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A Study Guide for August Wilson s The Piano Lesson
Release on 2015-09-24 | by Gale, Cengage Learning
Category: Literary Criticism
The Piano Lesson
Release on 2019-08-06 | by August Wilson
In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Piano Lesson, Wilson has fashioned perhaps his most haunting and dramatic work.
Author: August Wilson
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, this modern American classic is about family, and the legacy of slavery in America. August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences. In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Piano Lesson, Wilson has fashioned perhaps his most haunting and dramatic work. At the heart of the play stands the ornately carved upright piano which, as the Charles family's prized, hard-won possession, has been gathering dust in the parlor of Berniece Charles's Pittsburgh home. When Boy Willie, Berniece's exuberant brother, bursts into her life with his dream of buying the same Mississippi land that his family had worked as slaves, he plans to sell their antique piano for the hard cash he needs to stake his future. But Berniece refuses to sell, clinging to the piano as a reminder of the history that is their family legacy. This dilemma is the real "piano lesson," reminding us that blacks are often deprived both of the symbols of their past and of opportunity in the present.
August Wilson s the Piano Lesson
"It is 1936 and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell.
Publisher: Samuel French, Incorporated
Winner! 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Winner! 1990 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding New Play Nominee! 1990 Tony Award, Best Play Nominee! 2013 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Revival of a Play Nominee! 2013 Drama League Award, Outstanding Revival of a Play It is 1936 and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he has to come up with the money right quick. He wants to sell an old piano that has been in his family for generations, but he shares ownership with his sister and it sits in her living room. She has already rejected several offers because the antique piano is covered with incredible carvings detailing the family's rise from slavery. Boy Willie tries to persuade his stubborn sister that the past is past, but she is more formidable than he anticipated.
The Piano Lesson August Wilson
Release on 2005 | by Diane Makar Murphy
This unit is a Teacher manual for the title novel. It contains 10 lessons and 22 reproducible, student handouts.
Author: Diane Makar Murphy
Category: Study Aids
The Piano Lesson and Joe Turner s Come and Gone
Release on 1997 | by August Wilson
Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.
Category: African Americans
Release on 2009 | by Harold Bloom
A research and study guide to four plays by August Wilson includes plot summaries, lists of characters, and critical views.
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction
Handbill for The Piano Lesson by August Wilson Produced by the Black Spectrum Theatre Company at the National Black Theater Festival Wake Forest Proscenium Stage 1 Winston Salem NC August 8 9 2003
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ISBN: OCLC:1178587637
Understanding August Wilson
Release on 1999 | by Mary L. Bogumil
CHAPTER FIVE The Piano Lesson In the fashion of Greek epics in which
warriors anticipate the onslaught of their rivals in battle , Wilson ' s The Piano
Lesson begins at dawn . Boy Willie Charles encroaches upon his sister Berniece
' s ...
Author: Mary L. Bogumil
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
In this critical study Mary L. Bogumil argues that Wilson gives voice to disfranchised and marginalized African Americans who have been promised a place and a stake in the American dream but find access to the rights and freedoms promised to all Americans difficult. The author maintains that Wilson not only portrays African Americans and the predicaments of American life but also sheds light on the atavistic connection African Americans have to their African ancestors.
August Wilson and the African American Odyssey
Release on 1995 | by Kim Pereira
In this critical study of four plays by Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson-- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and The Piano Lesson--Pereira show how Wilson uses the themes of separation, migration, and reunion ...
Author: Kim Pereira
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
In this critical study of four plays by Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson-- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and The Piano Lesson--Pereira show how Wilson uses the themes of separation, migration, and reunion to depict the physical and psychological journeys of African Americans in the 20th century.
May All Your Fences Have Gates
Release on 1993-11-01 | by Alan Nadel
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a New York Times interview coinciding with the Broadway opening of The Piano
Lesson, August Wilson described how Romare Bearden's painting Piano ...
Author: Alan Nadel
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
This stimulating collection of essays, the first comprehensive critical examination of the work of two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, deals individually with his five major plays and also addresses issues crucial to Wilson's canon: the role of history, the relationship of African ritual to African American drama, gender relations in the African American community, music and cultural identity, the influence of Romare Bearden's collages, and the politics of drama. The collection includes essays by virtually all the scholars who have currently published on Wilson along with many established and newer scholars of drama and/or African American literature.
Release on 2015-03-10 | by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
60–6¡. The Piano Lesson. New York: Plume, ¡990. Seven Guitars. New York:
Dutton, ¡996. Testimonies. Antaeus, No. 66, Spring ¡99¡. "Theme One: The
Variations," in The Poetry of Black America: Anthology of the Twentieth Century.
New York: ...
Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher: McFarland
Award-winning African-American playwright August Wilson created a cultural chronicle of black America through such works as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Piano Lesson, and Two Trains Running. The authentic ring of wit, anecdote, homily, and plaint proved that a self-educated Pittsburgh ghetto native can grow into a revered conduit for a century of black achievement. He forced readers and audiences to examine the despair generated by poverty and racism by exploring African-American heritage and experiences over the course of the twentieth century. This literary companion provides the reader with a source of basic data and analysis of characters, dates, events, allusions, staging strategies and themes from the work of one of America's finest playwrights. The text opens with an annotated chronology of Wilson's life and works, followed by his family tree. Each of the 166 encyclopedic entries that make up the body of the work combines insights from a variety of sources along with generous citations; each concludes with a selected bibliography on such relevant subjects as the blues, Malcolm X, irony, roosters, and Gothic mode. Charts elucidate the genealogies of Wilson's characters, the Charles, Hedley, and Maxson families, and account for weaknesses in Wilson's female characters. Two appendices complete the generously cross-referenced work: a timeline of events in Wilson's life and those of his characters, and a list of 40 topics for projects, composition, and oral analysis.
Approaches to Teaching the Plays of August Wilson
Release on 2016-06-01 | by Sandra G. Shannon
In part 1 of this volume, "Materials,†the editors survey sources on Wilson's biography, teachable texts of Wilson's plays, useful secondary readings, and compelling audiovisual and Web resources.
Author: Sandra G. Shannon
Publisher: Modern Language Association
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
The award-winning playwright August Wilson used drama as a medium to write a history of twentieth-century America through the perspectives of its black citizenry. In the plays of his Pittsburgh Cycle, including the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning Fences and The Piano Lesson, Wilson mixes African spirituality with the realism of the American theater and puts African American storytelling and performance practices in dialogue with canonical writers like Aristotle and Shakespeare. As they portray black Americans living through migration, industrialization, and war, Wilson's plays explore the relation between a unified black consciousness and America's collective identity. In part 1 of this volume, "Materials,†the editors survey sources on Wilson's biography, teachable texts of Wilson's plays, useful secondary readings, and compelling audiovisual and Web resources. The essays in part 2, "Approaches,†look at a diverse set of issues in Wilson's work, including the importance of blues and jazz, intertextual connections to other playwrights, race in performance, Yoruban spirituality, and the role of women in the plays.
