Giving Back — Crumble Candle Co.
Our mission and accomplishments have been nationally recognized and awarded since our founding in 2015. As the Anti-suicide Aroma Co., inspired by our founder Brandon Love's past, we aim to provide a community, coping-tools and safe-spaces to those in need.
In 2015, our founder upped his roots in Baltimore, and set out to find a new place of belonging in Kansas. Brandon struggled to fit in, find genuine connections and really make Kansas home.
But one thing kept him pushing forward: The connections, friendships, and joys of those he met online through the, then very small, community of Crumble Family (then Wax Family).
It's our philosophy that everyone should wake up and feel expected somewhere, and be given the opportunity to make conversation and friendships.
Major depression and anxiety can be brought on by extreme loneliness and dissociation with the world. With Suicide still being the lead cause of deaths in the United States, affecting people of all ages, it's our mission to provide a space to combat some major root causes such as loneliness, while also providing important tools to help those suffering with anxiety, depression, bi-polar, PTSD and many Mental Health issues.
The Crumble Family Facebook community is now Facebooks largest 24/7 staffed mental health focused community. Connecting people for their love of candles, unicorns and all things sparkly. We're bringing the glitter to the Mental Health talk.
Hundreds of members of the Crumble Family community drove hundreds and even thousands of miles to celebrate our first store launch in 2018 and to meet the team behind the mission!
As the Crumble Family grew into a major Facebook community, recognized by Facebook as "One of the most well managed communities of its size" we didn't want it's growth to overshadow its cause, and it's positive impacts on so many.
We launched Crumble Chat's in the start of 2019! A new collection of sub-communities for Crumble Family members, to niche down and connect with like minded individuals on important topics such as Anxiety and Heartbreak, but for the first time ever, also connecting members on hobbies such as video game fans, and past experiences such as miscarriage, sexual assault and cancer.
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As Brandon's life changed, he began sharing his stories, his struggles and showing every side of human he could.
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In 2015 we defined our mission and began giving back to The Brain and Behaviour Research Foundation, which was the first branch in many of our efforts to give back to researches and workers saving lives and making strides in mental health.
Since then, we've added The Trevor Project, The Born This Way Foundation, Pathway To Hope, Planned Parenthood, Operation Breakthrough, Folds of Honor, Midwest Innocence Project and more.
Our new favorite thing? Partnering with local brands to support local causes! In 2018 our favorite partnership was with Betty Rae's Ice Cream, creating 3 ice cream inspired candles and 3 Crumble inspires ice creams! We raised over $1,000+ in the first day for Operation Breakthrough.
We've also launched entire collections for sexual education and resource foundations, raising over $3,000+ in 2018, and donating an additional $18,000 in product to supporting causes, auctions and monthly boxes.
We also partner up with local non-profits and organizations such as Women In Film, Aids Walk and Reclamation Clubhouse to auction off gift baskets! We auctioned off over 20+ gift baskets in 2018.
We work closely with local Kansas schools special education programs to provide in-work experience for students learning new skills in a professional environment, every Monday and Thursday.
Every month we stretch our mission, to support other local non-profits through our Monthly Bar. 100% of the proceeds from our Monthly Bar go the the cause of the month, such as Folds of Honors cheeky aroma "Posty Melon". Our Monthly Bar sells our FAST, if you see it, snag it!
We'd like to thank those who make it happen. The phone operators, researchers and those who go door to door for important causes. Without you, our our efforts would be fruitless and the world would be a darker place. Thank you!
A huge thank you to Pathway To Hope and the Reclamation Clubhouse, for nationally recognizing our efforts in Mental Health at their 2018 Ignite A Passion Gala. Thank you, thank you, thank you!


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Tisha B'Av looking forward – to the third and last Temple
Published in the Davar newspaper in 5751
It was difficult for me to fast on Tisha B'Av. It was not related to any physical distress. As a traditional Jew I am used to fast days. The difficulty was derived from the internal conviction that the act of mourning on Tisha B'Av has deficient basic relevancy, which reflects historical blindness and symbolizes the atrophy of religious thinking.
How is it possible to justify lamentation over the Temples that were destroyed thousands of years ago when around us the Third Temple is growing gloriously? Rabbi Akiva laughed when he saw the ruins of the Temple, because he believed that it would rise again. And we, even more so, are obligated to push aside the feeling of mourning.
If for two thousand years the Jewish people fast due to an internalization of its historical fate, it would be an ironic error if we continue to fast as commanded by the scholars, while disregarding the fact that we are writing history in our times. If Jewish tradition is significant in our eyes, Tisha B'Av should be redefined.
The State of Israel is the Third Temple on three levels: the actual level – the achievements of the State overtake immeasurably the achievements of the First and Second Temples. In Israel at present there are more Jews than there have been at any time, and it is more developed than it has ever been, Jerusalem neighbourhoods stand on the rocky hills that surrounded Solomon's Temple in its glory, Israel is a strong independent entity, which fulfils an important role in the international arena. Only distorted nostalgia could cause us to say: "Let the days be as they were". Only a fundamentalist, such as the worshipers of the golden calf in our times, yearn to construct a building on the Temple Mount, whereby the address "the Third Temple" is inscribed on its post box.
The self perception – the State of Israel believes that it is the embodiment of the Third Temple and that it establishes all the Jewish messianic aspirations in history. If this was not the case it would not have come together, contrary to any criterion of national interest, to save Ethiopian Judaism. The very role that Israel has taken upon itself, to be a national home for all the Jews demonstrates this.
On the eve of the American air attack on Iraq, when the people of Israel waited, nervously, for the fall of the Scud missiles on its towns, the Prime Minister tried to calm matters with these words: "We are even stronger than the House of David". What a strange comparison, unless this embodies an assumption that the people of Israel – secular and religious, right and left – indeed understand that the historical situation today is similar to the one at the time of the First and Second Temples as compared to any other era in Jewish history. If Shamir had said: "We are not in Germany of 1919. We have a state that will protect us", we would not have taken him seriously. Israel's political stances also express this perception. Would it have been so insistent on the issue of Jerusalem, if there had not been a consensus in the nation that considers Jerusalem as the capital of the Third Temple?
Our critical place in history – it is not possible for another Jewish resurrection. Therefore the State of Israel is the Third Temple. The destruction of the State means the end of the Jewish people. Anyone who survives will not attempt to build a new temple unless he tries to assimilate in any chance society.
What lesson can we take from destruction of the Temple that will be able to serve as an incentive for an additional attempt at resurrection? Should we have taken the words "the right was right and we were guilty of criminal naivety?" or "the left was right and we missed the opportunity for sustainable peace?" Our very inability to safely differentiate today, even though we are searching for it desperately, demonstrates that it shall be no more than wisdom after the event. The Diaspora shall be a partner to this absolute demoralization and shall accelerate the assimilation into the open society. Only the ultra orthodox shall survive for a while after the destruction, and it is possible that their roots will become stronger following the tragedy. However for how long can this anti-historical trend continue?
