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North Cowichan’s dealings with the illegal occupancy of this shop/studio has been going on for many years. (Photo by Don Bodger)

Scrutiny of Chemainus accessory building coming to a head

Council to consider action to deal with longtime nuisance property on Cottonwood Road

A long-standing situation that’s caused consternation for North Cowichan, resulted in countless complaints to North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP and been the bane of existence for neighbours is on the agenda of council’s meeting Wednesday.

Staff reports have been prepared for council to consider imposing a Remedial Action Requirement for an accessory building at 9384 Cottonwood Road in Chemainus.

“As long as an enforcement file like this is under active investigation, I can’t really comment on specifics,” said North Cowichan Mayor Al Siebring. “And I acknowledge that’s frustrating, both for me and for the community.”

“I can confirm that North Cowichan has been seeking bylaw compliance with the owner of 9384 Cottonwood Road since 2009,” noted Rachel Hastings, senior bylaw compliance officer.

”The key bylaw infraction is that under the Zoning Bylaw, this property is zoned for a single dwelling unit, but the garage has been used consistently as a second dwelling.”

Enforcement action is ongoing, she added, involving the RCMP and Island Health.

“We have had dozens of calls over the last few years,” said Const. Amron Christensen of the North Cowichan/Duncan RCMP.

“We recognize there’s different viewpoints on this issue. We do everything we can and we act when we’re able to. Other times we just give advice and make recommendations or referrals.”

Hastings indicated the report being presented to council is related to ongoing bylaw contraventions in the absence of voluntary compliance.

A building permit was issued for a shop/studio at the property in 2002. In January 2009, North Cowichan staff discovered the building was being used for residential occupancy and issued a stop work order to owner Webster Parker.

Enforcement efforts related to the unpermitted use continued through July 2012 when the owner removed the tenant from the accessory building.

It’s been ongoing ever since with complaints about noise, illegal activity and residential occupancy of the accessory building continuing.

North Cowichan noted Parker took steps to evict the tenants from the accessory building through the Residential Tenancy Board process in August of 2018. The tenants appealed and the Supreme Court upheld the removal decision, with a deadline of August 15, 2018 to vacate.

As recent as January of 2019, North Cowichan conducted an inspection and found the building was no longer being occupied for residential use. But by April of this year, North Cowichan staff attended the property to conduct another investigation with representatives of the RCMP and Island Health and discovered new tenants were occupying the accessory building for residential purposes and it continues to be occupied.

Parker contends he’s done all he can to evict the occupants without success under the B.C. Residential Tenancy Branch. He stressed any current occupants are not his tenants, and someone else brought them in.

Parker said “it’s been months and months” since he’s collected rent from anyone at the property.

With the Remedial Action Requirement, council could deem the building a nuisance and unclean so as to be offensive to the community and require the building to be removed or demolished; filled in, covered or altered; brought up to the standard specified by the bylaw or otherwise deal with it in accordance with someone authorized by council.

The staff report acknowledged there has been a significant amount of staff and RCMP time attributed to the issues of the property. Without further action, “it is probable that these issues will continue and additional cost will be incurred by the Municipality to continue to monitor the property,” the reports states.

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Nevertheless, that time of darkness and despair will not go on forever. The land of Zebulun and Naphtali will be humbled, but there will be a time in the future when Galilee of the Gentiles, which lies along the road that runs between the Jordan and the sea, will be filled with glory. The people who walk in darkness

will see a great light.

For those who live in a land of deep darkness

a light will shine. - Isaiah 9:1-2

A light, shining in the distance - it’s what drew the “wise men” to travel with royal gifts to a humble child in a tiny town (Matthew 2:1-2).

A light, God’s “radiant glory” gleaming around a group of angels, led shepherds to worship a at the foot of a feeding trough. (Luke 2:8-20)

And a light, promised centuries before, left His heavenly home to enter the world as a baby, God’s perfect plan to restore a people left in a land of darkness (John 1:1-14).

One holy night, the Light of the World, the Son of God, became a man. And from the beginning, it seemed there was no room for Him in this world He came to save.

The night he was born, Jesus’ favored mother and earthly father laid the promised Savior in a manger (Luke 2:1-7). There was no lodging for them in Bethlehem. We have no room for Him here.

As He grew, religious leaders rejected Him (Matthew 12). They thought they knew everything, that Surely, this Jesus could not be the Savior! They threw everything from accusations to stones at Him as their words and their actions spoke, we have no room for Him here.

In His ministry as an adult, He returned to His hometown (Luke 4:14-30), where His neighbors said of Him, “Isn’t that just Mary and Joseph’s son?” And the Bible tells us, “They took offense at Him.” We have no room for Him here.

Then later, though Jesus was innocent, the Jewish people demanded He be taken away, that they’d rather keep a criminal than the Christ, as they yelled, “Crucify Him!” (Luke 23:13-25). We have no room for Him here.

“He came to His own,” Scripture tells us, “and those who were His own did not receive Him...” (John 1:11).

The Light of the World was rejected by the ones for whom He came to shine. But that wasn’t the end of the story, and it doesn’t have to be the end of yours. Right after John 1:11, comes John 1:12 (surprise!), and it’s here we see our glorious hope, for:

...But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

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Jesus spoke to the people once more and said, “I am the light of the world. If you follow me, you won’t have to walk in darkness, because you will have the light that leads to life…" - John 8:12

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REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’S book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, marks, for some, the end of an era. Published in 1967, King explores the future of the Civil Rights movement, a movement that he regarded at the time as very much an unfinished project. In the opening chapter, he writes:

Overwhelmingly, America is still struggling with irresolution and contradictions. It has been sincere and even ardent in welcoming some change. But too quickly apathy and disinterest rise to the surface when the next logical step are to be taken […] This limited degree of concern is a reflection of an inner conflict which measures cautiously the impact of any change on the status quo.

