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RBI getting tough on loan defaulters for right economic outcome
The rate of bad loans have come to such an alarming level that banks should be shown some `tough love' by barring non-performers from taking deposits and lending.
MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India is proposing its toughest measures yet to recover loans from defaulters by prescribing December deadline for the loan restructuring of top 50 defaulters in a way that the assets turn viable and also in an environment where vigilance departments do not stifle the right economic outcome.
Picking up from where former governor Raghuram Rajan left, Deputy Governor Acharya proposed setting up of two asset management companies, one private and the other quasi with government stake holding, and two rating agencies backing for valuation of stressed assets.
The rate of bad loans have come to such an alarming level that banks should be shown some `tough love' by barring those non-performers from taking deposits and lending. In some cases, merger of banks should also be considered to reduce dependence on government capital.
``This situation should be a cause for concern to all of us,'' Deputy Governor Acharya told an audience at a conference organised by the Indian Banks Association. ``It is reminiscent of weak banks and stagnating growth witnessed by Japan in the 1990s, with repercussions to date, and by Italy since 2010. Japan has experienced, and Italy, is in my opinion experiencing, a lost decade. I believe we are at crossroads and have an important choice to make.''
Acharya, the former New York University Professor who has studied the mess created at the US mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac which were at the epicenter of the 2008 credit crisis, has been an advocate of prudent practices and a quick clean-up of bad loans mess. He has been an advocate of bad bank, but has since abandoned the phrase since it conveys a different message, though the idea remains.
``I have previously used the phrase "bad bank" for such ideas, over time I have come to dislike the title,'' he said. ``A `bad bank' conveys the impression that this entity is to operate as a bank but has bad assets to start with. In fact, the idea is not to operate these entities as banks at all. Resolution agencies set up as banks that originate or guarantee lending have ended up being future reckless lenders.''
But the banking industry which has been struggling appears to waiting for some of the words to translate into action at the regulatory as well as the government level.
``Many bits and pieces of this had been recommended. Maybe not in the framework in which it was given, but many of this had already been recommended by the banks,'' said Arundhati Bhattacharya, chairman, State Bank of India.
``Certain things are definitely new. For instance getting a credit rating of the restructured asset is new, so also regarding the capitalisation... so definitely these are under consideration, but how seriously, or what is the government's thought on all of this, I have no idea.''
Instead, to solve the distressed loans problem in India which is estimated to be reaching as high as 20 percent of the total loans, two separate asset management companies could be set up, Acharya suggested. A Private Asset Management Company which will have assets where the stress is such that they are likely to have economic value in the short run with moderate levels of debt forgiveness. These could be from sector such as metals, telecom and textiles.
The second one could be National Asset Management Company with minority government holding. These could be in assets where the problem is not just one of excess capacity but possibly also of economically unviable assets in the short to medium term.
But almost all of these could work only if the pricing of asset is correct and that banks are provided a cover from the vigilance officials which have created a fear of witch-hunt.
``Haircuts taken by banks under a feasible plan would be required by government ruling as being acceptable by the vigilance authorities,'' Acharya said.
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Нараянга́ндж () — город в Бангладеш, административный центр одноимённого округа.

История
Город получил своё название от Бикона Лал Пандея, индуистского религиозного лидера, который был также известен как Бинур Такур или Лахсми Нараян Такур. Он арендовал землю у британской Ост-Индской компании в 1766 году, после битвы при Плесси. Свои доходы он тратил на поклонение богу Нараяну.

Географическое положение
Высота центра города составляет 3 метра над уровнем моря. Город расположен на берегу реки Шиталакшья. Речной порт в Нараянгандже является одним из старейших в Бангладеш.

Демография
Население города по годам:

