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Obama begins his sec-ond term in the White House

WASHINGTON – U.S. President Barack Obama begins his second term, looking to make good on his election night pledge to move the country forward and unite Americans following a grueling and divi-

sive election campaign.In a rousing victory speech early

Wednesday morning, the president made an appeal to America’s better angels, but insisted that the country was “not as di-vided as our politics suggest.”

“We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states,” Obama said in a speech that was redolent with the soar-ing rhetorical flourishes that were standard issue during his historic 2008 run for the presidency.

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Marshall Deming talked about making jeans one pair at a time, one customer at a time, as he pounded a rivet into a small purse that he was making as a special request. “We would make them custom, and the person wearing that pair would get back to us about what was working out and where there might be problems,” said Deming. “That kind of customer feedback re-ally helped with quality control as we were just starting out.”

Demming and his fellow co-founders of the Hartford Denim Company, a small operation, have recently become big news, having made a deal with The Timberland Company to supply a limited run of jeans for Timberland’s SoHo

For Bloomfield resident Julie Korman-Lindsay ’07, and Hartford native Brittany Bennett ’08, small class size, exquisite resi-dence halls and facilities, and an affordable tuition were indeed attractive as they con-sidered attending colleges and universities. But for Julie, an economics major at Eastern Connecticut State University, and Brittany, who studied business and economics at the university, the deciding factor was a distinc-tive Bennett Family tradition at Eastern. At the end of the day, both finally wanted to follow in the footsteps of their aunts, Dawn Bennett-Wright ’04, and Lisa Bennett ’05, and most important, their grandfather, the distinguished

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CAL lands in London with eye on safety

In Trinidad, the state-owned Caribbean Airlines has launch its London service and has also secured some security help

from the United Kingdom Border Agency which has provided equipment to help anal-yse and detect forged, altered or tampered travel documents like passports.

All flights into London, especially during the Christmas season, will be scanned. This will also apply to other international flights. The airline is on the lookout for fraud and narcotics.

The Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) is pursuing oil exploration in local waters, hav-

ing hired a drilling service manager to spearhead an exploratory well. Work has already commenced on phase one, and a com-

prehensive “Drill Plan” initiated, the company indicates. Divided into three phases, BPC said Applied Drilling Technology Inc. (ADTI) has been awarded the contract and started front end engineering and design. Procurement and proj-ect executions are expected to follow, leading up to an exploratory well being drilled by April of 2013. A new report from the United States Geological Survey has assessed local oil to be 4.3 billion barrels.

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This Kingston-born artist has spent her adult life growing her canvas, from creating one work at a time,

as most artists do, to “curating” all of downtown Hartford. Along the way, she has been Director of Visual Arts at Real Art Ways (2005-2010) and Director of Programs at the Boston Center for the Arts, from 2011-2012. With her appoint-ment this past spring as Director of Marketing, Events and Cultural Affairs for the City of Hartford, her artistic me-dium has become the city itself.

The idea behind her appointment was to bring an artist’s vision to the ongoing revital-ization of downtown. “The mayor created this new position to help make sure that the creative economy is part of the picture moving for-ward,” Newman-Scott said.

In the past, when cities around the country have tried to refurbish their commercial neigh-borhoods, they have relied on artists as their foot soldiers to fill the empty spaces, but the planning was left to the bean counters and busi-ness improvement districts. Today, that model

is flipped. “I come from an art background. I am not from city government,” she is quick to point out.

Newman-Scott has a BFA from the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston. After graduating, she worked in Kingston, Jamaica for eight years in televi-sion, radio and film. She was also an art consul-tant. When asked what guided her to her present situation in Hartford, she replied, “curiosity.”

“I was always traveling, and my husband was from Connecticut,” she continued. “He’s the reason why I moved to Connecticut. He’s Jamaican, but he grew up in Connecticut. His family owns Scott’s Jamaican bakery. And so we moved here because his dad was retiring.”

She said that finding a creative outlet in Connecticut was vital to her, “so I decided to Google Hartford, and I found Real Art Ways.

I went there and saw a concert with the Magic Malik, and it was amazing. I applied for the co-ordinator position, and then I got it. That’s just kind of how I’ve always approached my career path. I have not worked anywhere that does not fundamentally fulfill my creative spirit.”

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TCANews caught up with former Mayor Ed-die Perez doing the sort of thing he likes to spend his time doing these days: supporting

a good cause. On this occasion, it was participating in the Latino Health Summit & Community Health Fair organized by Latino Community Services, Inc. The event, held at the Convention Center in Hartford on Tuesday, October 22nd, focused on the health of older people, men in particular, and brought together individuals and organizations that provide everything from dental care to HIV/AIDS support.

“The reason I’m here is to support elderly Lati-nos in their quality of life,” said Perez. “There are a lot of gaps in that area, and increasingly, in our city, our region and in our state, these are going to become an issue.”

He himself didn’t appear to belong in the constit-uency being served. In fact, it was hard to believe that this former municipal chief exec was a grand-father. “I am enjoying my two grandkids, he said. “I’ve got a one-year-old and a four-year-old grand-son, and I’m concentrating on family business.”

Aside from the consulting work he does for non-profits, his business is real estate. “It has always been my passion,” said Perez, “trying to help indi-vidual investors, as well as trying to see if there are opportunities for my family in real estate.” Clearly,

the advantage of being sidelined from politics is the ability to do business without having an entire city up in it 24/7.