King goes on to argue that:

the practical cost of change for the nation up to this point has been cheap. The limited reforms have been obtained at bargain rates. There are no expenses, and no taxes are required, for Negroes to share lunch counters, libraries, parks, hotels and other facilities with whites.

This disappointed, perhaps even cynical, version of King is in stark contrast to the “I Have a Dream” King I was taught about as a child. Often, I have heard his work touted as the reason we currently live in a post-racial society. Some even say that his assassination marked the successful end of the Civil Rights movement. And yet, if the Civil Rights movement ended on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968, how then do we explain the riots that occurred right after his death? Or the rise of Black Power in the ’70s? Or the current Black liberation struggle that is vividly embodied by #BlackLivesMatter?

The answers to these questions are, of course, complex. That being said, one cannot understand the current movement for Black Lives if one doesn’t understand what took place in this country between King’s murder and the present moment. Enter Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s book, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. Taylor, an assistant professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, attempts to answer the following questions as they relate to the current struggle for Black liberation in the United States: How did we get here? Where exactly is “here”? And finally, where do we go from here? Forty-nine years after the publication of King’s text, we are still attempting to answer these questions as Black people. Taylor goes through a detailed analysis of the Black political, social, and economic elite in the years since King’s murder. She then studies the current moment and why the struggle for justice has manifested in protests against police brutality, mass incarceration, and the War on Drugs. Finally, she presents, as King does, her vision for what she believes the movement can be and do in the years to come.

How Did We Get Here? The Rise of the Black Elite

The myth that King ended racism on the mall in Washington, DC, that his dream had become our reality, fell apart as I watched the current struggle for Black liberation — and the events that incited it — engulf our nation. Taylor argues that we got to this moment in part because of the rise of the Black political, social, and economic elite, including Oprah, Denzel Washington, athletes, and Black politicians. She notes that, generally speaking, “The success of a relative few African-Americans is upheld as a vindication of the United States’ colorblind ethos and a testament to the transcendence of its racist past.” But a fair portion of responsibility for the chaos of the current moment, she writes, lies with the Black elite itself — too often they have explicitly validated “the political and economic underpinnings of US society while reaffirming the apparent personal defects of those who have not succeeded.” For Taylor, Black politicians have become especially guilty of doing what white politicians had been doing since the inception of this country: emphasizing the personal defects of those who have not succeeded.

No better example of this emphasis exists than in the response of Black politicians to the uprisings in Ferguson and Baltimore in 2014 and 2015. Taylor notes that,

From the president to the mayor of Baltimore, and beyond, Black elected officials use their “insider” positions as African Americans to project to the Black and white public that they have unique capabilities in the event of Black unrest. The utility of Black elected officials lies in their ability, as members of the community, to scold ordinary Black people in ways that white politicians could never get away with.

And she argues that the scolding posture of the Black elite is actually the product of a deeper political agenda, one that has been decades in the making:

[T]he emphasis on local campaigns and elections did show how much the goals of the Black movement had shifted. Its horizons had narrowed from Black liberation to winning electoral majorities in American cities where African Americans lived, as a defensive stance against the conservative trajectory in national politics and ultimately as a more “realistic” and “pragmatic” path.

This pragmatic and realistic path, Taylor argues, is what led political leaders to find the roots of Black inequality inside their communities, instead of critiquing the systems that created the problems in their communities in the first place.

This inward turn could also be called the move toward personal responsibility. This turn wasn’t just ideological; it had pragmatic implications for the governance of majority black cities. For Black politicians, “Focusing on individual failure and lapsed morality — instead of structural inequities — justifies the budget cuts and the shrinking of the public sphere that Black political elites help facilitate.” Taylor argues that the Black elite took the Black community’s attention, along with the rest of the country’s, off of the deep systemic causes of community problems while, at the same time, blaming the victims of these conditions for the conditions they endured. There seems to be something wrong with this picture. She dryly notes that:

There is something disingenuous in focusing on poor and working-class Blacks without any discussion about the ways that the criminal justice system has “disappeared” Black parents from the lives of their children. When Obama talks about absentee Black fathers, he never mentions the disparity in arrests and sentencing that is responsible for the disproportionate number of missing Black men.

But why isn’t the Black elite able to see the consequences of this shift toward a rhetoric of personal responsibility? Taylor explains this in a way that is at once simple and unpopular at the same time: “African Americans […] can harbor racist ideas about other Black people while simultaneously holding antiracist ideas. After all, Black people also live in this racist society and are equally inundated with racist stereotypes.” In this sense, Black elites have been affected by white supremacy in the same ways as whites; they have internalized its arguments about lazy, shiftless Black people and used it as a lens through which they made their policy decisions.

Where Exactly Is “Here”? The Continued Struggle For Justice

Having mapped out the rise of the Black elite in the years since King’s murder, Taylor goes on to explore our current political moment. At the outset, she argues that we must first understand that for the United States, justice never occurs by accident. It is, “not a natural part of the lifecycle of the United States, nor is it a product of evolution; it is always the outcome of struggle.” The Civil Rights movement never ended; it simply transformed to fight the current manifestations of white supremacy affecting Black folks in this country at this moment. We have been told the exact opposite, of course, that with the election of President Obama, we entered into an era of post-raciality. Taylor argues that in fact, “colorblindness and ‘postracial’ politics are vested in false ideas that the United States is a meritocratic society where hard work makes the difference between those who are successful and those who are not.” This insistence on meritocracy, supported by the anecdotal evidence of limited black success championed by both whites and the Black elite, is why we are in this current moment. Instead of dealing with the systemic manifestations of white supremacy, we moved on from the struggle too soon and now we must deal with the latest iteration of systemic racism: police brutality.

