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The Search Engine Google is showing a Doodle for John Harrison's 325th Birthday.

John Harrison was conceived on third April 1693.

He was a self-taught English craftsman and clockmaker who concocted a marine chronometer,

a long-looked for after gadget for taking care of the issue of computing longitude while

adrift.

His answer reformed route and enormously expanded the security of long-remove ocean travel.

The issue he explained was considered so critical after the Scilly maritime debacle of 1707

that the British Parliament offered money related prizes of up to £20,000 (comparable

to £2.89 million today) under the 1714 Longitude Act.

Harrison came 39th in the BBC's 2002 open survey of the 100 Greatest Britons.

John Harrison was conceived in Foulby, close Wakefield in the West Riding of Yorkshire,

the first of five youngsters in his family.

His dad functioned as a woodworker at the close-by Nostell Priory domain.

A house on the site of what may have been the family home bears a blue plaque.

In around 1700, the Harrison family moved to the Lincolnshire town of Barrow upon Humber.

Following his dad's exchange as a craftsman, Harrison manufactured and repaired checks

in his extra time.

Legend has it that at six years old, while in bed with smallpox, he was given a watch

to delight himself and he invested hours tuning in to it and concentrate its moving parts.

He additionally had an interest for music, inevitably getting to be choirmaster for Barrow

area church.

He died on 24th March 1776.

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The Trumps hosted their 2nd White House Easter Egg Roll and the photos are fantastic - Duration: 5:50.

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LẦN ĐẦU XEM SOOBIN HOÀNG SƠN | I KNOW YOU KNOW (REACTION) | CHANTUBE #8 - Duration: 7:52.

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Zindziswa "Zindzi" Mandela, Winnie Mandela's Daughter: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know - Duration: 12:20.

Zindziswa "Zindzi" Mandela, Winnie Mandela's Daughter: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know | Heavy.com

Zinzi Mandela attends the Nelson Mandela Childrens Fund (NMCF) USAs celebration to recognize Nelson Mandelas 90th birthday, which occurred on July 18, 2008, at The Rainbow Room on October 29, 2008 in New York City.

(Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images).

On Monday morning, Herald Live reported that Winnie Mandela, the second wife of Nelson Mandela, has died at age 81.

Her death was confirmed by her PA, Zodwa Zwane, according to the outlet.

Winnie was born in the Eastern Cape in 1936.

She met Nelson Mandela in 1957 and the two tied the knot just a year later.

They were married until 1996.

Together, the couple had two children, Zindziswa and Zenani Mandela.

Read on to learn more about Zindziswa Mandela.

She Is the South African Ambassador to Denmark.

Nelson Mandela's daughter Zindzi Mandela (L) and Nelson Mandela's grandson Zondwa Mandela accept the Arthur Ashe Courage Award on behalf of Nelson Mandela during the 2009 ESPY Awards held at Nokia Theatre LA Live on July 15, 2009 in Los Angeles, California.

The 17th annual ESPYs will air on Sunday, July 19 at 9PM ET on ESPN.

Zindziswa, who goes by Zindi, was born in Soweto and serves as her country's ambassador to Denmark.

According to her Twitter page, she currently resides in Charlottenlund, Copenhagen.

Although Zindsi's arrival to Denmark was delayed, she was confirmed as the South African ambassador in March 2015.

In early March 2015, South African newspapers began reporting that Mandela's boyfriend at the time "did not want to move with her" to Copenhagen.

Mandela, herself, however, adamantly denied the claims.

Zindzi is the youngest daughter of Nelson and Winnie Mandela.

She was born and raised in Soweto, South Africa, and spent a number of years "involved in South Africa's freedom struggle and has embraced roles in the arts, philanthropy and business," according to Mandela Legacy.

In 1985, she earned her BA from the University of Cape Town.

She has been involved in many philanthropic efforts over the course of her career: Zindzi worked at Operation Hunger in the 80s, she is a Trustee of King Luthuli Transformation Center for Non-Violence, she is a member of the Advisory Board of LoveLife, she is a Trustee of the Progressive Sport and Recreation Development Trust, and she is a member of  Lord Robertson's Commission for Global Road Safety, leading the 'Zenani Mandela Campaign'.

She Has Been Married Twice.

Nelson Mandela's daughter Zindzi talks about the film ' Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom' in Johannesburg on November 2, 2013 after a press conference.

Zindzi's first husband was Zwelibanzi Hlongwane.

She married her second husband, Molapo Motlhawja, when she was 52 and he 37.

Motlhajwa is a member of the South African National Defense Force.

Interestingly, Zindzi was asked many questions about her parents' marriage after their separation.

Eventually, at age 34, she explained to news outlets that her parent's relationship would be ending in divorce.

Speaking to Thandy magazine, The Independent reports her as saying that her mother still loved her father, but they did not have time to see one another, and it was as if they "don't exist for each other.".

She Has Four Children.

Nelson Mandela 's grandaughter Zoleka (L) and Ndileka Mandela arrive at the MediClinic Heart hospital in Pretoria where the ailing former South Africa's president is hospitalised on July 1, 2013.

Mandela, who turns 95 next month, was rushed to hospital three weeks ago with a recurrent lung disease.

Zindzi has four children: Zoleka Mandela, (1980), Zondwa Mandela (1985), Bambatha Mandela (1989) and Zwelabo Mandela (1992).

Zoleka, Zindzi's oldest, is a writer and activist.

She has spoken out for many causes, including sexual abuse which she says she was a victim of as a child, as well as her addiction to drugs and alcohol.

In 2011, her 13-year-old daughter, Zenani, was tragically killed in a car accident while returning home from the opening concert at the 2010 Soccer World Cup.

In 2013, according to the Times Live, Zoleka released a book When Hope Whispers, in 2013.

In it, she writes about how she was hospitalized for a suicide attempt not long after her daughter's death.

Zoleka was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2011.

According to Times Live, she faced another cancer scare in 2016, but is "determined to beat the disease.".

On the anniversary of my daughters passing.

Hearts in pieces, biggest ones gone with her.

#MyBestFriend #Zenani pic.twitter.com/3ZvLJAQycm — Zoleka Mandela (@ZolekaMandela) June 11, 2016  .