While “tan, rested and ready” wouldn’t be far off the mark, Eddie Perez insists that talk of a come-back would be premature. “I have to get through my current crisis before I think about politics,” he said. He is in the thick of an appeal against crimi-nal convictions of bribery and extortion, convic-tions that prompted his 2010 resignation from of-fice. “The appeal will probably be heard in the next six to ten months. Hopefully I’ll be successful in the appeal.”

As far as any future in politics, he is patient: “We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it. My biggest comeback is to continue my career in pub-lic service,” he said. “I have a long, long career in public service. I’m doing consulting with non-profits. I’m working with the San Juan Center. I’m working with CART, Connecticut AIDS Resource Coalition. My first priority is my family; the sec-ond is my community.”

Busy or not, it is hard to believe that Eddie Perez will ever by content to be a mere spectator in city politics. He seems to have too much energy for that. “There are 24 hours in a day,” he mused. “I could spend 23 working and one sleeping.”

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billed on its website as a culture based ur-ban design plan for Downtown Hartford. The city’s cultural institutions constitute some of the “patches” of this quilt, and maps have started springing up on downtown street corners to sew this quilt together. Major downtown festivals are temporary but vital pieces of the puzzle as well. The piece that is taking up most of Kris-tina Newman Scott’s attention right now is Winterfest.

“Winterfest is a free skating festival that hap-pens in Bushnell Park,” she said. “Not only is it wonderful because you can come out and skate for free, we have skates that we give to kids and people who don’t have skates so that they can enjoy. And if they don’t know how to skate, we teach them how to skate for free.”

She went on to describe how executing a two month outdoor festival can draw on the same skills as planning events at Real Art Ways,

where she oversaw 80 exhibitions over 5 ½ years. First there’s the core theme and event, which is skating, and then there’s the building-on process: “I ask, okay, so what are the things we can add on to this? You can think about ad-ditional winter activities – your broom ball or your snowman contest.

Then you think about what else makes it in-teresting and festive. Well, wouldn’t it be great if you could pick up a Christmas tree, too? It’s about asking questions, being open to possibili-ties.”

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Despite the dominant business culture in which the team play-er is highly valued,

brand development practitioners are noting the importance of dis-tinguishing and marketing per-sonal characteristics.

And there is money to be earned from it, in addition to pro-motions and other rewards, says Marie Berbick of Berbick Graham & Associates – the Spanish Town, St. Catherine based firm in col-laboration with legal firm Myers, Fletcher and Gordon is running a series of personal brand develop-ment workshops.

Personal brand development is the latest service – introduced for 2012 - to be offered by the com-municator who attributes 65 per cent of revenue to brand develop-ment, marketing communications and public education campaign development, communication programme audits, brand and corporate identity development, publication development, ad cam-paign management, copy writing and commercial production ser-vices, plus training in personal branding public speaking and media relations for executives.

Although declining to share revenue data for the eight year old company, she notes, “currently, the bulk - 65 per cent - of our rev-enue comes from our marketing communications and brand devel-opment services as well as public education campaign development.

“The remaining 35 per cent is split between corporate training, publicity, publication develop-ment and media production ser-vices. There is greater competition in publicity and event planning services now, hence I’ve focused more on marketing those services which require a highly trained, skilled and experienced commu-nications specialist to handle.”

According to Berbick, distin-guishing personal traits and mar-keting them has served her well in her own career and will benefit others in a more competitive mi-lieu.

“Personal branding can make the difference between being successful and being ordinary in an increasingly borderless and highly competitive job market. In the corporate world, being a team player--- being able to work well with others is a skill that everyone

should have but we also live in a competitive, individualistic so-ciety,” claims Berbick.

“A smart, ambitious execu-tive knows that differentiating himself can help him to achieve a higher level of recognition, command greater respect from decision makers and more impor-tantly increase earnings. Personal branding is designed to help that corporate executive to identify the most marketable qualities and skills that he or she possesses and package and sell their skills as so-lutions that can make a difference to an organization’s bottom line.”

The return on investment can vary, depending on how well an individual packages and markets himself. “These days, reality TV, particularly in the US and Eng-land, have proven that ordinary people can become quite wealthy from developing a personal brand, if they are savvy marketers with a hunger for success. Once they establish themselves as a success-ful brand, they can earn in vari-ous ways, from licensing, image rights, merchandising and speak-ing engagements.”

Andrea Scarlett-Lozer of My-ers Fletcher notes that in the en-tertainment field, Bob Marley’s estate, nearly 30 years after his death, is worth an estimated US$130 million [figure taken from urbanislandz.com] and that value continues to grow. The fi-nancial success of Marley’s estate so many years after his passing, can be attributed to the strength of his personal brand, which has increased immensely in value through smart branding such as licensing, merchandising and im-age rights.”

In sports, she states, “Usain Bolt is the most successful sports-man out of Jamaica, not only be-cause of his record breaking feats on the track but also because of his marketing savvy and growing his brand not only on but also off the track through merchandising (shoes and clothing line), licens-ing and the use of his image.

Forbes.com reports that Puma indicated that “Bolt will receive a sum that is by far the largest ever given to a track and field athlete, positioning him as “a top earner in the world of sports.” It is esti-mated that the Puma deal is worth more than US$32M.

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Just one year after its approval, legislation aimed to draw film and

television production to Puerto Rico is already seeing results -- attracting 30 productions and nearly $80 mil-lion in investments.

