Benjamin Casanas Toledano (born September 7, 1932), is an attorney, author, and former politician originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, who has resided since 1991 in Pass Christian, Mississippi. In 1970, he was the Republican nominee for Mayor of New Orleans; two years later, he carried his party's banner for the United States Senate in a failed campaign against the Democrat J. Bennett Johnston.
Legal and political life
In 1957, Toledano was licensed to practice law in Louisiana. In 1967, he was the second partner in Porteous, Toledano, Hainkel, and Johnson, then the second oldest law firm in Louisiana specializing throughout its history in insurance defense. Law partner John Hainkel, a Democrat-turned-Republican, was later the only man until 2012 to have served as both Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives and President of the Louisiana State Senate.
Originally a Democrat, Toledano in 1960 joined the Louisiana States' Rights Party, a conservative, segregationist group which offered electors separate from the national Republican and Democratic presidential nominees, Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy. Though Kennedy won the electoral votes of Louisiana, the combined Nixon and States Rights slates represented a majority of the ballots. was Queen of Rex in 1929. However, many in the upper class refused to support Toledano in the mayoral campaign against the Democratic nominee Moon Landrieu, a former protégé of the late Mayor deLesseps Story Morrison and the father of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu. Toledano said that members of the upper class often told him that they favored Landrieu because they believed the Democrat could deal better with African American relations than would Toledano.
Toledano polled 65,558 votes (41 percent), mostly from lower- and middle-class whites; Landrieu, with nearly all of the black vote behind him, prevailed with 94,332 votes (59 percent). Earlier, On December 13, 1969, Landrieu had defeated fellow Democrat Jimmy Fitzmorris, a more conservative candidate and subsequently the Louisiana lieutenant governor, in the runoff election, 89,554 (53.9 percent) to 76,726 (46.1 percent). Even though several Fitzmorris managers switched allegiance to Toledano, who campaigned vigorously for a Republican in a Democratic stronghold, Landrieu defeated Toledano by a larger margin than he had bested Fitzmorris. The Nixon administration refused to support the Republican senatorial nominees running against incumbent Democrats in the South who had supported the Vietnam War. This decision after the Watergate break-in. Shunned by the White House along with Toledano, who was not running against an incumbent, were Gil Carmichael in Mississippi, Winton Blount in Alabama, and Wayne H. Babbitt in Arkansas, out of deference to Senators James Eastland, John Sparkman, and John Little McClellan, respectively.
Coincidentally, Toledano was the only Republican U.S. Senate nominee in Louisiana between 1962 and 1984. The 1984 candidate, Robert Max Ross (1933-2009) of Richland Parish, carried no party organizational support. In 1986, however, the state GOP coalesced around then U.S. Representative Henson Moore of Louisiana's 6th congressional district, who waged a strong but losing race against the Democrat John Breaux to succeed veteran retiring Senator Russell B. Long.
Ten years after Toledano's Senate campaign, President Ronald W. Reagan in 1982 strongly and publicly proposed the nomination of Toledano to a vacancy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to succeed Robert Andrew Ainsworth, Jr., who died the preceding year. Toledano carried the recommendation of the state party leadership, including then Governor David C. Treen, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a local group of African-American attorneys opposed his selection. They cited Toledano's involvement in 1960 with the Louisiana States' Rights Party, but Treen himself had been a part of that temporary party, along with Democrats Leander Perez, Jared Y. Sanders, Jr., and William M. Rainach. In December 1982, Fred Fielding, Reagan's counsel, in a memorandum to the joint White House-Justice Department working group, said that Toledano was "a well-qualified candidate ... However, we believe the facts described below should be brought to your personal attention before further action occurs on the part of this prospective nominee." The memo described Toledano's past ties to the States Rights Party and the opposition from a committee of the American Bar Association. Several days later, the White House informed Toledano that his nomination had been withdrawn. Evidence shows that Reagan himself personally made the decision. Reagan instead named W. Eugene Davis of Lafayette to the appeals court seat.
