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Public Intimacy @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Handspring Puppet Company, still from Or You Could Just Kiss Me, 2010
Public Intimacy, a joint venture between YBCA and SFMOMA's "On the Go" curatorial program, is a daunting, powerful show of 25 South African artists working in performance, photography, painting, video, art books and puppetry. Text-heavy and weighted toward photography, the exhibit, curated by Bettie-Sue Hertz, Dominic Willsdon, and Frank Smigiel, quotes extensively from the 2013 SFMOMA exhibit South Africa in Apartheid and After, which featured works by David Goldblatt, whose Particulars series provided the seed for what would become this show's title. Collectively, the artists take the pulse of post-Apartheid South Africa and ask: Where are we now? Their responses paint a sad and sobering picture of broken promises and unfulfilled dreams and of racism and discrimination aimed at blacks and gays.
David Goldblatt, Woman smoking, Fordsburg, Johannesburg, 1975
Goldblatt's tightly cropped black and white photo, Woman Smoking, Fordsburg, Johannesburg,could easily serve as the poster image for these conditions. Every aspect of what little we see of this woman's body — her clasped wrists, her tightly clenched thighs – describes the unease of being a black South African woman in public: sitting, smoking and waiting. Those themes – waiting and unease – run like twin currents through the show. Until the rise of democracy in 1994, South Africa was a nation that codified and controlled every aspect of black life. Today it has one of the world's most progressive constitutions, yet its people still suffer under the decaying weight of a past that the artists express in bodily terms.
While a substantial portion of the show's photography is given over to quiet personal moments, Zanele Muholi chooses to be loud. Her activist Faces and Phases series of black-and-white portraits demand recognition and justice for black lesbian and transgender men: a group often seen by regressive elements in South Africa as "broken" women that can, in a baffling and tragic form of thinking, be "fixed" by violence. "Corrective rape" and other atrocities are visited on LGBT individuals with staggering frequency. Muholi seeks to reverse that situation.
Nicholas Hlobo, Umphanda ongazaliyo, 2008
Nicholas Hlobo's Umphanda ongazaliyo and Ngumgudu nemizano consist of two large "stomachs" seemingly connected to each other through an appendage that penetrates a wall, its waist-high tendrils resembling the mouth of some flamboyant black rubber sea anemone. One resembles a creature suspended off the ground in a bulbous patchwork of inner tube rubber and brightly colored ribbon, woven together like a taxidermic re-creation of a once-living thing. The other, strewn on the floor of the main gallery and attached to a wearable rubber suit, appears emptied out. It speaks of devouring and exhaustion, mirroring its Xhosa title ("a vessel that never fills up") to echo, all too clearly, themes sounded elsewhere by the show, among them blackness, Xhosa culture, queer identity and sex.
Photographers Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse explore Ponte City, an iconic high-rise apartment building built for wealthy whites in apartheid-era Johannesburg that is today a symbol of repeated redevelopment failures. The duo cast the tower in a mythic light, presenting quotidian views with a quasi-religious air. Scenes of everyday life from the perspective of residents are projected in rolling sequence
Mikhael Subotzky and Patrick Waterhouse, Ponte City, 2008-13
across glass, giving the desolation parity with the lives of saints on cathedral windows. Two large photo prints continue the mock consecration. One shows white-robed "shepherds" praying among decaying skyscrapers, the other depicts the cylindrical city's open-air interior as ruins of a Gothic church or an excavated tomb.
Handspring Puppet Company, a group long associated with William Kentridge, issues a powerful meditation on mortality in the form of a video of their play, Or you Could Kiss Me. It features near-life-size wood puppets of old men operated by four to six people. Each shifts seamlessly between the role of a puppeteer moving figures along a runway to actors portraying caregivers who help their dependents perform daily tasks, which include – rather ominously – the repeated lighting and insertion of cigarettes into the lips of their charges. It's a poignant and frightening spectacle of how independence is erased with age, and how private moments are constantly exposed, and not necessarily to anyone's betterment. More broadly, this haunting display of bodily deterioration and dependence — intercut with memories of the men as independent young lovers – mirrors the failings of the South African state. These remarkably pliant prosthetic figures and the skillful manner with which they are manipulated only magnify the impact of that message. They are the absolute highlight of the show.
Ahti-Patra Ruga, Documentation of Performa Obscura, Future White Women of Anzania, South Africa, 2012
Penny Siopis' Shame series pushes bodily vulnerability further still. The 90 intaglio prints, each about the size of a greeting card, are etched with a sugarlift technique that belies the trauma depicted in bloody images of young women abused, attacked or insulted. Many carry horribly ironic messages ("forgive as you hope to be forgiven" or "may your day be full of love, smiles, sunshine") that contrast sharply with the brutality pictured.
Sometimes, when faced with adversity on such a monumental scale, all a person can do is dream. Athi-Patra Ruga does it flamboyantly and with a big dose of irony. In his performance series, The Future White Women of Anzania, he ridicules South Africa's utopian dreams by playing a high-heeled white woman in a "dress" made of dye-filled balloons. That façade, like so many politicians' promises, quickly becomes undone when the balloons pop, staining the ground and the artist's clothes.
All throughout the gallery you can hear, faintly, on a continuous loop, OK Jazz's Likambo Ya Ngana; its soothing rhythms stand out amid the intensity of the work on view. The song is the background for William Kentridge's Tide Table, a typically playful and melancholy animation about Kentridge's character Soho Eckstein, the pinstripe suited and regretful businessman, and his younger self who plays in the tide and skips rocks across breaking waves. The story seems to end with a reconciliation of the man with his younger ideals, but in between there is great violence. Cattle and people are treated as commodities in many symbolic and claustrophobic scenes of suffering. In a way, this show is having a conversation with South Africa's younger self; 20 years after the triumph of democracy, it wants to reclaim the hope of 1994 before utopian promises were broken, before it was obvious how unrealistic those hopes were to begin with.
– MIKKO LAUTAMO
"Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa" @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts through June 29, 2014.
Mikko Lautamo is an artist living and working in Sacramento. His work uses programming to create never-repeating loops of digital animations based on social systems, biological entities and interactions. His work has been exhibited at the Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento and at Axis Gallery and online.
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Die evangelische Kirche Zur Wiederkunft Christi ist die auf den alten Resten wiederaufgebaute, im Zweiten Weltkrieg zerstörte Südendkirche. Sie steht in der Ellwanger Straße 9 in der Berliner Ortslage Südende, eine ehemalige Villenkolonie im heutigen Ortsteil Steglitz des Bezirks Steglitz-Zehlendorf.

Geschichte

Seit 1873 entstand die Villenkolonie Südende, die schnell wuchs, nachdem sie bereits 1882 einen eigenen Bahnhof bekam. Sie gehörte vor der Bildung von Groß-Berlin noch zu Mariendorf im Landkreis Teltow und  kam erst danach zum Bezirk Steglitz. Bis zum Bau der Südendkirche war die alte Dorfkirche die einzige Kirche in der Gemeinde, sie hatte bereits über 15.000 Einwohnern, die überwiegend evangelisch waren. Die Kirchengemeinde Südende wurde 1956 der Markus-Kirchengemeinde angegliedert, nach Einweihung der wiederaufgebauten Kirche am 20. Oktober 1959 wurde sie dann wieder selbständig. Im Juli 1961 erhielt die Kirche den Namen Zur Wiederkunft Christi. Zur Bedeutung des Namens siehe Parusie.

Baubeschreibung
Die erste Kirche wurde nach Plänen von Curt Steinberg im Architekturstil der beginnenden Moderne mit barocken Anklängen erbaut und am 14. März 1913 eingeweiht. Die zweite Kirche, im Unterschied zur ersten stark vereinfacht, wurde von Max Schluckebier entworfen und am 14. September 1958 eingeweiht.

Südendkirche
Die ursprüngliche Saalkirche war ein verputzter Mauerwerksbau mit hohem Satteldach. Sie hatte ein Mittelschiff mit einer halbrunden Apsis und ein Seitenschiff mit einer Empore, beide getrennt durch rundbogige Arkaden. Das Mittelschiff war mit einem kassettierten Tonnengewölbe überdeckt. Tageslicht erhielt es durch Bogenfenster. Der hohe Glockenturm auf quadratischem Grundriss war dem Gebäude seitlich angefügt. Sein durch paarige Lisenen gegliederter Turmschaft war in Höhe der Dachtraufe durch ein Gesims unterteilt. Die folgenden drei Geschosse des Turms verjüngten sich jeweils über einem Dach in Form eines Pyramidenstumpfes. Über dem Hauptgesims lag das niedrige Geschoss mit dem Uhrwerk. Darüber folgte das hohe, mit Pilastern  gegliederte Geschoss mit der Glockenstube. Das letzte, niedrige Geschoss war mit einem Pyramidendach bekrönt.

