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Willets Point Rezoning Should Consider Green Manufacturing Alternatives
August 14th, 2008, 9:16 am
Yesterday, MAS testified at the City Planning Commission hearing regarding the Willets Point rezoning plan. First and foremost, MAS stressed that the plan, which includes an urban renewal action that will allow for the use of eminent domain, must reflect the results of an inclusive planning and monitoring process. In regards to the rezoning – from manufacturing into a mixed-used residential and commercial district – MAS suggested the City conduct a thorough examination of the plan's implication for long-term, industrial and manufacturing job growth, including a justified strategy deployment of public resources tied to agreed upon community benefits. Finally, MAS raised concerns over the purported high standards of sustainable neighborhood planning Willets Point aims to achieve. The full testimony is after the jump.
Willets Point Development Plan – Draft Environmental Impact Statement – August 13, 2008
The Municipal Art Society of New York is a private, non-profit membership organization whose mission is to promote a more livable city. Since 1893, the Society has worked to advocate excellence in urban design and planning, contemporary architecture, historic preservation and public art. The Municipal Art Society, having submitted scoping comments on May 14, 2007 offers the following testimony to the Department of City Planning on the Willets Point Development Plan.
We may all agree that Willets Point is in need of reinvestment given the substandard infrastructure conditions that currently exist on this sixty-one acre site; however, how and to what end this area should be redeveloped are key issues. The Municipal Art Society questions the New York City Economic Development Corporation's development plans on two points: first, with respect to the proposed change in land-use, has the dramatic transformation from manufacturing to a mixed-use residential/commercial development concept received the careful, thorough examination it deserves? And second, with respect to the EDC's proposed ownership model, given the current economic climate doesn't structuring the plan around a single developer risk long delays at the cost of promised public benefits?
Equally important is the issue of declaring the site an Urban Renewal area, allowing the use of eminent domain. In this circumstance, MAS believes the redevelopment plan must meet such additional criteria for citizen participation and allocation of city resources as articulated in the urban renewal principles presented in this testimony.
The Willets Point Development plan currently in the ULURP process requires the following three actions:
- Designation of the site as an Urban Renewal area, defining acquisition and disposition of properties.
- Demapping of all public streets on the 61 acre site.
- Zoning changes from M3-1 and R3-2 to a C4-4 district
Land-use: Is Willets Point ripe for residential development? – The Willets Point Development plan is being hailed as both an opportunity to create a "dynamic sustainable community" (DGEIS 3-2) and a "transit-oriented development that would leverage the District's superior transit and highway infrastructure" (DGEIS 6). Although the concept of mixed-use districts characterized by pedestrian friendly, activated streetscapes is a laudable goal that the MAS generally supports, we question whether the Willets Point site is appropriately suited for this type of development. Furthermore, the Willets Point site has been slated as a LEED Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) Pilot Project and while the sustainability criteria under LEED-ND focus on transit infrastructure and green building as well as innovative technological solutions for energy efficiency, these goals often eclipse the imperative to also achieve social and economic sustainability. The City has not seriously considered alternate development scenarios for land use and, as the following discussion will illustrate, it is not clear that Willets Point is at all suitable for residential living.
The site abuts an undeveloped MTA site, which according to the DGEIS will remain undeveloped even with the proposed redevelopment (DGEIS 3-28) and is most probably slated by MTA as an expansion site for the Corona Yards. As a result, as currently proposed, residential development, which is to comprise approximately 62% of the proposed allowable square footage to be developed on the site, would either be built along side major highways, an unsightly undeveloped industrial site, or railyards. Thus, in addition to the potential public health hazards due to the site's location and contamination, its lack of connectivity to surrounding neighborhoods will isolate potential residents of the development.
Additionally, the commercial and convention center aspects to the development are unlikely to fulfill the intention of transit-oriented development and sustainable development as potential visitors to the commercial areas are more likely to drive there than take public transit. While most of the site may technically be within a 10 minute walk to the subway lines, in reality the site is located such that it facilitates automobile access. The DEIS acknowledges that the proposed plan will generate significant vehicular traffic increases. Unlike the "existing lower-density uses currently within the Willets Point Development District…, the Willets Point Development Plan is expected to be a significant traffic generator on both the highways surrounding the District—including the Grand Central Parkway, the Van Wyck Expressway, and the Whitestone Expressway—and the local street network" (DGEIS 17-2). Given the emissions and noise pollution to which residents would be exposed, due to increased vehicular traffic; the site's condition and the plan's impacts will negate the goals of creating a residential, pedestrian friendly streetscape and sustainable neighborhood. The bleak assessment regarding traffic and parking begs the question: what makes this a sustainable and transit-oriented neighborhood development plan?
The aforementioned major highways create a boundary around the site, and would effectively hem in this new neighborhood and interrupt pedestrian access to the waterfront. Northern Boulevard, running along the Western side of the site counts multiple lanes of moving traffic on elevated roads with lanes of traffic below. The White Stone / Van Wyck Express Ways, which converge with Northern Boulevard at the Northern tip of the site, also consist of multiple lanes of elevated thru-way traffic, not including on and off ramps (see aerial photograph below).
Highway underpasses present formidable psychological barriers to successful pedestrian pathways and highway noise notably reduces the quality life of nearby residents with particularly detrimental effects on children. The DEIS has already acknowledged that "noise may interfere with human activities, such as sleep, speech communication, and tasks requiring concentration or coordination. It may also cause annoyance, hearing damage, and other physiological problems" (DEIS 20-2). In the case of Willets Point, current measures of noise levels are fairly high to begin with and with the proposed project according the DEIS would have to be "attenuated" (DEIS 20-13). Moreover "[t]he noise levels and the impacts predicted exclude noise from aircraft operations at LaGuardia Airport, which is adjacent to the District" (DEIS 23-14). As a result, the livability analysis is flawed and does not adequately address whether existing noise-level conditions should preclude outright residential and particularly school uses on the site. Furthermore the analysis only takes into consideration the incremental change in noise pollution due to the plan and does not assess whether the existing conditions are appropriate for residential living and schooling. The question is: how will the current site conditions that cannot be altered impact adults and children mentally and physically?
Land Use: Transit-oriented Industrial Development and Sustainability: – The city has been marketing the Willets Point Development plan as a "sustainable" neighborhood development; but, what do we mean by "sustainability"? While technically the plan might certify under LEED-ND, the sustainability criteria associated with this program do not fully address the socio-economic costs associated with the wholesale removal of viable businesses and potential industry clusters; nor does it adequately respond to long-term economic sustainability plans for the city as a whole.
Since the City has only a sustainability framework and not a comprehensive long-term plan, it is hard to weigh the impact of any given individual rezoning action and the consequent redevelopment of particular areas, such as Willets Point. PlaNYC does not offer a long-term vision for economic development and the development of new industries, yet the City continues to propose the removal of manufacturing zones from its land-use map. The City's plans for Willets Point, among others, raises crucial questions regarding the long-term costs to the City of removing these sites that have potential to host new industries, especially green industries. Since environmental testing has been limited thus far, the full extent of environmental contamination is not known. Some parcels may be more contaminated than others, thereby raising the price of remediation. Rather than supporting or catalyzing redevelopment through public sector investment in infrastructure, the proposed plan facilitates the erasure of an industrial land-base at a time when New York City is rapidly losing areas for manufacturing and industrial firms to locate and expand. Other cities, such as Los Angeles and Chicago are grappling with precisely this issue and initiatives closer to home in the Bronx and Brooklyn should be models of how we plan for a sustainable future that aligns sustainability concerns with real opportunities for economic and industrial growth. This means, however, having a comprehensive land-use plan that understands and incorporates the changing needs of new industries and related firms.