It is told that when the line in the Golan Heights collapsed at the start of the Yom Kippur War, Moshe Dayan reported to Golda Meir: "The Third Temple has fallen". This story entered the Israeli consciousness by the power of modern myth, that Dayan's words and the symbol of strength that he used was a basic truth as regards our very existence, that is: even at this moment, in which we are facing the point of climax of Jewish history – everything still remains hanging in the balance.
Here is the key to the redefinition of Tisha B'Av. On Tisha B'Av in our times we must internalize the recognition that we have built here the Third Temple and that the Fourth Temple will never be established. Instead of dealing with lamentations for the past, it is appropriate that Tisha B'Av reawakens us and our self examination as regards our future. The message of Tisha B'Av in our times should be – the vision of the prophets and the Zionism that is taking place under the sword of Damocles, and the fate of the Jewish people has still not been resolved.

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A Disney Musical Suggestion
Posted on March 19, 2014 by bernardovillela
There are likely a branches of the Disney media empire I'm not too big a fan of, perhaps the one that is the most confounding to me is the line of altered-for-younger-audiences musicals like Aladdin Jr., The Little Mermaid, Jr. and the like. Part of what I really don't get is that content-wise there's usually not much removed and simplified for younger audiences. If anything it seems to be just about managing expectations.
Now I fully recognize that the acquisition of rights, and staging could be more affordable. The musical tracks provided may well be simplified to be easier for young vocalists to learn. Having said all that the addition of the word "Junior" seems to add the connotations that a) it's not the real thing and b) you ought to lower your expectations.
Now, I will hand it to them for allowing schools flexibility with things like the One-Act edition of High School Musical and things of that nature, which can allow those crunched for time and funds to more easily stage something accessible. While that is a much different creature than a slightly-truncated stage version of an animated classic, it's still a less-than-ideal translation of all the intended elements of a story.
And, one might argue, rightly so, that High School Musical's heyday of cultural relevance has come and gone. Which brings me to my actual suggestion of a stage adaptation of something so far out of consciousness it my seem new, that and it wouldn't be an edited version at all.
Even Stevens was one the first break-out hits Disney Channel had. It was one of the first that got me watching even though I was not the demographic any longer. Independent of the recent antics of Shia Labeouf, the show remains, as it ever has been quite funny, and in perhaps its most memorable episode it featured a musical episode that was Ren's (Christy Carlson Romano) fever dream called "Influenza: The Musical."
Being a half-hour (read: 23 minutes) sitcom it's a perfect one act length that you needn't cut. The setting is school, it relates to kids and has memorable songs.
While its still up, you can view it here, and that brings me to the last point: in an age becoming ever more digital Disney's vaulting, and at times squatting on its own titles; burrowing them away,
not seeking to invest any more in them just makes no sense. Either downloads or disc-on-demand services would make sense for so many Disney titles; and making this a stage musical would be quite the easy feat.
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Godowsky probably didn't think they were difficult enough and used Chopin's Études as a template to write new works. The final result was the 53 Studies, which. Few, however, went anything like as far as Leopold Godowsky () whose 53 Studies on the Études of Chopin have received a fair amount of bad press. Leopold Godowsky. Studien über die Etüden von Chopin Studies on Chopin's Études Études d'après Chopin. Zofia Chechlinska writes, "In the studies both parts.
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Obviously, Hamelin was born to make Godowsky live for us. At least one pianist Francesco Libetta has played the complete 53 Studies in concert two recitals in Milan, and All was arranged accordingly, but at the last moment unavoidable circumstances prevented my accompanying them.
The name Leopold Godowsky is rarely mentioned when one talks about favourite composers who wrote piano works. The left hand is favoured by nature in having the stronger part of the hand for the upper voice of all double notes and chords and also by generally having the strongest fingers for the strongest parts of a melody.
Hier eine Nocturne, eine Polonaise, da eine Mazurka? Any one of these Studies may, for example, pit together two or even three strands of counterpoint, each with its own personality and demanding to be clearly differentiated. This is the third complete set to appear on record. Being averse to any tampering with the text of any master work when played in the original form, I would condemn any artist for taking liberties with the works of Chopin or any other great composer.
Niecks writes, "The composer seems fuming with rage; the left hand rushes impetuously along and the right hand strikes in with passionate ejaculations.
With the exception of the music of Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, I know of no segment of the repertoire to have achieved such a legendary status, and even a casual perusal of the scores will help understand why. Perhaps the task of learning and mastering such a work is too unrewarding, which may be why the Passacaglia yodowsky not heard frequently in the concert hall today. A performance of the Passacaglia yodowsky shown in the embedded YouTube Video below: Pianists brave enough to tackle this music have often been content merely to get through the notes.
Whatever it is, it is hard to dispute the compositional skill and ingenuity which Godowsky poured into these Studies. I suppose that some readers may teudes interested to know how I started to compose these Studies.
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If you are indifferent or worse, offendedthen this music is not for you. The top notes form a melodic line.
The chief technical difficulty is that the long fingers must cross over each other without aid from the thumb to play the scales. Richard Wagner described Chopin as "a composer for the right hand" and Godowsky would probably have agreed with him. And in places the notes of chhopin figuration create motives that counterpoint the main melody. It was composed in in Stuttgart, gocowsky after chopin had received tidings of the taking of Warsaw by the Russians, September 8, " hence its nickname.
Whether this is the case is for academics to argue over.
This was accomplished in two different ways: Chopin provides no pedal markings, but careful use of pedal is essential. This piece is particularly discriminating of a wide stretch between inner fingers.
Leopold Godowsky: 53 Studies on Chopin's Études
Few areas of the repertoire have such a notorious reputation for technical difficulty and audacious compositional invention. Having made Chicago his home fromfor the next decade he combined a struggling concert career with that of a successful teacher. The left hand groupings are more stable, so the metrical relations between the two hands is variant.
It is therefore not difficult to understand why these pieces have earned the reputation of requiring Olympian feats of execution, and this helps to explain their general neglect as well as the critical abuse they have received from the time the first few were published. The piece is rhythmically challenging, for although the figurations do not change in any substantial way, the right hand quavers are grouped sometimes in three, sometimes in twos, sometimes in syncopated twos, and sometimes in a continual uniform stacatto or legato line; these differences of articulation change the melodic line that emerges.
Further complicates the right hand part with a few tricky grace notes. Theodor Kullak writes, "The whole piece is a song, or, better still, an aria, in which two principal voices are to be brought out; the upper one is in imitation of a human voice, while the lower one must bear the character throughout of an obligato violoncello.
Occasionally, the thumb is asked to play both a black grace note and the white key that follows it; it is difficult to suppress wrong accents.
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After numerous experiments I succeeded in finding an entirely new succession of fingers which appeared to me most practical. James Huneker writes, "The melody is morbid, almost irritating, and yet not without certain accents of grandeur.
