#franklin vanderbilt

[krispyweiss]

Album Review: Robby Krieger & the Soul Savages - Robby Krieger & the Soul Savages

The name has changed though the music holds steady on the self-titled debut from Robby Krieger & the Soul Savages.

The 10-track instrumental LP finds the titular composer and former Doors guitarist leading keyboardist Ed Roth, bassist Kevin “Brandino” Brandon and drummer Franklin Vanderbilt across the funk-flavored landscape of the fusion Krieger’s explored for decades on such titles as “Shark Skin Suit,” “Contrary Motion” and “Math Problem.”

Krieger plays slide, traditional leads and chorded rhythm against his tight band. And though it fails to reach the highs of 2020’s Zappaesque the Ritual Begins at Sundown, Robby Krieger & the Soul Savages nevertheless peaks on the neo-soul of “A Day in L.A.” and the funky strut of “Bouncy Betty;” “Ricochet Rabbit,” is meanwhile easily confused as an outtake from Steely Dan’s Gaucho sessions.

What it might lack in consistent listener electrification across its 45-minute runtime, Robby Krieger & the Soul Savages makes up for with a former psychedelic warrior sporting - and still sounding fine in - a different swirl of aural colors.

Grade card: Robby Krieger & the Soul Savages - Robby Krieger & the Soul Savages - B-

2/1/24

[misfitwashere]

The American oligarchy is back, and it’s out of control

It’s the third time in the nation’s history that a small group of hyper-wealthy people have gained political power over the rest of us. Here’s what we must do. 

ROBERT REICH

DEC 20

Friends,

Today we don’t know if the United States government will shut down tomorrow because, first, Elon Musk followed by his co-president Donald Trump, persuaded House Republicans to vote against a compromise bill, and then, last night, Republicans couldn’t summon enough votes for a stripped-down continuing resolution because Trump insisted that it contain a measure lifting the debt ceiling. 

This is not governing. Trump and the Republicans are not a governing party.

What’s the back story to all this? It’s the oligarchy that put Trump into the presidency.

A half-century ago, when America had a large and growing middle class, those on the “left” wanted stronger social safety nets and more public investment in schools, roads, and research. Those on the “right” sought greater reliance on the free market. 

But as power and wealth have moved to the top, everyone else — whether on the old right or the old left — has become disempowered and less secure. 

Today the great divide is not between left and right. It’s between democracy and oligarchy.

The word “oligarchy” comes from the Greek words meaning rule (arche) by the few (oligos). It refers to a government of and by a few exceedingly rich people or families who control the major institutions of society — and therefore have most power over other peoples’ lives. 

So far, Trump has picked 13 billionaires for his administration. It’s the wealthiest in history, including the richest person in the world. They and Trump are part of the American oligarchy, even though Trump campaigned on being the “voice” of the working class. 

America’s two previous oligarchies

America has experienced oligarchy twice before. Many of the men who founded America were slaveholding white oligarchs. At that time, the new nation did not have much of a middle class. Most white people were farmers, indentured servants, farm hands, traders, day laborers, and artisans. A fifth of the American population was Black, almost all of them enslaved.

A century later a new American oligarchy emerged comprised of men who amassed fortunes through their railroad, steel, oil, and financial empires — men such as J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Andrew Mellon. It was called the Gilded Age. 

They ushered the nation into an industrial revolution that vastly expanded economic output. But they also corrupted government, brutally suppressed wages, generated unprecedented levels of inequality and urban poverty, pillaged rivals, shut down competitors, and made out like bandits — which is why they earned the sobriquet “robber barons.”

World War I and the Great Depression of the 1930s eroded most of the robber barons’ wealth, and much of their power was eliminated with the elections of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 and Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. 

America demanded fundamental reforms — a progressive income tax, corporate taxes, estate taxes, limits on the political power of large corporations, antitrust laws, laws enabling workers to form unions and requiring that employers negotiate with them, Social Security, the forty-hour workweek, unemployment insurance, civil rights and voting rights, and Medicare. 

For the next half-century, the gains from growth were more widely shared and democracy became more responsive to the needs and aspirations of average Americans. During these years America created the largest middle class the world had ever seen. 

There was still much to do: wider economic opportunities for Black people, Latinos, and women, protection of the environment. Yet by almost every measure the nation was making progress.

America’s current oligarchy

Starting around 1980, a third American oligarchy emerged. 

Since then, the median wage of the bottom 90 percent has stagnated. The share of the nation’s wealth owned by the richest 400 Americans has quadrupled (from less than 1 percent to 3.5 percent) while the share owned by the entire bottom half of America has dropped to 1.3 percent, according to an analysis by my Berkeley colleagues Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman. 

The richest 1 percent of Americans now has more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined.

The only other country with similarly high levels of wealth concentration is Russia, another oligarchy. 