Примечания

Города-миллионеры Бангладеш

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CRAFT KOMBUCHA: Inspired by craft beer, co-founded by a dog.
A neighborhood kombucha brewery looking to bring refreshing, seasonal flavors of kombucha to other neighborhoods of Washington, D.C.
294 backers pledged $26,290 to help bring this project to life.
Craft Kombucha is a neighborhood kombucha brewery located in the historic neighborhood of Mount Pleasant in Washington, D.C. Founded in 2013, we serve up seasonal flavors of kombucha fresh on-tap at the Mount Pleasant Farmers' Market.
Founder and CEO Tanya Maynigo-Loucks has been drinking kombucha for nearly a decade and home-brewing it for a number of years. When she accidentally brewed too much kombucha one day, almost two years ago, she turned to the friends she had made through her dog, Guinness, to clear out her refrigerator. Soon, her friends returned, asking for more kombucha and encouraging her to start her own brand.
Thus, Craft Kombucha was born. In the time since, she has striven to create a brand that follows the model of the craft breweries she loves to visit with her husband and dog. The result is a brand that values creativity and collaboration with other innovators, and has created a deep, meaningful bond with its customers and the community of Mount Pleasant.
We believe that kombucha should be something that everyone can enjoy, whether you're a foodie or a yogi. That's why Craft Kombucha is made with a high-antioxidant blend of green teas, including Matcha tea, to create a light, refreshing probiotic drink.
Our seasonal lineup of dozens of flavors has been designed to bring you a product that is exciting and innovative throughout the year, with flavors like Cherry Blossom, Winter Mint, Pumpkin Spice and Spicy Pineapple (a flavor designed in collaboration with Aysha Jones, chef/owner of Culinary Jones). We also feature more traditional flavors of kombucha, such as Ginger, Grapefruit, and Elderflower.
Drawing off of our inspiration from the world of craft beer, we have a signature line of flavors, called the Hops Series. The Hops Series was created to bring the same enjoyment and flavor of drinking a craft beer to kombucha. Our lineup of four flavors - Citra® Hop'd Lemon, Hibiscus Galaxy, Bavarian Falcon, and Blackstrap Chinook - reflect a small selection of the brews that inspire us.
It doesn't matter if you have been drinking kombucha every day for a decade or are trying it for the first time, there is a flavor of Craft Kombucha out there for everyone!
We have been very lucky to have an incredibly loyal customer base. Between the Mount Pleasant Farmers' Market, the Georgetown University Farmers' Market, and South Block Juice Co., we are selling kombucha almost as fast as we can produce it. In order to continue serving kombucha to our customers that love it and to expand to other neighborhoods of Washington, D.C., we need to increase our production five-fold.
At present, we are brewing our kombucha out of eight 26-gallon stainless steel fermenters. We recently acquired a new kitchen space that will allow us to set up a brewery that can house larger fermentors, which will produce five times more kombucha. Funding from this Kickstarter campaign will allow us to purchase five new 160-gallon stainless steel fermenters to furnish our brewery. As we increase our production, we will also need two pallets of 5-gallon cornelius kegs to serve and store the finished product of our kombucha. All-in-all, this expansion will make it possible for us to produce enough kombucha to go on tap in more restaurants, cafes and grocery stores around the Washington, D.C. area.
WHAT YOU GET - Rewards!
You'll get our limited edition Craft Kombucha sticker and a virtual CHEERS from us!
Come visit us at any of markets or our tap hours with a certificate to claim your growler of Craft Kombucha. Sample kombucha, try mixing flavors, have fun, leave happy.
We love our t-shirts! We are creating a special t-shirt just for our Kickstarter supporters! Kids sizes available.
What is a Hydro Flask™? This Oregon-based company makes top quality vacuum-insulated, stainless steel hydration bottles that are perfect for our kombucha! We chose their 21 ounce hydration bottle design for our limited edition Kickstarter reward. We appreciate your contribution to our Kickstarter campaign so much that whenever you refill your 21 ounce Kickstarter Hydro Flask™, we will only charge you for a 16 ounce refill every time you fill it up. That means you get an extra 5 oz for free! As we grow and expand, you can always come see us and get the same deal.
This bottle comes with a 100-year/lifetime warranty, which makes it the perfect bottle partner for our kombucha. So if you get this reward, make sure you don't lose it! Oh, and we'll send you a certificate for your first fill 'cuz its on us!
Come check out where we got started! Mount Pleasant is a beautiful and historic neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C., that runs right along Rock Creek Park. The farmers' market is a neighborhood institution, making Saturday mornings something to look forward to during market season.
But we're guessing you may just want to hang out with Guinness, our mascot and inspiration for our logo. We will schedule you for a 45-minute chaperoned walk with Guinness, for up to 4 people, on a Saturday morning during farmers' market season. There are plenty of sights to be seen through the neighborhood and our beloved Rock Creek Park. and Guinness knows his way to them all.
After your walk, get a Mount Pleasant Farmers' Market lunch on us! You won't even have to wait in line. Shop our little but charming market, meet the vendors, listen to the local musicians. Don't be surprised if you want to come back again and again.
Do you love a well-designed bag? Support our Kickstarter campaign in the most stylish way. We collaborated with Berwick DC to design a beautiful bag that is both versatile and practical, yet elegantly constructed. Berwick DC is known for their innovative use of natural materials, with a masculine feel and classic design.
Owner/Founder Ben Serres happens to be one our most loyal customers, so this collaboration was perfect in every way. The bag is entirely hand-constructed, with heavy wool felt and the softest faux leather we could find. The interior design features two felt loops that protect your Craft Kombucha bottles, absorb excess moisture and separate them from additional contents in your bag. There are three additional pockets, two in the interior and one in the front that proudly shows our logo. You'll look and feel amazing carrying this bag around, and that makes us happy.
We are fortunate that in the short lifespan of Craft Kombucha, being at the farmers' market and selling draft-style, we were able to experiment with making a variety of flavors and share them with our customers. In the last year-and-a-half, we've served a total of over 60 flavors. But we aren't the only ones getting creative; our customers have also been known to come up with their own mixes from what they get fresh, on-tap each week. Our first-ever collaboration was with Aysha Jones, a loyal customer/supporter and chef/owner of Culinary Jones. The flavors we worked together with her to create were a great success, particularly Spicy Pineapple, Tamarind Lime and Limoncello (and those are only a few). Do you want to create a flavor with us? Let's collaborate on a kombucha flavor of your dreams! Do you have a style of craft beer that you'd like us to recreate into a kombucha? Or is there a fun fruit or spicy ingredient you'd like us to try? Select this reward and we'll feature your favor, let you name it and even give you a keg of it!
One of our favorite things about walking into the brewery is getting to say hello to all of Guinness's friends featured on our vats. We're ready to welcome some new dogs to the pack. Select this reward and we'll name it after your dog. We'll put your favorite photo of your best friend on our vat, just like you see in our video above. You'll get a photo of your honorary vat. You may also schedule a visit to see at our new brewery, to pay your honorary vat a visit and take some photos of your own.
Hotel Palomar, a Kimpton hotel.
Experience some of the best of Washington, DC, starting with a 2-night stay at the beautiful (and dog-friendly!) Hotel Palomar, a Kimpton hotel, located in the heart of Dupont Circle. Stop by our stand at the Mount Pleasant Farmers' Market on Saturday morning before you spend your afternoon at Nationals Park watching the Nats take on a worthy opponent. We'll treat you to brunch the next day at Urbana, located in Kimpton's Hotel Palomar. Before you leave, make sure to grab your exclusive Berwick collaboration tote bag full of Craft Kombucha rewards from your room!
Friday, June 5, 2015 + Saturday, June 6, 2015: You'll see the Nationals play the Chicago Cubs!
Friday, June 19, 2015 + Saturday, June 20, 2015: You'll see the Nationals play the Pittsburgh Pirates, and you can even bring your dog to the game for Pups in the Park!
Friday, July 17, 2015 + Saturday July 18, 2015: You'll see the Nationals play the Los Angeles Dodgers!
It's an exciting time to be in Washington, D.C. If House of Cards and Scandal hasn't grabbed your attention yet, then what about the emerging craft beverage culture? The craft beer/beverage scene here is extremely fun, fresh and exciting to be involved in. We love to drink it and now we also brew it!
You will be put up for two nights in the beautiful (and dog-friendly!) Hotel Palomar, a Kimpton hotel, located in the heart of Dupont Circle. In your room, you'll receive a bag full of Craft Kombucha swag, including all of our Kickstarter rewards.
Our Mount Pleasant neighbor/customer and co-editor of DCBeer.com, Chris Van Orden, knows this scene well, and has agreed to give you the inside scoop. We'll bring you and a guest to DC for a weekend stay in the heart of city. We have partnered with Chris his DC Beer co-editor Bill DeBaun to put together an insider craft beverage tour of DC. You'll hang out with the Craft Kombucha team and the editors of DC Beer while visiting as many local breweries and distilleries that we can fit in a single weekend.
And the fun doesn't stop there! If you're a big baseball fan like us, you will be excited to know that you will also get a chance to watch the Washington Nationals play ball at Nationals Park.
Mount Pleasant will always be our home, but it's time for other neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. to experience Craft Kombucha. We invite you to support our campaign and become a Craft Kombucha Insider. Your support will make it possible for us and all of the city to enjoy our refreshing seasonal flavors.
Lastly, we would like to say thank you. If it weren't for the unwavering support of our friends, family and customers, we would not be here. It is thanks to all of you that we have made it to this point, and we are immensely grateful for that.
Kombucha is made from a living culture, called a SCOBY. This means that when we upgrade to the 160-gallon fermentation vessels, it will take time for the culture to adapt to its new conditions and for our kombucha to achieve consistency. We will also have to learn how to work with this new equipment, as we had to when we went from our home-brew fermentation vessels to the vessels we use now. This process can take anywhere from a few weeks to several months. To address this issue, we will continue to brew using our current 26-gallon fermentation vessels until we have mastered the new equipment and consistency is achieved in these vessels.
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL!! A GROWLER of CRAFT KOMBUCHA for $10!!!
You'll get a customized Craft Kombucha 21oz vacuum-insulated, stainless steel refillable bottle made by Oregon-based Hydro Flask (tm) that is perfect for our kombucha.
We will also send you certificate for your first bottle fill of kombucha. AND each time to refill this Kickstarter bottle with us, we'll only charge you for a16oz refill! That's an extra 5oz on us as a thank you for being an early supporter.
Schedule a 45-minute chaperoned walk with Guinness on a Saturday morning during Farmer's Market season. Enjoy a glass of kombucha + market lunch on us after your walk.
The perfect stylish tote, handmade by Berwick DC with Craft Kombucha bottles in mind.
Let's collaborate on a kombucha flavor of your dreams? Wanna make your homebrew recipe into a kombucha? Want something extra spicy? We'll feature your flavor, let you name it and give you a keg of it!
NAME ONE OF OUR NEW VATS AFTER YOUR DOG!
Your dog can be a permanent part of the Craft Kombucha pack in our new space. We'll put your favorite photo on the vat just like all the dogs in our video. We'll send you a photo and you can also schedule a time to visit your honorary vat at our new brewery.
Experience some of the best of Washington, DC, starting with a 2-night stay at the beautiful (and dog-friendly!) Hotel Palomar, a Kimpton hotel, located in the heart of Dupont Circle. You'll get a bag full of Craft Kombucha swag, tickets to a Washington Nationals game, and brunch at our favorite spot, Urbana. We have the weekends picked out for you, all you have to do is choose the date!
We'll transport you and a guest to DC for a weekend, spent at Hotel Palomar, located in the heart of Dupont Circle. Experience the fun and fresh emerging craft beverage scene with the experts from DCBeer and the Craft Kombucha team. You'll also have the chance to watch the Washington Nationals play ball at Nationals Park. We have the weekends picked out for you, all you have to do is choose the date!


