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Michael Anthony Sobolewski, born on the 20th of June 1954, is famously known through his stage name Michael Anthony, for backing vocals and the bass player of the rock ‘n’ roll band “Van Halen”.

So how much is Anthony’s net worth? As of early 2016, it is reported to be $60 million, gained mostly from his decades of playing music, and currently his own business.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Michael was already a trumpet player at an early age because of his father’s influence, who is a player as well. Upon attending high school, their whole family moved to California where his interest in music blossomed.

Michael Anthony Net Worth $60 Million

During his years in Arcadia High School, Anthony was a member of many groups and clubs, but he focused his interest on playing guitar. His father later bought him a bass guitar and an amplifier to improve his craft, until it lead him to creating and playing with his own band. He subsequently played with many bands, including “Poverty’s Children”, “Balls” and “Snake”.

Michael began to create a minor noise in the music scene with his band “Snake”, but it was in college that his career in music took off. While attending Pasadena City College, he met fellow student Alex Van Halen, who was playing for another band called “Mammoth”. When Van Halen’s band lost their bass player, he recruited Anthony, and he became part of the band that later changed their name to “Van Halen”.

The group of four, including Van Halen’s brother Eddie on guitar and David Lee Roth on vocals, played in various venues along sunset strip, until Warner Bros. approached them and signed a contract. In 1978, they released their first studio album entitled “Van Halen” – it was followed by 10 more albums, and a series of concerts and worldwide tours, making them one of the most successful rock ‘n’ roll bands of the 80’s. The bands feat and popularity also made Anthony famous for his outstanding vocals and bass playing, and was where most of his net worth came from.

After a successful run with the band for almost three decades, Michael Anthony officially left the band after their reunion tour in 2004, but was at the band’s induction into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame in 2007. He then collaborated with other bands and artists to maintain his visibility in the music scene, and his wealth. He also formed and played with several bands including “The Waboritas”, “Los Tres Gusanos” and “Planet Us”.

In 2008, Anthony formed another band called “Chickenfoot”, along with his former band mate Sammy Hagar, and Chad Smith, drummer of the band Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Joe Satriani. The band has released two studio albums, and reports say that a third album is on its way.

Aside from music, another source of his net worth is his own business “Mad Anthony Café”, a website on which he sells a variety of sauces and other similar products.

In terms of his personal life, Sobolewski has been married to wife Sue since 1981, who he met in high school. Together they have two children, and now reside in Newport Beach, California.

Net Worth$60 Million
Date Of BirthJune 20, 1954
Place Of BirthChicago, Illinois
ProfessionAmerican musician, bass player in the rock Chickenfoot
EducationArcadia High School, Pasadena City College
SpouseSue Sobolewski (m. 1981-)
ParentsWalter Sobolewski
AwardsRock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame (2007)
AlbumsVan Halen (1978)
Music GroupsPoverty’s Children, Balls, Snake, Mammoth, Van Halen, The Waboritas, Los Tres Gusanos, Planet Us, Chickenfoot (2008)
MoviesThe Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, Weird Science, Edward Scissorhands, National Lampoon's Vacation, The Dark Knight, Johnny Be Good, Pirates of Silicon Valley, Foxcatcher, Six Degrees of Separation, Freddy Got Fingered, Dead in Tombstone, Out of Bounds, All About the Benjamins, Six Pack, The Cavem...
1Father of two daughters, with wife Sue, Taylor (born 1992) and Elisha (born 1985).
2Plays bass guitar for Chickenfoot.
3Though he plays bass right-handed, he is actually left-handed.
4Loves Jack Daniel's whiskey.
5Played bass guitar for Van Halen.
6Son of Polish immigrants.
7Attended Dana Junior High and Arcadia High School in Arcadia, California.

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Back to Business — A look ahead at the Global Economy

Over the past few months, I have been traveling to the BRIC countries, trying to understand their role in the world economy (Turkey will be next month).  Here are my thoughts (this from an essay published in e-International Relations this month):

Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa are the leading economies of the world’s emerging regions (e.g. outside of western Europe and North America):  Brazil in Latin America, Russia in Northern/Central Asia, India in South Asia, China in East Asia, and South Africa in Africa.  The sudden movement in these countries to rapid economic growth around the turn of the millennium led to their being heralded as a new motor of the global economy, the dynamic BRICS.

Of course, one can quibble about whether this list is complete.  I would add Turkey as the leading economy of the Middle East, and add Indonesia to South Asia and Mexico to Latin America.   But however one groups them, it seemed like global growth, which had long been dominated by Europe and North America and a few additional Tiger economies from Asia’s Pacific Rim (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong), was shifting.  The decisive realm of growth going into the 21st century was going to come from large emerging economies that were now quickly industrializing.

The data was very clear on this.  From  2004 through 2007, the average annual growth rate of GDP in the BRICS was 7.7% per year, more than triple the growth rate of the advanced industrial economies of the G7 (the four largest western European countries plus the U.S., Canada, and Japan).  If one adds several of the other big emerging economies – the BRICS plus Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey – their average growth rate was still 7 percent per year.  If this continued, given the size attained by the big emerging economies (BEEs) by 2011,with China the world’s 2nd largest economy, Brazil 6th, Russia and India 9th and 10th, Mexico 14th, Indonesia 16th and Turkey 18th  (as measured in US$ by the International Monetary Fund), it was clear that the top 10 rankings of the world economies would soon be dominated by the BEEs.

When the US and then Europe went into recession in 2008-2009, led first by the collapse of housing bubbles in America and then southern Europe, followed by banking and sovereign debt crises, there was an initial short-term impact on the BRICS and other big emerging markets.  But economists believed that would be temporary.  They thought that the growth momentum of the BEEs would be too strong to stop.  Rich in natural resources (Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa) or in cheap labor to supply manufactured goods and services to global markets (India, China, Turkey), it seemed there was no stopping them.

That was wrong.  Since 2010, when a strong global recovery led by the BRICS and BEEs was expected to take hold, helping to pull Europe and the U.S. out of their slumps, a disturbing trend is evident.  Growth in the big emerging markets has faltered.  According to the IMF World Economic Outlook Database (Oct. 2012), average growth rates in the BRICs has fallen from 7 percent in 2010 (which seemed to auger a return to pre-recession growth) to 5.6 percent in 2011, and then to an expected 4.2 percent in 2012.  If one adds Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey, the result is the same – average growth of 7.7% in 2010 declining to 5.2% in 2011 and 4.1 percent in 2012.

This is, to say the least, alarming.  Four years after the onset of the global recession, what were expected to be the strongest economies in the world, the motors of global recovering, are sputtering.

Why is this happening?  The simplest explanation lies in the same factor that promoted their rapid growth in the last few decades: the deepening intertwining of all global economic activity that we call “globalization.”

The emerging economies did not follow the path of economic growth pioneered by Europe and the U.S. in the 19th and early 20th centuries.  For the most part, both the U.S. and Europe grew by serving their internal economies:  the U.S. expanding  across the continent to the Pacific, and building its rail and canal and communication networks for internal movement of goods, and Europe mainly trading within its borders, developing steel, auto, plane and service networks for the European population.   Latin American nations in the early and mid-20th century tried to follow that path of domestic self-oriented economic growth, using import substitution policies.  Setting up high tariff barriers to the import of goods and services from Europe and North America, they aimed to develop firms and industries to serve their own markets.  Yet those efforts failed.  Unlike the continental markets of the U.S. and Europe, the national markets of Latin American countries were too small to support spirited competition among large firms. Shielded from external competition and favored by government subsidies, their local firms became lumbering monopolies that were neither efficient nor innovative.

