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Forbes
19-05-2025
- Health
- Forbes
Beyond The Spa: Canyon Ranch's Holistic Approach To Health And Wellness
Beyond the mat and the spa, Canyon Ranch, the venerable 46-year-old wellness brand, extends its offerings to energy healing and Ayurvedic modalities. It's no secret that Canyon Ranch, the venerable wellness outpost founded in 1979 by Melvin and Enid Zuckerman alongside Jerrold Cohen, is a pioneer in integrative well-being. These days, the 45-year-old Tuscon destination, located in the heart of the Sonoran Desert, alongside its sister property in Lenox, Massachusetts blends cutting-edge health and medical practices with ancient healing traditions. And while bread-and-butter offerings like massages, facials (Biologique Recherche, Augustinus Bader) and a wealth of outdoor activities remain, it's the resort's one-of-a-kind, holistic programming that truly sets it apart. To deepen self-awareness, Metaphysical Services offers an array of transformative practices. Astro-Gemology pairs your astrological chart with gemstones believed to amplify your personal strengths. Ideal for travel or relocation, Astrocartography overlays your birth chart onto a global map, revealing locations that align with your astrological energy. And there's Vedic Palmistry —an ancient Indian practice, interprets the lines, markings, and topography of your hands to offer insights into your path and purpose. For those seeking deeper spiritual guidance, Tarot and Angel Card Readings provide insights, ecouragment and clarity regarding the past, present, and future. Meanwhile, Clairvoyant Readings provide clarity and insight into personal transitions, helping you navigate life's changes with greater ease. Reiki — a Japanese practice dating back to the 1920s — channels energy to clear blockages and restore balance. For deeper spiritual guidance, Tarot and Angel Card Readings offer encouragement and clarity about the past, present, and future. Additionally, the immersive Soul Journey (available at both locations) combines guided sound therapy, neuro-acoustic beds, and meditation to help you achieve deep clarity and insight. Rooted in time-honored traditions, Canyon Ranch's Eastern Therapies program draws on centuries-old healing practices from India, Thailand, and Japan. At the heart of these offerings is Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of medicine developed over 5,000 years ago. Derived from the Sanskrit words ayur (life) and veda (knowledge), Ayurveda encompasses herbal remedies, massage, yoga, meditation, and cleansing rituals. A standout treatment is the 90-minute Udvartana, which blends heat-activated, exfoliating herbs with rhythmic lymphatic massage to stimulate circulation, support detoxification, release toxins, and aid in weight loss. Canyon Ranch leans in on Ayurveda, the ancient Indian medical system developed over 5,000 years ago. Ashiatsu, a pressurized barefoot massage technique where therapists use their feet to apply pressure targets tight muscles, stimulates circulation, and encourages deep relaxation. Inspired by Thai healing methods, the Muscle Melt for Road Warriors combines warm compressions and stretching to ease muscle stiffness — making it an ideal treatment for weary travelers and athletes. Or opt for Reflexology whose pressure points on the feet correspond to various organs in the body, promoting better circulation and relaxation. Rooted in Japanese tradition, Shiatsu applies pressure along specific energy pathways to balance the body's yin and yang, enhancing vitality. Similarly, Thai Massage uses slow, rhythmic movements and stretches to improve flexibility, leaving you feeling fully rejuvenated. A floating sound bath uses sound waves from quartz bowls and gongs offers relaxation and promote a sense of calm. Featuring a trio of energy-focused treatments, the summer Sanctuary Series includes Healing Energy working through the chakras to release stress and fatigue; Chakra Recharge utilizing semi-precious stones and grounding foot rituals to promote clarity; and Elemental Reiki tapping into the energies of earth, air, water, and sun to help guests recenter and restore balance. In the Berkshires, the aptly-titled Summer Solstice Discovery Week (June 19-25th) offers yoga, forest bathing, floating sound meditation, and a drumming circle paired with bhastrika pranayama (fiery 'bellows breath') to awaken and clear the mind. Or wind down with a refreshing, private rain-barrel shower in the woods. To eat are healthful meals highlighting organic, locally sourced produce, grass-fed beef, and sustainably sourced seafood. That's not all: this June in partnership with the James Beard Foundation you'll find visiting chefs like Sean Brock (June 19th) and Suzanne Cupps (September 18th) whose open-air sunset dinners are set against the backdrop of the Gilded Age estate.
