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Hosting a giveaway (technically not a legal term, but it's used interchangeably with the term sweepstakes) is not only a great way to promote your blog or a product, but also it's a great way to build followers and build great relationships with sponsors. As a host it's your responsibility to make sure your sweepstake is legally set up. You definitely want to avoid turning your sweepstake into a lottery. The laws governing the sponsorship and hosting of social media promotions are widely overlooked or misunderstood. Below is a brief overview of the laws and tax implications you need to know to avoid placing your business at legal risk.
Generally speaking, there are three types of online promotions:
- Lotteries
- Sweepstakes
- Contests
Beginning with lotteries which are random drawings for prizes wherein participants have to pay to play. Let's look at the three components of a lottery:
1.) Prize, what you are giving away
2.) Chance, the element of luck involved in winning the prize, and
3.) Consideration, something of value.
For example from a bloggers standpoint, if you require someone to follow you or like your blog or page (consideration) for the probability (chance) to win a tablet (prize) that would place your giveaway into the lottery category which is so much more highly regulated (with the exception of state‐run lotteries and authorized raffles). You also cannot charge a fee or make someone purchase something for someone to enter your promotion or it will be considered a "lottery." You must make certain that your giveaway does not contain all three of these components. Of course hosting a giveaway you will be expected to have a prize and a chance, so you need to avoid having those who enter exchange consideration for the chance to win. So before considering having a "giveaway" you may want to consult with a legal consultant or check with your state to ensure compliance with their laws as well as with federal agencies.
The majority of bloggers usually run what you would call sweepstakes, meaning they give prizes away by choosing the winner by random drawings or chosen predominately by chance. Then you have contests, which is a promotion in which entrants win a prize based on merit or skills and prizes are awarded based on a judging panel or a voting process (for example, the best poem or the winner of a trivia game). No matter which option you choose whether it's a Sweepstake or a Contest you must have official rules. Two of the most used statements in the rules are "no purchase necessary" and "void where prohibited by law." Check out this link via SBA.gov: How to Use Contests, Sweepstakes, and Giveaways as Marketing Tools – While Staying Within the Law. Now as you know I am an EA and not an attorney so the information contained herein is not intended to constitute legal advice or a legal opinion as to any particular matter and I urge you to consult with an attorney concerning your own situation and any specific questions you may have. The contents are intended for general information purposes only from my own experience dealing with clients, by preparing the correct tax forms to send to the recipients of the winnings/prizes and assisting the business in filing their own forms to the correct agencies.
Knowing which social media promotion you are running or hosting, whether it be contests, sweepstakes, raffles, drawings, giveaways, or freebies will have tax implications.
Sponsors of lotteries, sweepstakes, drawings and raffles that are considered gambling must send the recipient a W-2G if the recipient's cash winnings and/or the Fair Market Value (FMV) of prizes such as cars and trips are $600 or more and at least 300 times the amount of the wager. Also, you must withhold at a 25% rate if the winnings minus the wager are more than $5,000 of gambling winnings for federal income tax.
Sponsors of contests and sweepstakes are required to send the recipient a 1099-Misc if the recipient's cash winnings and/or the Fair Market Value of merchandise won are $600 or more and do not involve a wager.
Eligibility might be further limited to particular states within the United States that have relatively more rigorous legal requirements, which includes:
- Florida – sponsors of promotions in which the total value of the prize exceeds $5,000 must file a copy of the rules and a list of all prizes at least seven days before the promotion begins and submit proof of either a trust account or surety bond equivalent to the sum of the prizes offered. Promotions based in other states must be filed if they are open to Florida residents and have prizes valued at more than $5,000.
- New York – the filing requirement are an issue when the total value of the prize exceeds $5,000. If that is the case the sponsor must file with the Secretary of State at least 30 days prior to the start of the promotion along with a statement setting forth the official rules and regulations and create a trust account, certificate of deposit or surety bond in the amount of the offered prize.
- Rhode Island – the filing requirements begin when the promotion is offered at a retail establishment and the value of the prize exceeds $500. Rhode Island does not require the posting of a bond.
There may be filing fees associated with submitting the required information to these states along with other professional fees needed in the assistance of completing these tasks (lawyers, brokers, etc.) – these fees are considered business expenses, so they can be deductible on your tax return.
In addition to structuring sweepstakes and contests to comply with federal and state laws, companies must pay attention to the promotion terms and conditions of social media networking sites. Check out their promotion guideline agreements.
I hope the information that I've shared was helpful. Again, the information contained herein is not intended to constitute legal advice or a legal opinion as to any particular matter and I urge you to consult with an attorney or your state/federal regulators concerning your own situation and any specific questions you may have.
Debbie Thomas, EA, NRB


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Hello everyone.
I have been trying to find whatdoes whenCode:
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I know from Java Tutorials that getRGB "Returns an integer pixel in the default RGB color model (TYPE_INT_ARGB) and default sRGB colorspace", that "The bitwise & operator performs a bitwise AND operation" and that ">>" shifts a bit pattern to the right, but what exactly does this whole thing do in simple words? How does it return 255 which is the value of "R" ?Code:
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Any help would be valuable and appreciated...
I am strugling to find an answer on this...
Thank you.

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College Fees
The College seeks to provide quality Christian education at an affordable price. The Fee Schedule includes generous sibling discounts to ensure it remains affordable for a majority of families.
There are a number of fee rebates available for those families who believe that a Christian education would be of great value to their child and family.
For information on uniform costs view our Uniform Price List.
There are a number of different Scholarships which are available each year including Pre-School Scholarships.
Pre-School scholarships are for entry into the first year of school (commencing in Kindergarten).
For more information, or an application form, please call our office and speak with our Executive Assistant, Michelle Webb on 02 4973 2591


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Chair welcome
Dear Friends of The School,
What a wonderful summer it has been. We hope you are all well rested and prepared for the academic year ahead. The school has undergone a number of improvements over the summer which include additional fencing in the school grounds to ensure the safety of our school community and a new heating system throughout the school ready for the winter months.
Our plans to grow the school through the addition of a nursery are underway, the soft marketing has been encouraging and we excited for what the future holds.
This year we are filled with confidence that our team at Newbold will continue to nurture and cherish the children leading us to yet another successful year. The previous year saw many triumphs for us as a school, following our gaining a "Good" in our most recent Ofsted report, notably the Year 6 students showing astounding attainment, which set us above the national average.