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Jedenfalls keiner, der so wenig formale Ausbildung etude hatte. But it would be an error to think that Chopin permitted every one of the small notes to be distinctly heard. Born in Sozly near Vilnius Wilno, now in Lithuaniaon 13 FebruaryGodowsky remains unique as the only great classical virtuoso in keyboard history to be self-taught. He provided me over the years with many interesting ideas and comments—all stemming from a deep familiarity with the music.
In a midsection and at the coda, both hands play semiquaver figurations together. Chopon Total duration: The eleven exercises Godowsky supplies include scales and runs for the weak three fingers.
In these repetitions, however, changes of accentuation, fresh modulations, and piquant antitheses, serve to make the composition extremely vivacious and effective. Another reason why the left hand is more susceptible to training than the right hand is that it is more elastic owing to its being much less employed in daily use in general than the right hand.
Even twenty years ago, few of the studies had ever been recorded; it was rare indeed to find a pianist etuddes enough to include any in concert. Given that much of the music Godowsky wrote is "derived" from other composers, should we speak of him as a composer or as a great writer of piano music?
Uniquely available on 2CDs, this will surely be the benchmark recording for all time. As such, ggodowsky has been a shortage of recordings and performances of Godowsky's music. Godowsky used the opening 8 measures of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony as the theme, composed 44 variations based on it, of course, heaping difficulty upon difficulty on succeeding variations and concluded the work with a cadenza and a fugue.
The left hand takes some perilous leaps to delineate its two voices, especially near the end. Please use the dropdown buttons to set your preferred options, or use the checkbox to accept the defaults.
Isn't the left-hand part from Op. Such difficult music is probably out of reach technically for most of us, but it is nonetheless a fascinating experience exploring, listening to and appreciating the music written by one of the most unique figures in the history of the piano.
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By Norm Wood
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Virginia coach Bronco Mendenhall, shown directing a practice, doesn't want anybody else to travel and then not get to play. COURTESY OF U.VA. ATHLETICS (University of Virginia Athletics)
Sitting by the pool Saturday in Tallahassee, Florida, wasn't so bad for Virginia linebacker Zane Zandier and his teammates, and there was time for a good bicep pump in the gym at the team hotel. But U.Va. probably isn't going back this season.
U.Va. coach Bronco Mendenhall made that clear Monday.
After U.Va. (4-4, 3-4 ACC) was forced to make arrangements on the fly Saturday to jet back to Charlottesville from Tallahassee when Florida State canceled its game against the Cavaliers because of coronavirus issues within the Seminoles' football program, Mendenhall doesn't have much desire to make up the game.
"I have no interest in going back to Florida State," Mendenhall said. "That opportunity was there. It's no longer there. I'm anxious to play Boston College (Saturday) and then Virginia Tech (Dec. 12), and then, hopefully, we play well enough to be considered for postseason and we go from there."
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Zandier said he and his teammates found out about 10:30 a.m. Saturday the game against FSU had been postponed. They'd arrived in Tallahassee on Friday night, and they had time to kill at the team hotel Saturday after the postponement and before their return flights to Charlottesville.
"We made light of it," Zandier said. "We try to keep a positive mindset in times like this, just because if you don't, you can get down on yourself pretty quick and it gets to be a little bit frustrating and a little bit depressing. It seems like as a team we kept a positive mindset, as disappointed as we were. We were able to come home and have the rest of our Saturday and our Sunday off to watch a little bit of football and just hang out."
Though he's certain FSU coach Mike Norvell wanted to play, Mendenhall is upset with the way FSU and some other ACC football teams carry out their coronavirus testing protocols. He sees no reason why some teams have to wait until Saturday morning to get testing results.
"There's a lot of work that could still be done regarding protocols and regarding ensuring that when you make a trip that you actually have a chance to play the game," Mendenhall said. "I have expressed those concerns and ideas to the ACC, as has (U.Va. athletic director) Carla (Williams), and we can do better is my sincere belief. ... Policies and other things prevented us from making an unnecessary trip. We waited until after 6 p.m. on Friday to ensure all of our results were back and all were negative. It doesn't seem like too much to ask for anyone that's playing in college football to have their test in and reported negative before the opponent gets on the airplane to leave."
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Review: 'Antigone's' Themes Relevant Today
By Allihies Melton
How do we measure justice?
Is it by morality, or is it by legality? As we witness police officers not being indicted for killing innocent black people, or President Trump saying NFL players should be fired for kneeling in protest during the national anthem, a sense of governmental law and a personal ethical obligation is certainly at odds.
"Antigone" is a Greek tragedy that struggles with this philosophical debate. The original "Antigone" was one of the three extant Theban plays written by Sophocles around 497 BC – 406 BC. The theatre version of this story, performed at The Clarice Oct. 6-13, was translated by Brendan Kennelly and appeared in the book "When Then is Now: Three Greek Tragedies."
Lisa Nathans, director of "Antigone" and assistant professor at the university's School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, wrote in a director's note, "This juxtaposition of right vs. wrong feels incredibly relevant to me given the current climate of our world."
The play is based on a young woman named Antigone, whose brothers were killed in battle against each other; Eteocles is hailed a hero and Polynices, a traitor. The new king, Creon rules that Polynices cannot be buried. Antigone is at odds with the law of the land and her love for her deceased brother.
The performance in the Kay Theatre was an all-sensory and outstanding show. The smell of sage satiated the entire room, as audience members were awakened to flickering lights and the reverberating beats of drums overhead. There were three different cast members for both Antigone and Creon, the Ego, Id, Superego trio. This was at first confusing, but once realizing the creative purpose of it, the technique was powerful to listen to and observe.
Antigone's Ego was played by April Monu, senior theatre performance and English double major, her Id played by Molly Boyle, junior theatre performance major, her Superego played by Karen Dolle, senior theatre performance major. Their lines were spoken independently, in a duet or conjoined as a trio. The autonomy of one speaking or them being in sync highlighted the grueling mental process it takes to make a decision — especially one between law and life or wrongdoing and death.
The heroine of the story, Antigone is in the face of death yet still does what she believes is right and buries her brother. Creon (Ego played by Ken Johnson, senior theatre performance major, Id played by Radcliffe Adler, senior theatre performance major, Superego played by Eric Jefferson, junior theatre performance major) is strong in his burial ruling and the sentencing of Antigone to death. He is unwavering until he is told by the blind prophet, Tiresias (played by Andrew Saundry, junior theatre performance double major), despite the previous outcries from his son and his people.
The Chorus of Thebes was essential to this play. Their poetic voices not only spoke the words of the people but echoed the pull between law and love. Without their beautiful songs, the play would be nothing but a quarrel between a fearless woman and a misogynistic man.
The performance ends in offstage tragedy and devastation with Antigone killing herself just before Creon comes to release her. Her death then causes the suicide of her beloved Haemon (played by Ivan Carlo, junior theatre performance major), Creon's son whom she was arranged to marry. Creon's wife, Eurydice (played by Briana Downs, senior vocal performance major), also commits suicide in the wake of her son's death, but not before cursing Creon's name.
