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Breakout Star Taylor Russells Cosmic Connection To Waves – Refinery29

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Russells arc comes after the crash, but is no less momentous. After her brother is involved in a deadly accident, her world is turned upside down. She finds solace in a new relationship with a classmate, Luke, played by Lucas Hedges, who later reveals he is dealing with his own demons. Emily naturally takes on the role of listener, confidante, and emotional support system, for her parents, her brother, and her boyfriend. But shes not just a crutch to be used and discarded by the men in her life. She somehow doesnt let all this darkness stop her from shining, and flourishing, despite the pain. A role like this is career-making, especially for someone whose character steadily becomes the heart and soul of a film. Its a departure from the 25-year-old Canadian actresss previous projects, which include two sci-fi shows (Falling Skies and Lost in Space), smaller parts in indies (Before I Fall and Hot Air), and A horror franchise (Escape Room and the upcoming Escape Room 2).

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Star Wars: C-3PO Died a Long Time Before The Rise of Skywalker – CBR – Comic Book Resources

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WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Marvel's Star Wars #73, by by Greg Pak and Phil Noto, on sale now.

The final trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker prepared fans for C-3PO's death in front of his friends, and made it seem like this time, unlike all the others, would be his final stand. Despite his cautious, pacifist nature, Threepio has shown a worrying tendency to get himself skinned, dismembered, disconnected, shot at and beheaded, but somehow he has always managed to come back from the Chromium Gates with a little help from his friends.

These feats are a fun, non-permanent way of illustrating the themes of death and resurrection for younger audiences, as well as C-3PO's character evolution. Episode I features his "birth" as Anakin Skywalker's first creation. He then goes on to die twice in the prequel trilogy: once in Geonosis, where he's dismembered and stuck to another droid, and once in Episode III, when Bail Organa and Obi-Wan erase his memory of Padm and Anakin. None of these "deaths" are a direct consequence of his actions, but rather a harsh punishment from outside forces: he has no agency.

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In the second trilogy, C-3PO dies once in Cloud City, when the Imperial troops dismember him. Fortunatey, Chewbacca manages to put him back together. In The Return of the Jedi, he doesn't as much die as ascend as the prophet of the Ewoks, a role that he relishes because it allows him to help his friends and civilize sentient species. These two occurrences are not entirely voluntary, but at least they derive from Threepio's decisions to either explore Cloud City (curiosity killed the cat) or to apply his programming to a practical situation.

Going by The Rise of Skywalker's trailer, C-3PO's final death might be a very conscious decision on his par. And given that self-preservation is an essential part of his programming -- one that he has been trying to share with all droidhood -- it's not an inconsequential one. This points to two things: First, the reward for this sacrifice must be objectively gigantic; Second, this death might not be reversible, because that's the price C-3PO has consciously chosen to pay.

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To give us a taste of what this means, Marvel presents a similarly bleak situation in Marvel's Star Wars: Destination Hoth #74, by Greg Pak and Phil Noto, set between episodes IV and V. In this issue, Luke, Leia, Han, Chewbacca, and C-3PO managed to lure part of the Imperial fleet (and Darth Vader!) to allegedly lifeless K43. They plan to blow up the planet and take out the fleet with it. However, on arrival, C-3PO discovers that the planet is inhabited by the Karkoans, rock-people with electromagnetic powers that feel close to him -- because he's made of ore.

C-3PO is horrified by their pending demise and tries to warn them about the bombs ticking away at the planet's core; he doesn't want to kill these many sentient beings because, for him, it would be a pyrrhic victory. However, the Krakoans know how to disconnect the bombs by sending electromagnetic pulses through the planet. The issue is that these EMs will kill any machine close to the surface, including X-Wings, lightsabers... and C-3PO himself.

But C-3PO barely hesitates, explaining to Chewie that he's only happy to be of service and asking his Krakoan friend to just "do it." So they do. And C-3PO falls into Chewbacca's arms, much like he did in The Empire Strikes Back.

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In addition, back in 2016, Marvel already presented fans with the incredibly artistic Star Wars: C-3PO miniseries, where they explain C-3PO's red arm. In it, Omri, a protocol droid who has suffered incomplete memory wipes, is tortured by the idea that droids' makers don't care about them, and because of this, they will never be conscious of their role in the grand scheme of things despite their intelligence.

In a key moment that will tie in with The Rise of Skywalker, C-3PO confesses that he remembers flashes of terrible and beautiful things, but that he still trusts his masters to do what is right. Despite his misgivings, Omri sacrifices himself in the pouring acid rain to save C-3PO and help him succeed in his mission. As a tribute to his courage, C-3PO takes Omri's arm to replace the one that melted in the rain, making a vow always to remember the droids that lost their lives as his friends.

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So what does this mean for The Rise of Skywalker? From a mythological perspective, C-3PO's sacrifice sets him up as a martyr and a savior, a position that rings not only of Christian tradition but also ancient Greek, Celtic and Nordic tales. But from a character evolution perspective, this means that C-3PO has transcended droidhood and is following in the steps of his Maker's family, Anakin and Luke, who just like him lost an arm in a personally painful mission, and just like him, chose to sacrifice themselves to save what they loved.

Directed and co-written by J.J. Abrams, Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker stars Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Anthony Daniels, Naomi Ackie, Domhnall Gleeson, Richard E. Grant, Lupita Nyongo, Keri Russell, Joonas Suotamo, Kelly Marie Tran, with Ian McDiarmid and Billy Dee Williams. The film arrives on Dec. 20.

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Women In AI: Julie Choi Focuses On Customer Obsession In Research and Technology – Forbes

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Julie Choi, Vice President and General Manager of Products and Research Marketing for Intels ... [+] Artificial Intelligence Products Group

When you ask a person to name a career in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, the first thing that comes to mind is a data scientist. However, the AI field offers a wide diversity of career opportunities, including marketing. Recently I had the chance to interview Intels Julie Choi about working in AI. Choi is the Vice President and General Manager of Products and Research Marketing for Intels Artificial Intelligence Products Group. Choi has a rich history of marketing to developers and technical users. This domain expertise has allowed her to seamlessly transition into the AI field.