All this has been accompanied by a dramatic increase in the political power of the super-wealthy and an equally dramatic decline in the political influence of everyone else. 

While the Biden administration sought to realign America with its ideals, it did not and could not accomplish nearly enough. Trump’s lies and demagoguery exploited the anger and frustration of much of America — creating the false impression he was a tribune of the working class and an anti-establishment hero — thereby allowing the oligarchy to triumph. 

In 2022, Elon Musk spent $44 billion to buy Twitter and turn it into his own personal political megaphone. Then, in 2024, he spent $277 million to get Trump elected, also using Twitter (now X) to amplify pro-Trump, anti-Harris messages. 

These were good investments for Musk. Since Election Day, Musk’s fortune has increased by $170 billion. That’s because investors in Tesla and SpaceX have pushed their value into the stratosphere. 

Trump has put Musk (and another billionaire, Vivek Ramaswamy) in charge of gutting government services in the name of “efficiency.” Musk’s investors assume that Musk will eliminate the health, safety, labor, and environmental regulations that have limited the profits of Musk-owned corporations, and that Trump will put more government money into SpaceX and xAI (Musk’s artificial intelligence company). 

Unlike income or wealth, power is a zero-sum game. The more of it at the top, the less of it anywhere else.

The power shift across America is related to a tsunami of big money into politics. Corporate lobbying has soared. The voices of average people have been drowned out. 

The American oligarchy is back, with a vengeance. 

Not all wealthy people are culpable, of course. The abuse is occurring at the nexus of wealth and power, where those with great wealth use it to gain power and then utilize that power to accumulate more wealth. Today’s robber barons include Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, David Sacks, Charles Koch, Jeff Yass, Ken Griffin, and Rupert Murdoch. 

What the new oligarchy wants

This is how oligarchy destroys democracy. As oligarchs fill the coffers of political candidates and deploy platoons of lobbyists and public relations flaks, they buy off democracy. Oligarchs know that politicians won’t bite the hands that feed them. 

As long as they control the purse strings, there will be no meaningful response to the failure of most people’s paychecks to rise, nor to climate change, nor racism, nor the soaring costs of health insurance, pharmaceuticals, college, and housing, because those are not the main concerns of the oligarchy.

The oligarchs want lower taxes, which is what Trump, Musk, and other oligarchs are planning — an extension of the 2017 Trump tax cut, with an estimated price tag of at least $5 trillion. 

They want no antitrust enforcement to puncture the power of their giant corporations. Instead, their corporations will grow larger, able to charge consumers even more. Trump is replacing Lina Khan, the trustbusting chair of the Federal Trade Commission, with a Trump crony. 

There will be no meaningful constraint on Wall Street’s dangerous gambling addiction. The gambling will only increase. 

Wall Street is already celebrating Trump’s victory. The stock market has reached new heights. But the stock market is inconsequential for most people, because the richest 1 percent own over half of all shares of stock owned by Americans while the richest 10 percent own over 90 percent. 

There will be no limits to CEO pay. Wall Street hedge fund and private equity managers will also rake in billions more. Government will dole out even more corporate subsidies, bailouts, and loan guarantees while eliminating protections for consumers, workers, and the environment. 

It will become a government for, of, and by the oligarchy.

The biggest divide in America today is not between “right” and “left,” or between Republicans and Democrats. It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The old labels — “right” and “left” — prevent most people from noticing they’re being shafted.

The propagandists and demagogues who protect the oligarchy stoke racial and ethnic resentments — describing human beings as illegal aliens, fueling hatred of immigrants, and spreading fears of communists and socialists. 

This strategy gives the oligarchy freer rein: It distracts Americans from how the oligarchy is looting the nation, buying off politicians, and silencing critics. It causes Americans to hate each other so we don’t look upward and see where the wealth and power have really gone. 

The necessary agenda

The way to overcome oligarchy is for the rest of us to join together and win America back, as we did in response to the oligarchy that dominated America’s last Gilded Age. 

This will require a multiracial, multiethnic coalition of working-class, poor, and middle-class Americans fighting for democracy and against concentrated power and privilege. 

It will require that the Democratic Party, or a new third party, tell the truth to the American people: that the major reason most peoples’ wages have gone nowhere and their jobs are less secure, why most families have to live paycheck to paycheck, why CEO pay has soared to 300 times the pay of the typical worker, and why billionaires are about to run our government, is because the market has been rigged against average working people by the oligarchy. 

The agenda ahead is simply stated but it will not be easy to implement: We must get big money out of our politics. End corporate welfare and crony capitalism. Bust up monopolies. Stop voter suppression. 

We must strengthen labor unions, give workers a stronger voice in their workplaces, create more employee-owned corporations, encourage worker cooperatives, fund and grow more state and local public banks, and develop other institutions of economic democracy.