Ein offener Portikus auf korinthischen Säulen, bedeckt mit einem Tonnendach, befand sich vor der Fassade, deren Giebel mit einem segmentbögigen Relief geschmückt war.

Kirche Zur Wiederkunft Christi
Beim Wiederaufbau wurde die Kirche stark verändert. Statt des hohen Daches hat der Bau nunmehr ein flach geneigtes Satteldach. Unmittelbar an die Kirche wurde 1964 das Gemeindehaus angebaut. Anstelle der Bogenfenster befinden sich an beiden Seiten Segmentbogenfenster. Das Fenster an der Apsis, das bis auf den Boden reicht, ist ebenfalls segmentbögig.

Der seitwärts vollständig abgesetzte Campanile ist auf rechteckigem Grundriss errichtet und mit einem niedrigen Zeltdach bedeckt. Sein Eingang ist mit der Vorhalle der Kirche durch einen gedeckten Gang verbunden. An den Ecken ist der Turm durch Lisenen senkrecht gegliedert.

Im Turm hängen drei Glocken aus Bronze, die 1957 bis 1958 von Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock gegossen wurden und nach den drei Anfangstönen des mittelalterlichen Te Deums ein Te-Deum-Geläut bilden.

Aus der alten Kirche wurde das von Julius Schramm geschmiedete Altarkreuz beim Wiederaufbau neben dem Gotteshaus aufgestellt, ein Christusrelief fand in dem gedeckten Gang seinen Platz. Das Seitenschiff ist vom Hauptschiff durch glatte Pfeiler getrennt, sie reichen bis an die flache Kassettendecke.

Ein von Hermann Kirchberger entworfener Wandteppich schmückt den Altar. Das Altarfenster stammt von Götz Löpelmann, die zwei farbigen Glasfenster in der Vorhalle stammen von Hans Wagner.

Das Taufbecken im Seitenschiff entwarf August Rhades.

Die neue Orgel wurde am 24. Juni 1962 eingeweiht.

Literatur
 Architekten- und Ingenieur-Verein zu Berlin: Berlin und seine Bauten. Teil VI. Sakralbauten. Berlin 1997.
 Günther Kühne, Elisabeth Stephani: Evangelische Kirchen in Berlin. Berlin 1978.
 Christine Goetz und Matthias Hoffmann-Tauschwitz: Kirchen Berlin Potsdam. Berlin 2003.
 Hans-Jürgen Rach: Die Dörfer in Berlin. Berlin 1990.
 Klaus-Dieter Wille: Die Glocken von Berlin (West). Geschichte und Inventar. Berlin 1987.

Weblinks

  Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Südende

Wiederkunft Christi
Wiederkunft Christi
Berlin-Steglitz
Berlin Wiederkunft Christi Sudende
Berlin Wiederkunft Christi Kirche
Bauwerk von Curt Steinberg

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Construction to Begin at New Outpatient Center in Mid County February 25, 2016
Today, CHRISTUS announced construction is set to begin at the new 36,000 sq. ft. CHRISTUS Southeast Texas Outpatient Center Mid County (OPC) on Highway 365. The journey forward for CHRISTUS Southeast Texas Health System includes a new strategic direction that is transforming how CHRISTUS Health Southeast Texas delivers healthcare to the nine counties it serves as well as a new patient-centered model to provide access to care beyond the traditional hospital setting or through an Emergency Room.
"In the time since our announcement last year, we have worked with our physicians, SETX leadership and Associates, and community to better understand needs and ensure the best configuration of the new Outpatient Center for its many services. The floor plans are now complete and the exterior design will transform the building from its original use to our modern outpatient center," said Paul Trevino, CEO of CHRISTUS Southeast Texas Health System. "It is our hope for construction to begin in earnest in March with the facility to be licensed and operational in October of this year."
This $10 million investment will serve the community with:
24/7 Emergency Room
Sports Medicine/Concussion Center
Physical Therapy/Occupational Therapy
Hyperbaric/Wound Care Center
While beginning the OPC construction will be a visual confirmation of the ongoing transformation and strategic direction for CHRISTUS Southeast Texas Health System, the system has already completed much, much more in the past seven months. The system is well down the path toward the goal to deliver the nine county region a fully integrated health system. Since the announcement last summer, many of the accomplishments include: 1.) the unification and re-branding all of locations across Southeast Texas under one name: CHRISTUS Southeast Texas Health System, 2.) CHRISTUS Southeast Texas St. Mary has transformed to a short stay surgical hospital being embraced by the community and physicians, highlighted by very high patient satisfaction, 3.) the pain management capabilities have been expanded at St. Mary and a wound care department has opened at St. Mary, 4.) CHRISTUS Southeast Texas St. Elizabeth has begun renovation and improvements with the $2.5 million upgrade to the region's only State Certified Level 3 neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and 5.) St. Elizabeth will make a $1.5 million investment to modernize the catheterization lab expanding current capabilities for today and well into the future.
CHRISTUS Southeast Texas Jasper Memorial has further established the organization's commitment to bringing the latest technology advances to the region by adding 3D mammography, expanded surgical services and pain management. Additionally, the system's overall promise to the community to expand healthcare access points within the region, adding new primary care locations, outpatient clinics and services continues to flourish.
"We are making great progress on our goal to attract new physicians to our health system," said Trevino. "Our Southeast Texas physicians are embracing our vision to help our community Live Well, and we are well on our way to accomplishing our goal of adding 40 new physicians by 2018."
As CHRISTUS continues to transform, the community can continue to rely on the distinguishable, excellent quality it has provided its patients for more than 130 years. The system has received numerous heart and stroke awards from the American Heart Association and Texas Joint Commission, and was awarded the National Research Corporation Consumer Preference Award for the 12th year in a row.
Trevino adds, "The future is bright for CHRISTUS Southeast Texas Health System as we continue to expand our services and help our community LIVE WELL."

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A wide range of important physical and chemical phenomena may be named by the same title: Rate processes in condensed media. They have the same underlying physics and mathematics. To these phenomena belong: 1) Small polaron motion [a] 2) Electron transfer between ions in solutions [b] and in photosynthetic centers [c]. 3) Electronic energy transfer between molecules or ions in solids and in liquids [d]. 4) Enzymatic catalysis [e] 5) Group transfer in biological systems [fl. 6) Electron-hole recombination in semiconductors [g]. 7) Non-radiative electronic relaxation in ionic centers Ih] and in impurity states in insulators [i]. 8) Recombination in amorphous solids [j]. 9) Radiationless transitions in large molecules [k]. At present a unified theoretical and conceptual framework exists for description and understanding of all these diverse phenomena. Our aim in writing this work is to introduce the student and the research worker in chemical physics to the main aspects of the conceptual framework of rate processes in condensed media. There exists an extensive literature devoted to various rate processes in condensed media. Among recent works, the books of Levine and Jortner , Fong [m] and Ulstrup [n] should be mentioned. The existence of this literature enables us to concentrate on the major theoretical aspects, omitting description and presentation of experimental data. We tried to make our work self-contained. Almost all the information necessary for reading the book is included. References used in the work by no means cover the literature on the subject.


The Window is an English translation of the German novel Das Fenster, with which Ideos started its literary program. The novel deals with the inner conflict and ideas of a great mathematician and scientist. The protagonist's inner conflict results in a fascinating, absolutely unique picture of the world. The novel delights and instructs, and is intended for people in search of answers to the fundamental questions that grant peace of mind.