The successful industrializing countries of the Pacific Rim followed a different path, one of export-led growth.  As small economies in comparison to the rich nations (this was true  of Japan after World War II as well as South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong), they could grow rapidly by aiming to take market share in the rich economies.  Focusing on lower cost but higher-quality goods for export, these economies found rapid growth in exports of consumer electronics, motorbikes and then automobiles, cameras, copiers, machine tools, earthmoving and construction equipment, even shipbuilding, which in turn fueled their local steel production and plastic and silicon and other input manufacturing.  The local service economy lagged (domestic retailing remained notoriously inefficient in Japan and S. Korea long after their exports were world-leading sectors), but that did not matter given the rapid growth in other areas.   Profits from export industry were then invested in domestic construction and transportation to build the national economy.

The big emerging markets followed a path similar to that of the Pacific Rim tigers – emphasizing exports to the rich countries as their pathway to growth.  Brazil filled glasses of orange juice and bushels of soy beans, but also filled runways with its regional jets.  Russia bet on oil and gas exports to Europe.  India exported services in back office and programming work.  And China became the workshop of the world, taking over the markets for textiles, shoes, assembly of consumer goods, furniture, toys – anything where vast numbers of low to medium skilled workers with adequate capital and training but low wages could churn out products.

To manage exports on this vast scale (for the emerging markets economies were huge compared to the early development stages of the Asian tigers) required the reconfiguration of global transport and shipping infrastructure to support this trade.  Enormous container ports for ever larger transport ships were required to bring the raw materials for production to China and India (coal, iron ore, copper, oil) and to ship manufactured goods to consumer markets abroad.  Global supply chains were configured to ensure that every stage of complex products – research, design, production of components, intermediate assembly, final assembly, distribution and marketing, sales – was carried out wherever in the world it was most efficient to do so.  Creating and selling a Nike shoe, a Nikon camera, a BMW motorcycle, or a Boeing jet plane might involve the work of vast teams of workers and facilities scattered around the world.

Finance was geared to this globalization of production and economic activity as well; recycling the profits from exports of goods and services or sales of raw materials (esp. oil and gas) provided huge opportunities for financial firms, but also temptations for excessive speculation and inflating asset bubbles in fashionable investments.

Finally, this globalization had a very different impact on the evolution of middle classes and equality than the domestic-oriented growth of Europe and the U.S.  In the large continental economies, increases in worker output and productivity translated into gains in wages, as manufacturers had few alternatives for investment or growing their markets than to invest in the domestic economy and cooperate with their own workforces to boost output.  But the export-led globalization of emerging economies, based on injecting literally billions of low-cost workers and hundreds of millions of new middle-class consumers into the world economy, changed all this.

In the U.S. and Europe (although to a lesser degree in the latter due to stronger unions and more pro-labor governments), manufacturers now had new opportunities to invest and seek workers overseas.  Thus improvements in domestic worker output and productivity in the US and Europe no longer fed back automatically into gains in wages.  Rather, firms selling into global markets (which now included tens of millions of consumers who gained from the growth in the large emerging markets, especially those engaged in running and managing exporting firms, high-ranking national and and provincial officials, and property developers, all of whom quickly became relatively rich) did not depend on the purchasing power of their own workers.  Rather, labor became simply a cost of production to be minimized, completely separate from markets for products sales.  Thus wages in rich countries stalled.  Yet the managers and owners of firms serving much-enlarged global markets grew richer than ever.  Thus inequality rose sharply throughout the west, although even more sharply in the U.S. than in Europe.

But inequality rose quickly in emerging and developing markets too.  While growth was rapid, the gains from growth accrued mainly to those guiding the growth – property developers, financiers, firm owners and managers, and government officials – who controlled the opportunities to tap into the global market and directed investment flows.  Workers saw increased opportunities and wages up to a point; but before long workers in big emerging markets were competing with each other: Shenzen vs. Hong Kong, India vs. the Philippines, China vs. southeast Asia.  Moreover, the infrastructure and economic organization of the emerging markets was geared to serving export markets:  Shenzen’s production and transport were developed to serve Europe, not consumers in Chongqing or Harbin; the largest firms in Shanghai were networked mainly to branches, investors, and facilities in Tokyo, London, and New York, not to Fujian, Guilin, or Chengdu.

When one travels today in China or India, the most overwhelming impression one sees is the immense inequality.  In India, the contrast between luxury hotels, modern office-towers and congested super-highways filled with men and women in the latest western fashions and the immediately surrounding fetid slums, crumbling side-streets, and traditionally-clothed barefoot or sandaled families thronging the streets and byways is stunning.  It is clear that growth is being halted by the inadequacy of infrastructure, and the vast waste of human potential in the hundreds of millions of poorly educated underemployed men and women not sharing in globalization-led growth.  In China, to see the contrast one must travel a bit more, looking beyond the modern capital cities to the villages in the countryside; but the contrast is stark nonetheless.  More evident in China are the excesses of consumption by the corruption and trade-fueled dollar millionaires with private golf-clubs and water-fountain filled mansions in a country where usable land and water are in dire scarcity.  Russia of course is a land of oligarch billionaires exporting nickel, oil, gas, and running mega-monopolies of railways, weapons production, and construction firm, while pensioners and average workers still struggle to make ends meet.  And Brazil, always famous for the poor favelas (slums) filling the hillsides around the rich urban cores of Rio and Sao Paulo has a bigger mission in correcting the vast inequality between the relatively prosperous south and the still dirt-poor north.

The result of this growth pattern is thus to leave a vast and growing gulf between the rich and poor in all nations, in which growth in rich countries depended largely on a one-off process of tapping low-cost labor and export opportunities to reorient labor-intensive production from within the rich economies to the emerging markets, and growth in emerging markets depended on exporting goods and services and raw materials to richer nations overseas.

The global recession arose just as this process was becoming played out.  Emerging markets had grown so large that their exports now nearly saturated rich-country markets, who had only sustained their consumption growth by unsustainable borrowing.  Further growth in emerging markets would henceforth have to depend on shifting production to serve consumers in their own markets, and similarly low to middle-income consumers abroad.

But that is a huge undertaking, given that the bulk of the factory, labor, and infrastructure that propelled growth in emerging markets were oriented to production and sale to rich nation markets.  In China, for most of the last decade domestic consumption contributed only about one-quarter of annual GDP growth, the rest being in exports and investment.  For growth in China to return to pre-recession levels, the rate of domestic consumption growth would have to triple.

Globalization now means that as long as Europe is in semi-collapse due to its inability to resolve its banking and sovereign-debt problems, and the US economy is stagnant and hostage to partisan struggles over state spending and taxation, emerging markets will not be able to pursue their past growth strategy.

The real risk now is that facing high expectations and slow growth, the BRICS will turn from motors of the economy to threats of unrest and disruption.  China is facing an uncertain transition to new leadership amidst growing waves of strikes, environmental protests, and demands for greater openness and democracy driven by rapidly-expanding social media.  India is facing corruption scandals and a political transition as regional parties are supplanting the national consensus created in the past by the Congress party.  Russia has seen unprecedented protests against President Putin since his return to power in disputed elections, while its prospects for oil and gas exports are threatened by the rapid expansion of fossil fuel production through fracking in the U.S. and rising production in Qatar, Iraq, and Turkmenistan.  Brazil is perhaps best positioned to pursue domestic growth, as its ethanol-fueled economy and still-abundant land offer opportunities for its own population to improve their status.  But South Africa faces severe risks from a still greatly underemployed young population that has yet to benefit economically from the end of apartheid and confronts increasingly corrupt and ineffective national ruling party (the ANC).

Europe and the U.S. had thus better focus hard on getting their own economic houses in order.  Far from expecting the BRICS economies to lead them to greener pastures, they may need all their resources and attention to deal with looming unrest and disruption in the BRICS as the latter struggle with an end to easy export-led growth and try to find new pathways to economic growth.