Given its adjacency to other industrial sites, its relative proximity to the College Point industrial park, and its accessibility to major transportation routes as well as the airport, the site may be more appropriate for strategic investment in industrial uses. Access to the Van Wyck is invaluable to manufacturers, especially those with a regional customer base. Prospective industrial developers may have been wary of assembling properties in the area due to the lack of infrastructural investment by the City. The City should, therefore, seriously and thoroughly examine the Municipal Services alternative the EDC has proposed in the EIS for its potential to catalyze industrial reinvestment in the area. Furthermore, the site holds the potential for increasing freight transport via barges. The Maritime study released by EDC in 2007 recognizes barge traffic as crucial to long-term sustainability: "one standard dry barge, which carries garbage, sand, and gravel, can carry the equivalent of 60 trucks." The DEIS states that barging activity at College Point is poised to increase in the future as the "converted North Shore MTS, in the College Point Section of Queens, to the east of the proposed Plan becomes operational in 2011." How does this increase affect other potential recreational uses in the area? Does Willets Point represent an opportunity to increase water-born and intermodal freight transportation?
Ownership: The One-Developer Model has not proven effective – The Willets Point Development and Urban Renewal plans have been ill conceived.
- The City should invest in infrastructure and site preparation
- The City should incorporate a multiple-developer model with clear public oversight
In reserving the City's action to rezone the area, acquire and assemble the land — currently under private ownership — and subsequently transfer the responsibility and financial burden for brownfield remediation, major site preparation, and infrastructure work to the potential developer, major community benefits, such as significant affordable housing, for example, may be cost-prohibitive and unrealizable.
The Willets Point development plan, which relies on a single developer for site preparation as well as build-out, is a redevelopment model that has not proven to be successful, as demonstrated by the Atlantic Yards and Hudson Yards projects. By eschewing the public sector's responsibility to prepare the site and provide the public infrastructure necessary for redevelopment, the City is running the risk that the development at Willets Point, as at Atlantic Yards, will stall indefinitely. At the same time, if the City acquires control over the entire site – if necessary through the use of eminent domain – local property owners will have relinquished their stake in the area. This creates the possibility that the site will remain vacant and/or underutilized for years to come.
Battery Park City and Queens West, on the other hand, illustrate that a phased development process where multiple developers are granted development rights and where the project is overseen by a specially designated public authority may be a more effective model. Battery Park City has also demonstrated that such a model provides additional long-term revenue benefits to the City of New York by capturing funds that can be dedicated to affordable housing.
Will the development result in significant affordable housing? – As the proposal is currently structured, the City is taking on responsibility only for the acquisition of land from private property owners and for infrastructure improvements outside of the district, while any future developer will be responsible for remediation and site preparation. Since the City is seeking to designate Willets Point as an Urban Renewal area in order to be able to acquire private properties on the site through eminent domain, affordable housing must make up a significant portion of new development on the site should the land-use change be approved. Incentive FAR bonuses are not adequate, however, as they do not guarantee construction of affordable housing on the site. The cost of environmental remediation is unpredictable since Phase I and II testing "was conducted from public-rights-of-way, along street and sidewalk areas" only, and "permission was not obtained for access to the privately owned sites" (DGEIS, 12-5). If costs for remediation exceed what is predicted for the site, affordable housing will likely be the first casualty of a modified plan. Should the rezoning be approved before a final RFP for a single developer is selected, a defined amount of affordable housing, responding to the needs of the surrounding neighborhoods, should be guaranteed for the site; this should be included in the zoning text as mandatory inclusionary housing tailored to the specific needs of the surrounding Queens neighborhoods. The City should position itself as the broker of potential construction subsidies for the development, in return for the guarantee of their construction. The public should be advised as to whether market analysis data exists that supports the plan and the feasibility of creating a significant proportion of affordable housing.
Urban Renewal Underwriting the redevelopment of Willets Point is an urban renewal plan; as such, the plan should establish a nexus between the proposed redevelopment actions and the public benefits to be derived from the plan. MAS believes that the Urban Renewal Plan should meet the following principles:
Principle: constructive outreach to and participation of all major stakeholders must serve as the foundation of the proposed plan – The Willets Point plan seems to have been the outgrowth of a planning process primarily focused on the downtown Flushing area. The city appears to have failed to involve on-site business owners and property owners, whose livelihoods will be most directly affected by the proposed plans, in a deliberative process. These stakeholders would include not only the owners of the affected parcels but the operators/leasees of businesses as well. If eminent domain is used, the relocation process of current businesses would be best served by a detailed disposition of the businesses on site and their needs for space. Melrose Commons in the Bronx – also a LEED-ND pilot project – may serve as a model here; in this more inclusive process, property owners were approached on a lot by lot basis to determine who wanted to sell and leave and who wanted to stay with the urban renewal plan being built around them.
Principle: the plan represents a strategic use of city resources – The city has already set aside close to 389 million dollars to support the redevelopment of Willets Point; and as part of this plan the city will be using public monies to either buy out the owners or to pay fair market value via eminent domain. The question is whether the resources invested in the acquisition of properties and proposed infrastructure improvements outside of the district represent the best use of public monies when site preparation and site infrastructure improvement cost are to be borne by the developer of the site. The recent experience at Atlantic Yards serves as a cautionary note to the strategy of developer constructed infrastructure, as their decision making is tied more to capital market fluctuations, compared to the public sector.
Principle: the plan supports long-term planning for sustainability, including social and economic sustainability. – A widely accepted definition of sustainability identifies the Triple Bottom Line as a measuring tool to assess sustainability, which means developments should "perform to not just a single financial bottom line, but the simultaneous pursuit of economic prosperity, environmental quality and social equity – Profit, Planet & People." PlaNYC 2030 effectively sets guidelines to move our city in the direction of sustainable and "greener" development by focusing on our environment, our green spaces as well as housing, infrastructure and transportation needs; yet, the city lacks a comprehensive plan of how it intends to grow industries and create employment opportunities that give New Yorker's the chance to gain skills and build assets as well as long-term security.
The Willets Point plan fails to address long-term economic sustainability. At the same time, the city's industrial areas, such as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and even College Point just across from Willets Point, have very low vacancy rates, indicating a pressing need for adequate space for industrial firms; therefore, the city should carefully examine a development scenario that invests in and promotes industrial growth. (See above)
Principle: the plan benefits existing affected community stakeholders – As the city seeks to catalyze development in areas previously subjected to disinvestment by the city and the private sector, the needs of and costs to the local stakeholders must be carefully weighed against the projected public benefits.
In the case of Willets Point, the needs of the local property and business owners and workers as well as stakeholders in the two neighborhoods adjacent to the site must be carefully considered as the city seeks to declare an Urban Renewal area. The proposed benefits for the existing communities must be guaranteed by binding agreements and delivered according to an agreed upon, reasonable and predictable timeline. In particular, current business owners, land owners and employees must be fairly treated not only to compensate for current losses but to ensure their future economic situation and growth. Employees should be placed in comparable employment in order to secure their families' survival and future. Seriously examining green industries as potential growth engines for NYC' employment base should be a priority when making land-use decisions, and support for such industries should be considered a strategic investment in the City's work force building crucial human capital.
Principle: the urban design as well as design of open spaces and parks promotes a public, open feeling and ensures public access. – New Yorker's deserve quality urban design and architecture as well as public open spaces akin to parks or public plazas that are not susceptible to privatization.
As part of the proposed actions in the Willets Point redevelopment plan, the NYC EDC is asking the Planning Commission to demap public streets and acquire private properties to be developed by a single developer; thus, it is imperative that safeguards are included to ensure that the development maintains an open feel, is truly accessible to the public and welcoming to residents from surrounding neighborhoods. As our analysis illustrates, MAS has serious doubts that this is possible given the current site conditions, the proposed demapping of all of the streets and redevelopment under a one-developer ownership model.
Principle: the plan includes a governance structure to ensure stakeholder participation in the monitoring of the development and design review process. – Given the lengthy timeline for the Willets Point redevelopment and, consequently, the likelihood that any plan will change over time, a governance structure that gives relevant stakeholders oversight over the planning as well as monitoring process must be established – such as a local development corporation with broad representation.


