's novel is likely to open, or re-open, a salutary historical debate over the degree of Lindbergh's culpability, and the role that anti-Semitism played in his willingness to be, in effect, Hitler's stooge in America. (Yes, I know that he flew some combat missions for the U.S. after Pearl Harbor-it doesn't excuse the time he spent as a fascist dupe.) Perhaps it will raise the question: At what point in one's support for a genocidal tyrant does one stop being a "flawed hero" and become, say, a "sinister creep exploiting his celebrity on behalf of a mass murderer"? Just asking.
Anyway, to return to Roth's Lindbergh. What Roth knows is rage, what Roth writes about in many of his peak moments is rage-often rage against those who have false reputations for probity-and I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out that rage at the continued lionization of race-haters like Ford and Lindbergh (Ford serves in President Lindbergh's cabinet in the novel) might have impelled Roth to embark upon this risk of a novel.
I've said enough, but I just can't resist mentioning one touch of genius in Roth's Lindbergh novel: After the hero aviator wins the 1940 election, he makes his pact with Hitler to keep us out of the war (and a similar one with the Japanese, in effect making America a silent partner in the Axis takeover of the rest of the world).
It's got frisson of Sinclair Lewis' forgotten pre-war classic It Can't Happen Here. But Roth's focus is on the Roth family in Newark and how the Lindbergh Presidency affects them, as seen through the eyes of 9-year-old "Philip Roth." One particularly divisive issue in the family is the Lindbergh administration's program to have Jews in American cities first visit, then get transferred to isolated rural areas, ostensibly to help their "American Absorption." The ultimate goals of the program are troublingly unspoken. The subtly sinister touch of Rothian black-humor genius is in the name he gives the program: "Just Folks."
Of course, I had a special interest in reading Roth on this subject. I'd excerpted a chapter from Roth's equally astonishing Operation Shylock in my new anthology on contemporary anti-Semitism. The chapter in which Roth's tricky doppelgänger, "the Diasporist," speaks of his apprehension of a "second Holocaust" in the Middle East. Back in April of 2002, when I'd come upon that passage, I wrote a column speculating about whether the Diasporist's dire conjecture could come true. Uttering the words "Second Holocaust"-even quoting a Roth character-touched off an interesting debate about whether one was permitted to examine "worst-case scenarios," or whether doing so was forbidden because it was "alarmist." Among other things, the new Roth novel is a meditation on some of the same questions raised by Operation Shylock : How should we know whether or not to be alarmed, or whether one is being "alarmist." Over the "Just Folks" plan, for instance.
2) Mr. Spielberg Meets Mr. Lindbergh
I have to admit the Spielberg side of this notion was set off by an Internet rumor. After I heard Frank Rich's impassioned comments on Spielberg's silence on the Passion issue, I Googled Spielberg and Mel Gibson and came upon this strange Internet rumor. Did you catch this? It was fake, but it had a certain appeal.
Spielberg was going to "fight fire with fire" when it came to Mel's Passion , as one version of the widely circulated e-mail had it. The director was going to respond to the anti-Semitic animus of Mr. Gibson's Passion in the way he knew best: by making a counterfilm, a counterhistory.
If Mr. Gibson insisted on defining his film as "history," well then, Steven Spielberg, Jewish auteur warrior, would take on Mel the Crusader by making a film about the Crusades, followed by one about the Inquisition. If Mel wanted history, Spielberg would give him history-the history of the slaughter of the Jews, perpetrated by Crusader bands often inflamed by the same anti-Semitic notions embedded in The Passion . This is the "history" Mel ignored in blithely making a film that will for centuries ever after shape the vision of Jews with its vile stereotypes for untold millions. Mel's Passion -already popular in the Middle East and Asia-will be poisoning the already poisoned history of relations between Jews and non-Jews on film, DVD and whatever technology succeeds it, nurturing hatred ever after.
So Spielberg was going to strike back, "fight fire with fire," as the Internet rumor had it. A showdown over the crucifix at the cineplex. The W.W.E. doesn't offer that kind of titanic drama. It's reminiscent of the "disputations" of the medieval era, when Jews were forced to "debate" Christian theologians over which religion was "right" about God. This time, the fight wouldn't be fixed. It would be the rumble in the Hollywood jungle.
Not exactly.
The Internet rumor that Mr. Spielberg would make a movie about the Crusaders' casual slaughter of Jews (followed up by one about the Inquisition's persecution and torture) turned out to have no foundation. A fantasy.
But I have a better fantasy: Steven Spielberg drops the Lindbergh biopic he'd planned, and instead makes a film out of Philip Roth's sensational (but more truthful) portrait of Lindbergh in The Plot Against America . The Roth novel won't come out until October, but that shouldn't be any bar to Mr. Spielberg, who bought A. Scott Berg's Lindbergh biography without reading it.
It's going to make a great movie by someone, and it would be perfect karma, a bold act, if that movie were made by Steven Spielberg.
I'm not saying Mr. Spielberg hasn't paid his dues. He's already done something of far more lasting importance than any single movie in creating the Shoah Foundation, which documents on videotape the personal stories of the last surviving victims of the Holocaust. All the more important when a Holocaust denier like Mel Gibson's father Hutton is given a nationwide platform because of his son's movie. (And I've read he is making a movie about the 1972 Munich Olympics attack on Israeli athletes.) But the Internet rumor suggested that, in some subrealm of the collective unconscious, people wanted a response of some kind from Steven Spielberg to The Passion .
As I said, the Google search that disclosed the Internet rumor was inspired by some impassioned and acerbic comments The Times ' Frank Rich had made during a panel discussion at Barnes & Noble on the Upper West side on May 24. The panel was composed of writers-Mr. Rich, Jonathan Rosen, Marie Brenner, Harold Evans-whose essays appeared in the anthology I just published, whose title (if you must know) is Those Who Forget the Past: The Question of Anti-Semitism . (Full disclosure: In addition to excerpting Operation Shylock , Mr. Roth's 1993 novel, in the anthology, it's also the case that my agent once submitted a project to a DreamWorks executive. Further disclosure: I'm not looking for a Graydon Carter–type "finder's fee" in bringing these two together.)
