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Covid-19 Impact: Insights From World Economic Forum and Automation Alley – AftermarketNews.com (AMN)

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danzig

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About Cynthia Hutchinson

Cynthia Hutchison is Automation Alleys vice president, responsible for managing the nonprofit associations membership portfolio of 1,000-plus technology and manufacturing businesses across Michigan, enhancing the overall member experience and helping members succeed during the digital transformation known as Industry 4.0.

Hutchison has helped lead opportunities to maximize Automation Alleys reach nationally and globally, including the development of programs related to the organizations Industry 4.0 initiatives, the promotion of the organization as Michigans Industry 4.0 knowledge center and the organizations distinction as the World Economic Forums Advanced Manufacturing Hub for North America.

In 2017, Hutchison introduced the popular Tech Takeover event series, which provides members an opportunity to showcase their expertise on smart technologies for Industry 4.0 to those in the manufacturing and technology fields. Additionally, she has brought in major sponsors and partners for Automation Alleys Technology in Industry Report and global Industry 4.0 conference Integr8.

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Hutchison holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Allegheny College.

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Unemployed workers in N.J. worry about the future once the $600 extended payments stop – NJ.com

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danzig

More than 1.3 million New Jersey workers have filed for unemployment in New Jersey since mid-March, when the coronavirus shut down the state.

Thousands of people are still waiting to speak to a representative about their claims so they can get paid, but for those who have received benefits, the extra weekly $600 federal payment has been a lifeline.

A line thats going to be cut at the end of July unless Congress acts.

The Democratic House of Representatives passed a new stimulus bill called the HEROES Act, which would send out new stimulus payments, and, importantly to those out of work, extend the $600 payments through the end of the year.

But President Donald Trump called that legislation dead on arrival, and on Sunday said he would consider not signing any stimulus plan that didnt include a payroll tax cut.

Republicans are expected to introduce their own legislation in the coming days. No specific plans have been announced yet, but some lawmakers and the administration have talked about a round of stimulus payments but not extending the $600 unemployment benefit. Others have talked about a one-time back-to-work payment and a smaller extra unemployment benefit, or no unemployment extension at all, with some calling the extra payments incentive for people not to go back to work.

You can expect things to heat up when Congress returns from its recess this week.

We asked some unemployed New Jerseyans what will happen without the $600 payments.

THE ENTERTAINERS

Howard Fredrics said he lost most of his income when the pandemic hit New Jersey.

His freelance work in the theater and film industries dried up almost completely.

It took eight weeks for him to get unemployment benefits. Like most gig workers, he was paid the minimum $231 base benefit plus the extra $600 every week.

Fredrics, 57, of Park Ridge, said there were times when he earned more than his benefit, and times when he earned less, depending on how different projects stacked up.

Howard Fredrics at work as a sound designer at the off-Broadway revival of Threepenny Opera. Now unemployed because of the pandemic, Fredrics worries about the end of the $600 unemployment benefit.

His wife, Lori Joachim Fredrics, is a professional singer and actress, so her performing career is at a standstill.

She was, prior to the pandemic, also teaching singing lessons, which formed a major portion of her income, but more than 75% of her students dropped out when she was forced to limit her teaching to online lessons only, instead of offering mostly in-person lessons, which can no longer be done safely, Frederics said.

She, too, received the gig worker minimum plus the extra $600, which added up to less than she usually earned, he said.

Without the $600 payments, her unemployment income is just a fraction of her pre-pandemic earnings, Fredrics said.

They will both probably be eligible for higher benefits when the Labor Department is finally able to review each claim individually, but the state hasnt said when that review will begin for tens of thousands of workers.

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The couple lives with and care for Fredrics mother-in-law, who lives on Social Security payments. While they dont have rent or mortgage payments, they pay the household bills.

He said they are current on bills, thanks to the $600 payments, but are one large expenditure away from financial disaster once the payments stop.

If our 30-plus-year-old central AC or 15-plus-year-old water heater goes out, were dead-in-the-water, literally, as between my emphysema and my mother-in-laws very fragile health, we would not survive without a functioning AC unit, he said. Our two cars are at the newest, 19-years old, and one is 28 years old and barely runs. How well pay for new cars when ours die is a huge concern.

Fredrics said people in the theater, film and music industries absolutely need the continued expanded benefits through at least the end of the year, and maybe even longer.

And return-to-work bonuses are impossible for our industry since we simply cannot return to work, at least not anywhere near pre-pandemic levels, he said. If we reopen prematurely to the extent that some other states have done, we risk harm to the public health, which will cost much more in terms of lost productivity than would a continued $600 payment.

THE TRAVEL INDUSTRY

The pandemic was like a tsunami for the travel industry, as hotels emptied, reservations were canceled and few dared to get on a plane.

Carol Piscitelli, the owner of Gemini Travel Agency in Bloomfield, said she saw all her income dry up.

Shes staying afloat on unemployment payments, getting the same $231 minimum paid to gig workers plus the $600 extra payment.

Piscitelli is holding out hope that the travel business will recover and her clients will come back.

I have 2021 confirmed bookings on file, however, any commissions on any of my 2021 bookings will not be distributed till 2021, she said.

So she spends her days trying to help her clients get refunds for trips that were canceled because of the virus.

Carol Piscitelli, the owner of Gemini Travel Agency in Bloomfield, lost her income when the coronavirus pandemic hit. She works daily, unpaid, she says, to help her customers get refunds for canceled travel. Piscitelli worries about paying her bills when the $600 extended unemployment benefit ends.

Piscitelli, 59, owns her home outright but still needs to pay property taxes and household bills.

When the $600 ends I will be living off of $800 a month, she said. I still cannot wrap my head around that amount. It shakes me to the core.

She said she doesnt expect the $600 payments to continue, but she says the government has to do something.

It has to be an amount that can sustain us, she said, noting that people in her industry may not see much income until 2021.

While the state has added another 20 weeks of unemployment benefits for regular unemployment recipients, gig workers and the self-employed will only receive an extra seven weeks.

Seven weeks will do me no good, she said.

I truthfully do not want to rely on the government. I want to work, I love to work, and certainly want to continue to work, she said. Our leaders should have had this to pen and paper already. Its a political game. And this game they play has to do with my life and it angers me.

I have no answers, just frustrations, anger, and heartache, she said.

When the $600 payments stop, Aimee Aiellos income will be cut in half.

The Manahawkin mother of three was furloughed from her job in corporate travel planning on March 23.

The furlough was supposed to end on June 1, but then it was extended until July 31. Thats when shell learn if shes lost her job permanently. If she does get to keep her position, shell have to pay for her own health benefits, the company told employees.

With the extra $600 I am lucky that I was making what my salary was. Once the payment ends in a few weeks, I will take almost a 50% pay cut, said Aiello, 47.

Aimee Aiello with one of her three children in a 2009 photo. She is unemployed and worries about paying the bills when the $600 unemployment payments end at the end of July.

She said shes grateful that her husband is still employed, but even before the pandemic, they always lived paycheck-to-paycheck.

Their mortgage and other bills are up-to-date, but shes not sure whats going to happen when the $600 payments end.

Aiello said shes already spoken to her mortgage company, which is willing to suspend their payments for three months, but then they will have to pay the entire amount back when the three months pass.

They are not willing to even put the amount into the end of the loan, she said. If I dont have it now, how will I have it in three months? Not helpful at all.

She said shes beyond nervous about her future job opportunities because her industry has been decimated.

Aiello says Congress should extend the $600 payments, even if the payments are only continued for those in the hardest-hit industries.

I am so scared for myself and every coworker who has been furloughed or permanently laid off from this industry, she said. We need Congress to acknowledge us and help us get through this pandemic. Our industry will be the last to recover.