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Matriculation Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981 Factual 16 mins
The final oral exam in history and social studies at one of Warsaw's high schools. The film illustrates the theatre of social life in Soviet Poland where one says different things on the stage and another behind the scenes.
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98.5 KVOO Presents: VOO Fan Appreciation Concert
Jon Pardi, Rachel Farley, Jared Ashley
Cain's Ballroom
423 N Main St.
Tulsa, OK, 74103
This event is all ages
Watch & Listen
"All I ever wanted to do coming to Nashville was to write rowdy, in-your-face, straight country music," says Jon Pardi, "and that's what this album is."
Pardi's high-energy approach, perfected on stages throughout his native California, has its stamp all over his Capitol Records Nashville debut. Just as importantly, that energy is applied to music rooted in songwriting legend Harlan Howard's adage that country is three chords and the truth.
"If you can take a piece of life and put it in a song," says Pardi, "it's going to be a good song—especially if it's from the heart."
Life and love, truth and energy wind their way all through his debut album, which showcases a young artist who is clearly no ordinary newcomer. Few artists hit stride as quickly and as forcefully as he has, and his fellow artists have been among the first to take note.
"People ask me who I'd like to open up for," he says with a smile, "but I've been lucky enough to have opened for several artists I look up to."
It's a list that includes Alan Jackson, Dwight Yoakam, Dierks Bentley, Gary Allan and Luke Bryan, artists who appreciate the kind of influences Pardi brings to the table—echoes of the crisp Bakersfield sound of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, hints of the driving beat of Waylon Jennings and the excitement of Jerry Lee Lewis. He brings all of it together and puts his unique stamp on it, topping it off with just a bit of swagger that gives a little edge to his undeniable appeal.
Like his heroes, Pardi is a longtime road warrior, a veteran of four-set shows and constant travel, someone who brings a wealth of experience to bear every time he steps in front of a microphone. He has gone on tour with kindred spirit and labelmate Eric Church, and earned a slot on the Austin City Limits Festival, one of the country world's most prestigious venues. His on-stage charisma and accessibility, his polished yet raucous sound, and his well-crafted and infectious songs earn him new fans wherever he goes.
The territory he covers on the CD—road life and the ups and downs of romance—has been the subject matter of many country classics through the decades, but Pardi, whose gift is a feel for atmosphere and an eye for detail, makes it all fresh and gives the project his indelible stamp.
A natural storyteller, he writes what he knows, spinning tales born of his dues-paying days in the area around his native Dixon, California, and bringing it all together into a strong, cohesive musical statement. Between the heartfelt opener "Fightin' the Fool" and the breakneck rocker "Drinkin' With Me," which closes the CD, he lays out a scenario of youth, music, love and loss that is as compelling as it is raucous. "Chasin' Them Better Days" and "Write You A Song" capture all the adventure and uncertainty of life on the road; "Happens All The Time" brings attraction, flirtation and love's possibilities, good and bad, to the table; from there, "Up All Night" celebrates love, "Missin' You Crazy" showcases the yin-yang pull of relationships and the road, "Love You From Here" is a surprisingly upbeat farewell to a departed love, and "Empty Beer Cans" and "Rainy Night Song" show both sides of the coin when it comes to heartache.
All in all, it's an album by an artist who knows just where his strengths lie—the excitement, experience and songwriting skills that fueled his relatively fast rise to publishing and label deals after his arrival in Nashville are all present. His one-of-a-kind voice brings a positive edge to even the toughest emotional scenarios.
"I really don't have any negative songs," he says. "It always feels good with me so when you come to a show or listen to the record, you're going to have a good time."
It's not hard to see where the earliest seeds of Pardi's approach lie. His musical journey began with a grandmother who loved classic country and had a karaoke machine in the house. Young Jon developed a special fondness for Hank Jr. and the two Georges—Jones and Strait—along with Alabama, Dwight Yoakam and Mark Chesnutt. He was just 7 when he sang "Friends in Low Places" for all he was worth at his dad's 30th birthday party at a local Legion hall.
At an even younger age, he walked out of a children's music class and asked for guitar lessons so he could sing like his heroes. He was writing songs by 12 and playing them in a band at 14. A self-confessed "class clown," he was more interested in writing songs and playing guitar than in either sports or homework. After high school, he and buddy Chase McGrew began playing acoustically in small bars around Dixon and Winters.
"Those were some of the fun times," he says, "and that's when I learned that slow songs don't go over when you're trying to sell beer, so I learned a lot of really up, fast songs that I still like doing today."
The two moved to Chico to go to Butte Junior College, where Pardi started the band Northern Comfort.
"We played together for three years and it was a lot of fun," he says. When they disbanded temporarily, "I went home and started saving money. I'd known I was going to move to Nashville since I was 19," and after visits to Music City where he met a few people, he knew the time was right.
"You need to have a level head to move here," he says, "to be confident enough to say, 'I'm going to do it.' I felt like I was ready and I started out on February 23, 2008, with my mom crying as I drove away."
He took his dog, his PA system and the $7,000 he'd saved, which, he says, "I went through pretty quick." He used a credit card to pay the fee for lifeguard training, using that skill to earn money until he landed a publishing deal, just 18 months after moving. Two of his first collaborations, "Write You a Song" and "Fighting The Fool," were instrumental in landing him his publishing deal, and he took full advantage of the opportunity to write for money.
"I did a lot of co-writing," he says. "There were a lot of headache mornings but I still showed up, and a lot of good songs came on days like that."
As demos he wrote and sang started making the rounds on Music Row, label execs, including those at Capitol, began asking, "Who is this Jon Pardi?"
"We started doing showcases," he says, "and about the third one we did with the full band, [Capitol Records Nashville President] Mike Dungan gave me a handshake afterward and said, 'Let's do it.'"
As they talked about potential producers, Pardi suggested that he and his friend and collaborator Bart Butler, who had done the demos that had brought him this far, do the album.
"They said all right," he says, "and we cut four songs and they loved them. Then we went back in and finished it up."
The key from his perspective, he says, is "knowing what you want. I had what I wanted to sound like in my head. It's what made doing the demos and then the record so much fun. You take a piece of this influence and a bit of that and make it your own. So much happens in the studio if you've got your lyric and song melody down."
Given the quality of his heroes, the strength of his talent and the depth of his experience, the album became just the right showcase. From there, he says, "it's about surrounding yourself with great people. If you show Nashville you've got talent and if you do it right, they'll help you make that talent even better and help you get it out there."
Life perspective gives his success a special sweetness.
"I know I'm lucky to be doing what I'm doing," he says. "I could be back working construction or installing air conditioners in an attic that's at 115 degrees. There are a lot of people who work awfully hard to make a dollar. I'm glad the hard work I'm doing now goes into something I love this much. It makes me really happy to be here doing music."
As he begins making his mark on a national level, that's a feeling being shared by more and more new Jon Pardi fans.
Expectations for aspiring teenage singers are fairly well defined thanks to a pop culture that seems to be saturated with them. The list starts with a charming vocal ability, some stage presence and a bit of charisma. Seventeen year-old Rachel Farley definitely possesses all of these characteristics, but where the young Georgia native stands out from the rest is that she also exudes an undeniable air of strong, yet humble confidence, tenacious independence and songwriting that radiates wisdom beyond her years.
When stacking attributes in an attempt to define RED BOW Records Rachel Farley and her music, many qualities quickly step to the fore: Strength. Purpose. Conviction. The rest is almost baseline, a foundation upon which rests her single most unexpected characteristic: Artistry.
Rachel's cohesive sense of self, message and mission casts everything else in sharper relief. Her powerful voice becomes an oak-cured alto equally adept at gut-punch emotion and fire-breathing raucousness. Years spent performing with and learning from Brantley Gilbert, Colt Ford, Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean and more seem to be the apprenticeship of a craftsman. And a fearless honesty amplified by personal tragedy render all but truth inconsequential in the songs she writes. For Rachel Farley, life and music are much too real and much too raw to be forced into a box.
After all, it's not often a 17-year-old breaks onto the scene with a fully formed worldview. "You can be tough and a strong person without being a bad girl or mean," she explains. "You don't have to be a pushover to be a good girl, and you don't have to be fake. And that's what I hope comes across in my music. Obviously I'm young, and with people my age there's a lot of insecurity and trying to fit in, but that's too much pressure. Be who you are and let people respect you for that instead of trying to fit their mold. You can't be extraordinary if you're trying be like everybody else."
And if anything is certain, it's that Rachel Farley won't be following the crowd. "Music is all I ever wanted to do," she says. "When I was four or five I was playing concerts in my bedroom for millions of people and writing songs. When I started playing guitar at 12 and got my first gig, there was no question in my mind."
That first show wasn't exactly a dream come true. "The show was two hours long and, about two weeks before the show, I realized my eight songs weren't going to go very far," she laughs. "So I had my elementary school music teacher come out and play a few songs with me. That made it last about an hour, I took a 15-minute break and did the exact same set again. I had the place packed with friends and most of them never came out to see me again. And I don't blame them at all."
Rachel's learning curve was steep and lightning fast, however. The following year she played 100 shows. At 13, she met then-rising local performer Brantley Gilbert and started opening shows for him. "Of course now he's got radio hits and is blowing up everywhere, but even back then he was huge in Georgia," she recalls. "He was such an inspiration in showing what could be built and the kind of show that could be put on at that level. You don't have to have expensive lights and videos to reach people."
The commitment was already intense. "I went to my first two days of seventh grade and that was it," she laughs. "I had to start homeschooling. You can only have so many fake doctor's appointments before somebody gets suspicious. We were playing so many gigs and driving to Nashville so much that it just didn't make sense anymore."
And there was another kind of education going on anyway. "My mom was really smart," Rachel says. "She read every book she could find on the music industry and did everything she could to help me without being overbearing with my artistic development." Farley met her manager and producer Michael Knox (Jason Aldean) about this time and went on to sign her first recording and publishing deal at 15. It was a bittersweet period for the Farley family.
