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PUBLISHED: January 21, 2016 at 4:31 p.m. | UPDATED: May 17, 2018 at 9:03 a.m.
NEW YORK (AP) — Freaked out by the stock market's big swings?
Then the investment industry has something it built just for you: funds that hope to offer a steadier ride. That sounds especially comforting after this year's jarring start for markets, in which drops of more than 1 percent have become typical. But be careful, the funds carry their own risks.
These mutual funds and exchange-traded funds own stocks that could charitably be described as boring. Think utilities, telecoms and other companies whose profits — and thus stock prices — don't fluctuate so much. The funds avoid jack-rabbit stocks that tend to have either really good or really bad days.
These funds advertise themselves by including terms like "low volatility" or something similar in their names, and fund companies have rolled out dozens of them in the last five years to meet strong demand. Older investors approaching retirement or already retired are particularly drawn to them. The ALPS Sector Low Volatility ETF, which trades under the symbol "SLOW," began trading in July, for example.
The problem, for now at least, is that the types of stocks these funds own have uncertain outlooks. Many are at risk of falling if interest rates rise, and the expectation is for the Federal Reserve to continue raising its benchmark rate. And many have already been bid up to heights that look pretty thrilling for supposedly boring companies.
"You've gotten to a point where they're trading at higher valuations than a market that's already expensive," says Doug Ramsey, chief investment officer at the Leuthold Group.
Six years ago, an index of the 100 least-volatile stocks in the S&P 500 was 13 percent cheaper than the broad index. But at the start of this year, it was the mirror image. The S&P 500 Low Volatility index was 13 percent more expensive than the S&P 500.
If investors have already paid up for the perceived safety that the low-volatility index offers, Ramsey says, it "may fail to live up to its moniker in the weeks and months ahead."
Many low-volatility funds focus on dividend-paying stocks, which tend to have steadier returns. They've grown popular in recent years because investors have been hungry for income at a time of super-low interest rates. The fear is that when rates rise, income investors will go back to bonds and dump their dividend-paying stocks.
"Everyone is investing in stocks that look 'low risk' based on history," says Jim Fallon, who runs low-volatility mutual funds at MFS Investment Management. "That leads to a lot of crowding in this space. Everyone is buying the same stocks."
For example, Procter & Gamble has been a relatively steady stock in part because investors think people will continue buying Bounty paper towels and Pampers diapers even if the economy falls into a recession. But that has made it popular — maybe too popular. Its shares are trading at nearly 30 times their earnings per share, close to the highest level in 13 years. The S&P 500 as a whole trades at 16 times earnings.
That's why Fallon is considering stocks that rival low-volatility funds may not be. For example, many funds invest in only the 10 or 20 percent of stocks that have had the mildest price swings in the S&P 500 or another index over a certain time period. At his MFS Low Volatility Equity fund, Fallon considers any stock as long as it's in the bottom 60 percent of the 1,000 largest U.S. stocks in terms of volatility.
The biggest catch in low-volatility investing, Fallon says, lies in the time commitment that it requires. He wants his funds to lose less when the market is tumbling, but they will also tend to rise less when stocks are doing well. So anyone who gets frustrated by slow gains during the good times and jumps out would miss out on the protection offered during the bad times.
"You have to be patient and disciplined," he says. "You can't put it in and pull it out if you're disappointed after a year."
Stan Choe's work can be found at http://www.bigstory.ap.org/journalist/stan-choe .
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The 2019 EUROGEO Annual Conference will be organised in August 2019 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Join us in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 29–31 August 2019 at the EUROGEO 2019 Annual Conference Hidden Geographies. The conference will be part of the activities dedicated to the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Department of Geography and the University of Ljubljana.
Hidden geographies in a very broad sense refer to ways of spatial arrangements of natural or cultural, real or imagined features, relations or processes in a landscape that are hidden in any possible meaning, such as (so far) not visible, unseen, kept out of sight, concealed, disguised, masked, unrevealed, also unperceived or unknown. Hidden to majority or to individuals, to science, to public or maybe to certain social groups. Hiding may be deliberate, e.g. to protect (natural environment, privacy, human rights) or to gain (economic, political) advantage. However, the majority of geographies remain hidden due to lack of information or lack of knowledge how to deal with them. Geography, cartography, remote sensing, geoinformatics and other disciplines focusing on spatial aspects of the nature and societies, supported by the ubiquity of the ICT, and enormous quantities of available spatially positioned quantitative as well as qualitative data reveal, or at least assess enormous amounts of (so far) hidden geographies, which leads to a growing need to adequately select, interpret, model and relate this information to the existing knowledge.
Hidden geographies are everywhere, and many have substantial impacts on (other) natural and social processes, which consequently trigger changes, for example in the landscape, economy, culture, health or quality of life.
discussing the roles of education in increasing the awareness of hidden geographies, knowledge and skills to discover them and live with them. A special track of the conference focusing on educational topics will partly overlap with Ilešič's Days, the national conference for Slovenian geography teachers.
We invite you to propose paper presentations, posters or workshops on any topic related to hidden geographies. Selected papers, resulting from the presentations at the conference, will be published in a thematic issue of the European Journal of Geography after the conference.
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Day by the Bay
My nephew, the newly minted college graduate, flew in last weekend. One of the benefits of seniority is that I have over a month of accrued vacation, so I took an unplanned holiday on Monday and played tour guide. We walked south along the Embarcadero, past the renovated Ferry Building, past Cupid's Span, to Red's Java House.
The unpretentious Red's is one of the few wooden structures remaining on the waterfront and serves a burger on toasted French bread, fries, and soda for about five bucks. For less than a dollar more, I could have substituted a beer for the soda, but not today: I was driving and had to set a good example for the youngsters.
We sat on the deck in the back, a slight breeze taking the edge off the heat.
After lunch we retraced our steps back to the Ferry Building and boarded the ferry for the 30-minute ride to Sausalito.
The comfortable interior of the Sonoma, with its well-stocked bar, is a civilized way to end the day for Marin County commuters. Today work was far from our mind, so we paused at the lounge only briefly before going up to the deck to take in the views of the bay.
The fire just north of the GG Bridge was quickly controlled.
Disembarking in Sausalito, we stopped for coffee and ice cream, then strolled through various art galleries and candy shops in the time-honored tradition of tourists everywhere, looking, but for the most part, not buying. My wife met us with the car, and I took the wheel and headed home. An extra large garlic pizza at Toto's in San Bruno capped a perfect day.
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--Samuel Johnson
Clinton-Mania
The independent bookstore Book Passage, based in Marin County, scored a marketing coup last year when Senator Hillary Clinton autographed copies of her White House memoirs, Living History. On June 28, 2004, exactly one year later, the bookseller will land the big fish himself: Bill Clinton will be autographing copies of My Life at Book Passage's outlet at the Ferry Building.
One week before the Big Event the line to reserve a place in next Monday's line was consistently 5 to 10 persons deep. Women in my office have already submitted their forms.
"You're going to buy the book anyway, so why not get HIS autograph?", said a forty-ish credit executive who intimidates all her male colleagues. A finance VP told me how the ex-President looked terrible during the Dan Rather interview, but the faraway look in her eyes betrayed that the long-forgotten schoolgirl in her would readily swoon in His presence.