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Research Published in Cell Reports Medicine Highlights Potential of Akero Therapeutics’ NASH Therapeutic Candidate – PRNewswire

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danzig

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 21, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Akero Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKRO), a cardio-metabolic, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) company developing pioneering medicines designed to restore metabolic balance, today announced the publication of data in the journal Cell Reports Medicine from the Phase 1 clinical trial of efruxifermin (EFX, formerly AKR-001), a fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21) analog, demonstrating its potential to modulate biomarkers associated with metabolic diseases, including NASH.

In the article entitled, "AKR-001, an Fc-FGF21 analog, showed sustained pharmacodynamic effects on insulin sensitivity and lipid metabolism in type 2 diabetes patients," researchers found that EFX demonstrated a sufficiently prolonged half-life of 3-3.5 days to support weekly dosing. In addition, with a variation in systemic concentration of only 2-fold when dosed weekly, treatment with EFX delivered larger and more consistent improvements in markers of insulin sensitivity and lipid metabolism than previously reported for FGF21 analogs, and it was reported to be generally well tolerated. Weekly administration of 70mg demonstrated larger metabolic effects than dosing every other week with 140mg, even though exposure to EFX was comparable.

"Efruxifermin is the first FGF21 analog to demonstrate a pharmacokinetic profile that would enable sustained, balanced agonism across all of FGF21's receptors with once weekly dosing," said Tim Rolph, D.Phil., chief scientific officer and co-founder of Akero, and senior author of the manuscript.

Andrew Cheng, M.D., Ph.D., president and CEO of Akero, added, "The data reported in this study provided the rationale for evaluating the efficacy and safety of EFX in NASH patients in our Phase 2a BALANCED study, which met all endpoints. Our recent readouts of liver fat reductions and improvements in histological measures showed the largest reductions in liver fat and improvements in liver histology reported to date and confirm the promising clinical profile of EFX."

In patients dosed weekly with 70mg EFX in the Phase 1 study, treatment was associated with an increase in insulin sensitivity as demonstrated by reductions in HOMA-IR. This enhancement of insulin sensivity by EFX was replicated in NASH subjects and associated with better glycemic control, as recently disclosed for the BALANCED study. Treatment with EFX in the Phase 1 study was associated with amelioration of dyslipidemia, prevalent among type 2 diabetes and NASH patients, who are susceptible to cardiovascular disease. An improved lipoprotein profile was also evident with EFX treatment in the BALANCED study.

About NASHNASH (non-alcoholic steatohepatitis) is a serious form of NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) and is estimated to affect 17 million Americans. NASH is closely linked to the obesity and diabetes epidemics seen around the world. NASH is characterized by an excessive accumulation of fat in the liver that causes stress and injury to liver cells, leading to inflammation and fibrosis, which can progress to cirrhosis, liver failure, cancer and eventually death. NASH is a leading cause of liver transplants in the US and Europe.

About EfruxiferminEfruxifermin (EFX), formerly known as AKR-001, is Akero's lead product candidate for NASH, engineered to mimic the biological activity of native FGF21. EFX is designed to reduce liver fat and inflammation, reverse fibrosis, increase insulin sensitivity and improve lipoproteins. This holistic approach offers the potential to address the complex, multi-system disease state of NASH, including improvements in lipoprotein risk factors linked to cardiovascular disease the leading cause of death in NASH patients. EFX offers convenient once-weekly dosing and has been generally well-tolerated in clinical trials to date.

AboutAkero TherapeuticsAkero is a cardio-metabolic NASH company dedicated to reversing the escalating NASH epidemicby developing pioneering medicines designed torestore metabolic balance to improve overall health. The company's lead product candidate, efruxifermin (formerly AKR-001), has been evaluated in 80 patients with F1-F3 fibrosis in the main portion of the BALANCED study, and Akero is currently conducting cohort C of the study in non-decompensated F4 NASH patients. Akero Therapeutics is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA. For more information, please visit http://www.akerotx.com.

Forward Looking StatementsStatements contained in this press release regarding matters that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Because such statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding: Akero's guidance regarding its business plans and objectives for EFX, including the therapeutic potential and clinical benefits thereof, as well as the dosing, safety and tolerability of EFX; Akero's Phase 2a BALANCED clinical trial, including its initial primary efficacy results and the top-line safety/tolerability, laboratory measures and paired biopsy results; and the potential impact of COVID-19 on strategy, future operations and clinical trials.

Any forward-looking statements in this statement are based on management's current expectations of future events and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those set forth in or implied by such forward-looking statements. Risks that contribute to the uncertain nature of the forward-looking statements include: risks related to the impact of public health epidemics affecting countries or regions in which we have operations or do business, such as COVID-19, including potential negative impacts on Akero's employees, manufacturers, supply chain and production as well as on global economies and financial markets; the company's ability to execute on its strategy; positive results from a clinical study may not necessarily be predictive of the results of future or ongoing clinical studies; regulatory developments in the United States; and risks related to the competitive landscape. For a discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties, and other important factors, any of which could cause Akero's actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see the section entitled "Risk Factors" in the company's 2019 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC, as well as discussions of potential risks, uncertainties, and other important factors in Akero's other filings with the SEC. All forward-looking statements contained in this press release speak only as of the date on which they were made. Akero undertakes no obligation to update such statements to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.

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Spring’s Online Transition Prepped the School of Dental Medicine for Fall – Tufts Now

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danzig

When the academic year begins at Tufts School of Dental Medicine at the end of July, first- and second-year students will be attending all their classes remotely, another accommodation to the realities of COVID-19. Faculty and administrators say the experiences of last springwhen TUSDM, like all Tufts schools, was abruptly launched into fulltime online educationhave offered valuable lessons in creating curricula and finding unconventional ways to connect virtually.

The transition to online learning has forced us to be creative and innovative in ways that we might not have imagined before, said Ellen Patterson, assistant professor of comprehensive care. The undiscovered silver lining, she said, was realizing how previously existing online tools could be stretched. Im always looking for ways to be interactive, and yet, I hadnt taken the time to really use some of these tools until I was forced to.

For Patterson, that meant taking advantage of the Zoom breakout rooms feature for her interprofessional education course and reconfiguring the final project for the year-long Introduction to the Dental Patient. For Rocio Saavedra, assistant professor of pediatric dentistry, it meant creating a roster of virtual child patients, complete with case histories, intraoral photographs, and digital X-rays, for students to diagnose.

It is expected the D23 and D24 classes will come back to One Kneeland Street for the winter 2021 semester starting in January, for the preclinical, hands-on work that cant be replicated online. Third- and fourth-year students, whose curriculum is heavily grounded in patient care, will be following their regular routine of simulated and clinical rotations this fall.

Rising to the challenge of this unusual moment has, in fact, energized faculty and students, said Aruna Ramesh, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. What Ive found is that the faculty are very enthusiastic with the live Zoom lectures as they see more students attending these than the previous classroom lectures in several courses; they feel more connected to students, she said.

For someone so nave about technology, [the quick transition] freaked me out, admitted veteran professor Kanchan Ganda. But, I said to myself, you need to buckle up and do this. Before long, she was recording lectures for her multiple courses, having students present cases online, organizing online rotations, and arranging for online guest speakers. In the end, I think it was a success, she said.

Among the key takeaways from the spring that have helped shape online learning at TUSDM for this fall:

Communication: We can never overcommunicate, especially when people are virtual, said Ramesh. Irina Dragan, DG15, MSD15, DI19, director of faculty education and instructional development, emphasized that the communication also needs to be a two-way street, with input from students as important as output from instructors.

Zoom fatigue: With so many teachers becoming enthusiastic about interactive, real-time Zoom lectures, students can become overwhelmed, Ramesh said. She recommends a mix of synchronous and asynchronous lectures, mixed with smaller breakout sessions and self-paced at-home assignments.

Redesigned curriculum: Rather than carrying all the individual courses for a full semester, the first-year students will take some of their classes in sequence, and some in parallel with other courses, so that they are not juggling too many courses at the same time, throughout the term.