Creon's change of heart could not prevent his ultimate despair. He is now faced with the fact that he should have listened to all the people who said Antigone should not die for her nobleness and loyalty.
As Nathans said in the director's note, "This play presents the five most basic human conflicts: between the genders, between the generations, between the individual and society, between the living and the dead, and between the mortals and the immortals."
The sexist, law-rules-all rhetoric in this performance, although based on a story created over 2,000 years ago, is still expressed today. The cast of "Antigone" artistically and whole-heartedly performed this tragedy as if this sort of storyline was abnormal to them. But as we watch news of leaders all around the world and in this country, we see that perhaps little progress had been made in regards to humankind's ego.
If only Creon had listened to the people.
Featured Photo Credit: Courtesy of Geoff Sheil.
Allie Melton is a senior journalism major and can be reached at allihiesmelton@yahoo.com.
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The historic check of Nasdaq and 10year-treasury volatility shows a range of normality for these measures. Treasury volatility seem to be "calm" around 5% and that sets somewhat of a floor. Nasdaq volatility seems to have around 10% as a floor at least in post-coldwar world from the nineties and forward. Upper level obviously harder to pinpoint. Both these series are slightly leptokurtic (fat tail distributed) with Treasuries being more leptokurtic over the 42 year period with only one big spike in volatility.
The series looks to be working in "alternating-fashion" in a way with big spikes in one being "safeguarded" by calm in the other. This being brought about by portfolio manager behaviour and central bank behaviour over different periods with different investing fashions in vogue, for example the Volcker-moves of the early eighties by Fed and risk parity investing today.
Is this a reasonable basis for a "worldvolatility"? After researching financial time series and various kinds of societal time series for 20 years my view is that it is.
The converging volatilities indicate more focus on the bond markets over the summer. The general asset volatility level is rising.
"Changes in the volatilities of different asset classes are significantly positively correlated," says Ray Dalio and it seems from the Picture above that there seems to be more than an ounce of truth in that. With a correlation of 0,96 anchoring the volatility of S&P500 and 10 year treasuries in the last 8 years, it seems quite uniformly dispersed across asset classes, at least for equity and treasuries. The absolute level of volatility is harder to explain, for example the peak in 2009. One of the main pillars of "Risk parity investing" is that the relative volatilities hold under different economic environments. (The relative volatility of S&P500 and US10Y is averaging 1,73 above, this implies an average structural duration for Equity of about 27,2 years. With the 10 year treasury having a duration of 9,1 years and volatility being proportional to the Square root of time. 9,1*1,73^2=27,2 years). Risk parity investing seems to make sense at least over this short period of time (2006-2014).Even if the absolute level of volatility is not needed in risk parity investing it is still very fascinating and might capture some societal dynamics unknown today.
While prices and economic indicators move in different directions at different times with correlations changing and decaying, the general level of movement is more easily observed and can lend itself to an "apples to apples" comparison across different domains in societal affairs.
Financial volatility, is observable, implied in optionprices or calculated from historical logarithmic returns.
After almost 200 years of advanced financial markets they might teach us something.


As more and more artists from California started to come to Tijuana, we started noticing the effects and casual relationship developed through this crossing of borders due to the growing number of artists recently engaging Mexico, specifically Tijuana. This relationship has been growing and dissipating and growing again since the late 1980's and artists likes Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Enrique Rubén Ortiz-Torres, Carmela Castrejón, Jaime Zamudio, Benjamín Serrano, Marco Ramirez ERRE, Hugo Sánchez, Silvia Gruner, Sergio de la Torre, Domingo Nuño, Julio Morales, and Gerardo Navarro1 to name a few, have responded to various notions of border and border art through divergents in aesthetics and politics. Today this relationship is still being negotiated and the resurgence of what is termed border art has only become more complex as the border is further militarized and aestheticized, and as de-colonial projects sometimes under the headline of Socially Engaged Art (SEA) gain momentum in regards to artists seeking engagement with radical practices that are so-called ethnographic and research based, or that places locality as points of departures or arrivals. Often these projects' gestures of indeterminacy have a way of disrupting specific canons and normalities, usually dominant ones. The relationships between the work made, how it's exhibited and curated, and the relationships linking artists on both sides of the border are not mutually exclusive and must be unpacked through thieving- idea thieving- as Guattari puts it, "borrowing second hand concepts", including ethnography, sociology, "mirrored cosmology", and political theory. For us as westerners, having privileged access to Tijuana and not vice-versa, making work about Tijuana as subject cannot be rendered transparent. Like most SEA projects, these need time to develop. This relationship between LA and TJ (one of many border relationships) shows us alternative histories, as well as methods of exhibition: making and curating. While in Tijuana, we started thinking of its relationship to Los Angeles, and how exhibitions made in Tijuana provide a counter-point, like blowing something up forever leaving a stain on the cement at bottom right corner of the gallery space at Otras Obras, or using the space to hold unmoderated political AA meetings.
We started thinking of how to use the gallery as a place of "contestation", how to disrupt aesthetic norms; "the imaginative flight of a whole era." We thought of how institutions opt to keep "all options permanently open", models of "total reversibility" at the dictates of the art world; mimetic trends, be- cause the shareholders, in this case the trustees, impose their wills unilaterally, a will which "no longer feels restrained by anything." So in Tijuana, we tried to consider the context as much as possible, half-temporary TAZ maybe. This is why the idea of border art resurged and why some artists from Tijuana were confused as to why outsiders were so interested in this context, in the relationship, a relationship that is now becoming more exciting as more artwork is being produced about the region and as more artists from Los Angeles and others places in California are going to Mexico to better understand their/our own context, and placing it in a discourse of alternatives to metropolises. The sign for Sábado, a benefit event for Otras Obras was written in the same way that ads are written on the border or in many places in Tijuana, in black spray paint over a white cloth, signs that just say disponible and have a cell phone number. It's not about changing a paradigm there. The signage, instead of creating something conceptually new and critical, adding more "objects" to the world, just simply re-purposed an already existing but uncelebrated way of advertising. It reminds us of mapping; of walking around a city and paying attention to specific events that translate how aesthetics are managed on the border, a détournement of sorts. Just like the Sábado sign, the sign for James Benning and Edgardo Aragón's show at Otras Obras was written by finger with white acrylic on a black garbage bag. Very few people liked the sign except for James Benning, he took it home with him.