Next Monday lawyers, doctors, professors, and CEO's will take extra time to fix their hair and make-up. When the fever passes, as it did when they surveyed the wreckage of their stock portfolios at the end of the 1990's, they will ask themselves, "What was I thinking?"
I remember when my Dad:
Drove me to Little League three times a week and helped me work on my pitching motion every day after school.
Worked three jobs so that we could buy a house, which explained why he was always tired.
Installed all the wiring when the church put in its pipe organ.
Bought me a violin for $350, which was a lot of money in 1965.
Quit smoking, for his sake and ours, when the Surgeon General issued the first warning on cigarettes.
Gave me the family car when I learned how to drive.
Hope you had a great Father's Day, Dad.
---Your grateful son
I just saw Chuck on the 10 o'clock news. Chuck was distributing information to reporters outside the scene of a home invasion and homicide in the swank city of Hillsborough, where he has been a cop for over 20 years. (The news accounts were quite confused, and none of the police were talking.)
I used to kid Chuck about what a soft job he had, until he got dog duty. He and a German shepherd would chase fleeing burglars over the hedges of the Hillsborough estates, so Chuck had to stay in good shape to perform his job. He and his wife Jerri are godparents to our older son, as we are to their daughter, but after they divorced we didn't stay in touch.
Recently we've been running into him at restaurants on the Peninsula. And we just saw him with some of his buddies in the parking lot at the Sharks game last March. Now that he works at a desk and doesn't have to chase crooks, he's put on a few pounds, but haven't we all? © 2004 Stephen Yuen
San Diego Dreamin'
Last Friday we headed south to fetch our freshman. We averaged about 75 mph on Interstate 5, cars passing us all along the way, and in five hours reached northern Los Angeles, where traffic precipitously halted. Although the day of mourning for Ronald Reagan was a semi-holiday, cars were bumper-to-bumper; it took us three hours to wend our way through LA to southern Orange County. The frequent braking and over-90 degree heat made us thankful once more that, many years ago, we had taken the road north.
We pulled into the parking lot at UC-San Diego around 7 p.m., and my hopes for a return trip the next morning were dashed when confronted with the state of disarray in the freshman's room. The freshman's mother took charge, shooing me and the pre-teen out of the room. She sorted and folded until 11 p.m., while I made myself useful by checking in at the nearby Marriott and hauling the luggage upstairs. That strenuous task completed, I rewarded myself with age-appropriate liquid refreshment.
On Saturday morning I bought bungee cords and duct tape to secure the containers we were storing at UCSD. Despite leaving behind several cubic feet of material, we nevertheless filled the van with suitcases of clothes, boxes of CDs, DVDs, and electronics equipment, a rarely played viola, a five-foot implement used in one of the more obscure martial arts, dilapidated shoes that Goodwill would not accept, and a rectangular watercolor whose value could only have been sentimental.
UCSD threatened to impose a fine on rooms left in a substandard condition, so the mothers of the freshman and his roommate spent hours cleaning and vacuuming and picking up until the room gleamed like a diamond amidst the squalor of the all-male suite.
After an unbelievable transformation, the room is ready for inspection
The mothers then turned their attention to the common area furniture and scrubbed off organic substances of indeterminate origin. By 3 o'clock they were done.
We drove to Seaport Village, San Diego's counterpart to our Fisherman's Wharf, and celebrated the completion of the freshman year by dining at the San Diego Pier Café.
We were paying for the view, but the fish was fresh and perfectly grilled, and after decades of frugality I find it easier to rationalize loosing the purse-strings. © 2004 Stephen Yuen
After dinner we strolled to the USS San Diego memorial
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Remembering Louis
Last month we attended Louis' memorial service at St. Luke's. Louis (pronounced the French way, LOO-ey) and his wife Eliane moved across the street twelve years ago. They were Montreal natives who had spent most of their working lives—and raised their children—in the States. After he retired from GTE, Louis and Eliane sold their home in San Mateo and returned to Canada to live their remaining years in well-earned comfort and quiet. But the Bay Area had sunk its hooks into them, and our temperate weather, the cosmopolitan community, and the nearby presence of their children and grandchildren proved an irresistible lure.
Ten years ago Louis bought an Apple Macintosh (68040 processor, I don't remember the model number), his first computer. Our phone would ring at odd hours, I would hear his anxious voice, and I would run across the street with backup System 7, Quicken 4, and utility disks. He was a regular visitor at the local Apple distributor, typically to ask for a warranty repair or return equipment that didn't work; more often than not, his complaint was justified. (That distributor is no longer in business.)
Louis looked after our house when we were out of town. He corrected our son's French essays, undoubtedly helping him win the French award in his senior year. Louis was a familiar sight, with his shock of white hair, strolling with his dog to the grocery store. To his amiable "good morning", I would shout "bonjour"—the extent of my French—and he would smile. Louis looked younger than his 84 years.
Louis and Eliane kept an immaculate house, both inside and out. Louis would often make friendly suggestions about painting, landscaping, and sundry improvements. Of course, it was his way of telling me that our homestead was looking a little long in the tooth, and my blank expression, I hope, communicated that his hints were sailing right past me.
Well, Louis, finally, we've gone to the City to discuss our remodeling project, and we've hired the architect. I hope you like the way it turns out.
Salad Daze
The salad bar was busy today. The steep cost of $5.25 per pound did not dissuade low-carb dieters and sleek bobos from filling their plates. Unemployment is no longer a widespread worry, so people are opening their purses and wallets instead of packing leftovers from last night's dinner.
Salad bar behavior provides ample evidence that profound differences still exist between the sexes. First, the patrons (matrons?): most of the customers are female. Second, women, especially when they travel in groups, dawdle over their selections. They like to ooh and ahh over each dish, speculating on its provenance. When they finally....excruciatingly....conclude through multivariate analysis that the dish meets with their exacting standards, they daintily dole the portions, teaspoon by teaspoon. Each crouton must be individually placed, just so, in its proper position on the bed of lettuce. A veritable objet d'art.
The men's expressions alternate between exasperation and resignation. Some cast knowing glances at each other. Expectations of a quick in and out are dashed. Shoulders slump as they see the brake lights coming on ahead.
Behavior in salad bar lines is remarkably similar to that displayed at shopping malls. Unless the store purveys electronics or tools, men make a beeline to the object of their desire. Back to the car, a quarter on the meter with time left over.
For women, the journey is the destination. On the way to the shoes, one has to stop and smell the perfume, and from the perfume to the jewelry, and from the jewelry to the blouses, and…just what was it I came for anyway? And though they fondle it, inspect it from all angles, and carefully measure its length, there's still a 50/50 chance that the item so painstakingly purchased will be returned.
At least you can't do that with the balsamic vinegar. © 2004 Stephen Yuen
At the base of our office tower, just before one crosses the street to the Ferry Building, is a whimsical sculpture entitled "Yin and Yang" by Robert Arneson. This work was part of the aptly named "egghead" series that was originally commissioned by the University of California at Davis, where Arneson taught. The Eggheads are very popular fixtures at UC-Davis, and few can resist sitting on them, or just running their hands over the smooth surfaces.
The San Francisco Airport had ordered the work, but in the aftermath of September 11th, felt that the two bodiless heads represented too violent an image and declined to install the sculpture. As for me, I'm happy that I can look at Yin and Yang every week.