No more drinking from paper cups here's the Frank Green reusable cup – Bean Bros.
Feb. 20, 2019 Bean Bros.
No more drinking from paper cups necessary. We stocked up on Frank Green cups.
Brew yourself a nice cup of specialty coffee from our featured roasters and take that coffee with you.
These cups replace your need for paper cups as they are reusable and have the added bonus of being leak proof. You can just toss it into your backpack or handbag and get going. While the original line isn't designed to be thermal cups (and we don't recommend drinking your coffee six hours after brewing anyway), the new stainless steel line is keeping your coffee hot and your iced brew cold. Both versions are not only stylish but also practical as you can easily clean all parts and drink from it only using one hand. We love these cups and want to share those with you.
Head over to our shop to either get yourself an original reusable or the new stainless steel cup in various color variations.
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10 Best WWE Fastlane Matches So Far
There have been some enjoyable pitstops on the Road To WrestleMania...
By Lewis Howse
Tonight is WWE Fastlane, the last stop on the road to WrestleMania.
Fastlane was first introduced to the WWE calendar in 2015 and has been a staple, bar 2020 when it took a little break.
It's back now, however, and promises at least one worthwhile match in the form of Daniel Bryan challenging Roman Reigns for the Universal Title. The same two men headlined the first Fastlane show and they had a barnburner then, the first of many that would take place on Fastlane cards in the years after.
Looking back at previous events, it's striking just how many hidden gems there are on a show that is, really, at times mostly filler and not exactly necessary, especially if there is another pay-per-view bridging the Royal Rumble and 'Mania, such as Elimination Chamber.
To get you in the mood for the event - or to give you some random recommendations if you're reading this after the fact - I've looked at the other Fastlane shows and picked ten of the best matches in its short history.
It wasn't too hard, to be honest, because Fastlane has hosted plenty of frenetic multi-man matches and some big title bouts, as well as the last (proper) match of one of wrestling's greatest ever stables.
Perhaps Alexa Bliss versus Randy Orton will make next year's update.
On the other hand, almost certainly not.
10. AJ Styles Vs. Chris Jericho (2016)
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AJ Styles's first major test after his debut in the 2016 Royal Rumble match was a singles encounter with friendly rival Chris Jericho at Fastlane.
Something of a dream match, AJ versus Y2J was something that fans had wanted to see for a while and, given the experience and ability of both, expectations were high.
Thankfully, they had themselves a dandy of a bout. It was a bit ropey in the beginning as they felt each other out and set a pace, and it didn't look like they were on the same page during a couple of exchanges, but they settled into their rhythm and built the match up nicely.
The intensity grew as it went on, with Jericho getting more and more frustrated at his inability to put The Phenomenal One away. In one of the match's most impressive moments, Jericho countered an attempted springboard move by hitting a springboard dropkick, causing Styles to lose his balance and fall from the top rope.
AJ survived the Walls of Jericho, Y2J kicked out of a Style's Clash and the pendulum swung back and forth until Styles was able to lock in the Calf Crusher and score the win via submission.
This was clearly the first entry in a longer story, and the two would have better matches against one another down the road, but this was a damn fine effort and one of the best things at Fastlane 2016.
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Searched for "SDA switzerland". Found 19 results in 19 milliseconds. Displaying results 11 to 19 of 19.
Relevance: 26% - Jurgen and Gerd - with their wives and children. We want to comfort them with our sincere condolences for this great loss. A memorial service is scheduled for Friday June 29, 2012, at 14:00, at the SDA Church in Berne, Switzerland.


Here are some chapters from a few Lynda.com tutorials that might be helpful.
Note that you won't be able to watch them unless you are logged in to Lynda.com.
If you haven't gotten access yet (It's free through the New School) Here are some instructions.
Below are some chapters that I selected that are particularly relevant to our project. They are more about how you approach your subject that the technical methods of using a camera.
This chapter focuses on getting a variety of shots that enable you to edit.
Close ups, Middle Shots and Wide shots.
How does movement relate to the frame? Things moving in and out. Capturing the whole movement.
Finally, think about gestures as a part of movement. Gesture is a unique or distinctive movement of your subject. You can shoot gestures as medium or close shots and you can even get cutaways of people gesturing around the main action. Gesture does not simply mean someone talking with their hands. It means watching for a unique movement or gesture, whether that is from a person, a plant, an animal or even a machine. If there is some sort of movement that gives a gesture that is unique and distinctive for your subject.
Moving the camera. Panning, zooming, tilting.
One thing that distinguishes a DSLR from other modes of shooting video (video camera, iphone, etc) is that you can control the focus in the image keeping the subject in focus but having a soft background. This is called depth of field and is controlled using the aperture setting in the camera. Here's a nice description of Aperture in photography from the site Digital Photography School.
Different lenses have different apertures and therefore different focal lengths.
This is a very comprehensive DSLR tutorial, much of it is probably too detailed for what we need, but it's a good resource if you want to explore specific aspects of shooting video with a DSLR camera.


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Susan Lambert
24 Hours From Tulsa
Susan Lambert is attached to a new independent feature script, Twenty-Four Hours From Tulsa, written by Terry and Ernest Hollzman. Twenty-four Hours from Tulsa is a unique bio-pic imagining four, unexpected days in the life of singer Dusty Springfield. It's about discovering friendship, finding love and being true to your heart.
It's Thanksgiving in NYC, 1968. After performing a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall, British superstar Dusty Springfield begins a search for her true self and befriends unexpected fellow travelers as they all set off on a journey of surprising friendships, love and empowerment in this ensemble-romantic-comedy-bio-road-pic… with music.
Want to learn more? Contact Susan!
Listen to the playlist inspired by the script.
Susan Lambert is a producer, director and writer originally from Decatur, GA now based in Pasadena, CA. Her company, 134 West specializes in producing independent theatre, film and digital content and digital entertainment marketing.
susan@134west.biz
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Discussion in 'Headphone & Earphone General Discussion' started by Thatsmatt, Mar 1, 2013.
As long as the phone's 3.5 mm jack is compatible with the 3.5 mm plugs like the WS55i and many other headphones use, no problem. Very few phones or music players have a problem with those plugs now.
Unfortunately I haven't heard them. I have two different AT's now with wooden cups (very highly recommended, for home use anyway), and I had the M50 which was good, but I'm looking at several of their on-ears for portable use. Anyway I looked through a bunch of reviews on the WS55i, and if they're even half as good as the reviews say, they'll be great. Those reviews were specific about the improved bass quality over the WS55.