In terms of desiring something else it might be helpful to use Lordon's idea on the neo-liberal "epithumogenesis" project project detailed in Willing Slaves of Capital: Spinoza and Marx on Desire. An epithume is described as a way of saying that objective structures extend into subjective structures. This notion of inter-existence discerns the various ways in which capital does not capture "the variety of desires that exist within contemporary societies, but it captures the larger part that is common to them," expanding into areas of desire which one does not need nor want, eventually leading to normalized versions of difference in concepts, and finally coinciding with an amalgam of a projected boss figure, in reality dominated from the top down by shareholders, some stocks, and a virtual currency to regulate your unfreedom. Lordon explains that through associations, capital makes us desire our own encapsulation inside cemented social relations, forever hoping to climb a greased ladder. This epithume does not stop at merely situating employees into the "master-desire" narrative but that it also does not stop at simply making you work towards the accumulation of money for survival, nor does it stop at nurturing your "compulsion to buy." This capitalist project wishes to create an annex for an "epithumogenesis" school, then it figures out a way to create subsidiaries that have the infrastructure to normalize these desires into compartments, history textbooks, phrases, proverbs, memes; professionally manned by Twitter bots, it tries to shoulder an "intrinsic joyful affect" instead of something exterior like the active joy of consuming. Its path towards you and then you to it is the medium of intransitivity. Lordon concludes that this change of the self into happy worker happens because "it is the activity itself that must be reconstructed, both objectively and in the imagination, as a source of immediate joy." There have been plenty of times where a lot of us, waging away, have re-constructed the concept of capital as one that causes immediate sadness and not joy, one that causes one to off themself because slavery becomes literal and imaginary, refracted in the mind, and in the eyes; light that only looks like dark and vice versa. Lordon however, glosses over a resistant consciousness that existed before capital, what Euro- pean thought calls pre-political and traditional. Lordon states that the "neo- liberal epithumogenesis thus assumes the specific task of producing on a large scale of desires that did not previously exist, or that existed only in a minority of capitalist enclaves: desires for happy labour, or, to borrow directly from its own vocabulary, desires for 'fulfilment' and 'self-realisation' in and through work." Guha undertakes the task of providing a sketch on how bourgeois and capitalist consciousness was created in response to subaltern consciousness, a positive position, and not the other way around, a negative position- that these "traditional" peoples created their consciousness' as a response to bourgeois aesthetics. If this is the case, capital's two fold nature, that it can perpetuate its own logic, and for Lordon, that it creates new logics that did not previously exist, and capital's ability to self destruct let's say- creates paradigms based on already existing and expanding resistant forms, especially today, on the eve of the unabating struggles for class, racial, and gendered equality. Capital then creates these "large-scale" automated desires not out of things that did not previously exist , but in direct response to the insurrections and uprisings posited by marginalized groups who organized based on a political organization beyond the "territories of European political thought." The Lakotas, located now on a reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, used to wear Ghost shorts which they perceived to keep the Bluecoat's bullets away. Not only did the U.S. try to erase them as people due to their non-consent, they also tried to erase a dress code, a way of walking.


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Eleven Madison Park Receives A...
Eleven Madison Park Receives Award of Merit in ENR New York Best Projects Award
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The redesign of Eleven Madison Park allowed owners chef Daniel Humm and restaurateur Will Guidara to put their aesthetic stamp on the space, reconfiguring the restaurant so the experience is more open for guests and seamless for staff, and celebrating the landmarked building and beautiful community in which it lives. Shawmut collaborated with Allied Works Architecture, Make It Nice Hospitality Group, BuroHappold Engineering, Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design, and Jacobs Doland Beer to renovate the restaurant in just 56 days. As a result of the team's exceptional work and final product, the project received an award of merit in the renovation/restoration category from ENR New York's Best Projects award.
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Eleven Madison Park, listed by the restaurant guide World's 50 Best as among the top eateries globally, received a 9,500-sq-ft renovation to its dining room and kitchen. It happened in just 56 days thanks to intensive preconstruction and procurement processes.
The restaurant is in an occupied building and sits directly above a data center, so workers had to make sure the space had proper protection. Certain parts of the project were also sequenced during off-hours.
The final product was inspired by the neighboring Madison Square Park, reflecting the texture and pattern of foliage. Use of wood throughout gives a sense of the building's Art Deco history.
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Published on The Nation (http://www.thenation.com) Single-Payer: Good for Business
Morton Mintz | October 28, 2004
Business leaders complain endlessly that the current system of private healthcare insurance based on
employment provides fewer and fewer people with less and less quality care at higher and higher cost. Yet
Corporate America turns its back on a publicly financed system, which, by all indicators, the taxpayers
would willingly support.
Publicly financed but privately run healthcare for all--including free choice of physicians--would cost
employers far less in taxes than their costs for insurance. Universal coverage could also work magic in less
obvious ways. For example, employers would no longer have to pay for medical care under workers'
compensation, which in 2002 cost them more than $38 billion. Auto-insurance rates would fall for them--and
everyone--if the carriers were no longer liable for medical and hospital bills. You'd think that in its own
selfish interest, Corporate America would be fighting to replace the existing system with universal health
coverage. Yet it doesn't lift a finger.
Meanwhile, under the Bush Administration healthcare coverage steadily shrinks. In 2000, according to the
Census Bureau, 14 percent of Americans didn't have it; in 2003, 15.6 percent--45 million--did not. Actually,
85 million Americans under age 65 were uninsured over varying periods during 2003-04, up from 81.8
million in 2002-03, according to Families USA, the consumer health organization. As more and more
Americans become uninsured, spending on healthcare soars. By 2001 it accounted for 13.9 percent of US
gross domestic product. (It constituted a much smaller share of GDP in countries with universal healthcare,
such as Sweden, 8.7 percent; France, 9.5 percent; and Canada, 9.7 percent.) Average family premiums in
2005 are projected to be $12,485, up $1,768 from 2004. The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
Services expects healthcare outlays to rise from $1.8 trillion in 2004 to $2.7 trillion in 2010, nearly a trillion-
dollar increase in six years. The forecast reflects annual increases of 14 percent to 18 percent. David Walker,
head of the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the auditing arm of Congress, calls them
"unsustainable."
A simple fact largely explains why spending bloats while the ranks of the insured thin: Health insurance is
increasingly unaffordable. After rising 38 percent between 2000 and the last quarter of 2003, the costs of
providing healthcare to employees rose 11.2 percent between January and May of 2004, according to the
Kaiser Family Foundation's annual survey of 3,000 companies. "Close to 75 percent of 205 senior-level
executives surveyed [in May] by the Detroit Regional Chamber rank employee health insurance as
'unaffordable' and 25 percent consider it 'very unaffordable,'" the Detroit News reported. The Kaiser Family
Foundation says that from 2001 to 2004 the proportion of workers receiving health coverage on the job
dropped from 65 percent to 61 percent, a loss of 5 million jobs with health benefits.
"Double-digit increases in healthcare costs are a drag on economic growth," says Henry Simmons, president
of the National Coalition on Health Care, an alliance of groups working for healthcare reform. They "slow
the rate of job growth," "suppress wage increases for current workers," "undercut the viability of pension
funds," "put American firms at a steep disadvantage in world markets" and produce "severe long-term
budgetary problems" for the federal and state governments.
