I expected EDL Girls: Don’t Call Me Racist (BBC Three) would be the TV equivalent of lifting a rock to see what crawled out from under it, but it proved more sophisticated than that.

A programme about the “far-right, racist street movement whose protests often end in violence”, the English Defence League, it opened with a disturbing claim that, in the wake of the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby last year, the EDL’s ranks had multiplied fivefold and that a growing number of members were female, dubbed EDL Angels.

Director Fran Baker’s film took a look at the lives of three women involved to varying extents with the group. There was Gail, a committed member and leader of the EDL’s Yorkshire division. Amanda was an 18-year-old from Castleford in the process of joining the EDL. And there was 16-year-old Katie from Reading, who was surrounded by a family of EDL activists but unsure of whether she wanted to be more involved with the organisation.

As an observational documentary, the film was even-handed if not especially illuminating about the specific aims and political ideals of the EDL. There was no attempt to question or challenge any of the political opinions offered, and at its most unsettling it revealed an organisation that thrives on ignorance, grievance, prejudice and the threat of violence.

At its most worrying it showed how isolated individuals can be attracted to extremism simply for the offer of a sense of belonging. At its most reassuring, though, it showed – in the case of Katie, who despite constant inculcation at home eventually came to the conclusion that she didn’t want to be a member as she didn’t want to be labelled a racist – that education and intelligence are often the best weapons against intolerance.

A constant refrain of EDL members in this film was that they are misrepresented by the media. Here they got transparency, yet it seems unlikely anyone watching will have concluded that the EDL represents anything other than the thing it claims to be most against: extremism.

Summary: The English Defence League got transparency in BBC Three's EDL Girls: Don't   Call Me Racist, but appeared to be the thing it claims to be most against:   extremist, says Gerard O'Donovan


KABUL—Next week's election to pick a successor to Afghan President Hamid Karzai will also determine how much power the mercurial leader—who has ruled the country since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion—will retain once he leaves office.

Mr. Karzai has exasperated Washington by declining to sign a security agreement that would allow some U.S. forces to remain in the country after year's end, and by whipping up anti-American sentiment in Afghanistan.

The U.S. is hoping the next president will be a more reliable partner and quickly sign the security deal—something the major presidential candidates have promised to do. The future U.S.-Afghan relationship, however, depends on whether Mr. Karzai steps away from the limelight or remains the real decision maker in the next administration.

Surprising many, Mr. Karzai has managed to remain relevant until the very end of his term. His public squabbles with Washington overshadowed much of the election campaign. Now, in the run-up to the April 5 vote, all of the leading candidates acknowledge his influence over the outcome, and some are seeking his blessing.

"The president has played his role well. He has not become a lame duck," former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani, one of the main presidential candidates, said in an interview. "It's a tribute to his immense capability. It's a tribute to his political skills that we are talking about the president's role days before the election."

The election, if it isn't derailed by Taliban violence or massive fraud, would mark the first democratic transfer of power in Afghanistan's history. A legitimate outcome is crucial to maintaining the billions of dollars in international aid Kabul needs to pay its security forces and keep the economy afloat.

In addition to Mr. Ghani, the front-runners are Mr. Karzai's former foreign minister, Zalmai Rassoul, seen as the president's favorite, and Abdullah Abdullah, the politician who came in second in the 2009 presidential election and who is the only major candidate to openly criticize the incumbent.

"The next government, regardless of who will win the election, will be much weaker than this government," said Afghan political analyst Haroun Mir. "President Karzai's role will be prominent. He is certainly an uncontested leader in the south, and he has also built important political links in the north."

Mr. Karzai isn't allowed to run again by the constitution. But he erected a new residence on the grounds of the presidential palace that he intends to occupy after the election to remain close to his successor. He intensified speculation about his plans by telling parliament last week that he wants unspecified constitutional changes.

Many Afghans are concerned that Mr. Karzai, at 56, wants to emulate Russian President Vladimir Putin, creating a prime-minister-like position for himself under a weak president, and then returning to full power.

The Afghan president's spokesman, Aimal Faizi, said that anyone who thinks Mr. Karzai "may follow President Putin's path" is "being misled." He added that Mr. Karzai wants to bring changes into the constitution "based on his experience with the parliament and other state institutions" but has taken no steps so far.

Though Mr. Karzai hasn't formally endorsed a candidate, he publicly pressured his older brother Qayum to drop out of the race. As a result, Qayum and other Karzai family members have switched their support to Mr. Rassoul. One cartoon making the rounds on Afghan Facebook pages shows Mr. Rassoul as a TV set—with President Karzai holding the remote control.

A 70-year-old of royal lineage, Mr. Rassoul said in an interview that Mr. Karzai should have a strong say in the country's future. "He kept Afghanistan together. He will be, taking into consideration the Afghan society, a leader in Afghanistan," Mr. Rassoul said. "He will have influence, among people, among tribal chiefs, elders, and I think he will contribute to keep Afghanistan stable."

When asked whether Mr. Karzai should have a more formal role, Mr. Rassoul demurred. "It will depend on what President Karzai wants to do," he said. "At least to me he never showed any intention. He said: 'I'm tired, I've been in this business at a very difficult time, I'm exhausted, I want to sit home, to read books, I want to write my books and to travel around Afghanistan…' But I am sure he will be involved in Afghan politics."

Mr. Ghani, a former World Bank executive who ran against Mr. Karzai in 2009 and then served as his transition adviser until entering the presidential race, said he has proposed a more detailed plan to the Afghan president.

"The president will have a space as a national leader, and there should be an office with budgetary autonomy and staff that allows the president to engage in national, regional and international issues," Mr. Ghani said in an interview. "Were I to be elected, I would seek his advice," he added.

But it is unclear to what extent Mr. Ghani—and even Mr. Rassoul—would actually listen to Mr. Karzai once in power.

Mr. Abdullah, alone among the major candidates, conditioned Mr. Karzai's future role on the election's being conducted in a clean manner, without government interference on behalf of any candidates. Any attempt to rig the election would diminish Mr. Karzai's future standing, he warned in an interview.

"What will happen in the future: we want a respectful place for him in society," Mr. Abdullah said. "At the same time, the judgment of the people will depend on how he acts during the elections."

—Matt Murray and Margherita Stancati contributed to this article.

Write to Yaroslav Trofimov at yaroslav.trofimov@wsj.com

Summary: Afghanistan's coming election to pick a successor to President Hamid Karzai will also determine how much power the mercurial leader will retain once he leaves office.


Look at any CEO running a profitable company and you’ll find someone who has figured a few things out. One trait many of these leaders have in common: consistency. Check out these quotes from 30 successful CEOs regarding the daily habits that help them get ahead in business and life.

“Every day, I force myself to do something that is out of my comfort zone. If I hadn’t left my comfort zone back in 2008 to buy that one-way ticket to Buenos Aires, I never would have met my business partner, Aaron Firestein, and BucketFeet would never exist.”

— Raaja Nemani, co-founder and CEO of BucketFeet, a footwear brand that was founded in 2011 after a chance meeting between two travelers. It has grown from one hand-decorated pair of shoes to a brand that has collaborated with over 20,000 artists in more than 100 countries.

“I am a huge fan of Mike Bloomberg and recently saw him speak in a conversation with Alan Patricof at an event. At one point, he turned to Patricof and said something to the effect of, ‘Alan, I’m 73 years old, I don’t do doubt and I don’t do bad days.’ That really stuck with me. Running a company is really hard, and every day is different, but having a bad day is a choice.”

— Dan Teran, co-founder and CEO of Managed by Q, an office cleaning, management, and maintenance platform that recently expanded to San Francisco, following New York City and Chicago.

“[I spend] an hour or two every day keeping up with tech news on Twitter. It’s not good to obsess over what other people are doing, but staying informed is certainly important.”

— Michael Bruch, founder and CEO of Willow, a new social platform focused on personality and conversation and aligned with how friendships and partnerships are naturally formed offline.

“You never know who you will meet or the advice you’ll receive.”

— Liat Zakay, founder and CEO of Donde Fashion, a visual search engine that allows users to shop from more than 6,000 brands and over 1 million products.

“I’m always trying new things and changing how I work. As we’ve grown from a team of four to a team of 28, my job has changed pretty significantly, and by experimenting with new habits and processes regularly, I am always discovering better ways to run my team that make sense as we grow.”

— Zach Supalla, co-founder and CEO of Particle, an “Internet of Things” startup that raised more than $1.1 million on Kickstarter and $4.9 million in series A funding.

“There are footballs, golf balls, softballs, chessboards, Legos–everything a curious kid could dream of–covering our office space. Whenever I’m stuck on an idea, I play a quick game of catch or build a Lego house to give my brain a breather. Then it’s back to the drawing board. I encourage my team to do the same thing, too. Just like any muscle, your brain needs a recovery session after a tough workout.”

— Dan Hogan founder and CEO of Medalogix, a health care technology company that provides analytics, workflows, and business intelligence solutions to home health and hospice providers.

“Most people are accommodating and open, as long as you are clear about your needs and what you have to offer.”

— Kegan Schouwenburg, CEO of SOLS, a 3D-printing technology company.

“I strive to be on time for every appointment, every day, without exception. This may seem like a no-brainer in the business world, but you would be surprised how many people still don’t make this a priority. It’s mind-boggling. If a leader is consistently late, it tells others that he or she is unreliable or has no respect for the time of the individuals he or she works with. If he or she is on time, the opposite is true.”