For Taylor, Black elites are partially responsible for current iterations of white supremacy: the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, and the obvious consequence of these policies, police brutality. The Black elites co-signing of these policies is part of the reason why the first Black president was silent for so long when it came to specific cases of police brutality. In fact, Taylor notes that, the “transformation in Obama’s rhetoric [re: police brutality] is welcome, but none of it would be possible without the rebellions in Ferguson and Baltimore or the dogged movement building that has happened in between.” Protest was key in forcing the Black elite, led by President Obama, to at least acknowledge the social and economic consequences of policies they signed off on. The Black elite’s inability to recognize the roots of suffering in their community is compounded by the fact that even though systems have become diversified and more representative (in other words, less white), they still produce racist outcomes. In fact, “the most diverse police forces in American history have not altered more than a century’s worth of violent, racially discriminatory, and unfair policing.” The failure to alter racist policing comes again from our not understanding that the problem of racist outcomes doesn’t fundamentally come from individual personnel, whether they be cops, judges, or district attorneys; the problem lies with policies that disproportionately target communities of color. This is shown by the fact that, as Taylor admits, Blacks are not the only ones negatively affected by these colorblind policies.

If the estimates of the number of Black people killed by police in the last decade are true, then police have also murdered hundreds of Latinos and thousands of white people. Not only does this constitute a crisis, it also establishes an objective basis upon which multiracial movement against police terrorism can be organized. The overwhelming racist nature of American policing obscures the range of its reach, but it is in the interests of anti-police brutality activists to point out the specific and the generalized nature of police terror.

In fact, Taylor argues, “the long-term strength of the movement will depend on its ability to reach large numbers of people by connecting the issue of police violence to the other ways that Black people are oppressed.” This is because, even though the protests of the past six years have changed political rhetoric, they must continue to push for policy changes. Ultimately, Taylor believes, “Protests can do many things, but protests alone cannot end police abuse and the conditions that are used to justify it.”

Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of the Movement

To begin to answer the question of where we go from here, Taylor first looks into the deep past of American history. She reminds the reader that, “one benefit of the North American form of racial slavery to enslavers and the ruling class generally was that it deflected potential class tensions among white men. American freedom for whites was contingent on American slavery for Blacks.” This means that for Taylor, the movement going forward must acknowledge the initial economic reasons plantation owners decided to divide poor whites and poor blacks. For Taylor, the answer to the problem of white supremacy necessitates, finally, the end of capitalism as we know it. This is due to the fact that:

racism, capitalism, and class rule have always been tangled together in such a way that is it impossible to imagine one without the other. Can there be Black liberation in the United States as the country is currently constituted? No. Capitalism is contingent on the absence of freedom and liberation for Black people and anyone else who does not directly benefit from its economic disorder.

Because of the shared economic interests of working-class whites and working-class people of color, Taylor argues that we must articulate a Marxist path forward out of the current political upheaval.

She argues that going forward, solidarity will be the key to the liberation of all people. We have missed this piece because:

In the contest to demonstrate how oppressions differ from one group to the next, we miss how we are connected through oppression — and how those connections should form the basis of solidarity, not a celebration of our lives on the margins.

And yet, this does not mean that a flattening of experiences must occur. In fact, she argues that solidarity “does not mean experiences of whites and people of color are equal,” but rather that “there is a basis for solidarity among white and nonwhite working-class people.” The struggle for Black liberation, in its attempt to shine light on the injustices experienced by Black folks, at the same time uncovers others experiencing similar injustices, who may then be also willing to engage in the struggle for change. In fact, Taylor argues that,

When the Black movement goes into motion, it throws the entire mythology of the United States — freedom, democracy, and endless opportunity — into chaos. For the same reasons the state ruthlessly crushed the last major movement of the Black freedom struggle. The stakes are even higher today because what seemed then like an alternative — greater Black inclusion in the political and economic establishment — has already come and failed.

This is why she believes that ultimately the, “Black Lives Matter movement” must somehow realize its “potential to make deeper connections to and create relationships with organized labor.” For her, this doesn’t mean white folks simply “becoming allies” with black folks in the struggle for liberation. Instead, Taylor argues that while, “there is nothing wrong with being an ally […] it doesn’t quite capture the degree to which Black and white workers are inextricably linked. It’s not as if white workers can simply choose not to ‘ally’ with Black workers to no peril of their own.”

If what Taylor is argues is true, it would require the movement to seek out solidarity with white workers, the same group now aligning itself with Donald Trump. Even though this may seem like an insurmountable task, Taylor still believes that:

solidarity is only possible through relentless struggle to win white workers to antiracism, to expose the lie that Black workers are worse off because they somehow chose to be, and to win the white working class to the understanding that, unless they struggle, they too will continue to live lives of poverty and frustration, even if those lives are somewhat better than the lives led by Black workers.

The lie that she speaks of is exactly the narrative Trump has used to gain the Republican nomination. As social justice writer and educator Tim Wise has noted, Trump has convinced poor white folks that their problem is poor Brown and Black folks, as opposed to the elites (like Trump) who have benefited from the division of these two groups of people.

