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Psychonauts 2 Will Have An Immortality Option – Attack of the Fanboy

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Development studio Double Fine has revealed that their upcoming game Psychonauts 2 will have an option that will allow the immortality of the main character, that is, to go through the game without the threat of failure. Double Fine says that all players should enjoy the games and that the transition of the game to the easiest difficulty still counts as beating the game.

All people should be able to enjoy playing video games. Regardless of age and needs. It is an important process for our industry and a challenge we must overcome. At the end of the day, we want you to have fun, laugh, and experience a story that has an impact on you. Under conditions that you set for yourself. says Double Fine.

Psychonauts 2 is not the only game that makes it easier for those who do not want a big challenge. Genre-like game Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart recently had the option to slow down the gameplay as desired in case the player has troubles in certain sequences of the game. Even the acclaimed and hellishly heavy Hades had the option of reduced damage by 20-80%.

However, some players do not share the opinion with the developers who believe that they should make their games more accessible to all players, regardless of their experience or skills. Some believe that it is through overcoming the challenges that the game provides that the game can be fully appreciated.

In Psychonauts 2 we will be playing as Razputin Raz Aquato, trained acrobat and powerful young psychic, who has realized his lifelong dream of joining the international psychic espionage organization knows as the Psychonauts. The story of the game will revolve around how their leader hasnt been the same since he was rescued from a kidnapping and how theres a mole hiding in the Psychonauts headquarters.

Psychonauts 2 is coming out on August 25 for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

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Nike Recalls The First Time Giannis Antetokounmpo Had A Smoothie With Latest Release – Sneaker News

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Before Giannis Antetokounmpo reveled in his first ever NBA Finals this summer, or his first ever MVP award in 2019, he drowned in the pure ecstasy that was his first-ever smoothie. Based on an epic tweet that the then Bucks rookie unleashed in 2014, Giannis had never tried a smoothie in his life and its safe to say that his life was forever changed and transformed, never to revert back to his smoothie-deprived life.

For this newly released colorway of the impressive Giannis Immortality sneaker, Nike recalls this viral moment of the future HOFers life in America by applying a fruit-flavored colorway that matches a smoothie blend, while a mosaic of fruits are featured on the medial side. On the left tongue is a Super Smoothie label, further calling out the Greek Freaks unabashed love of drinkable blended fruits.

This new colorway of the Nike Giannis Immortality (which Nike is calling the Force Field) is available now at Nike for $80 (the cost of about a dozen smoothies). If youre more interested in the signature shoes, the Zoom Freak 3 is hitting US retailers in August.

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‘He would do anything for this game’: How Bud Black quietly reached baseball immortality – The Athletic

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Harry Black Sr. could fly on ice, like most Edmonton kids born with their skates already laced. He carved a line on a pond like a natural jet stream following the way of the wind. Theres a grace and easygoing peace to skating with skill that makes the mind give up some control for the sake of speed.

As a dad, though, Harry was a nervous wreck. He couldnt sit still. He never perched himself in the bleacher seats when his son played Little League baseball. He parked his car beyond center field and stood in the distance, watching from the other side of the fence.

When his son pitched in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series in 1984, Harry paced the concourse at Royals Stadium in Kansas City with his best friend from Canada. Maybe having a buddy there helped him carry the weight of worry.

He was 65 years old, his son, Bud Black, said.

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Novak Djokovic wins 20th grand slam title at Wimbledon on the road to tennis immortality – The New Daily

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Novak Djokovic has taken another step toward tennis immortality after claiming a record-equalling 20th grand slam title with a four-set win over Italys Matteo Berrettini in the Wimbledon final.

His hard-fought 6-7 (4-7) 6-4 6-4 6-3 victory ensured he became the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to claim the first three slams of the year.

Overall he joins Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal with slam win No.20.

Asked what it meant to draw level with his two great rivals, Djokovic said: It means none of us three will stop!

I have to pay a great tribute to Rafa and Roger. They are legends of our sport. The two most important players I ever faced.