She Was 29 When Mandela Left Prison.

Zindzi, the daughter of Winnie MadikizelaMandela and Nelson Mandela, is pictured upon her arrival at the Medi-Clinic Heart Hospital in Pretoria, on June 13, 2013 where the former South African president is undergoing treatment for a recurring lung infection.

After four nights at the hospital, Mandela was responding better to treatment on his fifth day in hospital today, South African President told parliament.

AFP.

Zindzi has followed closely in the footsteps of her father.

She was only 29 when her father left prison.

In an interview with The Telegraph, she explains, "For a long time after his release there was a lot of bitterness," she said.

"I never, ever imagined my father being president.

I imagined him coming home and having a normal family life.

When he came out of prison we only had a few moments with him as a family, before the reception committee joined us.

I realized, 'He's still not mine.' I always joke that at least when he was in prison I was guaranteed two visits a month.".

Zindzi was just 18 months old when her father was arrested and sentenced to life in prison.

She tells the outlet about her first memory really meeting her father, saying, "I was 18 months and so afraid.

I was waiting in the car with my sister at night outside Pretoria prison and there were hostile, uniformed men around.

My mother had brought my father his favorite dish, a sort of lasagne made with soured milk and she was gone the longest time.".

She Is the Author of 'Black as I Am'.

Zinzi Mandela attends the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund (NMCF) USA's celebration to recognize Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday, which occurred on July 18, 2008, at The Rainbow Room on October 29, 2008 in New York City.

(Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images).

Along with her many other accomplishments, Zindzi is the author of Black As I Am, a collection of poems.

The book, which includes pictures by Peter Magubane, was published in 1978. According to Goodreads, Zindzi wrote the collection of poems at age 16.

A businesswoman on top of her aforementioned jobs, Zindzi has worked as the managing director of Zee Zee Promotions, director of Ster-Kineor, President of Mandela-Msomi Trading Enterprises, Director of Zendj Holdings, and is the founder of Mandela Legacy Inc.

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2019 Toyota RAV4 actually looks pretty cool - Duration: 4:49.

NEW YORK — Quick, what was Toyota's best-selling

vehicle in America last year?

If you said Camry or Corolla, you were close, but in fact it was the RAV4.

It sold over 400,000 units last year, topping the next best-selling Camry by about 20,000

cars.

And this was despite the fact that the current RAV4 is roughly 5 years old, and the Camry

was completely redesigned, and improved, last year.

That makes the RAV4 monumentally important to the Japanese carmaker.

Thankfully, though, instead of playing it safe and keeping the conservative-looking

crossover inoffensive, Toyota has injected life into the little SUV with some really

rugged styling.

The new RAV4 looks very much like the FT-AC concept shown at this past L.A. Auto Show.

In fact, comparing the two back to back, it looks like the FT-AC was in fact a RAV4 with

slightly more aggressive cladding added to hide the fact it was a real SUV.

No matter the trim level, every RAV4 gets chunky plastic cladding and fender flares.

The wheel arches are trapezoidal, and angular creases abound, emphasizing the fact that

this cute ute doesn't want to be called "cute."

The Adventure model has a grille that looks much like that found on the Toyota Tacoma,

big roof rails and large off-road-inspired fog lights.

The other models have lower, meaner looking grilles that seem to emphasize more of a road-going

theme.

The XSE Hybrid gets unique gloss metallic black cladding and roof, and the Limited gets

chrome accents.

Two-tone color schemes are available on almost all varieties of RAV4.

All RAV4s also sit higher, approximately half an inch higher than their respective predecessors.

Things are a little more toned down inside.

It has your typical tablet-style touchscreen infotainment system, but with loads of redundant

buttons.

The screen can be either 7 or 8 inches and features EnTune 3.0, which supports Apple

CarPlay.

There are many little cubbies to store bits and baubles.

The Adventure model gets the most interesting design touches in the form of orange accents

and stitching found throughout the cabin, as well as nifty triangular embossed patterns

in the leatherette upholstery.

Among some of the other goodies available on various RAV4 trims are a rear-view mirror

with rear camera display, an 11-speaker, 800-watt JBL sound system, panoramic sunroof, power

seats and seat heaters and ventilation.

The RAV4's redesign is far from skin-deep.

It features a version of the TNGA platform that's underpinning every new Toyota nowadays.

Toyota claims the new chassis has improved the RAV4's rigidity by 57 percent.

The wheelbase has increased a bit, and so has width, but overall the new RAV4 is ever

so slightly shorter in length than the old model.

Two engines will be available in the new Toyota, and they're both 2.5-liter versions of the

ultra-efficient Dynamic Force engine.

One is a normal gasoline model connected to an 8-speed automatic transmission, and the

other is a hybrid with a CVT.

Though Toyota hasn't revealed output for either engine, the hybrid will have more power, which

is why it's being used for the XSE Sport trim that also comes with firmer suspension.

Three all-wheel-drive systems will be available, too.

The hybrid will come standard with all-wheel-drive, and the electric motor will be able to send

30 percent more power to the rear wheels than the current model.

The gas model will now have the option of a torque-vectoring system that can shift power

left and right across the rear axle.

It will also be able to restrict power to just the front wheels in order to improve

fuel efficiency.

All-wheel-drive will also bring Multi-Terrain Select to allow the driver to choose optimum

driving settings for snow, mud, sand and rocks.

Toyota has yet to reveal pricing for the new RAV4, but that should come in a few months

as we get closer to when the crossovers hit dealer lots.

Plain gasoline models will be available first toward the end of this year.

Hybrids will go on sale early in 2019.

For more infomation >> 2019 Toyota RAV4 actually looks pretty cool - Duration: 4:49.