The question, though, that has to be asked of Taylor’s Marxist vision is this: Who qualifies as a worker? She notes that ours is “a time when many people are trying to find an entry point into anti-police terror activism and desire to be involved,” but that “this particular method of organizing can be difficult to penetrate,” and one wonders who gets to qualify as a worker in her model of a solution forward. Some of the movement’s strongest advocates are white-collar Black professionals who organize after work and on weekends; they don’t fit the typical image of the “working class.” This seems to be the missing link in Taylor’s analysis, for it still leaves open the question of who will people her version of the movement, and where it will go from here.

Ultimately, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation is an essential read for anyone following the movement for Black Lives. The text chronicles a portion of history we rarely ever see, while also bringing together data and deep primary source research in a way that lucidly explains the origins of the current moment. Though the Marxist way forward may seem to some to be cliché, if the question of who qualifies as a worker can somehow come to include the group that the Occupy movement was able to envelop as “the 99 percent”, then Taylor’s vision of solidarity may be a feasible way forward, especially in a season in which Black activists are fighting a presidential candidate who embodies the evils of racism, capitalism, and militarism, the traits that King called the United States’s interrelated flaws; flaws that both King and Taylor argue are “rooted deeply in the whole structure of our society.” If this is the case, then the only way forward may be to pull the tree up by its roots and plant again.

Justin Campbell is a college English professor and freelance writer living in Los Angeles. He is the co-creator of an original podcast on the intersections of race, gender, sexual orientation, and class with spirituality/religion entitled embodied. a podcast.


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Remote Learning Extended Through Fall 2020

Dear Parents/Guardians and Students,

Thank you for your replies and participation in the re-opening survey. After reviewing the results of all surveys (both the faculty/staff and parent), NYS guidelines and CDC recommendations, and looking at current Covid-19 numbers across the country, out of an abundance of caution for health and safety, we have decided to begin the school year with remote education for the first quarter. During the first quarter, we will reassess the situation and the possibilities of hybrid classes moving forward.

From March through June, La Salle Academy did a commendable job of emergency remote education with almost no notice. As we move forward to begin the 2020-2021 school year, we are developing plans to improve upon the good work we did in the spring. Teachers will receive additional training and will conduct more live classes via Microsoft Teams and/or Google Meet. The administrative team is developing a class schedule that will fit our distance learning needs. Those details will be communicated to you when they are available.

We will offer virtual opportunities for extracurricular activities (clubs) and support services. The Catholic High School Athletic Association (CHSAA) has postponed the start of any possible fall season until late September. As more news from the CHSAA is made available to us, we will pass that along.

There will be the need for all students to come in for an orientation day during which books and tablets will be distributed, along with other pertinent information. This will be conducted with the appropriate guidelines (masks, social distancing, smaller groups, etc.). The schedule of those days and all details will be sent out to you at a later date but will not take place before September 8th.

Please reach out with any questions. We will continue to keep you updated throughout the summer as more details are available. Thank you for partnering with us on this journey.

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Cost of living in Newcastle compared with Strasbourg

Food and drinks Newcastle Strasbourg Difference
Beer (0.5 litre) £1.00 £2.00 +100%
Coffee £3.00 £2.00 -33%
Meal at McDonald's £5.00 £7.00 +40%
Water (0.33 litre) £1.00 £2.00 +100%
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Monthly pass £59.00 £44.00 -25%
One way tube ticket £3.00 £2.00 -33%
Taxi starting price (normal tariff) £2.00 £4.00 +100%
Clothing Newcastle Strasbourg Difference
1 summer dress in a chain store (Zara, H&M,...) £32.00 £26.00 -19%
1 pair of jeans (Levi's 501 or similar) £56.00 £64.00 +14%
Salaries Newcastle Strasbourg Difference
Average monthly disposable salary (net) £1,583.00 £1,742.00 +10%

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Beer (0.5 litre) £1.00 £1.00 0%
Coffee £3.00 £2.00 -33%
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1 pair of jeans (Levi's 501 or similar) - £20.00 -
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Average monthly disposable salary (net) - £111.00 -

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  • Tuesday 11
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A flight from Rome to Zanzibar takes about 11 hours, 59 minutes.

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The cheapest month is March.

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The distance between Rome and Zanzibar is approximately 5,998 miles.

How many airports does Rome have?

Rome has 2 airports: Ciampino and Fiumicino.

How many airports does Zanzibar have?

Zanzibar has 1 airport: Zanzibar.

What is the average cost of a taxi in Rome? and in Zanzibar?

The average price of a taxi in Zanzibar is £2.00. In Rome, the average price is £4.00.

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A single ticket for the public transport in Zanzibar is £0.00. In Rome, it is £1.00.

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According to our booking data, there are 62 flights per week from Rome to Zanzibar.

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There are at least 9 airlines that fly from Rome to Zanzibar, the cheapest are Ethiopian Airlines (£464.89), KLM (£469.99) and Turkish Airlines (£491.99).

What is the month with the most expensive flight deals?

The most expensive month is August.

Cost of living in Rome compared with Zanzibar

Food and drinks Rome Zanzibar Difference
Beer (0.5 litre) £1.00 £1.00 0%
Coffee £1.00 £2.00 +100%
Meal at McDonald's £7.00 £5.00 -29%
Water (0.33 litre) £1.00 - -
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Monthly pass £32.00 £6.00 -81%
One way tube ticket £1.00 - -
Taxi starting price (normal tariff) £4.00 £2.00 -50%
Clothing Rome Zanzibar Difference
1 summer dress in a chain store (Zara, H&M,...) £28.00 £9.00 -68%
1 pair of jeans (Levi's 501 or similar) £72.00 £11.00 -85%
Salaries Rome Zanzibar Difference
Average monthly disposable salary (net) £1,292.00 £134.00 -90%

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    Max 27  ºC
    Min 23  ºC
  • Sunday 9
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  • Monday 10
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    Min 22  ºC
  • Tuesday 11
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The idea of a restaurant concept built around a suntan oil powerhouse may seem odd, but Dennis Riese and Adam Hock, co-owners of the Hawaiian Tropic Zone at Planet Hollywood have already made the formula work at their first eatery in New York City.