Robert Arneson is best known for the controversy surrounding his sculpture "Portrait of George" that was commissioned to honor the life of assassinated San Francisco mayor George Moscone. Arneson's bust of Moscone does not have the solemn expression that is typical of a commemorative work of art and might seem vaguely disrespectful although well within acceptable bounds. But it was the pedestal, with its five bloody bullet-holes and scrawling of BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG, that caused a furor. Dianne Feinstein, then Mayor of San Francisco, refused to accept the sculpture when it was completed in 1981, and it now resides with a collector in Arizona. Emotions seemed to have calmed with the passage of time, and now-Senator Feinstein and members of the Moscone family are reconciled with the piece some day returning to San Francisco.
Things That Go Squish
When people ask (in a nice way) why I don't move back to Hawaii, I cite familiar reasons: Honolulu's traffic, the sometimes oppressive humidity, and the lack of job opportunities. But that's the left brain talking.What I don't miss at all are the things that go squish.
As a child I was very careful to watch where I was stepping, especially at night. African snails made a distinctive wet crunch,and their dark slime was hard to clean from the ridges of one's slippers. The milky fluid from the warts of a giant toad was rumored to be poisonous, so I gave them a wide berth. Flattened toads could be found on almost every street, and in the Hawaiian heat it only took a couple of days for the carcass to dry to a leathery texture.
I hold a special place in my heart for the giant cockroach. On a breezeless night these flying sacks of bacteria would swarm near the palm fronds, and you would be well advised to keep your mouth closed when venturing outside. Even in the cleanest of houses they could be found scurrying around the kitchen at night, and I had an unpleasant experience in a sleeping bag when I slept over at a friend's.
On the bright side, I have no aversion to and even like snakes, probably because there were no experiences of snakes during my youth to trigger long-lasting phobias.
Biking home on Memorial Day, I paused to let him pass.
Memorial Day, Coyote Point
Before cancer weakened him, Fred could beat me at everything: golf, swimming, biking, or just plain walking. True, he was a champion diver in college while I was a couch-potato geek, but he was 30 years my senior. I like to think his superiority was due to his training and desire, although it was more likely a sad commentary on my own poor conditioning.
As he entered middle age Fred smoked, ate and drank all the wrong things, and internalized the stress of trying to keep his business alive. A "mild" heart attack was his epiphany. He started swimming laps in the community pool, took up golf, cut the fat from his diet, and sold his business. His physique hardened to that of a man half his age.
He took full advantage of his daughter's decades of employment at Delta Airlines and traveled the world under a parent's pass. He visited us two or three times a year. I accompanied him to the golf course, but made excuses not to go with him to his daily workout due to the embarrassment of not being able to keep up.
Fred would borrow our single-speed bicycle and take off for nearly three hours. He would cruise the path north to Coyote Point, disembarking to tour San Mateo's marina and natural history museum. He encouraged me to join him, but I never did.
Yesterday, prompted by his memory, we left the confines of Foster City and biked to Coyote Point. It was much farther than my usual distance, but the miles passed easily because the breeze always seemed to be behind us. © 2004 Stephen Yuen
SFO is just north of Coyote Point.
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For over 45 years, the name of Deloudis has become synonymous with high end furniture design in Greece. We are now delighted to announce the opening of our flagship store in the beautiful city of Limassol in Cyprus. The prestigious new showroom offers a spectacular range of home, office and outdoor furniture from iconic design collections including: Acerbis, ClassiCon, Edra, Gandia Blasco, Giorgetti, i4 Mariani, ICF, IVM, Knoll, Kymο, Living Divani, Michael Anastassiades, MDF Italia, Paola Lenti, Porro, Promemoria and Tribù. Items by world renowned classic designers such as Mies Van der Rohe, Eero Saarinen, Eileen Grey and Harry Bertoia will be exhibited alongside the best in Contemporary design with pieces by Piero Lissoni, Jean Marie Massaud and Patricia Urquiola.
In addition to our range of furniture, we would also like to present to our discerning clientele, an expertly curated selection of objects, rugs and lighting.
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Charlie will represent Woodsford at the event on Thursday 16th November at The Old Parliament House in Singapore. He will sit on a key panel looking at: Third Party Funding of International Arbitration in Asia – Current Issues and Implications for Practice.
The session picks up on a theme which SIArb debated in 2013, but for which the landscape has changed considerably, as both Singapore and Hong Kong have enacted reforms this year permitting third party funding in international arbitration. In Singapore, the legislation has been supplemented by guidelines drawn up by SIArb, SIAC and the Law Society. This session will feature a panel of experts, including Charlie and representatives of four other leading funders from around the globe who will be in Singapore specially for this event, and will combine a moderated Q&A with questions and comments from the floor. Delegates are invited to submit their questions – with a focus on the recent developments in Asia and its implications for the legal profession and practice, the practicalities of handling disputes where third party funding is utilised, or any other issue related to litigation and arbitration funding.
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Portland Trail Blazers, American expert basketball crew situated in Portland, Oregon, that plays in the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Trail Blazers have won one NBA title (1977) and three meeting titles (1977, 1990, and 1992).
The Trail Blazers joined the group as an extension group in 1970. Their name is a reference to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which finished not a long way from present-day Portland. The Blazers—an epithet regularly utilized by fans and media—completed toward the end in their division in every one of their initial four seasons and five of their initial six seasons. One brilliant spot during those years was the play of forward-focus Sidney Wicks, who had been drafted by the group in 1971 and was named an elite player in every one of his initial four NBA seasons.
Portland experienced a dazzling turnaround in 1976–77, which started with the establishment posting its first winning record (49–33) during the customary season. Unhindered by their absence of playoff experience, the Blazers—including a cutting edge of Bill Walton and Maurice Lucas, alongside gatekeeper Lionel Hollins, and guided by first-year head mentor Jack Ramsay—beat the Chicago Bulls, Denver Nuggets, and Los Angeles Lakers in the postseason to progress to the NBA finals. There they confronted the Philadelphia 76ers, who won the initial two rounds of the arrangement before Portland raged back to win the last four diversions and catch the NBA title. The Trail Blazers came back to the playoffs in every one of the following four seasons, yet they lost in their opening postseason arrangement on each event.
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Explore the spectacular Tam Coc ("Three Caves") near Ninh Binh, Vietnam
Overview of Tam Coc ("Three Caves") near Ninh Binh, Vietnam, and its growing popularity...
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Nine kilometers southwest of the Vietnamese city of Ninh Binh lies Tam Coc, which translates to "three caves." It's peculiar in that it can only be reached with a rowing boat. It's an endless landscape of boulders jutting towards the sky, skirted by rice paddies. There are people working industriously far and wide. The Vietnamese have been cultivating rice here for millennia.
The caves are the reason tourists have been been drawn to Tam Coc for years now. The first of the three caves is Hang Ca, the longest, at 127 meters. The two smaller caves are Hang Hai, at 70 meters, and Hang Ba, at 40 meters. Ong Wu Wan Lich and his wife Ti have lived here all there lives. Despite their age, they still must work; there's no retirement system here as there is in Europe. Their children and grandchildren moved to the city long ago, because you can earn more money there. Those who stay behind live a peaceful but a hard life. The locals can earn the most from tourism. Nearly every family has its own water taxi which is used to boat foreigners around the impressive caves. This 80-year-old manages one trip a day around the caves. This takes up to three hours of his time, but that doesn't bother the old man. He is a survivor. Ong Wu Wan Lich wants to live here until the end of his days. And he'll row tourists through Tam Coc, telling them stories, and looking at their amazed faces when he tells them his age, for as long as he possibly can.
The three caves, Tam Coc - spectacular caves, locals with a connection to nature and a celestial peacefulness. A visit to Tam Coc is a foray into Asia's past.


