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REMEMBERING JAIME ESCALANTE: "GANAS=DESIRE" MAKE A DIFFERENCE THE ESCALANTE WAY
"IF YOU EXPECT CHILDREN TO BE LOSERS, THEY WILL BE LOSERS; BUT IF YOU EXPECT THEM TO BE WINNERS, THEY WILL BE WINNERS!" –JAIME ESCALANTE
A NEWS CLIP FROM 2010 WHEN ESCALANTE PASSED WHICH SHOWS THE IMPACT HE MADE AS A TEACHER IN EAST LA
"'GANAS =DESIRE + DETERMINATION + DISCIPLINE' AND THAT'S ALL WE NEED TO LEARN!"
–JAIME ESCALANTE
JAIME A. ESCALANTE
Two years ago, on March 30th we lost a pioneering teacher who changed people's ideas of what children are capable of learning. Many people know about Escalante's work from the popular movie "Stand and Deliver," which depicted his success teaching Advanced Placement (AP) calculus classes to students at East Los Angeles's Garfield High School.
A CLIP FROM MOVIE "STAND AND DELIVER" THAT DEPICTS A FEW OF JAIME ESCALANTE'S TEACHING METHODS – (Watch how even when students gave him the middle finger he still managed to use it to teach them Math)
Today, the beliefs that all children can learn and every child deserves a quality education have become familiar language in goals set by the Department of Education and school boards across the country. But when Escalante genuinely believed this about the children he was teaching in the late 1970s and early 1980s, people thought he was naïve and crazy. The students at Garfield High were exactly the kind of children other education and policy experts predicted would be left behind. They were largely from poor Mexican American families, and the majority of their parents had not finished grade school. (Sadly, this poor education method of the "Left Behind" system is still being used on a lot of our children.)
When Escalante arrived at Garfield, the school was known for low test scores and a high dropout rate. Most people looked at the students' backgrounds, their school, and their environment and simply didn't have high expectations for them. But Jaime Escalante always did. As a result, he was able to teach children who had nothing and who had been "taught" they could do nothing that they were capable of great things. He showed the world that with a good teacher poor and minority children can accomplish wonders. After all, children live up or don't to expectations of important adults in their lives.
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Escalante's expectations seemed especially farfetched at first because he wasn't simply saying he wanted his students to be able to take standard high school math classes and get good grades. His goal, AP calculus, was an elite college preparatory course considered by many to be the most difficult class a student could take in high school. Many affluent public schools still didn't offer it, and the public and private schools that did often required students to take entrance exams or satisfy other prerequisites to prove they could handle it.
Escalante's idea that he could offer it at Garfield and make it available to any students willing to do the work flew in the face of most conventional wisdom about testing, tracking, and predicting student success in a challenging course. But his students' stellar performance on the national standardized AP tests proved his own judgment correct. His simple formula for student success was a good teacher committed to working hard to teach and students committed to working hard to learn–and he demonstrated that student commitment and ability could be developed through the encouragement and reinforcement students received from the hardworking and committed teacher.
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Escalante's demonstration of the power a single teacher can have to motivate and push students to extraordinary success changed the way many educators viewed student ability and learning. The fact that great teachers like Escalante can teach poor and minority students to soar academically has recently been confirmed in a groundbreaking longitudinal study by Tennessee scholars June Rivers and William Sanders which found the effectiveness of the teacher is the single most important factor in student learning–far overshadowing all other classroom variables, including the ethnic and socioeconomic makeup of the students.
Jaime Escalante teaching. Photo courtesy of Anthony Friedkin from Yahoo Community Immigrant Group
Many of Escalante's classroom techniques became models too, like encouraging the class to tackle the material together like a team taking on an opponent (the AP test), and putting in extra time so students could keep working after school and on weekends when necessary. Today, many of the most successful charter schools and other urban classrooms across the country follow in Escalante's footprints. His commitment to opening up the most challenging classes to more children also revolutionized placement policies in many schools. Escalante understood that success in AP calculus was not an end in and of itself. It gave students the right preparation to take similarly challenging courses in other subjects and was a gateway to college admissions and other future aspirations that didn't need to be limited to children from "elite" backgrounds. **If he could do it in the 70's/80's and his methods were proven successful, then why isn't every public school following his lead? Why must it be limited it charter schools?***
Teacher Jaime Escalante on K-ABC TV Los Angeles News
There's still so much work to be done to lift the ceiling so many insecure adults place on children's aspirations. The most recent data show White students are more than twice as likely as Hispanic students to be enrolled in AP science or AP math, and about three times as likely as Black or American Indian students to be enrolled in AP science or AP math.
The Obama Administration is making the goal of continuing to open up these classes a priority, and its Blueprint for Reform in education specifically supports states' efforts to improve access to AP tests for low-income students. This is a key part of Jaime Escalante's legacy. But his most enduring lesson is that all children can learn and excel–as long as they have the right teacher. And we must all stand up and speak up to get the right teachers in the classroom for all our children.
A CLIP OF AN INTERVIEW WITH JAIME ESCALANTE REGARDING HIS PASSION FOR TEACHING
ESCALANTE WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED AND HIS LEGACY WILL LIVE ON
Members of Garfield's junior varsity football team touch Escalante's shiny black casket. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Jaime Escalante Jr. with his son Jaime, 9, lower left, enter the classroom of his father, Jaime Escalante, a Bolivian-born American educator, during a memorial service at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles on Friday, Apr. 16, 2010. Escalante, 79, was born Dec. 31,1930, in LaPaz, Boliva and passed away at his home in Roseville, Calif. on March 30. Escalante was the subject of the 1988 film "Stand and Deliver," in which he is portrayed by actor Edward James Olmos.
A STATEMENT FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA
On the same day President Barack Obama (surrounded by the family of Cesar Chavez and leaders of the United Farm Workers that Chavez co-founded) signed a proclamation in the Oval Office designating March 31, 2010, which would have been his 83rd birthday, as Cesar Chavez Day; he also made a statement recognizing Jaime Escalante and his impact in the Latino community. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
I was saddened to hear about the passing of Jaime Escalante today. While most of us got to know him through the movie that depicted his work teaching inner-city students calculus, the students whose lives he changed remain the true testament to his life's work. Throughout his career Jaime opened the doors of success and higher education for his students one by one, and proved that where a person came from did not have to determine how far they could go. He instilled knowledge in his students, but more importantly he helped them find the passion and the will to fulfill their potential. Jaime's story became famous. But he represented countless, valiant teachers throughout our country whose great works are known only to the young people whose lives they change. Michelle and I offer our condolences to Jaime's family, and to all those who knew him and whose lives he touched.
Read More: Huffington Post
Filed Under: LATINO EMPOWERMENT, LATINO HISTORY Tagged With: Advanced Placement exams, Department of Education, Education, Edward James Olmos, Escalante, Garfield High School, Jaime Escalante, Learning, Stand and Deliver, Teacher
THE "BOOK SMUGGLERS" PROTEST ARIZONA'S CONTROVERSIAL BAN ON ETHNIC STUDIES CLASSES: MEET THE LIBROTRAFICANTES
Arizona Ethnic-Studies Ban's Unintended Result: Underground Libraries
Meet the Librotraficantes—the "book smugglers" protesting the state's controversial ban on ethnic-studies classes—and putting Mexican-American works in students' hands.
Some 30 students, teachers, and activists emerged from the bus carrying boxes of books. As they stepped onto the pavement Saturday and into the bright Tucson sun, they chanted in unison, "What do we want? Books! When do we want them? Now! Who are we? Librostraficantes!"
The Spanish term, which means "book smugglers," is the brainchild of Houston Community College professor and author Tony Diaz, who with a few dozen supporters set out March 12 for Arizona to protest a 2010 state law that prohibits certain types of ethnic studies in public schools. In January officials shut down the Tucson Unified School District's Mexican-American-studies curriculum. The Librotraficante Caravan traveled through Texas and New Mexico, stopping in cities along the way to hold literary readings, collect donated books, and establish "underground libraries" filled with titles from Tucson's banned courses. Several authors whose works were discontinued participated—Rudolfo Anaya, widely considered the godfather of Latino literature in the Southwest, even invited the caravan into his Albuquerque home for posole, traditional pork stew.
"I'm much obliged to the Tucson Unified School District for creating this little book club," Diaz said after arriving at a youth center that will be the site of Tucson's "underground library," home to copies of some 80 books taught in the now-defunct program, including The House on Mango Street by bestselling author Sandra Cisneros, Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years, and The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea. "When Arizona legislators decided to erase our history, we decided to make more!" The law originated amid Arizona's heated debates over the immigration crackdown spearheaded by Republican legislators, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and Gov. Jan Brewer. The governor signed the ethnic-studies measure in May 2010, just weeks after signing into law the country's toughest immigration bill in generations. (That measure, S.B. 1070, is heading to the Supreme Court in April.) Soon after, officials declared the Tucson program illegal, and a group of teachers sued the state in federal court. In January an administrative judge approved the courses' elimination, and the classes' books were boxed up and taken to storage facilities and school libraries. A district-court judge is scheduled to hear motions in the case today.
Megan Feldman
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne wrote the ethnic-studies law while he was the state's superintendent of public instruction. Banning courses that promote the overthrow of the U.S. government, encourage resentment against a group of people, or are created specifically for one group, the law was aimed squarely at the Tucson Mexican-American-studies program. Its teachers, Horne claims, taught Chicano history and literature through a racist and politicized filter that wrongly informed students that they're oppressed by white people. (He says he began looking into the program in 2007 after labor leader Dolores Huerta told Tucson students that Republicans hated Latinos, and when he sent a Latina Republican aide to the school to counter that view, some students turned their backs and raised their fists in the air.)
"It's a fundamental American value that what matters about us is what we know, what we can do, and what is our character—and that what race we were born into is irrelevant," Horne says. "This program is teaching students the opposite—that what matters about people is their race." In a recent court brief, he cites former district teachers who claim students became resentful and mistrustful of authorities after taking the classes, as well as a white student who said Hispanic students ceased speaking to her because of her race. The program's teachers and many of its students dismiss such accusations. Alfonso Chavez, 20, says the classes helped him understand his culture and history while getting an education that included the state-mandated core curriculum. "These classes are very relevant, especially here in the Southwest," he said at a Librotraficante breakfast hosted by a Tucson gallery. "It helped me grow as a person, and my grades started improving."
"THE BIG CULTURAL AFFRONT TO ME IS THAT THEY WALKED IN THE CLASSROOMS AND BOXED UP THE BOOKS IN FRONT OF THE LATINO STUDENTS. THAT WAS THE SINGLE ACT THAT GALVANIZED US AND THIS WHOLE MOVEMENT!"
Erin Cain-Hodge, a 19-year-old University of Arizona student, says being one of three white pupils in one of the now prohibited courses was valuable. "I took the classes because I was constantly hearing from the same white male authors," she says. "I thought, 'There has to be more.'" Horne says the state's standard courses include Chicano authors and even instances of historical oppression, but Mexican-American-studies supporters say Latino history and literature are underrepresented.
"Many of my students would come in and say they'd never read any Chicano literature before," said Curtis Acosta, a plaintiff in the case who has taught in the Tucson schools since 2003. In a district that's more than 60 percent Latino, teaching Chicano history and literature is crucial for students' sense of belonging and academic development, he said. As for claims that he taught students to resent white people? "I think Horne needs to take credit for his own work," Acosta said. "If he feels that anger, we definitely didn't have to teach it, because he's teaching it to them."
READ MORE: THE DAILY BEAST
Filed Under: LATINO EMPOWERMENT Tagged With: Arizona, Chicana/o Studies, Ethnic studies, Tom Horne, Tucson, Tucson Arizona, Tucson Unified School District, United States
DID ANY MEXICANS MAKE FORBES 2012 LIST OF BILLIONAIRES: CARLOS SLIM TAKES FIRST PLACE AND 10 OTHERS FOLLOW
March 19, 2012 by Jessica Marie Gutierrez 1 Comment
The richest man in the world is Mexican telecoms magnate Carlos Slim at the equivalent of $69 billion U.S. dollars. In second place is Bill Gates with $61 billion, followed by Warren Buffet at $44 billion. Europe's richest man, Frenchman Bernard Arnault is #4 with $41 billion, while Amancio Ortega of Spain has $37.5 billion. Larry Ellison has $36 billion, while Brazil's Eike Batista has $30 billion. In the #8 position is Sweden's Stefan Persson with $26 billion. Li Ka-Shing of Hong Kong has $25.5 billion, and #10 is Karl Albrecht of Germany with $25.4 billion. Carlos Slim and family are worth $69 billion. The man, known as "King Midas" or "The Engineer," really made it into the big leagues back in 1990 when he bought Telmex, which now controls about 80% of Mexico's landlines. Slim also has Telcel which controls about 70% of the Mexican cellular phone market and América Móvil, Latin America's biggest wireless provider, with over 200 million customers. Last year he started Minera Frisco, a mining company. Slim has a bank, an airline, department stores, restaurants and music outlets. Slim sells insurance, auto parts, and ceramic tile. The Mexican government pays Slim to construct roads, water treatment plants, petroleum platforms, etc. Slim also owns part of the New York Times. And, his latest high-profile venture is the launching of an Internet TV network featuring his friend Larry King, known as Ora.tv.
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Ricardo Salinas Pliego and family are worth $17.4 billion. Salinas Pliego runs the Grupo Elektra retailer (which he inherited) and TV Azteca network (which he started). Banco Azteca, part of the Elektra chain, serves mostly low-income clients. Ricardo Salinas Pliego controls Mexico's second largest broadcaster, TV Azteca. But by far the largest chunk of his fortune–$15.3 billion worth– lies with home electronics retailer Grupo Elektra, which has a finance arm that makes loans to customers, including very low-income ones. Elektra's stock has more than doubled in the past year, pushing Salinas' fortune up by $9.2 billion; Elektra revenue grew 19% in peso terms in 2011 to $4.1 billion. Analysts point to a very small float as one reason for the large increase in value of Elektra's share price; an equity swap with UBS and a new place on the benchmark IPC Mexican stock index further reduced supply and drove share prices higher. In mid 2010, Salinas took his financially troubled Mexican wireless carrier Iusacell private; he owned 75%. He struck a deal in 2011 to sell a 50% stake of Iusacell to competing Mexican TV broadcaster Televisa for $1.6 billion, but in February 2012 the Mexican national competition commission vetoed the plan. Televisa and Iusacell are appealing. It's all part of the ongoing telecom battle with Carlos Slim, whose company Telcel controls 70% of the Mexican mobile market; Iusacell has a mere 4% market share. Salinas' Azteca Foundation is active in promoting youth orchestras across Mexico.
photo source: El Poder de los Numeros
Alberto Bailleres and family are worth $16.5 billion. Bailleres is chairman of metallurgical giant Industrias Peñoles, Bailleres has stock in the luxury department store El Palacio de Hierro, Grupo Nacional Provincial insurance company, investment firm Grupo Profuturo, and serves on the board of bottling company Femsa. Bailleres also has a 100-yard long yacht called The Mayan Queen IV. Alberto Bailleres chairs Mexico's second largest mining company, Industrias Penoles, one of the world's largest silver miners. Thanks in part to higher prices for precious metals, as well as to the opening of his El Saucito silver and gold mine in Zacatecas, Bailleres's fortune is up $4.6 billion since last year on a steep rise in the share price of Industrias Penoles; his 69% stake in the company accounts for $13.4 billion of his fortune. He also chairs department store chain Grupo Palacio de Hierro, insurance company Grupo Nacional Provincial, and pension fund manager Grupo Profuturo. Plus Bailleres owns a stake in Coke bottler Femsa. He is reportedly a patron of bullfighting.
Alberto Bailleres presidente grupo BAL, durante la inaguraci n de la mina Saucito, en Fresnillo, Zacatecas. (NOTIMEX/FOTO/JOS LUIS SALMER N/JLS/POL/Newscom)
Mining and lumber magnate German Larea Motta Velasco is CEO of mining company Grupo México. Larea and family have a net worth of $14.2 billion dollars. Grupo Mexico also includes Mexico's biggest railroad company Ferromex. Larea is also owner of the Cinemex movie chain. German Larrea still reigns as Mexico's media-shy copper king. Mexico's largest copper producer, Grupo Mexico, had another stellar year, revenue-wise. But with stock prices slightly down, Larrea and his family, who control 51% of the mining conglomerate–saw their fortune drop by $1.8 billion. Grupo Mexico is currently fighting a Delaware court decision that it overvalued shares of its copper subsidiary in a 2005 merger deal. The conglomerate has had trouble with labor at its Mexican mines; the former Cananea mine, now called Buenavista, near the U.S. border was shut for nearly four years by a strike. Meanwhile, President and Chairman of the Board German Larrea remains elusive, avoiding journalists and photographers.
Jeronimo Arango and family are worth $4 billion. Arango's family business was the Bodega Aurrera supermarket chain, part of Grupo Cifra, which sold out to Wal-Mart and became Wal-Mart de México (Walmex), netting the family a couple of billion. The Arangos also own real estate. Jeronimo Arango's art collection includes pieces by El Greco and Goya, some of which he has donated to the Prado Museum in Madrid. Arango also serves on the Prado board of trustees. Jeronimo Arango, with brothers Manuel and Placido, shares a fortune gained from selling their stake in retailer Cifra to Wal-Mart's Mexican arm in 1997. Jeronimo is said to live a quiet life in Los Angeles. Manuel, a real estate developer, also founded the Mexican Center for Philanthropy and, in 2011, called on businesses to donate at least one percent of their profits to charity. Placido collects art and has owned a chain of restaurants
Emilio Azcarraga Jean is worth $2 billion. Azcarraga runs Grupo Televisa, with its TV channel, telenovela production, radio, satellite, Internet, publishing, gambling and discount airline. Emilio Azcarraga is the chief executive of powerhouse Mexican TV broadcaster Televisa, which has recently begun producing English-language programming. Azcarraga and his would-be business partner Ricardo Salinas Pliego, of TV Azteca, continue an ongoing Mexican media battle with Carlos Slim Helu, Mexico's richest man. Last year Azcarraga's Televisa struck a deal to buy a 50% stake in Salinas' mobile phone company, Iusacell, for $1.6 billion. In early February Mexico's Federal Competition Commission vetoed the deal, a move widely viewed as stinking of politics; Televisa and Iusacell are appealing. Slim's phone companies Telmex and Telcel as well as retailers belonging to Grupo Carso pulled their advertising from Televisa in 2011 after Televisa increased ad rates by 20%. Televisa said the increase came because the Slim companies did not participate in "upfront" ad buying for the year. Meanwhile, Azcarraga is nudging into Slim's hold on telephony in Mexico by offering bundled Internet, phone and cable TV through Televisa's cable TV unit.
Roberto Gonzalez Barrera is founder and executive of Gruma, which is the world's biggest maker of tortillas. (Gruma brands include Mission and Maseca.) Most of his money, though, is from his part of the Banorte. The bank's stock went up in 2011, putting Gonzalez Barrera back on the billionaires' list after being off it for more than a decade. This magnate is worth $1.9 billion, and that is from his stock alone, not that of his family as are many of these valuations. Roberto Gonzalez Barrera founded and runs Gruma, the world's largest tortilla maker; brand names include Mission, Guerrero and Maseca. U.S. agricultural commodities powerhouse Archer Daniels Midland is a 23% shareholder. The majority of Gonzalez Barrera's wealth, however, comes from his stake in Banorte, a successful Mexican bank that earlier in its history was owned by the Mexican government. In 2011, he returned to the billionaires list after a hiatus of more than a decade, based on the strength of Banorte's stock. This valuation includes his shares alone, and not those of his children.
Roberto González Barrera, presidente de GRUMA.
Carlos Hank Rhon and family in the world and are worth $1.4 billion and on the Forbes billionaires list for the first time. His family owns over 90% of Grupo Financiero Interacciones, which in turn controls Banco Interacciones. The Hank family also has Grupo Hermes (which includes Hermes Infraestructura) and a transportation company. Carlos Hank Rhon makes the billionaires list for the first time, thanks in large part to his family's 93.4% holding of Grupo Financiero Interacciones, currently worth close to $800 million. The group controls Banco Interacciones, an integrated financial services firm and investment bank in Mexico. The Hank family also fully controls Grupo Hermes; its Hermes Infraestructura arm builds just about every type of major infrastructure: bridges, roads, hydroelectric plants. In the past several years, the Hank family has been developing Playa Mujeres, a new luxury tourist destination in Cancun. The family also has a transportation business.
Roberto Hernandez Ramirez is worth $1.3 billion. Hernandez was CEO of Banamex when that bank sold out to Citigroup, and he remained on Citigroup's board until 2009. Now he's on the board of Televisa and owns part of a Brazilian company. Roberto Hernandez Ramirez, the former chief executive of Banamex, reaped an estimated $2 billion windfall when Citigroup bought the Mexican bank in 2001. Hernandez remained on the Citigroup board until 2009; he is currently a board member of Mexican broadcaster Televisa. He has a small investment in Brazilian consumer goods company Hypermarcas (run by billionaire Joao Alves de Queiroz Filho). Hernandez has created two foundations intended to preserve the environment and Mayan cultural heritage and is on the board of the Nature Conservancy.
(Foto: Gilberto Contreras)
Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as "el Chapo" (Shorty), is the chief of the Sinaloa drug cartel. The estimated net worth of this narco baron is $1 billion. The inclusion of Guzman on the list has been criticized, but he is a billionaire. Joaquin Guzman, known as "El Chapo," is a criminal and the leader of the illegal drug smuggling Sinaloa cartel, responsible for an estimated 25% of the illegal drugs trafficked from Mexico into the U.S. Guzman is believed by drug experts to be spending more money to defend the cartel than in previous years due to stepped up enforcement efforts by the Mexican government, and has expanded cartel operations to Central America, particularly Guatemala. But authorities are closing in: December 2011 brought the arrest of a top Sinaloa lieutenant, quickly followed in February by the capture of the leader of the cartel's armed wing. Circumstances must be less than cozy in the mountains where El Chapo hides out; in August, the drug lord reportedly sent his 22-year-old wife to Los Angeles County to give birth to the couple's twin daughters.
Alfredo Harp Helu is Carlos Slim's first cousin. Harp and family are worth $1 billion. Harp was running Banamex when the company cashed in by selling out to Citigroup in 2001, and now owns the Diablos Rojos baseball team in Mexico City, and he is the principal shareholder of the Grupo Marti gym and sporting goods store. The bulk of Alfredo Harp Helu's fortune comes from the 2001 sale of Mexican bank Banamex to Citigroup. Harp was the bank's former head and a significant shareholder. He currently chairs publicly traded Grupo Marti, which owns a chain of sporting goods retailers. Harp is the principal shareholder. He is also a cousin of Carlos Slim Helu, Mexico's richest man. A baseball fan, he owns the Diablos Rojos (Red Devils) Mexican team. In 1994, Harp Helu was kidnapped and held for several months.
Filed Under: LATINO EMPOWERMENT Tagged With: Bill Gates, Carlos Slim, Eike Batista, Forbes, Grupo Elektra, Grupo México, Hong Kong, Iusacell, Larry Ellison, Mexico, New York Times, Ricardo Salinas Pliego
DOES A LATINA RUN THE GIRL SCOUTS: CELEBRATING 100 YEARS WITH CEO ANA MARIA CHAVEZ
Latina leader to her Girl Scouts: Prepare to lead
When 10-year-old Anna Maria Chavez joined Girl Scout Troop 304 in the small town of Eloy, Arizona, she never thought the experience would eventually lead her to occupy a colorful office just off Fifth Avenue in the heart of Manhattan.
While about half of all women in the United States were Girl Scouts at some point in their lives, today, one in 10 of those girls are Latina. One of them is Chavez, who last year became the first Hispanic CEO of the organization.
At the headquarters of Girls Scouts Inc., Chavez is celebrating the organization's 100th anniversary surrounded by apple-green walls and shelves of memorabilia. Instead of magazines in the small waiting area, there are cookie jars.
"I never ever imagined that I would become the national CEO of Girl Scouts," she said. "You need to understand where I came from."
In This Photo: Anna Maria Chavez Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images North America)
Chavez was the only daughter in a Mexican immigrant family that came to the U.S. to work on farms. Hers was the first generation in the family to attend college.
Chavez said when she was a girl her own family had no knowledge about Girl Scouts and what they do. "I went home to my abuelita, my nana, and I said, 'Nana I'm gonna be a Girl Scout,' and she said 'Y eso? Que hacen?' you know, 'What do they do?'" Chavez recalled.
For a young Chavez, camping and meeting girls from different backgrounds helped her to become more confident and independent. That helped in her teen years, when she moved from Eloy to Phoenix, and entered a large school where she was one of about a dozen Mexican students.
Her undergraduate education was at Yale, where a high SAT score helped her get accepted and earn a scholarship.
"When I got in, people were shocked and dismayed because nobody in our high school had gotten into this school. 'You're Latina, don't you think you should stay in state?'" she said. "And I was like 'Wait a minute, I have no boundaries!'" She credits her Girl Scouts experience with helping her to make that decision.
Gallery: The first Girl Scout: Daisy Gordon Lawrence
Her tenure in the Girl Scouts also helped her make her career choice. Chavez remembered a family picnic during childhood, when she discovered a cave with Native American drawings that had been scribbled over with graffiti. Her outrage, she recalled, turned into a desire to become an attorney and "make laws" to stop things like this from happening.
"Only the Girl Scouts could charge me in a way to understand that even as a small girl, I could make a difference…" she said.
So after Yale, she returned to Phoenix to get a law degree and went on to become a successful attorney, eventually working for former Arizona Governor – and Girl Scouts alumna – Janet Napolitano. Later, she took up regional direction of Girl Scouts in San Antonio, Texas.
The position paved the way for her current job at the helm of the organization in New York. "Girl Scouts and my family taught me to dream big," she said. "Nothing was impossible."
Now, she's on a mission: To help the Girl Scouts of today become the leaders of tomorrow, like she did.
"If you look across the country, the top 10 job sectors, only 18 percent of leadership positions in those sectors are held by women," she said, citing a survey conducted by Girl Scouts. "What were saying is, 'Wouldn't it be great if we could increase women in these leadership roles?'"
That message of leadership especially resonates with Latina mothers, who "want their daughters to succeed; they want their daughters to explore other options in their lives," Chavez said.
According to the Girl Scouts, there are three million girls and women volunteers in the United States alone. The organization is present in 90 countries and claims to have made an impact in the lives of more than 59 million members in the course of its history.
As the scouts turn a century old, Chavez is intent on revamping the organization's image. "People love Girl Scouts… they see our brand and they smile and think cookies, camp and crafts, but we want them to see premier leadership organization for girls in this country, if not this world," she said.
Her vision for the future was already working in Queens Village, New York, where several troops met to commemorate World Thinking Day, a celebration of Girl Scouts around the world and a chance for scouts to pin new badges to their vests.
READ MORE: CNN IN AMERICA
Filed Under: LATINO EMPOWERMENT Tagged With: Chavez, Girl Scout, Girl Scouts USA, Janet Napolitano, latina, Queens Village, San Antonio, Texas, United States, World Thinking Day
WILL JESSICA SANCHEZ BE THE NEXT AMERICAN IDOL?
March 12, 2012 by Jessica Marie Gutierrez Leave a Comment
Jessica Sanchez wows Jennifer Hudson, Ruben Studdard
After Jessica Sanchez earned a standing ovation for her powerhouse rendition of Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You" Wednesday night, she got a special Twitter shout out from season 3 alum and Oscar winner, Jennifer Hudson! "Yes Jessica! That's it!!" Jennifer tweeted. Jessica told Access Hollywood, "Me and my uncle were in the same room when we saw the tweet and we were, like, crying and freaking out." Hudson recently sang the song at the Grammys as a tribute to the late singer.
Filed Under: FEATURED ENTERTAINMENT, LATINO EMPOWERMENT, LATINO ENTERTAINMENT Tagged With: Access Hollywood, Influential Access, Jennifer Hudson, JESSICA MARIE GUTIERREZ, public relations, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Twitter, Whitney Houston