Choi stated that the AI field is ripe with opportunity because every company, whether a consumer of technology or a creator of technology, is on an AI transformation path. As an industry analyst following the AI space, I echo this sentiment. Almost every technology company has a strategy for how AI will improve its products. In fact, many technology vendor marketing pitches claim AI is what delivers product differentiation. However, to Choi's point, every organization seeks to understand how AI will impact their company's bottom line. Smart apps are a great example of this. Choi discussed the evolution of app development where we started with the web, then moved to mobile and AIat its simplest, isjust the latest interest area for app development. I hadn't considered this, but it makes sense given software vendors want to create applications that are contextual, adaptive, learning and predictive. I call these applications right-time experiences because they deliver the right information to the right person at the precise moment of need.

According to Choi, one area that has changed since she started is thatAI isn't considered such a new thing as compared to when she started in the field almost 5 years ago. She shared a personal anecdote of how her child is studying machine learning in grade school. She's been a judge for the school's AI hackathon that included robotics, machine learning, and programming. AI may not be mainstream, but it's time for everyone to evaluate how AI will impact their careers going forward.

What does it take to be a successful marketer in the AI space?

To work in the field, Choi says you need to be curious, interested in problem-solving andopen to taking multiple paths towards solutions.AI is a rapidly evolving field. Choi noted that one of the challenges individuals face working in AI is balancing the art of practicing the craft versus keeping up with the latest research. Choi said she'd love to spend half of her time pouring over the latest research documents inarXiv.org,but it's simply not possible.arXiv is an open archive of scholarly articles in AI, math, physics, quantitative biology, etc.Yet, given AI's strong tie to research, you have to make time to understand the nuances of the space and what's coming next. Choi stated that as a storyteller of the domain, you must help buyers understand what's real, what's hype and where the field is going.

Choi says "Customer obsession is a core value. It's about the user. Mytechnicalaudience iscomposed ofAI infrastructure engineers, application developers and data scientists.To be successful as a marketer to these people who are generally skeptical about marketing, you need to build a relationshipwith two-way dialogue. You must listen (and respond) to the good and the bad. This dialogue is what feeds the marketing engine."

AI developers and data scientists want to understand how and why tools were designed in a certain way. These groups also want to hear the vision of how AI software and hardware will evolve. Choi said her billboard phrase would be "Insane level of customer obsession".

Given that AI is a rapidly developing field and we're trying to encourage more people to select the field, I asked Ms. Choi what role evangelizing played in her work. She said the most effective way to attract people to the field is to offer tutorials and opportunities for training. Choi and the Intel team are wrapping up a 17-city Intel Artificial Intelligence Developer Conference (AIDC) tour which provided smaller gatherings for education, insight and networking. According to Choi, nothing takes the place of real-world experience with the technologies. I couldn't agree more. She also wants to share that education and enthusiasm withinevery Intel employee so they can become AI evangelists.

Choi represents a new generation of marketers that focus on how to make information about in-depth technical topics accessible to both technologists and the average enterprise buyer.

Moving forward, Choi says she's focusedondriving AI relevance andunderstanding throughout her company and the world. As we look several years down the road, Choi says we also need to focus on "helping people build AI in a successful, fast and responsible way. Human goodness matters. We have to be transparent in our design and use of AI. Intent matters.As marketers and communicators, we have to be selective in what words we use and conscious of how AI will interpret these words. A marketer's product is the message. AI will amplify the message.Bethoughtful about the content. Slow down and think aboutyouraudience and the messagethey need.This will help minimize the risk of being misconstrued.

Marketing in the age of AI is mostly about word economy, selection and intentionality." She called this "marketing with aconscience." I'll pick up on this idea in my next "Women in AI" post, where I focus on AI ethics and responsibility.

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The rise of regional Indian food around the world – Forbes India

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The Aggarwals are hardly alone in their ambition. As palates get globalised and millennial diners the world over open up to newer cuisines and experiences, Indian chefs, restaurateurs and entrepreneurs are on a mission to correct stereotypes associated with our cuisines. After decades of being perceived as lowbrow, cheap, spicy curry, food from the country is being reinvented in what can be seen as the third wave of Indian gastronomy internationally: Plating up flavours that are regional and more self-confidentthe kind of food Indians in India eat and recognise as their own.

This third wave is different from earlier versions of Indian restaurant food that pandered to Western stereotypes and tastes: At curry houses, set up in the early 20th century by untrained cooks, and then in the 1990s, by professional chefs who sought to Frenchify Indian food in expensive restaurants with dishes tailored to appeal to a Western palate.

Similarly, a slew of chefs and restaurateurs born and brought up in India are serving food they recognise as their own without attempts to customise it to foreign palates or expectations. In the US this is recognisable in restaurants both on the East and West coasts. In New York, when Indian Accent opened in 2016 at the Le Parker Meridien Hotel, it broke many stereotypes. It didnt look the way Indian restaurants were expected to look, as Pete Wells The New York Times legendary food critic noted, and it didnt serve food that seemed conventional or even authentic to an American audience. Instead, this was the smart, clever, yet rooted in regional traditions kind of food that Manish Mehrotra, Indian Accents corporate chef, had already built a reputation for in New Delhi.

We, in India, were already cheering for Indian Accents doda barfi tart, duck kulchas, meetha achar pork spare ribs and kathal tacos before they made their way to the Big Apple, unleashing its trademark gastronomy in a very different kind of restaurantmore expensive and stylish than regular Indian. It was quite difficult sometimes people just didnt understand how to eat the courses, the staff had to explain even things like, we dont just mix everything, dahi with dal and so on, recalls Mehrotra.

It was beyond our wildest imagination that goat brains at Adda would be one of the biggest attractions, and people would travel across the country just to try it. Even five years ago that would not have been possible, Pandya says, talking about how Indian food and perceptions about it are rapidly evolving in the US. The restaurant group says it is following a philosophy of demystifying Indian food for Americans, in contrast to earlier restaurants that would try to Americanise their offerings to get footfalls. Spice levels have been kept intact and there are conversations around culturally unique ingredients.

Chef Sujan Sarkar, who worked at Olive Delhi, is another leader of this movement of mainstreaming Indian food. Sarkar helms a bunch of restaurants in the US, including the very successful Baar Baar in New York and Rooh in San Francisco, Chicago and Columbus, a restaurant that serves inventive food combining local ingredients with strong regional Indian underpinnings, a la salmon and Bay shrimp paturi.

