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UK films take lowest share of global box office since 2009
Monday March 24th 2014
This year’s Oscars may have been awash with British accents, thanks to the dominance of Gravity and 12 Years a Slave’s best picture win. But the UK’s share of the 2013 global box office actually fell to its lowest levels in four years, according to new figures released by the British Film Institute.
Films produced in (though not by) the UK accounted for 11.4% of the global box office last year, the lowest since 2009. The BFI calculates that the £2.5bn ($4.1bn) combined take is over a billion dollars down on the 2012 figure of £3.2bn ($5.3bn) – which represented a 15.3% share.
As the controversy over the Gravity’s win of the best British film Bafta over Slave (which wasn’t eligible) demonstrated, the British credentials of films can be confusing. The vast majority of what the BFI class as UK films are either wholly or partly US backed, but showcase UK settings, cast and crew. Such films accounted for 9.8% of the global box office this year, compared to just 1.6% for independent British films.
Top three films produced in the UK
1) Fast and Furious 6 – £478m ($789m)
2) Gravity – £428m ($708m)
3) Thor: The Dark World – £388m ($641m)
Top three films produced by the UK
1) Red 2 – £90m ($148m)
2) Rush – £55m ($90m)
3) Philomena – £54m ($89m)


Share this Story: The U of R Rams' Aaron Picton is now a Rider
The U of R Rams' Aaron Picton is now a Rider
The Saskatchewan Roughriders may have traded for Aaron Picton on Tuesday, but they made Al Picton's day.
The Roughriders acquired the rights to University of Regina Rams offensive lineman Aaron Picton from the Calgary Stampeders on Tuesday. Photo by Bryan Schlosser /Regina Leader-Post
"My grandpa is a huge fan - he has had season tickets for years - so I think he may be the most happy," Aaron Picton, an offensive lineman, said with a grin before his University of Regina Rams practised at U of R Field.
The U of R Rams' Aaron Picton is now a Rider Back to video
"(The trade) was definitely a surprise. Of course, it's very exciting getting to stay home and play for the team that I grew up watching. I've been to their games for years."
The Roughriders acquired the CFL rights to Picton from the Calgary Stampeders for import offensive lineman Randy Richards. Richards, 24, dressed for two regular-season games this season. He may be best known for the high hit he put on Calgary returner Tim Brown in a game Aug. 22 - a hit for which Richards was ejected and later fined.
The Stampeders selected Picton in the sixth round (53rd overall) of the 2015 CFL draft and took the 23-yearold to training camp. After the 6-foot-4, 295-pounder was released, he returned to the Rams for his fifth and final season of CIS eligibility.
On Tuesday, Picton admitted he didn't picture himself playing for the Roughriders when he was sitting in the stands watching their games.
"It was a goal of mine just to get a chance in the CFL and that was something I was working toward," he said. "Playing for the Riders is something that's in the back of your mind - 'That'd be pretty cool' - but throughout my university experience, it never really mattered to me.
"Now that I'm here, it's sweet. It's definitely something
that will hopefully be enjoyable for me in the future."
Picton can play centre, guard or tackle and Rams head coach Mike Gibson - a former offensive line coach in the CFL - said that versatility makes Picton attractive to pro teams.
Gibson believes Picton needs to get stronger in his lower body if he's to make it in the CFL. But his experience in Calgary this summer will give him some idea of what's coming when he goes to camp with the Roughriders.
"I'm pretty close with those guys in Calgary, so I talked to them when he was out there and when he left," Gibson said. "They liked a lot of the things he did and thought he had a real chance. He just needed to continue to grow into his body.
"That was his first pro camp, so he knows what to expect now."
The experience in Calgary gave Picton a good handle on what he needs to do to survive in the CFL.
"I think when I get on the football field I'm a pretty decent player, but there are a lot of aspects off the field I could get better at, like getting stronger and more lean," he said.
"The off-season will really benefit me and hopefully I can go (to camp) and show them what I can do."
EXTRAS: On Tuesday, Roughriders linebacker Macho Harris was named the CFL's top performer for Week 14. Harris had five tackles and tied a team record with three interceptions - one of which he returned 50 yards for a touchdown - in Sunday's 33-21 victory over the Montreal Alouettes ... The Roughriders have added import receiver LaQuan Williams to the practice roster. The 6-foot-0, 195-pound product of Maryland had NFL stints with the Baltimore Ravens and New England Patriots over the past five seasons ... The Riders announced they had released import tailback Steven Miller and Canadian receiver Matt Norzil. Miller played in three games this season, recording 16 kickoff returns for 310 yards, 13 punt returns for 84 yards, 12 carries for 63 yards and four receptions for 35 yards.
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What Working At A Call Center Taught Me
During the initial years of my university life, I was volunteering part-time at a call center to gather local exposure in the hopes of bolstering my CV and building connections. I was in my first year, and without prior experience or a concrete qualification, the idea of working over the phone seemed more lucrative than anything else. The pay wasn’t great, and as I progressed, I realized I was hardly ever going to get paid anything substantial. Most of these jobs require one to close deals.
If you happen to work for a telemarketing firm, the number of times you manage to sell a particular product will determine your weekly and, in most cases, monthly wages. There is a basic salary that the company assigns each salesperson, but eventually, if they fail to meet their targets, less than a quarter of that amount usually gets paid to the employee.
Over the last couple of months, I have received hundreds of emails from various professionals. But most can be classified in one of two categories. The first category consists of people who are simply trying to promote their product: be it a physical commodity, their YouTube Channel, or anything self-promotional. The other consists of people who ask for a referral with regards to a job.
IfI was to give my verdict regarding the former category, I can testify that regardless of one’s choice, such individuals often sell or promote products that they themselves would never purchase simply to make ends meet. But this notion of working for pennies and cut-throat bosses empowers these individuals with a unique skill. The power to negotiate. You see, for the most part, I used to be an introvert. I would rarely go to any sort of gathering or event that involves masses of people.
But what I realized was that it is the people that I tried avoiding the most that had the power to change my destiny.
The conversations were not meant to be personal, but professional. However, every single deal I closed had a “personal touch”. People will buy your idea, only if they can relate to you in some form or another and that is where the “personal” touch comes into play.
If you are solely focusing on “selling yourself” most people won’t even bother knowing the minute details.
Most top-level sales executives appear to be inhuman to their subordinates, but when it comes to a client, their tone drastically changes to one solely focussed on “society’s wellbeing”.
Learning to negotiate and making the person on the other side of the conversation hear you out completely, is what can make or break a deal. The same deal which could fetch you a “handsome daily wage” if you happen to do things right.
As for the latter, the current COVID-19 situation has caused most employees around the world to be terminated abruptly. As the economy worsens, random messages from strangers on LinkedIn is going to become the norm for most of us.
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What do you do when you get a message from someone desperately seeking a job to make ends meet?
Previously, I wouldn’t necessarily pitch in a word for anyone I hadn’t interacted with, simply because I was unsure of what the person was actually like. My referees are mostly in the upper echelon, with little to no sympathy for outsiders, and I was afraid if I kept pitching in every single person who had approached me ever, they would simply stop taking my word seriously. But the current landscape of things made me reconsider my approach. I tried pitching in a word for every single person I met.
When I spoke to such candidates, I made sure to break down my jargon into simple terms and not confuse them with industry nomenclature. The key was to reply in a way that would be helpful.
Most messages are along the lines of “I have been out of work for three months and I am losing all hope and my sanity. I have a wife and two kids who are depending on me and I don’t know what to do”.
What I had come to realize from all these conversations was that ‘a glimmer of hope is all one needs to make it to the next day’.
Even if you are not in a position to refer or employ someone, refer some books or other technical manuals that might help them upgrade their skills for their next role. Keep them mentally motivated until they find a role. Follow up once in a while as you would do with your sales clients.