Passed in March 2011, productions including “The Rum Diary” star-ring Johnny Depp, Showtime’s “The Big C” and the mov-ie “Runner, Runner” starring Ben Affleck and Justin Timberlake have already taken ad-vantage of the tax cuts. The legislation, known as Act 27 or the Puerto Rico Film Industry Eco-nomic Incentives Act, offers a com-petitive cost structure of 20 percent production tax credit to all non-res-idents “above-the-line” spending, extending the credit to producers,

directors, writers and talent. The law also means that proj-

ects spending as little as $100,000 become eligible for incentives and services, opening the door to every

thing from short films, video games, documentaries, sound track

recordings, dubbings and music videos. Part of

a larger pro-growth policy campaign by Governor Luis For-tuno, the legislation package recognizes the film industry’s

role in the American economy -- account-

ing for 2.4 million jobs and $41.7 billion in wages to US work-ers. Act 27 enables Puerto Rico to remain competitive and capitalize on the film industry’s economic im-pact all while offering film makers low production costs without hav-ing to leave the US.

“Between the stunning scenery and proximity to the US mainland,

Puerto Rico offers a prime lo-cation for production,” said Jose Perez-Rivera, Puerto Rico’s Secre-tary of Economic Development and Commerce.

“The latest incentives and infra-structure provided by Act 27 make filming in Puerto Rico not only ide-al, but seamless.”

Puerto Rico has served as a set location for more than 90 produc-tions since 1999 including major motion pictures such as Disney’s “Pirates of the Caribbean 4”, Uni-versal Picture’s “Fast 5” and Warner Brothers’ “The Losers,” as well as television programs, such as ABC’s “The River” and “Off the Map,” USA Network’s “White Collar” and “Royal Pains,” and HBO Film’s “Eastbound and Down.”

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The persisting problem of brain drain in the Caribbean will make each nation state look more keenly at the issue

of funding tertiary education for their population. Evidence is in the fact that remittances do not compensate for the significant leakage in highly skilled men and women from the region to more de-veloped countries.

At the same time, shrinking national budgets have created problems in the area of subsidising tertiary education. As the population at colleges and universi-ties in the region grows, so dwindles the ability of the state to fund education under current fiscal constraints created by a worldwide recession that continues to

linger.In Barbados, former Education Minister

Mia Mottley disclosed mid-year that the Government of Barbados now owes more than $100 million to the University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill Campus.

She is advocating a means by which Barbadians can repay monies spent on their education if they go outside of CARICOM to live and work immediately after getting their degrees.

The Government apparently owes between $50 million and $60 million in arrears, plus $60 million to $70 million for this financial year.

In Jamaica, the government has pro-gressively reduced subsidies to the Uni-versity of the West Indies, Mona, directing

funding instead to preferred programmes at other universities and colleges includ-ing the newly opened HEART College of

Innovation and Technology. The old lady of Mona Campus has been

forced to find innovative ways to fund its existing programmes and for the creation of new ones for which even students from as far away as Africa will be happy to pay full tuition. The medical faculty has several Africans and students of other non-Caribbean nations now on roll, pay-ing full tuition.

The upshot of all of this is that students in the Caribbean seem destined to pay more and more for tertiary education as government reduces its role in funding, and as many critics observe that the state is headed in the wrong direction.

They contend that skilled work force development is critical to growth in gross domestic product (GDP).

But, a recent position paper, “Emigra-tion and Brain Drain: Evidence From the Caribbean”, Prepared by Prachi Mishra of the Western Hemisphere Department of the IMF notes that Caribbean countries have lost 10–40 per cent of their labor force due to emigration to OECD member countries.

He contends, “the migration rates are particularly striking for the highly skilled. Many countries have lost more than 70 per cent of their labor force with more than 12 years of completed schooling—among the highest emigration rates in the world. The region is also the world’s largest recipient of remittances as a per

cent of GDP. “Remittances constituted about 13 per cent of the region’s GDP in 2002. Sim-

ple welfare calculations suggest that the losses due to high-skill migration (ceteris paribus) outweigh the official remittances to the Caribbean region. The results sug-gest that there is indeed some evidence for brain drain from the Caribbean.”

While some compromise must be struck for the funding of skills needed for economic growth and education up to the high school level; the problem of pouring money in the pockets of more developed countries, via the brain drain, is one to be pondered.

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store in New York City. If you have to ask what they cost, you can’t afford it. However, a slightly better deal on their products can be had at their workshop at 30 Arbor Street, on the 4th floor of a large industrial building next to Real Art Ways.

The first thing a visitor to Hartford Denim will notice would be what seems like doz-ens of antique sewing machines filling up the place. The next thing that pops out is the evi-dence of all of the leatherwork going on, for bags and backpacks as well as the trimming on their jeans. It turns out that the antique sewing ma-chines are a big part of the company’s success; in addi-tion, it was a backpack that landed the three Hartford entrepreneurs their high profile Timberland deal. “The Timberland store hap-pened because my brother was in the airport with a backpack that we had made for him,” said co-founder Luke Davis. “One of their executives stopped him and he was like ‘Where’d you get that backpack?’” and he told him the story and he’s like, wow…we gotta do something here.” “The other stores we met through an an-tiques festival in Brimfield, Massachusetts,” Davis said. The three men have had to spend a great deal of time antiquing to find the right equipment. “We do it on old machines, and we do it with old hand tools. They certain-ly don’t make those like they used to, so where else you gonna go buy ’em?”