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
13 Genius Tricks To Catch a Liar in the Act, According to Psychologists
Lies—big or small—make their way into everyone's life at one point or another. They even find their way into Disney movies, like when Princess Jasmine was deceived by Aladdin about his identity over and over again. It goes to show that deception happens everywhere and, unfortunately, no one is completely safe from it. Whether a stranger gaslights you, or it's a friend or loved one who is untruthful, fibs can slip into your life when you least expect them. While some fabrications are obvious, others can be cleverly disguised. That's why it can be very handy to have genius in the act. Thanks to Dr. Cynthia Edwards-Hawver, Psy.D., Dr. Jaime Zuckerman and Dr. J.J. Kelly, Psy.D., we have 13 ways to catch a and keep you one step ahead. While some of our experts' tactics may seem subtle, don't let that fool you—they're actually incredibly powerful tools anyone can use to uncover the truth. How? These strategies are designed to help you read between the lines and pick up on small but telling cues people tend to do when they aren't being understanding what signs and behaviors to look for when someone is dishonest, you'll be able to protect yourself in situations you may encounter. That way, the next time you get a feeling that someone is hiding something, being shady or manipulative, or telling a white lie, you can put one of these strategies into 'Eye movement can give you additional insight into whether a person is lying or not,' Dr. Zuckerman tells Parade. 'Typically, liars will avoid maintaining eye contact for extended periods of time or avoid it altogether, which may be due to feelings of anxiety or guilt over lying." However, this is a known "tell," so an experienced liar might know this and make sure to really make eye contact with you. But this can give them away too."Some experienced liars who are aware of eye moment involvement may overcompensate by not breaking eye contact—which can come across as uncomfortable and awkward," she says. In addition to where they're looking (or if they're looking at you), check how their eyes look in general as they share their alleged lies with you."You also want to pay attention and see if pupil dilation occurs because that happens when someone is feeling anxiety and panic—something that often occurs when someone is telling a lie," Dr. Zuckerman says. If you feel like a person you are talking to is playing the victim card, that can be another way to catch someone fibbing. 'When someone meets a simple question with outrage, guilt-tripping or tears, pay attention,' Dr. Edwards-Hawver warns. 'That emotional response is often a way to throw you off track when they are lying, and if you're a compassionate person, it is easy for you to fall into that trap and cave to the lie.'Related: That gut feeling? Our experts say it's your inner compass. You've probably heard the phrase 'Trust your gut!' time and time again. That's especially true when you're trying to figure out whether or not you're being misled. 'Pay attention to if you get an 'ick' type of feeling in your stomach when someone is telling you something,' Dr. Kelly advises. 'This can sometimes be the most important meter for gauging a lie. Your gut, your intuition, your instantaneous [reaction] are all... [a] repelled reaction to what someone is saying.' Is the person you're talking to dancing around what you asked? If so, our experts say that's not by accident. 'This is a subtle, but powerful tactic people use when they are lying,' Dr. Edwards-Hawver tells Parade. 'Liars often answer a different version of your question, one that feels safer to them so they can technically avoid lying. For example: you could ask, 'Did you see her when you went out last night?' and if they respond, 'I told you I was out with the guys,' it could be a sign they aren't telling you the whole truth because that response doesn't actually answer your question, it just gives the illusion of a response and subtly shifts the focus back to something already said.' When you're trying to catch a liar, Dr. Zuckerman suggests you don't jump straight into the tough questions, but ask them neutral questions first. Why? This trick could actually help you catch them in the act of lying. 'Asking neutral questions in the early stages of the dialogue can make the conversation feel more lighthearted and make them feel less pressure, so when they begin to lie, it will be easier for you to notice a shift in their conversational mannerism and speech,' she says. 