This year our journey to becoming an "Outstanding" school continues with our investment in bespoke exercise books that bare our school logo, in the hope that our children will take increasingly more pride in the presentation of work they are producing. Another key part of this journey is the seamless implementation of our school improvement plan, based around an innovative 'Global Goals Curriculum', which as a Governing Body we are working alongside Mrs Marsh to achieve.
We maintain our close work with Derby Diocese Academy Trust (DDAT) to ensure that we harness all opportunities presented to the school.
Our Parents, Teachers and Friends association (PTFA) is an essential part of our school community and we hope that you will show support at events throughout the year, which further enrich pupils' school experiences.
On behalf of the governing body and myself, we wish you a happy and fruitful year. As we move ever closer to our goal of becoming an "Outstanding" school, we anticipate you will want to stay informed along the way, so look out for our newsletters, text messages and our school website (www.newboldchurchschool.co.uk).
If you need to contact me please send a letter to The Chair of Governors, Newbold CofE Primary School, Cranborne Road, Newbold, Chesterfield, S41 8PF.
Until next time,
Pam Lister
Chair of Governors


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What Inspires You to Be a Better Camp Pro? - CampHacker #112
Manage episode 227745335 series 1311971
Tools, Podcasts, Books and Strategies for Sustainability as a Camp Pro
One of the best things about being a long time camp pro is that every year, we essentially find ourselves doing the same cycle over and over again. While this can be tiring, even exhausting, if we think about it another way, it's also an incredible opportunity to get better and better without (too many) extremely large learning curves.
In your search for consistent improvement, the CampHacker crew wants to help! In this episode, Travis, Joe and Gab are joined by the wonderful Ruby Compton (Yes! THAT Ruby from Camp Code!). These four pros join forces to share their sources of inspiration that help them find the drive, motivation and sustainability to innovate their camp, and the entire industry year after year.
Below, is a list of most of what is covered from this episode. We included it for you, yes, you, who are awesome and read the show notes! Here you are, you awesome person, you!
Ruby's Picks (using the iTunes Podcast App) - CampHacker - Building a Story Brand - Outside In - Dirtbag Diaries - She Explores
Joe's Picks - (using Pocket Casts) - 99% Invisible - Radiolab - Cool Tools - Zig Zag - The Daily From New York Times - Enneagram Podcasts - Reveal - (Also using the Google Assistant to play the news)
Travis' Pick (using Pocket Casts) - Planet Money - The Turnaround - I Think You're Interesting - The Ezra Klein Show - Invisibilia - Code Switch
Gab's Picks (using the iTunes Podcast App) - Getting Curious (specifically the Katie Couric episode) - Queery - Two Dope Queens
Audio Books
Gab - Mating Within Captivity
Joe (using Audible and Local Library Apps) - Boys Adrift - Anything by Neil Gaiman (who reads them himself!)
Travis - Listens to fiction in audiobook form, not business books.
Inner Camp Industry Inspirations
Visiting other camps (as an accreditation visitor or as a consultant)
Summer Camp Professionals Facebook Group
Research and learn from camps that are drastically different from your own
The International Camping Fellowship
Making time to talk and meet with people who are passionate about the industry or to be a confidant
Use your professional development budget to tour other summer camps for inspiration
Building a small support network of peers
The Society of Camp Directors (in Canada)
What do you do for fun?
Light big fires, make things go boom (Email Joe and ask about his potato cannons)
Go to the movies by yourself
Woodworking and art without a specific direction in mind
Getting outside
Geocaching (App or App-less!)
Take yourself on a date
DIY Youtube projects
Drawing portraits and things that challenge him artistically
Woodworking, building and Youtube DIY videos
Travel to broaden your perspective
Watercolour painting
Museum trips
Listening to yourself to figure out what you "feel" like doing
Assorted Thoughts:
Looking at how libraries are reinventing themselves to "get with the times"
Starting with a morning reading ritual
Take a vacation. No seriously. No phone, no email, take the time to take the time.
Remember that you are not your job and camp is not you. You need freedom to develop yourself properly.
Magazine (or podcast) subscriptions (see above), not just summer camp, and not just non-fiction related material.
The Pocket App/Extension and Feedly can help with that
Using the idea that "We need to be better" and looking at how other non-camp people are changing the world and using their developments
Be brave and make waves in the industry. People might not always like you, or your ideas, but that's okay.
Inspirational Instagram Feeds - Representation Matters, Because Of Them, etc.
Deep thinking on your own without the internet to help.
What tools and mindsets do you use to help yourself be a better camp pro? Let us know in the comments!
Tool of the Week – Make Yourself a Better Camp Director
Travis: Wyze Cam
Gabz: The Noun Project
Joe: Time Timer
Ruby: Yoga Chimes
Your Hosts:
Travis Allison, Summer Camp Consultant - CampHacker.TV, Founder at Go Camp Pro
Gabrielle Raill, Camp Director - Camp Ouareau
Joe Richards, Executive Director - Pearce Williams Summer Camp & Retreat Facility
Ruby Compton, Chief Exploation Officer - Ruby Outdoors
Rate and Review the CampHacker Show in iTunes
(Thank you!)
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There's a big problem with the way most of us shop for kitchen countertops, and it's costing us a lot of money.
The majority of homeowners do this:
- find a local stone yard
- pick a slab they like
- get a price
But here's the problem with that approach. You're not comparison shopping because at each place you picked a different stone so you have no idea how much of that price is labor versus material.
Do you want to be able to save hundreds or possibly even thousands of dollars if you have a very large kitchen?
Then you'll find the next few paragraphs extremely enlightening.
What The Stone Yards Aren't Telling YouWhat a lot of stone yards won't freely offer up is that you can go visit one of their wholesalers and check out all of the slabs that are available to you. It might seem strange to visit a wholesale company but they are open to the public.
The fabricator isn't doing anything wrong by not telling you about this. After all, they probably have a decent selection for you to choose from at their shop, but they would rather unload something that they already have in stock versus having to purchase a new slab from their wholesaler.
Another huge benefit of picking out a slab at a wholesaler is the selection. Most local fabricators may have 30 or so different stones for you to choose from, but in most cases the wholesaler is going to easily have 100 or more. And even better is that there's probably more than one wholesaler hiding in your area.
Just do a Google search for "granite wholesalers near me" and they'll turn up. And don't worry if you're looking for soapstone, quartz, or quartzite and not granite. The companies you find with that search will more than likely carry all of them and many more you have never even heard of.
How To Get The Lowest PriceOnce you pick out the exact slab that you want you can reserve it or "tag" it as it's usually referred to in the industry.