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Learn Bounce Flash Photography - Master The Light - Assignment #11 - YvensB Photo - Duration: 3:58.

hi everyone Yvens B be here to present the 11th assignment of master light the

learning assignment group on facebook recording there

yes there was card so I hope you guys enjoy the salmon number 10 the gel

lighting portrait so we had a few submission that we're gonna review in

the next YouTube video so just make sure to see subscribe for this just make sure

you hit that build bail button because YouTube is really actually playing games

with us getting to talk to you guys is almost impossible but we're making

invest so I hope you guys are doing well summer is starting really soon so before

we actually head out to go shoot up doors will have the last indoor

assignment if you make all the which will be actually a simple thing called

bounce light so what is bounce light it's pretty simple you just really think

if your lights and then you bounce them on the ceiling on the side the only

reflector so if you paid attention to some in number one which was the

reflector one you will notice that we I suggest using bounce light if you don't

have any modifiers so this time won't be different but if you have an indoor

space let's say a house or a home or anything that has ceilings or walls you

can actually use those as a way to light your subject so instead of having a

direct flash on top of your subject you can have a flash that is actually

bouncing on another wall let's say and illuminating subject from the side or

from the top or from anything else danza is actually a pretty useful technique if

you do invent photography so I'll show you a couple of examples right now that

you can actually see where I use bounce light let's say you just have a speed

light and you want to use that and event just bouncing your lights on top of the

ceiling and making reflecting the subject will actually illuminate them

very evenly and very nicely instead of having a flash directly pop them in his

eyes the difference is really major so this will be useful for any event

photographers so if you have any event photographers your doing it regularly

you can post them on the group if you are a studio guy and you just want to

create a small fill and you don't have a very large source of light and bounce

light will be really absolutely killer if you have white ceilings again white

walls white ceilings it is perfect if you do weddings bounce light will

actually change your photography gonna help you like you really go through the

you process really quicker instead of having a modifier a flash and everything

that's it for this assignment there's gonna be a lot of change that are coming

soon I'm doing a second video to show some announcement for the specific

the group will be taking things around here and I just want to make sure that

people are aware of the changes don't worry it's all positive it's actually

gonna create more engagement because if I find that there's not enough postings

right now and I want to make sure that this group is really really going so

just picture to you liked this video if you like the assignment also make sure

to check out the link below I'll be posting a link to the Facebook group if

you're not already doing which I talked and also just make sure that all the

photos that you're submitting are using the technique using the bump so I want

to see new work for the month of April 2018 until whatever so new work for this

month again using bath pipe it can be any sort you can be a man it can be a

filler can be anything else just make sure you use bounce light as a source to

illuminate your subject so again thank for joining in I left all the links

below so you want to join the group if you have something depression Amazon or

anything else all the links are below all the gear that I'm using to do these

assignments will actually be using I'll be also sharing my shots in the group in

a few day also stay tuned after the announcement for the Facebook group

there gonna be some changes coming really soon so just make sure to lift I

hit that Bell button to be notified and I hope to see you in a group Cheers and

good luck

For more infomation >> Learn Bounce Flash Photography - Master The Light - Assignment #11 - YvensB Photo - Duration: 3:58.

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Origami Heart (How to make a Origami Heart) - Duration: 2:54.

Sudins Creation

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Freelance To Freedom: The Power of Bringing Personal Stories Into Your Marketing - Duration: 2:24.

Hi!

I'm Leah, from The Freelance To Freedom Project and this is video #3 of Leah is batch-filming

some video at a park in Brooklyn and today I have a question for you...when is the last

time you shared a personal story or something personal about you with your audience?

So this could be on social media, in a Facebook group, could be in your newsletter, it could

be in a blog post, what we tend to do and what I had a really big problem with when

I was starting out is that I tried to be 'professional', I thought people didn't care about little

things, about personal things about me and that's actually not true at all.

As stupid as little things could be, or whatever our little qwirks are or our favorite food,

or anything, stories, personal stories, personal little tidbits about you, thrown in everywhere

help connect your ideal clients with you.

So an example of this, I, some of you might remember, mentioned or told a story about

my favorite food, white cheddar popcorn, and it was a stupid story, pointless, had nothing

to do with freelancing or business or whatever I teach you guys, right, but I told a story

about it in an email.

Now I get emails all the time from people that mention their favorite food being popcorn

or someone emailed me just to tell me what they had for dinner and it was red wine and

popcorn.

They would have never done that otherwise, right?

So do people love me more because of it, who knows, but they connect with me, they resonate

with me and it's because of those little stories I'm telling.

So your challenge for today is to post on social or write a newsletter.

In your newsletter, for example you might just post your latest blog post or "Hi, you

need help with this" or whatever, bring some story into it, bring some anecdote about you

into it and you'll connect with people a lot more.

So I hope that's helpful for you and have a lovely day.

Bye.

For more infomation >> Freelance To Freedom: The Power of Bringing Personal Stories Into Your Marketing - Duration: 2:24.

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When a Play Goes Wrong - Duration: 33:57.

Welcome to the Drama Teacher Podcast brought to you by Theatrefolk – the Drama Teacher

Resource Company.

Hello!

I'm Lindsay Price.

Hello again!

I hope you're well.

Thanks for listening!

This is Episode 204 and you can find any links to this episode in the show notes which are

at Theatrefolk.com/episode204.

Today, our guest today, she is a treasure.

She is a treat.

She is an amazing resource, and I am always so happy, I am pleased as punch, I am over

the moon when she finds time to talk to us, and this is a topic I know everyone has experience

with, everyone will want to listen in on, and I know that you have been there.

You've been there!

The cast is fighting.

No one knows their lines.

Maybe the flu has swept through your entire school.

There are times when opening night is approaching, and you are sure you won't be ready.

Maybe you don't even want to be ready.

Maybe you just want to walk away from this play altogether.

Drama teacher Lea Marshall is going share her experience with the play that went wrong,

and what she learned, and what she's going to change for next time because, in educational

theatre, everything is a learning experience, right?

Right!

Okay.

I'll see you on the other side.

LINDSAY: Hello everyone!

Welcome to the podcast!

I am here talking to Lea Marshall.

Hello, Lea!

LEA: Hello!

LINDSAY: Tell everybody where you are in the world right now.

LEA: I am in North Carolina because I am on break – Thanksgiving break.

We got a week this year.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry to all of you that did not get a week.

We probably won't next year, so I won't gloat too much.

I'm in North Carolina, though.

I'm usually in Tallahassee, Florida, where I live and teach, but I am in Black Mountain,

North Carolina.

It's really beautiful here.

I'd show you more, but this is the outside of our little Airbnb.