Conversations with August Wilson
An Interview with August Wilson Bonnie Lyons / 1997 From Contemporary
Literature , 40 ( Spring 1999 ) , 1 - 21 . ... 1920s , The Piano Lesson ( 1990 ) for
the 1930s , Seven Guitars ( 1996 ) for the 204 1940s , Fences ( 1986 ) for the
1950s , An ...
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Collects a selection of the many interviews Wilson gave from 1984 to 2004. In the interviews, the playwright covers at length and in detail his plays and his background. He comments as well on such subjects as the differences between African Americans and whites, his call for more black theater companies, and his belief that African Americans made a mistake in assimilating themselves into the white mainstream. He also talks about his major influences, what he calls his "four B's"-- the blues, writers James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka, and painter Romare Bearden. Wilson also discusses his writing process and his multiple collaborations with director Lloyd Richards--Publisher description.
The Image of Man in Selected Plays of August Wilson
Release on 2012-11-01 | by Shamal Abu-Baker Hussein
asflhou CHAPTER THREE 31%?" Section One 1.1 The Piano Lesson he Piano
Lesson takes its title from one of Romare Bearden's I paintings. The play is set in
1936 in a family living room. To Wilson, the play's theme is "What do you do with
Author: Shamal Abu-Baker Hussein
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Wilson's approach can be seen as a communal romanticism, dealing with ordinary people, language, and problems, giving the priority to the feeling and human dignity over logic, power and money, putting freedom and equity as a pivotal concern, almost presenting women and children as victims, and highlighting the importance of heritage, identity, and culture. As his self-revision message, all those three plays demonstrate scenes of black self-review, showing the blacks' part of responsibility in the situation they live in. It is a project of self-rehabilitation for the blacks. Since American society is a multicultural spectrum, there is not any certain legibly ascribed American identity. That is why Wilson does not submit to the claims of the dominant cultural trend by some white critics like Brustein. Wilson confidently presents the blacks' identity typified with self-fulfilment and contribution to the American culture, as his alternative contributory image of man against the white dominant models, or the violent black ones.
Release on 2008-08-11 | by Andreas Fingas
Communicative memory and conversational remembering in August Wilson's '
The Piano Lesson' Andreas Fingas. 1. Introduction History is an issue of great
meaning within the works of August Wilson. In this paper shall be analysed
through ...
Author: Andreas Fingas
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Bamberg, course: African American Drama, 8 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: History is an issue of great meaning within the works of August Wilson. In this paper shall be analysed through which channels and with which methods the author transports not only the history of a family, but also the history of slavery interwoven with the experiences of the characters and their ancestors in the award winning novel The Piano Lesson. In this process of analysis we will find, that Wilson proposes a concept of memory that can be summed up with the term "kommunikatives Gedächtnis" which was coined by Jan and Aleida Assmann and further developed by Harald Welzer. For better understanding the term "communicative memory" will be used instead. In his play Wilson uses the method of storytelling. Through this we can see how the characters within the play communicate with each other and on one level transport communicative memory. But on the other level the reader becomes a silent listener participating in these conversations and in this role is able to read historical elements from the subtext of the stories told. In the last chapter August Wilson's way of communicating memory will be compared to Toni Morrison's approach in Site of Memory. What the reader finds in the first lines of the play is a short description of the setting. This short text tells about the Charles' house and the people who live in it. Most of the description however is concerned with the piano. "What time or period is the setting for The Piano Lesson? That was the first question asked by the late great Chinese actor and director Ying Roucheng after he read the play in 1991." His confusion concerning the time in which the action of the play is set can be understood easily, because nothing in the secondary text informs the reader about the temporal conditions of the play. It is necessary to take a closer look at the primary text to find the hints Wilson gives to define the temporal situation. The most prominent of those hints can be found in Doaker's story about the piano when he says, that his older brother Boy Charles "would have been fifty-seven if he had lived. He died in 1911 when he was thirty-one years old." Subsequently the reader has to do the math. Knowing this, the play must take place in the year 1936 or 1937.
American Drama in the Age of Film
Release on 2007-06-28 | by Zander Brietzke
—August Wilson, Jitney The Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of August
Wilson's The Piano Lesson (1995) represents a much more typical television
adaptation of a play than either of the taped performances of True West, which
took place ...
Author: Zander Brietzke
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
"American Drama in the Age of Film" examines the strengths and weaknesses of both the dramatic and cinematic arts to confront the standard arguments in the film-versus-theater debate.
Drama comedy Awards 1917 1996
Release on 1998 | by Heinz Dietrich Fischer
1990 AWARD ABOUT THE PLAY THE PIANO LESSON BY AUGUST WILSON
August Wilson ( born on April 27 , 1945 , in Pittsburgh , Pa . ) began to discover
his interest in literature at about the age of twelve . He spent most of his time at
Author: Heinz Dietrich Fischer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Category: American drama
The School of Journalism at Columbia University has awarded the Pulitzer Prize since 1917. Nowadays there are prizes in 21 categories from the fields of journalism, literature and music. The Pulitzer Prize Archive presentsthe history of this award from its beginnings to the present: In parts A toE the awarding oftheprize in each category is documented, commented and arranged chronologically. Part F covers the history of the prize biographically and bibliographically. Part G provides the background to thedecisions.
August Wilson s Fences
Release on 2013-06-06 | by Ladrica Menson-Furr
Most importantly, Awkward's position illustrates Wilson's ability, through his work
and his words, to raise important questions concerningthe true stateof ... In 1995,
Wilson's The Piano Lesson was presented onCBS'sHallmark Hallof Fame.
Author: Ladrica Menson-Furr
Category: Performing Arts
Fences represents the decade of the 1950s, and, when it premiered in 1985, it won the Pulitzer Prize. Set during the beginnings of the civil rights movement, it also concerns generational change and renewal, ending with a celebration of the life of its protagonist, even though it takes place at his funeral. Critics and scholars have lauded August Wilson's work for its universality and its ability, especially in Fences, to transcend racial barriers and this play helped to earn him the titles of "America's greatest playwright" and "the African American Shakespeare."
This is a modern classic, a book that deals with the impossibly difficult themes of race in America, set during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s.
From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can, a spirit that is making him a stranger, angry and afraid, in a world he never knew and to a wife and son he understands less and less. This is a modern classic, a book that deals with the impossibly difficult themes of race in America, set during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s. Now an Academy Award-winning film directed by and starring Denzel Washington, along with Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Viola Davis.
Release on 2013-10-23 | by Marilyn Elkins
... Bottom (1984), Fences (1985), Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1986), The
Piano Lesson (1987), and Two Trains Running (1990)—August Wilson has
attained the stature of premier theatrical mythographer of the African American
Author: Marilyn Elkins
Publisher: Routledge
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package org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.internal;

