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Q&A with Doug Oliver: Full Version
Jon Geeting
(Newsworks)
PlanPhilly: Your campaign has focused a lot on the idea of engaging more Millennials in civic life. What's your vision? What is the Philadelphia that you want to sell to younger voters?
Doug Oliver: I want them to stay here. We do a good job of getting people to come and learn here at our colleges and universities, we do a good job of getting people to come and play here––our restaurants, our parks, our arts and culture make it a great place to play. But we haven't yet figured out how to get them to live here. When college is over, play time is more targeted, and people are figuring out how to start a career, raise a family, buy a home. That's when people start to tune in whether they were tuned in before or not, and it's at that moment where we start to lose people.
What I always like to say is people date Philadelphia, but then go marry New York.
They've got choice, and most people who come here to go to college, apart from their choice of study they're coming to prepare for the life they want to lead. One of the first choices you get to exercise when you graduate is where you grow roots.
It's not even that the message is targeted to younger voters, as much as it is about them. Because when we talk about the issues the city's going to have to address––pensions, health care, schools, public safety, sustainability––these longer term issues, they cannot be solved as long as you have this population churn.
You want to grow your population, you want to grow your tax base––you've got to get more people to live here. So the idea is to plan for Millennials, more than appeal to Millennials. If we don't retain them, then we're going to have trouble delivering city services to a population that has the least amount of money to pay for them.
I think I can be more effective than any other candidate in understanding what the triggers are that would make someone stay, and developing a plan for how to keep them. Whether they appreciate it now or not is almost a secondary issue.
PP: So do you have any concrete ideas for getting more people to stay after college?
DO: It's a double-edged sword here, because we've got a lot of history and a lot of culture to be retained, and we cling to that––in some cases for good reason. Our history makes us rich. But at the same time, if we're not careful, it can make us antiquated and obsolete.
We have a school system that's designed on the agricultural model that says "get 'em in, and get 'em out so they can be in the field with their parents by 2 pm." Are we still at a point where that makes sense?
Then we have an academic model that's based on a manufacturing model. And all the jobs that have opportunities for growth in the city have nothing to do with either, because those manufacturing jobs have gone away. Now, I've got some ideas about how to bring some of those jobs back but when we think about what it takes to keep them here, one of my big ideas is allowing for what we don't fully understand.
We're not going to get people to stay because we say we're going to give you this job and a strong pension. That's an older model. It's important that we keep our word to people we made a promise to, but I think a better message for today's younger people is "what is it that you want to do, and how can I help you or get out of your way?"
Get engaged with government because government needs you, not because you need government. That's the kind of mindset that will get people to stay. People come here for school and to study because it's fun, and I need to figure out how to make it fun a little longer than when they would ordinarily check out.
When college is done, people might take an entry level job doing something they don't really want to do, knowing that what they really want to do is "blank." Whatever that "blank" is, we need to make it possible for them.
Feeding the entrepreneurial spirit, making the city walkable, bikeable, livable, and planning in a way that they think an urban 2015 city looks like. Let's plan ahead and think about what people are going to want and start working on that today.
PP: So to segue into the PlanPhilly issues from what you're saying, I think the walkability and bikeability stuff sometimes strikes people as frivolous compared to some of the big heavy issues like schools and pensions. But when I hear some of the local start-up leaders talk about what they need to attract high quality employees from other big US cities and internationally, the quality of life issues are mentioned pretty frequently. They're trying to lure people who are highly mobile, who have a lot of choices, and who are choosing a place to live as much as they're choosing a place to work. They like what New York, Chicago, San Francisco and other cities are doing around multi-modal transportation, urban design, mixed-use neighborhoods and so on. So what do you think we need to do to be more competitive on that front?
DO: Planning is a forward-looking process, obviously. I think recently the city's done a good job recently of trying to get their arms around what that actually means as a practical matter. I think for an urban environment like Philadelphia, with so many young people and empty nesters coming into the city, we need to focus on the density of the city––the number of the people and their closeness and proximity to each other.
One of the things I've always liked about New York City is that everybody uses everything. It's not public transportation just for the poor, because if that was the case, that would be the last thing invested in. But because you have the Mayor, a bum, a millionaire, a blue collar worker, and a tourist all on the same train, at all hours of the day and night, you see different priorities.
Access to the waterfront is something that's been wrestled with for many years. It's not for private development, it is for the use of our city. Many cities have gotten it right––Baltimore and Washington's waterfronts are fantastic. What makes them so great is you've got your tourists and your residents, all types of people enjoying it and walking around having a good time.
When I close my eyes and envision what our waterfront could look like, it's much more lively. I see live music, bands, cafes, people going on walks whether they have money to spend or not. I see first dates––people deciding I like it here, I met you here, I want to marry you here, and I want to live here.
PP: On that point, Michael Nutter created the Delaware Waterfront Corporation, and they've been doing a lot of interesting work with things like the Spruce Street Harbor Park, the Spring Garden Street Connector project to improve connections between Festival Pier and Northern Liberties, Pier 53, and so on to get people over to the waterfront. What else needs to happen to get some of the private development going? There's a lot of private land over there that landowners are just sort of speculating on.