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A look at house prices along the route of this Sunday?s London Marathon reveals some impressive price rises over the past decade, although some areas have come up more than others.
The mortgage lender Nationwide studied house price patterns along the main areas the route the runners pass through, in chronological order. At the race?s starting point, in Greenwich, the research found prices rising by as much as £100 per day, as the average house gained in value there by £48,000 over the past year.
'Greenwich is one of five host boroughs for the 2012 London Olympics, and for more than a decade, the local council has orchestrated one of the largest regeneration programmes in the UK,' Nationwide says, making it a great place to invest in property.
From Greenwich to Lewisham house prices descend along with the gradient: Lewisham is the cheapest borough of the five on the route, although not the cheapest in London. Prices here easily outstrip those in Bromley, Barking Dagenham, and Havering. 'Rates of house price growth here are impressive, with an increase of 283% since 1997 as the area also benefited from investment in recent years,' says the report.
Further west, house prices creep further up. In Southwark, prices are, on average, £72,519 more expensive than in Lewisham, and rising at a rate of £157 per day, and the rate of inflation is tied equal to that of Lewisham, at 283%. These large increases are due to extensive regeneration in the past decade, and a tube station on the Jubilee line, both of which have totally changed the face of the borough.
Across the river in Tower Hamlets, Nationwide found prices continuing their upward trend, with the second highest average price of the five. An increase of £53,242 year-on-year may seem modest, but Tower Hamlets is undeniably an area where spectacular development has taken place. The business community is continuing to grow, and increased development is following. The Olympics is also expected to impact on this area, bringing more jobs, more homes and better transport to this borough which contains some of the most deprived parts of London.
As the runners near the finish line in Westminster, they also approach some of the most exclusive postcodes in the country. Prices here have risen by more than £112,000 in the past year alone, which amounts to almost £307 per day.
Encompassing Knightsbridge, Belgravia and Mayfair, Westminster is home to the majority of London's luxury hotels and prime shopping areas, and ongoing are likely to guarantee prosperity here for the future.
Nationwide's Chief economist, Fionnuala Earley, said: 'The strength of London's economy is a major factor behind the buoyancy of its housing market. Development of infrastructure and the anticipated gains of regeneration resulting from investment for the Olympic Games have helped to inject further confidence in the market.