Reprinted with permission from The Nation Two unrelated but mutually reinforcing reports coming out on a single day, August 19, validate the economic-drag theory. First was a study that found a "relationship between job growth and health-care costs" in eighteen industries between 2000 and 2003. It was done for the Kerry campaign by Sarah Reber, assistant professor of policy studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Laura Tyson, dean of the London Business School and former head of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers and National Economic Council. The evidence, the authors write, "suggests that employers have reduced hiring in response to rising health insurance premiums," and that rising premiums have led to a deterioration in the quality of jobs. In industries where health-insurance benefits accounted for a comparatively large share of total employee compensation, job growth was slower than in industries where they accounted for a smaller one. Thus, in the accommodation and food services industry, "benefits constituted about 12 percent of total compensation for workers.and jobs grew.by about 2.5 percent. In manufacturing.the benefits share was 18.5 percent and job losses topped 18 percent." [Emphasis in original.] This picture was reinforced by a New York Times article based on "government data, industry surveys and interviews with employers big and small." It said: A relentless rise in the cost of employee health insurance has become a significant factor in the employment slump, as the labor market adds only a trickle of new jobs each month despite nearly three years of uninterrupted economic growth. employers big and small.remain reluctant to hire full-time employees because health insurance, which now costs the nation's employers an average of about $3,000 a year for each worker, has become one of the fastest-growing costs. Health premiums are sapping corporate balance sheets even more than the rising cost of energy. Reacting to rising expenditures on insurance, corporate managements cut back on employee health benefits, triggering worker unrest. Consider the five-month strike against supermarket chains in Southern California--the longest in the industry's history. It left about 60,000 union workers jobless, and it seriously hurt the owners as well. The central issue--in a state where half of all personal bankruptcies are related to medical bills--was the demand by Safeway, Kroger and Albertsons that members of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union pay much more for health benefits. The settlement, reached last February, sent a grim message to grocery workers everywhere. The strike "would not have occurred if we had a system of universal healthcare coverage," Greg Denier, assistant to the international president of the UFCW, told me. "All of our strikes in the past decade have occurred because of the absence of universal healthcare." Moreover, universal health coverage would have narrowed the wide gap in operating costs between the unionized chains and nonunion competitors, particularly 800-pound gorilla Wal-Mart. Unlike the chains, the world's biggest retailer charges so much for miserly health insurance that more than 60 percent of its poorly paid employees (averaging $8 an hour) don't buy it. Denier saw the strike as a symptom of "the slow-motion collapse of the employment-based healthcare system." Lawyer Harry Burton represented Safeway and Giant Food in subsequent negotiations with the UFCW in the Washington, DC, region. Speaking "as an individual," he essentially agreed with Denier. Universal health insurance would have "a profound effect" not just on the supermarket industry but "on nearly all collective bargaining," he told me. Nonunion companies "virtually never" provide healthcare of the same quality as that provided by unionized competitors, thus creating "a vast disparity in costs." That's why a tax-supported national system would result in "a leveling of the playing field." I asked Burton what explains the resistance or indifference of employers to universal health insurance. "Very frequently it's ideology," he replied. Business leaders worship marketplace ideology "almost like religion," says Raymond Werntz, who for nearly thirty years ran healthcare programs for Whitman Corporation, a Chicago-based multinational holding company. "It's emotional." In 1999 Werntz became the first president of the Consumer Health Education Reprinted with permission from The Nation Council in Washington, a program of the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan group. He saw it as his mission to try to persuade employers to face the "huge, huge" issue of the uninsured because, he told me, "business has to be involved with the solution." The problem that emerged was its "unwillingness to even think about a solution." Last year, after funding ran out, a disappointed Werntz became the council's last and only president. Publicly financed universal health insurance comes in different forms. For Americans, however, none should hold more interest than single-payer. It's "one and the same thing" as Medicare for everybody, Werntz told me. Does the Corporate America that's happy with Medicare understand this? I asked. "It's a dialogue that hasn't happened yet," he replied. "My life for four years was trying to get business people in a room with single-payer people. I couldn't do it." CEOs of large corporations see it as something "that smacks of socialism," Werntz said, and therefore as "heresy." Somehow, they don't see Medicare as heresy. Yet it's largely why the tax-financed share of US health spending is "the highest in the world," according to Drs. Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein, associate professors at Harvard Medical School and founders of Physicians for a National Health Program. Writing in the July/August 2002 issue of Health Affairs, they put the share at 59.8 percent. No wonder: Federal tax revenues pay for Medicare, Medicaid and the medical-care systems for the military, the Veterans Administration, federal employees and Congress; income-, sales- and property-tax revenues buy coverage for state and local public employees. Taxation also hugely subsidizes health insurance while benefiting mostly "the affluent," the authors noted. In 1991 the GAO made a stark finding regarding single-payer's benefits: "If the universal coverage and single-payer features of the Canadian system [had been] applied in the United States" in that year, "the savings in administrative costs"--$66.9 billion--"would have been more than enough to finance insurance coverage for the millions of Americans who are currently uninsured," the GAO said in a report. The $3 billion left over "would be enough.to permit a reduction, or possibly even the elimination, of copayments and deductibles." Early this year, a comprehensive study published in the International Journal of Health Services reached this stunning conclusion: "The United States wastes more on health-care bureaucracy than it would cost to provide health care to all its uninsured." The authors, Woolhandler, Himmelstein and Dr. Sidney Wolfe, director of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, went on to write: "Administrative expenses will consume at least $399.4 billion of a total health expenditure of $1,660.5 billion in 2003. Streamlining administrative overhead to Canadian levels would save approximately $286 billion in 2002, $6,940 for each of the 41.2 million Americans who were uninsured as of 2001. This is substantially more than would be needed to provide full insurance coverage." Canada has had a single-payer system for more than thirty years. (Australia, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden and Taiwan also have one.) American executives who have run Canadian subsidiaries see it as a business boon. Take General Motors. In 2003 its costs of building a midsize car in Canada were $1,400 less than building the identical car in the United States (the comparable figures for DaimlerChrysler and Ford were $1,300 and $1,200). Such savings are no mystery. Canadian companies pay far less in taxes for health coverage for everyone than the premiums they would pay under the US system to provide their employees with comparable benefits. Highly placed Canadian business executives affirm that single-payer nurtures free enterprise. A. Charles Baillie, while chairman and CEO of Toronto Dominion Bank, one of Canada's six largest, hailed it in 1999 as "an economic asset, not a burden." He told the Vancouver Board of Trade, "In an era of globalization, we need every competitive and comparative advantage we have. And the fundamentals of our health care system Reprinted with permission from The Nation are one of those advantages." He added: "The fact is, the free market.cannot work in the context of universal health care. While health care could be purchased like any other form of insurance.the risk and resource equation will always be such that, in some cases, demand will not be matched by supply. In other words, some people will always be left out." (A recent report by the World Bank ranked welfare states like Denmark, Finland and Sweden high in international competitiveness. An author of the study said, "Social protection is good for business, it takes the burden off of businesses for health care costs.") In 2002, top executives of the Big Three automakers' Canadian units joined Basil (Buzz) Hargrove, president of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union, in signing a "Joint Letter on Publicly Funded Health Care." At a press conference with Hargrove, Michael Grimaldi, president and general manager of GM Canada and a GM vice president, called single-payer "a strategic advantage for Canada." The joint letter, also signed by Ford's and DaimlerChrysler's presidents and CEOs, Alain Batty and Ed Brust, said that while providing "essential and affordable healthcare services for all," single-payer "significantly reduces total labour costs.compared to the cost of equivalent private insurance services purchased by US-based automakers" and "has been an important ingredient" in the success of Canada's "most