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With health care costs projected to rise another 5% in 2020, employers look to new strategies to control costs
Tuesday, 08. October 2019 15:24
ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 08, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Curbing the cost of health care and increasing its affordability remain the top priorities for almost all employers over the next three years (93%), according to the 24th annual Best Practices in Health Care Employer Survey by Willis Towers Watson (NASDAQ: WLTW), a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company. Yet nearly two in three (63%) employers see health care affordability as the most difficult challenge to tackle over that same period.
Employers expect health care cost increases of 4.9%* in 2020 compared with 4.0% in 2019. Despite this cost increase, 95% of employees are very confident their organization will continue to sponsor health care benefits to active employees in five years. Moreover, employers' longer-term commitment to sponsoring these benefits 10 years from now hit 74%, the highest level in the past decade.
The rising cost of health care puts financial pressure not only on employers, but also their employees. In fact 89% of employers believe rising health care costs are a significant source of financial stress for their employees.
"Relentless health care price increases continue to crowd out other benefits, making affordability a challenge for many workers," said Julie Stone, managing director of Willis Towers Watson's specialty practices within its health and benefits business. "In a full-employment economy, employers feel the pressure to offer competitive benefits and can't compromise on employee affordability. With employers and employees seeing no end in sight, many companies are getting creative and tapping into overlooked strategies to shrink the total bill."
While it's important for employers to approach their benefit strategy holistically, these three areas revealed emerging cost-saving measures for employers to tap into:
1. The prescription for cutting drug costs
One of the main drivers of growing affordability concerns among both employers and employees is pharmaceutical spending — notably, the increased cost and continued inflation of specialty pharmaceuticals. More employers have been adopting comprehensive solutions, including roughly half of employers evaluating and managing specialty pharmacy spend not only through the Rx benefit, but also exploring opportunities through the medical benefit (projected to grow from 49% today to 85% by 2020).
We also see two emerging strategies poised to gather momentum among employers:
More employers are attempting to offset specialty pharmaceutical costs by influencing the site of care — as the location where care is given can dramatically affect prices. In fact the number of employers that say they plan to implement coverage changes to influence site of care for specialty pharmaceuticals dispensed through the medical benefit over the next few years is more than doubling (from 21% today to 55% by 2021).
A growing set of employers are intrigued by the possibility of biosimilars offering a lower cost option for patients in need of expensive specialty products. That is why 30% of employers have ensured they have appropriate formulary strategies to leverage biosimilars when available, with another 39% planning to take a more active approach in the next two years.
2. Maximize the value in value-based designs
More employers continue to make stepwise changes in implementing value-based designs to manage costs year over year while also driving better health outcomes for their employees. With employees financially strained by the cost of health care, employers see an opportunity to steer their staff toward the highest quality affordable health care.
We see a subset of employers diving deeper into new strategies that could help improve access to care beyond the approaches of high-performance networks (growing from 16% to 52% adoption by 2021) and the use of centers of excellence within the health plans (growing from 45% to 74% by 2021), which are reaching a critical mass of employers.
By applying design features or incentives, employers are nudging their employees toward higher value, appropriate care that is sourced efficiently and away from overused, potentially wasteful services:
The proportion of employers slashing out-of-pocket costs to steer employees toward proven services that produce positive health outcomes at a lower price tag will nearly triple over next few years (from 17% today to 46% by 2021).
More employers are increasing the out-of-pocket costs for commonly overused and sometimes unnecessary services — adoption of this strategy stands to more than quadruple over the next few years (from 7% today to 35% by 2021).
Employers are also actively reviewing out-of-network coverage and costs. The number of companies reducing out-of-network reimbursements, eliminating non-emergency out-of-network coverage or negotiating full disclosure of all related administrative costs could more than double by 2021.
"With greater access to accurate and transparent data, employers can create value-based designs that make a smaller dent in employees' wallets and a big impact on their health," added Stone. "This value-based approach holds the promise of the best health results at the best price."
3. Enhance employee emotional wellbeing
As employers look to cut costs while enhancing their population's wellbeing, mental and behavioral health ranked the highest as the top clinical area of focus over the next three years, selected by two in three employers. The majority of employers are working to build full-blown strategies for a holistic solution to emotional health by redesigning their employee assistance programs to better address emotional and financial wellbeing (expected to jump from 33% to 74% in three years) and building an organization-wide behavioral health action plan (leaping from 25% to 68% in three years).
With emotional wellbeing such a pressing concern for employers, it is no surprise that a growing cohort of employers are adopting emerging strategies to detect and manage employee stress within a more holistic approach to mental health:
The number of employers that are measuring the stress level of their employees is on track to triple by 2021, from 16% to 53%.
Building on the 27% of employers that already offer apps to support sleep and relaxation, more than half (53%) will implement these programs by 2021, in order to enhance their employee emotional wellbeing. By addressing stress and anxiety before it becomes an expensive clinical need in their population, employers are making a small financial investment to keep costs low down the road.
"Looking at emerging strategies and solutions shines a light on things to come," said Regina Ihrke, senior director and co-leader, Integrated Wellbeing, Willis Towers Watson. "Health care cost challenges are real and significant. However, from encouraging the use of biosimilars to creating an environment that makes it clear and easy for employees to opt for high-value services, and by engaging effective programs to help manage anxiety and stress, there are many worthy options on the table that can make a difference."
*Cost increases for 2019 and 2020 are after-plan changes; increases without plan changes are 5.0% for 2019 and 2020. This marks the 14th year in a row that employers report that they have reduced plan value to control premium and total costs. Cost trends are based on projected medical and drug claims for active employees, including both employer and employee contributions but excluding employee out-of-pocket costs.
The 24th annual Willis Towers Watson Best Practices in Health Care Employer Survey was completed by 610 U.S. employers between June and July 2019, and reflects respondents' 2019 health program decisions and strategies. Respondents collectively employ 11.3 million employees and operate in all major industry sectors. Results provided are based on 610 employers with at least 100 employees.
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Know yourself. Learn your strengths and weaknesses, so that in your interactions with others you are drawing from your strengths and making appropriate compensation for your weaknesses.
I am a mild-mannered, reserved person. I find it difficult to strike up conversations with strangers, especially when "off my turf." If I am new to a committee, or attending a meeting where I do not already have established ties, I typically am quiet and seemingly aloof. As a discussion begins, I speak little if at all. I use to get anxious about my reservedness, but I've come to be at peace with it and rely on it as a strength. For in time, I will speak, and the very fact that I have been quiet through much of the discussion tends to give my words more attention, if only out of surprise that I am speaking.
I don't have the gift of gab. People can feel awkward around me because of the silence. I can be an extremely boring car passenger. On the other hand, my silence is a tonic to someone needing silence. And the same behavior that seems cold and aloof to one person in one circumstance, is soothing and warm to another person in another situation. Where there is stress in a room, I bring a sense of peace; where there is tension, my personality is a relaxing influence. And so I use that strength to mediate conflict and to pastor people in distress.
But what about situations that call for someone with energy and a strong personality? I compensate. I find such a person to assist me or take my place altogether. I depend a lot on my wife in social situations to make introductions and carry conversations. Where I am weak, I find someone with the appropriate strength or knowledge or experience to compensate. This is what being part of the body of Christ is about. God has given us different gifts, different temperaments, different abilities so that by working together we can minister effectively.
Appreciating the gifts of others is what keeps things in perspective about their value. When I was school principal, I had one teacher who was poor at organizing. He would forget to fill out proper forms and would cause administrative problems for me and the school secretary. She once asked me how I put up with such things. I replied that I remember what I value in him – that he loved his students and went the extra mile for them. I could compensate for his poor organizational skills, but not for what mattered most in a teacher – love for his students.
Value your ministry team members for what they each bring to that ministry. Why get upset because your best greeter gets too involved talking with a guest and forgets his other assignment to set up equipment? Find someone, for whom having to speak to strangers is a heart-thumping exercise, to do set up.
Know your limits. Don't take on a task when you are tired. Don't try to mediate a conflict when you are feeling stressed. You are more likely to make matters worse. Pace yourself; set boundaries. Knowing your limits and setting proper boundaries are essential principles when you are involved in ministry. Just as we do not want a sleepy airline pilot, so we do not want a tired ministry leader whose mood will impact everyone around him.
It is okay to take breaks, to turn a task over to someone else. You do not have to always take the hardest pastoral case or mediate the most difficult conflict. Sometimes you simply need to stop and get a good night's rest. I recall in seminary listening to a missionary boast that he had never taken a day off; I wondered then how his wife sitting next to him felt about it. I am all the more certain now that such a boast is a foolish one.
Know the task given to you, keep focused on it, and do it well. Let others do their work. You do not need to give advice about everything you have an opinion on. If you are a ministry leader and you give an assignment, it is proper to provide guidance; but if you have chosen someone for his particular ability, then give him the freedom to exercise his gift accordingly. Use judgment as to when it is okay for your people to make mistakes and to learn by experience what you may already know is best.
I recruit Bill to set up tables and chairs for a dinner. I advise Bill on the most efficient method of doing the job. But Bill thinks he already knows the best way. My method would have taken 15 minutes; he ends up taking 30 minutes. But we had a full hour to be ready. What was lost by letting Bill do it his way? He learned by experience that he did not have the best system and will be better at the job the next time. I, meanwhile, could still be about doing the work I need to get done. I am not frustrated with him, nor he with me. If I had insisted on my way, he may have been offended or stressed and still have taken longer because his heart was not in the work. If his method really bothered me, it would be wise for me to leave the room. I then am not bothered his routine, and he doesn't have to feel my sullen glare.
Again, know your limits. But also know and lean on where you excel. If you are leading a ministry team, what is the best way for you to motivate your people? If you are extroverted and a dynamic speaker, you will want to speak to your people as a team and pump them up for the task you are about to do together. If you are reserved and soft-spoken, you may be more effective taking your crew members aside individually and gently encourage them. Both leadership styles are effective; the best leader is not one who acts one way or another, but who draws from his true character. One inspirational leader can have his audience yelling out cheers; another can hold the same audience in quiet intensity listening to his calm voice.
Know who you are – your personality, your strengths and weaknesses. Above all, know theologically who you are in Christ. You may think you do, but it is likely you operate from a different heart-felt belief. Do you know that God delights in you? Do you know that he is not angry with you and is not measuring you according to your ministry achievements? Do you know that because you are his child in Christ, he is causing everything to work for your good? The more you are able to grasp these theological realities and operate from such a vantage point, then the wiser you become as you lead your ministry and relate to others.
I should add a word to you who are young. Be careful not to settle too soon on what your limits may be. You lack the knowledge of experience and so you should stretch yourselves, trying out new roles and locations and ministries. The worst that can happen is that you fail. As long as you are willing to acknowledge where you fail and not get hung on being a failure, then you will be fine; and you will grow in wisdom and ability. The fool is the one who keeps trying to force himself into a role that clearly does not fit. It is wisdom to know when to persevere in a difficult experience and when to confess that you are not the chosen one.
Even then, be careful of forming wrong conclusions. Many young men have left the ministry because they failed in their first ministry assignment. They did not understand that failing under one set of circumstances does not mean failure in others. We see this in sports all the time. One man is a successful coach at one school but fails at another. What changed – the coach? No – the circumstances. He was a good fit for one school that presented a particular set of circumstances; but he was the wrong fit under another set of circumstances.
Again, I think it is fine to acknowledge failure; humility is good. But let failure sharpen your understanding of your strengths so that you are made all the more useful for God. Don't let failure identify you. There is nothing wrong with our pride getting hurt; but there is everything wrong with our fruitfulness being wasted because we let failure cloud our understanding rather than sharpen it.
Know yourself. Know your limits; know your strengths; know who you are in Christ; stretch yourself through new experiences, but more importantly learn from those experiences. Accept failure but only to make you stronger and more secure in who you are and what your true gifts are. As you act out of your true self and out of true understanding of your relationship to Christ, then you will act with godly wisdom.


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The airport in Blantyre, Malawi has come in for some some scathing criticism from SAA after failing to meet basic international safety standards.
South African Airways (SAA) has identified two passengers it believes are responsible for robbing passengers on the flight path between Johannesburg and Hong Kong.
Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan says SAA cannot afford to operate any new routes at this moment in time.