This agenda is neither “right” nor “left.” It is the bedrock for everything else America must do.

It may seem an odd time in our history to suggest such reforms, but this is the best time. Trump and his oligarchy will inevitably overreach. The lesson from the last Gilded Age is that when the corruption and ensuing hardship become so blatant that they offend the values of the majority of Americans, the majority will rise up and demand real, systemic change.

It’s only a matter of time. A government shutdown that hurts average people, engineered by the richest person in the world, might just hasten it. 

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Robert Reich:

Friends, Today we don’t know if the United States government will shut down tomorrow because, first, Elon Musk followed by his co-president Donald Trump, persuaded House Republicans to vote against a compromise bill, and then, last night, Republicans couldn’t summon enough votes for a stripped-down continuing resolution because Trump insisted that it contain a measure lifting the debt ceiling. This is not governing. Trump and the Republicans are not a governing party.

What’s the back story to all this? It’s the oligarchy that put Trump into the presidency.

A half-century ago, when America had a large and growing middle class, those on the “left” wanted stronger social safety nets and more public investment in schools, roads, and research. Those on the “right” sought greater reliance on the free market. But as power and wealth have moved to the top, everyone else — whether on the old right or the old left — has become disempowered and less secure.

Today the great divide is not between left and right. It’s between democracy and oligarchy.

The word “oligarchy” comes from the Greek words meaning rule (arche) by the few (oligos). It refers to a government of and by a few exceedingly rich people or families who control the major institutions of society — and therefore have most power over other peoples’ lives. So far, Trump has picked 13 billionaires for his administration. It’s the wealthiest in history, including the richest person in the world. They and Trump are part of the American oligarchy, even though Trump campaigned on being the “voice” of the working class.

America’s two previous oligarchies

America has experienced oligarchy twice before. Many of the men who founded America were slaveholding white oligarchs. At that time, the new nation did not have much of a middle class. Most white people were farmers, indentured servants, farm hands, traders, day laborers, and artisans. A fifth of the American population was Black, almost all of them enslaved. A century later a new American oligarchy emerged comprised of men who amassed fortunes through their railroad, steel, oil, and financial empires — men such as J. Pierpont Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Andrew Mellon. It was called the Gilded Age. They ushered the nation into an industrial revolution that vastly expanded economic output. But they also corrupted government, brutally suppressed wages, generated unprecedented levels of inequality and urban poverty, pillaged rivals, shut down competitors, and made out like bandits — which is why they earned the sobriquet “robber barons.” World War I and the Great Depression of the 1930s eroded most of the robber barons’ wealth, and much of their power was eliminated with the elections of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 and Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. America demanded fundamental reforms — a progressive income tax, corporate taxes, estate taxes, limits on the political power of large corporations, antitrust laws, laws enabling workers to form unions and requiring that employers negotiate with them, Social Security, the forty-hour workweek, unemployment insurance, civil rights and voting rights, and Medicare. For the next half-century, the gains from growth were more widely shared and democracy became more responsive to the needs and aspirations of average Americans. During these years America created the largest middle class the world had ever seen.

Robert Reich wrote a solid piece that the American oligarchy is back in full force.

[lboogie1906]

Helen LaFrance (November 2, 1919 – November 20, 2020) was a self-taught artist born in Graves County, Kentucky, the second of four daughters to James Franklin Orr and Lillie May Ligon Orr. Known for her captures of the disappearing lifestyle of the rural South. She has been referred to as “the Black Grandma Moses.” She painted powerful and intensely spiritual visionary interpretations of the Bible, in a style that differed radically from her memory paintings.

She attended formal school for about three years but left to work on the farm. Her first painting depicting a large gray rabbit was created on the back of a leftover piece of wallpaper using watercolors given to her by her aunt. She left home to take various jobs in a hospital, caring for children, cooking, working in the tobacco barns and a ceramic factory where she decorated brand-name whiskey bottles. She made enough money to buy art supplies at the grocery store and began painting full-time.

She was an exceptional quilt maker and wood carver of animal sculptures and articulated dolls with handmade textile clothing. She shared the traditions of family and church and the values she grew up with, and recollections of coon hunts, fishing, planting and picking cotton and tobacco, growing flowers and using their petals for paint, the general merchandise store, barn dances, the circus, fish fries, family reunions, and church picnics where the community gathered together.

She created 28 religious paintings, inspired by the verses she read in a dramatic visionary style and divergent from her better-known works due to their explosive colors, themes, and size. A selection of these paintings was included in “Helen LaFrance: Kentucky Woman,” an exhibition that ran at the prestigious Speed Art Museum. The inaugural exhibit of these allegorical paintings took place at Vanderbilt University. Sponsored by the Divinity School’s Religion in the Arts & Contemporary Culture program, these images had never been displayed to the public. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[skylarynns-silverado]

Character Source List

Sources [usually films or television shows - anything else will have notation] will be in bold. Characters will be formatted with their in-universe name, followed by the original character in italics. Name formatting will be [First Name] [Middle Name] ["Nick Name"] [Maiden Name/Original Surname] [Married Name/Taken Surname] as applicable. I will probably also be adding links to everything, but later.