Anyway, at the Barnes & Noble panel, Mr. Rich spoke of the way virtually the whole of Hollywood had been silent about The Passion . (Almost as if there had been a "gentleman's agreement"-my phrase, not Mr. Rich's.) He spoke about the way virtually the entire media had given Mel a pass, despite the film's unmistakable deviations from the Gospels that further demonized Jews.
And then Mr. Rich brought up Steven Spielberg. Mr. Spielberg's silence was particularly regrettable, he said, at a time when the director was out there making a big to-do over the release of the Schindler's List DVD.
Has Mr. Spielberg been silent? The only response to The Passion I've seen from him was a brush-off he gave an interviewer earlier this spring, just after The Passion came out. "I think it's much too important," he told a questioner, to speak of the film before seeing it. "I'm too smart to answer a question like that," he said. And when he did see it, he added, he'd reserve his comments for Mel Gibson himself.
We have no indication that this heart-to-heart with Mel has occurred, but it would be good, after he shared his thoughts with Mr. Gibson, to share them with us as well.
As for Mr. Spielberg's Lindbergh project, he himself has conceded that he's had second thoughts about it. Here's what Mr. Spielberg told a reporter from The Observer (London's, that is), on March 21, 1999:
"Later," the Observer reporter wrote, "I ask Spielberg what happened to the film about Charles Lindbergh that he had planned to direct. He replies by explaining how Schindler's List and the Shoah Foundation have reshaped his thinking. 'They've given me more of a moral responsibility to make sure I'm not putting someone else's agenda in front of the most important agenda, which is trying to create tolerance,' he says. 'We'll probably make Lindbergh , but one of the reasons I've considered not being the director is that I didn't know very much about him until I read Scott Berg's book and I read it only after I purchased it. I think it's one of the greatest biographies I've ever read but his 'America First' and his anti-Semitism bothers me to my core, and I don't want to celebrate an anti-Semite unless I can create an understanding of why he felt that way. Because sometimes the best way to prevent discrimination is to understand the discriminator.'"
This is somewhat puzzling: He doesn't "want to celebrate an anti-Semite"-well, not unless he can find some other director who can do it and/or he can make Lindbergh's anti-Semitism "understandable," so to speak. Call me crazy, but I don't see that a movie whose purpose is to help us understand how little Charlie learned to dislike Jews is likely to get off the ground.
Which is why I suggest that he abandon the project altogether (Mr. Berg has already been paid a reported $2 million fee for his book, so it's not taking money out of his pocket) and instead make Philip Roth's Lindbergh novel.
Clearly one can feel the discomfort in Mr. Spielberg's remarks to the Observer reporter about the Berg book (some call it a masterpiece; some call it a whitewash), but making movies with the solemn burden of "creating tolerance" is not always the best way of evoking an artist's best work. A dip into Mr. Roth's rage might be just the thing for Mr. Spielberg, fire him up again. While there are other directors who could make this a great film, Mr. Spielberg's feel for the Amazing Stories pastiche mystique of the period, his intuitive feel for communicating the emotion beneath the surface of pop-culture obsessions, make one hope he could bring some of the sizzle to Mr. Roth's steak that would make it a powerful film, an event. No rides, no toys, but an event.
3) Mr. Lindbergh Makes a Speech
Why is all this important? Because Lindbergh was a kind of "Manchurian candidate" in "real" history: a figurehead for pro-fascists. It's important for that reason, yes, but its also important because the record isn't clear on who Lindbergh really was; one can imagine something worse: that he wasn't entirely a puppet. That he was a knowing smooth operator and agitator playing on popular prejudice to advance himself. He could indeed have become President.
Lindbergh's famous "Who Are the War Agitators?" speech, the one Mr. Roth added to his galleys, was one that Lindbergh delivered at a pivotal moment in history: Sept. 11, 1941, when the U.K. alone was still holding off Hitler, in what increasingly looked like Churchill's futile fantasy of resistance now that Nazi armies were sweeping towards Moscow. If Lindbergh had succeeded in his aim, Hitler may have had a solid foundation for his Thousand Year Reich, rather than the 12 years he got.
By that time, in real (as opposed to alternate) history, Lindbergh had been the figurehead for the Hitler-friendly America First movement, which was doing everything to prevent not just the U.S. entering the war, but providing any life support to the U.K., the only regime in the West that was fighting the genocidal Third Reich. The fighting in the East, just begun, made it seem like the Soviet Union was about to collapse. The Holocaust had begun, but while giving lip service to his opposition to the "persecution" of Europe's Jews, Lindbergh warned against American Jews, whom he depicted-along with F.D.R. and British agents-as a sinister cabal trying to manipulate America into opposing Hitler. Perish the thought, Lindbergh told his audience in this speech, given in Des Moines. It's a speech that demonstrates just how canny and effective a politician he might have been, the deceptively "just folks" smooth operator that Roth depicts his President Lindbergh as.
Here's the great hero Charles Lindbergh warning what he saw as a sinister cabal of American Jews: "Instead of agitating for war, the Jewish groups in this country should be opposing it in every possible way, for they will be among the first to feel its consequences."
The veiled threat here-we know what kind of "consequences" the Jews in Europe were already feeling-is, "Shut up or you'll be blamed for the war and given a taste of Hitler's medicine." It is utterly repulsive in a slimy insinuating way. It is also remarkably similar to some rhetoric you hear in certain quarters today.