One of the biggest breakthroughs that restaurants such as these, and other trendy ones such as Dosa in San Francisco, have managed to achieve is the idea of upscale gourmet Indian food, for which diners may be ready to pay more. A few restaurants such as Srijith Gopinathans Michelin-starred Campton Place at the Taj in San Francisco (serving predominantly South Indian flavours with Californian ingredients) had been able to establish themselves as fine dine, but in general Indian food has remained associated with cheap takeaways.

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Unlike the US, the cycle of evolution in London, the most sophisticated market for Indian food internationally, given the historical connect, has reached another phase: From the cheap curry-house stereotype to expensive high-quality diners, to more casual restaurants serving regional, high-quality food that will undoubtedly facilitate mainstreaming.

Though curry houses have been on the wane for a few years now (suffering from high rents among a host of other issues), the idea of more authentic Indian food has been difficult to establish in popular imagination: This despite the fact that restaurants such as those of Camellia and Namita Panjabi (Amaya, Chutney Mary and Veeraswamy) have been serving classical Indian dishes in upscale, luxury restaurants for more than 15 years.

In 2001, Camellia Panjabi started a casual chain of street food-and-thali focussed restaurants, Masala Zone. There are now seven of these in London, but Panjabi recalls the resistance the idea of the thali faced from Londoners two decades ago. They said you are cheating us of our protein because there was more vegetarian food in the thali. So I had to explain to them the idea of a balanced Indian meal, she recalls.

These are casual restaurants, different from the Michelin-starred restaurants by chefs like Vineet Bhatia and Atul Kochhar. Their rise is obviously important for regional Indian flavours to go mainstream. Todays customers are more knowledgeable and better travelled. They are aware because social media has shrunk the world and just because they are paying lower prices does not mean that they will settle for something they perceive as inauthentic, says Sameer Taneja, chef of Kanishka and Benares.

It is not just the UK and the US where a more authentic (though that is an idea always ready to be challenged) regional expression of Indian food is finding more evolved audiences. In Milan, chef Ritu Dalmias modern Indian restaurant Cittamani and her latest casual diner Spica (where the food is inspired by her travels all over the word, including in India) are drawing surprisingly discerning audiences. There were always people who wanted more authentic Indian food, and there are still those who associate it with tandoori stereotypes. But now, the latter know that we dont serve stereotypes, says Dalmia.

In Kaula Lumpur, Nadodi, a restaurant inspired by Tamil cuisine and all the other cuisines that Tamil food has inspired, is slated to be the next big global Indian restaurant after Gaggan. Some of its partners, including Kartik Kumar, the restaurants brand director, and chef Sricharan Venkatesh trained under Gaggan Anand at his Bangkok restaurant. They focus on global gastronomy themes like zero wastage, local ingredients as well as techniques like fermentation, and serve dishes like lamb chops with South Indian achar and a stunning zero wastage rasam cocktail. However, the dazzling technique and interpretations do not take away from nuanced cooking rooted in tradition. The restaurants name is a reference to our nomadic status; we are away from our homeland but still its influences inform us and our food, says Kumar.

As identity gets plated up, chefs and enthusiasts are beginning to see themselves through a prism distinctly different from how others have seen India, the not-so-wounded civilisation, in the past.

(This story appears in the 22 November, 2019 issue of Forbes India. You can buy our tablet version from Magzter.com. To visit our Archives, click here.)

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The questions that will shape the future of capitalism – Chicago Booth Review

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What is the promise of capitalism?

That may seem like a strange question, and when I ask it of my MBAs, I suspect they regard it as an exercise in the pedagogical pastime Guess What Teacher Is Thinking. Still I ask it, for I hope it prompts my students to think about the kinds of problems capitalism is equipped to solve as well as those that are beyond its compass.

This is hardly a matter of idle speculation, especially for those who have good reason to believe that they will someday enjoy a disproportionate amount of the systems spoils. Those fortunate individuals sometimes need to be reminded that free markets, however mighty, will not mend their marriage, relieve their cold, or stop their brother-in-law from bragging about his golf game. Indeed, there are plenty of things capitalism cant do, and reflecting on them is a good way of distinguishing what it can doand what it should.

Naturally, what capitalism can and should do are not one and the same. The first is a technical matter best left to economists; the second is more of an ideological affair, the province of moral and political philosophy. The distinction is an important one, but it tends to fade whenever one believes that free markets will solve most any problem: moral, social, and political as well as economic. If capitalism can do anything, so the thinking goes, then it should do everything.

Now, with the kind of intellectual prodding the question above intends, almost no one honestly believes that capitalism can, or should, do everything. Yet up until recently, it passed for conventional wisdom, in the United States and throughout most of the developed world, that capitalism could do most things, that the obvious solution to nearly any pressing problem of social organization was freer trade, fewer regulations, and far less government intervention.

With the benefit of hindsight, it is now plain that this was a central lesson many people took from the end of the Cold War and the fall of communism in the early 1990s. Rather than simply disqualify one extreme formulation, the failure of the Soviet system cast doubt on the very idea of a mixed economy, particularly in the US. The challenge was not to figure out the right balance of power between the invisible hand of the marketplace and the visible hand of government, but to enfeeble, if not eliminate altogether, the latter, not only to liberate capitalism but to deprive civil servants of what was assumed to be an ineluctable impulse and sinister raison dtre: central planning.

So commenced an unprecedented era of liberalization and global capitalist expansion. Sure, there were holdouts, but they were either deemed irrelevant and hopelessly backward (Cuba, North Korea) or, in the case of China, obstinate in the face of what they knew to be the inevitable.

That sense of the inevitable was never more than an ideological conviction that the power of free markets, supported by restrained exercises in liberal democracy, would prove so compelling that no problem might ariseeither beyond capitalism or as a consequence of its developmentthat would seriously threaten the systems preeminence. Such a possibility famously compelled the political scientist Francis Fukuyama to proclaim the end of history, a phrase that served as the title for his 1992 book. It elaborated on a thesis Fukuyama had auditioned three years earlier in the pages of Foreign Affairs. What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, he wrote in that essay, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankinds ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.

