Fresh Thyme Farmers Market is shifting to a streamlined logo and company name: Fresh Thyme Market.
With the change, Fresh Thyme sheds the word “Farmers” and the tractor icon from its banner. The Downers Grove, Ill.-based specialty grocer said yesterday the new company logo brings a simpler, “refined and sharpened” look, with condensed wording and white lettering on a green background, compared with the previous green text against a yellow background.
Plans call for Fresh Thyme to support the banner change in a new advertising campaign set to kick off on Sunday, Aug. 30, with the airing of a new television commercial. The TV spot will feature the new Fresh Thyme logo and run in 18 Midwestern markets.
According to Fresh Thyme, the new name and logo “drives straighter” toward the company’s brand and purpose as a wellness-driven grocery retailer focusing on value-priced fresh, healthy, natural and organic offerings.
“Fresh Thyme has always been a solution for healthy living, no matter the circumstance,” Tod Pepin, chief merchandising and marketing officer at Fresh Thyme Market, said in a statement. “As we all continue to navigate this new normal, Fresh Thyme is dedicated to helping people meet a new standard and heightened responsibility towards their own well-being. Our new logo and advertising campaign is an intentional evolution in that direction, and we are thrilled to share it with our community.”
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With the change, Fresh Thyme drops the word “Farmers” and the tractor icon from its banner.
Titled “This is Real,” the TV ad stars real Fresh Thyme shoppers who were cast while shopping in Chicago. Fresh Thyme said the commercial — showing three families preparing and eating dinner in their homes — aims to highlight the diversity and uniqueness of the Fresh Thyme customer. It also emphasizes that Fresh Thyme shoppers are taking control of their wellness amid a changing world by eating “real, healthy foods,” the retailer said.
Chicago-based agency The Distillery Project redesigned the Fresh Thyme logo and helped develop the ad campaign in partnership with the chain.
“It’s always been hard for people to know what to do to stay healthy. It’s such an important topic that there’s a constant barrage of information. It can be confusing, contradictory and sometimes come from pretty questionable sources,” according to John Condon, founder and chief creative officer The Distillery Project. “Now, more than ever, people are searching for some clarity. The pandemic has made us all more health-conscious and more price-sensitive. So it just seemed an especially right time to remind people that Fresh Thyme has always stood for ‘real healthy foods at real affordable prices’ and that the single, most important thing any of us can do to keep ourselves and our families healthy is eat healthy foods.”
Overall, Fresh Thyme Market operates 73 stores in 11 states across the Midwest.
ROME — When the Vatican opened its sealed archives from the World War II-era pontificate of Pius XII in March, the Brown University historian David I. Kertzer was among the first in line.
Like many other scholars, Dr. Kertzer had been eager to mine the papers of a pope — long under consideration for sainthood — whose response to Nazism and the Holocaust has become the target of fierce debate.
Some have cast Pius XII as the pontiff who remained shamefully silent as the Nazis massacred Jews during the war. Others claim that Pius worked behind the scenes to encourage the Roman Catholic Church to save thousands of Jews and other victims of persecution.
Now documents from the archives are beginning to trickle out, offering an early taste of what could emerge from the tens of thousands of papers that scholars had been clamoring to study for decades. Pius XII’s pontificate stretched from 1939 to 1958.
In an article published in The Atlantic on Thursday, Dr. Kertzer revealed previously unpublished documents, including a memorandum advising Pius against making a formal protest when the Gestapo rounded up 1,000 of Rome’s Jews on Oct. 16, 1943, for deportation to the concentration camp in Auschwitz.
Dr. Kertzer also found a trail of documents revealing that Vatican officials directed clerics in France to resist turning over two Jewish boys who had been put in the care of local Catholics and baptized when their parents were killed in Auschwitz — despite rulings by French courts ordering that the boys be given to their aunt.
David I. Kertzer, an historian at Brown University, was one of the first to publish research found in the newly unsealed archives of Pope Pius XII.Credit...Steven Senne/Associated Press
The church’s defiance of the aunt’s yearslong efforts to reclaim the two boys — Robert and Gérald Finaly — made international headlines at the time, including on the front page of The New York Times. The documents show that Pius was kept informed, even as French nuns and monks were arrested on charges of kidnapping the boys.
“Among historians, my piece I think will be fairly explosive,” said Dr. Kertzer, whose book “The Pope and Mussolini,” about Pius’s predecessor, Pius XI, won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 2015.