Personal and literary life
Toledano is married to the former Roulhac Bunkley, a native Texan with a French Huguenot first name. Their children are son, Macon Cheek Toledano (born 1965), and daughters Gabrielle B. Toledano (born 1967), Roulhac d'Arby Toledano (born c. 1969), and Cleanth Brooks Toledano (born c. 1975), who is named for the literary figure Cleanth Brooks. It was in the Toledano home in New Orleans in the early 1960s where Brooks met Walker Percy, and Brooks frequently visited with Toledano when he was in town.
Toledano formerly wrote for The Wall Street Journal, Texas Monthly, William F. Buckley, Jr.'s National Review, and Thomas Fleming's Chronicles, a "paleoconservative" magazine published in Rockford, Illinois. Paleoconservative views are represented by such individuals as the defeated three-time presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan or the late columnist Samuel T. Francis. They contend that "neoconservatives" in national Republican administrations of the two Presidents Bush in particular have betrayed traditional Republican values to keep the United States involved in endless wars in the name of "democracy" and international trade agreements which cause the movement of jobs outside the United States. Since moving to Mississippi, he has lived in Pass Christian in Harrison County on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, but he spends time too in Columbus in Lowndes County in eastern Mississippi, where he writes columns for The Dispatch newspaper, which also covers Starkville, Mississippi.
One of his most controversial columns was carried in 2007 in Commentary magazine; "New Orleans -- An Autopsy", is a lengthy examination of the long-range political implications of Hurricane Katrina. Toledano concludes that New Orleans was in rampant social decay for a generation before the storm struck so severely in August 2005 and less to a mass exodus of mostly poorer residents. He considers the decay to have been insurmountable since the early 1970s, the time of his failed political campaigns. He declared the two-term Landrieu administration a political and economic failure and added that he is unsure if he, following a different philosophical bent, could have succeeded as mayor as well, considering the social decay.
Toledano's has deposited some of his family and personal papers in the Special Collections and Department of the J. Edgar & Louise S. Monroe Library at Loyola University New Orleans.
Legal and political life
In 1957, Toledano was licensed to practice law in Louisiana. In 1967, he was the second partner in Porteous, Toledano, Hainkel, and Johnson, then the second oldest law firm in Louisiana specializing throughout its history in insurance defense. Law partner John Hainkel, a Democrat-turned-Republican, was later the only man until 2012 to have served as both Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives and President of the Louisiana State Senate.
Originally a Democrat, Toledano in 1960 joined the Louisiana States' Rights Party, a conservative, segregationist group which offered electors separate from the national Republican and Democratic presidential nominees, Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy. Though Kennedy won the electoral votes of Louisiana, the combined Nixon and States Rights slates represented a majority of the ballots. was Queen of Rex in 1929. However, many in the upper class refused to support Toledano in the mayoral campaign against the Democratic nominee Moon Landrieu, a former protégé of the late Mayor deLesseps Story Morrison and the father of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu. Toledano said that members of the upper class often told him that they favored Landrieu because they believed the Democrat could deal better with African American relations than would Toledano.
Toledano polled 65,558 votes (41 percent), mostly from lower- and middle-class whites; Landrieu, with nearly all of the black vote behind him, prevailed with 94,332 votes (59 percent). Earlier, On December 13, 1969, Landrieu had defeated fellow Democrat Jimmy Fitzmorris, a more conservative candidate and subsequently the Louisiana lieutenant governor, in the runoff election, 89,554 (53.9 percent) to 76,726 (46.1 percent). Even though several Fitzmorris managers switched allegiance to Toledano, who campaigned vigorously for a Republican in a Democratic stronghold, Landrieu defeated Toledano by a larger margin than he had bested Fitzmorris. The Nixon administration refused to support the Republican senatorial nominees running against incumbent Democrats in the South who had supported the Vietnam War. This decision after the Watergate break-in. Shunned by the White House along with Toledano, who was not running against an incumbent, were Gil Carmichael in Mississippi, Winton Blount in Alabama, and Wayne H. Babbitt in Arkansas, out of deference to Senators James Eastland, John Sparkman, and John Little McClellan, respectively.