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The Johnny Brenden Filmmakers Award is a feature incubator that encourages undergraduates to develop their advanced projects. A $25,000 grant is given every two years to support the production of an outstanding feature-length film. Application cycles are in even years (2016, 2018, 2020, etc).
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For the first round of the 2018 cycle, loglines and scripts are due by 11:59 pm on November 15th. Stories must be pitched to UNLV Film faculty in a 10-minute session, by the author or another leader of the project (director, producer). Top projects will advance to the next round, which will involve developing a full production plan and having a director or producer pitch their vision for making the film.
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Scripts should follow industry-standard rules of formatting and style.
Applicants must be UNLV undergraduates majoring in film who are enrolled at the time of completion of the project; seniors who have fulfilled their degree requirements must continue to enroll in at least one credit per semester during the entire period of award disbursement.
Note: The funds will be given to the designated leader of the winning project (director, writer/director, producer, etc.). Applicants must also be U.S. citizens or have proof of permanent resident status, and should select key team members who are current or recently graduated film majors at UNLV.
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The first winner of the Johnny Brenden Filmmakers Award was producer Constanza Castro. Her feature film Liars, Fires and Bears was the official selection of a dozen film festivals. The second award was to Ryan LeBoeuf. His feature film Rabbit Days was completed in the spring of 2014, and is currently streaming on Amazon with a new title: The Beast.