The third partner, Dave Marcoux, described exactly what they did for the small run of lim-ited edition products made just for Timberland: “We had hand-cast brass hardware, so the top button on the jeans has a Timberland tree logo cast into a brass button. We did some other de-tails where, if you look on the Timberland work boot, you’ll notice that the shoelaces passed through a hexagon shaped eyelet. We had a hexagon-shaped washer for our rivets made up, so all the rivets have little brass hexagons on

them to kind of carry through with that.”It doesn’t get more old-school than that. “We

don’t really sell anything over the internet for the most part,” said Davis. “We’re real do-it-yourself kind of guys. We wanted a good qual-ity product made the right way, and the only way to do it was to do it ourselves. And it kind of caught on.” Their pants and other products bear a little leather patch in the shape of the state of Connecticut. In a way, these three guys have created the best possible advertising for the state’s “Still Revolutionary” campaign. Many a hand has scratched many a head over the idea that anything revolutionary can come

out of a place best known for steady habits, old factories, antique stores and boutique products.

Well, here it is, all coming together at the Hartford Denim Company.

Besides Timberland, other stores in Man-hattan’s SoHo district selling Hartford Denim products include Palmer Trading Company (137 Sullivan Street) and Loopy Mango (78 Grand Street).

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Many American’s dream of home ownership has gotten a little cloudy in recent years due to the

global economic downturn and the slump in the real estate market. As income’s fell from unem-ployment or reduced earnings, many homeown-er’s fell behind on their mortgage payments and found themselves facing foreclosure. Fac-ing the risk of losing one’s home to foreclosure can be extremely stressful and embarrassing to families. Many homeowners felt overwhelmed by the foreclosure process, unaware of their options and simply walked away from their homes.

In Connecticut and other states, the Court system has stepped in to try and help the mil-lions of families facing foreclosure to prevent the loss of their homes. To do so, Connecticut and other states have implemented a foreclo-sure prevention process known as Foreclosure Mediation. How does mediation work? Im-mediately after the lender has started the fore-closure process by serving you with legal court papers, the homeowner can request the opportu-nity to participate in the mediation program. In order to be eligible to participate in the media-

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to present an explanation of what caused the hardship. The Homeowner is also required to provide to the lender recent financial informa-tion demonstrating sufficient income to make a suitable modified loan payment.

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On September 28, 2012, President Obama signed into law S. 3245, which extends the authorization of the E-Verify program, along with three other immigra-tion programs, to September 30, 2015. The E-Verify program was due to expire at the end of September 2012.

E-Verify allows employers to electronically verify the information provided by new employees on the Form I-9. It is a volun-tary program except where required by state law or by the federal contractor rule.


NEW YORK, USA -- Paris is a mainstay atop most every list of the world’s best destinations for shopping vacations, but in the Caribbean the island of Marti-nique stands above the rest. The best of Parisian fashion, jewelry, porcelain, perfumes and other goods is readily available here alongside unique Creole treasures born of centuries-old traditions.

Diverse venues, encompassing every-thing from sprawling, ultra-modern malls, to chic boutiques and tradi-

tional farmer’s markets, only add to the dy-namic experience of shopping in Martinique.

The highlight of any shopping adventure in Martinique is Le Grand Marché Couvert, or Covered Market, located in Fort-de-France. Designed by French architect Henri Picq and constructed in 1901 (later restored in 1989), this bustling bazaar is where locals have bought and sold essential herbs, spices, produce and other goods for generations. Rows of fragrant spices, including the local curry powder known as “colombo,” as well as medicinal herbs, exot-ic fruits like chayotes (locally known as “chris-tophines”), and indigenous vegetables such as yams or “ignames” as they’re called in Marti-nique are everywhere.

The colorful displays of edible offerings,

combined with the multihued tropical flow-ers that are also sold at the market make for priceless photos. Yet, visitors who come to the market equipped, (not to take pictures, but purchase souvenirs) will find a variety of hand-crafted wooden bowls, traditional “bak-oua” or straw hats and Creole dolls, as well as the many homemade confectionaries that constitute an age-old tradition in Martinique; “filibos” or “pilibos” are colorful candies made from cane sugar. Pistachio nougat is another is-land specialty as are crystallized fruits.

Just a few blocks from the Covered Market, Rue Victor Hugo appeals to those with a more refined shopping palate. The Caribbean’s most fashionable shopping thoroughfare, Rue Vic-tor Hugo features the latest trends from Paris and the French Riviera lining the racks and shelves of legendary emporiums like Roger Albert. This long-established purveyor of clas-sic French brands is a haven for such luxury items as Baccarat and Lalique crystal, Cartier perfumes and Lancôme cosmetics, which proudly tout the “Made in France” mark. Also on Rue Victor Hugo is La Cave à Vin, one of Martinique’s best restaurants and a prime spot for purchasing the finest French vintages. A va-

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Beyond Rue Victor Hugo, downtown Fort-de-France is teeming with shops selling haute couture and stylish resort wear, which can be found on side streets such as Rue Moreau de Jones, Rue Antoine Siger and Rue Lamartine. French department store Galeries Lafayette on rue Schoelcher is to Fort-de-France (and Paris, for that matter), what Bloomingdale’s is to New York City. On Rue Perrinon is fashion boutique Mounia, the eponymous owner of which was a former Yves St. Laurent model who has re-turned to her native Martinique to sell the de-signs of her famed former employer, as well as Christian Lacroix and other top French brands.