DO: Well I'll start by saying there are people far more expert than I am on what it takes, but my layman's view of it is that you should not be allowed to sit on a resource that is for public good.
There is public access to the waterfront, and while we should encourage those who own private land to do something in the public interest, we should at least maximize those things that we can do on our own. So, finding those three, four, or five entry points to the waterfront and making it clear and obvious that this is what we're doing. Working with traffic engineers and planning so people know this is all open to you, and these are the key places to access.
And then the hope is that people's brains start working and they get to thinking they can take advantage of this foot traffic, and that's when we start to see businesses and residences start to pop up. A lot of people sit on the property because it's not ripe to develop yet. We need to show them a capital plan and a budget for the next several years for that area and hopefully that will move the process forward.
In the cases where the private developers and governments are looking and saying "who first?" in those cases it must be government. If you have to incentivize with tax credits, we could do that for a while until things get moving and then stop. I'm not a huge fan of tax incentives for development that's going to happen anyway but looking at our waterfront, we see that it's not happening.
Maybe we don't need tax incentives in Center City anymore, maybe we don't need them in Fishtown or other places that are in a virtuous cycle of development. In the places where it's not happening, let's seed it.
PP: Are you thinking that the 10-year abatement is past its time in Center City and some of the faster-appreciating neighborhoods?
DO: I think it many cases it is past its time. I think it's a very effective tool, but we need to be mindful of how we apply it. We may also need to be mindful about how. Does it have to be 10 years? 10 years is a pretty long time to forego a return.
When we say "hey, come build here and develop here and you don't have to pay anything for 10 years"––ouch! Because taxes are how we pay for the rest of the city services, and you have to be careful about what you waive when you still have a very very low-income city to fund.
PP: What sometimes gets misunderstood about the politics of the 10-year abatement is that it's a builder subsidy, right? The actual incidence of the subsidy goes to construction companies, and the purpose is to limit the blow from our high labor costs.
DO: It is, but even notwithstanding high construction costs, they're high in New York City, they're high in DC. Relatively speaking, they're lower here even with our high construction costs. If I want to build a hotel, it might be $20 million over here, it's $18 million over here, it's $15 million in Philadelphia. You may build here anyway, because if you're a hotel builder you're looking to maximize your value, and Philadelphia is already a huge return on investment as we are.
PP: But the trouble is that in New York rents are high enough that a new hotel still pencils out without a public subsidy even with the high labor costs, whereas in Philly they aren't. The abatement is filling that gap.
DO: It is. And again, I'm not against the 10-year tax abatement. But when you get to the tipping point, as Malcolm Gladwell would call it, and it starts to snowball on its own, can we pull our resources? We still need them. I'll stop short of saying I'm a fan, but I see the benefit of it.
PP: You think it's been effective, but you'd like to see it better targeted.
DO: Yeah, like does it have to be 10 everywhere? Can it be 5?
PP: Could you have zones…
DO: Exactly. Could it be based on Community Development Block Grant areas, that take into consideration some of the economic realities? It's a tool, but it's a hammer, and it's not necessarily what you need for every scenario.
PP: It sounds like you'd be more skeptical of using public funding for private development than the status quo in city politics.
DO: I wouldn't say more skeptical, but I would be more discerning about where we apply it.
PP: How about the new Comcast tower? Do you think that was worthy of public investment? And I don't mean that as a 'gotcha' question. Some of the public money is paying for some public infrastructure upgrades like extending the subway concourse. But is that something we could have asked Comcast to pay for?
DO: It is a challenging question, because here's our pride and joy, our corporate jewel. And we expect a lot out of them. I don't think we demand enough, there's no teeth to it, but they bring a tremendous benefit and cache to the city of Philadelphia, much like our colleges and universities.
You have people here who are expanding, like private developers that are organized as non-profits, so they're not paying taxes but they bring other value, and Comcast brings other value but they get these subsidies. And I guess I don't have a problem with doing it when you can, but when you can't, you can't.
The question is, would Comcast have enough money to build this on its own without government?
PP: Do you think they would?
DO: I think they would. But so it's a negotiation. They didn't have to build their second tower here, they didn't have to build their first tower here. They have high levels of financial resources, but they also have high levels of choice. And so we are competing. And using money strategically to compete, I don't have a problem with that, but when it starts to come at the expense of our other obligations, it's a challenge.
The benefit of the investment has to accrue to the benefit of Philadelphia so we get the money back from that investment in the form of higher wage taxes, real estate taxes, people buying things and spending money, making Philadelphia more vibrant.
PP: We've been talking about Center City a lot here but a lot of people also say they want to see more jobs in the neighborhoods too, and neighborhood commercial corridors seem like the obvious targets for investment. What do you think we can do to help commercial corridors?
DO: I think it's the flipside of what we were just talking about: if we've reached the limits of tax abatements in neighborhoods that are really booming, then we now maybe apply that elsewhere. That's why lining it up with CDBG makes some sense to me because that shows where we need to invest money.
I think for our neighborhoods, it has to be a critical focus of the next Mayor because big box business is one thing, but more people are employed by smaller companies. We have new immigrants coming in and starting businesses in neighborhoods at higher rates than native Philadelphians, and so making it easier for businesses to start, and give them an opportunity to grow is key.