Lindbergh goes on to speak, in that subtly sinister way, of "tolerance": "Tolerance is a virtue that depends upon peace and strength. History shows that it cannot survive war and devastations." So the lesson from Lindbergh is that it's better to be silent about Jews being slaughtered elsewhere than speak up for them, because if they speak up, they'll be slaughtered here too. Cut the Jews of Europe loose if you want to feel safe in America.
Recently, I was privileged to attend a dinner honoring the distinguished historian David S. Wyman, who now has an important Holocaust education institute named after him (wymaninstitute.org). Professor Wyman was the author of the ground-breaking investigative history, The Abandonment of the Jews , about the indifference and hostility of the U.S government (or most parts of it) to those attempting to escape Hitler's slaughter. Wyman was also the author, with Rafael Medoff, of another important subsequent book, A Race Against Death , the utterly heartbreaking story of the valiant efforts by legendary U.S. writer Ben Hecht and messenger-from-Europe Peter Bergson to attempt to awake America to the Holocaust as it happened. Both books cumulatively demonstrate that although Lindbergh's America First, objectively pro-fascist politicking did not propel him to the Presidency as in Roth's alternate history, those Lindberghian attitudes prevailed in the bowels of the U.S. government and served to cost the lives of hundreds of thousands who could have been saved. In a way, Lindbergh-like Hitler-won.
Lindbergh's speech goes on to tell us that the Jews' "greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government …. "
Again, I don't think I need to tell anyone that we're seeing the same kind of rhetoric in certain quarters these days. If anything goes wrong with a policy that is unpopular in some quarters, it's "the Jews" collectively who are at fault if there's any Jew involved.
All the more reason I can't wait until this fall, when I'll no longer be bound by pre-pub discretion from further discussing the choices Philip Roth makes in his portrait of America under a Lindbergh Presidency, the reign of the Hitler-Lindbergh pact.
In a way, the novel is as much a novel about Jews and the choices they make as it is about Lindbergh and Hitler. There are those who say, "Don't panic; don't speak up against the mistreatment of fellow Jews-it will only make things worse." And there are those in the novel, like Philip Roth's father and Walter Winchell(!), who do speak up. The fate of those who make such choices isn't something I think I can reveal, but Mr. Roth's novel has the makings of a thrilling, suspenseful and profound movie. Steven Spielberg, have your heart-to-heart chat with Mel Gibson after you see his sickening movie.
Then switch Lindbergh projects. The Plot Against America could be your finest hour.


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Young people cry at funerals. Old people cry at weddings. The tears reflect fears. We know too much. Everyone cries at graduations because we know too little. No one knows what's around the bend for the young grads anxious for the next chapters in their lives. Last Saturday presented a perfect bright and warm morning with the sky a brilliant, cloudless blue. Although my responsibilities are such now that I didn't need to be there, I watched a hundred young people graduate from a prestigious Ontario private school. I watched tears and at one moment felt the welling of my own. But I knew the question that had me wiping my eye.
All schools do graduations well. They are worth the pomp. This one takes place every June on a massive lawn under a big, sparkling white tent. Parents are seated to the left of the front long tables with graduates and next year's grads to the right and staff and faculty at the back. As speakers speak it is always fun to watch the three groups react differently. I listened, sort of, but my mind wandered and as I scanned faces I wondered.
I wondered how many of the seventeen-year-olds sitting in their sharp jackets and striped ties realized just how proud the group behind and beside them were of their efforts and of them. They were all more beautiful and healthy than they will ever be, shining in their youth and bursting with potential. Yet they sat largely oblivious to the fact that by graduating from this place, with their families, in this country, at this time in history, they were already on second base without even having swung the bat. But that's okay. The dumb luck circumstances of their births had nothing to do with them but neither was it their fault.
The parents and teachers knew that and more. They understood that the young people had earned a right to be a little self-satisfied today for, after all, teenage years are tough.
Here they are still searching for identity while their bodies continue to change and often betray them. Here they are with brains still not fully wired and therefore unable to fully and accurately read people and situations but being held to adult standards. Here they are stuck in our society's drawn-out childhood when for thousands of years and in other places they would be an adult with adult decisions and responsibilities. Here they are being forced to pick university courses that will determine their futures when they really tell us what they want to be when they grow up only so we'll stop asking.
It's amazing that with all of that, and for many of them much more, they keep going, smiling and trying. They made it all the way to this moment. For many of them, after all, and especially for far too many girls, high school is not a sanctuary but a battlefield. Too many people put teenagers down for the actions and attitudes of a few. It doesn't matter where the teenagers attend school or who their parents are, hormones don't care and society's dangerous messages and temptations don't discriminate.
I would rather accept that there are a few unfortunate teenagers just as there are many unfortunate adults and instead consider the many. I am in awe of the vast majority of teenagers for their generosity, energy, intellectual curiosity, and goofiness. I admire the resilience they muster in the face of so much and so many stacked against them.
Resilience, in fact, was the theme of one of the speeches that I found particularly poignant. The headmaster spoke of failing forward. The notion, he explained, is that we learn more from failure than success. We learn what works and what doesn't. We learn of our own character as it deepens through our growing ability to adapt to circumstances without sacrificing values. Anyone, the headmaster said, can experience a failure. Only if you refuse to learn, accept responsibility, or try again do you become a failure.
It was an excellent point to make and especially to those gathered that day beside parents with the financial ability to have constructed a net beneath them of sufficient strength that any failure or fall would be recoverable. I wondered how many of the young people really absorbed the message. I guess I wondered, as I do when I see wedding day tears staining wrinkled cheeks if winter can ever warn the spring.
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Domino's Pizza, the largest pizza company in the world based on global retail sales, will open its 15,000th store in the coming weeks and is commemorating the achievement this week in Lewisville, Texas.
"This is a huge milestone for Domino's, as we've been opening roughly three stores a day around the world for the past few years," said Patrick Doyle, President and CEO, Domino's. "We've opened more than 4,000 stores across the globe in the past four years, and we couldn't be more thrilled to commemorate our 15,000th store in the world, right here in Texas."