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Governments have failed La Loche and social issues
The principal of La Loche Community School says his community feels abandoned since the shootings a year ago that left four dead and seven wounded.
Murray Mandryk
Residents console each other at the memorial near the La Loche Community School in January after a shooting left four people dead. Photo by JASON FRANSON /THE CANADIAN PRESS
Sadly, this is an all-too-familiar pattern in Saskatchewan politics.
Our politicians are great at paying lip service at times of tragedy. However, when it comes to committing to long-term policy solutions that deal with the root social issues, government help quickly disappears.
Lest we exclusively blame Premier Brad Wall's government, consider how ingrained social issues are in La Loche. And further consider how often our combative political system sees government critics celebrate our failings on social issues until we reach the point at which such failings become meaningless.
As we approach the Jan. 22 one-year anniversary of a then-17-year-old killing teacher Adam Wood, 35, teacher's aide Marie Janvier, 21, and 17- and 13-year-old brothers Dayne and Drayden Fontaine, we are hearing La Loche High School principal Greg Hatch say his school and community have been abandoned by the government. As a result, many of his students are still struggling.
In fact, it very much appears this government neither understands nor values the support mechanisms already in place to avoid even more tragedies like La Loche and the rash of northern teen suicides we saw in 2016.
For example, shortly after its April 4 re-election, the Sask. Party government had already served notice it would discontinue funding of the Northern Teachers' Education Program (NORTEP).
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Of course, there is never a simple solution to such tragic situations. But what should be evident to everyone is the immense value of northern teachers most able to connect with young people in crisis. By all logic, government should be seeking out more such resource people rather than limiting their ability to exist.
Ninety-two per cent of those who graduated from NORTEP in the past five years remained in the north as teachers — a critical statistic in a part of the world where recruitment and retention is as critical as it is difficult.
Because only northerners qualify for NORTEP's support — the bulk of which comes from a $3.4-million provincial grant that supports not only prospective teachers but also those in the Northern Professional Access College (NORPAC) program — it should be considered a valued investment for the province.
Yet a government that sees no problem subsidizing privileged university graduates with the purchase of their first home claims it has no money for NORTEP grants?
Even more perverse, Sask. Party ministers have justified ending NORTEP grants by pointing to what it's done for La Loche in the wake of the shootings a year ago. Well, according to the principal, the government has done very little.
As per usual, critics of the Sask. Party have expressed outrage over this.
But when you consider how long La Loche has struggled — in fact, how long the province has struggled with the same social problems — one can see how our political system winds up perversely celebrating our long-held failings.
Currently circulating through left-wing circles is a devastating letter to the editor from Sandra Mitchell — a long-time NDP activist and wife of the late NDP cabinet minister Bob Mitchell — that eviscerates the Wall government.
However, while the beleaguered left is revelling in the letter, let's consider Mitchell's criticisms for a moment: A provincial crime rate twice the national average, the highest homicide rate in the country, a rate of incarceration double any other province, Canada's highest impaired driving rate and the highest rate of domestic violence.
All of these criticisms could be (and in fact, were) levelled at past NDP governments. So were the problems in La Loche and the north. But besides providing fodder for the opposition of the day, little was accomplished in addressing them.
This in no way justifies the Wall government's decision to end NORTEP grants — a decision that may make matters worse.
But it does demonstrate the need to elevate some social issues above the political fray rather than sweeping them under the rug.
Mandryk is the political columnist for the Regina Leader-Post.