This great divergence in worldviewsbetween a group bewildered that we havent gotten things back on track and another that is too busy figuring out the road ahead to litigate whether the track was ever so reliable in the first placeincreasingly colors our civic discourse.

For Fukuyama, the failure of fascism in World War II, together with the death rattle of Soviet-style communism, left liberal democratic norms the triumphant alternative underwritten by the abundance of a modern free market economy. Or, as he put the matter somewhat more pithily, We might summarize the content of the universal homogeneous state as liberal democracy in the political sphere combined with easy access to VCRs and stereos in the economic.

For those nations that arrived at this ideological end state, the most urgent matters of the day would forever appear irretrievably mundane. As he described it:

The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk ones life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

To contemporary observers, it may seem baffling that anyone ever took the end-of-history thesis seriously. Then again, we have a fair amount of history that was unavailable to Fukuyama when he wrote his book, 30 years of experience that have seen, among other destabilizing events, the inception of an apparently endless war on terror, the 200809 global financial crisis, and the striking resurgence of nationalist sentiment in the most developed countries on earth.

Still, worldviews can be a stubborn thing, forming as they do during the warm impressionability of late adolescence and early adulthood. The consequence, in this case, is a striking divergence between those who came of age in the irenic afterglow Fukuyama memorialized and those who only know the menacing turbulence of the past 18 years. The latter group, which includes more or less anyone under 35, better accepts the challenges of a radically uncertain future because nothing they have experienced in their own lives has given them reason to believe things would ever be any other way. This puts them at odds with the elite members of the two generations preceding them. They assumed that the world had basically solved all of its major problems such that we could get on with the business of living. For these individuals, the past two decades seem like a bracing departure from the future promised them rather than a return to the routine of disruption that has always characterized human life.

This great divergence in worldviewsbetween a group bewildered that we havent gotten things back on track and another that is too busy figuring out the road ahead to litigate whether the track was ever so reliable in the first placeincreasingly colors our civic discourse, which of late has shown itself favorable to substantial interventions to correct the tendencies of capitalism. Naturally, such interventions are especially vexing to those who adhere to a maximalist view of capitalisms promise, for the more problems capitalism is assumed to address, the more any intervention can only be assumed to be counterproductive.

Fairly or not, Adam Smith is often regarded as the intellectual godfather of the maximalist view of capitalisms promise (which, in turn, commends a minimalist approach to politics). As Smith said in The Wealth of Nations of what he famously called the obvious and simple system of natural liberty:

Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man, or order of men. The sovereign is completely discharged from a duty, in the attempting to perform which he must always be exposed to innumerable delusions, and for the proper performance of which no human wisdom of knowledge could ever be sufficient; the duty of superintending the industry of private people, and of directing it towards the employments most suitable to the interest of society.

It is important to note that, for Smith, the superpower of this system is merely the ability to efficiently price and, thereby, allocate goods and labor. There were plenty of other concerns beyond its ken that the sovereign or some other political authority would need to address, such as the funding of public education, the amelioration of oppression, and the maintenance of public institutionsall responsibilities Smith details.

Still, even beyond its practical application, the reallocation of such an essential part of community life (economic affairs) from the deliberate orchestration of central authorities to the inadvertent ministry of every marketplace participant has had two lasting consequences, one technical, the other broadly psychological. As a technical matter, that markets proved so powerful in economic affairs suggested that their efficacy might extend to other realms that didnt seem essentially commercial in nature, further relieving government officials of the trouble of attending to them. Psychologically speaking, the more that managing a community didnt require self-conscious endeavors but, instead, the pursuit of blinkered self-interest, the more the ability to intelligently engage in debates about civic life deteriorated. Indeed, if, as the ironic logic of the invisible hand holds with respect to self-interested pursuits, the common good goes on behind our backs, coming about not because of our express intentions but despite them, there was simply no need to spend much time thinking about the obligations of citizenship. On the contrary, they would be best discharged by diligently attending to the needs of bank account and belly.

By a means slightly different from Fukuyamas vision, such assumptions about how exactly a nation functions put individuals beyond ideology. Indeed, the questions that have kept philosophers and politicians alike debating late into the night for ages have all been neatly resolved by an invisible hand. Libert, galit, fraternit may stand aside in favor of economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

And yet, if the promise of capitalism proves more limited, the debilitating consequences of a postideological disposition for ones critical faculties comes into full view. Like any muscle that has not been flexed, the capacity to assess the necessities of civic life atrophies, and one becomes a citizen in name only. She cannot debate the meaning of that role with any subtlety or historical perspective.

Such limitations are especially perilous for business professionals. Not only are such individuals far more susceptible to a blind faith in the invisible hand, but so much of the angst of the present moment revolves around doubts about capitalism and the questions they raise:

These are just some of the questions business professionals will face in the years to come, to say nothing of those noncommercial questions of custom and culture that Fukuyama mistakenly concluded had been resolved for the developed world once and for all.

Taken together, such matters should be of special concern to members of the business elite for three reasons. First, and most straightforwardly, public-policy decisions that affect how exactly our economic system works will directly shape the scope, practice, and viability of all business endeavors. Secondly, simply by virtue of their chosen vocation, business professionals, and especially graduates of superior MBA programs, are the face of capitalism, and they will not only be looked to for well-developed opinions on these issues; their actions and behavior will serve to advise others on the faith warranted in capitalism.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, unless the pendulum of practicable economics swings in the direction of a different system entirely, considerable disparities of wealth, an essential condition of capitalist advancement, will remain, and those who will continue to occupy the favorable end of this bell curve will be business professionals. They will be rich in a time when the instrumental role of riches will be suspect and the respectability of great wealth doubtful. They will not be able to justify to others, and perhaps even to juries of conscience, that material success is a moral justification unto itself, that simply by doing the best for themselves, they have already done the best they might do for others. Unlike for those who preceded them, this ideological assumption, so tempting and convenient, will no longer be available to them. Great wealth will not be its own justification. It will need to be vindicated by the power it confers.

Such an undertaking calls for a reengagement with debates over the responsibilities of citizenship, one that involves visiting anew questions of liberty, justice, equality, wealth, power, and tradition. It also requires a willingness to use power, in both the private and public spheres, less as a club to clear the way for commercial activity than as an implement of some higher aim, undertaken in a spirit of great responsibility and obligation.