The commemorative 15,000th store, located at 219 E. Church St., will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony with Doyle, President of Domino's International Richard Allison and Lewisville Domino's franchise owner Robert Gavitt on Wednesday, March 7 at 1 p.m. Gavitt will also present a US $15,000 donation to the Children's Advocacy Center for Denton County, in honor of the 15,000th store.
"Having the Lewisville community be a part of this milestone store means a great deal to me, as does being able to give back," said Gavitt. "The Domino's team and I are honored to support a great local organization that helps children who have been abused, as well as their families."
Gavitt owns 21 stores throughout the Greater Dallas and Austin areas. He began working at Domino's as a delivery driver in 1982 and worked his way up to become a franchisee in 2002. He is not alone – more than 90 percent of Domino's US franchise owners began their career as part-time Domino's employees.
In 2017, Domino's had global retail sales of over US $12.2 billion, with more than US $5.9 billion in the U.S. and more than US $6.3 billion internationally. Domino's operates in more than 85 markets around the world.


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It was impossible to imagine just a week ago, in the euphoria of beating Miami to take a three-game lead at the top of the Eastern Conference standings, that the Chicago Bulls would be in a bit of trouble going into the playoffs.
But they are.
It's not the loss Thursday night in Miami that has suddenly put the Bulls in peril. The Miami Heat, playing at home, should have beaten the Bulls with or without Derrick Rose, particularly with the top seed in the East still out there to be claimed. There's nothing whatsoever wrong with splitting four regular-season games with Miami, especially since Rose didn't play in two of them and didn't produce much of anything in a third.
It's losing to the unspeakably bad Washington Wizards on Monday, at home no less, that unexpectedly put the Bulls in the spot they're in now. Had the Bulls beaten the Wizards, the team with the second-worst record in the NBA, they would have essentially secured the No. 1 seed in the East.
Look, I get it; coming off the emotional victory over Miami a week ago the Bulls were emotionally drained and surely tired. They were lucky to get into overtime and past the putrid Detroit Pistons on Sunday night in Detroit. That near-disaster should have been a wake-up call, but it wasn't.
You can look at the entire NBA schedule, going back to the opener on Christmas Day, and not find any worse loss this season than the Bulls' loss to the Wizards. Even if the Wizards are better in the wake of dumping knuckleheads JaVale McGee, Nick Young and losing Andray Blatche to injury, the Bulls should never have lost a game at home to these Wizards.
Don't get me wrong, the Bulls have taken fewer bad losses than any other team in the league over the past two years because they come closer to fulfilling their potential night-in, night-out than any other team in the league. The Bulls have precious few clunkers. They grind and scrap and persevere better than anybody, better than the Spurs or Oklahoma City or the Lakers. And certainly better than Miami. But the Wizards loss was an unforgivably awful and lazy slip-up, given where they are in the season and what's at stake.
Nearly as bad was Rose and Luol Deng missing four foul shots against the New York Knicks when one lousy free throw in the final seconds would have won that game in Madison Square Garden. One free throw and/or a loss to the Wizards might very well cost the Bulls the No. 1 seed. Maybe it was foreshadowing, that the Bulls had finally gotten tired or their will wasn't what it had been all season.
Whatever the case, after fighting through all sorts of difficulties for 60 games, the Bulls gave a game to the Wizards and now find themselves ready to relinquish the top spot in the Eastern Conference. Instead of simply getting ready this week to start the playoffs against free-falling Philadelphia, the likely No. 8 seed, the Bulls find themselves having to go to Indianapolis on Wednesday to beat their primary rival for the No. 1 seed. The Pacers would like nothing more than beating the Bulls, and if they were predisposed to resting their starters in their regular season finale, they might be otherwise inclined now.
If Miami runs the table (Two games against the Wizards: check. One game at Boston where the Celtics have nothing tangible to play for: check.) the Bulls will have to beat Dallas and Indy. And right now, truth is the Bulls aren't playing well enough to win both those games, if either. The Pistons took them to OT; the Wizards took them out; Rose is still hurting.
If the Bulls can't beat Indy, they're probably looking at finishing No. 2 in the East and having to go through the Knicks and Pacers to reach the conference finals instead of going through Philly and Boston. You think this is a small detail? It ain't. Last spring, by earning the No. 1 seed, the Bulls played a Pacers team that finished below .500 and then underachieving Atlanta. The Bulls should be looking at sweeping Philly and a Boston team they match up with very favorably.
Just a week ago the Bulls, coming off the dramatic victory over Miami, looked every bit as good as the Spurs, Thunder, Lakers, Celtics and Heat. What a difference a week and one bad loss make. Now, it's fair to wonder for the first time whether the Bulls have what it takes to even get past the Knicks.
You can say, "If Derrick is healthy " but it shouldn't provide any solace, because he isn't. It looks like he won't be healthy this season. It happens. You just hate to see it happen now because the Bulls, all things being equal, are as good as the other five serious contenders (Heat, Celtics, Lakers, Spurs, Thunder), maybe better. They're as smart, as resourceful, as well-coached, as deep, as disciplined as anybody.
But in the playoffs, you have to have your star player being a star to play deep into the postseason. And beyond accepting it on blind faith, nothing that has happened so far this season suggests that Rose will be able to play the entire playoffs. Hell, how do we even know Rose will be on the floor to start the playoffs?
With Rose playing up to last season's standard, the Knicks would have no chance in a seven-game series. Without Rose or with him diminished, it's 50-50 against the Knicks, who are actually better without Jeremy Lin and Amare Stoudemire. With the Knicks, more isn't better. Against the under-the-radar-but-very-talented Pacers with a diminished Rose? It would be a struggle, to say the least, perhaps a losing one.