Viktor Frankl, one of the great psychiatrists of the twentieth century, survived the death camps of Nazi Germany. His little book, Man’s Search for Meaning, is one of those life-changing books that everyone should read.
In the book, Frankl mentions the story of a woman who called him in the middle of the night to calmly inform him she was about to commit suicide. Frankl kept her on the phone and talked her through her depression, giving her reason after reason to carry on living. Finally, she promised she would not take her life, and she kept her word.
When they later met, Frankl asked which reason had persuaded her to live?
“None of them”, she told him.
“What then influenced her to go on living, he pressed.
Her answer was simple, it was Frankl’s ‘willingness to listen’ to her in the middle of the night.
A world in which there was someone ready to listen to another’s pain seemed to her a world in which it was worthwhile to live. Often, it is not a brilliant argument that makes a difference. Sometimes the small act of listening is the greatest gift we can give”.
The fact of the matter is no one likes on the receiving end of a cold call or cold e-mail. But we ought to remember that there was a point in time when we all were in a similar spot. The hardest part you deal with when looking for a job is not losing belief in yourself.
If you happen to be working at a call center now, I can promise you things will get better, and you will come out of this whole thing as a better negotiator and more importantly a stronger human being.


THE YEAR THE CLOUD FELL
by Kurt R.A. Giambastiani
341pp/$6.99/March 2001
Kurt R.A. Giambastiani has created a world in which the Cheyenne Indians have managed to maintain a strong nation in the face of President George Custer’s anti-Indian administration in the 1880s. The novel focuses on Custer’s son, George Custer, Jr., who is taken captive in May, 1886 after the dirigible he is piloting crashes in Cheyenne Territory.
Giambastiani is most interested in the political situation which has arisen between his version of the United States and the Cheyenne Alliance. As the US prepares to go to war against the Cheyenne, the Indians use the presence of George, Jr. to work out a way to end the continual strife between the "Horse Nations" of the United States and themselves.
Giambastiani has introduced numerous changes to his world. Physically, the Gulf of Mexico extends far to the north and Florida is missing. Ecologically, dinosaurs still live in the Great Plains, and politically, many of the European nations maintain a presence in North America in the 1880s. While his changes are intriguing, he does not explain how they all work together. Why are the Indians, dinosaurs, and Gulf of Natchez such as small influence on the political history of the United States. A presumed lack of a California Gold Rush, at least one which kept people within the United States, should have had some effect on the world of 1886.
The characters who populate the world of The Year the Cloud Fell never really connect with each other. They aren’t quite caricatures, nor are they archetypes, although the potential for either appears in most characters. George Junior’s relationship with Storm Arriving, one of his captors, seems less natural and more like a necessity to allow Giambastiani to advance the plot and explain the Cheyenne world to the reader. Other relationships appear just as contrived, particularly Storm Arriving’s relationship with the Cheyenne visionary Speaks While Leaving, who foresaw George’s crash and subsequent capture.
Unfortunately, while many of the ideas Giambastiani works with are interesting, he seems too intent on tossing in every possible idea, thereby creating a stew which has a variety of disparate flavors which do not manage to coalesce into a complementary meal. Had Giambastiani elected to focus on one or two of these ideas, whether in the realm of natural history, politics or science, the novel would have been tighter and more enjoyable.
Giambastiani has announced a sequel to The Year the Cloud Fell. With luck, he'll be able to further develop his characters and their relationships while focusing on fewer items to give it a more cohesive feel.


World Experts To Convene Conference On Sexual Violence As International Crime
www.americanbarfoundation.org
Luis Moreno Ocampo, International Criminal Court Prosecutor, and Navanethem
Pillay, U. N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, will keynote Hague conference
CHICAGO, IL -June 2, 2009 – The Center on Law and Globalization will convene an international conference, Sexual Violence as International Crime: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Evidence, June 16-18, The Hague, the Netherlands. The conference will be co-hosted by Center co-director John Hagan, PhD, recipient of the 2009 Stockholm Prize in Criminology, co-director Charlotte Ku, PhD, University of Illinois College of Law, in cooperation with the Grotius Center for International Legal Studies, Leiden University Campus/The Hague and The International Victimology Institute, Tilburg (INTERVICT), Tilburg University. The conference will bring together world experts on international law, global health, and social science and human rights to focus on innovations and challenges of empirical and other evidence for the prosecution of cases of sexual violence. Conference topics will include the development of evidence in relation to charges ranging from sexual slavery to crimes against humanity and genocide, procedural differences involved in prosecuting sexual victimization in domestic versus international courts, and the development of new social scientific, archival and medical data collection techniques to assist in the prosecution of these crimes.
Hagan, who is also a research professor at the American Bar Foundation and the John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Law at Northwestern University, will receive the 2009 Stockholm Prize in Criminology one week later on June 23, 2009, for his work on the causes and prevention of genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan and in the Balkans. Hagan’s empirical research places the crime of mass rape in the examination of genocide and crimes against humanity.
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert’s column of May 30, 2009 addresses the crimes of rape in the precise locations at the heart of Hagan’s empirical research, refugee camps in Chad, across the border from Sudan. To access a two-part video interview of Hagan on his work on genocide and sexual violence, visit: http://www.youtube.com/user/ABFCOMM.
WHAT: Sexual Violence as International Crime: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Evidence
Organized by the Center on Law and Globalization of the American Bar Foundation and the University of Illinois College of Law, in cooperation with The Grotius Center for International Legal Studies, Leiden University Campus/The Hague and The International Victimology Institute, Tilburg (INTERVICT), Tilburg University
WHO: John Hagan, PhD, Center on Law and Globalization, American Bar Foundation, and Northwestern University
Kelly Askin, Open Society Justice Initiative
Anne-Marie de Brouwer, The International Victimology Institute Tilburg (INTERVICT), Tilburg University
Charlotte Ku, University of Illinois College of Law and Center on Law & Globalization
Terence Halliday, PhD, Center on Law and Globalization, American Bar Foundation
Carsten Stahn, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University, The Hague
Christine Tremblay, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden University, The Hague
Larissa van den Herik, Grotius Centre of International Legal Studies, Leiden University
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES:
Luis Moreno Ocampo, Prosecutor, International Criminal Court, The Hague
Navanethem Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
WHEN: June 16, 2009 3:00pm-5:00pm - Opening Session
June 17, 2009 -9:30am -5:00pm - Panels and Working Group Sessions
June 18, 2009 9:30am-5:45pm – Working Group Sessions and Closing Addresses
WHERE: June 16 Opening Session: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA); Bezuidenhoutseweg 67, The Hague. Note: Admission to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is by advance registration only. Passport required for entry.
June 17 and 18 Sessions: Aula and breakout rooms, Campus The Hague, Leiden University; Lange Voorhout 44, The Hague
The conference will have a distinct policy focus, assessing the role of new kinds of social
science evidence for criminal prosecutions. The conference will also seek to document practices that non-lawyers must confront in intervening in conflict situations.
The Center on Law and Globalization is a Partnership of the American Bar Foundation and the University of Illinois College of Law. The Center brings together the top legal officials of international organizations, key journalists, and academic experts to understand behavioral and legal dimensions of critical global issues, to stimulate well-informed global policy choices, to advance empirical research on globalization and law and to advance the effective use of the law. To access the Center’s Smart Libraries – clustering the leading scholarship on globalization- visit www.lexglobal.org


Brand Identity Standards
Brett Boatright
Director, Institute Creative Strategy
Brett.Boatright@comm.gatech.edu
The Institute has adopted a refreshed brand visual identity system as of September 2021. The following policy is currently under revision to reflect the updated brand standards available at https://brand.gatech.edu. All expectations for approval routing remain intact during this transition.
In the meantime, please direct any questions to Institute Communications via: https://comm.gatech.edu/about/contact.