They are the reason I am where I am today. They made me realise what I had to do to improve.

The last 10 years has been an incredible journey that is not stopping here.

Federer had 16 grand slam titles when Djokovic won his second in 2011 but over the last decade the Serbian has hunted down his great rivals to achieve what had looked impossible, and the world No.1 does not seem likely to stop there.

He has already made it known he is chasing the golden slam all four major titles and an Olympic singles gold medal in one year, which only Steffi Graf has ever managed previously.

I could definitely envisage that happening, Djokovic said of winning all four slams in a year.

Im going to give it a shot. Im playing well and playing my best tennis at grand slams is my priority.

Berrettini gave it a good go despite heavy strapping on his left thigh, recovering from a poor start to win the first set, but he was unable to become Italys first Wimbledon champion.

Djokovic has now won three consecutive Wimbledon titles and six in total.

The 34-year-old Serbian, who came into the title clash having beaten Berrettini in both of their previous meetings, opened a 5-2 lead in the first set with an early break but the Italian fought back to force a tiebreak which he clinched to draw first blood.

It was only the second set the Serbian had lost in this years championships.

He reacted by racing to a 4-0 lead in the second set before going on to level the match.

A single break of serve in the third and two more breaks in the fourth were enough for Djokovic to close out the contest in front of a raucous Centre Court crowd, who kept on chanting the Italian underdogs name.

Djokovic sealed his place in the record books on his third match point when Berrettinis backhand slice landed in the net.

That was more than a battle. Congratulations to Matteo for a fantastic tournament. It was a tough match today. Hes a true Italian hammer, Djokovic said.

Winning Wimbledon was always the biggest dream as a kid. I have to remember how special this is and not take it for granted and be aware this is a huge honour and privilege.

From being a seven-year-old constructing a trophy out of raw materials to standing here with a sixth trophy. Its incredible.

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Book Notes: In search of Proust, finding Ruskin, poets, poems and art – theday.com

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On July 10, 1871, Marcel Proust was born, and this year we celebrate the 150th birthday of the author of In Search of Lost Time ( La Recherche Du Temps Perdu), 3,000 pages in seven volumes, four of which appeared in print before his death on Nov. 18, 1922, the remaining three between 1923 and 1927.

He continued writing and revising his monumental lifes work until the day of his death. Roger Shattuck, the Proust scholar, in his illuminating study Prousts Way a Field Guide to In Search of Lost Time. describes the sheer sense of life in the novel that reawakens us to our own existence.

In its pages we find art and music, characters made immortal by his pen, a vision of life that becomes the readers own.

For a moment though, reflecting on Proust takes us back to our own library and our own community. James Merrill, when he was a student at Amherst, developed an obsession with memory and a transformative interest in Proust. In an interview with J.D. McClatchy published in the Paris Review in 1982, Merrill agreed with McClatchys assessment that Proust had been the greatest influence on his career.

And here we are, in Stonington Free Library with one of the most comprehensive collections of books by and about Proust anywhere outside of an academic library. This is entirely thanks to the gift to the library of books from the collection of J.D. (Sandy) McClatchy, who shared Merrills passion for Proust, now in the McClatchy Memorial Corner upstairs in the gallery.

The library also has in its holdings, thanks to the generosity of longtime supporter Charlie Clark, the complete In Search of Lost Time as a book on CD. Another way of discovering this 20th century masterpiece.

And dont forget that Sandys typewriter, the gift of friend and neighbor Robert Palm, is also there in the gallery, silent for over a year but waiting once again for poems to be written on it what better way to celebrate our newly opening world?

But back to James Merrill and his moving tribute, his brilliant poem For Proust. The elegiac tone, heightened by the witty homonyms and stanzaic enjambments carry the narrative forward with a touching urgency as the dying Proust leaves his bed to go out into society one more time.

In the third quatrain, the first line, with its pressing assonance, an internal rhyme and enjambment create an overwhelming sense of fracas until your palms

Are moist with fear

And then -

Back where you came from, up the strait stair, past

All understanding, bearing the whole past.