import org.apache.lucene.document.BinaryDocValuesField;
import org.apache.lucene.document.Field;
import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexOptions;
import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
import org.apache.lucene.queries.TermsQuery;
import org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanClause;
import org.apache.lucene.search.BooleanQuery;
import org.apache.lucene.search.MultiTermQuery;
import org.apache.lucene.search.PrefixQuery;
import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
import org.apache.lucene.search.RegexpQuery;
import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;
import org.elasticsearch.common.Nullable;
import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.BytesRefs;
import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.Lucene;
import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
import org.elasticsearch.common.util.iterable.Iterables;
import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentBuilder;
import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentParser;
import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MappedFieldType;
import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.Mapper;
import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MapperParsingException;
import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MetadataFieldMapper;
import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.ParseContext;
import org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.Uid;
import org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryShardContext;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 *
 */
public class IdFieldMapper extends MetadataFieldMapper {

    public static final String NAME = "_id";

    public static final String CONTENT_TYPE = "_id";

    public static class Defaults {
        public static final String NAME = IdFieldMapper.NAME;

        public static final MappedFieldType FIELD_TYPE = new IdFieldType();

        static {
            FIELD_TYPE.setIndexOptions(IndexOptions.NONE);
            FIELD_TYPE.setStored(false);
            FIELD_TYPE.setOmitNorms(true);
            FIELD_TYPE.setIndexAnalyzer(Lucene.KEYWORD_ANALYZER);
            FIELD_TYPE.setSearchAnalyzer(Lucene.KEYWORD_ANALYZER);
            FIELD_TYPE.setName(NAME);
            FIELD_TYPE.freeze();
        }
    }

    public static class Builder extends MetadataFieldMapper.Builder<Builder, IdFieldMapper> {

        public Builder(MappedFieldType existing) {
            super(Defaults.NAME, existing == null ? Defaults.FIELD_TYPE : existing, Defaults.FIELD_TYPE);
            indexName = Defaults.NAME;
        }

        // if we are indexed we use DOCS
        @Override
        protected IndexOptions getDefaultIndexOption() {
            return IndexOptions.DOCS;
        }

        @Override
        public IdFieldMapper build(BuilderContext context) {
            setupFieldType(context);
            return new IdFieldMapper(fieldType, context.indexSettings());
        }
    }

    public static class TypeParser implements MetadataFieldMapper.TypeParser {
        @Override
        public MetadataFieldMapper.Builder parse(String name, Map<String, Object> node, ParserContext parserContext) throws MapperParsingException {
            throw new MapperParsingException(NAME + " is not configurable");
        }

        @Override
        public MetadataFieldMapper getDefault(Settings indexSettings, MappedFieldType fieldType, String typeName) {
            return new IdFieldMapper(indexSettings, fieldType);
        }
    }

    static final class IdFieldType extends MappedFieldType {

        public IdFieldType() {
        }

        protected IdFieldType(IdFieldType ref) {
            super(ref);
        }

        @Override
        public MappedFieldType clone() {
            return new IdFieldType(this);
        }

        @Override
        public String typeName() {
            return CONTENT_TYPE;
        }

        @Override
        public String value(Object value) {
            if (value == null) {
                return null;
            }
            return value.toString();
        }

        @Override
        public boolean useTermQueryWithQueryString() {
            return true;
        }