— Andy Bailey, founder of Petra, a business-coaching firm serving 58 businesses in 17 states.

“No matter how exciting your company or the problems that you are solving are, there will always be day-to-day tasks that are simply boring. Showing that you are willing to roll up your sleeves when the going gets tough will be a positive example for your team. You will be amazed at how this reverberates.”

— Herbert Moore, co-founder and CEO of WiseBanyan, a free financial adviser that minimizes fees and helps people start investing sooner.

“I spend time at the end of every night watching interviews, speeches, and panels of other leaders I admire. Through a bit of YouTube stalking, I’ve gotten great lessons on culture from Brian Chesky, brand building from Neil Blumenthal, and leadership from Esther Dyson.”

— Lydia Gilbert, co-founder and COO of Dia&Co, an online personal styling service for women sizes 14 to 32.

“Transcendental meditation for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening is the perfect complement to daily exercise, whether it’s a trip to the gym or a run across the bridge. Since I’ve started this routine, I’ve found my mental clarity and focus have increased enormously.”

— Elliot Tomaeno, founder and CEO of ASTRSK, a PR agency which has grown from five employees to 16 employees over the past year.

“I spend about 45 minutes driving to and from work each day. I can spend that time listening to music or talk radio, but I choose to spend it listening to business books and self-improvement books. Over the last two and a half years, I have listened to nearly 40 audiobooks. These books have given me incredible insight into how to run my business and sharpen my skills. I can listen to a new book in a few days, versus reading a book, which would take me at least a month or two, if not longer, because with two little kids at home, I can never find the time.”

— George Zlatin, co-founder and director of operations at Digital Third Coast, a full-service digital marketing agency that serves clients nationwide.

“I wake up and start every day with one initial thought: being thankful for the abundance in my life–family, friends, company, and more. Nothing good ever comes easy. Hard work and dedication always pays off. Starting every day with a strong, positive thought is the best way to kickoff each day. I believe that a positive mindset is key to overcoming all obstacles, and I radiate this to my team. Just as negativity is infectious—think: one rotten apple at the bottom of a barrel ultimately will ruin them all—so is positivity. Choose to be positive. Be mindful of your attitude and how it affects others.”

— Gary Miliefsky, CEO of SnoopWall, a counterveillance security company with more than 30 international partners.

“We are based in the U.S., but also have teams and customers on the ground in Asia, South America, and Europe. Connecting with them every day is incredibly important for staying connected to that part of the business, making sure they know they’re valued and getting things done. It’s a big time commitment, and sometimes it feels like we have multiple jobs–in the morning in Europe, during the day in the Americas, and at night when the Asia teams are busy. But in the end, it’s always worth it to be available and have live discussions when they matter the most.”

— Mike Sands, CEO of Signal, a cross-channel marketing technology company used by thousands of brands and digital agencies around the world.

“I like to schedule some of my most important calls during my morning drive to the office. While it can be frustrating at times to have a long commute, not to mention often getting stuck in traffic, I find this time very useful for scheduling calls that are uninterrupted. It also allows me to accomplish a lot more for the day when I get into the office, knowing these important conversations have already taken place and I can focus on other matters.”

— David Goldin, CEO and founder of Inc. 5000 company Capify, an alternative financing provider for small businesses which operates in the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and Australia.

“Always have papers before a meeting, read them, and never just do a page-turn. That way, every meeting is really the second meeting.”

— Craig Boundy, CEO of Experian North America, which was named one of the top 100 innovative companies in the world by Forbes.

“Yoga has helped in so many areas of my life. It forces me to unplug from whatever issue I’m dealing with, spend time as a student, and focus on being present in the moment. I can walk into a studio anywhere in the world and get centered in no time. Early in my career, I would have rolled my eyes reading some executive profess how being on a yoga mat makes them good at business. But I have found a regular practice makes me a better leader, more patient parent, and keeps me sharp mentally and physically.”

— John Swanciger, CEO of Manta, an online small-business community and directory that garners 20 million visitors per month and more than 1,000 new members per day.

“As a leader, it’s easy to feel like you need to know or do it all, but you will never be the best at everything. A mentor of mine once told me to focus on my strengths and team up with talented people for the rest. The old saying of ‘it takes a village’ is true in so many parts of life, and embracing it makes you a stronger, healthier person.”

— Matt Lautz, CEO of Corvisa, a cloud communications and contact center solutions provider that was recently named a “2015 Hot Vendor” by Aragon Research.

“Every evening after the kids go to sleep, I take a 30-minute walk alone without music. It clears my head, calms me down from the daily stresses of running a startup, and allows me to get proper perspective and clarity about priorities. Most importantly, I sleep like a baby. I learned the importance of this 15 years ago, after reading a biography of Harry Truman, who had to deal with being the president at the end of WWII.”

— Charlie Silver, CEO of Algebraix Data, which developed the first universal model of data and holds nine broad U.S. patents on its technology.

“It emboldens your imagination, gives your mind respite, and arms you with tactics on creating motivating, inspiring messaging. Don’t be afraid to take time out to free your mind from the strictures of reality.”

— Alicia Navarro, CEO of Skimlinks, a content monetization platform integrated with more than 20,000 merchants and processing more than 300 million clicks a month on more than 1.5 million sites around the world.

“I have been having the same breakfast of a protein shake with healthy fats, a fresh pressed juice full of vegetables, and a double espresso for as long as I can remember. While I press the juice, I recite the three things I am most appreciative of that morning. Thinking on the things that are most important in my life helps me take down the kale and beet juice with a smile.”

— Michael McDevitt, CEO of Terra’s Kitchen, an e-commerce meal delivery service focused on providing healthy recipes in an eco-friendly vessel.

“Your bedroom should be a sanctuary. Leave the TV, electronics, and work outside. By creating a work-free zone, you can reduce stress levels and, in turn, make the working time far more efficient…and most importantly, your partner will appreciate it.”

— Mark Fachler, founder and CEO of Veestro, a plant-based, prepared meal delivery company.

“When describing the future, you can’t use facts and figures. You don’t have statistics to prove your points. You must largely rely on your imagination. And to convincingly bring your audience into the future, you must unlock their imaginations, helping them envision a different world. We all know, ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ So it shouldn’t be a surprise that images, and visual language such as metaphors and analogies, are of vital importance in bridging the gap between the cerebral and the imaginative.”

— Rob-Jan de Jong, founder of Vongolo Consulting and author of Anticipate: The Art of Leading by Looking Ahead, which Business Traveller included on its “Books You Should Read” list.

“I’ve exercised–whether it be lifting or running–religiously for the past 12 years of my life, and it has played a critical role in my daily attitude, work potential, and outlook on life.”

— Hannibal Baldwin, co-founder and CEO at SiteZeus, which delivers location intelligence and real estate brokerage services to retail and hospitality brands through Web-based technology.

“Teams look to their leaders to set the tone for how the business is operated. I ensure I establish and create a sense of urgency, while balancing it with control of key situations. I make time to speak with frustrated customers and meet with unhappy employees to stay close to the issues my team navigates on a daily basis. From these interchanges, I am able to learn more than I ever could learn from all the things that go according to plan.”

— Mike Robinson, CEO of Broadview Networks, an information technology and communications partner for businesses across the U.S. Its flagship platform, OfficeSuite, is used by more than 210,000 business people nationwide.

“Cultivate good judgment by learning to be comfortable making 100 percent of a decision with 70 percent of the data. This approach forces you to weigh what is really important and to understand the remainder of the data isn’t worth the time it takes to collect. Over time, you will make more good decisions and will accomplish more than the less confident and more risk averse. You will also be more competitive because you will accomplish more. Target being right 70 percent of the time with everything you do. Any extra time you spend on being right means you will miss opportunities, both personally and professionally.”

— Tom Cotney, CEO of Mblox, an application-to-person mobile messaging provider that helps brands build profitable relationships with their customers.

“In addition to making a list of the top three things I must get done each day, I make a list of the three things that must be achieved each month and each week to ensure the company is staying on track.”

— Dr. Lisa Dolev, founder and CEO of Qylur, a provider of automated, self-service, bag-screening technology that was deployed at the World Cup last year.

“Provide opportunity for at least one employee every day to ask you questions about whatever they have on their mind. It is very important to make employees feel like no question is out of limits. Q&A sessions with regular cadence make it easy for anyone in the organization to ask me questions. It is often these sessions that help me get the pulse of the company. It also becomes a forum for sharing ideas and discovering new ways of thinking or solving problems. But it’s extremely important that these opportunities to ask questions are presented in all sorts of settings–large groups, small groups, one-on-ones, and a mix of formal and casual settings.”

— Jyoti Bansal, founder and CEO of AppDynamics, a San Francisco-based company with 1,600 customers and billings in the past 12 months topping $175 million.

It’s by far the most efficient and productive way to gather feedback on [the company] and to understand the business more deeply. My company is nothing without its users, and the information I receive from customers is hugely influential on how we conduct business and shape our plans for the future.”

— Navid Hadzaad, founder and CEO of GoButler, a free, on-demand service that operates as a digital personal assistant.

“In order to start the day completely organized, I get up at 6 a.m. and get to inbox zero. Anything that can be answered with a short note or delegated to a team lead, I get out of the way immediately. Other items I prioritize for later sit down email blocks or meetings later in the day. This way, I can be truly focused during morning meetings.”

— Benjamin Habbel, founder and CEO of Voyat, a retention platform for hospitality that works with hotel brands across 15 countries and is connecting over 50,000 guests to hotels every month.