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Julie Killian, a city of Rye councilwoman, will try to do what no other Republican has been able to: beat George Latimer.
Killian announced that she plans to seek the New York state Senate seat for the 37th District currently occupied by Latimer, a Democrat, at a Rye City Republican Committee meeting last month, the Review has learned. She is in her first full term on the Rye City Council and earlier this year was appointed deputy mayor. Killian, a mother of five, first joined the council in 2012 after being appointed to the seat following a vacancy.
Tony Sayegh, a political analyst for Fox News and News12 Westchester, said the 37th District, which stretches from the city of Yonkers north to the town of Bedford, is one of the Senate's very few true swing districts in the state, meaning that either political party could wrestle control in a given election cycle. "It really requires somebody who is independent in some respects," he said, adding that it's also a very diverse district.
Sayegh, also a Republican strategist, has already been retained by the Killian camp as she prepares to officially launch her candidacy with an announcement expected on Friday, after press time. According to Sayegh, she has been listening to people's issues and gaining a better understanding of the district.
"Julie is trying to understand all of the concerns and slowly we'll be rolling out some of the solutions to those problems," said Sayegh, adding that as far as a platform, it's still too early for Killian to start talking specifics.
But the analyst said, based on her record of service, Killian is viewed as a problem solver. "She knows how to build consensus, she's worked across the aisle [and] she has been a thoughtful leader in the realm of public policy," he said.
Killian, 54, has been a member of the Westchester County Charter Revision Commission, a group established to recommend changes to the county charter, as well as New Yorkers for Growth, a PAC that promotes fiscally responsible policies in the state.
In Rye, she has served on the city Finance Committee, been a volunteer in the Rye school district, and a supporter of the Rye library, Rye Historical Society and Rye Arts Center. Her latest project was helping to launch an anti-drug coalition in Rye in 2015.
Conversely, Sayegh criticized Latimer by calling his record of bipartisanship hollow, adding that he has voted with the Democratic leadership more than 98 percent of the time. "He has aligned himself with the Bill DiBlasio New York City agenda," he said, referring to the liberal mayor of New York City.
For Latimer, 62, the criticism is nothing new, as he seems to always be the target of state Republicans, who want to maintain control of the Senate. The senator told the Review that he has a bull's-eye on his back.
But Latimer, who is seeking his third term in the Senate, said there is a reason why he has been consistently re-elected.
"I don't think anyone has proven they care more about the people they represent than I do, day after day," he said.
Latimer has never lost an election, winning 14 consecutive races dating back to his one term on the Rye City Council in 1987.
Killian's campaign is likely to be well-financed with a high level of organization and full of support from some of the top Republicans throughout the state.
However, the last time the GOP put an all-out assault on Latimer, it backfired.
In 2012, with Latimer seeking the Senate seat following the retirement of longtime Sen. Suzi Oppenheimer, a Democrat, the state Republicans ran Bob Cohen, who nearly defeated Oppenheimer just two years prior.
Many pundits predicted 2012 was Cohen's time.
Cohen and Latimer battled it out before a statewide audience. The duo set the record for campaign expenditures in a state race at the time; the Cohen campaign spent more than $4 million on attack ads, including radio spots and TV commercials. But Latimer won the seat in surprisingly easy fashion, with 54 percent of the vote, and celebrated his hardest fought victory to date.
In 2014, Latimer defeated Republican Joe Dillon, a late entry who didn't launch his campaign until July.
The district encompasses the cities of Yonkers, White Plains, New Rochelle and Rye; and the towns of Eastchester, Harrison, Mamaroneck, Rye, Bedford and North Castle.
Candidates are elected to the Senate for two-year terms with an annual base salary of $79,500.
Killian could not be reached for comment as of press time.