        @Override
        public Query termQuery(Object value, @Nullable QueryShardContext context) {
            if (indexOptions() != IndexOptions.NONE || context == null) {
                return super.termQuery(value, context);
            }
            final BytesRef[] uids = Uid.createUidsForTypesAndId(context.queryTypes(), value);
            return new TermsQuery(UidFieldMapper.NAME, uids);
        }

        @Override
        public Query termsQuery(List values, @Nullable QueryShardContext context) {
            if (indexOptions() != IndexOptions.NONE || context == null) {
                return super.termsQuery(values, context);
            }
            return new TermsQuery(UidFieldMapper.NAME, Uid.createUidsForTypesAndIds(context.queryTypes(), values));
        }

        @Override
        public Query prefixQuery(String value, @Nullable MultiTermQuery.RewriteMethod method, @Nullable QueryShardContext context) {
            if (indexOptions() != IndexOptions.NONE || context == null) {
                return super.prefixQuery(value, method, context);
            }
            Collection<String> queryTypes = context.queryTypes();
            BooleanQuery.Builder query = new BooleanQuery.Builder();
            for (String queryType : queryTypes) {
                PrefixQuery prefixQuery = new PrefixQuery(new Term(UidFieldMapper.NAME, Uid.createUidAsBytes(queryType, BytesRefs.toBytesRef(value))));
                if (method != null) {
                    prefixQuery.setRewriteMethod(method);
                }
                query.add(prefixQuery, BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD);
            }
            return query.build();
        }

        @Override
        public Query regexpQuery(String value, int flags, int maxDeterminizedStates, @Nullable MultiTermQuery.RewriteMethod method, @Nullable QueryShardContext context) {
            if (indexOptions() != IndexOptions.NONE || context == null) {
                return super.regexpQuery(value, flags, maxDeterminizedStates, method, context);
            }
            Collection<String> queryTypes = context.queryTypes();
            if (queryTypes.size() == 1) {
                RegexpQuery regexpQuery = new RegexpQuery(new Term(UidFieldMapper.NAME, Uid.createUidAsBytes(Iterables.getFirst(queryTypes, null), BytesRefs.toBytesRef(value))),
                    flags, maxDeterminizedStates);
                if (method != null) {
                    regexpQuery.setRewriteMethod(method);
                }
                return regexpQuery;
            }
            BooleanQuery.Builder query = new BooleanQuery.Builder();
            for (String queryType : queryTypes) {
                RegexpQuery regexpQuery = new RegexpQuery(new Term(UidFieldMapper.NAME, Uid.createUidAsBytes(queryType, BytesRefs.toBytesRef(value))), flags, maxDeterminizedStates);
                if (method != null) {
                    regexpQuery.setRewriteMethod(method);
                }
                query.add(regexpQuery, BooleanClause.Occur.SHOULD);
            }
            return query.build();
        }
    }

    private IdFieldMapper(Settings indexSettings, MappedFieldType existing) {
        this(existing != null ? existing : Defaults.FIELD_TYPE, indexSettings);
    }

    private IdFieldMapper(MappedFieldType fieldType, Settings indexSettings) {
        super(NAME, fieldType, Defaults.FIELD_TYPE, indexSettings);
    }

    @Override
    public void preParse(ParseContext context) throws IOException {
        if (context.sourceToParse().id() != null) {
            context.id(context.sourceToParse().id());
            super.parse(context);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void postParse(ParseContext context) throws IOException {
        if (context.id() == null) {
            throw new MapperParsingException("No id found while parsing the content source");
        }
        // it either get built in the preParse phase, or get parsed...
    }

    @Override
    protected void parseCreateField(ParseContext context, List<Field> fields) throws IOException {
        XContentParser parser = context.parser();
        if (parser.currentName() != null && parser.currentName().equals(Defaults.NAME) && parser.currentToken().isValue()) {
            // we are in the parse Phase
            String id = parser.text();
            if (context.id() != null && !context.id().equals(id)) {
                throw new MapperParsingException("Provided id [" + context.id() + "] does not match the content one [" + id + "]");
            }
            context.id(id);
        } // else we are in the pre/post parse phase

        if (fieldType().indexOptions() != IndexOptions.NONE || fieldType().stored()) {
            fields.add(new Field(fieldType().name(), context.id(), fieldType()));
        }
        if (fieldType().hasDocValues()) {
            fields.add(new BinaryDocValuesField(fieldType().name(), new BytesRef(context.id())));
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected String contentType() {
        return CONTENT_TYPE;
    }

    @Override
    public XContentBuilder toXContent(XContentBuilder builder, Params params) throws IOException {
        return builder;
    }

    @Override
    protected void doMerge(Mapper mergeWith, boolean updateAllTypes) {
        // do nothing here, no merging, but also no exception
    }
}