Such an approach is hardly foreign to the business community. Indeed, such aspirations were a common language for the commercial elect in the decades after World War II, and they still fill the charters of public companies, professional associations, and major business schools alike. If, today, they seem the stuff of boilerplate, a few scattered phrases that are little more than an empty nod to etiquette, thats more a reflection of our own civic disengagement than the dead letter of misbegotten ambition.

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November 16th, 2019 at 3:42 pm

Sen. Cory Booker on Environmental Justice, Nuclear Power & Savage Racial Disparities in the U.S. – Democracy Now!

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AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now! Im Amy Goodman, as we turn now to the presidential race. The first-ever Presidential Forum on Environmental Justice was held last Friday at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg. I co-moderated the event with former EPA official Mustafa Santiago Ali. Earlier in the week, we aired our interview with Senator Elizabeth Warren. Today we turn to Senator Booker of New Jersey. Mustafa Ali began the questioning.

MUSTAFA ALI: So, we know that currently our federal agencies have withdrawn themselves from addressing environmental injustices that are going on. Can you talk about what your administration will do to fix that problem?

SEN. CORY BOOKER: Im smiling because hes asking me questions that he knows weve talked about. So, first and foremost, what he means by the federal agencies pulling back is the EPA, theyre at half the levels they were in 2010 on inspections right now. The money theyre collecting from corporate polluters is at like a 15-year low. We have a federal government that right now is saying, Were going to let corporate polluters do what they want to do. And were in a time of Grover Norquist, you know, this era where Republican legislators sign this pledge, no new taxes. This didnt start in the time of Trump; this has been going on for a long time. Which means a lot of the mechanisms we had before to clean up these environmental sites, the federal government is no longer pulling in the resources, the taxes, necessary to clean it up.

One great example of this is just the cleanup of Superfund sites in America. We had a bipartisan accord. In fact, Reagan reauthorized a small tax on corporate polluters, chemical companies like those that are in Cancer Alley, to give us a fund to clean up Superfund sites. Well, even though Mitch McConnell voted on it when Reagan was president, he refused to reauthorize it now. And what we see now is, because theres no money in the Superfund cleanups funds, you see the number of Superfund sites growing in America.

And so, I have a very strong belief, and its in the legislation that Mustafa was one of the people that helped us write, is I just dont trust the government right now on this issue. And that means that one of the best ways to deal with this issue is to push the power back to people. And so, my legislation, that I wrote as senator, that will become law if Im president of the United States, is to make sure that local communities have the power, have standing, to sue their governments, which right now they cant. And so, we know theres a lot of communities, if they could sue their governments and had standing, we would see a lot more action. And we want to change our legislation changes the ability to not just sue them, but to actually collect damages, as well. I believe that, as an African American, I know the legal system, all the way from Brown v. Board of Education to incredible work done by great legal activists like Charles Hamilton Houston and others, that some giving the legal power back to communities to defend themselves is utterly important. And thats just one tool of the multiple tools that I want to do to make sure that we begin to have a country where people can trust the air that theyre breathing or the water that theyre drinking or the soil which they want to plant crops in.

AMY GOODMAN: Senator Booker, I wanted to ask you about nuclear energy. You are a proud proponent of nuclear energy, have argued its necessary to wean us off the fossil fuel economy. But you have a lot of environmental activists who are scratching their heads at your support for nuclear energy, particularly around the issue of nuclear waste. Here in South Carolina, for example, there are 35 million gallons of nuclear waste being held at a nuclear reserve south of Aiken. Environmental activists have been fighting it for years. Youve got Savannah River. And, of course, were talking about communities, primarily low-income communities of color, who are dealing with nuclear waste in their own backyards, from New Mexico to Yucca Mountain to right here. What is your answer to the fact that there is no solution in dealing with nuclear waste?

SEN. CORY BOOKER: Well, first of all, youre a little bit mischaracterizing my views. Im a realist that tells you right now the biggest existential threat to humanity is climate change. Fifty percent of our non-carbon-producing power right now is nuclear. And so, as some of my other opponents want to do is just get rid of it, its going to push us back to being more reliant on fossil fuels and make this, our ability to reach our climate goals, impossible. We saw what happened in Vermont when they cut down the Yankee plant there. Their carbon footprint expanded pretty significantly.

So, I look forward to phasing out nuclear waste and nuclear energy. But to do it right now, when we are in a race and have a 12-year race to meet our climate goals? The damage done to poor and vulnerable communities is significantly worse coming from climate change than it is the crisis of nuclear energy. If you want to weigh your poisons right now, the one thats coming towards us like a barreling freight truck of climate change, the one that my community in Newark is feeling right now, because the temperature rises, asthma rates that are off the charts and let me tell you something about asthma, as a guy that knows what its like in emergency rooms with black children dying at 10 times the rate than white children of asthma complications. So, for me, nuclear energy, Im just its just common sense to me right now.

AMY GOODMAN: To build new power plants?

SEN. CORY BOOKER: Well, lets lets be clear. The nuclear energy of the plants we have now, designed in the '60s and the 70s and the 80s, is very different than the new modular nuclear energy plants that are being proposed. Now, those actually have a much they can actually take spent fuel rods and re-engage them for usage. The frontiers of nuclear science is not something we should just shut down. We should continue to investigate: Is there going to be eventually a safe way to do this? So, I don't mind exploring the future. Im one of these people that considers myself a futurist. Why? Because you have two choices in life: to let the future happen to you or to shape the future and make sure it happens in a way thats just.

So, this, to me, is a very, very simple equation, is, Ive got a 12-year problem to solve. And if anybody wants to get rid of nuclear energy, tell me how you are going to replace 50% of the non-carbon-producing power that we would have right now, because what youre going to do, youre going to send us back to coal and oil. And I refuse to go backwards in the cause of environmental justice.

AMY GOODMAN: What is your plan for renewables, for pushing forward solar and wind and other forms of sustainable energy?

SEN. CORY BOOKER: Well, this is what gets me frustrated about this conversation sometimes, is because youve got a bunch of people running for president who have been in public life for 20 years. Maybe the question is, is: What the heck have you been doing on these issues for the entire time?