'Shifting between neutral and direct questions can throw a liar off balance. They may get confused and reveal inconsistencies in their story.' 'Sometimes the biggest clue if someone is lying doesn't come down to what they say, but instead, how they act after,' Dr. Edwards-Hawver explains. That's why she proposes being extra cautious of people's behavior when they reply to you.'You might notice a sudden shift from a person where they are suddenly being unusually kind, affectionate or helpful as a way to smooth over guilt, distract you from asking more questions or 'reset' the dynamic without addressing the truth,' she notes. 'These actions are designed to bypass accountability.'Related: Dr. Zuckerman tells Parade that one way you can detect falsities is by listening, specifically to the pace at which someone is speaking to you. 'If a person is speaking slowly, it's usually because they are trying not to mess up the story and they are taking mental pauses to ensure consistency by paying very close attention to what they are saying,' she explains. 'If they are talking faster than normal, it's usually because they are nervous and they think that if they speed through the lie, it won't be as noticeable. They may also have anxious-speech stutters or repeat themselves.'One more voice-related behavior that can help you identify if someone is being dishonest has to do with their tone. 'While this alone is not a sign of lying, the pitch of someone's voice can change if they are lying,' Dr. Zuckerman says. 'Usually someone's voice will become higher pitched than their baseline voice.' Sometimes a person will practice telling a story for their lie in advance and memorize it like a script, our experts reveal. 'If the story someone is telling you sounds like a really well-rehearsed tale that they've told many times, they're probably lying,' Dr. Kelly states. So how can you tell? 'It might sound like a sales pitch, a slogan, a t-shirt or like they're telling you a story about someone else when they're talking about themselves,' they note. 'Overall, it will lack authenticity.' 'Subtle body language is often something people are not fully aware of in the moment, but it can be very telling,' Dr. Zuckerman shares. She points out that's why it's important to be observant because it could give a liar away if you know to look out for it. 'Facial touching, playing with their hair, sweating, rocking on their feet, biting their lip, or biting their nails, could all be body language signs that giveaway that someone lying,' she explainsDr. Kelly agrees and shares some other "tells."'If you notice that the person you're talking to starts to become fidgety while they're speaking to you, bouncing their leg nervously or darting their eyes, those can also be signals you can use to help figure out if they are telling you the truth,' they share. Have you ever asked someone something that just needed a one-word response and instead they told you a whole story? If so, our experts say it could be a way you can catch someone lying to you. 'When someone is telling you the truth, it usually sounds straightforward,' Dr. Edwards-Hawver explains. 'However, liars often over-explain their responses to sound believable by adding details you didn't ask for to fill in the gaps.' A person's sudden mood change can also help you nail a phony. 'A person may get angry and defensive as a way to deflect if they are lying,' Dr. Zuckerman discloses. 'They may also appear agitated, especially if challenged.'Related: 'One sign a person is lying is if they are gaslighting you,' Dr. Edwards-Hawver reveals. 'That means they are trying to make you question your memory, judgment or even your sanity at the moment.' Dr. Zuckerman tells Parade a trick that can help you out if you're trying to determine if someone is being truthful or not can come down to the color of their face. 'A person can become flushed or blotchy when something happens that makes their adrenaline spike, like when they feel anxious about getting caught lying' she indicates. 'In some cases, sometimes a person can become pale if they go into fight or flight mode.'Up Next:Dr. Cynthia Edwards-Hawver, Psy.D., is a licensed psychologist with 25 years of experience. Dr. Jaime Zuckerman is a licensed clinical psychologist and narcissistic abuse expert & relationship coach. Dr. J.J. Kelly, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and emotional intelligence skills training expert. They also founded UnorthoDocs, Inc. which is "a punk alternative to traditional psychotherapy..."