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HomeIlhan Omar's Pro-BDS Bill Is Important. But She's The Wrong Person To Fight For It.
Ilhan Omar's Pro-BDS Bill Is Important. But She's The Wrong Person To Fight For It.
Abe SilbersteinJuly 18, 2019Getty Images
All week, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has been subject to a racist Twitter tirade from the President of the United States, which culminated last night in President Trump beaming as his supporters chanted "send her back."
"Send her back" chant breaks out at the Trump rally when he talks about Omar pic.twitter.com/JFZHc7eaOc— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) July 17, 2019
Remarkably, Omar has not let this interrupt her legislative activity. She told Al-Monitor on Monday that she planned to introduce a resolution to defend Americans' right to boycott, which she said is "an opportunity for us to explain why it is we support a nonviolent movement, which is the BDS movement."
Opinion | Ilhan Omar's Pro-BDS Bill Is Important. But She's The Wrong Person To Fight For It.
Ilhan Omar Introduces Pro-BDS Congressional Resolution
Alyssa FisherJuly 17, 2019
In response, Omar faced criticism from Jewish conservatives, who saw it as yet another example of her alleged Anti-Semitism. Less harshly and on strategic grounds, The Forward's opinion editor, Batya Ungar-Sargon, tweeted that Omar was "playing right into Trump's hands," presumably by underlining his reference to "the squad" as anti-Israel.
Is she working for @realDonaldTrump's campaign 🤔
https://t.co/7Q0WqMaAxm— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) July 17, 2019
As promised, the resolution was soon introduced. Neither Israel nor the BDS movement is mentioned in it directly, but there is only one possible controversy to which the resolution could be responding: the steady increase of state and federal legislative proposals that would penalize supporters of the BDS movement.
Two things are immediately apparent: First, in perhaps a truly fitting manner, Omar has responded to Trump's unseemly call for her to leave the country with a robust defense of a most august American creed, freedom of expression.
Second, she is the wrong spokesperson and leader for both the opposition to illiberal anti-BDS laws and for the Palestinian cause in the U.S. more generally.
Omar's resolution, H.R. 496, frames the support for boycotts in American political history and heritage: the Boston Tea Party, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the grape boycott of the 1960s all receive early prominent mentions in the text. The resolution hails "Americans of conscience [who] have a proud history of participating in boycotts to advocate for human rights abroad."
She is right to do so. Anti-BDS laws undermine the basic spirit of a free society by enabling government authorities to evaluate political beliefs and impose sanctions on citizens who run afoul of the rules. Apologists for these laws will often say they only affect commercial enterprises. This is not true for all the state laws, but even if it was, they would nevertheless provide government with a role in assessing business owners' political views if they are suspected of engaging in a boycott of a foreign country.
Ilhan Omar Claims She Didn't Hide Her Support For BDS During Campaign
Alyssa FisherJanuary 16, 2019
H.R. 496 emphasizes America's expansive free speech regime when it comes to political expression, including boycotts. It cites the 1982 Supreme Court case NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware, which concluded in a unanimous decision written by John Paul Stevens (who died this week) declaring that a local NAACP boycott of white-owned businesses was constitutionally protected speech.
By opposing anti-BDS laws, which have attracted the strong opposition of the ACLU, Omar is defending a quintessentially American freedom.
But however noble this particular resolution is, it should not conceal that Omar has been an ineffective if not dreadful advocate for Palestinians, and thus is probably not helping the opposition to these laws. I don't say this in terms of her political vision — she and I, both non-Palestinians, abhor the Occupation and support dividing the land into two states — but in how she has entangled Palestinians and their supporters in an irrelevant drama about Ilhan Omar.
Omar's history of irresponsible comments around the issue inevitably turns every one of her initiatives on it into a debate about anti-Semitism on the left. Some of her supporters will counter that she has brought unprecedented domestic attention to the issue. But so has Jeremy Corbyn in the U.K. — and today the Labour Party has little room to criticize Israel without raising legitimate questions about their intentions.
Not all attention is good attention.
Rashida Tlaib Backs BDS, Plans To Lead Delegation To West Bank
Josh Nathan-KazisDecember 3, 2018
Fortunately, there is an easy fix to this problem. Omar's resolution has two co-sponsors: Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian woman elected to Congress, and Congressman John Lewis, a civil rights icon who has maintained longstanding relationships with the American Jewish community, and is thus much less vulnerable to dishonest attacks from the right painting opponents of anti-BDS laws as anti-Israel or anti-Semitic.
Omar should step aside and allow them to take the lead.
Abe Silberstein is a freelance commentator on Israeli politics and U.S.-Israel relations. His work has previously been published in the New York Times, Haaretz, +972 Magazine and the Forward.
The views and opinions expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Forward.
Abe Silberstein


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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Comic-Con Reel
By Alexandra Heilbron on July 13, 2015 | Leave a Comment
Fans at San Diego Comic-Con's Hall H this past weekend were treated to an amazing behind-the-scenes look at the filming of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, by director J.J. Abrams, producer and Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and writer Lawrence Kasdan.
Check out the Star Wars Comic-Con Reel above, featuring original cast member Mark Hamill, who says "Nothing's changed, really. I mean, everything's changed, but nothing's changed. That's the way you want it to be." New cast members are also shown, discussing how amazed they are to be a part of the new movie, including Domhnall Gleeson and Simon Pegg.
What are you most excited to see in the new Star Wars movie?
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Honorary Consulate of Slovakia in Forli, Italy
Honorary Consulate of Slovakia in Forli, Italy located at Corso Armando Diaz 49. View address, telephone number, fax, email address, hours of operation, consular jurisdiction, official website, head of mission (HOM) below.
Corso Armando Diaz 49
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Once every four years Swiss get a chance to elect their Federal Government. 18 October 2015 was voting day.
At federal elections voters decide who their canton will send to Bern. Switzerland's federal assembly is bicameral, made up of the 200-seat National Council (lower house), and the 46-seat Council of States (upper house). Seats in the National Council are allocated to cantons based on population, while two Council of States seats are allocated to each canton regardless of its population – half cantons such as Basel City only get one seat on the Council of States.
In this election the UDC (SVP) made significant ground. In 2011 the party won 54 seats on the National Council. This time it won 65. This beats the party's former record of 62 seats in 2007. The PLR (PRD) also improved its tally, moving from 30 to 33 seats. The biggest losers were the Socialist Party, which slid from 46 to 43 seats, and the Liberal Greens who dropped from 12 to 7 seats.
In the Vaud, no candidate won a majority in the first round of the canton's Council of States election. Géraldine Savary (PS) led with 41% of the votes, followed by Green party member Luc Recordon with 39%. In third place was PLR's Olivier Français, with 31%. He is likely to team up with the UDC, PDC and PBD parties in the second round of voting on 8 November 2015, according to the national broadcaster RTS.
The PLR led with 26.8% of the canton's votes gaining an extra seat on the National Council. The Socialists, with 22.2% of Vaud's votes lost one National Council seat. The UDC won 22.6% of the votes and remained steady with 4 seats on the National Council.
In Geneva, the PLR gained one extra seat on the National Council moving from 2 to 3 seats while the PS and UDC remained unchanged with 3 and 2 seats respectively. The Green party lost one seat. The Council of States vote left no one with a majority, which means second round voting on 8 November 2015 will decide the outcome.
In Zürich, the top three parties all made ground at the National Council level. The PLR took 15.3% of the votes, securing 5 seats, one more than in 2011. The Socialist Party won 21.4% of the votes to secure 9 seats, two more than in 2011, and the UDC took 30.7% of the votes, picking up one more National Council seat than last time bringing its tally to 12. In the first round of the Council of States vote, no one won a majority. Nine of the top ten vote scorers in Zurich were from the Swiss People's Party.
The interactive map below displays results by canton. To display shares of votes by party, select "Survol 2015" from the top left drop down menu.
This link shows results by canton. For Vaud click here. For Geneva click here. For Zürich click here.