Two of the top spots for unique jewelry finds to accompany the finest fashions are Thomas de Rogatis and Albert Venutolo. Here visitors will find authentic bijoux creole jewelry – 18-karat gold baubles like the beaded “collier chou” or “darling’s necklace”, popularized after the abo-lition of slavery and seen in many museums.

A modern, contemporary shopping experi-ence, La Cour Perrinon, can be found in the

heart of Fort-de-France, just a few blocks from Rue Victor Hugo. The air-conditioned mall has the feel of a mid-city shopping plaza, com-plete with a small grocery, food court, banks, bookstore, electronics shop and a wide range of other retail outlets. The “Made in Martinique” label is as sought after on the island as is “Made in France.” Thus, a trip to the Centre des Mé-tiers d’Art, or Center of Trade Arts, on Rue Er-nest Deproge is as rewarding as any shopping adventure in Martinique. This artisanal market, like the craft market at La Savane, is full of lo-cal artwork, coral jewelry, wooden sculptures and handmade wicker and pottery. Another lo-cally produced product that’s well worth taking home is the Madras fabric long used for cus-tomary folk costumes and still featured today in modern attire. Madras can be purchased for approximately US$15 to US$20 per meter at shops throughout the island.

For another modern shopping option, Marti-nique offers La Galleria. Located just north of downtown Fort-de-France, La Galleria houses more than 140 boutiques and shops, making it the largest shopping mall in the Lesser Antilles. Here, shoppers can browse in air-conditioned comfort with free WiFi covering 430,000+ square feet of retail space. Shops carry every-thing from the latest cameras and electronics, toys, jewelry and games, to furniture, books, fashion, shoes, sporting goods and more.

Across the Bay of Fort-de-France, in the sea-side village of Trois-Ilets, some of the island’s best resort shopping can be found at Le Village Creole. This outdoor shopping plaza boasts a wide array of colorful boutiques artfully laid out in the style of a traditional Mar-tinican Creole village. Fine fashion and exotic jewelry finds are on sale, while the lively bars and cafes stay open well into the night.

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Whatever its outcome, any national election gives citizens a chance to pause and ask “How are we doing?”

when it comes to running a democracy. Election Day is a giant reality-show-meets-testing-labora-tory that allows us to see the good, the bad and the ugly of the voting process. Even those who stay at home and do not vote are answering the question in their own way. If most people feel extreme poll fatigue in the days and weeks following an elec-tion, it is important to remember that if we want to make improvements to the system, we have to start right away while the lessons are fresh and there is still time to make fixes before the next election cycle rolls around.

Before the 2012 election, concerned citizens packed the Courtroom of the Old State House to hear a panel speak about the history of voting rights. It was the best possible venue to assess the state of our democracy, as the Old State House was the site where the wheels of Connecticut’s govern-ment turned for over 80 years. Today it stands as a museum and a gathering place for the community in the heart of downtown Hartford.

Moderator Elizabeth McGuire from the Con-

necticut Network (CT-N) introduced the panel for the October 10th discussion, entitled “The Fight to Vote, The Right to Vote.” First to speak was Dr. Stefanie Chambers, associate professor of political science at Trinity College. Next came Secretary of the State Denise Merrill, and last came Cheri Quickmire of Common Cause, Connecticut. Af-ter the panel discussion, Ms. McGuire opened the floor to questions from the audience.

“There have been lots of voter issues in the news

in the past year,” Dr. Chambers began. “We’ve heard a lot about voter ID laws for example, a very hot issue, with one side of that issue saying that we need the law to prevent fraud, and the other side calling these laws an attempt to keep certain voters away from the polls.”

People who follow the news know that the up-

shot of voting laws in other states has been to pile on inconveniences to many citizens who already have a hard time voting. However, the population impacted by these laws is dwarfed by the large number of people who simply chose not to vote. “We know that a huge number of people just sit out many elections,” said Dr. Chambers. “Of course, that would be very discouraging for many of those people who fought so hard to win the right to vote for women and for minorities.”

She continued: “Today, women turn out to vote in higher numbers than men, a trend that we’ve seen since the 1980s. A lot of other groups are not voting in high numbers in terms of their eligibility:

young people, poor people, racial and ethnic mi-norities, Latinos, African Americans, and Ameri-can Indians are turning out in very low numbers to vote. And that’s a concern in terms of our de-mocracy.”

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we look over the course of history, it is possible to take a half-full view of the present situation: “Rather than focusing on the depressing fact that fewer than 50% of us vote, it helps to look back over time and see that we’ve made great strides through heroic struggles where people have fought and died for the right to vote. That’s how I prefer to look at the system.”

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of the disenfranchised popula-tion have benefited from each others’ efforts. The end of slavery and the formal enfran-chisement of black Americans inspired the long and ultimate-ly successful struggle for the women’s vote. Later, when the civil rights movement yielded a new round of laws aimed at guaranteeing equality, women, Latinos, blacks and anyone else at the margins received addi-tional legal protections for their rights.

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for women’s suffrage can be traced back to the involvement of women in the antislavery move-ment,” recounted Dr. Chambers. “It was not considered unladylike for women to participate in the antislavery movement. It was tied to reli-gious participation, so it was seen as acceptable by society.”