This article originally appeared on Inc.com

Summary: Getting to the top involves doing the right things, day after day


Rescuers have removed a baby boy alive from rubble following an airstrike by Syrian government forces on Aleppo.

The rescue from the toppled building was filmed after bombing intensified in the country's second largest city.

The Syrian government says it is trying to eradicate Islamic State fighters, who now control a third of the country.

But theirÂ so-called "barrel bombs" are killing many innocent civilians.Â

Al Jazeera's Soraya Lennie reports.

Summary: Baby boy is pulled alive from rubble as government bombing of Syria's second biggest city intensifies.


Looking for a job? You may need to brush up on your on-camera skills.

Companies from Rio Tinto RIO 0.86 % to Starwood Hotels HOT 0.55 % are using the video format to interview job candidates from entry-level to the top ranks. Two-way interviews take place in real time with both the candidate and interviewer present, while one-way interviews require candidates to respond to pre-set questions without a live person on the other side.

Video interviews cut down on costs and save time for companies, but they can also cause job candidates no end of uncomfortable moments.

Sean Beaver, recruitment manager for Kiewit Power, a services provider to the power industry in Lenaxa, Kan., who uses one-way interviews to vet candidates for construction management and engineering positions, has seen his share of hiccups caught on tape. In one interview, a cat jumped up and walked across the screen, says Mr. Beaver. In another, a candidate's wife appeared behind him with a laundry basket, asking who her husband was talking to.

Mr. Beaver says around 1% of candidates call him afterwards saying they found the video interview awkward. But he and many other talent managers contend that the one-way video format actually gives job seekers a chance to shine.

Cody Horton, formerly Wal-Mart's director of college and diversity recruiting, explains: "I've found people who've grown up using webcams and Skype are very comfortable with this." He says as long as you explain the set-up ahead of time, candidates can excel.

This is good news for job seekers as video interviews become more prevalent.

The Aberdeen Group, a market research firm, found 10% of companies used video as part of the hiring process in 2010, but saw that number jump to 42% for senior executives, management and entry level job functions, in its 2011 talent acquisition survey, out last month.

While many employers conduct "real-time" live video interviews, others opt for one-way, recorded sessions where software takes the place of the interviewer. Candidates click on a link and are guided through various screens, starting with a practice session. Each subsequent screen contains a different question, with about three minutes to answer each.

(The Aberdeen Group survey results show two-way interviews are a far more popular choice.)

In some cases the questions pop up as text, in others they are spoken by a hiring manager. The candidate responds into a webcam from home. (If the candidate doesn't own a webcam, the video interview vendor sends them one.) With some formats, the candidate gets one shot at the question. With others, they can play back their response and re-do it if they're not satisfied. Once complete, the interview can be viewed by multiple managers.

HireVue is a leader in the interview software space, with clients including Wal-Mart, Dow Jones and Nike. (Dow Jones owns The Wall Street Journal.)

Kevin Marasco, HireVue's chief marketing officer, says employers often prefer a one-way session for the first round of interviews, because it offers efficiency and consistency in the selection process as you "hear applicants answer the same questions back-to-back."

Indeed, candidates such as Robbie Davis, 23, actually prefer the format. Mr. Davis, first interviewed for a position with Giles & Ransome, a used machinery dealer, in a one-way interview designed by Async Interview.

Being able to do the interview at home, at any time within a two-week period, took some stress out of the equation, Mr. Davis explains. "Sometimes you're trying to make it to an interview on time, and you get stuck in traffic." After meeting in person, Mr. Davis landed the job.

Two-way interviews – which happen in real time over Skype or other services – can, despite the presence of a live interviewer, make it hard to feel connected since eye contact can be tricky. But they can still can yield plenty of unexpected information.

Al Delattre, managing director of the global technology practice at executive search firm Korn/Ferry International, KFY 4.20 % recently interviewed a CEO candidate. As the man was speaking, Mr. Delattre spotted a woman dressed in a black maid's uniform dusting in the background. He peered into the screen and asked, "Who's that behind you over there?" It was an awkward moment, but it did not derail the interview.

"If he had yelled at her to leave the room immediately, I would have said, 'Thanks a lot, we'll be in touch,'" says Mr. Delattre. But the candidate kept his cool, politely asking the housekeeper to come back later. And he eventually landed the job.

Not so savvy was a candidate interviewing for a job with Splendid Communications, a boutique PR firm.

Perfect on paper and adored by clients, Splendid assumed that the candidate was in the bag. But when she answered an important question by apparently reading her answer from notes in the corner of her screen, it changed the firm's perception of her and she failed to get the job.

Still, goof-ups work both ways.

Joseph Pernaselli, who works in human resources for a large public accounting firm, says that managers sometimes forget they too are on camera: They might have a sloppy work space or they start checking email mid-interview.

Korn/Ferry's Mr. Delattre admits to having done something similar. He once muted a video interview to answer his cell phone, forgetting the candidate could still see him. "I apologized," he says.

Write to Ashley Milne-Tyte at cjeditor@dowjones.com

An earlier version of this article incorrectly asserted that in 2011, an estimated 42% of first-round interviews will take place virtually over webcam.

Summary: Job candidates get good at smiling into the webcam as interviews via video become increasingly common.


NBC News White House correspondent Kirsten Welker and Telemundo national correspondent Lori Montenegro moderated the question and answer portion of the event.

Here’s a transcript of her remarks.

CLINTON: Good morning. I am so pleased to be here, I want to thank you all for the invitation, for the introduction, to everyone associated with NABJ and NAHJ. I want to just mark the moment because you we’re created in this hotel. I don’t know if there are any original founders but if there are could you all stand up and we could give you some recognition.

I am delighted to thank you for the important work you do everyday and now more then ever, we need you to keep holding leaders and candidates accountable. And in the tradition of path-breaking journalists like Ethel Payne and Ruben Salazar, we need you to make sure that America’s front pages, and nightly new casts, and online information reflects the great diversity of our nation.

Someone that I had the privilege of knowing, the late great Bob Maynard, former owner of the Oakland Tribune once said…

And I quote Bob, “It is in seeing ourselves whole that we can begin to see ways of working out our differences of understanding our similarities and becoming a more cohesive nation,” and that is what you do everyday. Helping us to see ourselves as whole — I’m looking forward to our discussion, which I’m sure will cover a wide range of issues.

But I want to take just a few minutes to focus on a challenge that doesn’t get enough attention on the campaign trial, although I’ve been trying, and that is how do we expand economic opportunity for African-Americans and Latinos across America.

And you know very well — it’s been said — that when the economy catches a cold, communities of color get pneumonia.

The great recession hit our whole country hard but the toll was especially difficult for black and Latino families. Black wealth was cut in half, for Latinos it dropped 66 percent. That represented decades even generations of hard work, and during these past 18 months people across our country have described to me how hard it’s been to get back on their feet in an economy that is still not working the way we all want to see it, and barriers of systemic racism makes that even harder.

Now I believe that President Obama does not get the credit he deserves for leading us out of the great recession.

And I like to remind people, he had nothing to do with creating it in the first place.

He came into office in this worst of all financial crises since the Great Depression — was handed to him. And I think if you fairly look at the record, you have to conclude that his leadership saved us from a Great Depression.

CLINTON: So as bad a things became — 9 million jobs lost, 5 million homes lost, $13 trillion in family wealth wiped out — as bad as it was, there’s no telling how far down we would have gone without his leadership.

So we are out of the ditch that we were in and now we’ve got to do even more. We’ve got to build on the progress we’ve made, 15 million new jobs in the last seven and a half years, 20 million people now have health insurance who did not have it before he became president.

So we’ve got to have the will and the plans together to move forward. That’s why I’ve proposed a comprehensive new commitment to African American and Latino communities to make serious, sustained investments to create more good paying jobs. To help families build and rebuild wealth, to support Black and Latino owned small businesses.

For me these aren’t just economic issues, they’re part of a long, continuing struggle for civil rights. Rosa Parks opened up every seat on the bus, now we’ve got to expand economic opportunities so everyone can afford the fare and we have to make sure the bus route reaches every neighborhood and connects families with safe, affordable housing and good jobs.

Sylvia Mendez and Ruby Bridges helped desegregate our schools, now we’ve got to help every family afford the books, computers and internet access that our kids need to learn in the 21st century. And so in my first 100 days as president, we will work with both parties to pass the biggest investment in new good paying jobs since World War II. That includes jobs in manufacturing, clean energy, technology and innovation, small businesses and infrastructure.

If we invest in infrastructure now we will not only create jobs today, we will lay the foundation for the jobs of the future. We’re going to also focus on creating jobs and communities where unemployment remains stubbornly high after generations of underinvestment and neglect. I’m a big fan of Congressman Jim Clyburn’s 10-20-30 plan, steering 10 percent of federal investment to neighborhoods where 20 percent of the population has been living below the poverty line for 30 years.

We need that kind of focused, targeted investment in urban places, rural places, wherever Americans have been left out and left behind. We’re also going to invest $20 billion in creating jobs for young people. There’s a big gap here. The unemployment rate among Latino and African American youth is significantly higher than for Whites. You know it’s hard to write a resume if you have nothing to put on it.

We’re going to help our young people get that first job, so they can get that second job, so they can build a good, solid middle class life that will give them and their families a better future. We’re also going to do more to help Black and Latino entrepreneurs get access to capital so they have a real chance at turning their ideas into thriving businesses.