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Rent & Buy
Long-Standing Collaboration Behind Another Successful Event in Olneyville
By onenbAugust 20, 2018Press & Events
There are two stories to be told of the 5th annual Summer Safety Slam event held on August 8th at Joslin Parkin the Olneyville neighborhood of Providence. One is about bringing residents and police together for a fun-filled, free evening in the park. The second, and lesser told story, is of the longstanding collaborations that made this possible.
For close to 20 years, Olneyville residents, community groups and local businesses have worked together to organize community initiatives through the Olneyville Collaborative. Since the introduction of the Health Equity Zone initiative, these collaborations have grown stronger due to increased communication and overlapping work of individuals and agencies. These initiatives, including the Olneyville community newsletter, spring clean-up "Olneyville Shines", the Fall Festival, and the Summer Safety Slam reach thousands of residents each year.
What does this collaboration look like? At the Summer Safety Slam, it was a resource fair made possible by borrowing tables from collaborative network members and free children's activities in the field. Abelardo Hernandez, a founding Collaborative member and Olneyville resident, had the Guatemalan Soccer League run games with children on the soccer field while the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence and the Providence Police Department hosted a basketball game on the courts. The relationships built by regularly working and meeting together has bred collective responsibility for the community and each other.
Collaboration is also about pitching in for the less glamourous work: William D'Abate Elementary School and Joslin Recreation Center opened their doors to hold supplies that could not be picked up until the following day while staff from Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council, YouthBuild Preparatory Academy, the Providence Police Department, and Greater Providence YMCA worked to make sure everything was in its place and to troubleshoot when bouncy houses and generators proved more difficult to move than expected.
While these collaborations are widely unseen and not the aim of our events, without them, these initiatives would not be possible.
Councilwoman Sabina Matos summed up this sentiment by stating, "The Summer Safety Slam brought over 250 neighbors together to play, build trust, and to learn about the variety of community programs that benefit all of us. I was very happy to take part again this year. Olneyville is a community on the rise and that's in no small part due to dedicated partners who make up the Olneyville Collaborative!"
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The Asian societies that began in modern-day China are among the oldest known human societies on earth. Though they were at least as developed and sophisticated as early civilizations in Mesopotamia (centered in present-day Iraq) and Egypt, these Asian societies have received far less study and attention in the West. In the last century, however, with the modernization of the ancient nations of China and Japan, people in the West have come to know a great deal about early Asian cultures. Many who learn about these ancient cultures have developed a great respect for Asian accomplishments in technology, governance, and the arts, and also gain an understanding of the distinct costume traditions. To appreciate the distinct costume traditions developed in ancient China and Japan, it is first important to understand how these civilizations developed over time.
Japanese women march in a parade, wearing blue kimonos and holding traditional Asian fans. Reproduced by permission of © .
societies along the banks of the Yellow River in modern-day China. Over the years these societies became more sophisticated, developing technologies and early forms of government. In about 1875 B.C.E. a powerful empire known as Xia began the first Chinese dynasty, the name for a long period of rule by several generations of a family. Our detailed knowledge of Chinese history begins with the dynasty that followed: the Shang dynasty (c. 1550–c. 1050 B.C.E. ). It was with this dynasty that people began to keep written records of Chinese history.
Much of what we know about Chinese costume comes from the Qing dynasty (1644–1911 C.E. ). The leaders of the Qing dynasty were not Han Chinese, the majority ethnic group in China, but Manchus, members of people native to Manchuria. The Manchus adopted many of the Han customs and instituted other customs of their own. Their reign lasted several hundred years and featured the first significant contact with the West in Chinese history. They tried to keep Western influence out of China, but increasing trade with European nations brought much change to China. That change culminated in 1911 C.E. with a revolution that brought an end to imperial rule in China. The leader of the revolution, Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925 C.E. ), hoped that all Chinese could vote and enjoy access to the country's riches. His revolution did not entirely succeed, however, and a long period of conflict and civil war ended in 1949 when Communists, lead by Mao Tse-tung (1893–1976 C.E. ), took control in China. (Communism is a system of government in which the state controls the economy and all property and wealth are shared equally by the people.) Chairman Mao, as he was known, brought dramatic changes in Chinese life and again closed his country to the West. He also changed Chinese clothing styles dramatically in an effort to make everyone dress the same. Today, China is still a Communist country, but it is slowly opening to Western influence and fashion.
Japan is an island nation that lies to the northeast of China. Though there is evidence of human habitation in Japan dating back thousands of years, it was not until settlers from China and Korea traveled to Japan in the sixth century C.E. that a definable society took root. Early Japanese society was deeply rooted in Chinese customs and traditions of religion, governance, and costume. The Heian period, which lasted from 794 to 1185 C.E. , was the first flowering of a unique Japanese society. The Japanese began to develop distinct clothing traditions that were more formalized and ritualized than those in China.
Following the collapse of the Heian period in 1185 C.E. , a number of powerful kings vied for power. Each king surrounded himself with warriors known as samurai. The samurai had a distinct warrior culture of their own, with rules of behavior and dress. The culture had a great influence on fashion in Japan. The most powerful samurai was known as the shogun, and he ruled with the power of an emperor. In 1637 the Tokugawa shogunate (the name for the government of the shogun), which had assumed power in Japan, closed the country to any exposure to the West. For nearly two hundred years Japan resisted Western influences. It retained its traditional culture, while the world around changed. Eventually powerful British and American governments forced Japan to open to trade.
In 1867 the rule of shoguns ended and an emperor was restored. The emperor, Meiji, believed that Japan must become a modern nation. He allowed the Japanese people to vote, and he developed a modern economy. Japan became a powerful nation, so powerful, in fact, that it opposed the United States and its European allies in World War II (1939–45). Though Japan lost the war, it remains a powerful industrial nation to this day.