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Total Population 1801 to 1921: Population grew from 1,809 in 1801 to 17,774 in 1921.
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MARGAM UD Local Government District 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
MARGAM Registration sub-District 1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
MARGAM USD Sanitary District 1891 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area and Population in Rural Sanitary Districts'.
NEWCASTLE Hundred Ancient District 1831 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Population Abstract'.
09 Nov 1921 was abolished to enlarge PORT TALBOT AP/CP Area: 18515 acres. 1931 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Intercensal Changes in Boundaries, 1921-31'.; M. of H. Provisional Orders Confirmation (Aberavon and Neath Extension) Act, 1921
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, Margam AP/CP through time | Census tables with data for the Parish-level Unit, A Vision of Britain through Time.


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Q: pattern.en Unresolved import I used pip install pattern to pattern in my virtualenv (python 2.7). It was installed with following message:  Successfully uninstalled Pattern-2.6. When I try to import it in my PyDev project in Eclipse as import pattern, it works fine. But if I try to import en package as import pattern.en, it shows me unresolved import

A: This happens because the static analyzer doesn't know that the pattern lib actually changes the path at runtime so that pattern.text.en becomes pattern.en.
The related code is:
try:
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The workaround is actually doing import pattern.text.en or adding pattern.en to the forced builtins as explained in: http://www.pydev.org/manual_101_interpreter.html#PyDevInterpreterConfiguration-ForcedBuiltins

A: Import the library as:
from pattern.text.en import suggest

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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. and PARK CITY, Utah, Jan. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Varde Partners ('Varde') and Replay Resorts ('Replay') announced today that Replay has been selected to act as the master developer for its substantial land holdings in the Canyons Resort area. Varde is the managing member of TCFC Finance Co LLC ('TCFC'), which owns much of the land comprising the Canyons Ski Resort.
The selection of Replay as master developer is an important step in TCFC's strategy to assemble a team of mountain resort industry leaders to plan and position the development land for the future. TCFC's selection of Replay follows its long-term lease agreement with Vail Resorts in May 2013 for the operation of Canyons Resort. Replay intends to work collaboratively with TCFC, Vail, and local stakeholders to ensure the real estate vision and master plan is cohesive with Vail's operating plans for Canyons and enhances the overall guest experience at the resort.
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Tesla offers additional discount to Chinese buyers on some models
REUTERS | Published: December 07, 2022 12:39:48
Tesla is offering a limited time discount of 6,000 yuan ($859.20) to Chinese buyers on some models from Wednesday through to the end of 2022, a company representative said on Wednesday.
This comes in addition to a previously announced 4,000 yuan insurance subsidy, but is only applicable for customers buying a current car model and completing delivery by the end of December.
Local media outlet Wallstreetcn first reported the discount.
The move is the latest by the US automaker to adjust its prices in China. The company has cut prices for Model 3 and Model Y cars by up to 9 per cent in China, in addition to the insurance incentives, as its Shanghai plant grapples with elevated inventory levels amid slowing demand in China's auto market.
These steps helped the Shanghai factory deliver 100,291 China-made electric vehicles (EVs) in November, up 40 per cent from October and the highest monthly sales since it opened in late 2020.
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As I have said before - Abigail Jenna does not like the cold canal water. As if to prove this point she developed a leaking stern gland which her present owner Alan decided to correct in the Stanilands Dry dock.
There are no two ways about it - she is going to go into the water and she will get used to it - or else. What the 'or else' is I don't know but that it is in reserve.
As few people have seen both Abigails together there was a thought that one of them did not exist. To correct this opinion here we have them both with Abz eating - as she was asked - eating the apple second and before the chocolate cake.


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La Chapelle-Yvon és un municipi francès situat al departament de Calvados i a la regió de Normandia. L'any 2007 tenia 494 habitants.

Demografia

Població
El 2007 la població de fet de La Chapelle-Yvon era de 494 persones. Hi havia 190 famílies de les quals 40 eren unipersonals (16 homes vivint sols i 24 dones vivint soles), 71 parelles sense fills, 75 parelles amb fills i 4 famílies monoparentals amb fills.

La població ha evolucionat segons el següent gràfic:

Habitants censats

Habitatges
El 2007 hi havia 241 habitatges, 193 eren l'habitatge principal de la família, 36 eren segones residències i 11 estaven desocupats. Tots els 241 habitatges eren cases. Dels 193 habitatges principals, 166 estaven ocupats pels seus propietaris, 25 estaven llogats i ocupats pels llogaters i 3 estaven cedits a títol gratuït; 2 tenien una cambra, 5 en tenien dues, 26 en tenien tres, 62 en tenien quatre i 99 en tenien cinc o més. 157 habitatges disposaven pel capbaix d'una plaça de pàrquing. A 86 habitatges hi havia un automòbil i a 89 n'hi havia dos o més.

Piràmide de població
La piràmide de població per edats i sexe el 2009 era:

Economia
El 2007 la població en edat de treballar era de 324 persones, 221 eren actives i 103 eren inactives. De les 221 persones actives 188 estaven ocupades (110 homes i 78 dones) i 33 estaven aturades (13 homes i 20 dones). De les 103 persones inactives 35 estaven jubilades, 27 estaven estudiant i 41 estaven classificades com a «altres inactius».

Ingressos
El 2009 a La Chapelle-Yvon hi havia 211 unitats fiscals que integraven 548,5 persones, la mediana anual d'ingressos fiscals per persona era de 17.106 €.

Activitats econòmiques
Dels 12 establiments que hi havia el 2007, 1 era d'una empresa extractiva, 1 d'una empresa de fabricació d'altres productes industrials, 4 d'empreses de construcció, 2 d'empreses de comerç i reparació d'automòbils, 1 d'una empresa d'hostatgeria i restauració i 3 d'empreses de serveis.

Dels 4 establiments de servei als particulars que hi havia el 2009, 1 era un paleta, 1 fusteria i 2 lampisteries.

L'any 2000 a La Chapelle-Yvon hi havia 18 explotacions agrícoles que ocupaven un total de 310 hectàrees.

Equipaments sanitaris i escolars
El 2009 hi havia una escola elemental integrada dins d'un grup escolar amb les comunes properes formant una escola dispersa.

Poblacions més properes
El següent diagrama mostra les poblacions més properes.

Referències

 Résumé statistique Fitxa resum de dades estadístiques de La Chapelle-Yvon a l'INSEE.
 Évolution et structure de la population Fitxa amb el detall de dades de La Chapelle-Yvon a l'INSEE
 France par commune  Dades detallades de tots els municipis de França accessibles a partir del mapa.