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Explore the desert with a long hike, but first pack everything you need. Grab a daypack and stock it with essentials like water, food, first aid kit, extra clothing, flashlight, knife, and map. Leave some extra water, food, and medical supplies in your car, just in case. Also be sure to protect yourself from the sun with sunblock, sunscreen, a hat, and long layers. Once you have what you need, go check out unique environment that is the desert!
Grab a lightweight backpack or fanny pack to store your gear. Function is more important than style in this case. Select a bag that has a few different pockets and is lightweight. Keep your bag as light as possible. You will put all of your supplies in your bag for easy access.
"Support is useful over a long walk. Look for a pack designed for hiking if you can."
Bring common medications like ibuprofen or acetaminophen.
SAM splints are lightweight and are useful to carry in case of injury.
If you need an EPI pen, be sure to carry it.
Bring an inhaler if you have asthma.
Pack at least one gallon of water per person, per day. You cannot have too much water when desert hiking. Dehydration is a serious possibility, so drink lots and drink often. The absolute minimum you should carry is one gallon per person.
When you are halfway through your gallon, it is time to turn around.
Bring an extra jacket if you hike at night. Desert temperatures can drop drastically as soon as the sun goes down, even below 50 degrees. Bring a jacket if you will be hiking past sunset.
If you plan on being out past twilight, bring a thicker jacket and warmer clothes.
Bring energy boosting, high-protein food. Eat before, during, and after your hike. Your body will burn through resources quickly in the desert, so make sure you keep refueling. Eat about twice as much as you would on a normal day. Eat things like nuts, trail mix, or beef jerky to keep energized.
Put extra supplies in your car for after your hike. You will want extra water, snacks, and maybe an extra pair of clothes. After your hike, it is important to refuel with water and food since your energy will be depleted from the desert conditions. Drink some water before you leave, and change into fresh clothes if you are very sweaty.
"Non-cotton clothing is preferable in case you get wet (it rains in the desert!)"
What should I pack when going to the desert?
Water, food, layers of clothing and a first aid kit.
What kind of knife is best to have in the desert?
Either a large knife or a Swiss army knife. Something with more than one use.
How can I best prepare my feet and what is the best footwear for trekking in HOT, DRY desert sand?
Use a lot of moisturizer. Your feet will be dry in the desert. Wear comfortable sandals. DO NOT BRING TRAINERS - you will only ruin them and get sand in them.
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Avoid dark items, as they will absorb sunlight.
Electronics can melt in high temperatures. Avoid bringing items that aren't necessary to prevent any malfunction.
Extreme health risks can result from hiking in the desert, including dehydration, heat stroke, and hypothermia. Be aware of the weather forecast before you go, and be prepared for all temperatures, including dramatic temperature changes.
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Whither coal? India's new electrification scheme will dedicate 80% of $2.5bn budget to solar and battery banks for rural and remote homes.
All I can say is well done India. Thank God you got a Modi instead of an Abbott.
Disregard the above on all things cricket.
..doing far, far too well in the cricket at the very moment.
When this plus China's plans are factored in Australian coal looks dead in the water. How can the government continue to claim India needs Australian coal now? Even Australia no longer needs Australian coal. Solar and wind plus storage at ever cheaper cost are becoming cheaper than just the cost of transmission. If electricity from coal is FREE it can't compete with dispersed production after transmission costs are added in!
So much for a strong Australian Dollar.
Makes you wonder when the financial markets will start factoring in the effective decline of coal exports.
Likely the equivalent of Banana Republic reaction.
If the forecasts are anywhere near correct then LNG exports will not look so healthy either.
Will certainly make it interesting for economics of renewable power in Australia if AUD does drop back to BR levels of 47 to 53 cents vs USD.
Hmm…… Aussie Coal was meant to lift hundreds of millions of Indians out of 'energy poverty'… so the mantra went from The COALition. Perhaps Two Tongues Turnbull, Joshie F. and Bananabee can now explain to us where Aussie Coal fits in with India's solar and battery rollout. That environmental abomination, 'The Adani Mega Coalmine', has nowhere to go…and praise be for that.
DC power plug? I would like to see that!
USB C is good for up to 100 watts of power. Should install USB A sockets in all hotel bathrooms and rooms. That would A) make life easier and B) avoid the conversion losses occured by going from DC to AC to DC.
It's loud and annoys the neighbors!
AC is popular because it can be easily transformed and safely switched. By contrast, a 240 volt DC circuit produces long and persistent arcs when interrrupted, suggesting that 12 or 24 volt would be more appropriate, which limits its use to efficient lighting and few other applications.
Battery 12V lighting is something I intend to do on the next build. It makes lighting control a matter of cheap (and tiny) Arduinos, JFET semiconductors with momentary contact 'elevator style' switches programmed to operate on the various lighting circuits. It's a lot cheaper, about 10% of the cost of a C-bus setup.
Yes I meant low voltage DC, and then just AC for the big stuff.
I think the idea is that torches and phones can be charged. In terms of cost to the people, kerosene is likely the top, then followed by primary batteries. Many of these areas use a lot of batteries for radios, torches etc. and this can be greatly reduced or eliminated, also reducing pollution caused by discarded batteries.
It should be illegal to throw batteries in the rubbish bin – no matter how big or small.
Malcolm Trouble must be very very angry with the Indians (as well as AGL, Whyalla steel, the states, the people etc) for ignoring his steam age reform agenda.
I would hazard a guess that renewables and batteries are cheaper now if the cost of the delivery infrastructure is included. These areas of india are poor and can't afford to be 'lifted out of poverty' in the way envisioned by our dinosaurs on the hill.


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Ludwik Zięba (ur. 5 marca 1953 w Koniówce) – polski biathlonista, brązowy medalista mistrzostw świata.

Kariera
Pierwszy sukces osiągnął w 1971 roku, kiedy na mistrzostwach świata juniorów w Hämeenlinna zdobył srebrny w biegu indywidualnym. Na rozgrywanych rok później mistrzostwach świata juniorów w Linthal zwyciężył w sztafecie, powtarzając ten wynik także podczas mistrzostw świata juniorów w Lake Placid w 1973 roku. Ponadto na mistrzostwach świata juniorów w Mińsku w 1974 roku zajął trzecie miejsce w sztafecie.

Podczas mistrzostw świata w Anterselvie w 1975 roku razem z Janem Szpunarem, Andrzejem Rapaczem oraz Wojciechem Truchanem zdobył brązowy medal w sztafecie. Na tej samej imprezie zajął 10. miejsce w biegu indywidualnym i 36. miejsce w sprincie. Podczas rozgrywanych rok później mistrzostw świata w tej samej miejscowości rywalizację w sprincie ukończył na 47. pozycji. Brał też udział w igrzyskach olimpijskich w Innsbrucku w 1976 roku, zajmując dwunaste miejsce w sztafecie.

Pięciokrotnie wygrywał biegi na mistrzostwach Polski juniorów.

Osiągnięcia

Igrzyska olimpijskie

Mistrzostwa świata

Mistrzostwa świata juniorów

Bibliografia

Polscy biathloniści na igrzyskach olimpijskich
Polscy olimpijczycy (Innsbruck 1976)
Biathloniści WKS Zakopane
Biathloniści Górnika Wałbrzych
Urodzeni w 1953


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Kenneth Whyte (born August 12, 1960) is a Canadian journalist, publisher and author based in Toronto. He was formerly the Senior Vice-President of Public Policy for Rogers Communications and chair of the Donner Canadian Foundation.

Early life and career
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Whyte grew up in Edmonton, Alberta. He began his career in journalism as reporter at the Sherwood Park News and joined Alberta Report as a reporter in 1984, serving as executive editor of the magazine starting in 1986. In 1994, Whyte was appointed editor of Saturday Night, a monthly magazine. In 1998, he was named editor-in-chief of the National Post, a new conservative national newspaper. In 2003, Whyte and several other executives were dismissed from the National Post as part of a restructuring by new ownership. He became a visiting scholar at McGill University where he was co-founder of the McGill Observatory in Media and Public Policy, and a trustee of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.

Rogers
In 2005, Whyte joined Maclean's at the start of its 100th year of publication. Whyte was named the Canadian Journalism Foundation's newsperson of the year in 2008. Maclean's was noted during his tenure for its controversial, tabloid covers, including an exposé of political corruption in Quebec that was unanimously denounced by Canada's House of Commons, and an excerpt of Mark Steyn's America Alone, which touched off several failed actions against the magazines in provincial and federal human rights commissions.

In 2009, while still editing and publishing Maclean's, Whyte also took over the publisher's title at Chatelaine magazine, traditionally Canada's largest women's title. During his first year at the magazine, its circulation dropped below its main competitor Canadian Living for the first time in its history. Whyte hired Jane Francisco as editor  and the two of them engineered a turnaround over the next four years.

In 2011, Whyte became president of Rogers Publishing Limited, which owned fifty-five magazines, including Chatelaine, Today's Parent, Canadian Business, Moneysense, and Hello! Canada. At the end of 2013, Rogers entered into a partnership with Hearst, Time Inc., Meredith, and Condé Nast to create Next Issue Media (now Texture). Whyte left Rogers to become the founding president of Next Issue Canada and a director of Next Issue globally.

Published Books
In 2008, Whyte's non-fiction book, The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst was published in Canada, and the following year in the U.S. It was a finalist for the 2009 National Business Book Award, the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the Charles Taylor Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for biography. It was also a Washington Post book of the year. His second book, a  biography of Herbert Hoover, was published by Random House/Knopf in 2017. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2017. In 2021, Knopf published The Sack of Detroit: General Motors and the End of American Enterprise, which is an account of the rise and subsequent decline of General Motors and the automotive industry. In this book, Whyte attributes the industry decline to what he believes was an excessively regulated business environment that developed following Ralph Nader's activism for the promotion of automobile safety.

Sutherland House Books

In 2018, Whyte announced he was forming Sutherland House Books, a non-fiction publishing house that began releasing books in 2019. Authors who have published works under Sutherland House Books include author and journalist Jon Kay, psychologist and academic Michael Ungar, author and historian Conrad Black and the "urban fixer" Joe Berridge. Others include, Jennifer Hosten, Alex Johnston, Trilby Kent, Judith Kalman, Ira Wells, Eric Reguly, Allen Abel among others.