My three kids are inside – two of them are in college, and they're actually doing homework.

So, I stepped outside in 23 layers.

I swear, it's like 50 degrees, but I'm in 23 layers.

LINDSAY: Yes, nobody has any sympathy because (a) you have an entire week off – although,

when we post this, it'll be March or something, so Thanksgiving means nothing – and (b)

you're usually in Florida where it's warm.

LEA: Yes.

LINDSAY: You have just completed a production of Steel Magnolias.

LEA: Yes.

LINDSAY: And what you would like to say, because we've had conversations before about other

productions.

Are you sitting in yoga pants?

Are you done with the show?

LEA: In my yoga pants.

The funniest story is that we did the post-production for To Kill a Mockingbird last time and I

was in my yoga pants on the couch.

In the middle of production – like, the bad three weeks, the last couple of weeks

of it – I re-listened to that only because I needed to remind myself that, one day, again,

I would sit on my couch in yoga pants and sound that calm and happy.

I want to be back in that space where I remembered how it felt to be done.

And so, I listened to that.

I was like, "Oh, I need to record another one so that, next time, I can listen to both

of them, and remember how it felt to be done – how good it felt."

It will happen.

You will, at some point, be done.

LINDSAY: That gets us right to what we're talking about today which is what happens

when your production becomes the play that goes wrong.

LEA: I had that script.

I just didn't know that I would be doing it.

LINDSAY: You didn't know that Steel Magnolias would become that play.

LEA: Yeah.

LINDSAY: I know now is the time for lots of productions to be happening.

Maybe tech weeks to be happening.

Teachers in stress and disarray about everything falling apart around you which I think happens

more often than not when things just seem like (a) they're never going to be over

and (b) they're just awful.

Let's take a step back and we'll ease into the awfulness.

Why did you choose Steel Magnolias?

LEA: I was thinking this year is strong wind, strong trees, and so about how strong wind

make us strong trees.

Also, my next play, The Arsonist, is about how we have to be strong trees because there

will be strong wind against us.

Steel Magnolias was my fall show.

The play that goes wrong should also be called "All the Mistakes I Made."

I'm glad we had the thing on failure last night because that was really great for me

to set me up to talk about all my failures for this play.

I do things very intentionally, as you know.

Of course, I can say "I usually" because I've only taught high school one year or

so.

Usually, the one-act is supposed to be in the fall and it's supposed to be done completely

by my advanced class, but The Arsonist is more of a one-act, but it's also a bigger

cast.

And so, Steel Magnolias, I didn't want to limit my everybody audition play to only six

girls being in it.

I chose to do Steel Magnolias in the fall which is a much shorter prep time with my

advanced class doing everything for it.

And so, that is why I chose it for the fall.

I would still choose it again for the fall, but I'll definitely just do a one-act next

year in the fall.

Steel Magnolias – scene one of the first act is like a one-act

in and of itself.

And then, you have three more acts which are – granted – not as long.

But it's a heck of a play to take on.

The dialogue is really hard in it because it's very nonsensical.

It's six women sitting around a salon, talking, and they'll be talking about Point A. I

mean, one of our favorite, we had to really help our Truvy deal with some of the dialogue.

She'll mention crab claws and then her next line is about romance which is not usually

a natural segue for normal people.

So, we had to teach her these kinds of things about, every time, of course, crab claws make

you think about romance.

For almost all of her lines, she had these funny little things that she had to connect

in her brain to do that.

It was a very hard play in that sense that I chose it when I should have chosen a one-act.

That was Mistake #1.

Let's start categorizing them.

LINDSAY: Okay, we'll talk categorizing, and learning from them.

LEA: Yes!

LINDSAY: We're learning from failure, and it's not failure.

It's something that happened, and then you survived it, and then you can do something

else.

Interesting step one about your time and how much time you have to prepare a play and how,

on the one hand, it was a good choice because of your circumstance.

If you had to choose a full-length for this time, that shorter prep time is huge, isn't

it?

LEA: Yeah, it really is, and the fact that the prep time is mostly in class, that means

you've got 40 minutes at the most and then the bell rings, and they've got a lead,

and this is just a play that you really needed longer rehearsals for.

Once we actually got to the last two weeks which is our after-school rehearsals and got

it up on the stage and started running it in longer amounts of time, it did come together,

but it was hard fought for – it really was hard.

Of course, I picked the theme – strong wind, strong trees – so I don't know why I thought

it would be easy.

Next year, my theme is going to be "take a nap."

/LINDSAY: And we all just chill.

It's yoga pants.

It's yoga.

You're just going to go onstage and everyone's just going to breathe some downward dogs and

lots of "ohms" – that would be good.

Mistake #1: Mistaking the prep time that you would need.

Also, having this notion of just time of rehearsals where your rehearsals were done in class,

and choosing a play that reflects that.

LEA: And not only the rehearsals were done in class but, like all theatre teachers, set

design, costumes, all of that.

I'm working so hard with the actors, and the people are coming up to me like, "What

about this for the set design?" and I'm just crazed.

And then, they're trying to paint the set and create it in only 30 minutes of class

time a day and then put stuff away and stuff like that.

You know, it was just in the middle of it was horrible.

LINDSAY: What's Mistake #2 in the play that goes wrong?

LEA: I double-cast some parts.

LINDSAY: Why?

LEA: Well, I mean, I talked about this.

Krista is also another teacher.

LINDSAY: Another teacher in Virginia.

LEA: She mistakenly gave me her phone number at some point, so I'll give it out to all

of you who are in the middle of play production going wrong.

You know, we struggle with this idea of what is our role as educators and it being an educational

experience and everybody getting to participate and then what is our aesthetic, you know?

And so, for me, because it's my 3, 4 class, I had nine girls audition.

And so, I cast all of them.

I had three girls that were in every cast and then three that alternated – my M'Lynn,

Shelby, and Annelle alternated.

And then, it's a cast of all girls.

Can we just take a moment and appreciate that?

All girls, double-cast.

LINDSAY: We'll have a moment of silence.

LEA: Yeah, moment of silence for my loss.

Yeah, somebody says, "I feel all of this."

Yeah, you feel it correctly.

You are feeling correctly.

So, we had issues.

"You like this cast better than the other one."