Hawaiian Tropic Zone Holds Grand OpeningWith their second location now open on the Strip, it seems the formula may work here as well. The restaurant offers a mixture of fine dining, with options for both indoor and outdoor seating. If possible, go for the outdoors, as it offers some of the best dining views along the Strip.

Nightly entertainment comes courtesy of beauty pageants by the Hawaiian Tropic Zone models, cabaret dance performances and a nightly DJ. Adding to the Hawaiian atmosphere, servers and other staff wear Polynesian-themed outfits, including swimsuits designed by Nicole Miller.

The menu itself was designed by world-renowned chef David Burke, who also operates his own restaurant over at The Venetian.

The lunch menu includes items like a black pepper seared tuna sandwich, pan seared salmon and barbecue pork sliders. For light eaters, there is a lobster bisque served with shrimp toast and several vegetarian options.

Dinner includes a filet mignon, crackling Asian spiced pork shank, veal chop, pan seared scallops and swordfish Benedict. Lending a South Pacific flair to the menu, the Pu Pu platter offers a variety of meats, including chicken, beef and chorizo, along with vegetables and shrimp, served with several dipping sauces.

Desert leans more towards the whimsical, with items like cheesecake lollipops served with a bubble gum whipped cream dip and a banana split big enough for two or more. More “adult” options include a chocolate fondue and Crepes Banana Foster.

Expect dinner entrees to run between $25 and $35, with lunch averaging $15 to $25.

Last week’s grand opening party certainly brought out a mixture of celebs from “Entourage” stars Kevin Connelly and Kevin Dillon to Vegas regulars like Mario Lopez and Carmen Electra.

If you’re interested in checking out the new Hawaiian Tropic Zone for yourself, you’ll find it at the Miracle Mile Shops at Planet Hollywood. It’s open daily from 11:30am until 4am, with lunch served until 5pm, then dinner from 5pm until midnight. For reservations or more information, you can call them at 702.731.4858.

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In advance of tomorrow’s Digital HD release of Marvel’s Doctor Strange. Marvel has released  some new bonus material that gives  a deeper peek at it’s villain, Kaecilius and the Zealots that follow him. The two deleted scenes show a few darker moments that were cut from the movie and some excellent concept art where you can see how this character was developed.

Deleted Scene “Making Contact”

Deleted Scene “Kaecilius Searches”

From Marvel comes Doctor Strange, the story of world-famous neurosurgeon Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch), whose life changes forever after a horrific car accident renders his hands useless. When traditional medicine fails him, he travels to remote Kamar-Taj in search of a cure, but instead discovers the mystical arts and becomes a powerful sorcerer battling dark forces bent on destroying our reality.


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november 11, 2019

I’ve been Lauren my whole life. And I never liked it. Too common and too often pronounced in a weird drawling way that makes me cringe. However, I always loved my middle name: Leola. So dreamy, yet fierce. Like royalty. I have always wished I could adopt this name, increasingly as I aged. But it was impractical. And as I grew, it became too late. I didn’t want to be one of those annoying people who changes their name halfway through their life and insists on shaking things up for everyone.

And so I kept Lauren. Lauren is practical and conventional and common.

When I moved to LA earlier this year, I again flirted with the idea of adopting Leola. What better time to reinvent yourself than when you move to a new city?  But upon implementation of the decision to go “Leola” I would always forget when I introduced myself and then was too embarrassed to go back and make corrections about my own damn name. So I bit my tongue, as Lauren would do. I didn’t want to confuse anyone or look like a crazy person with two names… and two personalities.

But Leola was fighting to get out. She was stepping into herself. She wasn’t practical or conventional or common. She was an artist. She chose herself. She didn’t care what others thought of her - her priority was in expressing love and truth.

And, so I shed Lauren, because if the opinions of others is the only thing keeping you from doing something your soul is aching for, you’ve got to realign your priorities. A lion doesn’t loose sleep over the opinion of a sheep. So, here I am on the cusp of my 26th year and I’m finally owning myself. I am Leola. Nice to meet you.

It’s incredible how a simple name change can shift your entire identity. Your decisions, priorities, creativity. And so, the universe sees you differently and treats you as such too. Introducing myself as Leola, allowed me to fully step into my true persona. I began asking myself, What would Leola do? Lauren would worry about what others thought of her. She wanted everyone to like her. She put the needs and desires of others before her own. She second guessed her decisions. She questioned her attractiveness. But Leola would not tolerate that. Leola knows who she is (a goddess) and what she deserves (love from herself and others). Leola does not negotiate unless it’s in her best interests. She knows her worth.

It’s actually nearly suspicious how my life has changed since I became myself. I have more energy. And I’m more gentle and patient with my anxious mind. I’ve also had lovely bursts of prosperity - my range of opportunities and income increased. I took risks that paid off in unprecedented ways. I felt a boost in my self-worth. I was even aligned with a charity that feels intimate to my soul.

In the realm of romance, I stopped feeling the need to date around. Suddenly the hole I was looking to fill was overflowing with self-love. I’d rather stay home and do something artsy or develop a concept for work or make plans with a friend than go on another dead-end date. The right guy will come to me. He’ll see my value. He’ll treasure this gem and demonstrate his worth in a way that will leave both of us without a doubt in mind. I will be open to receiving in a divinely feminine way. The Lioness is not submissive. She lets the lion become king for as long as she pleases. It will be the type of partnership that is full of trust and freedom. But until then, I am stronger alone than with a silly boy to distract me. I satisfy all my needs and more.