Now I think that’s not only good for those entrepreneurs, it’s good for their families, their workers and their communities. Additionally, as part of our end to end reform of the criminal justice system, we’re going to help people succeed when they return home from jail or prison. We’re going to ban the box so they can be judged by their skills and talents, not by their pasts.

And we will dedicate $5 billion to provide training and support to returning citizens so they can get a good paying job. And in my first 100 days, I’m going to introduce legislation for comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship.

That’s not only the right thing to do, every independent analysis shows it will add hundreds of billions of dollars to our economy. It will also keep families together. We need to bring hard working people out of the shadows. America has always been a place where people from around the world work hard and apply their talents to American growth and innovation in pursuit of their own dreams.

So we’re going to do everything we can to get this done.

CLINTON: We need to build an economy and a future that every American can be proud of and be a part of; an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top. That will be my mission as president.

These are just some of the highlights of our plan. I hope you will go to my website, hillaryclinton.com, to read the details, including how we are going to pay for everything I have proposed.

And of course, I hope you will compare what I’m proposing to what my opponent is talking about. Now here’s one measure that you could use for that comparison. An independent economist recently calculated that if my agenda for jobs and growth is put into place, our economy would create at least 10.4 million jobs within four years. We actually think it could be more than that.

Now, this economist also ran the numbers on Donald Trump, including his disastrous and inhumane plan to round up and deport millions of hard working immigrants.

The result, according to Mark Zandi, who was the economic advisor to John McCain during his 2008 run for the Presidency. The result of Trump’s plans would be a lengthy recession, with 3.4 million jobs lost.

Now of course, Donald Trump’s problems go far beyond economics. At every turn, he stokes division and resentment. He says horrible things about one group of Americans after another.

He’s hearkening back to the most shameful chapters of our history and appealing to the ugliest impulses of our society. You know the list, you’ve reported on it. He started this campaign by describing Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists.

He re-tweets white nationalists. He says a distinguished Federal judge can’t be trusted because he is of Mexican heritage. He talks about banning Muslims from coming to the United States, a land built on religious freedom. And yes, he also talks about curtailing press freedom as well.

We need to stand up as a country and say that Donald Trump doesn’t represent who we are and what we believe.

That is what my campaign, what Tim Kaine and I and everyone supporting us is doing everyday. And we’re going to keep at it. Because I believe, with all my heart, that America is better than this. America is better than Donald Trump.

We just launched an all Spanish twitter account, because we want to bring as many Americans as possible into this conversation. We’ve opened offices in every state, because we want to compete everywhere.

We want to bring our message and our vision to all corners of our country. But we can’t do it alone. Everyone, Republican, Democrat, and Independent, needs to stand up and speak out.

Now, I think, journalists have a special responsibility to our democracy in a time like this. As Ida B. Wells once said, people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare to the press. Now, many of you are showing the way.

It’s a badge of honor when Jorge Ramos gets thrown out of a press conference for challenging Donald Trump.

Or when another news organization gets banned for reporting what he says. As Jorge said, the best journalism happens when you take a stand, when you denounce injustice. So, I hope you’ll keep calling it, like you see it. Keeping holding all of us accountable.

You know, I have laid out all these plans. And I’m well aware that I have been sometimes made fun of, for putting out these plans about the economy, and education and criminal justice reform and healthcare and gun safety measures and all the rest of it.

But I do have this old fashioned idea, when you run for President you ought to tell the voters of America what you would do as President. So, I am going to keep telling you what I would do, because I want you to hold me accountable, press and citizen alike. Because the stakes are as high as they’ve ever been in our lifetimes. And we all have to do our part.

So, thank you for what you do everyday. Thank you for inviting me to address you today. And I look forward to taking some of your questions. Thank you all very much.

(UNKNOWN): Please welcome moderators, Kristen Welker, White House Correspondent for NBC news, and Lori Montenegro, National Correspondent for Telemundo.

WELKER: Thank you. I really appreciate it. Good afternoon to all of you. What an honor to be here. And, it’s fantastic to see so many people gathered here for this great conversation we’re going to have with Secretary Clinton.

Secretary Clinton, thank you for being here today. We really appreciate it.

Usually I am on the campaign trail with Secretary Clinton and we’re at a very crowded event, so it’s great to be able to have this conversation this afternoon.

MONTENEGRO: Madam Secretary, thank you so much for accompanying us. You know, so many questions, so little time, so I think we should just get right to it.

MONTENEGRO: You alluded to the topic that I want to ask you about. Latinos are very much concerned about the economy. They are concerned about education. They also believe in trustworthiness. I want to start with a topic that, I believe, will result, could, you know, tell the future of it after this election – it’s immigration reform.

Many Latinos are discouraged by the lack of immigration reform. They believe their vote has been taken for granted. We know what your position is. But, what I would like for you to do is to walk us through the steps.

MONTENEGRO: How will you get immigration reform, something that President Obama was not able to do, so that Latinos can believe that something is going to happen, that their vote, again, is not being taken for granted considering that the House, at least the House, will remain under Republican control? CLINTON: It’s a great question, and it’s one that I, obviously, have given much thought to because I am determined that we are going to achieve comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship.

So, here is how I see it – first of all, we are going to start immediately. I want this to be a clear, high priority for my administration. We will be prepared to introduce legislation as quickly as we can do so.

I am hoping that the outcome of the election, which I am working hard to ensure a victory, will send a clear message to our Republican friends that it’s time for them to quit standing in the way of immigration reform.

If you remember, after the 2012 election, the Republican National Committee did what they called an autopsy of their loss and concluded that they could not continue to deny the importance of immigration reform, and they urged Republicans running for office to get on board. Now, that hasn’t turned out the way that they seemed to have hoped. We have, instead, a Republican nominee who has been virulently anti- immigrant.

But, there’s nothing like winning to change minds. And, I think, number one, we have a good chance of having a Democratic Senate if everybody does what I hope they will do and vote for Democratic candidates for the Senate. I believe we will pick up some seats in the House and at least, if not take it back, narrow the numbers.

If we move in the Senate and then we demand that there be a vote in the House, because I am convinced that if the bipartisan bill that had been achieved in the Senate – remember when Marco Rubio was for it and people worked hard and achieved it?

If it had been allowed to come for a vote in the House, it would have passed. So, I view the political landscape as increasingly favorable to us making this happen. I will also defend the President’s executive actions. I, like you, was disappointed with the Supreme Court decision, but remember what it did, it sent the case back to be tried. It did not determine the case. So, DACA and DAPA are still alive.

Trump has said one of his first acts as President would be to eliminate every executive order that President Obama has signed, including those on immigration issues. So, I will defend DACA and DAPA while I work vigorously for immigration reform.

CLINTON: I have proposed an Office of Immigrant Affairs for the White House so that we are able to answer questions and provide information and help people.

I will take a very hard look at the deportation priorities. My priority are violent criminals, people suspected of any kind of connection to terrorism, not hard working mothers and fathers and people who go to work, help support this economy, pay $12 billion a year into Social Security, so we will take a hard look at that. We will close private detention centers, just like I want to end private prisons. We’re going to close private detention centers.

So, I have a very active agenda and we’re going to be moving on it and I believe – and you know, obviously it depends upon the outcome of this election – which is why it’s so important to register more voters.

My campaign is trying to register 3 million more voters, convince people to turn out, because we’re going to start early and we’re going to be tenacious and absolutely committed to getting a positive result. I think the chances, once we win, will improve dramatically.

MONTENEGRO: Madam Secretary, you spoke about the deportations. President Obama, some call the deporter-in-chief, you have alluded already to your priority will be criminals, but how do you walk balk the deportations? They’re people who are not criminals that are deported daily from this country.

How do you walk back the deportations, comply with the law, and not inherit the title of deporter-in-chief, and at the same time, all these steps to help mobilize the Latino community to the polls, many who still believe that their vote is taken for granted in 2008 and 2012, and then we have the e-mails from WikiLeaks that say that are the loyalty brand of the party?

CLINTON: Well look, I think that the President was committed to immigration reform. It’s one of the reasons we got the bi-partisan bill passed in the Senate. And what we didn’t get though was enough political pressure to turn that bill into a voting issue in the 2010 midterm election.

And here’s one of my frustrations: people turn out to vote for Presidential elections, and then often don’t for midterm elections. So, we lost – we lost a lot of the leverage because we lost the House of Representatives. So, nothing happens easily or quickly in modern politics in America, but here is what I know. As I have said, we are not going to be deporting hard working people and break-up families. I’ve been on record for a year-and-a- half about this and that will be how I direct the Department of Homeland Security to act.

We are going to push on immigration reform and I will need, not only a considerable vote in November, but I will need people across our country to make it clear to their elected representatives that they’re going to be held accountable for how they are going to act on immigration reform.

We put enough organizing and political effort into this, I am optimistic and I believe we can get this done. But it won’t happen simply because we want it. And I can only say that I will give you my very best efforts and I will do everything I can to help elect a Democratic Senate. I’ve already talked to some of my former colleagues in the Senate. This will be fast-tracked. We already know what can pass the Senate because it happened just a few years ago.

And if we then put enough pressure on the House, and do everything we can to really force them to have to take what the Senate passes, I think the outcome will be very different this time. That’s my goal and that’s what I’m going to do every thing I can to achieve.

MONTENEGRO: Thank you Madam Secretary.

WELKER: Madam Secretary, your poll numbers went way up this week, and yet, the e-mail controversy was still in the headlines. So, I wanted to give you the opportunity to respond.

This week you told two separate news organizations that FBI Director James Comey said quote, “My answers were truthful, and that what I said is consistent with what I have told the American people.”