The quality and consistency of Georgia Institute of Technology’s communication is critical to maintaining our reputation as a leading brand in academics and research. Institute Communications worked collaboratively with campus communicators to conduct a redesign of Georgia Tech’s print, digital, and messaging standards. This policy outlines standards for the use of brand elements and trademarks. The adoption of these standards provides a number of key benefits including building awareness of Georgia Tech’s brand and increasing efficiency in the creation of communications and marketing materials that represent Georgia Tech, its colleges, schools, units, and affiliate organizations.
This policy exists to facilitate consistency and promote standardized Institute branding across Georgia Tech’s communications. Georgia Tech’s communications are the primary channel for connecting with key constituents including peers, prospective students, parents, legislators, corporate partners, faculty, staff, students, alumni, fans, as well as the general public. A consistent use of the Institute’s brand brings together the efforts of all who constitute the Institute, unifies and strengthens Georgia Tech’s reputation, and distinguishes Georgia Tech from other institutions of higher learning, thereby enhancing its relationships with all constituencies, public and private.
This brand identity policy governs the use of all Institute trademarks and brand assets for any purpose and applies to the entire Institute. Specific details of the approved Institute brand are outlined in the Georgia Tech Brand Identity Standards (http://www.comm.gatech.edu/brand).
Colleges, schools, departments, and individuals may only use the Institute’s names, logos, and trademarks as permitted by this policy and in accordance with requirements listed on the Georgia Tech Brand Identity Standards website (http://www.comm.gatech.edu/brand).
The following rules apply to all uses of Institute trademarks and brand assets.
Georgia Tech Nomenclature: The consistent use of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia Tech name helps build recognition and awareness. When used in external communications, the complete name “Georgia Institute of Technology” should be used upon first mention in copy. Thereafter, “Georgia Tech” may be employed to reference the Institute. Georgia Tech units may not use the acronym “GT” when communicating with outside audiences with the exception of social media applications that have character restrictions, and Athletics. Exceptions to this policy include informal and interoffice correspondence, internal presentations, and other unofficial communication.
Georgia Tech Logo and Wordmarks: The Georgia Institute of Technology logo and Georgia Tech logo are key elements of the Institute’s visual identity system, and one or the other must appear on all official Georgia Tech print and digital communications and marketing material. The logos may not be modified in any way or attached to any other typographic or graphic elements. No other logos, symbols, or marks may be used by administrative or academic units to represent the Institute. Individual units may not create their own logo or visual identity.
Units are required to use the Georgia Tech wordmark in connection with official Institute business. Colleges, schools, and units may use their respective Georgia Tech wordmark for their unit in connection with official Institute business and in their official web headers.
Georgia Tech Seal: The seal is reserved for use by the Office of the President and the Office of Government and Community Relations. Executives whose offices are in the Carnegie building also have permission to use the seal on business cards and stationery only. Programs directly sponsored by the Office of the President, such as the Stamps President’s Scholars program, may also use the seal. No other Georgia Tech units are permitted to use the seal. The seal is also used on official Institute documents, such as certificates and diplomas. To request use of the seal, contact Institute Communications. More information about the use of the seal can be found at http://www.comm.gatech.edu/brand/visual.
Spirit Marks: Georgia Tech’s spirit marks — including but not limited to Buzz, the Interlocking GT, and the Ramblin’ Wreck — are licensed trademarks that require prior approval for use from Georgia Tech Institute Communications. Georgia Tech’s spirit marks are primarily used by student and alumni groups, and Athletics. More information about the use of spirit marks can be found at http://www.comm.gatech.edu/brand/visual.
Institute Words: The following marks are federally registered in the name of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia by and on behalf of the Georgia Institute of Technology. All other names, symbols, initials, colors, images, graphic designs, or other indicia that refer to Georgia Institute of Technology are protected by federal and state laws.
Ramblin’ Wreck
The word "Helluva" is only to be used for athletics activities, school spirit and related internally-focused/campus communications and should not be used for external marketing.
Institute Tagline: Creating the Next® is the official tagline of the Institute. Units should use the official Creating the Next® wordmark when representing the tagline graphically. More information about the Creating the Next tagline can be found at http://www.comm.gatech.edu/brand/visual.
Athletics taglines can not be used for academic or research activities.
Official Colors: White and gold are key components of Georgia Tech’s visual identity system and are the primary colors available for use by all Georgia Tech units. Consistent use and careful matching of colors are essential in establishing and maintaining a consistent and unified image. Detailed color information can be found in the Georgia Tech Brand Standards. More information about Georgia Tech’s colors can be found at http://www.comm.gatech.edu/brand/colors.
Trademarks and Licensing: Campus use of trademarks includes items and materials produced and consumed internally by the Institute, its departments, and official campus clubs and organizations. Items and materials that are made available for sale, such as a T-shirt for a fundraiser, must follow the commercial use policies in the next section.
• Items and materials bearing any of Georgia Tech’s trademarks must be approved, in writing, through Georgia Tech Licensing and Trademarks (http://www.licensing.gatech.edu/).
• Trademarks must adhere to Georgia Tech’s brand standards and may not be altered in any way without approval, in writing, through Georgia Tech Licensing and Trademarks.
• Georgia Tech trademarks are not to be used in conjunction with alcohol, tobacco, recreational drugs, gambling products, national flags and symbols, and/or religious programs. Trademarks should not be used in conjunction with the color red.
• Georgia Tech trademarks are not to be used in conjunction with other brands, names, or trademarks in a way that might appear as an endorsement by the Institute.
• Designs using Georgia Tech trademarks must be approved prior to printing or manufacturing through Georgia Tech Licensing and Trademarks.
• All items and materials bearing any Georgia Tech trademarks must be printed, produced, or manufactured by an official licensed vendor. Georgia Tech Licensing and Trademarks has more than 400 approved licensed vendors. Please visit http://www.licensing.gatech.edu/ vendors for a current list of approved licensees.
• A registered trademark symbol, either ® or TM, is to be used next to every trademarked logo. The symbol should appear near the bottom right of the trademarked logo. It is not necessary to include the symbol following trademarked words appearing in copy text. For example, when writing about Georgia Tech’s mascot, Buzz®, a writer may exclude the ® and simply write Buzz.
The Institute’s trademarks are protected by federal law, either by federal trademark registrations or through common law use, and by the State of Georgia through state registrations. The Institute’s trademarks are federally registered in the name of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia by and on behalf of the Georgia Institute of Technology.
The Institute has delegated the responsibility for maintaining, managing, licensing, and protecting the Institute’s trademarks to the vice president of Institute Communications.
The Georgia Tech licensing manager is the sole authority for granting permission to use any Georgia Tech trademark. For trademark usage permission and questions, contact Georgia Tech Institute Communication’s licensing manager. More information about Georgia Tech’s Licensing and Trademarks can be found at http://www.licensing.gatech.edu./
Information about the University System of Georgia policy 6.2 on the Use of Institution Names, Symbols, and Trademarks can be found at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C351
Use of Trademarks
As outlined in the University System of Georgia policy 6.2 on the Use of Institution Names, Symbols, and Trademarks the name, logo, or trademark of any University System of Georgia (USG) institution may only be used for products, projects, events, and services officially sponsored by the USG or a USG institution. The name, logo, or trademark of any USG institution shall not be used by an independent business enterprise that is not under the complete control of the USG, excluding approved Cooperative Organizations, to imply an official relationship with the institution or USG.
By Faculty, Staff, and Students
No individual faculty or staff members, students, or groups may use any Institute trademark, stationery or the official web template header and footer, or refer to his or her affiliation with the Institute, in any manner that suggests or implies Institute support or endorsement of a point of view or personal or political opinion, business, activity, movement, or program that is not official Georgia Tech business. Faculty, staff, and students are required to use an approved licensee to produce any merchandise or apparel with the Georgia Tech name and/or trademarks.