In 2022, Sutherland House announced the launch of Sutherland Quarterly a series of current affairs books by leading writers that are sold in bookstores and also can be purchased by annual subscription.

Other Involvements
In 2016-2017, Whyte was appointed to the Canadian government's expert advisory panel on cultural policy. A governor of the Donner Canadian Foundation for more than twenty years, Whyte succeeded Allan Gotlieb as chairman of the foundation in 2016. He is also a director of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. He has served as a senior fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto, an adviser to the Cundill Prize Foundation, and a governor of the Aurea Foundation. He is a senior fellow at the C.D. Howe Institute, a life-time honorary alumnus of McGill University, and a former board member of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
In the spring of 2017, Whyte, in response to Hal Niedzviecki's editorial in Write magazine, initiated the "appropriation prize" in support of authors writing from points of view other than their own. The "prize" was controversial in the Indigenous literature community.

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Yavneh College Academy Trust was established in May 2016 as a result of Yavneh College converting to a Multi Academy Trust (MAT) in order for Yavneh Primary School to open in September 2016 and join the trust.
The role of the Academy Trust is to drive the core strategic functions of the school, to ensure that each school within the MAT has a clear vision and ethos and that they strive to provide excellent outcomes for all pupils within its care. The MAT will hold school leaders and local governing bodies to account to ensure that the highest possible educational standards and met and sustained.
In order to meet its core objectives, Yavneh College Academy Trust has 10 trustees who sit on the MAT Board, each with a particular focus. In addition to the MAT board, both Yavneh College and Yavneh Primary School have a local governing body along with various standing committees. Yavneh College Academy Trust also have a link governor programme. Governors are linked to different members of senior staff in order to gain a better understanding into the day to day business of the college.
If you wish to contact any of the trustees please contact them via email to trustees@yavnehcollege.org.
Sue Nyman, Chair of Yavneh College Academy Trust, is a Chartered Accountant. She is a National Director at Grant Thornton where she heads up the Quality and Risk Management team for the practice. Sue has been involved in Yavneh College since before the school opened. She has led the school through an Outstanding Ofsted inspection and the project to open Yavneh Primary School.
Daniel Album is Chair of Yavneh Foundation Trust, Vice Chair of Yavneh Academy Trust and Chair of the Premise Committee. He has been a Trustee or Governor since before the School opened in 2006 and became Vice-chair in 2010.
Through his role on the Premises Committee, he has been particularly responsible for the construction of the secondary school, the synagogue and more recently the building of Yavneh Primary School. Daniel has had three children go to Yavneh College. Previously a hedge fund manager, Daniel is now semi-retired offering fund management/asset allocation advice.
Mark Frazer is the trustee sitting on the MAT Board with responsibility for advising on PR and Communications Strategy. He is a member of the Admissions Committee and is Vice Chair of the Yavneh Primary School Local Governing Body. Mark is the Director of Communications at the Office of the Chief Rabbi.
Rolanda is a Chartered Accountant who combines an active life with being a governor at Yavneh College Multi Academy Trust. Rolanda enjoys being part of the family and her roles involve assisting on the finance committee and chairing the Personnel Committee. Roalnda's background as an accountant allows her to help the Business Manager with any technical accounting/audit queries. Rolanda works full time in a chartered accountancy practice in Paddington. When she is not working you will find her training for triathlons and spending time with her 6 grandchildren.
Spencer Lewis was educated at Hasmonean High School in London and moved on to Jews College London where he gained a BA and MA in Rabbinic Literature from the University of London. After graduating Spencer began his teaching career at Hasmonean High School and the Independent Jewish Day School. In 1993 Spencer spent a year at Bar Ilan University in Israel on the Senior Educators' Programme after which he joined King Solomon High School in Redbridge. Spencer spent 19 years at King Solomon beginning as a teacher going on to Head the Jewish Studies department, moving to Head of Year, Assistant and Deputy Head Teacher and finally Head Teacher between 2007 and 2013. Spencer has a Post Graduate Certificate in Educational Leadership from the University of Hull and the National Professional Qualification for Headship from the NCSL. He was appointed as Head Teacher of Yavneh College in September 2013.
Roz qualified as a teacher in 1973 and has been involved in education all her working life. Roz was Headteacher of Wohl Ilford Jewish Primary School until her retirement in July 2014. Roz enjoys spending time with her family; reading, theatre, travel and volunteering. Roz is a member of the MAT Board and the Local Governing Body of Yavneh Primary School.
Doreen is retired having spent most of her working life in education after a short period as a research chemist and information scientist. Doreen was a science teacher in secondary schools and further education but spent the latter years of her career as a senior manager in an FE college with responsibility for quality including the standard of teaching and learning. Doreen was also an additional inspector for Ofsted. Doreen currently live in North London with her husband.
Sue qualified as a teacher in 1974 and has been involved in education all her working life. For the past twenty years Sue has taught in a primary special needs setting. Sue enjoys spending time with her family; reading, theatre, travel, gardening and volunteering. Sue is a member of the MAT Board plus the Local Governing Body of Yavneh Primary School.
Daniel Summerfield is a member of the MAT Board and is also a member of the Yavneh College Local Governing Body. Perviously Daniel has been a governor at HJPS for approximately 13 years; he was Vice-Chair for 5 years and Chair of Governors for 2 years. Daniel has three children at Yavneh College and he works for an Investment Management firm.
Doreen Morris was appointed chair of the Yavneh College Local Governing Body in May 2016. In addition to Doreen, Rolanda, Spencer and Bradley are also MAT board Trustees who site on the local governing body. Doreen is also supported by the governors detailed below.
Naomi has 1 child who is currently at Yavneh College and has twins due to join in 2019. Naomi has been a governor for 9 years at one of the most respected local secular schools, orginally as a parent governor and now as SEN and Pupil Premium Governor.
Richard Gilbert has two sons, both of whom are pupils at Yavneh College. Richard has been a Governor of Yavneh College for many years having sat on the school's Temporary Governing Body before the school opened and then on the school's Governing Body until the formation of the Multi Academy Trust. Richard chaired the Education Committee for many years, sat on the Finance Committee and has been the Governor with responsibility for Child Protection issues. Since the formation of the Multi Academy Trust, Richard sits on the Local Governing Body for Yavneh College as its Vice Chair.
Richard is also very active in the Bushey Community currently serving as Warden for Bushey Synagogue. He is a practicing solicitor.
Aaron and his wife have lived in Borehamwood for 9 years and have three children, all of whom attend Rosh Pinah Primary School. Aaron is an active member of the Borehamwood and Elstree United Synagogue and Aaron has served on the Board of Management and various other committees for the Shul, whilst his day job is that of an internal Financial Analyst for Springer Nature Publishers. Aaron has been unofficially helping Yavneh since 2011, with data, statistics and communications for the Yavneh College Primary School and more recently, admissions related issues and demographics for Yavneh College. Aaron joined the Yavneh College Local Governing Body in July 2016, where he hopes to use his analytical and statistical strengths on both admissions and wider school performance data.
Anna was Co-Chair of the YCA for over 3 years. Anna has 2 children at Yavneh College and is committed to the wellbeing of the children and making sure they have the best opportunities available to them. Anna is a practising lawyer and runs her own successful legal practice.
Jerome Reback was a Foundation Governor of Yavneh College since 2008 and a member of the MAT Board until March 2017. He is a Trustee of the Yavneh Foundation Trust which he co-chaired until March 2017. Over that time Jerome has helped with strategy development for the Yavneh Schools, including, in particular, the proposal to the DfE for the establishment of Yavneh Primary School. Jerome is a member of the Yavneh College Local Governing Body. He has had 5 children at Yavneh College. Professionally, Jerome works as a strategy consultant specialising in change and transformation, a role in which he has advised many of the world's largest corporations.
Roz Levin was appointed chair of the Yavneh Primary School Local Governing Body in June 2017. In addition to Roz, Mark and Rolanda who are MAT Board trustees, the following governors also sit on the Yavneh Primary School Local Governing Body.
Caroline Field was educated at Haberdashers Aske School for Girls before going to Manchester Metropolitan University where she graduated in 1997 with a First Class Degree in Primary Education. Caroline began her career at Colindale Primary School. During this time, she studied and gained a Certificate in Specific Learning Difficulties before moving to Dollis Infant School where she worked as a Special Educational Needs Leader. In 2004 Caroline moved to Menorah Foundation School where she took up the role of Deputy Headteacher. She was promoted to Headteacher in 2013 where her leadership was rated outstanding by Ofsted. Caroline has the National Professional Qualification for Headship from the NCSL. Caroline was appointed Headteacher of Yavneh Primary School in November 2015 and has been instrumental in setting up Yavneh Primary School which opened in September 2016 with its first cohort of Reception children.
Ayelet Landsman is a staff governor on the Yavneh Primary School Local Governing Body. She is Head of Early Years at Yavneh Primary School, the class teacher of Zeraim and is excited to be part of this new venture. Ayelet was also part of the first staff cohort at Yavneh College as Head of Music and enjoys teaching piano and flute.
Fiona Mendel is a parent governor at Yavneh Primary School and sits on it Local Governing Body She is also a member of the Finance Committee. Fiona has a child at Yavneh Primary School. Fiona is an Employment Solicitor and HR Operations Manager for a local HR Company.
Gemma Peters is a parent governor on the Yavneh Primary School Local Governing Body. She is the Deputy Head teacher of a Jewish Primary School. Gemma has responsibility for SEND on the Yavneh Primary School Local Governing Body. Gemma has a child at Yavneh Primary School.
Yavneh College's broad range of subjects and extra curricular activities helps create the perfect environment for students to flourish. The teachers are approachable, caring and fun to be around. This helps everyone feel part of the Yavneh family.