Dragan and her colleagues in the department of periodontics, Robert Gyurko and Camille Neste, published a paper in June in the Journal of Dental Education examining the transition at TUSDM from clinical rotations to virtual experience, available here: J Dent Educ. 2020;1-3. https://doi.org/10.1002/jdd.12298

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Telecommunications for Tele-Medicine (PTT) and M-Health Market Analysis With Key Players, Applications, Trends And Forecasts To 2026 – Cole of Duty

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danzig

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Shipment of crucial medicine to treat COVID-19 patients on its way to Florida – FOX 13 Tampa Bay

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danzig

More Remdesivir to come to Florida

Justin Matthews reports

TAMPA, Fla. - A shipment of 30,000 vials of remdesivir should be arriving in Florida within the next two to three days, according to Governor DeSantis, who made the announcement Sunday, July 18, 2020 at a press conference in St. Augustine, Fla.

Remdesivir is said to be very successful in treating COVID-19 patients who are fighting the virus in the intensive care unit.But with the increasing number of hospitalizations across the state, remdesivir is in high demand and hospitals have been running out of the medication.

"You also had hospitals saying this is good but what we're looking at, we're going to need more before the next shipment is scheduled to arrive," said Gov. DeSantis.

Sarasota Memorial said a previous shipment of remdesivir was only enough to help about six patients, when it had 28 still in the ICU.

This shipment should help five to 6,000 patients, according to Governor DeSantis.

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Radiotherapy, Radiopharmaceuticals And Nuclear Medicine Market Upcoming Opportunities Size COVID-19 2023 – Cole of Duty

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danzig

The globalradiopharmaceutical and therapeutics marketshould reach $22.0 billion by 2023 from $14.1 billion in 2018 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.2% for the period of 2018 to 2023.

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The scope of this report is broad and covers type, production method, technology and applications of radiopharmaceuticals and therapeutics. By type, the market has been segmented into radiotherapy and radiopharmaceuticals. Revenue forecasts from 2017 to 2023 are provided for each segment and regional market, with estimated values derived from manufacturers total revenues.

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Growing acceptance and utilization of nuclear medicine scans (i.e., SPECT and PET) and better availability of radiopharmaceuticals due to an increasing number of cyclotrons have significantly contributed to growth in the radiopharmaceutical industry. Innovative technological equipment leading to early and accurate diagnoses, increased awareness of radiopharmaceuticals among physicians and patients and new regulatory approvals of radiopharmaceuticals are other major driving forces for the global radiopharmaceutical market. Furthermore, increasing incidences of different types of cancers across the globe are considered a major driver behind the growth of radiopharmaceuticals and therapeutics. According to Our World in Data, approximately 19 million people had cancer in 1990; that has increased more than two-fold as of 2016, reaching 42 million worldwide. In addition, breast cancerhas been identified as the leading type of cancer, as eight million people had breast cancer in 2016. In the same year, 6.3 million, 5.7 million and 2.8 million people had colon and rectum cancer, prostate cancer and tracheal, bronchus and lung cancer, respectively. Hence, the increasing incidences of various cancers drives the need for radiopharmaceuticals and therapeutics, considering diagnostic and therapeutic areas.

The global radiopharmaceutical and therapeutics market is projected to rise at a CAGR of REDACTED during the forecast period of 2018 through 2023. In 2023, total revenues are expected to reach more than REDACTED, an increase of REDACTED from the REDACTED in revenue in 2017.

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Growing Demand for Anti Aging Medicine Market to Significantly Increase Revenues Through 2026 – 3rd Watch News

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danzig

Longer life-expectancy is a cumulative effect of a healthy lifestyle and favorable environmental conditions. A trend of continuously increasing life expectancy has been a witness since a decade, primarily because of advances in medical sciences and treatment of chronic life-threatening diseases, availability of clean water and environment and other factors. This trend is projected to further show even more exponential growth graph owing to the anti-aging medicines, stem cell therapeutics, genetic screening and interventions, and high-tech biomedicines.

American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine claimed that anti-aging medicines can add up to 10-20 years to the life expectancy of a human. Today, a combination of calorie-restricted diet, regular exercise, and anti-aging medicines are claimed to slow the process of senescence and aging. Various medicines used against the treatment of acute or chronic diseases can be considered as anti-aging medicines, however, to define anti-aging medicine market we have considered only the drugs that are directly prescribed and used for delaying the effects of aging.

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The constantly growing demand to look young in old individuals and to remain young and youthful in young people drive the anti-aging market. The influence of aesthetics from the fashion and television industry propel the demand to retain the features and energy of younger age in old people. Additionally, the increasing number of anti-aging medicine manufacturers in the decade contribute to higher availability of the anti-aging medicine resulting in expansion of the global anti-aging medicine market. However, skeptical approach to anti-aging medicine as being an external stimulator of cell-cycles is a restraint to the expansion of anti-aging medicine market.

The global Anti-aging medicine market is segmented on basis of product type, age group, distribution channel, and region:

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The rising demand for beauty consciousness amongst people and the desire to stay young is the primary factor fueling the growth of anti-aging medicines in the market. The acclaimed benefits of the products and affordability along with regional presence compel the demand for anti-aging medicine in the global market. Hormonal replacement therapy segment in product type is expected to account maximum market share in the terms of revenue in the global anti-aging medicine market. However, antioxidant therapy segment in product type is expected to grow with the highest CAGR over the forecast years owing to the rising awareness about the plethora of benefits of antioxidants in anti-aging among the public. On the basis of the route of administration, the global anti-aging medicine market is segmented as oral, injectable and topical, out of which oral segment is expected to generate maximum revenue share over the forecast period. As per the distribution channel, the global anti-aging medicine market is segmented as hospital pharmacies, retail pharmacies, e-commerce, and drug stores. The e-commerce segment in the distribution channel is estimated to grow with the highest CAGR over the forecast time.

Regionally, the global anti-aging medicine market is segmented into five key regions viz. North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Middle East & Africa. North America anti-aging medicine market is projected to account for the largest market share in the terms of revenue in the global anti-aging medicine market owing to the higher healthcare expenditure and presence of numerous manufacturers. Europe is expected to hold the second largest share in the global anti-aging medicine market during the forecast period because of the growing geriatric population and higher spending on healthcare products and supplements. MEA anti-aging medicine market is expected to witness sluggish growth over the forecast time owing to the limited presence of manufacturers and lower healthcare expenditure. Asia Pacific is projected to grow with the highest CAGR over the forecast years in the global anti-aging medicine market due to higher demand from end users and regional penetration of the key players in the region.

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3 highlights from Penn Jillette’s Big Think interview on 2020, cancel culture, and friendship – Big Think

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danzig

In 2017, 40 percent of entrepreneurs were female, representing a 58 percent uptick in female-owned businesses from a decade prior. Fifty-six percent of college students are female, a complete reversal from fifty years prior, when 58 percent of men filled university halls. Yet in 2017, only 2.2 percent of venture capital (VC) money went to women-founded companies. Society has changed, yet the worlds of start-ups and venture capital are still predominantly run by white men.

Big Think was founded in 2007 by Victoria Montgomery Brown and Peter Hopkins. As with many start-ups, the fundraising process provides quite a story, one that Brown has now decided to tell. Her forthcoming book, Digital Goddess: The Unfiltered Lessons of a Female Entrepreneur (HarperCollins Leadership), reveals how this website came to beand how women can overcome barriers in a male-dominated business world.

Below are six lessons from Brown's chapter on raising capital when you have no money or product. Brown writes that there are essential qualities for starting a business that help you navigate the terrain, such as a having a strong vision and maintaining unflinching tenacity. While some of these came naturally to Brown, others were hard-fought lessons that changed her for the better. The chapterand the bookis a reminder that with perseverance and dedication to learning, anything is possible.

Use whatever will get you in the door

The greatest challenge every start-up faces is "first money in." Many investors are willing to back a good idea only when someone else has already committedand they like to know who that someone else is.

In some ways, being a female founder has its advantages. As Brown writes, a Boston Consulting Group study shows that female-run start-ups outperform male-run start-ups, generating 78 cents in revenue per dollar invested compared to men at 31 cents. That's solid data, but you still need to get in the door.