Municipis de Calvados

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Detroit GP 2020: IndyCar champ kicks off ticket sales
It's November in Detroit but racing enthusiasts are already warming up for Detroit Grand Prix IndyCars.
Detroit GP 2020: IndyCar champ kicks off ticket sales It's November in Detroit but racing enthusiasts are already warming up for Detroit Grand Prix IndyCars. Check out this story on detroitnews.com: https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/2019/11/26/detroit-grand-prix-2020-tickets-sale-motor-racing-palooza/4307096002/
Henry Payne, The Detroit News Published 6:13 p.m. ET Nov. 26, 2019 | Updated 9:48 a.m. ET Nov. 27, 2019
The 2020 Detroit Grand Prix will feature IndyCars (foreground) and the Historic Trans Am Series with cars like the 1960 Camaro Trans Am (background). (Photo: Henry Payne, The Detroit News)
Detroit -- It's November in Detroit but racing enthusiasts are already warming up for Detroit Grand Prix IndyCars.
Reigning IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden was in town Tuesday to kick off ticket sales for the 2020 Chevrolet Detroit Grand Prix presented by Lear as the IndyCar circus roars back to Detroit May 29-31. The event will kick off a June full of big events, including the PGA Tour's Rocket Mortgage Classic, the Detroit Auto Show and Ford Fireworks.
The race weekend will boast a jam-packed schedule including the only doubleheader IndyCar race on the calendar, the IMSA Weathertech SportsCar race, Trans Am Series, and the inaugural Historic Trans Am Series race featuring legendary muscle cars of the 1960s and 1970s.
"It's like Christmas here in Detroit when we start ticket sales," said Newgarden.
The Penske driver is coming off his second title in three years.
"I never thought that would be something that would happen," he said. "For sure a highlight of last season was Detroit -- being able to win the first duel. We tried to follow it up on Sunday and win the second race but didn't quite make it happen. So we have some room for improvement in 2020."
Scott Dixon, one of Newgarden's closest title rivals, won the second race last year.
In addition to kicking off Detroit's summer calendar, the Detroit Grand Prix will be run for the first time under Penske Corporation's IndyCar ownership. Penske purchased the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (home of the Indy 500 a week before Belle Isle) and the NTT IndyCar Series in a stunning deal announced earlier this month. Penske has organized the Belle Isle races since their debut in 2007 – and the 2020 event will the ninth consecutive running of the Dual in Detroit.
IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden climbs from a 1969 Camaro Trans Am. The Historic Trans Am Series is coming to the 2020 Detroit Grand Prix next year. (Photo: Henry Payne, The Detroit News)
Team Penske will enter three cars in the NTT IndyCar race.
Penske's Acura SportsCar team will compete in the IMSA Weathertech race. And the Historic Trans Am race likely will be awash in classic Penske Camaros and Javelins as The Captain and crew dominated Trans Am racing in the 1960s-early 1970s. The series will recreate those days of thunder as period-perfect Chevy Camaros, GMC Javelins, Ford Mustangs, Plymouth Barracudas, Pontiac Firebirds, and Dodge Challengers will go wheel-to-wheel on Belle Isle's street circuit.
"We know how passionate people are in Detroit about classic cars and Motor City muscle, and the Historic Trans Am Series features some of the coolest and most powerful cars in racing history," said Bud Denker, Detroit Grand Prix chairman and Penske president.
Newgarden took a moment Tuesday to fire up the 5.0-liter V-8 of a 1969 Camaro that will compete at Belle Isle.
IndyCar and IMSA Weathertech have led a resurgence in open wheel and sports car racing in the U.S., even as NASCAR numbers have fallen. IndyCar viewers were up 9 percent this year via NBC TV and online broadcasts. Eyeballs for IMSA increased 35 percent this year.
About 95,000 spectators crossed the Belle Isle bridge in 2019, even as severe weather and lightning postponed Saturday activities.
Tickets for the 2020 Detroit Grand Prix can be purchased online at DetroitGP.com/Tickets, through the ticket hotline at 866-464-PRIX (7749) or at the Grand Prix box office in downtown's GM Renaissance Center.
Henry Payne is auto critic for The Detroit News. Find him at hpayne@detroitnews.com or Twitter @HenryEPayne.
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By Colin Berkshire
I am here in Japan visiting some Chinese friends that live here. We're talking tech and I am struggling to explain American TV.
This all started over the Apple TV. As you perhaps know, Apple TV is a $100 box that lets you connect your TV to the Internet. But also, you really can't watch TV on it. That is, none of the major networks are available on it. I am trying to explain why Apple has a box that you basically cannot use.
What befuddles my friends and makes it so difficult for me to explain is that they watch television across the Internet all the time. Right now we are watching "The Voice." This is a hugely popular television show imported from America. It's a Chinese production, but it follows the same formula as the original in the US. (And, it isn't a knock off…it's a licensed product.)
My friends are trying to get me to explain why they cannot watch US television networks in Japan. They want to know how I watch my home channels while I am in Japan, China, or elsewhere. The facts is that I cannot watch them when in Asia. And that is what is so difficult to explain.
Don't the networks want more viewers? Don't the networks want customers to spend their time watching their shows? Don't they make money selling advertising based upon viewership?
How do you explain that a US network would rather cut off and strand a customer than allow them to stream programming across the network? How do you explain that you can only subscribe to television if it is delivered on decades old technology such as cable or satellite? "Why aren't there Internet television services like Comcast or Dish Network in the US?" I have no sane sounding answer.
The US networks are complaining about reduced viewership, and they like to blame this on the Internet. They are in a declining business and they sit and complain about how business is down.
Business is down because the networks prohibit customers from subscribing to their services over the Internet. To me, and to anybody in Asia, it is just that simple. It is like the buggy-whip manufacturers complaining that their business is down while refusing to make products for automobiles.
I worry about America. We are increasingly living in a bubble. The rest of the world streams network programming on-demand to anywhere. The rest of the works has faster Internet than we do. And, the rest of the world pays less for these. Has our system become so inflexible that we operate like the former USSR? That seems like a recipe for failure.
So, my Chinese friends ask again about the Apple TV: why can you just subscribe to a package of networks from Apple instead of a cable company, and then watch using the Apple TV box from anywhere in the world? The only answer I can think of is: the networks don't really feel having customers are important. Fine then, they will lose all of them!
Editor's Note: I agree with Colin on this post – Internet TV restrictions make no sense. This was particularly visible during the Olympics where many Americans were bypassing the general public walls in order to view BBC streaming. It was a big challenge for the US networks – normally queuing content until prime time isn't a problem – but our world is becoming too connected for timeshifting live events. Despite these clearly protectionist measures, TV seems to be doing quite well. Not only as a business, but the quality seems to be improving.
Personally, I watch few shows live. Thus cliffhangers don't have the drama that they once did. The big fight last year regarding the Tonight Show was about a time slot. I find it odd there is so much drama about this stuff in a DVR world. Timeshifting shows eliminates/reduces commercials which fund the quality shows. Thus, I would think the future of television is more cheap reality shows instead of quality dramas. I agree with Colin that a larger audience would seem a preferred solution. But for whatever reason, these crazy Internet restrictions do seem to be extending the life of the television drama and the television industry. – DM
Colin Berkshire is a highly technical HR executive in the Pulp and Paper Industry. Colin has an engineering and voice background, and is currently on assignment in Asia. NOTE: Colin does not respond to comments, and does not Tweet.
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FRND, the up-and-coming electronic artist hailing from LA, has a new track titled "Be Happy," but the sentiment won't be one you'll feel on your first listen. "Be Happy" is not a feel-good song per se, but the message is universal; essential, really, because heartbreak is a b*tch but the slow trudge toward maturity is eventually worth it. For those that know the stinging reality of losing someone special, and familiar with swallowing pride and letting someone go, We Are: The Guard salute you. Take a listen to FRND's "Be Happy" below.
"Be Happy" is an incredibly intimate track all around. FRND's vocals are vulnerable, and the contemplative strumming of his acoustic guitar recalls an emotional, "Hey There Delilah" vibe (that song still gets to me, I swear). The frankness in both his voice and lyrics make for an honest performance, a song relatable as it is romantic.
Of course, this isn't 100% tear-jerker material, 'cause hey -- ain't nobody got time for that. Not to oversaturate the track, FRND makes an intelligent decision in adding his becoming-rather-signature electronic elements into the chorus. The choice elevates "Be Happy" from a tune to softly listen to in your one-room apartment to a thoughtful, heart-warming electronic song. A song to send your friends and not feel overly guilty for reminding them of their ex. Everyone wins.
If you need a pick-me-up from the retrospection offered by "Be Happy," be sure to check out the remix from White Panda currently making waves. Otherwise, here's a link to FRND's Soundcloud.