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Why I still love Italian football
Posted on November 2, 2014 by mostimportantsubject
Italian football. Photo by Anthony Majanlahti, http://www.flickr.com
It's fair to say that recent times have not been the best of times for Italian football. The national team had a woeful World Cup this summer and Serie A's finest have not looked so great in European competition in the last few years. The biggest transfers these days seem to involve Spanish or English clubs (or Bayern Munich). When was the last time a Galactico signed for an Italian team?
And yet I can't help it: I love Italian football and I always will.
The origins of this love are easy to trace. The Italia '90 World Cup took place when I was 9 years old. It's the first world cup I can remember, and I remember it vividly (even Scotland were there, failing with the particular brand of gallant ineptitude that we have made our own over the years. None of us will ever forget that Costa Rica game).
To a nine year old football obsessive living in a small village in Fife, everything about Italia '90 seemed so utterly spectacular. It was pure spectacle. The stadiums were beautiful, triumphs of design and unmistakably Italian. They were state of the art then but sadly many have seen little investment since and their former glories are now distinctly faded.
Pavarotti's World Cup anthem made the hairs on the back of your neck stand up and while, looking back, the tournament did not always produce the best quality football, there was something operatic about it. I was mesmerised. Baggio blossomed on the world stage and Salvatore Schillaci scored goals with a look in his eyes that suggested his life depended on it. I had a top with Baggio 10 on the back.
The Italians lost an emotion soaked semi final in Naples to Argentina and the Germans won a semi final shoot-out against England. That was a game that didn't exactly lack emotion either – Gazza's tears remains an iconic image. Waddle's penalty, I presume, remains in orbit. Just as it was all getting a bit too emotional, the German's won a depressingly dull final with a late penalty.
Two years after the World Cup my love affair with Italian football was sealed for ever when Channel 4 began broadcasting Football Italia on Sunday afternoons. Gascoigne had just signed for Lazio and the channel decided that the time was right to bring live Italian football to British TV screens (a note for younger readers: in 1992 I only had access to 4 TV channels. Now that I have access to about 400 I can't honestly say that there's much more on that I want to watch).
The first live match was broadcast on 6 September 1992: Sampdoria v Lazio. I think the score was 3-3. The game was brilliant, intense, and dramatic. At the time Serie A was the best league in the world and the football was technically sophisticated, tactically complex and almost geometrically precise.
Some of my friends concluded that this mix was boring (the philistines) and it was a label that was often attached to Italian football in the UK and I suspect still is. For me though, it is simply beautiful. Italy is without doubt the most beautiful country in the world – when you have the cities of Venice, Rome and Florence it's not really a contest. Italy has such respect for the aesthetic and it seems to me that this applies to their football as well.
I've only been to two Serie A games: Roma – Juventus in 2009 and AC Milan – Roma in 2010. I loved both. Going to the stadium feels like going to a performance, it's no wonder that the San Siro is known as La Scala del Calcio.
In Italy, football really is something very close to religion. Italians may well be tempted to dispense with the penultimate word of the name of this blog. Some of the glamour has faded from Italian football but I think the most beautiful essence of the game still resides there, an essence I discovered on cold wet Sunday afternoons thanks to Channel 4.
My dream back then was to be a footballer and play in Italy. That dream alas didn't quite work out. The back-up dream was James Richardson's job, surely just about the best in the world. I best get back to practising my Italian: difensore, allenatore, centro campista, tifosi, capocannoniere …
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BBG Acquires Jerome Haims Realty
PR Newswire December 3, 2018
New York appraisal firm widely recognized for industry-leading litigation support, arbitration and expert testimony services
DALLAS, Dec. 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- BBG, a leading independent national commercial real estate valuation, advisory and assessment firm, today announced that it has acquired Jerome Haims Realty, Inc., a top New York City-based real estate appraisal and consulting firm specializing in litigation support and related services. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
BBG appoints Eric Haims, MAI, AI-GRS, as Practice Leader of firm's New York office's litigation support services group.
The acquisition significantly builds on litigation support and other capabilities of BBG's New York office and the company overall. It is the latest in a series of acquisitions and new office openings this year for the rapidly growing firm, which now has a total of 30 offices nationwide.
Jerome Haims Realty is one of the largest providers of litigation support, arbitration and expert witness testimony services in the New York City real estate market. Over the years, the 50-year-old firm has been involved in numerous condemnation court cases, including Atlantic Yards in Brooklyn, the Queens West Redevelopment Project, the Second Avenue Subway Line and the $15 billion Hudson Yards development. The firm also provides feasibility studies, cash flow and investment analysis and other commercial property business services.
Jerome Haims Realty President Eric Haims MAI, AI-GRS, was appointed as Practice Leader of the New York office's litigation support services group. The firm's other commercial real estate appraisers, including Yamil Arocho, MAI and Andrew Sikiric, MAI, CCIM, will also join the BBG office.
Mr. Haims is a well-respected authority on real estate valuation issues and has a proven track record in providing expert witness testimony and other services in real estate-related court cases. As part of BBG, his team will continue providing these services to attorneys, private clients, New York City real estate families, corporations, developers, not-for-profit entities, and numerous Federal, State and City government agencies.
During a career spanning more than 25 years, Mr. Haims has appraised thousands of commercial properties in the Metropolitan New York area and elsewhere across the country. He has focused on the appraisal of commercial properties for both litigation and eminent domain purposes, arbitration, discounted cash flow analysis, estate tax and planning, land valuation, air rights and other areas.
An active member of the Appraisal Institute, Mr. Haims serves on the organization's national board of directors and is the current vice chair of one of its 10 regions. He is also a member of the Institute's national finance committee, and has previously served on its nominating and government relations committees, in addition to other national and regional roles.
He is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York and served as a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the National Association of Real Estate Appraisers. Mr. Haims is also a Certified General Real Estate Appraiser in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
BBG CEO Chris Roach commented on the acquisition: "Our acquisition of Jerome Haims Realty further strengthens our position as one of the country's largest commercial real estate appraisal firms and appreciably enhances our ability to continue to provide a comprehensive range of services to our clients. We look forward to Eric and members of his team joining our highly talented and dedicated professionals in advising our clients to achieve the best possible outcomes and continuing to make BBG a leader in this industry."
Susan Kominski, Senior Managing Director of BBG's New York office, added: "This acquisition solidifies the ability of the New York office to effectively serve the diverse range of client needs in the most dynamic market in the country."
Mr. Haims commented: "We are very excited to join forces with BBG, which has proven to deliver outstanding results to its clients.Our vast experience and expertise in commercial real estate litigation support services, combined with BBG's strong geographic presence, best-in-class expertise, multi-service lines, and other resources will take the firm to its next level of growth."
About BBG
BBG is a leading independent national commercial real-estate valuation, advisory and assessment firm headquartered in Dallas with 30 offices in key US markets. BBG has achieved a reputation for personal attention, on-time delivery and deep expertise in multi-family, office, retail and industrial sectors. For more information about BBG, please visit www.bbgres.com.
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There are currently 38,700,000 results just by typing the word in Google. We hear it over and over again: stay in the present and focus on your breath. Through personal practice, it does help with focus by concentrating on one thing at a time, which improves life fulfillment. However, the practice takes time to notice the "different" feeling on how to handle stress – sometime difficult for hard-driving type A personalities. Believe me, it's difficult to do when first starting out as the mind will continue to wander!
There are plenty of studies of showing the impact and change of the brain through regular mindfulness sessions. The 2011 Harvard study is one cited often: "It was found that there were dramatic boosts of gray matter density following a routine of mindfulness sessions.
The book captures these principals with examples and the impact while coaching such great players as Jordan, Pippen, Bryant and Shaq.
The number of organizations that offer mindfulness as part of their corporate culture through training continues to grow, including General Mills, Aetna, Green Mountain Coffee, Goldman Sachs, Target, Blackrock, and Bank of America. It's not just Silicon Valley tech companies – (Google's "Search Inside Yourself" mindfulness program is taken by thousands of employees and has an extensive waiting list).
David Gelles mentions in his book Mindful Work – (another interesting read on how meditation can change business), "when Aetna rolled out its big mindfulness program, after the first full year, they saw out-of-pocket healthcare costs go down. In other words, they found cost-savings to introducing these programs. It wasn't a drag on the bottom line, it was a boost to it." However, all companies that have implemented mindfulness have not been a success, Monsanto being one who dropped the program according to Gelles.
It's important to evaluate the potential "shock, weird, hippie" crazy thoughts you might receive by your team by considering rolling out mindfulness throughout your culture. It's difficult to show every financial impact to the organization with mindfulness, however it can open possibilities of team members becoming more focused, sensitive to company matters and not over-reacting to customers complaints, etc.
Beyond all the hype, more than anything, mindfulness practiced regularly will reduce stress and that's not a bad thing.