Leola means lioness. And I’m living up to the namesake. With my independence and fierce loyalty, I am gracefully me. I am leaning into my roar and finding my truth. I am regal and self-assured. I am the queen of my jungle - vigilant to opportunities to grow and own my space. Glowing in a golden coat, my prowess is flawless, yet humble, as I recognize that we are all connected in this great circle of life.

xoxo, L

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African Accessories, Inc. and the Story-Goal Memo: Business, narrative, and oral communication

Editor’s Note: This GWF2019 Advance Paper was written by the Catalysts for the Orality Issue Network as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the related session at the Global Workplace Forum 2019 held in Manila, Philippines.

Tom set down the magazine article about Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO. Bezos had banned PowerPoint presentations from his executive leadership meetings in favor of narrative presentations.

Tom took another sip of coffee and thought, ‘Narrative presentations? Really? Why would someone as successful as Bezos opt for the meandering, indirect, rambling of a story when bullet points were so much clearer?’ Immediately, Tom thought of the play that had been recently performed at his local church. It has been a performance of God creating a wild and beautiful world, climaxing with man and woman. The play had been well done and seeing the familiar story acted out had impacted many people, from grandparents down to young children. But stories can be messy. Tom noted. He told himself that he much preferred bullet point presentations, which kept information nice and tidy. Tom sipped his coffee again. He needed to think this through for he had to admit Bezos was smart and furthermore, he had really enjoyed the play.

Tom could not help but musing as he walked over to his white board, ‘what was so powerful about a story?’ He loved using the white board for brainstorming ideas. The article on Bezos had shown that cognitive neuroscience claimed the human brain was wired for stories. Tom was thinking about human beings as homo narrens when Elizabeth walked in the door of his office.

‘Tom, we have a small problem with the recent Goals-Outlined memo.’

Tom raised an eyebrow as he took another sip of coffee, nodding for his colleague to proceed.

Elizabeth plunged on. ‘None of our selling agents can remember our quarterly goals except Stella. And Stella admitted that she did not fully understand the meaning of ‘Increase gross profitability by 12 percent within 180 days’.’

African Accessories, or AA as it was often called in-house, was the company that Tom headed. Elizabeth was one of the executive team members. AA often employed women, many of whom had previously struggled with various hardships, as agents for the company’s handmade crafts, handbags, and African jewelry. While the company carried a strong social-concern ethos, it was a for-profit business that had made in-roads into the higher-end markets and the women agents were making good money. Tom, Elizabeth, and the rest of the leadership team had really wanted the entire company, including the agents, to know the company’s recently refurbished vision and mission statement. Furthermore, everyone wanted to make more money. To cultivate this team enthusiasm, Tom was encouraging everyone to memorize the quarterly goals. The executive team had recently prepared a ten-page printed memo for everyone in the company that outlined and explained the goals.

‘Really?’ Tom looked across the desk at Elizabeth. ‘We didn’t make it too complicated, did we?’

It was a question, but something intuitively told him that the executive team may have overshot the rest of the company’s educational and communication preferences. Most of the selling agents had very limited, if any, education. AA provided extensive training for new agents so, regardless of their background, they could learn to handle numbers, inventory, and cash. There had been a few problem-situations, but the fact that AA was making money meant that agents worked hard to learn and keep their position.

‘It may not be a big deal, Tom but I thought you ought to know that Stella reported to me yesterday that she was not sure if anyone had read all the way through the Goals-Outlined memo nor did she know of any of the agents who could repeat all three of our quarterly goals.’ Elizabeth paused and raised her eyebrows. ‘How committed are you to every agent being able to recite AA’s company goals?’

Tom’s own eyes narrowed slightly as he answered. ‘Very committed. The more we share in this enterprise throughout the company, the more successful AA is going to be. The question is: how do we help our agents learn our goals?’

Elizabeth smiled a fake smile and added, ‘Tom, it’s not just the agents. No one in accounting knows them either, and I’d guess it’s the same in production.’ Tom sighed. He knew she was right.

Setting his coffee mug down on his desk he saw the Bezos article. Lifting his head, he smiled up at Elizabeth.

‘I think I have an idea,’ Tom said. He walked over to the whiteboard and wrote in big bold letters, Outline-Goals. Then he explained, ‘In spite of my preference for clear, crisp bullet points, not everyone loves a good outline presentation.’ He crossed out Outline-Goals and wrote Story-Goals. Setting the marker down, he looked at her and smiled, saying, ‘What if we story our goals?’

Elizabeth had a puzzled look on her face, looking at him and then at the board. Before she could ask her questions, Tom began to get a flash of inspiration.

‘Here.’ Scooping up the article, he handed it to her even as he politely ushered her to the door. ‘Let me work on it and I’ll get back to you by the afternoon.’

Tom skipped back to his whiteboard and began musing to himself. How could we write AA’s company’s goals in a story format?

He was not much of a writer, but he immediately thought of Beatrice Amuga’s story. She had a horrific personal story of domestic violence and abuse, but she had started coming to Tom’s church and eventually ended up as a selling agent. She had only been with the company for a year, but in the last two quarters she had outperformed her fellow agents by between eight to 13 percent. She could be aggressive but was always respectful, and she could intuit a sale. Tom had heard her tell her personal story and how Jesus has transformed her life. Furthermore, he had spent numerous lunches with her and Stella, the senior sales agent, trying to understand Beatrice’s surprising professional success story.