Wanted: Dead or Alive 1958-1961 Joshua Everett "Josh" Randall - Josh Randall

Rawhide 1959-1965 Randolph Jacob "Rowdy" Yates - Rowdy Yates

The Magnificent Seven 1960 Franklin Vaughn "Frank" Randall - Vin Giovanni Vittorio "Gio" Auditore - Bernardo O'Reilly Brittony "Britt" Calvin - Britt Byron Allen Lee III - Lee Carlos "Chico" Hernandez - Chico

The Dollars Trilogy 1964-1966 Jonas Blake "Joey" Yates - The Man With No Name / Joe/Manco/Blondie

Hang 'Em High 1968 Jeremy Cooper "Jed" Yates - Jed Cooper Rachel Warren - Rachel Warren

Once Upon a Time in the West 1969 Emilio "Harmonica" Arman - Harmonica Jorge Gutierrez - Cheyenne

Rustlers' Rhapsody 1985 Revelin "Rex" O'Houlihan - Rex O'Herlihan Peter Twist - Peter

Silverado 1985 [to be honest I'm taking almost all the characters, but main characters/love interests:] Emmett Martell - Emmett Paden Cassidy - Paden Tyree Ransom Ekker - Tyree Hannah Kincaid Weslan [Cobb] - Hannah Weslan Malachi "Mal" Johnson - Malachi "Mal" Johnson Jacob "Rattlesnake Jake" Martell - Jake Stella Bonneville - Stella Rae Johnson - Rae Johnson Phoebe Hartshorne - Phoebe

Quigley Down Under 1990 Matthew Quigley - Matthew Quigley

Maverick 1994 Bret Maverick [Jr.] - Bret Maverick Annabelle Bransford - Annabelle Bransford

The Marshal 1995 Veronica "Ronnie" Davis - Veronica Cole

The Quick and the Dead 1995 Jessamy "Jessie" MacIntyre - The Lady / Ellen Cameron "Cam" McPhee - The Kid / Fee Herod Cortney "Cort" Cobb - Cort

The Magnificent Seven 1998-2000 [much like Silverado I'm taking almost all the characters, but main characters/love interests:] Christian "Chris" Larabee - Chris Larabee Vincent Ulysses "Vin" Tanner - Vin Tanner Nathan Jackson - Nathan Jackson John Daniel "J.D." Dunne - J.D. Dunne Buck Wilmington - Buck Wilmington Ezra Phineas Standish - Ezra Standish Mary Travis - Mary Travis Casey Welles - Casey Welles Inez Recillos - Inez Recillos

Firefly 2002 Robert Malcolm "Bobby" Reynolds - Malcolm "Mal" Reynolds Zoe Martinez - Zoe Alleyne Washbourne Jayne Cobb - Jayne Cobb Eleena Vasquez - Inara Serra Simon Morgan - Simon Tam River Morgan - River Tam Kaylee Frye - Kaywinnit Lee "Kaylee" Frye Sheppard Book - Derrial Book

Supernatural 2005-2020 John Winchester - John Winchester Dean Winchester - Dean Winchester Samuel "Sam" Winchester - Samuel "Sam" Winchester

3:10 to Yuma 2007 Daniel "Dan" Evans - Daniel "Dan" Evans William "Will" Evans - William Evans Benjamin "Ben" Wade - Ben Wade Charles "Charlie" Prince - Charlie Prince

Six of Crows 2015 Caspian/Casimir "Caz" Zima Winters - Kaz Brekker Haruko - Inej Ghafa Christophe "Kit Benny" Benoit - Jesper Fahey Wyatt Vanderbilt - Wylan Van Eck Hannah "Nan" Gallagher - Nina Zenik

The Magnificent Seven 2016 Samuel "Sam" Chisolm - Sam Chisolm Joshua "Josh" Faraday - Josh Faraday Manuel Vasquez - Vasquez Goodnight "Goody" Robicheaux - Goodnight "Goody" Robicheaux Billy Rocks - Billy Rocks Red Harvest - Red Harvest Emma Cullen - Emma Cullen

The Hunters 2020 [a series I am currently working on writing] Elias Hawkins - Elias Walker Hawkins Lucas "Luke" Hearne - Faolan Lucas "Luke" MacTiernan Auryon "Aury" Hearne - Auryon "Aury" Hearne-MacTiernan Hawkins Sebastian "Owl Eyes" St. James Cheyenne - Sylvain Alistair Abigale "Abby" McKenzie - Kindra Arden