"This person is doing a better job than this one."

"This person's interpretation is different than this one.

Whose is right?"

So, we had all of that kind of going on.

Would I double-cast it again?

I don' know.

Like I said, I'd do it again in the fall with some other additions – time things

– but would I double-cast it again?

I don't know if I would.

That got really hard because, again, that's also a time issue because you've got your

three characters that are getting half the stage time as the other characters.

And so, it is harder for them to learn blocking and that kind of thing.

It made it easier on some time with absences and stuff like that.

You can get people to fill in.

But I made it harder still by double-casting those three parts.

LINDSAY: It's really interesting.

I like that question that you brought up of education versus aesthetic.

LEA: I wish I could answer it.

You know, it's a balance.

I think it's always a balance.

I'm in educational theatre.

At one point, Krista said to me, "Is it educational theatre?

Then you've done your job."

Aesthetic theatre, that's awesome, and we strive for that.

We totally do.

But, really, at the end of the day, like Matt said last night, has everybody learned something?

Has everybody learned something from it – even if it was I learned what I did wrong?

LINDSAY: Just to recap what's going on, for our Drama Teacher Academy, we have monthly

professional learning community events.

Last night's topic was on failure.

We're all in this mode now of just talking about failure.

What is failure?

Did everybody learn something?

Well, then nobody failed.

If somebody learned something, even though it may not feel like it was the right choice,

it is still the right choice, right?

That's what we want to think, anyway.

LEA: Yeah, that's what we want to think.

The double-casting, I did everybody that auditioned, and everybody got the part they auditioned

for.

It just kind of worked out that way.

So, I was happy about that, and I think they were happy.

But, during the process, it was really with the nine girls.

LINDSAY: Hey, we just got a comment here about liking your idea about having a theme for

the year.

In your theme this year, it was "strong wind, strong trees."

What was your theme last year?

Because that was a really nice one, too.

LEA: Yes, it was "fear versus love."

I was new at the school and the kids had lost their theatre teacher and now had me – oh,

lucky kids!

And so, we could either react in fear or we could act in love.

And so, let's not react in fear.

I didn't want to react in fear when they said, "We liked our other teacher better!"

or "This is the way somebody else did something!"

I wanted to always be acting in love.

And so, we did To Kill a Mockingbird and Antigone – a one-act version of Antigone was my fall

one for my advanced class – with no set and very few costumes which this one I did

set and costume.

So, there was a lot more going into it than last year's one-act.

LINDSAY: Oh, I bet that'll be a mistake.

Before we move on back, before we get more on your failures, that whole notion of having

a theme.

When things are going wrong, that's something you can always go back to.

"Look, things are going wrong.

We are strong trees!

Strong winds are the problems.

Strong trees are what we are."

LEA: And the idea that I even kept revisiting that fear versus love.

Am I reacting in fear that the show is going to suck instead of acting in love and "you

know what, this is what it is and let's give it as a gift of love instead of reacting

in fear and getting all unable to continue because of being afraid, let's just act

in love and just laugh."

At some point, you do have to laugh when everything is going wrong – or else, you do give up.

Let's just go for it.

When everybody doesn't know their lines, let's figure out.

Let's act in love and what's a loving way to move forward.

What's a way we can love theatre and the actors and move forward and help without reacting

in fear of yelling and screaming or cancelling the show?

LINDSAY: See, I'm really glad I brought that up because that's really nice.

I really like that.

How do we deal when everything is falling apart around us?

Are we going to react in fear?

Or are we going to love when you don't know your lines?

How do we move forward?

LEA: Yeah, and acting is an active creation.

What can we create out of these failures instead of just reacting to them which is sometimes

rehashing?

How large is your school?

I have 2,000 high schoolers.

My advanced class is 27 kids and there's 28 in this combined Theatre 3 and 4 class.

I see about 200 students a day.

And then, I have a little over 100 in my thespian troupe.

LINDSAY: Very cool.

Yes, just to pin on that, it's an act of creation.

How are we going to create this?

How are we going to create something?

Okay.

So, we had the mistake of time, the mistake of casting – casting is everything, isn't

it?

LEA: Yes, it is!

LINDSAY: What was Mistake #3 in the play that goes wrong?

LEA: Mistake #3 was, again, in this amount of time, trying to do it all – trying to

have the set, trying to have the costumes, trying to have the authentic 80's props,

trying to do it all for this essentially that should have been a one-act.

So, trying to do that.

I pushed a lot of kids out of their comfort zones with this.

Some of them I just pushed out of their comfort zones.

I had a kid who'd never done set building my set.

I had a girl who'd never done costumes in charge of the costumes.

I should have cloned myself.

Of course, every theatre teacher needs to clone herself.

They needed some more support, and I was not able to give them the support that they needed.

But, man, they did make it work.

They did!

LINDSAY: Well, it's the whole notion of "Well, this is what you've got to do.

Go do it."

That's a "let them fail" situation, right?

It's like, "You might not succeed at this but, by goodness, next time…" because

there is a little bit of that, right?

The next situation, the next time, even though we want every show to be perfect, they're

just not going to be.

LEA: And I did get to see that a little bit.

I had a girl who last year was in charge of the costumes for the one-act for the 3 and

4 class.

She kind of failed miserably.

I mean, I kept saying, "Get me what I need to get."

She kind of failed miserably.

We were able to make it work at the last minute, but mostly because I just kind of did it,

and the other kids in it did not.

She came back to Theatre 3 and 4 this year which is a little bit of a surprise to me,

but she came back and really talked to me about how she wanted a second chance.

And so, she was in charge of the makeup for this – hair and makeup – which is a big

deal in Steel Magnolias.

She knocked it out of the park, and she even wrote me a little note that just said, "I

was really inspired last year to be more excellent in the way that I do things, and she really

did a great job and that was one of the successes – her working on that hair and makeup, and

she really pushed people.

She was like, "Your makeup designs are due today!

Where are they?" and so, she was really great, and I just did not have to worry at

all about hair and makeup because she totally took it over.

LINDSAY: That's a huge success!

I think that's a huge success.

LEA: That was a huge success.

Let me just pat myself on my 12 layers of clothing back.