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Obama favors stronger EU defense capacity
STRASBOURG, France, April 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday that his country is in favor of stronger defense capabilities of the European Union (EU).
"We want strong allies. We would like to see Europe have much more robust defense capacities," Obama told reporters after meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
"The more capability we see here in Europe, the happier the United States will be, the more effective we will be in coordinating our activities."
Obama was responding to a question whether France's return to NATO's military structures will be reciprocated with promises for stronger EU defense.
"The basic promise of NATO was that European security was the United States security and vice versa," he said.
"That is a central tenant, that is a pillar of American foreign policy. That has been unchanging over the last 60 years."
Obama said he was in Europe to affirm this U.S. policy.
Sarkozy said he did not need guarantees from Obama for a stronger EU defense capacity.
"A strong Europe of defense is the best guarantee for the USA," said Sarkozy.
STRASBOURG, France, April 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama arrived here on Friday for a two-day summit of NATO member states to mark the alliance's 60th anniversary.
Flying from London after attending the G20 summit on the economic crisis, Obama will meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy before the summit opens on Friday evening with a dinner in Germany's bordering city of Baden-Baden. Full story
STRASBOURG, France, April 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday met his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy here before a two-day NATO summit to mark the alliance's 60th anniversary.
This is the first official meeting between Obama, who flew here from London, and Sarkozy.
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A DIY entryway bench is a really great option when you have a small (or no!) entryway, as is common in most smaller homes. It gives you a space to sit and put on your shoes, or the little ones shoes, and also to set items when coming into the house. It can be pressed into service as temporary seating at the dining table when entertaining, or even used as a sofa or side table in a pinch. Its the perfect height for a kids table when the little ones come to visit. And it helps to create an entryway when there is no formal space at the door, by providing some structure. A piece of furniture this versatile is just what the small house ordered! Here are our picks for DIY entryway benches, and we have lots of tutorials here to save you money!
Our first project is a great step by step tutorial for a farmhouse DIY entry bench from 'Home Depot'. I love that this project takes just basic carpentry skills that anyone can learn. And it's so pretty!
'The Weekend Country Girl' took an old thrift store dresser, cut it in half, and created this DIY mudroom bench! Oh my this is cool! Be sure to visit and find out how she did it. It might get your creative juices flowing!
While we're at upcycling, see how 'DIY Network' upcycled old upper kitchen cabinets into this easy shoe DIY entryway bench. Great place to find cabinets like these is the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in your area.
'Being Home' has a complete tutorial in building a mudroom bench, and another one on the cushion! I really love the built in look of this project. Amazing job, this could really add value to your home as well.
'Not Just a Housewife' built this simple DIY entryway bench, and shows us just how she did it. I love how her photos make it seems really easy, she really breaks down the steps for you and gives you a lot of little tips. I think this could be a great project for beginner woodworkers!
This Pottery Barn inspired entryway bench/ storage unit was created by 'The Suburban Urbanist'. This was shared over three posts to get all their storage projects in, but we are linking specifically to the bench post. You can click through while you are there to see how they did the coat rack and other projects!
From 'Ana White', this DIY entryway bench and shelf are indicative of all her free plans… amazing! (They need to some up with better words for amazing!) I love how all her tutorials are so detailed…material lists and step by step drawings. BTW, the next few projects are Ana White designs… she is THAT good!
This modern farm DIY bench by 'Ana White' has a more sleek and minimal design, that would be perfect for a more contemporary home, but would still fit nicely in any casual style.
Love this! This easy upholstered entry bench by 'Ana White' is the only one we have in this line up. (Upholstered, that is.) Full tutorial.
These last three are simply inspirational… we wanted to include them because we figure, by this point in the post, your creative mind is pumping out your own ideas, and these should help! Enjoy creating your own DIY entryway benches, and let us know in comments how your projects went!
From Erich McVey on 'Design Sponge', we love this rustic wood entry bench.
From'Arkin Tilt Architects' on 'Houzz', this bench was made from a walnut tree that fell during their project.
Lastly, this entryway bench on 'Homedit' is a simple idea… a board attached to two wooden stools! That should get you thinking!
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The Detroit Lions have had a miserable 2015 season. The Green Bay Packers have felt their pain through the past two weeks (two losses) and they want it to end. That narrative makes for an interesting meeting at Lambeau Field in week 10, as Detroit has nothing but pride to play for, and the Packers aim to end a two game slide.
The Lions and Packers have been battling inside the NFC North since 1930, so to say this matchup is storied is a grand understatement. It's not necessarily the most competitive divisional clash, however, as Green Bay has taken 97 games out of 171 meetings. They've been especially dominant since 1992, losing just 12 times to Detroit in that span. It's Green Bay's dominance on their home field against the Lions that is most impressive, of course, as the Packers haven't fallen to their rivals at Lambeau since a 21-17 defeat in 1991. Green Bay is also 1-2 against the Lions in their last three games, but one of those games (a 40-10 beatdown in Detroit) was without starting quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
Detroit has been a total mess all season. Matthew Stafford has been forced into bad spots with Detroit struggling to run the ball, his protection has been shaky and his team's play-calling has been called into question. That led the offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi getting canned, yet the Lions couldn't pick up the pieces after that, as they went on to get crushed by the Chiefs in London. Detroit started the season on a rough note against some very good teams and lost several close games, but they seem to be losing their desire to even keep games close. Heading into Green Bay to get a win for the first time in over 20 years should have them up and ready to play, however.
Green Bay has not been the same offensively this year for two huge reasons: Jordy Nelson (knee) is no longer around to stretch the field in the passing game and Eddie Lacy has looked slow and sluggish. The Packers can't fix the loss of Nelson, but they already addressed their ground game by switching to James Starks as the full-time starter. That could give them the shot in the arm they need following a nasty two-game road losing streak that had them look awful on defense and rather pedestrian on offense. Returning home to face the 1-7 Lions, at least on the surface, could be precisely what they need to get their season trending in the right direction again.
If you're just not even thinking about it, the Packers are the easy pick. They've lost two big games on the road and haven't looked the greatest in the process, while Aaron Rodgers plays at an insanely high level at home. Any matchup at Lambeau Field today, and the Packers are probably favored. From everything we've seen to this point, we have to think going into this one that the Lions are lifeless and won't win this game, while the Packers are hungry and want to prove that they're still an elite playoff contender. Stomping out the Lions certainly wouldn't hurt their attempts to promote that logic.
The ATS numbers also support Green Bay, as the Lions are just 1-6 ATS against winning teams in 2015, while the Packers are 5-1 ATS in their last five NFC battles. I'm not entirely sure we need to keep leaning on the "Detroit hasn't won in Green Bay in 20 years" mantra, because the Lions have to be sick of it and I'm sure that actually fuels them a bit. But even with Green Bay a little battered, they're the better team and the Lions are a mess.
I like the Packers straight up all the way and if they can finally get a balanced offense going early, they should blow the Lions out and cover, as well.