Brown leaned heavily on her master's degree from Harvard Business School. This helped tremendously for her first investor meeting with Founder Collective co-founder David Frankel. He was enthusiastic, but he wanted to know who else was interested. Brown turned to former Harvard University president, Larry Summers. His buy-in increased Frankel's interest; he became the lead investor.

Meeting with such heavyweights is no easy matter for entrepreneurs with no product or history in founding a company. As Brown writes, "Study after study confirms that people tend to equate confidence with competence." Presenting Big Think confidently made the impression needed to secure funding.

With two investors in, landing Nantucket Nectars founder Tom Scott and billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel was not as challenging as one might assume. Brown writes, "Getting the first investor feels impossible, but if you can pull it off, getting the second is sometimes surprisingly easy."

Quit your day job

This is one of the hardest aspects of being an entrepreneur. Not only do founders not have the capital needed to launch their company, they sometimes work for years without paying themselves. If investors are going to put money into your project, they have to know you're serious about success.

"People don't like to fund things if the entrepreneur and CEO don't have their entire skin in the game. You better have something big to lose, or how are people going to believe you are all in?"

With no income or savings, Brown quit her day job in order to devote her every waking hour to Big Think. Self-imposed deadlines made sure she hit her targets. Founding a company isn't comfortable; waiting for relief will only distract you from the work that needs to get done.

"If you truly want to start somethingwhatever it may bewaiting won't helpput yourself in a position where you must do it."

Three months after quitting her day job, money showed up in Big Think's bank account.

Build momentum

If you're trying to convince investors to believe in youand it is you that they're investing in, more than your productshow them traction, even when you don't have it. Go out and make it happen.

"Our investors needed to be intrigued by the idea and see its potential to succeed and to scale, but they also needed to see that I was actually in a place of discomfort if it didn't work out."

Securing funding before showing a minimal viable product (MVP) is no easy task. Brown knew that she had to show something. Big Think started as a video platform; she needed experts to appear on video. Through their networks, Brown and Hopkins contacted Richard Branson, Moby, the Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, and famed architect Lee Mindel. They wanted them to be anchors.

Convincing high-profile business leaders, artists, and academics to partake in a new project is as daunting as landing VCs. When these figures inevitably asked about precedent for such an initiative, Brown turned a potential negative into a positive. "No one. We are reaching out to a very select, initial group of experts to kick-start it."

Making people feel critical to a project's success is a powerful way to get their endorsement, Brown writes. More importantly, it worked. A risky play between content generators and financial backers worked out. Big Think had momentum.

Do your research

As mentioned, investors are often more interested you than your product. As Brown writes, fundraising is "about creating a situation where investors get a real glimpse of who you are and why they should invest in you."

It's not a one-way street. You should also be interested in them.

"Be truly interested in the person you are meeting or don't bother meeting."

Brown advises looking beyond LinkedIn profiles and superficial bullet points. Investigate their interests, such as their passions and philanthropic pursuits. Understand why they might be interested in your venture and where it intersects with their business. Discuss topics outside of the investment opportunity. Engage them as people, not bank accounts.

"Helping others feel attractive and specialnot in a sexual way but in a human wayhelps them see you as a more attractive person, too. But you have to mean it."

Learn to say yes

The discomfort of being a founder includes stretching your boundaries. PayPal famously iterated numerous times before finding success. Flexibility is key if you want to survive. Sometimes that means admitting your limitations.

"Here's something major that HBS [Harvard Business School] taught me. You don't need to know how to do things, you need to know how to ask people to do things for you."

Finding the right people is one aspect of saying yes. By admitting your limitations, you say yes to help. But there's also saying yes to projects you're not entirely capable of pulling off.

After scoring a sponsorship with Pfizer, the second Big Think project was with MSNBC. The media company had a deal to provide expert-driven content with GE and SAP. They just didn't have a team to produce it. Being nimble, Big Think could turn it around quickly.

"Smaller companies with greater agility can take advantage of this situation if they just have the courage to step up and offer."

Instead of focusing on the negatives, such as not having a website or even equipment, Brown and Hopkins saw the opportunity. They said yes, and completed the project without a hitch, because they had the foresight to say yes.

Learn to say no

Not everything demands a yes, however. Discernment matters in the frenetic world of start-ups.

There are investors, there are people that connect you with investors, and there are charlatans. As the latter often suck up oxygen in any room they enter, it's easy to confuse bluster with their capabilities.

And so we meet "Jake," who in the early days of Big Think promised a lot, demanded more, and delivered nothing.

"He hadn't brought us any investors, he hadn't booked any experts, he hadn't helped us put together the deck, so what were we doing spending time with him? He felt sort of sleazy, like a smooth talker but not a doer."

Brown told Jake he was not getting equity without deliverables during their final meeting. This news did not go over well. Jake yelled and stormed out. Such momentary discomfort is a low price for not giving up even a piece of your business. Calling our charlatans demands that you say no. Thankfully, for the future of Big Think, one bad evening paid off in the long run.

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Ted Cruz: Future of conservatism is populist and libertarian – Washington Examiner

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danzig

Sen. Ted Cruz said the future of conservatism after President Trump leaves office can be both populist and libertarian.

The Texas Republican weighed on ideological debates among conservatives, saying the future of conservative politics can be a combination of libertarian beliefs and populism during a Tuesday interview with the Washington Examiner about his podcast, The Verdict, co-hosted by conservative commentator Michael Knowles.

"I think properly understood, those concepts are complementary, and they're not antagonistic. So I am a conservative, an unabashed conservative. I'm also a populist. I am deeply a populist," Cruz began. "And I also have deep libertarian principles. Look, if you're protecting liberty, that is the foundation of our country. That is the foundation of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. When it comes to populism, I think the most fundamental and important shifts in the last decade in politics is that Republicans have become the party of the working class."

The idea of conservatism "conserving" libertarian beliefs, or classical liberalism, has recently been challenged by some writers. Sohrab Ahmari, a conservative opinion editor for the New York Post, advocated for a "common good" conservatism in May 2019. In an opinion piece for religious publication First Things, he wrote, "Here is the problem: The movement we are up against prizes autonomy above all, too; indeed, its ultimate aim is to secure for the individual will the widest possible berth to define what is true and good and beautiful, against the authority of tradition."

"There's some people who want to use the word populism to say, 'Well, we should just have socialism.' No, socialism is not populism. That's not good for the workers. Socialism is tyranny of government. Every socialist government across the globe has produced poverty and misery and suffering and death," Cruz said.

Earlier, Knowles said the ideological future of conservatism should focus on "ordered liberty" and unite against those "who want to tear down, not just one policy or another, but actually the symbol of our country itself, the star-spangled banner," echoing his previous essay in the American Mind titled, Its Good to Be Against Things.

Cruz did not answer when asked if he plans to run for president after Trump leaves office but called his bid for president in 2016 the "most fun" he's had in his life.

"We'll see. I probably won't make any announcements on this show. But look, it's no secret. I ran for president in 2016. We came very close. I'll tell you this: It's the most fun I've ever had in my life. And I enjoyed every minute of it," he said, adding he believes the United States needs leaders to defend the country in the future.

When asked, the Texas Republican also said he likes the idea of using his podcast to communicate with people similarly to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside chats.

"I am excited about the podcast as a tool. I like the fireside chat analogy. And look, FDR used that powerfully, used the new medium of radio to connect directly with the American people in a time of crisis," he said.

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Your Illinois News Radar Longshot day at the ISBE – The Capitol Fax Blog

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danzig

* Illinois Public Radio

Rapper Kanye West was among those submitting petitions for the fall ballot Illinois on the final day for independent and third party candidates to file.