By Student Organizations
Affiliated Georgia Tech student organizations are required to use an approved licensee to produce any merchandise or apparel with the Georgia Tech name and/or trademarks. This includes merchandise used within the organization (staff shirts, pens, etc.), given as gifts, or sold.
Student organizations are not allowed to alter trademarks without permission from Licensing and Trademarks.
By Persons and/or Entities Outside the Institute
Institute trademarks may be used by persons or entities outside the Institute only pursuant to a license, memorandum of understanding, or sponsorship agreement stating the terms and conditions of such use. Persons or entities outside of Georgia Tech are required to use an approved licensee to produce any merchandise or apparel with the Georgia Tech name and/or trademarks.
Prohibited Uses of Institute Trademarks
Neither the name of the Institute nor any Institute trademark, including Institute colors, may be used in any way that gives a false impression, is misleading, or could cause confusion regarding the Institute’s relationship with any person or entity. Statements that the Institute is a user or purchaser of a product or program are permitted if true. Statements that imply the endorsement of a product, service, or event are prohibited by state law.
General Prohibition
Neither the name of the Institute nor any Institute trademark may be used in connection with any person, entity, product, or service if the association could adversely affect the Institute’s image or standing, or would for any other reason be inappropriate for a state agency or public research Institute. Such proscribed uses include, but are not limited to, the use of Institute trademarks in connection with alcoholic beverages, cigarettes or other tobacco products, sexually oriented products or services, religious products, political parties or organizations, gaming or gambling products, and firearms.
Use of Non-Georgia Tech Logos
The use of non-Georgia Tech logos on official Georgia Tech digital and print communications and marketing requires prior approval from Institute Communications. Lists acknowledging use, sponsorship, or donor gratitude are permissible.
Under no circumstances, through word or display, may any Georgia Tech unit imply endorsement of a product or company. The unit may state what the company does but may not include any measure of quality, performance, improvement, enhancement, or endorsement.
Sponsorships, Partnerships and Co-branding
Using a corporate logo to acknowledge a donor, sponsor, joint venture, partnership, or in co-branding arrangements is allowed with some important restrictions, but should not be used routinely. NOTE: For a joint venture or partnership, a written agreement of partnership should exist and must have been approved by the Georgia Tech Office of Legal Affairs.
In the case of a contract that calls for the display of a corporate logo on a Georgia Tech website, specific approval of the contract must be obtained from Georgia Tech’s Office of Legal Affairs. Legal Affairs must review and approve all contracts. Should Georgia Tech’s Office of Legal Affairs approve such contract language, then displaying corporate logos under an approved contract is allowed.
Non-Georgia Tech logos, when used, must be preceded by this statement: “The following companies support this program” or something similar, followed by, “The listing of corporate logos on this site does not constitute an endorsement by Georgia Tech.” All variations of this language must be reviewed and approved by Institute Communications prior to publishing.
Georgia Tech websites hosted on Georgia Tech web servers or cloud service(s) centrally managed by or on behalf of Georgia Tech must comply with the standards outlined in the website standards (http://www.comm.gatech.edu/brand/websites). This includes the colleges, schools, and administrative and research units.
Exceptions to the web standards include:
Student, faculty, and staff personal pages, course management pages, intranets and internal sites (defined as sites requiring a restricted-access login), web applications that are open- or closed-sourced and cannot be easily modified, and student organizations and academic research labs and centers that are not part of an IRI or IRC and are not funded through the Office of the Executive Vice President for Research.
Any sites that exist to communicate the work of a consortium or other multi-party organization of which Georgia Tech is a part, but which is not an affiliated Georgia Tech organization.
Sites that are being redesigned are required to meet the Georgia Tech web standards (http://www.comm.gatech.edu/brand/websites). Legacy sites will be updated as time and resources allow. Institute Communications will provide official font, color, and header and footer Drupal templates to campus. Web standards will be reviewed by Institute Communications in collaboration with campus periodically to determine when updates are needed.
Units that are creating new sites or redesigning existing sites are encouraged to work with their respective Institute Communications consultant to coordinate their efforts. To find your unit’s communications consultant, go to http://www.comm.gatech.edu/account-management.
While units of Georgia Tech are free to develop or modify the content of their own communications, Institute Communications is responsible for ensuring adherence to the standards in this policy and for maintenance and upkeep of the Institute’s brand communication standards.
In the instance of non-compliance, Institute Communications will make reasonable efforts to contact the unit’s communications manager and/or the individual responsible for creating and maintaining the content. Institute Communications will work with the unit to establish a schedule for compliance. More information about Georgia Tech’s web standards can be found at http://www.comm.gatech.edu/brand/websites.
The internet domain name assigned to the Georgia Institute of Technology is gatech.edu. The Institute recognizes gatech.edu as its official domain name. The name gatech.edu is legally registered to the Institute and, like other marks of the institution, is subject to the Institute’s use, policies, and guidelines.
In order to create a cohesive web identity and to ensure the integrity of the Institute’s commitment to a unified web presence, the Institute has established the following standards with respect to domain names.
All websites that are funded and/or sponsored by the Institute are required to have a gatech.edu-based web address. This includes all websites for academic, administrative, student-sponsored, and/or other organizational units within the Institute. This also includes personal websites that are hosted by the Institute.
Unless otherwise permitted by Institute Communications, Institute funds may not be used to purchase or maintain non-gatech.edu domain names
Organizational units within the Institute do not have the authority to register internet domain names on behalf of the Institute or their respective organizational unit. The Office of Institute Communications is the official institutional contact for domain names on behalf of Georgia Tech. The Office of Information Technology is the official registrant of Institute domain names.
Georgia Tech’s domain name criteria are outlined at: (http://www.comm.gatech.edu/brand/websites/domain_names)
Requesting a Third-Level Domain Name
To request a third-level domain name (www.xxxxx.gatech.edu), contact the Office of Institute Communications. This office is responsible for approving/disapproving requests.
To appeal a denial of a www.xxxxx.gatech.edu domain name, submit additional written information or clarification in support of the request to the appropriate Institute Communications consultant (www.comm.gatech.edu/account-management) and request a review
Domain Name Exceptions
The Institute may consider granting an exception to the domain name requirement in these cases:
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Maternal Health Care Utilization Among Syrian Refugees in Lebanon and Jordan
Jordan Health Access Study Team, Lebanon Health Access Study Team
Purpose The influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan and Lebanon over the last 5 years presents an immense burden to national health systems. This study was undertaken to assess utilization of maternal health services among Syrian refugees in both countries. Description A cross-sectional survey of Syrian refugees living in urban and rural (non-camp) settings was conducted using a two-stage cluster survey design with probability proportional to size sampling in 2014–2015. Eighty-six percent of surveyed households in Lebanon and 88% of surveyed households in Jordan included women with a live birth in the last year. Information from women in this sub-set of households was analyzed to understand antenatal and intrapartum health service utilization. Assessment A majority of respondents reported seeking antenatal care, 82% and 89% in Jordan and Lebanon, respectively. Women had an average of at least six antenatal care visits. Nearly all births (98% in Jordan and 94% in Lebanon) took place in a health facility. Cesarean rates were similar in both countries; approximately one-third of all births were cesarean deliveries. A substantial proportion of women incurred costs for intrapartum care; 33% of Syrian women in Jordan and 94% of Syrian women in Lebanon reported paying out of pocket for their deliveries. The proportion of women incurring costs for intrapartum care was higher in Jordan both countries for women with cesarean deliveries compared to those with vaginal deliveries; however, this difference was not statistically significant in either country (Jordan p-value = 0.203; Lebanon p-value = 0.099). Conclusion Syrian refugees living in Jordan and Lebanon had similar levels of utilization of maternal health services, despite different health systems and humanitarian assistance provisions. As expected, a substantial proportion of households incurred out-of-pocket costs for essential maternal and newborn health services, making cost a major factor in care-seeking decisions and locations. As health financing policies shift to account for the continued burden of refugee hosting on the health system, sustained attention to the availability and quality of essential maternal and newborn health services is needed to protect both refugee and host populations women’s rights to health and health care during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-017-2315-y
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Health Care Utilization Social Sciences 100%
Lebanon Medicine & Life Sciences 93%
Jordan Medicine & Life Sciences 88%
Refugees Medicine & Life Sciences 84%
Patient Acceptance of Health Care Medicine & Life Sciences 80%
Maternal Health Medicine & Life Sciences 77%
refugee Social Sciences 58%
Maternal Health Services Medicine & Life Sciences 51%
Jordan Health Access Study Team, & Lebanon Health Access Study Team (2017). Maternal Health Care Utilization Among Syrian Refugees in Lebanon and Jordan. Maternal and child health journal, 21(9), 1798-1807. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-017-2315-y
Maternal Health Care Utilization Among Syrian Refugees in Lebanon and Jordan. / Jordan Health Access Study Team; Lebanon Health Access Study Team.