That assertion, as you know, has been debunked by multiple news organizations which point out that Director Comey did say there’s no indication that you lied to the FBI. But he didn’t weigh-in on whether or not you were truthful to the American people.

So my question for you is, are you mischaracterizing Director Comey testimony? And is this not undercutting your efforts to rebuild trust with the American people?

CLINTON: Well Kristin, I appreciate your asking that because I was pointing out in both of those instances that the Director Comey had said that my answers in my FBI interview were truthful. That’s really the bottom line here. And I have said on — during the interview and in many other occasions over the past months, that what I told the FBI — which he said was truthful — is consistent with what I have said publicly.

So I may have short circuited it and for that I — you know, will try to clarify because I think — you know, Chris Wallace and I we’re probably talking past each other be — because of course he could only talk to what I had told the FBI and I appreciated that.

Now I have acknowledged repeatedly that using two e-mail accounts was a mistake I — and I take responsibility for that, but I do think you know, having him say that my answers to the FBI were truthful and then I should quickly add what I said was consistent with what I had said publicly and — and that’s really, sort of in my view, trying to tie both ends together.

WELKER: Is the one inconsistently though that you said you never sent or received classified material, and he did say there were three e-mails, that were marked classified at the time.

CLINTON: Well, he — here’s — here’s what — here are the facts behind that as well, you know that I preside I — I sent over 30,000 e-mails to the State Department that were work-related e-mails. Director Comey said that only 3 out of 30,000 had anything resembling classified markers, what does that mean? Well usually, if any of you have ever served in the Government, a classified document has a big heading on the top, which makes very clear what the classification is.

And in questioning Director Comey made the point that the 3 e- mails out of the 30,000 did not have the appropriate markings and it was therefore reasonable to conclude that anyone, including myself, would have not — suspected that they were classified.

And in fact, I think that has been discussed by others who have said two out of those three were later explained by the State Department not to have been, in any way, confidential at the time that they were delivered.

So that leaves the 100 out of 30,000 e-mails that Director Comey testified — contained classified information but again, he acknowledged there were no markings on those 100 e-mails and so what we have here is pretty much what I have been saying throughout this whole year and — and that is that I never sent or received anything that was marked “classified.”

Now if in retrospect, which is what is behind the 100 number, if in retrospect some different agencies said but it should have been — although it wasn’t — it should have been that’s what the debate about — is about. But Director Comey said there was absolutely no intention, on my part, to either ignore or in any way dismiss the importance of those documents because they weren’t marked “classified,” so that would have hard to do and I will go back to where I started.

I regret using one account, I’ve taken responsibility for that but I’m pleased to be able to clarify and explain what I think the bottom line is on this.

WELKER: And just very quickly before we get to our panel, Donald Trump says this whole thing means that you can’t be trusted with National Security, today you are endorsed by former CIA Director Michael Morell who says it’s Trump who can’t be trusted, and he went so far as to indicate that that he’s been termed (ph) by Putin.

Do you agree with that assessment?

CLINTON: Well, I had the great honor of working with Mike Morell, spending a lot of hours with him in the situation room in the White House. He is a consummate professional who has devoted his entire professional career to protecting our country.

I was honored to receive his endorsement, I will let his comments speak for themselves but I — I really appreciated his explaining as he did in his op-ed — some of what’s at stake in this election.

MONTENEGRO: Thank you Madam Secretary. I believe we have a question from one of our panelists in the previous – could you stand up please?

QUESTION: My question is, you’ve accused Donald Trump of using racist and sexist language. What does it say about the electorate that so many Americans are supporting him?

CLINTON: Well, I — I really — I really believe that the core of his support — I’m not going to speak for everyone who supports him because I think there have been some quite distressing statements coming out of his rallies and his supporters and who has aligned themselves with him — but I think the core of his support really centers on the disappointment in the economy that so many Americans feel.

And what I have been saying is, you know, I’m going to bring this country together. I think we have three overarching goals: we need more economic opportunity, we need to protect our national security, and we have got to work toward American unity.

So I have been trying to understand what it is that has driven people to support Trump and I’ve met with some people, I have listened to them.

And so many of them are looking for an explanation as to why they lost the job they had for 18 years when the factory closed and nobody cared about them; what they’re going to do when their whole life was spent mining coal and they made $80 thousand a year; now they can barely find a job making minimum wage; why the centers of so many old industrial towns in America are hollowed out and people are turning to opiates and heroin, and the list goes on. And that’s what I’ve heard.

So, I think, we have to recognize that of course, some of the appeal is xenophobic and racist and misogynistic and offensive — we have to acknowledge that. But let’s not lose sight of the real pain that many Americans are feeling because the economy has left them behind.

So I have said — I said it again in my acceptance speech last Thursday, I want to be the president for all Americans. I want to lift up and give everybody a chance to pursue their dreams. And that means people who are supporting him.

When I went to West Virginia, I knew that I was not gonna win West Virginia, I can tell you that. And I was in a meeting with a group of folks, including a coal miner who was incredibly emotional and talking to me. And outside there was a big Trump protest going on, and one of the people at the protest, for goodness sakes, was Blankenship who had just been convicted of reckless indifference toward the wellbeing of his coal miners — causing deaths.

So clearly the lines are pretty stark. But I have said, you know, I’ve got a plan for coal country, I’ve got a plan for Indian country, I’ve got a plan for inner cities, I’ve got a plan for rural communities. It’s one of the reasons, as I said in my remarks, that I support Jim Clyburn’s 10-20-30 proposal, which would help all kinds of communities in America. Jim and I have talked about this.

So we have to reject and stand up against the appeals to the kind of bigotry and the use of bluster and bullying that we see coming from Trump’s campaign, but let’s not forget the real economic challenges that too many Americans of all backgrounds are facing today.

So that’s how I think about it and that’s how I’m going to try in this campaign to respond to and rebuke all of the horrible things he says on a pretty regular basis — but not about me, I could care less about that.

CLINTON: But when he goes after individuals; when he accuses a distinguished federal judge of Mexican heritage of not being fair, when he insults a gold star family of a Muslim American who served in the military — you know the list. I will stand up and call him out on that.

But I will also keep reaching out to Americans of all races and ethnicities and where ever they live to tell them that I am not going to forget about them after this election.

I’m going work my heart out to help every single person have a better job with a rising income, and make sure their kids get a good education, and everything else that I think they’re owed here in America.

MONTENEGRO: Great, wonderful. And I think we have another question from our panel.

QUESTION: Madam Secretary, Ed O’Keefe for the Washington Post. Thank you for being here. And I think on behalf of all of us, we encourage you to do this more often with reporters across the country.

Especially those news organizations that travel the country with you everywhere you go. A majority of voters consistently say frankly they don’t like you and they don’t trust you. And they say pretty much the same thing about Donald Trump.

Either you or Mr. Trump will be elected president. How would you lead a nation where a majority of Americans mistrust you? And what extra responsibility might you have to show that you’re up to the task?

CLINTON: Well let me start by saying every time I have done a job, people have counted on me and trusted me.

And at the convention last week we highlighted the fights of my life, starting as a lawyer for the Children’s Defense Fund, taking on the problem of juveniles in adult jails in South Carolina, segregated academies so-called in Alabama, fighting for kids with disabilities to get an education, and all the way through the work I did as senator after 9/11, and representing all of you as secretary of state.

So there is – I – and I – I take this seriously. Don’t, you know, don’t doubt that. I take it seriously. You know, it doesn’t make me feel good when people say those things. And I recognize that I have work to do. But when I started running for the Senate in New York, a lot of the same things were said.

I won. I worked hard for the people of New York. And I was reelected with 67 percent of the vote after I demonstrated that I would be on their side, I would fight for the people I represented.

I ran a really hard campaign against Barack Obama, as I think everybody remembers. It got a little contentious from time to time. And to my surprise, he turns around, asks me to be secretary of state because he trusted me.

And then I served as secretary of state. And when I left, I had a 66 percent approval rating. So, ask yourselves…

…were 67 percent of the people in New York wrong? Were 66 percent of the American public wrong? Or maybe, just maybe, when I’m actually running for a job, there is a real benefit to those on the other side in trying to stir up as much concern as possible.

So, I take it seriously. And I’m going to work my heart out in this campaign and as president to produce results for people, to get the economy to work for everybody, not just those at the top, to do as much as I can to help people who, as I said earlier, may not even vote for me. Because I think our country is at a crossroads election.

President Obama said it extremely well both in what his speech discussed in the convention, what his press conferences since have pointed out. This is a crossroads election. There is so much at stake.

You can look at my record of public service. You can meet people and families who were benefited by the Children’s Health Insurance Program. You can meet people who were benefited by reforming the foster care and adoption system.

You can meet first responders and survivors from 9/11 who were benefited because I went to bat for them. You can meet National Guards members and their families who didn’t have health care unless they were deployed before I worked with Republicans to fix that. You can go down a long list, and we’d be happy to provide it to you, of what I have done because I believe in public service.

And I am proud that I’ve had the great, great opportunity to work on behalf of giving more people a better life ever since I was right out of law school. So I’m just going to get up every day and make my case.

And I think there’ll be an opportunity for a lot of people to actually hear it.

QUESTION: Kevin Merida. I’m editor-in-chief of The Undefeated at ESPN. What is the most meaningful conversation you’ve had with an African-American friend?

CLINTON: Oh my gosh. Well, could I tell you that I am blessed to have a – a crew of great friends and I’ve had two chiefs of staff who were my African-American women friends, Maggie Williams and Cheryl Mills.