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Kevin Nash Starring in 'COVID-19: Invasion' Movie
By John Newby - November 25, 2020 01:19 pm EST
WWE Hall of Famer Kevin Nash has been keeping busy as an actor when outside of the wrestling ring. He had roles in John Wick and Magic Mike XXL, but now he will try to defeat a pandemic. Nash has landed a starring role in the upcoming thriller, COVID-19 Invasion.
There is only limited information available about COVID-19 Invasion other than a photo of Nash holding a gun and a brief tagline. The description consists of only two sentences, but they paint a very clear picture. "Chinese bats invade America. It's up to Navy Seal Team Six to stop them," the synopsis reads.
O Hall of Famer Kevin Nash vai estrelar um filme chamado Covid 19 Invasion.
Confira a sinopse:
"Os morcegos chineses invadem a América. Cabe ao Navy Seal Team Six detê-los." pic.twitter.com/mXz5MFQj5a
— Powerbomb Brasil (@powerbomb_br) November 14, 2020
The photo of Nash holding the gun surfaced on Twitter, and wrestling fans immediately responded. Some had several jokes about the project while others expressed concern about it being "tone-deaf." Although one Twitter user fully embraced the premise, writing: "A COVID 19 invasion that only Kevin Nash can stop."
The project is currently in post-production, per IMDb. There is no set release date just yet. Micah Lyons (The Dalton Gang) wrote, directed and produced COVID-19 Invasion. Nash stars in the lead role as Rex while Brooke Lyons, David D. Ford, Swayde McCoy and Stephanie Kae Smith all have supporting roles. According to IMDb, the film had an estimated budget of $3,000,000.
Nash first drew attention as an actor when he appeared as Super-Shredder in 1991's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze. He has since gone one to appear in several films and shows, but there is one that stands out for him. "I did a show called Detroiters on Comedy Central and I got to play Tim Robinson's dad — Big Hank. They kind of just let me be me and I got to ad-lib a lot," Nash told the Daily Cardinal.
Several fans also remember Nash's role in The Longest Yard. He joined several others in the Adam Sandler-led remake, including "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, and played a prison guard. However, Nash told the Cardinal that this role actually helped expand his career.
"Adam Sandler was so kind to me. The original Guard Engleheart had one line … and the rest of that was, you know, I kind of found a character … and was able to get some good screen time," Nash explained. "I thank Adam and Pete [Segal] the director. I thank them every day because that was probably the one thing that got me un-type casted. They said, 'This guy can actually do comedy,' … for years, every time I read a script, I had an axe in my hand. This was the first time that I had pom-poms."
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Gwendolyn Richards: 'I don't think people realize what they're losing by not supporting journalism'
by Casey Richardson November 16, 2018 October 26, 2020
Gwendolyn Richards is a graduate of the University of Victoria, the University of British Columbia Masters' program and was a reporter for the Calgary Herald (2004-2016). She is now a freelance food writer, columnist, and author. Her first book, Pucker: A cookbook for Citrus Lovers, was published in 2014.
When applying for university, I knew I didn't want to do anymore math that I didn't understand. So, half of my applications went out to universities with a business major, [but] then I had this epiphany and the other half went out for a writing major.
I decided to go to the University of Victoria, and they offered a writing program that had fiction, non-fiction, poetry, screenwriting and so on, including a journalism component. So, I signed up for the journalism classes not knowing that was going to end up being a passion for me.
After graduation, I started working for small town newspapers on various work terms, and that's when I really came to understand that was where I wanted to go.
At that time I had no reason to believe that journalism was going anywhere. There was a bunch of us in school, and we're all still friends, and of all of us that took all the same courses. I'm the only one that became a journalist.
My first actual newsroom was in Dawson Creek and it was a work term. It was actually a daily up there, which was pretty crazy. I was really just terrified, but within the first day or two I had to write a story. Everyone had to produce, and you could actually go into a room and overlook the printing press and I was able to watch my first story literally roll off the presses.
I would give my younger self the advice to shoot higher. I probably could have tried harder to get into those bigger dailies, but I sort of felt like I was only really prepared for small town news.
I actually went back and got my master's in journalism at UBC, not because I felt like I needed more schooling, but I knew that the connections I made in that program were going to launch me into bigger, better markets.
Richards also runs her own food blog and website, patentandthepantry.com, featuring food trend, restaurant reviews and recipes.Photo courtesy of Gwendolyn Richards.
My biggest learned skill is that you have every right to be there and get the story. Early on in my career, I kind of let a few board members of various boards or whatever tell me what I should be covering and what I shouldn't be covering, and I see now that they had no right to do that.
One of my most memorable stories was at the Vancouver Sun. I was just an intern, and there was a story about a salmon seiner — a fishing boat — flipping, and it killed five members of a family. It was awful, two kids died, but it was the first time where the editors said, 'You're on this story, you cover it.'
Later in my career, my empathy proved to be very helpful. I'm just really overly-sensitive. I covered crime for a long time before becoming a food writer, and that meant talking to a lot of people in some of the worst moments of their lives.
I would say the disappearing number of jobs has been the most significant change I have noticed in journalism. It's distressing because I think the mentality around news is shifted, everyone saying "fake news" this and "bias" that. But I don't think people realize what they're losing by not supporting journalism. They are losing that chance to hold organizations and companies accountable.
For future journalists, I would say no story is below you, because no matter what you're covering, you're either going to learn something from the material, or in a way that you have to work in a quote, or the way that you interview someone and [then] realize there was a different question you should've asked, so always take those opportunities to grow.
The journalism world still has a ways to go in terms of positioning women into management roles in newsrooms, editors, editors-in-chief, managing editors, the ones that are making the strategic decisions around coverage. I think that once we see a shift in that, it will do the world of journalism a lot of good.
I always wanted to write a book, and I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but it turns out I am not good at making stuff up, which is why I'm a good journalist. I can't even lie if I tried. I'd been food-writing for a little while, and I thought I should try [it]. I had to tell a story just through the recipes.
As told to Casey Richardson. This interview has been edited and condensed for length.
This article is part of a series of profiles on industry professionals through the Calgary Journal. To see more like this, visit the On the Job page.
Editor: Mariam Taiwo | mtaiwo@cjournal.ca
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Gwendolyn Richards: 'I don't think people realize what they're losing by not supporting journalism'