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  2. Steve says:

    Professor Goldstone,
    I’m currently living in Jaipur, India, and having been here about 2 months, I found your comments about India in complete conformity with my observations. (“In India, the contrast . . . .) I describe India as a land of stunning contrasts (more so than even China that we visited 8 years ago). In speaking with locals, the gap between the acknowledgment of the problems and the sense of ability to address them surprises me. The middle class see corruption everywhere, but they seem to have little sense that they have the political power to deal with it. Will the trickle down effect of globalization allow sufficient growth of the middle class fast enough to allow India to break out of this unfavorable equilibrium? Since economic growth is stagnating here, which seems widely acknowledged, I fear that India will collapse back under its own inertia.

    I read that you have Delhi on your itinerary, so I hope that this gives you further occasion to comment upon India, a fascinating land with lovely people, but a vexing case of missed opportunities!

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The Cost of Catching Up: Guest Blog by Sophia Foster

As President Obama wrestles with the fiscal cliff, and Europe seems to be falling over its own precipice, it is useful to think again about the fundamentals of GROWTH, as growth is the only path out of our debt and deficit mess.

Everyone agrees that education is essential to growth, and to improve the prospects for mobility and employment of the middle class.  Nonetheless, the U.S. makes it particularly expensive for people to obtain a college degree.

NewPopulationBomb has discussed the economic pressures faced by the middle class before, and today’s article takes a deeper look at how college tuition — and related indebtedness — fits into this calculus. Sophia Foster, an education writer who blogs about tips for success in finding an online master’s degree programs, provides an overview of what rising prices mean for American families and includes a discussion of what institutions and policymakers can do to ease the burden.

What Policy Can Do for Skyrocketing Tuition Prices at Colleges and for Masters Programs

In recent years, college and university tuition prices have skyrocketed nationwide, primarily due to cuts in supportive government funding. As a result, many young men and women who wish to gain higher education are forced to borrow large student loans – and by the time they graduate, many face crippling debt. According to an October 2012 article by, many students are borrowing “well over $100,000” in order to pay for school. As tuition prices have drastically risen, so have the number of graduates forced to default on their loan payments; recent figures suggest that nearly two-thirds of graduated students are unable to completely satisfy their loans.

Nor are they getting good value for their money, as experts today argue that college students are not learning as much as their predecessors. A study published last year in USA Today revealed that more than one-third of students “showed little” gains in fundamental academic skills after four years of college, while students overall spent half as much time studying as students in previous years. Not only are students paying more for college, but they are also learning less than their earlier counterparts.

The increased tuition has serious future implications, as well. Eric Pianin of The Washington Post recently noted that the current student loan crisis could cause a major debt bubble. In 2011, total student loan debt in the U.S. reached $867 billion, a figure that surpasses the nation’s collective credit card debt by more than $150 billion. Furthermore, students borrowed $104 billion from the federal government during the 2010-11 academic year – a 50-percent increase from just three years earlier. Since most students are required to begin the repayment process as early as six months after graduation – with or without a high-paying job – many are overwhelmed by their debt and left with one highly undesirable option: defaulting on loan payments.

Earlier this year, President Obama announced a new college-funding measure, whereby schools that failed to lower tuition would receive less support from the federal government. But as Robert Hansen of US News & World Report noted, the root of the tuition problem is simple supply and demand. Schools across the country, private and public, have failed to substantially boost their undergraduate enrollment numbers over the past decade. This inadequate supply of college students has failed to meet the demand brought on by a growing population and larger number of foreign student enrollments. “We simply need to give more hard working youngsters the benefit of a truly great college education,” Hansen wrote. “This will require top universities to focus not just on improving the quality of the experience for a limited number but to also increase the number of students they admit—this is more important than limiting tuition increases.”

While today’s students have little influence over university spending and enrollment policies, Jenna Woodreau of Forbes writes they can bolster their chances of post-graduation success by choosing a cost-effective major. The most valuable field of study, she says, is biomedical engineering; entry-level employees earn a median salary of $53,800, which grows an average of 82 percent over the initial 10- to 15-year period. The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects the sector to grow 61.7 percent in the coming years. Other cost-effective majors include STEM disciplines like biochemistry, computer science, software engineering and environmental engineering. On the other hand, majors considered relatively weak in the current economic climate include education, social work and religious studies.

If universities wish to benefit today’s students, then they should allocate more funding toward majors with healthy market status in order to attract more students; this would increase freshman enrollments and help to satisfy Hansen’s “demand.” Education is integral to economic prosperity – and until the student debt crisis is resolved, America’s strength in the global market will be considered tenuous. But by shifting policy toward a framework that creates more slots for freshmen and emphasizes cost-effective major programs, university officials can do their part to mitigate the issue of skyrocketing tuition.

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In DC apartment building, freshmen women in Congress find mentors | News Coverage from USA

In DC apartment building, freshmen women in Congress find mentors

WASHINGTON — Four months into the 116th Congress and the record number of women in the freshman class have finally stopped getting lost in the halls, most of the time. But the new members are still getting lots of advice from more senior members — even when they’re not asking for it.

Rep. Katherine Clark of Massachusetts helped the Democrats’ campaign arm recruit women candidates to run in the 2018 midterms. A mother of three, Clark spent significant time trying to convince women to jump into the race. She was blunt about the realities of being a mom in Congress.

She texted an old photograph of her kitchen, taken during a previous campaign, to a recruit. Clark said the photo showed open peanut butter jars on the counter and a mop leaning against a box of wine.

“You’re never going to get back to the kitchen,” Clark said, but what the woman was doing was “being a role model for these children.”

The 2018 midterm election brought a record number of women – 102 – to the House of Representatives. More than half of the net 40 seats Democrats gained went to women. One member of the GOP freshman class is a woman.

Rep. Grace Meng has two young children and, like Clark, helped recruit women candidates, especially those with young kids.

The New York Democrat said she tells new members what works – and what doesn’t – regarding “how I balance the family, my spouse, my kids.” She said she makes it clear that “it’s not easy.”

She has found some things that make it better, including camps for her kids when they visit in the summer.

Meng said she benefits, too, now that a surge in new mothers in Congress has made maternal advice readily available. More than 20 moms text frequently about their family issues, including sharing tips for summer camps.

“It’s really therapeutic for myself even though I’ve been here for a little bit,” she said.

Pajama party crew

Meng and Clark don’t have to go far to dole out advice. Many women live in the same apartment building. They jokingly refer to it as a dorm.

Residents said Florida Rep. Lois Frankel works hard to persuade people to move into the building and acts as a “mayor” to keep a steady stream of events happening, including a recent pajama party.

At first, Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., resisted Frankel’s sales pitch on the apartment. She wanted to find a place of her own. After her efforts failed, she texted Frankel.

“I was like, ‘Lois, you’re right. I need your help. Help me find a place in your building.’ And she probably did a sunglasses emoji. And then within an hour, she sent me two listings. And that night … I had an apartment in her building,” the Virginia Democrat said.

Frankel often teases Spanberger, a former undercover CIA operative, about being “a spy.” The apartment Spanberger moved into overlooks Frankel’s, so she really can watch her – or at least see if she’s home for a chat.

‘You’re part of a team now’

Frankel isn’t just giving advice to her fellow residents, the Florida Democrat offers her take to a variety of new members, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. — whether they seek it, or not.

After Rep. Ilhan Omar made comments that some called anti-Semitic, she heard from Frankel.

“I made it clear that I didn’t like what she said,” Frankel, who is Jewish, told USA TODAY in early April, adding that she warned Minnesota’s Omar: “ ‘You have to be careful.’ … You’re part of a team now, so whatever you say reflects back on all of us.”