"That was the year my dad was diagnosed with a very rare cancer," she says. He passed away in August 2011. "You learn so much and it's not all negative," she continues. "There's a side of me that's very blessed to have been through it and have the perspective I have. He was so proud of me – the kind of dad who made sure his co-workers all had my demo CD from when I was 11.
"I don't know that it's affected my music; maybe it's too early to know. You do realize that a lot of things aren't important and some things matter more than people know. Carrying that with me in life is going to make me stronger. At the end of the day what matters is how you and God view yourself. If you know that you can come before God with what you've done in life and he can be proud of you, you've done things right."
Now Rachel's opening for Jason Aldean's sold-out tour with Luke Bryan, and she can be heard on Brantley Gilbert's latest single "Kick It In The Sticks." "'Hey, trouble, whassup?' Yeah, that's me," she laughs. "I'm in the video for a millisecond. And with the tour, Jason heard my music about a year ago and apparently liked it. For him to pick me without a radio hit or anything is amazing." Meanwhile, she's finishing work on her debut album for Broken Bow Records – home to Aldean, Dustin Lynch and more.
One song is particularly dear. "I just call it 'My Daddy's Song,'" she explains. "One of the last things he asked was for me to write him a song, and I actually wrote it the night he passed away." Brantley Gilbert and songwriter Mike Dekle were among the first to reach out to Farley after her father's passing, and she joined them that evening at a benefit show for a fallen police officer. "Getting ready for the show, the chorus just hit me. I remember telling Brantley that if I finished it, I'd sing it at the funeral. I woke up that morning and the rest just fell out in no time at all. I thought, 'Okay, I'm doing this today.' It's everything I was feeling; very honest, very raw."
That kind of depth might not be expected from some precocious kid singer with a big voice, but it's exactly what can be expected from an artist like Rachel Farley.
It's no surprise that those closest to the up and coming Nashville singer and songwriter Jared Ashley, think of him as just a little bit of a stickler when it comes to details.
"It's always been attention to the small things that have made the biggest impact to my career," he says with a bit of a smile. "Whether it's the pacing of the live show, the vocal harmonies or the way the bass and drums play off one another, all those things matter." And little by little, all the elements have come together to make Jared Ashley one of Nashville's most promising new artists.
Born in Hobbs, NM, near the oil fields on the Texas-New Mexico border, Ashley relocated to Newnan, GA with his dad as a small child. "Growing up, my parents listened to Alabama, Ronnie Milsap, Kenny Rogers. I was always around country music as a kid," Jared recalls.
He received his first guitar at the age of five and it proved a constant friend to him throughout childhood. The Ashley family later returned to Hobbs during Jared's sophomore year in high school and, not knowing a soul his own age, he began honing his guitar playing and writing music as a way to pass the time.
"That's when I really sat down and got serious about writing songs and playing the guitar," he says. "I was really just trying to consume my time with things other than being bored out of my mind," he says. Inspired by the revitalization of country music in the early 90's by artists like Travis Tritt and fellow Newnan native Alan Jackson, Jared came to claim country music as his own.
After high school, Jared joined the Navy, serving four years aboard the USS Independence and USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carriers. He spent much of that time stationed in Yokosuka, Japan while also serving two tours of duty in the Persian Gulf. "On long trips out to sea, there's not a whole lot to do when you're off duty. You can stare at water or you can play the guitar. And that's when I got more serious about it."
At the encouragement of his Navy buddies, Jared began playing acoustic gigs at George's Country Bar, located just off the naval base in Yokosuka. It was there his music caught the ear of a friend who introduced him to a contact with deep ties in the Nashville music community. With a year left on his commitment with the Navy, Jared made his first trip to Nashville and was instantly hooked on the town's thriving scene.
Jared moved to Nashville the following year, assembling a band nearly as soon as he arrived. His talents quickly landed him the coveted weekend gig at the world-famous Tootsie's Orchid Lounge on lower Broadway. "Lower Broad is a boot camp," Jared says. "You're gonna meet a ton of people and you're gonna learn a lot. It'll either make you or break you."
The gigs at Tootsie proved to be a tremendous break for Jared, giving him the opportunity to meet and impress numerous Music Row executives at his shows and make his first foray into the recording studio. It was there that Jared also met the booking agent who began to mold Jared into the road warrior he has become.
After placing fifth on Season Four of "Nashville Star" in 2006, Jared used the exposure to further his ability to tour and build a fan base as a live artist, even without the benefit of a record deal.
The many miles spent on the road have given Jared an even greater opportunity to hone his songwriting and test his material with his live audience. "I'm a songwriter first, and I became an artist because I wanted people to hear my songs," Jared says. "I'm really enjoying the songs I'm writing more because they represent where I am in my life right now."
Now more confident with his abilities to write songs as well as spot the special ones from other writers in the Nashville community, Ashley headed into the studio in 2010 with co-producer Bobby Terry to begin assembling an album for his fans to purchase at shows. The self-titled, self-financed project made it abundantly clear that he had grown into an artist fully capable of hanging with Nashville's best.
The music also brought Jared to the attention of Blaster Entertainment, a multi-faceted Ohio-based entertainment company. Jared was soon signed for management representation, and it was an easy decision for both parties to sign him to a record deal when the company's Blaster Records division launched a full Nashville operation in 2012 behind the release of albums by Hank Williams, Jr. and Aaron Lewis.
Ashley, who maintains an aggressive touring schedule playing more than 150 shows per year, is currently on a nationwide tour visiting country radio stations to promote his first single, "Last Train To Memphis." The song, penned by Ashley with Nick Sturms and Jeremy McComb, is one of eleven tracks from his forthcoming Blaster Records release.
Jared's single-minded determination can be found in the lyric of "Last Train To Memphis" -- 'It's a one-way track, there ain't no going back.' That dedication is finally paying off tenfold in the realization of his lifelong dreams.
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United Way of the Mid-South is heavily involved in a presentation on establishing and aligning with a city and county health care infrastructure that will be shared with representatives of United Way organizations across the globe later this week.
The 2012 United Way Worldwide Community Leaders Conference takes place this week in Nashville, TN. United Way volunteers and staff leaders from countries spanning the globe will assemble to share best practices and learn more about the United Way movement's progress to improve education, income and health.
Regina Walker, United Way of the Mid-South's Sr. V.P. of Community Engagement and Alignment, is among the key presenters in a session entitled "Aligning Health Care In Memphis." Walker will share details about aligning United Way's work with government, nonprofit, healthcare and other groups in building a civic infrastructure for positive health outcomes, and the role our United Way's Catalyst Fund plays in that effort.
Additional presenters and/or partners of note are Debra Bartelli, DrPH (Healthy Shelby Project Director, Healthy Memphis Common Table); Scott Fountain (Sr. V.P. & Chief Development Officer, Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. and a local United Way Board member); Renee S. Frazier (CEO, Healthy Memphis Common Table); Stephen Reynolds (President and CEO, Baptist Memorial Health Care Corp. and Chairman of the Memphis Tomorrow Executive Committee / also a former local United Way Board member); and Rev. Kenneth S. Robinson, M.D. (Public Health Policy Advisor, Office of the Mayor, Shelby County, TN / also a former local United Way Board member).
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Spotify's Sao Paulo Office Featured In Brazil's Office Style Magazine
Spotify's New Sao Paulo office featured in Brazil's Office Style Magazine
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Spotify, Sweden's highly successful global online music streaming company, recently commissioned TPG Architecture to design their new Brazilian office in a unique building site in Sao Paulo.
Unlike most office locations in densely built Sao Paulo, Spotify's space in the Vila Magdalena district is in a low rise complex, with contemporary architecture merging with gardens and open spaces. TPG oriented the planning of the two floor, 5400 square foot premises to take advantage of the views and extend the office environment to the exterior. TPG had a great time working with the Spotify team to ensure that each transformative idea was met on time and on budget.
The lower floor, dedicated to staff café and visitor conferencing, opens its doors to offer informal meeting and lounge garden areas complimented with outdoor furnishings. The interior is distinguished by way of bold graffiti themed wall graphics and colorful fabric selections that add contrast to the otherwise purposely muted and exposed architectural finishes. The upper floor is laid out with open plan workstations benefitting from a variety of collaboration spaces that range from enclosed meeting room to informal lounge and open booth spaces. Views are optimized for the users and an internal stair links the two floors.
Michel Fiechter served as Partner in charge of this well received recently published project, working closely with TPG's International Studio Head William Alisse.
TPG manages national and international accounts by means of a network of strategic partners and affiliates working in conjunction with our regional offices. Our presence in London, England, integrated within the well-established EPR Architects practice, is the springboard for our work on continental Europe, Southeast Asia and the India sub-continent. Established in 1996, our UK practice is directly linked with our NY based International Studio to ensure the resources required for any project size or complexity is always on hand. TPG's London and New York based teams work 100% within the UK norms with administrative, currency, and insurance requirements all aligned to the governing laws of England and Wales, and a practice that is totally compliant to local codes, means and methods. That in turn teamed up with our Brazilian affiliates AC Arquitetura and ProInstall- a true multinational collaboration process with striking results.
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In the 2008 film The Reader, the illiterate Hanna (Kate Winslet) first learns to read by listening to an audio recording of the book, which is referred to by her in the movie as The Lady with the Little Dog, read by her former lover Michael (Ralph Fiennes).
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Mango granita
Total time: 15 minutes, plus freezing time
Servings: 6 to 8
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Zest and juice of 2 limes
2 tablespoons grated ginger
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1. Peel the mangoes and remove as much flesh as possible from the pits. Dice the flesh into large pieces.
2. Place the mango pieces into a blender along with the sugar, lime zest and juice, ginger and water. Purée the mixture until liquefied to form the granita base. This makes about 5 cups.
3. Strain the granita base and place in a large baking dish. Freeze, stirring every half-hour or so until the granita is frozen. To serve, shave the granita, raking the tines of a fork across the surface to break up the crystals. Serve immediately.
Each of 8 servings: 125 calories;0 protein; 32 grams carbohydrates; 1 gram fiber; 0 fat; 0 cholesterol; 31 grams sugar; 1 mg sodium.