Coincidentally, Toledano was the only Republican U.S. Senate nominee in Louisiana between 1962 and 1984. The 1984 candidate, Robert Max Ross (1933-2009) of Richland Parish, carried no party organizational support. In 1986, however, the state GOP coalesced around then U.S. Representative Henson Moore of Louisiana's 6th congressional district, who waged a strong but losing race against the Democrat John Breaux to succeed veteran retiring Senator Russell B. Long.
Ten years after Toledano's Senate campaign, President Ronald W. Reagan in 1982 strongly and publicly proposed the nomination of Toledano to a vacancy on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to succeed Robert Andrew Ainsworth, Jr., who died the preceding year. Toledano carried the recommendation of the state party leadership, including then Governor David C. Treen, but the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and a local group of African-American attorneys opposed his selection. They cited Toledano's involvement in 1960 with the Louisiana States' Rights Party, but Treen himself had been a part of that temporary party, along with Democrats Leander Perez, Jared Y. Sanders, Jr., and William M. Rainach. In December 1982, Fred Fielding, Reagan's counsel, in a memorandum to the joint White House-Justice Department working group, said that Toledano was "a well-qualified candidate ... However, we believe the facts described below should be brought to your personal attention before further action occurs on the part of this prospective nominee." The memo described Toledano's past ties to the States Rights Party and the opposition from a committee of the American Bar Association. Several days later, the White House informed Toledano that his nomination had been withdrawn. Evidence shows that Reagan himself personally made the decision. Reagan instead named W. Eugene Davis of Lafayette to the appeals court seat.
Personal and literary life
Toledano is married to the former Roulhac Bunkley, a native Texan with a French Huguenot first name. Their children are son, Macon Cheek Toledano (born 1965), and daughters Gabrielle B. Toledano (born 1967), Roulhac d'Arby Toledano (born c. 1969), and Cleanth Brooks Toledano (born c. 1975), who is named for the literary figure Cleanth Brooks. It was in the Toledano home in New Orleans in the early 1960s where Brooks met Walker Percy, and Brooks frequently visited with Toledano when he was in town.
Toledano formerly wrote for The Wall Street Journal, Texas Monthly, William F. Buckley, Jr.'s National Review, and Thomas Fleming's Chronicles, a "paleoconservative" magazine published in Rockford, Illinois. Paleoconservative views are represented by such individuals as the defeated three-time presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan or the late columnist Samuel T. Francis. They contend that "neoconservatives" in national Republican administrations of the two Presidents Bush in particular have betrayed traditional Republican values to keep the United States involved in endless wars in the name of "democracy" and international trade agreements which cause the movement of jobs outside the United States. Since moving to Mississippi, he has lived in Pass Christian in Harrison County on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, but he spends time too in Columbus in Lowndes County in eastern Mississippi, where he writes columns for The Dispatch newspaper, which also covers Starkville, Mississippi.
One of his most controversial columns was carried in 2007 in Commentary magazine; "New Orleans -- An Autopsy", is a lengthy examination of the long-range political implications of Hurricane Katrina. Toledano concludes that New Orleans was in rampant social decay for a generation before the storm struck so severely in August 2005 and less to a mass exodus of mostly poorer residents. He considers the decay to have been insurmountable since the early 1970s, the time of his failed political campaigns. He declared the two-term Landrieu administration a political and economic failure and added that he is unsure if he, following a different philosophical bent, could have succeeded as mayor as well, considering the social decay.
Toledano's has deposited some of his family and personal papers in the Special Collections and Department of the J. Edgar & Louise S. Monroe Library at Loyola University New Orleans.
11.11 Taobao Shopping Festival 6 Marketing strategies
In China November 11 is a big deal for Taobab consumers and sellers attracting a lot of online shoppers. With the increase in technology causing a subsequent increase in online shopping platforms sellers have come up with more innovative ways to keep their customers still interested in their products. Taobab being no exception, has now adopted even more marketing strategies to keep their clients and increase their clientele base.