You make for one dim room without contour

And station yourself there, beyond the pale

Of cough or gardenia, erect, pale.

What has happened is becoming literature.

But of the myriad of words written about Proust, for me those by the distinguished American poet Anthony Hecht (1923-2004) capture the essence of Proust most perfectly in his poem Proust on Skates. In this poem, the description of him skating reflects, in the manner of an homage, a sense of Prousts creative process.

He glides with gaining confidence, inscribes

Tentative passages, thinks again, backtracks,

Comes to a minute point,

Then wheels about in widening sweeps and lobes,

Large Palmer cursives and smooth entrelacs,

Preoccupied, intent

On a subtle, long-drawn style and pliant script

Incised with twin steel blades and qualified

Perfectly to express,

With arms flung wide or gloved hands firmly gripped

Behind his back, attentively, clear-eyed,

A glancing happiness.

It will not last, that happiness; nothing lasts;

But will reduce in time to the clear brew

Of simmering memory

Nourished by shadowy gardens, music, guests,

Childhood affections, and, of Delft, a view

Steeped in a sip of tea.

For much of his life, Hecht himself was haunted, too, by memories, though of a more horrific order. As a young soldier, he was part of the liberation of the Flossenbrg concentration camp in 1945.

The place, the suffering, the prisoners accounts, were beyond comprehension. For

years after I would wake shrieking.

He addressed the Holocaust and the horrors of war in his large body of work, work which won him many awards including the Pulitzer Prize, the Bollingen Award, and his appointment as National Poet Laureate. Perhaps the most painful of all Holocaust poems is his sestina The Book of Yolek. Yolek was five years old. Thanks to Anthony Hecht

Wherever you are, Yolek will be there too.

His unuttered name will interrupt your meal.

Prepare to receive him in your home some day.

Though they killed him in the camp they sent him to,

He will walk in as youre sitting down to a meal.

Memory.

Just a reminder that you can access all these poems online at thepoetryfoundation.org, as well as finding them in the library along with letters and criticism, including the newly published letters of James Merrill and Jonathan Posts critical study of Anthony Hecht, The Thickness of Particulars, as well as his edition of Hechts letters.

But lets circle back to Proust, who exulted in life and its endless joys as he battled his own mortality. In the June Book Notes I likened the lyrics of the 17th century English poet Henry Vaughan to a carving hidden away in the organ loft of a medieval cathedral, awaiting the seeing eye of the curious traveler. I realized later that it was Proust that I was recalling and his book of essays Days of Reading where he describes his experience reading Ruskin. In a famous passage he quotes Ruskins description of a small figure, a few centimeters high, lost amidst hundreds of minuscule figures, in the portal of the Booksellers in Rouen cathedral.

On Ruskins death Proust felt he must go and find this tiny figure which, miraculously, he did. He felt that, in drawing the figure, Ruskin had conferred on it a kind of immortality. The monstrous, inoffensive little figure was to be resurrected from that death which seems more absolute than others, that disappearance into the midst of an infinite number made anonymous I was touched to rediscover it there; nothing then dies of what has once lived, the sculptors thought any more than that of Ruskin. Proust calls the figure poor little monster your poor face, that I would never have noticed but somehow he finds a sense of resurrection here in this smallest figure, framing a tiny quatrefoil, resurrected in its form, gazing at us with the same gaze that seems to fit inside no more than a millimeter of stone. The fellow is vexed and puzzled in his malice; and his hand is pressed hard on his cheek bone, and the flesh of the cheek is wrinkled under the eye by the pressure. The whole indeed looks wretchedly coarse. But considering it as a mere filling of an interstice on the outside of a cathedral gate. It proves very noble vitality in the art of the time

Proust devoted nine years to translating Ruskin, who had a profound influence on his development as a writer, especially in his conception of artist as interpreter and his belief that beauty resided in the simplest of objects [in] the most beloved sights that you see every summer evening along thousands of footpaths, the streams of water on the hillsides. Of your old, familiar countryside.