Vatican officials, provided with Dr. Kertzer’s article, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
In 1965, Pope Paul VI ordered the release of some official Vatican records relating to the wartime period after Pius XII had been excoriated in Rolf Hochhuth’s 1963 play “The Deputy,” which attacked the pope for not having publicly condemned Hitler, even though he was aware of the Nazi crimes. Mr. Hochhuth died in May.
Four Jesuit scholars published 11 volumes of documents from Pius XII’s pontificate between 1965 and 1981. Critics have said those volumes were selective and insufficient.
Dr. Kertzer said a note and a memorandum found from 1943, both translated and reprinted in the Atlantic article, were not included in the Vatican volume dealing with 1943, which does, however, include a document that refers to one of the newly uncovered documents.
The omission gave weight to “suspicions that those four Jesuit scholars may have been loath to publish items that might be seen to cast the Pope, and the Vatican, in unfavorable light,” Dr. Kertzer said in a Skype interview from his home in Harpswell, Maine. “Frankly this demonstrates that’s the case.”
But others who study church history say that the rush to find gems buried in the newly opened archives could also result in a selective understanding of events.
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Pope Pius XII greeting civilians and soldiers while touring Rome on Oct 15, 1943. The Gestapo rounded up 1,000 of Rome’s Jews for deportation to Auschwitz the following day.Credit...Associated Press
Scholars have the duty to study the archives thoroughly, said Matteo Luigi Napolitano, a history professor at the University of Molise, who has written several favorable books on Pius XII, including “The Pope Who Saved the Jews. All the Truth about Pius XII from the Vatican Archives” (co-authored with Andrea Tornielli, the editorial director of the Vatican’s department of communications).
“You can’t publish one scoop after another just because you’ve been in the library for a few days,” said Dr. Napolitano, a delegate of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Sciences. “That’s not the way to work. It’s not a historical method.”
Dr. Kertzer only managed to work a few days in the archives when the coronavirus caused the Vatican to shut its doors, but he continued to research with a Rome-based church historian, Roberto Benedetti.
The documents include pages that Dr. Kertzer described as “steeped in anti-Semitic language.”
In one document concerning the 1943 roundup, The Rev. Pietro Tacchi Venturi, a close adviser, proposed that Pius XII tell the Germans there was no need to use violence against Italy’s Jews because Mussolini’s racial laws were “sufficient to contain the tiny Jewish minority within its proper limits,” Father Tacchi Venturi wrote. “One does not understand why and what need there is to return to a question that Mussolini’s Government considered already taken care of.”
Father Tacchi Venturi’s proposal was dismissed by a memorandum, written by the Rev. Angelo Dell’Acqua, then an official at the Secretariat of State who went on to become the cardinal for Rome, that sought to convince Pius XII not to lodge a formal protest against the Nazi roundup, but instead to speak of it privately with the German ambassador “recommending to him that the already grave situation of the Jews not be aggravated further.”
Cardinal Dell’Acqua was also involved in the much-publicized case of the Finaly brothers.
The war had left many Jewish orphans in Catholic countries, and on at least two occasions, Jewish leaders had appealed to Pius XII asking for help in ensuring that they be returned to Jewish families. As one document published in 2004 shows, in some instances, church policy had been to resist.
The Finaly boys had been secretly baptized, and the church in France had at first actively opposed attempts to give them back to surviving relatives, because the church believed they should be raised in their new faith.
Robert and Gerald Finaly, shown here in Paris in 1953, lost their parents in the Holocaust. Catholic officials helped hide the brothers and refused to turn them over to their Jewish relatives.Credit...AGIP, via Bridgeman Images
The new documentation cited by Dr. Kertzer suggests that the Vatican had been directly involved in efforts to hide the Finaly boys and prevent them from being given to their relatives, all the while seeking to keep its role secret.
The family finally prevailed, and the brothers were taken to Israel, where they still live. Dr. Kertzer suggests that the horror of the Holocaust had done little to soften the Vatican’s position.
Demand for full access to the archives intensified after the Vatican moved Pius XII closer to sainthood in 2009, a decision protested by some Holocaust survivors. Speaking to reporters while returning from his 2014 trip to Israel, Pope Francis said that Pius XII would not be beatified, the penultimate step to sainthood, until a miracle could be attributed to him.
“The cause for Pius XII is open. However, there has been no miracle, and if there are no miracles it is not yet possible to go ahead,” Francis said.
No miracle has yet been verified — and for the church to make him a saint, he officially needs two, though Francis waived the second miracle in the case of Pope John XXIII.
When Francis ordered the early opening of the sealed archive of Pius XII in 2019, he said: “The church is not afraid of history.”