Now it's time to head to the fabricators to get prices. Since they all will be paying the same amount for the material you'll be doing true comparison shopping and seeing how much of your bill will be for fabrication and installation.
Now all you have to do is give your kitchen sketches to the fabricator and let them know you have tagged a slab over at a wholesaler. Just give them your contacts info at the wholesaler and they will take care of the rest.
How Many Quotes Should You Get?Getting 3 quotes from different fabricators will be enough to make sure that nobody is over charging you. If you're lucky all the prices will come back very close and you will get to choose the company that you had the best rapport with and that made you feel the most comfortable.
How To Find FabricatorsYou probably have one or two right in your hometown, but in most cases you're going to have to branch out a bit. Here's how to find them:
- Your best resource is family and friends that have had their kitchens remodeled recently. Ask them for recommendations first.
- After that you can use the internet to drum up a couple more if you need to. This is a bit of a roll of the dice but by reading their reviews you can get a pretty good idea of what sort of operation they are running.
- Try the Yellow Pages. It may be hard to believe in this day and age but some "old school" businesses are hard to find on-line.
- Ask the wholesaler for recommendations.
How To Make Finding Fabricators EasierInstead of having to go out and find local contractors, they can come to you. These contractors are all fully screened, their licenses have been verified, and their backgrounds are checked for you.
To find these local companies add your basic project info to the form below. You'll most likely get better prices as well. This happens because each of the local fabricators that receives your info knows they aren't the only one that got it, so they know they have to bid competitively to earn you business.
It's up to you how you want to handle it. If you'd rather skip the step of having to thumb through the Yellow Pages, compiling a list using the internet, and sorting through their reviews, you can put your basic projects info into the form below and you'll be contacted by up to 3 local companies that are ready to start as soon as you are.
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Larry King
King in March 2017
Lawrence Harvey Zeiger[1]
November 19, 1933
|Lafayette High School
|Radio and television personality
|Years active
Freda Miller
(m. 1952; ann. 1953)
Annette Kaye
(m. 1961; div. 1961)
Alene Akins
(m. 1961; div. 1963, m. 1967; div. 1972)
Mickey Sutphin
(m. 1963; div. 1967)
Sharon Lepore
(m. 1976; div. 1983)
Julie Alexander
(m. 1989; div. 1992)
Shawn Southwick
(m. 1997; sep. 2019)
Larry King (born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger; November 19, 1933) is an American television and radio host, whose work has been recognized with awards including two Peabodys, an Emmy award, and 10 Cable ACE Awards.
King began as a local Florida journalist and radio interviewer in the 1950s and 1960s and gained prominence beginning in 1978 as host of The Larry King Show, an all-night nationwide call-in radio program heard on the Mutual Broadcasting System.[2]
From 1985 to 2010, he hosted the nightly interview television program Larry King Live on CNN.
From 2012 until 2020, he hosted Larry King Now on Hulu and RT America. He continues to host Politicking with Larry King, a weekly political talk show which has aired weekly on the same two channels since 2013.[3]
Early life and education
King was born in Brooklyn, New York, one of two kids of Jennie (Gitlitz), a garment worker who was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Aaron Zeiger, a restaurant owner and defense-plant worker who was born in Kolomyia, Austria-Hungary.[4][5][6][7][8][9] His parents were Orthodox Jews.[1]
King attended Lafayette High School, a public high school in Brooklyn.[10] King's father died at 44 of a heart attack[11] which resulted in his mom, brother and himself being supported by welfare. King was greatly affected by his father's death, and he lost interest in school.
After graduating high school, Larry worked to help support his mother.[12] From an early age, he desired to work in radio broadcasting.[12]
Miami radio and television
A CBS staff announcer, whom King met by chance, suggested he go to Florida which was a growing media market with openings for inexperienced broadcasters. King went to Miami, and after initial setbacks, he gained his first job in radio. The manager of a small station, WAHR[13] (now WMBM) in Miami Beach, hired him to clean up and perform miscellaneous tasks.[14] When one of the station's announcers abruptly quit, King was put on the air. His first broadcast was on May 1, 1957, working as the disc jockey from 9 a.m. to noon.[15] He also did two afternoon newscasts and a sportscast. He was paid $50 a week.
He acquired the name Larry King when the general manager, Marshall Simmonds, claimed that Zeiger was too ethnic and difficult to remember, so minutes before airtime, Larry chose the surname King, which he got from an advertisement in the Miami Herald for King's Wholesale Liquor.[16] Within two years, he legally changed his name to Larry King.[4]
He began to conduct interviews on a mid-morning show for WIOD, at Pumpernik's Restaurant in Miami Beach.[17] He would interview whoever walked in. His first interview was with a waiter at the restaurant.[18] Two days later, singer Bobby Darin, in Miami for a concert that evening, walked into Pumpernik's[19][20] having heard King's radio show; Darin became King's first celebrity interview guest.[21]
King's Miami radio show brought him local attention. A few years later, in May 1960, he hosted Miami Undercover, airing Sunday nights at 11:30 p.m. on WPST-TV Channel 10 (now WPLG).[22] On the show, he moderated debates on important local issues of the day.
King credits his success on local television to the assistance of comedian Jackie Gleason, whose national television variety show was being taped in Miami Beach during this time. "That show really took off because Gleason came to Miami," King said in a 1996 interview he gave when inducted into the Broadcasters' Hall of Fame. "He did that show and stayed all night with me. We stayed till five in the morning. He didn't like the set, so we broke into the general manager's office and changed the set. Gleason changed the set, he changed the lighting, and he became like a mentor of mine."[23]
During this period, WIOD gave King further exposure as a color commentator for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League, during their 1970 season and most of their 1971 season.[24] However, he was dismissed by both WIOD and television station WTVJ as a late-night radio host and sports commentator as of December 20, 1971, when he was arrested after being accused of grand larceny by a former business partner, Louis Wolfson.[25][26] Other staffers covered the Dolphins' games into their 24–3 loss to Dallas in Super Bowl VI. King also lost his weekly column at the Miami Beach Sun newspaper. The charges were dropped.[26] Eventually, King was rehired by WIOD.[26] For several years during the 1970s, he hosted a sports talk-show called "Sports-a-la-King" that featured guests and callers.