What makes the Bulls such an appealing team is that they have played with such effort, intelligence and resourcefulness virtually every single game the past two seasons. What gives some NBA folk pause when it comes to picking the Bulls is that very same effort and intelligence covers offensive weaknesses during the regular season but not in the playoffs.
Against Miami on Thursday, in a game that had playoff contentiousness, the Bulls scored a season-low 72 points. They couldn't manufacture effective offense without Rose. He's the only above-average creator of offense, the only one who can get the Bulls easy baskets without help against great defense. Remember, Richard Hamilton is still trying to play himself into midseason form and Deng's left wrist is busted and almost certainly needs surgery. When Deng has one of those 1-for-8 shooting nights, it's the wrist, silly.
So, you've got three of the team's four most accomplished offensive players (Boozer is the other one) ailing, and the Bulls going stretches where they miss 9 of 10 shots, or 10 of 11. They look like the Bears, a team hoping nasty defense and forcing turnovers will facilitate scoring. It's not enough, not deep in the playoffs.
Again, I'll take a healthy Rose, healthy Deng and healthy Hamilton and go up against any of the other top five teams in these playoffs. But they're not healthy, and there's no promise they'll get there, even if they get past the Knicks in the first round.
Instead of fine-tuning in the final days of this insane regular season, the Bulls now have to regroup. The good news is nobody is out for the remainder of the season, as is the case with Orlando's Dwight Howard and the Clippers' Chauncey Billups. Miami got Mike Miller and Udonis Haslem back just in time last May for both to make a huge difference in the Eastern Conference finals. And we know that the Bulls have played enough combinations of players because of the injuries to have a calm about them no matter the circumstance. In the bigger picture, the fact that the Bulls have the best record in the NBA is something of a basketball miracle, and why Tom Thibodeau may win coach of the year an unprecedented second straight time.
Still, a cloud of vulnerability is threatening, and the forecast isn't as sunny as it was a week ago, when earning the No. 1 seed seemed a formality. Every day, beginning Saturday at United Center against Dallas, promises to be a nail-biter. But truth is, that's when the Bulls have been at their best. And if the past few days are any indication, drama, welcome or not, is going to be a constant companion the rest of the way.


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Schulman, Inc., Cabot Corporation, Clariant, PolyOne, Plastika Kritis S.A., Ampacet Corporation, Americhem, Inc., Astra Polymers, ALOK, Hubron International, GABRIEL-CHEMIE Group, Prayag Polytech, DongGuan HengCai Plastic Pigment Ltd., Plastiblends, POLYPLAST, GCR Group, Tosaf, and RTP Company are some of the key market participants. Mergers and acquisitions are commonly witnessed in the market with major companies using it to expand their reach in developing countries.
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By type, the global masterbatch market size is segmented on the basis of color, white, black, and additive. Among these, the color masterbatch segment captured the largest share of the market in 2017 and projected to value USD 4202.4 million by the end of 2023. One of the main factors responsible for this growth is the excellent color distribution of color masterbatch throughout the final plastic product. Moreover, color masterbatches are easy to store, feed, and handle, when compared to powdered form pure colorants, a characteristic likely to propel its demand and drive the market growth.
By application, the market is segmented on the basis of packaging, consumer products, building and construction, automobile industry, electrical and electronics, and others. Among these, the packaging application segment accounted for 38.90% of the market in 2017. The segment is holding its position among all segments on account of shifting trends in favor of using packaged consumer products. On the other hand, the automobile industry segment is expected to grow at the highest CAGR of 6.14% throughout the forecast period, due to the growing preference for engineered plastics which is deemed to be a strong and effective alternative to various metals, such as aluminum, steel, and other metal alloys, in the automotive industry.
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text: After weeks of isolation, contestants on Israel's Big Brother, the popular reality show that pits a group of people against each other in a specially constructed house, were informed of the escalating situation with Hamas in Gaza.As the security situation in Israel escalated, the housemates -- normally shielded from the outside world -- got a glimpse into the outer world when a siren sounded in Jerusalem, forcing the show's producers to tell the guests what was going on in the country. When the siren went off, the house tenants were told to go to a safe room. The residents rushed to the closed room, some panicking, others trying to keep everyone calm; once it was safe to leave the room, the Big Brother announced over the speakers that in the past few days, things were getting worse with the Palestinians in Gaza. "I want to go home. I want to go back to my kids," one resident said. "I'm scared." "I need to know whats going on," another tenant panicked. As one resident began praying for safety, another said, "It's one thing if it's near the [Gaza] border, but in Jerusalem? That means there is a war going on throughout the entire country."As the Big Brother instructed all to come into the living room, the speaker announced, "As you all know, when you enter the house you disconnect from the outside world. Living in a disconnected place is part of the experience of Big Brother." It continued, "the production works hard to preserve that disconnect; it does not convey any messages from outside or updates about what is going on -- unless the situation directly effects the residents or their families."It told the housemates that in recent days, the security situation in Israel had become volatile and tense, that there was an escalation in the South that included mostly rockets to the communities near Gaza, but that it had spread to the greater Tel Aviv area and Jerusalem. The announcement concluded, "if there is a rocket alarm, you will be asked to vacate to a safe room," assuring the tenants that the production is in contact with their families.


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Self-service is about increasing access to infrastructure and improving employee productivity
Based on recent YouTube uploads, it appears de rigueur for infrastructure companies to have a glossy video showing off an Amazon Alexa integration. While we're pointing fingers, we've got two thumbs pointing right at ourselves, since we've got videos that tout the potential to manage Tintri via Slack and Alexa.
But there are important differences in these videos. Some of them are science fiction, where the agent (Alexa or otherwise) orders coffee and comments on your hairdo. Cute and irrelevant. Others show no value-add; the agent simply provides a read-out of the data available on the product's dashboard.
The reason Tintri is pursuing self-service is different—we want to simplify access to enterprise cloud infrastructure. The interface (Slack, Alexa, etc.) is but one small element; more important is the ability to abstract away complexity and apply automation to execute requests.