At the time, Francis had said that Pius XII’s pontificate had included “moments of serious difficulties, of tormented decisions, of human and Christian prudence.”
The unsealed Pius XII archives (contained in three different Vatican archives) were opened March 2, but closed by the pandemic from March 5 until early June. They are now shut again because of the scheduled summer recess.
But articles and at least one book have already begun appearing, as well as attention-grabbing revelations.
The Rev. Hubert Wolf, a German scholar, who had been at the Vatican in March, gave an interview two months later saying he had found documents that reflected badly on Pius XII and the Vatican. As the Catholic and other media picked up these reports, some academics, including Dr. Napolitano, chastised him for publishing too hastily.
When Pope Francis ordered the early opening of the sealed archive of Pope Pius the VII in 2019, he said: “The church is not afraid of history.”Credit...Fabio Frustaci/EPA, via Shutterstock
Alberto Melloni, a church historian, said the anti-Semitic tones that emerge from some of the documents of the time should come as no surprise.
“It’s not for nothing that it took 20 years and five months from the end of the war for the church to produce ‘Nostra Aetate,’” Mr. Melloni said, referring to a document produced by the Second Vatican Council under Pope Paul VI, which radically redefined the church’s relationship to the Jews.
Dr. Benedetti, the Rome historian who has been assisting Dr. Kertzer in his research, said that even after the papers were unsealed in March, scholars lacked full access to every single document, because some archives were still being digitized or inventoried.
While the archive of the Secretariat of State is online, giving scholars ample access, at the apostolic archive, scholars are limited to asking to see three documents in the morning and two in the afternoon. It can be slow going.
“The documentation is truly immense, so I imagine that there will be many publications,” supporting many differing positions, said Dr. Benedetti, the director of an online history journal.
fresh.indah.link "Tree of Life" from "100 Reasons Why" event held virtually via social media platforms.
Florida State University will host Fresh Check Week — an uplifting event designed to bring the campus community together, increase awareness of mental health resources available to students and shine a light on suicide prevention.
Fresh Check Week aims to create an approachable atmosphere where students are encouraged to engage in dialogue about mental health and helps to build a bridge between students and the mental health resources available.
“The beauty of Fresh Check Week is that we create a community of caring,” said Dr. Sue Shapiro, coordinator of NOLES C.A.R.E. at the FSU Counseling Center. “Students learn the warning signs and how to assist those in crisis in getting help. This saves lives.”
The event will take place throughout Suicide Prevention Week and will be virtual this year, due to the pandemic. Students who attend events may enter a drawing to win a $20 Amazongift card or a $25 FSU Bookstore gift card. The more events one goes to, the more chances there are to win.
Created by The Jordan Porco Foundation, this free event is organized by the FSU Counseling Center, the FSU Peer Educator Program-RENEW (student volunteers) and representatives of The Jordan Porco Foundation.
100 Reasons Why: Inspire others by sharing your reason to stay alive on the University Counseling Center’s website and social media channels. Add leaves to a graphic tree by taking a photograph of your message. Be a part of the FSU community and show you care! Post photos on the University Counseling Center’s Facebook, Instagram and Twitter channels at @FSUCounseling. The graphic will be displayed on the University Counseling Center’s website on Friday, Sept. 11.
Tuesday, Sept. 8, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
“Care the Noles C.A.R.E. Way” for FSU Students: Learn about mental health and suicide prevention during this event presented by UCC’s Noles C.A.R.E. committee.Prizeentry is available at this event.
Wednesday, Sept. 9, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
RENEW, a peer educator program: Did you know that one out of ten students think about suicide? Be a part of the Nine Out of Ten who help the 10th person get the help they need. Play a game and discuss how to help friends and others. Prevent suicide by knowing the distress signs and our mental health resources. Associate Vice President for Student Affairs and Department of Student Support and Transitions Angela Chong will speak with students during this virtual event.Prizeentry is available at this event.
Thursday, Sept. 10, 1-2 p.m.
Uplift- Learn How to Make DIY Coping Box with Art: Uplift yourself by learning how to make aDIY Coping Box with Art during this virtual event presented by UCC’s Noles C.A.R.E. committee. Use a coping box to stay resilient, enjoy the moment or get through a tough time.Prizeentry is available at this event.
Friday, Sept. 11, 2-3 p.m.
“Care the Noles C.A.R.E. Way” for FSU Faculty and Staff: For our FSU Faculty and Staff, we will answer your questions about suicide prevention while you learn a straight-forward way to “Care the Noles C.A.R.E. Way.”This virtual event is presented by UCC’s Noles C.A.R.E. committee.