More recently, Frankel and other Democrats pushed back at President Donald Trump for an online attack on Omar – one of the two first Muslim women in Congress.

“My constituents and I are concerned about anti-Semitism, we are not in the business of spreading Islamophobia,” she told USA TODAY on Monday.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who co-chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus, has become a go-to source for some of the House’s most high-profile new members. The Washington Democrat has known Reps. Omar and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., for years.

Tlaib, who made history as the other first Muslim woman in Congress, has been caught up in controversies as well, including early on when she said – using profanity – that Democrats would impeach Trump.

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Jayapal said she keeps in close contact with Omar, Tlaib and others.

“Behind the scenes, you know, they do ask how should I handle this, what should I do? And I try to give what I think is the best advice, and sometimes that means sympathizing with how frustrating something may seem or how unfair something may seem but also helping them to think through what’s the best strategy to take it on,” Jayapal said.

Tlaib did not address the controversies directly but said Jayapal reminded her “I’m not alone.”

“She has taught me a lot about the challenges of maneuvering in this institution, and her advice has been instrumental,” Tlaib said.

Omar’s office did not respond to requests for an interview.

Michigan Rep. Debbie Dingell has known Tlaib for a long time. She said she offered support to Tlaib after her impeachment comment drew fire.

“She calls me mama,” Dingell said. “I talk to Rashida a lot.”

‘Follow your heart’

Freshman Rep. Veronica Escobar of Texas went to Jayapal for advice when she had to make a tough vote on reopening the government after a prolonged shutdown that resulted from a dispute over Trump’s border security demands. Escobar “was really struggling” on whether to vote for a bipartisan funding bill that included money for a border wall and immigration enforcement.

Escobar’s district sits on the southern border with Mexico. She was concerned that more spending on enforcement would reinforce the “narrative that the border is unsafe,” but she wanted “to support compromise and bipartisanship.” Jayapal “gave me a very like ‘you’ve got to follow your heart’ kind of message,” Escobar said. Escobar voted against the funding bill.

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Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens “attached” herself to Texas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, chairwoman of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Stevens said Johnson coached her on how to get selected for the committee. After being assigned to the panel, Stevens became chairwoman of a subcommittee.

“The congresswoman has been very beneficial for me in terms of learning how to hold the gavel, learning how to hold a committee hearing,” Stevens said.

West Virginia Rep. Carol Miller is the only freshman woman on the GOP side. “So who do I turn to?” she asked. “Everybody.”

“I ask men and women questions, depending upon the issue, and they’ve all been very supportive, very nice,” she said.

Miller has had a longtime relationship with Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, also of West Virginia. In a “real girl moment,” Capito put Miller’s congressional pin on her while she was surrounded by the women of her family.

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Adjusting to DC life

The interactions between new and experienced members aren’t all business. Many freshmen seek advice on adjusting to life in the nation’s capital, which can be expensive.

Ayanna Pressley, a freshman Democrat from Massachusetts, gets extra help from the Congressional Black Caucus. California Rep. Karen Bass, the chairwoman, set up a mentoring program for newbies.

Pressley was teamed with Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, a three-term Democrat from New Jersey who was the first black woman to represent her state in Congress. Pressley is the first black woman to represent Massachusetts in the House.

“A lot of it is personal support,” Pressley said. “This is a major transition and so it’s tremendous to have people who know that walk, who have had some time here.”

In January, at the beginning of the 116th Congress, Dingell gave all 102 women four scarves, so they always have something to wear for themed days. She detailed what each color was for in a letter to colleagues: “A red scarf for ‘go red’ for (heart) disease and for ‘Wear Red Wednesdays’ for the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram. A pink scarf for breast cancer. A purple scarf for domestic violence and reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. An orange scarf for gun violence to draw attention to victims and is a color usually used to evoke safety.”

Dingell said the scarves brought comfort to her after her husband, longtime Congressman John Dingell, died in February.

“On one of the saddest days of my lives, seeing my friends with the scarves was a symbol of support that meant more than one can put in words,” she said.

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Contributing: Deborah Barfield Berry, USA TODAY, and Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press

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Produce for Better Health Foundation launches campaign | News Coverage from USA

Produce for Better Health Foundation launches campaign

Move over fruits and veggies, the new recommendation is “Have A Plant.”

After decades of public awareness campaigns and studies touting the health benefits, the Produce for Better Health Foundation released new research Tuesday that shows nine out of 10 Americans still are not eating enough fruits and vegetables each day.

It’s an issue, Wendy Reinhardt Kapsak, the foundation’s president and CEO, said she hopes the new “Have A Plant” campaign can change.

“There is a shift from knowledge-based recommendations inclusive of facts and figures to this more emotion, feeling-based message and giving suggestions, actions and ideas,” she said in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY. “This is what Millennials  and Gen Z are asking of us. An invitation to consume more versus a command of how many.”

The USDA’s current federal dietary guidelines recommend consumers “make half your plate fruits and vegetables.”

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‘The original plant’

The new campaign replaces the foundation’s “Fruits & Veggies More Matters” education program and was created to get to the root cause of why consumers are not eating enough plants, Reinhardt Kapsak said.

Since the campaign targets Millennials and Gen Z, the nonprofit foundation is expanding its social presence and network of influencers and has a new website,, with recipes and ideas.  The organization has more than 300 members from retailers, growers to government agencies including the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

While the research shows consumers aren’t eating as much fruits and vegetables, Reinhardt Kapsak acknowledged more are moving to a plant-based lifestyle.

“We’re seeing more and more plant-centric menus and new products,” Reinhardt Kapsak said. “The produce industry is essentially raising its sail to take a hold of the trend and say ‘We are the original plant.’”

Some key findings

The foundation did extensive data analysis, including looking at 1.2 million social posts and assessing 100 behavior studies.

  • Fruits and vegetables are used and perceived differently, requiring different “feel-do” strategic and tactical elements.
  • Consumers are motivated by the immediate emotional satisfaction of eating fruits and vegetables and report feeling happier.
  • The emotional connection can be more motivating as a driver than an emphasis on disease risk reduction.
  • Consumers in colleges and universities are receptive to plant-forward dishes and snacks.

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Trump campaign rally a 'new found drug' | News Coverage from USA

Trump campaign rally a ‘new found drug’

The Florida man who mailed pipe bombs to critics of President Donald Trump said in a letter to a federal judge that attending a Trump rally “became like a new found drug,” according to documents released Tuesday.

Cesar Sayoc, 57, who pleaded guilty to explosives charges last month, claimed in a series of letters that he has abused steroids for over 40 years. The letters were posted in his court case file.

His lawyers say they will cite Sayoc’s extensive steroid use at his August sentencing and have asked the court not to conduct a psychological exam.

In the handwritten letters filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Sayoc told U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff that “politics is dirty, ruthless, deadly.” He wrote, “I wished it had never come along into my life.”

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He faces a mandatory 10-year prison term and up to life at his sentencing, scheduled for Aug. 5.

Sayoc, who described a Make America Great Again rally as fun, also wrote he “was on the front lines of war between right & left” at a rally in Chicago. He is linked to Twitter accounts vilifying Democrats, including liberal donor George Soros, to whom he mailed one of the bombs. Sayoc also drove a van covered in pro-Trump and anti-Democrat stickers.

He previously said he never intended to hurt anyone when he mailed 16 pipe bombs to CNN and top Democrats, including former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and ex-President Barack Obama. Investigators found and disabled the devices, resulting in no injuries.

In a letter filed earlier this month, Sayoc wrote “extreme emotional circumstances” in court influenced his answer when a judge asked if he knew the explosive devices would cause harm.

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Gender Disparity at the Rencontres d’Arles Spurs a Debate About the Status of Women in Photography

Just 34 percent of the photographers on view at the prestigious French festival are women.