I have been blessed to have people by my side in politics like Minyon Moore who is one of the leaders of my campaign. I’ve had a great group of young people who I have been really motivated by and, frankly, learned from.

So I really have had a lifetime of friendship going back to my college years when one of my best friends was an African-American student, so I can’t compress into one conversation — they’ve supported me, they’ve chastised me, they’ve raised issues with me, they’ve tried to expand my musical tastes.

So we’ve had — we’ve had a lot of — we’ve had a lot of great, great times because of our friendships, so I can’t really pick one conversation out of, you know, 50 years of conversation and I don’t want to embarrass my friends.

Peggy Lewis is here, she just became the Dean of Communications at Trinity Washington and I want to congratulate her. Donna Brazile is here, she’s our acting chair of the DNC.

So I — I guess I’ll leave it at that. I think I’m going to – I’m going to respect the code of friendship silence but please know I’ve got a lot of great friends who have given me so much more.

QUESTION: Madam Secretary, there’s such little time and there’s lots of questions and you’re signaling us to — but I would be remiss. We’re in a room full of Latino journalists and I have to ask you and give you an opportunity to respond and set the record clear.

Does the Democratic Party, does your campaign, take Latino voters seriously, or are you taking them for granted that they will automatically vote Democrat? CLINTON: Well, I take them seriously, because I’ve had the great privilege of working for many years with Latino leaders, activists, business men and women.

You know, just as I responded to the question, my first experience working on behalf of Latinos was — well, actually, even before I was a legal services lawyer, through my church, I babysat Latino kids on Saturdays while their parents and older siblings went to the fields outside of my home in Chicago, which used to be — hard to believe now, miles of farmland.

It was my first real lesson in how much more we all have in common. There I was, 11 or 12 years old, babysitting these little kids and at the end of the day the old ramshackle bus stopped at the end of the road and the parents and the older brothers and sisters got out and these little kids just broke loose and started running down that road with their arms outstretched calling for their mothers and their fathers and getting swept up in very tired arms.

And then, when I was a little bit older, my church arranged exchanges with Latino churches. We would go into the city of Chicago, sit in church basements, talk about our lives and, again, it reinforced what, to me, was so much of a common sense of, you know, what we wanted in our lives even though their lives and mine were very different.

And as a legal services lawyer – as the chair of the legal services corporation, we expanded legal services into places against a lot of political opposition.

CLINTON: So, I feel very fortunate that I’ve had the chance to work with, and learn from, so many Latinas and Latinos across America. When I ran for the senate, I worked closely with our elected representatives, both at the city, state, and national level.

I was honored that they rallied around to support me and were part of the great victory that we had in the primary in New York.

So no, I don’t take any voter for granted. And I particularly don’t take any voter who is placing their trust and confidence in me for granted. Because I am going to get up, as I said, every single day and work my heart out to get the results that I have told you, we’re going to achieve together.

And I know it’s hard. I’ve been around as you all know, very well. I’m not new to this. It doesn’t happen by hoping it happens, or wishing it happens. It happens by doing everything you possibly can and I am blessed to have such close working relationships and friendships with Latino leaders.

Tonight, at my house, we will be having a big event with Latino business leaders, coming from around America. And so, I’m going to do what I’ve always done.

You see, I think at the core of political leadership is relationship. You’ve got to build relationships with individuals and communities. I know that doesn’t happen by just asking for it. It happens because you work hard to achieve it.

So I’m going to do everything I can to make sure that any Latino voter who votes for me, knows that I’m going to be doing my best to deliver on everything that I’ve said.

And I will tell you as we go along, what the challenges are, because I may need to ask your help. I may need you to put pressure on elected officials. I may need you to flood the internet, or flood the old fashioned mailbox of elected representatives.

So they know people are watching. But that’s how we’re going to get it done. And I’m actually pretty confident and optimistic about that. So I hope that people will take this election seriously, because I sure take you seriously. And together I think we can create the kind of future that everyone of our kids and grandkids deserves.

Thank you all very much.

WELKER: Secretary Clinton, we are out of time. We want to thank you very much. Everyone please, give a big round of applause for Secretary Clinton for coming and answering our questions. We really appreciate it, and (inaudible) your time. Thank you very much.

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A new exhibit shows the massive amount of wildlife that lives in just one cubic foot of space.

“Life in One Cubic Foot,” which opens Friday at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, features a collection of images and videos taken from biocubes, or 1-foot by 1-foot by 1-foot spaces that wildlife can enter and pass through in their natural habitats.

To create the photos, the exhibit’s producers placed biocubes in both exotic and every day locales, including the coral reefs of French Polynesia, an area of ocean off of the coast of California, and in New York’s Central Park.

“Biocubes offer us a standardized lens to bring into focus the mosaic of richness and beauty that is found in nature, highlighting both the known and unknown in spectacular fashion,” Chris Meyer, Smithsonian scientist said in a statement. “In ‘Life in One Cubic Foot,’ we framed the biocube approach against the backdrop of efforts to survey all life on a single island in the Pacific. In doing so, we recognize the challenge and opportunity ahead for documenting the remaining life globally.”

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Tory MP Philip Davies has faced widespread criticism after it emerged he told a conference hosted by an anti-feminist group that Britain’s justice system was skewed in favour of women.

Davies, the MP for Shipley, delivered a 45-minute speech at the International Conference on Men’s Issues, which was organised by the Justice for Men and Boys party (J4MB), claiming “feminist zealots really do want women to have their cake and eat it”.

The comments, disclosed by the Guardian, provoked outrage across the political spectrum including calls from the Labour leader that Davies should have his membership of the Conservative party suspended by the prime minister.

Davies, who sits on the Commons justice committee, had told the event at the ExCel centre in London that women benefitted from an “equality but only when it suits agenda”.

Critics questioned his decision to share a platform with J4MB, which issues awards for “lying feminist of the month”, “toxic feminist of the month” and “whiny feminist of the month”, and promotes inflammatory articles on its website including a piece titled 13 reasons women lie about being raped.

Jeremy Corbyn said the “deeply sexist” comments revealed Davies had “utter contempt for women”, before calling on Theresa May to withdraw the Conservative whip.

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The shadow secretary for women and equalities, Angela Rayner, also called for Davies’s suspension. She said: “Theresa May should withdraw the Tory whip from Mr Davies … while an investigation is carried out. He has open contempt for women. His views are so out-dated they are prehistoric.

“He legitimises the inflammatory and toxic rhetoric of groups who are misogynistic to their core. He should have no place in Theresa May’s Tory party.”

The Fawcett Society, a charity campaigning for gender equality and women’s rights, said he was “increasingly … at odds with many in his own party”, and suggested he might work for Donald Trump’s campaign.

Davies, a pro-Brexit campaigner who backed Andrea Leadsom for the Tory leadership, appeared alongside anti-feminist bloggers, incluing Herbert Purdy – who likened the activist Malala Yousafzai to Osama bin Laden and has written posts such as: “The exquisite beauty of patriarchy”.

He told the Guardian he did not believe his appearance at an event hosted by J4MB meant he subscribed to what the party stood for, adding: “I don’t think any of my colleagues will ever feel threatened by the political party concerned.”

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J4MB states on its website that it intends to target the 20 most marginal Conservative constituencies in the next general election and has the income to fund its candidates’ £500 deposits.

The party is led and was founded by Mike Buchanan, a former business consultant who retired at 52 and launched campaigns such as the Anti-Feminism League and the Campaign for Merit in Business – which actively fights against initiatives to improve gender diversity in the boardroom.

J4MB pushes for a greater number of male teachers in schools because they claim female teachers habitually award lower grades to boys than to girls.

Its 80-page 2015 election manifesto suggested women should stop being appointed as senior company directors, that the Equality Act 2010 should be scrapped and that men should claim their pensions before women because they work harder and die younger.

After thanking Buchanan at the conference, Davies delivered a speech on “the justice gender gap”, arguing that the British justice system favoured women and discriminated against men. “In this day and age the feminist zealots really do want women to have their cake and eat it,” he told the conference. “They fight for their version of equality on all the things that suit women – but are very quick to point out that women need special protections and treatment on other things.”

Davies has voted against equalities legislation, argued against equality targets in the workplace and once tabled a private member’s bill that would have repealed the Sex Discrimination Act 2002.

He once claimed that men struggled to be heard in parliament, a view for which he was publicly criticised by the Labour MP Jess Phillips.

Further criticism came from a range of figures. Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron said: “Philip Davies comments are astonishing. The need for feminism is self-evident.”

Jenny Earle, director of Prison Reform Trust’s programme for reducing women’s imprisonment, said: “The evidence is not that women are treated more leniently. In fact they are twice as likely as men to receive a custodial sentence for a first offence, and the main offence for which women are imprisoned is theft and shoplifting.”

Sam Smethers, chief executive of the Fawcett Society, , said: “Philip Davies is a man with form on these issues. Tragically, in 2016 he sounds increasingly anachronistic and at odds with many in his own party, including the prime minister herself. Perhaps he should lend his support to Trump’s presidential campaign?

“Those who champion gender equality and women’s rights want to create a fairer, stronger society and a more productive economy. We want to grow the cake that Mr Davies refers to, then we can all eat a bigger slice of it. Perhaps we’ll even be generous enough to save a slice for him.”

In one section of his speech, which was delivered in July and appeared on Buchanan’s YouTube page two weeks ago, he suggested women were treated more favourably in the family courts, which often deal with child custody.