National radio
On January 30, 1978, King went national on a nightly Mutual Broadcasting System coast-to-coast broadcast,[27] inheriting the talk show slot that had begun with Herb Jepko in 1975, then followed by "Long John" Nebel in 1977, until his illness and death the following year.[28] King's Mutual show rapidly developed a devoted audience.[29]
The program was broadcast live Monday through Friday from midnight to 5:30 a.m. Eastern Time. King would interview a guest for the first 90 minutes, with callers asking questions that continued the interview for another 90 minutes. At 3 a.m., the Open Phone America segment began, where he allowed callers to discuss any topic they pleased with him,[29] until the end of the program, when he expressed his own political opinions. Many stations in the western time zones carried the Open Phone America portion of the show live, followed by the guest interview on tape delay.[30]
Some of King's regular callers used pseudonyms or were given nicknames by King, such as "The Numbers Guy",[31] "The Chair", "The Portland Laugher,"[29] "The Miami Derelict," and "The Scandal Scooper".[32] The show was successful, starting with relatively few affiliates and eventually growing to more than 500. King hosted the show until stepping down in 1994.[33] King occasionally entertained the audience by telling amusing stories from his youth or early broadcasting career.[34][35]
For its final year, the show was moved to afternoons. After King stepped down, Mutual gave the afternoon slot to David Brenner[36] and Mutual's affiliates were given the option of carrying the audio of King's new CNN evening television program. After Westwood One dissolved Mutual in 1999, the radio simulcast of the CNN show continued until December 31, 2009.[37]
The Larry King Live CNN show began in June 1985 in which King hosted a broad range of guests from controversial figures of UFO conspiracy theories and alleged psychics,[38] to prominent politicians and leading figures in the entertainment industry, often doing their first or only interview on breaking news stories on his show. After doing his CNN show from 9 to 10 p.m., King then traveled to the studios of the Mutual Broadcasting System to do his radio show,[39] when both shows still aired.
Unlike many interviewers, King has a direct, non-confrontational approach. His reputation for asking easy, open-ended questions has made him attractive to important figures who want to state their position while avoiding being challenged on contentious topics.[40] King has said that when interviewing authors, he does not read their books in advance, so that he will not know more than his audience.[2][39] Throughout his career, King has interviewed many of the leading figures of his time. According to CNN, King has conducted more than 30,000 interviews in his career.[5]
King also wrote a regular newspaper column in USA Today for almost 20 years, from shortly after that first national newspaper's debut in Baltimore-Washington in 1982 until September 2001.[41] The column consisted of short "plugs, superlatives and dropped names" but was dropped when the newspaper redesigned its "Life" section.[42] The column was resurrected in blog form in November 2008[43] and on Twitter in April 2009.[44]
On June 29, 2010, King announced that after 25 years, he would be stepping down from his nightly job hosting Larry King Live. However, he stated that he would remain with CNN to host occasional specials.[45] The announcement came in the wake of speculation that CNN had approached Piers Morgan, the British television personality and journalist, as King's primetime replacement,[46] which was confirmed that September.[47][48]
The final edition of Larry King Live aired on December 16, 2010, after a quarter-century.[49] The show concluded with his last thoughts and a thank you to his audience for watching and supporting him over the years. The concluding words of Larry King on the show were, "I... I, I don't know what to say except to you, my audience, thank you. And instead of goodbye, how about so long."[50]
On February 17, 2012, CNN announced that he would no longer host specials.[51]
Ora TV
In March 2012, King co-founded Ora TV, a production company, with Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim. On January 16, 2013, Ora TV celebrated their 100th episode of Larry King Now. In September 2017, King stated that he had no intention of ever retiring and expects to host his programs until he dies.[52]
Ora TV signed a multi-year deal with Hulu to exclusively carry King's new talk-oriented web series, Larry King Now, beginning July 17.[53] On October 23, 2012, King hosted the third-party presidential debate on Ora TV, featuring Jill Stein, Rocky Anderson, Virgil Goode, and Gary Johnson.[54]
In May 2013, the Russian owned RT America network announced that they struck a deal with Ora TV to host the Larry King Now show on its network. King said in an advertisement on RT America: "I would rather ask questions to people in positions of power, instead of speaking on their behalf." The show continued to be available on Hulu.com and Ora.TV.[55][56] The following month, RT America began airing Larry King's new Thursday evening political talk show Politicking with Larry King, beginning with a discussion between Representative Aaron Schock (R, Illinois), Democratic Political Strategist Peter Fenn and Politico's Deputy Managing Editor Rachel Smolkin about Edward Snowden's leak scandal that revealed secret NSA surveillance programs.[57]
When criticized for doing business with a Russian-owned TV network in 2014, King responded, "I don't work for RT", commenting that his podcasts, Larry King Now and Politicking, are licensed for a fee to RT America by New York-based Ora TV. "It's a deal made between the companies ... They just license our shows. If they took something out, I would never do it. It would be bad if they tried to edit out things. I wouldn't put up with it."[58]
Other ventures
Larry King remains active as a writer and television personality. King was the moderator of the sixth Kazenergy Eurasian Forum in Astana, Kazakhstan, an annual forum for Kazakhstan's energy sector occurring in October 2011.[59][60][61]
King guest starred in episodes of Arthur, 30 Rock and Gravity Falls, had cameos in Ghostbusters[62] and Bee Movie, and voiced Doris the Ugly Stepsister in Shrek 2 and its sequels. He also played himself in The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story.
King hosted the educational television series In View with Larry King from 2013 to 2015, which was carried on cable television networks including Fox Business Network and Discovery[63] and produced by The Profiles Series production company.[64]
King made an appearance alongside his wife, Shawn King, on October 8 edition[when?] of WWE Monday Night Raw and participated in a segment with The Miz and Kofi Kingston. He had served as Raw's Social Media Ambassador the previous week.