LINDSAY: But, you know what, it's that notion too about how, sometimes, when we think something

is going horribly wrong, that something else is happening – something offstage is happening,

something inside a kid is happening.

LEA: You won't see until the next year.

LINDSAY: Yeah, which is frustrating.

LEA: Yeah.

LINDSAY: Well, that's pretty awesome.

So, things you could not do at all, what did you have to let go?

LEA: I really had to let go of the set and then it came together really well, really

beautifully.

We were hanging the last thing on the set five minutes before the last dress rehearsal

started.

I mean, that's how late it was, and our stage is super busy.

We have so much in the performing arts going on at our school.

Our stage is super busy.

We actually have three days to put up the set before our dress rehearsal happens, and

that's it.

So, it was kind of a very last-minute on the set during Saturday rehearsal, before we opened

on Thursday, our lights died.

I was actually texting Krista at that point, "Oh, good, our lights just died.

Of course, they did!"

It turned out there was a fan that had been broken for a while.

The lights were like, "Now we're too hot!"

In fact, they did an entire dress rehearsal with the lights going off and then coming

back on – off, coming back on – and then they did the entire dress rehearsal that way.

Then, they did an entire dress rehearsal with the set being built around them.

So, they were really troopers – the cast was.

We didn't know if she'd have actual lights for the show.

At one point, I thought, "I'm just going to give everybody in the audience a flashlight

and it's going to be interactive – just shine your flashlight on the stage."

At that point, I was like, "You know what?

If we don't have lights, I have three lamps on the stage," and my lighting designer

said I was obsessed with the lamps the whole time.

Like, "Can you make the lamps turn on?

Turn the lamps on brighter."

At the end, when the lights weren't working, I was like, "See?

We're going to need those lamps!

I told you those lamps were a good idea!"

So, we thought we would really just do it by lamp light.

LINDSAY: Hey, man.

You know what?

Found lighting is a beautiful thing.

I know a teacher who got a brand-new stage built – except for the lights.

She went into the new school, new season, and kept saying, "Yeah, they're coming.

Yeah, they're coming."

They did not come.

She was like, "Okay!

We're doing a show," and they did Our Town with all found lighting.

They had nothing.

You just do with what you've got.

I think that is what educational theatre is, right?

LEA: Oh!

I will say, my admin was incredible.

She had a part overnighted – not knowing whether this was actually going to solve the

problem or not, but I think she paid $300 to have this part overnighted to get it fixed.

I kept telling the performing arts, our next big thing is our performing arts winter showcase

which is huge and it's everything – guitar, steel drums, chorus.

We do a little ten-minute.

We did your thing last year.

Remember?

Miss Meyermyer's Christmas.

LINDSAY: Yes, of course!

LEA: Anyway, that's a huge thing, and we sell out and it's big.

I said, "Had they not died right before my thing, they would have died during pause."

And so, I just took that for the team and dealt with that so that it did not happen

during our performing arts winter showcase which is when it would have happened and that

would have been terrible.

But we actually got it and the lights worked by the time the show opened.

We had three microphones that died during the show.

But, you know, whatever!

LINDSAY: By that point, you just would have been like, "Yup!

Okay!

Yup!"

LEA: I know!

The kid doing sound was like, "We've lost three mics!"

I'm like, "I can still hear 'em!

The show keeps going.

Go!

I can still hear them.

It's fine!

Project more, come on!!

LINDSAY: Just talking about the difficulties of Steel Magnolias which you don't realize

until you're in the thick of it, as you know.

What's the name of your school, Lea?

LEA: Leon High School in Tallahassee, Florida.

LINDSAY: Accents and hairstyles.

LEA: Yeah, hairstyles.

LINDSAY: Was that part of the overwhelming thing?

Did you do accents?

Did you have them do hairstyles?

LEA: We are southern, so that was not a huge thing, and I will say, a couple of my students

take acting from this great Naomi Rose-Mock.

Let me just give a shoutout.

She actually came and helped me one day during rehearsal and was fantastic!

I reached out for help.

I really did.

I had two great directors – Naomi direct in the community and then I had Phil Croton

who's a friend of mine with Southern Shakespeare in Tallahassee and he actually came and watched

one of our rehearsals and helped also.

They were both great when I contacted them and just said, "I feel like I'm drowning

with this."

They both were like, "I'll come to a rehearsal and help."

Really, do not be afraid to reach out to people.

I am not a director.

I'm becoming one.

I'm learning – thank you, Drama Teacher Academy, for helping me!

But do not be afraid to reach out.

I mean, I think there's no people like show people.

They were like, "When do you want me to come?

When are your rehearsals?

I'll be there!"

And so, they came and helped.

Some of it was I just was worried the blocking was hard in it.

They're sitting in a salon.

LINDSAY: They're sitting – sitting and chatting.

LEA: The whole show.

I just kept thinking, "Oh, my gosh, they're just sitting and getting their hair done."

It needs to be more action, right?

They came and were like, "No, your blocking is not horrible."

They tweaked a couple of things.

In one place, they had M'Lynn move a line later which – oh, my gosh! – was revolutionary.

It's that funny when you're like, "Oh, yeah, one line later makes all the difference."

Naomi moved my set in a little bit.

I had set it too wide and she said, "These girls need to be up on top of each other."

I was like, "Maybe not.

I don't know if you've been living with them for the last couple of weeks, Naomi,"

but that helped – having them up.

She's like, "It's a carport.

They need to be up in everybody's business.

That's how they are."

I had made my set too wide.

They helped me with some little tweaks like that that really did help make the show a

lot better and were just at that point beyond what I could think of doing.

LINDSAY: Awesome.

Awesome!

So, we have time, we casting, we have trying to be Wonder Woman which how do you solve

that problem?

Ask for help.

Let things go and ask for help, I think is the lesson learned.

One more, do you have one more?

LEA: I would say, one more, I'd find somebody.

You know, most of us are single drama teachers in the school.

And so, it was really helpful for me, as some of you may remember, I put a post up on Drama

Teacher Academy – like, "Hey!

We're 2.5 weeks away.

Everybody in the cast wants to kill me.

Is this typical?

Asking for a friend."

It was so funny the responses I got.