Jessta James Music Videos 2021-2022 [specifically Hell's Coming With Me, Loaded Gun, and War Cry] Josiah "Josey" James - Jessta James

Original Characters 2023+ [that I've made for the project] Melissa "Missy" Ekker - Tyree's mother Bethany "Beth" Skinner - a love interest

[trendingnews19]

James Franklin of Penn State and Marcus Freeman of Notre Dame already have broken ground as the first Black head coaches to lead teams to the College Football Playoff. Both are 2-0 in the 12-team tournament and face each other in a semifinal Thursday night in the Fiesta Bowl.That means one of the two is certain to become the first Black coach to play for a CFP championship. The overwhelming sentiment around college football is that it’s about time. Franklin, who has been the Penn State coach for 11 seasons after three at Vanderbilt, compared the opportunity to the first Super Bowl featuring Black head coaches, Super Bowl XLI between Tony Dungy of the Indianapolis Colts and Lovie Smith of the Chicago Bears in 2007. “I remember thinking that, as a coach, how significant that was in the profession, and how significant that was for young coaches coming up in the profession, to see those guys in that role,” Franklin said at the Fiesta Bowl news conference. “I also remember, at that time, there were a lot of conversations about, ‘Will this impact the profession? Will this impact opportunities for guys?’”It might have, but not to the extent some hoped. The number of Black head coaches at the FBS level has grown from six in 2007 to 16 now, still low considering nearly 50% of FBS players are Black. “I know some people will say, ‘Well, that that’s not a huge increase,’ but it is an increase,” Franklin said. “At the end of the day, does this create opportunities for more guys to get in front of athletic directors? Does this create opportunities for search firms? I hope so.”Black head coaches have been hired in the NFL at about the same rate as the college ranks. These five currently hold their positions (Jerod Mayo was fired by the New England Patriots the day the regular season ended): Raheem Morris: Hired by the Atlanta FalconsAntonio Pierce: Promoted by the Las Vegas RaidersTodd Bowles: Head coach of the Tampa Bay BuccaneersDeMeco Ryans: Head coach of the Houston TexansMike Tomlin: Head coach of the Pittsburgh SteelersProgress in the Power 4 college conferences has been slower. Only eight of 68 head coaches are Black, with another three non-Black minorities:Big 10 Conference: Four of 18 head coaches are Black — Franklin, UCLA’s DeShaun Foster, Michigan’s Sherrone Moore and Maryland’s Mike Locksley. (Purdue’s Ryan Walters was fired Dec. 1 after going 5-19 in two seasons and will become defensive coordinator at Washington.) Atlantic Coast Conference: Three of 18 head coaches are Black — Freeman, Virginia’s Tony Elliott and Syracuse’s Fran Brown — and Miami’s Mario Cristobal is of Cuban descent. Big 12 Conference: One of 16 head coaches is Black —Colorado’s Deion Sanders. Two others are minorities — Brigham Young’s Kalani Sitake (Pacific Islander) and Baylor’s Dave Aranda (Mexican). Southeastern Conference: Zero of the 16 head coaches are Black or another minority. Black players make up more than 60% of those 16 teams and a study showed that from 2019 through 2021, 90% of four- and five-star SEC recruits were black. During the Fiesta Bowl news conference, Freeman noted that while his father is Black, his mother is South Korean, making him the first coach of Asian descent in the CFP. He said he doesn’t take for granted that he is a representation of others that look like him.“I’m going to work tirelessly to be the best version of me, and it’s great, because even the guys in our program can understand, ‘Don’t put a ceiling on what you can be and what you can do,’” he said.Freeman and Franklin recognize the responsibility they carry and the role models they have become. Their primary focus this week is winning the Fiesta Bowl and playing for the CFP title, but when the offseason rolls around they say they will assist the efforts of fellow Black coaches.“If you want to impact the young people in this profession, you probably should do things to help them, and those are things that maybe after the season I could focus on trying to do,” Freeman said. “I want to be a representation. But that’s not enough. If you want to truly help some people, then you got to be one to make decisions and actions that truly help people.”

[musicallyfluent]

2024 Year in Review

Matt’s going away partyyy

Nashville snowstorm of 2024

STS 2024. Great conference! And I got the scar to prove it🥴

COVID pt 2😐

Family med rotation✅got an A🥳

Met my lipstick lesbos💋

Sammy Rae and the Friends in concert !!

Psych rotation✅an A again🤪

Tiny habits concert😌

Spring fling comp⛸️

Cruiseeeeeeee😁Bahamas and Jamaica

OU Alumni 2024

Skate Nashville 2024⛸️

Met Surya Bonaly. Absolute legend.