PP: What about the role of zoning and density in the viability of neighborhood commercial corridors? To give an example, and I realize the particular messenger here is politically-charged at the moment, but Ori Feibush has argued that Point Breeze Ave doesn't have sufficient population density to support the types of commercial uses the neighborhood wants, and he's proposing to upzone it from CMX-2 to CMX-3. And his point is that if there are more built-in customers in the area, the Ave is more likely to thrive as a commercial strip. Is that something we need to look at?
DO: I think we do, but I think we need to look at it neighborhood by neighborhood to see what's appropriate. But generally no, I don't have a problem with it. I don't have a concern with what he's suggesting, but let's come to the table and have a conversation about it and let's not hold it hostage, which I think is what his concern is.
I think one thing Mayor Nutter and Eva Gladstein did very well was to completely overhaul zoning. It was an amazing lift that they were able to get that passed. Especially in a city where we've got 10 Council districts and Councilmanic prerogative. And while I think there's always going to be some inherent tension between what we say we want to do as a broad brush across the city and what people want to do about individual projects in their districts, I think the purpose of the overhaul was to make sure going to the Zoning Board of Adjustments was the exception and not the rule.
So at least we have this basic and broad understanding of where we want to go. So I think the Mayor's done a lot of good with the overhaul, but now it's got to be applied. As the Mayor you can't go to Council and just dictate––you just can't––but you can say "remember what we agreed on? We have a commitment to apply the same thinking that caused you to vote yes on this to what you vote yes for under your own Prerogative."
PP: The difficult part is that the remapping bills aren't getting passed. The Planning Commission has been going through the process of working with the Registered Community Organizations in the neighborhoods to draft over a hundred remapping bills, but only a little more than a dozen have actually been passed by City Council at this point. The Planning Commission has said they could get their part of zoning remapping done in 3 years for an additional $3 million. What would you do to get the remapping bills the rest of the way done, through City Council?
DO: Without knowing the specific reasons for some of the objections I would ask what I could do on my end to make it easier for them to pass these bills. I would try to paint a picture of where I'm trying to go, and what I'm trying to accomplish, and ask them how they see their plan fitting into that, and how I could adjust mine to fit theirs to find some common ground.
Starting off respecting the person who's in the position and understanding why they're in the position is critical to negotiation. It's just persuasion 101.
PP: We've only got a little time left, so if you don't mind I'm going to jump through some of the remaining questions. We've got this bike share system rolling out this spring, and we're going to have a lot of newbie cyclists and tourists riding on the street who aren't as experienced. How can we prepare our streets to make things safe for them?
DO: I do like the idea. I met with the Bicycle Coalition, and it was an interesting conversation, because I think I was probably their worst enemy going in but I might be their best friend coming out. Because I had to acknowledge some of my own tendencies and thought processes about driving and about public safety.
I'm a safe driver. I always have been, I'm pleased with my record, and I've learned ever since Sesame Street that when I see a green light, that means go. And the red light means stop. And the yellow light means, depending on where you are, if it's 30 feet away maybe slow down, but if I'm like a foot away that means speed up. And that mindset was challenged by the Bike Coalition, by the number of people who die every year as a result of accidents between vehicles and pedestrians or those on bikes.
And every life is important. We often focus on homicides and violent deaths, but as a practical matter, for the families involved every single life has the same effect on people who have lost their loved ones.
Something as simple as the infrastructure can really change the way people behave. One thing we talked about was how speed limits don't necessarily drive the behavior that you want and so physical space actually can. So pinching intersections, physical space for bike lanes I think is a good idea, obviously balanced with communities that don't necessarily want to see their road pinched even more. I think some of the challenge with their agenda is it is viewed as a "war on cars" and I don't know that it has to be.
So when we talk about bike share, I like that it's expanding. Zone One is in Center City, and that made it a little bit of a divisive issue, like something you're giving to rich folks that you're not giving to everyone else.
What I really liked was Zone Two. But how you present it to neighborhoods is going to be crucial. We want to say "we're bringing to you what's been very successful here" rather than "I'm not worried about you getting shot in your neighborhoods, but I do want you to have a bike." Because if that's the case, it doesn't match what people's concerns are. But if it's presented as access to jobs, access to groceries, less expensive and time consuming, then it's in a context that will make sense to people.
PP: Some of the conversation about quality of life issues in greater Center City can sound kind of tone deaf when we have so many huge challenges. I've been very eager not to see street safety get lumped into the same category as pop-up beer gardens though, because what we actually see in Philly is that outlying neighborhoods have higher rates of pedestrian fatalities than Center City. In New York, the Vision Zero policy has actually led to a transfer of more city street safety resources into the outer boroughs. I assume this is also something you probably discussed with the Bicycle Coalition? What did you come away with from that conversation?
DO: I think it's the right thing. Your goal should be zero. We used to talk about this at Philadelphia Gas Works all the time with preventable motor vehicle accidents (PVAs) and our board would always be saying "why do we have a goal of six? Why isn't it zero?" And there's always a debate about whether the goal should be a realistic target or the ideal. I think it's required that you have a Vision Zero policy because it's hard enough to get people thinking about these things to have a Mayor come in and be thinking about this in an underachieving way.
I think it is a way of framing the way people think about this. It's basically an investment on further decisions, because if you get people to think this way, then it's easier to pitch them the ideas that we think may be harder to swallow. At least there's a framework for it. So I'm a fan of it, and I think some of the recommendations they've had––raised crosswalks to start to slow people down, automated speed enforcement.