Proust understood the world through painting and music as well as literature and if you are not ready to read the novel itself there are many delightful windows on his world. Anka Muhlsteins book is one, another is Paintings in Proust by Eric Karpeles, a collection of all the paintings that figure in the novel, fine color reproductions appearing alongside the relevant texts. It is a feast of a book whether you are already familiar with the novel or a newcomer to its treasures.

As John Ruskin wrote in The Bible of Amiens, The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and to tell what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one

This, as we have already seen, became Prousts credo in his writing. More than 300 years earlier, far removed from the worlds of both Ruskin and Proust, in an obscure English country parish, the poet/priest George Herbert wrote these lines in a plea for the soul to honor God by telling what it saw in a plain way.

Who says that fictions onely and false hair

Become a verse? Is there no truth in beautie?

Is all good structure in a winding stair?

May no lines passe, except they do their dutie

Not to a true, but painted chair?

Must all be vaild, while he that reades, divines,

Catching the sense at two removes?

Perhaps we can leave all three of these gifted and visionary minds on the same page and share in A glancing happiness?

Belinda de Kay is the emeritus director of Stonington Free Library.

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‘Success breeds success.’ Ohio is on a post-pandemic winning streak – Buckeye Institute

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This opinion piece was first published by The Columbus Dispatch.

Ohios new budget extends the states post-pandemic win streak.

A federal judge recently agreed with Ohio that Congress audacious attempt to keep states from directly or indirectly cutting their own taxes was unconstitutional. Ohios response: a $1.6 billion tax cut.

Thats a big win. Last years tax revenues exceeded pessimistic expectations, allowing Ohio to cut taxes responsibly and return money to taxpayers as the pandemic subsides.

The new budget reduces most income tax rates and lowers the average taxpayers tax burden by three percent. Even better, it simplifies the tax code and pares the number of personal income tax brackets from nine to four.

Policymakers wisely cut the top tax rate now under four percent and anyone making $25,000 or less will pay no income tax at all. Win, win, win, and win.

Success breeds success.

These tax policy victories will keep Ohio economically competitive and on a winning track. Low tax states like Arizona and Texas have been grown their economies by strategically reducing taxes and regulations to attract workers and businesses.

High tax states like Illinois and New York have shrunk their economies, shed residents, and discouraged businesses. To stay competitive, Ohio must welcome new businesses, entice employers with low-tax incentives, and allow workers to keep more of their paychecks.

Not only will families enjoy lower taxes, but those with school children will soon see fuller benefits of school choice. With the budgets education savings accounts or ESAs families will receive state education dollars in designated accounts to spend on educational supplies and services. Families earning up to three times the federal poverty level will receive $500 to help pay for tutoring, curricula, language classes, and tuition at learning centers.

As families grapple with the pandemics ongoing disruptions, this one-time, limited ESA will not only help pay for rising education costs, it will highlight the benefits of school choice and more parental control in learning.

Parents know best what their child needs, and ESAs provide additional financial resources to meet those academic needs. Although not as generous as ESAs in Florida and Arizona, Ohios new ESA lays a solid, workable foundation. Another win.

The new budget also extends Ohios leadership in criminal justice reform, expanding eligibility for the Targeted Community Alternatives to Prison (T-CAP) program. T-CAP helps low-level, non-violent offenders obtain necessary treatment and rehabilitation. Expanding eligibility will extend that help to more offenders while keeping communities safe and saving taxpayers money in the long run. One more win.

Like every budget, of course, this one has some flaws. Big spending increases for some government programs will pressure decision-making down the road when revenues recede. As Ronald Reagan wisely quipped: The closest thing to immortality is a government program.

Short-term spending programs created today must remain short-term programs and not morph into long-term spending obligations that refuse to die. Vigilant fortitude will be required.

Ohios budget delivers strong victories, reducing and streamlining taxes, enhancing school choice, and expanding successful criminal justice reform.