Allowing the LOB or DevOps teams to access infrastructure is no good if they're asked for deeply technical details like queue depths, LUN locations and QoS policies. So, Tintri abstracts that away and lets non-experts request what they need, in their terms. And then underlying automation and orchestration drives action, including routing requests through decision makers to ensure the right level of control.
Bank of New York Mellon is a great example of an organization that understands the potential of self-service and has a progressive approach to enterprise cloud. We were thrilled to see their story in a Wall Street Journal blog about their work with ChatBots, automation and Tintri that included these excerpts:
"Bank of New York Mellon Corp. is building a voice-controlled artificial intelligence platform that can help the firm's IT staff manage enterprise storage, at a time when analysts predict information technology infrastructure will become more automated.
By this fall, the internal, proprietary AI chatbot called Alexis is expected to be available to thousands of IT employees in an effort to help them automate manual storage-related tasks.
"Instead of having to find out and memorize how to do very mundane tasks, somebody will be able to ask a question or pose a command to (Alexis) in a very natural way and then have that action be completed," said Marek Kwasniewski, vice president and head of platform architecture at BNY Mellon.
Mr. Kwasniewski plans to roll out the technology to about 10,000 IT employees. He also plans to offer the Alexis virtual assistant technology to all 55,000 BNY Mellon employees around the world, who will be able to use the chatbot for human resources questions and technical help.
IT employees will be able to communicate by voice or text with Alexis, integrated with the enterprise collaboration tool Skype for Business, on a desktop. They can ask questions such as "How much performance is my array giving me?" and "How's my de-duplication rate?" and also ask Alexis to perform tasks such as provisioning storage.
Smaller IT groups with employees specializing in areas such as data, security and mobility, as well as new roles encompassing business processes and the regulatory environment, will add more value to the overall company because they'll be free to work on technologies to grow revenue and projects that will result in competitive advantages, said Marc Cecere, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester, who authored a March 27 report on the future IT organization.
At BNY Mellon, Mr. Kwasniewski anticipates that Alexis will help IT employees who manage and provision storage save up to 20 minutes on manual tasks they might need to do multiple times a day, which involve logging into various systems and pulling information from each. This ChatOps model, in which employees work with chatbots to get tasks done, means the company can "give people back time," Mr. Kwasniewski said.
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Callahan scores power-play winner in third period, Rangers down Jets
WINNIPEG - Tired, well travelled and with their starting goaltender on the bench, the New York Rangers found a way to end their season-opening seven-game road trip on a winning note.
Now they just want to go home.
Backup Martin Biron made 27 saves and Ryan Callahan scored the winner on a power play as the Rangers fought to a 2-1 win over the Winnipeg Jets on Monday.
"If you look at it, we've played seven road games with a trip to Europe and a Western Canadian trip and we've only lost two games in regulation," Biron said.
"We got points in five out of the seven. You win three of them, it makes a big difference going home."
Ruslan Fedotenko also had a power-play goal for New York. Defenceman Dan Girardi assisted on both goals.
Centre Nik Antropov had the only goal for Winnipeg (2-5-1) in front of a sold-out crowd of 15,004 at MTS Centre.
The Rangers (3-2-2) began the pre-season in Sweden and stayed on the road. Their home-opener is Thursday against Toronto in a renovated Madison Square Gardens.
Biron got the nod in net over starter Henrik Lundqvist as part of a planned rotation. Lundqvist had left last Saturday's 2-0 loss to Edmonton in the third period because of pain from new skates.
The Jets now embark on their own seven-game road trip, beginning in Philadelphia on Thursday.
They can only hope for similar success as the Rangers, and that could happen if they continue to play as they did in the third period.
Winnipeg came out firing in the third, outshooting the Rangers 12-1 over the first eight minutes until Jets forward Chris Thorburn was sent to the box for tripping, leading to Callahan's winner.
"I don't think our players can sit there and hang their heads on the effort they gave," Jets head coach Claude Noel said.
"I think we probably deserved a better fate. Didn't get it, so we move on to the next game…We did everything right but win the game."
Chris Mason started in net for Winnipeg. Last Saturday, he replaced Ondrej Pavelec after the young netminder gave up two early goals against Carolina in what ended up being a 5-3 Jets win.
"I think we've had some other losses where we've probably been pretty disappointed in the way we played," said Mason, who faced 17 shots.
"It just came down to they kept the puck out of the net in the third period and we had an unfortunate bounce."
Callahan scored the game-winner after his shot went off the skate of Winnipeg defenceman Zach Bogosian at 8:41.
New York was 2-5 on the power play and the Jets 0-1.
Antropov said the lengthy road trip may be good for the team as it struggles to win back-to-back games this season.
"It's going to be a lot of team bonding and stuff like that,"Antropov said.
"It's a good thing to get together as a group and spend time with just the guys."
Notes: Alex Burmistrov assisted on Antropov's goal and is now on a five-game point streak…Jets centre Jim Slater sat out after taking a knee to the head in Saturday's game and is listed day-to-day.


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Following Trump's travel ban on refugees and citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries, his presidency has immediately been equated with the rise of Hitler.
Perennial-loud-mouthed MP Dennis Skinner has labelled President Trump as a "fascist". On the continent and across the Atlantic, the mayors of Madrid and Philadelphia have both compared Trump to Hitler.
Who knew that Ken Livingstone's constant blathering on about Hitler would finally catch on?
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The SNP's Carol Monaghan has warned that "the Holocaust didn't start with the gas chambers" and consequently, we needn't wait for Trump to plaster the White House in Swastikas to label him a Nazi. But while it's true that it took Hitler a few years to pass the Nuremberg Laws, it is absurd to equate Trump's inclination towards authoritarianism with Hitler's rise to power. Although the 45th president's half-hearted approach towards press freedom deserves criticism, it is hardly comparable to the 1933 Enabling Act which gave Hitler the power to pass laws without consulting the Reichstag.