When you get a ticket at a red light traffic stop, you respect that traffic stop forever. And I got a $100 ticket at Broad and Hunting Park. I will never––you start to know where they are and it's such a mental impact on the way I approach things. Automated speed enforcement is something that gives people something to think about and doesn't require police officers to be there and lets them go where they need to be for other reasons.
PP: Mayor Nutter has the Deputy Mayor system and he has a Deputy Mayor for Transportation and Utilities, Rina Cutler, who reports directly to the Mayor on transportation issues. Would you keep MOTU in place?
DO: I'm not sure at this point. I was there in this administration for the first three years and I think I understand why he organized it that way and I think there are lots of benefits of clustering city services under a Deputy Mayor who's responsible for them and so they're not operating in silos. One of the challenges to it though is I think it minimized the role of commissioners to a certain extent. And it also added another expensive layer onto government. The question is: was the return on that investment worth it? I'm certainly not at a point where I'm going to say I'm not doing it, but I need to take a look at it. Maybe we cluster things differently.
Maybe there's a way of reconfiguring things, and as Council President Clarke looks at the reconfiguration of the planning departments and commissions, I think it's always useful to keep your eyes open to see if there's a better way of doing things.
PP: What do you think of Clarke's proposed reorganization?
DO: I'm not familiar with the details of it, and I haven't had any conversations with him, but he is a sitting Council President, and I think City Council's job as much as it is the Mayor's job is to think about how to improve the city.
So I don't have a problem with people kicking around ideas, and also whether the Council President and the Mayor both wanted it, it's still got to go to the people. And that's why I'm such a proponent of getting Philadelphians engaged, because if you don't go to the polls, you don't have a say in the reorganization of your government. I don't have a problem with the idea of reorganization though, and if I'm a successful candidate I'll sit down with the Council President and see what he's trying to do.
PP: So one recent twist is that L&I is no longer part of the reorganization plan, when this was originally pitched as Clarke's alternative plan to reform L&I after the building collapse. And another recent twist is that now there's an amendment requiring Council confirmation for the director of this new super planning department. Do you support Council confirmation, or do you think it undermines the strong Mayor form of government?
DO: It's a "strong Mayor" in areas that don't require legislation. If it's spending and there's legislation, it's not. And even your veto power can be revisited with just two-thirds. So regardless of what they called it, I think they intended for the legislative and executive branches to work together. And I don't see any way around working together.
PP: But Council doesn't approve the appointments now.
DO: They don't, but I think when you're Mayor and you're making appointments you have to take into consideration the people those appointments have to serve. And perhaps that's happened informally with a gentleman's agreement for many years, but I see some benefit in codifying that. I worked in the Department of Public Welfare at the state and all of the Governor's appointees are confirmed. Because the general sense is, you're responsible for such a wide swathe of government that it's appropriate for legislators to have some say-so. There's some question about how people will be when they come in, so people are trying to jockey so they can be at the table. I'm not Mayor yet, but I'm thinking about Council, and I think everybody wants to be considered. I'd be interested in sitting down with the Council President to get a better sense of what he's thinking.
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When stepping foot onto the Costa Rican soil, I knew that I made the right decision to study abroad here. I noticed that the some of the people here were different, to say the least. I kept hearing and seeing these two words everywhere form billboards, stickers, buttons, and t-shirts. In the streets people would say "pura vida" as a greeting, response, and as a way to say goodbye. I did not know the underlying message behind those two words until it was explained to me. From this, I then knew what it was that made "Ticos," or Costa Ricans, different.
The "Pura Vida" (purrah-vee-dah) lifestyle caught my attention immediately. Pura Vida, or pure life, means more than the English translation. In every culture there are saying/philosophies that reflect the ideas of those people. One of my instructors described the saying as being similar to "hakuna matata", which means no worries in Swahili. Ticos believe in enjoying life to the fullest and relaxation is second nature to them and things are done in a non-confrontational and laidback way.
I remembered that my tour guide kept telling us to take it easy as we walked all over downtown San Jose. He was an older man and described himself as a "happy, short Tico." I am accustomed to a more rapid way to do things. The American way to do things is in a quick and sometimes easy fashion. We are heavily focused on time (a later post will made on Tico Time). We were trying to walk fast and move quickly to the next thing to see, but he wanted to walk slowly and give details about the different attractions. It made me question something about my own daily life: what really is the rush for?
Sitting in my seat at orientation, another instructor added that this national symbol and slogan means no preservatives or additives are needed. At first I was a tad bit confused about the slogan from this point of view. I was thinking in literal terms because my host mom buys and makes everything from scratch. Even the juice is freshly squeezed. I noticed this after seeing lifeless limes and lemons bought from a local supermarket on the counter. After a minute, the light bulb went off. This idea is not only associated with food, but with everything in life. When it comes to living a fulfilling life, there is no need to add unnecessary ingredients. I personally believe that all of the essential components of having a satisfying life are already embedded. Back home in the states, we are so focused on taking matters into their own hands and making things happen on our own accounts. We add so many additives that in the long run mean us no good or any type of benefit.
All in all, Costa Rica is known as one of the happiest places in the world. Here everyone is smiling and going about their daily lives in an easygoing manner. I am sure this comes from the pura vida way of thinking.