Offers
There is nothing like a good deal to attract consumers into purchasing a product. Some of the common deals offered are coupons, shopping points and 1 billion red envelopes. Customers are also encouraged to engage in group shopping which earns the consumers discounts on desired products. However, before the customer can enjoy the benefits of these deals, the sellers make them work for it by making it difficult for them to get the discount offers easily.
During this festive season, it is common for people to spend more on commodities. Considering this era backed with the fear of missing out, individuals are highly likely to spend on products because they see other people buying. Bandwagon as a persuasion technique is used effectively in this case. Customers are enticed into purchasing products because the products are being used by so many other people as well. This has caused the November 11 sale to become a traditional activity in which many Chinese people want to participate in.
Games are also offered in which customers can earn points. Consumers interested in the product invite their friends to join them in games. This way they get a lot of consumers to use their apps and purchase their products.
Pricing strategies
One common way of attracting customers to purchase products is to reduce the price of the product. Some merchants offer lower prices for goods if the customer is willing to make an order for the product before the day of the sale. Another trick that merchants use is reducing the price of the product before the day of the sale so that on the day of the sale, the customer feels like they are getting a good deal which is not really the case. Higher prices for the upper class consumers while lower prices for the lower class consumers. The merchants are also able to maximize on sales without having to improve the quality of the product by pricing based on the affluence of the region. Customers residing in regions that are considered as upper class paying higher prices for the same commodity as customers residing in regions that are considered lower class areas.
Branding
During the Nov 11 sale the merchants hire brand ambassadors to endorse the products on sale. These can be celebrities or social media influencers. For example, Yi Yang Qian Xi(Jackson Yee) and other celebrities from other countries, for example, Taylor Swift, popular America singer and Hanazawa Kana, a popular Japanese singer, and actor. Their goal is to use their influence online to get customers interested in purchasing the products. The social media influencers do a good job not only in endorsing the product but also providing additional information concerning the properties of the product.
The Nov 11 shopping would not be possible without the invention of online shopping. In many ways shipping has made shopping very convenient, but this convenience has also cost the consumer a lot of time online looking for products among millions of options while trying to grab a good deal among many other options.
In China November 11 is a big deal for Taobab consumers and sellers attracting a lot of online shoppers. With the increase in technology causing a subsequent increase in online shopping platforms sellers have come up with more innovative ways to keep their customers still interested in their products. Taobab being no exception, has now adopted even more marketing strategies to keep their clients and increase their clientele base.
Offers
There is nothing like a good deal to attract consumers into purchasing a product. Some of the common deals offered are coupons, shopping points and 1 billion red envelopes. Customers are also encouraged to engage in group shopping which earns the consumers discounts on desired products. However, before the customer can enjoy the benefits of these deals, the sellers make them work for it by making it difficult for them to get the discount offers easily.
During this festive season, it is common for people to spend more on commodities. Considering this era backed with the fear of missing out, individuals are highly likely to spend on products because they see other people buying. Bandwagon as a persuasion technique is used effectively in this case. Customers are enticed into purchasing products because the products are being used by so many other people as well. This has caused the November 11 sale to become a traditional activity in which many Chinese people want to participate in.
Games are also offered in which customers can earn points. Consumers interested in the product invite their friends to join them in games. This way they get a lot of consumers to use their apps and purchase their products.
Pricing strategies
One common way of attracting customers to purchase products is to reduce the price of the product. Some merchants offer lower prices for goods if the customer is willing to make an order for the product before the day of the sale. Another trick that merchants use is reducing the price of the product before the day of the sale so that on the day of the sale, the customer feels like they are getting a good deal which is not really the case. Higher prices for the upper class consumers while lower prices for the lower class consumers. The merchants are also able to maximize on sales without having to improve the quality of the product by pricing based on the affluence of the region. Customers residing in regions that are considered as upper class paying higher prices for the same commodity as customers residing in regions that are considered lower class areas.