Of course, I reached out to Krista who we have kind of developed this kind of drama

teacher sisterhood kind of thing because she had just finished her show.

We keep saying we need to make sure on our calendars we're not doing shows at the same

time, so we can really help each other.

She had just finished a show and she was the one that was like, "It will open.

It will close.

And then, you will put on your yoga pants."

That kind of just became my mantra: "It will open, and then it will close.

And, at some point, it will be over, and I can breathe again."

And so, that was just really just find another drama teacher or somebody that you can reach

out to, and that's why Drama Teacher Academy is so great because you can get on Facebook

and say, "I need help with this!" or "I'm drowning!" or "What have you done about

this?" or "Have any of you done this?"

There's always somebody who either will encourage you and go, "Yup!

Me, too!" which I love C.S. Lewis says that's how friendship begins – somebody saying,

"What?

I thought I was the only one!"

"Me, too!"

You just feel great when that happens.

It's like, "Okay, I'm not the only one that all this has happened to," and there

are some great ideas for that.

Krista gave me a great idea about having the kids do beat cheat sheets which is go through

and see when the beat changes and make notes about that and even put them up on the stage

if they need to.

None of my kids really needed to at the end, and I was like, "Oh, I'll make those,"

and Krista was like, "No, you will not.

They will make those because that's how they'll remember it – it's if they make

it."

And so, I told them.

I'd actually already talked to them about it, but none of them had made it.

Finally, I was like, "Listen, you can make it, or you cannot, but I assure you, it will

help you if you make it, and some of them did and that helped them learn their lines.

Phil Croton gave them a great idea to record the whole show and then just listen to it

all the time and just record everybody's lines and listen to it.

That really helped them because they were able to help when somebody else dropped a

line and they were able to help and say something – you know, improv their way through that

to get that part in.

That was a great suggestion.

All at the last minute.

I feel like it's always at the last minute.

LINDSAY: It happens.

We've been talking a little bit about DramaTeacherAcademy.com.

There's a link up on the screen for those of you listening to the podcast.

There's going to be a link in the show notes.

Lea, you're just selling our stuff for us.

That's all great.

Awesome!

As we wrap up here, what was your biggest takeaway from the play that went wrong for

you?

What was your biggest takeaway?

I know you don't want to think about it.

What are you going to do moving forward?

What are you going to do next time?

LEA: I think I really need to evaluate what are my educational goals and what are my aesthetic

goals for it.

And then, how much weight do I give each one?

I do not think I will double-cast.

I really don't think I'll double-cast for this next one.

The Arsonist has a Greek chorus of firemen, so we can put a lot of people in it, but I

don't think I'll double-cast the leads for that even though that does give kids more

time onstage.

Wait and see.

We'll wait and see if I decide to go that route again.

I think just really looking a little more seriously at the play that I choose when it

is a production in class and how much time I'm going to have in class versus how much

time I have when I do the spring show.

And are after-school longer rehearsals?

I think I'm just going to have to learn to evaluate plays a little bit differently

and choose something that can be done as a class production for the fall production.

LINDSAY: It's just amazing how the content of the play is great, but that the other factors

can actually derail you.

It wasn't the play.

It was the play.

LEA: The content is beautiful.

It's a beautiful play.

It's just the time needed to do it justice, we did not have.

I think we did in the end.

One of my admin – again, the one that ordered the part really quick for me – she had said

when I first said, "I think we'll be doing Steel Magnolias," she said, "Oh, that's

a hard play."

She knows everything.

I don't know why she knows everything, but she does.

She goes, "That's a hard play."

I did not listen to her.

Halfway through, I was like, "Slap me next time.

When you tell me something, slap me when you tell me something.

It's a hard play."

She's like, "It really is."

She looked at me and said, "But, if anybody can put it up on that stage, it's you,"

and that really just inspired me so much.

I told the girls at the cast dinner.

I said, "You know, Miss Hembree said this was a really hard play.

It was really hard to do."

I said, "Sometimes, it's fun to do the impossible which we have done.

We are putting this play up on the stage and it is solid.

It really is solid."

One of them, in her thank-you said, "Thank you for believing that we could do something

that our admin didn't think that we could."

I was thinking, "No, I was just too stupid."

Sometimes, ignorance is bliss.

You do things because you're thinking, "How could this be hard?"

It's six people in a beauty shop.

It's hard!

LINDSAY: I have in my life the value of ignorance when you're just like, "Yeah, sure!

Why not?"

There's no fear when you really have no idea what you're doing.

LEA: When you're stupid, there's no fear!

LINDSAY: What a great way to end!

It's fun to do the impossible!

If that's the only thing we could ever instil in students, I think that they would go out

and they would have pretty amazing lives.

It's fun to do the impossible.

Sweet!

Lea, thank you so much taking time out of your holiday and sitting outside!

LEA: Sitting outside in 50-degree weather with five layers on.

LINDSAY: We appreciate you!

You earned your yoga pants!

You see that?

LEA: It will open, it will close, and there will be yoga pants.

We can say it too in emojis now.

Krista sent it to me in emojis and it's really cute.

"It will open, it will close, and there will be yoga pants."

LINDSAY: Perfect.

Thank you so much, Lea!

LEA: Bye!

LINDSAY: Thank you, Lea!

Before we go, let's do some THEATREFOLK NEWS.

So, Lea Marshall is not only just a treasure and a treat and an amazing resource, but she

is also a curriculum contributor to our Drama Teacher Academy, and we have some great stuff

from her.

We have in the DTA a great Theatre of the Absurd unit and also an Ancient Greek Theatre

hyperdock which she put together specifically to give students during Tech Week when she's

tearing her hair out and she still has to teach.

So, DTA – the Drama Teacher Academy – is a membership site just for drama teachers.

It offers professional development, curriculum resources, and community.

You can find out more at DramaTeacherAcademy.com or click the link in the show notes which

you can find at Theatrefolk.com/episode204.

Since you've made it this far in the podcast – I know, there's not many of you, but

thank you!

– I'd also like to point out in the show notes where you will find some extra treats

just for you.

Yes!

Yes, I mean it!

There are two posters that this episode kind of inspired me to have made up.

So, they're there in the show notes.

Finally, where can you find this podcast?