Los Angeles Times
18-04-2025
- Business
- Los Angeles Times
Heidi Zuckerman to step down from Orange County Museum of Art's exec role
Heidi Zuckerman — who helmed the transition of the Orange County Museum of Art from a regional exhibition space to a capstone institution in Costa Mesa's Segerstrom Center for the Arts — announced this week she will step down as chief executive in December. The Laguna Beach resident plans to focus on HZ Inc., a media platform she created in 2019 and through which she has created 166 installments of the podcast 'About Art,' probing the insight, minds and lives of makers and curators of art. 'I have the highest degree of respect for the institution and am its biggest cheerleader,' Zuckerman said of OCMA in an interview Thursday, adding that she will offer her assistance as the board conducts a search for her successor. 'I am staying in the community and will continue to support museums however I can.' Her decision comes as she nears the end of a five-year contract with the nonprofit organization that, in 2021, brought her to Orange County following an earlier stint as head of the Aspen Art Museum, where she led a similar architectural transformation seven years earlier. Officials broke the news in a release Wednesday, praising Zuckerman as a trailblazer who significantly contributed a 'legacy of institutional growth, impactful exhibitions, free access to art and community engagement that has solidified the museum's position as a premier cultural destination.' 'Her dedication to bringing world-class exhibitions and thought-provoking programming to our community has elevated OCMA to unprecedented heights,' David Emmes II, chair of the museum's board of trustees said. 'Though it is always bittersweet when someone decides to embark on a new chapter, we are excited to witness the great strides Heidi will continue to make in expanding access to the arts.' Since the 53,000-square-foot museum, designed by Morphosis Architects under Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne, opened to the public in October 2022, the site has welcomed more than 500,000 visitors and has vowed to offer free admission for its first 10 years there, thanks to a donation from Newport Beach's Lugano Diamonds. Zuckerman, who has long advocated for expanding public access to the arts, says she has been heartened to see the public's embrace of the museum, not only as a place where people can have transformative experiences with art, but as an important community gathering space. 'From the very beginning, I've said everyone is welcome, and I think we've done a great job of making people feel welcome here,' she said, describing the museum as a place where people can draw inspiration, find solace or connect with others. 'This is really one of the few places in contemporary society where people who have different values, different practices and approaches can literally rub shoulders with each other.'
BBC News
14-02-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
How a computer that 'drunk dials' videos is exposing YouTube's secrets
Estudio Santa Rita YouTube is about to turn 20. An unusual research method is unveiling statistics about the platform that Google would rather keep secret. YouTube may not seem secretive. It's public facing. You can watch an endless stream of content from now until your dying breath. There's been a mountain of research about the platform, unpacking everything from the commodified economy that surrounds it to the radicalising effects of its algorithm. But the picture goes blurry when you start asking simple questions. For example: how much YouTube do we all watch? Google, which owns YouTube, is quiet about that and many other details. In February, the company revealed that people who access YouTube on their TVs collectively watch one billion hours a day, but total numbers for the platform are an enigma. Estimates say YouTube has around 2.5 billion monthly users – almost one in three people on Earth – and the average mobile app user watches something like 29 hours a month. With that, let's try some back-of-the-napkin maths. If we make a few assumptions, and say that monthly viewing average for app users can be applied across all YouTube users on both the website and television, we can multiply 2.5 billion by 29 hours. This would tell us that humanity consumes something like 8.3 million years of videos on YouTube every month. Over 12 months, that adds up to almost 100 million years, hundreds of times longer than the sum total of human history. How many YouTube videos are there? What are they about? What languages do YouTubers speak? As of 14 February 2025, the platform's will have been running for 20 years. That is a lot of video. Yet we have no idea just how many there really are. Google knows the answers. It just won't tell you. Experts say that's a problem. For all practical purposes, one of the most powerful communication systems ever created – a tool that provides a third of the world's population with information and ideas – is operating in the dark. In part that's because there's no easy way to get a random sampling of videos, according to Ethan Zuckerman, director of the Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in the US. You can pick your videos manually or go with the algorithm's recommendations, but an unbiased selection that's worthy of real study is hard to come by. A few years ago, however, Zuckerman and his team of researchers came up with a solution: they designed a computer program that pulls up YouTube videos at random, trying billions of URLs at a time. University of Massachusetts at Amherst/ BBC You might call the tool a bot, but that's probably over selling it, Zuckerman says. "A more technically accurate term would be 'scraper'," he says. The scraper's findings are giving us a first-time perspective on what's actually happening on YouTube. In its 20 years of operation, YouTube has shaped entire generations' sensibilities and redefined global culture. Surveys show YouTube is the most popular social media site in the