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Tabi je město a obec v angolské provincii Bengo. Během posledního sčítání lidu žilo v Tabi okolo 900 lidí. Nachází se na jih od přístavu Ambriz u silnice Estrada p/Yembe, severně od obce Yembe. Obec je sice v angolské pobřežní oblasti, ale není na břehu Atlantského oceánu, je umístěna o kus dál ve vnitrozemí.

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Vzhledem k blízkosti moře, které je od města vzdáleno pouhé 4 kilometry, se místní lidé specializují na rybolov.
Zemědělství není příliš rozvinuté a málo výnosné.

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Tabi nemá příliš dobré spojení s okolím. Není zde letiště a ani zde nevede železnice.

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Welcome to Naomi's, where Israel meets Haiti in Liberty City
Posted on April 21, 2016 at 11:20 pm.
Written by Roshan Nebhrajani
The aroma of jerk chicken, turkey stew, and fried fish wafts out of an open window on NW 71st Street, teasing passersby. By lunchtime they can't resist, and hungry crowds encircle the restaurant's mural-covered walls.
Perched at the edge of Liberty City, Naomi's Garden Restaurant has been serving up some of Miami's best Haitian food for three decades now. And while the food is pretty delicious, what's more incredible is how the restaurant came to be.
In the garden.
The outer wall.
The window where orders are placed.
Naomi's from the street.
It was all pretty much an "accident," according to Yaron Yemini, the restaurant's Israeli founder.
The story begins in Maryland in 1974, when Yemini moved from Israel to explore the United States. While in Maryland, Yemini met Shula and her daughter Liza.
In the dead of winter of 1980, the three took a trip to Miami, and it wasn't long before they decided this would be their new home. The blue skies, warmth, and greenery reminded them of Tel Aviv.
"I said 'Shula, I'm not going back. I'm staying right here' and she said, 'You know what, I'm not going either,'" Yaron remembers. With little more than the clothes in their suitcases, they settled down in Miami and started anew. Eventually the two fell in love and got married.
Shula at Naomi's more than a decade ago.
Yaron at Naomi's more than a decade ago.
Yaron and Shula at Naomi's more than a decade ago.
That year, the couple moved to Kendall. They soon met a group of workers at an aviation warehouse nearby who often complained that they had no healthy and affordable lunch options while on the job. Yaron and Shula thought they could help. They started cooking up what they knew — a mix of Middle Eastern and Indian food, like falafel, hummus, masala dosas, and samosas — in their kitchen and selling it to the workers.
The food truck, called the ladybug trailer
The Yemini family eating outside the food truck.
A customer posing at Naomi's.
The business got so popular that Yaron and Shula built a trailer and began delivering their home-cooked food all over the county. It was pretty much the original food truck.
But it wasn't long before the health department caught a whiff of the business and promptly shut it down, rightfully noting that it was illegal to run an unregistered business out of a truck — especially in a residential area.
But business was booming, so they set out to find a place where they could cook. A year later, in 1981, they found themselves standing in a former restaurant junkyard in Liberty City, surrounded by rusted industrial-scale restaurant equipment. But it had a small kitchen, four walls, and most importantly, it was in their budget. So they set up shop and started cooking again, this time under the name Creative Kitchens.
The Naomi's window more than a decade ago.
Naomi's more than a decade ago.
Yaron and a neighbor in the garden.
As the business grew, they hired the women living nearby, many of whom were Haitian. The Yeminis taught their new employees how to make everything from samosas to wheat grass smoothies. It wasn't long before other community members started smelling the falafel and masala dosas and began begging the Yeminis to stop driving all the delicious food away every day and serve them, too. Because the new staff and clientele were predominantly Haitian, it only made sense that they start cooking Haitian food as well.
Over the next decade or so, the restaurant transitioned from making Middle Eastern and Indian foods into cooking Haitian cuisine entirely — eventually changing its name from Creative Kitchen to Naomi's, named after Yaron's mother.
Shula is pregnant with Noam in this picture. Naomi is sitting at the end of the table. This photo was taken at Naomi's in the early 1980s.
Noam and Yaron looking at a picture from the 1980s at taken at the very same spot they're sitting in now.
As the restaurant grew, so did the Yemini family. Shula gave birth to two sons, Noam and Omaar, who were both conceived and born in a tent in the restaurant's massive backyard garden.
"I don't know if it's just because I was born here, but I really feel like this place has some soul to it," said Noam, who is now 31 and works as the restaurant's general manager.
Yaron Yemini having lunch.
A mural in the garden at Naomi's.
A waterfall in the Naomi's garden.
Picnic tables in the garden.
Picnic tables and a stage in the garden at Naomi's.
That backyard became a gathering point for locals from all over Liberty City and Little Haiti. It gained picnic tables, an urban garden, and a stage where locals would hang out and perform. Artists painted massive murals along the walls and local musicians built two recording booths to record amateur albums. Yaron set up a pirate radio station from which he would broadcast talk shows about spirituality and enlightenment. Guest DJs came by to host their own shows, too.
But remember, this whole thing came together sort of by accident. So the pirate radio, the recording booths, the stage — nothing was actually approved by city permits. That proved a bit tricky to explain to the police who stopped by to quiet down a party in the garden last year.
When they showed up to find a community center of sorts — complete with an unregistered performance space, radio station, and art exhibits — the police had no choice but to shut it down.
To the community's dismay, Naomi's had to shut their window seven months ago.
Red snapper in a butter sauce
Kingfish in a tomato sauce
Poule, or chicken stew
"I was so angry," said Malaikye Louis, who is of Haitian and French descent and has been coming to the restaurant for years.
"My brother loves good Haitian food, and when he finds something he likes, he sticks to it," his sister, Nadeige Joulmiste added. "He really likes Naomi's."
The whole Yemini family.
Rather than closing up shop for good, the Yeminis set out to untangle the whole fiasco and reopen — this time in accordance with the law. For the past seven months they've been toiling away, knee deep in paperwork and city permits. Their window re-opened this March, and now the beloved garden is back, too.