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Chambers of the evolution of voting rights be-fore bringing the discussion back to the present day. “If we were to have a truly representative democracy, we should see a situation where we have true majority rule. A truly representative de-mocracy would be a situation in which there are no barriers to voting. A challenge in this country is that voting is a two-step process: registration, then voting. Among young people and those who move around, understanding the voting process in a given state can be challenging. For exam-ple, my students are confused about where they should vote because they are in college.” Secre-tary of the State Denise Merrill spoke next, and jumped right into the issue of voter participation, specifically in Connecticut. “About a third of our eligible population aren’t even registered to vote,” she reported. “Of that two-thirds that’s left, about seventy-five to eighty percent will actually vote this year, which puts us overall around fifty percent actually showing up. I would say that this is a crisis, and I don’t hesitate to say that.”

“Now that people have the right to vote, the complicated struggle is to get them to exercise the rights that have been fought and died for,” Merrill continued. “We see unfolding before us, all around the world, people fighting and dying for this right.”

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teaching our children in schools. Then there’s the way our modern media focu on the elections. It would be hard not to feel negative about govern-ment today,” she said grimly.

The Secretary of the State had some suggestions for modernizing the voting process: “The process is very onerous in this country. As a matter of fact, in many countries, you are not required to register. When you come of age, you are a voter. What’s wrong with that?” Speaker Cheri Quickmire spoke about some of the dirty tricks used by today’s political campaigns to discourage voter turnout.

“They are utilizing strategies such as robocalls to tell folks that their polling place has changed, when it hasn’t. They’re using text messages send-ing misinformation to voters about election day, or about what’s going on in their polling place. This is quite frightening.”

Quickmire also spoke about the laws that other states are passing and their discouraging effect on senior citizen population. “In this last election,

I brought my mother, who had just moved back North, with me to vote. She came from a state where they had a little voter I.D. card, and now she no longer had a card that worked for her in this state. She also hadn’t yet updated her driver’s license.” Quickmire pointed out that Connecticut does not require a photo ID in order to vote. “She was very apprehensive about this. She was sure I was making this up,” she said.

A great deal more was said by the panelists, and

as is customary at the Old State House’s lunchtime panel discussions, the formal presentations ended in time for attendees in the audience to voice their opinions and ask questions. “I’m thinking that one way to do this is start with more education on it for children under the age of eighteen,” said audience member Henrietta Jones toward the end of the ses-sion. “But why aren’t men voting in the

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The morning of Sunday, Oc-tober 14th looked like a pos-sible rainout; however, some-body up there wanted to watch the “Champion of Champions” match, the annual contest in which the champion of the Connecticut Cricket League faces off against the top team from the Southern Cricket League.

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This past cricket season was marked by, among other highlights, an East Indies versus West Indies matchup in the playoffs. During

the first weekend, Hartford County Cricket Club, a mostly Pakistani and Indian team, faced the West Indian Social Club, which was remarkable because neither team had made the playoffs last year, or the year before that. Another big surprise was the Windsor Cricket Club, who had never made the playoffs before.

“We did have a great season,” crowed George Steir, Vice President of the Connecticut Cricket League.

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times,” said Steir. “He was our outstanding fielder; he was our outstanding batsman.”

“We had quite a number of outstanding bowl-ers,” Steir continued, “Douglass Parnell, Joseph Allen, Delroy Nelson…they were really fan-tastic with bowling – keeping the opponent in check.”

Stanford Walker, P.R. Director for the Cricket Hall of Fame, said of the 2012 season, “There are some good teams, and the competition is much stiffer lately.” Of course, the true high-light of the season came on the night of October 6th with the induction ceremony for the Cricket Hall of Fame, held at the Hilton in Hartford. It was an international event, with honorees com-ing from the West Indies and elsewhere to par-ticipate.

“The response from the crowd was outstand-ing. It was one of the best ceremonies we ever

had,” said Walker. “Sportmen’s Athletic club started the Hall of Fame in 1981, and it is the first in the world. Each year, we have some great inductees, and eight out of nine were present.”

Basil Butcher and Joe Solomon, two former West Indian star players were there that night. “Butcher and Solomon did not say a lot, but that they were happy to be honored for what they have done for the sport,” said Walker. “Butcher went a little further. He said that this

was the kind of honor that he looked forward to and cher-

ished.”

“John Aaron, former secretary of the United

States of America Cricket Association (USACA), said

that he wished his father, who introduced him to cricket, could have been alive to witness this honor,” recalled Walker.

Speaking of the remaining honorees, Walk-er continued: “Joseph Buffong from Montser-

rat moved to Boston and did a great deal for cricket there. He said that the people of Mont-serrat would be very happy when they received word of his induction. They might even declare a holiday for the occasion.”

“Mo Ally, who publishes American Crick-eter, has done a great deal for the promotion of the sport in Florida, and he used his own money to put on a program where he brought in stars

from outside the country.”“Andrew ‘Busta’ Headley, although Ameri-

can born, grew up in Jamaica where he learned cricket. He came back to the United States to found the Wembley Athletic Club in New York.” Mr. Walker concluded, “One of the best speeches came from Jamie Harrison, an American from Baltimore and the President of the United States Youth Cricket Association (USYCA). The U.S. Youth Cricket Association is working through the schools, reaching out to 7 and 8 year olds. Since Jamie Harrison started his efforts, thousands of kids are learning the game, and at the ceremony he said he was opti-mistic that one day the U.S. would be the world champions.”