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She Rocks, Vol. 1: A Collection of Kick-Ass Guitar Goddesses is a 2017 compilation album featuring female rock guitarists, released by Favored Nations Entertainment on January 20, 2017. The album was produced by Brad Tolinski and Steve Vai. The cover art was designed by Laura B. Whitmore.

Track listing
 Orianthi – "Transmogrify"
 Yasi Hofer – "Cosmic Stars"
 Kat Dyson – "U Know What I Like"
 Sarah Longfield – "The Taxi Time Travel Task Force"
 Lita Ford w/ Lez Zeppelin – "The Lemon Song"
 Jennifer Batten – "In the Aftermath"
 Nita Strauss – "Pandemonium"
 Steph Paynes – "The Sun at Her Eastern Gate"
 Nili Brosh – "A Matter of Perception"
 Gretchen Menn – "Scrap Metal"
 Yvette Young – "Hydra

See also
 Women in rock

References

2017 compilation albums
Favored Nations compilation albums
Women in music
Rock compilation albums


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ARLINGTON, VA; December 6, 2017 – PBS today announced its Winter/Spring 2018 schedule lineup, which includes the much-anticipated second season of MASTERPIECE's hit series "Victoria" (Sundays, January 14-February 25),starring Jenna Coleman, Tom Hughes and, this season, Dame Diana Rigg. Also coming from MASTERPIECE is "Little Women" (Sundays, May 13-20) with Emily Watson, Angela Lansbury, Dylan Baker and Michael Gambon in this new adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's timeless classic, and "The Child in Time" (Sunday, April 1), based on Ian McEwan's acclaimed novel and starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kelly Macdonald.
Additional highlights include the debut of the new series WE'LL MEET AGAIN (Tuesdays, January 23-February 27) with Ann Curry, which explores some of history's most dramatic events through the personal stories of those who experienced them, reuniting people whose lives intersected at pivotal moments (view clip here). NATURE's three-part miniseries "Animals with Cameras" (Wednesdays, January 31-February 14) is a fascinating look at the secret lives of animals, filmed where no human cinematographers can go.
The arts continue to shine on PBS with the premiere of TONY BENNETT: THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GERSHWIN PRIZE FOR POPULAR SONG (Friday, January 12); GREAT PERFORMANCES concerts from the groundbreaking artists Nas Live From the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop (Friday, February 2) and will.i.am, as he reunites with the Black Eyed Peas for Landmarks Live in Concert: A GREAT PERFORMANCES Special (Friday, April 13); and "Live From Lincoln Center Presents at the Appel Room" (beginning Spring 2018), a concert miniseries that puts a spotlight on Stephanie J. Block, Sutton Foster, Leslie Odom Jr., and Andrew Rannells with four new episodes, one for each performer, illuminating their journeys to musical stardom, revisiting favorite songs and offering glimpses of future projects.
PBS will also be home to supersized event programming this season, with the nine-part CIVILIZATIONS (Tuesdays, April 17-May 15, June TBA), which tells the story of art from the dawn of human history to the present day — for the first time on a global scale — and THE GREAT AMERICAN READ (Tuesday, May 22), which kicks off a national campaign to choose "America's Best-Loved Book."
PBS will honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and recognize the 50th anniversary of King's assassination with a slate of programs that celebrate his legacy, including the Academy Award-nominated film from INDEPENDENT LENS, "I Am Not Your Negro" (Monday, January 15). The film examines the lives and successive assassinations of three of James Baldwin's close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. Programs airing around Dr. King's birthday and in honor of Black History Month include AMERICAN MASTERS "Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart," about the A Raisin in the Sun playwright (Friday, January 19), INDEPENDENT LENS "Winnie," about the wife of Nelson Mandela (Monday, February 5) and an encore broadcast of AMERICAN MASTERS "Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise," about the activist, poet and author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Friday, February 16). In April — the anniversary month of Dr. King's assassination — PBS presents encore broadcasts of Dr. Henry Louis Gates' BLACK AMERICA SINCE MLK: AND STILL I RISE (Tuesday, April 3 and Wednesday, April 4) and AMERICAN EXPERIENCE "Roads to Memphis" (Wednesday, April 4).
PBS will present its Winter/Spring programming slate during presentations at the Television Critics Association Press Tour on Tuesday, January 16, and Wednesday, January 17, and will include appearances by Angela Lansbury, Emily Watson, Maya Hawke, Annes Elwy, Willa Fitzgerald and Kathryn Newton from MASTERPIECE's "Little Women," plus Benjamin Bratt and activist Dolores Huerta, PBS icon Bill Nye, acclaimed director Stanley Nelson and more.
The PBS Winter/Spring season includes many additional shows, series and specials, with most program descriptions listed below. More announcements about PBS specials and thematic programs will be made in the coming weeks, including programs for Earth Day and Memorial Day. Please check full listings below. For more information on all programs, visit pressroom.pbs.org.
PROGRAM LISTINGS FOR PBS WINTER/SPRING 2018
TOP SEASON PICKS
SEASON 2 PREMIERE: MASTERPIECE "Victoria" (Sundays, January 14-21, 9-11 pm, January 28-February 25, 9-10 pm ET) The dazzling series returns with Jenna Coleman as the feisty rookie monarch, Tom Hughes as her smoldering consort, Prince Albert, Rufus Sewell as her former prime minister and close friend Lord Melbourne, and Dame Diana Rigg joining the acting ensemble. Season 2 takes place against the backdrop of the early years of the Industrial Revolution, when society is changing as fast as the queen's growing family.
MASTERPIECE "Little Women" (Sundays, May 13, at the special time of 8-9 pm ET; May 20, at the special time of 8-10 pm ET) As engaging today as in 1868, Louisa May Alcott's story follows sisters Jo (Maya Hawke), Meg (Willa Fitzgerald), Beth (Annes Elwy) and Amy (Kathryn Newton) who, together with Laurie (Jonah Hauer-King), journey to adulthood. The cast also includes Emily Watson, Angela Lansbury, Dylan Baker and Michael Gambon.
SERIES PREMIERE: WE'LL MEET AGAIN (Tuesdays, January 23-February 27, 8-9 pm ET)Join Ann Curry for a new series featuring dramatic reunions of people whose lives crossed at pivotal moments. View history through their eyes and hear stories of heroism, hope and the forging of unbreakable bonds.
SERIES PREMIERE: CIVILIZATIONS (Tuesdays, April 17-May 15, 8-9 pm ET; June TBA)Explore the power of art from the earliest civilizations to the present, for the first time on a global scale. The series reveals the role art and the creative imagination have played in the forging of humanity, and introduces new generations to works of beauty, ingenuity and illumination.
SERIES LAUNCH EVENT: THE GREAT AMERICAN READ (Kickoff Show Tuesday, May 22, 8-10 pm ET) Examine the power, passion and joy of reading, gauged through America's 100 best-loved books chosen by the public. The multi-part series features reflections from everyday Americans, as well as figures in the entertainment, sports, news and literary worlds, culminating in the first national vote to choose "America's Best-Loved Book."
NATURE "Animals with Cameras" (Wednesdays, January 31-February 14, 8-9 pm ET) Witness the secret lives of animals as never before as this three-part series uncovers truly unprecedented behavior. See a side of the animal kingdom where human cameramen can't go and animals become the cinematographers.
PBS MONTH-BY-MONTH SCHEDULE
INDEPENDENT LENS (Mondays)
This continuing series features documentaries united by the creative freedom, artistic achievement and unflinching visions of independent filmmakers.
INDEPENDENT LENS kicks off the New Year with:
"The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin" (Monday, January 1,10:30 pm-midnight ET) Meet the frank and funny creator of the groundbreaking Tales of the City and follow his evolution from a conservative son of the Old South to a gay rights pioneer whose work has inspired millions. With Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis and Ian McKellen.
"I Am Not Your Negro" (Monday, January 15, 9-10:30 pm ET) An Academy Award nominee, the film envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, a revolutionary and personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Additional season information here: INDEPENDENT LENS
30TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON PREMIERE: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (Tuesdays)
This continuing series explores the incredible characters and epic stories that have shaped America's past and present. Television's most-watched history series, acclaimed by viewers and critics alike, has been honored with every major broadcast award.
"Into the Amazon" (Tuesday, January 9, 9-11 pm ET) Discover the remarkable story of the perilous 1914 journey of Theodore Roosevelt and Brazilian explorer Candido Rondon into the dark and deadly heart of the Amazon rainforest. Featuring the voices of Alec Baldwin, Wagner Moura and Jake Lacy.
Additional season information here: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
NOVA (Wednesdays at 9 pm)
The premier science series on PBS explores the science behind the headlines.
"Black Hole Apocalypse" (January 10, 9-11 pm ET) Join astrophysicist and author Janna Levin on a mind-bending journey to the frontiers of black hole research. Discover how scientists observe black holes as they form and reveal new clues to the strangest and most extreme objects in the universe.
Additional information about upcoming episodes here: NOVA
TONY BENNETT: THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GERSHWIN PRIZE FOR POPULAR SONG (Friday, January 12, 9-10:30 pm ET) Enjoy an all-star tribute to the legendary Tony Bennett, the 2017 recipient of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. The evening, hosted by Bruce Willis, will feature performances by Bennett, Josh Groban, Michael Bublé, Michael Feinstein, Chris Botti, Wé McDonald, Vanessa Williams, Lukas Nelson, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Savion Glover, Gloria Estefan and Stevie Wonder, with Wynton Marsalis as a presenter.
SEASON 2 PREMIERE: MASTERPIECE "Victoria" (Sundays, January 14-21, 9-11 pm, January 28-February 25, 9-10 pm ET) The dazzling series returns with Jenna Coleman as the feisty rookie monarch, Tom Hughes as her smoldering consort, Prince Albert, and Dame Diana Rigg joining the acting ensemble. Season 2 takes place against the backdrop of the early years of the Industrial Revolution, when society is changing as fast as the queen's growing family.
UNDERSTANDING THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC (Wednesday, January 17, 10-11 pm ET) Witness stories of people and communities affected by the opioid epidemic, along with information from experts and those on the frontlines. Learn how the nation got into this situation and hear possible solutions and directions for dealing with the crisis.
NATURE (Wednesdays at 8 pm ET)
This continuing series explores the splendors and compelling stories of the natural world from all over the globe.
"Arctic Wolf Pack"(Wednesday, January 17, 8-9 pm ET) Discover the white wolf, one of the most hardened predators on the planet, in Ellesmere Island's unforgiving ice and snow. In a fight for survival, these roaming hunters must travel far from the den to feed their cubs, putting them at risk.