West said he is running for president. But he has missed the deadline to file in several states. While he was on time in Illinois, filing does not guarantee a spot on the ballot. Pettitions can be challenged for the number of signatures and their vailidity. West did not have a vice presidential candidate file with him. []

A judge eased signature requirements for third parties this year due to the COVID-19 outbreak. That made it much easier for the Libertarian candidates running for the legislature to get on the ballot. Steve Suess, the partys state chairman, said that should send a message to the two major parties. []

More than 10 Libertarians are running either for a legislative or a congressional seat in Illinois, along with the offices of President and U-S Senate. The Green Party also has several running for state legislative posts.

You can see all the newly filed candidates by clicking here.

* Fox News

Four minutes before the Illinois State Board of Elections 5 p.m. CT deadline, two [West] representatives filed 412 petition sheets with election officials, a spokesperson confirmed to Fox News.

Election officials will be counting those signatures of registered Illinois voters, of which he was supposed to have had at least 2,500 to get on the ballot. Petition sheets usually contain 10 names per sheet.

They contain 10 lines per sheet. Those lines arent always filled with valid names or any names, for that matter. We shall see.

Adding This was an obvious rush job and they may not survive a challenge

* Bernie

In a central Illinois race, Angel Sides, who got less than 5 percent of the vote in a five-way, 2018 Democratic primary for the U.S. House from the 13th Congressional District, filed as a Green Party candidate in the 87th House District, where state Rep. Tim Butler, R-Springfield, has been unopposed.

In the 96th House District, John Keating II of Springfield filed as a Green Party candidate. Hes taking on Democratic state Rep. Sue Scherer and Republican Charlie McGorray, both of Decatur.

In the 100th District, where Democrat Brandon Adams of Jacksonville already was taking on Rep. C.D. Davidsmeyer, R-Jacksonville, two candidates filed Monday: Thomas Kuna of Kane, in Greene County, on the Bullmoose party; and Ralph Sides under the banner of the Pro-Gun Pro-Life party.

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The lies told by the Black Lives Matter movement

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danzig

First published by the Washington Examiner Sept. 3.

The Black Lives Matter movement has been feted repeatedly at the White House and honored at the Democratic National Convention. Hillary Clinton has incorporated its claims about racist, homicidal cops into her presidential campaign pitch.

This summers assassinations of police officers havent slowed the anti-cop demonstrations or diminished the virulent hatred directed at cops during those protests.

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick refuses to stand for the national anthem to protest the alleged oppression of blacks, while pop singer Beyonc has made the Black Lives Matter movement the focal point of her performances.

Yet the Black Lives Matter movement is based on a lie. The idea that the United States is experiencing an epidemic of racially driven police shootings is false and dangerously so.

The facts are these: Last year, the police shot 990 people, the vast majority armed or violently resisting arrest, according to the Washington Posts database of fatal police shootings. Whites made up 49.9 percent of those victims, blacks 26 percent. That proportion of black victims is lower than what the black violent crime rate would predict.

Blacks constituted 62 percent of all robbery defendants in Americas 75 largest counties in 2009, 57 percent of all murder defendants and 45 percent of all assault defendants, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, even though blacks comprise only 15 percent of the population in those counties.

In New York City, where blacks make up 23 percent of the citys population, blacks commit three-quarters of all shootings and 70 percent of all robberies, according to victims and witnesses in their reports to the NYPD. Whites, by contrast, commit less than 2 percent of all shootings and 4 percent of all robberies, though they are nearly 34 percent of the citys population.

In Chicago, 80 percent of all known murder suspects in 2015 were black, as were 80 percent of all known nonfatal shooting suspects, though theyre a little less than a third of the population. Whites made up 0.9 percent of known murder suspects in Chicago in 2015 and 1.4 percent of known nonfatal shooting suspects, though they are about a third of the citys residents.

Gang shootings occur almost exclusively in minority areas. Police use of force is most likely in confrontations with violent and resisting criminals, and those confrontations happen disproportionately in minority communities.

But the Black Lives Matter narrative has nevertheless had an enormous effect on policing and public safety, despite its mendacity. Gun-related murders of officers are up 52 percent this year through Aug. 30 compared to last year. The cop assassinations are only a more extreme version of the Black Lives Matter-inspired hatred that officers working in urban areas encounter on a daily basis.

Officers are routinely surrounded by hostile, jeering crowds when they try to conduct a street investigation or make an arrest. Resistance to arrest is up, officers report. Cops have been repeatedly told by President Obama and the media that pedestrian stops and public order enforcement are racist. In consequence, they are doing less of those discretionary activities in high-crime minority communities.

The result? Violent crime is rising in cities with large black populations. Homicides in 2015 rose anywhere from 54 percent in Washington, DC, to 90 percent in Cleveland. In the nations 56 largest cities, homicides rose 17 percent in 2015, a nearly unprecedented one-year spike. In the first half of 2016, homicides in 51 large cities were up another 15 percent compared to the same period last year.

The carnage has continued this year. In Chicago alone, at least 15 children under the age of 12 have been shot in the first seven months of 2016, including a 3-year-old boy who is now paralyzed for life following a Fathers Day drive-by shooting. While the world knows Michael Brown, whose fatal police shooting in Ferguson, Mo., spurred Black Lives Matter, few people outside these childrens immediate communities know their names. Black Lives Matter activists have organized no protests to stigmatize their assailants.

For the past two decades, the country has been talking about phantom police racism in order to avoid talking about a more uncomfortable truth: black crime. But in the era of data-driven law enforcement, policing is simply a function of crime. The best way to lower police-civilian contacts in inner-city neighborhoods would be for children to be raised by their mother and their father in order to radically lower the crime rate there.

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Heather Mac Donald is the author of the newly released The War on Cops.

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Black Lives Matter stirs hope for change in England’s ancient city of York – NBC News

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danzig

YORK, England Haddy Njie had been in this historic English city a little more than a week when she first experienced racial abuse.

It was 2015. She had moved from London when a taxi driver called her the N-word and ordered her out of his cab.

When I moved to York I was shocked by the pervasive and overtness of the racism and discrimination based on my skin color, said Njie, as she sat on the banks of the River Ouse as it meandered near the medieval walls of this predominantly white city in northern England.

Five years on, Njie is hopeful that people in York may now be awakening to racism, their eyes opened in part by the death of George Floyd, a Black man, at the hands of white police officers in Minneapolis in May.

White people were all of a sudden saying, Oh my God, I never understood or knew you were going through this every single day, said Njie, 36, who works in risk management and moved to York for a job opportunity.

Black Lives Matter and other anti-racism protests swept across the country, igniting a conversation about unconscious bias, Britains colonial past and the chasm between white and Black experiences.

Treasured English institutions, from the Rugby Football Union to English Heritage, which cares for historic places, pledged to do more to champion diversity or to better contextualize the past. In York, the revulsion that followed Floyds death prompted many to consider the racism that exists closer to home, broaching the topic over dinner, in web chats or by taking part in protests.

It did really bring home how people have this going on all the time, said Philip Jepson, an electronics engineer.

Jepson, 57, said it was not the first time he had considered his own prejudices. Nevertheless, Floyds death and the subsequent anti-racism protests in the U.K. had spurred greater reflection.

I dont think its very easy not to be racist, Jepson said. Its something you have to be conscious of and work against on a personal level.

The city of York is nearly 2,000 years old and traces its roots to the Roman era, before it was settled by Anglo-Saxons, conquered by Vikings and later overrun by the armies of William the Conqueror. Historians and archaeologists say there is evidence of people of color living here in Roman times.

In his book Black and British: A Forgotten History, the historian David Olusoga cites isotopic analysis that found that around one in 10 of the 200 or so human remains found in Roman burial sites in the city were of African descent.

But in more recent history York was not a center for mass immigration, and compared to other major industrial cities did not attract high numbers of workers from Britains sprawling empire, said James Walvin, emeritus professor of history at the University of York.

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The 2011 census found that, of the citys nearly 200,000 residents, 94 percent identified as white. In 2016, Gary Craig, a social justice researcher and visiting professor at Newcastle University, estimated that ethnic minorities accounted for around 12 percent of Yorks population. Yet, he said, people see the city as white Anglo-Saxon protestant.