So, you should know I have a record on these issues. Number one is, I do not believe that oil companies and coal companies should get tax breaks. Its ridiculous that we are extending tax breaks in a way that companies like Chevron pay a net zero in fact, they pay a negative tax rate right now because all the stuff were foisting upon them. And so, thats number one, rolling back those tax breaks.

Number two is extending them to renewables. I fought not just for when I was in the Senate, we were able to win a seven-year tax credit for a renewable tax credit for wind and solar, which is really important, because you need some predictability if youre going to be investing in those areas. But we wanted to see it for everything, from geothermal to battery life. We wanted to extend it for every type of renewable there is. Well, if Im president, were going to make sure that we create a better incentive model for people to be doubling down in investments.

In addition to that, were going to create moonshots all around this country for science and research in the renewable space, which is critical because right now other countries are beating us in the race to solve these problems through innovation, and therefore theyre going to beat us in the race to create the new jobs that are being created. Right now theres more jobs in solar than there are in coal. But we have many things that we could be doing. So, for me, this is all about making sure that were doing everything we can to incentivize investments, research, development, and to get to the point where I want to be, which is to have the electrification of our transportation sector by 2030 and then to be carbon neutral as a nation by 2045.

MUSTAFA ALI: Senator Booker, I want to build on what you were just talking about, because in our new clean economy that we are currently developing and we know its going to grow over the years when we look at those who are currently working in that space, we have some evolution to make sure that there are more folks of color in that space.

SEN. CORY BOOKER: Yeah.

MUSTAFA ALI: When we look at the ownership of the businesses there, we also I think its less than 2% of those businesses that are currently in the clean economy that are owned by folks of color. So, how do we what would your administration do to make sure that those numbers increase?

SEN. CORY BOOKER: You know, when youre in a car with Mustafa, you end up talking about a lot of things. Look, can we lets just be clear right now. We live in a country where there are savage racial disparities in every single corner of our lives. There are racial disparities in healthcare, racial disparities in education, in suspensions, in the criminal justice system. I can go through everything. And so, this, to me, is an issue of trust, because these issues are not right or left. Theyre right or wrong. And the Democratic Partys hands are not clean. Ive sat where youve sat for so many presidential elections, living in an inner city, looking at people who were electing who are often part of the problem. Now, so, this, to me, is an issue of trust. Dealing with racial disparities, we need to make sure that the next president, this isnt going to be a secondary issue, but that we understand that this is a real issue of trust.

Now, look, again, what have you been doing? I got to the United States Senate as the fourth-ever elected African American in the Senates history, popularly elected African American. And when I got there, I saw dont applaud me; applaud my ancestors, people who fought for me. My mom said, You got there by the blood, sweat and tears of those who came before you. And the key is not to be number one, two, three or four. The key is to make sure youre not the last. This is why, South Carolina, please, please, please elect Jaime Harrison as the next senator.

And so but let me tell you, it is not just enough to have a black senator. I got there, and I looked at the staffs. It was the least diverse place I had ever worked before in my life. And I looked at the Judiciary Committee staff, because I wanted to get on that committee, and I didnt see one African-American staffer. You talk about Hamilton, being in the room when it happens. This was a committee making decisions about African-American lives and African-American bodies, and there wasnt even an African American in the room. And so, what did I do? I went to Chuck Schumer, got a great young senator from Hawaii, Brian Schatz, and we just said, This is outrageous. Because most of the Democratic senators, guess how they get elected. With audiences that look a lot like this, African-American communities. And so, what we did is we said, I only know one way of do things, is accountability, which is having standards, measures and consequences when things dont happen. And so, we asked Chuck Schumer, and he gladly did it, to have every Democratic senator publish your diversity statistics. How many women and minorities do you have in positions of power? And guess whats happened since weve done that. The number of African Americans hired in the Senate has gone up.

And so, when you ask me about this, this is why I get I get angry. Before I even get to that, let me just go with marijuana. This has been killing black communities. There was more marijuana arrests in 2017 than all the violent crime arrests in the country combined. And theyre not arresting everybody. People on college campuses Stanford, I used to see people smoking pot all the time. No worries. It is disproportionately people of color. So now everybodys moving to legalize marijuana. This is a big business. Hundreds of billions of dollars are going to be made in the business. And yet people, when they talk about legalization, they dont go the next two or three steps. The first step should be dont talk to me about legalizing marijuana. I have the lead bill in the Senate to do it. But my bill is called the Marijuana Justice Act. Youve got to also talk about expunging the records of all of those people. But lets not stop there. Lets not stop there. Now you want to make sure that in the communities that have been devastated by the marijuana by marijuana enforcement, that people from those communities actually get a chance to have the licenses to sell marijuana legally. And thats not happening right now. Were about to shift into legalization of marijuana in state after state after state, and the people there are not the people selling it are disproportionately not are lacking the diversity that our nation does.

And so, to your point about the jobs of the future, I want to be clear. I had to have some very stern conversations with unions when I was a mayor of my town. We were building the first new hotel in 40 years. I had to go to my unions and say, I know that you have people systems of who gets on jobs when. But, Im sorry, this is being built in an African-American community, and there needs to be African Americans, more diversity, in this union. And there needs to be apprenticeship programs for my kids. And so, I just I think Mustafa is 100% right. There is going to be a new energy job boom in this country, and weve got to make sure that those opportunities because a lot of people want to talk to you about the wealth gap, the wealth gap, the wealth gap. Look, there are a lot of people in my community that want to be entrepreneurs, that want to be millionaires. And so, I always talk about the wealth gap, yeah, but what we really need to be talking about is the opportunity gap and to make sure that everybody has equal opportunity to start a business, to be innovators, to participate in the new job booms of the future and the new businesses of the future.

And this comes back to how I started, which is trust. If I am your president, a person who has spent my career working on these issues, I am going to make sure that these issues of racial equity are not on the side, that you will have a president, in me, someone who understands these issues intimately and makes sure that I am working every single day so that this nation is who it says it is a nation of liberty, justice and opportunity for all.