Additional information here: NATURE
AMERICAN MASTERS (Fridays)
This continuing series explores the lives and creative journeys of America's most enduring artistic and cultural giants.
"Lorraine Hansberry: Sighted Eyes/Feeling Heart"(Friday, January 19, 9-11 pm ET) Explore the life and work of the A Raisin in the Sun playwright and activist who played a significant role in the civil rights movement. LaTanya Richardson Jackson narrates. Anika Noni Rose is the voice of Hansberry.
Additional season information here: AMERICAN MASTERS
SERIES PREMIERE: WE'LL MEET AGAIN (Tuesdays, January 23-February 27, 8-9 pm ET) Join Ann Curry for a new series featuring dramatic reunions of people whose lives crossed at pivotal moments. View history through their eyes and hear stories of heroism, hope and the forging of unbreakable bonds.
SECRETS OF THE DEAD "Scanning the Pyramids"(Wednesday, January 24, 10-11 pm ET) Travel with the scientific team granted unprecedented access by the Egyptian government to solve a 4,500-year-old mystery: what lies within the Great Pyramid at Giza. Using non-invasive technologies, they make a historic discovery.
QUEEN ELIZABETH'S SECRET AGENTS (Sundays, January 28-February 11, 10-11 pm ET) Uncover the secret state that helped keep Queen Elizabeth I in power for more than 40 years. During a time when Britain was divided, unstable and violent, the world's first secret service, run by father-son team William and Robert Cecil, was born.
FRONTLINE (Tuesdays, January-February 2018, Dates TBA)
Experience powerful investigative storytelling that answers only to you. From criminal justice to politics to global issues, the reporting of PBS' flagship public affairs documentary series takes you inside the controversial, complex stories shaping our times.
"Exodus: The Journey Continues" (Tuesday, January 23, 9-11 pm ET) Hear intimate stories of refugees and migrants caught in Europe's tightened borders. Amid the ongoing migration crisis, the film follows personal journeys over two years, as countries become less welcoming to those seeking refuge.
Additional season information here: FRONTLINE
GREAT PERFORMANCES (Fridays)
This continuing series is television's longest-running performing arts anthology and features the best in music, dance and theater.
"Nas Live From the Kennedy Center: Classical Hip-Hop" (Friday, February 2, 9-10 pm ET) Witness the groundbreaking hip-hop artist perform a symphonic rendition of his seminal debut album Illmatic with the National Symphony Orchestra. Nas paints a densely textured lyrical portrait of life in a New York City public housing project.
Additional season information here: GREAT PERFORMANCES
"Winnie" (February 5, 10-11:30 pm ET) Explore the life of Winnie Mandela and her struggle to bring down apartheid, with intimate insights from those closest to her and testimony from the enemies who sought to extinguish her radical capacity to shake up the order of things.
"Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities" (February 19, 9-10:30 pm) Explore the pivotal role that historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) have played in shaping American history, culture and national identity.
The longest-running television showcase featuring the work of the world's best contemporary-issue independent filmmakers. The season lineup (previously announced) continues this fall.
"Do Not Resist" (Monday, February 12, 10-11:30 pm ET) Director Craig Atkinson puts viewers in the center of the action in this vital and influential exploration of the rapid militarization of the police in the United States. Winner, Best Documentary Feature Award, 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.
Additional season information here: POV
GREAT PERFORMANCES "Movies for Grownups Awards with AARP The Magazine" (Friday, February 23 at 9 pm ET)
Broadcast for the first time ever, AARP The Magazine's Movies for Grownups® Awards were established to celebrate and encourage filmmaking with unique appeal to movie lovers with a grownup state of mind—and recognize the inspiring artists who make them. Helen Mirren will receive the 2017 Movies for Grownups Career Achievement Award at the 17th annual Movies for Grownups Awards, co-produced by Great Performances.
AMERICAN CREED (Tuesday, February 27, 9-10 pm ET) Condoleezza Rice and David M. Kennedy cross party lines to ask what ideals we share. Stories of unlikely activists including baseball's Joe Maddon, author Junot Diaz and Marine Tegan Griffith show communities striving to come together across divides.
IMPOSSIBLE BUILDS (Wednesdays, February 7-21, 10-11 pm ET) Learn about the creation of some of the world's most ambitious and technologically advanced buildings. From subaquatic homes to futuristic towers and pencil-thin skyscrapers, see how these previously impossible structures are taking shape.
THE RISE AND FALL OF THE BROWN BUFFALO (Friday, March 23, 9-10 pm ET) Explore the life of radical Chicano countercultural icon Oscar Zeta Acosta — the basis for Dr. Gonzo in Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas — in this fresh and genre-defying film that weaves archival footage with dramatized portrayals.
CALL THE MIDWIFE, Season 7 (Sundays, March 25, 8-10 pm, April 1-May 6, 8-9 pm ET) Poplar welcomes Lucille Anderson, the first West Indian midwife to be featured as a series regular. Tested as never before, the nuns and nurses face challenging issues, from leprosy, tokophobia and stroke to Huntington's chorea and unmarried mothers.
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Climate Change: Glaciers
Lyell Glacier: 1883 vs. 2013
Lyell Glacier in 1883 (Israel Russell, USGS)
Lyell Glacier in 2013 (NPS Photo)
Of at least four glaciers that John Muir recorded in Yosemite during the 1860s–70s, only one still qualifies as a glacier. These dwindling bodies of ice, cradled in tracks of the vast glaciers that sculpted Yosemite's canyons and domes over the past 2–3 million years, are shrinking largely due to global climate change. While few visitors to Yosemite ever lay eyes on a glacier, each year hundreds of thousands of sightseers and hikers visit ecosystems fed by their meltwater. Glacial runoff differs from snowmelt in one important way: it continues through late summer and fall after the snow disappears, sustaining life in high-elevation ecosystems that would otherwise be dry. During spring, the trickle of glacial meltwater barely registers in the thundering, snowmelt-fed Lyell Fork of the Tuolumne River. However, by September and October in dry years, that same steady glacial runoff can make up 90% of the river's smaller flow. This reliable water source shapes ecosystems and human recreation in Lyell Canyon, Tuolumne Meadows, and the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne River.
Two hikers ascend the remnant Lyell Glacier in October, 2016. The Lyell Glacier no longer moves downhill, meaning that it no longer formally meets the definition of "glacier."
Changing Giants
Earth goes through natural cycles of warming and cooling, typically lasting tens of thousands of years. Because glaciers respond to changes in Earth's climate and their movements carve long-lasting records into the landscape, they are key to allowing geologists to "see" into the past. Around 20,000 years ago, the Tioga Glaciation (the last glacial maximum) filled much of Yosemite with glaciers and ice fields; the largest of these stretched nearly 50 miles from Mount Lyell, down the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne River, and through Hetch Hetchy Valley. These massive glaciers retreated, then crept forward and retreated again for thousands of years. For several periods around 10,500–5,400 and 4,800–3,200 years ago, the Sierra Nevada may have been entirely free of glaciers. By around 3,200 years ago, as Earth entered a natural cooling period known as neoglaciation, small glaciers began to return to the Sierra Nevada. While Earth is still within this natural cooling period, these glaciers are likely to vanish within 50–250 years due to warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
What changes are we seeing?
Surface area loss: As recently as 100–200 years ago, Yosemite's glaciers were advancing, forming small moraines sometimes called "Matthes moraines" after geologist François Matthes. However, by the late 1800s, observers had begun to notice shrinking and loss of glacial features, including crevasses. From 1883–2017, the surface area of Yosemite's two active glaciers (Lyell Glacier and Maclure Glacier) decreased by 67–78%. Up to 16% of that loss took place during the historic drought of 2012–2015 alone.
Thinning ice: Since 1933, both glaciers have lost 80–115 feet of dept—around the height of a six-story building. During the 2012–2015 drought, they lost around 13 feet (one story) each year.
Stalled motion: According to measurements made by park geologists over 2009–2012, the Maclure Glacier is still moving downhill at around one inch per day (the same rate measured by John Muir in 1872). The Lyell Glacier, however, displayed virtually no movement over that four-year period, meaning that it likely no longer meets the definition of glacier.
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This animation shows the retreat of the Maclure and Lyell glaciers from 1883 to 2016. Note: There is no audio.
A glacier's health is determined by a combination of winter snowfall and summer and winter temperatures. Although snowfall at high elevations has not declined, both summer and winter temperatures are continuing to rise across the western US. Glaciers may not shrink during the winter, but higher winter temperatures warm the snowpack and require less energy for the ice to reach melting point in summer. Between 1903 and 2004, the volume of water frozen in Sierra Nevada glaciers dropped by over 155 billion gallons—more than the size of the entire Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.
Geologists don't know for sure how long the Lyell and Maclure Glaciers will be around. Climate change is associated with extreme weather events, which make it more difficult to predict changes from year to year. However, based on current rates of loss, glaciers are likely to disappear from Yosemite's peaks within decades. When that happens, part of Yosemite's geologic story will slip into the past, sending ripple effects to plant communities, wildlife, and all those who visit downstream ecosystems.
Climate Change in Yosemite
What does it mean to conserve and protect a place during a time of large-scale environmental change?
How is the park responding?
Yosemite serves as a unique living laboratory for climate scientists and a center for teaching, learning, and connection.
Simple choices can change the environmental impact of your trip to Yosemite. How can we shrink the carbon footprint we leave behind?
Basagic, H. J., and A. G. Fountain. "Quantifying 20th Century Glacier Change in the Sierra Nevada, California." Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 43, no. 3 (2011): 317–30. https://doi.org/10.1657/1938-4246-43.3.317.
Stock, Greg M., Robert S. Anderson, Thomas H. Painter, Brian Henn, and Jessica D. Lundquist. "Impending Loss Of Little Ice Age Glaciers In Yosemite National Park." Geological Society of America Meeting, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1130/abs/2017am-299617.
Episode 12: Glaciers
Yosemite National Park is famous for its spectacular glacially carved landscape. Although glaciers have come and gone many times in the past, there are still two active glaciers near Yosemite's highest peaks. (8:34)


