Author: Daniela
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National Cooperative Bank completes $30 million loan to housing co-op founded in 1927 by Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union
National Cooperative Bank (NCB), a leading financial services company dedicated to providing banking products to cooperatives nationwide, just completed a $30 million loan for Amalgamated Houses in the Bronx, New York. The country’s oldest limited equity cooperative secured the loan to refinance approximately $8.5 million of existing debt and $19.6 million to bolster its reserves and undertake…
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Freedom On The Farm
Originally posted on The Dish: Academic Anne Buchanan relates the daily routine of her sister Jennifer, a dairy farmer in Vermont: Farmers have an old saying: ‘I’ll keep farming until the money runs out.’ Working a small farm makes for a hardscrabble life — no time off and always something more to do, usually for…
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Henry VIII – Family Man?
The Oxford University Press asks, “was Henry VIII a “family man” so to speak?” The notion seems vaguely ridiculous; by 1547, the philandering English monarch had laid claim to six wives, two of which he had executed, including the infamously-beheaded Anne Boleyn. However, King Henry’s children were perhaps among his most prized possessions, comprising the…
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Join the Global Citizen Festival
Global Citizen Festival Saturday, September 28th, 2013 Central Park, Great Lawn New York City A world without extreme poverty is only going to be become a reality if we – as Global Citizens – create and commit to a new global partnership that involves us, charities, companies and governments around the world. The 2013 Global…
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The Tides of Manaunaun – Henry Cowell
“The Tides of Manaunaun” (1912) from Three Irish Legends Story according to John Varian which prefaces Cowell’s score: “Manaunaun was the god of motion, and long before the creation, he sent forth tremendous tides, which swept to and fro through the universe, and rhythmically moved the particles and materials of which the gods were later…
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Photo of the Day
Billie Holiday, 1938 The “Lady Sings the Blues” myth was strictly for people who don’t get the music and don’t care to, part of a pervasive worship of tragic artists who die young, for the sake of the bad habits, not the art. Billie Holiday’s force of personality comes through on the records regardless, and…
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Why Global Warming Should Keep You Awake at Night: Dr. Jennifer Francis Gives Chilling Testimony to Congress
Originally posted on robertscribbler: In a July 18 testimony to Congress, Dr. Jennifer Francis, an atmospheric scientist from Rutgers and key innovator to understanding how climate change has brought about dangerous alterations to the Northern Hemisphere Jet Stream, provides five compelling reasons why we should all be quite concerned about human caused global warming.…
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Why The Septuagint Is Important To The Study of Christianity
Timothy Michael Law, author of When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible explains what the Septuagint is, and why it is so important to the study of Christianity. The name Septuagint refers to what is mostly a collection of ancient translations. The Jewish scriptures were translated from Hebrew and Aramaic into…