US by far, with 83% of adults and 93% of teenagers among its patrons. It's the second-most-visited website on Earth by most estimates, topped only by itself. But as the platform enters its third decade, the most basic facts about YouTube are still a closely guarded secret. A Google spokesperson shared a blogpost about the platform's recommendation algorithm, but declined to comment on the statistics and other issues mentioned in this story. For now, YouTube's mysteries continue. Unusual methods "It's extremely difficult to get a grasp on what's going on inside social media platforms, because while the companies that operate them do make certain public disclosures, those disclosures are fragmentary and often somewhat misleading," says Paul Barrett, deputy director of the New York University Stern Center for Business and Human Rights. "I think there's an instinct at Google that it's not in their interest to emphasise just how gargantuan YouTube is, how titanic the number of users, how phenomenal the amount of content. Google doesn't want to be seen as influential as it really is." But Zuckerman and his colleagues found a way to peek behind the curtain. YouTube URL's have a standard format. With a few exceptions, the addresses begin with " and end with a unique string of 11 characters. Gangnam Style's identifier is 9bZkp7q19f0, for example. So, the researchers wrote a program that basically generates 11 random characters and checks if there's a corresponding video. When the scraper finds one, it downloads it. Zuckerman says you can think of it like a pesky teenager, punching in random numbers for prank calls after dipping into his parent's liquor cabinet. Estudio Santa Rita "If I wanted to know how many valid phone numbers there are in New York's 212 area code, I could just dial 212 and seven random numbers to see if somebody answers. I'd probably get cursed out a lot if I did it enough, but eventually I'd gather enough data to figure it out," Zuckerman says. "That's what we did with YouTube. The thing is, YouTube has 18.6 quintillion potential numbers, so you have to dial a few billion before someone picks up." So, Zuckerman's lab let the scraper drunk dial YouTube, over and over again, until it put together a big enough data set. To collect the first 10,016 videos they gathered for their initial study, the scraper tried more than 18 trillion potential URLs. It took almost 1.87 billion bad guesses for every real video it found. If you did that work yourself, spending three seconds on each try, it would take an average of 178 years before you landed on a single video. When the researchers analysed their findings, the results challenged the prevailing narrative about what YouTube actually is. The first question was simple. How many videos have people uploaded to YouTube? Google used to release that statistic in the early days, back when YouTube had something to prove. When Google first acquired the platform in 2006, around 65,000 videos were uploaded every day. More recently the company says more than 500 hours are uploaded per minute, but it's tight-lipped about the number of videos. Zuckerman and his colleagues compared the number of videos they found to the number of guesses it took, and arrived an estimate: in 2022, they calculated that YouTube housed more than nine billion videos. By mid 2024, that number had grown to 14.8 billion videos, a 60% jump. For many, YouTube brings to mind the faces of bright-eyed influencers vying for money and fame, or professional content creators like MrBeast or Joe Rogan. But the researchers then took a subset of the videos and had human reviewers watch each one to answer a series of questions about what they saw. For the most part, they didn't find the work of professionals. University of Massachusetts at Amherst/ Yun Sun Park/ BBC Only 0.21% of the videos they analysed featured any kind of monetisation, such as a sponsorship or an advertisement in the video itself. Less than 4% of the videos included a call to action like YouTube's famous invitations to like, comment and subscribe. Those with some kind of set or background design accounted for 14% of videos, while only 38% had undergone any form of editing. More than half of the videos had "noticeably shaky" camera work. Only around 18% of videos we're judged to have high quality sound, and the sound quality varied significantly almost 85% of the time. More than 40% had just music, and no speech. About 16% of videos in the sample were primarily still images. The top YouTubers attract audiences in the hundreds of millions, but the researchers estimated the median number of views for a YouTube videos is just 41, and 4% of videos haven't been watched a single time. About 74% of videos have zero comments. Around 89% have no likes. Typical YouTube videos aren't just getting little attention it seems, they're also very short. They assessed that the median YouTube video is only 64 seconds long, and more than a third of videos are less than 33 seconds long. YouTube once sold itself as a tool for regular people. The company's early slogan was "broadcast yourself". But today, YouTube suggests it's more of a service for people to watch the work of professional creators. In his annual letter at the start of 2025, YouTube's chief executive Neal Mohan said the company's mission is still to "give everyone a voice" – but most of the message was a discussion about how "YouTubers are becoming the start-ups of Hollywood" and "YouTube is the new television". This narrative misses a critical piece of the picture, says Ryan McGrady, the senior researcher in Zuckerman's lab, who participated in the scraping project. YouTube is a free service that was built from the ground up by a private company, and it could be argued that Google should be able to run the platform as such. But when you examine how people are actually using YouTube, it looks less like TV and more like infrastructure, McGrady says. "Most of us imagine YouTube as this place where millionaires give away prizes in a Squid-Game-style contest," he says. "But