AMY GOODMAN: Senator Booker, Flint, Michigan, brought environmental justice to the national stage with the water crisis. Now, five years into that, people in Flint still dont have clean water. And this year, people in your own community, your neighbors in Newark, New Jersey, where you once served as mayor and still represent them as senator, are also facing a crisis of lead contamination in the drinking water. Flint and Newark arent alone. Thousands of water system towns, villages and cities around the country

SEN. CORY BOOKER: Including right here in South Carolina.

AMY GOODMAN: are facing contamination, right here in South Carolina. What specifically are you doing to address this national crisis? And what are you doing in Newark, your own community, with people in the throes of this water crisis?

SEN. CORY BOOKER: Yeah, so, look, leaders take responsibility and get things done. And so, when this crisis broke out in my city, I went right across the aisle in the Senate, where Ive worked on building relationships, and passed a major piece of legislation. These are the kind of things that people dont want to talk about, actually getting things done in Washington, that was allowed states to shift resources, literally hundreds of millions, I think, in total, into funds that can get these lead pipes out of the water. This, to me, is you said it: This is my family. These are my this is my community. And my community isnt alone. There are thousands of jurisdictions, as I said, right now where children have more than twice the blood lead levels of Flint, Michigan. And so, Im taking action now as a United States senator. But if Im president of the United States, enough. Lead service lines should not be in the ground in a 21st century America, period. And I will make sure that we have a fund to get every single lead service line out of the ground in cities all across America.

But we cant stop there. We have this is a true story, because Im telling you Im admitting my inadequacies, because I got to the United States Senate as being the New Jersey senator this is one of the things that led me on my environmental justice tour and I was also on the Africa subcommittee as a foreign relations person. So I had this doctor, Dr. Peter Hotez, who came in to see me because I wanted to talk to him about neglected tropical diseases in African countries. And Im flipping through his book as were talking about things I could do as a United States senator for the continent. And Im flipping through books and seeing these maps of where the neglected tropical diseases are. And I almost fell out of my seat when I saw them in some states in the United States of America. And I said, I didnt know we had things like hookworm and the like. And he goes, Absolutely, in communities that are 100 to 200% of the poverty line. The doctors dont even think they exist in North America.

And I literally said, I have to go see this with my own eyes. And so I found myself in places in Alabama, in like Lowndes County, Alabama, where I stood there and saw communities that have they cant have septic, because the soil wont allow it. And they have just straight pipes coming out of the peoples back of peoples homes. I sat with families who talked to me about when it rains, about having all that stuff back up into their home. And so, when you start seeing what Ive seen in this country, this is reflective of an impotency of empathy, that we could live in a nation where we dont see what communities are suffering, who do not have access to clean water, who do not have access to proper sewage, who in America, it should be a right of every citizen to have clean air, clean water and clean soil. And so, I have, in my environmental in my climate plan, Im one of the few people that has major pillars on environmental justice. And one of the things were going to do is make sure we have a community where everyone has access to clean air and clean water.

But it also means taking on sacred cows. And when Im saying sacred cows, Im almost literally talking about it, because the corporate industrial animal agriculture industry, we must begin to talk about what its doing to our country. You know, when I talked earlier about Duplin County, North Carolina, one of the reasons why groundwater is being contaminated is because you dont have the heritage of our country, which is the way we used to raise pigs in farms. Now we have multinational corporations, like Smithfield, who have these contract farmers who live like sharecroppers. If you we should have any empathy for them, too, because they find themselves in these contracts where theyre constantly living in massive debt. You see these massive things called CAFOs, concentrated animal feeding operations, that are all covered. And pigs produce 10 times the feces than human beings do. I sat and watched it going into these massive lagoons. In Duplin County, its historically black communities. And I stood there with activists as I watched the spray field spray the literal [bleep] out onto the fields. And then I watched it waff into you know, like when you spray your lawn, some of it mists off the property and into black communities. I sat in packed rooms with African Americans who told me about respiratory diseases, cancers, what it feels like not to be able to open your windows in your home, run your air conditioning. You cant put your clothing on the lines. This is happening from Iowa to North Carolina, and we are not conscious of this crisis in our country. I met with a Republican farmer in the Midwest still remember, western Illinois who told me, when the CAFOs came around his farm, he can no longer fish in his creek, no longer drink his well water.

And so, Im just fed up. Its very hard for me to sit comfortably in Newark, even with our lead water crisis, and know that there are Americans who are facing diseases, cancers, who have lost the value of their land that theyve been on since slavery, and we are doing nothing as a society about it. That is so against our country. And so, as president of the United States, I have in my plan funds to do something about it. And Im going to make sure, as your president, I fight and become the president that champions environmental justice in a way like youve never seen before.

MUSTAFA ALI: All right.

AMY GOODMAN: Senator Booker, if you could talk about your personal decision to be a vegan, which really brings together the issue of the environment and personal health?

SEN. CORY BOOKER: Listen, my personal decision is to try every day to be a better living the values in which I hold. And so, my veganism is a much better way to accord myself with my values. But I want to be clear with you that because I dont want this to be a holier-than-thou moment. I dont know where the suit Im wearing was made. And fast fashion is injustice. It is injustice. You know, these are vegan shoes, so Im trying to be consistent with things. So, for me, all of us have to do a better job in living in accordance with what our values are. I dont want to preach to people what our values are, but I know what corporate animal agriculture not the farm heritage, the independent family farmers Ive met all around this country, but massive corporate animal agriculture is destroying the environment. Whats happening to animals is something, if Americans in fact, theyre passing these things called ag-gag laws, which I know youve heard of, where theyre trying to block Americans from actually knowing whats happening to animals. Thats why those CAFOs are usually covered, so you cant see in and the misery and the suffering going on with animals.

And so, for me, from everything from my health the leading cause of death for black men is preventable diseases. As Ron Finley, this great he has a TED Talk, black man in South-Central Los Angeles. He has this great TED Talk you should watch it where he says, In South-Central, we got drive-bys and drive-thrus, and the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys. And so, Im trying to do my best to live my values. I fail every day, but I want to get better and better and better, to be more conscious about the decisions Im making. And in a capitalist society, you vote every day with your dollars. And so, my veganism is something Im happy to talk about, and about the reasons why. But I want to tell you this Martin Luther King said it more eloquently than I could ever say it. He goes, I can pass I cant pass laws to make you love me, but I can pass laws to stop you from lynching me. I cant pass laws to change your heart, but I can pass laws to restrain the heartless. And so, I may not I may not want to force my dietary habits on everybody here. But if Im your president, Im going to stop us subsidizing through our ag bills the corporate animal agriculture that ultimately is hurting our country. And I havent heard another presidential candidate that wants to talk about these issues.