King has become a very active user on the social-networking site Twitter, where he posts thoughts and comments on a wide variety of subjects. King states, "I love tweeting, I think it's a different world we've entered. When people were calling in, they were calling in to the show and now on Twitter I'm giving out thoughts, opinions. The whole concept has changed."[65]
Since 2011, he has also made various TV infomercials, often appearing as a "host" discussing products like Omega-3 fatty acid dietary supplement OmegaXL[66] with guests, in an interview style reminiscent of his past TV programs.[67]
Charitable works
After his 1987 heart attack, King founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation, which paid for life-saving cardiac procedures for people who otherwise would not be able to afford them.[68]
On August 30, 2010, King served as the host of Chabad's 30th annual "To Life" telethon, in Los Angeles.[69]
He has donated to the Beverly Hills 9/11 Memorial Garden, and his name is on the monument.[70]
On September 10, 1990, while on The Joan Rivers Show, Rivers asked King which contestant in the Miss America pageant was "the ugliest." King responded, "Miss Pennsylvania. She was one of the 10 finalists and she did a great ventriloquist bit ... The dummy was prettier."[71] King was a judge for the September 8, 1990 pageant. King later sent Miss Pennsylvania, Marla Wynne, a dozen long-stemmed roses and a telegram apologizing for his remarks.[72]
In 1997, King was one of 34 celebrities to sign an open letter to then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, published as a newspaper advertisement in the International Herald Tribune, which protested the treatment of Scientologists in Germany, comparing it to the Nazis' oppression of Jews in the 1930s.[73] Other signatories included Dustin Hoffman and Goldie Hawn.[73]
In 2020, it was reported that King had unwittingly been duped into filming a purported interview that was in fact part of a Chinese propaganda campaign against Guo Wengui, a Chinese dissident in New York City whom the Chinese government seeks to have deported. In 2019, King was asked by Jacobi Niv, a friend who had in the past arranged for King to film various informercials and promotional videos to film what King was told would be a conference video. Niv gave King a list of scripted questions to read. These were later edited into a video of comments by Russian journalist Anastasia Dolgova on the topic of Guo Wengui, whom Dolgova alleged had committed a number of crimes. The video was edited to give the appearance of King and Dolgova having a live conversation however the questions and answers were recorded separately and King, reading a script, was unaware of her responses, which repeated the line of the Chinese government on the issue. Once King's own production company saw the completed video, they refused to post it online and asked that it not be released. Niv disregarded their objections and released the video independently on YouTube. King's family insisted that it be removed but once Niv took it down he found that it had been duplicated and gone viral on Twitter due to the efforts of what ProPublica alleges are Chinese government run social media accounts. As a result of the incident, King has severed his relationship with Niv, saying he believes Niv took advantage of their friendship.[74]
Personal life
King has been married eight times, to seven women.[75] He married high-school sweetheart Freda Miller in 1952 at age 19.[76] That union ended the following year at the behest of their parents, who reportedly had the marriage annulled.[76] King was later briefly married to Annette Kaye,[76] who gave birth to his son, Larry Jr., in November 1961. King did not meet Larry Jr. until the latter was in his thirties.[77]
In 1961, King married his third wife, Alene Akins, a Playboy Bunny, at one of the magazine's eponymous nightclubs. King adopted Alene's son Andy in 1962; the couple divorced the following year.[76] In 1963, King married his fourth wife, Mary Francis "Mickey" Stuphin, who divorced King.[76] He remarried Akins, with whom he had a second child, Chaia, in 1969.[76] The couple divorced a second time in 1972.[76] In 1997, Dove Books published a book written by King and Chaia, Daddy Day, Daughter Day. Aimed at young children, it tells each of their accounts of his divorce from Akins.
On September 25, 1976, King married his fifth wife, mathematics teacher and production assistant Sharon Lepore. The couple divorced in 1983.[78]
King met businesswoman Julie Alexander in 1989, and proposed to her on the couple's first date on August 1, 1989.[79] Alexander became King's sixth wife on October 7, 1989, when the two were married in Washington, D.C.[80] The couple lived in different cities, however, with Alexander in Philadelphia, and King in Washington, D.C., where he worked. They separated in 1990 and divorced in 1992.[80] He became engaged to actress Deanna Lund in 1995, after five weeks of dating, but they remained unmarried.[81]
In 1997, he married his seventh wife, Shawn Southwick, born in 1959[82][83] (as Shawn Ora Engemann),[82] a singer, actress, and TV host.[84] They wed in King's Los Angeles hospital room three days before King underwent heart surgery to clear a clogged blood vessel.[83] The couple have two children: Chance, born March 1999, and Cannon, born May 2000, both graduates of Beverly Hills High School.[85] He is stepfather to Arena Football League quarterback Danny Southwick.[86] On King and Southwick's 10th anniversary in September 2007, Southwick joked she was "the only [wife] to have lasted into the two digits".[84] Larry and Shawn King filed for divorce in 2010 but reconciled,[83][87][88] and filed for divorce again on August 20, 2019.[89][90]
King resides in Beverly Hills, California.[91] A lifelong Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers fan, King is frequently seen behind home plate at Dodger games.[92]
From his eight marriages, King has five children and nine grandchildren, as well as four great-grandchildren.[93] Both of his children with Alene; Andy and Chaia, died within weeks of each other in August 2020, Andy at 65 and Chaia at 51.[94]
King is a Jewish agnostic.[95]
Heart disease
On February 24, 1987, King suffered a major heart attack and then had successful quintuple-bypass surgery.[35][96] Since then, King has written two books about living with heart disease. Mr. King, You're Having a Heart Attack: How a Heart Attack and Bypass Surgery Changed My Life (1989, ISBN 0-440-50039-7) was written with New York's Newsday science editor B. D. Colen. Taking On Heart Disease: Famous Personalities Recall How They Triumphed over the Nation's #1 Killer and How You Can, Too (2004, ISBN 1-57954-820-2) features the experience of various celebrities with cardiovascular disease including Peggy Fleming and Regis Philbin.[97]
King related his heart attack experience in a film interview in the 2014 British documentary film The Widowmaker which discusses cardiology diagnostic tests.
King has received annual chest X-rays to monitor his heart condition. During his 2017 examination, doctors discovered a cancerous tumor in his lung. It was successfully removed with surgery.[52]
On April 23, 2019, King underwent a scheduled angioplasty and also had stents inserted. It was erroneously reported that he had suffered another heart attack along with heart failure; these claims were later retracted.[98] He returned to Politicking with Larry King on August 15, 2019.
On November 27, 2019, King revealed he had suffered a stroke in March 2019, and was in a coma "for weeks".[99] He later admitted he had contemplated suicide following the stroke, telling Los Angeles television station KTLA, "I thought I was just going to bite the bullet. I didn't want to live this way."[100]
Awards and nominations
King has received many broadcasting awards. He won the Peabody Award for Excellence in broadcasting for both his radio (1982)[101] and television (1992)[102] shows. He has also won 10 CableACE awards for Best Interviewer and for Best Talk Show Series.
In 1989, King was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame,[103] and in 1996 to the Broadcasters' Hall of Fame.[12] In 2002, the industry publication Talkers Magazine named King both the fourth-greatest radio talk show host of all time and the top television talk show host of all time.[104]
In 1994, King received the Scopus Award from the American Friends of Hebrew University.[1][105] In June 1998, he received an honorary degree from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, for his life achievements.