In conversations with passersby, some acknowledged that York might have more to learn about racism than more ethnically diverse centers. And many were surprised that the number of hate crimes related to racism recorded by North Yorkshire Police has been on the rise.

From 2014 to last year, the number of race-related hate crimes reported by the police force, which is responsible for York and the surrounding area, grew by 111 percent.

Racially motivated hate crime recorded by police in England and Wales grew by roughly the same amount over a similar period.

Its not properly acknowledged, Hillary Bryan, a retired journalist, said of racism across the country. She took the example of her 20-year-old son, Jamie, who had recently asked her if racism was as big a problem in the U.K. as it is in the United States.

I said, Yes, it is, Jamie, really, its just probably less overt. But if you were a Black teenager and you were being stopped all the time for no reason, youd soon realize that there is racism here as well.

A survey last month by British pollster YouGov found that about 5 in 10 U.K. adults feel Britain is very or fairly racist. By contrast, a separate survey by the same organization found that approximately 8 in 10 Black and minority ethnic adults felt racism still exists a great deal or somewhat in the U.K. today.

Black British activists have found themselves explaining, on the streets and in TV studios, that racism is not solely an American issue, countering a reflex among many white Britons to point to the United States when discussing racism.

Data from the coronavirus pandemic has shown that death rates have been significantly higher for Black people and ethnic minorities than for white people in Britain. A government study published last month found that historic racism and social inequality may be contributing factors.

Not everyone in York sees racism as a problem, and some feel Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests have gone too far by scratching at old wounds when the U.K. has made progress in recent decades.

I dont think our country holds anybody back, said Paul West, who was preparing to dig test holes for anti-terror barriers on a central York street.

West, 33, pointed to the former archbishop of York, John Sentamu, who is Black and retired last month, as well as other ethnic minority leaders in the country as evidence that people of color can advance.

He supported the right of protesters to take to the street, but took issue with their targeting of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, whose legacy of leading Britain to victory in World War II is tainted by evidence of racist and white supremacist views.

My grandfather fought in the war. I feel its spitting in our face a little bit on the history; when your forefathers fought in that war, its a bit disrespectful, he said.

It went away from what was relevant and made it irrelevant in my view.

Many in this city, however, say that how history is portrayed is connected to the societal problems of today.

Olivia Wyatt, an undergraduate history student at the University of York, is working with northern schools to teach Black British history, inspired in part by her own experience of learning about the slave trade at school, where she said slavery was framed as largely American and only loosely connected to Britain.

Otherwise Black Britons did not feature in the pages of her school history books, something she said can make people see Black British history as marginal and removed from their own lives.

The danger of that is that they start to see Black and Asian or Black and brown people as not British, Wyatt, 21, who is of African-Caribbean and Indian heritage, said by phone from her hometown, Leeds.

Young people in York appeared to be more comfortable with the nuances of the debate over racism in the U.K. All of the half a dozen or more teenagers and millennials who spoke to NBC News said they felt systemic racism was a problem in the U.K. and had actively tried to better educate themselves by reading or watching videos online.

Many pointed to social media as an important source of information that has exposed them to a global conversation on race, whether through celebrity endorsement of BLM, soccer players taking a knee on the field or people in their networks sharing information.

The global conversation is promoting concrete local activism as well.

Njie said she had in the past raised the issue of racism with the city council and had discussed an effort to hear the stories of those who had experienced racism in the city in order to implement change. But Njie said the council had dragged its feet and eventually nothing came of it.

But City Councillor Darryl Smalley said that the council was acting and that in response to Floyds death and the recent protests, it had set up an action group to come up with policies to tackle hate crime and racism in the city.

Floyds death and the subsequent protests also spurred Njie to set up Speak Up Diversity, a grassroots group that aims to tackle systematic and institutional racism in York, by focusing, among other things, on education, awareness and the reporting of racist incidents in the workplace.

Its an historic opportunity, she said. White people are actually coming and saying what can I do?

63% support Black Lives Matter as recognition of discrimination jumps: POLL – ABC News

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danzig

Sixty-three percent of Americans support the Black Lives Matter movement and a record 69% -- the most by far in 32 years of polling -- say Black people and other minorities are denied equal treatment in the criminal justice system, two of several signs of deep changes in public attitudes on racial discrimination.

These views don't necessarily translate into majority preferences on policy -- 55% oppose reducing police funding in favor of more social services, for instance, with 40% in favor. Nonetheless, this ABC News/Washington Post poll finds substantial shifts in how Americans view underlying issues of racial justice. Among them:

Fifty-five percent in this poll, produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates, say Black people who live in their own community experience racial discrimination, up from a low of 37% in 2012 and the most since the question was first asked 17 years ago. Among whites, 33% in 2012 saw racial discrimination in their own communities; today this has grown to 52%. It's also at 52% among Hispanic people.

The share of Americans overall who say Black people and other minorities do not receive equal treatment in the criminal justice system has jumped 15 percentage points just since 2014, and 31 points from a low in 1997, to the most in a question that dates to 1988. Among whites, it's up from 44% six years ago to 62%, a majority for the first time. Here, again, views among Hispanics more closely resemble those among whites -- 68% perceive unequal treatment in the criminal justice system.

The number of whites who are confident that police are adequately trained to avoid using excessive force has dropped by 12 points since 2014, from 62 to 50%. Again, it's about the same among Hispanics at 51%. Confidence among whites that the police treat white and Black people equally is down eight points, to 55%. It's also down 11 points among Blacks, to just 10%.

Fifty-five percent of Americans overall see the recent killings of unarmed Black people by police as "a sign of broader problems" in police treatment of Blacks, rather than as isolated incidents. That's up from 43% in 2014, after the deaths of Eric Garner in New York City and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. Seeing this as a broader problem is up 13 points among whites, to 48%, as well as 12 points among Black people. Among Hispanics, 54% see recent killings as a sign of broader problems.

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Along with these changes, the survey also finds increased social contact: Eighty-five percent of whites now say there's a Black person they consider a fairly close personal friend, up from 54% when first asked in 1981. And 89% of Black people say the same about a white person, up from 69% 39 years ago.

In this June 7, 2020, file photo, protesters participating in a Black Lives Matter rally march in Pittsburgh Pittsburgh to protest the death of George Floyd.

On policy matters, as noted, the public overall, by 55-40%, opposes reducing funding for police departments and spending that money on social services instead; substantially more are strongly opposed, 43%, than strongly in favor, 25%. There's a racial and ethnic division on this issue: Fifty-nine percent of Black people support reducing police funding; it's 47% among Hispanics and drops to 34% among white people.

Also, Americans overall side -- by eight or nine points -- against renaming military bases currently named for Confederate generals, 50 to 42%, and against removing statues honoring Confederate generals in public places, 52 to 43%. Results are more lopsided on the question of removing statues honoring U.S. presidents who owned slaves, with 68% opposed.

On another policy question, the public at 63 to 31%, opposes paying money to Black Americans whose ancestors were slaves as compensation for that slavery. That said, support for reparations has grown from 19% in 1997 and opposition is down 14 points, from 77%.

This change has come across groups, if not to the same degree. Support for reparations has risen from 65% of Blacks in 1997 to 82% now; and among whites has risen from 10% in 1997 to 18% now.

There are racial and ethnic gaps on the other policy items as well. Sixty percent of Black people favor renaming military bases, as do 51% of Hispanics, compared with 36% of whites. On Confederate statues, 76% of Black people favor removal; this declines to 38% of whites and 34% of Hispanics. And 60% of Blacks support removing statues of slave-owning presidents, versus 26% of Hispanics and 16% of white people.

There also are large gaps on these issues on the basis of partisanship and ideology. Three-quarters of Democrats, including as many white Democrats, say Black people in their community experience racial discrimination. Fewer, but still 57% of independents, say the same. This drops to 29% of Republicans.