when you want to have a conversation about YouTube and its place in our society, we need to look at the ways it's used, not just the ways it's consumed." YouTube is one of the internet's de facto repositories, the first place many of us go when we have videos we want to post or store online. It's also a place where local authority meetings are broadcast, for example, providing a vital opportunity for public accountability in ways that weren't possible before it existed. It isn't just a "platform", McGrady says, it's a critical piece of infrastructure, and that's how it should be regulated. "For companies that own so much of our public sphere, there are some minimum expectations we should have about transparency." Google is dealing with more regulatory pressure than ever before. The company has faced multiple cases across the globe accusing it of running illegal monopolies in several industries. Google has lost several of them, and is currently fighting a number of other antitrust lawsuits. More like this: • The ghosts of India's TikTok • Google just updated its algorithm. The internet will never be the same • The riddles humans can solve but computers can't But YouTube has escaped much of the scrutiny that's challenged its biggest social media competitors, according to Barrett of New York University. Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk make frequent, loud pronouncements about how they do business and what's happening on their platforms. "Google, in contrast, has largely stayed out of the crossfire by choosing a strategy of being much quieter, a strategy I'd say has largely worked for them," he says. "Social media is an anomaly when it comes to how little companies need to explain themselves if you compare it to other industries like finance, or agriculture or even broadcasting," Barrett says. "But social media companies are fundamental players not just in mass communication but in all matters of political and civic life." The most important thing to understand is the inner workings of YouTube's algorithm, a system that has astronomical power over the distribution of information all over the world, Barrett says. But simple details about what happens on the platform are important as well. "It would be very valuable to know all of the facts that are currently so shrouded and unavailable. They are the building blocks of doing deeper research," he says. "It only takes you so far, but you've got to start someplace. The more basic information we have to assess, the healthier the public debate about the role of social media in society will be." * Thomas Germain is a senior technology journalist for the BBC. He's covered AI, privacy and the furthest reaches of internet culture for the better part of a decade. You can find him on X and TikTok @thomasgermain. -- For more technology news and insights, sign up to our Tech Decoded newsletter, while The Essential List delivers a handpicked selection of features and insights to your inbox twice a week. For more science, technology, environment and health stories from the BBC, follow us on Facebook, X and Instagram. Internet Technology Innovation Features
Yahoo
12-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Death 'the only thing that could stop her': Burlington activist Sandy Baird dies at 84
Former Chittenden County Rep. Sandra Baird — an esteemed women's and immigrant rights activist — died Monday. The Burlington advocate was 84. An attorney by trade, Baird was lauded for her work representing low-income Vermonters, especially women, and her willingness to take on cases without pay, earning the Vermont Bar Association's Pro Bono Service Award in 2014. Baird was also a full-time professor for decades at Burlington College and Johnson State College. Additionally, Baird was a lifelong anti-domestic violence advocate who founded Caroline's Fund, a nonprofit supporting abuse victims, after the murder of her own daughter in 1998. She also worked with organizations such as AALV Inc. to help immigrants and refugees resettle locally. Former Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman said he learned a lot from Baird, whom he attempted unsuccessfully to unseat in the Vermont legislature over 30 years ago. "While we had our differences, in hindsight, it turns out we fought for a lot of the same things," Zuckerman said in a social media post. "She was a devoted advocate for women and people who were left behind in our economic system. She was a passionate teacher of aspects of history that some people did not want taught. She was a fierce fighter." Vermont Attorney General Charity Clark said the "iconic trailblazer" continued her activism work up until her death. "She had been in touch with my office just in the past several weeks planning outreach events for the immigrant community she held so close to her heart," Clark said in a social media post. "There will never be another be another like you, Sandy, but we will continue doing the hard and necessary work as you would have wanted." Former state legislator and Burlington City Councilor Kurt Wright said in a social media post that death was "the only thing that could stop" Baird, whom he called a "force of nature that never seemed to slow down." In addition her law career and community activism, Baird had a short but notable stint in local and state politics. Baird ran for Burlington mayor in 1989 — the year U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders decided not to vie for re-election — as a member of the Green Party, but lost significantly to her Independent opponent Peter Clavelle. A few years later, Baird would be elected twice to Vermont's House of Representatives in 1992 and 1994, according the secretary of state's office. Zuckerman, then new to politics, lost by a percentage point to Baird in 1994. Megan Stewart is a government accountability reporter for the Burlington Free Press. Contact her at mstewartyounger@ This article originally appeared on Burlington Free Press: Sandy Baird, Burlington VT lawyer, activist for immigrants, dead at 84