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2012: Hartford, CT is Mainland’s Cricket Capital

George Steir, Vice President of the Connecticut Cricket League

Stanford Walker, P.R. Director for theCricket Hall of Fame


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Authentic Jamaican, Plus Extra Helpings of Love

“Authentic” is a word that is used a lot

in business, and when that business is a restaurant, you can taste when it’s true. When that restaurant is The Jerk Pit, you can taste the jerk seasoning made from scratch; you can almost taste the fact that someone flew to Jamaica, hand selected and personally escorted the curry, pimento, ginger and dry jerk

back to Hartford. You can also taste something else…

It all started on August 2nd, 1985,

Henriques fired up a grill along the route of the West Indian Parade. As she swung her cleaver like a drumstick to fan out strips of jerk chicken, people thought she was going to give birth right there. In a sense, she did.

Beverly’s daughter, Mischa Hadaway, was born just over two weeks later, and Beverly dates the

family business back to that same August, back to that outdoor grill at the parade. The next year she was back at the parade, and the response was phenomenal: “By the second parade we did, we had the food truck, but we were selling so much jerk that we were selling it straight off the grills. We had to move the cutting boards outside. It was so much in demand that people would count up how many chickens were on the grill, and that’s what they would order.”

The Jerk Pit restaurant went up in 1993, the year that Beverly’s son, Michael Hadaway, was born. However, Beverly still recalls the food truck days fondly. “I think there was real love for the food truck,” she says, “because even in wintertime, even when it was twenty degrees, you didn’t find people argue. You didn’t find people fuss. Everybody just stay together.”

Even though the family, and the

grills, moved indoors, the love is still in the food. (That’s the secret ingredient, if you hadn’t figured it out by now). And even though Beverly is now sidelined from repetitive stress injuries caused by years of cleaver-swinging, Mischa and Michael make sure that the chicken, pork and everything else they serve is not wanting for that family love. “I’ve grown up in it; I have been doing it all my life,” says Michael. “This business is either my sister’s age or my age, depending how you count.”

The customers feel the love, and they return it by coming back. “All my customers over the years are family,” says Beverly. However, having such a large extended family has its awkward moments as well. “Don’t come between 1:30 and 4 AM Friday or Saturday nights, because the line is out the door,” she laughs. “I don’t have birthday parties for myself, because I can’t choose who

to invite. I have to leave it open, and it would be too crowded. There would be people from all over: America, England, all over. I’ve had customers who come in at certain times, who come in, like for the parade weekend, just to get jerk. People come in from Georgia, Florida, everywhere.”

Beverly may not have enough space to accommodate all of her well-wishers, but under Mischa’s ownership, the business is expanding to accommodate banquets and special events, such as birthday parties. And even in the hardest of times, love has sustained the business. “Some people are buying a small container instead of the huge container,” says Beverly, “and some come in less frequently, saying, ‘Even if it’s just once a week, I have to have my jerk’.”

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Eastern alumnus, Reverend Collin Bennett ’81. Further, they wanted to continue supporting East-ern like their grandmother, Winnifred, affection-ately called “Mollie.”

“Home is where the heart is,” Julie said. “For a college education, there was no place better than my grandfather’s alma mater. “I was soon to learn that sometimes your own back yard has all that you really need. And since my grandfather, Aunt Dawn and Aunt Lisa all graduated from Eastern, why not me? Why not add my name to the distin-guished alumni list!”

At Eastern, Julie became an international stu-dent, having spent a spring semester in Spain. An Australian girl she met at the university there spent a week with me the following year. She returned the visit in 2008. “My father once told me, ‘the world is your oyster, and you are the pearl.’ The Eastern experience made me feel that way. Like a pearl; a pearl at this Univer-sity my grandfather called the ‘Jewel of the East,’ a phrase Collin Bennett bor-rowed from the late Dr. Ar-thur L. Johnson, prominent civil rights activist, author, poet and Eastern professor. Johnson, an image con-scious journalist, coined the phrase in 1988 as a memo-rable marketing slogan for Eastern’s new president, David G. Carter.

Julie’s college experi-ence was not easy. She lived in Bloomfield, worked overnight at Target in Manchester, and com-muted to classes on campus in both Willimantic and at Eastern’s site in Vernon. She never asked anyone for money. “I want my degree and I was going to work hard and do whatever I needed to earn it. When Julie graduated from East-ern, she predicted she would “be doing some-thing great!” That great thing was moving to At-lanta and happily serving as a sales representative for Amica Insurance.

Brittany was all set to leave the state when, during a visit to Eastern, the Admissions Office sent her to see Carter, a dear and close Bennett Family friend — now retired chancellor of the Connecticut State University System (CSUS) — for a meeting that was only suppose to take five minutes. “That man is just too wonderful! I was in there for an hour! It was all over after that. In fact, after talking to Dr. Carter, I almost began to feel homesick even at the mere thought of going to school some place else! Dr. Carter assured me that Eastern’s family environment, especially the West Indian family here, was the place for me.”

Brittany was extremely busy. In addition to being a full-time student, she interned as a human resources recruiter with UPS, which enabled her to travel throughout the region and interact with a variety of people. “I am so grateful to the Office of Career Services. I was balancing two part-time jobs, and trying to start a small business. Com-mercial real estate is my goal. I believe that will be very profitable.”