Cristina de Middel and Bruno Morais, Untitled from the "Midnight at the Crossroads" series, Brazil (2016). Courtesy of the artists.

The Rencontres d’Arles is arguably the most important photography event of the year. From tiny galleries to medieval churches to a Roman amphitheater, the international festival exuberantly takes over the historic French town of Arles every summer. But this year’s edition, which runs through September 23, was marked by murmurs criticizing the lack of women photographers on view.

Women make up the majority of graduates from art programs worldwide, yet just 34 percent of the photographers on view at the event were women. Last week, a number of leading figures in the industry—including Whitechapel Gallery director Iwona Blazwick, Slade School of Fine Art director Susan Collins, and photographer Dragana Jurišić—took their condemnation of the gender imbalance public to sign an open letter to artistic director Sam Stourdzé.

The letter, published in the French-language newspaper Libération, points out that among the 15 “major” solo shows at the festival, just three were devoted to work by women. Further, in the 49 years the festival has been running, it has only twice had a female artistic director.

Together, the signatories call for Stourdzé to discontinue this “androcentric” vision of photography by promising gender parity among exhibitors at the festival’s 50th edition next year. “Throughout the world, female artists who have been trained in the best art schools are more than 60 percent of the graduates,” the letter reads. “Yet, they receive less support, and represent barely 20 percent of the artists exhibited in France.”

“The reasons for this evaporation are many,” the letter continues, “but one of them, a major one, is the lack of awareness and commitment of institutions and festival leaders, that leave women in the margins.” As of this writing, the letter has been signed by around 340 people.

Véronique Ellena, The Cyclist, from the “Those with Faith” series (2003). Courtesy of the artist.

A Boys’ Club?

A spokesman for the festival suggested that enforcing equal representation might not be the best solution. “The topic of female photographers is a complex issue that the Rencontres is currently investigating, even if the selection of artists is always primarily based on the quality of the work, without considering the gender of the artist,” he told artnet News, adding that the broader official program in 2018, which includes associated events, featured 31 solo shows by men and 16 by women.

The festival has taken some steps to improve the gender balance. In 2015, it introduced gender parity in the candidates selected for its emerging photographers award, the New Discovery prize. The following year, the festival introduced the Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro, a prize launched in collaboration with the French weekly Madame Figaro, which is awarded to a woman photographer whose work is shown at the festival. This year, the Rencontres d’Arles invited the collective Les Filles de la Photo to discuss the topic and launch a gender equality monitor. Women accounted for five of the festival’s nine award winners, as well as 21 of 31 jury members, and eight of its 10 management team members this year.

“There is still a way to go to achieve a fair balance” without establishing quotas, which could “cast doubt on the credibility of an artistic selection,” the spokesman said.

Laura Henno, Ethan, Slab City (USA) (2017). Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire.

Reverberating Effects

The only female photographer to appear in the top 200 auction prices in the artnet Price Database is Cindy Sherman. Although Sherman appears high on the list, holding the record for the second-most-expensive photography lot ever sold—$6.8 million for a set of Untitled Film Stills—she remains the only woman to appear alongside a long list of male names, including Richard Prince, Andreas Gursky, Gilbert & George, Jeff Wall, Marcel Duchamp, and Robert Rauschenberg.

The price differences between male and female photographers is “completely crazy,” says French photographer Marina Gadonneix, who won the LUMA Arles Dummy Book Award this year. Yet she says there is a “real energy” today in France to address gender imbalances, and that female gallery and museum directors increasingly aim to promote the work of women.

The prestigious Prix Pictet, the $103,000 photography and sustainability prize founded in 2008 in Geneva, has only been awarded to one woman in history: Valérie Belin, in 2015. Although Belin acknowledges that women “remain in the minority” at Arles this year, she told artnet News that those who are included stand out for “the quality of their work and the singularity of their vision,” including Prune Nourry and Véronique Ellena.

As a judge of this year’s Prix Pictet, Belin says that gender was not a factor in the jury’s discussion. “If I recall correctly,” she says, “only four female photographers were shortlisted for the prize, against eight male photographers. Speaking for myself, the gender issue was not a selection criterion, and I don’t think it should be considered as one.”

Prune Nourry, Men Without Women, Holy Daughter, New Delhi (2010). Courtesy of the artist.

What Lies Ahead

How to shatter the glass ceiling in photography remains an open question. Some fear that forcing gender parity in shows like Arles could end up with women being criticized for so-called positive discrimination, with the belief that they’ve been rewarded for their gender rather than their work. On the other hand, it could encourage organizers to look harder for qualified women. After all, the ratio of female to male photographers suggests that the work is out there.

Several databases already exist to showcase the pre-vetted work of established women photographers. The renowned photographer Jill Greenberg launched a website in January,, to list hundreds of female advertising and art photographers. And last year the Vietnamese-American photographer Daniella Zalcman launched Women Photograph, a private database of more than 700 independent female and non-binary documentary photographers.

Whatever the festival organizers decide to do, there’s something undeniably poetic about the idea of the 50th anniversary of the Rencontres having an even 50/50 split of male and female photographers.

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Gates’ Keynote Speech at COMDEX/Fall ’98 Focuses on Promises and Pitfalls of the Information Age

LAS VEGAS, November 16, 1998 — Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates unveiled a new font rendering technology at COMDEX/Fall ’98 this week that he says will make type on computer screens as clear and easy to read as the printed page.

The software invention, called ClearType, improves font display resolutions by as much as 300 percent, Gates said during his keynote speech. By dramatically improving screen readability, ClearType will make it easier to read spreadsheets, Internet content and word processing documents on screen. It is also expected to spur the growth of new products such as electronic books (e-books).

“The shape of books as we know them is changing,” Gates said. “By 2001, 50,000 electronic titles will be available, and millions of people will be reading electronic books that will each have the capacity to store literally tens of thousands of titles-as many as you find in bookstores today.”

Gates cited ClearType font technology as an example of the amazing pace of innovation in PC technology. Describing the promises and pitfalls of the information age, Gates said a proliferation of portable interactive devices based upon open PC and Internet standards is bringing enormous benefits to consumers and business computer users who increasingly need data wherever they are. New “Web lifestyle” tools ranging from tablets to PC companions devices to the TV will provide people with instant access to information whether they’re at home, on the road or in a business meeting.

But while Gates noted that the dream of information everywhere is becoming a reality, he also said the computer industry must cut through the complexity of computing to avoid overwhelming customers. As an example, Gates demonstrated Microsoft’s Office 2000 to show how users will be able to tailor the product to meet their individual needs. He also demonstrated how Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 enables developers to build databases that users can search by asking simple English-language questions. Innovations such as these, he said, demonstrate Microsoft’s commitment to conquering complexity.

In addition to making computing simple, Gates said the industry must respond to consumers’ fears about Internet security. “We in the industry must meet our responsibilities in this area,” Gates said. “As we provide people with the tools to go online, we must protect their privacy every step of the way.”

Gates urged Internet-based businesses to address the security issue by enacting privacy policies on their Web sites and by joining the Online Privacy Alliance, a not-for-profit coalition of more than 60 global corporations and organizations working to promote consumer privacy online. Gates also discussed Microsoft’s own efforts to assure privacy, such as posting privacy statements on all Microsoft Web sites and designing tools and business practices to lead the industry’s privacy crusade.

Gates predicted that the industry will be able to successfully tackle challenges such as these, and that breakthroughs and industry partnerships will continue to move the industry forward at a rapid pace. “Ninety percent of the innovations this industry has to offer its customers have yet to come,” he said. “So to those who think PC technology has run its course, I have a simple message: You ain’t seen nothing yet.”