He was given the Golden Mike Award for Lifetime Achievement in January 2008, by the Radio & Television News Association of Southern California.
King is an honorary member of the Rotary Club of Beverly Hills. He is also a recipient of the President's Award honoring his impact on media from the Los Angeles Press Club in 2006.
King is the first recipient of the Arizona State University Hugh Downs Award for Communication Excellence,[106] presented April 11, 2007, via satellite by Downs himself.[107]
King was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters by Bradley University; for which he said "is really a hoot." King has received numerous honorary degrees from institutions as George Washington University, the Columbia School of Medicine, among others.[108]
In 2003, King was named as recipient of the Snuffed Candle Award by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry's Council for Media Integrity. King received this award for '"encouraging credulity (and) presenting pseudoscience as genuine'".[109][110]
In July 2009 and again on February 2014, King appeared on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien and on Conan respectively, where he told O'Brien about his wishes to be cryonically preserved upon death,[111] as he had revealed in his book My Remarkable Journey.[112] In December 2011, preceding a CNN Special on the topic, the Kings had a special dinner with friends Conan O'Brien, Tyra Banks, Shaquille O'Neal, Seth MacFarlane, Jack Dorsey, Quincy Jones, and Russell Brand where his intent to do so was reiterated, among other topics that were discussed.[113]
King has stated that his interest in cryonics is partly due to not believing in an afterlife or a higher power.[114][115] King has said that he is an atheist,[116] and that he doubts religious claims, in part because of human suffering from natural disasters like Hurricane Katrina.[117]
When asked what he would like his legacy to be, King, referring to himself, said, "His life led to more people having information that they didn't have before, and he taught us a lot and we learned a lot and enjoyed it at the same time. He brought a great deal of pride to his business."[118]
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Today, my wife, Shawn, and I and our two boys live in Beverly Hills, in a two-story, five-bedroom house.
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External links
- Larry King at the Encyclopædia Britannica
- Back and Forth with Shawn & Larry King – podcast
- Larry King Live – Transcripts of all interviews since 2000
- Larry King on IMDb
- Larry King at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
- Appearances on C-SPAN


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I said, I am aware that I have the image which prevents me from looking, from observing exactly what is, what exactly you are or exactly I am. So I want to get rid of it, I want to be free of it because this might be more profitable, it might be more pleasurable, or it might bring me some kind of a deeper, wider experience. And all this is part of awareness. The moment I want to get rid of that image, I have entered a battle with the image which is conflict. So I am aware what has happened now. I am aware of your brown shirt and the colour of the scarf, I am aware of the image that I have built about you. I am aware that this image is preventing me from coming directly in touch with you, seeing exactly what you are, or that the image which I have about myself prevents me from looking at myself. I want to get rid of that image because I've heard you say, self-knowledge is very important. Therefore I don't want to have an image about myself; I want to get rid of it. And when I want to get rid of it, then there is a conflict between the former image and a new image which I have created. You're following all this? So I am now in conflict. And if it is a pleasurable conflict I want it to go on. If the conflict promises a certain pleasure at the end of it, I want it to go on. And if that conflict breeds pain I want to get rid of that pain. So I am aware of the whole pattern of what is taking place. Right? I hope you are doing this with me - taking your own image which you have about somebody, looking at it, being aware of it, as you are aware of the tent, the limitations of the tent, the curve of the tent, the structure of the tent, the patches in the tent, the holes, and so on. Similarly you are aware of yourself with our image and what is implied by it. Now I'm in conflict. Either I am aware of that conflict as it is, or I want to alter that conflict into something which will give me more; or I am in conflict very superficially, just on the surface; or, I am aware of the deeper layers of this conflict. So awareness is not merely a superficial observance of conflicts within myself, but also through this awareness the deeper conflicts are being opened up. Right? If the deeper layers of conflicts are opened up by being aware, then if there is fear in that, I want to shut them all up, I don't want to look. So I run away from them: run away from them through drink, drugs, women, men, amusement, entertainment, churches - all the rest of it. All that is part of awareness, isn't it? - the running away from fear, and giving importance to the things I have run to.
I am aware that I am lonely, miserable. I don't know a way out of it, or if I do know a way out it's too difficult; therefore I run away - run away to church, to drugs, to Communism, to every form of entertainment. And because I have run away from the thing of which I am afraid, to something which helps me to escape, those things become tremendously important. Right? So I'm attached to those things. It may be a wife, a family - whatever it is. Now all that is part of awareness, isn't it? I've begun very slowly - step by step - I watched your shirt, the colour of your shirt, the colour of your scarf, and gone deeper and deeper until I found that I have a whole network of escapes. I haven't searched them out, I haven't analysed them; by being aware I have begun to penetrate deeper and deeper and deeper. Right? Are you following all this?
Questioner: I don't follow. I see about being aware.... but then comes a little jump about inner escapes. Could you please go over it again.
Krishnamurti: Where is the jump?
Questioner: Between awareness and our escape, from for instance, inner loneliness.
Krishnamurti: Oh, I thought I had made it clear. I have built an image about you and I was never aware of that image; and I become aware of it by observing outer things, by being aware of external things. Naturally from the external things I move to inner things. And there I discover I have an image about you. I went into it, that's clear, isn't it? Now, by becoming aware of that image I find that I have built it in order to protect myself; or I have built it because you have said such brutal things to me that they remain in my memory, or you have said pleasant things which again remain in my memory. So there is the image which I have built, and I realize this image prevents me from looking deeper into my relationship with you. Right?
Questioner: You mean, Sir, that this awareness that you have is not just limited to one person but in every field...?
Krishnamurti: Of course, of course I have images about everything - about you, about my wife, about my children, about my country, about God. (Sound of jet overhead) Were you aware of the noise of that jet - were you aware of it? Were you aware of your reaction to it? And the reaction was: I wish it would go away because I want to find out, I want him to talk more, it's preventing me from listening. Or did you just listen to that extraordinary thunder? When you listened to that thunder without any choice you listened entirely differently, didn't you? No? You followed the thunder as it went further and further away. You listened to it and then you became aware of the different sounds of the river - didn't you? - of those children far away? But if you said, I don't like that sound because I want to listen here, I want to find out, then what has happened? Then you're in conflict, aren't you? You want to listen and you're prevented by that noise, so there is resistance between the noise and the desire to listen, to find out; therefore there was conflict, and you were lost in that conflict. You neither listened to the thunder nor listened to what was being said. So let's proceed.