Brittany followed in Aunt Dawn’s footsteps at UPS. Dawn, who serves in UPS’s Loan Di-vision, recalls Psychology Professors Peter Ba-chiochi and Wendy Everton, History Professor

Stacey Close, and Adjunct Business Administra-tion faculty member Diane O’Brien. “They all re-ally pushed you. They wanted you to realize your potential. Bachiochi’s course on “Leadership in Non-Profit Organizations” reminded Dawn of her father “because in every class, you learned how organizations are supposed to help others, and my father was always coming up with creative ways to do just that. He said that’s what leadership re-ally means -- serving others.”

“Dr. Pam Starr was special to me,” Dawn con-tinued. “She taught me so much about working with people with disabilities. I will always have compassion for people less fortunate than me, and will always try to help them. Of course, Dr. Carter really touched my heart. He is the real deal! My

whole family loves that man,” said Dawn.

“Attending Eastern was an absolutely wonderful experience,” recalls Lisa Bennett, who serves as a realtor and insurance agent for the Hartford-based family business. “The professors were very knowledgeable, and they go the extra mile to assure that students learn the lesson well. Every-thing I learned at Eastern, I apply daily. All of my classes were interesting. Dr. Close really knew how to hold my interest in the classes he taught. He made his history courses come alive by making you understand how an event in the period being discussed affected mod-ern times.

Mollie Bennett said she is humbled that her children quickly learned that education is the great equalizer. “They know that freedom, health and wealth can all be taken from you, but the knowl-edge you hold in your head is untouchable. In that regard, Eastern has been a source of pride for my family and me. My children benefited tremendously from the university. The family is forever tied to Eastern.”

In addition to encouraging her children to study at Eastern, she and her late husband, Collin, have donated generously to the university. She, along with the campus’s very active West Indian Society student organization, also routinely en-courage students to make Eastern their choice for higher education. She credits Beverley Ander-son, former dean of Eastern’s School of Arts and Sciences and retired provost and vice president of academic affairs at Chicago State University, with playing a key role in the success of her fam-ily at Eastern.

“Dr. Anderson (a native of Jamaica) was a re-markable, beautiful, helpful educator who graced the halls of Eastern. She was very smart; always accessible; and willing to evaluate a student’s sit-uation and help get the student on the right path. She personally touched the lives of my children, and I am ever so grateful for knowing her invalu-able input in the lives of my children.”

Mollie said it was Anderson’s idea to have Col-lin fund her idea to establish a Caribbean collec-tion in Eastern’s J. Eugene Smith Library.

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The Legacy of the Collin Bennett Family at Eastern Connecticut State University

“We are the United States of America.”The president added he had never been more

hopeful about the country’s future despite the profound partisan and demographic divides that were starkly exposed throughout his election battle against Republican Mitt Romney.

Obama handily won the votes of women, young Americans, African-Americans and Hispanics on Tuesday — in fact, the president got almost 70 per cent of the Latino vote, the fastest growing demo-graphic in the United States.

In Pennsylvania, the high turnout of African-American voters — reportedly even higher than it was in 2008 — was thought to have played a criti-cal role in the president’s victory there.

In the meantime, Romney won older Ameri-cans, working-class whites and those with family incomes of US$50,000 a year or more.

But many liberal Americans deeply distrusted the Republican, particularly after the emergence of a secretly recorded videotape in early Septem-ber that showed him disparaging almost half of the electorate as government freeloaders.

And Hispanics never forgave Romney for re-marks he made during primary season, when he said illegal immigrants should “self-deport.”

Indeed, the election result has serious ramifica-tions for the Republican Party that will almost cer-tainly include months of internal soul-searching.The electorate decisively rejected Romney’s vision for the country — one that advocated smaller gov-ernment, tax cuts, looser Wall Street regulations and socially conservative policies on abortion and contraception that angered women.

Instead, they opted for Obama’s message of a compassionate federal government, tax hikes for the wealthy, immigration reform and social poli-cies that respect a woman’s right to control her own health decisions. The president avoided the pink slip even in the face of a glacially slow economic recovery and a hotly contested election that caused his supporters to fear he was doomed to the indig-nity of a single term.

Obama, indeed, became the first incumbent president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a sec-ond term with an unemployment rate above 7.4 per cent. And yet Tuesday night’s congressional win-ners and losers were every bit as important as the ultimate White House victor. Congress, after all, is more powerful than the executive branch in terms of bringing to life — or snuffing out — a presi-dent’s legislative hopes and dreams.

The makeup of Congress remained unchanged, with Republicans maintaining control of the House of Representatives and Democrats dominating the Senate.

And even though Obama pledged Tuesday night to work with his congressional opponents, he’s still facing a Republican House that’s no warmer to his agenda than it has been for the past two fractious

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Michael Jordan’s “Jumpman” logo adopted by Nike is estimated to be now worth US$1billion in annual sales.”

It is more difficult to ascertain statistical data for non-celebrities because they do not trade in their brands per se. The equity in personal brands is more intangible. However, in defamation cases the courts would usually try to make any assessment of the monetary value of the claimant’s reputation. “The workshop on which the entrepreneur plans to spend $800,000 in implementation in 2012 in-clude the themes how to build equity and sustain BRAND YOU; guides to build and market brands and legal measures which can be used to maximise earnings such as licensing, merchandising and im-age rights.”

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