Laufey concert😍

Birmingham competition⛸️

Passed Step 1🙂‍↕️

TA Alumni concert

Passed my Pre-Bronze Adult Free Skate test

Melanie Martinez concert

Nashville Pride. What a weekend🥴🏳️‍🌈

252 on Step 2😭🙏🏾

Accepted to the SNMA Future Leaders Program

Ben Platt concert. Just beautiful😭😭

Vanderbilt cardiac surgery Sub-I

New Mac💻

Stanford CT surgery Sub-I. Absolutely amazing experience

The hood of my car saw some action

Chandler’s wedding🥰

Ohio State cardiac surgery sub-I

Andrews homecoming

Twenty one pilots concert. Top 3 lifetime concerts for sure😭

Kirk Franklin reunion tour

Fall fest 2024: Britney edition

Nash Halloween: Britney, power outages, dance parties

Residency interviews begin

Billie Eilish concert…except it’s the most emotional show, the one in Nashville🥲

Began learning Krav Maga

The super fun Kentucky interview trip

Cowboylesque🤠

First time at Hell’s Kitchen (DC)🤤🤤🤤

Friendsgiving @ Gabby’s

NY interview trip🤗

Cooked Christmas Dinner 2024

206💩

[golfbloggercom]

Simmons Bank Open Winners and History

The Simmons Bank Open is a Korn Ferry Tour event that began as the Nashville Golf Open in 2016.

The Simmons Bank Open began as the Nashville Golf Open in 2016. The Korn Ferry Tour tournament currently is played at the Vanderbilt Legends Club in Franklin, Tennessee. Scottie Scheffler was runner up, losing in a playoff in 2019. The tournament benefits the Snedeker Foundation, which was created by PGA TOUR player Brandt Snedeker. Simmons Bank is based in Arkansas and has operations in that…

[jobkash]

DIGITAL MARKETING SPECIALIST (BONE & JOINT INSTITUTE)

SummaryLocated in Franklin, Tennessee, Williamson Health is one of the South’s most exceptional health care systems with a 203 bed hospital (Williamson Medical Center), over 80 providers at both Bone and Joint Institute and Williamson Health Medical Group locations. Monroe Carell Junior Children’s Hospital Vanderbilt at Williamson Medical Center and Williamson Health offers comprehensive…

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

BABE PALEY

BABE PALEY

5 July 1915 - 6 July 1978

TRUMAN CAPOTE’s SWAN

            Babe Paley (Barbara Paley) was an American magazine editor and socialite. She was known for her fashion sense and was honoured on the Best Dressed List.

            Paley was born in Boston, Massachusetts, US, and was the daughter of a brain surgeon. She and her sisters, Mary and Betsey were known as the ‘Fabulous Cushing Sisters’, Babe’s debut was in 1934 which was attended by the sons of Roosevelt. Betsey married James Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s son.

            Paley was married twice, whilst working at Vogue magazine she met Stanley Mortimer Jr. an oil heir from a wealthy New York family and the couple married in 1940. The couple had two children and then they divorced in 1946. Their daughter Amanda married Carter Burden Jr. from the Vanderbilt family. Babe had neglected her children and concentrated on socialising and her extravagant lifestyle.

In 1946, Babe met William Paley “Pasha” who was married to Dorothy Hearts (wife of John Hearst). Paley was wealthy and divorced his wife in 1947 to marry Babe. The couple had two children together but Babe experienced loneliness during the marriage due to her husband’s constant infidelities.

            Babe is best known due to writer Truman Capote, who was close friends. Capote befriended wealthy upper-class women and called them his ‘swans’. Capote wrote a book named ‘Answered Prayers’ which exposed his friend’s secrets, under ‘fiction’. After reading the book, Truman’s swans had nothing to do with him again.

            Babe found out she had lung cancer in 1974 due to heavy smoking. She planned her funeral and the funeral luncheon. She died a day after her 63rd birthday and Truman wasn’t invited to her funeral.

#babepaley #trumancapote #answeredprayers

[storecowboys]