In another example, 80% of Republicans think the police treat Black and white people equally; this drops to 47% among independents and falls to 20% of Democrats, including 25% of white Democrats. There are similar differences in views of whether police are adequately trained to avoid the excessive use of force -- 77% of Republicans say they are, versus 45% of independents and 24% of Democrats.

Protesters chant as they pass down a main thoroughfare during a Black Lives Matter march through a residential neighborhood calling for racial justice, July 13, 2020, in Valley Stream, N.Y.

Ninety-two percent of Democrats, including 91% of white Democrats, support the Black Lives Matter movement, as do a smaller majority of independents at 62% and dropping steeply to 28% of Republicans. By ideology, support ranges from 93% of liberals to 70% of moderates and 34% of conservatives.

Six in 10 Democrats also support reducing police funding in favor of social services, as do 42% of independents, compared with 14% of Republicans. And there are even bigger partisan gaps on renaming military bases and removing Confederate statues.

While there are limited differences between white and Black Democrats on most of these issues, there are wide gaps on two items, reparations and removing statues of slave-owning presidents. Using both Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents for an adequate sample size, 86% of Blacks who are Democrats or lean that way, support reparations; that drops to 35% of white leaned Democrats. And 63% of Black leaned Democrats support removing statues of presidents who owned slaves, versus 31% of white leaned Democrats.

About one in four Democrats is Black, compared with one in 10 independents and fewer than one in 100 Republicans.

Differences among some other groups also emerge. Sixty-two percent of women see police killings of unarmed Black people as a sign of broader problems rather than isolated incidents; 48% of men agree. And there are differences by education in terms of renaming military bases and removing Confederate statues. These are supported by six in 10 Americans with post-graduate educations, compared with roughly a third of those who haven't gone beyond high school.

This ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by landline and cellular telephone July 12-15, 2020, in English and Spanish, among a random national sample of 1,006 adults. Results have a margin of sampling error of 3.5 points, including the design effect. Partisan divisions are 30-24-39%, Democrats-Republicans-independents.

The survey was produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates of New York, New York, with sampling and data collection by Abt Associates of Rockville, Maryland See details on the survey's methodology here.

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12 White Female Bodies in Garage Freezer Tagged "Black …

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danzig

Summary of eRumor:Los Angeles Police found 12 white female bodies in a garage freezer with Black Lives Matter written on them.The Truth:False rumors that Los Angeles Police found a dozen white females tagged Black Lives Matter in a garage freezer came from a website known for publishing fictional news stories.The story appeared at Now 8 News in September 2017 under the headline, Los AngelesPolice: 12 WhiteFemale Bodies inGarage FreezerTagged, BlackLives Matter. The report, which was quickly shared more than 2,000 times on Facebook, falsely claimed that police found a man under the influence of drugs after responding to reports of suspicious activity:

Upon arriving at the scene, police knockedon the door to be greeted by a man whoseemedunder the influence of drugs.Uponfurther investigation, they found 12 WhiteFemale Bodies in Garage Freezer Tagged,Black Lives Matter.

The bodies had several things in common they were all white women in their mid-20s, blonde hair and all had the writingsmarked on them which readBlack LivesMatterandBLM.Mathis, who was knownfor his involvement in the Black LivesMatter movement was arrested withoutincident and booked into the county jail onno bond.

The first clue that the story is a hoax is a mugshot that appears with it. The mugshot shows aman who was arrested on charges of drug dealing and sex trafficking a minorin 2015 not a murder suspect.The second clue is the shoddy reputation of Now 8 News. Weve investigated many fictional reports from Now 8 News site over the years. The site doesnt clearly identify itself as fake or satirical news, which misleads readers.In fact, the site falsely reportedin September 2016 that 19 white female bodies tagged with Black Lives Matter were found in a garage freezer. The September 2017 version was just the latest take on an old hoax.

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What Black Lives Matter Has Revealed About Small-Town America – The New York Times

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danzig

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. Nikki Wilkerson was used to thinking of herself as the small brown girl growing up in rural Pennsylvania.

She has been eyed skeptically while out shopping and questioned by the police for no clear reason at all. But she had resigned herself to keeping quiet about racism, which her white friends never seemed to notice even when it happened right in front of them. Nobody around here ever talked about any of this. Its just what it was.

And yet there one afternoon in early June, right in the middle of the county seat, she happened upon it: a crowd of white people demanding justice for Black lives. They would be joined by Black high school students, children of Latino farmworkers, gays, lesbians, queer, transgender, whatever, Ms. Wilkerson, 34, said. This was not the Chambersburg I grew up in. I had no idea. All of these people are just coming out of the woodwork.

The sight was inspiring, she said. But also frustrating. Why werent we doing this a long time ago?

Black Lives Matter could be responsible for the largest protest movement in U.S. history, which sprang up in countless cities and small towns after George Floyd was killed by the police in May. While the street protests have tapered off in most places, newly minted activists in small towns are still discussing plans for new events or standing in the back of otherwise empty City Council meetings to make their demands for police reform.

But beyond any policy changes, which could be slow in coming, a significant consequence of recent weeks could be the realization for many Americans in small towns that their neighbors are more multiracial and less willing to be quiet about things than most people had assumed.

Across the state in Lehighton, Pa., a town that is 95 percent white, Montreo Thompson, 26, pulled a lawn chair into his driveway in early June and held up a Black Lives Matter poster. Within days he was helping lead marches in towns all over the region, and also protesting alongside Black people he had never seen before some of whom lived down the street. They were literally walking distance from our house and I never knew they were there.

Small-town America has never been racially or politically monolithic. After the 2016 election and especially in places where President Trump romped, thousands of women who were aghast at the result became politically active for the first time in their lives, meeting in library basements and organizing small but regular rallies. Still, that movement, powered chiefly by middle-aged, middle-class women in the suburbs and exurbs, was in many ways just a preamble to the mass wave of protests following Mr. Floyds death.

For weeks, protesters in Chambersburg gathered on the sidewalk in front of Central Presbyterian Church, a bronze-steepled landmark dedicated in 1871, just seven years after the town was burned to the ground by Confederate soldiers. The Rev. Scott Bowerman, who has been pastor of the church for eight years, called Mr. Trumps election an apocalyptic moment. It was a deliberate word choice, he said, based in the root meaning of apocalypse: a revelation.

The 2016 election, Mr. Bowerman said, revealed that Franklin County, where Chambersburg sits, was not only conservative but enamored of a brand of America-first politics that truly electrified many of the white voters, who unfurled flags for Mr. Trump in a way they never had for any another candidate. Mr. Trump won the county by more than 45 points, 71 to 25 percent.

But the election also revealed a silent minority, long quiet about their politics. Many already knew one another (the usual suspects, Mr. Bowerman said) but they began forming overtly liberal groups Franklin County Coalition for Progress, Community Uniting, Concerned Citizens of Franklin County planning events to celebrate Pride month, for instance, and digging into issues like redistricting reform. A new organization called Racial Reconciliation began holding discussion groups at the Presbyterian church, with mostly white attendees.

But then the George Floyd demonstrations began. These protesters were not the Trump faithful, nor were they members of the so-called resistance. At first, nobody recognized them at all.

I couldnt believe it, said Linda Thomas Worthy, a founder of Racial Reconciliation and one of the countys most outspoken figures on racial issues. She would drive through downtown during the first week of the protests to try to understand who all of the people coming out to denounce racism were. I wanted to see how this unfolds.

It started with Shiloh Hershey, 24, who had never done anything like this and declined to be interviewed. She is white. But, said Amy Stewart, her mother, Ms. Hershey knows something about being marginalized, having come out as transgender several years ago. I know what its like to have a child who can be hated for who they are, Ms. Stewart said.

On the last afternoon in May, Ms. Hershey and her mother walked downtown after gathering up markers, poster board and a concoction of baking soda and water to pour in their eyes if they were tear gassed. The protest soon became a standing appointment, growing larger and more eclectic by the day, filled mostly by people who did not know one another and had never protested before.