In: Maternal and child health journal, Vol. 21, No. 9, 01.09.2017, p. 1798-1807.
Jordan Health Access Study Team & Lebanon Health Access Study Team 2017, 'Maternal Health Care Utilization Among Syrian Refugees in Lebanon and Jordan', Maternal and child health journal, vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 1798-1807. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-017-2315-y
Jordan Health Access Study Team, Lebanon Health Access Study Team. Maternal Health Care Utilization Among Syrian Refugees in Lebanon and Jordan. Maternal and child health journal. 2017 Sep 1;21(9):1798-1807. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-017-2315-y
Jordan Health Access Study Team ; Lebanon Health Access Study Team. / Maternal Health Care Utilization Among Syrian Refugees in Lebanon and Jordan. In: Maternal and child health journal. 2017 ; Vol. 21, No. 9. pp. 1798-1807.
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ATSU CCPA students support Day of the Farm Worker health and resource event
Students in A.T. Still University's Central Coast Physician Assistant program in Santa Maria, California, volunteered at the recent Day of the Farm Worker event.
A.T. Still University (ATSU) launched the Central Coast Physician Assistant (CCPA) program to make a difference in underserved communities across the globe, specifically in the program’s home city of Santa Maria, California, and The Golden State’s entire central coast region.
It has been just a bit more than two months since ATSU CCPA opened its doors to the first cohort of students, and those impacts are already being felt. On Dec. 5, more than 30 ATSU students and faculty members volunteered to support the Community Health Centers of the Central Coast’s (CHCs) annual Day of the Farm Worker event. The health and resource fair included medical screenings, COVID-19 and flu vaccinations, healthcare activities, education, and resources, and providers to answer questions.
The last such event, held in 2019 (2020 was missed due to the COVID-19 pandemic), provided services to about 300 individuals. This year’s edition, with the influx of ATSU students, addressed healthcare needs of about 500 people.
“It was really awesome to see our students, because we had one-third of our class show up, be able to take so much of that workload and help wherever they were able,” said Liny Varghese, a first-year ATSU CCPA student. “All of our students were flexible in their roles and we were able to give care to a few hundred more people.”
Some ATSU CCPA faculty members are also providers at CHCs, and they helped the recently formed Student Government Association get the University involved. Many of the farm workers are Spanish speakers, and ATSU students who speak Spanish filled several roles in assisting with registration and throughout the event where language services were needed. Students also helped providers, assisted with administrative work, delivered health education information to families, and hosted fun activities for children.
“It was a pretty seamless collaboration, which is really exciting,” Varghese said. “It’s going to be a relationship that will be here for years to come.”
John Butler, a first-year ATSU CCPA student, said the event showed students the great need for healthcare services in the area. Many of the farm workers come to the U.S. on work visas and do backbreaking work in fields across the region.
“What Liny and I discovered at the event is (the farm workers are) an invisible population to many, many people up here. It’s amazing how much help they need,” Butler said. “This put a face to those individuals and we learned how to serve them. It was really powerful.”
Much of Varghese’s childhood was spent following her mother, a nurse, around at a senior care facility. Varghese became interested in community healthcare in underserved populations during trips to India to visit their family.
“That became so much a part of my psyche and who I am, everything about me,” Varghese said. “It really got me thinking about our underserved populations here in the spaces around us.”
Originally from southern Arkansas, Butler has spent most of the last two decades in Los Angeles and worked in the entertainment industry. Looking to change careers, Butler spent time preparing for PA school while working at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, doing HIV and transgender medical care for homeless and underserved populations.
Both Varghese and Butler were drawn to ATSU after discovering the University’s mission of service to the underserved.
“That really resonated with me,” Varghese said. “It’s amazing that within the first few months of our program we’ve already been able to accomplish so much on such a big event. It’s been so fulfilling to see.”
Butler said students were aware of the opportunity to showcase their skills and introduce ATSU to the community in a new way, by putting into practice what they’ve been learning over the past few months. Not all of each cohort’s 100 students will stay in Santa Maria after graduation, but those who do will make a difference in what Butler termed a “medical desert.”
Either way, having a couple hundred students available to serve at events like Day of the Farm Worker can increase capacity and relieve some of the burden on the area’s providers. Varghese noted patients in the area sometimes wait up to four months before their scheduled appointment with a primary care provider.
Varghese said in speaking to providers at the clinic, the common refrain for the past few years has been “just wait until the students get here” and the tide would begin to turn.
“This program brings so much to this community. It brings a lot of hope,” Varghese said.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Novak Djokovic faces deportation again after the Australian government revoked his visa for a second time, the latest twist in the ongoing saga over whether the No. 1-ranked tennis player will be allowed to compete in the Australian Open despite being unvaccinated for COVID-19.
Immigration Minister Alex Hawke said Friday he used his ministerial discretion to cancel the 34-year-old Serb’s visa on public interest grounds — just three days before play begins at the Australian Open, where Djokovic has won a record nine of his 20 Grand Slam titles.
Djokovic’s lawyers were expected to appeal at the Federal Circuit and Family Court, which they already successfully did last week on procedural grounds after his visa was first canceled when he landed at a Melbourne airport.
Deportation from Australia usually leads to a three-year ban on returning to the country. That would make Djokovic 37 the next time he would be allowed to compete at the Australian Open.
Hawke said he canceled the visa on “health and good order grounds, on the basis that it was in the public interest to do so.” His statement added that Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government “is firmly committed to protecting Australia’s borders, particularly in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Morrison and Hawke are part of a conservative government which prides itself on being tough on border control.
“This pandemic has been incredibly difficult for every Australian but we have stuck together and saved lives and livelihoods. … Australians have made many sacrifices during this pandemic, and they rightly expect the result of those sacrifices to be protected,” Morrison said in a statement. “This is what the Minister is doing in taking this action today.”
Everyone at the Australian Open — including players, their support teams and spectators — is required to be vaccinated for the illness caused by the coronavirus. Djokovic is not inoculated and had sought a medical exemption on the grounds that he had COVID-19 in December.
That exemption was approved by the Victoria state government and Tennis Australia, apparently allowing him to obtain a visa to travel. But the Australian Border Force rejected the exemption and canceled his visa when he landed in Melbourne on Jan. 5.
Djokovic spent four nights in an immigration detention hotel before a judge on Monday overturned that decision. That ruling allowed Djokovic to move freely around Australia and he has been practicing at Melbourne Park to prepare to play in a tournament he has won each of the past three years.
Djokovic has held practice sessions every day since he was released from detention, posting a photo on social media late Monday of himself with his team on Rod Laver Arena.
He had a scheduled mid-afternoon practice booked for Friday on the tournament’s main show court, but switched his times to start and finish early.
Media started gathering at the vehicular entry to the building where Djokovic was reported to be meeting with his lawyers after the minister’s decision was handed down.
With his legal situation still in limbo, Djokovic was placed in the tournament bracket in Thursday’s draw, slated to face Miomir Kecmanovic in an all-Serbian matchup in the first round.
Melbourne-based immigration lawyer Kian Bone said Djokovic’s lawyers face an “extremely difficult” task to get court orders over the weekend to allow their client to play next week.
Speaking hours before Hawke’s decision was announced, Bone said: “If you left it any later than he has done now, I think from a strategic standpoint, he’s really hamstringing Djokovic’s legal team, in terms of what sort of options or remedies he could obtain.”
Djokovic’s lawyers would need to go before a duty judge of the Federal Circuit and Family Court, or a higher judge of the Federal Court, to get two urgent orders. One order would be an injunction preventing his deportation, such as what he won in court last week. The second would force Hawke to grant Djokovic a visa to play.
Jacqui Lambie, an influential independent senator, argued that Djokovic should be sent packing if he had broken Australia’s vaccine rules. But hours before the visa cancellation was announced, she complained about how long Hawke was taking to reach a decision.
“Why does this keep dripping out of the tap? Alex Hawke, where are you? Missing in action?” Lambie asked.
“If you can’t make a decision on Novak Djokovic, goodness me, how are you guys running the country? This is an absolute shambles,” she added.
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Notice Requirements For Professional Liability Insurance
by ILSTV Daily News | Jul 12, 2019 | Business, Canadian Insurance, Insurance | 0 comments
Article by Deepshikha Dutt and Stevan Manojlovic
On June 18, 2019, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal released its decision in the case involving Trisura Guarantee Insurance Company of Canada (Trisura) and Duncan et al. This decision is noteworthy, as it may lessen an insured’s obligation to notify and disclose potential claims, and increase the burden of diligence on the insurer.
Trisura provided professional liability coverage to Keybase National Financial Services Inc. (Keybase) from July 2008 to July 2012. Gregory Duncan and James White (Duncan and White) were Keybase advisors during this time.
Duncan and White assumed responsibility for John Allen’s (Allen) clients. Allen was also a Keybase advisor. He was dismissed by Keybase in September 2007. Allen was sued by his former clients in 2009. Allen was convicted for criminal offences, and his former clients were successful in their action against him (2014 NSSC 31 (CanLII)).
However, following the 2014 decision against Allen, the clients (Allen Clients) turned around and commenced a claim against Duncan and White as well, complaining of improper advice concerning mitigation of losses caused by Allen (2015 Action).
Duncan and White applied for, and were granted, an order compelling Trisura to defend the 2015 Action (2018 NSSC 92). Trisura appealed this decision. It asserted that the Court erred: (1) in its interpretation of notice obligations under the policy; (2) in finding that Duncan and White complied with those obligations; and (3) in finding that relief from forfeiture was available in the circumstances. The decision was upheld.
The Appellate Court’s decision
Trisura stated that: (1) it was not notified of any claims or potential claims during the policy periods; and (2) Keybase knew or should have foreseen that Duncan and White had exposure when Keybase first applied for insurance in 2008.
With respect to Trisura’s first argument on notification, the Court disagreed. Although the 2015 Action arose after the Trisura policy expired, the policy afforded coverage if Trisura was notified during the policy period. In 2010, Keybase’s third party insurance consultant (the “Consultant”) had reported potential claims from the Allen Clients. Trisura argued that these reports were related to Keybase and Allen’s negligence. They argued that “notice” was not collective. Further, notice respecting one Duncan and White client could not be notice for all clients. The circumstances needed to be differentiated.
The Court stated that Trisura’s knowledge of what transpired between Keybase, Allen and the Allen Clients underpinned its understanding of how Duncan and White, as subsequent advisors, were exposed to claims of liability. Trisura, as a sophisticated player in the insurance industry, with the benefit of prior knowledge and context, should have known the potential for further claims. Without prior knowledge, it was safe to assume that Trisura would have sought more explanation in the reports.
Trisura’s argument that notification with respect to potential liability regarding one client cannot be notification with respect to the others failed, because there was no material difference between the former Allen Clients’ claims against Duncan and White, and the losses sought.
In June 2010, the Consultant indicated there were seven client complaints against Allen and “two current agents”. Furthermore, on July 2, 2010, Trisura received an adjuster’s report stating:
“There could be exposure for the alleged failure by the subsequent Keybase advisors (Jim White and Greg Duncan) to rectify the situation or to have caused an aggravation of the situation”.
Trisura argued that the report was misconstrued. The actual focus was whether potential claims against Duncan and White should have been disclosed prior to placement of coverage with Trisura.
Nevertheless, on December 29, 2010, the Consultant wrote to Trisura’s adjuster:
“We confirm that any subsequent claims will be treated by Trisura as having arisen in the period in which these circumstances were reported … July, 1, 2009 to July 1, 2010.”
Trisura did not respond.
Trisura also argued that claims against Duncan and White were not commenced during the policy period, because Duncan and White themselves did not think they had any exposure. However, the Court noted that it was unnecessary for the insured to provide notice personally. Additionally, the Consultant was reporting to Trisura on behalf of Duncan and White, and Keybase. The purpose of notice was satisfied in light of the adjuster’s assessment of the potential exposure.
Considered alone, this is not a novel decision. However, it may form part of a broader legal framework, which will make it difficult for insurers to challenge the adequacy of notification and disclosure moving forward.
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Divorce and Recovery
By Erik Alsgaard
In 2008, while in his 40’s, Ian Usher got divorced. Like millions of others before him, he searched for ways to cope with the divorce. Wanting a fresh start, Usher developed a plan that would lead him to places he had never thought of: He sold everything he owned on eBay.
In one week, Usher sold everything except for one set of clothes, a wallet, and his passport. In the run-up to the auction, however, a new plan began to emerge. He set a goal of 100 challenges to accomplish in 100 weeks.
Today, Usher’s two-year journey is over. He managed to complete 93 of the 100 challenges (such as sky diving, climbing the Eiffel Tower, and seeing Mount Everest), has written a book about the adventure, and is under contract to Walt Disney Pictures for a possible movie.
Usher’s method of coping with divorce is unusual; however, the trauma he experienced in his divorce is not. “Getting through” or “dealing with” the aftermath of a divorce is often a long, complicated process. Author and licensed social worker Susan Pease Gadoua, writing a blog for Psychology Today magazine, notes that recovery from a divorce depends on many factors, including “how long you were together, how good the relationship was and how committed you were to your spouse, whether the divorce was a surprise, [and] whether you have children.”
Divorce Rates and the Economy
In the United States, although the accepted statistic is that approximately 50 percent of marriages end in divorce, accurate divorce numbers are hard to come by. According to Divorce.com, “the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics has not collected any divorce data since 1996. Since then, most divorce statistics have been based on different data collection systems like surveys, and those methods can vary widely from state to state.”
A new survey by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia reported that the current economic recession “has both stressed and strengthened American marriages.” While around 29 percent of couples reported that the recession has deepened their commitment to marriage, 38 percent of couples who had been contemplating divorce decided to postpone it or put it aside.
Christians and Divorce
Christians are certainly not immune from divorce. Donald Hughes, author of The Divorce Reality, says, “In the churches, people have a superstitious view that Christianity will keep them from divorce, but they are subject to the same problems as everyone else, and they include a lack of relationship skills. . . . Just being born again is not a rabbit’s foot.”
According to a 2008 Barna survey and report, mainline Protestants have a divorce rate of 25 percent; non-denominational Christians, 34 percent; Baptists, 29 percent; Mormons, 24 percent; and Catholics and Lutherans, 21 percent each. George Barna, president of the Barna Research Group, commented on the survey, saying, “When [born-again Christians] experience a divorce many of them feel their community of faith provides rejection rather than support and healing. But the research also raises questions regarding the effectiveness of how churches minister to families. The ultimate responsibility for a marriage belongs to the husband and wife, but the high incidence of divorce within the Christian community challenges the idea that churches provide truly practical and life-changing support for marriages.”
However, David Popenoe, co-director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University, questioned the Barna report. He believes that Christians follow biblical models of the family, making a bond that “the secular world doesn’t have. . . . It just stands to reason that the bond of religion is protective of marriage, and I believe it is.”
Clergy are not immune from divorce either. I, myself, am a clergy person who has been divorced. My first marriage ended after 16 years, when it became clear that my relationship with my wife could not be saved. Facing the thought of divorce, I was distraught. I did everything I could to keep the marriage alive and only considered divorce as a last resort. I sought out the advice and counsel of a trusted clergy friend, mainly because I was torn by the idea of disobeying my wedding vows. When, in the course of a conversation, my friend said, “What vow troubles you the most?” I replied, “I promised ‘til death do us part.’ ” He replied, “What happens when the relationship dies?” Only then was I able to come to grips with the reality of what I needed to do.
Divorce Recovery and the Church
Susan Pease Gadoua has good news for people going through divorce: There are ways to make the process easier. Among them, she writes, are asking for help and letting help in; talking about grief with others; getting as much information as possible; and allowing feelings to come to the surface. “With any loss of a marriage comes grief,” she writes. To get through it, she advises that people be gentle with themselves, allow all the emotions surrounding the divorce to be felt, get adequate support, and keep a journal to track progress.
Many programs and ministries exist to help people recover from divorce. At Lovers Lane United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas, a recovery group has been meeting there for the past 29 years. Called Starting Over, the weekly meeting is designed to encourage participants to experience emotional personal growth; learn the grief process and how to deal with loneliness, anger, and depression; and begin to move on to experience new relationships. “I think it’s a great program that will allow me to get through my difficult time,” writes Felicia on the group’s website. “I will definitely recommend it to others.”
Many churches offer divorce recovery classes to help persons cope with the “rollercoaster feelings” associated with divorce. The aim is to bring inner healing and wholeness. The classes cover such issues as forgiveness, dealing with an ex-spouse and children, dating, biblical perspectives on divorce and remarriage, and building healthy relationships. Others offer in-depth divorce recovery workshops with trained facilitators, the workshops include sessions on finances and legal matters that also address such issues as denial, rejection, grief, self-worth, and hope. Most important is that these groups offer a caring, non-judgmental environment for those going through the pain of divorce.
Healing Through Faith
In April 1999, Lila Fraizer wrote an article about how divorce recovery should be. Her husband had announced to her on their 25th wedding anniversary that he wanted a divorce. At age 50, she started life over again. Fraizer began attending a nearby church. After worship, she set up an appointment with the pastor for counseling. “After meeting with her, I left that office feeling a load had been lifted from my shoulders,” she said.
Fraizer continued to attend the church because she felt the congregation cared. “I was always accepted, never ostracized. They showed me God’s unconditional love.” Fraizer further notes, “Divorce happens. Was it God’s will that I be divorced? I doubt it. But I do believe that God has helped me develop emotionally and spiritually, which may not have happened had I stayed in an unhappy marriage. And my church, in reaching out to me, has helped me find healing through faith.”
This article is part of FaithLink, a weekly downloadable discussion guide for classes and small groups. FaithLink motivates Christians to consider their personal views on important contemporary issues, and it also encourages them to act on their beliefs. The complete study guide accompanying this article can be purchased here.
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(Clockwise: Victor, Larry and Eric Mendelson.)
Everybody told us it was impossible,” says Victor Mendelson.“Couldn’t be done,” adds his brother, Eric. “That we were going to fail,” Victor says.
It’s lunchtime on a Thursday in Miami, and the brothers are seated at their offices with their father, Laurans, for lunch—salads on picnic plates and a shared bag of pita chips. Eric and Victor are finishing each other’s thoughts, as they often do, especially when it’s a tale they enjoy telling, and they very much like to recount this one, the origin story of Heico Corp., their publicly traded manufacturer of replacement aircraft parts. Because rather than fail, Eric, 54, Victor, 52, and their dad, 81, who goes by “Larry,” have succeeded in unquestionably spectacular fashion.
Since 1990, when the Mendelsons took over the Hollywood, Florida-based business, Heico has generated a total return of some 47,500%. (No, that’s not a typo. All those digits are correct.) During the past decade, its shares have increased by 1,270%, soaring past the S&P 500 (250%) and even, say, Berkshire Hathaway (240%). That’s been enough for the Mendelsons, who control 17% of the company, to amass a fortune that Forbes estimates at $1.2 billion. Revenue reached $2.1 billion on profit of $328 million in fiscal 2019, both record highs.
All those numbers are pretty solid evidence that their detractors at the beginning were wrong: The Mendelsons have been able to earn a foothold in an industry dominated by the so-called original equipment manufacturers, the GEs and Boeings of the world, who are the first to develop the parts and keep prices high on any replacements to help recoup the original R&D costs. They have done so by acquiring 78 companies over the years and by pricing their parts cheaply. Last year, with Larry as CEO and chairman and the brothers as co-presidents, Heico produced nearly 100,000 parts, sold to nearly every major airline in the world as well as defense customers like the U.S. government. This includes everything from wheels and brakes to lights and power cords to the little latch that secures a flight attendant’s cabinet.
“They’re clearly an outlier,” says Ken Herbert, a managing director at Canaccord Genuity. “I mean, it’s hard to envision family businesses that have been this successful for this long. They’ve remained very disciplined, stuck to their knitting and do what they do well.”
The origins of this story date back to 116th Street in Manhattan at Columbia University, their father’s alma mater. There, the brothers studied business and economics and grew particularly interested in one of the most prevalent trends of the time: the buyout game. The more they learned, the more convinced they became that they could pull off an LBO, too. Victor was the one to find Heico—started in 1957 and taken public in 1960—after chatting up a friendly stock broker familiar with the company.
They figured their dad, a former Arthur Andersen accountant and real estate investor in Florida, would supply the capital. After studying Heico’s financials and annual reports in a Columbia library, Victor decided it looked like a perfect target: a manufacturing business with solid numbers but unenthused executives. “The board owned nothing—owned no shares,” recalls Larry. “They weren’t motivated.” Victor pitched the idea to his brother and father, and after buying $3 million in Heico stock—half cash, half debt—by January 1990 they controlled the firm. Out went the old management, in came the Mendelsons.
At the time, Heico sold a single item, an engine combustion chamber, having acquired the rights and data for making it a few years earlier from the original manufacturer, Pratt & Whitney. It brought in $26 million in sales, peddled to customers like Pan-Am and Eastern Airlines. It wasn’t long before they were casting about for similar opportunities in the after-parts market, which they found to be particularly alluring. Everything needed Federal Aviation Administration approval, which ensured that not every Tom, Dick and Larry could easily enter the industry. Plus, replacement parts weren’t generally patent-protected, so all the Mendelsons had to do was reverse engineer them, then prove to the FAA that they were up to snuff.
Machinery that works on a component of airplane engines whirls at one of Heico's south Florida factories.
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To do so, Eric practically came to live in the hallways of the FAA’s Washington, D.C., headquarters. “They were really very, very thorough,” he says. But Eric wore them out with his own thoroughness. “We do full a metallurgical inspection on every single lot of parts we produce,” he says. “That includes material hardness, grain size”—Eric can go on like this at length, and often does—“grain-flow structure, coatings. . . . The reason we do it is because we can’t afford to have a failure.” In 1991, the FAA gave Heico the green light for its second part, a tube used in jet engines. That was key to winning over customers, as was Lufthansa’s investment in Heico—a tacit stamp of approval—six years later.
As their business gained altitude, Larry insisted they live by a blunt rule: “We don’t try to screw the customer.” Heico keeps its prices locked between a third to a half off what an original manufacturer would charge. Heico’s net margin hovers around 15%. It could be more than that if the Mendelsons pushed harder (and some defense products are more profitable). “They’ve historically been reluctant to print a margin over 20%,” says Hebert, the Canaccord Genuity analyst. “They never want to be perceived as gouging or excessively profiting from their airlines.”
The Mendelsons are shrewd buyers themselves, having in 2019 completed seven more acquisitions. They shop for owners or top executives who resemble them. “The companies we buy are very entrepreneurial—entrepreneurs that started years ago, started businesses in their garages,” says Larry. “They started with nothing,” which, he says, means “they watch every nickel.” Generally, the acquired businesses have around $10 million in earnings and margins north of 20%. The Mendelsons don’t usually buy an entire firm. More often than not, they leave a fifth of it in the hands of the owners or the chief executives running the place to keep them incentivized.
Vaughn Barnes, the cofounder of Corona, California-based Thermal Structures, is one such owner. He and his partners sold their business, a manufacturer of things like the insulation foil that cools a plane’s combustion engine, to Heico in 1999 for approximately $35 million. Sales then were around $17 million, and they’ve increased more than sixfold since. “As long as you do what you say you’re going to do, they”—the Mendelsons—“leave you alone,” Barnes says. “And they ask, ‘Do you need anything?’”
A close-up of a device in Heico's Hollywood, Florida, facility that conducts metallurgical analysis on aircraft parts.
Since the start, Larry, Eric and Victor—similar reflections of each other with their smiles, well-knotted neckties and cuff links—have operated in a particular way. “All major decisions have to be unanimous,” Larry says. “We will get together, and one [of us] might not agree, but when we’re all done, it’s all worked fine.” While Larry stays at home base in Miami, the brothers are on the road two days a week, reviewing operations at the company’s scattered facilities across the world. “Eric and Victor do the heavy lift,” admits Larry. “They operate the divisions,” with Eric mostly managing the business with the commercial airlines, while Victor handles the parts for defense aircraft. “I don’t micromanage them. I mean, if there is a particular issue, we sit down, and we talk about it.”
The Mendelsons purposefully live within 20 minutes of each other and the office, Eric in Miami Beach and Victor and Larry in Coconut Grove. Larry’s home is filled to the ceiling with his art, and he is an indefatigable collector (“I like Miró. I like Renoir. I like Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol.”), carefully cataloging each purchase in a manila folder. He dines often at the nearby Capitol Grill. (“The parking is easy.”)
Heico has made a lot of other people wealthy, too. The company’s biggest shareholder, the Mendelsons’ friend Herbie Wertheim, is a billionaire partially from his 10% stake. But it’s not just Wertheim. The Mendelsons have long encouraged their employees to take advantage of a lucrative retirement plan. They match up to 5% of what workers sock away in their 401(k)s—not in cash but in Heico stock. So, put in $5,000, get $5,000 worth of Heico shares, which, of course, have done nothing in the past 29 years but wildly appreciate. In other words, the stock has turned a lot of ordinary Heiconians, especially early staffers, into millionaires.
No, that’s incorrect, Larry says. “Multimillionaires.”
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An OBGYN Doctor on the Impact of Mississippi's abortion case
By Ari Shapiro,
Karen Zamora, Patrick Jarenwattananon
The Supreme Court heard a case today which could ultimately reverse the constitutional right to an abortion. The justices are considering a Mississippi law that bans the procedure after 15 weeks, but the state of Mississippi argued further that the court's previous decisions establishing the right to an abortion were wrongly decided.
SCOTT STEWART: Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey haunt our country. They have no basis in the Constitution. They have no home in our history or traditions.
SHAPIRO: That's Mississippi Solicitor General Scott Stewart. One of those fighting to keep abortion legal is Dr. Jamila Perritt. She is president and CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health. Welcome.
JAMILA PERRITT: Thank you so much for having me.
SHAPIRO: Today's arguments left many with the impression that the justices will hollow out Roe, if not overturn it altogether. Is that your sense?
PERRITT: It's hard to say. I mean, we don't know what the justices are going to do, you know, or what the court is going to do until we have a decision in June. However, the conservative members of the court did signal an openness to upholding the abortion ban, but they're divided on whether to completely overturn previous decisions like Roe and Casey.
SHAPIRO: Let's talk about those different options before them. First, walk us through, what happens if the justices adopt the most sweeping argument made by Mississippi lawyers, that there is no constitutional right to abortion? What would the immediate consequences across the U.S. be?
PERRITT: Well, I want to start by just being really clear. I'm not a lawyer. I'm not a politician. I'm a doctor. And as a doctor, I take care of real people, people who will be deeply impacted by overturning - or upholding this legislation and overturning access to abortion care. What that means for folks in Mississippi and around the country is whether or not you have access to the safe, essential, medically necessary care is going to depend wholly on where you live in the country and what kind of resources you have access to.
SHAPIRO: Tell us more about that. I mean, it doesn't affect everybody equally. Who would be most affected by it?
PERRITT: Well, it's not going to affect everyone equally, because access to abortion has never been equal around the country. Folks with means, with resources will always have access to this care regardless of what happens at the level of the Supreme Court. We saw that happening prior to Roe v. Wade, and we'll see that - and we see that continuing to happen with state level abortion restrictions around the country. So what that means is that those living on low income - young people, people of color in particular, immigrants, folks who don't have child care, who don't have time off from work - are always going to be left out from any - are going to be deeply impacted by anything that restricts access to abortion care. And so this is going to have a disproportionate and inequitable impact on many communities.
SHAPIRO: You're describing the impact on patients. What about for doctors who perform abortions?
PERRITT: I think it's complicated for doctors who perform abortions. It's - one of the oaths that we take when we are entering and leaving medical school is to make sure that we are supporting people with the care that they need in the way that they needed, this oath to first do no harm. And by passing these kinds of restrictions, it is directly misaligned with our oath to follow ethical guidelines in providing individuals with non-judgmental and complete patient care. We see this reflected in statements like those that come out of the leading medical organizations, including the American College of OBGYNs, the American Medical Association, who oppose these limits on accessing safe and essential medical care like abortion care.
SHAPIRO: And so what happens when a doctor is faced with that apparent conflict?
PERRITT: Well, we only have to look to states like Texas, to what's happening now in Mississippi and Tennessee and Ohio to find out what the impact is. We have physicians and health care providers who support abortion care really put in a difficult place of trying to be able to provide this comprehensive care to the communities that they serve and being put in the - in a position to have to make really tough decisions about what they can and cannot say, who they can and cannot refer to care. And that's not medicine. That's not ethical.
SHAPIRO: If we are looking at a future where the U.S. has a patchwork of state laws regarding the legality of abortion, describe what that means in practical terms for somebody who wants to end a pregnancy.
PERRITT: What that means is you have to be able to make the arrangements. You need to have money. You need to have time. You need to have resources. You need to be able to find a provider who is willing to care for you. Often what that means is traveling hundreds, sometimes thousands of miles to be able to get care. And so it makes it exceedingly difficult. But the reality is that that's the point, right? That's the point of passing these state-level restrictions. The point is to eliminate access to abortion, period. So whether it shows up in gestational age bands like we're seeing in Mississippi, whether it looks like trap laws, whether it looks like physician providing only restrictions on care, the intent is the same.
SHAPIRO: And so just briefly, what do you think the response from abortion rights supporters needs to be?
PERRITT: Well, where - we saw that response today. We're organizing. We're lifting our voices. We're centering the stories of people who've had an abortion, people who are providing abortions. And so we're really making sure that folks understand there is no state in the country where the majority of people do not support access to abortion care. We need to say that frequently and often.
SHAPIRO: Dr. Jamila Perritt is president and CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health. Thank you very much.
PERRITT: Thank you so much for having me.
SHAPIRO: And in another part of the program, we hear from an abortion rights opponent. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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