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Driving along the old alignment of Route 66 in the western Oklahoma town of El Reno, travelers will come to a sharp turn at the corner of Wade and Choctaw where two very distinctive reminders of the service station business along Route 66 remain. At 220 North Choctaw is the old Avant's Cities Service Station, and immediately to the south, at 121 West Wade, is the Jackson Conoco Service Station. Both businesses began in the 1930s, a favorable time when the paving of Oklahoma Route 66 west of Oklahoma City neared completion.
There seem to be no dramatic stories of cut-throat commercial rivalry between the establishments' long time managers Tom Avant and Carelton Jackson, even though their two stations were constructed at nearly the same time along the same highway, and within sight of each other. Perhaps this was because as long as the Mother Road reigned supreme, it channeled a constant and growing stream of traffic through small towns such as El Reno, seemingly bringing enough customers for all. Products of their time, the stations represent two contrasting examples of the oil and gas industry's practice of achieving brand recognition through distinctive service station architecture.
Mr. Avant's station is an Art Moderne /Art Deco mixed design favored by the Cities Service Oil Company in the 1920s and 1930s. Its overall streamlined and trimmed down look with smooth walls and a flat roof is typical Art Moderne. Art Deco elements include the prominent zigzag parapet and stepped out pilasters. The circular depression beneath the parapet once held the Cities Service logo. A lonely overhead light socket that illuminated the logo still remains. The station's original color scheme was Cities Service's trademark white with green trim.
The Jackson Conoco Service Station across the street is a sharp contrast. Unlike the 1930s futuristic approach of Cities Service, but very similar to other competitors such as Phillips 66 and Pure Oil, Conoco Oil opted for the welcoming and domesticated look. The station is styled in the Conoco's house-with-bays style, resembling a residential home or cottage with a steeply pitched gabled roof, chimney, and decorative corbelling at the eaves under the corners. Distinguishing Conoco's version of this cottage look is the white glazed brick exterior with red brick trim.
Historic Avant's Cities Service Station, ca. 1946
Both stations had a service bay incorporated into their distinctive designs, a sign that these roadside facilities were transitioning toward full service stations. In keeping with its homey motif, the Jackson Conoco's bay looks like a residential garage with a gabled roof. Both stations added additional service bays and gas pump canopies in the prosperous era after World War II.
Each of the stations replaced earlier casualties of the automobile age. Built in 1933, the Avant Station is on the site of the once flourishing Campbell Hotel, a traditional downtown-lodging establishment that did not appeal to hurried motorists along Route 66. Travelers in automobiles ultimately preferred motor courts and motels at the city's edge. The venerable hotel was razed to make way for the service station. The early 20th century was a period of increasing competitiveness in America's oil and gas business, and in 1934, the Jackson Conoco replaced a demolished 1920s state-of-the-art Marland Oil "triangular station" (gas pumps only), after Conoco bought out its parent company.
The stations managed to hold on after the coming of Interstate 40 in the early 1960s, but neither really flourished. The two stations eventually evolved to serve new functions. Today, the Avant's Service Station is a muffler shop. The Jackson Conoco Service Station serves as a used car dealership. Both stations were listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
The Avant's Cities Service Station is located at 220 N. Choctaw, and the Jackson Conoco Service Station is located at 121 W. Wade in El Reno, OK. The Jackson Conoco Service Station's National Register nomination form can be found here.
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I love food so much it's ridiculous. Especially eating it. But making it can be pretty fun too. Especially when I'm not just a full-time veggie chopper. Especially, when you get to cook with family or friends, for special occasions, or particularly exciting dishes.
Every year, as per tradition, our family makes the same Middle Eastern dishes for Easter (and family reunions). My great grandfather, Sam Bitar, and my great grandmother came from the Middle East in the early 1900s. Technically he was Syrian and she was Lebanese… they came over just before the post -WWI French League of Nations Mandate that divided the Ottoman Empire (Contemporary Middle Eastern History with Dr. Saffran filled my brain with far too much knowledge). Thus we consider ourselves Lebanese & Syrian. We make grape leaves, fatayers, hummus, tabbouleh, and kibbe. Kibbe nayyi (raw) for particularly special occasions. And for dessert mahmoul & ka'ak cookies. Hummus & tabbouleh are the only two vegan dishes. So I've been developing vegan recipes based off of the traditional ones.
But back to the grape leaves, if you've had grape leaves you've probably had the lenten version… vegetarian (and maybe you called them Dolmas… which are technically Turkish – it gets complicated). But traditionally, my family stuffed their grape leaves with beef & rice. I think lamb is actually the most traditional (at least according to the cookbooks) but probably becomes rather expensive when you're churning out huge batches for the entiiiiire family.
The gist is, I grew up watching my mom makes these for significant family gatherings. And I tried to help make them… sometimes. And I definitely helped eat them. Straight our of the pot… when no one was looking. Grape Leaves are absolutely a unique flavor but they're a bit gooey and very tangy (from the lemons & leaves) and definitely delicious. They're especially wonderful vegan & dipped in hummus or baba ghanoush.
A Lebanese cookbook my grandmother gave me (she had 2 copies!) has "lenten" variations for many of the usually meat-laden recipes. In other words, during the 40 days before Easter, people eat vegetarian cuisine. Needless to say, the "Lenten" chapter of my cookbook is my favorite.
I checked out the listed recipe for lenten grape leaves before deciding to make up my own. The measurements below are a rough estimate. Because honestly, I kept just throwing more of one ingredient into the 4 cup measurer when I thought it looked like it needed more red or green.
The only tedious part of making Grape Leaves is the stuffing part. It's actually pretty simple though.
Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and stir thoroughly to combine and coat rice.
Remove a hunk of grape leaves from the jar. They usually come in portions… they roll up about 20 – 40 leaves and shove them in the brine. Rinse the hunk of grape leaves under cold water, just to get a bit of brine off.
You want to use the larger grape leaves. About 6 inches in diameter or so. If you want to be a pro and happen to find a bunch of smaller leaves tucked in there, you can overlap them to make "one" larger grape leaf.
On a cutting board, spread grape leaf with the veins of the leaf facing up. Fill center with about 2 Tbsp of rice filling. Mom always makes hers longer & thinner but I've always liked mine shorter & fatter so you can spread the filling to your liking. I do about 2.5 – 3 inches long.
Next, you must rolllllll the grape leaf. Which is just like making a burrito. Which, anyone who's worked at a Chipotle has mastered… unless you've worked in State College – your grape leaves may fall apart, much like your burritos. (Okay, some of their staff are definitely professionals, I'm only teasing).
1. Fold the end closest to you up over the rice.
2. Fold in the left & right sides over the top.
3. Roll the filling up the leaf until the top is sealed. You want to make sure they're rolled well, snug but not "tight." You don't want them to fall apart in the simmering water but you want a bit of room for the rice to expand when it cooks.
If my directions make absolutely no sense because I am completely incompetent at explaining kitchen techniques… I'm more of a teach by show kinda gal…. there is a wonderful series of pictures at SouSou Kitchen that show the steps to rolling a grape leaf…. I suggest you visit the site since I don't even think I understand what I'm explaining. Maybe it's because it's really quite simple – I swear!
Line a large-ish pot with the grape leaves to make a single bottom layer. Squeeze them in snug. Layer the slices of lemon on top of your bottom layer of grape leaves. Now, make a second layer of grape leaves in your pot. Mine didn't quite fill a second layer, which proved to be slightly detrimental to the whole… grape leaves staying together thing. Or maybe I just didn't make them "snug" enough. Doh! Top with more sliced lemon. Then fill pot with water until grape leaves are JUST covered. My mom says it's as simple as cooking rice… which is essentially what you are doing. But I wasn't that calm. Bring the water to a boil and then reduce to a simmer. Cook until most of the water is absorbed and the rice is thoroughly cooked (aka act like you're cooking rice, because you are). Some liquid will remain. I like to call this the "juice." It's lemony and helps the grape leaves stay moist & flavorful so don't throw it away… unless you're going to eat them all immediately. Which is fine by me!
About time, I have been needing a blog post!! They look delicious. Where are the zillion cookies we made??
I haven't taken pictures yet!
They look great! 🙂 I love dolmas. In Bosnia (where I was born we call them – sarma). It is stuffed with ground beef and rice. A small spoonful of sour cream comes on the top when serving.
Sarma! That's what my boyfriend's family calls stuffed cabbage. I believe they're Romanian.
Yeah, my family makes them with ground beef & rice too. I've never tried them with sour cream, though!
You are the only other person I have come across with the same family background as me. My great grandma is from Lebanon and my great grandpa is from Syria. I was just talking to my mom over Easter about how I needed to find a grape leave recipe that was vegan. I can't wait to try these!