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3G iPhone To Include GPS, Be Only Slightly Thicker
Friday April 25, 2008 1:52 pm PDT by longofest
Engadget reports that Apple's forthcoming 3G capable iPhone will incorporate a GPS module but be only slightly thicker than the current generation model.
Engadet's visual description of the device largely mirrors that given by iPod Observer earlier this month that depict a more rounded phone with a glossy black back, but adds that the much-despised recessed headphone jack will be replaced by a jack flush with the device body.
Image courtesy iPod Observer
The 3G iPhone is largely expected to be introduced at this year's WWDC conference, with probable shipping in July. Engadget is not typically a source of original Apple rumors, but claims this information comes from a "trusted source" who has had first hand experience with one.
Analysts have suggested that June 9th will be the launch date for the 3G iPhone at Apple's Worldwide Developers' Conference.
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Gernot Rohr To Know Fate Next Week – Sports Minister Sunday Dare
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Destination Maternity Chief Executive Steps Down
Tess Stynes
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tess.stynes@wsj.com
Aug. 11, 2014 10:15 am ET
Destination Maternity Corp. said Ed Krell is stepping down as chief executive and as a board member and will be succeeded by Anthony Romano.
The move comes after the maternity-apparel retailer late last month dropped its roughly $453 million bid to buy U.K.'s Mothercare PLC in what would have been the first attempt by a U.S. retail chain at using a controversial tactic to reincorporate overseas to lower its tax bill.
Mr. Romano, who is 52 years old, has held executive leadership positions at retailers including Ascena Retail Group Inc. ; Charming Shoppes, which was acquired by Ascena in 2012; and Ann Inc. He will receive a base salary of $825,000.
Mr. Krell joined Destination Maternity in 2002 as chief financial officer and has been chief executive officer since 2008.
"After leading the team that significantly strengthened the company over the past six years as CEO, the board and I decided that this was a logical time for a change in leadership at the company, and a logical time for me to pursue other opportunities," Mr. Krell said in a statement.
Write to Tess Stynes at tess.stynes@wsj.com