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According to a recent report from Deloitte, 88% of employees don't have passion for their work, and so they don't contribute their full potential. Another shocking statistic from this report is that only around 20% of senior management is passionate about what they do, which signals a much bigger problem.
Having a leader or manager that isn't passionate about their work can definitely lead to bad results, in terms of employee productivity. Employee disengagement is costing the US $500 billion per year. Employees that don't get the recognition and respect from managers that they deserve, will become disengaged, and not want to work hard.
2/3 of today's employees feel "overwhelmed." 80% would like to work fewer hours. The workload has doubled or tripled yet most companies don't offer the leadership and employee develop training necessary to give their leaders and individual contributors the heightened skill set to manage that much work. So the problems still exist, and the worst part is that the productivity required to survive each day is getting higher. So leaders and employees are naturally feeling more stressed out and wanting to leave their job for what may seem to be a better opportunity.
86% of businesses and HR leaders believe they don't have an adequate leadership pipeline. The fact of the matter is, if you have great leaders employees feel empowered and motivated to provide better results for that person. People who aren't passionate about what they do are considered to be a disengaged employee.
Only 6% believe their current process for managing performance is worth the time. Finding a way to manage employee performance has to be the way of the future, and managers have to start buying into it. Leaders must be able to recognize his/her employees' strengths, weaknesses, and delegate tasks in such a way to develop their true potential plus enhance their abilities.
It's time to wake up leaders! Your most important assets walk out the door or your organization every day at closing time. Your leadership practices that day are the determining factor as to whether your employees will show up tomorrow with the passion of a superstar or "just show up." When they've had enough disheartening and uninspiring leadership practices, the superstars will exit at an alarming rate!
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What does this tell us? We need to change our course! Conducting a few more focus groups to spend one one one time with employees and giving away free popcorn in the break rooms while trying to mask the increase in productivity standards WON'T fix the problems…. it's making it worse!
What do we need to do? We need to invest more in our leadership to arm them with what they need to change these numbers.
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- Identify what drives our employees.
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Many many thanks to Dr. Alyssa Libstug for her expert diagnosing and treating of my little dog's eye on Thanksgiving weekend for a significantly large ulcer. The passionate care from this clinic is amazing. p.s. Tia's eye is much better and I am very thankful. Thanks again to Dr. A. and her amazing staff.
We are 2 little kittens 1male Freddy & 1 female DD. Recentally we paid a visit to Copetown Animal Hosp to have the normal snip snip done . It could have been a traumatic experience but for the love & kindness of DR. Alyssa, Lori & Chrisite. We were greeted at the door by Christie followed close behind by Lori & Dr Alyssa, We were ushered into a very clean clinic & had our pre opt examination done & admitted. We had a very pleasant stay with lots of hugs & kisses. Our owner was quite impressed by the service also. We would highly reccomend this hospital to anyone who needs vet care for their special friends Thanks love Freddy & DD
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If you feel like your leg muscles are tight, you may beneift from working with a physical therapist to improve your flexibility. Your PT can show you the right exercises that you can do to help improve your overall lower extremity mobility and flexibility.