"It was a sour situation, but we took the lemons and made lemonade," Yaron said with a warm smile.
By Roshan Nebhrajani
Roshan is a producer at The New Tropic.
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You Really and Truly Can't Make This Up: Must Read Short Piece.
By paulgibson51 on July 3, 2021 • ( 3 )
Today, just one quote from the Levin Report (Vanity Fair) and two from the actual Trump Organization indictment after a link to our Retake Conversation with economist Kelly O'Donnell on how Dems can strengthen & diversify our economy.
Retake Conversation
With Economist Kelly O'Donnell
This is a fascinating conversation, as O'Donnell has two decades of experience both inside and outside government. She brought some surprising ideas to the conversation, especially towards the end when we began to discuss how we might diversify our economy and ween ourselves of gas and oil revenue. Unfortunately, she had an unstable connection and so she had to shut off her video until the last minutes of the interview. Good stuff.
The Trump Organization Indictment
You Really Can't Believe This
For far too long, the news has been dominated by an imperious, vain despot who clearly has felt he is above the law. His hubris is almost unimaginable. But the same hubris we have seen on the evening news ever since he descended that escalator in 2015, appears to have informed the corporate behavior of his Trump Organization, now facing no less than15 criminal charges—including conspiracy, grand larceny, and multiple counts of tax fraud and falsifying records. It is truly unbelievable what is written in the just delivered indictment of the Trump Organization and its CFO. Vanity Fair's " The Levin Report: "Oops, The Trump Organization Kept Actual Spreadsheets of Its Crimes" offers a humorous take on this, but then substantiates its assertions with citations from the indictment itself.
I hope you enjoy this half as much as I did. Sounds like pay back time is at hand.
From the Vanity Fair's Levin Report:
In life, a good rule of thumb is to not engage in the sort of behavior that could result in being charged with numerous felonies; in other words, don't do crimes. But if you're going to ignore that rule, and you don't want to spend years in prison, another piece of advice is to not leave such an obvious paper trail of said crimes that you might as well have stuck a Post-it note on a stack of files that reads, "Hey, everybody, come check out all the laws I've been breaking! It's all right here! Get the handcuffs ready!" Which, based on the indictment unsealed in a Manhattan courtroom today, is basically what the Trump Organization and its longtime CFO did, for more than a decade. Whoops!
Yes, in a turn of events perhaps unsurprising given Donald Trump's frequent pronouncements that he's "like, really smart," it appears that not only did the Trump Organization and Allen Weisselberg engage in so many scams that they were hit with a whopping 15 criminal charges—including conspiracy, grand larceny, and multiple counts of tax fraud and falsifying records—but they were really, really stupid about it. Despite the fact that Weisselberg and the company were very effective at (allegedly) hiding all sorts of income from the Internal Revenue Service—largely through fringe benefits like apartments, cars, and private school tuition the Trump Org paid for that were never declared as income—they apparently never envisioned a scenario in which they would be investigated, hence the decision to keep meticulous records of all the taxes they were allegedly dodging. (In total, Weisselberg was accused of dodging taxes on $1.7 million worth of perks, and was led into the courtroom on Thursday in handcuffs.)
Vanity Fair: The Levin Report: "Oops, The Trump Organization Kept Actual Spreadsheets of Its Crimes"
Levin then cited the actual indictment. It is unfathomable how anyone could be this careless and prideful, privilege run amok:
Weisselberg caused the Trump Corporation to issue corporate checks made payable to a Trump Organization employee who cashed the checks and received cash. The cash was given to Weisselberg for his personal use. The Trump Corporation booked this cash as "Holiday Entertainment," but maintained internal spreadsheets showing the cash to be part of Weisselberg's employee compensation.
Trump Organization Indictment Excerpt
While these cash payments made it into the Trump Organization spreadsheet, they somehow didn't make it into Weisselberg's income calculations in his tax returns.
And then Levin provides "another fun example" directly from the indictment:
For certain years, the Trump Organization maintained internal spreadsheets that tracked the amounts it paid for Weisselberg's rent, utility, and garage expenses. Simultaneously, the Trump Organization reduced the amount of direct compensation that Weisselberg received in the form of checks or direct deposits to account for the indirect compensation that he received in the form of payments of rent, utility bills, and garage expenses. The indirect compensation was not included on Weisselberg's W-2 forms or otherwise reported to federal, state, or local tax authorities, and no income taxes were withheld by the corporate defendants in connection with the indirect compensation.
Weisselberg, who pleaded not guilty on Thursday alongside the ex-president's business, is now facing more than a decade in prison, if convicted on all charges. And while prosecutors are presumably still hoping he'll flip and testify against Trump, according to former Trump Organization attorney Michael Cohen, the government will still be able to make its case without him
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GrumpyGrammie (@karen3678)
July 3, 2021 • 9:07 am
I hope Weisselberg flips on Trump. He has never before been convicted of a crime so If he is not looking at a decade in prison then he may not flip
July 3, 2021 • 12:43 pm
Could New Mexicans, especially their 'representatives', just try to emulate California??
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/california-approves-11-5-gw-of-zero-carbon-resources-by-2026-no-natural-gas-required/?utm_campaign=canary&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=136661925&_hsenc=p2ANqtz–HHMIGo-15hzRWzs1ao9IaNH8rnFQh-DTsArBwHRvk5w50bHBpOAjg0-IZlZviIFPT0ZwirLMr37iHZ5x7k7McW2vJl2kLAzR1ZAbWvWfNyKzIMNk&utm_source=newsletter
Ekaterina (Katya) Adams
July 3, 2021 • 2:42 pm
Unfortunately, none of what is revealed about Trump and his organization is going to change the minds of Trump's hard-core supporters because Trump captured their anger for the government that is not doing anything for them. And the Democrats have also embraced the government that first and for most serves corporate interests, so that has not changed. And affective comes before cognitive.