2023 MLB Draft: Follow the Live Tracker and Results for the First Round

2023 MLB Draft: Follow the Live Tracker and Results for the First Round

The highly anticipated 2023 MLB Draft is set to kick off with the first round, featuring 70 picks, including compensatory selections, on Sunday. Both Vanderbilt and Tennessee baseball teams have players expected to be chosen in the opening round. Vanderbilt's outfielder Enrique Bradfield Jr. and Tennessee's pitcher Chase Dollander have been projected as potential first-round picks. Ethan McElvain, a left-handed pitcher committed to Vanderbilt from Nolensville High School, is also likely to hear his name called during the draft, estimated to take place on Sunday or Monday. McElvain is currently ranked 106th in MLB.com's draft rankings. The first round of the 2023 MLB Draft will commence at 7 p.m. Eastern/6 p.m. Central time from Seattle. Stay updated with the live updates and pick tracker provided below. It's important to note that the bonus figures listed for each pick represent the values assigned to the slots for setting the bonus pools of the teams. The actual bonus amounts received by the selected players may vary after negotiations between the team and the player. Here is the first-round pick order for the 2023 MLB Draft: 1. Pittsburgh Pirates select Paul Skenes, RHP from LSU. Skenes boasts an impressive 2023 season with a 12-2 record, 1.69 ERA, and 209 strikeouts in 122.2 innings pitched. 2. Washington Nationals choose Dylan Crews, OF from LSU. Crews stands out with his .426 batting average, 18 home runs, and 70 RBIs in 344 plate appearances this season. 3. Detroit Tigers pick Max Clark, OF from Franklin Community High School (Indiana). Clark's notable stats include a .646 batting average, 6 home runs, and 33 RBIs in 120 plate appearances. 4. Texas Rangers select Wyatt Langford, OF from Florida. Langford's impressive numbers include a .373 batting average, 21 home runs, and 57 RBIs in 303 plate appearances. 5. Minnesota Twins choose Walker Jenkins, OF from South Brunswick High School (North Carolina). Jenkins, the 2022 Gatorade Player of the Year in North Carolina, is committed to UNC. 6. Oakland Athletics pick Jacob Wilson, SS from Grand Canyon. Wilson showcases a .412 batting average, 6 home runs, and 61 RBIs in 217 plate appearances. 7. Cincinnati Reds select Rhett Lowder, RHP from Wake Forest. Lowder's impressive performance includes a 15-0 record, 1.87 ERA, and 143 strikeouts in 120.1 innings pitched. 8. Kansas City Royals choose Blake Mitchell, C from Sinton High School (Texas). Mitchell has a .452 batting average, 6 home runs, and 41 RBIs in 165 plate appearances. 9. Colorado Rockies select Chase Dollander, RHP from Tennessee. Dollander's stats include a 7-6 record, 4.75 ERA, and 120 strikeouts in 89 innings pitched. 10. Miami Marlins pick Noble Meyer, RHP from Jesuit High School (Oregon). Meyer, the 2023 Gatorade Player of the Year in Oregon, is committed to Oregon. The remaining picks and live updates for the 2023 MLB Draft can be found on the original source. Read the full article

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Doanh nghiệp Mỹ chuẩn bị cho kịch bản chính phủ vỡ nợ

Giới chuyên gia cho rằng doanh nghiệp Mỹ cần đánh giá mức độ liên quan với chính phủ, tăng giữ tiền mặt và bán bớt trái phiếu kho bạc.

Giới chức Mỹ vẫn chưa đạt thỏa thuận về trần nợ công, khiến nước này ngày càng tiến gần rủi ro vỡ nợ. Các chủ doanh nghiệp đang trong trạng thái chờ đợi và quan sát, chuẩn bị cho khả năng suy thoái và sa thải nếu tình trạng vỡ nợ kéo dài.

Dù một số cho rằng Mỹ không thể vỡ nợ, Văn phòng Ngân sách Quốc hội Mỹ (CBO) hồi đầu tháng cho biết khả năng chính phủ không thể hoàn thành tất cả nghĩa vụ thanh toán trong hai tuần đầu tháng 6 "là rất lớn". Bộ trưởng Tài chính Mỹ Janet Yellen đã cảnh báo cơ quan này hết tiền sớm nhất là đầu tháng sau.

"Tất cả chúng ta đều hy vọng Mỹ không vỡ nợ. Nhưng hy vọng không phải là kế hoạch dự phòng. Các công ty cần phải tự chuẩn bị", Joshua White - giáo sư tài chính tại Trường quản lý Vanderbilt khuyến nghị.

Đánh giá mức độ liên quan với chính phủ

Một số doanh nghiệp có thể không bị ảnh hưởng ngay bởi nguy cơ vỡ nợ. Nhưng những công ty có hợp đồng với chính phủ có thể bị chậm chi trả khi Bộ Tài chính Mỹ hết tiền.

Trong trường hợp vỡ nợ, họ có thể phải chờ vài tuần. Trong thời gian đó, các chủ đất, nhà cung cấp sẽ phải tìm cách linh hoạt hơn, Harry Mamaysky – Giáo sư tại Trường Kinh doanh Columbia nhận định.

Tấm biển thông báo nợ công Mỹ đã chạm trần 31.400 tỷ USD hồi tháng 1. Ảnh: Reuters

Doanh nghiệp trong ngành quân sự và y tế có thể chịu tác động mạnh nhất. Các công ty tư nhân, ví dụ các hãng công nghệ, cũng có thể bị ảnh hưởng.