When you crave a steak, nothing beats a steakhouse dinner. In this episode, Martha makes five of her favorite menu items: a Classic Martini, Baked Stuffed Clams, Porterhouse Steak with a compound butter, Creamed Spinach and Baked Potatoes. They're all guaranteed to satisfy a big appetite.
This baked stuffed clams recipe appears in the "Steakhouse" episode of Martha Stewart's Cooking School.
For the Stuffed Clams: Heat olive oil in a pot over medium high. Cook onion until softened but not browned, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes. Add garlic, and saute, stirring, just until fragrant, about 1 minute.
Add wine, and bring to a simmer. Add clams, and stir to combine. Cover and steam until clams have opened, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove from heat. Use a slotted spoon to transfer clams to a rimmed baking sheet to cool, discarding any that do not open. Strain clam broth through a fine sieve, and reserve for making stuffing.
Preheat oven to 350° F. Dividing evenly, press stuffing into clam shells, smoothing with the back of a spoon. Bake until tops are golden, 25 to 30 minutes. Nestle clams on seaweed, if desired, and serve immediately.
For the Herbed Breadcrumb Stuffing: Heat olive oil in a saute pan. Cook onion and garlic until translucent, stirring frequently, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool completely.
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'Stand Up' to street harassment, says L'Oréal Paris
The brand has launched an international programme in India in partnership with NGO Breakthrough.
26 Nov, 2020 - 09:22 AM IST | By Mansi Sharma
NEW DELHI: On the occasion of United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, L'Oréal Paris has launched its international bystander intervention training programme - Stand Up - in India.
As per an ActionAid Survey of 2016, 79 per cent of women living in Indian cities have been subjected to harassment or violence in public. Even the national capital and the financial capital of the country are not able to provide a completely safe environment for their female residents, highlights a 2019-report by Praja Foundation, stating that 50 per cent of people in Delhi and 21 per cent in Mumbai felt that women were not safe in the respective cities.
These are just a few numbers but very clearly indicate how massive the issue of street harassment in India is.
Launching the campaign and an associated website in India via a virtual press conference, L'Oréal Paris general manager India Pau Gruart stated that the issue of women safety is very close to LÓréal's brand ethos.
"As a brand, we have always stood up for women empowerment but we always want to take one step further and make a concrete difference. This initiative deepens our sense of purpose and it is in total consistency with our brand essence," he added.
The brand has partnered with NGO Breakthrough to deliver on-ground training and sensitise the community towards the problem of harassment in public spaces and make them safer for people across genders. They are aiming to train 1 million people in India in the skill of upstanding using the 5Ds defined by NGO Hollaback!: Direct, Delegate, Document, Distract, Delay.
Breakthrough India president and CEO Sohini Bhattacharya noted, "Breakthrough has been working for over 20 years to make violence and discrimination against women unacceptable. We are very proud to partner with L'Oréal Paris in empowering young people to take action, for themselves, and for others, now and in the future. Bystanders are often not equipped to tackle street harassment and feel helpless during such situations. Based on the expert-approved 5D's methodology, Stand Up makes a clarion call to citizens to take action against street harassment, by encouraging them to undertake a simple and effective training program, that not only supports victims but also enables bystanders to safely intervene. Stand Up will enable women to reclaim public spaces."
Brand ambassador Aditi Rao Hydari added that she finds this approach more empowering than physically harming the preparator and feels that this will sensitise the community more towards cases of harassment in public spaces.
The brand with the support from Breakthrough is aiming to amplify the cause across the country, even to the remotest corners. It is already planning influencer activities and campus programmes to make the training more accessible.
Gruart shared, "At the heart of Stand Up, which is our most important global cause as a brand, is the training programme. We are going to direct all our marketing activities towards the training. For instance, we could have a classic tool of digital media; all inputs there will be one click away from the online training. We are also seeking influencer support and brand ambassador support to amplify it."
Bhattacharya continued, "We are willing to make the youth of the country the true crusaders for this cause. We will be enrolling people for fellowship programmes and training them in 5Ds and how they can teach further. They then will act as our ambassadors."
Gruart also noted they are looking for bigger partnerships across the country that might start coming into shape in 2021.
L'Oréal Paris has a wide portfolio of products for the Indian market including makeup, skin-care, hair colour, hair care and men's products. In 2020, the brand roped in actor Aditi Rao Hydari, former cricketer Mithali Raj and popular TV personality Shakti Mohan as its brand endorsers for the Indian market. It has launched several campaigns with these brand endorsers. L'Oréal Paris closely works with salons and hair-dressers who act as the last mile influencers for the brand.
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Daniel Cornu, né le  à Genève, est un journaliste et universitaire suisse. Il a été rédacteur en chef du quotidien la Tribune de Genève.

Il est l'auteur de plusieurs ouvrages sur l'éthique du journalisme, discipline qu'il a enseignée aux universités de Genève, Neuchâtel et Zurich.

Biographie
Après des études secondaires (latin-grec) au collège de Genève, aujourd'hui Collège Calvin, Daniel Cornu a suivi les cours de la Faculté de théologie de l'Université de Genève (1958-1962) et obtenu une licence. C'est dans cette même Faculté qu'il soutiendra en 1994 une thèse de doctorat sur l'éthique de l'information, fondée notamment sur les pensées de Paul Ricœur et Jürgen Habermas.

Il a commencé sa carrière de journaliste au Journal de Genève (1962-1966). À la Tribune de Genève, il a dirigé la rubrique de politique suisse (1971-1977), occupé le poste de correspondant à Paris (1977-1981), avant d'être nommé rédacteur en chef (1982-1992).

Par la suite, Daniel Cornu s'est consacré principalement à la formation, en qualité de directeur du Centre romand de formation des journalistes (1993-2004), à Lausanne. Il a été professeur associé d'éthique de l'information à l'Université de Neuchâtel (1988-2004), discipline qu'il a enseignée également dans le cadre du DEA « Communication et médias » de l'Université de Genève (2000-2004) et dans un programme de maîtrise en éthique appliquée du Centre d'éthique de l'université de Zurich (2006-2008) ; il fut enfin chargé de cours dans le même domaine à l'Université de Fribourg, en Sciences de la communication et des médias (2012-2016).

Il a publié plusieurs livres sur le journalisme et les médias dont Tous connectés ! Internet et les nouvelles frontières de l'info (2013) et Les médias ont-ils trop de pouvoir ? (2010). Son ouvrage Journalisme et vérité est souvent cité comme référence en éthique du journalisme. Paru en 1994, il a fait l'objet d'une nouvelle édition remaniée et actualisée en 2009.

En relation avec ses occupations professionnelles de journaliste et d'enseignant, Daniel Cornu a été membre d'une commission fédérale d'experts sur le droit suisse de la presse et l'aide à la presse (1973-1975), du conseil d'administration de l'Agence télégraphique suisse (1988-1997), du Conseil du public de Radio suisse internationale (1993-1994), ainsi que d'une commission d'experts en vue de l'introduction dans la législation genevoise du principe de transparence de l'administration (1999-2000). Il a siégé comme membre (1994-1995), puis comme vice-président (1996-2003) du Conseil suisse de la presse, instance de régulation interne de la profession. À ce titre, il est l'auteur principal de la rédaction initiale des Directives jointes dès  à la Déclaration des devoirs et des droits des journalistes suisses. Il a fait partie d'une commission restreinte de médiation en application de la loi sur l'information de l'État de Vaud (2004-2008).

En 1998, Daniel Cornu s'est vu proposer le poste de médiateur de presse (ombudsman) de La Tribune de Genève nouvellement créé. Il fonctionne dès 2007 pour l'ensemble du groupe Edipresse suisse, puis dès 2012, après le rachat par le groupe zurichois Tamedia (TX Group), et jusqu'en décembre 2020 pour les publications romandes de celui-ci.

Parmi ses autres activités, Daniel Cornu a été membre de la Commission fédérale contre le racisme (2002-2008). Il a siège de 1994 à 2014 au sein du conseil de fondation de la Faculté autonome de théologie de l'Université de Genève. Nommé en 2009 président du Comité d'éthique et de déontologie de l'Université de Genève, pour une période de quatre ans, il en est resté membre jusqu'au terme de son mandat en septembre 2021.

Distinctions
Daniel Cornu a reçu en 1968 le prix Edouard Frommel de la Société académique de Genève pour sa thèse de licence sur les écrits politiques du théologien Karl Barth.

Il est fait en 2012 docteur honoris causa de l'Université catholique de Louvain.