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Reincarnation and Karma – The Destiny of the Reincarnating Individual: Analogy of drama
Raja Gopichand play enacted by Masts at Rahuri
Source: AvatarMeher.org, AMB Hyderabad Center
The drama of the continued life of the individual soul has many acts. From the standpoint of the worldly existence of the soul, a curtain may be said to be drawn over its life after the closing of each act. But no act yields its real significance if it is regarded as complete in itself. It has to be viewed from its wider context as being a link between the acts already performed and the acts still to come. Its meaning is entwined with the theme of the whole drama of which it is a part. The end of the act is not the end of the progressive theme. The actors disappear from the stage of earth only to reappear again in new capacities and new contexts.
–Discourses 7th Ed., p338


The Royal Choral Society has performed Handel's Messiah on Good Friday afternoon at the Royal Albert Hall every year since 1876.
The Royal Choral Society presents its 143rd annual Good Friday afternoon performance of Handel's Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall featuring the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a stellar line-up of soloists, conducted by the choir's Music Director, Richard Cooke. Don't miss this great Easter tradition.


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Flyers cover statue of Kate Smith and Yankees pull 'God Bless America' because of racially insensitive lyrics
The statue of Kate Smith near the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia has been covered.
(Matt Slocum / Associated Press)
By Christian Orozco
The Philadelphia Flyers have draped a black cloth over a statue of singer Kate Smith that sits outside the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia after unearthing songs with racially insensitive lyrics by Smith in the 1930s.
This comes a day after the New York Yankees announced they will suspend the playing of Smith's rendition of "God Bless America" during the seventh-inning stretch at Yankee Stadium. The club had been playing the song since 2001 in the wake of 9/11.
The Flyers began playing Smith's version of "God Bless America" in place of "The Star Spangled Banner" in 1969. Smith performed the song throughout the 1970s at Flyers' games, which led to the team erecting a statue of her in 1987.
Flyers officials said in a statement, "We have recently become aware that several songs performed by Kate Smith contain offensive lyrics that do not reflect our values as an organization.
"As we continue to look into this serious matter, we are removing Kate Smith's recording of 'God Bless America' from our library and covering up the statue that stands outside of our arena."
The Yankees, in their statement, said, "The Yankees take social, racial and cultural insensitivities very seriously. And while no final conclusions have been made, we are erring on the side of sensitivity."
Irving Berlin wrote "God Bless America" in 1918 during World War I and revised the track 20 years later during World War II with Smith doing the vocals on the 1938 version.
Smith died in 1986.
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The 1996 Canoe Slalom World Cup was a series of five races in 4 canoeing and kayaking categories organized by the International Canoe Federation (ICF). It was the 9th edition. The series consisted of 4 regular world cup races and the world cup final.

Calendar

Final standings

The winner of each world cup race was awarded 25 points. The points scale reached down to 1 point for 15th place. Only the best two results of each athlete from the first 4 world cups plus the result from the world cup final counted for the final world cup standings. If two or more athletes or boats were equal on points, the ranking was determined by their positions in the world cup final.

Results

World Cup Race 1

The first world cup race of the season took place at the Ocoee Whitewater Center, Tennessee from 19 to 21 April.

World Cup Race 2

The second world cup race of the season took place at the Segre Olympic Park in La Seu d'Urgell, Spain from 8 to 9 June.

World Cup Race 3

The third world cup race of the season took place at the Augsburg Eiskanal, Germany from 15 to 16 June.

World Cup Race 4

The fourth world cup race of the season took place at the Prague-Troja Canoeing Centre, Czech Republic from 24 to 25 August.

World Cup Final

The final world cup race of the season took place in Três Coroas, Brazil from 23 to 29 September.