by Casey Richardson, Calgary Journal
November 16, 2018

Gwendolyn Richards is a graduate of the University of Victoria, the University of British Columbia Masters' program and was a reporter for the Calgary Herald (2004-2016). She is now a freelance food writer, columnist, and author. Her first book, Pucker: A cookbook for Citrus Lovers, was published in 2014.

When applying for university, I knew I didn't want to do anymore math that I didn't understand. So, half of my applications went out to universities with a business major, [but] then I had this epiphany and the other half went out for a writing major.

I decided to go to the University of Victoria, and they offered a writing program that had fiction, non-fiction, poetry, screenwriting and so on, including a journalism component. So, I signed up for the journalism classes not knowing that was going to end up being a passion for me.

After graduation, I started working for small town newspapers on various work terms, and that's when I really came to understand that was where I wanted to go.

At that time I had no reason to believe that journalism was going anywhere. There was a bunch of us in school, and we're all still friends, and of all of us that took all the same courses. I'm the only one that became a journalist.

My first actual newsroom was in Dawson Creek and it was a work term. It was actually a daily up there, which was pretty crazy. I was really just terrified, but within the first day or two I had to write a story. Everyone had to produce, and you could actually go into a room and overlook the printing press and I was able to watch my first story literally roll off the presses.

I would give my younger self the advice to shoot higher. I probably could have tried harder to get into those bigger dailies, but I sort of felt like I was only really prepared for small town news.

I actually went back and got my master's in journalism at UBC, not because I felt like I needed more schooling, but I knew that the connections I made in that program were going to launch me into bigger, better markets.

Richards also runs her own food blog and website, patentandthepantry.com, featuring food trend, restaurant reviews and recipes.Photo courtesy of Gwendolyn Richards.

My biggest learned skill is that you have every right to be there and get the story. Early on in my career, I kind of let a few board members of various boards or whatever tell me what I should be covering and what I shouldn't be covering, and I see now that they had no right to do that.

One of my most memorable stories was at the Vancouver Sun. I was just an intern, and there was a story about a salmon seiner — a fishing boat — flipping, and it killed five members of a family. It was awful, two kids died, but it was the first time where the editors said, 'You're on this story, you cover it.'

Later in my career, my empathy proved to be very helpful. I'm just really overly-sensitive. I covered crime for a long time before becoming a food writer, and that meant talking to a lot of people in some of the worst moments of their lives.

I would say the disappearing number of jobs has been the most significant change I have noticed in journalism. It's distressing because I think the mentality around news is shifted, everyone saying "fake news" this and "bias" that. But I don't think people realize what they're losing by not supporting journalism. They are losing that chance to hold organizations and companies accountable.

For future journalists, I would say no story is below you, because no matter what you're covering, you're either going to learn something from the material, or in a way that you have to work in a quote, or the way that you interview someone and [then] realize there was a different question you should've asked, so always take those opportunities to grow.

The journalism world still has a ways to go in terms of positioning women into management roles in newsrooms, editors, editors-in-chief, managing editors, the ones that are making the strategic decisions around coverage. I think that once we see a shift in that, it will do the world of journalism a lot of good.

I always wanted to write a book, and I always wanted to be a fiction writer, but it turns out I am not good at making stuff up, which is why I'm a good journalist. I can't even lie if I tried. I'd been food-writing for a little while, and I thought I should try [it]. I had to tell a story just through the recipes.

As told to Casey Richardson. This interview has been edited and condensed for length.

This article is part of a series of profiles on industry professionals through the Calgary Journal. To see more like this, visit the On the Job page.

Editor: Mariam Taiwo | mtaiwo@cjournal.ca

This article first appeared on Calgary Journal and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
Tagged: Journalism


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