The fiscal belt should have been tightened and more fat could have been trimmed moves that will be needed later for sustainability but across-the-board tax cuts and smart policy reforms extend Ohios winning streak and give us all something to cheer.

Rea S. Hederman Jr., executive director of the Economic Research Center and vice president of policy at The Buckeye Institute.

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Hanford Gourmet: The Eight Immortals live up to the name – Hanford Sentinel

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Before the May 12 fire, the upstairs of the Taoist Temple Museum was the dazzling centerpiece of China Alley. I can still hear the hush that came over visitors once they came up the stairway leading from an iron door next to the ground floor entrance to the building, as they reached the second.

They observed the beauty in the history of China Alley through the artifacts the lamps alternately powered by candles, kerosene and electricity, the main altar and its stunning tapestry showing the Three Brothers of the Peach Orchard, the row of hand carved teakwood Fou-shou-i chairs inlaid with mother of pearl, and the set of the Eight Immortals, the legendary figures of Taoism who became immortal by following the Tao, The Way. The Eight Immortals figures are usually displayed in a group or individually, and in drawings or paintings they are depicted crossing the ocean in fragile boats or on a rustic bridge on their way to the Taoist paradise. On the second story of the Taoist Temple Museum, the Eight Immortals, carved from cherry wood, were displayed in individual glass cases.

In her book, Things Chinese, Rita Aero explains who the Eight Immortals are and what they signify.

Chung Li-chuan was able to revive the souls of the dead with a magic fan. Chang Kuo-Lao traveled on a magical white horse, which he folded up and put away at night. Lu Tung-Pin was granted a magic sword as a reward for overcoming ten temptations (he couldnt resist the sword, which was his eleventh temptation). He is the patron saint of barbers. Tsao Kuo-chiu always carried a pair of castanets on his person because he wanted to be prepared for any emergency. He is venerated by those is the theatrical profession. Li Tieh-Kuai was on intimate terms with the spirit of Lao Tzu, who he used to visit in the celestial regions. One day Li returned to find his body missing, so he had to settle for the physical form of a dying beggar. The body came complete with a crutch, so Li had to limp through the rest of his existence. Han Hsiang-tzu was borne by his teacher to the Magic Peach Tree so he could taste the immortal peaches. He fell from the branches, and would have been killed had he not bitten one on the way down. Lan Tsai-ho is of uncertain sex, but may have been a woman who wandered about in tattered garments begging her way. She carries a basket, and is the patroness of all gardners. Ho Hsien-ku was a lady who lived near Guangzhou, and was revered for the long distances she went to procure dainty bamboo shoots for her ailing mother. Hos only food was mother-of-pearl, which gave her the desired immortality.

Last month we met with a conservator from RLA Conservation of Art and Architecture. The California Preservation Foundation recommended this firm to us. I am still weak in the knees and very shaky each time I enter the devastation of the Museums second floor. Many artifacts are just gone, all that remains of them is smoky air and ash. The artifacts that endured the fire are damaged. We knew the conservators inspection would allow us to know what could be restored.

I was worried about the Eight Immortals, their glass display cases were covered in soot, some cracked. We couldnt see through the glass. But apparently the Eight Immortals are truly immortal. They survived the fire, unscathed. These historical treasures will continue to be maintained for future generations.

I think I might have a couple of potentially immortal tomato plants as well. They have been producing fruit all year round. This week Im sharing a recipe that went viral a couple of years ago. It is a delicious way to use up the abundance of cherry tomatoes from our crazy plants and the lush basil from the herb garden. Blessings upon precious artifacts that survive, plants that continue to thrive and produce, and recipes that stand the test of time.

Arianne Wing is the co-author of Noodles Through Escargots, and co-owner of the L.T. Sue Co. Tea Room and Emporium, benefiting the restoration and preservation of China Alley. She may be reached at ariannewing@gmail.com

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CRT: We should be teaching the Golden Rule in our schools – Daily Local News

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Earlier this week, an article appeared in the Daily Local News about Critical Race Theory (CRT) titled Mistaken Identity. The general point was that parents are unnecessarily concerned and misinformed about this benign ideology which is primarily confined to the high academic world and not impacting their children.