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Rediscovering Aspen Skiing and Nightlife
Mining village, countercultural hot spot, glamorous ski destination: find an intoxicating mix of arts, nightlife, and great skiing in Aspen.
By Julian Rubinstein
© Martha Camarillo
It's around lunchtime in Aspen's roaring Fork Valley, and I'd like nothing more than to tell you where I'm spending the afternoon. Only I can't, because—as I myself have just accepted—I don't know. I spent the past 40 minutes riding in the back of a Sno-Cat (fine) and then hiking (skis strapped to my back, but also fine) up the spine of a 12,392-foot peak. The so-called plan, known only to me, was to ski down the legendary Highland Bowl and then celebrate my accomplishment in, at minimum, a bar-serviced hot tub. This notion, however, appears to have been predicated on my live arrival at the summit, and as the panoramic Rocky Mountain–top view I had been enjoying disappears into a dark snow cloud, I soberly recall that my expedition began at the suggestion of an Aspen Times sex columnist whose dog, I knew damned well, was on the antidepressant Lexapro.
The wind whooshes and I steady myself with my poles, trying to enjoy the bitter cold. The thin ridge I'm ascending falls off so precipitously on either side that a few minutes ago, I couldn't bear to look down. Now I have no choice. All I can see is my own lumbering ski-boot tracks. One unfortunate tilt to the left or right and the phrase early retirement takes on a whole new meaning.
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Life-threatening was not what I had in mind when I planned my trip to Aspen. Then again, I was, upon my departure, between apartments and living out of a Manhattan Mini Storage unit. Aspen, I thought, promised something safe and familiar, a respite. It was a place I'd been going to since I was a child in Denver in the 1970's. There were lots of beautiful destinations within striking distance, but Aspen, in the eyes of many Denverites, was not only the most picturesque mountain town around, but also the most authentic. Unlike resorts such as Vail or Breckenridge that were erected for ski tourism, Aspen has real history in the 19th-century American West. In 1893 it was the nation's silver-mining capital, with six newspapers and a population of 12,000, when it went bust after the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act (which had briefly switched the country's monetary standard from gold to silver). Remnants of that era still exist in the limestone buildings that line the downtown streets, and in the splintered Smuggler's Mine chutes outside town where I used to climb.
As I became, by some measures, an adult, I continued to return to Aspen, and it was always the first place that came to mind whenever I was asked to name my favorite spot in the world. Usually I went in the summers, camping and hiking for several days in the shadow of the purple-hued Maroon Bells mountains, and then returning to town to partake of the wonders of plumbing and the excellent classical music put on by the Aspen Music Festival. Aspen, for me, was always a place of contrasts: rugged and pristine, sophisticated and simple.
But as the years went by, I began to notice that more and more people had their own opinions about Aspen, and invariably they were quite different from mine. While I continued to see Aspen as the eccentric, arts- and civic-minded town where Hunter S. Thompson once ran for sheriff, promising he wouldn't eat mescaline while on duty, the wealth and celebrity Aspen had attracted since the days I started going—from Jack Nicholson to the Saudi Prince Bandar—created the impression that Aspen was like a Beverly Hills in the hills. The truth was, I thought, as my flight began its vertiginous descent into the snow-covered valley, I hadn't been back in several years, and I had no idea what I would find.
When I stepped onto the tarmac, the late afternoon sun was bathing the valley in a pink-and-gold light. Behind me, the windows of the multimillion-dollar houses on Red Mountain glinted like diamonds. Along the edges of the airfield, snow was piled easily 10 feet high. This was a disquieting reminder that it had already been a historic ski season. (So much snow had fallen that the town had to hire trucks to cart it away. "I've been here 30 years and I've never seen a winter in which people actually said, 'No more,' " Lon Winston, the director of the Thunder River Theatre Company, told me.) Disquieting, I say, because in my rush to get out here, I'd neglected to pack anything to ski in.
"Correct," I said into my cell phone, to a man I'd been referred to. "Pants, gloves, hat, goggles, jacket. I have nothing."
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"No worries," the voice on the other end said. "See you in fifteen minutes."
I hopped the shuttle to my hotel on the outskirts of town, the Aspen Meadows Resort. A sprawling property designed in Bauhaus style, Aspen Meadows is best known as the home of the venerable Aspen Institute. Founded in 1950, the institute has—especially in the almost four years since its president, Walter Isaacson, inaugurated the Ideas Festival—vaulted to the top rung of world conferences, filling the town each summer with more VIP's and plainclothes security men than an underground bunker during the apocalypse. Bill Clinton, the Dalai Lama, and Jordan's Queen Noor are among the hundreds of luminaries who have passed through for public panels and talks under the same white tent that the Music Festival uses for its performances. When you throw in the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Jazz Aspen Snowmass, and the Aspen Writers' Foundation, no place in the world remotely as small as Aspen (population 6,000) can boast such high-powered cultural institutions. I was pondering this outside the new and spectacularly designed Doerr-Hauser event and art space when a Jeff Spicoli–style van pulled up in front of me, and out jumped a sunburned, long-maned man wearing ski pants and a black turtleneck. "Sorry I'm late," said Lorenzo Semple III, 41, shaking my hand. "You caught me right as I was coming off the Bowl. Absolutely epic." He slid open the van door, revealing two hanging racks of ski apparel. "Suit Yourself," he said, stating the name of his business. Aha, I thought: I've arrived.
As I assembled an outfit, Semple and I covered an array of topics I'd never found so riveting—for example, lawn mowing, which he does all summer. Semple was dramatic in a good way, a true enthusiast, and it didn't surprise me to learn that he is the son of legendary screenwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr. (Three Days of the Condor), the man he calls "my hero," and who first brought him to Aspen more than 30 years ago. Semple still has some Hollywood in him—he ended a cell-phone conversation with a phonetic kiss, "Mwah"—and I couldn't help but think he perfectly embodied the grit and glamour that make Aspen so unique. "I have two religions," he said. "Mountain biking and skiing. This year my goal is to get 200 runs on the Bowl. So far I'm at 152."
Everywhere I went, people were talking about "the bowl"—which, in an outdoor fantasyland like Aspen, is nothing to shrug off. Ice climbing, ice fishing, snowmobiling, cross-country skiing to a mountain chalet—it's all here. Plus, Aspen is one of the only resort towns in North America with four separate ski mountains, 5,285 acres of terrain, all of it world-class. But the Highland Bowl—on Aspen Highlands mountain, a free 10-minute shuttle away from town—is one of the largest bowls in the world that is entirely "in bounds," meaning that it is maintained by the ski patrol. It had only fully opened in 2002, after I'd last skied Aspen, and I knew this time I would have to take it on.
That night I rode into town. Strung over Main Street was a colorful banner advertising the week's events: the Junior National ski races, a concert by pianist Stephen Hough, a reading by Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo, and the public radio fund-raising drive. I hopped out at Galena Street and walked toward the historic Elks Building in the center of town. Window after storefront window gleamed with shiny jewelry and designer clothing: Zegna, Gucci, and Dior, all staking their sidewalk claims. The old Ute City Pub I used to love was now, to my dismay, a Burberry. Still, it was all but impossible to be depressed. Though it had been snowing on and off and the temperature was in the twenties, the dry air was crisp and invigorating, and the scenery in all directions—the mountains, the valley, the cozy lamplit streets—was simply staggering. "You know, just another day in paradise," I overheard a man saying on his cell phone as he passed me, and I found myself nodding hello.
I had dinner plans with an Aspen fixture named Tim Mooney, who had chosen the low-key Topper's Aspen restaurant, a small, warm joint off the beaten path that serves pasta and brick-oven pizzas. When I arrived, he was at a table in back, shaking his head at an item in the Aspen Daily News police blotter. (My favorite during my stay: Stranger Found Sleeping in Aspen Home.)
Mooney had a story like those of many residents I met. He arrived in Aspen in 1970 during a stopover on a road trip and never left. Since then he's had many careers: he was a tour manager for Aspenites John Denver and Jimmy Buffett; he was a ski instructor for 23 years (and served for many of them as Jack Nicholson's private teacher) until he was famously fired in 2001 for chainsawing trees on the mountain to make a new ski trail. In his honor, residents now call the run "the Dark Side of Mooney." In his latest incarnation, Mooney is a real estate broker with Sotheby's, which he admits "isn't the best way to make a living at the moment." But despite the downturn, the average home price in Aspen is $4.3 million; a $40 million spec house is being built on Red Mountain; and at Aspen's sister mountain, Snowmass, a colossal $1.3 billion new base development—nearly a million square feet of new condos, houses, commercial spaces, and time-shares—is set to open this year. "The incredible power of this little town," Mooney said, shaking his balding head and putting back a Merlot. "About fifteen hundred people vote in Aspen. Last year there was $2.5 billion in real estate transactions."
We talked about how much had changed since the time both of us began coming here more than three decades ago. Back then, about a hundred babies per year were delivered at Aspen Valley Hospital; now the average is more than 300. Growth and development had always dominated local politics, and in that regard, nothing has changed—at least nothing for the better, in Mooney's view. "We used to have a mom-and-pop ski town with old European-style hotels. Now, we have these new parked cruise ships at the base of Aspen Mountain," he said, referring to the luxury hotels that have opened in the past several years. Mooney believes a setback in the battle against overdevelopment was the death in 2005 of long-time Aspen resident and activist Hunter S. Thompson. When Thompson was alive, Mooney and a group of regulars met weekly in Hunter's kitchen at Owl Farm, in what many describe as "the command center of Aspen politics." There they strategized about how to keep out what Thompson called the Greedheads, and limit development. In 1995, for example, the group successfully campaigned to prevent 737's from flying into the airfield—today there are more than 150 commercial flights per week but no 737's—using a now-celebrated campaign poster designed by the late artist Tom Benton, with the slogan There is Some Shit We Won't Eat.
Now there's a new fight brewing over the expansion of the airport runway. "Hunter would have been vicious about this," Mooney said. "We lost the most powerful voice there was standing up for the little guy against big business."
While we were eating, his phone rang. It was his friend, painter Paul Pascarella, another Thompson pal, who was coming to town for an exhibition of his work at the Magidson Fine Art Gallery, one of the dozens in Aspen that feature artists of national repute. "That's the funny thing about this town," Mooney said. "I don't need to go to New York or Los Angeles to find out what's going on. They come to me."
I spent the next several days living so far above my means I almost expected to be arrested, which may not have been entirely unfortunate. I was, after all, homeless, and the Pitkin County Jail, I learned from the riffraff I was carousing with, has beautiful views, great meals, and free painting classes offered by Aspen artists. (One of the town's most recent soap operas was the re-election of local icon and sheriff Bob Braudis to his sixth term, never mind that he campaigned for a time from an alcohol rehab center.)
I skied the fresh powder on Aspen Mountain, or Ajax, as the locals call it, and had one of the best meals of my life at Montagna, inside the luxurious classic Aspen ski-in, ski-out hotel, the Little Nell. There, 34-year-old wunderkind chef Ryan Hardy, a southwest finalist for the 2008 James Beard Awards, lists his olive oils on the menu like wine, and cooks up his delicacies with produce and meat—I devoured a juicy lamb sausage with rapini and mustard—from his own nearby organic farm. Another night, I went out to the Richard Russo reading at the Given Institute, a state-of-the-art conference center nestled into the oldest residential neighborhood in Aspen, where many of the homes still have the old Sears-catalog frames. Inside, the lecture-hall setting was formal—"Thank you for inviting me to the UN," Russo joked when he took the podium—but the feel of the event was small-town tea party. Ski instructors, restaurant managers, former mayor Helen Klanderud, and others gabbed in the atrium before the event.
Afterward, a big group flocked through the snowy streets to the Victorian home of Lois Smith Brady, frequent author of the popular New York Times Vows column. A small, quick-witted blonde with a generous wine pour, Brady wove her guests together, and by the end of the night I found myself with her, Russo, and several others in the kitchen, all of us but Russo pledging to do the Bowl together later in the week. I tottered back to my hotel and, entertaining notions of missing my return flight for the next several years, decided to take a ride "down valley" the next day, where the area's most rapid development has been taking place.