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About The Author
Travis Leamons is one of the Inside Pulse Originals and currently holds the position of Managing Editor at Inside Pulse Movies. He's told that the position is his until he's dead or if "The Boss" can find somebody better. I expect the best and I give the best. Here's the beer. Here's the entertainment. Now have fun. That's an order!


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The Sparking Controversy about Volunteer Internships
There was a time when the word "intern" was used mainly for doctors-in-training. Over the last 50 years, however, the concept has widened to include many different experiences in nonprofit, government and for-profit settings. Some internships are formal requirements through university courses, while others are totally individual to the intern and the host organization. Some are paid (medical interns are considered staff), others are remunerated through stipends or living expenses, and many are totally volunteer and unpaid.
Right now there is growing opposition to unpaid internships in the United Kingdom, the United States and elsewhere. Opponents are quite vocal and have gained allies among labor unions and some politicians, taking their cause to the courts in an attempt to control internships or ban them outright. Among other things, these opponents state that internships: exploit the young adults seeking them; do not provide the training or professional development often promised; exclude those from low-income backgrounds who cannot afford to volunteer and forgo compensation; and benefit the recipient sponsors in ways that skirt labor and tax laws.
At the same, the volunteer field has grabbed onto the concept of internships as a great way to attract a wide range of new volunteers into roles with status and co-worker respect.
Which side is right? What – if anything – is clear cut and what is muddied or muddled? In this Points of View, authors Rob Jackson and Susan J. Ellis debate the issues and nuances of the internship dilemma.


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Al DentePosted by Ben Garfinkel on Friday, August 29th, 2008
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Here's a fun short film courtesy of our friend Nathan. Al Dente is a colourful and musical exploits of a little street girl who discovers the magic and the dangers of an ogre's kitchen. Love the ravioli!


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France's finance minister, Christine Lagarde, has told Eric Cantona to stick to playing with his balls. Footballs that is.
The well known karate kicking footballer has obviously irked the finance minister with his calls for a bank run in France on 7th Dec 2010. That's next Tuesday.
As you will no doubt already be aware, Eric Cantona stars in a short Youtube video clip saying that the way to hurt the banks is to just take your money out all together on a single day. This has been taken up by 'Stop Banque', which has over 10,000 fans on its Facebook site.
"Mr Cantona is no stranger to controversy. He is a great footballer, but I'm not sure we need to pay heed to all his suggestions,"said Ms Lagarde "Each to their own. There are those who play football magnificently, and I would not dare to try. I think it's best for everyone to stick to their own speciality."
The French banking Federation have said nothing about the proposed event.
I wonder how much they would have said if he had come out in support of the actions of the banks?
One assumes that politicians and senior bankers expect that, apart from a very isolated minority, people will go about their Christmas preparations and not even be aware of this. Or if they are aware to be too apathetic to do anything.
The banks will of course have contingency plans in place to ensure the people that do turn up can be quickly given their cash. To not do this would cause rumour to flash through the internet. The banks biggest nightmare would be for just one or two branches of the same bank to be filmed with large queues out the door plastered all over Youtube.
Anyone with serious amounts of dosh in a bank will not want to move it and will decry a bank run, a very few may move it into gold or silver for a few days beforehand. Only those with a little in their account will be tempted to do so and the amounts concerned may cause the banks no difficulty at all.
The politicians, banks and wealthy will not want any apple-carts upset. But if enough people get behind this on the day, then who knows the little people may carry the day.
But isn't it strange that, while both politicians and bankers come out of this economic mess with more power and money at the expense of the little people, we still vote for the same type of people and put what little money we have in the same type of banks.


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Year Built2007
Available the week ofFixed Week,Floating / 49, Xmas, NY, 1 plus 4 float
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Rare, once in a lifetime opportunity at The Sebastian in Vail Village. Penthouse Residence #505 is being offered with multiple consecutive fixed ski weeks including coveted Xmas and New Year's weeks PLUS an additional 2 floating winter weeks, 2 floating summer weeks, unlimited space available vacations The fixed weeks or Sebastian Club Estate weeks are: Wk 49 Dec. 12-19, 2020Xmas: Dec. 19-27, 2020New Years: Dec. 27-Jan. 9, 2021Wk 1: Jan. 9-Jan 16, 2021 Float weeks for 2021:Feb. 6 -13, 2021 Aug 7-14, 2021 Aug 14-21, 2021Because the Xmas and NY weeks at The Sebastian are typically more than 7 days, you will have a min. of 5 consecutive ski weeks every year including both the holiday weeks. If you don't want to be in Vail for 5 weeks at a time, No Worries! You can purchase a TRP membership separately and trade your time in Vail to visit other Timbers destinations or rent your spacious 3 bdrm home and off-set the costs of ownership. Ownership at The Sebastian includes slope-side ski valet services at BaseCamp, year-round storage of your ski/ride equipment and your personal belongings, private owner's lounge and discounts at Bloom SpaWhy spend upwards of $4M for a full ownership condo in Vail Village when you can have the prime vacation time you want, the services you deserve and someone else to worry about the maintenance?
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Stuffed Chicken Breasts With Mushroom Gravy
is a dish that looks like you spent hours in the kitchen but it is really easy to prepare.
Chicken is on our menu at least once a week if not more, ". . . let me count the ways".
You can be very creative with chicken, it can take anything you give it.
I'll have a few more easy chicken recipes to share this month. This first recipe for stuffed chicken breast is a great dish to serve for guests. Or make this as a special dinner . . . just because . . .
I stuffed the chicken with salami and cheese but you can certainly use any deli meat and/or cheese you prefer or just meat or only cheese. For our side dish I made quinoa with peas.
Rice Pilaf or even mac 'n cheese if you feel like you need comfort food are both great sides for this stuffed chicken breasts with mushrooms.
Don't let the long recipe fool you. The recipe is simple and in total the prep should not take more than 20 minutes.Print
Stuffed Chicken Breasts With Mushroom Gravy
Stuffed Chicken Breasts with Mushroom Gravy is an easy weeknight recipe. You can make this in advance earlier in the day, refrigerate and heat up in the oven when you're ready to serve dinner.
- Prep Time: 12-15 min.
- Cook Time: 25-35 min.
- Total Time: 40-50 min.