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Continuing disagreements over the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal ditched by US President Donald Trump mean 11 remaining members may not be ready to give it a wholehearted go-ahead at a summit this week Joshua Kimmich Deutschland Trikot , officials said on Wednesday.
Clear agreement on proceeding without the United States would be a boost for the principle of multilateral free trade pacts over the bilateral deal-making that Trump argues will give a better result for American workers.
The TPP is also a counterweight to China's growing regional dominance. Japan has been lobbying hard for agreement on the sidelines of this week's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Vietnam.
However, officials from several member states said there was less appetite to move ahead quickly from some members - notably Canada, New Zealand and Malaysia.
The pact aims to eliminate tariffs on industrial and farm products across a bloc whose trade totaled $356 billion last year. It also has provisions for protecting everything from intellectual property to labor rights to the environment.
Chief negotiators from the TPP-11 countries met on Monday and Tuesday. Their ministers are due to meet on Wednesday and Thursday in the Vietnamese seaside resort of Danang.
"Our view is that we need to take the time to get the right deal," said one Canadian official who declined to be identified.
Canada's position is complicated by the fact that it is also renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with a Trump administration that pulled the United States out of the TPP agreement in one of its first acts.
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SHANGHAI, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- At just three minutes past midnight on Saturday, China's Singles' Day, sales on TMall hit 10 billion yuan (about 1.5 billion U.S. dollars).
In 2016 Amin Younes Deutschland Trikot , the volume was achieved in six minutes and 58 seconds, according to Alibaba, owner of TMall.
Known as China's Single's Day, November 11 has become an online shopping spree since 2009 when Alibaba's Tmall made its first online sales promotion. And now it is on par with "Black Friday Emre Can Deutschland Trikot ," when most U.S. retailers online or offline offer promotions.
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High-level conceptual thinking is a critically important skill for successful business leaders. This skill consists primarily of the process of observation and logic to form concepts of increasing integration and complexity. When done right, lower-level concepts become embedded in higher-level concepts, with each rising conceptual level being an integration of appropriate and valid lower-level concepts.
The structure of higher-level concept formation is one that moves from lower level perceptual observations and concepts that can be affirmed from the direct evidence of the senses, to highly abstract concepts that subsume multiple levels and broad integrations of lower and intermediate level concepts. This process of concept formation allows us to embrace and manage the increasing volume of information and complexity embedded in higher-level concepts and work.
One can conceptualize the difference here in the context of business if, for example, one thinks about the connection of work tasks through the division of labour.
Starting with a simpler clerical task, it is likely linked to a larger project that is part of a managerial unit initiative linked to a business unit objective taken to help bring about a corporate strategy objective to fulfill the purpose of the corporation to gain and keep customers in alignment with the organization's vision and mission.
The same kind of layering of complexity of tasks and information can be seen in every aspect of business operations, for example: from collecting payables that feed into bookkeeping transactions that get rolled up into financial reports, audited financial statements, investment analyst assessments, financial capital structuring analysis, and government economic indicators.
At each level, the information requires an ever-widening context and integration of knowledge and principles. And at every level of the organization, the people that fill those jobs must have the knowledge and requisite cognitive capability to handle the level of complexity of information required weigh information, imagine paths of work execution, and coordinate resources and time to achieve the desired results at that level. You can't ask a young accounting clerk to assume the role of the CFO. It is too early in her career to have mastered and have integrated the depth and breadth of the chain of concepts required to link her clerical work to the conceptual knowledge required by a CFO to understand and ensure a properly functioning financial management system to ensure the day-to-day and future financial and reporting requirements of a large scale organization.
Business people don't typically think about these matters and how information, concepts, systems, and organizational hierarchies all fit together, and what the consequences may be when there are missing or broken links in these chains (i.e., when non-integration or improper integration is allowed to exist and persist).
At the root of this very important thinking about valid methods of concept formation is a rather obscure branch of philosophy called epistemology.
This discussion of concept formation and epistemology sets the context for an excellent quote I encountered in the book Good Business: Leadership, Flow and The Making of Meaning, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who is the founding father of the theory of Flow, and Professor of Psychology at the Peter F. Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University.
Csikszentmihalyi provides a quote by Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry and Peace, in which Pauling astutely describes his methodology of integrating concepts to ensure a coherent worldview. It is instructive, because it is the methodology that must be adopted by all people who take seriously the need to maintain a coherent approach to truth and reality that is necessary to link human intentions to successful outcomes, be it in business or otherwise.
The key to knowledge and successful action is to integrate without contradiction. Contradictions represent a clash of presumed knowledge, and are evidence of an error. A proper methodology requires that when one discovers a contradiction of knowledge – something that doesn't fit into what one knows to be true about the universe – one must engage in discovery to figure out they the pieces don't fit, as Pauling did. Discovering a contradictory conclusion and trying to hold on to both horns of the contradiction, or arbitrarily flip-flopping between the two to justify your conclusions, it a psychologically self-destructive form of evasion best articulated in cognitive dissonance theory (see for example, Caroll Tavris and Elliott Aronson, Mistakes Were Made But Not By Me, or the 1957 classic by Leon Festinger, A Theory of Cognitive Dissonance).
The attempt to integrate contradictory premises brings an end to valid concept-formation everywhere downstream from the contradiction, whether it is simply unnoticed or willfully embraced. Invalid and non-veridical concepts are detached from reality, making such concepts unreliable as links in the chain of cause and effect. Relying on unverified or false concepts destroys the logical connection between the facts of reality wherever such invalid concepts are used, thereby sabotaging effective thinking and problem-solving.
Philosopher and epistemologist Harry Binswanger writes in his recent book How We Know: Epistemology on an Objectivist Foundation, that "accepting a contradiction undercuts the whole structure of one's knowledge. It forces a puzzle-piece into a space it does not fit, spoiling the overall picture (and leaving no place to put the right piece)" (p. 314).
"A contradiction," warns Binswanger, "if maintained, paralyzes thought. One can proceed only by abandoning logic and just making up an answer as an arbitrary dictum. Ultimately, the alternative is: adherence to logic or cognitive paralysis." (315).
One business leader who embraces the power of epistemology and philosophy when thinking about business is former BB&T CEO, John Allison.
As a master business leader or manager, when you encounter something that doesn't make sense –when you encounter contradictions in what you think is knowledge – you must check your premises.
If you or somebody else has reached a conclusion you believe is false or mistaken, then you should take note and investigate why you think there is an error. Ensure that the concepts upon which the questionable conclusions stand are valid. When people encounter things that don't make sense, it can be from a lack of knowledge, or a lack of understanding or ability of how to integrate lower level concepts in to more complex higher-level concepts, or it may be that the things they are trying to understand, like so many management fads, really don't make sense.
Or worse, there may be a psychological or ideological desire to believe two contradictory premises and to evade such knowledge.
Perhaps your world-view is wrong and needs correcting. Or perhaps the new information you are receiving is unsubstantiated. If you can't integrate new higher-level concepts and integrations of information into your existing world-view without contradiction, you should not accept those concepts as proven until such time as you are able to do so. The identification of a contradiction means that more discovery and validation is needed. This is a perfectly rational and common response to new – and often disorienting – information and questionable claims of scientific, and especially social, veracity.
Ongoing and active philosophical detection is the only way to substantiate and confirm valid, and therefore knowledge expanding concepts, and to identify and eliminate false, and therefore destructive, concepts.
Barry Linetsky is a Partner with The Strategic Planning Group, a Toronto-based consultancy. He is the author of The Business of Walt Disney and the Nine Principles of His Success (Theme Park Press, 2017) and Free Will: Sam Harris Has It (Wrong). His articles have been published by Ivey Business Journal and Rotman Magazine. Visit his website www.BarryLinetsky.com to find original articles and blog posts on Walt Disney and other management topics. Follow Barry on Twitter @BizPhilosopher and on LinkedIn.