Of course, the tendency to refer to the travel ban as "Trump's ban" certainly encourages people to assume President Trump is acting in a dictatorial manner. Not only does it forget that the list of seven countries was previously drawn up by Obama, but it also ignores the fact that more Americans support the travel ban than oppose it. This isn't Trump imposing his will on America. It is Trump carrying out an election promise.
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Pakistan has become restless due to the fighter aircraft Rafale received from the Indian Air Force. This uneasiness appeared during the Pakistani Foreign Ministry's weekly press conference on Thursday. On the question asked on Rafael, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman said not to be afraid of Rafael. Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Faisal said, "We have talked about this before." Our stand is the same, Pakistan is not ready to join any arms race. Development, education, health etc. are the focus of our government.
Pakistan has become restless due to the fighter aircraft Rafale received from the Indian Air Force.
Afraid Pakistan's Foreign Ministry spokesman Faisal said, "We tell the whole world not to push this area into an arms race." If there is a need, we know how to protect ourselves, whether it is Rafael or many. ' Faisal again raised the issue of Kashmir and made many allegations against India.
Kartarpur Sahib Corridor In response to a question, he said that a formal invitation has been sent to former Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh for the inauguration ceremony of the corridor. He said that the work of the corridor is going on in full swing and it will be completed on time. It will be inaugurated on the same date as promised by Prime Minister Imran Khan. In response to another question, the spokesman said that Pakistan is working on the dates for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit to be held in Islamabad. Its information will be shared when the date is fixed.


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Waadiyan mera daaman song cover by Neeru & Sanjay Hi everyone, this is a very beautiful song from Abhilasha movie. Me and Sanjay ji tried to give our best. We hope you will like it. Please do listen, enjoy and give your valuable comments. Movie - Abhilasha Singer :- Lata Mangeshkar & Mohd Rafi Music Director :- Rahul Dev Burman Lyricist :- Majrooh SultanpuriNeeru.06 00:04:01 389 0 Downloads 17 Comments
Iss deewane ladke ko koi samjhaye cover by Neeru and Sanjay Hello everyone, coming up with another beautiful duet with Sanjay ji from the movie Sarfarosh . The song is full of shayari rendered by him in his unique style, accompanied by my singing. Hope you all enjoy it. Song : Is Deewane Ladke Ko Music : Jatin Pandit, Lalit Pandit lyrics : Sameer Singers : Aamir Khan, Alka YagnikNeeru.06 00:04:17 393 0 Downloads 10 Comments
PYAAR HUA IKRAR HUA... Hey there, We are back, with another most romantic, evergreen song of the golden era. Hope you all like this cover. Do share your views in the comments section. The song is from the movie- shree 420 Sung by- Lata mangeshkar ji and manna dey ji. Music By- Shankar Jaikishan ji and lyrics by Shailendra ji.Neeru.06 00:04:29 387 0 Downloads 16 Comments
Raat ke humsafar Hello everyone, today I am uploading a duet with Sanjay ji which we also sang for Smule. I am sure you will like it. This is a lovely song from An Evening In Paris starring Shammi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore, K N Singh and Rajendra Nath. It is sung by Mohammad Rafi and Asha Bhosle and composed by Shankar and Jaikishan.Neeru.06 00:05:58 436 0 Downloads 21 Comments
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Sens. Chris Coons, D-Delaware, and James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, sent a letter July 13 to Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin requesting information on the charitable deductions claimed in tax year 2018 and future projections for charitable giving to assess the impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
The senators are concerned about the decreases in charitable giving in the U.S. after significant changes to the tax code.
"We are writing to follow up on your commitment to share information on the charitable deduction, which you made during your testimony before the Senate Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee on May 22, 2018. We remain concerned and seek additional information on the potentially alarming decrease in charitable giving in the U.S. following significant changes to the tax code made by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act," the senators wrote.
"As you know, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act nearly doubled the standard deduction for most filers, changing the incentive for many Americans to itemize and claim the charitable deduction. Removing this incentive could significantly reduce the amount of charitable giving in the U.S. According to estimates from the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act will reduce charitable deductions by $95 billion in 2018. As a result, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, charitable giving is estimated to fall by approximately 5 percent. The American Enterprise Institute, another nonpartisan public policy think tank, released a similar report in which they estimate charitable giving will be reduced by almost 4 percent, or $17.2 billion based on a static model. According to AEI, the majority of this effect — 83 percent — is a result of the increase in the standard deduction," the senators wrote.
"Charities in Oklahoma, Delaware and all across the country, including many faith-based organizations, rely on donations to provide countless services to Americans in need, including combating homelessness, providing health care to the medically underserved, and improving outcomes for disadvantaged youth. As co-chairs of both the National Prayer Breakfast and the Senate Prayer Breakfast, we believe that even in times of tight budgets, we have a moral obligation to support our neighbors most in need, and charities play an essential role in doing just that. Despite our disagreements on other tax-related issues, we believe that our tax code should support American charities and the generosity of millions of Americans who donate to charities," the senators wrote.
"Charitable giving is also essential to maintaining and growing the charitable industry, which is an important part of our nation's economy. According to a report from Independent Sector, a national membership organization that includes nonprofits, foundations and corporations, charities within the nonprofit sector make up the third largest sector of the American workforce, accounting for 10 percent of jobs. A decrease in charitable giving may have significant consequences for the charitable industry's capabilities and the 11.4 million people it employs," the senators wrote.
"Because of these concerns, we request that the Administration provide any data that is currently available on charitable deductions claimed in tax year 2018 and projections for charitable giving in tax year 2018. Going forward, we request quarterly data on the number of charitable deductions claimed and the average size donations given, and when available, a comparison of this data for tax year 2018 to the previous ten years. If those projections are lower than previous years, or any concerning trends related to charitable giving are identified, we look forward to working together to address these issues immediately," the senators wrote.