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Four from MIT are named IEEE Fellows for 2021

Three MIT professors and a principal staff member from Lincoln Laboratory are among the 2021 class of fellows.
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Among the newly selected fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) are four members of the MIT community: Domitilla Del Vecchio, professor of mechanical engineering; Asuman Ozdaglar, professor and head of the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS); Robert Shin, principal staff at Lincoln Laboratory; and Joel Voldman, the Clarence J. LeBel Professor of EECS. The IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization, annually confers the rank of fellow on senior members whose body of work has advanced innovation in their respective fields and whose involvement in the engineering community has furthered the IEEE mission of promoting technology to benefit society.

Domitilla Del Vecchio

Professor Domitilla Del Vecchio of the Department of Mechanical Engineering was elevated to IEEE Fellow for her "contributions to circuit engineering in synthetic biology." She is a member of MIT's Synthetic Biology Center, where her group focuses on model-based analysis, design, and control of biomolecular networks in living cells. She and her group are researching techniques to make synthetic genetic circuits robust to context and applying these to biosensing and cell fate control for regenerative medicine. Del Vecchio has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, co-authored a textbook, and contributed chapters to several books. Among her awards are the 2020 Newton Award for Transformative Ideas during the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2016 Bose Research Award, 2010 Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council, and 2007 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.

Asuman Ozdaglar

Professor Asuman Ozdaglar was recognized for her "contributions to distributed multi-agent networks." In addition to serving as the head of MIT EECS, she is the MathWorks Professor of EECS and the deputy dean of academics for the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. Her research investigates problems in the analysis and optimization of large-scale, dynamic multi-agent networked systems, including networks for communication, transportation, and social and economic enterprises. Her extensive list of publications spans peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and invited conference papers. She has served on organizing committees for many technical conferences and has been a reviewer for professional publications such as the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. Her awards include Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, 2008 Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council, and NSF CAREER Award.

Robert Shin

Robert T-I. Shin, principal staff in the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and Tactical Systems Division at Lincoln Laboratory, was named an IEEE Fellow for his "leadership in electromagnetic modeling of radar systems and in microwave remote sensing." He is also the director of MIT Lincoln Laboratory Beaver Works and a member of the MIT School of Engineering Extended Engineering Council. Formerly, he was the head of the ISR and Tactical Systems Division. In that role, he oversaw the development of advanced techniques and prototypes in radio frequency, electro-optical, infrared, and acoustic systems; adaptive array processing; embedded computing; and integrated sensing and decision support. Shin has published more than 150 refereed journal articles and conference papers, coauthored the textbook "Theory of Microwave Remote Sensing" (Wiley, 1985), and served on the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board (2006–10). As director of Beaver Works, which is jointly chartered by Lincoln Laboratory and the MIT School of Engineering, he directs a program of project-based education that seeks to involve students in conceptualizing, designing, and building solutions to real-world engineering questions. In 2014, Shin received the Irwin Sizer Award for the Most Significant Improvement to MIT Education in recognition of his leadership to make Beaver Works a reality. In 2016, he extended Beaver Works' reach to high school students by establishing the Beaver Works Summer Institute, a four-week experiential learning engineering program.

Joel Voldman

Professor Joel Voldman was elevated to fellow for his "contributions to electronic microscale manipulation of cells." He is the faculty head of electrical engineering within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, as well as a principal investigator at MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics and Microsystems Technology Laboratories. His pioneering work in biomedical microelectromechanical systems applies microfabrication technology to illuminate biological systems that range from point-of-care diagnostics to fundamental cell biology to applied neuroengineering. His research builds upon various disciplines: electrical engineering, microfabrication, bioengineering, transport modeling, biology, and medicine. His awards include an NSF CAREER Award, MIT’s Jamieson Teaching Award and Louis D. Smullin Award for Teaching Excellence, and Frank Quick Faculty Research Innovation Fellowship from EECS.

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Jim Berry Named Leader of Deloitte's US Real Estate and Construction Team

Sep 27, 2017 - PR Newswire
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 Deloitte announced today the appointment of Jim Berry as a vice chairman of Deloitte LLP and the leader of its real estate and construction sector practice in the United States.

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Doctor Who The Crimson Horror UK/USA Trailers

Doctor Who The Crimson Horror Next Time Trailer

There’s something very odd about Mrs Gillyflower’s Sweetville mill, with its perfectly clean streets and beautiful people.

There’s something even stranger about the bodies washing up in the river, all bright red and waxy. When the Doctor and Clara go missing, it’s up to Vastra, Jenny and Strax to rescue them before they too fall victim to the Crimson Horror!”

  • Dalek Knows-all

    May 4th, 2013 - 6:19pm

    The Crimson Horror is set around the same time as The Snowmen, and its gonna be a bit stupid if Vastra, Straxx and Jenny don’t recognise Clara as the barmaid they once watched die!!!!

  • whovian

    May 4th, 2013 - 3:45pm

    I think this episode will be as good as the other episodes this series but yet good

  • Time Traveller X

    May 4th, 2013 - 2:03pm

    Looking at the trailers I think this is going to a brillent episode as always but I had a thought and what if Clara remembers everything back from The Snowmen? That would be clever because Jenny, Vastra and Strax are in it and she could remember everything defeating The Great Inteligence and Dr Simeon

    May 4th, 2013 - 11:21am

    i think it looks really good, and different. i’m hoping for a strong new alien and strong guest characters.

  • The Flying Shark

    May 4th, 2013 - 11:08am

    Seeing as this is today, what are everybody’s expectations of the episode? I think it looks okay.

  • Anonymous

    May 4th, 2013 - 9:07am

    no if they were in the next time trailer the wouldn’t be cast in this episode

    May 3rd, 2013 - 6:40pm

    i think it will be the end, as they are in nightmare in silver.

  • TheDoctorGallifrey

    May 3rd, 2013 - 4:44pm

    I looked at the cast list and I saw Angie and Artie on it! Maybe we only see them in the beginning when Clara looks after them

  • The Flying Shark

    May 3rd, 2013 - 3:27pm

    If anybody is interested, there is a feature on this in this week’s What’s on TV.

  • 11matt

    May 2nd, 2013 - 6:23pm

    the unicorn and the wasp was the day after mine and this years finale is 2 days after mine

  • im still not here

    May 2nd, 2013 - 5:57pm

    mine was the day after rose

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The University of Winnipeg

UWinnipeg prof appointed to Senate

All three new Manitoba Senators have ties to UWinnipeg

Marilou McPhedran, photo courtesy of UWinnipeg

Marilou McPhedran, photo by Austin Grabish

WINNIPEG, MB –The University of Winnipeg community proudly congratulates Marilou McPhedran, Director of the Institute for International Women’s Rights, Global College, on her appointment to Canada’s Senate. She was selected under a new arm’s-length process that saw more than 2,700 Canadians apply to fill the 21 vacancies in the Upper House.

McPhedran, a human rights lawyer, has served UWinnipeg with distinction since 2008, and as Principal of Global College, helped shape and launch the Bachelor of Arts in Human Rights, an undergraduate degree unique in Western Canada with a focus on social justice and global citizenship. McPhedran has led numerous UWinnipeg student groups on tours of the United Nations in New York City.

UWinnipeg also offers sincere congratulations to Patricia Bovey, appointed to the Senate today. Bovey has been associated with UWinnipeg for almost 40 years and helped start UWinnipeg’s art history program. As  well, Dr. Harvey Chochinov, palliative care specialist who was also appointed to Senate today, is a graduate of UWinnipeg. He obtained a BA in English (1993).