Go to Theatrefolk.com/podcast and there you will see we are on iTunes, Android, Google

Play, Stitcher, and more.

That's Theatrefolk.com/podcast.

And that's where we're going to end.

Take care, my friends.

Take care.

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Elizabeth Esty is under fire for her handling of abuse accusations against her former chief of staff, Tony Baker.

Connecticut Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty will not seek re-election after facing calls for her resignation from both sides of the aisle and from the editorial board of her state's largest newspaper over her handling of abuse and sexual harassment accusations made against her former chief of staff by another staffer.

Tony Baker, 36, was accused in 2016 of punching his ex-girlfriend, Anna Kain, in Esty's Washington office.

Kain also said Baker screamed at her and threatened that if she reported him, he would prevent her from getting another job, according to reports by The Washington Post and the Connecticut Post.

Kain, 29, filed a police report and a restraining order in 2016 after she said Baker called her and threatened to kill her in a voicemail, the newspapers reported.

Baker left Esty's office with a severance package in 2016 and the accusations against him were kept quiet.

He went on to take a job with Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit founded by family members of the victims of the 2012 Newtown school shooting, which, "trains students and adults to know the signs of gun violence so that no other parent experiences the senseless, horrific loss of their child." Sandy Hook is in Esty's district.

Baker, who was the Ohio director for Sandy Hook Promise, is no longer working for the organization, which has not commented since news of the allegations were brought forward.

Esty, a Democrat, has apologized for "failing to protect" Kain.

She has said that she does not plan to resign, but has asked the House Ethics Committee to look into her actions "related to improper behavior by her former chief of staff," according to a press release.

She later announced she will not be running for re-election.

"Too many women have been harmed by harassment in the workplace.

In the terrible situation in my office, I could have and should have done better.

To the survivor, I want to express my strongest apology for letting you down," Esty said in a statement.

"In Congress, and workplaces across the country, we need stronger workplace protections and to provide employees with a platform to raise concerns, address problems, and work to reduce and eliminate such occurrences, in the first place.

In my final months in Congress, I will use my power to fight for action and meaningful change.".

Here's what you need to know about Tony Baker and the accusations against him and Esty:.

Baker Left a Voicemail for Kain Saying 'You Better F*cking Reply to Me or I Will F*cking Kill You,' & Called Her About 50 Times, Telling Her He Would 'Find Her' & 'Kill Her,' She Says.

Tony Baker and Anna Kain met in Rep.

Elizabeth Esty's D.C.

office in 2013 after Esty was elected to Congress, The Washington Post reports.

Kain, who had worked for Esty's campaign, was hired as Esty's scheduler and Baker was brought on as legislative director.

They dated casually in 2013.

In 2014, both were promoted, Kain to senior adviser, and Baker to chief of staff.

It is not clear when the relationship ended.

Kain has alleged that she was physically and verbally abused during their relationship and their time together in the congresswoman's office, but she feared coming forward because her own career.

She said she had been threatened by Baker and she did not want to hurt Esty's re-election chances by publicly exposing her chief of staff's behavior.

She told The Post that she removed her cell phone from the House's WiFi network so she could privately look up how to report misconduct to the Ethics Committee.

"I was 24 and doing a job that I believed in for an institution I was proud to be a part of," Kain told The Post.

"But I was being severely abused and had nowhere to turn.

Nobody talked about things like this.

I was suffering and thought it was weakness.".

Kain left Esty's office in 2015.

In 2016, she filed for a protective order against Baker after he made a series of threatening calls to her following an "alcohol-infused reunion of former and current staffers," at a bar on Cinco de Mayo, the Connecticut Post reports.

In the filing for the protective order, Kain said Baker had called her cell phone about 50 times and left messages saying he would "find her" and "kill her.".

In one message, provided to The Washington Post, Baker told Kain, "You better f*cking reply to me or I will f*cking kill you.

Kain also filed a police report with the U.S.

Capitol Police alleging felony threats, but it is not clear whether an investigation was conducted.

Police said the report was not immediately available.

Kain obtained a 12-month restraining order against Baker.

In her application for the order, Kain provided details about her relationship with Baker, saying that he punched her in the back in Esty's office and "repeatedly screamed" at her while threatening to retaliate professionally if she reported his behavior.

"Throughout the Winter of 2014, respondent (Baker) repeatedly screamed at petitioner (the former staffer) in the workplace, making the woman feel intimidated and caused petitioner to feel she could not report respondent's actions without putting her safety at risk," the affidavit stated, according to the Connecticut Post.

Esty Kept Baker on Staff for 3 Months After Learning About the Threat, Gave Him a $5,000 Severance & a Positive Recommendation to Sandy Hook Promise.

Esty found out about the threats made against Kain by Baker about a week after the May 5, 2016, incident, The Washington Post reports.

Esty did not immediately suspend or fire Baker, but instead consulted her personal attorneys and advisers, and spoke to Kain on May 11, according to emails obtained by the post.

She then had her former chief of staff, Julie Sweet, look into Baker's past behavior.

Baker did not leave Esty's office for three months.

According to The Post, Esty barred Baker from working out of her Capitol Hill office on July 24, 2016.

But he still accompanied her to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia from July 25 to July 28, the newspaper reports.

He then sent a letter to his colleagues announcing his departure from Esty's staff on August 12, according to The Post.

When Baker left, he and Esty signed a nondisclosure agreement and he was given $5,000 in severance, which Esty has plans to pay back to the government.

Esty told The Washington Post she was pressured by the Office of House Employment Counsel to sign the NDA, and said that process delayed Baker's departure.

The separation agreement also required Esty to provide a letter of recommendation for Baker to help in his search for a job outside of Washington, according to The Post.

A draft of the letter obtained by the newspaper showed that Esty praised his "considerable skills." Baker returned to Ohio, a move which was suggested by Esty, and then found a job with Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit based in Esty's district.

Esty was contacted by the organization in the fall of 2016 and gave him a positive, but "limited" recommendation, according to the Connecticut Post.

She said told the newspaper she was mistaken in some of the actions she took, including the recommendation.

"This was a mistake, I think," Esty told the Hartford Courant.

"I'm somebody who believes in second chances.

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