He said: “Many women use their children as a stick to beat the father with, either because they’re bitter about the failed relationship, for financial reasons, or because they’ve moved on and it’s easier for them if their new partner takes on the role of father to their children.”

Davies told the conference: “I don’t believe there’s an issue between men and women. The problem is being stirred up by those who can be described as militant feminists and the politically correct males who pander to this nonsense.

“It seems to me that this has led to an ‘equality but only when it suits’ agenda that applies to women. The drive for women to have so-called equality on all the things that suit the politically correct agenda but not other things that don’t is of increasing concern to me.

“For example, we hear plenty about increasing the numbers of women on company boards and female representation in parliament; however, there’s a deafening silence when it comes to increasing the number of men who have custody of their children or who have careers as midwives. In fact, generally there seems to be a deafening silence on all the benefits women have compared to men.”

Davies raises the issue of prison uniforms being compulsory for men but not for women, a policy he has raised in parliament in the past. “Men and women are different, it’s a fact,” he said. “Yet this is not allowed to be a reason to prevent equality in the fields where men are better on the whole – for example, when it comes to jobs that require great strength. Ah no, that would be sexist.

“A woman must have equality and do whatever she wants, except when it comes to wearing a prison uniform, obviously.”

Janet Bloomfield, a supporter of Women Against Feminism – a social media campaign featuring photos of women with pieces of paper listing reasons for rejecting feminism – also addressed the conference.

She has called single mothers “bona fide idiots” who do not care about their children’s wellbeing, and writes blogposts with titles such as “Why don’t we have a dumb fucking whore registry? Now that would be justice”. She has dismissed the concept of “rape culture” as “a giant rape fantasy”.

Davies told the Guardian: “I don’t accept the premise that the only place people can speak on anything is a place where they agree with everything that organisation stands for.

“I don’t agree with everything the Conservative party does but I’m still a Conservative MP. I don’t follow the logic that if you speak at something, it follows you therefore agree with everything it does. I’m not sure anybody subscribes to that in their life.”

Asked about specific pledges in the J4MB manifesto, Davies said: “If you’ve got any points about what they stand for, my point is take them up with them.”

Asked about J4MB’s plans to target Tory seats, he said: “I don’t think any of my colleagues will ever feel threatened by the political party concerned.”

Davies said he had not been paid for the appearance.

Summary: Labour leader, MPs and women’s rights campaigners call on Theresa May to suspend Tory MP for Shipley


Businesses should brace for a new crop of “accessibility” lawsuits alleging that their commercial websites fail to comply with federal disabled-access law, lawyers say.

For years, advocates for the disabled have fought to apply the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act to e-commerce and mobile apps. Doing so would require small online retailers—and other commercial websites—to add captions and transcriptions of multimedia content on the site, provide spoken descriptions of photos, and offer options to navigate online pages without the using a mouse.

In the past, those claims largely were dismissed by several courts. But attorneys who handle disability-access claims say that is about to change — potentially exposing hundreds of thousands of e-commerce sites, big and small, to lawsuits.

That is because in March, the Justice Department laid out a set of compliance standards for accessibility on commercial websites as part of its legal agreement with H&R Block Inc., HRB 0.33 % the purveyor of online tax filing and tax software. The agency intervened in a lawsuit brought against the tax firm by the National Federation of the Blind, over accessibility issues with its website.

The Justice Department, which enforces the disability-rights act, isn’t expected to post official compliance standards for websites and mobile apps until next year. But lawyers say the H&R Block case offers a clear road map for disability-access claims, and is likely to spark a surge of lawsuits with violations that pertain to websites.

The agreement included the use of captions, text alternatives and audio descriptions, among other tools set out in website accessibility guidelines published by the World Wide Web Consortium, a nonprofit group based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“It sent a very powerful message to businesses, as well as the plaintiffs’ bar,” said Minh Vu, a partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP, about the March agreement. “Before this, businesses thought they could sit back and wait for federal guidelines,” she added. She handles disability cases, though she wasn't involved in the H&R Block case.

Nolan Klein, a Florida lawyer who defends businesses in disability-rights cases, said most small firms likely aren’t aware that they can be sued over accessibility issues with their websites. “There’s been a lot of buzz about websites,” said Mr. Klein, “if that becomes something that plaintiffs go after, it will be huge.”

Adam Saravay, a partner at McCarter & English, said his firm is already seeing a boom in disability-access lawsuits over physical barriers.

He says business owners should talk to their website developers about updating sites with accessibility options, such as screen readers.

Under the current law, businesses can be sued for accessibility violations without notice. “Many businesses find out about compliance issues by getting sued,” said Mr. Klein.

Write to Angus Loten at angus.loten@wsj.com


SEOUL—A South Korean appeals court unexpectedly sided with minority shareholders on last year’s $8 billion merger of two Samsung Group affiliates, dealing a symbolic blow to the third-generation heir of South Korea’s largest conglomerate.

The Seoul High Court ruled Tuesday that the merger of Samsung C&T Corp. 028260 -1.39 % and the conglomerate’s de facto holding company, Cheil Industries Inc., shortchanged the minority shareholders opposed to the deal, who were led by a U.S. hedge fund. It ordered Samsung C&T to increase its payout to them.

While the decision is unlikely to affect the long-settled merger, it serves as an embarrassing rebuke to Samsung. The deal, which consolidated Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong’s stake in the conglomerate’s crown jewel, Samsung Electronics Co. SSNHZ 0.00 % , turned a spotlight on the group’s corporate-governance shortcomings, leading executives to hold out the promise of improvements if shareholders approved the merger.

Tuesday’s verdict was welcomed by South Korean corporate-governance activists.

“I don’t think I’ve seen any precedent for anything like this,” said Lee Ji-soo, an attorney and opposition politician who has advocated corporate-governance changes. “This will send a message to the Samsung family that the courts aren’t necessarily always going to be on Samsung’s side.”

Even if the ruling is overturned by the Supreme Court, he said, the prospect of more challenges from minority shareholders could give the conglomerate pause as it considers further restructuring.

But Kim Woo-chan, a finance professor at Korea University Business School, cautioned that he doesn’t foresee “any material change in the governance structure of the group.”

A spokeswoman for the merged entity, which took the Samsung C&T name, called the ruling “inconsistent with the decisions in other related cases,” adding that the company would appeal to South Korea’s Supreme Court.

Shin Jae-yeon, a lawyer for L.K. B & Partners LLC, which represented the minority shareholders, said he also plans to appeal, arguing that the increased buyback price ordered by the court—66,602 won ($55.57) a Samsung C&T share, raised from the original 57,234 won—is still too low. According to some financial models, he said, shareholders should have been compensated as much as 300,000 won a share.

Mr. Shin added that the minority shareholders had also filed a suit to nullify the merger—a tall task, he said, but one he said he feels more confident about after Tuesday’s ruling.

A spokesman for U.S. hedge fund Elliott Associates LP, which held a 7.1% stake in Samsung C&T and led the attempt to derail the merger on Samsung’s terms, declined to comment on the court’s decision.

Elliott was party to the initial trial but withdrew before the appeal, striking a deal to sell the entirety of its stakes in both Samsung C&T and Cheil Industries back to the companies after the shareholder vote last July, according to people familiar with the matter.

The largest remaining shareholder among the plaintiffs was Ilsung Pharmaceuticals Co., which owned a 2.1% stake in Samsung C&T.

The merger of the two Samsung affiliates was part of a broad restructuring of the sprawling Samsung conglomerate. The companies argued combining Samsung C&T, a construction and trading company, and Cheil Industries, whose interests are as diverse as fashion and theme parks, would yield synergies for shareholders. But shares in the merged Samsung C&T have tumbled 38% since the deal was approved last July.

—Min Sun Lee contributed to this article.

Write to Jonathan Cheng at jonathan.cheng@wsj.com

Summary: A South Korean appeals court unexpectedly sided with minority shareholders on last year’s $8 billion merger of two Samsung Group affiliates, ordering an increased payout.


IT’S BEEN OVER 40 years since John T. Molloy’s “Dress for Success” came out in 1975, unleashing the concept of “power-dressing” and legions of big-shouldered blazers on an unsuspecting world. While his directives now sound silly, especially for women (“You do not want to look like Lou Costello with his pants under his armpits”), his message of donning a suit to get ahead still haunts those with a corporate mind-set. It’s especially true for hopefuls heading to a job interview, where suiting up reflects a fierce belief in a right and wrong way to make an impression. Women suffer dress-code stress even more acutely than men, facing greater room for error and a longer list of interview taboos: no jangly jewelry, stilettos, minis, perfume and so on. Once you’re hired, there’s often a drive to conform and blend in with co-workers; complacency—the idea that you have the job and need no longer dress to impress—sets in as the years go by. Frumpiness ensues.

But a radical new attitude about workwear is developing as more women begin to fend for themselves. According to the last report by the National Women’s Business Council (from 2012, a new one is due this year), women launch over 1,100 new businesses in the U.S. every day and generate over $1.4 trillion in revenue annually. As entrepreneurs, they are redefining the whole raison d’être of getting dressed for work. It’s less about playing by the rules and more about promoting your unique brand.

Nowhere is this seen more clearly than in communal workplaces like WeWork, the New-York-based company that rents shared workspace, conference rooms and services to freelancers and startups. Others like multinational Regus Corporation and upstarts such as Pivot Desk, NeueHouse and Industry City, a six-million-square-foot megacomplex in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, are players in the ever-expanding co-working world.