The protesters were mostly white but not exclusively so, not in a town where more than a third of the students in the local schools are minorities. Lexi Leydig, 23, who is mixed race and was raised by a Guatemalan stepfather, was there, as was Maricruz Cabrera, 26, a Mexican-American who waits tables down the street at Falafel Shack.

Protests followed in nearly every town in Franklin County: Shippensburg up the road, little Greencastle and Mercersburg, and Waynesboro, where a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan showed up to jeer.

The politics of the protesters were deeply eclectic. Many of those at the demonstrations in Chambersburg were avowedly apolitical, with little faith in either major party or electoral politics at all. In Shippensburg, a young Black nursing assistant who announced the rally there was joined by a Republican, a libertarian, a Democrat and a young man who described himself as a radical Christian, all committed to defunding the police.

The most unexpected champion, perhaps, has been the Franklin County district attorney, Matt Fogal, a Republican. For weeks he had been stewing, unhappy about how partisan the pandemic response had become and about the presidents provocations. Then one afternoon he heard the protest out of his office window.

Im listening to them out there and just people honking in support, absolutely peaceful, a contrast to some of the images that we had been seeing, he said. He sent a statement to local media. Black lives matter. Period, it said, going on to urge people to put country over party in November. The former chairman of the local Republican Party called the statement thoroughly disgusting.

Few involved in the protests believe that the politics of the county had somehow been transformed overnight. Trump flags still hang from front porches all over the county, and on local Facebook pages, many commenters mock the protesters as ignorant and wasting their time. Many of the young people doubt much will come of this at all. Once everything slows down, said Ms. Leydig, people will just go back to their ways.

Still, there are some developments. The district attorney is forming an advisory group on racial matters. The meetings of Racial Reconciliation, which held a large demonstration in late June, are markedly bigger than they were. The liberal groups have begun letter-writing campaigns to downtown businesses, urging them to publicly support Black Lives Matter.

The protests themselves, fueled by the young and often working class, have been hard to keep going. A young woman who had taken over the organizing in Chambersburg soon found her days growing too complicated, especially after her mother was suddenly evicted from public housing.

The task of organizing transferred to a local graduate student, Kristi Rines, 30, who tries to keep a regular appointment in front of the church, taking meticulous notes about the ratio of honks to jeers (3 p.m. 4 p.m.; 9 incidents of backlash, 77 incidents of support) but often standing by herself in the sweltering heat.

Ms. Wilkerson has tried to show up, but it is hard with children and a full-time job. She teaches teenagers at a private juvenile detention center in the county, and as one of the few Black employees, has been among the few who will talk with the boys there about what has been happening outside.

They heard how theyre changing names of syrup bottles and theyre canceling TV shows, Ms. Wilkerson said. Her students tell her that they had never asked for any of those things, instead wanting an end to watching my friends get beat up and watching my uncles and fathers and brothers get arrested over small amounts of marijuana.

They dont have much faith in the system changing, Ms. Wilkerson said. She tells them she hopes it will. Thats all I can really say.

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Introducing the new Black Lives Matter digital platform that will help you become a better ally – harpersbazaar.com

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danzig

It's been nearly two months since George Floyd was murdered by a police officer in Minnesota, sparking protests around the world. The Black Lives Matter movement attracted international attention, prompting many to address their prejudices and internal biases and to think seriously about how to become a better ally. Black squares were shared on Instagram and signs were made advocating for racial equality, but to what extent was this support simply performative?

Eight weeks on, the same issues remain, yet the noise has quietened. NAMESldn aims to ensure that the conversation continues beyond the superficial with a new digital platform, founded by Richard Thornn and Oksana Kukla. The pair have created a virtual showroom that seeks to educate those who want to become better allies, as well as celebrating Black creativity.

Viewers are able to explore a virtual gallery with clickable donation links, videos to watch, and written text by featured NAMEldn creators from different arenas, spanning fashion, literature, film and music. Names include Munroe Bergdorf, Akala, Rachel Cargle, Afua Hirsch, Clarice Gargard and Grace Wales Bonner.

"As the antithesis to white-washed black history, together we are highlighting a new line-up of talent that has not been given the recognition we believe they deserve," co-founder Richard Thornn tells us. "Digital platforms like ours have the potential to reach masses therefore spark important and fresh conversations, and deliver poignant messages globally."

NAMESldn launches with 12 unique voices, a roster that will change regularly to give new talents a platform and crucial recognition. The idea is to hold the fashion industry to account for its racism, and to provide an educational toolkit in which to learn more about racial inequality and how white communities can do better.

"We have finally seen a significant shift in the past weeks to the world finally focusing in on perpetuated racial injustice and police brutality that has been happening for years due to the tragic death of George Floyd," says Thornn. "The crux of change is education, and it will only live and last on allies willingness to listen, learn, and educate themselves. Unfortunately, trends pass, and we want to stand up against the possibility of Black Lives Matter becoming a fleeting trend in the industry.

We want to stand up against the possibility of Black Lives Matter becoming a fleeting trend

"Fashion is permeated with racial inequality manifest in brand scandals and less access and opportunity for black creatives," he continues. "We believe it is only right for us to give our platform in support of the creatives."

To prove that Black Lives Matter is not a passing trend, the 4D showroom will be live indefinitely. "As viewers explore the space they will enjoy a unique and rich body of work that deserves global acclaim," says Thornn. "We hope that this initiative will spark change and inspire others within the industry to use their platforms to take action that has for so long been long overdue."

To browse the showroom visit namesdigital.co/black-lives-matter.

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Black Lives Matter mural placed on top of building in 5 Points neighborhood – WRAL.com

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danzig

By Kirsten Gutierrez, WRAL reporter

Raleigh, N.C. A new mural in Raleigh's Five Points neighborhood is sure to catch your eye the next time you drive through.

The mural is meant to call for action and demand change.

At the 5 Points intersection in Raleigh, you'll notice familiar faces.

Those faces were placed on top of the Shps at 1700 building Friday as a showcase of solidarity. Among the people now covering the edges of the roof are Michael Brown, Jordan Baker, Trayvon Martin, and Tamir Rice. On the other side of the building are Eric Garner, George Floyd, Breona Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery.

Its great for one thing. Its part of getting together. Just hope everyone gets on one accord and gets together," said 5 Points resident Edgar Cross.

Many who live in the neighborhood are just starting to notice the mural and believe its a great way to spread awareness.

" [It's} such a great response to see here in a very conservative neighborhood that doesnt have any murals yet, I think it speaks high volumes of education and what we want our community to reflect as well as our downtown community," said Carolyn Walker, a 5 Points resident.

So far, the posters have spoken far louder than expected.

I think thats the purpose of it, to make change," said Cross.

The owner of this building said they planned to keep the mural up for as long as the posters last.

How Graffiti Artists Are Propelling the Vision of the Black Lives Matter Movement – Artsy

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Danzig

Walls covered in graffiti and street art can offer a synopsis of social movements. Recently, in response to police brutality and the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, and many others, artists worldwide have been ignited, taking to streets to express themselves. Syrian artists Aziz Asmar and Anis Hamdoun painted I cant breathe across a fragment of wall in the northwest Idlib province; Italian artist Jorit Agoch made a mural of Floyd along with revolutionaries Angela Davis, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Vladimir Lenin in Naples; and on the Berlin Wall, Eme Freethinker portrayed Floyd and his final words. Driven by the necessity for reform and resistance, these artists are reclaiming public spaces.

In recent years, as the Black Lives Matter movement has gained momentum and protests occur internationally, graffiti has increasingly been used to propel its vision. The inherently political mediums storytelling powers have become a way for communities to raise awareness, express themselves, and even educate the public.

On June 20th in Cleveland, Ohio, artists Stamy Paul and Ricky Smith led a group of local artists, graffiti writers, and activists in creating a Black Lives Matter street mural. While such efforts have proliferated since Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C., the Cleveland mural, like some others across the U.S., is more elaborate and artful. Each bold letter encompasses kaleidoscopic images of fire, characters, words (such as unity), and messages (Black women are beautiful).

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