“Marilou is an innovative and collaborative educator who has dedicated her herself to public service. She created popular, hands-on courses in partnership with other organizations including the Canadian Museum for Human Rights,” said Dr. Annette Trimbee, President and Vice-Chancellor. “Her deep knowledge of current human rights issues in Canada and abroad, and in particular women and the law, will serve Canadians well. Pat is a respected champion for art and culture who has strengthened the arts for more than four decades in our province and across borders.”

McPhedran attended UWinnipeg, and in 1971, served as the first woman president of the University of Winnipeg Students’ Association. In 2012 she was seconded to the Geneva office of the United Nations Population Fund  as senior human rights specialist and taught in the Masters program at the UN affiliated University for Peace in Costa Rica.

She served on the boards of the Institute for International Women’s Rights – Manitoba, and of the Legal Help Centre, both of which she co-founded. She describes her work as “evidence-based advocacy” for achieving “lived rights”. She recently chaired the Minister’s Task Force on Sexual Abuse of Patients in Ontario.

McPhedran has received numerous awards – in 1985 she was named to the Order of Canada for her contributions to strengthening the equality provisions in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; in 1992 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by The University of Winnipeg and in 2012 she received a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. The University of Winnipeg also presented  McPhedran with the Marsha Hanen Award for Excellence in Creating Community Awareness in 2016.

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UWinnipeg offers sincere congratulations to Patricia Bovey, also appointed to the Senate today. In the 1970s, she helped start UWinnipeg’s art history program with Ferdinand Eckhart and Henry Duckworth. She was instrumental in 2010 in researching and helping found the Curatorial Practices stream of the Cultural Studies Master of Arts program in 2011. She has shared her deep knowledge of art history as recently as this summer as a teacher in the program and is an Adjunct Professor in the  History department.

Diane Poulin, Senior Communications Specialist, The University of Winnipeg

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World’s First Crowd-Funded Tablet ‘Jolla’ Now Accepting Pre-Orders

Jolla’s tablet is now available to the public for pre-order. Customers can reserve one of these tablets from a limited batch. The tablet is scheduled for dispatch at the end of October.

Jolla’s tablet is the world’s first crowd-funded tablet. It claims to offer several revolutionary features that will set it apart from the tablets that dominate the mobile market.

Jolla is a Finnish technology firm that is devoted to creating both hardware and software. The tablet and its Sailfish operating system are the product of a team of engineers who previously worked at Finland’s other mobile giant, Nokia.

What separates this tablet from the pack is its operating system. The tablet will not be signing on to Android, iOS or even Windows. Instead, it will use the in-house operating system Sailfish. Sailfish is an open-source Linux based operating system. This could prove unfamiliar to many users, however, users will still be able to use major Android applications and any software issues can still be handled by Computer Fixperts or other technicians.

Open source software is perfect for the mobile platform. It is easily modified which opens the door to greater innovation. Developers can create new and creative apps that are not required to fit within a repressive framework like apps developed for iOS are.

Those who cite Apple’s hegemonic hold on the mobile device industry are wise to remember that Android was originally open source. It was this freedom that drew crowds away from Apple and Blackberry and towards a system with more freedom.

Jolla is also developing relationships with emerging world markets. The company may be in negotiations with the Russian Ministry of Communications to become the nation’s primary mobile operating system. This is rumored to be part of a plan to approach Brazil, India, China and South Africa.

Jolla’s tablet offers a second and significant value proposition. It is significantly cheaper than other tablets on the market. The innovative, open source features and the low price would be attractive to emerging markets who long for mobile data but cannot yet afford the prices mandated by Apple and other manufacturers.

Apple, Google and Microsoft should sit up and pay close attention when Jolla reaches customers’ hands in October. A crowd-funded tablet available to the global masses may prove to be a real competitor in mobile devices.

Khurram Aziz is a web entrepreneur who trained as a journalist. He is a freelance writer, runs online ventures, and consults on WordPress and Magento web development.


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A Manifesto for the Position of School Prefect

Colleagues, my reasons for vying for this position are very tangible and varied. Firstly, my personal qualities compelled me to vie for this enviable position. I am specifically referring to my high sense of discipline, hardworking, academically good, physically sound and friendly. These are not all, my astuteness, Honest and ability to turn adversity into advantage are just proverbial. Beloved student, a compound prefect should be descent and well discipline, dedicated and wiliness to serve his people with all diligence. These re qualities that I am not deficient in. I know by now most of you are wondering how I will be able to realize them, I am specifically referring to my tactics for achieving these. Colleagues, if you give me the mandate to serve you as your compound prefect for the 2013/2014 academic year, my first priority will be ensuring high sense of discipline, as discipline being the hallmark of every institution, I intend when giving the mandate, to build upon the already laid foundation of the school by my predecessor. To do this, I need your maximum cooperation and that of the administration, to see to it hat the discipline level of this institution has raising to our expectation both in mind and attitude to deal with the environmental challenges of this institute Zion. Beloved student, when you give me the mandate to serve you as your compound prefect, my next priority is helping the school create a conducive and a clean environment as the saying goes **cleanliness is next to To achieve a high degree of academics performance a clean environment is a major factor to consider. And also with help of the school administration provide all the necessary logistics as to ensure a clean and afar environment. Ladies and gentlemen, when you give me the mandate to serve you as your compound prefect, again I will ensure that with the help of the senior house master; provide enough brooms and scrubbing brushes to the various houses to undertake effective inspection. On the issue of grounds work, with the help of the administration, to ensure that at least every house will be provided with a mower as to reduce student using their strengths in weeding. Last but not the least, promise to live a life wealthy of emulation both on campuses and the dormitory, as for student to sake a leaf out of my note book. Do you remember the phrase leadership by example, promise to ensure a clean and a healthy environment. Old go on and on but the constraint of time will not allow me, I therefore wish to solicit to your overwhelming support so that I get the mandate to serve you as the compound prefect, as my motto goes **total service to mother to enable us achieve all the laudable aims and plains outline in my speech. I promise to discharge all my duties to abide by all conditionality’s and to rule in the interest of all. Long live Mother Cannas, Long live her Student. Thank you.

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Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World

I heard Kristen Welch on a podcast once. She and her family run a nonprofit called Mercy House that helps pregnant girls in Africa and provides jobs for these women through their Fair Trade Friday program. She has also written a few books. I recently read Raising Grateful Kids in an Entitled World. Kristen wrote this book with her thoughts about how she is trying to do this with her three teenageers and has some great thoughts.

The most convicting thing I read was probably this:

“As uncomfortable as it sounds, parents who want less entitled kids have to be less entitled themselves, and parents who want to raise more grateful kids need to start by living more grateful lives.”

My kids aren’t going to learn to be thankful from watching tv or hanging out with their friends. They are going to learn it (or not learn it) from me. I need to get back to my blessings jar or thankfulness journal and help Clarissa do something similar.

She quotes Gary Chapman and Arlene Pellicane, “The only thing a child is really entitled to is his parents’ love. Not to keep up with the Joneses. Not a brand new bike or iPad. Just love. Every child deserves to be loved by his or her parents. If a child has your unconditional love, he has the greatest asset in the world. If we as parents can realize that it’s love that our children need most, and not things, we will stop trying to buy our children’s happiness with possessions.”

We all want to give our kids good things. The struggle for me as a mom is figuring out how much is too much. I want to bless my children, but I don’t want them to be spoiled brats either. I want them to be thankful for what they have and want to help others.

Some of my other favorite thoughts from the book:

  • “All children need to be bored… Because that’s when they will discover they don’t need stuff to fill their time. They don’t need a plan for entertainment. They can create their own.”
  • “I believe one of the ways children learn submission to God and doing what He says is by being taught to submit to the authority of their parents. So yes, require it, but do so with love and grace because deep down, I think our kids want rules and guidance and the structure obedience brings.”
  • “The bottom line is this : All the right from wrong teaching, character building, faith instilling, intentional parenting that you’ve made a priority in your home is producing children who do not fit into the mold our society has deemed normal. And it leaves us with children who sometimes feel left out, different, alienated, and even alone. But this doesn’t mean we have failed them. It’s through this kind of struggle that their own faith is forged and deepens and their relationship with us – – bumpy days included– grows. But mostly, it makes them aware of the costs of following Jesus.”