important export industry." The Toronto Star explained how the CAW used "credible corporate data" to quantify "the competitive advantage that [single-payer] provides to the Canadian auto industry. The union compared the hourly labour costs of vehicle assembly in Canada and the United States. The Canadian rate, including wages, benefits and payroll taxes, was $29.90 per hour. The American rate was $45.60. (All figures are in US dollars.) Healthcare accounted for more than a quarter of the difference. It saved Canadian employers $4 per hour per worker." Monthly health-coverage costs for Canadian employers average about $50, mostly for items such as eyeglasses and orthopedic shoes; health-insurance costs for US employers average $552, the Washington Post has reported. "The rising cost of health benefits is the biggest issue on our plate that we can't solve," Ford CEO William Clay Ford told a 2003 conference of Michigan business executives. "Healthcare is out of control--it's a system that's broken." Last year the company spent $3.2 billion on healthcare for 560,000 employees and their dependents and surviving spouses, or more than six times net profits of $495 million. William Ford urged a national solution and assigned vice chairman Allan Gilmour to craft a proposal. Early this year Gilmour told fellow industry executives that high healthcare costs have "created a competitive gap that's driving investment decisions away from the US." He told a subsequent investment conference, "We're going to have to have a national solution," only to add, "That national solution does not mean, necessarily, national healthcare." Why not? He didn't say. After Jack Smith, president and general manager of GM Canada, became president and CEO of the parent company, an ad in the New York Times placed by single-payer advocates in 1994 quoted him as saying, "I personally favor single-payer." Now, however, GM "does not support" it, spokesperson Doris Powers told me. Because? "Much has changed in health care since Smith.made statements about universal, single-payer healthcare." What's changed? She didn't say. A General Motors that hugs single-payer in Canada would seem to have compelling reasons to hug it here. GM covers healthcare costs for 1.1 million Americans. Last year's bill was $4.8 billion--$1 billion more than earnings. In its third-quarter report the company reduced its 2004 earnings forecast because rising US healthcare costs were hurting profits. GM's projected costs for providing healthcare benefits to current and future retirees is $63 billion, a burden immensely heavier than is carried by competitors based in universal-coverage countries, the New York Times reported in September. Yet, as the Detroit Free Press has noted, GM "has set aside less than $10 billion for that obligation." In 2001 GM was reeling from a prescription-drug bill up to 22 percent above 2000's $1.1 billion. "Prescription drugs are the fastest-growing part of GM's health-care costs, accounting for more than 25 percent of its total medical spending last year," Newsweek reported. GM was "seeing red" because in 2000 it Reprinted with permission from The Nation had spent $52 million just for Prilosec, a brand-name ulcer medicine. "That is millions more than GM executives believe they should have spent," the magazine said. "They blame much of the extra cost on savvy marketing by Prilosec's maker AstraZeneca." GM is fighting back with an "aggressive plan to curb drug spending," Newsweek continued. "Point man" James Cubbin "has been taking his case to senior executives at some of the nation's largest drug makers, including AstraZeneca." But Newsweek--and Powers--missed an embarrassing part of the story. AstraZeneca chairman Percy Barnevik joined GM's board in 1996, while Smith was GM's chairman. Pfizer executive vice president Karen Katen followed in 1997, and the noses of both of these price-gouging drug companies are still in GM's tent. Surprise: The pharmaceutical houses "aren't backing down," Newsweek said. Rather than going hat in hand to pharmaceutical executives, Canada uses single-payer's price controls to cap drug prices. In two other universal-coverage countries, Australia and New Zealand, pharmacies charge 20 percent to 30 percent less than in Canada, the Wall Street Journal reported in July. Unlike GM and Ford, DaimlerChrysler supports single-payer. "A lot of people think a single-payer system is better," vice president Thomas Hadrych told the Washington Post. Since 1990 Chrysler--and DaimlerChrysler after the merger--has regularly endorsed it, in a letter appended to its contracts with the United Automobile Workers. No matter how urgently needed, no matter how common-sensical, no matter how much bottom lines would be fattened, single-payer or other fundamental healthcare reforms stall unless backed by the business organizations that govern the government. The Clinton Administration learned this to its sorrow after proposing its complex, comprehensive plan. Business organizations "effectively killed the bill," Walter Maher, former vice president for public policy of DaimlerChrysler, wrote last year in the American Journal of Public Health. The bill aroused formidable opposition from businesses such as fast-food chains like McDonald's. It mostly hired young people, worked them less than full time, paid them little and provided scant if any health coverage. Of the PepsiCo chains' hourly employees, a survey indicated, 71 percent were covered by someone else's health insurance. If that someone was a parent employed by, say, an automaker facing global competition, the manufacturer was effectively subsidizing chains that had no such competition. Free-riding defeated a primary goal of the bill, which was to spread healthcare costs throughout the economy by letting no employers escape paying their fair share. The bill received a big boost when the US Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) let pragmatism trump ideology and endorsed it. And the mighty Business Roundtable (BRT), an association of 150 CEOs of the country's biggest corporations, with multitrillion-dollar revenues, was "at least prepared not to oppose" the mandate, Maher said in the article. But insurers and other businesses that profited from preserving the healthcare status quo exerted fierce counterpressures. The Chamber "suddenly reversed course and totally rejected the Clinton Plan," Maher wrote. The NAM abruptly withdrew its endorsement six weeks after granting it. At the BRT several politically powerful members, including the CEOs of eight major and a few lesser pharmaceutical manufacturers, and of a dozen insurers and healthcare providers, opposed the bill. It got only a single vote--Chrysler's, Maher told me. "It's definitely fair to say that CEOs are very reluctant to take unpopular positions against their colleagues in the BRT," he added. "If a huge majority of them are staunch conservatives who have no interest in health reform, or in using the government to control costs, or to expand coverage, or even to moderate health costs using regulatory tools, it'll be a rare CEO who will want to take on his CEO buddies. That's absolutely true." Today, BRT executive director Patricia Hanahan Engman contends that "public financing cannot provide the same level of quality doctors, hospitals and prescription drugs generated by the competition inherent in the Reprinted with permission from The Nation private market." She should tell that to GM president and CEO G. Richard Wagoner Jr. Judged by sixteen top health indicators, he said in June, the United States ranks twelfth among thirteen industrialized countries. "It will be a cold day in hell when the BRT leads the charge for universal health coverage in the United States," Maher told me. If the Democrats win the White House and take control of Congress, John Kerry could pass his employer-based healthcare plan, which calls for expanding coverage to nearly 95 percent of Americans, including all children, and for a federal insurance pool that would pay 75 percent of "catastrophic" illness bills. 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Advocating universal health coverage while the GOP controls the White House and Congress would be "tilting at windmills," DaimlerChrysler's Dennis Fitzgibbons told me. Maher said any industry subject to government regulation "has got to be concerned about irritating the regulator," meaning the Bush Administration. A single-payer reform proposal, by seeking to eliminate the insurance industry, he warned in his article, would make it and many other businesses "instant and unnecessary opponents." He recommends other forms of tax-financed universal health coverage that would use the industry. An example would be a system in which employer/employee payroll taxes would finance coverage for the working population, with employees offered several choices of health plans, as the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan does. A Medicare equivalent would provide for the elderly and nonworking population. "I don't believe [single-payer] will be achievable in my lifetime," says Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA. Ideologues "will never support it." Industries heavily invested in the present system "will spend every last dollar to stop it." He recognizes that on "a blank slate," employer-based coverage "absolutely" makes no sense. But "in terms of political feasibility," trying to dismantle the present system would make matters "much worse," he told me. "The most important thing is the achievement of affordable, high-quality health coverage for everybody." To him, the crucial question is: "At what point are we willing to say that there's a higher principle in truly moving toward universal coverage than in knocking our heads against a stone wall, in absolute frustration about a methodology [single-payer] that is not going to be achievable in our lifetime?" Surely in a Republican Washington the prospects for publicly financed universal health insurance are remote. 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* 23 Dec: CoE Ecofin: EoP Re: Trump Tax Cut Breaks WTO 'Sustainable Development Fraud' Trade Rules.