Animal agriculture right now is the way the large corporate animal agriculture is driving so much of the problems with climate change. The number-one reason for deforestation, rainforest deforestation, is grazing lands for the larger and larger consumption of meat. Scientists say that we would need four planet Earths if the rest of the planet ate the standard American diet. And by the way, China is moving towards the standard American diet. More people are eating like were eating. And so, we have to start talking about a free market, not the subsidization of corporations, whether its oil companies or folks that are doing it.

Now, if I have more sway over the ag bill, God, were going to let farmers lead us out of this. But were going to be doing things like incentivizing cover crops and no-till farming, things that pull carbon out of the air. Were going to incentivize reforestation. I have a plan to plant 100 million trees in urban areas, which will cool them down, pull more carbon out of the air. We need to start using our incentives, our taxpayer dollars, to incentivize the right behavior and stop the human suffering thats going on as a result of a lot of the things were spending were doing with subsidizing with our taxpayer dollars.

AMY GOODMAN: Democratic presidential candidate Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, speaking last Friday the first-ever Presidential Forum on Environmental Justice. We held it at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg. I co-moderated the forum with former EPA official Mustafa Ali. Visit democracynow.org to watch the full forum, including Senator Elizabeth Warren talking about environmental justice, shutting down pipelines, capitalism and billionaires, as well as her response to whether the presidential primary season should begin in two of the whitest states, Iowa and New Hampshire. Other candidates at the forum: Tom Steyer, Marianne Williamson, John Delaney and Joe Sestak.

Coming up, is Texas about to execute an innocent man? Stay with us.

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AMY GOODMAN: Contra Todo thats Against Everything by the Puerto Rican musician iLe, performing at our Democracy Now! studios. To see our full interview with her and her performance, go to democracynow.org.

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Wedge Wire Screen Market Size, Emerging Technologies, Future Trends, Competitive Analysis and Segments Poised for Strong Growth in Future |…

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This extensive analysis sheds light on an array of intangible aspects connected with the business such as important definitions, end use and total revenue garnered across different regions. The researcher has taken a conscious effort to get a closer look at some of the top performers of the Wedge Wire Screen industry. Other essential aspects evaluated during research include import and export, demand and supply, distribution channel, gross margin and supply chain management. To add more credibility to the research the study examines the winning strategies adopted by the prominent vendors to maintain competitive edge worldwide. Vital statistics on the business performance is projected using self-explanatory resources charts, tables and graphic images

This study relies on the evolution of the industry to derive the trends that are observed. A significant increase in the global market is visible, which promises the expansion of the market in the coming years.

The report focuses on the emerging sectors of the industry and their potential impact on the growth of the market in the forecasted duration. It highlights the concentration of the consumer bases of key companies geographically and the contribution of these companies to the regional economy. The study gives a historical analysis to draw the prospective growth of the market size, share, trends, overall earnings, gross revenue, and net value. It provides a detailed outlook of the market along with expert insights to assist the readers in their investments.

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The major manufacturers covered in this report:

Aqseptence GroupCostacurta S.p.A.Gap TechnologyProgress EcoWedge TechHEIN, LEHMANNMultotecTrislot NVTOYO SCREEN KOGYO COOptima InternationalSteinhaus GmbHHendrick Screen CompanyAMACSOthers

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Most important Products of Wedge Wire Screen study covered in this report are:

FlatCylindersBasketsSieve Bend Screen

Most important Application of Wedge Wire Screen study covered in this report are:

Water TreatmentFood and BeveragePulp and PaperMining and MineralChemical and PetrochemicalOthers

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The industry experts have left no stone unturned to identify the major factors influencing the development rate of the Wedge Wire Screen industry including various opportunities and gaps. A thorough analysis of the micro markets with regards to the growth trends in each category makes the overall study interesting. When studying the micro markets the researchers also dig deep into their future prospect and contribution to the Wedge Wire Screen industry.

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The research comprises of an extensive application of qualitative and quantitative methods to identify the impact of technological developments in the field and options available in the Wedge Wire Screen business.

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Region and country-wise assessment from the period 2016-2026. For the study, 2016-2017 has been utilized as historical data, 2018 as the base year, and 2019-2026, has been derived as forecasts for the Wedge Wire Screen market.

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TOMS Moves Beyond its Iconic One for One Model to Further Giving and Innovate Impact – Causeartist

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In Episode 30 of the Disruptors for Good podcast, I speak withAmy Smith, Chief Giving Officer atTOMS, on innovation in impact and giving and the future of TOMS philanthropy.

Amy Smith joined TOMS in 2016 as Chief Giving Officer to oversee all aspects of TOMS Giving. This entails managing 70+ global giving partners, measuring giving program impact, experiential engagement with internal and external partners, and leading employee Giving Trips to the regions where TOMS gives.

TOMS provides shoes, sight, and water as part of their Giving Partners overall health and education programs to help drive meaningful impact and engage the community. Amy also manages the impact grants program, in which TOMS contributes to non-profits that are working on todays most pressing issues, including homelessness and ending gun violence.

Amy was previously the Chief Strategy Officer and President of Action Networks forPoints of Light, the worlds largest organization dedicated to volunteer service. Prior to joining Points of Light, Amy held several management positions atApplehelping to lead their retail initiative including international real estate development, store design, construction execution and store operations. Amy earned a bachelors degree in Materials and Logistics Management from Michigan State University.

This episode was recorded at TOMS headquarters in Los Angeles, CA. I was fortunate enough to attend theConscious Capitalism LA(CCLA) fireside chat with Amy Smith, Chief Giving Officer at TOMS. The night was hosted by Conscious Capitalism LA andB Local Los Angeles, the affiliation of Los Angeles B Corporations.

This episode will have a couple of parts. The first part you will hear the full discussion between between CCLA Board Member, Steve Phillips, and Amy Smith, Chief Giving Officer of TOMS as they discuss:

The second part of this episode I sit down with Amy one on one after the event for a brief interview.

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