Branding
During the Nov 11 sale the merchants hire brand ambassadors to endorse the products on sale. These can be celebrities or social media influencers. For example, Yi Yang Qian Xi(Jackson Yee) and other celebrities from other countries, for example, Taylor Swift, popular America singer and Hanazawa Kana, a popular Japanese singer, and actor. Their goal is to use their influence online to get customers interested in purchasing the products. The social media influencers do a good job not only in endorsing the product but also providing additional information concerning the properties of the product.
The Nov 11 shopping would not be possible without the invention of online shopping. In many ways shipping has made shopping very convenient, but this convenience has also cost the consumer a lot of time online looking for products among millions of options while trying to grab a good deal among many other options.
Laurence Hansen (December 11, 1917 - April 17, 1988) was an American soldier and author.
He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. From 1936 to 1937, he attended Fenn College in Cleveland.
During the Second World War, Hansen rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Air Force. During the course of the war he was, "decorated with the Bronze Star Medal, the Air Medal and the Legion of Merit."
From November 1942 to November 1946, Hansen served as the personal pilot for General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Hansen retired from the military in November 1946 and went to work for his family's manufacturing firm in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1983 he wrote an account of his experiences as Eisenhower's pilot. The booklet was published by Aero-Medical Consultants, Inc., of Largo, Florida, under the title What It was Like Flying for "Ike."
He was born in Cleveland, Ohio. From 1936 to 1937, he attended Fenn College in Cleveland.
During the Second World War, Hansen rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Air Force. During the course of the war he was, "decorated with the Bronze Star Medal, the Air Medal and the Legion of Merit."
From November 1942 to November 1946, Hansen served as the personal pilot for General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Hansen retired from the military in November 1946 and went to work for his family's manufacturing firm in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1983 he wrote an account of his experiences as Eisenhower's pilot. The booklet was published by Aero-Medical Consultants, Inc., of Largo, Florida, under the title What It was Like Flying for "Ike."
The Dysart Sail In Film Festival is an outdoor film festival in Fife, Scotland. The month-long festival culminated in an event which took place on September 11, 2010. The Dysart Sail In Film Festival was Fife's first outdoor film festival that looks set to become an annual occurrence.
The festival was organised by Sarah Daly and Lawrie Brewster of New Age Film Ltd. In conjunction with the Dysart Community Regeneration Forum, with the aim of encouraging independent film production in the area. A set of over 50 workshops in scriptwriting, poetry, film production, acting and more preceded the main event. The works produced in these workshops were published in a booklet and distributed among event attendees. Workshop participants also got the chance to read their pieces at an Indie Showcase, a packed two-hour indoor event before the outdoor screening on September 11.
The outdoor event saw films projected onto a huge white screen, representing a giant sail, hanging over the great quarry walls of medieval Dysart harbour. The show boasted an eclectic programme of locally produced works, made especially for the festival, as well as international short films and an exciting open air opera performance.
Special guests in attendance on the day included ex prime minister Gordon Brown, MSP Marilyn Livingstone and actress/director Cora Bissett.
The festival was organised by Sarah Daly and Lawrie Brewster of New Age Film Ltd. In conjunction with the Dysart Community Regeneration Forum, with the aim of encouraging independent film production in the area. A set of over 50 workshops in scriptwriting, poetry, film production, acting and more preceded the main event. The works produced in these workshops were published in a booklet and distributed among event attendees. Workshop participants also got the chance to read their pieces at an Indie Showcase, a packed two-hour indoor event before the outdoor screening on September 11.
The outdoor event saw films projected onto a huge white screen, representing a giant sail, hanging over the great quarry walls of medieval Dysart harbour. The show boasted an eclectic programme of locally produced works, made especially for the festival, as well as international short films and an exciting open air opera performance.
Special guests in attendance on the day included ex prime minister Gordon Brown, MSP Marilyn Livingstone and actress/director Cora Bissett.