Many people suffer from tight leg muscles. A very common cause of leg tightness is due to the amount of time we spend sitting throughout the work day. As our knees are bent in this position, the muscles that flex the knee joint become used to being in this shortened position. We also tend to get a little tighter as we age and our muscles lose a bit of water content and extensibility.

Tight leg muscles can predispose one to injury during daily and recreational activities, and it may contribute to the development of back pain, although. To prevent this, it is important to perform leg stretching exercises to loosen tight muscles.

Performing daily leg stretches is one activity that should be incorporated into your daily exercise routine. Below, several leg stretches are reviewed. These leg stretching exercises incorporate all the major muscle groups of the lower extremities.

Be sure to check in with your doctor or physical therapist before starting any exercise program.

Your hamstring muscles travel from your pelvis to the back of each knee, and then help to flex your knee and extend your hip. These muscles often get tight from sitting for long periods throughout the day

Tight hamstrings are common. However, there are many easy exercises that can be done to increase hamstring length. Learn these four exercises and be on your way to a more limber lifestyle!

Performing a hamstring stretch routine daily can help improve the way your hamstrings move. Hold each stretch for 30 seconds, and be sure to relax as you stretch.

Another great stretch that you can do at work on on the go is the standing hamstring stretch. This exercise great because it can be done anywhere, so you can be sure to get a quick stretch to your hammys throughout the day.

Your quadriceps muscles, also known as the quads, run from the front of your pelvis, over your kneecap, and to the front of your shin. These muscles help straighten your knees.

Running, biking, and other daily activities can result in tight quadricep muscles. Learn these three easy exercises to stretch tight quadricep muscles.

Standing Quadricep Stretch

Side Quadricep Stretch

Prone Quadricep Stretch

Hold each stretch for 30 seconds, and be sure to stop the stretch if your feel pain. The stretches can be performed several times each day.

Your calf muscles course down from behind your knee to the back of your heel. Tightness here may result in ankle and foot problems including achilles tendonitis or plantar fasciitis.

Tight calf muscles are common in most people. In women, this may be due to wearing high heel shoes (so don't sacrifice your calves for fashion). Sometimes, people are just generally a little tighter in their muscles.

Stretching your calf muscles is easy. The basic towel calf muscle stretch can be done just about anywhere:

Sit with your feet our in front of you on the floor.

Hold a sheet or towel with one end in each hand forming a loop.

Place the loop around one foot.

Pull your toes toward you.

Stop when you feel a comfortable stretch in your calf muscle.

Hold for 30 seconds.

Repeat 9 more times.

Repeat for the other foot.

You can also perform the classic runner's stretch for your calf muscles. Simply place both hands on a wall, and leave your heels on the ground as you lean towards the wall. You should feel a slight stretch behind your lower legs.

A Word from Verywell

Working to keep your legs moving freely and fully can help you feel better about yourself, and it may help to prevent injruies. Be sure to visit your PT so you can learn the best way to stretch your legs. By taking a few minutes each day to perform these basic lower extremity stretches, you can help maximize your pain free mobility.

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VIRGINIA WATER, England (Reuters) - Ryder Cup stalwart Graeme McDowell has explained how hard a juggling act it is for the top European players to commit to events on their home circuit and compete in the best tournaments in the U.S.
The European Tour has struggled to find new sponsors and keep tournaments on its schedule in recent years with the likes of world number one Rory McIlroy, third-ranked Henrik Stenson and number six Justin Rose spending most of their time in the U.S.
"It's obvious that it's a tough landscape right now," world number 35 McDowell told a news conference on the eve of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth.
"When you have an option on where to play in the world it's a tough decision. But this one is always on the schedule for me and for most guys, this is an iconic event.
"As a European golfer you would love to add your name to this trophy and that's why there is such a strong field assembled here."
In truth, though, the absence of Stenson, Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter and Paul Casey means this week's field is not as strong as it could be.
"For someone like myself who makes his home in America and has a wife and young child, it becomes an increasingly difficult balancing act to work out when you jump on a plane to travel all over the world," said McDowell.
"You never want to go away for just one week. You want to try to put a run of two or three weeks together and it becomes difficult to leave the family when there is a $7 million or $8 million event two hours up the road.
"But we also make our commitments to the European Tour and there are certain events I love to be at. This is one of them and next week's Irish Open is another," added the 2010 U.S. Open champion.
"There is a certain amount of loyalty. It's hard every year and I understand when guys can't do everything all the time."
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Working and blogging -- for me, these are usually separate things.
I'll make an exception today.
Part of my job involves hiring. Part of that process is screening applications. I reviewed about 35 of those this morning. A few stood out, but not for the right reasons.
One applicant listed several very short previous jobs. The reason for leaving was the same for each: disputes about pay and hours. The same applicant listed as the only reference a personal friend named Grizzly. I imagine that whenever this person had a dispute with his or her employer (often, apparently), he or she would bring in ol' buddy Grizzly as (shall we say) an advocate. I will interview this applicant only if he or she promises to bring Grizzly.
Another applicant, in the space that asks for membership in relevant professional organizations, listed "Anytime Fitness." (Note: the job does not require any sort of physical fitness or stamina.)
Another person applied twice. That's no big deal, except that the applicant's past job experiences differed in the two applications.
Sometimes this job is too easy.
But my employer should get a little flak, too. The employment application form has such helpful directions as "please write legibly" and "be complete." I would love to see a form someday that says "please scrawl unintelligibly" or "please be cryptic and obfuscatory."