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Citation of  Engr. Aramide M. Adeyoye, MNSE

ENGINEER  ARAMIDE M ADEYOYE,  (MNSE)  was born on the  18th of May 1967 in Lagos, attended Yewande Memorial Nursery Primary School, Surulere, Lagos and Methodist Girls’s High School Yaba, Lagos for her primary and secondary education respectively.  She gained admission into the department of Civil Engineering, University of Lagos in 1982 through the Joint Admissions Matriculation Board Examination (J.A.M.B) after emerging as the best overall female candidate in the country for that year having attained an overall score of 321. In addition, she was also offered the Gulf Oil Corporation Company (GOCON) now Chevron Oil Corporation Scholarship from 1982 – 1987, where she graduated with a Second Class Honors (Upper Division).

Aramide began her career inclusive of the National Youth Service (N.Y.S.C) with the foremost construction company in Nigeria  – Julius Berger Nigeria PLC in 1987 where her love, consistency and passion for the profession saw her work there till August 2019.  Her doggedness, diligence, and commitment to work while there, subsequently spurred the firm on in deciding to employ and retain more female engineers where she consistently encouraged upcoming ones to excel.  A trail blazer, she rose to the post of a Project Co-ordinator/Management Staff in the company’s region west division of operation in July 2018.

Past Projects

In July 2016, she was appointed as a project co-ordinator to oversee the construction of the new Latter Rain Assembly Church Complex which is near completion.  She served in a similar capacity in February 2019 as Chair of the Committee on demolition of the old and design of new school block of Methodist Girl’s High School Yaba.

She was recently appointed in August 2019 as the Special Adviser on Works & Infrastructure to His Excellency, Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu. Engineer Adeyoye is a versatile engineer with proven contracting, procurement, practical field construction/supervision and project management expertise for over 30 years having had the privilege of being involved in the design, supervision, construction and contract administration of projects centered around provision of buildings, estate infrastructure, highways, roads and bridges in the Lagos  Area in the last three decades.  Notable amongst some of the projects in which she was involved include;

(i) Third Mainland Bridge

(ii) Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge

(iii) Adeola Odeku Road

(iii) Bourdillon+Awolowo Road

(iv) Marwa Gardens Estate Roads, Ikeja

(iv) Lagos-Badagry Expressway Lot 1

(v) Rehabilitation of Gaskiya-Sari Iganmu Road

(vi) Apapa Central Business District Roads

(vii) Numerous Pedestrian Bridges

(viii) Several private residential development, to mention just a few.

Professional Affiliations

She is a member of the following Professional Bodies;

 1. Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE)

 2. Association of Professional Women Engineers (APWEN)

 3. Chartered Institute of Arbitrators of Nigeria (CIArb)

 4. Institute of Management Consultants(IMC)

Aramide, a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants is also a professionally registered Engineer with the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN).  She has attended several training conferences home and abroad, and is an alumnus of the prestigious Lagos Business School having bagged a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the institution in 2005.

Engineer Adeyoye is from Owu-Ikosi, Ikosi-Ejinrin Local Council Development Area, Epe, Lagos.

Her Family

She is happily married to Engr. Johnson Adeyoye and they are blessed with two children.


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The Best Way to Show Up for the Disappointed and Hurting By Lysa TerKeurst

“Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.” Colossians 3:12 (NIV)

Painting was the last thing I expected to be doing on my birthday. And yet there I was, holding a dripping, shaking paintbrush beside my mom and my sisters.

Year 48 was supposed to be a year filled with adventure and freedom. The last of my five kids was going to college, and Art and I were heading into our empty-nest years. I thought this new season would be as fun and predictable as one of those beautiful adult coloring books. Twenty-five years of marriage had helped life take shape, so all we had to do now was just add color.

But nothing looked like I thought it would on this 48th birthday. Instead of planning for the future with my husband, I was trying to figure out how we’d ever glue the shattered pieces of our marriage back together again. Instead of dreaming, I felt like I was stuck in a nightmare. One where I opened the coloring book, and someone had erased all the beautifully drawn lines.

There was nothing but white pages. Empty spaces. Endless possibilities of fear and failure.

Metaphorically speaking, my life was now a blank canvas.

And so, my mother suggested — no, actually she demanded — we get some blank canvases and paint on my birthday.

I painted a boat. They all painted angels. And while my mom was right — it was therapeutic in many ways — it was also a terrifyingly vulnerable experience.

The enemy of my soul didn’t want me painting that day. To create meant I would look a little bit like my Creator. To overcome the terrifying angst of the blank canvas meant I would forever have more compassion on other artists. You better believe as I placed the first blue and gray strokes onto the white emptiness before me, “not good enough” was pulsing through my head in almost deafening tones.

Perfection mocked my boat. The bow was too high, the details too elementary, the reflection on the water too abrupt, and the back of the boat too off-center. Disappointment demanded I hyper-focus on what didn’t look quite right.

I forced myself to send a picture of my boat to at least 20 friends. With each text I sent, I slowly made peace with my painting’s imperfections. Not for validation but rather confirmation that I could see the imperfections in my painting but not deem it worthless. I could see the imperfections in me and not deem myself worthless. It was an act of self-compassion.

We must get to this place of self-compassion if we ever hope to have true, deep compassion for others. Disappointment begs us to be secretly disgusted with everything and everyone who has gaps, everything and everyone who also wrestles with the “not good enough” script. But what if, instead of being so epically disappointed with everyone, we saw in them the need for compassion?

I like that word compassion. Compassion is being aware that all of us fear the imperfections deeply carved into our naked selves. We all cover up. And then we all get stripped bare when the wins become losses.

And who do we want standing near us in those moments, dripping with disappointment and saturated with sorrow? I can assure you it isn’t people who don’t know the whole story, draped in gold-plated pride with mouths eager to spill out commentary, “Here’s what you did wrong. I would never have allowed myself to get in this position. If only you would have …”

Nope. It’s those clothed with garments of understanding. They have personally experienced how excruciatingly painful it can sometimes be to simply be human. They keep in mind Colossians 3:12, “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.”

We are to put on each of these every day, like a painter puts on color she knows will connect her creation with others. God wants us, His creation, to connect with others and bring them light and life with the brush strokes of compassion.

And the only way to gain more of this compassion is to pick up a paintbrush and sit in the seat of our own suffering. We find life-giving purpose and meaning when we allow God to take our painful experiences and comfort others.

Have you walked through an unexpected season of darkness and suffering? Those seasons aren’t for nothing, sweet friend.

Pick up the paintbrush. Put some paint on the emptiness. Color-correct your perspective. Forget the cravings for comfort zones. Trade your comfort for compassion. Get wet with paint. Put the brush to the canvas. Declare yourself a painter. And when someone steals all the lines from your coloring book, determine to color the world anyhow with the same generous compassion God offers every day.

You are walking the way of the artist. You are simply showing up with compassion. And I love you for that. I love whatever is about to come to life on your canvas to the glory of our Almighty Creator. God. The Redeemer of dust. The Redeemer of us.

Father God, no matter how much this life leaves me hurting, I always want to come out on the other side of pain loving. Help me be a woman of great compassion. A woman who wears her scars of suffering well — willingly sharing my survival story so others can know and believe survival is possible for them, too. And help me remember that no time showing up and bringing compassion to another human is ever a waste of time. In Jesus’ Name, Amen.

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