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+ The Radio Hall of Fame, also as know as Philco Radio Hall of Fame and Philco Summer Hour during 1944 summer, ran from 1943 to 1946 and was a variety show that starred the greatest performers of the 1940's, such as Bing Crosby, Groucho Marx and the Andrews Sisters, just to name a few. The show featured the very best in comedy, drama and music. Click here to read more about Radio Hall Of Fame
Please enjoy these 97 old time radio episodes:
12.26.1943 radio hall of fame (004) new year's message
01.02.1944 radio hall of fame (005) first song valencia
01.09.1944 radio hall of fame (006) moonlight
01.23.1944 radio hall of fame (008) first song oh what a beautiful morning
02.06.1944 radio hall of fame (010) first song beso mucho
02.13.1944 radio hall of fame (011) jane eyre
02.20.1944 radio hall of fame (12) the song of bernadette
03.05.1944 radio hall of fame (014) first song take it easy
04.02.1944 radio hall of fame (18) deems taylor
04.30.1944 radio hall of fame (022) no uncommon clay
05.07.1944 radio hall of fame (023) moral victory
05.14.1944 radio hall of fame (024) in the fog
05.21.1944 radio hall of fame (025) times square
06.04.1944 radio hall of fame (027) take it easy
06.11.1944 radio hall of fame (028) first song salt water cowboy
06.18.1944 radio hall of fame (029) first song louise
06.25.1944 radio hall of fame (030) don't sweetheart me
07.02.1944 radio hall of fame (031) stars and stripes forever
07.09.1944 radio hall of fame (032) lady of spain
07.16.1944 radio hall of fame (033) make way for tomorrow
07.23.1944 radio hall of fame (034) first song i want to be happy
07.30.1944 radio hall of fame (035) suzy
08.06.1944 radio hall of fame (036) is you is
08.13.1944 radio hall of fame (037) sweet and lovely
Spoiler : Featuring the complete existing NBC-BLUE and ABC radio series that was broadcast from 1943 to 1946. The program originally featured Paul Whiteman's music, with guest stars and a drama sponsored by Philco. During the summer of 1944 and 1945, the program was called The Philco Summer Hour. The programs were produced by the entertainment newspaper, Variety in New York. OTR John Dunning claims the program was kind of a weekly Academy Awards of radio, with those judged worthy for the broadcast week with the original movie stars revising their roles for the hour long program(s).
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Q: Spanning gnome-panel across dual monitors Is it possible to make gnome-panel span across the top of both screens (positioned side-by-side)?
Preferably, it should involve a solution where the additional screen can be painlessly added or removed at a whim - this is a laptop set up; Xorg restarts are a no-go, and DPI/position/resolution of the screens are different (so it does not look like one big screen, if you know what I mean).
If this helps: I am using NVidia's proprietary, Ubuntu 10.04.

A: I have done this but only by accident. It's not something I would recommend.
You can, however just add another panel (right click an existing panel and click New Panel) and drag it onto the new screen (might need to hold alt to drag it).
I have two panels that sit side-by-side over two monitors and they look like a single strip.

Actually I remember how I did this before. I turned Xinerama on (I think, might be off). X and the window manager will stop doing monitor detection and will treat the whole screen as one big thing. The side effect of this is all window-maximise actions will span both screens.
Just having two panels is much cleaner, IMO. But if you want to do this, add this to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I assume you're using the nvidia driver so you should have one of these.
Section "ServerFlags"
    Option         "Xinerama" "on"
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