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Tecumseh Mortality Follow-up Study, 1978 (ICPSR 9900)
Principal Investigator(s): Tecumseh Management Committee
This study provides mortality data for respondents to the TECUMSEH COMMUNITY HEALTH STUDY, 1959-1969 (ICPSR 8969). The seven variables in the data collection include an identifier to link the mortality data with the core data file, the contact month and year (for respondents who were alive during the 1978 ascertainment period), respondents' mortality status (alive, dead, or unknown), the month and year of death, and the cause of death (International Classification of Diseases, 8th Revision codes). These mortality follow-up data were recorded for the 8,637 white respondents to the original data collection.
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Tecumseh Management Committee. TECUMSEH MORTALITY FOLLOW-UP STUDY, 1978. Ann Arbor, MI: Tecumseh Management Committee [producer], 1992. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1993. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09900.v1
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Sample: All 8,800 residents of the 2,400 households in Tecumseh, Michigan were canvassed in 1957. In each of three rounds of data collection (1959-1960, 1962-1965, and 1967-1969), interviews and medical examinations were conducted with remaining and new household residents, yielding a total of 11,563 persons who were examined at least once, and 4,312 who were examined during all three rounds. This mortality file contains data for the 8,637 white respondents who were first examined in Round I.
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If you live in private rented accommodation and are unhappy with the condition of your home, the Council may be able to help.
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The Elegant Geek has been a pleasure to work with; from originating a new brand/logo to thinking out of the box for everything we do for our marketing. Lisa's a team player with her own unique opinion and is great assimilating 3 partners differing viewpoints and helping us all to recognize the positives (and maybe more importantly the negative aspects) to an ultimate consensus. Not always an easy task except she's sensitive, diplomatic and smooth. We are so grateful to have her on our team!


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In 2012 EE used the CR Index as a tool to conduct baseline assessment and prioritise next steps. Using BITC findings and recommendations, EE entered the CR Index in 2013 and achieved an impressive improvement.
- Third party assessment provided impartial recommendations that focused on helping to build the business case for corporate responsibility within the business.
- The assessment engaged various areas of the business including the Board encouraging buy-in into the importance of corporate responsibility agenda.
- Taking part in the assessment highlighted areas of strength and good progress made so far.
- The Management Report established priorities for improvement as well as provided the business with information on what should be done, why and how.
" The BITC CR Index has provided a strong foundation for our Responsibility programme and helped us drive best practices throughout the organisation. The Index is an excellent way for organisations to understand how they're performing vis-a-vis other organisation and make improvements. "
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EE is the UK's most advanced digital communications company and the first in Britain to offer superfast 4G mobile services alongside fibre broadband. EE runs the EE, Orange and T-Mobile brands, delivering the best network and the best service to 27 million customers.
In preparation for the launch of EE in October 2012 the company embarked on an ambitious programme to understand existing performance and implement a new responsibility approach. The objective was to ensure EE is a responsible business that meets internal and external expectations.
The challenge was much bigger than just combining good practices from both companies. EE wanted to develop its own vision, which would give its employees strong focus and direction and would differentiate itself from peers.
In 2012 EE decided to use BITC's CR Index to conduct a baseline assessment of responsibility performance. This management and benchmarking tool has been designed to help companies, like EE, to manage, measure and report their social and environmental impacts in a systematic and integrated way.
Following the self-assessment, EE received a management report from BITC outlining key actions for improvement as well as best practice examples.
EE used the report in a rigorous way, implementing the majority of the recommended actions. As a result of strong leadership from the board as well as the great engagement of EE's employees, the company was able to repeat the exercise in 2013 to assess its progress and benchmark its performance against sector peers. EE improved its score by significantly and reached Silver ranking. It decided to publicly communicate its commitment to sustainability by being listed in the CR Index ranking, published in the FT.
The results of the in-depth assessment conducted by BITC helped identify and prioritise actions for improvement, specifically in the strategy and integration sections. External recommendations speeded up the process of implementation and gave credibility to internal plans developed by EE's team.
Hard work, dedication and most of all passion of EE's team to drive the CR agenda resulted in impressive progress made in just few months.
Below are just few examples of success stories EE can be proud of:
EE developed its vision "to provide the best network and best service so our customers trust us with their digital lives".
EE introduced effective governance structure, where the Leadership Team plays crucial role in driving the agenda forward and each member takes accountability for specific area of CR.
EE developed and implemented its first CR strategy clearly outlining what are the most material issues for EE and communicating three ambitious goals in the areas where EE can make the biggest positive difference to Britain.
EE created robust CR risk management system to capture all risk as well as opportunities, e.g. building digital skills has been recognised as a business opportunity which has led to the launch of EE's Digital Champions.
EE launched its first Responsibility Report, demonstrating great level of transparency and outlining EE's future commitments.


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Rep. Vito Fossella and Rep. Bob Ney
Remember those trips Rep. Fossella took to Vail Colorado with Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio? Remember when the New York Daily News covered this story, reporting that Rep. Fossella has spent in excess of $25,000 of his campaign money to fly his family to Vail each winter to attend this ski trip? Remember Rep. Fossella attended those ski trips with just two other members of Congress besides Rep. Ney and a chalet full of lobbyists?
Today we learn that a second aid to Rep. Ney has been subpoenaed to testify in an ongoing investigation by the Justice Department relating to influence-peddling in Congress.
This is on top of Rep. Ney's top three aids leaving their jobs with his office.
The top three aides for Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio) are leaving, or already have left, the Ohio Republican's office, the latest sign that Ney's legal and ethical troubles stemming from the Jack Abramoff scandal are growing worse with each passing day.
via Roll Call
As the probabilty of Rep. Ney running into ethical and more serious legal trouble with his connections to Jack Abramoff increases each day, the looming question is just what exactly was Rep. Fossella doing with him for the past six years in Vail? And why has he yet to reveal just who those lobbyists were that he was with? It would make sense that Rep. Fossella could easily lay to rest any concern of his constituents and the general public by releasing this information.