White khuyên các công ty trong các ngành này tổ chức họp thường xuyên để vạch ra kế hoạch trong trường hợp bị chậm thanh toán. CEO JPMorgan Chase Jamie Dimon đầu tháng 5 nói với Bloomberg rằng ngân hàng này đang tổ chức họp hàng tuần để chuẩn bị cho khả năng vỡ nợ.

"Đến lúc nào đó, chính phủ sẽ giải quyết được việc này thôi. Nhưng cho đến khi ấy, các công ty cần biết mình có thể chống chịu được không? Trong bao lâu? Và khó khăn sẽ ở mức nào", White nói.

Nắm nhiều tiền mặt hơn

Kể cả các doanh nghiệp không trực tiếp nhận thanh toán từ chính phủ cũng nên có kế hoạch, White cho biết. Nếu khách hàng hay nhà cung cấp của bạn không được thanh toán, nhiều khả năng họ cũng sẽ giảm chi cho sản phẩm của bạn.

White cho rằng ở tình huống này, các doanh nghiệp nhỏ không cần họp hàng tuần. Thay vào đó, họ nên giữ nhiều tiền mặt hơn, và đa dạng hóa tiền tệ dự trữ, phòng trường hợp giá USD giảm.

Chính phủ vỡ nợ có thể kéo lãi suất lên cao, khiến việc đi vay đắt đỏ hơn. "Lượng tiền mặt lớn sẽ rất hữu ích", White cho biết. Các công ty có thể làm điều này bằng cách tạm dừng các dự án lớn.

Bên cạnh đó, vỡ nợ sẽ khiến doanh nghiệp khó tiếp cận tín dụng, Kent Smetters – Giáo sư Kinh tế tại Walton nhận định. Các doanh nghiệp vừa và nhỏ thường phải đi vay để thanh toán cho các nhà cung cấp khi thiếu tiền mặt.

"Nhưng nếu tôi là ngân hàng, tôi sẽ giảm việc cho vay lại. Vì một lượng tiền gửi đã được dùng để đầu tư trái phiếu kho bạc. Chính phủ có thể không thanh toán trái phiếu đúng hạn nếu vỡ nợ", Smetters giải thích.

Bán bớt trái phiếu chính phủ

Khi các ngân hàng thận trọng hơn với số trái phiếu chính phủ đang nắm giữ, doanh nghiệp cũng cần như vậy. Nếu đang sở hữu trái phiếu đáo hạn đầu hoặc giữa tháng 6, "và bạn cần nhận số tiền đó để trả cho nhà cung cấp, bạn có thể mắc kẹt trong 1-2 tuần, khi Quốc hội tìm cách nâng trần nợ công", Mamaysky cho biết.

Trong tình huống này, ông khuyên các công ty nên cân nhắc bán bớt trái phiếu chính phủ kỳ hạn ngắn. Ví dụ như trái phiếu đáo hạn trong vòng một năm.

Cắt giảm chi tiêu về mức cần thiết

Cynthia Franklin – Giám đốc khởi nghiệp tại W. R. Berkley Innovation Labs thuộc Đại học New York – chuyên làm việc với các công ty nhỏ và startup. Lời khuyên của bà dành cho các công ty hiện tại cũng chính là những gì bà nói với các startup.

"Nếu chính phủ Mỹ vỡ nợ, chi phí đi vay sẽ tăng cao, niềm tin tiêu dùng giảm xuống. Các doanh nghiệp sẽ phải tìm cách thắt lưng buộc bụng", bà nói.

Tuy nhiên, bà cho rằng các công ty cần "linh hoạt và thích ứng", đa dạng hóa tệp khách hàng để không bị phụ thuộc vào một nguồn thu. Các công ty cũng cần tăng hiệu suất hoạt động để không chi nhiều hơn nhu cầu.

"Không chỉ trong thời kỳ suy thoái hoặc bất ổn kinh tế, lúc nào doanh nghiệp cũng cần nghĩ về việc chỉ chi tiêu cho những gì cần thiết mà thôi", bà kết luận.

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Bobby Jones (September 18, 1938) born in Henry, Tennessee is a Gospel music singer television host, radio broadcaster, and the host and executive producer of several cable television gospel music programs including the former Bobby Jones Gospel.

He is the host of The Bobby Jones Radio Show. He hosted the weekly Bobby Jones Gospel Countdown. He began his television career in 1976 when Nashville station WSM-TV gave him a slot on the Sunday morning schedule with Nashville Gospel.

He launched his variety program, Bobby Jones Gospel, on BET in 1980. He produced and hosted a similar half-hour program for WDCN-TV, Nashville’s public television outlet.

Bobby Jones's Gospel lays claim to offering the first prime exposure to several Gospel music solo artists and groups including Kirk Franklin, Mary Mary, Yolanda Adams, and Smokie Norful. Other artists featured have included Albertina Walker, Patti LaBelle, Dorothy Norwood, and Helen Baylor.

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