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EoP Re: Trump Tax Cut Breaks WTO 'Sustainable Development Fraud' Trade Rules.
Last week, the finance ministers of Europe's five biggest economies — Germany, France, the UK, Spain and Italy — wrote an anxious letter to their American colleague, US Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin, and copied it to all senior Republican politicians in the Congress and Senate. The letter's thrust: The draft US tax bill, if passed as written a week ago, would represent a break with global fair-taxation rules as applied to corporations, and represent a thinly disguised form of trade war.
[..] Excise tax: First, the House bill proposed a new "excise tax" of 20 percent, levied on payments made when an American company buys goods or services from a foreign subsidiary or "affiliate" — unless the subsidiary elects to treat the payments as income in the US.
The European finance ministers argued that this measure would break WTO rules because it levies a tax only on foreign goods and services, not on the equivalent domestically produced goods and services. They said it also amounts to "double taxation," because it would effectively tax the profits of non-US-resident companies — after they already paid taxes on those same profits in their home countries.
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I'd say ecological/economic collapse has already begun, the question is can we find sufficient military / legal / religious / political 'III percenter' support in the '1%' elite; to implement EoP Scientific and Cultural Law [eop-scicultlaw.tygae.org.za] as international law, to enable orderly and humane de-industrialization and depopulation; before the collapse chaos makes implementing it impossible. I imagine: If there is sufficient support in the 1% elite; then I don't see why it would not be as easy, if not easier to globally implement than China implementing their one child policy.
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Q: Maven build microservice with lib in another repository we have spring microservices in separated git repositories. These microservices use shared library, which is separated repository as well. This library is used as artifact in dependencies in pom.
Can you tell me how to configure jenkins to build any microservice with that library as first? This library should be build as prerequisite of build of any microservice but I don't know how to manage it.
Should we handle it in maven or in jenkins? Thank you in advice.

A: I assume that your are using jenkins pipelines for your CI/CD. So in any case you have to create two jenkins pipelines 1st to build your library, 2nd one to build your microservice.
The way I would do it:
1) Commit code to library
2) Library build was triggered and new artifact version was generated.
3) Copy version of generated lib artifact
4) Change pom file in service and commit.
5) Micro service is getting built using new lib version.
This approach is not fully automated, but is pretty straightforward. Since you change your library rarely it's perfectly fine to set lib version manually.
The way I would try to automate it and problems we need to solve:

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*Run lib build before service build.
We will trigger lib build for each commit to lib git repo. So you don't have to build it again.

*Get library triggered build version and update microservice pom file with new version
During lib build you can append lib version number to jenkins build info( e.g. build displayed name). And then pull this info during microservice build. Once you have the number you can update your pom file and start build.
Only one advantage that I see is that you are not required to set lib version manually. It will be pulled from lib jobs results.
Disadvantages:

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*complicated build

*no control over build version update ( it will pull latest version all the time, unless you will create some mechanism to decide whether you want to retain existing lib version -> more complicated build)

*problems with local build, since version that is in GIT and actual version of jar are different ( since you update it on the fly during jenkins job, unless you will commit version update changes right from jenkins -> complicted build).

A: If you use a SNAPSHOT version of your common library during development phase, you don't need to keep updating the microservice pom with the common library version for every change in the library. Maven can retrieve the latest version of the SNAPSHOT based on timestamp everytime from the remote repository (e.g -U command line option, or once per day by default). While creating a release branch, remove SNAPSHOT and update microservice pom with the release version of the common library.

A: (Does not directly answer the question as much as provides guidance)
You really need to be treating each of the components you mentioned as its own independent artifact with its own lifecycle. That includes the shared library.
Maven and Jenkins each manage the build process at separate levels. Both act to ensure integrity and consistency in the build process.
Build your shared library in Jenkins, as a maven artifact, with a pom and version, smae as your microervices. You can develop as SNAPSHOT, but you need to deploy that to an artifact repository (Artifactory, Nexus 3, or 2 (if just maven), etc.), ultimately with a solid release version (semantic versioning, not SNAPSHOT). You can do all that in a pipeline, too, the final target being the release to the artifact repo, not PRod.
Each of your microservices should be consuming a known version (solid ver. #) of the library, in the same way you consume any other third-party library.
Develop, test and release (to your artifact repository) the shared library you built. Then you increment the explicit dependency in your microservices.
Have all your builds in Jenkins. It's up to you have much you want to automate using the maven-release-plugin, Nexus 3 webhooks, and Jenkins pipelines. etc.
It's unlikely you'd rebuild and redeploy all your microservices simultaneously on every release of a new shared library - sounds a too monolithic. If you don't have explicit versions of the shared library in your deployed artifacts, especially production, you will set yourself a spider's web quagmire and you update the microservices.
You could set up a new job that is triggered on the release of an incremented shared library, prepares all the consumers as SNAPSHOT, bumps up the reference dependency, commits that to the various git repos and that in turn triggers a new pipeline execution to build the microservices. It all depends how complex and big your system is, how often you update and release and the tools and resources at your disposal. YMMV.

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