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Creative Quarterly 19 International Call for Entries
Creative Quarterly. The best of art and design, quarterly.
CQ19: Call for Entries
Deadline: January 30, 2010
It's almost the new year, time to show us your bottled-up creativity. It's easy to enter online with $10 entry fees for champagne tastes on a beer budget. Categories for professional and student. And all winners will be celebrated in our next issue plus in our online gallery. Be ready to drink in the praise just don't miss our next deadline: January 30. Enter now.
All art directors, graphic designers, illustrators, photographers and fine artists. Separate categories will be judged for professionals and students. Work must have been completed during the last six months.
Graphic Design—advertising design,books, branding, brochures, editorial, environmental, identity, packaging, posters and web.
Photography—both fine art and commercial.
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Fine Art—painting, drawing, printmaking, multi-media, pottery, sculpture.
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We award best of show, gold, silver, bronze and merit awards in each category based on the judge's scoring.
And if you're a winner, great exposure in the next issue of Creative Quarterly due out in April 2010 distributed in the US, Canada and Europe. And in our online gallery. Runner-up entries will be shown online.
CQ19 entries must be sent to us no later than January 30, 2010
Creative Quarterly 17 hits the newsstands at the end of December.
In this issue we're profiling:
Richard Poulin, graphic designer
Nick Dewar, illustrator
Jan von Holleben, photographer
Adia Millett, fine artist
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Creative Quarterly publishes the best work being done internationally in graphic design, illustration, photography and fine art. Published four times a year, we're the only competition accepting entries from all parts of the globe.


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Sondrel expanded its sales team, with two new additions to support clients in Europe and Israel. Steve Ward will take up the position of European Sales Manager, and Sergio Kusevitzky will represent Sondrel to support Israeli Customers as its Israel Sales Manager.
John Tinson, VP Global Sales, commented "new digital design projects are emerging at an accelerated rate in the automotive, IoT, and AR/VR sectors in particular. Growth is coming from a mixture of our existing fabless semiconductor customers but also a growing number of fabless start-ups in both Europe and Israel. A healthy sign for the industry as a whole."
Sondrel said it continues to grow its front-end services covering design and verification support for both FPGA and ASICs. Steve Ward and Sergio Kusevitzky, with their significant industry experience gained at ARM and Cadence respectively, will ensure that customers have the support that they need through this new growth phase. This will include Sondrel's work with ARM as an Approved Design Partner for its ARM DesignStartprogramme, said in the release.


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Jurgen Klopp says Liverpool midfielder Emre Can entering into the final 12 months of his contract is not a good sign.
Answering press questions ahead of their second clash with Hoffenheim for UCL last qualification round, the former Borussia Dortmund boss opined that it is really not in the best interest of Liverpool to watch their employees contract run its course. It puts them in a position of weakness should contract renewal battle drums roll out.
According to NetBet.co.uk, Can is odds-on to sign a new contract before the close of the transfer window.
Klopp however confirmed that so far "there is no signing and that is the situation," adding that they were "still in talks."
"It is an important contract for [Emre Can] at his age. I am 100 percent sure that we don't sell the player now in this situation. Not a player from the first-team lineup for sure. He will play here for the next year that is for sure. All the rest we have to see," said Klopp.
Negotiations for the Germany international were reported in May but it appears both halves of the discussion's round table could not find a mutual ground to stand on.
Klopp however still maintains that "the situation is not perfect," and "would prefer that [Emre] has already signed," but is still positive they "can find the right solution for both sides. Emre is in a good way. He has really improved in a lot of parts and is a really important player for us. He can play different positions."
Meanwhile, Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher is hoping that his former club will splash the cash in the final month of the transfer window. The Reds have spent reasonably this summer with the likes of Mohamed Salah and Andrew Robertson having joined from AS Roma and Hull City respectively, whilst Dominic Solanke has arrived on a free from Chelsea - subject to a tribunal.
The likes of Manchester United, Manchester City and Chelsea have coughed up huge sums to bring in top-class players this summer, but Klopp has called for patience in the market as he plans to bring in quality signings who could fight for a spot in the starting lineup.
Carragher admits that the club's faithful would be nervous over the club's transfer activity, but he is hopeful that the club will bring in the right players before this month's transfer deadline, he said: "To be honest, I think we were all hoping that we would have been a lot happier at the stage. However, you've got to have patience. I'm sure the club are working 24/7 behind the scenes to bring players in, not only to keep the supporters happy, but to strengthen the squad for the big season ahead. I think Jurgen Klopp is looking to bring in quality rather than quantity, which is something that I'm personally happy with too."
Carragher also admits that Liverpool have cooled their interest in Naby Keita with RB Leipzig reluctant to place a price on his services. The Reds are nevertheless expected to try for his signature next summer when his £47m buyout clause will become active.
Adam Lallana suffered a thigh injury during the Audi Cup final against Atletico Madrid earlier this month, and his setback is likely to push the Reds into a midfield signing prior to the end of the transfer window. Arsenal's Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain remains a suitable target, but the Gunners are prepared to risk their attacker for the final year of his contract.


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Your Route To Vibrant Health
This workshop is designed for you if:
The vibrant health workshop was really useful and helped me to explore a deeper understanding of my mind and body's interactions and connections. I feel confident in trying out the techniques and methods taught in the workshop in everyday life. As always, Michele and Mala bring the content to life with great examples, enthusiasm and expertise!!
I liked the talks on energy and the practical ways to harness it. I also found the body awareness and body talk segments to be really interesting, and learning about the vagal nerve- I'd never have thought about it, but it was comforting to know that all my internal organs are connected.
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You are guided through a combination of teaching, written and practical exercises and meditative work. The workshop is a balance of both the practical and spiritual, bringing to you the best practices of both worlds to guide you.