Founded by Adam Neumann and Miguel McKelvey in 2010, WeWork has open-plan interiors, “Commons,” as the company calls them, in some 63 buildings in 14 U.S. cities, as well as in London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Montreal and Tel Aviv, with 80 to open this year.

Women make up 45% of WeWork’s membership, most of whom are establishing businesses in new media, tech, manufacturing or marketing. And they are clued in to branding—starting with themselves. The mind-set is simple and direct: You visually represent your business, and what you wear can say as much about you as your LinkedIn profile.

“What you have on is your business card,” says Houston-based LaQuishe Wright, 40, who as managing partner of Q Social Media Ltd., handles social media for Channing Tatum and Zac Efron and rents space at WeWork’s Hollywood branch when in town for meetings. “I understand how to get across [the promotional work] I do in what I wear,” said Ms. Wright, who dresses in minimalist dresses and separates with signature jewelry, a look that’s adequately businesslike but emphatically personal too. Sending that message is integral to networking and growing her business, she said.

Networking is a draw in these co-working spaces: In their hallways, opportunities to brush up against potential customers, partners and investors abound, in a sort of real-world version of LinkedIn (to extend the metaphor). There’s a feeling of instant access to others in these glass-walled interiors that give new meaning to the idea of transparency in business. “I’ve experienced impromptu introductions, along with referrals that changed the trajectory of my business, resulting in clients,” said Stephanie Lang, 44, the founder of marketing strategist Cypress Global, who works out of New York’s Bryant Park WeWork.

Knowing that a serendipitous encounter may pay off encourages a woman working in a communal space to look the part, whether she’s the CEO/Founder of her own company, a Young Turk whose venture just got funded, or a screenwriter working on a treatment for a paranormal take on “Sabrina.” “These women know they may never have a second opportunity to present the best version of themselves to a funder or client,” says Terri McCullough, 47, CEO of No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, an organization that supports women’s entrepreneurship.

Thus, the suit is no longer a catchall for the lady in command. These entrepreneurs often ask themselves, “What are you trying to say in life, business and fashion?” said filmmaker Rebekah Paltrow Neumann, 38, who is WeWork’s founding partner/chief brand officer and married to co-founder Adam Neumann. “You want your message to be consistent; otherwise, it’s very hard for people to latch on to it.”

In this new creative paradigm, your shirt or shoe is an opportunity to say as much about your company as your prospectus. Nancy A. Shenker, 60, has simultaneously reinvented herself and built her New York marketing firm, theONswitch. When she ditched her Citibank executive title, out went the seriously outdated power suits and nude hose. “We provide slightly quirky marketing solutions, and my style reflects that attitude and risk-taking without being overly edgy.” In Chicago, Tania Haigh’s firm, Magnolia Insights, focuses on marketing to women and moms. “I package my personal appearance to reflect the contemporary approach we give our clients,” said Ms. Haigh, 37, who favors colorful print blouses, pencil skirts and booties.

This way of approaching workwear has also been enlightening for those hiring a generation of workers, who don’t subscribe to the idea of job-appropriate attire. Ms. Haigh found she had to be open-minded and not pass judgment on what was acceptable dress for staffers. “It’s almost nonnegotiable for them,” Ms. Haigh said. “My goal is to create a culture of authenticity, and that’s how we approach our ‘dress code,’ if you can call it that.”

That drive for authenticity makes these new bosses bristle at any imposed standards, especially those defined by their male counterparts. “Men can look scruffy and investors are like, ‘The next Mark Zuckerberg just walked into my office!’” said Boston’s Zoë Barry, whose ZappRX app facilitates connections among patients, doctors and big pharmaceutical firms. “But it’s a double-standard for women.” Ms. Barry, 31, rejected the jeans-and-sneakers uniform of her tech peers and created her own: Silk blouse, J. Crew Pixie pants and black leather over-the-knee boots by Sam Edelman. It’s a look that telegraphs authority: “People hear me coming down the hall in my power boots,” said Ms. Barry. “They don’t question that I’m the CEO.”

This millennial CEO wears confidence like a coat. Her venture is already capitalized (through rounds of fundraising or family connections), and she exudes authority but wants to be seen as creative. She’s a bit sentimental about her H&M days but is eagerly leaning into labels she has always coveted. Wearing a matching suit is not an option (too old school); switching up her style and mixing separates that stand out in an original way is her boss lady prerogative. Of course, the latest symbol of success—a sleek and complicated smartwatch—adorns her wrist.

Apps: Uber, Slack and Alfred changed her life in the office and at home

Listening: Imagine Dragons in the office; old school rap or house at the gym

Office snacks: Rice Krispies Treats; Kettle chips; pharmacy-bought candy

Current reads: Brené Brown’s “Rising Strong”; Marie Kondo’s “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up”; Chelsea Handler books for fun

TV shows: “Billions”; “The Affair”

Icon: Gwyneth Paltrow; Spanx founder Sara Blakely

News outlets: Twitter; Business Insider

Shopping sites: LiketoKnow.It; One Kings Lane; Gilt; Aritzia

Last purchase: Gucci metallic pleated skirt

Bag: Goyard, Louis Vuitton or the Row

Shoes: Toms; Jimmy Choo; Rag & Bone

She is a seasoned professional, returning to work after a little time off or switching careers after ascending the corporate ladder. The designer labels she selects provide the tailored fit she likes, and her accessories show off her chic attitude: heels that say she’s going places, a tote that will hold files, a laptop and headphones, so she can download the latest TED Talk.

Apps: List Master keeps her organized; LearnVest tracks finance; Facebook re-connects her to former colleagues

Listening: A deep iTunes library; Adele; NPR; TED Talks

Office snacks: SkinnyPop; dark chocolate-covered açaí berries

Current reads: The New Yorker; audio books like “West of Eden: An American Place” by Jean Stein

TV shows: “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce”; “The Good Wife”

News outlets: Twitter; The Wall Street Journal, print edition; BBC.com

Workouts: Zumba; Rodney Yee A.M. & P.M. Yoga in a pinch

Shopping sites: Amazon, Net-a-Porter, Barneys

Last purchases: Tiffany & Co. diamond studs; Figue caftan for Tulum getaway

Bag: Céline or a croc Yves Saint Laurent tote she’s had for years

Shoes: ZeroGrand slides from Cole Haan; pumps from Dior

Penning fashion copy for cash (and a novel or screenplay for her soul), this freelance scribe is cool and plugged in. She experiments with edgy looks that complement the gold cuff a great aunt gave her, and whatever she adopts, from culottes to platforms, reveals her desire to stay ahead of the crowd.

Apps: MindNode for tracking ideas; Uber and OpenTable because half her job is social

Listening: Lykke Li; the Cure; the Smiths and whatever promos the record companies just sent her

Office snacks: Almonds; dark chocolate; green tea

TV shows: “The Honourable Woman” on Netflix (She doesn’t own a TV)

Icons: Mindy Kaling; Hanya Yanagihara

News outlets: Business of Fashion; WWD alerts

Shopping sites: The Line; Net-a-Porter; Fancy

Last purchases: New Warby Parker glasses; Vetements hoodie

Part programmer, part artist and de facto social media guru for a new political website, this tech-savvy professional can recite talking points on fashion, culture and business while blogging in both French and Tagalog. Fiercely independent and unconcerned with what others think, she wears jeans to a job interview because she knows she’ll nail it. Sneakers are a given; girly earrings, a chic surprise.

Apps: Venmo; Snapchat; WhatsApp; Petnet, for her mini dachshund

Listening: Leon Bridges; Animal Collective; Women of the Hour

Office snacks: Haribo Tangfastics; apple slices

Current reads: Awaiting the March 21 release of “Patience” by Daniel Clowes

TV shows: “Empire”; “Jane the Virgin”; “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”

News outlets: Twitter; L2 daily

Workout: Dances along with Beyoncé videos

Shopping sites: Asos; AQ/AQ; Zara

Last purchase: Yeezus Tour T-shirt

Shoes: Adidas by Stella McCartney sneakers

Summary: In buzzy, communal spaces, such as WeWork, women entrepreneurs are redefining “dress for success.”


just sold his condo in L.A. and he didn't have to work very hard at it ... 'cause the picture postcard views of Hollywood pretty much did all the work.

's kid sold his 2 bedroom crib in a 9-story Hollywood building for $1.12 mil. He bought it for 960K in 2008 ... so he pocketed a little change in the deal.

The pad's about as Hollywood as it gets ... with a rooftop pool that has panoramic views of the iconic Hollywood skyline, including the nearby Capitol Records building.

Summary: Jack Osbourne just sold his condo in L.A. and he didn't have to work very hard at it ...  'cause the picture postcard views of Hollywood pretty much…


Other designs on display include Dubai-based glass artist Anjali Srinivasan's Unda, a rolling wave "skin" of crystal which includes touch sensitive technology, responding to human touch with glowing illumination. Meanwhile, Icelandic-German duo Studio Brynjar & Veronika were keen to bring the material back to its natural origins. The result is a series of hexagonal crystal sticks and louvre blinds titled Currents. "When you activate the blinds, the sun hits them, filling the room with rainbows, just for a couple of seconds. It's something very natural that you can't harvest," says Brynjar Sigurðarson.

This British Craft Council and The New Craftsmen collaboration showcases works by six British craft talents whose aim is to capture “the delicacy, fragility and transience of the natural world”.

Summary: We round up the must-see exhibitors and designs at this year's Design Miami/ Basel fair: