These Redding restaurants serve Christmas, holiday dinners
Jessica Skropanic
Redding Record Searchlight
North State restaurants open their doors for special holiday dinners on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Some prepare options for and vegetarians, and offer seafood alternatives as well as traditional ham, turkey, prime rib or other entrées.
Most offer special children's menus.
Don't see your favorite restaurant that's open over the Christmas or New Year’s weekends? Email the name of the business and its location to jessica.skropanic@redding.com. We'll add it to the list.
Win-River Resort and Casino hosts Christmas buffet
Address: 2100 Redding Rancheria Road
Hours: Noon to 6 p.m. on Dec. 25.
Win-River Resort and Casino will host a Christmas buffet in its event center. People will be seated every two hours: At noon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.
Entrees include a prime rib carving station, glazed ham, chicken, seafood and sides. Desserts are included in the price. Minimum party size is two people.
Cost for a table for two is $60, for a table of four it’s $120, for six it’s $220; all with a reservation in advance. Without a reservation, walk-ins are only seated at noon; cost is $35 per person. The price includes $10 in casino free play (chips). There are special rates for young children.
Reservations are highly recommended. Call 530-243-3377, extension 1354, and ask for the River Club for Christmas dinner.
Also in the resort, Seasons restaurant is serving regular menu items on Dec. 24 and 31, and a brunch on Jan. 1. It’s closed on Christmas. Call 530-243-3377, extension 1396.
Lumberjack’s offers holiday dinners for carry-out, dine in, delivery
Address: 501 E. Cypress Ave.
Hours: 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Dec. 24, 25, 31 and Jan. 1.
Lumberjack's will serve holiday dinners with fixings and dessert from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Christmas Day, along with regular menu items. Special entrees include turkey, prime rib and ham. Costs range from for $20 to $35. Entrees come with soup or salad, mashed potatoes, stuffing, mixed vegetables, a roll and pie.
Four- and eight-person family dinner packages are also available for delivery or pick up.
No reservations are required.
The restaurant will also serve regular menu items Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. This restaurant has special meal prices for seniors.
Mosaic Restaurant dishes up four-course dinners, wine pairings
Address: 826 Sundial Bridge Drive
Hours: 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Dec. 24 and 31; 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. for breakfast and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Dec. 25; 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Jan. 1.
Mosaic is serving four-course holiday dinners with dessert and choice of entrée on Christmas from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Cost is $75 per person. There’s also a $35 wine pairing available. Children’s entrees are $35.
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Reservations are recommended. Call 530-319-3456.
The restaurant’s regular menu is served on Dec. 24, 31 and Jan. 1.
Black Bear Diner serves holiday dinners for carry-out, dine in
Address: 2605 Hilltop Drive.
Hours: 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Dec. 24, 25, 31 and Jan. 1
Black Bear Diner will serve holiday meals for in-house dining and take-out from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Christmas Day. Special entrees include oven-roasted turkey for $26, glazed ham for $25; and a prime rib dinner for $28. Dinners include a choice of soup or salad, cornbread, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, stuffing and a slice of pie. Some regular menu items will also be available.
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No reservations are necessary for inhouse dining. Order in advance for carry out online at blackbeardiner.com.
This restaurant will serve some regular menu items on Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
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Pontiac MRC
Two Observations About the Local Results of Yesterday’s Municipal Elections
Posted on 8 Nov 2021 by Jonathan Crowe Politics
Municipal elections were held across Quebec yesterday, and with the votes more or less counted, I have a couple of thoughts about the results, at least here in the Pontiac MRC.
First, voter turnout was crazy high in some places. I’m used to turnout for municipal elections hovering somewhere between 30 and 40 percent—and in Quebec’s larger cities that seems to have been the case: 36.6 percent in Montréal, 35.1 percent in Gatineau. But around here the turnout has been a lot higher in some communities—thanks, I suspect, to some closely fought races.
We’re a Little Behind on Vaccination
Posted on 30 Jun 2021 by Jonathan Crowe Health
The good news in the Pontiac is that there hasn’t been a single new case reported here since the 18th. The less good news is that our vaccination rates could be a bit better. The Outaouais in general lags behind Quebec: only 66.3 percent have received at least one dose as of yesterday. Compare that to 71 percent of the entire Quebec population, or 80 percent of those 12 and up (who can actually get vaccinated right now).
Here in the Pontiac, only five municipalities have vaccination rates greater than the regional rate of 66.3 percent: Île-du-Grand-Calumet, Bristol, Thorne, Clarendon and Otter Lake range from 72.1 percent to 69.4 percent. Two small municipalities—Chichester and Waltham—have rates under 50 percent. The larger municipalities are in the high fifties and low sixties: Fort-Coulonge is 59.5 percent, Shawville is at 61.6 percent, and Mansfield-et-Pontefract is at 66 percent. Pontiac-the-Municipality, which if you remember is not part of the Pontiac MRC, is at 60.9 percent. Gatineau, for comparison, is at 64.1 percent.
The Situation Is Much Improved
The COVID-19 situation in the Pontiac is much improved, with five or fewer active cases at the moment and no new cases reported anywhere since last Friday. The outbreak we were dealing with in April was more or less brought under control in May, though there was a bit of a rebound in the Bryson/Campbell’s Bay/Fort-Coulonge corridor. Shawville itself hasn’t had a new case reported since June 7—and that case was the first new case in a month. To date, a total of 393 cases have been reported in the Pontiac RLS: 265 in the Pontiac MRC and 128 in the Municipality of Pontiac (which is, remember, not in the Pontiac MRC).
56.4 Percent and Rising
Posted on 15 May 2021 by Jonathan Crowe Health
Local radio station CHIP-FM reports that 56.4 percent of the Pontiac’s1 population aged 18 and older has received at least one vaccine dose. The vaccination rate is even higher in age brackets 55 and up (who’ve had more time to get a jab); it’s over 90 percent for people aged 65 to 75, for example. Progress!
Since I posted two weeks ago that we weren’t doing that well out here COVID-wise, I thought I’d mention that things are now looking a bit better. We only had 14 new cases over the past week, compared to 51 new cases two weeks ago. Almost all of those new cases—11 out of 14—are in the Fort-Coulonge/Mansfield area, whose local outbreak may actually be showing signs of running out of steam. Shawville hasn’t had a new case in a week, Campbell’s Bay longer than that. The special emergency measures come to an end on the 17th, as they do for the rest of the Outaouais, at which point we’re back in the red zone.
The Pandemic Comes to the Pontiac
Posted on 28 Apr 2021 by Jonathan Crowe Health
Having spared us during the first wave—during which we were behind police checkpoints that turned back non-essential traffic—and being under relatively good control during the second, COVID-19 has just erupted in the Pontiac MRC during the third wave. In the space of one month the number of people who have tested positive has more than quadrupled, from 39 on March 25 to 173 today.1 This is mainly due to a major outbreak in the Fort-Coulonge area: Fort-Coulonge went from fewer than 5 cases2 to 34; Mansfield-et-Pontefract from 7 to 64. Together they make up more than half the cases in the Pontiac MRC while comprising only a quarter of the population.
These numbers may not seem like a lot—a total of 1.2 percent of the Pontiac MRC’s population has tested positive for COVID as of today, compared to Gatineau’s 3.2 percent or Quebec’s 4 percent, and with our small population (14,251 according to the 2016 census) the raw numbers are pretty small in comparison. But to reiterate: more than three-quarters of the our total COVID cases have come just in the past month. Cases are increasing by 30 percent a week—and 30 percent of this week’s numbers is a lot more than 30 percent of a month ago. This is how exponential growth works.
Meanwhile, last Friday the Pontiac Hospital—the front door of which is less than 300 metres from my home—reported an outbreak in its acute care ward: nine patients and three staff members tested positive initially; that number has since risen to 17 patients and 13 staff. For context, the ward has 34 beds. Fortunately some have been vaccinated, and some have tested positive without showing symptoms, so this may turn out to be the best possible version of the worst possible scenario. But still: the whole point of last year’s checkpoints was not only to keep COVID out of our community (which tends older and in poorer health than the Canadian average); it was to keep it out of our hospital.
So yeah. We could be doing better out here.
Pontiac MRC Municipal Elections: Toller Wins, Belec and Murdock Defeated
Jane Toller has been elected warden of the Pontiac MRC, the first warden in the Pontiac’s history to be elected directly rather than selected from the MRC’s council of 18 mayors. Toller, who as Jane Pitfield served on Toronto’s city council and ran a somewhat quixotic campaign for Toronto mayor in 2006, took 46.7 percent of the vote, finishing well ahead of incumbent warden Raymond Durocher. The outgoing mayor of Fort-Coulonge took 18 percent of the vote.
Linda Davis finished third, ahead of former Pontiac MNA Charlotte L’Écuyer; onetime Calumet Island mayor Pierre Fréchette was only 40 votes behind L’Écuyer.
At the municipal level, new mayors in the Pontiac MRC include Gaston Allard in Fort-Coulonge, Maurice Beauregard in Campbell’s Bay and Serge Newberry in Île-du-Grand-Calumet. Two incumbent mayors were defeated decisively: Danielle Belec in Mansfield-et-Pontefract to Gilles Dionne, and controversial Thorne mayor Terry Murdock to Karen Daly Kelly. Several mayors were elected by very narrow margins, including Lynne Cameron of Portage-du-Fort (6 votes) and Sandra Murray of Shawville (16 votes). Only 6 of 18 mayors were elected by acclamation.
Voter turnout was extremely high for a municipal election. A total of 7,552 people voted in the warden election, which is just insane for a county whose entire population—not just those eligible to vote—was 14,251 in last year’s census.
Full results after the jump. Winners’ names are in boldface; incumbents are marked with an (i).
The Latecomers
First, some background, so you understand what’s going on a bit better:
In Quebec, what would be called a county elsewhere is called a municipalité régionale de comté or MRC; an MRC encompasses all the towns, villages, townships and other municipalities within its boundaries (with the exception of large cities and reserves). Shawville, the municipality where I live, is part of the Pontiac MRC, which comprises a total of 18 municipalities as well as a vast unorganized territory to the north.
The head of an MRC is called a préfet (or prefect); around here that title is translated as warden. Pontiac MRC’s warden has heretofore been selected from the 18 mayors that make up the MRC’s council. But that changes this year: in Sunday’s municipal elections, the Pontiac MRC’s warden will be directly elected for the first time.
Five candidates are running. Two of them are familiar faces: Raymond Durocher is the incumbent warden and the outgoing mayor of Fort-Coulonge, a post he’s held since 1999. Charlotte L’Écuyer is the region’s former Liberal MNA: she represented the provincial district of Pontiac between 2003 and 2014. But the other three are relatively recent arrivals to the Pontiac: each has been here full-time for only three to six years.


Earth Awash in Lights of the Night
October 7, 2018JPEG
As nighttime arrives, previously obscured light sources begin to dazzle the eye. City lights sprawl across Earth’s surface. A constant glow hovers in the upper atmosphere. Beyond Earth, starlight fills in the darkness of the cosmos.
From the vantage point of space, we can get a unique view of each of these nighttime spectacles. On October 7, 2018, an astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) shot this photograph while orbiting at an altitude of more than 400 kilometers (250 miles) over Australia. In this view, stars appear more numerous along the image center, where the plane of our disk-shaped Milky Way galaxy extends into space.
The oranges (above) and greens (in the video below) enveloping Earth are known as airglow—diffuse bands of light that stretch 50 to 400 miles into our atmosphere. The phenomenon typically occurs when molecules (mostly nitrogen and oxygen) are energized by ultraviolet (UV) radiation from sunlight. To release that energy, atoms in the lower atmosphere bump into each other and lose energy in the collision. But the upper atmosphere is thinner, so atoms are less likely to collide. Instead they release their energy by emitting photons. The result is colorful airglow.
Some airglow, however, can be caused by collisions. This type of airglow is known as chemiluminescence or “nightglow.” The brightest green light in the first few seconds of the time-lapse video is due to oxygen atoms that have recombined into oxygen molecules. Yellow colors are caused by emissions from a sodium layer.
Other reactions can produce red, blue, UV, and infrared light. Red airglow shows up about halfway through the video, which was composed from photographs taken by an astronaut over a span of 26 minutes on October 7, 2018. The ISS passed over Bangladesh, Australia, and then New Zealand. Notice the flashes of lightning that also illuminate the atmosphere.
More than just a pretty light show, airglow reveals some of the workings of the upper reaches of our atmosphere. It can help scientists learn about the movement of particles near the interface of Earth and space, including the connections between space weather and Earth weather.
“Airglow is a great tool for scientists because it reveals some of the conditions of the upper atmosphere, like its temperature, its shape, and the amounts of different types of gases,” said Sarah Jones, a research astrophysicist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. “It’s convenient because the light can be measured from a lot of different vantage points.”
Satellites offer one way to study this dynamic zone. NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) satellite, scheduled for launch in late 2018, will help scientists understand the physical processes at work where Earth’s atmosphere interacts with near-Earth space.
Astronaut photograph ISS057-E-35382 was acquired on October 7, 2018, with a Nikon D5 digital camera using a 24 millimeter lens and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations Facility and the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by a member of the Expedition 57 crew. The image has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast, and lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Time-lapse ISS video by Andrea Meado, Jacobs Technology, JETS Contract at NASA-JSC. Airglow video by Joy Ng/NASA GSFC. Story by Kathryn Hansen.
City lights sprawl across Earth’s surface below a constant glow in the upper atmosphere.
Image of the Day for October 23, 2018
ISS — Digital Camera
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Image of the Day Atmosphere
Atmospheric Optics (2018) High Atmosphere. Accessed October 19, 2018.
Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth (2018) Crew Earth Observations Video Page. Accessed October 19, 2018.
NASA Earth Observatory (2011, August 17) Looking Down on a Shooting Star.
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio (2018, October 22) Airglow.
A GOLDen Look at the Ionosphere
Satellites are shedding new light on the invisible processes and rhythms at play at the intersection between Earth and space.
Image of the Day Atmosphere Remote Sensing
Toward Mapping the Atmosphere’s Escape from Earth
A pair of sounding rockets took aim at the aurora over Svalbard, Norway, to help scientists understand how Earth loses oxygen into space.
Looking Down on a Shooting Star
Astronauts captured this unusual view of a Perseid meteor descending into Earth's atmosphere in August 2011.
Rocketing Into the Northern Lights
Researchers probed the auroral wind by shooting instruments into them in February 2013.
Image of the Day Atmosphere Snow and Ice


PEABODY ENERGY CORP
(Rule 13d-102)
INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS FILED PURSUANT
TO § 240.13d-1(b), (c) AND (d) AND AMENDMENTS THERETO FILED
PURSUANT TO § 240.13d-2.
(Amendment No. 1)*
Peabody Energy Corporation
Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share
Rule 13d-1(b)
Rule 13d-1(c)
Rule 13d-1(d)
*The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting person’s initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of securities, and for any subsequent amendment containing information which would alter the disclosures provided in a prior cover page.
The information required in the remainder of this cover page shall not be deemed to be “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Act”) or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section of the Act but shall be subject to all other provisions of the Act (however, see the Notes).
Names of Reporting Persons
Capital Ventures International
Check the Appropriate Box if a Member of a Group (See Instructions)
Person With
174,967 (1)(2)
Check box if the Aggregate Amount in Row (9) Excludes Certain Shares (See Instructions) o
Type of Reporting Person (See Instructions)
(1) Susquehanna Securities and G1 Execution Services, LLC are affiliated independent broker-dealers which, together with Capital Ventures International and Susquehanna Advisors Group, Inc. may be deemed a group. For purposes of this report, we have indicated that each reporting person has sole voting and dispositive power with respect to the shares beneficially owned by it and that the reporting persons have shared voting and dispositive power with respect to all shares beneficially owned by all of the reporting persons. Each of the reporting persons disclaims beneficial ownership of shares owned directly by another reporting person.
(2) Susquehanna Advisors Group, Inc. is the investment manager to Capital Ventures International and as such may exercise voting and dispositive power over the shares directly owned by Capital Ventures International.
Susquehanna Advisors Group, Inc.
0 (1)(2)
G1 Execution Services, LLC
745,535 (1)
BD, OO
Susquehanna Securities
BD, PN
Name of Issuer
Peabody Energy Corporation (the “Company”)
Address of Issuer’s Principal Executive Offices
Item 2(a).
Name of Person Filing
This statement is filed by the entities listed below, who are collectively referred to herein as “Reporting Persons” with respect to the shares of Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share, of the Company (the “Shares”).
(i) Capital Ventures International
(ii) Susquehanna Advisors Group, Inc.
(iii) G1 Execution Services, LLC
(iv) Susquehanna Securities
Item 2(b).
Address of Principal Business Office or, if none, Residence
The address of the principal business office of Capital Ventures International is:
Windward 1, Regatta Office Park
Grand Cayman, KY1-1103
The address of the principal business office of each of Susquehanna Advisors Group, Inc. and Susquehanna Securities. is:
401 E. City Avenue
The address of the principal business office of G1 Execution Services, LLC is:
175 W. Jackson Blvd.
Item 2(c).
Citizenship is set forth in Row 4 of the cover page for the Reporting Person hereto and is incorporated herein by reference for such Reporting Person.
Item 2(d).
Title of Class of Securities
Item 2(e)
CUSIP Number
If this statement is filed pursuant to §§240.13d-1(b) or 240.13d-2(b) or (c), check whether the person filing is a:
Broker or dealer registered under section 15 of the Act (15 U.S.C. 78o).
Bank as defined in section 3(a)(6) of the Act (15 U.S.C. 78c).
Insurance company as defined in section 3(a)(19) of the Act (15 U.S.C. 78c).
Investment company registered under section 8 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a-8).
An investment adviser in accordance with §240.13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(E);
An employee benefit plan or endowment fund in accordance with §240.13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(F);
A parent holding company or control person in accordance with §240.13d-1(b)(1)(ii)(G);
A savings association as defined in Section 3(b) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1813);
A church plan that is excluded from the definition of an investment company under section 3(c)(14) of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. 80a-3);
A non-U.S. institution in accordance with § 240.13d–1(b)(1)(ii)(J);
Group, in accordance with rule 13d–1(b)(1)(ii)(K). If filing as a non-U.S. institution in accordance with § 240.13d–1(b)(1)(ii)(J), please specify the type of institution:____________________________
Provide the following information regarding the aggregate number and percentage of the class of securities of the issuer identified in Item 1.
The information required by Items 4(a) — (c) is set forth in Rows 5 — 11 of the cover page for each Reporting Person hereto and is incorporated herein by reference for each such Reporting Person. The amount beneficially owned by Susquehanna Securities includes options to buy 202,532 Shares. The Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on November 3, 2016, indicates that there were 18,500,000 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of October 31,2016.
Ownership of Five Percent or Less of a Class
If this statement is being filed to report the fact that as of the date hereof the reporting person has ceased to be the beneficial owner of more than five percent of the class of securities, check the following: x.
Ownership of More than Five Percent on Behalf of Another Person
Identification and Classification of the Subsidiary Which Acquired the Security Being Reported on By the Parent Holding Company or Control Person
Identification and Classification of Members of the Group
Notice of Dissolution of Group
Item 10.
By signing below the undersigned certifies that, to the best of its knowledge and belief, the securities referred to above were not acquired and are not held for the purpose of or with the effect of changing or influencing the control of the issuer of the securities and were not acquired and are not held in connection with or as a participant in any transaction having that purpose or effect.
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of its knowledge and belief, the undersigned certifies that the information with respect to it set forth in this statement is true, complete, and correct.
Dated: February 10, 2017
By: Susquehanna Advisors Group, Inc. pursuant to a Limited Power of Attorney, a copy of which is attached as Exhibit I hereto.
/s/ Brian Sopinsky
Brian Sopinsky
Limited Power of Attorney executed by Capital Ventures International in favor of Susquehanna Advisors Group, Inc., dated as of December 4, 2012.
Joint Filing Agreement
EXHIBIT I
LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY
THIS LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY given on the 4th day of December, 2012 by Capital Ventures International (hereinafter called “the Company”), whose Registered Office is situated at Windward 1, Regatta Office Park, West Bay Road, Grand Cayman KY1-1103, Cayman Islands,
WHEREAS, by agreement dated December 4, 2012, by and between the Company and Susquehanna Advisors Group, Inc., the Company expressly authorized Susquehanna Advisors Group, Inc. to enter into transactions in certain designated areas as defined in the Discretionary Investment Management Agreement attached hereto marked “Appendix 1.”
NOW THIS DEED WITNESSETH that William Walmsley, Director of the Company, hereby appoints on behalf of the Company the firm of SUSQUEHANNA ADVISORS GROUP, INC., which through its officers, directors and employees is hereby formally granted limited power of attorney for the purpose of entering into transactions on behalf and for the account of the Company and to take all actions on behalf of the Company as may be necessary to consummate such transactions, including but not limited to making, negotiating, signing, endorsing, executing, acknowledging and delivering in the name of the Company all applications, contracts, agreements, notes, statements, certificates, proxies and any other instruments of whatever kind and nature as may be necessary or proper in connection with the entering into of such transactions, instructing the transfer of funds where necessary with respect to such transactions, and performing all of the services specified under the Discretionary Investment Management Agreement with respect to such transactions.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Limited Power of Attorney to take effect on the day and year above written.
/s/ William Walmsley
William Walmsley
EXHIBIT II
This will confirm the agreement by and among the undersigned that the Schedule 13G Amendment filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on or about the date hereof with respect to the beneficial ownership by the undersigned of the common shares of Peabody Energy Corporation, $0.01 par value per share, is being filed, and all further amendments thereto will be filed, on behalf of each of the persons and entities named below in accordance with Rule 13d-1(k) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. This Agreement may be executed in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.
By: Susquehanna Advisors Group, Inc. pursuant to a Limited Power of Attorney,


3 women hit Google with lawsuit for unfair pay
On Behalf of Canlas Law Group, APLC | Sep 19, 2017 | Employment Litigation
imagine not being paid what your coworker makes just because you’re female and he’s male. You’d be insulted, frustrated and upset. You’d also have the right to pursue a lawsuit against the company responsible for the ill treatment you’ve faced.
That happened in this case. According to the story, the women involved have hit Google with a gender-bias lawsuit after claiming that they’re paid a significant amount less than their male counterparts for similar work. Three women filed a claim in the San Francisco County Superior Court after stating that Google had violated California’s Equal Pay Act and state labor laws. They believe that the company pays lower wages to women despite doing the same jobs as their male coworkers.
They also claim that Google promotes fewer women, and if and when the company does, it’s more slowly than males. Google has denied the claims, stating that it disagrees with the main allegations in the case. Previously, Google has faced similar legal trouble. The Labor Department’s regional director had testified in court that the company had systematic compensation disparities across most of its workforce when it came to women’s pay.
When the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Program analyzed the company, it found six to seven deviations between the payments made to men versus women. This was across almost every job classification in 2015. That is a shock, because only two standard deviations is significant, let along six or seven.
In cases like this, a company found guilty of mistreating employees could face fines and have to pay reparations. If you’re in a situation where you’re unfairly treated and discriminated against, you can also seek legal help.
Source: Courthouse News Service, “Women Hit Google With Gender-Bias Suit,” Matthew Renda, Sep. 14, 2017


‘The power is in us, not the leaders’: Meet the youth activists fighting for climate action at COP26
Police and demonstrators at a Extinction Rebellion protest, during the Cop26 summit in Glasgow. Picture date: Wednesday November 3, 2021.
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GLASGOW, Scotland — Youth activists on the frontlines of the climate crisis have come to the COP26 summit to push for an end to inaction, urging politicians and business leaders to do all they can to meet the crucial goal of capping global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Tens of thousands of protesters marched through the rainy streets of Glasgow, Scotland over the weekend to demand the urgent measures necessary to tackle the climate emergency.
Placards bearing slogans such as “COP26 Act Now!” and “We Need Action Not Promises” were held up through the city center as many chanted “system change, not climate change.” Just a bus ride away talks at the summit continued behind closed doors.
COP26 had been billed as humanity’s last and best chance to prevent the worst of what the climate crisis has in store. There is not yet any indication whether the talks will be able to achieve this aim as the conference enters its second and closing week.
Patience Nabukalu, Uganda
“I believe in people power,” Patience Nabukalu, a 24-year-old activist from Uganda, told CNBC as thousands gathered in George Square, Glasgow on Friday. “And the power is in us, not the leaders.”
Nabukalu sharply criticized policymakers at the U.N. talks for failing to tackle the climate crisis.
“They are pledging for the future, yet we are experiencing the crisis right now. We want them to act now. We want solutions, not promises. We want implementations, not pledges,” she added. “Their negotiations are running on how not to top 1.5 [degrees Celsius], but 1.2 is already hell to us.”
The East African nation of Uganda, sometimes referred to as “the pearl of Africa” because of its stunning landscapes, has seen adverse weather events such as prolonged dry seasons and more intense rainfalls become the new normal.
It is for these reasons that the World Bank has recognized climate change as one of the major threats to Uganda’s sustainable development and efforts to end poverty.
People are seen gathered on George Square during a rally on November 5, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland.
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“What I want you to understand is that climate change is a global crisis. It is not happening in Africa alone, it is not happening in only one country but it is affecting everyone around the world. … There are many people who are dying [and] there are many people who are affected by the crisis,” Nabukalu said.
“We have a chance to change everything. We have a chance to act now, the future is in our hands and the future is ours. It is our time to fight for it.”
Laura Aguilar, Colombia
“It is even uglier than I imagined,” Laura Aguilar, an activist from Colombia, told CNBC on Friday.
Speaking on the sidelines of her first climate rally in Europe, the Fridays For Future strike in Glasgow, Aguilar said she had been shocked by the “chaotic” atmosphere and the “aggressive” approach taken by some sections of the media.
“I already knew that this event was pretty damaged,” Aguilar said, referring to the COP26 talks. “It is based on racism and classism and discrimination by the Global North, but it has been harder than I had believed.”
Campaigners and environmental activists have described the summit as the most exclusionary they have ever known.
When asked what would need to happen in the coming days to make COP26 a success, Aguilar replied: “For the COP presidency to say sorry to people from the low- and middle-income countries for their lack of accessibility, for their lack of commitment also and for being so blind in general.”
A spokesperson for the U.K. COP presidency said last week that it was “committed to hosting an inclusive COP” and ensuring that the voices of those most affected by the climate crisis were a priority.
Xiye Bastida, Mexico-Chile
“We are so energized. We want to change the world; we are seeing what is wrong, but we don’t often know all the mechanisms that are around us and that’s why we need to join with the youth movement and everyone that has been doing this for such a long time,” Xiye Bastida, a 19-year-old Mexican-Chilean climate justice activist, said at a COP26 event hosted by Stop Ecocide International on Friday.
“We can’t really do that if the foundation of the system that we have is one that is based on competition and individualism and burning oneself out. We have to switch that foundation.”
The protection that people are giving Mother Earth shouldn’t be what’s criminal, it should be the other way around.
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Bastida said Indigenous communities had come to take part in the protests in Glasgow because it was not possible to do so safely at home.
A report from human rights group Global Witness, published on Sept. 13, identified Latin America as the most dangerous place for environmental activists last year. The analysis found 2020 was the deadliest year on record for environmental activists, with Latin America accounting for roughly three-quarters of the attacks worldwide.
“There is a lot of things that are happening in Indigenous communities around the world and if they protest, they will be attacked by the police, attacked by governments, attacked by companies. So, they have to fly all the way across the world to come to spaces where protesting is protected to be able to tell their governments: You are hurting me, and you are hurting my home,” Bastida said.
“That shouldn’t be the case … The protection that people are giving Mother Earth shouldn’t be what’s criminal, it should be the other way around.”
Brianna Fruean, Samoa
Samoa is particularly vulnerable to the climate crisis, with the Pacific island country’s agricultural land primarily located on coastal plains threatened by sea level rise.
The agricultural sector accounts for nearly 40% of Samoa’s national output, and it is feared the current and expected occurrence of extreme weather events could cause irreparable damage to the food crops and other livelihood materials on which the population of roughly 200,000 depend.
The young Samoan activist Brianna Fruean, delivering his speech in a panel with different ministers on climate empowerment during the ninth day of Climate Summit COP25 in Ifema on December 10, 2019 in Madrid, Spain.
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“The real question is whether you have the political will to do the right thing, to wield the right words and to follow it up with long overdue action. If you’re looking for inspiration on this, look no further for the climate leadership of young Pacific people,” Brianna Fruean, a 23-year-old environmental advocate for Samoa, said at COP26 on Nov. 1.
“We are not just victims to this crisis. We have been resilient beacons of hope. Pacific youth have rallied behind the cry: ‘We are not drowning, we are fighting.’ This is our warrior cry to the world.”
Txai Surui, Brazil
Txai Surui, a 24-year-old indigenous climate activist from the Brazilian Amazon, said at the opening of the COP26 summit: “Today the climate is warming, the animals are disappearing, the rivers are dying, and our plants don’t flower like they did before.”
“The Earth is speaking. She tells us that we have no more time,” Surui said, adding that Indigenous communities must be at the center of U.N. climate talks. “We need a different path, with bold and global changes. It is not 2030 or 2050, it is now.”
“We have ideas to postpone the end of the world,” Surui said. “It is always necessary to believe that doing is possible. May our utopia be a future on Earth.”
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Mike Kahn
Continued support made all the difference
Mike, an active 34 year-old father of two, had a heart attack just days before Christmas. With Asante’s top-notch care, Mike was home to celebrate the holiday with his family, but the psychological impact of the unexpected attack was great.
He found support and reassurance in Asante’s Cardiac Rehabilitation Center. Monitored by dedicated Cardiac Rehab staff, Mike felt safe to push himself to exercise harder and make important lifestyle changes. Today, he’s in even better shape than before the heart attack.
"Thank you. This made a huge impact on my life and the life of my family. It’s made our lives better."
Thom Green
Everyone was so professional and courteous and caring
Thom Green and David Blanchard were stunned when they heard the news about Thom’s heart: He would need a quadruple bypass, which meant open-heart surgery.
The 70-year-old Klamath Falls couple had been active hikers until Thom started getting winded when going up hills. They turned to Southern Oregon Cardiology and Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center’s award-winning Heart Center for Thom’s care.
“Everyone was so professional and courteous and caring each step of the way,” Thom says, adding each member of the team thoroughly explained what they were about to do. “I knew what to expect, so nothing shocked me. I never felt afraid the whole time because I thought, everyone knows what they’re doing, so what better hands can I be in?”
“My impression of everyone down there was, they were confident. And prepared. And experienced. It was almost palpable,” says David, Thom’s partner of 36 years.
David remembers a phone call from clinical case manager Alycia Tingley about a week before the surgery that he’ll never forget.
“It was like a heart-to-heart connection,” he says. “She was so willing to share her caring – unabashedly, unembarrassingly. It was just … wow. Just what we needed.”
“And from then on, one person after another (was the same).”
Fraser Pierson
Stress and the hurting heart
Feeling frazzled? For many people, job or family stress is a normal part of life. Fraser Pierson certainly thought so—until an unusual heart attack changed her outlook.
The right care at the right time
Last January, Fraser was walking her dogs when she noticed she felt oddly fatigued. A psychology professor at Southern Oregon University since 1988, she was accustomed to maintaining a strenuous schedule. However, a couple days later, she suddenly began experiencing discomfort with every heartbeat.
“I’d been having a busy day,” Fraser recalls. After teaching a four-hour class, she headed back to her office in her usual manner—jogging up two flights of stairs. “When I reached the landing and felt some breathlessness and intermittent pain in my upper mid-chest area, I thought I must be out of shape. I couldn’t have imagined I was having any sort of major heart issue.”
Minutes later, she broke into a cold sweat and felt slightly faint and nauseated. That’s when she knew she had to dial 911.
Fraser arrived by ambulance at the Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center Emergency Department. Cardiologists quickly treated and stabilized her heart, which was extraordinarily weak and dysfunctional. A cardiac ultrasound revealed she had experienced an uncommon, acute attack called takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
“Takotsubo is an unusual, but not rare, cardiac condition, which usually afflicts postmenopausal women under stress,” says Dr. Brian Gross, Fraser’s cardiologist. “It masquerades as a ‘heart attack’ contributing to about 2 to 3 percent of the heart attacks we see.”
While conventional heart attacks are usually caused by blocked arteries, Fraser’s arteries were clear. However, her heart muscle was suddenly weakened or “stunned,” presumably by emotional stress. The telltale sign of a takotsubo event is the left ventricle, which swells into the shape of a takotsubo, a clay pot used in Japanese octopus fishing—narrow at the top and ballooned out at the bottoms.
Although takotsubo cardiomyopathy is a serious and potentially fatal condition, if it’s caught and stabilized quickly, it is fully reversible. “I have the highest regard for everyone I met at Asante Rogue Regional. They were all wonderful knowing how to take care of my condition and how to treat me,” Fraser says. “Not everybody would’ve recognized a takotsubo event, especially not right away. I feel like I had what I needed every step of the way to support my recovery.”
Cardiac rehab: Regaining confidence
Following five days in the hospital, Fraser returned home with a LifeVest, a special wearable defibrillator. The vest monitored her heart rhythm during recovery and could stabilize it if her rhythm became chaotic and caused her to pass out. When she had gained enough strength and no longer needed the vest, Dr. Gross recommended Asante’s cardiac rehabilitation program to help Fraser rebuild confidence in her heart health.
“Cardiac rehab has a host of well recognized benefits,” Dr. Gross says. These include specially trained nurses working one-on-one with patients to increase their heart’s performance following a serious cardiac event or surgery. The program also provides a wealth of education on a heart-healthy approach to life.
Perhaps most valuable, though, is the reassurance cardiac rehab offers—both physically and emotionally. “Cardiac events are such a huge change in a person’s life,” says Sally Seibert, cardiac rehab nurse at Asante Rogue Regional. “It’s scary getting back out there and not knowing what to look for. Patients wonder if their heart rate, rhythm, blood pressure are doing alright.”
“Cardiac rehab really helped me to regain confidence,” Fraser agrees. “Sally called me, described the components and benefits of participation, and warmly invited me to come and take part in the program. Each of the nurses offers so much knowledge, skill, support, and encouragement. They helped me recognize my expanding parameters, what I could do to rebuild my physical stamina but not overdo things, and answered my questions regarding heart health.”
Fraser notes that the other patients were also inspiring. “I felt privileged to recover within a holistic healing community,” she says.
Personalized recovery
Cardiac rehab is typically an 8- to 12-week program, involving two to three sessions per week. Each patient’s therapy is tailored to their individual needs. In Fraser’s case, she wanted all the information she could get, and her care team was happy to provide it. “They have very good education programs, and the nurses are excellent teachers,” Fraser says. “I thought I lived a healthy lifestyle before, but they taught me things about my heart that I didn’t know. I learned even more how to practice heart-healthy habits.”
Above and beyond the usual training, nurses also gave Fraser a peek inside her heart. With each session, Fraser was hooked up to EKG monitors to record her heart rhythms as she increased her exercise level. Afterwards, by her request, nurses gave Fraser a copy of her report to take home, so she could actually “see” her recovery as it progressed.
“I always tell people that they have to do the work; we can’t do it for them,” Sally says. “Fraser definitely did the work. She was here, she attended very consistently, and she put a lot into it because she was motivated. She knew that rehab was really helping her to feel better about things.”
Less stress for the future
Now that she’s back in the classroom and enjoying her usual activities—including sailing with her husband and spending time outdoors with their four dogs—Fraser is more mindful of her physical and emotional health. “When I look back, I had stressors in my life, but they weren’t unusual for me,” she recalls. ““Mine were the everyday stresses that are part of all our lives. I can’t help but wonder if for me it was an accumulation of stress factors. I’ve learned to take stress seriously, even common, everyday stress; to really pay attention to physical and emotional manifestations of stress and to the cultivation of overall well-being.”
Whereas in the past she would push through a hectic schedule, Fraser now builds in more time to spend with family, go for walks, and really savor relaxation. “I no longer take my health for granted,” she says. “It’s important to take the kind of care with ourselves that we do with everyone we love. It’s not selfish; it’s an integral part of being able to contribute what you have to offer the world.”
And besides—your heart just might depend on it.
Gloria Ferguson
Every link matters in the chain of survival
Gloria Ferguson’s story illustrates the importance of a rapid response to a heart attack or other severe heart event. Her life was saved thanks to the many different people who responded to a life-threatening event that occurred near Crater Lake, miles from the nearest hospital.
In 2012 the 52-year old math and science coordinator from Vancouver, Washington, was accompanying her 13-year-old son on a five-day Boy Scout bicycling trip that began at Crater Lake National Park. On the first day of the trip, Gloria developed severe chest pain. A Boy Scout leader drove her to the ranger station at the park’s south entrance, where she lost consciousness upon arrival. Two Boy Scout leaders started “fast and deep” chest compressions, and an automated external defibrillator (AED) was brought to the scene to help maintain Gloria’s heart rhythm until the Mercy Flights helicopter arrived.
The Mercy Flights crew diagnosed a heart attack and brought the critically ill patient directly to the Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center cardiac catheterization laboratory, where a cardiac team had been alerted and was awaiting her arrival. From the moment Gloria arrived at Asante Rogue Regional, she received lifesaving emergent medical care. The team treated her with a cardiac stent to restore blood flow to the heart. She was also treated for cardiogenic shock and required an intra-aortic balloon pump and electrical cardioversion. Gloria was transferred to the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, where she was on a ventilator for five days. Twelve days after admission, Gloria left the hospital with her husband and son and has since returned to work.
Gloria’s story exemplifies what can happen when each link in the chain of survival works: the prompt recognition of cardiac symptoms by the Boy Scout leader; the quick decision to head to the ranger station; the “fast and deep” chest compressions; the AED availability and its prompt and proper use; the rapid arrival and transport of the critically ill patient by helicopter; the direct transport from the helipad to the awaiting cath lab; and the rapid sequence of treatment that Gloria received once she arrived at the hospital—all saved her life.
Thanks to the training and the preparation of the many people in the chain of survival, Gloria made a full recovery.
Wanda Talley
Minimally invasive surgery makes heart care available to more people
At 85 years old, Wanda Talley suffered a massive aneurysm in her aortic artery. An aneurysm occurs when a portion of an artery expands or balloons due to weakness in the wall of the blood vessel. In the past this would have been an untreatable problem for a woman in her eighties. In Wanda’s case, however, using a minimally invasive endograft stent technology available at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center, surgeons repaired the aneurysm, leaving only a small incision in the groin.
Asante’s hybrid operating room was specifically developed with the technology to complete complex procedures like the one that saved Wanda’s life. Below is a letter we received from Wanda’s daughter following the surgery.
Hi. My name is Sheryl Cerri, and this story is about my 85-year-old mother who was told that she didn’t have a chance of survival if she had an operation on a thoracic aortic aneurysm that was already at 7 centimeters.
The doctor we were sent to see was Dr. Folsom. He was wonderful to my mother but didn’t think she could survive that big of an operation; and even if she did survive, there was a chance that she would be a paraplegic. He left the decision up to my mother (as I sat there crying) to have the surgery or not. My mother said she didn’t want to take that chance and would go home and live what life she had left.
Well, just as we were leaving, Dr. Folsom asked if he could talk to one of his colleagues about stents. We told him “sure,” not really thinking much about it because we thought she really didn’t have a chance.
Dr. Folsom took control of everything; he got everything lined up—the surgeons and the surgery. I felt he went the extra mile to save my mother’s life, and that is just what he did. I have never had a doctor who put so much effort into helping us out. He contacted Dr. Traul [David Traul, MD] and another surgeon to do the surgery, and he called us four different times to get this set up. He even got us a place to stay because we live in a small town by Klamath Falls. My mother’s surgery was a giant success. Her stay at the hospital was wonderful.
Most of the people I have talked to say my mother’s surgery is kind of a miracle because most people do not survive a thoracic aortic aneurysm.
I just want to say thank you, and every day I tell someone about your wonderful hospital and the amazing Dr. Folsom and his fellow surgeons.
Sheryl Cerri and my mother, Wanda Tully
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Dr. Phil Greenwood Advises and Inspires Entrepreneurs
By Greg Forkins
This winter we had the chance to catch up with Dr. Phil Greenwood, Senior Lecturer in the Management and Human Resources Department, who resides in the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship. Phil has been teaching at the Wisconsin School of Business full-time since 2001, but his ties to UW-Madison extend farther back than that.
Growing up in West Bend and attending Badgers sports games as a kid, Phil always knew that he wanted to come to UW-Madison for college. He graduated from the Wisconsin School of Business with his BBA in Accounting and immediately went to work for KMPG. After a year of auditing large public firms, Phil began to work in small business advisory services. Working with small companies is when Phil really gained an interest in entrepreneurship and advising startup businesses. He later left KMPG to work for McDonald’s Corporation, where he performed financial audits of franchisees across the USA.
After a year with McDonald’s, Phil returned to the Wisconsin School of Business to pursue an MBA. While in school, Phil worked as a Research Assistant for Professor Chuck Krueger in the Executive Education program. It was during this time that Phil began to develop an interest in teaching. He was attracted not only to the classroom aspect, but also to the opportunity to further develop industry experience through consulting, holding business seminars, and other such activities. With a goal in mind of getting his Ph.D. and teaching in a university setting, Phil first set off to get more industry experience after obtaining his MBA. For six years, he worked for Abbott Labs in a variety of roles ranging from internal auditing to medical device sales.
Although he was successful at Abbott Labs and developed a strong interest in the industry, Phil never lost sight of his goal to return to UW-Madison to teach. In 1995, Phil returned to UW to begin work on a Ph.D. in Continuing and Vocational Education, along with a minor in Entrepreneurship. As part of the latter program, Phil worked under Professor Robert Pricer, and was a student in the inaugural Weinert Applied Ventures in Entrepreneurship (WAVE) class.
Never one to shy away from a challenge, Phil continued to gain industry experience while pursuing his Ph.D. and teaching classes here at UW-Madison. He started a successful consulting practice, and even served as CFO for Imago Scientific Instruments for a time before they were acquired by Ametek, Inc. After graduating with his Ph.D. in 2002, Phil was offered a full-time teaching position at the Wisconsin School of Business, where he has taught at both the undergraduate and MBA levels. Phil has taught courses in Entrepreneurial Finance, New Venture Creation, Entrepreneurial Management, Business Strategy, and Administrative Policy, among many others. In addition to UW, Phil has also guest lectured at many international universities in countries such as France, Turkey, Spain, and Argentina. When he isn’t teaching, Phil can often be found consulting for small and middle market businesses in the high-tech, life science, and manufacturing industries. Phil is also a regular contributor on local news stations as they tap into his expertise regarding entrepreneurship. Read More
Reflecting on how the entrepreneurship community has changed since he first got involved, Phil explains “it has exploded!” There were only a few hundred university programs in entrepreneurship back then, but now there are several thousand. UW-Madison, in particular, has undergone a period of serious change. Phil has not only witnessed, but has been a part of that growth. Phil is particularly happy about the increased interest in entrepreneurship from both business and non-business students alike. He notes that along with the increased interest comes a greater knowledge and understanding of the subject.
Phil encourages entrepreneurial-minded students to take advantage of the resources provided by UW-Madison. Students won’t have access to all of these resources after graduating, nor will they have as much free time to spend exploring new business ideas. When asked what advice he would give to current students interested in entrepreneurship, he says to “go for it! If you have an idea, now is the time to take the risk.”
Phil has certainly inspired many students to pursue entrepreneurship over the years, and continues to do so today. The Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship and the entire UW-Madison community is lucky to have Dr. Phil Greenwood on staff!
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Speaker Robin Vos was first elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 2004 and is currently serving his ninth term as a state representative. Robin is the 75th Speaker of the Assembly and the longest-serving Speaker in Wisconsin history. He was chosen by his Assembly peers for that post in 2013. Representative Vos previously served as the chair of the powerful Joint Finance Committee.
Speaker Vos currently leads a Republican majority of 64 representatives. Under his leadership, the legislature has approved some of the largest tax cuts in Wisconsin history and became the 25th right-to-work state in our country. He is also proud of the bipartisan work in the Assembly where more than 90 percent of the bills passed receive bipartisan support. His speaker's task forces have developed important legislation on topics including mental health, rural schools, Alzheimer's and dementia, urban education, youth workforce readiness and foster care.
Born in 1968, Robin is a lifelong Racine County resident, graduating from Burlington High School in 1986. He attended the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater, where he served as a UW Board of Regents student member from 1989 to 1991. Robin graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science and a minor in Public Relations in 1991.
After college, Robin worked as a legislative assistant for state Representative Jim Ladwig from Racine County. Robin also worked for Jim’s successor, his wife, state Representative Bonnie Ladwig. He also served as the district director for then Congressman Mark Neumann until he began his first small business.
In 1996, he purchased a popcorn factory in Burlington, which he has expanded to become a food packaging company. Robin also owns several other small businesses including the Union Grove Car Wash in Union Grove, Knights Popcorn in Milwaukee, and rental properties in Whitewater.
While building his businesses, Robin never lost his passion for serving. He was elected as a Racine County Board Supervisor in 1994 and served on the board until he was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly in 2004.
Robin also serves on several national boards. He is the President Emeritus of the National Conference of State Legislatures and the Vice-Chair of the State Legislative Leaders Foundation.
Robin and his wife, Michelle, live in Rochester.
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Lady A Reissuing ‘On This Winter’s Night’ Album With a Christmas Song for Their Kids
Carena Liptak Published: October 26, 2020
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Since Lady A first went into the studio to record their 2012 Christmas album, On This Winter's Night, they've made one major life change: All three members of the trio are now parents.
Having kids in the picture changes every aspect of their lives, but the holiday season is especially transformed by the additions to their families. Now that they're readying a deluxe version of the record, with four additional new tracks, the bandmates agree that the biggest difference in the process then and now is being able to write a song for their children.
All three members of Lady A -- Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood -- had a hand in penning "Christmas Through Your Eyes." Haywood says it was only the three of them, in fact, who wrote the family-focused song.
"We wrote that [song] with just the three of us, which is really the way we started as a band, so that was a special moment," he recently shared during a virtual media event. "[It was] something that could only happen at this point in time in our lives, in our career. So it was a special day to write that, have that on the record, and have that be something something stamped in history for, you know, our kids, really."
Adds Kelley of the song's inspiration, "When you see [your kids] and you see their excitement [about Christmas], you kind of can't help but think of you at that age, and what you were feeling."
In 2020, all of the Lady A bandmates' kids are old enough to understand and get excited about the holiday season, which Scott says makes Christmas even more special. Her twins, Betsy and Emory, will be almost three by the time Santa arrives this year, while older daughter Eisele will be about seven and a half.
"I think [the twins will] just love the lights on the tree, and one'll probably rip open every single present. We'll probably just have to wait, put them up on a shelf, so they don't get into them," Scott reflects. "And my oldest, it's just that magic -- the magic of it all. She's been pretty good about sleeping in ... on Christmas morning, even though she knows that Santa's coming, and I'm wondering if this year it'll be the 4AM wake-up call."
Aside from the original song, the deluxe version of On This Winter's Night will include three new covers: of the Beach Boys' "Little Saint Nick," Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime" and Ray Charles' "The Spirit of Christmas."
"It's such an amazing song," Kelley says of the latter. "And Ray Charles is just one of my idols. So I said, 'Man, I've always wanted to try this.'"
The singer might have fulfilled a dream with the recording of "The Spirit of Christmas," but another of the new tracks tested Kelley's vocal abilities. "The harmonies of the songs are really fun for us to sing," Scott says of "Little Saint Nick," before Kelley interjects, "You say fun -- I say torturously difficult."
"That was a lesson for me," he admits of learning the Beach Boys' sky-high harmonies.
The deluxe version of On This Winter's Night will be available on Friday (Oct. 30), and the members of Lady A agree that, especially in 2020, the Christmas season can't come soon enough.
"I wouldn't mind starting early this year!" Haywood jokes. "I think we're all wanting something to look forward forward to."
On This Winter's Night Deluxe is available to pre-order and pre-save now. More album details are below.
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Lady A, On This Winter's Night Deluxe Edition Tracklist:
1. "A Holly Jolly Christmas"
2. "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"
3. "All I Want for Christmas Is You"
4. "I’ll Be Home for Christmas"
5. "This Christmas"
6. "The First Noel"
7. "On This Winter’s Night"
8. "Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow"
9. "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
10. "Silent Night (Lord of My Life)"
11. "Blue Christmas"
12. "Silver Bells"
13. "Wonderful Christmastime” **
14. "Christmas Through Your Eyes” **
15. "Little Saint Nick” **
16. "That Spirit of Christmas” **
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At Broadway Junior School, personal, social and health education (PSHE) enables our children to become happy, healthy, independent and responsible members of a society. It aims to help them understand how they are developing personally and socially, and tackles many of the moral, social and cultural issues that are part of growing up. We provide our children with opportunities for them to learn about rights and responsibilities and appreciate what it means to be a member of a diverse society. Our children are encouraged to develop their sense of self-worth by playing a positive role in contributing to school life and the wider community, which in turn enables them to become more mature, independent and self-confident.
We aim to provide a supportive, stimulating and secure environment where children are encouraged to express themselves and where their contributions are valued. They develop their sense of social justice and moral responsibility and begin to understand that their own choices and behaviour can affect local, national or global issues and political and social institutions. Relationships education and mental wellbeing is learning about the emotional, social and physical aspects of growing up, relationships, safety and health. Some aspects are taught in science, and others will be taught as part of personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE). It also gives children and young people essential skills for building positive, enjoyable, respectful and non-exploitative relationships and staying safe both on and offline. High quality relationships education helps create safe school community in which pupils can grow, learn, and develop positive, healthy behaviour for life. As they begin to develop into young adults, they will learn how to make confident and informed choices about their health (both physical and mental) and environment, to take more responsibility for their own learning; and to resist bullying. They learn to understand and respect our common humanity, diversity and differences so that they can go on to form the effective, fulfilling relationships that are an essential part of life.
In ensuring high standards of teaching and learning in PSHE, we implement a curriculum that is progressive throughout the whole school (see attached framework). Every year group plans and delivesr a clear, appropriate scheme of work in line with the National Curriculum. (The PSHE curriculum has core learning themes: Physical health and mental wellbeing and relationships education. It also links with British Values). We aim to go above and beyond statutory framework to ensure our children are skilled and equipped to deal with life after Broadway.
We ensure that PSHE and Relationships Education is taught weekly (with additional sessions/assemblies/theme days throughout the year, as and when required) and hold wellbeing at the centre of all we do. When appropriate, children will record in their topic/curriculum books. Children’s photographs and samples of work are displayed throughout school and staff model positive relationships and attitudes at all times. Our school council meet regularly throughout the year and discuss improvements that could be made to our school, taking into account pupil voice via our suggestion box, as well as being positive role models throughout school.
The impact and measure of this is to ensure that children at Broadway Junior School are equipped with skills and knowledge that will enable them to be ready for the curriculum at Key Stage 3, and for life as an adult in the wider world. We want children to:
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President John F. Kennedy and singer Frank Sinatra at the 1961 Inaugural Gala
Singer and film star Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) grew up poor and lower class in Hoboken, New Jersey. Once he made it big in showbiz (thanks to help from his Mafia cronies), he obsessed about fitting in with the upper class. He wormed his way into politics, using his Hollywood star power to campaign and fundraise for Democratic heavyweights such as Franklin Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. In attaching himself to men of honor, Sinatra hoped to achieve the respectability he craved.
Sinatra had cultivated a relationship with President Kennedy through movie star Peter Lawford, who was married to the president’s sister, Pat.
Pat Kennedy Lawford and British actor Peter Lawford
In March 1962, the president was scheduled to fly to Southern California. Peter Lawford asked Sinatra to be the president’s host at his Palm Springs estate. Sinatra was thrilled. He went straight to work. At his own expense, Sinatra installed a helicopter pad, cottages for the Secret Service, and even a flagpole for the presidential flag.
But the president’s brother Bobby Kennedy wasn’t having it. He was the Attorney General of the United States at the time. When he heard about his brother Jack’s proposed stay at Sinatra’s, he went ballistic. Bobby was making the “most single-minded attack on organized crime in American history” and could not abide Jack associating with someone with mob connections. (1) Peter was the one chosen to tell Sinatra that the president would not be staying with him.
Sinatra did not take the news well. He had a notoriously explosive temper:
“Sinatra vented his spleen by destroying the concrete landing pad with a sledgehammer. He applied a different kind of sledgehammer to his friendship with Peter and Pat [Lawford], banning them from his company….Jack ended up staying at the home of Bing Crosby. Marilyn Monroe flew down to be with the president, spending the night in his bedroom….”
(l. to r.) Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, ca. 1961-62
…and Frank Sinatra became a Republican.
(1) Leamer, Laurence. The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family. New York: Fawcett Books, 1994.
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