References

External links
 International Canoe Federation

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Home » Search is on for 100 women who have made a difference in safety (2/18)
Search is on for 100 women who have made a difference in safety (2/18)
The American Society of Safety Engineers' (ASSE) Women in Safety Engineering (WISE) common interest group will honor 100 women who have, or are currently, making a difference through their work and dedication to protecting people, property and the environment, as part of ASSE's 100th anniversary celebrations in 2011, according to an ASSE press release. This week WISE issued a call for nominations.
WISE honored four women in its monthly newsletter to members in October 2009 and will continue to do so until October 2011 when the group will consolidate the profiles and nominations of 100 dedicated women into a single publication,
100 Women – Making a Difference in Safety. Those nominated do not have to be ASSE members.
WISE was established by ASSE and its members to foster the advancement of women in the safety, health and environmental (SH&E) profession. The officers of WISE are Chair Kelly Bernish; Vice Chair Jennifer Zipeto; Secretary Terrie Norris, who also serves as ASSE Senior Vice President; and, Treasurer Maureen Johnson.
The ASSE group plans to honor women who have dedicated their lives to making a difference in the lives of others through their work, dedication and innovation in SH&E work.
"Some paved the way long before ASSE was founded in 1911, like Rebecca Luken who made a difference in manufacturing safety protection devices in the 1800's," ASSE WISE Chair Bernish said. "Other possible nominees, such as ASSE Professional Development Vice President Patricia Ennis and Terry Wigfall, are ASSE members making a difference today. Our honorees will be diverse. They won't all be public figures, well known, or famous; they will be everyday heroes making a difference in the lives of others."
To nominate a woman for the WISE "100 Women Project" complete the nomination form on the ASSE WISE web site athttp://www.asse.org/practicespecialties/wise/100womenform.php.
For those who would like to participate in this project or find out more information, please contact: Bernish at Kelly.A.Bernish@disney.com, Jennifer Zipeto at jzipeto@gmail.com, Terrie Norris at tsnorris@earthlink.net, Deb McDaniel at mcdanied@kochind.com, and/or Maureen Johnson at maureenj@us.ibm.com.
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Q: jQuery accordion can't disable click when still animating? I've attempting to develop a jQuery accordion, which is work ing pretty well so far considering I don't really know jQuery.
The main problem i have is if you click about quite quickly on different sections it will eventially knock the whole accordion out for a short time which wouldn't be good enough really.
I attempted to put
if ($("#accordion ul li").is(':animated')) {
around the click function but didn't seem to do anything, could anyone give me a helping hand or tell me if it is at least possible?
Also you will notice that when clicked on, the right side of the accordion shrinks a little, is this fixable or just something i'll have to put up with?
You can view what i mean here http://dev.boomeranginternet.co.uk/accordion/accordion1.asp
Thanks in advance for any help.
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A: Try something like this insted:
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Much of the turfgrass on display — and writhed on by soccer players — at the 2018 World Cup was the product of seed bred and produced in the United States.
The 2018 World Cup took place over a period of 33 days and featured a total of 169 goals scored by 122 players from 32 national teams during 64 matches in 12 stadiums in 11 cities. In addition, countless players — who may or may not have been injured — ended up writhing on the playing field. The games were clearly hard on the players, but think of the repeated punishment inflicted on the soccer pitches.
The true star of the 2018 World Cup may have been the turf, much of which was the product of seed bred and produced in the United States. The story of how Oregon seed made its way to the World Cup games in Russia began in 2011, when Leah Brilman, Ph.D., then the director of research for Seed Research of Oregon, went overseas to explore the possibility of supplying grass seed for the soccer pitches.
Seed Research had previously provided grasses for the World Cup venue in South Africa and was working for the bid in Brazil. The company also already had a seed distributor in Russia, which would facilitate importation of the products from the U.S. Seed Research expected to provide a traditional soccer pitch mixture of 20% Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis) and 80% perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) along with additional ryegrass for overseeding.
However, in 2013, DLF-Trifolium, a Danish company with subsidiaries in numerous countries, including Russia, acquired the Pickseed group of companies (Seed Research of Oregon, Pickseed USA and Pickseed of Canada). At that point, the general assumption was that DLF would move forward without American assistance. In 2014, DLF Pickseed supplied the primary overseeded ryegrasses for the World Cup in Brazil, including tetraploid Replicator (named Double in Europe).
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By August 2017, Brilman was back in Russia consulting with venue managers regarding the grow-in of DLF's diploid and tetraploid perennial ryegrasses.
For previous World Cup games, the grasses for all the venues had been selected by the Sport Turf Research Institute (STRI) in England, but the Russians preferred that subcontractors and turf managers from each of the 12 venues — many of which are regularly used for professional soccer — select the grasses for their sites. Ultimately, eight of the 12 venues selected DLF varieties, which had been recommended by STRI and the Local Organizing Committee for the World Cup in Russia.
The remaining venues selected grass seed from other European companies and from Jacklin Seed in Washington state. Jacklin's Russian distributor reported that, as was the case for DLF, a blend of the company's Kentucky bluegrass seed was used to grow sod in Russia for the pitches, and a blend of its perennial ryegrass was used for overseeding.
From DLF, the Russians selected Fiesta 4, a diploid (2n) perennial ryegrass that was already on a list of grasses approved by the Russian government for import, and the tetraploid (4n) turf-type perennial ryegrasses 4turf, Fabian and Double. The tetraploid perennial ryegrasses have twice as many genes as diploid perennial ryegrasses, are cold- and wear-tolerant, and have larger seeds, which allows them to germinate under colder soil temperatures (as low as 37.4 F [3 C]).
Compared with traditional perennial ryegrasses, the tetraploids germinate faster, are more drought-tolerant and recover from wear more quickly (a definite plus in World Cup play). The U.S. varieties, including Fiesta 4, also have a darker green color that the Russians preferred for their pitches.
In Sochi, a resort on the Black Sea, the pitches were a bermudagrass base with perennial ryegrass overseed. The more northern locations used a Kentucky bluegrass base with perennial ryegrass overseed. However, many of the pitches for competition and practice were "hybrid" fields — a combination of artificial turf overseeded with perennial ryegrass, but with no Kentucky bluegrass.
All practice pitches were constructed and maintained exactly like their neighboring competition pitches so that players could practice under conditions nearly identical to those of the actual games.
A veteran of two World Cups, Brilman says she was still somewhat surprised by her experience in Russia. In a situation where the rules are usually hard and fast, the Russians selected their own cultivars, presenting themselves as independent thinkers who relied on their own professional expertise.