- Yield: 2-4 servings
- Category: Dinner
- Cuisine: American
- 6 Thin sliced chicken breasts
- 6 slices provolone cheese (or your choice)
- 6 slices salami (or use your preferred deli meat)
- 12 leaves fresh baby spinach (optional)
- 1/3 cup all purpose flour
- salt and pepper to taste
For Mushroom Gravy
- 1 TBLS. butter & 2 TBLS. avocado oil to saute mushrooms
- 8 oz. baby bella mushrooms sliced (or any mushrooms you like)
- 3 TBLS. flour
- 3 TBLS. butter
- 1 1/2 cups chicken broth
- salt and pepper to taste
- Worcesteshire Sauce
For Mushroom Gravy
- Heat 1 tablespoon of butter and 1 tablespoon of avocado oil in a small skillet and saute the sliced mushrooms for about 5 minutes, just until tender. Set aside.
- In a small saucepan melt the butter. Add the flour to the melted butter and stir well with a wooden spoon to blend.
- Slowly pour in the chicken broth stirring constantly. Cook on low to low/medium heat until it thickens (approximately 8-12 minutes). Add in the mushrooms and stir well. Cook for another 3-5 minutes on very low simmer.
- Season with salt and pepper to taste. If the sauce is too white add in a dash or two of Worcesteshire Sauce. This will add flavor and color.
For the Stuffed Chicken Breasts
- Place the 1/3 cup of flour in a gallon size plastic bag add a little salt & pepper & set aside.
- Flatten out the chicken breasts and lay out 1 slice of each of cheese and deli meat, top with fresh spinach leaves if you are using it.
- Tightly roll up each breast and secure with toothpicks.
- Heat a large skillet and add 3 tablespoons of oil to medium/high heat.
- Place the rolled chicken in the flour and gently shake to cover the chicken with flour. When oil in pan is hot add the chicken breasts cook until lightly browned.
- Remove from pan and add to a casserole dish.
- Bake in 350 oven for about 20 minutes. Pour half of the mushroom sauce over the chicken breast and cook for another 10 minutes.
- Slice the chicken breasts and spoon the mushroom sauce over the top and serve.
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Poison Murder and Expert Testimony: Doubting the Physician in Late Nineteenth-Century America
By most historical accounts, the years around 1900 witnessed the triumph of the expert, as the Jacksonian era's egalitarian suspicion of specialized knowledge was replaced by a respect bordering upon awe. "[T]he last third of the nineteenth century saw the virtual overthrow of effective resistance to specialization," John Higham has written. "By 1920... America had embraced the specialist and sanctified the expert with an enthusiasm unmatched elsewhere." Physicians often occupy a starring role in this narrative of triumphant expertise. After half a century of professional disarray, doctors at the turn of the twentieth century built a remarkably powerful and prestigious professional organization and won control over education, licensing, drug distribution, and other aspects of medical practice.2 An older school of medical history attributed the profession's new social power to scientific advances: as the effectiveness of medicine increased, so did its social authority. More recent histories have pointed out that medicine's advances in cultural authority preceded and outstripped therapeutic advances. By this account, a few notable medical and scientific breakthroughs - including a vaccine for rabies and a drug for syphilis - convinced the public that medicine was worthy of respect even when its claims to therapeutic authority were suspect. "Bolstered by genuine advances in science and technology," Paul Starr writes, "the claims of the professions to competent authority became more plausible, even when they were not yet objectively true; for science worked even greater changes on the imagination than it worked on the processes of disease." Medical authority, in other words, depended largely on good public relations.
Recommended Citation
Mark Essig,
Poison Murder and Expert Testimony: Doubting the Physician in Late Nineteenth-Century America,
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Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjlh/vol14/iss1/4


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But the initial idea was not lost: the vision to fuse cutting-edge logistics technology with the time-poor workers' natural inclination to the convenience of online shopping. Within months of Webvan's fall, Ocado launched in the UK with a not-dissimilar business. Three former investment bankers from Goldman Sachs turned a Hatfield aircraft hangar into a warehouse where customers' online grocery orders would be rapidly sorted then dispatched in vans and delivered within a one-hour time slot. By 2005, it had a turnover of £144m, representing 70% growth on 2004.
Tesco's e-grocery service has also proved a big success. However, it is based on a very different model - customers' orders are selected, packed and dispatched from a "bricks-and-mortar" store as opposed to an Ocado-style warehouse. Launched in 1996, it is now the world's largest home-delivery service, with 150,000 orders a week and sales in 2005 of £719m - an annual growth of 24%. Considering that home shopping only accounts for 2% of Tesco's total group sales of £37bn, there is still huge potential for growth.
There are also possible environmental advantages - not something you can usually say with supermarkets - to an increased move towards home deliveries. You would think it is obviously better to encourage people not to drive themselves to a store and instead rely on a van making multiple drop-offs, thereby cutting the need for many journeys. But there has been very little research done into this subject, and the supermarkets are reluctant to release data about the number of deliveries made per trip and the fuel efficiency of their vans, due to "commercial sensitivities". The only studies to speak of are academic ones using computer models and plenty of theorising. All of them suggest, though, that home delivery services do indeed lead to less traffic on the roads, but that the type of delivery system used can lead to huge variations in efficiency.
Research by the University of London centre for transport studies in the late 1990s showed that even with vans each carrying just eight customer orders per round, an estimated 70-80% reduction in total vehicle kilometres could be achieved if it stopped customers going to the shops by car. A related questionnaire also showed that 74% of car owners said they used their cars less because of their home deliveries.
But a study by a PhD student at the Helsinki University of Technology in 2003 concluded that the consumer's demand for precise delivery slots can erode much of the environmental savings. It found that the average one-way journey length by a shopper to a supermarket in Finland was 6.9km, whereas if the shopper demanded a one-hour delivery slot, the average journey length per delivery was 3.2km. It was shown, too, that the van was roughly twice as polluting per kilometre as the car, meaning that while traffic was reduced, there wasn't a significant overall reduction in pollution.
However, if the shopper chose to use a "delivery to box" service (where the shopping is left in a password-secured box outside the home, thereby eliminating the need for the customer to be at home and allowing the driver greater flexibility to choose more efficient routes), the average journey length per delivery dropped to 0.9km, even more if a "shared box" was used at the workplace or school.
There were differences in efficiency between packing systems, too. The study argued that the use of "cross docking" (the logistics system used by Ocado, which greatly minimises the need for storage and packaging by using highly computerised systems to manage supply, demand and distribution) led to less energy use and wastage overall, compared with the store-packing system favoured by Tesco.
While there's clearly a need for more detailed research, it seems that home deliveries offer environmental advantages, but much more so if we are less demanding about delivery slots and favour using secured delivery boxes
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