In our polarized age, conversations about race and social justice tend to generate more heat than light. But you cant have justice without truth. Since the author failed to provide any differing opinion on the issue, at the risk of raising the temperature, I would like to shed some light on this article.

First, CRT dates much earlier than the 1970s. It originated in Italy in the 1920s through the work of Antonio Gramsci. He was an avowed Marxist who shifted the emphasis from economic to cultural oppression. He was followed by the Frankford School which brought this ideology to the United States. Once there it successfully made the long march through the institutions, the cultural gatekeepers in the universities, secondary schools, media, and the world of entertainment.

From there it converged with postmodernism with its rejection of metanarratives and objective truth, and its commitment to deconstruction. Under the broader term Critical Theory (CT) or simply Theory it has been the driving ideological force of the progressive left.

Second, CT/CRT is in our public schools as a quick search of our school district websites demonstrates. You will rarely find the term CRT used. CT/CRT has redefined and added new vocabulary to promote its creed and this is the language utilized. Among these are racism, anti-racism, equity, diversity, inclusion, white privilege, whiteness, white fragility, white supremacy, colorism, and more.

Third, CT/CRT does rewrite history. The 1619 Project, launched by the New York Times in 2019, states that America was not founded in 1776, but in 1619 when the first slaves came to America. We are also asked to believe that the Revolutionary War was fought not to escape British tyranny but to preserve the institution of slavery. Although professional historians and modern academics have refuted these claims, the curriculum has found its way into public schools.

Fourth, CT/CRT does insist that structural racism exists, that whites are inherently racist and privileged, and that they should feel guilty. The foremost proponents of CRT, Ibram X. Kendi and Robin Diangelo make this abundantly clear in their writing, including How to Be an Antiracist and White Fragility. Not surprisingly, these authors are recommended reading in many of our public schools in Chester County.

The ideology of CT/CRT sees the world through the lens which finds power dynamics in every statement, interaction, and institution, even when not obvious or real. While nominally pursuing justice, the goal is to identify victims and then weaponize the oppressed party as a means toward liberation and revolution against the oppressors.

The emphasis is on might over right with power the new god. Following the Roman dictum Divide and conquer CT/CRT sets groups against one another, race against race, sex against sex, generation against generation, in ways that not only create disharmony but ensure harmony is beyond reach. Its goal is not to provide remedies but exploit wrongs to gain power.

CT/CRT is one of the least tolerant and most authoritarian ideologies we have ever faced. Any well-intentioned person who questions it is canceled in what is often a vindictive form of bullying. In the name of liberation, freedom of expression, civil debate, respect for differences, and independent thinking are being silenced.

While CT/CRT has added new terms, others are conspicuously absent. These include forgiveness, redemption, and reconciliation. Egregious wrongs have been done and they have and must be righted. But the proponents of CT/CRT, while rebuking those who have sinned, leave no room for mercy and forgiveness, only appeasement, abasement, or annihilation. This approach to righting wrongs is lethal for freedom. Martin Luther King Jr. said Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do thatTo be free you have to let go of hate.

Humans are fallible creatures. We are all equally in need of forgiveness and grace. There is no system of government that is so perfect that we will not make it go wrong. The sins of slavery and racism are not the ultimate expression of Americas founding, as the proponents of CT/CRT would have you believe. They are the ultimate contradiction to its founding and ideals, its original sin. To this we must acknowledge, repent, and correct ongoing wrongs.

Real change begins in the human heart. The question is how will we look at ourselves and one another. If we see ourselves primarily as victims, our lives will be characterized by resentment, bitterness, grievance, entitlement, and conflict. That is a mistaken identity. But if we see ourselves as image bearers of God, though imperfect, our lives will be marked by humility, gratitude and mutual respect and love.

If an ideology is going to be taught in our childrens schools, perhaps there is a better one to choose from. The Royal Law might be a good start: Love your neighbor as yourself.