Shifting back to the computer at his desk, Tom began typing, surprised to find the narrative memo came easily. He weaved both elements of Beatrice’s personal story in with her success at AA along with the company’s intentional goals for improving sales. By lunchtime, he surprised himself by having the first draft of a narrative memo for AA and shot off a quick email to Stella to obtain Beatrice’s permission.

After lunch, he read the story to Elizabeth who suggested several adjustments, although overall, she was positive. After listening to the whole narrative memo, she leaned back in her chair and made a surprising comment.

‘You know Tom, it reminds me of the play last week in church.

Tom smiled and nodded. Elizabeth and her husband, Andrew attended the same church as Tom and his family.

She continued by saying, ‘Andrew and I were both so impacted by that performance. Of course we know the story but to see how they presented God walking and talking with Adam and Eve, it was like they were close friends. They had a real person-to-person relationship with their Creator. I don’t think I had ever thought about God just chatting the afternoon away with the first man and the first woman.’

Tom nodded again, reminded of how he had also been impacted by the conversational intimacy that had been portrayed between God and the first humans.

‘Do you think people can know God and even each other like that today?’ Tom asked quietly, almost to himself.

This time it was Elizabeth’s turn to smile as she got up and headed for the door, ‘Well, they kept saying that story was God’s story and our story is a part that story. So, I imagine so.’

By late afternoon, Tom had sent AA’s first Story-Goals memo out to the entire company, whether via email or hard copy. ‘Jeff Bezos is not the only one who can write stories’, thought Tom as he erased his notes off the white board. As he erased Story-Goals, he could not stop thinking of the idea that his story was a part of God’s great big story. He wondered if maybe there was something more to this story idea than just good business.

Two weeks later as Tom walked out of a meeting, Elizabeth flagged his attention.

‘Tom, we have a new problem with the goals.’

Tom smiled a wary half-smile to his colleague as he ushered Elizabeth into his office. Elizabeth ignored both the offer of a seat and a cup of coffee.

‘Tom, the Story-Goals memo is a success. Stella told me yesterday how much she enjoyed it. She and Beatrice were so inspired, they are trying again to set up an appointment with BIGSHOP. They have a lunch appointment tomorrow with the VP of sales.’

‘BIGSHOP!’ Tom nearly shouted, spilling his coffee in excitement. BIGSHOP was a new, high-end shopping mall but had refused AA’s attempts to market their products as BIGSHOP had relied on another accessories dealer.

‘Wow!’ Said Tom. ‘That would be a game changer. If we got into BIGSHOP. . . .’ Tom trailed off, his mind running, before bringing his attention back to Elizabeth. ‘Do they want you to go with them?’

‘Tom, you are missing the point. No, I’ll go if there is a second meeting but what I am telling you is that your story version of the goals went over well. Stella and Beatrice were saying it has helped them imagine the future possibilities of AA but it also helped them imagine what needed to happen through their sales to make such a vision possible. Furthermore, Samuel from accounting and Scovia from production were talking about the story-goals this morning at break. I think it was a hit.’

Tom grinned widely, before frowning. ‘Three cheers for stories inspiring the imagination. So what is the problem?’

Elizabeth continued,Stella reported that most of the agents can’t read the story. So she and Beatrice are spending a lot of time reading and re-reading the Story-Goals memo and then answering questions.’

Tom twitched his lips silently as he thought. He walked over to his whiteboard, uncapping a marker. ‘So putting the goals into a story-format helped. It sounds like it did both with agents as well as even the more educated in-house staff.’

He wrote while he talked: Story-Goals.

‘The story had communicated in way the bullet point version of the goals had not. Maybe Bezos was on to something.’

He continued. ‘But some people do not feel comfortable reading.’ He wrote Printed in front of Story-Goals drawing a line through it: Printed Story-Goals. ‘The truth is that none of our agents would ever feel comfortable in Bezos’ exec meetings.’

Elizabeth interrupted his thoughts. ‘I can just assign Stella to read to all the agents at their meeting on Mondays.’ She kept talking but Tom was no longer listening.

He remembered reading the article on Bezos and how what popped into his mind had been the creation drama. ‘The story-goal format seemed to overcome the bullet point outline problem; but something else was needed to overcome the inability to read problem.’ He thought again about the creation play. ‘The play had been a story – that did not require any reading.’ Suddenly Tom wrote: Oral Performance.

A mischievous smile spread across his face as he turned to his colleague. ‘Elizabeth, the exec team is going to perform the story-goals next Monday at the seller agents meeting.’

It only took one look for Elizabeth to realize her boss was not joking.

‘Tom, we have another problem.’ Elizabeth marched in without knocking on Tom’s office door. Tom knew his colleague well enough and something on her face told him that this was a good problem.

‘Oh,’ Tom said as he smiled, ‘please do tell.’

‘Both production and accounting want the exec team to perform the Story-Goals drama for them.’ This time, Elizabeth could not resist a smile.

Tom couldn’t help laughing. ‘Are you serious?’

‘I sure am. They all heard about the performance at the sellers’ meeting. Everyone’s talking about AA’s story-goals. I have heard the story at break, at lunch, and I even overheard two women discussing it in the bathroom. And, did you hear that this week’s sales are up eight percent?’

Tom tried to put on a serious face. ‘Well, that success may not necessarily have been because of the company’s story.’

‘Fair enough,’ Elizabeth played along, ‘but Stella said the agents have been talking and talking about the performance. It’s like for the first time, they all realized they have a pretty important part in AA’s story. They have been arriving earlier since the performance, and she said they are on track to break their store visit record this week.

Tom picked up his marker and walked back to the whiteboard.