Publications
 "Karl Barth et la politique", Genève, Éditions Labor et Fides, 1968
 "La Suisse ou le piège des certitudes", (avec Jean-Marie Vodoz et François Gross), Lausanne, Payot, 1978
 "Journalisme et vérité. Pour une éthique de l'information", Genève, Éditions Labor et Fides, 1994
 "De soleil et d'ombre, chroniques sur l'expérience du monde à travers les médias", Genève, Éditions Labor et Fides, 1996
 "Éthique de l'information", Paris, Presses universitaires de France, collection "Que sais-je?", 1997
 "Codes et chartes de déontologie", Lausanne, FCJ, 2002
 "Les médias en Suisse : structures et audience", les médias et la société, Lausanne, FCJ, 2002
 "Médias, mode d'emploi. Le journaliste face à son public", Genève, Éditions Labor et Fides, 2008
 "Journalisme et vérité. L'éthique de l'information au défi du changement médiatique", Genève, Éditions Labor et Fides, 2009 (édition remaniée et actualisée de l'ouvrage paru en 1994)
 "Les médias ont-ils trop de pouvoir ?", Paris, Éditions du Seuil, collection "Médiathèque", 2010
 "Tous connectés ! Internet et les nouvelles frontières de l'info", Genève, Éditions Labor et Fides, 2013

Notes et références

Liens externes

 Site de la Tribune de Genève
 Site du Conseil suisse de la presse
 Blog de Daniel Cornu de 2010 à 2011
 La page du médiateur, par Daniel Cornu
 Pour visualiser le reportage sur Daniel Cornu fait par l'université catholique de Louvain
Interview de Médialogues (RTS) du 07.03.2020 : "Daniel Cornu ou lʹart de traiter les réclamations des lecteurs mécontents"

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Collaborateur de La Tribune de Genève
Professeur à l'université de Neuchâtel
Professeur à l'université de Genève
Professeur à l'université de Zurich
Docteur honoris causa de l'université catholique de Louvain
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Drugim lahko pustite, da si iz drugega računalnika s programom, ki lahko spremlja namizje, ogledujejo in nadzirajo vaše namizje. Da dovolite drugim, da dostopajo do vašega namizja, nastavite Deljenje namizja in možnosti varnosti.

V pregledni plošči odprite Souporaba namizja

Če želite, da lahko drugi delajo z vašim namizje, omogoči možnosti Dovoli drugim uporabnikom ogled mojega namizja. To pomeni, da se bodo drugi ljudje lahko povezali z vašim računalnikom.

Da bi drugim pustili delo z vašim namizjem, omogočite možnost Drugim uporabnikom dovoli nadzor mojega namizja. To bo morda drugi osebi dovolilo premik vaše miške, poganjanje programov in brskanje med datotekami na računalniku, odvisno od varnostnih nastavitev, ki jih trenutno uporabljate.

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Aug 29, 2018 : Andrea Davis Appalachian Trail
Karel Sabbe Breaks the Appalachian Trail Supported Fastest Known Time (FKT)
Karel Sabbe set out to break the record for the supported FKT on the Appalachian Trail. Tuesday, Aug. 28, he accomplished that goal with flying colors. His time was 41 days, seven hours, and 39 minutes, making the new FKT more than four days faster than the previous record set by Karl Meltzer in 2016. The fastest overall time on the AT belonged to Joe "Stringbean" McConaughy, who finished in 45 days, 12 hours, and ten minutes, though his hike was self-supported, which means he's still the fastest time in that category.
In the year 60 B.C., Julius Caesar wrote: "Of all Gauls, the Belgians are the bravest." Over 2000 years later there is still some truth in that sentence. We have set a new speed record on the epic Appalachian Trail !! The Fastest Known Time is now 41 days 7 hours 39 minutes, which is over 4 days faster than the previous record, held by an incredibly strong and unsupported @thestring.bean. I want to thank my dear friend @jorenbiebuyck from the bottom of my heart as without his incredible crewing and support I would never have made the PCT as well as the AT speed records. Fun facts: nobody has ever held Pacific Crest Trail and Appalachian Trail speed records at the same time. Nobody had averaged more than 50 miles on the Appalachian Trail. More than proud, I feel privileged for having lived these incredible adventures. It was a blast from start to finish ! Thanks @skinssportwear for making this possible, without you there would have been no new FKT. Thank you everybody for the support! #AppalachianTrailSpeedRecordAttempt #teamSKINS #BestInCompression #HOKAONEONE#TimeToFly #TraKKs #Suunto #Selfpropelled#Ledlenser #kleankanteen #nordisk #trekneat #ultramarathon#speedrecord #AppalachianTrail #ultrarunning #ultratrail #trailrunner #trailrunning
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Sabbe now holds the supported fastest known time for the Pacific Crest Trail and Appalachian Trail, the first time this feat has been accomplished. Heather "Anish" Anderson has been the only person to simultaneously hold the self-supported FKTs for the Appalachian Trail and Pacific Crest Trail. McConaughy broke her AT time last year.
Sabbe posted a live video from the summit of Katahdin around 2 p.m., showing his followers that the final stretch of his journey had finally come to an end.
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Hi there! I am an avid hiker, blogger, and adventurer from a small town in Massachusetts. Last Fall, I fell in love with hiking – particularly in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. And, I have set a goal to crush all of the 48 4,000 footers in under a year. I may be new to the hiking community, but since October of 2017, I have summited over 200 peaks, spent countless hours in the darkness of the wilderness, trekked hundreds of miles in unfavorable terrain, and found myself in the process.


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Chewing gum may be an effective delivery system for some vitamins, according the new research.
Nearly 15 percent of all chewing gum varieties sold promise to provide health-enhancing supplements to users, so researchers studied whether two vitamin-supplemented products were effective at delivering vitamins to the body.
The research marks the first time that researchers closely scrutinized vitamin delivery from chewing gum, according to Joshua Lambert, professor of food science in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State. The findings, he suggests, indicate that chewing gum—a pleasant habit for many—could be a strategy to help reduce vitamin deficiency around the world, a problem described as an epidemic.
Even in the United States vitamin deficiency is a serious problem, with nearly one in 10 people over the age of 1 deficient in vitamins B6 and C, according to a recent analysis of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
To find out if supplemented gum contributes vitamins to chewers' bodies, researchers had 15 people chew two off-the-shelf supplemented gums and measured the levels of eight vitamins released into their saliva. In a separate experiment with the same people, researchers measured levels of seven vitamins in their plasma.
The researchers used an identical gum product—minus the vitamin supplements—as a placebo in the study.
Lambert and colleagues found that gum released retinol (A1), thiamine (B1), riboflavin (B2), niacinamide (B3), pyridoxine (B6), folic acid, cyanocobalamin (B12), ascorbic acid (C), and alpha-tocopherol (E) into the saliva of participants who chewed the supplemented gums.
After chewing the supplemented gums, participants' blood plasma vitamin concentrations, depending on which supplemented gum they chewed, were higher for retinol, by 75 to 96 percent; pyridoxine, 906 to 1,077 percent; ascorbic acid, 64 to 141 percent; and alpha-tocopherol, 418 to 502 percent, compared to the placebo.
For the most part, the research demonstrates that levels of water-soluble vitamins such as vitamins B6 and C were higher in the plasma of participants who chewed supplemented gum compared to participants who chewed the placebo gum. In supplemented gum chewers, researchers also saw increases in the plasma of several fat-soluble vitamins such as the vitamin-A derivative retinol and the vitamin-E derivative alpha tocopherol.
That was the most significant finding of the study, Lambert points out. At least for the products tested, the chewers almost completely extracted water-soluble vitamins from the gum during the process of chewing. The fat-soluble vitamins were not completely released from the gum.
"Improving the release of fat-soluble vitamins from the gum base is an area for future development for the manufacturer," he says.
Lambert offers one caution about the findings, which appear in Journal of Functional Foods.
Additional researchers are from Penn State and Vitaball, Inc. employee. The one Vitaball employee involved in the work participated in the study design and editing the manuscript, but was not in participant recruitment, sample collection, data analysis, or preparation of the manuscript. No other employee of Vitaball, Inc., participated in the study design and execution.
Vitaball Inc. and the US Department of Agriculture supported this research.
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Most of the important cities of the world have three or more major museums. In the top cities, the museums attract more than 2 million visitors each. It appears that for the top cities, additional major museums result in exponential growth in visitation of the museums and other cultural resources. Support for the largest museums in cities with three or more major museums is largely generated from visitors who come from outside the cities.
The Smithsonian offers free admission. It is, of course, publicly funded by taxpayers across the nation. Visitors to the Smithsonian, as well as federal government centers and National Park Service units on and near the National Mall, rank Washington DC as a top U.S. tourist destination with other industry-specific cities, including Orlando amusement parks, Las Vegas casinos, and New York City theatres and museums.
The above graph compares combined visitors to the top three most visited museums in several prominent cities. The three most visited units of the Smithsonian are used to represent Washington DC.


I have had a deep connection to last week's Torah portion (Yitro, Exodus 18:1–20:23) for the past 14 years because it's my older son's bar mitzvah portion. Well, it is the Ten Commandments, so that connection truly began a lot longer ago.
But one night, the year before his special day, we started to really delve into what these Big Ten were — and couldn't. We were out to dinner and could rattle off five, maybe six rules, off the tops of our heads. That's all.
Since we couldn't resort to the internet to fill in the gaps, our attention turned to other realms appealing to three guys — two of whom were preteen — that might require a set of rules, like… the Planet of the Apes. And so, the Monkey Commandments were born.
And, no, I don't remember any of them…I just remember that, for a time, they were a symbolic stand-in suited to a particular group. So I thought that I would do the same for women.