The ripple effect of Aspen's eminence and high price tag has kicked off the gentrification of formerly low-income, mostly Hispanic towns like Basalt and Carbondale, which today have nearly $1 million average home prices and attract people from all over the country. Aspen residents now head to Carbondale the first Friday of each month for the First Fridays Art Walk, in which the whole downtown is closed for gallery openings, and parties pour into the streets. Architect Michael Lipkin had a major impact on the area's development, founding and building a planned community called Willits. Twenty-two miles from Aspen, Willits is a New Urbanist town similar to Florida's Seaside, which was created by classmates of Lipkin's from the Yale School of Architecture. "The concept was to develop a community where everything is within walking distance," said Lipkin, who moved to Aspen from Manhattan in the 1980's.
Willits now has 1,800 residents, and represents a brand of sane and sustainable development. There's a lake, soccer fields, and a running path winding through a long park. At its end is a traditional gridded "downtown"—complete with a general store serving gourmet sandwiches and sporting on its brick façade a fading painted replica of an award-winning Conoco ad from the 1950's. Next door is a strip of restaurants, above which sit two floors of New York–style loft apartments with million-dollar mountain views. Among them is the stylish Nouveau American restaurant Crave, which stole its chef from Aspen's venerable Hotel Jerome.
I would have stayed, but I had dinner plans back in Aspen at a new restaurant called Social. Situated in the same downtown building as long-standing Aspen favorite Elevation, Social is also owned by the same team, which includes Gunnar Sachs, son of legendary international playboy Gunter Sachs. A sleek lounge with banquettes, silver globe chandeliers, and a floor-to-ceiling wine rack sitting behind a glass wall, Social serves tapas-style plates—the Kobe meatballs, Boursin-cheese mashers, and caramelized-onion jus were just the ticket for me. Social's affable manager and co-owner Denise Walters—a wicked snowboarder who just completed her third move to Aspen, this time from New York—then took me downstairs to Elevation, where we continued to eat, and drank an açai martini that's so delicious the bartender has to hide the Brazilian nectar because the staff keeps sneaking off with it.
All around us, people were talking about where to go next. Some were heading to the bar at Matsuhisa, the Nobu restaurant owned by billionaire Aspen resident Michael Goldberg. I'd been hearing about Goldberg's three-year-old music club, Belly Up Aspen—the town's first contemporary-music dance venue, which brings in world-class acts (MSTRKRFT, Seal, Cake) year-round. Just then my phone rang. It was Mooney, who was having a drink a few blocks away at Pacifica Seafood & Raw Bar. When we got there, the painter Pascarella, a bearded man with a knowing smile, was being toasted on the occasion of his gallery opening. More martinis were had until someone at the bar, recognizing Mooney, came over and offered us tickets to the show at Belly Up. Minutes later we were there, thumping along to the strobe lights and electronic music. In the corner above the dance floor, tucked into the back of the booth, was Goldberg himself, a giant of a man (his brother is the hulking pro wrestler known simply as Goldberg), surrounded by beautiful women.
The place was still rocking around midnight, but I had to be up in a few hours. I was going to meet Mac Smith, the head of the Aspen Highlands Ski Patrol.
The sky was dark when my alarm went off. I checked my e-mail to find that Lois Smith Brady and the others who had promised to join me on the Bowl had canceled. I dressed and stumbled into the Highlands shuttle.
The streets were almost empty, the lights from the Sno-Cats the only visible movement on the mountain. I made my way to the bowels of the Highland base building, following the smell of coffee to the patrol conference room. About 20 people—varying in age from their twenties to fifties, all but three of them men—were gathered around, buckling their ski boots and eating muffins. These were the elite of Aspen, the chosen few who survived Mac Smith's infamous boot camp and were then selected for the most highly regarded patrol in Colorado.
Smith has a huge gray walrus mustache and long eyebrows, one of which turns up and the other down. At exactly 7:55 a.m., he strode into the room with a long lope and leaned against the back wall. Soft-spoken but businesslike, he jumped straight into a rundown of fences and signs to mend, and a follow-up report on a "lost missing person yesterday," who was found and then somehow lost again. Then he turned it over to his staff snow-and-weather expert, a barefoot, gnomelike man with a ZZ Top beard and taped toes, who spoke for nearly half an hour about trade winds and pressure systems, then finished by saying, "That's about all I have."
"Okay, let's go," Smith said, and within a minute the room was empty.
I rode up the lift with Smith, a native of Basalt, who was monitoring the radio strapped around his chest the whole way. When I asked him about the history of the Highland Bowl, he surprised me by getting emotional. He tried to open it first in 1984, but three of his patrolmen were killed while purposely triggering an avalanche. It took him four years to get back the strength to attempt the challenge again. On the day the Bowl opened, he laid three wreaths for his friends. "It's kind of like a dream you don't know will ever come true," he said. There have been no deaths since.
When we got to the top, we skate-skied over to the patrol station, a solar-powered cabin hovering on wood stilts. Soon a drill was being organized to train two black Labrador "dog techs" to rescue avalanche victims. With a devious smile, Smith suggested I volunteer to get in "the hole," to which I first agreed, then changed my mind after seeing the tiny chamber six feet under I was going to be buried in. While Smith laughed, I took up a shovel and helped bury two rookie patrolmen. The dogs had never been tested before on the mountain but within a minute of being set loose, they had located by scent both sites, and stood barking above them.
Finally, it was time to do the Bowl. I put on my helmet and goggles, and strapped my skis onto my back. "Good luck," Smith said, as I headed to the Sno-Cat that would take me up the first third of a mile of the two-mile hike.
The sky was just beginning to cloud over as I got off the cat and began my ascent. Within 20 minutes, there was no trace of life around me. My world had been reduced to wind. I remembered how Smith had told me he'd used more than 10 times the amount of dynamite to control the snow this year than he ever had. I'd also been told how Aspen resident Neal Biedelman, a world-renowned mountaineer who survived Everest with Jon Krakauer, had nearly been buried alive earlier in the season while skiing out of bounds. (For the record, Aspen would finish the season with 510 inches of snow; the average per year is 300. For the first time in history, it opened for an encore day of skiing in June.) That's it, I thought as I stepped blindly into thin air, this is my Everest.
Then I heard a noise. Someone was coming up behind me. I looked over my shoulder to see Semple. "Right on," he said, giving me a thumbs-up and hoofing by. Even as he disappeared into the cloud ahead, I knew then that I'd be okay. When I reached the summit, the sky began to clear and I stood gasping at the 360-degree view. At last one thing was wonderfully clear: as disparate as the interests and impressions that define Aspen are, the staggering physical beauty of the place was the reason they existed at all. Minutes later, I was knee-deep in champagne powder and falling once again for the town I knew and loved.
Aspen is a year-round destination, with great hiking and mountain biking in summer. Ski season runs from Thanksgiving through April. High season, and maximum powder (15 inches per week on average), is between January and March. The best deals can be found in November and April.
The closest airport, serviced by Frontier, United, and Delta, is Aspen/Pitkin County Airport. American Airlines and US Airways fly to both Eagle County Regional Airport and Grand Junction Regional Airport. In Aspen, the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority (970/925-8484; rfta.com) runs complimentary shuttles to the mountains.
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Check stayaspensnowmass.com for a wide range of house and apartment rental information, ideal for families and groups.
Aspen Meadows Resort
Great Value 845 Meadows Rd.; 800/452-4240; dolce-aspen-hotel.com; doubles from $310.
Hotel Jerome, A Rock Resort
330 E. Main St.; 970/920-1000; hoteljerome.com; doubles from $515.
415 E. Dean St.; 970/429-9100; aspen.hyatt.com; doubles from $575.
675 E. Durant Ave.; 888/843-6355; thelittlenell.com; doubles from $810.
Sky Hotel
709 E. Durant Ave.; 800/882-2582; theskyhotel.com; doubles from $459.
St. Regis Aspen Resort
315 E. Dean St.; 970/920-3300; stregisaspen.com; doubles from $1,100.
Cloud Nine Alpine Bistro
Aspen Highlands; 970/923-8715; lunch for two $50.
Crave Kitchen
231 Harris St., Basalt; 970/927-2837; dinner for two $70.
304 E. Hopkins Ave.; 970/544-5166; dinner for two $106.
Matsuhisa Aspen
303 Main St.; 970/544-6628; dinner for two $150.
675 E. Durant Ave.; 970/920-6330; dinner for two $120.
Pacifica Seafood & Raw Bar
307 S. Mill St.; 970/920-9775; dinner for two $130.
304 E. Hopkins Ave.; 970/925-9700; dinner for two $75.
Aspen Mountain; 970/544-9345; lunch for two $25.
Topper's Aspen
211A Puppy Smith St.; 970/920-0069; dinner for two $40.
Amen Wardy 210 S. Galena St.; 800/228-5987; amenwardyaspen.com.
Aspen Institute
1000 N. Third St.; 970/925-7010; aspeninstitute.org.
Aspen District Theater; 970/925-7175; aspensantafeballet.com.
Belly Up Aspen
450 S. Galena St.; 970/544-9800; bellyupaspen.com.
Magidson Fine Art
525 E. Cooper Ave.; 970/920-1001; magidson.com.
Regal Watering Hole of Aspen
220 S. Galena St.; 720/275-3876; regalaspen.com.
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800/525-6200; aspensnowmass.com; rentals from $34 a day.
Ski or Snowboard School
877/282-7736; aspensnowmass.com; lessons $169 a day.
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Comprehensive information on Aspen Highlands, Aspen Mountain, Buttermilk, and Snowmass, including package deals and lift tickets, can be found at aspensnowmass.com.
Wintersköl
970/925-1940; aspenchamber.org; Jan. 8–11.
ESPN Winter X Games
888/649-5982; aspensnowmass.com; Jan. 22–25.
First Fridays Art Walk
Main St., Carbondale; 970/963-1680; carbondale.com; resumes Feb. 6, 6–8 p.m.
Aspen-Snowmass Celebrity Downhill Weekend
888/649-5982; stayaspensnowmass.com; Feb. 27–28.
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888/649-5982; stayaspensnowmass.com; June 19–21.
Aspen Summer Words
Red Brick Center for the Arts; 970/925-3122; aspenwriters.org; June 21–26.
Aspen Music Festival
970/925-3254; aspenmusicfestival.com; June 25–Aug. 23.
Aspen Ideas Festival
Aspen Institute; 970/544-7916; aifestival.org; June 29–July 5.
Aspen Arts Festival
970/925-1940; aspenchamber.org; mid-July.
Jazz Aspen Snowmass
June 18–20, Benedict Music Tent; Sept. 4–6, Snowmass Town Park; 970/920-4996; jazzaspen.com.
A sprawling property designed in Bauhaus style, Aspen Meadows is best known as the home of the venerable Aspen Institute.
Founded in 1950, the institute has—especially in the almost four years since its president, Walter Isaacson, inaugurated the Ideas Festival—vaulted to the top rung of world conferences, filling the town each summer with more VIP's and plainclothes security men than an underground bunker during the apocalypse. Bill Clinton, the Dalai Lama, and Jordan's Queen Noor are among the hundreds of luminaries who have passed through for public panels and talks under the same white tent that the Music Festival uses for its performances.
Topper's Aspen
A small, warm joint off the beaten path that serves pasta and brick-oven pizzas.
Magidson Fine Art Gallery
One of the dozens of galleries in Aspen that feature artists of national repute.
Inspired by Aspen's classic Victorian architecture, the Hyatt Grand Aspen is easily recognizable by its brick façade and turrets. Located at the base of Ajax Mountain and just two blocks from the Aspen Mountain gondola, the hotel has the look of an upscale ski lodge, with extras such as a fitness center and fire pit. The hotel's 52 condo-style units range in size from studios to four-bedrooms and have wood floors and kitchens with Viking appliances and wine refrigerators, fireplaces, and washers and dryers.
Dine at the stylish Nouveau American restaurant Crave, which stole its chef from Aspen's venerable Hotel Jerome.
Drink an açai martini that's so delicious the bartender has to hide the Brazilian nectar because the staff keeps sneaking off with it.
Pacifica's menu focuses on sustainable fish and local, organic ingredients. Hawaiian sea bass with edamame and hearts of palm is a signature dish. Non-seafood offerings include braised pheasant with black truffle risotto, and Thai green coconut curry. The raw bar houses a selection of oysters and caviar, including beluga and American sturgeon, with chilled vodkas and champagnes to complement. Located in the heart of downtown, the dining room is a popular spot for diners who like to people watch. Outdoor dining is available on the patio.
Situated in the same downtown building as long-standing Aspen favorite Elevation, Social is run by the dream team of Tommy Tollesson, Denise Walters, and Gunnar Sachs (son of legendary international playboy Gunter Sachs). A sleek lounge with banquettes, silver globe chandeliers, and a floor-to-ceiling wine rack sitting behind a glass wall, Social serves tapas-style plates like Kobe meatballs, Boursin-cheese mashers, and caramelized-onion jus.
The Sundeck Restaurant serves lunch daily amid views from its location atop Aspen Mountain. The restaurant is only accessible via gondola or car, though the winding roads make the gondola a less complicated choice. The menu is designed to suit a variety of palates, with choices that include everything from pizza to burgers to coconut vegetable soup. Wok dishes are available on weekends. Seating is plentiful, allowing for good views from every table. In the winter, the fireplace adds warmth and ambiance to the dining room.
No place in the world remotely as small as Aspen (population 6,000) can boast such high-powered cultural institutions.
The town's first contemporary-music dance venue brings in world-class acts (MSTRKRFT, Seal, Cake) year-round.
The Regal Watering Hole is a popular destination for Aspen's young and party-ready crowds. The club often attracts a line of patrons waiting to gain entrance. During a 2007 remodel, the Regal added a back room with an additional bar, high-backed, white seating, and an aged-leather floor. There is a central, four-sided bar, that serves classic cocktails. DJs play music that runs the gamut from electronic dance to hip-hop.