‘So story communicates something that bullet points or propositional statements do not.’ He wrote the STORY in big bold letters. ‘That seemed to be what we learned first. Story captures the imagination.’ He wrote IMAGINATION in bold letters before continuing.

‘But story and imagination, when communicated through print, are not accessible to everyone in our company – perhaps not all our customers either. Nevertheless, when we orally performed the story, everyone understood.’ Tom wrote ORAL PERFORMANCE in bold letters as he kept talking. ‘Furthermore, there seems to have been a certain inspiration, transformation even within the company’s personnel that never has happened as a result of our printed Goals-Outline memos.’

Elizabeth stepped up so she could see the board clearly. The words STORY, IMAGINATION, and ORAL PERFORMANCE stood out. She tapped her finger on ORAL PERFORMANCE and said, ‘I think part of what makes the difference between this and a printed version of the story-goals is the physical body.’

Tom gave her a curious but confused look.

She explained. When people’s bodies are involved in communicating, it just impacts you more. It’s like you get the message in a different, more vivid way.’ She paused and then elaborated.

‘Remember how powerful the church Creation play was for all of us. We all knew that story but you could picture yourself walking and talking with God in a different way by watching it performed. Furthermore, last week Stella was traveling with three of the agents. She took the video of the story-goals drama and showed it to the agents on the trip at several points. This morning she made an interesting comment about how the agents, while appreciating her playing it off her computer, felt like it was not the same as seeing Mr. Tom in person pretending to be Stella. They liked it better in person.’

Elizabeth was gaining confidence so she continued. ‘I think the oral performance offers something that not even the digital technology can offer. The oral communication is embodied; it has a power because people are face to face.’

Taking the marker from Tom’s hand, she wrote in bold type: Body.

Now the board looked like this:

Story Imagination

Oral Performance Body

Tom spoke slowly, thinking as he spoke. ‘I guess what we are learning is that, while stories do not necessarily have to be written, when we get our bodies involved in the oral communication process, the imagination is affected in a different way than when I just read a message or even watch it on my screen. Therefore, something happens through oral, narrative communication that does not necessarily happen in the same way through using outlines or even printed texts.’

‘Tom, I think we need to perform the Goals-Memo drama at the second BIGSHOP meeting.’ Elizabeth spoke with an excitement in her eyes.

‘What?’ Tom asked with a surprised look on his face but even as he looked at her, a slow smile spread across his own mouth.

‘They would never expect that at a sales meeting. Do you think we can get the Beatrice and Stella in on it?’

‘No question. If narrative, imagination, and body are all a part of oral performance and we have seen how the oral communication impacts people, then why would AA’s story not impact its potential customers.’

Elizabeth paused, tapping the marker lightly against the white board as she thought. Slowly she spoke but her attention had shifted from BIGSHOP, ‘I am thinking about Beatrice’s story. Part of the reason the Story-Goals memo was so powerful was because we all know her personal story. And now, through AA, God is writing a new victorious story in her life. It’s like God’s story, and Beatrice’s story and AA’s story are all wrapped together. I wonder if that is what they were trying to communicate through the creation play. God is the Master Storyteller and he is wants to write our personal stories into his grand, master story of redemption and victory.’

Tom let out a low whistle before saying, ‘I had never thought about how a business story can intersect with our personal stories, all of which can be a part of God’s master story of salvation.’

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Fungi produce numerous low molecular weight molecules endowed with a multitude of biological activities. However, mining the full-genome sequences of fungi indicates that their potential to produce secondary metabolites is greatly underestimated. Because most of the biosynthesis gene clusters are silent under laboratory conditions, one of the major challenges is to understand the physiological conditions under which these genes are activated. Thus, we cocultivated the important model fungus Aspergillus nidulans with a collection of 58 soil-dwelling actinomycetes. By microarray analyses of both Aspergillus secondary metabolism and full-genome arrays and Northern blot and quantitative RT-PCR analyses, we demonstrate at the molecular level that a distinct fungal-bacterial interaction leads to the specific activation of fungal secondary metabolism genes. Most surprisingly, dialysis experiments and electron microscopy indicated that an intimate physical interaction of the bacterial and fungal mycelia is required to elicit the specific response. Gene knockout experiments provided evidence that one induced gene cluster codes for the long-sought after polyketide synthase (PKS) required for the biosynthesis of the archetypal polyketide orsellinic acid, the typical lichen metabolite lecanoric acid, and the cathepsin K inhibitors F-9775A and F-9775B. A phylogenetic analysis demonstrates that orthologs of this PKS are widespread in nature in all major fungal groups, including mycobionts of lichens. These results provide evidence of specific interaction among microorganisms belonging to different domains and support the hypothesis that not only diffusible signals but intimate physical interactions contribute to the communication among microorganisms and induction of otherwise silent biosynthesis genes.

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With City flying high in second place in the Premier League, their star men have been linked with transfers to richer clubs.

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“There will be no-one leaving in January,” said Rodgers at his weekly press conference. “Categorically.

“No [I’ve not spoken with the board] but I’m sure if we speak that will be the case as well.

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I recently celebrated my two-year anniversary as the Executive Director of Lemonade International, and these last two years have been a whirlwind to say the least! God has done so much for the La Limonada community. As I look back on all that He has done for all of us, I am reminded of His faithfulness in times of plenty and in times of need.

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“The Epiphany ceremony has its roots to ancient Greek customs. The ancient Athenians, for example, had a ceremony known as "Wash". During this ceremony the believers procession carried the sacred statue of goddess Athena to the Faliro coast, nearby Athens, where they washed it using salty sea water. They believed that this way they were cleaning it from the dirt and were renewing their sacred forces.
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