Follow Fresh Check Week on the University Counseling Center’s Facebook, Instagram and Twitterchannels at @FSUCounseling.
LONDON/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Bankers and analysts have voiced scepticism about attempts by Lebanon’s central bank to clean up the country’s banks, warning they must form part of a wider rescue plan to fix its broken financial and economic system.
FILE PHOTO: Lebanon's Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh meets with the government's social and economic council in Beirut, Lebanon September 27, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo
In a series of circulars on Thursday, the central bank told domestic banks to raise fresh capital, urge their big depositors to move funds back to the country and provision for a 45% loss on their Eurobond holdings.
The move follows a further downward spiral in Lebanon’s fortunes since an explosion this month at Beirut’s port. Even before the blast, which led to the government’s resignation, Beirut was grappling with its worst financial crisis in the wake of protests and a default on its foreign currency debt in March.
“These ad-hoc policy decisions will add to Lebanon’s credit and banking woes and risk undermining the little progress made in talks with the IMF,” said Alia Moubayed, managing director at Jefferies, referring to already stalled negotiations with the International Monetary Fund over a bailout.
“Nor are they anchored in a revised macro-fiscal and debt restructuring plan that factors in the deteriorating socio-economic context and worsening debt dynamics after the blast.”
The bank’s initiative comes ahead of a visit next week by French President Emmanuel Macron, who is pressing Lebanese leaders to make political and financial reforms to unlock foreign aid and ease the economic crisis, including by making a full audit of state finances and the central bank.
Lebanon’s banks, at the centre of the crisis because of their large holdings of the government’s debt, were told by the central bank to raise their capital by 20% by the end of February 2021 or leave the market.
REFORMS
“The necessity to have a cleaning in the banks after the default is there because we want banks to resume their role and activity,” Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh told Reuters when asked about the purpose of the circulars.
But lenders wouldn’t be able to resume activity without sufficient funds with their correspondent banks, he said.
Several analysts reacted cautiously.
“It is difficult to see why the private sector would pump fresh equity capital into the banking system unless a full asset clean-up has first taken place,” said Rahul Shah, head of financials equity research at Tellimer.
Analysts also questioned how the requirement for banks to take a 45% loss on Eurobond holdings tallies with a rescue plan released earlier this year by the now-caretaker government that proposed 75% haircuts on external debt and 40% on domestic debt.
The 45% loss also does not reflect the current market value of the bonds, which plummeted deeper below 20 cents in the dollar on Thursday, in the wake of the circulars and comments from French government officials that aid will not be forthcoming without reforms.
“We do not know how the negotiation between Lebanon and the creditors will end up but we have taken the normal provision that follows such a default,” Salameh said, adding the 45% level could be readjusted “in both ways”, depending on negotiations.
The provision level could signal a desire to pursue smaller haircuts or treat bank holdings differently from foreign holdings of Eurobonds, said Patrick Curran, senior economist at Tellimer.
Banks were told that the provisions, which also included a 1.89% loss on their hard currency deposits with the central bank, should be in place within five years, but were extendable to 10 years with the approval of the central bank.
The timetable was likely an effort to ensure that banks, already struggling to remain solvent, did not flout international regulatory capital floors, said analysts.
“It’s camouflage,” said a former senior central bank official. “They’re trying to dress things up, to put a fresh coat of paint on a crumbling building.”
There was also wariness about attempts by the central bank to require large depositors to return some of their funds from overseas, with analysts viewing it a precursor to some depositors having to share financial losses.
INCENTIVES
Banks were told to urge depositors who transferred more than $500,000 abroad as of July 1, 2017 to deposit funds in a special account in Lebanon that will be frozen for five years and would be equivalent to 15% of the transferred amount. The equivalent deposit amount is raised to 30% for “politically exposed persons”.
The directive was causing panic among some bank customers with large overseas holdings, said one financial services source, while other industry sources questioned what incentives would be offered to convince people to return funds.
“This is not the right way to do things,” said the financial services source. “The government, not the central bank, has to take decisions on this as this is a legal issue.
“Asking normal citizens to transfer some of their money back doesn’t seem fair, and if there is concern about politically exposed persons then an audit should first be carried out on their accounts to determine if they’ve benefited from financial engineering.”
The source was referring to a practice of Lebanon’s central bank that involved siphoning dollars from local banks at high interest rates to keep the government’s finances afloat.
Additional reporting by Tom Perry in Beirut; Editing by William Maclean
August 28, 2020 at 10:29PM
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