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Prima Cruciadă
A fost unul dintre conducǎtorii primei Cruciade, frate al regelui francez Filip I. În timpul navigǎrii din orașul italian Bari spre Grecia, corabia lui a naufragiat, el fiind aruncat pe mal în apropierea orașului Dyrrachium, de unde a fost preluat și însoțit de o escortă de onoare pânǎ la Constantinopol, unde a fost obligat să aducă jurământ împăratului Alexios Comnen. Apoi, a arătat minuni de vitejie în Bătălia de la Dorylaeum, dar în 1098, înainte de cucerirea Ierusalimului, s-a întors din Antiohia în Franța. În 1101 încă o dată a luat parte la cruciadă pentru îndeplinirea jurământului dat, odatǎ cu înfrângerea pe care a suferit-o armata cruciatǎ în Cappadocia, Hugo a fost rănit și a murit 18 octombrie 1102.

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Sharing the news Monday morning (March 6th.) the group has said that a loss of an immediate family member has prompted the cancellation of two shows.
The group have canceled their upcoming appearance at the Houston Rodeo, which was scheduled for Wednesday (March 8) , as well as a concert in Midland, Texas, that was supposed to take place on Thursday (March 9). They also canceled a party to celebrate their No. 1 hit, "Song for Another Time," in Nashville on Monday afternoon.
Tickets for Old Dominion's shows are available for refund upon request and the Rodeo producers are working to find a replacement artist. Meanwhile, our thoughts and prayers go out to Old Dominion and their families.