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Hubert Joly Turned Around Best Buy. Now Hes Trying to Fix Capitalism. – The New York Times

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What was the moment when you realized that the way weve been doing things just isnt working?

My journey on this dates back to the early 90s. When I started at Best Buy, the basic advice from investors and management was cut, cut, cut. Close stores. Fire everybody. We did the opposite. We listened to the frontliners. We treated head-count reduction as a last resort. So the philosophy was there from the beginning.

If you think about business by first thinking about how you want to be remembered as a human being, most of us gravitate to the golden rule doing something good to our people. If you can connect that desire in your heart with the way you run the business, the employees will love the company. The customers will love the company.

What were some of the obstacles you encountered as you worked to turn around Best Buy?

Our main challenges were: How do you create these new strategies? How to get 100,000 people to embrace them? People can have conversations about changing the system. I think that if we change ourselves, and change the way we run companies, there is an enormous amount we can do, and we dont need to blame anyone. We dont need to become a B Corp to do good things in the world.

Are there specific actions you think companies should take?

I would start with providing an attractive environment and set of opportunities for their employees. Raising the minimum wage is a very important trend, but it goes beyond pay. It is about benefits, taking care of your employees, including their mental health or their ability to vote. It is about a path to advancement, skills acquisition. It is about offering a growth environment, one where you feel you belong, one where you feel your manager is investing in you, one where you can connect what drives you with your work.

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The others have to do with developing a concrete plan to become carbon neutral and making sure you are a good member of the community in which you operate.

If companies are going to pay workers more and pay more taxes, doesnt that at the end of the day mean there will be fewer profits for executives and investors? Thats a hard sell to the people who currently have the most power to change these things.

My experience has been that you can actually create more shareholder value by embracing this stakeholder approach. That doesnt mean its always easy, and it takes time. If in 2012 I told the investors, Im going to immediately go to $15 an hour, it would not have been reasonable. So we did it over time. Its like, if I want to lose 20 pounds overnight, you cant. It takes time.

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Letters to the editor: Responses on critical race theory, anti-abortion group – Akron Beacon Journal

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Critical race theory gives important clues

A letter writer stumbles when he recommends the Golden Rule be taught in classrooms, while rejecting the teaching of critical race theory ("A guide to human interaction at school," July 7). Wouldn't that be like teaching a lesson on World War II without explaining what caused the war in the first place?

Although the Declaration of Independence and this letter writer say we are all equal, that has never been true in the history of our republic. Not for a single day.

I give you slavery; Article 1, Section 2 of the Constitution; the Dred Scott decision; Black men not gaining the vote until 1870; Jim Crow; Emmett Till; George Wallace standing in the schoolhouse door; the necessity of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965; George Floyd; and the voter suppression legislation recently passed in 17 states.

Critical race theory provides some of the backstory explaining why it is that Blacks, in particular, have shorter lifespans than whites, a higher level of infant mortality, a lower level of educational attainment, a lower incidence of homeownership and far lower family wealth than whites. It may also give clues as to why Black Americans with COVID-19 died at twice the rate of white Americans.

It should absolutely be taught in our schools. Those who try to hide these simple facts from our children, or ignoring these facts altogether are also ignoring any paths to solutions. That's not treating fellow citizens like equals.

Jeff Davis, Akron

At our July 7 news conference, we [alleged] that the Northeast Ohio Womens Center abortion clinic in Cuyahoga Falls threw a dismembered aborted child in the trash along with unredacted patient health information and hazardous waste (Groups accuse clinic of putting fetus in trash, July 8). The articlesaid that we indicated the baby would be disposed of at a later date. Actually … I announced that we will hold a burial for the child to give it the dignity that it never had in life. The abortion clinic administrator said in the article that the clinic had systems in place and that this could not have happened. Well, their systems failed, and more than once. … Funny how they value their systems over the life of that child and the well-being of their clients and the community.

DeniseLeipold, executive director of Right to Life of Northeast Ohio, Akron

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