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Brent keeps gains, stays near $99 on OPEC output cut talk
* U.S. crude stocks up 3.3 million barrels last week - API
* Libya cuts El-Sharara field output
* U.S. crude stocks up 3.3 million barrels last week - APItrue
* Coming Up: Fed issues statement; 1800 GMT
By Jane Xie
SINGAPORE, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Brent crude steadied below $99 per barrel on Wednesday, after staging its steepest climb in two weeks in the previous session, on hopes the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will cut output and reduce a global supply glut.
The European benchmark sank to a 26-month low this week on continued worries about rising supplies and slower demand growth in China and Europe, but prices rose on Tuesday after OPEC's secretary general Abdullah al-Badri said the group could trim its 2015 output target by 500,000 barrels per day.
Brent edged down 9 cents to $98.96 a barrel by 0401 GMT, after closing up $2.40 in the previous session - biggest daily gain since Sept. 3. U.S. crude, or the West Texas Intermediate (WTI), was also down 13 cents to $94.75 after rising 2.1 percent on Tuesday.
"Thanks to the comments from OPEC, WTI and Brent went up sharply but at the moment, there is still a lot of supply," said Ken Hasegawa, a commodity sales manager at Newedge Japan.
Oil prices on both sides of the Atlantic have dropped over the past two months, dragged down by soaring U.S. shale oil production that has replaced many imports from West Africa, Europe and other regions, leading to a supply glut in the Atlantic Basin and Asia.
Brent has stayed below OPEC's preferred level of $100 for more than a week, prompting talk of a cut in OPEC output. Any production cut by OPEC, which is due to meet in late-November, would be the group's first since 2008.
Lower crude output from Libya also underpinned oil prices. The National Oil Corp said on Tuesday that output at its El-Sharara oil field has been reduced after rockets landed close to the nearby 120,000 bpd Zawiya refinery.
Despite the overnight price gains, oil investors remained concerned about the global economic outlook, the strength of the U.S. dollar and the outcome of an independence vote in Scotland that could rock financial markets.
"Still, the market has not stabilised and is waiting for Fed and Scotland's decisions," Hasegawa said. "Another reason is the increase in crude stocks from the API data."
Data from the American Petroleum Institute on Tuesday showed a surprise build of 3.3 million barrels in U.S. crude stocks last week, compared with analysts' expectations of a 1.6 million barrel draw.
The Energy Information Administration will release official inventory data at 1430 GMT.
Investors are now eyeing the U.S. central bank's policy meeting that ends on Wednesday for any hints on when the Fed could raise interest rates.
Despite earlier expectations of a more hawkish stance, flat U.S. producer prices in August, which points to muted inflated pressures, could allow the Fed to bide its time as it considers when to raise interest rates. (Editing by Florence Tan and Himani Sarkar)
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Anglo-Saxon England. They were first found in Lancashire at Worthington, a parish of Standish, union of Wigan, hundred of Leyland.
Worthingtin Early Origins
Lancashire at Worthington. "This place, anciently called Worthinton, was allotted, soon after the Domesday Survey, to Albert Greslet. A family of the local name were resident at the Hall in 1588, and from them proceeded the Worthingtons of Blainscough, of Crawshaw, and of Shevington." [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print. The place name literally means "estate associated with a man called Weorth," from the Old English personal name + "-ing" + "tun." [2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4) It dates back to the Domesday Book of 1086 where it was first listed as Werditone. [3]CITATION[CLOSE]
Williams, Dr Ann. And G.H. Martin, Eds., Domesday Book A Complete Translation. London: Penguin, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-141-00523-8) While the village and civil parish in North West Leicestershire is also named Worthington, it is from the former historical county of Lancashire that the family originates. Now part of Greater Manchester, Worthington is a civil parish within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan. Wrightington in Lancashire was another ancient family seat. "The lordship was given by Albert de Gresley to Orm, son of Ailward or Edward, progenitor of the Ashtons, of Ashton; and his descendants were called de Wrightington." [1]CITATION[CLOSE]
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
Worthingtin Spelling Variations
Worthingtin Spelling Variations
Until quite recently, the English language has lacked a definite system of spelling rules. Consequently, Anglo-Saxon surnames are characterized by a multitude of spelling variations. Changes in Anglo-Saxon names were influenced by the evolution of the English language, as it incorporated elements of French, Latin, and other languages. Although Medieval scribes and church officials recorded names as they sounded, so it is common to find one person referred to by several different spellings of his surname, even the most literate people varied the spelling of their own names. Variations of the name Worthingtin include Worthington, Wrightington and others.
Worthingtin Early History
Worthingtin Early History
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Worthingtin research. Another 189 words (14 lines of text) covering the years 1549, 1627, 1671, 1754, 1618 and 1671 are included under the topic Early Worthingtin History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Worthingtin Early Notables (pre 1700)
Worthingtin Early Notables (pre 1700)
Another 49 words (4 lines of text) are included under the topic Early Worthingtin Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Worthingtin In Ireland
Worthingtin In Ireland
Some of the Worthingtin family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. More information about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
The Great Migration
The Great Migration
Searching for a better life, many English families migrated to British colonies. Unfortunately, the majority of them traveled under extremely harsh conditions: overcrowding on the ships caused the majority of the immigrants to arrive diseased, famished, and destitute from the long journey across the ocean. For those families that arrived safely, modest prosperity was attainable, and many went on to make invaluable contributions to the development of the cultures of the new colonies. Research into the origins of individual families in North America revealed records of the immigration of a number of people bearing the name Worthingtin or a variant listed above: Nicholas Worthington settled in Connecticut in 1630; Henry Worthington settled in New England in 1631; M. and R. Worthington arrived in Philadelphia with their two children in 1820..
The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.
Motto: In opinum sed gratum
Motto Translation: In my opinion, but graciously
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A scientific inquiry by:. What are the Rules of Attraction?. Ms. Sarah Bielanski Mr. Daniel Sigafoos Ms. Rebecca Ellison Mr. James Flynn. "We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it." - Nancy Etcoff. Introduction.
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What are the Rules of Attraction?
Ms. Sarah BielanskiMr. Daniel Sigafoos
Ms. Rebecca EllisonMr. James Flynn
We decided to study the aspects of physical attraction, particularly in regards to how facial features and one's sense of dress style contribute to how attractive they are to the opposite sex.
We predicted that men and women generally look for similar things in each other:
However, specifically we predicted that men and women differ in these ways:
Hair length, color
Skin tone
Other facial features, including nose size and jaw type
Pant type and fit
Shirt type and fit
Amount of jewelryMethods
The results of our survey showed that, on most of the categories within the facial features list, there was not a significant difference.
However, men and women do seem to differ significantly in their taste for clothing styles and fits.
While we found a few categories within our survey that showed a significant difference, overall, our survey did not prove what we set out to - that men and women differ significantly in what they find physically attractive in the opposite sex.
One of the main limitations of our study was that we only focused on the facial features. We did not focus on more aspects of physical attraction.
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Debate on the bill Tuesday was peppered with calls from Democrats to focus on raising taxes on oil companies. Some have proposed legislation that would raise billions of dollars through eliminating tax breaks for oil companies and rebate money raised to drivers.
Democrats also argued that allowing more drilling in the U.S. would not immediately lower prices. But Republicans rejected these arguments and said demonstrating that the U.S. is prepared to do more to find its own energy resources would send the right signals to the markets and lower oil and gas prices.
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Selling music event tickets, but sourcing event data elsewhere
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I'm setting up a website where I want to list upcoming live music events. I want to be able to sell tickets for these events, but not by sourcing the event information (artist/venue/date etc) from the ticket affiliate itself.
For example, I take all the event information from Source A, because from here I can get a much better depth of information about this event. Then I can link the customer from my event listing to buy a ticket.
I will be listing many events and a lot of these won't be listed on ticket sellers lists (small events etc). So for a lot of events I won't be able to sell a ticket. But where available I'd like to offer the user a way to purchase tickets. I want my directory to be as big as possible, so that's why I don't want to list events that are only associated with ticket sellers.
But I'm hoping to align the two databases so that when my directory shows an event that is also associated with online ticket purchasing, I can benefit from the fact that the user may want to buy a ticket there and then.
Would this be possible and how would I go about finding a good comprehensive ticket service that I can affiliate with?
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