Airport spa operator XpresSpa has opened its third location at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, on Concourse D.
The company also plans to eventually open XpresSpa locations on Concourses E and F.
XpresSpa already has locations on Concourses A and C, with contracts due to expire in November.
Ed Jankowski, chief executive of the company, said in a written statement that Atlanta has been "one of XpresSpa's most successful markets" since it opened its first locations at Hartsfield-Jackson in 2009.
A new contracting process for the Concourse A and C spa locations started earlier this year, with three spa operators including XpresSpa competing for the space.
The new spa locations on Concourses D, E and F had been planned since the opening of the airport's international terminal in 2012, but were delayed due to a legal dispute with a minority partner in the years since.


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Kuwait has evinced interest to recruit nurses and workers through government agencies following discussions Labour Minister T.P. Ramakrishnan had with Kuwait authorities.
The Minister's office said in a release here on Tuesday that Mr. Ramakrishnan who is on a visit in Kuwait had discussions with Social Welfare and Labour Minister Hind Sabeeh Barak Al-Sabeeh and under-secretary in charge of recruitment in health sector Mustafa-Al-Rida. Mr. Ramakrishnan brought to their notice the recruitment procedures of Overseas Development and Employment Promotion Consultants. The Kuwait government has entrusted Al-Durra Domestic Recruitment Company and Public Authority for Manpower for follow-up action.
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Hurt singled to second base (1-0); Roberto advanced to second.
VINCELLI singled to center field (3-2).
STOLLER singled up the middle (0-0).
STRUBLE reached on a fielding error by ss (0-0); STOLLER advanced to third.
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Meet your 2017-2019 Executive Committee
2017-2019-executive-committee
President - Kevin Winstead
Vice President - Lolita L. Mack
Treasurer - Fred Anderson
Secretary - Dara Weaver-Holmes
Kevin is a 5th year Ph.D. student in American Studies. He comes to the program from Southern Illinois University where he received his B.S. in Marketing and his M.A. in Sociology. His current research interest centers around social movements, religion, the social construction of reality, and material culture. Kevin's previous work focused on the mobilization dynamics of the civil rights movements and the subsequent Black Catholic sub movement.
Currently, Kevin serves as Graduate Assistant for the National Endowment for the Humanities funded Baltimore Stories: Narratives and the Life of an American City and the Andrew W. Mellon funded Synergies: Digital Humanities and African American History and Culture (#AADHum). He is also employed as a Graduate Instructor for the Sociology department where he is teaching a course on Black Social Movements.
Additionally, Kevin was a 2016 Teaching and Learning Transformation Center Graduate Fellow. Where his work focuses on improving educational experiences for college level classrooms.
A native of Dolton, Kevin Winstead is a Doctoral Candidate in the department of American Studies at University of Maryland College Park. He received his B.S. '09 in Marketing and his M.A. '11 in Sociology at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. During his time at SIU, he served as Coordinator of the Black Affairs Council '04-'07 and President of the Black Graduate Student Association '11.
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Lolita L. Mack is a southern Illinois native. She was born in Carbondale and has spent most of her years in the area. Long before entering higher education, service and scholarship were two principles that she holds near and dear to her heart. She always believed if she strived to excel in EVERYTHING that she set her mind on, she would be able to contribute positively to her community. Those beliefs have required her to stretch her arms wide, and she has been giving back to her church (Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church), campuses (Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Southeastern Illinois College) and the entire southern Illinois community in many ways.
Ms. Mack is a two-time graduate of Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She holds a B.F.A. degree in Graphic Design with a minor in Art History. In 2006, Mack received her M.S.Ed in Workforce Education and Development with a specialization in Program Leadership. She will achieve her highest achievement in May 2018, when she receives her Ph.D. in Workforce Education and Development. Mack currently is the TRIO/Student Support Services Director and Assistant Women's and Men's Basketball Coach at Southeastern Illinois College in Harrisburg, Illinois.
Lolita views it as an honor to serve the SIUC Black Alumni Group in the capacity of Vice-President. As Vice-President, Lolita chairs the Membership and Retention committee and Programming committee for the 2019 Reunion. Lolita is a selfless individual and loves to extend a helping hand to others. She exemplifies all the qualities of her sorority, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. where she became a member in Spring 2003 through the "Mighty" Mu Delta Chapter of Southern Illinois University Carbondale. One of her favorite quotes is, "Life is not about how much we get, it's about how much we share."
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Fred Anderson is a c/o 2007 graduate of Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Mr. Anderson completed his undergraduate degree in Business Administration in 2003 from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. He then proceeded to complete his Masters Of Science Workforce Education Development in 2007.
In his career, Mr. Anderson has worked as a Personal Banker for Old National Bank & J. P. Morgan Chase. While at J.P. Morgan Chase Mr. Anderson moved up the ranks to become a Licensed Business Manager. Eventually, he moved on to work for Social Security Administration. Mr. Anderson is a recent graduate of the Keller School Of Management where he completed his Masters Of Accounting & Financial Management with distinction. Mr. Anderson is honored & humbled to be elected Treasurer of the Black Alumni Association.
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Dara Weaver-Holmes is a graduate of Southern Illinois University with a major in Psychology and minor in American Sign Language. Ms. Weaver-Holmes is currently in the Rehab Counseling Masters program at SIUC Rehab Institute. Dara has been a Girl Scout for 20 years and in 2011 was appointed to be a life time member. Following her leadership in the Girl Scouts Dara chartered the first chapter of the Association of Black Psychologists Student Circle on SIUC campus.
She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. and enjoys making positive changes in her community while engaging with undergraduates to work on problems of minority students. Dara is the daughter of two long time BAG members Dora Weaver and the late John Holmes. Following in the footsteps of her father and co-founder of the Black Alumni Group, John Holmes, Dara is proud to further the legacy of BAG.
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Dr Te Taka Keegan
Associate Professor (Computer Science)
Qualifications: DipCompEng CIT MA PhD Waikato
Waikato-Maniapoto; Ngāti Porou; Ngāti Whakaaue
Email: tetaka@waikato.ac.nz
About Te Taka
Te Taka received a Diploma in Computer Engineering from CIT (Wellington) in 1987. He spent six years working as a hardware engineer for Datacom and Digital before returning to the Waikato and Waikato University. He received a BA through the Te Tohu Paetahi stream (Māori immersion) and in 1996 was awarded an MA having completed a thesis on traditional navigation. Te Taka worked with the Māori Department and then in 1997 switched to the Computer Science Department. He completed a PhD in 2007, titled Indigenous Language Usage in a Digital Library: He Hautoa Kia Ora Tonu Ai.
Te Taka has worked on a number of projects involving the Māori language and technology. These include the Māori Niupepa Collection, Te Kete Ipurangi, the Microsoft keyboard, Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office in Māori, Moodle in Māori, Google Web Search in Māori, and the Māori macroniser. In 2009 Te Taka spent 6 months with Google in Mountain View as a visiting scientist assisting with the Google Translator Toolkit for Māori. Further work with Google led to Translate in Māori.
In 2013 Te Taka was awarded the University of Waikato's Māori/Indigenous Excellence Award for Research. In 2017 Te Taka was awarded the Prime Minister's Supreme Award for Tertiary Teaching Excellence.
His whānau, te reo Māori, rugby, and the refereeing of rugby to a very high standard!
General research interests include traditional navigation, Māori language technologies, indigenous language interfaces, multi-lingual usability. Current research interests have focused on the use of te reo Māori in a technological environment.
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Keegan, T. T. (2019). Māori language procreation on social media. In 17th International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML XVII) (pp. 31). Leeuwarden, NL. Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13048
Taia, I., Hinze, A., Vanderschantz, N., & Keegan, T. T. (2019). Maumahara Papahou: A mobile augmented reality memory treasure box based on Māori mnemonic aids. MAI Journal, 8(2), 110-125. doi:10.20507/MAIJournal.2019.8.2.2 Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/12720
Calude, A., Stevenson, L., Whaanga, H., & Keegan, T. T. (2019). The use of Māori words in National Science Challenge online discourse. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 18 pages. doi:10.1080/03036758.2019.1662818
Trye, D., Calude, A., Bravo-Marquez, F., & Keegan, T. T. (2019). Māori Loanwords: a Corpus of New Zealand English Tweets. Florence, italy. Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/13040
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